There is no diplomatic corps or “State Department” in the USA.
All the real diplomats have resigned or been removed and all the senior officials there are CIA barely disguised, so by now only those who want to pretend not to know, will claim they don't know.
And what is the CIA? Its a criminal enterprise inside the state: that’s who runs foreign policy in the country.
But what’s extra special is these are not just criminals - they are almost all zionists too: the kind of people who are dedicated to ensuring that the “chosen people” lord it over the other 99% of people on the planet. The kind of people who can look at a Netanyahu and see……not a fascist leader who should be in prison…. but rather they see a blessed warrior and a bearer of their faith.
Which gets you these kinds of results in US policy:
Absolutely. But there used to be some actual career diplomats there in senior positions who were not psychopaths or megalomaniacs. And they sometimes managed to act as a moderating force.
But we have now reached the point where from top down all the way, they are obvious CIA “jihadists” for whom there are no limits. Not even blatant, case-closed genocide.
Don't you think a significant reason for the treatment of the Palestinians through these many decades, as well as their homeland being handed over to the Zionist some 100 years ago is because they are Arabs? If Christians were the prevailing group, that is white Christians, do you think the Jewish people would have been given their land? Do you think Israel would even think of implementing a genocide on a white, Christian population with the belief that the European world in the 21st century, and the US would do nothing? Of course not, and of course it is only South Africa who is willing to see and speak the truth.
Yes, there is always an undercurrent of racism or rather "manufactured racism" when it comes to all settler-colonial projects. In fact, one of the prerequisites for settler-colonialism to work is to "dehumanize the native population".
Throughout history, this same "dehumanization" mentality has been used in all settler-colonial projects.
The British, French, Spanish, Italian, Americans, Belgians, Dutch, etc. all needed to "dehumanize" the native populations of America, Canada, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, etc. for them to succeed.
No, I'm not trying to water things down. Not in the least. I'm analyzing events at an intellectual level about how what we are witnessing in Israel is far from unique or original - not to water things down or justify actions, but rather to make sense of human behavior. It has been happening for centuries.
I am aghast, horrified, stupified, emotionally devastated, angry, furious, enraged, disillusioned, paralyzed with despair, and a hundred other emotions about what is currently happening.
The reason I say "manufactured racism" is because when one delves deeper into the study of racism, they eventually arrive at the conclusion that there is only one race - the human race; only one species - homosapiens. All the the so-called races have no scientific basis - they are an invention - an excuse used to justify actions and behavior in the pursuit of social status, power, control, money, possession of resources, etc.
Looking at what is going on in Palestine from an intellectual perspective seems to dampen the horror of it all, but I certainly didn't think you were justifying it in any way. My background is in the biological sciences so I'm aware of the fact we all derive from a bunch a apes akin to the chimps, and unfortunate on some level since they are known to be quite violent at times. Love them anyway. That prejudice, that contempt for the Palestinians was on full display when Gallant referenced them as animals, and that was no slip of the tongue. They are not worthy of food, water or fuel, he said, lending justification to the killing of children, babies, the young the old, a whole population. I would rather focus on this since it really conveys the dehumanization of a people by another, a group they never held in regard. Going back to 1948 the Arab world was viewed in the same light, which continues on some level. I really fear that what the Israeli's did, what Netanyahu did and his right wing Likud party will drag us into a wider war, and I hope it wasn't Israel that bombed Iran. This is going to pull in other countries, no regard for that on the part of Israel either of Biden.
Didn't you hear that IDF snipers killed an elderly woman and her daughter by shooting them both through the church window? One of the only remaining churches not bombed. The standard of these people in regard to Christians is to spit at them! They hate Christians just as much as any other person.
For what reason would they kill an old woman and her daughter at church? I am not talking about a singular event either. I am talking about implementing a genocide. Do you think the US during the 21 century would have singled out christian countries, one after the other, bombed them, killed their citizenry, the way we did in the ME? In the US, initially only northern, or western Europeans were acceptable and considered white. However if you were from southern, or eastern Europe you were not, and had to work your way toward whiteness. We still maintain that colonial mindset when it comes to the Middle East. It's better then before, but it is still there to see.
I believe it because of this Zionist mind set. At this point because Israeli children are indoctrinated into the belief (like they claim is being done to Palestinian children) that they are the chosen and all others are sub human that most of Israel is now taken over by this Zionist idea and look upon everyone else to be lesser. They spit at Christians. From my understanding they seek to be masters of the world.
They view their diaspora in the US, such as the ones running State Department and virtually the entire US government, and in the UK and France, as vital double agents.
And the rest of the American people, they view as dumb cows. Serfs whose whose destiny is to serve them, the chosen people. Same for the rest of the west, including Europe, which really haas not clued in at all. I think they believe that if Blinken and Netanyahu are not on stage in suits shouting “Ein volk, ein riech…” then this is not fascism. To be fair to the zionists, perhaps most of these are indeed are dumb cows.
However everyone else on the planet is very clear on it.
the state department told their brethren, it was true,wmd had been found in the river, iraq. State dept is a joke and we never have had a foreign policy
This plan was very clear to many friends who do not live in the 'free world'
As Abby Martin says, all Izraeli propaganda is directed at American people, as they are the ones subsidizing decades of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing. The rest of the world doesn't matter for them, as much... And that is why brave voices like yours are really key in keeping a few windows open for light to get through.
I get physically sick if I listen to any US politician more than 5 seconds - and under 3 seconds with Biden. I immediately mute or skip to another portion of whatever video I'm watching.
I understand, and it's not worth it since they spew propaganda and lies, which is picked up by the media both in print and on TV, and their sole purpose is to spread it around pandering to one side or the other.
Adding to that, the investigation of other countries and their Israeli controlled citizens who come back to Israel to join in the ranks of the murdering genociders, then return to places like little Australia as true Aussie citizens. All with two passports, standard practice.
Now this is happening all over the world based on the years of brainwashing that was carried out in the original and very successful Kibbutz environments after WWII.
Once a Jew, always a Jew because it is not a religion as such, but a lifetime criminal conspiracy to bribe and corrupt to get their way, everywhere.
