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CJ Hopkins, like most of us, has been seeing mindless gibberish about what happened on 7 October in Israel and the aftermath for seven months now.
As he explains, Hamas’ attack on 7 October was “Asymmetric Warfare 101, straight out of the Terrorism textbook.” Plain and simple. It was designed to elicit a “disproportionate” response from Israel and a key factor in Hamas’ decision to launch the attack was its hope that Arab nations would join the fight. The Israeli response has killed thousands of Palestinians but Hamas has said the price is worth it.
People who have been spouting mindless gibberish to gaslight the fact that Hamas used asymmetric warfare have helped to transform themselves and others “into a mass of mindless Pavlovian robots” that will be turned against the rest of us “the next time The Powers That Be come up with an irresistible stimulus,” he writes.
He’s right.
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Asymmetric Idiocy
By CJ Hopkins
I miss the 1970s sometimes. Not just the music. And the sex. And the drugs. I miss the terrorists. The old-school terrorists. Or, OK, maybe not the terrorists themselves, but the revolutionaries who cheered on the terrorists. I miss the clarity, and the honesty, of that era.
Maybe you’re too young to remember, but, back in the day, you didn’t get all this hemming and hawing and weaselling about murdering civilians. The terrorists, and the revolutionaries who supported them, were not ashamed of murdering civilians. The Revolution demanded that they murder civilians. Murdering civilians was one of the fundamental strategies of the Revolution.
The way this strategy works is simple. What you do is, you murder a bunch of civilians, in order to provoke your adversary into massively over-retaliating against you and committing all kinds of war crimes and atrocities, like the USA did in Iraq twenty years ago, like the IDF is now doing in Gaza. The goal of the strategy is to broaden the conflict, and draw your potential allies into it, or at least significantly weaken support for your enemy.
OK, sure, that means you have to murder some people … men, women, children, whole families, and then your enemy is going to go apesh*t and kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of your people, but, if all goes to plan, your “allies” will join you, and attack your enemy, and drive him into the sea, or off the face of the earth, or wherever. So, in the end, all the murdering will have been totally worth it.
This is not a theory I just made up. It is one of the basics of asymmetric warfare. If you are not already familiar with that subject, this might be a good time to look into it.
I’m not a fan of murdering civilians. Not even for the Revolution. I do not think it is a very good strategy. Plus, well, the murdering. I’m against that, generally. Soldiers killing each other is one thing. They have been doing that since the dawn of history. And I have no problem with guerilla tactics. People fight wars with the means they have available. It’s just the murdering thing that I can’t get down with. Especially the murdering of the women and the kids, but it’s probably not politically correct to say that, what with the diversity, equity and inclusion thing these days.
Anyway, as it appears I’m currently alienating a significant portion of my longstanding readers, half of whom believe I’m an “Islamofascist,” and the other half of whom believe I’m a “Zionist,” I figure I’ll go ahead and go for broke, and wax nostalgic about the 1970s, and say a few things I haven’t been saying, or, rather, I’ll say a few things I’ve been saying delicately not so delicately.
I’ve been saying those things delicately, because, as I made pretty clear in October, when this whole horror show started, my sympathies are with the Palestinian people. My sympathies are also with the loved ones of the Israeli civilians who were murdered by Hamas, but I am talking about the bigger picture now, the broader “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
In that bigger picture, the Palestinians are f*cked. They’ve been getting f*cked for quite some time now. That is what happens when empires conquer the land you live on and do what they want with it. The land in question has been getting conquered for approximately 4,500 years. The Babylonians conquered it. The Persians conquered it. Alexander the Great conquered it. The Romans conquered it. And so on. That’s all ancient history.
More recently, in 1920, the Ottoman Empire lost World War One, and the British Empire took the land over. You are probably familiar with the rest of the history. The British pulled out in 1948. Zionists established The State of Israel. War broke out. Israel won. War broke out again. Israel won again. And again. And so on. And … well, here we are.
