In case you haven't noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down anytime in the near future. In fact, if anything, the Netanyahu regime seems to be accelerating the violence to downright dizzying heights of global sadism with every new corner of the map he bombs.
What began in October of 2023 as a gruesome revenge kick in the Gaza Strip over a Hamas attack that the Nakba made a forgone conclusion has rapidly evolved into a twenty-month rampage against everyone and everything that got in Bibi's way to the maternity ward. Now, nearly 35,000 separate acts of IDF facilitated terrorism have scarred the face of seven separate sovereign nations and counting so far.
Israel currently occupies large portions of Southern Lebanon which the invaders back in Tel Aviv are pushing to forcibly depopulate and turn into a US Military controlled "Trump Zone" complete with a new phalanx of permanent Israeli bases. Meanwhile, just north in Syria, where an Al-Qaeda affiliated government now clings to power largely as a result of Israeli destabilization, IDF forces are pushing deeper and deeper into the long-embattled nation's territory while launching airstrikes on the capitol of Damascus and openly contemplating mandating the forced demilitarization of the entire country.
In Yemen, where the Houthi rebels have shown the region what real solidarity looks like by cutting off Israeli access to the Red Sea, Bibi has bombed power plants, oil refineries, neighborhoods and other forms of civilian infrastructure, assassinating the nation's prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and murdering 25 journalists from the nation's two most prominent newspapers in the process. In Doha, the capitol of the Kingdom of Qatar, Israeli airstrikes targeted a gathering of Hamas diplomats meeting to discuss the Trump regime's latest peace proposal.
This was a remarkably similar set-up to the one that kicked off Israel and America's 12-Day War on Iran, when scores of senior Iranian military officials were lured into a false sense of security by Washington diplomacy only to be obliterated at the peace table. And as if bombing potential peacemakers weren't enough, Israel has even used its bloodthirsty military to target unarmed international activists, launching incendiary drone strikes on boats in the waters off the coast of Tunisia that are being used by the Global Sumud Flotilla to bring aid to starving Gazans.
Amazingly, none of this mayhem has done a thing to slow down Israel's final solution to the Palestinian question in Gaza where more than ten percent of the population is now either dead or dying nor in the West Bank where Israel's sinister Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has proposed a plan to annex 82% of the territory promised to Palestine by the United Nations who have only just recently recognized the Nakba as an actual fucking genocide.
All of this violence in all of these nations is downright dizzying for anyone to comprehend but it really can't be considered incredibly shocking considering that the Zionist state of Israel has always been an expansionist project by nature.
Israel's own founding fathers announced their intentions for greater conquest all the way back during the United Kingdom's partition of Mandatory Palestine in 1937, with David Ben-Gurion stating "The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country" with Israel's future first president Chaim Weizmann chiming in with "We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time... this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years."
For those men as well as Netanyahu's, "the whole country" is a Greater Israel based on ancient religious folklore, a land that the ghastly Mr. Smotrich has recently suggested should include all of Jordan and parts of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq.
Nevertheless, there seems to be something else going on here, something far more global in nature. As noted above, the Trump Administration's involvement in this Abrahamic revanchist jihad has been consistently intimate in nature even by Washington standards, making all of these operations feel eerily familiar to anyone who survived the first decade of George W. Bush's War on Terror. In fact, if I didn't know better, I could swear a neoconservative was still in the Oval Office.
Bibi's rapidly unraveling plans for the Middle East match up pretty consistently with those advocated by the Bush administration and the various neocon think tanks like the Project for a New American Century that filled its ranks, and this is far from a coincidence.
One of the foundational documents of the modern neoconservative movement, the so-called Clean Break Report of 1996, was put together by Reagan cabinet cancer and Bush Family Svengali Richard Perle at the behest of none other than also then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. The document outlined a robust new approach to America's relationship with Israel and the Middle East as a whole that included the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the containment of Syria through a series of US sponsored proxy wars and the total rejection of any Palestinian state.
