There has never been anything in history resembling the evil, sadistic and burial regime of evil apartheid Israel. This is unsustainable, and good riddance on the day it crumbles.
I am pretty sure that we are being governed by people who have no minds and no humanity. People I thought were friends either do not want to know about what is happening in Gaza or worse they support Israel. I am left wondering about how I chose my friends. Was it my youth? Was I an idiot? Or has the world just gone nuts?
We were propagandized our entire lives and were afflicted with the manufactured mental disorders of Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia. We were idiots but awakened to truths. We began to question. We now know the truth and are Palestinians🇵🇸 now.
What you describe about friends and family is also what I'm faced with. My daughters and niece are with us!🇵🇸
No question but that we are ruled by sociopaths. This inevitably happens in any society, as sociopaths are precisely the people who will do whatever it takes to get power.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and its corollary, The Iron Law Of Institutions.
Yep, had everything from "They're as bad as each other" to "You're just against the Jews". What sickens me most is that they don't actually care, but are moved to say something to protect - of all things - their egos.
Whoever ends up populating Gaza in the future will have to deal with alarmingly high cancer rates and other nasty health ailments. Depleted Uranium, toxic chemicals, asbestos, petroleum by-products and who knows what else are all over the place now. Seriously, fuck Israel.
Great anthem for our times. I like your version of the pledge of allegiance too. I’m a member of a tractor club along with my Dad and before every meeting(we meet the first Thursday of the month) we have to pray and say the pledge of allegiance too. I can no longer say those words b/c of my country’s government’s active complicity in this GENOCIDE. Thank you for sharing. Fuck Israel, Free Palestine!! 😢☮️🇵🇸
Wow, they make you say the pledge at the tractor club? I know how you feel... I attended a naturalization ceremony a couple years ago and we all had to stand up and say the pledge and sing the Star-Spangled Banana and I just couldn't. I just stand and pretend to be saying the pledge and singing but I just can't anymore... I've repainted a lot of red-white-blue decorations I've had to rainbows for Pride Month so at least I get some use out of those.
I just stand there and go thru the motions and I really despise the star spangled banner or banana, it should be called (lol). There is a guy in our club who I believe is a Christian Zionist b/c one year at the Christmas party he prayed for Israel and mentioned 10/07/23. Made me sick to hear it. He wears a cap sometimes that says something about Jerusalem on it and will “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” on several occasions. I don’t believe for a second he’s praying for Gaza/Palestinians. I’ve always felt our national anthem should be “America the Beautiful” and love Ray Charles’s version of it. I’m not proud of this country right now. 😢☮️🇵🇸
And according to medical experts, Israelis are already breathing in massive amounts of atomised toxins and human tissue. Their destruction and mass murder in Gaza may just be the poison that destroys many Israelis long term.
"They’re talking about turning the desert planet Mars into a thriving biosphere while we’re turning our own thriving biosphere into a desert planet."
This is a perfect analogy of how sick in the head these destructive bastards are. They will nuke, starve, genocide, pollute, and bomb to death their fellow humans and destroy the environment without a thought, but somehow the elite of the elites will have a "blooming desert" to dwell in afterwards. Sounds like something a zy0nist settler would say or Elon Musk... Insane sociopaths alike.
India should not even be in Kashmir. It is a colonial expansionist state and it has been murdering Muslims and Christians for centuries and more so since the India created by the British, which cobbled together warring kingdoms, became independent.
India's colonial domination of Kashmir is why the Pakistanis are concerned. And like the Palestinians the poor Kashmiris are the meat in the colonial sandwich.
No no. I was not trying to suggest that the Indians putting their sticky noses anywhere can be justified. Not even by the (formerly?) great British Empire. Merely an observation.
>>"Scientists are reporting a stunning 63 percent decline in populations of flying insects in the United Kingdom since 2021."
Humans have been killing thousands (if not millions) of species for a while now (often deliberately). What gives HUMANS the right to reign superior over the rest of the inhabitants of the Earth?
Humans seem to be the MOST dangerous and threatening species around (IMHO). Something to think about...(and I'm not talking about just Gaza...)
