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Alas, no Armageddon

15.01.2026 /

I had not listened to the grand old man of political science, John Mearsheimer, for a long time when, today, I heard his recent conversation with Glenn Greenwald. What he said about the currently burning matters of Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, Gaza and Ukraine did not surprise me. His position on these topics is above all reasonable and rational – as was his initial position on Ukraine in 2015. After all, he is a “realist”. He does not pretend to know what will happen in 24 hours, but he peers into the distance and assesses the long-term effects of today’s foreign policy. With regard to Ukraine, ten years after his warnings in 2015, he has been proven right.

Due to those warnings in 2015, the Western press dropped their former star political scientist as though he were a carrier of the Bubonic Plague.

Only on one point did Mearsheimer disappoint me today, not – I repeat not – because I assume he is wrong, but because I hope he is wrong. (The distance between hope and assumption is as that between myself and the moon.) Glenn Greenwald quoted President Lula of Brazil, who claims to dream every night of “de-dollarisation”. To my chagrin, Mearsheimer told Glenn Greenwald that he did not foresee “de-dollarisation” for at least five to ten years.

John Mearsheimer is the antithesis of a vulgar man. He is eminently courteous, soft-spoken, the perfect diplomat, you might say, because he makes no secret of being in every sense an “American”, although he so deeply regrets the foreign policies espoused by his country’s administrations over the past decades.

I recommend the said conversation.

For instance, on a topic about which I, who am anything but a diplomat. howl with rage, he tells us, smiling dangerously, what he thinks will happen next:

You have this so-called cease-fire. The fact is, it’s not been a cease fire from the Israeli perspective. The Israelis have basically continued to behave as if there were no cease-fire. By the way, they’ve done the same thing in Lebanon. … and what they’ll do, they’ll engineer some crisis where they blame Hamas for a gross violation of the cease-fire and say that this is reason for Israel to go in and “finish the job”. … The Israeli goal here is to either drive all the Palestinians out of Gaza into Somaliland or Egypt or whatever or if not do that, kill them. Right? Either starve them to death or bomb them to death or some combination of the two.

The Mearsheimer smile! Paraphrasing the Israelis who refer to the Palestinians as though they were cattle, he beamed his terrifyingly benign smile at us.

Alas, even Mearsheimer cannot foresee any Armageddon for that most vile of entities, Israel. Not as long as the USA, his country, still has its fangs planted in the world economy. Yes, there are many of us who dream of de-dollarisation.

Glenn Greenwald did not question him about Europe’s growing authoritarian tendencies. I wonder why. Does Glenn Greenwald not know how bad things are here now?

One morning last year, the above appeared on one of the walls of the British Royal Court of Justice.

The authorities wasted no time having the stencil removed, leaving its shadow. And this is where we are now: Liberal Democracy.

I’ll be brief

21.09.2025 /

The inimitable Alex Krainer writes “What matters is what people believe – not what they know”. And a growing number of people in the USA believe that two official storylines are definitely not passing the smell test. One storyline attempts to account for a dead villain, the other concerns (or covers up) the murder of a leader who knew he was risking a great deal by publicly starting to doubt the Zionist narrative and by flouting Netanyahu.

We may possibly never get to know what crimes Epstein committed, for whom and with whom. We won’t be told who protected him or how and why his life ended in 2019. Personally, I would never have given the matter a second thought if it hadn’t been for a sudden and very unexpected rush of vehement denials on the part of the current US government: Not only is there nothing to investigate, they say; the man is simply not worth our attention. Obviously, then, this is hot stuff!

Nor would I have given Charlie Kirk a second thought – after all, I’m not a Conservative Christian US patriot, and murders are run of the mill in the USA – if it hadn’t been for the link, indirect as it may seem, between the two men: Israel.

I say no more, except that when your government insists on feeding you, in rapid succession, brazen lies about things that matters to you (as substantiated, in the case of Charlie Kirk, by The Greyzone), you start remembering past storylines that you doubted. You remember all sorts of other things, too, the 2008 bailouts, for instance. You ask yourself questions such as “They call this a Democracy?” “Where do all our taxes go?” “Why is Nancy Pelosi so rich?” And “why on earth are we cancelling the first Amendment?”

