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pamela bonkoski's avatar

As a person of the Jewish faith, not a Zionist, this is despicable. I lost family to the Nazi’s. This is no different, genocide is genocide. Netanyahu is a war criminal along with Trump. I’m embarrassed and disgusted. I would be happy to protest with the Palestinian people. If we don’t get a two state solution, this will never end. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Stephen Walker's avatar

“If we don’t get a two state solution, this will never end.”

No. It will not end until the criminal, apartheid, ethno-supremacist, genocidal Zionist entity is completely dismantled and everyone within the historic borders of Palestine lives with equal rights, not based on religion, race or ethnicity.

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Saige's avatar

Yes I agree with all that Pamela said except the two-state - why should a people be pushed out and given another state rather than having equal rights to flourish from the start of life in the land of their forefathers and foremothers. It is akin to pushing people onto a reservation, burning the reservation, killing the people, then telling them that anyone else who wants freedom must live in one area, not where they choose. This land was theirs. It is the zionists who are the immigrants and descendants of immigrants and they need to learn to share the land fairly rather than exterminating for expansion and dressing up captivity and oppression as freedom.

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Layla Al-Qudsi's avatar

Good luck having two peoples who have killed each other for almost hundred years living together. Good luck. Would Jews who were killed by their German neighbours during WW2 stay in Germany and live side by side with their murderers? Most left.

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Saige's avatar

I just know that my Palestinian friends seek the right of return and I support that right. I agree, after what has happened it would be hard but there are good people who stand against what has happened and their voices need to be louder, they need to stand proud. The IOF should be dismantled and no longer funded. The false publicity = propaganda should be collapsed, the multi million dollar tech industry that shoots false news out of Israel should be exposed for being a fake harmful destructive machine. Those who love a system of apartheid will want to leave and they should be able to leave, those who are prepared to share and decolonise should have the right to remain.

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Layla Al-Qudsi's avatar

No, the majority of people in Israel believe that their government’s actions are either appropriate or insufficient. Only a small percentage feel that Netanyahu has exercised excessive force, yet they still support the removal of Palestinians. A two-state solution is a viable path forward, with the potential for a unified state in the long term, but it cannot be imposed. Why not consider the Irish model? Establish two states while incorporating a constitutional provision allowing for future reunification through a referendum. As for the right of return, is a UN General Assembly recommendation, not a UN Security Council resolution, so it's not binding. In politics, compromises are necessary for negotiations. A pragmatic approach is essential; otherwise, the conflict will persist indefinitely. Similarly, Ukraine may have to concede some territory, as Russia will continue its aggression unless a resolution is reached.

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Marianna Chambless's avatar

The two state solution died long ago, it was paraded by US government officials, who were either ignorant of the reality in Israel that the Israeli government continued to encourage settlement in the West Bank, in which case they shouldn't have held their offices, or they were deliberately lying to the American people, to the world actually. I believe the latter. I don't know what is going to happen, but I have little hope that anything will be done to save the Palestinians. The irony here is that Israelis are visiting upon these people what they suffered at the hands of the Nazis 90 years ago - the means are different, but they are still ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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Feral Finster's avatar

It is abundantly obvious that the latter was the case.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

The European Jewish Zionist colonialists (many ethnically less than 1/4 to 1/2 Jewish), facilitated by the UK, are not the ones who suffered from the Nazis or in the camps. In fact many of them betrayed fellow Jews to the Nazis for safe passage to Israel. Enough said.

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David Baird's avatar

Exactly, Marianna! The Palestinians were dispossessed decades ago and have been violently, illegally persecuted, oppressed, confined and controlled ever since. The Nazionists, with the reprehensible US's support, won't finish their mass murderous activities until the rubble that is Gaza has been reduced to grit.

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Bob's avatar

No irony,the Nazis are just Bolshevick JEWS in snappier uniforms....one of the many false beliefs is that Jews wouldn't do that kind of thing to other jews....

I wouldn't bet on it,who do think INVENTED the ghetto?......

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Feral Finster's avatar

Let us pretend that Russia, Iran, or any other country that the Empire doesn't like, were to have intentionally killed some 413 innocents on a single day.

Can you imagine the howls of outrage that would ensue? Instead, we hear bleats about how Israel has the right to defend itself (from unarmed children).

