Your allusion to Dolly Parton is apropos. US Israel supporters don't think beyond the glitz level of superficiality. They're reading the NY Times, looking ga-ga eyed at the new Corvette 1000-horsepower sportscar that only the elites will drive. Americans supporting Israel are distracted by money, glitz, and any other superficiality that'd force them to really see clearly what's in front of their faces.
The populations of these western nations are complicit. This is not 1934 where access to information is not easily and readily available and there are only 2 or 3 "news" sources people can go to to figure shit out. At this point, there is no excuse. The reality is most people don't care and they don't wanna know. They are not intellectually curios and ask the hard questions. Like who is a country run by a bunch of pedos and rapists and one that commits genocide and mass murder and tortures one year old babies to be dictating morality to anyone? The premise for this war is that Iran should have no nukes and some 68% of Americans agree based on the most recent poll. They dont know why, They dont ask why, they just agree. Canada just sanctioned Iran for defending itself but not a country that literally tortured a one year old baby for 10 hours and has spent the last 3 years murdering over one million Palestinians.
There is something wrong with the vast majority of humanity. There really is.
O hell yeah. There's a lot wrong with humanity. It feeds on a dish called diversion denial, the convenient psycho-lingo for what you correctly characterize as incurious (and I would add low-empathy) complicity.
Exactly, Ginnie. Here in Australia no hard questions are ever asked. Israel was never blamed for a genocide happening in real time. But the politicians kept on about Hamas and January 7th. An antisemitism myth was blown up and amplified by the media. The Jewish lobby was placated and soothed.
Now Iran is blamed for retaliating to a totally provoked war.They never expected Iran to hit back!
Everyone in the world right now is "distracted by money, glitz and any other superficiality". I think that people who were raised to be Zionists have been seriously brainwashed, but I think we have all been seriously brainwashed to think that money and what it buys makes us better people. We have been fed hogwash by the mainstream media for decades. We are fed the lie that we live in democracies. If those of us who are not Zionists of any faith were not distracted and brainwashed; if so many of us did not live in colonized countries, then we would have started opposing Israel decades ago. But, for the most part, nobody did. And those of us that did were called antisemites way back then too. Only it wasn't as noticable because of all those distractions. Israel and it's inhumanity is getting more noticable.
We were called a lot worse than simply antisemitic. Anti American, anti Capitalist. anti-everything that formulates or is formulated as the essence of American Canadian or other western so-called Capitalist democracy, which we couldn't readily recognize as elite autocracy until billionaires began flaming, as technofeudalism, until they began flaming online and Varoufakis gave it a name. But it's the same bloody demon been around my entire long lifetime as you rightly point out.
I didn't really understand the evils of Zionism back then. I just didn't see that anyone had any right to go to a country and claim it as their own despite the fact that people were already living there. Much like we did here in America. I would have considered it a kind of compliment to be called anti-capitalist. Still do. I considered it stupid to call me an antisemite because I opposed a colonizing state. I oppose the colonization of Canada and the rest of the Americas too. I don't know what that makes me. An anticolonialist, I guess.
What's interesting, I think, is that our treatment of the Native Americans was only gradually seen as "settler-colonial" in the same sense as colonizing another country. Of course it was, but it was as if the language of "apartheid state" was necessary to really hammer home the fact that the US was an apartheid state, really has always been with respect to Native people, even if the 13th amendment legally—but certainly not operationally—ended African-American apartheid.
I did not grow up in a politically advanced environment. I just thought that it was wrong to take someone else's land. I developed my own sense of right and wrong although I was surrounded by capitalist racists.
Susan T, With all the evidence of wholesale carnage before us, we all should be anti-colonialists, which should make us anti-capitalists. Unfortunately, most of us still suffer from colonised minds.
You really wanna make me crazy? Go out there and git it you cowards. ain't gonna prevent you from contractin' the freakin' virus or passin' it on. ain't gonna do one goddam thang ta stop this pandemic. But might give you some interestin' after-shit. Yeah. Make me freakin' crazy, there Dolly.
