Israel & The Palestinians

GAZA: “When I wrote that ‘criminality is codified in Israeli law; that genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations and rape of Palestinians are de facto legal in Israel; I was not engaging in hyperbole. Systemic, societal criminality is regularly codified by the highest court in that land. Late in March came an authoritative ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court in support of starvation.”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal,” April 23, 2025.
GAZA: “With chameleon alacrity, Israel typically scurries to “investigate” itself, and to exploit the principle of complementarity, when the world looks like it’s had enough. Legal investigations by Israel of its own crimes are part of the Israeli superstructure of deception. Nominal prosecutions, or ersatz investigations, by genocidal Israel of its crimes against Arabs must themselves be treated as part of Hasbara’s meta-chicanery, aimed at concealing the Israeli State’s transparently despotic tendencies.”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal,” April 23, 2025.
GAZA: “Israel does not enjoy an independent judiciary. Yet Israel regularly exploits the principle of complementarity in international law, according to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) shares legal jurisdiction with the democratic nation-state under investigation, provided the latter has an independent judiciary.”
GAZA: “Legal investigations by Israel of its own crimes are part of the Israeli State’s superstructure of deception. Nominal prosecutions, or ersatz investigations, by genocidal Israel of its crimes against Arabs, must themselves be treated as part of Hasbara’s meta-chicanery, aimed at concealing the Israeli State’s transparently despotic tendencies.”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal,” April 23, 2025
GAZA: “The oleaginous Bernie Sanders is an unreconstructed liberal Zionist. Gaza is no more because of a concerted campaign to wipe it out; because of extermination and depopulation; not because of ‘Israeli self-defense,’ which is when one sovereign state wards off the armies of other sovereign nation-states. Yet ‘in the year 2025,’ Sanders’ mass rallies are festooned with the line, ‘Israel has a right to defend itself.'”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal,” April 23, 2025.
GAZA: “Bernie Sanders’ sophistry should explode the brain like an ammunition dump! Genocide is the acid test. Sanders’ insistence, well into genocide, that ‘Israel has a right to defend itself can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia,’ propounds Caitlin Johnstone. Clearly an expert in untruths, Sanders, who oversaw the removal from his rallies of protesters and their Free Palestine flag, has further exposed himself as a slick establishment operative, who seeks to capture naïve, politically homeless Democrats.”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal,” April 23, 2025
GAZA: “Genocide is de facto legal even laudable in all forms in Israel; and it is certainly legal in some forms in the West.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “Israelis and their lickspittles pitch a fit when the language of the Nazi Holocaust is applied to the genocide Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinians. So here goes: The northern part of the Gaza Ghetto is being ‘liquidated’ (as remarked on October 31). Israel’s methodology there is that of the Nazi death squads, who were said to have ‘liquidated” the ghettos of Eastern Europe before transporting their involuntarily confined Jewish occupants to the extermination camps, in cattle cars.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “These days, Gaza looks worse than the Polish Kutno Ghetto of yesteryear, for example, depicted in Hugo Jaeger’s photography, curated by Time & Life. On the one hand are the heartbreaking images of the Polish shantytown, its many makeshift shelters, and its hopeless inmates amid the collapsing ruins. On the other are the nylon tents that have come to typify Gaza, set against a Hiroshima-like hellscape, from which all signs of collective Palestinian life have been erased. The similarities are too conspicuous to ignore.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “A muselmann is a person whose body weight equals the weight of his bones. Yazan al-Kafarneh, of blessed memory, passed away in that condition, in Gaza.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “When you think of the IDF, the media hacks want you to think of fleeting youthful indiscretion—not of the abiding degeneracy and moral rot of a society and a military animated by mythomania and megalomania.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “IDF malefactors are doing well, still hamming it up in Gaza. Undeterred, the Israeli army is not tiring of genocide; but is invigorated by it. These wretched individuals upload fresh content of their exploits continuously. And, why not? Genocide is de facto legal even laudable in all forms in Israel; and it is certainly legal in some forms in the West.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA: “An ecumenical affair for Israelis is for busloads of exultant settlers and their loathsome larded offspring to watch and cheer the liquidation of northern Gaza from the Israeli side, with a view to moving in once their neighbors are dead and gone. ‘Thou shalt not covet your neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17) means nothing to these people. ‘Thou shalt not murder’ even less.”—ILANA Mercer, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” November, 26, 2024.
