First, The modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, Israel, has done crimes many times more wicked than the crimes for which God erased the biblical sin city by that name. Second, a merciful God did not send Abraham over to ask the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah to weigh in.
‘Tell me, oh degenerates of Sodom and Gomorrah, what your opinion is about your own mass butchery, mass thievery, mass looting, and raping.’ Oh no!

THE BIBLE has great significance to religiously-minded conservative Americans.

Ben Shapiro, a stupid and sickening influencer, once referred to the Hebrew Bible as the Torah. It’s Tanach, dummy.

The Tanach has three sections: Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, for a total of about 37 books.

To me, the Hebrew Tanach is a great literary work. I know it in the Hebrew, through secular study as a school girl. It’s a literary accomplishment that sports a lot of shit-hot writing.

A story worth considering is Sodom and Gomorrah, and, in particular, how The Almighty approached Sodom and Gomorrah, the Sin City of antiquity.

The all-knowing Almighty possessed full-knowledge of the evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah’s utter debauchery and murderous decadence.

In front of Him, The Almighty had the totality of the crimes. The cumulative evidence was spread before him.

What did He do?

Did He dispatch a group of wise men to further “investigate” the Sodom and Gomorrah Sin City, a place where crime was law?

Did He solicit the perspective and opinion of the City’s top criminals about their crimes?

No. He had in evidence His infinite knowledge, much like an AI archive.

In other words, did the Almighty do what the complicit, narrative-shaping, collaborator, Western corporate media do, at this stage of Israel’s crime spree?

Of course not.

Take UK’s Channel 4 collaborators, and all western media, for that matter.

“Oh, Almighty Israel, give us your side of The Story,” these media persist in pleading with the Serial-Killer State.

“Give us your take on your latest mass butchery, thievery, looting, and raping. We’re listening, Oh Almighty Israel.”

What is wrong with the Sodom and Gomorrah media!

Even “Democracy Now!”, decent dissident journalists, even they insult reality, this way. Still! They reported, on April the 23rd, that Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil “was killed by an Israeli strike.”

WTF. And what dross!

Like hundreds of Gaza’s journalists before her, Amal Khalil was first targeted by the serial-killer thugs. Next, she was threatened by the serial-killers, who warned her that her head would be separated from her body, if she didn’t quit reporting on their crimes.

Finally, Ms. Khalil was martyred in a triple-tap hit:

Double-tap or triple tap attacks are all terms from the genocidal entity’s lexicon of crime and cowardice:

First, they hit the target, almost always civilian, a journalist in this instance. They follow up with a strike on survivors and rescuers. For good measure, they repeat the “feat.”

The biblical Sodom and Gomorrah was a city whose crimes, the least of which were carnal, did not come close to those of the modern Serial-Killer State.

By bringing up the Sin City of antiquity analogy, you have not heard me advocate that The Almighty’s solution to Sodom and Gomorrah be applied to the modern-day Serial-Killer State.

What you hear me point out, rather, are three things.

First, that The modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, Israel, has done crimes many times more wicked than the crimes for which God erased the biblical sin city by that name.

Second, I am alerting you to the fact that a merciful God did not send Abraham over to ask the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah to weigh in.

“Tell me, oh degenerates of Sodom and Gomorrah, what your opinion is about your own mass butchery, mass thievery, mass looting, and raping.”

The Almighty simply said to Abraham that he’d spare Sodom and Gomorrah if Abraham could locate 50, and then 10, righteous people in Sin City of antiquity.

Abraham failed. He could not. There were not even 10 righteous individuals to be found in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.

Here I come to the third thing I am pointing out:

The near-none—near-none—number of righteous people present in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah obtains in the modern-day Serial-Killer State.

Capital-Crime-by-state-proxy (and plenty Cardinal Sin) is very, very popular in the Serial-Killer State.

I’ll provide you with an update of the accurate percentages of just how popular Capital Crime-by-state-proxy is in Israel.

These numbers have not changed since I wrote, in May of 2024, an essay titled, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?” The answer then like today is, “Oh yeah.”

(Another essay I thoroughly recommend in helping you distinguish real from fake journalism is “Gaza Genocide: The Coverup Begins. Johnny-Come-Lately Journos & Politicos Start Covering Keister,” September 2025.)

In his many media appearances, Ori Goldberg, a longtime, pro-Palestine Israeli academic, has remarked repeatedly that he is among a few thousand righteous souls in Israel. A few thousand! This explains the indelible reservoir of evil, a bottomless pit of it, expressed and acted out by Israeli society’s most faithful representatives: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), which is a citizen army.

So, what did heroic Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil do that got her murdered? In essence, that is the illegitimate question that the toady, fake journalists of Channel 4 and mainstream corporate media have posed to Israel—and have been posing to the Serial-Killer State for three years of a killing spree.

Actually, Israel is in a comfortable groove, a second-nature killing groove, not on a spree.

The act of asking this question must earn the inquiring fake journalist nothing but your revulsion, your contempt.

Ms. Amal Khalil did what hundreds of Gaza’s journalists did before they were targeted by the Serial-Killer State and then martyred, often with their families:

Khalil and colleagues had reported reality on the ground. Ergo, they resisted.  Reporting has become an act of resistance!

At this stage of Israel’s crime spree, channel 4, and similar collaborators (like the BBC, Fox, CNN, etc.), persist in asking the Serial-Killer State for its side of the story.

Enough. And what is wrong with these people?

They must do us a kindness and quit their enacted cover-up and deception.

Would these monstrous media collaborators have cozied up to Jeffry Dhamer to inquire, “Mr. IDF Dahmer, please give us your side of the story regarding the last young man you murdered and cannibalized”?

This is “both side-ism.” Would the Sodom and Gomorrah media do “both side-ism” with Jeffry Dhamer?

At this stage of the Serial Killer State’s crime spree, media collaborators, stateside and abroad, have no right—have absolutely no right—to dish up their reality-defying “both side-ism” bullshit.

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To Israel’s unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the ideas of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder.~ilana

The Axis of Epstein seeks to destroy the Axis of Resistance.~ilana

Decent, moral people will root for Iran to hold the line against a Satanic confederacy, Israel in the lead, seeking the fragmentation and Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon.

To that end, President Donald Trump had convened “hucksters and shysters” to head his diplomatic corps to the Middle East and beyond, Iran included. In the commission of the greatest Sins known to Man, the “populist” president had recruited billionaires to his White House, who also happen to be Israel-first fixers and assets. Like their boss, both Trump’s point “men” are regarded as “Israeli assets,” as “one Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks” told The Guardian, on March 17.

This, the president, to whom Bibi Netanyahu’s word is law, did with a purpose, the outcome of which is in evidence:

The final and full Israelization of the American military, and the attempted Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon. The “Gaza doctrine applied to a new front,” concludes Jonathan Whittall, a humanitarian and fellow South African. “And the American state is in compliance, providing firepower and striving to finally and fully Israelize the American military.”

The crime of aggression is “the supreme international crime” in international customary law. Why so? Because “it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The aggression is not only “a crime against the state that is attacked,” but it is “a crime against individuals who are killed or harmed as a result of war.”

Think “accumulated evil” when you look at Trump, a “second-rate gangster who strove to be Bibi Netanyahu” and has finally and fully arrived.

Without half trying, Trump has made us all confederates in Israel’s crimes. The Israel-US criminal regimes are in contravention of the laws of war, and the Charter of the United Nations—Articles Two and 51, in particular—by which “armed force” shall not be deployed against “the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State.”

For reasons obvious, the twinned Trump-Netanyahu regimes are also an affront to God’s law, the Ten Commandments—according to which you must not covet or murder—and the natural justice, subsumed within which is the libertarian law. The latter pivots on the universal injunction against unprovoked aggression, not on the “national interest fiat standard.” 

Most of all, this obtains “regardless of a declaration of war”! In other words, the murderous parliamentary procedures and protocols of Israel or the US do not usurp eternal codes of morality and ethics. Codified or uncodified, all laws that govern the comity between the community of nations and uphold individual rights have been trashed by the US-Israel coalition of evil.

By rights, Iran then is not only expected to defend its people—but to defend them against any “State [that] allows its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State [USA] for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State [Iran].” By the letter of the law, Iran is fighting fair when it targets the Persian Gulf states, from which attacks on the Iranian people are staged.

These eternal universal laws have been sundered by two rogue, nuclear powers, whose nuclear proliferation is undeclared and unsupervised. Obscenely, the US and Israel have justified their attack on a third state [Iran] that has no nukes and has not initiated war in centuries, by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation, comments Craig Mokhiber.

This is enough to make one gag.

Trump’s team of choice gave tone to all negotiation proceedings. The Three Amigos—Trump and his Israel-first fixers—have recruited America into their unbridled barbarism. In progress is a system of plunder developed by this coterie. Don’t, however, let the sweep of destruction they leave in their wake fool you. Trump and his loyalists are amassing fortunes. So too are sons Odai and Qusai making money hand over fist.

The one oaf sent abroad to “represent,” Steve Witkoff, is an old pal of the president. A real estate developer and investor, the man knows less than nothing about most things, the world of stocks and bonds excepted.

As we know, Trump is economical with the truth. Like him, Witkoaff has told lies right and left. About the long-suffering, patient, genial Iranian negotiators—a class act if ever there was one—he piled up a heap of lies to a receptive media:

“There’s almost no stopping them; they have an endless supply of [enriched uranium] … They thought they could strong-arm us. … It was very, very clear that it was — it was going to be impossible, probably by the second meeting…

They bragged about having 60% enriched fuel, enough for 11 bombs,” Witkoaff prattled on elsewhere to reporters seven days into the conflict. “They told me and Jared, ‘We’re not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn’t take militarily.’ So you know, I think they’re gonna need a change of attitude. …In a year, if you had someone who didn’t have the courage to do this action, you’d have 30 or 40 nuclear bombs,” Witkoaff crowed in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.”

Swap family names and place names with current names and place names—and my description of the ramp-up to the onslaught on Iraq obtains today as well as it did in July of 2003 (minor adaptations are italicized):

Reducing this administration’s single-minded will to war to an erroneous report ignores the big picture. First came the decision to go to war. The misbegotten illegality that was this administration’s case for war followed once the decision to go to war had already been made. The administration’s war wasn’t about a few pieces that did not gel in an otherwise coherent framework; it wasn’t about an Iran that was poised to attack the U.S. with germs and chemicals rather than with nukes and missiles; it was about a resigned, hungry, economic pariah that was a sitting duck for the power-hungry American colossus.
By all means, dissect and analyze what, in September 2002, I called the ‘lattice of lies’ leveled at Iran: the uranium from Africa, the aluminum tubes from Timbuktu, the invisible ‘meetings’ with al-Qaida in Prague, an al-Qaida training camp that existed under Kurdish—not Iranian—control, as well as the alleged weaponized chemical and biological stockpiles and their attendant delivery systems that inspectors doubted were there and which never materialized.
But then assemble the pieces and synthesize the information, will you? Do what the critical mind must do. The rational individual, wedded to reality, reason, and objective, non-partisan truth saw Trump’s sub-intelligent case for war on Iran for what it was. He saw Trump as the poster boy for ‘the degeneracy of manner and morals’ which James Madison warned war would bring—the same ‘bring ’em on’ grin one can also observe on the face of a demented patient with end-stage syphilis. The rational individual saw all this, and understood that when Madison spoke of ‘war as the true nurse of executive aggrandizement,’ he was speaking of the disposition of this dictator, Trump.” (“Bush’s 16 Words Miss The Big Picture,” Ilana Mercer, July 16, 2003.)

The difference: Trump’s “degeneracy of manner and morals” was already on display in Gaza. “Genocide was Trump’s gateway crime.” Like the vanquishing of Venezuela, the assault on Iran should’ve been easily foreseen by devotees of the codes of justice aforementioned.

The drift of events being what it is; Wittkoaff is begging Iran “to resume talks.” According to reliable pipelines, the worn and wary Iranians now ignore Wittkoaff’s desperate texts.

The other oaf involved is Jared Kushner, Trump’s “best friend and his son-in-law.”

Initially, Trump had puled about being doubly indebted to Kushner. Kushner, Trump had insisted, was the brain trust of his administration, who “was giving [him] ‘valuable expertise’ on Iran while … working as an ‘informal, unpaid advisor.’” Genuflection has since turned to bitching. Still impenitent himself, Trump now concedes that the war on Iran is a result of Kushner’s “expertise,” “because Kushner told me,” quotes Haaretz.

To Israel, Trump has offered nothing but service and subservience. Yet in 2011/12, Netanyahu, then a defense minister, with Prime Minister Ehud Barak in tow, tried to impose the Iran “ticking-clock deadline” on Barack Obama. We’re attacking, he and Ehud Barak threatened. They failed. Subject to the same Israeli shakedown tactics, even President Biden managed to steel himself. Biden refused to “support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities or oil installations.”

In his devotion to Israel, Trump has bested Biden, a senile, creedal Zionist.

As expected, in amoral Israel, state and civil society, there is no rankle of conscience. Ninety-three percent of Jewish-Israelis love the assault on Iran. The country operates outside all moral gravitational pull, its finest are currently transmitting footage of the trashing of Lebanese lives and land.

Clearly, to Israel’s unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the idea of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder.

American forces are strafing Iran’s cities and civilians à la Israel—and in coordination with that odious entity. Like Israel, America is giddy over the prospects of illegally and immorally assassinating those Iranian leaders who heroically volunteer to succeed their many colleagues assassinated. Vulgarly, emulating the Israelis, the US State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on the head of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father they murdered.

It all has a kind of yeehaw quality to it.

Big Daddy Beelzebub and the “Synagogue of Satan” (Jesus’ words, not mine, in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9) are crass, boorish entities. Countries and cabals whose philosophy is plunder hate refinement and cultivation in others. That Ali Larijani certainly was. A mathematician, computer scientist, PhD in philosophy with an interest in Kant: murdered! What a waste. President Masoud Pezeshkian “has confirmed ‘the cowardly assassination’ of Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s Intelligence Minister and others: On the homes of the commander of the Basij and the head of the Basij intelligence directorate Israel dropped bombs, for the IDF is an air force, not a fighting force. (To a man, the Israeli Air Force should be served with subpoenas to the Hague.) Murdered too was the spokesperson of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Two (alleged) omissions are noteworthy in the inexhaustive Wikipedia list of Israeli assassinations since 1956: The one dated November 22, 1963; the other occurred on September 10, 2025. 

