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Occam's avatar
Oct 3Edited

Crazy, In today's world, the death of one person from a specific group is media-worthy, but the senseless slaughter of innocent civilians, their mass displacement and continued military assault on them is apparently okay.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Simple. One death of a British Jew is convenient for pushing the US/Zionist agenda. The deaths of Palestinians are entirely intentional.

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John Turcot's avatar

It’s about Who owns mainstream media. It’s also always about Who owns the Money, and who is owned by the Money…. as in everyone who is reading these words.

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Rhys Stanley's avatar

Absolutely right. John and Feral. The brouhaha over two deaths in the UK, overshadows in some degree the numbers who die in Palestine, daily, a situation in force for 24 months.

I am responding for Contrarian 33, his own responses under some kind of embargo by Substack over the past 30 days, or so it seems..

Surely the Zionists, Israelis and Jewish fellow travellers in every country on the Globe are not encroaching on the likes of Substack as well??????

Their dirty claws are everywhere .

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"In today's world, the death of one person from a specific group..."

Unfortunately, it's not just "today's world". This is an example of in-group vs. out-group dynamics. The 'in-groups' lives are always considered more worthy/valuable than the life of someone from an 'out-group'. This has been prevalent throughout much of human history.

Until humanity realizes that we are ALL ONE SPECIES, one race, one people, such dynamics will likely continue...

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MM's avatar

Like I wrote on Caitlin's post from yesterday:

As Stalin supposedly said:

"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic".

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Feral Finster's avatar

"It really looks like the US and Israel are getting ready to try to sell us on “Uh-oh, Hamas rejected our Tony Blair enslavement plan, looks like we get to keep committing genocide!”"

That was ever always only the plan. Somewhat like Austria-Hungary's Fourteen Demands to Serbia in 1914. They were quite intentionally framed as something that no sovereign country could possibly accept.

Desperate to head off war, Serbia accepted 13 and asked for time to implement the 14th. Austria-Hungary was looking for any excuse for war, and backed up by the German "blank check", declared that war.

WWI was on. Of course, nobody involved gave a rat's ass about Franz Ferdinand, not even his uncle Franz Josef.

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Rhys Stanley's avatar

Hello Feral.

I haven't passed away but someone at Substack keeps stopping me from commenting these days. Still reading the comments from Caitlin and the loyal supporers and wish you all well.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Thank you and I hope that you and yours are doing well.

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Fawad Ali's avatar

A British politician said about 20 years ago that they actually have these calculations. The ratios are real. He estimated it is 100 Palestinians to 1 Israeli.

Today that is a gross understatement. The truth is, no number is big enough. They will exterminate all Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemenis, Iraqis, Iranians without batting an eye. They are brown and Muslims. Only good as serving vassals. Servant class.

Remember the 500k dead Iraqi babies were worth it for Madeline Albright (may she rot in hell for all eternity).

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John Turcot's avatar

Fawad,

“No number is big enough”. Bassam Yousseff on Pierce Morgan echoed your statement when talking about Palestinian slaughter, … “who’s counting?”.

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Davina's avatar

Only if it's Jews doing the counting, me I'd put it thousand heartless, soulless Jews to one Palestinian.

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Just sayn's avatar

During the murder of Charlie Kirk and the huge media hoopla. Perhaps 50 or more Palestinians of Muslim, Christian or even Jewish faith were murdered per day. De humanization is a trick every tyranny uses to commit war crimes. Because much of the world's media are controlled directly or indirectly by those who support Zionism there is little honest reporting. After all journalists are a prime target of the IDF, more so than babies, children and starving civilians. Israel is a Cancer, Zionism is a malignant turbo cancer. It needs to be cut off and cauterized to keep it from spreading.

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Hannahlehigh's avatar

Sadly most Americans couldn't care less about Israel and Gaza, as long as they have a case of beer and can watch the football game they're happy. Most have been taught Arabs are the enemy and Israel isn't. I don't believe the slaughter will ever end until Trump gets Trump Gaza, its a very sad thought that human beings don't matter.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I just saw a headline saying that Israel might be preparing for a large extermination of the people in Gaza.

Will that get anyone's attention? Will there be any attempts to stop this from happening?

