Half-past Israel

My name is Netanyahu, Cunt of Cunts, Look on my works ye Mighty and despair.

You get to a point in life where you have either reached, however truncated, the grand goals you set for yourself when you were young, or you realize that you will never do so. That doesn´t mean you´re not looking forward to a trip somewhere magical, or that a holiday dinner with the family or a friend can´t bring you contentment. But you accept, albeit reluctantly, that some of your plans and dreams will never be realized. That´s life and you are fortunate to have lived it.

There are times, however, that this resignation is interrupted by the strong desire to accomplish just one more thing before the eternal dirt nap, one more mission that impels you, obliges you to maintain as best you can, the diminished physical force that age has wrought.

In my case, that goal is as clear as Lucretius. I want to smoke Benjamin Netanyahu, God´s mass murderer, in the face, not an uppercut to the chin, nor a hook to the jaw. I want to smoke him as hard as I can right in his lying, vile gob, that disgusting mouth that never stops spewing racism and hatred, that reeks of arrogance. Like a bee who dies after it stings, I would willingly abode in a greasy urn having accomplished one final good deed.

With luck, I can share my mission with a couple of like-minded others who share my anger and contempt towards Zionist Israel. Their assignment, and they will accept it, is to deliver hard, targeted punches to henchmen Eichmann Smotrich and Himmler Ben-Gvir. As with Netanyahu, there will be no trouble finding their mouths.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

In its ongoing display of barbarism, most recently its destruction of Gaza and the forceful stealing of land in the West Bank, Israel and its global apologists would have you believe that it is defending itself after being unprovokedly attacked by Hamas in October of 2023. They act and preach that nothing occurred prior to that attack, that all the troubles began that day. 58,000 Arab deaths later, mostly civilian, many of them children, if anyone dares speak against Israel´s murderous regime, it trots out its predictable, deceitful tropes, that you are a supporter of Hamas, that you are antisemitic, that you support terrorism, that you stand against the only democracy in the region. Israel tells the story like no other.

France is a case study as to what happens if you act rationally, humanely, but against the twisted logic of Israel. French President Macron came out in favor of a two-state solution and was immediately assaulted by Netanyahu and the Israeli propaganda machine for supporting murderers and rapists. We will never give up the land we stole, nor allow Palestinian Arabs to taint our bloodline.

Israel stifles dissent with an effectiveness never realized historically. Joseph McCarthy had many people seeing red in the early 1950s, but the reach of his intimidation was largely confined to the United States. Israel’s capacity for coercion encompasses at least the western world. It has allowed Israel to write the narrative. As Western democracies increasingly worry about external influence in the democratic process, they point to Russia, China, and India as major offenders. But the most flagrant culprit, never mentioned, is Israel, cloaked in the unassailable robe of the eternal victim.

Though Israeli influence is globally pervasive, in the US, especially under the clown prince and his court of jesters, its manipulation of public opinion is frightening. The holy Christian president does Israel’s bidding, ending funding to universities who allow pro-Palestinian protest, while sending secret police through the crowds to identify foreign students the government can deport for sedition, sedition not against the US, but against its protectorate, Israel. It’s important to maintain the Zionist vote, both Jewish and Christian.

A bought America cows its western allies. With America on its side, and with the silence of the west, the State of Israel hastens its displacement and extermination of the Arab population in Palestine. 350 members of the US Congress, about 65% of the total, Republicans and Democrats alike, accepted blood money from Israel in the 2024 election cycle. In a democratic system overrun by money, the playground of the rich and richer, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its wholesome and innocuous sounding affiliates, the United Democracy Project, (UDP), the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) are among the top procurers of members of Congress.

These groups form a web of influencers and money mongers engaged in political lobbying, campaign finance, and public education whose goal is to consolidate U.S. support for Israel and turn away from the displacement and extermination of Palestinian Arabs.

In the standings of lobby groups whose raison d’être is the justification of killing, AIPAC spending dwarfs by tenfold that of the National Rifle Association. In terms of value for money, the number of Palestinians killed by violence in Gaza since October of 2023, is over 58,000. Another 9,000 didn´t require blowing up or shooting. They volunteered to die by starvation and disease. In that same time frame, gun deaths in the US, excluding suicide, were about 30,000. So, while the NRA is no slouch in assisted dying, on the raw numbers, Israel doubles them. Guns don´t kill Arabs, Israelis do.

For the head assassin, Netanyahu, and his criminal regime, lobby money is an indispensable investment. The US supports Israeli genocide and allows Netanyahu to ignore the feeble protests of other countries.