Americans are now also party to Israel’s chemical warfare, a particularly dastardly war crime prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel illegally spews banned chemical weapons—white phosphorous—over land across the Levant.

Iranians are thus “gasping for air,” inhaling “airborne crude,” following Israeli airstrikes on “major oil depots and infrastructure in Tehran neighborhoods … as well as in the nearby city of Karaj.” The sky is a blackened dome. The rain has turned acid. Trump’s dissembling  notwithstanding, the airstrikes on the South Pars Gas Field in Iran were, too, a joint, Israel-US effort. Operation Epstein Fury has seen the dropping of “5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz,” because, “How dare Iran defend its sovereignty.”

According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 3.2 million Iranians have been displaced. “At least 10,000 residential homes have been damaged or completely destroyed,” all courtesy of the Epstein Alliance. “US forces have struck more than 5,000 targets in Iran since last Saturday.” In all, said Trump’s mini-Israeli Pete Hegseth, “over 15,000 targets have been hit in Iran, while the Iranian Red Crescent reports strikes on over 21,700 civilian sites.” At least 1,444 people have been killed and 18,551 injured by US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, Iran’s Health Ministry says.

With the acquiescence of the collaborator Lebanese government, Israel has murdered more than 1000 of its citizens, amid ongoing airstrike assaults on Lebanon’s infrastructure, a crime to which Israel’s defense minister has copped. With one million people displaced,” Lebanon is nearing “breaking point,” reports Drop Site News.

Since writing the previous paragraph, the number of murdered Iranians has risen to 1500. All figures curated above are already obsolete. Understand: This is in the nature of the serial-killer state and its pathetic, perfidious American poodle.

Fact: Israel poses a grave existential threat to its neighbors! As if the enormity of this threat is not terrifying enough—Iran (Lebanon and Yemen) must now contend with a distinctly flippant approach taken in the West by “credentialed” elites (and some stellar people, inadvertently) in discussing the possibility that Israel might use tactical nuclear weapons on its victims. 

Predictions, classifications, derivations, etiologies: Man has always performed these mental operations. However, the war gaming going on under the guise of military scholarship is both repulsive and dangerous, given the “place of massive impunity” that has been carved out for Netanyahu and his complicit countrymen. As I see it, the gaiety someone like Robert Pape affects, while huffily flogging his war-on-Iran predictions, comes under the “Ugly American” category.

As a method of war, as a military doctrine, Israel is conducting annihilatory campaigns with the intent to bring about the disintegration of Iran as a functioning, sovereign state capable of defending itself. An ideal Iran, from rogue state Israel’s perspective, is a place to which Israeli “fighter” pilots “can return every six months to ‘mow the grass.’” (See Double Down News)

Heightened by American collaboration with a genocidal entity; flippant, morally debased exchanges are a consequence of decreased public and pundit sensitivities to all this legalized crime.

The use of tactical nuclear weapons must be decried with the lash of logic, not logistics, and in clear moral language. Protest, rather than prattle to show how much you know or how predictive your war gaming is.

While Col. Douglas McGregor had underestimated the age of the pre-Christian Persian civilization by a few thousand years during an interview; the colonel is commended for dubbing Iran “a civilizational nation.” In Iran, the Axis of Epstein, whose combined age is 327 years, is trying to destroy a civilization 6000 to 8000 years old. Pray they fail. 

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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization.

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Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic. Israel is copping a plea. Its pleading to a lesser charge. The ‘genocidal entity’ knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) in Gaza is many, many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. ~ilana 

To date, about 12 percent of Gaza’s population has been murdered, disappeared or detained. ~ilana 

In the lexicon of crime, what Israel is currently doing is called plea bargaining. Israel is copping to a lesser charge with respect to the number of Palestinians dead and disappeared by its death squads in Gaza.

Nothing if not cunning, the Israelis know just how reliably compliant the West’s pundits are. At least those who did time in mainstream media. As an example take the celebration among some self-styled independent media of the fact that Israel’s military now admits that 70,000 souls were murdered in Gaza.

Nothing Israel does is uncalculated. The “genocidal entity” knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) Ghazzawi is many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic.

Moron media fail to comprehend that Israeli leadership is copping to a lesser charge with the intent to sustain Israel’s international impunity.

The dumb, non-dissident media are reflexively offering Israel a plea bargain in advance. “You can’t fix stupid,” said one Texas funny man. “There is not a pill you can take or a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.”

On top of that, since Israelis keep killing and destroying as the fancy takes them;  the 70,000 plea-bargained figure, readily accepted by the Israeli perpetrators who are still on the lam, is no longer valid. Even that erroneous undercount, reported by CNN too, is outdated. Late in December of 2025, OCHA had counted 70,668; Haaretz 71,000. 

In fact, as far back as June 26, 2025, Nir Hasson, writer for Haaretz, announced that, “Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings were already killed.” Later, in the Hebrew edition of July 18, Haaretz featured an op-ed by a “University of London” expert in the assessment of the casualties of “war” (“genocide is not war”), who  admitted that “Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings had already been killed.”

After that, on November 25, 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) proclaimed that “the current violent death toll” in Gaza likely exceeded 100,000. While their underestimation is already invalid for obvious reasons; at least the “great” scientific minds of the Max Planck Institute understand that the situation in Gaza is … fluid.

With the pomp of officialdom, the MPIDR and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) had proffered that the death toll in Gaza, which this lot appears to attribute to the inchoate forces of “armed conflict and political instability,” will keep rising and life expectancy will continue to sharply decline.

How does one even respond? An inelegant Dah? An eye roll? I’ll go one better:

Why don’t we all settle down and wait for the “legitimate” Piers Moron Media, in their infinite wisdom, to remind us that before the serial-killer state can be named and implicated in the homicide of hundreds-of-thousands of Palestinians; the “evidence” in Gaza must be carefully bagged and tagged, and fingerprints lifted from each and every corpse.

More seriously, one might inform the misguided simpleton media and the MPIDR that their belated undercounts were preceded by others like them months ago. Nir Hasson aforementioned. And before Haaretz came The Lancet.

Ten months into the genocide, in July of 2024, The Lancet, an august British medical journal, pegged the direct and indirect casualties of Israel’s industrial-scale mass murder in Gaza at around 186,000, then. Look around you now at Gaza’s landscape and the spectral souls who’re now confined to the western half of the tiny enclave. (The demonic Israel Defense Forces have bisected the Strip, occupied the east, and are surreptitiously stealing western Gaza.)

In 2024, Airwars (via “Bearing Witness – Gaza,” by Lee Mordechai, historian and Israeli citizen, July 5, 2025), “An independent non-profit that collects data on violent conflict worldwide,” suggested that “by almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented. … One expert claimed Israel’s war on Gaza may have been the fastest case of killing 1% of the population in the 21st century, and the death of 2% of the population [at that stage] placed the Gaza conflict among the five most lethal conflicts in the 21st century.”

Make that 12 percent of the population.

The Airwars report hails from 2024. On the ground, always beyond reproach; the Euro-Med Monitor observers reported, in November of 2025, that 12 percent of Gaza’s Palestinians has been murdered, disappeared or detained.

From the evidence I had collected since early November of 2023—I felt it not imprudent to deduce then that, twelve months on, we’d be speaking of the following distinct possibility: By the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be at least 250,000, maybe more, direct and indirect Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.

Why did I so surmise in November of 2023?  Well, the thing itself speaks. Res ipsa loquitur. And my own simple calculations helped.

Early in December Of 2023, in the face of Israel’s unfathomable ferocity and falseness—killing and lying about everything in sight—I set about to conduct a proportional, if limited, mathematical comparison as to just how vampiric the ‘vaunted’ Israel Defense Forces are.

Force-fed the fiction of the IDF as the most moral army in the world; I decided to compare like with like, albeit in limited but significant theaters of “war.” My December 2023 modest inquiry endeavored to compare Israel’s offensive in Gaza against “Hamas,” late in 2023, to America’s onslaught in Fallujah against the Iraqi resistance, in 2004.

On the numbers, I had been exceedingly charitable to the Israelis, given that their victims, buried beneath the rubble, were still mostly unaccounted for, and considering that the IDF resumed hostilities against civilians on December 1, after the briefest pause.

“Gaza Vs. Fallujah, Barbaric Blitzkrieg Highlights U.S. Marines Superiority,” yielded these results:

“Were Fallujah as populated as Gaza (2.4 million), the United States Marines would have killed approximately 4,200 Iraqi souls by December 2023. This is a far cry from the Israel Defense Forces’ butcher’s bill of 15,000 civilians (acknowledged) dead in Gaza by 2023’s end—and climbing.”

Were Gaza as small as Fallujah (400,000); the Israelis, befitting their butcher’s bill until December of 2023, would still have killed at least 2,500 souls to our Marines’ 700. Ceteris paribus, naturally.

Furthermore, does the rational mind really need the plonks at Max Planck and their Bayesian modeling methodology to tell him or her that which is before our very eyes; to tell us what deductions that cleave to reality have produced over two years?

Consider the destruction of infrastructure alone (courtesy of the Institute for Palestine Studies) and the humanitarian- and service sector martyrs who man it:

Percentage of destroyed civilian infrastructure: More than 90%.
Initial direct losses in all sectors: More than 70 billion USD.
Amount of rubble in the Gaza Strip: More than 61 million tons.
Number of explosives dropped on Gaza: More than 200,000 tons.
Number of unexploded ordnance/bombs: More than 20,000.
Area of the Gaza Strip seized by occupation through invasion and fire: More than 80%.
Number of hospitals destroyed or disabled: 38.
Number of destroyed universities and educational institutions: 165.
Number of destroyed schools: 670.
Number of mosques completely destroyed: 835.
Number of days border crossings were closed: More than 600.
Number of aid trucks denied entry by the occupation: More than 120,000.
Number of food kitchens and aid distribution centers targeted: 108.
Number of martyrs from medical personnel: 1,670.
Number of martyrs from Civil Defense crews: 140.
Number of martyred municipal employees, including 4 mayors: 176.
Number of martyred police and aid security personnel: 787.
Number of martyred UNRWA employees: 203.
Number of martyred journalists: 254.
Number of martyred scientists, academics, and teachers: 1,023.
Number of martyred athletes: 894.

This account, too, is no longer current.

After all, Israeli pleasures and pastimes are killing Palestinians. Nobody can keep up with the IDF’s relentless bloodletting. And many, like our American envoys, have covered it up. It might have been easier for Americans to confront the enormity of Israel’s crime had the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem not “suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza. (The excuse: The report “lacked balance.”)

The images attached to the 2024 embassy report—corpses on Gaza’s streets, predators not Israeli feeding on them; predators Israeli smearing the walls with messages of hate and rape, the guts of buildings bedecking a destroyed landscape pouring out from crumbling edifices—these came via a “UN fact finding trip.” They were “visual evidence of the conditions” the culprits (Israeli and American) hoped to conceal, bulldoze over, bury. Upon the corpses beneath the earth’s surface, the vampiric Kushner consortium proposes to erect structures sporting the vulgar gilt of a Trump tower, or that of the Trump White House ballroom. (Liberace, a flamingly flamboyant performer, would have just loved it all.)

What’s left of Gaza, the land and the living ghosts that roam it, continues to peter out. Eighteen months since the Lancet’s 2024 estimate, given the scale of destruction of everything in sight—given that death, starvation and injury don’t end with a genocide nominally reduced—it’s not unreasonable to peg the loss of Palestinian life, via direct and indirect Israeli violence, at the estimated 250,000 souls at least.

Yet February 2025 finds The Lancet asleep to its own findings.

If in July of 2024, with some certainty, The Lancet had determined that Israel had directly and indirectly murdered around 186,000 Palestinian souls. By February of 2025, The Lancet had begun to deploy Israel’s plea-bargain undercount instead of their own initial figures.

On February 8, 2025, presumably as follow-up to its June 2024 report, The Lancet provided not so much of an update, as some weasel words instead.

Behold! A “capture–recapture analysis” has been affected!

The bafflegab the Journal has now adopted entails indirectly conceding what we already know; that the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH), in the past, had “achieved good accuracy in mortality documentation,” with some under-reporting. However, the “level of under-reporting” the Journal puts at a mere 41 percent. Less than their researchers’ original, 2024 estimate of 186,000 souls lost to date.

As I remarked in 2004, during America’s onslaught on Iraq—you could trust The Lancet to be appallingly late to the Truth, or to prevaricate about it.

A far more credible source than Max Plonk is Mads Gilbert, a dedicated Norwegian physician, who had worked in Gaza for decades until banned by the Predator State, and who now attests that, before October 7, the average life expectancy in Gaza was 74 years.

Today, an infant born in Gaza can expect to live for 35 years, should he survive the Isra-American interregnum genocide now simmering: You know, the lull between full-blown genocide and the end of genocide. (I’d like to offer you a link to the Mads remarks about life-expectancy in Gaza. It’s the custom, over these pixelated pages, to cite, cite, cite. Google, alas—beholden to You Know Who—generally scrubs the links to explosive pro-Palestine interviews and articles. See “Israel paid Google $45m to help cover up Gaza starvation,” New Arab, September 6, 2025. This last news item was there when last I looked.)

Late in June of 2025, there was word of a “Harvard-published report, according to which 377,000 had gone missing or were dead in Gaza.”

Myself, I’ve been unable to access the data extracted from it, other than via a secondary source, Dr. Dahn Shaulis of the Higher Education Inquirer blog. Shaulis appears to recite data points he had collated from a document, “The Israeli/American/GHF aid distribution compounds in Gaza: Dataset and initial analysis of location, context, and internal structure,” authored by Professor Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University, and posted at 21st Century Wire, on June 23, 2025.

Quite the chain of custody.

In “Gaza’s Disappeared,” dated June 25, 2025, Shaulis confirms the documentational provenance just cited above, writing that “prior to the 2023-25 siege, Gaza’s population was approximately 2.227 million. Israeli Defense Forces estimate that the three main populated enclaves now contain only 1.85 million people:

Gaza City: 1 million
Mawasi: 0.5 million
Central Gaza: 0.35 million.”