It makes me sick how dehumanized people other than western elites are. We're all just disposable or cheap labour to those who hold power here in the west, and in other places too.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Might be. I thought that was the idea all along.

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

If you support Israel you are not human. Gaza family has to burn book 1984 and what would Orwell think of that? Chris Hedges canceled in Australia. Fuck Israel. Cancel it.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

If Israel nuked Gaza and wiped out the entire population of Gaza and the West Bank, the headline would read: Peace at last in the Middle East!

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Davina's avatar

They would go straight on to the other uses in its sights, feeling so bloated by one success against a literally unarmed people - no planes, no ship, no tanks and no bombs no standing armies and now.... no homes, no schools, no universities, no hospitals.

All because two indicted criminals want to avoid prison and use biblical texts to steal a country they have no legal or ancestral right to, because they are the lowest form of and excuse for a human being as one can get. They and their cohorts deserve life in the worst prison in the world before the gates of hell open up and swallow them forever.

And don't any apologist tell me I should forgive them, that may make you feel superior but forgiveness is the last thing the should get, instead the should rot for the rest of their lives in isolation to stop them contaminating anyone else. No hunan contact, served only by Robots until satan claims them back.

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John Horne's avatar

Yes, Davina, they cannot be forgiven. Both have committed unimaginable atrocities, they likes of which I thought I would never see.

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Davina's avatar

Line one other "countries" in its sights.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Unfortunately, that's how SICK our current human societies have become. I am still searching for some hope for the future of humanity...

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Good luck!

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Lisa's avatar

A depressing summary but a very accurate one thank you Caitlin. Thank goodness for humanity, where every life has equal value. Let's keep our moral compasses while these genocidal maniacs sink further into their swamp of heartless lies and spin.

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Brian Hall's avatar

I like that this genocide has exposed America’s Christians and their true priorities and loves. I’m sure an all-knowing God is not surprised for a moment, that children being slaughtered are not even on their list.

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John Turcot's avatar

Which God ?

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Brian Hall's avatar

The God of the Bible. Specifically Jesus Christ

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Ahenobarbus's avatar

I love everything you write but the terminology needs to be tightened up. "Westerners really do think the lives of their house pets matter more.". Even the "Westerners" who read your Substack?, who protest en masse, whove been ruined for speaking out for Gaza, who have literally lit themselves on fire in some cases?

We live in a class society. One, very small class in the West controls everything. Zionists make up the overwhelming majority of that tiny little class. The rest of us are Western wage slaves! Do not put our masters crimes on us, please. Not only is it wrong but it will divide a great force to the advantage of the Zionazis.

It's time we consciousnessly abandon the bourgeois idpol we were raised on and begin to think in terms of class and who actually holds power to commit these crimes. Bourgeois idpol was designed to divide and weaken the working class. It's time to grow up and leave childish things aside.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Feline Lives Matter.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Yes, and every living thing. Humans are selfish, unworthy exploiters and we don't deserve the power we have over all the other species on Earth.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Deserve has nothing to do with it.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

It certainly doesn't.

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ahenobarbus's avatar

That's funny, Feral. I love animals too.

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elena the red's avatar

As we see so very many Palestinians also care about the cats and others lives

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Feral Finster's avatar

Muslims as a rule tend to be cat people.

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gypsy33's avatar

Absolutely Feral, since we cats were favored by The Prophet.

He once cut off the sleeve of his robe in order to not disturb his sleeping cat Muezza.

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gypsy33's avatar

Cats and horses, Elena.

My grandfather raised prize Arabians in Palestine. I’ve inherited this love.

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John Horne's avatar

Yes, there are mass protests, but... the majority of the West does nothing against the evils perpetrated by those in power. Would rather shop, watch TV, moan about the protests, etc.

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ahenobarbus's avatar

Have you heard of misanthropy? You're views are those of an enemy of the wage slaves. You should think a bit more before using hate speech like this.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Yeah, I'm sick of being speaking spoken down to by Caitlin. Perhaps she's never known the love of a pet.

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gypsy33's avatar

Well, Jo. Are YOU speaking out against the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of other-than-humans in Gaza?

I AM. I refuse to continue contributing to various animal rights/ protection groups any longer for THEIR FAILURE TO DO SO, and I’ve let’em the fuck KNOW WHY.

