Major General Nilforoushan’s body has arrived in Mashhad. He will be subsequently taken to Isfahan, where he will be buried. About the assassination by the Israeli regime—a common practice by the Israeli regime—of top commanders, high-ranking officials of the resistance front in the region. I want you to break that down for us. It’s not been successful in the past. And we can see that with, for example, the Hezbollah resistance movement. The assassination of high-ranking officials will not deter the efforts and the power and the persistence of these resistance groups. The Zionists don’t seem to understand the first rule of strategy in these matters, which is that you don’t want to create martyrs. But they are going around creating all kinds of martyrs. General Nilforoushan is now so beloved and such an inspiration to others that there will be dozens rising up to try to carry on the struggle that he was willing to risk his life to push forward.

This is just kind of an elementary aspect of warfare that goes back millennia. And the Zionists don’t get it. Or, you know, maybe at some level they do. Maybe they’re just evil and they have to behave according to their evil cultural programming and they can’t understand good people. They can’t understand that good people, when their heroic leaders are willing to risk their lives and then get martyred, rally behind that cause.

So it doesn’t work. And some of the Zionists know that it doesn’t work. In fact, the main spokesperson for the Israeli intelligence apparatus—and specifically the people who have been running around killing folks for decades now, Ronan Bergman, in his book Rise and Kill First, shows that it hasn’t worked. The Zionists killed off all sorts of PLO people in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and they capped it off by apparently murdering Yasser Arafat, although that’s not in Bergman’s book, in the early 2000s.And yet, as Bergman points out in the book, rather acerbically for somebody who’s basically a Mossad stenographer, this has simply produced a more dedicated and in many cases actually greater leadership in the resistance. And by decapitating the PLO and largely neutering that organization, they created an even stronger resistance, the current Islamic resistance, a coalition of many groups. And this Islamic resistance is even more likely to rally behind its martyrs than the secular resistance was that they were able to decapitate in the past.

Every time they create a new martyr, they create a bigger problem for themselves. And even people like Ronan Bergman and his Israeli intelligence sources seemingly know this, but they can’t stop themselves because—well, I guess they’re evil, and evil has to go lash out at good, and the evil people plot to kill the good people.

But “they plot and God plots and ultimately God is the best of planners.”

And before we leave you, Mr. Barrett, I also want you to address the ongoing situation in Lebanon and Gaza, the continued Israeli crimes that are being committed in the West Asia region, the attacks and killing of civilians in Lebanon, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has passed the one-year mark.

Once again, the Zionists are showing that what they do best is slaughtering helpless, unarmed civilians, especially children, babies, their mothers. This is what they’re dedicated to doing. They’re dedicated to trying to exterminate the people of Palestine so they can steal their land. That’s what Zionism has always been about. And when they face actual military resistance, they don’t do so well.

And right now, we’re seeing this illustrated once again. Just as in Gaza, where they were unable to achieve their goals, which were to eliminate Hamas and bring back their captives alive. Now in Lebanon, they have been stopped practically at the border. They haven’t been able to progress much into Lebanon. And now they’re falling back on Plan B and Plan C, just like they are in Gaza. In Gaza, their Plan B involves a deliberate starvation of hundreds of thousands, perhaps half a million people in North Gaza. That’s just raising this genocide to an even more unbelievable and disgusting level.

And in Lebanon, apparently they are trying to figure out some way to get around this complete roadblock that Hezbollah has erected in front of them. And their tanks are being blown up. They’re losing in these encounters. They’re being lured into traps. Their military war is going very, very badly. And so they’re taking out their frustration by slaughtering civilians. And we saw that in Gaza with the ever greater number of innocent civilians who’ve been murdered. The official totals of 40,000-plus probably don’t come near the real total, which is likely already well into six figures.

And in Lebanon, once again, they’re making no progress on the military front. They’ve actually exposed that they’re vulnerable to Iranian missile strikes. They’ve lost their Iron Dome. And the way they take out their frustrations for losing the military struggle is by slaughtering civilians. It’s not surprising that they blew up all of those civilian affiliates of Hezbollah with the exploding pagers and radios and the worst act of terrorism in modern history. And it’s not surprising that they’re continuing with that effort to kill civilians, even as they continue to lose on the battlefield.

Okay, we’re going to have to leave it there. Thanks to expert in West Asian affairs, Kevin Barrett, joining us from Saidia, Morocco.

Biblical Roots of Zionist Genocide?

By Richard C. Cook, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, American Geopolitical Institute. Author, Our Country, Then and Now (Clarity Press, 2023)

This morning Kevin posted an outstanding analysis entitled, “Why Israel’s Assassinations Only Strengthen the Resistance.” Following are my own comments.

Kevin has certainly captured the Zionist modus operandi here. I would only add that it is the same modus operandi that what I call the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire has engaged in for centuries.

The basic pattern is for them to move toward a territory they covet, launch a devastating genocidal assault against the people who live there, install a puppet regime of compliant collaborators to police those who remain alive, and suck out the proceeds from their resources in perpetuity.

In some cases, the imperialists may actually install their own populations on the land stolen in such a way. For the last century or so, the devastating genocidal assault has been accomplished by saturation bombing with high explosives, napalm, white phosphorous, depleted uranium, etc. (In the case of Japan, of course, nukes, which may now be in use by Israel.)

Examples of all this are legion–the Anglo-Americans (and other Europeans) against the Native Americans, the British in Ireland, India and Africa, the Americans again in the Philippines, Britain and the U.S. against Germany, and, post-World War II, the U.S. against Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, Syria, and now, the Israelis against the Palestinians, using U.S.-supplied aircraft and munitions.

So yes, Israel is at it today, but it’s part of a longstanding pattern.

Where did this genocidal mania come from? That, of course, is a complex matter. I would turn, as I have done before, to British journalist Douglas Reed (1895-1976) and his classic “The Controversy of Zion.” He writes that the only possible source of the doctrine of total destruction of entire peoples that we see in the modern world is the Biblical Book of Deuteronomy. See Deuteronomy 7:1-5, cited below.

Some have argued that the historical impulse for modern Zionism arose with the Protestants of Great Britain (especially the Scots) and the Americans who were accustomed to literal interpretations of the Bible and especially partial to the Old Testament.

So this may be what we are seeing at work today, with the Jews of Israel fulfilling the madness of their old tribal god. But the Anglo-Americans are the enablers.

Let me add that my own Christian beliefs and values do not support this at all. Jesus came to change all this. I daresay Mohamed did too.

Here’s the quote:

“1 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.”

Why anyone would think that in the 20th century this is a prescription for successful international relations must truly be out of their minds.

Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute. Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury.

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