I can remember when my car windscreen had to be cleaned regularly during the summer months because of insects getting splatted when driving. I have noticed for sometime, it no longer happens ☹️
Seems like a good case could be made that the flawed hominid experiment is drawing to its inevitable conclusion. We, being the last of the hominids, well, maybe, we were the best of the bunch, or the worst. I'm not sure which would be better, if any thing could, to salve our souls.
I went to the hyperlinked Guardian article which describes having citizen scientists counting bug splats on license plates. Although Caitlin equates decline of bug splat count percentage in the Guardian article to actual decline in flying insect population, I couldn’t help wondering if the percentage of decline is actually greater (perhaps far greater). I have no background in Entomology (though when I happen to read anything regarding that subject, I find it fascinating) but I started wondering things like whether there are many flying insects that live their entire lives, or congregate mainly, around areas NOT near roadways, whose populations are declining more rapidly (I suppose someone could also wonder the opposite as well, but that would seem to go counter to what new articles are saying about insect decline). Anyway, just wondering.
I live rurally. If you want some flying biting insects come and get some from out here. Maybe avoiding roadways is an evolutionary step in the battle for survival. Given all the woke/environmental horse shit that is going around why would you take this as the gospel?
What will it take to stop Israel at this point? The leaders are the only ones who can intervene and their indifference is stunning. They obviously have no intention of doing anything even though all Western nations strut around claiming to be democracies. No amount of protest seems to concern them in the least. What next? Will Israel put in an order for cattle cars? It’s as if they’re taunting people to confront them with the obvious comparisons to the Holocaust.
They say “never forget” — thanks for the advice. We won’t.
Yes SW, you are spot on! When the zionist regime was at the start of its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, I thought - even if the US was fully behind Israel - that the European states and their governments will protest and put a stop to the beginning of a carnage. That they will condemn it at the UN; cut off diplomatic relations; stop giving succour to an apartheid regime. Boycott and divest.
What happened was exactly the opposite.The old colonial regimes were fully behind the neo-colonialists and the new settler colonial state. And still they play dumb and are silent while witnessing the live streamed second holocaust bringing untold misery for a colonised people. They do not have democracy but are clever at equating neoliberal capitalism with democracy, their freedoms go only so far as to enable the market. Made obvious by the numerous arrests when the citizenry protest the genocide of the Palestinians. Will the Zionist regime be so bold and brazen if it weren't sure of the Western block support....
Sadly the cause and effect of old colonial enterprises are playing out even today with the latest India/ Pakistan conflict. The British in their final act of malevolence in vacating the empire laid the groundwork for dividing India resulting in millions of deaths. More innocents will die if Modi emboldened by the Israeli example starts a useless war.
The former colonies with their colonised mindset, instead of getting together against a common enemy are destroying each other - another step in the cause and effect of things.
Certainly a good start, and within our means to do, as a majority of Americans are in favor of doing just that. Uh-oh, few people in Congress have a backbone and many are bought by AIPAC.
“U.S. Navy Loses Third F-18E/F Super Hornet Fighter During Yemeni Air Campaign
The U.S. Navy has lost a second F-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft in little over a week according to a report by CNN… while taking part in the ongoing air campaign against the Yemen...”
“time to admit that Israel is a sick society. The Israeli Holocaust against the Palestinians is worse than the Nazis”, Reuben Rivlin , Israeli President.
India should not even be in Kashmir. It is a colonial expansionist state and it has been murdering Muslims and Christians for centuries and more so since the India created by the British, which cobbled together warring kingdoms, became independent.
India's colonial domination of Kashmir is why the Pakistanis are concerned. And like the Palestinians the poor Kashmiris are the meat in the colonial sandwich.
TLDR version and retort to most of your comments: European colonial powers should not have even been in India or anywhere else, ever. All of this stems from their meddling and arbitrary partitioning of land and people to suit imperial diktats and economic benefits.
you cannot retrofit modern values to the past. Everyone colonised in past centuries not just Europeans. Asians, Africans, Indians, Polynesians were all colonising. One thing which pushed the British to create India as a unified entity was the savagery, warring and colonisation by the many Kingdoms.
The Indians have chosen, since independence to become colonial rulers in Kashmir and meddlers in Nepal. That cannot be blamed on the British because the Indians were colonising before the British ever arrived.
I can assure you that the Indians today are delighted the British created them as an entity, uniting north and south and pacifying the warring kingdoms.
