It's amazing that they dare say this openly. And are rewarded handsomely for it. Can blanket censorship and suppression rehabilitate Israel's image? Can Big Money buy up almost all the media and bend the West to its will? I guess we shall see.
Problem for them is that in this age of smartphones and social media there is absolutely no way for them to completely suppress what is going on in Gaza unless they cut off all communications, block all satellite signals, and completely isolate Gaza AND Israel from the entire world.
That is a bold claim and people are working hard to prove you wrong. The problem is that when they do, or if they already have, you won’t know about it.
They have already created disaster with over consumption, greed, wars wars and more wars so that they can make money money and more money. We are not only distracted. We are worried. Scared. For good reason. The world is being run by a bunch of insane assholes.
Mass media overload makes things look worse then they are. The World was far more violent and chaotic 50 years ago, we just didn't have that instantly bombarded at us 24/7.
Perhaps. But there wasn't a climate catastrophe happening back then. The nuclear threat had just began and it has only gotten worse. The US had not had so much time to foment so many wars in so many places. Israel was not threatening to nuke anyone who disagreed with them. People who wanted the law to be acknowledged were not threatened with execution as were those people who said that soldiers should not obey illegal orders. But yes, there was racism, real anti-semitism, misogyny, domestic violence etc. decades ago and that has not really improved much at all.
I lived through the USA's civil rights thing and am certain that as racism goes things are much better now. Not great but much different from what they were. I could be specific...
I have been watching the world change for almost 80 years. We did make progress on racism and misogyny. we even got a bit along in learning to accept different lifestyles and sexualities. But we have been going backwards really fast for the last decade. We have not paid attention to the climate catastrophe that has made quite a lot of headway already. Capitalism is way way out of control. And then there is the spectre of Israel. Any headway we have made is tainted by the threat of climate and/or nuclear annihilation.
Bill seems to have no conscience. I can hear a 70 year old Zionist screaming, "stop the 2 year old from crying. I lost both my parents in WWII and I'm not crying!"
These "existents" - "people" doesn't apply to them - are beyond warped, twisted. No dosage however large or sustained of pyschotropic medications can help, the problem is not of the mind, but of the soul - of which they have none.
--and new top gun at, was it CBS? I guess now even in nongovernmental positions, high office requires that you be depraved, loyal, incompetent, AND corrupt.
Now, the most brilliant solution is that we take away all smart devices from anyone under 18. We can`t have our young learning by seeing the reality of our complicity in these crimes, and we all know that a starved mind will more readily consume whatever bullshit it is feed.
My fervent wish would be a return to the tech of say 1985. PCs and Macs as individual machines serving the user's creativity. I constructed a lot of learning tools for my students, with no backtalk from the machine, social media, AI etc. trying to interrupt, indoctrinate, or sell me something. What the rest of the world considers progress in this area, I tend to reject as just Capitalist acceleration of wealth accumulation for elites and danger for uncritical minds. And hey, that's the way it seems to have turned out to my way of thinking. Call me a dinosaur, all you "moderns"; I couldn't give two shits.
Ah, but you do give a shit, or you would not care to share your wisdom. Technological advancements have always been a double edge sword, Having had a career as Hardware designer, Network designer, I`ve a bit aware of tech, but aside all the negatives, that it allows us to connect to connect with people all over the world, so inexpensively and with such ease, I`d say its still a net positive. That my illiterate mother can manage to made a video call with her iPad is pretty dam amazing, You might be a dinosaur, but I suspect your more like Dino then T-Rex
You're right of course, but this is how I do it. The old laptop I make music on never ever goes online and runs no other software than GarageBand and iTunes or maybe an .mp3 to .wav converter occasionally. So it returns me to the good old reptilian days. When that machine dies, it may be a signal.
Oh and because you mentioned it recently elsewhere, next up, my version of Funk, which is a genre I'm calling QuasiFunk. Working on it. Gotta get those bass lines happening.
There is no "yellow line" anywhere. No physical, recognizable anything. They'll use any excuse to continue murdering with impunity knowing full well not one single soul will do a thing about it.
Part of the sadist’s playbook is to keep the victim guessing what cruelty will be inflicted on him next. They like not just physical torture (starvation, freezing, bombing injuries) but also psychological torture too. Shooting a child in the face accomplishes both, moving the location of an invisible line is no fun for the IDF unless they can terrify Palestinians as well as shoot them at will and no one is going to stop them.
