We need to stop sending ANYTHING to Israel! They are creating enemies for themselves and for the idiot US politicians supporting them that are making us also in more danger. This is just ignorant to keep supporting Netanyahu with his love of war to stay in power. It doesn't help Israel on the world stage, it's not making them (or us) safer but, instead it's creating MORE Hamas/Hezbollah enlistees and why wouldn't they? When your innocent parents, children, and other relatives get killed then wouldn't that piss you off!!!! When your olive trees, and house get bulldozed, and property taken over by settlers, wouldn't that piss you off? It's what's happening so it HAS to STOP!!!!
This is such an important point. Thank you, Major Mann. And thank you for your principled resignation. So, beware of politicians like Elissa Slotkin who still make distinctions between offensive and defensive weapons. I didn’t realize before reading this article what a huge military budget Israel has, even without U.S. aid. Thus, the economic in addition to moral reasons for cutting off aid are compelling. Why are we subsidizing this wealthy rogue nation that is committing more war crimes than Russia?
We (USA) get to practice all the stuff we can do now to fullfill our manifest destiny, to control all oil and rule the world, allow genocide of "the wrong people" of any race or nation and get paid if we are among elite groups that gain financially from this use of the earth's wealth and resources, including humans. It makes sense that we can copy these exploiters and they can outdo one another. They even invented money (Bitcoin) to exchange for currency wealth owned by each other, to do it. The wealthy robbing the wealthy with the help of Private Equity Funds that were given permission to raid your retirement funds by Trump, last fall.
What a mess! There is and has always been nothing clear about what to do in the Middle East but what is clear is that Netanyahu is, along with trump, Putin and Orban, a strongman outlaw. He disregards the aspect of our society that we might consider "civility" and "law". And it takes a former military man to help us understand another way politicians use euphemisms to disguise the reality of what something is.
We need to only elect individuals to the US Congress who would not support any more weapons to Israel or any other State who is responsible for Genocide and, ethnic cleansing, and other Human Rights violations.
If one attacks neighbors because they might attack first, even if there's no evidence they are going to, seems to me that you started it. Retaliation ad infinitum.
I see it far more simply, if we won’t provide food or medicine to those who truly need it and can’t afford it, then no way we should pay for weapons for people who are quite capable of buying them themselves. Welfare for Israel’s war must end.
Just another example of coded language being used to avail the Genocidal State.
The word 'Defensive' reframes the discussion by portraying the War Criminals as Vulnerable, Innocent, Rationale Actors whose Crimes are Justified and done in Good Faith. When in reality, they are anything but...
You can't continue to arm the perpetrator and expect different results, no matter how you describe the armament.
IRON DOME is another USA government boondoggle. right along with pipeline building and AI centers ( who knows if they do anything and they employ almost no one, once built), are an opportunity to borrow money and give it to big corporations to build another bridge to nowhere, funded by USA government loan guarantees or direct Government spending of Federal tax dollars paid by us, (tax payers). These "purchases or contracts" , or loan guarantee loans for banks are for something we never know how or if it is used, and if it works or is used for some entirely different purpose. WHO wants to need use of Iron Dome to supposedly stop atomic weapons ( and unsuccessfully tested during Regan's years showed it does not work) before they hit the earth? We want that never to be used. Who knows if it is even there, as we pay billions to hope IT is never used. Who will count the units, rotating in space? Not even those who put them there, if they ever put anything there. Who will know if they don't put ten or a hundred units there and just pocket what is paid for them? Your money spent for such fraud could put solar power in every home and factory in the world, empoy hundreds of thousands of workers and free underdeveloped nations from poverty. NO IRON DOME or Pie In the Sky use of tax dollars or Funding for War machines or useless "protections" . We and everyone else has had enough. Stop this now!
This article is morally wrong because it erases the real reasons Israel uses defensive systems in the first place: a century of massacres, terrorism, rocket fire, invasions, and extermination threats and actions directed at Jews in the region. You cannot ignore that history, dismiss missile defense as a mere euphemism, and still claim to be offering serious moral analysis.
Protecting civilians from rockets and missiles is not ethically suspect; it is one of the most basic duties of any state - protecting their citizens from murder. The Hamas and PLO charters are rather explicit in this regard as documented plans for genocide of Jews.
A real critique of Israeli policy should hold two truths at once: civilians in Gaza matter, and Israeli civilians also have a right not to be murdered in their homes, buses, schools, and bomb shelters. When an article treats Jewish self-defense as the problem while virtually ignoring the long history that made it necessary, that's historical erasure and moral distortion.
