CJ>>"Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire"
For sure 💯! And now, it is OUR responsibility and duty to support the Palestinian cause in whatever ways we can - be it BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), protests, financial aid/charity, more media visibility, engaging others and explaining the false narratives Israel (and the U.S.) have been hiding under, and so many more ways!
Thank you Caitlin for continuing to place this Genocide front-and-center for all to see - it REQUIRES the focus and attention of the whole world!
The Palestinians were colonized by the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th Century. They have been subjected to Israeli invaders since at least 1948.
>>"They have been subjected to Israeli invaders since at least 1948."
Actually much before that CK. In the excellent book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi, he describes how Zionists (from Europe) have been attacking and uprooting Palestinians (including Bedouins, Christians, and even colored Jews) from the region since at least 1917.
Yes, though the collusion was far greater than just the American Empire - it started with the 'League of Nations' which eventually morphed into the UN. The collusion was that of most of the members of the fledgling UN of 1947-48 (when there were just 57-58 members and not many Global South countries had either representation or a say in the matter).
When the British invaded the USA, circa 1817, the Americans repelled them in the famous Battle of 1812. If the British tried to invade, again, the Americans would continue to repel them.
There really is no moral justification for the repeated invasions, anywhere. However, indigenous people have a natural right to self defense and the right to expel unwanted invaders.
Irgun and Haganah terrorists as well as Stern in 1936 massacred entire villages and threaten thousands to leave or die! Same tactics used since then until today.
Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.
Napoleon and the French army left Egypt in 1799, but the French remained in Egypt for another two years, until they finally surrendered to the British on Sept. 2, 1801 turning over, among other things, the prized Rosetta stone.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as “the key to Palestine.”
dennis hanna
p.s. This, of course, does not take into account the superstition, mythology if you "feel" better, of the so-called "Torah." see, including, but not limited to, so-called "Deuteronomy," a Moses story, at Deuteronomy 10:20 etc et.
All good history related to the strategic importance of Palestine.
The discovery of Palestinian petroleum fields made the region even more important for the British Navy that was converting its warships’ boilers to burn raw petroleum instead of coal.
The US and UK fossil fuels companies want to control access to all of the oil/gas fields of the entire Middle East.
The newly (1948) created state of Israel is a US military staging area and listening post for such control.
I wish it took away our ability to hide from ourselves. I still run into people on this platform every day that think all Palestinians are Hamas (including the children) and Hamas is a "death cult." They have convinced themselves that a brown person on a college campus asking the administration to divest from Israel is the same as Osama bin Laden. They somehow manage to believe that Israel is in the right in this. All I can think is that they must curate their media very carefully in favor of confirmation bias.
Ignorance of many Americans is due to the clever propaganda of the Zionists. Bear in mind that Joe Biden publicly declared himself to be a staunch Zionist.
Let’s not bring up the matter of Osama Bin Laden who was an agent of the US government in opposition to the USSR. The Bin Laden family and the Bush family had very close ties in the oil business. That’s a topic for a different discussion.
I’m guessing you know this already, but making sure. Hamas is a group of indigenous people, fighting for freedom and what’s rightfully theirs. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are all righteous groups of freedom fighters. Al Qaeda and ISIS aren’t anywhere close to the same and aren’t allies of any sort.
Indeed, people do find ways to hide from themselves, no matter how starkly the facts stare them in the face. How else could 85 out of 100 US senators vote to continue funding Israel's hideous crimes? And that's just one tiny part of the horrific picture of what we see happening in our country and other Western countries.
For those who still buying the narrative that Hamas is created or funded by Israel. They should double check their source of information again. Hamas never created or funded by Zionist/Israel. It was created by the Palestinian people itself to resist the zionist brutal occupation. Zionist has been occupying Palestinian even way before they illegaly established a state. While Hamas only created in 1987. Zionist try to portray Hamas as terrorist as if they want to make people FORGET, why Hamas was created in the 1st place, to defend themselves, their land, to resist Zionist BRUTAL OCCUPATION. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HAMAS. IT ONLY ABOUT THE BRUTAL OCCUPATION OF ZIONIST FOR AT LEAST 98 years in the land that never belong to them.
Both Hamas and Palestinian has never been a problem to me. But of course they are the problem for their oppresors/the zionist.
Regardless they want to make us believed all Palestinian are Hamas or not, that's not make any different at all for their status as an oppresor, as a colonizer of the PALESTINIAN land.
You're dramatically over-simplifying the situation and the history. Of course the Israeli government played a huge role in creating and helping Hamas. One aim was to fracture Palestinian society and keep the Gazans from joining up with the West Bank, originally to prevent unity and, believe it or not, socialism - and of course.....a Palestinian state. The original plan was to force Gaza to unite around as violent a group as possible so as to help the Zionists smear ALL Gazans as inherently violent. See: the present situation.
