Netanyahu has been bombing "The Hostages" (Israelis) to death as some could testify against Netanyahu.
Some of the dead Hostages (Israelis) knew about what took place to create the false flag that was Oct 7th.
Wastern media never mentions the thousands of Palestinians (including children) held captive without judicial oversight in Israeli torture prisons. Their release is and has been a core goal of Palestinian resistance.
Wastern media only ever addresses "The Hostages" (Israelis).
An illegal occupier,* the Zionist entity, Israel, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Zionism and Zionist existed more than 50 years before the so-called "Holocaust," Nazi Holocaust.
Please read, among other books and papers.
"The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
1st edition (January 1, 1973)
The Hundred Years War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel
by Thomas Suarez
Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
THE COMPLETE DIARIES OF THEODOR HERZL. Edited by Raphael Patai; translated by Harry Zohn. New York and London: Herzl Press and Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. 5 vols. 1960 pp.
As to Palestine, Herzl wrote in his diary,
"We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
In 1896, Herzl published the pamphlet Der Judenstaat, in which he elaborated his visions of a Jewish homeland. His ideas attracted international attention and rapidly established Herzl as a major figure in the Jewish world.
In 1897, Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, and was elected president of the Zionist Organization. He began a series of diplomatic initiatives to build support for a Jewish state, appealing unsuccessfully to German emperor Wilhelm II and Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.
Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary entry of September 3, 1897, he predicted that he will have created a Jewish State in 50 years.
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations partitioned Palestine, the so-called "Palestine Mandate," thus beginning the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine and the Palestinian People.
Israel declared Statehood on May 14, 1948.
dennis hanna
*An illegal occupier,* the Zionist entity, Israel, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Israel, an illegal occupier, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Legal authority:
United States Constitution, International law, United Nations Charter (Article 51), reason, logic and common sense.
dennis hanna
*Why is Israel an illegal occupier?
“The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
1st edition (January 1, 1973)
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.
The population of Palestine at the time numbered more than 92 per cent Arab.
Doreen Ingrams brings to life the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret British cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memoranda and their cryptic annotations, to observe the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate.
Read Curzon, Churchill, Weizmann, Balfour, T.E. Lawrence, and others in their own words.
First, but not the earliest, documents, official government documents, of "Great Britain" show in the "first person words of Prime Ministers," that it was clear intention of "Great Britain" to take Palestine from Turkey (Ottoman Empire) and the Palestinians and give Palestine to "Zionists." To steal and occupy Palestine by the British Empire was 10s of years before the first Zionist Conference in 1897.
(Please see; also, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi)
Second, even before the British Empire's intention to steal and illegally occupy Palestine, the French Empire invaded and illegally occupied Palestine for France and Zionists to create a homeland for Zionists, Israel. Israel, however, was to be a free and independent country, but under the political and diplomatic control of the French Empire.
(Please see; Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole)
Third, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the British Mandate of 1922-1948, working largely from British Government archives, the action, words and records show a Zionist elite determined from the beginning to turn all of Palestine into a Jewish state in which the local non-Jewish Arab population would be either subjugated, expelled or eliminated.
The Zionists were quite willing to use violence and terrorism to achieve their aim.
The Zionist policy is made clear in this quote before the creation of the Zionist entity, Israel, from Menachem Begin, the former leader of the Zionist terrorists gang Irgun
and later a Prime Minister of Israel:
"We intend to attack, conquer and keep until we have the whole of Palestine and Transjordan in a Greater Jewish State."
(Please see; State of Terror: How terrorism created modern Israel, by Thomas Suárez)
Lastly, What did David Ben-Gurion say?
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Simply, if an individual or group of people were to invade and illegally occupy your home, rape, sodomize and murder your [ wife, ] [ husband,] murder and mutilate some of your children and chase off the rest of your children and family members, then would the illegal occupier or occupiers have a right, a legal right, to a defense?
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” [ask them to think.]
Thank you the list. I just bought Rashid khaidi's "The Hundred Years War on Palestine." from a new book shop recently opened in my local strip of shops. There is a prominent three tier display of books on Palestine as you enter the shop. She will be seeing me often.
Why don't the 🇮🇱 Ultra-Fascists release the 7M Palestinians held hostage instead of herding them into some kind of Concentration Camp and murdering them??
