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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas… This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
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At a special session on October 24, 2023 of the Security Council on the situation in Gaza-Israel following the explosive events of 10/7, the Secretary-General António Guterres opened the meeting stating the “situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour. The war in Gaza is raging and risks spiralling throughout the region…. I have condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel. Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring, and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets against civilian targets. All hostages must be treated humanely and released immediately and without conditions. I respectfully note the presence among us of members of their families.” He then continued,
Excellencies,
It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing. But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.[2]See Secretary-General António Guterres’s speech:
https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2023-10...%C2%A0
The Israeli representative at the UN, Ambassador Gilad Erdan, responded describing the Secretary-General’s remarks as “shocking.” According to the Times of Israel, Erdan followed his response by posting on “X”:
The UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I call on him to resign immediately. There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words.[3]See: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-livid-after-un-...acuum/
Eli Cohen, Israel’s Foreign Minister, having arrived in New York to attend sessions at the UN on the Gaza-Israel situation cancelled his meeting arranged with the Secretary-General. And Benny Gantz, minister without portfolio in the current unity government of prime minister Bibi Netanyahu, on his “X” account posted, “Dark are the days when the United Nations Secretary-General condones terror.”[4]Ibid.
(See: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-livid-after-un-...acuum/) Instead of rebuking, if not cashiering, Gilad Erdan for an unprecedented public display of undiplomatic and imprudent language in lashing out at the Secretary-General, the two ministers worsened the historically strained relationship of their country and government within the ranks of the UN by adding insults to the injury of Erdan’s outbursts, especially when they can least afford to alienate further the views of the majority of member-states in the world body.
The opinion of the UN member-states was evident three days later when on Friday, October 27, the General Assembly in an Emergency Special Session on the crisis with a two-thirds majority of members voting adopted a resolution proposed by Jordan and seconded by 45 member-states calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. The final count on the resolution was 121 in favour, 14 against, and 45 abstentions. An amendment proposed by Canada on the Jordanian resolution before the vote, which called for an unequivocal rejection and condemnation of the terrorist attacks by Hamas on 10/7 and the taking of hostages failed to reach the two-thirds majority required for its adoption. In the final vote Israel was practically left alone with the United States to vote against the resolution, while Canada and most of the EU member-states abstained.[5]See: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142932
The Secretary-General is chief administrative officer of the UN and he (all secretaries-general have been until present men) is also the public face of the organization. He is primus inter pares among diplomats representing their states in the world body in New York. The General Assembly appoints the Secretary-General on the recommendation of the Security Council for a five-year term that may be renewed. His responsibilities extend beyond administrative duties of the secretariat to perform additional duties entrusted to him by the Council, the Assembly, and other functional organs of the UN. In addition he is empowered by article 99 of the Charter to “bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security”.
The remarks of António Guterres was, as is the norm of his office, carefully considered given the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In recalling for the Council that events of October 7, regardless of how outrageous and despicable they were and even as he condemned them unequivocally, have a context that need to be considered and kept in mind when calling for an immediate truce for humanitarian relief for all affected by the events while also considering the urgency of securing a more permanent settlement of the long festering conflict. The outbursts of Gilad Erdan, accompanied by the responses of Eli Cohen and Benny Gantz, reminded me of the scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet of the outburst of Claudius, King of Denmark and brother of the late King Hamlet, driven to rage when watching the play within the play, as anticipated by Prince Hamlet, “The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” The outburst of Israel’s UN representative along with the conduct of his ministers unmasked the role of Israeli authorities that is no longer hidden, nor can be denied or deflected by invoking the terrorism of Hamas as the sole cause for the unfolding tragedy of Palestinians in Gaza.
Any event, big or small, in the life of individuals, peoples, and nations is prefixed by prehistory. Guterres’s observation that “attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum”, given the continuing “56 years of suffocating occupation” Palestinians have been suffering since the June 1967 war, underscores the prehistory of October 7. It is also an indirect admission by Guterres of the dereliction of duty by the Council in not enforcing its resolution 242 of November 1967, which was renewed by resolution 2334 of December 2016,[6]See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N16/46...lement for these many years knowing full well that the territories gained by Israel in the June war and inadmissibly held since make for the “suffocating occupation” of Palestinians, breeds their resistance, escalates Israeli repression, and the cycle of violence grows more acute, more horrific, and make the occupied territories a powder keg that unless defused – even if it requires direct intervention by the UN under the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter, or by the Assembly invoking “Uniting for peace” resolution 377 (V) of 3 November 1950[7]See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/N...lement – will inevitably explode into a wider regional war of predictable consequences with the potential of a nuclear catastrophe.
Here we might note what turned out to be Bertrand Russell’s last statement dated January 31, 1970, sent as a message addressed to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo, Egypt. It was read to the gathering on February 3, the day after his death. The entire message needs to be recalled, for its relevance is as fresh and urgent in the context of the events of October 7 as it was when written, but here are a few quotes taken from it:
For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.
The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” … The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless.
We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy…
All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967 (emphasis added).[8]See Russell: https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5576-Rus...st.htm
Apart from being one of the greatest logicians of the last century, Russell (1872-1970) was a towering intellect and member of the House of Lords, philosopher, historian, a man of letters awarded Nobel Prize for literature, a scion of English nobility, grandson of a prime minister, Lord John Russell, sentenced to prison in 1916 for opposing the war as a pacifist, and holder of the Order of Merit. But, more importantly, in the context of his last statement in a long and distinguished life, Russell was a younger contemporary of Theodore Herzl (1860-1904) considered the founding father of Israel, and had followed the trajectory of Herzl’s imaginings brought to life as a European “colonial-settler” state by the machinations of Britain when the age of European imperialism had ended.
Russell’s last statement was prescient in implicitly warning that continued occupation of territories acquired in the June 1967 war would result not only in condemnation of Israel violating the rights of Palestinians, but also place the UN in an untenable position as when dealing with the apartheid regime of South Africa. In November 1975 the Assembly with a majority vote adopted resolution 3379 that “zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”,[9]See “zionism is racism” resolution: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/N...lement and though sixteen years later in December 1991 the Assembly by resolution 86 revoked the earlier resolution on “zionism”, the worsening situation in occupied territories have led human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and B’Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in Occupied Territories), in their annual reports to repeatedly indict Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and violations of their rights under occupation as apartheid,[10]See the latest Amnesty International Report:
https://amnesty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Israel...al.pdf which is a flagrant violation of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.
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Twenty-eight years ago on November 4, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel and former Chief of Staff of the IDF, was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an ultra-right Orthodox Haredi Jew, for signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), two years earlier in September 1993. The murder of Rabin ended the promise of the Oslo Accords of returning the territories under Israeli occupation since June 1967 and a final settlement with Palestinians in accordance with the UN’s formula of two-states – an Arab state and a Jewish state – in the Mandate of Palestine adopted in the General Assembly resolution 181 of November 29, 1947.[11]See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/N...lement
The return of Rabin to power in the June 1992 election was greeted with relief by friends and adversaries of Israel in the region and beyond. His return ended the run of Likud party in power for all but two of the past fifteen years. The June election was hard fought, but ahead of it Rabin had to win the leadership of the Labour party in the primary, first in Israel’s history, against Shimon Peres and two other candidates held in February. Rabin emerged as the leader and the political strategists in the party quickly recognized that their greatest electoral asset was Yitzhak Rabin himself, a proven realist and pragmatic military commander at the head of the IDF during June 1967 war, an experienced diplomat, and a straight-talking politician with a proven record on security issues as Defence Minister.
