Miko Peled’s View. The second Jew to speak at the function was Miko Peled, a naturalized American citizen born in Israel. I met him, the son of an Israeli general, in Mashhad, Iran in May 2018. The great Nader Talebzadeh had invited us to take part in the 6th New Horizon Conference, that time about Palestine.
Peled’s Points. In D.C., Peled opened with a bang—direct, straight to the point, something the American government and the U.S. news media can’t manage.
· Have the U.S. 6th Fleet intervene to stop Israel’s war against the Palestinians and supply crucial humanitarian aid to the 2 million people who have done nothing wrong.
· Nothing justifies the savage slaughter of innocent civilians.
· The United States should declare a No-Fly Zone over Gaza, thus protecting the 2 million civilians there.
· How can U.S. taxpayers support the elected officials backing such a slaughter?
· What about the 14,000 tank shells given Israel. What they were for? Palestinians have no tanks. On the contrary, Israel is defending itself against guys in flip-flops and AK-47s with a handful of bullets.
· Genocide of Palestinians began BEFORE Israel was established. A well thought out plan of ethnic cleansing began just three years after end of the Holocaust. Yet, the world allowed ethnic cleansing and genocide to occur, just 3 hours flight time from Berlin, and 4 from Paris. Palestine was not at the Ends of the Earth; it was close to Europe. And the Europeans put another Apartheid Regime in place.
· Since its Israel was Israel and “biblical”, how could anyone protest what was done?
· His father had participated in Ethnic Cleansing in south Palestine. Consequently, far too many villages and towns are no longer there. They’ve been turned into rubble.
· The Israeli people treat this as the First Miracle, a military marvel seen by a people who are not religious, who don’t believe in God, and who don’t believe in any kind of wonder. The Second Miracle was at the end of the 1967 war, which was five days of assaulting neighbors, killing 18,000 Arab soldiers, and tripling Israel’s size.
· This genocide has been going on for 75 years
Miko Peled
Our speaker continued with his exposition, commenting that there are two million Arabs who are citizens of Israel. Yet, despite their number, people have such fear for their lives, that no on goes out. The Zionist government hands out American-made M16s out to Jewish citizens for use against Palestinians. Is there any way to oppose this?
Peled went on to note more issues that the American and European media routinely ignore.
· 300,000 Arab citizens of Israel are the poorest of the poor. How can that be good?
· Palestinian landowners are not allowed to engage in agriculture.
· 2,000 Palestinian homes were demolished by Israelis—before 0ctober 7, 2023. After that date, 40,000 more Palestinian home demolition orders are being fast tracked.
· Before October 7, Israel held 6,000m political prisoners. That figure doubled after October 7.
· Israel allows Palestinians to have an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon to go outside their homes.
· Palestinians see the abuse before October 7th “as the good old days”. Now there’s a whole new level of “Zionist enjoyment” as soldiers and colonists attack Palestinians for pleasure.
· Palestinian families, according to the records, have lived in Jerusalem [al-Quds in Arabic] for 800 years. Yet, they have no citizenship or rights. If they leave the city, they lose all that they have.
Continuing, Peled remarked:
· Israel claims it must defend itself before the UN’s International Court of Justice. How is it possible to do so, given what they’ve done?
· There are 25,000 innocent civilians known dead (with maybe another 50,000 murdered and lying under the rubble). Yet, Hamas is still fighting for its homeland.
· Israel’s military was humiliated on October 7. Again, in 1973, it was shamed. Why? The view was “the Arabs wouldn’t dare”. BUT, every time they dare, they succeed.
· Zionist intelligence is really a paper tiger.
· Like mobsters, Israelis take revenge on the weakest, most defenseless people.
· The American taxpayer annually supplies well-to-do Israel with almost $4 billion in foreign aid. ($10 million a day.)
Miko Peled said there were two options to the Israel-Palestine question. After the 6-day war, his father told his government: let’s have peace and start again. Others demanded that the fight continue. They soon established colonies, making any kind of two-state solution impossible.
