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bibi had been a good boy and his parents gave him a set of new teeth......“This [Jewish] stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain.” — American Pastor Billy Graham in conversation with President Nixon (Feb. 1, 1972) In late August 2017, a category 4 tropical cyclone called Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and Louisiana, killing over 100 Americans and inflicting $125 billion in damages. The heavy rains and high winds, which peaked at 130 mph, made Harvey the costliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Lone Star State, and matched 2005’s Hurricane Katrina as the costliest in our nation’s history. The Jewish Stranglehold BY WYATT PETERSON
The extraordinary wreckage resulted in more than 42,000 displaced Texans seeking refuge in shelters across the state. A 2018 study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Episcopal Health Foundation found that at least fifteen percent of the hundreds of thousands of homes that were damaged remained uninhabitable one year later. Perhaps no place was hit harder by the storm than the city of Dickinson, located about 30 miles south of Houston in Galveston County. Over three-quarters of the city found itself underwater after only three days of catastrophic flooding, the result of an unprecedented 55 inches of rainfall. In an August 25, 2022 news report, Fox 26 Houston recalled the scenes of devastation and the heroic actions of the city’s residents amidst the chaos: When Hurricane Harvey’s torrential rains hammered down, no community was arguably hit harder and deeper than Dickinson. In a matter of hours, a full 85 percent of Dickinson’s homes and businesses were inundated with water. Calls for rescue soon followed. Hundreds of them. Police Chief Ron Morales remembers clearly the outcries. “People crying desperately for help. It was like someone had a gun to their head fixing to pull the trigger fear,” said Morales. And the calls kept coming. . . Short on rescue crafts and surrounded by rising water, with no way in or out, Morales put out the call for help. What happened next, is the stuff of legends. “They just came in boat after boat, after boat. To me, all the volunteers were the heroes. Everybody that volunteered and there was countless, countless people,” said Morales. It may be hard for Americans to believe but shortly after the historic disaster, Dickinson city officials informed their fellow townsmen that signing a loyalty pledge to Israel, a foreign country located over 7,000 miles away, was a prerequisite for receiving federal relief funds. As reported by BBC News (Oct. 20, 2017): Local officials say the pro-Israel clause is required under a Texas state law enacted earlier this year. . . In the four-page recovery aid application posted on the city’s website, a section reads: ‘By executing the Agreement below, the Applicant verifies that the Applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement.’ Boycotting Israel includes any action intended ‘to penalise, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel,’ according to the law. The law, known as the Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions) bill, was signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May. ‘Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an important ally,’ the governor said in a statement earlier this year. The ‘Anti-BDS bill’ that Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed into law (HB 89) “prohibits all state agencies from contracting with, and certain public funds from investing in, companies that boycott Israel.” Following his treachery, Benedict Abbott released a statement commemorating his attack on freedom of conscience: “I am proud to have commemorated Israel’s Independence Day by signing into law Anti-BDS legislation in Texas. As Israel’s number one trading partner in the United States, Texas is proud to reaffirm its support for the people of Israel and we will continue to build on our historic partnership. Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an important ally.” In healthier times in our nation’s history, the wheelchair bound Abbott would’ve likely been driven from town by a gubernatorial lynch mob, similar to the one that descended on Governor John Slaton after he commuted the death sentence of the Jewish pedophile/murderer Leo Frank in 1915. Instead, the wildly-popular Abbott has remained in the Governor’s Mansion to this day, and in early 2024 was able to resume his attack on the U.S. Constitution by signing an executive order requiring Texas schools to discipline “the sharp rise in antisemitic speech and acts on university campuses.”