That leaves 377,000 Gazans whose whereabouts are unknown. While some may be displaced or trapped in inaccessible areas, the report strongly implies that the missing are dead—many likely buried under rubble, dismembered beyond recognition, or perished from starvation and disease in isolation.
This number dwarfs commonly cited death tolls and challenges the sanitized statistics reported in international media. It is not the product of speculation, but of direct analysis of Israeli military data. What Garb calls a ‘demographic horror story’ is also a legal and moral reckoning. 

Let that sink in.

Although unconfirmed, I here repeat the 377,000 missing number because of the utter plausibility of it, given the extent of the cover-up and the territorial asphyxiation to which Palestinians are still being subjected.

Ultimately it will come down to “How many Gazans remain?”

In actuality, the plea is peanuts compared to what the indictment ought to be. As with so many of Israel’s quicksilver narratives—admitting that 70,000 Palestinians perished in Gaza is part of a process of haggling; hammering-out an agreement that pacifies both prosecution and defense, with truth falling by the way. Plainly, Israel’s aim is to subvert the truth.

As the predominant method of adjudication in the United States, the plea bargain is ideal for that. Since the plea bargain is nothing more than a negotiated deal, it subverts the very goal of any justice system; is a taint on any system of justice.

Not that you’d know it, but the justice system’s mandate is to unveil the truth.

The common criminal who accepts a plea confesses to a lesser charge, in exchange for a lighter sentence or no sentence.

This means no trial, no guilt phase and no penalty phase.

WATCH:  “The Unofficial, Real Numbers: Counting Gaza’s Dead and Disappeared By ilana mercer” (slightly abbreviated version of essay)

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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization

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The simple, base truth is that, Trump, a second-rate gangster, wants to be Bibi, a rank butcher ~ilana 

The fuss and feathers over Trump’s foreign policy is silly, childish. It attests to what happens to the minds of men when they view the very public mass murder of The Other—committed by their Leader—as unrelated to their own moral integrity and future welfare: the brain goes to mush. Or perhaps it was the size of a lentil to begin with.

In the mind of the minimally moral, minimally compos mentis American—”America First” and genocide ought to be two mutually exclusive categories. 

Here’s a useful clue: If your politician of choice, going into an election, supports genocide or is silent about genocide; he’s not your friend. You ought to be smart enough, in possession of the very basic moral faculties—having reached a rudimentary development of conscience—to make that minuscule determination.

Has mommy not taught you that murder is wrong and that no mass murderer and congenital thief is your friend? Alas, the decay of the American Mind is such that Trump’s fans are apoplectic—and one or two even texting me in tears: “America First, ilana; what-oh-what has happened to it?”

How the fuck should I know? Did I vote for Trump in 2024? No! For the reasons cited, I registered a protest vote for Jill Stein, whose foreign policy—from Israel to Latin America—is libertarian perfection.

I was hardly being a crusty cynic when, in a January 3, 2018 column, “How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” I foresaw the coming vanquishing of Venezuela:

Neoconservatives were, are pleased with President Trump’s foreign policy.

A couple of months back, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake let it be known that he was in neoconservative nirvana: ‘… for Venezuela, [Donald Trump] came very close to calling for regime change. ‘The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable,’ Trump said. ‘We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.’

‘For a moment,” swooned Lake, ‘I closed my eyes and thought I was listening to a Weekly Standard editorial meeting.’ (“How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” Ilana Mercer, January 3, 2018)

“Onward to Venezuela!” I wearily wrote. It was not a mysterious sense of foreboding; I was just following facts. Then, I watched the lies with fascination. By now, I knew all the tricks. What’s the excuse of Trump’s base?

That his phlegmatic followers now whinge and whine over Trump’s lackluster America-First focus is really quite puzzling, if not contemptible. It’s like complaining—not that serial killer Ted Bundy killed a lot; but that he was unpatriotic for driving around in a Volkswagen Beetle.

“Ever heard of a Chevy Tahoe, Ted? Boohoo, Bundy, why did you go to work in a Volkswagen, you traitor? Buy America, not German.

Bundy and Trump, Joe Biden and Bibi Netanyahu, and their minions, are murderers all. Murder is what defines them; it’s their defining feature. Except that the last three delegated mass murder to the mercenaries of a military. Bundy did the deeds himself.

Surely, you don’t need mommy to tell you that murder is more than a secondary personality trait? It defines who a person is. It tends to crowd out all other positive attributes. If that’s not obvious, think of Oscar Wilde’s simple guidelines for cretins: “Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

Still, for some reason, his fans and voters speak of Trump’s genocide as though it were a minor item of foreign-policy, albeit—small mercies—an unwelcome foreign policy event. Absurd—as the commission of genocide puts the perpetrators and co-perpetrators outside the human species. And genocide and mass murder are the defining features of this man’s foreign policy in Western Asia; in Gaza and beyond.

“Genocide for Israel” is Trump’s de facto Middle East foreign policy.

Impoverished heroic Houthis of Yemen Trump has murdered beginning in 2018: The House of Trump in partnership with the House of Saud. Iranians Trump has helped murder. Somalis and Nigerians Trump has been murdering. Sailors in vessels, on the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, no due process required: them, too, Trump has murdered. All this with nary a meaningful check on executive power from the dullards serving in the world’s “greatest” deliberative bodies, the US Congress and Senate.

And now Venezuelans, ordinary men and women, scan the skies nervously for the telltale metallic shimmer, wondering whether they are being simply surveilled from above, or targeted by Hellfire missiles.

Genocide, the crime of all crimes, was Trump’s gateway crime. Once you’ve crossed over to genocide, the world (and its people) is your oyster.

Indeed, like Joe Biden before him, Trump doubled down on the eradication of the international law and its redeeming natural-law features. Like Biden, Trump ensured that no international prosecutor or prominent UN chronicler of Israel’s crimes against humanity went unpunished. Trump has sanctioned and persecuted countries and individuals who sought to cuff the criminal Netanyahu and levy the law of God and nature against Israel’s sexually perverse serial killers, loosed upon the world. Also thanks to Trump. Yes, thousands of these sexually deviant Israeli serial killers roam among us, when they could be, should be, in the dock, at the Hague.

Enmeshed, the American and Israeli cabal, two self-appointed world powers—Pax Americana ceding to “Pax Judaica”—are presently and shamelessly still engaged in genocide. Israel acts to “disappear” the Palestinians as individuals, as a people and as a polity. Trump, who respects Israel’s wishes to the letter, appoints people who do the same. He pursues and imposes policies that dovetail with what Israel demands.

Trump, corporate media and the political ring leaders sashaying up and down both aisles may call the “new” dispensation under which Palestinians live a “ceasefire.” In point of fact, the so-called ceasefire is just Trump’s “engineered new normal: a slow-paced genocide.” All for the love of Israel.

The future of Gaza, Trump has made clear, would “be pretty much up to Israel.” Although he is there with Israel to help in the dismembering and looting of Gaza. When Israel declared its intention to take over Gaza, Donald Trump had shrugged and egged them on. “Ramp it up,” he whooped. Having long since slipped between the sheets with soulmate Bibi Netanyahu, Trump gave the Israeli prime minister the go-ahead to “fight and finish the job.”

Under Gaza’s weeping winter skies, massacres continue with Trump’s imprimatur. Drones, killer quadcopters and other Israeli shelling implements come scudding at Gaza from the north all the time. The “destruction of remaining homes, property and land, and the prevention of the entry of food, humanitarian aid and basic infrastructure materials” had never ceased, only let-up slightly. Genocide hums along now at the rate of more than eight human beings murdered a day, and at more than 20 injured, also each day.

By no unfortunate coincidence, Trump has normalized genocide for Israel, albeit at a slower pace. Any depravity Israel thinks up; Trump has fulfilled in kind and in kindly blessings. Pictured here is the president of the United States, partying, on December 31, 2025, with the butcher of Tel Aviv.    

And his fans expected Trump to compartmentalize the killer-within and keep to his America-First promise? Are they dense?

As to Venezuela: Trump knows nothing about the anti-imperial spirit of the Bolívar Revolution still animating Latin America. Successfully, Venezuela native “Simón Bolívar led the people of South America to rebel against Spanish colonial rule.” However, the independence movement’s victories, won between 1775 and 1850, live on in the wishes of a preponderance of the people of Latin America to retain national sovereignty, to decide about the political dispensation under which they’ll live—including the right to reject Trump “populism” in favor of their own Chavismo populism.

And they want to control the bounty of their lands.

Trump’s handlers, only marginally smarter than he, tell him to say stuff that makes him seem in-the-know. So, Trump stammers about The Monroe Doctrine and the imperative to make errant Latin America submit to America (much like Arabia bows to Bibi).

Trump’s Other Handlers have yet to hand Trump his marching orders. But they’re happy. On Israel’s ILTV, four minutes into a segment titled “Maduro Arrest: Venezuela Blames Israel, U.S. Warns Iran,” one of Israel’s many pig-ignorant panelists weighs in—the country appears utterly bereft of high-minded intellectuals. The Hasbara comes courtesy of Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs.

Diker describes Venezuela as part of an evil axis of resistance, “a rear base for the Iranian regime.” Hezbollah and Hamas are also all over that poor benighted and blighted country. Likewise Iranians: Leaders who refuse to die by Israel (which in itself is completely “antisemitic”); they too, accuses Diker, will often seek shelter in Venezuela. Altogether, Israel is pleased with Trump’s decapitating moves in Latin America.

Although Israelis have expressed themselves about the American invasion of Venezuela at the speed at which they commented on the assassination of Charlie Kirk—they, in the person of Dr. Diker, want you to know that Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez is an … antisemite. She accused Israel “of orchestrating the U.S. military operation that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, branding it ‘Zionist aggression.’”

Psychologizing about people is a form of ad hominem argument, in my opinion. It’s bad. I don’t like it one bit. But Trump is the kind of single-celled organism, an amoeba in mentation and affect, to which psychologizing is suited.

The simple, atavistic truth is that Trump, a second-rate gangster, wants to be Bibi, a rank butcher.

Trump has been fellating Bibi Netanyahu without let. He has been made to feel politically impotent, lacking in agency in the face of the master magician, Bibi, who is leading Trump around by the nose. The bully-cum-tyrant Trump, a stupid man of cold violence, needs to regain manly potency by any means at all other than neutering Israel.

So he “bombs the Venezuelan capital, and kidnaps President Maduro.” Let’s hope Trump’s acolytes understand by now, that folly, ignorance, bluff and blind conceit will continue to typify his actions, stateside and abroad.

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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization

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About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say that, like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for their hostages; there are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity. Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. ~ilana

There’s a reason I purposefully avoided mention of the fracas in Israel over the leaked Sde Teiman video, in the companion column to this one: “Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces: Habitual.”

You see, the Hasbara herd seems to have one gift, in Israel and stateside. They live in a self-reverential and self-referential world: They talk from under wet cement about … themselves. And, they are training you to do the same: talk about them.

As hard as it is for this lot to compute; the genocide, however, is about their victims, Israel’s victims, the Palestinians.

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say the following: Like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for only their hostages; the same Israeli society is not unhappy about crimes against Palestinians; but that one such crime had been made public to the detriment of their criminally complicit countrymen.

More so than mere publicity—after all, Israel is conducting genocide to a packed house, the world—Israel’s military advocate general worries that the leaked Sde Teiman footage will undermine Israel’s international legal impunity.

The case of the rectal-rape-with-objects of a Palestinian hostage, one among thousands held in the legal limbo of detention-without-trial, was leaked by the Military Advocate General’s office (MAG), whose apparatchiks had heretofore never expressed—nor acted to convey—regret, remorse, contrition, or penitence over the genocide ongoing. (So you know, Israel has merely shifted to “genocide lite” and to the “ghettoization” of the Strip.)

There are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. The leak of the filmed rape is but a procedural, administrative annoyance, the “Minister of Defense and many others in the political sphere and public discourse,” even claiming that any criminal proceedings constitute a “blood libel.”

At about this time, Israeli think-tank residents are fretting. As the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) put it (in all sincerity), it is imperative to preserve “Israel’s legal and diplomatic ‘resilience’ internationally, and thus … our ability to protect IDF (Israel Defense Forces) service members from legal risks around the world.”

If the IDF justice system, headed by the [aforementioned] MAG [Military Advocate General], is not perceived as professionally independent, Israel will struggle to argue that there is no place to advance overseas legal proceedings against soldiers and commanders alleged to have violated the law of armed conflict, and that the Israeli justice system should be given primacy in handling suspects. (IDI)

Cloaking themselves in the raiment of decency, the code-word for “impunity” in Israeli think tanks is “resilience.” The country must remain “resilient” internationally.  Bathed in blood though it is; Israel and its military advocate general still want continued carte-blanche from the international community for their crimes. Hence the Brownian motion over the public rape of a Palestinian hostage.

Again, the leaked Sde Teiman tape threatens Israel’s legal impunity which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Let us, then, end forthwith conversation about Israel’s two-bit Kabuki players. We who inhabit the Global Genocidal Western Woke matrix have a responsibility to help pilot Palestinians through these dangerous shoals. Or, support those who are doing that work. Let’s, then, return to the resilient victims of the genocidal entity, the Palestinians.

Early in the genocide, in essays that provide a comprehensive chronology of the signal events, the people violated and the first principles flouted, I had picked up on—and postulated about—the seemingly systematic nature of the sexual sadism evinced by Israel’s army and security forces.

Palestinians are “living alongside serial-killing sexual sadists,” I remarked in a subsection of the essay, “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must be Liberated, S.O.S.,” further noting that “the pairing of sexual arousal and violence toward Palestinians, in the practices of the IDF and Israeli Security Forces, makes for a particularly irremediable pathology, the stuff of serial killers.”

As though Israel was not already outside all moral gravitational pull—the evidence for my deductions is now in. What we’ve known to be deductively true has been empirically confirmed. The social science is in: Palestinians are sexually brutalized by Israeli occupation forces!

If you had lingering doubts that sexual perversion and predation by the Israeli military and security forces is systemic and statistically significant—new social science nixes that naïve notion.

Incidents of sexual torture are not outlier cases. The Israel Occupation Forces are indeed a festering cauldron of serial-killing sadists and sexual deviants. Helpless Palestinians are the repository of this rot.

