Actuality | Non-fiction

We really should defend Israel as a “bulwark of the West”?
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THIS IS WHY’ EUROPE HAS NO ROOTS “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN” BUT ONLY CHRISTIAN ROOTS AND TRADITION
Of Adriano Scianca
Israel? It is the "bulwark of the West". How many times have we read it, even these days, especially on the right, even among the visitors of this site. They are therefore defending “the West”, Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinians? E, above all, they are defending us too? It's important to ask yourself this, because if the Jewish State has always divided public opinion on the basis of often pre-political criteria and if the objections raised against it are often of a moral nature, then they exist, more coldly, of the political categories that should be drawn upon to bring the issue back to less slippery terrain.
Ora, that Europeans use the category of the West to define themselves is in itself rather paradoxical if one only considers that the very concept of the West was explicitly created in an anti-European key. In practice, Europeans today claim with passionate fervor belonging to a community of values ​​that was created precisely to exclude them and which has partly accepted them within itself, as vassals, except that they were defeated in a world war. For their part, Americans famously began to conceive of themselves as the West not to incorporate Europe into a broader Atlantic context, but to underline the firm break with everything that the Old Continent represented. It was President Thomas Jefferson who stated that America represents a "separate hemisphere", evoking a meridian - more moral than geographical - to separate the land where "the lamb and the lion will live in peace with each other" from corrupt Europe and its vices. In reality he was merely repeating Washington's teachings, that in 1793 he had already declared: “I am sure that the will of the United States is to have nothing to do with the intrigues and political disputes of the European nations”. President Monroe expressed the same concept when enunciating his famous theory aimed at excluding any European intervention in the New Continent (essentially “America for the Americans”). In fact, the meridian evoked by Jefferson was supposed to separate Good and Evil, the kingdom of equality and freedom from the land of hierarchy and oppression. Ora, mind you America believed it could embody this rejection of Europe by electing itself the Promised Land, that is, the New Israel based on membership (OR BETTER, AMERICANIST INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLICAL STATEMENT, N.D.R.) as stringent as possible with the biblical dictate. Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

The embassy of death
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Of Niccolò Inturrisi
The embassy of death
Source: The dissident intellectual
After the months spent amidst controversy and mockery, was held on the day of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel the official inauguration of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. However, what the American president had naively declared as a day dedicated to the hope of a "pace” was resolved, as was predictable, in a massacre by Israeli soldiers against the Palestinian civilian population. We don't just want to dwell on the almosts 2000 injured and beyond 50 dead killed by Israeli bullets – packed, shipped and sold directly from the same country that believes itself to be the bulwark of the survival of democracy in the world - to underline an obscene and deplorable situation that no European country deigns to condemn with due attention. It's precisely this lack of coherence, not just media, but sincerely political, which leaves those astonished (like all of us) has witnessed a real transformation over the last twenty years diktat by the government of Israel: not only political and economic dominance, but above all social and cultural compared to a population that has seen its native land usurped, forced to live on a strip of land and, not humiliated enough, denigrated and left to their own devices by the great world powers. Read More

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These are the questions any journalist should ask the Israeli army
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Of Tossi Gurvitz
These are the questions any journalist should ask the Israeli army
Source: Comedonchisciotte
As these lines are written IDF snipers have killed more than 40 Palestinians near the Gaza barrier and injured others 2,200, a dozen are believed to have been mortally wounded. At the same time you read these words, the numbers have probably already gone up. IDF spokesman used to claim his snipers were 'in danger'. When you hear these words, think aboutoperazione Speedy Express.
Speedy Express was flown by the US Army's 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta in 1969. The US military claimed to have killed 10,899 opposing fighters. He just suffered 244 losses. Being in Saigon, a young genius called Alexander Demitri Shimkin, a veteran of civil rights marches, he perplexed his fellow journalists with a strange pastime: he took the trouble to actually read the official press releases and tabulated what was written.
After a few months, Shimkin put together a strange statistic: the 9th Division claimed to have killed 10,899 fighters but had only captured 748 weapons. Shimkin's conclusion was simple: the disparity between deaths and captured weapons means that the majority of those killed in Speedy Express were not combatants but civilians. It was problematic for Shimkin to find a publisher willing to publish this first example of data journalism and Newsweek published it only in 1972. Nonetheless, the publication caused a political firestorm, with the US military forced to take refuge in the desperate claim that “many guerrilla units were not armed with weapons”. Read More