It’s often stated that the reason the framers of the Constitution began the Bill of Rights with the First Amendment was to protect the fundamental rights that the other Amendments expand on. Being all-too-familiar with the history of British rule, which often included strictures on freedom of speech, press and religion, the founders knew that if citizens were unable to express their political opinions and beliefs free from government interference, tyranny would soon prevail. What was meant by ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘freedom of religion’ didn’t require further explication in the late 18th century. No citizen of the fledgling Republic could be hoodwinked into believing the First Amendment protected hardcore pornography as a legitimate form of expression, or that Satanism had the same legitimacy as Christianity and should therefore be promoted to young children (as happened recently in Marysville, Ohio, where The Satanic Temple — cofounded by a Jew named Malcolm Jarry — has initiated its Hellion Academy of Independent Learning at the Edgewood Elementary School). But in 21st century America, even the vilest abominations are deserving of “constitutional protection,” so long as they don’t approach that third rail of political discourse . . . Jewish power. Right now U.S. lawmakers are hard at work trying to decide how best to pass an insidious piece of legislation called the Antisemitism Awareness Act through the Senate. There is little debate amongst the parties on the unconstitutional contents of the legislation itself; it’s supported overwhelmingly on both sides of the aisle, passing the House in May by a vote of 320-91. The only disagreement appears to be whether it should be included as part of one of the annual year-end packages that pass through Congress, or if it should be voted upon as a standalone bill. Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing to have it included as part of either the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) or the Appropriations Bill, to avoid forcing liberal lawmakers to vote openly on it. Schumer knows that if Democrats are forced to vote on the controversial legislation it could alienate large segments of their progressive pro-Palestinian base, as happened in Dearborn, Michigan this past election. For his part, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson would prefer the bill goes to a standalone vote, claiming he doesn’t want to imperil passage of the NDAA by attaching too many unrelated items to it. Republicans are attempting to persuade Johnson to include the legislation as part of the NDAA, along with a bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court, which has already passed the House by a vote of 247 – 155. The Antisemitism Awareness Act mandates that government civil rights offices adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of “antisemitism” — which includes criticism of Israel — when enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The IHRA’s official website defines antisemitism as “. . . a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” (Emphasis supplied) To help people better understand the multifaceted manifestations of antisemitism in our day, the IHRA graciously provides examples of what it considers unacceptable behavior, a few of which are listed below:
Congressman Mike Lawler, co-author of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, would like to see the Department of Education employ “third-party antisemitism monitors” on college and university campuses; little snitches who will report “anti-Semitic” incidents to the authorities and produce quarterly reports on the institution’s progress in fighting antisemitism. Under this system, if any violations of the Civil Rights Law are reported, the Department of Justice will get involved and the institution could lose its federal funding. Interestingly, Trump’s initial pick for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, was one of only 21 Republicans who voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act when it was voted on in the House. After Gaetz withdrew from consideration, Trump appointed Pam Bondi, an arch-Zionist who went on Newsmax shortly after 10/7 to declare that federal officials need to get tougher with pro-Palestine protesters on college campuses and revoke the visas of those who are not citizens: “Frankly, they need to be taken out of our country or the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away.” With Gaetz out of the way, there’s no reason to believe the incoming Trump administration will do anything at all to confront Jewish power or to protect the rights of those who do. On the campaign trail, ‘super patriot’ Trump stated that he supports deporting “anti-Israel protesters,” and so far his senior executive leadership picks are, in the words of Judge Napolitano, “to a person 60% Jewish and 100% Zionist,” not exactly an encouraging ratio. A November 18, 2024 article in Britain’s The Guardian titled ‘Trump likely to use antisemitism claims to launch crackdown on US universities,’ described some of the steps the 47th President might take to placate his powerful donors: “US universities are bracing for funding cuts and investigations under the incoming administration, as Donald Trump and his advisers have billed them as an “enemy” and made them a prime target of their right-wing anti-woke crusade. . . Trump and his backers have made no secret of their plans, many detailed under Project Esther, a blueprint by the rightwing Heritage Foundation aimed at “dismantling” the US pro-Palestine movement. . . Kenneth Marcus, a former assistant secretary of education under Trump and an active proponent of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, told Jewish Insider last week that he expects the next administration will “take much more seriously the prospect of denying federal funds to colleges and universities that violate the rights of Jewish and other college students.” Freedom-loving Americans who still support Trump are likely in for a rude awakening very soon. As Pastor Chuck Baldwin points out in his latest article, Trump has handpicked a war cabinet composed of fanatical Zionist hawks, and it’s not hard to envision a war with Iran breaking out sometime in the near future. Trump’s rumored favorite for Secretary of Defense, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, fits right in with the other Israel-first establishment hacks who’ve latched onto the new administration. In fact, Kristi Noem (HB 1076), Ron DeSantis (HB 187), and Elise Stefanik have all personally done significant harm to the First Amendment at the behest of their Jewish masters. (Stefanik was awarded the “Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award” at a gala hosted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) for her role in forcing the resignations of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill from Harvard and UPenn respectively.) During his first term, Trump laid the groundwork for the Antisemitism Awareness Act when he signed an executive order expanding Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to specifically target the BDS movement on college campuses by instructing those tasked with enforcing Title VI to consider the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Trump was accompanied during this historic moment by Alan Dershowitz, who, in 1976, successfully defended Jewish porn actor Herbert Streicher and 16 co-defendants who had been charged with violating America’s obscenity laws for their roles in the pornographic film Deep Throat.