Eventually Hamas became a much more broad socio-political movement and started providing government services in the absence of any other effective group or organization and in those ways is unimpeachably a force for good. I personally agree with the spirit of your comment that Hamas or anyone else has every right to resist their occupation and imprisonment with any and all means including violence. But denying the Israeli role in the creation and cultivation of Hamas is like denying the US role in creating "Al Qaeda." And no, that's not a value judgement or an equivalency in any aspect other than the role of creation.
From the link above: It is sometimes argued that while Israel initially supported the creation of Hamas, the Islamist group got out of control and Israeli officials came to regret their support (the “blowback theory”).
While this is certainly true for some Israeli officials and for the Israeli population affected by Hamas rockets and terrorist attacks, it is not true for Israeli grand strategists, as the quotes below make clear: for them, Hamas has continued to serve its intended purpose even after the Oslo Accords in 1993 and after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
For the grand strategists, the presence of Hamas in the remaining Palestinian territories might provide, one day, the necessary pretext for a “final solution” to the Palestinian question.
I think some funding may have been allowed through. However, it doesn't matter. Yes, Hamas has shown the world the true face of the Empire, but the Empire is now absolutely owning it. They're saying, yes, this is us, and we will burn you alive if you defy us.
I went to a demo today. One of the chants was "Gaza Gaza, don't you cry, we will never let you die". We won't let them die, but so many children and others die anyway. Such an empty and painful feeling. I wish our leaders could feel it. Somehow they don't. We can say they are monsters and on and on, but really, for me, I just don't really understand how so many people who could stop this vile insanity, don't.
...and psychopaths. Is there anything worse than sociopaths and psychopaths? If so, it applies to Zionists and all these people that support the Genocide.
You regularly make this assertion, a pretty accurate one, in my opinion; but I feel like lots of folks prefer not to admit to it because it's ultimately a truly painful realization.
It's a painful realization because it is very difficult to stop them when they are sociopaths and psychopaths with more money than anyone needs, who have taken power and set themselves up so that it is very difficult for anyone else to diminish them without risking imprisonment or death.
Absolutely true from a pragmatic angle. But I need to at least admit the truth to myself in order that my detestation for their destructive qualities clear my own amygdaloid brain registers periodically. I surely don't have enough money or influence to effectuate anything significant, else I'd certainly wish to rain helllfire on their privileged asses.
When I was younger, I was anti war then too. I read about the holocaust. Watched all 9 hours of Shoah. I thought that was history, never to be repeated. But now I have had my own children and now grandchildren and I see all those people in Gaza losing their children and children losing their parents and for what? So some power monger with an alcoholic wife can continue to live in luxury and feel superior. Seeing this and hearing about it now makes me feel as if I am shriveling up inside. Before it was opposing war. Now it is opposing inhumanity that I I naiively hoped had gone with the Nazis.
Susan, When I first listened to the song, "On the Day the Nazi Died", and its final verse, last line: "We'll never rest again until every Nazi dies", I interpreted it just a bit tongue in cheek, as though its reference were to the ongoing spirit of fascism, clearly still around. Then it became clear that the Azovs in Ukraine were actual dyed-in-the-wool Nazis in the worst tradition of the word. I'm now convinced that pockets -- perhaps significant ones -- of these monsters fester throughout the world. Which I should've really known because I've read pretty extensively about other European clusters like the Croatian Ustashi. And now, naturally, I include both Jewish and Christian Zionists -- the ZioNazis -- in that category -- that's quite a large group right there. And so I think the song is correct:
So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis never really went away
They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies
It wouldn't be hard to stop them or at least put a spanner in their works. But too many have no courage, they just want to be "boutique activists". This is how we could make them stay up at night - a lot of us with loans stop paying interest on those loans. Keep 50% of the saved money for yourself and give 50% of it to someone you know or some local person or organization. This will be sustaining money which will go to them every month rather than go to the banks. That will have the effect of bolstering our own lives and communities and having more people support this action. But that's if you're serious. Most other ways are lame and will do zip.
The mainstream mass media is owned by a very few billionaires who publish their propaganda in newspapers, magazines, over-the-air radio and television, cable or streaming radio/television, and “social media”.
Legitimate professional journalists are becoming scarce. Some have been targeted for assassination. Dozens have been killed by Israeli snipers in Gaza.
Not only are we ruled by sociopaths, this is inevitable over time.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and The Iron Law Of Institutions. Take them to heart. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats. Not only that, but sociopaths are precisely the people who will do Whatever It Takes to gain power.
This is why, after some 5,000 years or so of recorded human history, one can find successful examples of all kinds of societies, and all of these societies eventually fail, as the sociopaths take over.
I'd reiterate this as a painful realization, but what would be the point. We see the outcome all around us in personal relationships. I've witnessed one partner in a marriage, a close woman friend, after reading about the sociopaths' characteristics and recognizing them in her husband, nevertheless blow it off because of the slick mental chains that group is so skilled at winding around their victims. Breaking free of the influence of someone with these enslaving powers is a bitch. Not many are even capable of the recognition, much less doing anything to resist.
