"One of the craziest phrases you can possibly utter in the year 2025 is “Let’s give Israel the benefit of the doubt on this one.”
Says it all, doesn't it? Nobody nowhere can believe a single thing that comes out of the mouths of Israelis--well, maybe we can believe their sadistic glee when they videotape themselves committing war crimes. THEN we can believe the evidence of our own eyes.
I wouldn't put it past the sociopaths to fake some of that too. In Hebrew: "Hey Joshua, before I take the shot, move the kid's body over there nearer the others and twist the head so it looks uglier".
We should not assume that these freaks are incapable of any dehumanizing outrage.
I think you're mixing up the Star of David with the Pentagram, an upside down, five-pointed star. But there's no need to bring Satanists down to the level of the genocidaires, is there?
According to WaPo, the Nation of Satan is considering striking Iran. Not a good idea for Satan's children. Russia has committed to building six Nuclear Power Plants for Iran. Russia is not too happy with Isra-Hell allegedly sending some of its Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Bibi and Zelensky love to start sh*t so the US can get involved. You can bet Senator Lady Graham will be foaming at the mouth for the US to go to war on Isra-Hell's behalf.
That's what keeps me awake nights... HOW and WHY is it still "working"? Is all the world brain dead?? Or maybe the zy0s have some damnable evidence against us all that keeps us in our place?
Remember Cheney's oil maps? The carve up of Iraq's oil fields.
Inked by many long before the lie based invasion.
I'll furnish a link so that everyone will be able to see, what I fear is that the gas fields which rightfully belong to the Palestinian people might have been carved up to foreign suitors which would explain the lack lustre response.
Whe western world, aka white world, is certainly not brain dead. They are working overtime trying to destroy other races and take everything from them.
Yes, I was thinking of Western publics. The leaders definitely know what they are doing - continuing wth the colonial project that they have been pursuing for hundreds of years now. It's how we got to be richer than everyone else: by stealing other people's ideas and resources and by stealing other people. And as Shahid Bolsen rightly points out, we then claim to be the superior ones!
The British Empire has been estimated to have stolen in today's $$$ over 60 TRILLION from India, and in the process destroyed India's textile industry and left country impoverished. All the claimed benefits such as a few railways and legal processes were put in place to facilitate the colonialist rule.
Yes. Imperialism and colonialism are never anything but selfish, self-serving and parasitic. Robbery with violence is another way of describing it. And the US and Brit ruling classes still feel entitled to do this. Remember Boris Johnson saying that the problem with Africa is that "we" are not in charge there anymore? HA!!!
"Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers:
Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences.
The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse."
So we on the Left need more of a willingness to use violence? And how will the ruling class respond to that, do you think? They're fine when fascists do it, because fascists defer to money and power. If Leftists are going to be violent, we need an actual revolution. Peter Thiel is making sure that will be difficult to achieve ever again.
Agree that we need to be more power-focussed. We're too busy waiting for he who is without sin to fire the first shot. I do try to tell people: stop waiting for the Lefty Messiah.
The left in America also is way too willing to make excuses for their Lefty Messiahs, even when those messiahs betray them.
See, e.g., Obama, Barack; Sanders, Bernie.
Furthermore, the left in America are not fundamentally people who are comfortable with power and what it entails, because that would require dealing with icky people and making tough choices. The Greens (to give one example) are basically a glorified dorm room bull session.
It works because the masses of rule followers & people with morals don’t control anything (money, information, military, food chain), so they’ll keep it to themselves until it’s too late to save anyone or themselves
I wouldn’t overlook the Samson Option. I should have added Fear to Power, Profits, and Prophets. Perhaps they have pointed out how the coordinates of capital cities are locked and loaded to any “leader” who mutters even a hint of reining them in?
Caitlin, I don't know about you and others -> but I feel the consequences of Israeli's actions and the full-throated support of the U.S. Empire (in this Genocide and the way it is being executed) is going to have MASSIVE REPERCUSSIONS on the order of things (i.e. world order). The first step is loss of ALL credibility (Western institutions and U.S. Empire). Once that goes, and once the power of propaganda and narratives start to crumble (as has been happening for a while now) and mass awareness comes about (although still too slow IMO), all kinds of revolts, rebellions, and more will start happening on an ever increasing frequency. (We can already see some of this in the ICE raids in LA - even though it's focus is different from the Palestinian struggle).
In the end, ALL people are connected, and many different movements will start having more-and-more things in common - with shared solidarity. THIS mass chaotic everything-in-one spontaneous uprisings, I believe, will unfold in unpredictable ways...
The world is changing before our eyes (in terms of mass people movements)...this is only the beginning of something big (I feel)...
Dare I say that I might just be hopeful? (which is quite unusual for me).
Like you, Chang, I just cannot believe that something will not break....soon. These kind of lies just cannot continue. They make Joseph Goebbels sound like a rank amateur when in fact he was very effective in the role he had inn those early halcyon Nazi days.
Israel has now been proven to be the greatest liars in history. Not based on their own efforts from individuals like Netanyahu and his cabinet of Zionist extremists, but also well documented today by Caitlin the media in all its forms, and this report just covers the last week or two.
So even at the risk of being boring, those media sources who almost report a fact, but then revisit it to put it to bed and in some way even travel 180 degrees to cancel its original presentation are the world's greatest hypocrites, brought and sold by their superiors. They are so easily manipulated every day.
