Greater Israel Is on the March. Paul C. Roberts

Greater Israel Is on the March. Paul C. Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research, December 12, 2024 

  Other reports put the number at 300.  The Israeli Defense Force reports it has destroyed 80% of

Syrian military capability. This is after Syria’s fall.  “Wave after wave of airstrikes carried out by IAF fighter jets and drones then hit Syrian airbases, weapon depots and weapon production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia and Palmyra, according to the military. Meanwhile, on Monday night, Israeli Navy missile boats destroyed 15 naval vessels belonging to the former regime at the Minet el-Beida bay and Latakia port on the Syrian coast.” Possibly the Syrian Army, paid to stand down, suffered more casualties from these attacks than they would have suffered in battle in defense of Syria. The money for the generals came at a high price for the soldiers.

The Israeli military said the airstrikes destroyed many long-range projectiles, Scud missiles, cruise missiles, coast-to-sea missiles, air defense missiles, fighter jets, helicopters, radars, tanks, hangars and more.

Israel explains its aggression as self-defense to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists.  But the terrorists that Israel, Washington, and Turkey employed to overthrow Syria have been turned into “democratic forces that liberated Syria” and whose leader has declared friendship with Israel.  The real explanation for Israel’s aggression is that Israel now occupies part of Syria. If you will remember, recently Netanyahu held up a map of Greater Israel and it included Syria. Netanyahu, despite his criminal indictment in Israel for corruption, is likely to go down as the greatest of all Israeli heroes, as the leader who achieved the Zionist goal of Greater Israel.

You might remember that the American media and “fact checkers” denied there was any such thing as Greater Israel.  It was all misinformation by anti-semites. Apparently, the narrative controllers regarded Netanyahu’s map  of Greater Israel as part of the anti-semantic misinformation.  The Zionist neoconservatives showed their hand many years ago when they put in motion their plan to destroy seven countries in five years. It took longer than five years, but with Syria’s fall only two of the seven remain–Iran and Saudi Arabia.  The inability of the Muslim Middle East to unify has doomed it.

Israel has sent tank columns into Syria with the intent of occupation.  Washington backs Israel’s invasion of Syria.    Washington’s narrative is that it is better to have Syrian territory in the hands of Israel than ISIS, Washington’s tool, already betrayed, in Syria’s overthrow. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says Washington expects Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory to be “temporary.”  Turkey’s reward is that Erdogan can now conduct military operations against the Kurds who were sheltered by Syria.

The myth that Syria still exists is alive in the UN and among Russian government officials. The UN Security Council is united in the need to “preserve the territorial integrity of Syria,” Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said after a a closed-door meeting on Monday.

“We were talking about the need to work out a document by the Council … in the coming days,” Nebenzia said. (See this)

Amazing. The Russians are going to save Syria with a document.

The absence of realism among the Russian government is disturbing. Syria already doesn’t exist and is rapidly becoming Greater Israel.  Washington covers up reality by emphasizing Israel’s right to self-defense.  Defense from what?  A non-existent Syria?

Washington is also conducting strikes on former Syria. The US claims to be striking ISIS, the CIA created force the US used to overthrow Syria. If the US and Israel now turn on the ISIS-al Qaeda forces, now called Al-Nusra, a name now superseded by “democratic opposition,” used to overthrow Assad, the situation could develop badly for Washington and Israel.  

Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq were secular leaders.  This was necessary as both countries had Sunni and Shite residents.  But the jihadist forces Washington used against Libya and Syria contain real Muslims capable of jihad.  These Muslims opposed the secular leaders of Iraq and Syria and are willing agents for Washington and Israel to use for their own purposes against secular Muslim regimes. 

Now that Israel and Washington are turning on their jihadist tool, they possibly could have a fight on their hands and more instability than they counted on.  Both Israel and Washington are at work destroying Syrian air defenses, which with so much open territory will make it difficult for the jihadists to establish control over the territory they have conquered with the active help of Turkey, Washington, and Israel and the stand down help of Russia and Iran.  The question is: what will Washington, Israel, and Turkey do to dispose of the tool that they used to destroy Syria?