You have, indeed, Jenny. We're all beaten down over here. I wish I had a definitive terminal disease rather than the slow deteriorative crap I'm imprisoned in. I'd suggest giving me a 9-gram delivery device and somehow placing me in the immediate vicinity of Milekowsky. But please don't quote me; I'm sure some mofo is listening. And I may be a natural born citizen free of felonious criminal record, but I doubt anyone is safe at this juncture . . . in the "land of the free".
I was looking to the future when I requested "additional sleeping pills" from my beloved Psychiatrist here in France. 12yrs with him...he knows me well.
Absolutely no-one is safe. BUT the morons don't know this!
Historians Will and Ariel Durant published a short book, The Lessons of History, approximately 60 years ago. It’s worth reading. Free PDF versions are available online.
Throughout Western history of the past 5000 years, whenever the inequality of wealth and power accrue to small cadre at the expense and suffering of the masses, the masses eventually revolt and overthrow the oppressors. That’s existentially necessary for the oppressed masses.
One big difference, today, is that the Earth cannot sustain a human population of 8 Billion persons, indefinitely. A related big difference is climate catastrophe that may or may not address the excess population issue.
The US Congress has had the legal authority and moral responsibility to end the supply of weapons of mass destruction to Israel for more than 75 years. Too many members of Congress are “owned” by Zionist sponsors. Note that Zionists and Jews are not synonymous. Many devout Jews have been opposed to the invasions and atrocities against the Palestinians. They don’t get much publicity in the mass media, much of which is also owned by Zionists.
All concerned Americans must protest, frequently, to their members of Congress. Once or twice is not enough. The professional Zionist lobbyists are in the halls of Congress, daily or weekly.
But the members of congress are all obligated to AIPAC. They are the cause of all this, and all our wars and our poisoning. You must see reality for what it is - they are not there for us, they just pretend to be because they are all actors. Those who rule them are faceless. It's useless doing things the same way over and over. They haven't worked!
Members of Congress will respond when they are inundated by calls, visits, letters and protests from 3-4% of their constituents. That will vastly outnumber the professional lobbyists who pester or attempt to bribe Congress of a daily or weekly basis. Members of Congress fear the collective force of their constituents.
Note that bosses fear the collective forces of labor unions.
Yes, all that is true. Except that the US Congress does not apply the law to themselves unless it might benefit them financially or with more power. Morality is something they seem to invent as they go along. Members of the US Congress and members of many other government bodies are owned by Zionists. In my mind Zionism and Judaism are not even close to the same thing. I don't like religion and I don't especially like Judaism as a religion either. Or Islam. Or Christianity. But if people are religious, that is their choice as far as I am concerned. Zionism is pretty much the same as Nazism in my mind. It is not a religion. It is a right wing, facist ideology.
Zionists are not true Christians, Muslims or Jews, Any who may claim to be are hypocrites, as are a majority of the current members of the US Congress.
However, there are some members of Congress who are opposed to the Zionist ambitions. It is the duty of all concerned citizens to demand that Congress must stop supporting the Zionist agenda.
We all know this: IF you want to make a difference: SHUT DOWN your Mainstream Media. How difficult is it to find a cable that provides you with non-stop propaganda? Dig it up and cut it!
And, as horrible as this is, it's a huge accomplishment. Now that we know, what do we do about it?
"October 7 certainly didn’t make life any easier for the Palestinians, but one thing it did do was take away our ability to hide from ourselves. Hamas reached thousands of miles around the world and permanently destroyed our ability to avoid the truth about the kind of dystopia we are really living in. Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes.
It is true, the genocide perpetrated by Israel is before everyone's eyes. But the trap is mutual and risks rewarding Israel which, after having massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed Gaza, is doing everything to drive the Palestinians out of Palestine. With the connivance of the United States. And the protests around the world will not be able to stop those who control the money and blackmail the other superpowers with secret weapons. Thus, Netanyahu is received in Hungary and will be received in Germany and the USA with full honors, despite the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court. Someone will have to stop the massacre and, with it, bring about the fall of the entire system of disvalues that supports Israel. And they will have to do so at their own risk and peril.
We are the ones who will stop the massacre. But we have no direction, we're totally lost. It starts by discussing strategy with each other, but who's talking to who? Everyone is in their little silo. Interaction is what is needed.
Paragraph 1. The history of Israel and its murderous ally in crime, the USA. Good summary, C.
With the greatest respect for the bulk of decent people in the USA, if there is any 'Blowback' from the levelling of Rafah, the demolishing of Gaza and the unforgivable crimes of the thousand of deadmen, women and children in Palestine, then it is your new President. The last one was a criminal, Biden by name and is surprisingly still enjoying the good life in Delaware. Still being blessed by the local Priest every Sunday as a loyal servant of the Roman Catholic God.
What a disgusting standard of humanitarian decency they seem to have. Is that special blessing for all, or just for ex-Presidents?
But the one there now, will sadly bring the whole of America to its knees, given time. He is a heartless nihilist with a very questionable intellectual ability, an overactive ego, a lack of human values and a one man dictator with no indication of any decent human characteristics at all and he is on an unrestricted rampage in support of the world's most hated state, ever.
