Hamas is NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s an ARMED RESISTANCE against a brutal apartheid racist occupation!!!!!! The USA, ISRAHELL, the UK, EU, CANADA, AUSTRALIA are TERRORIST SKUMS! And PHUCK Sanders a zi@ 🐀🤮
Very well said. I believed in Sanders to the tune of 4800$ thinking he was our hope. I am a moron and easily fooled. How is it possible I didn't see the real him? Now Rep. Cortez who I will never use the nickname for will try to explain her gloss over genocide. Is there anyone we could trust to do the right thing, I don't see anyone.
Do you oppose his bill to stop arms shipments to Israel? Majority of Dems voted to do that. How can you claim to support Palestine when you trash those working to DEPRIVE Israel of US weapons (which Sanders first proposed 37 yr ago!) to stop the genocide. You seem more aligned with AIPAC than Palestine where Sanders is a hero.
??!!???!!!! do you know how to read what I wrote?? I wrote of a brutal apartheid racist occupation that HELL YES started for sure in 1948 with the NAKBA!!! Which is literally Ethnically cleansing of the Palestinian population from their original territories. And frankly now that you say i said genocide started in 1948, to me ethnically cleansing a population is the first step of a genocide, which never stopped relentlessly for 77 years, slowly but incessantly, always stealing land and more land, killing killing killing killing killing 100s of 1000s of Palestinians all over occupied Palestine, till 2 years ago where these 🐀 🐀🐀🐀 started the apotheosis of the slaughtering in Gaza, a real genocide textbook.
Stfu zi@ ghoul! Your hasbara is done!!!! No one wants all Jews to die, included Hamas!! Got it??????? Real Jews are on the side of Palestinians and are protesting in millions all over the world agaisnt Israhell!! We normal human ppl are agaisnt the terrorist entity of Israhell which is massacring and occupying Palestinians for decades!! Open a real history book and learn smthg instead of spewing trash Zionist propaganda 🤮
And an Israeli official said to nuke Gaza? Does that mean all of Israel wants to nuke Gaza?
"The most recent instance of a senior Hamas official publicly calling for the killing of Jews occurred in July 2019. During a speech at a protest in Gaza, Fathi Hammad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, urged Palestinians worldwide to "attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing."
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This statement drew widespread condemnation from various quarters, including Israeli and Palestinian officials, as well as a U.N. envoy. In response, Hamas distanced itself from Hammad's remarks, stating that they did not represent the movement's official positions and reaffirming that their conflict was with the Israeli occupation and not with Jews or Judaism as a religion. " chatgpt with primary sources
The acceptance of the rights of Jews and the identification of the Zionist project to detroy Palestine, was clearly stated in the (current) 2017 charter. To ignore that and go back to inflammatory statements condemend even by Hamas is total dishonesty or stupidity.
THE STUPID ZIONIST PROPAGANDA STRIKE AGAIN IN MANIPULABLE MINDS JAJA DUE ALL RESPECT THE REAL JEWS BLAME THIS GENOCIDE THE OTHERS ARE MOTHWR FUCKERS THIEVES OF LAND ZIONAZIS WHO ATACK LIKE A STATE AND DEFEND LIKE A RELIGION WHAT A ARROGANT MOTHER FUCKERS AND FASCIST
The thing about Bernie is that he is NOT a Jeremy Corbyn. Never was. Never will be. These guys are NOT two peas in a pod. Jeremy has been willing to put everything on the line to face down the British Establishment. And Jeremy, unlike Bernie, has long been, and is, an adamant and stalwart opponent of the genocide.
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As Caitlin has said, in so many words, is that what we have over here that pass as darlings of the Left are faux progressives. Bernie is a lifelong died-in-the-wool Zionist. Even when he makes some milquetoast objection in the senate to what he presumably takes to be an uncomfortably high visibility genocide on the part of the Israelis, he invariably genuflects first to the Knesset, in just the sort of manner that Caitlin described: basically saying, well, of course, the Israelis had to go in there and murder all those people, because, you know: October 7th. Only maybe they’re overdoing it a little now, so, you know, ease up a bit, guys, will you?
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And now he's getting so much push back from his voters that he has to say something, but it ends up just being political theater, because he really doesn't get just how evil this project is – and always has been – that he has been involved in all these years, and still bloody is!
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Despite what some people on the Left may still imagine, Bernie is NOT going to be the savior of the hour. The fact is that Bernie likes his cushy job in congress, which is why he wouldn't step up the plate in 2016, and he wouldn’t front a real challenge to the Dems and the Republicans – even though more than half the country wanted him to. He said, on the record, that he didn't want to happen to him what happened to Ralph Nader. He didn't want the ostracism from the Establishment.
Don’t forget Jeremy allowed the Labour Party under his leadership to adopt that abominable and fraudulent definition of antisemitism. I tend to think Corby is on the spectrum and can’t handle pressure. He may have good intention but not the emotional resilience to withstand pressure.
Jeremy Corbyn hasn't come out and condemned zionism either. Asked by a reporter if he was an anti-zionist, he refused to answer the question. Subsequently he has been criticized, for not taking a position, unlike Zarah Sultana, who has condemned zionism and stated that she is an anti-zionist. Sounds like the Jeremy of old, new blood needed, I'm afraid. Free free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Being anti-Zionists has worked out fine for some other British politicians of that age group. Galloway comes to mind.
That said, would it surprise anyone to learn that the Zionists had threatened Corbyn's mortal soul? They sure had no qualms about trying to destroy his livelihood, career, and what he once stood for.
Bernie's agenda is to give the illusion that the Democrats are the only choice for the voters to have a voice against the genocide. This is the reason his anti genocide rhetoric is tolerated by his party. Bernie has never taken a step against the machinations of the party. In the 2016 primaries, he said all the right things to expose warmongering Hillary Clinton. Despite overwhelming grassroots support and drawing voters back to the party, Hillary was nominated nonetheless. He instantly developed amnesia about his own criticism of her and enthusiastically supported her nomination. This is what's called an opportunist.
Whether you call it mass murder, mass atrocities, war crimes, or violations of internation law, or genocide (as Bernie waiting until the UN classified it as such, as he long explained while building the movement to stop the genocide/warcrimes, mass slaughter..what counts is action, and he started in 1988 to call for halting arms to Israel and now has gained support of the majority of Democrats in the Senate to vote in favor of the ONE THING that would stop the Israeli genocide in its tracks: take away its weapons. If you don't agree with this, then oppose Sanders who has risked death and political ruin to lead the charge against Israel in the US Congress. Dehumanizing him is of benefit to the Zionist murderers who see him as their chief obstacle to controlling the Congress. Which side are you on:the side working to end support of Israel or the side attacking Sanders and others working to gain a majority to stop the arms shipments? There are only two side: you are either for stoppng the arms or you are not. If you trash Sanders, you trash the man leading the struggle now for 37 yrs to block arms to Israel. You are in effect an AIPAC asset.
If you trash Sanders, here is the company you are keeping, fleas and all:
"Democratic megadonor Haim Saban has publicly referred to Senator Bernie Sanders as a “self-hating Jew” due to Sanders' criticism of Israeli policies. In a September 2023 interview with Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, Saban stated that Sanders is “an Israel-hater” and a “self-hating Jew,” emphasizing that he was willing to be quoted directly on this characterization.
Mondoweiss
This remark aligns with Saban's previous criticisms of Sanders. In 2019, Saban labeled Sanders a “communist” and a “disaster” for the Democratic Party, expressing strong disapproval of Sanders' progressive policies and his stance on Israel.
