Of course the killing in Gaza continues. AND, the killing in the West Bank has intensified. I fear that much worse is yet to come...
THIS "ethnic cleansing and genocide" perpetrated by Israel and the US is far from over. We need to continue to FIGHT, boycott, resist... (we may be in the next phase of this global problem) and need to regroup and continue supporting those in need.
IDK, I'll leave that kind of thinking (and decision making) to more intelligent people...(though inteliigence may not be the most important factor here - morality, compassion, etc. may be equally important)
Thank you. Anything to reduce Washington DC/Pentagon's ability steal money from its citizens and fund their wars and warlords for profit, which has been going on my entire almost 48 years on Earth, probably longer.
I have long shared your opinion. This awful regime is too uneven to be ruled as one entity.
Why should we in Michigan, for example, have to put up with the insane diatribes of the likes of Lindsay Graham? Let the “Deep South States of Amerikkka” deal with him.
California would be its own country, as would be Alaska. Probably Texas as well.
I love the idea of the Great Lakes States of Amerikkka; we’d control 1/5 of the world’s freshwater supply 😁
Well covered yet again. Let’s also remember that the west backs this! The trump administration backs this and already have their eyes and bellies large enough ready to take pieces of the Gazan pie! Then there is the West Bank - Jenin, Tulkarm… where Israel has been besieging and bombing towns inside of their own country ffs! Where they’ve also sniped an 11 year old boy just yesterday! All of which are backed by the west! The ceasefire cannot be allowed to derail! If our governments aren’t trying to remotely do the right thing, we must as citizens of the world place enough pressure that they do!
I should have been clear! Never! Israel is in occupied Palestine! However politically speaking, Israel is breaching international law by bombing the country it has occupied.
Something like 33,000 people were victims of the Bosnian genocide, and remember how much was done about it, relatively speaking? A great deal. I've never been one to throw around the word "racism" (it's very real but people have been known to exploit it), but this conflict is so dripping in racism it takes my breath away. It's as if, when it comes to the Palestinians, the world's IQ drops like a stone and its humanity vanishes. It's really extraordinary. I truly cannot make sense of it except to assume that I had way, way overestimated our progress as a species.
Do you recall when Russia initiated the special ops in Ukraine? Our Amerikkkan MSM reporters were aghast. “They look so much like us! They have blond hair and blue eyes! They even have Netflix!”
Doesn’t that say all?
I guess the Palestinians don’t “look” enough like us. Well, I look like one of THEM now. I have naturally tan skin and I recently dyed my natural blonde hair dark brown. Solidarity!
Should have elected Jill Stein, United States of America! No, I will never stop bringing this up, ever. Trump was the absolute wrong choice, and so was Kamala.
Israel is still murdering people, it isn't a ceasefire! As I said before, I'll believe it when I see it and right now, I'm not seeing a ceasefire.
Agreed--Jill Stein would have shut this down in the first hour of her presidency. That's why the military-industrial complex and its lackeys wouldn't let her win.
If you get a chance, check out Nima's interview of Richard Wolfe and Michael Hudson - both economists....great discussion...educative, especially about the "tariff."
What’s most galling of all is the fact that when there invariably is a response from the Palestinians (one that will be allowed to happen by Israel, if not outright orchestrated by them), then this will be used as justification for unleashing yet another genocidal wave of terror, Netanyahu all the while proclaiming, “see, we gave them a chance to be peaceful, but these animals just couldn’t help themselves…”
Needless to say, the western propaganda machine will diligently do the rest.
Yes, They are still slaughtering civilians in Gaza, and in the West Bank too. The Israeli regime and their Nazi leaders did not expect - the bombed, starved, brutalised, tortured, worldweary, exhausted, grieving - Palestinians to trek back to the wasteland of Gaza. They have lost everything but amazingly they are not demoralised.
A ceasefire that is not a ceasefire didn't daunt them. They were reclaiming their land. The Israeli regime is hell bent on preventing UNRWA from providing them with sustenance. While they start again with putting together their shattered lives. Is the world community - I am not including the West - going to stand back and do nothing? Again?
The West complicit with Israel in the crime of genocide are carrying on a campaign which can only further the war. President Trump signed a blatantly authoritarian Executive Order that promises to use the whole of government to attempt to crush the Palestinian rights movement. This executive order has nothing to do with protecting Jews. Instead, the far-Right is weaponising "Jewish safety" and antisemitism ( read anti-Israel) to advance their's and Israel's destructive, bigoted agenda. Right-wing populism has seized control of the levers of power in nation after nation. Still hopeful.... ?
