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[This is an update as of 27 May 2024 to an interview given to the Iranian Qods News Agency some seven days ago – see full text below.]
The update reflects on yet the most horrendous Zionist-Israel attack in Gaza; more vile, more atrocious than whatever happened before which was already unbearable – targeting women and children, maiming them, burning them, beheading them, tearing them apart by firebombs put into the little food Gazans received, horror to no end.
However, what surpasses the past is yet a more horrifying level of carnage carried out by Zionist-Israel via the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). In the middle of night, when people were trying to sleep in their refugee tent cities around and in Rafah – more than a million people crowded together at the border to Egypt, in by the far most densely populated place on earth (less than 2 sqm / person), Netanyahu ordered what might well be the final bombing of Rafah – the final slaughter.
Even Western media report more than 60 people killed by a single airstrike – in reality, there are probably hundreds if not thousands perishing in the flames. And the bombing, shooting, beheading continues, mercilessly.
See this 15-second video clip of a man carrying a three-year old boy
No words.
Or was this beyond description vicious firebombing attack on innocent families sleeping in refugee tents a diabolical ritual? See this.
Netanyahu’s end game.
Question is, whose endgame is it?
From the reaction of the world, and judging from what 99% of the world’s population or more, want to see, this may well be – and hopefully is – the reemergence of Palestine, on their territory – and without the illegal, brutal and, yes, diabolical Leviathan settlement, called Israel.
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This is the original interview with Iran’s Qods News Agency.
First, my sincerest condolences and personal regrets and deeply felt sorrow for the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other political personalities killed in a helicopter accident, where all nine occupants died.
Both, President Raisi and Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian were strong supporters and committed defenders of Palestine and of Palestinian rights.
Investigations will, no doubt, reveal the truth of the helicopter disaster.
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Qods News Agency (QNA): What are the impacts of campus protests on US policies?
Peter Koenig (PK): It is important to know that most of these student protests around the Western world were financed by the Soros Open Society Foundation. The very Soros, the master behind the notorious and criminal Woke agenda.
In the protests of most US universities, it is not difficult to see that there is outside interference, when you look at the tent encampments, all the same uniform tents in the key US universities. In many cases it was reported (for example by RT News), that as much as a third, maybe even more, of the students protesting in top universities campuses, were not even students of these universities, or were not students at all – they were paid quite considerable sums of money to protest, to disrupt first US, later also European universities.
Later, there may have been a “copy-cat” impact at work, meaning that students of lesser-known universities also protested.
At first sight, the impact was great. However, at the time when they started, already a vast majority of people around the world were in support of Palestine and vividly against the ferocious atrocities Israel is committing in Gaza.
So, the protests had little meaning for the anti-Israel movement, because the anti-Israel movement was already so far advanced worldwide that students’ contributions were marginal. The timing was strategically chosen to make media waves with little real impact on the ground.
Why would Mr. Soros, an ultra-Zionist do a thing like that?
Certainly not because he attempts to betray Israel, but rather because he knows — and this was part of the plan — that these universities, such as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and other Ivy League learning institutes, would crack down hard on peacefully protesting students, with police violence in riot gear and if necessary, military enforcement. It seems, the latter was not needed.
This is precisely what happened in the US as well as in Europe. This leaves the universities’ image as spotless supporters of Israel – and they know that they will continue getting their millions of endowment money from their billionaire sponsors, including Soros.
It is well-known and an old tactic to create a conflict: You support both sides or even three or more sides – it is called “dancing on several weddings at once”. The effect is confusion and division.
That is what the US does best. Including during WWII, they were supporting Hitler with money from the FED, Rockefeller’s standard Oil petrol, IBM’s initial computing machines… and many more – to help Germany fight against the Soviet Union. At the same time, the USSR was supposedly an ally of the US along with the UK and France – against Hitler’s Nazi Regime. – Divide to conquer.
QNA: Why does Israel continue the war on Gaza despite failing to achieve its goals?
PK: Zionist-Israel descends into barbarism, because there is no other way for unhumans to fight for their illegality. Especially when they see the end of their worldwide support is advancing fast. Like a dying wild beast, the Zionist Israel Defense Forces (IDF), thrash around themselves to bring down as much infrastructure and as many people as possible.
