Israel, Iran, Cherokees and black people

"Iranians were negotiating really hard to avoid a war. They’d actually offered a better deal than they’d signed off on in 2015. That was on the table and that, of course, is when America and Israel struck." Peter Oborne

"As we know, there is no state on the planet more ruthless, more murderous than Israel, so the idea that they would use nuclear weapons against Iran is certainly plausible. And I really worry about this scenario.” John Mearsheimer

"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized man under a debt to him." Theodore Roosevelt quoted by Professor Norman Finkelstein in a very interesting new essay comparing the fate of the Cherokees and the Palestinians


"Many of the best of the backwoodsmen were Bible-readers, but they were brought up in a creed that made much of the Old Testament, and laid slight stress on pity, truth, or mercy. They looked at their foes as the Hebrew prophets looked at the enemies of Israel. What were the abominations because of which the Canaanites were destroyed before Joshua, compared with the abominations of the red savages whose lands they, another chosen people, should in their turn inherit? They believed that the Lord was king for ever and ever, and they believed that they were but obeying His commandment as they strove mightily to bring about the day when the heathen should have perished out of the land[…] There was many a stern frontier zealot who deemed all the red men, good and bad, corn ripe for the reaping." Theodore Roosevelt quoted in the essay


"Netanyahu said he's been waiting for this war for 40 years. He invoked 1 Samuel 15-'kill the Amalekites'-and said 'that's what we're doing today. Amalek is Iran. This is what the media is justifying. A call for genocide, straight from scripture, delivered by a prime minister." Tucker Carlson

“I have not been able to think out any solution to the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent . . . .” Theodore Roosevelt

“You claim to stand with the people of Iran while you offer European bases to US killing machines. While you support Israel’s chemical warfare as they poison the air of Tehran with toxic fires and black rain, spreading cancers for decades. From Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq — your bombs never brought democracy and never will. They bring chaos. Death. Destruction. And the unbearable silence of children who will never come home.” Belgian MEP Marc Botenga of the (Marxist) Workers' Party