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The obscene abomination sparked on October 7 in Israel, Gaza, Western Asia and the world demands that some explicit attention be directed at the dangerous role of global Zionism. As presently constituted, Zionism is gaining traction as a catastrophic menace to the people, peoples, governments as well as all the living creatures of the world. Beginning in the late 1800s, Zionism became the driving force pushing the violent founding, expansion, and global interactions of the Jewish state of Israel.
Clearly the likes of BiBi Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Itamar Ben-Gvir must bear much of the political and criminal responsibility for engineering the permitted terror unleashed on the Israeli population outside the Gaza prison walls. No doubt the events set in motion by these three lead officials and the Knesset members that back them, occurred in tandem with the actions of other major players in the intertwined activities of the Israeli and US Deep States.
Following the blanket reporting throughout the West on the topic of Hamas savagery, a large-scale bombing campaign was initiated targeting 2.3 million Gazan Palestinians. The propaganda campaign accompanying the bombing included the fictional spectacle of the 40 beheaded Israeli babies.
By now it is clear that the object of this false flag merger of theatre, authentic deaths and extravagant exaggeration, was meant to produce the basis for public outrage inside and outside of Israel.
This murderous means of manufacturing shock and disgust was meant to arouse responses of indignation to be exploited by the Netanyahu government. The nature of this exploitation was to “justify” wholesale violations of international laws entailed in the assaults on the stateless “refugees” of Palestine.
The public was clearly informed that the intention of the Israeli attacks was to depopulate and displace those dubbed by Israeli officialdom as the “human animals” presently inhabiting Gaza. These “human animals” are largely the third generation of stateless Palestinian “refugees.” They are largely children whose grandparents were uprooted from their ancestral lands in 1948. The 1948 conflict is remembered in Jewish Israel as the “War of independence” and as the “Nakba”— the “catastrophe”— by the indigenous Arab population.
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For some of the Israeli conspirators, but especially Benjamin Netanyahu, the goals of the Oct. 7 psychological operation extended to drawing the US Armed Forces into a war with Iran. Ironically the growing demands of the Orthodox Jewish sects demanding Israeli enforcement of Jewish religious law, is pushing the country towards a theocratic mirror image of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Netanyahu is well known to be a major protagonist in the lies and crimes of 9/11.
Ever since the Netanyahu family hosted in 1979 the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, Israel’s most well-known politician became a maestro expert at exploiting public fears derived from the deployment of Muslim patsies, assets and mercenaries. In this fashion Netanyahu became the Zionist Napoleon of the Global War on Terror. He was an innovator in the development of public platforms for the merger of fact and fiction…. platforms of deception where most of our public policy hoaxes are formulated these days.
The magnitude of the current manufactured crisis through which we the people of the world are presently living, indicates the dire necessity of looking beyond the character flaws and criminal actions of specific individuals who preplanned the permitted terror events of Oct. 7.
The events of Oct. 7 are, of course, in one sense a part of a broad array of systemic malfunctions contributing to deep and pervasive breakdowns of humanity’s means of surviving, let alone thriving, on planet Earth.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map showing the occupied West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel during his speech at the UN General Assembly, 22 September 2023 (Reuters)
For a number of reasons, however, the explosion of the events of 7 Oct. onto the world scene stands as a telling example of Zionism as a unique genre of harm-creating ideology. An indicator and driver of Zionism’s malevolent power is the imposition of many obstructions put in the way of honest and open discussion of its impact on humanity. Zionism is not generally a subject that is open for public exercises in intellectual or philosophical discourse. Zionism, therefore, is an ideology unlike humanity’s many other isms.
The evidence is strong that humanity is being set up for another World War as the truly definitive point of entry into what was introduced in 2020 as the “Great Reset.” Who is playing Russian roulette with humanity’s destiny?
Agents at the highest echelons of Zionism’s elaborate pyramids of power think nothing of trying to steer the course of world history to better serve their lust for omnipotence and top-dog control.
This pattern is well illustrated by the role of Rothschild-related bankers in founding both Israel as well the architecture of the banking system adopted in 1913 by the future US superpower. To this day the Wall Street financial system remains a subordinate extension of the Rothschild-related financial institutions based largely in the City of London and its worldwide network of tax havens.
