What we have learned is that European settler genocide is not genocide at all. This genocide is a reminder to all who had forgotten that it’s just business as usual.
“we” as in western colonial citizens, other than perhaps Irish.
The rest of the planet that has been colonised by the west, including Ireland which suffered at the hands of the English, knows the colonial genocidal handbook very well. They experienced it before.
Thus the votes in the UN general assembly and Security council came down to overwhelming votes of the real world vs veto power of the U.S. empire.
Who cares what it says? Let them be bigots, so what. Islam has its own problems as well, unfortunately for non muslims, those problems tend to leak into civil society. The world is not a better place because of judaism or islam, but it will be a better place when those lame assholes stop trying to kill each other. Frankly they both suck and it is hard not to root for the middle east becoming a glass parking lot. Grown-ups are tired of their childish BS.
Very well put. It is kind of intellectually extraordinary that those denying there is a genocide happening, concurrently don’t seem to have bothered to look up the definition of a genocide...decrying what is definitively not an emotive term (but a legal one) as being inherently emotive and, as such, somehow antisemitic...hmmm 🤔
If it were Jews who were being slaughtered by the thousands you would here the word genocide, loud and clear, but as Gallant said, they're animals, so no water, no food, no fuel, which is what you might say about animals ready for slaughter.
Well - we already have based on October 7th, right? A still undetermined number of civilians killed and by whom, backed up by an outdated charter...I also find it fascinating that Haniyeh called for a ceasefire to negotiate for a two state solution almost two months ago and nobody is talking about it...
For Israel, for Netanyahu this is the final solution. Gaza's schools, and hospitals are targeted and are being wiped out. Their homes are destroyed, and I wonder if they are killing their women in such large numbers to bring down the birth rate since they have already managed to kill so many of their children, babies. As a kid I read about the Nazi's and all the terrible things they did, and Israel seems no different. Netanyahu is a thief, corrupt, and this is his last term in office, and many in Israel do no like him, and why wouldn't he ignore the warnings, to carry out what he always dreamed of, a one state solution even if it brought death and destruction to hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of people.
Yep - it’s mental that this deranged individual has been charming the West by saying one thing in a clipped American accent and then a completely different thing in Hebrew for over 25 years and ‘nobody has noticed’...it’s almost like it might have been self serving to ignore it...
I’ve lived in the Middle East, on and off, for the last 16 years - and I’ve yet to met a Western come through here and not felt, on some level, deradicalised
That's why I avoid mainstream sites, and find amazing authors and radio shows all over the net. Rumble and bitchute in particular for videos/radios.
I watch some of local news on tv, but avoid See-BS, Communist-News-Nutwerks, MSDNC, and the others like the plague.
OANN and RT has more truth between them than all the others put together! - and probably why they don't offer them on Xifinity cable in my neck of leftist WA State!
(Although, RT was on for many years until they replaced it with a shopping channel in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.)
Every day I pray to the karma Gods of war to take Netanyahu out in a well placed drone strike.. I know it won't change much as there are a plethora of scumbags waiting to take his place but I would get some satisfaction out of it..
I was never a violent man ,,,unless I have to be... Now I understand there are so many people who deserve it about now strewn across continent's and government officials who deserve a karma train crushing them under its wheels.
Well Chaz, Maybe next Christmas. I never liked Netanyahu, and I don't understand how he ever got to be the prime minister of Israel 3X and he's up on corruption charges. . He's a profoundly narcissistic man and no doubt that got him to where he is today. I remember seeing a film on Yitzhak Rabin who was killed by one of Netanyahu's followers. If you want to look at a Frontline documentary on the SOB, here it is.
The ugly truth there is Israelites kept electing him..maybe he rigged it too but still the idea that they WANTED a hard cold killer as their leader (a strong leader) in their minds makes sense if you are an apartheid ethnic centric state surrounded by their fear of Arab enemies they expelled during the nakba..
