But you should not limit your remembrance to US combat veterans only, you should be remembering ALL the people we have killed worldwide. I want you to consider that because of the world-wide murder spree addictions of politicians, fascists, and Citizens, Memorial Day MUST include remembrance of the MILLIONS of people killed around the world in our selfish wars of greed.
All the religious signposts suggesting empathy and love and goodness are mostly just another excuse to fight. We impose our human-made hellscape upon this mysterious world of the miraculous, the exquisite, the fanciful countless masterpieces of what we call Nature, which we are graced for a moment to enjoy. And the sorrowful and fearful and painful aspects of this natural world are made worse, exponentially, by our actions. It's almost as if we don't deserve it.
Absolutely correct. Remembering those victims on both sides. Not calling soldiers heroes for being often forced into or tricked via propaganda into '$erving' the Regime .
The country, the Constitution, our way of life and the Liberty were losing ain't overseas. It's right here at home. The enemy is domestic. Start up the militias.
ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ISRAEL IS A MONSTER. I will keep repeating this as long as I live. Caitlin and Tim, right again and well said, as you do daily in spite of the guff thrown at you. Thank you.
Unfortunately, Israel's training of other countries police has gone rather too well, as in the case of the Basques who beat returning activists from the flotilla, when they arrived home, to the horror of the families waiting to greet them after who-knows-what ordeals they suffered at the hands of the IOF, and the batons were turned on family that tried to help their loved ones.
The big question is: WHY? Why would Basque police beat returnees from israeli torture boats? One wonders if Spain's president knew this was a possiblity? This man who stood at a podium and said he was no longer in any type of relationship with israel, he condemned israel on television for the world to hear, and see. And this happens to flotilla activists on their return from a spell of being captive of IOF torturers and rapists.
Some Basques want to separate from Spain. I am not sure if that has anything to do with their beating activists from the flotilla, but I am also not sure if Spain's president is responsible in any way for what happens in Basque country.
well said davina. it was really disheartening to hear how the basque police treated the returning flotilla activist. The "why" is the key question. Was it that the police, due to those who influenced their training, inculcated said ideology of their trainers and let out their aggression on the activist, who had done nothing to deserve such treatment? Was it for show to please some external party? Did President Sanchez consider this as a possible outcome?
“The Basque Nationalist Party later summoned the regional security minister to parliament to explain the incident following growing criticism from Spanish political parties.”
It wouldn't let me read past the first couple lines, but they said 61% of male college students, and 41% of female college students, don't think forcing an aquantance to have sex counts as rape. What is wrong with these people?????? Almost half the women think it's ok for some guy they sort of know to pin them down and force them to have sex with him??????
I think that's just in Israel--I hadn't read that before but I had read that over 90% of Israelis of both genders don't think a man can rape his wife (if it's his wife it isn't rape).
You can make a sick, twisted case for that. She agreed to have sex when she agreed to get married. By agreeing once she agreed for all time. So she can't go back on it later. It's disgusting, but you can make that case.
The other one is aquaintances. Random people who have met and said, "Pleased to meet you". How can you make any case, even a sick one, for waving and saying hello constituting consent? Unless there's no such thing as rape at all, and 61% of Israeli men, and 41% of the women, think that men are the masters of the universe, and all women owe them sex, anytime they want?
Feels like there's a connection between this and the videos you see of Israeli tourists treating people in Thailand and wherever like slaves.
Marriage sanctions sexual relations between husband and wife when both of them desire it. All that means is that it is normal and neither a sin nor a crime. It does NOT mean that violent rape of a woman who is not willing for whatever reason, be it illness or anger or depression is included.
I have no desire to read "Religion and Rape" as it will not make me change my mind. Any religion which condones rape is no religion but some kind of cult. True religion (Christianity) does not condone rape as it is a violent act that hurts, harms, dishonors and tortures a person, which Christ would not condone.
In the opening of his article Mr. Zuess points out that neither the Jewish nor Christian bibles recognized rape as a thing. You really should read it because it unpacks some misconceptions about religion, and the treatment of women historically and biblically. The view you hold is Not the Christian biblical view but a modern interpretation.
