My Comments on Kevin Barrett's October 16 Post

By Richard C. Cook, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, American Geopolitical Institute. Author, Our Country, Then and Now (Clarity Press, 2023)

This morning Kevin posted an outstanding analysis entitled, “Why Israel’s Assassinations Only Strengthen the Resistance.” Following are my own comments.

Kevin has certainly captured the Zionist modus operandi here. I would only add that it is the same modus operandi that what I call the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire has engaged in for centuries.

The basic pattern is for them to move toward a territory they covet, launch a devastating genocidal assault against the people who live there, install a puppet regime of compliant collaborators to police those who remain alive, and suck out the proceeds from their resources in perpetuity.

In some cases, the imperialists may actually install their own populations on the land stolen in such a way. For the last century or so, the devastating genocidal assault has been accomplished by saturation bombing with high explosives, napalm, white phosphorous, depleted uranium, etc. (In the case of Japan, of course, nukes, which may now be in use by Israel.)

Examples of all this are legion--the Anglo-Americans (and other Europeans) against the Native Americans, the British in Ireland, India and Africa, the Americans again in the Philippines, Britain and the U.S. against Germany, and, post-World War II, the U.S. against Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, Syria, and now, the Israelis against the Palestinians, using U.S.-supplied aircraft and munitions.

So yes, Israel is at it today, but it's part of a longstanding pattern.

Where did this genocidal mania come from? That, of course, is a complex matter. I would turn, as I have done before, to British journalist Douglas Reed (1895-1976) and his classic "The Controversy of Zion." He writes that the only possible source of the doctrine of total destruction of entire peoples that we see in the modern world is the Biblical Book of Deuteronomy. See Deuteronomy 7:1-5, cited below.

Some have argued that the historical impulse for modern Zionism arose with the Protestants of Great Britain (especially the Scots) and the Americans who were accustomed to literal interpretations of the Bible and especially partial to the Old Testament.

So this may be what we are seeing at work today, with the Jews of Israel fulfilling the madness of their old tribal god. But the Anglo-Americans are the enablers.

Let me add that my own Christian beliefs and values do not support this at all. Jesus came to change all this. I daresay Mohamed did too.

Here's the quote:

"7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire."

Why anyone would think that in the 20th century this is a prescription for successful international relations must truly be out of their minds.

Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute.  Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an adviser to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. Also see his Three Sages Substack at https://montanarcc.substack.com/publish/posts and his American Geopolitical Institute articles at https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/.

“Every human enterprise must serve life, must seek to enrich existence on earth, lest man become enslaved where he seeks to establish his dominion!” Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, 1876-1943), translation by Posthumus Projects Amsterdam, 2014. Also download the Kober Press edition of The Book on the Living God here.