Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part twenty-four

Wednesday’s tragedy at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota (see In the Direct Grip of the Adversary), is still justifiably very much in the new and, more importantly, must remain uppermost in our prayers for the two murdered children, their families, the recovery of the wounded, and the consolation of the school children and everyone else who has been affected by this diabolical act in a world bereft of the Social Reign of Christ the King and a superabundance of Sanctifying and Actual Graces.

Taking nothing away from the attention that will continue to be given to this tragedy in the next few days and weeks, though, there are other tragedies taking place in the world now, including the ongoing of innocent human beings in Gaza as well as the ongoing Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City that is receiving next to no coverage, at least as far as I can see, here in the United States of America, although and for whatever it might be worth, a recent public opinion survey indicates that fifty percent of Americans believe that Israeli forces are conducting  a genocide in Gaza:

Six in 10 voters (60 percent) oppose the United States sending more military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war with Hamas, while 32 percent support it.

This is the highest level of opposition and lowest level of support for the United States sending more military aid to Israel since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters on November 2, 2023, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

In today's poll, Democrats (75 - 18 percent) and independents (66 - 27 percent) oppose sending more military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war with Hamas, while Republicans (56 - 37 percent) support it.

Voters were asked whether their sympathies lie more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians based on what they know about the situation in the Middle East. Thirty-seven percent of voters say the Palestinians, while 36 percent say the Israelis, and 27 percent did not offer an opinion.

This is an all-time high for the Palestinians and an all-time low for the Israelis since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question of registered voters in December 2001.

Fifty percent of voters think Israel is committing genocide based on what they know about the situation in Gaza, while 35 percent do not think Israel is committing genocide and 15 percent did not offer an opinion.

Democrats (77 - 11 percent) and independents (51 - 34 percent) think Israel is committing genocide, while Republicans (64 - 20 percent) do not think Israel is committing genocide. (8/27/25 - 50% Think Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza | Quinnipiac University Poll.)

This is an interesting poll finding. However, given the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the least bit concerned with daily protests taking place inside of his country every day (see photos show Israel road burning as anti-Netanyahu protests rages), the Quinnipiac Poll will have not effect on Donald John Trump’s laissez-faire policy that lets Netanyahu get away with genocide without even a modest word of rebuke or concern about the suffering Palestinians who are guilty of nothing other than not being Jews and thus being considered as subject to every indignity possible in the pursue of the “Greater Israel” strategy.

The ”Greater Israel” strategy, of course, has nothing to do with Sacred Scripture, but it has everything to with the same false concept of a political messiah that was possessed by many of the Jewish leaders of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s time who could not accept even the plain words of the Old Testament that prophesied the coming of Divine Redeemer Who  would save human beings from their sins and establish the New Zion, the New Israel that is the Catholic Church.

Even a Greek Orthodox religious named Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, the sister of the infamous spinmeister for William Jefferson Blythe Clinton named turned fake, phony, fraud “journalist” named George Stephanopoulos, who once referred to taxes as “voluntary taxpayer contributions” in 1993, called out “evangelical Christians” for their support of the ongoing Israeli genocide:

Israel’s ongoing genocide against the people of Gaza, along with their decades-long military occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory, is dependent upon whether or not U.S. Catholics and Christians become politically active and put their government’s support for these ongoing crimes to an end, Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos conveyed in an August 11 interview with Tucker Carlson (Podcast, Spotify).

“I think certainly the Catholic Church in America has to do a lot more as an institution,” the nun from Bethany in the occupied West Bank told the former FoxNews host. “I mean, we should have a Christian AIPAC group,” she said referring to the flagship organization of the “incredibly powerful” Israel Lobby credited with fostering the current policy of genocide in Gaza.

While among Christians in the West there has been a slow growing awareness of the gruesome realities on the ground in the Holy Land, with a natural desire to intervene and help in some way, Mother Agapia said that while people should continue to send money “what we really need is political change.”

“Just like many Jews are protesting and saying, ‘not in our name,’ there has to be much more done by the Christians in America because these Christian Zionists are speaking in our name (as well),” she said.

“Someone like Senator Ted Cruz is saying and doing what he’s doing because he’s following a Christianity that is not the Christianity of the Holy Land,” the Russian-Orthodox nun continued. “It’s not the Christianity of a Catholic or an Orthodox or a traditional Christian. It’s a heretical belief,” she affirmed, stipulating that some of their reappropriated teachings had been already “condemned as heresy in 381 (A.D.),” likely referring to the First Council of Constantinople.

While the “current state of Israel … has nothing to do with the biblical Israel,” the heretical notions espoused by “Christian” Zionists, claiming a divine right of self-professed Jews to expel Palestinians from their ancient lands, equates to a betrayal of Jesus Christ, Mother Agapia said.

Because of such beguiling doctrines, these professed Christians “are willing to forgo the compassion that Christ talked about and allow people to be starved, and wiped out,” she said. This is “a new theology that has no basis in the foundations of Christianity,” is “far from the name of Christ, and it’s actually causing the end of the Christian population in the Holy Land.”

American Christians “have to wake up” and get politically active because the genocide of Palestine “is all in the hands of the United States. It doesn’t matter what any other country in the world does. If the U.S. protects Israel, this will continue,” Mother Agapia implored.

An American of Greek descent whose father is a Greek Orthodox priest in New York, Stephanopoulos described the severe life experienced by Palestinians, including Christians, under Israel’s ongoing illegal military occupation of Palestine, which she affirmed is “very much an apartheid system.”

“It’s sort of like you’re in a gilded cage,” she described, providing a perspective of the spreading of illegal Israeli settlements with their exclusive roads closing in the Palestinians. “You have checkpoints all around you” with Israeli military severely limiting travel. And thus, “a Christian who lives in Bethlehem cannot go to Jerusalem (5 miles away), to the Holy Sepulcher without a permit by Israel. And they don’t usually give those permits, especially now.”

The Orthodox nun went on to tell stories of Palestinian Christians she knows whose travel was restricted from even receiving medical care. And she echoed ongoing protests by the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem against Israel’s separation wall that “was built on Palestinian land, on Christian land,” and effectively closes off her order of religious sisters in Bethany from being able to go to their convent in Jerusalem. It also prevented some of her school’s families and teachers from being able to reach their school.

Israel regularly stealing Christian land, gradually ‘strangling the life’ of Palestinians

Mother Agapia, whose brother is ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, elucidated numerous examples of Israel and Israeli settlers stealing Christian Palestinian land in open daylight while heavily armed. One example was a “Christian home for boys that the Israelis just took over and cut up to make part of the wall.”

This wall was not built for security but “simply to expand the borders of Israel,” she explained. “It’s not separating Israel from Palestine, it’s separating Palestine from Palestine.”

In another story, she explained Israel’s confiscation of land owned by Christians in Bethlehem in order to build a settler-only road. She asked “how would you like to be the man” who had this land taken from you with Israel destroying “your grandfather’s olive trees” and “you’re not even allowed to drive on that road?”

Another similar story was conveyed regarding a “beautiful home with grape vines” owned by a woman who worked at the nun’s convent, the land of which was confiscated by Israel to build settlement homes, along with another Christian man whose property was invaded by Israel’s military, confiscated, and they destroyed his olive trees.

In the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, where Jesus Christ is believed to have taken solace just before his crucifixion in Jerusalem, around one-quarter of the people’s approximately 8,000 acres of land “has been confiscated either by settlers and the army allowing them to take their olive groves.” And for these crimes these Christian families “have no recourse.”

“So little by little Israel just keeps taking over the land, confiscating it, building the settlements, adding the checkpoints and strangling the life of anybody living there,” the nun summarized.

95.8% of national governments oppose Israeli occupation of Palestine, Catholic, Orthodox churches confirm this judgment

Mother Agapia continued to emphasize this fundamental aggression of the ongoing conflict, the discussion of which is assiduously suppressed in the western media, and this is Israel’s 58-year illegal military occupation and colonization of internationally recognized Palestinian territory. These lands have been marked out for the implementation and realization of a full sovereign State of Palestine in a two-state solution

Currently, 147 of 193 United Nations member states (76.2%) formally recognize the State of Palestine, and thus, Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian territory. Additionally, France, the U.K., Canada, Australia, Japan and Malta have expressed their intention to make a formal recognition in September, with several other states, such as Portugal and New Zealand considering doing the same in the near future.

By implication, all of these UN states (80.3%) recognize that Israel is imposing a military occupation on the Palestinian territories in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

But the numbers are still much higher than this. Even the United States, Israel’s “greatest ally,” recognizes the occupation, and well-known political commentator Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who has also been a longtime special adviser to diplomats at the UN, says 185 of the 193 member states (95.8%) demands a two-state solution that means they recognize the Israeli occupation that was also confirmed as illegal by the International Court of Justice last year.

Consistently affirming and echoing this overwhelming consensus is the Catholic Church, including the unanimous and constant voices of her bishops in the Middle East, those from around the world, and with statements from the Vatican as well. Indeed, just last June, the Holy See commemorated the 10th anniversary of its formal recognition of the State of Palestine in 2015 after welcoming UN recognition of the state “with favour” in 2012.

In October 2023, after the breakout of the current genocidal hostilities, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, referred to the “decades of occupation” as the “root” evil of the conflict, and it would only be in bringing it to an end and “giving a clear and secure national perspective to the Palestinian people that a serious peace process can begin.”

‘It’s the Occupation, stupid,’ political change in the U.S. needed most

Mother Agapia confirmed this overwhelming consensus to Carlson, noting that while the Catholic Church has always provided some support for the Christian communities in the Holy Land, “we haven’t done anything politically.” And “ultimately, it’s not the money that’s needed now,” but the primary focus has to be political change. “We have to change the support of Israel,” and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine, in the United States.

She then recalled the well-known slogan from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid,” to emphasize that “the problem with Israel and Palestine is not Muslim versus Jew, it’s the occupation, stupid.”

And unless the occupation is ended, and a legitimate sovereign Palestinian state is brought into being, where Palestinians can live in freedom out from under Israel’s de facto military dictatorship, with an ability to exercise their right of self-determination, developing their own country, “Christians will continue to leave,” and the Christian shrines will no longer be “living places of prayer” but will be reduced to “museums.” And this would “be a great tragedy, not only for the Christians, but I think for the whole world,” the Orthodox nun said.

Israelis blow up Christian property, shoot teen boys, vandalize with blasphemous graffiti and spit on Christian clergy

Highlighting the ongoing persecution of Christians in the Holy Land by radical Zionist Jews, Mother Agapia emphasized that generally speaking, Christian Palestinians are treated no different than Muslim Palestinians with regard to the affliction of the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation.

Examples included the Israeli military raiding a Christian-owned metal factory in Nablus in June, and without warning or presenting a permit, confiscating some of its equipment, and then two weeks later blowing up a good portion of the facility. And the Christian family that owns the factory has no recourse since they live under a de facto military dictatorship of the Israeli occupation.

For these reasons, Christian and Muslim families often make the difficult decision to emigrate, especially if they have adolescent boys as there is a high chance they could be shot for “look(ing) the wrong way” at an Israeli soldier. That “literally happens every day” in the occupied territories.