Just look at the planned penetration in the USA bureaucracy , almost all senior positions and recently, the penetration in the ranks of academia, all planned a long time ago AND ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
Come on America. Find another Joe McCarthy and apply your old standards to un-Ameircan activities. Forget communism as the target, Try loyalty to the USA as your standard and rid yourself go this hateful influence now openly flaunting their objectives in front of the whole USA.
if the Israeli murderes can remove Palestinians from their land, surely the militarised USA can remove un-American Israelis from every corridor in Washington?
What is described here is and always has been Israel’s intention. It is also precisely what Israel has been doing since 1948. It is also what the US has been doing for decades. I see the US has been attacking Houthi ships and killing sailors so business as usual for the US: getting involved in things nothing to do with the US and then blaming the people who it is something to do with for escalating conflict. Here we go again!
Letter regarding critical national security funding needs for FY 2024 - White House - Oct 20, 2023
These resources would support displaced and conflict-affected civilians, including Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, and to address potential needs of Gazans fleeing to neighboring countries. This would include food and non- food items, healthcare, emergency shelter support, water and sanitation assistance, and emergency protection. This would also include potential critical humanitarian infrastructure costs needed for the refugee population to provide access to basic, life-sustaining support. This crisis could well result in displacement across border and higher regional humanitarian needs, and funding may be used to meet evolving programming requirements outside of Gaza.
The US is, in many ways, even more disgusting than Netanyahu's Israel. They could be putting real pressure on Israel, but they are not. Seems they want a full out war in the middle east and/or there is a lot of money involved for the US moneygrubbers. The US has too much power and it has been stolen from the rest of the world.
Yes, I agree that the US may be worse than Israel. But I doubt that they want a war in the Middle East. I really do believe that they (the US) are trying their best to not start WWIII. But their "best" is appallingly inadequate.
If the US was in control of the situation, I think they would have preferred to keep things the way they were on October 6th. They worked hard on the Abraham Accords - which was essentially an attempt to normalize relationships between the Arab states and Israel while completely ignoring the 75+ year ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
The US is already in a war with Russia in Ukraine (I am purposely omitting the "proxy" word here). It is also highly probable that they would be involved in a conflict with China whenever that happens. I can't see what they could possibly gain by starting another war in the Middle East.
The US has ardently supported Israel for so long that they seem to have lost the ability to extricate themselves from all the actions of Israel. They literally ARE joined at the hip. And as a consequence of that, they will pay a price (and be blamed rightfully so) for every action that Israel takes.
I am not totally sure that the US wants a war in the middle east, but I am certain that they want the money that they are making from the genocide in Gaza and from the war in Ukraine. I think where money is involved, the US is always in.
Chang Chokaski, Your arguments are very appealing, also rational. But the way events are building up it is hard to believe that the US is trying to avoid WW111. When it happens are we going to say " unintended consequences".
The late John Pilger warned about " The coming war with China" years ago. It will hardly be localised; it will engulf the whole world.
Agree with you that it is a US war against Russia. Russia is fighting for its very existence. Ukraine is only the cannon fodder.
What I would say to that is - No one wanted WWI or WWII, but for myraid reasons they still happened. Similarly, no one wants WWIII - but it may still happen either because of the Ukraine war, an impending China war, or an Israeli-Middle East war (or soemthing else).
John Pilger: RIP - he is one of my heroes! (Along with Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, George Carlin and Michael Parenti - as you can see, I'm obviously anti-empire, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, etc.) :)
The last war that the US won was WWII. They lost the Vietnam War, they lost in Afghanistan (just like the Russians before them did), they lost in Iraq, they are losing in Ukraine, I don't think they won the Korean war either.
Not a single war since WWII has benefitted the US. But still they persist in continuing to try to dominate the world - either through economic and financial strategies (eg. US Dollar hegemony) or military might (800+ bases around the world).
When I say the US has not benefitted by wars I mean the common citizens of the US. The ruling power elite benefit enormously by wars ("War is a Racket" is an amazing book by General Major Smedley Butler written in 1935 that sheds more light on this).
But as all empires that stretch themselves too thin (like the US is on a trajectory of doing), it is only a matter of time before such empires collapse under the weight and consequences of its own actions (blowback and unintended consequences and uncontrollable and unpredictable variables). This story of the "crash of empires" has been a reliable staple of human history.
In summary: A world war is NOT in America's strategic interests. Unfortunately, the US has become so arrogant, vainglorious, hubristic, pompous, egotistic and narcissistic in its thinking and decision-making that its ability to think strategically has become clouded and error-prone. It's as if the US can't get out of its own way - as if it's in a downward-spiral negative feedback loop of its own creation. And unfortunately, the rest of the world will have to pay for its consequences, along with itself.
That is the tragedy of declining empires that I am so apprehensive of. (i.e. when empires decline, they tend to get more ruthless and irrational in their actions - just as what we are witnessing currently with Israel - nothing that Israel is doing currently is good for Israel's future - but despite this they continue on this pyschopathic and sociopathic path).
Thank you very much Chang Chokaski, no need to apologise. Your scholarly response - with the finer points which escaped me - is much appreciated. I am in total agreement with you.
All those massive underground bunkers the usa built... Just saying they might be planing this.
Once down town I witnessed black helicopters doing landing drills on the roofs of all the government building in the middle of the night.. Flew low over our old industrial loft looking towards down town,, they flew in fast came up the side of the buildings and landed on top and took off soon after dropping down and swooping off.. I watched with binoculars and could see no numbers or marking in the helicopters .. There was no official news or press release at the time.
I think what you are describing is an example of "availability heuristic/bias" or "personal experience bias".
It's common for a person to weigh their own personal experiences at a higher level and with more relevancy than what is statistically present in the wider population (something that also applies to base-rate neglect).
I'm not saying that personal experiences are incorrect or should be ignored or anything remotely to that effect. What I'm saying is that to arrive at an objective evaluation, a statistical analysis of events needs to be done - and any personal experiences should be evaluated in the context of this larger dataset.
What you describe is an example of anecdotal fallacy (An informal fallacy where personal experience or a singular example is used to support an argument or position instead of compelling evidence. People often gravitate towards using their own experiences or those of people around them as evidence in arguments.)