This same pattern of Zionist power is well illustrated by the outcomes of World Wars One and Two. Both world wars created the basis for major forward steps along the way to creating the Jewish States of Israel in 1947-48. Concerning these and other developments, many will be aware of the thick web of censorious institutions and individuals devoted to blocking easy public access to such basic features in our shared history. Typically, any analysis that touches on the magnitude and effect of Zionist power is smeared and pushed to the margins as the stuff of anti-Semitic “tropes” and “conspiracy theories.”
God’s Chosen People? God’s Chosen Country?
A large and growing body of evidence, including from Egyptian sources, is making it increasingly clear that the events of 7 Oct. are, in retrospect, very different from what was originally reported. Israeli officials with the complicity of a few Hamas insiders decided to roll the dice on humanity’s future by allowing and even helping the showcased violence unfold as it did.
Are the manufactured contortions of 7 Oct. indicative of an attempt to vie with God in the quest for omnipotence? Do Zionist principles extend beyond the conception of God’s Chosen People to a vision of God’s Chosen Country?
Notions of the collective superiority of Jews over other peoples and nations are derived from both the Torah and the Old Testament. Some observers take this notion further. They accuse Zionism and Zionists of drawing heavily on certain Talmudic sources calling for harsh discriminatory subjugation of non-Jews, sometimes referred to pejoratively as Goys.
Zionism is related to Judaism but the two are not the same. Indeed, since the Zionist idea was introduced by Theodor Herzl in 1897, many Jews have at various times been hostile to the creation of a Jewish state. The Jewish critics of Zionism feared that the creation of a country specifically for Jews, would place in jeopardy their own acceptance in countries like, for instance, France, Germany, Britain and the United States.
Many Jewish critics of Zionism feared that the quality of their loyalty to the countries of their birth and adoption might become suspect if a Jewish state was created. They feared that, with the consolidation of a Jewish state they might risk being tainted in the eyes of their non-Jewish countrymen. Some of these non-Jews might feel provoked to look for conflicts in the loyalties of their Jewish associates.
These doubts within the Jewish world have never been totally resolved. Moreover some religious Jews, including a number of vocal rabbis, assert that Judaism is at its very foundation a religion. Judaism, they assert, is demeaned by making it the constitutional basis for the making and operation of a distinct country.
Nevertheless, the Zionist agenda in the creation and building up of Israel has apparently been widely embraced in varying degrees by the majority of Jews in the Diaspora. This Jewish embrace of Israel, however, tends to favour voting with financial contributions rather than with full-fledged Jewish immigration into Israel as citizens and permanent residents. Indeed, the current troubles in Israel are resulting in increased rates of Jewish emigration away from that troubled and increasingly divided country.
Zionism and Censorship
It is important to emphasize that not all Jews are Zionists. Moreover, most Zionists are Christians rather than Jews. In fact Christian Zionists outnumber all of the Jews, Zionist or not, in the world. There are 50 million or so Christian Zionists belonging to evangelical churches mostly throughout North America.
This Christian Zionist contingent is fast becoming a major factor in the geopolitics of the war on Palestinians declared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the hours following the heavily contested events of 7 October.
The ironies are becoming abundant in that Israeli citizens, unlike most Christian Zionists, are fast becoming aware of the copious evidence pointing to sabotage and duplicity of the Israeli government against its own people. This paradoxical development is becoming a significant factor in the Gaza debacle.
Without going into specifics, George Galloway made passing reference to this phenomenon in hosting his big television hit, The Mother of All Talk Shows (MOAT).
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The London-based Internet telecast is developing an international audience of many millions of engaged participants mostly united in support of justice for Palestinians. This objective that has been front and centre in Galloway’s parliamentary and media career for about half a century. Some see George Galloway as one of the most skilled rhetoricians presently conversant in the English-speaking world.
Galloway referred in one broadcast to Israel, the United States and Canada as the three most hostile polities when comes to withholding support for the Palestinian cause. He mentioned that the US and Canada lacked any secure legislative platform for support by citizens seeking justice for the stateless Palestinians under the ruthless control of the Israeli government.
One way to view this legislative deficit in North America is to see it as a reflection of the dominant place of Christian Zionism whose adherents look to Greater Israel as the site of the climatic End Times predicted in the Book of Revelations.
