February 26, 2026 Update: Please Consider Supporting my Petition to demand Ehud Barak and Benyamin Netanyahu are held accountable for what was done to US Children.
Due to a various assortment of inspirations from fellow Americans and my own faith in an America First perspective. I thought it best, regardless of how little this’ll contribute or how few people will read it or even read it to completion, that I share this out of sincere concern for where the US is headed. I listened to both Tucker Carlson and Chris Hedges, fellow discord users who shared their human rights concerns, and the alarming educated guesses by John Kiriakou and I thought it best to share my concerns. I think the crux of the problem is that too many of the older generations fail to understand how vapid and violent the Abrahamic faiths are in their totality and here is my response concerning Netanyahu and Gaza after cogitating over it.
I’ve decided to use (PDF Copy) and slight images in case any sources are removed or changed. I’ve decided to just cite my previous blog posts which already have cited sources within them for both expediency and because I shouldn’t need to constantly cite the same information to prove credibility, when I already have a blog post filled with that information that has the necessary citations and the same arguments. Netanyahu destroyed my dreams of multicultural Secular Republics working together. I think the US needs to reassess its interests, pull away from Israel, and hold steadfast with the actual important allies of the Gulf Cooperation Council that keep US hegemony afloat with the petrodollar system that both the US President and the US Federal Reserve need to maintain US hegemony. My reasons are below, but I don’t think anyone will care or change their mind. The best I can say is please give it a full read.
“I know what America is, America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in the way.” – thus spoke Benjamin Netanyahu in a private 2001 Video tape with Jewish Settlers, from the Al Jazeera article: “Netanyahu: US easily manipulated” from July 18, 2010.
I recall reading an article about how Cuba had undue influence in Venezuelan politics and how American policymakers were perplexed by this relationship of a weaker country having such strong influence over a far more powerful country. Yet, when American policymakers think of the US-Israel relationship, it seems they turn their brain off and don’t see any parallels of a far weaker country having influence over a much more powerful country. This appears to quickly be the new normal in future politics; great, lumbering, and slow-moving powers obedient to much weaker powers due to shared cultural values and especially because of financial backing of their political parties. In the US, it seems due to financial influence from wealthy donors and lobbyists, this same asymmetrical relationship has been happening for who knows how long towards both Republican and Democrat parties. The most pertinent question that I believe should be asked is: How did we get here? Why did this happen? How did Benjamin Netanyahu become so effective in his influence on US society and US government to the point a bankrupt country keeps giving free aid to a country with no material usefulness to us and which has given us nothing of value in return? In most of their official statements, Israel’s government categorizes the aid as appreciated but unnecessary (PDF Copy) despite the most recent aid of nearly $40 billion in US tax dollars (PDF Copy) being almost double their pre-2023 defense budget of approximately $25 billion (1, 2). They act as if this asymmetrical relationship is an equal partnership, when that is genuinely such a mindbogglingly moronic response by Israel towards Americans that such commentary alone should be sufficient reason to cut ties with it on any rational basis. Only a complete moron would waste US taxpayer monies when seeing completely unappreciated responses like that from Israel and yet, US elected officials do nothing and don’t demand anything from Israel while they keep obtaining everything free at US taxpayer expense. US elected officials don’t care how US taxpayer money is wasted and that is simply a statement of fact when it comes to Israel.
Why will this process keep happening despite growing US public fury? As I see it, the answer is twofold: Evangelical Protestants, especially Christian Zionists, chronically support and demand others to support the State of Israel and they have historically supported all measures that deem any criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic. Notwithstanding that criticism of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians can’t be considered anti-Semitic, because Arab people are Semites too. There was always this staunch support that elected leaders can point towards to justify any excessive enthusiasm for Israel. In the present moment, it looks like a waste of American taxpayer monies, but we cannot forget the historic bipartisan, and especially US Boomer support for Israel throughout modern US history. This simply was not the case of Jewish Americans and those with dual citizenship between the US and Israel having staunch support or of solely Jewish billionaires spending billions on lobbying and political contributions to campaign advertisements. The overwhelming majority of the support were Christian billionaires and a largely bipartisan Christian public for more than thirty years. We cannot fully blame the politicians either, because they simply reflected our own values as a society. It’s a fact that right-wing Christians, especially Evangelical Protestants, are ready to jump at the chance to support Israel. One doesn’t need some nefarious Mossad conspiracy to find the reasons behind the deferential treatment that Israel receives. One need only read or watch the fervent devotion that Evangelical Protestants, especially Christian Zionists, showed Israel for multiple decades throughout US society. The overwhelming support has always been Christian Zionists who’ve repeatedly written Op-eds every 3-5 years justifying unconditional support for Israel.
The second reason is that these same Evangelical Protestants, especially the Christian Zionists, were repeatedly argued to be “harmless” in their beliefs by the broader US public that didn’t pay any attention to US politics until after President Trump’s first electoral victory. Whenever I pointed out how insane some of their beliefs were and showed what they were actually saying on many internet forums from Gamefaqs, to IRC Chat, to Reddit, to Discord, and so on; I was repeatedly moderated, banned, and called a bigot for criticizing Evangelical Protestants and the more conservative Catholics for their beliefs in the Biblical mythology about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. I was repeatedly labeled an asshole and due to fears of being labeled a hateful person, I just shut up about it; this has always been my experience in US society, no matter what I do. “Israel is small”, “Israel is the only democracy”, and “Israel is surrounded by enemies” (who, by the way, buy our weapons so that the US weapons industries can rake in tens of billions a year), and other arguments along the lines of Israel being tiny and surrounded were made while we shrugged our shoulders and accepted it; we ignored their actual Biblically-influenced reasons driven by their faith in Jesus Christ. These “harmless” people who were steadfast in politics, in support for simultaneously giving billionaires of the One Percent more tax cuts and supporting anti-LGBT measures, in knocking on doors and making calls during elections due to their unyielding Christian faith in support of tax cuts for the One Percent and anti-LGBT policies, and who feel it is an existential act of faith to support Israel from the Bush administration onwards; they were always called harmless by the broader US public. It was throughout my entire life witnessing these people that I grew to understand how monstrous and psychotic they were; they threw away their children and grandchildren’s futures and made everyone around them poorer due to the Christian myth in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. These mythic beliefs that they clung to and relied upon, viewing it as salvation itself that Jesus Christ would return, destroyed their lives and the lives of everyone around them because they didn’t care about the sustainability of the environment around them, about the job losses from jobs being shipped overseas to China or India, about respecting individual rights like LGBT human rights even if they may disagree with it due to their religious faith, or about the growing expenses for college and for their children to have a real affordable future. The only focus by these Evangelical Protestants, some Conservative Catholics, and the majority of Baby Boomers more generally was this mythic belief in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They left no thought for the morrow when they sacrificed everything that made America great for their faith in the mythology of Jesus Christ (Luke 14: 26-33 and Matthew 6:25-34).