But their masters. They are the criminals in my mind, knowing that their twists on the truth can be remade for presentation to millions and that such detail, now in a lying format, can be regarded as the real story because of the time and effort they devote to maintaining their false credibility. Add to that the governmental masters in the Western governments who add further weight to these actions by their inaction and direct support for the death and destruction of thousands. Let us not even mention the Churches who all seem to have forgotten "thou shall not kill" in order to maintain the status quo. The peaceful life, well enjoyed, without stress.
And by the way, the truth of the matter is that a lot of Christian Zionism derives not so much from the way that people in churches interpret the Bible, as from the effect of WWII. (And, for that matter, reading Leon Uris's book "Exodus" or seeing the movie.)
Yup. Before it became associated with nazism, antisemitic prejudice was pretty mainstream, high-status, even.
Columbia tried instituting standardized testing for applicants in 1908, thinking that this would reduce the number of Jews "breeding will out, gentlemen, breeding will always out!" (this backfired massively, BTW).
A lot of today's Wall Street law firms were founded by Jews who either were denied jobs at the white shoe firms of the day, or were not allowed to become partners at those firms ("they can do the actual work, but we can't let the clients see them!"). Securities firms and banks, similar.
Country clubs routinely denied membership to Jewish applicants, no matter how much money they might have had.
Of course "Christ-killer" taunts were pretty common, as were all manner of name-calling and slurs that I will not repeat here.
I am NOT saying any of this was good or justified, but that's the way it was, not so long ago.
CK. The current well researched figure, is 86% of both Houses.
Now that is what one would call control. As well, AIPAC have their staff in every office (well 86%) and corridor and broom cupboard, men's room and ladies room, security offices, storerooms and kitchens observing, influencing which is observed (but ignored) by all. Normal activity these days. Probably more hidden microphones in those buildings than in the rest of the world together.
Did I miss any hidy-holes?
It still is amazing, almost laughable, when one remembers the 1950's and the McCarthy era of un-American activities and the search for 'communists' when these days the spies and parasites are everywhere, so many paid for by the government as AIPAC- appointed employees, the ears and eyes of the very worst collection of un-Americans in the history of the USA.
Free as a breeze. Come and go as they like, with IDF mercenaries high on the list of travellers in and out of their US hideaways. So-called citizens of the USA but in reality, Netayahu's loyal parasites.
Time for another War of 1812, this time against the resident enemy of the USA as a country, thick on the ground, trying to control the decent people of America who liked what they had before the parasites slipped in, supported by any other true Americans who think that the so-called President of the USA and his Terrorists should migrate to Israel, as soon as possible.
The USA has had enough of such disloyal parasites.
If it wasn't so serious, it would be a joke.
However, in the meantime, Trump and his terrorists (ICE), the latter day equivalent of the Nazi Stormtroopers, can pursue University students, and anyone believing if freedom of speech, all with the meglomaniac President's full approval.
In the greater plan it seems they have been planning to be "ended" where they are and migrate to the already paid for established Greater IzReal ... in US tax paid-for Ukraine. They don't do brazen crazy things without a long game survival plan. Let's see what our tax money has created already and how it will bring about expansion for the chosens. It feels like when things come to a head, they will already be pretty well migrated to a bigger better richer location that we've paid for and will keep paying for. Never underestimate those who play the long game, control the media, the politicians, the international bankers, the fed, foreign leaders, and have the best intelligence systems in the world. Big picture, long game. Edit to add: all of the agendas that are "stopped" are always stopped after the agenda's goals have been reached, never before or during. When public opinion is allowed to change out loud, without censorship, is when they are giving us a release valve, and it indicates they've achieved much of their goals, whatever those goals were. We only get "relief" after the damage is done. I wish we all had the power to stop crap while it is STARTING instead of long after the damage has been done.
I'm not talking about ANY of the things you are talking about in your comment. My comment is a reflection of my personal opinion on the 'movements of people' and the uncanny ways (serendipity?) in which disparate events coalesce into something good and unexpected - the unification of peoples of the world against the hierarchical system under which we currently live (i.e. a change in world order - magnitude unknown) in unpredictable ways...
I certainly hope for the unification of peoples of the world against the hierarchical system! It would be glorious to unify so many different people of so many different backgrounds, cultures, viewpoints. We can certainly hope for this synergy !
I'm trying to think of past events in history where disparate groups of people came together (sometimes for different reasons) and melded into a force strong enough to upset (and change) the status quo (if not permanently, then at least for a period of time).
Maybe it's my optimism bias talking, but I am cautiously hopeful (though I know that the process will continue to increase in the intensity of pain felt world-wide during any such movements).
Chang, I am averse to using 'whataboutism'. But what about periods in history when disparate groups came together for a common cause?
The 1917 October Revolution where disparate classes - intellectuals, artists, writers, the political class and the common people all came together to make the communist revolution? Didn't the workers of the world unite? What about Cuba... ?
What about Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution? Hasn't that delivered results which have become the envy of the US/West? Which Trumpism is trying their best to destroy.
Nothing lasts forever - the only permanence in this world is impermanence.
Soviet mythology aside, you read V.I.Lenin, he taught if nothing else the importance of the vanguard party.
What happened in 1917 was existing structures dithered, hemmed and hawed, while Lenin was decisive. His opponents tried to be all things, while Lenin focused solely on power.
Those who control vast amounts of wealth (land, natural resources, money) can afford to play the long game. Such players include some close-knit families, organizations such as AIPAC, the fossil fuels industry, the defense contractors, other private corporations, etc.
In theory, private corporations may be immortal and often outlive their founders but have legacy agendas.
The book, “Dark Money” by journalist Jane Mayer, identifies some, but not all, of the names of families and businesses in the long game. Some names are, or were, famous while others may be deliberately obscure.