GAZA & THE LEVANT: “The free market will, in future, ensure that Israel’s remote activation of sleeper devices will lend an edge to the kind of competition that advertises thus to consumers of electronic goods: ‘Our products are Israel-proof; they cannot kill their users.'”—ILANA Mercer “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” October 19, 2024
“… Israeli society … is a picture of moral decadence. Israeli sofa tv pundits are as chatty and blasé about “mowing the lawn” as they are about the sexual rupturing of Palestinian anatomy. Israelis themselves have partied on. It’s vodka in the bars, volleyball on the beaches. All the while, a few kilometers south of this Dionysian debauchery is genocide—ILANA Mercer “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” October 19, 2024.
GAZA : “Given the threat to their very existence, Palestinians must not be forced into existential ennui by the West. They already are like a mouse before a cat. Given this reality, the object of any future Palestinian State must be security, first, not amity with Israel. That, and a ‘Never Again’ mindset. Any future Palestinian State is useless unless it affords the most imperiled people in the world the ability to defend against the most perilous people in the world.”—ILANA Mercer “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” October 19, 2024
GAZA : “Honed in rendition torture camps, sexual violence has become the coin of the Greater Israel realm.”—ILANA Mercer “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” October 19, 2024
GAZA: “Israel, moreover, is humanity’s most barbaric instantiation. Not only does it target humanity’s most vulnerable, but also its finest and noblest; the people we most rely on: altruistic aid and rescue workers, healers in their clinics ministering to their patients, peace activists, writers, reporters and intellectuals recording the crimes for posterity.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” October 19, 2024.
GAZA: “If the individual may not gratuitously and serially kill people; neither may the collective, the state, exterminate a class of people. It should make no difference as to whether the felon is a lone criminal or the ‘common force,’ to use Frédéric Bastiat’s natural-rights nomenclature.”—ILANA Mercer,“Genocide Is A Crime, Not A War Crime: Israel Is Waging Genocide, Not War,” September 20.
GAZA: “Israel’s odious excuse-making has come to be known as Hasbara. In Hebrew, hasbara is the name of the verb to explain (lehasbir). It means explanation. Exculpatory constructs, assorted Hasbara, serve to coat Israel’s corporeal crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some imagined purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus constructs with which to rape reality.”—ILANA Mercer,“Genocide Is A Crime, Not A War Crime: Israel Is Waging Genocide, Not War,” September 20.
GAZA: “Genocide is a crime, ‘the crime of all crimes.’ It stands alone; no mitigation or extenuation attaches to genocide. Because it is an indefensible crime for which there are no extenuating circumstances or traditional defenses—genocide is not a war crime.”—ILANA Mercer, “Genocide Is A Crime, Not A War Crime: Israel Is Waging Genocide, Not War,” September 20.
GAZA: “Israeli society has an impenetrable, clannish sense of entitlement, borne of an imagined grant of divine rights.”—ILANA Mercer, “De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal,” August 21, 2024.
GAZA: Like Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the rape in Sde Teiman was captured on camera. Watch! Have an emesis dish close by.”—ILANA Mercer, “De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal,” August 21, 2024.