Above all, I would wonder, if I were a US citizen: Why are we so hooked on Israel?

Speaking of which, see

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Anomie

10.09.2025 /

Those who have been following me over time know of my tremendous esteem for Glenn Greenwald’s doggedly non-partisan reporting, currently on Rumble. However, I have not listened much to him lately. He naturally tends to concentrate on US affairs, and frankly, they don’t interest me much. After all, I live in Europe, where we have a war which eclipses all other issues, at least from the point of view of the interventionist political elite.

The other day, I read that the US had wiped a little open boat off the map. To use D.H. Wallace terminology, the US had “demapped” 11 persons in an open boat in international waters. I wondered briefly why on earth the US would do such a thing, then shrugged the matter off as “typical”. Please note: I shrugged. SHRUGGED about the massacre – extra-judicial killing – of 11 people in international waters. I add, to my defence that the Norwegian media wasted little ink on the matter.

I decided to listen to what Glenn Greenwald had to say about the matter (to be frank, I was more interested in hearing his take on the latest developments in the Epstein saga promised in the same episode).

Glenn Greenwald brought me back to earth quite robustly. He had no intention of fluttering gently over the extra-judicial killing of 11 persons by the US.

Instead he sternly asked the MAGA voters, “Do you believe, do you really believe that this was about drugs?” Raising his voice slightly, he went on: “What is the difference between the neocon policies that you, the MAGA people, oppose, and this?” Saying this, he looked me – the telespectator (MAGA or otherwise) – straight in the eye, accusing me or whoever else was watching him of condoning the incident with complacency.

And, yes, I felt guilty, although I certainly am not MAGA. I felt and definitely was guilty of assuming international law is no longer. International law still exists, but because of Gaza, because of the impunity of the savage crimes being committed by the Israelis with US blessings, all other crimes seem negligible. Because the USA is complicit in the crimes in Gaza, and because all other Western states are subordinate to the USA, international law is not being upheld.

That does not mean that the UN charter is null and void. That does not mean that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all the UN conventions, including the Genocide convention, have not been globally agreed upon and ratified. Above all, I am convinced that if they were asked, the overwhelming majority of normal human beings all over the world (excepting of course the Israelis) would loudly cheer as the articles of the Declaration of Human Rights were read out to them.

I have assumed, but I have been wrong, that the “anything-goes-as -long-as-you-are-strong-and-dastardly-enough-LAW” applies. Biden referred to that law as “the rules-based order”. No such law has ever been ratified by any global authority. The Western nations tagged along behind “Daddy”, as they always do, but we all knew, or should have known that it was a hoax. No such law, no such order, exists. If we forget that, we become as degenerate as those who authorized the hoax in the first place, as well as the crimes committed in pursuance of it.

The USA has killed much more than the 11 unknown nationals and certainly not for the first time. (In that respect, I was right in muttering “typical”.) It has effectively killed the principles underlying its own judicial system. What is null and void, then, is US rule of law.

Glenn Greenwald did not say that. He is, after all, a US citizen, I think. But he was unusually, vitriolic about the issue, when he returned to it in a subsequent episode, yesterday, in fact. JD Vance and Rand Paul clash over due process

So now the United States government just has the power to go around and blow up any ship it wants, whatever ship it wants, and just declare afterwards that it was filled with drugs and drug dealers? .… to bomb wedding parties… there was someone there who had ties to a terrorist group… We don’t show evidence either before or after, we just claim the right to go around droning anybody we want.

And that was just the start. Glenn Greenwald felt, I think, shame and deep contempt for those who are complacent about such acts.

And he made me feel deeply ashamed. We are sliding, morally, I mean, losing our grip. Not just in the USA, but also here in Norway.

A few days prior to our national elections, students in upper secondary school all over my country carried out their own “election”. The result was interesting, to say the least, because the two parties furthest to the right won 47 per cent of the votes. These parties are primarily interested in getting rid of taxes, particularly the wealth tax. (I should add that only a small minority of Norwegians pay wealth tax.) The environmentalist party won only 4 per cent.