That is exactly True. That is also one of the causes of the world's conflicts. Division both real and fabricated. Protestants vs Catholics, vs, Jews, vs Islam, union vs non union, Republican vs Democrat. Psychopaths vs cognitive dissonant. That is the Reality that politicians exploit.
And this is all in Israel, Gaza and the Middle-East.
In other news, 18 young Russian civilians were killed and 42 others were injured and a number are believed to be still trapped under the rubble of a Russian dormitory, targeted by 3 waves of drones that could not have been carried out by Ukraine alone, but with the aid and support of Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a retaliation to take place because of the obviously targeted school dormitory - a non-military target.
The West seems to have no common sense boundaries anymore, or human decency. The bloodthirsty fools in Europe may indeed finally get what they want: an all out war with Russia. How that is beneficial to human life on the planet, or to the safety and security of Europe - is beyond my poor ability to grasp.
And then you got the ever widening Ebola outbreak in Africa ...
Oh yes, I almost forgot, Jeff Bezos plans to replace 600,000 US jobs with robots by 2027.
jamenta, Brilliant, thank you. What's terribly wrong with the world in a nutshell. Not to take away anything from your comment, my observed thinking has been parallel to yours from the start of this senseless war hoisted on Russia by NATO-US.
When Russia didn't roll over like other Eastern European countries, they started this war of attrition.Poring in weapons for endless war to diminish Russia. Coups in Ukraine to install their man Zelensky and stalling on any peace talks. It is now spiralling out of control with a tragic human toll. Ukraine not only provide the cannon fodder but has become a weapons manufacturer and Zelensky goes round the world selling " battle hardened " weaponry.
What's the end game one might ask. A dying empire to regain control... to isolate China... .... and not let China prosper and be a force for good?
One of the most psychologically revealing features of colonial systems is how they train populations to interpret resistance to domination itself as the true violence while treating the underlying domination as normal, necessary, or invisible.
That’s why discussion of apartheid, siege warfare, mass displacement, occupation, genocide, or civilian death in Gaza constantly gets redirected into debates about whether the people objecting to it are morally suspicious and antisemitic for objecting at all.
The structure has to protect itself psychologically.
Because once the victims are recognized as fully human, the moral architecture holding the system together starts collapsing under its own contradictions.
That’s why so much modern discourse feels less like debate and more like narrative enforcement around preserving legitimacy for permanent domination.
"They framed themselves as victims to justify victimizing others."
That sentence sums it up well. Zionists blame others of their own perverse and sadistic behaviors because they can't and won't blame themselves. (Point 4 is spot on, too.)
Jewish Zionists have, since they were born, been brainwashed in schools and in their homes to believe that they are supreme beings. They are people who have been ruined by their upbringing. Christian Zionists are just sick people. We need an island where everyone can undergo intense trauma therapy to recover from the lies they have been fed. Maybe we need to ban religion. All religion. I don't see that any of them really do the world much good.
Under international law, states that commit terrorism domestically must be stopped, and states that commit aggression and genocide externally must be abolished.
To add to my note, Iran is winning and the Israelis are in shock. Iran has prepared for this illegal attack by the US and Israel since 1979 when they revolted against the odious Shah and took back their country. Iran is not a terrorist country. That description is of the two foremost terrorist states, Israel and the US. When people say, "Israel has a right to defend itself," I say, "Do the Palestinians?" Israel has no right to exist on Palestinian land, let alone rape everyone it comes across. Again, Iran is winning, happy to say. I've been there and the people are wonderful.
Cuba is the most successful Caribbean island nation in terms of universal education, healthcare, and social protection. To get an idea of Cuba’s development, one needs to compare it to similar island nation. Take for example Haiti, a mere 80Km away. Haiti is continuously supported by the US, the EU and complies with their policies and directives yet ranks 158th globally out of 193 countries on the UN Human Development Index.
Now imagine where Cuba would have been without the US cruel sanctions imposed on it since 1958.
