This isn't an article about Israel, but about the U.S. Empire - maybe the ORIGINAL source of evil? Israel would not have existed in the form that it has had it not been for the CONTINUOUS support of the U.S. Empire for MANY decades.
So any mention of Israel without ALSO a mention of the U.S. Empire can be considered as a 'half-truth' - i.e. the U.S. Empire can be blamed for the actions of Israel - there is no excusing/spinning/etc. that the U.S. can do to deflect their responsibility in this Genocide and more.
As Israel continues it's stranglehold on the US gov't that enables Israel to exist, even as the general US populace has turned against it. Any mention of the US empire is incomplete without that fact.
Is it a stranglehold? Or is it MORE a mutually beneficial relationship? I doubt very much the 'narrative about Israel forcing the U.S. to do something it doesn't want to do' (unless one is a conspiracy theorist and thus likely to believe any narrative that deflects U.S. culpability/motivations onto Israel).
There seems to be this idea that the USA is an independent thinking entity. It is not. Its government is controlled by Zionist Israel/AIPAC. How is it a mutually beneficial relationship? It is not. The USA is in free fall and the Zionists are at the helm. As Netanyahu once said - he couldn't care less about the USA. He will bleed it dry and watch it turn to dust (loosely quoted.) This is part of the agenda.
It would take a book (or several) to explain the plethora of ways in which Israel serves the interests of the U.S. Empire (which is different from the interests of the American people).
In a nutshell, one needs to understand Capitalism (and how it works - especially global capitalism and financial capitalism), geopolitics, and great power politics.
Remember, the interests of the rulers (U.S. Empire managers) is DISTINCT from the interests of 'the ordinary people of America' (though many benefit from the imperialism and neo-colonialism indirectly).
The U.S. uses Israel as its colonial outpost in the MENA region - to maintain control over trade and trade routes, oil and oil prices, the petro-dollar and U.S. dollar hegemony, other natural resources and much, much more.
If you're expecting a simplistic answer to satisfy your bias or believed narratives, you will be disappointed. You need to read the long history of U.S.-Israel relations (and European-Israel relations) to understand HOW Empire benefits. I can suggest some books to read if you'd like.
No apartheid state has the right to exist as an apartheid state. It must either change (as it did in South Africa) or face the reality in the 21st century, it will be condemned and eventually sanctioned. Israel refuses to admit its atrocities have consequences and no matter how much evidence is erased from media it’s been downloaded all over the world and it’s never going away.
Listening to clips of enraged, expletive-laced rants by people like Mark Levin may make true Zionist believers feel validated it doesn’t change the fact that they’ve lost the young voters, including many of their own. How proud can they expect them to be of a country (hiding behind an ancient religion) that justifies raping a defenseless prisoner, shooting a six year old child alone in a car begging for help, destroying >80% of all structures (homes, hospitals, schools) and planning seaside condos to take their place?
No one concluded by the monstrous actions of the Nazi regime that Germany did not deserve "to exist." If it were banned, where would 80 milion Germans go? Israel is not going away..no nuclear power has ever been seriously attacked.......and so the only path to peace, since a one state solution is incompatible with the existence of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate, is a two state solution, a conclusion even Hamas has come to. The war criminals in Israel and indeed in Gaza, should be held accountable for killing civilians, proportionate to their evil deeds. To punsih a nation for the crimes of its leaders is the very crime Israel has committed against Palestine, the war crime of collective punishment.
Let us not become the enemy by emulating their crimes. The ONLY possible path to peace is co-existence of Israel, under new leadership, and Palestine, under new leadership. This is unlikely to happen until we find the US, which can stop the bloodshed at any time, with new leadership.
The majority of Germans in the 1930's did not support Hitler and the Reich, but they had little choice but to suffer it and many were only dimly aware of the holocaust being carried out ( the death camps were mostly in Poland and a few other countries ).
The same cannot be said of Israel and Israelis. By the last count 82% of Israelis support Netanyahu and the Zionist and their genocide. In fact many of those think the most immoral army in the world is not being brutal enough.