So youngsters here are not worried about the accelerating ecological breakdown. They are not overly concerned about growing inequality, and they certainly do not care for any redistribution of wealth. In short, the exercise seems to indicate a) a disturbing degree of ignorance b) a lack of interest in the common good.

I should, however, take comfort in knowing, or at least hoping, that Norway has not yet degenerated to the point of carrying out extra-judicial killings in international waters.

Something else

29.06.2025 /

Let me start with a digression.
—What do you mean, digression! Digression from what?

So, ok, maybe the correct term isn’t “digression”, but I want to start by pointing out something that has nothing do with today’s topic.

I live in the northern hemisphere. We use thick winter clothing six months a year. You may, or may not, know what “thick winter clothing” means. I’d better spell it out: woollen sweaters, wind breakers, thermals, puffer jackets and coats, knitted hats, boots… and scarves. Lots and lots of scarves, not because we need to wear many at the same time, but because they serve as accessories in addition to providing warmth and bursts of colour, which we badly need, because there is hardly any natural light in winter, hence no colour. Forget about the fairytale landscapes of Christmas cards: Winters are dull. Period.

So most of us living here prefer summer to winter. So did I until recently. However, only in winter can I wear my large, very warm, red and white Palestinian scarf. That scarf is a scream, a silent protest, a reminder to those who are as aware as I am of what is going on, but who “cannot bear to think about it”.

Mind you, I do – I really do – understand that they cannot bear to think about it. It is so very much worse than all the evils we have read about in fairytales or seen even in Hollywood films. “We are powerless,” they say. And of course, they are right because Norway is, to all intents and purposes, an occupied country. Norwegians don’t like it when I say that, but we are only 5 million people here, and the USA has 12 military bases on our soil. Could we militarily defend Gaza? We have no independent armed forces. None. We are just part of NATO, and NATO is USA’s European arm, to deploy as it sees fit, against Russia, Afghanistan, Libya., … AND PALESTINE: What would we do. for example, if the US were to invade Greenland?

I am actually looking forward to winter, when I shall once more don my large, very warm, red and white Palestinian scarf. That scarf, that blessed scarf – just thinking about it evokes the very real memory of its softness against my skin – is not only a scream; it is my pitchfork!

I have, I admit, a pitchfork, a real one, that is. It hangs from a dedicated hook in my tool shed. A lot of Norwegians have pitchforks in their tool sheds. Let me tell you, in case you didn’t know: Pitchforks are murder weapons. However, unlike the murder weapon, HUNGER, employed by Israel (USA’s “aircraft carrier ” in the Middle East), pitchforks kill only one person at a time. Norwegians are not, unlike most US congressmen and most Israelis, a murderous tribe.

Nor am I a murderous person. But I want to hurt USA’s aircraft carrier Israel. I want to hurt USA. I promise I shall never again, ever, EVER buy anything I know has been produced by Israel or the USA. But I shall not murder.

I shall just wear my large, very warm, red and white Palestinian scarf and imagine that it is a pitchfork against the USA and its 800 military bases all over the world and its crippling sanctions, and its bigotry and hypocrisy and… and…

Now, for today’s topic:

Look up the Koran, 2.62. Neither the Iranians nor the Palestinians are “antisemitic”! If I were to write a book of doctrine, it might consist of only one sentence:

Thou shalt judge men and women by their deeds,
not by their religion or the colour of their skin.

On dignity

16.05.2025 /

Today I listened to Glenn Diesen interviewing Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and author who runs a weekly column in the Haaretz.

I forget what Diesen’s initial question was, but I shall never forget Mr Levy’s reply: “Uh, I’m so desperate that I don’t know where to start.”

And he looked it. Sallow and drawn, he had not the slightest hint of a smile on his face throughout their conversation. Even Glenn Diesen seemed to be twitching uncomfortably in his chair in the end, because – according to Mr Levy – there is not even a sliver of hope for the future of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

There is only one person in the entire world who can stop the current slaughter, and that is Trump, but Trump has been paid 100 million USD in advance by Miriam-what’s-er-name to not do what he could and should do.