It is disappointing that having moral and intellectual clarity are a whole separate skillset/investment from cultivating spiritual consciousness, and even compassionate sentiment.
Today I went off a handle when people on my one of my social feeds from therapeutic and psychedelic communities were celebrating cancelling/banning trauma researcher Bessel Van der Kolk for allegedly "traumatizing" Jewish audience members with "anti-Semitic" remarks by making an obvious and easily defensible comparison between Israel's behavior and the Nazis.
These are people who are supposed to exist in the overlap of conscious, spiritual, and helping professions, attacking someone for telling the truth and ludicrously centering themselves, hyper-privileged and affluent Americans as victims of trauma, while an actual genocide unfolds, which seems to bother them much less. Just because the perpetrators and killers are of their same religion they haven't engaged critical thinking or intellectual moral responsibility.
I feel there is a limit to a person's spiritual or emotional development if you don't commit yourself to a path or Right Relationship with others, and part of that is a personal responsibility to be discerning of what stories you choose to believe. Intellectual hygiene is essential to being a good person, as is self-awareness. It takes energy, but I don't trust anyone who is unwilling to take that responsibility seriously, and that does mean a lot of voices have fallen by the wayside for me. I appreciate the humanity and the complex struggle of such people, but they don't have my respect, and their moral rot makes me feel ill.
I sent a message to agroup of friends as,inh them to consider donating to a young Palestinian journalist in Gaza - eight left the group, I though we were all like minded people; seems I did not know my friends one tiny bit.
Ian Brown, you might be interested in reading the book "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat", which talks (amongst other things) about the world of spirituality and the 'famous/popular' characters/gurus operating within it.
There is also a related Conspiratuality podcast (https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes) that examines many frauds, scams, grifts, cons, and deceptions with the 'spirituality' and 'new-age spirituality' industry.
Basically, the book unpacks the follies, frauds, cons and cults that dominate the New Age and wellness spheres and betray the trust of people who seek genuine relief in this uncertain age.
Hamas does not release the hostages because Hamas is largely run by Israeli intelligence and the whole hostage thing was a false flag operation. Maybe there are hostages, maybe not. It is an enormous show.
>>"the whole hostage thing was a false flag operation"
Nope, you have to have a very active and imaginative mind (and be oblivious of Palestine history for the last 100+ years) to come up with such an assertion.
>>"Maybe there are hostages, maybe not. It is an enormous show."
You are smoking some seriously dangenous shit, Emanuel Pastreich. Getting high is one thing, but for the things you are stating - that takes something else.
"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”-
Benjamin Netanyahu–March 2019 as told to the Likud Party’s members of the Knesset.
Netanyahu did in fact direct money weapons and training to them . Exactly like the US supported Al kiada and others to enable the Global war OF Terror. This doesn't mean mossad is imbedded but it is probably performing just like CIA does worldwide.
My writings are extensive and in the public record. Overall I do not stress a Palestinian position, no. I see the issue rather as the abuse of technology to control society through systems developed in Israel, but also the US, Germany, China, South Korea and elsewhere which are dangerous illegal and unconstitutional.
These same people NEVER ask why 'Israel' doesn't release all it's hostages - THOUSANDS of them, CHILDREN and DEAD BODIES included. The sickest, most depraved society on the planet today and perhaps in all of human history.
There is much evidence both ordinary and esoteric that 10/7 was a setup by Israeli insiders. It may very well be that Israeli infiltrators in Hamas are controlling the hostages. As stated they’re not and never were the point other than justifying the genocidal land-grab.
>>" It may very well be that Israeli infiltrators in Hamas are controlling the hostages."
You're full of shit, Andy!
>>"There is much evidence both ordinary and esoteric that 10/7 was a setup by Israeli insiders."
Nope, wrong again!
Here's an idea for you - you should try some of the "awakening" that Caitlin talks about - maybe that (along with less paranoid thinking) might help straighten some things out for you?
Hi Chang - you again! I called the USA attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in advance to the very day and posted a Substack Note in advance - it’s there and you can look it up. I used the same research, logic and esoteric interpretation in making the above comment about 10/7 and the hostages. You shouldn’t be so rude and dismissive. I’m here to learn from others and you can too if you want.