I am extremely guily of doing the same myself - using my own experiences to make judgements and arrive at conclusions instead of evaluating my experiences in a broader context. I work at it constantly - it's challenging - but I've found that placing less importance on personal experiences helps me make more objective and accurate assessments.
Apologies if this comes across as patronizing or pedantic - that's not my intention.
Also I just asked my girlfrind if she remembers those drills that went on downtown and she described it back to me exactly what I was saying..
So yeah maybe the bunkers and the drills don't add up to much other than a interesting hmm?...but I never said more than that... And yeah maybe filling in the blanks is not always wise but they are cercomstantial evidence that should not just be fluffed off and ignored either..
The trick of the way our clandestine world works is it's too outlandish to believe so it must not be real or must be seen as ridiculous...it's like the con artist saying oh don't be ridiculous I'm not stealing from you im your friend,, trust me.
If you saw what I did you might change your mind...
I think it interesting that the asumption you took was that I misinterpreted some normal goings on with maybe police helicopters as somthing more neferios and thus you came to the conclusion it's all in my own conspiratorial head.. I find it interesting that you kinda did exactly what you described you are working on not doing.
On Ben Gvir saying “we aren’t another star on the American flag,” but the US is Israels’s ATM machine. If the US pulled the plug, it would be over immediately. I’m betting Epstein’s list reads like the US Congress roll call.
A good point, Michelle. His list would be long and very damaging, I'll warrant.
There must be some other reason for 86% of Congress members to sell out their country to Israeli interests. Is it media control in campaigns; millions for electoral funding; bribery; threats.
Yep. If the partial lost is actually released and it includes Bill Clinton that will only be because he didn't do each & every tiny thing the chosen demanded while he was potus. He gets tared and feathered once & for all and bonus, a warning to everyone else on that list. Even if they were never there all they gotta do is put your name on it..
Trump supposedly only flew on epstines jet to Mar alogo but that is already being framed to be whatever thing they decide to make it.
Isn't it interesting that we are not supposed to pay any attention to what the Israelis themselves are saying about their goals? That said, this just goes to show that Israeli propaganda is so disgustingly ridiculous and morbidly amateurish that even Blinken feels the need to try to reshape it.
That's kind of hard to do with an ethnic cleansing being livestreamed in real time, and Blinken failed to pull it off.
I noticed today that Netanyahu is really low in the Polls. It's obvious the Israeli people want him out which is why he said the 'war' will be slow and last for months. IF this ends he will be in prison.
If the name anti-Semite means anti-Israel and its murderous inhumane history (with total USA connivance), then count me in.
Proud to be one. Where do I sign?
Remember the Third Reich, ("Third Empire"), which referred to the Nazi claim that Germany was the successor to the 1/ Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and 2/ the German Empire (1871–1918)?
If that's what you have in mind, Netanyahu and your fellow Zionist Barbarians....... forget it.
Germany tried hard but didn't make it and nor will you .....even with the USA as your little bag carrying puppet
USA? How humiliating this has now become. You are now something of a pathetic joke on a fast downhill run.
I know the sociopaths have used my statements to try and paint Catelin as anti-Semitic...but my anger gets the better of me over this disgusting ziopath sicknes
Maybe so, but what of the opinion of the Israeli public on the genocide?
https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/#:~:text=Poll%20results%20were,too%20little%20firepower."Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower."
If the Israeli public don’t support Netenyahu, they don’t seem to know their own minds.
They’re sick of Netanyahu not because they care for the Palestinians. But because he didn’t deliver on his promise of security (Oct 7) AND NOW the casualties IOF is suffering in Gaza plus the North is emptied out (effectively Israel had lost land). In other words Israelis see Netanyahu as incompetent (not the monster the rest of the world sees him as).
A colonial mindset starting with Balfour gave the Zionists the land of Palestine. The Ottoman empire falls, so it's your's if you want it. People live there sure, but they are Arabs and they are use to living under colonial rule, since they are ethnically and culturally inferior to us white European folk, Liberation in this regard for the Arab world is a relatively new thing. I have no doubt that the people of Israel still maintain that position in regard to their neighbors and most definitely the Palestinians. So do most care about what is going on, or that the Palestinians are forced to go elsewhere, or that a genocide is taking place, hell no.
Yes, and the most fertile part of it, but it also meant the displacement of the Palestinians since they resided on that land. It was their land, their country that was given over to the Jewish people by the UN in 1948. What followed was the slaughter and displacement of those Palestinians who had called that land home, and implemented by the new owners, the Zionists.
I wonder what a poll here would show of how many people support what our military does? So many people still think that it is defending America and spreading freedom and democracy everywhere instead of seeing it as the military arm of the globalists.
I am not surprised they don't know their own minds I think the propaganda machine in Israel is working very well. I wonder how many bodies have been allowed to be buried in Israel? If people see hundreds of funerals I guess they will inevitably know.
Read John Pilger over on Consortium News about Leni Riefenstahl and how her brilliant nazi propaganda depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. If there was ever a class with the “submissive void”, it’s the yuppie class of the last 20years. As Chomsky said, never a group of people more fearful, with less reason than Americans today.
Gypsy how could you say such a thing? Kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most of the housing gone and the North no longer habitable, and most of the heath facilities are gone but like always they depend on an ignorant population who will believe their rot. Turn Palestinians land to rubble, and say they can live there if they want is a statement of their blatant contempt for them.
Hello everyone, Please don't emulate the tactics of empire, even in jest. What you are proposing is what America and the coalition of the willing did to leaders of Libya, Iraq, and numerous other global south countries. Who can forget Gaddafi's brutal murder televised live on the nightly news.
I want to believe that. But when strong emotions take over, rational thinking doesn't seem to work anymore.
As an example, just look at how the Allied forces destroyed/wrecked Germany after WWII. Similarly, the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki even though they didn't need to.
Unfortunately, human history is replete with acts of revenge and bloodlust. I really want to believe that that is not who we are, but history tells us otherwise.