What an absurd narrative. The only “morally wrong” thing here is you continuing to pretend that Israel is the innocent victim of antisemitic violence, and is simply responding in “self-defense.” Plucky little Israel, just out of nowhere, for no reason at all, being attacked by everyone around them, and only doing what’s necessary to “defend itself.” Nobody’s buying this anymore. The unserious one here is you.
In reality, as everyone knows by now, Israel is the aggressor in every single conflict it is involved in, has violated every ceasefire it has ever signed, has illegally occupied the territory of its neighbors for decades, and has done more “terrorism, rocket fire, invasions, and extermination” over the last 80 years than every other country in the region put together and doubled.
Everyone else in the region is defending themselves from Israel, not the other way around. You can pretend that Israel was doing “preemptive strikes” or that retaliation for Israeli crimes was actually unprovoked aggression, but nobody’s fooled.
- In 1920, Palestinian leadership voted to reject the Balfour Declaration
- In 1920, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Nebi Musa
- In 1921, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Jaffa
- In 1922, Arab leadership again rejected the Balfour Declaration
- In 1929, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed
- In 1933, more Palestinian anti-Jewish riots
- in 1935, more Palestinian anti-Jewish riots
- in 1936 (to 1939) the Arab anti-Jewish riots
- In 1937, Arab leadership rejected the Peel Commission
- In 1941, the Mufti, the representative of the Palestinians met with Hitler to express support and expansion of Hitler's "final solution" including bringing to Palestine
- In 1947, Palestinians rejected the UN Partition Plan and Palestinians started a civil war by attacking Jews
- In 1948, Palestinian militia and their Arab allies went to war over Israel to eliminate Jewish presence
- In 1967, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq instigated another war to wipe out Israel
- In 1973, Egypt, Syria and a coalition of 9 other countries instigated a war again try to wipe Israel off the map
- In 1988 Hamas was founded with a charter that described a genocide of Jews in Israel and the diaspora, and 1st Intifada was rooted in killing Jewish lives
- 2000-2005 Hamas started the 2nd Intifada
- in 2008, Hamas stared a war against Israel
- in 2014, Hamas started the first Gaza War
- In 2021, Hamas started another war with Israel
- In 2023, Hamas, started its fifth military operation against Israel
Your attempt mock and erase a documented century of massacres, riots, terrorism, invasions, and wars against Jews by Palestinians and their allies, using a morally corrupt and distorted inversion of logic undermines your credibility and exposes your moral blind spot.
“In 1830, the Native Americans rejected the Indian Removal Act.”
- you, describing a heinous act of Native American aggression towards white settlers which led to the justified self-defense action known as the “Trail of Tears.”
Again, trying to create a false equivalency for Palestinians to Native Americans (and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto), and attempt to invert history incorrectly is morally bankrupt on your part.
There's only one actual defensive weapon: nukes. Every single country that has nukes including Israel has them as deterrents and would only be in a worst case scenario. In the book "Golda's Balcony", when it looked like Egypt would win the war, Golda called up Henry Kissinger and threatened to launch the nuclear warheads unless she got 5 F-15 fighter jets. He sent them within a day. Even Iran and Pakistan who hate each other and have nukes, despite all the saber rattling, have not gotten close to using them. Everyone knows once the Rubicon is crossed, there's no going back. If Bibi and Trump had literally done nothing, they would've had everything they wanted (shot of the "Greater Israel" project. Instead, Bibi manipulated Trump to do the invasion before the elections and getting impeached, but now Iran will unquestionably accelerate their nuclear program.
Imagine if hundreds of billions of dollars of US military spending were put into foreign aid. The US would have friends rather than enemies everywhere. and be much safer at home. Everyone except the military contractors would be better off, but who has the power?
Thank you for this article. I guess politicians don’t like being picked on. My question is always why the dark money, in politics? It’s my hope that people vote these AIPAC politicians out of office because they are only interested in making money from their donors and not the people, that helped elect them. Please subscribe to ZETEO.
It’s self-evidently idiotic to say these missile defense systems only protect civilians. Are we pretending the Israelis disable the Iron Dome if the missiles are going for a legitimate military target?
Obviously they enable Israeli aggression by preventing any meaningful retaliation for their atrocities. Or at least they used to, until Iran embarassed them by blowing past them all.
We need to stop sending ANYTHING to Israel! They are creating enemies for themselves and for the idiot US politicians supporting them that are making us also in more danger. This is just ignorant to keep supporting Netanyahu with his love of war to stay in power. It doesn't help Israel on the world stage, it's not making them (or us) safer but, instead it's creating MORE Hamas/Hezbollah enlistees and why wouldn't they? When your innocent parents, children, and other relatives get killed then wouldn't that piss you off!!!! When your olive trees, and house get bulldozed, and property taken over by settlers, wouldn't that piss you off? It's what's happening so it HAS to STOP!!!!
