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Terrorism's Two Best Friends: Mainstream Media & Panic-Mongering Politicians
Submitted by Uri Avnery via Contra Corner blog,
There is no such thing as “international terrorism”.
To declare war on “international terrorism” is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.
Terrorism is a weapon. Like cannon. We would laugh at somebody who declares war on “international artillery”. A cannon belongs to an army, and serves the aims of that army. The cannon of one side fire against the cannon of the other.
Terrorism is a method of operation. It is often used by oppressed peoples, including the French Resistance to the Nazis in WW II. We would laugh at anyone who declared war on “international resistance”.
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker, famously said that “war is the continuation of politics by other means”. If he had lived with us today, he might have said: “Terrorism is a continuation of policy by other means.”
Terrorism means, literally, to frighten the victims into surrendering to the will of the terrorist.
Terrorism is a weapon. Generally it is the weapon of the weak. Of those who have no atom bombs, like the ones which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which terrorized the Japanese into surrender. Or the aircraft which destroyed Dresden in the (vain) attempt to frighten the Germans into giving up.
Since most of the groups and countries using terrorism have different aims, often contradicting each other, there is nothing “international” about it. Each terrorist campaign has a character of its own. Not to mention the fact that nobody considers himself (or herself) a terrorist, but rather a fighter for God, Freedom or Whatever.
(I cannot restrain myself from boasting that long ago I invented the formula: “One man’s terrorist is the other man’s freedom fighter”.)
Many ordinary Israelis felt deep satisfaction after the Paris events. “Now those bloody Europeans feel for once what we feel all the time!”
Binyamin Netanyahu, a diminutive thinker but a brilliant salesman, has hit on the idea of inventing a direct link between jihadist terrorism in Europe and Palestinian terrorism in Israel and the occupied territories.
It is a stroke of genius: if they are one and the same, knife-wielding Palestinian teenagers and Belgian devotees of ISIS, then there is no Israeli-Palestinian problem, no occupation, no settlements. Just Muslim fanaticism. (Ignoring, by the way, the many Christian Arabs in the secular Palestinian “terrorist” organizations.)
This has nothing to do with reality. Palestinians who want to fight and die for Allah go to Syria. Palestinians – both religious and secular – who shoot, knife or run over Israeli soldiers and civilians these days want freedom from the occupation and a state of their own.
This is such an obvious fact that even a person with the limited IQ of our present cabinet ministers could grasp it. But if they did, they would have to face very unpleasant choices concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
So let’s stick to the comfortable conclusion: they kill us because they are born terrorists, because they want to meet the promised 72 virgins in paradise, because they are anti-Semites. So, as Netanyahu happily forecasts, we shall “live forever by our sword”.
Tragic as the results of each terrorist event may be, there is something absurd about the European reaction to recent events.
The height of absurdiocy was reached in Brussels, when a lone terrorist on the run paralyzed an entire capital city for days without a single shot being fired. It was the ultimate success of terrorism in the most literal sense: using fear as a weapon.
But the reaction in Paris was not much better. The number of victims of the atrocity was large, but similar to the number killed on the roads in France every couple of weeks. It was certainly far smaller than the number of victims of one hour of World War II. But rational thought does not count. Terrorism works on the perception of the victims.
It seems incredible that ten mediocre individuals, with a few primitive weapons, could cause world-wide panic. But it is a fact. Bolstered by the mass media, which thrive on such events, local terrorist acts turn themselves nowadays into world-wide threats. The modern media, by their very nature, are the terrorist’s best friend. Terror could not flourish without them.
The next best friend of the terrorist is the politician. It is almost impossible for a politician to resist the temptation to ride on the wave of panic. Panic creates “national unity”, the dream of every ruler. Panic creates the longing for a “strong leader”. This is a basic human instinct.
Francois Hollande is a typical example. A mediocre yet shrewd politician, he seized the opportunity to pose as a leader. “C’est la guerre!” he declared, and whipped up a national frenzy. Of course this is no “guerre”. Not World War III. Just a terrorist attack by a hidden enemy. Indeed, one of the facts disclosed by these events is the incredible foolishness of the political leaders all around. They do not understand the challenge. They react to imagined threats and ignore the real ones. They do not know what to do. So they do what comes naturally: make speeches, convene meetings and bomb somebody (no matter who and what for).
Not understanding the malady, their remedy is worse than the disease itself. Bombing causes destruction, destruction creates new enemies who thirst for revenge. It is a direct collaboration with the terrorists.