The influence of money is an existential question for American democracy. The fact that you need so much money to win inevitably leads to the rich buying elections.  AIPAC expects results for its investment. If it doesn´t get the outcomes it wants, it finances other candidates the next time. The amount of influence-buying money that AIPAC and its affiliates can funnel into a local election means that any candidate who doesn’t accept their blood money has almost no chance to win.

All those in favor of Israeli genocide say ‘’Aye.’’

Beyond supporting genocide, what do these groups want? Equal rights? They have them. Do they expect more than equal rights, extra rights, special rights for a chosen people? Why should a group of people be able to band together to push for special consideration? Are there rights that are being withheld? Do they have the right to get married? The right to visit their loved ones in the hospital? The right to assemble? The right of free speech? The right to vote? The rights of life, liberty and happiness? If any of these rights are denied, then by all means, form a group and demand them.

If it´s not about rights denied then why should lobby groups exist? Why should they have more rights than the individual? They certainly should not exist to influence legislation that favors them or their clannish causes, more so when the main cause is to arouse base support of a false narrative and the murder of innocents.

There are countless ways that Israel and its proxies tell the story. That could be something as seemingly banal as kids in other countries learning about the kibbutz in school; images of hard-working Israeli farmers converting desert wasteland into fertile farmland. There is no mention of the fact that the previous and historic occupants of the land were forcefully removed, no mention of Arabs at all, just Palestine from the Israeli perspective, the land of bilk and money.

I later realized it was my early introduction to Zionist propaganda, a subliminal message housed in the back of my mind, shaping my early opinions on Israel, laying the groundwork for bigger lies to come.

In January of 2024, the Jewish organization, B’nai B’rith, founded in New York in the 19th century ostensibly to defend human rights, submitted a legal argument to the International Court of Justice, the same court, and one of many international organizations, that Israel and the US routinely ignore They argue that Hamas is guilty of genocide while rejecting the idea that Israel itself is the one committing genocide. The best defense is a good offence. Such a nuanced and benevolent position, free of Zionist ideology, everything you want in a human rights organization.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, its work in teaching about the Holocaust and hunting Nazis permanently tainted, defends the war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, and condemns anti-Israel activism. Like the B’nai B’rith, its credibility as a human rights organization is shattered, reduced to an Israeli rights mob, forever complicit in the slaughter of innocents.

Klal Yisrael, the global Jewish community, wraps itself in victimhood to denounce free speech that takes the form of protest against Israel. It rails against Palestinian manifestations on university campuses, claims that students are being taught to hate Jews in the classroom, and moans to the police and the government that it doesn´t feel safe.  

It takes some fucking gall for the Jewish diaspora to cheer, or remain silent, about the daily bombing of the concentration camp that Israel created and then say it doesn´t feel safe. Are they less safe than the Arabs they entomb daily under the rubble of their homes, the aid workers being shot and buried in unmarked graves, the 200 plus journalists targeted and murdered, the doctors and nurses killed during the destruction of the hospitals and clinics in Gaza; less safe than the starving people being shot while in line for the miserable, deadly insufficient rations of food that Netanyahu deigns to hand out, less safe than the injured and dying who face a paucity of medical supplies, basics like antibiotics, pain killers and anesthesia?   We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

If you blindly support the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, you might expect, if not deserve, to be a little uncomfortable. The world, including and importantly, many Jews, and many Jews in Israel, are belatedly, finally rising up against Israel. But you live and walk among your perfectly secure communities in the US or Canada or the UK and the rest of Europe and complain about safety? If it´s more important to be rabidly supportive of, or willfully blind to, war crimes, to murder, to theft, to genocide, then take your place in the craven hall of shame. You´ll be in like company next to profiteers, cowards, apologists, and liars like Donald Trump, Trump’s Uriah Heep, JD Vance, the rabid Christian nationalist Mike Huckabee, the insufferable cunt, Daniela Weiss, Allan Dershowitz, Jerry Seinfeld, Gal Gadot, Amy Schumer, Bill Maher, the National Post’s John Ivison, the blindly indoctrinated Melissa Lastman, and the rest of the Conservative Party of Canada, crying Anthony Housefather, the Conservative Party of Great Britain, and the US Congress, excluding the fearless Bernie Sanders.

Fuck the crocodile tears. If you want to be safe, don´t look to the police or government to protect you from your ignorance and hatred. Take a stand against the wretched, monstrous Israeli state and its supporters, against the worst war crimes of the 21st century.

When it comes to Israeli genocide, the Western media, to its eternal shame, runs and hides goddammit. Afraid of offending readership or corporate interests or being offside in social circles, if the major media outlets don´t take the Israeli side, their position is that both sides, Israel and Hamas, share the blame equally.

