No respect to Bernie or the Democrat Genocide Party. Everyone should have turned their back on Bernie and left when the good protestors for Palestine were removed.
He’s doing what Caitlin described - trying to gather a big umbrella - but that time has long passed, a moral stance is necessary. The people are begging for it actually.
The best thing was witnessing majority of the crowd chanting Free Palestine. The crowd is ready to erupt for Palestine (just as it was in the 1 second Kamala referenced it at the DNC). But they are quickly subdued by the ‘leaders’… if they truly opted to lead, the people are ready.
Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. Palestine has a right to exist and has existed for at least two millennia. Israel’s right to exist is debatable.
This is the crucial point.. but first agree 100% with you regards Palestine.
But what was the play out on Oct 7th ? ... the staged invasion by "bad terrorists !!", onto Israeli land (as recognised by some) ... all defences switched off including the automatic weapons, impenetrable gates crashed through, paragliders ???, troops moved, the festival moved the day before, hostages taken ... (ever see one fight back ?) ??... so now - according to International law ... Israel DO HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT to defend itself.
See how it all fits together ?; clever isn't it; but think it has backfired on Israel; the people are rising.
All living entities have a natural right to self-defense. That includes smallpox, anthrax, SARS COV2, etc. But that doesn’t mean that we should support them.
The International Court of Criminal Justice has ruled against the actions of Israel and Bibi the Yahoo, but has no police force to do much about that.
Most members of the United Nations do not support Israel, but the USA and Israel have veto power to override the UN.
Only a massive uprising of “the people” can change the system that has been designed to resist change.
NO ... "The International Court of Criminal Justice has ruled against the actions of Israel and Bibi the Yahoo, but has no police force to do much about that."....
They ruled against the genocidal actions of Israel and Bibi PLUS certain actions of HAMAS (the government of Palestine, with a so called military wing). Just more smoke and mirrors !.
As posted before, being English, no real lover of the French.... BUT I have to give them credit for some things... ESPECIALLY THIS (Sorry if you have seen it before) ....
That song is a spinoff of the spirit of the French Revolution that preceded it — a rousing call for all citizens to take up arms against their oppressors. The oppressors were identified as the ruling class of wealthy elites. By today’s standards, the “citizens” would be called socialists or communists.
The French doctor Guillotine invented the machine for quick and allegedly painless decapitation of the oppressors
— far less ghastly than what US-made bombs are doing to the Palestinians.
Their right to exist began when the Zionist entity was foisted on traditional Palestinian homeland courtesy of the Balfour Declaration, product of the despicable British cowards
By what authority did Mark Sykes prepare that Balfour Declaration to create Israel within oil-rich Palestine, in addition to the Sykes-Picot agreement that created the countries of Iran and Iraq based upon their oil fields?
The British later defined Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc. without the consent of the natives. The British also participated in the Greek - Turkish Population Exchange of 1922/1923 — a euphemism for ethnic cleansing of Greeks, Jews and Armenians from the Ottoman Empire. The Brits’ motivation was for access to the oil fields and for unimpeded access for ships to traverse the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea.
The British Empire acted with arrogance and audacity, unimpeded by the American Empire that wanted a piece of the oil action, and strategic access to the Middle East.
The local inhabitants of all affected countries were not consulted.
I am waiting for someone who’s important, a child of a Congress person or somebody like that to stand up and support Palestine and then see if ICE arrests them.
Yes, but few people realized or were aware of before Oct 7th (including me). This Genocide is bringing Zionist politicians out into the open like never before...
May 31,2010 and my eyes were opened when the IDF murdered the 9 people who were delivering supplies from boats on the Sea bypassing the blocked entrance from both Egypt and Israel's entrance to Gaza, after Hamas was elected because Abbas was a bought&paid for Pro-Irael duplicitous turncoat who never was going to be more than than that as Palestinians were completely blocked from leaving or for being able to get anything for themselves and after 2008-2009 Cast Lead start of many massacres turning Gaza into tons and tons of rubble on top of rubble with 2000 died with the month 2008-2009. Half population was kids even then.
So, after she returned from alone seeking truth/trip she created the site ifamericansknew.org Alison Weir's journey to the truth, and found out about Rachel Corrie's 2003 death from Caterpillar driver who drove over her, as she tried to stop the demolition of their home. I found out about Ilan Pappe's book Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. I weep daily dreading the Oct 8th date of the massacre that would never be stopped and it became just that, Maybe anti-Semitism is real enough in pre dawn history of time.
He’s a slimy shill for the hypocritical Dems. He’s shown this contemptible persona as a fake lib progressive in the presidential race with Hillary Clinton as frontrunner. He’s shameless
Yes, Longtrail, with appointed spies in all the Members and Senators offices. Well, to be totally accurate, 86% of the offices.
