A belated Memorial Day email. Given this email list has turned so far to the Right in support of Israeli Fascism, by New Right/Traditional Conservative/National Conservative Trumpites/DeSantisites (he will be back running for “Der Fuhrer”), I have some reluctance to engage with their right-wing peanut gallery, as it seems to be one (me) against all. Which, as with “Genocide,” silence equals acquiescence, if not full agreement. Nevertheless, I take my stand with Israeli non-fascists, as the New Israel Fund is, as against those who as Trumpites/DeSantisites, take their's with their ideological compatriots, Israel’s Settler fascists. With these what some would call an example of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jySSVc71Muc; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O83iLS91JzI&t=3701s; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsX3A3Ax4y8&t=87s; and not to be missed, Ben-Gvir, echoing J.D. Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy, on Quincy Institute’s event last week: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RIDlx1AIqC0?app=desktop; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMTUcdKsgDg; and Bezalel Smotrich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3XLtt2yXGI; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v6F3MLF41g, with the latter echoing Republican calls to “Finish Them Off,” "Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for ‘utter destruction’ in Rafah."
Nevertheless, BLUF: Per the NIF email at bottom, "There have always been multiple visions of what Israel is and can be. Today, two of the most prominent are in sharp contrast. On one side are those who seek an ethno-nationalist state—a place where Jews are first order citizens, and everyone else is a second order citizen. These are the people who seek Jewish control over all of historic Israel—from the river to the sea. . . . Sadly, these are the people calling the shots in Israel right now, including the prosecution of this war.” . . . Fortunately, there is another side to the struggle for Israel’s future and, indeed, for its soul. How did these other Israelis respond to the images of humanitarian goods spilled on the side of the highway? What did they do when they discovered that Israel’s police response to this threat was ineffectual? They – or perhaps I should say “we” – took action."
The former constitute what in any "political theory” definition, are “fascists.” The latter, “non-fascists. With the former, as always, reliant upon the euphemism “Conservative,” to conceal their innate fascist thought, as Willmoore Kendall was so practiced at (see below). Using his terminology: "My thesis, then, is that the line we are looking for is a battleline, and that that line stretches from the bottom of the chart of American politics all the way to the top, passing through pretty much every issue that enters into our politics. My further thesis is that the battle-line is a battle-line in a war actually in progress, between Liberal troops on the left of the line (note that the usage on which we are depending is very clear that the line divides a Left from a Right)-and Conservative troops on the right of the line.” (TP-that is the very essence of fascism; Carl Schmitt’s “Friend-Enemy Distinction!)
The same applies today, with “Conservatives" firmly on the “right" of the battleline, that is, standing shoulder to shoulder with Israeli fascists, their natural allies. So I must take my stand, even if it means criticizing and even offending, those “Sacred Cows,” as pro-Israel think tanks, and publications, promoting Trumpism and Heritage Foundation “Third Way Foreign Policy. All of which I stand against, in standing beside the New Israel Fund in their opposition to Israeli fascism!
To include these “Israeli Conservatives”: https://www.972mag.com/new-right-jerusalem-conservative-conference/. BLUF: " Held on May 26 in Jerusalem for the third time in four years, the Israeli Conservatism Conference, sponsored by the right-wing Tikvah Fund, aims to be the main intellectual hub for cutting-edge right-wing thought in Israel. Jewish billionaire Zalman Chaim Bernstein started the Tikvah Fund a year before his death in 1999, and in recent years, it has become increasingly active in right-wing policy debates, legislation, and activism.” (TP-see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jySSVc71Muc). While the “battleline” here is blurred, between Biden, as a Goldwater Democrat, and the Republicans, as all-out “Goldwaterites/Buckleyites, Netanyahu, as his fascist father’s son, and in his own right, has an unerring detector for his fellow fascists: BLUF: "Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) earlier this month introduced a bill to sanction the ICC — which targets individuals accused of war crimes, genocide and other international law violations — for investigating and prosecuting U.S. citizens and American allies, including Israel. Calls to pass that measure, or something like it, grew following the court’s announcement, even though the U.S. is not a member of court.”
Chip Roy; remember him, one of Responsible Statecraft’s “Restrainers.”
I was briefly on the “Right,” during the 1980s, so I have moved my position from the “right,” long ago and only relatively briefly, as a “Cold War conservative,” completely away from that side. Shared as it is with all of our bi-partisan militarists today, to include the “Third-way fascism” of Trumpsim; all varying only in degree. As the son of a victim of Japanese fascism, of the Bataan Death March, who then spent three years in a Japanese “Death Camp,” as one of only a relative few survivors, as depicted in the movie “The Great Raid,” I must once again declare and take my place on the opposite side of the battleline of the ideological successors to the Japanese fascists, the “Conservative Movement” as defined by Buckley, Burnham, and Kendall. Though their model was the surviving ally of Hitler and Mussolini, Franco.