The Zionist lobby in Canada, the USA and in many other countries exercises enormous influence over not only governing parties, but over the leadership of opposition parties as well. This pattern of Zionist control over legislative debate, combined with the notorious Zionist influence over the content of many media venues plus Internet search engines, is definitely gutting severely the vitality of democratic discourse. The power of Zionist agencies such as the AntiDefamation League in limiting free speech in the name of fighting hate speech is becoming increasingly infuriating, revolting and draconian.
The Israel-Gaza Conflict as Discussed in the Alberta Media
On 8 October I viewed with dismay the radical pro-Israel messages of Christian Zionism echoing throughout a group of alternative publications in my home Canadian province of Alberta. In the recent past these media venues were essential resources for the political community that brought Premier Daniel Smith to the job of Premier in the face of the strident opposition she faced from mainstream media venues.
As in many locations, these alternative media venues became essential resources in building a political base to oppose mandatory masking, lockdowns, injections, vaccine passports, digital IDS, Central Bank Digital Currency, and Climate Change extremism. This list is far from complete.
When Premier Smith took over the top job in Alberta, an oil and gas powerhouse, she famously identified with our movement by asserting that the so-called “unvaxxed” had experienced discrimination the likes of which was more pronounced than anything she had witnessed throughout her lifetime. On 8 October and in the days that followed I saw all the unity developed in our political contingent swept away by editorial diatribes in, for instance, Western Standard and True North. These diatribes seemed very consistent with unqualified reverence for Israel, a country that can do can no wrong in the eyes of many Christian Zionists.
Their editorialists of the venues in question piled all the blame on the stateless Palestinians of Gaza. Alternatively, the pundits saw only virtue in the Israeli claims of victimhood at the hands of a monstrous foe. The editorialists went further, declaring that anything other than unrestrained condemnation of the Palestinians was nothing short of anti-Semitic blaspheme.
This position was echoed by Rebel News, Ezra Levant’s Zionist web site that opposed for the last three years some aspects of Covidian tyranny. Rebel News, a fellow traveller in the Ben Shapiro school of “Conservative” broadcasting, sent Avi Yemini from Australia to Israel. His goal was to outdo the mainstream media in stoking up anti-Palestinian biases.
Christian Zionism in History and in Contemporary Times
Sometimes the term Christian Zionism is used to describe those Christian officials such as Lord Balfour or British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who played significant roles in helping to apply Zionist ideology to the process of creating in stages the Jewish state of Israel.
The development of Jewish Zionism together with the popularization of Christian Zionism emerged from a current of thought stimulated by the historic Dreyfus Affair in France. This case unfolded between 1894 and 1906. The controversy was sparked by the widespread reaction to the conviction for espionage of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a wrongfully persecuted and prosecuted Jew.
The event stimulated the thinking of many public figures including Theodor Herzl and John Nelson Darby. A student in the mid-1800s of Biblical texts, Darby decided to oppose the dominant view of Christianity that emerged from the fulfilment of the Old Testament in the teaching, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Darby refused to accept the understanding that Christianity formed, in and of itself, the basis for universal salvation and peace in the kingdom of God.
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Darby pushed back on the then-prevailing interpretation to argue that the Jews continued in their role as the sole descendants of Abraham who remained God’s Chosen People. He proclaimed that Jews should take possession of the historic land of Israel where they would become instruments of the Biblical prophesies that Darby interpreted as the rapture of the Church at the End of Times.
Darby’s seminal version of Zionism influenced the Christian Zionism of the very popular preacher Dwight L. Moody and Cyrus I. Scofield. First published in 1909, Scofield’s Reference Bible became the primary literary source for the emergence of the form of Christian Zionism that presently dominates North American evangelism.
Scofield’s role in this narrative is surprising for a man of his background. He was a lawyer forced to quit his elected post under serious allegations of financial fraud and forgery. A self-confessed alcoholic, Scofield abandoned his wife and two daughters. Near the end of his life he created false credentials advertising himself as “Rev. C.I. Scofield, Doctor of Divinity.”
In his “Reference Bible”, Scofield adopted the “dispensationalist” position of Darby. Darby’s interpretation highlighted a series of distinct stages, or dispensations, in the movement of his version of God’s Chosen people through history. Scofield’s methodology was to write explanatory notes throughout the text of the King James Bible. Included among his notes were guides providing suggested routes through various Biblical passages and Books. The Scofield Reference Bible was published by Oxford University Press, then and now one of the most prestigious literary venues in the English language.