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JennyStokes's avatar

My thoughts too.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

This is so obviously the case and so important, but the ovine minds are so dulled by the propaganda about the necessity of Israel as "our ally (or aircraft carrier or whatthefuckever) in the Middle East" that no one ever poses it.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

They have dined out on this cry, Feral, along with antisemitism. Before that we had the extremely theatrical accounting of the 'holocaust' culminating in the recent 80 year celebration at Auschwitz with its well chosen attendees and full press coverage.

All Academy Award stuff as seen by all, no doubt with Hollywood's Jewish theatricals tossing in their well developed skills.

Even the Second World War events do not attract that kind of "celebration".

They have learnt such organisational skills from their mentors with people like Josef Goebbels being their highly respected marketing pioneers in the effectiveness of maintaining the old war cries and making them as colourful as they can.

As for today's story, the real story of this family and the Netanyahu lies, will never be heard again.

Count on it. Dead and buried forever. A gross manipulation of the truth, covered word by lieing word by the Western news puppets, a.k.a the Netanyahu News Service.

Time allowing, someone should complete an analysis of the shareholding, ownership and control of the Western media. But we already know the answer to that one.

No. It is not Adelson and Musk. They own a President and the now fully controlled United States of Israel , lock, stock and barrel.

Local Head Office, Washington, DC, with an 86% political membership of Senators and Members, expanding daily under the careful control of AIPAC office spies, one per "sponsored politician".

Goodbye America.and the Constitution, a once worthy country and valued document.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Evolutionary Agent's avatar

what is a trumb bomb? A bomb built by Musk that misses it mark and explodes anyways

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Biden, Blinken & others also.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Marten's avatar

Sorry to say that two State solution will never works, because It is a stolen Palestinians Land, but you are right Trump is a War Criminal !!!!

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barbara maxwell's avatar

Thank you!

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Wait... I have just had a vision. No, not that one which was from a porn site -sorry; but Israel open the border because the US told them to, to Egypt ...but STILL control those poor Palestinian souls of how many to cross per day. But NO Offence here - have you seen what is IMMEDIATELY across the bordr in Egypt ?????

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/egypt-building-walled-enclosure-in-sinai-for-rafah-refugees-videos-suggest

https://theconversation.com/as-israels-assault-on-rafah-approaches-egypt-prepares-for-a-flood-of-palestinian-refugees-224020

(Better stuff than the above links, look it up yourself please, as I get "hindered !?"...)

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SO Where do you think they will go or kicked out to ??? ..... yep = the EU and the UK; maybe some in the US. Yes, oil and gas, yes, this and that - but yes depopulation and white genocide.

PPS No effing Arab states will take them!?.

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Ron Harold's avatar

you get kicked out....the only person getting kicked out of anywhere is you.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Err why ?.

Oh wait !; think I may know where the misunderstanding comes from.

1. We have genocide of the Palestinians, 2. We have the poor people being kicked out of Palestine into Egypt, 3. We have them then shipped over to the UK and EU, then we have social unrest (already happening) and potentially a civil war, 4. White flight and white genocide in UK and EU....2 birds with one stone.

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Feral Finster's avatar

I appreciate the sentiments but have little use for a two state solution.

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JennyStokes's avatar

There is NO 2 state solution. 100? agree. IF this did happen can you imagine in 20yrs time..........same old shit.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

After the Nazis gained power in Germany in the 1930s, the Jews influx to Palestine took a major turn with hundreds of thousands of them resettled from Europe to Palestine. Resettlement, not sent by Germany. Have you been to a concentration camp? I have, and it’s very upsetting. I have a degree in political science, I’m well aware it wasn’t just Jews who were murdered. Maybe I should send you my Dad and Uncle’s Shoah testimony. If you are a denier, did my grandparents go on some random vacation, never to be heard from again. You are ridiculous and ignorant.