That is so true it breaks my heart. The everyday person would be in there stopping it if they could but, of course, they would be in prison as soon as they returned. Yet Americans and people from other countries can go ove to fight for israhell and come back to pats on the back from their Jewish families. Personally, I would ban them from ever returning to the country the came from because they obviously consider themselves israelis, so should be made to stay there as it falls apart.
They have moveable yellow boxes in some areas (on SBS TV news here yesterday) - ‘moveable’ being the operative word… move them to where they like, at absolutely no notice. Works wonderfully for their slaughter and justification……painting a yellow line took too long…..
Thanks for the update. An AP reporter was one of the first allowed into Gaza after the cease fire where she stated there was no clear line anywhere. Obviously it's just another lie that major media just repeats without question.
We live in an absolutely sick world. Never was humanity closer to self-destruction and israel and the west in general are the cancer of humanity. This is what human exceptionalism, greed, and arrogance brings.
Well said Mr. Douglas. The world seems at the precipice of the abyss at the moment, I think this really is an inflection point. We either unite to build a better, more just, equitable, fair and egalitarian world, or allow our divisions to rip us apart, allow the global ecosystems to further deteriorate and eventually die, oligarchs to continue to exploit people, profit off their misery and amass more wealth and power, dumb down our minds even more through vast consumption of social media and heavy use of AI, and potentially obliterate ourselves through nuclear armageddon
It's all a cruel game to the zionists, the more ridiculous ways they can use to torture and torment Palestinians the more they will find to use.
Please, can some country with guts take them on and flatten Israel. It wouldn't need much, just get in there, bomb the hell out if them and leave them with nothing to return fire - it's a small place, a dozen aircraft could finish them off then the world could help Palestine to rebuild.
Without israhell the world would be a much more peaceful place, especially after all the media was taken away from the zionist jews, and their lobbying made illegal as well as them having high positions anywhere. It was done before before but we fell for the holocaust victim non-stop in movies, books and series. Even stories about Jesus they manage to become the victim even though it was the jews who, in fact, had him killed because he found them to be the children of satan - and 2,000+ years later we realise He was right.
I’m waiting on the lunatics to attack Iran again. Iran gave them an amazing kicking earlier this year. Israel quietly begged for a cease fire, but not before Iran had proven that even its lesser and older missile stock were more than up to the job. Next time I think the result will be much more catastrophic, and it definitely needs to be.
I am, too. You can bet Iran is now even better prepared and has used this time to upscale what it has and to improve each new version. They won't be sitting there simply waiting but will already be well and truly ready to fire back and this time it will not be a warning.
They’ve spent the past ~50 years bleating that Iran is “just two weeks away” from having a nuclear weapon. Threatening to nuke them would be admitting that they know Iran don’t have one to fire back with. 🤷🏼♂️
It is well known that Israel has nuclear missiles in submarines. There is a law that the USA can't send money to a country like that so they pretend they don't know.
I am told that they threaten to nuke Western capitals if Israel is being wiped out. It's called the Sampson Option. Is this really true?
No inspection of their(?) nuclear missiles has ever been allowed, so iw can we know if they have one, ten, 100 or none.
They can brag all they like but without proof by sighting them no one actually knows if they are just lying again. The problem us, the lie has been allowed for so many decades the myth has become a reality in some people's mind. Me... I have to see it before I believe it.
Building atomic bombs isn't that hard to do. South Africa did it and I dare say Israel is both more technologically advanced and more motivated to do so.
Good for South Africa. And Israel being the size it is is more likely to flatten the country if someone sent a deep bomb into wherever they have their "supposed cacheof nuclear warheads". Bye, bye israel
Caitlin, so many wonderful 'points of reflection' and truth in this article! I couldn't agree with you more on ALL of them - Musk (who no one should listen to), the different reasons for anti-Israel sentiment from the left and right, the 'yellow-line' lies for killing more Palestinians, the obscene amount of power suckage for AI datacenters (which is going to worsen climate change problems and the ecology in ways most people are unaware of).
Thank you Caitlin! ❤️🙏
I recommend your readers to read the following book "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" by Kate Crawford.
Here's a synopsis -> "What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? This book details how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial, gender, and economic inequality. It also reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us."
