"Israel makes everything gross. It makes the world more violent, more sociopathic, and more hateful. The entire state is sustained by nonstop violence and hatred. It’s a malignant tumor on the flesh of our species."
Dropsite did an article about Israel commissioning a study about US and Europe support for Israel, and the study concluded Israel is losing support. However, fueling Islamophobia seems to work in their favor and that is why we are now seeing more Islamophobia. Israel is fueling it.
From the article: "Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country."
I wish I could provide a link but this was a while back. I watched an interview with the great Prof. Mohammed Marandi in which he was “questioned” about Islamic women covering their hair as a prerequisite for Iranian women.
Marandi shot back with, and I paraphrase here, YOU IN THE WEST use women’s bodies to sell everything from automobiles to household goods.
It drives me to despair when in most American movies, minutes after having met the clothes are ripped off and bare breasts and arses are on show as porn appears on our screens. Why has that become the goto of films no matter what most of them are about. Doesn't matter when the story is, there has to be a sex scene turning movie goers into voyeurs. All I want is the story, not gratuitous sex thrown in.
Davina do not expect any deep story or intelligent developments. Rotten zionist- influenced western culture has lowered, diminished, and perverted human dignity and relationships. Cheap, primitive, and vulgar propaganda is all west can offer to the world today.
The Zionist has just about totally corrupted America and most of the Western world, and by the US electing a Convicted Criminal, who is a Sexual predator, a Rapist and Sexual Deviant back to the White house again did not help it but legitimizes these Perverts to treat Women and girls as object
Very much agree - I HATE sex scenes in movies now (I never liked them, but now I have no tolerance for them.) They serve no purpose and cheapen the story whenever they appear. Nowadays I can't even watch most American movies and shows because it's all so fake and pointless. Besides the sex scenes and fakeness, American movies are dripping in Western propaganda, Islamophobia and racism. Featuring black characters with no personalities does not fix racism. Ugh, don't get me started!
I’ve been accused of being a “prude” for objecting to pruience but what it comes down to is this: my values are solidly Midwestern. NOT West coast, not East coast.
And don’t ya just KNOW who’s in charge of THOSE places!
And it goes both ways, Davina. My favorite tv show in years, Yellowstone, featured many scenes featuring hunky cowboys’ bare butts…completely unnecessary to the storyline.
If I had to choose between the extreme Western culture which uses/abuses women by exposing their naked bodies, including the parts the law requires us to cover in public, on the one hand, and Islamic culture which protects women's privacy by demanding they cover up with scarves, I would have to say that the Islamic culture showing respect for women's privacy is more advanced and shows more respect for women. Let me add that when I was young, I used to go to nudist beaches, which, by the way, are far less sexually arousing than bikini beaches. Funny, that, but I can understand it. There is nothing sexy down there. Sexual desires come from up there, the brain, the fantasy, the imagination.
I recall an interview with a female captive after her release trying to say she was raped while held in Gaza. Her reasoning was: A guard outside her door while she slept, was rape. A guard outside the toilet while she used the bathroom, or showered was deemed as rape. Having a guard outside the door where she was held, was rape - in her desperation to prove she was raped. For me it would have "felt" maybe, like rape if he came into where she slept and stood over her all night, or if he came into the bathroom while she used the toilet or showered, if he watched her as she undressed or dressed, might feel like a form of rape.
But he did none of the things that she said was rape, in fact he protected her dignity by not being inside a room with her when she ^could have^ felt exposed. He protected her because she was female, in his teaching he is not allowed to touch a female who is not family with bare hands, he is taught to cherish women and girls. If he had to touch a female while moving her from place to place, he would have worn gloves, as we always see them doing with captives.
So, the woman crying rape had to use her full on imagination to make her case, but not one word of her story actually constituted, or proved in any way to her having been raped.
I have tried out times to edit it's eyes - to his eyes, but it stays the same each time. I even rewrote the whole sentence, even that did not work, so it's remains.
That is definitely true of a lot of western "cinema" and television. However it is also occasionally refreshing to see scenes in programs such as Game of Thrones (the first 5 seasons before it turned to shit - and not coincidentally they did away with most nudity scenes) when it's only natural that someone is naked or people are having sex in a given situation (say, a brothel in medieval times).
Yes, that's Capitalism for you - use whatever means of advertising/marketing necessary to generate profits (regardless of morals/ethics). BTW, using 'sexual/provocative' images/videos/etc. to sell is a global phenomenon (and not just in the West). That's what is popular on Social Media sites like Instagram too (eg. influencer culture).
Furthermore, anyone can go to YouTube and watch a large number of Tehran walking tours in which I'd say that it looks completely voluntary from a legal perspective and in some cases >65% of Iranian women wear no head coverings.
But even if it was a strict mandate, we have them here in the west as well as culturally acceptable norms that derive in large part from (often vestigial) religious beliefs and mandates.
In short, the so-called state of "Israel" and the alleged "free and democratic west" call themselves that so frequently and brashly exactly because that is not an apt description at all, and in fact is ever increasingly 180 degrees from the truth.
Caitlin, you and Tim are knights in shining armour. We need truth bombs, and sane voices. Why does Israel/Mossad have a NYPD office and why is it training NY police officers in Israel?