All the work the fathers of America went to in developing a Constitution to now have it totally disregarded by a dictator. Democratic dictator of course. Fully voted in by the people and fully paid for by Adelson and Musk.
As a matter of comparison, did we ever hear. of the Nazi regime, 1939 - 1945, shooting little children by sniper fire, blowing up vehicles carrying voluntary workers in hospitals, blowing up schools, hospitals, starving millions, raping and getting a kick out of wearing women clothes, laughing as they killed people with 20 shots per victim, (just this week). Yet, the same people the Germans killed as part of an ethnic cleansing program are now the world's #1 ethnic cleansers themselves, but operating in a totally depraved way.
This is the stolen state called Israel today.
It is depraved. It is 100% supported by the USA. Think on that one.
Well said C33! I agree with EVERYTHING you said, except "Yet, the same people the Germans killed as part of an ethnic cleansing program are now the world's #1 ethnic cleansers themselves"
No! The Germans (Nazis) killed Jews (not Zionists), Romas, Socialists, Communists, disabled people (both physical & mental), Slavs (Russians), gays & lesbians, and MORE!
I could possibly posit that if the Nazis had in fact killed the Zionists, maybe there would be no Israel? (and note here that there were/are many Christian Zionists in Europe in addition to Jewish Zionists). The ones that the Nazis DID NOT KILL (Zionists) are the ones that are chiefly responsible for the state of Israel - including the BRITISH, FRENCH, and many others.
What is missing from the 7th of October narrative is that Israeli has committed this same atrocity a hundred times before this date and without any consequences. How many 5 year olds have been killed throwing stones at 30 meter high towers (a deliberate aim to shoot dead a child). How many Philistines have been incarcerated without trial, some more than 30 years. Why has the media sought to disregard the context of the 07 October, just like the NAZIs did WWW2, they control the media. there will come a day when these killers meet their maker.
The entire ME is exploding and no one can pretend they don't see it. Journalists are murdered by the hundreds, media is shut down, and people are being jailed and deported. The more the news is suppressed; the more it breaks free of the restraints.
There is no hiding the raw brutality of Israel and America all set in motion one day in October a year and a half ago.
Yessss, Caitlin. The brazenness and all its accoutrements have no bounds. You are so right that Hamas woke up the world to berserk behavior by Colonial Genocidal Zionism. Too bad that so many kids (remember WCNSF?) had to suffer a price that is a tossup between death and "life"....
"What we are, first and foremost, is a civilization that will actively support history’s first live-streamed genocide." Amen. Despicable. Deplorable. Dastardly. Damnable. Devilspawn, the whole Colonial Zionist enterprise.
"You can’t...deny that Israel and its allies have been revealing their true face to the world every day since, at levels they previously were not."
It's just unfair that so many innocents have to be brutally killed and wounded for the world to realize how hypocritical and evil apartheid settler-colonial projects are. Let's don't let their deaths be in vain. Let's shut these monsters down forever. Send emails to the Hague Group of Ambassadors telling them to Protect Palestine: https://protect-palestine.com/hague-group
Great article , that is the horrific part isn’t ? We can all watch this genocide and the leaders everywhere turn away . If you criticise what they are doing you are called names and vilified . This is the reality . Thank you for laying this out so clearly .🦋
If you garden while people get bombed, then people will garden when you're getting bombed. Doesn't seem like it will happen to us over here, but these freaks never get enough death and destruction.
CJ>>"Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire"
For sure 💯! And now, it is OUR responsibility and duty to support the Palestinian cause in whatever ways we can - be it BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), protests, financial aid/charity, more media visibility, engaging others and explaining the false narratives Israel (and the U.S.) have been hiding under, and so many more ways!
Thank you Caitlin for continuing to place this Genocide front-and-center for all to see - it REQUIRES the focus and attention of the whole world!
The Palestinians were colonized by the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th Century. They have been subjected to Israeli invaders since at least 1948.
>>"They have been subjected to Israeli invaders since at least 1948."
Actually much before that CK. In the excellent book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi, he describes how Zionists (from Europe) have been attacking and uprooting Palestinians (including Bedouins, Christians, and even colored Jews) from the region since at least 1917.
Yes, but modern Israel didn’t exist until the British Empire created it circa 1948, with some collusion with the American Empire.
Yes, though the collusion was far greater than just the American Empire - it started with the 'League of Nations' which eventually morphed into the UN. The collusion was that of most of the members of the fledgling UN of 1947-48 (when there were just 57-58 members and not many Global South countries had either representation or a say in the matter).
So? The Americas were colonized by the British Empire even earlier. Is that any justification for the same thing happening over and over everywhere?
When the British invaded the USA, circa 1817, the Americans repelled them in the famous Battle of 1812. If the British tried to invade, again, the Americans would continue to repel them.
There really is no moral justification for the repeated invasions, anywhere. However, indigenous people have a natural right to self defense and the right to expel unwanted invaders.