It wasn’t until the growing animosity and contempt for LGBT people became too much that the broader US public pushed back, but only in specific categories. Throughout the entire period of my life up until the genocide of Gaza, these Evangelical Protestants have shown their true colors with how they salivate at the idea of dead Gazan children because they believe it’ll bring about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; that is genuinely the truth about who these people always were. They never hid this and the broader US public shouldn’t be surprised to hear this about a population that historically constituted around 25% of the US public. They’re the real reason we’ve lost everything and continue to give free aid, despite our country being bankrupt. They don’t think about it rationally either; if you try to talk to them, they’ll accuse you of wanting to harm Christians, or of being a bigot, or accuse you of being an asshole. And guess what? Everyone else around them acquiesced and never challenged them on their 100 AD mythology because they were “harmless” and now the Gaza genocide has happened, because nobody took the time to challenge their absolute faith in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They were serious about supporting mass murder because they believe the Israelis have a Biblical right to the so-called Holy Land to fulfill Biblical Prophecy. Susan Michael is the US Director and creator of IsraelAnswers.com and the American Christian Leaders for Israel (ACLI) network; she cited the following verses justifying Christians helping Jewish people resettle into Israel (PDF Copy): (Jeremiah 16:14–15, 23:3, 23:7–8, 29:10, 29:14; 31:7–8) (Ezra 1:1, Isaiah 11:12, Isaiah 43:5–6, Isaiah 49:22–26, Isaiah 60:8–12, Ezekiel 28:25, Ezekiel 36:22–23, Psalm 102:13, Psalm 102:16–22, Jeremiah 23:3, Ezekiel 37:26–27, Revelation 21:3, Isaiah 66:20). This is the real reason Israel gets unconditional support from us. This is despite all the evidence: we Americans have given more free aid to Israel with the $300 billion from 1946 – 2023 than Germany has paid in reparations to Holocaust survivors and their descendants at approximately over $86 billion from 1952 – 2024:
Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (PDF Copy):
US State Department’s “Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act Report: Germany” which reads as follows (PDF Copy):
That’s a disparity of $214 billion and our US public is chronically accused of being anti-Semitic… Please take a step back and consider: What is this? Moreover, how could our entire society be so blind as to allow this disparity to happen? Yet again, it is because we kept treating the US Evangelical Protestants as “harmless” with their beliefs, even as they fell headlong into the interests of the foreign power of Israel because all they saw was the illusion of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This is also the reason they can see images of starving children and slaughtered people in Gaza and be completely nonplussed by it. To an Evangelical Protestant, especially a Christian Zionist, the doctrine of “by faith alone” can easily rationalize genocide, because it doesn’t matter what you do as long as Jesus Christ forgives you. The sin of genocide is viewed as having no moral difference from masturbation or watching porn to these people. Nobody put any consideration into how harmful that was and the broader US public policed information that Evangelical Protestants would hear. And if you think I’m exaggerating or lying, you have never taken the time to listen to these people and what they genuinely believe:
They have always been like this, the broader US public has always referred to them as harmless, the New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins were chronically mocked and vilified for rightly criticizing this insanity (and just so we’re clear, Hitchens believed in the Palestinian right to statehood), and I was told on various internet forums that I was a bigot or treated coldly in college classrooms when I brought up this insane belief system premised on a 100 AD fantasy novel called the New Testament. We infantilized these people by viewing them as “harmless” when they were objectively destroying the United States of America from within due to these absolutely deranged ideas in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; for all the claims of Wokeism turning college students into special snowflakes, the Evangelical Protestants – especially the Christian Zionists – were the nationwide precursor to that social movement. The only difference is that religion is seen as more of a taboo subject and so the infantilization of Evangelical Protestant belief systems was viewed as normal instead of appropriately viewed a threat to the wider society or as anti-Free Speech, which is exactly what the social taboo against criticizing religious beliefs are. This social taboo persisted despite Evangelical Protestants chronically and loudly imposing their beliefs on the wider US society.
This is imperative to understand, because it is exactly what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took advantage of. He exploited this self-contradiction in US society to his advantage and it worked in allowing Israel to extract as much in resources up to $300 billion and our society still wants to give more, precisely because the Evangelical Protestants, especially the US Christian Boomers and Christian Zionists among them, really do believe in the fantasy of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They’ve proclaimed it and made lengthy documentary videos proclaiming their faith in the Second Coming almost periodically from 2006’s Jesus Camp to the 2009 Waiting for Armageddon and many more to the point it is tiresome:
What is truly sickening about these people is that they view the persecution of non-White Christians as if it is happening to them and as if they’re entitled to be the only ones to have any right to talk about these issues. Christians persecuted in other countries are treated as props to indulge in a victim-complex as if they’re the ones whose lives are in danger; they don’t actually care about the lived experiences of persecuted Christians unless they can interpret it in a self-serving way to act like the victims. They’ve done this all their lives. The victims losing loved ones are not therein something to have compassion for, but something to exploit for their own political gain and sense of entitlement. How do I know this is true? Because, if it is Christians harming others? They will lie or only show a one-sided narrative to present themselves as the victims instead of listening to what the actual victims say. All of the lived experiences of both Christians and non-Christians – such as murdered Palestinian children – are viewed as “signs” that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is closer at hand. It’s the most self-serving, narcissistic bullcrap that comes out of their own mouths. If it is Christians harming others? Then, it’s “not true Christianity” or “an act of Satan” or – their favorite – a Jewish conspiracy. It’s the most debased and self-serving drivel imaginable.
Benjamin Netanyahu undoubtedly saw this massive weakness in US society and exploited it to his immense benefit. I think he understood the myths of the US and used it to his advantage to extract resources as much as possible from the United States. The US has financed and cosigned genocide on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu and in doing so, the US has ended any coherence with the international order that it advocated for decades. Everything that we Political Scientists were taught about the importance of the Peace of Westphalia, the emergence of European States as global powers, and then the formation of an international order has completely unraveled for the purpose of a tiny country that does absolutely nothing of any legitimate value for us that we couldn’t obtain from other countries. The US doesn’t want peace, it wants a useful way of continuing real-life combat scenarios for weapons testing and the US gives freebies to Israel, while selling weapons to the Gulf Cooperation council who then give it to terrorist organizations like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and ISIS. That way, US weapons manufacturers can always point to the Israel-Palestine conflict as proof of concept that their weapons are worth purchasing in the trillions when sold to the global market of other countries. The history of the Peace of Westphalia, the emergence of the European international order, and international institutions built upon supposed Western principles have completely unraveled so that the US’s weapons manufacturing industry wouldn’t lose any future profits even when they know they’re aiding a genocide. Judging from what I understand in my own limited capacity, this was my conclusion which I mentioned previously when critiquing Tucker Carlson’s video criticizing Israel. If we want to finance wars, we could do so for countries that would give us more strategic value for US weapons testing, even if Israel is strategically perfect due to its small size and the caged Palestinians of Gaza being the most useful test subjects for ensuring the quality of those US-made weapons. There’re surely other conflicts for US weapons manufacturers of the One Percent to exploit such as the Sudanese civil war, since it is really about maximizing US military power and the Israeli-Palestine conflict is expedient for that purpose. Moreover, Islam’s violent propensity and the One Percent not understanding that the religion of Islam really does promote violence is what makes financing these conflicts easy; Islamists only want to impose a 7th century Arab fundamentalist revisionist project upon the world, they generally don’t want peace. However, that doesn’t excuse Israel using US taxpayer funding to genocide a civilian population for the actions of the Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. What exactly could civilians in Gaza do against terrorist organizations like Hamas?
I’ve had seriously conflicted feelings over the Israel-Palestine situation: Should I have compassion for Islamists who would behead me simply for being Hindu? The answer is no, because the consequences would be that they’d kill us anyway. So, any Palestinian Islamic terrorist will never receive compassion from me. Moreover, the majority of Muslims across the world don’t want peace and they make no qualms that they don’t want peace. If Palestinians, even those outside of the terrorist organization like Hamas, were allowed a State, then they would just keep attacking Israel regardless just like Pakistan attacks India. India has to deal with so much terrorism that has nothing to do with Kashmir and everything to do with the fact that Islam is a violent religion that really does promote terrorism. The brief war that India and Pakistan had resulted in India stopping the war to end further escalation, but then yet another of the many Islamic terrorist organizations that exist ended-up convincing Muslim Indian doctors to kill civilians with one committing a suicide bombing and a video where he openly confessed on camera that his suicide bombing came from his Islamic worldview. We could strengthen them and they could kill us, if given the opportunity once their military forces are stronger. That’s just the honest truth of it. That’s what Islam fundamentally teaches these people. If peaceful co-existence cannot be reciprocated, then what purpose does seeking peace serve? Peace has to be mutually respected to ever work and they really will just kill us anyway. That’s fundamentally who they are and we shouldn’t lie to ourselves about that painful truth. The majority of Muslim civilians throughout the world hold similar views to terrorists according to most global survey data as has been proven repeatedly by self-reported Pew Research statistics (2013 and 2025).
However, while it is indeed scary and Muslims in America are becoming more radicalized such as in Dearborn, Michigan with a Muslim mayor in charge. And despite how frustrating it can be with the US mainstream media, usually White Liberals, who keep pretending this isn’t a problem; alongside, some White Conservatives are joining them in spreading lies that Islam isn’t a threat when it absolutely is. The root of the problem is the refusal to criticize Islam’s hateful ideas which promote this sort of violent behavior and the window of opportunity to do so is dwindling because of the US mainstream media puppets of the One Percent and the same social taboo that got me hit with bans and moderations for criticizing Evangelical Protestantism, especially Christian Zionism who were repeatedly portrayed as harmless. White Liberals have simply copied the “harmless” mentality to Islam, despite the overwhelming evidence against such an absurd notion. Technically speaking, what is required is to have Muslims doubt their faith and not de-conversion itself. While de-conversion would be better to prevent any return to faith movement, this doesn’t justify violating their human rights either; such as Christian preachers going to Dearborn parks to secretly convert their children to Christianity without their knowledge. As incoherent and self-contradictory as it may seem on the outset, Free Speech and Free Expression of all individuals should be respected, even when it frustrates us and pisses us off. If a Muslim or a Christian Zionist advocate for a political position in their words online or in their protests, then we should have the right to criticize those views; this isn’t happening precisely because the people around them shut down any ability to criticize their beliefs. As long as either Muslims or Christian Zionists aren’t advocating violence and they are arguing a position on a topic, then the criticisms should be heard. Once they advocate a position, they have to be willing to hear the criticism instead of people around them trying to police the criticisms that they hear. If they’re committing violence such as in Sweden which is being bombed monthly by members of the Islamic faith, then they need to hear the criticisms so that future violence is prevented from the non-violent Free Speech advocacy, because the whole point is to live in an equal society where Free Speech – the ability to say whatever you want without any threat of physical harm or organized censorship by those who despise what you say – is respected.