The Koch, Rockefeller, Bush, Walker, Scaife, Melon, Morgan, Murdoch, Mercer, Ford, Rothschild and even Trump families are/were relatively well known.
The Wall Street financial firms of Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Goldman-Sachs were founded as family businesses by interrelated wealthy Jews that were very diligent about protecting their legacies through tradition and nepotism.
Nepotism— for those who don’t already know this — is not necessarily bad. Nepotism ensures that candidates for job openings, opportunities and promotions are vetted and groomed for advancement from the days they are born. Nepotism strive to keep family wealth and power within the family. Monarchies throughout history survived via nepotism.
The mythical American Dream promotes the notion of meritocracy and the power of the lone individual— or cowboy— who advances from rags to riches via hard work and perseverance. If hard work and perseverance were the essence for success and wealth, farmers, slaves and skilled trades workers would be among the wealthiest. Bankers, financiers, stock brokers would be among the lowest-paid clerks.
In reality, all employees are required to work hard, persevere and produce excellent work regardless of what they are paid. Hospitality workers (restaurant servers, housekeepers, etc.) are paid so little that they must work for “tips”, just like members of Congress.
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson has argued that members of Congress should be allowed to profit from insider trading information because, otherwise, they aren’t paid enough to do their government jobs.
In a socio-economic system wherein one dollar equals one vote, those with the most money win most elections to ensure the success of their legacies and fulfillment of their agendas.
People must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful because the Globalist enemy has centuries of experience in exploiting rage for its own objectives viz. the Jacobin French Revolution.
>>"People must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful..."
Oh, really? So Palestinians "must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful" you say?
What world are you living in? The world of gaslighted "non-violent" narratives propagandized by the ruling classes? I suggest studying REAL history of REAL revolts, uprisings, and revolutions against TPTB. This is just the continuation of class-warfare (something that has been going on for most of human history) by other means.
Can YOU control your emotions at the depravity of the Israelis and the cold-blooded execution of the Palestinians in this Genocide? If you can, then be satisfied that you are a SUPERIOR human being better and above all the rest of us ordinary people that choose to use our emotions (and everything else) to fight back against the constant and never-ending oppression and exploitation by TPTB (in the U.S. and everywhere else on Earth).
If there is a God (because anything is possible?) they have obviously grown tired of “thoughts and prayers.” We are on our own to evolve to our true potential or prove our unworthiness and self destruct.
Every government that fails to take concrete actions to break the siege and halt the genocide is a participant in genocide. Every person working in media that downplays genocide is a participant in genocide. Those involved will be tried for crimes against humanity. There is no statute of limitations.
Can't you and other Palestinians try and help your own people over there? How can you stand this being done to your kind? Is Hamas shooting at the people, too?
Lynn, I am not a Palestinian. But I don't have to be a Palestinian to empathise with the horror they are subjected to.
As for "... Hamas shooting at the people.." that's exactly what the genocidal Israelis want you to think. They - both the Israelis and the US - have their own terrorist outfit ISIS to whistle at when they need a cover for their conjuring tricks.
Lynn, you do understand how 'open, public, online spaces' like Substack work, don't you? Anyone can reply to anyone. That is what enables a discussion and sharing of ideas.
AND, Indu's comment still stands. I guess you don't seem to understand this conflict at all since you don't understand the role the U.S. Empire plays in this, do you?
Might I suggest reading up on U.S. Imperialism (as a first step) towards understanding who is behind this Genocide? (hint: U.S. Empire, of which Israel is a part of).
Stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. I wasn't replying to Indu.
I don't need you to tell me about history. I'll ask my husband who came from a communist country. I've dealt with you before. Why don't you go and help the Palestinians instead of mouthing off to things you don't understand.
My reply wasn't to Indu. Who are you the watchdog for substack.
Your question is dumb, but I’ll answer for the sake of others.
To make you happy, I’ll be clear: the majority of Palestinians love Hamas — they are our heroes.
We, the Palestinian people, are the ones who created this wave of global support. If you still can’t see what’s happening around the world — even though nearly all media and politicians are controlled by powerful Jewish lobbies — then you’re simply not paying attention. But yes we are not chosen one, and we don’t want to be, so we have some traitors including the PA that work against the people well
And let’s not forget: all the surrounding countries are ruled by Zionist regimes imposed on the Arab world by the evil West.
Finally, yes — the liberation war is approaching. We are just waiting for Sisi or Abdullah to fall. After that, my soul is the least I can give for my country to be free from this terrorist entity.
Sorry, Lynn - but it is a DUMB question. It is also tone-deaf, belies an incomplete/inadequate/irresponsible understanding of the Israel/Palestine issue, and shows your lack of empathy.
Bad evasion and deflection attempt. Try again. Are you holding the U.S. Empire accountable for its actions? Or are you supporting the Genocide and on the side of the U.S. Empire and Israel?
They've been luring the Palestinians into one trap after another, remember early on suggested Palestinians to take certain routes to safe zones....only to be murdered along the way.
It would be a lot more difficult to find a truthful statement that the "most moral army in the world" has made. The lies are easy to spot. There are all kinds of photos everywhere, social media, even some mainstream papers that show us pictures of what is going on. That very moral army likes to think that they really have us all believing what they say. After all, we would not want to be accused of blood libel.
Ha ha ha ha, this is Israel,. That's what ISRAREL ZIONIST do ,just follow their history, they deny all their crimes even before they commit them, once they deny it, you can bet your life that is what they are going to do, they always accuse their foes of doing whatever it is they know they are going to do or is already doing, or intent to do. If they accuse the other side of planning to attack them, that is what they are going to do to the other side.