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The collapse of the Assad government in Syria is certain to be greeted with considerable satisfaction in Jerusalem and Washington. Both capitals of the Zionist Co-Dominium have long seen the Assads much as they did Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. All were obstacles to Israel’s designs in the region.
All three were also targets of that nefarious policy of “regime change” highlighted by in the US after 9/11, as were four other countries in the region. Now the last of the three has fallen, albeit much later than the mostly Jewish neoconservative “chicken hawks” (so called because all advocated war but very few ever served in uniform) had anticipated back in 2001.
So What Caused the Collapse?
Internal dynamics within Syria that played their part, to be sure, but I will focus here on the external factors. A major reason was the unrelenting pressure and considerable resources poured into the assorted militias and jihadists trying to overthrow Syria’s regime. Money talks, and it talked very loudly here. So did the frequent Israeli air and artillery strikes into Syria. Shielded by the US, Russian forces in Syria could do little for their ally.
Then, too, the numerically small but politically significant, open-ended US military presence on the ground in Syria had their own impact, So did the limited but strategically significant direct military attacks by the US and other NATO countries on Syrian government forces and installations. Image matters, and here it mattered greatly.
Syria’s Assad could never match that. Only Russia (to a very limited extent) and Iran (to a even lesser one) really did much of anything. But Russia is caught up with the Ukrainian “tar baby” and Iran is hedging its bets in anticipation of America’s own “regime change.” A scarcity of strong, reasonably reliable allies also counts, and it counted here, but not in a good way.
Second, Syria lost the information and propaganda war, in a very big and very decisive way. The Jewish-dominated media in the US and most of Europe made sure that virtually every claim, no matter how ludicrous, of the jihadists and other anti-government elements in Syria was treated as Gospel truth. Few in the legacy media disputed their assertions, although many did in the alternative media and on social media platforms.
It wasn’t enough. Israel can rip Gaza apart and kill tens of thousands of civilians, but any criticism of its very real war crimes is almost universally denounced in the media and Western capitals as “vicious antisemitism” that needs to be suppressed and punished. That criticism was nothing of the sort, but it demonstrates the exceptional degree of Jewish influence throughout the West. It also underscores the accuracy of the axiom that “truth is the first casualty of war,” at least whenever Israel or its interests are involved.
Third, it is worth noting that this event saw insurgent militias and local jihadists do to the Syrian government forces what the US-backed mujaheddin did to the Afghan government and their Soviet allies, and later the Taliban (the lineal operational descendants of the original mujaheddin) did to another Afghan government and its American patron. It seems that local governments have very great difficulty holding out against insurgents who have an external sanctuary, external assistance, or both.
In all three cases cited above, the insurgents had both. In Syria, the government forces had also to contend with direct military attacks by Israel, the US and other NATO countries. What made it harder for them was that they essentially fought these external forces with one hand firmly tied behind their backs.
Other than in defense, Syrian government forces could only engage in occasional artillery duels with the Israelis, but not respond to air attacks in kind. Nor could the Russians assist them, other than defensively. Any attempt to respond directly to US, Israeli or other attacks meant a direct confrontation with the US, Israel covered by its American puppet, or NATO. The Syrians could not do this alone, and Syria simply was not worth enough to Russia to risk that kind of engagement.
Reflections
It will take some time for the implications of all this to become clearer (perhaps “less murky” would be more accurate). I expect the current Syrian government officials and senior military commanders are wondering if they will still be alive next week. I am not a specialist on Syrian affairs, but the historical track record in these situations would not reassuring to them.
I expect, however, a major consideration on the part of the winners will be the role intended for them by their foreign patrons .Do we want the new Syrian government to be another Egypt, at least insofar as Israel is concerned? Or is it something else?
