THE DAHIYA DOCTRINE PROVES THAT ISRAEL IS A TERROR STATE (World War Round-Up 6)
ISRAEL DELIBERATELY TARGETS CIVILIANS AS A MATTER OF STATE POLICY.
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WORLD WAR ROUND-UP 6: THE STATE-TERRORISM-IS-TERRORISM EDITION
Nearly three weeks after horrific events of October 7th, Israel has not yet responded with its promised ground invasion of Gaza.
This is cause for at least some degree of cautious optimism, although I am personally quite convinced that we are in the midst of WWIII, and that this won’t be over anytime soon.
Could it be that the U.S. is telling Israel to hold off? Could it be that the Americans would rather avoid being dragged into a war which will probably result in an energy crisis that could devastate their economy? Or do they just need some time to gear up?
It’s worth noting that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition government also face a lot of opposition domestically.
The short answer is that we don’t know. As a recent Al-Jazeera article put it:
Despite angry demands from Israeli society, especially its radical factions, for a massive response and total annihilation of Hamas, analysts, myself included, warned that preparations for a ground war take time. Realistic calculations were that Israel would be ready in 10 to 15 days. Nothing happened.
Half a million armed men and women remain positioned all over Israel and the occupied West Bank, but the momentum of war seems to have diminished, almost stopped. What happened? Why has the Israeli war machine not advanced into the Gaza Strip?
There may be many explanations, and only the Israeli cabinet and the army General Staff know them and keep them top secret. Outsiders can only guess based on scant open sources.
Well, whatever the reason, I’m happy that the invasion of Gaza, which would surely result in a bloodbath with heavy casualties on both sides, has not begun.
Every day that passes gives cooler heads more chance to prevail.
KIT KNIGHTLEY
Kit Knightley gives a good round-up of relevant facts in a recent post:
North Korea has been blamed for supplying weapons to Hamas.
Iran is reported to have funded – even planned – the attack.
Even Russia, who traditionally strongly oppose any-and-all Islamic “terrorists”, are showing signs of compromising their usual “neutrality” on Palestine. They are sending aid shipments to Gaza, and mooting ceasefire resolutions to the UN Security Council (which the US instantly vetoed obviously).
For their trouble, Israeli MPs are threatening Russia with war live on RT…
There’s talk of a refugee crisis – increasing illegal immigration and stirring up more of that desired divisive rhetoric, whilst providing western governments with a blame-sponge for the financial destitution they have deliberately created.
Oil prices are already rising, any moment they could roll out the next “energy crisis”.
Maybe it will be Gulf nations embargoing Israel, or Western nations sanctioning whoever, but they are laying the groundwork. The Wall Street Journal warns of “echoes of 1973”, the US has sold off half of its reserves and might not be “ready for a crisis”.
He goes on to speculate about whether the October 7th attacks could have been allowed to happen, before concluding that whatever the case may be, the Powers That Shouldn’t Be will attempt to use it to further their globalist agenda. He writes:
There is already a lot of discussion, in alt-media circles, of the nature of Hamas. To what extent were they created by Israel, or at least allowed to happen? And how much does this extend to the “surprise attack” itself?
Some were calling it an “inside job” from the moment the news broke, and it does bear the usual hallmarks of your traditional “false flag” attack. Inexplicable “intelligence failures”, ignored warnings and delayed responses. Maybe it was a case of “let it happen on purpose” (LIHOP), or maybe they made it happen (MIHOP).
Who knows how far the elite go in stage managing the reality they need to push their plans on the world.
Whatever the truth of this situation, there’s no denying it’s already hard at work pushing a very familiar agenda.
CJ HOPKINS
CJ Hopkins has outdone himself with his latest piece, in which he coins the term “The War on Horror”.
Welcome back to the War on Terror. I hope you had a nice 7-year break.