But the blame isn´t equal. One side started this sordid, deadly affair by plundering land that didn´t, and doesn´t belong to them, by evicting its rightful owners. Theft and displacement have evolved into full-scale genocide occurring right before our eyes. Yet, you have to be a determined reader to find mention most days that anything out of the ordinary is happening. The pen is not mightier than the horde. 

Where are the great war-time reporters? Where are today´s successors to Edward R. Murrow, William Shirer, Martha Gelhorn, Robert Fisk, those observers of war unafraid to risk their lives to report the truth, to bring evidence of horror. I see no columns or broadcasts from journalists on the ground. Israel has blocked reporters from covering the war in Gaza and killed those who tried. Yet Cairo and Amman are not far from the slaughter. Where are the daily reports in Western media that show the world what is happening, that might lead to greater public outcry?

What is it that causes columnists, of whom you have otherwise come to expect perceptive and grounded analysis, to be so wrong or so weak on Gaza and the West Bank? Is it fear of falling out of favor with others of a cultural group to whom you belong, of offending your employer or your audience, or is it a truly held belief that Israel is in the right, or that both sides are to blame?

On a popular political show in Canada, the Globe and Mail’s Andrew Coyne, propagating the false notion that both sides share culpability, said the Canadian government´s joint declaration sanctioning Israel, lacked credibility because it didn´t blame Hamas equally. Obviously aware of the massacre in Gaza, he was able to squeak that ‘’Israel should not be above criticism.’’ Yes, and Hitler and Himmler should not be above house arrest.

Should we assign equal blame to the Jews as the Nazis? Were the blacks in South Africa as culpable as their Boer oppressors? Does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference bear the same responsibility as the White Citizens’ Councils or the Ku Klux Klan for the tumultuous racial upheaval of the 1960s? Should we condemn equally the Vietnamese for invading and saving Cambodians as we do Pol Pot for killing them from within? Are Tutsi civilians as guilty of genocide as their Hutu butchers?  

Canadian journalist Paul Wells, after qualifying his position by saying he doesn´t know much about the situation said, ‘’My own sense is that the establishment and perpetual defense of a Jewish state of Israel is very partial payment toward the heavy debt humanity owes the Jewish people.’’

Can someone remind me of the name of the German concentration camps in Palestine? If humanity owes a debt to the Jewish people, why does it fall to the innocent people of a small, arid part of the world to bear that burden?  Shouldn´t that ‘heavy debt’ be paid by Germany and its allies? Is it so easy to cast aside the land and lives of people totally removed from the Holocaust who conveniently are much less capable of defending themselves?

Wells goes on, ‘’Hamas having opened hostilities, it falls to Israel to end them, by destroying Hamas’s ability to contemplate or deliver any similar attack in the future. Carrying out that task is inevitably an enterprise of horrifying violence.’’ Such a detached and fucked comment to make an ocean away, when it’s not you or your family caught up in the ‘inevitable enterprise of horrifying violence.’

Prominent Israeli spokesman and columnist for The Atlantic, David Frum, when not patting himself on the back for his previous Zionist- tainted analysis on Palestine had this to say, ‘’When a democratic society is attacked by an aggressor bent on mass destruction, it has to fight back as best it can. … It has to hit back as hard as it can, as long as it can; to restore deterrence as best it can’’ and ‘’They (western governments) condemn violence on “both sides” and interpose to protect the terrorists from the consequences of their own aggression. Let’s not repeat that pattern that only perpetuates violence. Hamas started the war. Let Israel finish it.’’

And how shall Israel, the eternal victim, the real terrorist state in the region, ‘finish it’? Murdering the entire Arab population of Gaza, none of whom you know or care about, and turning it into a Jewish only beachfront? The Trump Arab Free Resort and Cuntry Club. So certain, so smug, so deceitful.

How can we take these commentators seriously on other subjects, when they fuck up the most important one?

Charles Dickens knew them. ‘’In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to not do what I knew to be wrong.’’

Hamas would not exist if not for the formation and land theft of the Israeli state. Hamas is a reaction to Israel. Hamas is what happens when you live your life in a concentration camp..

The liar Netanyahu has needed and supported Hamas for years, including allowing money from Qatar to fund Hamas. Hamas serves as a counterweight to the PLA, dividing the Arab voice in Gaza and serving as a convenient foil for Netanyahu. He needs Hamas to arouse Israeli emotions, to validate his violent and larcenous means in Palestine and beyond.

The spawn of England and the stepchild of the United States, Israel would have been better aborted. Under the use guise of religion, a religion they invented, Israel had and has no legitimate rationale. From its violent inception, Israel has grown into a messianic version of the 20th century mass murderer its people barely survived.

There were options open to European Jews who wanted to flee the prejudice and estrangement they lived in many parts of Europe in the 19th and early 20th century, the Russian pogroms, that foreshadowed the coming storm. There were countries where Jews were accepted, even welcomed.

