Meditations on Gaza

Address to the American People on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the threat of world war Emanuel Pastreich Independent Candidate for President October 12, 2023 Rivers of blood and piles of rubble mark the wounds that cover both Palestine and Israel, which are made of the same soil and water, and all inhabited by people, plain people. These wounds are traces of a subterrain battle involving Jews, Arabs, and plenty of secret partners, a battle that now threatens the entire world in the manner that the killing of Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire threatened Europe in 1914. The one thing that the politicians have not been saying to you in the days after the attacks that left Israelis, and then many more Palestinians, dead, is that we should make sure we know what happened before we take any action, that we should know who our true enemies are before we start swinging a sword. They know full well that once the Israel Defense Forces start the process of starving and killing the impoverished people of Gaza, there will be no way back to reason, to level-headed policy. We will be committed to a horrific war that we never wanted. That is the whole point. Once you tell millions of people trapped in a ghetto to disappear, or else, then anything, any horrible thing, becomes possible. And the Jewish protesters in New York City demanding that all Palestinians in Gaza be eliminated were clearly crisis actors, not thoughtful citizens. We are witnessing a show, but the deaths that will follow will be no show. This rush to action, to judgement, this jump deep into clouded hysteria is not accidental; no, it was the whole purpose of the media blitz, just as was the case after the incident, to corral us into taking irreversible steps that will not only leave tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, in Palestine dead, but could easily extend to a war between Israel and Iran, the United States and Iran, or the United States, NATO, and Israel against Russia and Iran---that is to say a world war, the world war that some sick souls have been hankering after for years. Let me first declare that I do not know what exactly happened. That puts me lightyears ahead of those media pundits, politicians, and government representatives who assume that they know everything based on news sources, intelligence reports, and gossip that have been wrong in almost every case for the last twenty-three years. We are forced, by circumstances, to speculate as to what might have happened. I must speculate here in good faith, in accord with the scientific method, while asking to be corrected where I fall short. We do not have time to wait fifty years for all the classified directives to be made public. First, this attack attributed to Hamas is of a scale and intensity that could not possibly have been carried out without the full knowledge of the IDF, granted the millions that they pay out to informants in the occupied territories, and the tens of billions they pay for sensors, drones, satellites, and the most advanced surveillance technology in the world—partially funded by the American taxpayer.