Caitlin, if I haven't before, I want to express my eternal gratitude for what you do (and endure) day in and day out. You have a perseverance and focus that is commendable. I couldn't handle even a fraction of what you go through.
I want to thank you and Tim for your writing and the impact it has had on so many people. Much love and solidarity. ❤️ Stay strong - the world needs you (and writers like you)!
Thank you, but no bravo for me needed, but lots of it for Caitlin & Tim, and all supporters of Caitlin, and ALL supporters of Palestine (which also includes most of the commentators in this substack) and especially ALL the Palestinian people! ❤️❤️❤️
As with you, my thanks again to Caitlin and Tim and all the respected and intelligent commenters on these pages.
Keep sending this Caitlin Substack to as many people as you can as a way of allowing people to see the real world as it is and to benefit from the rationality of a very intelligent lady and her husband.
I need no reminders about the crimes of Israel and the Western Imperialists.
I don't need to see Palestinian men women and children starving every day.
I just remember the sniper, the shot that eventually killed the young boy and the killing of all those that came to assist. Then I know this must be stopped.
And Aaron. What values. What courage. In my memory until I die.
You will be happy to know, the israeli Genocide Force commander who gave that order to kill Hind Rajab 5 yr. old girl and the people who tried to save her, was reported to Hague for war crimes. Hopefully his punishment is the same as his victim Hind Rajab. It would be nice to give Aaron Bushnell something to acknowledge from the Universe.
Don't kid yourself. This is just window dressing. In all honesty the Hague is toothless by design as it is controlled by the West. That Israeli commander will never see the inside of a courtroom.
Again and again you write to the heart of matters. There is so much we feel helpless about in this matter except to rail against the terrible machine that is the Zionist agenda . Thank you for ALL your writing.
Every single government that hasn’t cut diplomatic ties with Israel and implemented a full trade, investment, academic, research, cultural and sporting boycott of Israel is complicit in genocide. The heads of government of all these countries must be tried for crimes against humanity. That’s right, 90% of governments globally are guilty of enabling and supporting genocide.
That is most of the "benign, human rights respecting, democracy loving" west led by "beacon of light" USA and the EU "garden" for you. Plus, low self-esteem fascist India.
I don’t think any western-aligned country has done anything substantive. Spain and Norway have come closest, but it’s not even the bare minimum. I really expected more from China. South Africa is supplying coal and Brazil is supplying oil. They are duplicitous and complicit.
And India is supplying weapons (drone parts) to Israel, while Argentina provides diplomatic cover for the U.S. and Israel in the UN. Also, the Arab countries are busy doing multi-billion dollar deals with Trump and the U.S. and ignoring the plight of the Palestinians. Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt are running PR campaigns - saying something from one side of their mouth while continuing to trade with Israel.
The world's response has been absolutely dispicable, and IMO much worse than the response to Nazi Germany. It seems that humanity has regressed...
Hasn't it just. I hate that we have the audacity to call ourselves Christian countries while be so silent about zionist murders revelling in their slaughter of babies before reaching ONE DAY OLD. These Zionists should tell the truth that they are Satanists who worship killing and rape - along it's not them having to take their turn by equal weaponry against them. They are cowards of the first order and should be tried and convicted as such with the evidence that is brford us every day for decades, and especially now because our leaders' silences let's the think they can.
In 2024, DAWN urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
Thank you so much for this. This blunt truth, it's depth, the implications about us that will resound for decades. This is what I constantly think and feel, that everything has changed. The old world, however flawed it was, has slipped into a darker gear, and how strange it is to move with that feeling through a culture that seems largely unfazed. That is perhaps the most disturbing part of all.
I can't believe Israel is going to murder every Palestinian left in Gaza, they're happily doing it. Then they're going to clear the rubble so they can build on it. Not one leader of any nation has done one thing to stop it, they bitch and moan but do nothing.