True, there is vociferous opposition to Netanyahu, yes, but not because of the plight of the Gazans; only because of the hostages. If the hostages are released, the Israeli government is welcome to do whatever it likes with Gaza. “They couldn’t care less about the suffering in Gaza.” There is no organised opposition to the ethnic cleansing. There will be no civil war in Israel. There will be no military coup, even if there has been some tension between the government and the military (which is overstretched). There will be no exodus from Israel – for the simple reason that it’s too risky to leave a home and a job for an uncertain future.

Mr Levy pointed out that Israelis love and are proud of their military which is integrated in Israeli society in a way that most of us cannot imagine.

As for the future: The war will simply continue indefinitely, until all Gazans have been killed, all 2.3 million of them. (The part of the previous sentence that follows the word “until”, was not explicitly uttered, but was left hanging as an ellipsis.)

Unless … unless Trump stops it. If he does, the Gazans will nonetheless have to go on living in “a cage”. Palestinians are not people.

A two-state solution is out of the question now that there are 700 000 illegal Israeli settlers on the West Bank. And dismantling apartheid is simply not on the books, never has been. Not on anyone’s books in Israel, because the Palestinians are not people.

There are admittedly “some inconvenient incidents in Europe” for people who fly.

People try to hide their Israeli identity, …but there is no real shame for what we are doing … Most Israelis are totally convinced that the world is anti-Semitic. …It’s all about you, the world. You should be accused, not us.

That is, says Mr Levi, the attitude of almost every Israeli. Because Palestinians are not people.

I have a friend in Gaza with whom I used to work in Gaza for many, many years… And he is diabetic and he needs insulin, And one week ago he told me he was left with the last two drops of insulin. I didn’t call him since then, but we know what happens to people in his condition when they don’t have insulin…

There is, of course, also the tragedy of the crumbling of moral standards in Israel. But above all, he warns:

SAVE THE PEOPLE OF GAZA.

Meanwhile, back at home base, I admit I have been hoping that Israelis would be so disgusted by the horrible deeds their beloved military is committing that they would rise up in arms, and violently overthrow the monsters that are governing them. Now I ask myself, why on earth have I expected more from Israelis than from my own people, from Europeans, from US Americans, who are actively aiding and abetting this mother of all nightmares with arms and “everything we ever asked for”, as Mr Levy put it.

I hold that if you treat a whole population as vermin, you have divested yourself of all human dignity. If we, the others, aid you who treat a whole population as vermin, we are no better than you and as devoid of moral dignity.

Ethnic cleansing – i.e. treating people of a certain nationality or ethnic background as vermin – was the principal crime committed by the Nazis, who considered Poles, Belarusians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Russians, Serbs and Jews to be untermenschen that had to be exterminated. The allies’ resistance to the Nazis was impressive. We did not trade with them, we had no cultural relations with them; we certainly did not send them weapons or money.

Now look at us!

In contrast, I would like to introduce you, if you don’t already know of him, to Pepe Mujica. The people of Uruguay actually went and elected him as president of their country, an office he held from 2010 to 2015.

That a population should choose as their president a person who had been a political prisoner for 11 years (during the US-orchestrated dictatorship of Uruguay) is remarkable in itself. It is all the more remarkable in view of his outlook. I urge you to listen to his monologue, in Spanish it is true, but beautifully (visually) translated to English.

Pepe Mujica passed away last Tuesday (13 May) 89 years old. He was probably relieved to be released from pain, but news of his passing has moved people all over the world. His iconoclastic lifestyle as president has spawned innumerable amusing legends which you will find on the web. However, I would like to focus on the speech held at his funeral by Mauricio Rosencof, about the many years the two of them were incarcerated in the same prison. Rosencof is also very old, but clear as a bell and well-spoken. His speech is in Spanish, but youtube translates, if you press settings (the cog wheel) then “Subtitles/CC”. Below “Spanish (auto-generated)”, click “Auto-translate”.

