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Will Zamir Rescue Israel and Gaza?

Israel’s savaging of Gaza has now inflicted over 61,000 dead. This is close to the generally accepted death toll from the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in Sept 1945.Nagasaki was hit with the second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. Its hilly topography prevented even greater casualties. But no one really knows how many Japanese died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from explosions, seas of fire, radiation or lack of food and medicines.According to the post-war US strategic bombing survey a third to a half of all buildings in Japan were destroyed by waves of US heavy bombers showering firebombs on Japanese cities. Germany’s cities fared even worse from US and British carpet bombing. As intense as the bombing of Japan and Germany was, the photos of the aftermath do not appear as cataclysmic as what we see today in Gaza. The obliteration of the Gaza enclave by US-supplied Israeli aircraft and US-made heavy bombs was even more destructive than what the US 8th Air Force did to German cities. Not an ounce of mercy was shown to the humans and wretched animals trapped in Gaza.

The Menace of Nuclear Weapons

The film “Oppenheimer” focuses on the role played by the brilliant physicist, Julies Robert
Oppenheimer, in the creation of the first atomic and plutonium bombs. It suggests that he was
at the center of organizing the scientific and technical work on the first bombs. Then after the
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, he became tormented by
the destructive power of the bombs and advocated futilely for international control of these
weapons. He lost his security clearance as a result of this position and lived on in relative
obscurity without any influence on policy. However, the U.S. remained committed to nuclear
weapons, to a first-use policy, helped to precipitate the Cold War, and all this continues to this
day.
Here is a summary of what occurred in what became known as the Manhattan Project from the
Wikipedia public encyclopedia (https://wikipedia.org/Manhattan_Project).
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“The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that

An Offensive Shield -- for Impunity, and Genocide: The Iron Dome and U.S. Complicity in Slaughter of Gazans

The House of Representatives has approved giving Israel an additional $1.3 billion in “emergency defense assistance” for its Iron Dome missile defense program, another installment of countless billions sent from the United States to intensify a one-sided war against the Palestinian people.

The Iron Dome system intercepts short range rockets (launched from 2.5 to 43 miles) through the joint work of the IDF, Israeli contractors, and U.S. weapons manufacturers like Raytheon. Radar batteries detect incoming missiles, calculate direction and threat level, and, if necessary, target the menacing projectile and speed interceptors to destroy it.

The Iron Dome destroys incoming rockets at high altitude, but, since its emplacement in 2011, the system has also functioned to enable Israel to conduct ethnic cleansing and perpetuate genocide with impunity in Gaza and the West Bank.

It has underwritten an astonishingly deadly campaign of collective punishment, with lengthy, targeted air, drone, and guided missile strikes in densely populated areas. These deadly attacks are carried out against a people who have no army, no shield, and no means of response.

Beit Hanoun’s Fury: How Gaza’s Obliterated Northern Town Defies Israeli Victory

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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu geared up for what was intended as a triumphant visit to Washington, commencing on Monday, July 7, 2025, Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades in Beit Hanoun were meticulously preparing their own stark counter-narrative. On the very inaugural day of the Israeli leader’s high-stakes diplomatic trip, the battalion launched a devastating strike, inflicting significant casualties on Israeli soldiers. The Israeli army, notorious for obfuscating its military losses, begrudgingly acknowledged five soldiers killed and 14 wounded, some critically.

Genocide Made Invisible

Whatever the outcomes of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in Gaza, a bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty. That pact and its horrific consequences for Palestinian people either continue to shock Americans or gradually normalize indifference toward ongoing atrocities on a massive scale.

Till All the Foe Is Vanquished

I’ve been away from “the world” for a while – by which I mean, away from home and my life of computer-focused hermitude.

As I wait for round 2 of my cataract surgery (my right eye), I remain with my loving family in Appleton, Wisconsin. Yeah, I have my computer with me, but hardly have the wherewithal to stay intensely focused on global events, beyond “Oh my6 God, we’re bombing Iran now?” and masked ICE gunmen are rounding up “illegals” all across the country.

As I sit on the couch, presumably recovering from my left-eye surgery, I want to scream and shove all this obnoxious news into a corner of my mind, where I can absorb it slowly, in a context of hope/ Yeah, we will move beyond all this. The media may not report on it, but humanity is evolving. Right?

Tame the “Rising Lion” before it eats us!

Israel’s government, which has undertaken, with prevaricative impunity the illegal occupation and theft of Palestinian water sources, farmland, homes, property, and energy resources through ethnic cleansing and the execrable crimes of mass starvation and genocide in Gaza, has further escalated a world crisis by the preemptive bombing attack on Iran, through a self-proclaimed “Operation Rising Lion.”

This deadly deceit is of monumental proportions that one must struggle with the horrific reality it presents.

Attempting to label such crimes as a defensive strikes does violence to reason. The historical record will show that Israel’s oft-repeated insistence on the Iranian nuclear weapon threat was a contrivance to justify an arms buildup funded almost entirely by the American taxpayer.

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