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Angelina's avatar

How about the fact that Germany paid/pays only Jews for the military blockade of Leningrad by Germans and Finns for 872 days? Nearly million of Soviets, many children died during the blockade, including Putin's little brother, but only Jews got compensated for their suffering? Because of what - their suffering is the most suffered suffering in the world?! Soviet soldiers were killed, wounded, breaking the blockade of Leningrad, but only Jews got paid? My Ukrainian grandfather defended the Brest Fortress in the summer of 1941, when German Nazis invaded, and he fought his way to Stalingrad, where in 1943, he was wounded, captured by the Nazis and shipped to Norway, where he was enslaved in toxic nickel mines. My father grew up in an orphanage, because my grandma worked day and night for the defense, her husband was listed as MIA, and nobody knew his fate. I got records from the Norwegian archives.

I don't want the money, but the very fact that Jews, who lived through the blockade of Leningrad, would take payments from Germany and be perfectly fine with the fact that nobody else who lived through the blockade was compensated, but only them. It disgusts me.

My favorite bluff is why only Jews were/are getting compensated for the blockade of Leningrad - "because they were living in fear that they'd be killed if Nazis were to conquer Leningrad." Mind, Leningrad never surrendered - but Jews are being paid for their FEAR of "WHAT IF Leningrad surrendered." Give me a break -sick & tired of "choosiness" & "designated victims."

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JennyStokes's avatar

What about the Romany Gypsy's in Poland?

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Feral Finster's avatar

IIRC, about 1/3 of the prewar population of Leningrad died, without the Nazis ever have seized the city.

Of course, the reason the Germans only paid compensation to Leningrad Jews was because the West did not want to do anything more than the bare minimum required, if doing so might improve the lot of Soviet citizens, while payments only to Jews would drive a wedge between Jews and non-Jews.

Cynical, but so what, if it worked?

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Please learn the FACTS, not the fiction you are told and obviously believe. Look at the Red Cross report after they entered ALL extermination camps. Read the British and US reports...that if you delve deeply enough - you can find.

Yes hundreds of thousands died .. including Jews, Polish, British etc, and and ... IN THESE CAMPS; but not by what we are or have been told and some maybe had been murdered.

You bang on like a lot of others, but just do the ruddy Maths. Years into Days / 6 million divided by ... and oh wait... the gas came from where ?.... the bodies or ashes were buries where ? and the so called "Jewish population then and now is ?"- SUPRISE, even if you research BEFORE and AFTER WW2 ... itwould be funny if not so depressing that we fell for this BS for so long.

I am sick of hearing about your victimhood ... Russia in WWII lost so many more than the Jews, Britain was devastated... but we have to listen to your lot play the victim card EVERY SINGLE F'ING DAY...nah, not for me anymore.

By the way (and not a lot of people know this), but the 6million figure is highly important to the Jewish faith. WHY ?; because whether it is mentioned in the Talmud or one of your scriptures (hidden of course) ... it means the return of the "Almighty" ..... now enough of you. You are ignorant and I think a troll.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

Funnily enough no, since the Talmud was compiled centuries beforehand and is little more than an astonishingly complex and boring collection of debates between scholars and rabbis on the nuance of Jewish law and tradition. BTW, my Uncle was a Ritchie Boy, sent back to Germany to do intelligence. He helped liberate Dachau. I am not a troll you ignoramus. I’m done talking to you. You can educate ignorance but you can’t fix stupid.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Did you need to look up the word "ignoramus"?, wow I am gutted - see ya.

Too funny !... you lost again; fight or flight hey ?.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

Nope, you are not worth my time.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

You got two upticks and I got zero, so maybe I am ?;but I will miss you and your intelligence. Now do one.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

I do not believe you with your "I lost family to the Nazi’s" ... because 1. The Nazis as you call them, were a political party that governed Germany (people seem to forget that) and they are called Nazis for being National Socialist -if lost some of your family DURING A WAR (WWII) - I am sorry, but please make your point more specific on how... and do not insult my intelligence with BS about the Holocaust.

Most of the rest of the comment is spot on, but after Israel has done this; there will never be a 2 state solution - doubt it was even taken seriously.... just more BS showing us that the World is a stage and we are being played.

No offence intended. I have NO PROBLEM with the Jewish faith, I have a problem with the Zionist scum.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

They were deported from their town by Nazi’s. I have pictures that my son has, of the yellow stars saying Juden. My grandparents were murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto. Are you a Holocaust denier? If you are please f all the way off.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Look, not having a go, but "will f all the way off", IF YOU READ my comment here.