It was a sad spectacle to see all these world leaders, the commanders of powerful nations, running around like mice in a maze, meeting, speechifying, uttering nonsensical statements, totally unable to deal with the crisis.
The problem is indeed far more complicated than simple minds would believe, because of an unusual fact: the enemy this time is not a nation, not a state, not even a real territory, but an undefined entity: an idea, a state of mind, a movement that does have a territorial base of sorts but is not a real state.
This is not a completely unprecedented phenomenon: more than a hundred years ago, the anarchist movement committed terrorist acts all over the place without having a territorial base at all. And 900 years ago a religious sect without a country, the Assassins (a corruption of the Arabic word for “hashish users”), terrorized the Muslim world.
I don’t know how to fight the Islamic State (or rather Non-State) effectively. I strongly believe that nobody knows. Certainly not the nincompoops who man (and woman) the various governments.
I am not sure that even a territorial invasion would destroy this phenomenon. But even such an invasion seems unlikely. The Coalition of the Unwilling put together by the US seems disinclined to put “boots on the ground”. The only forces who could try – the Iranians and the Syrian government army – are hated by the US and its local allies.
Indeed, if one is looking for an example of total disorientation, bordering on lunacy, it is the inability of the US and the European powers to choose between the Assad-Iran-Russia axis and the IS-Saudi-Sunni camp. Add the Turkish-Kurdish problem, the Russian-Turkish animosity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the picture is still far from complete.
(For history-lovers, there is something fascinating about the reemergence of the centuries-old struggle between Russia and Turkey in this new setting. Geography trumps everything else, after all.)
It has been said that war is far too important to leave to the generals. The present situation is far too complicated to leave to the politicians. But who else is there?
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Fear is the mind killer.
-Frank Herbert, Dune
Right behind fear is apathy for second place in the mind killing department.
The aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
HL Mencken
There will always be a bogeyman in a nation built around a wartime economy. Those of us old enough to remember duck and cover can attest to the fear which the government attempted to instill in us in grade school.
http://youtu.be/120wGLgCTkg
It's now cliche, but Orwell nailed it. "We've always been at war with eastasia."
The end game is not politicial gain for current leaders, though certainly they use it that way and benefit. The end game is total control of a frightened population. The boot on your neck and so forth.
EDIT: Love the duck and cover film.
From one key policy maker of the past who still resides within the circle of influence:
"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "isis/isil/alqaida" invasion], whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
According to FBI stats, there was 354 deaths resulting from 294 active shooter incidents in 2015. 14 was from the san bernardino incident. With the 24/7 coverage, presidential speeches, candidates 'gone wild'...all they're talking about is not the cause (failed ME policy and the banking cartels) but how much more surveillance, bombing campaigns and gun control legislations is needed. And, the scared public just wants to feel safe again from something that is less likely than getting hit by lightning. Amazing!
Apathy gets a bad rap. What if they had a war and nobody came?
Time to play cowboys and islamist. Bring it on!
for the ultimate in media generated terrorism read the incredibly prescient and comedic "the new republic" by lionel shriver.
How about cowboys and bankers. This will take care of the other shit that's going on. One problem, they will show up with Abrams and apaches overhead. Can you handle it cowboy?
according to a good book I read recently (Your Brain at Work) - perceived thraet to any of these makes it much harder to think clearly:
Status
Certainity
autonomy
relatedness
Fairness
tptb are the boogie man. All this is just for show. A cover story if you will.
Remembering Ezra Schwartz: A Hasbara Story
In a brazen attempt to conflate the struggle between Palestinians and Israeli Jews with random terrorist political violence in the consciousness of the American public, the New England Patriots recognized Ezra Schwartz in a brief ceremony before a Monday Night Football game. (See video here.) On November 23rd, a crowd of 70,000 stood in honor of Schwartz while they and millions of viewers were told that he was among
… the many who have recently lost their lives in senseless terrorist attacks abroad. Last Thursday, this reality struck close to home when 18-year-old Ezra Schwartz, a native of Sharon, Massachusetts and a huge Patriots fan, was gunned down nearly 5500 miles from home, while studying abroad. At this time, we would like to honor Ezra Schwartz and the hundreds of victims like him with a moment of silence.
The following day the ceremony was featured on Channel 2 News in Israel. (An article on the Channel 2 News website (Hebrew) and the video of the ceremony with Hebrew subtitles can be viewed here.)