Jewish Insider
Saban's use of the term “self-hating Jew” is part of a broader rhetorical strategy employed by some pro-Israel advocates to discredit Jewish critics of Israeli government actions. The term is often used to delegitimize dissent within the Jewish community by labeling it as self-loathing, thereby attempting to silence criticism by questioning the critic's Jewish identity or loyalty.
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AIPAC has described Sanders' attempts to block arms sales to Israel as "dangerous"
Attacking the man leading the charge to ban arms shipments to Israel is betrayal of the Palestinian cause. Bernie has been calling for halting arms for 37 yrs (he started in 1988) and recently got a majority of Democrats to vote for stopping arms shipments. Those demonizing him are doing the work of the genocidal forces in hurting the effort to end arms shipments to Israel. There is no spin on this....you either support his bill or you oppose it, like all the Republicans and AIPAC. Which side are you on?
Having said that, however, I take exception to the multiple slurs against me with which you have unnecessarily and inappropriately enriched your rhetoric. Other than having read my brief remarks about Berne Sanders, you don’t know me at all, and yet you accuse me of dehumanizing” Sanders, and of – to summarize the intent of your remarks – “lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas.” Right?
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Because why? Because I criticize Sanders and the Zionists also criticize Sanders? This is your reason for saying that I am lackey of AIPAC? This is simply being childish. You’re trying to tell me that you really cannot understand that, while the Zionists are criticizing Sanders from the political Right of Sanders, I am, however, criticizing him from the political Left? Seriously? You can’t understand this?
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The Zionists want to drag Sanders further to the Right, so they throw shit at him from the Right. And it is shit they throwing at him, by the way. All that stuff they are saying about him is just bullshit. Right? I mean, Haim Saban’s bullshit hasbara, in his September 2023 interview with the Israeli daily’s Yediot Aharonot, where he claims that Sanders is … “an Israel-hater” and a “self-hating Jew” is just nonsense, because Bernie totally supports Israel.
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Finally, after the Israelis spent two years slaughtering 700,000 Palestinians, Bernie is now willing to say the word “genocide”. Why? Because everybody who is to the Left of Genghis Khan is now saying it, and if he doesn’t say it now, he can kiss his senate seat goodbye. That’s not rocket science, is it? And he is willing to say that Netanyahu is a complete jerk and needs to go. This is his big breakthrough? That’s nothing. Everyone says that Netanyahu is a complete jerk and needs to go. Even the Israelis say that, for heaven’s sake.
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What Bernie is not saying is that Zionist Jewish ethno-supremacism is hard-baked into the State of Israel – along with the Apartheid laws of the State of Isarel that allow white European and American colonial settlers to rob and murder Palestinians in the West Bank with impunity [which, BTW, is what actual dehumanization of people looks like, and not just political critique of professional politicians]. Nor is he saying that the State of Israel is a travesty and a criminal institution that violates every international humanitarian law with impunity. Bernie isn’t saying this, because he himself is a dyed-in-the wool Zionist, and because he supports the State of Israel.
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You say: “There are only two sides: you are either for stopping the arms or you are not.” I say to you: there are two types of people in this world, those who believe there are two sides to every issue, and those who don’t.”
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Please don’t be silly. What is this? Kindergarten? “Either you’re for us or you’re against us?” This is what you construe as thoughtful political engagement? If so, then truly you were born to thrive in American politics, because that sort of simplistic ideological duality is the heart and soul of what has allowed the professional political classes in our nation to manipulate the masses and control them down all the years, and is what has brought us all to where we are at this present moment in history.
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You tell me that: “If you trash Sanders... …You are… …an AIPAC asset.” What the fuck is this? Have I fallen through some kind of weird whirligig wormhole in time and space, and I’m now living through a bad remake of The Godfather, with you reprising the role of Michael Coreleone, and I’m to be taken as brother Fredo, going against The Family? As in:
“Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.”
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This is just like the idea that either belong to the “Blue Party” or the “Red Party”. If you’re a member of the Blues, then you spend your time dissing the Red Party people. And if you belong to the Red Party people, then you diss the Blues. And if you diss a Pol from the party you belong to, then you’re not a loyalist, you’re a traitor. For fucks sake! This is the best we’ve got? We really cannot do any better than this?
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Look at what is going on over in France today, for goodness sakes! And I do mean literally today: September 19th 2025. Today, the French put 300,000 people on the streets, and they called a general strike opposing the governments’ austerity policies. They could do that because they actually have a functioning political society that understands how to engage in political debate and discourse without reverting to a kindergarten mentality of “you’re for me or you’re against me.” WTF?
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France has a wide variety of political parties from all across the political spectrum. They have nationalists, communists, socialists, and what-you-ists. Lots of ‘em. When the French get together for family gatherings, usually family members will commonly belong to a different political party of their own choosing. And they debate with each other. They know how to do that without freaking out. They don’t tell each other: “you’re going against the family”. They talk with each other. They listen. They debate. And they’re organized. Bloody organized. They’re able to field 300,000 people in the streets in one day and shut down the economy, and put the necessary pressure on their government to force to give up their efforts to transfer the people’s resources to the already mega-wealthy.
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Abou two hundred and fifty years ago, those guys over in France got their Republic just a few years after we did. Fast forward 250 years more, and all we’ve got to show for our efforts at democracy are two juggernaut parties that, to any observer outside of this nation, look barely indistinguishable from each other, except for a few hotly disputed topics in our culture wars that, apparently, we are willing to fight to the death over. Apart from that, to anybody coming from a functioning political society with a wide spectrum of contested political views, the Dems and the Republicans look indistinguishable from each other. They both equally serve their paymasters, the American ruling classes that are the Corporatists, the Militarists, the Oligarchs, the Tech Bros, the Israel Lobby, and Wall Street. All the rest is mostly just political theater.
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Go into any supermarket in any American city today, and peruse the aisles. You will see dozens different varieties of any given good on offer: cereals, coffee, cookies, toothpaste. You name it, you can find dozens of choices. Go into the voting booth, however, and what do you find? Two choices. That’s it? WTF is this? That’s the best we can do? In every other part of our lives, we’re able to come up with several dozen choices for everything, but in this one area, we are told only two choices are possible. And those two choices – except for the culture wars – are almost indistinguishable. I mean Coke and Pepsi offer more of a choice than the Dems and the Republicans.
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And yes, I get that with Trump’s Nazification of the Republican Party, that’s a considerable re-branding on his part. Bear in mind, however, that, IMHO, it was the Dem’s craven unwillingness to offer a real alternative to the Republicans that gave such momentum to Trump’s takeover of the latter and his grab for the throne. Nevertheless, any viable alternative to a increasingly fascist future for our country surely will require of us a more thoughtful contemplation of political engagement than reverting to an “it is us or them” mentality and “either you are with us or you are against us,” for that is precisely what got us into this mess in the first place.
Caitlin said nothing of the sort. Appended below, after my comments, here, is precisely what she did say. She did not just hurl at Bernie Sanders the slur which you attributed to her – calling him a POS. What help is that? To say such a thing. What is helpful, however, is to precisely analyze his actions and words and to understand clearly what they mean. That is what Catilin has done.
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What she has shown is that Bernie has – ghoulishly, as Caitlin puts it – attributed “blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide.” That, to my mind, is horrific. Profoundly ghoulish. Under Stalin, the families of his victims were billed for the cost of the bullet that was fired into the back of their skulls in the courtyard of the Lubyanka Prison, in Moscow.
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Here we have Stalinism redux. Only now, families of Palestinians are executed en masse and Bernie Sanders rises up on the Senate floor to tell any survivors left to hear him that they have only themselves to blame. That’s ghoulish enough in my book to earn the appellation “ghoulish”, so it is no slur for him to be described as such.