And Israel and the USA needs to go for the survival of mankind... Its a tff decision but it's time for mankind to rise up and cut the cancer out or perish with it
Anyone who still believes a word coming from the US State Dept. or any other government agency regarding this war crime is a full-blown chump. That goes for its sycophantic "legacy" media as well. They all lie for a living, especially the nauseating Blinken. Biden is too addled with dementia to know whether he's lying or not, or caring either way.
Blinken is a brainwashed agent, created manipulated to go against the people like the rest of them! There all installed for chaos, fear porn, miss information and Depopulation. The take down of the American Dream! The western world! As citizens snore wait for another handout ! And Cram in as much cable news as possible!
Drink toxic water, protest lousy beer and fill up with preservatives!
Deny anything coming from anywhere but there own chosen propagandists!
Dumbasses all of them! Walls are closing in every day a little more and their all clueless unless told on a cable news show!
We reached the point you reach old age you go to the hospital you are not coming out alive! Everything they sell, does harm to the natural order of things!
The day I finnally get seriously ill...ill simply lay down and die.. I have seen death by doctor far too many times. Close up from family members who refuse to listen to me.
In fact, Israeli right wing 'leaders' have been calli]ng for the elimination of the Palestinian people for years and saying this publicly. They have called the peoples vermin and all the children snakes to be killed, even blaming them as active participants in the uprising. They have been allowing and even sanctioning the destruction by rabid right wing settlers of centuries ole olive orchads, homes, and the regular killing of people, many of them children with the IDF standing by to support/protect these vile acts. By international definition genocide includes the destruction and prevention all the social institutions including businesses, food production, homes, schools, political institutions, etc. In other words everything Israel has been doing to a society from functioning. This also includes the destrution of a people's history such as the bombing of a University that housed much of the history of the Palestinins. The forced relocations of the Palestinians has been a major mark of this genocidal massacre as we have watched in gruesome detail the forced movement of people from the North forcing them by bombing and destruction of the entire territory section by section. This is forced movement of a people. This piece of Caitlin's today is just too narrow a focus on this issue.
Of course she is correct that the US comment was only about saying the nasty out loud but that has been happening for years.
Give the horrors of the Holocaust and how it has been weaponized to keep States and people from criticizing that country it has been a slow and difficult journey to get to the point of calling Israel out as behaving the same or even worse than the German Nazis. However, I am seeing more and more writers and activists referring to Israel that way. The first time I said this to a small group of older Jewish men I knew I was setting myself up for real anger and hate from them. Just using the word sent shivers through them which I understood but was so pissed off at how they claimed to be humanists but kept apologizing for Israel which was really just an excuse for its rotten genocidal behavior.
People need to look hard at their emotional baggage on such issues and separate them from what we are seeing. Even in the US it is so hard to refer to the power elites as supporting of totalitarianism and Nazi policies and practices.
Unlike Caitlin's very short/concise pieces this one may interest follks on the history that has led us to the current state of affairs. It is ostensibly about Kissinger and his involvements but goes back centuries and cements the context within which we raise criticisms and fight against this human catastrophe:
There seems to be no top or bottom to the pile of excrement TPTB are shovelling at us these days. Thanks for the clean up duty, Caitlin. It's a never-ending job!
And I am going to bore you again with my petition. We have to stop the bloodshed. That is my first priority, but we can all do two, or more, things at once.
There must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, not with Palestinians suffering under oppressive conditions, but as a place where all live with peace and equality. It is time for Pope Francis to do more than talk. He must go to Gaza and make a stand for peace and freedom.
They are happy bombing Palestinians from the air without taking casualties on the ground. They’re also escalating the war in the north so they need to fortify there. The USS Ford didn’t leave cos things are cooling down, quite the opposite. They know Hezbollah has the means to do serious damage to an aircraft carrier. Notice It got outta dodge before the assassination in Beirut. All this means things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Agreed. A carrier battle group in a big puddle. The opposition has been working on this problem for a very long time. There are submarines and there are targets.
One flat top to the bottom will change everything. That day is coming.
There is no diplomatic corps or “State Department” in the USA.
All the real diplomats have resigned or been removed and all the senior officials there are CIA barely disguised, so by now only those who want to pretend not to know, will claim they don't know.
And what is the CIA? Its a criminal enterprise inside the state: that’s who runs foreign policy in the country.
But what’s extra special is these are not just criminals - they are almost all zionists too: the kind of people who are dedicated to ensuring that the “chosen people” lord it over the other 99% of people on the planet. The kind of people who can look at a Netanyahu and see……not a fascist leader who should be in prison…. but rather they see a blessed warrior and a bearer of their faith.
Which gets you these kinds of results in US policy:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/30/skgj-d30.html
Jordan Shilton, 30 December 2023
“ Biden administration approves “emergency” sale of howitzer shells to Israel amid intensification of ethnic cleansing in Gaza Strip” l
The State Department and the CIA have been intertwined and incestuous since the Dulles Brothers.
Absolutely. But there used to be some actual career diplomats there in senior positions who were not psychopaths or megalomaniacs. And they sometimes managed to act as a moderating force.
But we have now reached the point where from top down all the way, they are obvious CIA “jihadists” for whom there are no limits. Not even blatant, case-closed genocide.
I'm afraid the only way out is either ww3.
Or the destruction of the USA and Israel ..
For the sake of the future I see only one way... The rulling class must face the guilitines.
Don't you think a significant reason for the treatment of the Palestinians through these many decades, as well as their homeland being handed over to the Zionist some 100 years ago is because they are Arabs? If Christians were the prevailing group, that is white Christians, do you think the Jewish people would have been given their land? Do you think Israel would even think of implementing a genocide on a white, Christian population with the belief that the European world in the 21st century, and the US would do nothing? Of course not, and of course it is only South Africa who is willing to see and speak the truth.
Yes, there is always an undercurrent of racism or rather "manufactured racism" when it comes to all settler-colonial projects. In fact, one of the prerequisites for settler-colonialism to work is to "dehumanize the native population".
Throughout history, this same "dehumanization" mentality has been used in all settler-colonial projects.
The British, French, Spanish, Italian, Americans, Belgians, Dutch, etc. all needed to "dehumanize" the native populations of America, Canada, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, etc. for them to succeed.
