Israel: 7 days from euphoria to humiliation

I’ve been a keen follower of the adventures of the Israeli Defense Forces since the Six Day War. I have never seen Israel jump at a ceasefire proposal with the unseemly haste demonstrated this past week. Something doesn’t add up. Just days ago Israel and its main water-boy Uncle Sam were bragging up their “total control” of Iranian airspace. The prevailing view in our pro-Israel commentariat (i.e. all mainstream media) was that, while we naturally abhor unprovoked wars of aggression, in this case the Israelis are doing the world a favour! It must be plainly obvious by now, that after 20 months, the war on Gaza is a failure. That’s about 18 months longer than all other wars in the history of Israel combined. It’s also obvious that “total control of the skies” was mostly imaginary. The Iron Dome fraud has been irrevocably exposed as… well, a fraud. When the enemies of Israel can deliver ballistic missiles, seemingly at will, to every city in the land, it’s time to stop bragging about your superiority and start looking for a “Plan B.”

Is the collapse of Israel near?

Contrary to what you’re seeing in legacy media, the war with Iran that Israel started is not going well for Israel. Spend some time on Al Jazeera or the Electronic Intifada and you’ll see some of the high-end real estate in Israel that’s been turned into war zones. Most Israelis do not wish to live in war zones. Especially when they have the option of living in Toronto or Montreal or Miami. Our hyper-partisan pro-Israel media doesn’t want to talk about it, but the fabled Iron Dome leaks like a sieve. And here’s the nitty-gritty when you get to the reality of things. Most modern Jews are fat and happy and lazy. They love their J’lem pad or their subsidized apartment in the settlements, but, “hilltop youth” types aside, they’re totally not interested in living in a war zone. Would you rather risk ballistic missiles in Beer Sheba, or rude graffiti in Toronto? The Greatest Leader Since Moses has embarked on what is surely a suicide mission unless the USA comes to the rescue. And Donny J appears to be hedging his bets. Who can blame him? Any political leader with a whit of self-preservation instinct would want to distance themselves from Netanyahu. He’s a wanted war criminal! Mafia Don today announced he’d make a decision within two weeks about joining Bibi’s war. In other words, he could join in tomorrow, or in two weeks, or never. That don’t sound like an ironclad guarantee to me. It’s not possible to fly out of Ben Gurion at the moment, and perhaps a bit longer, like indefinitely, but apparently the yacht brokers in the eastern Med are doing a roaring trade between Israel and Cypress. Is the demise of Bibi at hand?

G7 thanks Israel for attack on Iran

If you followed the G7 shindig, you know the worthies from the seven richest countries in the “Western World” found it really really tough to find anything they can agree on. But they finally did manage to agree on something. Israel has a right to defend itself! Who knew? Israel has a right to defend itself even when it hasn’t been attacked. In this case, it seems to be defending itself from the peace agreement Trump was working on with the Iranians when Israel attacked. An existential threat is an existential threat, of course, so whether it’s a twelve year old kid in Gaza or a potential peace treaty, these threats must be dealt with ruthlessly. And that’s why Israel attacked Iran in the midst of peace negotiations that Trump had expressed confidence in merely a day earlier. Nothing threatens Netanyahu’s political career like the prospect of peace. That’s a fact that explains pretty much every war Israel’s had in the last thirty years or more. Every time there are clouds over Bibi’s career, he gins up “threats” that can be resolved by “delivering a sharp slap to the terrorists,” also known as murdering a few dozen/hundred/ thousand Palestinians. He seems to have miscalculated this time around… or maybe the genocide and the black eye to Israel’s rep were all part of the plan. Who knows the secrets of the Greatest Leader Since Moses? But until just a few days ago, the Gaza genocide was seriously starting to disturb some traditional Israel allies. Like the EU. There was a ripple of optimism that went through the anti-genocide camp in late May, when the EU declared it would reassess the EU-Israel Association Agreement on account of Israel’s war crimes. Fast forward not quite a month to the G7. The EU took the opportunity to announce that it would suspend the reassessment due to Israel’s attack on Iran. Get it? We will forgive Israel its sins of war crimes and genocide in gratitude for its attack on Iran! German Chancellor Merz no doubt spoke for the combined NATO/EU when he thanked Israel for doing “our dirty work.” That was the long and short of Carney’s first big international stage. Israel has the right to defend itself. Mark, we’ve heard that before. But the rest of the neighbourhood also has a right to defend itself against Israel. And please don’t make it about “morals,” “values,” or “human rights.” Instead, explain to us how Israel has killed 25X more children in Gaza than Putin has in Ukraine, in a war that has been half as long. Those Palestinian kids just have a penchant for jumping in front of the bullet when an IDF sniper is trying to squeeze off a warning shot! A few months ago Trump’s Director of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, reported (as the Director of Intelligence has every year since 2003) there is no evidence for an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Tulsi oversees 18 different intelligence agencies that cost the US taxpayer a combined $100 billion+ per year. If Trump can throw her advice out the window just like that, I’ve got a suggestion how Doge can save 100 billion every year going forward. Bibi is on the cusp of realizing his life-long dream - having America fight Iran on behalf of Israel.