Haiti is continuously supported by the US and EU, say what? Unions continuously suppressed to ensure cheap goods for the west and its land and people exploited more like. Gang warfare is definitely supported by the US though!
Naji, Cuba's Revolution and their communism was a shining example for "Third world " nations emerging from brutal colonialism. If these countries followed Cuba, how else could the US empire and its vassals keep on plundering.
Indeed. They have a hybrid political system that is very pragmatic, inspired by communism and Marxism Leninism adapted to Cuba and shaped by Castro’s nationalism
Any decent, normal, proud, Independent, sovereign, and self-respecting country (nation) is a treat to the fascist usa and israel and the Western supremacist culture and ideology in general.
“…after a Haaretz report on the Israeli military’s internal findings that sexual assault is soaring among its own ranks.”
I believe I’ve commented previously that the sexual mores among Israelis are such that the young males expect to be carnally gratified on the first date. Coupled with the utter, wanton depravity of virtually the entire society regarding non-Jewish, -Israeli, -Zionist life, one needs no further justification to hold that these are non-human beings, “existents” being an apt term, existing on a purely primeval biological/physiological level, the entirety of Israel both geographically and symbolically nothing more than a giant Petri dish on which various life forms compete for nutrients and the ability to reproduce. The example of Israel, of Zionism, offers nothing to the world beyond that.
“Normal person: Genocide is bad…” all the way down to “Israel supporter: Because it is antisemitic not to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.”
That was one helluvan exercise, and exposé, I must say exceedingly well done. But I must also ask, where are the Jews in saying this? I mean – and I’ve posed this before – how can those among a people generally so well educated, so scholarly, so accomplished, so committed to social justice, still say they support Israel, or variation on the theme, it’s the Netanyahu government, not the rest of the country? Heaps of bovine fecal material. To the extent you have any sympathy whatsoever for Israel, you are complicit, a part of the problem. The FACT of the matter is modern day Israel not only has no right to exist, it has no basis to exist. The project to locate it in Palestine was pure conjecture – Herzl even approached the British about establishing it in Uganda – and brought into being only through sheer ruthlessness expressed through manipulation to gain political favoritism; duplicity, intimidation, bribery, and threats; and terrorism. Yeah, a lotta Paul Revere, Minutemen, and Washington-crossing-the-Delaware stuff there.
I’ve also said before that the legacy of Israel/Zionism is that of nihilism, that nothing matters in life except itself. It is an indelible stain on the human record. That is a fact for everyone, Jews and Gentile alike, to acknowledge. Of course, it would be anti-Semitic to do so.
I decided to start reading Erica Jong's Fear of Flying. Come to find out, she is a repulsive wanton narcissist, obsessed with herself and her so-called Jewishness and her genitalia, and her sequence of universities attended didn't alter anything in that regard. I swear that reading her first person narration is like listening to one of these Israelis talk about themselves.
The perfidious Albion created Israel in order to get the Jews out of Europe. This was based on the idea that the Jews needed somewhere to go outside of Europe.
The massive support for Israel among the whities is based on the horror that if Israel did not exist, the Jews would come back in droves to Europe. That's probably why the arch-Zionist Joe Biden stated that if Israel did not exist, it would have to be created.
80 million Christian Zionists detest the Jews. That's why they preach that the Jews must be encouraged to go to Israel. They do not want Jews in their neighbourhood. Furthermore, the ultimate goal is that the Jews will either destroyed or converted to Christianity, once the majority have been evicted out of the whitelands and into Israel.
The whole expansion of Israel is necessary to create enough space to get them all out of the Whitelands. The displacement and deaths of Arabs is considered a cruel necessity to achieve it.
I suspect that the current wave of criticism against Israel is being supported by the Zionists to make life uncomfortable for Jews in the Whitelands. This is not without precedent, various false flag attacks by Mossad were done to achieve it.
Zionism is based on antisemitism not because of the moral inconvenience it causes the white conscience for its history of violence against white victims but because it has ethnically cleansed Semites out of Palestine. European Jews are not Semites. The language needs to be updated to reflect reality.