Yes, that’s right, once again, Democracy is under attack by the Axis of Pure Unadulterated Evil! It’s time to switch off your critical faculties, wrap yourself in the American flag, or the Israeli flag, or the Ukrainian flag, or, better yet, all three flags, and stand with the Forces of Freedom and Goodness as they exercise their God-given right to defend the world from the Children of Darkness, and the Putin-Nazis, and Hate, and Rape, and Baby Murderers, and Baby Rapers, and Baby-Raper sympathizers!
Really, this piece is so good I can’t resist quoting from it at length.
It began on the morning of October 7, when the State of Israel, which was just sitting there, peacefully, in the Middle Eastern territory bestowed on it by God, minding its own business, bothering no one, was unprovokedly attacked by members of Hamas, who, according to the Horrorists, were “exercising their legitimate right to resist occupation” by mass-murdering hundreds of unarmed people at a music event and entire families in their homes. In order to ensure that everyone recognized the legitimacy of their “armed resistance” — or, rather, to guarantee that the Israelis would be forced to massively overreact and that the attack would polarize the global public along the lines Hamas wants people polarized — they went about it with extreme brutality.
Surprise! It worked! Israel is currently transforming Gaza into a heap of smoldering rubble, bombing commercial and residential areas, hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, shelters, people fleeing the air-raids, killing thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire Palestinian families (or, as Israel calls them, “human shields”), and otherwise exercising its inalienable “right to defend itself” by sealing off Gaza and systematically liquidating its inhabitants, or, rather, by creating “a new security reality.”
I’m tempted to keep going, but I guess that’s enough quoting from a single article.
Just go read it, okay?
THOSE WHO MAKE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION IMPOSSIBLE MAKE VIOLENT REVOLUTION INEVITABLE
Moving on, it seems that the algorithm Gods are much more benevolent here on Substack than elsewhere, because somehow I came across the brand-spanking-new Substack of someone by the name of Colter Louwerse.
Apparently, Colter is a PhD in Palestine Studies. It certainly seems like he knows what he’s talking about, and he’s skilled writer to boot.
His first article on Substack is searing and timely. Here’s an excerpt:
“Those now championing the Israeli onslaught will reply that the critical difference between Palestinian “terror” and Israeli “self-defence” is, whereas the horrific massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas a week ago was targeted and deliberate, Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza is incidental and unintended. “Civilians … are very deliberately the target of Hamas operations,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued. “They are not the target of Israeli operations.”
However, to propagate the latter claim is to exploit an audience bereft of historical memory.
Lest it be forgotten, five years ago, the people of Gaza launched an unarmed, popular, and grassroots protest movement near the Gaza security fence. Dubbed the Great March of Return, these mass Palestinian demonstrations aimed inter alia at lifting the illegal and inhuman Israeli blockade, which after almost two decades of economic strangulation rendered the Gaza Strip—in the words of a few reputable observers—a “sinking ship” (International Committee of the Red Cross), “unlivable” (UN Country Team), a “ghetto” (Ha’aretz Editorial Board), and a “toxic slum”, in which Palestinians “are caged … from birth to death” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ziad Rifai).
And how did Israel greet Gaza’s non-violent, ghettoized, demonstrators? With a “murderous assault” (Amnesty International), involving “individual snipers safely ensconced hundreds of feet, even farther, away, targeting individual protestors and executing them one at a time.” (Human Rights Watch Near East Director Sarah Leah Whitson). An exhaustive investigation by a Commission of the UN Human Rights Council subsequently determined that, in brutally suppressing the demonstrations, Israeli snipers “deliberately targeted” Palestinian health workers, journalists, disabled people, and children for death.”
Deadly. If ever there were proof of the saying that “those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”, this is it.
Welcome to Substack, Colter, you’re off to a great start!
CELIA FARBER
Next up, I’d like to give a big shout-out to Celia Farber, who has been covering the War in the Holy Land with grace, poignancy, aplomb and perspicacity.
If you don’t know who Celia Farber is, you should. She is widely regarded by the truth movement as a heroine for her decades of reporting on the unspeakably vile skulduggery of Big Pharma during the putative “AIDS crisis”.
