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One could make the case that Hamas’ surprise raid has gifted Israel the pretext it needs to enact all of its long-standing geopolitical goals. Israel’s ground offensive will not only focus on destroying Hamas, but will also have the peripheral effect of displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, which Israel will not allow to return once the fighting is over — if it is indeed ever over. Knowing this, regional players such as Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey have all stated they will not take in Palestinian refugees — but it remains to be seen if they will stick to that policy. Western governments, of course, are already preparing the ground to take them in. A direct military defeat seems a near impossibility for Israel with its colossal advantages in men and materiel, and Zionist dreams of levelling Gaza once and for all seem within reach.
On the surface it may seem that Israel is operating from a position of strength, but in reality, their situation is precarious. The timing of Hamas’ attack was not incidental, but rather the actions of a patient enemy seizing the most opportune moment to strike. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a Trump-esque figure who has divided the Israeli political landscape, and the expected rallying around the flag effect has not materialized. It could well be the case that he is simply too polarizing a figure to unite fractious Israeli public opinion behind him, making a long war untenable.
Even prior to Hamas’ attack, the Israeli situation was worsening. The United States’ commitment to Ukraine was a zero-sum game for Israel, which sees the latter as a competitor for patronage and resources. Indeed, many have floated the idea that Ukraine is in fact the new Israel, fulfilling many of the same functions and possessing a political system under the same ethno-religious management. From Hamas’ point of view, Israel’s guarantor of protection was distracted, and the Israelis were squabbling amongst themselves, presenting the ideal moment to strike. Yet the malaise runs even deeper than that: Israel is not only beset by acute political problems, but a worsening chronic crisis of legitimacy. It is noteworthy that the sudden strike against Israel comes hot on the heels of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) trying to manage damage control as its role in Internet censorship was exposed by those using the #BantheADL hashtag. Despite Elon Musk ultimately groveling to a panel of hand-picked rabbis and other Jewish representatives, the topic of excessive Jewish power was already present in the minds of many.
The hysterical reactions of kosher commentators, including Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Mark Levin, and their gentile collaborators such as Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray, have generally alienated global public opinion rather than galvanizing it in favor of Israel. The truth is that large segments of the Global South are supporting Palestine, either for reasons of Islamic religious solidarity or because they see Israel as an extension of the United States. This has been borne out in the United Nations, where a vote on a resolution that was backed by the US and its satellite puppets, calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza received 120 votes in favor and only 14 votes opposing. Global opinion has clearly shifted against Israel, and their reaction to this fact has been unhinged and histrionic. After perceived criticism from UN Secretary General António Guterres, Israel called for his resignation, an unprecedented measure which even Russia has not countenanced. Israel’s representatives at the UN are now donning yellow stars identical to those that Jews were compelled to wear in the Third Reich in a desperate performative flourish to evoke the Holocaust. These theatrics are falling flat and have utterly failed to influence global public opinion in Israel’s favor.
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In the West, the near-monolithic support Israel enjoys amongst the policymaking elite remains largely intact, but Western society’s enthusiasm for Israel and its project is much diminished. There are several reasons for this. In the first instance, both Christianity and white Evangelicals have declined as a force on the global stage. Many ordinary members of the public are sympathetic to the idea that in a time of economic stagnation, yet more aid to fight foreign wars is both undesirable and untenable. Amongst Western youth, multiculturalism and the fragmentation of mainstream narratives means that simply invoking the Holocaust no longer works as an effective way to silence criticism and marshal support for Israel.
It is often noted by radical Right-wing commentators that Israel has been immune to the diktats of liberal and multicultural norms that its diaspora promotes abroad. It has maintained a constitutionally enshrined ethnic character, built on the foundations of a massively militarized society that views its minorities as second-class citizens. In the assessment of some, pointing out this hypocrisy will grant us legitimacy to take control of our own ethnic destiny. In reality, it is much more likely that Israel will be subsumed by the liberal norms it has unleashed on others: It will ultimately be dismantled by the golem of its own creation. Just as in many Western states, there is a large liberal contingent in Israel. Netanyahu remains divisive because his government and its religious extremist coalition partners are an aberration in Israeli governance, not the norm. In the eyes of some, their extreme rhetoric, including floating the idea of destroying the Al-Asqa Mosque in Jerusalem, which is regarded as the second-holiest place by Muslims, provoked the disaster that befell Israel on October 7.