Israeli Zionists have lost this argument, because instead of respecting Free Speech, they’ve resorted to the most bigoted anti-Free Speech campaign that is currently ongoing. Moreover, any moral argument they had is gone too. Do we as an American society believe in human rights for all people? That’s one of the core questions to ask. Larger portions of Muslims are growing extreme and becoming Islamist, Islamists are a real threat to democracies and societies everywhere, and the Zionist-led State of Israel has made a permanent moral equivalence between itself and Islamism that can never be undone. Even if we grant that Islamic theology is far more violent, that Muslims on average are far more brutal across the world, and that intra-Islamic violence far outpaces any violence that Zionists have ever committed upon any Muslim group; that still doesn’t justify genocide. It doesn’t justify removing Palestinians from Gaza. Nothing justifies genocide and nothing should ever justify genocide. Even if we recognize that Palestinians are largely war-like, brutish, and violent; that doesn’t justify genocide. People can change their minds, if given the opportunity. Israel had control of all checkpoints and had full control of Gaza, that’s a fact. Why did they never try to open Palestinian society to Free Speech criticisms by allowing criticisms of Islam? Free Speech is fundamentally an act of non-violence. Instead of blowing up hospitals, homes, and shutting down schools; they could have pressured these societies to open-up to free speech and they never did that. For all the sympathetic Islamic groups trying to draw a parallel between Hindutva and Zionism, the Hindu-majority India stopped the continuation of a war and didn’t pursue any continued escalation even after two attempted terrorist attacks and one successful Islamic suicide bombing by an Islamic terrorist organization, the Jaish-e-Mohammed, acronym JeM; other Islamic terror groups committed a successful terror attack in Pakistan too. Yet, the vast majority of US Christians, especially Evangelical Protestants who subscribe to Christian Zionism, continue to support the State of Israel despite the genocide which will lead to more aggressive Islamist terror campaigns against Israel in the long-term which will mean more free aid from US taxpayer dollars. Why support it when it is indefensible from a human rights standpoint, harmful to US taxpayers bottom line, and for Israel’s long-term security?
I just have to be blunt here and I sincerely apologize if this sounds bigoted: from a purely Hindu perspective, the Abrahamic faiths have largely never shown self-restraint when it comes to advocating violence. The only time I’ve seen self-restraint was from Nigerian Christians who ended-up getting massacred by Islamic terrorist groups in Nigeria. I first heard of this next criticism from Native Americans, the majority of whom are Christians; they pointed out the major problem they had with conversion to Christianity was that Christianity really is a religion of exploitation because it advocates control and conquest of land throughout the world. They don’t seem to perceive this desire to control and conquer land as inherently violent, when it absolutely is. This has been the most consistent criticism from US Native Americans, approximately 63 percent of whom are Christian themselves according to a Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) 2023 US survey (PDF Copy), but who strongly disagree with those parts of the Bible:
As of now, this exploitation system that is the basis of the US’s founding has become an exported, commodified, and industrialized exploitation system to further grow US finances, but also because this deranged obsession with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ that helps to justify the exported exploitation system. This myth that Jesus Christ is going to come down from heaven to whisk away the true believers of Christianity is the basis for all of this hatred and violence that has gone unchecked to the point that we Americans have now exported it as a system of oppression. The truth has always been thus: when Christian Zionists see dead Palestinian children, they really do salivate at the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Dead Palestinians really are just a “sign” of the End Times and of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to them. That’s the honest, unvarnished truth; these US Christians are letting Palestinian Muslims and Christians die in the tens of thousands, because of their unyielding faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. That is the truth behind why Israel has been allowed to act so brazenly both within US domestic politics and in international affairs. Our inability as a society to criticize Christian Zionism, our shutting down of Free Speech criticisms throughout internet forums of any real religious debate, our historic vilification of atheism including the arguments by New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens, our refusal to criticize religious faith as a social taboo, and our ignorance towards foreign policy objectives by our US federal government is what led to our US taxpayer funded genocide of Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu knows this and exploits it with images like this to celebrate “Judeo-Christian values” in his public appearances and speeches. He knows how to manipulate Jewish and Christian Zionists to his benefit. Keep in mind, this man is a Secular Jew who only believes in the Abrahamic God when it is politically convenient for him and the staunchest opposition within US Jewish communities to the State of Israel’s actions have been the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Rabbis who’ve been protesting alongside US Palestinian youth since at least the 2010s. Yet, Benjamin Netanyahu knows how to bring the illusion of Jesus Christ into the minds of Christian Zionists to manipulate them and get what he wants from US taxpayer funds:
The US is Drowning in Israel’s Problems with No Real Benefit to America
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 146 of Beyond Good and Evil. translated by Helen Zimmern.
Serious questions have to be raised now that the genocide of Gaza has happened. I honestly am thunderstruck how these useless US think tanks are trying to argue that Israel’s co-existence is still possible and that the Gaza situation should be ignored. Human rights of a starving and maimed population that no longer have fully-functioning hospitals because of Israel’s destruction should be ignored? Approximately 67,000 dead should be ignored? (PDF Copy) Displacement and violations of the international order we proclaimed to champion for decades should be ignored? Do human rights exist for all people, including Arab Muslims, or not? Like, what is this being spewed out of their mouths nowadays, with all these think tanks bending over backwards to tacitly make excuses for the current government of Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu? Absurd doesn’t even begin to describe this asinine behavior. And for what? What strategic benefit does Israel have over Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and so on for the US? All the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council are more important to maintaining US hegemony than Israel ever has been or ever will be. And, just think about what these think tanks are saying: bleeding and orphaned children who have been directly harmed by Israel’s actions are irrelevant to the discussion of peaceful co-existence? What is this? How is this not a direct advocacy of fascism, a racial supremacist belief system? All these think tanks kept shouting about White Nationalism in the US Right-wing, Hindutva right-wing, British right-wing; and here they are, advocating for a fascist peace deal that is favorable to Zionism at the expense of the lives of Palestinians. One thing is for certain: these US think tanks have collectively, irrevocably discredited themselves for deliberately ignoring the human rights of Palestinians. Any who believe peace between Israel and the Arab States is plausible after a genocide has lost their minds. It’s over. You turned a blind eye and it is absolutely, irrevocably over for any peace between Israel and its neighbors. Only someone truly beyond rational thinking faculties would ever believe that a peace deal can materialize between Arab states and Israel after a genocide of Palestinian Arabs. How on earth are all these think tanks genuinely this stupid when this is genocide we’re talking about?