Yes but "multipolar world" leaders such as RF and China did nothing as well. And don't get me even started on "brothers" from the pitiful Gulf Arab kingdoms. Or how non-aligned leader racist Muslim-hating India fully supports genocide of Palestinians. Everything after WW2 was just a big lie. Incredible how few jews with a lot of money, army of useful idiots, and holowcaust industry propaganda corrupted most of the nations. Just amazing.
I would add that it is also neoliberal capitalism and late-stage capitalism that has brought the world to this state. These 'systems of capitalism' have tied the hands of many good, ordinary folk behind their back (through accumulation of debts because of expensive education, consumerism, prohibitively expensive health care, and more). Many ordinary people (at least in the U.S. that I know of) are in bankruptcy due to this system of 'neoliberal capitalism' and are often few paychecks away from homelessness. Job security is scarce. All these factors have made people job, wage, and debt slaves - and they don't speak up out of fear of their precarious circumstances brought about by this VERY SAME system of neoliberal Capitalism.
I wish it was just fear of consequences that prevent the majority of people from acting on behalf of Palestinians but I tend to believe it’s more about falling for propaganda (that fuels xenophobia and racism).
Valid points, to which I would add that US Imperialism is in desperate straits, losing war after war, embroiled in the terminal contradictions of late Capitalism, and desperate for a way out which it seeks through endless military violence. This damn system was due for extinction a hundred years ago its replacement being socialist internationalism.
Sounds like another PHD thesis my friend : ). One day we will sit with coffee and speak about how and why as Palestine is Free : ) With the loss of funding for the experiment I care most about Dark Matter (low mass) having to move part of my time to a Neutrino Communication exp. I met a young undergrad from Aerospace eng., she a junior now thinks she will have no choice and leave her dream of working in space related science. With a frown near tear she said Mil. Ind. Complex may be her only source of income. I don't think people realize how far we have fallen, and it didn't start with Genocide Don : )
Well said. However, I would say Yemen has done more than one thing. South Africa has done somethings. Nicaragua has done some things. A few others as well. But in general, true. Very few leaders or nations have truly done anything.
I sincerely doubt that there can be anything approaching true peace, or coming to terms with what we have been forced to watch, impotently, without proper accountability and consequences for the guilty. I don’t mean the Israelis, i mean the western politicians and their media water-carriers without whom - their support and enabling, their pro-active complicity - the Zionist regime would never have been able to go this far into depravity, whipping the Israeli people into a genocidal frenzy, with such a feeling of impunity.
"Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain." It is so good to hear those words from someone. What I get too much of the time is "turn off the news, don't read about it, forget it, think about positive things." I have sometimes wondered how you manage to write about this stuff every day, but I am grateful that you can do it. Thank you.
" Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain. Let it move all the way through your system without resisting... "
Wise compassionate words from Caitlin. I like to think this is what most of us have been doing taking a sort of refuge in Caitlin's Newsletter, where we get to release some of our tensions - not that it makes an iota of difference to the psychopaths ruling over us, or the suffering of the Palestinians.
But reading Caitlin's earlier essay "Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support", I just couldn't contain my rage and despair.
A pretend concern, a hypocrisy is going on. "We will give them some food" said the President! But strictly on our's and Israel's terms. And what were these terms: the barest minimum of food that they decide is necessary for their victims and administered by Israeli army and American mercenaries! No doubt the western media will call them the peacemakers!
Western leaders have now come out mouthing inanities, when the carnage is already done.They are now okay to lifting the blockade a little. As if it wasn't the ultimate atrocity of using food as a weapon of war.
It is as if they weren't aware of the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinians the rest of us were witnessing for the past year and more. It is as if they didn't aid and abet with bombs, weapons, intelligence. Nurtured their partner in crime with diplomatic cover rendering the feeble UN more toothless than ever.
Did you notice that all these western powers talking of lifting the blockade, are not talking of lifting the siege. An end to the war?
They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!
>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
"And they shouldn’t. The Gaza holocaust is the product of the way the world was before it happened. Our society birthed it into existence, and now it’s staring us all right in the face. This is who we are. This is the fruit of the tree of what western civilization has been up until this point."
