Warning! Prof. John Mearsheimer Only Speaks the Truth When It Serves the U.S. Ruling Class and Otherwise He Hides the Truth

He didn't make it to the top of academia by spilling the ruling class's beans, you know

In case, to your credit, you haven’t been paying attention to Professor John Mearsheimer, below are two of his recent interviews, to the content of which I will refer below:

What do you mean “We” Kemo Sabe?

About Professor John Mearsheimer, first note this revealing fact: he always refers to the U.S. government as “we.” I never do that because I know that the U.S. government is run by the ruling billionaire plutocracy that is the enemy of the vast majority of people in both the United States and the world at large—the have-nots. So right away, there is a big red flag warning us that when we listen to Mearsheimer, we’re listening to a person who identifies with the American ruling class.

The bogus phrase, “national interest”

Next, recall that Professor Mearsheimer became a bit of a celebrity when he and a professor Walt published an article that said it was not in the national interest of the United States to give the overwhelming and unconditional military, economic and diplomatic support to Israel as “we” (there he goes again!) were doing. Here’s the kicker, a second red flag. There is no such thing as “the national interest.” That phrase is a bogus phrase. Its only purpose is to hide the fact that what is in the interest of the American ruling billionaire plutocracy (a.k.a. ”the national interest”) is NOT in the interest of the vast majority of Americans. If our rulers referred to “the billionaires’ interest” it would give the game away, so they refer instead to “our national interest,” as if we all had the same interest: the billionaires who treat the have-nots like dirt, and the have-nots who are oppressed by those billionaires. When Mearsheimer and Walt published their famous article most people rightly opposed to the Israeli violent ethnic cleansing project were thrilled, but they should have noticed the red flags and realized that Mearsheimer was providing cover for the U.S. ruling class.

Moving right along, let’s see what Mearsheimer has been saying lately.

Mearsheimer explains that Israeli leaders have only four choices now for the whole of Palestine that they rule over, sometimes referred to by them as “From the River to the Sea” and sometimes as “Greater Israel.” Mearsheimer says the choices are:

1. Make all of Palestine a liberal democracy with equal rights under the law for all regardless of religion.

2. Keep the current apartheid system in which only people allowed to live inside Israel can vote (they are about 80% Jews and 20% Palestinians; the Palestinians are the few who remain after the great majority were forcibly expelled by violent ethnic cleansing in 1948 and 1967.)

3. Let the Palestinians have a state of their own—the so-called “Two State Solution.”

4. Carry out ethnic cleansing of the entire geography of Palestine so there will be not a single Palestinian left anywhere from the River to the Sea, and then make this “Greater Israel” a liberal democracy in which everybody (who will be only Jews) can vote.

Right off the bat, Mearsheimer says—with no explanation whatsoever—that option #1 is out of the question; the Israelis, he says will never allow this because it would be the end of the Jewish state. Of course Mearsheimer never explains why option #1 is out of the question. The reason is this.

The billionaire ruling class of Israel knows that in option #1 (democracy in all of Palestine) the Palestinian bogeyman enemy that it uses to control, severely economically oppress and get rich off of the Israeli Jewish workin class would no longer be a bogeyman enemy because Palestinians would no longer be angry at being denied the Right of Return and being denied just restitution for the property stolen from them by Zionists (as I discuss in some detail here where I show how it would actually be popular for almost all Israeli Jews as well as Palestinians if done the right way, just not popular for the billionaires.)

So, by hiding the real reason Israel’s leaders won’t allow all of Palestine to be a democracy, Mearsheimer makes sure the his audience remains unaware of the KEY fact about the conflict—the fact that Israeli violent ethnic cleansing in the name of making Israel a “state of the Jews” never had anything whatsoever to do with making Jews safe; it was about creating a Palestinian bogeyman enemy to enable the Israeli billionaire ruling class to control and oppress the Israeli Jewish working class. If you don’t understand this (as the mass media have worked hard to make SURE you don’t) then real all about it in my articles here (with a longer version here) and here and here and here where I prove with mainstream sources what I say above.

Mearsheimer admits that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza; here’s why he admits it

One of the ways that Mearsheimer serves the U.S. ruling class is by making sure that the growing number of good people who oppose the Israeli government’s violent oppression of Palestinians never learn the important truths that would enable them to build an extremely large movement to force the U.S. government to stop supporting Israel. In order for Mearsheimer to do this he needs to make sure that he is listened to and respected by such people. This is why Mearsheimer admits things that are now obvious but that the U.S. government and billionaire class don’t want to admit, for example that Israel is indeed committing genocide in Gaza now.

Mearsheimer is part of the effort by Big $ (read about this here and here) to make sure that the American public perceives the choice they must make about the Israel/Palestine conflict this way:

• Choice #1. Support Israel’s long-standing violence against Palestinians (though with some misgivings about the current extreme violence in Gaza) because it is for the noble purpose of making Israeli Jews safe.

• Choice #2. Don’t support Israel’s long-standing violence against Palestinians EVEN THOUGH it is for the noble purpose of making Israeli Jews safe.

Given this choice (in which both sides believe that Israeli violence is for a noble purpose) the result is what we see today: a substantial minority of the public does not support Israeli violence against Palestinians but a majority does support Israeli violence.

What would happen if people like Mearsheimer told the public the truth—the fact that Israeli violence against Palestinians has never been for the purpose of making Jews safe, but the contrary? Then the choices Americans would have would be these:

• Choice A. Support Israel’s long-standing violence against Palestinians (though with some misgivings about the current extreme violence in Gaza) even though it has nothing to do with making Israeli Jews safe and is, on the contrary, for the purpose of enabling billionaires to oppress the Israeli Jewish working class.

