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by Edgar J. Steele

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“Its (the Mearsheimer-Walt paper on anti-Semitism) basic point — that Israel’s American supporters have immense influence over U.S. foreign policy — is inarguable. After all, President Bush has just recently given Israel NATO-like status without so much as a murmur from Congress. “I made it clear, I’ll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally Israel,” Bush said. This was the second or third time he’s made this pledge, crossing a line that previous administrations would not — in effect, promulgating a treaty seemingly on the spot. No other country gets this sort of treatment.”
— Richard Cohen, American Jewish reporter, “No, It’s Not Anti-Semitic” (Washington Post, 4/25/06, pg. A23)

Do you see now?

Why…what I’ve been telling you all along, that’s what: Iraq and Afghanistan have been about Israel.

See for yourself. Go here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … and here … well, you get the idea. And that list is up through just the middle of 2003. I’ve had three more years in which I’ve gotten even more worked up, even to the point of writing a book about the real problem – check through my archives and see for yourself.

Iraq and Afghanistan have been about Israel. Not oil. Not Weapons of Mass Destruction. Not Saddam Hussein. Not Osama bin Laden. Not Al Qaeda. Not 9/11. Israel. Always Israel. Just Israel.

Others have been telling you, as well, in ever-increasing numbers. But, then, you knew that, didn’t you?

Are you now willing to listen? If not, how many more innocent lives must be sacrificed on the altar of Zionism before you wake up? How many more innocent children must be murdered? How many more of your sons and daughters must die? How much more blood must be on your head before you say: “Enough?” How much?

To see a very disturbing but brutally honest PowerPoint slideshow of just a handful of the horrors being inflicted upon defenseless Palestine and its civilian residents by Israel right now, click here.

Both Lebanon and Palestine erupt at the same time and on the same pretext: Israeli soldier abductions. What a coincidence! In both cases, innocent civilians are being targeted instead of the military objectives claimed by Israel. Schools…hospitals…families in vans…churches.

The Christian Connection

Churches? That’s right. Christian churches. You see, so far, Israel has been shelling and strafing mainly the Christian areas of southern Lebanon. Not the Muslim areas. Not yet. The Christian areas.

Why did the Jew cross the road? He didn’t. Jews hate crosses.

You didn’t know that? You didn’t know that Israeli Jews are honor bound to spit upon or in the direction of every cross they might see? You didn’t know that Christianity is all but outlawed in Israel? You didn’t know that almost all Jews snicker behind your back about American usage of the phrase Judeo-Christian? You honestly didn’t know? Once again, you haven’t been listening, have you?

You do recall the Jewish effort to suppress one of the biggest-grossing movies of all time, The Passion of the Christ? An anti-Semitic porn snuff film is what the ADL’s Abe Foxman called it, as I remember, as he tried to get it banned throughout America.

Yes, the same ADL that, together with AIPAC, lavishly funds opponents of American congressional candidates who don’t sing Israel’s tune, with the result that last week’s U.S. House of Representatives vote to support Israel’s current carnage in Lebanon was a staggering 410 to 8. That ADL. Guess what 8 House members’ opponents get a blank check in the upcoming mid-term election?

A great many American Christians actually support and applaud Israel’s campaign of genocide, if you can believe it. Fundamentalist dispensationalists, they are called. Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled, they believe. They believed the same thing the last time Israel reduced Lebanon to rubble, some 25 years ago. And they believed the same thing when Israel took over Jerusalem completely from the Palestinians, with whom it pledged to share Palestine when Israel was given Palestinian land by the UN – the same Palestinians they now are exterminating in Gaza, the West Bank and those foolish enough to have remained in Israel for the few crumbs allowed them for doing the crap jobs that Israelis refuse to do. And, of course, when Israel was formed, nearly 60 years ago, American Christian fundamentalists were rapturous.

Well, not that kind of rapture. The Rapture is what American fundamentalist dispensationalists believe will whisk them directly into heaven, just as the anti-Christ rises up to turn the world into a living Hell. These same fundamentalists believe the Bible is the literal word of God and is complete unto itself. Of course, it never crosses the unfurrowed brows of lunatics like TV preacher John Hagee that the Rapture isn’t even hinted at in the Bible, let alone directly mentioned. That embellishment was added by Civil War veteran Cyrus Scofield in an extensive set of notes added to a version of the Bible commissioned by Jewish-owned Oxford Press that soon was pressed into so many palms that it has become the standard for modern fundamentalists. A standard written specifically to convert Christians into Zionists.

Onward, Christian Terrorists

But, then, killing Arabs to hasten the Second Coming isn’t mentioned in the Bible, either, yet fundamentalists wildly support that, as well, even to the extent of offering up their own sons and daughters to die in Middle Eastern hellholes to advance Israeli interests. “To stand against Israel is to stand against God,” is the way that another TV preacher, Jerry Falwell, put it in his book, The Fundamentalist Phenomenon. Onward, Christian terrorists.