What Washington and Israel have going for them is that Muslims have been split since the fight over the succession to Muhammad. The Sunnis and the Shia hate one another more than they hate their Western and Israeli oppressors.  As UK ambassador Craig Murray explains, Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world.

The Russian government shows no understanding of the consequences of Greater Israel. Alan Sabrosky concludes that Russia was not willing to fight as hard in Syria’s defense as Washington and Israel were to fight for Syria’s downfall. (See this) The road to Iran is now clear.

The fact that matters most is that throughout the world the perception is that Washington and Israel have prevailed over Russia. This perception will strengthen Washington and likely have effects on foreign policies and on the development of BRICS. Saudi Arabia, which went so far as to hold joint military maneuvers with Iran and to express an interest in BRICS will likely reinstate the petro-dollar in exchange for Washington’s protection against the Israeli government minister who declared that the map of Greater Israel now includes Saudi Arabia.

The extraordinary defeat that  Israel and Israel’s American neoconservatives have dealt to Russia and Iran  pre-empts Trump from any peace moves. The West has recovered its hegemony with Russia’s defeat in Syria and is on a roll. Washington will insist on Russia and Iran’s obedience.

The purpose of Trump’s ceasefire in Ukraine is to protect the West from a defeat. As Putin prefers agreements to war, he might fall into the trap, and Washington will have succeeded in restoring its hegemony.

Did the Russian and Iranian governments understand that the stakes in Syria were Washington’s hegemony and Israel’s hegemony over the Middle East in the form of Greater Israel?  Do they realize the enormity of their defeat? 

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The War on Humanity – ‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’. ‘Thoughtless Submission to Authority’

The War on Humanity – ‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’. ‘Thoughtless Submission to Authority’

By Julian Rose

Global Research, December 12, 2024 

Almost everything that’s wrong in the world starts from an implacable resistance to the existence of a

state of consciousness.

Denial of the fact that every new human life born into this world is a divine spark, a fecund manifestation of limitless potential. 

A denial of the fact that higher consciousness is actually the default position of humanity – not a distant goal only attainable by a dedicated minority. 

So many remain in a state of resistance to their innate connection with the source of life, thus sealing themselves in a well constructed prison.

Something greatly encouraged via the dumbing down priorities enforced by the architects of global control.

Religious institutions created within this control system teach that only some outside saviour can rescue humanity from the ubiquitous spread of evil – of which they themselves are the prime perpetrators.

It is the inability to throw-off a long existing fixation with this form of irrational dogma that has brought the world so perilously close to the brink today.

The dictionary definition of dogma is “a set of principles intended to be accepted without question”.

Religious dogma starts by making its captors believe that they are powerless, and that their only hope in gaining a little power is by devoting themselves to praying for forgiveness for the fact that they were born sinners. 

Being born ‘a sinner’, one is informed by Christian institutions, is due to the fact that Adam and Eve broke away from the command to obey a rule put in place by some strongly authoritarian master of the universe. He who oversaw events taking place in the Garden of Eden.

And if it was not for this reason that one is born a sinner, then it is because one is somehow implicated as being responsible for having Jesus nailed to an execution pole – the cross – in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. 

This, it is claimed, is due to one’s being part of a collective unconscious which links all humanity. Thus the crucifixion crime, perpetrated by a small segment of this humanity, becomes one’s crime also.

Either one of these events is enough to mark one for life, according to the religious teachings that have dominated the Western world for far too long. 

Put together, they ensure the locking and bolting of the prison door on the development of the gift of conscious awareness. The unfortunate fate of all who fail to see beyond the Veil of Maya.

And then in the afterlife, one is informed, the same prison guards are in attendance awaiting one’s arrival – to direct one to the properly stoked furnace or to their rather exotically decorated playground known as heaven.

Either way, one remains in the trap; and Life goes on somewhere else. A place/dimension one is warned against attempting to engage with. 

