The Chris Hedges Report with Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general who served in the Special Forces in the Israeli army, on the racist indoctrination and militarization of Israeli society.
The Chris Hedges Report with Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general who served in the Special Forces in the Israeli army, on the racist indoctrination and militarization of Israeli society.
The Israeli army, known as the Israel Defense Forces or IDF, is integral to understanding Israeli society. Nearly all Israelis do three years of military service. Most men continue to serve in the reserves until middle age. Its generals often retire to occupy senior positions in government an industry. The dominance of the military in Israeli society helps explains why war, militaristic nationalism and violence are so deeply embedded in Zionist ideology.
More clarity now. The Israelis are indoctrinated with depravity in a nation that sanctifies militarized violence. The result is a perfectly weaponized citizenry. The nation is a cult, in need of an intervention and a massive deprogramming project.
Apartheid in South Africa was overcome by a multi-pronged attack and the global community mattered. We have elections coming up in the US and the UK. It is imperative that we vote out those that believe that supporting this pariah state is okay. Most of us don't but our politicans aren't listening. Refusing to give our money to their economy can help: from diamonds and oranges to investment funds - it is time to come down hard and encourage others to do the same. There is a gigantic difference between being anti-semitic and supporting this facist state and we need to start talking not stop talking with those who have been brainwashed by the mainstream media. Comfortable silence can not continue. What else?
This is no longer just about Palestine. I am starting to understand what the protest chant in our hundreds in our millions we are all Palestinians really means. Our humanity and the health of our global community is very much at stake. Chris Hedges does his job admirably. It is time for us to do ours.
Thanks again Chris. Miko joins the list of the bravest former IDF soldiers and Jews who speak truth to power! Zionist unquestioning supporters have a hard time using weaponized anti Semitism on those of us who quote former soldiers and Jews like Chomsky, Levy, Hass and Pappe to name a few. I have recommended this interview with some of my confused friends, who quote the most ridiculous hasbara as if it were truth. As they say "The Truth Will Set You Free", lets hope the truths of Miko and you Chris will set the Palestinian's Free!
Are Palestinians Semitic people? (Question to an AI chat)
The short answer is yes, Palestinians are indeed considered Semitic people.
Now, let's dive into the long answer. The term "Semitic" refers to a group of people who speak or are descended from people who speak a Semitic language. These languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic, among others. Palestinians primarily speak Arabic, which is a Semitic language. So, in terms of language, Palestinians are indeed Semitic people.
But wait, there's more! The term "Semitic" is also used to describe a group of people who share common ancestry, originating from the Middle East and parts of North Africa. Palestinians, like many other groups in the region, have a rich and diverse history that includes various migrations, conquests, and cultural exchanges. This means that genetically, Palestinians are a mix of different ancestral groups, including Semitic peoples.
In conclusion, Palestinians are considered Semitic people both linguistically and ancestrally.
If anyone doubts Israels longstanding disregard for International law, humanitarian conduct, or even basic morality, I recommend reading Mr. James Scott's well researched 2009 book "Attack on the Liberty" that describes, in vivid detail, the IDF June 8th, 1967 attack on an unarmed U.S. Navy 'research vessel" about 100 miles off the coast of Egypt and approx. 70 miles from Gaza-- and its political aftermath. Mr. Scotts father was on that ship that day. This attack came during the waning days of Isreal's mythologized 1967 "Six Day War" with Arabs States (Egypt's Pearl Harbor) and the fledgling resistance to Israel's apartheid repression of Palestinians. Events of this day have, apparently, been systematically erased from American History. It's time to remember.
The result of the Isreali military attack on this unarmed U.S. Navy vessel (on a clear skied, Mediterranean Sea, day) was 34 U.S. civilians killed and 171 injured (many critically) in a crew comprised of under 300 U.S. sailors. According to eyewitness accounts the attack that included repeated torpedoing and sustained aircraft shelling of the Liberty for many hours such that "Damage control crews didn't bother to count machine gun and shrapnel holes, which were 'innumerable'. So extensive was the damage that repairs to the ship and order and replacement of equipment could take a year and cost up to $12 million." One wrote that " the degree of dismemberment of the dead and injured was so extreme as to be typified by the fact that he last few cases [of remains] we packed in the small hours this morning [after the crippled boat managed to be docked in Malta about 24 hrs later] contained, for example, a head and an arm in one and similar partial bodies".