This is such an important point. Thank you, Major Mann. And thank you for your principled resignation. So, beware of politicians like Elissa Slotkin who still make distinctions between offensive and defensive weapons. I didn’t realize before reading this article what a huge military budget Israel has, even without U.S. aid. Thus, the economic in addition to moral reasons for cutting off aid are compelling. Why are we subsidizing this wealthy rogue nation that is committing more war crimes than Russia?
We (USA) get to practice all the stuff we can do now to fullfill our manifest destiny, to control all oil and rule the world, allow genocide of "the wrong people" of any race or nation and get paid if we are among elite groups that gain financially from this use of the earth's wealth and resources, including humans. It makes sense that we can copy these exploiters and they can outdo one another. They even invented money (Bitcoin) to exchange for currency wealth owned by each other, to do it. The wealthy robbing the wealthy with the help of Private Equity Funds that were given permission to raid your retirement funds by Trump, last fall.
What a mess! There is and has always been nothing clear about what to do in the Middle East but what is clear is that Netanyahu is, along with trump, Putin and Orban, a strongman outlaw. He disregards the aspect of our society that we might consider "civility" and "law". And it takes a former military man to help us understand another way politicians use euphemisms to disguise the reality of what something is.
It's an oxymoron. The word "weapon" gives it away...and most of our fellow countrymen either don't care or aren't smart enough to understand.
We need to only elect individuals to the US Congress who would not support any more weapons to Israel or any other State who is responsible for Genocide and, ethnic cleansing, and other Human Rights violations.
Thank you for your service, Harrison
If one attacks neighbors because they might attack first, even if there's no evidence they are going to, seems to me that you started it. Retaliation ad infinitum.
I see it far more simply, if we won’t provide food or medicine to those who truly need it and can’t afford it, then no way we should pay for weapons for people who are quite capable of buying them themselves. Welfare for Israel’s war must end.
Gee, it's almost as if Iran determines who uses the Strait. You can see why Trump wants to go into business with them, to be honest with you.
Just another example of coded language being used to avail the Genocidal State.
The word 'Defensive' reframes the discussion by portraying the War Criminals as Vulnerable, Innocent, Rationale Actors whose Crimes are Justified and done in Good Faith. When in reality, they are anything but...
You can't continue to arm the perpetrator and expect different results, no matter how you describe the armament.
IRON DOME is another USA government boondoggle. right along with pipeline building and AI centers ( who knows if they do anything and they employ almost no one, once built), are an opportunity to borrow money and give it to big corporations to build another bridge to nowhere, funded by USA government loan guarantees or direct Government spending of Federal tax dollars paid by us, (tax payers). These "purchases or contracts" , or loan guarantee loans for banks are for something we never know how or if it is used, and if it works or is used for some entirely different purpose. WHO wants to need use of Iron Dome to supposedly stop atomic weapons ( and unsuccessfully tested during Regan's years showed it does not work) before they hit the earth? We want that never to be used. Who knows if it is even there, as we pay billions to hope IT is never used. Who will count the units, rotating in space? Not even those who put them there, if they ever put anything there. Who will know if they don't put ten or a hundred units there and just pocket what is paid for them? Your money spent for such fraud could put solar power in every home and factory in the world, empoy hundreds of thousands of workers and free underdeveloped nations from poverty. NO IRON DOME or Pie In the Sky use of tax dollars or Funding for War machines or useless "protections" . We and everyone else has had enough. Stop this now!
This article is morally wrong because it erases the real reasons Israel uses defensive systems in the first place: a century of massacres, terrorism, rocket fire, invasions, and extermination threats and actions directed at Jews in the region. You cannot ignore that history, dismiss missile defense as a mere euphemism, and still claim to be offering serious moral analysis.
Protecting civilians from rockets and missiles is not ethically suspect; it is one of the most basic duties of any state - protecting their citizens from murder. The Hamas and PLO charters are rather explicit in this regard as documented plans for genocide of Jews.
A real critique of Israeli policy should hold two truths at once: civilians in Gaza matter, and Israeli civilians also have a right not to be murdered in their homes, buses, schools, and bomb shelters. When an article treats Jewish self-defense as the problem while virtually ignoring the long history that made it necessary, that's historical erasure and moral distortion.