This kind of top-down subversion leads to unquestioned acceptance of grand ulterior motives like the ‘Great Reset’ and is taken-up by all who suffer a fundamental fear of freedom.

However, all ‘victims’ of this great hoax carry a high level of personal responsibility for allowing themselves to be fooled. 

Taking an overtly trusting view of those who one has no basis to trust stems from a failure ‘to know one’s self’. Such self deception comes from a failure to adopt a proper commitment to follow the road of truth in one’s daily life.

While I concentrate on the leading role played by the perpetration of authoritarian control in diverting humanity from its true path, one must not forget that each one of us is responsible for the choices we make in this life.

One may get caught, but there is always a way of overcoming one’s shortcomings and breaking out of jail.

The Vatican, which has its headquarters in Rome, produces its own expression of dogma via the cardinal rule book known as the Catechisms. Here it states that the cross painted onto the forehead of infants at the first baptism ceremony is an exorcism.

It is needed, says the Vatican’s Holy See, because every little baby arrives on this earth as a sinner and therefore must be exorcised of the demon possessing them and then placed in ‘the safe hands of the church’. 

The church, according to the Catechisms, is inseparable from God. What the church says is ‘God’s law’ according to this doctrine.

Such teachings have the opposite effect from that which they proclaim to be their goal. They reinforce an implacable resistance to the independent search for truth and the meaning of life which is the true birthright of all human beings.

This grand deception, sold to we the people under the monica ‘the one truth’, leads to senior representatives of leading religious institutions averting their eyes, as millions are murdered due to fearsome divisions created by the mass indoctrination of mankind to a grossly distorted interpretation of the road to salvation.

Religious institutions feign shock, but do nothing to expose and put an end to the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza; the pedophilia and prostitution laid on for their own priests; the crass power-play of politicians; the gross materialistic indulgence of profit obsessed corporations; the cowardly posturing of their own brotherhood and the anti-life politics of control of the deep state.

The hypocrisy is complete, since – while turning away from reality – they present their saviours as supreme actors in defence of life, justice and truth. 

Religious institutions are subservient to the authority of the State, just as they are subservient to their very own gods – each of which is proclaimed as ‘the one and only true saviour of mankind’ and therefore permanently at war with other challengers for that title.

So deeply has this idealogical dogma infested the minds, bodies and spirits of humanity that, over the centuries, it has provoked a thoughtless submission to authority figures as well as a plague of passivity and the denial of the basic responsibility that comes with being a trustee of the health and welfare of planet earth. 

The protagonists of this disease have rolled our world onto its back – while simultaneously pleading ‘not guilty’ to reducing divine sparks to lifeless expressions of fear, obedience and cowardice.

But then how else could it be, if indoctrinated mortals fail to reject the accusation of guilt that comes with accepting that one is born a sinner?  

Fail to reject ‘guilt by association’ with an act of treachery performed by a tiny band of ancient ancestors revolting against their once hallowed master.

While the tribes of Abraham may not have constituted or consolidated a formal religion, their scholars and esoteric priests concocted a thoroughly indigestible diet of messianic indulgence.

An indulgence centred around a conviction in the unique superiority of the God of Abraham and the manipulation of this Old Testament warring deity into representing the absolute voice of authority concerning the destiny of his chosen people.

In this way they invented the ultimate despot, any criticism of whom is treated as an act of outright heresy.

Divide and conquer, fragmentation and division – are used as ways of splintering the primal condition of wholeness which is our common inheritance. Rendering its oneness into a jarring compilation of antagonistic parts.

But there is only One God – and everything comes from Him – and everything returns to Him. The emanation of Supreme Consciousness.

Truth is indivisible. Oneness with our Creator is our primal condition and will remain that way.  

The refusal to open one’s self to such a fundamental form of consciousness is to live in a state of great impoverishment. Yet it is just such a state of impoverishment that is generally accepted as the norm of everyday life – leading to the persecution of those who manifest the noble art of standing for truth.