Also, Germany had been a country for many years before Hitler appeared on the scene whereas israel is an occupying state only since the zionists made it so after 1948 - the essence between the two are magnitudes apart, but you like to jump on the bandwagon for that illegal occupation state every chance you get.
Israel has no right to exist, in either a legal or a moral sense. Its claim to a homeland in Palestine is an invented one, and its machinations to secure the 1947 partition plan and the UN vote in 1948 are lessons in bribery, intimidation, subversion, duplicity, and every other variation of skulduggery the Israelis/Zionists are known for. Norman Finkelstein said it best, most succinctly: "The only right Israelis have is to pack their bags and leave."
You are right. You know it, I know it, most of the readers of this valuable Substack environment know it and a large percentage of the people of the world know it as well.
But the Jews have not put so much time and money into countering any possible action they have been planning for 80 years (and before if the truth be known) to be beaten so close to their goal..
Have they done it?
Yes.
The Western Media is the voice that drives opinion....where it counts. We have all seen enough over the past two years to know that it is owned and controlled by Israel and its lackeys. We have also seen in large print, the fact that there is no single election system, anywhere, that cannot be made to accept every known corrupt practice imaginable, because, as in the case of the USA, 86% of the politicians are already paid mercenaries of Israel and seem to be very content to continue on with this situation.
It's comfortable, it's secure, its supported by a corrupt administration, almost one and all and finally, it is backed by a narcissistic President (in the case of the USA) and in so many cases, similar world leaders in other Western countries.
Change? How does that come about?
Through the Courts. No. Most of the top judges have been political appointments, including the Supreme Court. Just another avenue for corruption.
The appointment of federal judges for United States federal courts is done via nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the United States Senate. What chance for an honest appointment in those circumstances. This is the USA, remember.
So kiss that one goodbye. Just check the current judicial membership and their appointers (Presidents) during their reign and their support for a genocide and for probably twenty million foreign deaths since WWII.. Reminder…..the last two Presidents have been Biden and Trump. Before that, Obama. Bush before that. Say no more.
So, it will never happen if we rely on the current structures in the USA to produce, honest governments and honest appointments. Then……action by the people, perhaps?
When a President like any of those mentioned above controls the allocation of money and the resources required for ICE, the National Guard, the Military, who can close down the public service, who can close medical assistance to the masses, reduce food support for the needy and start war for purposes like oil in Venezuela, there is little chance for change.
Sorry America.. Every day that passes shows clearly that you have no future. Your fan cub (except Israel) is almost terminal, Your recovery to returning to be a decent country something of a dream (look at Venezuela as just one example, Israel another, Ukraine ) and then you have a Party system, one as bad as the other.
It's a world on fire. Caitlin's "bat-shit crazy" comment should be firmly stamped on every story from alcohol-soaked Hegseth to genocide-driven Israel.
The U.S. empire is riding on the gravy train. The engineer is Netanyahu, the front cars are filled by Republicans, the back of the train is filled with Democrats, and the caboose is packed with Trump and oligarchs…
And the rest of humanity just hears toot.. toot… toot….
More important than ever! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing will continue to be vital in tracking down, and bringing the culprits to justice. This is ongoing and something we should support, irrespective of any ‘ceasefire.’
The Special Military Operation in Ukraine was NOT "unprovoked". As long as officials and media keep up this lie, the less respect for them people will have.
It most certainly wasn't unprovoked. I'd like to thank Scott Horton for his exceptionally detailed breakdown of the Russian Ukraine conflict. Appropriately the book is titled "Provoked."
I've been seeing videos of it and it sounds amazing! Retirement at 50 or 55, affordable, beautiful, clean technology, great public transit, people focused.
I keep thinking why am I here in Canada where everyone's so desperate?
Be careful of biased views. China is a large country with diverse ethnicities and variations in economic and cultural circumstances. One part of China can be very different from another part of China. To give you an analogy, think of the differences between the state of California and Texas, or a conservative Midwestern state to a liberal North Eastern state. Also, the geographies, environmental conditions, etc. of China are VERY varied.