That definition does not even capture how the term is used today. Israel did not exist in 1875 and yet the term has changed to mean any criticism of Israel in the eyes of many. If the usage can change once, it can change again.
In any case, "antisemitism" is a European invention, based on racist European ideas. The word itself deserves as much scorn as "eugenics" which emerged in the same period. The Semites are Arabs, Palestinians, and other Middle Eastern native peoples. They are not Ukrainians, Poles, or Russians.
He was inspired deeply by American eugenicists. The conceptual framework of eugenics was not a de novo invention of Americans but a continuation of its inheritance of race ideology and pseudoscience from Europe.
Richard, this essay might help you gather some of your thoughts. It makes a subtle point that usually flies over the heads of most people who don't spend the time to understand it:
There are two kinds of antisemitism, the bad kind and the good kind:
Jews tend to spread in any neighbourhood they first arrive in. The excuse is the need to be within a certain distance from their synagogue. Maybe they're just too lazy to travel, though how did they get to a synagogue when there wasn't one, within that certain distance, when they arrived. So, was there a synagogue close by when the first Ashkenazi first arrived in Palestine, or did they have to go without until they had enough builders to erect one? If so that would mean there were people there without a synagogue close by.
How many synagogues are there in palestinian israel? Does the synagogue for settlers come before the settlers? I don't think so, but we do know that settlers and IOF have a tendency towards destruction of Islamic mosques, even that beautiful enturies-old mosque in Jerusalem, yet no palestinian goes out and messes up synagogues or churches, which shows respect for another's place of worship of which israelis have no concept.
Israelis have no respect for anyone. They simply don't care at all.
After their two years of killing and destroying, they head off to Asia, Latin America and India to “recover”.
Their behaviour is disgusting, leading to several countries are banning them. If there is no local mosque, they form groups that meet in designated places, forming little enclaves of Israelis.
But you should not limit your remembrance to US combat veterans only, you should be remembering ALL the people we have killed worldwide. I want you to consider that because of the world-wide murder spree addictions of politicians, fascists, and Citizens, Memorial Day MUST include remembrance of the MILLIONS of people killed around the world in our selfish wars of greed.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/memorial-day-in-memoriam-remembering
All the religious signposts suggesting empathy and love and goodness are mostly just another excuse to fight. We impose our human-made hellscape upon this mysterious world of the miraculous, the exquisite, the fanciful countless masterpieces of what we call Nature, which we are graced for a moment to enjoy. And the sorrowful and fearful and painful aspects of this natural world are made worse, exponentially, by our actions. It's almost as if we don't deserve it.
Or, at least, it seems we don’t believe we deserve it.
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PERFECT POST
Absolutely correct. Remembering those victims on both sides. Not calling soldiers heroes for being often forced into or tricked via propaganda into '$erving' the Regime .
And add to that all the oppressed ones, in many ways, too.
Remember,
The country, the Constitution, our way of life and the Liberty were losing ain't overseas. It's right here at home. The enemy is domestic. Start up the militias.
Revolution is the solution.
ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ISRAEL IS A MONSTER. I will keep repeating this as long as I live. Caitlin and Tim, right again and well said, as you do daily in spite of the guff thrown at you. Thank you.
I feel the same about the USA. You know, the ones enabling the monster.
well said Mr. Roy, agreed
In case anyone had any doubts about the genocidal states attitude towards sexual violence:
https://www.haaretz.com/2011-01-18/ty-article/study-61-of-men-dont-see-forced-sex-with-acquaintance-as-rape/0000017f-df30-db22-a17f-ffb162e20000
(Note : article from 2011, long before the current round of atrocities.)
Unfortunately, Israel's training of other countries police has gone rather too well, as in the case of the Basques who beat returning activists from the flotilla, when they arrived home, to the horror of the families waiting to greet them after who-knows-what ordeals they suffered at the hands of the IOF, and the batons were turned on family that tried to help their loved ones.