Other aspects of this conflict need to be seriously considered: Israel is a Middle-Eastern country, not a Western European country. I still recall browsing books in a Barnes and Nobles and finding the maps for the Arab Spring read “The Middle East and Israel” as if Israel was somehow magically separate from its own geography. Israel’s neighbors are Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. They need to work out peaceful co-existence with these countries because they’re literally Israel’s neighbors. This is not the case of Pakistani Muslims refusing to adapt to British values or Singaporean Muslims refusing to respect the Singaporean election process; this is Israel using free US taxpayer aid to avoid respecting its Arab and Persian neighbors. If you disagree with that statement, please seriously consider this: When can we Americans ever say to Israel “We have done enough with free US taxpayer aid to help you. Work on the problems you have with your neighbors on your own.” and is that even plausible to ask, despite giving them $300 billion in free US taxpayer aid already? Because, if it is not fair to ask, after giving more money to Israel than Germany has paid in reparations to Holocaust survivors and their families, then who is in charge of this relationship? Who is ultimately in control? What does our country get out of being involved with Israel for this long and with so much of our taxpayer dollars freely given to them that we couldn’t get more from elsewhere? Why on earth is President Trump proposing sending US troops to Gaza? (PDF Copy) At that point, the actions speak louder than words, and that is an open statement that we Americans are the vassal state of Israel and President Trump wanted to war with Venezuela after the Venezuelan Opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said she would move the Venezuelan embassy to Israel. (PDF Copy) How does this materially benefit the US? What relevance does it even have to US national interests for Venezuela to move an embassy in Israel? (PDF Copy) The only people who would believe this is a positive for the US would be Evangelical and Catholic Christians looking for “signs” of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming. The only one who really benefits from credulous morons seeing “signs” of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
I was wrong to not criticize Judaism or to see it as more peaceful than Christianity and Islam. After seeing how often Israelis accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being anti-Semitic, I don’t know if the gut feeling of avoiding anti-Semitism or criticizing anyone as an anti-Semite whenever any foreigner said “Israel controls America” or the crasser statement of “Jews control America” was really just an indoctrination into being brainwashed now. Obviously, anti-Jewish hate is wrong and should be separated from the political ideology of Zionism which has committed the genocide of Gaza, but we Americans didn’t really know what Zionism was until after repeated criticism from foreign countries, especially from Iran. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Zionism from 2005 – 2012 (PDF Copy), it was successfully and willfully misreported as him saying that he wanted to wipe out Israel, because we Americans didn’t know that he just meant the political ideology of Zionism. The majority of the US didn’t know anything about Zionism back in 2005 and only gradually learned of it as a political ideology separate from Judaism. Israel and the US Corporate news media exploited that ignorance on the part of the US public to claim it was the entire State of Israel that he wanted to eradicate to push for more war. I don’t think current US elected officials who are around their late 50s and early 60s really understand what will happen if they keep trying to impose the history of the Jewish Holocaust upon the American public as if we’re somehow guilty of it, despite our country being the ones who saved Jewish lives from what Nazi Germany did; eventually, the younger generations are going to just start asking tough but reasonable questions. How will US elected officials respond to statements like: “Wasn’t this 100-years ago?” and in eight years, the early parts of the Jewish Holocaust by Nazi Germany really will have happened a century ago and in twenty years from now, the Jewish Holocaust by Nazi Germany will have been 100-years ago in its entirety. What is the response to this basic fact? Are we to make special pleading arguments for Israel and keep giving it free aid for all future American generations? How does that rationally make sense? This would only be incumbent upon Germany for its genocide of Jews under the Nazi regime, not the United States of America. Moreover, what benefit does America get out of all this free taxpayer aid to Israel that we couldn’t gain more of from elsewhere?
When I was looking at images of the destruction of Gaza from drone imagery and viewing the TikTok videos posted by the IDF laughing at the violence they’re committing upon Gazan Palestinians, it was only then – far too late to do anything of substance – that I realized how wrong I was to have believed any of the Israeli narratives about human shields or tunnels. I feel like I was brainwashed by the US Corporate news media and US Federal government now, especially after their attempt to close the Epstein files to protect the pedophiles in the One Percent who would only see it as a greenlight to rape more American children. How do arguments about Hamas using human shields and tunnels make sense of the IDF blowing up over 60% of buildings, including hospitals, in Gaza and damaging over 81% of buildings? Where is the causal link between the two? How can making tunnels and human shields justify blowing up 60% of buildings in Gaza and damaging over 81% of building structures, where mostly rubble is left? Where is the logic in these claims about human shields and tunnels? How does blowing up 60% of buildings to destroy them and damaging 81% of building structures stop tunnels used by Hamas or recover any hostages? The most disturbing thing about looking at all that destruction, images of sadistic IDF soldiers mocking the clothes that Palestinians wore, and images of crying Palestinian children was a horrible notion that came unbidden in my mind. I’ll put it this way, outside of technological differences, what is the moral difference between the livestreamed genocide of Gaza that Gen Zers witnessed and this passage of Numbers in the Old Testament that the Prophet Moses condoned?
Numbers 31: 7-18. KJV
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.[1]
[1] “BibleGateway.” Numbers 31:7-18 KJV – – Bible Gateway, www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 31:7-18&version=KJV.
I’m genuinely asking you all, regardless of what you think of me for being a Hindu Atheist, or however much you think I’m an idiot; what is the difference between this passage and the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza? Israel has been accused of rape crimes upon male Palestinians and one of them was viewed on live video, so even the accusations of rape can be compared to this passage, even if what the Prophet Moses implied for Israelites to do upon little girls was more heinous. If you believe in the Bible, what has changed from the Prophet Moses condoning genocide in ancient times to the genocide of Gaza in modern times? Why does it matter which group is part of ancient Judea in this conversation at all? Would genocide be justified by the Abrahamic God’s Divine Command, if Israelis are proven to be direct descendants of the Israelites and Palestinians are not related to ancient Judea? Do you see how disturbing and disgusting such race-based thinking is? Such arguments trying to be consistent with Biblical prophecy over the side they support is just racial determinism and thus explicitly racist. All of this is tied to the faith in Savior figures like the Jewish Messiah and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; that’s genuinely why it is being supported by the fundamentalist Christians of America.
This was also why Qatar choosing the non-violent route after its peace negotiations were bombed by Israel was shocking to me. Israel claimed to want peace and then tried to kill Hamas peace negotiators that were in Qatar because Israel asked them to be; that idiotic move was what completely changed my opinion. Qatar was well within its legal rights from its agreements with the US to ask the US to secure its borders and attack Israel; that was how genuinely stupid that move on the part of Benjamin Netanyahu was. Instead of that, Qatar chose non-violence and that’s what began to change my mind about the entire conflict; peace is the hardest route, violence and escalating violence that kills innocent civilians is the easiest route. Neither the US nor Israel have ever displayed such maturity in my lifetime. In all honesty, the utter stupidity of US think tanks is on full display now; they don’t believe in democracy or human rights, such claims died the moment the Biden Administration put Benjamin Netanyahu above the US’s own international order. Furthermore, their baffling claims that the Arab States should seek peaceful co-existence with Israel became completely and utterly against US national interests in maintaining US hegemony the moment that the IDF razed Gaza. This should have been an obvious fact to these so-called elites who repeatedly prove they’re all money and no brains. What do I mean? If any Arab dictator accepts peace with Israel after the genocide of Gaza, they’ll have to deal with insurrections, assassination attempts, and long-lasting terrorism that the US will have to send troops to crush in every single Arab country where peace with Israel is fully negotiated. Prince bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is ironically trying to save the petrodollar system by insisting on a Palestinian State, because doing the opposite after the genocide of Gaza would mean that attempts to violently overthrow his father would increase. Directly because of the stupidity of Benjamin Netanyahu and the ignorance of Donald Trump, we Americans are coming to a point where we have to decide between these two choices: Secure the Arab States and ensure long-lasting US hegemony for future generations via the Petrodollar system or support Israel, which has nothing of strategic importance nor is relevant to securing US national interests. Make no mistake, this choice is because of what Benjamin Netanyahu has done to Gaza and what both the Biden and Trump administration allowed him to do, because they protected him from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The material interests of the United States of America to secure US hegemony or the stupidity, ignorance, and lunacy of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; those are America’s crossroads now. It is a choice between America First or faith in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Christianity has No Moral Values
Absolute faith genocides absolutely. Faith in Divine Command theory leads to ignoring international laws that the West itself purported to uphold. At this point, it seems faith in Messiahs and Savior figures always leads to genocide. The suffering of Gaza doesn’t matter to the majority of US Evangelical Protestants and many Catholics who will still support Israel on the basis of “Judeo-Christian values” even after the upholding of those Judeo-Christian values ignores international law and supports a genocide. I would argue that Abrahamic religious faith, due to being founded upon Divine Command theory, is like a figurative bounce-back paddle; no matter how much you try to deviate on the basis of individual freedoms, you consistently regress your thinking faculties into 100 AD barbarism that justifies the same forms of violence found in the Bible itself. As soon as people understand that they are indeed following the consequences of their religious books and not “wandering astray” or “misinterpreting” or “exploiting” their holy books, then the better off humanity will finally be to leave it all in the graveyard called Mythology. There are 67,000 Palestinian people dead over a 250 BCE book of fairy tales from Judaism and a 100 AD fairy tale called the New Testament of Christianity. I have always been critical of the Bible since I was in Middle School after learning about the abject insanity that is the concept of Original Sin, and people kept saying I was a deluded asshole, I was crazy, I was stupid, or I didn’t understand the compassionate aspects of the Bible; we Americans just funded genocide with our taxpayer monies for two years and had the genocide that we funded livestreamed to us, because of Abrahamic mythology. Chris Hedges was the first that I know of that coined the term livestreamed genocide and it is a completely accurate assessment. Why else are Israeli American billionaires and Christian Zionist billionaires chronically trying to shut down Free Speech discourse over Israel’s actions? Why else did Israel secretly influence the purchase of Tik Tok to shut down US Free Speech?
