Last week I published an article on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place. Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing Republican candidate.
But although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time:
Politico is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published a very lengthy account by two experienced American surgeons who had visited Gaza to provide medical assistance and were utterly horrified by what they encountered there. According to Dr. Mark Perlmutter, in just a couple of weeks he saw more carnage inflicted upon civilians than he had in the combined total of his previous thirty years of humanitarian visits to war-zones around the world. In particular, it was obvious that Israeli snipers were deliberately shooting young Palestinian children and toddlers, aiming precision shots at their hearts and at their heads.
- We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war
Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa • Politico Magazine • July 19, 2024 • 4,900 Words
Given that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli leaders have publicly identified the Palestinians with the tribe of Amalek, whom the Hebrew God has commanded must be exterminated down to the youngest newborn baby, such atrocities may be shocking but are hardly surprising.
Running nearly 5,000 words and profusely illustrated with photographs, the Politico story seems to have broken the cordon of silence maintained in network television and Perlmutter was interviewed for a substantial segment entitled “The Children of Gaza” broadcast on CBS News Sunday Morning, during which he repeated his story:
Dr. Perlmutter on CBS News, same physician in the Politico article below.
war on children, many gunshot wounds in toddlers and many shot twice.pic.twitter.com/QAIa39sE1X https://t.co/u9hr9C0PF2
— Dr. KHAL (@Hal9000_T1) July 22, 2024
It’s obviously quite disturbing for American doctors to report that Israeli snipers are deliberately executing Palestinian toddlers with shots to the head and the heart, and the slight coverage of these facts in our mainstream media outlets is certainly welcome. But for anyone who had closely followed the Middle East conflict over the decades, these facts were not particularly new. Even many years ago, Israelis had proudly produced numerous varieties of tee-shirts, which often carried the notorious slogan “One Shot, Two Kills,” glorifying the killing of pregnant women and young children by military snipers. I assume that the sheer volume of these current killings finally led some American media outlets to begin taking notice of this situation.
These stories hardly exhaust the roster of ongoing Israeli war-crimes. Despite the long history of oppression and poverty they have endured, the Palestinians are a highly educated population and over they years they had created an enviable medical infrastructure in their besieged Gaza enclave, with numerous excellent hospitals staffed by well-trained medical professionals.
The Israelis bitterly resented these achievements by a population whom they deeply despised and have now destroyed nearly all those hospitals while blocking any import of new medical supplies. Moreover, just a couple of days ago, the New York Times carried a story describing the widespread Israeli detention and brutal torture of leading Palestinian surgeons and other medical workers, with many of these civilians soon dying from their ill treatment. Traditional Judaism includes a notorious Talmudic injunction that Jews should seek to kill “the best of the Gentiles” and since medical doctors constitute an elite of Gazan society, it makes perfect sense that they should be targeted for torture and death. Indeed, international organizations have reported that some 500 doctors and nurses in Gaza have already been killed, while another 300 are still being held in Israeli prisons.
Although I was pleasantly surprised to see the Times run such a candid piece, the same editors have entirely ignored many others of an even more explosive nature. For example, despite horrific bombardment, famine, and disease, the official Gaza death-toll presented by our mainstream media outlets has remained relatively unchanged in recent months, now set at around 40,000. But as I pointed out in early May, this is almost certainly an illusion:
During the first month or two of the massive Israeli attack, the Gazan Public Health Ministry had maintained very detailed rosters of the dead, including the names, ages, and ID codes of the victims, and regularly released updates of the total, so those numbers seemed absolutely solid. But the Israeli assault soon targeted all of Gaza’s government offices and hospitals, and by early December, the Gazan officials responsible for tabulating the dead had themselves been killed or gone missing, so the count naturally tended to stagnate, even as conditions horrifically worsened for the surviving Gazans.
The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals and just last month it published a short piece concluding that Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and its total destruction of the local infrastructure may be responsible for nearly 200,000 civilian deaths, a figure many times larger than any previous media estimate. Despite the Lancet‘s considerable international standing, this story received very little attention in the mainstream media.
Highly-visible atrocities over many months led the esteemed jurists of the International Court of Justice to issue a series of near-unanimous rulings that Israel appears to be undertaking a campaign of genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians, while the International Criminal Court more recently applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others on similar grounds. These international judicial rulings may have set into motion a series of events that further demonstrated the unusual ideological beliefs governing much of the political class of the Jewish State.
