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Susan T's avatar
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Today I was at a pot banging demo to oppose Canada selling arms to Israel. A man turned up with an Israeli flag draped over his back. He had 2 children with him, both with flags draped over them. He just stood there and kept saying to everyone "you love Hamas". I felt a rage come up in me and I yelled in his face that Israel just murdered 6 journalists a couple of days ago. I yelled that they were murdering children. He just kept this stupid smile on his face and kept saying over and over "you love Hamas". The Zionist MP, whose office we were in front of, apparently didn't "feel safe" when confronted non violently, but loudly by her constituents, so she had 2 cops standing in front of her door to ensure her safety. Maybe Zionism causes people to go insane. I am grateful to be able to come home and read something like Caitlin's newsletter, that is sane.

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Dr.Who's avatar

“Yes I do, now F off”…sounds like a reasonable response.

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𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲's avatar

But, if they record it, it could get you arrested and charged, at least in the USA, Germany and UK

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Tom's avatar

"Democracy and Free Speech (TM)!"

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Tom's avatar
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I would have yelled back at him "I love the UN codified right of a violently and illegally occupied and oppressed people to resist their oppressors and illegal occupiers including with force of arms."

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Hanief's avatar

That would have been useless information for a BRAIN DEAD nazi zionist idiot!

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CK's avatar

Zionists attract the insane.

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Harry Ziboo's avatar

Or make them.

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Richard's avatar

The insane and the hateful.

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Martin O’Neill's avatar

You should have said you love genocide.

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Martin O’Neill's avatar

Figure it out.

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𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲's avatar

It was just very ambiguous the way you worded it. I thought you might be a Zio troll!

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Tom's avatar

What the fuck are you talking about?

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Martin O’Neill's avatar

“ For you stole Trevlyan’s corn so the young may see the morn now a prison ship lies wating in the bay”

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Just sayn's avatar

It is now known that many Israeli schools take children on field trips to watch the IDF kill and destroy. That parents take their children on cruise ships to watch the destruction from the sea while waiting a chance to occupy the Palestinian lands after they kill them. That Cyprus is being overrun by Zionist Israeli settlers that will soon do to Cyprus what they have done to Palestine, Syria,Lebanon, and elsewhere. Zionism is an ideology of hate and it permeates most every jew family. Despite the propaganda to the contrary.

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Geoff everall's avatar

Well Said. Bravo. The Zionist propagandist putrid muppets are thicker than two bricks. Intentionally. Their evil lies know no end. Good for you for standing your ground. The issreshell propagandists are pathetic cowards.

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Susan T's avatar

The "you love Hamas" and "I don't feel comfortable" comments have always been so stupid and meaningless that there is no real way to respond. Perhaps that is their intention.

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𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲's avatar

There are indeed a number of good or excellent ways to respond. You can either go for the jugular (one choice) or use strong parody to ridicule them

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Susan T's avatar

I like the parody idea. My sense of humour has been a little thin lately. I am working on myself.

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Davina's avatar

Lately, I have been trolled by a zionist lover with such stupid arguments that I found myself laughing at one, so I used it to laugh at the person's posts - asked if s/he'd considered comedy as a job etc.

If we don't laugh we will spend too much time crying. Truth doesn't work on "these brainwashed since birth types" because they have also been lied to about being the most superior race, another contradiction because they are a religious group joining together from several different countries who have chosen to make that part of Palestinine a haven for zionists (and other undesirables), using judaism as their pretence to takeover Palestine first, followed by others, so they are not truly a race but more a satanist cult.

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Susan T's avatar

Well, you may find this funny (I hope). When I read that you have been trolled by a zionist lover, I thought to myself "why would she have a zionist lover anyway"?

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

These people are so brain-washed and brain-damaged that there is no way you can get through to them; it's like talking to a cement wall. As for these Zionist MPs, they should not feel safe; they should feel like a pile of shit!

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Susan T's avatar

They should not feel safe, but it is not their pro Palestinian constituents that are a threat to them. Netanyahu, the IDF, the murdering of 5 journalists to kill one journalist that they falsly claimed to be Hamas, enticing people to get food and then murdering them, that is what makes Zionists whereever they are, MPs or otherwise, unsafe.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Actually, they should be scared shitless that one day they will have to pay dearly for their cowardice, complicity and moral bankruptcy.

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tre peperoncini's avatar

So great to read of your joining a protest.

I too used to feel rage at some, now I just feel sad, sad that for decades we lived in a society which nurtured and protected this ruthless regime , and nurtured generations with a philosophy of Self, Hate and Superiority.

Its promising that now the masses everywhere are seeing what an abomination this is , and how inhumane a society can be , but then I think of the USA , realize I should not be surprise, nor expect it to be anything other than what it is.

the Zionists State never acquired any desire to live in peace with its neighbors, why cooperate, when you can bully. Why obey international laws, when you have no fear of being held accountable.