The previous decade had begun with Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Defence Minister Ariel Sharon launching the Lebanese war in June 1982 against the PLO based in Lebanon for the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov in London by members of a renegade Palestinian faction led by Abu Nidal.[12]Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990), p. 268. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon culminated with the encirclement of Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla in Beirut and massacres of men, women and children by the Phalangists, a Christian militia, allied with the IDF in September. The aftermath of this grissly killings led to judicial inquiry by the Kahan commission, chaired by the president of the Supreme Court, Justice Yitzhak Kahan, which found Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres and recommended his dismissal. Sharon was forced to resign, and Begin incapacitated by a severe depression resigned with Yitzhak Shamir replacing him as the prime minister. The Lebanese fiasco was followed by the First Intifada (general uprising) in the occupied territories beginning in December 1987 and ending with the signing of the Oslo Accords. Rabin as Defence Minister during this period was responsible in containing and putting down the uprising with use of force. Taken by surprise, Rabin learned that while force might contain and suppress the uprising but, according to his biographer Itamar Rabinovich, he was quoted saying “the solution can only be a political one.”[13]Itamar Rabinovich, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader Statesman (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 158. This was an inkling of Rabin being a security hawk and a political dove. Rabinovich also cites another episode from early 1974 when Rabin was first elected as a Labour party member of the Knesset and given the Labour portfolio by Prime Minister Golda Meir. Israelis were still stricken from the shock of the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 when Rabin as a junior minister engaged in speaking with people in informal meetings and one such meeting was reported in the press. Rabinovich narrates,
Meir was not happy either with Rabin’s statement to a group of young Orthodox Zionists that was leaked to the Israeli press on April 23: “I am guided by an important principle—the people of Israel must know that in order to achieve peace among nations contact must be established that would lead to a political settlement. On Jerusalem I will not compromise; that is my focal point.” He was then asked by National Religious Party (NRP) Minister Michael Hazani, “And Ramallah?” He answered, “That is not a question of life and death for me.” A settler from Etzion Bloc asked, “And what about me?,” to which Rabin responded, “It won’t be terrible if we go to Kfar Etzion with a visa.” A girl in the audience then asked, “And what about all of the historical Land of Israel?” to which Rabin answered, “For me the Bible is not a land registry of the Middle East. It is a book that provides education in values and its purposes are different.” This was Rabin at his bluntest. In an Israel still reeling under the effects of the October War this far-reaching statement failed to cause the uproar it would have caused under different circumstances. But too much should not be read into it. It was not a harbinger of the Oslo Accords nearly two decades later but a reflection of Rabin’s basic approach, namely, that the bulk of the West Bank must not be kept by Israel and certainly not settled by it (emphasis added).[14]Ibid., p. 100.
(Itamar Rabinovich, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader Statesman (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 158.)
But ahead of the June 23 election day, Rabin on several occasions expressed this approach, different from Shamir and the Likud party, in negotiating peace agreement with Arab states and Palestinians. In an article for the Jerusalem Post published on June 1, Rabin stated:
I am unwilling to give up a single inch of Israel’s security, but I am willing to give up many inches of sentiments and territories—as well as 1,700,000 Arab inhabitants—for the sake of peace. That is the whole doctrine in a nutshell. We seek a territorial compromise which will bring peace and security. A lot of security.[15]Robert Slater, Rabin of Israel: Warrior for Peace (New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1996), p. 477.
On becoming prime minister, Rabin was immediately saddled with the responsibility of the peace process initiated jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in the Madrid conference of October 31-November 1, 1991 following the conclusion of the first Gulf War in February 1991 against Iraq for occupying Kuwait by a coalition led by the United States under UN authorization. The Madrid conference would be the last conference co-chaired by the United States and the Soviet Union that brought together all the Arab states, including Palestinian delegation as part of the Jordanian delegation, and Israel to begin negotiations for a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The format for negotiations was set by the conference chairs called the Madrid process. There were three tracks of direct negotiations arranged: between Israel and Syria, Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and Jordanian-Palestinian joint delegation. The Palestinian delegation consisted of West Bank and Gaza residents with no direct representative of the PLO since its leadership with Arafat at its head, having wrongly gambled in supporting Saddam Hussein of Iraq during the lead up to the Gulf War, was not invited to Madrid and had to settle for a subordinate role as part of the Jordanian delegation.
Rabin was not comfortable with the Madrid process, as his preference was for Israel not to engage with Arab states in a collective setting. The Madrid process was given a pause for the Israeli election after a series of fruitless meetings held in Washington attended by the delegation sent by Likud government headed by Yitzhak Shamir in office. Rabin elected prime minister handed the Foreign Ministry to Shimon Peres with authority to engage in the Madrid process, while he kept the Defence Ministry for himself. As negotiations began following the June election, it became clear that Palestinians attached to the Jordanian delegation in Washington were receiving instructions from the PLO based in Tunis and an alternative setting, or track, needed to be arranged for direct talks between Israelis and representatives of the PLO. Ahead of the June election, Rabin in an interview with the press indicated he had no objection for a separate Palestinian delegation that eventually was formalized in what became the track-two diplomacy begun in December 1992 as the Oslo process. Eight months later the Oslo process culminated in the agreement, known as the Oslo Accords, in August 1993 between Israel and the PLO, and the formal signing ceremony held in Washington a month later on September 13 by President Clinton that brought Rabin and Arafat together at the White House.
Before Rabin and Arafat met for the first time in Washington, formal letters dated September 9, 1993, were exchanged between the PLO and Israel signed respectively by the two leaders. In the PLO letter addressed to Rabin, Arafat wrote,
The signing of the Declaration of Principles marks a new era in the history of the Middle East. In firm conviction thereof, I would like to confirm the following commitments:
The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.
The PLO accepts United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 and 338.
… The PLO considers that the signing of the Declaration of Principles constitutes a historic event, inaugurating a new epoch of peaceful coexistence, free from violence and all other acts which endanger peace and stability. Accordingly, the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators.
In view of the promise of a new era and the signing of the Declaration of Principles and based on Palestinian acceptance of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, the PLO affirms that those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel’s right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter, are now inoperative and no longer valid. Consequently, the PLO undertakes to submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval the necessary changes in regard to the Palestinian Covenant.
Rabin replied,
In response to your letter of 9 September 1993, I wish to confirm to you that, in light of the PLO commitments included in your letter, the Government of Israel has decided to recognize the PLO as representative of the Palestinian people and commence negotiations with the PLO within the Middle East peace process.[16]See both letters with other relevant documents pertaining to the Oslo Accords in Omar Massalha, Towards the Long-Promised Peace (London: Saqi Books, 1994), p. 302. Also see Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, editors, The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, Sixth Revised Edition, (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).
The Oslo Accords comprised a Declaration of Principles (DoP), a memorandum clarifying some points in the main document, and four appendices. The appendices dealt with election in the occupied territories, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and Jericho, Israeli-Palestinian economic cooperation, and the regional economic development. The DoP provided the framework for the interim agreement setting up Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho and its implementation through further technical discussions to be concluded within three months of signing of the Accord. The significance of the DoP was the agreement that Palestinians were to be given a full measure of autonomy and that Israel would bring to an end its military occupation. The Oslo Accords were in effect confidence-and-security building measures within a fixed time frame of five years with negotiations starting no later than the end of 1995 on a list of issues, such as the status of Jerusalem, the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, demarcation of borders and issues left over from previous negotiations, and at the end of which there would be negotiation to seal the final status agreement.