What the crowd and television viewers were not told is that Ezra Schwartz, who was Jewish, was killed while traveling to perform community service in Oz Vegaon, an Israeli-occupied West Bank park that is even illegal according Israeli government law. Places such as Oz Vegaon are called outposts and their residents and those that maintain them are among the most militant of the settler population.
The park, which Schwartz and his fellow Yeshiva students had previously visited twice in order “to clean and beautify,” according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz (registration required), contains a memorial to the three Jewish Israeli West Bank teens who were kidnapped and killed near there in the summer of 2014. Their killing served as a pretext for Israel’s subsequent brutal invasion of Gaza.
Oz Vegaon is located in a region known of Gush Etzion. This place is the scene of mass civil Palestinian insurrection in which the participants hope to obtain national self-determination and freedom from the yoke of a more than half century of Israeli oppression. By performing community service in an outpost in Gush Etzion, Schwartz became a partisan in ongoing civil strife and was in no way a victim “of senseless violence” in the same way as the Americans who were killed recently in ISIS attacks in Paris and Mali.
The owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft, who is Jewish and an ardent supporter of Israel, cynically ordered the public recognition of Schwartz in a brief ceremony that incorrectly conflated Schwartz with American soldiers who were honored on Veterans’ Day and U.S. citizens who were random victims of terrorism.
The Significance of Gush and Kfar Etzion in the Greater Israel Movement
Gush Etzion (the Etzion Bloc in Hebrew) was among the first areas to be colonized by the Israelis after the 1967 War. It contains Kfar Etzion, the very first Israeli settlement in the occupied territory, which was founded in 1967. The settlers were returning to an area first colonized by the Zionists in the 1920s, that had been destroyed by the Jordanians in 1947. In a battle to defend Kfar Etzion, 24 Jews were killed and are considered martyrs by Jewish Israelis.
The core of the founding settlers came from the descendants of the residents of the original Kfar Etzion. They built the settlement on land appropriated from Palestinian owners. Many of these settlers joined others to form Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful), the group which spearheaded the religiously-based Greater Israel movement, which seeks to annex all the occupied territories into Israel. The members of the terrorist group known as the Jewish Underground of the late 1970s and 1980s, sprang from the ranks of Gush Emunim. The Jewish Underground was responsible for the maiming of West Bank mayors, the killing of Palestinian university students, and attempts to blow up Palestinian school buses and to destroy the al Aqsa mosque.
The story of Gush Etzion is an important part of the founding myth of the settler movement. Kfar Etzion is the Plymouth colony of the religious settler movement. Its myth, like the story of Plymouth, is taught in the schools. (Here is a piece from the Israeli website, 972mag that compares Gush Etzion with the Alamo.)
According to Peace Now in 2005, Gush Etzion was comprised of 11 Jewish-only settlements within which live over 41.000 residents. Palestinians who live within the Gush Bloc number 18,600. All of these settlements are illegal according to international law and the vast majority of nations do not recognize them or their residents as legitimate.
Today Gush Etzion is the scene of ongoing, almost daily violence between Palestinians and Israeli Jews. It is still a hotbed of radical settler activism. Ezra Schwartz knew this when he went to do community service there. He was not only studying the Jewish religion, but was learning the justifications the settlers employ to maintain and expand their occupation of Palestinian lands. The young Yeshiva (Jewish religious school) student was a partisan who identified with the settler cause. This, of course, does not justify his killing, but it indicates that he willingly assumed the risks involved in volunteering in a war zone and sympathized with the oppression of the Palestinians. This was not the case with the innocent victims of the recent Paris and Mali attacks.
Hasbara (?????) is the Israeli word which literally means explanation, but is usually translated as propaganda. It is the art of making Israeli oppression and belligerence appear to be reasonable acts of self-defense. It is a strategy of justification which makes a society which is brutally oppressing millions of indigenous inhabitants appear to be enlightened and a victim of irrational Muslim forces. Robert Kraft’s moment of silence was hasbara. Even though “Israel” and “Jewish” were words unspoken, the fact that Schwartz was killed in the Israeli occupied territories was widely reported and was very much part of the ceremony.
