We call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can join the March to Gaza this month.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
At the risk of being seen as cynical, Gruneo, he is American, would still have substantial connections over there in the USA, all over the place and would get a "do not shoot this man" gold pass from TRUMP for some payment or another.
Wouldn't be a Boeing aircraft. That's been done. How about an agreement by Trump for a Roman Catholic Aged Care Home next to the Trump Golf Club overlooking the oil and gas fields on the shores of Gaza? A retirement village for old clergy as they have such places all over world. Now that is a good idea.
The Churches of the world have a lot to answer for in not having made the move en masse to Palestine to object of the crime of the century. After all, Palestine in its heyday featured on a grand scale in the writings of early Christians and as a result contributed to a never-ending revenue generation vehicle for them all.
Well before its change of name, change of human values, change of decency and respect to become what it is today....Israel.
But Contrarian, it WOULDN'T be Israhell that assassinates him - it'd be HAMAS! They'd even dress up in IDF uniforms, use Israeli weapons, get away in Mossad linked vehicles, and joke about in Hebrew - just to create the pretence!
That's HAMAS for you, you see - completely evil and depraved.
And they HATE Christians, unlike Israel who is protecting them from harm in Gaza and West Bank - I hope you haven't fallen for that HAMAS PROPAGANDA that Israel has bombed churches and christian villages?? :o
There's even ample evidence that HAMAS has infiltrated Israeli airfields, to drop the heaviest bombs on Gaza themselves, and they shot the Israeli pilots who tried to stop them to save the civilian lives. It was on a BBC report, probably.
I'm not saying the Israhellis definitely WOULD do it - but I am saying they would definitely DISCUSS doing it in private.
Don't get me wrong - I think it would be a great move. Not as useful as say having a moral US POTUS, UK PM, German Chancellor fx, but no point hoping for miracles at this time.
Absolutely. My original idea when I started this was for the announcement itself to force a change in the dynamics. That hasn't happened, but I'm not stopping asking for what's right.
Great idea Joy, but we all tried so hard to get a similar response from this Pope's predecessor to no avail in circumstances where the current President at that time was a Roman Catholic. His name was Biden and the success of parasitic Israel in the hundred of thousands of deaths during that period can be attributed to Biden's weapon supplies in the US$ billions.
Like the Western governments of UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the churches have no desire to show any Christian values and one day perhaps, we will find out why. But it will be something to do with money, you can count on that. What else could it be?
You took the words from me before I could write them. He's only one man at the head od one religion, when so-called leaders of so many countries are shirking their resposibility towards an occupied country being murderedby a brutal rogue regime and do nothing, even when their own Citizens are protesting the genocide by Israel even to threatening prison for protesting, you know there's something desperately wrong in their governem
interesting idea. But I have heard Catholic priests preaching about Catholic supremacy. The pope MIGHT decide to go to Israel and support Palestine, but only to promote Catholic supremacy. We need to rid the world of the idea that anyone is supreme because of their religion, their skin colour, the language they speak, their gender, their age or any other reason that people decide one group should be in control.
Of course, scientifically he has a point. If 200 years ago all the women and girls had been wiped out entirely, we certainly wouldn't be in the mess we are today! No wars, no WMDs, and definitely no overpopulation, for a start...
Now, if it was the males who were wiped out, women would probably get together, organise, and find some workaround, maybe sleep with an ape or two (TBF, if it was shaved first, many women wouldn't even notice the difference).
And it would start all over again.
However men would probably start wars over the rumour there's a woman being hidden somewhere; create committees to argue whose fault it was, begin a new religion to pray for more women, and needless to say quietly bugger each other senseless while proclaiming homosexuality is illegal and wrong. Why change the winning strategies just because the situation has changed?!?
And get nowhere fast.
Nope. Clearly, all the fault lies with the wimmin. It's just Science, Susan! ;) :D
They only made about 25 episodes in total, each a few minutes long. The first few are a bit rocky, like any new production, especially on a shoe-string budget. Each of them though has something worthwhile to say; and if you can find the time to watch 2 or three a day, they'll pass before you can say "Oh, PLEASE make some more!!".
Or just choose a topic - they did a good Palestine one, naturally, US gun debate etc, and watch those.