I think the good people will get their act together sooner or later. Ireland and NYC are taking the lead, that's a very good sign of a turning of the tide. Most people are helpless without leadership.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are in the midst of Armageddon. I wish I knew what the next step is. As far as I remember, Armageddon does not signify it's the end of the world, or the end of the existence of humans in the world. Does anyone know?
Armageddon is from the Bible's book of Revelation. To me it reads like the ravings of a seriously crazy man. None of its predictions has ever come true. People can read whatever they like into this mush.
Re: "None of its predictions has ever come true." That's because until now we haven't been in Armageddon, so those predictions couldn't come true before their time. Now, that we ARE in Armageddon, they seem to already be coming true.
I doubt anyone here has been there before, and any claiming they do, is either deluded or deceitful. We are all here for the first time.
For some reason, reading your comment made me remember I.F. Stone saying many years ago, we are still in the 6th day; Creation isn't finished yet. I thought that was very meaningful. No one knows what that 7th Day might look like, could be the idea of Armageddon may well be what finally reaching that 7th Day looks like.
I wonder... Could we paint a yellow line around Tel Aviv and other "Israeli" cities and settler colonies and then move the line inward by a foot each day, shooting and bombing them every time they cross the new yellow line? We might just end this horrible genocide of Gaza if we do.
LOVE the idea! I'm all for it! I'm even willing to go there personally and paint such yellow lines in Israel (as long as someone can guarantee my protection/security - which is a big ask).
When anyone tries to conflate opposition to Israeli genocide with the alleged antisemitism, the correct response is to immediately tell them that is dishonest, in no uncertain terms.
Speaking of Elon Musk, he had to instruct Grok to stop translating Hebrew so that the rest of us can no longer read what the genocidal maniacs of Israel really think. It's too late. We already know.
Bret Stephen's justifies an unprovoked attack on Venezuela by saying that small country, which is 1,700 km from the southern tip of Florida, "... gives America’s enemies a significant foothold in the Americas.” Russia's enemies have a significant foothold on its border.
Two comments. On Israel's latest hasbara ploy, you gotta recognize what a challenge these people face. Their internal propaganda campaign has been so successful, you've got soldiers causally shooting a kid in the face at a bus stop, and crowds setting up celebratory bouncy castles to block aid getting to starving people. The leaders, with the full support of the people, decided it's time to (first let Oct 7th pass to set up the excuse for and then) start on a Final Solution to rid Israel of non-Jews, with a further campaign of sending the wehrmacht out on a spree of conquest for Greater Israel after that's accomplished. They may have thought they had the rest of the world lined up to accept this, because they were very successful with one segment: western politicians, who were subjected not to a lot of hasbara but to carrots and sticks. But the rest of us are not subject to those carrots and sticks, and even when the politicians pass on the sticks in the form of threats to deport those who criticize Israel, thousands of arrests in the UL for holding a sign opposing genocide and supporting PA, it may have some intimidation effect but it also looks incredibly hamfisted, highhanded, and like our politicians are pathetic puppets serving foreign masters.
The mass murdering Zionists are unbounded by international laws for humans to comply with. The hatred and greed of Zionists places them in no humans land. In contrast, there a millions of Australians who go the extra mile and are willing to walk a mile in the shoes of Palestinians. These Australians with a heart now urgently need the political leaders to now turn around look back and come face to face with Palestinians subjected to genocide. What are these "leaders" afraid of?
Right or Left, this is rather easy to despise . . .
"The problem is not that there’s too much carnage in Gaza, but that people are seeing too much of it".
- Bari Weiss, depraved Zionist psychopath
It's amazing that they dare say this openly. And are rewarded handsomely for it. Can blanket censorship and suppression rehabilitate Israel's image? Can Big Money buy up almost all the media and bend the West to its will? I guess we shall see.
Problem for them is that in this age of smartphones and social media there is absolutely no way for them to completely suppress what is going on in Gaza unless they cut off all communications, block all satellite signals, and completely isolate Gaza AND Israel from the entire world.
That is a bold claim and people are working hard to prove you wrong. The problem is that when they do, or if they already have, you won’t know about it.
They don`t have silence them all, but the must make sure the young, the ones who are most likely to rebel, are kept tamed and distracted.
It was`nt enough that they hijacked and stole TikTok, now these ghouls want to convince us to away all smart devices from anyone under 18.
Another manufactured disaster to distract us will do the trick...
They have already created disaster with over consumption, greed, wars wars and more wars so that they can make money money and more money. We are not only distracted. We are worried. Scared. For good reason. The world is being run by a bunch of insane assholes.
