This is pretty standard colonialism, remember whenever indigenous folks push back they're the savages. Israel's agenda has been obvious since their inception.
Their entire narrative is a house of cards propped up by the Evil Empire.
This most recent "ceasefire" was a sham like all the others.
It's all a part of the Bigger Israeli Goal.
They're actively using GAZA as a Red Herring while they attack the West Bank, Lebanon & Syria.
Caitlin has never let up on the Israelis. And has used her writing talent to really push home as much as possible the tragedy and immorality taking place right now in the world, particularly in GAZA. It's admirable and remarkable her tenacity this whole time. Somewhat sad her gift had to be used on what will turn out to be yet another dark period in human history. It's hard for me to see any light in this darkness. Hard to see at all.
Hello Jamenta, I agree with you that Caitlin has used her writing talent - not only writing I might add - to record the worst of times in this age of darkness. Time and again she has prevented us from averting our gaze.
Caitlin has used her gift to tell the truth, which is no mean feat in times like the present.
We keep talking about 'now!' and it is pertinent but what happens if all the Palestinians are killed or moved from their homeland.
I believe strongly that the 'collective conciousness (not individual awareness) is something more humane and larger than all of us.
I am pretty sure that Jung understood individual spiritualism (not religion) as we know it.
How, as an individual: does one cope with a whole entity being wiped off the face of the earth?
This is what we need to understand.EVERY single person in Mainstream Media will finally understand what they have done which is why I reiterate time and time again. Protest outside MSM
These Zionists are NOT like "me or you" because we DO care.
The fallout is going to be mind blowing for all of those people who did NOT care.
God's chosen a-holes and Elon Musk. Each day dawns with the duo threatening to amplify my parietal cell acid secretions so as to erode my entire stomach lining after breakfast. I tell myself it's the strawberries, but in reality it's the bloody billionaires and Yahweh's chosen a-holes because each in its own way is incorrigibly irredeemable. No one should ever waste their time thinking that either form of sociopathy is mutable in any positive way.
And the GOP just today passed another tax cut for the rich, amounting to 1.1 trillion tax cuts for the 1% robber barons, while at the same time slashing funding for Medicaid by 880 billion dollars - which will pretty much end Medicaid as we know it in the US.
And get this, if say, you're an American making 50,000 a year, your taxes will be raised $1,500. That's right, the billionaires get a huge tax cut, but the middle class will have their taxes raised.
Meanwhile, the GOP congress raised the debt ceiling by 4 trillion dollars, and added an additional 100 billion dollars to defense spending.
In summary, let the poor eat cake, and let Elon Musk and his robber baron buddies become even richer on government welfare contracts for space and military operations abroad.
I hate the GOP so damn much. Always going out their way to make life Hell of Americans.
And now with Dictator Trump who seems to enact everything by Executive Order, what exactly is Congress in the U.S. there for other than to sap our tax dollars?
I can appreciate where you are coming from, but it would be better if you were to realize that the US is run by the Uniparty, which has two different names. One that plays good cop, the other the bad cop, which is which, depends on your ideology. They have been doing it, for a very long time, to the people of the US, about whom they don't give a sh*t.
Were Americans awake beyond the valium-level brain soporific stage, they'd recognize the shell game and the hucksters who've been playing it on them, and their ideology would be no more scams, put all these jerks (these so-called politicians) behind bars where they belong. However, as Caitlin -- and numerous others -- have repeatedly warned us, we are the most propagandized and brainwashed society in history.
This. The blinders are off. No one with even half a conscience can look at what all Israel has done to Gaza, then Lebanon, then Syria, and now the West Bank for the past 16 months and think they're a victim. They're baby-killers to the core. Flush that victim card down the drain, Izrealhell. Nobody will ever buy that line of bullsh*t from you ever again.
Today is the one year anniversary of Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire in order to bring attention to the Israeli genocide. I’m sorry, Aaron that your sacrifice has not gotten the change you hoped your death would. I’m beyond sorry.
