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Susan T's avatar

I was at a silent vigil of the people who oppose genocide. The people who think that Israel has a right to commit genocide were right there too, but they were not silent. In our silence we could hear what the genocide supporters were actually saying. They were mostly sneering, suggesting that the women there were not feminists. They had signs that said marriage between different groups; zero tolerance. It was like a scene from The Handmaiden's Tale or any of those other books written about the dystopian future. I felt nauseous. When I don't feel nauseous, I feel angry.

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dacoelec's avatar

There will never be peace in the middle east as long as israhell exists.

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Miriam Beethoven's avatar

I just disagree with « middle east ». It’s a colonial word. I prefer West Asia, if you don’t mind.

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positive_asshole's avatar

YES! Words matter, now more than ever!

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Caroline C McCabe's avatar

that is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

What a horrible anniversary. So many of us are outraged, but Israel hasn't been stopped.

How do we throw a wrench into the gears that keep grinding up Palestine?

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

People like you. This, in one of the west's most shameless suck-up states, has happened over the last two years, just for starters:

https://thecradle.co/articles/uk-public-opinion-turns-sharply-against-israel-poll

Please, everyone, keep pushing.

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dale ruff's avatar

It won't be done by demonizing the very people working to legislate a halt to arms shipments to Israel; that only helps the genocide.

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Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

Got this email this morning:

From: admissions@rosenhebrewschool.com

To: ray032@sympatico.ca

Sent: Tuesday, October 7th 2025, 09:24

Subject: It’s Shira. This year’s Sukkot feels different in Israel.

I had to reply with this: And Sukkot should feel different!

Israeli's murderous Genocidal massacre of women and children in Gaza having no defence against Israel's US jet fighters, US bombers, bombs, bullets, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, artillery and BULLdozers is forcing a permanent Sukkot in Gaza.

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MM's avatar
4hEdited

Once upon a time, a young US Senator named Joe Biden famously said:

"If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one".

One that always plays the victim while attacking everyone else.

One that has used the term "anti-semite" so often that it's lost all meaning.

One that has taken the ideology of Nazism and rebranded (and sanitized it) as Zionism.

One that never admits its wrongdoing.

One that never admits to possessing nuclear weapons.

One that murders whomever it wants, even on foreign soil.

One that bankrolls the majority of the US Congress.

One that commits genocide in the light of day without any fear of reprisal.

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Ibti's avatar

Nazis were in their own land and Nazis didn't cry victim while perpetrating a genocide. Pigraelis are worse.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

And on top of that dumpy now envisions Gaza casinos because billionaires can never ever have enough money. Wish they would all experience the Meidas Touch.

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The Pacific Herald's avatar

I believe Josephus described Israel as a “Nation of haters and hated.”

Nothings changed in 2000 years

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Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

God was so annoyed with the Chosen People they disappeared from among the Nations some 720 years before Christ Jesus walked through Roman Occupied Palestine.

Since 1948, the Middle East and the World is dealing with the 2nd Occupation of Palestine

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Sean Griobhtha's avatar

On 7 October 2023, the Palestinian People, who languished under Ottoman rule, who languished under British rule, and who have survived repeated terrorism, rape, torture, and murder under Israeli rule, declared they would take this no more. We are so proud of them. Their struggle is unfair. Their struggle is against the choke-hold and death-grip of western colonial fascism, and the perversion of Talmudic Judaism and delusional superiority complexes. Their struggle is OUR struggle.

https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/7-october-is-independence-day

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"If sympathy about October 7 is being weaponized for genocide propaganda, then you have an ethical obligation to withdraw your sympathy."

True. Don't give in to those who manipulate your feelings for their personal gain. Tell them to lump it! (After two years of genocide, I have negative sympathy points for the terrorists from Tel Aviv.)

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Alan's avatar

1 million%!

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Caroline C McCabe's avatar

Don't miss veteran journalist Seymour Hurst's latest Substack, "Is Trump in Cognitive Decline?" ...Biden-II!!! 😱

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George Cornell's avatar

Josephus Flavius commenting on the infighting within Jerusalem wrote that the Jews “entirely lost mercy among them,” and “trampled upon all the laws of men, and laughed at the laws of God” (The Wars of the Jews, Book IV, Chapter 6).

Eerily a propos?

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ScreamingFister's avatar

Has there been any progress on a ceasefire? Are they even trying to do a ceasefire? Honestly don't know, things have gone info blackout in both Israel and Palestine in regards to the negotiations.

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Caroline C McCabe's avatar

ISRAHELL is Not interested in a Ceasefire!!

(Trump has his reasons for wanting one, all of which

benefit him, of course!! 😄

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

EVERYTHING Trump does is kabuki theatre. You cannot believe even one word he says. Israel will never agree to a ceasefire. End of story.

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

Everything is this poser rug-pull, so you're right to be sceptical. Some kind of set up...

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Morey's avatar
1hEdited

Look — you good people and followers of Caitlin’s prolific writings, for 46+ years the Iranian leadership (whatever your opinion of them is) have been saying repeatedly and ad nauseam, that this “Zionist entity” (aka Israhell) is a cancer in the region, a danger to the world’s peace, and needs to be removed (disbanded). Most observers cringed! Now, we hear that often. Most notably from people like Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, and many others!

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positive_asshole's avatar

I've seen a video this morning about an Israeli woman mourning her daughter who were killed on that festival. She likes the sound of falling bombs on Palestinians -she said.

What a sick and rotten people make up that society...

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Rhys Stanley's avatar

The brief mention of Venezuela today did not describe what it really will become, in a short time.

Because all the occasional action down in that part of the world is so badly represented in the media, one can excuse the American people, reading American produced headlines, from believing everything that is printed about drug running out of Venezuela.

A SUMMARY. Here we go.......

** America's oil reserves amount to 15 years only, realising just 2% of world reserves.

** Venezuela's oil reserves are 885 years, 18% of all oil reserves.

Some difference, eh? 870 years?

I would have to say that that is worth bombing one or two boats (or a hundred +) in and around Venezuela, calling them drug runners (with US media assistance, naturally), bribing (or assassinating) but replacing a government leader into being an American stooge and anything else that is needed, based on the USA's need for oil, soon, very soon, all of which is part of the way America does things and has done so for decades with their 750 military bases around the globe.

Masters of the government coupe with a 1 Trillion dollar Department of War budget.

So intelligent readers of Caitlin's writing, search no more for the USA's motivations and attacks on Venezuela. It's as plain as the oil in your motor car.

PS. Real "motor car" that is. Not a foolish Musk-type EV sitting unsold all around the globe.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you for the simple truth.

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Thomas Scherrer's avatar

We're still going and we're not stopping until this massacre ends with those who facilitated this are rotting in a cell or burning in Hell.

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