Glad that I have a conscience! I can’t ignore Israel’s utter evil or Biden’s evil action in supporting the genocide of the Palestinians. What corrupt people; Israelis, Biden, US State Dept., US Congress, weapons manufacturers, ignorant supporters, deliberate supporters of the taking of life. Glad that I could never be so morally corrupt.
It's the money. The US government is run by monied interests. American politicians do not support Israel because of the Religion of Judaism - they bow down to Israel because of MONEY - which is the new corrupt religion of our time.
A US government official should NEVER state that he is conducting official government business in his capacity as a religious believer of a specific faith. The US was founded as a secular democracy.
Its these kind of religious cult bekieve that is turning US foreign policy into a giant jihadist agenda.
No they just extort and steal it from every westen allied nation with multiple schemes. The USA give them supplies to make weapons they sell back to the USA then Congress hands them back over to Israel...it's all grift.
What a bunch of mumbo jumbo - with fallacies spread like sprinkles over a Ku Klux Klan atheist cake. No thanks. Maybe you should stay in your cave after all.
Dang this is well reasoned! I hesitate to blame genocidal regimes on anything but slavish greed and power hunger, but “judeo-christian settler colonialism” really explains the ferocity with which these people practice their ethnic cleansing. I think of the Spanish in the Americas as a for instance here.
Che, I get what your saying but it was actually the “enlightened” men coming through the the dark ages that put together a canon of thought for western society that was taken from the traditions of Jewish and Christian thought. They only later subsumed Greco-Roman philosophy, after sanitizing it of its myriad gods and goddesses, into this judeo-christian construct. They never once looked to the Far East for inspiration nor to the global south, but many “scholars” today, stick tot this myth that 2000 years of bigotry has shaped and called culture. And by god, we’ll kill ya if you don’t agree!!!!
Biden himself identifies as a Zionist and was the Democrat most responsible for giving bush jr the authority, without a shred of evidence to support the lies told to justify the mass murderer of innocents in Iraq, making us all complicit in his crimes.
Jon Carver, you write: “85 percent of Biden's cabinet identifies as Jewish”
First, I question that figure. The latest info I could find indicates most cabinet members (8) are Catholic, 5 are Jewish, 2 are (or may be) Hindu. This means 33% of cabinet members are Jewish.
But more importantly, with regard to genocide of Palestinians currently supported by the Biden Administration, the number of Jews in the cabinet is not as important as the number of Zionists. All Jews are not Zionists. (Most Jews are not even Israeli. There are more Jews in the US than in Israel.) The vast majority of Zionists are U.S. Christian evangelicals. Biden, a Catholic, recently reiterated his former claim that he is a Zionist. Zionism, especially Christian Zionism, is the fundamental cause of the genocide in Gaza, not Judaism.
Genocide Joe’s Zionazism is, I suspect, for the $$$.
I was raised Catholic and not only were we not Zios, there didn’t seem to be any love lost between us and the Jews. The nuns had very few good things to say about them.
That's the problem with human chameleons - aka politicians. They'll identify as anything according to the current environment. Anything at all, but human.
Genocide Joe has finally conceded that Amerikkkan support for Israhell is “hurting the image of the US around the world”.
Well DUH. But what the Corpse in Chief REALLY means is that it’s torpedoed his chances for re-election.
He NEEDS my state, Michigan, and with hundreds of thousands of Arab-Americans residing here, he ain’t a-gonna get it! The Arab community here has collectively flipped him the bird.
So terrible! Amerika's image is being hurt! But crickets when it comes to the actual mass murder taking place - all the American bombs dropped on unarmed, non-combatant civilians. Pathetic.
Whoever insisted I should vote for Genocidal Joe - you can GFY, now and forever.
I voted for the Genocidal Zionazi “because he wasn’t Trump” and I could throw myself off a cliff for doing so. Never, ever, will I again vote for the so-called Lesser Evil, in fact I now believe Trump would have been the lesser evil.
I have voted third party many times and will do so for the rest of my life, unless Cori or Rashida runs!
I mean, I knew creepy Uncle Joe was bad - but for Biden to look the other way as a genocide is being committed - I mean, that is some sick dystopia 1984 Orwell shit I never would have predicted in a million years. It's scary shit - what this senile, corrupt fool has done to this country - although one could argue he's just a sock puppet for other corrupt forces at work in DC.
ps: I don't think Trump would have done much of anything different either.
Stealing their land, starving them, depriving them of water and electricity, murdering their relatives before they kill them and denying them travel and passports suffices for you?
Are you for real Mike Lyons!? Aren't you deluding yourself that you can make excuses for the genocide taking place before our eyes - we can even call it a holocaust - and be so blasé and smug about human suffering? Whatever lies are invented, there is no comparison between Hamas resistance and Israel's mass murder. Like Caitlin says " Gaza is deliberately being made uninhabitable". Killing as many as possible, driving the rest to the desert and stealing the land. To what nefarious purposes we don't have to guess.
One good thing to come out of this tragedy is that the West's propaganda machine no longer fools all of the people, all of the time.
Yes, and George Washington never told a lie - and Israelis never bomb hospitals. And Israel never tortures their what? Ten thousand+ Palestinian prisoners who have not had any kind of due process?
