Part 10 : Cosmo in progress
We Watch ‘The Moral Challanges of the Gaza War’ 11/03/2023 The Glenn Show. Featuring: Glenn ‘Glennocide’ Loury (GL) Professor Brown University, Rhode Island and John ‘Smoke them Out’ McWhorter (JM) Professor Columbia University, New York.
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Cosmo who’d watched the show removed as a man contemplating life from a hill far away, said to no one in particular, “With all its bombs, Israel’s dust in the wind. It’s doomed.”
“Why so sure, Cosmo?”
“Israel’s killing Mother Earth, man. They can kill everybody in the neighborhood for their water only so long until Mother Earth misses her children. She will smack Israel down.”
“Hold on, now. Israel says it’s the world’s water resource genius. They make the desert bloom! They’re gonna save us all (for a price). What about drip irrigation? Israeli agriculture? Water conservation? Those desalination plants?
Cosmo laughed, “One of the biggest problems Israelis have is they’re taught from birth they’re the smartest people in the world and they believe it.”
Water
“The Eastern Mediterranean,” he went on. “is one of the saltiest coastlines on earth and it’s getting more so every year because Egypt and Ethiopia dammed the Nile. And because the Suez brings in even saltier water from the Red Sea. And because everyone in the region’s using desalination. Desalinations an uber-expensive, energy wasting, environmental disaster. Tiny Israel squeezes out 600 million cubic meters a year when everything’s working right. That’s maybe half the flow of our Mendenhall River here. The river’s free, man. It flows by itself. Sweet, fresh water into the sea. Desalination’s the opposite of a river. Pulls fresh water out then what happens to the salt? Israel pumps it right back into the Eastern Mediterranean. Their offshore marine life before Zionism is dead and gone, including the reef building snails that protected the shore from erosion. Israelis smoke pot on the beach and go surfing. No problem.”
He shook his head. “There won’t be a two-state solution because Israelis average 300 liters a day. Palestinians are lucky to get a tenth of that. Gaza water’s so polluted it’s unfit for human consumption. West Bank Palestinians have to buy water Israel steals from under their feet from Israel’s National water company. If you could snap your fingers and make them all Jews or all Palestinians it wouldn’t matter.”
“Little Israel’s only fresh water lake holds less than a cubic mile of water when it’s full, which is almost never. They have a couple polluted creeks they call rivers. Jimmy Carter said the Jordan River is smaller than the creeks on his farm in Georgia. It’s a trickling sewer American Evangelical Christians pay to be dunked in. Yuk! Zionists pump most of it into the desert outside the Jordan Valley. They’ve contaminated their water supply with chemicals. The water table under Tel Aviv is so polluted with rocket propellants, petroleum, and other crap they had to put the whole city on the national water system. You know how much water they polluted under Tel Aviv?”
“No, idea.” Tony said.
“600 million cubic meters. Equal to all of Israel’s desalination capacity for a year.
“Ariel Sharon said there’s a reason why Israel built those illegal West Bank settlements where they did. The reason is water. They’re built over the aquifers. That’s why illegal Jewish settlements can drive wells deep into the West Bank but they don’t let Palestinians drill. That’s why they’ve invaded Lebanon five times trying to get the Litani River. That’s why Israel punched wells along the Gaza border to take water that used to flow toward the Gaza Aquifer. How long’s America’s going to keep paying for this? Ten more years? Fifty? A hundred? I give it five to ten years max. After that, Zionism will dry up and blow away. Israel’s going to empty out like a ghost mall from the ’80’s”
Agriculture
“Little Israel would have to quintuple its water supply to feed itself. They can’t. They import nearly all their grains and cereals. They throw dead animals down Palestinian wells. They’ve been known to shut off water to Palestinian villages in the heat of summer to kill all their chickens. They block up springs Palestinians have used for thousands of years. When Palestinian olives are ripe Israelis chase them off with machine guns to steal the olives and sell them. What agriculture Israel’s got uses more pesticides/herbicides than any other country in the OECD. Their live cattle is mostly imported from from overseas in factory container ships where cow shit and piss rains down on animals below. The ones at the bottom are chest deep in it. You want to live a good life so you don’t come back as a cow headed for Israel.
In the 1800’s Palestinians could bring crops to harvest without irrigation. In a few decades, know it all Zionists, using European and American farming methods, destroyed Palestinian terraced agriculture developed over centuries. They tore out olive groves that were producing fruit when Jesus walked there, and planted Aleppo pines that burn like gasoline in summer forest fire season.
Intensive agriculture like the Israelis use takes water away that would have gone down to replenish ground water. If they bring in three crops a year instead of two it’s at the cost of using enough water to grow three crops instead of two.
