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The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson
Israel’s Grip on the U.S. is the End of International Law
“The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny, backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.”
—U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 1967
The United States has now spent two entire years paying for an apartheid state on the other side of the world to murder a city of two million. Israel, a race-based state the size of the Hudson Valley that bans interfaith marriages and provides its citizens with universal healthcare and free college on the American taxpayer’s dime, has now killed at least 60,000 civilians, at least half of whom are children. This low figure only includes bodies that were found and positively identified, a tall order in a Stalingrad-esque ex-city moonscape where childrens’ flesh is daily scraped off walls and where the world learned the acronym “WCNSF”: “wounded child, no surviving family.” Military and medical journals, as well as back-of-the-envelope calculations based on previous urban terror bombing campaigns, put the number well north of 200,000.
Despite this slaughter, the much-vaunted IDF supersoldiers have somehow failed to drive the tactical equivalent of 13-18,000 starving Viet Cong guerillas from a single city that they have besieged since 2007 and entirely cut off from the world since March. “We” aren’t even winning the “war.” Every single day, another Israeli tank crew gets their skin burned off, another Israeli business goes under, another Israeli reservist dodges the draft, another “Israeli” illegal American settler packs up to head home, and another Israeli war criminal puts a gun in his mouth to forget the women and children he butchered. Our country has bet on the wrong horse. We are fettered to a corpse.
If still less bloody than the Armenian Genocide or the Nazi Holocaust, it is not for lack of effort or racial animus. Unlike those historical cases, this genocide has been committed shamelessly in front of the entire world, with constant social media posts from victims and perpetrators alike and approximately 80-90 percent of Jewish Israelis expressing full-throated, open-eyed support for the mass cremation of starving infants. This exhibitionist genocide is a crime unprecedented in human history. It is quite literally a crime against humanity: an assault on the dignity, freedom and sanity of every single human being who must live in a world where this can happen. I can only conclude that Israel and its western masters, primarily the U.S. and U.K., are doing this on purpose, rubbing all our faces in the fact that they can not only exterminate an entire city in front of our eyes but get many of our friends and neighbors to babble about five fictional beheaded babies and cheer for the televised starvation of half a million real ones.
I doubt any Zionist will read this far, let alone believe me, but I wish to reiterate that Zionism is not Judaism; that it bears a similar relationship to Judaism as ISIS bears to Islam or the second Ku Klux Klan bore to American Christianity; that a 150-year-old political project to build a racial purist nation-state in the Levant is hardly the same as a 2,500-year-old world faith; that a significant majority of the world’s Jews outside Israel are either ambivalent about Zionism or leading the fight against it; and that there are far more evangelical Christian Zionists than Jewish ones. It is a betrayal of the deepest-held tenets of both faiths, not to say blasphemous—does God really need your help to reclaim the Holy Land or bring on the End Times, and would He really want you to do it by slaughtering whole families? Whatever else comes out of the Gaza genocide, we are probably watching the beginning of a centuries-long schism in Judaism and the church alike.
There is no doubt that Hamas committed war crimes on October 7. Intended as a mid-scale raid to seize captives to trade for thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli torture dungeons, the al-Aqsa Flood operation was an atrocity but hardly, as President Trump said, one of the worst days in human history. Of the 1,195 victims, more than a third were active or reservist military personnel. Perhaps half were killed by indiscriminate, overwhelming friendly fire by the panicked IDF, which then clamped military censorship over the whole region and bulldozed all the evidence into holes in the ground in undisclosed locations. Even if the accusations were true and Hamas had executed 1,200 innocent civilians in cold blood, would that justify Israel murdering 50-100 civilians a day for the next two years? Joe Biden repeatedly lied about seeing photos of 40 decapitated children, even after his advisors said they couldn’t confirm the charge, then killed an average of 40 children a day for the entirety of 2024. After two years of Israeli hostages on every western street corner and news program, we still haven’t gotten one single name, age, location or even propaganda money-shot of inconsolable grandparents for the alleged bushel baskets of ritually beheaded and baked babies.
In the midst of this madness, Trump invited top Hamas leaders to a fake peace talk in Doha, Qatar and allowed an Israeli airstrike in the capital city of one of the region’s most subservient American lapdogs. After the strike killed six civilians, none of whom were the targets, Trump claimed he had no prior knowledge, despite the mission taking place entirely in U.S.-allied airspace, striking a target just a few miles from one of America’s largest airbases, and receiving midflight refueling from a British tanker craft taking off from and landing at that base. Trump is either lying through his teeth or is overseeing one of the greatest displays of either insubordination or incompetence in American military history. I cannot see any other option. At any rate, the damage to American prestige is incomprehensible. Many of our most groveling puppet regimes are openly looking for the exits: Saudi Arabia made a defense pact with Pakistan and Egypt proposed an “Arab NATO,” among other responses. This does not include the Trump and Biden administrations’ superhuman efforts to unite all of Eurasia against us, including the closest collaboration in history between Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and even India and Brazil.
Trump’s drone-strike assassination of 11 unknown people on an unidentified boat off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast extends the Obama-era illegal drone terrorism to the Western hemisphere. I would not be surprised if it turns out to be a warning shot and test case for Israel’s upcoming murders on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, much like Ukraine’s reckless use of drones launched inside Russian territory prefigured Israel’s long-planned terrorist attacks in Iran at the beginning of the 12-Day War. No matter which proxy they are using, the Anglo-American Empire can be counted on to use dirty tricks, high-tech toys and indiscriminate air terror against civilian targets.
IDF soldier and Representative Brian Mast (R-Florida) recently introduced legislation authorizing the State Department to revoke the passports of “terrorist supporters.” That is, a uniformed member of a foreign military, who for some reason is allowed to serve in our Congress, has decided on behalf of Americans to make American criticism of his foreign government illegal. This is not far out of the ordinary; as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) reminds us, and many other legislators have confirmed, every single member of the United States Congress has a designated handler from the unregistered, high-dollar foreign influence peddling agency AIPAC. Combined with the recent designation of the all-but-nonexistent “Antifa” as a terrorist organization and the now well-established right of ICE to send American citizens to Salvadoran concentration camps in broad daylight, the American left is becoming stateless in real time. I may have written my own ticket to El Salvador in this very paper.
The horrific, idiotic assassination of the loathsome Charlie Kirk—who, by the way, was gradually turning against Israel and received multiple threats from Israeli agents in the final months of his life, and whose murder prompted Netanyahu to publicly deny involvement three days in a row—will be our Reichstag fire, Horst Wessel and Ernst vom Rath rolled into one. We are entering the final days of the America we knew. It is entirely the fault of the Democratic leaders who rolled over for our genocidal attack dog in the Levant and generally colluded in and legitimized the last 20 years of lawless, borderless, limitless imperial war across the Middle East.
Wriley Nelson is a student of international relations with a focus on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
