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Huge Questions Must be Addressed, But Can or Will They?

Since the very outset 80 years ago, with the Zionist’s promulgation of the myth “A Land Without a People For a People Without A Land”, reaching back even longer still into 19^th century mythology, and even longer still again back to the distant mists of ancient biblical times,

Zionism’s methodically-planned, assiduously-executed, reign of terror against the Palestinian people and its violent occupation of the lands of Palestine, predictably, could only have but led to the woeful, pitiful place where the entire world now finds itself; flummoxed, painted into a corner, hopelessly frozen, conceivably capable of blowing itself up, along with all life on Planet Earth, to smithereens. 

This is all because of a mythic creation belief held by demented radicals among the Judaic and Christian faiths, calling themselves Zionists, who endeavor to bring to some final conclusion, fruitful or calamitous, what they perceive to be The End Times. The Zionist’s warring against Palestinians simply more ‘Don Quixotes’, tilting at windmills, when the real enemies are within themselves and their own twisted, demented beliefs about God and Life. Of course, it’s utter madness, but there you have it. 

How Does the Human Race Get Out of the Fix It’s In?

At this point in Humanity’s deeply-troubled history, all one can do is to give themselves some self-solace by continually singing a paraphrase of the old Scottish jingle, repeated every New Year’s time, to the Robbie Burns tune of Auld Lang Syne,

“We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because were here, We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here!”

By now, it should be blatantly obvious, to even the most casual, non-political human observer, living at this critical moment in time and space, that the human condition and world’s whole ball of wax, as thus far fashioned by the human species, being the most dominant species on planet earth since the extinction of the dinosaurs, with the unbelievably-potential powers of both creation and destruction, within the vast realm of capabilities at its disposal, now must either completely reconfigure everything about how its current way of life, including itself, thus far has evolved, or face its own, and every other life form’s, ultimate extinction. 

The litany of what must be radically changed, and fast, faster than the human race ever has been able to demonstrate its capacity or capability of doing so in the past, is exceedingly complex, long and tedious. 

Exponential rates of climate change, caused largely by the world’s fossil fuel industry and a multitude of related industries, ruled over by greedy ‘Goldman Sach’ type investors and insane ‘Trump’ or ‘Netanyahu’-like politicians, joined at the hip by a rabid citizenry prepared to back them to the hilt must be radically changed or even reversed. But they all aren’t even remotely-close to ever thinking about, let alone seriously consider, how to divest themselves of so many of the toxic anti-life, anti-planet substances and processes they’ve created, as well as the deeply-embedded political, economic, military, cultural ideologies they represent. Especially the vast array of commercial industries these fossil fuels are responsible for creating and only endlessly spawn more of the same; that only continue to deplete, all the more, the earth’s precious natural resources which, in turn, inexorably threaten all the more the very survival of the entire planet itself. Not to mention the human race’s inability to challenge within itself, to any significant degree or extent, that which humans are prepared to meaningfully address and face up to address the massive changes its species must make to its entire, so-called, advanced way of being, if, is the big question, it seriously intends to survive,. 

That is, if the human race can ever hope to find some new level of homeostasis that indigenous humans, over the millennium, like the aboriginal peoples of Australia, as one example, once demonstrated their ability to work out fairly well for their continued existence. Something that modern, non-indigenous, humans haven’t even begun to grasp, let alone remotely demonstrate, the many basic, minutiae, building block steps required to even begin the attempt to undertake, let along accomplish.

Then there is the morass of exceedingly complex, self-destructive, economic and financial human systems, predicated upon untenable, self-destructive models of perpetual, unsustainable economic growth, based upon a “survival of the fittest” philosophy, that only knows how to  perpetuate more and more endless, senseless systems of growth, with no end in sight, for fewer and fewer humans, that for centuries have, themselves, been forever on the verge of reeling out of control, with one violent, ruthless, expansionistic colonization movement, financial system or world war after another; that now threatens to only grow ever worse, given humankind’s parallel capacity for ever-greater scientific developments in the destructive killing arts and capabilities of its latest military inventions. These sciences of the human mind exponentially matched only by humanity’s still exceedingly-primitive set of emotions, basic drives, penchant for violence and a basic indifference towards any and all required acts of massacre, slaughter and genocide of humans, non-humans and the natural world; about which a broad span of visionaries from many disciplines, such as Shakespeare or Sir David Attenborough, have written so eloquently.