The United States saw a massive arrival of European Jews in the first three decades of the 20th century. France, the UK, and the Netherlands were countries where Jews were largely integrated into the respective societies, if not entirely free of anti-Semitism. Canada, desperate for people to populate its vast prairie provinces, had its Jewish population grow by over 100,000 in the early 1900s. Argentina and Brazil accepted, if not encouraged early 20th century Jewish immigration, at least until the Nazis showed up.

In 1930, Sigmund Freud received a letter from a Zionist organization asking for a statement supporting the cause. He replied, “I cannot do as you wish. I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state. It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland on a less historically burdened land. But I know that such a rational viewpoint would never have gained the enthusiasm of the masses and the financial support of the wealthy. The baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives.”

For Theodor Herzl, the intellectual father of Zionism, and his followers, the only option for European Jews was Palestine and Zionism always meant Arab displacement. It was never about trying to co-exist peacefully with the long-time inhabitants of Palestine, no matter that Jews, Arabs, and Christians had lived together harmoniously in Palestine for centuries.

In 1895, which has been confirmed by some experts as having taken place before October 2023, Herzl wrote ¨We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. ¨

David Lloyd George, former prime minister of Great Britain, said in 1931 as he listened to other speakers in the same Zionist convention talking about the need for displacement, ¨It is nearly 16 years since he recruited me into the Zionist movement, the fertilizing stream pouring steadily into Palestine, of energy, wealth, zeal, intelligence, brains leading the thirsty land and vitalizing its withered strength, barren and malarial swamps have been converted into happy settlements. Science has been harnessed to waters that had been running wild and waste since the early days of creation. ¨

In 1937, more than a decade before Israel declared its statehood, David Ben-Gurion, its first Prime Minister wrote, ¨We will expel the Arabs and take their place. In each attack a decisive blow should be struck resulting in the destruction of homes and the expulsion of the population. ¨

In 1940, Zionist leader, Ze´ev Jabotinsky, opined ¨that the world has become accustomed to the idea of mass migration… and has become fond of them. … Hitler – as odious as he is to us – has given this idea a good name. ¨ The totally fucked revered Jewish thinker might have waited a few more years before lauding mass migration.

Displacement, not co-existence, was the Zionist goal, and to justify their actions, the Zionists had to invent excuses for their takeover of land which didn’t belong to them. They claimed Palestine by ancient birthright, that it was Jewish land, promised to them by God himself, land which they had been forced to leave in the distant past. Given the hostility and displacement they experienced in Europe, now was the right moment to return. They would return to an empty land, a land wasted by the current and inferior inhabitants.

The portrayal of the Arabs of Palestine as inferior was key in convincing other Jews, Jews who themselves had experienced prejudice and expulsion from places they had tended for centuries, to visit the same hatred upon people they didn´t know and who had done them no harm. To convince people to act against their moral principles, to overcome whatever hesitation they might have in treating others poorly, or as was the goal, eliminate them and take their land, it was essential to portray them as inferior, as enemies, as less than human.

From the beginnings of Zionism, this attitude was and continues to be its blueprint. In Israel today, the children of the Arab population within Israel don´t attend schools with Jewish children. Instead, Arab kids have their own school system, underfunded, understaffed, poorly maintained, far removed from Jewish school kids lest they contaminate them in the hallways. Separate but unequal.

Israeli children are not taught about the history of the Arabs within their midst or around them. They are breastfed on Arab inferiority and the rectitude of Arab displacement. Zionist teachings promote a homogeneous identity, a uniqueness that comes with being among the chosen. The belief in their innate superiority manifests in the incredible conceit shown by the West Bank settlers. Orthodox in learning and behavior, they are true believers in their god and their government.  

While Gaza is the most egregious display of Israeli aggression, the Arabs of the West Bank suffer greatly as well, even as their land shrinks around them. The curl-bedecked youth of the West Bank are as racist and violent as today’s neo-nazis, as the nazi-era SA. In other parts of the world, such groups are condemned and marginalized. In Israel they are empowered to bully and kill the Palestinians of the West Bank as a prelude to stealing their land. These punks are committed, violent zealots, yarmulkes replacing brownshirts.

During the brief ceasefire in Gaza in January 2025, the duplicitous, rancid Israeli regime accelerated its efforts against the Arab population in the West Bank, Israeli forces destroyed over 20 buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, no port in the storm, along with much of the infrastructure, displacing some 15,000 Palestinians. The blockade that came with the attack left the refugees in Jenin desperately short of food, water, and medicine.

Netanyahu´s ’most moral army in the world’ sinks ever deeper into circles of depravity, long past gluttony and greed, they now wallow in violence, no bottom in sight.

