Alon Mizrahi



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

Alon Mizrahi
Nov 03, 2024



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
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