Oh, but wait, Feral, "the ministry now brands its approach as toda’a — which translates to ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’ " I must have misunderstood the meaning of consciousness. Guess it means murderous, lying, shitbags. Here I have always been thinking it might mean understanding, seeing what is true or something along those lines.
The Zionist credo is we have power now so we use it now and consolidate it now, and use all of our power to extend our power as long as possible. AIPAC the JDL, the Hannibal directive, the death of anybody and everybody who isn’t one of us. And even some of us are fair game when killing them enables more lying. Lying is the currency that takes today and promises tomorrow.
I don’t think that the founders understood the implications of institutionalizing and legalizing privilege for the privileged. That it would be an ethos that would be embraced and fetishized by true believers who have traded their humanity for winning…everything possible. It is the suppression of common sense and reason in favor of nihilistic, reactionary militarism.
Thank you for saying this!. There are so many great articles (Caitlin),and numerous podcasts with tremendous points and speeches telling about the ongoing horrors of Gaza. And for the last few months, I'm thinking surely this is the end for the zionists. They can't survive this great awakening! But as you said, they don't care, and have only accelerated the horrors they deploy in gaza. So who is going to do anything about it?
I have been saying for years: Protest outside all MSM (Mainstream) TV and Newspaper offices.............thank goodness Max Blumenthal had now taken up this idea. Name names of so-called Journalists and make them sweat.
I saw images of protesters in Washington/banging pots so that conversations could not be heard in the offices. This is something to do.
I see your point, Texas, but Max is one of a handful of Righteous Jews.
And any Jew who DOESNT speak out against the genocide should certainly be the target of discrimination ( I refuse to employ the term “antisemitic” because they are NOT Semites.) The correct term is anti-Jew.
well now, that's an ongoing argument--does Israel control the US, or the other way around, or are they a criminal conspiracy who each see utility in partnership with the other? I think the last is likely closest. The support Israel is getting right through an obvious genocide from many western countries suggests that it's not just a US/Israel partnership--it's a project of what Caitlin calls "the empire loosely based in Washington DC."
I think you are right Mary Wildfire. It is the old colonial project morphed into the neo-colonial project. Instead of the British we now have the US empire.
True. Israel is an absolutely cruel determination of arrogance, immorality and illtelligence in cahoots with other weaponized, terroristic alliances that they tolerate. There’s no reasoning with pure evil. They have been very clear about that.
Even if every civilian on the entire planet is against this genocide, it's not enough to stop Israel. They'll just whine that every civilian on the entire planet hates them. Well, yes, but not for the reasons they think!
The only way, unfortunately, is physical force. I avoid saying military force, because no official military seems to have the will to fulfill it's duties to prevent genocide.
If one ,military can be the cause of genocide with their bombs, phosphorous for burning people alive, powers having fun changing which body parts to shoot each day, surely it is incumbent on all other military to put a stop to it -- minys US mercenaries they're part of the problem.
Sanction the US and Israel. Stop using Amazon fb Instagram meta whatsapp . Apply pressure on each of our own govts to shun diplomatically the US, Israel and Germany
joy in hk regularly advocates for such procedures in these comments. corbyn's bill to start an inquiry into uk complicity was blocked in parliament. in september they will do their own 'gaza tribunal'. different initiatives don't necessary exclude each other (one can stack up on ammo while mobilizing lawyers at the same time).
As a taxpayer, I’m happy to send formal notice to state my objection to using tax dollars to genocide and rape native people. We are affected because our sorry ass billionaires and politicians are so susceptible to blackmail and endless greed.
A Palestinian-American brought suit to Nor Cal representatives. And now I hear ICE is getting more US tax payer money than Israel. Now I’m all in for stopping funds and weapons to nazi Zionist but we need to crush the war machine at its core as well. This fake Vanilla Ice must be stopped too. Free Free Palestine ❤️🇵🇸
I agree with the Irish president who says that the only way to solve the Zionist atrocities is armed intervention. We only need a few world leaders with balls!
It's not about "balls". It never was. It is about the consequences (and blowback) of going against the U.S. Empire. The unfortunate reality is that there is NO meaningful opposition strong enough to go against the U.S. Empire (and its now 900+ military bases all over the globe).
I don't believe a solution 'based on violence' will work here (as the U.S. Empire has the advantage here).
You know WHO really needs BALLS? The PEOPLE - they need the balls (and perseverance, sacrifice to lifestyles, and more) to STOP 'sucking up to Empire' (in the hundreds of ways that people do - consciously or unconsciously).
The oligarchy, TPTB, the power elite, etc. need to be BOYCOTTED! People need to start supporting each other (they will have to sooner or later as things are going to get worse - a few of the signs are already there).
Outside of nukes, the US is a paper tiger and would collapse if it actually went to war with a nation that has a functional military + the means to strike at the continental US.
I wish that were true, but unfortunately it isn't (though it's a good thought to make oneself feel a bit better, even if for a short period of time).
Military weapons, etc. is just one aspect of how warfare is conducted in the 21st Century. The FINANCIAL weaponry of the U.S. Empire is far more dangerous (IMHO), and unfortunately few poeple have an adequate understanding of how the global financial system works (to really understand the impact of the U.S. Empire in this arena).
If you follow accts of ppl who discuss military (mostly amateurs but with extensive knowledge & many years at it), they discuss the myriad of weaknesses in military equipment, fighter jets, aircraft carriers etc. Most seem to agree that much of the US power is based on reputation from decades ago and that our current military is actually very weak. (An analogy can be the US Dollar, which is propped up solely on reputation).
One example: in the recent past the US military conducted an exercise - war games - re a war with Iran. The "enemy" forces were led by a high ranking general with xlnt reputation. Well, he managed to come up with a strategy that took the US down, quickly. What was the US govt response to this exercise? Removed that general & redid the exercise with a new leader for the enemy, one that wd ensure the US comes out the winner. 🤦♀️
I'm reticent to listen to 'experts', hence I would be even MORE cautious to listen to 'amateurs' ("mostly amateurs but with extensive knowledge & many years at it").
Everyone has an opinion, but few people have access to REAL, CURRENT data (other than highly-classified Govt. personnel). And such 'highly-classified' data is not available to either 'the so-called experts' or 'the amateurs'. Also, few people have the necessary level of critical thinking skills and analytical skills (statistics, probability theory, etc.) to make full use of any such data (in the scenario that they were somehow able to obtain access to such data).
So forgive me if I take a MORE skeptical/critical approach towards evaluating the strengths/weaknesses of ANY Govt. There is too much bias involved in such opinions and not enough objectivity (and necessary evaluation skills).
Great, and yes, it must happen, but it'll be too late to save a single Palestinian. There has to be something immediate. Surely if every country in the world 'went against ' the US they can't nuke everyone at once!
There is NOTHING that is immediate (and I desperately wish there was).
>>"Surely if every country in the world 'went against ' the US they can't nuke everyone at once!"
HaHa - dreaming and fantasizing scenarios is always a feel-good activity. The US doesn't need to nuke everyone at once. That's now how nuclear weapons work. Also, countries cannot get along with each other (with or without the presence of the U.S.), and you think they'll somehow MAGICALLY come together against the U.S. Empire? Dream on...
Having said all that, I am with Caitlin on making the destruction of the U.S. Empire (and everything that it entails) the MOST URGENT fight that humanity needs to work on right now.
I am of the opinion now, the un should be disbanded. Having an organization that should defend people against empires would be useful. I am not sure if ever there will be one knowing the original wasn't meant to be : (
That’s getting closer to being possible, but how much time will that take? The most relevant issue is how long this has been going on and how much power does the empire really yield… and what gives people so much power???? The most silent word of all… Money.
Oh, did I write that before??? I don’t remember , so I keep repeating it so that I don’t forget..