"The Indians" - there you go lumping everyone in the most densely populated (and populous) country on Earth into a single group.
Of course other civilizations engaged in some form of "colonialism" or settler-colonialism/expansion. The difference is the industrial scale used by the European and American imperial seafaring powers and the systematized brutality and wanton cruelty/dehumanization/racism they engaged in for counter-insurgency and pacification.
You couldn't produce a single 'scientific' argument for why India or any other former European colony is "better off" today that doesn't rely on BS like having shopping malls or interior plumbing. Those civilizations were far more highly advanced than propagandists and western chauvinists like you are fond of pretending.
By the use of the term Indians, we mean the citizens of the country called India in the same way we talk about Americans who are citizens of the US. Of course there is diversity and indeed southern, Dravidian Indians were totally different to the northern, Aryan, heavily intermixed with Europeans, Indians.
If you study the Mongols there was an industrial scale to their invasions and occupations. Same for the Egyptians, Romans and others.
I think what you mean is that you know more about British and anglo-european colonisations than you do say about African tribes doing the same thing, or the Arabs.
And can you provide evidence for your claims of wanton cruelty and dehumanization by the British please. And you chide me for using a term in general for the Indians. Oh, and make sure it is in context. Do not compare different centuries. Context is critical.
It is irrelevant to create hypothetical scenarios about what India might have been like if the British had not ruled it for centuries. It would not be one united country, it would not have the extensive rail and road network, Bombay and Madras and other cities would not exist and the Taj Mahal and other great Moorish structures would be rubble.
And it would be equally idiotic about the British to moan about who and what they could have been if they had never been invaded and colonised by Celts, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Vikings, Romans, Normans etc. All of those colonisations actually created the unique nature, culture and quality of the English. I suggest you watch the comedy skit, WHAT DID THE ROMANS DO FOR US, and remember it applies to every colonised people and is a reminder to stop moaning.
Rosslyn Ross is a full-blown colonialist and Genocide apologist. The only reason she sides with the Palestinians is because she is also a Jew-hater and a white supremacist (as observed by many of her comments).
The correct thing to say is that all Empires, including the British did good in some respects. Because no-one gets it all wrong.
The greatest Empire of all, Mongol, was renowned for its savagery but it was not all bad. Same for Egyptian, Sumerian, Roman, Ottoman, Moors, Spaniards, Portugese etc.
The British Empire did some admirable things i.e. in India it saved the Tam Jahal and other great Moorish buildings which the Hindus wanted to see fall down. What a loss for humanity that would have been.
And they translated the ancient Vedic scripts into Hindi so ordinary Indians could read them and not just Brahmins.
Just two of many positives. Tell me, why do you believe that British colonisation was always so bad? Indeed India would not exist as it does today if the British had not ruled it for centuries and cobbled the warring kingdoms together. Modern India is dependent on British rail, roads, utilities and could not survive without them.
I would humbly suggest that despite the Indian confidence in its own brilliance and superiority the nation has hardly excelled since independence. I do not think spending billions on space programmes and the military is an achievement when most Indians still shit in the street and the Government and powerful do not care.
As Ghandi said, if the Government wanted every Indian to have a flushing toilet it would happen. The caste-ridden Indian society is one of the most racist, unjust and misogynistic on earth.
It is because India wants to control Kashmir that Pakistan is there. One would think India had enough to do to look after its people rather than playing colonial bully. China has done far, far more for its people than India has.
Too depressing and heartbreaking - is there any hope anywhere?
And insects- I have a fair few flowering plants in my garden ( planted to attract Insects) the other day saw one bee and one butterfly, that's it( Sydney where it's a ridiculous 27 degrees today)
I no longer trust the phrase "terror attack" since nowadays it could mean a resistance operation, a protestor saying "stop genocide" or a Muslim sneezing. Does anyone know what happened in Kashmir, from alternative media sources?
There is a long history of border conflicts (that's the background) between India and Pakistan. This is the latest in the ongoing tit-for-tat border fighting/terrorist attacks.
In brief, since Modi came to power in 2014, he has been converting India into a Hindu nationalist state (instead of the secular republic as written in the Indian constitution). Indian-controlled Kashmir is the only Muslim majority state in India. Modi is trying to convert Indian-controlled Kashmir into a Hindu majority state by changing laws and clamping down on the Kashmiri people. (BTW, There is also a Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and a Chinese-controlled Kashmir). Just as the British colonized the ME and divided Palestine into Israel and Palestine, the British divided India into Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
There is much more to the history, but basically it is the Hindutva ideology of the BJP (Modi's party) that has been causing most of the problems in Kashmir (and the rest of India).