She told stories about the car of a traveling family being sprayed with bullets killing a 12-year-old girl she knew, a man being shot in the eye by an Israeli soldier just outside their school, the Israeli military stationing a tank in front of their girls’ school for two years, and Israeli settlers attempting to blow up their high school with hidden explosives in an episode ordered toward killing Palestinian children.

At one point while discussing these and other such racist crimes, Carlson asked, “was anyone ever punished?” to which the nun responded with a chuckle “of course not.”

Other acts of Christian persecution by radical Zionist Jews in Israel (which is in no way all) include blasphemous graffiti against Jesus Christ on Church property, the burning of sacred shrines, and Zionist Jews spitting on Christian clergy and religious like Mother Agapia herself who affirmed  to Carlson, “of course!” she had been spit on by these people.

Surprised by the nun’s ability to laugh off this gross offense, the well-known host said, “What do you mean, ‘of course’? That’s disgusting,” to which she replied, “yeah, well, but that’s the least of it.”

Israel’s bombing of Christian churches no accident

Mother Agapia also assured Carlson that when Israel has bombed churches or shot tank shells at them, as they did in July, striking Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, killing three and injuring nine, this is no accident.

These parishes get bombed by Israel because they serve Palestinian Christians, she said, and despite claims from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that this latest episode involved “stray ammunition,” she replied again with a laugh, “No, nothing is an accident.”

In light of a long history of the Israeli army having a policy of deliberately desecrating and destroying Christian churches in Palestine, the orthodox nun also cited the fact that at Holy Family Church the shell pierced the façade just inches from the cross at its pinnacle, indicating the soldier firing was aiming for the cross itself, though slightly missed.

Referencing another similar incident at the monastery in Nablus, Palestine, that is built around Jacob’s well, she says the tank shell from a previous assault was targeted at a cross as well but missed. “So don’t tell me these soldiers make mistakes.”

Despite propaganda to the contrary, Christians and Muslims in Palestine share peaceful fraternity

Mother Agapia also clearly surprised Carlson with her description of the harmonious coexistence, mutual respect and fraternity shared between Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. .  . .

It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is being killed by Israel. ‘How did we come to such a point of darkness?’

Finally, the Orthodox nun said that what she takes away from this people who have “really been suffering,” is “their real belief in God and that their life is in God’s hands. And there’s such a humility and obedience to their Creator and an understanding that this life is not the only one. There’s a real beauty to that that I think so much of the world is missing.”

The Palestinians are suffering horribly, those who have survived thus far “are literally going to be killed, but they have so much more courage and faith than you find in so much of America and in the West, which we’ve lost,” Mother Agapia observed.

From the time of Christ, the voices of Christian worship have remained present in the Holy Land, though this is now in the process of being destroyed by the U.S.-backed Israeli government.

With this ongoing genocide, it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is being killed, she said. And given the heinous daily Israeli war crimes being reported from Gaza throughout the world, the nun asked how people can hear it, “and still somehow have a blank face and think it is okay. How did we come to such a point of darkness?” (Holy Land nun tells Tucker: American Catholics must ‘change the support for Israel’ in the US.)

Politics is not going to save the Palestinians from the Zionist onslaught.

Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos does not realize that Americanism, which, along with the Judeo-Masonic precepts of the French Revolution, helped to give rise to the conciliar world view and that, as a result, all too many American Catholics are fully supportive of the daily slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical and surgical means and are also active participants in the rot of so-called “popular culture” to take any kind of effective “political action” to influence the wholly owned subsidiary of Zionism named President Donald John Trump and his cast of advisers, principally Stephen Miller among then, who believe that what is good for Israel is good for the United States of America without batting a single eyelash about the carnage and starvation to which the Gazan Palestinians have been subjected.

Nevertheless, however, and without detracting from the serious nature of the theological heresies of all forms of Orthodoxy, including Greek Orthodoxy, Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos is entirely correct about the way in which many Catholics and Protestants within the United States of America believe that the State of Israel is the fulfillment of “Biblical prophecy” even though it has been established in direct defiance of the will of God and with the assistance of British Zionist imperialists, who used the ignorance of American President Harry S. Truman to gain American support for the Zionist displacement of native Palestinians in the Holy Land after World War II that culminated in the immediate American recognition of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, after the Zionists had declared victory, thereby giving the Zionists and American “benediction,” if you will, to do as they pleased in the Holy Land, replete with the largesse of American taxpayer dollars.

Father Denis Fahey himself commented on the displacement of the Arabs by the Talmudic Jews when the State of Israel was formed in 1948:

“The lot of the Arab refugees,” writes Douglas Reed, “is more candidly, though pitilessly, presented in the Zionist press than in the great mass-circulation journals: ‘There is not a single Arab left in the whole of northern Palestine . . . More than one-third of all Palestine Arabs have left or lost their homes, and there is little doubt that most of them have lost their dwellings for good . . . The International Refugee organisation, which is mainly supported by the United States and Britain, announces that the Palestinian Arabs are not eligible for its assistance. The organisation has allocated $1,500,000 for the Jewish Agency’s resettlement programme.’ The point of the jest came on December 19th 1948, while the Arabs were being driven destitute from their native land. The Times then reported that: ‘The United Nations General Assembly tonight unanimously decided upon a draft convention on genocide, which is now declared a crime in International law. Genocide is defined as acts intended to destroy in whole or in part national, ethnical, racial or religious groups; and rulers, officials or individuals are made punishable by state or international penal tribunals not only for the crime but for the conspiracy, incitement or attempt to commit it . . . Hypocrisy on this scale assumes a grandeur of its own, beyond criticism. The Assembly which drafted the convention was the same which at the same moment genocided a completely inoffensive (though weak) national, ethnical, racial and religious group. Every member of the unanimous Assembly was indictable under every count . . . The word ‘genocide’ was first invented for the Nuremberg trial and applied especially to the case of the Jews. The draft convention, if that origin and the genocidal act in Palestine are borne in mind, appears to mean only that any opposition to Zionism is to be declared genocide, while anything done by Zionism is exempt.”

His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, made a moving appeal for the return of these poor refugees in his Encyclical Letter of Good Friday, 15th April, 1949, On the Holy Places in Palestine: “Although fighting has ceased, none the less we are still far from the restoration of calm and order in Palestine. Complaints are still reaching Us from those who rightly and justly grieve over the desecration of churches and images, and homes of beneficence and charity, or the destruction of the houses of cloistered communities. Very many fugitives of all ages and every state of life, driven abroad by the disastrous war, cry pitifully to Us. They live in exile, under guard and exposed to infection and all manner of dangers . . . We most earnestly implore those to whom it belongs to do justice to all who have been driven far away from their homes by the tempest of war and who long above all to live in quiet once more.”

In this Encylical Letter and in that of October 24, 1948, the Holy Father also pleaded for the internationalisation of Jerusalem. In spite of that, Israel, according to The Tablet (Brooklyn), August 9, 1952, has already moved all government offices from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem with the exception of the Foreign Office, and it is now preparing to move that also. That shows Israel’s contempt for the Holy Father’s plea and the conviction that whatever it does will not be seriously questioned by the United Nations Organisation. (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

These are facts, ladies and gentlemen.

Facts.

Facts read in the light of the Catholic Faith should help us overcome Judeo-Masonic naturalistic and nationalistic propaganda and thus to pray ever more fully for the conversion of Jews and everyone else to the true Church founded by Our Lord upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

No one, especially a Catholic, ought to level the baseless, sentimentally laced charge of prejudice or bigotry against any Catholic who points out these facts. These facts are presented without malice and in the spirit of helping others to see the world for what it is and to direct our prayers and actions accordingly. Indeed, the infiltration of the spirit of naturalism has become the very foundation of the “social teaching” of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. This is indeed an aspect of the triumph of the Jewish Nation against the Messias that only a handful of traditional Catholics have been willing to explore in the past fifty to sixty years.

Here, then, a reminder of this fact from a passage in Father Fahey’s book quoted just above:

Of all the countries in the world the United States is the country in which can best be observed this process of enlarging the comprehension of “anti-semitism” to include any and every form of opposition to what the Jewish leaders are aiming at. The United States, since its inception, has acted as if the Jewish naturalistic ambition of world-wide domination in opposition to the order of the world under Christ the King did not exist. (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

The Israeli genocide of Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Mohammedan, thus is not of recent vintage. The genocide began in the years after World War II and it its current manifestation is just a continuation of the very way in which the Zionists established the State of Israel in the first place.Top of Form

Two recent interviews given by a retried Army colonel to Tucker Carlson, who was expelled from the so-called “mainstream media” by Rupert Murdoch personally twenty-eight months ago, contains gruesome details about the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.

As Colonel Tony Aguilar noted after spending much time personally delivering humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians, he has not seen one armed Palestinian civilian in Gaza even though Israeli forces are firing bullets at innocent civilians as though it is presumed everyone in Gaza is a member of the Hamas terrorist group:

— In two recent viral interviews conducted by Tucker Carlson, a retired Green Beret Lt. Colonel in the United States Army who served in Gaza with the recently formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), witnessed systematic, heinous, and violent crimes of the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians and then defended his testimony after what he referred to as a “smear campaign” against his character and his family.

“They treated them like animals,” said Lt. Colonel Tony Aguilar, a 25-year combat veteran. “The IDF, and in some cases we (U.S. contractors on the ground), don’t recognize these people as human beings.” He reported that even these American colleagues referred to the starving Palestinians as “the zombie horde.”

Aguilar, who attended West Point and was deployed during his career more than a dozen times to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Jordan, the Philippines, Vietnam and more while seeing combat in many of these countries, is also highly decorated, having been awarded a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation Medal for valor in combat.

Reflecting on his vast experience during his July 31 interview, he said “nothing compares” to what he has seen in Gaza. “I have never witnessed anything as brutal, destructive, (and) violent. And I would say that steps far over our international laws of how we prosecute wars and how we engage in warfare. We’ve long departed from that standard, and America is a part of it.”

The retired Green Barret explained how he was recruited to assist in security for the GHF mission that began in late May after two months of a complete blockade of all humanitarian aid to the approximately two million Palestinians in the enclave, including around one million children.

He described the landscape of the Strip as “post-apocalyptic,” with entire cities, particularly Rafah, reduced to rubble. “It is leveled to the ground. There is not a building that stands, and the rubble is piled up.” This debris includes many personal artifacts such as destroyed furniture and appliances, along with “family photos that were on the wall that are now shattered and broken. These lives were just destroyed and taken. And that’s the scene of Gaza.”

GHF process ‘so inhumane and evil that it can only be deliberate’

Aguilar highlighted the widespread starvation and deprivation, emphasizing that GHF aid efforts were wholly inadequate, providing only a fraction of the food necessary for the population while refusing to deliver essentials like water, medicine, and hygiene products.

With Israel having expelled the United Nations from providing humanitarian aid at approximately 400 distribution points throughout the strip, they replaced it with the GHF, which established only four sites, with three of them bunched together “in the far southwest corner of the enclave near the Egyptian border” that is “nowhere near the people that need it (most),” the soldier explained.

The most vulnerable population is in the north “where you have deaths, starvation, they’re isolated. No aid is going into there and there’s no aid sites there,” he explained.