'"Palestinian lives are viewed as expendable, while Israelis are viewed as human beings." I take issue with the second clause of that sentence, Israelis have abrogated their rights as human beings. And morphed into something indescribable in a natural biological sense. Truly, words fail me anymore.
I agree with you however, Caitlin I think is saying the majority of people in the West place israelis in place of respect. israel is dead, they did that to themselves. I am happy about that after they committed this genocide.
Bloody oath, Vin! And one must assume, as they carry out their gruesome work as their god's chosen people, that their god moves in extremely mysterious ways indeed! Can anyone deny that Zionazis's ongoing lebensraum policy as conducted by the IDF (latter day SS) is little different from the original Nazis' policy?
Aw please, I was hoping to turn the untermenschen card on them, reverse Nazi so to speak. And I guess since English words fail me, I need foreign languages. Untermensch German, in Italian, simply, subumano.
Never, never lose sight of their humanity or you become no better than they are. They are very bad, brainwashed humans. But they are humans. If you think it’s ok to dehumanise Israelis then you are giving a green light to dehumanising us Palestinians. As Nietzsche said, “beware when chasing monsters that you do not turn into a monster instead”.
In fact, Israelis are in the west not just seen as humans but as a master (superhuman) race. Palestinians are seen not just as expandable but as a subhuman race that can be killed any time without consequences. But what goes around comes around.
Israel delenda est. Surely, cosmic retribution will come. The moral arc of the universe will bend so that Israel will pay for the holocaust it is perpetrating. I pray that such will be the case.
"It’s an easily observable fact that, under the imperial status quo, some human lives are more equal than others."
That's always been a fact, unfortunately. Usually it's the whiter, wealthier ones. Until we right these injustices, we'll never have this thing called "democracy" they keep going on about.
Unfortunately it appears to prove that at the end of the day it doesn't matter who is elected in the U.S.A. the genocide will continue and the U.S. government will continue to turn a blind eye on all of these atrocities. For those of you who think this is alright take a look around at the little children in you neighbourhood innocently playing and realize that the IDF is targeting these little angels in Palestine. God Damn them all to Hell!
On the national news two nights ago there was a Zionist spokesman who said “If Hamas remains in Gaza people will suffer.” There you have it. This is a pause only and, as Hamas will remain in Gaza, they can count on more bombs, starvation and murder. Trump pretends moving Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan is some kind of vacation opportunity (the first 100 families to sign up get a complimentary fruit basket!) that may be permanent. Why aren’t nations at the very least sanctioning them?
Frustration, disbelief, and absolute hatred for malevolent Colonial Zionism abound. Thank you, Caitlin, for making sure that this community of observers is updated with your storied consistency and daily excellence.
Perhaps this has been noted elsewhere in these so-far 41 comments I've not yet had the chance to peruse. I was informed by another source (Oxfam?): "Five-year-old Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi was killed and three others wounded Monday when the Israeli army shelled a horse cart near the Nuseirat refugee camp." Child Nadia, each one of us grieves for you, your family, your Palestinian people....
It is shocking to realise: it is not just Palestinans who have been abandoned by the world. It is everyone who is against the slaughter of Palestinians. Israel, with its support in the West, and the reluctance of other governments everywhere to do anything meaningful to stop the racist slaughter, has given the world its first Globally Approved Genocide.
Of course the killing in Gaza continues. AND, the killing in the West Bank has intensified. I fear that much worse is yet to come...
THIS "ethnic cleansing and genocide" perpetrated by Israel and the US is far from over. We need to continue to FIGHT, boycott, resist... (we may be in the next phase of this global problem) and need to regroup and continue supporting those in need.
Strength to all! Free Palestine!
It would help if we dissolved the United States into smaller countries.
IDK, I'll leave that kind of thinking (and decision making) to more intelligent people...(though inteliigence may not be the most important factor here - morality, compassion, etc. may be equally important)
BUT, I DO like your idea though...
Thank you. Anything to reduce Washington DC/Pentagon's ability steal money from its citizens and fund their wars and warlords for profit, which has been going on my entire almost 48 years on Earth, probably longer.
I don't see the country uniting any time soon.
Free Palestine!
Hi Eddie
I have long shared your opinion. This awful regime is too uneven to be ruled as one entity.
Why should we in Michigan, for example, have to put up with the insane diatribes of the likes of Lindsay Graham? Let the “Deep South States of Amerikkka” deal with him.
California would be its own country, as would be Alaska. Probably Texas as well.
I love the idea of the Great Lakes States of Amerikkka; we’d control 1/5 of the world’s freshwater supply 😁
Then those smaller countries would go to war with one another. It would never end.
Yes, and that would keep them busy and preoccupied enough so that they would leave the rest of the world alone. Works, doesn't it?