Israel's head office, AIPAC, populated with totally loyal Americans, (aka Israelis) and with the "the current arrangement" with Trump now fulfilling the role of the #1 Israeli. (aka American) employee, they can't wait for the next Netanyahu summons for a National AIPAC Conference (both parties required to attend by order) to continue the 'party vs party' battle where the most obvious groveller wins the day. In reality, the winner being the biggest raiser of political revenues (bribe money) as with Adelson and Musk, in the 2025 example.
US politics in future a much more simple affair. All Presidential candidates will be Israeli-owned.
Which is why they're thrashing around aimlessly, and using Bernie, of all people, as one of their *front-end* spokespersons while cueing up AOC.
Of course, Trump will crash even harder with his own crowd in a year or two, and once people become that disillusioned -- that is, that there is *no alternative* that on can "switch" to in a deeply corrupt duopoly -- then the real fun begins.
Bernie and AOC are such a disappointment. Genocide supporters, both.
"Israel does not have “a right to defend itself” against an occupied population in a giant concentration camp. Under international law it has a right to end the occupation, and that’s it. “Israel has a right to defend itself” is just a slogan people say when they want to justify supplying an ongoing genocide."
The Palestinians INCLUDING Hamas have a right to resist their violent, illegal occupation INCLUDING with violence. The UN Charter says as much.
IMO the Zionist Occupation vs. Palestinians was the topic they used to introduce Orwellian "Newspeak" into the political discourse. Occupier as victim, occupied as terrorists, defense as genocide, up is down, dark is light, evil is good. I'm seeing it everywhere now, not just on this topic.
There’s a billboard down the road from me in NH that says “Hamas is your problem too” and it angers me. No, no they aren’t. I won’t become a flying monkey for genocidal war criminals.
“ controlled opposition who’s sole purpose is to trick well meaning liberals” into staying with the democrats. In other words Bernie is a sheep dog and he’s always been one. He never had any intention of being president. Look at how easily he folded each time he was cheated.
Every Zionist accusation is a confession. The face value/meaning of every Zionist statement can safely be reversed for the reality of it.
>Never Again = Anytime WE want
>Right to defend itself = Freedom to murder, maim and occupy at will and crush any attempt to resist
>Right to exist = Absolutely zero right to exist
>Most moral army in the world = Most depraved, evil military force on Earth
>We are innocent and were raped, beheaded, kidnapped and executed = We are the brutal occupying force guilty of systematic rape, mutilation, torture and extra-legal executions and we maintain a decades long program of kidnapping and imprisoning innocents
>Israelis should never have to fear for their lives = Palestinians and any other non-Jews in our vicinity must always fear for their lives
>Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East = Israel will do anything it can to convince outsiders that they have a democracy, but they really have an apartheid theocratic ethno-supremacist cartel for a government
>Israel is America's ally = Run far the fuck away from this rabid wolf in sheep's clothing. Israel is NOBODY'S ally except in cases where we might benefit, but as soon as you're not needed anymore, we have no problem prostrating you and sucking the last morsels of flesh off your bones
>Criticism of "Israel" is anti-semitic = "Israel" IS anti-semitism embodied
>"Israel" exists as a homeland for persecuted Jews who are never actually safe anywhere else in the world = "Israel" will do anything in its power to increase actual hatred of Jews elsewhere in the world so that they feel compelled to come here, where they are far less safe
>"Israel" only wants to exist in peace, but these savages won't let us = "Israel" is a savage settler colonial apartheid state that may allow YOU to temporarily exist in peace, but we aren't making any guarantees if we don't get EVERYTHING we want from you
👏👏 Some excellent observations! Now someone needs to create an Israeli Zionist double-speak dictionary and spread it FAR and WIDE so as to raise the level of awareness on how Zionist propaganda works.
there are others I'm sure, and really: what kind of country even needs to publish crap like that so that its citizens and supporters around the world can try to repair or burnish its image? this is far beyond even the most cursed accusations against Russia or China. Israel needs to be forced to comply with FARA laws in the US.
>>"Israel needs to be forced to comply with FARA laws in the US."
But WHO is going to do the enforcement? Certainly not the U.S. That is why we (i.e. the world) are facing a unique problem this time in history - the greatest powers and forces are on the WRONG side of the 'good vs. evil' fight.
I am pessimistic about the future - what will it take to dismantle Israel (and hence also the U.S. Empire)?
Yes, that is an 'official' Hasbara manual for promoting Zionism on University campuses. I was thinking more along the lines of 'double-speak' and 'false narratives' from more recent hasbara and zionist strategies.
I can see it is wholly contrary to healthy debate.