Further, Aguilar quoted a GHF spokesman who read a statement at a July 29 press conference without taking any questions, claiming that since May 27 they had “distributed more than 95 million meals to the people in Gaza.”

“We’ve been delivering aid for 65 days,” the retired Green Beret recalled. “Now, you don’t have to be Copernicus to figure this out. Ninety-six million divided by 2.21 million, divided by three meals a day divided by 65 days. We have provided food for 15 days out of 65 into the enclave. What happened to the other 50 days?”

Additionally, he explained that after the Palestinian civilians walk around 12 kilometers seeking such distributions, the GHF provides them with no water, “because it’s too expensive. Distributing water weighs so much that it breaks down the profit per cost per truck,” he was told.

Yet, “all of their food, by the way, requires water to cook it. Rice, lentils, beans, flour, you’ve got to have water,” he explained. And thus, the Palestinians in Gaza are forced to walk many kilometers in the heat to get a handout of food without the necessary water to cook it.

The combat veteran concluded that this process is “so inhumane and evil that it can only be deliberate.”

It’s as if Netanyahu is striving to violate every war crime of the Geneva Convention

Further, Aguilar described how the aid distribution locations in the far south of the strip are located near an IDF combat unit that is engaged in an offensive operation.

“We established secure distribution sites to deliver and distribute humanitarian aid, not only co-located with Israeli combat units, but located in an active combat zone,” the retired officer mocked. “That is a war crime verbatim out of the protocols of the Geneva Convention, which last time I checked the United States was still a signatory.

Assessing the entire situation from this perspective, the Green Beret expressed it is as if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was handed “a list of the violations of the Geneva Convention” and simply tried to violate every one of them, “checking them off.”

These include “displacing the population,” “firing at the civilians to control the population,” “targeting civilians with lethal ammunition,” “building the humanitarian distribution sites in the middle of combat zones,” and labeling “the entire society as Hamas (in order to) kill them all.”

“The Geneva Convention specifically prohibits the classification of an entire population as the enemy based on the actions of a few,” the combat veteran explained, stating that U.S.-backed Israel is treating all of Gaza as Hamas, which is “another war crime.”

GHF distribution sites ‘designed’ to be ‘death traps’

In detailing the dangerous conditions at the GHF aid sites placed in active combat zones, Aguilar explained how Palestinian civilians were forced to navigate militarized corridors to reach these sites facing machine gun fire, mortars, and tank rounds supposedly used for crowd control, resulting in deaths and injuries, even daily.

“The only way I could describe the sites is death traps. And they didn’t become death traps, they were designed as death traps,” he said. Additionally, the United States provides aid to “lure them in,” and they get shot at coming, and they get shot at going.”

The IDF uses “machine guns, mortars, tank rounds, artillery,” as thousands of Palestinians rush to the site before dawn “and over their heads, you just see tracer bullets flying, tracers, tank rounds, artillery rounds,” he said (footage).

The IDF’s pretense for committing such an apparent war crime is “to keep the Palestinians on the right path.”

From the very beginning, Aguilar asked if the Israeli army had tried using a simple sign instead, one “that says ‘go this way’ instead of shooting a Merkava tank round?” But this idea was dismissed by those in charge, who reportedly stated, “Nope, costs too much. We’re not going to do it,” which the American combat veteran found very “telling” with regard to their intentions.

GHF distribution process ‘most chaotic, depraved, dehumanizing’ thing ever seen

The decorated veteran described the scene of the thousands of Palestinians rushing in the early dawn hours to get some scraps of food with reservists, who have minimal training, shooting in their direction in the dark without night vision capacities, “so they’re shooting into the dark at thousands of people.”

And when this crowd gets onto the distribution site, there are “eight minutes of mayhem” as “25,000 boxes of food are stripped through, taken down and gone. Eight minutes. It’s one of the most chaotic, depraved, dehumanizing things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.

In the second interview on August 6, he also explained the dynamics of how such a corralled crowd was managed to stampede 20 fellow aid seekers to death on July 16, stating that each distribution site is “its own arena.”

Site number 3 is “very canalized” and “very congested” with mounds of rubble constraining the starving aid seekers driving them into a “bottleneck surrounded by razor wire” through “a very small exit.” And this small outlet is “surrounded by fighting positions where IDF have machine guns” firing live rounds.

“It is the perfect setting for a stampede of human beings … as if it was created for that,” Aguilar observed. Additionally, he clarified that the use of razor wire for civilian purposes is also a war crime, “banned by the Geneva Convention.”

‘Shooting bullets into a crowd of unarmed civilians’

In response to Aguilar’s allegations, the GHF admitted firing “warning shots” in order “to disperse crowds,” firing them “upwards in the air and towards the coastline,” an alibi the Green Beret confirmed.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying you do. You’re correct,” he affirmed. “But when you’re shooting bullets, they come out of an automatic rifle at a crowd of thousands of people, and you can’t see them because there’s berms and there’s dust and inner visibility lines that you can’t see and you’re just shooting, you’re going to kill somebody. Period.”

Reliable reports emerge virtually every day from Gaza’s Health Ministry documenting the ongoing slaughters conducted by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people in the enclave. On Tuesday, it reported that out of 89 Palestinians having been killed in the previous 24 hours, 31 died attempting to get aid while 388 aid seekers were injured out of a total of 513 Palestinians for just one day.

Since GHF began operating on May 27, the Health Ministry has reported the deaths of 1,838 aid seekers with a total of 13,409 starving Palestinians having been wounded.

“They shoot at their feet, they shoot over the head, they shoot into the air,” Aguilar continued. “Targeting innocent unarmed civilians on the battlefield for the purpose of controlling them or controlling the crowd. Again, there you go, (that is) another war crime.”

He also stipulated that when the GHF spokesmen publicly affirmed its men were shooting “towards the coastline,” they were just verifying to the world that they “are shooting bullets into a crowd of unarmed civilians because what lines the entire coast from north to south of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza? Thousands of human beings.”

“I have never experienced, witnessed, been a part of anything that was that uncontrolled, undisciplined, barbaric, immature, and what I would call just a reckless, reckless endangerment,” he described.

“So when we’re doing these things, we’re just egregiously violating international standards, the standards that we as Americans expect,” the veteran charged. And thus, the United States is “definitely complicit in this ongoing operation.”

Despite routine artillery barrages from the IDF, Aguilar never once saw ‘an armed Palestinian’

During their second interview, Carlson pointed out that while the conflict in Gaza is described as “a war,” and Aguilar testifies to seeing and hearing many discharges of ammunition, including small arms, mortars, and artillery barrages, the former FoxNews host asked if he ever saw any “counter fire”?

Was the IDF “fighting against an armed enemy?” he inquired. “Was it actually a war? Did you ever see any Palestinians committing acts of violence when you were there?”

The former Green Barret affirmed that despite his being to every distribution site and witnessing the array of IDF battle forces deployed there, along with the routine live fire, “I have never, in the entire time that I was there, at every site, seen an armed Palestinian.”

So, while regularly engaging in live fire, the Israeli forces “were not defending themselves”? Carlson asked.  “No, sir,” the retired soldier affirmed.

Aguilar responds to serious allegations

Also In the second interview, Aguilar responded to some of the serious allegations against his credibility issued during the July 29 press conference by a GHF spokesman and an attorney from UG Solutions, the security subcontractor he worked for directly.

Carlson said “forces against you organized immediately” after the first interview providing a full press conference. Having watched this entire presentation, the former FoxNews host told the retired soldier, “They didn’t respond to a single, not one, of the allegations you made about their conduct in Gaza … Instead, it was a litany of attacks on you.”

Nonetheless, one of the allegations made regarded several Signal chats Aguilar sent praising the work of his organization for many things such as “provid(ing) lifesaving Humanitarian Aid to 20.45% of the ENTIRE population of Gaza” and encouraging others “Be proud. Be humble. You are making a difference in the future of this region and geopolitics around the globe. That’s something to hang your hat on at the end of a hard week.”

To this, Aguilar explained these “Signal snapchats were something called ‘impact statements’” that the UG Solutions’ COO had directed him in writing to create and issue to the American contractors as a type of positive encouragement to offset falling morale.

He said that “leaders don’t gripe down, leaders gripe up,” and while he sent these messages to encourage the men, he was also making his “dissatisfaction absolutely known to the leadership directly in writing and in verbal” communication.

“So, your position is you were not complimenting the conduct of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” Carlson summarized. “You were saying to the guys providing security for this benighted operation that they’re ‘doing their best, keep going guys,’” which Aguilar affirmed.

Not fired, but quit in protest

The critics also claimed Aguilar was fired from UG Solutions on June 13 for misconduct and that he begged to be rehired. The retired soldier said that while his contract was terminated, this was done by him in writing, and he was not fired.

“You could say that I quit in protest, much like those before me, much like Jake Wood, former director of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, who stepped down in protest” (source), along with two other executives from UG Solutions and the primary contractor, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS).

“I was not the first and I was not the last” to step down in protest of GHF, he said, stipulating that he did seek a position with the higher-level SRS contractor that would allow him to influence how operations on the sites were managed, including “rules of engagement, standard operating procedures, distribution process, organization and planning.”

He also produced a departure letter he received from the UG Solutions chief operating officer expressing gratitude for his service and inviting him to consider applying again in the future for another position should he so desire. It was dated June 23, just one day before the retired soldier left his employment.

Finally, the spokesmen for GHF and UG Solutions charged Aguilar was not in the field very often to which the soldier responded, “I was on a distribution site in Gaza every day.”

And to prove his point, he offered that “every photo” included in the press conference were pictures he took himself on location. “Every single day there is a photo of me or a photo taken by me that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation then used in their public releases,” he said.

“All of the photos that the Gazan Humanitarian Foundation released publicly until the 13th of June were taken by me,” he reaffirmed, suggesting the shots prove his presence on the ground during that time period.

US should end GHF, put United Nations mechanisms ‘back in full force’

Aguilar went on to reiterate his call for the U.S. to end its funding of GHF and investigate its operations, urging a return to the United Nations’ aid delivery system. He criticized the lack of accountability for both GHF’s leadership and IDF actions, emphasizing the need for systemic reform.

“The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation does not have the capacity, it does not have the logistics, it does not have the experience, it does not have the personnel, to do a half part, or any part, of the humanitarian assistance operation” necessary in Gaza, he said.

It should, in fact, “cease to exist” because its existence and operation “creates a misnomer, a lie that this mechanism is working and that the UN is not needed.”

“Regardless of what we call the method, whether it’s GHF, whether it’s the UN, whether it’s Greta Thunberg handing out PBJ sandwiches on the Mediterranean beach, whatever the method is, it has to be able to feed 2.21 million people a day, three meals a day, every day and bring in water, fuel,” and other necessities.

“Remember the GHF aid brings no water, no pampers, no diapers, no fuel, no medicine, no hygiene products, just dried food, nothing else. Nothing else. So the method, whatever it is, needs to be a method that can handle the capacity of 500 to 550 trucks a day every day, that can manage 400 to 500 sites throughout the entirety of Gaza,” Aguilar said.