You are UNLIKELY to get an objective opinion/study of China based on 'online media' (which often includes social media) or 'anti-U.S. Empire' proponents. For a MORE balanced view on China, you might have to converse with someone from China that has experienced REAL LIFE in China (and not just a select slice of Chinese society), and possibly travel and spend time in different parts of China (and not just select 'big cities').
Also beware - China has a hyper surveillance culture - much more than any Western nation (and no, this is not bias or hype but factual reality on the ground).
The grass always seems greener on the other side...
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in. Then on to the West Bank to end the occupation and apartheid.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
He appeared to welcome Herzog into the Vatican without condemnation of the genocide. Have you heard any outrage from him lately on the current stage of the genocide and the fake peace plan?
What's interesting about that suggestion is the Vatican carries weight that not even the most astute conspiracy theorists recognize yet at the same time appears flaccid in its ability to bring about change. It hides in the wide open shadows
Truly, it is all frightening. At the same time, it is indicative to me that the US empire is desperate and frantic and rapidly losing influence. It seems to have lost most or all of its soft power capacity, reducing its options to arbitrary economic sanctions and overt military aggression. It is far from being powerless, yet equally far from reigning as the world's hegemon.
Who can predict what the empire will do next? Or what will follow after that? A desperate man may act in unpredictable ways, and likewise a desperate empire. But it's on the way down. And with it, Israel.
Exactly, especially when their president walks around like a zombie, or wound up wooden doll that can wind down after a couple of minutes. He has let all Americans down since his first day in office when he put a bunch of totally inexperience incompetents, with swelled heads, into his cabinet. Probably thought that they would, since they are dumber than himself, be easier to fool but he lost the plot so fast -- how could anyone of sane mind let Musk have the free reign he was given in every department of government -- and then left the country in their hands-though, if he could, he would reject that-and what a damn mess they are making of everything they touch.
It’s the capitalist system we are all enslaved by. A system fully in the hands of psychopaths, feeding off of itself, pretending to be the savior of humanity, masquerading as civilization.
It’s our participation in this sick game of winner takes all, I’m better than you and we need this or that in order to be happy. Agree, we will collectively break out of this when there are enough of us. They may have my labor but they no longer have my mind.
Yes, too many "think it and get rich" clubs, but the only ones getting rich are the ones running the classes, unless you had a fair amount of wealth to start with.
I joined one group and what they were all asking for was crazy, everyone expected to become millionaires starting from zero in this think it and it will come. What I put forward was for the perfect home that met the needs of my dog and myself. No one applauded my limited wish but I got exactly what was need for us and a little more, and boy was I grateful, and still am although my bossy little furry darling is no longer here to share it, her last days were in a place she loved.
Those other people are still doing course after course after course to become millionaires 🤔
Israel has completely forfeited its right to exist in a civilized, peaceful world.
This isn't an article about Israel, but about the U.S. Empire - maybe the ORIGINAL source of evil? Israel would not have existed in the form that it has had it not been for the CONTINUOUS support of the U.S. Empire for MANY decades.
So any mention of Israel without ALSO a mention of the U.S. Empire can be considered as a 'half-truth' - i.e. the U.S. Empire can be blamed for the actions of Israel - there is no excusing/spinning/etc. that the U.S. can do to deflect their responsibility in this Genocide and more.
As Israel continues it's stranglehold on the US gov't that enables Israel to exist, even as the general US populace has turned against it. Any mention of the US empire is incomplete without that fact.
Is it a stranglehold? Or is it MORE a mutually beneficial relationship? I doubt very much the 'narrative about Israel forcing the U.S. to do something it doesn't want to do' (unless one is a conspiracy theorist and thus likely to believe any narrative that deflects U.S. culpability/motivations onto Israel).
There seems to be this idea that the USA is an independent thinking entity. It is not. Its government is controlled by Zionist Israel/AIPAC. How is it a mutually beneficial relationship? It is not. The USA is in free fall and the Zionists are at the helm. As Netanyahu once said - he couldn't care less about the USA. He will bleed it dry and watch it turn to dust (loosely quoted.) This is part of the agenda.