Do you object to the self-implosion of the US from within? Is there a better way to end the US Empire?
Love it, Chang!
Good. Let them fight each other and leave the rest of us alone.
Do not forget Syria as well.
Strength to all! Free Palestine! and Free the World!.
Well covered yet again. Let’s also remember that the west backs this! The trump administration backs this and already have their eyes and bellies large enough ready to take pieces of the Gazan pie! Then there is the West Bank - Jenin, Tulkarm… where Israel has been besieging and bombing towns inside of their own country ffs! Where they’ve also sniped an 11 year old boy just yesterday! All of which are backed by the west! The ceasefire cannot be allowed to derail! If our governments aren’t trying to remotely do the right thing, we must as citizens of the world place enough pressure that they do!
The ceasefire was in name only.
The Palestinians have behaved with admirable restraint.
As always.
The Zionists, true to form, not at all.
Vicious savages.
They are everything that they’ve accused Palestinians of.
Exactly.
Narcissistic projectionists.
And armed to the teeth.
Without any humanity or morals whatsoever 😢
I was taught to believe that there are good and bad in all races.
I will leave it at that.
Zionist is not a race. If was it would be a race to the bottom.
That’s what tell my children…
Hi Liz
I strongly believe that they are really and truly vampires.
And treated the hostages well, unlike the Palestinian prisonners in "Israel".
“Then there is the West Bank - Jenin, Tulkarm… where Israel has been besieging and bombing towns inside of their own country”
So you recognise the West Bank as part of “Israel“? I’m not sure how else to interpret this sentence.
I should have been clear! Never! Israel is in occupied Palestine! However politically speaking, Israel is breaching international law by bombing the country it has occupied.
Thanks for making me clarify
Israeli ceasefires are always phony. I can see why Gaza cooperated though.
"...their own country..." Israelis' own countries are Poland, Ukraine, Russia, etc.
Don't forget Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, USA, Baltic states, etc. israel is cancer of humanity.
If only there was a group of nations from around the world that could monitor a ceasefire and prosecute a Genocide, if only.
Something like 33,000 people were victims of the Bosnian genocide, and remember how much was done about it, relatively speaking? A great deal. I've never been one to throw around the word "racism" (it's very real but people have been known to exploit it), but this conflict is so dripping in racism it takes my breath away. It's as if, when it comes to the Palestinians, the world's IQ drops like a stone and its humanity vanishes. It's really extraordinary. I truly cannot make sense of it except to assume that I had way, way overestimated our progress as a species.
Hi Megan
Do you recall when Russia initiated the special ops in Ukraine? Our Amerikkkan MSM reporters were aghast. “They look so much like us! They have blond hair and blue eyes! They even have Netflix!”
Doesn’t that say all?
I guess the Palestinians don’t “look” enough like us. Well, I look like one of THEM now. I have naturally tan skin and I recently dyed my natural blonde hair dark brown. Solidarity!
The nations of the world could easily do this. They don't. Big Money wants it to continue.
Should have elected Jill Stein, United States of America! No, I will never stop bringing this up, ever. Trump was the absolute wrong choice, and so was Kamala.
Israel is still murdering people, it isn't a ceasefire! As I said before, I'll believe it when I see it and right now, I'm not seeing a ceasefire.
Agreed--Jill Stein would have shut this down in the first hour of her presidency. That's why the military-industrial complex and its lackeys wouldn't let her win.
If you get a chance, check out Nima's interview of Richard Wolfe and Michael Hudson - both economists....great discussion...educative, especially about the "tariff."
Yes this was excellent.
What’s most galling of all is the fact that when there invariably is a response from the Palestinians (one that will be allowed to happen by Israel, if not outright orchestrated by them), then this will be used as justification for unleashing yet another genocidal wave of terror, Netanyahu all the while proclaiming, “see, we gave them a chance to be peaceful, but these animals just couldn’t help themselves…”
Needless to say, the western propaganda machine will diligently do the rest.
What kind of a ceasefire allows people to be killed? An Israel one, at least if the people being killed are, or even look, Palestinian.
Look Arab - they have done the same in Lebanon.
Yes, They are still slaughtering civilians in Gaza, and in the West Bank too. The Israeli regime and their Nazi leaders did not expect - the bombed, starved, brutalised, tortured, worldweary, exhausted, grieving - Palestinians to trek back to the wasteland of Gaza. They have lost everything but amazingly they are not demoralised.
A ceasefire that is not a ceasefire didn't daunt them. They were reclaiming their land. The Israeli regime is hell bent on preventing UNRWA from providing them with sustenance. While they start again with putting together their shattered lives. Is the world community - I am not including the West - going to stand back and do nothing? Again?