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John Horne's avatar

Hold your pot right up at his face and keep banging it... I've seen that done to a "heckler".

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Barbara Berberi's avatar

I know EXACTLY how you feel!

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Tina M's avatar

It’s not like “you love Hamas” is an insult anyway so what’s their point? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Susan T's avatar

I think it is the same point that Nutty yahoo is always making which is that anything that anyone does that they don't like is Hamas' fault. Just a way of deflecting any responsibility for anything they are doing, have done or will do. I am finding it particularly digusting right now because they murdered Anas Al Sharif using the lying excuse that he was Hamas which was bad enough, but they murdered 6 other journalists as well just to get at Al Sharif. The names of all the murdered journalists can be found here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/7/targeted-killed-burned-alive-journalists-in-gaza-attacked-by-israel

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Chetzmom4's avatar

You mean like Israelis do everyday to Palestinians? Only Zios are sociopathic enuff to think killing children is normal.

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Jim S's avatar

Thank You Caitlin

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dacoelec's avatar

Zionists are the devils spawn.

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Tom's avatar

How dare you insult the devil like that.

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Jennifer Akdemir's avatar

Right! :)))

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John Turcot's avatar

Yes, the devil S are blushing..

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dacoelec's avatar

I know. Sorry.

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John Turcot's avatar

Dacoelec,

“Zionists are the devil’s spawn”… probably quite the case, but they have a lot of cousins.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Dear Rancid M[edia] Outlet:

To clarify — your narrative is rejected. No matter how many times you publish this political pornography, the public is not going to interpret its awareness based on your proffered recommendations.

Indeed, the society around you is documenting your behaviour, which we regard as utterly criminal. Those around you intend to see you brought to justice in a court of law.

Until then, know that we will not be retained as political hostages beholden to you or to anyone else.

The public has a right to a constitutionally submissive government. In the absence of the same, the people have the right to create a new constitution and new legal structures to establish legitimate, responsible and lawful governance.

Either way, justice will be restored.

Consider your ways.

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Peter Shepherd's avatar

Awesome. Not the beige submissive "Shame on you." Instead: your narrative is rejected. To the point, a no-superlative-

necessary absolute. Political pornography, political hostages. And naming it: utterly criminal. In fact, the whole tone - legalese of the people, with transparent cool passion. Thankyou for the regard to truth and confidence; thanks for a lesson well considered.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Thank you, Peter.

I’m drawn by deeply principled stands spoken with clarity, a defiant edge guarded by measured words and resolute conviction.

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Peter Shepherd's avatar

I think you'll appreciate Matt Chun’s “On First Time Statements’.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Excellent! I’m subscribed! Thank you for that recommendation, Peter.

Freedom for Palestine! Justice for all!

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John Turcot's avatar

GS,

“ To clarify” ? Are you kidding? Clarify means to simplify….. NOT in the above narrative.

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Jake Harrelson's avatar

There are far too few people in this fucked up world that fill me with hope of better times to come like you do, Caitlin. Thank you for all you do!

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Hanief's avatar

Fully endorse your sentiments, thank you Caitlin!

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teddyG's avatar

US media and politicians as well. FFS, stop giving the likes of Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton or any other rancid, no name pol or pundit one fucking nanosecond of airtime. US msm outlets are absolutely complicit, carefully framing their questions and responses to the vermin across the desk from them. Just fucking stop and push back.

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John Turcot's avatar

Control the media, control the world.

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Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

The bottom line is that the ISRAELI GENOCIDERS long range plan ,Goal ,and end game is not to only control GAZA but the whole Mideast Arab World and beyond, they want a Gentile free Middle East, free of all ISLAM and its so Sad the so many Christians/Gentiles like America is helping and aiding them in that process.https://www.juancole.com/2024/10/territory-neighbors-including.

Greater Israel:Cabinet Minister Bezalel Smotrich ,Plots Seizure of Territory from 6 Neighbors, including Lebanon'

Greater ISRAEL was their plan from day one that's why there is no peace and will never be as long as Israel

exist in the middle East .Unfortunately for Herzog, on the same day, remarks surfaced from 2016 by Minister of Finance and Civil Administrator

of the Palestinian West Bank, Bezalel Smotrich, which gave credence to Erdogans fears of Israeli expansionism.

Smotrich belongs to the Kahanaist, Religious Zionism Party, the Israeli equivalent of Neo-Nazism.

Herzog is a member of the center-left Labor Party, which at some points has been willing to accept a Palestinian state.

Labor itself, however, has attempted to expand Israeli territory at the expense of its neighbors on some occasions, as with its seizure

of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Palestinian Gaza in 1956,and again in 1967 with its seizure of the Palestine territories of Gaza and the West Bank, along with the Sinai and the Syrian Golan Heights.