Rabin was in a hurry to bring an end to the Intifada, reach an agreement with the PLO leadership giving Palestinians autonomy in the occupied territories administered by their own elected representatives with policing powers and thereby relieving Israelis of that onerous responsibility, and build trust between Israel and Palestinian Authority before concluding the final status agreement for a meaningful future in terms of peaceful coexistence for both people. But there was also the need to hurry the process if it was not to be derailed by those forces seeded in the territories during the years of occupation since June 1967. The Intifada began in December 1987 marking the twentieth anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and in these two decades the new political phenomenon of religious fanaticism in the territories was bent upon shutting the doors on any compromise of trading land for peace as implied in the UN security council resolution 242.
Jewish settlements in the occupied territories began to grow and spread in the period following the October war of 1973, and pushed by the settler movement Gush Emunim (the Bloc of the Faithful) had become a powerful lobby that no political party could ignore. Menachem Begin, as Likud leader with coalition partners on the religious right and elected prime minister in 1977, spoke of occupied territories as part of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel) to be settled by a new generation of Israelis making the land non-negotiable. The settler movement inevitably came into violent confrontations with Palestinian inhabitants of West Bank and Gaza, and such incidents coalesced to finally erupt in the Intifada of 1987-93.
The Palestinian uprising came from within the occupied territories surprising the PLO leadership based in Tunisia after being expelled from Lebanon during Israel’s Lebanese war. The extent and depth of Palestinian support for the uprising brought into prominence a new generation of activists connected with mosques and religious institutions and among them was “Hamas”, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement founded by Ahmad Yasin, teacher and local imam (religious leader), in Gaza around the time the Intifada started. Ahmad Yasin, a paraplegic, was connected with the Muslim Brotherhood organization in the territories and Hamas was established as an off-shoot of the Brotherhood. The Intifada also became the conduit for the supporters of Hamas to organize the politics of “resistance” in terms of the Brotherhood ideology of “jihad” (holy war). Gush Emunim’s use of the terminology Eretz Israel/Land of Israel, meaning the “land” over which Jews claim “historical rights” and for them to redeem and settle, was countered in the Hamas Charter that all of Palestine is Islamic Waqf (religious endowment) “consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day” and, hence, cannot be despoiled, squandered, given or taken away from Muslims by anyone. As Hamas gained popularity it posed a threat to secular nationalist appeal of the PLO, a threat that its enemies among Arab states in the region, including Israel, would exploit to create divisions among Palestinians. Israeli intelligence agencies, Mossad and Shin Bet, would have been negligent in failing to penetrate Hamas with informers and goad Hamas activists escalate the rhetoric of religious extremism and terrorist violence to out-flank the PLO from the right.[17]See Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, op.cit., pp. 379-404. Also, Ziad Abu-Amr, Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Rabin had failed during his time as Defence Minister to impede the settler movement in the territories that came to haunt him as prime minister. After signing the Oslo Accords Rabin was a marked man, his death foretold. The Intifada had taken the lid off domestic terrorism. Gush Emunim and the ultra-religious right in Israel had found in Hamas their partner in the zero-sum dance of mutual hate and violence. Within six months of signing of the Oslo Accords the ring of fire was ablaze. In Hebron in the West Bank the ultra-right terror of the settler movement exploded on a cold February morning. Here is Robert Slater’s account in his biography of Rabin:
At 5.20 am on 25 February, 1994, some 700 Palestinian Arab men, women and children, having awoken and risen in the dark and eaten a quick breakfast, swarmed into the mosque in Hebron for dawn prayers that marked the start of the fast—observed from sunrise to sunset—on each of the 30 days of Ramadan. Prayers had just started. Worshippers were kneeling forward on plastic mats, touching foreheads reverently to the floor. While they were praying, Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler from the nearby community of Kiryat Arba arrived on the scene. He was a physician and a well known activist. A year earlier he had prophesied in a synagogue that ‘there will come a day when a Jew will get up and kill many Arabs for killing Meir Kahane’ (the Jewish zealot slain in New York City in 1990). Right-wing Jews said many extreme things, and Goldstein’s words seemed to be wild rhetoric, but nothing more.
As the worshippers continued their prayers, Goldstein silently approached the mosque. He wore a reserve captain’s olive-green army uniform and a yarmulke on his head and he carried a military-issue Galil assault rifle. Speaking in Arabic, he asked a Palestinian guard at the door to let him enter, but the guard tried to keep him from going in, arguing that Israelis were forbidden to step inside during Moslem prayers. Goldstein angrily persisted: ‘I am the officer in charge here, and I must go in.’ Knocking the guard down with his rifle butt, he rushed inside, positioning himself close to the backs of the worshippers in the rear row.
Then, saying nothing, he opened fire. Seven people died immediately, all shot in the head. Others ran for cover, screaming, calling for help. Goldstein kept up the barrage of bullets for another ten minutes. In the end, he killed 30 Palestinians. He had been hoping to kill the peace process as well by raising the temperature of the Arab-Israeli conflict to such heights that talking peace would have been impossible. He succeeded, but only temporarily. In their grief and fury, Palestinians were in no mood to talk about implementing the DoP. Now it was not just Hamas terror that was threatening to blow up the Oslo accord, it was Israeli terror as well.[18]Robert Slate, op.cit., pp. 590-91.
Few weeks later on April 6 and 13 Hamas fighters struck with deadly violence carried out by suicide bombers in two Israeli towns, Afula and Hadera. Newton’s third law of motion had been activated and since violence is addictive, the law of karma, of cause and effect, as mentioned in Hindu scriptures, would run its course until the greater moral law of repentance, mercy, and forgiveness brought an end to the cycle of the primitive law of an eye for an eye. The signing of the Oslo Accords, despite their limitation given the asymmetry in power relationship between Israel and the PLO, was a heroic effort on the part of Rabin and Arafat to break the cycle of enmity between their two people and venture forth in the path of reconciliation for a better future together for Israelis and Palestinians.
The opposition to Rabin’s government in the Knesset was led by Benjamin Netanyahu elected to replace Yitzhak Shamir as Likud’s leader following the June 1992 election. Netanyahu led Likud to join a broad coalition that spanned the right wing spectrum of Israeli politics against the Oslo Accords. This coalition was spear-headed by the Yesha Council, the organization of West Bank and Gaza settlers and anchored by hardliners in Gush Emunim. For this coalition of right wing activists, settlers, and opposition politicians the Oslo Accords loomed as the most serious threat to their objective of turning the occupied territories into an integral part of Eretz Israel, and they were determined to obstruct and deny any compromise solution for peace with Palestinians. The opposition’s tactics to derail Oslo Accords, according to Itamar Rabinovich, “unfolded in several stages: legitimate political opposition; illegitimate political opposition; discrediting and delegitimizing the government and its leader; dehumanization of the political rival; symbolic conduct and ritual murder; violent political conduct and actual assassination.”[19]Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.
Rabin’s government was branded by the opposition coalition Judenrat, the deadly smear against Jews who collaborated with the Nazis. Ariel Sharon, nicknamed the “Butcher of Beirut” after the Kahane commission inquiry into the 1982 massacres of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla during Israel’s Lebanese war, went public against Rabin, his former commander and mentor. Sharon accused Rabin’s government as “an insane government that shrinks Israel to Auschwitz borders, a reckless government, submissive, confused, treacherous, insane.”[20]Ibid., p. 224.
(Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.) On October 19, 1994 a Hamas suicide bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv killed twenty-two Israelis and wounded as many. Netanyahu appeared at the site of the bombing and addressing the television cameras denounced Rabin saying, “The PM chose to prefer Arafat and the welfare of Gaza’s residents at the expense of the inhabitants of Israel.” The ultra-right Jews and the settler movement went into a frenzy escalating the rhetoric against Rabin, while rabbis of the ultra-Orthodox Jews raised the stake by introducing two radical concepts into the public discourse: the “Law of the Pursuer” (Din Rodef) and the “Law of the Informer” (Din Moser). As Itamar Rabinovich explains, “Both laws were adopted from the long history of the Jews in the diaspora and under foreign rule, and both sanctioned the killing of a Jew who either pursued or prosecuted other Jews or informed on them to gentile authorities.”[21]Ibid., p. 225.
(Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.)
Rabin persisted in the path taken. A week after the Tel Aviv bombing on October 26 King Hussein of Jordan and Rabin signed the Jordanian-Israel Peace Treaty at a ceremony held north of Eilat at the border between Jordan and Israel, and was attended by President Bill Clinton accompanied with a U.S delegation. In December 1994 Rabin accompanied by Shimon Peres and joined by Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
As the year 1995 opened the opposition to Rabin and the Oslo Accords grew increasingly belligerent. Orthodox rabbis in the diaspora were drawn into the discourse over the “law of the pursuer” and the “law of the informer” that sanctioned the killing of a Jew in breach of either law. Some agreed, others were hesitant, and one warned against alighting a fire with such discourse. Rabbi Abraham Hecht, of Brooklyn, New York, opined “He who gives away parts of the Land of Israel, he who kills him first is rewarded, but I was not since he is still alive.” And Rabbi Kurtz, the Chabad leader in Florida, decreed that “Rabin qualifies as an enemy and therefore is subject to the rule act swiftly to kill the person who comes to kill you.”[22]Ibid., pp. 226-7.
(Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.)
The timetable set in the Oslo Accords for the conclusion of the final status negotiations was within five years of the implementation agreement signed in May 1994. In September 1995 negotiations to expand the area in stages under Palestinian Authority (PA) within the West Bank beyond Jericho known as Oslo II was signed in Washington. The incremental handover of the West Bank territory to PA was demarcated as Areas A, B, and C, and Oslo II marked the momentum set for reaching the final status agreement. On October 5, the Knesset was scheduled to vote on Oslo II, and the opposition called for a mass rally on the same day in Zion Square in Jerusalem. The rally turned into a mob chanting “Death to Rabin.” Netanyahu as the leader of the opposition in the Knesset addressed the rally and taunted the non-Jewish character of the government relying on Arab-Israeli votes for the approval of Oslo II. Netanyahu’s taunts inflamed the anger of the crowd and he failed to admonish the rally for its objectionable conduct. Rabin’s car was mobbed near the Knesset. Fouad Ben Eliezer, Labour Minister, was assaulted by the crowd on his way to the Knesset and inside he scolded Netanyahu, telling him, “I suggest you wipe the smile off your face. Your people are crazy. If someone will be murdered, you will be responsible.”[23]Ibid., p. 228.
(Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.)
A month later on November 4, Rabin and Peres were enthusiastically greeted at a peace rally in Malchei Yisrael Square near the City Hall in Tel Aviv. Yigal Amir had been stalking Rabin since the signing of the Oslo Accords in Washington in September 1993. Amir was waiting at the rally, which drew a crowd of a hundred thousand supporters of Rabin. Here was the proof of the silent majority of Israelis warmly embracing Rabin and his peace policy.
Rabin was among his people, and both he and Peres were heartened by their genuine affection. Rabin had another private reception to attend after the rally. He took leave shortly after addressing the friendly crowd and walked behind Peres for his car. Yigal Amir waited in ambush close to the stairs that Rabin descended, and unloaded his weapon at point-blank range into the prime minister. Two of the bullets smashed into Rabin. His security detail had failed him, and by the time he was rushed to Ichilov hospital nearby Rabin was clinically dead. Shortly after 11 pm, an hour and twenty minutes after he was shot, the official announcement was made that the prime minister had died of bullet wounds fired by Yigal Amir. On the twenty-eighth anniversary of Rabin’s murder as Gaza-Israel descended into a vortex of violence, the prehistory of October 7, 2023 was written on the evening of November 4, 1995 and punctuated by gun shots that killed a remarkable man for all ages, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, and with him died the promise of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Jews, that was so tantalizingly near and since that fateful evening has vanished like a mirage in the desert.
Salim Mansur is a professor emeritus of Political Science at Western University in Ontario, Canada
Photos: (i) Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Courtesy: Britannica; (ii) Rabin, Clinton, Arafat, Courtesy: cfr; (iii) Arafat, Peres, Rabin, (Courtesy: Nobel Prize Committee).
Notes
[1] Gidi Weitz, “Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant,” in Haaretz.com, October 9, 2023.
[2] See Secretary-General António Guterres’s speech:
[3] See: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-livid-after-un-chief-says-hamas-attacks-did-not-occur-in-vacuum/
[4] Ibid.
[5] See: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142932
[6] See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N16/463/89/PDF/N1646389.pdf?OpenElement
[7] See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/059/75/PDF/NR005975.pdf?OpenElement
[8] See Russell: https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5576-RussellMidEast.htm
[9] See “zionism is racism” resolution: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/000/92/PDF/NR000092.pdf?OpenElement
[10] See the latest Amnesty International Report:
[11] See: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/038/88/PDF/NR003888.pdf?OpenElement
[12] Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990), p. 268.
[13] Itamar Rabinovich, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader Statesman (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 158.
[14] Ibid., p. 100.
[15] Robert Slater, Rabin of Israel: Warrior for Peace (New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1996), p. 477.
[16] See both letters with other relevant documents pertaining to the Oslo Accords in Omar Massalha, Towards the Long-Promised Peace (London: Saqi Books, 1994), p. 302. Also see Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, editors, The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, Sixth Revised Edition, (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).
[17] See Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, op.cit., pp. 379-404. Also, Ziad Abu-Amr, Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994).
[18] Robert Slate, op.cit., pp. 590-91.
[19] Rabinovich, op.cit., p. 221.
[20] Ibid., p. 224.
[21] Ibid., p. 225.
[22] Ibid., pp. 226-7.
[23] Ibid., p. 228.
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JFR Jr ran an article in his George magazine abou5 how the Mossad killed Rabin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130601040522/http://www.jfkmontreal.com/jfk_jr_&_rabin.htm
According to the late, great Israeli journalist Barry Chamish (who died in the US a few years ago), in his magnum opus, “Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?”, Amir was a patsy who did indeed shoot Rabin but that bullet did not kill him. The hospital he was taken to was miles away and it took a long time to get him there (whereas there were closer hospitals nearby), and in fact was murdered while in the hospital by security operatives including agents of Mossad and Shin Bet. In other words, Yagil Amir, who was a Jewish supremacist, was Israel’s Lee Harvey Oswald. Why was he murdered? The Oslo Accords, of course. And, in the Netflix movie “Rabin, the Last Day” about the Amir trial, there is a scene near the beginning of Netanyahu calling for “death to Arabs” (Palestinians) and an end to Rabin’s leadership. So yes, Benny boy may have had a hand in this as well.