The most elemental thing I've learned in politics: When someone opposes you in good faith, THERE'S A REASON. You stop asserting, you shut up, and you learn what that reason is -- no matter how much you may disagree, and no matter how emotionally painful it is. In journalism, it's called discovery, and it's not optional.
Openly describes the mind-fuckery -- treating people as objects to be manipulated -- as if it's simply normal behavior from one human being to another. The only scale to be concerned with is the intelligence applied to it.
I see this dimension of psychopathy is spreading throughout MSM. (I've collected a number of examples.)
You don't need to download. Use a standard PC web browser (Edge to be safe since it is the default PDF viewer on Microsoft computers) and you can see it. If you're on a phone I don't know what to tell ya.
Missing from the standard narrative about South Africa, is that the Khoisan/Hottentots/Bushmen - the original inhabitants of south Africa - were not sub-Saharan Negros/Blacks. When the time the Boers arrived on the Cape, there was an agreement with the Khoisan, which land they could farm. The farmland was of no use to the Khoisan. At the same time, Bantus and Zulus were invading from the North, slaughtering everyone in sight and taking what they wanted. While Apartheid may have been objectionable, one may ask that if it was so bad, why did millions of Blacks from other countries flood into South Africa to work? Trade unions were allowed in South Africa, unlike many countries in Africa. Narratives are created, because allowing all of the pertinent information, like Mandela, who was not Khoisan, being imprisoned for planning to blow up a power plant, killing people in the process, make things more complicated.
Bernie Sanders should be rebuked by someone. Sometimes I think those "nice guys" are the worst ones because people buy into what they are saying, at least for a while, but in the meantime hundreds of children are dying every week, often being murdered on purpose by one of the soldiers of the "most moral army in the world". Where is the least moral army in the world, then?
An action like this was needed 24 yrs ago, had it been so, then an Oct *th could never have happened as the Oct 7th event wouldn't have been needed. May 31,2010 was Boat to Gaza tragedy 9 murdered by IDF and Killing Gaza, Seige of Gaza since Cast Lead[first of 8 massacres since Hamas was elected and was only ever mostly resistance that Israel used as scapegoat and proxy for massacre reasoning.
She knows she doesn't have a chance without AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 funding. To get it she'll do what the zionist state🇮🇱 wants. This is what the vast majority of Congress and the Executive do.
Chang, Francesca Albanese is one in a million. In Australia she put the so called journalists well and truly in their place when they asked stupid questions.
Thanks for the detailed analysis Caitlin. In the beginning, Bernie sounded like a reasonable person. He was saying all the right things (things that I wanted to hear). After a while I realized that he was saying the exact same thing in every interview and speech. It was like he was reading from a script. Something didn't feel right to me. So, I started paying attention to the words he was using and how those words were phrased. Then it dawned on me. I reached the same conclusion as you did. He was blaming it all on netanyahu and his current government. By doing that, he was exempting Israel and all Israelis from the responsibility. It's like Bernie found his own Oct 7 - the day netanyahu formed this current government. According to Bernie, 1948 didn't happen, 1967 didn't happen, 2004 didn't happen, 2015 didn't happen and so on. I was enraged at my own stupidity. How easily he fooled me! Fuck Bernie Sanders.
Well said Irfan A Khan! Thank you! I too was fooled by Bernie. At this point in time, I have been fooled by so many (Clinton, Obama, Tulsi Gabbard, Fetterman, ...) others (though I am improving in my ability to detect bullshit, false narratives, and propaganda - it's a journey).
Yes, tulsi gabbard fooled me as well. You can still find my comments on facebook praising her principled stance on issues that resonate with me. Same thing with Bernie. Such disappointments 😔
Thank you Caitlin, for exposing Bernie Sanders for the hypocrite Zionist that he is. He comes across as controlled opposition and a corralling mechanism to retain people into the Democratic party and preventing TRUE INDEPENDENCE from the 'fake duopoly' of the US political system.
For that matter, MLK and Fred Hampton, to name but two, also were not exactly mild-mannered Team D nuthugging incrementalists.
I was pleased that when that turd Corey Booker quoted Fred Hampton, he was promptly taken to task for leaving out the part of the quote on "international proletarian revolution".
Sanders is the most cucked man in America. After what was done to him by the DNC in 2016 he should be absolutely furious, instead he bows at their feet.
Sanders and AOC are controlled opposition, nothing more.
Israel has displaced everyone in Palestine while destroying homes, hospitals, schools, universities, and everything else it can target. Half of the murdered are babies and children- the innocents of the world by any measure.
There is an international principle of proportionality in war, which Israel finds itself not beholden to. To enact a genocide is an act of psychopathy and Israel is drunk with blood lust. If it were a few leaders in power committing the IDF to enact these crimes they could be removed and face consequences. But we are informed that the general population approves with some exceptions.