One might also add the CIA's long term relations with the Dali Lama in Tibet, the practice of effective class/caste slavery, and China's rightful claims to the region.
No, I'm not going to refer to the CIA here - as it is extraneous to the Kashmiri issue.
Also, this is not an issue about class/caste slavery or a dispute with China (which is a separate concern not on the same level as the border disputes with Pakistan).
Chang, I gotta ask: You patrol this comment section day and night. I typically agree with your statements, but am curious. How do you have the time or mental bandwidth for so much Substack commentary?
No longer? Hell, the entire Star Wars movie franchise is based on the fact that the imperial powers and their proxies (US - Israel) have always labeled inconvenient and rebellious indigenous people as "terrorists" - it's baked into the cake. And you're god damned right - the Houthis, Hamas and a few others are the only legitimate resistance groups that have the balls and the conviction to stick to their guns in the face of massive military and economic forces.
On India-Pakistan, I wonder what the situation would be if the US didn't engineer/push along the soft coup of Imran Khan?
>>"On India-Pakistan, I wonder what the situation would be if the US didn't engineer/push along the soft coup of Imran Khan?"
This incident/on-going dispute has NOTHING to do with Imran Khan or the US doing anything to Pakistan. There is a long history on the Kashmiri conflict going back to the partition of India in 1947.
If you don't think Khan would have handled recent events differently, then it's a purely speculative argument we'd be having. "They" got rid of him for a reason, though, and that's not excusing Modi's hindutva supremacist bullshit, which I think we can all easily call out.
All I can write, over and over and over again, is GOD DAMN BERSERK, COLONIAL/GENOCIDAL ZIONISM!--every element of it, of course including 'Christian' Zionism.
(I've been noting what I term credible nuggets of data that the elegant/passionate SR for Palestine Francesca Albanese is seriously on the hit list for assassination. Possible/probable? With Colonial/Genocidal Zionism, of course, ANYTHING is on the table....)
The Yemen war won't de-escalate any time soon. The Houthis will continue to strike Israel with their missiles and drones as long as Israel attacks Gaza and the West Bank. The only way for Netanyahu to stay out of jail is to continue the ethnic cleansing. Trump either doesn't understand the Houthis' position, or he's getting tired of being led around by the nose by Bibi!
Kashmir was supposed to get independence during the Indian partition. The centuries of hate the British stoked between Hindus and Muslims in order to "divide and counquer" has left its mark. Kahsmir could have been the shining example of peacful coxesistance.
There has never been anything in history resembling the evil, sadistic and burial regime of evil apartheid Israel. This is unsustainable, and good riddance on the day it crumbles.
The way it all seems to be heading, it'll likely take the rest of us with it.
Seems that way to me too.
I am so confused. I don't even know what I'm looking at anymore.
It's either the world has lost its mind, or I have lost mine.
I am pretty sure that we are being governed by people who have no minds and no humanity. People I thought were friends either do not want to know about what is happening in Gaza or worse they support Israel. I am left wondering about how I chose my friends. Was it my youth? Was I an idiot? Or has the world just gone nuts?
You’re awake.
I have one friend I trust, and people I see on my walks. I’m a loner for a reason.
People are sound asleep. God is my Hightower🕊️…and Nature…🕊️🌻🌞🌲🌊…
Every one here is awake! We're ALL Palestinians🇵🇸 now!
We must act! It's the deed that counts! Support the Freedom Flotilla Coalition!🇵🇸
We were propagandized our entire lives and were afflicted with the manufactured mental disorders of Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia. We were idiots but awakened to truths. We began to question. We now know the truth and are Palestinians🇵🇸 now.
What you describe about friends and family is also what I'm faced with. My daughters and niece are with us!🇵🇸
Check out Freedom Flotilla Coalition!🇵🇸
No question but that we are ruled by sociopaths. This inevitably happens in any society, as sociopaths are precisely the people who will do whatever it takes to get power.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and its corollary, The Iron Law Of Institutions.
