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Ron Stockton's avatar

“Without precedent” Smotrich said. Not even what the Nazis did compares, is what he is admitting. What an evil, depraved excuse for a human being he is. Meanwhile, our Prime Minister, Mark Carney, joins other genocide enablers in a cover-our-asses warning to stop starving children. Too little, too late, and not sincere. Carney and the rest are doing this because they too don’t want the public to see pictures of starving children nor do they want to one day be held accountable. There are no words for this level of evil. Never forget and never, ever forgive.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Carney simply wants the Empire to prioritize the War On Russia.

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Susan T's avatar

"Because we are navigating [the campaign] responsibly and wisely" as well as outdoing the Nazis. What a great bunch of guys, huh?

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David Baird's avatar

Well put, Ron. We have the same spineless character of government (and opposition) down here in Australia. Disingenuous statements and cliches are all we hear, but nothing about our supplying Israel with spares for their bombers and so on. Terrified of the Zionist lobby and its malign influence. The slaughter, starvation and deprivation carry on as usual, to our collective enduring shame.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Ron Stockton.

This is the same Smotrich who recently visited the USA, cheered and lauded for his attitudes to the genocide in Gaza., providing as he did the most outrageous statements one has ever heard, anywhere. But still welcomed. Did his visit get approval? Of course. No restriction there, otherwise Miriam Adelson and her fellow travellers would have stopped supporting the megalomaniac Trump and we can't have that, can we?

I just cannot adjust to the double standards in the USA.

The 1950's and their un-American activities program by McCarthy (against something called 'communism', which when compared to the doctrines coming out of Israel these days is absolutely harmless ) and yet this man can visit the country, is supported by politicians right, left and centre and gets buckets of support from thousands of US citizens all wearing little kippahs and waving their disgraced Israeli flags. And they call those people Americans? Probably half of them just back from their sniper activities in Palestine, able to come and go as they please, dual citizenships clearly on display and laughing at any question of loyalty to the USA. Just a convenient place to live for them.

Loyalty? Phooey! Allowed through legislation, local and national, to harass decent university students who sympathise with Palestinians, who then cheer on the activities of the US NAZI-like masked Stormtroopers, known as POLICE... ICE as they cruise the streets searching for any person who dares to have an opinion contrary to the present pathetic leader of that once respected country, known as America, now just a figment of its past, with freedom of speech being the greatest casualty closely followed by democracy and plain decency.

This same America thinking that its 750 military bases scattered around the globe allows them to be the unrespected international bully boy.

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serafino bueti's avatar

''Nazis, Nazis Nazis.'' Look at what the Bolsheviks did! That's what the whole world is looking at today. We are all Palestinians in waiting. I'm so sick of hearing ''Nazis.''

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Ron Stockton's avatar

People are trying to describe what the Zionists are doing now. The closest we can come is a comparison to the Nazis, although there is an argument to be made that what Zionists are doing to Palestinians is worse. That is not making an excuse for what anyone else did. Naziism is recognized pretty much world-wide as a label for the worst kind of cruelty and depravation, that's why the comparison is used. And, yes, we are all Palestinians in waiting. the leadership of western countries has demonstrated that they are capable of the most depraved behaviour (whatever you call it) and that they will visit that behaviour on anyone who gets in their way.

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serafino bueti's avatar

My point is, the Bolsheviks made the Nazis look like amateurs. That's who we should be comparing the Zionists to. Same thing, different century. I know ''why the comparison is used.'' To take the spotlight off of the Bolsheviks is why!

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Feral Finster's avatar

The Zionists took a look at the Nazis and thought to themselves "Ooh, I gotta get me someathat! But make sure that we are on the winning side and we are the ones doing the mass murder!"

