I Don’t Have a ZOG in This Fight
I’m already war-weary, and it’s only been a week. I was burned-out on all things Middle Eastern a long time before this latest round of tedium arrived uninvited at my doorstep. I invariably zone out of any discussion about the Middle East, and now it’s going to suck up the news cycle and clog my cerebral arteries for the unforeseen future.
I feel so sick in my stomach that I can’t even locate my stomach. What can you say when you can’t even muster the energy to say, “It’s all so tiresome”?
As a child attending grade school in the 1960s, I was weaned on the notion that the United States was the greatest nation in world history, the best country there ever was and possibly could ever be. Back in the days when the history books called them “Mohammedans” rather than Muslims, I was cheerfully unaware of the Middle East’s existence until the oil crisis of the early 1970s. By the time of the Iran hostage crisis at the end of the limp-dicked Carter Administration, I’d become bored with the very idea of the Middle East. I never understood what was in it for me or why I should be interested in what was going on “over there.”
When 9/11 rolled around at the dawn of this millennium, I was unique in Portland — of all places — in that while everyone else, no matter how severely Leftist they were, was urging for Muslims to get bombed into bits, I seemed to be the only one aware that US sanctions had led to the starvation deaths of about a million Iraqi women and children since the entirely unnecessary Persian Gulf War, and my attitude was, “What did you think would happen when you fuck with people to that degree?”
And then came the War on Terror, where at least twice as many Americans died than had died on 9/11 and taxpayers were forced to pay trillions for those fruitless endeavors. Thousands of coffins draped in American flags were shipped back here from “over there” in the endless quest to help our best buddies, our greatest allies, who for some inscrutable reason are never required to die on our behalf.
And now, with the US falling apart like it’s never fallen apart before, here comes another Middle Eastern Distraction.
If Aeschylus was right in saying that truth is the first casualty of war, the body count should be in the trillions by year’s end. My ears have heard a lifetime’s worth of lies, and I can’t handle any more. I am bored to the point of rigor mortis at the fact that I’m being slapped in the face with another sequel to this ongoing movie series.
What happened “over there” last week is another Holocaust, another 9/11. What Hamas did is as bad as the Nazis. Maybe worse. Dozens of charred and headless babies. Warehouses full of headless babies. So far I’ve heard of 40 headless babies, and next week it’ll be a million.
Our wonderful, official, and not-at-all-fake media is concerned about the “high tide of American antisemitism,” which, miraculously, has never ebbed since they started tracking such things. For absolutely no reason, anti-Semitism always gets worse and worse and worse.
Jews feel more unsafe than they usually feel, more hunted down than they are used to being hunted down, and none of it has anything to do with guilty consciences.
Israel did nothing to provoke the attack, just as Jews have never done anything to provoke anti-Semitism.
You don’t hear anything about what the Israelis may have done to the Palestinians, and you have to do some earnest digging merely to learn about how modern Israel sprung to life through those dreaded “terrorist bombings” that only Muslims and white supremacists are said to do these days.
No, last week all happened out of nowhere, totally unprovoked. This certainly doesn’t go back to the 1940s, nor does it go back to the siege of Masada.
The spontaneous eruption of masturbatory, ejaculatory, orgasmic Zionist bloodlust is sickening. Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer and Michael Rapaport are soiling their diapers about this “unprovoked” attack on their people.
Zionists and pro-Palestine protesters are clashing in American and European cities.
As is always the case with these sorts of skirmishes, it is always the other side that’s the heartless, murderous pig, and it’s our side that’s the humane and rational and righteous side.
In Europe, the officials appear to have already chosen sides.
Police in England are threatening to arrest Hamas supporters. According to London’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor:
Our role as an independent and impartial service is to balance the right to lawful protest with potential disruption to Londoners. . . . People do not have the right to incite violence or hatred. The law is clear that support for proscribed organizations is illegal. . . . Anyone with a flag in support of Hamas or any other proscribed terrorist organization will be arrested. . . . We will not tolerate the celebration of terrorism or death, or tolerate anyone inciting violence.
How very independent and impartial of him.
In Muslim-addled France, you are no longer legally permitted to demonstrate in support of Palestinians. France’s Minister of Justice is calling for five-year prison sentences for the vague crime of “apologizing for terrorism”:
Antisemitism is not an opinion, it’s an offense. Apology for terrorism is an offense punishable by 5 years’ imprisonment, and 7 years when it received a certain level of exposure. . . . We cannot see antisemitism grow in this country with impunity.