To learn a bit about why she is regarded as a paragon of journalistic integrity, I recommend checking out this piece by Jon Rappoport, in which the Grandaddy of Conspiracy Theory sings her praises from the rooftops.
I haven’t been following her that long, but she’s been knocking it out of the park lately with her passionate pieces about the horrors of war.
She obviously cares deeply about what she’s writing about, and her compassion bleeds through her reporting. Although her reporting is factual, it’s not presented in a matter-of-fact way. It comes with emotion. She is not numb. She puts her heart into her writing. Not too many reporters do what she does.
I like this approach. Reading Celia, one is reminded that these are real events happening to real people, and that what we are witnessing is a tragedy of tragedies - one massive Tragedy comprised of innumerable personal tragedies.
There is a spiritual dimension to Celia’s work, and I’ll mention that she’s Catholic. I suspect that she, like Chris Hedges, sees her journalism as her cross to bear. Certainly, she seems feel to great sense of weltschermz within her, yet steadfastly refuses to give in to despair.
I see Celia as both a heroic and a tragic figure. In her best moments, her writing is hauntingly beautiful. She has a way of grabbing hold of you and taking you down into the core of you, reminding you of your humanity.
Anyway, I owe it to Celia that I know what the Dahiya Doctine is, and I’d like to bring it to the reader’s attention.
Dahiya doctrine
The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy put forth by the Israeli general Gadi Eizenkot that pertains to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting, in which the army deliberately targets civilian infrastructure, as a means of inducing suffering for the civilian population, thereby establishing deterrence.[1] The doctrine is named after a southern suburb in Beirut with large apartment buildings which were flattened by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 2006 Lebanon War.[2]
There you have it, folks. If anyone has any doubts that the IDF deliberately targets civilians, the existence of the Dahiya doctrine should put that to rest.
Need more convincing?
The first public announcement of the doctrine was made by General Gadi Eizenkot, commander of the IDF's northern front, in October 2008. He said that what happened in the Dahiya (also transliterated as Dahiyeh and Dahieh) quarter of Beirut in 2006 would, "happen in every village from which shots were fired in the direction of Israel. We will wield disproportionate power against [them] and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. [...] This isn't a suggestion. It's a plan that has already been authorized. [...] Harming the population is the only means of restraining Nasrallah."[3][4]
Noting that Dahiya was the Shiite quarter in Beirut that was razed by the Israeli Air Force during the Second Lebanon War, Israeli journalist Yaron London wrote in 2008 that the doctrine, "will become entrenched in our security discourse."[2]
Whether by design or default, Israel at least partially implemented such a strategy during Operation Cast Lead.[5] The 2009 Goldstone Report makes several references to the Dahiya doctrine, calling it a concept which requires the application of "widespread destruction as a means of deterrence" and which involves "the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations." The Fact Finding Mission which submitted the Report concluded that the doctrine had been put into practice during the conflict.[1]
The doctrine is defined in a 2009 report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel as follows: "The military approach expressed in the Dahiye Doctrine deals with asymmetrical combat against an enemy that is not a regular army and is embedded within civilian population; its objective is to avoid a protracted guerilla war. According to this approach Israel has to employ tremendous force disproportionate to the magnitude of the enemy’s actions." The report further argues that the doctrine was fully implemented during Operation Cast Lead.[6]
Richard Falk wrote that under the doctrine, "the civilian infrastructure of adversaries such as Hamas or Hezbollah are treated as permissible military targets, which is not only an overt violation of the most elementary norms of the law of war and of universal morality, but an avowal of a doctrine of violence that needs to be called by its proper name: state terrorism."[7]
THE ACTIONS OF THE ISRAELI STATE IN GAZA CONSTITUTE STATE TERRORISM
There no way around the truth: the actions of the IDF in Gaza ARE terrorism.
Celia Farber’s father was Jewish, and it is evident that she feels deeply for the Israeli victims of Hamas as well as the Palestinian victims of the IDF.
We all speak of things not seeming real, these days— things being staged, cloudy, unsourced, impossible to know.
