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Israel Gives Cover to Anti-Semites

Israel identifies itself as the Jewish state and claims to represent “the Jewish people” everywhere, not only Jewish Israelis. Thus Israel’s atrocious treatment of the Muslim and Christian Palestinians at least tacitly encourages the anti-Semites, who are eager to point to anything they can describe as bad acts committed by “the Jewish people.” The Jewish state equals the Jewish people — that’s what they’ve been told. (It’s not true.)

In other words, Israel’s own definition of itself and its own treatment of the Palestinians ratify the anti-Semites’ crazy ideas about the malevolence and collective guilt of all Jewish people. The anti-Semites are encouraged to ignore the super-large number of Jewish people outside of Israel who vociferously oppose both Israel’s self-identification and its oppression of the Palestinians.

Israel then makes matters worse by conflating the rotten but fringe anti-Semitism it encourages with sincere anti-Zionism (principled opposition to Israel and by implication any ethno-state). That in turn gives cover to the crazy anti-Semites, who can hide in plain sight among the anti-Zionists, Jews included.

Israel encourages and then protects the anti-Semites!

You’d think that would be a bad thing. And it is. So why do Israel’s leaders and supporters make it happen?

Anti-War Quote from 400 B.C.

Anti-War Quote from 400 B.C.

To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another state — they praise it!… If a man on seeing a little black were to say it is black, but on seeing a lot of black were to say it is white, it would be clear that such a man could not distinguish black and white… So those who recognize a small crime as such, but do not recognize the wickedness of the greatest crime of all… cannot distinguish right and wrong.
– Mozi (470–391 B.C.), Condemnation of Offensive War I, Book V

This Could Save You A Whole Lot of Trouble

This Could Save You A Whole Lot of Trouble

In the last couple weeks, two disastrous events have occurred, capturing Americans’ attention—and imaginations.

On March 22, gunmen killed over one hundred concert-goers at Crocus City Hall near Moscow.

A week later, on March 29, a cargo ship crashed into a support of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the entire thing.

With both events, everyone rushed to “have a take,” from false flag terrorism, to globalist plots to destroy American infrastructure.

On this email list, we’ve been learning together how to disseminate propaganda in search of the truth.

One major lesson that I’ve learned from the guys at antiwar.com is that when you’re reporting on emerging events, you should stick to the facts and not be pressured to mix in opinion, especially when the facts are emerging, unclear, incomplete, or contradictory.

For instance, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, I watched live camera footage from Ukraine. I followed the news in real time, almost all night.

I really felt like I had something I wanted to say about it.

The observation I made (publicly) was that it seemed like the invasion really was a limited “special military operation” as opposed to a full scale, total war scenario, like the Western media was portraying it.

To this day, I still think about how I felt like I had to have a “take” as opposed to just witnessing an event, or even dispassionately relaying reports.

I could have easily been wrong, or things could have developed differently.

When news broke of the Crocus City Hall attack and the Baltimore Bridge incident, so many influencers and media personalities were wildly speculating without any facts. Many framed their wild speculation as analysis.

Of course, capturing people’s imaginations is much more popular than striving for integrity. Narrative is powerful and popular. When wielded for nefarious purposes, or clout, it can be incredibly harmful or disruptive.

I cover narrative in Chapter I of my forthcoming eBook “Slay Propaganda Like A Lawyer” cause it’s the most important.

The truth is, sometimes things happen in the world that we don’t immediately understand. In key moments, we are just along for the ride.

And that’s OK.

I am not saying never to speak out, but a certain respect is owed for our human imperfections. This respect is something I am developing right there with you.

My buddy Dave DeCamp put out this tweet that inspired this article. Go give him a follow.

https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1771270803889201330?s=19

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NATO Expansion Will Not Go Unpunished

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The Russians have been invaded by the West four times [1812, 1914, 1918, 1941] in the last 212 years. Of course, technically, the precursor for 1918-20 was the German injection of the Bolshevik bacillus in the person of Vladimir Lenin into the Russian body politic in 1917 on the sealed train from Switzerland.

Red-lines are a real thing.

The present CIA director, William J. Burns, inferred this in 2008 in his capacity as US Ambassador to Russia. He knew better then but apparently doesn’t know better now.

“NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA’S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES.”

“Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war.”

The full message is in the link above and it is a sober and crafty analysis.

Newton’s Third Law is a stone-cold killer of fantastic ambitions.

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