Self-defense must always be proportional. It is a lawless rogue nation that acts in defiance of this.
The mindless and cowardly claim of Israel acting in self-defense by supporters should never go unchallenged.
If Israel has a right to defend itself against the people it crushes under murderous occupation then surely the Germans had a right to defend themselves against the French and Polish Resistance and the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto? Why were we fighting the Germans when, by this criteria, they were in the right?
No-one is ever in the right for occupation and genocide. And remember, the Nazis did not just target Jews, a religious group, and tens of millions died because they were Slavs and Gypsies, racial/cultural groups.
And it is wrong to blame all Jews for the actions of their fanatics, even when most Jews support those fanatics.
It takes Caitlin to put things in perspective." Israel has a right to defend itself" is truly a genocidal slogan. Are we to expect that those who mouth these slogans -like Bernie Sanders is doing - will take the next step and say, "by any means necessary", introverting the slogan of liberation struggles of the occupied and dispossessed?
"By any means necessary" is, of course, a repudiation of democratic function, along with civil disobedience in general. When we use it, it should (with apologies to Carl Sagan) only be because "extreme need requires extreme solutions".
In the U.S., undemocratic British control, slavery, and Jim Crow laws were seen in this way by sufficient numbers of contemporary Americans in 1775, 1861, and 1965, respectively, in each case after many years of appeals to reason and empathy. But whenever one must elevate notably lesser complaints using ceaseless but vacuous repetition, distortion, lies, and censorship to get the job done, then the complaint is a con job.
For more than a year before 7 October 2023, official reports from IDF GAZA patrol informed the Netanyahu government of what they already knew that the money from Qatar, which Netanyahu also permitted to be transferred to GAZA, that money was part of the preparation for an intentional Hamas invasion so that again, Israel could proclaim it had a right to defend itself because all the world was antisemitic. And again, just as all previous attacks had been triggered by Israeli instrumentalization of Palestinians, Israel declared itself the victim and Netanyahu could displace the nation’s focus on his criminal activities because they were now in a war. It was no accident that the IDF had been transferred to the far reaches of Israel. It was no accident that initial reports from the IDF were ignored. It was no accident that for the first time in 77 years, the Palestinians were free to cut the fence and charge in unopposed into their occupier’s territory. It was no accident that Israel sacrificed its own civilians attending the Nova concert using the excuse of the Hannibal Directive and then blaming all the deaths on Hamas.
No respect to Bernie or the Democrat Genocide Party. Everyone should have turned their back on Bernie and left when the good protestors for Palestine were removed.
He’s doing what Caitlin described - trying to gather a big umbrella - but that time has long passed, a moral stance is necessary. The people are begging for it actually.
The best thing was witnessing majority of the crowd chanting Free Palestine. The crowd is ready to erupt for Palestine (just as it was in the 1 second Kamala referenced it at the DNC). But they are quickly subdued by the ‘leaders’… if they truly opted to lead, the people are ready.
Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. Palestine has a right to exist and has existed for at least two millennia. Israel’s right to exist is debatable.
This is the crucial point.. but first agree 100% with you regards Palestine.
But what was the play out on Oct 7th ? ... the staged invasion by "bad terrorists !!", onto Israeli land (as recognised by some) ... all defences switched off including the automatic weapons, impenetrable gates crashed through, paragliders ???, troops moved, the festival moved the day before, hostages taken ... (ever see one fight back ?) ??... so now - according to International law ... Israel DO HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT to defend itself.
See how it all fits together ?; clever isn't it; but think it has backfired on Israel; the people are rising.
All living entities have a natural right to self-defense. That includes smallpox, anthrax, SARS COV2, etc. But that doesn’t mean that we should support them.
The International Court of Criminal Justice has ruled against the actions of Israel and Bibi the Yahoo, but has no police force to do much about that.
Most members of the United Nations do not support Israel, but the USA and Israel have veto power to override the UN.
Only a massive uprising of “the people” can change the system that has been designed to resist change.
NO ... "The International Court of Criminal Justice has ruled against the actions of Israel and Bibi the Yahoo, but has no police force to do much about that."....
They ruled against the genocidal actions of Israel and Bibi PLUS certain actions of HAMAS (the government of Palestine, with a so called military wing). Just more smoke and mirrors !.
As posted before, being English, no real lover of the French.... BUT I have to give them credit for some things... ESPECIALLY THIS (Sorry if you have seen it before) ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQ-SC9bmp4
Always brings tears to my eyes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise
That song is a spinoff of the spirit of the French Revolution that preceded it — a rousing call for all citizens to take up arms against their oppressors. The oppressors were identified as the ruling class of wealthy elites. By today’s standards, the “citizens” would be called socialists or communists.