There are those who enter into religious teachings and ceremonies in a genuine search for spiritual guidance – and who find this within the credo of their particular faith. An environment in which to find a guiding hand onto the path of devotion. 

There are prophets at the foundational level of all the main religions of the world, and their teachings have a central commonality of conviction concerning the greatness of God and the supremacy of love, wisdom and compassion.

The tragedy is that this common recognition of the beatitude of the Divine is so rarely, if ever, admitted by different faiths, and is instead claimed as the unique provenance of each one separately.

This lack of magnanimity becomes the touchstone for divisions and rivalries that are openly promoted by the high priests of political sabotage. Those who seek to gain complete control over the lives of others, turning institutes of worship into bastions of political power and greed.

Control is maintained through rules, regulations and promises of salvation for the obedient blinded followers of authority. 

Strip away this carefully constructed facade and underneath one will find the small but potent seed of original spirituality that is the actual direct link to the Divine.

It is past time that this original spirituality be set free. 

Its suffocation under the various cloaks that have disguised it, has pulled humanity down into a dull and shackled version of its true power.

This hobbled state of humanity is played upon by the deep state globalist architects of control, who work hand in hand with the most influential church authorities in a Faustian pact to maintain domination over the true aspirations of open hearted seekers of truth.

Do we see the Pope or archbishops or leading figureheads of other churches and faiths coming boldly forward to decry those working to genetically modify and re-engineer the DNA of the human, animal and natural environment?

Or unitedly rising up to defy overt cold blooded atrocities of mass murder in and around what is called The Holy Land?

No, we don’t, with one or two notable exceptions.

Yet are not these crimes against humanity and nature the very heinous acts that teachers of belief in God are supposed to implacably stand up against?

Their religious proclamations stand in denial of the very existence of the God of whom they profess to be the messengers.

They are cowards, bowing to the authority of the system and turning their heads away in fear of losing their positions on the jealously guarded hierarchical ladder of the religious world order. 

Unwilling to come face to face with the anti-life forces of destruction that manifest in every corner of the world – they serve no function other than the perpetration of the lie.

We cannot help but now see how standing fixedly in the constrictive authority of religious dogma has brought the world to the ultimate geopolitical crisis point.

Somebody’s god has been given the role of stating its absolute supremacy of judgement over all/any other belief systems – and so dogmatic and inflexible is this proclamation that its supporters are willing to provoke a Third World War, rather than see and admit the error of their ways.

Real spirituality is about demolishing ego, not re-enforcing it. Real spirituality recognises the oneness of all nations, peoples, colours and creeds, not their division and mutual attrition. Real spirituality upholds and seeks the supreme guidance of the creator of the universe – of all humanity, animal and insect populations and of the full biological diversity of nature. 

There is just one such indivisible Supreme Nucleus. One God. And the division of that God into a hundred warring, despotic claimants to the throne is the single greatest obstruction to the collective spiritual evolution of mankind. 

Enforced fanaticism, under the guise of religious belief has brought us to the brink of a collective act of suicide. There can be absolutely no excuse for its continuation.

We who are aware of this and who respond to that great gift called ‘love of life’ represent the majority of the sentient and genuinely human population of planet earth.

We are going to step forward now and put an end to the supposed impregnability of the fanatical clique that holds the whole world hostage to its undisguised megalomania.

We will show the power of spirituality in its true light, freed forever from being chained to institutions of deception that have sought to ‘own the word of God’ and use it to lead mankind into the abyss of an ego fuelled world of chaos.

Rise up, all good people of the world, our unstoppable affirmation of life is fast gaining the upper hand; one can feel its dancing prisms of source-delivered energy multiplying day on day, week on week. 

Let them infect our appetite for going determinedly onto the front foot and acting to dispel any last lingering doubts and fears that hold us back from bringing about the full and lasting emancipation of mankind. 