Rabin’s murder was not an isolated incident.
Jimmy Dore recently had a couple of segments discussing the staunchly supportive statements by RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard in support of Israel’s current massacre of Palestinians. He contrasted their previous fact-based, principled stands on other issues, and expressed bewilderment at their apparent massive ignorance about Israel’s long history of terrorizing the Palestinians, mass murders, and mass land thefts. He noted that RFK Jr sounded like John Bolton.
The strange features of the RFK Jr and Gabbard cases (and others as well) is that these people have demonstrated the research and analysis abilities to be fully aware of Israel’s longstanding policies of ethnic “cleansing”. And that Israel’s current operation is a direct extension of that longstanding ethnic “cleansing” process. RFK Jr has definitely researched his father’s assassination, and Tulsi was observed with the excellent James Douglass book on the JFK assassination JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters. And yet in the case of Israel’s rampant terrorism their abilities seem to vanish. Further, while ignoring most of the reality their statements are confined precisely to Israeli propaganda points.
A very simple explanation for this apparently inexplicable phenomenon is that they are being coerced. They may be personally threatened with assassination.
American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations – The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mossad-assassinations/
Even more insidious, they may have a beloved family member threatened with assassination. Alternatively, no one wants to have a beloved daughter or niece snatched into a sex trafficking operation. In fact, there is a documented case of arch-Zionist John Bolton threatening someone’s children.
Above quote from the section Alliance with the Mob in War Profiteers and Israel’s Bank
https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.html
Armed and financed by the U.S., Israel never interested in peace. For its part, the U.S. was never an honest broker. The U.S. has been and is following Zionist dictates. The Jews have an iron grip on every U.S. politicians and Jews own almost the entire U.S. mainstream media and the entertainment industry. This will allow the Jews to brainwash and turn Americans into an ignorant and bewildered herd. Hence, Israel is above all and takes precedence over every U.S. interest.
“We [in the US-West] live under Fascist rule far worse than that of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis”. “Fascism continues where it was left in a different form serving those Anglo-Saxon regimes (owned by Jews) who used it very cleverly relying on the media and entertainment industry to normalize it and make it acceptable”.
Today, the Western media are playing a big role in dehumanizing Arabs and the Palestinians in particular and normalizing the ongoing Genocide by Israeli Jews and their U.S.-Western supporters. The Israeli Nazis are specifically targeting Palestinian. American scholar Norman Finkelstein accurately said, Israel is worse than Nazi Germany and South Africa under Apartheid.
Here in Australia, the country with the most Nazis-like anti-Muslims laws, the regime and the media (without exception) are fully behind the Israeli Nazis and make it very clear that they are proud of being complicit in the ongoing Genocide by the Israeli Nazis. Any sympathy for the Palestinians is unacceptable and have dire consequences.
Western politicians and the media can’t imagine HAMAS being noble and chivalrous fighters, and Israelis being cowardly child-killing terrorists, though such is obviously the case. More than 5000 children and babies have been murdered. The UN Secretary Guterres said: Israeli Jews have turned “Gaza into a graveyard for children.” Israelis can’t acknowledge that the vast majority of the world disagrees with them for very good reasons, not because of “antisemitism.” More than 17000 Palestinian civilians have been needlessly killed. It doesn’t make sense and you can’t win war by killing women and children unless the aim is Genocide, a real in broad daylight Holocaust.
https://therealnews.com/israel-genocide-gaza-palestine-netanyahu
Chris Hedges has an expanded version of Netanyahu’s involvement in Rabin’s death.
Netanyahu has always been a nasty thug, and got away with it until is recent screw-up.
The US has a wildly popular equivalent – the fat orange guy.
https://www.vox.com/21506029/trump-violence-tweets-racist-hate-speech
The state of Georgia has found it necessary to keep the names of jurors for the upcoming trial there secret.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/18/georgia-trump-grand-jury-threats-investigation
Trump’s isolationist tendencies *might* mean a little less US violence overseas – unless the bribes offered to him are substantial enough. But his return to office would guarantee a US government copying the worst features of the Apartheid state. It’s quite possible every future election which didn’t retain DJT or one of his sons would be declared “stolen”.
Israel is the middle eastern franchisee of Terrorists’R’Us.
Thank you for the Bertrand Russell quote. I’d never read it before. About Yitzhak Rabin, he was probably the last civilized leader of Israel. Naturally the forces now in power had him eradicated. God willing, their comeuppance is on its way.
Rabin’s assassination was a signal to the crazy inmates that
they were now in charge of the asylum. His killer might as
well be dictating Israel’s genocidal actions against the
Palestinians from his jail cell. Netanyahu is now his disciple,
as surely as he was formerly his inspiration to murder.
Free Palestine!
Yes, that’s very important here, the work of Barry Chamish (1952-2016), forced to flee from Israel to save his life, and his book from 2000, ‘Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?’ A summary of Chamish’s findings is here:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/03/yigal-amir-is-israels-oswald/
Notably, right-wing religious Zionist Chamish argued that Rabin was killed because he was in fact a hard-liner AGAINST much of the peace process, and supported the ‘Greater Israel’ expansionist project more than others. Chamish saw Peres and others as engaged in a long-term undermining of religious Zionist Israel in favour of the more Soros-type internationalist NWO project (with HQ in Jerusalem) … which may in fact be the ultimate end result of Israel’s horrific crimes now in the war in Gaza.
Thanks, and very disappointing about RFK, Jr. Not the first disappointing thing about him, either. For a time I was hoping he’d be the antidote to our sclerotic, two-party system. There’s not a single candidate from either R or D that’s worth supporting. Which comes as no surprise. But who is there?
What is it about Jews and murder and revenge? These psychopaths have been murdering and committing every abomination imaginable, starting in the Old Testament. Virtually every war and civil war fought by Europeans over the last several centuries centers around assassinations that in someway involve Jews.
Rabin was in Dallas.
Everything is a matter of criminal essence.
The greatest crime was committed by white governments that conspired to allow the invasion and conquest of Palestinian territory in the style of the Indigenous-African Genocide by whites in the Middle Ages, murdering women and children in the name of their God, thereby turning Christianity into a religion of thieves and murderers.
That is why Ariel Sharon would later say to then-President Bush “we do the same things that you white people have always done: we kill to steal land.” A divine right, it is assumed that they also kill in the name of their God.
That was a conversation between bandits.
But as the old saying goes: “Not everything can be bought in this life, but everything is paid for.” And the millennia-old wave of hatred that has spread over the world must end with its own authors.
It’s worth requoting Netanyahu’s line which opens this excellent article:
I wonder whether Ron Unz still feels confident in dismissing the 10/7 false flag hypothesis as pro-Israel disinformation.
The massacre at the Hebron Cave of Patriarchs/Ibrahim Mosque by Goldstein was pivotal. The Israeli army came in and made it even more impossible for Arabs to live in Hebron after a lunatic shot up the Mosque. Hebron used to be a thriving market town populated by Arabs. Now it’s a Sepulchur.
The fate of every brave man who tries to do right.
I have read that the hospital to which Rabin was taken was the closest, and a very short time away by car (about a minute or less), but the driver unaccountably became lost, taking a long time (many minutes) to reach it.
