Just want to credit the person in your image. It's my main man, Gazan photojournalist Hosny Salah, many of whose brave images I used in a music/image piece, so I'm indebted to the man. We all should be -- another brave soul telling the truth firsthand.
Yes, i remember the traumatic experience of my friends and i in Pittsburgh turning a street corner only to be faced with LRAD, previously used on Palestinians.
The militarization of police under Bush,
Obama, Biden, Trump et al. has been conducted with Israeli supervision.
"A long-range acoustic device, acoustic hailing device or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control, which has caused permanent hearing damage, having an extremely high decibel capacity. "
I agree with your comment, but in case you aren't aware, i was able to highlight it with my mouse and select 'search' which showed me that response.
Isn’t this what they used on the American consulate in Cuba, that the American government denied happened for years? Or was that just American propaganda against Cubans that I fell for?
YES (you beat me to it!)--and Catherine Austin Fitts says it's just a question of time 'til everything they're trying out THERE will be visited upon the good ole US of A.
It appears there is more here than an genocide. Willful killing of children, shot in the head by snipers, deliberate starvation, destruction of all tools and societal meeting grounds for existence, and pushing populations around so they cannot regain their footing, suggests the creation of an extensive and punishing suffering that delights the oppressor. Gazans cannot even enjoy a cup of coffee with friends in a café without being bombed. History has witnessed mass killings, but never this type of community destruction. Only depraved minds operate in this manner Only depraved minds allow anyone to act in this manner.
Jewish children often go to Hebrew schools where they are taught to be Zionists. They are taught that Jews are supreme beings. While pretty much all of us who live in Western countries have been propagandized to believe nonsense about the superiority of our political and social systems, I don't think it has been as thoroughly ingrained in us the way children have been brainwashed with Zionism. Catholics are also taught that Catholicism is supreme and some kids do go to Catholic schools, but it does not seem to result in the same attitude of other groups of people being "human animals" and therefore unworthy. Of course, I may just not realize that it has been happening. The state of the world lately leaves me very uncertain of any kind of blanket human decency even existing.
In Catholic Schools God, the visiting priest, and prayers figure largely, along with teaching moral behaviour. "Do as you would be done by". A gentler, more humanitarian religion these days? (Not so, in the past).
I always understood it as a child (not from religion, but in a book, read by my mother) to just mean 'be nice'. Unfortunately many subscribe to certain religions, spout the required shite, but still can't just be nice.
Even "nice" is different for different people. We need to actually look at the people we want to be nice to and try to find out what they would find to be nice.
I find the earlier statement, from the Hittites, I believe to be much better; "Do no do to others that which you would not have done to you." Much clearer, and much closer to what is good and right, for we are much more the same in what gives us pain, than what gives us pleasure.
The Catholic Popes blessed the atrocities of the Crusaders of the Middle Ages. The Church also blessed the enslavement or murder of indigenous peoples of North and South America. The indoctrination schools for indigenous children of the USA and Canada were operated by Catholics.
Among other things Catholics (and I would think most Christians) are taught that everyone is capable of being converted to Christianity. However, they are also taught "The Great Commandment," a.k.a. "The Parable of the Good Samaritan," (Luke 10:25-37) where it is paraphrased as "Love thy neighbor as thyself". Sometimes, I think a bit of it has rubbed off on people, but often I think it has not.
I think when you're brought up hearing the sick racist religious propaganda that you're "God's chosen people" you could easily grow up thinking you are superior. So this is how we got Zionism, the Nakba and the current genocide of the Palestinians.
I don’t know, I think the Catholics are doing it too now
I don’t interact with religious people if I can avoid it, but a couple years ago an old friend was complaining that her whole entire family went no contact with her because she put her kid in a Christian school and her relatives are Catholic. I was really confused I thought they all worshiped the same white daddy God.
