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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you -- criminal Bush covered in thrown shoes is a masterpiece, although he deserves MUCH worse...

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Graeme A Rickards's avatar

...wonder if he'd be moved if they were the blood-soaked shoes of children?

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Boris Petrov's avatar

How do you describe a country (US) that totally supports, militarily and financially, TWO countries (U + I) with Nazi-dominated governments?

A TWO-state solution ( which was sabotaged for decades by both apartheid Bibi/US and Hamas ) – NOW

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Graeme A Rickards's avatar

1. Maybe it could be described as mega-scale organised crime with a very slick and very busy marketing department.

2. Two-state solution wherein the populace share, along with the rest of the people on this planet, a realisation and commitment to identifying first and foremost as a human being. Any other form of identity is secondary and can never justify hate or destruction of other beings, because (simply enough) we are destroying ourselves. When could any other constructed identity endow one with exceptionality, or superiority, or a right to subjugate, demean and destroy others? Why is that so damned difficult to learn?

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jamenta's avatar

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.

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Pat's avatar

And yet, mind boggling ,the west still selling the bs,sending weapons . The us tried hard to foment muslim hatred after 9/11 but we are still doing business with the accused saudis,also zio state. Somehow Palestinians who have suffered for 75 years are the pariah? And no help for them. My friends in Gaza dislike hamas, yet conflated with Palestinians. Something else to consider,several articles have said the hamas invasion was in the interests of the terrorist illegal state of israel.

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notBob's avatar

I have repeating my theory since it started: The attack was a false flag executed by Mossad to justify genocide of the people in Gaza. The US was probably a participant in some way as it gets to start a war with Iran. Both nations benefit from Hamas attacking Israel.

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jamenta's avatar

It took 7 hours for them to respond with force to a breach on perhaps the most surveilled wall in the world. It does very much seem suspicious to me as well.

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Pat's avatar

I agree❗️

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I truly didn't think of that. And I thought that I was a pretty cynical citizen.

It's too true!

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

Globalresearch.ca has some very in depth articles up including Israeli whistle blowers.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

jamenta: I don't think anyone gives a shit about Palestinians. Not even the Arabs like them. In Jordan there are more Palestinians than Jordanians. It makes the King of Jordan nervous.

The Palestinians remind me of my Irish ancestors who came to America. Everyone hated the Irish. Yet, the Irish succeeded in the USA. Whereas back in Ireland it's still a shit show.

jamenta; what do you think the Palestinians should do?

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notBob's avatar

Are suggesting the Palestinians are inherently untrustworthy because of their ethnicity ? Perhaps their hatred for the world , for governments, for normalcy is driven by growing up in a lifelong open air prison ?

Did you spend your childhood in prison ?

Did you watch your family members get murdered by the prison guards for nothing ?

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Timmy Taes's avatar

notBob; The Palestinians supported the Nazis in WWII and Saddam Hussein. They always pick the losing side.

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Bill's avatar

The Arab countries have spent 75 years turning the Gaza residents into militants, teaching them to hate, turning them into militants, using them for sympathy in this war.

They never gave a crap about them, they are political tools.

It's not their ethnicity, it's what the Arab governments have made them into in a prison created partly by the governments of their parents.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Bill: The British/Israelis stole the Palestinians land and kicked them out of their homes. Sure, the Arabs didn't help the Palestinians but the problems all started with the Balfour Declaration.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Jack: The King better sleep with one eye open. Oh, wait, that's what he does. LOL.

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Bill's avatar

Maybe the countries the Gaza residents originally came from should let them return to their homes.

Gazans are descendant of foreign workers from various countries that came to Israel for work in the 40s. Their home countries have been using them as political pawn since then, not allowing them to come home. That is the real crime.

When you call Gaza an open air prison, some of the walls keeping them in are the borders of their true home countries, mostly Jordan and Eqypt.

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bot_483's avatar

Don't you get it? There will always be "repercussions," just like the hang-glider massacre was a "repercussion." Until israel leaves the area completely or the hamas/plo/anti-semite sand-hutus stop getting funding there will never cease being "repercussions."