And why are convicted criminals safe, and welcomed, in Israel? Really makes you think. The world needs your feisty voice, fighting on the right side of history. So, thank you and keep up the great work!
Great article. I choked a bit on this, though: "By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights......." Maybe they consider that raping men as well as women makes women, men and gays equal to......what? those straight patriarchs in Israel?
it is an oft recorded fact that israeli intelligence blackmails/compromises gay men in the west bank to turn them: some respect for homosexuality and gay 'rights' this.
It seems to me that Israeli's have a penchant for rape, women and men.
Considering the schooling in Israhell: It seems to me that their is no satisfaction for sexual intercourse between men and women? Is this because 'blood lust' has taken over from normal behaviour?
Rape is nothing but power over anyone who exists and I wonder about Israeli women? How is their sex life when killing and rape becomes more important.
You forgot the ritual rape of children while a rabbi chants his evil - as long as the child has passed their third birthday - now very thoughtful of them to wait that long. In western raping a child of any age is an gaoling offence.
I wonder how much with so many compartments of narratives for our westerna supporting eyes and ears and their own population, if sometimes they might even have started believing some of them, while trying to gaslight others. This is part of the liberal audience hasbara chapter. As in "only democracy somewhere". At some point their catering to many of our political groups might start colliding, I wonder if they would notice.
they weaponize anti-semitism, they'll weaponize gender and sex issues, they'll weaponize race, they weaponized environmental concerns, .... i remember when the ukrainian army had a trans spokesperson, the corporate sponsored gay-prides, ...
Good, I was having the same thought.. Thanks. It was in the conclusion of the study to do what we have seen, likely, in all our Western countries targeted in that study (if Australia is not there, they might consider it under control; mine is not either, Canada).
Oh yes, here in the West it's different, isn't it? Here it's the corporations and their corrupt managers who, in terms of profitability, dictate how you dress, what your hairstyle should be, how you should speak, what you should speak about, and when you should speak. Remember that song? "I can't get no satisfaction." Here, the burqa is so extensive that it covers the entire reality.
Doesn't it just drive you up the wall, the hypocrisy?? It's like my form of oppression is better than my view of your form of oppression. The world seen through the western lens is literally a very narrow view if a view at all. I just can't believe that Bill Mauer, who has lived this long on this planet is that ignorant of the planet he lives on. This type of stupidity was said back in the 60's, we're talking about 60 years ago. Since then we have seen, or shall I say some of us have seen, Muslims up close and personal. That he would pull out the burqa as a criticism of Muslims is so retro it made me wonder, what century we were in.
The CIA are paying Imams to create crazy Islam. I lived in a Muslim country in the sixties where women dressed in miniskirt. That same country looks like all black covered women. The same manipulation with the evangelicals...
Live and let live. Western Civ can not complain about abuse of women in Islam, when the US has Women Safe Centers all over the country. Women had to fight to vote for over hundred years here! There's a positive in covering up the body and faces of women. There can be a lack of focusing on the woman's physical appearance as the be all and end all! We obsess about female physicality to the point of mental illness !
Appearances are a matter of taste. Some big women in my estimation, look great, and that's probably because they are in good shape. I do not find very thin terribly people attractive - they look very vulnerable, but I make no judgment: I could well be entirely wrong. But I don't dislike anyone because of their appearance, which is not all that important. Style in or manner of clothing is complicated, determined by culture, and always changing - at least in Western countries.
When Zionists tell you that they truly believe that they are the superior race, trust that they will act and behave as if they own you and everyone you know. They will take your house, your land, your money and your freedom. Palestine is only their first step into the nightmare.
Bill Maher has been an enthusiastic shill for Zionists for a long time and has a visceral hatred of Muslims. I remember Ben Afleck on his show probably 15 years ago saying how well he’d been treated in Iran (he made a movie there I think) and Maher was having none of it. I’d like to see him explain why there are female Palestinian doctors if women are completely repressed. There are so many lies in this clip, it’s hard to know where to start.
Every tactic that can be exploited will be but nothing will change the reality of what they’ve done. Does dropping bombs on women liberate them, Bill? Because by Israel’s own accounting, 83% of the people killed were women, children, the elderly.
I tried to watch the whole thing with Bill Mauer, but I had to stop watching it. His smug ignorance was simply intolerable. Is he really that ignorant? He should watch some segments on Press TV, they have female reporters in the studio and in the field, where, ironically he is not. One of their female reporters was killed 11 years ago in a conspicuous car accident. She was in Turkey getting too close for their comfort. There are Iranian Muslim women reporters in Ramallah, Gaza City, the West Bank and elsewhere around the world. If he is that ignorant and uneducated, it really says a lot.
What really drives me up a wall, is the clapping seals in the audience. I hear they are often paid to clap, but seriously?
No one is that ignorant. Bill Maher’s arrogant ignorance is deliberate and keeps him paid. We have James O’Brien here in the UK, a left wing talk show host. I used to love his show until I listened to him take a position against Jeremy Corbyn on Antisemitism. This was when it dawned on me that having Jeremy as PM would affect his program. So, he did all he could to smear him. I’ve never listened to his show again nor do I listen to Bill’s!