Literally the best thing on YT in the first decade, still as relevant today as you mentioned.
Maybe so, but if "Catholic supremacy" is what it would take to get the Pope to go to Gaza, and stop the destruction, and ethnic cleansing, of Palestine, then in the immediate moment, that would be a bargain I, and many others would take. Our work would then commence to accomplish what you and I both hope for, the end to supremacy anywhere, everywhere.
"Catholic supremacy" would not stop Netanyahu. Even if it would, it is no solution at all. The only way to stop Netanyahu is to put him in jail. He is a criminal. The Pope supposedly preaches his own brand of morality. Netanyahu does not care about any brand of morality. He is interested in being a supreme being. And staying out of jail.
That's almost funny; too bad that that Church was never really real to begin with, consider for a moment that according to Judaica law the only way that the image of Christ could be allowed to exist as an idol, would be for it to be displayed as a dead god; example; crucified . Today as it has always been it serves to promote fascism.. It's mythologies are beautiful love stories, but it's all wrapped up in a very toxic reality; so as the world sits on their dreams of happiness listening to the readings of the myth, their lives are devoured by the very predators that own the faithful.
Joy, please tell me even ONE THING good (or effective) that has happened through these "change.org" online petitions.
I'm not asking for much, just ONE simple ACTUAL difference that has been made by ANY 'change.org' online signing petition ever.
Like Slavoj Žižek says in his debate with Jordan Peterson (to paraphrase), "people feel they have done their duty and served their responsibility by recycling coke cans, old paper, etc., but they haven't changed their consumer behavior. In fact, because they feel that they are 'responsible citizens' because of their recycling, they continue their consumption/consumer habits and even increase it as they no longer feel the 'guilt' that has been assuaged by their 'recycling justification'".
Similary, signing these (almost USELESS IMHO) 'online petitions' serves similarly to Salvoj Žižek's analogy - it gives a FALSE SENSE of 'personal agency' or 'doing something to make a positive difference'. In fact, it often works in a NON-INTUITIVE way and may EVEN be counter-productive to creating REAL CHANGE. How? Because all that 'good intentions, anger, emotions, energy, etc.' is channeled AND DIFFUSED by the 'ok, I've signed this on-line petition, I've done my part' thinking that many people subconsciously think (maybe not you, and maybe not everyone).
IMO, such 'ONLINE PETITIONS' serve to DIFFUSE and ameliorate RIGHTEOUS ANGER at the injustice of our systems. REAL ACTION is needed. And these 'online petitions' give the FALSE SENSE of 'feeling good about doing something to make a difference', thus often preventing FURTHER (and better) actions that people SHOULD TAKE (rather than sign online petitions that often result in next to nothing).
maybe these petitions are only signed by people who already go out to protest. (i share your skepticism towards change.org, though). the hypothetical hypothesis that if you don't do these petitions, people signing them as token-resistance would be more inclined to join live protests or organising, seems a bit unlikely (but maybe grounds for a scientific study).
Love how people use 'maybe' to supplant their arguments with hypotheticals (on all sides) to provide narratives/reasons/excuses/justifications to allay their cognitive dissonances.
The Jews and Zionists Don't recognise any catholic pope because they don't believe in Christ. They worship the other guy, so what he new pope says or does means nothing to them.
Think about how many people with clout, money, military power, idol power, whatever kind of power, even just platform power are NOT SPEAKING!! Human kind is so rotten that all these people with lots of millions or even billions wouldn't try something like a mass drone delivery of baby formula, which would get through izraeli air defence, and could save thousands of new lives in Gaza! Why are they silent? Why are they not buying the necessary services to bring relief? Why are they not doing at least a safe PR campaign against the terrorists? It's so easy. - They are that selfish. That egocentric. That ignorant. Just consuming. - Fucck them all!!
This is entirely intentional. It sends a message: "if this is how heavy-handed we are with a harmless old man, just think about what we will do to you...."
Proscribing Palestine Action and arresting anyone voicing support for them is the Streisand Effect on steroids. It’s like they think, “We just have to suppress and censor a bit harder, and then everyone will move on and forget about it”.