Susan T, I think CK means it in a positive way (i.e. just adding info), and not as an excuse or justification.
Irgun and Haganah terrorists as well as Stern in 1936 massacred entire villages and threaten thousands to leave or die! Same tactics used since then until today.
1789! Since 1789 ... evidence;
Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.
Napoleon and the French army left Egypt in 1799, but the French remained in Egypt for another two years, until they finally surrendered to the British on Sept. 2, 1801 turning over, among other things, the prized Rosetta stone.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as “the key to Palestine.”
dennis hanna
p.s. This, of course, does not take into account the superstition, mythology if you "feel" better, of the so-called "Torah." see, including, but not limited to, so-called "Deuteronomy," a Moses story, at Deuteronomy 10:20 etc et.
All good history related to the strategic importance of Palestine.
The discovery of Palestinian petroleum fields made the region even more important for the British Navy that was converting its warships’ boilers to burn raw petroleum instead of coal.
The US and UK fossil fuels companies want to control access to all of the oil/gas fields of the entire Middle East.
The newly (1948) created state of Israel is a US military staging area and listening post for such control.
Behind everything: are the British!
And behind them are the globalist banking families (and their lackeys). ;-)
I wish it took away our ability to hide from ourselves. I still run into people on this platform every day that think all Palestinians are Hamas (including the children) and Hamas is a "death cult." They have convinced themselves that a brown person on a college campus asking the administration to divest from Israel is the same as Osama bin Laden. They somehow manage to believe that Israel is in the right in this. All I can think is that they must curate their media very carefully in favor of confirmation bias.
Ignorance of many Americans is due to the clever propaganda of the Zionists. Bear in mind that Joe Biden publicly declared himself to be a staunch Zionist.
Let’s not bring up the matter of Osama Bin Laden who was an agent of the US government in opposition to the USSR. The Bin Laden family and the Bush family had very close ties in the oil business. That’s a topic for a different discussion.
Scapegoating your miserable Education in the US. I had a daughter in school there!
I’m guessing you know this already, but making sure. Hamas is a group of indigenous people, fighting for freedom and what’s rightfully theirs. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are all righteous groups of freedom fighters. Al Qaeda and ISIS aren’t anywhere close to the same and aren’t allies of any sort.
Indeed, people do find ways to hide from themselves, no matter how starkly the facts stare them in the face. How else could 85 out of 100 US senators vote to continue funding Israel's hideous crimes? And that's just one tiny part of the horrific picture of what we see happening in our country and other Western countries.
For those who still buying the narrative that Hamas is created or funded by Israel. They should double check their source of information again. Hamas never created or funded by Zionist/Israel. It was created by the Palestinian people itself to resist the zionist brutal occupation. Zionist has been occupying Palestinian even way before they illegaly established a state. While Hamas only created in 1987. Zionist try to portray Hamas as terrorist as if they want to make people FORGET, why Hamas was created in the 1st place, to defend themselves, their land, to resist Zionist BRUTAL OCCUPATION. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HAMAS. IT ONLY ABOUT THE BRUTAL OCCUPATION OF ZIONIST FOR AT LEAST 98 years in the land that never belong to them.
Both Hamas and Palestinian has never been a problem to me. But of course they are the problem for their oppresors/the zionist.
Regardless they want to make us believed all Palestinian are Hamas or not, that's not make any different at all for their status as an oppresor, as a colonizer of the PALESTINIAN land.
I think you might need to check your sources of information.
https://swprs.org/why-israel-created-hamas/
You're dramatically over-simplifying the situation and the history. Of course the Israeli government played a huge role in creating and helping Hamas. One aim was to fracture Palestinian society and keep the Gazans from joining up with the West Bank, originally to prevent unity and, believe it or not, socialism - and of course.....a Palestinian state. The original plan was to force Gaza to unite around as violent a group as possible so as to help the Zionists smear ALL Gazans as inherently violent. See: the present situation.
Eventually Hamas became a much more broad socio-political movement and started providing government services in the absence of any other effective group or organization and in those ways is unimpeachably a force for good. I personally agree with the spirit of your comment that Hamas or anyone else has every right to resist their occupation and imprisonment with any and all means including violence. But denying the Israeli role in the creation and cultivation of Hamas is like denying the US role in creating "Al Qaeda." And no, that's not a value judgement or an equivalency in any aspect other than the role of creation.
From the link above: It is sometimes argued that while Israel initially supported the creation of Hamas, the Islamist group got out of control and Israeli officials came to regret their support (the “blowback theory”).
While this is certainly true for some Israeli officials and for the Israeli population affected by Hamas rockets and terrorist attacks, it is not true for Israeli grand strategists, as the quotes below make clear: for them, Hamas has continued to serve its intended purpose even after the Oslo Accords in 1993 and after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
For the grand strategists, the presence of Hamas in the remaining Palestinian territories might provide, one day, the necessary pretext for a “final solution” to the Palestinian question.