I took a break from the book work and went for a walk, uneasy, queasy, suddenly wanting to cry, but trapped in a rubbery numbness, which has been in place since the late winter of 2020.
I can’t call my father, he’s dead. He loved Israel and supported her with heart and soul, as many American Jews do, understandably.
I really needed to talk to him, and to release myself from the straightjackets of guilt. Nausea was present. Hamas is not the Palestinian people; Netanyahu is not the Israeli people.
I do not believe he would have supported this.
Everybody’s trying to figure out whether it’s alright to express horror over the Gaza siege, and somehow, even though we know 2.2 million people live there, and half are apparently children, we still seek permission to be horrified.
WHAT’S SO COMPLICATED?
People who don’t want to want to ruffle feathers when talking about the century of hostilities between Jews and Palestinians like to wring their hands, sigh with exasperation and despairingly say something about how “complex” or “complicated” the conflict is. But it’s really not complicated at all.
To me, the situation in Gaza is really very simple. White Europeans invaded a land that was not their own and started persecuting its inhabitants in order to take it over.
The Holocaust does not justify this. It is unjustifiable, and I believe that we need to stop letting Zionists pretend to be victims when they are clearly oppressors.
This isn’t to say that I condone the actions of Hamas killing civilians, but the people who want everyone to focus on these crimes are ignoring the context from which they arose. If you force someone into a corner, at some point they’re going to fight back. Or die.
Apologists for Israeli atrocities would seemingly prefer that Palestinians would quietly die, or perhaps passively accept lives of deprivation, precarity, poverty and squalour in the world’s largest open-air prison.
But have you ever put yourself in their shoes? What would you do if you spent your entire life watching your friends and family be ground into the dirt by a genocidal regime that denies you of just about every human right? Are you really telling me that you’d bend over and let your enemy fuck you up the ass whenever they wanted to for the rest of your life? Because that’s basically what the Zionists want Gazans to do.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a fighter. If I were subjected to the conditions that Palestinians are, I would claim my right to self-defence against the occupation as self-evident, righteous, and morally justified. Wouldn’t you?
I can’t condemn others for exercising a right I would claim for myself if I were in their shoes.
IF VENGEANCE IS JUSTICE, THEN JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED
On the other hand, I am not immune to the desire for revenge that Israelis feels. If someone killed a member of my family, I would likely burn with a desire for vengeance.
But to those Israeli-sympathizers who support the bombardment of Gaza, let me ask you this - hasn’t the IDF already avenged the deaths of the Jews who died on October 7th?
According to Judaism, justice is supposed to be “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”.
Well, guess what? The Israelis have killed far more Palestinians in the past two weeks than died on October 7th. If you believe that justice is proportional vengeance, justice has been served.
More importantly,
TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT.
WHY THINKING IN TERMS OF RIGHT AND WRONG MIGHT NOT BE HELPFUL
In this case, it might not be helpful to focus on who is right and who is wrong. People have entrenched points of views at this point, and they are unlikely to be convinced by someone in an opposing camp.
Perhaps it would be better to ask oneself what interventions are helpful and which are harmful.
Helpful approaches would those that deescalate the situation and which call for unity, solidarity, and a non-violent conflict resolution process.
Harmful approaches would be those that increase partisanship and which decrease the chances of people coming together on the basis of their shared humanity.
The Powers That Shouldn’t Be love to see us fighting amongst ourselves. We should refuse to allow them to pigeon-hole us into identity-categories that they can use to manipulate us and pit us against one another.
Hopefully, we will soon see a movement of Jews for peace emerge, and hopefully, they will apply pressure from within the Jewish culture to disempower the currents within Judaism which sees perpetual violence against Muslims as inevitable and necessary.
I pray that it’s not too late for that.
Israel is not longer for the Jewish people. It sold them out with the false vax and It is now run by the cabal. And that was not Hamas It was more of the workers for Satan in thee cabal. They work together to bring the world to war. They want endless war and destruction of all. there is no doubt of this.