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Taken from “Modern Wars In The Light of Catholic Teaching” by Hugh Akins 

and Thomas Gabriele. 

Commentary as Preface

Israeli Bloodbath in Gaza is no Anti-Terror Operation, but

STATE TERRORISM UNLEASHED!

by Hugh Akins

            President Bush has it all wrong.  William Kristol has it all wrong.  The truth about what is being called “one of the bloodiest Mideast clashes in decades” – the Israeli bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip along the eastern-most Mediterranean – is the total reverse of the lies Tel Aviv, Washington and the mass media (both liberal and conservative) are feeding the characteristically gullible American people.

            In an article in the Orlando Sentinel of January 3, 2009 entitled “An Act of Terror,” Associated Press staff writer Ben Feller says of George Bush that he is offering no criticism of Israeli’s latest killing-orgy, but is proclaiming instead, as a non-negotiable condition of a cease-fire, the necessity of monitoring the Hamas in order “to halt the flow of smuggled weapons to terrorist groups.”

            Has hypocrisy ever reached such heights as this in the long history of criminal politics where the very man half the world’s population sees as the worst terrorist on earth – George W. Bush – demands the monitoring of the flow of weapons to terrorists groups?  The same man that is accused of massive and monstrous war crimes and crimes against humanity?  The same man whose lawless and unrestrained warmongering has swelled the ranks of Muslim fanatics and suicide bombers making our country, as well as the rest of the world, less safe than ever before?  The same man that presumes to lead the world against the threat of Islamic terrorism?

            It might almost be comical were it not so utterly insane.  

            William Kristol’s New York Times Op-Ed column of January 5, 2009 was another shameless whitewashing of the facts as well as a lame excuse for what is morally inexcusable: the savage bloodbath of Arab civilians in the Gaza Strip – as many as 30% of which are children! – by Israel’s infamous war-machine.  Says Kristol: “An Israeli success in Gaza would be a victory in the war on terror – and in the broader struggle for the future of the Middle East.  Hamas is only one manifestation of the rise, over the past few decades, of a terror-friendly and almost death-cult-like form of Islamic extremism.  The combination of such terror movements with a terror-sponsoring and nuclear-weapons-seeking Iranian state (aided by its sidekick Syria) has produced a new kind of threat to Israel … So there are sound reasons why the United States – whether led by George Bush or Barack Obama – will stand with Israel as it fights.  But Israel – assuming it succeeds – is doing the United States a favor by taking on Hamas now.”

            The horrific genocide of innocents – a favor?  God save us from such demonic minds.

            Contrast the pernicious propaganda from the mouths of such twisted men as Bush and Kristol with the eminently more truthful commentaries of men like Justin Raimondo, Christopher Bollyn and especially Tom Droleskey.  Raimondo writes: “This latest bloody chapter in the tragic history of the region is being written because all the main protagonists benefit: the Israelis, Hamas, and radicals of all stripes, especially those groups aligned with al-Qaeda.  As in the case of the Iraq war, bin Laden’s narrative of an Israeli … invasion intent on stamping out Islam is seemingly verified as blood flows freely in the streets of Gaza.

            “The Israeli rampage is not in our interests, and the longer it continues the more it threatens the already tenuous position of U.S. troops in Iraq, endangering them by inflaming the local populace, which is vehemently pro-Palestinian.  The Israeli blitz is sending shockwaves through the region that could upset several apple-carts of U.S. construction, including the regime in Egypt, the pro-U.S. Jordanian monarchy, and especially our rambunctious Iraqi protectorate, where anti-U.S. sentiment is not so quietly building.

            “…It is a war that has been financed by U.S. tax dollars and fought with American weapons, with the active collaboration and support of our government.  We have paid for the radical expansion of the Israeli ‘settlements’ by armed bands of ultra-nationalist fanatics, Israel’s version of the Taliban.  Indeed, Israeli opinion is moving rapidly in the radicals’ direction, and the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right Likud Party in the upcoming election is virtually assured – with even more extreme elements waiting in the wings for their moment” (“The Politics of the Gaza Massacre,” Dec. 29, 2008, AntiWar.Com).

