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I know you don't really need my prayers over there - you need bombs for Gaza. But I see you're into action there and I have every confidence in your warfighters. Just wanted to say most of us here in America are 100% behind you in Israel.
As usual, I'm the contrarian here. I'm sorry for the latest breakout of violence. Our world just can't seem to get along together. Israel is considered by the UN as an apartheid state. Their blockade will now be cutting off everything, including food and water, electricity. That's medieval. They've been squeezing the Palestinians since the formation of Israel. Taking their land and means to make a living. Like the Irish in Northern Ireland, this fight is portrayed as a religious war. But both examples determined as stemming from colonialism. Occupy, take, grab. Like we did to the American Indians. I'll pray it all ends soon for the sake of killing on both sides. Just like in Ukraine.
I agree with you about being sorry for the breakout of violence. And I understand the length of the conflict - literally thousands of years old - and the added difficulties after Israel re-acquired their land in 1948. Some might say that differently, that they became a nation or other ways, and I'm not debating semantics. I just can see how difficult that all must have been and how it would have exacerbated tensions in that region. I also agree with you that I hope somehow the sides will agree to forgive one-another and stop warring. But I also know that's easy to say from an armchair several thousand miles away. I do not mean to diminish anyone's pain or their reasons for resentments. I just would wish for compassion and humanity. I'm definitely not a Muslim-basher. It's not religion that gets the trouble started - In my opinion, it's the lack of it. To me, the Hebrew, the Christians and the Muslims are all monotheistic Mesopotamians and I can identify with each of them.
Not surprisingly, there seem to be generation differences regarding views of the conflict. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/472796/young-adults-views-middle-east-changing.aspx https://www.kqed.org/news/11964499/new-poll-shows-strong-american-support-for-israel-amid-generational-racial-divides I'm projecting that Gen Z, on its own, would show starker numbers than the rest. Pray for peace.
Every time the Palestinians break out of their detention zone and commit their generational rage against Israel's Apartheid state. They are punished with impunity. The death toll in Gaza now is estimated over 5000, probably much more with the bodies eventually found in collapsed buildings. The Israeli's want to wipeout Hamas. Eradicate them. I don't think that is possible. They'll be degraded for sure. But the resentment and bitterness they endure, daily over the years will reform angry young men to fight against their oppressors. The political regime in Israel now is incapable of reasoning for peace and making any concessions. I've read that isn't the consensus of many Israeli's though. I can only hope that their leader can be once again tossed out and his like minded cabinet members and eventually, more reasonable minds put in place there. It's been a travesty for too long in that part of the world.
I like to get a broader perspective on world events other than what you can glean from corporate news media. Which usually is as in-depth as a kiddy wading pool. An interesting article on America's standards for geopolitical behavior. Calling it, rules based international order. Over the years this has become controversial in that it tends to be two faced. When it runs up against international law, the RBIO can be manipulated to justify our strategic stance. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rules-based-international-order-israel-gaza/
Have you no decency? The close of John Mearsheimer's substack article on the Gaza genocide. All with our government's blessings. Unyielding support of Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing, genocidal killing of innocent people. Mainly women and children according to UN statistics. It seems that our foreign policy since the end of WWII has been nothing but sleazy subversive regime change and warmongering amounting to dubious outcomes and huge expenditures of blood and treasure. And collateral damage throughout the world. If that's spreading democracy and good will then I'd hate to imagine what malevolent intent might be. https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza
I commend South Africa with its World Court case for Israel's long standing apartheid and current genocide against the Palestinians. It takes one to know one. South Africa's apartheid was finally vanquished in the early 90's. Since then they have joined the BRICS coalition to counter our dollar dominant perversion with sanctioning and trade entitlement. And now they're speaking out about the obvious and doing something that a majority of the world can't get done in the U.N. because of the US veto power. It won't be enforceable, but it carries a statement of condemnation to a current regime that is not virtuous. Quite the opposite.
I have to speak out again in this thread of the total perversion that Israel is perpetrating on the people of Palestinian heritage. It's barbaric and brutal. The latest is the deliberate massacre of desperate, starving people lured to aid trucks to shoot at by the Israeli IDF. The trucks were not UN sponsored. As if starving a populous isn't reason enough for the World Courts ruling on their genocide behavior. All the while our government keeps sending them implements of warfare to accomplish what their perverted leadership ulterior motives are. Ridding all Palestinians once and for all. SICK! The victim becomes the perpetrator. As childhood violence begets a cycle of violence. The Israeli's behave as the Nazi's did to them.