The French doctor Guillotine invented the machine for quick and allegedly painless decapitation of the oppressors
— far less ghastly than what US-made bombs are doing to the Palestinians.
Their right to exist began when the Zionist entity was foisted on traditional Palestinian homeland courtesy of the Balfour Declaration, product of the despicable British cowards
By what authority did Mark Sykes prepare that Balfour Declaration to create Israel within oil-rich Palestine, in addition to the Sykes-Picot agreement that created the countries of Iran and Iraq based upon their oil fields?
The British later defined Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc. without the consent of the natives. The British also participated in the Greek - Turkish Population Exchange of 1922/1923 — a euphemism for ethnic cleansing of Greeks, Jews and Armenians from the Ottoman Empire. The Brits’ motivation was for access to the oil fields and for unimpeded access for ships to traverse the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea.
The British Empire acted with arrogance and audacity, unimpeded by the American Empire that wanted a piece of the oil action, and strategic access to the Middle East.
The local inhabitants of all affected countries were not consulted.
I am waiting for someone who’s important, a child of a Congress person or somebody like that to stand up and support Palestine and then see if ICE arrests them.
Protests must be mean and intensive and non-stop!!!
Caitlin is a liar. Watch any of the Fight oligarchy tour rally’s. She’s on some douche bags payroll to keep Trump.
well, said - especially true now
He has always been a zio. Always.
Yes, but few people realized or were aware of before Oct 7th (including me). This Genocide is bringing Zionist politicians out into the open like never before...
Yep. The veil is lifted. It's a matter of time now bc empire inevitably backfires on itself.
Joe Biden is a self-proclaimed proud Zionist.
B.. is just a sick mentally and physically person manipulated from within. Wouldn't be surprised if through fuck/ sine.
Given the depth of his corruption, he is *completely* malleable to whatever TPTB want at the moment.
May 31,2010 and my eyes were opened when the IDF murdered the 9 people who were delivering supplies from boats on the Sea bypassing the blocked entrance from both Egypt and Israel's entrance to Gaza, after Hamas was elected because Abbas was a bought&paid for Pro-Irael duplicitous turncoat who never was going to be more than than that as Palestinians were completely blocked from leaving or for being able to get anything for themselves and after 2008-2009 Cast Lead start of many massacres turning Gaza into tons and tons of rubble on top of rubble with 2000 died with the month 2008-2009. Half population was kids even then.
So, after she returned from alone seeking truth/trip she created the site ifamericansknew.org Alison Weir's journey to the truth, and found out about Rachel Corrie's 2003 death from Caterpillar driver who drove over her, as she tried to stop the demolition of their home. I found out about Ilan Pappe's book Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. I weep daily dreading the Oct 8th date of the massacre that would never be stopped and it became just that, Maybe anti-Semitism is real enough in pre dawn history of time.
What is a Semite?
“anti-semitism” is a bogus term of propaganda.
A desert-dwelling person, and this applies more properly to a Palestinian than to an Israeli citizen.
How many Israelis are descendants of King David of yore?
Many Palestinians are descendants of Jews who converted to Islam under Arabic or Ottoman rule many centuries ago.
Zionist state is godless!! Israeli sinners will also stand for Judgment in the end times!!
Do you mean May 10, 2025 ?
2010 is correct. Look up Mavi Marmara
This is some seriously bad news.
He’s a slimy shill for the hypocritical Dems. He’s shown this contemptible persona as a fake lib progressive in the presidential race with Hillary Clinton as frontrunner. He’s shameless
AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 controls both the d & r parties.
Yes, Longtrail, with appointed spies in all the Members and Senators offices. Well, to be totally accurate, 86% of the offices.
Israel's head office, AIPAC, populated with totally loyal Americans, (aka Israelis) and with the "the current arrangement" with Trump now fulfilling the role of the #1 Israeli. (aka American) employee, they can't wait for the next Netanyahu summons for a National AIPAC Conference (both parties required to attend by order) to continue the 'party vs party' battle where the most obvious groveller wins the day. In reality, the winner being the biggest raiser of political revenues (bribe money) as with Adelson and Musk, in the 2025 example.
US politics in future a much more simple affair. All Presidential candidates will be Israeli-owned.
It's a Uniparty with two names. The Democrats are not an opposition party, they just play one on TV. (And not as well as they used to.)
"And not as well as they used to"
Which is why they're thrashing around aimlessly, and using Bernie, of all people, as one of their *front-end* spokespersons while cueing up AOC.
Of course, Trump will crash even harder with his own crowd in a year or two, and once people become that disillusioned -- that is, that there is *no alternative* that on can "switch" to in a deeply corrupt duopoly -- then the real fun begins.
Meaning they’ll be stuck with a shitshow for next 4 years. Was it worth it???
I won’t be voting for her if she runs.