Nobody (especially me - being English) is condoning or praising Nazis (Germany), asI lost many members of my family as well fighting them.....but I am stating FACTS (in my opinion); facts that people need to understand and then make their own minds up if WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD is true or not...

1. Nazis = https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-party-1 .... it is like saying and re-writing the article above, but instead of using the name Israel, you use the term Likud or National Liberal Movement. "LIkud is committing genocide" ???.

2. I am sorry about your Grandparents and the only thing I argue against is the BS is that what we have been told (gas chambers and stuff plus the 6 million dead "Jews" - ONLY JEWS !!!?) is literally impossible and implausible- do the Maths yourself and look it up. Even Auschwitz changed it's "marketing ?" down from 4 million to over a million and included "others".

3. In a way, I am a holocaust denier, because - did you know that Germany sent tens of thousand of "Jews" to Palestine"?;....... bet you did not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

But atrocities were carried out on both sides... we and the Yanks did Dresden (Germany)... shocking - as an example.

4. The victor writes history and the World is a f'ing stage.

5. As stated, no offence, but sick and tired of al this victimhood, propaganda and BS spewed out to us on everything daily.

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JennyStokes's avatar

This is NOT the time to 'call out' what YOU think.

It is the time to do something.

People come from many countries as I do. A lot of us have seen atrocities by Nations. Do you understand: "Divide and Conquer?"

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Agreed. But not quite sure what you mean. Have fracture in my arm from copper smashing me with truncheon on anti-lockdown /Covid bllx rally... this, that and the other, but even after thinking whilst writing - NO IDEA WHAT YOU AR ON ABOUT.

Unless of course your remark of "Divide and Conquer?".... is similar to that I state many times, questioning if we are being played about "Out of chaos,, comes order" - same same in a way.

Look I am not trying to divide - but I am sick and tired of the lies being stated - both about history and the present day "..... you should hear me on the pandemic, LGBT or even the England football squad.

PS I am older than you I would imagine AND I DO NOT CARE; I will speak my mind stating FACTS ONLY... hoping that just one person THINKS for him / her self nowadays.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

Facts are statements that can be verified by evidence, while opinions are statements of belief, attitude, value, judgement, or feeling.

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Bob - Enough's avatar

What evidence would you like ?, because I can provide (hopefully) everything you wish for.

I ran a 9million pound company before cancer.... then the after ruddy negative effects from treatment left at home on a ruddy keyboard and reading books - YOU CAN TRY, but I would not recommend going up against me about providing facts... I either have them NOW, or I will find them.

However, please know that I will be the first to apologise if I am wrong... which I have been numerous times.

Please also realise that I have nothing against Jews, nor any other religion... but I despise the genocide (as you stated) of the Zionists (a political front NOT RELIGIOUS). Good night and God bless.

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Marten's avatar

Amen Bob, right on the money !!!

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martin's avatar

alas, looks like you'll be finding out what comes after 'embarrassed and disgusted'.

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George Cornell's avatar

Israel lies about nearly everything. It’s who they are. They lie even when they don’t need to lie. Talk to a secular Jew about doing business with Israelis. See Chris Hedges’ factual Culture of Deceit.

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John Mann's avatar

In other words, they share western values . . .

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Exactly John Mann - the western values of colonialism, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnocide and ecocide.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Stan's avatar

Please stop posting the same thing over and over. You will get reported.

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Ron Harold's avatar

I need you to go fuck yourself.

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Stan's avatar

You have already been reported. Doing it again now

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Ron Harold's avatar

You act like a bitch......you must be a punk.

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Ron Harold's avatar

IT'S NOT WORKING......I knew you would...so do it again......you sick fuck.

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Sam's avatar
Mar 18Edited

They are serial liars. Ive never heard any truth from them or the western media.

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John Mann's avatar

Interesting, isn't it, that the western media feels an obligation to repeat the talking points made by serial liars . . .

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Spot on again, John Mann. I have often wondered the same thing, why the western media faithfully repeat the talking points as if they have any validity, as if they are reasonable arguments for a genocide.

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Peter Sawchuk's avatar

Follow the money. They are not media they are paid propagandists.

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Feral Finster's avatar

I doubt anything so crude is necessary.