1948movie.com creation and catastrophe,,,, paints the picture of the start of the violence towards the indigenous people..Israel was founded in violence.. And ever since they have lived in fear of the Arab revenge..because thats how they think..in terms of only revenge and retribution and punishment.. An eye for an eye. The profound sickness of the Zionist supremacist. So they forever live in existentialism fears and cowardice.
Don’t believe every single thing what you read about the “Holocaust”, Fran. Jews have been tossing around that “6 million” number from far prior to WWII.
Lampshades made of skin? Soap made of body fat? No evidence.
Those “gas chambers” were actually for delousing, as the Eastern European Jews were not noted for personal hygiene ( ask Patton).
CyclonB was employed to delouse their clothing.
The bodies stacked like cordwood included starved German citizens. If those in the camps starved, it was because the Germans had nothing to feed them.
Lastly, a number of experts have concluded that at most, one million Jews were killed. Far too many but still a very long ways from SIX million.
My old sociology teacher once told us about how the Jewish Holocaust was allowed to happen in Europe.
The Nazis, she said, totally dehumanised Jews, gypsies and those they saw as mentally defective. Once this had been done the mass slaughter could be portrayed as merely a cull, resulting in a healthier society. "Human animals", "Beasts" "Mowing the lawn", Amakalites...... Anything sound familiar?
I never write to you because you cover everything so explicitly well that there is no need to comment. However, this time, I feel compelled to comment. I want you to know how much I sincerely appreciate and congratulate you for writing exactly how I feel about this conflict. I want you to understand how much your writing means to me. You are a gem to behold and your integrity, honesty and morality are appreciated a thousand times over. I know this has been tough stuff for you to continually write about this subject. Thank you so much for your dedication and feeling a moral obligation to document this immoral genocide. Big love, appreciation and respect in your direction.
The Zionists tell me that because other people have committed genocide, but the Jews in Israel haven't pulled one off in 3000 years, that it's their turn and anyone who says otherwise hates all Jews.
It sounds kinda like Hillary Clinton's informal campaign slogan--It's Her Turn! And anyone who disagreed was a misogynist woman-hater who was undoubtedly a racist to boot. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
The Israeli Zionists have. Even “mowing the lawn” in Palestine since the late 1940s. With money, weapons and political cover from their western friends.
The quid pro quo seems to be that the Jews should respond to European genocide during WWII….by taking burnout on some hapless people in Palestine….with western eyes looking away.
It’s some kind of perverse payback by permission abusing others. Which of course heals no one and harms all.
I noticed that some who tend to lean psycopath can not seem to get sarcasm.
The interesting thing is you don't have to be clinically diagnosed as a psycopath to live in the paradigm of it created by them. (like most of western society) I call them contact psychopaths.
This person Chandal hardy who is restacking my post and claiming I'm a white supremacist seems to be a perfect example.
Took what I said out of context then preceded to false accuse me of being a white supremacist. Them said I was playing the victims when I defended myself and called them out on it..insisting it's false accusations are true..
This unhinged behavior took me aback. They don't even care about seeking out any truth Its all just a witch hunt when they get triggered..
I have to admit that when i started reading this substack i thought it was even tooooo negative, tooooo cynical—- those things i can provide for myself. But then came gaza and every single post is right on, perhaps because my own cynicism about genocide joe and what he is doing is so great. Thank you for injecting a bit of humor onto an absolutely awful situation.
I agree. But here’s one laugh that isn’t sarcasm—it’s just pure justice: the IDF are dying of a fungus that is in the soil in Gaza. So it would appear that even the Earth hates Israel! It seems that this fungus grew in the soil because of the horrific sewage problems faced by the Palestinians living in that concentration camp, Gaza before Oct 7th. Now, when an IDF murderer gets a cut or wound, the fungus rushes in and boom chuck-a-lucka, they die. No cure I hear. Is that an ironic god of justice or what?