Speaking of supremacy and confusion, I thought MAGA hated Jewish people (remember the space lasers?) but now they simp for Israel? Do they know our taxes pay for Universal Healthcare and free higher education for Israel? Why aren’t they mad about that?? They claim to be “America First” but their kids grow up with student loan debt and medical debt and they don’t cry about that.
I see your point but let's not kid ourselves that Zionist brainwashing is on the level of Santa Claus. Even US jingo patriot brainwashing makes being taught there is a Santa Claus seem cute.
Emotions usually overrule facts. There's also confirmation bias - often only those facts that align with a person's belief systems are considered seriously, while those that oppose are likely ignored or rationalized away through 'motivated reasoning'.
Some wake up, some don't. I am not sure what factors influence that situation. When people experience emotional or physical abuse as children, it affects the rest of their lives and it is different for everyone. Some people react more strongly than others. Understanding behaviours is not to make excuses for anyone, but if we understand we may be able to change things.
Correct, as we can witness.it’s members give standing ovations to Netanyahu in the halls of the American governments for replenishing their personal bank accounts on cue.
I think your comment is the principal reason why our species is on the brink of extinction. Ignoring the poorest intensifies the need to hoard as much money as possible and the Israelis know how to do that best…
I think God (whoever He is) forgot about Earth from the moment after He flew by His creative baggage… Even from the planet Pluto, never mind the nearest star, Earth is invisible. Yet, here we are, arguing about which God can save our bacon. … except of course the Chosen Ones…
God has to be a "they" unless, of course, God decided way back then to be a "he" and try to keep the other "hes" in control. How could there be a God that was only a he?
I think Caitlin's point here is: The International Institutions like the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) and the ICJ (International Criminal Court of Justice) MUST do their jobs. This is vital.
I read this today and I think it fits here. I hope it’s ok to link someone else’s work here; if Caitlin deletes it I understand and I won’t do it again.
It talks about how the MAGA death cult and racism is one in the same.
It’s an invitation to become something better. If it were just Israel, the USA, and the UK I’d have some hope for that. Literally, the whole world is either actively supporting or allowing a genocide. It’s going to get a lot worse for all of us. I am almost 82 so I won’t live to see something better (although I’ll keep fighting for it) but maybe generation Z or their children will be able to do it. It’s going to take a long time to heal this wound.
I’m not sure that we as a species have enough time left for generation z to get it right… we don’t need to pass-the-buck… but keeping more it other than passing it to Israelis might help.
I don't believe all the other, non-Western, nations are complicit with Israel, and certainly not at the same level as the West. For example, South Africa, and Nicaragua have brought charges at the ICJ, with many nations supporting their positions.
Yes, I was thinking there were a number of countries that opposed this modern Nazism, but apparently many countries "in opposition" still trade with Israel. I understand South Africa still provides coal for example. Having said that, 12 nations in The Hague Group (of which South Africa is a member) (https://thehaguegroup.org/home/) have signed significant declarations that would impose sanctions so there may be a few that take concrete action. As John Turcot says though, given the hell-bent drive for more profit, more power, more control by the Empire, there may not be time for Gen Z to set things right.
Maybe in 1000 years if there is ultimately an admission of the truth and a genuine learning experience. Of course, on the current trajectory human will not exist in 1000 years so that's a non-starter.
This is not where we end up Susan T, this is the beginning of a new 'dark' phase of humanity and our relationship with the planet (IMHO). I wish I could say that this is the worst, though I fear things are going to get much worse...
Well, if we look honestly at what is happening with the climate, it is highly possible that it is too late. I don't see miracles as something to be be believed in or not, but sometimes things do go unexpectedly better that it originally appeared would happen, altho I cannot presently think of a world event that has been any kind of miracle.
According to very ancient Indo-European worldview, we are now living in the Iron Age or Kali Yuga, the worst of all ages. Evil rules the world. It will all end with a great war or a natural disaster, or both. A Savior will appear, and a new Golden Age will see the light. The souls of good people will be reborn in eternal young bodies and they will live for ever in an earthly paradise.