I put to you that human dignity still exists. Somewhere.

Retribution

18.03.2025 /

No, I don’t approve of death penalties. Death is too kind a punishment for people like Netanyahu. After all, Hitler preferred to die rather than face the music. True enough, there are those who claim that he and his Eva escaped to Latin America. I used to dismiss such suggestions as fantasies, but now I’m not so sure. Sufficiently many lies fed to us over the past few years have taught more and more of us that no untruth is too ignominious for the powers that be.

Just to pick a few disparate examples, they lied about Covid (which turns out to be, after all, a leak from a gain-of-function laboratory), the Skripal case, the beheaded babies, the Bucha massacre, the Nord Stream sabotage, Russiagate, and the Hunter-Biden laptop… You really cannot believe a single word they say. And to top it off they call those who doubt their lies “conspiracy theorists”.

Whether or not Hitler did indeed blow himself up, Netanyahu and his ilk do not deserve death. On the contrary, we need to keep them alive, to be able to make an example of them, to point at them and warn racists “You don’t want to be like that, do you?” Basically, they should be kept in cages in zoos, not safely locked away in prisons, but out in the open for all to see and stare at in horror.

Alas, we were wrong to tell our children that there are no monsters except in fairy tales. Netanyahu is about as horrible a monster as any that has sprung out of human imagination. And there have certainly been plenty of them. Why? How come our imagination has fostered so much horror?

Take, for instance, the immense library of Satanic creatures, goblins, witches, devils and whatnots who populate the Christian underworld. They are the collected product of human fear, of terror inspired by real creatures. Throughout history, there have been Netanyhus, people totally devoid of moral fibre; callous, base and dreadful.

I sometimes hear: “There is some good in all human beings.” I’m sure the words are kindly meant, but the statement is purely academic, probably uttered to encourage tolerance. Generally, of course open-mindedness is conducive to an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence. But do we want peaceful coexistence with a Netanyahu and his ilk?

What if he loves his mom? Maybe he enjoys playing tennis or eating strawberries? So? Of course he isn’t always thinking about frying Palestinians!! Does that mean there is “goodness” in him? He is the very epitome of Western depravity. Should he not then be treated as such?

Instead, he and his ilk are being allowed to continue on a course that is so evil it poisons our minds, fills us with hatred, dread and suspicion. Because if he and his ilk can do these horrible things in one part of the world, others are sure to follow their example elsewhere.

The key words here are “his ilk“. Yes, I do need to stress the ilk bit – because it is true that Netanyahu is not alone. From what we see of big time traffickers of drugs, organs and weapons we know that monsters are attracted to one another. Moreover, the Israeli monsters would have been impotent without the energetic support of their “ilk” in the USA, the world’s most dangerous country, the country with hundreds and hundreds of military bases all over the world, the forever-war country, the big-bully country. Netanyahu has, indeed, a great big army of co-devils in the US, many of them, I am told, of Evangelical persuasion (I wonder how they figure their god will treat genocide supporters.)

I have a very good friend whose neighbour, an arrogant awful bully, is driving him nuts. I have suggested getting a little doll and sticking pins in it.

Alas, my fantasies of Netanyahu and his ilk in open cages in zoos all over the Western world will not relieve me of my fear of modern-day Western monsters any more than pins stuck in a doll.

Above all it won’t spare the lives of all the Palestinians that we know will be murdered over the next weeks. Our governments, our “leaders” – the Starmers, Macrons, Merzes, von der Leyens and Kallases – know that mass murder is being prepared and they are not doing a thing to stop it. Not a thing.

They – the Starmers, Macrons, Merzes, von der Leyens and Kallases –are of “his ilk”. Send them to the zoos!

There are various approaches to boycott

22.11.2024 /

About two months ago one of my closest friends, a Norwegian medical doctor, sent me an SMS: “Avoid medication produced by the company TEVA. It is Israeli.” I sighed, knowing perfectly well that what little I may or may not buy from or recomend of a genocidal country’s company, makes absolutely no difference. I am retired.

