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Friday, October 27, 2023

ANTI-DIVERSITY IN ACTION

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I've noticed that a lot of people on the right-wing nationalist side of things have been greatly perturbed by the melting down of the Charlottesville statue of the semi-talented Confederate general, Robert E. Lee. It is widely seen by the Amren/Counter-Currents/ Southern Secessionist types as a symbol of the "Great Replacement," and as an act of the so-called "Anti-White" establishment rubbing in the fact that White people are now weak and marginalised losers, and that "diversity" has triumphed.

As usual this is a highly emotionally-driven and, therefore, massively mistaken analysis. It is also a dog-whistle to moronic anti-Semitic tropes.

Actually, what this act symbolises is the exact opposite of diversity triumphing. Instead, it is a symbol of the ongoing project of centralising and unifying American and Western identity.

As is well known, the American Civil War was a highly divisive episode in American history. The unexpected resistance that the South was able to generate led to the war being a much more brutal and polarising experience than it needed to be. Also, the war itself was undertaken to counter centrifugal forces and strengthen the unity of the American political entity. But, after four years of relatively intense warfare, much of the population of the South had been alienated from the rest of the country; a phenomenon that was then intensified by the excesses of the period of what is called "Reconstruction."

It was this that led to the ad hoc process of mollification that succeeded Reconstruction from the 1870s onwards. Essentially this allowed a revival of States' rights, segregation, the stealthy disenfranchisement of Blacks, and a guarded respect for "Southern identity" and the history of its short period of "glorious" Secession. Confederate flags and naming things after General Robert E. Lee and Stonewell Jackson all became markers of Southern identity.


But this identity was always at odds with the greater Gleichschaltung of the American state. This exists at a more subtle level than it does in states, where the need to create cultural and social unity are more pressing, but it exists nonetheless and almost as potently. This Gleichschaltung emphasised firstly ethnic unity amongst a diverse White population of immigrants from Europe, and then racial unity between the various races that found themselves enmeshed in the American political entity.

A separate Southern identity, with all its symbols of Secession, slavery, and racial hierarchy (implicit or otherwise), was always a potential threat and fault line, something that the inherent centralising tendencies of any powerful state cannot tolerate forever.

The most interesting point is that the establishment's move against this separate identity had to wait until the twenty-teens and 2020s to reach its full culmination.

Dukes of Hazard re-runs about to be cancelled

Sure, the 1960s saw the Civil Rights movement, which greatly perturbed Southern Whites. But that was motivated by the need to include America's relatively large African-American population in society, and prevent that becoming another fault line and sticking point with the non-aligned World, where America was competing for influence against the Soviet Union (Yes, almost none of the great "moral" reforms of America have been taken for actual moral reasons).

Following that, for around 50 years, Civil Rights, "integration," and "Black empowerment" existed side-by-side with the Secessionist subculture of Civil War America. That it was able to do so is testament to the strength and unchallenged position of America for most of that period. Only a hegemonic superpower, whose fault lines and internal contradictions were relatively unchallenged by its rivals, could carry such divisions within it.

The fact that this particular contradiction now has to be eradicated, symbolised most strikingly  by the iconic image of General Lee sinking into the embers
, is testament to the growing challenge and accumulating weaknesses of America in the rising multipolar order.

America is still the strongest dog in the pack and the major power that has the least necessity to engage in the 'Great Game' of global geopolitics, but the 2010s revealed unprecedented weaknesses in the system, and Charlottesville was right at the heart of that.

The unexpected geopolitical bitch-slap that was Charlottesville

Charlottesville was a symbol of the Alt-Right, and the Alt-Right, when all's said and done, was a symbol of the weakness of open liberal societies to foreign subversion. 

The tremendous impact that this had on the American political ecosystem is something that continues to reverberate today, through America First, MAGA, QAnon, Groypers, Christian Nationalism, Elon Musk, and all their derivatives, memes, and narratives. These have gone on to colonise vast areas of the Republican Party, pointing it in an isolationist direction, while all across Europe and the West disruptive populist forces have also been unleashed.

This is the macro reason why we are seeing the melting down of this statue now. It is an act of strength and unification, addressing a growing challenge.



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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia). 

