Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): We’re seeing more and more of the cynical, obnoxious plan of the western liberal political-media class to try and pin the blame for the entire multinational genocidal campaign in Gaza solely on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Do you care if the genocidal psychopathic entity that has been thieving, murdering-at-will and oppressing Palestinians for decades exists in such a crazed state?
Of course you care!
If it became revealed and thoroughly accepted by the citizens of Israel
that Israelis were treacherously betrayed on Oct 7th by their own trusted leaders
that would be a knock-out blow.
If you knew, **if you knew! and accepted!**, that your son or daughter died on Oct 7th
because of the treason of your leaders it would change Israel forever.
"IDF Allowed Rave Later Attacked by Hamas Despite Key Officer's Concern"
"The Gaza Division's operations officer, Lt. Col. Sahar Fogel, opposed the Nova rave taking place on October 7 near the border with Gaza, arguing that it was a needless security risk.
Furthermore, his objection was seconded by other officers, both at the Gaza Division and at the Southern Command headquarters. But in a conversation with the IDF's operations division, he was instructed to approve the event."
"During the days preceding the massacre, the system had received warnings that Hamas would try to attack on Israeli soil. The information was based on several sources who noticed alarming preparations by Hamas personnel, as well as intelligence that raised the concern growing among various security figures.
Haaretz has not been able to verify whether Lt. Col. Fogel was aware of this intelligence, or whether his opposition to the event was related to it.
Then came Oct. 7. Hours before the terror attack, the security establishment received signs and warnings leading to its decision to prepare – if only partially – for a terrorist incursion. But no IDF officer updated the thousands of revelers or the rave organizers of the fear of an attack, or demanded that they break up the party and leave the area."
Recalling that Israel had been in possession of Hamas' detailed plans for Oct 7th and they had it nearly a full year before Oct 7th. Detailed. Israel knew the Rave was in the danger zone, but the Rave was relocated to within 3 miles of the Gaza wall. People in Gaza could hear the Rave taking place.
If the world community saw that all the slaughter that Israel tries to justify because of Oct 7th
was the result of a treacherous scheme from Israeli leaders then Israel would be the pariah state it earned.
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Haaretz continued:
"In private conversations, some officers in the Gaza Division told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party [Rave],"
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Though I speak of the Israeli leaders there were/are many, many hands.
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Israel was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
Israel recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without Israel's help.
Several months before Oct 7th Israel limited access to the information gained from monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network to a select few insiders.
Israel claims that they stopped monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network altogether, no one was monitoring (nonsense!). With this monitoring, sophisticated equipment could have pinpointed where Hamas was concentrated and where it was headed. This is huge! Also, Hamas radio traffic would have become volcanic during the jail break, establishing a major Red Alert.
Of course they have to make the excuse that they no longer had this ability. They need to cover up Israel's own assistance in the Hamas Oct 7th attack. They need to claim Israel was blinded as their surveillance cameras were sabotaged by Hamas. Note, though, with the push of a few buttons Israel could have disabled the surveillance themselves, so taking Israel's word on who brought down the surveillance cameras in actuality is suspect. Also, if indeed key surveillance cameras were taken off line by Hamas that itself would set off a Red Alert!
In the weeks and months before Oct 7th Israel had to intentionally ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (amazing that this happened!).
They had to pretend that they didn't know Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (Hamas had detailed in writing how they would cause complacency. It was in the Hamas Oct 7th plans, and Israel read them).
******They removed the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.****** This was paramount, if Israel wanted Oct 7th to be successful!
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be a credible accident, it was premeditated.
Israel betrayed and slaughtered their own and then commenced to commit Genocide.
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Haaretz continued:
"In private conversations, some officers in the Gaza Division told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party [Rave],"
Perhaps you should watch "The Man in the High Castle".
Do you recall when the son turned himself in to be exterminated because of his illness?
It seems, from news I keep hearing, that Israelis are perfectly fine with the way their nation is being run. That all these facts are reported in Haaretz pretty much "seals the deal" for me. It reveals that Israel is psychotic and needs to be destroyed.
This is a "Jewish problem". I propose leaving it to them.
Israel isn’t just a minor psychotic nuisance. It’s a nuclear armen nation in a powder jeg of a region.
Much like apartheid South Africa, the world needs to disarm Israel, consultant a reconciliation process, and institute a one-person, one-vite democracy there. Never more than now, have we needed a well functioning United Nations to do this. And yet the entire colonial west is ripping down the UN.
You packed a lot into a small box. "The World" isn't some entity that has any persuasion to accomplish anything.
The US is a nuclear armed nation just as dangerous and volatile as Israel. (YouTube: Matthew How on Scott Horton show). "The World" isn't going to take those nukes away.
The one constant I hear all the time is how totally dependent Israel is on the USA. That US support continues despite these atrocities shows how powerful the "Jewish Lobby" is in the US (Wilkerson's term but it seems to becoming more widely used -- it isn't 'just Jews'). The US is as infected as Israel with Fascist Plutocrats. They murdered JFK to prevent peace and have become more violent and more avaricious with each passing day. (Aaron Good)
I want the USA to "walk away" (I don't expect it will) because the USA -IS- the problem. It is a "Jewish problem" because of the ADL and AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations. This is what happens when Michael Corleone goes "legit". (You can find a long list of movies about Jewish gangsters. They also go "legit". I posit that it is a huge reason why WASPs hate Jews.)
There's a long list of Jewish Plutocrats. I propose the (good?) Jews take care of them. That will go a long way to solving the Israel problem.
Of course, there are many WASP members of the Plutocracy so the "American" problem remains.
There is no two-state solution or it would have happened by now. Any politician citing support for that failed enterprise is just putting up a smoke-screen for continued genocide. There can be no one-person, one-vote democracy while the Zionists remain. They will come back. (The Nazis are coming back all around the world, we know it yet do nothing. Remember Trump's praise for the Nazis?)
I oppose any efforts to "reform" Israel (see Richard Wolff on "reform" vs "revolution") for the same reasons Russia has set an objective to de-Nazify Kiev. Germany was de-Nazified, look at the effort it took. The Zionists must be completely destroyed.
Of course, we must recognize how the Zionists and Nazis came to power. It was the USA.
The UN is being torn down by the USA (the Plutocracy to be specific), not by the "entire colonial West". Europe consists of vassal states controlled by the USA through NATO, the World Bank and the IMF. (All agencies of the Plutocracy) See Matthew Hoh's testimony before the Security Council.
On a somewhat positive note, the American Empire is in decline because the Plutocracy is "just stupid" (or greedy) so maybe the world will survive as the world dedollarizes and American Industry continues to fail. (See Hudson et. al.) -- or it will just hasten Armageddon (Ritter, Hoh, McGovern et. al.)
If you want to know who makes up the Jewish Lobby, check out the following link, listing over 350 Jewish political organizations dedicated to pushing the US and EU governments to fulfill their political goals, which include Israel, but also the legal definition of "antisemitism" and its related legislation, and the dominant role of Jews in the larger society.
It's the leaders of these political organizations that make up the Lobby. There are over 270 of them in the USA alone, with total funding in the billions of dollars.
Ain’t gonna happen in time to save those Palestinians I’m afraid, John. Those of us that have wanted our Country back are the same ones being boot Heeled in the “Locked Tight Society”, set up after the 2nd World War to run cover on the Financing Arms of the Wall Street Jungle that kept both sides armed up for the Back Room Finance Deals made well ahead of Yanks given Uniforms & Guns and shipped to Normandy and somehow single handedly winning the War all by themselves.
American’s have such a remedial, superficial view of the History they/we learn in School, of both our own Country & Europe or any other Continent. If it’s not A Prince Rides up & Saves Barbie, Skin Book, it’s ignored.
Even the Teachers load the Tests up with distraction BS that somehow becomes important knowledge on Test Day. That’s what the Curriculum calls for, so it’s put on Tests, scores are noted in GPA results at HS Graduation. The Rubber Stamps go on & off you go to College.
The whole Enchilada has been a set up on the Working Class since the Federal Reserve Bank was formed in 1913 with a main agenda of Fleecing the Sheep and keeping themselves floating comfortably above the Ruckus, pulling Marionette Strings.
Sleepy Joe is in it all too deep to Reverse anything in either current Hot War Zone. Nah, PNAC is at stake here and this is the last Chapter, soon as #3 is taken out.
History may just repeat itself in a Pacific Waterloo, now that the Former Hippy Socialists in NZ have been disestablished for the next ???
Helen Clark is too dangerous for this New Wave of Neoliberal far Right Soldiers running the show since October to allow her a UN Platform, much longer, so watch that space for retirement announcement, I suspect coming very soon!
I see that Fiji has finally come to their somewhat senses in holding a few former Coup Cap’ns feet to the fire, but last minute forgiveness says they’re still undecided as to what comes next in the Pacific Forum.
Happy to see Palau come to the microphone with a first resounding no way Jose to the US’s appeasement to Israel in one of their recent Joke Pleas to stop killing all the kids in Gaza.