I think some funding may have been allowed through. However, it doesn't matter. Yes, Hamas has shown the world the true face of the Empire, but the Empire is now absolutely owning it. They're saying, yes, this is us, and we will burn you alive if you defy us.
Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 and "Al Qaeda" just means "database" in Arabic.
9/11 was done (or greatly aided) by the same people who brought you the USS Liberty and the current genocide in Gaza.
The curation is automatic and done for them. If you have a zio friend try to arrange to swap seats and try each other's twitter, it's pretty amazing
I'm sure you're not wrong.
I went to a demo today. One of the chants was "Gaza Gaza, don't you cry, we will never let you die". We won't let them die, but so many children and others die anyway. Such an empty and painful feeling. I wish our leaders could feel it. Somehow they don't. We can say they are monsters and on and on, but really, for me, I just don't really understand how so many people who could stop this vile insanity, don't.
Because we are ruled by sociopaths.
...and psychopaths. Is there anything worse than sociopaths and psychopaths? If so, it applies to Zionists and all these people that support the Genocide.
You regularly make this assertion, a pretty accurate one, in my opinion; but I feel like lots of folks prefer not to admit to it because it's ultimately a truly painful realization.
It's a painful realization because it is very difficult to stop them when they are sociopaths and psychopaths with more money than anyone needs, who have taken power and set themselves up so that it is very difficult for anyone else to diminish them without risking imprisonment or death.
Absolutely true from a pragmatic angle. But I need to at least admit the truth to myself in order that my detestation for their destructive qualities clear my own amygdaloid brain registers periodically. I surely don't have enough money or influence to effectuate anything significant, else I'd certainly wish to rain helllfire on their privileged asses.
When I was younger, I was anti war then too. I read about the holocaust. Watched all 9 hours of Shoah. I thought that was history, never to be repeated. But now I have had my own children and now grandchildren and I see all those people in Gaza losing their children and children losing their parents and for what? So some power monger with an alcoholic wife can continue to live in luxury and feel superior. Seeing this and hearing about it now makes me feel as if I am shriveling up inside. Before it was opposing war. Now it is opposing inhumanity that I I naiively hoped had gone with the Nazis.
Susan, When I first listened to the song, "On the Day the Nazi Died", and its final verse, last line: "We'll never rest again until every Nazi dies", I interpreted it just a bit tongue in cheek, as though its reference were to the ongoing spirit of fascism, clearly still around. Then it became clear that the Azovs in Ukraine were actual dyed-in-the-wool Nazis in the worst tradition of the word. I'm now convinced that pockets -- perhaps significant ones -- of these monsters fester throughout the world. Which I should've really known because I've read pretty extensively about other European clusters like the Croatian Ustashi. And now, naturally, I include both Jewish and Christian Zionists -- the ZioNazis -- in that category -- that's quite a large group right there. And so I think the song is correct:
So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis never really went away
They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies
And we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies
Looks like Israel is imploding anyway BUT where will all these butchers go?
Hades? Ninth circle hopefully.
It wouldn't be hard to stop them or at least put a spanner in their works. But too many have no courage, they just want to be "boutique activists". This is how we could make them stay up at night - a lot of us with loans stop paying interest on those loans. Keep 50% of the saved money for yourself and give 50% of it to someone you know or some local person or organization. This will be sustaining money which will go to them every month rather than go to the banks. That will have the effect of bolstering our own lives and communities and having more people support this action. But that's if you're serious. Most other ways are lame and will do zip.
Shutting down Mainstream Media will give them a lot less power.
The mainstream mass media is owned by a very few billionaires who publish their propaganda in newspapers, magazines, over-the-air radio and television, cable or streaming radio/television, and “social media”.
Legitimate professional journalists are becoming scarce. Some have been targeted for assassination. Dozens have been killed by Israeli snipers in Gaza.
Journalism is now a very dangerous profession.
Well here is me: Dreaming Jenny.
I get so many vile remarks and sometimes it hurts. But I have pointed out numerous times: Why are you protesting in the streets
Protest outside Mainstream Media/shut them down
AS for Congress: A few seeds of Poison Oak/Ivy brought in by cleaners OR even better the above seeds placed in the 'air systems.'
You ALL talk about what we can do!
We do not have Poison Oak/Ivy here in Europe.
I was out in my garden weeding and suddenly I found my hands and legs were red and itchy. Went in the shower which made everything worse.
Make these people suffer like I did. I guess they all have Gardeners?
If I were to start believing anything else, I would quickly become prey or used as a subject for medical experiments.
We are ALL prey here in the Western world. I have enough pills to kill me/dog/cats/husband.
That would indeed be the lesson of history: Ignore this at your own peril!
Not only are we ruled by sociopaths, this is inevitable over time.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and The Iron Law Of Institutions. Take them to heart. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats. Not only that, but sociopaths are precisely the people who will do Whatever It Takes to gain power.
This is why, after some 5,000 years or so of recorded human history, one can find successful examples of all kinds of societies, and all of these societies eventually fail, as the sociopaths take over.