Having investigated the phenomenon and tabulated the results; the UN International Commission of Inquiry has revealed that rape, genital mutilation—of men, women, boys and girls—exhibitionism (public flashing); all the sexual perversions and paraphilias I had picked up on—are systemic, pervasive, carried out happily, seemingly ordained from above. No crime is a “one-off.”

“Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon of war,” concludes the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, writing, on March 13, 2025, that,

The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people. The Commission documented a pattern of sexual violence, including cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and other inhumane acts that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Section number 222 of the report’s summary states that, “Israeli detention is characterized by widespread and systematic abuse and sexual and gender-based violence. These practices have increased significantly in severity and frequency since 7 October 2023, following orders and statements of the Minister for National Security Ben Gvir who is in charge of prisons. The mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities is a result of an intentional policy that utilizes sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence to humiliate and degrade Palestinians in detention. This was observed across several facilities, temporary holding locations, during interrogation and while in transit.”

These Israelis are men and women of cold violence. Their hearts are as black as boot polish. The brutalized bodies of Palestinian men, women, and children; their pets and livestock bear this out. But broad-brush statements aggregating their practices are not enough.

Daily, the Palestinians’ closest neighbors, the settlers, make manifest their red-hot hatred toward them, stealing private Palestinian property, vandalizing installations on this land, regularly slaughtering helpless livestock with biblical cruelty (watch settlers gouge the eyes out of helpless lambs), and generally menacing Palestinian property owners. Most disturbing is the overt, perverted threat of sexual violence from settlers and their soldier helpers.

Indeed, the poisonous cabal of Israeli settlers and soldiers works cheek by jowl.

In “Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land,” a TRT World exclusive documentary, there is no editorializing. The videographers plainly followed and recorded these settlers in character. Twenty-nine minutes and 20 seconds into this TRT settler odyssey, Turkish TV captures a uniformed IDF, in cahoots with settlers, publicly manhandling himself on camera, in a manner not fit to print.

Said IDF soldier hisses:

“I spit on Palestine. F-ck your mother. I’m the Israeli Army.” He is not done. Just as I imagined this breed of Cain could not expose itself as more indecent, the same soldier comes close to indecent exposure. At the said timestamp, the atavistic, low-brow individual shows himself to be lacking the inhibitions to keep his perversion private. Reflexively. Quite obviously, this IDF had been aroused by threatening a helpless group of Palestinian homesteaders. He had likely imbibed a pornographic sensibility and had not been taught propriety and shame in public.

Right there on film is that pathological pairing of violence and sexual arousal, the stuff of serial killers!

In another unremarkable vignette, filmed by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, an armed settler threatens a Palestinian farmer in the South Hebron Hills with rape. “Rape in the name of God,” a la SdeTeiman, promises settler Shem Tov Luski, to a mortified, modest Palestinian man. “No officers were dispatched, and the residents were advised to file a complaint at the Kiryat Arba police station,” reports Wikipedia.

At one point, the “Halachic right to rape” (See “Sde Teiman: Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal in Israel”) had been issued from the very top of Israeli moral precincts.

His flesh softer than sin, the delightful Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim, the head of the military rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces, had instructed, in 2016, that, essentially, any carnal demands of the flesh be allowed: “As part of maintaining fitness for the army and the soldiers’ morale during fighting, it is permitted to …satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will… .’ News of the rabbinical rape-injunction came courtesy of Israel’s own YnetNews.com.

Before Rabbi Karim, there was Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad, who “urged a genocide in Gaza and excused rape by soldiers.” (Via Electronic Intifada.)

Israel’s female soldiers are as sadistic and malevolent. In a clip, “Israel’s ‘Sick’ Female Guards,” young Israeli uniformed IDF females and security police terrorize Palestinian men as they shuttle from one check point to the next.

We zoom out again to the abstraction of the aggregated data:

214. “Israel has targeted civilian women and girls directly, acts that constitute the crime against humanity of murder and the war crime of willful killing. Women and girls have also died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth due to the conditions imposed by the Israeli authorities impacting access to reproductive health care, acts that amount to the crime against humanity of extermination. …”
215. “Palestinian men and boys have been subjected to specific persecutory acts intended to punish them collectively. The way in which these often-sexual acts are committed, including their filming, photographing and dissemination online, in conjunction with similar cases being documented in several locations, shows that forced public stripping and nudity, as well as sexualized torture and ill-treatment, are part of the persecutory attack against men and boys committed to punish, humiliate and intimidate Palestinian men and boys into subjugation. …”
216. “Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault, de facto form part of the Israel Security Forces (ISF) standard operating procedures towards Palestinians. The Commission concludes that these and other forms of sexualized torture, including rape and violence targeting the genitals, are committed with either explicit orders or an implicit encouragement by the top civilian and military leadership. The Commission found that all its documented incidents of sexual and gender-based violence committed by members of the ISF were met with impunity. Under these circumstances, the civilian and military leaders are as responsible for these crimes, as are the direct perpetrators. …”

In the “widespread use of sexualized violence against men and boys,” the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has [too] identified several specific patterns of sexualized violence that are indicative of a genocidal process, not all overlapping the findings of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory:

Life-force atrocities (including ritualized humiliations); separation of families and other reproductive violence; and possible elitocide through the use of sexualized violence.

By “elitocide,” the Lemkin Institute is probably referring to sexual violence to whittle at the 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.

Dr. Adnan Al Bursh, for example. The 50-year-old renowned orthopedic surgeon headed the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “A doctor. a stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics, Dr. Al Bursh was likely raped to death.”

To genocide, snuff films, the torture and torching of animals, and the rape and robbery of their Palestinian owners; to bombings, boobytrapping and extra-judicial assassinations the world over—add “elitocide.”

Another new term to add to Israel’s lexicon of crime. All this, remember, is customary, informal law in the Genocidal Society.

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The recognizable ancestor of the Israel Defense Forces is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes. ~ ilana

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

As I had remarked before, patterns of arousal—the commingling of serial killing and sex—are tied to psychopathy. The psychopathic fusion of lust and murder appears endemic among Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.

Honed in rendition torture camps, sexual violence has become the coin of the Greater Israel realm, certainly in occupied Palestine. A glimpse into Sde Teiman, a torture rendition camp in Israel proper, revealed to the world that Israel has de facto systemized the practice of anally rupturing the bowels of Palestinian prisoners, most detained without charge.

Marquis de Sade, whose name is used to denote things sexually bent, was no murderer. The recognizable ancestor of the IDF is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes.

Paraphiliacs are said to enjoy exhibitionism or masochism or sadism, “in which sexual gratification is derived from activities or fantasies that are generally regarded as atypical or deviant. A paraphilic disorder is present when it causes … “actual or potential harm to others.”

After de Sade came out in Sde Teiman, “rape in the name of God” had become part of the settler and soldier lexicon of crime. From the West Bank, legendary British journalist Peter Oborne has filed detailed dispatches exposing Israel’s torture camps, into which thousands of young Palestinian men are disappearing, only to emerge unrecognized, physically deformed and mentally damaged. (Watch “EXPOSED: Israel’s Secret Torture Camps.”) “Nukhba” prisoners, the Israeli devils dub them.

The habitual infliction of rectal rape on Palestinian men has joined the crimes of genocide, the making and mass-marketing of online snuff films featuring murdered Palestinians, and the commission of extra-judicial assassination the globe over. These practices are de facto legal in what passes for law in the Israeli thugocracy.

As televised vignettes at July’s end showed, the Israelis, a “bizarre specimen of moral laxity”—the 1728 words of Southern gentleman William Byrd—had been openly rationalizing the need to codify in law the rape of Palestinian hostages. From Knesset members to the distinguishably dumb panelists who festoon that country’s tv networks, “Israeli media’s coverage of the rape of Palestinian [hostages] shows support for sexual violence in service of genocide.”

By the Middle East Monitor’s telling, “A Gaza detainee allegedly sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman … suffered ‘a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs’ as a result of the immense torture he was subjected to by Israeli occupation soldiers. …One of the nine Israeli soldiers arrested for abusing him was released without charge. Deliberations about the other eight are continuing.” As far as I know, none has been charged.

Like Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the rape in Sde Teiman was captured on camera. Watch! Have an emesis dish close by.

According to Truthout.org, the Knesset, at July’s end—Israel’s lawmakers, no less—was debating whether or not sexual abuse à la de Sade Teiman was a legitimate tactic for Israeli soldiers. (International law considers sexual violence by soldiers to be a war crime.) Members of the Israeli government have also defended the soldiers, claiming it is wrong for the government to charge the [rapist] reservists.

To its patsy press, the AP, “The Israeli military had said, in July of 2024, that “it was holding nine soldiers for questioning following allegations of ‘substantial abuse’ of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians since Oct. 7.”

Next, via Democracy Now’s account, “A right-wing mob, including members of the Knesset, broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining the nine soldiers who were under investigation for gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman facility.”

When they are not fantasizing and embellishing about mass rape by their enemies (read Ali Abunimah’s “Debunking ‘Screams Before Silence,’ Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 Oct. ‘mass rape’ film”), and raping Palestinian prisoners—the Israel Defense Forces, and Israel’s other policing agencies, in conjunction with the societal structures that support them, are striving to codify their de facto daily criminal conduct in law.

In both word and deed, Israelis have systematically and systemically agitated for the legal right to gravely mistreat their enemies, justifying the twisted sensibilities of their military and a plurality of their countrymen.

The canvassing I conducted in May of 2024, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?”, was seconded by Oren Ziv of the +972 Magazine (“A riot for impunity shows Israel’s proud embrace of its crimes“). Ziv correctly elucidates that “the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the [pro-rape] riots, and the apathy of the military police, all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers’ [rape] charges are ‘the face of the state,’ expressing what are ‘mainstream’ views in Israeli society.”

Mainstream approval in Israel of genocide, rape, and snuff-film production explains why one of the reservist rape perpetrators, like so many members of the Israeli security establishment, proudly pleads his case on a YouTube video. In Israel, he is a patriot. 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 (too late for that) and punished.

Across the occupied territories, the Israel Security State summarily detains people absent due process, often deploying rape as a weapon to shame traditional men and women, and it loots and demolishes their homes. You see, Lockean homesteading principles, by which many Palestinians have come to own ancient land, flouts the Israeli Administrative State. The Israel security forces commonly also steal Palestinian money at checkpoints, as Middle East Eye editor Daniel Hearst has attested in conversation with award-winning journalist Chris Hedges. Both veteran reporters vouch for the veracity of the shakedown routines.

Silver-tongued Israelis and their Hasbara office at Foggy Bottom (The US Department of State), continue to deny this existential Palestinian reality, framing it as outlier cases. The “most moral military in the world” will investigate … itself.

But Israel is a lattice of lies.

A deception embedded deep in this lattice of lies is that, contrary to most criminal enterprises and individuals, a spectacular democracy like Israel has the absolute ability to investigate itself. Indeed, a report authored by the aforementioned +972 Magazine, “for the human rights group Yesh Din, shows how the main role of Israel’s military law-enforcement system is to maintain the appearance of internal accountability in order to shield itself from external criticism.” (“How Israel plans to whitewash its war crimes in Gaza“)

In this case, 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.

Essentially, expect the Jewish State’s stooges to be trotted out to huff and puff indignantly at the very notion that a manifestly lawless thug of a state, whose justice system is complicit in minting maniacal laws in support of unfathomable thuggery and cruelty, is incapable of investigating itself. Antisemitism.

Ultimately, Israel has become adept at narrative, at manufacturing mantras about its unsurpassed morality, this, as it is mired in illegality and criminality. (Read my own analysis of how Israel and its courts “CO-OPT HUMAN-RIGHTS LAW,” in the essay, “Defending Gaza (II): Israel Engaged In The Mother Of All Performative Contradictions: Denying Genocide, While Committing Genocide, Effectively Asserting A Right To Genocide”.)

©2025 ILANA MERCER
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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization.

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Freedom needs no justification. It is an end unto itself. You are deficient in American solidarity if you don’t stand up for non-violent protest and all speech ~ilana 

Let us be clear about what freedom of speech à la America truly means:

The words people speak, chant, write and tweet; the beliefs they are known to hold, the flags they fly or burn, the symbolic, non-violent ceremonies and rituals they enact, the insignia, paraphernalia; the goose-stepping, Hitler salutes they muck around with—provided no physical aggression is involved (violence against animals included), all this counts as protected speech, licit in natural law.

So long as oddities and idiosyncrasies, whether performed alone or in groups, thoughts harbored privately or shared in public—so long as no violence accompanies such speech or behavior; so long as your mitts stop at the next man’s face (or at the next mutt’s fury face, Kristi Noem): SPEECH. It’s all speech. It should be free, unfettered and as wild and as wanton as can be.

At their worst, expressions of ostensible antisemitism, Naziism, racisms or other antipathies amount to thought crimes, nothing more, if expressed as a belief system severally or collectively, rather than in palpably violent actions.  Whether your thoughts are spoken, chanted, written or preached; be they impolite or impolitic: they are, at worst, no more than thought crimes.

Thought crimes are nobody’s business in a free society. Thought crimes ought to be ferociously protected by a free people. By logical extension, any accusations of antisemitism, Naziism or other antipathies and racisms, are especially suspect when emitted as a meme from American institutionalized power structures.

One such obscenely wealthy and worthless power structure is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), or Defamation League—a more apt moniker once suggested by Elon Musk, before he joined the ADL in severely censoring some speech on the X platform. The ADL is a meddlesome shakedown operation, in the mold of the Southern Poverty Law Center (“Smear Artists for the Total State,” wrote Tom DiLorenzo). It has taken it upon itself to decide who lives and who dies socially and financially on the basis of the unfortunate individual’s ideas, spoken and written.

In the American tradition, thoughts and words spoken or written that are politically impolite—again, racism; Naziism, antisemitism—retain protected status as speech beyond the adjudication of law-makers, bureaucrats, mediacrats, educrats and technocrats.

Sniffing out racists or anti-Semites is an absolute no-no for any and all self-respecting, libertarian-minded Americans, or any American, for that matter. Like creedal libertarians, Americans don’t, or should not, prosecute thought crimes or persecute thought “criminals.”

Ours should be The Skokie Standard of free speech and thinking (which I articulated in August 2022). What is The Skokie Standard of free speech? In 1978, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took a stand for free speech by defending a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, where many Holocaust survivors lived. The Skokie Standard of free speech is one that champions unpopular expression, and vigorously defends all marginalized speakers and thinkers, rather than purveying and protecting state and corporate ideology du jour.