I view the next Theatre as the Central South Pacific in the Drudge Match of World Tycoons wanting it all Right now, or else.
Everybody’s Racing to the Moon lately, so I suspect the next Full Moons could be bearing Mushrooms in Earth’s general direction. It must be those Pesky Martians coming to Zap us from Space!!!
Sure glad there’s folks like John Ritter & Caitlin out there manning the Megaphones for the keen ear tuned in and increasingly turning up the heat on these clever l’il buggers.
One good way of bringin the curtain down would be a General Work Stoppage and Capital Spending Boycott. Don’t go to work and Leave your Wallet at home for a month, or so, until Bankruptcy Courts step in for a clean out.
Sadly tho, the 1st ones to go will be the little ones, not hurting anybody, but wait a little while and the Traps will spring globally & Nail a lot of arses to the wall in “the last one Standing game” these thugs like to play…
I’m liking your comments and encourage you to keep thinking with your pen! Lone
Please understand the US can't 'walk away.' Your politicians are OWNED by AIPAC. The money the US has taken from these murderous people is STILL running your country and probably many others.
You the people have sat on you backsides for years (not all of you) while you ignored politics in your 'shining example of democracy!'
I hope Netanyahu pays the price and all others complicit in the Govt. BUT the US is culpable too.
In fact, I agree with all your points except getting the US to "walk away". If the US remains involved, nothing will change for the very reasons you list.
Brett Weinstein had a podcast with Efrat Fenigson on October 10. This account was so close in time to the attacks it will assuredly become a subject for historical study.
Fenigson and Weinstein are both visibly in a state of shock, as Fenigson relates the series of events that can be plausibly characterized a deliberate actions to induce and allow the attacks.
JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11-Building 7- how many reiterations of the same or similar playbook before people catch on? The answer lies in how many people want, or don't want to know; and how many people in a position to know have the courage to speak the truth.
The Truth is the rarest commodity of the 21st Century, and it more needful than any other natural resource.
Levi, I would ask of the organisers, "Why there, with of Israel to choose from?" Unless they thought their taste in music is so fkn awful it would repel Palestinians from the border.
Take a good look at the lowest of the low -- Lindsay Graham -- fawning over "Isrul" as he does a little dance for massa in front of Netanyahu and the cameras. He is both symbolic of the low level of rubbish politician running the gears of the corrupt crumbling empire and also pretty illustrative of the norm. Bernie, AOC, and the other supposed libruls just ain't that different from good ol' doofus boy Lindsay on foreign policy, especially on any matter involving a little dance for massa Israel. Watching these cretins makes me feel truly embarrassed to be an American.
Bernie Sanders is the ultimate traitor to all that is good and moral. And to think so many of us thought he'd make an excellent president... I'm glad he didn't make it to the White House after all.
The democrats pretend to be liberal, like gee everyone from everywhere come in and you don't have to be legal about it. We care. Let me pay off your school loans, cause we care, and on and on goes their mantra. A proxy war in Ukraine and some 4 hundred thousand dead and it ain't over yet, and supply Israel with ammo to carry out a genocide cause were're friends. They had a lot of practice during the Trump years, telling us he was devil and they would be our saviors. A whole lot of people bought that crap. Happy Easter.
Not that I disagree with you on Sheepdog/Judas Goat Sanders on anything but your last sentence, but what difference would it have made if he got to the White House? I argue that it only could have made a positive difference for the anti-war left. Either he goes against the CIA-Mossad-MIC-Bankster cabal and gets assassinated (in reality or politically, like Corbyn), thus proving what many of us have known all along, or he caves in completely and starts another war and supports genocidal Israel.
I wish he did make it to the WH, though, the first time. More so than even Trump the mask of the US government-as-mafioso-enforcer of the coporo-finance-rentier class empire falls off the ugly "They Live" face underneath.
And thinking perhaps way too optimistically, maybe he actually does something good.
Russia is trying to avoid a nuclear war imo. you could argue he is being too cautious, but I don't think the US is rational on the issue of losing its grip on the world.
"This is Biden’s war as much as it is Netanyahu’s — and Sanders supports Biden."
Or rather it's Biden's GENOCIDE as much as it is Israel's genocide. And neoliberal nightmares like Bernie Sanders and his fellow kiss-ups in DC are doing their best to confuse and convince the public of the lie. Let's all make a vow to never let these a-holes pull the wool over our eyes and to continue to spread the truth to everyone everywhere. We can't let these mass murderers get away with it.
Well, not to say you're "wrong", but I don't want folks to think the Plutocrats are one huge monolithic organization. The "Deep State" exists, but not like B613 on the TV show "Scandal". It is just too hard to get the idea out without a long boring dissertation.
I don't watch TV and have no idea of that reference--but I think the plutocrats ARE one huge but probably loose organization. That is, probably there aren't 11 men who meet in secret to craft global plans--there are just corporate heads and billionaires, each acting in self-interest--and for these sociopaths, self-interest is narrowly defined as "whatever gets me even more money"-. I imagine some prefer Trump and some Biden, but both will do and say what they're told. They like Biden better because Trump has a tendency to go off half-cocked and think he's really in charge. But they need the apparent difference to keep the public foaming about the evils of the other team, rather than looking at the real enemy of all of us. Well, 99.999% of us.
I think (or hope) that there are significant differences and clashes between power blocs in the ruling class. For example. the foreign policy "Realists" represented by Mearsheimer and earlier George Kennan vs the neocons. The realists used to rule the roost on foreign policy, and they don't like being supplanted by the Neocons/Zionists. I don't know if there is any active way for the plebians without a voice in DC to exploit this at the moment, but I think it is a factor going forward.
One way of looking at the Civil War is as a clash between the rich plantation owners in the South with their unlimited supply of cheap labor
and their wealth based on agricultural products, and the rich industrialists of the North with their manufactured products, and their slightly (I think) more expensive labor pool of recent immigrants. Who was going to control the nation going forward? It's still a question now.
You're right, in general, but there's no organization. There are very rich people, the Plutocracy, who own the government. However they will make and break alliances with one another and they will seek to destroy one another.
The Plutocrats don't "prefer" Biden. They are in competition with one another and in some cases will support Biden, others Trump. It all depends on their specific interest in a very narrowly defined question -- about how, in this instance, can they "get even more money".
Absolutely they keep the public foaming. Do recall that Pierre Omidyar founded "The Intercept" and then forced Greenwald out because Greenwald wasn't reading the right script.
In a way, the difference I'm describing is minor. In another way, it is huge.
BTW, nothing I mention is on TV. It is either on youTube or Rumble or a given website.
The level of narrative management and control exercised by Zionist interests in the US is something to behold. Not even well known, long-serving politicians up to and including the President is *allowed* to cross certain narrative boundaries. The American Jewish community, in a seemingly ironic situation, is the most constrained by it.
The average American Jew - even if they don't personally support, and in fact even if they abhor - the policies of Israel under Nutty Yahoo or anyone else, is faced with veritable shunning should they speak out, particularly within the Jewish community, media, academia or local, state and federal government.
The notion of Israel is sacrosanct among large numbers of American Jews and Zionists (including non-Jews) in the same way that Manifest Destiny and the spirit of American pioneers once was here. Of course now one is "woke" when you choose to point out the American genocide. And when you point out the foundational lies inherent to the myth, and more so if you speak up against the obvious, coordinated, open, brutal, long-planned genocide being perpetrated in Gaza - and soon to be the West Bank - you're called either an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew. Not even the Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer was spared the cancellation attempts.
Honestly it's going to take the American Jewish community to really put a stop to this and what Israel is doing. They're well (if not over-) represented in the US government, media and finance, and although I don't blame the average American Jew in any way shape or form for this, it really does come down to them to figure out a way to wake their community up and get people to see through the lies and the evil of Israel for what it is.
I’m not Jewish and neither are the majority of my friends who all support Israel. When I’ve tried to talk to them I’m told “it’s only your opinion”. It does no good to point out that thousands of dead and maimed children are not my “opinion” — they’re real human beings and are helpless against this onslaught, as are their parents who can’t protect them. What will it take to open people’s eyes?
I have found it helpful to go over the violent history of Israel and some details of humiliations and a host of.ways Israelis restricted Gazan life in Apartheid Gaza for decades. Which was referred to as the largest open air prison in the world. Very helpful too, are the experiences of Niko Peled, author of the General’s Son and interviewed by Hedges who talks about the 24/7 ongoing racist indoctrination of Israelis. You can hear this excellent interview on YouTube.
I think fragging was THE reason the Vietnam War finally ended--and so did the draft. The CIA/Pentagon has overcome the Vietnam Syndrome by a combination of a poverty draft, stepped-up propaganda in Hollywood, the use of mercenaries, and especially, automated warfare so that very few American lives are at risk. Yes, media coverage, especially photos, plays a role, but I don't think the Pentagon needs laws for that, the "mainstream" press is eager to comply.
yes, not least the photos of coffins coming home. The picture of the little burned girl, fleeing a US Napalm attack, and the broad daylight execution of somebody suspected of being viet cong, or maybe just somebody that was inconvenient, by a South Vietnamese office. I think there were more in a documentary called "Hearts and Minds. I think fragging was less of an issue at the time; from my memory, the revelations about that didn't come in real time, but I don't have a clear memory of the timeline.