Going hand-in-hand with the untenableness of these harsh realities that seemingly know no bounds is the insane madness of the underlying, unchecked rates of growth in human population, that the former borders and boundaries, that once more or less divided human settlements into relatively-mutually and agreeable, inviolate political regions, no longer can contain the unruly massive numbers of humans within them; created by unending war, famine, pestilence, lack of food, economic parity or territorial space for their mutually-reasonable survival. 

Hence, ever-greater numbers of humans are forced to continue to massively emigrate or migrate everywhere, to all points on the globe, especially into the once less crowded, more favored, economically-secure, less-populated privileged parts of the Western world’s countries, states, provinces, towns, hamlets and neighborhoods. Which, already, have begun to force the settled humans in all these places to, in turn, increasingly become displaced themselves, forcing them into ever-tighter close physical proximity to one another; aggravating to an ever-greater extent than has ever been known, to endlessly adapt to a massive “rat psychology way of life”; whereby once tolerant, former stable state civil societies are increasingly fast disappearing, if not already all but gone.

Now Comes the Realities of an Increasingly War-torn World

Now we come to the insanity of current wars in places like Ukraine, Gaza and so many others. All the foregoing, still unresolved, out-of-control realities already mentioned have, for the past two years, been matched and underscored by: a war-torn, Nazi-dominated, Ukraine; and now an even more war-torn, Nazi-like, fascist Israeli-Zionist-settler-colonist nightmare of a Kafkaesque world whose Western Corporate mainstream press (MSM) has thus far successfully managed to manipulate all the war news, intentionally brainwashing all the people everywhere in the process; while ever-striving to totally dominate and eradicate, all the more,  any signs or memories of the former usurped territories of Palestine and its refugee/concentration camps in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the majority of the surrounding humanity’s would-be Western democratic or Arabic semi-feudal societies, continue to nervously look on from the sidelines, and whatever their vantage points, at these on-going human holocausts; increasingly acting as if they are nothing more than complicit, Vichy-like governments; as is now the case almost everywhere in the Western World; aided by a host of inept, incompetent human institutions, incapable of assuming their assigned responsibilities; whether as members of a truly ‘United’ Nations Assembly of humans, or as a definitive, truly-just, International Criminal Court of Justice; capable of being able to  swiftly adjudicate whatever the existing disputes. Together, they continue to demonstrate a pathetic, gross ineptness and inability to squarely address the widespread outrageous abuses to human life that daily continue to play themselves out in places like Ukraine and Gaza.

The ravages that continue to be perpetrated against Palestine and Palestinians; trying to discern real truth from fiction in the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; yet remains one of humanity’s most awesome daily challenges, as yet woefully unmet and unfulfilled. 

The average human citizen of the world, who truly desires to know the truth, or some semblance of truth, of what all is going on, is further faced with the overwhelming task of wading through what currently is the Western World’s  Corporate Mainstream Media’s brutal, ruthless coup de etat; as real and violent as any major coup ever perpetrated in either the West or East, Communist or Democratic worlds, that seeks total control over the array of all the massive propaganda spins, narratives and constant outright duplicitous lies with which it seeks to endlessly brainwash the minds of the entire world 

If the Truth be Told

Recently, the news organization Intercept released a blockbuster document, leaked to it by brave, stalwart journalist staffers at the New York Times. Famous for its masthead that has declared, since 1897, “All The News That’s Fit To Print”. the NYTimes once was considered, worldwide, to be among the most reputable major newspapers of note, that readers could depend upon for real truth-telling. 

However, that sentiment has long since been tarnished, both in many mainstream media circles, as well as alternative news circles; where the NYTimes, already, has long since been considered a disgrace to honest journalism and an object of derision and ridicule for having too often been commonly used as a “mouthpiece” by nefarious sources of disrepute, and  purveyors of propagandic spin, planted by both government officials, private industry and special interest sources. 

Yet, more recently, a NYT’s memo, leaked via the Intercept to the world press, suggests an even more grievous widespread affront and purge has been committed against truth-telling in American journalism; specifically pertaining to Zionist Israel’s war in Gaza. 

As a result, once sacrosanct principles of democracy within American society and government, especially concerning matters of freedom of speech and the moral integrity of US media, are under serious attack that could be likened to the great purges that have happened over time in the Chinese or Russian Communist Party’s, or during the McCarthy era in US History.