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My Internal Exile. “The USA is Run by Ruthless Killers”, “When the Lie Becomes the Truth”, Al Qaeda has Come to the Rescue of The Syrian People. Edward Curtin

My Internal Exile. “The USA is Run by Ruthless Killers”, “When the Lie Becomes the Truth”, Al Qaeda has Come to the Rescue of The Syrian People. Edward Curtin

By Edward Curtin

Global Research, December 11, 2024 

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full

of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” – Shakespeare, Coriolanus

Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began.

I am telling you this to try to shed some light on today’s wars and alarums since my tale is common for a small subset of Americans of my generation. We learned long ago that the USA was run by ruthless killers who reveled in war. Vietnam, the Phoenix Program, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc. Nothing was beyond them. We sensed that they would never stop and they haven’t. The genocide of Palestinians, the proxy war via Ukraine against Russia, the current US/Israel/Turkey bloodbath in Syria and Lebanon led by our ruthless terrorists – it is all nightmarish, malevolent, utterly evil, and conjures up hell on earth. And it will get worse in the future.

The mainstream media is claiming that the new savior of Syria is the terrorist “rebel” leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

While there is truth in the view that the world has always been a butcher’s bench with wars, hatred, and strife being a common theme, “always” is meaningless to me. For I have never lived in “always.”

I have lived since birth in the United States during a period of time when it has been the world’s number one butcher, starting with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then continuing waging non-stop wars, assassinating foreign and domestic leaders, including President Kennedy, executing coup d’états, supporting and arming ruthless dictators and terrorists, and creating an economy dependent on war.

All this has been sustained by lies and propaganda that most Americans have swallowed. It is a deeply ingrained Yankee doodle dandy ethos joined with American exceptionalism and a self-induced false innocence.

Just this morning, December 8, 2024, as it did during the Vietnam war, The New York Times spewed out lies about the events in Syria, calling the U.S.-backed jihadist terrorists (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/Al Qaeda, et al.) “rebels” and the overthrow of the Assad government a “civil war.” In doing so, the paper is just doing what it has always done as an organ for U.S. foreign policy, seemingly forgetting that it was the Obama administration that in 2012 launched Operation Timber Sycamore, a CIA program to, under the guise of a civil war, overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a larger effort to undercut Iran and Russia for U.S./Israel/Turkey/NATO control of the region.

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The port in Aqaba, Jordan was an important route for Timber Sycamore weaponry that entered Syria. (Licensed under CC BY 2.0)

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It is propaganda about a much larger war well underway, as the presence of Ukrainian forces in Syria and the usual Israeli bombing attest. Like a mountain ridge wildfire, the winds whip wildly now, and whether the fire spreads next to Iran or somewhere else, it is sure to spread.

To paraphrase Thoreau, there is no need to care for a myriad of instances and applications, the only thing you need is to be acquainted with the principle, which in this case is the long-standing demonic nature of U.S. foreign policy which is synchronous with waging perpetual war.

Yet most people don’t want to go past such lying headlines that are repeated by all the mainstream media. They never did, except when the issues concerned them personally, as when there was a military draft.

Yes, government and media propaganda have contributed mightily to it, but so many of the country’s war crimes have been committed out in the open and accompanied by the public’s cheering and flag waving that propaganda is only part of the explanation.

The will to believe and self-delusion are a large part of it. And people seem to like war, if it is far away and the cheerleaders are on this side of the water. It lends excitement to life like a real murder mystery, a sex scandal, or an approaching hurricane.

Furthermore, it provides roots for the national myth, the mythic home, the mythic womb, wherein one can root for the home team as one stands with tens of thousands of team people and sing along with the words “bombs bursting in air” while feeling a stirring of patriotic pride. This desire to be patriotically conventional, to support the national team in war and peace, is very powerful. Why else the creation of the mammoth bureaucracy called Homeland Security, the un-American word homeland taken straight from Hitler’s 1934 Nuremberg rally. Root, root, root for the home team.

