Diego Sequera
April 29, 2025 , 12:38 pm .
Demonstrators are dispersed in Tel Aviv during protests against Benjamin Netanyahu on May 25, 2024 (Photo: Ariel Schalit / AP)
But the Judge will sit, and they will take away his dominion, so that it will be destroyed and destroyed until the end, and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him. Daniel, 7:26-27
The open, explicit, and total destruction and occupation that Israel seeks in Gaza is proportional to the internal corrosion of its society at this moment.
The more missiles are fired at refugee tents full of children, hospitals, and schools, the greater the abyss in the soul of the society that perpetrates the extermination.
The prosthetic nation project of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States to rid itself of the burden of antisemitism by making the Arab world pay its debt has not yet reached its centenary, and internal tensions are becoming increasingly volatile.
This precedes, by several years, the unleashing and externalization of the extermination energy upon their colony that followed Operation Al Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023.
But in the gradual process of making the State de jure colonial, segregationist, and dependent on extermination, what was already a de facto situation is leading to political and moral nakedness, while with this evidence, mortal wounds are irremediably inflicted.
1. The rising rabid plurality: constitution and ontology
Gradually and then suddenly—so clichéd—Israeli society and politics have moved sharply to the right.
Inevitably, at the heart of this shift, interpretations of Zionism play a decisive role in what is already, in essence, a clash.
The convention practically mandates the typical left-right distribution, although the centers of gravity are represented by Zionism and the occupation. That's not up for debate; the difference, if anything, is nuanced.
As is well known, the State of Israel was founded on the expulsion of the native population, its plundering and expropriation. It basically transferred the Anglo-European matrix.
Whether it is attenuated or plays an explicit and central role, in its origin, but especially since 1967, the status of occupier and reproducer of the colonial tradition permeates and defines everything.
It's difficult to dissociate such a condition from the reckoning that history brings. "Israeli democracy" was not only based on the expulsion and subjugation of the Arab population, whether Muslim or Christian. From the beginning, it included other, manifestly second-class citizens.
The memory of the Holocaust, of the Shoah, has changed over time, and in the early years, many of the first settlers, including "founding fathers" like Ben-Gurion, viewed the survivors with suspicion.
And not with reservation, but with open disdain, the Ashkenazis have long viewed the Jews originating from the East and North Africa, of Arab descent, the Mizrahim.
Many of them, like the Iraqi Jews, were expelled from cities like Baghdad as a result of Zionist terrorism.
The passage of time produced a series of subaltern classes in which the lowest, such as the Israeli Arabs, served, through deeper exclusion, as a safety valve for those further up the pyramid, the Mizrahim, while all the central levers of power were delineated and until recently completely controlled by the Ashkenazis, who hailed from Europe.
Israeli democracy has never been a democracy.
Fast forward to today, and we see the gradual rise of Mizrahim within the levers of institutional and political power.
And this occurs alongside the most ideologically radical expressions, whose foundations are theocratic, violently exclusionary, and, literally, apocalyptic: the religious right.
This is the " rabid plurality " and unredeemed that has practically re-emerged on the political scene.
These factions are essential to sustaining Benjamin Netanyahu and, by extension, the Likud at this political moment.
Menachem Begin, terrorist, Zionist fundamentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded the party in the 1970s based on Jabotinsky's Zionist revisionism.
The party, in addition to embracing the Zionist manifest destiny, which in no way clashed with fascism nor did it turn its nose up at it, also aligns with more foreign versions and has a powerful influence in the American foreign policy establishment , essentially being the Israeli chapter of the neoconservatives.
This alliance is leading the struggle to transform the state, which is simultaneously moving away from Ashkenazi hegemony in the Knesset (parliament), the courts, and the security establishment .
But this structural reflection has several dimensions and conditions the entire game.
It manifests itself, for example, from an alleged antagonism between the Ashkenazi " deep state " and "the people," transferring the "cultural battle" scheme that politics has been experiencing in the United States and Europe.
The unelected actors of administrative continuity, the bureaucrats of the power structures, rose up against Netanyahu and the majorities—that is, democracy, as this version would say.
A narrative that is sometimes too well-rounded.