What is actually an opinion is the entirely subjective matter of what constitutes “antisemitism.”
Last week saw some “conservative media advocacy group” driving around Harvard and digitally blasting the faces and names of students who’d signed some sort of pro-Palestine statement calling Israel “entirely responsible” for the Hamas attacks. Pro-Palestinian students at Tufts University also found out who really rules over them.
These sorts of situations set insanely bad precedents in an already insanely bad time. There’s a feeling in the pit of my gut that censorship is going to get far worse for all of us.
Prepare yourself for more and more lectures about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as a very brief media focus on whether anti-whiteness even exists is put on the back burner.
I don’t want to spend one dollar to fund Israel’s military or to import Palestinian refugees here. Not a nickel. But I’ve never been offered a choice to say “no” by either party.
I’ve never seen democracy work for me. Nor “free speech,” for that matter.
When they can shut off your bullhorn instantly, there’s no such thing as free speech. When you never get what you want no matter how you vote, but are forced to work from January 1 until late April every year just to pay taxes to keep them from throwing you in jail, I don’t see how that’s a “democracy,” either.
And it’s all getting worse.
Israel’s Prime Minister is referring to the Palestinians as “savages,” while its Defense Minister is calling them “animals.”
But what about the Palestinian babies? Well, they’re just savages and animals, too. Bomb them into glass so we can get our fill of war porn.
Putin is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and Zelensky is comparing Hamas to Russia.
American and British aircraft carriers are headed to the Eastern Mediterranean.
An actual quote from our actual president:
I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children.
And later the White House actually confirmed that our actual president had never actually seen such a thing.
When it comes to the Israel Question, there is only one political party in America.
This will be bad for the economy, bad for morale, bad for everything, and maybe a foreign war will finally come to the US for the first time since, what, 1812?
Bankers start wars but don’t fight in them.
Soldiers fight wars but don’t profit from them.
Israel is preparing an all-out, scorched-Earth siege of Gaza and have already, in their humane and impartial way, cut off water and electricity for those animalistic savages.
And it appears that officials in the US, France, and England are all ready to go to the mat for Israel.
And it’s all because the Jews are the best friends a formerly great country could ever hope for.
Why are we defending Israel’s borders more ferociously than we defend our own?
The Second World War might have made things better for Americans in the short run, but it played a huge part in snuffing my father’s soul like a leather boot stomping out a lit stogie. Dad served in the US Army Air Forces in the Last Great Brother War, but mom would talk about how when he came back home to the States, he’d be a raging drunken furniture-smashing maniac every night and how she would pray to God that it would end. But it never ended.
My brother served in Vietnam. He was 13 years older than me and was my first hero. And I remember the day when I was about six and walked him out to the car that drove him to the airport so he could go fight the in the US Army and murder “gooks.” But he came back shattered. And I lost my first and only real hero while the US lost pretty much every war since.
All the wars Americans really needed to be fighting were right here in front of our faces, not “over there.”
Exactly how is Israel our greatest ally? What or whom have they ever protected us from? The entire Western world seems to exist to make Jewish people feel safe. Well, what about Western people? When has Israel’s existence ever made Western people feel safe?
With their retaliation in Gaza and even airports in Syria, Israel risks turning the entire Muslim world that surrounds them into one giant, flaming, bellicose hemorrhoid.
Unless they all get nuked, some of them will be coming into white countries, probably in the millions, and I’m supposed to care more about them than they are expected to care about me.
I’m going to crawl out on a thin, rickety limb here to suggest it might not be a good idea for America in its current state to go against Russia, China, Iran, and the entire Muslim world just to save Israel’s ungrateful ass.
As Europeans gird themselves once again to ensure the safety of the official Jewish homeland, the unmentionable truth is that Europeans no longer have any kind of legitimate, officially sanctioned homeland anywhere on Earth.
I don’t want to be a friend to Israelis or the entire Muslim world. Tell me what’s wrong with that.
The US is already terminally ill, and this will be another injection of poison.
I wish I had something happy to report or something funny to say. But I’m coming up dry.
Would you call me a pessimist if I told you I don’t think any of this will end well?
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My six unclrs came back from WW2 and did okay. My father came back from Korea and was good. My cousins that went to Vietnam all had successful careers. I don’t know that it’s the war that makes people break, or become drunks or drug addicts. I was in the army in peacetime, and some of my buddies became drunks or drug addicts and others did fine. And I know drug addicts, drunks, wife beaters and convicts who never spent a day in uniform. Seems to me a person who’s going to break will find a way with or without a war. That being said, I hope to hell we stay out of this new conflict, too.