On the day that the UN tells Russia to get the hell out of Ukraine,
because it was illegal for it to go in to defend Russian citizens who Ukraine had been killing for 8 years, Israel takes over southern Syria without any country complaining about it. Maybe Russia should have pointed out that little bit of hypocrisy, but naturally they stayed silent.
Her courage changed my world although I was nearly 50 at the time.
“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising” –
former NBC news President Rubin Frank
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” –
Richard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news
“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
Katherine Meyer Graham, Washington Post publisher
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
russia's happy puppy reaction to the trump ouvertures indeed looks like a sign that those conservative russian capitalists are willing to let empire have its way in the middle east in exchange for the ukrainian ruins and the privilege to suck imperial d*ck again.
Don’t think Hizbollah has been severely weakened. Its fighters effectively stopped any attempt by the IDF to make a significant advance into Lebanon. Israel only controls a few border villages. It was Israel not Hizbollah which asked for a ceasefire. An army which is winning does not ask for a ceasefire. Hizbollah accepted because it was an opportunity to stop the mass destruction and mass murder of civilians being carried out by the IDF. One must remember that during the last twenty years of apartheid South Africa was constantly at war with its neighbours - from occupying Namibia to interventions in Angola and Mozambique. I go along with Ilan Pappe that despite current illusory gains by Israel, we are actually witnessing the zionist project in its terminal stage.
Israel did not ask for ceasefire because Hezbollah defeated them. They asked for a ceasefire so they could pivot to Syria and the West Bank. Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire not to save lives but because they would rather Israel control southern Syria rather than the new Sunni regime. Israel's presence serves as a buffer between HTS and Hezbolloh on their flank.
The jewish neocons wanted to go into Iraq before 11/9. General Clark talked about the hit list of the 7 countries the pentagon wanted to take out. Just a coincidence that all those countries would have land taken from them for the greater israel project. Iraq never made any sense as a war unless it was complete foreign policy subservience to israel. It also had something to do with trading federal reserve notes for oil. If you truly love humanity you have to be called an antisemite. If you are never called an antisemite, you never stood up against genocide. It's impossible to disassociate jews from israel because there is only a miniscule population in israel against genocide and who truly believe Palestinians are humans. Their influence is nothing.
Conflating Jewishness with Zionism does a great service for the Zionists. The bigger a wedge that can be driven in that fundamental divide that already exists, does a service for all humanity.
A wedge strategy only works if there is a sizable population on both sides and both have the ability to affect policy. This is not the case. Anti Zionists Jews have no ability to affect policy and an infinitesimal minority in Israel and very small minority abroad. The only voice they have is on the margins and they have no political power.
That last bit makes no sense at all. Jews in the diaspora have nothing to do with the Zionist project of Israel, except that their good name and history is being stolen by said Zionist terrorists.
Your statement makes no sense, the Zionist project in Israel is predicated on support from the Jewish diaspora. Israel could not exist if the Jewish Zionists in their host countries did not set the host nations foreign policy via lobbying, propaganda and suppression of the non-Zionist populace. Do you think Israel would even exist as it is today if AIPAC didn’t have a dedicated handler for every member of the U.S. congress? Or if the coverage of the genocide wasn’t dictated by Zionist media handlers? There is no Israel without a Jewish diaspora. Let’s not engage in magical thinking in an effort to avoid conflating Zionism with Judaism or Jewishness. Very few Jewish people are anti-Zionist or anti-Israel. And the ones who are, we commend them, but let’s be honest the only reason they are allowed to have any voice is because even they serve the Zionists interests. The Zionists will suppress them but allow them to have some voice because it allows them to create an illusion of diversity of opinions and debate. But policy is set by only the Zionists. And the anti-Zionists Jews know this which is why they are terrified of the Greater Israel project and view it as anti-Jewish. Because it sacrifices the secular humanist Jews and the observant traditional Orthodox Jews on the altar of empire and if the Greater Israel project fails they are rightly terrified of what that will mean for the Jewish diaspora. They understand that Zionism breeds and even requires antisemitism in order to stay alive. It is a sword of Damocles hanging over all our heads.
