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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I can't stand the fact that we're not allowed to object to an f***ing genocide. It just makes me sick.

Excuses like "it's anti-semitic" are just plain lame. Babies are getting killed, infrastructure destroyed, people starving and freezing to death, every kind of abuse imaginable being inflicted on innocent people. and we're not supposed to say anything?

How stupid and morally blind do they think we are?

And how absolutely unconscionable are the people who are arming Israel, gaslighting us and providing cover?

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John Turcot's avatar

It’s not as much as being stupid, as much as it is to have won the Money game. It’s all about Money, yet it continues to be a taboo topic… have no Money, you’re done.. The master is not Israel as much as it is Money… Money, and the power of Mondy.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

"How stupid and morally blind do they think we are?"

Their assessment could be pretty accurate. They are experts on what they can get away with.

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grahamlyons's avatar

Welcome to the Zionist mindset, Diana.

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Katherine Martushoff's avatar

And they will get away with all of it. It's devastatingly clear that no Prime Minister or President, anywhere, will say no.

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Joseph Cullen's avatar

The President of Ireland says NO!

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Patrick Powers's avatar

Spain also says no. How long before Ireland and Spain are declared terrorist threats?

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martin's avatar

there were 10 foreign ministers criticizing the ban (with 'strong statements'). in the mean time there's 14 countries intervening in the icj-case (hopefully somewhat) on the side of south-africa. all of this is of course grossly insufficient. politicians dare not confess that the thing that works, a total blockade of goods and services coming out or going into israel, is beyond their power. corporations will not agree to it, control of the economy is entirely privatized.

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Davina's avatar

And that is one if the tools I talked about in the the last couple of days. Israel blockades everything Gaza needs just to survive. It's time Israel felt what it's like to have a total blockade on your regime, if you give it, you should be made to face taking it.

So, stop the weapons just for starters, plus the parts, and, of course, food, but not chocolate bars, any minerals, electricity, water, fuel - it's the least they should suffer considering they're not being bombed, yet.

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

But, Davina who is going to blockade Israel? Who is going to stop the weapons? Who is going to stop anything going to Israel? Who is going to stop the fugitive from international justice from strutting about and feted in the USA? Remember how many countries' airspace the monster flew over before landing in the US.

Those countries could have barred their airspace, forced his plane down and made a citizen's arrest.

How can any of this happen? The US, western countries, the compliant media owned by the oligarchs, the monied class, the ruling class are one with the present day holocaust, one with the genocide. They have to justify settler colonialism. As it is the same path they took to their 'prosperity'.

Unless.... the American people have the guts to rise up and throw out the tyrants and the neoliberal capitalism that enslaves them. They owe it to a better world.

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grahamlyons's avatar

Most of them are either under the threat of blackmail by The Chosen, or they made a Faustian pact and took their thirty shekels.

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Susan T's avatar

"So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes." They can try, but their own soldiers have already bragged so much about how they have destroyed homes and killed people, paraded around with women's clothing hanging from their bodies. Israeli ministers brag about the crimes of the IDF. They can't hide their crimes but they can cause more suffering, more children to die. "it’s the rhetoric and language on Israel that motivates the people to come and kill us.” Well, maybe, just maybe, if Israel stopped murdering people, starving people and destroying all of Gaza's hospitals, schools and homes, then maybe nobody would get confused and think that all Jews are Zionists and want to murder Jews. And while they are stopping all that, maybe they might consider stopping murdering people in the West Bank, in Lebanon and in Syria. Israel is a blight on the earth and Israel's supporters, wherever they are, are right in there blighting the earth along with Israel.

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Davina's avatar

Maybe they could stop "mourning" jews from waving israeli flags at funerals and in groups touring jew deaths. That many flags at one gathering for fifteen deaths shouts to the world "We are israelis" at the very least it shows them as supporters of a genocidal state full if Europeans.

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grahamlyons's avatar

Welcome to the Zionist mindset #2, Susan (#1 above).

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Eat me's avatar

❣️❣️MSF. And all the other brave aid workers. Bless them. Fuck all Zionist propagandist thugs and Muppets. Long live the brave Palestinians under murderous oppression and occupation

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Davina's avatar

Sorry, have to do a wee edit for you: Long live the brave palestinians freedom from being under a murderous oppression and occupation. That feels better to me 😉

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Tenggara's avatar

So many Gazans work for these aid groups and depend on the salary they receive for their livelihood. So what are they going to do now? This is just another form of slow, unflashy genocide, like what’s been happening after the so-called ceasefire. It hasn’t stopped!

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

More important than ever! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.

Find out what they’re doing here:

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org

Donate to help them here:

Support the Hind Rajab Foundation

https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

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Jason Michael Wynn's avatar

Here's hoping someone in Washington has to read all your articles here thanks to your being on the watch list. We'll know its happening when we start seeing a line of officials resigning. Its going to happen. Its going to happen for all kinds of reasons: grief, fear for self and others, clarity, anger, love, justice, and the sudden dispersion of good reasons to continue supporting the war machine.

Love you guys. We will never forget what is happening, and that should spook some wholesome behavior right out from under their finger.

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John Turcot's avatar

Are you saying that the government officials who control the world can read? Mmmm???

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Michael  Lynch's avatar

Too busy buggering innocent children or each other to take time to read; even if they could actually read.

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into the red's avatar

The Israeli thought police are destroying liberal democracies from within. Nothing threatens them more than free speech, open and honest reporting and the evidence of their barbaric, industrial scale sadism and inhuman cruelty. And they know it. Anyone who thinks it is ‘antisemitic’ to protest about this is saying such brutal savagery is inherently Jewish which, insanely, is more deeply antisemitic than any form of words they demand is banned.

Not only do they think we are stupid, they think they have a right to wreck our societies in order to save their US armed fortress and fake theme park, allowing them to massacre anybody who stands in their way, or occupies land they want.

Moral courage requires standing up for our rights, and being opposed to genocide, coercion and being silenced.

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dale ruff's avatar

Happy New Year to all with our joy found in fighting for human rights.

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Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

Well I believe Israel has the Power and can Ban anyone they want ,but there is that one most important thing in the World they can not KILL,BAN, HIDE, or CENSOR forever , even with all their Military Might, Power and influence ,is the 'TRUTH" the truth will catch up with them as long as the Sun Rises

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John Turcot's avatar

Unfortunately, the “Truth “ has been officially banned by Israel.

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John Turcot's avatar

I guess I’m a little late in making the declaration… although it might be a coincidence that all the letters in the word ISRAELIS are in the word LIARS.

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grahamlyons's avatar

The Chosen invented "the post-truth world".

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Davina's avatar

They just need to keep accusing others of a variety if crimes and we will know exactly what israel is up to. Accusation is confession with them.

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

Where does Israel get the authority to ban aid from people who need aid because of Israel's barbarity? A very strange, nightmarish situation.

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Michael  Lynch's avatar

An ideology that governs a state and justifies the mass killing, starvation, and erasure of a Semitic people for land and demographic control is antisemitic by definition. No historical trauma, linguistic hijacking, political bullshitting, or moral theater alters that.

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Thank you Rachael. When he says: “I for one as a Jewish leader will no long talk about antisemitism in isolation from Israel..." that is exactly how they conflate semitism with zionism thereby directly associating Jewish people world-wide with the Gaza holocaust (and thank you fr using that word). This is an own-goal.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

All the best to you and Tim, Caitlin. I know we can count on you to keep on telling it like it is!

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DEREK HANDS's avatar

Inhuman genocidal squatter Nazis

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Who is reporting protests in Iran and why would anyone believe them?

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