The big question is: WHY? Why would Basque police beat returnees from israeli torture boats? One wonders if Spain's president knew this was a possiblity? This man who stood at a podium and said he was no longer in any type of relationship with israel, he condemned israel on television for the world to hear, and see. And this happens to flotilla activists on their return from a spell of being captive of IOF torturers and rapists.
Some Basques want to separate from Spain. I am not sure if that has anything to do with their beating activists from the flotilla, but I am also not sure if Spain's president is responsible in any way for what happens in Basque country.
well said davina. it was really disheartening to hear how the basque police treated the returning flotilla activist. The "why" is the key question. Was it that the police, due to those who influenced their training, inculcated said ideology of their trainers and let out their aggression on the activist, who had done nothing to deserve such treatment? Was it for show to please some external party? Did President Sanchez consider this as a possible outcome?
“The Basque Nationalist Party later summoned the regional security minister to parliament to explain the incident following growing criticism from Spanish political parties.”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/bilbao-clashes-erupt-as-global-sumud-activists-return-from-israeli-detention-video/
Because they seek American support.
https://substack.com/@ahmedeldin/note/p-198977470?r=mw75m&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
It wouldn't let me read past the first couple lines, but they said 61% of male college students, and 41% of female college students, don't think forcing an aquantance to have sex counts as rape. What is wrong with these people?????? Almost half the women think it's ok for some guy they sort of know to pin them down and force them to have sex with him??????
If that isn't rape, is anything?
I think that's just in Israel--I hadn't read that before but I had read that over 90% of Israelis of both genders don't think a man can rape his wife (if it's his wife it isn't rape).
You can make a sick, twisted case for that. She agreed to have sex when she agreed to get married. By agreeing once she agreed for all time. So she can't go back on it later. It's disgusting, but you can make that case.
The other one is aquaintances. Random people who have met and said, "Pleased to meet you". How can you make any case, even a sick one, for waving and saying hello constituting consent? Unless there's no such thing as rape at all, and 61% of Israeli men, and 41% of the women, think that men are the masters of the universe, and all women owe them sex, anytime they want?
Feels like there's a connection between this and the videos you see of Israeli tourists treating people in Thailand and wherever like slaves.
Marriage sanctions sexual relations between husband and wife when both of them desire it. All that means is that it is normal and neither a sin nor a crime. It does NOT mean that violent rape of a woman who is not willing for whatever reason, be it illness or anger or depression is included.
Eric Zuesse sub stack May 22. 'Religion and Rape' an excellent article. It will make you rethink some beliefs.
I have no desire to read "Religion and Rape" as it will not make me change my mind. Any religion which condones rape is no religion but some kind of cult. True religion (Christianity) does not condone rape as it is a violent act that hurts, harms, dishonors and tortures a person, which Christ would not condone.
In the opening of his article Mr. Zuess points out that neither the Jewish nor Christian bibles recognized rape as a thing. You really should read it because it unpacks some misconceptions about religion, and the treatment of women historically and biblically. The view you hold is Not the Christian biblical view but a modern interpretation.
Well, we live in the present, and it seems normal that we think and feel differently than people thought thousands of years ago.
That is exactly True. That is also one of the causes of the world's conflicts. Division both real and fabricated. Protestants vs Catholics, vs, Jews, vs Islam, union vs non union, Republican vs Democrat. Psychopaths vs cognitive dissonant. That is the Reality that politicians exploit.
And this is all in Israel, Gaza and the Middle-East.
In other news, 18 young Russian civilians were killed and 42 others were injured and a number are believed to be still trapped under the rubble of a Russian dormitory, targeted by 3 waves of drones that could not have been carried out by Ukraine alone, but with the aid and support of Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a retaliation to take place because of the obviously targeted school dormitory - a non-military target.
The West seems to have no common sense boundaries anymore, or human decency. The bloodthirsty fools in Europe may indeed finally get what they want: an all out war with Russia. How that is beneficial to human life on the planet, or to the safety and security of Europe - is beyond my poor ability to grasp.
And then you got the ever widening Ebola outbreak in Africa ...