All West Bank Jewish settlers are thieves. They knowingly move from their European, U.S., and Canadian homes, their right of return to Palestine guaranteed by membership in an exclusive club, to steal the homes and land of Palestinians. In their fucked-up minds, they believe they have a god-given right to take what isn´t theirs, an arrogance Napoleon would envy. Their contempt and belligerence towards the Palestinians makes them the worst of the worst. Flush with messianic fanaticism, they inflict constant indignity and abuse on their Arab neighbors. The Arabs who still have homes, look out their windows at the plague of locusts who will soon destroy their land and occupy their property.

How the fuck did we get here?

Beyond the non-stop flow of propaganda and outlandish justification for its grotesque behavior, the state of Israel has no case to exist, legally, historically, or morally.

The Zionist claim that Palestine is its rightful homeland would be laughable if it were not so serious and tragic. On what basis can they make such a claim? On the words of 3,500-year-old text?

Jews wrote the bible. It is a work of fiction that occasionally stumbles across history. Its principal characters are apocryphal. There is no archaeological evidence of Moses. He does not exist outside of the bible. He sure as hell didn’t speak to the biblical god. Unless the laws of physics have seriously changed in the last three millennia, he and God didn’t part the Red Sea. (God sundered the Red Sea but didn’t lift a finger during the Holocaust.?) He didn’t lead the Israelites out of Egypt. He and his followers didn´t wander around the Desert of Paran for 40 years and he didn´t receive the Ten Commandments. If he did, prove it.

As with all religious faith, there is no proof. You can´t just make shit up and then use the fiction as justification to steal land 3,500 years later.

Unless you think science is completely wrong and your religion is truth, unless you think evolution is ´´just a theory´´, then Adam and Eve and Noah and Moses are all bullshit. At a minimum, they are not provable, and certainly not a pretext to a 3,500-year-old land claim. ¨The land that god gave us. ¨ Fuck off.

Moses did not write the first five chapters of the old testament any more than they were written by Paul Bunyan. The old testament is a compilation of text written independently over the centuries, edited and curated, 70 plus books left out. Thousands of other changes were made to the bible over the centuries; thousands lost in translation from the original Greek. There was never an original copy of the bible. Yet here we are, eons later, and the people whose ancestors wrote the fiction, declare themselves ´´chosen´´ and the rightful owners over land they abandoned from force or by choice 2,000 years ago. The fucking chutzpah!

In what court of the 21st century would that case be legitimate? You may be able to emigrate to the home of your grandparents, but you can´t go back 80 generations.   

And genetics don´t come with land rights.

I was able to trace my roots to the Great Rift Valley. Does that mean I can invent a god, hire a good fiction writer, come up with a few chants and hymns, sell memberships to others who also lay claim to African ancestry, ask for tax-exempt status, designate myself and other members as ¨chosen¨ and move to Ethiopia, while at the same time expelling the primitive tribes that live there? It’s pastoral land, not really belonging to anyone, waiting to be purchased by anyone with money, no recent connection to the land required. It´s just a land without people for a people without land.

Or is that certifiable nonsense reserved for those who believe in old time fairy tales, where age lends some kind of venerable credibility to absurdity that we would rightfully mock if proposed today?

The bible was written at a time before science, before there was a plausible explanation for the events and things we see around us. Humans around the world attributed natural phenomena to the workings of the supernatural, gods. There was no universal god, just local ones, different names, most of whom have disappeared in time, others that have hung on over the centuries. Depending on where you were born, what your parents believed, your god was the only god, the true god. It´s no different today and the belief in your god does not make you special. It certainly does not give you the right to steal other people´s land and bomb them into oblivion.

Of all the gods that have come and gone throughout history, the Jews have the real one. He chose them shortly after they invented him. They also have an earthly patriarch in the archaeological ghost Abraham, someone who if he even existed, did not speak to god and did not have a son at 100 years of age, the same son he was ready to kill because his jealous and capricious god told him to. Some father, some god.

Religious crockery aside, Jews were never the sole inhabitants of Palestine. Ancient Palestine, circa 8th century BCE consisted of multiple nations including Samaritans, Arameans, Phoenicians, Philistines and the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Throw in Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians and later Greeks, Palestine was never the exclusive domain of the Jews or their predecessors, the tribes of ancient Israel and Judah.

The people who have lived continuously in Palestine are the Arabs, the people the interlopers are evicting. The indigenous group may have stated out as pagan, become Jewish, then Christian, and finally Muslim. Their presence in the region survived, suffered, three Abrahamic religions, but never left. If there is genetic or ethnic claim to Palestine it is theirs, not European Jews.