The American Way of deception and treachery

You must admit there is nothing more satisfying than lulling your enemy into a false sense of security, and then cutting his throat! The warmongering shitbags running DC had a treachery orgasm last week when our Iranian dupes fell for the ruse that America was interested in “negotiating” with them. The Exceptionalists are bringing back a tactic used to great affect during the so-called Indian Wars. Lure the savages to the fort to discuss a peace treaty, and then slaughter every last one! Yup, that trick never fails to impress our superior values on inferior peoples! Looks to me like Donny J is showing his true colours; servant of Israel. We expected as much, but we wanted to believe things were otherwise. Apparently not. Not only has Donny J connived in the serial murder of tens of thousands of Gazans, he is fully complicit in Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran. Yet at this very moment the lesser 6 of the G7 are out in Kannanasskiss, kissing Donald’s ample arse in order to curry favour with a war criminal. What a disgusting spectacle!

Maybe Leonard Cohen was right after all...

Is democracy coming to the USA? It’s all going for a shit for Donny J, the greatest deal-maker in all of human history. We’re way past the 100 day mark, and those two wars he was going to stop on day one are chugging along nicely. But that’s nothing. He’s also allowed a potentially Armageddon-scale catastrophe to drop in the Holy Land. For that disaster, he had some help from his conniving, back-stabbing, genocidal bestie, the “Greatest Leader Since Moses.” For forty years Bibi’s had a boner to see US troops on the ground in Iran, taking the lead in the mission to get the Ayatollahs out of the picture. Victory over the Towelheads ‘o Terror has never been so close! Alas, the IDF most-moral shock troops have been bogged down in an almost two-year total war on two million Palestinians in Gaza. Israel used to win wars in six days. Now they can’t starve a rag-tag militia out of their tunnels in 20 months. After 20 months IDF troops come home from Gaza in body bags every day, for the greater glory of Bibi. And to keep his crooked arse out of the hoosegow, of course. And that’s just one war. Trump’s idiotic plans for a Gaza resort notwithstanding, there’s a long and difficult road ahead before Hamas is defeated. Then there’s that Ukraine fiasco. Trump likes to blame that one on Dementia Joe, but the truth is, Joe inherited the Ukraine war from Trump. Job #1 on that front is to somehow make the defeat of the combined NATO-USA look like, if not a victory, at least a stalemate. Unfortunately, Putin isn’t playing along. So it’s safe to say things aren’t looking that great for the Empire. 77 million Trump voters have a right to be pissed off. The bill of goods they thought they’d voted for was so much pie-in-the-sky. Now what? The Dems are lost in the wilderness. The Republicans are lost in the wilderness of Trump’s delusions. It’s the best time in a long time for ordinary Americans to throw off the yoke of both their billionaire-owned political parties. Democracy may yet come to the USA after all.

Bibi gets his war

The “Greatest Leader Since Moses” will soon join the giants of the Tora in the annals of Jewish history. In fact, three thousand years hence, I am sure when scholars recite the Holy Names of the Great, they’ll begin with Bibirius of Judea, the greatest leader of all time. That’s quite the prank Bibi and his sidekick Donald played on the Persians, eh! Bibi sez to Donnie, OK, now you butter ‘em up with some bullshit and bafflegab about a nuclear deal, and while they think they’re negotiating, we slam the Ayatollahs with a surprise attack! Yup! That’ll make Israel safer! They were dancing in the streets in some Israeli neighborhoods, dancing in celebration, at least for a couple hours before the rocket alarms went off throughout central Israel. Then they danced in the bomb shelters instead! Here’s the crazy thing about folks who can afford to live in Tel Aviv; they can afford to live anywhere! Tsunami of antisemitism aside, Toronto or Montreal or Miami are all safer than Israel. And for that unfortunate reality, you can thank the man who is at this very moment conniving how to stay out of jail, plus cement his legacy… Even greater than Moses.

R.I.P. Brian Wilson

As it happened, I was sitting across from Junior over burgers and beer when the news came over his cell that Brian Wilson had gone to his reward. And just two days after Sly Stone bought the farm. Fifteen years ago Junior had treated me to Brian Wilson’s gig at Kitchener’s main concert hall, Centre in the Square. That was pretty much the first indication I ever had that the arduous and expensive parenting journey might pay dividends! The other indication was when he took me to a Trent Reznor show at Ontario Place. Another musical genius I appreciate. Like pretty much everything that’s had Brian Wilson’s name attached to it over the last fifty years, it’s not about Brian Wilson; it’s about the assorted hustlers hoping to profit from Brian’s name. Looks like Brian just shut off the money taps on them! Trent Reznor and Brian Wilson… says something about Junior’s musical tastes. Impeccable, if I say so myself!