It’s a matter of willingness and interest in stopping this genocide. The western weaponized countries are apparently quietly and (in some cases) not so quietly in support of Israel’s mass murders in Gaza.
The Irish are in a class by themselves, having fought occupation by the Bastard Brits for hundreds of years.
Makes you wonder why the so-called “potato famine”, ENGINEERED BY AFOREMENTIONED BASTARDS, has never been referred to as a genocide. I guess that little designation is reserved exclusively for Jooz.
I think we're pretty much finished as a civilisation if we allow this to unfold without doing everything within our power to stop it. It's terrifying, but it may be the only way. I said on October 8th/9th/10th that this would lead to WW3. It's simply too evil to recover from.
If you mean China Russia and Iran (and who else is there?) than you are advocating WW3 and in that all testicles are liable to be reduced to radio active ash along with all else human male and female
No Caitiln, unfortunately truth RARELY wins (on its own) in the end (or the beginning or any place). The world wouldn't be the way it is if "truth won". The VERY REASON we are living in this dystopia is BECAUSE "the truth does not win". History shows us this. Humans have NOT EVOLVED to the level where "truth alone is able to win much".
Yes, reality sucks. Living/believing in fantasy scenarios and beliefs may be a necessary survival mechanism, but "truth on its own is not going to do much".
Truth did not defeat the fascism of the 20th Century, and I doubt it will resolve the Israel-Palestine Genocide either. PEOPLE ORGANIZING and CONFRONTING POWER (in all ways possible - using non-violent strategies AND violent ones) will be needed. I see no other way, though I hope I am wrong.
I half agree. i think. this is colonialism, which started 500+ years ago. maybe I'm too optimistic but this perhaps could be the end of it. this can't be the norm for our species
This is MUCH MUCH MORE than just colonialism. It is imperialism. It is the system of Capitalism (and the profits and laundering of money and more that happens though the state of Israel). It also has elements of racism (which again was used to further the interests of Capital).
The United States of America, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom are committing genocide. These criminal entities have murdered 400,000 Palestinians through shootings and bombings, and by depriving the population of water, food, medicine, fuel, electricity, sanitation, healthcare, and housing. But the remaining 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza will not be displaced or expelled because Israel/US/Germany/UK are not capable of expelling 1.9 million people. And Gaza will not be subject to “total military occupation” because the genocidal Israeli terrorists are not capable of occupying Gaza. If they were capable, their ground terrorists wouldn’t be still getting cooked after 21 months of trying. It’s all another lie and the Israeli military chief knows that attempting such an occupation would lead to more military defeats.
Thank you for tracking this, for being a torch in the darkness. We walk along, faces pressed to our hands, screaming silently into the wind for every child, women and man who had died.
Alongside Palestinians we have been rallying here in Aotearoa New Zealand while our Government and media swamped the public with progaganda - using euphanisms for genocide.
The US had pumped Israel's propaganda like a drug. Even though more people are realising the truth that these are lies, others continue to be addicted. The system does not train people to look for the truth, and many prefer to believe the lie because it makes them feel comfortable, it makes them believe they might make it up the ladder, but for every person who climbs up hundreds are falling down.
And once again we are still seeing colonists who supported these attrocities, declare what is best for Palestinians.
Self determination is long overdue. The racist state of Zionism must be dismantled. From the river to the sea. The colonist dictators need to stop calling the shots. Literally.
There is this WONDERFUL book that I recently finished reading, called "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't" by Julia Galef.
"When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have a 'soldier mindset'. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, we should train ourselves to have a 'scout mindset'. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true."
Meilekowsky is beyond narcissistic megalomaniac. His BS surpasses anything I've ever heard before...he needs to be studied, like a fermented slug in a jar. The entire IsraHELLi "society" is a case study in the obscene.
As for the collective West...they're too stupid to see that PAX Judaica is actively working on ending them. Or maybe bits of America and bits of Europe are waking up a little?
"Meilekowsky is beyond narcissistic megalomaniac. His BS surpasses anything I've ever heard before...he needs to be studied, like a fermented slug in a jar. The entire IsraHELLi "society" is a case study in the obscene."
“The challenge we face is a test of our integrity. We are all on trial, we are all under judgment. The issue is not political or social expediency. The issue is whether we are morally strong, whether we are… worthy to answer… Shall we continue to be deaf, shall we continue to be sensitive only when our own needs and interests are involved?
“We have attained a high standard of living. We must seek to attain a high standard of thinking… There is nothing in the world that may be regarded as holy as eliminating anguish, as alleviating pain.”
The Insecurity Of Freedom – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Some have attained a high standard of living, too often to the detriment of others. Greed has become something to strive for while being so totally focussed on keeping what you've gained while going after more and more. We now have so-called Christian groups preaching about how to become wealthy as they tout it as God's plan by distorting the words in the bible. If you take notice the only ones getting wealthy are the pastors, especially the ones who keep opening more halls to bring the money in -- the more you give the more wealthy they become.
What happened to looking after your fellow beings? Treat others as you would wish to be treated? Love they neighbour? The good Samaritan?
People forget that there are other ways to live. Indigenous peoples had no use for capitalism . We are brainwashed into believing it's the only way to be.
I remember in Skye people used barter and exchange. I collected the eggs and other things, took them to a farmer's wife who exchanged the eggs etc for milk-a lot of milk-also stopped off at the post lady's place and did an exchange. The milk was used by my grandmother to make butter and cheese, plus some for family, that was then exchanged for something else, and so it went. Even at a ceilidh there would be a bit of barter/exchange going on.
"Shall we continue to be deaf," deaf maybe, but aware. of the consequences of opposing the empire. There exists one condition within the collectivity of human life that does affect all of us however, yet hardly anyone ever mentions it... i.e., the power of money, or in more precise terms, the consequences of the lack of money.
For the sake of argument, who controls money is who controls the world, and survival. The fear of homelessness drives the human condition. Eliminate homelessness, and eliminate some the fears, and some of the bombs that protect the status quo.
In that light, so long as we continue to ignore or set aside the all-mighty power of Money, empires will never end, providing there exist enough time left for humanity for empires to rise yet again. AND, unless anyone is asleep at the wheel, money allows Masters to rule. .
You are correct about the power of money. After all the World Bank and the IMF are western creations, with the US, the only power with the right of veto. But does control of the world, need to be exercised at the expense of peoples lives? That "fear of homelessness," gives the "powerful," the right to drive others from their homes, aka, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? What a morally "bankrupt" world, the "powerful" have crested. Capitalism is dead. Free free Palestine 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
Too many politicians now have large property portfolios, they like the money this brings in and are therefore not doing anything about rent rises or any other conditions on property ownership. Getting fat on other people's need for shelter.
Yes, people don’t realize that the ransoms they pay to their Masters to live in a shelter are not a rite of passage to be human, but an enslavement to their Masters.
Statement by the Palestinian Resistance Factions on 7 August:
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Regarding the leaked information circulating about the enemy government's intention to decide on the full occupation of the Gaza Strip, and the statements of the criminal Netanyahu regarding imposing military control over the Strip, we, the resistance factions, affirm the following:
First: These statements and leaks reveal the enemy's political and field impotence, after two years of dismal failure in achieving its goals, despite committing massacres and crimes and relying on unlimited support from global colonial powers.
Second: The threat of a full military occupation of Gaza is a declaration of genocidal intentions and a desperate attempt to subjugate our people and their resistance. These intentions will not pass without a heavy price, and the field will be the decider, as it always has been.
Third: Gaza is not a vacant geographical area looking for someone to fill it; rather, it is a land saturated with the blood of martyrs and the strength of mujahideen. Any attempt at direct occupation will be a new quagmire that burns whoever penetrates it, and the resistance will enter a phase of more severe and painful confrontation for this enemy.