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Cornelia HEMMELDER's avatar

It won't stop with Gaza.

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Davina's avatar

Wait, are they claiming zionism is a religion? Or is zionism rather new title for Satanism?

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Hanief's avatar

One particularly ridiculous claim I’ve heard from a zionist hardliner is that you can’t be a Jew if you don’t adopt zionism, in other words, yes, zionism is the extended part of Judaism and therefore a religion! I kid you not! And to boot, only zionist rabbis can talk on behalf of Jews, try to make sense of that?!

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Davina's avatar

Found it, it's a dead rabbi's extremist views now being used as a religion. How low they go.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

In Fox publications in one of the USA's little puppets, namely Australia, they have a cartoonist who's sole function in life is to blame Hamas for everything from the cost of living, the weather in Israel, every piece of graffiti on every building in the world, the football results following a loss of a favourite team and every bumble from the Bumbler Trump as he entertains the tame Western media in his daily sideshows at the White House, his collection of paid handclappers always on hand for immoral support . Megalomania on show. Currently performing in Alaska.

Seems like another Trump failure.

Based on Caitlins writings today, so many media operatives (once called journalists) may be on the pay of Netanyahu, as are 86% of US politicians via the generosity of Miriam Adelson and her fellow travellers, the generous donations via the collection plate in the Saturday shekel contribution in all the synagogues in the good old USA together with the Zionists ongoing shareholdings in the military making organisations pumping out the death producing weaponry for the IDF. Sniping a speciallity.

The sad fact is that all these people are "supposed loyal citizens" in their respective countries, the now enthusiastic and practised support for murder, snipers, bombers and all levels of inhumane actions against Palestine and its people accepted by the US government as very welcome indeed.

Just a matter of time before such donations to the IDF are given a tax-free status under the title of 'Saving the world from Hamas'.

I've searched the web for all the hundreds of thousands of IDL heroes and Western IDF mercenaries who have died because of Hamas. If they existed (and we all know they don't), Netanyahu is keeping it as another big Israeli lie.

Far too many Israeli lies to keep count.

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Tom's avatar
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Australia was coup'ed by the US and by extension Zionist interests in the 1970s. It has been a vassal since, and Rupert Murdoch is a Zionist neocon.

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John Turcot's avatar

Australia and more countries that can be named in this post…unless infinite boredom can be tolerated.

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Tom's avatar

Q: Why hasn't Washington D.C. ever been the victim of a coup?

A: Because there isn't an American embassy there.

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Inge Hanson's avatar

It is impossible to debate or even argue with Jewish Zionists or Christian Zionists. they are so arrogant, above it all and cruel to begin with that one ends up looking like a fool. That's what they want.

How can one even argue with such a premise of Hamas on Oct 7th roasted little babies in ovens and ate them? One becomes an idiot doing it.

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CK's avatar

Zionists are neither Jewish nor Christian. They are hypocrites, atheists or both.

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John Mann's avatar

Well, to be fair, a lot of Jews and Christians are hypocrites. In fact, most of us have some hypocrisy lurking within us that we don't notice.

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CK's avatar

I agree. However, I want to believe that most of us don’t want to promote genocide. Those who do are among the most extreme.

US taxpayers— willingly or unwillingly — have supported wholesale slaughter of indigenous Americans and of civilians in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan and more. The US government has supported the ever-increasing destruction of Palestinians during the past nine decades, while claiming to support some dubious “values”.

Some so-called Jews and Christians selectively find passages in the “Holy Bible” that justify genocide against their enemies including the livestock and crops of their enemies.

Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, but didn’t promote genocide. Many self-identified Christians overlook those truths.

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Davina's avatar

The old testament was written for the Jews by the Jews and translated into other languages, so who knows what cock-ups are there. Christ moved away from the old testament, to a kinder more inclusive faith, which could be why Jews rejected him at the time and still do now - it took away the evil acts they believe in.

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CK's avatar

Many politicians, of various religious denominations, still embrace the evil ways.

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Davina's avatar

Posting babies in ovens? Did they bring ovens with them - just in case the opportunity arose? Or stopped to use Israeli ovens, while catching hostages, not being killed themselves, utting open pregnant women, doing a bit of raping on the side, while dodging bullets from helicopters? Wow! Hamas can manipulate time as well as all its other abilities.

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Panagiotis Chatzistefanou's avatar

Regarding Adolph, sorry but his beliefs, if not his methods, have been completely rehabilitated and updated by Zionists themselves. I don't see why should dispute them. Actually, Netanyahu often invokes the name of Hitler for himself, and also Smotrich and Ben Gvir have been openly quoting Hitler as an admirable example. Being against Hitler is antisemitic, really.