Thursday, October 26, 2023

THE GAZAN MESS (WITH COLIN LIDDELL, DOOOOVID, KEVIN McCAIRN, & STEPHEN J JAMES



A discussion of the Gazan crisis from varied and occasionally discordant viewpoints, featuring Colin Liddell, Doooovid, Kevin McCairn, and Stephen J James. A longer version of this video can be seen here

VOLDEMORT JOINS ISRAEL AFTER VIEWING "SNUFF VIDEO" SITE

Voldemort is raelly upset

Voldemort, the most evil demonic entity ever created by an unemployed British woman on welfare, has "seen the light" and is now supporting the state of Israel in its "holy war" to precision bomb the fuck out of every inch of Gaza. 

The heart-wrenching, 'Road to Damascus' moment came for the intensely evil Harry Potter character, also known as "The Dark Lord," after he watched "snuff" videos of people being killed on a website apparently set up by the Israeli government. 

The website Hamas-massacre.com, which lacks an age or trigger warning, appears to have been launched in a desperate attempt to turn round the propaganda war that the Israeli government has been losing badly since they started blowing up Christian hospitals and random women and children in their "high precision" campaign to strike Hamas militants. 

As an image released by the Israeli government shows, Voldemort was one of the first to view the site on his smartphone.


The scenes of butchery uploaded onto the internet for all to see moved his otherwise blackened heart and soulless emotions to emit a flood of tears and a series of high-pitched gasps and groans.

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is believed to have been deeply affected by one video of festival goers being interrupted at an early morning rave by paragliding Hamas fighters, one of whom happened to resemble the Dark Lord's arch nemesis Harry Potter winning a game of Quidditch.

Since then, several other deeply evil and sinister characters have been likewise moved by the site, changing their views from naïve support for an unworkable two-nation solution to out-and-out cheerleading for every bomb that Israel is dropping.




Wednesday, October 25, 2023

WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: PATRICK HENNINGSEN


Viewed from 2023, Patrick Henningsen is a typical piece of psy-op detritus, floating on the rancid sewer of Russian disinfo and shillery that flowed from Alex Jones's "fruit loop" conspiritard site Info Wars -- via the now-banned and deplatformed Russia Today -- to the present day internet, where he continues to bob around like an unflushed turd. His rather greasy-looking appearance subtly invokes this entirely accurate metaphor.

Henningsen got his start as an editor and presenter at Infowars.com back in the Zeroes, before being set up in his own slightly less "fruit loopy" operation as "editor" of the website 21st Century Wire, which continues to do the Kremlin's cack-handed work of sowing low-grade disinfo and attempting to stir the shitpot of polarisation. He has been a frequent guest on Russia Today, where he was laughably billed as an "independent journalist."

An actual smoking gun of Kremlin management is yet to be revealed to the public, but it is pretty clear from how Henningsen's content has meticulously shadowed key Kremlin-backed narratives and talking points -- everything from 9-11 scepticism, vax paranoia, and anti-Ukrainianism to bending over and taking it up the arse from Syria's President Assad.

In 2017, the Guardian reported research by social media monitors Graphika which showed 21st Century Wire closely tied into Kremlin attempts to shape the narrative on the White Helmets NGO, working to help civilians in Syria. Much of this activity was through Brit, Vanessa Beeley, Henningsen's "co-editor" at 21st Century Wire:

"The analytics firm Graphika has spent years analysing a range of Russian disinformation campaigns including those around the Macron leaks and the Russian doping scandal. In research commissioned by the human rights group the Syria Campaign, it found that the patterns in the online network of the 14,000 Twitter users talking about the White Helmets looked “very similar” and included many known pro-Kremlin troll accounts, some of which were closed down as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the US election. Other accounts appeared to generate more than 150 tweets per day (more than 70 is seen by scholars studying bots as suspicious).

Graphika also found evidence of coordination of timing and messaging around significant events in the news cycle relating to the White Helmets.

Separately, both Graphika and Menczer’s Hoaxy tool identify Beeley, the British blogger, as among the most influential disseminators of content about the White Helmets.

Their findings also correlate with work done by Kate Starbird from the University of Washington in Seattle, who asserts that Beeley and the alternative news site 21st Century Wire have dominated the Twitter conversation about White Helmets over the last few months, along with Sputnik and RT.com.

In recent days, so-called "anti-censorship" crusader Mike Benz (aka Frame Games, aka philosemitic psy-op on the Alt-Right) has been on 21st Century Wire's podcast, preaching his doctrine of "informational unilateral disarmament," where the West opens itself up to enemy-state-run crank disinfo and polarisation ops at every level, while its geopolitical competitors do not. 