Correct me if I am wrong on that point, but if you wish to do so, give details.
No credence for Jabba the Gut aka the Boiling Frog.
However, the real pre-history of 10/7 is the murder of Qasem Soleimani, as instigated by one Donald S. Trump.
FORMER UN WEAPONS INSPECTOR SCOTT RITTER INTERVIEWED BY MIKE ADAMS ON THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR
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Although Gaza is the focal point of the MSM; Israel and the United States end game is war with Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan to widen Israel’s borders. Bibi and Biden also get to avoid any criminal prosecutions while this war rages onward.
You can only have peace when the worst of your enemies will agree to it (Netanyahu) but until then it’s wishful thinking to depend on the best of your enemies (Rabin) which won’t get you anywhere fast.
I hope your explanation is true about why Kennedy gushes over Israel like a teenager in love. It may offer a glimmer of hope for us to reverse the coup of November 22, 1963 and emerge from Zionist control over foreign policy and domestic speech.
I see it this way: we’re bound to have an ardent Zionist “elected” President in 2024, so we might as well go with Kennedy even though he’s head over heels for Israel, because of all the Zionists we will get as President, he’s the only one who
1. is smart enough to see his apologia for Israel is baseless,
2. opposes the war in the Ukraine,
3. is smart and studious enough to see that there is convincing circumstantial evidence that Israel had a hand in the murder of his uncle and father,
4. is therefore the only one with a personal stake in seeking justice for those murders, and
5. is the only one with the savvy, experience, contacts, and courage to lead a reversal of the 1963 coup.
In short, a Pascal wager if decoupling from Israel is your prime issue: he offers a glimmer of hope with nothing to lose, while all the others are worthless on this issue.
So , according to the UN Secretary General Guterres , there can never be a justification for the use of force to rectify the injustice of Theft and Murder concealed in Conspiracy and covered by a vail of deceit ! Justice requires that Law Breakers be held accountable for transgression of the Law. Without accountability there can be no order but only disorder and War is the ultimate expression of it . So very simple ! As long as the UN is dominated by American Exceptionalism , British Imperialism , Neo Colonialism , Zionism and it’s companion Freemasonry with it’s Republican Democratic Ideologies of Communism , Socialism , Fascism , Capitalism , Marxism , all of which are fruits of the Renaissance and age of Enlightenment Philosophy, there will be War and Rumor if Wars, Nation against Nation. Tribe against Tribe . The Holy Prophets have spoken and are speaking ! The Lord thy God is not Mocked , Man shall reap what he sows . War and desolations are decreed and Jerusalem shall be a cup of trembling to the Nations .
Alah u Akbar!
Rabin’s life is prehistory to the Jews holocausting yet another people – right now the Palestinians of Gaza.
Rabin layed the foundations for the violence of Jsrael. Rabid Rabin was no exception at all.
Judaism is not a religion. Jews are not a nation, not a race; but mafia.
So keep your story of “a good Jew.” Where is Rabin now? In hell?!
Back home at his father’s?!
A good Jew refuses to be a Jew, just like a good catholic rejects catholism and Vatica alltogether.
Allah u Kabir!
Sing along..
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20231111/16352339/Zionist-is-my-name.htm
As I have previously commented at UNZ: The Israelis continue to repeat an error in judgement. I reference John 18:40 quote: They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber” ….. Be it in the likeness of a Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon or that bomb throwing former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin, the people continue to re-elect scoundrels and when a peacenik “accidentally” appears such as Yitzhak Rabin, he is killed for the same reasons the historical Jesus was- an advocate of love even towards your enemies with equality and prosperity for all. Officials who are advocates of peace like JFK and Rabin were murdered for desiring vigorous diplomacy over applying brute force and too, debt forgiveness on a spiritual and economic level defined by the economist Michael Hudson. There’s an undertow beneath Hudson’s description of a jubilee year; to forgive the debt of the antisemitism, forgive vengeful indigenous Arabs and the bitterness on all sides of this present day issue..
Who will succeed Netanyahu? Will the voting public in Israel once again be manipulated into electing another Barabbas? It is a known fact that Intel agencies like the CIA plan twenty and even thirty years in advance of presidential election cycles to bring their choice of candidate(s) to the Oval Office. Assassination by murder or character, are just some of the tools. They also blow up pipelines…. The target list goes on and on, JFK, RFK, Italy’s Enrico Mattei, he planned to buy oil from the USSR or the popular German Banker Alfred Herrhausen, a murder that coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall. His draft of an upcoming speech in NYC advocated the reestablishment of economic ties with Russia. Note: the first eleven pages of that speech somehow went missing and were never found.
As an American, I can draw a few additional parallels between the State of Israel and USA. The murders, persecution, broken agreements, land confiscations and other injustice(s) done to the Red Man. Again, the assassinations of JFK, his son and RFK all point to the same error in judgement by Intel agencies and the voting public…. give us Barabbas!
Today, JFK jr., wears carbon fiber industrial strength knee pads and has star of david tattoos on his buns. He’s working hard to become the President.
I sense a new syncretism/religion is about to be born.
The correct position for whites is to ignore Israeli demands and expel Jews. Call it Nazwegianism. Tommy Robinson and his gang just got mass arrested in London counter protesting the Pro Palestinian marchers. KosherNat got stomped by the Met. This of course gives Tommy street Fred again but the educated Cops must know that he’s a Zionist shill.
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Thank you @JWalters for this response. Whitney Webb has written a two-volume piece on One Nation Under Blackmail. It’s my next project to go through both to see whether the coercion you mention is simply blackmail. Gabbard and RFK Jr are controlled opposition who tell the truth on many levels but can’t risk telling the whole truth. MSM expects that we’ll take their crumbs of truth. No more crumbs for me.
Is he playing Hamlet?
How is the weather in Tel Aviv, dear Moshe?
😏
Nice piece.
…and shortly after the article ran in George, JFK Jr’s plane just fell out of the sky…
Sailer buys this, LOL.
What a total disgrace. In a way, it’s illuminating because it exposes that the US is a total whore to Zion.
AshkeNazi Israel is worse than Nazi Germany.
the Indigenous-African Genocide by whites in the Middle Ages
What do you have in mind?
Learning from his predecessor:
Blessed are the peacemakers …
Unless they cut into the profits of the munitions cartel. Then blow their brains out!!!
RIP Sadat & Rabin.
Of course, there are factions within the Palestinian liberation movement,
and the Israelis have tried to exploit these differences, just as Cubas does
with his comment.
Some people are infested with falseflagitis, an incurable brain disorder
of addled stategists. They are unable to explain why Netanyahu decided
to end his career in such a bizarre way. They might argue that his health
problems are more serious than the public knows, and that he wanted
to murder as many Arabs as possible to impress the Devil.
As bad as Trump, the blowhard, may be, he’s not in the same league as Netanyahu, the psychopath.
Why, because they all voted for Stacy Abrams?
The lawfare being used against Trump only exposes the US for the Banana Republic, owned by Israel, that it is.
Once you understand that the March 24, 1933 “Judea Declares war On Germany” was due to (((them))) understanding the NSDAP was a threat to the existing international banking cartel’s scam, you will understand that the invention of terms like AshkeNazi are an insult to the NSDAP. Zionist “Israel” is the safe house for the cartel and its financial criminals of the world.
Some say Yitzhak Rabin was shot but did he die?