GAZA: “The greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus and jurisprudence is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Be mindful, then, that any investigation ever launched or any arrests made by Israeli authorities are symbolic, cursory and inconsequential, part of a well-established strategy to safeguard the greater criminal enterprise.”—ILANA Mercer, “De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal,” August 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Crime is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the Israeli army. Yes, do not dub a first-degree felony a ‘war crime.’ A crime is a crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. A serial killer, state or lone actor, must be stopped.”—ILANA Mercer, “De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal,” August 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Natural-rights libertarians are seldom enamored of legal positivism, which generally conflates justice with the law of The State. Our all-too-small cohort is, for the most, wedded to the natural law, a higher law—a system of ethics knowable through reason, revelation and common sense.”—ILANA Mercer, “Israel Indicted, Palestinians Validated In Fact, Law & Hoppean Argumentation,” June 28, 2024
GAZA: “Bombastic without and barren within: The Israel Defense Forces collective might wear fatigues, but it does nothing to camouflage its libertine, licentious, sexually depraved, pornographic culture. The ‘Most Moral Army in the World‘ had been operating an ‘exclusive-content’ ‘channel to share the gruesome killing of Palestinians.‘ This IDF-run public war-porn channel, out of Israel, served up content in which murder was sauced-up or overlaid by sex talk. Such patterns of arousal—the commingling of serial killing and sex—are associated with psychopathy. The psychopathic fusion of lust and murder appears endemic among IDF soldiers”—ILANA Mercer, “Defending Gaza (Part I): Natural-Law Principles Vs. National-Interest Statism,” June 9, 2024
GAZA: “The opposition among the national-interest camp to the only flaccid response mounted against Satan-on-earth rests on theoretical abstractions. The confused camp commits the Sin of Abstraction—the sin of escaping into theory, and, in so doing, avoiding reality, the reality of Israel’s real sins, real crimes, the crime of all crimes.”—ILANA Mercer, “Defending Gaza (Part I): Natural-Law Principles Vs. National-Interest Statism,” June 9, 2024
GAZA: “Polled opinion was not split between Israelis for genocide and Israelis against it. Rather, the division in Israeli society appeared to be between Jewish-Israelis for current levels of genocide versus those for greater industry in what were already industrial-levels and methods of murder.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?,” May 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Israeli media—from Arutz 7, to Channel 12 (“[Gazans need] to die ‘hard and agonizing deaths’), to Israel Today, to Now 14 (“We will slaughter you and your supporters”), and the lowbrow, sub-intelligent vulgarians of i24—are a self-obsessed, energetic Idiocracy. These media feature excitable sorts, volubly imparting their atavistic, primitive tribalism in ugly, anglicized, Pidgin Hebrew. And, each one of these specimen always has a “teoria”: a theory.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?,” May 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Without a doubt, The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is the voice of the Jewish-Israeli commonwealth.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?,” May 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Much to my astonishment, I failed to come across a single Israeli protester who cried for anyone but himself, his kin, his countrymen, and their hostages.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?,” May 21, 2024.
GAZA: “The incessant, industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza, north, center and south, exists on one craven continuum of evil. There is no qualitative difference between the IDFs actions in Gaza before the invasion of Rafah and after.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?,” May 21, 2024.
GAZA: “Over and above industrial-scale mass murder of individual people—Israel is engaged in the eradication of Gazans as a People.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Such is the moral turpitude of the Israel Über Alles crowd—Jewish and gentile, stateside and abroad—that they appear incapable of distinguishing evidence from assertion, and facts from feel-good fiction; they can’t tell right from wrong.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “If Israeli society is sick; then so are its cobelligerent backers and boosters.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Israelis now flouts the Sixth Commandment with ugly audacity. They appear to believe that their sectarian supremacy transcends the universal moral order to which international law, the natural law and the Decalogue give expression.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Were the International Court of Justice an effective and just organization it would have issued, not temporary ceasefires, but some sort of binding cease and desist order, some manner of restraining order, if you will, instructing the Israel Defense Forces to stop its depredations.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Four conditions of genocide fulfilled; not one law of war obeyed. In the course of its genocidal campaign; Israel has violated every law of war, codified in Customary International Humanitarian Law.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “In the end, Bibi Netanyahu (Likud) and ostensible rival Benny Gantz (National Unity Party), who both officiate in their country’s War Cabinet, are philosophically one, inseparable, spherical Gluteus Maximus.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “What if America were the Good Guy? Gaza is a desert of the dead and the dying. Let the American Super Power ride to the rescue.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Commensurate with Israel’s outrageous excesses, the crazed riffs coming out of Israeli heads—by letting the blood of Palestinian civilians for six months, and showing no intention of letting up—Israel has established itself as a war criminal.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “Israel’s contempt for the United States is complete.”—ILANA Mercer, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” March 31, 2024.
