I picture my dad way back when, dying in hospital of lung cancer complications, experiencing the profound pit of loss in my heart as I watched him leave us. But at least he seemed peaceful, the hospital room was clean, the staff compassionate, the atmosphere appropriately solemn. Then I try to imagine the alternative: instead of the placid face of the kind, just, loving man to whom I'll always be grateful, there lies on a filthy floor, a plastic bag of carnage,bloody human meat that used to be him. And it kindles just a bit of the sorrow and outrage that we need to sustain to realize that Israel must go, Zionism must be eliminated from the face of this planet. ASAP
I feel the same way, Indu. Vin LoPresti worded it so well and so powerfully. It is all so horrific and terrible. It sickens me that my country, the USA, still continues to send our tax dollars to Israel and fund this genocide and these atrocities. When Americans have protested this disgusting use of funding which should instead be used to help people in need, they have been met with brutality and violence from the police, in many cases. Indeed, as Vin LoPresti said, "Israel must go" and "Zionism must be eliminated."
The strike is the only weapon that might stop this. The west needs to strike its masters, and every other nation in the world needs to strike the west.
It will hurt like holy crap. It is the only way.
5,000 screaming protesters outside the capital while the gore-encrusted psychopath inside gets 58 standing ovations in 52 minutes from the traitors who claim to represent those protesters. Our stupid signs are worth every bit as much as our stupid votes.
Strike.
We are out of alternatives, we are out of time: STRIKE
There was a certain gentleman from Russia who made several actual predictions about specific events. If anyone here could help me out with his name, much appreciated.
Anyways Jenny, this man stated that there won’t be a US election in ‘24 because there won’t BE a US.
We’ll see, I guess. Truthfully the world would be better off without us.
as long as strikes are voluntary for participants and do not violate the rights of others, I can support that.
However most of what we know as strikes are required and determined by a union where one has no choice on even whether to be a member or not - other than quitting the job
Our government should all be sent to The Hague , what criminals we’ve become in support of crazy people of Israel and its WW11 all over again instead of Germans it’s now Israelis , the world has to get rid of the name of Israel off the map and restore Palestine before we get into WW111 these Israelis have no soul they are a menace to the whole world and shame on the United States for being a part of this !!
extraction of israelis that have come to oppose the state of israel and just like palestinians risk to be taken hostage and used as human shields might be part of the resistance actions. (alas, i suspect it is a quite doable quantity.)
I think good people are fooled into the narrative that Gaza is filled with 2 million terrorists bent on killing Jews because of ‘ radical Islam ’. I’m sure the Nazis convinced otherwise good people in Germany that all their problems were caused by Jews. Why can’t we learn that atrocities are ALWAYS justified by lies.
According to Norman Finkelstein only 4 percent of the people in Israel want the slaughter to end.This is for all those people who kid themselves that Israelis have any heart.
Sorry, I have a much darker view of this awful situation the so called rules based international order is in, several people mentioned this recently: it is a fight to the death for both sides and therefore there will be no compromises ... Very close to this opinion is the recent interview with Alastair Crooke (for my taste it is an excellent view of the bigger picture and we will be very lucky to survive this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kCS6Cy0dw)
I read this and wonder aloud "how can my country (the U.S.A.) do this?" Yes, my country - our country - provide the massacre weapons to this genocidal Zionist regime? How do we live with ourselves? What lies must the powers that be tell themselves to justify their support and welcoming of the genocidal maniac Nentanyahu into our Congress and applaud him like he is some kind of God speaking truth when all he gives them are lies so they will continue to provide the genocidal weapons and warships? Shamed and angry is how I feel.
Anyone who cannot see this as unforgivable evil has lost their soul. They are like rabid dogs who will not stop until they are destroyed either by the ravages of their sickness or the hand of humanity putting them down like any caring person would do for a terminally ill animal. How can anybody justify this? The Western Countries and governments have truly lost their souls to allow this to continue.
We absolutely have to move from pain to anger, from anger to reaction, from reaction to solution, and from solution to action. This must be done! Whether we are working or on vacation.