Israel is thus faced with an unenviable choice: Either it orders its military to stand down and loses face on the world stage, with Netanyahu likely falling from power as a result, or it embarks on a campaign of ethnic cleansing and extreme urban warfare while being politically disunited and without the West’s unanimous and unconditional backing. The death toll may end up being high on both sides, and public opinion both in Israel and abroad may sour quickly. There is also the risk of attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon or from Iran directly.
The next few months will clearly be pivotal for the future of Israel. It is not the case that Israel will simply disappear from the map any time soon, especially with its huge arsenal that includes nuclear weapons. But it is clear that Israel is facing seemingly intractable structural problems: political disunity, a crisis of legitimacy, a loss of its position as the undisputed recipient of American aid, an increasing chorus calling for change in its fundamental values, and many of the same underlying demographic trends that Western nations are facing.
At no other time has Zionist power been so nakedly on show, whether it is forcing Elon to kotow and self-flagellate for daring to platform those who mildly criticize Jewish power, or the summoning of all the leaders of the Western world to publicly pledge their support for the Israeli cause in person. Yet, these open displays of dominance are making ever-larger numbers of people question why such a tiny ethnic group has a total stranglehold on our political life, and why their wars always become our wars. This is a golden opportunity for us to advance our ideas. The foundations of the state of Israel and its Zionist influence on the world stage are crumbling, and we now have the opportunity to storm the breach. In the inevitable tumult of the coming days and weeks, we must be steadfast in our assertion of our ethnic sovereignty and our right to choose our own destiny free from foreign influence.
It is not our mission to destroy Israel, nor is it our place to enthusiastically support either side in this conflict. We should not engage in apologetics for the atrocities they may perpetrate. We must rather view this cooly as a contest between the Palestinians, who may add to our demographic competitors at home, and the Israelis, who through their Zionist influence are our political masters everywhere. We must recognize that this is our Moses moment. We must firmly and loudly make the demand: Let our people go! We no longer wish to have our fate inextricably linked with that of Jerusalem, but instead we should labor to break the shackles that have weighed us down in order to become the undisputed masters of our own destiny once again.
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Although Israel ceasing to exist would be most beneficial to whites worldwide because it would mean the end of neoconservatism, it will not happen anytime soon. It’s nice to fantasize about, and I’m sure they would initiate an inverted right of return back to Europe and every other white country. That would actually be better having more Jews back home that we can better keep an eye on because the Third World invasion they spearheaded into our lands could not get any worse than it is now, which they could only manifest with their Mideast bandit coordinate. Their sociopolitical power has officially peaked. They could not possibly be any more influential across the board than they have been the last 15 years, and we have now seen the high-watermark start to recede with the absurdity of the past few weeks. These people are really losing it.
They lost at least a dozen young IDF troops yesterday in Gaza. This amount of casualties has been unseen in decades. Hamas planned this brilliant raid at least a decade ago as they were building this labyrinth of tunnels. It was carefully calculated as a public relations campaign at a precise moment and it was a masterstroke. They chose an unprecedented moment in American history during the interregnum of an unseated House Speaker and a failing proxy war. In other words, they didn’t just breach the Israeli border wall, they also punctured the center-right American political consensus wall (buttressing ‘the kosher sandwich’ and thus Western Civilization) in a rare moment of flimsiness, which we in the Alt-Right/Dissident Right have tried in vain since 1940.
The result of this war, which Hamas has already strategically won (and could even win tactically), will be that Israel will be back to at least 1967 global respectability. From 1948-1966 America was not a Zio-shill republic like has been ever since. Republican President Eisenhower and the Soviet Union alike actually called for a ceasefire via the United Nations and evacuation of Israeli, French and British forces from Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis! My oh my what a different world that was and could be again. But that is exactly what is happening again former empires try to unilaterally advance their own interests for the first time since decolonization.
You actually said that whites would be better off with more Jews in our countries, so we can keep an eye on them.