Andy, all I can say is that 'I wish you the best of luck in life'. There are people that can be reasoned with and people that can be debated/interlocuted with - but for that to happen successfully/productively, there needs to be a 'base level' of 'understanding/principles of logic/rationality'. There is TOO MUCH of a gap in that 'understanding/commonality' between us. I'll leave it at that and wish you a good day/evening.
Sheesh! Substack is full of conspiracy theorists that think 'everything about America' (or its problems) is the most important thing on earth and that 9/11 should be talked about in EVERY substack article!
I've got news for you Jim. America is less than 5% of the world population - and most of the world DOES NOT CARE about America (or 9/11). But you are welcome to obsess about a 24 year old event instead of FOCUSING on the Genocide in Palestine. It tells me where your priorities lie.
9/11 completely altered the global order. The ‘clash of civilizations’ narrative that dominates the body politic today, the same body politic that excuses the extermination campaign currently being waged by Israel, was born on 9/11/2001. Surely you recognize this.
No I don't, and I don't care what you think (though you've displayed the quality of your thinking quite well by bringing in 9/11 into a discussion/article about Palestine).
But just so we're clear - fuck 9/11, fuck america, fuck israel, FREE PALESTINE!!!
What joy to listen to Tim speak their joint (merged 👏) answers to readers questions. Particularly how our own dysfunctions mirror those of the so called external world. Various 12 step programs helped me along that inquiry over the years. Interestingly it was that malevolent force that was Henry Kissinger who said say back that AA was America’s greatest gift to the world. And it was. And he could know that while simultaneously refusing its its insights, its praxis: step 12 invites us to ‘practice these principles in all our affairs’. People power took those principles and applied them to all dysfunctional systems … and gave rise to all the other programs for consciousness raising, to help facilitate the necessary awakenings. They embody the path from fear to faith. In our collective power to change. To relinquish the ‘I’, the me, me, me in favour of a ‘we’. An us. We are more powerful than those psychopathic individuals, soaked in their death cult. If we make the effort to understand that power. Tim and Caitlin model that ‘we’ in their response today. And for that, I am truly grateful.
I too feel intense schadenfreude when IDF soldiers or bull fighters or elephant or tiger trainers get shot, skewered, crushed or eaten.
I don't think spiritual practice makes us into good people who levitate 12 feet above the ground. Practice makes us aware of how we actually are. Which is people who feel like this- which is very understandable and who wouldn't? We bring unconditional compassionate forgiveness to ourselves for being the way we are- which is the product of everything that's happened to us. Then we can become aware that other people are the way they are, ie murderous Israelis, because of everything that's happened to them.
Then we realise there's no separation or difference.
Yes, and I'm the same with such hate agains Isreal and have said they should have a bomb dropped on them, or disband them.
My heart aches for Palestinians, so much so it consumes my days and gives me nightmares in my nights unless I have myself some space before sleep time.
"So when people say 'why don’t Hamas release the hostages?' in response to criticisms of Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, they’re generally just throwing up a completely fallacious red herring to nullify that criticism."
If Hamas released every last hostage today, Israel and its enablers would insist there were still more and The War Must Go On.
Hell, to this day, I see POW/MIA flags everywhere, which is a none too subtle dogwhistle for Vietnam War revisionism ("We gotta go back to Vietnam to rescue the POWs!").
Thank you so much for answering the questions! Here is one:
Are you interested in writing about how Israel is using the same terror methods to terrorize the people of South Lebanon to prevent them from coming back and rebuilding? I’d also be interested in reading your views on the American-led Hezbollah disarming campaign, and how it will affect the future and fate of Lebanese resistance?
Israel couldn't care less about the hostages their leaders and Military are all happy that HAMAS still has some hostages ,the only people who care about the hostages in Israel are their own families not the military or their politicians. They are using them as reason to continue to kill as many Palestinians as they can ,because Hamas knows if and when all the hostages are released ISRAEL will let loose and kill a lot more Palestinians with no restraints when they don't have to worry about being charged with killing Hostages.
Nothing is goin to stop Israel and their Zionist Genocide in their effort to wipe out the Palestinians, except to start using the same kind of Violence they have been using against the Mid east People, in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and now have started on Christians in these places too .