Regarding the mainstream press, i think more variance in the narrative was allowed back then. Reporters were not all embedded ass kissers, and I don't think they were targets of the military for assassination yet. There is a lot that I don't know about the US history of genocide/ethnic cleansing since the start, and I'm not even sure precisely when it started. The French and Indian war? And I know nothing about the press of the day. I have a mental image of a young Benjamin Franklin hawking broadsheets on street corners that I'm sure I got from Hollywood, movies made in the thirties to the fifties.
There were only 3 networks. There was a mass audience, not the fragmented segmented echo chamber of social media.
Walter Cronkite told the truth after the Tet Offensive. The war was an un-winable quagmire and the government was lying. In contrast, the US media is now continuing to lie after multiple Tet Offensives.
right, Cronkite wasn't a saint, but I can't think of one mainstream news journalist or talking head today that would have told the truth about Tet in similar circumstances. Excellent point about the echo chamber effect of social media. Contra, I see a cross pollination effect in the alternative press between people like Greenwald and Jimmy Dore and people with people with more traditional right wing views, especially on foreign policy. It took Tucker Carlson to interview Putin, for christ's sake. Candace Owens loses a lucrative gig for breaking with the approved narrative on the Israeli genocide. It took courage for them both to do that. I don't agree them on much, but I can see working with these people to stop the genocide, Both Carlson and Owens are members of the financial elites, but they both have demonstrated commitment to opposing the interests of the ruling class on the most important issues of our time, revolving around the collapse of the US as the world empire and its desperate struggles to avoid that fate.
Do they have access to the computer, or are they older people who never go near one? Having the computer as a source of information as well as providing pictures to see the horror of what Israel is doing can be a real mind changer. I think that's why many younger people are out there, computer savvy, and where pictures say a thousand words.
‘Scuse me Fran, but I’m a senior who has ALWAYS supported the Palestinian cause. It’s because my father imbued in his children a sense of POLITICAL AWARENESS.
I get a bit weary of insinuations that only youth are against the genocide; but since they are, good on them.
Perhaps I should have said most older people don't access news through the computer but rely on their newspaper of choice, their news channel of choice and most tell the same story when it comes to Israel. Nothing personal Gypsy.
They have plenty of computers and access to information. I’ve tried to explain the history of Israel but they don’t want to hear it. For them, nothing matters but October 7 and the Jews deserve Palestine because of the Holocaust. Period.
I was making a generalization, and nothing is full proof. Give me one mainstream news channel, or newspaper that gives a comprehensive independent view of what is going on in Israel. I can't think of one. However I can name any number of computer sites who will provide an objective perspective on what is going on with pictures to really bring the horror home. By the way no one said all young people , and I'm not talking teens, or just folks in their twenties.
In NY when Clinton, Obama and Biden were there for a fundraiser, my brother said it was chaos with all the people demonstrating outside and traffic stalled and people were diverted just about everywhere. Chaos he called it and all were speaking out against Biden's support for this genocide. Good! It's going on in a lot of places and it's not going to stop. The papers played it down. It's NY and they want a Biden win.
Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe has a book called “Ten Myths About Israel.” Well worth reading. Plenty of facts to help your discussions. Might make a good gift item to anyone with a slightly open mind.
Do you imagine that the Hamas fighting forces are not part of this war? 30,000 according to Al Jazeera. Larger than the Canadian standing army. So why is there no demand on Hamas to surrender?
Really well said. Excellent diagnostics here. It really is a remarkable thing that the Jewish/Zionist cabal has pulled off over decades. Such dedication and planning is truly admirable were it not in the service of something truly evil.
Unfortunately, it may come about through the Great Leaving.
Israel is heavily dependent on the US for its armed defense. And without those arms, Israel would not last long because it has made enemies of the countries around it. Especially now that the cat is out of the bag on Israel's long term plan to either expel or exterminate all the Palestinians: Gaza, West Bank, and Israel proper included.
But the US empire itself is faltering badly and I would say it's on the brink of collapse. That makes the survival of the US empire a requirement for Israel's continued existence.
The US could (theoretically) surrender its hegemon status without igniting a nuclear holocaust. But that would mean extinction for Israel, thus encouraging Israel to go nuclear against its neighbors and/or encouraging the US to go nuclear against its rivals (beginning with Russia).
Yes It's kindof ironic, that one of Zionism's claims is that Israel must exist to make a safe place for Jews in the world--which they need because gee, now that they're engaging in genocide and have defined anti-Zionism as antisemitism it turns out that the entire world is antisemitic. Yet most of the world is actually safer than Israel, and as you say, Israel is utterly dependent on the US, which is increasingly precarious. Yet Israel could have settled down to live in peace among the Palestinians, not demanding to be a Jewish state.
I m convinced that the notion of karma is just as much wishful thinking, fantasy, as the heaven-and-hell version. We long to believe that the guilty will be punished and the innocent rewarded, but I sure don't see that in real life Kissinger just died at 100, never facing any real consequence for the rivers of blood on his hands. Those who were complicit in torture in the Bush/Cheney years were promoted, including to the top of the CIA. The only one to do any jail time was Kiriakou, the whistleblower on it. Ruthless bastards running hedgefunds, medical insurance companies, weapons corporations, oil companies, get very rich; Steven Donziger who spent years on litigation that won peasants in Ecuador billions in compensation for the horrific contamination of the Amazon in which they lived, got railroaded and spent two years on home confinement and lost his law license--and Chevron hasn't paid a cent of that compensation. Sometimes justice happens but there is no law of karma to enforc e it.
I enjoyed that clip, but his conclusion--"it might be ten years, it might be twenty, it might be thirty years but the guilty parties will face justice" (a tribunal for war crimes) ignores the reality that this world where such a thing as a war crimes tribunal happens, is highly unlikely to still exist in 30 years, or even 20 and may not in 20. I say this because humanity now faces four or five existential threats, with new ones added every decade, all of them of our own making. I refer to climate change, plummeting biodiversity, pollution from plastics PFAS, radioactivity hazards, dwindling fossil fuels which are the chief cause of climate change but unfortunately there is enough left to toast us but meanwhile their loss and increasing expense may drive us to burning up forests for fuel; then there are the risks from AI, bioengineering experiments and geoengineering experiments...all of this ties together and with the risks from increasing inequality, mass surveillance and a burgeoning global police state. The Gaza genocide fits in this equation as a move toward an endgame for the current empire, in which the pretense of democracy and justice is dropped. All of these hazards come from a dominant culture based on domination, hubris, a refusal to accept limits. What we need for human survival is a complete turnaround from mistakes make thousands of years ago. But the trouble is, no one has ever found a way to overcome aggressive, expansionist neighbors.
Caitlin, this article moved me to tweet this to the Senator,
@SenatorBern
Senator, if you have the courage of your convictions about Biden's bomb deliveries to Israel, the right thing to do to follow through would be for you to leave the Democratic Party and sit as an Independent. The DNC screwed you in 2016.
Yes, it’s all about the narrative going forward. They’ve spent the last six months telling us it’s not a genocide. Now they’re saying don’t believe your lying eyes. Tomorrow it will be the genocidal apologists leading discussions saying you didn’t see what you did, here’s what really happened. Reconstructing memory in real time, sending facts to gather dust on academic bookshelves. The slaughter of civilians will become a heroic war, murderers will have streets and statues named after them, they’ll be an airport named Biden where the graffiti saying Genocide Joe on a watermelon will be criminalized.
I don't seriously see this happening mainly because the images are already out and we HAVE seen them. Other than turning it ALL onto Hamas and the Palestinians it's a bit late for that?
I remember that Golda Meir said something to the effect that the worst thing about the Arabs was that they forced Israelis to murder their children. Golda Meir's Israel sounds much like Netanyahu's Israel, with the exception of her fake regret.
“That’s the entire goal here. The empire managers want nothing to change about Israel, nothing to change about Washington’s relationship with Israel, nothing to change about US foreign policy or the US war machine in general, and for the mainstream public to be thrown some cognitive bone to chew on while the amnesia of the daily news cycle sets in.” Damn, you are good! This article is so painfully spot on. You did not waste a single word. Thank you for writing it—this and your other pieces. But it scares me for you, too.
Anyone who believes, even for a nanosecond, that any U.S. politician, all of whom have taken the oath to support Israel at all costs, would attack any Israeli, let alone Netanyahu, is delusional. Like all posturing and politicking, it's all as credible as any information coming from MSDNC.
They’ve all drunk the koolaide as an initiation ritual and they’re taking us all with them to Jonestown. Except why not just turn the whole US (& then the world) to one giant effing Jonestown!
Well, when we consider they managed to inject over 5 BILLION our of 8 BILLION of us with at least 1 deadly shot, perhaps they are taking us all to Jonestown.