• Choice B. Don’t support Israel’s long-standing violence against Palestinians because it has nothing to do with making Israeli Jews safe and is, on the contrary, for the purpose of enabling billionaires to oppress the Israeli Jewish working class.

Obviously, in this case the VAST majority of Americans would choose Choice B, duh!

This is why Mearsheimer censors the truth about the PURPOSE of Israeli violence against Palestinians, while engaging his pro-Palestine audience with candid admissions about how Israel is committing genocide and likely about to implement ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine.

Mearsheimer rescues Netanhayhu from the damaging reports about how he had been funding Hamas

If good people not only knew the fact that Israel for decades has been funding Hamas and working to keep it in power, and also understood the reason—to make the Palestinian bogeyman enemy maximally frightening (all of which I prove here), then they would be able to win over the support of the vast majority of Americans in demanding the U.S. stop supporting Israel. Why? Because then the vast majority of Americans, including those who had been passionately pro-Israel in the mistaken belief that Israel’s violence against Palestinians was for the noble cause of making Israeli Jews safe, would understand that Israel’s violence had nothing to do with making Jews safe and was part of an anti-working-class, including anti-Jewish-working-class, strategy of social control and opporession.

Now it turns out that after the October 7 Hamas attack, the fact that Netanyahu had been funding Hamas leaked out into some large circulation newspapers in Israel. The cat was out of the bag!

So, in order to limit the damage, all of the establishment newspapers and, of course, Professor Mearsheimer, argued—falsely, as I will prove—that the reason Netanyahu funded Hamas was simply because Hamas, like Netanyahu, was opposed to the Two-State Solution but the PLO (Palestine Authority) was in favor of it, and therefore Netanyahu wanted to make Hamas prevail over the PLO. See? It had nothing to do, Mearsheimer insists, with wanting to make the Palestinian bogeyman enemy maximally frightening by ensuring that Hamas with its history of deliberately killing non-combatant Israeli Jewish civilians and its official aim (in contrast to the PLO) of wanting Islam to be sovereign over all of Palestine would remain in power. Oh no! It was just a way to prevent there being a Palestinian state.

Well, Mearsheimer is a liar.

The problem with his explanation for why Netanyahu funded Hamas is three-fold.

First, Israeli support for Hamas was ongoing (for proof see items b, c and d in the section "Here's Evidence that Israel Funds Hamas" in my article here) when Ehud Olmert was prime minister from 2006 to 2009 and was adamantly in favor of a two-state solution. Ha'aretz November 29, 2007, reported: 

" 'If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,' Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz Wednesday, the day the Annapolis conference ended in an agreement to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008.

" 'The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us,' Olmert said, 'because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents.' "​

Second, as Netanyahu explains in this May 14, 2024 video interview,  the prime minister only opposes a two-state solution before the defeat of Hamas when that solution would enable Hamas to be in power in the Palestinian state and to control a military force capable of threatening Israel; he says he does in fact want there to be a Palestinian state (i.e., a two-state solution) with the political power to rule over its residents, just not with the power to have a military force that could threaten Israel. (Note that virtually all government leaders in the world have advocated for the Two-State Solution and none of them intended for the Palestinian state to pose a military treat to Israel.) Netanyahu thus supports a two-state solution. Mearsheimer's contention that Netanyahu supported Hamas because Hamas opposed the two-state solution makes no sense. Why would Netanyahu support Hamas because of its opposition to a two-state solution when his fear of Hamas controlling a Palestinian state is the only reason he opposed a two-state solution going into effect before the defeat of Hamas?

Third, Hamas does not in fact oppose the two-state solution.  APnews.com April 25, 2024 reports:

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established​

ISTANBUL (AP) — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

The comments by Khalil al-Hayya in an interview Wednesday came amid a stalemate in months of talks for a cease-fire in Gaza. The suggestion that Hamas would disarm appeared to be a significant concession by the militant group officially committed to Israel’s destruction.

In the interview by Judge Napolitano (see the video above) the judge makes the statement that “Of course, no Israeli prime minister ever supported the Two-State Solution.” Well, as I show in the first of the three points above, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vehemently supported the Two-State Solution, as necessary for Israel’s very survival. I don’t blame Judge Napolitano for now knowing this, since he is not an expert on this topic. But Professor Mearsheimer IS an expert on this topic. So he knew that the Judge was mistaken. But did he correct the Judge? No! He did not. He didn’t correct the judge because to do so would have undermined his own dishonest cover-up explanation for the fact that Netanyahu had funded Hamas. Mearsheimer is extremely duplicitous!

Mearsheimer calls our dictatorship of the rich a “liberal democracy”

Lastly, let me point out that Professor Mearsheimer always uses the phrase “liberal democracy” to refer to what we have in the United States. This is a cover-up of the fact that we have a dictatorship of the rich, nothing in any way democratic except in the trappings of elections that are guaranteed to result in the election of politicians beholden to the ruling billionaire plutocracy.

Excuse me while I have a side-bar with the good professor:

Hey, Professor Mearsheimer, don’t you ever read the academic literature in your own field, such as this one showing that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy? Did you not even read the summary here and here? The United States has NEVER been a democracy of any genuine kind. The Founding Fathers were Enemies of We the People. The U.S. Constitution is all about keeping the haves in power over the have-nots, as I show here.

These are some of the KEY TRUTHS that Professor Mearsheimer carefully hides from us on behalf of the U.S. ruling class that he so loyally serves.

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