MSM talking heads and writers know full well what kinds of coverage will win you plaudits, prizes, plum assignments and tell-all interviews with Serious Important People, and what kinds of coverage will get you assigned to cover allegations of corruption in bids for portapotties in Nunavut.

"I'm sure you believe everything you are saying. Because if you didn't believe it, you would not be here...." - N. Chomsky to A. Marr.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Here is what you can do BUT nobody listens.

IF protesters protested outside Mainstream Media (MSM) holding placards with names of these so-called journalists. Writ large.

Each one of them will have to:

1 Think.

2.Maybe employ bodyguards (which they cannot afford).

3. Imagine..........there whole lives will be out there in the media.

IMAGINE the HEADLINES in MSM.

They are cowardly hypocrites!

Coming on here soon with names: It's the only way.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Walden Mathews's avatar

I guess the thrust of this article is to convince people that Bibi is evil, and by extension, Israel is evil. But is either even controversial at this point, especially among this readership?

And I quickly survey the comments already offered here, and all I see is impotent, emotional "protest-like" gestures that re-state the premise in myriad ways. Enough already. A chorus performance does not move things forward one iota.

In a recent interview, Sergey Lavrov pointed out that Russia regards the Ukraine war as a war between Russia and the United States. Good on him for saying it out loud. Similarly, the genocide in Gaza is a genocide being committed by the United States. Sure, Bibi is an evil prick; but the power behind that evil is the US Government. And the power behind the US Government is the US People. There are many in the US, including possibly the majority of Jewish citizens, who understand this, yet we are stuck.

So people; Please stop exclaiming that "poop stinks." How can we get a population (a significant component of which understands apartheid firsthand) to start to move things in the right direction? How do we get "unstuck"?

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JennyStokes's avatar

First thing that has to happen is protest outside mainstream media offices. Call them out as liars and murderers. I have said this many times but nobody does anything. When the propaganda goes we can see more clearly what needs to happen next.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I think this is a larger societal issue of American cowardice in any situation in which standing up for truth is risky to one's job/pay/other status. I've been in numerous situations where, afterward, colleagues were enthusiastic to congratulatorily slap me on the back for articulating an objection to an unjust authoritarian pronouncement, but were conveniently mute during the process itself. I've seen a shitload of such duck-and-cover cowardice in my lifetime. I can't speak for other western cultures, but would opine that the national character of the good ol' USA and its institutions cannot ever be depended upon to call out lies.

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Megan Baker's avatar

We certainly could never have the American Revolution today. John Taylor Gatto wrote very astutely about this and what's been lost.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

When I saw an orange Empire State bldg., I had two thoughts: this is either a tribute to the god Trump or someone left out a filter to bring it to appropriately fully blood red as a tribute to America's number one export.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Speaking of tributes, or tributes recalled, France has been requesting that the Statue of Liberty be returned to France.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Not without good reason. Although, to be kind, their liberté, egalité, fraternité isn't exactly on the most solid ground it's ever been. Viva la rivoluzione! (Sorry, my Italian's far better than my French.)

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CHPD's avatar

There is no justification for murdering children.

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Blow back is a bitch. Cancel Israel.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Paul Girard's avatar

Chris Hedges was mentioned in an earlier comment. I wish more people would read his accounts, too. Cornell West has a rational account of equally valuing all children…..what have we become?? How can this be happening?

I’m reading “Fear of Small Numbers.” In the first pages I maybe get my answer:

“No modern nation, however benign its political system and however eloquent its public voices may be about the virtues of tolerance, multiculturalism, and inclusion, is free of the idea that its national sovereignty is built on some sort of ethnic genius.”

So sad. And huge portions of the population easily swallow the whole load of bullshit.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

“No modern nation, however benign its political system and however eloquent its public voices may be about the virtues of tolerance, multiculturalism, and inclusion, is free of the idea that its national sovereignty is built in some sort of ethnic genius.” Which is why patriotism and nationalism are dangerous and if sustained in a country always leads to oppression within its own borders. We are citizens of earth, nations are all artificial even though for organizational purposes they sometimes serve a good purpose. Perhaps the EU is an example (not ideologically or politically) of how nations could work - organized to serve a population but with open borders.

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martin's avatar

i see your point, but the eu maybe is not a good example. imo, there's a very good chance that it is not organized to serve a population.