The journey of an empath through this world ain’t easy. Seems like we just speak to and encourage each other amid the never ending storm across time. I still feel though. I know it matters. The psychic energy. If Satan owns this world, don’t let him own the others. God bless all the children of the light.
A sow has the same genetic make up as a woman, though in a slightly different arrangement yet we confine the former to birthing crates til she drops dead. A monkey has the same range of emotions as a human yet we confine the former to research labs and drill electrodes into their brains.
Regardless of the answer, we have to stop being monsters, and it needs to start with the most outrageous atrocities we are committing against our own species.
All I said was everyone is deserving of compassion. If you feel you can ‘tacticly’ control events and stop genocides and/or vivisection by focusing on them- why haven’t you done it yet?
Similar things were happening in Eastern Ukraine for eight long years and happen still, until Russian "aggressors" decided to intervene. It's amazing how the rest of Ukraine could care less and often cheered.
Thank you so much, Caitlin, for naming what we are all in danger of losing as we relentlessly witness in shock the seemingly endless horror, and the helplessness to stop, the truly unspeakable suffering of our brothers and sisters in Gaza/Palestine. Naming the danger and also the remedy, because having "wide open hearts full of compassion" along with the equally fully human anger and outrage, is the hard inner work of love that feeds all effective actions that can and will stop these malevolent forces!
"Do not let them harden you."
"It is safe to feel."
"The victims deserve our sorrow. We deserve to have wide open hearts full of compassion. And the monsters who are doing this absolutely do not deserve to take it away from us."
"It wasn’t “another massacre” for the people who were there. "
This sentence sums it all up for me. There is never "another massacre". It's THE massacre and THE cause of suffering right here and right now. I'm tired of hearing those in the West say "it's the same old thing--just a genocide." This immoral experience cannot be diluted and numbed down into acceptable pieces. The thought of what we're doing must always sting--and sting harshly. We can't ever forget the horrors we've allowed to happen in our names. We can't ever forget those who would gladly lead us into this genocide of civilians, either. We must remember to turn them over to the ICC for the war criminals that they are.
I picture my dad way back when, dying in hospital of lung cancer complications, experiencing the profound pit of loss in my heart as I watched him leave us. But at least he seemed peaceful, the hospital room was clean, the staff compassionate, the atmosphere appropriately solemn. Then I try to imagine the alternative: instead of the placid face of the kind, just, loving man to whom I'll always be grateful, there lies on a filthy floor, a plastic bag of carnage,bloody human meat that used to be him. And it kindles just a bit of the sorrow and outrage that we need to sustain to realize that Israel must go, Zionism must be eliminated from the face of this planet. ASAP
Vin LoPresti, I am with you. You have expressed what I feel but cannot put into words.
I feel the same way, Indu. Vin LoPresti worded it so well and so powerfully. It is all so horrific and terrible. It sickens me that my country, the USA, still continues to send our tax dollars to Israel and fund this genocide and these atrocities. When Americans have protested this disgusting use of funding which should instead be used to help people in need, they have been met with brutality and violence from the police, in many cases. Indeed, as Vin LoPresti said, "Israel must go" and "Zionism must be eliminated."
The strike is the only weapon that might stop this. The west needs to strike its masters, and every other nation in the world needs to strike the west.
It will hurt like holy crap. It is the only way.
5,000 screaming protesters outside the capital while the gore-encrusted psychopath inside gets 58 standing ovations in 52 minutes from the traitors who claim to represent those protesters. Our stupid signs are worth every bit as much as our stupid votes.
Strike.
We are out of alternatives, we are out of time: STRIKE
Not a strike. A goddamned revolution.
BUT who is going to start the revolution?
As you now dear Gypsy I lived in the US for 23yrs.
Hi Jenny
I’m hoping that something gets brewing during the Dem convention in Chicago.
I want THIS one to put 1968’s to shame!
Dear Gypsy. In my own opinion this will be a NOTHING convention. The Democrats are running scared. Will it happen?
Will the US elections happen?