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Then Caitlin goes on to point out that hundreds of IDF troops that were killed on October 7th were enemy troops of occupation that were engaged in the illegal occupation of Gaza, against whom the Palestinian forces, under international law, have the legal right to employ force as a means of resistance. So, for Sanders to categorize these forces of occupation as innocents is, per Caitlin’s analysis. hardly accurate.
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And, as Caitlin points out, Bernie also attributes to the Palestinian forces of resistance, the killing of all those hundreds of people who were actually killed by the IDF, on that day, under the Israelis’ Hanibal directive to kill any of their own people who might be at risk of being taken prisoner. Talk about ghoulish. Can you possibly get any more ghoulish. Well, yes, of course, you can, as the Israelis have proven time and again.
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In this case, however, the ghoulishness of Bernie Sanders stems from his gaslighting the Israelis’ mass murder of their own people on October 7th, wrongly attributing those murders instead to the Palestinians, as a putative justification for the present genocide of 600,000–700,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and the continuing genocide of millions more.
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So, what we are seeing here is ghoulishness-squared, or, more accurately, ghoulishness-cubed: we have the ghoulishness of the Israelis’ mass murder of hundreds of their own people on October 7th, under their Hanibal directive; then we have the ghoulishness of Bernie Sanders gaslighting that ghoulishness by wrongly attributing those killings to the Palestinians; and finally we have Bernie Sanders using that gaslighting as a putative justification for the present genocide of Palestinians.
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That is ghoulishness-cubed in my book. But what we don’t have here, Freezer-Burn, is, we don’t have Caitlin Johnstone calling Bernie a POS. We don’t see her throwing random slurs at him. We don’t see her involving the consequence that you attribute to her, that, in your words: “Bernie should be murdered so that we all have a few good memes to pass around for a few days.” Caitlin said nothing of the sort and does not suggest any such thing. Please do not say such things.
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What I see Caitlin calling for, here, is an end to murder, not an expansion of that crime. And, in the interests of discontinuing the murder of the Palestinians, she is calling Bernie Sanders to be accountable for his words and actions, when they serve to support the continuation of murder rather than interdicting it, which is what needs to be done. That is what is civilized and what is appropriate.
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Here follows the main body of the text of Caitlin’s remarks in her newsletter, which I have copied and pasted below:
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“Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows:
“Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas.
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Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide. He also lumps the hundreds of IDF troops slain in the attack in with “innocent people”, ignores the large percentage of the death toll that would have been killed by Israeli troops under the Hannibal Directive, and babbles about Israel’s “right to defend itself” against an occupied population”.
You have given the perfect response and support to Caitlin's analyses of Bernie Sanders - the pseudo leftie. The type that keeps on giving the status-quo credibility.
Thank you, so much, Indu Abeysekara. That is very kind of you.
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Please allow me to add one thing. All that I have written about Bernie Sanders, I have set forth without any intention of hatred towards him. It is true, nevertheless, that I am displeased at how he has misled well-intentioned people on the left – whether inadvertently or otherwise is beside the point. He has misled them, and he still does so.
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My displeasure at him, however, does not constitute hatred, but simply an attempt to accurately critique his actions and his words in the context of his responsibilities to the public as an elected official. If the critique coming from the public is accurate and focused, and if the politicians can be made to understand that they need to respect the wishes of the voters or be shown the door, there is some possibility, however slight, that they can be house trained. That is, they can be trained to respect the wishes of the voters, rather than the ruling classes.
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As I have written elsewhere, professional politicians are not leaders. They are followers. We must learn how to train them to follow "We, The People," rather than their present paymasters. To do that, we must first learn to understand "the nature of the beast" – their motivations and their inclinations. To achieve that, we cannot take their political performance theater at face value.
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BTW, just for the record: no "dehumanization" is intended here by my use of the term "beast." I trained originally as a Zoologist and I happen to be very, very fond of so-called "beasts." From the smallest little mite up to the greatest creatures of the wide ocean, the beasts of the fields, and the winged creatures of the air, all of these are our beautiful and wonderful companions here on this marvelous planet we call Earth or home.
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It is really too bad that some humans think they are attributing a devaluation to some other humans by calling them "animals." That, IMHO, is a grave error on their part. There are many human beings who would greatly improve their moral and spiritual stature on this Earth if they could only be another animal rather than Home Sapiens – other than "man the (so-called) intelligent;" for the fact is that human beings have a far, far greater moral range than do animals, and that is a considerable problem for some human beings.
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Because of the human capacity for a greater extent of moral range, it is indeed true that some of them can achieve higher moral qualities than those of any animal. It is also true, however, that the same flexibility of moral range in human beings means that a comparable number of human beings can and do achieve a moral stature far below that of any animal – a community among whom no creature has within themselves the moral capacity to achieve such great evil as human beings do when they set their mind to it.
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What is striking to me is that it is so very often – indeed almost invariably – those very human beings who choose to denigrate some group of other human beings as so-called "animals," and who treat them harshly as a consequence, who are very ones who develop such a degree of moral evil that they place themselves far, far lower than the level of basic decency that is so often witnessed and admired within the animal kingdom, by professional observers, and by people who work directly with animals and the care of animals.
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Indeed, it is usually those very human beings who see within one member or another of our animal companions on this planet the same goodness that they look for in themselves and other human beings – and who treat them accordingly with great kindness – who likewise develop the capacity within themselves to elevate their own moral goodness above the level of a mere "animal existence."
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That is a choice given us as a human being, not a birthright. If we want that outcome for ourselves, we must choose it for ourselves, and develop it accordingly. Some humans do. Many do not. Indeed, there are some animals we will meet along our path, who, given the opportunity, show themselves capable of doing a far better job of developing this goodness within themselves than some humans we see or meet along the way.
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I should qualify all of these remarks, of course, as IMHO. This is all just my "two cents", for whatever they are worth. Pardon me. That was a somewhat extemporaneous riff. I hope it is not completely beside the point.
Thank you Sean. It was good to read you. I felt like I was in touch with the dhamma, that I try to live by. Greed, hatred and delusion is what leads humans astray.
Two quotes come to mind after reading Caitlin's post:
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
-British author Gerald Seymour
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
-JFK
All Zionists and politicians just think that trotting out the term "HAMAS" will automatically absolve and justify any Israeli ̶a̶t̶r̶o̶c̶i̶t̶y̶ "response".
After UK group Bob Vylan chanted "Death Death to the IDF" , who are responsible for the murder of 65,000+++ people, they were vilified and cancelled. Why has no country proscribed the IDF as a terrorist organization?
See also: non-violent group Palestine Action, whose support can cost you up to 14 years in jail.
The fact that Bernie remained silent for so long after October 7th, then trotted out the "Israel has a right to defend itself" hasbara, and then solely blames all the problems on Bibi tells you a lot.
AOC's NOV 2024 attack-dog take-down assault on Jill Stein's anti-genocide candidacy, at the behest of the Dem Establishment, was unforgivable. From that moment, it was clear that she has been totally co-opted by the Dem Establishment, and cannot be trusted. No genuinely progressive voter should ever vote for her again. We can do better than these charlatans. We must do better!
Tom, you asked for the links on AOC's attempted take-down of Jill Stein last fall. Her video was intially posted to Instagram in September, IIRC. Here are the links to several media reports on that event, including excerpts from AOCs attack-dog video. Here you go. Have at it.
Debbie, "688000 victims of this genocide" sounds about right at this point, since last I heard the numbers were estimated to be close to 700K. Where are you getting your figures from, BTW? Thanks. Sean.