I know of one 12 year old palestinian girl who was shot and killed by Israeli check point guard while going to school, because she insulted them after they taunted her. Oh but I guess you're right because she wasn't raped first, because these were decent, honorable men. Tell me you are glad they killed her, as I suspect you are.
some of them are on video braggng about raping Palestinian girls and boys. and last time i checked this latest fabrication about so called mass rape is the same bullshit as the beheaded babies lies.
There were plenty doing raping and more since nakba at least, so your people know how to do that. And maybe even leading the pack, as they must do everything better, don't they, the supremacist scum that they are.
I identify as humanitarian. This slaughter of Palestinians has nothing to do with Hamas but everything to do with a second Nakba - ethnic cleansing by genocide. We will never forgive or forget the Zionists for this crime against humanity.
Aren’t you just so chosen and precious for your blinded by Israeli propagana view? Proud if the genocide this viewpoint created? I stand against zioNazis Israel
Yeah - except the DNA of most of the inhabitants in Israel right now do not come from that part of the planet - their family ancestors came from somewhere else on the planet. So technically - not even their "homeland".
The only reason these people are living there now is because Zionists murdered a lot of Palestinians in 1948. You need to read a few more history books Jon Carver.
"...why should stamp collectors not have their own place? How about chicken farmers?"
As a DomeLord, I'll take over Palestine now & call it "Domeland", a place where I decree that all Palestinians can enjoy and share everything good about life with each other. Jews & others who have discovered it's good to share are also cordially invited. Ha! Ha! If only.
I’d like to be PM of a nation just for artists, Che. If you don’t possess natural artistic ability, you will not be allowed to settle there. Because, ya know, as supremely talented individuals, we will not tolerate lesser beings.
In psychology there are people who are defined as victim abusers. They portray themselves as innocent, blameless and they can even point out their abuser, who victimizes them, and fail to see their own abusive behavior. I think of these people more and more now, the Israeli's, the Jews, who through history have been abused, and badly abused, but now I see them as I described them above. However they are unaware that once victims they have now become the victimizers. No matter the abuse they heap on others they are forever victims which allows them to carry out a genocide, kill babies in incubators yet they remain innocent and unaware of who and what they are. They are forever victims, blameless, innocent of all they do. Gallant was a perfect example of what I am talking about. Yes Hamas's behavior was brutal, and Gallant called them out, but he said all the people of Palestine, the children, women, men who weren't there, who committed no crime, the Palestinians, are abusers, and should be dead, no water, no fuel, no food. It is the mindset of too many and it's sick. They are carrying out this horrendous genocide on innocents while retaining their role as victim. They can kill children, leave babies to die in incubators and feel nothing, since they have become so good at manipulating the truth in their own minds.
Zionism is not Judaism. The Talmud they cite is a perversion of the faith. Jews reject Zionists and everything they stand for. When a Jew tells you he is a Zionist, what he is telling you is that he’s not a Jew.
Interesting. Do they shun the religion of their Prophet Moses and the Torah? The past 2 months have really separated the Jews from the charlatans/Zionists. And the Christians from their charlatans/Zionists. And the Muslims from their charlatans/Zionists.
That depends on what flavor of mainstream and or religious propaganda koolaid one prefers to consume and then imagine they have their finger on the pulse of the truth as writ in emotional stone in their brain stem as trained by popular cultural and referenced by communally reinforced "common knowledge" and their mythology and ideological bent.
The best test taker is only as good (or brainwashed) as the test designers.
You can not describe the outside of a house by staring out one of its windows especially when you have never been outside.. Most of what people belive is utter bull shit but in complete denial that they can be had.. Thus they always are..
Sure - there are plenty of stupid as shit things people believe in. But they do have the right to believe in something - just as Atheists have the right to believe in whatever nihilistic shit they insist is the truth.
The early Romans were tolerant of all faiths, including Atheists. Although Atheism was one of the least liked "religions/beliefs" of Roman times.
The problem I find with many militant skeptic atheists today is they have shit for tolerance, and believe it's of vital importance they proselytize their Atheistic truth - even going so far as smearing people mercilessly with different beliefs- which to me is the same kind of fundamentalistic thinking and arrogance of any religious fanatic. It's black and white thinking with no tolerance or respect for the mystery of life itself - or those, whether they are stupid or not, that may have a different take on life than the Atheist. Atheism itself is an ontological faith - although many militant Atheists will argue it isn't.
I consider myself agnostic as i'm not as arrogant as most of you to think i know the mind of any gods or lack of them...anyone that claims so is usual out to sell you something you don't need to just benefit themselves even if all that is is their obsessive need for confirmation bias. and to force everyone else to their will so they don't have to answer to any challenge.
I'd work on your grammar and spelling first, however, and worry about what others believe later. Or better yet, let others believe what they want, and just work on your grammar.
Excellent, Chaz—It’s a difficult thought to put into one sentence. Thank you for doing it. The lunkheads who attack your grammar don’t know grammar. You used it well.
I hope you understand this because I see it as important.
I think a lot of atheists (like me) were probably brought up with religion and saw it was myth.
I have a lot of problems calling myself an atheist because I believe in something, which is more to do with being the best person I can be without the need of A God etc.
I suppose that a lot of people are just not happy with themselves?
Hi Jenny - I have no problem with Atheists. I have a problem with militant "Daddy complex" - Richard Dawkins' atheists. And I also have a problem with someone trying to pin this ongoing Zionist genocide on Judaism itself.