GAZA: “American foreign policy is a museum of horrors in which Gaza 2023/2024 is the main exhibit. It is my conviction that Gaza is much more than just one more American foreign-policy failure, an event and topic to swill around like mouth wash, spit out and move on, once the usual ‘tsk, tsk’ bromides have been disgorged. Uncle Sam’s usual deathly mixture of ignorance, cruelty and superiority has been exceeded with respect to Gaza. It is my belief that the United States’ open, even-energetic support for genocide is a defining event in the annals of American foreign-policy aberrations.”—ILANA Mercer, “Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From The Great And Little Satan,” April 26, 2024
GAZA: “By dint of undertaking the role of IDF deputy in advancing genocide in Gaza—the United States has crossed a threshold. In Gaza, Uncle Sam has finally achieved an official or formal inversion of all cherished, universal values. It has earned the ‘Great Satan‘ appellation it was once awarded.”—ILANA Mercer, “Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From The Great And Little Satan,” April 26, 2024
GAZA: “On the scale of national crimes and misdemeanors, Gaza is simply indefensible. And America’s young sense this and are incensed by it. I am buoyed by the campus protests and wish the kids Godspeed. The Kids might just deliver Gaza from the Great and Little Satan alike.”—ILANA Mercer, “Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From The Great And Little Satan,” April 26, 2024
GAZA: “This is not a Whodunit. The serial killers are known to us, are friends of ours, are supported by us.”—ILANA Mercer, “Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From The Great And Little Satan,” April 26, 2024
GAZA: “Empowered by Empire, Israeli serial killers are not on-the-lam, running from the Law. They are free to come-and-go, to travel, to hobnob; at liberty to enjoy undeserved freedoms, as their innocent victims are confined, held captive, catacombed, awaiting death by one or another diabolical means. In fact, the serial killers of the Palestinians of Gaza are proudly paraded as freedom fighters in their country of Israel, and are backed and exculpated by the powerful in our own country, the United States of America.”—ILANA Mercer, “Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From The Great And Little Satan,” April 26, 2024
GAZA: “Inarguably, the case against Israel’s murder spree in Gaza is ethically quite simple. It is NOT within the realm of opinion. It is immutable, eternal truth. Like the laws of logic, right and wrong are universal, not relative. There are no special tribal privilege clauses—Jews, like gentiles, are prohibited from mass murder. ‘Thou shalt not murder’ (you can ‘kill,’ but you cannot murder—read about the Biblical difference in this essay) is neither opinion, nor is it optional. That’s why the Sixth Commandment is called a … commandment. It isn’t optional. Saint Augustine’s Just War Theory, while imperfect, is closer to truth than opinion. Natural law going back to the ancients and derived from deductive reason and the nature of man: not opinion. What Israel has visited on Gazans and their small enclave is irreparable, orgiastic mass murder and ethnic cleansing.”—ILANA MERCER, January 14, 2024
GAZA: “All Israel has to do to make world leaders turn tail is intone psychopathically that ‘Hamas made me do it. Hamas ate my homework; I mean my conscience.’ However, he who offends against innocents is responsible for his offenses; not a third party. Whether it is committed by decree of the one or by the will of the many; by actors within or without The State; by the designated ‘good guys’ or by the ‘bad guys’—murder of innocents is always murder. Murder by ‘democratic’ approval is also still murder, however many approve of it. At the same time, mass murder is never ‘unintentional’ when you know it is inevitable and incidental to your ‘mission.’”—ILANA MERCER, Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban Not The Israel I Grew Up In,” January 4, 2024
GAZA: “If murder of the unburn is evil, as we are frequently lectured, one might ask those who live by the light of truth, what about fully formed little people? Is it okay to make repeated attempts on the lives of Gaza’s babies?”—ILANA MERCER, “Hermetically Sealed Indictment Of The Jewish Taliban’s Mass Murder And Ethnic Cleansing In Gaza,” January 4, 2024.
GAZA: “Mass murder is never ‘unintentional’ when you know it is inevitable and incidental to your ‘mission.’”—ILANA MERCER, “Hermetically Sealed Indictment Of The Jewish Taliban’s Mass Murder And Ethnic Cleansing In Gaza,” January 4, 2024.
GAZA: “And war against civilians is war on civilization.”—ILANA MERCER, “Hermetically Sealed Indictment Of The Jewish Taliban’s Mass Murder And Ethnic Cleansing In Gaza,” January 4, 2024.
GAZA: “Demolish we must the demented ‘argument’ that claims for Israel a right to drop dumb bombs, on Gaza’s doctors and patients. The former, apparently, are expected not only to palliate their imperiled patients, but also account for the Resistances’ whereabouts.”—ILANA MERCER, “Hermetically Sealed Indictment Of The Jewish Taliban’s Mass Murder And Ethnic Cleansing In Gaza,” January 4, 2024.