Exactly. America was chosen long ago by the Nazi Zionist criminals the likes of the Rothschild-Rockefeller Cartel of Khazars to own it and use Israel as its kingdom for the New World Order. The evil glue has been the "Chosen" biblical myth which was manipulated heavily by the Lotos Club in Manhattan NYC since 1901 headed by the evil ardent Nazi Zionist Samuel Untermeyer/Untermyer with promoting the Zionist Scofield Bible. Its BS of dispensationalism and end times poisoned the well in the Evangelical Movement with so many wolves in the church the likes of Hagee, Billy Graham, Falwell, Schaeffer, Robertson, et al, which created the perfect American sheeple for Israel. Things haven't changed much in 2026.
Spot on. These criminal zionists play a long game, and care not one white how many are killed to achieve their aim of world domination. Of course the name on that bible is that of a convicted criminal who, on release from prison converted to judaism and was used by the zionists to be the frontman for there rewritten bible by pretending it was a reference bible to ^help^ people understand its meaning, although the meaning was well understood by several generations before this book appeared with added changes in each of its many editions, which somehow Schofeld (changed to scofield) managed to still edit new editions many years after his death. This book was given to new evangelical pastors on graduating and that was to be used in their teachings. Definitely playing the long game, and the world is much worse for it.
The "alliance" (it's not actually a formal alliance, as Israel consistently refuses to enter one, as an alliance entails responsibilities as well as benefits) exists to serve Israel.
It is difficult to stomach the Insanity and cognitive dissonance of Americans concerning the US /Israel terrorism, war crimes, international crimes of Piracy and aggression, genocide of millions,. Worse is the Admitted Treason and traitorous actions by this entire Administration and Congress. Voting can NEVER change this because almost No ONE in political office is against the US fascist empire. They are all part of the Epstein regime . Americans must convince their sons and daughters to become whistleblowers, too leave military and government service,. Wars are Not in the hands of gods. The blood is on the hands of those participating. Iran should be decimating every Israeli life support system as vehemently as IDF did Gaza. According to sources 98% of Israeli citizens favor the Gaza, Lebanon,Iran destruction that will create a greater Israel. To me that means Iran should be engaging hospitals and residential areas with full force. An 7000 year old civilization attacked by the 80 year old Synagogue of Satan(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_of_Satan. ) and the 250 year old fascist empire of lies.
CJ>>"But they can’t admit that, because it would be admitting that all this violence and suffering isn’t about promoting the interests of Americans or defending Jews or fighting terrorism or spreading freedom and democracy, and is instead about advancing the interests of a few oligarchs and empire managers with the facilitation of crazy religious beliefs held by Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists."
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As per George Carlin's quote - "War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been." (And it isn't even their property, it belongs to the people of the Middle-East. The West steals their property/wealth, and then wants to protect/control their ill-gotten resources by making deals with pro-West dictators and weaponizing the global financial system).
But surely this has been going on since long before the United States' involvement. It was the British who gave the Zionists the Balfour Declaration and also arbitrarily divided up the Middle East into "countries".
Very much at the instigation by the US, and it's evangelicals who are desperate for the end days, which would be quite different from what they are hoping for.
Damn right, Davina. Were I able, I'd happily, painfully assist the evangelicals in their ascent of their stairway to heaven and, failing that, I'd suggest they take the Branch Davidian approach, drink the Kool Aid and leave the rest of us in peace. There are times I wish there WERE a god to give 'em some rough justice. Poisonous, infectious pricks the lot.
The financial and MIC oligarchs get a trillion dollars a year via the AIPAC-bought congress, which they then use to buy “real” assets—boats, planes and real estate, as well as casino chips to control global commodities markets. Israel ensures never-ending wars that keep the trillion dollar “defence” scam going. There’s your perfect algorithm of death and opulent wealth.
All of the world's problems stem from issreehell and their pathetic lying sycophants in america. Greed. Power. Occupation Destruction and death. Fuck the Zionist fanatics and the orange freak' and his repellent toadies
Following, the iranien "gov-ment " are as well ALL IN with the satanist cabalistik oligarchy . the controling entity are the same beginning of all the humanity era. Nothing new under the sun. Always was the case. Rinse and repeat is the moto, dear.
Only if it's for Palestinians only. You let israeli zionists live there there will never be peace be ause they will insist in being part of the government and want to have all the top jobs. It would not work. No use pretending it could.
