The delegitimising of Israel

When you can't defeat your enemy with military power.

It is truly amazing what a country can achieve in a short span of time. Israel, a nation of just under ten million people is a tiny sliver of land, surrounded by a cacophony of muslim-majority countries, with a combined population of over five hundred million people¹ — many of whom seek their destruction.

Which makes it even more impressive, that despite the continuous barrage of rockets, insurgents and terror attacks, Israel has been able to create an oasis in the desert, where multi-ethnic citizens enjoy a vibrant free society, with equal rights and a high standard of living. Israel is a living, breathing testament to what people can achieve when they focus their energy towards good and not evil.

Unable to stick their heads in the sand, Israelis have had to come up with innovative ways their tiny country can protect themselves from the powerful and violent extremist regimes, hell bent on eradicating not only every Jew in the world, but wiping their country off the map. And they have done just that. This small nation is ranked number seventeen in global military power by the GFP,² far out ranking countries that are both larger, richer and have more people.

Israel understands that they don’t have the luxury to fuck around. So they have ensured their own protection with a powerful modern military — said to be nuclear capable — and a high technology and research and development sector, rivalling those of powerful countries in the West. They also operate sophisticated intelligence operations through Mossad, (Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations), with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security).

Israel also created the Iron Dome³. Designed by Israeli firms Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the Iron Dome has been designed to intercept short-range rockets, as well as shells and mortars, at ranges of between four and seventy kilometres from the missile launcher. Considering over the past thirteen months, Israel has been bombarded by over 8,000 rockets, it would be fair to say, without the Iron Dome doing its work, the death toll in Israel would be catastrophic.

Israel has also invested millions to provide its people with bomb shelters. For decades, new residential housing units and commercial structures have been required to include a reinforced bomb shelter. That is what can happen when a country prioritises the safety of its own citizens, rather than spending billions on creating a spider web of terror tunnels with the sole purpose of invading and slaughtering their neighbours.

So try as they might, Israel’s enemies have learnt, through humiliating losses, that they cannot defeat them militarily. The modern strategy they have taken on is somewhat more insidious. They have learnt that they cannot defeat Israel on merit, so they have taken a leaf out of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” playbook, which sets out how to strategically utilise ideological hatred to manipulate the masses.

A popular read in the Middle East, and particularly in Gaza, Hitler candidly discusses how to employ the tools of propaganda in Mein Kampf⁴:

“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. … The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be. And this is the best proof of the soundness or unsoundness of a propaganda campaign, and not success in pleasing a few scholars or young aesthetes.”
~ Mein Kampf

A Nazi era version of Mein Kampf: It was Hitler's manifesto for conquest and racial intolerance

In Mein Kampf, Hitler declares that propaganda is supposed to make “everyone … convinced that the fact is real”, then by removing any space for debate’, a one-sided narrative is created and repeated, ad nauseam.

If the narrative sounds familiar, it is because it is. Israel’s enemies understand that the only way to win against Israel is to delegitimise them. The campaign attempts to undermine Israel’s very right to exist through repetitious accusations of colonialism, apartheid and genocide. International pressure is then placed on Israel to pull back, use caution, deescalate and even ceasefire. If Israel refuse to succumb to mainstream and international pressure, they risk isolation, and eventual collapse.

This of course puts Israel in an impossible situation. They cannot possibly allow the slaughter of their people to go unpunished, nor can they afford to allow The Islamic Republic of Iran or Hezbollah free reign to attack. Yet any attempt to respond is labelled as hostile. They do nothing, they are slaughtered. They do something, they are crucified by public opinion.

The aim is to delegitimise Israel out of existence. And millions of people are buying it.

Demonising Israel has become a fashionable trend. What started out as ‘anti-zionism’ has in a short few months morphed into unabashed hatred. Israel has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion — no matter that the public in this instance are wrong and uninformed.

Funded by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Qatar, and egged on by UNRWA and their billions of dollars of international funding, the movement has infiltrated the West through academia — taking another leaf out of Hitlers manifesto — and as such have recruited the malleable minds of a new generation, along with their strategically appointed and Qatar funded professors.

The Russian and Iranian Presidents meet in Moscow in December 2023 Increasingly, Tehran is acting not just as an ally but as a proxy for Russia in the Middle East, much as it has its own regional proxies, the writers maintain.(photo credit: SPUTNIK/REUTERS)

One of the main problems with effective brain-washing, is that the subjects are groomed to no longer critically evaluate the words or actions of their cause — but to follow along without question. Their entire identity becomes wrapped up in the cause, and they seem to live for the feedback loop of validation. If you have ever tried reasoning with a ‘Free Palestine’ protestor, you know exactly what I mean.

These puppets have unwittingly become the exact thing they think they are fighting against. Narrow-minded, racist, bigoted, violent, extremists who colonise every space they enter, who are being played like pawns in a game they little understand.

And Israel, and potentially the free world, will be asked to pay the price.

The Nazi ideology was eventually destroyed, but the cost was steep. Approximately six million Jews lost their lives during the Holocaust, and anywhere between 50 and 75 million lives were lost as a result of World War II. And it feels like we are living in the propaganda phase of the next world-wide upheaval.

We must keep fighting for the truth. We must keep speaking up. Because history has shown us in no uncertain terms, what can befall us if we allow lies, propaganda and hate to prevail.

1. https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/the-middle-east

2. https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=israel

3. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/iron-dome/

4. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/mein-kampf