Historian Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University in Israel argues in his book ¨The Invention of the Jewish People, ´´ that most modern Jews do not descend from the ancient Israel but from groups that took on Jewish identities long afterward.’

In 1917, motivated by geo-political ambitions in the region, Britain recognized the Zionist movement in the form of the Balfour Declaration which supported a national home for the Jewish people. The Declaration did not call for an Israeli state even if the Israelis later took it as such. It did not specify boundaries for this ¨national home¨ in Palestine and later clarified that it was not meant to cover all of Palestine. The Declaration called for the protection of religious and civil, but not political rights for the Palestinian Arabs, a century later admitting that not granting political rights to the Arabs had been a massive error.

The Mandate of Palestine, part of the treaty of Versailles of 1919 at the end of the first world war, gave control of Palestine to Britain. No one consulted the locals. The Mandate required Britain to put the Balfour document into effect and create a national home for the Jewish people alongside the Palestinian Arabs. The Mandate did not call for the creation of a Jewish state. It did call for the respect and rights of the Arab population. It was not a legal basis for the existence of the Jewish state of Israel.

After the declaration of the Mandate, fighting began almost immediately between the increasing number of European Jews and the local Arab population.  In 1920, the American Zion Commonwealth, whose members had never lived there, purchased the most fertile land in Palestine, a part of the world not known for having fertile soil. The land was purchased from a Greek absentee landowner with no ties to the land other than as an investment. Because of its fertility, many Arab families lived and worked there, had lived and worked there for generations. At the request of the American Zion Commonwealth, the British army forcefully evicted the 9,000 Arabs, moving them into the favelas on the outskirts of Jaffa and Haifa.

Jewish land purchases in Palestine continued with the money coming from European, U.S., and Canadian Jewish communities and rich Jewish patrons, the most well-known of whom was Baron Edmund de Rothschild. The local Arab population had not the means, nor did they have the historical need to purchase the land in which they lived and worked. This land had traditionally been communal land, pastoral land, land leased from the state, a form of land guardianship inherited from the Ottoman Empire. It could be inherited and was generally regarded as the land of individuals who were able to prove cultivation of their plot of land for a minimum of 10 years. After 10 years, the land user was given the title of ownership.

However, land registration under this system was not consistent. During the Ottoman Empire, many of the Arab peasants avoided registering their lands to avoid paying taxes or to avoid military conscription into the Ottoman military. These landholders were peasant farmers, often heavily indebted and to repay loans, they were forced to sell their land to other Arabs, often absentee. Under Arab owners, the peasants continued to work the land so that they might survive. However, the Arabs that purchased the land, often sold it to Jewish organizations, who then evicted the Arab farmers from the only life they knew. Under the British Mandate, the land sales were legal and offered no protection to the tenant farmers who were promptly tossed, forced to the slums on the fringes of the big cities.

After the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939, the British, alarmed by the tension in Palestine presented a White Paper that limited Jewish immigration, restricted Jewish land purchases, and made plans for an independent Palestine to be governed by both Jews and Arabs within 10 years. The Zionists went crazy. They were not after sharing with the Arabs. Following World War II, the British control of Palestine wavered further. Weary and broke from the war, the British at last decided to move on from their ill-conceived attempt to control the region. But they wouldn´t leave unscathed.

The Haganah militia, formed in 1921 and their more radical offshoots, the Lehi and Irgun gangs, attacked and killed British forces. The British Minister of State, Lord Moyne, was assassinated by Lehi in Cairo in 1944. Irgun bombed the Kind David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 killing 91 people, Arabs, Jews, Brits, and other nationalities, most not British combatants, rather innocent civilians. If they weren´t Jewish and moral, Haganah, Lehi, and Irgun might be described as terrorists instead of freedom fighters. These militias later formed a big part of the Israeli Defense Force, zealous thugs with the veneer of state sanction.

With the British having stated their intention to leave the mess they had created and overseen for three decades, in 1947, the newly formed United Nations developed the UN Partition Plan. Palestine would be divided into two states, one Arab and one Jewish. The Jewish state, though Jews were about 50% of the Arab population, received 52% of the land to the Arabs 45%, the rest was desert. This meant that half of the native Arab population of Palestine, would go from a majority on their lineal land into a minority under a foreign invader. But the Arabs would soon face bigger problems. They would soon be expelled entirely from their native land.

The Zionists, delighted with the partition, made off like thieves in the night. The Arab population, bitterly disappointed, rejected the plan.

The newly minted State of Israel would not go into the world with a bunch of fucking Arabs in their midst. The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, his feelings on the need for Arab displacement long known and well-documented, came up with the Dalet Plan, a strategy to rid the land under Jewish control of the Arab population.

