Palestine – Outsider Insight

Could establishment fearmongering about ethno-fascism usher in technofascism?

Honestly, I’m done with bombastic clowns in the mould of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders. They play to the patriotic family values of the disenfranchised Western working classes who feel let down by their faux-progressive mainstream politicians, obsessed with the WEF’s lofty sustainable development goals and overseeing cultural convergence on a global scale. The mask is off. In country after country, vast swathes of the electorate have finally cottoned onto the deceptive nature of counterproductive woke ideology that far from emancipating the underclasses delegates all power to a technocratic master race.

However, after seeing public spending splurges on lockdowns, war games, gender bending, social engineering and hair-brained net-zero initiatives, many will now switch their allegiance to another bunch of neocon-artists. But to whom do the new Thatcherite kids on the block calling themselves Reform owe their allegiance? They may parrot all the right soundbites about controlling borders and making the country great again, but they’re in bed with many of the same tech billionaires and lobby groups.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve not suddenly swung back to the infantile left of my teenage years dreaming of a worldwide revolution against greedy capitalists, tearing down all borders and replacing families with communes. That’s what Aaron Bastani might call Fully Automated Luxury Communism. The book basically puts a neo-Marxian spin on Klaus Schwab’s vision of a Great Reset to accommodate the fourth industrial revolution.

The old left-right paradigm makes little sense when many establishment figures pose on the radical left and decry the working classes for being reactionary malcontents. But some factions within the global elites can pose on the faux-nationalist right too. The Donald’s focus has shifted from MAGA to MIGA (Make Israel Gruesome Again), while his associates plan new wars over control of Venezuelan and Nigerian oil reserves.

My main bone of contention has always been with the extreme concentration of power that undermines the self-determination of communities and families. With New Labour, we get collusion with BlackRock, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison for the construction of huge new AI data centres, new mRNA jab manufacturing plants and more clinical trials of dodgy therapeutics. With Reform we will probably see sweet deals with Elon Musk, the cultural left’s new bête noire.

In September we saw probably the largest politically incorrect demonstration this decade as a sea of flags from all four corners of the United Kingdom, but ominously interspersed with Israeli Stars of David. While the mainstream media estimated only 150,000, aerial footage suggested a much larger number although the organisers’ claim of 3 million may be wide of the mark. It competes with the November 2023 Armistice Day march against the bombing of Gaza where the police estimated an attendance of around 300,000 and the organisers around 800,000.

More interesting was the reaction from left-branded TV talking heads concerned about foreign tech moguls like Elon Musk exerting undue influence on British politics, while turning a blind eye to the banksters and oligarchs closely aligned with the World Economic Forum and its plans to reimagine humanity in the fourth industrial revolution.

Hardly a day passes without an outburst of self-righteous indignation about the latest gaffe by a Reform or Tory MP, sometimes for merely stating the obvious about Britain’s rapidly changing demographics. The latest example saw a social media pile-on against Reform’s goody-two-shoes MP, Sarah Pochin, who claimed to be sick and tired of seeing so many black and brown actors in TV commercials. The context was the over-representation of darker-skinned people in British TV ads, as corroborated by a recent Channel 4 survey. Despite record levels of immigration in recent years, over 80% in the UK are still white, but this proportion is much lower in school-age children, often cited as around two thirds but declining. Numerous studies have also identified white working-class school leavers as the most disadvantaged group in terms of academic performance and earnings in early adulthood. This leads to the widespread perception that the ruling elites now discriminate against the direct descendants of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles in favour of newcomers, pitting rival ethnic communities against each other.

Local elections and opinion polls continue to show stronger support for Reform among the settled working classes with the LibDems and Greens doing best in the leafy suburbs, gentrified inner city neighbourhoods and market towns favoured by the affluent professional classes, while Labour struggles to hold onto its new strongholds in areas with large BAME communities and falls back on its army of public service professionals and high-profile opinion leaders favoured by the establishment media.

Politics has descended into spectacle with emotive rhetoric that serves only to name and shame rivals rather than speak truth to power and hold the decision-makers to account. A new brand of radical chic parliamentarians such as Zarah Sultana may boldly accuse the government of complicity in Israel’s genocidal war crimes in Gaza, sitting only a few yards away from Rupert Lowe MP who has repeatedly complained about anti-white racism, but it’s all theatre as neither will get anywhere near levers of power. Genocide is a highly emotive term. While Israel may have killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians over the years, many millions more survive in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and a wider global diaspora, in part thanks to a high fertility rate. By contrast, the ethnic displacement of English natives from many urban areas is just as significant statistically but has happened peacefully as many inner-city dwellers moved to the suburbs in an endogenous process that later morphed into white flight. Differential fertility rates also have played a key role in Britain’s changing demographics. Yet in different ways Ms Sultana and Mr Lowe may have more in common than meets the eye. For a start, they both oppose Digital ID as favoured by the Blairite centre.