Some Zionist put it thusly - he applauds Nazi methods and ideology, differing only in their choice of enemies.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>👉 "Never forget and never, ever forgive." 👈

💯👍

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Nick Douglas's avatar

I hope that collective West will pay the price 10,000 times higher than what was done to poor Palestinians. And regarding shitsrael make that Billion times what Palestinians had to endure over the last 80 years or so. F . . k shitsrael forever and all its genocidal supporters.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Israel, USA, and the entire "western" world represents evil, terminal cancer, and deadly sickness of the humanity. True genocidal zionist (fascist/nazi) ideology. The humanity will not survive unless the west's fascist genocidal ideology is defeated.

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martin's avatar

i'd like to see smotrich's list of 'our friends in the world' made public.

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Mary's avatar

I think we could probably fill the list ourselves. The US and every country in Europe, plus.a bunch of Arab states too

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

+ India, Argentina, and many others.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Yes, today's India is not Ghandi's or Nehru's India. Today's India nurtures similar racist ideology as jewish zionism.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Yes, very true! I liken Hindutva to Nazism (and Zionism). Modi's RSS faction drew inspiration from Hitler.

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Sam's avatar

There are tweets of him meeting with republicans at Mara lago just a few weeks ago.

He told them his plans to starve Gazans and they clapped.

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Susan T's avatar

They just want to stay rich and powerful. He is not a friend to anyone and he has no friends anywhere.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

How contemptible is this Israeli PR play. We'll pretend to ease off the starvation, and you'll pretend to believe us." Western leaders know exactly what the game is and their role in it. They are all craven and thoroughly despicable.

"After a year of tireless investigation, we have identified the military unit responsible, as well as the commander who led the operation that killed Hind, her family, and the two medics who tried to save her."

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on M<ay 3, Hind Rajab's 7th birthday.

Please join me in making a contribution.

https://buy.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

To know more about The Hind Rajab Foundation, there are a couple of really good interviews that Glenn Greenwald did on his Rumble platform, and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada, did with the head of this organisation, Dyad Abou Jahjah. It was very informative.

Here's a petition calling for accountability for the arrest of Ali Abunimah in Switzerland for the crime of speaking about Palestinian rights:

https://chng.it/8D4pkxPhWS

Please sign the petition and share widely.

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John Turcot's avatar

The “responsibility” is ours. All we have to do is look at where it is hiding…. What’s the adage?? “Seek, and you shall find…

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Hunger Strike!

Students and faculty at Stanford University announce they are joining the nationwide campus hunger strike movement to protest attacks on academic freedom and complicity in the Gaza genocide.

If ever there was a moment that demands civil disobedience, it is the hour of genocide.

You can read more about this moral stance here:

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/hunger-is-our-weapon-against-injustice/?ml_recipient=154375676232730169&ml_link=154375611833386238&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-05-14&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation

An urgent ask from Stanford SJP is to sign and circulate the Drop the Charges petition https://actionnetwork.org/forms/supportstanford12?source=direct_link& which demands that the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office drop the felony charges brought against twelve Stanford University students and alumni following their participation in a protest advocating for Stanford’s divestment from corporations implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

C'mon American a-holes, get your beef sticks, survive on high-animal protein, Burn expensive amino acids as though cheaper carbs, needlessly stressing your kidneys, while we trickle a few grams of low-quality carbs, minimal-if-any protein to these razor-thin, bone-and-sinew "terrorists" --- to mollify Lindsay fucking Graham.

Beef stick ads enrage me to violent images of stuffing two dozen into Lindsay's facial orifice and double that number posteriorly. The Capitalist irony of hawking first-world high-protein diets in the face of this genocide should not be lost on anyone.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Happily I don't see 'Beef sticks' ads here in France.

Yes.......I think Lindsay needs something but he might love beef sticks!