Don't blame Netanyahu, blame the US empire? What US empire? Are you talking about the NWO Western alliance controlled largely out of Europe by the Israel-supporting globalist elite? Or perhaps you're talking about the Israeli empire that largely controls the United States, Europe and Australia? Or maybe you're talking about that banking dynasty that negotiated the original arrangements for Israel to exist? Blind, naive and simplistic.
We have had no response from the Vatican yet following a request three weeks ago by mail, to enable the world to hear a ruling from Pope Francis before Easter Sunday, a letter which asked him to ex-communicate one of his own loyal Roman Catholic members, namely Joe Biden, the loyal Catholic President of the USA.
We just wanted to see, as the world has seen since day one of the Israeli genocide, if the crimes committed by America in its constant supply of armaments to Israel, all directed and approved by a loyal Catholic, have the blessings of the Roman Catholic Church and whether these crimes are seen as justified by Pope Francis and his loyal followers, and finally, if they are based on the word of God. His son, so the story goes, lived in Palestine.
One should be aware of these matters to know whether such crimes are within the accepted bailiwick of a Catholic named Biden who, with just one command, has had the power to stop such criminal acts from occurring, that is of course, if the Roman Catholic Church sees such actions as crimes at all.
We thought that the answer may help to convince others of what is accepted Christian teachings following the words of Jesus Christ so long ago and to which all the Christian Churches are supposed to subscribe. By now we all know that Christian governments all around the world seem to agree with genocide in this case and are all prepared to support the Jews in Israel, but it is important to know what the Christian Church hierarchies think of this inhumane crime.
The world needs to know, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a.k.a. Pope Francis.
Huge Hierarchical Institutions with historical momentum and rigid doctrine are very difficult to change. Pope Frances has been a superb Pope in trying very hard to force that change. The man is 87, feeble and on death's door. Very cheap shot to target and criticize him that way. And on Easter.
It would definitely be a PR scandal for the Biden administration if the pope were to excommunicate him but doubt it would be anything else.. plus, the pope (or Jesus) and what he represents is irrelevant in the circles that Biden moves in. Neither does Moses feature large in the minds of Netanyahoo and the murderous Israelis.. it’s all about worldly plunder and mayhem. That’s what animates them. Also, many a genocide was motivated by God so there’s that..
where precisely did she say "don't blame Netanyahu"? Here is the final paragraph--
"They want everyone to pin all the blame for the Gaza genocide on Netanyahu, but this is not all the fault of Netanyahu. It’s the fault of the entire Israeli state. It’s the fault of Joe Biden. It’s the fault of the Democrats. It’s the fault of all the Israel supporters on Capitol Hill. It’s the fault of the western press. It’s the fault of the Israel lobby. It’s the fault of the unelected empire managers in US government agencies. It’s the fault of the entire US empire and all its imperial member states like Australia, the UK, the EU, and Canada."
The bottom line is always [imaginary] money so my thoughts gravitate to the banking dynasty's role in all this. After all, they own most of the money factories and most importantly ipso facto they hold the biggest stick & carrot Money Weapon that has subjugated Biden's U$ofA to israel's whims & genocidal zealotry.
I agree with what you say here. But I see them both (the Zionist entity and the US empire) working towards the sane goal: world domination. Yes, the Zionist entity has successfully managed to latch on to a powerful host, the US, and infiltrate its institutions.
Show your evidence. I think we can all see there is an empire that includes the US, Canada, most of Europe, and Israel--also Japan and Australia and New Zealand. But is any one nation at the center, in control? Who, in human individuals, calls the shots? I doubt many, if any, of us have means of knowing the answers to these questions. I think Caitlin calls it "the imperial conglomeration loosely headquartered in Washington DC" or something like that. But which states are vassals and how that control is maintained, I don't think we can find out.
and 'megacorp'. you can identify empire by it's actions most of the time. it sometimes goes into hibernation when the mob gets close to identifying it and leaves it's loyal servants holding the bag.
Well said, Caitlin. I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole ‘blame it on Netanyahoo’ schtick is the latest AIPAC campaign to obfuscate and deceive and allow the sheep to chew on some grass while the real work is underway. Sanders is an idiot par excellence and is no different from ‘em all. Power hungry, soulless vampires.. you are also right about the Iraq war analogy. Not one head has rolled because of that catastrophe. If anything, the war establishment (a.k.a. The USA) has grown bolder.
“By blaming Netanyahu, and casting Israel as a progressive, well-meaning state that would respect international humanitarian law but is currently taken over by a bad leader, they are absolving themselves — and the US at large — of complicity in Israel’s many war crimes.” Exactly! Where have these concerned leaders been since this began in ‘48? Chomsky is the only person I’ve heard consistently speak out against this genocide during my lifetime and the decades so few of us who actually give a shit about Palestinians and the US serving as Israel’s welfare state have been connecting or organizing, which remains inadequate and shameful so there is blood on the hands of many here—the UN and all of its members is where I would start though. And this certainly doesn’t absolve Netanyahu. He was just the first not to pretend this was his plan all along. In interviews after his most recent win, he as much as laughed at the idea of peace when asked about it. He is a natural progression of a climax to a process that was condoned and signed off on from the beginning. I don’t know how it can be interpreted differently.
These fucking Minyan Following, Wailing Wall White House Creeps are afraid of the Samson Option. Nothing more. They know the Jewish State of Jewish Stolen Palestine will bomb the world. Forget about the supposed 200 nukes. Think over 600.
Zionism is an inherently Genocidal and ethno-Supremacist, heretical hijacking of the Jewish faith, by Atheist Chauvinists, Imperialists and Luciferian Occultists.
While there are no true moderates in the Zionist Abomination's cabinet and ruling coalition - if there were, it would be Netanyahu. While he supports all of the blood thirsty fascism of Smotrich and Ben G'vir - he's the tactical brakes, on their shared strategic vision.
That pier is just a way to deport the people of Gaza, without transferring them through Egypt or the Negev Desert - both of which pose political difficulties.
The entire notion of political Zionism is a rebellion against the Torah, and the G-d that the Zionists claim to be their Realtor. They've thwarted the two State solution, for long enough.
The only just one State solution, is to replace the Genocidal Zionist Apartheid Entity, with an actual democracy, where the rights of all are protected, and all the stolen lands are returned to the Palestinians. Jews that can live in harmony with their neighbors, in compliance with both Jewish law and the law of the land, should be welcome to stay. Those who can't - can just go back to wherever they emigrated from, or some third country willing to accept them as citizens, and not as ethno-Supremacist rulers.
Yes! This is what I've been saying Israel has forfeited its right to exist, if it ever had such right, Justice demands what you propose. But then we have to contemplate what justice demands in the other settler colonial states, including the United ones. What Israel is doing in Palestine is no different than what Europeans did in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand--our ancestors just did it longer ago. But that prescription wouldn't work in say the USA. My ancestors came here several generations ago, from England, Ireland, and wherever the Jewish ones came from. My husband's came from a different set. Where would we go? It isn't practical when Europe is overpopulated and only 5% of the population here is (part) Native. But I think there ought to be some kind of rearrangement, giving more land, more rights, and more power to guide the whole, to the remaining Natives.
I so appreciate your sober analysis of what is happening before our very eyes. Brilliant work!!!
Do you care if the genocidal psychopathic entity that has been thieving, murdering-at-will and oppressing Palestinians for decades exists in such a crazed state?
Of course you care!
If it became revealed and thoroughly accepted by the citizens of Israel
that Israelis were treacherously betrayed on Oct 7th by their own trusted leaders
that would be a knock-out blow.
If you knew, **if you knew! and accepted!**, that your son or daughter died on Oct 7th
because of the treason of your leaders it would change Israel forever.
From Haaretz, Israel's "paper of record"
https://archive.is/9msVK
"IDF Allowed Rave Later Attacked by Hamas Despite Key Officer's Concern"
"The Gaza Division's operations officer, Lt. Col. Sahar Fogel, opposed the Nova rave taking place on October 7 near the border with Gaza, arguing that it was a needless security risk.
Furthermore, his objection was seconded by other officers, both at the Gaza Division and at the Southern Command headquarters. But in a conversation with the IDF's operations division, he was instructed to approve the event."
"During the days preceding the massacre, the system had received warnings that Hamas would try to attack on Israeli soil. The information was based on several sources who noticed alarming preparations by Hamas personnel, as well as intelligence that raised the concern growing among various security figures.
Haaretz has not been able to verify whether Lt. Col. Fogel was aware of this intelligence, or whether his opposition to the event was related to it.
Then came Oct. 7. Hours before the terror attack, the security establishment received signs and warnings leading to its decision to prepare – if only partially – for a terrorist incursion. But no IDF officer updated the thousands of revelers or the rave organizers of the fear of an attack, or demanded that they break up the party and leave the area."
Recalling that Israel had been in possession of Hamas' detailed plans for Oct 7th and they had it nearly a full year before Oct 7th. Detailed. Israel knew the Rave was in the danger zone, but the Rave was relocated to within 3 miles of the Gaza wall. People in Gaza could hear the Rave taking place.