Undercurrent of racism or manufactured racism? By putting in some overall historical context you can sound like you're really watering things down.
The Nakba: Five Palestinian towns massacred 75 years ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/15/the-nakba-five-palestinian-towns-massacred-75-years-ago
No, I'm not trying to water things down. Not in the least. I'm analyzing events at an intellectual level about how what we are witnessing in Israel is far from unique or original - not to water things down or justify actions, but rather to make sense of human behavior. It has been happening for centuries.
I am aghast, horrified, stupified, emotionally devastated, angry, furious, enraged, disillusioned, paralyzed with despair, and a hundred other emotions about what is currently happening.
The reason I say "manufactured racism" is because when one delves deeper into the study of racism, they eventually arrive at the conclusion that there is only one race - the human race; only one species - homosapiens. All the the so-called races have no scientific basis - they are an invention - an excuse used to justify actions and behavior in the pursuit of social status, power, control, money, possession of resources, etc.
Looking at what is going on in Palestine from an intellectual perspective seems to dampen the horror of it all, but I certainly didn't think you were justifying it in any way. My background is in the biological sciences so I'm aware of the fact we all derive from a bunch a apes akin to the chimps, and unfortunate on some level since they are known to be quite violent at times. Love them anyway. That prejudice, that contempt for the Palestinians was on full display when Gallant referenced them as animals, and that was no slip of the tongue. They are not worthy of food, water or fuel, he said, lending justification to the killing of children, babies, the young the old, a whole population. I would rather focus on this since it really conveys the dehumanization of a people by another, a group they never held in regard. Going back to 1948 the Arab world was viewed in the same light, which continues on some level. I really fear that what the Israeli's did, what Netanyahu did and his right wing Likud party will drag us into a wider war, and I hope it wasn't Israel that bombed Iran. This is going to pull in other countries, no regard for that on the part of Israel either of Biden.
Didn't you hear that IDF snipers killed an elderly woman and her daughter by shooting them both through the church window? One of the only remaining churches not bombed. The standard of these people in regard to Christians is to spit at them! They hate Christians just as much as any other person.
For what reason would they kill an old woman and her daughter at church? I am not talking about a singular event either. I am talking about implementing a genocide. Do you think the US during the 21 century would have singled out christian countries, one after the other, bombed them, killed their citizenry, the way we did in the ME? In the US, initially only northern, or western Europeans were acceptable and considered white. However if you were from southern, or eastern Europe you were not, and had to work your way toward whiteness. We still maintain that colonial mindset when it comes to the Middle East. It's better then before, but it is still there to see.
I believe it because of this Zionist mind set. At this point because Israeli children are indoctrinated into the belief (like they claim is being done to Palestinian children) that they are the chosen and all others are sub human that most of Israel is now taken over by this Zionist idea and look upon everyone else to be lesser. They spit at Christians. From my understanding they seek to be masters of the world.
They view their diaspora in the US, such as the ones running State Department and virtually the entire US government, and in the UK and France, as vital double agents.
And the rest of the American people, they view as dumb cows. Serfs whose whose destiny is to serve them, the chosen people. Same for the rest of the west, including Europe, which really haas not clued in at all. I think they believe that if Blinken and Netanyahu are not on stage in suits shouting “Ein volk, ein riech…” then this is not fascism. To be fair to the zionists, perhaps most of these are indeed are dumb cows.
However everyone else on the planet is very clear on it.
The United States of Zion, with its capital Tel Aviv. DC is just a front.
the state department told their brethren, it was true,wmd had been found in the river, iraq. State dept is a joke and we never have had a foreign policy
purging these 'administrations' of zionists will not suffise, though.
This plan was very clear to many friends who do not live in the 'free world'
As Abby Martin says, all Izraeli propaganda is directed at American people, as they are the ones subsidizing decades of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing. The rest of the world doesn't matter for them, as much... And that is why brave voices like yours are really key in keeping a few windows open for light to get through.
Of course ethnic cleansing, and barring that, outright genocide was always the plan.
October 7th was but the pretext.
How do you know Biden is lying? Me: When he opens his mouth.
I get physically sick if I listen to any US politician more than 5 seconds - and under 3 seconds with Biden. I immediately mute or skip to another portion of whatever video I'm watching.
I understand, and it's not worth it since they spew propaganda and lies, which is picked up by the media both in print and on TV, and their sole purpose is to spread it around pandering to one side or the other.
And hopefully start encouraging action!
I repeat myself: the only solution to resolve the "Jewish-Palestinian" issue is a single State of Palestine with equal rights for all its citizens.
Please keep repeating yourself. Everyone needs to hear.
Adding to that, the investigation of other countries and their Israeli controlled citizens who come back to Israel to join in the ranks of the murdering genociders, then return to places like little Australia as true Aussie citizens. All with two passports, standard practice.
Now this is happening all over the world based on the years of brainwashing that was carried out in the original and very successful Kibbutz environments after WWII.
Once a Jew, always a Jew because it is not a religion as such, but a lifetime criminal conspiracy to bribe and corrupt to get their way, everywhere.
Just look at the planned penetration in the USA bureaucracy , almost all senior positions and recently, the penetration in the ranks of academia, all planned a long time ago AND ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
Come on America. Find another Joe McCarthy and apply your old standards to un-Ameircan activities. Forget communism as the target, Try loyalty to the USA as your standard and rid yourself go this hateful influence now openly flaunting their objectives in front of the whole USA.
if the Israeli murderes can remove Palestinians from their land, surely the militarised USA can remove un-American Israelis from every corridor in Washington?
What is described here is and always has been Israel’s intention. It is also precisely what Israel has been doing since 1948. It is also what the US has been doing for decades. I see the US has been attacking Houthi ships and killing sailors so business as usual for the US: getting involved in things nothing to do with the US and then blaming the people who it is something to do with for escalating conflict. Here we go again!
