The 13th and 14th centuries Mongol invasions and conquests were some of the most ferocious and deadliest incursions on humankind before the modern world wars. In its assault on Baghdad, the Mongol forces arrowed messages that guaranteed safety to those who had not fought the Mongols or surrendered to them. Resist and face execution. The Israeli military, purposely misnamed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and self-proclaimed as “the world’s most moral army,” out does the Mongol ferocity —surrender and leave or die. After persuading the terrified inhabitants to leave, Israel’s military forces proceed forward by bombing and dynamiting everything in their path.
In its 1947-48 wars on the Palestinian people, the genocidal Zionists threatened death to hundreds of thousands of conquered people whom they forced to leave. Documented incidents describe the deliberate killings of Palestinians, which were used to frighten the mass of Palestinians to vacate their homes and flee. To prevent their return, the emptied villages were demolished. Contributions to the Jewish National Fund (JNF), by duped Americans (The Israelis won’t even spend their own shekels on seeds.), paid for the plantings of foreign botanical species that covered the remains of the beautiful Palestinian villages. The technique of threaten them with death, force them to leave, kill anyone who remains, seize the property, and destroy their attachment to the land, has been the modus operandi of the heirs to their genocidal leader, the biblical Joshua.
We witnessed this pattern of behavior in Israel’s “war of liberation,” its 2006 Lebanon invasion, the ongoing Gaza war, and in the present invasion of Lebanon. In its war against Iran, Israel cannot displace 90 million Iranians and intends to demolish the country’s infrastructure, making daily life difficult, reducing the population to subsistence living, and leaving the nation barely functioning. I have seen this method of planned destruction after the 2006 Lebanon invasion — Israel tanks emptied bullets at every structure in their path and Israeli planes reduced the next village to rubble.
South Lebanon village, a few miles from the border.
Fortunately, the war ended before the Israeli military advanced too far into Southern Lebanon. In other parts of Lebanon, Israel’s military destroyed bridges, main roads, and neighborhoods.
To enter Lebanon from Syria, our auto had to navigate around the destroyed Mudeirej Bridge, the tallest and highest bridge in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Israel’s disregard for human life echoes the biblical exploits by its supposed ancestors and generates the belief that Judaism is a violent religion. I often wondered why fellow Jews eagerly embrace the tenth plague of the Passover stories, “killing the first born,” and recite a Torah that contains Joshua’s genocidal warfare against the people of Canaan. Purim is presented as a joyous holiday, in which the Persian Jews supposedly prevented their annihilation. The Megillah: Book of Esther, read on the holiday, reveals a different story, a horrific story that many Jews refuse to read.
Throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, the Jews mustered in their cities to attack those who sought their hurt; and no one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all the peoples.
Mordecai was now powerful in the royal palace, and his fame was spreading through all the provinces; the man Mordecai was growing ever more powerful.
So the Jews struck at their enemies with the sword, slaying and destroying; they wreaked their will upon their enemies.
The rest of the Jews, those in the king’s provinces, likewise mustered and fought for their lives. They disposed of their enemies, killing seventy-five thousands of their foes; but they did not lay hands on the spoil.
That was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar; and they rested on the fourteenth
On Shabbat Zakhor, the Shabbat before Purim, Jews gather in synagogues and read a section of the Torah, Deuteronomy 25:17-19, that recites what “Amalek, the enemy of the Israelites, did to us on our journey from Egypt,” verses that dictate genocide against the Amalekites.
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
A previous University of Tel Aviv professor, George Tamarin, addressed 168 Israeli schoolchildren and told them a story of “General Lin.”
Using religion as a pretext for ‘ethnic cleansing,’ the general, who presided over the Chinese kingdom three millennia ago, ordered a massacre of men, women, and children throughout China. When asked for their response, only 7 percent of the children listening to Professor Tamarin agreed that the general’s actions were morally acceptable, while 75 percent disapproved of such violence.
The professor faked the story. He changed the names and recited the biblical story from the book of Joshua. When Professor Tamarin asked another 1066 students about Joshua’s campaigns, the results were reversed; 66 percent of the students approved of the Israelite conquest while 26 percent disapproved. The University of Tel Aviv fired Tamarin, finding him not “integrated” into Israeli society, and deciding his research “caused harm to the relationship between the departments of psychology and education and the Ministry of Education.”
Without borders, and by having its citizens’ nationality designated by religion or ethnicity and not as Israeli, Israel does not pretend to be nation. The reason for the unique designation is to maintain that Jews are a nationality and extend the definition to Jews throughout the world, no matter the nationality of the country in which they were born or are citizens.
