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A Tucker-Putin interview would be worth the watch.

Every depravity that Israeli propagandists accuse Palestinians/Arabs/Hamas of, it is nearly always because they are behaving that way themselves already.

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'Israel' has demonstrated via its Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing that the Western led 'Rules Based International System' is neither Moral, Just, 'rules-based' or even International.

It is nothing but license to commit Wanton Slaughter & Carnage, whereby it is then wrapped up with a thin veneer of legitimacy. The Empire of Lies has suffered a Mortal Blow to its Standing, since these facts are now obvious/apparent to see for even those fair-minded people that have never studied this issue, nor taken the Palestinian side: the scale & scope of Barbarism has simply become Too Great!

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For me the point where I thought about how bad it was in Israel, but realized how it’s much worse was when I saw clips of Israeli civilians blocking aid trucks for starving people in Gaza. My thoughts were “who does that” as I gazed in disbelief. Good point about the power of the Internet to raise global awareness. One can go back and read “The Fateful Triangle” by Noam Chomsky written in 1984 to chronicle the Israeli assault on Lebanon in 1982. Here you find the same recounting of the carpet bombing of civilian neighbourhoods, the massacres, the destruction of Palestinian civil society and cultural institutions and the sadistic cruelty of the IDF. However the English speaking world only had written accounts by brave journalists such as Robert Fisk.

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"Collective cultural psychosis", I postulated to a friend a month ago; "gotta be the explanation". Today on the Grayzone broadcast, Max Blumenthal displayed some literature circulating in Israel in the Sixties that cemented that hypothesis into a certainty in my mind. They were gory, almost comic-book images of Nazis and beautiful women. And I thought: while like myself, most Jews in NYC in the Sixties were focused on education, Vietnam, the evolving society and how we were going to fit into it, Jews in Zionist Israel were dragging the past forward in weird comics; talk about subliminal (or not so) indoctrination of that Israeli Boomer generation. Clearly they passed it down to their children and grandchildren, the fruits of which we sadly see today

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I've seen those senseless killings on Aljazeera. They are so profoundly disturbing since the person killed did nothing to provoke an attack. A child leaves a family dwelling carrying a small white flag and is shot dead, you know the perpetrator is an Israel solder, but you never see them. His older brother runs out to see if he is dead, and he too is killed. It takes place so quickly as their family bares witness to their children's deaths. A family walking down a block with relatives are interrupted by a reporter and asked where they are going, "To join some family members." a man says, and he is shot, killed, and again for no reason. I'v seen a number of these shootings, and often thought those doing it are doing it for their own amusement, since they are senseless deaths. I am going to watch the Jordanian film Farha, where IDF soldiers are seen murdering a Palestinian family during the War of Independence, on Netflix.. The film takes place in 1948. "In Mandatory Palestine a 14-year-old Palestinian girl father locks her in a warehouse because of IDF attacks in the village."

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Jesus Christ their barbarity is seemingly bottomless

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It's really way, way worse. Martin Niemöller's prose "First They Came . . ." could be written now to start out, "First they came for the Gazans, and I did not speak out . . ." Well, you know the rest. In the end they want way more than Palestinian blood, and they've said as much.

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So Trump has now finally for some reason come right out and openly admitted to being a warmonger. He is for NATO and the war in Ukraine and of course all in as "the best president for Israel ever". I told you he was a "trap" didn't I!? Whitney Webb says they are within 2 years going to be set to have digital Id's for everyone on the internet and we will be labeled "Domestic Terrorist" when they determine what we post is "disinformation /dessent" and have laws in place to take our money and imprison us. If we don't do something before this year is over it is too late. We won't even be able to assemble for a protest let along anything else because they will simply turn off our money!

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every day another new low in the atrocities, now sick violent torture pornography run by the Israeli state. Caitlin says "If the Gaza genocide had happened pre-internet it would’ve been a fringe issue hardly anyone knew about. " - well it was run pre-internet for decades, albeit at a slower pace, but just as deadly. Plenty of people knew about it, there were speeches, demos, fierce articles for decades, but our governments then as now turned a blind eye to the crimes. There is no way back for Israel now. Just as in Ukraine, the Americans will pull their funding and let it be destroyed either by internal meltdown or large scale war - they never really cared about it, Israel was just one more pawn in the rabid geo-political havoc, they just haven't realised yet.

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"When it comes to Israel the main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives support Israel because they like it when Muslims get murdered while liberals support Israel because mumble mumble something something antisemitism Israel has a right to defend itself but we have serious concerns about the humanitarian HEY LOOK OVER THERE IT’S TRUMP!" - Cailtin Johnstone

You nailed it perfectly, Caitlin. Liberals (blue MAGA) and conservatives (red MAGA), who claim to be the opposite, are so much alike in every way it's scary.

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“Israel” is a creation of all your governments: they fund it, and they know all what the Israeli Genocide Force (IGF) is doing.

If any of them claim otherwise they are gaslighting you. Just like they gaslight you by calling you “antisemitic” for opposing genocide. And no wonder - they funded it. On purpose. You’re interrupting their plan.

Just remember that.

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More brilliance from Caitlin.

If I found a genie in a bottle, I’d ask for one thing. He/she would cross their arms, nod their head, blink, and poof!—Israhell will have disappeared from the face of the earth.

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Israel: the Frankenstein of the west, and that’s putting it mildly. The west has no clue what how to handle this monster but to keep feeding it. Eventually tt will turn on them too...how sweet a day that will be.

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"really it’s all the same war: the war on disobedience" - indeed. The world's fattest leech, the USA, needs the rest of the world under submission.

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The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) hove posted an open letter to Albanese to reinstate funding to the UNRWA along with several other very worthwhile measures.

Any Aussie readers who havent seen the letter yet, please follow this link to add your name. Albo needs to know that if he doesn't grow a spine before the next election he'll likely be out of a job.

https://ipan.org.au/statements/open-letter-to-prime-minister-albanese-on-gaza-february-2024/?

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Always supported there being an Israel. No longer convinced. Never thought they should be given nuclear weapons, Thanks France.

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