            In another article Raimondo comments:  “The Israeli blitz demonstrates a new moral principle in action, one that stands the old Catholic just war theory on its head by establishing the concept of disproportionality.  Whereas the old just war theorists insisted that responses to aggression must be proportionate to the provocation, this new theory – let’s call it the Luciferian theory [emphasis mine]– holds the opposite: that an overreaction is mandated in order to strike fear and awe into the enemy.  This will supposedly deter them from stepping out of line in the future.

            “…The two most destructive and objectively anti-American forces in the Middle East – al-Qaeda affiliates and the Israelis – benefit the most from this fresh outbreak of a festering conflict, and the losers are the Palestinians and the American people, with the former enduring the slaughter and the latter paying for it.

            “We will pay for it not only in billions of our tax dollars, but in terms of the hate-America factor, which will skyrocket on the Arab ‘street’ and inspire many [more] to take up arms against us.  These are prime recruits for the jihadists such as bin Laden, whose ultimate target is the continental United States.  At the rate we are going, we’ll have to close off the country entirely in order to keep out enemies both numerous and determined.  In the end, however, nothing will protect us against the relatives and loved ones of the innocents Israel has slaughtered, with our help and full approval” (“Rationalizing Gaza,” January 5, 2009, AntiWar.Com).

            Indeed, the 95-98% of the American people that remain tragically clueless as to what the attacks against us on September 11, 2001 were really all about, need only take an up-close look at the Zionist-led and U.S.-funded massacre that is taking place right now in the Holy Land.  The USA is complicit in Israel’s vast crimes against innocent civilians in Palestine just as it is directly to blame for its own mass-atrocities, on Israel’s behalf, in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Middle East has become an inferno blazing out of control, a conflagration of Apocalyptic proportions which is vividly seen – and was long foreseen – by all who maintain a Catholic world view in its integrity.[1]

·         Civilian death toll soars as Israel intensifies savage attack on Gaza;  More than 850 killed, including 270 children as war moves into third week;

·         Hospitals are overflowing, mostly civilian casualties;  Israeli military targets school in Gaza;

·         Egyptian border guards open fire on fleeing Gazans; 

·         Gaza City priest says: “We cry and nobody hears us”…We are “drowning in blood;”

·         Israel refuses Red Cross aid to victims of its criminal brutality; Journalists barred from the war-zone;

·         U.S. deployed troops to Egypt-Gaza border weeks ago at Israel’s behest;

·         Israel outraged as Vatican says Gaza resembles vast concentration camp;

·         US arms shipment to Israel continues as both parties wholeheartedly support raw aggression;

·         US veto obstructs UN resolution condemning Israel’s war crimes;

·         Islamic world understandably enraged (why isn’t the Christian world morally outraged???);

·         Moderate Muslims rally behind terrorists in the face of brutal Israeli and U.S. aggressions and occupations.

And that’s only in the Gaza Strip!  This is the war on terrorism?  No, this is terrorism unleashed.  What

manner of politics are behind all this?  Top investigative reporter Chris Bollyn helps us see things in the broader perspective: “The ‘war on terror’ is a fraud and a dangerous threat to the American people … It is nothing more than a Zionist deception that has been used to manipulate the U.S. military to wage war on Israel’s behalf while imposing a centralized police command under the guise of ‘homeland security’ throughout the United States” (“The ‘War of Terror’ – a Zionist Deception to Control America,” April 10, 2007, Bollyn.Com). 

Finally, turning to the intrepid editor of ChristorChaos.Com, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, whose prolific  commentaries are highly valued by many a traditionalist,[2] we are provided an integrally Catholic viewpoint on the current happenings in the Middle East.  “Nothing much has changed in Palestine in the past two millennia. Herod the Great has a number of worthy successors among the ranks of the Zionists who govern the State of Israel. These Zionists are filled with the same anger, hatred and rage as Herod, who, unlike them, was a Jew by blood and not as a result of the conversion of the Khazars to the Talmud at the end of the First Millennium A.D.[3]  Their souls are

steeped in Original Sin and are thus captive to the devil, predisposing them to strike out immoderately and disproportionately when provoked by their arch-enemies in the ranks of Mohammedanism, fiends whose souls are also steeped in the ravages of Original Sin. The mutual hatreds and animosities fueled by so many unforgiven Mortal Sins committed by the Zionists and their Mohammedan foes provide the devil with a veritable field day as innocent human beings are slaughtered and future generations of "fighters" are taught to hate and to exact revenge for today's crimes. 