Yep, had everything from "They're as bad as each other" to "You're just against the Jews". What sickens me most is that they don't actually care, but are moved to say something to protect - of all things - their egos.
Hint: Your mind (and moral compass) is not lost.
Whoever ends up populating Gaza in the future will have to deal with alarmingly high cancer rates and other nasty health ailments. Depleted Uranium, toxic chemicals, asbestos, petroleum by-products and who knows what else are all over the place now. Seriously, fuck Israel.
Agreed. Fuck Israel! Free Palestine! (The title of my protest song: https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/an-anthem-for-our-times )
Great anthem for our times. I like your version of the pledge of allegiance too. I’m a member of a tractor club along with my Dad and before every meeting(we meet the first Thursday of the month) we have to pray and say the pledge of allegiance too. I can no longer say those words b/c of my country’s government’s active complicity in this GENOCIDE. Thank you for sharing. Fuck Israel, Free Palestine!! 😢☮️🇵🇸
Wow, they make you say the pledge at the tractor club? I know how you feel... I attended a naturalization ceremony a couple years ago and we all had to stand up and say the pledge and sing the Star-Spangled Banana and I just couldn't. I just stand and pretend to be saying the pledge and singing but I just can't anymore... I've repainted a lot of red-white-blue decorations I've had to rainbows for Pride Month so at least I get some use out of those.
I just stand there and go thru the motions and I really despise the star spangled banner or banana, it should be called (lol). There is a guy in our club who I believe is a Christian Zionist b/c one year at the Christmas party he prayed for Israel and mentioned 10/07/23. Made me sick to hear it. He wears a cap sometimes that says something about Jerusalem on it and will “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” on several occasions. I don’t believe for a second he’s praying for Gaza/Palestinians. I’ve always felt our national anthem should be “America the Beautiful” and love Ray Charles’s version of it. I’m not proud of this country right now. 😢☮️🇵🇸
👏👏👏👏💯🙏🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
And according to medical experts, Israelis are already breathing in massive amounts of atomised toxins and human tissue. Their destruction and mass murder in Gaza may just be the poison that destroys many Israelis long term.
Good.
Fuck Israel.
I read about this on Substack, an article by Dennis Kucinich.
"They’re talking about turning the desert planet Mars into a thriving biosphere while we’re turning our own thriving biosphere into a desert planet."
This is a perfect analogy of how sick in the head these destructive bastards are. They will nuke, starve, genocide, pollute, and bomb to death their fellow humans and destroy the environment without a thought, but somehow the elite of the elites will have a "blooming desert" to dwell in afterwards. Sounds like something a zy0nist settler would say or Elon Musk... Insane sociopaths alike.
👍👍👍
My thoughts exactly!
Hoping that karma proves to be the quintessential bitch for them. Sure would be apropos
if they went to Mars and got stuck there.
Gotta be a reason God put humans on this planet and not Mars :-)
Once Musk and his ilk leave the planet there's no backsies!
Horrible news about India and Pakistan. And about Gaza -- it breaks my heart.
India should not even be in Kashmir. It is a colonial expansionist state and it has been murdering Muslims and Christians for centuries and more so since the India created by the British, which cobbled together warring kingdoms, became independent.
India's colonial domination of Kashmir is why the Pakistanis are concerned. And like the Palestinians the poor Kashmiris are the meat in the colonial sandwich.
Britain has had its sticky nose in so many situations that have turned murderous.
And that justifies the Indians putting their sticky nose into situations which turn murderous how?
All empires throughout human history have had a sticky nose in many situations that turned murderous and the British are no exception.
No no. I was not trying to suggest that the Indians putting their sticky noses anywhere can be justified. Not even by the (formerly?) great British Empire. Merely an observation.
I am sorry your heart is broken. I feel so pissed off and angry I can't even think about a broken heart.
>>"Scientists are reporting a stunning 63 percent decline in populations of flying insects in the United Kingdom since 2021."
Humans have been killing thousands (if not millions) of species for a while now (often deliberately). What gives HUMANS the right to reign superior over the rest of the inhabitants of the Earth?
Humans seem to be the MOST dangerous and threatening species around (IMHO). Something to think about...(and I'm not talking about just Gaza...)