If the world community saw that all the slaughter that Israel tries to justify because of Oct 7th
was the result of a treacherous scheme from Israeli leaders then Israel would be the pariah state it earned.
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Haaretz continued:
"In private conversations, some officers in the Gaza Division told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party [Rave],"
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Though I speak of the Israeli leaders there were/are many, many hands.
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Israel was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
Israel recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without Israel's help.
Several months before Oct 7th Israel limited access to the information gained from monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network to a select few insiders.
Israel claims that they stopped monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network altogether, no one was monitoring (nonsense!). With this monitoring, sophisticated equipment could have pinpointed where Hamas was concentrated and where it was headed. This is huge! Also, Hamas radio traffic would have become volcanic during the jail break, establishing a major Red Alert.
Of course they have to make the excuse that they no longer had this ability. They need to cover up Israel's own assistance in the Hamas Oct 7th attack. They need to claim Israel was blinded as their surveillance cameras were sabotaged by Hamas. Note, though, with the push of a few buttons Israel could have disabled the surveillance themselves, so taking Israel's word on who brought down the surveillance cameras in actuality is suspect. Also, if indeed key surveillance cameras were taken off line by Hamas that itself would set off a Red Alert!
In the weeks and months before Oct 7th Israel had to intentionally ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (amazing that this happened!).
They had to pretend that they didn't know Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (Hamas had detailed in writing how they would cause complacency. It was in the Hamas Oct 7th plans, and Israel read them).
******They removed the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.****** This was paramount, if Israel wanted Oct 7th to be successful!
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be a credible accident, it was premeditated.
Israel betrayed and slaughtered their own and then commenced to commit Genocide.
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Haaretz continued:
"In private conversations, some officers in the Gaza Division told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party [Rave],"
Perhaps you should watch "The Man in the High Castle".
Do you recall when the son turned himself in to be exterminated because of his illness?
It seems, from news I keep hearing, that Israelis are perfectly fine with the way their nation is being run. That all these facts are reported in Haaretz pretty much "seals the deal" for me. It reveals that Israel is psychotic and needs to be destroyed.
This is a "Jewish problem". I propose leaving it to them.
I just want the USA to "walk away".
Walk way? That’s not possible.
Israel isn’t just a minor psychotic nuisance. It’s a nuclear armen nation in a powder jeg of a region.
Much like apartheid South Africa, the world needs to disarm Israel, consultant a reconciliation process, and institute a one-person, one-vite democracy there. Never more than now, have we needed a well functioning United Nations to do this. And yet the entire colonial west is ripping down the UN.
Israel should NOT exist...finish.
IF you think it should still think it should exist then give the Kurds/Armenians/Tamils a country.
You packed a lot into a small box. "The World" isn't some entity that has any persuasion to accomplish anything.
The US is a nuclear armed nation just as dangerous and volatile as Israel. (YouTube: Matthew How on Scott Horton show). "The World" isn't going to take those nukes away.
The one constant I hear all the time is how totally dependent Israel is on the USA. That US support continues despite these atrocities shows how powerful the "Jewish Lobby" is in the US (Wilkerson's term but it seems to becoming more widely used -- it isn't 'just Jews'). The US is as infected as Israel with Fascist Plutocrats. They murdered JFK to prevent peace and have become more violent and more avaricious with each passing day. (Aaron Good)
I want the USA to "walk away" (I don't expect it will) because the USA -IS- the problem. It is a "Jewish problem" because of the ADL and AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations. This is what happens when Michael Corleone goes "legit". (You can find a long list of movies about Jewish gangsters. They also go "legit". I posit that it is a huge reason why WASPs hate Jews.)
There's a long list of Jewish Plutocrats. I propose the (good?) Jews take care of them. That will go a long way to solving the Israel problem.
Of course, there are many WASP members of the Plutocracy so the "American" problem remains.
There is no two-state solution or it would have happened by now. Any politician citing support for that failed enterprise is just putting up a smoke-screen for continued genocide. There can be no one-person, one-vote democracy while the Zionists remain. They will come back. (The Nazis are coming back all around the world, we know it yet do nothing. Remember Trump's praise for the Nazis?)
I oppose any efforts to "reform" Israel (see Richard Wolff on "reform" vs "revolution") for the same reasons Russia has set an objective to de-Nazify Kiev. Germany was de-Nazified, look at the effort it took. The Zionists must be completely destroyed.
Of course, we must recognize how the Zionists and Nazis came to power. It was the USA.
The UN is being torn down by the USA (the Plutocracy to be specific), not by the "entire colonial West". Europe consists of vassal states controlled by the USA through NATO, the World Bank and the IMF. (All agencies of the Plutocracy) See Matthew Hoh's testimony before the Security Council.
On a somewhat positive note, the American Empire is in decline because the Plutocracy is "just stupid" (or greedy) so maybe the world will survive as the world dedollarizes and American Industry continues to fail. (See Hudson et. al.) -- or it will just hasten Armageddon (Ritter, Hoh, McGovern et. al.)
If you want to know who makes up the Jewish Lobby, check out the following link, listing over 350 Jewish political organizations dedicated to pushing the US and EU governments to fulfill their political goals, which include Israel, but also the legal definition of "antisemitism" and its related legislation, and the dominant role of Jews in the larger society.
https://articlebiz.com/article/1052218096-the-jewish-lobby
It's the leaders of these political organizations that make up the Lobby. There are over 270 of them in the USA alone, with total funding in the billions of dollars.
Ain’t gonna happen in time to save those Palestinians I’m afraid, John. Those of us that have wanted our Country back are the same ones being boot Heeled in the “Locked Tight Society”, set up after the 2nd World War to run cover on the Financing Arms of the Wall Street Jungle that kept both sides armed up for the Back Room Finance Deals made well ahead of Yanks given Uniforms & Guns and shipped to Normandy and somehow single handedly winning the War all by themselves.
American’s have such a remedial, superficial view of the History they/we learn in School, of both our own Country & Europe or any other Continent. If it’s not A Prince Rides up & Saves Barbie, Skin Book, it’s ignored.
Even the Teachers load the Tests up with distraction BS that somehow becomes important knowledge on Test Day. That’s what the Curriculum calls for, so it’s put on Tests, scores are noted in GPA results at HS Graduation. The Rubber Stamps go on & off you go to College.
The whole Enchilada has been a set up on the Working Class since the Federal Reserve Bank was formed in 1913 with a main agenda of Fleecing the Sheep and keeping themselves floating comfortably above the Ruckus, pulling Marionette Strings.
Sleepy Joe is in it all too deep to Reverse anything in either current Hot War Zone. Nah, PNAC is at stake here and this is the last Chapter, soon as #3 is taken out.
History may just repeat itself in a Pacific Waterloo, now that the Former Hippy Socialists in NZ have been disestablished for the next ???
Helen Clark is too dangerous for this New Wave of Neoliberal far Right Soldiers running the show since October to allow her a UN Platform, much longer, so watch that space for retirement announcement, I suspect coming very soon!
I see that Fiji has finally come to their somewhat senses in holding a few former Coup Cap’ns feet to the fire, but last minute forgiveness says they’re still undecided as to what comes next in the Pacific Forum.
Happy to see Palau come to the microphone with a first resounding no way Jose to the US’s appeasement to Israel in one of their recent Joke Pleas to stop killing all the kids in Gaza.
I view the next Theatre as the Central South Pacific in the Drudge Match of World Tycoons wanting it all Right now, or else.
Everybody’s Racing to the Moon lately, so I suspect the next Full Moons could be bearing Mushrooms in Earth’s general direction. It must be those Pesky Martians coming to Zap us from Space!!!
Sure glad there’s folks like John Ritter & Caitlin out there manning the Megaphones for the keen ear tuned in and increasingly turning up the heat on these clever l’il buggers.
One good way of bringin the curtain down would be a General Work Stoppage and Capital Spending Boycott. Don’t go to work and Leave your Wallet at home for a month, or so, until Bankruptcy Courts step in for a clean out.
Sadly tho, the 1st ones to go will be the little ones, not hurting anybody, but wait a little while and the Traps will spring globally & Nail a lot of arses to the wall in “the last one Standing game” these thugs like to play…
I’m liking your comments and encourage you to keep thinking with your pen! Lone
Please understand the US can't 'walk away.' Your politicians are OWNED by AIPAC. The money the US has taken from these murderous people is STILL running your country and probably many others.
You the people have sat on you backsides for years (not all of you) while you ignored politics in your 'shining example of democracy!'
I hope Netanyahu pays the price and all others complicit in the Govt. BUT the US is culpable too.
No one is saying the US isn't culpable.
In fact, I agree with all your points except getting the US to "walk away". If the US remains involved, nothing will change for the very reasons you list.
Brett Weinstein had a podcast with Efrat Fenigson on October 10. This account was so close in time to the attacks it will assuredly become a subject for historical study.
