Is the Allegory Correct: Scorpion & Frog

It’s Monday which means Alastair Crooke will again chat with Judge Napolitano and Strategic Culture will publish Crooke’s essay, “Will the Scorpion Sting the U.S. Frog?” Crooke’s introduction informs us that it isn’t he that’s employing the allegory:

The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the frog’s back. The frog distrusts the scorpion; but reluctantly agrees. During the crossing the scorpion fatally stings the frog swimming the river, under the scorpion. They both die.

It is a tale from antiquity intended to illustrate the nature of tragedy. A Greek tragedy is one in which the crisis at the heart of any ‘tragedy’ does not arise by sheer mischance. The Greek sense is that tragedy is where something happens because it has to happen; because of the nature of the participants; because the actors involved make it happen. And they have no choice but to make it happen, because that is their nature.

It is a story that was deployed by a former senior Israeli diplomat, well versed in U.S. politics. His telling of the frog fable has Israel’s leaders desperately fending off responsibility for the 7 October débacle, with a cabinet furiously trying to turn the crisis (psychologically) from culpable disaster – to present the Israeli public instead with an image of epic opportunity.

Alon Pinkus is the Zionist as discovered at the link, which I don’t suggest clicking as its Ha’aretz paywall and assorted devilishness. What Crooke’s noting in his essay is the compression of time, while reporting that Biden as the Outlaw US Empire’s #1 Zionist instead of controlling his vassal has allowed the vassal to control him, thus the second paragraph above. Halfway through the essay after a few revelations, Crooke continues:

Like in all classic tragedy, the outcome comes about because the actors involved make it happen; they have no choice, but to make it happen, because that is their nature. “Not only does the Israeli Premier dismiss any idea or request coming from Washington; Netanyahu explicitly wants the Gaza war to go on indefinitely without any political corollary”, the ex-official relates.

Consider too, Jake Sullivan’s explicit setting out of U.S. red-lines: No re-occupation of Gaza; no displacement of its population; no reduction of its territory; no political disconnection with the West Bank authorities; no alternative decision-making, save only the Palestinian – and no going back to the status quo ante.

Netanyahu simply rejects all these ‘lines’ in a single phrase: Israel, he said, would oversee and maintain “overall security responsibility” for an indefinite period of time. At a stroke, he undermines the U.S. identified endgame, leaving it to dangle in the cold winds of increasingly unsympathetic global and domestic sentiment, and the sands in the hourglass running out. [Emphasis Original]

As outlined here before, the Zionist Project is Genocide of all Palestinians and the establishment of Greater Israel. Crooke in his chat at 5:30 says “the whole thing has become a devastating blow to any kind of morality…. We used to have some values… the American diplomacy is down the drain.” Cooke is clearly saddened by the matter-of-factness he must admit for there’s no other way to say it. I must applaud the Judge at the end of the chat for raising his question for it fits well with the comment I wrote at MoA after reading Crooke’s essay and before watching his chat with Napolitano. I suggest watching/listening to what The Judge asks at 24:55 before continuing to read my comment. And for those who’ve asked, Crooke reveals how he knows what he knows.

My MoA comment was prompted by this previous one:

South Africa calls on ICC to issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu

The South African government has called on the International Crime Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by mid-December.

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said if the ICC did not do this, it would signal a "total failure" of global governance.

"The world cannot simply stand by and watch," she said.

While agreeing with the need for such action, it’s abundantly clear that action isn’t sufficient and much more is required. Here’s my reply:

The arrest of Netanyahu isn't nearly enough as Smotrich and the War Cabinet are just as guilty. But even more important as Crooke shows in his SCF published today, "Will the Scorpion Sting the U.S. Frog?", that a majority of Occupied Palestine favors Genocide, which is a point I've noted for weeks now. So, not only Netanyahu and the entire Zionist Junta, but millions of Zionists all need to be arrested and held liable for Genocide. Not even all of Nazi Germany was accused of wanting and endorsing Hitler's Genocide of Slavs and others. South Africans were able to see the immorality of their direction and halt it before it became more calamitous. Historians have pointed out that it was official state policy of the USA to destroy and remove the natives marking it as the first modern nation to employ genocide as policy. But it was able to get away with its crimes. And that brings us to the Zionists who have always held the policy of Genocide close to their heart but were unable to get their minions to also embrace it until now.

What to do with a people who are so decidedly Anti-Human; whose brains are so deranged and polluted by a supremely false ideology? And then there're the millions of allied cultists within the Outlaw US Empire and elsewhere in the world who want to see carnage on an even bigger scale. I see only two possible solutions, both requiring force with one more drastic than the other. IMO, it's 100% certain that the Zionists will carry out their Genocide unless they are forcefully stopped. Since the UNSC is useless in this conflict thanks to its NATO veto holders, a coalition outside the UN will need to be arranged led by Russia and China, while including all Arab and Islamic nations and as many other members of the Global Majority willing to join. This would be the initial show of force that would first be displayed to the Zionists to make them halt. If they don't, then actual military force will need to be employed with the goal similar to Russia's SMO: demilitarize and deideologize the Zionists. Beyond that point, the political settlement gets complicated.

Like Ukraine, Occupied Palestine is an artificial construct, although the whole of Palestine isn't. The entire Zionist construct would need to be 100% demolished and Palestinians allowed to reclaim their stolen property. Other people having a provable historical presence would also be allowed to remain with their property. The onus would be on those without a provable historical presence to assimilate into the new reality of One State or to emigrate. The One State would need to be overseen by the Global Coalition for several generations to ensure its political and social stability. This event would also usher in the need to overhaul the UNSC so it can become a workable enforcer of security for the whole planet as it was initially envisioned but has never actually functioned. China's Global Security Initiative which is based on the UN Charter could become a vehicle for such needed change.

If the artificial Zionist state is allowed to continue, the world will never know peace as there will always be attempts to force justice on the Genocidalists wherever they may be. So yes, a drastic solution must be arrived at because the Zionist Project--like Hitler's project--cannot be allowed to exist.

What’s perhaps most disheartening about Crooke’s closing remarks is his observation about the likely behavior of the US Congress, that it would gladly be party to Genocide. IF the Mandates had been enforced as they ought to have but weren’t thanks to the Outlaw US Empire (think Minsk Accords here), the world wouldn’t be faced with this massive crime and calamity. Will the Empire take on the world to allow the Zionists their Genocide? What’s happened so far makes it clear a massive reordering of the Global System is required regardless and that it must occur much sooner than many IMO would like. As you’ll have noted while watching the chat, Alastair says what must be said: “Israeli barbarity isn't a glitch, it's a feature.”

I was somewhat surprised no mention was made of the fantastic rebuttal made to the Zionist Project by Dr. Michael Hudson, “Were the Biblical Prophets Anti-Semitic,” featured here a few days ago. At least more people are watching the Judge’s channel.

So, is Netanyahu the Scorpion and Biden the Frog? Or is some other allegory a better description?

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