Here is the smoking gun, from the horses mouth:
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Letter-regarding-critical-national-security-funding-needs-for-FY-2024.pdf
Letter regarding critical national security funding needs for FY 2024 - White House - Oct 20, 2023
These resources would support displaced and conflict-affected civilians, including Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, and to address potential needs of Gazans fleeing to neighboring countries. This would include food and non- food items, healthcare, emergency shelter support, water and sanitation assistance, and emergency protection. This would also include potential critical humanitarian infrastructure costs needed for the refugee population to provide access to basic, life-sustaining support. This crisis could well result in displacement across border and higher regional humanitarian needs, and funding may be used to meet evolving programming requirements outside of Gaza.
The US is, in many ways, even more disgusting than Netanyahu's Israel. They could be putting real pressure on Israel, but they are not. Seems they want a full out war in the middle east and/or there is a lot of money involved for the US moneygrubbers. The US has too much power and it has been stolen from the rest of the world.
Yes, I agree that the US may be worse than Israel. But I doubt that they want a war in the Middle East. I really do believe that they (the US) are trying their best to not start WWIII. But their "best" is appallingly inadequate.
If the US was in control of the situation, I think they would have preferred to keep things the way they were on October 6th. They worked hard on the Abraham Accords - which was essentially an attempt to normalize relationships between the Arab states and Israel while completely ignoring the 75+ year ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
The US is already in a war with Russia in Ukraine (I am purposely omitting the "proxy" word here). It is also highly probable that they would be involved in a conflict with China whenever that happens. I can't see what they could possibly gain by starting another war in the Middle East.
The US has ardently supported Israel for so long that they seem to have lost the ability to extricate themselves from all the actions of Israel. They literally ARE joined at the hip. And as a consequence of that, they will pay a price (and be blamed rightfully so) for every action that Israel takes.
I am not totally sure that the US wants a war in the middle east, but I am certain that they want the money that they are making from the genocide in Gaza and from the war in Ukraine. I think where money is involved, the US is always in.
Natural gas field offshore.. Funny that all the other ports had been "exploded" except Hifa.
Till syria lobbed a few at it
Chang Chokaski, Your arguments are very appealing, also rational. But the way events are building up it is hard to believe that the US is trying to avoid WW111. When it happens are we going to say " unintended consequences".
The late John Pilger warned about " The coming war with China" years ago. It will hardly be localised; it will engulf the whole world.
Agree with you that it is a US war against Russia. Russia is fighting for its very existence. Ukraine is only the cannon fodder.
What I would say to that is - No one wanted WWI or WWII, but for myraid reasons they still happened. Similarly, no one wants WWIII - but it may still happen either because of the Ukraine war, an impending China war, or an Israeli-Middle East war (or soemthing else).
John Pilger: RIP - he is one of my heroes! (Along with Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, George Carlin and Michael Parenti - as you can see, I'm obviously anti-empire, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, etc.) :)
The last war that the US won was WWII. They lost the Vietnam War, they lost in Afghanistan (just like the Russians before them did), they lost in Iraq, they are losing in Ukraine, I don't think they won the Korean war either.
Not a single war since WWII has benefitted the US. But still they persist in continuing to try to dominate the world - either through economic and financial strategies (eg. US Dollar hegemony) or military might (800+ bases around the world).
When I say the US has not benefitted by wars I mean the common citizens of the US. The ruling power elite benefit enormously by wars ("War is a Racket" is an amazing book by General Major Smedley Butler written in 1935 that sheds more light on this).
But as all empires that stretch themselves too thin (like the US is on a trajectory of doing), it is only a matter of time before such empires collapse under the weight and consequences of its own actions (blowback and unintended consequences and uncontrollable and unpredictable variables). This story of the "crash of empires" has been a reliable staple of human history.
In summary: A world war is NOT in America's strategic interests. Unfortunately, the US has become so arrogant, vainglorious, hubristic, pompous, egotistic and narcissistic in its thinking and decision-making that its ability to think strategically has become clouded and error-prone. It's as if the US can't get out of its own way - as if it's in a downward-spiral negative feedback loop of its own creation. And unfortunately, the rest of the world will have to pay for its consequences, along with itself.
That is the tragedy of declining empires that I am so apprehensive of. (i.e. when empires decline, they tend to get more ruthless and irrational in their actions - just as what we are witnessing currently with Israel - nothing that Israel is doing currently is good for Israel's future - but despite this they continue on this pyschopathic and sociopathic path).
Apologies for such a long response.
Thank you very much Chang Chokaski, no need to apologise. Your scholarly response - with the finer points which escaped me - is much appreciated. I am in total agreement with you.
Best wishes.
All those massive underground bunkers the usa built... Just saying they might be planing this.
Once down town I witnessed black helicopters doing landing drills on the roofs of all the government building in the middle of the night.. Flew low over our old industrial loft looking towards down town,, they flew in fast came up the side of the buildings and landed on top and took off soon after dropping down and swooping off.. I watched with binoculars and could see no numbers or marking in the helicopters .. There was no official news or press release at the time.
I think what you are describing is an example of "availability heuristic/bias" or "personal experience bias".
It's common for a person to weigh their own personal experiences at a higher level and with more relevancy than what is statistically present in the wider population (something that also applies to base-rate neglect).
I'm not saying that personal experiences are incorrect or should be ignored or anything remotely to that effect. What I'm saying is that to arrive at an objective evaluation, a statistical analysis of events needs to be done - and any personal experiences should be evaluated in the context of this larger dataset.
What you describe is an example of anecdotal fallacy (An informal fallacy where personal experience or a singular example is used to support an argument or position instead of compelling evidence. People often gravitate towards using their own experiences or those of people around them as evidence in arguments.)
I am extremely guily of doing the same myself - using my own experiences to make judgements and arrive at conclusions instead of evaluating my experiences in a broader context. I work at it constantly - it's challenging - but I've found that placing less importance on personal experiences helps me make more objective and accurate assessments.
Apologies if this comes across as patronizing or pedantic - that's not my intention.
Also I just asked my girlfrind if she remembers those drills that went on downtown and she described it back to me exactly what I was saying..
So yeah maybe the bunkers and the drills don't add up to much other than a interesting hmm?...but I never said more than that... And yeah maybe filling in the blanks is not always wise but they are cercomstantial evidence that should not just be fluffed off and ignored either..