I'd reiterate this as a painful realization, but what would be the point. We see the outcome all around us in personal relationships. I've witnessed one partner in a marriage, a close woman friend, after reading about the sociopaths' characteristics and recognizing them in her husband, nevertheless blow it off because of the slick mental chains that group is so skilled at winding around their victims. Breaking free of the influence of someone with these enslaving powers is a bitch. Not many are even capable of the recognition, much less doing anything to resist.
I have written so many times "How to resist." But nobody pays attention!
You have, indeed, Jenny. We're all beaten down over here. I wish I had a definitive terminal disease rather than the slow deteriorative crap I'm imprisoned in. I'd suggest giving me a 9-gram delivery device and somehow placing me in the immediate vicinity of Milekowsky. But please don't quote me; I'm sure some mofo is listening. And I may be a natural born citizen free of felonious criminal record, but I doubt anyone is safe at this juncture . . . in the "land of the free".
I was looking to the future when I requested "additional sleeping pills" from my beloved Psychiatrist here in France. 12yrs with him...he knows me well.
Absolutely no-one is safe. BUT the morons don't know this!
Historians Will and Ariel Durant published a short book, The Lessons of History, approximately 60 years ago. It’s worth reading. Free PDF versions are available online.
Throughout Western history of the past 5000 years, whenever the inequality of wealth and power accrue to small cadre at the expense and suffering of the masses, the masses eventually revolt and overthrow the oppressors. That’s existentially necessary for the oppressed masses.
One big difference, today, is that the Earth cannot sustain a human population of 8 Billion persons, indefinitely. A related big difference is climate catastrophe that may or may not address the excess population issue.
The US Congress has had the legal authority and moral responsibility to end the supply of weapons of mass destruction to Israel for more than 75 years. Too many members of Congress are “owned” by Zionist sponsors. Note that Zionists and Jews are not synonymous. Many devout Jews have been opposed to the invasions and atrocities against the Palestinians. They don’t get much publicity in the mass media, much of which is also owned by Zionists.
All concerned Americans must protest, frequently, to their members of Congress. Once or twice is not enough. The professional Zionist lobbyists are in the halls of Congress, daily or weekly.
But the members of congress are all obligated to AIPAC. They are the cause of all this, and all our wars and our poisoning. You must see reality for what it is - they are not there for us, they just pretend to be because they are all actors. Those who rule them are faceless. It's useless doing things the same way over and over. They haven't worked!
Members of Congress will respond when they are inundated by calls, visits, letters and protests from 3-4% of their constituents. That will vastly outnumber the professional lobbyists who pester or attempt to bribe Congress of a daily or weekly basis. Members of Congress fear the collective force of their constituents.
Note that bosses fear the collective forces of labor unions.
Yes, all that is true. Except that the US Congress does not apply the law to themselves unless it might benefit them financially or with more power. Morality is something they seem to invent as they go along. Members of the US Congress and members of many other government bodies are owned by Zionists. In my mind Zionism and Judaism are not even close to the same thing. I don't like religion and I don't especially like Judaism as a religion either. Or Islam. Or Christianity. But if people are religious, that is their choice as far as I am concerned. Zionism is pretty much the same as Nazism in my mind. It is not a religion. It is a right wing, facist ideology.
Zionists are not true Christians, Muslims or Jews, Any who may claim to be are hypocrites, as are a majority of the current members of the US Congress.
However, there are some members of Congress who are opposed to the Zionist ambitions. It is the duty of all concerned citizens to demand that Congress must stop supporting the Zionist agenda.
DO something to stop Mainstream Media.
We all know this: IF you want to make a difference: SHUT DOWN your Mainstream Media. How difficult is it to find a cable that provides you with non-stop propaganda? Dig it up and cut it!
And, as horrible as this is, it's a huge accomplishment. Now that we know, what do we do about it?
"October 7 certainly didn’t make life any easier for the Palestinians, but one thing it did do was take away our ability to hide from ourselves. Hamas reached thousands of miles around the world and permanently destroyed our ability to avoid the truth about the kind of dystopia we are really living in. Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes.
What has been seen cannot be unseen."
Hamas may have pulled the trigger on October 7th but Israel and the U.S. provided the ammunition and loaded the gun.
Hamas didn’t even pull the trigger on the very large majority of deaths that day. It was the IDF tanks and helicopters!
It is true, the genocide perpetrated by Israel is before everyone's eyes. But the trap is mutual and risks rewarding Israel which, after having massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed Gaza, is doing everything to drive the Palestinians out of Palestine. With the connivance of the United States. And the protests around the world will not be able to stop those who control the money and blackmail the other superpowers with secret weapons. Thus, Netanyahu is received in Hungary and will be received in Germany and the USA with full honors, despite the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court. Someone will have to stop the massacre and, with it, bring about the fall of the entire system of disvalues that supports Israel. And they will have to do so at their own risk and peril.
We are the ones who will stop the massacre. But we have no direction, we're totally lost. It starts by discussing strategy with each other, but who's talking to who? Everyone is in their little silo. Interaction is what is needed.