Fenigson and Weinstein are both visibly in a state of shock, as Fenigson relates the series of events that can be plausibly characterized a deliberate actions to induce and allow the attacks.
JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11-Building 7- how many reiterations of the same or similar playbook before people catch on? The answer lies in how many people want, or don't want to know; and how many people in a position to know have the courage to speak the truth.
The Truth is the rarest commodity of the 21st Century, and it more needful than any other natural resource.
https://youtu.be/F_IAH7PnS_E?si=3UppQefN2NWYXUKN
Levi, I would ask of the organisers, "Why there, with of Israel to choose from?" Unless they thought their taste in music is so fkn awful it would repel Palestinians from the border.
https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/what-did-we-know-and-when-did-we?r=2qn69c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
Seymour Hearsh's take- a "limited hangout"? Or straight from the horse's mouth?
Thanks. Had trouble finding a readable version that was not behind a paywall.
Here is an open one:
https://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/2024/04/seymour-hersh-what-did-we-know-and-when.html
Well, Hearsh doesn't even come close to saying "LIHOP" so we can at the very least call it "limited".
By the way I have lots of links that source my LIHOP belief.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/palestine-open-thread-2024-058.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b
Take a good look at the lowest of the low -- Lindsay Graham -- fawning over "Isrul" as he does a little dance for massa in front of Netanyahu and the cameras. He is both symbolic of the low level of rubbish politician running the gears of the corrupt crumbling empire and also pretty illustrative of the norm. Bernie, AOC, and the other supposed libruls just ain't that different from good ol' doofus boy Lindsay on foreign policy, especially on any matter involving a little dance for massa Israel. Watching these cretins makes me feel truly embarrassed to be an American.
Bernie Sanders is the ultimate traitor to all that is good and moral. And to think so many of us thought he'd make an excellent president... I'm glad he didn't make it to the White House after all.
The democrats pretend to be liberal, like gee everyone from everywhere come in and you don't have to be legal about it. We care. Let me pay off your school loans, cause we care, and on and on goes their mantra. A proxy war in Ukraine and some 4 hundred thousand dead and it ain't over yet, and supply Israel with ammo to carry out a genocide cause were're friends. They had a lot of practice during the Trump years, telling us he was devil and they would be our saviors. A whole lot of people bought that crap. Happy Easter.
Not that I disagree with you on Sheepdog/Judas Goat Sanders on anything but your last sentence, but what difference would it have made if he got to the White House? I argue that it only could have made a positive difference for the anti-war left. Either he goes against the CIA-Mossad-MIC-Bankster cabal and gets assassinated (in reality or politically, like Corbyn), thus proving what many of us have known all along, or he caves in completely and starts another war and supports genocidal Israel.
I wish he did make it to the WH, though, the first time. More so than even Trump the mask of the US government-as-mafioso-enforcer of the coporo-finance-rentier class empire falls off the ugly "They Live" face underneath.
And thinking perhaps way too optimistically, maybe he actually does something good.
Yep he’s a fraud
Hi Vin
I renounce my status as an Amerikkkan. I refuse to be a part of the most immoral nation (IsraHell aside) on earth.
These bloodthirsty monsters do not represent me. I consider myself honorary Palestinian/ South African!
You can come and stay with us Gypsy...plenty of horses here.
Maybe this is the answer. Americans denouncing their citizenship?
Oh Jenny you are so dear!
I just may take you up on that! To live in the Camargue…what a dream come true ❤️❤️❤️
Ha. Mosquito's galore in Summer!
I’ll bring mosquito spray 😉
Oh my God..............doesn't work but we will cover you in warmth and hospitality.
xxxxxxx
You and me both
They would have blamed it all on Putin normally. I guess their focus groups didn’t buy that this time.
It's definitely Putin's fault for not providing hypersonic missiles to the Houthis.
Russia is trying to avoid a nuclear war imo. you could argue he is being too cautious, but I don't think the US is rational on the issue of losing its grip on the world.
Now, THAT I wanna see, Karl!
"This is Biden’s war as much as it is Netanyahu’s — and Sanders supports Biden."
Or rather it's Biden's GENOCIDE as much as it is Israel's genocide. And neoliberal nightmares like Bernie Sanders and his fellow kiss-ups in DC are doing their best to confuse and convince the public of the lie. Let's all make a vow to never let these a-holes pull the wool over our eyes and to continue to spread the truth to everyone everywhere. We can't let these mass murderers get away with it.
What more proof do you need to understand that Biden is President because of the Jewish Mafia?
The "real Mafia" supports Trump.
the Jewish mafia supports Trump as well. They don't have to choose.
Well, not to say you're "wrong", but I don't want folks to think the Plutocrats are one huge monolithic organization. The "Deep State" exists, but not like B613 on the TV show "Scandal". It is just too hard to get the idea out without a long boring dissertation.
I don't watch TV and have no idea of that reference--but I think the plutocrats ARE one huge but probably loose organization. That is, probably there aren't 11 men who meet in secret to craft global plans--there are just corporate heads and billionaires, each acting in self-interest--and for these sociopaths, self-interest is narrowly defined as "whatever gets me even more money"-. I imagine some prefer Trump and some Biden, but both will do and say what they're told. They like Biden better because Trump has a tendency to go off half-cocked and think he's really in charge. But they need the apparent difference to keep the public foaming about the evils of the other team, rather than looking at the real enemy of all of us. Well, 99.999% of us.
I think (or hope) that there are significant differences and clashes between power blocs in the ruling class. For example. the foreign policy "Realists" represented by Mearsheimer and earlier George Kennan vs the neocons. The realists used to rule the roost on foreign policy, and they don't like being supplanted by the Neocons/Zionists. I don't know if there is any active way for the plebians without a voice in DC to exploit this at the moment, but I think it is a factor going forward.
One way of looking at the Civil War is as a clash between the rich plantation owners in the South with their unlimited supply of cheap labor
and their wealth based on agricultural products, and the rich industrialists of the North with their manufactured products, and their slightly (I think) more expensive labor pool of recent immigrants. Who was going to control the nation going forward? It's still a question now.
You're right, in general, but there's no organization. There are very rich people, the Plutocracy, who own the government. However they will make and break alliances with one another and they will seek to destroy one another.
The Plutocrats don't "prefer" Biden. They are in competition with one another and in some cases will support Biden, others Trump. It all depends on their specific interest in a very narrowly defined question -- about how, in this instance, can they "get even more money".
Absolutely they keep the public foaming. Do recall that Pierre Omidyar founded "The Intercept" and then forced Greenwald out because Greenwald wasn't reading the right script.
In a way, the difference I'm describing is minor. In another way, it is huge.
BTW, nothing I mention is on TV. It is either on youTube or Rumble or a given website.
I think most of them are fucking egomaniacs, and an alliance of egomaniacs is always going to be unstable.
The level of narrative management and control exercised by Zionist interests in the US is something to behold. Not even well known, long-serving politicians up to and including the President is *allowed* to cross certain narrative boundaries. The American Jewish community, in a seemingly ironic situation, is the most constrained by it.
The average American Jew - even if they don't personally support, and in fact even if they abhor - the policies of Israel under Nutty Yahoo or anyone else, is faced with veritable shunning should they speak out, particularly within the Jewish community, media, academia or local, state and federal government.
The notion of Israel is sacrosanct among large numbers of American Jews and Zionists (including non-Jews) in the same way that Manifest Destiny and the spirit of American pioneers once was here. Of course now one is "woke" when you choose to point out the American genocide. And when you point out the foundational lies inherent to the myth, and more so if you speak up against the obvious, coordinated, open, brutal, long-planned genocide being perpetrated in Gaza - and soon to be the West Bank - you're called either an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew. Not even the Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer was spared the cancellation attempts.
Honestly it's going to take the American Jewish community to really put a stop to this and what Israel is doing. They're well (if not over-) represented in the US government, media and finance, and although I don't blame the average American Jew in any way shape or form for this, it really does come down to them to figure out a way to wake their community up and get people to see through the lies and the evil of Israel for what it is.
I' not holding my breath, though.
I’m not Jewish and neither are the majority of my friends who all support Israel. When I’ve tried to talk to them I’m told “it’s only your opinion”. It does no good to point out that thousands of dead and maimed children are not my “opinion” — they’re real human beings and are helpless against this onslaught, as are their parents who can’t protect them. What will it take to open people’s eyes?
I have found it helpful to go over the violent history of Israel and some details of humiliations and a host of.ways Israelis restricted Gazan life in Apartheid Gaza for decades. Which was referred to as the largest open air prison in the world. Very helpful too, are the experiences of Niko Peled, author of the General’s Son and interviewed by Hedges who talks about the 24/7 ongoing racist indoctrination of Israelis. You can hear this excellent interview on YouTube.
during Vietnam, it took enough Americans coming home in body bags, and the draft.
fragging played a role too. And less censored media coverage, particularly the photos.