I know the patriotic feeling. It left me back in 1967 when my exile began. For the most part, it has not been apparent to outside observers, for there are places difficult to reach, and the one within is the most distant. My youthful “normalcy” received its first body blow with JFK’s assassination in 1963. By 1967 I had joined the Marines and then declared myself a conscientious objector as I realized the evil my country was committing in Vietnam. I was on my way away.

In the years that followed, as Malcom X, MLK, Jr. and RFK, were assassinated and Johnson and Nixon lied and brutalized Vietnam, my understanding of history and politics deepened. Families and friends called me a communist for being a C.O. and opposing the war and a lying government. It was laughable but relentless.

Many years have elapsed, and the charges have risen and fallen as the years have gone by. For years now, the name of abuse is a “conspiracy” theorist or Russian sympathizer for daring to say that Russia Gate was a Democratic conspiracy and the war against Russia in Ukraine has been a U.S. project from the start. There is much more.

But my point about internal exile is that I had to adopt the motions of normalcy in everyday life – to create a pleasant persona – to get through the days. My teaching and writing continued as hard-hitting as before, but family, friends, academic colleagues, and acquaintances didn’t take my courses or read my writing, which they made sure to avoid.

These days, many more people have been forced to discover the twofold life where they can’t talk to the people in their lives about many issues – politics, wars, Covid, etc. Something has broken. Almost everything.

To accept the conclusion that the country is run by a bunch of ruthless warmongering imperialists is a step too far for most people. They must mean well or just make mistakes, for their hearts are in the right place, runs through so many minds. At least they assume that about the leaders they support.

A key way the endless wars roll on is the deadly political game of the lesser of two evils. If it is one’s political party waging the foreign wars, there are always many reasons to still find it better than the other party’s wars. “My leader may be a warmonger but he’s better than your warmonger” is the unspoken implication. This neat trick is supported by a host of mitigating excuses to justify the delusion that one is for peace even as these wars occur non-stop throughout the decades as the Democratic and Republican leaders switch highchairs.

Rather than dismiss the lot of them, the desire to feel that patriot heart-pump, however dim, and to reject the “extremist” conclusion that war is the life blood of the country, remains.

Throughout the sixty years of my adult life, the U.S. has been continuously waging wars, hot and cold, small and large, openly and secretly, all across the world, and its economy has increasingly become a military-industrial-national-security complex so vast and intricately linked to daily life that the country would collapse without it. Simply put: Beneath daily life lies a death cult, a river of blood. If that sounds too strong for you, give me another name for it.

It seems to me very clear that most Americans are today suffering from some sort of traumatic mental sickness, trying desperately to deny it in a multitude of ways. Scratch the surface of an everyday conversation or a greeting on the street and there’s the rolling of the eyes and the looks that say, “Let’s not go there, it’s all too crazy!” Something has broken, and people seem like walking desperadoes with the flag planted like a dagger in their hearts.

Even the alternative media, those writers with whom I share wishes for a peaceful world, have for a good while let their hopes trump reailty by claiming the American empire is doomed, as is Israel and the neo-liberal, neo-con agenda. For many months now, I have noticed something amiss with these claims. Too much wishful thinking. Too little appreciation for the machinations of the CIA, M-16, Mossad, Turkish conspiracies. To think these devils would accept defeat without bringing the world down is naïve.

I don’t relish saying all this. It is depressing. But I think it is true.

Some people who know me call me an extremist and claim I make no room for the middle ground. When it comes to U.S. war-waging, I say there is none. It is endless and integral to U.S. foreign policy no matter which party is in office. And the foreign policy is integral to the domestic policy. Without it, the country would be so different. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden – to buy their lies is to be a fool.

To realize the difference between power and innocence is to come to understand the demonic nature of America’s Forever Wars.  When in 2014 President Obama stood at West Point and said, “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being,” he was revealing, consciously or not, a hard truth, just as when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and told the world he believed in war.  But he smiled.

For war is the lifeblood of this “exceptional” country.  But if you keep repeating that, don’t expect smiles to come your way.

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