Thanks for you thoughts. I believe there are many open ontological questions - and the "Why" we are here has not yet been fully resolved (by science or philosophy). My own particular faith however does not believe this "reality" is just some sort of mechanical accident and I believe the mystery of consciousness is much deeper than militant, know-it-all Atheists like Merwood have the courage to acknowledge.
The comments by ret. Major General Eiland are so repugnant I could hardly read them. To see 115 likes at the bottom of his picture is sickening. It is terrifying to realize that we live in a world where someone like that is not confined in some way. "A severe epidemic in Gaza will bring victory closer?
Major General Eiland would have been a good lieutenant for Dr Mengele. I can’t recall more repugnant words from a modern era commander from anywhere. This man who mouthed these words had our unconditional support while he held operational control of a large segment of the Israeli army. God help us please. May we get as far away from men like him and as far away from an Army that promotes and places in high command such a depraved piece of humanity. With our association with men of Eiland’s ilk and the ongoing slaughter of innocent Palestinians, I fear any respect that America had in the Middle East is long gone and rightfully so. We have earned it.
Israel's genocide has reached the boiling point, for all the doubters and deniers out there.
Gaza's health system has collapsed. Disease is rampant, starvation is spreading.
Israel is getting away with mass murder because Genocide Joe is resupplying Israel with bombs and bullets and diplomatic cover.
He -- and he alone -- just vetoed a UN ceasefire order.
I dare anyone to make a case for voting for the "lesser evil."
The lesser evil here would be delivering food, water, and medicine after you have brought untold death, destruction and misery to 2.3 million people, half of whom are children.
I do NOT see Hamas as using traditional tactics of the terrorist.
No more than any other invading military, or paramilitary, or the CIA guerrilla army in the Bay of Pigs for example eh?
Why use the label for these desperate young Palestinian men eh? Surely you agree that they have the moral high ground here? How can they be "terrorists" for chrissake? Apart from their oppressors, who the hell are they terrorizing? No terrorist ever released their hostages? They chopped their fucking heads off! Hamas's released hostages were smiling, shaking the hands of the capturers, and reporting they were treated well, kept in good health, and respected. The tactics of terrorists eh? GMAFB!
Is a prisoner, serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit, by killing his jailer to escape - a "terrorist"? Hell no!
Watching Al Jazeera TV this morning is truly sick making.
The psychopath Netanyahu saying Hamas has two options: Surrender or die!
The sooner Netanyahu meets the same fate as Mussolini - the better it will be for EVERYBODY. And that freak Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant. His war plan - drop 2,000lb bombs on hospitals and refugee camps. On a nation that has zero air defense! There is not even a place in hell bad enough for what this animal of a man deserves.
And the actions of the POTUS where I lived for 41-years, and where my kids live - is just shocking and unconscionable. I am ashamed when NZ people hear my American accent. "It is clear that the Biden regime’s amoral support for Israelis’ bloodlust in Gaza is destabilizing America and hastening the collapse from within that this nation has feared since it declared itself the United States." - Patrick Lawrence.
And watching Genocide Joe with the corrupt Zelensky* on TV in a WA DC Press Conference as I type here just makes one want to scream,
Give this 75-year-old man an AK-47 and I will go and kill these two motherfuckers. And that Jew Victoria Newland, Antony Blinken, John Kirby, Loyd Austin and Jake Sullivan. And the ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker Rishi Sunak, the Limey Yank arse licker! Sorry for the language.
*Ukraine’s President Zelensky Accused of Embezzling Western Aid Money | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
As a New Zealander who hasn’t lived in NZ for 26 years, I’m disgusted by the country’s pretending not to notice genocide being committed right in front of them by the United States of America. That’s right, the weapons supplied en masse every day, the aircraft used to drop bombs and fire missiles serviced and maintained, the satellite imagery supplied, it’s endless. And New Zealand? Nobody gives a fuck.
Not according to the Māori. Being “integrated” into the dominant society that stole your land and destroyed your culture is not “less bad” than death, though the guilty white colonial settlers who benefited really want to think so.
Hello Dennis. I have been to New Zealand. This was about 30yrs ago and I did not think the Maori's were well integrated at all. Mostly they were drunk or high and roaming the streets late at night.
It seems that the fighting for land in the North was worse than the South Island.
When the settlers arrived there they thought they could just 'take' land like any other colonial civilization. The Maori's didn't understand that their lives and land were being usurped. When they did realise there were some pretty awful wars.
Colonialism is diabolical in any shape or form because it never takes in the idea that a country does not belong to them.
I am from a British colonial family and believe me it is the last thing I would have liked to be born into. Unfortunately we cannot undo this apart from re-dispensing the land back to the original people.
I know the Maori's came to New Zealand on canoes however I do not know who was there before them? Maybe they were also guilty of taking land which was not theirs.
This 75-year-old Kiwi was just in hospital at Te Pae Hauorao Ruahine o Tararua.
Attended by doctors and nurses who worked for Te Whatu Ora. Many of them Māori's
And last week I licensed my car at the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
My wife has a PHd in Māori History and Anthropology.
Yes, Māori youth are drunk or high and roaming the streets late at night.
Along with just as many ‘Pākehā’.
The last thing we need is woke academics like you trying to drive a wedge between Māori and ‘Pākehā’. Ruminating over long past injustices is not going to do a damn thing!
Me kii atu au kia kaua nga tangata o nga whare kaata e aki kohatu.
