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One thing we can be reasonably certain about: Everything the US says is a lie or something concocted so that they and others who don't look too closely can believe their lies. The US seems to be governed by people who are cold hearted killers pretending to be someone who cares.

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19

Much of the Imperial media is repeating the talking point, "Biden doesn't want to get dragged into a regional war." Almost as often as it has been repeating "Biden doesn't want excess civilian deaths in GAZA."

What a bunch of Hoooey. The US can stop this ongoing slaughter and war escalations at anytime by ending its arms and money shipments to Israel. Biden could go even further, and send US supply ships to the starving and trapped Gazans - and warn Israel in no uncertain terms not to interfere. It could stop giving Israel diplomatic cover at the U.N.

The US isn't being dragged anywhere. The US is not being forced to do anything - it's all a choice. Don't believe the Imperial media for a bloody second.

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Great evidence for serpentine speech manipulation -- our elite universities: the academy, bastions of free speech. Bullshit. Article about my alma mater, Columbia, on Scheerpost, reprinted from Electronic Intifada, concerning, of course, threats and actions against an Arab scholar/faculty by its Zionist cutout president whom the last issue of Columbia Magazine touted as fantastic in terms of identity crap — oh look how wonderful, we have a woman president of Egyptian origin! What a bloody crock. I was compelled to leave this comment:

"Alum here. Shades of 1968. Columbia as supporter of Military-industrial complex, this time for murdering poor Palestinian Zionist slaves, instead of poor Vietnamese peasants. Similar source: pressure from Zionist mega-donors. And similar outcomes: spineless administration, NYPD on campus. As I approach the end of my days, I bequeath the university a large bag copiously equipped with dried dog and cat excrement collected in my neighborhood; symbolic of how the university’s values have evolved in the intervening 56 years — from the possibility of an awakening to students’ expectation of and yearning for free speech in the academy to the dessicated husk of that possibility”.

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19

Believing anything the US says when it comes to money and power is, well, stupid. Actually, believing anything at all is stupid. As an American, I think I can only just be resigned to accepting whatever the eventual backlash is going to be - and none of this was done at the behest of we common ordinary citizens.

There is a clip floating around wherein Boris Johnson is telling EU or NATO or some such "leadership" that if Russia wins, it threatens the West's hegemony. He used those words, the clip was not meant for wide circulation.

https://youtu.be/LfpnGgPK0sY?si=B0SOmGkENHCBZKS1

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Let’s get the Biden Administration to focus on the criminal charges they so rightly deserve. 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute that incorporated the Genocide Convention in US criminal law. Members of this administration shouldn't go a single day without having this statute in their faces, up front and center at every protest at every meeting, press conference, briefing, and trips home and abroad.

They may feel they are immune now, but let's get them considering what is possible when they leave office, given they have set the precedent of charging former presidents. They should have visions of prison all the days of their lives. Let us find the way.

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Caitlin, thanks for stating and following and observing the USA travesty vis a vis Palestine!

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Duh. And the US continually comes up with excuse after excuse why it can't support Palestinian statehood right now or on these specific terms.

Because, you know, reasons.

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My heart breaks when I see whats happening to the families in Gaza, but the liars keep lying and the morons keep buying those lies.

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The Shit Hole States and its treasure trove of lies.

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Given what is happening a two state solution is dead as a door nail. There is already much chatter about how Gaza is going to be bulldozed and redeveloped to Israel's liking. All part of creating a "Greater Israel" as planned decades ago.

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Apr 19·edited Apr 21

There is no “two state solution”: such a “solution” would in fact be two separated non-contiguous “reservations” captive inside the hostile foreign nation of Israel that would ALSO still be illegally occupying the Golan Heights of Syria.

That’s NOT any kind of “solution” worthy of the term. Not for the palestinians in the ghettos of gaza and the west bank, not for the palestinian 2nd class citizens of Israel, and not for the 200,000 + christians spread across Israel and the palestinian ghettos. And not least that’s not a solution either for the residents of the Golan Heights which is a part of Syria occupied by Israel too.

In fact the only possible solution for any kind of stable PEACE is to remove the oppression, occupation and structural inequality. That means the dissolution of the Israeli colonial state and the palestinian ghetto - and the establishment a single democratic state there with freedom and equality for all. And the return of the Golan Heights to Syria.

That’s what the prescrption was for South Africa and Zimbabwe. And its no different in this case.

As single democratic state with equality for ALL.

Not the “two-state” con job - which is a hopeless diversion - a hiding to nothing .

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It would be interesting to hear, openly, the reasons for the United States unflagging support of Israel's genocide in Gaza. After all, we can only guess the reasons. The reasons for Israeli support have never been openly stated, merely implied, for decades now. I know why they can't say it, just as there's good reason to not say a lot of things that they are and were up to. I just wouldn't mind some honesty for once.

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ScheerPost - Jake Johnson

"The new report comes days after Israeli settlers—escorted by IDF soldiers—went on their latest destructive and deadly rampage in the West Bank, killing at least two Palestinians, injuring dozens, and setting homes and vehicles ablaze. At least 20 households were displaced after Israeli settlers burned down their homes."

Also read somewhere that Israel selling Palestinian land to their apologist, fascist, hateful comrades in the US.

My head is exploding.

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19

Policies like these DID NOT START WITH Israel and Biden !!!!!

Truman Nuked 200,000 Japanese civilians to their death merely because Japan refused an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER of their rights that Truman "offered" them in accordance with FDR desires

And this does not cover the Civil War either

There, I have said it

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And this is no doubt a truth about ALL RECENT PRESIDENTS (including Obama)

The U.S. practically ALWAYS KNEW what Israel really wanted !!!

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There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.

Please sign the petition and share widely.

https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn

Code pink

https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.

Let us call for a No Fly-Zone over Gaza!

These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.

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