How can RFK Jr. justify this outrageous statement of his?

Eric Zuesse

To the question, asked of him on 27 June 2024, “Do you support the creation of an independent Palestinian state?” he replied:

1:04:40: “I think that that has to be decided between Israel and Palestine.”

“Palestine” isn’t yet an independent nation; so, how can it negotiate on equal terms with Israel — which Israel is an independent nation? It can’t. He’s intelligent enough to know this, but he lied about it, and expected to be able to fool enough voters with this verbal trick.

His answer was duplicitous. At 1:03:52 he had condemned “the neocon ideology, which is bankrupting our country” (which is true), then said, “That money is not being used for self-defense. That money is used for world domination and to make America the policeman of the world. NATO is the instrument of that. I am not going to abolish NATO.” So: he won’t abolish the instrument of America’s being the policeman of the world. Clearly, then, he’s not really against neoconservatism. But he continued there as-if it’s not so: “I’m going to change the function of NATO so that it becomes an instrument of peace.” In other words, the NATO military alliance against Russia, which was set up as such (a U.S. instrument of the Cold War) by the NATO Treaty of 1949, is going to “become an instrument of peace” — which NATO has always pretended to be, even after the Soviet Union ended in 1991. That’s just as duplicitous as his saying, “I think that that has to be decided between Israel and Palestine.” RFK Jr. is utterly ignoring the Nakba, which was the founding of Israel by massive ethnic cleansing to relocate and get rid of the non-Jewish native population (who constituted the vast majority of the residents, and had for thousands of years). Israel was an imperialistic operation supported by the Christian-majority nations after they had slaughtered millions of Jews and wouldn’t allow more than a token amount of the survivors into their own country as immigrants, and so helped to set up Palestine to dump them into as a ‘return home’ to a tribe that hadn’t ruled anywhere there for thousands of years — and who were now ethnically-cleansing out the people who were there for thousands of years. Israel was actually created by Truman (who believed the Bible) despite what had been the intentions of FDR (who did not, and who was very opposed to Zionism as being an imperialist operation in Palestine). RFK Jr. said nothing about Israel’s current ethnic cleansing or genocide against all of the 2.3 million residents in Gaza, which is being carried out now by Israeli troops armed by the United States. Instead, (at 59:57) he called Hamas “a genocidal organization” — though it carries out no genocide though Israel since 1948 has been carrying out ethnic cleansing against Palestinians and now aims to eliminate (by ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide) all Gazans.

How can one interpret RFK Jr.?

On 17 November 2023, I had headlined “RFK Jr. Is a Neocon, After All. (How he justifies Biden’s Israel-policy:)”, and reported:

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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1722947218385293818

https://twitter.com/i/status/1722947218385293818

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7O2FsiM2rToZ/

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10 November 2023 [not only poorly publicized by RT, but kept secret by the U.S. regime, and even blocked from any Web-finds, and even rejected — not copyable — at web.archive.org and archive.is and ghostarchive.org — and thus almost totally secret: even to historians who have to rely heavily upon the web-archives: it’s gone down the memory-hole:]

RFK JR. (in this undated clip, says): “Israel is critical, and the reason it’s critical is that it’s the bulwark for us in the mid-east; it’s almost like an aircraft carrier in the mid-east, Israel is our ambassador, it’s our presence, it’s our beachhead in the mid-east; it gives us ears, eyes in the mid-east, it gives us intelligence; it gives us the capacity to take influence in affairs in the mid-east. If Israel disappeared, Russia and China would be controlling and they’d control 90% of the world’s oil supply, and that would be cataclysmic to national security.”

He said — if he DID say it — that under his Presidency, the U.S. Government WILL continue trying to be the world’s ‘policeman’, the lone imperial nation, ruling over the entirety of all other 200 nations; and he portrayed Israel as being an important part of that U.S. all-encompassing global empire.

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And he did actually say it. Further researching the present article, I found this, which includes that, and also much more, aligning the U.S. Government entirely with Israel against the Palestinians:

dated 5 November 2023, which includes at 42:25-44:17 the rabidly imperialistic excerpts that are shown in this very good 5-minute Russian video clip: 

“Israel is critical, and the reason it’s critical is that it’s the bulwark for us in the mid-east; it’s almost like an aircraft carrier in the mid-east, Israel is our ambassador, it’s our presence, it’s our beachhead in the mid-east; it gives us ears, eyes in the mid-east, it gives us intelligence; it gives us the capacity to take influence in affairs in the mid-east. If Israel disappeared, Russia and China would be controlling and they’d control 90% of the world’s oil supply, and that would be cataclysmic to national security.”

and it also includes at 36:47-38:24 Kennedy’s rabidly anti-Muslim statements to the effect that the U.S. Government has a right to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries — countries with values and internal priorities that are supposedly less democratic than in America (which is, in fact, a scientifically proven dictatorship by-and-for our billionaires) — so that he is (though he doesn’t view himself as being) an American international supremacist — a neocon, a U.S. imperialist — in his thinking. He might be a brilliant, phenomenally gifted, and even well-intentioned person, who isn’t really aware of his own prejudices (in this case pro-Christian, pro-Jew, anti-Muslim — especially anti-Shiite), and this prejudice, which he accepts unquestioningly, causes him to favor Israel against Iran and against the Gazans. It doesn’t bode well for what type of U.S. President he’d make.

