Pilot Cult: The White Supremacy Behind Israel's Ill-Fated Iran Strategy

The reason why Israel is so fixated on maned airplanes may surprise you. What you probably didn't know about Israel's (Ashkenazi) pilot cult

What actually transpired in the last Israeli strike?

Like many other people in Israel and all over the world, basically, I have been conditioned from childhood to believe unquestioningly in the unlimited, preternatural capabilities of the Israeli Air Force.

To grow up in Israel was to believe the (always Ashkenazi) pilot was the closest thing to a deity. In the presence of a pilot, you were unworthy, especially as a Mizrahi boy.

I have done a lot of cleansing myself, and focusing my attention on it for years, I became able to identify with precision the different ways in which my thinking, my experience of reality, really, was compromised by Jewish and Zionist indoctrination.

It is not a uniquely Jewish or Zionist thing, by the way: wherever you were born and grew up, you have been trained to think a certain way; as part of our path to freedom, it is my belief that we all must overcome the political indoctrination that we were subject to as children, and internalized.

I am saying this as part of the discussion about Israel’s strike because, when it was going down, I noticed two opposing readings of the situation in my mind: one that was considering all I knew, from open sources, about the buildup for that strike (it was massive), its stated objectives (super ambitious) and the way the strike was covered in Israeli media in real-time and then after the it was over.

Finally, there were reports of damages in Iran, which were initially underwhelming, and then became even more so in the following days.

As a (feeble but existent) counter to all that, there was another voice in my mind: a residual, deeply entrenched, almost mystical-religious belief in the miracles Israel’s Air Force could accomplish.

Almost immediately, the pragmatic and informed voice had the upper hand, assisted greatly by the fact that Israeli reports spoke initially about ‘hundreds of aircraft‘ partaking in the attack, and in a blink of an eye the titles were changed to ‘a hundred‘ or ‘many dozens‘. Sizing down and lowering expectations is never a good sign when you’re carrying out a strike that’s to teach your mightiest foe a harsh lesson.

And there was also the tone of the reports and the statements made by Israeli officials, including Netanyahu. My ear is quite attuned to the different frequencies of Zionist propaganda, and from the very beginning the celebration seemed a little cold and fake, accompanied by a sense of apprehension and trying to give ‘everything is as it ever was‘.

And now, with he advantage of having been exposed to the reported damages and some other analysis by military experts, we can quite safely conclude that the Israeli strike failed in a major way.

A strike planned for weeks and decades and marketed as a resounding payback proved to have damaged some 2 or 3 structures in a way that’s hardly visible from satellite imagery.

That’s anticlimax if ever I saw one.

Where were the huge explosions and destroyed bases we had been promised? The big fires, the helplessness, the ruined military infrastructure? I almost burst out laughing when Israel media turned to accountancy to explain that ‘10 solid fuel mixers, costing each 40 million USD were destroyed in the attack’, ‘setting back Iran’s missile program by at least one year, as that was the period China would need to produce new mixers‘.

Well, if that’s your key achievement from a strike that cost billions and thousands of flight hours to produce, you have failed. Next.

(Also note: Israeli media also reported that night that Israeli aircraft had not been over Iranian soil during any part of the attack. Which was a weird admission to make.)

The logical conclusion from this is: Iran was able to deter and disrupt Israel’s strike plans. If that’s the case, this is very bad news for Israel and the US, which are used to only bombing people completely overwhelmed by their air superiority. As there’s no way in hell for Western armies to invade Iran, they would have to rely on air superiority for their colonial regime change and humiliation schemes for the country, and if Iran can come up with serious air defenses, as they appear to be able to do, then Western powers are in much worse shape then they imagined, trying to destroy Iran in war.

So I feel very comfortable assuming that Israel is now mostly effed Iran in conventional warfare against Iran, having its fabled edge - an unstoppable air force - taken away from it, or severely degraded. This is a big deal.

Have you ever asked yourself why Israel relies almost exclusively on its Air Force to spread Zionism?

In 1981, when Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor, it did so using manned airplanes. In 2007, when it attacked what it claimed was a Syrian nuclear facility, it did the same. Last weekend, when Israel attacked (or tried to attack) some targets in Iran, it used manned airplanes (and some drones).