So you think war has not effect on human beings at all? Or do you think some people have a natural immunity to the violence, mayhem and unpredictability of war? You’re arguing liberal individualism. Is that your intent? Or are you thinking that the White population has some people who are immune to war? If so, do you have a test that could be used to identify such people other than sending them to war to see if they thrive or are mentally destroyed?
I’m arguing that people who are going to break, are going to break whether they go to war or inherit a fortune and never go to work. Life is the test. Look around at the men who break down, and those that don’t. The way you find out is when you see who remains standing and who crumbles. And then, sometimes the man who shatters has something inside him that allows him to rise up and do it all over again. Life is the test.
It’s obvious that a stressor like military service will toughen some and break others. It stands to reason that six brothers and their sons might have similar mettle. On some level this is how natural selection works.
Being “in the army during war” tells next to nothing if not absolutely nothing about someone’s wartime experience. 9/10 “combat vets” are not actual combat vets. Pete Bootygig and Beau Biden are “combat vets.”
One Uncle was a Marine who did the island hops. One was a bombardier in the Army AF in Europe. Two were tankers in Europe and the other two were infantryman. My father was an artilleryman in Korea because his brothers told him those guys had it good. He lost some of his hearing, his 1st cousin lost a couple toes to frostbite as an infantryman. My older cousins in Nam were infantrymen. I was the only remf and that was in peacetime.
What’s hypocritical about France and Brittany’s crack down on demonstrations is that Muslims in both countries have had demonstrations against their host societies and not anything was done about it.
I meant Britain.
Thank you Sir. Beautifully written. Starkly true. Made me cry.
Great essay. The salient question is ‘What’s in <take your pick of promoted bullshit> for White America?’
My feelings exactly. If you have as many Muslim Arabs living in your country as I have, you quickly learn to get heartily sick of them. The “poor, hapless Palestinians” narrative doesn’t work on me anymore. I’m at the point where I just don’t care who does what to whom and who comes out as the winner in the end down there.
What was refreshing for a while was the sudden call for action against all those terrorist supporters among the immigrants around here. But of course nothing will change. My country will sponsor Israel (because history) and then take in all the Palestinian refugees that want to come, making life unsafer for Jews (and Germans) in the process. There’s a certain irony in all of it, in a schizophrenic and depressing way.
Thing is, it’s not in the interest of Israel to see hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Arabs sent back to their home countries, because those are already crowed with youthful, male Arabs who demographically threaten Israel’s existence. I assume they prefer that their presence rather threatens our nations’ existence demographically or otherwise, and I also guess Bibi doesn’t give a shit about Arabs in Berlin-Neukölln and elsewhere calling for the death of Israel or even harming a few Jews in Germany. The growing discomfort of Jews in Europe may even push “Aliyah” to Israel, which they hope can counter the Islamic birthrate djihad. I don’t see any solution to all of this, and I’m afraid think both sides will increasingly turn to genocidal violence.
My thoughts exactly. There is a horrific sort of logic behind it all – get the Arabs to Europe, get the European Jews into Israel, and presto. Problem solved…
So, the message I’m hearing loud and clear from Britain, France and Germany is “It’s okay to come here illegally, get on the dole, form no-go zones, join grooming gangs, stab people randomly, harass, intimidate, attack and rape our women and children, throw acid on little old ladies, etc. Just think twice before saying anything that will upset the Tribe With Tiny Hats.”
Thank you for this, Jim. Expresses my own thoughts on this topic exactly.
I went to see the new Exorcist movie looking for some escapism, but it was one of the most anti-white movies I’ve ever seen. At the end, because the stupid conservative white man chooses his own daughter, the demons literally drag her down to hell. The black girl is saved, because of some weird voodoo protection she received in Haiti in utero. There’s literally a line in the film where she says ‘I wasn’t part of their damn patriarchy’ about the Catholic church and it’s like, no shit.
I hope also that some Jewish people, realizing that they are getting lumped in with white people in pathological ressentiment by the woke left, see the light. Certainly I think any accusations of anti-Semitism against us will seem increasingly ludicrous in light of elite colleges and the terminally online wokerati finding ways to blame Israel for terrorism against it. For these guys, terroristic rape and murder may be bad, but it’s not as bad as mean thoughts about the terroristic propensities of brown people.