This evil Netanyahu regime are guilty of the most heinous crimes and also the biggest cause of anti-semitism in the world today. I don't believe that at any time in the last 75 years have so many people wanted the destruction and elimination of Israel. Netanyahu is radicalising the world against Israel and maybe sowing the seeds for it's eventual demise. It is just insane.
I have spoken to several people about this and it's as if I was brining news(or more likely fables) from some fictitious country about a fictitious war. Well done media straight out of Nineteen Eighty Four. Dystopia become current reality
It's sickening to many more people in the world now to look at what the IDF and Netanyahu is doing to other human beings. Just who do they think they are ? Do they think they're better human beings ? The answer of course is they are far worse than the poor people of Gaza.
What is going on between Gaza and Israel is nothing but a disgrace to mankind.
Israel has opened the eyes of the world, people who were once "fence sitters" or turned a "blind eye" or otherwise were "indifferent" or could not understand why people hold religious beliefs, beliefs that lead them to believe they are somehow better than those who hold different beliefs, or in fact like me who have no religion at all.
It is of little wonder the world is turning against such barbaric atrocities being perpetrated by Israel, the US and it's proxies.
Is it all a false flag operation to get the Gaza gasfield and the canal head-port from northern Gaza to the Red Sea? Time will tell their true intentions, though it's clear that saving the lives of the hostages isn't the priority at all !!!
It will soon be time to put oct 7th to bed but as we know; no evidence of beheaded babies nor sexual assault and according to Electronic Intifada many if not most of the 800 settler colonists killed by 'friendly fire'. Does anyone know how many were known to be killed by Hamas with video or other evidence?
"Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized." - Robert Lindner
"You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, for in every war they kill you a new way." - Will Rogers
Caitlin, thank you so much for exposing the true face of of the US-Israeli mob and suffering Palestinians. Suggestion. Can you also comment on Hamas' success reported on Quds and Resistance News Telegram Networks? They're censored in the US. Hamas is defeating the IDF every day on the ground. Let's support them!
Caitlin, thank you so much for exposing the true face of of the US-Israeli mob and suffering Palestinians. Suggestion. Can you also comment on Hamas' success reported on Quds and Resistance News Telegram Networks? They're censored in the US. Hamas is defeating the IDF every day on the ground. Let's support them!
Glad that I have a conscience! I can’t ignore Israel’s utter evil or Biden’s evil action in supporting the genocide of the Palestinians. What corrupt people; Israelis, Biden, US State Dept., US Congress, weapons manufacturers, ignorant supporters, deliberate supporters of the taking of life. Glad that I could never be so morally corrupt.
What about all the people who work in the weapons factory's. Maybe they should all walk off the job.
It's the money. The US government is run by monied interests. American politicians do not support Israel because of the Religion of Judaism - they bow down to Israel because of MONEY - which is the new corrupt religion of our time.
Yes I can agree with this mostly.
Hi Jamenta. Money has been the culture of America for many many years. It is now more overt.
They say money is the root of all evil Jenny. I've come to understand that phrase better than ever before.
It’s not just money. They are also zionists.Blinken said it out loud couple months ago.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767997
A US government official should NEVER state that he is conducting official government business in his capacity as a religious believer of a specific faith. The US was founded as a secular democracy.
Its these kind of religious cult bekieve that is turning US foreign policy into a giant jihadist agenda.
What money? Israel’s not a wealthy nation.
No they just extort and steal it from every westen allied nation with multiple schemes. The USA give them supplies to make weapons they sell back to the USA then Congress hands them back over to Israel...it's all grift.
Like fucking hell it isn’t.
They have free health care, free higher education and live VERY goddamned well courtesy of MY tax $$$.
Dude - trust me. It's the money. You need to get out of your cave more often, get some sunshine. Money runs the world these days - not the Pope.
What a bunch of mumbo jumbo - with fallacies spread like sprinkles over a Ku Klux Klan atheist cake. No thanks. Maybe you should stay in your cave after all.
Dang this is well reasoned! I hesitate to blame genocidal regimes on anything but slavish greed and power hunger, but “judeo-christian settler colonialism” really explains the ferocity with which these people practice their ethnic cleansing. I think of the Spanish in the Americas as a for instance here.
Che, I get what your saying but it was actually the “enlightened” men coming through the the dark ages that put together a canon of thought for western society that was taken from the traditions of Jewish and Christian thought. They only later subsumed Greco-Roman philosophy, after sanitizing it of its myriad gods and goddesses, into this judeo-christian construct. They never once looked to the Far East for inspiration nor to the global south, but many “scholars” today, stick tot this myth that 2000 years of bigotry has shaped and called culture. And by god, we’ll kill ya if you don’t agree!!!!
Far East culture and the "global south" also has a long history of human murder.
Hi Che
Yesterday Sandra posted a video in which an IsraHelli man told a Christian American that he had the right to kill him “because you aren’t a Jew” (!!!)
See if you can find it on Caitlin’s previous column.
Biden himself identifies as a Zionist and was the Democrat most responsible for giving bush jr the authority, without a shred of evidence to support the lies told to justify the mass murderer of innocents in Iraq, making us all complicit in his crimes.
Jon Carver, you write: “85 percent of Biden's cabinet identifies as Jewish”
First, I question that figure. The latest info I could find indicates most cabinet members (8) are Catholic, 5 are Jewish, 2 are (or may be) Hindu. This means 33% of cabinet members are Jewish.