As I was saying, the Palestinians are f*cked. Look at a map of the territory. Does it look like Palestine is on the verge of being “free”?
The State of Israel is not going anywhere. It is an essential component of the global-capitalist empire. It’s the empire’s headquarters in the Middle East. It has nuclear weapons. It is backed by the US military. The “Islamic world” is not going to join Hamas and attack it, regardless of how many war crimes it perpetrates in Gaza. The International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) is not going to put it on trial. The United Nations isn’t going to make it play nice. It isn’t going to disappear into the ether. It is a fact of life. It isn’t fair. It has nothing to do with fairness and justice and rights and good and bad and whatever. It doesn’t even have much to do with Zionism. Zionism is just Israel’s ideology, like Islamism is Saudi Arabia’s ideology. What it has to do with is the global-capitalist empire and resistance to the global-capitalist empire.
Which brings us back to asymmetric warfare and Hamas’ 7 October “Al-Aqsa Flood” strategy, and the utter f*cking pointlessness of it, and the utter f*cking callousness of it.
Do you seriously believe that the leadership of Hamas did not know exactly how Israel would respond to the slaughter of hundreds of Israeli citizens, families, children, people at a rave? If you honestly believe that, I don’t know what to say.
The goal of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack was to provoke precisely the response it has provoked. There is nothing mysterious or complicated about this. It is Asymmetric Warfare 101, straight out of the Terrorism textbook.
For seven months I have been watching my “radical” colleagues trying to obscure this fact. It isn’t helpful. It doesn’t help anyone. It certainly doesn’t help the Palestinian people. There is more than enough about Israel to criticise. Lying, twisting the facts about Hamas, convincing people that the IDF “Hanniballed” everyone on 7 October, is (a) unnecessary, (b) obfuscatory, and (c) destroys your credibility.
On top of which, it makes you look like pussies.
If you believe that murdering people to provoke your enemy into overreacting is a productive armed-resistance strategy, at least have the f*cking courage to say so. Bring back the spirit of the 1970s! The old PLO! The RAF! The IRA! The SLA! Do it for the Revolution! Or the Globalised Intifada! Or whatever.
I’m just kidding, of course. It is an idiotic strategy. It hands your enemy a free “get out of war-crimes tribunal” card. Meanwhile, the people you are purporting to be fighting for are getting slaughtered by the tens of thousands. But whatever … as long as it boosts your cred among the other “legitimate armed resisters,” who cares how many families get wasted? After all, it’s not your fault! It’s the oppressors! The Zionists! The Americans! Or whoever.
Seriously, though, I am feeling a bit nostalgic for the 1970s, when at least you could have a real argument over tactics with your revolutionary comrades instead of hearing mindless gibberish like this …
Yes, you actually just read those words, “They never killed anyone with an intent to kill.” And Lena’s note is not at all an anomaly. I have been hearing this gibberish for seven months now.
So, thanks, all my radical anti-Zionist friends and colleagues who have been pumping out this narrative, and all the thought-terminating clichés, and conducting Anti-Zionist Inquisitions, and so on! Well done! I’m pretty sure all the folks like Lena who you have helped to transform into a mass of mindless Pavlovian robots will never, ever, be turned against us … like, you know, the next time the Powers That Be come up with an irresistible stimulus!
I mean, what are the odds of that ever happening?
About the Author
CJ Hopkins is an American award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist living in Berlin, Germany. His political satire and commentary have been published by Consent Factory, Off Guardian, Zero Hedge, Cold Type, Rubikon, RT.com, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and many other publications, and have been widely translated.
He regularly publishes articles on his Substack page which you can subscribe to and follow HERE.
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I disagree .. things change and Israel has lost even though Palestinians still pay the price. Also, there are no terrorists in Gaza or the OT because resistance is legal under occupation and according to international law.