Very wealthy insane ones.
Mass media overload makes things look worse then they are. The World was far more violent and chaotic 50 years ago, we just didn't have that instantly bombarded at us 24/7.
Perhaps. But there wasn't a climate catastrophe happening back then. The nuclear threat had just began and it has only gotten worse. The US had not had so much time to foment so many wars in so many places. Israel was not threatening to nuke anyone who disagreed with them. People who wanted the law to be acknowledged were not threatened with execution as were those people who said that soldiers should not obey illegal orders. But yes, there was racism, real anti-semitism, misogyny, domestic violence etc. decades ago and that has not really improved much at all.
I lived through the USA's civil rights thing and am certain that as racism goes things are much better now. Not great but much different from what they were. I could be specific...
1975 wasn't that bad. 1945 on the other hand....
I have been watching the world change for almost 80 years. We did make progress on racism and misogyny. we even got a bit along in learning to accept different lifestyles and sexualities. But we have been going backwards really fast for the last decade. We have not paid attention to the climate catastrophe that has made quite a lot of headway already. Capitalism is way way out of control. And then there is the spectre of Israel. Any headway we have made is tainted by the threat of climate and/or nuclear annihilation.
Bill seems to have no conscience. I can hear a 70 year old Zionist screaming, "stop the 2 year old from crying. I lost both my parents in WWII and I'm not crying!"
Is it really so amazing that they dare say this openly?
Have they not been completely open about their genocidal intentions?
say things openly you say? https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1992023233181421876#m
These "existents" - "people" doesn't apply to them - are beyond warped, twisted. No dosage however large or sustained of pyschotropic medications can help, the problem is not of the mind, but of the soul - of which they have none.
--and new top gun at, was it CBS? I guess now even in nongovernmental positions, high office requires that you be depraved, loyal, incompetent, AND corrupt.
Now, the most brilliant solution is that we take away all smart devices from anyone under 18. We can`t have our young learning by seeing the reality of our complicity in these crimes, and we all know that a starved mind will more readily consume whatever bullshit it is feed.
My fervent wish would be a return to the tech of say 1985. PCs and Macs as individual machines serving the user's creativity. I constructed a lot of learning tools for my students, with no backtalk from the machine, social media, AI etc. trying to interrupt, indoctrinate, or sell me something. What the rest of the world considers progress in this area, I tend to reject as just Capitalist acceleration of wealth accumulation for elites and danger for uncritical minds. And hey, that's the way it seems to have turned out to my way of thinking. Call me a dinosaur, all you "moderns"; I couldn't give two shits.
Ah, but you do give a shit, or you would not care to share your wisdom. Technological advancements have always been a double edge sword, Having had a career as Hardware designer, Network designer, I`ve a bit aware of tech, but aside all the negatives, that it allows us to connect to connect with people all over the world, so inexpensively and with such ease, I`d say its still a net positive. That my illiterate mother can manage to made a video call with her iPad is pretty dam amazing, You might be a dinosaur, but I suspect your more like Dino then T-Rex
You're right of course, but this is how I do it. The old laptop I make music on never ever goes online and runs no other software than GarageBand and iTunes or maybe an .mp3 to .wav converter occasionally. So it returns me to the good old reptilian days. When that machine dies, it may be a signal.
Oh and because you mentioned it recently elsewhere, next up, my version of Funk, which is a genre I'm calling QuasiFunk. Working on it. Gotta get those bass lines happening.
Look forward to it, tangent question, do you remember the music of the 5th Dimensions?
Only their really gigantic hit - Age of Aquarius. Nothing else comes to mind.
There is no "yellow line" anywhere. No physical, recognizable anything. They'll use any excuse to continue murdering with impunity knowing full well not one single soul will do a thing about it.
Part of the sadist’s playbook is to keep the victim guessing what cruelty will be inflicted on him next. They like not just physical torture (starvation, freezing, bombing injuries) but also psychological torture too. Shooting a child in the face accomplishes both, moving the location of an invisible line is no fun for the IDF unless they can terrify Palestinians as well as shoot them at will and no one is going to stop them.
That is so true it breaks my heart. The everyday person would be in there stopping it if they could but, of course, they would be in prison as soon as they returned. Yet Americans and people from other countries can go ove to fight for israhell and come back to pats on the back from their Jewish families. Personally, I would ban them from ever returning to the country the came from because they obviously consider themselves israelis, so should be made to stay there as it falls apart.
