Nothing Screams Christian Values Like Massacres and Mass Weapons Sales

W.J. Astore

America’s Cross of Iron

Roughly half of President Biden’s recent budget request for more than $105 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border security is dedicated to weapons sales. Nothing screams Christian values like massacres and mass weapons sales.

Speaking of massacres, Aaron Maté has a powerful article on Gaza and the U.S. role in facilitating Israel’s destruction of the same. Here’s an excerpt:

According to Save the Children, the number of Palestinian children killed in just three weeks has already surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world’s conflict zones since 2019. “Gaza has become a graveyard for children,” a UNICEF spokesperson says. “It’s a living hell for everyone else.” In a statement demanding a ceasefire, seven UN special rapporteurs now warn that “the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.”

I remember when Sting got into trouble in the 1980s for singing that the Russians love their children too. Is it OK to say the Palestinians love their children too and would prefer that they not be obliterated by “Made in USA” bombs provided for free to Israel?

I wrote this just this morning to a friend who’s been taking fire because she believes the Palestinians in Gaza are human beings who shouldn’t be targeted for ethnic cleansing:

The Israel/Palestine issue is both complex and simple.  To keep it simple, we’re all human beings.  No group of people are “human animals.”  If any country should know the dangers of dehumanizing an enemy, it’s Israel.  Yet that’s precisely what Israel is doing.

There are plenty of Jews who are bravely denouncing Israel, but their voices are not being heard.  Meanwhile, the US government supinely serves the worst elements in Israel.  Our own government is complicit in ethnic cleansing, not that I’m surprised about this, given our nation’s history.

They say Dexter was a serial killer, but he’s got nothing on the jackals in the US and Israel who’ve already killed roughly 10K Palestinians with many more deaths to come.  (With apologies to real jackals.)

I’ve been writing to my senators and representative as well, imploring them not to vote for more murderous weaponry, whether for Israel or Ukraine (or anyone else). Just about all our politicians make noises about our country advancing Judeo-Christian values yet they conveniently forget about values like “thou shalt not kill” and “blessed are the peacemakers.”

Hellscape in Gaza (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It would be far better if the U.S. stood on the sidelines and did nothing, yet Congress and the President must show their “strength” by using taxpayer dollars to ship scores of billions in weaponry to facilitate mass murder. As they do so, they pat each other on the back for being strong while boasting of creating jobs for various weapons makers in the “homeland.”

That’s how perverted and twisted government officials are. They’d rather spend scores of billions on death overseas than help struggling Americans here at home.

We need to vote the warmongers out, except I can’t forget what Emma Goldman said about voting: “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”

6 thoughts on “Nothing Screams Christian Values Like Massacres and Mass Weapons Sales”

  1. In my opinion, the goal of the Israeli government is to totally eliminate all opposition to their sole control of what is now Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank. And they gave the backing of the United States government to accomplish this, whatever the cost.
    And that goal us in the process of being achieved.

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    1. Wow. Thanks for the link. Paid for by the U.S. taxpayer, but with no insight or oversight into what’s being purchased with our money.

      What chutzpah!

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      1. The American taxpayer will pay no more for their government’s involvement in the Israel-Hamas War than they have paid for every war that government has been involved in since 9/11: Nothing.

        Everything “defense” and “security” ~ along with surveillance and, increasingly, censorship ~ goes on Uncle Sam’s tab and credit card. That’s How and Why ~ at least in part ~ the national, sovereign Debt grew from $5.8 in 2001 to $33.7 TRILLION today.

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  3. Heh. Nor, Bill, should You forget Papa Joe Stalin’s timeless admonition that “It’s not who votes that counts; it’s who counts the votes.”

    Then of course, there’s George Carlin’s take on the whole matter: “Don’t vote. It only encourages the mother­ fuckers.”

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  4. i had a very early ~ and still have a very incessantly persistent ~ suspicion about the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.

    That it was, is, and ever will be a “False Flag” operation launched by the United States and Israel designed to: 1] Divert attention from the War in Ukraine; 2] Launch the “Israel-Hamas War,” another boom event for America’s Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex; 3] Begin the physical expansion of the state of Israel, in preparation for the planned regional War; and 4] make Biden a “War Time President” when Election2024 rolls around [if it does], one year from tomorrow.

