{"id":260547,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=260547"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:53","slug":"the-gaza-genocide-as-explicit-policy-michael-hudson-names-all-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/the-gaza-genocide-as-explicit-policy-michael-hudson-names-all-names\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

17 Apr 2024 – The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century genocide broadcast live 24\/7 to the whole planet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GAZA Casualties – Live Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n

In what can be considered\u00a0the most crucial podcast of 2024<\/a>\u00a0so far, Professor Michael Hudson \u2013 the author of seminal works such as\u00a0Super-Imperialism<\/a>\u00a0and the recent\u00a0The Collapse of Antiquity\u00a0<\/a>, among others \u2013 clinically lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century genocide broadcast live 24\/7 to the whole planet.<\/p>\n

In an email exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he\u2019s now essentially \u201cspilling the beans\u201d about how, \u201c50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the model for Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Dr. Strangelove], Israeli Mossad members were being trained, including Uzi Arad. I made two international trips with him, and he outlined to me pretty much what has happened today. He became head of Mossad and is now Netanhayu\u2019s advisor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Hudson shows how \u201cthe basic Gaza plan is how Kahn designed the Vietnam War\u2019s division into sectors, with canals cutting off each village, as the Israelis are doing to Palestinians. Also already at time, Kahn pinpointed Balochistan as the area to foment disruption in Iran and the rest of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not by accident that Balochistan has been CIA jewel territory for decades, and recently with the added incentive of the disruption by any means necessary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) \u2013 a key connectivity node of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).<\/p>\n

Prof. Hudson then connects the major dots: \u201cAs I understand it, what the U.S. is doing with Israel is a dress rehearsal for it to move on to Iran and the South China Sea. As you know, there is no Plan B in American strategy for a very good reason: If anyone criticize Plan A, they\u2019re considered not to be a team player (or even Putin\u2019s Puppet), so critics have to leave when they see that they won\u2019t be promoted. That\u2019s why U.S. strategists won\u2019t stop and re-think what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isolate Them in Strategic Hamlets, then Kill Them<\/h3>\n

In our email exchange, Prof. Hudson remarked \u201cthis is basically what I said\u201d in reference to the podcast with Ania K, drawing on his notes (here is the full, revised transcript<\/a>). Fasten your seat belts: unvarnished truth is more lethal than a hypersonic missile hit.<\/p>\n

On the Zionist Military Strategy in Gaza:<\/h3>\n

\u201cMy background in the 1970s at Hudson Institute with Uzi Arad and other Mossad trainees. My field was BoP, but I sat in on many meetings discussing military strategy, and I flew to Asia twice with Uzi and got to know him. The U.S.\/Israeli strategy in Gaza is based in many ways on Herman Kahn\u2019s plan that was carried out in Vietnam in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Herman\u2019s focus was systems analysis. Start by defining the overall aim and then, how do we achieve it?<\/p>\n

First, isolate them in Strategic Hamlets. Gaza has been carved up into districts, requiring electronic passes for entry from one sector to another, or into Jewish Israel to work. First thing: kill them. Ideally by bombing, because that minimizes domestic casualties for your army.<\/p>\n

The genocide that we are seeing today is the explicit policy of Israel\u2019s founders: the idea of \u201ca land without a people\u201d means a land without non-Jewish people. They were to be driven out \u2013 starting even before the official founding of Israel, in the first Nakba, the Arab holocaust. Two Israeli Prime Ministers were members of the Stern Gang of terrorists. They escaped from their British jail and joined to found Israel.<\/p>\n

What we are seeing today is the Final Solution to this plan. It also dovetails into U.S. desires to control the Middle East and its oil reserves. For U.S. diplomacy, the Middle East IS (in caps) oil. And ISIS is part of America\u2019s foreign legion since it was first organized in Afghanistan to fight the Russians.<\/p>\n

That is why Israeli policy has been coordinated with the U.S.. Israel is the main U.S. client oligarchy in the Middle East. Mossad does most handling of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and wherever else the U.S. may send ISIS terrorists. Terrorism and even the present genocide is central to U.S. geopolitics.<\/p>\n

But as the U.S. learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest and vote against the President who supervises this war. Lyndon Johnson couldn\u2019t make a public appearance without crowds chanting. He had to sneak out the side entrance of hotels where he was speaking.<\/p>\n

To prevent an embarrassment such as Seymour Hersh describing the My Lai massacre, you block journalists from the battlefield. If they are there, you kill them. The Biden-Netanyahu team has targeted journalists in particular. So the ideal is to kill the population passively, to minimize visible bombing. And the line of least resistance is to starve the population. That has been Israeli policy since 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Don\u2019t Forget to Starve Them<\/h3>\n

Prof. Hudson makes a direct reference to a Sara Roy\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0in The New York Review of Books, citing a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Secretary of State on November 3rd, 2008. The cable reads, \u201cAs part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to [embassy officials] on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

That has led, according to Prof. Hudson, to Israel \u201cdestroying fishing boats and greenhouses of Gaza to deprive it from feeding itself. Next, it has joined with the United States to block United Nations food aid and that of other countries. The U.S. quickly withdrew from the UN relief agency as soon as hostilities began, doing so immediately after the ICJ finding of plausible genocide. It was the major funder of this agency. The hope was that this would set back its activities.<\/p>\n

Israel simply stopped letting food aid in. It set up long, long lines of inspections, that is, an excuse to slow the trucks to just 20% of their pre-Oct. 7 rate \u2013 from a normal rate of 500 a day to just 112. In addition to blocking trucks, Israel has targeted aid workers \u2013 about one a day.<\/p>\n

