I’ve intentionally avoided commenting on the Hamas attack on Israel and the consequent Israeli bombing of Gaza. Quite seriously, I really don’t know what to make of it all and any attempt by me, largely ignorant as I am of the historical context and geopolitical realities, would add nothing to the conversation.
wrt asking where the loyalties of the IDF lie, Enoch Powell perceptively said in a 1982 conversation with Margaret Thatcher, disagreeing with her that nuclear weapons were ‘necessary for the defence of our values’:
‘We do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a Communist government. No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.’
There comes a point when one must discard causes and ideals, utopian visions and values, and simply fight for one’s people.
James Jones, a Pacific War veteran whose most famous novels parallel his own life (him enlisting in the US Army in 1939 at age 17, stationed at Hawaii when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor and fighting in the Pacific until invalided out in 1944) wrote rather amusingly in his ‘The Thin Red Line’ (superb war novel but 1998 film was a cinematic exercise in literary vandalism) of an exchange of taunts between Japanese and pinned down American soldiers:
‘ “We know you there, Yank. Yank, we know you there.”
“Tojo eats s**t!” Keck yelled. He was answered by an angry burst of machine gun fire. “Roozover’ eat s**t!” the faraway voice screamed.
“You goddam right he does!” some frightened Republican called from Bell’s blind right side.’
I doubt many British soldiers in 1940 were wasting much time: ‘Who voted for Winston? He was installed by the elites!’ ‘Well, I never voted for the Conservatives at all!’ ‘Yeah, it was all the Conservatives’ fault in the first place, sodding Chamberlain!’ ‘It was your MacDonald that dropped the ball in ’35!’ Bar occasional whinging (‘soldier’s right to whinge’), they put aside their political differences and got on with the job. To quote a line from 2020’s ‘The Hunt’, Crystal replying to Don’s ‘You don’t care why they’re doing this to us?’:
‘They’re trying to kill me, I don’t give a s**t why.’
You fight for yourself and your people, and that’s what the majority of the IDF will be doing.
As for worrying over ‘ordinary’ Gazans—obviously some will be decent people with no other wish than to live in peace and raise their families (famously, the son of one of Hamas’ founders, Mosab Hassan Yousef, turned against Hamas to the point of becoming a Shin Bet asset); but how many? In their last election in 2006 while but a third of the electorate voted for Hamas, most of the other parties were terrorist-affiliated as well, being factions of the PLO; altogether at least 68½% of the Gazan electorate (88.7% of vote) voted for one terrorist-affiliated party or another. Combine this with our knowledge (from 9/11 through 7/7 to the 2016 Nice attack, from Glasgow Airport through Lee Rigby to Manchester Arena, from the industrial-scale grooming of our young girls by Muslims to all the many, many, *many* transgressions—terrorist and criminal, individual and mob, planned and spontaneous—perpetrated by Muslim migrants all over the West) and we should realise that Islam is a *profoundly* dysfunctional belief system that needs eradicating.
Additionally, Britain specifically has a national interest: extensive connections between Irish republican and Arab terrorists make a defeat of the latter in our interests so as to remove allies of the former so weakening them. Outside of current crisis, we should be sharing intelligence of such connections and, given similarity of COIN in Ulster and Israel’s troublesome territories, knowledge of tactics and equipment, as well as selling to each other and collaborating on manufacture of relevant kit (ridiculous that we invent the first remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robot, the ‘Wheelbarrow’, and now we use one made by Northrop-Grumman while Israel makes its own).
wrt latest Hamas attack, all countries with burgeoning Muslim minorities should desire Hamas’ defeat to demoralise them; and if we all were sensible, we would take advantage of the current sympathy and anger resulting from the horrors perpetrated by Hamas to rid ourselves of our foreign-born Muslim extremists at least. We should be asking the Refugees Welcome crowd: ‘Those people will be found amongst the “refugees” you’re so keen to let in—will you not rethink your stance on immigration?’ We should be driving a wedge into the already dividing Left.