With Hamas militants mostly secure in their underground tunnels, almost none of them have been captured, so instead the Israeli military and its frustrated troops have seized and incarcerated many thousands of Gazan civilians, holding them without trial or charges, and often under very brutal conditions. Indeed, the number of such Palestinians captives has become so enormous that it has severely overburdened the Israeli prison system, prompting National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to publicly propose last month that the prisoners should simply be shot in the head, thereby freeing up their space for additional waves of new ones.
But with the possibility of international arrest warrants hanging over their heads, top Israeli military leaders apparently sought to deflect those accusations by demonstrating that the Israeli army was willing to police itself and prosecute some of its members engaged in such illegal war-crimes. There have been widespread reports of the regular rape of Palestinian prisoners, both male and female, and the IDF decided to finally investigate one such case, in which nine of its soldiers allegedly gang-raped a male Palestinian, sodomizing him so brutally that he suffered severe physical injury. The military suspects were ordered held at a couple of army bases pending their interrogation.
However, the notion of Israeli Jews facing punishment for torturing or raping Palestinian prisoners stoked enormous outrage in major portions of the Israeli population. As a result, large, violent mobs stormed the military bases in hopes of freeing those accused soldiers, with the story widely covered in the Israeli media and many of the scenes available on social media.
If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colorful and eccentric survival of ancient times. But unfortunately, there is also a far darker side, primarily involving the relationship between Jews and non-Jews, with the highly derogatory term goyim frequently used to describe the latter. To put it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis occasionally stating this well-known fact. In 2010, Israel’s top Sephardic rabbi used his weekly sermon to declare that the only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews and do work for them. The enslavement or extermination of all non-Jews seems an ultimate implied goal of the religion.
Jewish lives have infinite value, and non-Jewish ones none at all, which has obvious policy implications. For example, in a published article a prominent Israeli rabbi explained that if a Jew needed a liver, it would be perfectly fine and indeed obligatory to kill an innocent Gentile and take his. Perhaps we should not be too surprised that today Israel is widely regarded as one of the world centers of organ-trafficking.
As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict. Such dogmas are certainly ironic given the widespread presence of Jews in the medical profession during recent centuries, but they came to the fore in Israel when a religiously-minded military doctor took them to heart and his position was supported by the country’s highest religious authorities.
These developments were heavily reported by the Israeli media, but they were carefully excluded from any of our own mainstream outlets, so that few Americans who rely upon our newspapers or electronic broadcast media are probably aware of them.
However, social media is another story entirely, and younger Americans who rely upon those sources of information have been exposed to a great deal of such material, helping to explain the waves of student protests that swept across elite colleges a few months ago until they were harshly suppressed. Ironically enough, much or most of this controversial content has been produced by Israelis themselves, proudly documenting the severe punishment they are successfully inflicting upon their hated Palestinian foes, but perhaps failing to recognize that the rest of the world may consider these same scenes in a very different light. As I wrote a few months ago:
Indeed, the Israelis continued to generate an avalanche of gripping content for those videos. Mobs of Israeli activists regularly blocked the passage of food-trucks, and within a few weeks, senior UN officials declared that more than a million Gazans were on the verge of a deadly famine. When the desperate, starving Gazans swarmed one of those few food delivery convoys allowed through, the Israeli military shot and killed more than 100 of them in the “Flour Massacre” and this was later repeated. All these horrific scenes of death and deliberate starvation were broadcast worldwide on social media, with some of the worst examples coming from the accounts of gleeful Israeli soldiers, such as their video of the corpse of a Palestinian child being eaten by a starving dog. Another image showed the remains of a bound Palestinian prisoner who had been crushed flat while still alive by an Israeli tank. According to a European human rights organization, the Israelis had regularly used bulldozers to bury alive large numbers of Palestinians. UN officials reported finding mass graves near several hospitals, with the victims found bound and stripped, shot execution-style. As Internet provocateur Andrew Anglin has pointed out, the behavior of the Israeli Jews does not seem merely evil but “cartoonishly evil,” with all their blatant crimes seeming to be based upon the script of some over-the-top propaganda-film but instead actually taking place in real life.
I think that Anglin’s characterization has considerable value, with the crimes committed by the Israelis often being so monstrous and so barbaric that Americans and other Westerners find it difficult to accept their reality, much like big lies are less likely to be challenged than small ones.