I don’t know, I was wondering that too. It does have to have a wound to enter by and there are lots of wounded Gazans. But they are dying of so much— no water, no food, no medical care, no decency in the world—I’m just kind of grimly glad that they left behind something to kill their butchers.
I didn't really know who the Israelis were until Gaza. And these are the same people who control our media, banks and corporations? Watch out. Gaza may just be a test case.
Thanks so much, Caitlin, for enlightening me. Here I was mistakenly thinking that the IDF was wantonly murdering civilians, including babies, and mindlessly blowing up hospitals and apartment buildings where people were trying to live. I am certainly glad that you have managed to straighten out my deranged thinking and there is, in fact, no genocide happening at all.
Che, when I referred to a “one state solution”, I always assumed people meant that it would be IsraHell, with “equal rights” for Palestinians ( har!) That’s why I advocated for two separate states. But you are entirely correct; One State, PALESTINE, and any Jews willing to live there peacefully would be welcome to stay. The others can go back to wherever they or their ancestors came from, like Noo Yawk Shitty.
I think it's wonderful how patient and considerate the Israeli and US governments are being towards the unenlightened. Explaining again and again, over and over how wrong thinking we are. Teaching us the errors of our ways with gentle remonstrations.
Blessed are we to have such kind, considerate leadership. We all just need to see the light.
Perfect summary. Saw article today in NYT (can't find it now) discussing the "trauma" the Israelis are dealing with... wrote a comment...to the effect that I am much more concerned about the trauma of the parents of the babies and children (you know, those "human beasts") continuing to be slaughtered by, as you pointed out, the REAL "good guys." I am so F**KING ANGRY...thank you for being there, a voice of truth and sanity...
The comments on that op-ed were so caustic that the times closed the comment thread and buried it. You can find it buried well below the fold in World News
Yeah, from what I gather from the comments section of the NYTimes article, it's like all these Israel supporters are living in an alternate reality that ignores all the facts and history of our present reality. I have actually observed this phenomen not just in the US or Western Europe, but also in countries like India. It truly makes me sick!
It's so interesting that you posted this as I was literally just finishing writing something which touched on this. I'm going to paste it if you don't mind:
"The British university professors of today very patiently tell us brown folk with only the 'slightest' of irritation that no, Winston Churchill was not an advocate of chemical warfare. It was only teargas to make those natives run away crying and that is no different from taking a doll from a little girl when she is being naughty, and it is all for their own good. Yes, the Bengal famine thing was not his proudest moment, but the British soldiers were very hungry so he was in a bit of a pickle.
Minimisation of abuse of coloured people is routine in the Western Empire because they abuse them non-stop. I'm gonna get super serious for just a moment: in Western Family Court systems alone, the minimisation of abuse of brown and black women is completely systemic. Here are some of their own reports:
UK Ministry of Justice Report 2020: "The specific difficulties of BAME (black and ethnic minority) women navigating the family justice process should not be overlooked..there is.. ‘a continuing pervasive culture of disbelief, indifference and hostility towards victims of abuse’.
.....
It is extraordinary that in 2023, this is what Western governments and the UN themselves are writing about their own regimes of systematic racism. Even they - Masters of double-speak, Orwellianism, hypocrisy, down right mendacity, non-stop fabrication, pathological lying - can't hide in any of their multitudes of arsenal they have amassed to conceal all truth - the fact that they are malevolent and tyrannical oppressors of women of colour.
I hear genocide experts in the world are arguing of whether the murder of 25,000+ brown people in the biggest assault to human life in history is actually a genocide or not. What more proof that white people are so used to taking brown lives that they are literally still having arguments about about where the line of "maybe a bit too much" is 10,000 dead children later. As the sermon from Bethlehem this Christmas said:
"To our European friends. I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights and international law again. And I mean this. We are not white I guess. It does not apply to us according to your own logic."
There are many moving parts here. In the evidence of things not seen . . .