The Israeli/US war of aggression against Iran is just the latest iteration of decades of wars, invasions and coup d’etats engineered by the most predatory capitalist regime in the world.
The US wants to force feed predatory capitalism down the throats of all countries so that its parasite class of Zionist capitalists can Lord over the world and impose their brutal system of exploitation. Well, the future is in Democratic socialism and their attempts will fall flat in the end when the public in all countries rebel against this brutal exploitive system. But before then thousands of lives will have been lost. And forget about a future if we rush into Armageddon.
Actually, it isn't quite the latest iteration, because this time the chosen adversary can fight back, and is doing just that. That will certainly add some adjustment to that equation.
Joy in HK, You just brought some joy to my gloomy thoughts of the day. Iran fighting back certainly wasn't in their equation. And I like to think that Iran is not fighting back alone.They have the goodwill of peoples of most nations in the global south and China and Russia - I only wish that they are more upfront about their support.
Thank you for writing a truth that more Americans need to hear. Your average American has no idea what the Palestinian people lost when Israel was created and what's been done to them since. It's a story that needs to be told. Does that make you antisemitic? No. Anti Zionist dream? Yes.
"But the argument that permanent war is justified because you think that some book of made-up stories commands you to give military support to a nation that’s younger than Dolly Parton does not deserve to be taken seriously." No doubt about it, Caitlin. There are all those other writers and then there's you. Your commentaries cut through all the clutter creatively and with a distinctive verve. Btw, I'm stealing your line about Dolly Parton.
I love you Caitlin! Perfectly summed up 75 years of "Middle East Conflict"
Your allusion to Dolly Parton is apropos. US Israel supporters don't think beyond the glitz level of superficiality. They're reading the NY Times, looking ga-ga eyed at the new Corvette 1000-horsepower sportscar that only the elites will drive. Americans supporting Israel are distracted by money, glitz, and any other superficiality that'd force them to really see clearly what's in front of their faces.
The populations of these western nations are complicit. This is not 1934 where access to information is not easily and readily available and there are only 2 or 3 "news" sources people can go to to figure shit out. At this point, there is no excuse. The reality is most people don't care and they don't wanna know. They are not intellectually curios and ask the hard questions. Like who is a country run by a bunch of pedos and rapists and one that commits genocide and mass murder and tortures one year old babies to be dictating morality to anyone? The premise for this war is that Iran should have no nukes and some 68% of Americans agree based on the most recent poll. They dont know why, They dont ask why, they just agree. Canada just sanctioned Iran for defending itself but not a country that literally tortured a one year old baby for 10 hours and has spent the last 3 years murdering over one million Palestinians.
There is something wrong with the vast majority of humanity. There really is.
O hell yeah. There's a lot wrong with humanity. It feeds on a dish called diversion denial, the convenient psycho-lingo for what you correctly characterize as incurious (and I would add low-empathy) complicity.
Exactly, Ginnie. Here in Australia no hard questions are ever asked. Israel was never blamed for a genocide happening in real time. But the politicians kept on about Hamas and January 7th. An antisemitism myth was blown up and amplified by the media. The Jewish lobby was placated and soothed.
Now Iran is blamed for retaliating to a totally provoked war.They never expected Iran to hit back!
Everyone in the world right now is "distracted by money, glitz and any other superficiality". I think that people who were raised to be Zionists have been seriously brainwashed, but I think we have all been seriously brainwashed to think that money and what it buys makes us better people. We have been fed hogwash by the mainstream media for decades. We are fed the lie that we live in democracies. If those of us who are not Zionists of any faith were not distracted and brainwashed; if so many of us did not live in colonized countries, then we would have started opposing Israel decades ago. But, for the most part, nobody did. And those of us that did were called antisemites way back then too. Only it wasn't as noticable because of all those distractions. Israel and it's inhumanity is getting more noticable.
We were called a lot worse than simply antisemitic. Anti American, anti Capitalist. anti-everything that formulates or is formulated as the essence of American Canadian or other western so-called Capitalist democracy, which we couldn't readily recognize as elite autocracy until billionaires began flaming, as technofeudalism, until they began flaming online and Varoufakis gave it a name. But it's the same bloody demon been around my entire long lifetime as you rightly point out.