ISRAEL is a 'Death Cult' and it seems like no amount of Pleas or Begging them to stop the killing is working ,so they might have to start dying too because they don't do Ceasefire and don't want any, it will mess up their Genocidal effort to wipe out the Palestinians for their' Gentile free Israeli state that they have been perusing and working on now close to 3 years.
I've asked before, but I'll keep asking when you solicit questions:
When you publish new hard copies of Johnstone, can you please find an alternative to Amazon for these books? I would love to purchase the books, but I won't break my boycott of evil Amazon. (and we all should boycott them as they are on the BDS list: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott )
Have you looked into Lulu for self publishing? They do print-on-demand books. https://www.lulu.com/
ALL Palestinians have been hostages for 77 years now.
Netanyahu has been bombing "The Hostages" (Israelis) to death as some could testify against Netanyahu.
Some of the dead Hostages (Israelis) knew about what took place to create the false flag that was Oct 7th.
Wastern media never mentions the thousands of Palestinians (including children) held captive without judicial oversight in Israeli torture prisons. Their release is and has been a core goal of Palestinian resistance.
Wastern media only ever addresses "The Hostages" (Israelis).
It's obvious Mossad were involved, probably posing as Iranians.
(part 2)
An illegal occupier,* the Zionist entity, Israel, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Zionism and Zionist existed more than 50 years before the so-called "Holocaust," Nazi Holocaust.
Please read, among other books and papers.
"The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
1st edition (January 1, 1973)
The Hundred Years War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel
by Thomas Suarez
Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
THE COMPLETE DIARIES OF THEODOR HERZL. Edited by Raphael Patai; translated by Harry Zohn. New York and London: Herzl Press and Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. 5 vols. 1960 pp.
As to Palestine, Herzl wrote in his diary,
"We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
In 1896, Herzl published the pamphlet Der Judenstaat, in which he elaborated his visions of a Jewish homeland. His ideas attracted international attention and rapidly established Herzl as a major figure in the Jewish world.
In 1897, Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, and was elected president of the Zionist Organization. He began a series of diplomatic initiatives to build support for a Jewish state, appealing unsuccessfully to German emperor Wilhelm II and Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.
Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary entry of September 3, 1897, he predicted that he will have created a Jewish State in 50 years.
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations partitioned Palestine, the so-called "Palestine Mandate," thus beginning the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine and the Palestinian People.
Israel declared Statehood on May 14, 1948.
dennis hanna
*An illegal occupier,* the Zionist entity, Israel, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Israel, an illegal occupier, has no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Legal authority:
United States Constitution, International law, United Nations Charter (Article 51), reason, logic and common sense.
dennis hanna
*Why is Israel an illegal occupier?
“The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
1st edition (January 1, 1973)
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.
The population of Palestine at the time numbered more than 92 per cent Arab.
Doreen Ingrams brings to life the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret British cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memoranda and their cryptic annotations, to observe the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate.
Read Curzon, Churchill, Weizmann, Balfour, T.E. Lawrence, and others in their own words.
First, but not the earliest, documents, official government documents, of "Great Britain" show in the "first person words of Prime Ministers," that it was clear intention of "Great Britain" to take Palestine from Turkey (Ottoman Empire) and the Palestinians and give Palestine to "Zionists." To steal and occupy Palestine by the British Empire was 10s of years before the first Zionist Conference in 1897.
(Please see; also, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi)
Second, even before the British Empire's intention to steal and illegally occupy Palestine, the French Empire invaded and illegally occupied Palestine for France and Zionists to create a homeland for Zionists, Israel. Israel, however, was to be a free and independent country, but under the political and diplomatic control of the French Empire.
(Please see; Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole)
Third, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the British Mandate of 1922-1948, working largely from British Government archives, the action, words and records show a Zionist elite determined from the beginning to turn all of Palestine into a Jewish state in which the local non-Jewish Arab population would be either subjugated, expelled or eliminated.
The Zionists were quite willing to use violence and terrorism to achieve their aim.
The Zionist policy is made clear in this quote before the creation of the Zionist entity, Israel, from Menachem Begin, the former leader of the Zionist terrorists gang Irgun
and later a Prime Minister of Israel:
"We intend to attack, conquer and keep until we have the whole of Palestine and Transjordan in a Greater Jewish State."
