Will the World Survive As US and Israeli Death Cults Unite to Rain Down Endless Apocalyptic Genocidal Destruction on Iran?

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It’s worse than we thought.

While dirty, demented grandpa Donald, increasingly unhinged, keeps failing asleep and then waking up and indulging in bouts of incoherent ranting, he has already accomplished what his minders always intended: to bring together the two most twisted, delusional, genocidal, pseudo-religious movements in modern history —  Zionism and Christian Zionism — and to launch an apocalyptic war on their behalf.

Donald Trump, of course, as a malignant narcissist, has no God but himself, and the same is true of his chief Zionist manipulator, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a slippery devil of a being who has dominated Israeli politics for much of the last 40 years, and who has, over the last 29 months, finally emerged in his true colours, as the bearer of nothing but mass murder and destruction without restraint.

Using the Palestinian resistance movement’s attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 as an excuse, Netanyahu, leading a political establishment and a population that are almost entirely supportive of his bleak vision, has drawn on violent Iron Age religious texts to finally manifest the true apocalyptic intent of the genocidal Zionist settler-colonial cult whose first victory was the blood-soaked establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

Apocalyptic Zionism

Apocalyptic Zionism is, nominally, at war with the people who, as the State of Israel sees it, dared — and still dare — to live on what its adherents regard as their own land, drawing on absurd scriptural claims from 3,000 years ago.

For 75 years, the Zionist entity largely focused on the dispossession, oppression and cruel imprisonment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but October 7 gave Israel the excuse to finally revive the full apocalyptic fervour of the nation’s founding, launching the most sickening live-streamed genocide in the Gaza Strip, and stepping up its systemic and brutal violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Having been indulged by the west since its founding — largely based on western guilt about the Nazi Holocaust, and their own countries’ long histories of persecuting Jews — the State of Israel used October 7 not only to seek the extermination of the Palestinian people, but also to expand its wider ambitions, sporadically played out in the intervening decades, primarily through its repeated hostility towards Lebanon.

Israel’s relentless expansionist aims are nothing less than the realization of the originally Zionist settlers’ notion that, beyond Palestine, the genocidal ghosts of the past had promised them a “Greater Israel”, as embraced by Zionism’s founder, Theodor Herzl, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, and encompassing the whole of Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

While conquest remains a part of Israel’s current obsession with the vision of a “Greater Israel”, as demonstrated through Israel’s repeatedly violent incursions and attacks, over the last two years, on Lebanese territory in particular, but also in Syria, it would be fair to say that apocalyptic destruction rather than conquest is the main driver of Netanyahu’s increasingly unhinged obsession with eliminating anyone who, as he sees it, poses a threat to Israel’s security and stability.

It should hardly need mentioning that Netanyahu forgets, as always, that war never brings peace, and that the only route to Israeli security has always involved what it cannot tolerate: accepting the Palestinians’ right to their land, and establishing, as has always been eminently possible, a route to peaceful co-existence.

Instead, however, for 40 years, by his own confession, Netanyahu has been consumed by a hunger not only to destroy the Palestinians and any neighbours who refuse to bow in obeisance to Israel, but also to take out the main supporter of those who refuse to be silent and docile in their subjugation — the Islamic Republic of Iran, outside the parameters of “Greater Israel”, but regarded as the lynchpin of the resistance to Israel’s “destiny”, as a supporter of many of the regional resistance movements that have obstinately refused to allow Israel to fulfil its dream of total subjugation without resistance.

While Israel has spent decades pouring resources into two particular fields to defend itself — the manufacture of weapons and the development of cutting-edge modern weapons technology, including, most recently, horrific AI programs that generate targets autonomously, and the creation of intelligence services devoted to colossal spying operations, which, it seems, also involve the blackmail of potentially incalcitrant foreign leaders — it would be fair to say that its remorseless journey towards becoming a nation that lives only to engage in the genocidal slaughter of its perceived enemies also remains hugely dependant on the largesse of the United States.

The US routinely supplies roughly two-thirds of Israel’s weapons, and has spent decades shielding it from accountability in the United Nations — and latterly, in the International Criminal Court, after arrest warrants were issued for Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Moreover, US presidents have all been obliged, one way or another, to bend the knee to Israel and to put its priorities above their own, as became horrifically evident when Joe Biden, a self-proclaimed Zionist, promised and delivered “ironclad” support for the last half of his presidency, even as evidence of unconscionable genocidal activity on Israel’s part became more and more evident.

Now, however, under Trump, an even darker base of support for Israel has emerged, and is actively committed to an apocalyptic war.

The apocalyptic horrors of Christian Zionism

That base of support comes from Christian Zionism, a ludicrous but potentially life-ending warping of Christianity, massively popular amongst the so-called “Christian right” in the US — which is itself, of course, a contradiction in terms, as Jesus was very evidently not a right-winger.

Christian Zionists believe that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 is a critical component of biblical prophecies in the Old Testament, which indicate that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine and the wider Levant region is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Like many other people, I suspect, I’ve known about Christian Zionism for many years, but found its premise about the second coming of Christ so mind-bending that I had failed to appreciate the extent to which its fanatical adherents in the uniquely broken spiritual and psychic landscape of the US were taking it seriously.

