…the idea that standing with Israel has blessed America is not only wrong, it actually becomes quite absurd the more that you look.
I should note before I go any further that I do not write these arguments with any intended antagonism towards America. Quite the opposite actually. America is a great nation that has achieved much good in the world over time. And it saddens me to see such a great nation diminished by such bad ideas. It is also worse that a great source of this problem stems from heterodox teachings from the evangelical church in the United States, especially. The church has a lot to answer for in the way it has mislead Americans on so many topics. From prosperity heresy to giving a shroud of cover for forever wars in the Middle East, the Church has done a lot of damage in America and has blasphemed the name of Christ in the process.
And it is without dispute that the Church is largely to blame for this. As Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe notes, “The Christian and Jewish lobbies for Israel, at least until now, were deemed the most important ones by Israel. And extraordinarily, it seeks their help in gaining legitimacy in this century as well.”[1] Without the evangelical church’s focus on artificially restoring the nation of Israel this effort would not have been possible. This support for Israel did not just spring up after the fact, as some people assume.
…I know for many of you reading this you are aware of this evangelical support helping prop up Israel from the beginning. But I have had people deny it to me, so I feel like it needs to be thoroughly established. This support is both well documented and widely so. Therefore, the entire project of modern Israel can legitimately be seen as a test case for the idea that standing with Israel brings blessings to those who support it. And in America’s case, this is clearly not what has happened.
Tag: geopolitics
Elena Lasconi announces pro-Europe rally in Bucharest ahead of presidential runoff
Presidential candidate Elena Lasconi, the leader of the reformist party Save Romania Union (USR), announced a pro-European rally in Bucharest’s Victoriei Square this Thursday, December 5.
“Join me in the march to support European values,” Lasconi urged in a message shared Tuesday evening. The rally is scheduled for 5:00 PM in Victorei Square, as detailed in the official Facebook event.
Elena Lasconi advanced to the second round of Romania’s presidential elections, scheduled for December 8, alongside ultranationalist independent candidate Călin Georgescu. She has repeatedly positioned herself as pro-Europe and pro-democracy, opposing Georgescu’s controversial stance on Romania’s EU and NATO membership.
In older interviews and statements, ultranationalist Călin Georgescu, the frontrunner in the first round with roughly 2.1 million votes, has questioned Romania’s membership in the EU and NATO. As these declarations started to surface after his shocking first-round win, young people and students across Romania began taking to the streets to voice their support for European democracy and opposition to nationalist and extremist ideologies.
Thus, the presidential runoff between Lasconi and Georgescu has been shaping up to be a contest between pro-European reformism and ultranationalist skepticism.
The chart below surely explains a lot of EU politics, even ignoring the bribes and US pressure. ABN
Chaos in South Korea: Civilians clash with military and choppers land on parliament as president stuns the world by declaring MARTIAL LAW, claiming lawmakers sympathetic to Kim Jong Un are subverting parliament
South Korea‘s President Yoon Suk Yeol sensationally declared emergency martial law today, accusing his political opposition of subverting parliament and railing against ‘pro-North Korea, anti-state forces’ in his country.
The shocking late-night address triggered chaos on the streets in Seoul where hordes of angry citizens clashed with riot cops and security forces outside the National Assembly.
South Korea’s military proclaimed that under martial law, parliament and other political gatherings that could cause ‘social confusion’ would be suspended and anyone found to violate the regulations could be arrested without a warrant.
In his address Yoon vowed ‘to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces plundering the happiness of our people and to protect the constitutional order.’
‘With no regard for the livelihoods of the people, the opposition party has paralysed governance solely for the sake of impeachments, special investigations, and shielding their leader from justice… Through this martial law, I will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into the depths of national ruin,’ he said.
But the speech sparked an immediate outpouring of anger as disgruntled citizens marched on the capital’s parliament building.
Under martial law, the martial law commander, appointed by the president on the recommendation of the defence minister among active-duty generals, has the power to take actions related to arrests of persons, search and seizure, speech and the press, and assembly.
The commander has authority over all administrative and judicial matters.