I agree that Zionism requires antisemitism and nurtures it, but the Zionists making such trouble outside of Israel are part of the Zionist project, and more representative of it than of the general Jewish population.
I feel a similar concern as an American living for decades in Europe - that I not be conflated with the American government's imperial warmongering.
Trust me, Caitlin, Iran can destroy (conventionally) Israel several times over if it gets to it. Israel knows that and needs US to get involved. If it ever gets to that, I would surmise, Israel will become inhabitable, Iran will be destroyed, and the whole world with it!
The world is in the midst of a major restructuring and the west is going to come out on the losing side of it all. Look at what just happened in Ukraine. The mafia don just coerced Zelensky and what little bit of government they have left to give up 50% of what little is left of their country's natural resources. Russia has the other half, and Putin is ready to make a deal with Trump for some of that.
BRICS is eventually going to come out on top and maybe Trump sees that coming. Maybe he is angling to get a piece of that pie too.
The middle east is also reshaping itself as Ms. Caitlin is telling us here. With the Arab nations unable to come together to put a stop to anything, Israel has a free hand for now. Trump is too busy to get involved very much for now as he is focusing on destroying western Europe, Canada and Mexico. He wants everyone in the west to bow down to him and once he has achieved that goal, he will put more emphasis on the middle east again.
Macron is visiting Washington to try and gain some concessions for France and the EU, but I doubt he will get all he wants.
If Trump keeps buddying up to Putin, Europe is going to continue to exhibit apoplexy until they fold like a house of cards. Germany is the first, with France coming in a close second. Once their governments swerve hard to the right and go their own way without the U.S., their economies will implode and resettle into something a lot smaller that they have been for a long time.
We are watching Trump attempt to become the Cappo de Cappo of the western world. But forces are gathering to slow him down. Will they manage to put a stop to the fascist steamroller in time?
The rest of us are caught betwixt and between as these forces continue to butt up against one another to see who will come out on top. My money is on Russia and China over the next few short years. Even if the U.S. remakes itself in order to fit into the new multipolar world, it's days as the only hegemon are numbered. When they finally do remake themselves to try and fit in, the U.S. will look like a formerly obese person who just completed a massive diet and is now very skinny, with a lot of extra skin hanging on the frame. They won't have the energy anymore to start any more wars or give out weapons they won't have anymore, as their factories will largely be all gone. Just an empty shell of a once great nation that is barely able to take care of what few people there will be left. The rich people will have left, leaving everyone that can't afford to leave with the leftovers. Wait and see over the next twenty five years. The U.S, will just be another has been empire, like the British Empire is now. See how Starmer and company are starting to give up social services to feed their defense budget now? This is the sign of a failed economy and government. Germany and France are soon to follow and that will be the end of the EU as we know it, along with NATO.
There are going to be a lot of very hungry people in the western countries very soon and hungry people get very angry when their governments can't feed them anymore. Australia isn't immune to all of this either, sitting way down under. Just wait.
Looks like Israel is fully committed to the Biblical Deuteronomy 11:24 model: “Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
Also, wrt to Ukraine … Jeffrey Sachs gave an absolutely magnificent speech before the EU Parliament where he laid out the whole history of the US/NATO culpability for that horror. Segments have gone somewhat viral on YouTube, but I have not noticed any MSM coverage of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ava7rqirOYI
Thanks, Caitlin. "Iraq was what permanently radicalized me." That US act of criminality surely validated and cemented my radicalization, starting from 10-2002 during the runup to Dry Drunk Dubya's 3-2003 US War On Iraq On Behalf of Colonial Zionist Israel. But my own point of radicalization was the massacre of the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967. That was only three years after the US Army sent me to language school to study the Arabic language and culture, via immersion, for one year. I was immediately taken up/taken over by emotional angst as I supported all legitimate Palestinian rights and aspirations. I had been discharged from my 4-year enlistment only 3 months prior to 6-08-67, and I read USS Liberty news reports that utterly convinced me: the Colonial Zionists could literally and arrogantly do anything at any time to the Palestinians and to their vassal state USA...and be assured of impunity and of craven US support-cum-obeisance...all the way up to POTUS/Commander in Chief [LBJ] level.