Let me repeat what the Skokie Standard of free speech stands for here: However which way they are grouped, the words people individually or collectively speak, chant, write and tweet; the beliefs they are known to hold, the flags they fly or stomp, the symbolic, non-violent ceremonies, rituals and protests they perform; the insignia, paraphernalia, the goose-stepping, Hitler salutes they dick around with—provided no physical aggression is involved, all that counts as protected speech.

Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, RIP, got it. On May 2, 2024, Kirk wrote the following: “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”

Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t get it. No wonder even Glenn Greenwald, once a practicing constitutional attorney—and a man of manners and decorum—regularly appends “dumb” and “lacking any grasp of constitutional law” to any mention of Bondi, who said this after Kirk’s murder:

The Justice Department would “absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech… There’s free speech, and then there’s hate speech. And there is no place—especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie — in our society,” Bondi told a podcaster likewise cerebrally compromised.

If you thought the nation’s chief law enforcement officer had blurted out on an impulse such promises of unconstitutional hate-speech prosecutions; I’m sorry to say that Bondi only doubled down. In scant regard for the letter and spirit of American constitutional law, she advised employers, on September 15, of their “obligation to get rid of people who are saying horrible things.”

While “The First Amendment doesn’t stop private employers from choosing to fire people for speech; it can be illegal for the government to use its power to pressure a private company into firing a staff member.” In America, not even do celebrations of Kirk’s assassination count as threats of violence or incitement to violence. In fact, “government retribution for speech,” lambasted U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, “is directly forbidden by the First Amendment.”

For our libertarian purposes, moreover, speech should never be defended by deploying a contents-driven defense, such as that a book, an utterance or their author must be spared on account that the person is good and his words are not racist and are against bigotry.

The Argument from Freedom means arguing process, not content. Racism, (alleged) antisemitism or Naziism in targeted literature or in protests should always and everywhere be a peripheral issue. Or, preferably, no issue at all.

The Argument from Freedom means arguing not over the contents of publications like Mein Kampf or the merit of protests for Palestine, but for their publication and practice irrespective of their contents. Which is why I say freedom’s argument is an argument from process, not content.

Freedom makes the case for an unfettered free market in ideas, good and bad. Freedom argues for politically impolite books to be published and read freely. It demands that all offensive literature be available to the free men and women who inhabit the free society. And not because of history; so that we don’t forget it or repeat it. Rather, freedom needs no justification. It is an end unto itself. You are deficient in American solidarity if you don’t stand up for non-violent protest and all speech.

Liberty is a simple thing. It’s the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, and verbally provoke people in power, unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, deported, even killed.

Ultimately banning books or proscribing speech and speakers as the kangaroo courts of Britain, Europe and Canada do legally, assumes a lack of choice and agency among ostensibly “free” human beings. It’s also predicated on the acceptance of a higher authority which decides for the rest of us which cultural products are fit for our consumption.

I thus put it to you, dear reader, left and right, that speech restrictions stateside in the form of the Antisemitism Awareness Act mirror the worst of British and western Europe’s anti-speech tribunals. Tabled by a Republican and a Democrat, S. 4127, which mercifully is still in committee, would embed state agitprop throughout American education. For posterity. Aside being in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act would utterly enervate discourse in our country and criminalize vast tracts of speech as well as proscribe actions that are licit in constitutional and natural law. 

Left, Right and libertarian; we can and must, then, join in unapologetically rejecting the very idea of policing, purging, persecuting or prosecuting people for holding and expressing politically unpopular ideas in action or in speech.

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©2025 ILANA MERCER
The New American, October 2, 2025
The Unz Review, October 3
LewRockwell.com, October 3

Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization.

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Hasbara and Israeli official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric’ ~ilana (May 16, 2025)

 Israel, astonishingly, has engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while publicly committing genocide, effectively asserting a birthright to do genocide. Israel demands to exist as a privileged, protected aberration, carrying out diabolical deeds with universal blessings and absolution.~ilana (May 16, 2025)

Books have now been written, more about Israeli and Jewish anguish than about the victims. Being Jewish after Gaza is one. Israel’s theocracy. Israel’s moral and military degeneration. Israel’s looming collapse. When did it begin. Right wing, left wing. Why, why, why. Everyone is beating on breast about Israel. An apt response are the words of a character from Southern literature: ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!’ And neither should you worry about the perpetrators of genocide—Only to the extent that punishment is…. ~ilana (May 16, 2025)

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When America’s regime historians reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they always praise Pax Americana. That is the idea that American hegemony brought peace to the world.

Conveniently, they leave out the horrors of it.

Naturally, regime historians, the ones we are here (at the Mises Institute’s Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama, May 16) to counter, speak a lot about Hitler, but hardly ever mention Hiroshima.

Likewise has Israel shaped its past, mixing some history with myth, to render a myth-history.  The propaganda sustaining Israel’s counterfeit history is called Hasbara, explanation in Hebrew.

Hasbara constructs serve to coat Israel’s real crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some imagined purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus, artificial constructs to rape reality.

Undeniably, American foreign policy has a certain narrative talent. The injustices of imperial power, notwithstanding, people are persuaded by the strut of it. Less obvious is the appeal of Israeli Hasbara and the Jewish supremacy that goes with it—and has seduced many Christians into ignoring Christ’s core teachings.

Christ commands care, not for the oppressor and the predator, but for the poor and the oppressed.

Hasbara and official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric.

Shortly after October 7, with the commencement, in Gaza, of Israel’s “Operation Swords of Iron,” certain self-evident truths became crystal clear.

By late October, Israel’s actions within and without Gaza had shown the world the absolute depravity of Israel, state and civil society. One such emerged reality is that, Palestinians, not Israeli Jews, as Hasbara teaches, are the most imperiled people in the world; Israelis the most perilous.

Another is that Israel, with overwhelming support from the Jewish-Israeli public, has gleefully engaged in methodical, indiscriminate, industrial-scale murder and ethnic cleansing ongoing.

The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, were allowed to obliterate all the fundamentals of physical, national and economic life in Gaza, turning it into an uninhabitable “post-apocalyptic wasteland.” The Strip has been reduced to its sub-soil particulate elements, only badly soiled.

Gaza is now a mass grave along a small stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, where living ghosts wander.

Gaza’s soil is soaked through with a mix of millions of tons of building debris, the decaying bodies of tens-of-thousands of human beings, their pets, livestock; fauna, flora all gone—an inferno of garbage, open sewage, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions, like unexploded ordnance.

Said a scholar of the architecture of Occupation: Israel has “stolen” from Gaza’s Palestinians “the very ability to produce food.” Or, receive it. Or use means of exchange to get it. Banking was dismantled.

Believe it or not, but under years of a medieval blockade, Gaza’s farmers had, before October 7, fed a third of their people.

Indeed, Israel has systemized the mass murder and displacement of innocent Palestinian civilians, targeting them and their habitat for Total Warfare.

Since war against civilians is a war on civilization; Israel, by extension, is an enemy of civilization.

Our ally Israel is a country in which genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations, rape, robbery, torture and starvation of Palestinians are de facto legal. Israel is thus a criminal entity, and a threat to the comity of nations.

The indictment against Israel ought to be hermetically sealed. Israel’s ethnocide and domicide in Gaza is in violation of most systems of ethics known to man over intellectual history—it is in violation of God’s law, the Ten Commandments. These command not to covet, steal or murder. It is in violation of libertarian law (the axiom of non-aggression). It is in violation of natural justice, the laws of war (although genocide is not war), as well as humanitarian law.

And it is in violation of the systems of law within which the above is subsumed: The natural law and the positive law.

Right and wrong are universal, not relative. The Sixth Commandment is neither opinion nor optional. “Thou shalt not murder” or mass murder is called a commandment for a reason. There is no tribal privilege clause attached to it. Like gentiles, Jews are enjoined against wanton murder.

Yet Israelis now flout the Sixth Commandment with ugly audacity.

Over the months, I have closely observed Israel as it pulverizes population centers across the Levant. I’ve listened in the Hebrew, to Jewish-Israeli public and political discourse.

In Hebrew, Jewish-Israeli public personalities, and the public, express an impatient, snarling contempt for accusations of genocide, offering an unbroken stream of genocide-justification Hasbara.

It’s like Israeli-Jews are yawning, waiting on the world to wake up to the fact that their lives do matter more. And that any aberrant action taken to make them feel safe must be allowed.

And it is allowed. Israel has played its genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza to a packed house: to the world.

Israeli-Jews don’t lack for facts; but most appear to be without the analytical and ethical faculties to examine their actions. They lead the unexamined lives of self-anointed superior beings.

Societally, majorities appear to project the sense that their sectarian supremacy transcends the universal moral order, to which international law, the natural law and the Decalogue give expression.

The natural law is a system of ethics knowable through reason, revelation and experience, whichever floats your boat. Because it’s anchored in the very existential nature of man and reality, the Natural Law is the highest law known to man and is therefore deductively true and just.

An example is the libertarian non-aggression axion.

For reasons obvious, there should be no difference between how classical liberals or anarchists understand the non-aggression axion, which is the organizing principle of libertarianism. Minarchist, anarchist or statist; genocide is forbidden.

The positive law, on the other hand, is a creation of the State. Legal positivism equates justice with the law of The State.

In teasing out right from wrong, we discriminate between acts that are criminal because The State has criminalized them, as opposed to acts which are universally criminal.

Most civilizing systems of ethics stipulate that no one has the right to kill a single innocent human being, let alone hundreds-of-thousands of members of a group.

There again, Israel’s sacking of Gaza is universally evil.

Lest I be accused of arguing in circles around the definition of genocide, I’ll briefly mention genocide in the context of the international vs. the natural law.

Israel has aced the genocide bar, namely the prohibitions, in Article II of the Genocide Convention, on destroying a group, in whole or in part, and or on making life unbearable for that group.

Mens rea, intent in Western jurisprudence and judicial philosophy, is a component of genocide:

If Palestinians were accorded equality before law—any law, national or international—then by 2023’s end, logically, and perhaps legally, Israelis would have been seen as having both spoken their guilty minds and acted out their genocidal intent on the ground.

Mass murder is never “unintentional” when you know it is inevitable and incidental to your “mission.” If you know in advance that your actions will cause the deaths of thousands-upon-thousands of innocents; attached to your criminal actions (actus reus) is a guilty mind (mens rea).

America shares in Israel’s genocidal guilty mind. The US regime has been a worshipful partner in Israel’s vice. It has supplied munitions for mass-murder. It has provided diplomatic cover. It has issued at least seven vetoes and abstention in the UN Security Council to enable Israel’s continued atrocities. For wanting to expel, arrest, protest or boycott Israelis, America has menaced countries, legal organs and American residents.

America has helped Israeli Hasbara in asserting self-defense to justify collective punishment.

And America has helped Israel to frame state terrorism as self-defense, normalizing the structural violence that is the State of Israel.

The genocide of Gazans was happily and willingly underwritten by the US government, the American political class, and its Julius Streicher media, which, even mid-murder, describe Israelis as victims.

On the matter of industrial-scale mass murder: international law is not at odds with the natural law or the libertarian law.

Such is the case of Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It articulates, mostly, a set of negative rights. Their enforcement imposes no burden on anybody but the sadistic, sociopathic serial killers under discussion.

Most libertarians would concede that The State now acts extra-judicially, and that any remnants of the natural law once embedded in the US Constitution have long-since been buried beneath the rubble of legislation and statute.

Let us say, then, that to the extent that law—local, international, tribal—upholds no more than natural rights, law is OK. To the extent that law violates the rights to life, liberty, and property—law is bad. To the extent state law agrees with the natural law—to that extent it is inoffensive.

By extension, it matters not who upholds the rights of Palestinians to life and land, just so long as someone does.

It matters not which state, which federal official or international organization, or which platoon, Hizballah or the Houthis—just so long as someone does.

In America, federalism means “divided sovereignty,” which, if we are to take James Madison seriously, should make it difficult for states to begin executing their residents.

Why would it be a matter of respect for a country’s “sovereignty” to allow Israel to systematically execute occupied, subjugated populations, on the off-chance that they eliminate some terrorists, whom by now many consider resistance fighters?

Make no mistake; In human rights law there is a responsibility to protect a community that is being evicted and eradicated. There’s a right to resist, too, under the “Hague Regulations on Belligerent Occupation.” Neither offends the natural law.

Resistance fighters argue that they are heeding this calling, The “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P).

Israel ought to have been forcibly stopped; its innocent victims protected. You don’t placate a John Wayne Gacy and a Jeffrey Dahmer…You stop them.

But not as the Axis of Genocide sees it.

The Arab societies are non-woke societies. The fact that Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Yemen were and are largely traditional societies, not co-opted, Woke societies, has certainly helped the West justify their mistreatment.

You see, the Woke Masters of the Western Universe consider non-woke societies as without the natural right of resistance. Their resistance we call terrorism.

Given that nobody has effectively upheld the legal “Responsibility to Protect” Palestinians, all but the spirit of Gaza is gone.

Consider the Great Palestinian Return to Northern Gaza in January of 2025. Despite the erasure of over 2000 Gazan bloodlines, family trees, gone—an epic event took place:

Processions of Palestinians in their thousands returned to their ruined homes in Northern Gaza.

You see, the land is central to Palestinian identity.

What greater proof is there of the ancestral homesteader claims that Palestinians have to Palestine than this devotion, this resilience?

Contrast this Palestinian rootedness and resilience with Israel’s squirrely northern and southern settler populations.

Israeli Jews have not returned to towns in Israel’s north or south. Rather, their love of the land is predicated on its ethnic cleansing.

Only if their army obliterates even the slightest danger posed by their indigenous neighbors will Israel’s settlers return.

For yet more of a contrast, look, too, at the repulsive levels of Israeli environmental destruction in Gaza: This speaks, among many other things, to Israel’s profound alienation from an ecosystem it shares and claims to care about.

Israeli-Jews have greed for the land, not a love of it.

Back to our nemesis, The State.

What about the moral authority of a Democratic state? Surely “our ally Israel shares our democratic values”? Or, so we are lectured.

Well, murder with majority approval is still murder, whomever the perpetrator. Whether it is committed by the decree of the one dictator 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.