Some say one of his bodyguard told Yitzhak’s wife “don’t worry, he’s okay.”
Some say: abracadabra 🪄
Without any doubt, having victimhood card in your hand can achieve unbelievable benefits. After holocaust 1 card a new victimhood card is being born by the October 7 events (real or not) – holocaust 2. It is a powerful card bringing immediate benefits.
“There are simply no words.” – Gilad Erdan
Blame X’s policy of a maximum of 280 characters per message. Killing women, children and the elderly? Hamas did it on October 07, you’re still doing it today.
This is a familiar pattern…was Clinton or Blair prosecuted for bombing Serbian civilians? No, it was Milosevic sent to gallows for defending his country against NATO criminals.
Thanks for that analysis. I find it extremely compelling.
Also, I suspect the Zionists do not believe Kennedy’s declarations of love. That would explain why their corporate media is bombarding him with an all-out fraudulent smear campaign as an “anti-vaxxer”. Without those declarations he would also be being bombarded with a fraudulent “anti-Semite” smear campaign. If Kennedy’s declarations are a tactical deception aimed at taking down the evil Zionist Empire, then I’d say they are fully morally justified.
The Zionist Empire’s massive onslaught against Trump makes me think they don’t believe his declarations of love either.
If I had an election choice between Kennedy and Trump I would choose Kennedy. As you point out, Kennedy is especially well-qualified to clean the evil Zionists out of our system. This is by both his extensive professional experience fighting corruption and his personal motivation. Trump, on the other hand, has to placate a base heavy with “Christian” Zionists. So turning against the evil Zionist Empire would have an added difficult maneuver for him.
Whitney Webb is a great reporter. I haven’t read her book(s), but I did read many of her articles which were greatly expanded upon in the book. Essential information for understanding much of what’s happening today.
I could imagine RFK Jr being susceptible to blackmail from some of his earlier days. It’s a lot harder for me to imagine Tulsi being vulnerable blackmail. Let us know what you conclude.
The Hag’s Wig.
As is/was the pejorative term “Nazi,” used by others to attempt to ridicule, and perhaps obfuscate the program of, the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Whereas “Ashkenazi” is what the Eastern European Jews call themselves, as I understand things.
In concert with some others I know, I never use the term “Nazi” to refer to German National Socialists, primarily because it has devolved into a cartoon label, worthy of Marvel Comics “villain” characters, and nothing else. By writing out “National Socialists,” I hope to awake at least some curiosity in at least some people.
I am certainly no fan of the thugocracy which, in the tradition of totalitarian governments throughout history, consolidated its power by murdering its political enemies („Aktion Kolibri”), but, as an American of German heritage, I am fed up with the demonization of everything German by those with their own agendas. Calling things by their right names, it seems to me, may be a first step towards attenuating the miasma of knee jerk “hate speech” (to borrow a currently fashionable term, which I incidentally detest) directed towards all, past and present, who happen to come from the land of (most of) my own ancestors.
Yep. Every time some scumbag bigtime Jewish criminal is about to get busted in the U.S., he hightails it to the “Jewish Paradise.” Personally, I would be happy with this result:
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except with the “Land of Israel” being the parcel which is fenced off (“for their own protection”, you understand). All electronic communication will be severed. There will be no Arabs, or any other Gentiles, in the “Land of Israel.” Only Jews, and the world they make for themselves. Once they go in, they do not come out, nor have any communication with the world beyond the walls.
They will be kept under satellite surveillance. The population, after all, will consist of serious criminals who have chosen to remove themselves permanently from polite society.
Especially a V.I.P. (Victim In Perpetuity) card.
He had nothing “in mind.”
He just made it up.
Rep.Thomas Massie is the only Republican in Congress to take a principled stand against supporting Israel. Sen. Rand Paul, has said Israel should deliver a “punishing response” on Gaza, although he may not have realized the horror that the Israelis had in mind.
Still, inciting an already rabid dog to become more berserk is just crazy as hell.It is sad that we can only harbor a sliver of hope that Trump or Kennedy may be playing the Jews’ own game of deceit against them by pretending to support their genocide.
” Nazi ” is the most overused and incorrectly used term in human history.
2 years. shortly. whatever.
That is true according to his widow Leah Rabin, who wrote the following in her book “Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy”:
Barry Chamish, in his book “The Last Days of Israel”, included a review of Michael Collins Piper’s “Final Judgment” in which he noted:
I tried posting this comment a day or so ago but it would not post… Here it is again regarding Rabin’s murder. According to Israeli journalist (who was exiled from Israel after publishing this book) Barry Chamish, in his book “Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?” the killer was not Yagil Amir (who shot him but did not kill him), but an intel plot while Rabin was at a hospital almost an hour away from where he was shot (when he could have been at a close hospital). Hopefully it posts this time!
Speaking of Chamish (the late, great Chamish who died a few years ago, a truth-teller regarding Israel), if you haven’t read “Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?” it’s well worth the read. The killer was not Amir, but some intel operation by a high-up official.
Sorry, my comment of a day or so ago WAS POSTED! Thanks!
usually agree with you j, but not on this. imho bobby kennedy is compromised, not cagey. they own him and his disgusting remarks about the palestinians, is all the proof i need to understand this. i will no longer accept trumpian promises of a future draining of the swamp. the swamp is bigger than ever, and neither trump, nor bobby will do anything but increase the swamp, they are neither swamp thing or the toxic avenger.
immho, this sad, as i believe bobby kennedy to be a good man comprised by his own human weaknesses, wherein trump is the same narcissistic nothing that he has always been, willing to spew whatever supremacist horseshit they feed him, through his “reality show” script, handed to him to read, in an obvious c- middle school skill level. yeah there is a difference between the two, and that is what makes me sad and quite frankly i feel sorry for rfk jr., having to whore himself for the same people that murdered his father and uncle. please understand that these murders are fully enjoying making him grovel and support his families murders, that is exactly what drives them.
bobby obviously believes this to be the case, or he wouldn’t speak such filth to the world, besmirching his good work with the childrens defense fund, which is the secondary objective of the hubristic demons that seek his demise.
this is the defining moment in human history, right now bobby is standing on the losing side, let’s hope he can rehabilitate his reputation, by helping to reveal to the world, the biological war crimes of these zioneocon murderers.
According to a different article, the two shots were fired into Rabin’s corpse while at the hospital. The fatal shot was fired into the chest of an alive and unharmed Rabin while en route to the hospital, a four minute trip that took 22 minutes. (https://www.globalresearch.ca/yigal-amir-israel-oswald/5839852)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/yigal-amir-israel-oswald/5839852
An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy Jr
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=275644
The Judas Goats—The Enemy Within:
By Michael Collins Piper
https://ia802600.us.archive.org/11/items/the-judas-goats-the-enemy-within-michael-collins-piper-2006-multivoice/The%20Judas%20Goats%20The%20Enemy%20Within%20-%20Michael%20Collins%20Piper%202006.pdf
Ireland must refer Israel to the International Criminal Court now
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Jerusalem Was Ground To Powder Once: Could It Happen Again? – 11/5/23 By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
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Thanks,
I am in no position to judge if your account is definitive, but have read about it. That Rabin was delivered to the closest hospital, only a few hundred metres away, and that it took a ridiculously long time are simple facts.
The rest, no idea. Must watch the vid. again.
You would likely know that our former P.M. Abe (I’m not a fan, but felt very bad seeing it) was shot by a man who had made a kind of zip-gun, Abe fell almost immediately. It was immediate. Rabin remained standing, so there is that.