Thanks for the information about The Exorcist. I was considering going to see the movie, now I won’t. This reinforces what I already know. That is that a lot, if not most, of what comes out of Hollywood is worthless propaganda.
You should have seen the Taylor Swift The Eras Tour movie instead!
It’s always the same when they pull stunts like this to foment division and fear – it’s always the wrong people getting murdered. If bankers, elites and politicians want a war they should be the first to go toe to toe with each other. They should keep innocent people out of it and have their war amongst themselves.
A few victims of the bankers and elite class and war would soon stop. We shouldn’t be anywhere near Ukraine and it’s the same with Gaza and Israel.
And yes Mr Goad – things are going to get a lot worse. Another catalyst executed to continue the ‘perma-crisis’ of contemporary fuckery delivered by our ruling class.
Perhaps the richest thing of all is that the US government is making US citizens stuck in Israel pay to be chartered out of there: https://il.usembassy.gov/security-alert-10/. Meanwhile, the US government spends upwards of $150 billion annually on illegal aliens and as Mr. Goad noted regarding democracy and not being represented, Californians lost the franchise to to tell illegal aliens no to non-emergency public services via that proposition via what I assume was a subversive Jewish judge declaring the proposition unconstitutional.
I have my own personal reasons for being on the side of Israel but I can see the sentiment of Mr. Goad and white nationalists with respect to why do we need to save “Israel’s ungrateful ass” as Mr. Goad eloquently put it. All the more so with the commentary on what has Israel/Jews done for Western countries other than browbeat and guilt trip them into accepting African and Muslim migrants. Now the Jews are going to be kvetching about the antisemitism from African and Muslim migrants’ they wanted to bring in.
On that note, perhaps there is a silver lining to all of this. There’s a BLM chapter that is pro Hamas and even George Soros penned an article saying Israel needed to work with Hamas: https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/george-soros-once-slammed-us-israel-for-not-working-with-hamas/. This will probably upset even your most died hard of leftist Jew. Being pro-Palestine is going to be the litmus test for if one is a good leftist. Whatever purity tests there were on the dissident right are going to pale in comparison to this. The left will end up cannibalizing each other of this.
I hope the Saudis and Turks can somehow convince Hamas to release the hostages before this thing escalates. To say it has the potential to get out of control is an understatement.
Israel helped found Hamas. WaPo said so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
Thanks for the link. It’s a Mexican standoff where all sides will lose.
Have you ever stopped to consider how many Americans, and others, have been killed in conflicts and various terrorist attacks ever since the US force-created the country of Israel?
What is the benefit to the US of propping up this country of 10-odd million? Why does it get more foreign aid than any other country?
And why oh why do I know that 6 million hebes perished in the hollowcau$t yet I have no idea how many Americans died in the civil war, WW1 or WW2??
Well, I certainly admit to be sort-of Anti-Semitic — I don’t care a thing about either side whatsoever. They, within their tribal lives, have all been fighting forever in the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. Israel has always claimed to be a Semitic tribe (and the ‘creme of the crop’ as well), as do most of the followers of Mohammed the ‘Prophet’ since around 620 A.D, which just divided the tribes into two ‘forever enemies’ among the Semitic peoples.
Jew number about 24 million, though they squabble about who is a Jew continually. Moslems (the name I learned in 7th or 8th grade, and still sticks) number about two billion — though I would question their ability to count that high — in various Semitic Tribes scattered all over what we call “The Middle East”,
In both of their ‘Holy Books’ — The Torah and The Koran — both regard Europeans — i.e. Whites or Caucasians — i.e., me and thee — as “Goyim” and “Infidels” which mean ‘outsiders, ‘not our people’ — and they both promise to bring the entire planet under their control. Does that not declare they see us as their ‘enemy’ to be conquered and destroyed?
Think long and deep about this,
Me? I’m up in years and just sitting on the sidelines, certainly not cheering for either side in this horrid body-count that they both are piling up. Pox on them both.
Aloha.
Break out another meme that the people who need it like a punch drunk boxer needs smelling salts and ice water blasts.
France burnt and blown up by rabid, anti-French, anti-white Muslim colonizers for what, two weeks and Macron boogies down to Elton John and hobnobs in joy. The French government cowers and retreats, and incites the riots by condemning the police. Israel gets surprised attacked half a world away. Anti-semitism is a threat to Jews and so not an ounce of life will be permitted to Muslim mobs.
