Peter Koenig (Transcript – PressTV Interview) 27 December 2023
Background
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has exacted a “very heavy price” on the regime.
Netanyahu said Israel has no choice but to keep fighting to achieve its goals, including elimination of Hamas and return of its hostages. He made the comments after the Israeli army confirmed that 14 troops were killed in Gaza since Friday. It said 153 Israeli troops have been killed and nearly 500 others wounded since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza. Hamas says the number of Israeli army casualties is much higher.
PressTV:
Israel has committed enormous crimes against humanity, causing more than 21,000 Palestinian casualties, since Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion in Gaza.
Please give us your views on these crimes and their consequences.
PK reply:
Where to begin is the question. There is an abundance of crimes being committed as we speak
The Israel Defense Forces – IDF – are wantonly targeting civilian populations.
Of the estimated more than 21,000 killed since October 7, at least two thirds are women and children.
Coincidence? – Of course not, there are no coincidences. Children are the future generation of Palestine, and women are the bearers of future generations. – Eliminating them is an Israeli strategy.
More than 80% of all housing is destroyed, not to speak of infrastructure.
Israel is withholding emergency shipments of food and water – literally attempting to starve Palestinians to death.
Israel is selectively cutting off electricity and means of communication – internet, telephone, television….
But these are just “statistics”, right?
Nevertheless, think about it, when you are celebrating New Years with friends and laughs and good times — you may, of course. It is your right.
But please, DO NOT forget Gaza and Palestine.
Remember, that most likely your government – especially when you are in the US or European Union – EU – your government supports – or rather encourages the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
And I have not even mentioned yet:
The execution style killings – a few days ago IDF soldiers separated a group of men from women – then they shot death point blank the men – about a dozen – in front of their wives and children.
Organ stealing – totally illegal – Israel has always been one of the leaders in human organ trading, if not THE leader – now they are stealing killed Palestinians, remove their organs for their illicit organ trade.
Stripping civilians, mostly men – by the hundreds, having them sitting in rows in full sight of everybody – a shameful humiliation.
And more, much more – the list goes on and on — Iraeli crimes no end.
Nobody should ever talk about the Holocaust inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Jews. Nobody.
What Zionists are doing to Palestinians is at least in the same category or worse.
And it has lasted for 75 years, for the entire existence of Israel, the apartheid system has prevailed – and killed countless Palestinians, indiscriminately, year after years, after year; silenced by the mainstream media, most of which are under Zionist control.
In addition to all the atrocities mentioned before, there is the human suffering that cannot be accounted for not in money not in numbers.
But the price Israel is most likely paying for their indiscriminate and well-thought-out genocide of an entire population – is high – it may be Israel herself.
Israel – Netanyahu, Zionist-in-chief, is wiping Israel off the map.
Once this is over – and one day it will be over, namely as soon as the money and weapons flow stops – pretty much like the Ukraine – then, the war will stop.
Israel cannot survive without western money – with war or without war.
Israel’s regular budget, in normal times – depends to about one third on “subsidies” from the US – compliments of US tax-payers.
The price for these atrocities and suffering Israel is inflicting on Palestine will be steep.
PEACE – is what We the Western People – forget our corrupted governments – wish upon Palestine.
Our thoughts, our positive vibes shall help bringing PEACE to Palestine..
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[The following article by the same author was published by Global Research on Dec. 27, 2023]
Genocide and the Cost of the Israel-Gaza War. “Israel is Wiping herself Off The Map. Such a Country Cannot be Allowed to Exist”.
The PressTV Interview that did not take place
In this fictitious interview that never took place – the first and principal question would have been about the cost of the Israel-Gaza/Palestine War, and who would pay for it.
The short answer was the cost of the war may be Israel itself — meaning, the existence of Israel. After the genocide they have committed and are still committing in occupied Gaza and now also in the West Bank, they cannot be forgiven.
Such a country cannot be allowed to exist. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are wantonly killing civilians. So far more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed of whom at least two-thirds are women and children.
After all, Israel is not even a real country.
She has been established on a piece of land historically Palestine, Zionist-coerced out of the UK government, former colonial power of this part of the world – without any justification. The spineless UK leadership was then as it is today bending over backwards in the face of Zionist pressure and assumed might – and, because the powers of the “winners” of WWII all-out backing of the Zionists throughout the world.
An absurdity. But we are living in a sick-sick world, way beyond Orwellian description.
Sometimes it looks as if there was no possible healing, that we passed the point of no-return. Going back to a civilized and ethical behavior, by We, the People in the west, also called the Global North, is no longer possible.