These are some of the highlights of Israel’s Air Force history. Like them, hundreds and thousands of other strikes and operations were conducted using airplanes Israel’s Western allies always provided it virtually free of charge.

It may not seem odd if that’s what you’ve been shown your whole life, but manned airplanes are not the only way to wage war over long distances. After all, Iran has an almost nonexistent air force, and it still manages to hurt Israel in a meaningful way (soon to be significantly exacerbated). Hezbollah and Hamas have no manned airplanes, and they nevertheless fight very effectively against Israel, while causing infinitely fewer civilian casualties.

So why has Israel never introduced its own rocket and missile command of the IDF? Why has it invested so poorly in ground forces as compared to its air force? What is the meaning of this manned airplane monomania?

This, my friends, is a much more crucial question than you imagine.

The place of the (Ashkenazi) pilot in Israeli mythology

Zionism is a white-Jewish supremacist movement, I hope we can all agree on that at this very late hour. Like all white supremacist subcultures, Zionism had very distinct classes of people in its sick pyramid of human value

By now you must also all know how fond some Jews are of perpetuating the myth of the immeasurably intelligent Ashkenazi Jew - the genius, the Nobel prize winner, the businessman, the scientist, the journalist, the writer, and so on. I was born into this ostensible ethnic and national group, but I have never seen such supremacist impulses ever in my life. The feeling that we are better in every way is engrained and instilled in the minds of Jewish babies, and it is a belief the Jewish religion is all but happy to encourage. '

But there is one caveat: it is not really all Jews. Or rather it is all Jews are better than none Jews, but that doesn’t mean that all Jews are equal. There were clear racial differences in the Jewish world from the earliest days of Zionism.

European Jews dominated the Zionist movement, and for many decades remained an exclusively Ashkenazi affair, with no Mizrahi or Arab-Jewish present, let alone in decision-making circles.

As they sought to create a new image for the (Ashkenazi) Jew, the Zionists wanted to shake off the (Ashkenazi) stereotypes of weak helpless Jews and were hellbent on creating a new Jewish type: a brave and strong kind who would work the land and become a mighty soldier (narrator: after expelling and exterminating millions of people, after dehumanizing them).

I won’t go to great lengths in describing this phenomenon, which has been profusely written about (just google ‘the new Jew‘). I want to cut to the chase, the point being: very early on, Zionists desperately needed to dominate people. This dangerous and ugly trend began long before the Holocaust, with its roots reaching the late 19th century.

And so the pyramid of human value developed according to Zionism was much more intricate than just placing white Jews on top. They needed white Jews who embodied domination at the very tip of the pyramid. Elite IDF soldiers and Mossad agents brought that dream to life, but none as dashingly as the Ashkenazi pilot, the most dominant life form in the Zionist shrine of narcissistic idols.

It is hard to exaggerate the role the pilot cult played in the Israeli psyche and culture over the 8 decades since Palestine was officially stolen. Pilots have been sanctified and revered like actual gods. They were the pinnacle of the Ashkenazi ability to not only avenge the wrongs of the past but dominate the earth so powerfully that virtually no human force could stop them.

Ashkenazi pilots had the most rigorous testing and training, the best instincts, the fiercest characters, the most developed brains and personalities, the most laser-sharp focus, and the most unyielding courage - - -

Think about how astronauts or cosmonauts were put on a pedestal in the 1960s USSR and US, add lethality, revenge, and anonymity, and you may start to get the picture (there’s a reason Tarantino lives in Tel Aviv).

The fact that Israeli pilots for many decades came almost exclusively from wealthy, elitist Ashkenazi families (which the IDF’s racist assessment processes ensured would remain the case) and the privileged Ashkenazi kibbutzim brought no harm to the prestige of pilots as well.

And maybe now you start to see the connection, and how Israel’s military strategy is an expression of its mental problems, namely to place Ashkenazi Jews high up in the sky so that they can dominate, humiliate, subjugate and kill any number of people they desire, with the blessing of the greatest white colonial project in history, the US.

And then the whole world admires them.