The Global War On Terror, a rebadging to address the increasingly effective Counter-Insurgency Operations, where Global South, so-called, state forces are committed to removing the Western Occupiers whose wealth and prosperity is out of proportion to their own countries' real estate and resources - Western Europe and Britain. This they understand all too well.
They, along with Israel, built an even larger arms industry for export, a significant component of all their economies and means to foreign repression and vast profits, while creating division in foreign lands.
The primacy of Western, notably U.S., weapons in The Ukraine has been destroyed and so goes their arms export markets.
Israel, a major exporter of weapons systems and civilian control systems, along with its claims to technical supremacy of their systems, including their use of U.S. systems, was destroyed on October, 7th.
Thus a very hard, arguably hysterical response from both Tel Aviv and Washington, to salvage something of their vast military export oriented economies. Among other things.
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On related themes . . .
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
To establish a measure for what is morally right or wrong all you have to do is ask the question: What if everybody in every society was allowed to do this? A question too rarely asked and answered honestly on too many issues.
Israel is "Wrong," Capital "W," plain and simple. The historical extreme of their "Wrong" is on full display, and only some in the Western World are averting their eyes to it, adopting a "This can't be happening!" attitude. How long can this genocidal tantrum go on before it collapses under its own weight? Even the Nazis "burned out" (Well, the Russians had a lot to do with that, even though the "Allies" who pumped up Hitler in the 1930s tried to take all the credit, and their spineless historians went along with this narrative) after a while. Israel's currently crashing the car-known-as-Israel, only they're running over a lot of Palestinians in the process.
"That proves this cannot possibly be a genocide, because if it was, it would look exactly the same as a previous historical instance of genocide in every conceivable way."
I guess there's no such thing as a "unique genocide" then? Native Americans weren't marched off to gas chambers or carpet bombed, but they were "thinned out" over time via disease and land appropriations by European settlers. Nothing like what's going on in Gaza nowadays... So, we can claim it wasn't a genocide, right?
What we have learned is that European settler genocide is not genocide at all. This genocide is a reminder to all who had forgotten that it’s just business as usual.
“we” as in western colonial citizens, other than perhaps Irish.
The rest of the planet that has been colonised by the west, including Ireland which suffered at the hands of the English, knows the colonial genocidal handbook very well. They experienced it before.
Thus the votes in the UN general assembly and Security council came down to overwhelming votes of the real world vs veto power of the U.S. empire.
Where are your people from? Do you have the right to reconquer that area?
Are we all to go back to our primordial sulpher soup bowls? Are we to take or dna and shoot it onto a meteor or asteroid and populate a new planet?
Your 'indigneous' rights trope is garbage, as is promoting the idea that killing innocents is a valid method to martyrdom.
You people are fucking sick.
Lots of assumptions there, neill. Or is it projection? Kindly take a step back and look in the mirror.
What? "lots of assumptions..." There isn't a single one in that post. There are questions that you seem unwilling or unable to answer.
Get back to me when you have support for anything you post...heck, I'll even take a well-reasoned argument. You're starving us.
Who cares what it says? Let them be bigots, so what. Islam has its own problems as well, unfortunately for non muslims, those problems tend to leak into civil society. The world is not a better place because of judaism or islam, but it will be a better place when those lame assholes stop trying to kill each other. Frankly they both suck and it is hard not to root for the middle east becoming a glass parking lot. Grown-ups are tired of their childish BS.
So what if it is? Martyring your own people because of it is a pretty lame reaction. Islam is is, too, so what?
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/genocide-and-economics
Caitlin, you are simply brilliant. Bless you for such intellectual clarity. 🕊️🇵🇸
Very well put. It is kind of intellectually extraordinary that those denying there is a genocide happening, concurrently don’t seem to have bothered to look up the definition of a genocide...decrying what is definitively not an emotive term (but a legal one) as being inherently emotive and, as such, somehow antisemitic...hmmm 🤔
If it were Jews who were being slaughtered by the thousands you would here the word genocide, loud and clear, but as Gallant said, they're animals, so no water, no food, no fuel, which is what you might say about animals ready for slaughter.