Nevertheless, this doesn’t expunge the culpability of American Christian morality in the genocide of Gaza or the rise in anti-Jewish hatred which is not fair to Liberal Jews or Ultra-Orthodox Jews who have repeatedly condemned the political ideology of Zionism and have willfully alienated themselves from Jewish friends and family members who continue to support the State of Israel after the genocide of Gaza (PDF Copy). It is not fair to start blaming only Jewish communities for what has been a primarily US Christian motivation to support Zionist political goals of both Jewish and Christian Zionists. Hatred of all Jews is unwarranted and only leads back to the disgusting, brutish ideology of Nazism which America should always firmly reject. The fundamental problem is the majority of Americans always being tethered to the illusion of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming. All Abrahamic prophecies are just ancient fantasy novels and we need to be more open, honest, and frank about that because the consequences of ignoring that was the fleecing of US taxpayers and a genocide at US taxpayer expense. If that isn’t enough of a reason to start questioning your religion, then what is? How many more innocent people have to die at US taxpayer expense for the Biblical Prophecy of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming? To be clear, the prophecy of a Jewish Messiah isn’t any more likely than the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in either Christianity or Islam. Islam’s version of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ through the Mahdi bringing the true Muslims together and committing genocide upon all Polytheists isn’t any truer either. There is no Messiah and there never will be; it’s ancient people’s ignorant fiction. All three Abrahamic faiths are killing each other for nothing.
Christianity has no moral values and that is why genocide is so normalized throughout its history from the genocide of Indigenous White Europeans, to the genocide of Native Americans, the persecution of Jews culminating into the Jewish Holocaust, and too many intra-Christian massacres even just a few hundred years after the historic Jesus’s death alongside over two-thousand years of intra-Christian violence and inter-Abrahamic violence with Islam. Islam has its own legacies of brutal genocides and it also believes that Jesus Christ is the Messiah; what a shocker that the Abrahamic faiths are so violent. None of this is Christians being misled, misconstruing the teachings of Jesus Christ, or being led astray or exploiting Christianity. This simply is the logical consequences of Christianity. Consider this piece I wrote in my latest book:
And consider my summary of the financial results for the US Weapons industry because of this belief in Abrahamic prophecy (PDF Copy):
Some Christians often confuse the newer Christian idea of a “tendency to sin from nature” like in the Episcopalian branch with denying blood-guilt as Tucker Carlson incoherently argued. Christianity has multiple different interpretations of Original Sin and then your fellow Christians get confused and incorrectly appropriate other faith traditions like Buddhism and call Buddhist teachings Christian, when Christianity’s own New Testament explicitly teaches the opposite of what they’re arguing. I’ve seen people opposed to Right-wing Christian books with harsh reviews. In one review that I read, a person listed a detailed point-by-point criticism of what they found objectionable. The problem with their critique was that every single one of those points that they disagreed with, because it wasn’t their understanding of faith in Christianity; it was all in the New Testament Bible. Every point they disagreed with was taught in the New Testament. I’d like for you all to consider this: How is believing in both Divine Command Theory and Open Interpretation a coherent position in Christianity? This is the crux of the problem; Divine Command theory posits an absolute good and evil moral position, but this is not how most US Christians believe in the Bible, they believe in Open Interpretation. Open interpretation is moral ambiguity. US Christians are using Open Interpretation, which is a subjective moral value system, to lie to themselves by pretending to follow objective moral values. Yet, when they do follow the teachings of the Bible with supporting Israel on the basis of Biblical prophecy, then the objective moral value is understood to mean that Yahweh / Jehovah and Jesus Christ want them to genocide Gaza of all Palestinians to replace them with the “correct race” of people. And, rather conveniently, Jesus Christ forgives you for all sins you commit upon others so you never have to feel any sense of responsibility for anything heinous that you support including genocide.
I’ll just be blunt and say it: Jesus Christ is not God, Jesus Christ can’t take your moral responsibility away through the doctrine of forgiveness, you are not atoning for any of your wrongdoing when you recognize Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, Heaven and Hell aren’t real regardless of if you interpret hell to mean eternal fire or the absence of God, your fixation with the afterlife is just a selfish and delusional desire for personal immortality that you attach to the image of Jesus Christ, your feelings of bliss when looking at images of Jesus Christ are an illusion based upon identifying an object with a particular feeling which is no different than the psychological conditioning of Pavlov’s dog experiment, and Jesus Christ isn’t going to come down in the End Times on a flying horse. Not one iota of the mythology of Jesus Christ is real, even if we grant that he was a historical figure who preached or believed any of this – which isn’t even the case, as it was all rationalized by violent and murderous lunatics like Apostle Paul after the historical Jesus died. There’s no historical evidence to support that Paul ever met the historical Jesus, so he created his own fanfiction version of a man that he’d heard of and had delusional visions about him; probably feeling guilty for executing Christians like the lunatic that he was when he identified as Saul. The beliefs in the Doctrine of Forgiveness, the Afterlife as eternal, the immortal soul, and suggesting everyone needs to seek forgiveness for the sin of a man who died before any of us were born is raving lunacy that should no longer be tolerated as beyond criticism in the 21st century; regardless of who spews such laughable stupidity. Likewise, the multiple verses throughout the Bible that teach Jews need to return from exile to the holy land to fulfill Biblical prophecy, which is what devout Christians firmly believe is a necessary prerequisite to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. All of these aforementioned beliefs are why the majority of US Christians support the genocide of Gaza. They literally believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and all of the aforementioned is tied with it. Yet still, I’m sure, I’m going to be called an asshole because I point it out, while people who support genocide through US taxpayer dollars are “harmless” and “not hurting anyone” unlike “assholes” like me who point out they bankrupted us and destroyed our own international order to support the genocide of helpless Palestinian civilians whether those Palestinians be Christian or Muslim – not that it should ever matter. This is what living in America has always been like for me for all my life.
Benjamin Netanyahu the Conqueror of America
Why is Benjamin Netanyahu so successful in his control over the United States? Why was he able to manipulate President Biden, who acted in deference as if he was serving a King, to protect Netanyahu from just the charges of the ICC? (PDF Copy) It wasn’t even criminal convictions; they refused to accept the charges. Over 40 years of the “international order” that so many of these think tanks and Political Scientists kept spewing about the importance of has been pissed away in the blink of an eye for deferential service to Netanyahu. Our country is literally, publicly stating that Benjamin Netanyahu is like a God who is beyond any legal impunity for genocide. That is not an exaggeration. President Trump followed-up that protection (PDF Copy) and suggested he’d intervene in even Netanyahu’s national criminal case to get the corruption charges in Israel dropped (PDF Copy). The United States has effectively declared Netanyahu to be the Shadow King of America and that is not an exaggeration nor can it be called anti-Jewish; what else can we interpret or call President Biden (PDF Copy) and President Trump’s actions to protect him from the ICC? (PDF Copy) Even if African dictators find ways to avoid being held for crimes against humanity, and the US has done this before for Islamists who committed genocide in Indonesia against atheists, that doesn’t justify when we do the very same for Israel in modern times. These US Think Tanks like Foreign Policy Magazine went from scorning any criticism of India’s Hindutva had upon Amnesty International to being absolutely silent when AIPAC declared that Amnesty International was an illegitimate organization (PDF Copy). Amnesty International is the most neutral, non-partisan, and vigorous human rights nonprofit that – while they do have a favorable bias towards America – they do try to do their best in being as neutral as possible. AIPAC declared that Amnesty International was illegitimate to specifically protect Netanyahu, not just Israel. Even worse than this, AIPAC declared that the ICC was illegitimate because Netanyahu and former Defense Minister of Israel Yoav Gallant were charged with Crimes Against Humanity and AIPAC then made one of most unfounded claims that criminalizing Netanyahu would then mean legitimizing the criminalization of US leaders (PDF Copy). Pro-Israel groups are conflating keeping Netanyahu above the law with protecting Israel and it doesn’t make sense. When the ICC charges were brought and made public against Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for their respective crimes against humanity, US Senator Chuck Schumer brought-up an excellent argument that Netanyahu should step down and someone else in Israel should step in his place as Prime Minister; that was the perfect solution to the problem that was favorable to Israel and the US. It was completely consistent and the most effective way to pursue US national interests. Have Netanyahu step down, put in a new face as Israeli Prime Minister, and hope the heat on Netanyahu dies down as Netanyahu could still give advice to the new Prime Minister on how to prosecute the war in Gaza without the cameras on him. This would have been the most politically expedient move for the US. What happened instead? The Biden Administration, which seems to have been run by a high school-level of knowledge of international conflicts and not by Joe Biden himself, protected Netanyahu from the ICC and effectively declared our own international order to be over and that Netanyahu was beyond human laws (PDF Copy). I wish I was exaggerating, but that is what happened because of the livestreaming of the genocide.