GAZA: “Look at Gaza. It’s a moonscape. What are your lying eyes telling you, to use Richard Pryor’s wry phrase for he who has been caught in flagrante delicto? As they were turning Gaza into Dresden on TV, before our very eyes, Israel’s quicksilver state propagandists were also telling us, their American funders, that ‘this is not happening.’ Who are you going to believe? Democratic Israel, or your ‘lying eyes’? I believe my ‘lying eyes,’ thank you very much. Those ‘lying eyes’ speak to the scale of Israel’s depredations against Gazans. ”—ILANA Mercer, “Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban Not The Israel I Grew Up In,” January 4, 2024
GAZA: “The broad and short of it is that, no reparations can fix the irreparable Gaza, although these are owed.”—ILANA Mercer, “Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban Not The Israel I Grew Up In,” January 4, 2024
GAZA: “The Israel of my formative years was no Eden before the Fall, but it was not a terrorist state. Jewish supremacism, like the American exceptionalism driving the United States’ foreign policy, breeds barbarism.”—ILANA Mercer, “Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban Not The Israel I Grew Up In,” January 4, 2024
GAZA: “In their recent military campaigns, America and Israel have waged what to the inexpert, keen observer is largely old-fashioned, Third-Generation Warfare—a blitzkrieg, by any other name, against civilian populations. Yet when military mavens predicted and depicted the next form of warfare; it was the contours Fourth-Generation Warfare that they were tracing. Fourth-Generation Warfare was to be the distinguishing characteristic of the modern military. Fourth-Generation war was meant to be smart; to see Mind dominate and direct materiel. What is underway in Gaza, at 2023’s end, however, is the very opposite. I see madness for what it is.”—ILANA Mercer, “Gaza Vs. Fallujah: Barbaric Blitzkrieg Highlights U.S. Marines’ Superiority,” December 4, 2023
Gaza: “To refuse to bear witness to the prosecution of Total Warfare against Gazans—also the defining event of 2023 and the decade, twinned with COVID—is to be inhuman, insane, incoherent. To the Greek philosophers, to be mired in such contradiction was to be less than human, less than coherent, less than sane.”—ILANA Mercer, December 9, 2023, “Gaza Vs. Fallujah: Barbaric Blitzkrieg Highlights U.S. Marines’ Superiority“
GAZA: “You can’t gussy up what’s going on in Gaza.”—ILANA Mercer, “Bibi Netanyahu May Find Himself In the Dock, In The Hague,” November 14, 2023
GAZA: “It’s simple: If you know in advance that your actions will cause the deaths of thousands-upon-thousands of civilians; attached to your criminal actions (actus reus) is a guilty mind (mens rea), which means malice aforethought, also known as intent, in Western jurisprudence and judicial philosophy.”—ILANA Mercer, “Bibi Obliterates Memory Of October 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza,” November 2, 2023

GAZA: “The razing and ethnic cleansing of Gaza by Benjmain Netanyahu, abetted by Joe Biden and his Uniparty accomplices, in the course of which tens of thousands civilians are dying: This is murder with malice aforethought, a concept that includes ‘deaths resulting from actions that display a depraved indifference to life.‘ Further depraved indifference to life was Israel’s throttling of supplies of water, food and power to the millions of aid-dependent Gazans, as Israel knows full-well this will imperil civilians indirectly.”—ILANA Mercer, “Bibi Obliterates Memory Of October 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza,” November 2, 2023

GAZA: “Murder with majority approval is still murder, whomever the perpetrator. Whether it is committed by the one or the many; by actors within or without The State; by the designated ‘good guys’ or by the ‘bad guys’; by the decree of the one dictator or by the will of the many—murder of innocents is still murder. Murder by ‘democratic’ approval is also still murder, however many approve of it. Besides, mass murder is never ‘unintentional’ when you know it is inevitable and incidental to your ‘mission.’”—ILANA Mercer, “Bibi Obliterates Memory Of October 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza,” November 2, 2023

GAZA: “The razing of Gaza and the ongoing murder of thousands-upon-thousands of civilians by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), with western imprimatur, is a war crime. Strafing civilian populations and pulverizing entire neighborhoods to ostensibly ‘soften’ the few embedded targets within—this violates natural law, international law, libertarian law and Just War Theory.”—ILANA Mercer, “Bibi Obliterates Memory Of October 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza,” November 2, 2023
“Witnessed in Israel on October 7 was the utter forsaking by the State of its most elementary—and only—obligations to the citizenry: Defend their natural rights to life, liberty and property.”—ILANA Mercer, “Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason,” October 12, 2023
“It was the custodians of Israeli security whose calculus was off. If you correctly think Hamas is so horrible, why had Israel opted to deploy gizmos to the border with Gaza?.”—ILANA Mercer, “Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason,” October 12, 2023
