The three most important things I found on the Gaza killings since they began

1. This article by an anonymous British-born Jew who identifies with Israel and may be an Israeli is an interesting series of arguments in favour of genocide, when practiced by the IDF. 

His points are not to be dismissed. 

I have heard many of these arguments made by virtual British friends who support Netanyahu, none of whom are Jewish.

The God of the Old Testament commands the destruction of the Canaanites and the Amalekites The Lord smote the Ethiopians, a verse that Ian Paisley once used as the text for a sermon.

Culture is based not as Marx thought on economics but on religion and the Old Testament is influential.

Netanyahu is in some ways an Old Testament figure. So in some ways was Hitler.


2. This is an interview with retired British ambassador Sir Richard Dalton, former Ambassador to Iran. He says “Israel is not an ally” of Britain and that the United States and Israel together constitute “a greater threat to the stability of the region than Iran”. 

This was obvious to me but it was good to have confirmation.


(America is not just a threat to the Middle East. America provoked the invasion of Ukraine and is responsible for wars around the world.)


Sir Richard talks about the power of the pro-Israel opinion formers in the UK - it's the same in France and more so in America. He says the contention that Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear arms is “false” - the same thing Tulsi Gabbard said earlier this year that the CIA had told her. She then took back her words from fear of being fired.

3. This is an IDF soldier talking to Sky News about how IDF arbitrarily kill civilians without compunction.

A woman I knew told me she got excited when an Israeli date over dinner told her he had killed women and children arbitrarily during his military service.

I had hoped it was a lie and just a sado-masochistic sex game but I wonder.