“Well, the UN provides that. That was the UN model. The UN model was taking in 550 to 600 trucks a day going to 400 sites with doctors, veterans, nurses, teachers, water, fuel, enough food. That was the mechanism,”

“The United Nations mechanism should be put back in full force today,” the Green Barret implored. “The United States should stop. Do not spend another dime on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation because it is not achieving any modicum of a goal of feeding anyone.”

On Tuesday, the Gaza Health Ministry reported five more malnutrition deaths for the previous 24-hour period. The individuals included two children. “This brings the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition to 227, including 103 children,” the ministry said.

Additionally, violent deaths inflicted by Israel upon Palestinians in the enclave since October 7, 2023, number 61,599 with the injured climbing to 154,088. Numerous studies indicate these confirmed figures remain a significant under-count. (Green Beret Lt Colonel tells Tucker: Gaza ‘post-Apocalyptic,’ US ‘complicit’ with war crimes.)

Yes, this is happening now.

However, many people here in the United States of America, are either unaware or unconcerned about this Israeli genocide of innocent human beings because of the media blackout about it while others, especially those in the fundamentalist and evangelical Protestant sects, are actually supporting this slaughter because it is fulfilling, as they see it, so-called Biblical “prophecies” that are based on Zionist-inspired commentaries upon the words contained in heretical editions of Holy Writ.

Unlike the silence of the so-called United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is completely under the thumb of the Talmudists/Zionists (see, for example,  Ever At the Service of Those Who Deny Christ the King Before Men, part one, Ever At the Service of Those Who Deny Christ the King Before Men, part two, and Ever At the Service of Those Who Deny Christ the King Before Men, part three), Raymond Leo “Cardinal” Burke has decried the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in very direct terms:

 Cardinal Raymond Burke echoed Pope Leo’s condemnation of the situation in Gaza, saying it is “unjust” for Christians to be “forced to leave their homeland.”

“The work carried out in the (Gaza) Strip by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is invaluable, as he bears witness to faith in a concrete way by pointing out to those involved the possible solutions offered by faith,” Burke said recently.

Cardinal Pizzaballa has been based in the Holy Land for 30 years, first as a student, next as Custos of the Holy Land for 12 years, then serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate for four years, and now Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 2020.

Since being made cardinal by Pope Francis in September 2023, coinciding with the resurgence of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, his voice has become a regular feature on the international stage calling for peace.

His now-famous offer to be exchanged for Israeli hostages held by Hamas has been supported by his stance advocating for peace in the region generally while also advocating for the rights of Catholics and Christians in the region.

“As pastor of my community, I have to do all that is possible to save my people, and to stop this nonsense war,” Pizzaballa said when asked by LifeSiteNews what inspired him to offer himself as an exchange.

Echoing the patriarch’s themes, Burke commented:

It is unacceptable that each generation should relive the same hostilities with terrible attacks on civilians and the atrocious suffering of families and children. What is happening in Gaza is unacceptable.

In recent days, mixed messages emerged about a mandatory evacuation order for the Catholic parish in Gaza. The latest word from the parish priest on August 19 was that no such order had arrived, but on August 20 the Latin Patriarchate said that the situation was “rapidly evolving” with several areas in the city near to the church having been given evacuation orders by Israeli forces.

n the first week of his pontificate, Leo XIV issued a call for Christians in the Middle East to remain in their native lands.

“I thank God for those Christians – Eastern and Latin alike – who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands, resisting the temptation to abandon them,” he said during an audience for the Jubilee of Oriental Churches. “Christians must be given the opportunity, and not just in words, to remain in their native lands with all the rights needed for a secure existence. Please, let us strive for this!”

Leo has regularly reiterated his calls for peace in Ukraine and in Gaza, as has Pizzaballa.

Addressing the media after his visit to Gaza in late July – after an Israeli strike on the Catholic church there – Pizzaballa redoubled the strength of his statements. “It is time to end this nonsense, end the war and put the common good of people as the top priority.”

Then, during his homily for the Assumption on Friday, the cardinal suggested that Satan especially seeks to gain control over the Holy Land:

We will have to struggle with the consequences of this war on people’s lives for a long time to come. It really does seem that our Holy Land, which houses the highest revelation and manifestation of God, is also the place of the highest manifestation of Satan’s power. And perhaps precisely because it is the place where the heart of salvation history is located, it is also the place where “the Ancient Adversary” tries to assert himself more than anywhere else.

Pizzaballa has previously commented that he has hope for a peaceful solution in the region, though little earthly expectation. In 2023, he reconsecrated the region to Our Lady Queen of Palestine, whose feast is celebrated on October 25 and who is the patroness of the diocese.

The cardinal urged a move away from the use of arms, writing that “our speech must not be about death and closed doors. On the contrary, our words must be creative, lifegiving, they must give perspective and open horizons.” (Cardinal Burke denounces treatment of Gaza Christians, praises Pizzaballa's 'invaluable' work.)

Israeli Zionists care nothing about such condemnations as their work of destruction in the Gaza continues:

The Israeli military is pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere safe to go, as it seeks to seize the Strip’s largest urban centre, while an Israeli-induced famine grips the besieged enclave.

An attack on a popular market east of Gaza City on Tuesday killed at least five Palestinians and injured many others. Sources at al-Ahli Arab Hospital told Al Jazeera that two women were among those killed.

Videos verified by Al Jazeera showed Palestinians fleeing the as-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City, as Israel attempts to force close to 1 million residents southwards to concentration zones.

The footage captured long lines of men, women and children moving along dusty and ravaged streets, many carrying bags, blankets and mattresses. Some pushed carts piled with belongings while others held children by the hand as they moved westward on foot.

Israel has completely destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City since it started its sustained assault on the city on August 6, according to estimates by the Palestinian Civil Defence.

Gaza City resident and writer Sara Awad said Palestinian families had to choose between braving Israel’s intense bombardment at home or being displaced yet again.

“All the time, I’m wondering why I must flee and live in a tent, while my [home] is here,” Awad said. Every day, she sees more Palestinian families packing up their belongings despite having nowhere to go.

“It doesn’t make sense to leave my home while they are treating us not as human beings,” she said. Yet, she said she believed Palestinians were “living in [their] final days in Gaza City”.

At least 64 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, hospital sources told Al Jazeera, including 13 people who were killed seeking desperately needed aid.

Since the United States- and Israeli-backed GHF took over aid operations in late May, more than 2,100 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

The United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) warned in its latest update of worsening starvation, mounting casualties and collapsing services across the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Health Ministry said three more hunger-related deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of people who starved to death since October 7, 2023, to 303, including 117 children.

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, told Al Jazeera that Israel was seeking “to eliminate and annihilate the Palestinian people by conducting not only genocide, but also ethnic cleansing”.

He argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pushing to “remap” the Middle East and create “economic hegemony, political hegemony [and] intelligence hegemony over the whole Middle East”.

Condemnation continues after Nasser Hospital attack

Legal experts have been calling for Israel to be investigated over its “double-tap” attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital on Monday, which killed at least 21 people, including five journalists. So-called “double-tap” attacks entail striking a target and waiting for emergency responders and journalists to arrive on the scene before bombing it a second time.

Netanyahu said in a statement released in English only that Israel deeply regretted what he characterised as a “tragic mishap”, without explaining how Israel had hit the same hospital not once but twice in apparent error.

Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Nice said Israel’s admission of error was “very interesting”.

“[This] means they should now not only be investigated, but investigated with absolute ferocity, in order to produce all the documents that would explain what they’d intended to do and how things went wrong,” Nice told Al Jazeera.

“If they can’t justify a mistake in terms of [hitting a] proper target with an assessed level of collateral damage, then they’ve committed a war crime.”

Abd Raouf Shaat, a photo and video journalist working in Gaza, expressed his grief at the onslaught of Palestinian media workers and resolved to continue his work.

“Every day, we are saying farewell to a journalist,” he told Al Jazeera. “But we will continue their work and their message.”

Several of those wounded in the attack are receiving treatment for serious injuries.

Human rights groups have accused the Israeli military of committing war crimes in its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. Leaked Israeli intelligence has revealed that 83 percent of all those killed since Israel began its war on the enclave have been civilians, one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

Several of the journalists killed in the bombing of Nasser Hospital worked for the international news agencies Reuters and The Associated Press. One of them, Mohammad Salama, worked for Al Jazeera.

Israel has now killed more than 270 journalists and media workers in Gaza since its war started in October 2023, according to an Al Jazeera tally.

In preliminary findings released on Tuesday, the Israeli military claimed an inquiry into the incident suggested the target had been a camera positioned in the area by Hamas to surveil Israeli troops.

“In light of this, the force acted to destroy the camera,” the army said. Israel routinely justifies its deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip by claiming it was targeting Hamas.

Hamas called the accusation “baseless” and said Israel lacked any evidence. It added that the claim was “merely aimed at evading legal and moral responsibility for a full-fledged massacre”.

Israel has attacked hospitals multiple times throughout nearly two years of its genocidal war on Gaza, asserting that Hamas embeds itself in and around the facilities, without providing any verifiable evidence. (Israel pushes further into Gaza City, killing and displacing Palestinians. Also see: Israel kills at least 61 in Gaza, UN chief slams ‘deliberate’ famine | Israel-Palestine conflict News.)

It was just yesterday, Thursday, August 28, 2025, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes, that The New York Times, of all things, showed photographic proof of the destruction of one part of Gaza City in just the past three weeks:

A large part of Zeitoun, a neighborhood in Gaza City, was still standing just three weeks ago. But as Israeli forces have expanded their military campaign, the area has been turned into a barren wasteland, according to satellite images reviewed by The New York Times.

Source: Satellite images via Planet Labs

By Samuel Granados

While Israel’s government has announced that the military is planning a full-scale assault of Gaza City, soldiers have not yet moved into a majority of the city. In Zeitoun, forces have already been operating for weeks, dropping bombs on buildings and ordering residents to evacuate.

A satellite image from Aug. 8 showed scores of buildings intact and what appear to be several tent encampments. A separate image of the same area from Aug. 25 showed many, if not most, of the buildings reduced to piles of rubble and the apparent encampments gone.

In recent days, Israeli tanks were seen in Zeitoun, according to satellite images.

The scale of the destruction resembles that of places in Gaza that have been largely flattened over the course of the war, such as Rafah in the south and Beit Hanoun in the north.

“It’s enormous,” said Fadl al-Saifi, 33, a resident of Sabra, an adjacent neighborhood. “It’s heartbreaking to see your friends’ homes in ruins.” He said that, in the past week, he visited Zeitoun to observe the damage.

The Israeli military has said that its strikes in Gaza target militants and their weapon caches, and it has stressed that Hamas fighters have embedded themselves in civilian spaces. On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement: “There is no I.D.F. doctrine that aims causing maximal damage to civilian infrastructure regardless of military necessity. I.D.F. actions are based on military necessity and with accordance to international law.”

In recent days, Mr. al-Saifi said that he heard explosions throughout the day and that they would make his home shake.

“It is so routine that it has become background noise,” he said, adding that he and his younger brother had not evacuated so as to protect their home from looters.

