{"id":43206,"date":"2019-01-27T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43206"},"modified":"2019-01-27T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:35:19","slug":"russia-israel-and-the-values-of-western-civilization-where-is-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43206","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Israel and the Values of &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221; &#8211; Where Is the Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/russia-israel-and-the-values-of-western-civilization-where-is-the-truth\/\">Russia, Israel and the Values of &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221; &#8211; Where Is the Truth?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Danila-Badrov-where-is-the-truth-600x257.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First, what\u2019s the deal with this obsession about bombing entire nations back into the \u201cstone age\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very interesting article in RT today: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/449379-israel-gantz-campaign-gaza\/\">IDF chief turned PM candidate touts body count &amp; bombing Gaza into \u2018stone age\u2019 in campaign ad<\/a>\u201d (please read the full thing \u2013 it is short and very enlightening). When I saw that, I immediately had a flash back to a (truly brilliant, if evil) US diplomat, James Baker, who promised Iraqi Prime Minister Tarik Aziz (whom&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/russia-israel-and-the-values-of-western-civilization-where-is-the-truth\/#Death\">the Empire kept in jail until his death in spite of the fact that 79 year old man suffered from depression, diabetes, heart disease, and ulcers<\/a>) that the Empire would \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamicity.org\/5139\/iraq-at-the-brink-a-decade-after-the-invasion\/\">bring it back to the stone age<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Gantz.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Gantz.png\" alt=\"Benny Gantz \u2013 the new face of \u201cWestern civilization\u201d?\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Benny Gantz is your typical Israeli Zionazi nutcase with all that entails, but this can hardly be said of James Baker who was one of the most educated and brilliant diplomats the US ever produced. So what\u2019s this thing about bringing those who dare defy the AngloZionist Empire back to the \u201cstone age\u201d. Coincidence? You tell me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sure don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israeli butchery in Gaza enjoyed the massive support of the Israeli people who even organized special \u201cviewing locations\u201d for the joy of seeing Palestinian civilians (the vast majority of the people the Israelis murdered in Gaza) massacred. Which is not very different from the way the Americans (and their European vassals) organized \u201cviewing locations\u201d in their TV sets for the joy of seeing Iraqi civilians (the vast majority of the people the US and its vassals murdered in Iraq) massacred. The difference is only in numbers: in Gaza the Israelis only murdered \u201conly\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/russia-israel-and-the-values-of-western-civilization-where-is-the-truth\/#cite_note-idf_updated_death_toll-32\">about 1500 Palestinians<\/a>\u00a0whereas the US can pride itself on having massacred well\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iraq-deaths-survey\/iraq-conflict-has-killed-a-million-iraqis-survey-idUSL3048857920080130\">over a million Iraqis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, Israel and the Values of &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221; &#8211; Where Is the Truth? First, what\u2019s the deal with this obsession about bombing entire nations back into the \u201cstone age\u201d? Very interesting article in RT today: \u201cIDF chief turned PM candidate touts body count &amp; bombing Gaza into \u2018stone age\u2019 in campaign ad\u201d (please read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1049,8114,4373,19452,827,862,4756],"class_list":["post-43206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-israel","tag-rt-news","tag-the-saker","tag-the-unz-review","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions\/43207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}