Fourth: Netanyahu is trying to cover up his political and military defeat by marketing illusions of control. We tell him clearly: Gaza will not be managed from Tel Aviv, nor from any foreign capital, but by the will of its resisting people.
Fifth: The Palestinian resistance, with all its factions, is united in the field of confrontation, and any occupation decision will send it back from where it came, defeated and broken, as always. The enemy is deluded if it thinks it will free its prisoners from the grip of the resistance by military force. We affirm that its prisoners will only be released through negotiations and at heavy prices.
"And those who have wronged are going to know to what kind of return they will be returned."
CJ>>"Trump could end all this at any time, and chooses not to. This makes him one of the most evil people in the world."
Yes. And Trump was ALWAYS the same person he is right now - even before his 2016 election win. That Americans are SO STUPID to not only vote for him once but TWICE is other-worldly - beyond incredible.
The evidence is in folks! Not Harris, not Biden, no other Democrat (or Republican President) could ever have been as disastrous for Palestine as Trump has been.
Lesser evil anyone? Maybe there IS such a thing? The only silver lining (if one can call it that) is that Trump has ensured (and hastened) the END of the U.S. Empire (and Israel of course as it is part of said empire).
Let us not forget it was Biden sending those 10K pound bombs and Harris said she would have done nothing different. Neither Dems or Magats in power make any difference in support for Israhell.
No one's forgotten anything. I repeat - Trump is WORSE than ANY President can ever have been - not just on Palestine but on EVERYTHING!
>>"Neither Dems or Magats in power make any difference in support for Israhell."
I'm NOT talking about Democrats or Republicans. I'm talking about the Presidents - their willingness to disregard the U.S. Constitution (for starters), and sheer, utter STUPIDITY on a grand scale! (in terms of future consequences and more)
Biden was evil and so is his successor. There is no "the lesser of two evils." America bought this on the Palestinians (and the world), by relying on the students, standing up and protesting, at great risk to themselves. But where was the support from the apathetic US public? They were more interested in "the price of eggs," than the enabling of a genocide by Joe. You got what you deserved with trump.
But the Palestinian people in Gaza, are paying the greatest price for US imperialism and its ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Because the Zionist entity, is a US proxy, which, without its military support, wouldn't last a day. That's evil! Free free Palestine 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
But of course - that goes without saying. No new revelations here.
>>"There is no "the lesser of two evils."
Unfortunately, Raoul Christensen, the evidence seems to disagree with you. One could get away with assuming so before Trump was President, but now (and his Presidency is only 6 months in), there seems to be MULTIPLE levels of evil (and not just lesser and greater evil).
>>"But the Palestinian people in Gaza, are paying the greatest price..."
Currently, it seems like only the Palestinian people are paying the price. But this is simply the beginning. More is yet to come. Eventually, WE ALL WILL BE PAYING THE PRICE - the whole world! (except for maybe the 1% or TPTB, Oligarchs, etc. possibly)
Sorry but I don't see much change from the Biden administration? Where, exactly, is the difference, in the wholehearted support for whatever Israel feels like doing? Nowhere, that's where.
That's not so say Trump isn't one of the most evil people in the world, for endless reasons. But I'd put Biden et al right up there beside him.
>>"Sorry but I don't see much change from the Biden administration?"
That's because you don't seem to see at all it seems.
Do you see difference between how Trump has handled this Genocide (and the Israelis) only 6 months into his Presidency vs. Biden? (BTW this is not a comparison - this is a look at the REAL EVIDENCE). If you don't, you have bigger problems than 'seeing change' and an 'unhealthy relationship' with TRUTH and REALITY.
Not much me (or anyone else) can say to change your perception and accept reality if you're unwilling to examine the evidence (ALL the evidence) gathered so far. But if you expect me to do the work for you (of gathering and displaying the evidence for your convenience), then you are mistaken!
I don't expect you to do anything. But nor do I expect you to insult or fight with me. We're all supposedly on the same side, here. I'm not the enemy, nor am I stupid. I'm also not Anerican, so forgive me if that particular country has not been especially high on my agenda of interest until I was forced to see the true horror of its entire political system.
Biden was never going to do anything to stop Israel. Biden was going to continue to support and help them. Apart from his usual ignorant bluster, I don't see that Trump has actually *done* anything different. But pardon me for not being such a well-informed insider such as you are.
>>"I don't see that Trump has actually *done* anything different."
Like I said, you AREN'T seeing, because if you were, the evidence is incontrovertible.
>>"But pardon me for not being such a well-informed insider such as you are."
You're pardoned, but not excused from doing your homework on 'unbiased' evidence gathering and analysis.
>>"so forgive me if that particular country has not been especially high on my agenda of interest"
If you think I'm coming from the perspective of 'I care about the U.S. or the U.S. Empire' then you would be VERY mistaken. I would like nothing more than the demise of the U.S. Empire (and America's position in the world). But that doesn't mean I IGNORE facts and evidence (and real history) about the U.S. Empire and its actions globally.
There were once many kinds of Zionists, socialist Zionists, even communist Zionists, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but in Germany, the German Zionist Party made a deal with the Nazis that worked from 1933 to 1939 to remove Jews to Palestine in preparation for the ethnic expulsion of the native Arab Palestinians, who were the majority and lived on 93% of the land and had for many centuries, growing oranges, etc.
So the Zionist who founded Israel were the Freedom Party, that Einstein , Arendt, and 26 other conscientoius Jews, denounced in a public letter in 1948 as a fascist party modeled on the Nazi template. And the current party in power, Likud, is the direct descendent of that fascist party, a party of the far right as the Zionist left has faded into the fog of history.
Fascism, now that we found the proper description, is based on lies. It is a movement, unified by hatred (whether of Jews or Palestinians, blacks or immigrants) hatred, and believing that what matter is not independent truth but the power, the violence to produce the "truth desired." So the Nazis believed they were a master race and in their certainty, caused the deaths of over 50 million civilians, Germany itself reduced to ruin Hatred can tear down but it cannot build...that is the lesson of history.
The tragic irony of Israel is that, in order to flee the atrocities against the Jews in Europe (most Jews had lived in peace in the Middle East) , had to visit upon the native Arabs in Palestine, the same horrors they had experienced in Europe, the traumatized victim becoming the abuser in order to create a Jewish ethnostate, which required terrorizing and expelling the Palestinians, as the Nazis (with Zionist cooperation) had removed the Jews (before the killing begin)...in other words, the traumatized Zionists became just like the Nazis, massacring towns, burning down 500 villages, and chasing off the vast majority of natives into enclaves like Gaza, which today is on the verge of being added to the list of lands the right Zionists have stolen under threat of terror and death, Gaza and the 1.4 trillion cu ft of gas in the Gaza Marine, for when Netanyahu supported Hamas, as the Zionists in Germany worked with the Nazis in the 30s, he did so to divide and conquer...and let us add the goal of this process...to loot. Today what we see are lies to justify starvation bombing Gaza to rubble, mass murder, and the pressing of the Gazans to the southern border in anticipation of their being expelled from Gaza so Israel can claim it as part of the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel and get rich off that treasure of gas in the Marine.
We are shocked and outraged, but not surprised, for this was the goal all along.......and we are reminded that those who would kill tens of thousands of children would not hesitate to lie to mask their evil. And what comes to the fascists with their ideology of hatred and aggrandizement: they always end up buried in their own rubble. HItler, Mussolini, Pinochet......all die by the same violence they used to come to power. so those who live by the lie end up dying by the lie, and at this moment, an inflection period. the entire world including many Israelis, more and more nations, and the majority even of Americans clearly see what they now recognize as genocide, and as Israel becomes the leper nation, the outcast, it begins to fall apart internally, as the IDF now fights with the government, the hostage families declare Netanyahu a murderer, and the one man who could end it in a phone call, as he said he would, now walks away and says "it's up to Israel," as he supplies them the weapons of genoicide and defends their starvation policy while pretending to care about the starving children. He too will come down, born of hatred, lifted by lies, ready to fall. That is my sense of the moment.....