If they accuse them of Using human shield, that's what Israeli have been doing themselves, if they accuse them of Rape ,that's what Israel has been doing, if they accuse them of planting Bombs and blowing up hotels and and committing terrorism, that's what they are doing, ,and even dressing up in Arab Clothes and garments to try and blame the Arabs for Terrorism and murder like they did before Isrel was even created.
Just research their History from when they first entered they entered the middle east in the 1920's
It’s as if the Israelis copied the atrocities the Nazis carried out against the Jews during WWII to use against the Palestinians. Nazis lured Jews into following their directives because they were told they’d be moving to new housing. They packed up their belongings and took them along… everything they brought was stolen and new housing was a gas chamber.
Ever see reports from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Jews (“animals and bandits” were what the Nazis called them… sound familiar?) that rose up against the Nazis were defeated when the fascists shelled every building and set them on fire… the pictures are chillingly similar to Gaza.* Who are the animals… Israel has no right to call any state or any organization terrorist.
Dear Caitlin. Thank you for your posts. I just wanted to say that a clip from Sky News in Australia came up in my timeline. I was horrified - the presenter was smearing the crew of the Freedom Flotilla for not watching the video of 7/10. He said he’d seen it and the brutality of Hamas had to be understood ….we know the video is a fake and that no evidence of rape has been produced etc. I had no idea Australians were subjected to this kind of Israeli propaganda - the UK is bad enough, but nothing compared to this.
Sky news is part of the Murdoch crime group (or asAustralians call him Murdlock), he is a far right facist supporter who sees himself as a king maker but, actually, sells out to the highest bidder. No respect here.
The Israelis do not even attempt to be rational. One presumes they are incapable of it.
Why would Hamas shoot their own people trying to get food? The Palestinians would know if it was Hamas killing them as they try to get aid. Why would Hamas and the Resistance do that when it would just make the people, whose support they need, hate them?
It is such an idiotic claim by the Israelis it beggars belief.
They're really all that smart. Who would film themselves posing in women's lingerie, or descrating a mosque or church, then breaking life saving machinery in cancer hospital? Only dumb idiots.
>>"Who would film themselves posing in women's lingerie, or descrating a mosque or church, then breaking life saving machinery in cancer hospital?"
Those that think they are 'God's chosen people', those that think they are 'superior to everyone else on earth', those that have no morals, those that think they are above the law and untouchable, those that have been isolated from the world for far too long and have lost touch with reality, those that have been indoctrinated since birth to believe hateful/disgusting/false narratives (my response is incomplete...)
Brainwashed and very sick people in a brainwashed and very sick culture, society and State who have no capacity for reason or rational thinking let alone ethics. Israel is a cult. Study cults and it is clear.
I watched a video clip with someone talking to an Israeli soldier who openly admitted, yes, kill all the children, did not care, prevent them growing up, exterminate them all and then at one point the interviewer said something along the lines of, BUT THAT IS SICK, and for a brief moment the soldier looked confused, shocked, frightened, as if he had been confronted with some terrible reality previously unknown. As indeed he had.
This is why it is impossible for Zionist Israel to continue to exist. Most of its former citizens are going to need intensive psychiatric treatment and some of them will never recover.
Drop Site News, of drop news not bombs fame, says the hasbara is costing millions more because the public isn’t burying their lies anymore- based on leaked data from META.
The insatiable Zionist vermin won't stop at Palestine; later, it will target those who support it today. In fact, it's already moving its poisonous tentacles to overthrow the Spanish government.
"One of the craziest phrases you can possibly utter in the year 2025 is “Let’s give Israel the benefit of the doubt on this one.”
Says it all, doesn't it? Nobody nowhere can believe a single thing that comes out of the mouths of Israelis--well, maybe we can believe their sadistic glee when they videotape themselves committing war crimes. THEN we can believe the evidence of our own eyes.
I wouldn't put it past the sociopaths to fake some of that too. In Hebrew: "Hey Joshua, before I take the shot, move the kid's body over there nearer the others and twist the head so it looks uglier".
We should not assume that these freaks are incapable of any dehumanizing outrage.
"Says it all, doesn't it? Nobody nowhere can believe a single thing that comes out of the mouths of Israelis"
Isra-Hell serves and represents Satan and as such they wear the patch "Star of Satan".
I think you're mixing up the Star of David with the Pentagram, an upside down, five-pointed star. But there's no need to bring Satanists down to the level of the genocidaires, is there?
There was no mix up in my Star of Satan analogy but I do apologize for putting the name of Satan in a negative light.
According to WaPo, the Nation of Satan is considering striking Iran. Not a good idea for Satan's children. Russia has committed to building six Nuclear Power Plants for Iran. Russia is not too happy with Isra-Hell allegedly sending some of its Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Bibi and Zelensky love to start sh*t so the US can get involved. You can bet Senator Lady Graham will be foaming at the mouth for the US to go to war on Isra-Hell's behalf.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/war-brewing-us-prepares-departure-all-nonessential-staff-iraq-kuwait-bahrain-embassies
They know perfectly well what they are doing, and it is working.
That's what keeps me awake nights... HOW and WHY is it still "working"? Is all the world brain dead?? Or maybe the zy0s have some damnable evidence against us all that keeps us in our place?
Remember Cheney's oil maps? The carve up of Iraq's oil fields.
Inked by many long before the lie based invasion.