Perhaps i can help. The strategy is simple: we organize, we plan, and we fight back.
"If you resist us, we’ll kill your babies. We’ll deliberately shoot your kids in the head. We’ll massacre medical workers, etc."
Scratch that. We'll do the same whether you resist us or not.
Paragraph 1. The history of Israel and its murderous ally in crime, the USA. Good summary, C.
With the greatest respect for the bulk of decent people in the USA, if there is any 'Blowback' from the levelling of Rafah, the demolishing of Gaza and the unforgivable crimes of the thousand of deadmen, women and children in Palestine, then it is your new President. The last one was a criminal, Biden by name and is surprisingly still enjoying the good life in Delaware. Still being blessed by the local Priest every Sunday as a loyal servant of the Roman Catholic God.
What a disgusting standard of humanitarian decency they seem to have. Is that special blessing for all, or just for ex-Presidents?
But the one there now, will sadly bring the whole of America to its knees, given time. He is a heartless nihilist with a very questionable intellectual ability, an overactive ego, a lack of human values and a one man dictator with no indication of any decent human characteristics at all and he is on an unrestricted rampage in support of the world's most hated state, ever.
All the work the fathers of America went to in developing a Constitution to now have it totally disregarded by a dictator. Democratic dictator of course. Fully voted in by the people and fully paid for by Adelson and Musk.
As a matter of comparison, did we ever hear. of the Nazi regime, 1939 - 1945, shooting little children by sniper fire, blowing up vehicles carrying voluntary workers in hospitals, blowing up schools, hospitals, starving millions, raping and getting a kick out of wearing women clothes, laughing as they killed people with 20 shots per victim, (just this week). Yet, the same people the Germans killed as part of an ethnic cleansing program are now the world's #1 ethnic cleansers themselves, but operating in a totally depraved way.
This is the stolen state called Israel today.
It is depraved. It is 100% supported by the USA. Think on that one.
Well said C33! I agree with EVERYTHING you said, except "Yet, the same people the Germans killed as part of an ethnic cleansing program are now the world's #1 ethnic cleansers themselves"
No! The Germans (Nazis) killed Jews (not Zionists), Romas, Socialists, Communists, disabled people (both physical & mental), Slavs (Russians), gays & lesbians, and MORE!
I could possibly posit that if the Nazis had in fact killed the Zionists, maybe there would be no Israel? (and note here that there were/are many Christian Zionists in Europe in addition to Jewish Zionists). The ones that the Nazis DID NOT KILL (Zionists) are the ones that are chiefly responsible for the state of Israel - including the BRITISH, FRENCH, and many others.
What is missing from the 7th of October narrative is that Israeli has committed this same atrocity a hundred times before this date and without any consequences. How many 5 year olds have been killed throwing stones at 30 meter high towers (a deliberate aim to shoot dead a child). How many Philistines have been incarcerated without trial, some more than 30 years. Why has the media sought to disregard the context of the 07 October, just like the NAZIs did WWW2, they control the media. there will come a day when these killers meet their maker.
The entire ME is exploding and no one can pretend they don't see it. Journalists are murdered by the hundreds, media is shut down, and people are being jailed and deported. The more the news is suppressed; the more it breaks free of the restraints.
There is no hiding the raw brutality of Israel and America all set in motion one day in October a year and a half ago.
And it is an empire i vow to bring down. https://open.substack.com/pub/adamcheklat/p/warning-to-the-oligarchs?r=4m50jk&utm_medium=ios
Yessss, Caitlin. The brazenness and all its accoutrements have no bounds. You are so right that Hamas woke up the world to berserk behavior by Colonial Genocidal Zionism. Too bad that so many kids (remember WCNSF?) had to suffer a price that is a tossup between death and "life"....
"What we are, first and foremost, is a civilization that will actively support history’s first live-streamed genocide." Amen. Despicable. Deplorable. Dastardly. Damnable. Devilspawn, the whole Colonial Zionist enterprise.
"You can’t...deny that Israel and its allies have been revealing their true face to the world every day since, at levels they previously were not."
It's just unfair that so many innocents have to be brutally killed and wounded for the world to realize how hypocritical and evil apartheid settler-colonial projects are. Let's don't let their deaths be in vain. Let's shut these monsters down forever. Send emails to the Hague Group of Ambassadors telling them to Protect Palestine: https://protect-palestine.com/hague-group
God bless you.
Quote: "You can disagree with the decisions Hamas made on that day"
If you have spent your life in a concentration camp and don't try to escape or effect change, then you lose your humanity and become a vegetable.
Great article , that is the horrific part isn’t ? We can all watch this genocide and the leaders everywhere turn away . If you criticise what they are doing you are called names and vilified . This is the reality . Thank you for laying this out so clearly .🦋
And imprisoned. Or killed.
It would be better if everybody just got back to gardening instead of trying to take over the world. What a waste of time.
If you garden while people get bombed, then people will garden when you're getting bombed. Doesn't seem like it will happen to us over here, but these freaks never get enough death and destruction.