Frame Games shitting away his credibility by appearing on obvious Kremlin shill site


Sunday, October 22, 2023

KNIVES OUT FOR RISHI: TORIES HEADING FOR ANOTHER LEADERSHIP CONTEST


It looks like the knives are out for Britain's Indian Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after two by-election defeats, where Conservative voters simply stayed away in droves combined with abysmal poll ratings that would see the Tory Party wiped out at a general election. 

As reported by UK media:

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could be facing a Conservative leadership crisis, as up to 25 MPs could be set to hand in letters of no confidence to the 1922 Committee.

Two groups of disgruntled Tories - some of which are Boris Johnson's allies and the remainder are moderate politicians - 'want to get rid of the PM', The Sunday Times has reported.

The loss of the two by-elections on Thursday were seen as the final straw for those wanting to topple the PM. He has also been warned he is 'looking general election defeat in the face' after Keir Starmer's party overturned massive majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.

The thinking among Tory MPs is that they have given Sunak's competent but generally ineffective "middle management" approach a chance, but it has clearly failed to resonate with voters. Although changing Prime Minister yet again, after two changes of leadership last year, will make the Conservative Party look like a pack of worthless back-stabbers, poll numbers are so low that Tory MPs are increasingly willing to take that gamble.

Friday, October 20, 2023

LATEST ON THE HOSPITAL MASSACRE: IDF CLAIM PALESTINIAN MISSILE BOUNCED OFF ONE OF THEIR MISSILE LAUNCHERS

Israeli's Pinocchio moment

After a report by the Channel 4 News refuted Israeli claims that the 
missile strike that killed around 500 Palestinian refugees in a hospital courtyard came from Palestinian territory, an Israeli Defence Force spokesman has now "updated" Israel's story. 

According to the new Israeli version of events, given to journalists by IDF spokesperson Avi Ben Liyin, the rocket that killed the refugees was still fired by Palestinian terrorists, but travelled over the hospital in an Easterly direction to Israeli territory, where it then hit an Israeli missile launcher, failed to explode and "ricocheted" back to Gaza, where it then tragically exploded at the Christian-run hospital. 

"We have total and convincing evidence of this story, which we made up on the fly," said Ben Liyin, whose nose suddenly started to grow in an extreme Westerly direction, as journalists gasped in awe and wonder.

He then went on to claim that Channel 4 is "Hamas affiliated" and that its staff are all "Hitler-loving anti-Sems," before dumping a steaming turd in the IDF press room and storming out.

The earlier Channel 4 report used doppler sound analysis and impact site data to determine that the missile did not strike the hospital from Gazan territory, as initially claimed by the IDF. The report also used audio analysis to conclude that a tape released by the IDF to back up its earlier story had been faked:




TRUSSITES AND JOHNSONIANS WREAK TERRIBLE VENGEANCE ON SMUG SUNAKIANS

A party that ignores the wishes of its members and voters will wither and die.


The conservative government of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a tremendous blow on Thursday, losing two previously safe Conservative seats to the Labour opposition. But rather than Labour winning the seats, this was very much a case of the Conservatives losing them, with Conservative voters simply refusing to turn out to back the Conservative candidates.

For example, in the Tamworth by-election, caused by the resignation of the former MP, Labour's vote only increased from 10,908 to 11,719 at the by-election, with probably all of this slight increase coming from tactical voting by Lib-Dem supporters. In the Mid-Bedfordshire by-election, Labour actually took the seat with a decreased vote, scoring 13,872 votes, down from the 14,028 they got when the Conservatives soundly beat them at the general election. 

What we are seeing here, therefore, is not a surge in support for Keir Starmer's Labour Party, but a severe drop in support for the Conservatives among normal Conservative voters.

This reflects the fact that Rishi Sunak is not the choice of the Party's grassroot supporters, having been "elected" leader by a small cabal of Tory MPS, after popularly elected leaders, like Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, were effectively toppled by coups from their fellow Tory MPs.

In 2019, Boris Johnson was elected party leader after a full members' vote, winning 92,153 votes (or 66.4% of the total). Likewise in 2022 Liz Truss was elected leader after a members' vote, winning 81,326 votes (or 57.4%).