They have moveable yellow boxes in some areas (on SBS TV news here yesterday) - ‘moveable’ being the operative word… move them to where they like, at absolutely no notice. Works wonderfully for their slaughter and justification……painting a yellow line took too long…..
Thanks for the update. An AP reporter was one of the first allowed into Gaza after the cease fire where she stated there was no clear line anywhere. Obviously it's just another lie that major media just repeats without question.
That's why Russia and China didn't veto the plan. It's 100% meaningless, so why bother?
We live in an absolutely sick world. Never was humanity closer to self-destruction and israel and the west in general are the cancer of humanity. This is what human exceptionalism, greed, and arrogance brings.
Well said Mr. Douglas. The world seems at the precipice of the abyss at the moment, I think this really is an inflection point. We either unite to build a better, more just, equitable, fair and egalitarian world, or allow our divisions to rip us apart, allow the global ecosystems to further deteriorate and eventually die, oligarchs to continue to exploit people, profit off their misery and amass more wealth and power, dumb down our minds even more through vast consumption of social media and heavy use of AI, and potentially obliterate ourselves through nuclear armageddon
Who’s surprised? Nobody. And they’ve gotten away with much worse for nearly 80 years
For Israel it's always been a shell game, literally and figuratively, whether it's moving yellow blocks or shelling and genociding Palestinians.
In a move that should have surprised zero people at this point. What’s most surprising is that there is even a yellow line.
It's all a cruel game to the zionists, the more ridiculous ways they can use to torture and torment Palestinians the more they will find to use.
Please, can some country with guts take them on and flatten Israel. It wouldn't need much, just get in there, bomb the hell out if them and leave them with nothing to return fire - it's a small place, a dozen aircraft could finish them off then the world could help Palestine to rebuild.
Without israhell the world would be a much more peaceful place, especially after all the media was taken away from the zionist jews, and their lobbying made illegal as well as them having high positions anywhere. It was done before before but we fell for the holocaust victim non-stop in movies, books and series. Even stories about Jesus they manage to become the victim even though it was the jews who, in fact, had him killed because he found them to be the children of satan - and 2,000+ years later we realise He was right.
I’m waiting on the lunatics to attack Iran again. Iran gave them an amazing kicking earlier this year. Israel quietly begged for a cease fire, but not before Iran had proven that even its lesser and older missile stock were more than up to the job. Next time I think the result will be much more catastrophic, and it definitely needs to be.
I am, too. You can bet Iran is now even better prepared and has used this time to upscale what it has and to improve each new version. They won't be sitting there simply waiting but will already be well and truly ready to fire back and this time it will not be a warning.
And let's not forget Iran's two rather large allies 😉
Absolutely correct.
"Israel quietly begged for a cease fire" I bet it was more on the lines of stop or we'll nuke you.
Except that would be tantamount to admitting they know Iran has no nukes with which to retaliate. And that’s you know, their whole shtick.
I thought the idea was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in the first place.
They’ve spent the past ~50 years bleating that Iran is “just two weeks away” from having a nuclear weapon. Threatening to nuke them would be admitting that they know Iran don’t have one to fire back with. 🤷🏼♂️
It is well known that Israel has nuclear missiles in submarines. There is a law that the USA can't send money to a country like that so they pretend they don't know.
I am told that they threaten to nuke Western capitals if Israel is being wiped out. It's called the Sampson Option. Is this really true?
Yes it's true. Here's a book about it, by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh:
https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option
The book is from 1991. Apparently the leak earlier this year included a list of target cities
https://greeknewsondemand.com/2025/06/19/new-leak-reveals-israels-samson-option-includes-american-cities-on-nuclear-target-list/
The Sampson Option would be useless if no one knew about it.
No inspection of their(?) nuclear missiles has ever been allowed, so iw can we know if they have one, ten, 100 or none.
They can brag all they like but without proof by sighting them no one actually knows if they are just lying again. The problem us, the lie has been allowed for so many decades the myth has become a reality in some people's mind. Me... I have to see it before I believe it.
Building atomic bombs isn't that hard to do. South Africa did it and I dare say Israel is both more technologically advanced and more motivated to do so.
Good for South Africa. And Israel being the size it is is more likely to flatten the country if someone sent a deep bomb into wherever they have their "supposed cacheof nuclear warheads". Bye, bye israel
The missiles are safe in their submarines.
