By Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.
What is the worst country in the world? The competition is tough. We have, for example, England and the Netherlands. Throughout my life, I had the opportunity to meet several English and Dutch people. And I must say: few can be trusted. The English, needless to say, are at the origin of most of the ills we face in the world. The Dutch, smaller, less known in their abjections, stand out for their antipathy and prejudice against foreigners. They were among the main and enthusiastic collaborators of the Nazis in the persecution of the Jews during World War II. In contrast to the Danes, who stubbornly resisted, as reported by Hannah Arendt in her famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem. About 3/4 of the Jews living in the Netherlands were murdered! The history of Danish Jews, on the other hand, is sui generis, according to Arendt. The resistance of the Danes to the persecution of the Jews was unique among all countries in Europe, whether occupied countries, allies of Hitler or truly neutral and independent. No one has equaled Denmark.
I’m digressing off topic a bit, though. It was not Holland or Denmark that I wanted to talk about, small countries that are irrelevant to the world picture. I return to the main theme. Is the United States (an offspring of England, by the way) the worst country in the world? There are many reasons to think so, I myself have lived eight long years in Washington and I know how unpleasant and even obnoxious Americans can be. Much more important: the American Empire has a long list of crimes and aggressions against other countries. Its latest achievements were the attack on Venezuela and the intensification of the criminal embargo against Cuba, besides the aggression against Iran.
But no one compares to the genocidal and terrorist state of Israel. A kind of obvious warning: I am going to talk here about the state of Israel (which should never have been created) and the Zionist project that led to its creation – and not exactly about the Jewish people or Jews in general.
It should be noted, however, that the policies of the Israeli government are supported by the majority of Israeli Jews, especially the aggression against Iran and the opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state. These policies are also supported by most Zionist communities in other countries, including here in Brazil and – more importantly – in the United States.
The Zionist lobby in the United States
The American political scientist, John Mearsheimer, in co-authorship with Stephen Walt, wrote an important book, published in 2007, about what he calls the “Israel lobby”, whose decisive influence in the United States, notably in New York and Washington, ends up subordinating the foreign policy of the United States – a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. A small country with 10 million inhabitants calls the shots for the superpower, the United States, helping to accentuate its delinquency.
Zionist Jews fund sordid campaigns, they corrupt, elect and control politicians in the Presidency and in Congress, control much of the media, own banks and other private financial institutions, and have strong influence in Hollywood and the pornography industry. They benefit their servants and threaten, blackmail and punish their critics. Jeffrey Epstein, not by chance, was Jewish Zionist.
These Zionists are all criminals, supporters of child killers in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries. Now, murdering children is the most serious crime that can be committed. In Fragments (Estilhaços), my most recent book, I even wrote that the suffering of children not only belies the existence of God, but also proves that of the Devil. And who represents the Devil on earth today? Who better than Israel and its supporters in the rest of the world?
The Israeli lobby is actually part of something bigger and more disastrous for the United States – the subordination of public policies to billionaires and private lobbies – which also include big techs (technology giants), the military-industrial complex (which gains from all wars), the Cuban lobby (focused on boycotting Cuba), the pro-gun lobby, the financial lobby (which largely overlaps with the Israeli one), among others. There is no democracy, but plutocracy – the rule of the rich. And kleptocracy – the government of thieves. And also, kakistocracy – the government of the worst.
This is not what is seen, by the way, in Russia and China.
Jewish geniuses
Jews have had, since ancient times, a strong presence in private financial circles – in banks and other financial institutions. They know how to make money. But that doesn’t mean much. Many so-called “financial geniuses” are generally nothing more than commonplace figures. Dedication to financial matters seems to lead inexorably to a continued loss of brain matter and creativity, as well as undermining ethical values.
Well, one of the singularities of the Jewish people is the mixture of geniuses, true geniuses, with a criminal and/or mediocre mass.
Among the geniuses, we can remember Karl Marx, Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Alber Einstein. Hannah Arendt herself was, I wouldn’t say a genius, but certainly an intellectual of enormous prominence. And among prominent American Jewish economists today we can mention Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Jeffrey Sachs (none of them Zionists).
For me, however, the most important Jew of all was Heinrich Heine, a German poet of the first half of the 19th century, who figures prominently in Fragments, and for whom I have had a true passion since I was 22 years old.
On the other hand, the gallery of Jewish mediocrities is extensive, including here in Brazil. But I will refrain from giving examples.
Let’s go back to the United States. As I mentioned, Jews have historically had a strong presence in the private financial sector – in banks, investment funds, and other financial institutions. Less well known is the presence of this lobby in the public financial sector, especially in the United States. At the IMF, for example, where I worked for eight years, all or almost all U.S. government representatives in the Administration and on the Board of Directors were American Jews (some very intelligent).
More importantly, the lobby also dominates the U.S. Treasury (their finance ministry). In recent decades, most U.S. Treasury Secretaries (finance ministers) have also been American Jews. It is the Treasury that calls the shots at the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), financial entities based in Washington.
Iran’s reaction
But what really matters are the barbarities that the terrorist state of Israel is committing in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and in Iran. One should not lose sight of the fact that the war was started by Israel. The United States accompanied the aggression.
Iran has already proven that it is no defenseless country. On the contrary, it is punishing Israel with a rain of ballistic missiles and drones, which hit Tel Aviv and Haifa, among other places. Indications are that the Israeli economy is being ruined. And that the Israelis are tasting their own poison.
Israel has unleashed a regional war, with economic, social and political consequences for the entire world. This criminal country needs to be stopped.
Long live Iran and the great Iranian people! May they not lack ammunition, missiles and drones to stop Israel and other enemies of humanity!
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The author is an economist and writer. He was vice president of the New Development Bank, established by the BRICS in Shanghai, from 2015 to 2017, and executive director at the IMF for Brazil and 10 other countries in Washington, from 2007 to 2015. He published the book Estilhaços (Fragments) with Editora Contracorrente, in 2024.
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