Thank you, Debbie, that is very helpful. I figured that 700,000 dead in Gaza was about right, so that 680,000 given on the Canary website sounds on the mark. Thank you for directing me to a good source for current accurate estimates.
"What is happening in Gaza is not only a genocide. Is a late stage capitalistic genocide fueled by gentrification.
We all cry out loud when we see our city centres completely submerged by tourist shop, restaurants turned into private equity chains, and apartments becoming Airbnb and hotels.
Well, in Gaza they are doing the feral trial for “rebuilding” something they want.
And let me tell you, we are next. Just like in the “first they came for the communists, but I want communist so…”
English Translation of image here👇🏾
The West's tragic cynicism has given birth to a real estate genocide. Calling the systematic destruction of Gaza City a "ground operation" is an abomination. A myriad of tanks and an incessant air strikes and shelling against a city inhabited by a defenseless population have the sole purpose of demolishing it for subsequent reconstruction, dominated by businessmen. 350,000 inhabitants have already been expelled from Gaza City, an unspecified number have been killed, and a large number of buildings have been demolished. Now, the "cleansing" and "clearing" operation is being completed; in short, it is a genocide, carefully prepared by real estate plans that force the total destruction of the old and useless buildings of Gaza City. The extermination of the Palestinians does not serve Israel's "security" but rather the implementation of a colossal plan for "urban regeneration," for which genocide is one of the conditions. Thus, the worst face of Western capitalism is revealed, combining traditional colonial methods with the greedy pursuit of a real estate financial bubble. The Palestinians, like the entire city of Gaza, in this perspective become an encumbrance to be removed according to the celebration of the method of the physical and moral demolition of a people and its places. We have truly exceeded all limits. They are committing genocide for gentrification: 11 GENTRIFICIDE as an evolution of capitalist horror.
The predator class see themselves separate from the prey. They feel isolated and insolated from the blow back as they have been for decades if not centuries. The useless eaters (hackable human beings) are the frogs in the boiling pot. Slowly but surely it will come to them that the water is cooking them. They use the tactic of divide and conquer to keep the “frogs” fighting amongst themselves so they are distracted from seeing the bigger picture. They’ve studied the human psyche and have become adept at manipulating it such that the boot on the neck translates as your neighbor is your enemy instead of the system that cares not what happens to the crabs in the barrel. They steal and laugh as the psyops after psyops is thrown into the mix keeping the natives restless. They get the biggest laugh of all when these very indoctrinated human resources, sign up and load up to fight their wars of dominion and control. The useless eaters have become so accustomed to their so-called “better way of life” that they lose sight of the fact that they have been manipulated and that this “way of life” will be the ultimate destruction of the planet they depend on. It’s a trick, smoke and mirrors, where the magicians create the illusion that they are there as protectorates when in fact they are capitalistic vampires, sucking the natural life out of everything and everyone they touch.
Bernie Sanders had a moment where he was the center of the universe, and like some tragic figure in the mind of Shakespeare, the would be hero choked on his inability to imagine the day after. His decision to try to continue his schtick, assailing the bad guys and fighting for crumbs for the people, has sealed his legacy as an irrelevant phony.
Democrats Sanders, Obama, Pelosi, Clintons, Biden have ZERO credibility. They are no different than Trump. They always stood with the Nazi-inspired, U.S. Military Industrial Complex and the Endless War policies since the Kennedy Assassinations.
“ . . . we paid a lot of money for this war.” Bezalel Smotrich. So now Israel is entitled to cash in. This statement would be unbelievable if we hadn’t already witnessed nearly two years of the worst that humanity has to offer.
But what's ours is his and what's his is his! If they hadn't wanted a genocide, they'd be able to keep our money. Very costly for them. We will have to give them more money.
Bernie Sanders has always been one big disappointment. He can actually pronounce the word "genocide" now? Good for him. It doesn't make him any less of a Zionist sympathizer, IMO. (And Bernie--you owe me money still from your 2016 grift!)
Who exactly is going to want to buy "real estate" in Gaza? People who don't mind walking on the graves of hundreds of thousands of people? Those ghoulish Zionists really should be rounded up in one place with a high wall around it. And we should lock them in there and keep all food and aid from getting through for two years or more. Turn about's fair play, right?
Never Forget the Gaza Holocaust. One State Palestine. I regret volunteering, being paid staff and being endorsed by the Zionist entity B.S. in Vt.. We should take his homes and turn them into the first Gaza Genocide/Holocaust Museums.
all the American elite politicians and deep state CIA, FBI, Democrats and Republicans, cheering this on and supplying bombs, munitions, targeting information, training, protection, planning and US bombing support are psychopathic Gouls. Real life Psychopaths, not hollywood obviously scarry psychopaths--psychopaths that smile and pretend to be normal and say nice things. What they do shows they are psychopathic.
From K. Klippenstein's article "Today, Donald Trump Jr. summarized the mood of his father’s circle, saying on X: “What is the greatest domestic terror threat facing America: ANTIFA or TRANTIFA?”" In this article he talks about how Trump wants to declare trans people "violent extremists".
"Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described Gaza as a “real estate bonanza”
we paid a lot of money for this war. We need to work out how we share percentages on the land."
There are so many crazy things like this coming out of the insane Trump dictatorship. If only that insanity would stay in the Whitehouse and leave the rest of the world alone. Sadly Trump and his lackeys travel around infecting other parts of the world with their diseases. Maybe a vaccine could be developed against insanity and they could be the first ones to get it.
If there were a vaccine that could keep the insanity from spreading, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. would outlaw it. He doesn't believe in vaccines.
A Zionist is ALWAYS a Zionist. there can be and is no liberal, leftist, Centric, or moderate Zionist, the bottom line is the same Preserve Israel at the expense of the GENTILE World, Zionist are Deadly and Poisonous to All Gentiles.
(*ISRAEL Belongs to "THE WHITE MAN. says Racist JEWISH supremacist ISRAELI Interior Minister ELI YISHAI
Hamas is NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s an ARMED RESISTANCE against a brutal apartheid racist occupation!!!!!! The USA, ISRAHELL, the UK, EU, CANADA, AUSTRALIA are TERRORIST SKUMS! And PHUCK Sanders a zi@ 🐀🤮
Very well said. I believed in Sanders to the tune of 4800$ thinking he was our hope. I am a moron and easily fooled. How is it possible I didn't see the real him? Now Rep. Cortez who I will never use the nickname for will try to explain her gloss over genocide. Is there anyone we could trust to do the right thing, I don't see anyone.
Do you oppose his bill to stop arms shipments to Israel? Majority of Dems voted to do that. How can you claim to support Palestine when you trash those working to DEPRIVE Israel of US weapons (which Sanders first proposed 37 yr ago!) to stop the genocide. You seem more aligned with AIPAC than Palestine where Sanders is a hero.
You are right. The establishment players, play together to win.
Year ya... The genocide started in 1948 ?!?!?!?!?
??!!???!!!! do you know how to read what I wrote?? I wrote of a brutal apartheid racist occupation that HELL YES started for sure in 1948 with the NAKBA!!! Which is literally Ethnically cleansing of the Palestinian population from their original territories. And frankly now that you say i said genocide started in 1948, to me ethnically cleansing a population is the first step of a genocide, which never stopped relentlessly for 77 years, slowly but incessantly, always stealing land and more land, killing killing killing killing killing 100s of 1000s of Palestinians all over occupied Palestine, till 2 years ago where these 🐀 🐀🐀🐀 started the apotheosis of the slaughtering in Gaza, a real genocide textbook.
