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Yours is a unique and necessary voice. You have a way of articulating what many of us are feeling. Your writing also sustains us during this time when many feel powerless in the face of the prevailing government and mass media narrative. Thank you.

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No official story has got into my mind. There is no room because the reality of thousands of dead civilians, dead babies, dead people from ICU, people with no way to escape the bombs, moms and dads who have lost their children, children who have lost their moms and dads keeps growing bigger and bigger and I feel like I am going crazy anyway.

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“Every Israeli accusation is actually a confession.” - NBF

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Dear Caitlin: I really hope this nightmare in Gaza will be over before we know it. It's just so hard to relax and obey our gracious overlords, the Israeli government. Like, I really want to stop being an "evil Jew-hating monster who loves terrorism and wishes Hitler had won" but I just can't forget the photos and videos I've seen of dead children crushed underneath the rubble of their homes and babies in incubators forced to die alone. Is there anyway I can get these awful images out of my mind, out of my soul without resorting to heavy drinking and drug use? Signed, a Person with a Conscience

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that was really funny ; the official narrative is so mind-bending and insane, that it can only be promoted by twisted minds and hearts. I was laughing at the insanely, ludicrous life we see unfolding daily before our eyes. The more unbelievable, the more it is touted as truth. What is this life and world? are we lost in some hellish mindscape, where up is down and in is out. love your witty writing while your heart is aching. This world may be Dante's Inferno and or Not-Divine Comedy. In case there is reincarnation, I have already decided not to dare consider coming back to this World/Earth.

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It is pretty clear that Israel chose not to stop this. Not sure what the difference between letting it happen vs making it happen, but the utility of it remains; the ability to craft and sell a narrative that capitalizes on a crisis to bring about the desired agenda. In this case, ethnic cleansing among other motivations.

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and now it will all become quickly ‘normalized’ like so many things...

one wonders who will be ‘cleansed’ next... kurds, armenians, ukrainians, world indigenous cultures, or random minorities worldwide?

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Nobody ever points out that 400 of the 1,200 dead Israelis were soldiers- why is that?

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It’s interesting that even the few mainstream media who even acknowledge that Israelis shelled their own people on Oct 7th, still refer to “Hamas atrocities” and “Hamas massacre”….and repeat the mantra that Israel has a right to defend itself”

When even the UN acknowledges that the Israelis are an illegal occupying power in Gaza.

But it’s not clear that Hamas resistance fighters massacred anyone, or took any disproportionate action in their jailbreak actually.

Moreover the media don’t mention that Israel has reportedly killed many of the hostages in the month of mass murder bombings of the tiny place where they are?

It’s one long wave of colonialist denial.

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Israeli propaganda is way over-the-top, as if they sub-contracted with the same people who do Ukrainian prop. In this neck of the woods, every time I go on YouTube I'm peppered with the same stupid ad (however slickly produced) about Oct 7, how 1400 Israelis were slaughtered, babies beheaded, and women raped, exhorting the listener to demand that US Rep. Cori Bush "Stand with Israel." What's interesting to note is that the ad, which I've seen hundreds of mind-numbing times now, totally violates YouTube's "Terms of Service" by dispensing "misinformation": even Israel revised the number of dead Israelis to 1200 a few weeks ago, about 400 of whom were soldiers. Still not sure who sponsored this ad, although I figure it's probably the ADL, or one of its affiliates.

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Caitlin.....as usual, fucking brilliant........thank you

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15-minute video:

“Do you really know what happened on October 7th?”

https://twitter.com/propandco/status/1729421076902367340

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The truth will eventually break everyone's mind open. You actually cannot keep up cognitive dissonance as it will fragment your mind. You will either break down or break through, but I suspect there needs to be a lot of alternative psychotherapists to help all of the people who will be breaking down in the very near future. Just reading that post hurt my head.

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Why am I anti-Semitic? Simply because being anti-Semitic is a term appropriated by Israeli zionists meaning being anti-Israel, which any even half-decent person is! Oh, and being anti-American (anti-seppo) follows same logic, being anti-warmongering which seems to be a US raison d'être.

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The Official story sounds like a parody

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REJE CT the evidence of your own eyes and ears. It is their final and most important command.

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