But more importantly, with regard to genocide of Palestinians currently supported by the Biden Administration, the number of Jews in the cabinet is not as important as the number of Zionists. All Jews are not Zionists. (Most Jews are not even Israeli. There are more Jews in the US than in Israel.) The vast majority of Zionists are U.S. Christian evangelicals. Biden, a Catholic, recently reiterated his former claim that he is a Zionist. Zionism, especially Christian Zionism, is the fundamental cause of the genocide in Gaza, not Judaism.
Genocide Joe’s Zionazism is, I suspect, for the $$$.
I was raised Catholic and not only were we not Zios, there didn’t seem to be any love lost between us and the Jews. The nuns had very few good things to say about them.
When it comes to shills and sycophants hiding behind religons or ethnicity to get away with it it is par for their course.
Hello Jack. I thought Biden had identified himself as Irish not long ago? He must have a 'split' personality.
Biden like Obama will say whover he is depending on his present audience
That's the problem with human chameleons - aka politicians. They'll identify as anything according to the current environment. Anything at all, but human.
Yes.
Brendan Beehan an Irish playwright said:
I could never have been a politician because I only have one face.
This from CBS Evening News last night:
Genocide Joe has finally conceded that Amerikkkan support for Israhell is “hurting the image of the US around the world”.
Well DUH. But what the Corpse in Chief REALLY means is that it’s torpedoed his chances for re-election.
He NEEDS my state, Michigan, and with hundreds of thousands of Arab-Americans residing here, he ain’t a-gonna get it! The Arab community here has collectively flipped him the bird.
So terrible! Amerika's image is being hurt! But crickets when it comes to the actual mass murder taking place - all the American bombs dropped on unarmed, non-combatant civilians. Pathetic.
Whoever insisted I should vote for Genocidal Joe - you can GFY, now and forever.
Riiiiiiight Jamenta…poor, poor Amerikkka….boo-fucking-hoo!
I voted for the Genocidal Zionazi “because he wasn’t Trump” and I could throw myself off a cliff for doing so. Never, ever, will I again vote for the so-called Lesser Evil, in fact I now believe Trump would have been the lesser evil.
I have voted third party many times and will do so for the rest of my life, unless Cori or Rashida runs!
Well give yourself credit for moving on gypsy!
I mean, I knew creepy Uncle Joe was bad - but for Biden to look the other way as a genocide is being committed - I mean, that is some sick dystopia 1984 Orwell shit I never would have predicted in a million years. It's scary shit - what this senile, corrupt fool has done to this country - although one could argue he's just a sock puppet for other corrupt forces at work in DC.
ps: I don't think Trump would have done much of anything different either.
Yes I heard this today too.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon—ya that is just breathtaking, talk about a creeping zionazi coup. Why you’d almost think this decimation of Gaza were planned in advance!!!
I identify as Jewish. When Hamas surrenders and stops sacrificing its people and slaughtering Jewish civilians we can talk ceasefire
Israel is the Occupier. Who knew? UN voted today 153 nations for ceasefire - I guess genocide isn't as popular as you think Mike Lyons.
Last time I checked there weren't any jews raping Palestinian women or girls
Stealing their land, starving them, depriving them of water and electricity, murdering their relatives before they kill them and denying them travel and passports suffices for you?
Are you for real Mike Lyons!? Aren't you deluding yourself that you can make excuses for the genocide taking place before our eyes - we can even call it a holocaust - and be so blasé and smug about human suffering? Whatever lies are invented, there is no comparison between Hamas resistance and Israel's mass murder. Like Caitlin says " Gaza is deliberately being made uninhabitable". Killing as many as possible, driving the rest to the desert and stealing the land. To what nefarious purposes we don't have to guess.
One good thing to come out of this tragedy is that the West's propaganda machine no longer fools all of the people, all of the time.
Beautifully said. I love how you keep your humanity when responding to ignorant genocide defenders. It’s a lesson I’m trying to learn.
Yes, and George Washington never told a lie - and Israelis never bomb hospitals. And Israel never tortures their what? Ten thousand+ Palestinian prisoners who have not had any kind of due process?
I know of one 12 year old palestinian girl who was shot and killed by Israeli check point guard while going to school, because she insulted them after they taunted her. Oh but I guess you're right because she wasn't raped first, because these were decent, honorable men. Tell me you are glad they killed her, as I suspect you are.
some of them are on video braggng about raping Palestinian girls and boys. and last time i checked this latest fabrication about so called mass rape is the same bullshit as the beheaded babies lies.
Right on Pretzel.
Total fabrications.
Your checking devices require new batteries.
There were plenty doing raping and more since nakba at least, so your people know how to do that. And maybe even leading the pack, as they must do everything better, don't they, the supremacist scum that they are.
You didn't look very hard then. Google the words "sexual assault on Palestinians"
Repeating the Hasbara phony rape propaganda that along with beheaded babies, we know to be false. Doesn't enhance your credibility
Apparently, they DO rape young Palestinian boys in IsraHelli jails, cocksucker.
You buy every Zionist lie they sell you huh..
The propaganda is designed to fool fools and give you moral and intellectual cowards all the excuses you seek.
I identify as humanitarian. This slaughter of Palestinians has nothing to do with Hamas but everything to do with a second Nakba - ethnic cleansing by genocide. We will never forgive or forget the Zionists for this crime against humanity.