You would be correct to conclude, however, that this 21st Century Holocaust is popular. Thumping majorities across Israel’s public and private sectors have, throughout, justified, finessed and fibbed about their army’s AI-driven high-tech depopulation and extermination orgy in Gaza.

Eager to write the Palestinian obituary, as late in the genocide as February 2025, 80 percent of Jewish-Israelis signaled their support for Trump’s plan for Gaza. Only three percent of this cohort thought it immoral.

Trump’s plan is an extension and completion of Joe Biden’s genocide, which included the internal displacement—depopulation—and large-scale extermination of the Strip and its People.

First, Donald Trump has proposed to cover up Israel’s crime of genocide by removing the pitiful exhibits from the scene of the crime. Next, he planned to conclude Joe’s genocide by scattering the survivors across the Middle East. Israel will have been rescued. Gazans will have ceased to exist as a nation. The liquidation-and-extermination campaign in the Gaza ghetto would have been completed.

Debating and committing genocidal violence, forcibly displacing millions, starving a subjugated people: All this Trump backers called “out-of-the-box thinking.”

Who said crime doesn’t pay? When the Superpower inverts the moral order of the universe; the Crime of All Crimes pays—and then some.

In any case, genocide had won a plebiscite in Israel.

No surprise. Remember, the IDF is Israel. It’s a citizen army in which every Israeli must serve. It’s the voice of the Jewish-Israeli commonwealth. Israel’s sons and daughters are the stars in the country’s genocide constellation.

We’ve watched them level Gaza—vaporize young men picking their way through rubble as though in a video game. Mock their victims. Snipe their kids. Rape their men. Rob their businesses. Rummage through the intimate effects of people dead or dispossessed. Invade and explode entire residential buildings.

True, all Israeli Jews are conscripted and must enlist in this army. However, the military draft does not compel a conscript to commit, chronicle, and crow over what is institutionalized and legalized, serial-killer type crime.

The pride and joy seen recorded and then transmitted to the world from thousands of IDF mobile phones over months has been voluntary, spontaneous, and organic to Israeli society’s tenor and project.

So let us hear no Nuremberg defense.

“I was only following orders” must not be tolerated in mitigation of the IDF. The evidence is conclusive. IDF shoot, loot and bomb for fun.

No doubt, the Israeli State is genocidal. But, by the numbers and by their statements Israeli society is as sociopathic. From janitor to general; from soldiers to supreme court justices.

As uncomfortable as this is for the libertarian individualist; the facts are clear. On the matter of the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza; Jewish-Israeli society does not stand apart from the Jewish State.

Throughout, polled opinion in Israel was not split between Israeli Jews for mass murder vs. Israelis against mass murder and ethnic cleansing.

No. The division in Israeli society was between Jewish-Israelis for current levels of violence against Gazans, versus those for greater or lesser industry in what were already industrial-levels and methods of murder.

By the polls, nothing outside their self-righteous and self-obsessed selves mattered to a preponderance of Jewish-Israelis.

Israeli-Jews, by and large, have become a sorority of Jewish supremacists. And Palestinians have paid a terrible price for Israel’s systemic, societal sociopathy.

Ask Israelis about Palestinian babies shredded to bits; and they’ll dish Hasbara. It’s all in self-defense. And, it’s all the doing of a third party.

Guess who made them do the genocide?

Hamas.

“It’s not me,” says the criminal. “Hamas ate my homework; I mean my conscience.” This is Israel’s Third-Party theory of culpability. Israel vomits it up. The west laps it up.

The “Hamas Made Me Mass Murder” non-sequitur exposes Israel’s Hasbara for its irrationality. Since when do you blame a third party for your ongoing crimes in real-time?

Put it this way, the state in which you live has no right to evict you from your home and bomb your neighborhoods because its agents believe outlaws hide in your neighborhood.

The “crime of passion” defense is bad enough. The Third-Party theory of culpability must never bolster it.

The “crime of passion” defense we associate with a single event. Not with sadistic serial killers, loosed for months-on-end on millions of innocents across the Via Delarosa that is Gaza.

Yes, Israel has an historic passion, alright, but for methodical mass murder.

See, the IDF is not a fighting force; it’s an Air Force. Judged from its actions over time, this Air Force’s objectives are not to defeat a regular army. But to pound population centers into submission—in Gaza, across the Levant, and beyond.

What other country has not only had its killer practices codified in law but also named?

The “Dahiyeh Doctrine” is named after the southern suburbs of Beirut, upon whose Shia civilians the Israeli Air Force has perfected its predation.

“Mowing the lawn” is a term used across Israel to signal murder sprees against Palestinian civilians to keep populations subdued.

Fans of true crime TV will remember the Highway I-5 serial killer. Imagine his killer craft being dubbed the “I-5 Doctrine,” and Wikipedia describing this infamous serial killer as originator of the “I-5 Doctrine.”

Without a doubt, public protest, too, in Israel has followed a strictly me-me, solipsistic self-interest.  There was little transcendent humanity whatsoever in Israeli hostage protests.

By the numbers and by their own words, most Israeli-Jews were simply demanding a return of their hostages. Said one Israeli pundit: Israelis want their hostages back; they don’t want Gaza back.

If the Israeli State is a criminal entity, what, then, can be said about the U.S.?

Israel’s war on Gaza, the West Bank and the greater Levant is America’s war.

Like it or not, Gaza is our genocide.

We hear disinterested mumblings about the national interest: Gaza is of no national interest to the United States of America.

I’m afraid it’s too late to for the national-interest dodge. The US is an interventionist hegemon. It has aided, abetted and partaken in, via reconnaissance, an extermination campaign in Gaza.

Besides often being immoral, the national-interest argument is a form of statism. The premise of national-interest political pragmatism leads to this perverse logic:

If enabling the slaughter of Gazans and Iraqis happened to be in the American national interest; then those “endeavors” would have been justified, in accordance with national-interest standards.

In other words, if the U.S. government considered genocide in the national interests; then genocide it is! America should act on its divine rights as Global judge, jury and executioner.

No. Genocide is not a foreign-policy matter; it is a moral matter.

And the United States’ energetic support for the Gaza Holocaust is a defining event in the annals of American foreign-policy aberrations. And, in the national life.

While American foreign policy is a museum of horrors, Gaza is now the main exhibit. Why is Gaza qualitatively different from foreign policy deformities that went before?

Here’s why:

So far, America’s foreign policy has been largely focused on a regime-change program, where “collateral damage” is largely concealed but framed as incidental to a political program.

Again and again, the American Masters of the Universe have gone to war to make the World Woke. Namely, make it over in America’s image. As well as make the world safe for Israel.

Mass murder, within the American foreign-policy framework, has generally been secondary to a program of “Warring to make the World Woke.” Crudely put, “Be like us or we’ll kill you.”

In Gaza, however, America has participated in mass murder for the sake of murder.

In Gaza, Uncle Sam has finally achieved an official or formal inversion of all universal values.

What the US has approved and assisted in Gaza is a primetime twenty-first century Holocaust.

In a sense, Israel has effected a radical ethical inversion in America. Sects of Christianity can no longer distinguish Satan from God, mutually exclusive categories. They favor AIPAC’s edicts over the commandments of the Prince of Peace.

But you are what you do.

The Israeli State is genocidal by virtue of its actions and the declared intent accompanying these actions—not because it has been denounced as “genocidal” by so-called “antisemites” and “terrorist sympathizers.”

Said Jesus, “Therefore, by their fruits you will know them,” (Matthew 7:20 reads).

Another of Hasbara’s aims is to frame the IDF’s ongoing extermination campaign against a population of cornered civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as byproducts of war. As incidental to a just war prosecuted by brave fighters.

If it’s portrayed as a war crime; genocide can be dismissed as no more than a case of, “Oops, Bad things happen in the butcher’s shop of war.”

In Gaza, however, Israel has waged genocide, not war. Dressing up a canned hunt as a war is pure Hasbara. For genocide is not war. (09/20/2024)

The genocide-as-a-war-crime conceptualization provides cover and lends authority to criminals and criminality. You mitigate and minimize genocide when you call it a war crime.

You see, genocide is not a war crime to which a set of mitigating or explanatory legal defenses can attach. Genocide is the stand-alone, indefensible crime-of-all-crimes, for which there are no legal or moral defenses. There are no extenuating circumstances, historical, legal or other, for genocide.

True, Israel’s genocide has been disrupted by asymmetric warfare from non-state, Palestinian Resistance fighters. But there is an enormous power differential between occupier and occupied. That the serial killers encounter organized, regional resistance does not make genocide a war.

So far, I’ve anatomized what Israel, state and society, has done to the Gaza Strip and its people since October 7.

But what have Gazans, the living and the martyred, accomplished? A great deal.

Outwardly captives, Palestinians are truly liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West.

They have made us see Israel as an irreparably corrupt force, morally and militarily.

The Genocide of Gaza has, very plainly, invalidated Israel and validated the Palestinian cause.

A moral, sentient human being need know nothing much about the history of the region to arrive at this conclusion.

Here’s why:

You’ve seen Israel for the contradiction it is. Israel, astonishingly, has engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while publicly committing genocide, effectively asserting a birthright to do genocide.

Israel demands to exist as a privileged, protected aberration, carrying out diabolical deeds with universal blessings and absolution.

Think about it:

Caught in the protracted, planful act of committing genocide, the guilty party, Israel, persists in claiming for itself the right to kill and deceive without being considered and treated as a killer and a con-artist.

The Chutzpah חוצפה!

To no avail. Human action is the undeniable key to man-made reality. Israel and the US have acted; they’ve been exposed.

Ethnocide, depopulation, and domicide are never justified and can never be exculpated. To assert that you are just and justified as you carry out that which cannot be just or justified—this is to embody a most grotesque contradiction, and to be less than human, less than coherent.

At minimum, Israel deserves the revulsion and isolation reserved for entities whose existence is a confidence trick and a fraud upon us all.

The same ahistoric Hoppean argumentation applied to invalidate Israel will serve here to validate the Palestinians’ reality, as they have been telling it over decades.

Israel’s televised genocide has corroborated the reality of the Palestinians; their reasons for rage and their rights to resistance and recompense.

Palestinians have been telling us for decades that they have been set upon by murderers and thieves. Palestinians have told us they are being killed and robbed as a matter of course. Their reality has been irrefutably affirmed since October 7.

Now, if supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza deny this; they, too, would be fraudsters, living a lie.

The liar’s life of lies we expose by compelling the denier of the Palestinian Holocaust to live his own lie:

Deniers of the Palestinian reality—Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, Biden, Bibi, Blinken, Douglas Murray, Dennis Prager —would be parachuted into occupied Gaza. Genocide would become their “lived reality,” not their rhetorical reality.

Running here and there as tanks advance on the Denier, ducking-and-diving bombardments from above, as if you can escape the death radius of American-made 2000- or 500-pound bombs.

These Holocaust Deniers would be recorded scratching for scraps, carrying jerricans of contaminated drinking water back to nylon dwellings. Climbing over kilometers of decaying structures, through ruins and twisted metal.

Our camera will find these holocaust deniers queuing with thousands to use a single functioning toilet, plumbing having been destroyed by the Israelis.

The denier of the Palestinian Holocaust would be filmed up-close suffering dysentery, sepsis, and starvation; intubated, amputated or C-sectioned without narcotics. Twisting on a hospital floor. Smeared by blood and waste. Listening to the incessant whirring above of Israel’s quadcopter killer drones.

The Holocaust denier will therefore LIVE this absolute truth, the ontological truth, of Israel’s Final Solution to its Palestinian Problem. The nature of Palestinian reality is as they’ve been telling it. QED. Proposition proven.

Books have now been written, more about Israeli and Jewish anguish than about the victims. Being Jewish after Gaza is one. Israel’s theocracy. Israel’s moral and military degeneration. Israel’s looming collapse. When did it begin. Right wing, left wing. Why, why, why. Everyone is beating on breast about Israel.

An apt response are the words of a character from Southern literature: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!”

And neither should you worry about the perpetrators of genocide—

Only to the extent that punishment is exacted upon Israel for what it has done to Palestinians. That reparations and restitution are extracted from Israel in perpetuity for Palestinians.

WATCH: “The Real Israel Vs. Hasbara History”

https://rumble.com/v6toq73-the-real-israel-vs.-hasbara-history.html

©2025 ILANA MERCER
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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization

Images from May, 2025 conference. 

Mises Institute, May 2025, with Lew Rockwell, rekindling a deep bond

Ditto. With a best friend

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If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West ~ilana

On … the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. Or, perhaps the Israel Defense Feces is more apropos? Or, still better, the Excreta Defense Forces. ~ilana

* Warning: indelicate language.

WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the “genocidal entity” formally broke the nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza? Oracular insight is unnecessary.

Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good.

Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in fawning agreement, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the leash. Just the same, during a press conference with the US president, on April 7, the Israeli prime minister’s face grew as dark as a thundercloud on mention of possible diplomacy with Iran.

Under such favorable circumstances, Israelis are louder and prouder about killing and destroying with monomaniacal diligence. Indifferently, and for the first time, Israel openly admitted to targeting journalist Hussam Shabat for “elimination,” in December of 2024, and executing the him on March 24. The sadistic serial killer stalked its prey, then pounced.

The predator has so far singled out and assassinated 232 other Palestinian journalists.

Shabat thus knew, as he put it, that “journalism meant Israel would kill him.” Only 23, so full of promise, Shabat wrote his epitaph in advance of his death. It read:

If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces. … For [the] past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.
I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents — anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to tell the truth, and now, at last, I have found rest—something I have not known for the past 18 months. I did this because I believe in the Palestinian cause, in our right to this land. The greatest honor of my life was to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.

For the last time,
Hussam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

Trampling underfoot everything decent and good: Fatma Hassona was to be the subject of an upcoming documentary, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Israel could not allow that. So, Air Force Genocide bombed the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, also murdering nine members of her family.

After a brief, relative lull, eighteen months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel has resumed its slaughter of civilians at an average rate of 103 souls a day, with 223 individuals dealt life-altering injuries, also daily. Since March 18, reports Ha’aretz, Israel has killed 1,652 people and wounded 4,391 in strikes on Gaza. (Ha’aretz “Israel News” newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.) The number murdered now exceeds 2,000.