An October 6, 2013 Israel Supreme Court, Sitting As a Court of Civil Appeals, ruled, “One of the characteristics of Israel as a Jewish state is its responsibility for the fate of the Jewish people as a whole, because it was established as an expression of universal Jewish solidarity. In view of this responsibility, it has the right and the duty to employ the tools of collective state action for the protection of Jews who are harmed “qua Jews.”
Article Three: 13 (b) (2) of Israel PENAL LAW 5737-1977 states: “Israel penal laws shall also apply to foreign offenses against – the life, body, health, freedom or property of a Jew, as a Jew, or the property of a Jewish institution, because it is such.”
The Israel Supreme Court and the Israeli penal code claim that their laws apply to crimes that are committed against Jews, even if the crimes are committed outside of Israel. Israel has the self-proclaimed duty to protect world Jewry. Israelis Jay Ruderman, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern, in an article, Why ‘Israeli’ is not a nationality, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 3, 2014, reflect the Israeli mind.
The responsibility of the State of Israel for world Jewry is an important expression of the fact that Israel is not an ordinary democratic state, but also a “Jewish state.” Though we may be divided by geography and citizenship, Israeli and American Jews—and their brothers and sisters around the world—are members of one nation.
Israel is an assembly of delusional, disoriented, and senseless people who follow a mythical narrative, endorsed by a mythical God, and find self-worth and superiority by reliving a mythical past and imposing it upon the present. Nobody of sound of mind can support Israel, which, unfortunately, tells us the world is not sound. The war on Iran is dictated by circumlocutory logic and proves the point.
Trump says, “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
How many innocent people outside of Iran, those not considered as having committed crimes against Iranians within Iran, have the Iranian regimes killed in the last 47 years? Two or three, let’s have a number.
How many innocent people outside of Israel’s UN Resolution 181 border, those not considered as having committed crimes against Israelis within Israel, have the Israeli regimes killed? One or two hundred thousand in their continuous wars? Let’s have a number.
Trump said, “For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has killed and maimed American citizens and service members through its own forces and proxy militias. More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth. Iran is the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
A more accurate assessment of Iran’s “terrorist activities” against Americans is there has been few, if any Americans killed. Israel killed 34 people on board the U.S.S. Liberty and wounded 171 of its crew members during the 1967 Israel/Egypt war. The human rights organization DAWN details 14 American citizens killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since 2003. The number of Americans killed in Gaza during the several Israeli incursions has not been available
Trump said, “Iran’s plans to take over the Middle East and destroy Israel were “now dead,” as the United States and Israel continue military operations against the country.” What plans could Iran, a third-rate military power, have to take over the Middle East and destroy Israel?”
If the objective of the war is to defeat the country that has been killing innocent people all over the world, is a leading sponsor of terrorism, and wants to dominate the Middle East, then the missiles and bombs that are shattering Iran should be programmed to boomerang and explode at their places of origin.
The Mongols had an ethos that unified their masses and motivated their military. All nationalistic and militaristic nations need that. Israel is no exception. Prime Minister Netanyahu alluded to Israel’s ethos in a September 15, 2025 address at a conference of the Accountant General in Jerusalem.
We will increasingly have to adapt to an economy with autarkic characteristics. It’s a word I hate. I’m a proponent of the free market. I worked to bring Israel a free market revolution, but we could find ourselves in a situation where our weapons industries are blocked. We will have to develop weapons industries here. We will have to be Athens and a super-Sparta.”
Political observers are beginning to agree with the Israeli Prime Minister.
Like Sparta, Israel relies on a citizen army. All Israelis are required to perform national service. Men serve as regular soldiers for 36 months, women for 24 months, and officers for an additional 12 months. Reserve duty is obligatory for men up to the age of 40 to 45. Children from 14 years old receive military training, including the use of weapons.
Combine all of them — Joshua, Sparta, and the Mongols and there is a strong smell of Israel. Remember that Sparta aligned with Athenian democracy against Persia, and then overcame Athens and imposed an oligarchic government known as the Thirty Tyrants. Is history repeating? Is the tyrannical Trump government directed from Spartan Tel Aviv?
In the 1964 presidential election, Lyndon B. Johnson campaigned as the “peace candidate” and portrayed his opponent, Republican Barry Goldwater, as “a dangerous warmonger whose election would lead to the escalation of the Vietnam War.” After one year of Johnson’s election victory, a joke emerged, “Sure enough, I voted for Goldwater and U.S. troops fought in Vietnam.”
In the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump campaigned as the peace candidate and said, “If Kamala becomes President she will start a war with Iran. You know why? Because she’s a lousy negotiator!!! When I become President we won’t be doing any wars because I know how to negotiate a good deal!!!”
Another joke, which is not funny, lies in Trump’s words. Let’s see where the Sparta and Washington democratic alliance leads.