April 17, 2024
In what can be
considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson –
the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The
Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the essential
background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast
live 24/7 to the whole planet.
In an email
exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he’s now essentially “spilling the beans” about
how, “50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the
model for Stanley Kubrick’s 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’s advisor.”
Prof. Hudson
shows how “the basic Gaza plan is how Kahn designed the Vietnam War’s 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.”
It’s 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) – a key connectivity node of the
Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Prof. Hudson
then connects the major dots: “As 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’re considered not to be a team player (or even
Putin’s Puppet), so critics have to leave when they see that they won’t be
promoted. That’s why U.S. strategists won’t stop and re-think what they’re
doing.”
Isolate them in
strategic hamlets, then kill them
In our email
exchange, Prof. Hudson remarked “this is basically what I said” in reference to
the podcast with Ania K, drawing on his notes (here is the full, revised
transcript). Fasten your seat belts: unvarnished truth is more lethal than a
hypersonic missile hit.
On the Zionist
military strategy in Gaza:
“My 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’s plan that was carried
out in Vietnam in the 1960s.
Herman’s focus
was systems analysis. Start by defining the overall aim and then, how do we
achieve it?
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.
The genocide
that we are seeing today is the explicit policy of Israel’s founders: the idea
of “a land without a people” means a land without non-Jewish people. They were
to be driven out – 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.
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’s foreign legion
since it was first organized in Afghanistan to fight the Russians.
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.
But as the U.S.
learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest and vote against the President
who supervises this war. Lyndon Johnson couldn’t make a public appearance
without crowds chanting. He had to sneak out the side entrance of hotels where
he was speaking.
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.”
And don’t forget
to starve them
Prof. Hudson
makes a direct reference to a Sara Roy piece in 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, “As 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.”
That has led,
according to Prof. Hudson, to Israel “destroying 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.
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 – from a
normal rate of 500 a day to just 112. In addition to blocking trucks, Israel
has targeted aid workers – about one a day.
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’s
population would be starved out.”
Biden and
Netanyahu as war criminals
Prof. Hudson
succinctly draws the key connection in the whole tragedy: “The 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’s [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.
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.”
Prof. Hudson
stresses how “the 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.
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. ‘rules-based order,’ 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 – 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.
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’s
founding, and indeed the Westphalian principle back in 1648 of non-interference
in the affairs of other countries.
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’s
protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank – don’t forget
the West Bank – is the emotional and moral catalyst to creating a new
multipolar geopolitical order for the Global Majority.”
Disappear or die
The key question
remains: what will happen to Gaza and the Palestinians. Prof. Hudson’s
judgement is ominously realistic: “As 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 – the dream from the
outset in 1947 of a land without non-Jewish people.
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.”
On who would
“help” to rebuild Gaza, there are a few solid takers already: “Turkish building
companies, Saudi Arabia financing developments, UAE, American investors – 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’s no opposition to
the genocide.”
Prof. Hudson’s
final verdict on “the great benefit to the U.S.” is that “no claims can be
brought against the U.S. – 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.
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.”
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