Rafah wird zerstört werden, der gesamte Streifen wird in Trümmern liegen, und die von Israel verursachte Hungersnot wird sich verschlimmern.
Die westlichen Medien werden Israels Völkermord in Gaza weiterhin
mit rein humanitären Begriffen beschreiben, als ob diese “Katastrophe”
ein Akt Gottes wäre.
Hamas intent was hostages .. I doubt they wanted to kill anyone. Problem was that many Israelis keep guns. Bibi sacrificed his own for the opportunity that followed.
When your country is stolen from you,
you have the right and the DUTY
to take it back, using whatever means available!
The Palestinians have (have always had)
the courage to do so!
The Americans, Canadians and Europeans
NEVER will!
i wouldn’t write off the americans not having courage to do so as quickly as your remarks seem to suggest.
Die Invasion kann und darf nicht gestoppt werden, Anweisung der UNO!!
Die Invasion kann und darf nicht gestoppt werden, Anweisung der UNO!!!
Der Islam wird gewinnen, USA und West-Europa wird von den Muslimen übernommen.
one can always know something is amiss when another country wants to annihilate the other one. people living in each are people like everyone else for the most part although some have been brainwashed but still they want to rear families and work a good trade/job/profession, and make life better for their children. so the real enemies are the psychopathic “leaders” fomenting all this conflict for their own gain/money/power/whatever. it is the leaders that should be taken out and leave the people alone for the most part and deal with the criminals quickly.
How asinine is this ‘asymmetric warfare’ analysis. “October 7” was a false-flag operation, and Hamas is the Israeli government creating its own opposition as a pretext for its own terrorism. What a sketchy article.
An article with unnecessary foul language!
Lena has a point. You have a point, too. I’m on Lena’s side but that doesn’t mean I’m going to dismiss what you say; it’s all viewpoints on a very nuanced situation.
I “go by feel” usually, and watching the Qassam fighters and their current tactics, I start to get an impression that Hamas did indeed provoke this war deliberately so they can get use these guerilla hit-and-run tactics on the IDF – not because they’ll ever win but because they’re sick of trying to get justice from Israel and just want to finally engage them in a straight-out fight, and never stop fighting, never stop killing the people they hate. And why wouldn’t they hate them? The maps you provided say it all …..
Right at the beginning, I was incredulous that Hamas would provoke Israel in a way that guaranteed the response – i.e., the Israeli intention to genocide Palestinians and wipe Gaza off the map. A question I’ve never found an answer for is: did Israel secretly approach Hamas and set them up for this with “promises of a peaceful settlement”? The smoking gun for me is the fact that someone switched off the Iron Dome. Anybody with any brains knows 9/11 was an inside job created so the US could “legitimately” invade Iraq and Afghanistan to secure Iraqi oil and have US forces strategically placed on that landmass – so why not this? There’s always a bigger picture, a more all-encompassing intent, and people are just in the way and will pay the price. Extrapolate that out and you’ll see that anyone who’s still human is included …..
….. sorry to be so depressing …..
I saw a short TV video immediately after the October 7th attack and it showed the Israeli fencing with a sliced top making a huge gap in the fence? The observers from Israel didn’t see that happen so they said and then I never saw this footage again? It was intimated that it was an arranged action? What was that about? The UK had an MP who stated this took place and was condemned for it, but I remembered that footage straight after it happened!
Re: “huge gap in the fence”. You can watch a more extensive treatment of that footage in this 55 min documentary. It shows insider trading in the week prior to the attack and other conclusive evidence of Israel’s foreknowledge of the attacks:
“Israel’s Crimes Far Worse Than Hamas’”
An extract –
“* For every Israeli killed by Hamas on Oct. 7, Israel has slaughtered at least 35 times that number of Palestinians. Similar kill-ratios grossly skewed in Israel’s favour have been true for decades.
* Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children since October — and many tens of thousands more Palestinian children are missing under rubble, maimed or orphaned. By early April, Israel had killed a further 114 children in the West Bank and injured 725 more. Hamas killed a total of 33 Israeli children on Oct. 7.
* Israel has laid waste to Gaza’s entire health sector. It has bombed its hospitals, and killed, beaten and kidnapped many hundreds of medical personnel. Hamas has not attacked one Israeli hospital.
* Israel has killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza and more than 250 aid workers. It has also kidnapped a further 40 journalists. Most are presumed to have been taken to a secret detention facility where torture is rife. Hamas is reported to have killed one Israeli journalist on Oct. 7, and no known aid workers.
* Israel is actively starving Gaza’s population by denying it food, water and aid. That is a power — a genocidal one — Hamas could only ever dream of.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/21/israels-crimes-far-worse-than-hamas/
“Israel LIED about Flour Massacre: Report shows Israeli soldiers deliberately opened fire on starving Palestinians”.
https://evil.news/2024-04-12-israel-lied-soldiers-opened-fire-starving-palestinians.html
“In orthodox Israel, the HATE indoctrination of children begins very early”.
https://evil.news/2024-04-15-orthodox-israel-hate-indoctrination-children-early.html
“Israel’s planned slaughter of genetically engineered red heifers will herald Temple rebuilding, unveiling of Antichrist (Jewish messiah)”.
https://prophecy.news/2024-04-15-israel-gmo-red-heifer-temple-jewish-antichrist.html
“US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over ‘Unqualified’ US Support Of Israeli ‘Ethnic Cleansing” – Major Harrison Man – he is Jewish and has a conscience and moral compass.
See why he did this – “Mann said his resignation was ultimately sparked by “moral injury” — a term that Syracuse University’s Moral Injury Project defines as “damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.” Moral injury is considered to be one factor contributing to the high rate of suicide observed in military veterans. [https://moralinjuryproject.syr.edu/about-moral-injury/]” – tell Rhoda Wilson. Those on the anti-war marches, anti genocide marches, the pro-peace marches have moral injury.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-army-major-quits-intel-agency-over-unqualified-us-support-israeli-ethnic-cleansing
No one who believes in God can support Israel –
“Israel: In Violation of God’s Law, Natural Justice, the Laws of War & All Customary International Humanitarian Law” – by Ilana Mercer.
Note – “Four conditions of genocide fulfilled; not one law of war obeyed. In the course of its genocidal campaign; Israel has violated every law of war, codified in Customary International Humanitarian Law”
https://www.unz.com/imercer/israel-in-violation-of-gods-law-natural-justice-the-laws-of-war-all-customary-international-humanitarian-law/
May the people of planet Earth wake up, and accept, embrace, and cultivate Our unity, before we destroy ourselves.
“The Fall Of The UK And The Engineering Of War In Europe”
Andrew Bridgen gives us the truth once again as Britain lurches far left and toward war with Russia.
https://rumble.com/v4x95b6-warroom-battleground-ep-540-the-fall-of-europe-the-escalation-of-war-in-eur.html
Netanjahu hatte in den 1970er Jahren gesagt: “Wenn wir es richtig machen, haben wir die Chance, alle Araber im nächsten Krieg zu vertreiben …
Wir können das Westjordanland übernehmen. Wir können das Westjordanland räumen und Jerusalem reinigen”.
Ist die Jüdische Bevölkerung verblödet oder schon so geistig gestört
dass sie nicht merken, dass es bald ihr endgültiges Ende ist?
Das kleine Land, genannt Israel, mit gesamt 6.7 Mio. Jüdische Bevölkerung”!
Die “Muslime” von den Nachbarstaaten, hunderte Millionen,
könnten an einem einzigen Tag Israel überrennen, das kann auch keine
Armee Israels verhindern.
I don’t like the foul language in this article and if contributors are so inept that they can’t express themselves with enough language to write an article, best keep it off this communication!