With all due respect, a "resistance" movement that believe all jews should die???
Stfu zi@ ghoul! Your hasbara is done!!!! No one wants all Jews to die, included Hamas!! Got it??????? Real Jews are on the side of Palestinians and are protesting in millions all over the world agaisnt Israhell!! We normal human ppl are agaisnt the terrorist entity of Israhell which is massacring and occupying Palestinians for decades!! Open a real history book and learn smthg instead of spewing trash Zionist propaganda 🤮
What about "all Palestinians should die " ?
And an Israeli official said to nuke Gaza? Does that mean all of Israel wants to nuke Gaza?
"The most recent instance of a senior Hamas official publicly calling for the killing of Jews occurred in July 2019. During a speech at a protest in Gaza, Fathi Hammad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, urged Palestinians worldwide to "attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing."
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This statement drew widespread condemnation from various quarters, including Israeli and Palestinian officials, as well as a U.N. envoy. In response, Hamas distanced itself from Hammad's remarks, stating that they did not represent the movement's official positions and reaffirming that their conflict was with the Israeli occupation and not with Jews or Judaism as a religion. " chatgpt with primary sources
The acceptance of the rights of Jews and the identification of the Zionist project to detroy Palestine, was clearly stated in the (current) 2017 charter. To ignore that and go back to inflammatory statements condemend even by Hamas is total dishonesty or stupidity.
I think you are referring to what israeli children are taught. That is not true if you speak to Palestinian people.
THE STUPID ZIONIST PROPAGANDA STRIKE AGAIN IN MANIPULABLE MINDS JAJA DUE ALL RESPECT THE REAL JEWS BLAME THIS GENOCIDE THE OTHERS ARE MOTHWR FUCKERS THIEVES OF LAND ZIONAZIS WHO ATACK LIKE A STATE AND DEFEND LIKE A RELIGION WHAT A ARROGANT MOTHER FUCKERS AND FASCIST
Thanks for catching Bernie and holding him to task. Very disappointing but again not that surprising!
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The thing about Bernie is that he is NOT a Jeremy Corbyn. Never was. Never will be. These guys are NOT two peas in a pod. Jeremy has been willing to put everything on the line to face down the British Establishment. And Jeremy, unlike Bernie, has long been, and is, an adamant and stalwart opponent of the genocide.
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As Caitlin has said, in so many words, is that what we have over here that pass as darlings of the Left are faux progressives. Bernie is a lifelong died-in-the-wool Zionist. Even when he makes some milquetoast objection in the senate to what he presumably takes to be an uncomfortably high visibility genocide on the part of the Israelis, he invariably genuflects first to the Knesset, in just the sort of manner that Caitlin described: basically saying, well, of course, the Israelis had to go in there and murder all those people, because, you know: October 7th. Only maybe they’re overdoing it a little now, so, you know, ease up a bit, guys, will you?
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And now he's getting so much push back from his voters that he has to say something, but it ends up just being political theater, because he really doesn't get just how evil this project is – and always has been – that he has been involved in all these years, and still bloody is!
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Despite what some people on the Left may still imagine, Bernie is NOT going to be the savior of the hour. The fact is that Bernie likes his cushy job in congress, which is why he wouldn't step up the plate in 2016, and he wouldn’t front a real challenge to the Dems and the Republicans – even though more than half the country wanted him to. He said, on the record, that he didn't want to happen to him what happened to Ralph Nader. He didn't want the ostracism from the Establishment.
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As I said, NOT a Jeremy Corbyn.
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Don’t forget Jeremy allowed the Labour Party under his leadership to adopt that abominable and fraudulent definition of antisemitism. I tend to think Corby is on the spectrum and can’t handle pressure. He may have good intention but not the emotional resilience to withstand pressure.
Jeremy Corbyn hasn't come out and condemned zionism either. Asked by a reporter if he was an anti-zionist, he refused to answer the question. Subsequently he has been criticized, for not taking a position, unlike Zarah Sultana, who has condemned zionism and stated that she is an anti-zionist. Sounds like the Jeremy of old, new blood needed, I'm afraid. Free free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Being anti-Zionists has worked out fine for some other British politicians of that age group. Galloway comes to mind.
That said, would it surprise anyone to learn that the Zionists had threatened Corbyn's mortal soul? They sure had no qualms about trying to destroy his livelihood, career, and what he once stood for.
Bernie's agenda is to give the illusion that the Democrats are the only choice for the voters to have a voice against the genocide. This is the reason his anti genocide rhetoric is tolerated by his party. Bernie has never taken a step against the machinations of the party. In the 2016 primaries, he said all the right things to expose warmongering Hillary Clinton. Despite overwhelming grassroots support and drawing voters back to the party, Hillary was nominated nonetheless. He instantly developed amnesia about his own criticism of her and enthusiastically supported her nomination. This is what's called an opportunist.
Well said Sean Bodhivajra Scanlan! Thank you!
Whether you call it mass murder, mass atrocities, war crimes, or violations of internation law, or genocide (as Bernie waiting until the UN classified it as such, as he long explained while building the movement to stop the genocide/warcrimes, mass slaughter..what counts is action, and he started in 1988 to call for halting arms to Israel and now has gained support of the majority of Democrats in the Senate to vote in favor of the ONE THING that would stop the Israeli genocide in its tracks: take away its weapons. If you don't agree with this, then oppose Sanders who has risked death and political ruin to lead the charge against Israel in the US Congress. Dehumanizing him is of benefit to the Zionist murderers who see him as their chief obstacle to controlling the Congress. Which side are you on:the side working to end support of Israel or the side attacking Sanders and others working to gain a majority to stop the arms shipments? There are only two side: you are either for stoppng the arms or you are not. If you trash Sanders, you trash the man leading the struggle now for 37 yrs to block arms to Israel. You are in effect an AIPAC asset.
If you trash Sanders, here is the company you are keeping, fleas and all:
"Democratic megadonor Haim Saban has publicly referred to Senator Bernie Sanders as a “self-hating Jew” due to Sanders' criticism of Israeli policies. In a September 2023 interview with Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, Saban stated that Sanders is “an Israel-hater” and a “self-hating Jew,” emphasizing that he was willing to be quoted directly on this characterization.
Mondoweiss
This remark aligns with Saban's previous criticisms of Sanders. In 2019, Saban labeled Sanders a “communist” and a “disaster” for the Democratic Party, expressing strong disapproval of Sanders' progressive policies and his stance on Israel.
Jewish Insider
Saban's use of the term “self-hating Jew” is part of a broader rhetorical strategy employed by some pro-Israel advocates to discredit Jewish critics of Israeli government actions. The term is often used to delegitimize dissent within the Jewish community by labeling it as self-loathing, thereby attempting to silence criticism by questioning the critic's Jewish identity or loyalty.
Wikipedia"
AIPAC has described Sanders' attempts to block arms sales to Israel as "dangerous"
Attacking the man leading the charge to ban arms shipments to Israel is betrayal of the Palestinian cause. Bernie has been calling for halting arms for 37 yrs (he started in 1988) and recently got a majority of Democrats to vote for stopping arms shipments. Those demonizing him are doing the work of the genocidal forces in hurting the effort to end arms shipments to Israel. There is no spin on this....you either support his bill or you oppose it, like all the Republicans and AIPAC. Which side are you on?
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Hi Dale,
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Thank you for your response,
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Having said that, however, I take exception to the multiple slurs against me with which you have unnecessarily and inappropriately enriched your rhetoric. Other than having read my brief remarks about Berne Sanders, you don’t know me at all, and yet you accuse me of dehumanizing” Sanders, and of – to summarize the intent of your remarks – “lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas.” Right?