The fact that these popularly elected leaders were then supplanted by Rishi Sunak, who became leader with the reluctant support of a couple of hundred Tory MPs, has left a bitter taste in the mouths of ordinary Conservative voters, who clearly resent having a woke, brown billionaire foisted on them as Party and national leader.

Despite his many skills and apparent good intentions, Sunak simply does not resonate with these people, not least because he was fast tracked and parachuted into the leadership by well-connected party insiders, rather than earning the post by his own efforts over a number of years.

The recent results reveal that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss supporters are now wreaking a terrible vengeance on the Conservative Party that betrayed them, by simply refusing to come out to vote for it.

At Tamworth the Tory vote dropped from 30,542 to 10,403, and at Mid-Bedfordshire from 38,692 to 12,680. It seems like Tory Party members and voters don't respond well to the party hierarchy smugly treating them like a bunch of disenfranchised Serfs. 

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia). 

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

BOTTLEROCKET DESTROYS HOSPITAL AND KILLS 500+ PEOPLE

No hospital will ever be safe again

According to IDF news sources, a hospital in Gaza has been totally destroyed, with over 500 deaths, after a small bottle rocket, presumably made by Palestinian children, slammed into it. It is believed that the "rocket," constructed from sticky tape and empty pet bottles, was carrying a deadly payload of small Chinese fire crackers.

The IDF claims were then immediately spread through mainstream media channels like CNN, famous for its 24-7 reporting on the dangers posed by repurposed soft-drink containers. 

Incredibly the IDF was wide awake when these claims were made, unlike a couple of weeks ago when 3000 Hamas terrorists streamed across the border and slaughtered hundreds of Israelis in their beds. 

Highly respected conservative commenter Richard Hanania, who now has a girlfriend and isn't a bitter incel, was quick to confirm the IDF's totally reliable story by referring to transitory betting markets.


Monday, October 16, 2023

IS ISRAEL JUST A SHIT MAGNET?



My initial reaction to the Hamas attack on Israel was, of course, revulsion at the horrific acts of the terrorists, but my secondary action was more interesting. It was: "here we are again, involved in another messy situation with Israel at the heart of it."

Maybe this is a very "old school" way of looking at things, but when a stupid row blows up between people, there are always micro reasons why it started -- somebody cut in line or somebody looked at someone the wrong way, etc. Essentially both sides have their reasons and think they are "in the right." But what sensible outsiders tend to do is to ignore this trivia and focus on the "bigger picture."

We take note of who tends to get involved in these rows, and we start to conclude that the immediate trigger is not the problem, but instead the person who keeps getting into pointless rows. In fact, the so-called "trigger" might just be one link in a long chain of other causations, taken out of context.

Jim Goad, no friend of this site (or even the Counter-Currents site he writes for), has, from all his tedious writings, gifted the World with the term "shit magnet" for such people, no doubt with reference to himself. In truth, it is a great concept, because it skips the tedious detail and cuts to the main point -- certain people do seem to attract a lot of shit, and usually that tells us more about them than anything else. 

Now, with "Israeli problems" once again taking up vital bandwidth -- and at a time of real crisis (Ukraine, the threat to Taiwan, the hollowing out of American democracy by moronic populist forces, etc.) -- it seems appropriate to apply the term "shit magnet" to the state of Israel. 

Of course, Israel is a relatively new state and all new states should be allowed a little leeway to make mistakes and learn from them, but when I compare Israel's track record with other states of a similar vintage, there can be no doubt about it, Israel is definitely the king of the shit magnets, getting involved in one stupid fracas after another.

Since its foundation in 1948, it has either been involved in stupid wars, pointless occupations, constant infringements of international law, and the constant rubbing up of its neighbours (and occasional friends) the wrong way.

Of course, I'm sure its tedious defenders can dredge up micro-reasons for why it got involved in this or that row, war, air raid, assassination, human rights abuse, etc, but I'm not in the least interested. I am just noticing the general pattern: Israel is just not a "get along" kind of country. It seems to be devoid of a sense of "good form," constantly "oversteps the mark" (those invisible guide rails of harmonious behaviour), and, maybe even without meaning to do so, rubs up its friends and neighbours entirely the wrong way.

One or two border wars since 1948 and even a temporary occupation or two would have been forgivable,  but 18 wars, the occupation of foreign territory for decades, and countless instances of ignoring international law within the last 75 years make it look like it isn't even trying.

Really, once this framing is accepted, it is impossible to argue that Israel isn't a total shit magnet.