Call me a dreamer and I hope I am not the only one but I see some very encouraging signs. I have always believed that evil can reach a level where it destroys those possessed by it.
It is being credibly reported that the Israeli military is pushing back hard against Netanyahu and his plan to occupy Gaza. Israeli military is struggling with suicides, refusal to serve and the cost versus benefit ratio not in Israel”s favor. Surely there is someone with the opportunity that could do the world a huge service and… Of course removing Netanyahu is not enough in itself but it might be the trigger for a major upheaval.
The end of the current Israeli government is not the answer but it could possibly change the direction the world is headed. Nothing else is changing the trajectory downward and darker.
Israel has been chocking on their own lies for while .Their whole existence, History, Legacy, and and History as been one big lie after another(The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.
But they are still able to live the lie ,their Power Influence and control has allowed them to be able to live this lie from day one, that Palestinians don't exist and never existed, and neither did Palestine until the Romans ana whole bunch of lies, even when you have proof and show them, the dismiss it ,and they can not prove any of their Ancestors have one shred of DNA markers anywhere near the continent before the 1800 AD. They have No ties to Africa or the mid east.
Here is one of my Ancestor he is buried in Megiddo some was found in Galilee and Saifi .
The current state of the world is the result of a process that began thousands of years ago with a predatory economy and continued with slavery, then serfdom, and finally the proletariat who, deprived of the means of production concentrated in capital, must sell their labour to survive, the value of which is deducted from profit. Meanwhile, invasions, colonialism, imperialism, wars, destruction. With the consent and support of those churches that exhort peace and brotherhood, they speak of truth, justice, and freedom, but meanwhile, out of opportunism, they accept the existing situation. Thus, billions of people who could be mobilized to build a better future are held captive by fideism, false hopes, and illusions. With propaganda about material and spiritual things. With states that, instead of serving their people and moderating conflicts, serve a tiny minority to dominate and influence the vast majority. The way out of this situation isn't to change the people at the top, but to eliminate the top. There can be no peace if those who govern act for their own supremacy, if they create problems only to later prove they are the only means to solve them, if they make laws for the people but not for those who wanted them, if they pass off as democracy a right to vote conditioned by money, if they consider the people to be at their service and, therefore, emphasize a freedom that cannot exist without freedom from want. If this continues, the world will remain on the brink of the abyss until, intentionally or accidentally, it self-destructs. And perhaps we won't even start over from the stones, because there will be no one left. The only way to avoid this prediction is to overturn the tables, replacing current institutions with new political and economic entities capable of bringing about true and real radical change, which, to be such, can only be universal. Those with more intelligence should use it, with courage and even amid the indifference and/or aversion of everyone else. Let us unite, move from awareness of reality to solutions that until now have been considered unthinkable. Yet necessary.
By the time Palestine is recognised as a State there will be NO Palestinians left as they are also dismantling the West Bank 1,000 killed already by IDF and land thieves from around the world “ settlers “
Indeed, there's a reason honest climate scientists consider Palestine to be imported.
Either the world experiences an awakening, revolution, global restructuring, whatever away from these systems of self-destructive egotistical consumption under our capitalist oligarchs...
Or we go extinct because the planet reach 7-8+C global tempts and the buried optic fiber wires begin to melt. No fancy bunkers the rich hide in will save them from this and entropy.
“No fancy bunkers will save them” is probably as accurate as you can make it. In probable fact, if a nuclear winter occurs at a severity level that may take place following a nuclear war, the air may be too polluted to breathe , so polluted that any filtering system will have been rendered inoperative in days. And that if anyone can find their bunkers as the result of total darkness, inoperable autos, and if and when they emerge, nothing in nature will be alive..
Hope the above is not too grim, but we had better open our eyes.
The thing that is confusing me is how they are lying and telling the truth at the same time, but the media just picks up the lies. In October 2023 a US Congressman, a class of person most closely in the loop with Israeli policy and responsible for funding their genocide said of Gaza, "it's going to be eviscerated and go away here, shortly as we're going to turn that into a parking lot". Every single person in Congress and the US media had to be in on the exact same information from the very beginning that "WE" (US and Israel) would fully destroy Gaza. https://youtube.com/shorts/YKnWzxgx9X0?si=kUnNFVBDdu-LzH9E
This isn't even a case of "translate Hebrew to English", the American politicians have been saying this, publicly, just as the Israelis have. But still this game continues where the "respectable" and "unbiased" people of the media and institutions have to give deference to obvious lies that exist side by side with odious and honest admissions. Truly bizzarre.
As you pointed out nobody seriously believes Israel's lies. Israel does not care, because Israel has power on its side.
The Israeli response can summarized as "So, what are you going to do about it?"
Power wanes and IsraHELL will fall. It will be a loud, painful, and absolutely glorious fall. I can't wait! Hopefully VERY soon!
I hope I live to see it. I hope some Palestinians will live to see it.
Oh, but wait, Feral, "the ministry now brands its approach as toda’a — which translates to ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’ " I must have misunderstood the meaning of consciousness. Guess it means murderous, lying, shitbags. Here I have always been thinking it might mean understanding, seeing what is true or something along those lines.
The Zionist credo is we have power now so we use it now and consolidate it now, and use all of our power to extend our power as long as possible. AIPAC the JDL, the Hannibal directive, the death of anybody and everybody who isn’t one of us. And even some of us are fair game when killing them enables more lying. Lying is the currency that takes today and promises tomorrow.
I don’t think that the founders understood the implications of institutionalizing and legalizing privilege for the privileged. That it would be an ethos that would be embraced and fetishized by true believers who have traded their humanity for winning…everything possible. It is the suppression of common sense and reason in favor of nihilistic, reactionary militarism.
The founders knew, but they went on heedlessly and arrogantly anyway. It's their curse. May they reap what they have d
Sown.
Thank you for saying this!. There are so many great articles (Caitlin),and numerous podcasts with tremendous points and speeches telling about the ongoing horrors of Gaza. And for the last few months, I'm thinking surely this is the end for the zionists. They can't survive this great awakening! But as you said, they don't care, and have only accelerated the horrors they deploy in gaza. So who is going to do anything about it?
“Who’s going to do anything about it” has to be the quandary of this generation. Who CAN do something about it should also be on the question floor?
I have been saying for years: Protest outside all MSM (Mainstream) TV and Newspaper offices.............thank goodness Max Blumenthal had now taken up this idea. Name names of so-called Journalists and make them sweat.
I saw images of protesters in Washington/banging pots so that conversations could not be heard in the offices. This is something to do.
Yes, They have more tactics of control than an army of North Koreans.
I like max, but I don’t think I can allow a Jew to be centered in this situation.
There is a big difference in Jews and Zionists.
True, but not enough differences
Why? I think it's better if it's a Jew.
I see your point, Texas, but Max is one of a handful of Righteous Jews.
And any Jew who DOESNT speak out against the genocide should certainly be the target of discrimination ( I refuse to employ the term “antisemitic” because they are NOT Semites.) The correct term is anti-Jew.
be or find the non-jew that organises it then.
Anyone could, if they had the will. Just look at the Houthis. We should all be Houthis.
The US taxpayers could revolt, but I doubt that they will. They are the “Good Germans” of today.
Nobody, and that's the reality
I know what I'd do about it--I'd let Israel choke on their own damn lies. No Heimlich Maneuvering allowed!