I'll furnish a link so that everyone will be able to see, what I fear is that the gas fields which rightfully belong to the Palestinian people might have been carved up to foreign suitors which would explain the lack lustre response.
I could be wrong however there is a precedent.
Look at the dates they were signed and by who.
List of foreign suitors part one and two.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/maps-and-charts-of-iraqi-oil-fields/
Colonialism + imperialism = THEFT ON A MASSIVE SCALE.
Theft of humans a massive scale, slavery - It's a matter of record that the Zionist were involved in the slave trade.
?? The slave trade preceded the Zionist movement.
Be quick before this one gets deleted as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHu9NRstTm4
The Western world is definitly brain dead.
Whe western world, aka white world, is certainly not brain dead. They are working overtime trying to destroy other races and take everything from them.
Yes - Greta said it. Racism - whitey must always win or we'll throw our toys (bombs) not only out of the pram but all over anyone who dares to object.
Yes, I was thinking of Western publics. The leaders definitely know what they are doing - continuing wth the colonial project that they have been pursuing for hundreds of years now. It's how we got to be richer than everyone else: by stealing other people's ideas and resources and by stealing other people. And as Shahid Bolsen rightly points out, we then claim to be the superior ones!
The British Empire has been estimated to have stolen in today's $$$ over 60 TRILLION from India, and in the process destroyed India's textile industry and left country impoverished. All the claimed benefits such as a few railways and legal processes were put in place to facilitate the colonialist rule.
Yes. Imperialism and colonialism are never anything but selfish, self-serving and parasitic. Robbery with violence is another way of describing it. And the US and Brit ruling classes still feel entitled to do this. Remember Boris Johnson saying that the problem with Africa is that "we" are not in charge there anymore? HA!!!
No, they/we are complicit. Or at least their/our leaders are.
Something i wrote a while ago:
"Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers:
Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences.
The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse."
So we on the Left need more of a willingness to use violence? And how will the ruling class respond to that, do you think? They're fine when fascists do it, because fascists defer to money and power. If Leftists are going to be violent, we need an actual revolution. Peter Thiel is making sure that will be difficult to achieve ever again.
I am not a "leftist" per se, but otherwise, get used to losing. Your enemies have no such qualms.
Say what you will about V.I. Lenin, he had a very clear-eyed view of power.
Agree that we need to be more power-focussed. We're too busy waiting for he who is without sin to fire the first shot. I do try to tell people: stop waiting for the Lefty Messiah.
The left in America also is way too willing to make excuses for their Lefty Messiahs, even when those messiahs betray them.
See, e.g., Obama, Barack; Sanders, Bernie.
Furthermore, the left in America are not fundamentally people who are comfortable with power and what it entails, because that would require dealing with icky people and making tough choices. The Greens (to give one example) are basically a glorified dorm room bull session.
"Is all the world brain dead??"
Do you really want to know the answer to that one?
(Are you sure you want to know?)
It works because the masses of rule followers & people with morals don’t control anything (money, information, military, food chain), so they’ll keep it to themselves until it’s too late to save anyone or themselves
I wouldn’t overlook the Samson Option. I should have added Fear to Power, Profits, and Prophets. Perhaps they have pointed out how the coordinates of capital cities are locked and loaded to any “leader” who mutters even a hint of reining them in?
Yes Hammas know exactly what they are doing and it is working.
Caitlin, I don't know about you and others -> but I feel the consequences of Israeli's actions and the full-throated support of the U.S. Empire (in this Genocide and the way it is being executed) is going to have MASSIVE REPERCUSSIONS on the order of things (i.e. world order). The first step is loss of ALL credibility (Western institutions and U.S. Empire). Once that goes, and once the power of propaganda and narratives start to crumble (as has been happening for a while now) and mass awareness comes about (although still too slow IMO), all kinds of revolts, rebellions, and more will start happening on an ever increasing frequency. (We can already see some of this in the ICE raids in LA - even though it's focus is different from the Palestinian struggle).
In the end, ALL people are connected, and many different movements will start having more-and-more things in common - with shared solidarity. THIS mass chaotic everything-in-one spontaneous uprisings, I believe, will unfold in unpredictable ways...
The world is changing before our eyes (in terms of mass people movements)...this is only the beginning of something big (I feel)...
Dare I say that I might just be hopeful? (which is quite unusual for me).
Like you, Chang, I just cannot believe that something will not break....soon. These kind of lies just cannot continue. They make Joseph Goebbels sound like a rank amateur when in fact he was very effective in the role he had inn those early halcyon Nazi days.
Israel has now been proven to be the greatest liars in history. Not based on their own efforts from individuals like Netanyahu and his cabinet of Zionist extremists, but also well documented today by Caitlin the media in all its forms, and this report just covers the last week or two.
So even at the risk of being boring, those media sources who almost report a fact, but then revisit it to put it to bed and in some way even travel 180 degrees to cancel its original presentation are the world's greatest hypocrites, brought and sold by their superiors. They are so easily manipulated every day.
But their masters. They are the criminals in my mind, knowing that their twists on the truth can be remade for presentation to millions and that such detail, now in a lying format, can be regarded as the real story because of the time and effort they devote to maintaining their false credibility. Add to that the governmental masters in the Western governments who add further weight to these actions by their inaction and direct support for the death and destruction of thousands. Let us not even mention the Churches who all seem to have forgotten "thou shall not kill" in order to maintain the status quo. The peaceful life, well enjoyed, without stress.
There should be an accounting one day.
Shame on them all.
". . . the Churches who all seem to have forgotten "thou shall not kill" . . ."
