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Yes - intifada, the Arabic word (from N-F-D) meaning ‘to shake off’, which was first used in 1952 in Iraq to refer to an uprising against the monarchy, and specifically chosen in the 1980s by the Palestinians for its nonviolent connotations (1,500 Palestinians were killed in the first intifada) has now been revised, unilaterally, to mean genocide. I guess on one level it does - an excuse for Israel to commit genocide at least.

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Isreal, the US and the European back don’t have a moral center. They will even kill their own citizens if it serves their interests.

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{Americans are being persuaded to focus instead on a completely fictional epidemic of genocidal rhetoric against Jews at universities.}

The next time someone peddles this balderdash ask them why there haven't been any beefed up police presence at any of the synagogues, yeshiva's or nursery schools? I live in NJ in an area where you can't walk a few blocks without seeing at least one and yet isn't it amazing not only is security not beefed up, there in none! And yet in the past, if a car backfires - there is a police car parked for days!

There are hundreds if not thousands of Jews that travel on highways in northern NJ who stop at gas station convenience stores enroute to their homes and yet there has not been ONE INSTANCE of ant-Semitism. NOT ONE! Thousands stopping at all these service stations - that are so frequented by the Jewish community they have huge Kosher sections - and yet not one instance!

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"Any population that’s sufficiently saturated with propaganda and indoctrination will wind up mostly supporting the thing they’re being propagandized and indoctrinated into supporting; that’s the purpose of propaganda and indoctrination.

The majority of westerners subscribe to the mainstream worldview which supports western imperialism for exactly the same reason — because they were propagandized and indoctrinated into that worldview. "

We are being pitted against each other on so many levels. It helps people like Biden and Netanyahu and their cohorts to keep committing atrocities. We need to find a way to neutralize the propaganda.

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I haven't really got to the bottom of this. Israel, as the occupying force, clearly doesn't have the right to defend itself against the occupied nor those under siege, only the duty to leave or to end the siege.

However the Palestinians do have a right to resist occupation and can therefore attack occupiers whether the occupiers are wearing official military uniforms or not. October 7th cannot then be counted as war crimes?

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“unfortunately it will go on as long as the US President is blessing it, vetoing the end of it, and flooding Israel with arms and financial support,” my friend in E. Jerusalem , responded to my letter to the editor calling for Israel’s ceasefire. But I will continue to object Biden’s unconstitutional and unconscionable actions !

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I believe that most of the unconditional support for the Zionist state comes from a Talmudic upbringing. The commentaries on the Torah AKA The Babylonian Talmud is a set of Rabbinical books flogging Jewish supremacism. The commentaries are anti-Gentile and especially anti-Christian. The idiots who call themselves Christian Zionists follow a rewritten bible known as the Schofield Bible which was paid for by Zionist money in the early 20th century. It's teaching are the complete opposite of Apostolic Christianity, and is thus a heresy!

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There are still many who are asking for Israel to drop more bombs. Majority of them are found below Rapture preaching YouTube channels. Somehow they cannot criticize what Israel is doing because that would jeopardize their mansion in the sky. Comments are still full of 'go Israel', 'prayers for Israel' just blood boiling content. It feels like they think God with will welcome them with open arms if they support this genocide.

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Look at the current crop of Repuke-licans currently vying for their presidential nomination.

In particular, Icky Haley. When asked how many Gazans should die, she replied, ALL OF THEM! This is the same Icky Haley who said the she “ stomps out unions with her high heels”. Hey Icky, I wear cowgirl boots, and those pointed toes gonna HURT when I plant ‘em in your ass!

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It’s a blind allegiance to an ideology, a social hive , a church thing , a conglomerate of fixations that couldn’t be sandblasted into reality if you tried ( and you do!). Keep at it .

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Caitlin, another great article. Tell it like it is.

Thanks.