The trick of the way our clandestine world works is it's too outlandish to believe so it must not be real or must be seen as ridiculous...it's like the con artist saying oh don't be ridiculous I'm not stealing from you im your friend,, trust me.
If you saw what I did you might change your mind...
I think it interesting that the asumption you took was that I misinterpreted some normal goings on with maybe police helicopters as somthing more neferios and thus you came to the conclusion it's all in my own conspiratorial head.. I find it interesting that you kinda did exactly what you described you are working on not doing.
On Ben Gvir saying “we aren’t another star on the American flag,” but the US is Israels’s ATM machine. If the US pulled the plug, it would be over immediately. I’m betting Epstein’s list reads like the US Congress roll call.
plus RFK
It always puzzled me how he could be such a Zionist lacky..
Now it all makes sense.
Yes, Dr.Who.
He had all the contacts and background needed to be a candidate but good sense in the current USA climate prevailed.
He sold out to the Jews.
A good point, Michelle. His list would be long and very damaging, I'll warrant.
There must be some other reason for 86% of Congress members to sell out their country to Israeli interests. Is it media control in campaigns; millions for electoral funding; bribery; threats.
It can't just be stupidity, surely.
I imagine if the US pulled out the Israeli leadership would find another protector pretty soon.
I highly doubt it. IsraHell is a known parasite, and most people are opposed to having parasites.
IsraHell is the tapeworm of nations.
Yep. If the partial lost is actually released and it includes Bill Clinton that will only be because he didn't do each & every tiny thing the chosen demanded while he was potus. He gets tared and feathered once & for all and bonus, a warning to everyone else on that list. Even if they were never there all they gotta do is put your name on it..
Trump supposedly only flew on epstines jet to Mar alogo but that is already being framed to be whatever thing they decide to make it.
Isn't it interesting that we are not supposed to pay any attention to what the Israelis themselves are saying about their goals? That said, this just goes to show that Israeli propaganda is so disgustingly ridiculous and morbidly amateurish that even Blinken feels the need to try to reshape it.
That's kind of hard to do with an ethnic cleansing being livestreamed in real time, and Blinken failed to pull it off.
I noticed today that Netanyahu is really low in the Polls. It's obvious the Israeli people want him out which is why he said the 'war' will be slow and last for months. IF this ends he will be in prison.
Netanyahu is a monster. He should be tried at the Hague and hanged.
I would most prefer that Netanyahu and his cohorts in government be placed in irons and delivered over to the tender mercies of those they tormented.
Lest I be accused of antisemitism, I would do the same to HRC, Obama, Trump, Dubya and others, none of whom is, AFAIK, in any sense Jewish.
Feral,
If the name anti-Semite means anti-Israel and its murderous inhumane history (with total USA connivance), then count me in.
Proud to be one. Where do I sign?
Remember the Third Reich, ("Third Empire"), which referred to the Nazi claim that Germany was the successor to the 1/ Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and 2/ the German Empire (1871–1918)?
If that's what you have in mind, Netanyahu and your fellow Zionist Barbarians....... forget it.
Germany tried hard but didn't make it and nor will you .....even with the USA as your little bag carrying puppet
USA? How humiliating this has now become. You are now something of a pathetic joke on a fast downhill run.
Death is too good for him.
I don't believe in Capital Punishment but he should never be allowed to walk this earth again.
Self defence of the rest of humanity..I have a right to defend myself from Israel and the USA criminal cabal.
Cruel.
Comments being removed?
Fascist censorship here too?
Like we are not grown ups?
I know the sociopaths have used my statements to try and paint Catelin as anti-Semitic...but my anger gets the better of me over this disgusting ziopath sicknes
Maybe so, but what of the opinion of the Israeli public on the genocide?
https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/#:~:text=Poll%20results%20were,too%20little%20firepower."Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower."
If the Israeli public don’t support Netenyahu, they don’t seem to know their own minds.
They’re sick of Netanyahu not because they care for the Palestinians. But because he didn’t deliver on his promise of security (Oct 7) AND NOW the casualties IOF is suffering in Gaza plus the North is emptied out (effectively Israel had lost land). In other words Israelis see Netanyahu as incompetent (not the monster the rest of the world sees him as).
Very true!
A colonial mindset starting with Balfour gave the Zionists the land of Palestine. The Ottoman empire falls, so it's your's if you want it. People live there sure, but they are Arabs and they are use to living under colonial rule, since they are ethnically and culturally inferior to us white European folk, Liberation in this regard for the Arab world is a relatively new thing. I have no doubt that the people of Israel still maintain that position in regard to their neighbors and most definitely the Palestinians. So do most care about what is going on, or that the Palestinians are forced to go elsewhere, or that a genocide is taking place, hell no.
I believe the Zionists were given only half the land of Palestine.
Yes, and the most fertile part of it, but it also meant the displacement of the Palestinians since they resided on that land. It was their land, their country that was given over to the Jewish people by the UN in 1948. What followed was the slaughter and displacement of those Palestinians who had called that land home, and implemented by the new owners, the Zionists.
https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-the-palestinian-nakba-and-why-does-it-matter/a-65539735
I wonder what a poll here would show of how many people support what our military does? So many people still think that it is defending America and spreading freedom and democracy everywhere instead of seeing it as the military arm of the globalists.
I am not surprised they don't know their own minds I think the propaganda machine in Israel is working very well. I wonder how many bodies have been allowed to be buried in Israel? If people see hundreds of funerals I guess they will inevitably know.
Water runs downhill and propaganda doesn’t work unless you’re open to it.
And they open you to it by instilling fear if you do not believe their propaganda
Read John Pilger over on Consortium News about Leni Riefenstahl and how her brilliant nazi propaganda depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. If there was ever a class with the “submissive void”, it’s the yuppie class of the last 20years. As Chomsky said, never a group of people more fearful, with less reason than Americans today.
Jenny I believe he has a FOUR PERCENT approval rating! Jail is too good for him. A tall tree and a short rope works for me.
Gypsy how could you say such a thing? Kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most of the housing gone and the North no longer habitable, and most of the heath facilities are gone but like always they depend on an ignorant population who will believe their rot. Turn Palestinians land to rubble, and say they can live there if they want is a statement of their blatant contempt for them.