The Scofield Bible project was updated in 1917, the date of the British imperial designation of Palestine as a “national home” for the Jewish people. The Oxford imprimatur on the Scofield Bible indicates that the project had powerful sponsors, possibly including Zionism’s primary initial backers, the Rothschilds. Baron Edmond de Rothschild, for instance, was a prominent member of the Paris branch of the legendary banking family. In the 1880s he started financing early Jewish settlements, agricultural initiatives, and manufacturing enterprises in Palestine.
As its current role in the Israel-Gaza conflagration illustrates, Christian Zionism is an important appendage in the campaign to expand Israel and to continue the process of the repressing, eliminating and displacing the land’s Arab inhabitants. The main message of the Scofield Bible is that those who criticize Jews “inevitable fare ill” and those that protect them fare well.” Pastor John Hagee, one of the pioneers of the modern-day Christian Zionist movement in America, translated Scofield’s words to mean “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”
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In Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? Church of England Reverend, Stephen Sizer asserts,
“Sustained by a dubious exegesis of selective biblical texts, Christian Zionism’s particular reading of history and contemporary events…sets Israel and the Jewish people apart from other peoples in the Middle East…it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines attempts to find a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all because ‘the Bible tells them so.’”
Quotations cited in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Pastor John Hagee is the founder of the Christian Zionist group, Christians United for Israel. With 7 million members, this single organization has more members than all the Jews of the United States put together. Like many similar organizations, Hagee’s group helps promote the objectives of Zionism in pushing the expansion of Jewish settlements into Occupied Territory. Hagee’s group promotes the view that the Jewish ethnostate in Palestine fulfills a requirement to hasten the arrival of end-of-times prophecy necessary for Jesus Christ’s return to Earth — an event Christians often refer to as “the Second Coming.”
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Pastor Hagee’s organization became an important agency thoroughly engaged in the highest level of government and politics in both the United States and Israel. The organization acts like a magnet for ambitious politicians seeking backing especially from rich Jewish donors like Sheldon Adelson.
Before he died, Casino billionaire Adelson was big contributor to the campaign and against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. The BDS operation was meant to enable justice-seeking individuals and corporation to vote with their dollars. Israel and those that sanction its activities would be penalized financially on account of the dismal treatment meted out to the stateless Palestinians under its control especially in Gaza. On receiving an award from the founder of Christians United for Isreal, Adelson exclaimed, “I’ve never had a greater warm feeling than being honored by Pastor Hagee.”
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Christian Zionism amounts to a many-faceted enterprise with individuals like TV evangelist Hal Lindsay predicting that the Apocalypse is becoming more and more imminent because current events are so quickly fulfilling Biblical prophecy. This cycle of publicity and promotion is fed when Christian Zionists regularly visit Israel where they are subjected to intensive indoctrination on the interpretation that Israel is simply engaged in self-defence against violent Palestinian aggressors.
All goes well as long as the evangelization points from Israel promoters towards Christian visitors. Trouble breaks out, however, when the roles are reversed. In fact the current Netanyahu government in Israel has passed a law that outlaws missionary work directed by Christian evangelists at Jews in Israel. Attempts to persuade Jews to convert to Christianity are not allowed.
Negotiate Rather Than Obliterate
The events of 7 Oct. have mushroomed in the global community so that the Chinese government, whose allies are Russia and Iran, now has six war ships in the Mediterranean preparing to intervene if and when a signal is given. China’s military intervention signals the mounting danger animating this crisis. This development also presents opportunity to negotiate rather than obliterate.
Can the people of Israel take the lead in holding their own government to account for what it did on 7 October by purposely putting their own constituents in harm’s way. All over the world we the citizens need to hold accountable our illegitimate enemy governments that one by one took part in global biowarfare campaign conceived to maim and kill us. Perhaps Netanyahu became so comfortable with this lethal process that he sacrificed a few more of his own people on 7 October as a pretext for removing the Palestinians from the site of their oil and gas rights just off the shore of the Gaza Strip.
Video: Message to the People of Israel. “Move away from American Exceptionalism”. Shahid Bolsen
Can the people of Israel move beyond the imperial heritage and character of Zionism to embrace another vision of their country. That vision would involve greater integration into the Arab culture that dominates their geographic setting. Shahid Bolsen puts out the challenge to the people of Israel to move away from the culture of an ill-conceived American exceptionalism and try something different. Bolsen’s proposal is worthy of serious consideration.
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Dr. Anthony Hall is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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