I cannot believe that he is that ignorant. But what does it say about him ethically speaking. If he would sit there and mouth something that he knows is patently untrue… and then get his audience (paid) or otherwise to clap along, it just seems to me to be a sign of the backwardness of our society. Not only does it make him look bad, but reflectively, people from around the world would have to know that he is lying. He doesn’t even seem to care. Is money worth that much, that a person would sacrifice their own integrity to get it/ keep it? He’s just as disposable as the rest of us. When he is no longer useful, they will dispose of him. I guess, like in the Matrix Movie, he’ll ride it out pretending all the way, until the gig is up. SMDH
Liked: 'Appealing to western racism, however, is much easier. We’ve got entire mainstream political factions whose whole platform is just grimacing in disgust at anyone who looks and acts a bit different.' They do like their 'social cohesion', don't they: https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/the-myth-of-social-cohesion-do-as-they-say-not-as-they-do/ It's the same story in Australia, where the center right Labor Government is popular, despite arming genocide, pushing fossil fuels instead of renewables, and funding public housing only for foreign occupying troops (https://ipan.org.au/end-aukus/). Flush all fascist floaters forever!
The US military used a similar touching concern about Muh Afghan Women And Girls(tm) whe support for that war started to flag and the old War On Terror 9/11 Eagle Flag Freedom bromides no longer got the same results.
No surprise as the US is Israel's bitch. The US does as Israel says. How can that be? NO, I must be wrong! Let's hear from two US politicians who confirm that the US is Israel's bitch.
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene, admitting the US cow-tows to Israel
It's a mutual bitch-bitch relationship - i.e. you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. BFFs. You get the idea.
What people yet don't understand (because most people don't follow/understand global finance and shadow banking) is that Israel is a bastion for Western nations for several reasons, some of the more prominent ones being 'a conduit for financial transactions' (loopholes, laundering, structured finance, offshore tax strategies, etc.), 'an exporter for technologies of control/surveillance/exploitation' (technologies and methods for controlling populations, etc.). Hence, while 'the people of Western nations' are harmed by 'what Israel does', the POWER ELITE benefit tremendously by what Israel has to offer such people.
That's why I use Arab media such as Al Mayadeen (Lebanese), Saba (Yemeni), IRNA and Tasnim (Iranian) as main sources for my articles on my substack: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/
We need to fight the propaganda on Western MSM by giving more space to reliable Arab media, especially from countries opposing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the expansion of Israel in the Middle East.
More important than ever! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing will continue to be vital in bringing the culprits to justice. This is ongoing and something we should support, irrespective of any ‘ceasefire.’
I find it so ironic that Israel apologists would attempt to demonized the Islamic faith. The Islamic faith carries more core moral values similar to Judaism than Christianity does. When they speak of so-called Western values, especially through the eyes of Western conservatives, the parallels are rather common. Ignorance is not bliss.
Islam holds dear family traditions, therefore they do not adhere to artificial birth control or abortions as a rule.
They share the same dietary laws. They do not eat pork! They also slaughter their animals similarly to the way the Jews do, their meat is called Halal.
They guard against addictions such as smoking, drugs and alcohol or pornography. Homosexuality is a no-no so you definitely would be hard pressed to see them gather in the streets supporting transexuality.
They pray five times a day, to the Jews praying 3 times. They believe in "One God" and do not worship idols. They believe in freedom and justice for the oppressed.
They cover their bodies as a form of modesty and in some cases as a form of resistance.
The men even wear "small hats."
They believe that women rock the cradle of the world and hold them in high regard, as much as others would say the opposite. They are very protective of women and children and have strict laws against abusing them. They demand that the men provide for their families. They honor and revere their elders and do not place them in nursing homes. They have a high regard for education. They believe in taking care of the poor and indigent.
They believe that Yeshua (Jesus) was a prophet, a holy man with an important message for mankind.
They trace their bloodline back to Hagar, the Ethiopian, wife of Abraham (father of the Jews) and mother of Ishmael.
Islam is the 3rd branch of the Abrahamic faith yet it is barely noted as the common expression is Judeo-Christian, leaving Islam out of the equation.. the reasons are more than obvious.
In the Qur'an the holy book of the Muslims, Jews are a protected group as is the Christians. Muslims have no problem with Jews, their problem is with Zionist and Zionism.
Some of the really strict Muslims are almost inseparable from the orthodox Jews in their practices. I could go on and on having spent many years practicing the Islamic faith, but suffice it to say, ignorance is not bliss. Willful ignorance is just plain stupidity.
If anyone took the time to do some research, they would see that Islam is more comparable to Judaism than Christianity.
One of the things about white supremacy is that they are so quick to demonize the "other" that they don't even realize how ignorant they actually appear. They simply create the "myth" that the "other" is less than, and that gives them carte blanche to be contemptuous to the point of violence which they justify with more boatloads of ignorance. The contempt that Jews like Bill Mauer have for Muslims and the Islamic faith is born out of total ignorance or just plain stupidity, and is used as a tool of divisiveness when in fact they are more similar than they are different.
Of course their are extremes and dissidents in all religions, but for the most part, the Islamic faith strongly encourages laws of morality and promotes peaceful relations with their Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters.