Israel is but a small country but behind it and towering over it is its captive US .
well now, that's an ongoing argument--does Israel control the US, or the other way around, or are they a criminal conspiracy who each see utility in partnership with the other? I think the last is likely closest. The support Israel is getting right through an obvious genocide from many western countries suggests that it's not just a US/Israel partnership--it's a project of what Caitlin calls "the empire loosely based in Washington DC."
I think you are right Mary Wildfire. It is the old colonial project morphed into the neo-colonial project. Instead of the British we now have the US empire.
True. Israel is an absolutely cruel determination of arrogance, immorality and illtelligence in cahoots with other weaponized, terroristic alliances that they tolerate. There’s no reasoning with pure evil. They have been very clear about that.
Yes.
Shouldn't we change that to: what are we going to fo about it?
I wrote above what to do.
Even if every civilian on the entire planet is against this genocide, it's not enough to stop Israel. They'll just whine that every civilian on the entire planet hates them. Well, yes, but not for the reasons they think!
The only way, unfortunately, is physical force. I avoid saying military force, because no official military seems to have the will to fulfill it's duties to prevent genocide.
If one ,military can be the cause of genocide with their bombs, phosphorous for burning people alive, powers having fun changing which body parts to shoot each day, surely it is incumbent on all other military to put a stop to it -- minys US mercenaries they're part of the problem.
Sorry, I missed that one, Jenny.
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Sanction the US and Israel. Stop using Amazon fb Instagram meta whatsapp . Apply pressure on each of our own govts to shun diplomatically the US, Israel and Germany
If a Zionist says that to my face, it will be the last thing he does.
you file a complaint against your government for not upholding the genocide convention.
Um, I don't know how the laws governing civil procedure work in your country, but I am not aware of such a process in any country that I am aware of.
joy in hk regularly advocates for such procedures in these comments. corbyn's bill to start an inquiry into uk complicity was blocked in parliament. in september they will do their own 'gaza tribunal'. different initiatives don't necessary exclude each other (one can stack up on ammo while mobilizing lawyers at the same time).
Lots of people advocate lots of things that are unfeasible as a matter of law.
As a taxpayer, I’m happy to send formal notice to state my objection to using tax dollars to genocide and rape native people. We are affected because our sorry ass billionaires and politicians are so susceptible to blackmail and endless greed.
A Palestinian-American brought suit to Nor Cal representatives. And now I hear ICE is getting more US tax payer money than Israel. Now I’m all in for stopping funds and weapons to nazi Zionist but we need to crush the war machine at its core as well. This fake Vanilla Ice must be stopped too. Free Free Palestine ❤️🇵🇸
You can send notice all you want. The government will ignore you. Same with attempts to bring suit.
"The Israeli response can summarized as "So, what are you going to do about it?""
Well, here's what I think we should do about it:
https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/breaking-the-genocide-proposals-for
Exactly
I agree with the Irish president who says that the only way to solve the Zionist atrocities is armed intervention. We only need a few world leaders with balls!
>>"We only need a few world leaders with balls!"
It's not about "balls". It never was. It is about the consequences (and blowback) of going against the U.S. Empire. The unfortunate reality is that there is NO meaningful opposition strong enough to go against the U.S. Empire (and its now 900+ military bases all over the globe).
I don't believe a solution 'based on violence' will work here (as the U.S. Empire has the advantage here).
You know WHO really needs BALLS? The PEOPLE - they need the balls (and perseverance, sacrifice to lifestyles, and more) to STOP 'sucking up to Empire' (in the hundreds of ways that people do - consciously or unconsciously).
The oligarchy, TPTB, the power elite, etc. need to be BOYCOTTED! People need to start supporting each other (they will have to sooner or later as things are going to get worse - a few of the signs are already there).
Outside of nukes, the US is a paper tiger and would collapse if it actually went to war with a nation that has a functional military + the means to strike at the continental US.
>>"...the US is a paper tiger..."
I wish that were true, but unfortunately it isn't (though it's a good thought to make oneself feel a bit better, even if for a short period of time).
Military weapons, etc. is just one aspect of how warfare is conducted in the 21st Century. The FINANCIAL weaponry of the U.S. Empire is far more dangerous (IMHO), and unfortunately few poeple have an adequate understanding of how the global financial system works (to really understand the impact of the U.S. Empire in this arena).
If you follow accts of ppl who discuss military (mostly amateurs but with extensive knowledge & many years at it), they discuss the myriad of weaknesses in military equipment, fighter jets, aircraft carriers etc. Most seem to agree that much of the US power is based on reputation from decades ago and that our current military is actually very weak. (An analogy can be the US Dollar, which is propped up solely on reputation).
One example: in the recent past the US military conducted an exercise - war games - re a war with Iran. The "enemy" forces were led by a high ranking general with xlnt reputation. Well, he managed to come up with a strategy that took the US down, quickly. What was the US govt response to this exercise? Removed that general & redid the exercise with a new leader for the enemy, one that wd ensure the US comes out the winner. 🤦♀️
Sheer idiocy.
I'm reticent to listen to 'experts', hence I would be even MORE cautious to listen to 'amateurs' ("mostly amateurs but with extensive knowledge & many years at it").
Everyone has an opinion, but few people have access to REAL, CURRENT data (other than highly-classified Govt. personnel). And such 'highly-classified' data is not available to either 'the so-called experts' or 'the amateurs'. Also, few people have the necessary level of critical thinking skills and analytical skills (statistics, probability theory, etc.) to make full use of any such data (in the scenario that they were somehow able to obtain access to such data).
So forgive me if I take a MORE skeptical/critical approach towards evaluating the strengths/weaknesses of ANY Govt. There is too much bias involved in such opinions and not enough objectivity (and necessary evaluation skills).
If you don't listen to "experts", and don't listen to "knowledgeable amateurs", where do you get your information?
Anyway, for anyone interested this is a good read: https://substack.com/@imetatronink/note/p-167011519?r=10pyy1
Great, and yes, it must happen, but it'll be too late to save a single Palestinian. There has to be something immediate. Surely if every country in the world 'went against ' the US they can't nuke everyone at once!
>>"There has to be something immediate."
There is NOTHING that is immediate (and I desperately wish there was).
>>"Surely if every country in the world 'went against ' the US they can't nuke everyone at once!"
HaHa - dreaming and fantasizing scenarios is always a feel-good activity. The US doesn't need to nuke everyone at once. That's now how nuclear weapons work. Also, countries cannot get along with each other (with or without the presence of the U.S.), and you think they'll somehow MAGICALLY come together against the U.S. Empire? Dream on...
Having said all that, I am with Caitlin on making the destruction of the U.S. Empire (and everything that it entails) the MOST URGENT fight that humanity needs to work on right now.
Sadly, yes we can. The Billionaires would like to pretend they can survive in there bunkers but.........
I keep hoping to see some action from The Hague Group. Come on!! Take out the IDF so the UN and UNRWA can get food and medicines into Gaza!!
I am of the opinion now, the un should be disbanded. Having an organization that should defend people against empires would be useful. I am not sure if ever there will be one knowing the original wasn't meant to be : (
Armed escort with humanitarian aid, not to initiate, but to defend from seizure or stopping.
That’s getting closer to being possible, but how much time will that take? The most relevant issue is how long this has been going on and how much power does the empire really yield… and what gives people so much power???? The most silent word of all… Money.
Oh, did I write that before??? I don’t remember , so I keep repeating it so that I don’t forget..
That's what I don't understand, why this hasn't had. It's OBLIGATORY for states to intervene under international law
*happened*. Not had.
At the very least.
Doesn't even need to be armed. The Pope if he was a human being could walk food in, drive a truck, lead a convoy. He won't because he doesn't care.
Do nothing perpetrated the status quo. The Zionists had us over a barrel for decades because of fear.
Its the only way. Striking their positions around Gaza and start shooting down their aircraft.