However, since Trump took office for the second time just over a year ago, the proximity of these fanatics to the seat of US power has become ever more evident — via the prayer meetings at the White House in which adherents of the apocalyptic fantasy lay hands on Trump as though he himself were the Second Coming of Christ, and, more recently, via the delusional confessions of Mike Huckabee, the dim-witted US Ambassador to Israel.

In a forensic hatchet job by the US’s most prominent investigative skeptic, Tucker Carlson, Huckabee openly identified with Israel above the US, was unable to answer questions about how and why European settlers could claim that they had a “right” to Palestinian land, and, most crucially, claimed that Israel has a “right” to the whole of “Greater Israel”, from the Nile to the Euphrates. “It would be fine if [Israel] took it all,” Huckabee said, precipitating a global chorus of outrage that he apparently failed to even comprehend.

With the launch of the joint US-Israeli “war” on Iran, the Christian Zionists seem finally to have fully captured the White House. As Trump sleeps, waking only to look increasingly confused, and to declare, with ever-increasing implausibility, that the US has a boundless supply of weapons (which it evidently doesn’t), and toothlessly calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense (now reimagined as the Secretary of War), “has turned the Pentagon into something resembling a church”, as Mondoweiss described it in a post on March 6, where he “hosts Christian prayer services during work hours”, and “sponsors a weekly Bible study whose leader teaches that God blesses Israel’s allies and curses its enemies.”

The unique depravity of Pete Hegseth

In what he clearly sees as a “holy war”, Hegseth — the Trump sycophant, all-round dissolute human being, and former Fox TV host with no previous experience of military command, whose mother disowned him in 2018 as “an abuser of women” — has sickeningly eviscerated any notion of appropriate or proportionate wartime conduct in official statements. At a press conference on March 2, for example, he sought to claim that Iran has been at war with the US since the revolution in 1979, and that anyone who even threatens Americans is a valid target for extermination.

“For 47 long years, the expansionist and Islamist regime in Tehran has waged a savage, one-sided war against America”, he said, adding that, “If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will kill you.”

Two days later, he gleefully promised “death and destruction from the sky all day long”, bragging that “Our rules of engagement are bold, precise and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

Interviewed on “60 Minutes” on March 7, Hegseth plumbed even greater depths of depravity, saying, of the Iran people, that “The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they’re going to live”, which, as I noted at the time, appeared to show him “promising the genocidal extermination of the entire Iranian people, akin to the genocidal intent displayed by Israeli leaders after Oct. 7 towards the entire population of Gaza.”

Hegseth is not alone in his apocalyptic genocidal fury. Trump’s personal spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain, a deranged fanatic who runs the White House Faith Office and organizes the shameful gatherings where the “faithful” gather to lay hands on Trump and treat him as a 21st century messiah, and not a confirmed racist and malignant narcissist with galloping dementia, “has publicly declared that ‘to say no to Trump is to say no to God’, claimed demonic forces stole the 2020 election, and is militantly pro-Israel”, as Mondoweiss described it, also pointing out that a conservative journalist, Pedro L. Gonzalez, recently described her as a “psychopath doomsday cultist.”

Moreover, since the US-Israeli bombing of Iran began, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received over 200 complaints, from troops across every branch of the military, at over 50 military installations, stating that their commanders are also caught up in this pseudo-religious genocidal fervour, and have been telling them the war is “biblically sanctioned” and that Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

So here’s where we are. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as portended in Jewish and Christian scriptures, have finally manifested on earth: the Horseman of Conquest, the ailing, flatulent life-hater Donald Trump, whose mount is actually a golf cart; the Horseman of War, the dismal cosplaying fake warrior Pete Hegseth, who is monstrously aroused by openly talking about the extermination of an entire people; the Horseman of Famine, which is actually the entire world of extractive capitalism dressed in a suit and riding a petrol-powered metal horse which is stuck in a gas station forecourt because the oil supplies have run out; and the Horseman of Death, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose rage at life itself is so all-consuming that he, more than anyone who has wielded power in our lifetimes, may burn the world down before acknowledging that he is the manifestation of a sickness and pestilence on the face of the earth on a scale that is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes.

The only good news is that, of these four bleak visions of the apocalypse, the most dominant, although the others don’t realize it, is the Horseman of Famine, as the unintended consequences of this apocalyptic war spill out across the entire region, and, from there, around the whole world, collapsing the global economy through massive disruption to the production of, and distribution of the fossil fuels on which the entire edifice of global civilization depends.

Will the world put up with this, or can some way be found to avert catastrophe, and to rein in the three forces — Trump, the Zionists and the Christian Zionists — who now, in an unprecedented manifestation of extreme evil, exist solely to rain down apocalyptic genocidal extermination not only on Iran and the rest of the Middle East, but on the whole world?

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Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer (of a photo-journalism project, ‘The State of London’, which ran from 2012 to 2023), film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (see the ongoing photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, which you can watch on YouTube here.

In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of the documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and, in 2018, he was part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to try to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody.

Since 2019, Andy has become increasingly involved in environmental activism, recognizing that climate change poses an unprecedented threat to life on earth, and that the window for change — requiring a severe reduction in the emission of all greenhouse gases, and the dismantling of our suicidal global capitalist system — is rapidly shrinking, as tipping points are reached that are occurring much quicker than even pessimistic climate scientists expected. You can read his articles about the climate crisis here. He has also, since, October 2023, been sickened and appalled by Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and you can read his detailed coverage here.

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