. . . not to mention "thou shalt not bear false witness".
Or “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Or “covet other’s land.”
Israel says that gawd gave them Palestine, but they sure love to ignore his commandments.
Ever since around WWII, antisemitism has been seen as ultra low status by association with nazism. Churches fear this.
And by the way, the truth of the matter is that a lot of Christian Zionism derives not so much from the way that people in churches interpret the Bible, as from the effect of WWII. (And, for that matter, reading Leon Uris's book "Exodus" or seeing the movie.)
Yup. Before it became associated with nazism, antisemitic prejudice was pretty mainstream, high-status, even.
Columbia tried instituting standardized testing for applicants in 1908, thinking that this would reduce the number of Jews "breeding will out, gentlemen, breeding will always out!" (this backfired massively, BTW).
A lot of today's Wall Street law firms were founded by Jews who either were denied jobs at the white shoe firms of the day, or were not allowed to become partners at those firms ("they can do the actual work, but we can't let the clients see them!"). Securities firms and banks, similar.
Country clubs routinely denied membership to Jewish applicants, no matter how much money they might have had.
Of course "Christ-killer" taunts were pretty common, as were all manner of name-calling and slurs that I will not repeat here.
I am NOT saying any of this was good or justified, but that's the way it was, not so long ago.
Consider the billionaires who own the mass media. They have the power to control the narrative.
They also own many members of Congress.
CK. The current well researched figure, is 86% of both Houses.
Now that is what one would call control. As well, AIPAC have their staff in every office (well 86%) and corridor and broom cupboard, men's room and ladies room, security offices, storerooms and kitchens observing, influencing which is observed (but ignored) by all. Normal activity these days. Probably more hidden microphones in those buildings than in the rest of the world together.
Did I miss any hidy-holes?
It still is amazing, almost laughable, when one remembers the 1950's and the McCarthy era of un-American activities and the search for 'communists' when these days the spies and parasites are everywhere, so many paid for by the government as AIPAC- appointed employees, the ears and eyes of the very worst collection of un-Americans in the history of the USA.
Free as a breeze. Come and go as they like, with IDF mercenaries high on the list of travellers in and out of their US hideaways. So-called citizens of the USA but in reality, Netayahu's loyal parasites.
Time for another War of 1812, this time against the resident enemy of the USA as a country, thick on the ground, trying to control the decent people of America who liked what they had before the parasites slipped in, supported by any other true Americans who think that the so-called President of the USA and his Terrorists should migrate to Israel, as soon as possible.
The USA has had enough of such disloyal parasites.
If it wasn't so serious, it would be a joke.
However, in the meantime, Trump and his terrorists (ICE), the latter day equivalent of the Nazi Stormtroopers, can pursue University students, and anyone believing if freedom of speech, all with the meglomaniac President's full approval.
What a disgrace. Heading for a sticky end.
In the greater plan it seems they have been planning to be "ended" where they are and migrate to the already paid for established Greater IzReal ... in US tax paid-for Ukraine. They don't do brazen crazy things without a long game survival plan. Let's see what our tax money has created already and how it will bring about expansion for the chosens. It feels like when things come to a head, they will already be pretty well migrated to a bigger better richer location that we've paid for and will keep paying for. Never underestimate those who play the long game, control the media, the politicians, the international bankers, the fed, foreign leaders, and have the best intelligence systems in the world. Big picture, long game. Edit to add: all of the agendas that are "stopped" are always stopped after the agenda's goals have been reached, never before or during. When public opinion is allowed to change out loud, without censorship, is when they are giving us a release valve, and it indicates they've achieved much of their goals, whatever those goals were. We only get "relief" after the damage is done. I wish we all had the power to stop crap while it is STARTING instead of long after the damage has been done.
I'm not talking about ANY of the things you are talking about in your comment. My comment is a reflection of my personal opinion on the 'movements of people' and the uncanny ways (serendipity?) in which disparate events coalesce into something good and unexpected - the unification of peoples of the world against the hierarchical system under which we currently live (i.e. a change in world order - magnitude unknown) in unpredictable ways...
I certainly hope for the unification of peoples of the world against the hierarchical system! It would be glorious to unify so many different people of so many different backgrounds, cultures, viewpoints. We can certainly hope for this synergy !
I'm trying to think of past events in history where disparate groups of people came together (sometimes for different reasons) and melded into a force strong enough to upset (and change) the status quo (if not permanently, then at least for a period of time).
Maybe it's my optimism bias talking, but I am cautiously hopeful (though I know that the process will continue to increase in the intensity of pain felt world-wide during any such movements).
Chang, I am averse to using 'whataboutism'. But what about periods in history when disparate groups came together for a common cause?
The 1917 October Revolution where disparate classes - intellectuals, artists, writers, the political class and the common people all came together to make the communist revolution? Didn't the workers of the world unite? What about Cuba... ?
What about Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution? Hasn't that delivered results which have become the envy of the US/West? Which Trumpism is trying their best to destroy.
Nothing lasts forever - the only permanence in this world is impermanence.
Soviet mythology aside, you read V.I.Lenin, he taught if nothing else the importance of the vanguard party.
What happened in 1917 was existing structures dithered, hemmed and hawed, while Lenin was decisive. His opponents tried to be all things, while Lenin focused solely on power.
Those who control vast amounts of wealth (land, natural resources, money) can afford to play the long game. Such players include some close-knit families, organizations such as AIPAC, the fossil fuels industry, the defense contractors, other private corporations, etc.
In theory, private corporations may be immortal and often outlive their founders but have legacy agendas.