The United States sought to avoid being condemned by pretending to build a wharf to unload food by sea. The intention was that by the time the wharf was built, Gaza\u2019s population would be starved out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden and Netanyahu as War Criminals<\/h3>\n

Prof. Hudson succinctly draws the key connection in the whole tragedy: \u201cThe U.S. is trying to blame one person, Netanyahu. But that has been Israeli policy since 1947. And it is U.S. policy. Everything that is occurring since October 2, when the Al-Aqsa mosque was raided by Israeli settlers, leading to Hamas\u2019s [Al-Aqsa Flood] retaliation on October 7, was closely coordinated with the Biden administration. All the bombs that have been dropped, month after month, as well as blocking United Nations aid.<\/p>\n

The U.S. aim is to prevent Gaza from having the offshore gas rights that would help finance their own prosperity and that of other Islamic groups that the United States views as enemies. And to show the neighboring countries what will be done to them, just as the U.S. has done to Libya just before Gaza. The bottom line is that Biden and his advisors are just as much war criminals as is Netanyahu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Hudson stresses how \u201cthe U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Blinken and other U.S. officials have said the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of genocide and calling for it to stop is Non-Binding. Then, Blinken has just said that no genocide is taking place.<\/p>\n

The U.S. aim of all this is to end the rule of international law as represented by the UN. It is to be replaced by the U.S. \u2018rules-based order,\u2019 with no rules published. The intention is to make the U.S. immune to any opposition to its policies based on legal principles of international law or local laws. A totally free hand \u2013 chaos. U.S. diplomats have looked forward and seen that the rest of the world is seeing to withdraw from the U.S. and European NATO orbit.<\/p>\n

To cope with this irreversible movement, the U.S. is trying to de-tooth it by wiping away all remaining traces of the international rules that underlay the UN\u2019s founding, and indeed the Westphalian principle back in 1648 of non-interference in the affairs of other countries.<\/p>\n

The actual effect, as usual, is just the opposite of what the U.S. intended. The rest of the world is being forced to create its own New UN, along with a new IMF, new World Bank, new International Court at the Hague and other organizations controlled by the U.S.. So the world\u2019s protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank \u2013 don\u2019t forget the West Bank \u2013 is the emotional and moral catalyst to creating a new multipolar geopolitical order for the Global Majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disappear or Die<\/h3>\n

The key question remains: what will happen to Gaza and the Palestinians. Prof. Hudson\u2019s judgement is ominously realistic: \u201cAs Alastair Crooke has explained, there now cannot be any two-state solution in Israel. It has to be either all Israeli or all Palestinian. And the way it looks now is all-Israeli \u2013 the dream from the outset in 1947 of a land without non-Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Gaza will still be there geographically, along with its gas rights in the Mediterranean. But it will be emptied out, and occupied by the Israelis.\u201d On who would \u201chelp\u201d to rebuild Gaza, there are a few solid takers already: \u201cTurkish building companies, Saudi Arabia financing developments, UAE, American investors \u2013 maybe Blackstone. It will be foreign investment. If you look at the fact that the foreign investors of all these countries are looking for what they can get out of the genocide against Palestinians, you realize why there\u2019s no opposition to the genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Hudson\u2019s final verdict on \u201cthe great benefit to the U.S.\u201d is that \u201cno claims can be brought against the U.S. \u2013 and against any of the warfare and regime change that it is planning for Iran, China, Russia and for what has been done in Africa and Latin America.<\/p>\n

Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as an opening of the New Cold War. A plan for basically how to financialize genocide and destruction. Palestinians will either emigrate or be killed. That has been the announced policy for over a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read on:<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Israel\u2019s Murderbot is Programmed to Kill up to a Third of all Palestinian Civilians in Gaza \/ US Congressman calls for Gaza genocide: \u2018like Nagasaki and Hiroshima: Get it over\u00a0Quick\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Seth Anziska on Dominant\u00a0Orthodoxies<\/a><\/p>\n

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Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into\u00a0Depravity<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Lawrence: The End of Global\u00a0Leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Brenner: The West\u2019s\u00a0Reckoning?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael Brenner: Europe-Jews-Muslims<\/a><\/p>\n

Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after\u00a0Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n

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Roaming Charges: Kissinger \u2013 the Dr. Caligari of American\u00a0Empire<\/a><\/p>\n

Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian\u00a0Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018No innocent civilians\u2019: the Violent Legacies of the U.S. War in\u00a0Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Napalm Girl\u2019 at 50: The story of the Vietnam War\u2019s defining photo \/ \u201cBecause Our Fathers Lied\u201d: Craig McNamara Reveals the Lies of His Father, Robert\u00a0McNamara<\/a><\/p>\n

How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of \u201calternative facts\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Seymour Hersh on Witnessing American War Crimes in\u00a0Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n

Vietnam: Epitaph of a\u00a0soldier<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dilip Simeon<\/span><\/span>: My blogs are non-commercial. I believe strongly in the power of ideas; and am opposed to ideological tyranny and the control of the mind by dictators or totalitarian movements of any doctrinal inclination whatsoever. My blogging has been devoted to fostering an informed and non-polemical debate in India and globally, about the crucial concerns of our time. Here\u2019s a thought that I consider profound: <\/em>\u2018It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow human beings.\u2019 (M. K. Gandhi). The title, <\/em>After the Truth Shower, is from a poem I wrote<\/a> for a friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

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