“Hezbollah has been significantly weakened and Israel effectively controls southern Lebanon.”
This is a ridiculously bland, simplistic and misleading statement, which could easily be mistaken for a Zionist psychological operation if I didn’t know you better. Hezbollah has been weakened in the sense that it has lost the greatest Arab leader of the 21st century. Hezbollah has been weakened in the sense that it was forced to accept a sham ceasefire agreed by the Lebanese government, which is a puppet of the empire. This was despite having thrashed the IDF in all facets of battle in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. But its adherence to the one-sided ceasefire reflects the political situation in which it exists, including in Syria, Iran and Lebanon. If Hezbollah has been weakened militarily, I’d like to see some evidence. Some people assert that the fall of southwestern Syria to a Turkish/Zionist puppet has cut off vital outside supplies to Hezbollah. I think that this is wishful thinking on the part of the empire and I have yet to see any evidence to back it up. So Hezbollah hasn’t been weakened militarily, and your statement quoted above comes off as overly pessimistic and hyperbolic.
"Mohammed Deif almost called off Operation Al-Aqsa Flood at the last second because Hamas noticed Israel wasn’t mobilizing against the coming attack despite their immense surveillance capabilities, suspecting it could be a trap."
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Part of the trap was that Israel would make sure that there were substantial Israeli civilian deaths.
I am not only speaking of the Hannibal Doctrine - tanks, bullets, Apache helicopters used against Israeli civilians but Israel intentionally placed the Nova Rave Party where the IDF could apply the Hannibal Doctrine against large numbers and slaughter hundreds of Israeli civilians.
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October 1st, October 2nd, October 3rd, October 4th, October 5th
colonists invaded and defiled the al Aqsa Mosque
in an intentional provocation.
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On October 4th or 5th the original location for the Nova Rave Party was suspiciously made "unavailable". The promoters were then given a site sandwiched between the Gaza Wall and a major Hamas target, the Re'im military base. Israel had captured Hamas' jail break plan and knew that Re'im military base was a named prime target.
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It was a trap for Israeli civilians and a trap for creating a pretext to Genocide.
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The officers in charge of that sector said, "NO", to having the Rave Party near the Gaza wall, but in an unusual move IDF Division headquarters inserted themselves into the approval process and the party was thus allowed between the Re'im military base and the Gaza wall.
This is pretty standard colonialism, remember whenever indigenous folks push back they're the savages. Israel's agenda has been obvious since their inception.
Their entire narrative is a house of cards propped up by the Evil Empire.
This most recent "ceasefire" was a sham like all the others.
It's all a part of the Bigger Israeli Goal.
They're actively using GAZA as a Red Herring while they attack the West Bank, Lebanon & Syria.
The entire world is complicit at this point.
Thanks to Caitlin for never wavering.
Caitlin has never let up on the Israelis. And has used her writing talent to really push home as much as possible the tragedy and immorality taking place right now in the world, particularly in GAZA. It's admirable and remarkable her tenacity this whole time. Somewhat sad her gift had to be used on what will turn out to be yet another dark period in human history. It's hard for me to see any light in this darkness. Hard to see at all.
Hello Jamenta, I agree with you that Caitlin has used her writing talent - not only writing I might add - to record the worst of times in this age of darkness. Time and again she has prevented us from averting our gaze.
Caitlin has used her gift to tell the truth, which is no mean feat in times like the present.
We keep talking about 'now!' and it is pertinent but what happens if all the Palestinians are killed or moved from their homeland.
I believe strongly that the 'collective conciousness (not individual awareness) is something more humane and larger than all of us.