The problem is not just western civilization, grisly as it is. Genocides, horrors and atrocities are found in other times and other civilizations.
The problem is people. Gaza could stop today, and humans would just move on to some other abomination.
the problem is greed for power and control. the problem is that we are taught from the day we are born that to be considered successful, you need to acquire a lot of money. Once you have that, you can do whatever you want. At least that is how the story goes. So we need to teach our children differently. It has been that way for centuries. People who live in castles are the best. The rest are servants.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing” Arundhati Roy
Thank you Caitlin, for bearing this heavy load and relating it to us. Let's not call it a holocaust, but rather Nakba 2.0, a shoah, and a Final Solution which the Zionist entity is using to stain the soul of all humanity. But that is nothing compared to the total suffering of the victims, Gazans and all Palestinians. Yet while trying to maintain our own humanity (avoiding hatred and retribution), we must somehow reinvigorate international law to bring the Zionist entity (and its enablers) to justice with the full consequences that befell a certain previous practitioner of genocide.
"I remembered how before Gaza I used to get excited about writing stuff. I haven’t felt that feeling since 2023."
I feel the same way. I haven't felt like writing fiction for a long time now. I feel the need to reveal the war crimes happening in Gaza instead. And life will never be the same, like you say, until we make those responsible face justice and reparations are made. #FreePalestine
Fiction may be a more effective way to reach people. It’s also harder for the propaganda machine to attack or censor. I’m going to try this clever way to change minds
Michael, I've been reading through the comments to get an overall sense of what this forum is all about, not intending to leave a comment on this particular post. But your comment sticks out in my mind as one which addresses the concern I've raised here many times: Are we in a position to make a difference? And what can we do to improve traction in that area? And more on the controversial side: Is this column and its commenters doing more good than harm? Similarly: Does this column serve its author in occult ways, while appearing to serve a disadvantaged community?
These are difficult, and often emotionally triggering, questions. But they are legitimate to ask of a community which posits itself on the moral high ground.
The thing about your comment is that you are thinking about outcomes, and factoring in some of the nuanced dynamics that strengthen or weaken the effort. Fiction, for example, is an interesting one: It leverages "obliquity" (there's a book by that name) as a way around the resistance that too often arises in response to direct confrontation. In that sense, it is novel in comparison to most of Caitlin's work. Of course, the "other edge of that sword" is that you probably won't reach your audience in time to land the desired "punch." Nevertheless, I applaud the creative thinking.
A forum like this is an obvious platform of opportunity for people to brainstorm solutions, but I just don't see that happening. That leads me to believe that relief to Gazans is not the dominant goal here. Caitlin exhorts us to "work on ourselves," and "become more aware of who we are inside." Caitlin fans who come here for "emotional release," please take note.
Caitlin, if I haven't before, I want to express my eternal gratitude for what you do (and endure) day in and day out. You have a perseverance and focus that is commendable. I couldn't handle even a fraction of what you go through.
I want to thank you and Tim for your writing and the impact it has had on so many people. Much love and solidarity. ❤️ Stay strong - the world needs you (and writers like you)!
Bravo, Chang.
Bravissima, Caitlin.
Thank you, but no bravo for me needed, but lots of it for Caitlin & Tim, and all supporters of Caitlin, and ALL supporters of Palestine (which also includes most of the commentators in this substack) and especially ALL the Palestinian people! ❤️❤️❤️
Hello again, Chang
As with you, my thanks again to Caitlin and Tim and all the respected and intelligent commenters on these pages.
Keep sending this Caitlin Substack to as many people as you can as a way of allowing people to see the real world as it is and to benefit from the rationality of a very intelligent lady and her husband.
I need no reminders about the crimes of Israel and the Western Imperialists.
I don't need to see Palestinian men women and children starving every day.
I just remember the sniper, the shot that eventually killed the young boy and the killing of all those that came to assist. Then I know this must be stopped.
And Aaron. What values. What courage. In my memory until I die.