The confrontation against the current prime minister, under this logic, is manifested in the various legal proceedings he faces, and there are comparisons with the style of lawfare that the Democrats and the institutions unleashed against Trump in the context of the distorted and failed Russiagate scandal.
The latter includes cooperation that extends, according to some , to NGOs and other extensions that favor the "left"; similar, more intensive cooperation exists between the Republicans and the Likud.
On the other hand, the messianism and irredentism of the right-wing Likud movement is a force already at work within the state , pressuring and imposing its agenda as a condition.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the current security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, represent the highest levels of this wing within the geometry of power.
"What exacerbates this societal fracture," writes Alastair Crooke, "is two things: first, it is ethnocultural; second, it is ideological. The third component is the most explosive: eschatology."
This last element of "rabid pluralism," represented by people like Ben Gvir and Smotrich, promotes the apocalyptic vision that will lead to Greater Israel, which demands the total expulsion of Palestinians from historic Palestine, Judaizing Al Aqsa and establishing the Kingdom of Judea.
At the heart of this dispute is the very "Jewishness" of Judaism, which is the true version. Fundamentalism. Eschatology.
Today, the main points of the fray, although not limited to that, focus on the extermination campaign, the fate of the hostages taken on October 7, and what to do with the "opportunity" that the war offers for the Zionist project.
While on the one hand we have the demonstrations that converge on the struggle for an agreement that would free the hostages, on the other hand we see the intensifying offside expansion of settlers in the West Bank, eager to do the same in Gaza.
A breeding ground, then, with many expressions is leading to a tension that many within the established power itself, and outside, view with alarm.
The course of war and extermination, the judicial processes inside and outside the country, the looming constitutional crisis and its recent manifestations—everything is, at this moment, passing through Netanyahu.
"We must tell the truth. Returning the hostages is not the most important goal... Let's decide to finish off Gaza once and for all. Let's restore the people's trust and show that we can achieve our goals and destroy Hamas," Bezalel Smotrich said a few days ago.
Since late 2023, Ben Gvir has been distributing weapons to settlers and other citizens under the guise of self-defense. More than 100,000 assault rifles , at this point.
2. Identity crisis is not the same as moral conscience, but it could be.
Gaza is now the defining line. The course of the war will determine what Israeli society will become once it succeeds in carrying out, or fails to carry out, ethnic cleansing.
This seems like an obvious truth, but saying it, in many places, violates current definitions of normality, both individually and collectively.
What is happening, and what happens now, becomes the destiny of Israel's project.
Clearly, the consensus has not been resolved, and for both Israeli and Palestinian society, the two-state solution and everything that came out of Oslo is clearly dead.
Before the Al Aqsa Flood in 2023, the legitimacy of not performing military service was advancing from a germinal state, according to Meron Rapaport , even beyond the left, the usual and minority terrain where they have always existed.
After October 7, this movement fell silent as society rallied around "national unity."
Gideon Levy even goes so far as to say that on October 8, 2023, the left completely disappeared from the scene.
Following the collapse of the ceasefire on March 18, significant cracks began to appear in the war consensus.
Rapaport, comparing the data, suggests that since the beginning of the war, 100,000 people have refused to serve in the military and participate in the war.
The latest study by the Israel Democracy Institute shows that a growing majority now considers the release of the hostages more important than "overthrowing Hamas."
68%, compared to 25% who prioritize destroying Hamas, in liberation, and therefore would be in favor of some type of ceasefire agreement.
According to the study , this occurs within a more pessimistic climate regarding the future of the democratic mandate, the future of the economic situation, and social cohesion. Optimism is higher regarding the future of the security situation.
Among those who believe and those who are convinced that it is impossible to achieve both goals, the total is 49%, despite registering the highest point in terms of the perception of individual life returning to normal.
In light of this, and returning to the point, the reasons why more people refuse military service are diverse, largely "non-ideological."
Yael Berda, a sociologist at Hebrew University, tells Rapaport that, although they are a minority, there are those who do so because they went to Gaza and rejected what they saw.
By January of this year, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) itself admitted that 28 soldiers had committed suicide since October 7, 2023, a number that represents an exponential increase compared to previous years.
Others do so because they have lost faith in the government for not doing more for the hostages, while another group decides against the "sacrifice discourse" of the fundamentalist wing of the Ben Gvirs and Smotrichs.