Whatever it is, insurgent forces – even heavily infiltrated ones – have shown themselves to be exceptionally difficult to predict or to control, or even to influence, once they are in power.. Recall that the people the US armed to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan morphed into a Taliban which employed some of those weapons and techniques to force yet another humiliating American debacle.
The Israeli experience with these things is even more problematic. I was told back in the 1980s by a senior Israeli officer that they had successfully infiltrated every single Arab government and movement, relying principally on Sephardic Jews. So when Israel set up Hamas in the 1980s as a counter-weight to the PLO, I expect they thought they had made a good bargain. Yet it, too, changed over the years. Infiltrated or not, it has given Israel a more “interesting” time than it anticipated.
The case of ISIS and the Syrian jihadists is even more interesting. Now, “false flags” (attacking someone but making people believe someone else is doing it) is something of an Israeli specialty. The motto of Mossad, the best-known Israeli intelligence organization, is aptly “By Deception, Shall You Wage War.
Mossad it and its sister organizations have lived up to that motto since the founding of Israel. They have been aided worldwide by dual Israeli citizens, or Jews without Israeli citizenship, some Christian Zionists, and outright mercenaries.
Examples abound. Three of particular relevance to the US, for example, are the Lavon Affair in Egypt (1954), the attack on the USS Liberty (1967) and the 9/11 attacks (2001). Worth looking them up (do NOT trust either Wikipedia or Google search engine!), but here is a start on the last-named one.
The case of ISIS is even more intriguing. Supposedly a militant Islamic organization, it seems to have exceptionally great difficulty hitting Israeli or American targets anywhere in the world. This was a problem Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda, with fewer assets, obviously did not share.
Despite the resources to field fleets of white Toyota pick-up trucks with heavy weapons in their beds and other paraphernalia, they found it an “almost” insurmountable challenge to strike what should be their own principal enemies. Curious, is it not? I wonder how many ISIS leaders have shared drinks with their Mossad and CIA contacts.
Last are the Syrian jihadists, easily the most fascinating facet of the Syrian puzzle. We are told constantly that these people are Islamic fanatics who spend their nights dreaming of how to kill non-believers, and their days trying to do it (or is that backwards?). But apparently there are “good” jihadists and “bad” jihadists. The former are those who do the bidding of Western governments (including Israel) and attack Muslim countries. The latter are those that apparently do not.
Peering Ahead
It is hazardous at best to anticipate what will emerge in the aftermath of the Syrian government’s defeat. At a minimum, I would expect the new rulers to order the Russians out. Of course, the Russians may not go, just as the US ignored the demands of many weaker governments to leave. Imperial powers, even if weakening and in a chaotic world, are often like that.
We may learn a bit more about ISIS and these “good” jihadists in Syria. Precisely what will they do in power? Will they be like the Taliban in Afghanistan? If not, what would that say about their actual character and hat of their leaders? Thought-provoking times, at best.
What is clearer is that what happened in Syria will embolden the Israelis to deal with the Palestinians within and Lebanon and Hezbollah without, especially once Trump is President and recognizes Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Trump is even more beholden to Israel than most US presidents, and Israel will capitalize on it.
Moreover, with Assad’s Syria removed from the game, Iran will move to the regional front burner. No person in the US can now even be a serious candidate for President without being in Israel’s pocket, much less be elected to that office, but the two American political factions have different priorities.
What this means is that the Neo-conservatives stacking up in Trump’s administration are an odds-on certainty to see this as a golden opportunity to complete their 2001 agenda and neutralize Iran. Knowing them, they and Jewish money will push (perhaps I should say “nudge”) Trump to do one of three things: (1) support Israel in attacking Iran, (2) join Israel in doing that, or (3) attacking Iran without Israel.
The net effect is a far more dangerous 2025 than recent years have seen, and they have not been exactly a joy. We face civil upheaval at home and more war abroad, if Trump actually puts his agenda into effect. For Israel, Syria’s defeat and Trump’s presidency augur well on its march to a “Greater Israel.” For Palestinians. Lebanese and so many others in the reason, things have gone from bad to an almost unimaginably worse. For Americans, challenging times, indeed.
Alan Ned Sabrosky (PhD, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran. He served in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division and is a graduate of the US Army War College. Dr. Sabrosky can be contacted at [email protected]
https://www.unz.com/article/regime-change-in-syria-another-step-towards-greater-israel/
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