Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Stop calling it the “Israel-Hamas war”. It’s the Israel-Gaza massacre. Calling it the Israel-Hamas war creates the false impression that this is a war that is directed exclusively at Hamas when it’s really an ethnic purge that’s directed at all Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israelis think they are somehow "winning" by invading and purging Gaza now - but the historical repercussions of the invasion will outlast the mass murderer Netanyahu, and the rest of his compliant butchers involved in this purging of a civilian population corralled into a small "Indian Reservation" of land. Civilians with no modern tanks, or military jets, or any kind of organized military to speak of - left to withstand alone, the onslaught of its murderous, revenge filled - collective punishment captors.
The veneer of any kind of moral standing by Israel or the US or Europe for that matter - has now been irrevocably ripped away. I think this will be an historic turning point.
"MSNBC suspended three Muslim reporters during Israel’s Gaza assault because it didn’t want Muslims reporting on it."
You can't have actual Muslim persons talking about Israelis killing off Palestinians--who actually aren't all Muslim. (Some are Christian and some even *gasp* Jewish!) That wouldn't be fair. You need white supremacists to promote racist propaganda or else it won't come out sincere and sound real to the white Islamphobic audience of MSNBC. Didn't you know that?*
Seymour Hersh – Oct. 12, 2023 – Netanyahu is Finished -- The Bibi doctrine—his belief that he could control Hamas—compromised Israeli security and has now begat a bloody war
Hamas was created and financed for years (through Qatar) by “our beloved” Bibi, who believed that Arafat’s secular PLO was a more serious enemy. Hamas was also rejecting a two-state solution -- just like Bibi and his extremists who together with US sabotaged a two-state solution for decades.
"...all American civilians deserve to die horribly because they permit themselves to be ruled by a regime which is orders of magnitude more violent and destructive than Hamas."
As luck would have it, we're handling this one ourselves, and as usual we're taking our time and squandering trliions of dollars in the process: Jabs for infants on up, a raging opioid crisis, mass and gang shootings, "wildfires," 2-liter sodas for a generation of kids at 7-11 (and other affordable liquid-disaccharide calories), dwindling fertility, and the triumphant, intentional dissolution of religious and secular communities alike.
“.. I keep getting people acting like it’s controversial or even outlandish to say that Israel is an apartheid state. It’s not. The leading mainstream western human rights groups say it’s apartheid, as does the top human rights group in Israel….”
That’s because the leading mainstream western human rights are are the core, western and colonial, and funded by western colonial interests. So their role is to provide a superficial opposition.
You will never find them come out and say what Martin Luther King said: .“….my government is the bigges purveyor of violoience on the planet…”
The current day version of that is: “..my government is the biggest purveyor of violence on the planet, as well as the biggest backer, fender and, and weapons supplier to violent regimes across the planet”. And everyone should come out in the streets and oppose them now. Because millions of people are dying around the world at their hands…”.
What what happen to the funding of Human Rights Watch or UNHCR if they said that?
No justice for Palestinians, no peace for Israelis. No justice for Israelis, no peace for Palestinians.
So let's start by stopping the immediate bloodshed and endless cycle of violence and retribution and devote our energies to finding justice for both sides of this conflict. No it wont be easy; it wont be simple, but I do think its possible. And there is no alternative other than more horrific, senseless murder of civilians on both sides.
I'm watching the 11 PM TV news from San Francisco. A segment features a dumb young blonde from Sonoma County. She was in a youth group and decided that she liked Israel and stayed. The young woman looks like a Taylor Swift imitator.
Anyway, she's complaining about the sirens and the rockets and how she has to close metal shutters and go into a safe room three times a day.
OK, fine.
But at the end of the segment, the TV station shows buildings in Gaza being blown up and neighborhoods destroyed WITHOUT SAYING THAT THE FOOTAGE IS OF GAZA!
LOL! Americans are so dumb that they will think the footage shows Israeli buildings being destroyed.
Thatcher was right, you don't negotiate or give into the demands of people because they are bombing you. The British couldn't just leave Ireland because we were being bombed. The Good Friday peace agreement (claimed by Blair and others was not due to him nor anyone else (though his very brave aid who's name I can't even find was crucial)) wasn't because of pressure from the IRA it was due to pressure from the groundswell of public opinion at the time.