"Many people literally cannot believe anyone could be as evil as Israel is, so the true extent of their crimes go unseen."
I think this has been done on purpose. Just when you think Israel can't get any more evil like shooting starving Palestinians coming for food aid, they pull another heinous war crime like putting drugs in the flour they're giving out. They're literally trying to blow our minds and melt our brains down with their evilness. Thank goodness people have created an archive of their war crime videos so we can show them to others (and the ICC and ICJ) to prove it.
Thanks Caitlin for your unwavering commitment to right the wrongs. You are a light shining in the darkness of our time. Please stay strong and on course.
The genocide awareness contest. How long can the legacy media survive on rehashed, grandly disputed BS? It’s happening in real time: The lame media is loyally carrying the water for amateur posers playing at government. As the enemies of the empire slowly get their shit together, the empire has no options for constructing narratives that sound credible outside of pseudo journalists and slick talkers. The growing independent media are outtruthing and outclassing the familiar names that are sinking from the weight of their propaganda. Nobody has a corner of the truth market, but lots of people are learning every hour that the legacy media is reliably peddling lies.
There are too many parasites on this planet, cheering Israel on, making money from the weapons and other military equipment, and sucking up precious resources that should be distributed to all of us. But, no. And they feel superior about all of this.
I've been posting this all over Bluesky with plenty of reposts. Excellent work Caitlan.
"I don't like the far right OR the far left. I like things to stay in the moderate center, where genocide is fine and people's healthcare money is given to cruise missile manufacturers."
The craziest, most moronic, self-satisfied thing I've read concerning Israel/Palestine is "civilians get killed in war. Get over it". In second place is this line about food aid lines: "sure people were killed, but WHO is doing it!" trying to imply Hamas was doing the killing so it could keep the goods.
There have been points in human history when staying silent was equivocal to consent and we are at one of those rare choke points today. There was on old saying that they came for the Jews and we stayed silent because we. are not Jews. The they came for the communists and we stayed silent because we are not communist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to protect me.....
The terrorists (want peace); the defenders of Israel, with the most moral military in history, wants war. War is peace. 1984.
It may come to this absurdity: the only thing to stop the genocide is for Daddy Trump to get so pissed at the obnoxious Netanyahu, that he decides to show him who "has the cards" and stops delivering weapons, or threatens to in an effective way. It may take the meglamania of a Trump to stop the genocidal evil of a Netanyahu.
I am not saying this WILL happen, but if we try to imagine what might stop Netanyahu, one of the few narratives that is possible is that he will be so Trumplike that he will anger Trump to the point of shutting him off and negotiating directly with Hamas, as he already has shown he is willing to do. It's unlikely but conceivable. I can't think of any other ways that appear possible to stop the madness.
Trump is looking for a way, after his total failure to bring peace to Ukraine (the destruction is worse than ever), to own the libs by winning the Nobel Peace Prize which if he stopped Israel, he would likely win.
If this unlikely but possible turn of events were to happen, we might see, after all, a Trump Gaza Tower in the rebuilt Gaza City, a gift from Hamas for standing up to the Bibi bully.
It's a fantasy that is based on the meglamania of both men. Those who live by the sword of bullydom die by the sword of bullydom. If this were to happen (chances: 3%) , I should get the Nobel Peace Prize!
Present evidence or that allegation. You cannot predict the future with unsupported assumptions. There is no evidence Epstein was a MOssad asset, as he was "too famous" for that role.
Furthermore, MOssad has a powerful motive to get rid of Netanyahu, who blamed them for the intelligence failure (IMHO, the imminent attack was known but allowed as pretext for destroying Gaza) on Oct 7: 'fter the October 7 Hamas attacks, Netanyahu publicly blamed Israel’s intelligence agencies, including Mossad and Shin Bet, for failing to detect the operation. Specifically, he said:
“All the security services, including the head of military intelligence and the head of Shin Bet, were of the opinion that Hamas was deterred.”
(Netanyahu, October 28, 2023 tweet, later deleted)
Based on that betrayal, if Trump got pissed enough to want to sabotage Netanyahu, he could likely find an ally in MOssad.