I agree. It's the only thing they understand
It’s a matter of willingness and interest in stopping this genocide. The western weaponized countries are apparently quietly and (in some cases) not so quietly in support of Israel’s mass murders in Gaza.
Hi Erwin
The Irish are in a class by themselves, having fought occupation by the Bastard Brits for hundreds of years.
Makes you wonder why the so-called “potato famine”, ENGINEERED BY AFOREMENTIONED BASTARDS, has never been referred to as a genocide. I guess that little designation is reserved exclusively for Jooz.
Which ballsy action would lead directly to WW3 and the end of humanity. But we could glow with pride as well as radiation
That's already baked in the cake.
what climate crisis?! the same pple who told u to inject mRNA in your veins? wake up!!!
The climate crisis will kill us all at this rate anyway if we don't do something now.
Can you guess which countries seem hellbent on forcing species-wide suicide?
I think we're pretty much finished as a civilisation if we allow this to unfold without doing everything within our power to stop it. It's terrifying, but it may be the only way. I said on October 8th/9th/10th that this would lead to WW3. It's simply too evil to recover from.
If you mean China Russia and Iran (and who else is there?) than you are advocating WW3 and in that all testicles are liable to be reduced to radio active ash along with all else human male and female
CJ>>"Truth will win in the end."
No Caitiln, unfortunately truth RARELY wins (on its own) in the end (or the beginning or any place). The world wouldn't be the way it is if "truth won". The VERY REASON we are living in this dystopia is BECAUSE "the truth does not win". History shows us this. Humans have NOT EVOLVED to the level where "truth alone is able to win much".
Yes, reality sucks. Living/believing in fantasy scenarios and beliefs may be a necessary survival mechanism, but "truth on its own is not going to do much".
Truth did not defeat the fascism of the 20th Century, and I doubt it will resolve the Israel-Palestine Genocide either. PEOPLE ORGANIZING and CONFRONTING POWER (in all ways possible - using non-violent strategies AND violent ones) will be needed. I see no other way, though I hope I am wrong.
I half agree. i think. this is colonialism, which started 500+ years ago. maybe I'm too optimistic but this perhaps could be the end of it. this can't be the norm for our species
This is MUCH MUCH MORE than just colonialism. It is imperialism. It is the system of Capitalism (and the profits and laundering of money and more that happens though the state of Israel). It also has elements of racism (which again was used to further the interests of Capital).
True.
So we need a word that conveys all those concepts at once. I think that's what @vansdan was meaning
We already have that word - it is CAPITALISM.
The United States of America, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom are committing genocide. These criminal entities have murdered 400,000 Palestinians through shootings and bombings, and by depriving the population of water, food, medicine, fuel, electricity, sanitation, healthcare, and housing. But the remaining 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza will not be displaced or expelled because Israel/US/Germany/UK are not capable of expelling 1.9 million people. And Gaza will not be subject to “total military occupation” because the genocidal Israeli terrorists are not capable of occupying Gaza. If they were capable, their ground terrorists wouldn’t be still getting cooked after 21 months of trying. It’s all another lie and the Israeli military chief knows that attempting such an occupation would lead to more military defeats.
Hope you're right. Not that the status quo is any consolation
Thank you for tracking this, for being a torch in the darkness. We walk along, faces pressed to our hands, screaming silently into the wind for every child, women and man who had died.
Alongside Palestinians we have been rallying here in Aotearoa New Zealand while our Government and media swamped the public with progaganda - using euphanisms for genocide.
The US had pumped Israel's propaganda like a drug. Even though more people are realising the truth that these are lies, others continue to be addicted. The system does not train people to look for the truth, and many prefer to believe the lie because it makes them feel comfortable, it makes them believe they might make it up the ladder, but for every person who climbs up hundreds are falling down.
And once again we are still seeing colonists who supported these attrocities, declare what is best for Palestinians.
Self determination is long overdue. The racist state of Zionism must be dismantled. From the river to the sea. The colonist dictators need to stop calling the shots. Literally.
Well written Saige!
Thank you John. A long silent scream shared by so many.
Wonderful (and quite perceptive imo) comment Saige, thank you! Couldn't agree with you more!
>>"The system does not train people to look for the truth, and many prefer to believe the lie because it makes them feel comfortable"
🎯
Thank you so much. Real education is about the deep dive, not the quick dip on the surface. In solidarity.
There is this WONDERFUL book that I recently finished reading, called "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't" by Julia Galef.
"When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have a 'soldier mindset'. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, we should train ourselves to have a 'scout mindset'. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true."
Thank you! Sounds so worthy, I will check it out. Love supporting great writers who write helpful meaningful works.
Meilekowsky is beyond narcissistic megalomaniac. His BS surpasses anything I've ever heard before...he needs to be studied, like a fermented slug in a jar. The entire IsraHELLi "society" is a case study in the obscene.
As for the collective West...they're too stupid to see that PAX Judaica is actively working on ending them. Or maybe bits of America and bits of Europe are waking up a little?
May all the oppressors implode, quickly 🤲
The "collective West," is the oppressor. The zionist entity is its proxy, doing its "dirty work." Free free Palestine 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
Other way around.
"Meilekowsky is beyond narcissistic megalomaniac. His BS surpasses anything I've ever heard before...he needs to be studied, like a fermented slug in a jar. The entire IsraHELLi "society" is a case study in the obscene."
It works.
Feral, Meilekowsky needed to be guillotined and his brain kept in a jar of formaldehyde for further dissection.
We're I to be consulted, he'd get worse than that, as much mercy as he gave.
“The challenge we face is a test of our integrity. We are all on trial, we are all under judgment. The issue is not political or social expediency. The issue is whether we are morally strong, whether we are… worthy to answer… Shall we continue to be deaf, shall we continue to be sensitive only when our own needs and interests are involved?
“We have attained a high standard of living. We must seek to attain a high standard of thinking… There is nothing in the world that may be regarded as holy as eliminating anguish, as alleviating pain.”
The Insecurity Of Freedom – Abraham Joshua Heschel
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/x-rubicon-puppets
Some have attained a high standard of living, too often to the detriment of others. Greed has become something to strive for while being so totally focussed on keeping what you've gained while going after more and more. We now have so-called Christian groups preaching about how to become wealthy as they tout it as God's plan by distorting the words in the bible. If you take notice the only ones getting wealthy are the pastors, especially the ones who keep opening more halls to bring the money in -- the more you give the more wealthy they become.
What happened to looking after your fellow beings? Treat others as you would wish to be treated? Love they neighbour? The good Samaritan?
People forget that there are other ways to live. Indigenous peoples had no use for capitalism . We are brainwashed into believing it's the only way to be.
How true, Mary.
I remember in Skye people used barter and exchange. I collected the eggs and other things, took them to a farmer's wife who exchanged the eggs etc for milk-a lot of milk-also stopped off at the post lady's place and did an exchange. The milk was used by my grandmother to make butter and cheese, plus some for family, that was then exchanged for something else, and so it went. Even at a ceilidh there would be a bit of barter/exchange going on.
👍🙏 Well said Davina - very true!
"Shall we continue to be deaf," deaf maybe, but aware. of the consequences of opposing the empire. There exists one condition within the collectivity of human life that does affect all of us however, yet hardly anyone ever mentions it... i.e., the power of money, or in more precise terms, the consequences of the lack of money.
For the sake of argument, who controls money is who controls the world, and survival. The fear of homelessness drives the human condition. Eliminate homelessness, and eliminate some the fears, and some of the bombs that protect the status quo.
In that light, so long as we continue to ignore or set aside the all-mighty power of Money, empires will never end, providing there exist enough time left for humanity for empires to rise yet again. AND, unless anyone is asleep at the wheel, money allows Masters to rule. .