I think fragging was THE reason the Vietnam War finally ended--and so did the draft. The CIA/Pentagon has overcome the Vietnam Syndrome by a combination of a poverty draft, stepped-up propaganda in Hollywood, the use of mercenaries, and especially, automated warfare so that very few American lives are at risk. Yes, media coverage, especially photos, plays a role, but I don't think the Pentagon needs laws for that, the "mainstream" press is eager to comply.
What is fragging?
https://vva.org/arts-of-war/history/fragging-by-george-lepre/
Not a good explanation but I got the gist.
Thank you.
yes, not least the photos of coffins coming home. The picture of the little burned girl, fleeing a US Napalm attack, and the broad daylight execution of somebody suspected of being viet cong, or maybe just somebody that was inconvenient, by a South Vietnamese office. I think there were more in a documentary called "Hearts and Minds. I think fragging was less of an issue at the time; from my memory, the revelations about that didn't come in real time, but I don't have a clear memory of the timeline.
Regarding the mainstream press, i think more variance in the narrative was allowed back then. Reporters were not all embedded ass kissers, and I don't think they were targets of the military for assassination yet. There is a lot that I don't know about the US history of genocide/ethnic cleansing since the start, and I'm not even sure precisely when it started. The French and Indian war? And I know nothing about the press of the day. I have a mental image of a young Benjamin Franklin hawking broadsheets on street corners that I'm sure I got from Hollywood, movies made in the thirties to the fifties.
There were only 3 networks. There was a mass audience, not the fragmented segmented echo chamber of social media.
Walter Cronkite told the truth after the Tet Offensive. The war was an un-winable quagmire and the government was lying. In contrast, the US media is now continuing to lie after multiple Tet Offensives.
That’s how l see it.
right, Cronkite wasn't a saint, but I can't think of one mainstream news journalist or talking head today that would have told the truth about Tet in similar circumstances. Excellent point about the echo chamber effect of social media. Contra, I see a cross pollination effect in the alternative press between people like Greenwald and Jimmy Dore and people with people with more traditional right wing views, especially on foreign policy. It took Tucker Carlson to interview Putin, for christ's sake. Candace Owens loses a lucrative gig for breaking with the approved narrative on the Israeli genocide. It took courage for them both to do that. I don't agree them on much, but I can see working with these people to stop the genocide, Both Carlson and Owens are members of the financial elites, but they both have demonstrated commitment to opposing the interests of the ruling class on the most important issues of our time, revolving around the collapse of the US as the world empire and its desperate struggles to avoid that fate.
Do they have access to the computer, or are they older people who never go near one? Having the computer as a source of information as well as providing pictures to see the horror of what Israel is doing can be a real mind changer. I think that's why many younger people are out there, computer savvy, and where pictures say a thousand words.
‘Scuse me Fran, but I’m a senior who has ALWAYS supported the Palestinian cause. It’s because my father imbued in his children a sense of POLITICAL AWARENESS.
I get a bit weary of insinuations that only youth are against the genocide; but since they are, good on them.
Perhaps I should have said most older people don't access news through the computer but rely on their newspaper of choice, their news channel of choice and most tell the same story when it comes to Israel. Nothing personal Gypsy.
They have plenty of computers and access to information. I’ve tried to explain the history of Israel but they don’t want to hear it. For them, nothing matters but October 7 and the Jews deserve Palestine because of the Holocaust. Period.
I was making a generalization, and nothing is full proof. Give me one mainstream news channel, or newspaper that gives a comprehensive independent view of what is going on in Israel. I can't think of one. However I can name any number of computer sites who will provide an objective perspective on what is going on with pictures to really bring the horror home. By the way no one said all young people , and I'm not talking teens, or just folks in their twenties.
I agree but they’re not willing to read those sites — their minds are made up.
In NY when Clinton, Obama and Biden were there for a fundraiser, my brother said it was chaos with all the people demonstrating outside and traffic stalled and people were diverted just about everywhere. Chaos he called it and all were speaking out against Biden's support for this genocide. Good! It's going on in a lot of places and it's not going to stop. The papers played it down. It's NY and they want a Biden win.
The young have access to lots of information but few of them know how to reason. They've gone all emo and they don't believe in history.
I would never define young people in such narrow, and negative terms and make it all inclusive. Just not true.
Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe has a book called “Ten Myths About Israel.” Well worth reading. Plenty of facts to help your discussions. Might make a good gift item to anyone with a slightly open mind.
Do you imagine that the Hamas fighting forces are not part of this war? 30,000 according to Al Jazeera. Larger than the Canadian standing army. So why is there no demand on Hamas to surrender?
Really well said. Excellent diagnostics here. It really is a remarkable thing that the Jewish/Zionist cabal has pulled off over decades. Such dedication and planning is truly admirable were it not in the service of something truly evil.
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Every single one of these mfs (pardon my french) is complicit. And every single one will pay. No child murderer will escape. Not one.
Really? And what will bring about this unprecedented accountability? The Second Coming?
Unfortunately, it may come about through the Great Leaving.
Israel is heavily dependent on the US for its armed defense. And without those arms, Israel would not last long because it has made enemies of the countries around it. Especially now that the cat is out of the bag on Israel's long term plan to either expel or exterminate all the Palestinians: Gaza, West Bank, and Israel proper included.
But the US empire itself is faltering badly and I would say it's on the brink of collapse. That makes the survival of the US empire a requirement for Israel's continued existence.
The US could (theoretically) surrender its hegemon status without igniting a nuclear holocaust. But that would mean extinction for Israel, thus encouraging Israel to go nuclear against its neighbors and/or encouraging the US to go nuclear against its rivals (beginning with Russia).
Either way, the outlook is not very pretty.
Yes It's kindof ironic, that one of Zionism's claims is that Israel must exist to make a safe place for Jews in the world--which they need because gee, now that they're engaging in genocide and have defined anti-Zionism as antisemitism it turns out that the entire world is antisemitic. Yet most of the world is actually safer than Israel, and as you say, Israel is utterly dependent on the US, which is increasingly precarious. Yet Israel could have settled down to live in peace among the Palestinians, not demanding to be a Jewish state.
Other way round..............US is entirely dependent on Zionist money!
The political class. Not the USA
It’s called KARMA, Mary.
I m convinced that the notion of karma is just as much wishful thinking, fantasy, as the heaven-and-hell version. We long to believe that the guilty will be punished and the innocent rewarded, but I sure don't see that in real life Kissinger just died at 100, never facing any real consequence for the rivers of blood on his hands. Those who were complicit in torture in the Bush/Cheney years were promoted, including to the top of the CIA. The only one to do any jail time was Kiriakou, the whistleblower on it. Ruthless bastards running hedgefunds, medical insurance companies, weapons corporations, oil companies, get very rich; Steven Donziger who spent years on litigation that won peasants in Ecuador billions in compensation for the horrific contamination of the Amazon in which they lived, got railroaded and spent two years on home confinement and lost his law license--and Chevron hasn't paid a cent of that compensation. Sometimes justice happens but there is no law of karma to enforc e it.
https://youtu.be/ZnoLqtI0iV8?si=kLo6F-dbKf9OWBRX
I enjoyed that clip, but his conclusion--"it might be ten years, it might be twenty, it might be thirty years but the guilty parties will face justice" (a tribunal for war crimes) ignores the reality that this world where such a thing as a war crimes tribunal happens, is highly unlikely to still exist in 30 years, or even 20 and may not in 20. I say this because humanity now faces four or five existential threats, with new ones added every decade, all of them of our own making. I refer to climate change, plummeting biodiversity, pollution from plastics PFAS, radioactivity hazards, dwindling fossil fuels which are the chief cause of climate change but unfortunately there is enough left to toast us but meanwhile their loss and increasing expense may drive us to burning up forests for fuel; then there are the risks from AI, bioengineering experiments and geoengineering experiments...all of this ties together and with the risks from increasing inequality, mass surveillance and a burgeoning global police state. The Gaza genocide fits in this equation as a move toward an endgame for the current empire, in which the pretense of democracy and justice is dropped. All of these hazards come from a dominant culture based on domination, hubris, a refusal to accept limits. What we need for human survival is a complete turnaround from mistakes make thousands of years ago. But the trouble is, no one has ever found a way to overcome aggressive, expansionist neighbors.
No-one knows but it's not going to be pretty!
Caitlin, this article moved me to tweet this to the Senator,
@SenatorBern
Senator, if you have the courage of your convictions about Biden's bomb deliveries to Israel, the right thing to do to follow through would be for you to leave the Democratic Party and sit as an Independent. The DNC screwed you in 2016.
The following link was in the tweet: https://rayjc.com/2011/02/23/the-declaration/
Actually, Bernie is not a Democrat, but maybe in the spirit of your suggestion, he might denounce them?
Yes, it’s all about the narrative going forward. They’ve spent the last six months telling us it’s not a genocide. Now they’re saying don’t believe your lying eyes. Tomorrow it will be the genocidal apologists leading discussions saying you didn’t see what you did, here’s what really happened. Reconstructing memory in real time, sending facts to gather dust on academic bookshelves. The slaughter of civilians will become a heroic war, murderers will have streets and statues named after them, they’ll be an airport named Biden where the graffiti saying Genocide Joe on a watermelon will be criminalized.