It would take a book (or several) to explain the plethora of ways in which Israel serves the interests of the U.S. Empire (which is different from the interests of the American people).
In a nutshell, one needs to understand Capitalism (and how it works - especially global capitalism and financial capitalism), geopolitics, and great power politics.
Remember, the interests of the rulers (U.S. Empire managers) is DISTINCT from the interests of 'the ordinary people of America' (though many benefit from the imperialism and neo-colonialism indirectly).
The U.S. uses Israel as its colonial outpost in the MENA region - to maintain control over trade and trade routes, oil and oil prices, the petro-dollar and U.S. dollar hegemony, other natural resources and much, much more.
If you're expecting a simplistic answer to satisfy your bias or believed narratives, you will be disappointed. You need to read the long history of U.S.-Israel relations (and European-Israel relations) to understand HOW Empire benefits. I can suggest some books to read if you'd like.
No apartheid state has the right to exist as an apartheid state. It must either change (as it did in South Africa) or face the reality in the 21st century, it will be condemned and eventually sanctioned. Israel refuses to admit its atrocities have consequences and no matter how much evidence is erased from media it’s been downloaded all over the world and it’s never going away.
Listening to clips of enraged, expletive-laced rants by people like Mark Levin may make true Zionist believers feel validated it doesn’t change the fact that they’ve lost the young voters, including many of their own. How proud can they expect them to be of a country (hiding behind an ancient religion) that justifies raping a defenseless prisoner, shooting a six year old child alone in a car begging for help, destroying >80% of all structures (homes, hospitals, schools) and planning seaside condos to take their place?
No one concluded by the monstrous actions of the Nazi regime that Germany did not deserve "to exist." If it were banned, where would 80 milion Germans go? Israel is not going away..no nuclear power has ever been seriously attacked.......and so the only path to peace, since a one state solution is incompatible with the existence of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate, is a two state solution, a conclusion even Hamas has come to. The war criminals in Israel and indeed in Gaza, should be held accountable for killing civilians, proportionate to their evil deeds. To punsih a nation for the crimes of its leaders is the very crime Israel has committed against Palestine, the war crime of collective punishment.
Let us not become the enemy by emulating their crimes. The ONLY possible path to peace is co-existence of Israel, under new leadership, and Palestine, under new leadership. This is unlikely to happen until we find the US, which can stop the bloodshed at any time, with new leadership.
The majority of Germans in the 1930's did not support Hitler and the Reich, but they had little choice but to suffer it and many were only dimly aware of the holocaust being carried out ( the death camps were mostly in Poland and a few other countries ).
The same cannot be said of Israel and Israelis. By the last count 82% of Israelis support Netanyahu and the Zionist and their genocide. In fact many of those think the most immoral army in the world is not being brutal enough.
Also, Germany had been a country for many years before Hitler appeared on the scene whereas israel is an occupying state only since the zionists made it so after 1948 - the essence between the two are magnitudes apart, but you like to jump on the bandwagon for that illegal occupation state every chance you get.
I might had misinterpreted your comment - if so my apologies, but it does read as though you are claiming that I support Israel.
I assure you, nothing could be further from the truth.
No, my comment was meant for dale ruff, not you. My apologise for that, maby I hit the wrong reply, then again maybe substack is to blame 🤔
two-state is a red herring that will never happen
"a Jewish ethnostate" is the whole problem
100%.
Germans live on German land. Israelis live on land stolen from the Palestinians. Wake the fuck up.
The government heads, many in the IDF and the settlers in the West Bank should all be tried. The rest of the population should come to their senses.
Israel has no right to exist, in either a legal or a moral sense. Its claim to a homeland in Palestine is an invented one, and its machinations to secure the 1947 partition plan and the UN vote in 1948 are lessons in bribery, intimidation, subversion, duplicity, and every other variation of skulduggery the Israelis/Zionists are known for. Norman Finkelstein said it best, most succinctly: "The only right Israelis have is to pack their bags and leave."