Oh yes, I almost forgot, Jeff Bezos plans to replace 600,000 US jobs with robots by 2027.
Did I miss anything?
Since nobody cares about Ukraine or Ukrainians, nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev Putin is making idle threats.
nobody in power apparently
jamenta, Brilliant, thank you. What's terribly wrong with the world in a nutshell. Not to take away anything from your comment, my observed thinking has been parallel to yours from the start of this senseless war hoisted on Russia by NATO-US.
When Russia didn't roll over like other Eastern European countries, they started this war of attrition.Poring in weapons for endless war to diminish Russia. Coups in Ukraine to install their man Zelensky and stalling on any peace talks. It is now spiralling out of control with a tragic human toll. Ukraine not only provide the cannon fodder but has become a weapons manufacturer and Zelensky goes round the world selling " battle hardened " weaponry.
What's the end game one might ask. A dying empire to regain control... to isolate China... .... and not let China prosper and be a force for good?
Does A I stand for some America/Israel plan?
huh interesting, i had never considered that but perhaps it could be
One of the most psychologically revealing features of colonial systems is how they train populations to interpret resistance to domination itself as the true violence while treating the underlying domination as normal, necessary, or invisible.
That’s why discussion of apartheid, siege warfare, mass displacement, occupation, genocide, or civilian death in Gaza constantly gets redirected into debates about whether the people objecting to it are morally suspicious and antisemitic for objecting at all.
The structure has to protect itself psychologically.
Because once the victims are recognized as fully human, the moral architecture holding the system together starts collapsing under its own contradictions.
That’s why so much modern discourse feels less like debate and more like narrative enforcement around preserving legitimacy for permanent domination.
Because they can.
"They framed themselves as victims to justify victimizing others."
That sentence sums it up well. Zionists blame others of their own perverse and sadistic behaviors because they can't and won't blame themselves. (Point 4 is spot on, too.)
Their accusations are confessions.
Jewish Zionists have, since they were born, been brainwashed in schools and in their homes to believe that they are supreme beings. They are people who have been ruined by their upbringing. Christian Zionists are just sick people. We need an island where everyone can undergo intense trauma therapy to recover from the lies they have been fed. Maybe we need to ban religion. All religion. I don't see that any of them really do the world much good.
People who "believe" absurdities are people who will commit atrocities.
Religious* people who "believe" absurdities are Religious people who have in the past, can and do now and will in the future commit atrocities.
dennis hanna
*Superstition is a "belief"
[a mind set]
that is unfounded or irrational.
Religion is a
"belief" [a mind set] that is unfounded and irrational.
All religious "beliefs" [mind sets] are unfounded and irrational.
Therefore, I consider religion to be superstition.
It’s certainly the most widespread form of superstition because the vast majority of people on Earth are "believers."
Other forms of superstition, like astrology, belief in UFOs or telekinesis, are nowhere near as widespread.
That would need to be a BIG island, Susan T.
Under international law, states that commit terrorism domestically must be stopped, and states that commit aggression and genocide externally must be abolished.
Law is meaningless. Enforcement is the only thing that matters.
There can be no system without rules.
Rules are meaningless when people are free to violate them without negative consequences.
Even if that were true - Where is it written that there must be a system?
Who is the international law enforcement officer?
https://www.icj-cij.org/home
Where are the armed forces of the ICJ?
To add to my note, Iran is winning and the Israelis are in shock. Iran has prepared for this illegal attack by the US and Israel since 1979 when they revolted against the odious Shah and took back their country. Iran is not a terrorist country. That description is of the two foremost terrorist states, Israel and the US. When people say, "Israel has a right to defend itself," I say, "Do the Palestinians?" Israel has no right to exist on Palestinian land, let alone rape everyone it comes across. Again, Iran is winning, happy to say. I've been there and the people are wonderful.
Fuck isrehell. Fuck the idf cowards and thugs
Change it to ISRAPEL then!!
And let's not forget the well-documented history of Israel providing sanctuary to pedophiles:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/diaspora-pedophiles-increasingly-use-israel-as-a-haven-activists-charge/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jewish-american-pedophiles-hide-from-justice-in-israel/
I used these two Zionist publications intentionally. If they're reporting on it, the full truth is probably worse by several orders of magnitude.