You will be happy to know, the israeli Genocide Force commander who gave that order to kill Hind Rajab 5 yr. old girl and the people who tried to save her, was reported to Hague for war crimes. Hopefully his punishment is the same as his victim Hind Rajab. It would be nice to give Aaron Bushnell something to acknowledge from the Universe.
Don't kid yourself. This is just window dressing. In all honesty the Hague is toothless by design as it is controlled by the West. That Israeli commander will never see the inside of a courtroom.
'Thank you, but no
bravo for me needed... '
I disagree: the eloquence
and scope of your comment
& my Concurrence Required one
.
'... but lots of it for Caitlin... '
Bingo. hence the Superlative.
.
and, Kudos.
.
Honesty & Clarity like Caitlin's
(and Tim's!) is sorely Lacking on
this gorgeous little lost-in-Space
blue marvel & Need be Celebrated
endorsed and co-sponsored. so, Let's
.
I cried my friend, thank you for those words of feeling.
Again and again you write to the heart of matters. There is so much we feel helpless about in this matter except to rail against the terrible machine that is the Zionist agenda . Thank you for ALL your writing.
Every single government that hasn’t cut diplomatic ties with Israel and implemented a full trade, investment, academic, research, cultural and sporting boycott of Israel is complicit in genocide. The heads of government of all these countries must be tried for crimes against humanity. That’s right, 90% of governments globally are guilty of enabling and supporting genocide.
That is most of the "benign, human rights respecting, democracy loving" west led by "beacon of light" USA and the EU "garden" for you. Plus, low self-esteem fascist India.
I don’t think any western-aligned country has done anything substantive. Spain and Norway have come closest, but it’s not even the bare minimum. I really expected more from China. South Africa is supplying coal and Brazil is supplying oil. They are duplicitous and complicit.
And India is supplying weapons (drone parts) to Israel, while Argentina provides diplomatic cover for the U.S. and Israel in the UN. Also, the Arab countries are busy doing multi-billion dollar deals with Trump and the U.S. and ignoring the plight of the Palestinians. Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt are running PR campaigns - saying something from one side of their mouth while continuing to trade with Israel.
The world's response has been absolutely dispicable, and IMO much worse than the response to Nazi Germany. It seems that humanity has regressed...
Hasn't it just. I hate that we have the audacity to call ourselves Christian countries while be so silent about zionist murders revelling in their slaughter of babies before reaching ONE DAY OLD. These Zionists should tell the truth that they are Satanists who worship killing and rape - along it's not them having to take their turn by equal weaponry against them. They are cowards of the first order and should be tried and convicted as such with the evidence that is brford us every day for decades, and especially now because our leaders' silences let's the think they can.
In 2024, DAWN urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
https://dawnmena.org/latest/
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
That is a world I could be proud of. Some many other problems would be solved with kind of compassion and caring : )
Thank you so much for this. This blunt truth, it's depth, the implications about us that will resound for decades. This is what I constantly think and feel, that everything has changed. The old world, however flawed it was, has slipped into a darker gear, and how strange it is to move with that feeling through a culture that seems largely unfazed. That is perhaps the most disturbing part of all.
I can't believe Israel is going to murder every Palestinian left in Gaza, they're happily doing it. Then they're going to clear the rubble so they can build on it. Not one leader of any nation has done one thing to stop it, they bitch and moan but do nothing.
They crave American carrot and fear American stick.
For the same reason they bark like dogs at Russia. Because Master says.
And they know full well that they are hypocrites. This does not bother people of influence and authority one bit.
Yes but "multipolar world" leaders such as RF and China did nothing as well. And don't get me even started on "brothers" from the pitiful Gulf Arab kingdoms. Or how non-aligned leader racist Muslim-hating India fully supports genocide of Palestinians. Everything after WW2 was just a big lie. Incredible how few jews with a lot of money, army of useful idiots, and holowcaust industry propaganda corrupted most of the nations. Just amazing.
