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Another Crooke Monday: Revulsion Escalates

Not much of a joke any longer.

After WW2, Hitler’s Plan Ost was revealed although not widely announced to the publics of the non-Russian allies. In fact, we can say it was actively suppressed since the US/UK wanted to use Nazis in their Anti-Communist Crusade that began as soon as the war in Europe ended. The plan’s goal was to eliminate 30-50 Million Russians, to essentially depopulate European Russia for the Lebensraum Hitler promised. Hitler came close to his target in what was WW2’s Genuine Holocaust. What Crooke reveals in his SCF essay is a similar Zionist plan for Gaza and beyond, which ought to cause further revulsion within readers who already understand the reality of the Gaza Genocide. Yet, there’s more as the Zionists prove they’re really no different from the Nazis, and I would say are even worse as even the Nazis didn’t commit the sorts of crimes the Zionists have in recent weeks. Of course, readers will judge for themselves.

Crooke also engaged in his weekly chat with Judge Napolitano. The conversation delves into the essay which you can now read:

We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula used by Israel often in the past to intimidate adversaries; this is different.

Israeli reporter Eddie Cohen said, in the wake of the attack on the Iranian Consulate: “We are very clear that we want to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah. Do you still not understand?”

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“Israel wants to drag Iran into a full-scale war in order to be able to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities”, though these facilities are beyond American and Israeli reach, buried beneath mountains.

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Cohen, and of course, Israel’s military leadership, will know that; but Israel nonetheless is locking itself into a logic that can only lead to defeat. Iran’s nuclear facilities are safe from Israeli assault. The destruction of civilian Iranian infrastructure, which is out in the open, may kill many, but will not, per se, collapse the Iranian state.

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Trita Parsi places Israel’s objective in attacking the Iranian Consulate in Damascus in a different context:

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“An important aspect of Israel’s conduct – and Biden’s acquiescence to it – is that Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare.

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Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits [yet] Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus.

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Bombing hospitals is a war crime, [yet] Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated doctors and patients inside hospitals. The ICJ obligated Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel actively prevents aid from coming in.

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Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel has deliberately created a famine in Gaza.

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Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law. Biden himself admits that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately”.  The list goes on and on … However, Israel’s breach of Vienna Convention immunity accorded to diplomatic premises – plus the stature of those killed – is highly significant. It is a major signal: Israel wants war – but with U.S. support, of course.

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Israel’s aim, firstly, is to destroy the norms, conventions and laws of warfare; to create geo-political anarchy in which anything goes, and by which, with the White House frustrated, yet acquiescing to each norm of conduct obtrusively trodden underfoot, allows Netanyahu to grip the U.S. bridle and lead the White House horse to water – towards his regional End of Times ‘Great Victory’; a necessarily brutal war – beyond existing red lines anddevoid of limits.

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As symbolically significant as the Damascus attack is that the U.S., France and Britain – after a brief ‘hat tip’ to the Vienna Convention – refused to condemn the levelling of the Iranian Consulate, thus placing the shadow of doubt over the Vienna Convention’s immunity for diplomatic premises.

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Implicitly, this refusal to condemn will be widely understood as a soft condoning of Israel’s first tentative step towards war with Hizbullah and Iran.

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This Israeli chaotic ‘Biblical’ nihilism, however, bears no relationship in purely rational terms to Netanyahu’s aspiration for a ‘Great Victory’. The reality is that Israel has lost its deterrence. It won’t return; the deep anger across the Islamic world generated by Israel through its massacres in Gaza during the last six months precludes it.

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Yet, there is a second, adjunct reason why Israel is set on deliberately flouting humanitarian law and norms: Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham reports in +972 Magazine in great depth how Israel has developed a AI machine (called ‘Lavender’) to generate kill lists in Gaza – with almost no human verification; only a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” to make sure the AI target is male (as no females are known to belong to the Resistance’s military).

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The blatant extra-legality behind the Gaza ‘kill list’ methodology, as reported by Abraham’s various sources, can only be immunised and sheltered through normalising them as but one amongst a general pattern of illegalities – and in effect, claiming sovereign exceptionalism:

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“[T]he Israeli army systematically attacks the targeted individual whilst in their homes — usually at night whilst the whole family is present — rather than during the course of military activity … Additional automated systems, including one, [callously] called “Where’s Daddy?” were used – specifically to track targets when they had entered their family’s residences… However, when a home was struck, usually at night, the individual target was sometimes not inside at all”.