The West complicit with Israel in the crime of genocide are carrying on a campaign which can only further the war. President Trump signed a blatantly authoritarian Executive Order that promises to use the whole of government to attempt to crush the Palestinian rights movement. This executive order has nothing to do with protecting Jews. Instead, the far-Right is weaponising "Jewish safety" and antisemitism ( read anti-Israel) to advance their's and Israel's destructive, bigoted agenda. Right-wing populism has seized control of the levers of power in nation after nation. Still hopeful.... ?
"Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of western civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea."
To quote you;
'"Palestinian lives are viewed as expendable, while Israelis are viewed as human beings." I take issue with the second clause of that sentence, Israelis have abrogated their rights as human beings. And morphed into something indescribable in a natural biological sense. Truly, words fail me anymore.
I agree with you however, Caitlin I think is saying the majority of people in the West place israelis in place of respect. israel is dead, they did that to themselves. I am happy about that after they committed this genocide.
A place of respect. Ironic, isn't it: when they should be in a holocaust museum -- not as victims of the Nazis, but as their genocidal equals.
Bloody oath, Vin! And one must assume, as they carry out their gruesome work as their god's chosen people, that their god moves in extremely mysterious ways indeed! Can anyone deny that Zionazis's ongoing lebensraum policy as conducted by the IDF (latter day SS) is little different from the original Nazis' policy?
Agreed my friend. History I believe will place israel in that holocaust museum. I have faith in young people seeing the truth : )
I resent the idea of trying to make these anything other than humans.
Aw please, I was hoping to turn the untermenschen card on them, reverse Nazi so to speak. And I guess since English words fail me, I need foreign languages. Untermensch German, in Italian, simply, subumano.
Die Juden müssen Lebensraum haben!
I thought this up as a travesty then found out an Israeli newspaper actually printed this.
No, really! Perfect.
Hanno bisogno d'acquisire piu terra
Never, never lose sight of their humanity or you become no better than they are. They are very bad, brainwashed humans. But they are humans. If you think it’s ok to dehumanise Israelis then you are giving a green light to dehumanising us Palestinians. As Nietzsche said, “beware when chasing monsters that you do not turn into a monster instead”.
In fact, Israelis are in the west not just seen as humans but as a master (superhuman) race. Palestinians are seen not just as expandable but as a subhuman race that can be killed any time without consequences. But what goes around comes around.
He didn't look like an Israeli? Does that even matter?
Three hostages escaped stripped to their jocks, or boxers or whatever Israelis wear, waving a white flag and shouting in Hebrew 'We are Israelis'.
They were mercilessly shot dead by teenage fascists.
Israel delenda est. Surely, cosmic retribution will come. The moral arc of the universe will bend so that Israel will pay for the holocaust it is perpetrating. I pray that such will be the case.
"It’s an easily observable fact that, under the imperial status quo, some human lives are more equal than others."
That's always been a fact, unfortunately. Usually it's the whiter, wealthier ones. Until we right these injustices, we'll never have this thing called "democracy" they keep going on about.
The Talmud declares the non-Jew as unpleasant to Israel as leprosy is to the skin.
Unfortunately it appears to prove that at the end of the day it doesn't matter who is elected in the U.S.A. the genocide will continue and the U.S. government will continue to turn a blind eye on all of these atrocities. For those of you who think this is alright take a look around at the little children in you neighbourhood innocently playing and realize that the IDF is targeting these little angels in Palestine. God Damn them all to Hell!
On the national news two nights ago there was a Zionist spokesman who said “If Hamas remains in Gaza people will suffer.” There you have it. This is a pause only and, as Hamas will remain in Gaza, they can count on more bombs, starvation and murder. Trump pretends moving Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan is some kind of vacation opportunity (the first 100 families to sign up get a complimentary fruit basket!) that may be permanent. Why aren’t nations at the very least sanctioning them?
Frustration, disbelief, and absolute hatred for malevolent Colonial Zionism abound. Thank you, Caitlin, for making sure that this community of observers is updated with your storied consistency and daily excellence.
Perhaps this has been noted elsewhere in these so-far 41 comments I've not yet had the chance to peruse. I was informed by another source (Oxfam?): "Five-year-old Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi was killed and three others wounded Monday when the Israeli army shelled a horse cart near the Nuseirat refugee camp." Child Nadia, each one of us grieves for you, your family, your Palestinian people....
It is shocking to realise: it is not just Palestinans who have been abandoned by the world. It is everyone who is against the slaughter of Palestinians. Israel, with its support in the West, and the reluctance of other governments everywhere to do anything meaningful to stop the racist slaughter, has given the world its first Globally Approved Genocide.
Makes one want to "gag," doesn't it?