“The freedom to exclude is not racist. Rather, it is the inherent right of free individuals, living severally or collectively. The freedom to exclude is a libertarian tenet of liberty.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
“Prejudice—the right to pre-judge—is the idea of rejecting some and welcoming others into the fold. It is an extension of an individual’s right as a sovereign, discerning human being. So long as no real violence and aggression are involved, the right to pre-judge and, consequently, to associate or dissociate in accordance with one’s prejudgments—this is the prerogative of a free person, and, by extension, of a free group of people, living in voluntary association.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
“So long as no real violence and aggression are involved, the right to pre-judge and, consequently, to associate or dissociate in accordance with one’s prejudgments—this is the prerogative of a free person, and, by extension, of a free group of people, living in voluntary association.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
Is freedom of association racist? Is exclusion racist? Only if you are of the progressive Left. Both vicious and violent, the progressive Left believes that one is compelled by egalitarian, humanistic dogma to accept everyone into your midst on pain of punishment.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
The freedom to exclude is not racist. Rather, it is the inherent right of free individuals, living severally or collectively.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
“Trump has brokered much more than a peace agreement in the Middle East. He has set in motion a regional dynamic. In the past, America imagined it could be a decisive force for good in the Middle East. It can’t. The region’s players march to their own drumbeat, which is why America ought to foster regional politics, or geopolitics, in the Middle East. By shifting the emphasis away from the dysfunctional Palestinian-Israeli axis, Trump has done just that: He has returned power to the players in the region.”—ILANA Mercer, “We ‘Lizard Brains’ Love Our POTUS—Kvetching COVID Joe Must GO! ,” October 29, 2020.
“The Arabs know that Ivanka is calling the shots—and that the president’s fashion-focused daughter is behind the branding of the sexually androgynous, intellectually inchoate production that is Jared Kushner. If you think that’s something Arabs respect, you don’t know Shiite from Shinola.”—ILANA Mercer, “Jared Packs Unicorns and Rainbows For Mideast Trip,” May 30, 2019, The Unz Review.
“For better or for worse, the two sides are locked in a deadly, tightly choreographed dance. The Palestinians rise in frustration and fury; the Israelis respond with overwhelming force. The world then offers-up perfunctory sympathy for the Palestinians. Everybody moves on. It’s just the way it is. The world has become desensitized to the plight of the Palestinians.”—ILANA MERCER, “Bibi’s Cautious Conservatism May Clash With Jared’s New Peace Plan,” Townhall.com, May 31, 2019.
“What’s the matter with Israel’s Special Operations capabilities? Did the Israel Defense Forces rain bombs, willy-nilly, on the civilians at the Entebbe Airport—in Uganda, on July 4, 1976—where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held 100 hijacked Jews and Israelis hostage? Not on your life. Led by Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, Bibi Netanyau’s late great brother, 100 members of the ‘Sayeret’ traversed 2,500 miles to rescue their brethren. They killed only those who needed killing.”—ILANA (November 23, 2012)
“Hamas is said to hide among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This allegation does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not ‘unintentional’ when you know it is inevitable.”—ILANA (November 23, 2012)
“The titan is tired. We Americans have our own tyrants to tackle. We no longer want to defend to the death borders not our own—be they in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, wherever. And we don’t need our friends looking to us to do so.”—ILANA (April 29, 2011)
“The liberal West honestly believes that bad leaders are what shackle backward peoples.”—ILANA (January 9, 2009)
“Be it in Africa or Arabia, liberals labor under the romantic delusion that the effects of millennia of development-resistant, fatalistic, superstitious, and cruel cultures can be cured by an infusion of foreign aid, and by the removal of the Mugabes and Haniyas of the respective regions.” (January 9, 2009)
“Certain nihilists appear to believe that it’s preferable for their Palestinian protégés to be masters in a failed state than a minority in a functioning one.”—ILANA (March 14, 2008)
“The notion that Hezbollah is a Jihadist organization that would like to see Israel destroyed does nothing to address whether there is utility or justification in destroying Lebanon.”—ILANA (August 10, 2006)
“While the blame for civilian casualties might lie indirectly with Hezbollah … which, it is said in the West, targets civilians and hides among them. Although necessary, this fact, however, is not sufficient to exempt Israel from responsibility for its direct actions … Israel can’t claim it didn’t intend to murder civilians when Israeli generals can both see and foresee the devastating results of their bombardments.”—ILANA (July 21, 2006)

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