While Israel admitted it had attacked the U.S. vessel, it claim it "was a mistaken action of Israeli boats" and blamed the attack on the U.S. vessels refusal to identify itself during the course of over the hours long attack from sky and sea. The Johnson administration demanded compensation for the victims, but those efforts were steadfastly resisted by the Israeli government. A day after the last remains of the dead from the Liberty attack were buried in a mass grave at Arlington Cemetery marked "Died in the Eastern Mediterranean" --two months after the attack-- Iowa State Congressman H.R. Gross asked, "Is this Government now, directly or indirectly, subsidizing Israel in the payment of full compensation for the lives that were destroyed, the suffering of wounded, and damage from this wanton attack." Congressman Gross followed with the statement: " It can well be asked whether these Americans were the victims of bombs, machine gun bullets and torpedoes manufactured in the United States and dished out as military assistance under foreign aid."
Almost a year after the Liberty was attacked and nearly two thirds of its crew left dead or wounded "Israel relented and wrote a check to the United States treasurer for $3,323,500." This came only after the U.S. State department, under pressure from the public and members of Congress, warned that a "public airing" could result from Israels refusal to pay as the first year anniversary of the attack approached. The #7,644,146 bill for repairs to the Liberty was presented shortly thereafter by the U.S. government on July 3, 1968. It was ignored by Israel. Scott writes "In August 1971, Israel secretly offered the United States the token sum of $100,000., about 1.5 cents on the dollar" for damages to the Liberty. The American ambassador to Israel at the time, Walworth Barbour, considered it an insult". Barbour "suggested [the] sum is so small as to call clearly for a courteous rejection out of hand". More telling, he said "We think it better to keep the claim outstanding than to make a settlement unsatisfactory in so many ways. It would not be a serious irritant in our relations, and it would be a continuing reminder we are not that easy a mark." By 1980 the settlement figure, with interest, climbed to $17,132,709. Scott writes "Israel offered to settle for $$6 million, payable in three annual installments of $2 million. The final offer was less than the original bill for damages. The United States, weary of the negotiations, accepted the deal in December of 1980".
More telling (and accurate) was that Dean Rusk, former secretary of State during the Johnson administration, wrote a 1981 letter to one the Liberty's officers believing the attack "was and remains a genuine outrage". Scott writes that Rusk believed Israel "did not pay enough to the families of the men killed or the survivors" and that " The bill for the ship was the least important". Rusk wrote in that letter (Capitalized sections of statement is my added emphasis): "It was not a major point because, IN LIGHT OF OUR AID PROGRAMS FOR ISRAEL, we would, in effect, BE PAYING OURSELVES."
The final point (and in my view the most salient, if not outright prescient point in regards to Palestinian genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza today) made by Scott is spoken through the words of George Ball, former undersecretary of state prior to Nicholas Katzenbach. Looking back, Ball contended that the attack on the Liberty ultimately had a greater effect on policy in Israel than in the United States. Ball writes: "Israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal." He said " If America's leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens, it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything."
An amazing, and terrifying interview. Miko Peled represents the best in the human family....a person who comes out of an ideology force fed as fact from infancy, looks around him at the reality on the ground..........and chooses justice. Perhaps it isn't as hard to do as we imagine.
But first we have to let go of that need to be always right, always on the side of the angels.....always wearing the label 'a good person' regardless of what we do, say or overlook. The story he tells is an essential one to hear, but it isn't an easy story to listen to.
We in the west who are people of conscience must DO more. I'm going to begin by sending this interview to every party in my Canadian government. Thank you Chris...for bringing this amazing human being to our attention.