I'm nearly 60 so Mandela was in prison for half my life. We didn't have social media then, but we had Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel. It seemed liked humanity had woken up to something better. Millions marched in London protesting the war in Iraq. Gay pride was full of joy.
Now humanity has been lulled back to sleep walking into division and hate. Our governments openly support Nazis and bomb the shit out of Arabs under ours noses while we protest green policies.
This is a war for public opinion. And humanity is losing it big time.
Just catching up on the Sunday papers: oil prices starting to rise and turbulence in the stock markets. As neither Gaza nor Israel has oil which is traded on the world market the events in Gaza actually have no effect. Therefore, the oil and stock market prices are being manipulated again to generate profits for the market makers at the expense of everyone else. Who’d have thought it, eh?
"...getting Jews to leave western society in droves and move to a far away country to spend their lives beating up Muslims" - indeed. While promoting the myth Jews are smart to cater to their vanity.
In the UK our prime minister has given unequivocal support to Israel to do what ever it likes and didn’t mention Gaza.
In other news police officers ordered not to wear insignia of the ultra-right whilst policing black and gay events have ignored the order and this has been supported by our black Home Secretary.
It just gets much worse by the day. I am absolutely appalled by what is now considered acceptable politics and normal behaviour. This has happened since the Trump era in the US, by which anything goes with no thought of the consequences. Because the US behaves appallingly, every other country now does, too.
Returning to the subject of Gaza, Hamas has said Israel needs to leave Palestinian land. Other commentators here have said the fighting should end: is Israel, simply, leaves the land it has taken, which seems entirely reasonable to me: job done. It should also be remembered the UN has passed a number of resolutions stating exactly that. As many countries seem to agree Israel can do what it wants, this renders the UN worthless, as it does international legal agreements. It’s all rank hypocrisy at the highest level.
The "school attack maps" were a propaganda tactic intentionally designed to deflect from and legitimize Israeli slaughter of Palestinian children. These people (including US media) are pure evil.
Thank you -- criminal Bush covered in thrown shoes is a masterpiece, although he deserves MUCH worse...
The Israelis think they are somehow "winning" by invading and purging Gaza now - but the historical repercussions of the invasion will outlast the mass murderer Netanyahu, and the rest of his compliant butchers involved in this purging of a civilian population corralled into a small "Indian Reservation" of land. Civilians with no modern tanks, or military jets, or any kind of organized military to speak of - left to withstand alone, the onslaught of its murderous, revenge filled - collective punishment captors.
The veneer of any kind of moral standing by Israel or the US or Europe for that matter - has now been irrevocably ripped away. I think this will be an historic turning point.
It's a purge. Jews wanted that piece of land badly. They feel now it's time. Others' turn will come.
"MSNBC suspended three Muslim reporters during Israel’s Gaza assault because it didn’t want Muslims reporting on it."
You can't have actual Muslim persons talking about Israelis killing off Palestinians--who actually aren't all Muslim. (Some are Christian and some even *gasp* Jewish!) That wouldn't be fair. You need white supremacists to promote racist propaganda or else it won't come out sincere and sound real to the white Islamphobic audience of MSNBC. Didn't you know that?*
*Sarcasm* SIGH.
#FreePalestine
Seymour Hersh – Oct. 12, 2023 – Netanyahu is Finished -- The Bibi doctrine—his belief that he could control Hamas—compromised Israeli security and has now begat a bloody war
Hamas was created and financed for years (through Qatar) by “our beloved” Bibi, who believed that Arafat’s secular PLO was a more serious enemy. Hamas was also rejecting a two-state solution -- just like Bibi and his extremists who together with US sabotaged a two-state solution for decades.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/137880462
Sy Hersh - The Plan to Wipe Out Hamas -- As refugees crowd the border with Egypt, Israel prepares to hit Gaza City with US-supplied bunker busters https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-plan-to-wipe-out-hamas?r=byea&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post (Oct 14)
"...all American civilians deserve to die horribly because they permit themselves to be ruled by a regime which is orders of magnitude more violent and destructive than Hamas."
As luck would have it, we're handling this one ourselves, and as usual we're taking our time and squandering trliions of dollars in the process: Jabs for infants on up, a raging opioid crisis, mass and gang shootings, "wildfires," 2-liter sodas for a generation of kids at 7-11 (and other affordable liquid-disaccharide calories), dwindling fertility, and the triumphant, intentional dissolution of religious and secular communities alike.