Thanks Kermit. Makes my skin crawl and stomach turn knowing that it serves as a sanctuary for such types
Many thanks for the interesting articles.
Cuba is the most successful Caribbean island nation in terms of universal education, healthcare, and social protection. To get an idea of Cuba’s development, one needs to compare it to similar island nation. Take for example Haiti, a mere 80Km away. Haiti is continuously supported by the US, the EU and complies with their policies and directives yet ranks 158th globally out of 193 countries on the UN Human Development Index.
Now imagine where Cuba would have been without the US cruel sanctions imposed on it since 1958.
Haiti is continuously supported by the US and EU, say what? Unions continuously suppressed to ensure cheap goods for the west and its land and people exploited more like. Gang warfare is definitely supported by the US though!
https://jowaller.substack.com/p/the-whole-world-is-ganging-up-on?utm_source=publication-search
Naji, Cuba's Revolution and their communism was a shining example for "Third world " nations emerging from brutal colonialism. If these countries followed Cuba, how else could the US empire and its vassals keep on plundering.
Viva Cuba!
Indeed. They have a hybrid political system that is very pragmatic, inspired by communism and Marxism Leninism adapted to Cuba and shaped by Castro’s nationalism
Thank You Caitlin
& Tim
Of course Cuba isn't a threat to us. That's loony tunes. I'm horrified that Caitlin is getting people who tell her that they are.
Any decent, normal, proud, Independent, sovereign, and self-respecting country (nation) is a treat to the fascist usa and israel and the Western supremacist culture and ideology in general.
“…after a Haaretz report on the Israeli military’s internal findings that sexual assault is soaring among its own ranks.”
I believe I’ve commented previously that the sexual mores among Israelis are such that the young males expect to be carnally gratified on the first date. Coupled with the utter, wanton depravity of virtually the entire society regarding non-Jewish, -Israeli, -Zionist life, one needs no further justification to hold that these are non-human beings, “existents” being an apt term, existing on a purely primeval biological/physiological level, the entirety of Israel both geographically and symbolically nothing more than a giant Petri dish on which various life forms compete for nutrients and the ability to reproduce. The example of Israel, of Zionism, offers nothing to the world beyond that.
“Normal person: Genocide is bad…” all the way down to “Israel supporter: Because it is antisemitic not to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.”
That was one helluvan exercise, and exposé, I must say exceedingly well done. But I must also ask, where are the Jews in saying this? I mean – and I’ve posed this before – how can those among a people generally so well educated, so scholarly, so accomplished, so committed to social justice, still say they support Israel, or variation on the theme, it’s the Netanyahu government, not the rest of the country? Heaps of bovine fecal material. To the extent you have any sympathy whatsoever for Israel, you are complicit, a part of the problem. The FACT of the matter is modern day Israel not only has no right to exist, it has no basis to exist. The project to locate it in Palestine was pure conjecture – Herzl even approached the British about establishing it in Uganda – and brought into being only through sheer ruthlessness expressed through manipulation to gain political favoritism; duplicity, intimidation, bribery, and threats; and terrorism. Yeah, a lotta Paul Revere, Minutemen, and Washington-crossing-the-Delaware stuff there.
I’ve also said before that the legacy of Israel/Zionism is that of nihilism, that nothing matters in life except itself. It is an indelible stain on the human record. That is a fact for everyone, Jews and Gentile alike, to acknowledge. Of course, it would be anti-Semitic to do so.
I decided to start reading Erica Jong's Fear of Flying. Come to find out, she is a repulsive wanton narcissist, obsessed with herself and her so-called Jewishness and her genitalia, and her sequence of universities attended didn't alter anything in that regard. I swear that reading her first person narration is like listening to one of these Israelis talk about themselves.
Have heard of her, as has everyone, but not at all familiar with her writing. Maybe I should check what the library has.