Hi Chris. I just watched a pod cast called "The Thinking Muslim" Gaza; Cruel Zionism, Past and Present with Professor Avi Shlaim. This interview is one of the best I have ever watched, all his thoughts and historical truths were laid out and the interviewer never cut him off once. He described himself as one of the New Historian's mentioning Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe. I must admit I had never heard of him before, but will be getting a book or two very soon. "The Iron Wall" or "The Collusion Across the Jordan" may be my first choices. I don't know if he could be one of your guests but wow what a mind at 78 years old. His family lived in Iraq, where he pointed out Jews were welcome, thrived and were respected. His dissection of Imperialism, the Balfour Declaration and the underhanded Machiavellian Zionists, who planted bombs in Iraq killing Jews to create "Terror" and force them to go to Palestine/Israel in the 50's. Will make anyone's preconceived understanding of Zionism and the making of Israel as a Mountain of Lies! I dare anyone to watch this interview, without coming away with a deep understanding of the real Israel and Zionism's design for ethnically cleansing Palestine and the Genocide taking place before our very eyes!
WOW, thank you Chris Hedges AND Miko Peled!!! Since the latest Israeli atrocities began, i've been looking for sources of truth, those who would speak up publicly and reveal what's really happening from a perspective of witnessing, knowing, not afraid to speak up and tell what they know and/or believe. This interview is a GIFT to be shared far and wide. Thank you again.
Hedges now desperately clings to the Gaza and Assange stories to divert attention away from the battle here in the U.S. between the working class - his working class and the DS ...
An unemployed, divorced mother of 4 never gives a thought to Gaza, Assange or CIA corruption, and Hedges knows it! ... but these are his "bread and butter" issues that protect his place in the independent media food chain ... he has chosen to double down on the ISR-PAL conflict instead ... he has now devoted more words to the plight of the Palestinians than he ever has about those of us who are being crushed by COVID tyranny here in America ... and he now seems hell bent on milking the Gaza genocide for all it's worth ... ya see, it's just too risky to stand with us ...
And after urging us to confront tyranny for the past two decades, Hedges deserted us by throwing the working class under the bus with COVID ... he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports, and also told his avid followers that everybody must get vaxxed to stop the pandemic just 30 days after the explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release ... and then in the same breath, openly admitted that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ...
These are his lessons learned at Harvard Divinity School ...
Thank you. I now understand why my intense anger is justified and not antisemitic. I have been wondering if maybe I was wrong. Being anti- Zionist is NOT the same as antisemitism. Thank you.
More clarity now. The Israelis are indoctrinated with depravity in a nation that sanctifies militarized violence. The result is a perfectly weaponized citizenry. The nation is a cult, in need of an intervention and a massive deprogramming project.
Apartheid in South Africa was overcome by a multi-pronged attack and the global community mattered. We have elections coming up in the US and the UK. It is imperative that we vote out those that believe that supporting this pariah state is okay. Most of us don't but our politicans aren't listening. Refusing to give our money to their economy can help: from diamonds and oranges to investment funds - it is time to come down hard and encourage others to do the same. There is a gigantic difference between being anti-semitic and supporting this facist state and we need to start talking not stop talking with those who have been brainwashed by the mainstream media. Comfortable silence can not continue. What else?
This is no longer just about Palestine. I am starting to understand what the protest chant in our hundreds in our millions we are all Palestinians really means. Our humanity and the health of our global community is very much at stake. Chris Hedges does his job admirably. It is time for us to do ours.
Thanks again Chris. Miko joins the list of the bravest former IDF soldiers and Jews who speak truth to power! Zionist unquestioning supporters have a hard time using weaponized anti Semitism on those of us who quote former soldiers and Jews like Chomsky, Levy, Hass and Pappe to name a few. I have recommended this interview with some of my confused friends, who quote the most ridiculous hasbara as if it were truth. As they say "The Truth Will Set You Free", lets hope the truths of Miko and you Chris will set the Palestinian's Free!
Is US Congress anti-Semitic?
Are Palestinians Semitic people? (Question to an AI chat)
The short answer is yes, Palestinians are indeed considered Semitic people.
Now, let's dive into the long answer. The term "Semitic" refers to a group of people who speak or are descended from people who speak a Semitic language. These languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic, among others. Palestinians primarily speak Arabic, which is a Semitic language. So, in terms of language, Palestinians are indeed Semitic people.
But wait, there's more! The term "Semitic" is also used to describe a group of people who share common ancestry, originating from the Middle East and parts of North Africa. Palestinians, like many other groups in the region, have a rich and diverse history that includes various migrations, conquests, and cultural exchanges. This means that genetically, Palestinians are a mix of different ancestral groups, including Semitic peoples.