The Palestine Action activists arrested for previous acts of vandalism (pre October 2023 BTW - they aren't a new phenonemon) on Elbit factories, and companies associated with Elbit, were acquitted by juries when they explained their rationale. In more recent cases they were expressly forbidden to say in court why they took the action they did and so were found guilty. This is well described in the documentary "To Kill a War Machine" - but you may not be able to view it currently for legal reasons...
And from the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors have dropped charges against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters who assaulted people in Amsterdam due to CCTV footage being “erased”. Absolutely pissweak.
We call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can join the March to Gaza this month.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq
Please sign the petition and share widely
You know the Israelis would murder him too, right Joy?
And then the World's (Western Establishment's) media would scream at the top of their lungs that "Hamas" did it?
This would be the false flag that Zionazis would dream of committing.
At the risk of being seen as cynical, Gruneo, he is American, would still have substantial connections over there in the USA, all over the place and would get a "do not shoot this man" gold pass from TRUMP for some payment or another.
Wouldn't be a Boeing aircraft. That's been done. How about an agreement by Trump for a Roman Catholic Aged Care Home next to the Trump Golf Club overlooking the oil and gas fields on the shores of Gaza? A retirement village for old clergy as they have such places all over world. Now that is a good idea.
The Churches of the world have a lot to answer for in not having made the move en masse to Palestine to object of the crime of the century. After all, Palestine in its heyday featured on a grand scale in the writings of early Christians and as a result contributed to a never-ending revenue generation vehicle for them all.
Well before its change of name, change of human values, change of decency and respect to become what it is today....Israel.
But Contrarian, it WOULDN'T be Israhell that assassinates him - it'd be HAMAS! They'd even dress up in IDF uniforms, use Israeli weapons, get away in Mossad linked vehicles, and joke about in Hebrew - just to create the pretence!
That's HAMAS for you, you see - completely evil and depraved.
And they HATE Christians, unlike Israel who is protecting them from harm in Gaza and West Bank - I hope you haven't fallen for that HAMAS PROPAGANDA that Israel has bombed churches and christian villages?? :o
There's even ample evidence that HAMAS has infiltrated Israeli airfields, to drop the heaviest bombs on Gaza themselves, and they shot the Israeli pilots who tried to stop them to save the civilian lives. It was on a BBC report, probably.
I'm not saying the Israhellis definitely WOULD do it - but I am saying they would definitely DISCUSS doing it in private.
one can prepare for a false flag, i guess. the pope announcing he would do it already would be enough of a statement, though.
Don't get me wrong - I think it would be a great move. Not as useful as say having a moral US POTUS, UK PM, German Chancellor fx, but no point hoping for miracles at this time.
agree, it's mostly checking the box, so none of them can say that 'nobody asked' afterward.
Absolutely. My original idea when I started this was for the announcement itself to force a change in the dynamics. That hasn't happened, but I'm not stopping asking for what's right.
Great idea Joy, but we all tried so hard to get a similar response from this Pope's predecessor to no avail in circumstances where the current President at that time was a Roman Catholic. His name was Biden and the success of parasitic Israel in the hundred of thousands of deaths during that period can be attributed to Biden's weapon supplies in the US$ billions.
Like the Western governments of UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the churches have no desire to show any Christian values and one day perhaps, we will find out why. But it will be something to do with money, you can count on that. What else could it be?
You took the words from me before I could write them. He's only one man at the head od one religion, when so-called leaders of so many countries are shirking their resposibility towards an occupied country being murderedby a brutal rogue regime and do nothing, even when their own Citizens are protesting the genocide by Israel even to threatening prison for protesting, you know there's something desperately wrong in their governem
governments..
And religions, so called “faith”. BS. Oh the hypocrisy!!
interesting idea. But I have heard Catholic priests preaching about Catholic supremacy. The pope MIGHT decide to go to Israel and support Palestine, but only to promote Catholic supremacy. We need to rid the world of the idea that anyone is supreme because of their religion, their skin colour, the language they speak, their gender, their age or any other reason that people decide one group should be in control.
Except corporations, right Susan? Corporations are people too, with special needs.
And Atlanteans too, naturally! They are definitely special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUkW0kWb1x0 - Juice Rap News, 'Immigrants'.