(Please see; State of Terror: How terrorism created modern Israel, by Thomas Suárez)
Lastly, What did David Ben-Gurion say?
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Simply, if an individual or group of people were to invade and illegally occupy your home, rape, sodomize and murder your [ wife, ] [ husband,] murder and mutilate some of your children and chase off the rest of your children and family members, then would the illegal occupier or occupiers have a right, a legal right, to a defense?
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” [ask them to think.]
Socrates, 470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.
dennis hanna
Excellent and incredibly in depth comment. Thank you for all of the useful references. I'll enjoy digging through this treasure trove of information.
Thank you the list. I just bought Rashid khaidi's "The Hundred Years War on Palestine." from a new book shop recently opened in my local strip of shops. There is a prominent three tier display of books on Palestine as you enter the shop. She will be seeing me often.
Excellent history lesson.
Why don't the 🇮🇱 Ultra-Fascists release the 7M Palestinians held hostage instead of herding them into some kind of Concentration Camp and murdering them??
It is disappointing that having moral and intellectual clarity are a whole separate skillset/investment from cultivating spiritual consciousness, and even compassionate sentiment.
Today I went off a handle when people on my one of my social feeds from therapeutic and psychedelic communities were celebrating cancelling/banning trauma researcher Bessel Van der Kolk for allegedly "traumatizing" Jewish audience members with "anti-Semitic" remarks by making an obvious and easily defensible comparison between Israel's behavior and the Nazis.
These are people who are supposed to exist in the overlap of conscious, spiritual, and helping professions, attacking someone for telling the truth and ludicrously centering themselves, hyper-privileged and affluent Americans as victims of trauma, while an actual genocide unfolds, which seems to bother them much less. Just because the perpetrators and killers are of their same religion they haven't engaged critical thinking or intellectual moral responsibility.
I feel there is a limit to a person's spiritual or emotional development if you don't commit yourself to a path or Right Relationship with others, and part of that is a personal responsibility to be discerning of what stories you choose to believe. Intellectual hygiene is essential to being a good person, as is self-awareness. It takes energy, but I don't trust anyone who is unwilling to take that responsibility seriously, and that does mean a lot of voices have fallen by the wayside for me. I appreciate the humanity and the complex struggle of such people, but they don't have my respect, and their moral rot makes me feel ill.
I sent a message to agroup of friends as,inh them to consider donating to a young Palestinian journalist in Gaza - eight left the group, I though we were all like minded people; seems I did not know my friends one tiny bit.
Ian Brown, you might be interested in reading the book "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat", which talks (amongst other things) about the world of spirituality and the 'famous/popular' characters/gurus operating within it.
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62874269)
There is also a related Conspiratuality podcast (https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes) that examines many frauds, scams, grifts, cons, and deceptions with the 'spirituality' and 'new-age spirituality' industry.
Basically, the book unpacks the follies, frauds, cons and cults that dominate the New Age and wellness spheres and betray the trust of people who seek genuine relief in this uncertain age.
Hamas does not release the hostages because Hamas is largely run by Israeli intelligence and the whole hostage thing was a false flag operation. Maybe there are hostages, maybe not. It is an enormous show.
>>"Hamas is largely run by Israeli intelligence"
Nope, no evidence for that.
>>"the whole hostage thing was a false flag operation"
Nope, you have to have a very active and imaginative mind (and be oblivious of Palestine history for the last 100+ years) to come up with such an assertion.
>>"Maybe there are hostages, maybe not. It is an enormous show."
You are smoking some seriously dangenous shit, Emanuel Pastreich. Getting high is one thing, but for the things you are stating - that takes something else.
I think I ran into you before somewhere. Sort of like whomp the mole. Keep up the good work!
https://substack.com/@morpheus11112025/note/c-121536787?r=2598xl&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”-
Benjamin Netanyahu–March 2019 as told to the Likud Party’s members of the Knesset.
Netanyahu did in fact direct money weapons and training to them . Exactly like the US supported Al kiada and others to enable the Global war OF Terror. This doesn't mean mossad is imbedded but it is probably performing just like CIA does worldwide.