Instead, the ‘edgy’ Right are lining up beside the Woke Left to cheer on Hamas; as for ‘covid-sceptics’ and similar not picking a side, as Rush sang ‘If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice’. And as Mrs Thatch once said: ‘Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.’
Meanwhile, while the ‘edgy’ Right and whatever-sceptic miss yet another opportunity, we have a Lib-Dem applauding police for arresting three Arab slogan-shouting youths for burning a Union Jack, the Labour Party are splitting before our eyes (not dissimilar to how the SNP imploded by themselves when their destruction should have been the Conservatives’ mission after 2010 election), Greta Thunberg is sorely damaging the Green cause by associating it with the Hamas rape/murder-fest, and BLM are busy doing the same, burning what little is left of their reputation.
Who can say for sure, but it's sure looking like a false flag, at this point. Which would align with the geopolitical machinations, of which you spoke.
Oct 29, 2023·edited Oct 29, 2023Liked by Jaime Jessop
You’re not far off at all, JJ.
Firstly, yes, the Israeli government turned their citizens into Pfizer lab rats without a second thought while attempting to hide the contract. And why the government disarmed many kibbutz people a month before this and why it took 6 hours for the army to get there, I’ll just leave that out there.
But as far as Gaza, these were Nazi level atrocities and the people voted for this Hamas government knowing full well the Hamas charter called for Israel’s destruction. And despite this, the Gazans who want to leave are offered safe passage which is a damn sight more than those murdered while Hamas leaders in their Doha villas, call for the Gazans to die for martyrdom.
It's has never more obvious that the Hidden-Hand behind world events is driving its agenda with relentless speed. They always use the same methods. They fund terrorism on both sides and pick up the pieces afterwards. ConVid was also part of their fun and games aiming at Digital ID and then Digital money. Fortunately 23m in the UK didnt take even one vax so the plan died. Next time they may try mandating it. The trick is to be aware of divide and rule tactics and not to engage. Trusting governments is disastrous.
Not just sad, it's a mortal sin, committed time and time again throughout the long and inglorious history of our human species. The really sad thing is that those sinned against are also the sinners, by virtue of their silence in the face of, or active complicity by offering themselves up as cannon fodder, in the prosecution of these wars.
wrt asking where the loyalties of the IDF lie, Enoch Powell perceptively said in a 1982 conversation with Margaret Thatcher, disagreeing with her that nuclear weapons were ‘necessary for the defence of our values’:
‘We do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a Communist government. No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.’
There comes a point when one must discard causes and ideals, utopian visions and values, and simply fight for one’s people.
James Jones, a Pacific War veteran whose most famous novels parallel his own life (him enlisting in the US Army in 1939 at age 17, stationed at Hawaii when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor and fighting in the Pacific until invalided out in 1944) wrote rather amusingly in his ‘The Thin Red Line’ (superb war novel but 1998 film was a cinematic exercise in literary vandalism) of an exchange of taunts between Japanese and pinned down American soldiers:
‘ “We know you there, Yank. Yank, we know you there.”
“Tojo eats s**t!” Keck yelled. He was answered by an angry burst of machine gun fire. “Roozover’ eat s**t!” the faraway voice screamed.
“You goddam right he does!” some frightened Republican called from Bell’s blind right side.’
I doubt many British soldiers in 1940 were wasting much time: ‘Who voted for Winston? He was installed by the elites!’ ‘Well, I never voted for the Conservatives at all!’ ‘Yeah, it was all the Conservatives’ fault in the first place, sodding Chamberlain!’ ‘It was your MacDonald that dropped the ball in ’35!’ Bar occasional whinging (‘soldier’s right to whinge’), they put aside their political differences and got on with the job. To quote a line from 2020’s ‘The Hunt’, Crystal replying to Don’s ‘You don’t care why they’re doing this to us?’:
‘They’re trying to kill me, I don’t give a s**t why.’
You fight for yourself and your people, and that’s what the majority of the IDF will be doing.