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russian_bot's avatar

It's a purge. Jews wanted that piece of land badly. They feel now it's time. Others' turn will come.

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JennyStokes's avatar

N. Gaza has oil and Gas in the Mediterranean Sea. This should tell you everything It belongs to Gaza.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

JennyStokes: Israel and Egypt have already stolen the rights to that oil and gas off of the coast of Gaza.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I just spent 10mins searching on the internet to find this.

I guess you are right but I cannot say for sure.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources

The Israelis will never let Hamas get any oil/gas revenues from the Levant Basin Field.

The Israelis won't let the Abbas Organization on the West Bank get any either.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Thanks for this I forgot to look on Al Jazeera.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

JennyStokes: You are welcome. Al Jazeera won't mention Egypt or Turkey going after the oil, of course.

The British (Shell Oil) gave their interest in the oil and gas field to Abbas (Palestine Front in West Bank). Because it was worthless. Sure the oil and gas is there but putting an oil rig on the sea off of Gaza is impractical. Terrorists would blow it up. Logistics would be a nightmare.

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Pat's avatar

And why usa is determined to let zios rule

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Timmy Taes's avatar

russian_bot: Why would anyone want a polluted rotten open air prison full of shit?

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russian_bot's avatar

There's such a thing as a map, Timmy. Look at it. Plus, no more Palestinians. Clean it up, make pretty beaches, do raves 365/24/7. Gays, trans, you name it.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

russian_bot: So it's like East Palestine, Ohio?

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JackSirius's avatar

The best comparison is to Lahaina, Hawaii. BlackRock probably already has the street maps and blueprints for the resorts and beach houses it will build there after the demolition phase of the project is complete.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

JackSirius: LOL! If Blackrock builds hotels in Gaza they will be terrorist targets.

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russian_bot's avatar

They do raves there? Is that a hot LGBTQ+ spot?

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Timmy Taes's avatar

russian_bot: I thought you lived in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I wish that Substack hadn't taken out its downvote button because you would be getting it!

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russian_bot's avatar

Your thoughts are what this blog is for. Other than Caitlin's posts.

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notBob's avatar

Genocide isn't about land, its about ethnic cleansing.

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bill wolfe's avatar

exactly backward: the Palestinians are "cleansed" to make land for Israel. That's always been the objective.

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notBob's avatar

If that is the case why has Israel kept them prisoner in Gaza ?

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bill wolfe's avatar

because the world wouldn't let them exterminate them and rive them into the sea.

We're entering phase I of the final solution. Once north Gaza is "cleansed", the Phase II and the south is next and Palestinians forced exodus to Egypt.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"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

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Pat's avatar

Was ready to write and bitch to the propaganda machine. Will not matter but as i keep saying,silence is acquiescence

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Boris Petrov's avatar

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)

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notBob's avatar

Hamas is to Mossad as ISIS and Al Queada are to the CIA. Terrorist front organizations pretending to be the opposition but ultimately trained, funded and controlled by the five eyes.

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Pat's avatar

And you know what,when we here in usa suggest such a thing, slings arrows and crickets

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Boris Petrov's avatar

How do you describe a country (US) that totally supports, militarily and financially, TWO countries (U + I) with Nazi-dominated governments?

A TWO-state solution ( which was sabotaged for decades by both apartheid Bibi/US and Hamas ) – NOW

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Pat's avatar

Well i describe the usa as a banana republic run by charlatans and thieves. The two state solution was always a snake oil go to. It was never real.

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Kojo's avatar

“.. 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?

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Pat's avatar

Funded by israeli jews who own all media

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Kojo's avatar

All media? No.

But certainly controlling the right media, where «wrong» voice get removed if they dont follow the program:

https://mronline.org/2023/10/16/msnbc-suspends-pro-palestine-anchors-amid-israeli-aggression-on-gaza/

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Kojo's avatar

Human rights watch is funded by all the same old establishment oligarchs and their foundations:

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/human-rights-watch/#:~:text=HRW%20lists%20the%20left%2Dof,Bill%20and%20Melinda%20Gates%20Foundation.