Hung, drawn and quartered may be best.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Gonna do a post on this, Jenny, because it's a fookin' worldwide outrage of First-world capitalism. High protein diets, especially mostly protein, require your cells to chop off chemical (amino) groups to send to your kidneys for elimination. Two types of kidney stress over time, and to oversimplify, the cells burn what's left as basically a carb, which you coulda gotten much less expensively and without the kidney stress. And if it's animal protein as in beef sticks, screw the environment with more animal farming. It's the perfect poison bodies/poison the environment NON-solution to planetary hunger proffered by greedy motherfuckers who don't care one iota about human hunger and malnutrition, the biosphere, Gaza, or anything else other than satiating their own greed. Plenty folks blind to the medical physiology aspects, buy the propaganda that ultrahigh protein diets are good for you. Fucking bullshit unless you're ill and recovering or a world-class athlete. I chose Lindsay because he's representative of the biggest US duplicitous pols on Israel, and most every other stupidity freely swallowed by Americans.

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JennyStokes's avatar

MY answer to this Vin.

I have suffered with Colitis for the best part of 34yrs. I am in remission now.

Blood tests: Because I was a vegetarian. Revealed that I had abnormaly low protein levels. I just cannot eat Beef or Pork. Just the smell makes me want to gag.

However I have decided to eat more protein: Lentils/cheese.

I know I am 'slowly slipping away' and I don't care.

I have never 'fitted in' in every country I have lived in..............I go forward now with huge strength only because I realise MY life is worth NOTHING.

All I do know is that I have tried.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

You have an excellent reason, Jenny, a malabsorptive illness that indicates a need to alter your dietary parameters, Remission or not, there's a basic physiology about your intestine and its microflora that dictate your specific interaction with nutrients. Problem is that many MDs know bupkis about nutrition and don't know how to counsel patients in an individuated fashion. And then, the US healthcare system doesn't give adequate time for counseling to docs who do want to nutritionally help their pts!! Turns out that the company pushing beef sticks hardest in the US is physician owned. Sorry, but I wanna clock those guys. I'd wager to say maybe 5% or less of Americans are in a metabolic space where they need high levels of dietary animal protein. To push it on everyone as a general good as in "make sure you get enough protein", the typical scare tactics is way beyond irresponsible.

I'm so sorry about the Colitis. I known colon issues but not chronically, thank goodness; my bro had 'em though; really sucks.

So you -- You need some animal protein. If you can tolerate cheese, highly recommend it; the inflammation means you need to be rebuilding your intestinal mucosa as well as feeding the microbiome. Get the protein where you can. Blessings.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Oh Vin.

You have NO idea (well maybe you do have) of what I have been through. Nothing compares to the Palestinians though.

I am trying to cling onto a world of PEACE which I don't expect to see in my lifetime.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I think you should do this Vin.

Keep it simple?

Hugs and xxx's

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Thank you. Good wishes for your health.

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gypsy33's avatar

May I help, Jenny? 😁

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JennyStokes's avatar

Dearest Gypsy....thank you.

I do not know what is happening to me but I am peaceful for the most part.

I cannot understand HUMANITY. Much like you.

Tomorrow I am going to sit by the River with my Palestinian flag (not allowed here in France) whatever happens happens.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Are you serious, Jenny; they've banned displaying the flag. Goodness, someone's worse than us at least in one aspect of this horror? Hard to believe that the US isn't the worst of everything. See how jaded I've become?

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JennyStokes's avatar

This is why you do not see protests in France?

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

SAD

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JennyStokes's avatar

Not allowed to protest!

We are ALL 'jaded' Vin the question is: How do we fight?

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Oh dear Jenny, I feel my blood continually sucked bu corporate leeches, hating even to besmirch that animal by analogy to those scumbags. They give us fluff and suck resources from the planet and individuals. and then we have to face up to these completely purchased political mediocrities, who try not to have original thoughts because it would interfere with their enrichment. I mean what's the defense against that type of parasite, dear? It's like nothing in Nature. WE HAVE MUTATED into a new parasitic form -- Parsiticus umanus curruptis perhaps. What's the defense against it. I have no idea? They've departed not only the sphere of humanity, but that of natural systems as well. anyway, hon, that's the way I see it. Wish I had better activist answer, but I don't. I recommend Lauren Seikaly's post from today: "What is an Activist. https://substack.com/inbox/post/164020823?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3180439&post_id=164020823&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b8qtt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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gypsy33's avatar

Unreal, Jenny. How I adore your fearless spirit! If anything happens, I will personally fly there and bust you out!