If it isn't immigrants, its women and gays, right??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOQFWGiJqWI&list=RDGOQFWGiJqWI&start_radio=1
Lmao. :'D
Of course, scientifically he has a point. If 200 years ago all the women and girls had been wiped out entirely, we certainly wouldn't be in the mess we are today! No wars, no WMDs, and definitely no overpopulation, for a start...
Logically then, everything is their fault. ;)
no people at all. not even the great white warriors are going to live for 200 years
EGGSSACTLY!
Now, if it was the males who were wiped out, women would probably get together, organise, and find some workaround, maybe sleep with an ape or two (TBF, if it was shaved first, many women wouldn't even notice the difference).
And it would start all over again.
However men would probably start wars over the rumour there's a woman being hidden somewhere; create committees to argue whose fault it was, begin a new religion to pray for more women, and needless to say quietly bugger each other senseless while proclaiming homosexuality is illegal and wrong. Why change the winning strategies just because the situation has changed?!?
And get nowhere fast.
Nope. Clearly, all the fault lies with the wimmin. It's just Science, Susan! ;) :D
Amazing video. Even more amazing is that it was made 9 years ago.
They only made about 25 episodes in total, each a few minutes long. The first few are a bit rocky, like any new production, especially on a shoe-string budget. Each of them though has something worthwhile to say; and if you can find the time to watch 2 or three a day, they'll pass before you can say "Oh, PLEASE make some more!!".
Or just choose a topic - they did a good Palestine one, naturally, US gun debate etc, and watch those.
Literally the best thing on YT in the first decade, still as relevant today as you mentioned.
Maybe so, but if "Catholic supremacy" is what it would take to get the Pope to go to Gaza, and stop the destruction, and ethnic cleansing, of Palestine, then in the immediate moment, that would be a bargain I, and many others would take. Our work would then commence to accomplish what you and I both hope for, the end to supremacy anywhere, everywhere.
"Catholic supremacy" would not stop Netanyahu. Even if it would, it is no solution at all. The only way to stop Netanyahu is to put him in jail. He is a criminal. The Pope supposedly preaches his own brand of morality. Netanyahu does not care about any brand of morality. He is interested in being a supreme being. And staying out of jail.
That's almost funny; too bad that that Church was never really real to begin with, consider for a moment that according to Judaica law the only way that the image of Christ could be allowed to exist as an idol, would be for it to be displayed as a dead god; example; crucified . Today as it has always been it serves to promote fascism.. It's mythologies are beautiful love stories, but it's all wrapped up in a very toxic reality; so as the world sits on their dreams of happiness listening to the readings of the myth, their lives are devoured by the very predators that own the faithful.
Good on you Joy for challenging the Pope as you did the last one!
Joy, please tell me even ONE THING good (or effective) that has happened through these "change.org" online petitions.
I'm not asking for much, just ONE simple ACTUAL difference that has been made by ANY 'change.org' online signing petition ever.
Like Slavoj Žižek says in his debate with Jordan Peterson (to paraphrase), "people feel they have done their duty and served their responsibility by recycling coke cans, old paper, etc., but they haven't changed their consumer behavior. In fact, because they feel that they are 'responsible citizens' because of their recycling, they continue their consumption/consumer habits and even increase it as they no longer feel the 'guilt' that has been assuaged by their 'recycling justification'".
Similary, signing these (almost USELESS IMHO) 'online petitions' serves similarly to Salvoj Žižek's analogy - it gives a FALSE SENSE of 'personal agency' or 'doing something to make a positive difference'. In fact, it often works in a NON-INTUITIVE way and may EVEN be counter-productive to creating REAL CHANGE. How? Because all that 'good intentions, anger, emotions, energy, etc.' is channeled AND DIFFUSED by the 'ok, I've signed this on-line petition, I've done my part' thinking that many people subconsciously think (maybe not you, and maybe not everyone).