Take a hike, hasbara
do you participate in pro-palestine protests or other pro-palestine activism?
My writings are extensive and in the public record. Overall I do not stress a Palestinian position, no. I see the issue rather as the abuse of technology to control society through systems developed in Israel, but also the US, Germany, China, South Korea and elsewhere which are dangerous illegal and unconstitutional.
These same people NEVER ask why 'Israel' doesn't release all it's hostages - THOUSANDS of them, CHILDREN and DEAD BODIES included. The sickest, most depraved society on the planet today and perhaps in all of human history.
There is much evidence both ordinary and esoteric that 10/7 was a setup by Israeli insiders. It may very well be that Israeli infiltrators in Hamas are controlling the hostages. As stated they’re not and never were the point other than justifying the genocidal land-grab.
>>" It may very well be that Israeli infiltrators in Hamas are controlling the hostages."
You're full of shit, Andy!
>>"There is much evidence both ordinary and esoteric that 10/7 was a setup by Israeli insiders."
Nope, wrong again!
Here's an idea for you - you should try some of the "awakening" that Caitlin talks about - maybe that (along with less paranoid thinking) might help straighten some things out for you?
Hi Chang - you again! I called the USA attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in advance to the very day and posted a Substack Note in advance - it’s there and you can look it up. I used the same research, logic and esoteric interpretation in making the above comment about 10/7 and the hostages. You shouldn’t be so rude and dismissive. I’m here to learn from others and you can too if you want.
Give him hell Andy. Chang, is your contract with Booze Allen Hamilton, Mitre, or CASI?
Andy, all I can say is that 'I wish you the best of luck in life'. There are people that can be reasoned with and people that can be debated/interlocuted with - but for that to happen successfully/productively, there needs to be a 'base level' of 'understanding/principles of logic/rationality'. There is TOO MUCH of a gap in that 'understanding/commonality' between us. I'll leave it at that and wish you a good day/evening.
You are certainly an example of ‘those that can’t be reasoned with’. Good day, Chang.
Sheesh! Substack is full of conspiracy theorists that think 'everything about America' (or its problems) is the most important thing on earth and that 9/11 should be talked about in EVERY substack article!
I've got news for you Jim. America is less than 5% of the world population - and most of the world DOES NOT CARE about America (or 9/11). But you are welcome to obsess about a 24 year old event instead of FOCUSING on the Genocide in Palestine. It tells me where your priorities lie.
9/11 completely altered the global order. The ‘clash of civilizations’ narrative that dominates the body politic today, the same body politic that excuses the extermination campaign currently being waged by Israel, was born on 9/11/2001. Surely you recognize this.
What is your "awakened" position on 9/11 Chang?
Who the fuck cares about 9/11? Try getting over your 'American exceptionalism' and focus on the Genocide in Gaza and the situation in Palestine.
So you don't give a fuck about 9/11, and because I prompted the question you think I'm full of "American exceptionalism"?
You know what I think Chang. I think you're a bot who hasn't contributed anything helpful to this comment thread.
>>"You know what I think Chang."
No I don't, and I don't care what you think (though you've displayed the quality of your thinking quite well by bringing in 9/11 into a discussion/article about Palestine).
But just so we're clear - fuck 9/11, fuck america, fuck israel, FREE PALESTINE!!!
Look at the comment above mine -> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/why-doesnt-hamas-release-the-hostages/comment/147890134
Rock Island -> "What is your "awakened" position on 9/11 Chang?"
Chang doesn’t like questioning official narratives. Questioning the ‘empire’ is fine. Questioning the machinations behind the ‘empire’ is verboten.
Jim, refer to this comment - it applies here too ->
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-treats-israeli-pedophiles/comment/147205971
Take a hike, hasbara
do you participate in pro-palestine protests or other pro-palestine activism?
All western propaganda we’ve swallowed for decades!