Because this isn't really a religious conflict is it? Are the soldiers who are sniping children following their religious beliefs? If yes, then it would be wrong to compare with any other religion which does not justify or condone this behavior. It is a singular evil. Have Palestinians been offered conversion to Judaism as a step to peace? No they are not even allowed to flee across a border. This is an ethnic conflict justified by ideologies and religions but is actually just about bloodlines.
Nobody Uno, it's about routes and resources. These people got along famously before routes and resources and I would add Empire Building, became the goal of the day. "ethnic conflict justified by ideologies and religions but is actually just about bloodlines" is the smokescreen or myth. They all, Muslims and Jews, say they are descendants of Abraham. It would be so much easier if it was simply sibling rivalry.
Thanks, I will check out the link you shared. I agree it's about "routes and resources". It is also about imperialism, monopoly capitalism, settler/colonialism, etc. Yes economics is a big driver for many of the people involved. But I think at the end of the day all of the routes and resources are meant for the benefit of specific billionaires and their families along with a limited number of people who serve them, at the expense of everyone else.
The clue is in 'a nation state of Jews only'. It is very much a religious conflict. All other religions must die, or be driven off never to return. Without religion, what would the difference between the indigenous people and the colonists be? It's about land, obviously, and about wealth and resources, but always to the extent that only one religion will be allowed any. It is extraordinary that a people who use their religious superstition to justify genocide still somehow manage to convince people that their war crimes and atrocities are not part of a 'religious conflict'. Why ever let any religion off a hook? As Steven Weinberg said: 'religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion'.
I'm not sure if all religions are actually political projects but it seems many are and judaism certainly is. It's not primarily a set of beliefs that makes someone "jewish", it is a commitment to the jewish identity and the jewish "community" and the projects that the "community" is building. The identity defines in and out groups and ultimately functions like a political party. So I think it may be a distinction without a difference.
No-one has to 'be' a religion. It's a choice. Some bullies may seek to force their superstitious claptrap on others, but usually only in the most vicious and primitive societies. Take Israel. Here, superstitious claptrap is used to justify genocide. Superstitious claptrap, it is argued, makes some people so superior to everyone else, it justifies murdering them and stealing their land. No-one, not even government ministers, who support the genocide of Palestinians can do so without supporting this primitively supremacist proposition. But it's very, very racist, so they'd prefer you not to notice.
I do not share what most people call "family values". I believe in birth control and abortion. I refused to be a human incubator when I was younger and now am thankful to be too old to get pregnant. I am an atheist. I eat what I like. I support the equal rights of homosexuals and transexuals and deplore prejudice against gay people. I do agree that it was Muslims who preserved the learning of ancient Greece and Rome when Christians were running around burning books and tearing down statues. I appreciate the Muslim people's reverence for education. Christians hate education. I also thank them for respecting their elders, since I am a senior citizen now.
Well, I am not an atheist, and I am a senior as well, but my point was that it's kinda nutty to think that Islam is so way different than Judaism. I think all organized religions are cults..... but for the sake of argument... I just wanted to point some things out having practiced Islam myself, and I was quite studious about it at the time.
"Israel makes everything gross. It makes the world more violent, more sociopathic, and more hateful. The entire state is sustained by nonstop violence and hatred. It’s a malignant tumor on the flesh of our species."
Couldn't agree more.
Besides all that, it is making the world very unsafe for Jews everywhere. As well as for anyone who criticizes Israel.
That’s part of the plan by the Zionist ruling class. Fertilization (horseshit) for internal victonhood.
Absolutely! Caitlin had me at the title. The text above just confirmed it.
Here here amen.
Perfectly stated!
Dropsite did an article about Israel commissioning a study about US and Europe support for Israel, and the study concluded Israel is losing support. However, fueling Islamophobia seems to work in their favor and that is why we are now seeing more Islamophobia. Israel is fueling it.
From the article: "Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country."
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell
Had not seen that. Will add a hyperlink to it in this article.
Hi Caitlin
I wish I could provide a link but this was a while back. I watched an interview with the great Prof. Mohammed Marandi in which he was “questioned” about Islamic women covering their hair as a prerequisite for Iranian women.
Marandi shot back with, and I paraphrase here, YOU IN THE WEST use women’s bodies to sell everything from automobiles to household goods.
BINGO!
It drives me to despair when in most American movies, minutes after having met the clothes are ripped off and bare breasts and arses are on show as porn appears on our screens. Why has that become the goto of films no matter what most of them are about. Doesn't matter when the story is, there has to be a sex scene turning movie goers into voyeurs. All I want is the story, not gratuitous sex thrown in.
Davina do not expect any deep story or intelligent developments. Rotten zionist- influenced western culture has lowered, diminished, and perverted human dignity and relationships. Cheap, primitive, and vulgar propaganda is all west can offer to the world today.
The Zionist has just about totally corrupted America and most of the Western world, and by the US electing a Convicted Criminal, who is a Sexual predator, a Rapist and Sexual Deviant back to the White house again did not help it but legitimizes these Perverts to treat Women and girls as object
Hi Nick
I might get canned for sayin the H-word here, but:
How many folks know that one of Hitler’s big issues with Jews was their vulgarization of German women?
And yeahhhh. I have read Mein Kampf. It’s fuckin history.