Although Zarah has succumbed to chameleonic compliance in her performative advocacy of faux-progressive causes such as transgender rights, deep down she cares mainly about her Muslim community and the Palestinian cause. Likewise, Rupert is probably just an old-school Tory concerned about Great Britain’s rapid moral and cultural decline, trying to defend his people and finding himself increasingly at odds with the new globalist establishment. That makes both Rupert and Zarah critical thinkers, prepared to speak their minds, in a chamber chock-a-block with unquestioning conformists who like to parrot well-rehearsed lines about countering Russian disinformation or saving our BBC or our NHS from Big Bad Trump.

Who’s really in charge?

When the economy fails, the ruling classes resort to war. Opposition to imperialism has historically come from socialists and libertarians alike. Adam Smith once opined: “War and imperialism are detrimental to economic prosperity and undermine the principles of liberty and prosperity”. Historically in the West, the biggest warmongers have always posed as moderates. The likes of Macron, Starmer and Merz all serve the interests of the most powerful lobbies on earth. They provide temporary public faces for policies decided behind closed doors and sold to the general population under false pretences. Just like the covid psyop, the prospect of war with Russia, Iran or Venezuela empowers the state to rush through emergency legislation in the same vein as the infamous Coronavirus Act 2020 with 300 pages of special measures restricting the basic freedoms of assembly, family life and bodily autonomy we had cherished for centuries. Only the pretext changes. If the authorities can suspend civil liberties and stifle dissent in the name of public health, they can do the same to fight perceived threats to our freedom and democracy, a catchphrase that has become as hollow in the public mind as safe and effective.

As the American Empire crumbles, we may be witnessing growing rifts within the Western World. The unpopular Starmer administration is distancing itself from the US-Israeli axis, just as American grassroots liberals and conservatives, from Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Thomas Massie are now openly condemning Israeli interference in American politics and NYC elected a Muslim Mayor who has turned down offers to visit Jerusalem. However, many failed to notice Zohran Mamdani’s close relationship with Alexander Soros. One way or another, the tide is turning against the kingpins of US foreign policies. As political alliances shift, new divides emerge between regime loyalists and critical thinkers as well as between the European and American wings of the Western Alliance

Society on the Cliff Edge

Into the Levantine quagmire

Who could benefit most from civil unrest among rival factions who choose to believe radically divergent narratives?

For postmodern Zionists, Israel can never do any harm, only try desperately to defend Israel’s right to exist and to combat genocidal terrorists hiding among civilians who may also be responsible for aiding and abetting mass murder. Inevitably, Israeli propagandists seldom miss an opportunity to evoke the Nazi Holocaust and accuse their opponents of antisemitism. This narrative appeals not only to those who may have a vested interest in Israeli exceptionalism, but also to most mainstream politicians in North America and many in Western Europe. They choose to turn a blind eye to collateral damage caused by Israeli airstrikes and incursions and to overstress the crimes attributed to Hamas and their alleged sympathisers. Apparently, calling for a ceasefire will only empower Hamas. We must let the IDF surgically cleanse the Gaza Strip of all undesirables to save the Jewish homeland. Anything less would be antisemitic.

The trouble is many nationalists, social conservatives and Christians have fallen for this rhetoric too as they feel threatened by the growth of political Islam. Many talk of their country’s Judaeo-Christian culture. Alas they find themselves in bed with global Zionists, who have long advocated the phasing out of nation states everywhere, except Israel, promoted mass migration and alternatives to traditional two-parent families. Bibi Netanyahu may have courted Donald Trump and Eastern European nationalists like Viktor Orbán, but he also has close links with investment bankers and the upper echelons of the Biotech Industrial Complex, neither of whom believe in self-determination at any level of human organisation.