Retired or not, I am distressed by the situation in Palestine and by my – our – impotence here in Europe. Maybe that is why I have recently developed tension pains in my neck and shoulders, to the point that several times a day, I get so dizzy that I almost faint.

I went to my local pharmacy and bought ibuprofen. Only after I had gratefully swallowed the first tablet (expecting an improvement to my condition within 24 hrs.) did I scrutinize the packaging: TEVA.

With the remaining 19 tablets and the packaging in my pocket, I returned to the pharmacy. There were some people in the shop being looked after by the nice lady who runs the place. I turned to a young woman at the counter, showed her the packaging of my TEVA ibuprofen and said:

“I realise you cannot refund me since I have already taken one of the tablets. But do you know this company, TEVA?”
The girl shook her head. I continued:
“It is an Israeli company that pays taxes to the Israeli government that is committing genocide in Palestine. You should not buy products from this company!”
She looked shell-shocked, so I added more gently: “Do you have a waste paper basket?”
She nodded, whispered “just leave it here”, and pointed to the counter.
I said: “No, I want a proper waste paper basket!”
She dug out a basket and I poured the 19 tablets into it.

Then I prepared to leave, but she was urgently prodding her boss, so I waited.

The boss interrupted her conversation with whoever it was and turned to her distressed employee, who was so terrified that no words were heard from her moving lips. She nodded towards me.

The boss looked at me sternly (frankly, I give her kudos for that!) I repeated what I had told the poor employee: “This is an Israeli company that is paying taxes to a country that is committing genocide.” With an apologetic smile, she raised her left shoulder, as though suggesting “well, you know, business…”. I saw that she now recognised me as I recognised her. For years I have been a courteous customer, not least during Covid, and for years she has been equally courteous with me.

So I added, by way of explanation: “One thing is medication for Huntington’s disease, another is ibuprofen which is one of the most common of common drugs. You should not be buying it from TEVA! There are many, many other suppliers.” For some reason, she suddenly almost looked sheepish, and she said she would “take note of my words”.

Whatever that means.

What I do believe, though, is that the poor employee and the others listening to our conversation (including the chemist himself) will not forget that an indignant elderly foreigner actually threw a product produced by an Israeli company into the waste paper basket.

***

Look up TEVA pharmaceuticals. It is very big, and has grown even bigger since Norway’s Pension fund invested heavily in it quite recently. See: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3vtoupesw

Of course I love my country, but I draw the line at profiteering from genocide.

***

All that was yesterday. Today, I am shaky from the scene I made yesterday. And my neck and shoulders… I need ibuprofen.

I went to another pharmacy in my little town. And with nervous fingers I examined the box of 20 tablets handed to me. No sign of the hated word TEVA. Mumbling almost incoherently that I was relieved it wasn’t TEVA, I heard the chemist say: “TEVA has a lot to answer for” and his beautiful colleague who was handling another customer, threw me a beaming smile, “NOT Teva,” she called to me.

I felt I had come home.

To Joe Biden and Keir Starmer and their ilk

28.10.2024 / 
I am sick to the soul from seeing this
which the West condones, and I cannot bear ...
I live in the West
I cannot bear
Being part of the West that is condoning this.

What can we say to the dying? 
When they ask, why are you killing us?
I live in the West
Was this done 
in my name? In our name? murder to satisfy you?

Do I want to live in the world of the West?
Or will I accept with relief its self-immolation 
for "Democracy"
(for hypocrisy)
while you and your ilk lord it over the world 

***
Take your lying silver tongues and  
Your venomous Rule of Law 
Plant them into your fragrant backsides
May they do there their lethal work

This you must see

25.10.2024 /


And everybody you know must see it.

Much is surely known to most of us. But the second half of the film contained information that was new to me.

Master

07.08.2024 /

On August 5 Glenn Greenwald asked: Who is governing this country (“this country” being, of course, the one that rules us all in the so-called West)? Obviously, it isn’t Biden or for that matter Harris. Has it ever been Biden? Or Obama, come to think of it? Or Clinton? Not to mention “nukiller” Bush junior?

