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Nov 27, 2023·edited Nov 27, 2023

"All that death and destruction, for what? For nothing. It was all pointless." Maybe the point was that munitions companies in the US, Canada and who knows where else made a huge amount of money off these two wars. As happens in every war that the US foments. The people who are governing us have lost sight of everything but money. They don't care about dead children, not Palestinian children, not Ukrainian children and not even Israeli children. Money and power. That is the point of these wars as it is the point of every war.

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"This isn’t a war against Hamas. It’s not a war at all. It’s a military operation to facilitate an ethnic cleansing.

Hamas aren’t the targets, it’s the excuse.

Israel isn’t bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Hamas, Israel is bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Gaza."

Of course. Israel targets schools and hospitals precisely in order to make Gaza uninhabitable and force the Palestinians out or, barring that simply to kill them. In the 19th Century, the US government intentionally slaughtered bison herds in order to force the Plains Indians onto the reaervations.

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It's become so unbelievably HORRIBLE that any sympathy that I may have once had for Israel is drying up like a mud puddle in the Sahara. They made their filthy blood & gore - drenched bed, so they have to lie in it. Butchers. The Evangelicals very likely favor them, but they're the same thick - necked, thick -- skulled know - nothings who think that TFG # 45 is a mixture of Superman & Jesus ( " I like my messiahs to go unpunished " ).

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"The illegal we do immediately; The unconstitutional takes a little longer" ~ Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State under Richard Nixon. Revealed on Wikileaks and why Julian Assange is in Jail

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

— William Casey, CIA director, February 1981(Wikileaks)

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Nov 27, 2023·edited Nov 27, 2023

I came across an article on anti-war.com the day after the assault that people who were surveiling the border reported on numerous occasions that suspicious behavior was going on, but were repeatedly dismissed or ignored,  Hamas obviously took hostages, but the killing of babies was false, raping  women was false,  and Israeli soldiers were told to fire into houses, their target Hamas, but no doubt innocents were also there, hiding out, or hostages also killed along with their abductors, which upped the death toll. I felt this carnage was implemented by Israel since this  scenario just makes the most sense,  but everyone is simply ignoring this possibility and with someone like Netanyahu in charge why wouldn't most see this as the reality of what happened. It makes the most sense. I even felt their reaction from the beginning was they were set on a genocide and felt no qualms about it. The very fact they introduced women, and babies into the picture made me suspicious. I always felt Netanyahu was responsible for the death of Rabin, with his hateful rhetoric, and being hellbent on preventing a two state solution. Rabin's wife blamed him as well. He's up on corruption charges, but I've heard no one until now hold him accountable, and I'm sure he got plenty of help, well, if this is not exactly what Caitlin meant close enough. 

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Craziest thing about it, which is good to show people, is how Hamas was actually created.

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Keep writing.. I don’t know which leadership is more evil, Israel or USA. But I’m so weary of both!

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Thank you for all you do.

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Thank you Caitlin for saying it all loud and clear. It’s a big huge mess. I can’t even wrap my head around the massive killing and how awful the influence the US has and the amount of meddling they have done with their endless war big money making schemes.

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As Caitlin observes, this war isn't about Hamas, it's about Gaza -- the destruction and emptying of a people off their land.

Genocidal Joe is aiding and abetting this horror show.

Act accordingly. Act according to your conscience. Don't let others play mind games with you. Believe what your eyes tell you.

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All these wars are for nothing The people are just fodder for the war mongers and those getting something out of it.

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The right wing extreme Israeli government intentions have been clear as day from the start. The most outrageous part of the whole situation is either the utter stupidity or incompetence or evilness of Joe Biden and his administration. I cannot imagine that they are not fully aware of the true objectives but again they just could be idiots; or NOT!

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Thanks for the info that I thought already had happened. It is the excuse, mass murder. Glad to see people in the streets, but it should be much more.,

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In Ukraine-related news, the Ukrainian TV Channel 1+1 accidentally put out real numbers of KIAs and MIAs: 1,126,652.

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/i-dont-think-it-was-mistake.html

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Genocidal Biden administration is unconditionally supporting two (2) Nazi-dominated governments == a pure US fascism.

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