Hello everyone, Please don't emulate the tactics of empire, even in jest. What you are proposing is what America and the coalition of the willing did to leaders of Libya, Iraq, and numerous other global south countries. Who can forget Gaddafi's brutal murder televised live on the nightly news.
We are better than that.
Hi Indy
If your reply was meant for me, not only was it NOT in jest…I’m not “better than that”. In fact hanging is far too civilized a death for that maniac.
I want to believe that. But when strong emotions take over, rational thinking doesn't seem to work anymore.
As an example, just look at how the Allied forces destroyed/wrecked Germany after WWII. Similarly, the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki even though they didn't need to.
Unfortunately, human history is replete with acts of revenge and bloodlust. I really want to believe that that is not who we are, but history tells us otherwise.
You can save the sentiment for yourself..
I have a right to defend myself against despots..
And Israel and the USA needs to go for the survival of mankind... Its a tff decision but it's time for mankind to rise up and cut the cancer out or perish with it
Anyone who still believes a word coming from the US State Dept. or any other government agency regarding this war crime is a full-blown chump. That goes for its sycophantic "legacy" media as well. They all lie for a living, especially the nauseating Blinken. Biden is too addled with dementia to know whether he's lying or not, or caring either way.
Blinken is a brainwashed agent, created manipulated to go against the people like the rest of them! There all installed for chaos, fear porn, miss information and Depopulation. The take down of the American Dream! The western world! As citizens snore wait for another handout ! And Cram in as much cable news as possible!
Drink toxic water, protest lousy beer and fill up with preservatives!
Deny anything coming from anywhere but there own chosen propagandists!
Dumbasses all of them! Walls are closing in every day a little more and their all clueless unless told on a cable news show!
We reached the point you reach old age you go to the hospital you are not coming out alive! Everything they sell, does harm to the natural order of things!
The day I finnally get seriously ill...ill simply lay down and die.. I have seen death by doctor far too many times. Close up from family members who refuse to listen to me.
Everything is a scam now..
I do not go to the doctor not a MD!
I am closer to 70 than 60 and I take no pharmaceuticals!
When the day comes it comes and that is all!
I get it! No machines for me!
In fact, Israeli right wing 'leaders' have been calli]ng for the elimination of the Palestinian people for years and saying this publicly. They have called the peoples vermin and all the children snakes to be killed, even blaming them as active participants in the uprising. They have been allowing and even sanctioning the destruction by rabid right wing settlers of centuries ole olive orchads, homes, and the regular killing of people, many of them children with the IDF standing by to support/protect these vile acts. By international definition genocide includes the destruction and prevention all the social institutions including businesses, food production, homes, schools, political institutions, etc. In other words everything Israel has been doing to a society from functioning. This also includes the destrution of a people's history such as the bombing of a University that housed much of the history of the Palestinins. The forced relocations of the Palestinians has been a major mark of this genocidal massacre as we have watched in gruesome detail the forced movement of people from the North forcing them by bombing and destruction of the entire territory section by section. This is forced movement of a people. This piece of Caitlin's today is just too narrow a focus on this issue.
Of course she is correct that the US comment was only about saying the nasty out loud but that has been happening for years.
They are the real NAZIS.
Give the horrors of the Holocaust and how it has been weaponized to keep States and people from criticizing that country it has been a slow and difficult journey to get to the point of calling Israel out as behaving the same or even worse than the German Nazis. However, I am seeing more and more writers and activists referring to Israel that way. The first time I said this to a small group of older Jewish men I knew I was setting myself up for real anger and hate from them. Just using the word sent shivers through them which I understood but was so pissed off at how they claimed to be humanists but kept apologizing for Israel which was really just an excuse for its rotten genocidal behavior.
People need to look hard at their emotional baggage on such issues and separate them from what we are seeing. Even in the US it is so hard to refer to the power elites as supporting of totalitarianism and Nazi policies and practices.
Thank you for your bravery in thought as well as your action attempting to have an honest conversation with the Jewish men.
Talk is cheap. The electoral process will not solve the problems of the United States.
"You're not supposed to say that part out loud!
Now promise me that you'll try extra hard not to get caught again next time!"
Unlike Caitlin's very short/concise pieces this one may interest follks on the history that has led us to the current state of affairs. It is ostensibly about Kissinger and his involvements but goes back centuries and cements the context within which we raise criticisms and fight against this human catastrophe:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/sir-henry-kissinger-midwife-new-babylon/5844581
Exactly. The odd part, we are not exactly making sure our blatant bigotry is hidden.
There seems to be no top or bottom to the pile of excrement TPTB are shovelling at us these days. Thanks for the clean up duty, Caitlin. It's a never-ending job!
And I am going to bore you again with my petition. We have to stop the bloodshed. That is my first priority, but we can all do two, or more, things at once.
There must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, not with Palestinians suffering under oppressive conditions, but as a place where all live with peace and equality. It is time for Pope Francis to do more than talk. He must go to Gaza and make a stand for peace and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Other petitions, including
Codepink:
https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
Ceasefire Now:
https://www.change.org/p/sign-and-share-this-urgent-petition-calling-for-a-ceasefirenow-in-gaza-and-israel
Signing petitions is one small thing we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
Note that IsraHelli troops are being recalled from Gaza and it’s certainly not because of altruism.
Listen to ( the object of my lust!) Scott Ritter. It’s because HAMAS IS KICKING THEIR COLLECTIVE ASSES on the ground!
MORE POWER TO HAMAS
MORE POWER TO ANSARALLAH
They are happy bombing Palestinians from the air without taking casualties on the ground. They’re also escalating the war in the north so they need to fortify there. The USS Ford didn’t leave cos things are cooling down, quite the opposite. They know Hezbollah has the means to do serious damage to an aircraft carrier. Notice It got outta dodge before the assassination in Beirut. All this means things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Agreed. A carrier battle group in a big puddle. The opposition has been working on this problem for a very long time. There are submarines and there are targets.
One flat top to the bottom will change everything. That day is coming.