I am pretty sure that Jung understood individual spiritualism (not religion) as we know it.
How, as an individual: does one cope with a whole entity being wiped off the face of the earth?
This is what we need to understand.EVERY single person in Mainstream Media will finally understand what they have done which is why I reiterate time and time again. Protest outside MSM
These Zionists are NOT like "me or you" because we DO care.
The fallout is going to be mind blowing for all of those people who did NOT care.
Jamenta, by an unfortunate coincidence, I happen at this moment to be listening to Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
Why do you say the Israeli agenda is a "house of cards"?
It is cynical and murderous, but it is working exactly as intended. (and I hate my autocorrect!)
Caitlin, always right on the mark. Always word perfect.
BTW, Democrats look bad enough all on their own. Both parties are rotten to the core.
God's chosen a-holes and Elon Musk. Each day dawns with the duo threatening to amplify my parietal cell acid secretions so as to erode my entire stomach lining after breakfast. I tell myself it's the strawberries, but in reality it's the bloody billionaires and Yahweh's chosen a-holes because each in its own way is incorrigibly irredeemable. No one should ever waste their time thinking that either form of sociopathy is mutable in any positive way.
And the GOP just today passed another tax cut for the rich, amounting to 1.1 trillion tax cuts for the 1% robber barons, while at the same time slashing funding for Medicaid by 880 billion dollars - which will pretty much end Medicaid as we know it in the US.
And get this, if say, you're an American making 50,000 a year, your taxes will be raised $1,500. That's right, the billionaires get a huge tax cut, but the middle class will have their taxes raised.
Meanwhile, the GOP congress raised the debt ceiling by 4 trillion dollars, and added an additional 100 billion dollars to defense spending.
In summary, let the poor eat cake, and let Elon Musk and his robber baron buddies become even richer on government welfare contracts for space and military operations abroad.
I hate the GOP so damn much. Always going out their way to make life Hell of Americans.
And now with Dictator Trump who seems to enact everything by Executive Order, what exactly is Congress in the U.S. there for other than to sap our tax dollars?
And yet the GOP would not be where they are today without the duplicity of their corrupt enablers: the Democratic party.
I can appreciate where you are coming from, but it would be better if you were to realize that the US is run by the Uniparty, which has two different names. One that plays good cop, the other the bad cop, which is which, depends on your ideology. They have been doing it, for a very long time, to the people of the US, about whom they don't give a sh*t.
Were Americans awake beyond the valium-level brain soporific stage, they'd recognize the shell game and the hucksters who've been playing it on them, and their ideology would be no more scams, put all these jerks (these so-called politicians) behind bars where they belong. However, as Caitlin -- and numerous others -- have repeatedly warned us, we are the most propagandized and brainwashed society in history.
I hate the Dems almost as equally as I hate the GOP at this point.
"Israel is not a victim."
This. The blinders are off. No one with even half a conscience can look at what all Israel has done to Gaza, then Lebanon, then Syria, and now the West Bank for the past 16 months and think they're a victim. They're baby-killers to the core. Flush that victim card down the drain, Izrealhell. Nobody will ever buy that line of bullsh*t from you ever again.
As we all know, Revolution……….
………..none of which could have happened without total USA involvement, all the way.
There is the real crime. Never to be forgotten. So very sady, ongoing.
Well, except Western politicians. They all still seem to be on board with the ME genocide.
Today is the one year anniversary of Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire in order to bring attention to the Israeli genocide. I’m sorry, Aaron that your sacrifice has not gotten the change you hoped your death would. I’m beyond sorry.
On the day that the UN tells Russia to get the hell out of Ukraine,
because it was illegal for it to go in to defend Russian citizens who Ukraine had been killing for 8 years, Israel takes over southern Syria without any country complaining about it. Maybe Russia should have pointed out that little bit of hypocrisy, but naturally they stayed silent.
Sam, Thank you for remembering Aaron Bushnell. 😢😭❤️
Please don't forget Rachel Corey (d March 2003).