Eli Cohen, a minister in Israel’s high-level security cabinet, has said the Israeli operation in Gaza City should reduce the city to rubble. “Gaza City itself should be exactly like Rafah, which we turned into a city of ruins,” he told Channel 14, a right-wing television station, this month. Some of Israel’s European allies have condemned its plans for an expanded offensive.

Note: Arrows show general direction of movement. Sources: Analysis of August satellite imagery from Planet Labs (destruction and military vehicles); satellite image from Aug. 27 via Planet Labs (basemap).

By Samuel Granados

Last week, the Israeli military said that it was moving ahead with its preparations to invade Gaza City, calling up an additional 60,000 reservists and announcing plans to extend the duty of 20,000 others. Troops will conduct a “gradual, precise and targeted” operation in and around the city, an Israeli military official said, requesting anonymity to comply with military protocol. (A Gaza City Neighborhood Is Now a Wasteland, Satellite Images Show.)

As we know, however, there is noting “gradual” or “targeted” about the Israeli destruction of Gaza as such destruction is based on total annihilation.

As I have noted in the past, to point out the facts about the ongoing Israeli genocide against the innocent civilians of Gaza is no way to indemnify the evils undertaken by Hamas, which is a Mohammedan terrorist group whose leaders have exploited the sufferings of innocent Palestinians for their own propaganda purposes, including their own brutal treatment and killing of the Israeli hostages its commandos seized on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

However, as damnable as the actions of Hamas are and continue to be, the Israeli bombardment and starvation of Gazan Palestinians is receiving the moral support of the government of the United States of America, a country whose people has lived quite comfortably with the slaughter of the innocent preborn under cover of the civil law (first in California, Hawaii, Colorado, New Jersey, and New York between 1967 and 1973 before the decisions of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, January 22, 1973, and that continue, both chemically and surgically, in many states even three years after the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer v. Jackson Women’s Organization, June 24, 2022), along with, as mentioned earlier, the quiet acquiescence of the so-called United States Conference of “Catholic Bishops.”

Most Israeli civilians themselves support the monstrous actions of their government, but one Israeli news outlet, recent published a report that actually documented the starvation in Gaza:

Israeli news outlet Haaretz has published a harrowing report on starvation in Gaza which further discredits the Israeli narrative that the photos of skeletal children we’ve been seeing are antisemitic Hamas propaganda, for anyone who’s still clinging to delusions about such things.

Haaretz reporters were taken by doctors on video tours of hospitals in Gaza, conducting interviews with numerous medical personnel and obtaining many photos of civilians showing signs of extreme starvation. Throughout the report we encounter story after story of severely emaciated children, mothers unable to breastfeed starving babies because of their own starvation, people with preexisting conditions severely exacerbated by malnutrition, diseases spreading due to crippled healthcare infrastructure and ruined immune systems, and wounds failing to heal due to inadequate food intake.

The article is one of the more uncomfortable things I’ve seen throughout the entirety of this genocide, and that’s saying something.

“What we saw there left no room for doubt about the scale of the horror,” write Haaretz reporters Yarden Michaeli and Nir Hasson.

“Seventeen youngsters had deteriorated into a state of severe malnutrition without preexisting health conditions; 10 suffered from previous illnesses,” they write, saying “Anyone who claims that the images of starvation in the Gaza Strip are a result of acute genetic or other diseases, and not due to a grave shortage of food, are lying to themselves.”

This comes as the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declares that the people of Gaza are suffering from a famine that “is entirely man-made”, which must be halted and reversed with extreme urgency.

Israel has of course denounced the IPC’s findings as antisemitic Hamas propaganda, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry saying that “The entire IPC document is based on Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests,” and Benjamin Netanyahu branding the report “a modern blood libel, spreading like wildfire through prejudice.”

You might find this response ridiculous, and of course it is, but really, what else does Israel have left? When all major human rights institutions are accusing you of horrific crimes, your only options are either (A) admit the obvious fact that there’s no way every single mainstream humanitarian organization is lying about your actions, or (B) claim that they’re all in on a giant globe-spanning conspiracy because of a nefarious prejudice against your religion.

Of course they’re going to go with (B). This is Israel we’re talking about, after all.

When a nation keeps having to publish denials that it is intentionally starving civilians, you can safely assume it’s because that nation is intentionally starving civilians. If you saw someone on social media loudly denying the latest allegations that they are a child molester over and over again for two years, you probably wouldn’t let them babysit your kids.  (Only Liars And Manipulators Say Gaza Isn’t Starving.)

As we know, of course, the Isareli are world class liars, and their efforts to deny the genocide that they are imposing upon the Palestinian people of Gaza, which includes, as one commentator noted, the destruction of one of the oldest cities on earth, Gaza City, have been tolerated by the silent acquiescence of most Western leaders, including President Donald John Trump:

As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south.

It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of the Nazi SS Gen. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, who oversaw the obliteration of Warsaw. He spent his final years in a prison cell. May history, at least in terms of this footnote, repeat itself.

As Israeli tanks advance, Palestinians are fleeing, with neighborhoods such as Sabra and Tuffah, cleansed of its inhabitants. There is little clean water and Israel plans to cut it off in northern Gaza. Food supplies are scarce or wildly overpriced. A bag of flour costs $22.00 a kilo, or your life. A report published Friday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC) , the world’s leading authority on food insecurity, for the first time has confirmed a famine in Gaza City. It says more than 500,000 people in Gaza are facing “starvation, destitution and death”, with “catastrophic conditions” projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis next month. Nearly 300 people, including 112 children, have died from starvation.

European leaders, along with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, remind us of the real lesson of the Holocaust. It is not Never Again, but, We Do not Care. They are full partners in the genocide. Some wring their hands and say they are “appalled” or “saddened.” Some decry Israel’s orchestrated starvation. A few say they will declare a Palestinian state.

This is Kabuki theater — a way, when the genocide is over, for these Western leaders to insist they stood on the right side of history, even as they armed and funded the genocidal killers, while harassing, silencing or criminalizing those who decried the slaughter.

Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth. There is to be nothing left but tons of debris that will be laboriously carted away. The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course, will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies.

“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to…the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich announced at a conference on increased Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

All that was familiar to me when I lived in Gaza no longer exists. My office in the center of Gaza City. The Marna boarding house on Ahmed Abd el Aziz Street, where after a day’s work I would drink tea with the elderly woman who owned it, a refugee from Safad in northern Galilee. The coffee shops I frequented. The small cafes on the beach. Friends and colleagues, with few exceptions, are in exile, dead or, in most cases, have vanished, no doubt buried under mountains of debris. On my last visit to Marna House, I forgot to return the room key. Number 12. It was attached to a large plastic oval with the words “Marna House Gaza” on it. The key sits on my desk.

The imposing Qasr al-Basha fortress in Gaza’s Old City — built by Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the 13th century and known for its relief sculpture of two lions facing each other — is gone. So too is the Barquq Castle, or Qalʿat Barqūqa, a Mamluk-era fortified mosque constructed in 1387-1388, according to an inscription above the entrance gateway. Its ornate Arabic calligraphy by the main gate once read:

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful. The mosques of God shall establish regular prayers, and practice regular charity, and fear none except God.”

The Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, the ancient Roman cemetery and the Commonwealth War Cemetery — where more than 3,000 British and commonwealth soldiers from World War I and World War II are buried — have been bombed, and destroyed, along with universities, archives, hospitals, mosques, churches, homes and apartment blocks. Anthedon Harbor, which dates to 1100 B.C. and once provided anchorage for Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman ships, lies in ruins.

I used to leave my shoes on a rack by the front door of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Gaza, in the Daraj Quarter of the Old City. I washed my hands, face and feet at the common water taps, carrying out the ritual purification before prayer, known as wudhu. Inside the hushed interior with its blue-carpeted floor, the cacophony, noise, dust, fumes and frenetic pace of Gaza melted away.

The razing of Gaza is not only a crime against the Palestinian people. It is a crime against our cultural and historical heritage — an assault on memory. We cannot understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not understand the past.

History is a mortal threat to Israel. It exposes the violent imposition of a European colony in the Arab world. It reveals the ruthless campaign to de-Arabize an Arab country. It underscores the inherent racism towards Arabs, their culture and their traditions. It challenges the myth that, as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said, Zionists created, “a villa in the middle of a jungle.” It mocks the lie that Palestine is exclusively a Jewish homeland. It recalls centuries of Palestinian presence. And it highlights the alien culture of Zionism, implanted on stolen land.

When I covered the genocide in Bosnia, the Serbs blew up mosques, carted away the remains and forbade anyone to speak of the structures they had razed. The goal in Gaza is the same, to wipe out the past and replace it with myth, to mask Israeli crimes, including genocide.

The campaign of erasure banishes intellectual inquiry and stymies the dispassionate examination of history. It celebrates magical thinking. It allows Israelis to pretend the inherent violence that lies at the heart of the Zionist project, going back to the dispossession of Palestinian land in the 1920s and the larger campaigns of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, does not exist.

The Israeli government bans public commemorations of the Nakba, or catastrophe, a day of mourning for Palestinians who seek to remember the massacres and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians carried out by Jewish terrorist militias in 1948 for this reason. Palestinians are even prevented from carrying their flag.

This denial of historical truth and historical identity permits Israelis to wallow in eternal victimhood. It sustains a morally blind nostalgia for an invented past. If Israelis confront these lies it threatens an existential crisis. It forces them to rethink who they are. Most prefer the comfort of illusion. The desire to believe is more powerful than the desire to see.

Erasure calcifies a society. It shuts down investigations by academics, journalists, historians, artists and intellectuals who seek to explore and examine the past and the present. Calcified societies wage a constant war against truth. Lies and dissimulation must be constantly renewed. Truth is dangerous. Once it is established it is indestructible.

As long as truth is hidden, as long as those who seek truth are silenced, it is impossible for a society to regenerate and reform itself. The Trump administration is in lock step with Israel. It too seeks to prioritize myth over reality. It too silences those who challenge the lies of the past and the lies of the present.

Calcified societies cannot communicate with anyone outside their incestuous circles. They deny verifiable fact, the foundation on which rational dialogue takes place. This understanding lay at the heart of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Those who carried out the atrocities of the apartheid regime confessed their crimes in exchange for immunity. By doing so they gave the victims and the victimizers a common language, one rooted in historical truth. Only then was healing possible.

Israel is not only destroying Gaza. It is destroying itself.  (Israel’s Assassination of Memory.)