The part of this worldview concerning our present age seems to be right, I would say, and it looks like the prophecy concerning the great war and the natural disaster is going to be fulfilled as well.
Caitlin, to add to that excellent examination of everything this Genocide is, it is a TRUTH about how humanity has progressively eroded and has diminished as time passes on. It is the realization that not much has changed (for what really matters) over thousands of years of human civilization.
It is a sobering WAKE-UP call to DEEPLY introspect and reflect on (almost) EVERYTHING we seem to have believed about 'how the world works' or 'how the world is supposed to work'.
"It’s an experiment — to see what kinds of abuses the public will accept without causing significant disruption to the imperial status quo."
In the US, it's an experiment as well as an attempt to push the public into accepting more and more horrendous activities committed by the government by threatening the ordinary people with worse living conditions, little to no health care, poor public education opportunities, and failing infrastructure. Truly, this genocide has shown the truth of the statement: "Until Palestine is free, NOBODY is free!"
About 2500 years ago there was a Chinese emperor (forgot his name) who burnt people alive in a pit to appease some monstrous deity. I always thought how is this possible? But here we go again. Looking around today we see the same atrocities perpetrated. Not to appease a deity but to satisfy the blood lust of a monstrous society. Because doing nothing about it makes all the bystanders guilty.
Do you mean Qin Shi Huang? He burnt books, and buried the scholars alive, but I don't think he burned the scholars. This is also an unverified early example of possible disinformation as it wasn't mentioned until a much later dynasty that might have had motives for discrediting this ruler and his dynasty.
"It’s an invitation — to become something better than what we are now".
After listing the dystopia we are living through - in her impressive outstanding way - Caitlin offers some hope at the end that we shall overcome all this some day. Let's all hope so.
Things look so bleak for the Palestinians facing a world devoid of any humanity, a rapacious ruling class and 'greed is good' oligarchs, who have become "red in tooth and claw" and gangster capitalism, it seems that just isn't possible.
Very frighteningly it is a war on critical thought, on historical memory, on the courage to dissent. We need nothing but a world revolution if we are to become human again!
Thank you for this concise framing. I have been pulling on all these threads of what this genocide is in my mind, and in my writing, recently too. The grief continues to overwhelm most days. But hope lives in action, and i’m taking action however and whenever I can.
A better world is possible. But we can’t build it without accepting the truth of the one we currently inhabit.
Thank you for collecting our thoughts in a concise way. This is our world and we can be on the right or the wrong side. There is no maybe here. ❤️❤️✊🏼✊🏼
Everything that was said, hits home, hits every nerve. Everything I thought about the world, governments etc..have all gone down the drain. A strange feeling that what you thought was..is not. it makes me feel sick to my stomach. I will say another thing is this....we all have daily issues that we might find hard, difficult to solve...and then I think of the Palestinian people, and then say..no I do not have anything to complain about. I cry a lot...it might be my own daily life issues, but then the world...everything that is happening in the world just comes over like a cloud and the tears come. I am a strong person. I do not give up. But right now, I do not feel so strong. I am questioning everything...what to do. I use Face book to be able to say hi to friends all over the world...to post nature pictures..but now I have posted two "rants" about how disgusting it all is and we need to change. I posted Caitlins name, and others that tell it like it is...and I don't care if I am taken off of FB...I am hoping that the messages I have sent with links and names to be informed totally outside of the very 'fake" news we would get by only watching normal TV..and also...once you have seen something, learned about it..you cannot un-know it..I promise myself to get strong again...and not let this make me numb...there is for sure a malaise in the world..people have to start wondering what it all is..and why?
The infrastructure has long been put in place. I do not believe anyone did not have at least one friend or relative that tried to show them facts, documents, a money trail, white papers, etc.
It was easier to ignore it. For many, it would seem, being alone with a position contrary to everyone else, even if it is the right position, is beyond their ability.
There is nothing "easy" about what is happening due to that willful ignorance.
Agenda 21, 5G geo fencing, medical tyranny, financial warfare, loss of property and movement rights are all converging. Not to mention blowback for all the suffering and deaths caused. A very short term perspective.