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Tom's avatar

Plus according to Ben Mileikowsky and the Israelis' logic, the Holocaust genocide never happened, since millions of Jews survived and it took 5 years.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

The mainstream media depend on Big Money and hence are under Big Money's control.. Big Money loves Israel.

The Citizens United ruling allowed unlimited Big Money to flow to mainstream media. They are completely hooked on those billions. Any attempt to stop this will trigger the full weight of media hate in order to protect this huge revenue stream.

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Spunty's avatar

Same as western politicians.

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John Turcot's avatar

Same as everybody, or else ..

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John Turcot's avatar

Finally, Congrats.. you’ve hit the mail of all nails, MONEY. And, of course, the lack of it.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

“The only useful idiots here are those in the media who continue to print Israeli propaganda despite two years of being consistently lied to...”

Bravo!

That is the response that we all should be giving whenever we come across a genocide apologist online or in person. We KNOW they are useful idiots because it's been painfully obvious from the start that Israel wanted an excuse to start bombing Gaza and starving its populace. It's been documented that the told their army to stand down the day of October 7. They knew about the possible attack for more than a year--and told a music festival to move even closer to the border! Puh-lease! How idiotic do you have to be to think we don't know a genocide when it's staring us straight in the face!

It's time to stop giving any Israeli official the time of day let alone newspaper column space or time on TV or radio or even a podcast. The time for lying like useful idiots for evil war criminals is over, mainstream media. Stop it now to regain some semblance of dignity.

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John Turcot's avatar

Maybe the “useful idiots” term can be expanded to include the audience.

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Claire Drouault's avatar

While we’re expanding terms can we include “useless idiots?”

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John Turcot's avatar

Maybe the term “useful idiots, or useless idiots, is too harsh. If I were to choose a term that best describes the human condition, I would suggest something like ‘Useful smarties’, which means we are smart, but only smart enough to become a useful toy to someone who controls the smarties… Any suggestions?

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Claire Drouault's avatar

Sorry ! Kindness is welcome but recent events have made me cranky.

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John Turcot's avatar

Maybe ‘Useful fools’ might be a better fit? Or useless fools ? Someone some time ago used the term ‘a ship of fools’, which I associated w

It’s passengers willing to board the ship christened ‘Titanic’.

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John Turcot's avatar

Cranky is an appropriate description of most humans who are witnessing a genocide and feel powerless to make it stop… Cranky fills a void of

Penr-up emotions maybe?

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MARYELLEN KERSCH's avatar

I am surprised by what seems to me to be a serious alteration in the Guardian's coverage "choices" and what appears to be a decidedly right wing bias. In the past, they had, IMO, a pretty high standard for straight-forward journalism (As a result, I spend less time reading them than in the past.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

They keep sending me a "bill" or a notification that my subscription isn't being paid. Since I never subscribed, I'm not sure what they are talking about. /s/s/s

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Peter Giaschi's avatar

This needs to be sent straight to the Toronto International Film Festival. The CEO, Cameron Bailey, has caved to the Zio-pressure and is going to screen this new film by Barry Avritch. It's pure propaganda, the "heroism of the IDF in the face of Arab barbarism. Email this to: proffice@tiff.net

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Paul Adams's avatar

For anyone shouting to your face "you love Hamas" remind the brain dead turd that Israel funded and propped up Hamas. It's on record. They needed Hamas as a viable existential threat so that down the road they could extinguish the Palestinian people 'who voted for Hamas' after Hamas used force against Israel, the occupying state. Btw, an occupied territory has a right to use force, but an occupying state has no right to self defense. An occupying state has a responsibility to ensure the citizens of the occupied territory are protected and given the same infrastructure enjoyed by the occupying state. Israel has failed to the nth degree in that regard.

Hamas used force on Oct 7, but the IDF was ordered to stand down. Oh, and let's not forget how the IDF was ordered to implement the Hannibal directive on Oct 7, shooting down its own people at the Nova Music Festival so it could blame Hamas. IDF tanks also fired on kibutzim and then blamed Hamas, with stories of decapitated babies. The Mossad's motto is "By way of deception, thou shalt do war". The CIA uses the term "mindf*cking". Same principle. Satan is clever, but also dumber than a box of rocks to think the truth never comes out.

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Ken Taylor's avatar

Sharren Haskell is a not-so-useful idiot as she inadvertently exposes more deceit from her terrorist state of Isra-hell. This garbage-spewing tool of the zionNazis has apparently failed to recognize that the tide has turned against her fake "nation" and the world has been sickened by Isra-hell's big lie; that it "has a right to defend itself", while committing the most heinous atrocities that the world has ever witnessed. This propaganda/deceit will likely increase as the vile zionNazis occupiers become more desperate to hold onto what's left of the property they stole from the Palestinians. Collapse of the zionist terror state is inevitable. It's just a matter of time!

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