In conclusion, Palestinians are considered Semitic people both linguistically and ancestrally.
The real battle field is the mind.
Totalitarians want to train citizens like Animal Farm dogs.
How did Miko Peled escape?
The neuropolitical perspective: https://meyerja.substack.com/p/a-measure-of-democracy
Thanks for this.
So propaganda at an early age/most people having to do Military service/propaganda. What could possibly go wrong.
Turning kids and young people into terrorists with absolute NO empathy for others.
Israel should be wiped off the map because it's too late to change the thinking.
Wow! Fabulous interview!
We are the monsters, and we support monsters. Makes perfect sense. I am ashamed and sickened.
If anyone doubts Israels longstanding disregard for International law, humanitarian conduct, or even basic morality, I recommend reading Mr. James Scott's well researched 2009 book "Attack on the Liberty" that describes, in vivid detail, the IDF June 8th, 1967 attack on an unarmed U.S. Navy 'research vessel" about 100 miles off the coast of Egypt and approx. 70 miles from Gaza-- and its political aftermath. Mr. Scotts father was on that ship that day. This attack came during the waning days of Isreal's mythologized 1967 "Six Day War" with Arabs States (Egypt's Pearl Harbor) and the fledgling resistance to Israel's apartheid repression of Palestinians. Events of this day have, apparently, been systematically erased from American History. It's time to remember.
The result of the Isreali military attack on this unarmed U.S. Navy vessel (on a clear skied, Mediterranean Sea, day) was 34 U.S. civilians killed and 171 injured (many critically) in a crew comprised of under 300 U.S. sailors. According to eyewitness accounts the attack that included repeated torpedoing and sustained aircraft shelling of the Liberty for many hours such that "Damage control crews didn't bother to count machine gun and shrapnel holes, which were 'innumerable'. So extensive was the damage that repairs to the ship and order and replacement of equipment could take a year and cost up to $12 million." One wrote that " the degree of dismemberment of the dead and injured was so extreme as to be typified by the fact that he last few cases [of remains] we packed in the small hours this morning [after the crippled boat managed to be docked in Malta about 24 hrs later] contained, for example, a head and an arm in one and similar partial bodies".
While Israel admitted it had attacked the U.S. vessel, it claim it "was a mistaken action of Israeli boats" and blamed the attack on the U.S. vessels refusal to identify itself during the course of over the hours long attack from sky and sea. The Johnson administration demanded compensation for the victims, but those efforts were steadfastly resisted by the Israeli government. A day after the last remains of the dead from the Liberty attack were buried in a mass grave at Arlington Cemetery marked "Died in the Eastern Mediterranean" --two months after the attack-- Iowa State Congressman H.R. Gross asked, "Is this Government now, directly or indirectly, subsidizing Israel in the payment of full compensation for the lives that were destroyed, the suffering of wounded, and damage from this wanton attack." Congressman Gross followed with the statement: " It can well be asked whether these Americans were the victims of bombs, machine gun bullets and torpedoes manufactured in the United States and dished out as military assistance under foreign aid."
Almost a year after the Liberty was attacked and nearly two thirds of its crew left dead or wounded "Israel relented and wrote a check to the United States treasurer for $3,323,500." This came only after the U.S. State department, under pressure from the public and members of Congress, warned that a "public airing" could result from Israels refusal to pay as the first year anniversary of the attack approached. The #7,644,146 bill for repairs to the Liberty was presented shortly thereafter by the U.S. government on July 3, 1968. It was ignored by Israel. Scott writes "In August 1971, Israel secretly offered the United States the token sum of $100,000., about 1.5 cents on the dollar" for damages to the Liberty. The American ambassador to Israel at the time, Walworth Barbour, considered it an insult". Barbour "suggested [the] sum is so small as to call clearly for a courteous rejection out of hand". More telling, he said "We think it better to keep the claim outstanding than to make a settlement unsatisfactory in so many ways. It would not be a serious irritant in our relations, and it would be a continuing reminder we are not that easy a mark." By 1980 the settlement figure, with interest, climbed to $17,132,709. Scott writes "Israel offered to settle for $$6 million, payable in three annual installments of $2 million. The final offer was less than the original bill for damages. The United States, weary of the negotiations, accepted the deal in December of 1980".