Very much agree - I HATE sex scenes in movies now (I never liked them, but now I have no tolerance for them.) They serve no purpose and cheapen the story whenever they appear. Nowadays I can't even watch most American movies and shows because it's all so fake and pointless. Besides the sex scenes and fakeness, American movies are dripping in Western propaganda, Islamophobia and racism. Featuring black characters with no personalities does not fix racism. Ugh, don't get me started!
Narjis, RIGHT ON.
I’ve been accused of being a “prude” for objecting to pruience but what it comes down to is this: my values are solidly Midwestern. NOT West coast, not East coast.
And don’t ya just KNOW who’s in charge of THOSE places!
Davina, I HEAR YA Girlfriend.
Pruience is all it is. Private shit is private, IMO.
The greatest movies ever— stuff like Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, etc.—- sure as fuck didn’t have gratuitous sex scenes.
Said the F-word for ya 😉
And it goes both ways, Davina. My favorite tv show in years, Yellowstone, featured many scenes featuring hunky cowboys’ bare butts…completely unnecessary to the storyline.
If I had to choose between the extreme Western culture which uses/abuses women by exposing their naked bodies, including the parts the law requires us to cover in public, on the one hand, and Islamic culture which protects women's privacy by demanding they cover up with scarves, I would have to say that the Islamic culture showing respect for women's privacy is more advanced and shows more respect for women. Let me add that when I was young, I used to go to nudist beaches, which, by the way, are far less sexually arousing than bikini beaches. Funny, that, but I can understand it. There is nothing sexy down there. Sexual desires come from up there, the brain, the fantasy, the imagination.
I recall an interview with a female captive after her release trying to say she was raped while held in Gaza. Her reasoning was: A guard outside her door while she slept, was rape. A guard outside the toilet while she used the bathroom, or showered was deemed as rape. Having a guard outside the door where she was held, was rape - in her desperation to prove she was raped. For me it would have "felt" maybe, like rape if he came into where she slept and stood over her all night, or if he came into the bathroom while she used the toilet or showered, if he watched her as she undressed or dressed, might feel like a form of rape.
But he did none of the things that she said was rape, in fact he protected her dignity by not being inside a room with her when she ^could have^ felt exposed. He protected her because she was female, in his teaching he is not allowed to touch a female who is not family with bare hands, he is taught to cherish women and girls. If he had to touch a female while moving her from place to place, he would have worn gloves, as we always see them doing with captives.
So, the woman crying rape had to use her full on imagination to make her case, but not one word of her story actually constituted, or proved in any way to her having been raped.
I have tried out times to edit it's eyes - to his eyes, but it stays the same each time. I even rewrote the whole sentence, even that did not work, so it's remains.
That is definitely true of a lot of western "cinema" and television. However it is also occasionally refreshing to see scenes in programs such as Game of Thrones (the first 5 seasons before it turned to shit - and not coincidentally they did away with most nudity scenes) when it's only natural that someone is naked or people are having sex in a given situation (say, a brothel in medieval times).
Yes, that's Capitalism for you - use whatever means of advertising/marketing necessary to generate profits (regardless of morals/ethics). BTW, using 'sexual/provocative' images/videos/etc. to sell is a global phenomenon (and not just in the West). That's what is popular on Social Media sites like Instagram too (eg. influencer culture).
Jay, but certainly not in the enormous Islamic world.
Jay: who they tryin to “influence”?
14-year-old boys?
Furthermore, anyone can go to YouTube and watch a large number of Tehran walking tours in which I'd say that it looks completely voluntary from a legal perspective and in some cases >65% of Iranian women wear no head coverings.
But even if it was a strict mandate, we have them here in the west as well as culturally acceptable norms that derive in large part from (often vestigial) religious beliefs and mandates.
In short, the so-called state of "Israel" and the alleged "free and democratic west" call themselves that so frequently and brashly exactly because that is not an apt description at all, and in fact is ever increasingly 180 degrees from the truth.
DEATH TO THE IDF
It would help your argument if you wrote in coherent sentences.
You try writing in whatever you deem to be "coherent sentences" from a flip phone with basic web functionality. LOL
Caitlin, you and Tim are knights in shining armour. We need truth bombs, and sane voices. Why does Israel/Mossad have a NYPD office and why is it training NY police officers in Israel?
And why are convicted criminals safe, and welcomed, in Israel? Really makes you think. The world needs your feisty voice, fighting on the right side of history. So, thank you and keep up the great work!
Great article. I choked a bit on this, though: "By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights......." Maybe they consider that raping men as well as women makes women, men and gays equal to......what? those straight patriarchs in Israel?
it is an oft recorded fact that israeli intelligence blackmails/compromises gay men in the west bank to turn them: some respect for homosexuality and gay 'rights' this.
It seems to me that Israeli's have a penchant for rape, women and men.
Considering the schooling in Israhell: It seems to me that their is no satisfaction for sexual intercourse between men and women? Is this because 'blood lust' has taken over from normal behaviour?
Rape is nothing but power over anyone who exists and I wonder about Israeli women? How is their sex life when killing and rape becomes more important.
You forgot the ritual rape of children while a rabbi chants his evil - as long as the child has passed their third birthday - now very thoughtful of them to wait that long. In western raping a child of any age is an gaoling offence.
I am a bit lost here Davina. Are you talking about circumcision?
I saw a 2 day old baby being circumcised in a UK Hospital........gruesome.