Thus began the Nakba, the catastrophe, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs, carried out between late 1947 and the summer of 1949. Before the establishment of Israel, the plan was executed by the three Zionist paramilitaries. After 1948, it was the Israeli Defense Force IDF.

Under the Dalet Plan, the towns and villages belonging to the Arabs were to be destroyed by setting them on fire or by blowing them up and by leaving land mines behind to discourage anyone who might want to return. If they did return, they found their wells had been poisoned.

If any town or village proved troublesome, it was to be surrounded, the members of armed resistance killed, and the population moved outside the borders of Israel. Outside the borders meant Gaza, the now 78-year-old concentration camp, the same Gaza that the imbecilic megalomaniac, Donald Trump, wants to convert to a big, beautiful Mediterranean resort. As an often financially bankrupt, always morally bankrupt New York real estate mogul, he and his family know about illegally forcing people out of their homes.

Once he conquers Greenland, Trump will have the land required for their re-settlement. Will he transport the residents of Gaza, the frozen people, to their frosty new home or just give them an apple and a roadmap?

The Nakba resulted in half of the Arab population of Palestine, about 750,000, being displaced by violent means. Thousands were killed. Between 400 and 500 cities, towns, and villages were destroyed or their Arab population dispersed. The historical and, despite Zionist claims to the contrary, well- functioning Arab cities, now bereft of Arabs, were given new identities and historical cities changed their names from Arabic to Hebrew. Thus, Acre became Akko, Beersheba became Be’er Sheva, Tiberius became Tverya. Changing names and distorting history, one more way to cleanse an Arab.

In 1950, the newly formed state of Israel passed the Absentee Property Law which gave the state the right to take the land abandoned by the Arabs who fled the Israeli paramilitary gangs before and during the Nakba. Despite a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 1948 guaranteeing the right of return for Palestinian refugees, Israel has refused their restoration.

After more than 75 years, Palestinian families cling to the keys to the houses they were forced to leave by Zionist swindlers. Is there anything more riddled with hypocrisy and conceit than to claim right of return to a land from which you have been absent for over two thousand years, while at the same time denying right of return to the people who were living there last week, who only left under threat and acts of violence?  The moral vacuity of the rationalization stuns.

It´s a horrible idea to organize a country around religion, a theocracy that favors certain people over others, seeks to demean or destroy the others. Look no further than Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, and Afghanistan to see what happens when god is in charge.

 Yaqeen Hammad, age 11, shared the catastrophe of Gaza on her popular Instagram account. Despite the horror of what she, and the people of Gaza, were living, she never appeared without a smile. Somehow, she lived free of rancor in a world where she had every reason to be bitter. She did her best to rally the other children of Gaza in games and play, and was Gaza’s youngest volunteer, working at aid stations to pass out whatever food and medicine was available. She was upbeat and hopeful in a situation that most of us can´t imagine.

For Israel, Yaqeen Hammad was just another fucking Arab, a future terrorist that had to be killed. On May 23rd, 2025, they blew her to bits in an airstrike.

Go to the internet and look at the videos of the brave little girl that Netanyahu, his supporters, and his apologists killed.  

The following countries are among those who contributed parts or armaments to the planes that murdered Yaqeen Hammad; the world’s number one arms dealer and Israeli enabler, the United States of America, home of the free, land of the brave, the United Kingdom, the same crew that began this mess in 1917, Germany, making amends to the millions of Jews they exterminated in World War II by killing thousands of Arabs, Italy, unable to win wars themselves, wanting to be part of the winning side for once, hurray you´re winning, Canada, despite pious claims to the contrary, suppling bombs, rockets and political expediency to the religious zealots, India, never one to miss an opportunity to kill people around the world, Norway, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Netherlands, they won´t have far to go to the ICC.  

Shaban al-Dalou age 19, was a software engineering student with a popular Instagram account. He was trying to raise the funds to get the hell out of hell. Displaced from his home and living in a tent for displaced people next to a hospital, hooked up to an IV drip, he was burned alive when an Israeli attack on the hospital caused his tent to erupt in flames. He and his family had nowhere else to go, but nowhere else was just another else for the Israeli death machine.

Go to the internet and look at the videos of Shaban al-Dalou, the young engineering student that Netanyahu, his supporters, and his apologists killed.  

While pediatrician, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, was saving others in what’s left of the hospitals in Gaza, Israel bombed her house killing nine of her children aged 7 months to 12 years. Her 11-year-old son and her husband were critically injured but have so far survived. Israel will be back to finish the job.

Go to the internet and look at the family of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar that Netanyahu, his supporters, and his apologists killed.  

‘’Hamas having opened hostilities, it falls to Israel to end them’’ …that inevitable enterprise of horrifying violence.’’ The justification for genocide from those who won´t admit it is.