I can remember when my car windscreen had to be cleaned regularly during the summer months because of insects getting splatted when driving. I have noticed for sometime, it no longer happens ☹️
Seems like a good case could be made that the flawed hominid experiment is drawing to its inevitable conclusion. We, being the last of the hominids, well, maybe, we were the best of the bunch, or the worst. I'm not sure which would be better, if any thing could, to salve our souls.
I went to the hyperlinked Guardian article which describes having citizen scientists counting bug splats on license plates. Although Caitlin equates decline of bug splat count percentage in the Guardian article to actual decline in flying insect population, I couldn’t help wondering if the percentage of decline is actually greater (perhaps far greater). I have no background in Entomology (though when I happen to read anything regarding that subject, I find it fascinating) but I started wondering things like whether there are many flying insects that live their entire lives, or congregate mainly, around areas NOT near roadways, whose populations are declining more rapidly (I suppose someone could also wonder the opposite as well, but that would seem to go counter to what new articles are saying about insect decline). Anyway, just wondering.
I live rurally. If you want some flying biting insects come and get some from out here. Maybe avoiding roadways is an evolutionary step in the battle for survival. Given all the woke/environmental horse shit that is going around why would you take this as the gospel?
Religion
YES!!!!
What will it take to stop Israel at this point? The leaders are the only ones who can intervene and their indifference is stunning. They obviously have no intention of doing anything even though all Western nations strut around claiming to be democracies. No amount of protest seems to concern them in the least. What next? Will Israel put in an order for cattle cars? It’s as if they’re taunting people to confront them with the obvious comparisons to the Holocaust.
They say “never forget” — thanks for the advice. We won’t.
Yes SW, you are spot on! When the zionist regime was at the start of its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, I thought - even if the US was fully behind Israel - that the European states and their governments will protest and put a stop to the beginning of a carnage. That they will condemn it at the UN; cut off diplomatic relations; stop giving succour to an apartheid regime. Boycott and divest.
What happened was exactly the opposite.The old colonial regimes were fully behind the neo-colonialists and the new settler colonial state. And still they play dumb and are silent while witnessing the live streamed second holocaust bringing untold misery for a colonised people. They do not have democracy but are clever at equating neoliberal capitalism with democracy, their freedoms go only so far as to enable the market. Made obvious by the numerous arrests when the citizenry protest the genocide of the Palestinians. Will the Zionist regime be so bold and brazen if it weren't sure of the Western block support....
Sadly the cause and effect of old colonial enterprises are playing out even today with the latest India/ Pakistan conflict. The British in their final act of malevolence in vacating the empire laid the groundwork for dividing India resulting in millions of deaths. More innocents will die if Modi emboldened by the Israeli example starts a useless war.
The former colonies with their colonised mindset, instead of getting together against a common enemy are destroying each other - another step in the cause and effect of things.
Well said Indu. Agree with you 100%
You expect *independence* from *europans*?
This will end in only one way. Their greed and brutality will lead them to destruction.
I'm reporting you for "antisemitism"!
"What will it take to stop Israel at this point?"
Force.
What kind of force? Nuclear?
Stop sending weapons 🕊️🍉
Certainly a good start, and within our means to do, as a majority of Americans are in favor of doing just that. Uh-oh, few people in Congress have a backbone and many are bought by AIPAC.
In the Conscience incident — Israel violates international MARITIME law, a variation on its international criminality.
Except of course that Israel violates some flavor of international law just about every second.
And Malta quivers, another country intimidated by the Israeli-US superbully.
But reams and reams of condemnatory rhetoric flow without any consequences. Undoubtedly, it'll be similar for the India-Pakistan situation.
And the human race builds models of biosphere dynamics and wonders why they fail miserably. Basically, we brainiacs don't understand very much.
“U.S. Navy Loses Third F-18E/F Super Hornet Fighter During Yemeni Air Campaign
The U.S. Navy has lost a second F-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft in little over a week according to a report by CNN… while taking part in the ongoing air campaign against the Yemen...”
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/uu-navy-loses-third-f18-engagements-yemen
“time to admit that Israel is a sick society. The Israeli Holocaust against the Palestinians is worse than the Nazis”, Reuben Rivlin , Israeli President.
India should not even be in Kashmir. It is a colonial expansionist state and it has been murdering Muslims and Christians for centuries and more so since the India created by the British, which cobbled together warring kingdoms, became independent.