Israel was never legal. The current state of Israel is based on the illegal so-called Balfour Declaration – which was a letter sent on 2 November 1917 by the then Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to the Jewish community leader Lord Rothschild, a Zionist. Rothschild and his Zionist clan pressured the Brits into “proposing” the establishment of a State of Israel in Palestine.
Palestine was an Ottoman colony, but after WWI and with the Peace Agreements of WWI, all colonies were “freed”, in the sense that they became autonomous, sovereign countries and were no longer under the protectorate of any country. The UK “ignored” that rule of the WWI Peace Accords and pretended that Palestine was a UK protectorate and could be disposed of as they wish.
Therefore, the Balfour letter, or Balfour Declaration, was illegal in the first place. Uncontested illegality was followed until and including the 1948 UK proposal to the then brand new 52-member strong United Nations, dominated by the Zionist controlled Western world: The establishment of Israel in the sovereign territory of Palestine was illegal. The UN accepted it.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Zionist-Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. Then US President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. The rest of the Western world, gradually followed by most of the UN’s 193 member nations followed suit, recognizing Israel as an autonomous state – even though any true statesman knowing the history, must also know about Israel’s illegality as of this day.
The Zionist Jews, for over 100 years had a plan for Greater Israel – engulfing about half to two-thirds of the Middle East with all its energy riches. Here is a tentative map – one of many – of how the new and Greater Israel of the “Chosen People” might look like.
As of November 2023, Israel is recognized as an independent state by 163 of the 193 UN members, including all G7 countries. Even the State of Palestine recognized Israel as part of the Oslo Accords in 1993. However, the Oslo Accords of 1993, well-intentioned by Norway, was a fraud, as Israel never intended to accept them.
This background is necessary to understand that Zionist Israel will not give up its plan of a Greater Israel, which would make it the second most important state in the world in terms of energy resources. A Greater Israel could coerce and subdue countries, as the world still depends to 85% of all energy resources on hydrocarbons, primarily oil and gas.
As long as Israel has the west’s support in words, money and weaponry, predominantly from the US and Europe, they will not let go of their genocide agenda, killing or expulsing the last Palestinian from the Palestine homeland.
They will not achieve it. But with the Western “leaders” – most of them graduates of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Academy for Young Global Leaders (YGL), Zionist-Israel is fighting on. Eventually to their detriment.
QNA: What are the implications of student protests on policies of the West?
PK: In one word: NONE. The west does not care about student protests. Or any other protests for that matter. The West is colonized by Zionism, by the “Chosen People”, and has no regard and respect for human rights, nor for ethics, nor for dissident voices and lives.
Already in 2011, there is this infamous saying by former (late) Israeli PM Ariel Sharon in an Israeli Cabinet argument, to his Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres,
“Don’t worry about American pressure, we control America.”
This is even more valid today. Meanwhile the self-assumed Zionist-Israel supremacy has expanded all over the Western world, with tentacles far into the Global South. A vivid example is Argentina’s new President Javier Milei.
QNA: In your opinion, what would be the future of Palestine and the war on Gaza?
PK: As mentioned before, Zionist-Israel will not achieve their objective, not of a Greater Israel, nor of surviving as Israel as we know her.
The sad question is how long will the fight and merciless killing go on until Israel is defeated, due to lack of support, due to her own self-destruction. Violence will never bring Peace, but violence is self-destructive. This is also true for the Western self-styled unipolar hegemon, the US. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire, eventually it succumbed to internal forces.
The way this genocide is carried out feels like an “addiction” for power and grandeur – the ultimate vision of Greater Israel – for the all controlling “Chosen People”.
PM Netanyahu and his clan have sealed their fate with the horrors of genocide, of killing the Gazan population by bombs, machine guns snipers and ultimately famine – with the latest horror- atrocity – killing starving Gazan inhabitants by placing bombs in the little food they receive, killing or maiming them when they open their food cans and containers.
This crime will not go unpunished. Israel may disappear. Palestine may recreate itself within its original borders of before 1948.
The sad question is: On the way to the end – which is unavoidable – how many more Palestinians may perish? Bringing about an end to Zionist-Israel genocide is of utmost urgency.
Live New Palestine!
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world, including for about 4 years in Palestine. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Featured image: The Givati Brigade in eastern Rafah (Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