“The result is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions”.

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“”We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives when they were in a military building … or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation – as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations”.

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“In addition … when it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs) which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs]”.

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“… The army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians … in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander – the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander”.

“Lavender — which was developed to create human targets in the current war — has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as suspected “Hamas militants”, most of them junior, for assassination (the IDF Spokesperson denied the existence of such a kill list in a statement to +972 and Local Call)”.

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So, there it is – no wonder Israel might seek to camouflage the details within a normalised general array of transgressions against humanitarian law: “They wanted to allow us to attack [the junior operatives] automatically. That’s the Holy Grail. Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy”.

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It is not difficult to speculate what the ICJ might determine …

Does anyone imagine that this flawed Lavender AI machine would not be asked to churn out its kill lists, were Israel to decide to surge into Lebanon? (Another reason for normalising the procedures first in Gaza).

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The key point made in the +972 Magazine report (with multiple sourcing) is that the IDF were not focussed on pin-point elimination of Hamas’ Qassam Brigades (as claimed):

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“It was very surprising for me that we were asked to bomb a house to kill a ground soldier, whose importance in the fighting was so low”, said one source about the use of AI to mark alleged low-ranking militants:

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“I nicknamed those targets ‘garbage targets.’ Still, I found them more ethical than the targets that we bombed just for ‘deterrence’ — high-rises that are evacuated and toppled just to cause destruction”.

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This report makes clear nonsense of Israel’s claims to have dismantled 19 out of 24 Hamas Battalions: One source, critical of Lavender’s inaccuracy, points out the obvious flaw: “It’s a vague boundary”; How to tell a Hamas fighter from any other Gazan civilian male?

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“At its peak, the system managed to generate 37,000 people as potential human targets”, said B. “But the numbers changed all the time, because it depends on where you set the bar of what a Hamas operative is. There were times when a Hamas operative was defined more broadly, and then the machine started bringing us all kinds of civil defence personnel, police officers, on whom it would be a shame to waste bombs”.

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Just last week, War Cabinet member and Minister Ron Dermer, was delegated to travel to Washington to plead that the IDF success in dismantling 19 Hamas battalions justified an incursion into Rafah to dismantle the 4 to 5 battalions that Israel claims still remain in Rafah.

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What is clear is that AI was a key Israeli tool to its Gaza ‘Victory’. Israel was going to sell a ‘smoke and mirrors story’ based on ‘Lavender’.

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By contrast, Palestinians, who are aware of their quantitative inferiority, have a very different outlook: they switched to a new way of thinking that gives the simple act of resisting a civilisational meaning – a path to metaphysical victory (and quite possibly a kind of military victory), if not in their lifetimes, then for the Palestinian People, thereafter. This constitutes the asymmetrical nature of the conflict that Israel has never managed to understand.

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Israel wants to be feared, believing this will restore its deterrence. Amira Hass writes that regardless of any revulsion for this government and its members: “The vast majority [of Israelis] still believe that war is the solution”. And Mairav Zonszein writing in Foreign Policy, notes that “The Problem Isn’t Just Netanyahu, It’s Israeli Society”:

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“The focus on Netanyahu is a convenient distraction from the fact that the war in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s war, it is Israel’s war—and the problem isn’t only Netanyahu; it’s the Israeli electorate … A large majority—88 percent—of Jewish Israelis polled in January believe the astounding number of Palestinian deaths, which had surpassed 25,000 at the time, is justified. A large majority of the Jewish public also thinks that the [IDF] is using adequate or even too little force in Gaza … Putting all the blame on the prime minister misses the point. It disregards the fact that Israelis have long advanced, enabled, or come to terms with their country’s system of military occupation and dehumanization of Palestinians”.

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Yet neither Israel, nor the U.S., has a comprehensive strategy for this mooted war. Israel’s approach is all tactical – claiming to have degraded Hamas; turning Gaza into a humanitarian hellscape and setting the scene for the “decisive plan” devised by Bezalel Smotrich for the Palestinians. Amira Hass again:

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“Either agree to an inferior status, emigrate and be uprooted ostensibly voluntarily, or face defeat and death in a war. This is the plan now being carried out in Gaza and the West Bank – with most Israelis serving as active and enthusiastic accomplices, or passively acquiescing in its realisation”.