Her courage changed my world although I was nearly 50 at the time.
“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising” –
former NBC news President Rubin Frank
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” –
Richard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news
“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
Katherine Meyer Graham, Washington Post publisher
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
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May God bless all the martyrs.
russia's happy puppy reaction to the trump ouvertures indeed looks like a sign that those conservative russian capitalists are willing to let empire have its way in the middle east in exchange for the ukrainian ruins and the privilege to suck imperial d*ck again.
It has been obvious for a long time now that Russia seeks, not to destroy the West, but to join it, just not as a supplicant.
For its part, the West seeks the destruction and dismemberment of Russia.
It takes a stupid person to make
a stupid rule.
And a fool to mind it.
Do not be a stupid.
Do not be a fool.
Any bullshit ideology, MAGA included,
exists only because of stupid people, playing roles, making manifest other people's stupid, unevolved, morally bankrupt ideations.
Enough people stop participating, the entire house of cards collapses.
Start by stop sending them money.
Keep it for yourself.
Boycotts work.
There is only one human race, and we are all just different shades of brown.
:)
🙏 Thank you CATHERINE!
Well hammered truth, well delivered as usual. I am never disappointed by your writings and always look forward to the next.
Don’t think Hizbollah has been severely weakened. Its fighters effectively stopped any attempt by the IDF to make a significant advance into Lebanon. Israel only controls a few border villages. It was Israel not Hizbollah which asked for a ceasefire. An army which is winning does not ask for a ceasefire. Hizbollah accepted because it was an opportunity to stop the mass destruction and mass murder of civilians being carried out by the IDF. One must remember that during the last twenty years of apartheid South Africa was constantly at war with its neighbours - from occupying Namibia to interventions in Angola and Mozambique. I go along with Ilan Pappe that despite current illusory gains by Israel, we are actually witnessing the zionist project in its terminal stage.
....."we are actually witnessing the zionist project in its terminal stage." I hope you're right.
Me too
Israel did not ask for ceasefire because Hezbollah defeated them. They asked for a ceasefire so they could pivot to Syria and the West Bank. Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire not to save lives but because they would rather Israel control southern Syria rather than the new Sunni regime. Israel's presence serves as a buffer between HTS and Hezbolloh on their flank.
The jewish neocons wanted to go into Iraq before 11/9. General Clark talked about the hit list of the 7 countries the pentagon wanted to take out. Just a coincidence that all those countries would have land taken from them for the greater israel project. Iraq never made any sense as a war unless it was complete foreign policy subservience to israel. It also had something to do with trading federal reserve notes for oil. If you truly love humanity you have to be called an antisemite. If you are never called an antisemite, you never stood up against genocide. It's impossible to disassociate jews from israel because there is only a miniscule population in israel against genocide and who truly believe Palestinians are humans. Their influence is nothing.
Conflating Jewishness with Zionism does a great service for the Zionists. The bigger a wedge that can be driven in that fundamental divide that already exists, does a service for all humanity.
A wedge strategy only works if there is a sizable population on both sides and both have the ability to affect policy. This is not the case. Anti Zionists Jews have no ability to affect policy and an infinitesimal minority in Israel and very small minority abroad. The only voice they have is on the margins and they have no political power.
That last bit makes no sense at all. Jews in the diaspora have nothing to do with the Zionist project of Israel, except that their good name and history is being stolen by said Zionist terrorists.