Who runs The West?
We know in hindsight certain events have been inflection points in history. Charlottesville was a mistake but inevitable. Trump was inevitable. This Hamas tactical victory was too, perhaps with help from an IDF stand-down.
The fact that the invasion/occupation of Gaza still isn’t underway should tell you all you need to know. Israel is no longer invincible. They are dealing with the same Boomer problem we are, despite having insanely good birthrates. What could be occurring is the dysgenic miscegenation between Ashkenazis, Sephardim and Mizrahim, diluting the allegedly high-IQ of Jews overall.
Ironically, the best thing for whites would be peace in the Middle East. There would be no refugees flooding into our countries, and the ones here could even return. More importantly, the sky-high birthrates of Jews and Muslims would finally collapse…oh and the MIC wouldn’t be profiteering and our sons would not be broke.
A co-worker asked me today what my opinion on this latest Middle East kerfluffle is. I responded I don’t know and don’t care, let ‘em fight it out, they have always fought and will always fight, we have our own problems here at home.
He looked at me like I was insane.
That is a typical response from a clueless normie. I avoid talking politics at work. The work environment is usually in danger of becoming toxic (if it isn’t already). It’s not the place to let down one’s guard. The majority of people get their information from lamestream sources. They’re used to conventional cliches and a narrow range of opinions. They are usually shocked or confused when they hear something intelligent and original.
So true. Someone at work actually brought this up to me, searching for my opinion (people know I’m more erudite than almost everyone there, plus an “outrageous rightwinger” (trans: superficial normiecon)). I nonplussed the person by saying simply that I haven’t “studied this complex issue, and so don’t feel that I can offer an informed opinion”. This type of plea of ignorance is the best defense on most occasions.
You mean you’re not into the current thing?!
David Cole’s (a jew himself btw) brilliant article in that place Jim used to write for about the jew’s golem of mass immigration to keep whites in check and “stop the next Hitler coming from Fargo” turning on them just like the old jewish fable has never been more prescient.
One of Cole’s best pieces.
Many people were saying that already in the 80s – and loudly in the 90s. Cole is rarely original.
We need to send the US Liberty over to the Gaza coast. Probably best if crew is all trans blacks of color. And then when Hammas sinks it with all crew lost, we can launch nuclear weapons upon Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and anyone else threatening our ally, Israel.
The remains of the beheaded babies were turned into lampshades
Or their already small heads were shrunken even further.
Palestine publishes about 114 books per year compared to Israel’s approx. 8400. I expect next year’s ratio to be even more lopsided. Israel’s population of 9.7 million is only about a million more than that of New York City, with Palestine about 5.5 million. An attack on civilians is a low blow, but was a fairly common tactic during the air raids of world war 2. I’m still surprised by all the protests in favor of Palestine in this circumstance… It’s a 180 from the usual identification with the immediate victims and is likely a preview of things to come as young people with a lot of years ahead of them have been bringing the noise.
City Journal has spent the last few years fuming against college campuses having protests against speakers who make them uncomfortable, such as Charles Murray and Heather MacDonald. The past weeks they have made an about face now that some of these groups are Pro-Palestinian.
In 2022 the USA gave $3.3 billion in aid to Israel, 99.7% of which went to their military, so Israel is not going to need western troops unless Iran were to get involved. In fact, the US has given more aid to Israel than any other country since WW2, over $260 billion. The past 20 years or so, military aid to Israel has exceeded that of all other countries added together. So much for the black-jewish alliance as BLM Chicago has been on a pro-Palestine binge. They should instead look at the math, as the aid numbers going to Israel might have built them Wakanda.
Man, I so wish I could go back to my junior high school days, before 9/11, when my classmates and I literally didn’t know (as a midwestern white kids) what Jews or Muslims were, or where the Middle East was on a map, and we had the vague impression that (aside from a few minor conflicts) war was a thing of the past and we had reached the “end of history.”
We were ignorant in all the right ways.
But our ignorant bliss was forever destroyed by those two stupid planes which brought down three skyscrapers on 9/11, and the never-ending babble about “terr’ists” and sand-people ever since.
There’s a libtard reply bot on X-Twatter that has an avatar/pfp with the slogan “Voting is like driving – choose D to go forward and R to go backwards” (dur hur hur) – not quite the “own” these days that he/him thinks it is…(p.s. fuck the Uniparty)
Well done Mr. Goad.
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