The extermination of the Arab people in Palestine is not hidden, it´s there for all to see. You can´t say that you don´t know about it, only that you don´t care. Governments of countries from whom you would expect more choose the latter.

A few countries, South Africa, Ireland, Colombia, and Spain have strongly condemned Israel and stopped trading with them. Other countries, mostly from the southern hemisphere, have joined them. The rest, especially in the west, have either taken a pass or used weasel words in meaningless statements of feigned outrage, political and commercial interests taking precedence over morality. For anyone who thought there could never be another Nazi Germany, Israel shows how easy it is to annihilate without reprisal.

While governments avert their eyes and continue business as usual, the citizens of the world have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers. Millions of people acknowledge what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank, know genocide when they see it, are not intimidated by threats of being called antisemitic, and are marching against the apartheid state of Israel and against their own government’s complicity. Will such a divide between government and its people not result in societal upheaval? History says otherwise.

In July 2024, Netanyahu said to the US Congress, ‘This is not a clash of civilizations. It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization.’ For once in his putrid, fucking life, he was right. He was just confused as to who the barbarians were. But except for those with vested interest and the willfully blind, the world knows, and it gets increasingly smaller and tighter for this unflushable turd.

It´s accepted truth by too many that Israel has a right to exist, that it has a right to defend itself. Why? It doesn´t extend the same right to the Palestinians who have lived there for generations. Since its conception in 19th century Europe, Israel was a rough beast slouching towards Jerusalem to be born.

The artificial creation of the state of Israel is a stain on the progress of humanity. Israel’s actions in Gaza are unconscionable. Zionism is one of the most destructive and misguided movements in world history. It was and is, a deeply racist idea, one that ranks a certain cohort of people over another, that assumes entitlement, that views others as less and that justifies its actions on a story, a mythical autobiography. Israel is legal but not legitimate.

The impact of Zionism has been heartbreaking and fatal. It has led directly to a lot of the trouble in the Middle East, a geopolitical conflict that engulfs much of the world, that has killed hundreds of thousands. It is what happens when a group of people claims it is called, believes that it is better than others, way better than its enemies, and when the rest of the world buys into a phony narrative.

It’s been a long time coming, too long delayed, but now it’s tragically obvious that Israel must be shut down. Born of superiority and self-entitlement, its foundation of displacement has gone beyond apartheid to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The state of Israel is rotten; it is a spear to the bosom of humanity. Since Israel can’t control itself, it’s time for an intervention.

Israel will never agree to a two-state solution. For the better. It should be dissolved, and an ecumenical nation formed. This new nation will govern for all, will tear down the walls and checkpoints, will ensure that Arabs, Jews, Christians and all others have equal rights. It will be a nation where the displaced Arabs displaced have the right to return to their homes, where the West Bank criminals give back the stolen land and slink back from whence they came.

Like many, I was deeply affected by what I learned about the Holocaust. I was shocked by Shoah, angered and inspired by Schindler’s List. I laughed and cried through ‘La Vite e Bella’ and mourned the exodus of Anatevka. Generations of innocent people tortured and annihilated by fanaticism and greed, the murder of living generations and the unknown loss of future musicians, comedians, scientists, artisans, of people from all walks of life, of what could have been.

Four score years later, some of the descendants of those who suffered so greatly and died in such numbers, use the agony of their ancestors as license to inflict the same horrors on people who had nothing to do with what happened 80 years ago.  

This great turn of life is all we have, and people like Netanyahu and his supporters, take it away in the name of god. Yaqeen Hammad, Shaban al-Dalou, the family of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar and thousands like them, were innocents with lives and expectation of life. They were done in by avaricious fanatics, by cowardly governments, blind apologists, phony organizations with lofty titles, gutless media, and rabid individuals, my country, my god, my crowd, right or wrong.

If someone offered you the house of your dreams, the type of place that you never imagined you could afford, maybe even a house that your family had owned in the past, and suddenly there it is, ready for you to move in. The only thing you have to do to take possession is kill Yaqeen Hammad. Would you do it? Most civilized people would shudder at the thought. But Israel kills children like Yaqeen Hammad every day. This land is their land.

This whole fucking mess, all of it, the Intifada, the assaults on the British, the Nakba, the 1967 war, the Yom Kippur war, Hamas, Hezbollah, the walls and check points, the wars with neighboring countries, the concentration camps, the October 2023 uprising, all the attacks, all the reprisals, all the death, the ethnic cleansing, the war crimes, the genocide, is the result of the Zionist movement personified in Israel. Israel stole, and continues to steal land, displaced and continues to displace, the Arab indigenous population. No people anywhere would allow such wanton appropriation to go unchallenged. All else is commentary.

Paul Heno, July 2025