You are correct about the power of money. After all the World Bank and the IMF are western creations, with the US, the only power with the right of veto. But does control of the world, need to be exercised at the expense of peoples lives? That "fear of homelessness," gives the "powerful," the right to drive others from their homes, aka, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? What a morally "bankrupt" world, the "powerful" have crested. Capitalism is dead. Free free Palestine 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
Too many politicians now have large property portfolios, they like the money this brings in and are therefore not doing anything about rent rises or any other conditions on property ownership. Getting fat on other people's need for shelter.
Yes, people don’t realize that the ransoms they pay to their Masters to live in a shelter are not a rite of passage to be human, but an enslavement to their Masters.
Capitalism is the root of the evil. It’s just a fancy word for slavery or feudalism.
Statement by the Palestinian Resistance Factions on 7 August:
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Regarding the leaked information circulating about the enemy government's intention to decide on the full occupation of the Gaza Strip, and the statements of the criminal Netanyahu regarding imposing military control over the Strip, we, the resistance factions, affirm the following:
First: These statements and leaks reveal the enemy's political and field impotence, after two years of dismal failure in achieving its goals, despite committing massacres and crimes and relying on unlimited support from global colonial powers.
Second: The threat of a full military occupation of Gaza is a declaration of genocidal intentions and a desperate attempt to subjugate our people and their resistance. These intentions will not pass without a heavy price, and the field will be the decider, as it always has been.
Third: Gaza is not a vacant geographical area looking for someone to fill it; rather, it is a land saturated with the blood of martyrs and the strength of mujahideen. Any attempt at direct occupation will be a new quagmire that burns whoever penetrates it, and the resistance will enter a phase of more severe and painful confrontation for this enemy.
Fourth: Netanyahu is trying to cover up his political and military defeat by marketing illusions of control. We tell him clearly: Gaza will not be managed from Tel Aviv, nor from any foreign capital, but by the will of its resisting people.
Fifth: The Palestinian resistance, with all its factions, is united in the field of confrontation, and any occupation decision will send it back from where it came, defeated and broken, as always. The enemy is deluded if it thinks it will free its prisoners from the grip of the resistance by military force. We affirm that its prisoners will only be released through negotiations and at heavy prices.
"And those who have wronged are going to know to what kind of return they will be returned."
💕 the will of these people is incredible. Long may they continue the fight against injustice, and may their sacrifices bring their freedom
CJ>>"Trump could end all this at any time, and chooses not to. This makes him one of the most evil people in the world."
Yes. And Trump was ALWAYS the same person he is right now - even before his 2016 election win. That Americans are SO STUPID to not only vote for him once but TWICE is other-worldly - beyond incredible.
The evidence is in folks! Not Harris, not Biden, no other Democrat (or Republican President) could ever have been as disastrous for Palestine as Trump has been.
Lesser evil anyone? Maybe there IS such a thing? The only silver lining (if one can call it that) is that Trump has ensured (and hastened) the END of the U.S. Empire (and Israel of course as it is part of said empire).
Let us not forget it was Biden sending those 10K pound bombs and Harris said she would have done nothing different. Neither Dems or Magats in power make any difference in support for Israhell.
No one's forgotten anything. I repeat - Trump is WORSE than ANY President can ever have been - not just on Palestine but on EVERYTHING!
>>"Neither Dems or Magats in power make any difference in support for Israhell."
I'm NOT talking about Democrats or Republicans. I'm talking about the Presidents - their willingness to disregard the U.S. Constitution (for starters), and sheer, utter STUPIDITY on a grand scale! (in terms of future consequences and more)
Biden was evil and so is his successor. There is no "the lesser of two evils." America bought this on the Palestinians (and the world), by relying on the students, standing up and protesting, at great risk to themselves. But where was the support from the apathetic US public? They were more interested in "the price of eggs," than the enabling of a genocide by Joe. You got what you deserved with trump.
But the Palestinian people in Gaza, are paying the greatest price for US imperialism and its ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Because the Zionist entity, is a US proxy, which, without its military support, wouldn't last a day. That's evil! Free free Palestine 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
>>"Biden was evil and so is his successor."
But of course - that goes without saying. No new revelations here.
>>"There is no "the lesser of two evils."
Unfortunately, Raoul Christensen, the evidence seems to disagree with you. One could get away with assuming so before Trump was President, but now (and his Presidency is only 6 months in), there seems to be MULTIPLE levels of evil (and not just lesser and greater evil).
>>"But the Palestinian people in Gaza, are paying the greatest price..."
Currently, it seems like only the Palestinian people are paying the price. But this is simply the beginning. More is yet to come. Eventually, WE ALL WILL BE PAYING THE PRICE - the whole world! (except for maybe the 1% or TPTB, Oligarchs, etc. possibly)
Sorry but I don't see much change from the Biden administration? Where, exactly, is the difference, in the wholehearted support for whatever Israel feels like doing? Nowhere, that's where.
That's not so say Trump isn't one of the most evil people in the world, for endless reasons. But I'd put Biden et al right up there beside him.
>>"Sorry but I don't see much change from the Biden administration?"
That's because you don't seem to see at all it seems.
Do you see difference between how Trump has handled this Genocide (and the Israelis) only 6 months into his Presidency vs. Biden? (BTW this is not a comparison - this is a look at the REAL EVIDENCE). If you don't, you have bigger problems than 'seeing change' and an 'unhealthy relationship' with TRUTH and REALITY.
Not much me (or anyone else) can say to change your perception and accept reality if you're unwilling to examine the evidence (ALL the evidence) gathered so far. But if you expect me to do the work for you (of gathering and displaying the evidence for your convenience), then you are mistaken!
I don't expect you to do anything. But nor do I expect you to insult or fight with me. We're all supposedly on the same side, here. I'm not the enemy, nor am I stupid. I'm also not Anerican, so forgive me if that particular country has not been especially high on my agenda of interest until I was forced to see the true horror of its entire political system.
Biden was never going to do anything to stop Israel. Biden was going to continue to support and help them. Apart from his usual ignorant bluster, I don't see that Trump has actually *done* anything different. But pardon me for not being such a well-informed insider such as you are.
>>"I don't see that Trump has actually *done* anything different."
Like I said, you AREN'T seeing, because if you were, the evidence is incontrovertible.
>>"But pardon me for not being such a well-informed insider such as you are."
You're pardoned, but not excused from doing your homework on 'unbiased' evidence gathering and analysis.
>>"so forgive me if that particular country has not been especially high on my agenda of interest"
If you think I'm coming from the perspective of 'I care about the U.S. or the U.S. Empire' then you would be VERY mistaken. I would like nothing more than the demise of the U.S. Empire (and America's position in the world). But that doesn't mean I IGNORE facts and evidence (and real history) about the U.S. Empire and its actions globally.
There were once many kinds of Zionists, socialist Zionists, even communist Zionists, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but in Germany, the German Zionist Party made a deal with the Nazis that worked from 1933 to 1939 to remove Jews to Palestine in preparation for the ethnic expulsion of the native Arab Palestinians, who were the majority and lived on 93% of the land and had for many centuries, growing oranges, etc.
So the Zionist who founded Israel were the Freedom Party, that Einstein , Arendt, and 26 other conscientoius Jews, denounced in a public letter in 1948 as a fascist party modeled on the Nazi template. And the current party in power, Likud, is the direct descendent of that fascist party, a party of the far right as the Zionist left has faded into the fog of history.
Fascism, now that we found the proper description, is based on lies. It is a movement, unified by hatred (whether of Jews or Palestinians, blacks or immigrants) hatred, and believing that what matter is not independent truth but the power, the violence to produce the "truth desired." So the Nazis believed they were a master race and in their certainty, caused the deaths of over 50 million civilians, Germany itself reduced to ruin Hatred can tear down but it cannot build...that is the lesson of history.