Herd mentality and Group Think are powerful factors. Many of the sheeple are taught to “Go along to get along”. Many individuals fear to go against the crowd.
When they see anonymous thugs beating unarmed old people in public, they simply watch instead of swarming the thugs.
A story I learned from one Auschwitz survivor was that near the end of WWII, the inmates were guarded by frightened teenagers— 13-14 years old — while experienced soldiers were fighting on the Eastern Front. The inmates outnumbered the guards by more than 100 to one and could have swarmed them, taken their weapons and taken control of the camp.
Yes, there was a risk that some inmates would be killed, but most would be victorious. Failure to attack the guards was a guarantee that all would die. Nevertheless, that logic didn’t appeal to the majority of inmates. The survivor’s opinion of his cowardly inmates was that they deserved whatever would happen to them. He survived when the allies entered the camp.
Yes I know to stay strong..it is just that we look at normal news ( disgusting) and then research more...it is just hard to un know things...and I am searching all the time for ways to share with people what is going on...many just do not want to know! it is painful to know!
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the ruling class embodies the most heinous and despicable miscreants that ever lived, a sleepless, ceaselessly moving, malevolence, and hideous by every metric that can be applied to it.
Here's a question I have for you though. What if 'somehow' (hypothetically) the current ruling class were to suddely vanish/disappear and a new ruling class were to appear from the 'present non-ruling class' people? Would the pattern/behavior/cycle be repeated? Or would it be broken? Is the problem JUST the ruling class? Or is it something deeper?
This is amusing for two reasons. One, I have a various times, replied to hypothetical questions by asking, “would you prefer an hypothetical answer?“
On a more serious note, that states nearly word for word a reply I made elsewhere on sub stack to the effect that if the entire ruling class were replaced, the material conditions related to the existing system would allow no other policies.
These perpetual crises are not the result of subjective states of mind or the moral stature of people in high public office. Those who are running, the system are as much hostages of that system as the most lowly worker performing the most menial of tasks.
>>"Those who are running, the system are as much hostages of that system as the most lowly worker performing the most menial of tasks."
Maybe, but it sure seems more like a HIERARCHY of hostages, much like 'socio-economic' hierarchies and classes. In essense, does it make any difference (to anyone) if the ruling class is also a hostage to the 'very system' that places them on the top of such a hierarchy?
Just want to credit the person in your image. It's my main man, Gazan photojournalist Hosny Salah, many of whose brave images I used in a music/image piece, so I'm indebted to the man. We all should be -- another brave soul telling the truth firsthand.
Happy to know his name. thanks.
Caitlin
May I also add that the Gazans are also test subjects for New and Improved Methods of Destroying Human Life.
Yes, i remember the traumatic experience of my friends and i in Pittsburgh turning a street corner only to be faced with LRAD, previously used on Palestinians.
The militarization of police under Bush,
Obama, Biden, Trump et al. has been conducted with Israeli supervision.
And Money…
What is LRAD? Use of Acronyms without explanation are not helpful.
"A long-range acoustic device, acoustic hailing device or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control, which has caused permanent hearing damage, having an extremely high decibel capacity. "
I agree with your comment, but in case you aren't aware, i was able to highlight it with my mouse and select 'search' which showed me that response.
Hi Joy. I am not good with computers or telephones and I hate looking up things when they should. be spelled out. Maybe this is why I am deaf?
Thanks
Isn’t this what they used on the American consulate in Cuba, that the American government denied happened for years? Or was that just American propaganda against Cubans that I fell for?
I thought it was maybe what they used in Panama when they kidnapped Noriega.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device
This was very easy to find.
Thanks.
All making America Great! 😟
These types of weapons should be banned.
YES (you beat me to it!)--and Catherine Austin Fitts says it's just a question of time 'til everything they're trying out THERE will be visited upon the good ole US of A.
New Improved--- not Aipac Tracker but @Zionist Tracker !
