A Century of Likud

The Children of Amalek, Ch. 6

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As we observe the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by Likud it should not be conceived as incongruent with the history of Israel. Likud, today, is the logical blossoming of a fruit whose seed was planted at the beginning of Israel. In fact, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, [Rabbi] Jessurun Cardozo, and many other Jews wrote a letter to the New York times in 1948, shortly after the formation of the modern state of Israel warning about Likud.

Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions, public manifestations in Begin's behalf, and the creation in Palestine of the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.
The public avowals of Begin's party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.

Menachem Begin, before the creation of the state of Israel, was a leader of the Irgun — a Zionist paramilitary organization described by the United States and British governments as a terrorist organization in the same way Hamas is described as a terrorist organization today:

Apart from the Haganah, two further illegal armed organizations exist, both having cut away from the parent body. One is the "Irgun Zvai Leumi", which was formed in 1935 by dissident members of the Haganah. The other is the "Stern Group" which broke away from the Irgun early In the war when the latter announced an "armistice". The Irgun operates under its own secret command mainly in sabotage and terrorism against the Mandatory; its strength is estimated at from 3,000 to 5,000. The Stern Group engages in terrorism; its strength is said to be between 200 and 300.

After the creation of the state of Israel, Begin founded the Herut Party. Then in 1973, through various consolidations and unions of parties and sub-parties that shared the views of Herut, Likud was formed (Likud can be translated from Hebrew as “The Consolidation”). And in 1977, Manachem Begin would become Prime Minister of Israel and leader of Likud; the biggest party in the Knesset.

As Einstein and others observed, it could be predicted what Israel would become were it to be substantially led by a party like Likud. They were right, and here we are today. The cruel savagery by the IDF that marked the massacre at Deir Yassin, which Einstein and others had referred to, is being repeated at a massive scale. Furthermore, the misrepresentation and deceit that they ascribed to Begin and the party can be seen today with Netanyahu and Likud. Netanyahu and propaganda commissars tell the world that the IDF is the “most moral army in the world” while state officials make genocidal references, soldiers dance and sing about all Palestinians representing Amalek, and Palestinians, some of whom are innocent, are allegedly held in horrific detention camps where some are reportedly tortured.

The obscene and audacious lies about the behaviors of the Zionist military being moral had been called out by Jews who wrote to the New York Times in 1948, and was again on display during the genesis of AIPAC a few years later shortly after the foundation of Israel. One of the first missions of AIPAC (at the time the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs) for the budding “Jewish State” was public relations damage control over a massacre in 1953 of over 60 Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army in the village of Qibya in retribution for the murder of an Israeli woman and her two children. There was a description of it in the October 26th issue of Times Magazine:

… the Israelis moved into Kibya with rifle and Sten guns. They shot every man, woman and child they could find, then turned their fire on the cattle. After that, they dynamited 42 houses, a school and a mosque …. The villagers huddled in the grass could see Israeli soldiers slouching in the doorways of their homes, smoking and joking, their young faces illuminated by the flames. By 3 a.m., the Israelis' work was done, and they leisurely withdrew.

The resemblance of this description and what’s found in the Tanakh along with the perverse Tik Tok videos of IDF soldiers making jokes about their destruction is uncanny. They killed not just every person, but the cattle, and then they made “jokes”.

I think it should be clear that if we want to understand how the IDF and the Israeli state operates, all we need to do is go to the “Holy Bible” that Netanyahu and Ben Gurion invoked and read the descriptions of the savage annihilation that is carried out by the “Jewish heroes,” which Netanyahu referred to, such as Joshua. Simply project the modern international eye onto mythical Canaan and you would get a Joshua that is a lot more circumspect and less transparent about his machinations, but is driven by the same spirit.

The notion that Israel is operating honestly and ethically is absurd. It’s absurd because we have documented video of the contrary, and it’s absurd because the state officials reference the Tanakh as their inspiration, which is a book filled with cruelty, tyranny, and deceit directed for the exact same territory of Palestine. Remember, Israel (aka Jacob) deceived his father and his brother to gain his inheritance and blessing; why we should expect behavior by a state which bears and honors his name to be any different bewilders me. Israel’s history with the U.S. has been sordid.

For example, Israel stole nuclear material and secrets from the U.S. From The Guardian:

In fact, US involvement went deeper than mere silence. At a meeting in 1976 that has only recently become public knowledge, the CIA deputy director Carl Duckett informed a dozen officials from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the agency suspected some of the fissile fuel in Israel's bombs was weapons-grade uranium stolen under America's nose from a processing plant in Pennsylvania.

Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.

Israel once attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty in 1967. From the Intercept:

In a statement to The Intercept, Ernie Gallo, who currently serves as the president of the Liberty Veterans Association, said, “We now know that the Navy Court of Inquiry was merely for show, as the officers were told to come to the conclusion the Liberty did [its] job and the attack was accidental.” Bamford also references the magnitude and length of the attack as proof of its deliberateness: The ship was hit repeatedly, first by planes dropping thousand-pound bombs and napalm, and then by torpedo boats. Israeli forces also jammed the Liberty’s antennas and communication channels, took out the four .50-caliber machine guns on board, and reportedly shot at life rafts and crew members as they attempted to evacuate the vessel. “It was an attack in broad daylight,” said Bamford. “They were flying a large U.S. flag. [The ship] said USS Liberty on the back. … I mean, what do you need?”

The incident and its aftermath took a significant psychological toll on survivors, many of whom were reported to suffer from PTSD. One survivor and member of the Liberty Veterans Association, James Ennes, was shot in the femur during the attack, and was then instructed never to discuss it. Ernie Gallo had a fellow crewmate die in his arms. It was decades before survivors began sharing their experiences, and they were sometimes criticized for being anti-Semitic or slanderous of Israel for doing so.

Israel once attempted to carry out a false flag terrorist attack on American civilian targets and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood and Communists. From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

In 1954, Israeli Military Intelligence (often known by its Hebrew abbreviation AMAN) activated a sleeper cell that had been tasked with setting off a series of bombs in Egypt. In this risky operation, a small number of Egyptian Jews were to bomb Western and Egyptian institutions in Egypt, hoping the attacks could be blamed on Egyptian opponents of the country’s leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood or the Communist Party. The ensuing chaos, it apparently was hoped, would persuade Western governments that Nasser’s regime was unstable and, therefore, unworthy of financial and other support.

From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:

Now the networks were to explode small incendiary bombs in American installations in Egypt, presumably to set off a chain of mutual recriminations to spoil the budding Eisenhower-Nasser courtship. After completing their sabotage of American installations, the same networks next were to bomb public places in Cairo and Alexandria, actions that Nasser would attribute to the Muslim Brotherhood, which supported the deposed General Naguib, and thus create a climate of Egyptian instability during the British-Egyptian Canal Zone negotiations.

Yet despite Israel’s atrocious historical relationship with the U.S., Israel has received more aid since its creation than any other country; and out of the countries receiving the most aid, it is also the country with the smallest population. Zionists often make the irrelevant observation that Israel has a small population or that other countries do bad things too — well, Israel is the number one recipient of U.S. aid, thus it should also be the number one country under scrutiny for its behavior by Americans.

It continues to receive aid from congress and the Biden administration as it carries out a genocide in violation of U.S. law, per the Leahy Law, which prohibits:

[the] U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights (GVHR).

Will all politicians who are violating U.S. law by facilitating the transfer of military aid to Israel be held accountable in any legal way? Unfortunately, I think that’s highly unlikely.