I didn't really understand the evils of Zionism back then. I just didn't see that anyone had any right to go to a country and claim it as their own despite the fact that people were already living there. Much like we did here in America. I would have considered it a kind of compliment to be called anti-capitalist. Still do. I considered it stupid to call me an antisemite because I opposed a colonizing state. I oppose the colonization of Canada and the rest of the Americas too. I don't know what that makes me. An anticolonialist, I guess.
What's interesting, I think, is that our treatment of the Native Americans was only gradually seen as "settler-colonial" in the same sense as colonizing another country. Of course it was, but it was as if the language of "apartheid state" was necessary to really hammer home the fact that the US was an apartheid state, really has always been with respect to Native people, even if the 13th amendment legally—but certainly not operationally—ended African-American apartheid.
I did not grow up in a politically advanced environment. I just thought that it was wrong to take someone else's land. I developed my own sense of right and wrong although I was surrounded by capitalist racists.
Susan T, With all the evidence of wholesale carnage before us, we all should be anti-colonialists, which should make us anti-capitalists. Unfortunately, most of us still suffer from colonised minds.
Hear ya, do not forget the saintly football !!!! Just saying
No question, should be included; I forget because I quit that addiction a couple decades ago.
"I'm DEAD serious about the 'vaccine' ":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfT6H6QUIA
You really wanna make me crazy? Go out there and git it you cowards. ain't gonna prevent you from contractin' the freakin' virus or passin' it on. ain't gonna do one goddam thang ta stop this pandemic. But might give you some interestin' after-shit. Yeah. Make me freakin' crazy, there Dolly.
I admit being ga-ga eyed over a new Corvette. Sigh.
But you lack the $200K disposable income. Thank you for your testimony, sister!
I like nice cars, but even when I had the money, a reliable second-hand car was I all I wanted.
Now that I'm much older and feeling it, my most prized possession is a comfortable recliner.
Exactly. America was chosen long ago by the Nazi Zionist criminals the likes of the Rothschild-Rockefeller Cartel of Khazars to own it and use Israel as its kingdom for the New World Order. The evil glue has been the "Chosen" biblical myth which was manipulated heavily by the Lotos Club in Manhattan NYC since 1901 headed by the evil ardent Nazi Zionist Samuel Untermeyer/Untermyer with promoting the Zionist Scofield Bible. Its BS of dispensationalism and end times poisoned the well in the Evangelical Movement with so many wolves in the church the likes of Hagee, Billy Graham, Falwell, Schaeffer, Robertson, et al, which created the perfect American sheeple for Israel. Things haven't changed much in 2026.
Spot on. These criminal zionists play a long game, and care not one white how many are killed to achieve their aim of world domination. Of course the name on that bible is that of a convicted criminal who, on release from prison converted to judaism and was used by the zionists to be the frontman for there rewritten bible by pretending it was a reference bible to ^help^ people understand its meaning, although the meaning was well understood by several generations before this book appeared with added changes in each of its many editions, which somehow Schofeld (changed to scofield) managed to still edit new editions many years after his death. This book was given to new evangelical pastors on graduating and that was to be used in their teachings. Definitely playing the long game, and the world is much worse for it.
The "alliance" (it's not actually a formal alliance, as Israel consistently refuses to enter one, as an alliance entails responsibilities as well as benefits) exists to serve Israel.
Hence, they are not our ''ally'' in any sense of the word.
It really is a one-sided, abusive relationship between the US and Israel, isn't it? Time to escape the abuse!
It is difficult to stomach the Insanity and cognitive dissonance of Americans concerning the US /Israel terrorism, war crimes, international crimes of Piracy and aggression, genocide of millions,. Worse is the Admitted Treason and traitorous actions by this entire Administration and Congress. Voting can NEVER change this because almost No ONE in political office is against the US fascist empire. They are all part of the Epstein regime . Americans must convince their sons and daughters to become whistleblowers, too leave military and government service,. Wars are Not in the hands of gods. The blood is on the hands of those participating. Iran should be decimating every Israeli life support system as vehemently as IDF did Gaza. According to sources 98% of Israeli citizens favor the Gaza, Lebanon,Iran destruction that will create a greater Israel. To me that means Iran should be engaging hospitals and residential areas with full force. An 7000 year old civilization attacked by the 80 year old Synagogue of Satan(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_of_Satan. ) and the 250 year old fascist empire of lies.