Once again our marked deck of rules based diplomacy rears it's very ugly head. Our country has lost itself in it's selfish attempt to remain the dominant alpha dog. The rest of the pack is deserting and we stand out like an obscene gesture to world law and rules. We've got our own rules, and they supersede everything else. Like our economic doctrine, our diplomacy follows lock step. Fraudulent and debauched. Sad. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/at-the-un-it-is-a-rogue-us-against-the-rest-of-the-world.html#more
I for one maybe here have nothing but condemnation for Israel. And the country I live. For our country's majority of the legislative body and current administration supports mass murder. There's no other way to describe what's going on. Saying Israel has a right to defend itself now is an assault on ones consciousness. But you'll hear that evoked by our diplomatic stooges, over and over. Really though, that's been Israel's policy from the get go. A land without people for a people without a land. Since Great Britain and the US formed the state after WWII. The Zionist phrase has stood and now the final solution is being carried out. Ridding the Palestinians. The United States will oblige this as there is no two state solution in Israel. Which is why the US vetoed the UN resolution for it. And every other resolution condemning Israel. Part of our rules based diplomacy based on our own rules we carry out as a matter of routine. Kind of a catch 22. Maddeningly circular reasoning. Because we can. The United States has considered Israel its, "Land based aircraft carrier" since its formation. For having a foot hold on control of Middle Eastern oil and the shipping trade from the Suez canal. Part of our imperialist national security network throughout the world. Israel got a sobering taste of how its Arab neighborhood feels from provoking Iran and the north of Israel is uninhabitable from the danger of Hezbollah bombarding it from Syria. The razors edge for the US is whether Israel will do something really stupid to bring a whole theater of war to the region. That's the price you pay for being the imperialist alpha country in the world. It's a scary Nostradamus thought.
This is the barbarism our country supports without pause. In Palestine, Israeli solders are given free reign to shoot anyone, anything, out of boredom and cause. https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-gaza-firing-regulations/ The prestigious British medical publication Lancet feels the death toll in Palestine is highly under estimated. 186000 or more are estimated dead in the rubble. https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/death-toll-in-gaza-could-exceed-186000-the-lancet-18181205 Netanyahu will give a speech in congress on the 24th this month. No doubt giving righteous cause for this and for more "aid" to speed the murder of more Palestinian people. He'll be given praise and assurances to this.
Just a reminder to the commitment towards genocide that our government is endorsing and as an assessor to cruelty and murder we give aid to. It's sinful. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
I have prayers for Israel. Prayers they oust somehow their rightwing, religious, fervent faction of genocidal lunatics that want to pull our country into war with Iran in a holy war of Jewish purification. Prayer our administration, whichever way it goes has the political fortitude to stand up to the AIPAC and turn the spigot off to weaponize this madness. I'm not confidant of either party doing so. Our neocon philosophy in the Middle East is so intrenched. Power & control of our landed aircraft carrier, (Israel) has been left up to whatever the winds blow in their political environment. We just give them the means to forcibly do what they think is plausible. But even now in Israel, some in government are very concerned with what the extreme takeover of its inner sanctum is producing morally. As expressed by a former chief of staff of the Israeli IDF and former defense minister, Moshe Ya'alon. Quote: "When you talk about Smotrich and Ben Gvir: They have a Rabbi. His name is Dov Lior. He is the Rabbi of the Jewish Underground, who intended to blow up the Dome of the Rock and before that the buses in Jerusalem. Why? In order to hurry up the 'Last War'. Do you [not] hear them talking in terms of the Last War; or of Smotrich's concept of 'subjugation'? Read the article he published in Shiloh in 2017. First of all, this concept rests on Jewish supremacy: Mein Kampf in reverse". "My hair stands on end when I say that as he said it. I learned and grew up in the house of Holocaust survivors and 'never again'. It is Mein Kampf in reverse: Jewish supremacy: and therefore [Smotrich] says: "My wife won't go into a room with an Arab". It is anchored in ideology. And then actually what he aspires to as soon as possible is to go to a big war. A war of Gog and Magog. How do you start the flames? A massacre like the [1994] Cave of the Patriarchs? Baruch Goldstein is a student of this Rabbi. Ben Gvir has hung up Goldstein's picture [in his house]". "This is what goes into the decision-making process in the Israeli government". This from a link in another in a long line of excellent articles written by Alastair Crooke. Former British diplomat. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/19/revisionist-zionists-dare-us-to-pull-the-plug-on-their-nakba-agenda/
This Aussie gal really punches hard with her blog. And what she says about Israel is a subject ignored by our corporate press we get most of our information from. They really don't do a very good job with their journalism standards. Caitlin's blog fills in the gaps most Americans and Europeans probably don't want to hear. Certainly our government officials. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/good-westerners-dont-start-off-hating