Despite the grand pronouncements of the Anti-Defamation League and ultra-Christophobic Sothern Poverty Law Center (whose professional fundraisers placed the “hate group” label on this writer and this website thirteen years ago—see Chopped Liver No More and Chopped Liver No More Update—and then, after Christopher Wray’s Federal Bureau of Investigation lifted the SPLC “hate group” list whole and used to create a task force to investigate “radical traditional Catholics” during the totalitarian regime of Mister Autopen, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala “Word Salad” Harris Emhoff—see Believing Catholics Pose No Threat to a Just Social Order), it is not to be anti-Semit to denounce Judaism as a false religion or to oppose the efforts of Talmudists promote evil (usurious interest rates, contraception, abortion, perversity, explicit classroom instruction in matters pertaining to the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, religious liberty, separation of Church and State, immodest, impure and indecent fashions and “entertainment,” etc.) nor to oppose Zionism and the schemes of the Zionist State of Israel to drain the resources of the United States of America in endless Miy ddle Eastern wars at a time when it is the midst of a genocidal campaign in Gaza after have enticed this country into taking military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Father Denis Fahey explained this in the Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation:

Yet all the propaganda about that display of Anti-Semitism should not have made Catholics forget the existence of age-long Jewish Naturalism or Anti-Supernaturalism. Forgetfulness of the disorder of Jewish Naturalistic opposition to Christ the King is keeping Catholics blind to the danger that is arising from the clever extension of the term “Anti-Semitism,” with all its war-connotation in the minds of the unthinking, to include any form of opposition to the Jewish Nation’s naturalistic aims. For the leaders of the Jewish Nation, to stand for the rights of Christ the King is logically to be “anti-Semitic.” (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

These words of wisdom apply to the cultural and political legal warfare that has been waged in this country by Judeo-Masonry. Indeed, as Father Fahey quotes from Pope Pius XI:

“Comprehending and merciful charity towards the erring,” he writes, “and even towards the contemptuous, does not mean and can not mean that you renounce in any way the proclaiming of, the insisting on, and the courageous defence of the truth and its free and unhindered application to the realities about you. The first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about him is service to the truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself.” (Pope Pius XII, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 14, 1937) (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

Yes, we must always be about the business of serving the truth, the whole truth and of umasking and refuting error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself. This includes Talmudism and Modernism, and it includes Talmudism’s useful tool to create a “safe” form of Catholicism, Americanism.

Father Fahey explained that the Jews conceive of a “natural messias,” who is none other than Antichrist, which is why they must make upon the true Church and mock the true Messias, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:

The decay in the social acceptance of the divine plan for ordered life, since the thirteenth century, has had for inevitable consequence the gradual disappearance of supernatural influences and ideals from the political and economic life of nations. This is the first result. There is a second. The elimination of the supernatural from public life is making smooth the path for the coming of the natural messias. “He that is not with Me is against me.” (St. Matt. XII, 30). The world is not standing still and the once Christian nations have to choose between returning to the integral truth of the Catholic Church and falling more and more fully under the yoke of those who are systematically preparing for the advent of the natural messias. The supernatural Messias proclaimed the supremacy of the Catholic Church, His Mystical Body, which is both supernatural and supranational and respectful of the natural qualities and particular rôles of all nations. The natural messias can only have for end the subjection of all nations to the Jewish nation; for the refusal of the Jews, whose national organisation had been set up by God to prepare for Christ, to accept the supranational Church of Christ, inevitably leads to their setting up their nation as the highest embodiment of the divine order.

Calvary has then a twofold aspect. It is at one and the same time the rejection of the supernatural Messias with His programme, which is summed up in the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, and the proclamation of a programme to be accomplished by the natural messias to come. In the Mystical Body of Christ all nations are on equal footing, each nation aiming at the temporal prosperity of its subjects so as not only not to hinder but to favour their attaining their supernatural end—union with the Blessed Trinity in supernatural life. The natural messias to whom the Jews look forward is to bring happiness to the world by the imposition of Jewish domination. It cannot be otherwise, given their messianic aspirations. Our Lord asked them to be the heralds of a supranational kingdom. Their refusal meant that they elected instead to impose their national form on the world, and they have put all their intense energy and tenacity into the struggle for the organisation of the future messianic age. Thus when any nation turns against the supernatural Messias it will be pulled in the direction of subjection to the natural messias. Satan has a wide view of things. He will be quite prepared to utilise German naturalism against our divine Lord. There is laughter in hell when human beings succumb once more to the temptation of the Garden of Eden and put themselves in the place of God, whether the new divinity be the Jewish race or any other race.

The Jewish ideal is interpreted differently by different Jews. The orthodox Jews want to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple and to reinstitute their worship, while awaiting the coming of a personal Messias. The non-orthodox or Reform Jews have departed from the central hope of Judaism by rejecting belief in a personal messiah.1But they believe in the advent of a messias in the sense of a messianic age which will come through the leadership and domination of their race. “In general the Jews,” writes the Jew, Bernard Lazare, in his well-known work, L’Antisémitisme, “even the revolutionaries, have kept the Jewish spirit, and if they have given up religion and faith, they have nevertheless been formed, thanks to their ancestry and education, by the influence of Jewish nationalism. This is true in a very special way of the Jewish revolutionaries who lived in the first half of this [nineteenth] century. Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx are two typical examples.” This is true also of the Jews of high finance, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Schiffs, etc., etc. They are one with their people in the ideal of the domination of the race and, therefore, in opposition to the supernatural life coming from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to them, attempted to turn aside the Jewish nation from its destined goal.

Does that mean that all Jews are bad men? Needless to say, it does not. There are Jews in whom may be seen excellent natural qualities, and the supernatural life of grace is poured out upon us all by our Lord, even upon those who reject Him. It does mean, however, that all Jews, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural life in society and will be an active ferment of naturalism. Let us take some examples from New York where the Jews are powerful. We read in the New York Jewish paper, Freiheit, of January 10th 1937: “According to the Jewish religion, the Pope is the enemy of the Jewish people by the very fact that he is the head of the Catholic Church. The Jewish religion is opposed to Christianity and to the Catholic Church in particular.” Again we find in the New York Jewish National Day of December 14th 1935: “The public schools must be kept clear of Christmas carols and other Christmas influences. We want all this Christmas propaganda stopped.”

Thus where the Jews are powerful, they openly attack the supernatural Messias and the supernatural life of grace which comes from Him. In countries where they are only advancing to power, they content themselves with de-supernaturalising the observances and customs which have sprung from acceptance of the supernatural Messias. When the latter process has been carried on for a sufficiently long time and Catholics have grown weak, the open attack on the observance of Sunday or Christmas Day, for example, can then be launched.

As an example of Jewish action in the elimination of the supernatural significance of a Christian observance, let us take the custom of exchanging Christmas cards. Christmas is in reality the anniversary of the birth of our Redeemer, of the Second Adam who restored the supernatural life of our souls. That is the real inner reason for our joy on that day. Families and friends come together to celebrate the coming amongst us as a little human child of Him in Whom we are one as members of His Mystical Body. The body is meant to have its share of the happiness too, because the Son of Man knows that we are human beings. Now the exchange of Christmas cards is meant to remind us of these great facts in their due relation. The supernatural significance of the great feast of the Nativity should of course be always prominent. Yet what do we find? Cards which show only holly and Christmas puddings have some relation to the feast, it is true, but not to the Christ Mass. Others with merely a row of dogs or a few birds have nothing to remind the recipient of what the rejoicing is for, while Yule tide greetings seem to refer to some pagan festival and to be preparing the way for a revival of paganism.

In this process of eliminating the supernatural Messias from the celebration of the anniversary of His birth, Messrs Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., the largest firm of Christmas card manufacturers, have certainly played a great part. “The Directors of this firm,” according to The Britisher of December 15th, 1937, “are registered as Gustave Tuck, Desmond Adolph Tuck and William Reginald Tuck, Bt., and the Secretary is a Mr. A. G. Jacobs. All three directors appear in the Communal Directory of the Jewish Year Book. Mr. Desmond Tuck is a warden of the Central Synagogue. Gustave Tuck is a member of the Jewish Board of Deputies Committee, a member of the Committee for the fund for German Jewry,” etc. This firm is not alone, but it has certainly been a great influence in propagating naturalism by fostering a naturalistic tone.

It will be useful for Irishmen to examine how much of Dublin’s real property has already passed into Jewish hands. Such a control must bring influence, and Jewish influence will operate against Christian social principles. Irish Catholics can see the advance of the elimination of the supernatural from public life, when a Jewish shop exhibits a card to the effect that the shop will be open all day on Christmas Day, and when Jewish professional men make appointments for Sunday morning. This disruption of the organisation of society based on the reality of the supernatural life of grace and on the vital significance of the Mass cannot proceed without disastrous effects on Catholics individually and as a body. For we know that it is only through the supernatural life which comes from our Lord that we can be good men according to the way which God requires and can correct the defects of our natural life. On the one hand, then, the increase of Jewish influence, with its inevitable naturalistic, that is, anti-supernatural, character, cannot take place without such disruption. On the other hand, we are exhorted to work for the return of society to Christ the King so that, instead of having to combat influences hostile to our supernatural life when we leave the Church after Mass, we shall on the contrary be aided by the current of life around us. Accordingly, Jewish naturalism renders conflict inevitable.

The Jews, as a nation, are objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in complete opposition to the order God wants. It is possible that a member of the Jewish nation, who rejects our Lord, may have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul, and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God and to that life, and therefore is not good. If a Jew who rejects our Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the movement in which he and his nation are engaged. Our Lord Jesus Christ alone is the source of the goodness God wants to see in every human being, the goodness due to participation in the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. No Jew, in virtue of what he objectively stands for, is supernaturally good as God wants him to be.

Hence there would seem to be a regrettable confusion of thought in the article on The Jews in Ireland, which appeared in The Standard (Dublin), March 3rd 1939. The article stated: “The Standard stands for the practical application of Christian principles in the public life of Ireland . . . Doubtless, there are good Jews and bad Jews, just as there are good and bad non-Jews in every country. We may praise the good and reprobate the bad . . .”

The article in The Standard was perfectly correct in insisting upon the Christian principle of exclusion of hatred of the Jews as a race. The inculcation of that spirit of charity towards the Jews, however, is not the only Christian principle that has a bearing on the problem. To work for the return of society to Christ the King, and so secure the triumph of the supernatural spirit of the Mystical Body in social life, is surely a Christian principle. The Jewish nation in an organised entity opposed to the treatment of our fellow human beings as members of Christ. We, must, therefore, combat their naturalism. Some Catholics seem to forget that the Jews who, in their terrible opposition to God, were plotting the death of our Saviour were so “pious” and “God-fearing” and “good” that they would not go into the hall of Pilate’s palace, “that they might not be defiled but that they might eat the pasch.” (St. John XVIII, 28). Pilate had to yield to their scruples and go out to them, yet alas! they were intent on the most awful crime ever committed, the crime of deicide.

Jewish naturalism, then, is disruptive of all social organisation based upon the divinity of our Lord. This disruptive process inevitably leads to a reaction on the part of the subjects of Christ the King and thus renders social conflict unavoidable. But, besides these two harmful effects, there is a third. Jewish naturalism is injurious to the Jews themselves. Opposition to the supernatural life of grace that comes from our Lord and, consequently, to ordered submission to God, our Father, is disastrous for the Jewish soul and character. Writing of the ceremonies and rites of the Old Law, such as circumcision and the worship of the synagogue, St. Thomas says: “In like manner, the ceremonies of the Old Law prefigured Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer; whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too, it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old accomplished with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching of St. Augustine” (Ia IIae, Q. 103, a. 4). Objectively, therefore, the Jews as a nation put themselves against the ordered return to God, which can only be through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Their opposition has not only had dire consequences in preventing and retarding the world’s acceptance of Him, but also sad effects on themselves. The results of that ceaseless battle against order are becoming increasingly visible amongst them. The persistent rejection of the one mediator, Christ Jesus, in spite of abundant light and grace, is having its inescapable consequences. As their power in the material order grows, the Jews are ceasing to believe in the God of Israel and are falling a prey to pantheism in its various forms, Marxian and other.

