Nordstream, Kursk Disaster and the War in Palestine

 

20 August 2024 by Larry Johnson 

I started the day off interviewing Professor Mehran Kamrava, who teaches at Georgetown University’s Qatar campus. In contrast to Professor Marandi — who was born in the USA — Professor Kamrava was born in Iran but lived most of his life in Los Angeles. That video is being edited and will be posted on Wednesday or Thursday at my Counter Currents channel. If you’re interested in an informed discussion on Iran and where things are headed in the Middle East, you will want to watch our conversation.

I did a live stream with my Brazilian buddy, Marcelo, who lives and works in Italy. I spent some time during our chat trying to persuade Marcelo to stop thinking rationally and logically when it comes to Israel and its policy towards the Palestinians. The Zionists are in full control in Jerusalem and have ZERO interest in working out a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. The Zionists want to purge Gaza and the West Bank of every living Palestinian. We often hear the Zionists talk about facing an existential threat, but the truth is that the Palestinians are the ones facing extermination and exile.

There was a time when the United States was able to exert some control over the Zionist desire to commit suicide, but those days are over. Netanyahu and his settler buddies are making decisions based on eschatological beliefs about creating conditions for the appearance of the Messiah. And they are being cheered on by many evangelical Christians who believe we are living in the prophesied “last days.”

I find the “waiting-for-God-to-save-us” troubling. The following vignette illustrates my point.

Stopping the slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank depends on leaders in position of authority to take action. Sadly, most are sitting idle and lamenting the deaths of helpless women and children, while the Zionists, consumed by their own delusional belief that they are chosen by God and can do what they want, including raping male prisoners, are embarked on a path to war that may destroy them.

Speaking of religious extremism, Zelensky and his goons have decided to ban Eastern Orthodox Christians in Ukraine. Here you have a Jew, Zelensky, collaborating with Satanists to destroy the Church in Ukraine that marked the start of Christianity in Russia more than 1,000 years ago. Can you imagine the outcry if Zelensky was a Catholic and outlawed Judaism in Ukraine? I seem to recall some guys 80 years ago who hailed from Germany that tried something like that. Once again, history may not repeat, but it sometimes rhymes.

I also had a first-time chat with Pete Quinones, a popular Libertarian podcaster. He was unfamiliar with my positions on the wars raging in Ukraine and Palestine and invited me to explain my views.