India's colonial domination of Kashmir is why the Pakistanis are concerned. And like the Palestinians the poor Kashmiris are the meat in the colonial sandwich.
TLDR version and retort to most of your comments: European colonial powers should not have even been in India or anywhere else, ever. All of this stems from their meddling and arbitrary partitioning of land and people to suit imperial diktats and economic benefits.
you cannot retrofit modern values to the past. Everyone colonised in past centuries not just Europeans. Asians, Africans, Indians, Polynesians were all colonising. One thing which pushed the British to create India as a unified entity was the savagery, warring and colonisation by the many Kingdoms.
The Indians have chosen, since independence to become colonial rulers in Kashmir and meddlers in Nepal. That cannot be blamed on the British because the Indians were colonising before the British ever arrived.
I can assure you that the Indians today are delighted the British created them as an entity, uniting north and south and pacifying the warring kingdoms.
"The Indians" - there you go lumping everyone in the most densely populated (and populous) country on Earth into a single group.
Of course other civilizations engaged in some form of "colonialism" or settler-colonialism/expansion. The difference is the industrial scale used by the European and American imperial seafaring powers and the systematized brutality and wanton cruelty/dehumanization/racism they engaged in for counter-insurgency and pacification.
You couldn't produce a single 'scientific' argument for why India or any other former European colony is "better off" today that doesn't rely on BS like having shopping malls or interior plumbing. Those civilizations were far more highly advanced than propagandists and western chauvinists like you are fond of pretending.
By the use of the term Indians, we mean the citizens of the country called India in the same way we talk about Americans who are citizens of the US. Of course there is diversity and indeed southern, Dravidian Indians were totally different to the northern, Aryan, heavily intermixed with Europeans, Indians.
If you study the Mongols there was an industrial scale to their invasions and occupations. Same for the Egyptians, Romans and others.
I think what you mean is that you know more about British and anglo-european colonisations than you do say about African tribes doing the same thing, or the Arabs.
And can you provide evidence for your claims of wanton cruelty and dehumanization by the British please. And you chide me for using a term in general for the Indians. Oh, and make sure it is in context. Do not compare different centuries. Context is critical.
It is irrelevant to create hypothetical scenarios about what India might have been like if the British had not ruled it for centuries. It would not be one united country, it would not have the extensive rail and road network, Bombay and Madras and other cities would not exist and the Taj Mahal and other great Moorish structures would be rubble.
And it would be equally idiotic about the British to moan about who and what they could have been if they had never been invaded and colonised by Celts, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Vikings, Romans, Normans etc. All of those colonisations actually created the unique nature, culture and quality of the English. I suggest you watch the comedy skit, WHAT DID THE ROMANS DO FOR US, and remember it applies to every colonised people and is a reminder to stop moaning.
...... next Roslyn Ross will say that the British empire was a "force for good"! 🤮
Rosslyn Ross is a full-blown colonialist and Genocide apologist. The only reason she sides with the Palestinians is because she is also a Jew-hater and a white supremacist (as observed by many of her comments).
She's a total idiot and empire apologist.
The correct thing to say is that all Empires, including the British did good in some respects. Because no-one gets it all wrong.
The greatest Empire of all, Mongol, was renowned for its savagery but it was not all bad. Same for Egyptian, Sumerian, Roman, Ottoman, Moors, Spaniards, Portugese etc.
The British Empire did some admirable things i.e. in India it saved the Tam Jahal and other great Moorish buildings which the Hindus wanted to see fall down. What a loss for humanity that would have been.
And they translated the ancient Vedic scripts into Hindi so ordinary Indians could read them and not just Brahmins.
Just two of many positives. Tell me, why do you believe that British colonisation was always so bad? Indeed India would not exist as it does today if the British had not ruled it for centuries and cobbled the warring kingdoms together. Modern India is dependent on British rail, roads, utilities and could not survive without them.
I would humbly suggest that despite the Indian confidence in its own brilliance and superiority the nation has hardly excelled since independence. I do not think spending billions on space programmes and the military is an achievement when most Indians still shit in the street and the Government and powerful do not care.
As Ghandi said, if the Government wanted every Indian to have a flushing toilet it would happen. The caste-ridden Indian society is one of the most racist, unjust and misogynistic on earth.