I do recall something that is mentioned in the Bible, though: Thou Shalt Not Kill. What part of “Thou Shalt Not Kill” do you suppose it is that Hagee, Falwell, other fundamentalist preachers and their many followers not seem to understand?

On the left, Israeli schoolchildren write clever sayings like “Love, Israel” on shells destined for Lebanese civilians (note the schoolteacher in the background). On the right, Lebanese children after receiving one of those shells.

The current Middle-Eastern genocide against Arabs has American fundamentalists as giddy as Jewish schoolgirls who write to Israeli reservists now on duty, imploring, “Dear soldier, please kill a lot of Arabs.”

Christian Arabs, don’t forget. Somebody should go back and redo all those old “Spy-vs-Spy” cartoons. Amazing. Not in a million years would it occur to me to make up something like this. Jews actually have Christians rooting for the death of other Christians. Of course, they had us doing that in Bosnia-Herzogovina not so long ago, too, didn’t they? What’s that? You didn’t notice the irony of Christians killing Christians then? Will you notice it now?

Call it “Pre-emptive Self Defense”

Oh, so you believe that Israel simply is defending itself with its current war against rock-throwing children in Palestine?

Do you still think that America simply is defending herself against Iraq, too? Not even George Bush buys that anymore, though he has yet to give up his Administration’s doctrine of Pre-emptive Self Defense. Bush’s latest excuse: We have to keep killing Iraqis because we have invested so much in our current war in that country. In other words, now my son has to die there, simply because your son already died there.

Am I the only one who fails to see the logic in Bush’s current revelation? If you want my son to die just because you lost yours, why don’t you simply cut to the chase? Come to my home and kill him yourself. Be warned, however: I have a cannon and a backhoe and I know how to use them. Why kill a bunch more innocent Iraqis to prove a nonexistent point? Never mind that my son is innocent, as well.

Of course, you have heard the justification for America expanding its aggression to Syria and, especially, Iran. Quick now…exactly what is that justification? Did you manage to come up with anything other than, “They hate our freedom?” What freedom, by the way?

Blame Israel

Face it. You know it’s true. America is in the Middle East because of Israel. You know now that the oil was just a cynical excuse. After all, we could have bought the oil outright for a whole lot less than we’re spending on this obscene war.

You now know that Al Qaeda never had anything to do with Iraq and that, in fact, Saddam Hussein was Al Qaeda’s enemy. You now know that there never were any “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq. You now know that this war was planned by the Neocons (a euphemism, mainly, for American Jews) long before 9/11 and, if you are even vaguely awake, that 9/11 was not carried out by Arabs with box cutters – and certainly not Iraqi Arabs (the fall guys almost all were Saudi Arabian, by the way).

Blame Israel. As always. Come on, say it right out loud. It will make you feel better and you know it: Blame Israel.

Old Whine in New Battles

Oy vey! Foist Egypt, den Goimany. Vhy, oh vhy, are dey alvays peeking on us? Now dose nasty little Arab kids are t’rowing rocks. Make dem stop, America. Make dem stop peeking on us. Bomb Afghanistan. Bomb Iraq. Bomb Syria. Bomb Iran. Kill ’em, kill ’em all!

We’ve heard it all before. Old whine in new battles, that’s all it is.

Now comes the setup: Israel’s military leaders today say that they believed their air superiority would be enough to subdue Lebanon, but now they admit they were wrong. It’s going to take ground troops. Lots of them. Sound familiar? It should. It is pretty much the same thing that the Neocons said about Iraq when America’s current effort there first bogged down. And Syria is next, of course … then Iran. The die is cast.

Here’s the problem: Israel simply doesn’t have the manpower to pull off a house-to-house, even in Lebanon. What’s more, Israel cannot afford to lose any of the forces that it does have available, else shortly Israel would find itself overrun by the vastly numerically-superior Arabs – really pissed-off Arabs, too – who live all around them. That’s why you hear so many Jewish Americans, particularly the media bosses (you know, the ones who own every single last little scrap of media in America today and use it to reprogram all of us) and their lickspittle lackeys calling for American intervention, first in Syria, then in Iran. The House voted 410 to 8, don’t forget – 410 to 8! Oy vey! Make dem stop peeking on us. Old whine in new battles.

Of course, Israel is used to getting America to fight its fights. Actually, I should say the world’s Jews are used to it, because we’ve been fighting them ever since World War I, the first time we intervened on behalf of Jews where none of our interests were at stake.