Hear ya, since 1948 !!!!!! BTW It's all theater (soap opera) it will play as scripted !!!!
Alan,
You are right. You know it, I know it, most of the readers of this valuable Substack environment know it and a large percentage of the people of the world know it as well.
But the Jews have not put so much time and money into countering any possible action they have been planning for 80 years (and before if the truth be known) to be beaten so close to their goal..
Have they done it?
Yes.
The Western Media is the voice that drives opinion....where it counts. We have all seen enough over the past two years to know that it is owned and controlled by Israel and its lackeys. We have also seen in large print, the fact that there is no single election system, anywhere, that cannot be made to accept every known corrupt practice imaginable, because, as in the case of the USA, 86% of the politicians are already paid mercenaries of Israel and seem to be very content to continue on with this situation.
It's comfortable, it's secure, its supported by a corrupt administration, almost one and all and finally, it is backed by a narcissistic President (in the case of the USA) and in so many cases, similar world leaders in other Western countries.
Change? How does that come about?
Through the Courts. No. Most of the top judges have been political appointments, including the Supreme Court. Just another avenue for corruption.
The appointment of federal judges for United States federal courts is done via nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the United States Senate. What chance for an honest appointment in those circumstances. This is the USA, remember.
So kiss that one goodbye. Just check the current judicial membership and their appointers (Presidents) during their reign and their support for a genocide and for probably twenty million foreign deaths since WWII.. Reminder…..the last two Presidents have been Biden and Trump. Before that, Obama. Bush before that. Say no more.
So, it will never happen if we rely on the current structures in the USA to produce, honest governments and honest appointments. Then……action by the people, perhaps?
When a President like any of those mentioned above controls the allocation of money and the resources required for ICE, the National Guard, the Military, who can close down the public service, who can close medical assistance to the masses, reduce food support for the needy and start war for purposes like oil in Venezuela, there is little chance for change.
Sorry America.. Every day that passes shows clearly that you have no future. Your fan cub (except Israel) is almost terminal, Your recovery to returning to be a decent country something of a dream (look at Venezuela as just one example, Israel another, Ukraine ) and then you have a Party system, one as bad as the other.
Good luck.
The empire will only continue, unless and until it is stopped. It won't stop out of the goodness of its heart. This is how power and sociopathy act.
Anyway, what we are seeing is the empire dropping any remaining pretense that it is anything other than an empire.
It's a world on fire. Caitlin's "bat-shit crazy" comment should be firmly stamped on every story from alcohol-soaked Hegseth to genocide-driven Israel.
It is terrifying how Israel is controlling so much and even more terrifying that the US, Canada, the UK and others are allowing it.
The humans who rule the empire know full well where the power lies and they will do whatever they must to get and expand their piece of it.
And IsraHELL is still murdering and starving Palestinians in their Holocaust.
The U.S. empire is riding on the gravy train. The engineer is Netanyahu, the front cars are filled by Republicans, the back of the train is filled with Democrats, and the caboose is packed with Trump and oligarchs…
And the rest of humanity just hears toot.. toot… toot….
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Support the Hind Rajab Foundation
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The Special Military Operation in Ukraine was NOT "unprovoked". As long as officials and media keep up this lie, the less respect for them people will have.
It most certainly wasn't unprovoked. I'd like to thank Scott Horton for his exceptionally detailed breakdown of the Russian Ukraine conflict. Appropriately the book is titled "Provoked."
Anyone who still supports Israel and Zionism is suffering from a terminal pstchopathy.
Psychopathy...satan briefy invaded my laptop.
Here in Canada, we have a war/austerity to hell with the environment budget.
There's nothing palatable on the Empire anywhere.
Move to China, anyone?
Can't speak Chinese. I'd be even more lonely than I am now.
There are probably ex-pats in community there. Thinking the good thoughts for you!
I think there are quite a few English speakers in China. I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling lonely.