Loyalty is for sale at the highest ($$$$). Bidder
As far as I’m concerned, the last smart Democratic president we had was JFK and our Zionist loving government had him killed. 😢☮️🇵🇸
Bernie and AOC are such a disappointment. Genocide supporters, both.
"Israel does not have “a right to defend itself” against an occupied population in a giant concentration camp. Under international law it has a right to end the occupation, and that’s it. “Israel has a right to defend itself” is just a slogan people say when they want to justify supplying an ongoing genocide."
The Palestinians INCLUDING Hamas have a right to resist their violent, illegal occupation INCLUDING with violence. The UN Charter says as much.
IMO the Zionist Occupation vs. Palestinians was the topic they used to introduce Orwellian "Newspeak" into the political discourse. Occupier as victim, occupied as terrorists, defense as genocide, up is down, dark is light, evil is good. I'm seeing it everywhere now, not just on this topic.
100% we live in the upside down.
1984
Aye, we exist in the 2+2=5 era.
Undoubtedly Tom, it's double speak everyday on the mainstream media nowadays.
There’s a billboard down the road from me in NH that says “Hamas is your problem too” and it angers me. No, no they aren’t. I won’t become a flying monkey for genocidal war criminals.
Maggie, take a firearm (or borrow one) and riddle that POS billboard with bullets.
Worse than that. He’s a double agent, wolf in sheep’s clothing, con artist, controlled opposition who’s sole purpose is to trick well meaning liberals
“ controlled opposition who’s sole purpose is to trick well meaning liberals” into staying with the democrats. In other words Bernie is a sheep dog and he’s always been one. He never had any intention of being president. Look at how easily he folded each time he was cheated.
You’re right. He’s a faithful sheepdog always looking for the reward
They did not disappoint me, for I expected no better.
Every Zionist accusation is a confession. The face value/meaning of every Zionist statement can safely be reversed for the reality of it.
>Never Again = Anytime WE want
>Right to defend itself = Freedom to murder, maim and occupy at will and crush any attempt to resist
>Right to exist = Absolutely zero right to exist
>Most moral army in the world = Most depraved, evil military force on Earth
>We are innocent and were raped, beheaded, kidnapped and executed = We are the brutal occupying force guilty of systematic rape, mutilation, torture and extra-legal executions and we maintain a decades long program of kidnapping and imprisoning innocents
>Israelis should never have to fear for their lives = Palestinians and any other non-Jews in our vicinity must always fear for their lives
>Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East = Israel will do anything it can to convince outsiders that they have a democracy, but they really have an apartheid theocratic ethno-supremacist cartel for a government
>Israel is America's ally = Run far the fuck away from this rabid wolf in sheep's clothing. Israel is NOBODY'S ally except in cases where we might benefit, but as soon as you're not needed anymore, we have no problem prostrating you and sucking the last morsels of flesh off your bones
>Criticism of "Israel" is anti-semitic = "Israel" IS anti-semitism embodied
>"Israel" exists as a homeland for persecuted Jews who are never actually safe anywhere else in the world = "Israel" will do anything in its power to increase actual hatred of Jews elsewhere in the world so that they feel compelled to come here, where they are far less safe
>"Israel" only wants to exist in peace, but these savages won't let us = "Israel" is a savage settler colonial apartheid state that may allow YOU to temporarily exist in peace, but we aren't making any guarantees if we don't get EVERYTHING we want from you
👏👏 Some excellent observations! Now someone needs to create an Israeli Zionist double-speak dictionary and spread it FAR and WIDE so as to raise the level of awareness on how Zionist propaganda works.
http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf
there are others I'm sure, and really: what kind of country even needs to publish crap like that so that its citizens and supporters around the world can try to repair or burnish its image? this is far beyond even the most cursed accusations against Russia or China. Israel needs to be forced to comply with FARA laws in the US.
>>"Israel needs to be forced to comply with FARA laws in the US."
But WHO is going to do the enforcement? Certainly not the U.S. That is why we (i.e. the world) are facing a unique problem this time in history - the greatest powers and forces are on the WRONG side of the 'good vs. evil' fight.
I am pessimistic about the future - what will it take to dismantle Israel (and hence also the U.S. Empire)?
Yes, that is an 'official' Hasbara manual for promoting Zionism on University campuses. I was thinking more along the lines of 'double-speak' and 'false narratives' from more recent hasbara and zionist strategies.
I can see it is wholly contrary to healthy debate.
The most elemental thing I've learned in politics: When someone opposes you in good faith, THERE'S A REASON. You stop asserting, you shut up, and you learn what that reason is -- no matter how much you may disagree, and no matter how emotionally painful it is. In journalism, it's called discovery, and it's not optional.