More telling (and accurate) was that Dean Rusk, former secretary of State during the Johnson administration, wrote a 1981 letter to one the Liberty's officers believing the attack "was and remains a genuine outrage". Scott writes that Rusk believed Israel "did not pay enough to the families of the men killed or the survivors" and that " The bill for the ship was the least important". Rusk wrote in that letter (Capitalized sections of statement is my added emphasis): "It was not a major point because, IN LIGHT OF OUR AID PROGRAMS FOR ISRAEL, we would, in effect, BE PAYING OURSELVES."
The final point (and in my view the most salient, if not outright prescient point in regards to Palestinian genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza today) made by Scott is spoken through the words of George Ball, former undersecretary of state prior to Nicholas Katzenbach. Looking back, Ball contended that the attack on the Liberty ultimately had a greater effect on policy in Israel than in the United States. Ball writes: "Israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal." He said " If America's leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens, it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything."
An amazing, and terrifying interview. Miko Peled represents the best in the human family....a person who comes out of an ideology force fed as fact from infancy, looks around him at the reality on the ground..........and chooses justice. Perhaps it isn't as hard to do as we imagine.
But first we have to let go of that need to be always right, always on the side of the angels.....always wearing the label 'a good person' regardless of what we do, say or overlook. The story he tells is an essential one to hear, but it isn't an easy story to listen to.
We in the west who are people of conscience must DO more. I'm going to begin by sending this interview to every party in my Canadian government. Thank you Chris...for bringing this amazing human being to our attention.
Thank you for never quitting!
It’s unconscionable to me how many “humans” don’t seem to care or justify genocide. It’s live streamed FFS.
Hi Chris. I just watched a pod cast called "The Thinking Muslim" Gaza; Cruel Zionism, Past and Present with Professor Avi Shlaim. This interview is one of the best I have ever watched, all his thoughts and historical truths were laid out and the interviewer never cut him off once. He described himself as one of the New Historian's mentioning Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe. I must admit I had never heard of him before, but will be getting a book or two very soon. "The Iron Wall" or "The Collusion Across the Jordan" may be my first choices. I don't know if he could be one of your guests but wow what a mind at 78 years old. His family lived in Iraq, where he pointed out Jews were welcome, thrived and were respected. His dissection of Imperialism, the Balfour Declaration and the underhanded Machiavellian Zionists, who planted bombs in Iraq killing Jews to create "Terror" and force them to go to Palestine/Israel in the 50's. Will make anyone's preconceived understanding of Zionism and the making of Israel as a Mountain of Lies! I dare anyone to watch this interview, without coming away with a deep understanding of the real Israel and Zionism's design for ethnically cleansing Palestine and the Genocide taking place before our very eyes!
WOW, thank you Chris Hedges AND Miko Peled!!! Since the latest Israeli atrocities began, i've been looking for sources of truth, those who would speak up publicly and reveal what's really happening from a perspective of witnessing, knowing, not afraid to speak up and tell what they know and/or believe. This interview is a GIFT to be shared far and wide. Thank you again.
Hedges now desperately clings to the Gaza and Assange stories to divert attention away from the battle here in the U.S. between the working class - his working class and the DS ...
An unemployed, divorced mother of 4 never gives a thought to Gaza, Assange or CIA corruption, and Hedges knows it! ... but these are his "bread and butter" issues that protect his place in the independent media food chain ... he has chosen to double down on the ISR-PAL conflict instead ... he has now devoted more words to the plight of the Palestinians than he ever has about those of us who are being crushed by COVID tyranny here in America ... and he now seems hell bent on milking the Gaza genocide for all it's worth ... ya see, it's just too risky to stand with us ...
And after urging us to confront tyranny for the past two decades, Hedges deserted us by throwing the working class under the bus with COVID ... he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports, and also told his avid followers that everybody must get vaxxed to stop the pandemic just 30 days after the explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release ... and then in the same breath, openly admitted that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ...
These are his lessons learned at Harvard Divinity School ...
Thank you. I now understand why my intense anger is justified and not antisemitic. I have been wondering if maybe I was wrong. Being anti- Zionist is NOT the same as antisemitism. Thank you.
Thank you Chris for your clarity, reason, purpose and fortitude. (John 5:30) (KJV)