IMO, such 'ONLINE PETITIONS' serve to DIFFUSE and ameliorate RIGHTEOUS ANGER at the injustice of our systems. REAL ACTION is needed. And these 'online petitions' give the FALSE SENSE of 'feeling good about doing something to make a difference', thus often preventing FURTHER (and better) actions that people SHOULD TAKE (rather than sign online petitions that often result in next to nothing).
maybe these petitions are only signed by people who already go out to protest. (i share your skepticism towards change.org, though). the hypothetical hypothesis that if you don't do these petitions, people signing them as token-resistance would be more inclined to join live protests or organising, seems a bit unlikely (but maybe grounds for a scientific study).
Love how people use 'maybe' to supplant their arguments with hypotheticals (on all sides) to provide narratives/reasons/excuses/justifications to allay their cognitive dissonances.
Thank you! Joy.
Religion has utterly FAILED to bring peace to humanity. It has led us all astray.
The Jews and Zionists Don't recognise any catholic pope because they don't believe in Christ. They worship the other guy, so what he new pope says or does means nothing to them.
Think about how many people with clout, money, military power, idol power, whatever kind of power, even just platform power are NOT SPEAKING!! Human kind is so rotten that all these people with lots of millions or even billions wouldn't try something like a mass drone delivery of baby formula, which would get through izraeli air defence, and could save thousands of new lives in Gaza! Why are they silent? Why are they not buying the necessary services to bring relief? Why are they not doing at least a safe PR campaign against the terrorists? It's so easy. - They are that selfish. That egocentric. That ignorant. Just consuming. - Fucck them all!!
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-police-arrest-protesters-after-ban-on-palestine-action-goes-into-effect/3622933
Lest anyone still doubt that H.M. Government has no priority other than pleasing its American Master.
Right on schedule:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arrests-83-year-old-priest-backing-palestine-action-and-condemning-israels-genocide-gaza
This is entirely intentional. It sends a message: "if this is how heavy-handed we are with a harmless old man, just think about what we will do to you...."
God save the k8ng, everybody!
I Support Palestine Action. Cancel Terrorist State Israel and Genocide supporters.
Proscribing Palestine Action and arresting anyone voicing support for them is the Streisand Effect on steroids. It’s like they think, “We just have to suppress and censor a bit harder, and then everyone will move on and forget about it”.
"Many people literally cannot believe anyone could be as evil as Israel is, so the true extent of their crimes go unseen."
I think this has been done on purpose. Just when you think Israel can't get any more evil like shooting starving Palestinians coming for food aid, they pull another heinous war crime like putting drugs in the flour they're giving out. They're literally trying to blow our minds and melt our brains down with their evilness. Thank goodness people have created an archive of their war crime videos so we can show them to others (and the ICC and ICJ) to prove it.
Archive of Genocide Video Evidence https://twitter.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1941558732766257415
Thank you for bringing up the narcotics in the flour, TRC. 👍
Thanks Caitlin for your unwavering commitment to right the wrongs. You are a light shining in the darkness of our time. Please stay strong and on course.
The genocide awareness contest. How long can the legacy media survive on rehashed, grandly disputed BS? It’s happening in real time: The lame media is loyally carrying the water for amateur posers playing at government. As the enemies of the empire slowly get their shit together, the empire has no options for constructing narratives that sound credible outside of pseudo journalists and slick talkers. The growing independent media are outtruthing and outclassing the familiar names that are sinking from the weight of their propaganda. Nobody has a corner of the truth market, but lots of people are learning every hour that the legacy media is reliably peddling lies.
There are too many parasites on this planet, cheering Israel on, making money from the weapons and other military equipment, and sucking up precious resources that should be distributed to all of us. But, no. And they feel superior about all of this.
Canadian physician Gabor Mate quoting Gideon Levy: “The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] of the past 20 months is an army of
slaughter like the world has never seen. An army paving the way for
genocide and population transfer … It destroys and takes pride, kills
and preens.” So writes the intrepid Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in a
recent column.
I beg to disagree slightly: It’s gone beyond genocide. It’s an extermination. Or, as the Lancet printed recently, a slaughterhouse.
I've been posting this all over Bluesky with plenty of reposts. Excellent work Caitlan.
"I don't like the far right OR the far left. I like things to stay in the moderate center, where genocide is fine and people's healthcare money is given to cruise missile manufacturers."
