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The world has irrevocably changed when Iran now seem like the good guys. Increasingly we all just want to see Israel done with. Zionism has utterly failed, thankfully and even though the leaders are unlikely to face the same accountability as did the leaders of the Third Reich, they should.

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Israel bombs the Iranian embassy, killing Iranians on April 1st. Iran retaliates in a measured way with some warning. Now, IDF "must retaliate" against Iran. They must!! For something they started! They are global embarrassments. An evil, absurd regime.

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This pretty much sums it up:

"In 1982, shortly before Reagan bluntly ordered Begin to cease his ‘holocaust’ in Lebanon, a young US senator who revered Elie Wiesel as his great teacher met the Israeli prime minister. In Begin’s own stunned account of the meeting, the senator commended the Israeli war effort and boasted that he would have gone further, even if it meant killing women and children. Begin himself was taken aback by the words of the future US president, Joe Biden. ‘No, sir,’ he insisted. ‘According to our values, it is forbidden to hurt women and children, even in war ... This is a yardstick of human civilisation, not to hurt civilians.’"

From Pankaj Mishra, "The Shoah After Gaza" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

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" Haven't you heard it's a battle of words and most of them are lies?"

Roger Waters from 'Us and Them'.

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Ahh, Grayzone and Nica = Heroes.

https://youtu.be/pXhi0bGUZqM?si=syJ_Ml3LOy4GKwM6

Nicaraguan lawyer and diplomat Carlos Argüello Gómez speaks to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed about his case against the German government for its facilitation of Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, its potentially historic implications, and its similarities to the successful case he argued for the ICJ in 1986 which brought massive penalties against the United States for its illegal dirty war on Nicaragua at the time.

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Everything from the Jewish State of Stolen, Raped, Murdered, Poisoned Occupied Palestine is corrupt, and has been way before 75 years ago. The Jews of ZIonism have been popping people in the heads with bullets a long long time ago, even their own "tribe" got whacked.

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/its-monday-morning-in-amerikkka-ands

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This may shorten the term of Netanyahu's ruling coalition. Russia has said they will help Iran against the US or Israel, and the US has sworn off taking bullets-for-Bibi. Russia is likely to help Iran with S-300 and S-400 targeting of Israeli F-35s and F-16s.

(Maybe Iran can target Bibi some day? Sadly, it's more than just Bibi.)

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Apr 16·edited Apr 16

Michael Hudson says that America has always been on board with Israel’s ethics cleansing of Palestine.

https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/gaza-the-strategic-imperative/

John Helmer also linked to how Roosevelt knew that this was the plan for Israel all along. Of course Biden is lying his left buttock off at being against what Israel is doing. It’s in the Hudson link.

Edit to fix typos.

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At this point Biden is deliberately sacrificing the national security interests of the United States to the Zionist cause. This is treason.

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"A globe-spanning empire that is fueled by human blood."

This. The US and Israel are the vampires of the world, sucking human blood out of innocents in Gaza, sucking blood out of the prosperity of the world with their constant buying and use of weapons... We need some really big stakes to plunge into the hearts of these monsters. Maybe an Iranian missile will do?

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Apr 16·edited Apr 16

For those who have not had the time to read.........

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Article 7

Crimes Against Humanity

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

Murder;

Extermination;

Enslavement;

Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

Torture;

Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;

Enforced disappearance of persons;

The crime of apartheid;

Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

How's that. Not one that is not on the Israeli / USA list of crimes. NOT ONE.

Note: Do not separate Israel and the USA. They are on the same page and more so, every day.

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Meanwhile, the GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION of defenceless, starving, besieged Palestinians in a concentration camp continues apace.

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Meanwhile I read that Israel let Palestinians come back to some flattened areas "to rebuild" and while in school based shelters Israel started attacking them. Did I read this in any easily available place? No. No I did not. Because the Iran focus is pushing it out. Which is exactly Israel's goal. Rope the US back in as global (and citizen) opinion has started to creak it out cm by cm and distract from it committing more genocide in Palestine.

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At the very least Israel and the US could give Flip Wilson the credit for inspiring them. Or call their spokesperson Geraldine.

But “ the devil made me do it” is as thin as “anti-semitism” has become.

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Let’s get the Biden Administration to focus on the criminal charges they so rightly deserve. 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute that incorporated the Genocide Convention in US criminal law. Members of this administration shouldn't go a single day without having this statute in their faces, up front and center at every protest at every meeting, press conference, briefing, and trips home and abroad.

They may feel they are immune now, but let's get them considering what is possible when they leave office, given they have set the precedent of charging former presidents.

They should have visions of prison all the days of their lives. Let us find the way.

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We’ve been blindsided all of our lives by the Empire’s propaganda, this is why only now Iran seem like the good guys..

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Iran made it easy for Israel to pretend they’d put Iran in its place. Even Biden is reported to have said - it’s a win- take it. Israel is desperate now and like a rat backed into a corner, is liable to do anything— especially something reckless — counting on the US to bail them out, as usual. Pray they understand now is the time to declare a permanent ceasefire and salvage what’s left of their reputation and let all the humanitarian trucks in.

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