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Jan 3·edited Jan 3

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Talk is cheap. The electoral process will not solve the problems of the United States.

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Jan 3·edited Jan 3

"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!"

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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

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Exactly. The odd part, we are not exactly making sure our blatant bigotry is hidden.

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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.

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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

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