I would add that it is also neoliberal capitalism and late-stage capitalism that has brought the world to this state. These 'systems of capitalism' have tied the hands of many good, ordinary folk behind their back (through accumulation of debts because of expensive education, consumerism, prohibitively expensive health care, and more). Many ordinary people (at least in the U.S. that I know of) are in bankruptcy due to this system of 'neoliberal capitalism' and are often few paychecks away from homelessness. Job security is scarce. All these factors have made people job, wage, and debt slaves - and they don't speak up out of fear of their precarious circumstances brought about by this VERY SAME system of neoliberal Capitalism.
I wish it was just fear of consequences that prevent the majority of people from acting on behalf of Palestinians but I tend to believe it’s more about falling for propaganda (that fuels xenophobia and racism).
Valid points, to which I would add that US Imperialism is in desperate straits, losing war after war, embroiled in the terminal contradictions of late Capitalism, and desperate for a way out which it seeks through endless military violence. This damn system was due for extinction a hundred years ago its replacement being socialist internationalism.
Sounds like another PHD thesis my friend : ). One day we will sit with coffee and speak about how and why as Palestine is Free : ) With the loss of funding for the experiment I care most about Dark Matter (low mass) having to move part of my time to a Neutrino Communication exp. I met a young undergrad from Aerospace eng., she a junior now thinks she will have no choice and leave her dream of working in space related science. With a frown near tear she said Mil. Ind. Complex may be her only source of income. I don't think people realize how far we have fallen, and it didn't start with Genocide Don : )
Agree.
Well said. However, I would say Yemen has done more than one thing. South Africa has done somethings. Nicaragua has done some things. A few others as well. But in general, true. Very few leaders or nations have truly done anything.
Important that you single out those countries who have, it is something, as opposed to the mere words easily uttered by other nations.
A few well placed 2,000lb bombs would make them feel the reality that they are raining down on Palestinian Gaza. Surely someone has the guts?
No. Only Yemen, and Yemen is attacked for its troubles.
I sincerely doubt that there can be anything approaching true peace, or coming to terms with what we have been forced to watch, impotently, without proper accountability and consequences for the guilty. I don’t mean the Israelis, i mean the western politicians and their media water-carriers without whom - their support and enabling, their pro-active complicity - the Zionist regime would never have been able to go this far into depravity, whipping the Israeli people into a genocidal frenzy, with such a feeling of impunity.
+ Mainstream Media.
"Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain." It is so good to hear those words from someone. What I get too much of the time is "turn off the news, don't read about it, forget it, think about positive things." I have sometimes wondered how you manage to write about this stuff every day, but I am grateful that you can do it. Thank you.
Thank you for that. One day I hope to be worthy of reading your responses. Thank you.
" Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain. Let it move all the way through your system without resisting... "
Wise compassionate words from Caitlin. I like to think this is what most of us have been doing taking a sort of refuge in Caitlin's Newsletter, where we get to release some of our tensions - not that it makes an iota of difference to the psychopaths ruling over us, or the suffering of the Palestinians.
But reading Caitlin's earlier essay "Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support", I just couldn't contain my rage and despair.
A pretend concern, a hypocrisy is going on. "We will give them some food" said the President! But strictly on our's and Israel's terms. And what were these terms: the barest minimum of food that they decide is necessary for their victims and administered by Israeli army and American mercenaries! No doubt the western media will call them the peacemakers!
Western leaders have now come out mouthing inanities, when the carnage is already done.They are now okay to lifting the blockade a little. As if it wasn't the ultimate atrocity of using food as a weapon of war.
It is as if they weren't aware of the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinians the rest of us were witnessing for the past year and more. It is as if they didn't aid and abet with bombs, weapons, intelligence. Nurtured their partner in crime with diplomatic cover rendering the feeble UN more toothless than ever.
Did you notice that all these western powers talking of lifting the blockade, are not talking of lifting the siege. An end to the war?
They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!
>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
Thank you Chang for a very perceptive comment. Like Joy here says maybe it will be even easier to create false narratives in this technological age.