The family outside the glass window were cheering and patting each other on the back.
No, not that at all. The rape of young females in Israel as reported by young females who want it stopped.
Sexual mutilation, Jenny.
I wonder how much with so many compartments of narratives for our westerna supporting eyes and ears and their own population, if sometimes they might even have started believing some of them, while trying to gaslight others. This is part of the liberal audience hasbara chapter. As in "only democracy somewhere". At some point their catering to many of our political groups might start colliding, I wonder if they would notice.
they weaponize anti-semitism, they'll weaponize gender and sex issues, they'll weaponize race, they weaponized environmental concerns, .... i remember when the ukrainian army had a trans spokesperson, the corporate sponsored gay-prides, ...
Good, I was having the same thought.. Thanks. It was in the conclusion of the study to do what we have seen, likely, in all our Western countries targeted in that study (if Australia is not there, they might consider it under control; mine is not either, Canada).
Oh yes, here in the West it's different, isn't it? Here it's the corporations and their corrupt managers who, in terms of profitability, dictate how you dress, what your hairstyle should be, how you should speak, what you should speak about, and when you should speak. Remember that song? "I can't get no satisfaction." Here, the burqa is so extensive that it covers the entire reality.
Doesn't it just drive you up the wall, the hypocrisy?? It's like my form of oppression is better than my view of your form of oppression. The world seen through the western lens is literally a very narrow view if a view at all. I just can't believe that Bill Mauer, who has lived this long on this planet is that ignorant of the planet he lives on. This type of stupidity was said back in the 60's, we're talking about 60 years ago. Since then we have seen, or shall I say some of us have seen, Muslims up close and personal. That he would pull out the burqa as a criticism of Muslims is so retro it made me wonder, what century we were in.
The CIA are paying Imams to create crazy Islam. I lived in a Muslim country in the sixties where women dressed in miniskirt. That same country looks like all black covered women. The same manipulation with the evangelicals...
Interesting, Mois78
Live and let live. Western Civ can not complain about abuse of women in Islam, when the US has Women Safe Centers all over the country. Women had to fight to vote for over hundred years here! There's a positive in covering up the body and faces of women. There can be a lack of focusing on the woman's physical appearance as the be all and end all! We obsess about female physicality to the point of mental illness !
Unfortunately, self examination has never been a strong suit of western civilization.
I would rather see Islamic women (and they don't ALL wear Burqhas) on the beach than hideous white flabby westerners!
Jenny, THIS! 👍
I get nauseated seeing fat white teenage girls here skintight clothing with their flab bulging out. Just…puke.
Like, look in a fuckin mirror before you leave the house 🤮
Agree.
Jenny when we were young it was a rarity to see fat people. Now it’s the new norm at least here in Amerikkka.
I’m not trying to fat-shame anybody, but for fuck’s sake DRESS appropriately. I can wear anything; I’m still my high school weight 😁
With both of you there, cover it up!
Appearances are a matter of taste. Some big women in my estimation, look great, and that's probably because they are in good shape. I do not find very thin terribly people attractive - they look very vulnerable, but I make no judgment: I could well be entirely wrong. But I don't dislike anyone because of their appearance, which is not all that important. Style in or manner of clothing is complicated, determined by culture, and always changing - at least in Western countries.
When Zionists tell you that they truly believe that they are the superior race, trust that they will act and behave as if they own you and everyone you know. They will take your house, your land, your money and your freedom. Palestine is only their first step into the nightmare.
Bill Maher has been an enthusiastic shill for Zionists for a long time and has a visceral hatred of Muslims. I remember Ben Afleck on his show probably 15 years ago saying how well he’d been treated in Iran (he made a movie there I think) and Maher was having none of it. I’d like to see him explain why there are female Palestinian doctors if women are completely repressed. There are so many lies in this clip, it’s hard to know where to start.
Every tactic that can be exploited will be but nothing will change the reality of what they’ve done. Does dropping bombs on women liberate them, Bill? Because by Israel’s own accounting, 83% of the people killed were women, children, the elderly.
Bill Maher is an asshole, isn't he? He always was, wasn't he? I support Iran, by the way. They haven't invaded anyone in hundreds of years.
I tried to watch the whole thing with Bill Mauer, but I had to stop watching it. His smug ignorance was simply intolerable. Is he really that ignorant? He should watch some segments on Press TV, they have female reporters in the studio and in the field, where, ironically he is not. One of their female reporters was killed 11 years ago in a conspicuous car accident. She was in Turkey getting too close for their comfort. There are Iranian Muslim women reporters in Ramallah, Gaza City, the West Bank and elsewhere around the world. If he is that ignorant and uneducated, it really says a lot.
What really drives me up a wall, is the clapping seals in the audience. I hear they are often paid to clap, but seriously?
No one is that ignorant. Bill Maher’s arrogant ignorance is deliberate and keeps him paid. We have James O’Brien here in the UK, a left wing talk show host. I used to love his show until I listened to him take a position against Jeremy Corbyn on Antisemitism. This was when it dawned on me that having Jeremy as PM would affect his program. So, he did all he could to smear him. I’ve never listened to his show again nor do I listen to Bill’s!