With 62,000 Palestinians missing, over 52,000 confirmed dead; and indirect deaths ranging from three to fifteen times the number of direct deaths, by the Lancet’s account—the fake, fossilized media should be obligated to report the official number of Palestinians dead by Israel as well over 100,000. That too is a vast undercount.

The mind is crowded. Palestinians murdered melt into a montage of faces. Yet remember we must men like Rifaat Radwan. Radwan was among fifteen medical and humanitarian workers who were summarily executed pointblank, on March 23, by the Israeli regime in Gaza.

The underworld that is the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)—the world criminals and lawbreakers inhabit—is premised upon lies. By now you know The Liar’s lines, as he drops American “earthquake bombs” on kids at community kitchens:

“Hamas. Terrorism. If Palestinians die; they needed killing.”

But Satan’s non sequiturs can’t conceal the truth—or silence the deeply felt devotionals of the righteous. As the SS IDF stood above him, riddling his colleagues and himself with thousands of bullets, Radwan, Palestinian Red Crescent Society medic, did not beg the agents of his demise. Instead, he recorded their crime for posterity while righteously reciting his last prayers. These are achingly beautiful:

“Oh Lord, accept us. Oh Lord, accept me as a martyr. Mother, forgive me. This is the path I chose … that I help people. … .” Until he expired.

As Monday of April 7 dawned, a Wi-Fi rigged world watched a funeral pyre of Palestinians, except that the people Israel lit up were alive. The IDF incinerated “a tent housing Palestinian journalists in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Late last year, when teenager Shaban al-Dalou smoldered alive, the presstitutes did what they always do: Fudge the English language in the service of Israel. To shore up this oppressive foreign regime, media deploy euphemisms and the passive voice; syntactic devices that mask the excruciating death of a boy kind, beautiful and bright, who was driven by devotion to kin and community.

“Killed in a fire,” media said about Shaban’s murder. The same fate has now befallen Helmi Al-Faqaawi, “a correspondent for Palestine Today News Agency, and Youssef Al-Khazandar, a civilian assisting the group of journalists.” Photojournalist Ahmed Mansour, seen in images engulfed in flames, is fighting for his life in Gaza.

Does Mansour have a fighting chance, what with the last barely functional hospital in the Strip having been obliterated by Israel? On the morning of Palm Sunday, IDF fiends flattened the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which had stood since 1882. “Burning a journalist alive in Gaza, exclaimed Lima Bustami, Euro-Med Monitor’s legal department director, “is not aimed at silencing the truth. Israel already relies on a far greater force: the world’s indifference to the truth.”

With a world of indifference as backdrop, Israel set ablaze yet more civilians in tents on April 17. (And still more again on April 21.) Seventeen Palestinian civilians, including nine children, were dispatched, apparently, dead by “waves of [some sort].” Yes, even Al Jazeera has caught the botched-English bug, writing that, on April 18, “a wave of Israeli air strikes” killed them.

Another trope of the malpracticing media is to qualify the daily carnage in Gaza with the clause, “mostly women and children.” Or, “Including many women and children.” As though Palestinian men were fare game.

This genocide exclusionary clause is pronounced among the vanishingly small number of conservative influencers who have registered their objection to Israel’s crimes. Out of Christian charity, these influencers allow that the murdered are “women and children,” for the most. Or, that among the murdered are Christians. This from creedal conservatives who otherwise champion the centrality of men and manliness in society. This from the same conservatives who must surely know that Jesus Christ stood not for sectarian favoritism, but for the universal value of all human beings.

“Meet the Palestinian men the media don’t want you to know exist,” narrates Lara Elborno, a Palestinian daughter, human-rights attorney and activist. This here is a woman who can speak both poignantly and with authority about Palestinian men. By now, so can we. And it is the men of Palestine whom we’ve watched on our screens first to the scenes of slaughter. They dig, carry, evacuate, comfort, perform religious rites of burial, and cry when lulls allow.

The contrast between Palestinian men and the IDF stares at you like blood on a Kaffan, the traditional Palestinian shroud.

At bottom, the most cowardly army known in military history doesn’t engage in battles. The IDF is an air force: It strafes civilians from above. Since it broke the ceasefire, Israel has conducted daily massacres by airstrikes, shelling, and drone strikes, reports Jon Elmer, military analyst for the Electronic Intifada. Well over 1000 such airstrikes—fifty a day—have seen nearly 600 children and babies blown to bits.

With every avenue of ingress and egress sealed off by the Israelis for the last six weeks, fuel to power earth-moving machinery is unavailable. So when, on April 10, thirty-five civilians were murdered and fifty injured by warplanes strafing a “densely populated residential block,” in a Shuja’iyya neighborhood—civil defense teams, Palestinians, were on the scene. They always are. How they do it nobody knows. They currently use trawls, spades, finger nails and faith to get at the trapped.

Ugly and evil seeks to eradicate its opposites. Be it reflexively or by design—the West’s brash, technocratic, atomistic and irreligious regimes aim to eradicate communities unlike their own.  Decadently woke and cruelly impersonal Gaza is not. Gaza, attests Zahad Rahman, an American nurse who volunteers in what remains of the enclave, is a community-centered, gracious society. Rahman is not a Palestinian. Israel has murdered more than 1,000 individuals like him—”members of the medical, defense and aid teams in Gaza,” confirms B’Tselem (an Israeli human rights organization). Despite the risk, like so many medical volunteers who go to Gaza, Rahman has found himself drawn back to people who will give you their shirt in zero weather.

In the Ramadan tradition of “cultivating empathy,” in the ruins, Gazans thus laid tables to celebrate. Eid al-Fitr, in particular, explains Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman, a scholar and theologian, “is meant to continue that empathy into our celebrations. On the morning of Eid, every Muslim is required to pay Zakat al-Fitr—a form of charity designed to ensure that no one is left out of the feast. It is a beautiful practice: a way of saying that joy is only complete when shared, that our celebration is meaningless if others are starving.”

Inescapably, Eid al-Fitr spirituality was shattered by Israeli barbarity.

On April 3, Israel murdered 92 worshippers. A volunteer doctor from Gaza Medic Voices spent Eid, which marks the conclusion of Ramadan, cutting away party clothes from the bodies of kids dressed to the nines for Eid. By day’s end, the number of human beings murdered had swelled. Little girls festively dressed were, instead, transported to the morgue, jewelry and finery shrouded in the garments of death.

While 100 Palestinian kids are now “killed or injured in Gaza every day,” since [genocide] resumed,” Israelis have gone and slapped a disability classification on “over 20,000” of their own safe and sated offspring. Victims of terror, claim the Israeli State’s mental-health mavens.

The Psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is an ever-mutating manual, now in its fifth iteration. The criteria for manufacturing illness under the DSM, or similar industry-developed manuals, are malleable. In real life, no psychiatric manual required, tens of thousands of Palestinian children are being terrorized, are actually dead, mutilated, mentally scarred for life, orphaned without a soul in the world.

Still, one can well-understand why their Israeli adversaries—predators parading as prey—would want to tar even the Palestinian toddler as an irremediable terrorist-in-the-making. Like so many of their formative figures, Palestinian children are formidable, fierce.

Amid the worry and wear of finding food and staying alive, a slip of a girl composes and recites the poetry of resistance:

“I’m Palestinian and proud.”
“I’m proud because I’m the strong brave girl, the daughter of heroes.”
“The daughter of Gaza, the land of the free…”

And so she goes in modulated, melodic Arabic. Here another young Palestinian girl stops her idol, the late Mr. Shabat, aforementioned, to tell him of her admiration. When she grows up; she wants to be a brave journalist like her hero, since martyred. These are very centered children.

If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West.

And Gabi Siboni knows this. The former IDF colonel, now an unthinking member of Israel’s think-tank ranks, reflects Jewish-Israeli public and political discourse. For Gazans Siboni expresses genocidal contempt and intent—but also a warped understanding of Gazan ferocity about liberating their ancestral homeland. Said Siboni:

“Hamas is not the problem in Gaza. Hamas is a symptom of a bigger problem. The population in Gaza is a ‘barbaric mob.’ If we don’t wish to bleed our soldiers for decades—because in Gaza there will be Hamas B and C—the only solution is Trump’s ‘vision.'”

Sidoni is a lot more honest than the oleaginous Bernie Sanders, 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.”

Bernie Sanders’ sophistry should explode the brain like an ammunition dump!

In international law, explains Philip Proudfoot, a British political scientist, “Occupation is temporary, imposing duties, not rights, upon the occupier. The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly demands that an occupier safeguard civilian rights. Accordingly, Israel cannot resort to anything more than police powers to ‘defend itself.’”

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.

Back to the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. (Or, perhaps, the Israel Defense Feces?)

A new load of grief came, in March, to residents of the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, in the northern occupied West Bank. Slatternly IDF soldiers have a familiar signature. They leave behind human waste in the homes they wreck:

“Feces, urine and used condoms—these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in these Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault [in March],” reports the Electronic Intifada.

That the IDF has such a documented “tradition” of defecating and urinating in the West Bank and Gazan homes they occupy and vandalize is backed by other reports, not least that of Philip Weiss’ Mondoweiss article, “S-it Israeli soldiers did in Gaza.” A 2014 account in the Guardian seconds the same: “Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left feces and venomous graffiti.” As has the august author of Drinking the Sea At Gaza, Amira Hass of Ha’aretz, documented the defiling ways of the Israel Defense Feces.

Somebody should rub IDF noses in their own mess to teach them a lesson, once and for all. Nobody has.

Yes, Israel makes atrocities past and present look like sandbox play. Still, puzzling even to me is this recent account of used condoms left by the IDF in these West Bank homes. Why puzzling? We know that despite the feel-good official designation of some Israeli females as combat soldiers, the few women in combat roles “are not explicitly deployed into combat situations.” During these ostensible “military” raids, the IDF functions, I believe, as a male-only “fighting” force.

So, why the condoms left in defiled Palestinian homes, in the course of the IDF’s Dionysian bacchanalia in the West Bank? Whose are they, exactly?

Is this what Ha’aretz, Israel’s center-left paper of record, calls “the homoerotic side of Israeli army life”? Is “copulating” to be added to the documented IDF “tradition” of male soldiers defecating and urinating in Palestinian homes?

Ha’aretz, I’ve noticed, waters down debauchery—but not because it is concealing the truth for the “Fatherland.” They tell the truth but frame it differently. Thus, the debauchery of uniformed IDF doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal in the Israeli State. Israel doesn’t appear to share American sensibilities—at least so it seems to me, who has closely observed this society in the Hebrew, for eighteen ugly months.

Dare I say that American culture is quite prudish; Israel’s expressed aesthetic more pornographic? An example is the familiar images of IDF wearing or rummaging through the sexy lingerie of Palestinian women dead or dispossessed. You and I would consider these cross-dressing displays among uniformed military men as inappropriate, kinky.

Not Haaretz. Kinky acts of cowardice and sadism—invading Palestinian homes, looting, vandalizing and manhandling private effects—a writer at Ha’aretz is wont to label “Machismo”: The “Military machismo of Israeli soldiers in Gaza will rear its ugly head at home,” blared a January 2025 Ha’aretz headline.

I’m a subscriber. I read enough of Ha’aretz to get a sense that Israel has a different, un-American aesthetic. Take this depiction of Purim, which used to be celebrated, largely, as a children’s festival. To “a brief history of Purim, the Halloween of Jewish holidays,” Ha’aretz has appended an erotic image of men flirting and kissing deeply. Ha’aretz appears to consider this image to be Halloween/Purim-appropriate, wholesome.

The only reasonable, quality newspaper in Israel, Ha’aretz, also dishes a lot of bafflegab. The IDF has invaded large swathes of Syria, is bombing the place, annexing kilometers for a so-called buffer zone, and making overtures to certain cowed Syrian communities so as to further divide and rule that country.

An “overbearing embrace,” however, is how Ha’aretz has euphemized the violence of conquest and the breach of Syrian borders, in March of 2025: “Israel’s Overbearing Embrace Threatens Syria’s Druze at a Critical Juncture.

Utter opposites, too, are Palestinians. If Palestinians are united in the yen for freedom; Israeli circuitry is wired for cruelty.

Israel Katz, defense minister, stonily threatened all of Gaza’s civilians, on March 19, 2025. As a Twitter adage goes, “Translating an Israeli tweet from the Hebrew is like finding a lost page of Mein Kampf.” Listen to the “sound of impunity”—and for that matter, never believe any Hebrew-English translation come to you via Israeli officialdom.

These are Katz’ precise words translated from the Hebrew:

Residents of Gaza, this is the last warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza. The second Sinwar will ruin her completely. The assault of the air force against the Hamas terrorists is just the first step. The rest will be many times harder, and you will pay the full price. Evacuations will soon start from areas of battle. If all the Israeli hostages are not released, and Hamas is not expelled from Gaza—Israel will act with the kind of force unfamiliar to you. Take the offer of the president of the US: return the hostages and expel ‘The Hamas,’ and other options will then open before you, including migration to other places across the world, for whomever wishes it. The alternative is destruction and complete ruin.

Defense Minister Katz further reiterated, on April 16, his policy of “halting the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.” “The State of Israel’s policy is clear. No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, as this is one of our main pressure tactics” with Hamas. Under the current reality, nobody intends to stray from the policy, barked Katz.

In an instant, Minister Katz had pacified the “Hostages and Missing Families Forum.” While “emphasizing that the release of the hostages and the continuation of the war cannot happen simultaneously,” the group had nonetheless condemned the Israeli government for “quietly preparing to reinstate humanitarian aid.” (Ha’aretz’s “Israel News” newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.)

On the whole, it has been well-established that from janitor to general, from soldiers to supreme court justices; in words and in deeds—Israeli society generally shares in the genocidal mindset. The exceptions are a few heavily proscribed, minuscule (“around 300 Israelis come to hold pictures of Gazan children”), pro-peace, Arab-Jewish groups. All told, Israelis speak of Palestinians as though they were sub-human, untouchables, unmentionable, lacking any say in how they live or die.

When I wrote, moreover, 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 a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court, “explicitly and directly legitimizing Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.”

Both asinine and depraved, the Israeli high court used, in support of its authoritative ruling for starvation, “the argument that the State of Israel is exempt from the obligations of belligerent occupation under international law in all cases pertaining to the Gaza Strip.”