"And they shouldn’t. The Gaza holocaust is the product of the way the world was before it happened. Our society birthed it into existence, and now it’s staring us all right in the face. This is who we are. This is the fruit of the tree of what western civilization has been up until this point."
The problem is not just western civilization, grisly as it is. Genocides, horrors and atrocities are found in other times and other civilizations.
The problem is people. Gaza could stop today, and humans would just move on to some other abomination.
the problem is greed for power and control. the problem is that we are taught from the day we are born that to be considered successful, you need to acquire a lot of money. Once you have that, you can do whatever you want. At least that is how the story goes. So we need to teach our children differently. It has been that way for centuries. People who live in castles are the best. The rest are servants.
Sociopaths will always end up on top, because sociopaths will do whatever it takes to get there.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing” Arundhati Roy
That will be one without humans.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this quote, I've not heard it before.
Thank you Caitlin, for bearing this heavy load and relating it to us. Let's not call it a holocaust, but rather Nakba 2.0, a shoah, and a Final Solution which the Zionist entity is using to stain the soul of all humanity. But that is nothing compared to the total suffering of the victims, Gazans and all Palestinians. Yet while trying to maintain our own humanity (avoiding hatred and retribution), we must somehow reinvigorate international law to bring the Zionist entity (and its enablers) to justice with the full consequences that befell a certain previous practitioner of genocide.
"I remembered how before Gaza I used to get excited about writing stuff. I haven’t felt that feeling since 2023."
I feel the same way. I haven't felt like writing fiction for a long time now. I feel the need to reveal the war crimes happening in Gaza instead. And life will never be the same, like you say, until we make those responsible face justice and reparations are made. #FreePalestine
This may be remembered as The Era of No One Held Accountable.
I pray to the Universe you are wrong my friend. However I fear you are right : (
Fiction may be a more effective way to reach people. It’s also harder for the propaganda machine to attack or censor. I’m going to try this clever way to change minds
Michael, I've been reading through the comments to get an overall sense of what this forum is all about, not intending to leave a comment on this particular post. But your comment sticks out in my mind as one which addresses the concern I've raised here many times: Are we in a position to make a difference? And what can we do to improve traction in that area? And more on the controversial side: Is this column and its commenters doing more good than harm? Similarly: Does this column serve its author in occult ways, while appearing to serve a disadvantaged community?
These are difficult, and often emotionally triggering, questions. But they are legitimate to ask of a community which posits itself on the moral high ground.
The thing about your comment is that you are thinking about outcomes, and factoring in some of the nuanced dynamics that strengthen or weaken the effort. Fiction, for example, is an interesting one: It leverages "obliquity" (there's a book by that name) as a way around the resistance that too often arises in response to direct confrontation. In that sense, it is novel in comparison to most of Caitlin's work. Of course, the "other edge of that sword" is that you probably won't reach your audience in time to land the desired "punch." Nevertheless, I applaud the creative thinking.
A forum like this is an obvious platform of opportunity for people to brainstorm solutions, but I just don't see that happening. That leads me to believe that relief to Gazans is not the dominant goal here. Caitlin exhorts us to "work on ourselves," and "become more aware of who we are inside." Caitlin fans who come here for "emotional release," please take note.
Thanks again, Michael.
Your writing is much appreciated, it has been a soothing piece of sanity in this mind-wrecking period.
This is the fruit of the tree of what western civilization has been up until this point.
Thank you Caitlin and Tim for all you do to give voices to all those who are standing up against this genocide. 😢☮️🇵🇸
Gaza.
Is nothing more
than Nazi Germany.
All over again.
Perpetrated by Jewish Nazis, and their descendents.
For pert near a century.
And enabled by many governments, globally.
Which are killing their own citizens.
Less obviously.
The COVID Vax Hoax
is but one example.
Turbo cancers.
And other types of death.
Some slow. Some, pretty quick.
Stupid people making stupid rules.
And the fools to mind those rules.
:| SMH.