Openly describes the mind-fuckery -- treating people as objects to be manipulated -- as if it's simply normal behavior from one human being to another. The only scale to be concerned with is the intelligence applied to it.
I see this dimension of psychopathy is spreading throughout MSM. (I've collected a number of examples.)
Downloading file is blocked. Can't select text. Need to take screen shots.
You don't need to download. Use a standard PC web browser (Edge to be safe since it is the default PDF viewer on Microsoft computers) and you can see it. If you're on a phone I don't know what to tell ya.
Could you tell me, though, what you understand about the security problem? Otherwise, you know...
I can see it, just can't save it.
Apartheid South Africa was a "democracy" too, as long as you were white and didn’t upset the status quo too much.
Missing from the standard narrative about South Africa, is that the Khoisan/Hottentots/Bushmen - the original inhabitants of south Africa - were not sub-Saharan Negros/Blacks. When the time the Boers arrived on the Cape, there was an agreement with the Khoisan, which land they could farm. The farmland was of no use to the Khoisan. At the same time, Bantus and Zulus were invading from the North, slaughtering everyone in sight and taking what they wanted. While Apartheid may have been objectionable, one may ask that if it was so bad, why did millions of Blacks from other countries flood into South Africa to work? Trade unions were allowed in South Africa, unlike many countries in Africa. Narratives are created, because allowing all of the pertinent information, like Mandela, who was not Khoisan, being imprisoned for planning to blow up a power plant, killing people in the process, make things more complicated.
Well put, Tom! I can add nothing other than: c'noath!
In America we don’t make problems disappear. We take a far more efficient route — we make the person who identifies the problem disappear.
And we’re damned good at -- rebuking.
Judge rebukes Trump for disappearing innocents
Rubio rebukes Columbia, Princeton and Harvard for anti-semitism
Bernie rebukes Israel for killing children.
AOC rebukes Schumer for whatever she needs to get elected to the Senate on her way to the complete selling of her soul.
Bernie Sanders should be rebuked by someone. Sometimes I think those "nice guys" are the worst ones because people buy into what they are saying, at least for a while, but in the meantime hundreds of children are dying every week, often being murdered on purpose by one of the soldiers of the "most moral army in the world". Where is the least moral army in the world, then?
An action like this was needed 24 yrs ago, had it been so, then an Oct *th could never have happened as the Oct 7th event wouldn't have been needed. May 31,2010 was Boat to Gaza tragedy 9 murdered by IDF and Killing Gaza, Seige of Gaza since Cast Lead[first of 8 massacres since Hamas was elected and was only ever mostly resistance that Israel used as scapegoat and proxy for massacre reasoning.
Been ongoing for 75 years. Check out the Nabka.
She knows she doesn't have a chance without AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 funding. To get it she'll do what the zionist state🇮🇱 wants. This is what the vast majority of Congress and the Executive do.
Hard to believe Thomas Massie is hanging in there! Maybe if the others would try to speak out, they might be pleasantly surprised at the support 🤔
The route of least resistance for US pols.
How do it get to this??? America get your heads out of the sand!
From rebuke to rebukele
👏👏 Well said Vin! 🎯💯
A bunch of gangstas!!!
Francesca Albanese recently said that no nation has a right to exist, only people do.
Israel is murdering people.
I really respect Francesca Albanese - she has integrity and courage to speak her mind the way she does. We need MORE of such people in our world...
Chang, Francesca Albanese is one in a million. In Australia she put the so called journalists well and truly in their place when they asked stupid questions.
I'm surprised she hasn't changed her name to avoid anyone thinking she's connected in some way with our current P.M.
I resolutely agree Francesca!!
Thanks for the detailed analysis Caitlin. In the beginning, Bernie sounded like a reasonable person. He was saying all the right things (things that I wanted to hear). After a while I realized that he was saying the exact same thing in every interview and speech. It was like he was reading from a script. Something didn't feel right to me. So, I started paying attention to the words he was using and how those words were phrased. Then it dawned on me. I reached the same conclusion as you did. He was blaming it all on netanyahu and his current government. By doing that, he was exempting Israel and all Israelis from the responsibility. It's like Bernie found his own Oct 7 - the day netanyahu formed this current government. According to Bernie, 1948 didn't happen, 1967 didn't happen, 2004 didn't happen, 2015 didn't happen and so on. I was enraged at my own stupidity. How easily he fooled me! Fuck Bernie Sanders.
Well said Irfan A Khan! Thank you! I too was fooled by Bernie. At this point in time, I have been fooled by so many (Clinton, Obama, Tulsi Gabbard, Fetterman, ...) others (though I am improving in my ability to detect bullshit, false narratives, and propaganda - it's a journey).
Yes, tulsi gabbard fooled me as well. You can still find my comments on facebook praising her principled stance on issues that resonate with me. Same thing with Bernie. Such disappointments 😔
Chang… FUCKERMAN? Aka Fred Munster???