Well - we already have based on October 7th, right? A still undetermined number of civilians killed and by whom, backed up by an outdated charter...I also find it fascinating that Haniyeh called for a ceasefire to negotiate for a two state solution almost two months ago and nobody is talking about it...
For Israel, for Netanyahu this is the final solution. Gaza's schools, and hospitals are targeted and are being wiped out. Their homes are destroyed, and I wonder if they are killing their women in such large numbers to bring down the birth rate since they have already managed to kill so many of their children, babies. As a kid I read about the Nazi's and all the terrible things they did, and Israel seems no different. Netanyahu is a thief, corrupt, and this is his last term in office, and many in Israel do no like him, and why wouldn't he ignore the warnings, to carry out what he always dreamed of, a one state solution even if it brought death and destruction to hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of people.
Yep - it’s mental that this deranged individual has been charming the West by saying one thing in a clipped American accent and then a completely different thing in Hebrew for over 25 years and ‘nobody has noticed’...it’s almost like it might have been self serving to ignore it...
I live in America and truth is not easy to come by. It is what they say it is.
I’ve lived in the Middle East, on and off, for the last 16 years - and I’ve yet to met a Western come through here and not felt, on some level, deradicalised
That's why I avoid mainstream sites, and find amazing authors and radio shows all over the net. Rumble and bitchute in particular for videos/radios.
I watch some of local news on tv, but avoid See-BS, Communist-News-Nutwerks, MSDNC, and the others like the plague.
OANN and RT has more truth between them than all the others put together! - and probably why they don't offer them on Xifinity cable in my neck of leftist WA State!
(Although, RT was on for many years until they replaced it with a shopping channel in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.)
Riwaq, I think the individual charming the west did not need to charm Biden. Biden is already almost as deranged as Netanyahu. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-joe-biden-became-americas-top-israel-hawk/
Every day I pray to the karma Gods of war to take Netanyahu out in a well placed drone strike.. I know it won't change much as there are a plethora of scumbags waiting to take his place but I would get some satisfaction out of it..
I was never a violent man ,,,unless I have to be... Now I understand there are so many people who deserve it about now strewn across continent's and government officials who deserve a karma train crushing them under its wheels.
Well Chaz, Maybe next Christmas. I never liked Netanyahu, and I don't understand how he ever got to be the prime minister of Israel 3X and he's up on corruption charges. . He's a profoundly narcissistic man and no doubt that got him to where he is today. I remember seeing a film on Yitzhak Rabin who was killed by one of Netanyahu's followers. If you want to look at a Frontline documentary on the SOB, here it is.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/netanyahu-at-war/?
The ugly truth there is Israelites kept electing him..maybe he rigged it too but still the idea that they WANTED a hard cold killer as their leader (a strong leader) in their minds makes sense if you are an apartheid ethnic centric state surrounded by their fear of Arab enemies they expelled during the nakba..
1948movie.com creation and catastrophe,,,, paints the picture of the start of the violence towards the indigenous people..Israel was founded in violence.. And ever since they have lived in fear of the Arab revenge..because thats how they think..in terms of only revenge and retribution and punishment.. An eye for an eye. The profound sickness of the Zionist supremacist. So they forever live in existentialism fears and cowardice.
Don’t believe every single thing what you read about the “Holocaust”, Fran. Jews have been tossing around that “6 million” number from far prior to WWII.
Lampshades made of skin? Soap made of body fat? No evidence.
Those “gas chambers” were actually for delousing, as the Eastern European Jews were not noted for personal hygiene ( ask Patton).
CyclonB was employed to delouse their clothing.
The bodies stacked like cordwood included starved German citizens. If those in the camps starved, it was because the Germans had nothing to feed them.