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JennyStokes's avatar

I will go to the BIG market in Tarascon to find a flag..............I wonder IF they have one?

I appreciate your support dearest Vin and Gypsy.

Love to see you both here because I am not coming to USA/not that they would let me in!

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

You know it. Jenny. EVERYONE is a terrorist at our borders and ports of entry.

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gypsy33's avatar

Jenny,

Would they let Vin and me into France? 😉

You know I’ve always wanted to visit the Camargue!

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gypsy33's avatar

Too fucking little, too fucking late.

How badly have those skeletal children’s bodies and brains been damaged? Babies having been born to starving mothers, who are unable to nurse them? My GODS these people have been surviving on soup made with contaminated water and weeds!

And the entire fucking world has allowed it to devolve to this point.

Hundreds of thousands dead, probably many more than that injured, no shelter, no food. How in the motherfucking hell has THIS BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?

And this is why Homo sapiens MUST GO. If there are no human beings aside from Ansarallah, Al Quds and Hezbollah willing to stand up for the Palestinians, what the fuck does that say about “humanity?”

Fuck Homo sapiens. To hell with us. Let Mother Earth vomit us out like the filth that we are in order that our planet and beautiful non-humans survive.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Humans are easily corruptible creatures. This was all obvious and coming for the past 50+ years. Israel was becoming more violent and was encouraged by the western a$$hole politicians. West and the western supremacist ideology is not sustainable. It is in direct conflict with survival and progress of humanity. West is the terminal cancer of humanity.

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gypsy33's avatar

Well said, Nick!

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John Turcot's avatar

Love this post… finally says it all… as in We are the culprits, with the exception of those who have no mirrors.

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gypsy33's avatar

Appreciate that, John.

Time for us to go.

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John Turcot's avatar

Unless there is a paradigm shift in the way we think, and that our primitive instincts go AWOL, that time may indeed be as close as the next volley of bombs sent by the “masters of the Universe”.. some of which could be of the nuclear kind. If that happens, the time to go will have arrived.

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gypsy33's avatar

I hope it’s not nuclear, John. I fervently wish for all our other beautiful species to survive and return this planet to what it should be.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

I've been saying the same for several decades now, but people/family/friends were telling me that I am self-hating human and that I don't see all the "beauty" that human life brings. I say f..k the humans and let the Earth cleanse itself from useless, destructive, and stupid human parasites. Bring back the dinosaurs.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Agree. We are INHUMAN!

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gypsy33's avatar

Thank you Sister. How, how, how could what we refer to as “humanity” allow this to happen, let alone SUPPORT IT?

It exposes us as what we really are. As you say, INHUMAN.

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Oscar Alx's avatar

I believe, the Gaza Health Department has long lost the ability of seriously counting any deaths. So those figures of 50.000 to 60.000 who have died in the Israeli assaults are probably highly obsolete, if they ever were really meaningful of what's really going on. I think have to consider many hundred-thousands, maybe eve close to a million deaths by now.

Sadly the media, which are pontificating loudly whenever in the interest of the Western regimes provide only a minimum coverage, as keeping completely silent is not possible as the audience knows too much.

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John Turcot's avatar

It’s all about MONEY, And who has it. The rest of us, the good guys, stare in utter disgust at the helplessness of those who don’t have enough MoNEY to set the tone for who lives, and who doesn’t…

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Nick Douglas's avatar

They have not "died". They were murdered or starved to death by most cowardly racist fascist ideology - jewish and christian zionism. Easy to bomb unarmed civilians. Typical cowardly genocidal Israel/USA/EU war fighting. Attack only those that cannot shoot back.