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Because why? Because I criticize Sanders and the Zionists also criticize Sanders? This is your reason for saying that I am lackey of AIPAC? This is simply being childish. You’re trying to tell me that you really cannot understand that, while the Zionists are criticizing Sanders from the political Right of Sanders, I am, however, criticizing him from the political Left? Seriously? You can’t understand this?
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The Zionists want to drag Sanders further to the Right, so they throw shit at him from the Right. And it is shit they throwing at him, by the way. All that stuff they are saying about him is just bullshit. Right? I mean, Haim Saban’s bullshit hasbara, in his September 2023 interview with the Israeli daily’s Yediot Aharonot, where he claims that Sanders is … “an Israel-hater” and a “self-hating Jew” is just nonsense, because Bernie totally supports Israel.
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Finally, after the Israelis spent two years slaughtering 700,000 Palestinians, Bernie is now willing to say the word “genocide”. Why? Because everybody who is to the Left of Genghis Khan is now saying it, and if he doesn’t say it now, he can kiss his senate seat goodbye. That’s not rocket science, is it? And he is willing to say that Netanyahu is a complete jerk and needs to go. This is his big breakthrough? That’s nothing. Everyone says that Netanyahu is a complete jerk and needs to go. Even the Israelis say that, for heaven’s sake.
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What Bernie is not saying is that Zionist Jewish ethno-supremacism is hard-baked into the State of Israel – along with the Apartheid laws of the State of Isarel that allow white European and American colonial settlers to rob and murder Palestinians in the West Bank with impunity [which, BTW, is what actual dehumanization of people looks like, and not just political critique of professional politicians]. Nor is he saying that the State of Israel is a travesty and a criminal institution that violates every international humanitarian law with impunity. Bernie isn’t saying this, because he himself is a dyed-in-the wool Zionist, and because he supports the State of Israel.
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You say: “There are only two sides: you are either for stopping the arms or you are not.” I say to you: there are two types of people in this world, those who believe there are two sides to every issue, and those who don’t.”
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Please don’t be silly. What is this? Kindergarten? “Either you’re for us or you’re against us?” This is what you construe as thoughtful political engagement? If so, then truly you were born to thrive in American politics, because that sort of simplistic ideological duality is the heart and soul of what has allowed the professional political classes in our nation to manipulate the masses and control them down all the years, and is what has brought us all to where we are at this present moment in history.
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You tell me that: “If you trash Sanders... …You are… …an AIPAC asset.” What the fuck is this? Have I fallen through some kind of weird whirligig wormhole in time and space, and I’m now living through a bad remake of The Godfather, with you reprising the role of Michael Coreleone, and I’m to be taken as brother Fredo, going against The Family? As in:
“Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.”
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This is just like the idea that either belong to the “Blue Party” or the “Red Party”. If you’re a member of the Blues, then you spend your time dissing the Red Party people. And if you belong to the Red Party people, then you diss the Blues. And if you diss a Pol from the party you belong to, then you’re not a loyalist, you’re a traitor. For fucks sake! This is the best we’ve got? We really cannot do any better than this?
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Look at what is going on over in France today, for goodness sakes! And I do mean literally today: September 19th 2025. Today, the French put 300,000 people on the streets, and they called a general strike opposing the governments’ austerity policies. They could do that because they actually have a functioning political society that understands how to engage in political debate and discourse without reverting to a kindergarten mentality of “you’re for me or you’re against me.” WTF?
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France has a wide variety of political parties from all across the political spectrum. They have nationalists, communists, socialists, and what-you-ists. Lots of ‘em. When the French get together for family gatherings, usually family members will commonly belong to a different political party of their own choosing. And they debate with each other. They know how to do that without freaking out. They don’t tell each other: “you’re going against the family”. They talk with each other. They listen. They debate. And they’re organized. Bloody organized. They’re able to field 300,000 people in the streets in one day and shut down the economy, and put the necessary pressure on their government to force to give up their efforts to transfer the people’s resources to the already mega-wealthy.
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Abou two hundred and fifty years ago, those guys over in France got their Republic just a few years after we did. Fast forward 250 years more, and all we’ve got to show for our efforts at democracy are two juggernaut parties that, to any observer outside of this nation, look barely indistinguishable from each other, except for a few hotly disputed topics in our culture wars that, apparently, we are willing to fight to the death over. Apart from that, to anybody coming from a functioning political society with a wide spectrum of contested political views, the Dems and the Republicans look indistinguishable from each other. They both equally serve their paymasters, the American ruling classes that are the Corporatists, the Militarists, the Oligarchs, the Tech Bros, the Israel Lobby, and Wall Street. All the rest is mostly just political theater.
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Go into any supermarket in any American city today, and peruse the aisles. You will see dozens different varieties of any given good on offer: cereals, coffee, cookies, toothpaste. You name it, you can find dozens of choices. Go into the voting booth, however, and what do you find? Two choices. That’s it? WTF is this? That’s the best we can do? In every other part of our lives, we’re able to come up with several dozen choices for everything, but in this one area, we are told only two choices are possible. And those two choices – except for the culture wars – are almost indistinguishable. I mean Coke and Pepsi offer more of a choice than the Dems and the Republicans.
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And yes, I get that with Trump’s Nazification of the Republican Party, that’s a considerable re-branding on his part. Bear in mind, however, that, IMHO, it was the Dem’s craven unwillingness to offer a real alternative to the Republicans that gave such momentum to Trump’s takeover of the latter and his grab for the throne. Nevertheless, any viable alternative to a increasingly fascist future for our country surely will require of us a more thoughtful contemplation of political engagement than reverting to an “it is us or them” mentality and “either you are with us or you are against us,” for that is precisely what got us into this mess in the first place.
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Nonsense, Freezer-Burn.
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Caitlin said nothing of the sort. Appended below, after my comments, here, is precisely what she did say. She did not just hurl at Bernie Sanders the slur which you attributed to her – calling him a POS. What help is that? To say such a thing. What is helpful, however, is to precisely analyze his actions and words and to understand clearly what they mean. That is what Catilin has done.
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What she has shown is that Bernie has – ghoulishly, as Caitlin puts it – attributed “blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide.” That, to my mind, is horrific. Profoundly ghoulish. Under Stalin, the families of his victims were billed for the cost of the bullet that was fired into the back of their skulls in the courtyard of the Lubyanka Prison, in Moscow.
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Here we have Stalinism redux. Only now, families of Palestinians are executed en masse and Bernie Sanders rises up on the Senate floor to tell any survivors left to hear him that they have only themselves to blame. That’s ghoulish enough in my book to earn the appellation “ghoulish”, so it is no slur for him to be described as such.
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Then Caitlin goes on to point out that hundreds of IDF troops that were killed on October 7th were enemy troops of occupation that were engaged in the illegal occupation of Gaza, against whom the Palestinian forces, under international law, have the legal right to employ force as a means of resistance. So, for Sanders to categorize these forces of occupation as innocents is, per Caitlin’s analysis. hardly accurate.
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And, as Caitlin points out, Bernie also attributes to the Palestinian forces of resistance, the killing of all those hundreds of people who were actually killed by the IDF, on that day, under the Israelis’ Hanibal directive to kill any of their own people who might be at risk of being taken prisoner. Talk about ghoulish. Can you possibly get any more ghoulish. Well, yes, of course, you can, as the Israelis have proven time and again.
