Part 7: Uncle Tim in progress
We Watch ‘The Moral Challenges 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.
Back to the show we go, The Glenn Show
At about 17 minutes Glenn brings the conversation back to Gaza and Israel’s pending ground invasion. The learned ones did some head shaking as Glenn asks JM “Do you share my foreboding?”
Tim said. “Here’s where the mask comes off. Feel free to comment.”
JM: “It can only be less bad…last time we talked I was saying that I worry about the idea of flattening Gaza, what would that do? Especially since it would only buy time.”
A groan went around the room. “Less bad.” “Jesus. Less bad for who?” “Write that on every Gaza kid’s tombstone.”
Tim noted: “By the time this podcast was put up, Israel had already dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on tiny Gaza. More than the explosive force of the Hiroshima nuclear blast.’
Tommy said, “And by the time this was put up, Israel had already killed more Palestinian children than all of the people; men, women, and children, on all sides, Catholic, Protestant, British, killed during the Irish Troubles from when they started in 1966 until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.”
Ira: “By the time this was put up Israel had cut off food and water to more than two million people.”
Al: “More than half of them children.”
Gene: “And over 50,000 pregnant women.”
Sonny: “Cut power off, too. No sanitation. Shit and piss in the streets.”
Minute 19:20 JM : “…it seems to me as many people who live in Gaza should be gotten south as possible…”
“They were moving south, already when he said that. And Israel was bombing them as they went. Blowing up their houses. Killing them on the roads. Israel’s still bombing them. Still shooting them. Muslims, Christians, their own hostages.”
Minute 19:45 JM tries to justify the slaughter by claiming Israel’s goal is Hamas: “To not try to exterminate them, I think it’s become clear this time…”
“‘Exterminate them!” Jake said. “Like insects. Here’s an enlightened vessel if ever I heard one. A light unto the nations.”
“This is the guy–mind you–who said a few minutes ago that people who think as he’s proposing now are “…lower beings. That this is the best they can do–butchering people like this is something you can excuse them for.
Minute 20:52 JM “…despite the fact that thousands of Palestinians and thousands of Israelis would die in the effort…I can’t see any other way.”
“Try tens of thousands of Palestinians already dead–mostly women, children, and old men– and a few dozen Israeli soldiers.
Tens of dozens after the ground invasion. He’s in total denial of asymmetrical warfare every time Israel ‘mows the lawn’ in Gaza.”
Next JM says Quakerism played a major role in his childhood. We rolled our eyes.
“Too bad he’s not a Quaker now. The Quakers voted to Boycott Israel.
“So did the African Methodist Epsicopalians.”
“So did the United Methodists.”
“So did the United Church of Christ.”
“So did the Unitarians.”
“So did the Evangelical Lutherans.”
“So did the Mennonites.”
“So did the Presbyterians.”
Tim raised his index finger, “Get this next part. McWhorter said the test he gave himself is would he go fight. And he said he gave himself that test 20 years ago in Iraq and he would have. Now he says he was:
“…mistaken about Iraq, Colin Powell and the media fooled me. I thought we were going in there for a reason. I should have known better.”
“Ah ha!” Roy said. “This is why you told us his song and dance about how he was wrong about cops killing George Floyed but he was a victim because… he was lied to. Now we hear that twenty years ago he supported the Iraq war but he was wrong because, well, he was lied to. Gentlemen, let’s start a pool. How long will it be before our enlightened professor says he was wrong about the Gaza genocide, but, he was lied to.”
“Meanwhile, the damage is done and his checks are in the bank.”
“Anyway,” Sonny said. “Back then he was young enough to go to Iraq hisself and didn’t.”
“There you go.” Tim said, “Right after he said he was wrong about Iraq, JM says about Gaza: “What else could be done other than going in and smoking them out?”
After that, GL and JM talked about the potential for a wider war spreading through the Middle East. JM, who lives thousands of miles away, is willing to risk it. As often happens with college professors, it’s not what they say, it’s what they leave out. A few points JM left out:
*A regional war will disrupt the global oil supply and traffic in the Suez Canal.
*That will disrupt the world food supply.
*Israel has been trying to bring America into a war with Iran for decades.
*If America attacks Iran, Russia and China will come in on the side of Iran.
*Russia and China are the drivers of the BRICS alliance: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
*BRICS is using the Gaza Genocide as a recruiting tool. In January, 2024, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE joined BRICS. These ten countries represent most of the world’s land, food, fuel, and economic potential. They’re lined up against America.
*Most countries in the world outside America are may join BRICS.
*Given Zionist history of throwing out the Turks for the British, then the British for the Americans, it should come as no surprise when Israel throws out America for BRICS.
*A regional Middle East war could spiral into World War III before anyone could stop it.
Many’s the night we’ve sat around the bunker and hashed through those points. We ticked them off by rote and jumped back into the video as JM said, “My impression is that Hezbollah will be a little easier as an enemy than Gaza.”
That triggered Sonny’s gag reflex. Tim pounded his back as he coughed biscotti and coffee all down his sleeve.
“Man could choke to death listening to college.” Sonny wheezed. “Where’d they get this guy?”
Al laughed, “Apparently he missed Israel’s five failed invasions into Lebanon. Like 2006 when Hezbollah’s Al Nasser Brigade–three thousand guys with no armored vehicles, no air force, no navy–beat the entire Israeli military, including their reserves, including massive emergency weapons shipments from America, three thousand guys sent them all running for Tel Aviv. A journalist asked the Hezbollah commander why he didn’t call up more men. He said they didn’t need them.”
Sonny nodded. “Hezbollah’s a lot stronger now than they was in 2006. Israelis don’t want to fight people whut fight back. We about done?”
Tim said. “Hold onto your hats.”
To be continued