Aren’t you just so chosen and precious for your blinded by Israeli propagana view? Proud if the genocide this viewpoint created? I stand against zioNazis Israel
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"I identify as Jewish." - congratulations! The forum is honored to host a Chosen One.
Several Jewish humans post here.
They should probably identify themselves.
Several have, already.
I once ate unleavened bread. So ....
No worries, Jamenta, Syrian (aka “pocket”) bread is unleavened too 😉
lol
Hamas just knocked of the Christian Zionist masks of Islamic hate and bigotry. About time somone punched you people in the face.
Che. It looks pretty certain to me that Israel used Hamas which I understand they have done before.
Hamas did one thing that is irrefutable..Smacked off the masks off the western ziopathics and it's Christians enablers.
Yeah - except the DNA of most of the inhabitants in Israel right now do not come from that part of the planet - their family ancestors came from somewhere else on the planet. So technically - not even their "homeland".
The only reason these people are living there now is because Zionists murdered a lot of Palestinians in 1948. You need to read a few more history books Jon Carver.
Oh - I couldn't tell at all. Mea Culpa!
"...why should stamp collectors not have their own place? How about chicken farmers?"
As a DomeLord, I'll take over Palestine now & call it "Domeland", a place where I decree that all Palestinians can enjoy and share everything good about life with each other. Jews & others who have discovered it's good to share are also cordially invited. Ha! Ha! If only.
Well Dome…if we made up another phony religion that SAYS we can…😁
I’d like to be PM of a nation just for artists, Che. If you don’t possess natural artistic ability, you will not be allowed to settle there. Because, ya know, as supremely talented individuals, we will not tolerate lesser beings.
Sound familiar? 😉
It turns out these Zionists are more deranged than the face of terror, Osama bin Laden, ever was.
Don't you mean Obama bin bush? Bin laden was a cia asset till the day he supposedly died. His name was Tim Osman while here in the USA.
he was a Bin Ladin, supported by his fmaily and the Saudi government.
In psychology there are people who are defined as victim abusers. They portray themselves as innocent, blameless and they can even point out their abuser, who victimizes them, and fail to see their own abusive behavior. I think of these people more and more now, the Israeli's, the Jews, who through history have been abused, and badly abused, but now I see them as I described them above. However they are unaware that once victims they have now become the victimizers. No matter the abuse they heap on others they are forever victims which allows them to carry out a genocide, kill babies in incubators yet they remain innocent and unaware of who and what they are. They are forever victims, blameless, innocent of all they do. Gallant was a perfect example of what I am talking about. Yes Hamas's behavior was brutal, and Gallant called them out, but he said all the people of Palestine, the children, women, men who weren't there, who committed no crime, the Palestinians, are abusers, and should be dead, no water, no fuel, no food. It is the mindset of too many and it's sick. They are carrying out this horrendous genocide on innocents while retaining their role as victim. They can kill children, leave babies to die in incubators and feel nothing, since they have become so good at manipulating the truth in their own minds.
Zionism is not Judaism. The Talmud they cite is a perversion of the faith. Jews reject Zionists and everything they stand for. When a Jew tells you he is a Zionist, what he is telling you is that he’s not a Jew.
Look up true Torah Jews against Zionism
"Most Zionists don't believe that God exists but they do believe he promised them PALESTINE" - Ilan Pappe
Also a Rabbi:
https://youtu.be/gIX368TtOJs?si=HxPTj-yCY47_ksFd
And there are millions of Jews who echo this Rabbi. Which tells me that Zionism is a perversion of Judaism. Prove me wrong.
Interesting. Do they shun the religion of their Prophet Moses and the Torah? The past 2 months have really separated the Jews from the charlatans/Zionists. And the Christians from their charlatans/Zionists. And the Muslims from their charlatans/Zionists.
You have a dim-witted view of Judaism. Similar to the dim-witted view of the Atheist Stalin and his gulag camps.
That depends on what flavor of mainstream and or religious propaganda koolaid one prefers to consume and then imagine they have their finger on the pulse of the truth as writ in emotional stone in their brain stem as trained by popular cultural and referenced by communally reinforced "common knowledge" and their mythology and ideological bent.
The best test taker is only as good (or brainwashed) as the test designers.
You can not describe the outside of a house by staring out one of its windows especially when you have never been outside.. Most of what people belive is utter bull shit but in complete denial that they can be had.. Thus they always are..
Sure - there are plenty of stupid as shit things people believe in. But they do have the right to believe in something - just as Atheists have the right to believe in whatever nihilistic shit they insist is the truth.
The early Romans were tolerant of all faiths, including Atheists. Although Atheism was one of the least liked "religions/beliefs" of Roman times.
The problem I find with many militant skeptic atheists today is they have shit for tolerance, and believe it's of vital importance they proselytize their Atheistic truth - even going so far as smearing people mercilessly with different beliefs- which to me is the same kind of fundamentalistic thinking and arrogance of any religious fanatic. It's black and white thinking with no tolerance or respect for the mystery of life itself - or those, whether they are stupid or not, that may have a different take on life than the Atheist. Atheism itself is an ontological faith - although many militant Atheists will argue it isn't.
I consider myself agnostic as i'm not as arrogant as most of you to think i know the mind of any gods or lack of them...anyone that claims so is usual out to sell you something you don't need to just benefit themselves even if all that is is their obsessive need for confirmation bias. and to force everyone else to their will so they don't have to answer to any challenge.