He constantly refers to that apartheid nation (which he denies it is) as being “the only democracy in the Middle East” — as-if international relations ought not to be based on ONLY international and never intranational matters (such as whether a given foreign Government is or isn’t ‘democratic’ — however one defines that). He says he’s against Hamas because it’s a dictatorship. Maybe he doesn’t know that, even in the West Bank, Hamas after the October 7th attack is vastly preferred to the U.S.-backed so-called Palestinian Authority:

57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes. …

88% want Abbas to resign, up by 10 percentage points from three months ago. In the West Bank, 92% called for the resignation of the octogenarian. … nearly 60% now saying it [the Palestinian Authority] should be dissolved. In the West Bank, [the U.S.-Government-backed] Abbas’ continued security coordination with Israel’s military against Hamas, his bitter political rival, is widely unpopular [amongst Palestinians even in the West Bank]. …

So, Hamas now does truly represent the vast majority of Palestinians, not merely in Gaza, but in the West Bank. 

Similarly, the organizers of the 19 April 1943 to 16 May 1943 (29 days long) Warsaw Ghetto uprising had massive public support among the Jews there who righteously wanted as many Nazis (Germany’s type of nazis, not Israel’s, which are instead Zionists) killed as possible. Is RFK Jr. against the organizers of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising? Why not — if he supports Israel against Palestinians?

Kennedy is ignoring the historical reality, which is that the October 7th attack (the 7 October 2023 attack against Israelis, by Gazans) was a desperate last act on behalf of Gazans to halt Trump’s Abraham Accords from becoming signed by the Sauds — it wasn’t the start of this war (such as the Zionists claim); it was instead the only way that Palestinians could prevent the war since 1948 from becoming culminated soon in an overt one-state final solution of the Palestinian problem (which had been arranged by Trump in his Abraham Accords and then supported by Biden) with a victory not of “the Jews,” but actually only of the Zionist Jews, the nazi Jews. That’s what Zionists are — and what Trump, Biden, and RFK Jr., all support. 

By this time, Biden’s, and anyone else’s, claimed support for “the two-state solution” is and can only be, pure propaganda, a lie, because now it’s strongly opposed by BOTH sides to the conflict. For example, see the very latest poll of Palestinians about this, “Public Opinion Poll No (92)”, which was published on July 10th, which had sampled 750 West-Bankers and 750 Gazans, both groups of Palestinians strongly support Hamas and oppose Fateh (the U.S.-and-U.N.-supported faction) and both support the October 7th attack by Hamas. How can this be understood? Only by the history of how this war started:

On 4 December 1948, a letter to the New York Times by Albert Einstein and other anti-Zionist Jews, was published calling Menachem Begin — Netanyahu’s hero — calling him the leader of a “Nazi and Fascist” Party, and warned that “Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions, public manifestations in Begin’s behalf, and the creation in Palestine of the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.” They wrote that “A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base.” The massacre of all residents was described. The letter then continued: “The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a ‘Leader State’ is the goal.” It didn’t mention Yitzak Shamir, the founder of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, who had joined Begin’s Freedom Party in August 1948, and who, like Begin, led massacres and then became elected as Israel’s Prime Minister. This is the nation to which Harry Truman gave birth.

Let’s remember that — at the end — in the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews, knowing that the Nazis were going to kill all of them, decided to kill all of the Nazis they could, rather than to capitulate peacefully. RFK Jr.’s statements disallow the Gazans to do the same thing that those desperate Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto did against their rabid, racist, oppressors.

But, regardless, the Zionist (Jewish-nazi) trick of equating the Gazans’ October 7th attack, which killed 1,200 Israelis, as being comparable to the ongoing ethnic cleansing if not ultimately extermination now of all 2.3 million Gazans, by Israeli troops and U.S. donated ammunition, tanks, planes, and bombs, plus Israel’s now strangulating blockade of Gaza in order also to starve all Gazans to death, is being accepted by RFK Jr. as-if it weren’t obviously like comparing a mere bullet with an atomic bomb.

What started the war in Gaza isn’t the October 7th attack in 2023, but the Nakba in 1948. That’s just a historical fact. Israel’s Government, America’s Government, and RFK Jr., can’t accept this reality — so, they simply deny it.

The only way that RFK Jr. can support Israel in this war is the neoconservative way — saying that Israel is ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’, etc, and not an apartheid racist dictatorship, and that “it’s our beachhead in the mid-east; it gives us ears, eyes in the mid-east, it gives us intelligence; it gives us the capacity to take influence in affairs in the mid-east. If Israel disappeared, Russia and China would be controlling.” In other words: he is just as much of a neocon as each of America’s Presidents ever since FDR’s death (except for JFK near his end) have been, and as both of the major Parties are putting up this year are. What it ultimately comes down to, for him, is that the U.S. empire must defeat both Russia and China. He thinks that they are America’s enemies — NOT that America and its colonies are THEIR enemies. Global conquest by the U.S. Government is his goal. That is what defines neoconservatism. 

For anyone who might possibly be interested in how I personally resolve this conundrum, just click here, and get to know something about my choice for U.S. President: Col. Douglas Macgregor. In a situation like this, I believe that voters should forget about electability, and vote only their conscience, so as not to share in the guilt of other people’s bad choices, which will result solely from a spending contest between contending teams of billionaires, and from the hired lies by their hired liars.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.