Iran doesn’t obsess over an image of dominance

Consider the hassle involved in sending 100 aircraft into the air, on a mission to hit targets thousands of kilometers away. It requires thousands and thousands of people working together and communicating incessantly; it entails astronomical costs; it is extremely dangerous; it can be repeated a very limited number of times by a country the size of Israel.

Israel cannot bomb Iran every day, or even once a week (and that’s before a single Israeli airplane was demolished). Each such strike takes hundreds of hours of planning and preparations and has huge logistical aspects (refueling, rearming, changing pilots, maintenance, carefully studying the mission and potential complications, and, of course, landing and taking off from potentially bombed airfields.

Every mistake could be crucial, and every loss of aircraft or crew has significant implications for Israel’s ability to keep of fighting.

Iran doesn’t bother with any of that. It uses missiles and drones. Those can be readied and used in minutes, requiring a much smaller communication network, and incomparably simpler logistics. A country like Iran, which built its arsenal for decades, could probably fire missiles at Israel day in and day out for months, maybe years. But Israel can’t do that. It is severely limited by its strategic choice to use weaponry that reflects its supremacist obsession.

This is why I think that if a serious war breaks between Israel and Iran, Israel will be knocked down, if not out, quite fast. It takes minutes for missiles to reach Israel from Iran, and hours for Israeli aircraft to get to Iran, and that’s before they encounter massive and varied air defenses constellations.

If Iran has 10,000 missiles it can fire at Israel, Israel is toast. And I suspect they have way more than that (and probably a similar number of high-end drones). And this is when talking about a prolonged war of attrition: if what takes place is an all-out violent confrontation instead, I sincerely believe Iran could end Israel in a few hours.

To experience domination, they need to be there

It’s probably as clear as summer California daylight by now, but I have to make this point absolutely understood, so I’ll add just a tiny bit. You see, it is hard to feel dominant, or to enjoy, ot inject, the drug of dominance, when you are not present at the site of humiliation. Missiles (as well as drones) can only be rewarded with a light, diluted version of this feeling. They can cause widespread devastation, but they cannot give that rush of adrenalin and satisfaction released by pressing a button and seeing a target get destroyed - a building full of innocent people in Gaza or an Iranian military installation.

And it is this addiction to domination that is now making Israel vulnerable to Iran’s no-nonsense approach, which is focused on results and efficacy, not on reinforcing a twisted victor-victim complex.

My idea of what Iran is going to attack this time

After Israel’s lukewarm, anticlimactic strike, Israeli security talking heads prided themselves on destroying ‘80% of Iran’s air defenses‘. They also said that Israel seriously harmed Iran’s missile production capabilities.

So what I expect Iran to do is generally the same: focus on Israel’s Arrow, David’s Sling and Iron Dome batteries, and some of its most sensitive sites for developing and producing advanced weaponry.

By hitting Israel’s air defenses Iran would be able to achieve 3 important goals

1. Showing Israel cannot stop their missiles (even from hitting its own air defense systems).

2. Clearing the way for Hezbollah and Hamas to target Israel more easily

3. Notifying the Americans that they, too, cannot stop Iran’s missile power.

Why I think Iran will unleash its biggest attack to date this time around

At this point, and probably for a very long time, Iran knows that Israel and the US are salivating fantasizing about bringing its independence to an end. They know that Netanyahu’s sway in Washington is now stronger than it’s ever been. To dissuade the US from following Israel’s command and actually starting this war, the Iranians need to convey a very decisive message about their capabilities.

They need to make sure the US and its allies in the region get a very strong impression of what they can expect if they attack Iran. They need to cause serious and extensive damage, and they need it to be seen, and not only heard, or talked about. It has to be some kind of a showstopper for global media.

If they can deliver a serious blow to Israel with all the air defenses in the world working for it, the message will be heard loud and clear. the US will know what to expect from its military bases throughout the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. The American public will also, potentially, start to ponder the implications of taking on Iran militarily.

A formidable, successful attack against Israel a moment before a new administration is sworn in will allow Iran to get its message through loud and clear. I have a feeling this is, more or less, what they’re trying to do to get the US a little less excited about another round of adventurism in Western Asia.