The Iron Wall dividing Israel and Palestine.
"Hate Crimes II"
Iron walls, ghetto life and who benefits from forever wars...
by Bill Bonner and Joel Bowman
Poitou, France - "According to the Israelis, Hamas fighters are “human animals.” Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosar, called them “bloody, thirsty animals.” (English is not his first language.) And here’s Nikki Haley, candidate for the White House: "This is not just an attack on Israel - this was an attack on America. Finish them, @Netanyahu."
How the attack by Hamas had anything to do with America has yet to be explained. Then again, the US frequently gets involved in foreign wars. The Great War 1914-1919 was no attack on America…nor did Vietnam or Iraq have any plans to attack America. Nor did Russia. Or China.
But how the hate gets around! Once again, it is the bad guys against the good guys. And if it is unclear to you which is which, you are not watching the news. Or, you are guilty of ‘moral ambivalence’…or treason. You’re expected to choose. Americans, with God whispering in their ears, know which hate crime they prefer. Marco Rubio: "I don't think there's any way Israel can be expected to coexist or find some diplomatic offramp with these savages. You can't coexist. They have to be eradicated."
The Iron Wall: Is urging “eradication” a hate crime? A war crime? We only ask to marvel at how durable and adaptable ‘hate crimes’ are. At home, the idea is to hate on groups that don’t go along with the elite program. Abroad, bad guys provide a suitable enemy for the whole nation.
Descriptions of the ‘ghetto’ in Gaza are impressive. The wall, intended to keep the animals in, is fitted out with a large concrete base, including underground sensors to detect any tunneling. On top of the concrete is a 20-foot high metal fence – impenetrable – topped with razor wire, radar and other sensors. Here’s the Washington Post describing this wonder of prison technology, the Iron Wall:
"The project was publicly announced in 2016 after Hamas used underground tunnels to attack Israeli forces in the 2014 war. It required more than 140,000 tons of iron and steel, according to Reuters, and the installation of hundreds of cameras, radars and sensors. Access near the fence on the Gaza side was limited to farmers on foot. On the Israeli side, observation towers and sand dunes were put in place to monitor threats and slow intruders." In 2021, then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the barrier placed an “iron wall” between Hamas and southern Israel.
It was 80 years ago that Jews were confined in their own ‘autonomous areas’ (aka ghettos and concentration camps). They often had no hot water in the Warsaw ghetto; people were dirty, underfed. Their Nazi guards (many of whom were “Askaris”…Ukrainians!) said they were “subhuman.”
Life in the Ghetto: The National WWII Museum describes the construction in Warsaw: "Once completed, the Ghetto’s wall stood 10 feet tall. Barbed wire capped it. By April 1941, almost 450,000 Jews were incarcerated - and there is no more appropriate word - behind the enclosure. Passage in and out was carefully restricted. Leaving the Ghetto without permission was punishable by death, as was aiding anyone trying to escape it."
To use the everyday word “overcrowding” in this context is offensive. The Ghetto’s inhabitants dwelled in an urban space covering a mere 1.3 miles. In this tiny, ultra-cramped place, inhuman calculations informed Nazi food policy. Eventually, rations shrank to about 180 calories worth of food a day per person.
In both ghettos, Warsaw and Gaza, travel in and out was restricted – people as well as goods. Tunnels were dug to bypass controls. There are about 9,000 people per square kilometer in the center of Gaza. That is, however, only about 1/10th of the density in the Warsaw ghetto. Similarly, food and medicine distributions depended on the generosity of the hosts.
Both ghettos were set up to marginalize a victim group. Internally, governments want coherence and obedience. Dissident, or sometimes just different, groups are labeled, canceled, expelled or ‘eradicated.’ Everyone must march to the same drummer…all hearts must beat as one – to the tune set by the elite, of course. In the words of Heinrich Himmler: “Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.”
“Containment to Eradication”: The American elite tries to isolate ‘racists,’ ‘sexists,’ ‘white supremacists,’ etc. The Israeli elite has its Muslims, Palestinians and Arabs to worry about. The Nuremberg Laws of 1936 stripped Jews of their German citizenship. Auschwitz opened for business in 1939.
In Israel today, Jews from all over the world are free to immigrate and get citizenship. Arabs are not. Children of mixed Jewish-Arab couples do not have the right to immigrate to Israel either. "A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew's fingernail,” said a Council of Rabbis. Israelis are not necessarily fond of Christians either. Recent news reports tell of Jews spitting at Christians in Jerusalem. And the 11th century Monastery of the Cross, built by crusaders, was sprayed with graffiti saying: Death to Christians.
The Jews of Warsaw fought back against the Germans, but only when it became apparent that the latter intended to exterminate them. They fought for a month…then, they were eradicated.As for the Palestinians of Gaza, their fate is still undecided. There are many in Israel who say they should be “removed.” Ron Prosar, quoted above, said the policy had gone from “containment to eradication.” Whatever it is, the US war machine will be there to help."
Joel’s Note: It is a sad fact indeed that, as the old saying goes, when goods do not cross borders… soldiers will. Whether that border stands between Russia and the Ukraine, Gaza and Israel or North and South Korea hardly matters. Citizens the world over are better off as a result of the free market exchange of goods and services. It is the elites – often on both sides of the conflict – that benefit from the unfettered exchange of weapons and terror...and almost always at their citizens’ expense.
War, as Randolph Bourne once observed, is the health of the state. One only need look at the booming trade in the weapons and “defense” industries to see who’s in the money these days. The following chart, forwarded by Dan this morning, tracks the iShares US Aerospace and Defense ETF.
Nothing keeps a weapons manufacturer awake at night quite like the imminent outbreak of peace. As you can see on the chart, when the so-called “summer offensive” in the Ukraine petered out and public support for a protracted war in Europe waned, so too did the fates of arms dealers around the world begin to swoon, particularly those in the United States.
Then came the latest attacks in Israel and the promised response in Gaza. You can see the abrupt upturn in the “blade” of the hockey stick way over on the far right of the chart. “Defense” stocks posted their best single day trading in years on Monday, following the weekend’s bloodshed. Shares of Raytheon rose 5% for the session… Lockheed Martin surged 9%... Northrop Grumman rocketed 11%…Happy days for weapons manufacturers and the rich men north of Richmond, in other words... bad news for poor civilians, many of whom will pay the ultimate price, if they have not already."
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