There is so much wrong with the way things are now. And the BS being spewed about it. And how crappy things are for so many.
Caitlin, so many wonderful 'points of reflection' and truth in this article! I couldn't agree with you more on ALL of them - Musk (who no one should listen to), the different reasons for anti-Israel sentiment from the left and right, the 'yellow-line' lies for killing more Palestinians, the obscene amount of power suckage for AI datacenters (which is going to worsen climate change problems and the ecology in ways most people are unaware of).
Thank you Caitlin! ❤️🙏
I recommend your readers to read the following book "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" by Kate Crawford.
Here's a synopsis -> "What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? This book details how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial, gender, and economic inequality. It also reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us."
There doesn't seem to be any bottom to this...
I think the good people will get their act together sooner or later. Ireland and NYC are taking the lead, that's a very good sign of a turning of the tide. Most people are helpless without leadership.
It is already way to late for those who died ot wounded, or simply had to live in that situation.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are in the midst of Armageddon. I wish I knew what the next step is. As far as I remember, Armageddon does not signify it's the end of the world, or the end of the existence of humans in the world. Does anyone know?
Armageddon is from the Bible's book of Revelation. To me it reads like the ravings of a seriously crazy man. None of its predictions has ever come true. People can read whatever they like into this mush.
Re: "None of its predictions has ever come true." That's because until now we haven't been in Armageddon, so those predictions couldn't come true before their time. Now, that we ARE in Armageddon, they seem to already be coming true.
Thank you for answering my question. Much obliged.
I doubt anyone here has been there before, and any claiming they do, is either deluded or deceitful. We are all here for the first time.
For some reason, reading your comment made me remember I.F. Stone saying many years ago, we are still in the 6th day; Creation isn't finished yet. I thought that was very meaningful. No one knows what that 7th Day might look like, could be the idea of Armageddon may well be what finally reaching that 7th Day looks like.
I wonder... Could we paint a yellow line around Tel Aviv and other "Israeli" cities and settler colonies and then move the line inward by a foot each day, shooting and bombing them every time they cross the new yellow line? We might just end this horrible genocide of Gaza if we do.
LOVE the idea! I'm all for it! I'm even willing to go there personally and paint such yellow lines in Israel (as long as someone can guarantee my protection/security - which is a big ask).
When anyone tries to conflate opposition to Israeli genocide with the alleged antisemitism, the correct response is to immediately tell them that is dishonest, in no uncertain terms.
Well said Mr. Olson, spot on
Speaking of Elon Musk, he had to instruct Grok to stop translating Hebrew so that the rest of us can no longer read what the genocidal maniacs of Israel really think. It's too late. We already know.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/11/18/x-disables-hebrew-translation-grok-confirms/
Bret Stephen's justifies an unprovoked attack on Venezuela by saying that small country, which is 1,700 km from the southern tip of Florida, "... gives America’s enemies a significant foothold in the Americas.” Russia's enemies have a significant foothold on its border.
Two comments. On Israel's latest hasbara ploy, you gotta recognize what a challenge these people face. Their internal propaganda campaign has been so successful, you've got soldiers causally shooting a kid in the face at a bus stop, and crowds setting up celebratory bouncy castles to block aid getting to starving people. The leaders, with the full support of the people, decided it's time to (first let Oct 7th pass to set up the excuse for and then) start on a Final Solution to rid Israel of non-Jews, with a further campaign of sending the wehrmacht out on a spree of conquest for Greater Israel after that's accomplished. They may have thought they had the rest of the world lined up to accept this, because they were very successful with one segment: western politicians, who were subjected not to a lot of hasbara but to carrots and sticks. But the rest of us are not subject to those carrots and sticks, and even when the politicians pass on the sticks in the form of threats to deport those who criticize Israel, thousands of arrests in the UL for holding a sign opposing genocide and supporting PA, it may have some intimidation effect but it also looks incredibly hamfisted, highhanded, and like our politicians are pathetic puppets serving foreign masters.
The mass murdering Zionists are unbounded by international laws for humans to comply with. The hatred and greed of Zionists places them in no humans land. In contrast, there a millions of Australians who go the extra mile and are willing to walk a mile in the shoes of Palestinians. These Australians with a heart now urgently need the political leaders to now turn around look back and come face to face with Palestinians subjected to genocide. What are these "leaders" afraid of?
Israel is a uniquely evil society!