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Feb 10Liked by Caitlin Johnstone

Just a moment of praise for this writer. Does anyone write like Johnstone? Anyone at all? I've been reading subversive literature for over 55 years and her voice is as powerful and moving as any. So necessary in this time. It feels like a voice straight out of the darkness, a klaxon call waking us from the narcotic sleep of sociopathic empire. And the tenacity! tapping into some well of prodigious energy and creativity. Month after month immersing herself in the atrocities and brutal savagery of the merciless, destructive juggernaut that is Western imperialism. But what an opportunity. When in history has it been on such incredibly vivid display? You and Tim are holding valuable space for a lot of us out here Caitlin. Grateful, deeply grateful.

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“Most aid-dependent population on earth.”

I’m reminded of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comment on Palestine, “Most pampered people in the world.”

A population is caged, but you’re lucky we feed and water you.

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Caitlin, your analysis is absolutely, tragically, spot-on! Extremely well-articulated.

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Rafah is a border town where over 1.5+ million Palestinians are being huddled in Concentration Camp style conditions. The Zionists wish to Bombard them so that they rush to the Sinai & break the border fence with Egypt when doing so. This will mean tens of thousands dead & hundreds of thousands Maimed for life within the opening hours & days. Such a maneuver would compel Men of the Resistance to increase the Tempo of Operations & Go for the Kill. 'Israel' will get their Genocide in this scenario, but it will be short lived as said Vile Savages find that Nemesis & Vengeance (in the form of hundreds of thousands of SRBMs & Drones) would end the Zionist entity once & for all.

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Stop telling yourselves that the good guys are winning, because they deserve to win.

The good guys win only if they have the power to win, and in some ways, the good guys are at an inherent disadvantage in this regard.

And yes, the rest of the world turns a blind eye, cowed by Israel’s American thug.

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I send your posts out to people who say they will vote for Biden cause ya know, Trump....no one responds. Do they even bother to READ? Doubt it at this point.

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Zionists have become what they profess to hate the most. Truly Vile

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Feb 10·edited Feb 10

Meanwhile on entertainment sites such as Reality Blurb, there is an ad saying no one should ever donate to Gaza because of Hamas. How fucking stupid do they think we are? I reported the ad.

Nothing more disgusting to end an absolute shit day.

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"Empire managers are now openly admitting they suspended aid to Gaza without having seen evidence of the claims that call was based on; they cut the aid because they were told to, then waited for narratives to be provided to them as to why this was a good and righteous decision."

This and other Nazi Israel related current events give an opportunity for people to look back and re-evaluate how similar accusations were cooked up and immediately acted upon against Russia. To name a few: poisonings of Litvinenko and Skripals in the UK, downing of the passenger plane over Donbass. No real investigation was done in the two former, and the latter was a joke. In both Russian participation and/or evidence was dismissed. Yet, the sanctions were imposed right away, and only kept growing from then on.

"They think we’re idiots." - yes. And they are right!

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The "no evidence" argument is a trap. Don't fall into it. It buys the false premise that's it's OK to withhold humanitarian aid based on what some members of UNRWA may have done.

Even if there WERE evidence of all 12 accused participating in the Oct. 7 rebellion, it does not justify cut off of critically important aid to. population undergoing a siege, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal military assault.

That argument also ignores the fact that Israel has long sought to destroy and eliminate UNRWA because they serve Palestinians and call out Israel war crimes.

And if there IS evidence and Israel produces it, it is a credibility boost for Israel and those governments that cut off aid and it undermines critics and diverts from the real issues.

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We don't actually want to kill 2 million people. We would much prefer that they 'voluntarily' went through the gates and into Egypt where the Egyptians will prefer to feed them. Or not. We are not doing this because America fully supports our actions or because we are god's chosen people. No we are doing it because we have. god-given right to be psychopaths .Well, there may be some small differences between Zionist and Psychopath but we prefer to act like psychopaths and call ourselves Zionists

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I am an anti-apartheid activist, an anti-war activist. Also, I am afraid for my grandchildren and their wellbeing. I am disgusted with where our taxes goi to fight wars that we have no say whatsoever about. It's the corporate takeover of our country, specifically corporations such as fossil fuel companies (Shell, Chevron, etc.) and the military industrial complex making bombs, F-16's,etc.

Why do our reps and senators vote for this horrible bullshit? And why do we allow AIPAC to bribe our lawmakers? An ongoing genocide - no food, no water, no electricity, nothing but digging in the rubble for clean water.

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"So to summarize, the IDF has been packing the population of Gaza into the southernmost part of the enclave like toothpaste toward the end of a tube, and now they’re going to attack that southernmost part, but it’s totally not genocide and you’re an evil Nazi if you say it is."

In this genocide the people of Gaza must be regarded as fighters and soldiers, de facto. Yes, they are civilian men and women, old people, children, and the ones who are fetuses (abortionists - you can discount those). They don't have weapons. They cannot protect themselves. But their sufferings and deaths are not in vain. The wrath is here, it's building up, and eventually that whole Nazi horror of a structure called Israel will fucking disappear. Well deserved, and the sooner the better.

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CJ: This could wind up being the single deadliest phase of Israel’s onslaught to date.

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The only word that truly describes the zionists' deeply evil actions is their Holocaust against the Palestinian people, going on now for over a century when the zionists' planning stages are included.

See, https://www.palestineremembered.com/ for all the facts for this worse than the G holocaust.

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I think that if the Israelis start to massacre tens of thousands in Rafah, there will be a rapid and large escalation from all parts of the resistance. Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, for starters. And highly likely others will enter the fray. Egypt? Jordan? Iran??? The chances of a region-wide war and even pro-US governments being toppled would increase exponentially.

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"Support capitalism, it gives you freedom."

Freedom from a livable minimum wage, freedom from financial security, freedom from health care (in the US), freedom to become as empty-headed as a hollowed out pumpkin on Halloween...

"It’s totally not genocide and you’re an evil Nazi if you say it is."

Then call me an evil N@zi. Capitalism hasn't hollowed out my head that much yet.

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