The tragic irony of Israel is that, in order to flee the atrocities against the Jews in Europe (most Jews had lived in peace in the Middle East) , had to visit upon the native Arabs in Palestine, the same horrors they had experienced in Europe, the traumatized victim becoming the abuser in order to create a Jewish ethnostate, which required terrorizing and expelling the Palestinians, as the Nazis (with Zionist cooperation) had removed the Jews (before the killing begin)...in other words, the traumatized Zionists became just like the Nazis, massacring towns, burning down 500 villages, and chasing off the vast majority of natives into enclaves like Gaza, which today is on the verge of being added to the list of lands the right Zionists have stolen under threat of terror and death, Gaza and the 1.4 trillion cu ft of gas in the Gaza Marine, for when Netanyahu supported Hamas, as the Zionists in Germany worked with the Nazis in the 30s, he did so to divide and conquer...and let us add the goal of this process...to loot. Today what we see are lies to justify starvation bombing Gaza to rubble, mass murder, and the pressing of the Gazans to the southern border in anticipation of their being expelled from Gaza so Israel can claim it as part of the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel and get rich off that treasure of gas in the Marine.
We are shocked and outraged, but not surprised, for this was the goal all along.......and we are reminded that those who would kill tens of thousands of children would not hesitate to lie to mask their evil. And what comes to the fascists with their ideology of hatred and aggrandizement: they always end up buried in their own rubble. HItler, Mussolini, Pinochet......all die by the same violence they used to come to power. so those who live by the lie end up dying by the lie, and at this moment, an inflection period. the entire world including many Israelis, more and more nations, and the majority even of Americans clearly see what they now recognize as genocide, and as Israel becomes the leper nation, the outcast, it begins to fall apart internally, as the IDF now fights with the government, the hostage families declare Netanyahu a murderer, and the one man who could end it in a phone call, as he said he would, now walks away and says "it's up to Israel," as he supplies them the weapons of genoicide and defends their starvation policy while pretending to care about the starving children. He too will come down, born of hatred, lifted by lies, ready to fall. That is my sense of the moment.....
STFU bot. Always spewing a bunch of bullshit!
The Haavara Agreement
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Call me a dreamer and I hope I am not the only one but I see some very encouraging signs. I have always believed that evil can reach a level where it destroys those possessed by it.
It is being credibly reported that the Israeli military is pushing back hard against Netanyahu and his plan to occupy Gaza. Israeli military is struggling with suicides, refusal to serve and the cost versus benefit ratio not in Israel”s favor. Surely there is someone with the opportunity that could do the world a huge service and… Of course removing Netanyahu is not enough in itself but it might be the trigger for a major upheaval.
The end of the current Israeli government is not the answer but it could possibly change the direction the world is headed. Nothing else is changing the trajectory downward and darker.
“I have always believed that evil can reach a level where it destroys those possessed by it.” Essentially so.
All straight up lies. Israeli hasbara bullshit!
Not what I have seen from the Hasbara team over a 40 year period. Usually they suppress anything negative.
Israel has been chocking on their own lies for while .Their whole existence, History, Legacy, and and History as been one big lie after another(The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/most-ashkenazi-jews-are-genetically-europeans-surprising-study-finds-8c11358210
This is old news. Ashkenazi Jews are converts with no relation to the Levant. They are from modern day Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
The whole fucking religious bullshit is all lies. The Bible isn’t real motherfuckers.
But they are still able to live the lie ,their Power Influence and control has allowed them to be able to live this lie from day one, that Palestinians don't exist and never existed, and neither did Palestine until the Romans ana whole bunch of lies, even when you have proof and show them, the dismiss it ,and they can not prove any of their Ancestors have one shred of DNA markers anywhere near the continent before the 1800 AD. They have No ties to Africa or the mid east.
Here is one of my Ancestor he is buried in Megiddo some was found in Galilee and Saifi .
4519 BC(Mota1)Ancient Palestine -SNP chain: 127.0-mtDNA:L3x2a2b-Y-DNA:E1b1a2b2--Genetic Distance: 5.948 Archeological ID-Mota1
TURNING THE TABLE
The current state of the world is the result of a process that began thousands of years ago with a predatory economy and continued with slavery, then serfdom, and finally the proletariat who, deprived of the means of production concentrated in capital, must sell their labour to survive, the value of which is deducted from profit. Meanwhile, invasions, colonialism, imperialism, wars, destruction. With the consent and support of those churches that exhort peace and brotherhood, they speak of truth, justice, and freedom, but meanwhile, out of opportunism, they accept the existing situation. Thus, billions of people who could be mobilized to build a better future are held captive by fideism, false hopes, and illusions. With propaganda about material and spiritual things. With states that, instead of serving their people and moderating conflicts, serve a tiny minority to dominate and influence the vast majority. The way out of this situation isn't to change the people at the top, but to eliminate the top. There can be no peace if those who govern act for their own supremacy, if they create problems only to later prove they are the only means to solve them, if they make laws for the people but not for those who wanted them, if they pass off as democracy a right to vote conditioned by money, if they consider the people to be at their service and, therefore, emphasize a freedom that cannot exist without freedom from want. If this continues, the world will remain on the brink of the abyss until, intentionally or accidentally, it self-destructs. And perhaps we won't even start over from the stones, because there will be no one left. The only way to avoid this prediction is to overturn the tables, replacing current institutions with new political and economic entities capable of bringing about true and real radical change, which, to be such, can only be universal. Those with more intelligence should use it, with courage and even amid the indifference and/or aversion of everyone else. Let us unite, move from awareness of reality to solutions that until now have been considered unthinkable. Yet necessary.
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This.
By the time Palestine is recognised as a State there will be NO Palestinians left as they are also dismantling the West Bank 1,000 killed already by IDF and land thieves from around the world “ settlers “
Excellent point Gerri, but I would add that if we as a species don’t change our ways, there may be no one left.
Indeed, there's a reason honest climate scientists consider Palestine to be imported.
Either the world experiences an awakening, revolution, global restructuring, whatever away from these systems of self-destructive egotistical consumption under our capitalist oligarchs...
Or we go extinct because the planet reach 7-8+C global tempts and the buried optic fiber wires begin to melt. No fancy bunkers the rich hide in will save them from this and entropy.
You got it ANF.
“No fancy bunkers will save them” is probably as accurate as you can make it. In probable fact, if a nuclear winter occurs at a severity level that may take place following a nuclear war, the air may be too polluted to breathe , so polluted that any filtering system will have been rendered inoperative in days. And that if anyone can find their bunkers as the result of total darkness, inoperable autos, and if and when they emerge, nothing in nature will be alive..
Hope the above is not too grim, but we had better open our eyes.
Jerri I respectfully disagree. The Jooz have been trying to eliminate Palestinians since 1948.
They’re still there, and in my lifetime there will be Right of Return not for Jooz but the Palestinian diaspora.
As the child of a Palestinian immigrant to Amerikkka, I have far more right to live there than some fucking Noo Yawk Joo.
The thing that is confusing me is how they are lying and telling the truth at the same time, but the media just picks up the lies. In October 2023 a US Congressman, a class of person most closely in the loop with Israeli policy and responsible for funding their genocide said of Gaza, "it's going to be eviscerated and go away here, shortly as we're going to turn that into a parking lot". Every single person in Congress and the US media had to be in on the exact same information from the very beginning that "WE" (US and Israel) would fully destroy Gaza. https://youtube.com/shorts/YKnWzxgx9X0?si=kUnNFVBDdu-LzH9E
This isn't even a case of "translate Hebrew to English", the American politicians have been saying this, publicly, just as the Israelis have. But still this game continues where the "respectable" and "unbiased" people of the media and institutions have to give deference to obvious lies that exist side by side with odious and honest admissions. Truly bizzarre.
Thing is sociopaths are natural born liars. A liar is still a liar even if they occasionally tell the truth.