It appears there is more here than an genocide. Willful killing of children, shot in the head by snipers, deliberate starvation, destruction of all tools and societal meeting grounds for existence, and pushing populations around so they cannot regain their footing, suggests the creation of an extensive and punishing suffering that delights the oppressor. Gazans cannot even enjoy a cup of coffee with friends in a café without being bombed. History has witnessed mass killings, but never this type of community destruction. Only depraved minds operate in this manner Only depraved minds allow anyone to act in this manner.
Jewish children often go to Hebrew schools where they are taught to be Zionists. They are taught that Jews are supreme beings. While pretty much all of us who live in Western countries have been propagandized to believe nonsense about the superiority of our political and social systems, I don't think it has been as thoroughly ingrained in us the way children have been brainwashed with Zionism. Catholics are also taught that Catholicism is supreme and some kids do go to Catholic schools, but it does not seem to result in the same attitude of other groups of people being "human animals" and therefore unworthy. Of course, I may just not realize that it has been happening. The state of the world lately leaves me very uncertain of any kind of blanket human decency even existing.
In Catholic Schools God, the visiting priest, and prayers figure largely, along with teaching moral behaviour. "Do as you would be done by". A gentler, more humanitarian religion these days? (Not so, in the past).
I find "do as you would be done by" to be problematic. I think it should be do as the person having it done would like it to be done
I always understood it as a child (not from religion, but in a book, read by my mother) to just mean 'be nice'. Unfortunately many subscribe to certain religions, spout the required shite, but still can't just be nice.
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley ?
Yep
Even "nice" is different for different people. We need to actually look at the people we want to be nice to and try to find out what they would find to be nice.
Good point. I guess I should have substituted 'nice' for 'kind'.
I find the earlier statement, from the Hittites, I believe to be much better; "Do no do to others that which you would not have done to you." Much clearer, and much closer to what is good and right, for we are much more the same in what gives us pain, than what gives us pleasure.
The Catholic Popes blessed the atrocities of the Crusaders of the Middle Ages. The Church also blessed the enslavement or murder of indigenous peoples of North and South America. The indoctrination schools for indigenous children of the USA and Canada were operated by Catholics.
…..but it’s directed by the Pope. CK .. don’t you believe “end times comes out of Rome”? Just a question of your thoughts..
Among other things Catholics (and I would think most Christians) are taught that everyone is capable of being converted to Christianity. However, they are also taught "The Great Commandment," a.k.a. "The Parable of the Good Samaritan," (Luke 10:25-37) where it is paraphrased as "Love thy neighbor as thyself". Sometimes, I think a bit of it has rubbed off on people, but often I think it has not.
I think when you're brought up hearing the sick racist religious propaganda that you're "God's chosen people" you could easily grow up thinking you are superior. So this is how we got Zionism, the Nakba and the current genocide of the Palestinians.
I don’t know, I think the Catholics are doing it too now
I don’t interact with religious people if I can avoid it, but a couple years ago an old friend was complaining that her whole entire family went no contact with her because she put her kid in a Christian school and her relatives are Catholic. I was really confused I thought they all worshiped the same white daddy God.
Speaking of supremacy and confusion, I thought MAGA hated Jewish people (remember the space lasers?) but now they simp for Israel? Do they know our taxes pay for Universal Healthcare and free higher education for Israel? Why aren’t they mad about that?? They claim to be “America First” but their kids grow up with student loan debt and medical debt and they don’t cry about that.
I have to agree
You really do not understand the power of indoctrination.
I see your point but let's not kid ourselves that Zionist brainwashing is on the level of Santa Claus. Even US jingo patriot brainwashing makes being taught there is a Santa Claus seem cute.
Emotions usually overrule facts. There's also confirmation bias - often only those facts that align with a person's belief systems are considered seriously, while those that oppose are likely ignored or rationalized away through 'motivated reasoning'.