“.. I keep getting people acting like it’s controversial or even outlandish to say that Israel is an apartheid state. It’s not. The leading mainstream western human rights groups say it’s apartheid, as does the top human rights group in Israel….”
That’s because the leading mainstream western human rights are are the core, western and colonial, and funded by western colonial interests. So their role is to provide a superficial opposition.
You will never find them come out and say what Martin Luther King said: .“….my government is the bigges purveyor of violoience on the planet…”
The current day version of that is: “..my government is the biggest purveyor of violence on the planet, as well as the biggest backer, fender and, and weapons supplier to violent regimes across the planet”. And everyone should come out in the streets and oppose them now. Because millions of people are dying around the world at their hands…”.
What what happen to the funding of Human Rights Watch or UNHCR if they said that?
4 simple words: No justice, no peace.
No justice for Palestinians, no peace for Israelis. No justice for Israelis, no peace for Palestinians.
So let's start by stopping the immediate bloodshed and endless cycle of violence and retribution and devote our energies to finding justice for both sides of this conflict. No it wont be easy; it wont be simple, but I do think its possible. And there is no alternative other than more horrific, senseless murder of civilians on both sides.
I'm watching the 11 PM TV news from San Francisco. A segment features a dumb young blonde from Sonoma County. She was in a youth group and decided that she liked Israel and stayed. The young woman looks like a Taylor Swift imitator.
Anyway, she's complaining about the sirens and the rockets and how she has to close metal shutters and go into a safe room three times a day.
OK, fine.
But at the end of the segment, the TV station shows buildings in Gaza being blown up and neighborhoods destroyed WITHOUT SAYING THAT THE FOOTAGE IS OF GAZA!
LOL! Americans are so dumb that they will think the footage shows Israeli buildings being destroyed.
Thatcher was right, you don't negotiate or give into the demands of people because they are bombing you. The British couldn't just leave Ireland because we were being bombed. The Good Friday peace agreement (claimed by Blair and others was not due to him nor anyone else (though his very brave aid who's name I can't even find was crucial)) wasn't because of pressure from the IRA it was due to pressure from the groundswell of public opinion at the time.
I'm nearly 60 so Mandela was in prison for half my life. We didn't have social media then, but we had Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel. It seemed liked humanity had woken up to something better. Millions marched in London protesting the war in Iraq. Gay pride was full of joy.
Now humanity has been lulled back to sleep walking into division and hate. Our governments openly support Nazis and bomb the shit out of Arabs under ours noses while we protest green policies.
This is a war for public opinion. And humanity is losing it big time.
Just catching up on the Sunday papers: oil prices starting to rise and turbulence in the stock markets. As neither Gaza nor Israel has oil which is traded on the world market the events in Gaza actually have no effect. Therefore, the oil and stock market prices are being manipulated again to generate profits for the market makers at the expense of everyone else. Who’d have thought it, eh?
Thank you Caitlin. I don't know how you do it. Please take care of yourself. Stay Strong! We need you....desperately!!!
"...getting Jews to leave western society in droves and move to a far away country to spend their lives beating up Muslims" - indeed. While promoting the myth Jews are smart to cater to their vanity.
In the UK our prime minister has given unequivocal support to Israel to do what ever it likes and didn’t mention Gaza.
In other news police officers ordered not to wear insignia of the ultra-right whilst policing black and gay events have ignored the order and this has been supported by our black Home Secretary.
It just gets much worse by the day. I am absolutely appalled by what is now considered acceptable politics and normal behaviour. This has happened since the Trump era in the US, by which anything goes with no thought of the consequences. Because the US behaves appallingly, every other country now does, too.
Returning to the subject of Gaza, Hamas has said Israel needs to leave Palestinian land. Other commentators here have said the fighting should end: is Israel, simply, leaves the land it has taken, which seems entirely reasonable to me: job done. It should also be remembered the UN has passed a number of resolutions stating exactly that. As many countries seem to agree Israel can do what it wants, this renders the UN worthless, as it does international legal agreements. It’s all rank hypocrisy at the highest level.
That last paragraph is on 🔥
The "school attack maps" were a propaganda tactic intentionally designed to deflect from and legitimize Israeli slaughter of Palestinian children. These people (including US media) are pure evil.