That’s not to say those on the other side of the toxic Israeli-Palestinian debate are any better. Some hardcore protesters blame the native working classes for crimes committed by the Israeli armed forces or for the repercussions of the Balfour Declaration and later Anglo-American military adventurism in the region. While we may observe Saudi Arabia has shifted its allegiances from the West to the BRICS block, it still expects the same degree of social conformity from its citizens with a strict enforcement of sharia law for the masses, but convenient exemptions for the aristocracy and wealthy ex-pat communities. As much as Muslim leaders preach solidarity and Islamic values, they’ve collaborated with international bankers and the Western military industrial complex. Until China brokered a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the British Royal Air Force was training Saudi Air Force pilots to bomb Northern Yemen with Eurofighter typhoons. As Mark Curtis documented so well in Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam, the West has often armed and funded proponents of Islamic fundamentalism as the best means of pacifying the populace and suppressing dissent. Islamic Pakistan is in the process of expelling 1.7 million Afghan refugees with barely a murmur of protest from Western NGOs. Some of us can still remember when the US and UK armed and trained the Mujahadeen, who later morphed into the Taliban, to fight the Soviet Union’s occupation. Now Saudi Arabia no longer depends on American and European money, they’re free to realign with Iran against Israel. If the Lebanese Hezbollah joins the conflict with Iranian supports, things could turn very nasty. As Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor have observed, given the Collective West’s current weakness in the closing stages of the war over Eastern Ukraine, Israel may well lose the war without an immediate ceasefire.

The Western ruling classes are no better than their Arab counterparts. They’re busy managing the staged downsizing of their once powerful economies with little regard to defending their self-determination or borders. The armed forces of all major Western countries are fully integrated into NATO, AUKUS and/or the EU, who over the last three decades have been mainly engaged in often counterproductive global policing operations. As the balance of power heads east and south with growing competition over strategic resources, populist leaders will seek retribution against the Old World Order or what the Neocons once called the New American Century, with the working classes paying the heaviest prices. You can bet American attitudes to foreign policy will change once Saudi Arabia imposes an oil embargo on Israel’s allies, which will drive up prices at the pump.

Delusions of Grandeur

Many self-defined British patriots, who have fallen out of favour with the UK’s globally minded metropolitan elites, have sided with the Israeli government. Some may genuinely believe they share a common struggle with Israel to defend their homeland against hostile Islamists who threaten the liberal enlightenment. Yet the most influential friends of Israel among British parliamentarians are by and large supportive of both mass immigration and multiculturalism with the mirage of gay nightclubs and casinos happily plying their trade alongside Mosques and Kebab shops. The stage is set for a turf war between rival factions of commoners identifying with different faiths. One adheres to British exceptionalism, long abandoned by the upper classes, and the other either to Islamism or some brand of international socialism, both subservient to global banksters.

Many feared the large National March for Palestine in London today would end in violence. In the event there were skirmishes with the police on the side-lines with one reported stabbing of a counter-protester holding up a sign reading “Hamas is Isis”. I fear both may have been agent provocateurs, for neither would have existed without Western military intervention and both may well have created, at least in part, by American and/or Israeli secret services.

How long can Western leaders keep up the pretence that Israel is only acting in self-defence. Emanuel Macron, the darling of global governance think tanks, has broken ranks and called for a ceasefire. Do they realise the game is up? Is this just a dress rehearsal for the next phase of destabilisation, as Sonia Poulton suggests?

Tribal Skirmishes

I've read conflicting reports of rightwing thugs attacking the police as they kept them apart from the main pro-ceasefire march and of pro-Palestine protestors harassing poppy sellers and throwing fireworks at the police. Rebel News circulated a video clip of a masked protestor claiming that "Hitler knew how to deal with the Jews". Was he an actor? Other clips on social media show Israelis, speaking in Hebrew with English subtitles, calling for the eradication of non-compliant Palestinians. Whatever happened to interethnic tolerance or the great melting pot of humanity? The mainstream media outlets still deny spreading such hatred. Pro-Israeli opinion-leaders like to claim only Hamas oppress Gaza residents, while pro-Palestinians claim many Jews both in the West and in Israel itself support their cause. Whichever way, it's hard to reason with people who believe the other side wants to exterminate them. Yet the ruling classes seem to get along fine. Netanyahu had no qualms about flying to Moscow last December to meet Vladimir Putin. Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is happy to cultivate good relations with his counterparts in Russia, Saudi Arabia, the US and Europe. By contrast, on the ground rival groups blame either Islam or Zionism for their woes. To keep the peace, our local administrators will inevitably use hate-speech laws to clamp down on dissent as they preside over falling living standards.