Some wake up, some don't. I am not sure what factors influence that situation. When people experience emotional or physical abuse as children, it affects the rest of their lives and it is different for everyone. Some people react more strongly than others. Understanding behaviours is not to make excuses for anyone, but if we understand we may be able to change things.
But those who are committing genocide in Garza have been Chosen by God to do so…
Can’t argue with God. Trying to do so is much like attempting to argue with members of Congress who ignore the poorest members of their electorate.
Correct, as we can witness.it’s members give standing ovations to Netanyahu in the halls of the American governments for replenishing their personal bank accounts on cue.
CK
I think your comment is the principal reason why our species is on the brink of extinction. Ignoring the poorest intensifies the need to hoard as much money as possible and the Israelis know how to do that best…
……say my christian friends.
God has historically made some pretty weird choices. Not sure that we should let them be our guide.
I think God (whoever He is) forgot about Earth from the moment after He flew by His creative baggage… Even from the planet Pluto, never mind the nearest star, Earth is invisible. Yet, here we are, arguing about which God can save our bacon. … except of course the Chosen Ones…
God has to be a "they" unless, of course, God decided way back then to be a "he" and try to keep the other "hes" in control. How could there be a God that was only a he?
It’s an awful post I read over and over! NO! Not my G-d!
I think Caitlin's point here is: The International Institutions like the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) and the ICJ (International Criminal Court of Justice) MUST do their jobs. This is vital.
Unfortunately, the ICC has no army to enforce its rulings.
I read this today and I think it fits here. I hope it’s ok to link someone else’s work here; if Caitlin deletes it I understand and I won’t do it again.
It talks about how the MAGA death cult and racism is one in the same.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/07/22/there-is-a-name-for-magas-death-cult-policies/
It’s an invitation to become something better. If it were just Israel, the USA, and the UK I’d have some hope for that. Literally, the whole world is either actively supporting or allowing a genocide. It’s going to get a lot worse for all of us. I am almost 82 so I won’t live to see something better (although I’ll keep fighting for it) but maybe generation Z or their children will be able to do it. It’s going to take a long time to heal this wound.
I’m not sure that we as a species have enough time left for generation z to get it right… we don’t need to pass-the-buck… but keeping more it other than passing it to Israelis might help.
I don't believe all the other, non-Western, nations are complicit with Israel, and certainly not at the same level as the West. For example, South Africa, and Nicaragua have brought charges at the ICJ, with many nations supporting their positions.
Yes, I was thinking there were a number of countries that opposed this modern Nazism, but apparently many countries "in opposition" still trade with Israel. I understand South Africa still provides coal for example. Having said that, 12 nations in The Hague Group (of which South Africa is a member) (https://thehaguegroup.org/home/) have signed significant declarations that would impose sanctions so there may be a few that take concrete action. As John Turcot says though, given the hell-bent drive for more profit, more power, more control by the Empire, there may not be time for Gen Z to set things right.
The influence of the US corporations is global, having surpassed the power of the British Empire that nurtured Zionism and gave birth to Eretz Israel.
Thought provoking..
https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/its-a-genocide-but-its-also-so-much?r=2i6r2t&utm_medium=ios
Hi Ron
Surely this wound will NEVER heal.
Maybe in 1000 years if there is ultimately an admission of the truth and a genuine learning experience. Of course, on the current trajectory human will not exist in 1000 years so that's a non-starter.
It's where I hoped we would never end up as the human species.
This is not where we end up Susan T, this is the beginning of a new 'dark' phase of humanity and our relationship with the planet (IMHO). I wish I could say that this is the worst, though I fear things are going to get much worse...
They are either going to get much worse or there will be a miracle and the world will wake up.
As I'm not much of a believer in miracles, I believe things will get much worse... (even if we wake up, will it be too late?)
Well, if we look honestly at what is happening with the climate, it is highly possible that it is too late. I don't see miracles as something to be be believed in or not, but sometimes things do go unexpectedly better that it originally appeared would happen, altho I cannot presently think of a world event that has been any kind of miracle.