Any ability to avoid a future World War 3 scenario is now gone to protect Netanyahu from human laws, where he is effectively treated as King of Judea that Christian Presidents dutifully serve as his obedient lapdogs. There’re also oddities in the past that don’t add-up to me anymore; when Netanyahu fearmongered the US Congress into pursuing the 2003 War in Iraq, he was just a private citizen. He’d left the Likud party during this brief period in 2002, he was not either Prime Minister or Foreign Minister of Israel, and he had no official or legal connection to any government entity in Israel at the time that he was called into the US Congress to testify about WMDs that didn’t exist and thus, he openly lied to the US Congress about it on September 12th, 2002. His official status was “private citizen” when he testified and vigorously suggested the US should invade Iraq and he didn’t return to the Israeli government until two months later when he got appointed as Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in November 2002. At that specific point in time, Netanyahu was a man who officially had no connection to the Israeli government, he was just a private citizen from another country at the point when he testified in September 2002. Even if he was a former Prime Minister, it was a brief and failed stint as Prime Minister during that time. He was randomly selected to testify about WMDs in Iraq over any official of Israel like the actual Prime Minister or the Foreign Minister of Israel at the time that he testified. What explains this?
The only credible explanations I’ve found, in the absence of the US government confessing any truth to us . . . has been Ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou’s explanations on the Epstein files controversy. I recommend listening to both of these snippets to their entirety:
It’s all speculation, but at this point it seems that it is all speculation because Netanyahu is perennially above the law with the US Congress and US Presidents slavishly devoted to worshiping him as Yahweh on earth. This is despite the fact that he repeatedly humiliates the United States by spying on us constantly (PDF Copy):
Yet still, slavish worship of Benjamin Netanyahu continues. Why? What explains this continued deferential treatment? I will just be blunt: The Evangelical Protestants, firmly believing Catholics, and especially the Christian Zionists view it as an existential challenge to their faith. Netanyahu is a leader who knows how to exploit the illusion of Messiahs coming to save the Chosen People (whether Jewish or Christian). Previous forms of “exploiting” Christianity were not really exploitation, because all those other leaders in history to an extent did believe in the Bible. Netanyahu is what happens when someone who is an ultra-nationalist, racial supremacist, and has Secular leanings looks at the stupidity, shallowness, and ignorance that is the Abrahamic faith tradition and reverse-engineers it so that his small country can exploit the United States like a parasite until it breaks us to pieces, while he seeks to expand his country into a Greater Judea under his perennial Prime Minister role. He wouldn’t be having our US Secretary of State touch a wall to celebrate “Judeo-Christian values” in a very publicized and official government event otherwise. If he really were a person who was devout in the Jewish faith, then he’d be going to that wall with the daughter he abandoned from his first marriage (PDF Copy) and partaking in her devout Orthodox Jewish traditions without any cameras publicizing it. He only makes these public gestures of Judeo-Christian values, so he can continue manipulating 23 – 25% of the gullible US public that are Christian Zionists. In other words, Netanyahu is a once in a lifetime genius. Netanyahu . . . is the Zionist Ubermensch of politics; he knows how to manipulate the illusory feeling of bliss that people get from Abrahamic symbolism to make people – including Christian politicians – do what he wants. The only way in which he deviates is that Nietzsche had hoped a European country would settle the Jewish people to make that country stronger instead of Jews wasting their lives on Abrahamic myth. Outside of still following Abrahamic myth for his own benefit, Netanyahu fulfills pretty much everything in terms of Nietzsche’s standards of an Übermensch. This man has effectively surpassed Yahweh and Jesus Christ, while he continues to order America to lick his boots while fisting America with spy technology up America’s ass to steal State Secrets from our elected leaders.
The most tragic aspect of all this is that there is not a single iota of truth in Abrahamic mythology’s stories of prophets. In other words, the Abrahamic faiths all repeatedly genocide each other for absolutely nothing. No savior is coming, no Messiah exists, and nothing has been achieved. Israeli Archaeology composed of what use to be devout Christian and Jewish Archaeologists spent 35 years excavating the ancient Jewish lands and their findings were the following (PDF Copy):
The faith of Abraham
According to the Bible, the first person to form a covenant with God is Abraham. He is the great patriarch. Is there archeological evidence for Abraham?
One of the first efforts of biblical archeology in the last century was to prove the historicity of the patriarchs, to locate them in a particular period in the archeological history. Today I think most archeologists would argue that there is no direct archeological proof that Abraham, for instance, ever lived. We do know a lot about pastoral nomads, we know about the Amorites’ migrations from Mesopotamia to Canaan, and it’s possible to see in that an Abraham-like figure somewhere around 1800 B.C.E. But there’s no direct connection.
“It disturbs some people that, for the very early periods, we archeologists haven’t much to say.”
Are we to become unbelievers if we can’t prove that Abraham ever lived? What is the story about? It’s a story about freedom and faith and risk. Does it matter exactly how Abraham and his clan left, and when they arrived in Canaan, or where they settled? What really matters is that Abraham is seen later by Jews and Christians as the father of the faithful.
Abraham moves out on faith to a land he has never seen. You have to think of how perilous the journey would have been had it really taken place. We are talking about a journey of several hundred miles around the fringes of the desert. So it’s an astonishing story. Is it true? It is profoundly true, but it’s not the kind of truth that archeology can directly illuminate.
Why is it difficult for archeologists to find support for the accounts of the patriarchs?
It disturbs some people that, for the very early periods such as the so-called patriarchal period, we archeologists haven’t much to say. The later we come in time, the firmer the ground we stand on—we have better sources. We have more written sources. We have more contemporary eyewitness sources.
For the earlier periods, we don’t have any texts. Abraham might have lived around 1800 B.C.E. This is the dawn of written history or prehistory, when the archeological evidence can’t easily be correlated with any external evidence, textual evidence—even if we did have it.
Evidence of the early Israelites
The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time, around 1450 B.C.E. Is there archeological evidence for Moses and the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Israelites described in the Bible?
We have no direct archeological evidence. “Moses” is an Egyptian name. Some of the other names in the narratives are Egyptian, and there are genuine Egyptian elements. But no one has found a text or an artifact in Egypt itself or even in the Sinai that has any direct connection. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. But I think it does mean what happened was rather more modest. And the biblical writers have enlarged the story.
Is there mention of the Israelites anywhere in ancient Egyptian records?
No Egyptian text mentions the Israelites except the famous inscription of Merneptah dated to about 1206 B.C.E. But those Israelites were in Canaan; they are not in Egypt, and nothing is said about them escaping from Egypt.
Tell us more about the Merneptah inscription. Why is it so famous?
It’s the earliest reference we have to the Israelites. The victory stele of Pharaoh Merneptah, the son of Ramesses II, mentions a list of peoples and city-states in Canaan, and among them are the Israelites. And it’s interesting that the other entities, the other ethnic groups, are described as nascent states, but the Israelites are described as “a people.” They have not yet reached a level of state organization.
So the Egyptians, a little before 1200 B.C.E., know of a group of people somewhere in the central highlands—a loosely affiliated tribal confederation, if you will—called “Israelites.” These are our Israelites. So this is a priceless inscription.
Does archeology back up the information in the Merneptah inscription? Is there evidence of the Israelites in the central highlands of Canaan at this time?
We know today, from archeological investigation, that there were more than 300 early villages of the 13th and 12th century in the area. I call these “proto-Israelite” villages.
Forty years ago it would have been impossible to identify the earliest Israelites archeologically. We just didn’t have the evidence. And then, in a series of regional surveys, Israeli archeologists in the 1970s began to find small hilltop villages in the central hill country north and south of Jerusalem and in lower Galilee. Now we have almost 300 of them.
The origins of Israel
What have archeologists learned from these settlements about the early Israelites? Are there signs that the Israelites came in conquest, taking over the land from Canaanites?
The settlements were founded not on the ruins of destroyed Canaanite towns but rather on bedrock or on virgin soil. There was no evidence of armed conflict in most of these sites. Archeologists also have discovered that most of the large Canaanite towns that were supposedly destroyed by invading Israelites were either not destroyed at all or destroyed by “Sea People”—Philistines, or others.
So gradually the old conquest model [based on the accounts of Joshua’s conquests in the Bible] began to lose favor amongst scholars. Many scholars now think that most of the early Israelites were originally Canaanites, displaced Canaanites, displaced from the lowlands, from the river valleys, displaced geographically and then displaced ideologically.