Not that I really care, being spared the pain of having to live in a country where I would never be able to afford decent health care, or education for my kids, etc., etc. etc. But the question certainly merits some attention since – well, obviously, when your kids are in a carriage pulled by a runaway horse, you want to know whom to shoot when the equipage hurtles off the cliff.

US presidents – it has long been obvious – are not free agents. Not that I propose to defend their actions: They should have known better than to stand for such an ignominious office. They were possibly ignorant or even stupid, when they did so – though I doubt that Clinton and Obama were stupid or even ignorant – or they may have been psychopaths. (By definition, a psychopath is somebody whose lust for power over someone or something drives him or her to break rules, even to kill.) Kill they certainly did, if not with their own hands – God forbid; they had menials to do their dirty work.

But I am not really interested in dissecting the moral decrepitude of dangerous men and women. I would, however, honestly like to know who, in the final count, rules over the USA and its host of servile little fiefdoms in Europe. I can think of a few candidates, mainly the trillionaires who finance the unconscionably expensive presidential campaigns. They will want their money’s worth, I expect, when the race is won. I suspect they place their bets in both camps, by the way, so as to have leverage on the winner, whoever he or she might be.

So who are they? Obviously the military-industrial complex is a front runner. Christian fundamentalists are also a passionate, ruthless and frequently well-heeled lot, and they often coincide with the Zionists.

Oops! There I dropped the dirty word. “Zionists”. At the moment, yes, it would appear that Zionists are running the circus, the race to the cliff. I have been given to understand that Christian Zionists actually welcome a final solution for mankind because then they will all go to heaven. Good luck with that.

I doubt that Israelis share their pious end-of-world wishes. I gather that most Israelis are as brainwashed and deluded as most US Americans and US Europeans, including US Norwegians. Yet, I suspect they don’t want a world war, don’t want war, period, any more than the rest of us. But they don’t count. They, like us, were not asked. Democracy, my foot!

How was Israel able to indoctrinate healthy boys and girls into treating Palestinian boys and girls as vermin to be exterminated? Did they learn from Nazi Germany?

Alas, I fear they have learnt not from Germany but from the USA: The entire population of that great country was bamboozled into supporting the killing and torturing of millions and millions – in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Central America, South America, Indonesia, Haiti, Somalia…Those were all feats of brilliant indoctrination! Now watch while Master grooms his subjects to cheer the destruction of – no, not China, yet – Iran! Yes, that was not really the plan, but they are in the way.

And Master’s great Orwellian doublethink machine rumbles on, patiently repeating, again and again, and again, even as we sleep: war is peace, ignorance is strength, rule of law is Master, war is peace, ignorance is strength, rule of law is Master…

Yesterday, a Russian woman told me angrily: “You all speak so warmly of Democracy – and I agree, Democracy is beautiful – but what you have is not Democracy! It’s humbug.”

Master has committed his crimes with impunity ever since his first genocide, of the Indians, by indoctrination! As we speak, “rule of law” is allowing Israel to assassinate people here, there and everywhere. Whoever governs the USA knows full well that support for Israel now is suicidal: BRICS is growing stronger by the day as countries hastily jump out of the run-away carriage. But Master cannot stop. Master is law, Master must rule.

Master is currently Zionist (and no longer merely male). He/she is driving our children, at breakneck speed, towards the precipice. One of his/her murder victims was Ismail Haniyeh. May Ismail Haniyeh’s spectre haunt Master till the end of time.

Zionism is very ugly. It is, when all is said and done, the most insidious form of abject racism!

I recently stumbled across a couple of quotes from one of the fathers of Israel, a passionate Zionist, Ben Gurion. Ben Gurion was probably a nasty piece of work, but at least he, unlike US presidents, seems to have understood, what a nasty piece of work he was. I have copied the following quotes from this site.

If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

Source: David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.

Source: David Ben Gurion. Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

Source: David Ben-Gurion May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population? ‘Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘ Drive them out! ‘

Source: Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

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