So no, Human Rights Watch are not going to shine the spotlight on the US govt that funds and arms Europe, not on any of the oligarchs that ensures the US govt does this.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Oh, puh-leeze!

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forceOfHabit's avatar

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.

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notBob's avatar

It isn't going to stop, Israel is committing genocide because they feel they can get away with it in the current world. Israel is going to kill or deport every last Palestinian. The big question on my mind is will the US go to war with Iran, all the stepping tones are laid out for that war right now. The US wants it to create a southern front for Russia.

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Pat's avatar

If i could stop it today i would. Got a proposal?

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I think that Caitlin has addressed that in some of her columns. Also, After Skool or The Academy of Ideas on YouTube has had videos about it.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

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.

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Jo Waller's avatar

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.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

The whole point of the IRA or any resistance group is to get public opinion behind them. Please read From Dictatorship to Democracy by Dr Gene Sharp.

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TomLaney's avatar

Thank you Caitlin. I don't know how you do it. Please take care of yourself. Stay Strong! We need you....desperately!!!

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russian_bot's avatar

"...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.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

russian_bot: The Arabs have plenty of oil money. Send the Jews back to Europe and the USA. The borders are open.

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Pat's avatar

They could go back to poland

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russian_bot's avatar

The USA has more - they print it. Jews know which side to choose.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

russian_bot: Jews are supposed to be smart. LOL!

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Mike Jones's avatar

When Jews are forced to chose between building a brighter future for themselves or screwing over Christians, they'll chose the second option every single time.

They're STILL FURIOUS about the whole "Jesus thing".

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Bruce Tracy's avatar

That last paragraph is on 🔥

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bill wolfe's avatar

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.

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George Martin's avatar

Thank you. I needed to read someone sane after a week of all out propaganda for death.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Yes. Israel may have the right to defend itself, but rightly or wrongly so does the occupied and oppressed population have the right, under the UN, to do what it likes to resist. The Israelis may have the right but they also have a choice that Palestine doesn't. They could choose peace (and if it was anything to with love of God they would).

'Just like the situation in Northern Ireland and South Africa, the Israeli government has the choice to end the cycle of violence. Netanyahu could, today, lift the blockade on Gaza, stop settlement constructions in the West Bank, recall the IDF to internationally recognized borders, end the second-class citizenship of Palestinians living in Israel, and commit to a peaceful, democratic reconciliation of the conflict. Unlike the Israeli government, the Palestinian people do not have this option. If they did, they would happily take it and end their oppression.' From Joewrote.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

G&D: The Zionists and Hamas will never agree to a two-state solution. As long as Zionists run Israel and Hamas runs Gaza there will never be peace.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

"The greatest trick white anti-semites ever pulled was getting Jews to leave western society in droves and move to a far away country to spend their lives beating up Muslims."

Can we arrange the words differently by saying that...'to move to a far away country which belonged to another nation' as part of a long term plan to control the middle eastern geography.

It is called "Eretz Israel", now with the connivance of the USA and the inaction of a feeble United Nations they will commence this next chapter soon.

To do this, they needed a benefactor who was an arrogant bully, a mass murderer and who responded to graft and corruption and given time, who would respond totally to their dictates in as short a time as is possible. Done. The Palestine ethnic purge.

They also needed to get rid of a fine US President who didn't like the idea of such a strange collection of people from all over the world building up an armoury of nuclear weapons for their own purposes. Done.... and with 400 nuclear warheads to date and a series of US presidents, one after the other, who jump whenever they are told.

No point in appealing to an Israeli's better nature and humanity. They sold those out when the shifted to Palestine to implement their dirty schemes.

As humans, they are beyond redemption.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I believe that a huge amount of Israelis are angry and sad that this is going on. They have been demonstrating in the streets against Netanyahu and his right wing coterie, for weeks before this happened. I am pretty sure these people would not be able to say anything on mainstream media especially in Israel.

Netanyahu is toast and I hope he convicted of his crimes as well as this genocide.

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djean111's avatar

Convicted? Netanyahu's life is no more important than the life of anyone else. Perhhaps just place him inside a Palestinian hospital and let him have the same chance at survival as everyone else.

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