I cannot believe that he is that ignorant. But what does it say about him ethically speaking. If he would sit there and mouth something that he knows is patently untrue… and then get his audience (paid) or otherwise to clap along, it just seems to me to be a sign of the backwardness of our society. Not only does it make him look bad, but reflectively, people from around the world would have to know that he is lying. He doesn’t even seem to care. Is money worth that much, that a person would sacrifice their own integrity to get it/ keep it? He’s just as disposable as the rest of us. When he is no longer useful, they will dispose of him. I guess, like in the Matrix Movie, he’ll ride it out pretending all the way, until the gig is up. SMDH
Liked: 'Appealing to western racism, however, is much easier. We’ve got entire mainstream political factions whose whole platform is just grimacing in disgust at anyone who looks and acts a bit different.' They do like their 'social cohesion', don't they: https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/the-myth-of-social-cohesion-do-as-they-say-not-as-they-do/ It's the same story in Australia, where the center right Labor Government is popular, despite arming genocide, pushing fossil fuels instead of renewables, and funding public housing only for foreign occupying troops (https://ipan.org.au/end-aukus/). Flush all fascist floaters forever!
Doesn't matter, if it works.
The US military used a similar touching concern about Muh Afghan Women And Girls(tm) whe support for that war started to flag and the old War On Terror 9/11 Eagle Flag Freedom bromides no longer got the same results.
We can have peace if Israel is canceled.
That would be but a first step.
Yes, and a most beneficial and necessary first step. As long as there is Israel, it is like a cancer in all of us.
Calling Israel a "malignant tumor" is unfair! (To tumors.)
No surprise as the US is Israel's bitch. The US does as Israel says. How can that be? NO, I must be wrong! Let's hear from two US politicians who confirm that the US is Israel's bitch.
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene, admitting the US cow-tows to Israel
https://headlineusa.com/mtg-calls-out-gops-subservience-to-israel-in-interview-w-comedian-tim-dillon/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP_NOON&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
This politician was forced to take a mugshot with BeeBee Nutten-Yahoo. He decided to return their bribery money.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-candidate-returns-aipac-money-pro-israel-group-becomes-political-poison
Yes, but like someone obviously pointed out on Reddit, Seth Moulton "was happy to accept right up until he decided to run for senate."
And in that same statement, he felt it was very important to state that he was still " a friend of Israel".
In other words, typical meaningless nonsense.
Whether he is a hypocrite or not, is besides the point. Israel buys US politicians and they are a lobbying group influencing US policy.
I don't think anyone here believes otherwise, realRodster.
It's when Democrats try to gaslight us by saying they're standing up against Israel that we have to call them out on it.
>>"No surprise as the US is Israel's bitch"
It's a mutual bitch-bitch relationship - i.e. you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. BFFs. You get the idea.
What people yet don't understand (because most people don't follow/understand global finance and shadow banking) is that Israel is a bastion for Western nations for several reasons, some of the more prominent ones being 'a conduit for financial transactions' (loopholes, laundering, structured finance, offshore tax strategies, etc.), 'an exporter for technologies of control/surveillance/exploitation' (technologies and methods for controlling populations, etc.). Hence, while 'the people of Western nations' are harmed by 'what Israel does', the POWER ELITE benefit tremendously by what Israel has to offer such people.
And it isn't just 'the West' that benefits by 'the kind of stuff' Israel exports. It is authoritarian regimes ALL OVER THE WORLD. Examples include: India, China (https://jacobin.com/2023/10/china-israel-repression-military-trade-palestine-technology), multiple authoritarian regimes in Africa (https://qatarajel.com/en/2025/07/27/israels-expanding-influence-in-africa/) and South America (https://besacenter.org/weapons-export-diplomacy-how-the-israeli-defense-industry-furthers-foreign-policy/), etc.
As Joe Biden said many years ago. If Israel did not exist, we'd have to invent one.
That's why I use Arab media such as Al Mayadeen (Lebanese), Saba (Yemeni), IRNA and Tasnim (Iranian) as main sources for my articles on my substack: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/
We need to fight the propaganda on Western MSM by giving more space to reliable Arab media, especially from countries opposing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the expansion of Israel in the Middle East.
Maher had no chance versus Greenwald. He's another scum Zionist. I don't understand how he has any audience.
I doubt anyone could stand against the great Glenn Greenwald. True GOAT, he!
It's sad and dangerous that we allow racism to have any traction. People have to unlearn this toxic attitude if we want a peaceful world.
so true. I am worried israeli's have destroyed the Jewish people with their evil ways. The zionists are bringing hate to Jewish people.
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I find it so ironic that Israel apologists would attempt to demonized the Islamic faith. The Islamic faith carries more core moral values similar to Judaism than Christianity does. When they speak of so-called Western values, especially through the eyes of Western conservatives, the parallels are rather common. Ignorance is not bliss.
Islam holds dear family traditions, therefore they do not adhere to artificial birth control or abortions as a rule.
They share the same dietary laws. They do not eat pork! They also slaughter their animals similarly to the way the Jews do, their meat is called Halal.
They guard against addictions such as smoking, drugs and alcohol or pornography. Homosexuality is a no-no so you definitely would be hard pressed to see them gather in the streets supporting transexuality.
They pray five times a day, to the Jews praying 3 times. They believe in "One God" and do not worship idols. They believe in freedom and justice for the oppressed.