What joy to listen to Tim speak their joint (merged 👏) answers to readers questions. Particularly how our own dysfunctions mirror those of the so called external world. Various 12 step programs helped me along that inquiry over the years. Interestingly it was that malevolent force that was Henry Kissinger who said say back that AA was America’s greatest gift to the world. And it was. And he could know that while simultaneously refusing its its insights, its praxis: step 12 invites us to ‘practice these principles in all our affairs’. People power took those principles and applied them to all dysfunctional systems … and gave rise to all the other programs for consciousness raising, to help facilitate the necessary awakenings. They embody the path from fear to faith. In our collective power to change. To relinquish the ‘I’, the me, me, me in favour of a ‘we’. An us. We are more powerful than those psychopathic individuals, soaked in their death cult. If we make the effort to understand that power. Tim and Caitlin model that ‘we’ in their response today. And for that, I am truly grateful.
I found your answer to the last question very illuminating.
I have seen the 'Israel' in me.
The times since Oct 7th. I've wanted to obliterate Israel in order to stop them from completing their genocide and land grab.
The times I've wanted to say ,"Good" when hearing about deaths of IDF soldiers.
I feel shamed by these thoughts, as I consider myself to be a person who celebrates life, all life.
I cannot reconcile these inner thoughts with the hatred.
I too feel intense schadenfreude when IDF soldiers or bull fighters or elephant or tiger trainers get shot, skewered, crushed or eaten.
I don't think spiritual practice makes us into good people who levitate 12 feet above the ground. Practice makes us aware of how we actually are. Which is people who feel like this- which is very understandable and who wouldn't? We bring unconditional compassionate forgiveness to ourselves for being the way we are- which is the product of everything that's happened to us. Then we can become aware that other people are the way they are, ie murderous Israelis, because of everything that's happened to them.
Then we realise there's no separation or difference.
Yes, and I'm the same with such hate agains Isreal and have said they should have a bomb dropped on them, or disband them.
My heart aches for Palestinians, so much so it consumes my days and gives me nightmares in my nights unless I have myself some space before sleep time.
Your paintings absolutely rival your writing. Have you had formal art training or are you a self discovered painter? Thank you so much for both!
"So when people say 'why don’t Hamas release the hostages?' in response to criticisms of Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, they’re generally just throwing up a completely fallacious red herring to nullify that criticism."
If Hamas released every last hostage today, Israel and its enablers would insist there were still more and The War Must Go On.
Hell, to this day, I see POW/MIA flags everywhere, which is a none too subtle dogwhistle for Vietnam War revisionism ("We gotta go back to Vietnam to rescue the POWs!").
Thank you so much for answering the questions! Here is one:
Are you interested in writing about how Israel is using the same terror methods to terrorize the people of South Lebanon to prevent them from coming back and rebuilding? I’d also be interested in reading your views on the American-led Hezbollah disarming campaign, and how it will affect the future and fate of Lebanese resistance?
Israel couldn't care less about the hostages their leaders and Military are all happy that HAMAS still has some hostages ,the only people who care about the hostages in Israel are their own families not the military or their politicians. They are using them as reason to continue to kill as many Palestinians as they can ,because Hamas knows if and when all the hostages are released ISRAEL will let loose and kill a lot more Palestinians with no restraints when they don't have to worry about being charged with killing Hostages.
Nothing is goin to stop Israel and their Zionist Genocide in their effort to wipe out the Palestinians, except to start using the same kind of Violence they have been using against the Mid east People, in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and now have started on Christians in these places too .
ISRAEL is a 'Death Cult' and it seems like no amount of Pleas or Begging them to stop the killing is working ,so they might have to start dying too because they don't do Ceasefire and don't want any, it will mess up their Genocidal effort to wipe out the Palestinians for their' Gentile free Israeli state that they have been perusing and working on now close to 3 years.
Why Is This Still So Contentious?
Because:
* Israel is backed militarily and politically by the U.S. and other powerful Western nations.
* Narratives of victimhood and survival (especially post-Holocaust) have been weaponized to justify oppression.
* Palestinians have been dehumanized, fragmented, and silenced, with no real power to control their destiny.
I've asked before, but I'll keep asking when you solicit questions:
When you publish new hard copies of Johnstone, can you please find an alternative to Amazon for these books? I would love to purchase the books, but I won't break my boycott of evil Amazon. (and we all should boycott them as they are on the BDS list: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott )
Have you looked into Lulu for self publishing? They do print-on-demand books. https://www.lulu.com/
As corporations go, they seem fairly ethical: https://www.lulu.com/about-us