You actually said that Jews having Israel has more to do with the Third World invasion than Jews exercising influence in white countries. So I guess we should not worry about more Jews coming from Israel to reinforce the Jews in our homelands.
These claims are stupid on the face of them. You are driven to these crack-brained assertions to rationalize the TRS dogma that the white interests would not be negatively affected in any way by the destruction of Israel.
Good analysis. It seems that even Western leaders, while still clamping down on open pro-Hamas protests, are cautiously testing the waters of how one may politely criticize Zionism, influenced by Muslim electorates and Muslim politicians in their parties. The press is also not afraid of writing reports on Palestinian civilian casualties, including heart-wrenching photos and stories of family tragedies.
You might want to fix the typo “resolution that was backed by the US and its satellite puppets, calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza” to “resolution that was opposed by the US and its satellite puppets”.
The current “meta” in war has also changed and ZOG’s profiteering military industrial complex has been slow to catch up. Fancy tanks, airplanes, and interception systems can be easily countered by cheaper weapons. Infantry and artillery are stronger now. Israel, like America, is completely outdated in doctrine and weapons while Hamas et al seem to have intensely studied the Ukraine conflict.
ZOG has also fumbled diplomatically. Under Trump, the Arab world to even include Saudi Arabia was uniting against Iran. Now old tribal grudges are being set aside and they are allying against Israel. If Turkey were to get involved it would be over for Israel.
The Turks have a historical claim on Palestine as do Turkmenistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Greece, Italy and France. There may be more. Israel has a nuclear option, as Jim Goad has brilliantly pointed out and various Jews have suggested that the capitals of all these places (perhaps not Turkmenistan) are targets. There’s also the possibility of moving Israel to Jew-controlled Ukraine where it would be surrounded by fairly friendly states. If Israelis were forced to disband and flee stateless to the West there would at least be the advantage of them no longer having their fingers on the button,
Ukraine is not “Jew controlled”. This is slander against a European nation fighting for their homeland and against Russian imperialism and neo-Stalinists who can’t accept that the Soviet union no longer exists.
Sorry to raise your hackles. You can be Christian and fighting and dying for your homeland and still be Jew-controlled. We’re frankly all in that boat, albeit in much less imminent danger than the Ukrainians. In thirty years time the final outcome may be roughly the same, although I suspect population replacement might be a little slower and less jarring under the Russians. If only Ukraine had held onto its nukes.
The population replacement in the Ukrainian territories, occupied by Russia, is going on and even is more and more intensiv. The North Caucasians are brought to Marioupol to settle there. The recent “Anti-Semitic” actions in Dagestan and Karacay-Cerkes Republic, which were provoked by Russian authorities, should help to blame Caucasian peoples for “Anti-Semitism” and justify not only the ultimate oppression of all autonomist movements there but also the “soft deportation” of Caucasians to former Ukrainian lands.
But, on the other hand, the UKRAINIAN officials also openly say that they would bring 600,000 immigrants yearly in Ukraine, to solve the current demographical crisis, caused by the war and mass emigration. So there will be the Great Replacement in Ukraine, too.
Since Putin started the war, both replacements are on him. But I doubt that free Ukrainians will sit still for replacement migration. They’re too sensible.
“no longer having their fingers on the button”
What makes you think that? Why do you think that getting the button back would not be the very first thing they would focus on if they were to move anywhere else on this planet?
I hate to be that guy but Jerusalem is the 3rd holiest site in Islam, followed by Mecca 1st and Medina 2nd.
Left out from the article but implied was the judicial reform protests. Before the outbreak of the war these were going for 40 or so weeks straight. Hamas made the fundamental error of interrupting its opponent when it is making a mistake. This war has United what was otherwise a very divided Israel. To the extent that elite reservists were threatening to not show up for duty. Israel was in throes of a constitutional crisis. The knesset passes the judicial reform and the court heard the petition against the reform a few weeks ago amd was going to issue its ruling in January sometime. Would the people with the guns enforce the decision of the Knesset or of the court if the court ruled the reform unconstitutional? Basically Israel was on the road to even more civil unrest and potentially a civil war but now is united in its fight against Hamas.
Note that the following is merely a thought experiment that won’t happen.