The only 'miracle' I can think of is if some kind of 'virus' spread to all of humanity to change it for the better (i.e. human evolution).
Here's an interesting article on the role of viruses and their significance in human history -> "Viruses: their extraordinary role in shaping human evolution" (https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/virus-human-evolution)
According to very ancient Indo-European worldview, we are now living in the Iron Age or Kali Yuga, the worst of all ages. Evil rules the world. It will all end with a great war or a natural disaster, or both. A Savior will appear, and a new Golden Age will see the light. The souls of good people will be reborn in eternal young bodies and they will live for ever in an earthly paradise.
The part of this worldview concerning our present age seems to be right, I would say, and it looks like the prophecy concerning the great war and the natural disaster is going to be fulfilled as well.
Yes Chang - there’s a term/word for it - it’s called a Noicide - a new Dark Ages.
Caitlin, to add to that excellent examination of everything this Genocide is, it is a TRUTH about how humanity has progressively eroded and has diminished as time passes on. It is the realization that not much has changed (for what really matters) over thousands of years of human civilization.
It is a sobering WAKE-UP call to DEEPLY introspect and reflect on (almost) EVERYTHING we seem to have believed about 'how the world works' or 'how the world is supposed to work'.
“We live together as brothers or we perish together as fools.” MLK, Jr.
"It’s an experiment — to see what kinds of abuses the public will accept without causing significant disruption to the imperial status quo."
In the US, it's an experiment as well as an attempt to push the public into accepting more and more horrendous activities committed by the government by threatening the ordinary people with worse living conditions, little to no health care, poor public education opportunities, and failing infrastructure. Truly, this genocide has shown the truth of the statement: "Until Palestine is free, NOBODY is free!"
>>""Until Palestine is free, NOBODY is free!""
❤️❤️💯👏🙏
If you want to know the future; Imagine a boot stamping on a human face.
Forever.
~ George Orwell
Exactly.
Israel is a slaughterhouse!
About 2500 years ago there was a Chinese emperor (forgot his name) who burnt people alive in a pit to appease some monstrous deity. I always thought how is this possible? But here we go again. Looking around today we see the same atrocities perpetrated. Not to appease a deity but to satisfy the blood lust of a monstrous society. Because doing nothing about it makes all the bystanders guilty.
Do you mean Qin Shi Huang? He burnt books, and buried the scholars alive, but I don't think he burned the scholars. This is also an unverified early example of possible disinformation as it wasn't mentioned until a much later dynasty that might have had motives for discrediting this ruler and his dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars
"It’s an invitation — to become something better than what we are now".
After listing the dystopia we are living through - in her impressive outstanding way - Caitlin offers some hope at the end that we shall overcome all this some day. Let's all hope so.
Things look so bleak for the Palestinians facing a world devoid of any humanity, a rapacious ruling class and 'greed is good' oligarchs, who have become "red in tooth and claw" and gangster capitalism, it seems that just isn't possible.
Very frighteningly it is a war on critical thought, on historical memory, on the courage to dissent. We need nothing but a world revolution if we are to become human again!
Yes, but I would not wait for that world revolution to come from the corrupt states of the west.
Anthony Vera, I do agree. I am counting on the global south. But is that also a hopeless dream...
Thank you for this concise framing. I have been pulling on all these threads of what this genocide is in my mind, and in my writing, recently too. The grief continues to overwhelm most days. But hope lives in action, and i’m taking action however and whenever I can.
A better world is possible. But we can’t build it without accepting the truth of the one we currently inhabit.
Thank you for your voice, and your action.