The IGF not only slaughters pets through bombings, but intentionally targets them. I’ve seen videos of IsraHelli tanks firing at horses. HORSES!

So just shut yer fuckin mouth Jo.

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gypsy33's avatar

Dear Caitlin:

Depends what color you are in the “West”. If you’re Black, Brown or Tan, your life ain’t worth squat.

Only WHITE LIVES have any “worth”, but in reality whites are the ones who’ve created the world’s FUBARS and need to be held to account.

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La Libanaise Minimaliste's avatar

Absolutely this.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Absolutely about racism and white supremacy.

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John Turcot's avatar

Jenny,,

Absolutely about racism and white supremacy” . To a small measure yes, but it’s much more about Money, and the power it yields.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Yes I agree both on an equal footing.

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John Turcot's avatar

It doesn’t matter what color you wear, if there’s zero money, you’re a zero.

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JennyStokes's avatar

There is truth here. We see images of black/brown Politicians (in every Western Country) following the white supremacists. I saw hundreds of these people whilst growing up n Sri Lanka.

What is going to happen to them as Africa and India get stronger?

I don't know the answer to this but as US gets weaker................

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John Turcot's avatar

It doesn’t matter much where anyone comes from or who is officially in charge, unless you have and control the Money. Yet, talking and discussing the power of money is like talking to the trees in the forest… complete silence.

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elena the red's avatar

Only white wealthy lives.. don’t forget the many poor that die homeless in the great neoliberal bastions like Portland Oregon.

Die on the streets if you’re poor too.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

But, actually, even whites don't matter if they are in the way of what TPTB want. If they did matter, then where's the universal healthcare, where's the free tuition, where's the clean water, where's the public transportation and the infrastructure. Even the idea that whites matter is a ruse to pacify the population into accepting serfdom from a false believe they are in a 'superior' position, instead of the supine position that they, and all of us, are truly in.

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gypsy33's avatar

But Joy,

How is it possible for the guvvment to fund such “inessential” matters like health care and infrastructure when it’s busy scraping together our tax dollars to fund a genocide?

Gotta get our “priorities” straight here.

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hierochloe's avatar

in a place where a huge portion of the people can only be bothered to really care about kids' lives before they are born but drop everything for an asshole chud that dies of ligma while kids are whacked by a psycho in their school at the same time, this is really par for the course

on the brighter side, Freedom Flotilla is up to 11 boats:

https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tmtg-conscience-tracker/

https://www.youtube.com/live/SER728fTxA8

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hierochloe's avatar

it's better than nothing, I'll take it:

Israelis Protest Gaza Flotilla Interception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVl3jlOWXw

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Jeff Rose's avatar

It’s interesting and quite surprising that you seem surprised by the western media’s indifference to Palestinian live. For some unknown reason, you seem to cling to the nostalgic notion of a “free and independent press” whose principle job is to “hold the institutions of power to account”, and even “speak truth to power”.

Those days are long since over. In the U.S., the “mainstream media”, with only a tiny number of exceptions (and with severe limitations placed on those), is a full-throated propaganda arm of the violent, criminal federal government. This was achieved, not through outright control as done in other authoritarian states, but by the alignment of interests. This is a vastly more subtle approach that can be hard for outsiders to see.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Take action today

FIFA and UEFA are meeting about whether to expel Israel from their tournaments. Take action today, because actions of this kind may be one of the only things that matters to those committing the atrocities against the Palestinian people. Tell FIFA to ban Israel from playing in the 2026 World Cup:

In the UK:

https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/banIsrael

Worldwide:

https://www.gameoverisrael.com/en

And

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_israel_from_the_world_cup_2_0/?bezdetb&v=169237&cl=22311971612&_checksum=6d83a36799686c95d03116e8c556125ab456e12a3f0eebd7c7cf7b35a91a2184&utm_source=email&utm_medium=blast_email&utm_campaign=169237

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Michel Martinez's avatar

Remember all Western Gouvernments are Jew-owned. In America Pro-Palestinian Protestors have been completely silenced. The same cannot be said of Western European Protestors. This is not a Race issue it's a Jewish Supremacy issue.

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