Thomas Wictor

Today Pierre Rehov sent me the trailer for our documentary on Operation Protective Edge. Although it’s very, very good, it reminded me all over again that Jew-hate is a pandemic. In a rational world, Mr. Rehov and I wouldn’t have had to make this movie.

Here I am in the trailer.

I wish I could’ve done the interview wearing a burqa, my voice electronically altered. Not because I don’t want to be recognized, but because I hate the way I look and sound on film. Oh well. What’s done is done. And I am a historian; I have a bachelor of arts degree in history from Lewis and Clark College—class of 1985—and I’ve published three books on military history.

My qualifications don’t really matter, though. It’s my arguments that should be scrutinized. I have no doubt that when the documentary is released, I’ll become the target of the people who’ve made such a mess of journalism. What will be, will be. I’m not afraid.

But watching Mr. Rehov’s trailer made me do some more research, just for comparison purposes. We’ll start with what Americans call Operation Iraqi Freedom (March 20, 2003 to December 18, 2011). Almost nine years. Nobody knows how many people were killed in that war. The woefully inaccurate Iraq Body Count (IBC) is trying to stay relevant by continuing to list Iraqis killed by violence four years after the Coalition left Iraq. On its home page IBC still has an American B-2 Spirit bomber and a quote from General Tommy Franks, who retired in 2003.

From what I can gather, about 120,000 people died violently in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. IBC blames all the deaths on the US, but their own graphs show that the Coalition was responsible for only a faction of the killing.

And IBC’s methodology is nonexistent. The victims listed often have no name, age, or gender.

As a credible source, IBC is worthless. But when you do a Google search on the Iraq war—which lasted almost nine years and killed about 120,000 people—here’s how many results you get.

About 61 million.

Next, we look at the Syrian Civil War, which is in its fourth year. Over 210,000 people have been killed. A Google search on the Syrian civil war.

About 25 million results. Unlike in the Iraq conflict, all sides are committing atrocities and war crimes. We know about the terrorist crimes, but the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) of dictator Basahr al-Assad adheres to no rules of war. Here they drop a “barrel bomb” on a city.

Barrel bombs are unguided, improvised aerial munitions filled with ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO). The orange smoke is a telltale sign of ANFO. Here’s the barrel bomb in flight.

You can’t control them, so they’re completely indiscriminate in who they kill. A Google search for Syrian war crimes.

About 1.6 million results. Just to be thorough, I also searched Syrian atrocities.

We get 963,000 results.

Iraq has been fighting the Islamic State or ISIS since 2011, the year that the last Coalition troops left. So far about 28,000 people have been killed. A Google search on Iraq ISIS war.

Due to President Obama having to send American troops back to Iraq after he took them out, we get 70 million results. A Google search on ISIS war crimes.

About 6.8 million results. And next, ISIS atrocities.

Despite all the beheadings, crucifixions, rape, torture, sex slavery, and burnings, we get 1.3 million results.

Now I’ll show you how insane the world is.

We’ve looked at wars that lasted as long as nine years and had death tolls in the hundreds of thousands. Let’s do a Google search on Operation Protective Edge, which had a duration of fifty days and officially killed 2100 Palestinians.

Look at that number again: 228 million results. The combined search results for Iraq war, Syrian civil war, and Iraq ISIS war are 156 million. A fifty-day war that killed 2100 Palestinians gets more press than all three of those other wars put together.

Why do suppose that is?

Let’s search Israeli war crimes.

We get 9 million results; Syrian and ISIS war crimes combined is 8.4 million.

Can you give me an example of an Israeli war crime? I can describe and post links to photos and video of Syrian and ISIS war crimes. Here’s your challenge: Post links to photos and video of Israeli war crimes.

Finally, we search Israeli atrocities.

The total is a staggering 10.4 million results. In comparison, the combined total of the Google searches for Syrian and ISIS atrocities is 2.2 million results. Words no longer have meanings. Another homework assignment is for you to give me examples of Israeli atrocities and links to photos and videos of same.

This is why Pierre Rehov and I made our movie. I say “we” made it, but Mr. Rehov actually did. I spoke for a few minutes, wearing a suit.

My question to the world is this: What do you expect to gain from the transparent lying and infantile bias? Recently the two-thirds-dead Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted this.

The North Koreans’ problems are the result of Zionist hegemony? Venezuelans, Mexicans, Syrians, Belorussians, and Iranians suffer because of Zionist hegemony? Zionists don’t even have hegemony over ISRAEL! How stupid can an ayatollah be? If Zionists control the US, why has our current president done everything except spit in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s face? All you idiots who jabber about the Zionist-controlled media, here’s a question for you: EXPLAIN THE SEARCH RESULTS I POSTED ABOVE.

At some point reality must intrude. Pierre Rehov and I are going to hit back as hard as we can, and one of two things will happen: Either the press will totally ignore us, or they’ll do their best to make me look insane. That’s fine. It’s been done before. The good thing about not caring what people think about you is that they therefore have no power to determine your course of action.

I shall never leave this place alive; I shall never look fairly on the sun again, but—perhaps I will help.

—Phillip Verrill Mighels
“The Heart of the Dragon”