Now Israel has picked yet another fight that it cannot win by itself, just as Jews did when they declared economic war on Germany several years before the actual outbreak of WWII hostilities. Of course, they never let us forget about World War II, which we also won for them, yet insist that, somehow, we owe them, rather than it being the other way around, as logic might dictate. Never forget de Holocaust. You never prevented it. Oy vey! Save us now. Save us. Make dem stop peeking on us. Bomb Afghanistan. Bomb Iraq. Bomb Syria. Bomb Iran. Und don’t forget to pay for all uff eet. Pay us, too, just like alvays. Like I said: Old whine in new battles.

And we will do it for them yet again, of course (410 to 8!!!).

Yes, That is a Draft You Feel

Conveniently, America has a lot of fighting-age youngsters available. First, of course, are the increasingly unemployed (and unemployable, thanks to the breakdown of America’s education system) young American citizens – your kids and mine. Second, all those illegal aliens (“Guest Workers,” as Bush calls them), who are welcomed with open arms by all three American branches of government – Administration, Legislative and Judicial – despite the clearly-expressed wishes of almost all Americans.

Already, aliens are doing the jobs of Americans sent overseas to die for Israeli hegemony, while a great many more of those jobs are about to come open, as their current occupants go off to war. Undoubtedly, a great many illegals will go, as well, lured by the promise of instant citizenship. Come on, you didn’t really think all this illegal immigration was about picking fruit, did you? Give me a better reason. I dare you.

If you go away from this column with just one thought, let it be this one: All modern immigration since passage of the 1965 Immigration Act likely has been designed from the beginning to provide American cannon fodder for World War III. As I said: Give me a better reason.

Remember that 1963 marked the beginning of the slow, rolling coup that has been taking place in America and only recently come to a full boil, with Americans no longer in charge of any of America’s destiny, foreign or domestic.

Here’s another perfectly-valid reason for all the illegal immigration that is being allowed, but you probably haven’t believed it when I have told you about it, either: massive illegal alien immigration dilutes the native European-American population base, thereby making us much easier to control.

Also convenient: America’s draft now is ready to go, with the Selective Service System reactivated, local draft boards repopulated, forms and procedures all updated and, finally, all youngsters forcibly being registered for the draft by high schools and DMV offices.

Just prior to America’s entry into WWII, one of the Chosen, Julius Adler, agitated for and helped draft legislation which conveniently was just in time to respond to Pearl Harbor a few weeks later. That resulted in the draft of thousands upon thousands of America’s best and brightest young men (and over a million American casualties, 405,000 of which were deaths).

In light of Israel’s impending need, having just picked a fight with the entire Arab world, if not the entire world altogether, what a coincidence it is that the only thing now necessary to force America’s sons and daughters into uniform is an Executive Order!

Of course, Bush has proven that he no longer need consult with Congress about making war. It would be pointless to ask Congress anyway, since virtually every member has been bought and paid for by Israel’s minions (your tax dollars at work, but that is a story for another day). Some things never change anymore. Old whine in new battles.

A Proposed Solution

waynemadsenreport.com has “reported that the Israeli military is using poison gas on villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (above) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle. Another chemical weapons shell of the same type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian population.”
Never one simply to complain without offering a better way, I have a modest proposal for fixing things. Not fixed right, but a good start, at any rate:

1. Either take away all of Israel’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, including its 400 nuclear warheads, or allow Arabs to acquire an equivalently deadly deterrent. To be perfectly fair, since America armed Israel for free, America should be forced now to provide equivalent arms to the Arabs, also for free.

2. Give Israel a choice: Withdraw immediately to the lines originally drawn for it by the UN after WWII and stay there or move to a new Israel, located elsewhere (there are lots of places possible for this, most of them much nicer than the Middle East). The cost of this is to be borne by Israel and the world’s Jewish community. In either case, Israel must pay substantial reparations to Palestine and Lebanon for the death and destruction caused to their nations.

3. Withdraw American forces from the Middle East immediately, in total and forever. America to pay reparations to both Afghanistan and Iraq for the death and destruction caused to their nations.

4. Declare all American Zionists, both Jewish and Christian, to be traitors, strip them of American citizenship and exile them to Israel. Since they love Israel so much as to subvert America to Israeli interests and desires, they should be required to live in Israel. This simultaneously will solve America’s massive media disinformation problem, too.

We Can Dream, Can’t We?

None of the foregoing stands a prayer of taking place, of course, but the alternative truly is horrible: World War III. Maybe not right away. Maybe not even in connection with the current Middle Eastern crisis, but soon. You know it. I know it. Why pretend otherwise? We’ve seen it all before, time and again. We know how this must play out. All that is going on today is old whine in new battles.

Again, soon will come the scenario laid out in the latter half of my book, Defensive Racism. Also again: This would be a good time to leave the cities, boys and girls.

My name is Edgar J. Steele. Thanks for listening. Please visit my web site, www.ConspiracyPenPal.com, for other messages just like this one.

New America. An idea whose time has come.