For the creation of Israel, the UK had the backing of the young United Nations, created in 1945. At the time, in 1948, of the Zionist-forced Israel, the UN was only 53 members strong, also cowardly in the face of the former colonial powers and the “winners” of WWII – and the pressure of Zionism.
Under the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), the League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations) formally gave control of Palestine to the British government. Britain’s job was to implement the Balfour Declaration, which had been signed three years earlier, stating Britain’s desire to create a homeland in Palestine for the Jews.
The Balfour Declaration came about by Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writing on November 2, 1917, to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild (real name Rosh Yilf), expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
The rest is history.
Or history in the making.
The Palestinians were never asked their opinion.
After all, they were no longer under the colonial power of the UK.
By any decent international law, they should have had a decision power over their own homeland.
That was bitterly denied to them by the international community, which then like today, had no ethics, no morals and can easily be called the murderous, genocidal west, led by the self-styled – but rapidly fading – empire, the United States of America.
From the looks, law, especially international law, already then did only exist for the common people. Their Highnesses, the Lordships, and later the transatlantic elites, made their own laws as they suited them best for the moment. Today it’s called the “rules-based order”.
Very likely the UK was coerced by the Zionists into allocating Palestinian land to the creation of Israel, way before the Balfour letter, so that the Balfour Declaration became a mere rubberstamping of the fact.
In the aftermath of this horrendous ongoing Gaza massacre, having extended long ago into the West Bank, Israel could be wiped off the map and no longer exist. The falling empire and its western puppets can no longer afford pumping not just billions but eventually trillions into Israel and the region to make it livable again.
In fact, Israel is wiping herself off the map. This war will stop as soon as weapon deliveries and money stop flowing. Israel under Netanyahu can no longer face the world.
The flow of money will stop, as the dollar and its little cousin, the Euro, are every day worth less and rapidly moving into the direction of “worthless”. While per se, it has not mattered so far, as new dollars and Euros are printed as need.
However, there comes the point when even the complicit but money-thirsty Wall Street and BlackRock on top, are taking cautiously note of the fast and irreversibly accumulating national debts, risking a major industrial collapse, as in bankruptcies, and a rapidly faltering economy precisely in these countries led by the self-styled world elite, those still dreaming of a One World Order, with a One World Government.
There may be genocidal leaders, whose brutality and corrupted obedience was read, a.k.a. analyzed before they were put into their positions, like Ursula von der Leyen. Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Clare Daly, called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “Frau Genocide” over the EU’s stance on Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
Ms. Daly accused the EU Commission president of
“swooping in and overriding the foreign policies of elected governments” in recent months, while cheerleading a “brutal apartheid regime that she calls a ‘vibrant democracy.’”
Speaking from the European Parliament podium on 24 December, Ms. Daly added that von der Leyen was “elevated to power without a single vote from the citizens.”
This opinion is shared by hundreds of EU Parliament members and EU staffers, as evidenced by Irish Times which reported at least 842 EU staffers, who had signed a letter denouncing the Commission’s stance on Israel.
The document reportedly accused von der Leyen of giving a “free hand to the acceleration and legitimacy of a war crime in the Gaza Strip.”
This EU example is valid for most EU member countries, where 90% of the people condemn Israel for the war crimes it keeps committing – and this against the official policy of their compromised and corrupted governments.
Zionists are sitting everywhere in influential roles. So, these governments are everywhere around the western world.
Outside these powers of Government influence, large independent institutions, like Amsterdam’s largest and high-end Department store, De Bijenkorf, is openly calling for boycotting Israeli goods. See video below.
Similarly, the Algerian DJ Snake has issued a strong pro-Palestine statement, depicting this telling picture about Gaza and The World. See video below.
There are many money and weapon parallels between the Israeli and Ukraine aggressions. Both are leading to human mass-killings that are encouraged by the soulless west.
The consequences, or aftermath of these wars will be massive dying for years to come, from dehumanized living conditions, famine, diseases, bankruptcies, unemployment, suicide – all blending in perfectly with the Great Reset’s and the UN Agenda 2030’s major goal – massive population reduction.
Mind you, that is only one front, where this Goal Numero Uno is played out.
And mind you again, it will not happen when We, the People, will resist.
Israel, after 75 years of dishonest creation and existence – and especially after this horrendous never-before seen in recent history democide — is definitely no longer a viable and trustworthy country, if ever it was.
Scott Ritter goes as far as saying that the Israeli State is no longer allowed to exist and to pollute the face of the earth; he is no longer in favor of a Two-State Solution, but a One-State-Solution, and the One State is Palestine; going on saying, the concept of a Jewish State called Israel is dead. Listen to his full 3-min short video.
Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020) Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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