So what we are dealing with is a movement of peoples but not an invasion of an armed corps from the outside. A social and economic revolution, if you will, rather than a military revolution. And it begins a slow process in which the Israelites distinguish themselves from their Canaanite ancestors, particularly in religion—with a new deity, new religious laws and customs, new ethnic markers, as we would call them today.
And much further on:
The Bible describes it as a glorious kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia. Does archeology back up these descriptions?
The stories of Solomon are larger than life. According to the stories, Solomon imported 100,000 workers from what is now Lebanon. Well, the whole population of Israel probably wasn’t 100,000 in the 10th century. Everything Solomon touched turned to gold. In the minds of the biblical writers, of course, David and Solomon are ideal kings chosen by Yahweh. So they glorify them.
Now, archeology can’t either prove or disprove the stories. But I think most archeologists today would argue that the United Monarchy was not much more than a kind of hill-country chiefdom. It was very small-scale.
And even further on:
The Israelites’ many gods
The Bible would have us think that all Israelites embraced monotheism relatively early, from Moses’s time on. Is that contrary to what archeology has found?
The portrait of Israelite religion in the Hebrew Bible is the ideal, the ideal in the minds of those few who wrote the Bible—the elites, the Yahwists, the monotheists. But it’s not the ideal for most people. And archeology deals with the ordinary, forgotten folk of ancient Israel who have no voice in the Bible. There is a wonderful phrase in Daniel Chapter 12: “For all those who sleep in the dust.” Archeology brings them to light and allows them to speak. And most of them were not orthodox believers.
However, we should have guessed already that polytheism was the norm and not monotheism from the biblical denunciations of it. It was real and a threat as far as those who wrote the Bible were concerned. And today archeology has illuminated what we could call “folk religion” in an astonishing manner.
“The so-called folk religion even penetrated the Temple in Jerusalem.”
One of the astonishing things is your discovery of Yahweh’s connection to Asherah. Tell us about that.
In 1968, I discovered an inscription in a cemetery west of Hebron, in the hill country, at the site of Khirbet el-Qôm, a Hebrew inscription of the 8th century B.C.E. It gives the name of the deceased, and it says “blessed may he be by Yahweh”—that’s good biblical Hebrew—but it says “by Yahweh and his Asherah.”
Asherah is the name of the old Canaanite Mother Goddess, the consort of El, the principal deity of the Canaanite pantheon. So why is a Hebrew inscription mentioning Yahweh in connection with the Canaanite Mother Goddess? Well, in popular religion they were a pair.
The Israelite prophets and reformers denounce the Mother Goddess and all the other gods and goddesses of Canaan. But I think Asherah was widely venerated in ancient Israel. If you look at Second Kings 23, which describes the reforms of King Josiah in the late 7th century, he talks about purging the Temple of all the cult paraphernalia of Asherah. So the so-called folk religion even penetrated the Temple in Jerusalem.
Is there other evidence linking Asherah to Yahweh?
In the 1970s, Israeli archeologists digging in Kuntillet Ajrud in the Sinai found a little desert fort of the same period, and lo and behold, we have “Yahweh and Asherah” all over the place in the Hebrew inscriptions.
Are there any images of Asherah?
For a hundred years now we have known of little terracotta female figurines. They show a nude female; the sexual organs are not represented but the breasts are. They are found in tombs, they are found in households, they are found everywhere. There are thousands of them. They date all the way from the 10th century to the early 6th century.
They have long been connected with one goddess or another, but many scholars are still hesitant to come to a conclusion. I think they are representations of Asherah, so I call them Asherah figurines.
There aren’t such representations of Yahweh, are there?
No. Now, why is it that you could model the female deity but not the male deity? Well, I think the First and Second Commandments by now were taken pretty seriously. You just don’t portray Yahweh, the male deity, but the Mother Goddess is okay. But his consort is probably a lesser deity.
We found molds for making Asherah figurines, mass-producing them, in village shrines. So probably almost everybody had one of these figurines, and they surely have something to do with fertility. They were no doubt used to pray for conceiving a child and bearing the child safely and nursing it. It’s interesting to me that the Israelite and Judean ones are rather more modest than the Canaanite ones, which are right in your face. The Israelite and Judean ones mostly show a nursing mother.
This has been something of a lightning rod, has it not?
This is awkward for some people, the notion that Israelite religion was not exclusively monotheistic. But we know now that it wasn’t. Monotheism was a late development. Not until the Babylonian Exile and beyond does Israelite and Judean religion—Judaism—become monotheistic.
Moses wasn’t even a real person. How could Jesus Christ have seen him in a vision and fulfilled or broken the Mosaic Law, if Moses wasn’t a real person? What is the point of Exodus or the Ten Commandments, when Exodus is a story of pure myth? What is the difference between Israelites and Canaanites when they’re literally the same people that changed identity due to an ancient famine? What is the point of seeking to rebuild ancient Judea, when ancient Judea was just a small plot of agrarian land where polytheistic farmers added stories from other lands to the Bible before making revisions because of a famine which caused them to identify themselves as Israelites? I’ve asked this before and I was only called an asshole who should shut up by Jews, Christians, and Muslims online. Now, the genocide of Gaza happened and you’re all still obsessed over the “correct meaning” of what is a bunch of utter bullshit. Moreover, Jew is not a race according to modern science (PDF Copy); it really is just a culture and theology, but look how absolutely psychotic devout Christians like this Catholic views Jewish people:
Everything he said was born from the delusion of viewing Jews as a separate race due to Biblical nonsense; Palestinians and Israeli Jews are largely from the same ethnic people (PDF Copy). These are distant cousins slaughtering each other over different interpretations of the same religion that becomes so violent that they view it as three separate religions, despite worshipping the same Abrahamic God. There’s a specific issue with the Christian worldview that worsens this dilemma: why do most Christian Americans argue that US politicians who identify as Christian are not following the true meaning of Christianity when they advocate war or support a particular policy? These US Christian politicians are Christian, there’s always a implicit Christianity test in getting elected as President in the US, and why do you not understand that open interpretation means that these elected Christian politicians are just interpreting the Bible differently from you? And, if the Bible can be openly interpretative, then what makes either your interpretation or their interpretation to be wrong or right? Furthermore, why couldn’t they just interpret the Bible to mean that only the Abrahamic God will judge them after they die and that therefore, it doesn’t matter how much harm they commit in the real world? Why do you never see that all these harmful actions that politicians do is precisely because of Christianity, because deep down it has no moral values, and it was never for a lack of following Christian principles? This is what Netanyahu saw and exploited for his own benefit.
I’ve mentioned it before how the US is still committing a genocide upon Native Americans, but why is it that the majority of US Christians still treat Native Americans – who are 63% Christian – as if they’re unbelievers? (PDF Copy) Native Americans fight in our wars at five times the rate of other ethnic backgrounds on a per capita basis (PDF Copy), and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth who has argued in favor of a Christian-focus in the US military (PDF Copy); removed Native American contributions of serving at the highest record on a per capita basis in the US Armed Forces (what it looked like before the Pro-Christian Hegseth purge and Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) alongside other historic contributions that were purged due to President Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Christian faith, Hegseth proceeded to deny removal of Medals of Honor for Wounded Knee in which Native American women were raped (PDF Copy), and the US federal government has decided to open Copper Mining for a Native American sacred site known to them as Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, where the Apache practice their Sunrise Dances as part of their religion. The majority of these people have already converted to Christianity and simply want a blend of their indigenous and Christian traditions, but even that is denied to them by the Christian-majority US. The US Supreme Court denied their appeal (PDF Copy). This is on top of a refusal to return or at least allow Native Americans to be official government stewards of the Black Hills which are a Sioux sacred site. The US Federal government (both Democrats and Republicans) never seemed to understand that they’re trying to bribe the Sioux to give up their equivalent of their holy land in the case of the Black Hills since that’s the origin of their religious traditions similar to Judaism’s origin being Jerusalem. These lands are the religious equivalent of the Jewish holy sites in every sense of the religious meaning. What makes me particularly annoyed when examining this is that our US Federal government is officially standing with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official Israeli government statement of Judeo-Christian values that Netanyahu speaks of in his national statements within Israel:
To repeat myself for those who don’t know:
Native Americans serve in the US Armed Forces at five times the per capita rate of their population size in the US[1][2], they’re more likely to serve in Active-Duty roles in the US Army[3][4], they have protested peacefully for over forty years while begging for their children’s lives to be protected from the ongoing state-sponsored US genocide from the 1978 US Supreme Court decision of Oliphant vs Suquamish[5][6][7][8][9][10], and – unlike Islam – Native American theology are the origins of most modern women’s rights across the entire world that the majority of US and Western women benefitted from and it came exclusively from Native American religious traditions.[11] The idea of Judeo-Christian values falls apart not just because of Enlightenment values and the horrific persecution of the Jews for two-thousand years by Christians, but also because of Native American theology’s major contributions to modern women’s rights throughout all of earth and especially the US and Western countries.[12]
[1] Trump, Donald J. “Presidential Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2018.” The White House, Whitehouse.gov, 31 Oct. 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20201226230730/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-national-native-american-heritage-month-2018/.