Mattiyahu Peled
Finally, Peled remarked on the only solution to the 75-year-old problem: either support Israel as we have been doing, allowing ethnic cleansing and genocide. Or, if we want peace, we must do all we can to dismantle Zionist Apartheid step by step; stop the genocide; demand guarantees for the safety and security of the Palestinians—forever. And forget the concept of the “Two-State Solution”. That is a myth. We must establish a Single Democracy, with a free Palestine from the river to the sea. Only equality works. We must give them a chance to live in peace. And only Washington, D.C. policy makers can do this.
COMMENT. Miko Peled has the right facts and the right answer. As he says, solving the problem depends on American politicians. And unfortunately, they believe in or wholeheartedly support the Apartheid Entity. Some Congressmen go to the floor of their respective Houses wearing ties sporting the Israeli flag. Others denounce anyone, even fellow Congressmen, for condemning Israeli treatment of Palestine, including its ethnic cleansing and genocide. Far too many oppose the International Court of Justice.
The U.S. media is wholly behind Israel. The Washington Post, supposedly the Capital’s paper of record, opposes Palestine, supports the Two-State Solution, and flatly refuses to tell the truth about what is really happening. It seemingly has grown tired of reporting the glories of Israel and the hate-filled activities of the Hamas freedom fighters. (Except for the occasional piece about how Israelis, once critical of their “government”, are now all-in behind Satanyahu and his evil policies.) The Post seems now more concerned with reporting on the sham candidates running for November’s sham presidential election.
(Bats Courtesy of Kevin Barrett, Ph.D.)
And Europe?
As Al Jazeera noted on January 23, 2024:
Shortly after the two-day hearing at the world’s top court in the Hague earlier this month, where South Africa told the ICJ that Israel’s actions in the Gaza strip violated the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic – staunch allies of Israel – rejected these claims. Hungary condemned the case, while Berlin declared that it would intervene on Israel’s behalf at the ICJ.
Last week, France, which is home to Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish minorities and has been in the headlines for banning pro-Palestine protests since October 7, chimed in, saying Paris also does not support the ICJ case against Israel.
“To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” said French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne…
Sometimes, clear thinking appears, but how far it reaches is unknown. On January 11, 2024, CSID (Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy) commented:
Amid this turmoil, Washington continues to reach for its old playbook: throwing money, weapons, and military assets at the region. The Biden administration remains adamant that pursuing an Israel-Saudi normalization deal centered on U.S. security guarantees to both countries is the key to achieving lasting peace and prosperity in the Middle East. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken even visited Saudi Arabia, where he spoke of Riyadh’s continued interest in striking such a deal.
This approach is bound to backfire.
Washington should face reality: U.S. Middle East policy has failed. At the heart of this failure are the United States’ main regional partnerships. The two crucial U.S. partners in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are liabilities to the United States, not assets. Although the two states maintain considerable political, economic, and social differences, they both consistently undermine U.S. interests and the values that the United States claims to stand for. Washington should fundamentally reorient its approach to both countries, moving from unconditional support to arm’s-length relationships.
In the end, it’s past time for the United States of America to cut its ties to extremist governments, adhere to its own Constitution which requires Congress to authorize war, and to support international agreements to which it has adhered, viz. the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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 the 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.
Miko Peled is a very rare voice among Israelis who these days seem very pleased, by and large, to see the fast extermination of Palestinians as a plus for their country. There is lots of factionalism and lots of animosity towards Netanyahu but few Israelis emphasize the government's murderous de-Palestinianization of Gaza and the West Bank as a process that cuts against their conscience or sense of ethics. Peled did a very good interview with Chris Hedges where he explains the stimulation of Jewish Israeli hatred of Palestinians in the Armed Forces, the school system and the media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0Uc-PKe9Y
Should the ICJ be asked to order a directive to those in charge of the school system to cease inciting genocide by teaching hatred towards Palestinians?