I don't seriously see this happening mainly because the images are already out and we HAVE seen them. Other than turning it ALL onto Hamas and the Palestinians it's a bit late for that?
I can see a Biden airport!
I remember that Golda Meir said something to the effect that the worst thing about the Arabs was that they forced Israelis to murder their children. Golda Meir's Israel sounds much like Netanyahu's Israel, with the exception of her fake regret.
“That’s the entire goal here. The empire managers want nothing to change about Israel, nothing to change about Washington’s relationship with Israel, nothing to change about US foreign policy or the US war machine in general, and for the mainstream public to be thrown some cognitive bone to chew on while the amnesia of the daily news cycle sets in.” Damn, you are good! This article is so painfully spot on. You did not waste a single word. Thank you for writing it—this and your other pieces. But it scares me for you, too.
Anyone who believes, even for a nanosecond, that any U.S. politician, all of whom have taken the oath to support Israel at all costs, would attack any Israeli, let alone Netanyahu, is delusional. Like all posturing and politicking, it's all as credible as any information coming from MSDNC.
They’ve all drunk the koolaide as an initiation ritual and they’re taking us all with them to Jonestown. Except why not just turn the whole US (& then the world) to one giant effing Jonestown!
Well, when we consider they managed to inject over 5 BILLION our of 8 BILLION of us with at least 1 deadly shot, perhaps they are taking us all to Jonestown.
Don't blame Netanyahu, blame the US empire? What US empire? Are you talking about the NWO Western alliance controlled largely out of Europe by the Israel-supporting globalist elite? Or perhaps you're talking about the Israeli empire that largely controls the United States, Europe and Australia? Or maybe you're talking about that banking dynasty that negotiated the original arrangements for Israel to exist? Blind, naive and simplistic.
For your interest, Karl.
We have had no response from the Vatican yet following a request three weeks ago by mail, to enable the world to hear a ruling from Pope Francis before Easter Sunday, a letter which asked him to ex-communicate one of his own loyal Roman Catholic members, namely Joe Biden, the loyal Catholic President of the USA.
We just wanted to see, as the world has seen since day one of the Israeli genocide, if the crimes committed by America in its constant supply of armaments to Israel, all directed and approved by a loyal Catholic, have the blessings of the Roman Catholic Church and whether these crimes are seen as justified by Pope Francis and his loyal followers, and finally, if they are based on the word of God. His son, so the story goes, lived in Palestine.
One should be aware of these matters to know whether such crimes are within the accepted bailiwick of a Catholic named Biden who, with just one command, has had the power to stop such criminal acts from occurring, that is of course, if the Roman Catholic Church sees such actions as crimes at all.
We thought that the answer may help to convince others of what is accepted Christian teachings following the words of Jesus Christ so long ago and to which all the Christian Churches are supposed to subscribe. By now we all know that Christian governments all around the world seem to agree with genocide in this case and are all prepared to support the Jews in Israel, but it is important to know what the Christian Church hierarchies think of this inhumane crime.
The world needs to know, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a.k.a. Pope Francis.
Huge Hierarchical Institutions with historical momentum and rigid doctrine are very difficult to change. Pope Frances has been a superb Pope in trying very hard to force that change. The man is 87, feeble and on death's door. Very cheap shot to target and criticize him that way. And on Easter.
Agreed. I have my petition asking Pope Francis to go to Gaza. If you have a petition to excommunicate Biden, I’d gladly sign.
It would definitely be a PR scandal for the Biden administration if the pope were to excommunicate him but doubt it would be anything else.. plus, the pope (or Jesus) and what he represents is irrelevant in the circles that Biden moves in. Neither does Moses feature large in the minds of Netanyahoo and the murderous Israelis.. it’s all about worldly plunder and mayhem. That’s what animates them. Also, many a genocide was motivated by God so there’s that..
where precisely did she say "don't blame Netanyahu"? Here is the final paragraph--
"They want everyone to pin all the blame for the Gaza genocide on Netanyahu, but this is not all the fault of Netanyahu. It’s the fault of the entire Israeli state. It’s the fault of Joe Biden. It’s the fault of the Democrats. It’s the fault of all the Israel supporters on Capitol Hill. It’s the fault of the western press. It’s the fault of the Israel lobby. It’s the fault of the unelected empire managers in US government agencies. It’s the fault of the entire US empire and all its imperial member states like Australia, the UK, the EU, and Canada."
The bottom line is always [imaginary] money so my thoughts gravitate to the banking dynasty's role in all this. After all, they own most of the money factories and most importantly ipso facto they hold the biggest stick & carrot Money Weapon that has subjugated Biden's U$ofA to israel's whims & genocidal zealotry.
I agree with what you say here. But I see them both (the Zionist entity and the US empire) working towards the sane goal: world domination. Yes, the Zionist entity has successfully managed to latch on to a powerful host, the US, and infiltrate its institutions.
Show your evidence. I think we can all see there is an empire that includes the US, Canada, most of Europe, and Israel--also Japan and Australia and New Zealand. But is any one nation at the center, in control? Who, in human individuals, calls the shots? I doubt many, if any, of us have means of knowing the answers to these questions. I think Caitlin calls it "the imperial conglomeration loosely headquartered in Washington DC" or something like that. But which states are vassals and how that control is maintained, I don't think we can find out.
and 'megacorp'. you can identify empire by it's actions most of the time. it sometimes goes into hibernation when the mob gets close to identifying it and leaves it's loyal servants holding the bag.
How is it possible to fighting unembodied institutions or entities??!
I believe they exist though.
Well said, Caitlin. I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole ‘blame it on Netanyahoo’ schtick is the latest AIPAC campaign to obfuscate and deceive and allow the sheep to chew on some grass while the real work is underway. Sanders is an idiot par excellence and is no different from ‘em all. Power hungry, soulless vampires.. you are also right about the Iraq war analogy. Not one head has rolled because of that catastrophe. If anything, the war establishment (a.k.a. The USA) has grown bolder.
“By blaming Netanyahu, and casting Israel as a progressive, well-meaning state that would respect international humanitarian law but is currently taken over by a bad leader, they are absolving themselves — and the US at large — of complicity in Israel’s many war crimes.” Exactly! Where have these concerned leaders been since this began in ‘48? Chomsky is the only person I’ve heard consistently speak out against this genocide during my lifetime and the decades so few of us who actually give a shit about Palestinians and the US serving as Israel’s welfare state have been connecting or organizing, which remains inadequate and shameful so there is blood on the hands of many here—the UN and all of its members is where I would start though. And this certainly doesn’t absolve Netanyahu. He was just the first not to pretend this was his plan all along. In interviews after his most recent win, he as much as laughed at the idea of peace when asked about it. He is a natural progression of a climax to a process that was condoned and signed off on from the beginning. I don’t know how it can be interpreted differently.
These fucking Minyan Following, Wailing Wall White House Creeps are afraid of the Samson Option. Nothing more. They know the Jewish State of Jewish Stolen Palestine will bomb the world. Forget about the supposed 200 nukes. Think over 600.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/the-wailing-wall-white-house-declares
Liberals? What part of the viral manure pile are you pointing at?
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Zionism is an inherently Genocidal and ethno-Supremacist, heretical hijacking of the Jewish faith, by Atheist Chauvinists, Imperialists and Luciferian Occultists.
While there are no true moderates in the Zionist Abomination's cabinet and ruling coalition - if there were, it would be Netanyahu. While he supports all of the blood thirsty fascism of Smotrich and Ben G'vir - he's the tactical brakes, on their shared strategic vision.
That pier is just a way to deport the people of Gaza, without transferring them through Egypt or the Negev Desert - both of which pose political difficulties.
The entire notion of political Zionism is a rebellion against the Torah, and the G-d that the Zionists claim to be their Realtor. They've thwarted the two State solution, for long enough.
The only just one State solution, is to replace the Genocidal Zionist Apartheid Entity, with an actual democracy, where the rights of all are protected, and all the stolen lands are returned to the Palestinians. Jews that can live in harmony with their neighbors, in compliance with both Jewish law and the law of the land, should be welcome to stay. Those who can't - can just go back to wherever they emigrated from, or some third country willing to accept them as citizens, and not as ethno-Supremacist rulers.
https://nkusa.org
Yes! This is what I've been saying Israel has forfeited its right to exist, if it ever had such right, Justice demands what you propose. But then we have to contemplate what justice demands in the other settler colonial states, including the United ones. What Israel is doing in Palestine is no different than what Europeans did in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand--our ancestors just did it longer ago. But that prescription wouldn't work in say the USA. My ancestors came here several generations ago, from England, Ireland, and wherever the Jewish ones came from. My husband's came from a different set. Where would we go? It isn't practical when Europe is overpopulated and only 5% of the population here is (part) Native. But I think there ought to be some kind of rearrangement, giving more land, more rights, and more power to guide the whole, to the remaining Natives.