Lastly, a number of experts have concluded that at most, one million Jews were killed. Far too many but still a very long ways from SIX million.
Concentration camps in WWII Germany held as many gypsies and Jews, There were also Catholics.
Yes, Karl, I unintentionally omitted them. Thank you.
My old sociology teacher once told us about how the Jewish Holocaust was allowed to happen in Europe.
The Nazis, she said, totally dehumanised Jews, gypsies and those they saw as mentally defective. Once this had been done the mass slaughter could be portrayed as merely a cull, resulting in a healthier society. "Human animals", "Beasts" "Mowing the lawn", Amakalites...... Anything sound familiar?
They made their bed.
I never write to you because you cover everything so explicitly well that there is no need to comment. However, this time, I feel compelled to comment. I want you to know how much I sincerely appreciate and congratulate you for writing exactly how I feel about this conflict. I want you to understand how much your writing means to me. You are a gem to behold and your integrity, honesty and morality are appreciated a thousand times over. I know this has been tough stuff for you to continually write about this subject. Thank you so much for your dedication and feeling a moral obligation to document this immoral genocide. Big love, appreciation and respect in your direction.
The Zionists tell me that because other people have committed genocide, but the Jews in Israel haven't pulled one off in 3000 years, that it's their turn and anyone who says otherwise hates all Jews.
It sounds kinda like Hillary Clinton's informal campaign slogan--It's Her Turn! And anyone who disagreed was a misogynist woman-hater who was undoubtedly a racist to boot. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
And Killary is running Genocide Joe’s election campaign!
Is she? Lol. Can't think of a better reason to place a wager on the Republican if that's the case. Everything She touches turns to shit.
Exactly! No one ever wonders how she could have lost to that fat orange guy, so I guess she’ll just have to show us again!!
The Israeli Zionists have. Even “mowing the lawn” in Palestine since the late 1940s. With money, weapons and political cover from their western friends.
The quid pro quo seems to be that the Jews should respond to European genocide during WWII….by taking burnout on some hapless people in Palestine….with western eyes looking away.
It’s some kind of perverse payback by permission abusing others. Which of course heals no one and harms all.
The typical Zionist cowardly act is to take it out on a weaker people because that is easy for cowards to do.
The abused become the abusers..it's classic case of a domestic abuse dynamic turned into an international one.
My angered posts are being shared by some unhinged zi0path claiming I'm a white supremacist because I called them Jewish supremacists.
They twist the words around and pull out of context your statments and rewrite them to frame you as an antisemitic..
When I talk about how it's done through lying and manipulations they accuse me of antisemitism.
If I use a sarcastic phrase pointing out the ludicrous thinking they have they behave the same as I point out.
They truly are a sick sick bunch..
Yes, and with absolutely no sense of humor.
I noticed that some who tend to lean psycopath can not seem to get sarcasm.
The interesting thing is you don't have to be clinically diagnosed as a psycopath to live in the paradigm of it created by them. (like most of western society) I call them contact psychopaths.
This person Chandal hardy who is restacking my post and claiming I'm a white supremacist seems to be a perfect example.
Took what I said out of context then preceded to false accuse me of being a white supremacist. Them said I was playing the victims when I defended myself and called them out on it..insisting it's false accusations are true..
This unhinged behavior took me aback. They don't even care about seeking out any truth Its all just a witch hunt when they get triggered..
And yeah ZERO sense of humor.
Caitlin didn't even take time off for the "festive season" - how could she when the Israeli killing machine is hard at work doing what they do best!
I have to admit that when i started reading this substack i thought it was even tooooo negative, tooooo cynical—- those things i can provide for myself. But then came gaza and every single post is right on, perhaps because my own cynicism about genocide joe and what he is doing is so great. Thank you for injecting a bit of humor onto an absolutely awful situation.