Remember, this is not about some cherry-picked timeline or instance apparently starting with an aggressive or unfriendly act against Israel (check what was going on two weeks before the Hamas attack). This is about the bigger picture and about one country's insistent track record of always being at the centre of the shitshow. 

So, how can Israel stop being a shit magnet? As with alcoholism, the first step to not being an alcoholic is to first recognize that you are one and then work outwards from there.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

MY QUICK ANALYSIS OF WHAT THE ISRAELI PLAN IS

Geopolitical origami?


I don't have too much to go on, as I am not that motivated to analyse the dumpster fire of the Gaza conflict in tedious detail, but that doesn't mean I have to bow out of the debate and leave the field to all the lesser minds and shills out there, energetically pushing down the collective IQ level.

So, here is my two cents on what the Israeli plan is.

As you can see from the map above, the Israelis are hoping to get the Northern half of the population of Gaza (around one million people) to up sticks and move in with the Southern half. This means they intend to take over half the territory of Gaza. A reoccupation, if you wish, except they just want to occupy empty rubble. 

This plan suits the Israeli government in a number of important and rather obvious ways.

First of all, it shortens the length of border the IDF will have to defend in future, freeing up troops to protect the much longer border that Israeli settlements in the West Bank have created.

Secondly, it shows hardliners in Israel that the government has done something "substantial" to hit back hard at Hamas and the entire Gazan population, whom hardliners also blame. The government needs to do this because it was caught with its pants down, and innocent Israelis paid a high price.

Thirdly, this plan keeps Israeli casualties relatively low. The Israeli army has a lot of barely-trained conscripts and reservists with relatively low fighting morale, plucked from their generally pleasant "normie" lives. The IDF is desperate to avoid street fighting in heavily-populated, built-up areas with these guys (and girls), so the solution is simply to depopulate Northern Gaza by encouraging flight, and then to "build down" the built-up areas through heavy artillery fire (with much of the ammunition diverted from US supplies to Ukraine). 

Fourthly, if handled correctly, this process should avoid the horrendous civilian casualties due to direct Israeli military action that Israel's backers in the West can't stomach. 

Fifthly, and most importantly, this strategy aims to push the entire Gazan population into half the space it previously occupied, along with the destruction of much of the essential infrastructure. This, the Israeli government hopes, will lead to anarchy, chaos, and multi-directional resentment that will find its focus in Hamas. In other words, by intensifying the cauldron of Gaza, the Israeli government hopes that it can induce the Gazans themselves to rise up and destroy Hamas, while much of the resultant depopulation can be blamed on anarchy, in-fighting, disease, and a lack of humanitarian aid from the West and the Arab World, rather than on the brutality of the IDF.

If it is unable to pull this off, the IDF might be forced to engage in street fighting in heavily-populated, built-up areas, leading to heavy Israeli casualties and horrendous Palestinian civilian casualties, leading to both a domestic backlash against the Netanyahu government and a massive drop in support in the West, where support is already pretty fragile. This would be highly dangerous as it would probably ensure other forces joining the fray on the Palestinian side. 

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia). 

Friday, October 13, 2023

WHAT WILL THE GAZA GROUND WAR LOOK LIKE?



Military analyst Binkov evaluates the two forces that are about to go head-to-head in the Gaza rubble and considers how the operation will play out.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

FRAME GAME WAS ACTUALLY DOXED BY SPENCER

Doxer Dick in action

"Officially" Mike Benz, aka Frame Game, was doxed by NBC News. Here is the story which was published at 9:17 pm UTC (formerly Greenwich Meantime) on the 6th of October 2023. 

But, here, take a good look at this recent Richard Spencer tweet:


As you can see, it is dated on this screenshot "Oct 6th, 9:48am."

This is actually the time in Japan when Spencer tweeted, as the tweet was accessed by me in Japan.

As Japan is 9 hours ahead of UTC, this means that Spencer sent his tweet at 0:48am UTC on Oct 6th, or a full 20 hours before the NBC story broke. 

So, does the Tweet actually dox Mike Benz? I would say that the answer is yes. This is without even bringing up earlier allegations that Spencer tried to dox Frame Game in 2018. At that time his motivations would have been quite different from today.

To Spencer watchers (old Alt-Righters, his SPLC handlers, etc.) the words "frame" and "game" in the tweet would instantly evoke the former on-line persona of Frame Game. The name is then directly linked to Frame Game's real name of Mike Benz. 