Pressuring the US government to recognize Schwartz
Led by the Orthodox Union, Jewish groups in the United States were disappointed at the initial official U.S. reaction to the news of the killing of Ezra Schwartz. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)quoted the U.S. State Department statement in the following manner: “We were deeply saddened to learn about the death of Ezra Schwartz, an American citizen from Massachusetts who was murdered in a terrorist attack on Thursday while in Israel to pursue his studies,” the State Department said in a statement sent Friday to reporters.
‘We extend our deepest condolences to the victim’s family, friends and community, as well as the family and friends of the four other people killed in yesterday’s tragic events.’
Schwartz, 18, of Sharon, Massachusetts, was one of three people killed in a shooting attack near the Alon Shvut settlement in the West Bank. Hours earlier, a Palestinian attacker stabbed two men to death near a prayer service in Tel Aviv.
‘We continue to condemn in the strongest possible terms these outrageous terrorist attacks,’ the statement said. ‘These tragic incidents underscore the importance of taking affirmative steps to restore calm, reduce tensions and bring an immediate end to the violence.’
What is irksome to the pro-Israel hasbara crowd is that firstly, there is no effusive praise of Schwartz or Israel. Secondly, and probably more bothersome, is the final sentence which implies that Israel may have the power to at least ameliorate the current tensions.
Daniel Shapiro, who is more of a representative of the Jewish and Zionist American community in Tel Aviv than a diplomat working for the interest of the U.S., quickly hit the exact note that Zionists want to hear. According to the JTA,
Daniel Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, condemned the attack on Schwartz almost as soon as it was reported, in a statement on his Facebook page. Referring to a speech he had given the day before likening the terrorism in France to that in Israel, Shapiro wrote: ‘As I said yesterday, terror is terror, and we condemn it forcefully.’ [Emphasis mine, IG]
Again with the hasbara, the Ambassador implied that the attack on Schwartz and Israeli Jews by Palestinians are as inexplicable as those of ISIS. It is the same theme that Robert Kraft’s Patriots peddled to millions of football fans.
After receiving a flood of criticism from American Jewish groups for his insufficient response to the killing of Ezra Schwartz, President Obama telephoned the parents of the deceased Yeshiva student. It was reported that the President said Schwartz’s studies strengthened the bond between the United States and Israel. How this is so, is anyone’s guess, but the Jewish lobby was pressing Obama to come up with something quickly and this meaningless inane statement sounds complimentary.
But by far the hasbara prize of this news story cycle went to Secretary of State John Kerry, who solemnly and ludicrously intoned,
When citizens can be murdered like Ezra Schwartz, my citizen of Massachusetts, driving in a car on a mission to learn and to share, [emphasis mine, IG]… this is a challenge to all civilized people.
The learning and sharing to which the Secretary refers apparently to a false story widely reported in Israel that Ezra Schwartz was a volunteer bringing food to Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers at the time of his death. This is the army which brutally enforces the Israeli occupation and defends the settlers as they continue to steal Palestinian land, curtail their human rights and deny them the independent state to which they are entitled.
To the Palestinians, whether Schwartz was feeding soldiers or cleaning a memorial, he was aiding and abetting the enemy. This is the truth that the Jewish lobby and people such as Robert Kraft do not want Americans to learn.
Author’s Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Ezra Schwartz attended a religious school in Gush Etzion. The school he attended is Yeshivat Ashreinu, which is located within 1948 Israel in Beit Shemesh, which is not in the West Bank. The community service was done as part of the program there.
http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/12/04/remembering-ezra-schwartz-ahasbarastory/
Trump and Carson have backwards 911 claims http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flWqM5xLUPM 911, anthrax, vans, and Israelis http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QphxGBXiA-M
How about remembering the med staff and patients at the Kunduz hospital? Or, the other 4 million civilians labeled at collateral damage? How about telling the truth to our servicemen/women as to why they're fighting these wars?
you and the horsecaulk make good sense. although the u.s. jew in the settler park was not killed in the same way that those in paris and mali (or cali) were, there were real grievances at work in the latter cases as well.
it was not random violance on par with a lightning strike, say.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260336/its-time-treat-doctors-without-...
Note the author - there's why they bombed those MSF hospitals.
They are fighting them for Greater Israel.
Not only that but largely.
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
The Jewish/Zionist power matrix isn't going to let the goyim know that they are being used as sword, shield, and treasury to create lebensaraum for Ersatz Israel.
So automatic and reflexive is the "no can't be /just joo hate" response that many people can't even be bothered recognizing that Israel is a state, and like all states, in engages in violence and subterfuge to achieve some end. The Ziofascists crave more land, water, gas, and oil. It works like this: A is a racist, A says 2+2 = 4, therefore 2+2 not = 4.