Does it then follow that all Jews are pantheists? It does not. In all this reasoning about the Jewish nation we are dealing with what we may speak of as moral laws in a wide sense. We cannot deduce conclusions therefrom to every individual member of the race. We must take account of the play of human liberty under the influence of the grace that comes from the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the members of the race which He loves as His own. We must affirm, however, that the Jews as a nation and therefore the vast majority of their individual members, given the solidarity of their national organisation, will everywhere show themselves hostile to the supernatural life.

His Excellency Right Rev. Antonio Garcia, Bishop of Tuy, one of the signatories of the Collective Letter of the Spanish Hierarchy of July 1st 1937, has summed up in striking language the essential features of the present struggle in the world. He had a splendid opportunity of seeing the Spanish phase of it. Mgr. Garcia writes as follows: “It is evident that the present conflict is one of the most terrible wars waged by Antichrist, that is, by Judaism, against the Catholic Church and against Christ. And at this crisis in the history of the world, Jewry uses two formidable armies: one secret, namely that of Freemasonry; the other, open and avowed, with hands dripping with blood, that of the Communists and all the other associated bodies, Anarchists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Socialists, as well as the auxiliary forces, Rotary, and Leagues of Benefaction . . . in which are preached the exclusion of Christ, of His morality and of His doctrine, or in which one hears at least that abstraction is made of such, as if Jesus Christ had not clearly declared: ‘He that is not with me is against me.’”

A writer who sees in a study of the consequences of the Jewish nation’s naturalism merely a series of fantastic statements about a supposed Jewish conspiracy has not grasped either the unity of the divine plan or the meaning of the Kingship of Christ. The Jews do work with abnormal secrecy, and in the Masonic society they certainly have a powerful secret auxiliary force working for naturalism, along with open and avowed auxiliary forces of Communists, Anarchists, etc. But it is a fact patent for all to see, that, in the world as it exists, the Jews, as an organised nation, refuse to accept Him Who is the Cornerstone of the building and the Foundation of right order, and look forward to a messianic era to be ushered in by another messias. Do they not proclaim this from the house tops? Klausner, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, writes as follows: “What is Jesus to the Jewish nation at the present day? To the Jewish nation he can be neither God nor the Son of God, in the sense conveyed by belief in the Trinity. Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible. Neither can he, to the Jewish nation, be the Messiah: the kingdom of Heaven (the ‘Days of the Messiah’) is not yet come . . . [The ethical code of Jesus] is no ethical code for the nations and social order of today, when men are still trying to find the way to that future of the Messiah and the Prophets, and to the ‘kingdom of the Almighty’ spoken of by the Talmud, an ideal which is of this ‘world’ and which, gradually and in the course of generations, is to take shape in this world.” A critic may point out that the attack on Christianity by immoral art and by unbelief would continue without Jews in the world. It is quite true that, even if the Jews were to disappear utterly, there would still be original sin in the world and consequently forces of revolt working for naturalism, under the leadership of Satan, whose whole being is in revolt against the supernatural life of grace. What must be insisted upon, however, is that in that hypothesis, the best organised visible force, the one with the greatest cohesion and dynamic energy, would be withdrawn from the naturalist camp.

The leaders of the Jewish race have a terrible responsibility. St. Thomas insists (IIIa P.Q. 47, a. 6 ad 1), that the excusing words of our Lord: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” (St. Luke XXII, 34) were uttered on behalf of the common people, but not on behalf of the leaders of the Jews. Not only have they formed the ordinary people of their race to consider the idea of Our Lord being the Messias promised to their fathers as absolutely absurd, but they keep them in strict subjection. Pogroms in which the rank-and-file of the Jewish nation suffer serve the useful purpose of keeping them in absolute dependence on their leaders. 

THE OPPOSITION OF JEWISH NATURALISM TO OUR SUPERNATURAL WELL-BEING 

The fundamental nature of this opposition will be seen more clearly when we examine a point in which what I have been saying differs to some extent from the thesis of a writer whose name is a household word in Catholic circles. In his work on the Jewish question, Mr. Belloc writes as follows: “We are asked to believe that this political upheaval [the Bolshevik revolution by which the Jews got control of Russia] was part of one highly organised plot centuries old the agents of which were millions of human beings all pledged to the destruction of our society and acting in complete discipline under a few leaders superhumanly wise. The thing is nonsense on the face of it. Men have no capacity for acting in this fashion . . . moreover the motive is completely lacking. Why merely destroy, and why, if your object is merely to destroy, manifest wide differences in your aims? . . . The conception of a vast age-long plot, culminating in the contemporary Russian affair, will not hold water.”

Four points need to be touched upon. First of all, the opposition between the supernatural Messias and the natural messias is in the very nature of things. The Jews, as a nation have refused to accept the supernatural Messias, God Himself, Who came into His own world to restore our most real life, and they still look forward to another messias. They are therefore necessarily opposed to the true order of the world. As I have already said, the Jews work with abnormal secrecy and in the Masonic society they have a powerful secret auxiliary force working for naturalism, but I am here speaking of their opposition as a nation to the supernatural. It is absurd and confusing to speak of that opposition as a plot or a conspiracy, for not only is it clear to us but the Jews themselves proclaim it openly. We must always bear in mind that the world is one, and that it is, only through acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the true Messias that we can live our lives as the objective order of the world demands. Mr Belloc seems to miss the force of the opposition between naturalism and the supernatural. That is one point.

Again, opposition to the order God has established in the world leads inevitably to decay in belief in God among the Jews, and to corruption in regard to the correct attitude towards their fellow human beings and in regard to the means to be employed to get other nations to accept the messianic message. It is morally inevitable that nations which resist and oppose the supernatural order of the world should suffer decay in the process. The excesses of the Bolshevik revolution thus find their explanation. We are, however, dealing with a moral law in the wide sense. God is merciful, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus loves the members of His own race with a special love. We cannot, as has been said, draw conclusions from such a law to all the individual members of the nation.

The third point concerns the differences amongst the Jews. Of course, there are differences amongst them and that, more unavoidably than amongst other nations, because of their opposition to order, but that fact cannot hide the truth of their strongly organised national solidarity. Is not the sympathy of the Jewish-controlled press throughout the world with the Muscovite, that is, Judaeo-Russian, Red government of Spain a proof of a strong unity?

The fourth point is that the Jews are not attacking Christian supernatural civilisation merely for the sake of destroying it. They are demolishing what for them are the accretions due to pagan conceptions, by which Catholicism has disfigured the messianic ideal. They want to prepare the way for the messias who, according to them, is still to come and who is to bring about peace and harmony amongst all the people of the world under their own rule. They demolish for the sake of reconstructing on another foundation. No wonder they persecuted St. Paul for his insistence on the fact that “Other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.” (1 Cor. III, 11).

The orthodox Jews speak of the Fatherhood of God, but they refuse to accept God’s supreme manifestation of His paternity, His sending of His only-begotten Son. They consider as blasphemous the true doctrine of the Blessed Trinity and of the supernatural life by which we can enter into the family circle of the Blessed Trinity and love the Father with the Son and the Holy Ghost. In their pride they want to impose their will on God instead of humbly accepting His Will. In their pride they oppose physical descent from Abraham to the true doctrine of spiritual descent from him in unity of faith. “Know ye, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham . . . for you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus . . . And if you be Christ’s then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians III, 7, 26, 29). In their pride, they refuse to see in the prophecies of Isaias about the sufferings of the Messias, the narrative of the treatment that was to be meted out by them to the Messias when He came. They cannot believe that they could have made such fools of themselves as they actually did and continue to do by attempting to apply the promises of God concerning the world-wide sway of the Mystical Body of Christ to their own nation. This terrible pride is the source of the obstinacy with which they refuse to accept the Supernatural Messias. (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

How ironic it is that well-meaning "conservative" Catholics, influenced by "pro-life" evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants whose ancestors accepted Zionism by means of the notes inserted into the Scofield Bible at the behest of Zionism's founder, Theodore Herzl, have made fools of themselves by believing that there is something called Judeo-Christian values. Judaism is dead. Judaism and all of its many divisions belongs to the kingdom of satan. (For those unfamiliar with this truth, please see the section from Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton's The Catholic Church and Salvation appended below.) There are Judeo-Masonic lies, but there is no such thing as a "Judeo-Christian" value. It is Christ or chaos. Nothing in between. Nothing.

Father Fahey went on to discuss the proper meaning of the term anti-Semitism as taught by Holy Mother Church:

The Catholic Church condemns hatred and want of charity between nations just as it does between individuals. By nature we are brothers and by our supernature, the divine life of grace, we are united in a brotherhood which is infinitely nobler still. “Above the brotherhood of humanity and fatherland,” said Pope Pius XI, “there is a brotherhood which is infinitely more sacred and more precious, the brotherhood which makes us one in Christ, our Redeemer, namely, our kinship in the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ Himself.”1

The Church condemns in a more particular manner hatred of the Jews. Why is hatred of the Jewish race, as such, especially odious? Because they are the nation and race in which the lord became flesh. Our Lord is a Jew of the House of David. Catholics commonly designate this hatred by the term “anti-Semitism.”

If we take into account the condemnation of the German racial theories in the Encyclical Letter, On the Persecution of the Church in Germany, and in the Letter of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries of April, 1938, the present National Socialist hatred of the Jewish race is to be still more severely condemned, because it is based on blasphemous and heretical presuppositions.

It must, however, be remarked with the writer of the article, Juifs et Chrétiens, in the Dictionnaire Apologétique de la Foi Chrétienne, that the Church has spoken for and against the Jews. On the one hand, the Church has spoken for the Jews to protect their persons and their worship against unjust attacks. She has always condemned acts of violence against the Jews and has respected the liberty of their consciences and allowed them freedom for their cult. On the other hand, the Church has spoken against the Jews, when they wanted to impose their yoke on the faithful and provoke apostasy. She has ways striven to protect the faithful from contamination by them. As experience in past centuries showed that if the Jews succeeded in attaining to high offices of State they would abuse their powers to the detriment of Catholics, the Church always strove to prevent Catholics from coming under their yoke. They were forbidden to proselytise and were not allowed to have Christians as slaves or servants.