‘All political activities, including those of the National Assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited,’ commander Park An-su said in a statement, adding: ‘All media and publications shall be subject to the control of the Martial Law Command.’
Thousands of doctors who have been striking for months over government plans to expand the number of students at medical school have also been ordered to return to work within 48 hours.
White men explained
The entire modern world was brought into being by white men, who also have had the decency and humility to allow themselves to be slandered without respite for many decades now. Only white women will be able to correct this profound misattribution of blame. The Western world is being overrun with non-white immigrants, of which there are so many, because, and only because, the medical sciences invented by white men and actively and freely shared across the globe by whites has made the entire world vastly healthier and thus capable of producing huge populations, which they are also able to feed due to white agricultural sciences. There is no way around it, white men deserve more credit for the good things in the world today than any other people anywhere. ABN
Trump on BRICS and the US Dollar
At a Russian school today
Contemplate the craven delusion of throwing away a positive, mutually beneficial alliance with these people. The Western ‘leaders’ who did this over the past few decades are among the biggest fools who have ever lived. They are and were pathocratic morons, idiots beguiled by evil. Not only have they thrown away that which they should have embraced, they have also worked assiduously to go to war with Russia while simultaneously destroying Ukraine, much of which is fundamentally and historically Russia. Eastern Europeans who suffered Bolshevik occupation under the Soviet Union have a species of excuse because that occupation was horrible. But by now they must realize you cannot base foreign policy on past wrongs. You must understand Russia today is not the former Soviet Union. I don’t care which pied piper is leading Western leaders astray, as we stand at the precipice of nuclear war, all Western peoples must stop this madness. Russia is now and always has been an integral part of the West and must be treated accordingly starting now. We don’t just want to avoid war with Russia, we want to form a solid civilizational alliance with Russia. ABN
The geography of Nazi ‘extermination camps’
This map looks right, but the line about ‘the Poles’ is much too broad and not accurate. The vast majority of Poles despised the SU and Bolshevik occupiers who had control of the camps and the motivation to lie about them. ABN
How a deal to end the Ukraine War will probably look
It will conform to the languages and cultures of the previous Ukraine — most of the red will be reabsorbed into Russia; the orange will be an avowed neutral Ukrainian state or a Russian-leaning Ukrainian state with Russian bases on it; the yellow will be undecided and figured out as time goes on. ABN
Douglas Macgregor: Looking at Trump’s Cabinet Picks – Not Sure about his Foreign Policy Vision
UPDATE: Macgregor describes Trump’s cabinet nominees as: ‘Elite capture. There is nothing more reliable than a man who can be bought for cold, hard cash. All of these people have been bought and paid for. There have been investments for twenty years, ranging into 100s of millions maybe billions of dollars by Israel and its agents in the United States to drive us into war against Iran. Now, they are positioned to finally get what they want’. ABN
UPDATE: Maybe I am clutching at straws, but it could also be that Trump’s many pro-Israel nominees are also the best people to say no to Netanyahu, no to war with Iran. ABN
‘Force, force, and more force… erase them’
Zelensky’s entourage is fleeing Ukraine
They are probably afraid their theft of US/NATO donations will bite them in the ass. If they can get away quick, maybe they won’t be caught or pursued. ABN
George Yeo + Q&A | Cambridge Union
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Moldova’s pro-Western Sandu claims election win after meddling allegations
CHISINAU, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Moldova’s pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu claimed victory at Sunday’s closely-fought presidential election, defeating Alexandr Stoianoglo, her rival backed by the traditionally pro-Russian Socialist Party.
With 98% of the ballots counted, Sandu led Stoianoglo with 54.35%, the Central Election Commission said at the end of an election and campaign that were marred by persistent allegations of interference denied by Russia.
The victory for the 52-year-old ex-World Bank adviser, who has accelerated the nation’s push to leave Moscow’s orbit and join the European Union, is seen by her supporters as an endorsement of the resolutely pro-Western course she has tacked.
But Stoianoglo’s dominance across swathes of the country suggests her party faces a stiff challenge at key parliamentary elections next summer that will decide the composition of the government.
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