“…The leaders of Hamas who authorized the lobbing of rockets into nearby Israeli civilian population centers from the Gaza Strip knew full well that their Zionist foes would respond with some kind of show of force, although some reports indicate that these leaders were not quite prepared for the typically disproportionate Israeli response that is as yet ongoing and is designed to show the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that no one is considered ‘innocent’ by Zionists who believe that Jewish blood is more precious in the sight of God than any other. Under-estimating the brutality of the leaders of the State of Israel is always a costly proposition for the lives of the innocent human beings who happen to have the misfortune of belonging to what many Israelis consider to be an inferior race of people, the Palestinians. Other reports, however, indicate that the leaders of Hamas, a Mohammedan organization with frankly Mohammedan goals, desired a massive Israeli response to their rocket assaults so as to galvanize Palestinian support for them as opposed to their political rival, Fatah, the secular organization that Hamas defeated at gunpoint in the year 2007

“…Lost upon all of the actors involved in the carnage at the present time is the simple fact that most the blood Jews of the stock of Abraham were expelled from the Holy Land by the Romans in 70 A.D. as a direct punishment for the rejection of Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. While the State of Israel is a political reality and it is indeed immoral to seek to eradicate it by the use of armed force and the wanton killing of civilians by means of military campaigns and terrorist attacks, a state that exists to give a ‘home’ to people who worship the devil must be an object for the Church's missionary efforts as there can never be ‘peace’ in the Holy Land until all people, Talmudic Jews and Mohammedans alike, say, ‘Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord.’ The State of Israel would cease to exist as such upon the conversion of its citizens to the true Faith and a new government established that recognized the Catholic Church, born in Jerusalem on Pentecost Sunday as the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, descended upon the Apostles and our dear Blessed Mother in tongues of flame, as the true Church and thus became a exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King in the land of His Incarnation, Nativity, Hidden Years, Public Ministry and Passion, Death and Resurrection and Ascension.”

Leave it to Tom Droleskey to get to the crux of the issue.  He goes on to say, “Pope Saint Pius X explained to Theodore Herzl, the founder of international Zionism, that the Catholic Church, while she could not forbid or prevent the Jews from settling in Palestine, could not favor such a settlement and would open up churches to Baptize all those who did settle there: ‘We are unable to favor this movement [of Zionism]. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot answer you otherwise. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people’  (Marvin Lowenthal, Diaries of Theodore Herzl, pp. 427- 430.).”   

Dr. Droleskey comments: “The responses of Pope Saint Pius X teach us very plainly that the Talmudic Jews have no right from God to be in the land from which He had expelled them in 70 A.D. Mohammedans, of course, have no right to this land, which they seized by force in the Seventh Century A.D. and held, absent a brief time during the Crusades, until 1948, either. The Holy Land belongs to Christ the King and His Catholic Church, and there can be no true peace in the land where Our Lord shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood until and unless those who inhabit it at present and whose souls are steeped in Original Sin and suffer the consequences of their own Actual Sins are converted to the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order within nations or peace among nations”  ( “Worthy Successors of Herod the Great,” ChristorChaos.Com, Dec. 30, 2008). 

Thank you, Dr. Droleskey.

The Jews themselves have often boasted of their own true objectives regarding wars in general, which target Christians more so than Muslims. At the funeral of a fellow rabbi, Rabbi Reichorn spoke the bitter truth when he said: “Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number.  Wars have a special value for Jews [beyond the profiteering factor], since Christians massacre each other and make more room for us Jews.  Wars are the Jews’ Harvest, the Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars.  Over one hundred million Christians have been swept off the face of the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet.”