[edit: it's not tightly accurate logically, I realize, but its close enough to be illustrative - why consider an argument if you are dismissing it, a priori, based on your presuppositions about who makes the argument?]
people who literally do irrationally hate all jews {simply for being jewish and wihout regard to behavior} DO talk about excessive jewish power, therefore there is no such excessive power. A "canard" = "a truth Jewish Power Matrices seek to suppress." Perhaps framing it as "jewish elite" is of some help since we aren't talking about your dentist and his family but we are talking about elite, international orgnized Jewry. Hundreds of people who act as a transnational empire or states within states for 'Israel.'
You want things to change - start talking about the disproportionate power of Israel's 5th column in the US. Good luck doing so anywhere in the MSM. <<<same in canada, the uk, ukraine, russia, and all over.
If you wait for treasonous politicians to help you, you are lost. Help yourself, your family and friends to do whatever is necessary to protect yourselves.
Get a gun, take the courses and practice, practice, practice.
The only thing that stops a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun.
DO NOT wait for government to help you. CYA.
"Terrorism" doesn't exist. It's a semantically empty word. If it has any meaning at all, it's "actions which instill irrational fear in others". But an act as simple as telling an uncomfortable truth qualifies to fit the bill - and indeed, truth-telling is routinely labeled as terrorism by those who don't like the truths told.
If you tried to define "terrorism" more explicitly, it would end up describing an uncomfortably wide range of typical government activities.
this is America's entire decision-making capability in the 21'st Century ...
The 30-Second Sound Bite
and that's all these people prepare and train for.
"where's the camera, and where are my contributions?"
I'm moving to Mexico bitchez...
You have to traffic Eric Holders Fast and Furious guns back to the United States first. We need those high powered weapons back.
I'm soo scared. Will hide under my wooden desk during a classroom nuclear drill. Watch old AV movies about global cooling.
Help me President Obama. Living in a mud hut was probably easier than hiding your college records.
/sarc
The problem with the US population is they have no perspective. They've experienced TV, maybe a bowling league. Talking to an old German U boat sailor in the Kriegsmarine, he commented "You haven't lived until you've been depth charged for an hour at 300 meters". Yep, like a trip to the shopping mall, Anywhere USA: "Do you have any idea how hard I had to fight for a parking space?"
You know everyone in the US? Dude......
Seven steps in the life cycles of great powers:
1. The age of outburst (or pioneers).
2. The age of conquests.
3. The age of commerce.
4. The age of affluence.
5. The age of intellect.
6. The age of decedence.
7. The age of decline and collapse.
I was hoping to find a centuries old poem or description of our present malaise by an Irish or Scottish poet. It was more succinctly spoken than the above meager bullet-points. Perhaps another ZH'r remembers.
Palladium - MATTHEW ARNOLD, 1867
Set where the upper streams of Simois flow
Was the Palladium, high 'mid rock and wood;
And Hector was in Ilium, far below,
And fought, and saw it not—but there it stood!
It stood, and sun and moonshine rain'd their light
On the pure columns of its glen-built hall.
Backward and forward roll'd the waves of fight
Round Troy—but while this stood, Troy could not fall.
So, in its lovely moonlight, lives the soul.
Mountains surround it, and sweet virgin air;
Cold plashing, past it, crystal waters roll;
We visit it by moments, ah, too rare!
We shall renew the battle in the plain
To-morrow;—red with blood will Xanthus be;
Hector and Ajax will be there again,
Helen will come upon the wall to see.
Then we shall rust in shade, or shine in strife,
And fluctuate 'twixt blind hopes and blind despairs,
And fancy that we put forth all our life,
And never know how with the soul it fares.
Still doth the soul, from its lone fastness high,
Upon our life a ruling effluence send.
And when it fails, fight as we will, we die;
And while it lasts, we cannot wholly end.
I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty - and despair.
I'm sure I won't give a fuck if it was Terrorism, Hate Crime or one too many double cheeseburgers that did me in..........
Ask them if they want to supersize their McTerrorism meal.
Rewrite the article and replace Palestinians with Kurds. Not so clean an argument anymore is it? I've said it here before, what that part of the world has needed for a long time was a real war so they can learn what real loss means.
It's more likely that you get hit deadly by your TV than wiil die in a terrorist attack. So much for the danger of the media vs. terrorism.
