The Post-Partisan Emporium

  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...

  Zionist Israel as the Assassination Nation Ron Unz   Audio Player Ten days ago  a sudden surprise Israeli attack  inflicted a terrible, decapitating blow upon the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, successfully assassinating the country’s top military commanders, its chief nuclear weapons negotiator, and nearly all of its most prominent nuclear scientists. Many of these victims were killed in their own homes together with their family members by explosive drones or missile strikes that sometimes destroyed entire apartment buildings, causing many collateral civilian deaths. No such sudden massive wave of public assassinations against the top leadership of a major nation had ever previously happened, and the resulting war with its salvos of retaliatory Iranian missiles against Israel has now also brought America into the conflict. Among other things, these events conclusively demonstrated the near-total control that Israel and its political partisans have ac...