Truth or Consequences Part I

The Game of Hazard

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The American media have institutionalized the Zionist viewpoint. Reports of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, genocide in Gaza and preemptive attacks on Iran are invariably framed as “the fighting” —fighting Hezbollah, Hamas and the mullahs.

This propaganda pays dividends. It reaffirms tradition: we can live with war. It has been with humanity since Cain clobbered Abel.

The media’s framing device puts us at ease concerning Arab and Iranian civilian casualties. They are the result of “fighting.” Combat with armed adversaries is nothing new and furthermore, the Middle Eastern people who object to the dispossession of the Palestinians are a bellicose lot, so what can you expect?

This is the mentality that has been instilled in Americans: if civilians are harmed by the US or Israeli military, it is unintentional. “In the fog of war collateral damage is inevitable.”

This buncombe plays well to the over-50 generation and those who don’t read social media, particularly “X” (formerly Twitter). On the latter information service, daily feeds from non-Zionist journalists on the ground in the war zones report a stream of Israeli atrocities perpetrated daily and weekly in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.

Lebanese Christian villages and Christian enclaves in Tyre have been attacked indiscriminately. The Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh has also been targeted.

American “Evangelical” Churchianity is not interested. The victims are largely of the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic faith which many Protestant Fundamentalists do not consider to be of Christ. (Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s spiritual adviser, Rev. Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, is on record stating that the public celebration of the Catholic Mass as well as Marian processions will be suppressed when his brand of Presbyterianism [the “Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches”], gains power. Wilson preached at a Pentagon worship service in February at the invitation of Hegseth, who is a member of Wilson’s denomination).

Legacy media seldom report on the sadistic delight which Israeli troops take in bombing, shelling and gunning down children and whole families on a weekly and sometimes a daily basis in Gaza and Lebanon

These Israeli crimes, when they merit any attention from western media, are reported fleetingly and minimally. Much of the time they are not reported — they are grouped, as noted, under the generic category of “the fighting” in Gaza and Lebanon, even though the mothers, fathers and children eviscerated are unarmed. That datum doesn’t factor in the American media.

The myth, the notion that the Israeli state is a normal one like any other with a few bad apples in the government—as in any governing class— must be preserved at the cost of more mass murder of Arab people. Hence, to salvage Israel’s image, it is portrayed time and again, no matter how high the body count, as “fighting” between combatants, not a massacre of the innocent.

It is a thought crime leading to cancellation online and de-banking offline if a reporter were to opine that in this regard the Israeli state has many of the characteristics of the Nazi state. This writer will report what the controlled media will not — a most newsworthy fact:

Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has engaged in a thought crime which would cause you or me to be canceled and de-banked.

Memory-Hole: Ya’alon’s statement should be front page news. It is nowhere to be found in the legacy media — only Substack, X and other Establishment-reviled social media have reported it.

On January 30 of this year, Mr. Ya’alon, the former Israeli Defense Minister and Army Chief of Staff published a lengthy statement on “X” in Israeli-Hebrew, prompted by reports of settler violence against Palestinians in the southern Hebron hills the previous week (late January 2026, tied to events near International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27).

In his statement Mr. Ya’alon denounced the rising settler attacks, terming the perpetrators “Jewish pogromists” and “terrorists.”

He accused Zionist police forces such as Shin Bet (the Israeli equivalent of America’s FBI) of being influenced by “Jewish supremacy,” and explicitly stated:

The ideology of Jewish supremacy which has become dominant in the Israeli government, resembles Nazi racial theory.

Moreover, Mr. Ya’alon acknowledged that Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s warning about Israelis turning into “Judeo-Nazis” was correct.

This is high octane truth serum. Any news hound worthy of the name would be clamoring to have Ya’alon’s declaration on the front page. In a free press it would happen. In the USA infantilized Americans have no such luck. Even to report Ya’alon’s truth runs the risk of having “anti-Semitic” pinned to one’s back.

Joe Kent is the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)

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