Let’s suppose that Israel is defeated. No, they won’t be pushed into the sea. They’ll get to keep their country – though with a few strings attached. Jews abroad will be sent to Israel based on the notion of collective responsibility for acting as a fifth column. (Collective guilt is BS, of course, but vae victis.) The victors actually will be civilized about it and begin an orderly population transfer.
Meanwhile, a massive show trial of its leaders will “prove” that Israel’s aggression was completely at fault for the Intifada, and that they were guilty of atrocities that not even the Marquis de Sade could’ve dreamed up on a bad hair day. It will be made illegal to dispute the findings of the show trials, as well as to criticize Arabs. After that, Israel will be occupied by overseas powers. Their citizens and (forever after) their children will be indoctrinated to reject “chosen people” exceptionalism so that they will no longer regard themselves as a master race. Moreover, there will be a de-Zionification program to make them regard Zionism as the most evil ideology ever. The next generations will be raised on movies depicting Arab sufferings. For decades, Israeli taxpayers will be shaken down to compensate Palestinians allegedly harmed in the Intifada. If the victors at any time even suspect that the Israelis might get uppity some time in the future, endless boatloads of Mexicans will start showing up in Tel Aviv while Israel’s future puppet government rolls out the red carpet for them.
See, that was pretty merciful, now wasn’t it? I even left out the Morgenthau Plan, the Rhine Meadows POW camp, and much other hideousness.
“See, that was pretty merciful, now wasn’t it?”
What about a Mexican Roman Catholic Prime Minister?
Yes, but make him a Santeria practitioner instead. Also, he should be the brother-in-law of some major cartel kingpin, a frequent flier to Epstein’s private island, and on Hunter Bidet’s speed dial.
Humza Yousaf, the inept, failing-upwards Scottish First Minister (it is no mistake that the Scottish FM is Asian, as is his Scottish Labour counterpart, Anas Sarwar, and the English Tory PM Rishi Sunak), has family in Gaza, on his wife’s side, so it’s clear she has been behind his saying that Scotland will take in Palestinian refugees. This fanciful notion precludes a few things:
1) Scotland has a homeless and refugee-space crisis already, and simply does not have the space for more people. Nobody wants more refugees and immigrants in Scotland that they can’t afford.
2) The Scottish NHS is already overstretched, with another Covid winter coming up, without filling beds the country doesn’t have with foreign injured and dying.
3) Immigration is not devolved to Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament. This aspect of the whole equation is under Westminster control. The Muslim countries surrounding Palestine won’t take them in, so why should Scotland?
Thus any impassioned refugee-absorbing promise by an unpopular, unintelligent, creepy, graceless spoiled brat public schoolboy FM is nothing more than empty geopolitical posturing on the world stage, to make hinself look good.
For a corrupt, inept, parochial racist lunatic, Yousaf (known cheerily as ‘Useless’) seems to think he is new diplomatic Henry Kissinger Jr material, a real colossus astride the world stage. A sick joke of an idea, and a man.
“Egalitarianism, human rights, materialism, individualism, and the categorical imperative, moreover, may all have been promoted by Jewish intellectuals at the white man’s expense, but to think that they are not preeminently products of European culture is possible only through an ignorance of that heritage. The sources of what Faye calls the present decay lie, as a consequence, as much in ourselves as elsewhere.Since Jews, then, are only the occasional instrument of this historical subversion, they are no worse than the multitude of whites who also serve the subversive forces. To blame them for the predicament we’re in is not only false, Faye insists, but dishonorable …Even though “some” Jews continue to employ their double standard, Faye believes they are not the life and death threat that the nonwhite invaders pose. And though their open border advocacy and their pathologization of white identity have helped foster conditions facilitating the replacement of the indigenous white population, Faye questions if this makes the Jews a greater threat than the Third World interlopers—who are presently ethnically cleansing neighborhoods,
disrupting traditional ways of life, and de-Europeanizing Europe. Worse, an obsession with Jews has caused not a few nationalists to ally with their enemy—the Muslims, who are qualitatively more anti-white and supremacist than the Jews. ”
source https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v7n3/7310OMearaFaye.pdf
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