What I posted is cut and pasted from the article at the link. The assassin claimed that his job was to fire blanks, hence the article’s characterization of him as a patsy like Oswald, and also why Rabin didn’t fall.
Besides the circumstances surrounding Rabin’s death, what struck me in the article is that the author suggests Rabin was not necessarily pro-peace and was having serious doubts about the Oslo peace process at the time of his death. Rabin’s life attests to the fact he was not anti-war. More than anything, he was pro-Israel, and committed to the security and viability of the Israeli state. He was killed by Revisionist Zionists (expansionists), who viewed talk of ceding one inch of Israeli territory as justification for murder. Perhaps Rabin was killed because he was only pro-war and not extremely pro-war.
I remember when Abe was killed. It seemed like he loved Japan and I wondered if he was killed by an internationalist faction within the country.
Abe did love Japan. Through his wife and party, though, they were giving much money to the Unification Church (Moonies).
Where the assassin Yamagami enters is that his mother gave everything to the Moonies (part should have been his inheritance) years ago (2002), bears a grudge, later he finds out about what the governing party has been doing in the same respect.
Decides to do something about it.
Makes a home-brew firearm, and decides to punish someone, Abe’s wife is the main conduit, so he selects Abe. Abe would certainly have been aware of the flows to the Moonies, since his wife was central to them.
So, Yamagami Tetsuya finds a good place and acts. It is all very logical really.
Obscuring conspiracy types invent a second gunman.
That is a deflection and lie, watch the video, Yamagami did what he wanted to do, no help needed.
The real question from a sincere angle of conspiracy, is what was (or is) the governing party and were (or are) elements of government doing throwing money at the moonies?
I reply for clarification.
Yamagami built his home-brew weapons (very enterprising man!) with the aim of using them on high Moony leaders. Cops said he had five pipe guns (one three-barreled) and an explosive device (I would guess unfinished).
Realising he wouldn’t be able to get any of them, and having learned of support by Abe’s wife and Abe’s party or elemenents of it for the Moonies, he decided to take his grudge against the Moonies out on Abe.
Yamagima missed with the first shot, but hit with the second, fatally, Abe pitched forward immediately, that of course is related to the first part of your original post re. Rabin. Amir used blanks? Later execution? Amir was point blank range, Rabin remained standing.
Yamagami’s action has become a popular cause, and popular here, even small protests in his support, once you undestand his reasons, that he was driven to it.
Dramatisations, T.V. and movie are in preparation, comics,a book.
He will likely not be executed, too popular now. Long prison term, not avoidable.
Thank you for posting this clarification, CG. I hadn’t realized the extent of the Moony movement in Japan and the Far East. It is not something that I often come across in the West. They sound like a group that cannot be ignored in Japan, because their size and wealth gives them some influence. And for unknown reasons, the Japanese government is giving them money, as you said, and Yamagami felt like his mother gave them his inheritance. Very strange. I am now interested in doing more research.
I came across a poem (below) written by the group’s founder. My initial reaction was that he is trying to process and come to terms with the aftermath of the Second World War, but the poem was written in 1936, so I don’t know.
Crown of Glory
By: Rev. Moon (at the age of 16)
When I doubt people, I feel pain.
When I judge people, it is unbearable.
When I hate people, there is no value to my existence.
Yet if I believe, I am deceived.
If I love, I am betrayed
Suffering and grieving tonight, my head in my hands.
Am I wrong?
Yes I am wrong.
Even though we are deceived, still believe,
Though we are betrayed, still forgive.
Love completely, even those who hate you.
Wipe your tears away and welcome with a smile
Those who know nothing but deceit,
And those who betray without regret.
O, Master, the pain of loving.
Look at my hands.
Place your hand on my chest.
My heart is bursting, such agony.
But when I love those who acted against me,
I brought victory.
If you have done the same things,
I will give you the Crown of Glory.
I hadn’t ever realised that the Moonies heavily operate here before, they are not very visible. See the name in the press, on T.V. but various other cults (even Aum Shinrikyo after the subway sarin attacks were much more visible for a few years).
Jehovah’s Witnesses are far more visible than the Unification Church, the J.W.’s are so Juadaeicized that they can’t claim to be a church, and they don’t.
The Unification Church is as much a ‘church’ as the Church of Scientology.
Except for some of the nationalistic Buddhist cults (mainly Nichiren), the biggest one is Souka Gakkai (literal translation: study group for increased storing), which was big among western pop stars years ago.
The second is ‘Garden of New Angels’.
Former claims ten million adherents in Japan but is intent on international expansion, latter claims about 1.5 million.
LDP’s electoral coalition used to depend on support from Souka Gakkai’s political wing (Public Illumination Party), and still does now.
Ideas of Soukai Gakkai are much like ideas of the Unification ‘Church’, and checking blog posts by people who likely know more of these things than me, either some in LDP were supporting the ‘Unification Church’ as a thing opposed to their coalition partner’s own affilation with Souka Gakkai, or ‘Unification Church’ became unified or mixed with Souka Gakkai.
Very confusing, but points of certainty are that Yamagami shot Abe because he bore a grudge over his mother having given all of her money to the Moonies, and he didn’t have the chance to hit a Moony leader, so hit someone involved in throwing money at them instead.
The situation with the JWs is similar in America. They are more of a nuisance than a threat, at least on the surface, and the worst they can do is waste your time by knocking on your door to talk about their fringe cult. But if some of these fringe groups in Japan are connected to the ruling political party, the LDP, then that is a much graver concern.
This comparison might help Americans to understand the role of Moonies (Unification Church) in Japan. If it is anything like Scientology, then this “church” presents itself as relatively harmless with a few high-profile celebrities who adhere to its practice. Yet it is known for blackmail and manipulation, and it’s splinter group, the Process Church, has been implicated in some of the most notorious serial murders of the twentieth-century
The other two (ostensibly Buddhist groups) Souka Gakkai (value-stocking study society) and Shin Nyoen (new garden of nymphs, I mis-translated as angels) are much like Scientology as far as emphasis on recruiting celebrities, the former had many famous westerners at one time, likely still does, the latter, mainly only Japanese performers.
The origin of the latter is much like the origin of the Moonies, a couple posing at being holy and receiving revelations eighty or so years ago.
Origins of Souka Gakkai are a little different, they started as a lay branch of Nichiren (has many branches), a kind of nationalistic and in many cases, syncretic Buddhism.
However, they have key points in common with Moonies, (and Scientology) ‘believe in us, give enough cash, and you will be rich’, and (not so much for Scientology, which doesn’t push that, just separates children from parents), ‘marry alien people’. Both Souka Gakkai and the Moonies push it. Must read and hear more of opinions here re. Yamagami’s action.
He is already a minor folk hero.
I have read of Process, very strange results.
By ‘here’ I mean place, not Web site.
The information that you are sharing is interesting, but most interesting is to learn of Yamagami’s status as folk hero. You had also mentioned that it is unlikely he will be executed for Abe’s assassination. If Abe was not an unpopular prime minister, then this suggests that there may be a strong dislike of the Moonies among the population. Perhaps the people feel that the Moonies have too great an influence, and you said the Japanese government is giving them money for some reason. In America, we also have a religious organization, a Political Action Committee, that exerts a heavy influence on the government, but I’m not sure how similar AIPAC is to the Moonies