Hi Jenny
There was a certain gentleman from Russia who made several actual predictions about specific events. If anyone here could help me out with his name, much appreciated.
Anyways Jenny, this man stated that there won’t be a US election in ‘24 because there won’t BE a US.
We’ll see, I guess. Truthfully the world would be better off without us.
Gypsy................I was shut down from substack for 4hrs.
I wish I could remember the name. He was employed by the Russian noblliy.
Rasputin
I think there will be a US but after??????????
Well said.
as long as strikes are voluntary for participants and do not violate the rights of others, I can support that.
However most of what we know as strikes are required and determined by a union where one has no choice on even whether to be a member or not - other than quitting the job
Our government should all be sent to The Hague , what criminals we’ve become in support of crazy people of Israel and its WW11 all over again instead of Germans it’s now Israelis , the world has to get rid of the name of Israel off the map and restore Palestine before we get into WW111 these Israelis have no soul they are a menace to the whole world and shame on the United States for being a part of this !!
At this point, if someone is still in "Israel" they are a murdering monster. They are staying by choice, and revel in the blood.
There are a few notable exceptions, like Gideon Levy and Amira Haas (not sure if she is still in Israel).
extraction of israelis that have come to oppose the state of israel and just like palestinians risk to be taken hostage and used as human shields might be part of the resistance actions. (alas, i suspect it is a quite doable quantity.)
NOT all Israeli's ....Zionists.
No self-respecting person of Jewish faith would ever dare even to dream moving to Occupied Palestine and settle there under these conditions ...
I think good people are fooled into the narrative that Gaza is filled with 2 million terrorists bent on killing Jews because of ‘ radical Islam ’. I’m sure the Nazis convinced otherwise good people in Germany that all their problems were caused by Jews. Why can’t we learn that atrocities are ALWAYS justified by lies.
BINGO !!!
Absolute evil can only happen when most of the good people do nothing. And here we are again ...
I think good people are fooled into a narrative that Israel is filled with 9.5M zionists bent on killing Palestinians because of zionism.
According to Norman Finkelstein only 4 percent of the people in Israel want the slaughter to end.This is for all those people who kid themselves that Israelis have any heart.
Heart: The Israelis seem to have no heart nor do their benefactors of the US/western supremacists?
99.9% of Israelis ?
Jenny, over half of the IsraHelli public believes that it’s fine and dandy to sodomize Palestinian “prisoners”.
Gypsy. Israhell. I keep wondering about the Zionists. Are they all anti-gay?
IF so: We will all be obliged to give them what they want.
An iron (heated) rod up their own backsides...who knows they would probably enjoy this.
all zionists are nationalists.
From my personal perspective, nationalist tend to be conservative in many way
Apparently,according to Norman Finkelstein,only 4 percent of people in Israel want the genocide to stop.They are murdering bastards.
Hi Jenny,,
Did your dad run KEGD in In Kalispell MT, about two decades ago?
NO and I am not American..................!
Sorry. A guy named John Stokes ran a really cool radio station there.
Since your not an American ,would you like to tell me where you're from?
Interesting.
Firstly in English names "Stokes" was a very common name..........I am almost positive that they 'stoked' the flames during the Industrial revolution.
I am a music fan and would love to know the Radio Station.
I married a Stokes..it ended badly!
Many thanks for your interest.
Sorry, I have a much darker view of this awful situation the so called rules based international order is in, several people mentioned this recently: it is a fight to the death for both sides and therefore there will be no compromises ... Very close to this opinion is the recent interview with Alastair Crooke (for my taste it is an excellent view of the bigger picture and we will be very lucky to survive this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kCS6Cy0dw)
Well said Majid Khoury! And I agree with you 100%!!
I read this and wonder aloud "how can my country (the U.S.A.) do this?" Yes, my country - our country - provide the massacre weapons to this genocidal Zionist regime? How do we live with ourselves? What lies must the powers that be tell themselves to justify their support and welcoming of the genocidal maniac Nentanyahu into our Congress and applaud him like he is some kind of God speaking truth when all he gives them are lies so they will continue to provide the genocidal weapons and warships? Shamed and angry is how I feel.