What the leaked memo in question revealed was what amounts to the moral depravity of the US Media and its intention, in the case of the wars in both Ukraine and Gaza, to interfere with humanity’s freedom of thought, now being waged against towards even its own in-house journalists and editorial staff members. 

Journalists from around the world have long looked to the NYTimes, as has its many readers, as a veritable ‘bible’ of dependable, truthful news. The consequent whirlwind this revelation now has set into motion has only just begun, as it continues to whirl and spin its way to every corner of the earth, with, as yet, unforeseen consequences.

Disparity in Truth-telling of Mainstream Media (MSM) Is Immense

In the original expose by the Intercept, the blatant one-sided ‘language control’ by the NYTimes chief ‘gate-keepers’ is alarming in the way it flies in the face of the Times own biased media reporting in which, between Oct 7 and Nov 14, its journalists and columnists mentioned the word “massacre” 53 times when it referred to Israelis being killed by Palestinians, and yet only once in reference to Palestinians killed by Israel.

Another outrageous comparative fact to fiction comparison to be made is the wide disparity that exists in the official reported death count of Palestinians by the corporate mainstream press, that, since Oct 7, statistically hovered for quite some time around the figure of some 30,000 to 40,000 murders of Palestinians by Zionist IDF forces.

Image: General Lloyd J. Austin III [Source: euractiv.com]

But, when US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was asked sas recently as February 29^th that question, Austin replied “It’s over 25,000”. While another news source, the Kashmir Report, contrarily reported the human death count of dead or wounded Palestinians to be more in the neighborhood of 120,000. With still other trustworthy sources, claiming there to be well-over 109,000 civilian Palestinian casualties in Gaza; a minimum of 70,000 said to be innocent women and children. 

Hardly, the often intentionally-used, inaccurate, soft-pedalled term “scores of casualties”, typically used by the NYT’s own reportage. At any rate, these figures, by no stretch of the meaning, are “scores”, as the NYTimes would have its readers believe. 

NYT’s Verboten Words to be Omitted From Public’s Consciousness

The Intercept’s release of the NYTime’s Gaza Memo points out the disgrace this represents for international journalism. Especially the barely-veiled dictatorial nature, and double-speak of the Time’s editorial overseers and gatekeepers of the public’s conscious awareness of what actually is going on in the war in Gaza. 

Barely couched so-called recommendations to its writers included in the memo the use of certain approved terms and more neutral phrases when reporting the war in Gaza, while omitting other less desirable, inflammatory terms such as: using the term

• “neighborhoods” instead of “refugee camps”;
• “displaced communities”, rather than “occupied territories”.

Other recommended terms, to be frowned upon, ortotally censored, included any reference to:

• “genocide”;
• “ethnic cleansing”;

or the use of inflammatory words like:

• “slaughter”,
• “carnage”;
• “massacres”;
• “brutality”,

or even phrases like

• “Occupied Palestine”;
• ”Palestinian Territories”, or
• “Crimes Against Humanity”

Encouragement given to the journalist, as well, to avoid, whenever possible, the actual use of the term “Palestinian” itself.

Some NYT’s staff members, upon receiving this memo didn’t hesitate to offer the observation that the NYT’s memo recommendations clearly were intended to be biased and apologetic towards Zionist Israel. So problematic is this issue of thought-control that it soon involved even the NYTimes own august Weekend International editor Phillip P. Pan, a long-time veteran of the NYT’s International Desk weighing into the controversy.

The Pan International Desk of the Time’s so huge within itself that it’s like an entirely separate news organization, with its own 24-hour operation and news gathering forces that reach around the world. 

What the leaked NYT’s memo suggests is that, with Zionist Israel’s war in Gaza, and the obvious overwhelming influence of Israel’s right wing AIPAC on the United States Corporate Press, with its ideological allies in Canada and throughout the Western World, there obviously is a titanic ideological struggle underway within America’s Corporate mainstream press networks over who will ultimately control, what could be called the current Neo Fascist World Order; tantamount to a virtual ‘Purge’, not unlike what once occurred in political revolutions in China or Russia, or Gene McCarthy-type ‘Witch-hunts. 

Zionist War in Gaza Continues to Reveal So Many Truths and Untruths

The title this writer gave to this piece suggests that unless the world’s whole ball of wax is totally reconfigured, the Human Race, unequivocally, without any question of doubt, at some point in time, eventually will blow itself up, and every other life form along with it, to smithereens.