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Now, just a very few of your recent Emails, the volume of which continues to be staggering. Please forgive me for not even acknowledging receipt of emails these days. Your emails mean more to me than I can say. While I try my best to read them all, I simply haven’t enough hours in the day to answer hardly any of them, except in the following fashion:

Re: World War 3 —

Richard writes: “You sure have the un-Godly Jews stirred up over this one. I received a hot rebuttal for just forwarding it on.”
Heat is the best indicator of activity. Though activity does not necessarily indicate progress, I guarantee that you got them thinking.

Charles writes: “On the U.S. tombstone – Here lies the Eagle: Killed by Sparrows.”

Barbara writes: “Seven days without hearing from Ed Steele makes one weak!! Please keep me on your subscription list.”
I’ve been with this current list manager for two months now. Of course, this is the first truly hot piece I have sent in that time, so we will see what happens. Meanwhile, the list got whittled down pretty radically by bounces and failures to respond to my request for subscription reconfirmations. If you didn’t get this directly, please go to the link below and sign up again. Provide your contact information and you just might be surprised to hear directly from me one of these days.

Philip writes: “You forgot about the millions strong army of Islamic Indonesia, which claims Australia as South Irianjara.”
I suppose that means that New Zealand is out, too.

Joe writes: “What I like about your piece is that you are prepared to think what many believe is unthinkable; i.e., a global conflict involving a massive exchange of nuclear weapons. Over and over I hear people say that since the loss of life would be so staggering such a conflict will never take place. To them I say bullshit … history is filled with examples of genocidal conflicts that characterize primary warfare. Even the Thirty Years War which was fought between Europeans killed approximately a third of the people of central Europe. And although not a war, the Black Death killed off even a greater fraction of humanity. Your “hypothetical” would return world population levels to what they were about in the mid nineteenth century… humanity would survive and unfortunately so would its ‘enemy.'”

Mario writes: “I’m building a fallout shelter.”

Gary writes: “I have one correction to make. America, meaning you and I, do not wish to rule the world. It is the corporate U.S. government that wishes to rule the world. The American people, by and large, just want to eat, sleep, fart and play with their toys.”
By and large, very true. But there are a great many Americans who actively support this war. The rest of us allow our government to continue, which makes us culpable to some degree.

Joerg writes: “You have one heck of a phantasy. Perhaps good for a polit-thriller, but not much more.”
We will see. I hope you are correct, but I doubt it.

Merle writes: “Sheesh. Depressingly convincing scenario, especially as you have left off the most important thing: all those nuke strikes result in radioactive pollution, fallout, and nuclear winter. Earth’s biosphere largely dies. Millions of years pass. Finally, on a high mountaintop, two surviving amoebae have gained the ability of speech:
“Well, shall we start it all over again?”
“You mean, the different species?”
“Yep”
“Well, OK, but this time: no brains!”

ummmmmm…are you sure that wasn’t how it went the most recent time?
Thomas writes: “OK. So what’s the bad news?”

Re: R.I.P. America —

Arthur writes: “OUTSTANDING! I will forward this to everybody in my address book. BTW, are you on the radio in the South Jersey area?”
Thanks. No, I am not on any radio with any consistency. I often get interviewed, but generally am too hot to get invited back. I’ve been offered a handful of small-time niche broadcasting slots (the time for which I would have to pay), but I won’t do a regular show until I am prepared to make it a really top-quality broadcast, week after week.

Edward writes (from England): “The Russians wanted to protect us from the race-mixing Americans. One day I hope they liberate Europe from the now detested Yankee, although the stupid English still like Americans.”
Gee, I wonder if someday they might be interested in liberating America, too?

Rob writes (from Australia): “Oh! Come on, Edgar, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel about the present political climate. (Just kidding.) What a great essay … Great to see the gloves come off, and express what everyone with a brain is thinking but not saying … I have read some of your other works on Rense … but none quite as direct and hard hitting as this gem … I hope this ignites the debate further and sparks independent journalism again. (Something that is sadly missing in our main stream media.) That is why everyday people are turning to the internet for information and comment … your message is getting out there. Well done.”
Thank you for the kind words. Meanwhile, newspapers and TV both wonder aloud about their ever-declining audiences. Little wonder to those of us addicted to the truth, eh?

Gordon writes: “Thousands of Palestinian political prisoners are being held by Israel – and many thousands more have passed through Israeli jails during nearly three years of the current Palestinian intifada. And that evil Palestine takes one????? … If Israel’s response to taking one prisoner was justified, what response was justified by the Palestinians for all the prisoners Israel has taken?”

Michelle writes: “Well, will it bring you any comfort if I tell you I’m feeling the same way you do, right now?”
Misery loves company…

That’s just a handful of the horde that came in from this past week, alone. I’ll work in reader responses to older pieces as we go along, since it has been so long since I had the time to add any at all.

-ed

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