Thanks. You'd be surprised how common that is with old age (especially in the US). I like the Chinese culture, the food there looks really good.
I've been seeing videos of it and it sounds amazing! Retirement at 50 or 55, affordable, beautiful, clean technology, great public transit, people focused.
I keep thinking why am I here in Canada where everyone's so desperate?
Be careful of biased views. China is a large country with diverse ethnicities and variations in economic and cultural circumstances. One part of China can be very different from another part of China. To give you an analogy, think of the differences between the state of California and Texas, or a conservative Midwestern state to a liberal North Eastern state. Also, the geographies, environmental conditions, etc. of China are VERY varied.
You are UNLIKELY to get an objective opinion/study of China based on 'online media' (which often includes social media) or 'anti-U.S. Empire' proponents. For a MORE balanced view on China, you might have to converse with someone from China that has experienced REAL LIFE in China (and not just a select slice of Chinese society), and possibly travel and spend time in different parts of China (and not just select 'big cities').
Also beware - China has a hyper surveillance culture - much more than any Western nation (and no, this is not bias or hype but factual reality on the ground).
The grass always seems greener on the other side...
Well ... you grow attached to things ...
Yes, and to people in the community too.
Learn.
But ...
You leave out who is making oodles of $ from the various taxpayer in most 'western' nation states. Talk about an evil empire!
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in. Then on to the West Bank to end the occupation and apartheid.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
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He appeared to welcome Herzog into the Vatican without condemnation of the genocide. Have you heard any outrage from him lately on the current stage of the genocide and the fake peace plan?
Oh please. The POPE? You've got to be kidding.
Yes! DMarlene & Carolyn Z, the Pope and the Vatican are part of the whole capitalist enterprise.
They are still there just like when the old colonialists who went forth with the 'Bible and the sword'.
What's interesting about that suggestion is the Vatican carries weight that not even the most astute conspiracy theorists recognize yet at the same time appears flaccid in its ability to bring about change. It hides in the wide open shadows
Can you give a concrete example of the ''weight'' the vatican carries? Not including brainwashing people about sky ferries.
Truly, it is all frightening. At the same time, it is indicative to me that the US empire is desperate and frantic and rapidly losing influence. It seems to have lost most or all of its soft power capacity, reducing its options to arbitrary economic sanctions and overt military aggression. It is far from being powerless, yet equally far from reigning as the world's hegemon.
Who can predict what the empire will do next? Or what will follow after that? A desperate man may act in unpredictable ways, and likewise a desperate empire. But it's on the way down. And with it, Israel.
Exactly, especially when their president walks around like a zombie, or wound up wooden doll that can wind down after a couple of minutes. He has let all Americans down since his first day in office when he put a bunch of totally inexperience incompetents, with swelled heads, into his cabinet. Probably thought that they would, since they are dumber than himself, be easier to fool but he lost the plot so fast -- how could anyone of sane mind let Musk have the free reign he was given in every department of government -- and then left the country in their hands-though, if he could, he would reject that-and what a damn mess they are making of everything they touch.
Very true!
Global zionism.
Hard to accept that our society allows Israel to present themselves as though representing that of which our society approves.
It’s the capitalist system we are all enslaved by. A system fully in the hands of psychopaths, feeding off of itself, pretending to be the savior of humanity, masquerading as civilization.
It’s our participation in this sick game of winner takes all, I’m better than you and we need this or that in order to be happy. Agree, we will collectively break out of this when there are enough of us. They may have my labor but they no longer have my mind.
Yes, too many "think it and get rich" clubs, but the only ones getting rich are the ones running the classes, unless you had a fair amount of wealth to start with.
I joined one group and what they were all asking for was crazy, everyone expected to become millionaires starting from zero in this think it and it will come. What I put forward was for the perfect home that met the needs of my dog and myself. No one applauded my limited wish but I got exactly what was need for us and a little more, and boy was I grateful, and still am although my bossy little furry darling is no longer here to share it, her last days were in a place she loved.
Those other people are still doing course after course after course to become millionaires 🤔
Death to america