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In this case, however, the ghoulishness of Bernie Sanders stems from his gaslighting the Israelis’ mass murder of their own people on October 7th, wrongly attributing those murders instead to the Palestinians, as a putative justification for the present genocide of 600,000–700,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and the continuing genocide of millions more.
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So, what we are seeing here is ghoulishness-squared, or, more accurately, ghoulishness-cubed: we have the ghoulishness of the Israelis’ mass murder of hundreds of their own people on October 7th, under their Hanibal directive; then we have the ghoulishness of Bernie Sanders gaslighting that ghoulishness by wrongly attributing those killings to the Palestinians; and finally we have Bernie Sanders using that gaslighting as a putative justification for the present genocide of Palestinians.
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That is ghoulishness-cubed in my book. But what we don’t have here, Freezer-Burn, is, we don’t have Caitlin Johnstone calling Bernie a POS. We don’t see her throwing random slurs at him. We don’t see her involving the consequence that you attribute to her, that, in your words: “Bernie should be murdered so that we all have a few good memes to pass around for a few days.” Caitlin said nothing of the sort and does not suggest any such thing. Please do not say such things.
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What I see Caitlin calling for, here, is an end to murder, not an expansion of that crime. And, in the interests of discontinuing the murder of the Palestinians, she is calling Bernie Sanders to be accountable for his words and actions, when they serve to support the continuation of murder rather than interdicting it, which is what needs to be done. That is what is civilized and what is appropriate.
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Here follows the main body of the text of Caitlin’s remarks in her newsletter, which I have copied and pasted below:
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“Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows:
“Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas.
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Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide. He also lumps the hundreds of IDF troops slain in the attack in with “innocent people”, ignores the large percentage of the death toll that would have been killed by Israeli troops under the Hannibal Directive, and babbles about Israel’s “right to defend itself” against an occupied population”.
👏😇🙏Thank you, Sean Bodhivajra Scanlan.
You have given the perfect response and support to Caitlin's analyses of Bernie Sanders - the pseudo leftie. The type that keeps on giving the status-quo credibility.
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Thank you, so much, Indu Abeysekara. That is very kind of you.
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Please allow me to add one thing. All that I have written about Bernie Sanders, I have set forth without any intention of hatred towards him. It is true, nevertheless, that I am displeased at how he has misled well-intentioned people on the left – whether inadvertently or otherwise is beside the point. He has misled them, and he still does so.
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My displeasure at him, however, does not constitute hatred, but simply an attempt to accurately critique his actions and his words in the context of his responsibilities to the public as an elected official. If the critique coming from the public is accurate and focused, and if the politicians can be made to understand that they need to respect the wishes of the voters or be shown the door, there is some possibility, however slight, that they can be house trained. That is, they can be trained to respect the wishes of the voters, rather than the ruling classes.
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As I have written elsewhere, professional politicians are not leaders. They are followers. We must learn how to train them to follow "We, The People," rather than their present paymasters. To do that, we must first learn to understand "the nature of the beast" – their motivations and their inclinations. To achieve that, we cannot take their political performance theater at face value.
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BTW, just for the record: no "dehumanization" is intended here by my use of the term "beast." I trained originally as a Zoologist and I happen to be very, very fond of so-called "beasts." From the smallest little mite up to the greatest creatures of the wide ocean, the beasts of the fields, and the winged creatures of the air, all of these are our beautiful and wonderful companions here on this marvelous planet we call Earth or home.
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It is really too bad that some humans think they are attributing a devaluation to some other humans by calling them "animals." That, IMHO, is a grave error on their part. There are many human beings who would greatly improve their moral and spiritual stature on this Earth if they could only be another animal rather than Home Sapiens – other than "man the (so-called) intelligent;" for the fact is that human beings have a far, far greater moral range than do animals, and that is a considerable problem for some human beings.
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Because of the human capacity for a greater extent of moral range, it is indeed true that some of them can achieve higher moral qualities than those of any animal. It is also true, however, that the same flexibility of moral range in human beings means that a comparable number of human beings can and do achieve a moral stature far below that of any animal – a community among whom no creature has within themselves the moral capacity to achieve such great evil as human beings do when they set their mind to it.
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What is striking to me is that it is so very often – indeed almost invariably – those very human beings who choose to denigrate some group of other human beings as so-called "animals," and who treat them harshly as a consequence, who are very ones who develop such a degree of moral evil that they place themselves far, far lower than the level of basic decency that is so often witnessed and admired within the animal kingdom, by professional observers, and by people who work directly with animals and the care of animals.
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Indeed, it is usually those very human beings who see within one member or another of our animal companions on this planet the same goodness that they look for in themselves and other human beings – and who treat them accordingly with great kindness – who likewise develop the capacity within themselves to elevate their own moral goodness above the level of a mere "animal existence."
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That is a choice given us as a human being, not a birthright. If we want that outcome for ourselves, we must choose it for ourselves, and develop it accordingly. Some humans do. Many do not. Indeed, there are some animals we will meet along our path, who, given the opportunity, show themselves capable of doing a far better job of developing this goodness within themselves than some humans we see or meet along the way.
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I should qualify all of these remarks, of course, as IMHO. This is all just my "two cents", for whatever they are worth. Pardon me. That was a somewhat extemporaneous riff. I hope it is not completely beside the point.
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Best regards,
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Sean
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Thank you Sean. It was good to read you. I felt like I was in touch with the dhamma, that I try to live by. Greed, hatred and delusion is what leads humans astray.
With metta,
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Definitely not (IMO). The two are very different pieces of shit. IMHO, there is not much of a comparison between Bernie Sanders and Charlie Kirk.
Two quotes come to mind after reading Caitlin's post:
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
-British author Gerald Seymour
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
-JFK
All Zionists and politicians just think that trotting out the term "HAMAS" will automatically absolve and justify any Israeli ̶a̶t̶r̶o̶c̶i̶t̶y̶ "response".
After UK group Bob Vylan chanted "Death Death to the IDF" , who are responsible for the murder of 65,000+++ people, they were vilified and cancelled. Why has no country proscribed the IDF as a terrorist organization?
See also: non-violent group Palestine Action, whose support can cost you up to 14 years in jail.
The fact that Bernie remained silent for so long after October 7th, then trotted out the "Israel has a right to defend itself" hasbara, and then solely blames all the problems on Bibi tells you a lot.
See also: AOC and her pathetic Iron Dome vote
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AOC's NOV 2024 attack-dog take-down assault on Jill Stein's anti-genocide candidacy, at the behest of the Dem Establishment, was unforgivable. From that moment, it was clear that she has been totally co-opted by the Dem Establishment, and cannot be trusted. No genuinely progressive voter should ever vote for her again. We can do better than these charlatans. We must do better!
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Holy shit I was not aware of this either. Do you have a link? "Dem establishment" = MIC warpig Zionist sucker capitalist apologist establishment.
Disclaimer: I voted for Jill Stein in the last 3 elections.
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Glad to hear it. The voting for Jill, obviously.
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Tom, you asked for the links on AOC's attempted take-down of Jill Stein last fall. Her video was intially posted to Instagram in September, IIRC. Here are the links to several media reports on that event, including excerpts from AOCs attack-dog video. Here you go. Have at it.
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https://time.com/7017339/not-serious-jill-stein-aoc-green-party-election-democrats-war/
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https://solidarity-us.org/aoc-boosts-jill-stein-by-attacking-her/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKTIzpFm1Y
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK1VLBV3i2I
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CIAOC is a Zionist Tool Coward. Who votes for this weasel snake?
She's worse than Pelosi cuz she knows how shitty this all is, and she funds it ANYWAY.
Hamas and AntiSemite is their entire bag of tricks.