Denouncing Netanyahu's political and personal pettiness as interests that do not favor security, on April 10, around 1,000 Air Force pilots and reservists signed a public letter demanding an end to hostilities and a release agreement, with only 35 of 970 recanting.
Then, 250 officers from Unit 8200 , the elite branch of military intelligence, repeated the same demand. They used artificial intelligence to create target banks in Gaza, which calls into question what is collateral and even what is indiscriminate.
A group of former Navy officers and reserve doctors also issued statements supporting the pilots . So did former Mossad agents and 1,500 Army armored and paratrooper corps personnel.
It seems reasonable to acknowledge that both explicit objectives—the release of the hostages through an agreement—and deeper political considerations converge here. The other struggle.
A ceasefire and normalization would allow Netanyahu to resume his various legal proceedings in peacetime and, given the political tensions, call for elections.
Bibi draws and concentrates everything. It's largely her own work.
A fracture, not just in the political sphere but in the military sphere, in the nerve, would be the greatest catastrophe.
For this reason, the hawks believe the pre-October 7 dissent over compulsory service and these public demonstrations by the security and military establishments are responsible for the undermining of the effort, even for the laxity that made the armed action of October 2023 possible.
3. Civil war?
At least so far, two former prime ministers, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak , have warned of the danger of civil war. Both have also been harshly critical of Israel's response and the forced blind alley that the war on Gaza represents today.
Yair Lapid, a leading opposition figure, shares the fear and calls for disobedience to the government if it manages to get the abrasive legislative and judicial reforms approved in parliament .
This reform, which attacks, among other things, the appointment of Supreme Court judges, formulates laws that diminish, if not prevent, legal scrutiny of executive actions in all its ministries, thereby challenging the mandate of the courts vis-à-vis political bodies while further deepening, through citizenship reforms, the apartheid regime itself .
It's not the latter that will be at the top of Olmert, Barak, or Lapid's lists.
The most recent chapters in this saga are embodied at this point by the resignation/dismissal of Ronen Bar, the head of the foreign intelligence service, the Shin Bet, and then that of the Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, and the role of the Prosecutor's Office.
Some see, in connection with Netanyahu's various corruption scandals, which they also want to frame as "mini-Catargate," as centering all the accusations of malfeasance, influence peddling, and embezzlement in the media sphere.
Catargate has not directly implicated Netanyahu in this matter, but liberal sectors see it as a silver bullet that could allow the prosecutor to declare the longest-serving politician in history unfit to govern.
But the Qatar issue, its lobbying , and its influence go beyond the interaction between media advisors in the prime minister's office and highlight financial support for Hamas, raising several questions.
Whatever the case, it is a historical truth that Israel, and Netanyahu in particular, played a leading role in the rise of Hamas and undermining the foundations of the PLO.
But whatever that influence might have been, and what happened from an Israeli perspective on October 7, makes everything murkier than it already is.
In Bar's case, which a court barred from dismissal but will resign anyway on July 15, the most explosive aspect lies in the question of who was responsible for not raising the alarm, or not heeding the alarms, in the days before the Palestinian resistance operation was launched.
Where the blame falls would weigh differently, while currently there is a war of affidavits between Bar and Netanyahu.
But the responsibility falling on the Shin Bet is not the same as it is on the prime minister personally.
An investigative commission could be the latter's worst enemy. But, if conditions are favorable, it could be its best friend. It's all a matter of timing .
In an op-ed in Haaretz, Ehud Olmert outlines the phases and stages of the civil war. According to him, they are about to enter the second stage, a decidedly more muscular one.
In it, the former Kadima prime minister and Beirut bomber predicts, the seizure of power in institutions and media will be carried out by the people armed by Ben Gvir, the lethal campurusos , fundamentalist settlers, followers of Meir Kahane's son , or similar armed and fanatical formations.
But for Tom Segev, many of these statements are alarmist. He says there will be no civil war because there are no equal parties: there is a clear majority, and it is not the Ashkenazi.
Still, according to the Jewish People Policy Institute, 60% of the population fears a civil war . This echoes statements by Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak, who stated on television on March 20 that the country is " an instant away " from such a scenario.
On March 25, Dudi Amsalem, a Likud member of parliament and current minister of regional cooperation, also declared on television that civil war should be waged to "defeat the left that does not accept our position."