Palestine used to be a major flyway for soaring birds migrating between Asia and Africa. There used to be a massive lake and swamp in Israel, Lake Hula. There were even water buffalo. Zionists filled in Lake Hula and poured kerosene on it to kill mosquitos. They were shocked when the peat underneath caught fire and burned, and burned, and burned.”
Soil
“As Israel pumps water into the desert all the salts and sewage and toxins in the water go with it. Crop land becomes a coffee filter. In a place that gets no rain most of the year Israel ruins the soil for farming.
Most of what farm land they have is eroding or at risk. In Gaza they crush Palestinian soil with 60 ton tanks. They spray defoliants on Palestinian crops that have permeated a third of a mile into Gaza. In the West Bank Israelis have been filmed digging up good Palestinian soil with front end loaders–while they’re holding the farmers at gun point–then taking it to their illegal settlements.”
Oil
“As the world’s trying to get off oil, Israel’s trying to be a player in world oil markets. They’ve built one of the biggest oil storage tank farms right on the beach at Ashkelon
Fifty years ago Israel convinced Iran to sell it oil, and that oil would be shipped from Eliat, on Israel’s eastern side, to Ashkelon on the western side. Israel got Iran to help pay for the pipeline. That’s one of the problems between them. Israel reneged on agreements to pay it’s share of the pipeline. They owe Iran billions but won’t pay AND, the Israelis have built a second pipeline alongside the first so oil can either go from the Middle East towards Europe, or from the Middle East, via Turkey, towards Asia.”
“Seems to me them big oil tanks off Ashkelon is about the fattest hogs old Hamas could git.” Sonny put in. “Or Hez-bo-ah, or Iran, or the Hootie toot tooties, or a cub scout den far as that goes. They’s right on the beach and only five miles from Gaza. Whut with the current going south to north off Israel, a missile into one of them bastards would shut down every Israeli desalination plant in the Mediterranean. Cut the spigot for75 percent of Israels drinking water”
“There’s a precedent for that.” Cosmo said. “In 2006 Israelis in American jets bombed Jibyeh power plant’s oil tanks in Lebanon. Fouled 100 miles of coastline like the Exxon Valdez. Killed off the sea turtles, fish, intertidal zones, everything. Israelis machine gunned Lebanese people trying to clean up the oil. Bad Karma.
“Doesn’t have to be a missile, though. Those tanks weigh more than sky scrapers when they’re full. They’re built on sand. Israel’s pulling water from beneath them like sucking the filling out of a pie. Eventually the crust collapses. All we have to do is wait.”
Walls
“People call Gaza the world’s largest open-air prison, and it is, but if you think about it, Israel has turned itself into a prison where its own people are the inmates. All the billions of American dollars to pay for walls Israelis built around themselves and and look. Israelis are scared shitless of everything. How many hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete does it take to build hundreds of miles of walls? They make the concrete out of sand they quarry in the West Bank–which is illegal. They’re crappy walls, too. Low-bid walls. Big sections of them fall down sometimes when it rains
They’re a laugh, those walls. Palestinians have these magic devices they call ‘ladders’. They can be up and over a wall in seconds. Couple years ago an Israeli general complained there were 50,000 Palestinians illegally in Israel on any given day. On October 7, Hamas showed everybody exactly how effective those walls are for stopping an enemy.
“Israel built massive ‘security’ barriers at their northern and southern borders that have changed seabed configurations to the point Israel’s bringing in massive amounts of sand from Turkey to dump on beaches that are eroding because of Israel’s trying to fix what it broke and making it worse.”
Sonny leaned back in his chair. “Whut that professor said about Hamas coming out of underwater tunnels don’t make sense to me, ’cause if they was inside the barriers, they’d come up in Gaza. If they built underwater tunnels on the Israeli side it’s three possibilities:
1) they’s genius engineers.
2) Israel spent a couple billion more ‘merican dollars on another flat tire that don’t work.
3) Hamas swum around the barriers on scuba like I would.”
Toxins
“Israelis love poison gas.” Cosmo went on. “They fire more gas on Palestinians than any other other country in the world uses on anybody. It’s illegal on battlefields under international law. They fire it into schools. They fire it into maternity wards. Don’t call it tear gas, they kill people sometimes with that gas. Part of ‘The Lab’ experiments. AND! They use white phosphorus on civilians: also illegal. They’ve sprayed depleted uranium all over. They have the world’s oldest nuclear reactor built a few miles from the African fault line. Writing about that reactor without permission can get you 15 years in prison. Israel’s only benefit to America is showing us where we’re headed if we don’t change our ways. For them it’s too late.”
“Well then,” Roy said. “Israel is done like dinner. Tim, I’m surprised your professors haven’t address any of this.”