This Memorial Day could possibly be the last one in which an American can denounce “American Fascism,” should either POTUS candidate win election, but even more if the claimant to the Willmoore Kendall tradition, Trump’s “precursor,” wins election. Which seems increasingly likely. With all one can do about either choice is to not make oneself complicit in genocide, nor fascism, by not supporting either, unfortunately. Or, as Richard Falk puts it, to choose “internal exile,” rather than being morally complicit in US military aggression, whether through Israeli and Ukrainian (and mercenary) proxies, and/or directly by the U.S. through all means of warfare to include “kinetic” by SpecOps forces, as they have in Ukraine since shortly after the turn of the century. Or in the ongoing genocide of Israel in the bi-partisan provision of “Material Support” for it.
Regardless of the outcome of the POTUS election, it should be self-evident we are accelerating our downward spiral into a combination of oblivion, as the “lack of awareness,” “stupidity,” in the Latinate sense, and Nietzsche’s “Abyss.” Having begun our “fall” into that even before 9/11, with Gingrich’s/Republican’s demand we expand NATO right up to the Russian border, and incite “Revolutions,” in any remnants of cooperative states/republics with Russia, in his 1995 Contract for America. And then adopted by PNAC, founded in 1997 (not the other way around). And by the Democrats, the so-called “Moderate Wing,” of Scoop Jackson Democrats, beginning under Clinton, and more correctly called, in tracing its operative “political theory”: Goldwater Democrats.
But what has been clear is that today, in what is sometimes called the “Uniparty,” correctly, in my opinion, in that as both major parties share an ideology of extreme militarism, as seen in what has been openly acclaimed as our “Perpetual War,” as a successor to the Cold War, and adopted ultra-militaristic ideas first formulated by the s0-called “Conservative Movement,” “War is an Addiction” the US has. With “Conservative Movement” a euphemism adopted by its ultra-hardline CIA founders, the “Thought Control Conservatives” of Buckley, Burnham, and Kendall, for what was called in 1920’s Germany, the Conservative Revolution (CR). A rival fascist movement, and precursor to the Nazis before they "got on their feet," with Carl Schmitt a prominent ideologist of the CR, before completing his “journey” to Nazism. And once again prominent, though his name was only more recently invoked by New Right “Illiberals,” as the actual source of “ideas” for Leo Strauss, and his co-ideologue, mentoree, and close friend, Willmoore Kendall.
But “Uniparty” is itself a propagandistic/indoctrination device, a “meme,” to distinguish the Trumpites, who analogically to the CR and the Nazis, represent the latter relative to the former, in that the Trumpites are even more fanatically pro-militarism/fascism, than the “Uniparty!” This has been made clear in the fanatical support to Israeli Fascism by New Rightists, like Trump, J.D. Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Claremont Institute (Ground Zero of West Coast Straussianism, but including Hillsdale College in that as well) connected David P. Goldman. With the latter three all featured speakers at the recent Quincy Institute/TAC magazine event; "A Foreign Policy for the Sponsoring Oligarchs,” heavily represented by Peter Thiel and Charles Koch connected politicians:
You only need to listen to J.D. Vance at the beginning as the keynote speaker to get the "meme” of this Trump campaign event, and their all-out support for Israeli fascists under investigation for genocide currently underway (with Biden lined up shoulder to shoulder with them in opposition to that!). But here is Goldman writing for the Claremont Institute providing the “context” of support for Israel, and “opposition” to the US war against Russia, in Ukraine, and everywhere else, through the sanctions on Russia which Donald Trump increased and intensified!
BLUF: "The scale of the problem is daunting. To return federal R&D funding to the levels of the late 1970s or 1980s relative to GDP, we would have to spend another $200 billion a year. The great corporate laboratories, starting with Bell Labs, no longer exist; they would have to be reconstituted. Only 7% of our college students major in engineering, against 33% in both Russia and China; Russia alone graduates as many engineers each year as the United States. These are labors of Hercules. But we have the choice of accomplishing them or condemning future generations of Americans to mediocrity. We need inspirational leadership to persuade American taxpayers to fund investment on this scale, like John F. Kennedy in 1962 when he told the nation that we would go to the moon, or Ronald Reagan in 1984 when he proposed to protect America against missile attack."
And now, Donald Trump, as whom Goldman promotes from his perspective as an Israelo-geostrategist, is here to provide the kind of “inspirational leadership” called for by Goldman, as can be seen below.
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