Whatever the scenario, it will be bitter.
4. Hunger, censorship, ambushes (and the zero degree of morality)
One might think that the best thing that had happened to Netanyahu was the collapse of the Assad government, until Trump won the election.
The brief ceasefire and release of 33 Israeli hostages—and 600 Palestinian hostages—along with a deliberate deployment in Gaza of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, leading the other factions of the Palestinian armed resistance, proved a nightmare for the prime minister.
Firstly, because the visual neatness, coordination and management of media produced a devastating political and psychological impact.
The central and stated objective of degrading and eliminating Hamas from Gaza, after 17 months of overwhelming force, faced a well-oiled military structure that remained in place.
The ceasefire also constituted a capitulation for Ben Gvir and Smotrich, who renounced the government alliance on the condition that they return to the Holocaust.
To make matters worse, despite Trump's almost unreserved support, his negotiating style has repeatedly sidelined Israel itself.
The most alarming moment came when Adam Boehler, the US president's special envoy, met with Hamas emissaries and declared that the United States was not an agent of Israel and acted in its own interests. To make matters worse, right in the middle of the first phase of the ceasefire.
At that moment, fury was unleashed on Boehler, who was practically pulverized from the loop. Without that obstacle , purging his government, facilitating the return of the two fundamentalist ministers, is what impedes the second phase, collapses the dialogue, and opens the worst chapter of the extermination, which is what we are witnessing now .
The one that best serves Netanyahu to avoid falling.
Not only are the plans to reduce the entry of humanitarian aid to zero and even destroy the depots where some remains a measure to accelerate and intensify displacement or death, but from the strict point of view of military analysis, the current Chief of Staff, according to Amos Harel , is preparing to announce that the expulsion and occupation will not be so easy. That it will require more efforts and more people.
In recent days, the number of deaths, fatalities, and complex ambushes has rapidly increased , slowing the military's drive to "finish the job."
In any case, regardless of internal tensions, the greatest tailwind at this time is provided by the United States government, at all levels.
He's done this before, but not in the complacent and intensive way the Trump administration is now exercising, in contrast to the passive-aggressive relationship with the Democrats, as well as the zombie-enabler politics of Biden and Blinken.
Of course, there are many ways in which the situations between Israel and the United States are intertwined, but due to lack of space, it's worth highlighting, at least in passing, the tsunami of censorship that is increasingly broad, profound, and violent regarding the definitions and meanings of antisemitism, and the measures, even extralegal ones, that they take.
This, of course, highlights the decisively proactive role that confirms that it is the United States that is allowing the genocide to continue, along with the United Kingdom and Germany.
It also confirms the spread of the amoral state that makes military actions against civilians more tolerable in other latitudes, such as Yemen.
Whatever the outcome, several powder kegs can, with certain guarantees, explode. As the most destructive trends, supported by the United States, continue to advance, the abyss will continue to deepen.
On April 23rd, as is the case every year, the Holocaust and its victims were commemorated. Many current Holocaust scholars, Gideon Levy notes in his column , without drawing exact analogies, compile several articles these scholars wrote on the occasion, which highlight the dismay and questioning surrounding what's happening in Gaza, especially after the collapse of the ceasefire in mid-March.
Whether or not they succeed in annihilating Gaza, Israel will never again be able to deny its protean status as a beachhead and colony.
Babylon fell in one night.
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Israel's total siege of Gaza reaches day 60 as ICJ hearings on genocide case continue
Dozens of nations are taking part in week-long hearings at The Hague over Israel's criminal blockade of humanitarian aid shipments for Gaza
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Israel's complete blockade of humanitarian aid shipments to the Gaza Strip reached its 60th day on 30 April as famine conditions continue to spread across the besieged enclave.
The growing crisis comes as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is conducting a week-long series of hearings at The Hague to examine Israel's legal responsibilities in facilitating humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
“Today, we confront the crisis of legality and humanity in light of systematic undermining of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by Israel and its negligence towards the overall obligations under international law, including those stemming from the status of Israel as an occupying power,” Maksim Musikhin, the Director of the Legal Department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the World Court on Wednesday.
“The urgency of this matter cannot be overstated. Gaza balances on the brink of famine. Hospitals lie in ruins,” he added.
Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Legal and International Affairs, told the court during his intervention that “the present-day ethnic cleansing of Gaza can be compared to the 1948 Nakba of Palestine. This, among others, is a clear instance of crimes against humanity, especially when coupled with obstruction of humanitarian access.”
“The international community has again failed. This is the failure of the United Nations system, the UN member states, and that of humanity. This failure has already been registered in the archives of human history, due and because of supremacy of politics over rule of law,” Gharibabadi added.
France’s representative to the ICJ, Diego Colas, urged Israel to immediately lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza and cooperate with international partners.
“Humanitarian aid must reach Gaza at scale. Restrictions to its access must be lifted without delay,” said Colas, calling for all crossing into Gaza to be opened and humanitarian workers protected “in compliance with international law.”
Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono told the World Court that Israel's actions across occupied Palestine “defy international law.”
“Indonesia clearly expresses that no country should be above the law … Israel has consistently imposed its nefarious policies and measures in the occupied Palestinian territory in utter disrespect to international law,” Sugiono said.
“It becomes evidently clear that Israel does not fulfill this obligation (relief schemes),” Indonesia's top diplomat stressed, blaming Israel for playing “a pivotal part in the unfolding of the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of this decade, if not this century.”
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— Palestine in NL (@PalMissionNL) April 30, 2025
For its part, the US stood alone in defending Israel's genocide of Palestinians and its rampant attacks on humanitarian workers and UN staffers.
“There are serious concerns about UNRWA’s impartiality, including information that Hamas has used UNRWA facilities and that UNRWA staff participated in the 7 October terrorist attack against Israel,” Josh Simmons, of the US State Department legal team, said on the third day of the UN Court’s public hearings in The Hague into Israel’s humanitarian obligations in Gaza.
Simmons argued that Israel, “therefore, has ample grounds to question UNRWA’s impartiality.”
The US begins its submission at the ICJ defending Israel
The US has enabled Israels brutal repression of the Palestinian people, its occupation of Palestinian land, its imposition of apartheid & now genocide, through the diplomatic, financial & military support it gives Israel. pic.twitter.com/CZa8Q2Eaa0
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 30, 2025
The hearings commenced on 28 April and will continue until 2 May. They were initiated following a 2023 request from the UN General Assembly for an ICJ advisory opinion on Israel's obligations under international law following Tel Aviv's smear campaign and ban on UNRWA.
The UN warned in recent days that Israel's aid blockade is threatening “full-scale famine conditions” across all of Gaza and has called for “concerted” action to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” there.
Jonathan Fowler, the UNRWA senior communications manager, called the dire humanitarian situation the “worst” it has been since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on 7 October 2023, in an interview with the Turkish Anadolu Agency.
“The specter of famine looms over Gaza. Never before in the world has an entire population been placed at such risk,” Fowler said, revealing that some Palestinians are finding themselves going hungry for periods as long as 50 days.
According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), widespread forced displacement has compelled an untold number of Palestinians to abandon food supplies and emergency stocks secured during the ceasefire signed in January, which Israel broke in mid-March.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, recognized as the world's hunger watchdog, has initiated an analysis of food scarcity and malnutrition in Gaza.
The assessment started on April 28 and will continue for one week. Over 50 trained analysts from UN agencies and aid organizations from the Gaza Strip and abroad are participating in the effort.
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Israel’s Backers Keep Whining That They’re Losing Control Of The Narrative
Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.
Caitlin Johnstone
May 1, 2025
Amnesty International is now calling Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza “a live-streamed genocide” due to the way this nightmare is unfolding right in front of us on the screens of our devices around the world, and public support for Israel is plummeting in the United States.
Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.
During a speech at a summit hosted by the Jewish News Syndicate earlier this week, former US senator Norm Coleman said that Jews are “the masters of the universe” and should use their power in Silicon Valley to control online information in order to win a “digital war”.
Coleman, who is Jewish, made the following remarks on Monday:
“A majority of Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel. And, my friends, I think the reason for that is that we’re losing the digital war. They’re getting their information from TikTok… and we’re losing that war.
“And when you think about it, the masters of the universe are Jews! We’ve got Altman at OpenAI, we’ve got [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg, we’ve got [Google founder] Sergey Brin, we’ve got a group across the board. Jan Koum, y’know, founded WhatsApp. It’s us.