Many of these same neoconservatives would go on to use the attacks on 9/11 five years later in a disturbingly similar fashion to the way Bibi currently uses October 7th to expand this mission to include the mythical Axis of Evil which would grow to include every major rival to American hegemony in the region, beginning with Iraq and ending with Iran. All of this was part of a quite open strategy to build the Washington military-industrial leviathan into a new Rome on the ashes of the former Soviet Union so as to ensure that America would reign over the globe indefinitely as the planet's only remaining superpower.
It didn't exactly work out as planned. The first target, Iraq, rapidly turned into Babylonian quicksand with the Mullahs wisely using the ensuing chaos to empower their Shia allies in the region. Thus, the Bush administration ended up closing its ambitious 8-year-plan on a sour note of epic failure, leaving much of their own once trigger-happy constituency deeply disgruntled with interventionism itself in the process. In many ways the rise of MAGA has come to be seen as the antithesis of all things neocon, but is it really?
While the current Trump Administration is certainly shifting the weight of our own military forces back towards the Western Hemisphere, we have never seen a White House move in lockstep with Israeli foreign policy quite like this one. Donald Trump has played an obnoxiously outsized role in every single escalation Israel has made towards making Zion great again, from offering to take military control of depopulated chunks of Gaza and Lebanon to using its diplomatic channels to aid Israeli attacks in Tehran and Doha.
The results speak for themselves. While Trump pretends to be the Antibush and a badly battered American war machine sets its sites on a new Monroe Doctrine to prep the West for a final showdown with China, Washington has essentially just outsourced the project for a New American Century to Israel with similar plans to turn Volodymyr Zelensky into a kind of European Netanyahu. In other words, neoconservatism is alive and well under Donald Trump, it's simply rebranding in trying times.
It is important to remember that these rats have always been craven survivalists with few partisan allegiances. After all, the neocon movement began in the Democratic Party under Scoop Jackson before converting to Christian revanchism under Ronald Reagan then transforming into a slightly more secular New World Order under HW Bush.
The hustle continued even after Dubya sank the ship in 2008 with stow aways in the Obama regime like David Petraeus who briefly oversaw Afghanistan after igniting the proxy wars that would lead to the convenient rise of the Islamic State farther west and Victoria Nuland who would play a decisive hand in overthrowing democracy in Ukraine. They pretty much ran Trump's first administration with neocon dinosaurs like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams at the helm as well as newer true believers like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley filling up most of the prime defense positions for MAGA's first cabinet.
And who do you think run's Trump's current war machine? Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to the UN Elise Stefanik and the newly rechristened Secretary of War Pete Hegseth; all unreformed and unapologetic supporters of the Iraq War and devoted students of the New American Century.
Benjamin Netanyahu himself can be seen as a lifelong neocon in his own right but those of you who want to put Israel at the top of this pyramid scheme are looking at the blueprint upside down. Israel is and has always been an Anglo-American colony, completely dependent on a $3.8 billion-dollar annual allowance to keep them in hellfire missiles. If this money disappeared overnight, so would the fascist fever dream of a Greater Israel, like a mirage in the desert. A fact highlighted in flames by the 60% of Israel's own citizens in the goddamn streets right now as we speak, calling for Bibi's head on a steak. Only MAGA stands between them.
Zionism is a European export. Part of the same Atlantist-Anglo supremacist contagion that cooked up neoconservatism as a new form of phony American nationalism beholden to the same multinational corporate elites who own Donald Trump's ass like an Epstein whore.
Please, dearest motherfuckers, do yourselves a big fucking favor; forget the brands and fight the war machine birthed by Westphalia under any flag, in every party. By any name, that same foul beast drags us all to Armageddon unless we forget about bullshit politics long enough to start dragging back.
Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH
Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post
* Headache by Francis Black
* The Mess Inside by the Mountain Goats
* 100% by Sonic Youth
* Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco
* Devil's Haircut by Beck
* Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes
* Cinder Block by Samia
* Dylan Thomas by Better Oblivion Community Center
* The Captain by Kacey Chambers
* Stuck Between Stations by the Hold Steady
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