[2] Lacdan, Joseph. “Army Leader Cherishes Heritage, Honors Native American Contributions.” http://www.Army.Mil, U.S. Army, 19 Nov. 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20250212083345/https://www.army.mil/article/252163/army_leader_cherishes_heritage_honors_native_american_contributions.
[3] Department of Defense (DOD), et al. “2022 Demographics Profile of the Military Community.” Https://S3.Documentcloud.Org/Documents/24177791/2022-Demographics-Report.Pdf, U.S. Naval Institute Staff / U.S. Naval Institute News, 29 Nov. 2023, s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24177791/2022-demographics-report.pdf.
[4] Department of Defense (DOD), et al. “2023 Demographics Profile of the Military Community.” Https://Download.Militaryonesource.Mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2023-Demographics-Report.Pdf, Military OneSource, 2023, download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2023-demographics-report.pdf.
[5] MAZE OF INJUSTICE The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA, Amnesty International, https://web.archive.org/web/20111018194106/http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/MazeOfInjustice.pdf.
[6] Cooper, Renee. “Behind the Grim Statistics for Sexual Violence on Reservations.” KX NEWS, KX NEWS, 22 Dec. 2020, www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/being-raped-is-a-right-of-passage-behind-the-grim-statistics-for-native-american-women/.
[7] “The Never-Ending Maze: Continued Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA.” Amnesty International USA, Amnesty International USA, 19 July 2023, http://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AmnestyMazeReportv_digital.pdf.
[8] Williams, Robert A. “THE ALGEBRA OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW: THE HARD TRAIL OF DECOLONIZING AND AMERICANIZING THE WHITE MAN’S INDIAN JURISPRUDENCE.” UW Law Digital Repository Media · University of Wisconsin Law School Digital Repository · University of Wisconsin Law School Digital Repository, University of Wisconsin Law Review, repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/media/35536.
[9] “Native American Women Are Rape Targets Because of a Legislative Loophole.” VICE, VICE News, 16 Dec. 2015, https://www.vice.com/en/article/bnpb73/native-american-women-are-rape-targets-because-of-a-legislative-loophole-511.
[10] “687. Tribal Court Jurisdiction.” The United States Department of Justice, 22 Jan. 2020, https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-687-tribal-court-jurisdiction#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20held%20in,the%20tribe%20in%20Duro%20v.
[11] Wagner, Sally Roesch. Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists. Book Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
[12] Wagner, Sally Roesch. Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists. Book Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Is this really America First? Do you all see how ridiculous, unfair, and one-sided this is? We are literally giving free aid, free weapons, and supporting the interests of a foreign government founded by European colonizers over equality of our fellow Americans who serve at five times the per capita rate in our US armed forces (PDF Copy) alongside their fellow White, Hispanic, Black, and Asian Brothers and Sisters of America. The Trump Administration said they would fight DEI and has instead made it a policy of Wokeism for Whites only and Israel First due to faith in Jesus Christ. What makes this even more disgusting is that we actually do owe an apology for the genocide of Native Americans and President Biden, for all his faults, did begin that path and it was the right thing to do. But that can’t just mean symbolic policies and piecemeal efforts. It requires the Federal government to unreservedly apologize and to acknowledge Native American contributions. Neither of which has been done even under the Biden administration since his administration was legally fighting against the US federal government being held culpable when US federal agents rape Native American women. Symbolic gestures will absolutely never be enough; real commitment is necessary. Instead, the only thing our US elected leaders are committed to is keeping Benjamin Netanyahu, not just Israel but specifically Benjamin Netanyahu himself, as a man above any impunity for his war crimes. Other leaders are going to start taking notes and trying to do the same, if they haven’t started already, especially when Israel offers nothing of any enduring value to us; unlike Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council more generally.
Finally, everything I said here will be heard and listened to by no one. In the end, I’ll just keep hearing the same stupid crap that I’ve heard all my life: I’m an asshole, I’m a bigot, and I’m a jackass while Gaza continues to suffer because US elected leaders really do believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and Netanyahu knew how to manipulate those deluded septuagenarian – octogenarian dumbfucks and the 23 – 25% of Evangelical Christians who literally go see Gazans dying and bleeding, they make copious documentaries to exploit the tragedy of the Gazan people for their Jesus fetish, and they feel bliss at the idea of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming from it. One thing should be clear to any non-Abrahamic follower: Never, ever convert to these disgusting, vapid, and insanely violent and hateful religious faiths. Never do it. You’ll be hearing lies about the Lost Tribes of Israel that never existed with preposterous claims that everyone is secretly Jewish and therefore must convert because of blood guilt for the death of a man who died before any of us were born. Conversely, Islam will proclaim itself revealed truth while supporting the sex trafficking of children and the insane idea that you can achieve modern outcomes by following 7th Century Arab fundamentalist theological principles for their version of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Just tell these people outright that you’d rather burn in hell than accept Jesus Christ as Messiah or the Prophet Mohammad’s message so that these deluded, sick fucks go have aneurysms as they try to comprehend why nobody wants to convert to their narcissistic death cult. If the complete indifference to the genocide of Gaza and holding Netanyahu to what is effectively a divine status doesn’t do it, then absolutely nothing will. That man is just going to fake a Hamas attack by having IDF soldiers pretend to be Hamas fighters to kill US troops; the moment US troops are entrenched in Gaza. I think he will definitely make that attempt, so that he can convince the US Congress and President Trump to war with Iran in order for him to obtain his dream goal of a Greater Judea. And it doesn’t matter that I write this, because apparently pointing anything truthful out is just me being an asshole according to everything I’ve heard my entire life when growing up in the US, as a born and raised American.
Christianity deserves more blame than Judaism for all of this. This is what a country can be dragged into because of the insanity that is Abrahamic Prophecy, whether it is Judaism, Christianity, or Islam; they’re just three different interpretations of the same prophetic religion and the same hateful, narcissistic god. The only reason they consider each other separate is because each think they’re the “real Chosen People” compared to others who were “led astray” from falsehood or Satan. This stupid crap was so easy for me to see through, but the rest of my country could not. This is what Netanyahu exploited to his own personal benefit. The US went and argued about how it was the greatest to becoming the most definitive example of how a bumbling stronger country can easily be manipulated, used, and tossed aside by a much weaker parasitic country that exploits US blundering for its own self-interests. It is because of Christianity that this happened. My advice for anyone looking to understand what went wrong with the US: Reject Christianity, Reject Islam, Reject Judaism, and Ruthlessly criticize how fucking dumb these Abrahamic faiths truly are, before they destroy your country like they’ve destroyed mine. This sick death cult relishes in violence and oppression, so you have to openly criticize why they’re genuinely so fucking stupid and never relent on criticizing how fucking stupid they are, otherwise parasitic countries will find a way to takeover. Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be the first of many; he has brought in a new age of politics where weaker countries use financial coercion and lobbying to takeover bigger countries and extract their resources. He has perfected this model and it will be studied long after he passes away after what is sure to be a lengthy and successful political career where he will never be held accountable for the genocide of Gaza, and if Israel splits apart because of his actions, then what did all that free US military aid of up to $300 billion lead towards? What did it really accomplish, if that happens? The only thing we’ve accomplished with the $300 billion in US taxpayer funded aid to Israel is turning the Biblical fantasy story of Numbers that never happened in real life into a modern reality, precisely because so many of our countrymen worship the cult of Jesus Christ. It’s like an inversion to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Nevertheless, these questions will also be ignored. That’s all. The truth will always be this: The only way to end this genocidal madness is to reject all Abrahamic faiths forevermore.
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What a completely expected response that I’ve always received from people who are literalist in their beliefs about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and who support Israel fanatically because of that. This was always how they were when you criticized them. This is what the majority of Americans have been shielding from criticism and making them feel like their beliefs were too strong for the majority of Americans. This is how the 23 – 25% and more who believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ truly behave and why they act against US national interests in favor of Israel.
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