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DOT Marceo's avatar

At least 200,000 are dead. We are seeing how evil Israel and the West are. It shows that everything the West says is political. They choose to care about rights only in China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus, et cetera. They are liars, cheaters, and murderers.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

My guess would be around a million.

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DOT Marceo's avatar

When all the rubble is uncovered, there will be no less than 200,000 dead. This is why the so called state of Israel has targeted trucks in Gaza that are used to dig through the rubble, any why it is not allowing these trucks into the Strip. The small numbers that are published are those reported to the health ministry.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

If there are only 200,000 dead from this war, it would be a miracle. The equivalent of 4 Nuclear bombs were dropped on a country about the size of San Francisco.

New weapons, used to vaporize people, were used extravagantly. 200,000 might be a low figure for direct deaths, but indirect deaths by injury, illness, starvation, disease will be magnitudes higher. According to the UN, 14,000 infants are expected to die within the next day or so.

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John Turcot's avatar

About the number of deaths…. As Bassam Youdeff said: “ Whose counting”..adding:”does it matter?”

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

We call on the newly elected, American Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. Is there anything more important in today's world than this?

https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq

Please sign the petition and share widely.

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SW's avatar

Western officials are having a harder time explaining why they’re supporting genocide. The usual slogans - Israel has a right to defend itself! October 7th! - look more and more like the b.s. they are. And what’s concerning them the most is the polls show young people in particular find these excuses empty and self-serving.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"Israel has a right to defend itself! October 7th! - look more and more like the b.s. they are."

"Israel has a right to defend itself" was B.S. even BEFORE Oct 7th. Israel was formed on the basis of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It NEVER had the right to defend itself against its victims.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Israel has NO right to self-defense as it has no right to exist in ME. Only Palestinians have right to self-defense. But we see again that international law is only as good as one can enforce it. As long as western genocidal colonial militaristic supremacist ideology exists, humanity will be at the precipice of self-destruction.

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Gentry Cooper's avatar

Caitlin, I agree with you all the way. The western imperialist colonizers should not be allowed to decide what amounts to genocide or what behaviors are normal and acceptable. You see, according to their standards what Israel is doing is acceptable. These evil monsters should have no say in how the world is run.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Well said Gentry Cooper!

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Feral Finster's avatar

"Something is happening. The number of government officials from around the world who I’ve heard in private conversations call Israel’s slaughter in Gaza a genocide — without qualifications and caveats — has increased dramatically in just the past weeks. The dam is breaking.”

Don't kid yourself. Thre has been no change of heart.

The only reason we hear criticism of Israel is because the critics want Trump to prioritize the War On Russia for the time being.

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martin's avatar

they'd have to have 'heart', of course. change of action is what is needed. the puppets need to be convinced that not stopping this atrocity will cost their puppet masters dearly.

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Feral Finster's avatar

I've been saying this all along. Moral arguments are wasted on the sociopaths who rule over us.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Exactly! Only force can stop genocidal western warmongering ideology.

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Rodolfo Marusi Guareschi's avatar

In essence, Israel is using Chomsky's boiled frog strategy but it does so for one reason only: to continue the slaughter as long as possible because, if Gaza were to be incinerated all at once, the conflict would end, new Knesset elections would have to be held and Netanyahu would be convicted and go to prison.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Now that Israel is allowing minimal food and medical aid into Gaza, the IDF can kill kids with a little something in their stomachs. That will be much better for their image. Threatening sanctions will also improve the tarnished, tattered image of Israel’s western supporters because, after all, image is all this is about.

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John Turcot's avatar

Image And MONEY.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Yes, you can't forget the MONEY!

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ShastaBetty's avatar

I constantly think "what the hell is wrong with the world supporting Israel's crimes against humanity? Any country who gives Israel money or arms should also be charged with these crimes."

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John Turcot's avatar

And suffer the same fate.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Hope so

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John Day MD's avatar

Cutting straight to the point again, Sister Caitlin.

;-(

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Ade's avatar

death to israel. thats all I have left to say

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