The book, “Dark Money” by journalist Jane Mayer, identifies some, but not all, of the names of families and businesses in the long game. Some names are, or were, famous while others may be deliberately obscure.
The Koch, Rockefeller, Bush, Walker, Scaife, Melon, Morgan, Murdoch, Mercer, Ford, Rothschild and even Trump families are/were relatively well known.
The Wall Street financial firms of Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Goldman-Sachs were founded as family businesses by interrelated wealthy Jews that were very diligent about protecting their legacies through tradition and nepotism.
Nepotism— for those who don’t already know this — is not necessarily bad. Nepotism ensures that candidates for job openings, opportunities and promotions are vetted and groomed for advancement from the days they are born. Nepotism strive to keep family wealth and power within the family. Monarchies throughout history survived via nepotism.
The mythical American Dream promotes the notion of meritocracy and the power of the lone individual— or cowboy— who advances from rags to riches via hard work and perseverance. If hard work and perseverance were the essence for success and wealth, farmers, slaves and skilled trades workers would be among the wealthiest. Bankers, financiers, stock brokers would be among the lowest-paid clerks.
In reality, all employees are required to work hard, persevere and produce excellent work regardless of what they are paid. Hospitality workers (restaurant servers, housekeepers, etc.) are paid so little that they must work for “tips”, just like members of Congress.
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson has argued that members of Congress should be allowed to profit from insider trading information because, otherwise, they aren’t paid enough to do their government jobs.
In a socio-economic system wherein one dollar equals one vote, those with the most money win most elections to ensure the success of their legacies and fulfillment of their agendas.
People must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful because the Globalist enemy has centuries of experience in exploiting rage for its own objectives viz. the Jacobin French Revolution.
>>"People must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful..."
Oh, really? So Palestinians "must be educated to control their emotions and stay peaceful" you say?
What world are you living in? The world of gaslighted "non-violent" narratives propagandized by the ruling classes? I suggest studying REAL history of REAL revolts, uprisings, and revolutions against TPTB. This is just the continuation of class-warfare (something that has been going on for most of human history) by other means.
Can YOU control your emotions at the depravity of the Israelis and the cold-blooded execution of the Palestinians in this Genocide? If you can, then be satisfied that you are a SUPERIOR human being better and above all the rest of us ordinary people that choose to use our emotions (and everything else) to fight back against the constant and never-ending oppression and exploitation by TPTB (in the U.S. and everywhere else on Earth).
The Tunisian convoy is in Libya, approaching Egypt -- who expected that? At least it's a sign of increased activity within the Arab world.
If there is a God (because anything is possible?) they have obviously grown tired of “thoughts and prayers.” We are on our own to evolve to our true potential or prove our unworthiness and self destruct.
Every government that fails to take concrete actions to break the siege and halt the genocide is a participant in genocide. Every person working in media that downplays genocide is a participant in genocide. Those involved will be tried for crimes against humanity. There is no statute of limitations.
All humanity should be ashamed; all of us have failed. The Jewish barbarism has surpassed any barbarism I have ever read about in my life.
We must fight this terror entity by all means.
Can't you and other Palestinians try and help your own people over there? How can you stand this being done to your kind? Is Hamas shooting at the people, too?
Lynn, I am not a Palestinian. But I don't have to be a Palestinian to empathise with the horror they are subjected to.
As for "... Hamas shooting at the people.." that's exactly what the genocidal Israelis want you to think. They - both the Israelis and the US - have their own terrorist outfit ISIS to whistle at when they need a cover for their conjuring tricks.
Indu.....I don't know how you got my question. I replied to Laith....not you.
Lynn, you do understand how 'open, public, online spaces' like Substack work, don't you? Anyone can reply to anyone. That is what enables a discussion and sharing of ideas.
AND, Indu's comment still stands. I guess you don't seem to understand this conflict at all since you don't understand the role the U.S. Empire plays in this, do you?
Might I suggest reading up on U.S. Imperialism (as a first step) towards understanding who is behind this Genocide? (hint: U.S. Empire, of which Israel is a part of).
Stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. I wasn't replying to Indu.
I don't need you to tell me about history. I'll ask my husband who came from a communist country. I've dealt with you before. Why don't you go and help the Palestinians instead of mouthing off to things you don't understand.
My reply wasn't to Indu. Who are you the watchdog for substack.
>>"Stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong."
I don't think you know WHERE your brain (if you possess one) belongs.
I suggest attempting to locate YOUR BRAIN first, before you try anything else...
Your question is dumb, but I’ll answer for the sake of others.
To make you happy, I’ll be clear: the majority of Palestinians love Hamas — they are our heroes.
We, the Palestinian people, are the ones who created this wave of global support. If you still can’t see what’s happening around the world — even though nearly all media and politicians are controlled by powerful Jewish lobbies — then you’re simply not paying attention. But yes we are not chosen one, and we don’t want to be, so we have some traitors including the PA that work against the people well
And let’s not forget: all the surrounding countries are ruled by Zionist regimes imposed on the Arab world by the evil West.
Finally, yes — the liberation war is approaching. We are just waiting for Sisi or Abdullah to fall. After that, my soul is the least I can give for my country to be free from this terrorist entity.
No, it's not dumb. If you thought it was so dumb, why did you bother to reply. I just asked a question, that's all.
Sorry, Lynn - but it is a DUMB question. It is also tone-deaf, belies an incomplete/inadequate/irresponsible understanding of the Israel/Palestine issue, and shows your lack of empathy.
Are you sending money to the Palestinians instead of just talking about them?
