The Post-Partisan Emporium

  IRAN: Everything You Need to Know But Were Too Afraid of the Israel Lobby to Ask Ilana Mercer   Israel's bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. Credit: Wikimedia Commons There exists in Israel a condition that is as much a part of the nation’s collective ‘soul,’ as it is the ‘souls’ of individual Israelis. The mindset is Jewish supremacy; the shared endeavor emanating from it is regional, military supremacy. IT’S ABOUT PALESTINE. Of all the known facts about Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, now nominally suspended by Trump, this is the most important. Incisively  put by Craig Mokhiber , “Iran is the last, independent, frontline state that refuses to submit, to normalize the crimes against the Palestinian people.” Quite simply, “ Iran was being punished for its support for the Palestinians .” If you are free of the prefrontal lobotomy that comes with subscriptions to the Murdoch or  Adelson Media ; you will grasp this. Israel’s unprovoked, illegal war against...

  A Brief History of the Apocalypse How a lunatic and a grifter changed the world Radio Far Side The question arose as to why the US is obsessed with Israel, as clearly enunciated by  Ted Cruz to Tucker Carlson . If you haven’t seen this interview, it gave me the willies listening to a US Senator declare that the interests of Israel are superior to all other concerns in the US CONgress. This cult-like obsession with Israel is a distinctly American phenomenon, and only appears in the American political landscape in the early 1900s. There is a single, identifiable source for this bizarre geopolitical worship cult, and perhaps getting it out in the open can help begin the healing process. It all begins in England (of course) with a rather unhinged fellow by the name of John Nelson Darby. This unbalanced preacher type developed the concept of “dispensationalism,” in which God’s Plan was divided into three parts, and the third and final act was upon us. He said that devout Christia...