Your statement makes no sense, the Zionist project in Israel is predicated on support from the Jewish diaspora. Israel could not exist if the Jewish Zionists in their host countries did not set the host nations foreign policy via lobbying, propaganda and suppression of the non-Zionist populace. Do you think Israel would even exist as it is today if AIPAC didn’t have a dedicated handler for every member of the U.S. congress? Or if the coverage of the genocide wasn’t dictated by Zionist media handlers? There is no Israel without a Jewish diaspora. Let’s not engage in magical thinking in an effort to avoid conflating Zionism with Judaism or Jewishness. Very few Jewish people are anti-Zionist or anti-Israel. And the ones who are, we commend them, but let’s be honest the only reason they are allowed to have any voice is because even they serve the Zionists interests. The Zionists will suppress them but allow them to have some voice because it allows them to create an illusion of diversity of opinions and debate. But policy is set by only the Zionists. And the anti-Zionists Jews know this which is why they are terrified of the Greater Israel project and view it as anti-Jewish. Because it sacrifices the secular humanist Jews and the observant traditional Orthodox Jews on the altar of empire and if the Greater Israel project fails they are rightly terrified of what that will mean for the Jewish diaspora. They understand that Zionism breeds and even requires antisemitism in order to stay alive. It is a sword of Damocles hanging over all our heads.
I agree that Zionism requires antisemitism and nurtures it, but the Zionists making such trouble outside of Israel are part of the Zionist project, and more representative of it than of the general Jewish population.
I feel a similar concern as an American living for decades in Europe - that I not be conflated with the American government's imperial warmongering.
Trust me, Caitlin, Iran can destroy (conventionally) Israel several times over if it gets to it. Israel knows that and needs US to get involved. If it ever gets to that, I would surmise, Israel will become inhabitable, Iran will be destroyed, and the whole world with it!
So what has Iran been waiting for? Why have they waffled as Israel killed Palestinians and ruined Iran's (former) Syrian ally.
I wish it were so, but it's not.
He said, "Iran will be destroyed..." That might, ought to be answer to your question, or how is it not?
Who is "he"?
The world is in the midst of a major restructuring and the west is going to come out on the losing side of it all. Look at what just happened in Ukraine. The mafia don just coerced Zelensky and what little bit of government they have left to give up 50% of what little is left of their country's natural resources. Russia has the other half, and Putin is ready to make a deal with Trump for some of that.
BRICS is eventually going to come out on top and maybe Trump sees that coming. Maybe he is angling to get a piece of that pie too.
The middle east is also reshaping itself as Ms. Caitlin is telling us here. With the Arab nations unable to come together to put a stop to anything, Israel has a free hand for now. Trump is too busy to get involved very much for now as he is focusing on destroying western Europe, Canada and Mexico. He wants everyone in the west to bow down to him and once he has achieved that goal, he will put more emphasis on the middle east again.
Macron is visiting Washington to try and gain some concessions for France and the EU, but I doubt he will get all he wants.
If Trump keeps buddying up to Putin, Europe is going to continue to exhibit apoplexy until they fold like a house of cards. Germany is the first, with France coming in a close second. Once their governments swerve hard to the right and go their own way without the U.S., their economies will implode and resettle into something a lot smaller that they have been for a long time.
We are watching Trump attempt to become the Cappo de Cappo of the western world. But forces are gathering to slow him down. Will they manage to put a stop to the fascist steamroller in time?
The rest of us are caught betwixt and between as these forces continue to butt up against one another to see who will come out on top. My money is on Russia and China over the next few short years. Even if the U.S. remakes itself in order to fit into the new multipolar world, it's days as the only hegemon are numbered. When they finally do remake themselves to try and fit in, the U.S. will look like a formerly obese person who just completed a massive diet and is now very skinny, with a lot of extra skin hanging on the frame. They won't have the energy anymore to start any more wars or give out weapons they won't have anymore, as their factories will largely be all gone. Just an empty shell of a once great nation that is barely able to take care of what few people there will be left. The rich people will have left, leaving everyone that can't afford to leave with the leftovers. Wait and see over the next twenty five years. The U.S, will just be another has been empire, like the British Empire is now. See how Starmer and company are starting to give up social services to feed their defense budget now? This is the sign of a failed economy and government. Germany and France are soon to follow and that will be the end of the EU as we know it, along with NATO.
There are going to be a lot of very hungry people in the western countries very soon and hungry people get very angry when their governments can't feed them anymore. Australia isn't immune to all of this either, sitting way down under. Just wait.
idk, i don't think any real restructuring will happen unless there's a global communist revolution.
