Dear Fritz,
It was funny bumping into you in the middle of the city on a sultry summery evening (what a contrast to what has otherwise been a rainy “English spring” (sadly, “Global Warming” is a complete and utter myth)) and I’m glad you told me to go to see “Golda”, which is what I did. You’re right: the picture is important, the conflict in the Middle East significant, and Helen Mirren’s excellent performance: truly extraordinary. Yet for all its virtues the film remains merely a brilliant piece of propaganda and nothing more.
The movie is simply part of the process of brainwashing, much like the lies about the “rapes” that never occurred on October the 7th[1]. In fact: the question needs to be posed: was the film made to coincide with the false flag of October 7th? The timing is odd, to say the least (appearing as it did in August 2023), just like the timing of the attack itself. It was almost as if somebody wanted to trigger the nerve: “Israel is under threat, just like it was in 1973”!!!
The Israeli film-maker Amos Gitai (who fought in the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and made a film about it in 2000) once said that one should combat the brainwashing, which is so prevalent in the West and Israel, by showing the complexity of life. In this respect the film fails spectacularly and in one respect at least the movie perpetuates a lie you, at least, fell for.
The film, you told me, shows “what Israel is up against” yet Israel was never, at any given point, in danger of being “overrun” in 1973. Thus, Golda’s line: “We came that close” is a demonstrable lie. Yet it’s this lie that dominates the Zionist propaganda the dumb masses are fed with.
If one condemns the genocide in Gaza, it’s claimed, we’ll be directly responsible for the destruction of Israel and a Shoah against all the world’s Jews. The only means the Israelis have, we’re told again and again, of dealing with their “crazy neighbors” in the “dangerous neighborhood” (how often have I heard that lie?) is force.
“Not only are they (the generals of 1967) not talking about an existential threat, they aren’t talking about any threat” Miko Peled told us in 2012[2], when discussing the myth of Israel being threatened by its Arab neighbors in 1967. Israel wasn’t threatened in 1948, 1967 or 1973[3]. In fact, as Avi Shlaim points out: the aims of the Egyptian and Syrian armies in 1973 were extremely limited: the war was an extension of politics by other means[4].
It’s especially difficult to root for Israel if one knows how murderous the IDF was toward Arab prisoners in 1967[5] or how brutal the conquering Zionists were in 1948[6]. The sad fact is that the Zionists have always been the “black hats” and an interesting question is: how many of the Zionists in 1948 had served with the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS beforehand? What remains beyond any shadow of doubt is that much of the Zionist horror, which was previously hidden, is now gradually emerging into view.
What the film fails to deal with are a number of vexed questions, such as the issue of Meir’s direct responsibility for the war of 1973. In the years preceding it she’d proven unwilling to negotiate with her Arab neighbors and had blocked numerous American peace proposals. Most notably it seems that she was unwilling to withdraw from the Sinai for political rather than military reasons (the generals and other officers (even Ariel Sharon) seemed willing to pull Israel forces back from the canal). As it has been shown: the withdrawal from Sinai hasn’t harmed Israel’s strategic position; on the contrary. Similarly, a withdrawal from Gaza, the West Bank and Golan Heights (as Matti Peled advocated in 1967[7]), would have left Israel more secure and prevented it transmogrifying into a monstrous, brutal occupying power, which it has sadly become.
Even a close friend of Meir, such as her “Goy boyfriend” Alan Hart, warned her: “You know, Mrs Meir, if Israel remains in occupation, there will come a day when many journalists, including me, will write and speak about the tramp of Jewish jackboots on Arab soil.”[8]
Golda Meir’s political pusillanimity, her lack of vision and intransigence were undoubtedly causes of the war in 1973 but there was another one the film fails to mention.
“In May 1973, with the dramatic fall of the dollar still vivid, a group of 84 of the world’s top financial and political insiders met at Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, the secluded island resort of the Swedish Wallenberg banking family. This gathering of Prince Bernhard’s Bilderberg group heard an American participant, Walter Levy, outline a ‘scenario’ for an imminent 400 per cent increase in OPEC petroleum revenues. The purpose of the secret Saltsjöbaden meeting was not to prevent the expected oil price shock, but rather to plan how to manage the about-to-be-created flood of oil dollars, a process U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger later called ‘recycling the petrodollar flows.’”
“The American speaker to the Bilderberg on Atlantic–Japanese energy policy, was clear enough. After stating the prospect that future world oil needs would be supplied by a small number of Middle East producing countries, the speaker declared, prophetically: ‘The cost of these oil imports would rise tremendously, with difficult implications for the balance of payments of consuming countries. Serious problems would be caused by unprecedented foreign exchange accumulations of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.’ The speaker added, ‘A complete change was underway in the political, strategic and power relationships between the oil producing, importing and home countries of international oil companies and national oil companies of producing and importing countries.’ He then projected an OPEC Middle East oil revenue rise, which would translate into just over 400 per cent, the same level Kissinger was soon to demand of the Shah.”
“On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria invaded Israel, igniting what became known as the Yom Kippur War. Contrary to popular impression, the ‘Yom Kippur’ War was not the simple result of miscalculation, blunder or an Arab decision to launch a military strike against the state of Israel. The entire constellation of events surrounding the outbreak of the October War was secretly orchestrated by Washington and London, using the powerful secret diplomatic channels developed by Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Kissinger effectively controlled the Israeli policy response through his intimate relation with Israel’s Washington ambassador, Simcha Dinitz. In addition, Kissinger cultivated channels to the Egyptian and Syrian side. His method was simply to misrepresent to each party the critical elements of the other, ensuring the war and its subsequent Arab oil embargo.”
“U.S. intelligence reports, including intercepted communications from Arab officials confirming the buildup for war, were firmly suppressed by Kissinger, who was by then Nixon’s intelligence ‘czar.’ The war and its aftermath, Kissinger’s infamous ‘shuttle diplomacy,’ were scripted in Washington along the precise lines of the Bilderberg deliberations in Saltsjöbaden the previous May, some six months before the outbreak of the war. Arab oil-producing nations were to be the scapegoats for the coming rage of the world, while the Anglo-American interests responsible stood quietly in the background.”[9]
Yes, you are right Fritz: one ought to watch “Golda” but one also make another, better film about Golda Meir’s tragedy and how “economic interests”, “international intrigues” and “dark circumstances” caused the war.
[3] p.24 Zionism, Volume One, Alan Hart
[4] p.324 The Iron Wall, Avi Shlaim
[8] p.56 Zionism, Volume One, Alan Hart
[9] pp.159-164 A Century of War, F. William Engdahl
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