            That, my dear readers, was written in 1869 following the bloodbath of the American War Between the States, which was instigated and funded on both sides by the Jewish House of Rothschild, meaning that the 100 million dead Christians mentioned by Rabbi Reichorn did not include the future Jewish blood-letting of Christians in two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq; nor did it include those countless additional millions that perished in the killing fields of Russia, China, Eastern Europe and Latin America.  As a case in point, Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Jewish Congress, was being completely honest in saying: “We are not denying and we are not afraid to confess, this war [WWII] is our war and it is waged for the liberation of Jewry … stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry.  We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based … we are also providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going … We are the Trojan Horse in the enemy’s fortress” (From a talk given on Dec. 3, 1942 in New York City as quoted in “Zionist Enemy Inside the Walls,” by Fr. Luigi Carloni, S.J., Saint Peter & Paul Bulletin, Jan., 1943).   

            A slogan adopted by Israel’s Mossad sums up the Zionist mindset in a few poignant words: “By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Make War!”

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MODERN WARS IN THE LIGHT OF CATHOLIC TEACHING

--- A Two-Part Exegesis ---

INTRODUCTION

Hugh Akins and Thomas B. Gabriele

January 6, 2009, Feast of the Epiphany

            It may seem somewhat inopportune that we are offering this latest release on the subject of war at the same time “the news” is announcing a timeframe for U.S troop withdrawal from Iraq.  By the way, this withdrawal of troops consists only of combat forces, which means that many thousands of Americans in uniform will be left behind in Baghdad and Fallujah, in harm’s way, without adequate defense.  How long do you suppose it will be before the terrorists will exploit the golden opportunity by launching a deadly strike against our military left exceedingly vulnerable without combat support?  Military units stationed in hostile lands and unable to defend themselves are sitting targets just begging to be attacked.  Our enemies are sure to see this as an open invitation, too tempting to resist, to hit us with our guard down and our backs unprotected.  Does anyone actually believe that the White House and Pentagon never actually considered the possibility? If they haven’t considered it, does that not make them inexcusably incompetent?  And if they have considered it, diabolically evil?  Isn’t it amazing how these politicians can get away with criminal politics and high treason on so vast a scale, year after year, decade after decade, with zero accountability to the people whose interests they supposedly represent and serve? 

As for the wholesale re-deployment of armed forces out of Iraq, it is presumed that because Barack Obama, the candidate promising real change, is about to move into the White House, the Bush wars are likely to be ended.

            An end to the wars?  A period of peace?  We don’t advise holding your breath.

            Notwithstanding a probable phased reduction of American fighting forces from Iraq, it is a sure thing that, over-all, the Israeli-U.S.-fueled War on Terror will continue, uninterrupted, full speed ahead.  We hate shattering anyone’s delusion, really, but you can be certain that the aggressive wars President Bush started in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy will not be over anytime soon just because the Bush regime is about to become history.  There’s little doubt that President-elect Obama will continue the same Bush foreign policy[4] just as McCain would have done had he won the election, just as Bush himself continued the Clinton foreign policy (Clinton’s own pre-9/11 “war on terror,” by the way, included relentless bombing of Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and the Sudan, in case you’ve forgotten), and just as every president has done since Harry Truman initiated the blatantly anti-American and treasonous Israel-First policy in 1948.

            “Israel first” is what these wars in the Middle East, Asia and Africa are really all about.  Israel at the expense of the rest of the world.

            You see, Afghanistan and Iraq were not so much Bush’s wars as they were/are Zionist wars engineered not from the Pentagon but from the Jewish temples, the Israeli embassy, the neo-con (Zionist) think-tanks and such Talmudic organizations as AIPAC – the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, and Chabad Lubavitch headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.  Such wars have been planned long before 9/11, as revealed, for example, in 1897 in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (specifically Protocols 7 and 10 calling for the destruction of Christian civilization through a series of foreign and international wars), and in another dark scheme designed to perpetuate war that took shape in 1966 as The Report From Iron Mountain. [5]    

            Our ongoing, unchanging bipartisan foreign policy means more not fewer U.S. wars of aggression in the next 4-8 years – and beyond.  Look at Obama’s initial cabinet appointments – Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, is a radical “Zionist pit bull” whose obsession is war with Iran; and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State who, during her campaign for the presidency spoke of the total obliteration of Iran; and consider too Republican-friendly Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, yet another rabid Zionist war-Hawk, having recently been embraced by the Democrats as one of their own.  Face it, Obama’s promises to initiate changes were as shallow as Bush’s promises of a non-interventionist foreign policy.  In truth, Afghanistan and Iraq were only the beginning.  The 1 million, 3 hundred thousand-plus Iraqi deaths due to the U.S. invasion is only the beginning.  The 4,221 dead American soldiers and 100,000 wounded (as of Jan. 2, 2009 according to AntiWar.Com) is only the beginning.