The U.S. ‘vision’ is also tactical (and far removed from reality) – Imagining the transformation of Gaza into a ‘Vichy collaborator’ statelet; imagining that political pressure by the French in Lebanon will force Hizbullah’s retreat from its ancestral lands in south Lebanon; and imagining that the Biden White House is able to achieve politically through pressure what Israel cannot do militarily.

The paradox is that, with Israel and the U.S. being dependent on an ‘image’ that has been confused with reality, this too works to Iran’s and the Resistance Front’s advantage. (As the old adage goes, ‘do not disturb an adversary who is making mistakes’). [All bolding my emphasis]

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Do note how points made by Crooke integrate with his previous Al-Mayadeen column I mirrored here last week. The second half of the chat focuses on the column, so readers may want to revisit that prior to watching that portion which comes after a sponsor break.

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It’s been brought to my attention that the reasons WHY the USA is an Outlaw relative to International and its own Domestic Law isn’t clear enough. First, we’ll begin with the UN Charter:

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Today’s Moon of Alabama article is about the genuine nature of just passed UNSC Resolution 2728 on the Gaza Genocide and the fact that it’s binding, a fact the Outlaw US Empire is trying mightily to say it isn’t. Readers are invited to use the link to read the excellent article that cites many sources about the veracity of the UNSCR’s being binding—indeed, all of them, many of which have been ignored, like those related to the Minsk Two agreements. (You can also sample it in the editorial box below). In my comment that follows is a plea to all other writers to adopt my descriptor of the USA or devise something similar so the vital facts of what such a descriptor means can get circulated and hopefully acted upon.

Acco Hengst | Mar 28 2024 17:13 utc | 10--

Thanks very much for your reminder to the bar. For many years, I've openly said the USA immediately began violating the UN Charter as soon as it came into legal force in October 1945 and hasn't stopped since; and in the process, has also been violating its own Constitution since that time--the document POTUS swear to uphold and defend. Thus, the Outlaw US Empire was legally constituted via its illegal acts in October 1945--facts very few want to accept despite their veracity. And now--AGAIN--we have 100% proof that the Outlaw US Empire is indeed a Rogue, a Desperado, an International Crime Syndicate to the nth degree.

So, what does it really mean that the US Constitution's been a broken instrument since October 1945? How legitimate are all the laws passed since then? If every POTUS was guilty of constantly violating what it swore to uphold, what legitimacy does the US political system have? Each of the POTUS's deserved to be Impeached AND Convicted under the Law of the Land, including Biden and his main challenger Trump. And that brings into the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court whose justices were all nominated by POTUS's that were illegitimate? And what then of Congress who has refused to impeach and convict every POTUS since October 1945 for the basic crime of undermining the US Constitution and failing to carry out the duties of the Executive?

And what does this all say about the US public's level of basic Constitutional literacy as well as that of every person employed by government at any point within the Federalist System since October 1945? I've known about this since I took Civics in 1972 and studied the US Constitution and the UN Charter. Admittedly, I haven't stood on a street corner with a sign saying all of the above since then. But in the mid 1990s, I decided I needed to do something. My advocacy got me banned from commenting at Common Dreams.org and by Disqus. MoA is the one place I've been able to advocate my points and be accepted by its controller. I went to VK knowing I wouldn't be censored there and finally to substack where I've done the same and bult a small following of 1700+ people from all over the planet. It would be awesome if people with a much larger audience like Simplicius would adopt my description--the Outlaw US Empire--as he now has 30,000+ subscribers. And then there're those who won't allow my comments containing my descriptor to be posted, Larry Johnson being one, despite my spelling out the why that's empirically correct.

I'll admit to being very pleased when the Outlaw US Empire is used by others; it means my efforts haven't been in vain. Somehow that needs to be pounded into the heads of 300+ million people within that Empire. And most of all into the heads of those who can actually do something about it--legislators, governors, and Congresscritters. I do believe they all make a similar vow to uphold the Constitution just as Naturalized Citizens and members of the Military must, so they must perform their duties.

So ended my MoA comment. The nature of our situation as citizens of an Outlaw Empire is detailed in many books that discuss the nature of the political system but never go to its cause or how it became that way. That whole story is what I’ve been attempting to compile in my work as a historian over the decades, and I probably finally have enough material to write a major essay on the topic, although new facts are always being uncovered that further prove some facet of the whole story. The problem is to know when to stop compiling facts and start writing. And then there’re contemporary events that I continue to cover that take me away from that project. Writing a long essay is sort of like building a house: you need to make a blueprint to know how to proceed.

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