Let’s Start With Two Anti-Semitic Jews. On the evening of January 17, 2024, despite the cold and snow, I attended a blazing hot exposition of the Palestinian Holocaust’s reality. Held by the Committee for the Republic at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., the event featured Miko Peled, Israeli-American activist and author of The General’s Son, about how his father and he came to a realization that Zionism is poison, and Max Blumenthal, journalist and author of Goliath, an account of Israel and its sacrifice of democracy for power politics. (The Committee sponsors speakers monthly on challenges to the American Republic, including the military-industrial complex, too-big-to-fail banks, campaign finance, and U.S. competitiveness.)
Miko Peled
Max Blumenthal
Both men took turns providing stunning detail about how the Zionists are savaging Palestine and the Palestinians, destroying them with their deadly war, targeting women, children, hospitals, mosques, churches, and schools. They noted that the death toll is about 24,000 Palestinians—which does not include the bodies and body parts hidden by the wreckage of buildings, including housing. (In Gaza City, principal town of the open-air death camp, about 85% of its homes are rubble.) The body count rises by about 250 people a day. The highly moral Israel Defense Forces so far have murdered about 100 journalists, targeting them, their families, their homes and their workplaces.
Messrs. Peled and Blumenthal emphasized that Zionist media control ensures that Americans and their political leaders hear only hasbara, Hebrew for “explaining”, a code word for propaganda. For example, the speakers noted that every United States Senator, 100 of them, plus every member of the House of Representatives, 435 of them, get 100 emails a day from StandWithUs, an Israeli organization that claims to be supporting Israel and fighting anti-Semitism around the world. And the Palestinians? They have nothing like that. A few notables get the ear of an occasional journalist or politician. But, they have nothing like the American-Israel Political Action Committee, AIPAC. Its 2024 net worth is $92.2m million, far beyond any Arab or Muslim group in the United States, such as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) or the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The men’s emphasis was on the necessity of the United States taking action against Israel. Since no one else has the wealth or the power to confront the Apartheid Entity (Israel), it is up to the American people to exert pressure on their government, forcing it to confront the Zionists and cutting off their political, military, and financial support.
But Can It Be Done? Here’s the basics of the Zionist Entity’s new hasbara from a piece by John Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Advisor, in the pro-Israel D.C. newspaper The Hill:
When Hamas launched its blitzkrieg from Gaza on Oct. 7, it did not mark the onset of yet another Arab-Israeli war. Nor was it a war of Palestinians against Israel. Instead, the barbaric onslaught marked the beginning of an Iranian war against Israel, carried out by Tehran’s terrorist proxies. The war’s future course and duration are murky, but the ayatollahs’ underlying strategy is clear: close their long-envisioned “ring of fire” around Israel, permanently weakening or even paralyzing the Jewish State…
The Israelis have upped their game. Besides dragging the United States into supporting their ethnic cleansing/Holocaust against Palestinians, they are attempting to push America into a war with Iran. (They managed earlier ones against Iraq, Syria, and Libya.)The news media now are emphasizing more and more Iran’s responsibility for unrest in the region. Iran is now doing more than supporting anti-Israel actions by the Axis of Resistance. It is now using proxies, arming, directing, and funding Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine, and terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. You scarcely read an article about Yemen, now the poorest state in the world after 10 years of war, unless it contains the phrase “Iran-dominated” or “Iran-supported”.
On January 17, 2024, the Washington Post, ever the mouthpiece of the American government, carried an article headlined “Senate rejects push to investigate Israeli actions in Gaza”. The proposed process would have forced the Biden administration to look into Israeli-perpetrated human rights abuses in its 100-day Palestinian Holocaust. Only 11 of 100 Senators supported this measure. Most of that body (and the rest of America) ignored the charge of genocide laid against the Apartheid Entity by South Africa in the International Court of Justice.
Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), a Jew and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said “the vote was a gift to Hamas, a gift to Iran…an indictment against Israel…” The article also used the hasbara “Hamas fighters killed 1,200 Israelis” in the October 7, 2023 attack. In reality. trigger-happy Israeli pilots flying American-made Apache helicopters shot a good many of the “1,200”.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.)
ICJ. The International Court of Justice, before which the Republic of South Africa laid the charge of genocide against Israel, somehow doesn’t figure in much of American television, Internet, or newspaper “news”. However, the Zionists now claim either that the court has no jurisdiction, or supports genocide, or is biased, or the Palestinians themselves are engaged in genocide against Jews. The Apartheid Entity also asserted that South Africa’s case was completely unjustified and wrong. The Federal Republic of Germany, with its sordid past, actually stated that it “expressly rejects the accusation of genocide" against Israel, and that the accusation had "no basis whatsoever".
I’ve only seen astonishing remarks like that in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories or Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Especially so since:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946…
The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.
The Holocaust. The Genocide Convention of 1948 resulted from what the Nazis did to the Jews (who conveniently forget that similar things happened to Catholics, Communists, trade unionists, the mentally and physically handicapped, as well as the Gypsies—who, according to Norman Finkelstein (American political scientist and activist), suffered more, proportionately, than the Jews. Indeed, he questions the contrived 6 million dead figure that’s part of the Holocaust Industry.)
CONCLUSION. However, for all the Israeli hasbara and bluster, aren’t the Zionists doing to the Palestinians what they claim the Germans did to them? And if held to account, would Israel use its nuclear weapons, poison gas, and deadly bacteria to escape justice?
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally-recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.