What an absurd narrative. The only “morally wrong” thing here is you continuing to pretend that Israel is the innocent victim of antisemitic violence, and is simply responding in “self-defense.” Plucky little Israel, just out of nowhere, for no reason at all, being attacked by everyone around them, and only doing what’s necessary to “defend itself.” Nobody’s buying this anymore. The unserious one here is you.
In reality, as everyone knows by now, Israel is the aggressor in every single conflict it is involved in, has violated every ceasefire it has ever signed, has illegally occupied the territory of its neighbors for decades, and has done more “terrorism, rocket fire, invasions, and extermination” over the last 80 years than every other country in the region put together and doubled.
Everyone else in the region is defending themselves from Israel, not the other way around. You can pretend that Israel was doing “preemptive strikes” or that retaliation for Israeli crimes was actually unprovoked aggression, but nobody’s fooled.
The receipts:
- In 1920, Palestinian leadership voted to reject the Balfour Declaration
- In 1920, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Nebi Musa
- In 1921, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Jaffa
- In 1922, Arab leadership again rejected the Balfour Declaration
- In 1929, Palestinians started anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed
- In 1933, more Palestinian anti-Jewish riots
- in 1935, more Palestinian anti-Jewish riots
- in 1936 (to 1939) the Arab anti-Jewish riots
- In 1937, Arab leadership rejected the Peel Commission
- In 1941, the Mufti, the representative of the Palestinians met with Hitler to express support and expansion of Hitler's "final solution" including bringing to Palestine
- In 1947, Palestinians rejected the UN Partition Plan and Palestinians started a civil war by attacking Jews
- In 1948, Palestinian militia and their Arab allies went to war over Israel to eliminate Jewish presence
- In 1967, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq instigated another war to wipe out Israel
- In 1973, Egypt, Syria and a coalition of 9 other countries instigated a war again try to wipe Israel off the map
- In 1988 Hamas was founded with a charter that described a genocide of Jews in Israel and the diaspora, and 1st Intifada was rooted in killing Jewish lives
- 2000-2005 Hamas started the 2nd Intifada
- in 2008, Hamas stared a war against Israel
- in 2014, Hamas started the first Gaza War
- In 2021, Hamas started another war with Israel
- In 2023, Hamas, started its fifth military operation against Israel
“In 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rejected peaceful relocation efforts and started an anti-German uprising.”
- what your goofy ass sounds like.
Your attempt mock and erase a documented century of massacres, riots, terrorism, invasions, and wars against Jews by Palestinians and their allies, using a morally corrupt and distorted inversion of logic undermines your credibility and exposes your moral blind spot.
I know you are, but what am I?
“In 1830, the Native Americans rejected the Indian Removal Act.”
- you, describing a heinous act of Native American aggression towards white settlers which led to the justified self-defense action known as the “Trail of Tears.”
Again, trying to create a false equivalency for Palestinians to Native Americans (and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto), and attempt to invert history incorrectly is morally bankrupt on your part.
If you do not invade others. They will not shoot back!
It sounds like then you agree with me. The Palestinians, their allies, the Hamas and the PLO have been the instigators and invaders.
There's only one actual defensive weapon: nukes. Every single country that has nukes including Israel has them as deterrents and would only be in a worst case scenario. In the book "Golda's Balcony", when it looked like Egypt would win the war, Golda called up Henry Kissinger and threatened to launch the nuclear warheads unless she got 5 F-15 fighter jets. He sent them within a day. Even Iran and Pakistan who hate each other and have nukes, despite all the saber rattling, have not gotten close to using them. Everyone knows once the Rubicon is crossed, there's no going back. If Bibi and Trump had literally done nothing, they would've had everything they wanted (shot of the "Greater Israel" project. Instead, Bibi manipulated Trump to do the invasion before the elections and getting impeached, but now Iran will unquestionably accelerate their nuclear program.
Imagine if hundreds of billions of dollars of US military spending were put into foreign aid. The US would have friends rather than enemies everywhere. and be much safer at home. Everyone except the military contractors would be better off, but who has the power?
Thank you for this article. I guess politicians don’t like being picked on. My question is always why the dark money, in politics? It’s my hope that people vote these AIPAC politicians out of office because they are only interested in making money from their donors and not the people, that helped elect them. Please subscribe to ZETEO.
It’s self-evidently idiotic to say these missile defense systems only protect civilians. Are we pretending the Israelis disable the Iron Dome if the missiles are going for a legitimate military target?
Obviously they enable Israeli aggression by preventing any meaningful retaliation for their atrocities. Or at least they used to, until Iran embarassed them by blowing past them all.