The case is unmistakable and the evidence is clear in this case. Spencer doxed Benz well ahead of the mainstream media. 

But why would Spencer do such a thing? There are many possible answers, but I think it is important to pay attention to certain indications that Spencer may have "cut a deal" with Feds and groups like the SPLC in order to avoid prison time and becoming an "Apollonian plaything" for America's notorious prison rape gangs. For example, while minor members of the Spencer-led torchlight parade at Charlottesville are committing suicide and being prosecuted and imprisoned for "intimidation," Spencer himself has oddly been allowed to go Scot free. In fact, he hasn't even faced token charges yet.

Then there are odd stories like this one, where SPLC operatives actually seem to be protecting him: MORE "EVIDENCE" OF SPENCER WORKING FOR THE FEDS SEEPS OUT

Of course, there may be a totally innocent explanation for all these data points, but it's getting harder and harder to imagine what that might be.

SHORTPOD (85) FORGET IT, NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN THE MID-EAST



All eyes are on the Middle East again, following the latest spectacular attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel's predicable heavy-handed response. But is there any point in following developments closely? Will anything substantial actually change? Colin Liddell argues that all the fuss will essentially be about nothing important, and that any attention spent on the "crisis" will thus be wasted.

Sunday, October 8, 2023

FRAME GAMES DOX REVEALS YET MORE INORGANIC SUBVERSION OF THE DISSIDENT IDEA SPACE

At the height of the Alt-Right, when it was being turbo-charged by Russian bot ops and other methods, at one end, Frame Game Radio seemed like one of the saner voices at the other end.

Now it seems, by his own admission, that he was just a counter op to some of the other ops out there, and yet more proof that the supposedly "organic dissident-sphere" in the West is a highly contested arena, fought over by various insincere but well-funded state-backed groups and other sinister entities.

Following his doxxing, as Michael Benz, "a former Trump State Department official whose work has been cited in congressional hearings," Frame Games 'explained' that actually he was part of a highly-organised Jewish group that entered the Alt-Right idea-space with a clear agenda of artificially distorting it in a less anti-Semitic direction. 

As Benz tweeted:

The account in question was a project by Jews to get people who hated Jews to stop hating Jews. It was a deradicalization project, and it produced deradicalization material. It made contact with groups in the early primordial soup of the MAGA movement in 2016 and sought to move people from a place of hate and division closer to a place of love and unity.

It is not yet known if Benz's group was put together by Mossad, the ADL, the SPLC, or some other as-yet unknown Jewish or Israeli group, concerned about the rise of the Alt-Right.

Benz also claims that the project was "successful," even though levels of anti-Semitism on the internet have never been higher, and the fact that admitting to organised Jewish subversion like this is only likely to lead to yet greater anti-Semitic paranoia.

And it was successful. The biggest fans of this account, which was deleted around six years ago and to which I only contributed in a very limited manner, were fellow Jews who saw how effective it was at building a bridge and winning over hearts of people who held anti-Semitic beliefs, and non-Jews who would write in to say, “I’m so glad I found this account, I used to have a lot of hate and heaviness in my heart towards Jewish people, but since I discovered you, I don’t feel that anymore.”

Whatever one thinks of anti-Semitism (and for the record I think it is a grossly erroneous analysis of the West's problems), this is not about anti-Semitism. It is more about how polluted the Dissident idea-space is by insincere actors like Benz who constantly come in to subvert it with preconceived agendas (and, in the process, often make things worse). 

NEOKRAT CENSORED BY BLOGGER

Why do social media companies want to be like this?

Only minutes after we published a sane and measured response to the Middle Eastern crisis at this site, Blogger decided
to remove it. 

To quote:

Hello,

As you may know, our Community Guidelines (https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "THE GEOPOLITICAL ABSURDITY OF ISRAEL WHERE IT IS" was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it violates our guidelines and have unpublished the URL 

Why was your blog post unpublished?
Your content has violated our Spam policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page linked in this email to learn more.

If you are interested in republishing the post, please update the content to adhere to Blogger's Community Guidelines. Once the content is updated, you may republish it at *******
This will trigger a review of the post.

Those wishing to judge how heinous the article is may view it on Colin Liddell's Substack.

Interesting reason. Spam! Most people understand that term to mean unwanted email.