Sure, you may subsume in logic, as the Israeli supreme court indirectly does, that you are not obligated to help dying human beings. But you cannot make a cogent, rational case for your right to stop others from feeding and healing dying human beings. This displays a defect in the faculty of reasoning, as well as a defect of character. By default, the outcome of the Israeli high court’s ruling is the death of the starved population—the process of mass murder will play out to its legislated conclusion.

The Israeli high court’s acts both defy explanation and demand an accounting. The fault for inaction now lies entirely with those who won’t act to save Gazans: The USA, Western European- and East European countries, East and West Asian governments.

The emanations from the minds of Israel’s Supreme Court are mind-numbingly boorish and banal. Most pertinent for our purposes here is that 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.

Beware! 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.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, like Joe Biden before him, has made Americans confederates in Israel’s crimes. A malign conjunction of events engineered by Trump has further positioned Israeli leadership to finalize its genocidal goal, as its lobby proxies and influencers stateside successfully silence us, and sunder our Bill of Rights protections, including the First Amendment right to think and speak freely.

The level of “state capture” by Israel, a small, oppressive foreign regime, is unprecedented, inveighs Craig Mokhiber, activist and scholar of international, humanitarian law. This is “state capture” at every level: foreign and domestic; federal, state, county and city. For Israel, law enforcement agencies under this and the previous government are willing to silence and disappear activists against genocide for exercising their American liberties.

Absurd, of course, but Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had tweeted that their job is to stop illegal ideas at the U.S. border: “People, money, products, ideas. If it crosses the US border illegally, our job is to stop it.”

“An American-style Cultural Revolution” à la Mao Zedong? Not if we can help it.

©2025 ILANA MERCER
The Unz Review, April 23
LewRockwell.com, April 26
Mises Institute’s Power & Market, May 2 

*Embedded screen picture courtesy of Mondoweiss.

Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization. New book: “The Paleolibertarian Guide To Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & The Aberrant Economy” (February 2024).

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Genocide is a crime, ‘the crime of all crimes.’ It stands alone; no mitigation or extenuation attaches to genocide ~ilana

Because it is an indefensible crime for which there are no extenuating circumstances or traditional defenses—genocide is neither war nor war crime ~ilana

IF it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” You hear the last phrase all the time from Israel’s supporters, as they gush their enthusiasm for the Israeli State’s crimes.

The genocide-as-a-war-crime conceptualization provides cover and lends imprimatur for criminals and criminality. You mitigate and minimize genocide when you call it a war crime.

This is precisely the point of Israel and its co-belligerents: The purpose of framing Israel’s ongoing extermination of Palestinian society in Gaza as a byproduct of war—the same having commenced in the West Bank and East Jerusalem—is to give the impression that industrial-scale mass murder is often incidental to war. Bad things happen in the butcher’s shop of war.

But genocide—legally and morally—is a stand-alone crime; it is not a crime attached to a set of mitigating or explanatory circumstances. The Israeli State, gleefully engaged in methodical, indiscriminate mass murder, is thus a criminal entity. Perhaps not a common criminal, but, nevertheless a criminal country, a threat to the comity of nations. It doesn’t take a Carl von Clausewitz, famed Prussian general and war theorist, to figure this out.

Disquieting though this is, a better source of metaphor for Israel than von Clausewitz is Truman Capote. He is the originator of the true-crime genre, in which a real event is treated with fictional techniques and turned into a literary work of art. That Capote’s In Cold Blood certainly is.

The Israeli State, to commandeer and paraphrase Capote, is that “rarity, a natural killer—absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows.”

In the crime he anatomized, Capote encountered the “single-killer concept” and “the double-killer concept.” Israel comes under the nation-killer concept, given that the nation, with thumping majorities, backed the killing of Gaza. Currently, it is by a preponderance of 71 percent that Israelis support the war on Lebanon.

In any event, because it is an indefensible crime for which there are no extenuating circumstances or traditional defenses—genocide is not a war crime.

The manifestly willful attempt to destroy a society and its people is a crime for which the death penalty—execution of those involved—has, historically, been meted. The exculpatory agents of Israel’s crimes against humanity are, alas, incapable of reasoning from fact, ethics and logic. Like programmed automatons, they therefore recite a counterfactual storyline, an ideological meme.

HASBARA AND A FLORET OF BABY FLESH

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.

The facts of mass murder have been undercounted so far in a 649-page list of every Palestinian recorded killed in Israeli attacks. Two hundred and twenty-six pages of these, list the names of children 18 years and younger, including 14 pages of newborns and babies under a year old. Each name corresponds to a body, identified and interred. The last 11 pages list Palestinian elders, ages 77- to 101-years-old, all older than the country that killed them. (Via The Electronic Intifada.)

This carnage is being dismissed as a byproduct of war, executed within the matrix of Israeli “self-defense,” as Hasbara has it.

Hasbara to what end? To propagandize international audiences into sympathizing exclusively with Israel and demonizing Arabs. (+972 Magazine.)

Hasbara to dress up tiny dismembered babies, courtesy of Israel’s American baby-busting bombs, as something other than a little torso, and a miniature groin, from which a floret of baby flesh protrudes, where once a chubby little leg kicked. (https://x.com/DaniMayakovski/status/1833695316165398763. ) I am told by an expert code writer that the embed code generation for these tweets of mangled baby flesh has been disabled. Censorship down to the code in the service of Hasbara. (https://x.com/Afcq1954/status/1837472434707902578).

Hasbara to frame the specter of baby flesh peeled away to expose gleaming white bone—little bodies and minds shattered for life should they live—as the doing of a third party. “I didn’t do it,” jokes Bart Simpson in that all-American parody, The Simpsons. Hamas made me do it. CNN’s Hasbara, which ascribes an almost-attractive raffishness to IDF criminals, has it that the Occupation made Israeli soldiers commit their crimes.

Hasbara to help leave refugees with no redoubt, and nothing to their name but a nylon dome above their heads. Gaza’s homeless must wait to parry whatever next thrust Israel will deliver in… “self-defense.”

In-the-heat-of-battle Hasbara greases the skids for a Jewish Taliban and his posse of soldiers, whooping it up, as they explode one more mosque among the hundreds they’ve already vaporized.

Hasbara to ostensibly explain away another possessed IDF demon grimacing maniacally while reciting The Shmah, our “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one” prayer. He then levels a mosque. “Have an explosive Sabbath,” roar these particular IDF, before bursting into popular song, “The Nation of Israel Lives,” and sharing that they had just wired up a house of prayer in Khirbet Khizaa, Khan Younis, in the central Gaza Strip. Next I want to see their faces, scores of them, appear on our screens from the Hague. But will Hasbara tools like Matthew Miller, ensconced in the State Department, allow it? Rhetorical.

Israel’s Hasbara facilitates “Israel’s conceit of invincibility,” in the words of commentator Mouin Rabbani. It has marred the West’s morality, but will never contaminate the natural law, and has yet to fundamentally change the common law.

Civilizing systems of ethics still stipulate that no one has the right to kill a single innocent human being, directly or indirectly, let alone hundreds of thousands of them—for by the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be, in the informed opinion of American patriots like Ralph Nader, between 250 to 500,000, maybe more, Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.

Easily—that is if the Lancet, the medical journal of record, and the human rights community don’t obfuscate the truth. The scholar Norman Finkelstein, author of Gaza, An Inquest Into Martyrdom (2018)—an exegesis of fact and law—has strongly suggested that they, too, have been compromised.

MINARCHIST, ANARCHIST OR STATIST: GENOCIDE IS FORBIDDEN!

International law is not at odds with the natural law or the libertarian law on the matter of industrial-scale mass murder. For reasons obvious, there should certainly be no difference between how classical liberals or anarchists understand the non-aggression axion in this context. Minarchist, anarchist or statist; genocide is verboten in libertarianism.

Craig Mokhiber, one of this country’s most principled specialists in “international human rights law, policy, and methodology,” explains:

International law does not allow a claim of self-defense to justify crimes against humanity and genocide. Nor does it magically overcome the international humanitarian law imperatives of precaution, distinction, and proportionality, or the protected status of hospitals and other vital civilian installations.
In addition, the presence of people associated with armed resistance groups (even if proven) does not automatically transform a civilian location or protected structure into a legitimate military target. If it did, the common presence of Israeli soldiers in Israeli hospitals would equally render those hospitals legitimate targets. Attacking hospitals is not an act of self-defense. It is an act of murder and, in systematic and large-scale cases, of the crime of extermination.
A claim of self-defense does not justify collective punishment, the siege of civilian populations, extrajudicial executions, torture, the blocking of humanitarian aid, the targeting of children, the murder of aid workers, medical personnel, journalists, and UN officials- all crimes perpetrated by Israel during the current phase of its genocide in Palestine. And all shamelessly followed by claims of self-defense by Israel’s defenders in the West.’  (Via Mondoweiss)

Having figured out, over this pixelated page, that genocide must be addressed as a crime, not a war crime, I humbly discover that I stand on the shoulders of “Raphael Lemkin.

Lemkin was … first …to put forward the theory that genocide is not a war crime and that the immorality of a crime such as genocide should not be confused with the amorality of war.” Genocide is “the gravest and greatest of crimes,” and thus dubbed “a crime against humanity,” wrote Lemkin, a Polish, Jewish human rights lawyer.

“‘The term does not necessarily signify mass killings although it may mean that,’ Lemkin explained in a 1945 article. ‘More often it refers to a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations’—cultural institutions, physical structures, the economy—’of the life of national groups.” (Via Mother Jones.)

Much like any good libertarian, Lemkin was a natural-rights thinker, whose reasoning about genocide—the intentional murder of the many—was derived from reasoning about the crime of homicide. Mass murder, essentially, is when “the natural right of the individual to exist” has been sundered many times over.

As to the offender: 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. In The Law, Bastiat writes this:

“Since … force by an individual cannot legitimately be… used against the person, freedom, or property of another individual, by the same argument, the common force cannot legitimately be used to destroy the person, freedom, or property of either individuals or classes.”

WHEN MONEY MEDIATES MURDER

If words matter, then boy! does money count.

The Israel Lobby, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee), is an almighty fifth column which ought to have long since come under corruption investigations and dismantled (ditto the ADL). At the very least, AIPAC, a blatant Israel operative, ought to have been forced to register as a foreign agent and scrutinized.

The first such endeavor was attempted by William Fulbright decades back. In 1963, by Wikipedia’s telling, Fulbright—academic, statesman and politician—had implicated AIPAC in laundering five million tax-deductible dollars “from philanthropic Americans,” by ostensibly sending the money to Israel “and then recycle[ing] it back to the U.S. for distribution to organizations seeking to influence public opinion in favor of Israel.”

On April 15, 1973, Fulbright told Face the Nation, a current affairs television program, that “Israel controls the U.S. Senate. … [and that we] should be more concerned about the United States interest rather than doing the bidding of Israel … The Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much.”

That was the end of Fulbright’s campaign.

Underscored in 1973, Fulbright’s reality has reached its nadir in 2024. On July 23, American law-makers-cum-Israel-lap-dogs leap to their feet some 50 times, with cheers and deafening applause, to express adulation for mass murderer Bibi Netanyahu, who is named as an offender by the International Criminal Court.

From Fulbright whose re-election bid AIPAC helped torpedo in 1973, to Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, two charismatic Americans with grassroots support, who’d refused to do Israel’s bidding, in 2024: AIPAC (track it) continues to buy influence, and to subvert Americans whenever they attempt to exert their popular will against that of the Israel donor-class.

Progressive representatives Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Cori Bush of Missouri dared to voice disgust for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza. That was the end of the Bush/Bowman bids for office.

While we’re deconstructing Israel’s lexicon of crime, do please quit calling its “Operation Swords of Iron” in Gaza a war. It’s not.

GENOCIDE IS NOT WAR

Israel’s onslaught on Gaza—from my diligent daily tracking, the Israelis have comfortably settled into massacring between 30 to 100 individuals, each day—is not a war by any definition.

In Gaza, there are no armies arrayed one against the other. This is no war between equal, opposing warrior forces. There is no parity on the battle field, only, for the most, the bullyboy’s aerial blitzkrieg carried out against a trapped civilian population. In terms of matériel, not the quality or morality of its men, the Middle East’s most powerful army is also among the world’s top 20 military forces.

The IDF’s extermination campaign against a population of cornered civilians has indeed been disrupted by pockets of asymmetric guerilla warfare from non-state resistance fighters. Their exploits are available in full on the X platform  of military analyst Jon Elmer.

Gleaned from my close observations over 11 months; the Gaza-based Hamas fighting brigades are no fat cats; they are skinny young Ghazzawi men, some in sandals, slinking among their ruined homes, darting in-and-out to defend what is left of their communities. These fighters are indubitably of the Palestinian people and for the people, as Palestinians see them.

And the way Palestinians see things is all important. The art of getting along, differences and all, is imperative in conflict resolution. Realpolitik demands not dominance, but that dueling perspectives be taken into consideration. Israel and America should not foist their reality on their opponents.

At any rate, let us try to avoid a dialogue of the deaf, and remember that words matter. They mediate action. Use them accurately: Genocide is the kind of crime that stands alone; no mitigation or extenuation attach to genocide. By extension, Israel is waging genocide, not war, and … Americans want it stopped.

For all their initial stated eagerness; most of our countrymen (61 percent now) want Israel’s genocide halted. Americans, moreover, want to stop arming Israel, as a June poll from CBS showed (via The Intercept). This includes 77 percent of Democrats and nearly 40 percent of Republicans.

Beholden to donor-class dominated politics, the regnant villains of the Stupid and the Evil Parties are, nevertheless, refusing to end the genocide in Gaza. Yet it must be stopped. Actively and urgently so, given that, in an attempt to bury the crime of all crimes; Israel has shifted the focus to its northern front, to Lebanon.

©2024 ILANA MERCER
The Unz Review, September 20
The Mises Institute, Power & Market, September 23
LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-market, October 5

Ilana Mercer is paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist. Her new book is “The Paleolibertarian Guide To Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & The Aberrant Economy” (February 2024). Mercer is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish and grew up in Israel from which she fled, aged 19, never to return.  She had refused the military. Her focus, since October of 2023, has been genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization. Or, as one sage succinctly put it, “At a time of genocide; genocide is the only issue.”

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