Thank you for collecting our thoughts in a concise way. This is our world and we can be on the right or the wrong side. There is no maybe here. ❤️❤️✊🏼✊🏼
Everything that was said, hits home, hits every nerve. Everything I thought about the world, governments etc..have all gone down the drain. A strange feeling that what you thought was..is not. it makes me feel sick to my stomach. I will say another thing is this....we all have daily issues that we might find hard, difficult to solve...and then I think of the Palestinian people, and then say..no I do not have anything to complain about. I cry a lot...it might be my own daily life issues, but then the world...everything that is happening in the world just comes over like a cloud and the tears come. I am a strong person. I do not give up. But right now, I do not feel so strong. I am questioning everything...what to do. I use Face book to be able to say hi to friends all over the world...to post nature pictures..but now I have posted two "rants" about how disgusting it all is and we need to change. I posted Caitlins name, and others that tell it like it is...and I don't care if I am taken off of FB...I am hoping that the messages I have sent with links and names to be informed totally outside of the very 'fake" news we would get by only watching normal TV..and also...once you have seen something, learned about it..you cannot un-know it..I promise myself to get strong again...and not let this make me numb...there is for sure a malaise in the world..people have to start wondering what it all is..and why?
The question is, how was it ignored for so long?
The infrastructure has long been put in place. I do not believe anyone did not have at least one friend or relative that tried to show them facts, documents, a money trail, white papers, etc.
Not one in the heart of the Empire.
It was easier to ignore it. For many, it would seem, being alone with a position contrary to everyone else, even if it is the right position, is beyond their ability.
There is nothing "easy" about what is happening due to that willful ignorance.
Agenda 21, 5G geo fencing, medical tyranny, financial warfare, loss of property and movement rights are all converging. Not to mention blowback for all the suffering and deaths caused. A very short term perspective.
Herd mentality and Group Think are powerful factors. Many of the sheeple are taught to “Go along to get along”. Many individuals fear to go against the crowd.
When they see anonymous thugs beating unarmed old people in public, they simply watch instead of swarming the thugs.
A story I learned from one Auschwitz survivor was that near the end of WWII, the inmates were guarded by frightened teenagers— 13-14 years old — while experienced soldiers were fighting on the Eastern Front. The inmates outnumbered the guards by more than 100 to one and could have swarmed them, taken their weapons and taken control of the camp.
Yes, there was a risk that some inmates would be killed, but most would be victorious. Failure to attack the guards was a guarantee that all would die. Nevertheless, that logic didn’t appeal to the majority of inmates. The survivor’s opinion of his cowardly inmates was that they deserved whatever would happen to them. He survived when the allies entered the camp.
❤️🙏 Stay strong Denyse. Find like-minded people as members of your 'real or virtual' support group. One day at a time...
Yes I know to stay strong..it is just that we look at normal news ( disgusting) and then research more...it is just hard to un know things...and I am searching all the time for ways to share with people what is going on...many just do not want to know! it is painful to know!
I empathize with you. It's the same for me.
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the ruling class embodies the most heinous and despicable miscreants that ever lived, a sleepless, ceaselessly moving, malevolence, and hideous by every metric that can be applied to it.
Here's a question I have for you though. What if 'somehow' (hypothetically) the current ruling class were to suddely vanish/disappear and a new ruling class were to appear from the 'present non-ruling class' people? Would the pattern/behavior/cycle be repeated? Or would it be broken? Is the problem JUST the ruling class? Or is it something deeper?
This is amusing for two reasons. One, I have a various times, replied to hypothetical questions by asking, “would you prefer an hypothetical answer?“
On a more serious note, that states nearly word for word a reply I made elsewhere on sub stack to the effect that if the entire ruling class were replaced, the material conditions related to the existing system would allow no other policies.
These perpetual crises are not the result of subjective states of mind or the moral stature of people in high public office. Those who are running, the system are as much hostages of that system as the most lowly worker performing the most menial of tasks.
>>"Those who are running, the system are as much hostages of that system as the most lowly worker performing the most menial of tasks."
Maybe, but it sure seems more like a HIERARCHY of hostages, much like 'socio-economic' hierarchies and classes. In essense, does it make any difference (to anyone) if the ruling class is also a hostage to the 'very system' that places them on the top of such a hierarchy?
I believe it’s a form of evolution. Survival of the fittest, etc.
Damn good one, Caitlin!
& Tim
Yes!