As for worrying over ‘ordinary’ Gazans—obviously some will be decent people with no other wish than to live in peace and raise their families (famously, the son of one of Hamas’ founders, Mosab Hassan Yousef, turned against Hamas to the point of becoming a Shin Bet asset); but how many? In their last election in 2006 while but a third of the electorate voted for Hamas, most of the other parties were terrorist-affiliated as well, being factions of the PLO; altogether at least 68½% of the Gazan electorate (88.7% of vote) voted for one terrorist-affiliated party or another. Combine this with our knowledge (from 9/11 through 7/7 to the 2016 Nice attack, from Glasgow Airport through Lee Rigby to Manchester Arena, from the industrial-scale grooming of our young girls by Muslims to all the many, many, *many* transgressions—terrorist and criminal, individual and mob, planned and spontaneous—perpetrated by Muslim migrants all over the West) and we should realise that Islam is a *profoundly* dysfunctional belief system that needs eradicating.
Additionally, Britain specifically has a national interest: extensive connections between Irish republican and Arab terrorists make a defeat of the latter in our interests so as to remove allies of the former so weakening them. Outside of current crisis, we should be sharing intelligence of such connections and, given similarity of COIN in Ulster and Israel’s troublesome territories, knowledge of tactics and equipment, as well as selling to each other and collaborating on manufacture of relevant kit (ridiculous that we invent the first remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robot, the ‘Wheelbarrow’, and now we use one made by Northrop-Grumman while Israel makes its own).
wrt latest Hamas attack, all countries with burgeoning Muslim minorities should desire Hamas’ defeat to demoralise them; and if we all were sensible, we would take advantage of the current sympathy and anger resulting from the horrors perpetrated by Hamas to rid ourselves of our foreign-born Muslim extremists at least. We should be asking the Refugees Welcome crowd: ‘Those people will be found amongst the “refugees” you’re so keen to let in—will you not rethink your stance on immigration?’ We should be driving a wedge into the already dividing Left.
Instead, the ‘edgy’ Right are lining up beside the Woke Left to cheer on Hamas; as for ‘covid-sceptics’ and similar not picking a side, as Rush sang ‘If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice’. And as Mrs Thatch once said: ‘Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.’
Meanwhile, while the ‘edgy’ Right and whatever-sceptic miss yet another opportunity, we have a Lib-Dem applauding police for arresting three Arab slogan-shouting youths for burning a Union Jack, the Labour Party are splitting before our eyes (not dissimilar to how the SNP imploded by themselves when their destruction should have been the Conservatives’ mission after 2010 election), Greta Thunberg is sorely damaging the Green cause by associating it with the Hamas rape/murder-fest, and BLM are busy doing the same, burning what little is left of their reputation.
Who can say for sure, but it's sure looking like a false flag, at this point. Which would align with the geopolitical machinations, of which you spoke.
You’re not far off at all, JJ.
Firstly, yes, the Israeli government turned their citizens into Pfizer lab rats without a second thought while attempting to hide the contract. And why the government disarmed many kibbutz people a month before this and why it took 6 hours for the army to get there, I’ll just leave that out there.
But as far as Gaza, these were Nazi level atrocities and the people voted for this Hamas government knowing full well the Hamas charter called for Israel’s destruction. And despite this, the Gazans who want to leave are offered safe passage which is a damn sight more than those murdered while Hamas leaders in their Doha villas, call for the Gazans to die for martyrdom.
It's has never more obvious that the Hidden-Hand behind world events is driving its agenda with relentless speed. They always use the same methods. They fund terrorism on both sides and pick up the pieces afterwards. ConVid was also part of their fun and games aiming at Digital ID and then Digital money. Fortunately 23m in the UK didnt take even one vax so the plan died. Next time they may try mandating it. The trick is to be aware of divide and rule tactics and not to engage. Trusting governments is disastrous.
"It's never more obvious that the Hidden-Hand . . . . . "
When is a hidden hand not hidden? When you feel its grip tightening around your throat, though you cannot see it. That's where we're at.
It is so sad that innocent men, women and children suffer when politicians make war.
Not just sad, it's a mortal sin, committed time and time again throughout the long and inglorious history of our human species. The really sad thing is that those sinned against are also the sinners, by virtue of their silence in the face of, or active complicity by offering themselves up as cannon fodder, in the prosecution of these wars.