Bad evasion and deflection attempt. Try again. Are you holding the U.S. Empire accountable for its actions? Or are you supporting the Genocide and on the side of the U.S. Empire and Israel?
How much do the Leftists pay you to TRY and insult people on substack?
You are the one with no sense.
What makes you think I'm a 'leftist'? Do you even know what 'leftist' means? Please tell me what YOU think is 'left' and what is 'right'?
Not Jewish barbarism. Zionist and Capitalist barbarism, supported by Evangelical hypocrites.
They've been luring the Palestinians into one trap after another, remember early on suggested Palestinians to take certain routes to safe zones....only to be murdered along the way.
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It would be a lot more difficult to find a truthful statement that the "most moral army in the world" has made. The lies are easy to spot. There are all kinds of photos everywhere, social media, even some mainstream papers that show us pictures of what is going on. That very moral army likes to think that they really have us all believing what they say. After all, we would not want to be accused of blood libel.
Try the most immoral army in the world and it all makes perfect sense.
THE most immoral & sociopathic demonic army in the universe.
Ha ha ha ha, this is Israel,. That's what ISRAREL ZIONIST do ,just follow their history, they deny all their crimes even before they commit them, once they deny it, you can bet your life that is what they are going to do, they always accuse their foes of doing whatever it is they know they are going to do or is already doing, or intent to do. If they accuse the other side of planning to attack them, that is what they are going to do to the other side.
If they accuse them of Using human shield, that's what Israeli have been doing themselves, if they accuse them of Rape ,that's what Israel has been doing, if they accuse them of planting Bombs and blowing up hotels and and committing terrorism, that's what they are doing, ,and even dressing up in Arab Clothes and garments to try and blame the Arabs for Terrorism and murder like they did before Isrel was even created.
Just research their History from when they first entered they entered the middle east in the 1920's
@Antonio Brownlowe,
Exactly. Turns out that one of the captives was raped by one of her own tribe Talmudist members when she returned to Diseaserael.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkz8yjErBoA
It’s as if the Israelis copied the atrocities the Nazis carried out against the Jews during WWII to use against the Palestinians. Nazis lured Jews into following their directives because they were told they’d be moving to new housing. They packed up their belongings and took them along… everything they brought was stolen and new housing was a gas chamber.
Ever see reports from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Jews (“animals and bandits” were what the Nazis called them… sound familiar?) that rose up against the Nazis were defeated when the fascists shelled every building and set them on fire… the pictures are chillingly similar to Gaza.* Who are the animals… Israel has no right to call any state or any organization terrorist.
*https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/german-response-warsaw-uprising
Compared to Israelis and Nazis, animals are a superior life form.
Diseaseraelis have surpassed ANY group of sociopaths. My opinion of course.
Dear Caitlin. Thank you for your posts. I just wanted to say that a clip from Sky News in Australia came up in my timeline. I was horrified - the presenter was smearing the crew of the Freedom Flotilla for not watching the video of 7/10. He said he’d seen it and the brutality of Hamas had to be understood ….we know the video is a fake and that no evidence of rape has been produced etc. I had no idea Australians were subjected to this kind of Israeli propaganda - the UK is bad enough, but nothing compared to this.
Sky news is part of the Murdoch crime group (or asAustralians call him Murdlock), he is a far right facist supporter who sees himself as a king maker but, actually, sells out to the highest bidder. No respect here.
The Israelis do not even attempt to be rational. One presumes they are incapable of it.
Why would Hamas shoot their own people trying to get food? The Palestinians would know if it was Hamas killing them as they try to get aid. Why would Hamas and the Resistance do that when it would just make the people, whose support they need, hate them?
It is such an idiotic claim by the Israelis it beggars belief.
Of course it's an idiotic claim that falls apart under any scrutiny.
It doesn't need to be believable,it just needs to be the official line.
They're really all that smart. Who would film themselves posing in women's lingerie, or descrating a mosque or church, then breaking life saving machinery in cancer hospital? Only dumb idiots.
>>"Who would film themselves posing in women's lingerie, or descrating a mosque or church, then breaking life saving machinery in cancer hospital?"
Those that think they are 'God's chosen people', those that think they are 'superior to everyone else on earth', those that have no morals, those that think they are above the law and untouchable, those that have been isolated from the world for far too long and have lost touch with reality, those that have been indoctrinated since birth to believe hateful/disgusting/false narratives (my response is incomplete...)
Brainwashed and very sick people in a brainwashed and very sick culture, society and State who have no capacity for reason or rational thinking let alone ethics. Israel is a cult. Study cults and it is clear.
I watched a video clip with someone talking to an Israeli soldier who openly admitted, yes, kill all the children, did not care, prevent them growing up, exterminate them all and then at one point the interviewer said something along the lines of, BUT THAT IS SICK, and for a brief moment the soldier looked confused, shocked, frightened, as if he had been confronted with some terrible reality previously unknown. As indeed he had.
This is why it is impossible for Zionist Israel to continue to exist. Most of its former citizens are going to need intensive psychiatric treatment and some of them will never recover.
Drop Site News, of drop news not bombs fame, says the hasbara is costing millions more because the public isn’t burying their lies anymore- based on leaked data from META.
Israel need only stretch out its hand, and the United States and its catamites will fill it.
Glad CNN is reporting some truths. These lying fiends are evil beyond belief.
The insatiable Zionist vermin won't stop at Palestine; later, it will target those who support it today. In fact, it's already moving its poisonous tentacles to overthrow the Spanish government.
A lethal version of bait and switch! Like the worm on a hook to a fish.