Holocaust, Hitler, Nazis.
*688000 victims of this genocide.
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Debbie, "688000 victims of this genocide" sounds about right at this point, since last I heard the numbers were estimated to be close to 700K. Where are you getting your figures from, BTW? Thanks. Sean.
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https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/09/12/gaza-death-toll-lancet/
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Thank you, Debbie, that is very helpful. I figured that 700,000 dead in Gaza was about right, so that 680,000 given on the Canary website sounds on the mark. Thank you for directing me to a good source for current accurate estimates.
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Just like trotting out the terms "antisemite" and "bigot" immediately ends all thought in their addled and brainwashed minds.
From: gastroillogica, https://substack.com/@gastroillogica/note/c-156997655
"What is happening in Gaza is not only a genocide. Is a late stage capitalistic genocide fueled by gentrification.
We all cry out loud when we see our city centres completely submerged by tourist shop, restaurants turned into private equity chains, and apartments becoming Airbnb and hotels.
Well, in Gaza they are doing the feral trial for “rebuilding” something they want.
And let me tell you, we are next. Just like in the “first they came for the communists, but I want communist so…”
English Translation of image here👇🏾
The West's tragic cynicism has given birth to a real estate genocide. Calling the systematic destruction of Gaza City a "ground operation" is an abomination. A myriad of tanks and an incessant air strikes and shelling against a city inhabited by a defenseless population have the sole purpose of demolishing it for subsequent reconstruction, dominated by businessmen. 350,000 inhabitants have already been expelled from Gaza City, an unspecified number have been killed, and a large number of buildings have been demolished. Now, the "cleansing" and "clearing" operation is being completed; in short, it is a genocide, carefully prepared by real estate plans that force the total destruction of the old and useless buildings of Gaza City. The extermination of the Palestinians does not serve Israel's "security" but rather the implementation of a colossal plan for "urban regeneration," for which genocide is one of the conditions. Thus, the worst face of Western capitalism is revealed, combining traditional colonial methods with the greedy pursuit of a real estate financial bubble. The Palestinians, like the entire city of Gaza, in this perspective become an encumbrance to be removed according to the celebration of the method of the physical and moral demolition of a people and its places. We have truly exceeded all limits. They are committing genocide for gentrification: 11 GENTRIFICIDE as an evolution of capitalist horror.
The predator class see themselves separate from the prey. They feel isolated and insolated from the blow back as they have been for decades if not centuries. The useless eaters (hackable human beings) are the frogs in the boiling pot. Slowly but surely it will come to them that the water is cooking them. They use the tactic of divide and conquer to keep the “frogs” fighting amongst themselves so they are distracted from seeing the bigger picture. They’ve studied the human psyche and have become adept at manipulating it such that the boot on the neck translates as your neighbor is your enemy instead of the system that cares not what happens to the crabs in the barrel. They steal and laugh as the psyops after psyops is thrown into the mix keeping the natives restless. They get the biggest laugh of all when these very indoctrinated human resources, sign up and load up to fight their wars of dominion and control. The useless eaters have become so accustomed to their so-called “better way of life” that they lose sight of the fact that they have been manipulated and that this “way of life” will be the ultimate destruction of the planet they depend on. It’s a trick, smoke and mirrors, where the magicians create the illusion that they are there as protectorates when in fact they are capitalistic vampires, sucking the natural life out of everything and everyone they touch.
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Well said, Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
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That's it in a nutshell.
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Bernie Sanders had a moment where he was the center of the universe, and like some tragic figure in the mind of Shakespeare, the would be hero choked on his inability to imagine the day after. His decision to try to continue his schtick, assailing the bad guys and fighting for crumbs for the people, has sealed his legacy as an irrelevant phony.
Democrats Sanders, Obama, Pelosi, Clintons, Biden have ZERO credibility. They are no different than Trump. They always stood with the Nazi-inspired, U.S. Military Industrial Complex and the Endless War policies since the Kennedy Assassinations.
Bernie is not even worth talking about anymore. He’s proven over and over to be a front for Zionist propaganda.
It takes a depraved, degenerate bastard to kill a kid in cold blood.
Unfortunately, the world is full of them...
“ . . . we paid a lot of money for this war.” Bezalel Smotrich. So now Israel is entitled to cash in. This statement would be unbelievable if we hadn’t already witnessed nearly two years of the worst that humanity has to offer.
Even more unbelievable considering the U.S. completely funded this atrocity. He didn’t pay for shit.
The US paid.
But what's ours is his and what's his is his! If they hadn't wanted a genocide, they'd be able to keep our money. Very costly for them. We will have to give them more money.
Bernie Sanders has always been one big disappointment. He can actually pronounce the word "genocide" now? Good for him. It doesn't make him any less of a Zionist sympathizer, IMO. (And Bernie--you owe me money still from your 2016 grift!)
Who exactly is going to want to buy "real estate" in Gaza? People who don't mind walking on the graves of hundreds of thousands of people? Those ghoulish Zionists really should be rounded up in one place with a high wall around it. And we should lock them in there and keep all food and aid from getting through for two years or more. Turn about's fair play, right?
I like to think I am a smart informed person who is not easily fooled. I am a fool : (
Caitlin, all I can say about this article is -> I agree with everything you said and loved how you said it 🎯💯❤️🙏
NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE (all the supporters of this Genocide).
FREE PALESTINE, FREE US ALL!
Never Forget the Gaza Holocaust. One State Palestine. I regret volunteering, being paid staff and being endorsed by the Zionist entity B.S. in Vt.. We should take his homes and turn them into the first Gaza Genocide/Holocaust Museums.
RIP Aaron Bushnell. Genocider Zionist Supporters bern. There are D,R, and other Billionare Zionists. Power to the People.
Thank you for that my friend.
all the American elite politicians and deep state CIA, FBI, Democrats and Republicans, cheering this on and supplying bombs, munitions, targeting information, training, protection, planning and US bombing support are psychopathic Gouls. Real life Psychopaths, not hollywood obviously scarry psychopaths--psychopaths that smile and pretend to be normal and say nice things. What they do shows they are psychopathic.
From K. Klippenstein's article "Today, Donald Trump Jr. summarized the mood of his father’s circle, saying on X: “What is the greatest domestic terror threat facing America: ANTIFA or TRANTIFA?”" In this article he talks about how Trump wants to declare trans people "violent extremists".
"Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described Gaza as a “real estate bonanza”
we paid a lot of money for this war. We need to work out how we share percentages on the land."
There are so many crazy things like this coming out of the insane Trump dictatorship. If only that insanity would stay in the Whitehouse and leave the rest of the world alone. Sadly Trump and his lackeys travel around infecting other parts of the world with their diseases. Maybe a vaccine could be developed against insanity and they could be the first ones to get it.
If there were a vaccine that could keep the insanity from spreading, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. would outlaw it. He doesn't believe in vaccines.
hold him down and vaccinate him. He needs it very badly.
He needs it very, very, badly - like urgently - like right this minute! The health of the world is at stake...
Brilliantly said my friend, brilliant.
Excellent piece, Caitlin. The headline alone was worth the price of admission.
A Zionist is ALWAYS a Zionist. there can be and is no liberal, leftist, Centric, or moderate Zionist, the bottom line is the same Preserve Israel at the expense of the GENTILE World, Zionist are Deadly and Poisonous to All Gentiles.
(*ISRAEL Belongs to "THE WHITE MAN. says Racist JEWISH supremacist ISRAELI Interior Minister ELI YISHAI
in April 2023
They're deadly and poisonous to lots of Jews too.
So which room in the White House for Netanyahu? May as well be the Oval Office.