If you didn't view this through the prism of sarcasm - you'd probably die of a stroke from the pent up anger
I agree. But here’s one laugh that isn’t sarcasm—it’s just pure justice: the IDF are dying of a fungus that is in the soil in Gaza. So it would appear that even the Earth hates Israel! It seems that this fungus grew in the soil because of the horrific sewage problems faced by the Palestinians living in that concentration camp, Gaza before Oct 7th. Now, when an IDF murderer gets a cut or wound, the fungus rushes in and boom chuck-a-lucka, they die. No cure I hear. Is that an ironic god of justice or what?
Wow Wow Wow
Omg Jeano! Seriously?!
Have the Palestinians hopefully become immune to it?
Seems like this is the work of Mother Nature!!! 😁
I don’t know, I was wondering that too. It does have to have a wound to enter by and there are lots of wounded Gazans. But they are dying of so much— no water, no food, no medical care, no decency in the world—I’m just kind of grimly glad that they left behind something to kill their butchers.
Me as well Jeano!
May this infection affect every goddamned one of them!
From your lips to the gods’ ears! And please gods, let Tony the Blinkered carry it back to the Blood House.
I didn't really know who the Israelis were until Gaza. And these are the same people who control our media, banks and corporations? Watch out. Gaza may just be a test case.
As is he. 😤. Sleep well Genocide Joe.
Thanks so much, Caitlin, for enlightening me. Here I was mistakenly thinking that the IDF was wantonly murdering civilians, including babies, and mindlessly blowing up hospitals and apartment buildings where people were trying to live. I am certainly glad that you have managed to straighten out my deranged thinking and there is, in fact, no genocide happening at all.
Yes and now we can sleep peacefully and ignore the whole Gaza thing.
This just on RT:
IsraHell is now refusing visas to UN workers.
Well, THAT’S a good way to try and keep news of your genocide-in-progress from the world.
The apartheid quasi-nation must be dismantled. No two-state solution: one state. Palestine.
All rights, you two pips, it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind 😉
Che, when I referred to a “one state solution”, I always assumed people meant that it would be IsraHell, with “equal rights” for Palestinians ( har!) That’s why I advocated for two separate states. But you are entirely correct; One State, PALESTINE, and any Jews willing to live there peacefully would be welcome to stay. The others can go back to wherever they or their ancestors came from, like Noo Yawk Shitty.
I think it's wonderful how patient and considerate the Israeli and US governments are being towards the unenlightened. Explaining again and again, over and over how wrong thinking we are. Teaching us the errors of our ways with gentle remonstrations.
Blessed are we to have such kind, considerate leadership. We all just need to see the light.
Or be blinded by it! Like when you come out of solitary!
Perfect summary. Saw article today in NYT (can't find it now) discussing the "trauma" the Israelis are dealing with... wrote a comment...to the effect that I am much more concerned about the trauma of the parents of the babies and children (you know, those "human beasts") continuing to be slaughtered by, as you pointed out, the REAL "good guys." I am so F**KING ANGRY...thank you for being there, a voice of truth and sanity...
The comments on that op-ed were so caustic that the times closed the comment thread and buried it. You can find it buried well below the fold in World News
Thank you. My comment was not accepted...even though it was civil, NOT caustic...just factual. But facts are the problem for Israel, aren't they?
The NYT is owned by an AIPAC member.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-politics-mood.html#commentsContainer
Yeah, from what I gather from the comments section of the NYTimes article, it's like all these Israel supporters are living in an alternate reality that ignores all the facts and history of our present reality. I have actually observed this phenomen not just in the US or Western Europe, but also in countries like India. It truly makes me sick!
It's so interesting that you posted this as I was literally just finishing writing something which touched on this. I'm going to paste it if you don't mind:
"The British university professors of today very patiently tell us brown folk with only the 'slightest' of irritation that no, Winston Churchill was not an advocate of chemical warfare. It was only teargas to make those natives run away crying and that is no different from taking a doll from a little girl when she is being naughty, and it is all for their own good. Yes, the Bengal famine thing was not his proudest moment, but the British soldiers were very hungry so he was in a bit of a pickle.