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Actuality | events

When Zionism collides with reality
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Of Stanley L. Cohen*
When Zionism collides with reality
Source: Comedonchisciotte
“The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish were thus premeditated, so evil and so devastating, that a civilization cannot tolerate them being ignored, because it could not survive their reiteration"
With these authoritative words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Attorney, had opened the work of the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.
In charge of ascertaining the guilt of prominent members of the army, of politics and the judicial apparatus for violations of international laws... including war crimes, crimes against humanityand against them laws of war…the court had validated the principle of personal responsibility for the genocide against Jews and other ethnic groups, that had been considered, from the German state, a threat to one's own, declared, racial supremacy, religious and political.
Although these crimes had manifested themselves in different forms, their savagery resulted, actually, from a shared collective thought, who considered all those destined to be suppressed by the state not only (beings) inferior, but unworthy of life itself… men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of grotesque derision, whose very existence contaminated the national concept of racial supremacy.
There are no more secrets about the terror campaign unleashed from the Third Reich, as he invaded nations and unleashed international violence never seen before. Nor have its methods of total war ever been subject to serious debate, both towards the military, than against civilians. Even if someone has chosen to dispute the number of victims or to rework the exact instruments of persecution, no serious historian doubts the role played by cattle trucks, from the ghettos and crematoriums in a conscious effort to silence the diversity of life, while most of the world looked elsewhere. Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

L'eterno salvacondotto della Shoah
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Of Massimo Fini
The eternal safe conduct of the Shoah
Source: Massimo Fini
That Abu Mazen's statements (the Jews would be somehow responsible for the Shoah) are unacceptable, as he immediately declared, among others, also the European Union, there's no need to even say it. One wonders though, as a reader of Il Fatto did (27.4), Mauro Chiostri, talking about today and not about the codified yesterday, whether the State of Israel does not enjoy a special safe conduct based precisely on the Jewish extermination of three-quarters of a century ago. It's a question, for the truth, which many people do but which they do not dare to express publicly for fear of being immediately branded as anti-Semitic, deniers, racists, Nazis. But Israel is a state and should not be confused with the international Jewish community. In less Manichaean years than the ones we are currently experiencing, it was the Jewish community itself that did not want such confusion to arise. And it was logical that this should be the case. Because Israel is a state and, as such, can perform objectionable actions, and even nefarious, but that doesn't mean he has to answer for it, let's say, a Jew from the Rome ghetto. Today, however, this confusion exists and Israel can carry out acts with impunity that would cost other states indignant condemnation, if not worse, of the so-called 'international community'. Read More

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Israel prepares for war?
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Of Alastair Crooke
Israel prepares for war?
Source: Aurora site
General Mattis told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that he believes a military confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria is increasingly likely: “I can see how it might start, but I'm not sure when or where“. This shouldn't be surprising. Anyone peeking through the membrane of the Western bubble, can see the main dynamics “bridging and strengthening” such that they inexorably close in on Israel. It becomes “inexorable”: not so much because the states of the Middle East desire war (they don't want it); but because Israel feels culturally forced to bind itself to President Trump and his team of extremists, placing itself as the first collaborator in the United States' "war" to repel China, Russia, Iran and make their commercial project an ineffective and weakened entity. The belligerent rhetoric of Pompeo and Bolton may seem like an intoxicating elixir to some Israelis; but the Middle East is simply not the place to collaborate in this new US hybrid "war" against the new emerging dynamics. Read More

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Israel and the subversion of every international balance
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Of Paolo Sensini
Israel and the subversion of every international balance
Source: Paolo Sensini
Israel once again confirms itself as one of the major vectors of instability in the Near and Middle East: not only did he support the jihadist cutthroats of al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) on the Golan Heights for its own strategic calculations, but has carried out hundreds of missile attacks and provocations against Syrian neighbors since the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring in 2011. The last of which was carried out on 8 May with the launch of missiles against a Syrian base on the southern outskirts of the countryi Damasco. But now that in Syria his plans to subvert the Assad regime have hit the wall, Israel wants to reopen another war front against Iran at all costs. With what reasons? Simple, because as Prime Minister Netanyahu illustrated, the Islamic republic is carrying out a nuclear development program. But there is no concrete evidence to support this thesis, except for a certain number of materials stolen by the Mossad from an Iranian government warehouse dating back to that period 1999-2003. Thus a possible military attack on the country of the Ayatollahs would have a good chance of turning out to be a new edition of what happened with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. From this point of view, President Trump's unilateral decision to terminate the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear power, which, moreover, never led to the end of sanctions against the Islamic Republic by the United States, it is a seal of the Israeli maneuver. In the midst of this political-media saraband that threatens to drag the world into the abyss, however, there is something left unsaid that Western countries, but also Israel's Islamic allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, they certainly don't dream of reporting: i.e. that the Jewish State has built an atomic arsenal of approximately 250 nuclear warheads, all in absolute silence and without allowing its laboratories to ever be inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (DEBT). But the problem is always the arsenals of the “others”, without even a shred of concrete proof, never those in possession of the Israelis. In short, yet another scene in which the ox says cuckold to the donkey. But by dint of playing with fire, it can happen that you get burned. E, if you look closely, we're not that far away. Read More

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