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The right to resist under international law is tenuous and rarely discussed according to wikipedia 'According to Shannonbrooke Murphy, the lack of respect for the right to resist is discordant with the reality that the United Nations itself and the entire architecture of human rights might not exist if their supporters had not resorted to the use of force against the Axis powers.[12] Furthermore, Murphy argues that this rule is unfair to human rights defenders in the worst situations and its effect "has led to a perverse situation whereby international human rights law effectively abandons the majority of people facing grave or massive human rights violations".

The UN being a catspaw of the US and international law (which is being ignored by Israel) is clearly set up to favour the colonial Euroean supremacist powers.

It's all part of the rot.

Unsurprisingly; 'Forty-two countries explicitly recognize a constitutional right to resist, as does the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

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Dec 10, 2023·edited Dec 10, 2023

“….US officials were reportedly shocked when Israeli officials indicated they were preparing to inflict civilian casualties in Gaza that would be reminiscent of world war horrors, ….”

They cannot be shocked because they haev done it too:

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar

And are are not just sending bombs to Israel but even ones with white phosphorus, which are pure evil terrorism:

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/12/02/report-suggests-israel-used-arkansas-made-white-phosphorus-shells-in-gaza

https://citizenevidence.org/2023/10/13/israel-opt-identifying-the-israeli-armys-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-gaza/

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/human-rights-watch-says-israel-used-white-phosphorous-gaza-lebanon-2023-10-12/

And the US KNOW what the white phosphorus weapons they are giving the Israelis results in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah,_The_Hidden_Massacre

Any feigning of “shock” or “surprise” is all kabuki……because they know that sooner or later, someone is going to come after them in a court of law.

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Indeed they would. They are broken beyond repair and a complete loss for humanity’s chances of getting out from under the Beyond-Insane-Ones boot.

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".....This doesn’t mean western imperialism shouldn’t be ferociously opposed; it absolutely must be. Even if that puts you standing against the indoctrinated majority....."

The biggest and most successful coup the system has ever constructed is to get the vast majority of people living in the American empire (America itself Europe Canada Australia etc) is to brainwash the inhabitants into believing the utter lying rubbish that passes as news in this Orwellian domain of duplicity. And who runs this empire? Not the people elected who merely serve as useful local councillors in charge of local issues but nothing else. The Orwellian Big Brothers are Zionist both semits and gentile. It is nightmare which has resulted in masses of detached limbs from dead children being piled into heaps for burial while the vast majority of the sleepers in the empire eat their bread whilst watching their games on TV. We are living in a nightmare and it is called fully developed capitalism practicing its imperialism via its chosen people.

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"Chosen" by God was never mean to be a supremacist stance. It was supposed to be following a set of rules of decency fairness and justice. Showing the higher path to actual human healthy behaviors, not to exclude all others or for a clan group or cult.

But as it is in all hierarchical structure it turns into whatever the power center deams it to be.. The madness of the power drug takes over and what the abusive psycopath craves the most, so they seek the positions of power then they basyerdized this ideal into elivating themselves to a God like status power structure of a hierarchy fallacy of might makes right and then self delude to anoint themselves sacrosanct and deserving.

I have overheard Jewish business folks actually say if somone else can be conned and taken advantage of than they must have deserved it. But if they get taken it's because of antisemitism. And when confronting a jewish colleague they shrug a shoulder and say well I'm Jewish, like that's an adequate excuse enough.

When you point out this experience you are quickly labled anti-Semitic.

Its as if to avoid that smear you must agree to view them in only a favorable light..You must love your abuser or face more abuse. And if you point out the abuse they tell you that you are imature for playing the victim. Grown ups act like scum bags, now man up and take it,,,with the going interest rates our banker buddies manufactured and political shills will enforce to keep you subservient.. Because you are our serfs and we are your betters, we got "chosen" now. back to work!

Ziopathology is their norm.

(not all Jewish folks think and behavies this way) but it is a cultural accepted thing.

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