Gaza: Jailbreak or Trap?
and why we are all Palestine
I examine events in Israel using the research of Vanessa Beeley, David Icke (thanks Jimychanga) and Max Igan (thank you Frances Leader), asking whether this is a trap or a jailbreak. I add surprising information I didn’t know from each, but find RFKjr predictably disappointing. I explore a connection between the Russell Brand media assault and his critique of Israel back in 2009. And I conclude that we are all Palestine.
To begin with logic, a statement of ethics has no proper nouns. Whether something is right or wrong depends on the action and the circumstances but not who does it. If you need to define who in order to determine what punishment or praise is warranted, you’re talking about partisan politics, not ethics.
I suspect we all agree that there are circumstances in which violence is not only ethical but to not enact violence is cowardly and unethical. Every nation with a military or police force agrees with this. Violence in defense of yourself, your family, your community and others within or on your border is the most legitimate and perhaps the only legitimate use of violence.
‘Justice is blind’ means that you can reverse the variables on either side of the equal sign and it will still be true. Any moral or ethical statement on the conflict needs to be put to this test or it is inherently biased.
She quotes a young girl, Hebh Jamal, who writes from Gaza:
When I read posts shocked at how I am not condemning Hamas in this point in time, I feel once again inferior. My value as a human is not seen the same. While we are in the most traumatic and gut wrenching moments of our lives there are some who believe now it is the time to say that we have to condemn. We have to say that love trumps all.
I fucking wish. I truly Goddamn wish that love trumps all. That it is love that leads revolutions. I wanted for my whole life to believe that by protesting long enough, by supporting BDS long enough, by writing long enough I am actively making a difference.
Well I wasn’t. Not in the way that might save my people’s existence.
In Gaza, despite bombs being dropped overhead, despite us losing tens and tens of our family members right this very second, they know that if it is not now, it will be later. They know this because their whole lives that is all they had to see. They had to see mutilated bodies, they had to see their children dismembered in front of them, and they had to see their futures destroyed.
2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023..
Each war and assault on Gaza it is the same. Each war the amount dead was dismissed and treated lesser than. Our humanity is not valued. For if it was, so would be our pursuit for liberation.
Vanessa’s op-ed is worth watching in its entirety:
In all three videos, I discovered that Hamas had been put into power by Israel, with police on every corner during the elections. Their role is to create attacks that justify all-out assaults on Gaza. This video is linked from Jimychanga on David Icke, to whom this quote is credited:
“So was it a surprise to the Israelis attacked and brutalized? Yes
Was it a surprise for the rank and file military? Oh yes
Was it a surprise for the very top? YOU’VE GOT TO BE JOKING!”
Icke quotes Fletcher Prouty, regarding clandestine steering of world events:
No one has to direct an assassination -- it happens. The active role is played secretly by permitting it to happen.
And he asks: Who has the power to reduce security precautions???
And Frances Leader has linked Max Igan, with a deep history of the formation of Israel. I had never seen the original Balfour Declaration and was taken aback that it’s addressed to Lord Rothschild and asks that he bring it to the ‘knowledge of the Zionist Federation.’ That he’d fulfilled his part of the bargain? In exchange for what?
All three videos take note that this took place 50 years to the day from the October 6th Yom Kippur War of 1973, started on the Day of Atonement. The first person to alert me to that was Isaac Middle whose Down the Wombat Hole has been tracking the Shemitahs (7-yr cycles) and Jubilees (50-yr cycles). He had been predicting a major event in September to coincide with Yom Kippur 2023. He was about to hang up his wizarding hat but I think he just needed to date it to Yom Kippur 1973.
This is a tell because it’s a Shemite cycle, not Muslim. Another tell is that there was no way to get the weapons and equipment into Gaza without Israel knowing. Videos of former guards say that a cat couldn’t approach the wall without Israel knowing.
Again, this is worth seeing in its entirety. It gives a nuanced context to Gaza and a deep history of Israel. I didn’t know the word ‘terrorist’ was coined to blame Palestinians for a false flag attack by MI6 on the first Jewish ships to reach Palestine. Or that the King David Hotel bombing was done by Benjamin Emmanuel, a Jew dressed as a Muslim and the grandfather of Rahm Emmanuel.
And Max confirmed what I’d learned from the David Irving episode, that Hitler had transferred 20,000 Jews to Israel in 1933 along with farm equipment worth $100M in today’s dollars. This is documented in Edwin Black’s The Transfer Agreement. Max also shows footage of Palestinian children being brutalized and captured by Israeli soldiers, as a ‘normal’ part of the occupation.
And Pasheen of Diva Drops just posted an essay that links to Icke and Igan and more:
What does this have to do with Russell Brand? In the video I also respond to Mathew Crawford’s series on Brand. Having listened to over 100 hours of Russell’s interviews of other people, I’ve never detected the slightest hint of violence in him. I’ve alienated supporters and made enemies with my series on Tonic vs. Toxic Masculinity. I’ve been accused of being oversensitive to misogyny. But I’ve never seen it in him.
In 2009, however, Russell was speaking out for Gaza and criticizing Israel. By 2010, he had married Katy Perry. Was she the honeypot sent to smother him? Is that what he walked away from after 14 months, breaking it off with a text? The timing of these two media assaults are too close together to be accidental. It’s made him too vulnerable as a ‘psychopath’ and ‘rapist’ to also risk being an anti-Semite. As the Tao says, watch the timing.
And to end with why we’re all Palestine, from Democracy Now:
We speak with journalist and author Antony Loewenstein about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. Loewenstein explains that Israel’s military-industrial complex has used the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that it then exports around the world for profit. “You find in over 130 countries across the globe in the last decades, Israel has sold … a range of tools of occupation and repression that have initially been tested in Palestine on Palestinians,” Loewenstein says.
Watch the timing.
On the right of armed resistance, here’s Is Our Love Being Pimped for Profit?
In Russell Brand's interview of ex-Navy SEAL Jocko Willink, he asks, "Is our beauty being harnessed for nefarious ends." I rephrase that by asking "Is our love being pimped for profit?" Are all of us being monetarily raped and economically drafted into servicing the empire? I differentiate between the work we do and the job we're paid for, and quote John Cusack on sugar daddy politics and Arundhati Roy in defense of self-defense. I suggest that we sell our bodies but keep our hearts and minds free, and explain why Russell is my favorite hooker in the YouTube brothel.
And on David Irving, who wrote Hitler's War and 30 other volumes that document the history of WWII. Then Deborah Lipstadt attacked him in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust. This is the story of his ruinous libel suit against her and Penguin Books and his subsequent imprisonment in Austria, all for taking history at its word.
Much more to this than meets the eye. Being staged by the “oligarchs”
Thanks Tereza, I watched the Icke and Igan one's already and they did a great job.
Appreciate your pulling such relevant info. Oh, the tangled webs, the decades of weaving. Yes, we're all Palestinians, we're all pawns in a sick game. I'll listen as well. Best.