Vox Popoli

That means “denounce your pig”, which is the French equivalent of the #MeToo movement. It occurs to me that at some point in the near future, it’s going to suddenly strike everyone across the West what actually inspired the periodical pogroms of history. Because it’s rapidly becoming apparent what that inspiration was and why we are headed for another round of them.

Gabriel Matzneff never tried to hide what he was. And why should he? In France’s highbrow intellectual circles, sexual deviancy has always tended to be something that ‘right-thinking’ liberals celebrate.

The writer and philosopher, now 83, was therefore elevated to fame in 1974 when he published a highbrow defence of child sex called Les Moins De Seize Ans which argued that ‘sleeping with a girl or a boy is a … baptismal challenge, a sacred adventure’.

His book was widely admired in literary Paris, where it was then fashionable to regard paedophiles as a sort of oppressed minority, seeking to rebel against traditional middle-class values.

Matzneff became a regular on TV, as a studio guest on a famous arts programme and was granted a column in newspaper Le Monde.

He signed lucrative book deals with prestigious publishers Gallimard and built friendships with a host of establishment figures, from designer Yves Saint Laurent to the future President Francois Mitterrand, who declared him a ‘hedonist inspiration’. The nation’s great and good continued to celebrate this self-confessed paedophile after the publication in 1985 of his explicit diaries Un Galop d’Enfer, in which he not only spoke of seducing young schoolgirls but also recalled regular visits to child prostitutes in the Philippines. On these trips, he wrote: ‘Sometimes, I’ll have as many as four boys, from eight to 14 years old, in my bed at the same time.’

Far from being chucked in jail, this candid admission saw Matzneff likened by the country’s intellectual elite to Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita. He was garlanded with major state honours, becoming an Officer of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Order of National Merit.

Already, you can safely assume it’s one of two things. And since Matzneff doesn’t exactly sound like your average Trekkie, one consults Wikipedia….

Matzneff came from a family of Russian émigrés who settled in France after 1917. 

Quelle surprise.

Well, don’t worry. I’m sure the IDF will defend America if the US military is too ravaged by Corona-chan to do so.

The US Department of Defense has reportedly supplied 1 million surgical masks to the Israeli regime in order to be distributed among soldiers, despite the fact that the Pentagon has lately introduced a measure requiring personnel to make their own masks to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.

The Israeli English-language Jerusalem Post reported that the masks were procured from China, and a plane carrying the medical stuff intended for Israeli soldiers landed in Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday night.

“In the past two weeks, we have purchased and flown to Israel tens of thousands of swabs, masks, protective suits for medical staff and more,” Limor Kolishevsky, head of the New York Purchasing and Logistics Division, said. “A million masks, procured in China, were quickly flown to Israel with the intention that the Israeli military will be using them within the next few days,” he added.

The Jerusalem Post had initially published the article headlined “US Department of Defense give 1 million masks to IDF for coronavirus use,” and this is still visible in the article’s hyperlink on Twitter posts.

The newspaper, however, changed the headline shortly afterwards to read, “Israel brings 1 million masks from China for IDF soldiers,” in a possible attempt at downplaying the role of Washington in spite of shortages in protective equipment, including face masks, in the United States.

Perhaps if the Pentagon paid more attention to its soldiers than engaging in bitching about what Jenny said to Debby about Becky having a cold sore, the USA might stand a chance of surviving… no, it’s too late anyhow. Pay attention, though. This is what a corrupted Empire looks like in its last decade.

An Israeli military reporter even published on his Twitter page images of the shipment of masks as they arrived in the occupied lands.

On April 5, American weekly news magazine Newsweek reported that the US military had told its personnel to make their own masks to fight coronavirus. The protocols, titled “Department of Defense Guidance on the Use of Cloth Face Coverings,” were included in a document released Sunday by the Pentagon and then seen by the magazine.

Protocols? Can you believe that? I think the obvious takeaway from all of this is the reprehensible antisemitism of the Pentagon. The only meaningful atonement for its deplorable choice of words is for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to promptly apologize and promise to send more money to Israel.