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David Shulman: A deadly apathy

January 2, 2025/4 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Unusual to see a Jewish writer talk of “Jewish supremacists” and the lack of any concern for Palestinian suffering. But the fanatics are in charge, so it’s not going to make any difference either in Israel or the diaspora. The Jewish community always ends up following the extremists because in the  end, very few Jews want to cut themselves off from the mainstream.

A Deadly Apathy

David Shulman in The New York Review of Books
A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience.

January 16, 2025 issue

A Palestinian woman whose family is preparing to abandon their home in the West Bank village of Zanuta to escape violence by Israeli settlers

Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

A Palestinian woman whose family is preparing to abandon their home in the West Bank village of Zanuta to escape violence by Israeli settlers, October 30, 2023. The Israeli settlement of Havat Mitarim is on the hilltop in the distance.

This winter in Israel-Palestine is a dark one, and not because the days are shorter. We have war crimes, man-made famine, and ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank. Since early October the army has intermit- tently stopped humanitarian aid—namely food—from entering the northern part of Gaza, which has a population of some 200,000 or more. Much of that population has now been forcibly displaced toward the tent cities farther south, but it seems that tens of thousands of Palestinians are still hanging on in Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, where the fighting and the bombing continue. Brigadier General Itzik Cohen, who is in command in the Jabaliya arena, has claimed that there are no civilians left in the north of Gaza. Oddly, many of these nonexistent ordinary people are being killed nearly every day. Here is one egregious example. On October 29, after four soldiers were killed in Beit Lahiya, the army bombed a five-story apartment building; it claimed that a “lookout” had been sighted on the roof. Nearly a hundred people died, at least twenty of them children, and we have no count of the wounded. An obscene question arises: Was it worth it—for a presumed lookout? But I can’t help asking myself: For this we created a Jewish state?

Judging by reports from the field, the plan seems to be to maintain Israeli control of northern Gaza indefinitely and—if the apocalyptic Messianists have their way—to settle it with Jews, as if nothing has been learned from the bitter experience of the past. We even have a high-ranking theorist of the current catastrophe in Gaza—retired major general Giora Eiland—who thinks that besieging a city or a country is perfectly legitimate under the rules of war, even if innocents who can’t or won’t get out die of starvation or illness.

It seems that his plan for Gaza has now become the government’s plan.

What comes next? I fear that it will be full-scale war with Iran. Reports from early December describe the situation in Beit Lahiya as unthinkable misery—rotting corpses in the ruins, no food, no water, no place to hide, no let-up in the bombings—while mass starvation has taken hold in the south of Gaza, partly because local criminal gangs commandeer the supply trucks that manage to get through the blockade.

Let’s put aside, for the moment, the hard-hearted rationalizations that are all too prevalent among Israelis, such as “It’s all the fault of Hamas,” or “They started it,” or “Our soldiers’ lives come first,” or “Our enemies want only to destroy us,” or “All Arabs are Hamas.” (This last one is common among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s supporters and very close to his stated view of the Palestinian Authority.) What is striking, and horrific, is the fact that Israel has embraced cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war. It’s not as if there was no cruelty in the army’s rules of war before October 7, 2023. But since that date a dark miasma has enveloped the collective conscience of this country. If you watch the evening news on the mainstream Channel 2, or listen to government ministers and members of the Knesset, or even if you simply pay attention to accidental encounters with passersby, you usually perceive a blank indifference to the huge civilian casualties in Gaza, in Lebanon, and—in particular—among Palestinians in the West Bank. The government sets the tone; the army, although at odds with Netanyahu, follows suit; the Jewish supremacists marshal biblical texts proving the joys of revenge. For them, and for many others in Israel, tens of thousands of dead Palestinian civilians in Gaza are an acceptable price to pay for a reckless, savage war. …

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  1. ps
    ps says:
    January 3, 2025 at 6:28 am

    https://n*tionalvanguard.org/2025/01/keep-talkin-trash-donald/

    *) a

    I had followed the last phase of the seven-hour WarStrike stream. Balogh again quoted the well-known saying “With Jews you lose”. I will perhaps explain later that this only applies to the collective, racial, national, but not to the individual dimension of advantage, because there it is the other way around.

    I have just started to watch the recorded stream from the beginning, but out of respect for my own time I will probably only proceed “randomly” (see also Speed Reading, Fast Reading or Diagonal Reading) in case I find parts of it thematically too boring or lengthy.

    https://odysee.com/@WarStrike:a/Episode75:d

    I agree with the assessment that, in all likelihood, it will never be the same again as it was a few years ago – i.e. before Charlottesville – namely that the free space in the far-reaching media platforms such as YouTube was so permissive that this could trigger and reinforce a political revolution called “Altright”. The Jews have now completely hijacked these platforms and gagged them with their own censorship measures.

    For ten days, WarStrike’s almost maniacal, obedient fans, hanging on to a bookish drip, had to wait to finally be able to get rid of their – apparently annoying, extremely loose – money and hand it over to WarStrike. In some cases, Balogh/Jordan are virtually pelted with half a thousand dollars.

    The stream always starts with the promotion of the sponsors Clemens & Blair and Armreg. The fact that “Joe” Jordan demonstratively does not take part in this is another point of criticism that I find highly disapproving, apart from the disrespectful unpunctuality towards their nevertheless incomprehensibly generous “fan community”, which I will come to below. If he is not interested in the subject, he should at least have the decency to be physically present when it comes to his “sponsors”.

    What’s more, despite one or two years of streaming and thousands of donations received each month (the Christmas stream on Odysee alone raised over 4,000 dollars), he has just as demonstratively not managed to buy a decent cam that can be purchased cheaply these days. A good camera is basic equipment for a good presentation, and therefore also a sign of respect for the (paying) viewer.