Caitlan Johnstone
The craziest, most moronic, self-satisfied thing I've read concerning Israel/Palestine is "civilians get killed in war. Get over it". In second place is this line about food aid lines: "sure people were killed, but WHO is doing it!" trying to imply Hamas was doing the killing so it could keep the goods.
There have been points in human history when staying silent was equivocal to consent and we are at one of those rare choke points today. There was on old saying that they came for the Jews and we stayed silent because we. are not Jews. The they came for the communists and we stayed silent because we are not communist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to protect me.....
the general tendency has been that they come for the communists/socialists first (trade unionists take 2nd place, jews are 3rd).
Sometimes, when you decide not to be silent, you might find that some surprising people agree with you. Like the old man in the produce store.
The terrorists (want peace); the defenders of Israel, with the most moral military in history, wants war. War is peace. 1984.
It may come to this absurdity: the only thing to stop the genocide is for Daddy Trump to get so pissed at the obnoxious Netanyahu, that he decides to show him who "has the cards" and stops delivering weapons, or threatens to in an effective way. It may take the meglamania of a Trump to stop the genocidal evil of a Netanyahu.
I am not saying this WILL happen, but if we try to imagine what might stop Netanyahu, one of the few narratives that is possible is that he will be so Trumplike that he will anger Trump to the point of shutting him off and negotiating directly with Hamas, as he already has shown he is willing to do. It's unlikely but conceivable. I can't think of any other ways that appear possible to stop the madness.
Trump is looking for a way, after his total failure to bring peace to Ukraine (the destruction is worse than ever), to own the libs by winning the Nobel Peace Prize which if he stopped Israel, he would likely win.
If this unlikely but possible turn of events were to happen, we might see, after all, a Trump Gaza Tower in the rebuilt Gaza City, a gift from Hamas for standing up to the Bibi bully.
It is a great dream. Lets hope it becomes reality.
It's a fantasy that is based on the meglamania of both men. Those who live by the sword of bullydom die by the sword of bullydom. If this were to happen (chances: 3%) , I should get the Nobel Peace Prize!
You've bombed considerable fewer people than Obomber did and HE got it - I'd say you should have a great chance!
I have bombed many times but never anyone but myself.
:'D
But then Mossad has the Epstein videos. Trump will do nothing.
Present evidence or that allegation. You cannot predict the future with unsupported assumptions. There is no evidence Epstein was a MOssad asset, as he was "too famous" for that role.
Furthermore, MOssad has a powerful motive to get rid of Netanyahu, who blamed them for the intelligence failure (IMHO, the imminent attack was known but allowed as pretext for destroying Gaza) on Oct 7: 'fter the October 7 Hamas attacks, Netanyahu publicly blamed Israel’s intelligence agencies, including Mossad and Shin Bet, for failing to detect the operation. Specifically, he said:
“All the security services, including the head of military intelligence and the head of Shin Bet, were of the opinion that Hamas was deterred.”
(Netanyahu, October 28, 2023 tweet, later deleted)
Based on that betrayal, if Trump got pissed enough to want to sabotage Netanyahu, he could likely find an ally in MOssad.
I recently learned that Trump plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the USA with UFC competitions at the White House.
As my wife said, it's actually on point.
"What's the best way to show the world what the USA really stands for?"
"A show of brutal, violent, pointless fighting?"
'nuff said.
Those arrests bring to mind incidents that occurred in Ireland during the Iraq war.
The government was allowing Amerikkkan fighter jets to refuel at Shannon Airport; outraged women were rushing the tarmac and taking axes to the jets.
At trial, the women were found Not Guilty because they “acted out of conscience”. Only in Ireland!
I highly doubt the results will be the same in Thinks-It’s-Still-Great Britain.
The Palestine Action activists arrested for previous acts of vandalism (pre October 2023 BTW - they aren't a new phenonemon) on Elbit factories, and companies associated with Elbit, were acquitted by juries when they explained their rationale. In more recent cases they were expressly forbidden to say in court why they took the action they did and so were found guilty. This is well described in the documentary "To Kill a War Machine" - but you may not be able to view it currently for legal reasons...
https://tokillawarmachine.com/
And from the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors have dropped charges against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters who assaulted people in Amsterdam due to CCTV footage being “erased”. Absolutely pissweak.