Tim smacked his palm to his forehead. “Oh for God’s sake! They did, Roy. Pay attention, buddy.
They said “…nothing excuses what Hamas did…” Nothing. Get it?
Taking away Palestinian’s water doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian’s food doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian’s land doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian’s fisheries doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian’s means of making a living doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian’s educational system doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian culture doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Taking away Palestinian freedom doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Holding thousands of Palestinians, including children, in Israeli prisons doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Raping Palestinian women and girls doesn’t excuse Hamas.
Blowing up Palestinian homes, schools, power and sewage plant’s doesn’t excuse Hamas.
A century of killing Palestinian children, their mothers, and their fathers, doesn’t excuse Hamas.
“…nothing excuses what Hamas did…” We know it’s true. Because the professor said so.
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About minute 36 JM speaks, “I say this too much but you have to put yourself in someone’s head.”
Cosmo motioned Tim for a pause and said, ” Look at him, man. Look at his face, his frown, his sneer…Look at his body language.” He shuddered. “Can you imagine putting yourself in that head, in that body for 24 hours?”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things…
Percy Shelley,” Gene said, “Ozimandius”
Tim pressed the switch, JM continued. We hardly registered the words now as everyone was focused on the visage, the frown, the lip, the sneer, the body language,:
“I understand why Mr. Hamas Guy would do this. I see how he’s thinking. And I think that he should be reviled. However, I completely understand how a human being living for hating Israel, not having much else to live for, might be driven to do things like this, and to me that’s different, as revolting as it is. Especially when we’re talking about the leadership of these people…”
Sonny crossed his arms. “I thought black people don’t like it when they’s called, ‘these people’. Maybe it’s okay when it’s black people calling brown people ‘these people’. Whut you call your double standard. How ’bout you roll the rest of this gargle, Tim, so we can git on with our day.”
“Nearly done”, Tim said. He cued it in time to hear JM say: “This needs to be condemned as nauseating, not just as troubling, as intolerable, as maybe worth leveling Gaza–but that’s not the same as Putin…”
41:40 JM says he’s disappointed about University Presidents unable to fully condemn Hamas.
GL slips in, “Now comes the slaughter of 1,400 Jews in southern Israel and [the college presidents] equivocate.”
Next JM calls Palestinian culture “…a culture where women are relegated to roles that these people pumping their fists in the air, would consider quite inappropriate, in Massachusetts and Colorado…”
“I’ve been to Palestine” Tony said. “People there, women included, are as kind and gracious as any people I ever met. Anyway, compared to who? Israel? Let me tell you about Israeli culture my friend. It’s illegal for a Jew to marry a non-Jew just like in Hitler’s Germany, and for the same reason, racial purity. Israel! Where a woman can’t get a divorce without her husband’s permission. He has to give her a ‘get’ releasing her. If he won’t, and she leaves anyway, she’s cut off from the tribe. Not just her, her children, too. And her children’s children, forever. Israel! where the Chief Rabbi said it was okay for Jewish troops to rape non-Jewish women. Israel! Where they segregate men and women at events with a screen between them. Israel! Where they spit on women for praying at the Western Wall because women aren’t supposed to do that…”
Tim said, “C’mon unenlighted ones. Yon professors only have a few more minutes to cram in every anti-Palestinian/Jewish victim trope out there. Stand-by for LGBTQ and homosexuals.”
“Yeah right.” Tony said. “Compared to Israelis where Rabbi Zvi Thou (who’s accused of multiple sex crimes) urged Israelis to wage war on LGBTQ. The rabbi who called LGBTQ ‘wild animals’. or the one who said LGBTQ are infected with disease.”
GL: min 45: calls Israel an embodiment of “enlightenment inspired development of a liberal political order.”
Jake shook his head in wonder, “Pathetic to see a man degrade himself like that.”
After a few more “I get thats’ from JM. GL asks how Jewish students feel, “in the face of trendy post-modern, woke, contempt for Zionism, and tolerance for terrorist atrocity.”
Minute 52: They mentioned Jews driven from other Middle East countries when Israel was formed. They didn’t mention Avi Schlaim’s book about Zionist terror bombings in the 1950’s Middle East, especially Baghdad, to drive Jews out of those countries and into Israel.
They talk about how Jews have always been in the Middle East, ignoring minor points such as that in the 1850’s a mere 4 percent of Palestine was Jewish, or that the term ‘Jew’ [Orthodox, Ultra-Orthodox, Reform, non-practicing, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, etc] is no more definitive than ‘Christian’ [Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, Baptist, Evangelical, Methodist, Episcopalian, etc], or the various sects of Muslims, of Buddhists, or Hindus …
And then, Thank all the Gods, major and minor, all the Saints, all the Angels in Heaven, the show was over.
To be continued