I'd work on your grammar and spelling first, however, and worry about what others believe later. Or better yet, let others believe what they want, and just work on your grammar.
Excellent, Chaz—It’s a difficult thought to put into one sentence. Thank you for doing it. The lunkheads who attack your grammar don’t know grammar. You used it well.
Jamenta.
I hope you understand this because I see it as important.
I think a lot of atheists (like me) were probably brought up with religion and saw it was myth.
I have a lot of problems calling myself an atheist because I believe in something, which is more to do with being the best person I can be without the need of A God etc.
I suppose that a lot of people are just not happy with themselves?
Hi Jenny - I have no problem with Atheists. I have a problem with militant "Daddy complex" - Richard Dawkins' atheists. And I also have a problem with someone trying to pin this ongoing Zionist genocide on Judaism itself.
Thanks for you thoughts. I believe there are many open ontological questions - and the "Why" we are here has not yet been fully resolved (by science or philosophy). My own particular faith however does not believe this "reality" is just some sort of mechanical accident and I believe the mystery of consciousness is much deeper than militant, know-it-all Atheists like Merwood have the courage to acknowledge.
The comments by ret. Major General Eiland are so repugnant I could hardly read them. To see 115 likes at the bottom of his picture is sickening. It is terrifying to realize that we live in a world where someone like that is not confined in some way. "A severe epidemic in Gaza will bring victory closer?
Major General Eiland would have been a good lieutenant for Dr Mengele. I can’t recall more repugnant words from a modern era commander from anywhere. This man who mouthed these words had our unconditional support while he held operational control of a large segment of the Israeli army. God help us please. May we get as far away from men like him and as far away from an Army that promotes and places in high command such a depraved piece of humanity. With our association with men of Eiland’s ilk and the ongoing slaughter of innocent Palestinians, I fear any respect that America had in the Middle East is long gone and rightfully so. We have earned it.
Israel seems to have learned from the holocaust ONLY how to enact one. Shameful.
Israel's genocide has reached the boiling point, for all the doubters and deniers out there.
Gaza's health system has collapsed. Disease is rampant, starvation is spreading.
Israel is getting away with mass murder because Genocide Joe is resupplying Israel with bombs and bullets and diplomatic cover.
He -- and he alone -- just vetoed a UN ceasefire order.
I dare anyone to make a case for voting for the "lesser evil."
The lesser evil here would be delivering food, water, and medicine after you have brought untold death, destruction and misery to 2.3 million people, half of whom are children.
Yes. I have had Typhoid Fever and I can tell you without treatment these people will die.
Cholera/diptheria will come again.
Yes and it's going to be hell. Polio. Yellow Fever. Dissentry.
Israel is deliberately, methodically targeting intellectuals.
Shades of the Khmer Rouge
No kidding. :(
I do NOT see Hamas as using traditional tactics of the terrorist.
No more than any other invading military, or paramilitary, or the CIA guerrilla army in the Bay of Pigs for example eh?
Why use the label for these desperate young Palestinian men eh? Surely you agree that they have the moral high ground here? How can they be "terrorists" for chrissake? Apart from their oppressors, who the hell are they terrorizing? No terrorist ever released their hostages? They chopped their fucking heads off! Hamas's released hostages were smiling, shaking the hands of the capturers, and reporting they were treated well, kept in good health, and respected. The tactics of terrorists eh? GMAFB!
Is a prisoner, serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit, by killing his jailer to escape - a "terrorist"? Hell no!
Watching Al Jazeera TV this morning is truly sick making.
The psychopath Netanyahu saying Hamas has two options: Surrender or die!
As if the IDF is "winning"! They are not.
"Netanyahu is more likely to fall than Gaza"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1M6c9k8us
"Israel-Hamas war: Ex-Israeli soldier says this government can't defeat Hamas."
This young Israeli soldier gives the World the obvious answer to this conflict.
Knowing how right this IDF soldier is, and how ignored he will be, is fuckin heartbreaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fPtN4hVlFA&t=1s
The sooner Netanyahu meets the same fate as Mussolini - the better it will be for EVERYBODY. And that freak Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant. His war plan - drop 2,000lb bombs on hospitals and refugee camps. On a nation that has zero air defense! There is not even a place in hell bad enough for what this animal of a man deserves.
And the actions of the POTUS where I lived for 41-years, and where my kids live - is just shocking and unconscionable. I am ashamed when NZ people hear my American accent. "It is clear that the Biden regime’s amoral support for Israelis’ bloodlust in Gaza is destabilizing America and hastening the collapse from within that this nation has feared since it declared itself the United States." - Patrick Lawrence.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/12/patrick-lawrence-gaza-confronting-power/
And watching Genocide Joe with the corrupt Zelensky* on TV in a WA DC Press Conference as I type here just makes one want to scream,
Give this 75-year-old man an AK-47 and I will go and kill these two motherfuckers. And that Jew Victoria Newland, Antony Blinken, John Kirby, Loyd Austin and Jake Sullivan. And the ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker Rishi Sunak, the Limey Yank arse licker! Sorry for the language.
*Ukraine’s President Zelensky Accused of Embezzling Western Aid Money | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgT0_Wv6N8o
As a New Zealander who hasn’t lived in NZ for 26 years, I’m disgusted by the country’s pretending not to notice genocide being committed right in front of them by the United States of America. That’s right, the weapons supplied en masse every day, the aircraft used to drop bombs and fire missiles serviced and maintained, the satellite imagery supplied, it’s endless. And New Zealand? Nobody gives a fuck.
