There's Nothing You Can Say To Make Me Accept The Murder Of Thousands Of Children
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this.
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The unexamined premise behind the frenetic push to reignite outrage over October 7 using rape allegations is that if Hamas fighters did sexually assault any Israeli women during the attack, then everyone has to shut up and let Israel keep murdering children by the thousands. This is self-evidently stupid.
Western and Israeli propagandists are going to keep trying to find new reasons for you to reignite your outrage over October 7, because October 7 is their side’s only justification for a months-long mass atrocity that is far, far worse than anything that happened on October 7.
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The US House of Representatives just passed a resolution saying that Judaism is synonymous with a colonialist ideology which routinely murders children.
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I personally do not believe it’s anti-semitic to criticize Israel’s murderous actions in Gaza. See I have this wild idea that murdering children is not an aspect of the Jewish faith, and that saying otherwise actually has a very ugly history in our society.
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The only way to have more sympathy for the 1200 Israelis killed on October 7 than the 16,000+ Palestinians who’ve been killed in Gaza since is to believe Palestinians are subhumans whose lives are worth a tiny fraction of what Israeli lives are worth. That’s the one and only way.
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A recent poll found that 57.5 percent of Israelis believe the IDF is using too little firepower in Gaza, while 36.6 percent said it’s using just the right amount, with 4.2 percent saying they’re unsure and just 1.8 percent saying the IDF is using too much firepower.
One reason Israeli officials keep saying shockingly genocidal and fascistic things is because the kind of talk you have to use to win the support of Israelis is completely different from the talk you have to use to win the support of western liberals.
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Israel is like, “We’re not killing children in Gaza, those are dolls. Okay maybe they’re not dolls, but Hamas is lying about death tolls. Okay maybe they’re not lying about death tolls, but they’re using human shields and they did 10/7, so every child we’re killing was actually killed by Hamas.”
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The “Israel lobby” is really just a part of the western empire lobby — it’s a specialized arm of the nonstop influence operation geared toward keeping member states of the empire moving in alignment with a globe-spanning power structure centralized around the United States instead of acting like sovereign nations and taking care of their people in accordance with the will of the electorate.
Governments like the US and UK have legal tools in place that they use to stop foreign governments from influencing their national politics, but they generally only use them when the influence would be coming from governments which aren’t aligned with the western empire like Russia, China and Iran. If backing Israel militarily and diplomatically didn’t serve the interests of the empire, those legal tools would long ago have been used to shut the lobbying down. But because lobbying activities actually benefit the interests of the empire by keeping US-aligned war machinery targeted at all non-US-aligned groups in the geostrategically crucial middle east, they not only allow but actively encourage such lobbying.
It’s just one of the many types of adhesives necessary for keeping the disparate parts of an unacknowledged empire always moving in the same directions. The Israel lobby lets groups like Israelis, western Zionists and American fundamentalist Christians fund the influence operations of the western empire out of their own personal coffers. Why would the empire managers stop that from happening? It’s a great deal.
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I just turned 75, served as a physician in the U.S. Army for 10 years and another 27 years in the U.S.Public Health Service. I did my absolute best for my patients, but never imagined I was "serving my country," need no thanks "for my service" (which is the lamest , bullshit expression imaginable), and now am profoundly ashamed to be an American. The U.S. Congress is, with a few exceptions, a stinking cesspool of special interest, the chief one now being the support of Israel in a project that bears an amazing resemblance to the pogroms, ethnic cleansing and genocide that the Jewish people endured throughout history. The difference now is that it is Israel and its stated policies, openly declared by its leaders, that are the consummate evil. I am sick and disgusted by the Zionist apologists and enablers in my own government and in the media. No decent human being will ever excuse what they have done and are doing and it is my fervent wish that this is the beginning of the end of Israel as a racist, supremacist, apartheid state. It should be shunned among the international family of nations. Anyone with any sense knows that it isn't antisemitic to oppose and condemn the wholesale slaughter of civilians, children, toddlers, infants; that to condemn the policies of Israel is not to hate Jews. Our Jewish brothers and sisters, here and around the world, are speaking out against Israel and have led the protests against the pernicious Zionist policy, which in no way resembles the compassion, wisdom and deeply human values of Judaism. It is quite obvious that Congress is wholly subservient to the Zionist lobby and therefore no longer represents and serves American ideals and interests. This pathetic obeisance to another nation and its vile agenda puts America and its institutions and freedoms at risk. Being joined at the hip with the Zionazis will not turn out well, for Israel or for my country. We are likely to fall together as we pursue this foolish, indefensible and reprehensible project in a world that has reached the limit of its tolerance.
Anyone who would accept this genocide would have to be one sick asshole is all I can say. No one in their right mind can accept this.😢☮️