Well, welcome to Smithereen time! The Doomsday Clock is ticking away! Getting ever closer to the bewitching hour. No better verification of that truth can be discerned than by simply reading Israel’s Likud Party Charter of 1977. The Likud Party being that of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has always been part of a far-right bloc of political parties that includes Israel’s radical Religious Zionism Party.

If the world was actually awake to itself back then, it would have fully realized that what is happening now in Gaza and Zionist Israel, was totally predictable, if only all those responsible had only considered the real intent of those early Zionists, like the former ruthless terrorist Menachem Begin, who became Israel’s first President of its Likud Party.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who followed in his footsteps, originally came into power in 1977, in a coalition with Israel’s major right-wing ‘Freedom Party’, centered on the ultra-religious ideology of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism; as well as nationalist ideologues and pre-Israeli independence terrorist groups, such as Irgun Zvai Leumi. President Menachem Begin, himself, being an early terrorist leader of the original Irgun cell.

Palestine Police Force wanted poster of Irgun and Lehi members. Begin appears at the top left. (From the Public Domain)

In the early 21^st century, the Likud Party quickly adopted a policy opposing the establishment of a Palestinian State, under any conditions, and Likud Party stalwarts ever since have remained opposed to a Two State Solution; tht still remains dead as a doornail.

The Likud Party, from its earliest origins, equally opposed, as well, to ceding any major portions of land whatsoever to Palestinian control, as well as remaining adamantly opposed to the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories that the Zionists had conquered in its 1967 War against Palestine.

If this were the World Series of Baseball this whole disaster of humanity would represent Strike One in the Ninth inning of the United Nation’s herculean effort plan to break through and defeat the Zionists abject resistance to any reconciliation or co-existence between the Zionists and the Palestinians.

Clearly, the Likud Party, since its earliest origins, has remained opposed to ceding any major portions of conquered lands back to Palestinian control, or the dismantling of Zionist Israel’s ‘squatter’ settlements anywhere in the Palestinian territories; it’s simply a fanatical religious, ideological thing that knows no possible bridging or compromise.

So, when the Likud Party Charter declares “The Right of the Jewish People (i.e. “Zionists”) as being eternal and indisputable”, it actually is more a declaration of the Right of the Conqueror, by virtue of their occupation that the Zionists say extends back to before the beginning of time, that is eternal and indisputable. This suggests that some decision was long ago made by some higher power beyond time. 

Call this, “Strike Two” of the United Nations World Series Reconciliation/Co-Existence Plan. 

Then, when the Likud Charter goes on to further declare that the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria, will not be handed to any foreign administration between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.”, one must assume that Palestinians would fall into that classification of being a foreign administration, which automatically leaves them out again. 

Call this, “Strike Three & You’re Out! Game Over!” Any remote Reconciliation/Co-Existence Plan a totally defunct, cadaverous body.

The Likud Charter concludes by saying,

“A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a “Palestinian State,” jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace.”

End of the story. Strike Three again! You’re Out! Finished! Goodbye, Forever!

So, in essence, according to the Likud Party Charter, its hopeless to think that any human power on earth can ever successfully intercede on behalf of the Palestinians to realize either a One State or a Two State Solution; which leaves only a possible Third State Solution for Palestinians, which would be their imposed exile to some other place other than Eretz Israel. Of course, they’re not going anywhere soon, either.

Finally, when the Likud Charter goes on to emphatically declare, “Between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”, given these clearcut, absolute declarations of the Likud Party Charter, one can understand why the Zionists in America, led by President Joe Biden, a self-declared Zionist himself, who should be sitting in the docket of the International Criminal Court right next to Netanyahu as a co-conspirator, recently encouraged the elected officials of the United States to convene in the United States House of Representatives and vote 377-44 with one abstention, in favor of a resolution to officially oppose, as being fundamentally anti-semitic, the Palestinian peoples opposite declaration that “From the Jordan To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free.”

That’s It! Back to the Dugout! Take a Shower!” In the final end, as the old paradox goes, “What Happens When An Unstoppable Force Meets An Immovable Object?”

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Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who, in previous lives, has been involved in a wide range of diverse and varied worlds, including the Criminology profession with an American police department, and later for a brief-time in the capacity of clandestine communications with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. For decades, in various professional capacities as an educator, researcher, geo-political analyst, and writer. Irwin has sought to call attention to a broad spectrum of world problems pertaining to the degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual-ideological issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that over the decades has produced numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. To examine a portion of the eclectic body of his work goggle: “Jerome Irwin, writer” The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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