It is because India wants to control Kashmir that Pakistan is there. One would think India had enough to do to look after its people rather than playing colonial bully. China has done far, far more for its people than India has.
I noticed in the "timeline" from the NYT, no mention of that 1948 Plebiscite that is still outstanding, that promised a vote on Kashmir's status.
Too depressing and heartbreaking - is there any hope anywhere?
And insects- I have a fair few flowering plants in my garden ( planted to attract Insects) the other day saw one bee and one butterfly, that's it( Sydney where it's a ridiculous 27 degrees today)
I no longer trust the phrase "terror attack" since nowadays it could mean a resistance operation, a protestor saying "stop genocide" or a Muslim sneezing. Does anyone know what happened in Kashmir, from alternative media sources?
There is a long history of border conflicts (that's the background) between India and Pakistan. This is the latest in the ongoing tit-for-tat border fighting/terrorist attacks.
In brief, since Modi came to power in 2014, he has been converting India into a Hindu nationalist state (instead of the secular republic as written in the Indian constitution). Indian-controlled Kashmir is the only Muslim majority state in India. Modi is trying to convert Indian-controlled Kashmir into a Hindu majority state by changing laws and clamping down on the Kashmiri people. (BTW, There is also a Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and a Chinese-controlled Kashmir). Just as the British colonized the ME and divided Palestine into Israel and Palestine, the British divided India into Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
There is much more to the history, but basically it is the Hindutva ideology of the BJP (Modi's party) that has been causing most of the problems in Kashmir (and the rest of India).
One might also add the CIA's long term relations with the Dali Lama in Tibet, the practice of effective class/caste slavery, and China's rightful claims to the region.
No, I'm not going to refer to the CIA here - as it is extraneous to the Kashmiri issue.
Also, this is not an issue about class/caste slavery or a dispute with China (which is a separate concern not on the same level as the border disputes with Pakistan).
Chang, I gotta ask: You patrol this comment section day and night. I typically agree with your statements, but am curious. How do you have the time or mental bandwidth for so much Substack commentary?
https://ket.org/program/amanpour-and-company/imran-khan-on-the-kashmir-dispute/
No longer? Hell, the entire Star Wars movie franchise is based on the fact that the imperial powers and their proxies (US - Israel) have always labeled inconvenient and rebellious indigenous people as "terrorists" - it's baked into the cake. And you're god damned right - the Houthis, Hamas and a few others are the only legitimate resistance groups that have the balls and the conviction to stick to their guns in the face of massive military and economic forces.
On India-Pakistan, I wonder what the situation would be if the US didn't engineer/push along the soft coup of Imran Khan?
>>"On India-Pakistan, I wonder what the situation would be if the US didn't engineer/push along the soft coup of Imran Khan?"
This incident/on-going dispute has NOTHING to do with Imran Khan or the US doing anything to Pakistan. There is a long history on the Kashmiri conflict going back to the partition of India in 1947.
If you don't think Khan would have handled recent events differently, then it's a purely speculative argument we'd be having. "They" got rid of him for a reason, though, and that's not excusing Modi's hindutva supremacist bullshit, which I think we can all easily call out.
Again, this has little to do with ANY Pakistani leader. Please brush up on your history of Kashmir and the actual conflict.
You seem to come from a place of not knowing enough about the background - and throwing around theories willy-nilly doesn't help any.
All I can write, over and over and over again, is GOD DAMN BERSERK, COLONIAL/GENOCIDAL ZIONISM!--every element of it, of course including 'Christian' Zionism.
(I've been noting what I term credible nuggets of data that the elegant/passionate SR for Palestine Francesca Albanese is seriously on the hit list for assassination. Possible/probable? With Colonial/Genocidal Zionism, of course, ANYTHING is on the table....)
The Yemen war won't de-escalate any time soon. The Houthis will continue to strike Israel with their missiles and drones as long as Israel attacks Gaza and the West Bank. The only way for Netanyahu to stay out of jail is to continue the ethnic cleansing. Trump either doesn't understand the Houthis' position, or he's getting tired of being led around by the nose by Bibi!
Kashmir was supposed to get independence during the Indian partition. The centuries of hate the British stoked between Hindus and Muslims in order to "divide and counquer" has left its mark. Kahsmir could have been the shining example of peacful coxesistance.