Minimisation of abuse of coloured people is routine in the Western Empire because they abuse them non-stop. I'm gonna get super serious for just a moment: in Western Family Court systems alone, the minimisation of abuse of brown and black women is completely systemic. Here are some of their own reports:
UK Ministry of Justice Report 2020: "The specific difficulties of BAME (black and ethnic minority) women navigating the family justice process should not be overlooked..there is.. ‘a continuing pervasive culture of disbelief, indifference and hostility towards victims of abuse’.
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It is extraordinary that in 2023, this is what Western governments and the UN themselves are writing about their own regimes of systematic racism. Even they - Masters of double-speak, Orwellianism, hypocrisy, down right mendacity, non-stop fabrication, pathological lying - can't hide in any of their multitudes of arsenal they have amassed to conceal all truth - the fact that they are malevolent and tyrannical oppressors of women of colour.
I hear genocide experts in the world are arguing of whether the murder of 25,000+ brown people in the biggest assault to human life in history is actually a genocide or not. What more proof that white people are so used to taking brown lives that they are literally still having arguments about about where the line of "maybe a bit too much" is 10,000 dead children later. As the sermon from Bethlehem this Christmas said:
"To our European friends. I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights and international law again. And I mean this. We are not white I guess. It does not apply to us according to your own logic."
https://open.substack.com/pub/ayauk/p/mahatma-gandhi-the-western-empires?r=32a00q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true
Also "coloured subjects" to its colonies at the time, like India.
There are many moving parts here. In the evidence of things not seen . . .
The Global War On Terror, a rebadging to address the increasingly effective Counter-Insurgency Operations, where Global South, so-called, state forces are committed to removing the Western Occupiers whose wealth and prosperity is out of proportion to their own countries' real estate and resources - Western Europe and Britain. This they understand all too well.
They, along with Israel, built an even larger arms industry for export, a significant component of all their economies and means to foreign repression and vast profits, while creating division in foreign lands.
The primacy of Western, notably U.S., weapons in The Ukraine has been destroyed and so goes their arms export markets.
Israel, a major exporter of weapons systems and civilian control systems, along with its claims to technical supremacy of their systems, including their use of U.S. systems, was destroyed on October, 7th.
Thus a very hard, arguably hysterical response from both Tel Aviv and Washington, to salvage something of their vast military export oriented economies. Among other things.
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On related themes . . .
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/genocide-and-economics
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To establish a measure for what is morally right or wrong all you have to do is ask the question: What if everybody in every society was allowed to do this? A question too rarely asked and answered honestly on too many issues.
Israel is "Wrong," Capital "W," plain and simple. The historical extreme of their "Wrong" is on full display, and only some in the Western World are averting their eyes to it, adopting a "This can't be happening!" attitude. How long can this genocidal tantrum go on before it collapses under its own weight? Even the Nazis "burned out" (Well, the Russians had a lot to do with that, even though the "Allies" who pumped up Hitler in the 1930s tried to take all the credit, and their spineless historians went along with this narrative) after a while. Israel's currently crashing the car-known-as-Israel, only they're running over a lot of Palestinians in the process.
"That proves this cannot possibly be a genocide, because if it was, it would look exactly the same as a previous historical instance of genocide in every conceivable way."
I guess there's no such thing as a "unique genocide" then? Native Americans weren't marched off to gas chambers or carpet bombed, but they were "thinned out" over time via disease and land appropriations by European settlers. Nothing like what's going on in Gaza nowadays... So, we can claim it wasn't a genocide, right?
Unintentionally yes. Disease had wiped out 75-90% of indigenous people in both North & South America before they had even seen any European.
If they had united against euros things today would be very different in ways unimaginable,