“And we have to figure out a way to win the digital battle. We’ve got to get our digital sneakers on, so that the truth can prevail over the lies. And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because a majority of all Americans will support Israel. We’ll make that happen, we have to make it happen.”
If any anti-Zionist with a public profile had said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion for the benefit of Israel, they’d be forcefully denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying Jews must use their control over Silicon Valley to influence public opinion about Israel receives no attention from that same political-media class.“The masters of the universe are Jews!” former US Sen. Norm Coleman proclaims at the Jerusalem JNS policy summit, calling on Jewish tech industry CEO’s to counteract Gen Z’s growing support for Palestine
(Coleman was a warm-up act for Netanyahu)
Interestingly, at that same event, Meta’s “Jewish Diaspora” chief Jordana Cutler noted that Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram “banned content claiming Zionists run the world or control the media.” Under Cutler’s own guidelines, the prior comments from her fellow attendee would have been banned if he had said them on Facebook instead of at the Jewish News Syndicate International Policy Summit.
Israel’s backers have been whining about losing control of the narrative for months.
In February, US Senator Lindsey Graham told the press at an event in Tel Aviv that in the Arab world “Israel has won the war on the ground, but they’ve lost it on television,” lamenting that “all they see is morning, noon and night attacks on the Palestinian people.”
The Arab world is seeing attacks on the Palestinian people morning noon and night because that is what’s happening. That is what the entire world is seeing.
In a talk at the McCain Institute last year, then-Senator Mitt Romney told then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Congress supports banning TikTok because it shares information that turns people’s opinions against Israel, saying such information has a “very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”"Israel has won the war on the ground, but they’ve lost it on television" — Senator Lindsey Graham in Israel
"Israel has won the war on the ground, but they’ve lost it on television" — Senator Lindsey Graham in IsraelAfter bemoaning Israel’s lack of success at “PR” regarding its Gaza assault, Romney just came right out and said that this was “why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature” — with “us” meaning himself and his fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“How this narrative has evolved, yeah, it’s a great question,” Blinken responded, saying that at the beginning of his career in Washington everyone was getting their information from television and physical newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
“Now, of course, we are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken continued. “And of course, the way this has played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we can’t — we can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”
Notice how he said the word “narrative” three times? That’s how empire managers talk to each other, because that’s how they think about everything. Everything is about narrative control. It doesn’t matter what happens as long as you can control how people think about what happens.
During the university protests last year, Palantir CEO Alex Karp came right out and said that if those on the side of the protesters win the debate on this issue, the west will lose the ability to wage wars.Arnaud Bertrand
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Incredible mask-off moment: Romney and Blinken say that the ban of TikTok was directly because "the emotion, the impact of images has a very challenging effect on the narrative", the narrative being "Israel's PR".
“We kind of just think these things that are happening, across college campuses especially, are like a sideshow — no, they are the show,” Karp said during his rant. “Because if we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the west, ever.”
In an audio recording published by the Tehran Times in 2023, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is heard saying “We really have a TikTok problem” and calling for more aggressive online narrative operations to control public opinion about Israel among young people.
In the audio recording, whose authenticity was confirmed by the ADL, Greenblatt says the following:
“I also wanna point out that we have a major major major generational problem. All the polling that I’ve seen, ADL’s polling, ICC’s polling, independent polling suggests this is not a left or right gap, folks. The issue in United States’ support for Israel is not left and right: it is young and old. And the numbers of young people who think that Hamas’s you know massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly high. And so we really have a Tik-Tok problem, a Gen-Z problem, that our community needs to put the same brains that gave us Taglit, the same brains that gave us all these other amazing innovations, need to put our energy toward this like, fast. Cause again like we’ve been chasing this left-right divide. It’s the wrong game. The real game is the next generation, and the Hamas and their accomplices, the useful idiots in the West, are falling in line in ways that are terrifying.”
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US withdraws troops from Syria, Israel fears growing Turkish influence — Times of Israel
The United States has notified Israel of its intention to begin a gradual withdrawal of troops from Syria within two months.
"Among other things, a partial withdrawal of American troops is being considered," one of the officials told the publication.