CJ>>"But they can’t admit that, because it would be admitting that all this violence and suffering isn’t about promoting the interests of Americans or defending Jews or fighting terrorism or spreading freedom and democracy, and is instead about advancing the interests of a few oligarchs and empire managers with the facilitation of crazy religious beliefs held by Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists."
🎯💯
As per George Carlin's quote - "War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been." (And it isn't even their property, it belongs to the people of the Middle-East. The West steals their property/wealth, and then wants to protect/control their ill-gotten resources by making deals with pro-West dictators and weaponizing the global financial system).
We can all see that the Emperor(s) are naked now. None of their fairytales make sense anymore.
Well it's the first step of change. Assuming there is meaning in any of it.
But surely this has been going on since long before the United States' involvement. It was the British who gave the Zionists the Balfour Declaration and also arbitrarily divided up the Middle East into "countries".
Very much at the instigation by the US, and it's evangelicals who are desperate for the end days, which would be quite different from what they are hoping for.
Damn right, Davina. Were I able, I'd happily, painfully assist the evangelicals in their ascent of their stairway to heaven and, failing that, I'd suggest they take the Branch Davidian approach, drink the Kool Aid and leave the rest of us in peace. There are times I wish there WERE a god to give 'em some rough justice. Poisonous, infectious pricks the lot.
The financial and MIC oligarchs get a trillion dollars a year via the AIPAC-bought congress, which they then use to buy “real” assets—boats, planes and real estate, as well as casino chips to control global commodities markets. Israel ensures never-ending wars that keep the trillion dollar “defence” scam going. There’s your perfect algorithm of death and opulent wealth.
All of the world's problems stem from issreehell and their pathetic lying sycophants in america. Greed. Power. Occupation Destruction and death. Fuck the Zionist fanatics and the orange freak' and his repellent toadies
And this is the most accurat analyse l've ever heard. Thank you very much.
Following, the iranien "gov-ment " are as well ALL IN with the satanist cabalistik oligarchy . the controling entity are the same beginning of all the humanity era. Nothing new under the sun. Always was the case. Rinse and repeat is the moto, dear.
Power to the People. One State Palestine. Help Wanted.
Only if it's for Palestinians only. You let israeli zionists live there there will never be peace be ause they will insist in being part of the government and want to have all the top jobs. It would not work. No use pretending it could.
The Israeli/US war of aggression against Iran is just the latest iteration of decades of wars, invasions and coup d’etats engineered by the most predatory capitalist regime in the world.
The US wants to force feed predatory capitalism down the throats of all countries so that its parasite class of Zionist capitalists can Lord over the world and impose their brutal system of exploitation. Well, the future is in Democratic socialism and their attempts will fall flat in the end when the public in all countries rebel against this brutal exploitive system. But before then thousands of lives will have been lost. And forget about a future if we rush into Armageddon.
Actually, it isn't quite the latest iteration, because this time the chosen adversary can fight back, and is doing just that. That will certainly add some adjustment to that equation.
Joy in HK, You just brought some joy to my gloomy thoughts of the day. Iran fighting back certainly wasn't in their equation. And I like to think that Iran is not fighting back alone.They have the goodwill of peoples of most nations in the global south and China and Russia - I only wish that they are more upfront about their support.
https://avigail.substack.com/p/this-is-what-a-genocidal-society?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=twspk
Avigail is outstanding, isn't she!
I love her! Brilliant, heartfelt, brave and knows exactly what they're doing.
Thank you for writing a truth that more Americans need to hear. Your average American has no idea what the Palestinian people lost when Israel was created and what's been done to them since. It's a story that needs to be told. Does that make you antisemitic? No. Anti Zionist dream? Yes.
"But the argument that permanent war is justified because you think that some book of made-up stories commands you to give military support to a nation that’s younger than Dolly Parton does not deserve to be taken seriously." No doubt about it, Caitlin. There are all those other writers and then there's you. Your commentaries cut through all the clutter creatively and with a distinctive verve. Btw, I'm stealing your line about Dolly Parton.