Agreed
Looks like Israel is fully committed to the Biblical Deuteronomy 11:24 model: “Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
Also, wrt to Ukraine … Jeffrey Sachs gave an absolutely magnificent speech before the EU Parliament where he laid out the whole history of the US/NATO culpability for that horror. Segments have gone somewhat viral on YouTube, but I have not noticed any MSM coverage of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ava7rqirOYI
Terrific speech. He basically told the Europeans to grow up.
'Hezbollah has been significantly weakened and Israel effectively controls southern Lebanon.'
Hezbollah needs help and soon to prevent further land from being illegally seized by the Zionists.
Thanks, Caitlin. "Iraq was what permanently radicalized me." That US act of criminality surely validated and cemented my radicalization, starting from 10-2002 during the runup to Dry Drunk Dubya's 3-2003 US War On Iraq On Behalf of Colonial Zionist Israel. But my own point of radicalization was the massacre of the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967. That was only three years after the US Army sent me to language school to study the Arabic language and culture, via immersion, for one year. I was immediately taken up/taken over by emotional angst as I supported all legitimate Palestinian rights and aspirations. I had been discharged from my 4-year enlistment only 3 months prior to 6-08-67, and I read USS Liberty news reports that utterly convinced me: the Colonial Zionists could literally and arrogantly do anything at any time to the Palestinians and to their vassal state USA...and be assured of impunity and of craven US support-cum-obeisance...all the way up to POTUS/Commander in Chief [LBJ] level.
“Hezbollah has been significantly weakened and Israel effectively controls southern Lebanon.”
This is a ridiculously bland, simplistic and misleading statement, which could easily be mistaken for a Zionist psychological operation if I didn’t know you better. Hezbollah has been weakened in the sense that it has lost the greatest Arab leader of the 21st century. Hezbollah has been weakened in the sense that it was forced to accept a sham ceasefire agreed by the Lebanese government, which is a puppet of the empire. This was despite having thrashed the IDF in all facets of battle in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. But its adherence to the one-sided ceasefire reflects the political situation in which it exists, including in Syria, Iran and Lebanon. If Hezbollah has been weakened militarily, I’d like to see some evidence. Some people assert that the fall of southwestern Syria to a Turkish/Zionist puppet has cut off vital outside supplies to Hezbollah. I think that this is wishful thinking on the part of the empire and I have yet to see any evidence to back it up. So Hezbollah hasn’t been weakened militarily, and your statement quoted above comes off as overly pessimistic and hyperbolic.
"Mohammed Deif almost called off Operation Al-Aqsa Flood at the last second because Hamas noticed Israel wasn’t mobilizing against the coming attack despite their immense surveillance capabilities, suspecting it could be a trap."
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Part of the trap was that Israel would make sure that there were substantial Israeli civilian deaths.
I am not only speaking of the Hannibal Doctrine - tanks, bullets, Apache helicopters used against Israeli civilians but Israel intentionally placed the Nova Rave Party where the IDF could apply the Hannibal Doctrine against large numbers and slaughter hundreds of Israeli civilians.
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October 1st, October 2nd, October 3rd, October 4th, October 5th
colonists invaded and defiled the al Aqsa Mosque
in an intentional provocation.
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On October 4th or 5th the original location for the Nova Rave Party was suspiciously made "unavailable". The promoters were then given a site sandwiched between the Gaza Wall and a major Hamas target, the Re'im military base. Israel had captured Hamas' jail break plan and knew that Re'im military base was a named prime target.
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It was a trap for Israeli civilians and a trap for creating a pretext to Genocide.
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The officers in charge of that sector said, "NO", to having the Rave Party near the Gaza wall, but in an unusual move IDF Division headquarters inserted themselves into the approval process and the party was thus allowed between the Re'im military base and the Gaza wall.
Important for people to understand that 10/7 was a set-up.