            Even as we hear of a troop withdrawal from Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is flaring up all over again.  It is presently undergoing a re-escalation of deadly fighting as the U.S. turns up the heat with a massive new build-up of forces and another surge of sheer aggression, destroying God knows how many more villages, murdering God knows how many more innocent noncombatants, and causing God knows how many more outraged and hate-driven men to swell the ranks of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

            The Israeli-American War on Terror, which is more a REIGN OF TERROR than anything else, and which – in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan – has already expanded into Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria and Somalia, and could easily soon extend into Georgia and the Ukraine … this mammoth and multifarious war of savage aggression will continue spreading hatred and carnage, terrorism and death all over the planet, precipitating yet more and more wars.  This is so because perpetual war – just as perpetual heresy and apostasy, usury and inflation, taxation and debt – is part of the plan to socialize our country and globalize the planet.  The fight is NOT all about abortion, as some have argued during the last presidential election; it’s all about Jewish hegemony and Zionist world supremacy.  This, and not abortion, is what is at the core of the war against Christ the King, with the vast wealth and power of the United States maneuvered into serving Satan’s most important nation-state, Israel, in this truly cosmic struggle.  “Indeed, our bi-partisan endorsement of Zionist aggression in Palestine [and throughout the world]… is one of the most reprehensible actions in world history” (John Beaty, The Iron Curtain Over America).

Look at what’s happening right now in the West Bank region, of which you saw a glimpse in the opening commentary.  The slaughter of innocents continues as Israeli warplanes use GPS-guided GBU-39 “Smart Bombs,” made in the USA, to pound and pulverize the Gaza Strip.  How much longer before the Israeli-American coalition (the real axis of evil!) will be exploding nuclear weapons on innocent Iranians – and precipitating a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and possibly exchanging nuclear warheads with Russia itself, and even with Red China who has long maintained that war with the U.S. was “inevitable”?  

            Did Our Lady of Fatima not try and warn the world about Russia spreading its errors throughout the world – the two most lethal errors being Bolshevism and Zionism?  Combined they constitute the single most powerful diabolic-force in the world today, and are behind every major moral and social evil on this scorched and blood-drenched planet. [6]  

            Iran, Russia and China will make the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a “piece of cake” in comparison.  Before it’s all over and the nuclear dust-cloud settles and the blasts and subsequent radiation poisoning take their horrific toll, this massive new criminal military venture, launched jointly by Washington and Tel Aviv (and insanely supported by American Zionists of both the Left and the Right), may leave in its wake several million dead and dying (not mere thousands), and trillions of dollars (not mere billions) poured into the sinkhole.  Apparently it does not disturb the consciences of our leaders, nor the media, nor it seems even the majority of Catholic and Christian people of America, nor we regret saying even their most revered shepherds (do you hear any outcry from them?), that this war is a gigantic hoax, a phony war, completely unnecessary, unprovoked, disproportionate, unconstitutional and positively unwinable.

            We are publishing the present articles to prove that this War on Terror is immoral as well; that it is, more precisely, an indisputably unjust war, and therefore, forbidden by the Law of Christ and by the Church’s Just War Doctrine. 

            Indeed, with war either raging or flaring up all around us, with World War III if not Armageddon itself growing more likely with each passing week, it behooves us to take a long hard look at what Holy Mother Church says about war.

            The Just war in particular.

            The unjust war by extension.

            Total war above all.

            And then interspersed throughout, and with the Church’s divine wisdom as our guide, we’ll be applying the Just War doctrine to the current debacle in the Middle East. 

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