I have come to think of it as the never ending fillabuster. Keep everyone talking about anything of no import. The chain yank theory of controled op.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Interviewed By Czech TV
Video & Transcript
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=556646
I have a terrorist tummy ache Obama. Save me from passing a turd sculpture of your wife in the tiolet tomorrow.
Terrorism is perfect. Instead of the nightly news covering graft, incompetence, and mendacity of elected leaders, they spew fear & bullshit to willing ears.
I'd love to ping my my "shovel ready" job off of O'Bongas head.
Oh wait, I lost my Passport because I owe 50K in back Pesos... What a farse!~
I ate at a bad mexican restaurant last night, what the burrito did to my colon was terrorism and what my bowels did to that bathroom stall was terrorism.
More burrito legislation!
Uri Avnery is one of the most notorious useful idiots in Israel, the best friend of every bloodthirsty Arab who ever plotted the destruction of Israel and the second Holocaust.
Free Yigal Amir. We need his cell for Avnery.
says a Jewish Supremacist Ziopath faggot posing as an Irishman for some reason.
lol. The man must be very worth reading. A righteous Jew.
Hasbara trolls are as common on web sites, as are false flag events.
It seems on ZH hasbara are a bit less common because people here are a bit less tolerant of their actions, but if you go onto liberal (Huffington Post, The Nation, Salon...) or conservative web sites, they are everywhere.
On liberal web sites, they attack any divergence from PC dogma, and to the right they push Muslim hate and intolerance.
https://whitewraithe.wordpress.com/a-guide-to-hasbara-trolls/
Google is great: http://www.irmep.org/iusta.htm
The question is, if Google is allowing free flow of information, how long will they let us use it?
Israel - America's largest welfare state! Biggest contributions to humanity >>> theft, murder, deception and usury.
You forgot the concept of the rule of Law.
http://www.irmep.org/iusta.htm
Excellent article, with one concern: it fails to connect the dots to other findings posted on this site as well.
The point that needs to be made:
It has been the US who created ISIS, it is Israel who operates them and it is Israel, the Western elites and their Mideast allies (Turkey) who keep funding, arming and training them.
"I don’t know how to fight the Islamic State (or rather Non-State) effectively. I strongly believe that nobody knows. Certainly not the nincompoops who man (and woman) the various governments."
Well, since know their origin, we do know how to fight ISIS/terrorism:
- to make the Western leaders stop funding, arming, training terrorists
- to expell all imperialists from government position
- organise effective and bona fide anti-terrorist forces (police- and intelligence agencies)
- democratise the entire system, by democratising the political institutions, the economy, money creation and distribution
More details on above:
"ParisAttacks, '911 of Europe': the catalytic event to boost colonising wars and police terror"
https://globalpoliticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/parisattacks-911-of-europe-the-catalytic-event-to-boost-colonising-wars-and-police-terror/
If you see something, say something! Our fudge packer in chief is a complete incompetent, and an embarrassment on the international stage. There, hows that.
To be clear, the media's incompetence/bias, is not linked only to its incessant drive for profits, it is also its strong adherence to zionist controls.
Zionism is not something that is relegated to Middle East policy, not at all, it is a web of control and information systems that work together to affect every part of US society.
Below is a great article that illustrates the web of zionist organizations, using the power of America to drive their special interests:
Here we see the US State Department, The Federal Reserve and AIPAC working together behind the scenes...
http://www.irmep.org/iusta.htm
I remember when I coined the phrase, "War is hell."
The way in which false flag terror incidents are being carried out now are scripted to appeal to obedient MSM f*ckwits.
Use of crises-actors and copious amounts of red ink or whatever they use with people lying on the ground playing dead or injured etc provides MSM with all the TV footage they need to report a "terror incident".
It must get very muddling for MSM when the participants (victims, LE, FBI) all attend and play-act their part. Some MSM journos can easily have a problem to determine if the incident is really real or just play-acting real. They play their part (knowingly or not) by spewing out footage to TV viewers and reporting the number killed/injured etc.
The machete attack last Saturday in London Leytonstone Tube station is a good example. I've seen no footage of anybody being attacked or lying on the ground after being attacked and it's not clear to me if the perp was genuinely tasered or just play-acting. Given that he screamed "this is for Syria" before attacking anybody adds to the suspicion because he didn't even look Syrian.
And it seems to me that the one thing the public are never given is a list of those killed or injured in these terror attacks.