They cover their bodies as a form of modesty and in some cases as a form of resistance.
The men even wear "small hats."
They believe that women rock the cradle of the world and hold them in high regard, as much as others would say the opposite. They are very protective of women and children and have strict laws against abusing them. They demand that the men provide for their families. They honor and revere their elders and do not place them in nursing homes. They have a high regard for education. They believe in taking care of the poor and indigent.
They believe that Yeshua (Jesus) was a prophet, a holy man with an important message for mankind.
They trace their bloodline back to Hagar, the Ethiopian, wife of Abraham (father of the Jews) and mother of Ishmael.
Islam is the 3rd branch of the Abrahamic faith yet it is barely noted as the common expression is Judeo-Christian, leaving Islam out of the equation.. the reasons are more than obvious.
In the Qur'an the holy book of the Muslims, Jews are a protected group as is the Christians. Muslims have no problem with Jews, their problem is with Zionist and Zionism.
Some of the really strict Muslims are almost inseparable from the orthodox Jews in their practices. I could go on and on having spent many years practicing the Islamic faith, but suffice it to say, ignorance is not bliss. Willful ignorance is just plain stupidity.
If anyone took the time to do some research, they would see that Islam is more comparable to Judaism than Christianity.
One of the things about white supremacy is that they are so quick to demonize the "other" that they don't even realize how ignorant they actually appear. They simply create the "myth" that the "other" is less than, and that gives them carte blanche to be contemptuous to the point of violence which they justify with more boatloads of ignorance. The contempt that Jews like Bill Mauer have for Muslims and the Islamic faith is born out of total ignorance or just plain stupidity, and is used as a tool of divisiveness when in fact they are more similar than they are different.
Of course their are extremes and dissidents in all religions, but for the most part, the Islamic faith strongly encourages laws of morality and promotes peaceful relations with their Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters.
Because this isn't really a religious conflict is it? Are the soldiers who are sniping children following their religious beliefs? If yes, then it would be wrong to compare with any other religion which does not justify or condone this behavior. It is a singular evil. Have Palestinians been offered conversion to Judaism as a step to peace? No they are not even allowed to flee across a border. This is an ethnic conflict justified by ideologies and religions but is actually just about bloodlines.
Nobody Uno, it's about routes and resources. These people got along famously before routes and resources and I would add Empire Building, became the goal of the day. "ethnic conflict justified by ideologies and religions but is actually just about bloodlines" is the smokescreen or myth. They all, Muslims and Jews, say they are descendants of Abraham. It would be so much easier if it was simply sibling rivalry.
You might like this interview with Michael Yon. https://drewtv.substack.com/p/perpetual-victims-are-predators-mim-150
Thanks, I will check out the link you shared. I agree it's about "routes and resources". It is also about imperialism, monopoly capitalism, settler/colonialism, etc. Yes economics is a big driver for many of the people involved. But I think at the end of the day all of the routes and resources are meant for the benefit of specific billionaires and their families along with a limited number of people who serve them, at the expense of everyone else.
The clue is in 'a nation state of Jews only'. It is very much a religious conflict. All other religions must die, or be driven off never to return. Without religion, what would the difference between the indigenous people and the colonists be? It's about land, obviously, and about wealth and resources, but always to the extent that only one religion will be allowed any. It is extraordinary that a people who use their religious superstition to justify genocide still somehow manage to convince people that their war crimes and atrocities are not part of a 'religious conflict'. Why ever let any religion off a hook? As Steven Weinberg said: 'religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion'.
I'm not sure if all religions are actually political projects but it seems many are and judaism certainly is. It's not primarily a set of beliefs that makes someone "jewish", it is a commitment to the jewish identity and the jewish "community" and the projects that the "community" is building. The identity defines in and out groups and ultimately functions like a political party. So I think it may be a distinction without a difference.
No-one has to 'be' a religion. It's a choice. Some bullies may seek to force their superstitious claptrap on others, but usually only in the most vicious and primitive societies. Take Israel. Here, superstitious claptrap is used to justify genocide. Superstitious claptrap, it is argued, makes some people so superior to everyone else, it justifies murdering them and stealing their land. No-one, not even government ministers, who support the genocide of Palestinians can do so without supporting this primitively supremacist proposition. But it's very, very racist, so they'd prefer you not to notice.
I do not share what most people call "family values". I believe in birth control and abortion. I refused to be a human incubator when I was younger and now am thankful to be too old to get pregnant. I am an atheist. I eat what I like. I support the equal rights of homosexuals and transexuals and deplore prejudice against gay people. I do agree that it was Muslims who preserved the learning of ancient Greece and Rome when Christians were running around burning books and tearing down statues. I appreciate the Muslim people's reverence for education. Christians hate education. I also thank them for respecting their elders, since I am a senior citizen now.
Well, I am not an atheist, and I am a senior as well, but my point was that it's kinda nutty to think that Islam is so way different than Judaism. I think all organized religions are cults..... but for the sake of argument... I just wanted to point some things out having practiced Islam myself, and I was quite studious about it at the time.
Human incubator, Carolyn?
Is that what I was when I became pregnant despite a (failed) birth control method?
I viewed it as FATE, and my daughter as a GIFT.