    Here is at least one other person who feels, believes, and thinks the same way, except for #4 …:

    THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT: NETANYAHU’S “FALSE FLAG”, CONNECTING THE DOTS – AND MORE by Peter Koenig / Global Research / 11 Oct 23

    Most people, including journalists on both sides of the aisle – mainstream and non-mainstream — seem to believe that this a one-off war, a surprise attack by Hamas, the “defenders” of Palestine.

    It is not.

    Connecting a few dots over the past 70 years may help better understand what is going on in the Middle East, Israel-Palestine – and around the world. How the bloody Israel-Palestine conflict fits into the Big Picture.

    What if Hamas has been created either by Israel directly, or rather by the US-UK-Israel Secret Services for the “benefit” of Israel, for precisely the reason they (Hamas) are used today: to justify Israel’s all-out war for wiping out Palestine, for extending her territory, absorbing over time about as much as a third or half of the current Middle East – into “Greater Israel”?

    For the wellbeing of the “Chosen People”?

    [ Note: For information about “Greater Israel,” see https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/greater-israel-zionist-plan-middle-east .]

    Hamas has no chance in heaven to win this war. It is David against Goliath. Except in this case, David is Hamas and Goliath is Israel. Both Hamas and Israel know it.

    What if Hezbollah was also created by the same villains for the same reasons, to create chaos and eventually war in the Middle East? They are the official “protectors” of Lebanon (similar to Hamas for Palestine) but, with their possible aggression on Israel, or their involvement in the current war, they will make sure that Lebanon will be one of the countries absorbed by Israel. Israel’s massively US-military-supported IDF (Israel Defense Forces) may just crush Hezbollah and take over Lebanon.

    This plan is not known by most people. Netanyahu becoming prime minister again in December 2022, despite his narrowly losing the election, is a well-planned scam, supported by the well-known secret services and the Kazarian Zionists, supporting Israel’s expansion throughout the Middle East.

    Let us not forget, Israel is the power broker for the western world. They control worldwide banking and corporate finance, communication, Hollywood, art, education systems – and more.

    Already in 1815, Nathan Rothschild, British financier and member of the Rothschild banking family, made his famous statement:

    “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”

    The same Nathan Rothschild also infamously said, “the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”

    This is precisely a reflection on what we are living today – a limitless quest for superiority, no matter what it costs, in money and blood.

    Back to Hezbollah: Lebanon has also lots of natural resources, off-shore oil and a deep off-shore sweet water aquifer. Current Israeli territories have almost no fresh water, one of the reasons (among many others) Israel wants to take over the so-called West Bank, where about 80% of all the fresh water sources of greater Palestine (before 1948) is located and which Israel now is virtually stealing from Palestine.

    Palestine also has natural gas. The Gaza Marine is a natural gas field less than 40 km off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The deposits of the Gaza Marine natural gas field are estimated at 35 BCM, larger than those of Israel’s Yam Tethys maritime gas field.

    THE ROLE OF AL QAEDA

    In the same spirit of Hamas and Hezbollah, Al Qaeda was created in the early 1980s. Al Qaeda is a Sunni pan-Islamist militant organization; an international “terrorist” organization which was to generate unrest around the world, as needed, to justify military interventions – mostly by the US and UK – and destabilization of otherwise stable (and mostly resources-rich) Middle East and African countries. Al Qaeda has also been operating in Asia — for example in Pakistan, where it supposedly was founded; also in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and elsewhere.

    U.S. WEAPONS FOR HAMAS

    It is no coincidence that weapons used by Hamas in this “assault” on Israel are of US origin, earlier shipped to Kiev to fight Russia. By now it is no secret that about 70% of US- and EU-supplied weapons never made it to the Ukrainian front fighting Russia, but rather to the black market, from where tracing them was thought to be next to impossible.

    [See https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/10/09/scott-ritter-are-hamas-fighters-using-american-weapons-meant-for-ukraine/ for Scott Ritter’s take on this.]

    Washington and Brussels – the EU puppets of the wannabe empire – knew from the beginning about the deviation of a large proportion of weaponry to the black market. But they did nothing against it. Did they know this was a covert way of arming Hamas and possibly Hezbollah for a soon to come, well-planned “hot” war with Israel?

    Amazingly, since Benjamin Netanyahu had been made PM again, he had been advancing a judicial reform which was considered as damaging to Israel’s democracy and devastating to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Many potential recruits have refused to serve. Analysts warned that this might crack the IDF and its ability to defend the state.

    Would Netanyahu not have known about the risks to the IDF of his judicial reform?

    Continued at https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-palestine-conflict-connecting-dots-more/5835802 .

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