By Michael Collins
Piper
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disturbing new book, How the End Begins: The Road to
a Nuclear World War III, makes it clear that a third
world war, involving the likely use of nuclear weapons,
may be instigated by Israel. Although the author, Jewish-American
writer Ron Rosenbaum, believes there are a number of possible
flashpoints for nuclear war, he places Israel among the
foremost sources for such a conflagration.
 He
foresees a “preemptive” strike by Israel, using
either nuclear or conventional weapons, against some other
nation, probably Iran, in order to prevent that nation from
acquiring nuclear arms. This could set off a chain reaction
resulting in the further use of nuclear weapons in the ensuing
crisis, potentially involving the United States, Russia,
Pakistan, India — the list goes on.
In
fact, Rosenbaum notes that in 2007 when Israel launched
a military strike on a presumed Syrian nuclear installation,
the London-based Spectator published a little-noticed
article on Oct. 6 quoting a senior British official: “If
people had known how close we came to World War III that
day there’d have been mass panic . . . [and we] really
would have been dealing with the bloody Book of Revelation
and Armageddon.”
Rosenbaum
writes:
. . . The fact that the hand of man
finds itself recurrently, obsessively scripting fiery,
self-immolating cataclysmic conclusions to the human saga
may well be, at the very least, self-fulfilling prophecy.
It may also say that deep down, we really are a species
obsessed with its own self- destruction . . .
This
idea of “self-destruction” being deeply rooted
is particularly chilling since Israel’s nuclear policy
— from the beginning — has been based on the
Samson Option, immortalized by Jewish-American
Pulitzer Prize winner and critic of Israel Seymour Hersh
in his book by that title.
Like
Samson of the Bible who brought the temple down upon himself
and his enemies, the “Samson Option” is the
concept that Israel would commit nuclear suicide and bring
the rest of the world down with it if Israel’s leaders
believed Israel was about to be conquered. This theme goes
back to the much-heralded ancient Jewish legend of Masada
— the purported “last stand” of Jewish
warriors, who committed suicide in the face of a Roman onslaught.
Although
Israeli scholars have proven the Masada story to be largely
a myth, the importance of the legend to modern Israel is
such that newly anointed Israeli military officers are sworn
into their posts proclaiming: “Masada shall never
fall again.”
According
to Rosenbaum, the modern Israeli mindset is deeply rooted
in the fear of a “second Holocaust.” This concept,
writes Rosenbaum, “is a phrase that has become a potential
motive, if not a trigger, for the outbreak of WorldWar III
in the Middle East.” Rosenbaum says: “Israelis
tell me that the use of the phrase ‘second Holocaust’
has become normalized there.”
Rosenbaum
suggests the Israelis believe the international conference
on the Holocaust,* held in Tehran in 2006 by the Iranian
government which this writer attended, was an incitement
to genocide, a deliberate call, in effect, for a “second
Holocaust,” and therefore provides some rationale
for Israel to launch a “preemptive” strike against
Iran to prevent a “second Holocaust.” No such
topic was discussed at the conference.
As
for the morality of such an action, Rosenbaum cites Moshe
Halbertal, a professor of ethics and the international law
of war at both New York University Law School and the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, describing Halbertal as “one
of the most widely respected thinkers on the moral and ethical
dilemmas of modern warfare,” who has authored a code
of ethics for the Israeli Defense Forces.
Halbertal
says that, in some cases, a preemptive nuclear strike can
be “moral” although, in Rosenbaum’s assessment
of his views, “retaliation after being struck by nuclear
weapons cannot be.”
Yet,
while Halbertal believes Israel could have the right to
launch a preemptive strike against Iran, Halbertal, according
to the author, seems to be saying, “It’s going
to happen whether I like it or not.”
Rosenbaum
concludes: “It’s almost a fatalistic admission
that it will.”
Rosenbaum
concludes:
All
this will make it more likely that — sooner or later
— Israel will unleash nuclear weapons [and] risk
inaugurating World War III — to prevent what they
perceive as an impending nuclear strike. Israel will not
wait for the world to step in. They may not even wait
to be sure their intelligence . . . is rock-solid certain.
They can’t afford to take that chance. It is not
something I advocate; it is something I foresee.
Rosenbaum
— who calls himself a “secular, liberal, nonobservant,
non-Zionist,American-born Jew with no immediate family members
murdered in the Holocaust” — rightly fears nuclear
war, whether instigated by Israel or otherwise. He closes
his book with this plea:
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. . If you’re in a position to launch, whoever you
are, now or in the future, if you’re in a position
to send the targeting codes, if it’s up to you,
whoever you are, my plea is “Nothing justifies following
orders for genocide. Don’t send those codes, don’t
twist those keys.”
*For
proof that Jews (in any number) were not gassed by
Adolf Hitler, send $10 for a 100-page special issue
of THE BARNES
REVIEW magazine dedicated
to the subject. Assembled by AFP’s Michael Collins
Piper, this “All Holocaust” issue has
all the information you need to convince yourself
that the Holocaust is the biggest hoax of the 20th
century. Send request with payment to TBR, P.O. Box
15877, Washington, D.C. 20003. |
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Open Threats of Nuclear
Apocalypse by Israel
Demonstrating the mindset of those who
endorse Israel’s use of nuclear weapons, author Ron
Rosenbaum cites well-known American Jewish academic, Dr. David
Perlmutter, who wrote a
shocking piece in the Los Angeles Times on April 7,
2002. In his essay, “Dark Thoughts and Quiet Desperation,”
Perlmutter issued a threat in no uncertain terms:
What
[is Israel] to do? I have other dreams as well — apocalyptic
ones. I think: Israel has been building nuclear weapons for
30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance
of doom has meant for them in the past and they have ensured
against it. Masada was not an example to follow— it
hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? With an H-bomb?
What
would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands
of years of massacres but a nuclear winter? Or invite all
those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to
join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people
facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks
away . . . have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate
justice?
Perlmutter
is not the only distinguished Jewish voice making such threats.
Dr. Martin van Crevald of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
Israel’s preeminent geopolitical and military thinker,
made his own threat against the non-Jewish world in the January
2003 edition of the Dutch magazine Elsevier:
We
[Israelis] possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets
and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps
even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air
force. Our armed forces are not the 30th strongest in the
world, but rather the second or third. We have the capacity
to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that
this will happen before Israel goes under.
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. . ..Michael Collins Piper can now be heard
on the Internet at michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial “underground
bestseller” documenting the collaboration of
Israeli intelligence in the assassination of John
F. Kennedy. He is also the author of The
High Priests of War, The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America ,
The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within, Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up in the 20th
Century, The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb, and Target:
Traficant. These works can be found
at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT BOOKS:
1-888-699-NEWS. He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia, Japan, Canada,
Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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(Issue #15, April 11, 2011, AMERICAN
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