I was in exactly the same place. Now I'm really kind of upset at her influence
Guess I might be in for something unexpected...
Just wait till you get to Chapter 14: yikes, yick, and criminy. She's a peach alright 🐛
Zionism is based on anti-Semitism.
The perfidious Albion created Israel in order to get the Jews out of Europe. This was based on the idea that the Jews needed somewhere to go outside of Europe.
The massive support for Israel among the whities is based on the horror that if Israel did not exist, the Jews would come back in droves to Europe. That's probably why the arch-Zionist Joe Biden stated that if Israel did not exist, it would have to be created.
80 million Christian Zionists detest the Jews. That's why they preach that the Jews must be encouraged to go to Israel. They do not want Jews in their neighbourhood. Furthermore, the ultimate goal is that the Jews will either destroyed or converted to Christianity, once the majority have been evicted out of the whitelands and into Israel.
The whole expansion of Israel is necessary to create enough space to get them all out of the Whitelands. The displacement and deaths of Arabs is considered a cruel necessity to achieve it.
I suspect that the current wave of criticism against Israel is being supported by the Zionists to make life uncomfortable for Jews in the Whitelands. This is not without precedent, various false flag attacks by Mossad were done to achieve it.
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Zionism is based on antisemitism not because of the moral inconvenience it causes the white conscience for its history of violence against white victims but because it has ethnically cleansed Semites out of Palestine. European Jews are not Semites. The language needs to be updated to reflect reality.
Unfortunately that isn't going to happen. Marr coined the term “anti-Semitism” to be “anti-Judaism” back in 1875.
It's now in common usage and unlikely to be changed. I guess we're going to have to live with it.
That definition does not even capture how the term is used today. Israel did not exist in 1875 and yet the term has changed to mean any criticism of Israel in the eyes of many. If the usage can change once, it can change again.
In any case, "antisemitism" is a European invention, based on racist European ideas. The word itself deserves as much scorn as "eugenics" which emerged in the same period. The Semites are Arabs, Palestinians, and other Middle Eastern native peoples. They are not Ukrainians, Poles, or Russians.
Eugenics is interesting, it started in the US and provided inspiration to Hitler, who was apparently encouraged by the US.
The US Eugenics program lost momentum, but there were still forced sterilizations carried out in California two decades ago.
He was inspired deeply by American eugenicists. The conceptual framework of eugenics was not a de novo invention of Americans but a continuation of its inheritance of race ideology and pseudoscience from Europe.
Meanings can obviously change, yes, it has been broadened to include criticism of Israel as well as Jews.
Richard, this essay might help you gather some of your thoughts. It makes a subtle point that usually flies over the heads of most people who don't spend the time to understand it:
There are two kinds of antisemitism, the bad kind and the good kind:
https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/there-are-two-kinds-of-antisemitism
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Jews tend to spread in any neighbourhood they first arrive in. The excuse is the need to be within a certain distance from their synagogue. Maybe they're just too lazy to travel, though how did they get to a synagogue when there wasn't one, within that certain distance, when they arrived. So, was there a synagogue close by when the first Ashkenazi first arrived in Palestine, or did they have to go without until they had enough builders to erect one? If so that would mean there were people there without a synagogue close by.
How many synagogues are there in palestinian israel? Does the synagogue for settlers come before the settlers? I don't think so, but we do know that settlers and IOF have a tendency towards destruction of Islamic mosques, even that beautiful enturies-old mosque in Jerusalem, yet no palestinian goes out and messes up synagogues or churches, which shows respect for another's place of worship of which israelis have no concept.
Israelis have no respect for anyone. They simply don't care at all.
After their two years of killing and destroying, they head off to Asia, Latin America and India to “recover”.
Their behaviour is disgusting, leading to several countries are banning them. If there is no local mosque, they form groups that meet in designated places, forming little enclaves of Israelis.
Davina, you might want to read this essay, which addresses some of the issues you raise, from a basic human perspective:
Why So Many Problems with Jews, Why Does Judaism Exist, and Should Judaism Exist?
https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/why-so-many-problems-with-jews-why