Here is what its says in Blogspot's guidelines on spam:

Spam

Do not spam. This may include unwanted promotional or commercial content, unwanted content that is created by an automated program, unwanted repetitive content, nonsensical content, or anything that appears to be a mass solicitation.

There! That's all it says. So how is "spam" even an issue here? This is content published on a blog, which people are entirely free to NOT read.

So, what is going on here? Possibly Blogspot is trying to stop people accessing the hyperlinks in the article (you can find them on my Twitter and my Substack). Interesting this would be one major platform essentially declaring war on another major platform.

Or possibly the message has gone out from the West's rather shallow Deep State to blanket censor n' shadow ban as much social media content on the this "hot" Hamas vs. Israel conflict as possible, because it is bound to be used by bad actors to stir up every kind of shit and cause as much polarisation as possible. And, as you may or may not know, Neokrat is on the badly compiled "naughty lists." This kind of stupidity is what rule by algorithm looks like. Essentially "electronic racism."


Update: On appeal (and with some minor amendments) the article was republished by Blogspot after 3 days. 

THE GEOPOLITICAL ABSURDITY OF ISRAEL WHERE IT IS

NOTE: This article was unpublished by Blogger a few minutes after it was published. This censorship lasted for three days, until overturned on appeal. Several links and images were removed and "controversial" words asterisked in order to aid the appeal process. The original version can be viewed on Colin Liddell's Substack.

Wrong place, wrong time


In all the heavily emotionalised narratives that the Hamas attack on Israel has caused, the bigger picture has been lost as usual, so I will present it here.

First of all, broadly speaking, there are two kinds of Israeli:

(1) Religious Jews who believe everything is "God's will" and who think that Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories are kinda special. These Jews are not at all eager to serve in the military, they dress funny, and geek out on the Torah and Talmud.

(2) Secular Jews who have a more "rational" view of the world (dependent on IQ). Many of these think that it's probably a good idea for Jews to have their "own country," while some of them believe in fighting for it, and others think this can be achieved by "being liberal and nice" to various other stakeholders, like these gentlemen.

The main recent split in Israel politics is between secular Jews who think that being nice to the Palestinians is the way forward and secular Jews, like Bibi, who think that being nasty to the Palestinians, while also getting the religious Jews onside for demographics and votes, is the way forward.

Now, for secular Jews who think that the existence of a Jewish state is a good idea, the site of the state was always an open question. Before it was founded -- in clearly the wrong place!!! -- many other sites were considered.

For religious Jews, Jerusalem and the "Biblical" lands surrounding it have always been special, but these are exactly the Jews who don't believe in fighting and are quite happy to accept "God's will" even if it means Jew's not getting the "Holy Land" or anything else. For example, the fact that God didn't mind 6 million of them getting "sh***ed" by a failed Austrian painter didn't phase them in the least. 

So, now we start to see the geopolitical absurdity of Israel. The Jews who wanted it in "Palestine" are not too keen on doing the fighting that such a poor real estate decision would require. Meanwhile the ones that were formerly flexible on the location but who are now willing to do some fighting for it regardless of the poor choice of location, are, at best, very divided as to the best strategy.

Here again, broadly speaking, there are two basic positions -- coexistence and harmony with the Palestinians and non-coexistence. Both of these are effectively non-choices that are not included on the menu of reality.

First, co-existence: While some Jews hope at some point to live peacefully in a two state solution, the Palestinians have too much of a grudge now to make that ever workable. A two-state solution would mean ceding territory and control of territory to the point where the state of Israel, which is about the size of Wales already, would be a twisted sliver of land that would be extremely difficult to defend without leaping straight to nukes.

While Armageddon would be fine for the religious Jews, who would merely see it as just another part of "God's Will and loving embrace," it would be a much harder choice for the non-religious Jews. 

Secondly, non-co-existence: This would basically mean massive H*******t-style ethnic cleansing to create a Jewish state with "defensible boundaries". 

Some might assume nipping off Gaza and the West Bank would be enough, but this is far from clear, and even this would mean an effective g**ocide / ethnic cleansing of around 5 or 6 million people, not to mention the rather toxifying effect this would have on the approximately 20-25% of Israeli citizens who are Muslim and Christian.

All this points in only one direction: Israel where it is is a geopolitical absurdity. This is why I have always believed it should be relocated to former German territory in Eastern Europe. 

Another major world problem solved. Thank me later.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).