    Germar Rudolf aka Amreg seems to be a “political prisoner” (Balogh), but nobody on American soil seems to care where he has gone and what has become of him, although the further distribution of his publications may depend on it, not to mention the dimension concerning his human rights, which could soon affect all other Americans working in this important field.

    Germans are famous for punctuality, they have a high sense of the value of time and efficiency. To keep someone waiting is to diminish their importance by disregarding the value of their time. For example, Hitler regularly humiliated the foreign politicians, representatives, diplomats, etc. he disapproved of by making them wait for hours in his chancellery for a meeting with him, which usually turned out differently than the discouraged, humiliated applicant expected.

    For example, if you tune in at 8 p.m. American time, you have to be prepared to wait at least a quarter of an hour, but often even half an hour, for the “show” to finally start. I consider it a sheer imposition to put up with something like that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_quarter_(class_timing)

    In my opinion, the minimum level of punctuality towards their followers would be to keep a commitment they have made when announcing an appointment, i.e. to show up on time and reliably like a Swiss watch. This is a very disapproving “un-German” aspect of this “dream team”, and possibly part of their, let’s call it what it is, sloppy American approach or mentality.

    Here are a few more of these fun AI channels. The creator of “Scared Ketchup” says in his new video appearance that he was banned by Musk on X because of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/@killerAIDuck/videos
    https://www.youtube.com/@PsychOMaticProductions/videos
    https://www.youtube.com/@scaredketchup/videos

    Incidentally, “The Dor Brothers” are Jews (actually named Doroczinski). One brother, formerly based in Berlin, allegedly moved back to Israel, the second in London and one sister https://archive.ph/iD8G8 is also in Israel. They even claim at one point that one of their videos (“The Drill” or “The Dope Show”) was blocked on Facebook (because it depicted Zuckerberg as a lizard?).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTdLKZbiasg

    https://nypost.com/2024/08/22/us-news/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-flooding-social-media-fake-images-of-trump-and-harris/

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2024/02/18/dor-brothers-rock-cinematic-ai/

  2. ps
    ps says:
    January 3, 2025 at 7:37 am

    P.S. WarStrike recommended the video of one of their donors. However, it could be based on a fatal misjudgment, and not just because, for example, Nigeria is a Muslim country that is growing massively in population.

    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/there-are-several-videos-on-yo-qZnaeUQFSey5ZNuyln9EWw

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth

  3. Tim
    Tim says:
    January 3, 2025 at 11:48 am

    https://rumble.com/v65bupy-hn6-22-the-final-solution-is-not-what-we-have-been-told.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

    The steadfast priest aka courageous clergy has uploaded the second part of his highly interesting “final solution” treatise. Despite the serious subject matter (serious for the supposed historical victims, but especially for the past, present and future victims of Jewish lie propaganda), it even has its amusing moments when the priest equates the secreted bullshit of the self-proclaimed bald, bearded “edutainer” with hipster glasses Simon “Whistler” with defecating cows and elephants. https://en.everybodywiki.com/Simon_Whistler

    In all seriousness, Mawdsley’s solution is once again not to persecute the Jews, expel them or even let them found their own state, but to remove them from all positions of power in the host country and “return them to God”, by which he obviously does not mean Yahweh, although this is ultimately the same God of the Christians, but Jesus. How his holy forced conversion (which of course would not be a satanic agenda in this case) is supposed to take place without breaking “universal human rights” is something he once again refuses to explain to the curious uninformed.

    Dullard Dru Wanklin, too, famously considers himself a “Christian” without ever bothering to ask his dim-witted brain which and how many of his statements and actions are Christian – bibel-abiding – at all, or whether the one whom he supposedly worships would seriously consider him a Christian? For saying “I am a Christian!” is not enough to legitimize this, because “by their fruits and by their deeds you shall know them!” For Christ, hypocrites were known to be the most detestable.

    https://dailystormer.in/i-hate-all-indian-people/

    Today Wanklin has launched a new (in his opinion extremely Christian) campaign called “I hate all Indians!” Wanklin’s brain concludes from his irrational “logic” that there can be no atheist white state, since it is not the Christians, out of their partially pathological need for charity, who are attracting the flood of millions of third-worlders to Europe and America, but the atheists. Admittedly, the Nazi state was neither a Christian nor an atheist one, but a mixture of both, with the Christian skeptics of atheism ultimately speaking out against the disenfranchisement of the Jews, while the atheist skeptics of Christianity spoke out in favour of it.

    But the Bolshevik Soviet state, which was also a multi-ethnic state in which the white majority ruled over the Asian minority, was clearly dominated by anti-Christian hostillity. There, even philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism did not seem to be mutually exclusive, but rather appeared in a kind of undulating fluctuation, presumably propgroms following the realization that the Jews had once again been given too much power, although this never became a coherent concept as in National Socialism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee

    Wanklin also says that he is not a neo-Nazi [sic], but a Sinophile expatriate, and that “Greater Slavistan” would at least be free in contrast to the West. You should relish all this nonsense on the tip of your tongue.

    • Tim
      Tim says:
      January 3, 2025 at 4:34 pm

      Well, folks/fools like Anglin are easy to describe, no challenge for an imaginative enemy! But what about Jews, who can overwhelm you with their unexpected demonry at any time? A proposal for the first tentative conceptualization:

      “Until now, I had not had the opportunity to conceive a linguistic specificum capable of characterizing you in your utter incomprehensibility. Your scumminess transcends all powers of imagination. Await my early thingification!”

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