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Thank you Caitlin, for exposing Bernie Sanders for the hypocrite Zionist that he is. He comes across as controlled opposition and a corralling mechanism to retain people into the Democratic party and preventing TRUE INDEPENDENCE from the 'fake duopoly' of the US political system.
That’s right. So much worse and more dangerous to peace movements than your average neocon
Malcolm X had some choice words on the subject of white liberals.
Which is why he was murdered, Feral, of course.
The Empire couldn’t have someone who actually pointed out truths. Especially one with black skin.
Thank you for mentioning MX, Feral: one of my true heroes.
For that matter, MLK and Fred Hampton, to name but two, also were not exactly mild-mannered Team D nuthugging incrementalists.
I was pleased that when that turd Corey Booker quoted Fred Hampton, he was promptly taken to task for leaving out the part of the quote on "international proletarian revolution".
"Why didn't you finish the quote?"
Spot on.
He’s a SHILL!! Get clear about this!
Bernie and AOC are both frauds. They know what people want to hear (tax the rich! Healthcare!) and do zero to actually accomplish anything.
🎯💯!
Hey, that resonates with the Dem position!!
If anyone were to make that ridiculous claim to me, my response would be: “Against whom? Old men? Mothers? Children?”
Sanders is the most cucked man in America. After what was done to him by the DNC in 2016 he should be absolutely furious, instead he bows at their feet.
Sanders and AOC are controlled opposition, nothing more.
Israel has displaced everyone in Palestine while destroying homes, hospitals, schools, universities, and everything else it can target. Half of the murdered are babies and children- the innocents of the world by any measure.
There is an international principle of proportionality in war, which Israel finds itself not beholden to. To enact a genocide is an act of psychopathy and Israel is drunk with blood lust. If it were a few leaders in power committing the IDF to enact these crimes they could be removed and face consequences. But we are informed that the general population approves with some exceptions.
Self-defense must always be proportional. It is a lawless rogue nation that acts in defiance of this.
The mindless and cowardly claim of Israel acting in self-defense by supporters should never go unchallenged.
Their cradle to grave propaganda is almost unexcelled. Hmm, America may run a very close second?
If Israel has a right to defend itself against the people it crushes under murderous occupation then surely the Germans had a right to defend themselves against the French and Polish Resistance and the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto? Why were we fighting the Germans when, by this criteria, they were in the right?
Roslyn, it beginning to seem that they WERE in the right.
Does this make me “antisemitic”? Tough tomatoes, don’t give a fuck!
No-one is ever in the right for occupation and genocide. And remember, the Nazis did not just target Jews, a religious group, and tens of millions died because they were Slavs and Gypsies, racial/cultural groups.
And it is wrong to blame all Jews for the actions of their fanatics, even when most Jews support those fanatics.
It takes Caitlin to put things in perspective." Israel has a right to defend itself" is truly a genocidal slogan. Are we to expect that those who mouth these slogans -like Bernie Sanders is doing - will take the next step and say, "by any means necessary", introverting the slogan of liberation struggles of the occupied and dispossessed?
Well expressed Indu, thank you!
"By any means necessary" is, of course, a repudiation of democratic function, along with civil disobedience in general. When we use it, it should (with apologies to Carl Sagan) only be because "extreme need requires extreme solutions".
In the U.S., undemocratic British control, slavery, and Jim Crow laws were seen in this way by sufficient numbers of contemporary Americans in 1775, 1861, and 1965, respectively, in each case after many years of appeals to reason and empathy. But whenever one must elevate notably lesser complaints using ceaseless but vacuous repetition, distortion, lies, and censorship to get the job done, then the complaint is a con job.
Could very well be!!!
For more than a year before 7 October 2023, official reports from IDF GAZA patrol informed the Netanyahu government of what they already knew that the money from Qatar, which Netanyahu also permitted to be transferred to GAZA, that money was part of the preparation for an intentional Hamas invasion so that again, Israel could proclaim it had a right to defend itself because all the world was antisemitic. And again, just as all previous attacks had been triggered by Israeli instrumentalization of Palestinians, Israel declared itself the victim and Netanyahu could displace the nation’s focus on his criminal activities because they were now in a war. It was no accident that the IDF had been transferred to the far reaches of Israel. It was no accident that initial reports from the IDF were ignored. It was no accident that for the first time in 77 years, the Palestinians were free to cut the fence and charge in unopposed into their occupier’s territory. It was no accident that Israel sacrificed its own civilians attending the Nova concert using the excuse of the Hannibal Directive and then blaming all the deaths on Hamas.
Israhell has zero right to exist. "Israelis" can integrate into PALESTINE or they can leave to their home countries.