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

A mother in Gaza said they killed her starving children. Zionism is Terrorism.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

The US of Israel is Terrorism personified. Has been since wwII, and on steroids since the excuse of 9/11. The rogue US mafia state is working its increasingly lawless way down Westmoreland's list. Lawlessness now taking a deep dive. Israel was born, like Rosemary's Baby, to be a proxy mercenary state to do the US/UK's dirty work, where every citizen is required to be trained to kill in the IDF. Oil, Resources, land, and staggering war machine profits.

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Yakutat@‘94's avatar

Of course they did, and they target journalists who tell the truth. So, there’s a term for that?

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Feral Finster's avatar

Because they can.

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Walden Mathews's avatar

Because we help them.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Hell, we actively participate.

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Walden Mathews's avatar

That's kind of my point. But when you say "we" are you referring to the two individuals in this thread? Or do you mean "we," the United States? Or "we," some other large group? Because my "we" includes me, sadly. I, personally, am stuck on how such a large number of good people can be so powerless. The buying of souls is working way better than any religion would have us believe possible.

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Feral Finster's avatar

We as in the United States, the West. I think the term humans use is "synechdoche"?

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Feral Finster's avatar

Notice that Israel does not even bother with concocting some elaborate rationale, secure that their American thug will back them, no matter what.

The various poodles who howled so piteously at the terrifying prospect of peace breaking out in Ukraine are silent.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

"...........secure that their American thug will back them, no matter what."

All well identified by Caitlin. Thanks to Mossad-Epstein-Netanyahu-Trump.

No end in sight and clear as a bell.

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Ron Harold's avatar

Last Night Donald Trump Killed Over 400 Palestinian babies, children, women and men using TRUMP BOMBS - Democrats remain deathly silent - videos/pics

YOUR GUVMINT OFFICIALS AND TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR US-BACKED TERRORIST REBELS ISRAEL:

https://progressives.substack.com/p/last-night-donald-trump-killed-over

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Petition for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil who was kidnapped from Columbia University.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention

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Nabil's avatar

In this current juncture, one can count on the US, Israel, and - alas - the UK-advised Ukraine Nazis, to fake, feign, and disrupt negotiations. Israel has even perfected the dastardly art of killing the negotiators of the opposite side.

Mainly, these rogue terrorist nations enter "peace" negotiations while simultaneously "applying pressure" by bombing, starving, or threatening their opponents.

As Caitlin points out, Israel agreed to a two-stage ceasefire & POW/hostage exchange and an IDF withdrawal from Gaza. It was clear to the world that Netanyahu had zero interest in going along with the deal he was pressured to accept by Trump and half of Israel.

Thus, the latest killing of the children and other civilians in Gaza, among a string of other atrocities and war crimes like cutting off food, water, electricity and vital aid already agreed upon -- all intendedto blow up the "deal".

What gives? My hunch is that Netanyahu and Trump have decided to broaden the conflict to engulf Iran. Hence, the White House's recent declaration holding Iran "responsible" for Yemen's embargo on shipping to Israel.

(Enforcing shipping embargoes is the sole right of Great Empires, say the gangsters on the Potomac, even if its purpose is to stop a genocide.)

In short, Israel and the US are waltzing their way to a major war with Iran by moving over the bodies of dead children. They hope we won't notice or care.

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SW's avatar

War with Iran (the last on the list Westmoreland saw 20 years ago) is now the goal and it won’t stop until that has been achieved. What Trump and Netanyahu refuse to believe is Iran could destroy Israel and it has powerful allies with hypersonic weapons. So far the Zionist have picked on people who can’t defend themselves. Their arrogant assumptions about Iran could be their defeat but the death toll would be horrible.

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Megan Baker's avatar

Not Westmoreland. Wesley Clark (Clarke?).

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Feral Finster's avatar

The War On Iran is now baked in the cake.

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Neil Procter's avatar

Full of fakes and criminals of course Israel lied. Being a Military Industrial Complex project, as opposed to an actual country, it doesn’t know how to do anything else.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Thanks Caitlin. I don't know how you keep this up, it must be very distressing. Thankfully, you have found a way and we are all better informed and more thoughtful because of you.

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Jim S's avatar

Thank You Caitlin

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