On the one hand, the Church condemns race hatred in general and hatred of the Redeemer’s race in particular. On the other hand, the Church insists, as we have seen, on the duty of combating naturalism in public and private life and approves of love of native land and extols true supernatural patriotism. We have the right and the duty to defend our country and our nation against the unjust aggression of another nation. This duty is still more strongly urged upon us when it is a question of our country’s fidelity to Christ the King. We must, therefore, combat naturalism in general always and everywhere, and we must be vigilant in regard to the naturalism of the Jewish nation in particular. The tireless energy with which His own nation pursues the elimination of the influence of the supernatural life is doubly painful to our Lord’s Sacred Heart. The combat against naturalism in general and, therefore, against the organised naturalism of the Jewish nation, is urged upon us, for example, by Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi, 1900) and Pope Pius XI (Quas Primas, 1925, and Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

A later section in Father Fahey's The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation explained how the use of the term anti-Semitism has been employed in the United States to control American foreign policy and public opinion long ago before Patrick Joseph Buchanan wrote about Congress being Israeli-occupied territory:

Given the naturalistic messianic ambition of the Jewish nation to impose its rule on the other nations, anti-semitism for the Jews logically means whatever is in opposition to that ambition. The situation since the Second World War is being cleverly exploited to prevent anyone from opposing Jewish aims, through fear of being dubbed an “anti-Semite.” In my book, The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganisation of Society, I pointed out that the disordered National Socialist action against the corroding influence of Jewish naturalism on German national life led not only to measures of repression against the Jews, with regrettable violations of their personal rights, but also to persecution of the Catholic Church. Comparatively little information concerning the anti-Catholic measures ever reached the great newspaper-reading, cinema-going public, while hardly anyone could fail to be aware of what was done to the Jews. The term “anti-semitism,” with all its war connotation of Nazi cruelty, is now having its comprehension widened to include every form of opposition to the Jewish nation’s naturalistic programme. Forgetfulness of the disorder of Jewish naturalism is keeping Catholics blind to the consequences of accepting the term with its Jewish comprehension. According to the leaders of the Jewish nation, to stand for the rights of Christ the King is to be an anti-Semite.

Of all the countries in the world the United States is the country in which can best be observed this process of enlarging the comprehension of “anti-semitism” to include any and every form of opposition to what the Jewish leaders are aiming at. The United States, since its inception, has acted as if the Jewish naturalistic ambition of world-wide domination in opposition to the order of the world under Christ the King did not exist. Americans are now learning that a new anti-Christian organisation of the world is being brought about and that members of the Jewish nation are everywhere active in that work. On the one hand, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish War Veterans, and the well-known Communist Front, the American Civil Liberties Union, etc., are striving to prevent instruction of the New York public school children under the released time programme. On the other hand, there are powerful members of the Jewish nation like M.M. Warburg and J. P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., etc., etc., behind the movement for a naturalistic (or anti-supernatural) One World Government. The chief agency in the work of crushing, by the smear of smears, “anti-Semitic,” whatever is opposed to Jewish plans, is the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith. For an accurate account of the activities of that body, the two pamphlets, The Anti-Defamation League and its use in the World Communist Offensive and Know Your Enemy, by an honourable and courageous American, Robert H. Williams, are strongly recommended.

In Know Your Enemy, Robert H. Williams classifies the work of the Anti-Defamation League under four headings. Firstly, it “builds up liberal candidates, those tolerant of Communists and Zionists, to great reputations, in preparation for political office. Among its proteges are Dewey, Warren, Harold Stassen . . . Truman, the Roosevelt sons, Chester Bowles and a motley horde of lesser New Dealers. General Eisenhower was put into his job as figurehead of Columbia University by a group of internationalists . . . the League’s Walter Winchell for months boosted the Eisenhower candidacy. Eisenhower . . . is a tool in the hands of the Zionists.” Secondly, while building up its selected candidates, “it pours a stream of money and smear propaganda into an election against a chosen enemy.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler was thus defeated in Montana in 1941. Thirdly, it maintains “a nation-wide investigative agency. By its own statement, it has 200 keymen in 1200 cities. From many sources we know that this staff of G.P.U. agents spies on the private living and businesses of scores of thousands of Americans.” Fourthly, it carries on censorship, including character-defamation to suppress criticism. “By the use of information gathered by its spies, or by distorting that information . . . or by the mere threat of a malicious campaign . . . the A.D.L. is able to keep the newspapers, magazines and book publishers and Congress from effectively opposing it . . . That is why you may never have seen the name of the Anti-Defamation League in print . . . This. mighty machine promotes Communism and Zionism, protects the Frankfurter Communist-Zionist net inside the Government, subverts our children, dominates much of moviedom.” (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

This is even truer now than it was seventy years ago. Any of us who points out the facts of history and documents the roles that Jews have had in the creation of a world at war with its Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier must be deemed an "anti-Semite" and have his work monitored and condemned by the self-appointed high priests and priestesses of the synaagogue. American politicians of the false opposites of the naturalist "left" and of the naturalist "right" are, by and large, completely under the thumb of the synagogue and its paid agents in "evangelical" or "fundamentalist" Protestant sects, to say nothing of their stooge in white who lives at the Casa Santa Marta behind the walls of the Occupied Vatican on the West Bank of the Tiber River.

Major Williams then points out that the A.D.L’s book of smear against American anti-Communist leaders, entitled A Measure of Freedom, was prepared by a man named Arnold Forster: “Joseph P. Kamp, one of the best informed investigators in Washington, told Congress: ‘If you can get President Truman to let you look at the F.B.1. files, you will discover that Forster’s right name is Fastenberg, and that he was a member of the Communist spy ring.’8 Forster takes orders from the League’s national chairman, Meier Steinbrink, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court. Justice Steinbrink is on intimate terms with Justice Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court. We have been digging down to find Communists: those below are only the party members, the gangsters. We must look up to find the really big ones, those who would not stoop to join the party, but who create its policies, Frankfurter, Steinbrink, Lehman, Morgenthau and their consorts—these are the real Communists in America. They are the Zionist power behind Communism. The Zionists aim to dominate the West; the Communists the East, both producing the same revolution, both promoting the same world government, police backed—a world dictatorship.”

Even to mention Jewish naturalistic messianism, that is, Zionism, except favourably, is anti-Semitism in the Jewish sense. In Somewhere South of Suez, Douglas Reed points out that, in the vital matter of Zionist nationalism, the freedom of the Press has become a fallacy during the two decades preceding the publication of his book in 1951. “Newspaper-writers,” he continues, “have become less and less free to express any criticism of, or report any fact unfavourable to this new ambition of the Twentieth Century. When I eventually went to America I found that this ban, for such it is in practice, prevailed even more rigidly there than in my own country . . . In the matter of Zionist nationalism, which I hold to be allied in its roots to Soviet Communism, the ban is much more severe. In my own adult lifetime as a journalist, now covering thirty years, I have seen this secret ban grow from nothing into something approaching a law of lèse-majesté at some absolute court. In daily usage, no American or British newspaper, apparently, now dares to print a line of news or comment unfavourable to the Zionist ambition; and under this thrall matters are reported favourably or non-committally, if they are reported at all, which if they occurred elsewhere would be denounced with the most piteous cries of outraged morality. The inference to me is plain: the Zionist nationalists are powerful enough to govern governments in the great countries of the remaining West . . .

“Zionist nationalism! To-day American Presidents and British Prime Ministers, and all their colleagues, watch it as anxiously as Muslim priests watch for the crescent moon on the eve of Ramadan, and bow to it as humbly as the faithful prostrating themselves in the Mosque at Mecca . . . If a third war followed the course of the second one, when military victories were used to bring about political defeats, it would be directed to bring about a further spread of the Communist empire and of the Zionist state . . . or else, the first would be overthrown merely to aggrandise the second." (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

Any dispassionate review of these prophetic words is bound to help one overcome the effects of Judeo-Masonic naturalistic and nationalistic propaganda and to thus see the dangers of our current situation. While all nations have the right of legitimate self-defense to protect their own sins, they have the obligation to adhere to the precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law, which requires them to use proportionate means and to indemnify as far as is possible civilians from military attack and bombardment. It is never permissible to target civilian population centers, a prohibition that matters little to those who do not believe in Catholic truth (be they William Tecumseh Sherman or the folks who planned the Allied "obliteration bombing" of Dresden or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the displacement and mistreatment of Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Mohammedan, from their homes in 1948 and thereafter by the Talmudic Jews, who have made warfare on their neighbors ever since, helping to spawn more and more attacks on their own innocent civilians as a result).

No, we must continue to pray, especially to Our Lady, and sacrifice for the conversion of everyone in the Holy Land to the true Faith, remembering these words of Pope Pius XII as we do so:

9. But you are aware, Venerable Brethren, that our prayers are most readily welcomed by the Most Blessed Virgin when they are not merely fleeting and empty words but the outpouring of hearts adorned with the required virtues.

10. See to it, then, as your apostolic zeal will suggest, that these prayers in common during the month of May are matched by a corresponding reform and revival of Christian conduct.

11. For only from Christian virtues may we hope to see the course of history take its proper, orderly direction, and men empowered not only to achieve prosperity

in this world with God’s help but also to enjoy, with the infusion of sanctifying grace. unending happiness in Heaven.

12. But there is another special reason today which brings affliction and keen anxiety to our hearts. We mean to refer to the Holy Places of Palestine, which have long been disturbed.

13. Indeed, if there exists any place that ought to be most dear to every cultured person, surely it is Palestine, where, from the dawn of antiquity, such great light of truth shone for all men, where the Word of God made flesh announced, through the angels’ choir, peace to all men; where, finally, Christ hanging on the Cross acquired salvation for all mankind, with arms outstretched as if He were inviting all nations to fraternal harmony; and where He consecrated His precept of charity with the shedding of His blood.

14. We desire, therefore, Venerable Brethren, that supplications be poured forth to the Most Holy Virgin for this request: that the situation in Palestine may at long last be settled justly and thereby concord and peace be also happily established.

15. We place great confidence in the most powerful patronage of Our Heavenly Mother — a patronage which, during this month dedicated to her, innocent children especially will implore in a holy crusade of prayer.

16. It will be precisely your task to invite and stimulate them with all diligence — not only children but also fathers and mothers, who in great numbers should give them leadership and example.

17. We know well that We have never appealed in vain to the ardent zeal which inflames your hearts. That is why We seem to enjoy already the sight of dense multitudes of children, of men and women, crowding the churches to beg from the great Mother of God all the graces and favors of which we stand in need.

18. May she, who has given us Jesus, obtain for us that all those who have wandered from the path of rectitude may straightway return to Him, moved by salutary contrition.

19. May she obtain for us — she is our kindest Mother, who has shown herself always, in the face of every danger, our powerful helper and channel of grace — may she obtain for us, We say, that even in the midst of the grievous need surrounding us a just solution will be found for disputes, and that a firm and free peace will finally dawn resplendent for the Church and for all nations.

20. Some years ago, as all will remember, while the late war was still in its fury, when human means showed themselves to be uncertain and inadequate to that terrible conflagration, We addressed our fervent prayers to the all merciful Redeemer, invoking the powerful patronage of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

21. And even as our predecessor of immortal memory, Leo XIII, at the dawn of the twentieth century saw fit to consecrate the whole human race to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, so We have likewise, in the guise of representative of the whole human family which He redeemed, desired to dedicate it in turn to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary. (Pope Pius XII, Auspicia Qaedam, May 1, 1948.)

These words are even more relevant now than they were seventy-seven years ago.

It is thus with renewed reliance upon and confidence in the intercessory power and maternal protection of the August Queen of Heaven, especially through her Most Holy Rosary, for the conversion of all men everywhere, including Mohammedans and Jews and all unbaptized persons whose souls are captive to the adversary by means of Original Sin and what are, objectively speaking, their own Mortal Sins against the binding precepts of the Divine and Natural Law.

We beg Our Lady to hasten the day of the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart so that men will listen to these words of peace and acknowledge them as their own in their hearts and souls as members of the Catholic Church:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us.