Humans say that they are rational but they are not. They are rationalizers, not rational.
Anyone who cannot see this as unforgivable evil has lost their soul. They are like rabid dogs who will not stop until they are destroyed either by the ravages of their sickness or the hand of humanity putting them down like any caring person would do for a terminally ill animal. How can anybody justify this? The Western Countries and governments have truly lost their souls to allow this to continue.
Totally agree. They’re not going to stop this massacre of their own accord, it’s a psychopathic state.
They don’t see it and are not looking. They do what the tv tells them
We absolutely have to move from pain to anger, from anger to reaction, from reaction to solution, and from solution to action. This must be done! Whether we are working or on vacation.
Those who comfort themselves by telling themselves that "this is a long game" ignore the fact that real cats and humans suffer right now.
'Those who comfort themselves by telling themselves that "this is a long game"'
They do? That's too weird.
Humans are true masters at rationalizing.
Those who insist on voting for Kamala say that.
Just what are they hoping to get out of this "long game?" I have no contact with such people.
To avoid having to do something right now.
Blimey! Each time I think "it can't get worse" I'm proven wrong. So now I say it will get worse.
The journey of an empath through this world ain’t easy. Seems like we just speak to and encourage each other amid the never ending storm across time. I still feel though. I know it matters. The psychic energy. If Satan owns this world, don’t let him own the others. God bless all the children of the light.
We were not born for this world.
It is exactly we who were born for this world in times of the greatest need.
A sow has the same genetic make up as a woman, though in a slightly different arrangement yet we confine the former to birthing crates til she drops dead. A monkey has the same range of emotions as a human yet we confine the former to research labs and drill electrodes into their brains.
Are we not 'monsters' too?
Regardless of the answer, we have to stop being monsters, and it needs to start with the most outrageous atrocities we are committing against our own species.
There's no hierarchy of atrocities nor separation between species. How we live and interact is all connected.
is there a need to tacticly prioritise or is the suggestion to first focus on liberating lab-animals?
All I said was everyone is deserving of compassion. If you feel you can ‘tacticly’ control events and stop genocides and/or vivisection by focusing on them- why haven’t you done it yet?
We are.
Similar things were happening in Eastern Ukraine for eight long years and happen still, until Russian "aggressors" decided to intervene. It's amazing how the rest of Ukraine could care less and often cheered.
The rest of Ukraine wanted the tax revenue.
imo, it only served to provoke russia. what the rest of ukraine wanted, did not matter at all.
Thank you so much, Caitlin, for naming what we are all in danger of losing as we relentlessly witness in shock the seemingly endless horror, and the helplessness to stop, the truly unspeakable suffering of our brothers and sisters in Gaza/Palestine. Naming the danger and also the remedy, because having "wide open hearts full of compassion" along with the equally fully human anger and outrage, is the hard inner work of love that feeds all effective actions that can and will stop these malevolent forces!
"Do not let them harden you."
"It is safe to feel."
"The victims deserve our sorrow. We deserve to have wide open hearts full of compassion. And the monsters who are doing this absolutely do not deserve to take it away from us."
Yes, Yes and Yes!
It is a US genocide - Nazi Israelis are “just” the executioners.
Shame on US — eternal shame !!!!
Name and shame the monsters that your elect for Congress but then again their underlying grassroots base is as rotten!
Thank you Caitlin 👏👏👏
"It wasn’t “another massacre” for the people who were there. "
This sentence sums it all up for me. There is never "another massacre". It's THE massacre and THE cause of suffering right here and right now. I'm tired of hearing those in the West say "it's the same old thing--just a genocide." This immoral experience cannot be diluted and numbed down into acceptable pieces. The thought of what we're doing must always sting--and sting harshly. We can't ever forget the horrors we've allowed to happen in our names. We can't ever forget those who would gladly lead us into this genocide of civilians, either. We must remember to turn them over to the ICC for the war criminals that they are.
AMEN !!!