NZ h land which was taken away from the Maori's!
I am just reading about the History.
Yep Jenny, but this colonial take-over was pretty mild (?).
Compared to say the genocide of the American Indians.
The Maori are pretty well integrated into Kiwi society.
Could be better of course.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/133423630/who-in-parliament-has-the-mandate-to-represent-mori
Not according to the Māori. Being “integrated” into the dominant society that stole your land and destroyed your culture is not “less bad” than death, though the guilty white colonial settlers who benefited really want to think so.
What a naive, way off base and offensive remark.
Jeano, I live in a mixed Pākehā/Māori community in Palmerston North NZ.
Have many Māori close friends.
In my business I used to employ many Māori workers.
E mihi ana ahau ki nga Pa Maori katoa hei kaumatua
I think I know just a little more than you about this subject.
Your pejorative second sentence is naive and way off base. And offensive.
Take care.
Hello Dennis. I have been to New Zealand. This was about 30yrs ago and I did not think the Maori's were well integrated at all. Mostly they were drunk or high and roaming the streets late at night.
It seems that the fighting for land in the North was worse than the South Island.
When the settlers arrived there they thought they could just 'take' land like any other colonial civilization. The Maori's didn't understand that their lives and land were being usurped. When they did realise there were some pretty awful wars.
Colonialism is diabolical in any shape or form because it never takes in the idea that a country does not belong to them.
I am from a British colonial family and believe me it is the last thing I would have liked to be born into. Unfortunately we cannot undo this apart from re-dispensing the land back to the original people.
I know the Maori's came to New Zealand on canoes however I do not know who was there before them? Maybe they were also guilty of taking land which was not theirs.
I will look it up.
Jenny, 30-years ago was along time ago.
This 75-year-old Kiwi was just in hospital at Te Pae Hauorao Ruahine o Tararua.
Attended by doctors and nurses who worked for Te Whatu Ora. Many of them Māori's
And last week I licensed my car at the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
My wife has a PHd in Māori History and Anthropology.
Yes, Māori youth are drunk or high and roaming the streets late at night.
Along with just as many ‘Pākehā’.
The last thing we need is woke academics like you trying to drive a wedge between Māori and ‘Pākehā’. Ruminating over long past injustices is not going to do a damn thing!
Me kii atu au kia kaua nga tangata o nga whare kaata e aki kohatu.
Incorrect.
Mao Zedong murdered an estimated 45 million Chinese in the space of about 4 years.
I agree with all of this BUT shooting people........NO.
Unfortunately the HRC in the Hague does not try white people. Only Slobadan as far as I know.
It's a defunct organization run by the US and Europe.
Jon I grieve for your lack of insight.
WHITE people: British. Portuguese. Spanish. French. Americans.
WHITE skinned people with a mixture of brownish tints!
It’s shocking how that reality is IGNORED
This evil Netanyahu regime are guilty of the most heinous crimes and also the biggest cause of anti-semitism in the world today. I don't believe that at any time in the last 75 years have so many people wanted the destruction and elimination of Israel. Netanyahu is radicalising the world against Israel and maybe sowing the seeds for it's eventual demise. It is just insane.
I have spoken to several people about this and it's as if I was brining news(or more likely fables) from some fictitious country about a fictitious war. Well done media straight out of Nineteen Eighty Four. Dystopia become current reality
It's sickening to many more people in the world now to look at what the IDF and Netanyahu is doing to other human beings. Just who do they think they are ? Do they think they're better human beings ? The answer of course is they are far worse than the poor people of Gaza.
What is going on between Gaza and Israel is nothing but a disgrace to mankind.
Israel has opened the eyes of the world, people who were once "fence sitters" or turned a "blind eye" or otherwise were "indifferent" or could not understand why people hold religious beliefs, beliefs that lead them to believe they are somehow better than those who hold different beliefs, or in fact like me who have no religion at all.
It is of little wonder the world is turning against such barbaric atrocities being perpetrated by Israel, the US and it's proxies.
Is it all a false flag operation to get the Gaza gasfield and the canal head-port from northern Gaza to the Red Sea? Time will tell their true intentions, though it's clear that saving the lives of the hostages isn't the priority at all !!!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/all-we-are-saying-is-give-peace-a
Oh, they're actually after gas and canal, they have nothing against Palestinians per se. Never mind then - kill those bastards and level the place.
It will soon be time to put oct 7th to bed but as we know; no evidence of beheaded babies nor sexual assault and according to Electronic Intifada many if not most of the 800 settler colonists killed by 'friendly fire'. Does anyone know how many were known to be killed by Hamas with video or other evidence?
"Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized." - Robert Lindner
"You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, for in every war they kill you a new way." - Will Rogers
Caitlin, thank you so much for exposing the true face of of the US-Israeli mob and suffering Palestinians. Suggestion. Can you also comment on Hamas' success reported on Quds and Resistance News Telegram Networks? They're censored in the US. Hamas is defeating the IDF every day on the ground. Let's support them!
Caitlin, thank you so much for exposing the true face of of the US-Israeli mob and suffering Palestinians. Suggestion. Can you also comment on Hamas' success reported on Quds and Resistance News Telegram Networks? They're censored in the US. Hamas is defeating the IDF every day on the ground. Let's support them!