I find this video very telling of what the Palestinian position is all about. The leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, was killed yesterday in Gaza. Described as the planner of the Oct 7th breakout of Palestinian forces into Israel. Israel rejoices but the Palestinian cause will not diminish any. They are a ragtag resistance to colonialism of the land that Palestinians have occupied for thousands of years. Like America was colonized, Canada, South Africa, Australia and more. The populations indigenous in every instance are marginalized, terrorized, sequestered and cordoned off from the colonized group. If not for the United States and Great Britain. This ordeal would not have happened. But now the role the US is sustaining shows the depravity of colonization. As the Israeli's want a purity of their supposed religious prophecy. They have taken the saying, "A people without a land for a land 'without' people" literally. And are carrying out genocide at this point with the Palestinians. Yahya Sinwar speaks out to this in a video months prior to his death. And he speaks as clear as can be said of why they resist. Wouldn't we in their same position? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Px6AyVjw2A
Israel has become a huge liability to America's national security. The wicked webs we weave. Israel cannot achieve the end of Hamas or Hezbollah. They cannot get their hostages still alive released because their own leadership is so corrupt that any attempts to make a cease fire and compromise to release their hostages was thwarted by political subterfuge. NetanYahoo himself is the mitigating factor. According to his defense minister he sacked the other day. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/10/g-s1-33621/israels-ousted-defense-minister-says-the-military-has-done-all-it-can-in-gaza And Israel's war on all it's fronts now is totally dependent on US backing them. Our election cycle will produce no change from what the majority of the world population considers enabling genocide. Joe Biden's speech to Americans after Oct. 7th last stressed that we're American's, and we can do 'anything' we put our mind to. Presumably anything virtuous. But we can't provide decent cost effective healthcare, housing and cost of living. What we spend on military and foreign entanglements could alleviate those issues. Tell me what is virtuous in this grotesque contradiction?
Murder and deprivation are the tools of extermination of the Palestinian people. An ongoing, steady and relentless grind the world is unable to stop. Not without encountering America's resolve to let it play out. Better to just ignore it till they're all gone. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/new-reports-on-gaza.html#more
Happy Hanukkah! Hanukkah started on Christmas day this year. That's interesting to me, because Jesus would have most certainly celebrated Hanukkah his whole life. Not to get all religious, just sayin'.
Yeah well. It's kind of symbolic of the Christian, Jewish relationship now of genocide. Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984. "Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me". Jesus would be appalled.
...Prayers for Israel. Prayers for everyone over there.
I'll omit prayers for those that caused that, If it's all the same. It's unconscionable.
Isn't Israel shown in the photograph above?
Wayne Parham wrote on Mon, 30 December 2024 14:32 Isn't Israel shown in the photograph above? That's what I had assumed as well Regardless a horrible disaster
I think it's Gaza, which was part of Israel but has been sort of abandoned, politically. If I understand correctly - which I'm sure I don't 'cause it's a complicated situation - the people in western Israel on the east bank of the Mediterranean are mostly Moslems. That area is called Gaza. They don't want to be citizens of Israel, but they aren't allowed to emigrate to surrounding Islamic nations either. The Moslem nations that are nearby can't take those people for one reason or another, probably mostly economic. So they are sort of stranded and they are pissed. Their living conditions are horrible. They're just having so many problems over there. It's a very difficult situation, that's for sure.
That so called disaster is an all out assault to eradicate a people that were indigenous to that land before an Israel ever came to be in existence by dominant western culture. That picture is of Gaza, an area cordoned off like a prison camp by the Israeli government destroyed now by the IDF. That is a picture of genocide. The World Court, the UN and most of the worlds governments concur to that. They're killing and removing 'those' people from the West Bank of Israel as well. And Israel is taking part of Syria now. It's been a part of the "big" picture planned for some time. As uncle Joe Biden said as a senator. If there wasn't an Israel, we'd have to invent one. Why? To serve our national security interests in the Middle East. Oil.
Jimmy Carter our now retired from life itself ex president is interviewed in 2007 pertaining to Gaza and the Palestinians subjected to apartheid by Israel. That in itself was an abomination to Palestinians. What it's evolved into now as the picture from above shows, is a sin. For the Israel's and our government enabling it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacMwLvIlXQ
Yesterday Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave a farewell hurrah press conference that was interrupted by two dissenting journalists to the policy of America's involvement with Israel and the cruel handling of Gaza. The world court determining it as genocide. These two journalist's were uniformly not supported by their peers for their dissent towards Secretary Blinken and our policies permitting genocide. One was forcefully carried out of the proceedings, the other complied to leave. This article speaks well of the hypocrisy of the totality of our foreign policy and to the hypocrisy of our journalistic integrity. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/none-of-these-war-criminals-will This article today from the blog Moon of Alabama shows the complicity of journalism with our national foreign policy narrative that shapes public sentiment. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/sowing-doubt-about-china-but-at-what-cost.html#more https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/how-russia-and-putin-are-weaponizing-losing-and-running-out-of-everything.html The Mighty Wurlitzer: http://www.thecoreproject.org/omeka/files/original/e2e0c1a4ec1f79c303936576040fe197.pdf
The real estate mogul says to clear out. Gaza can be the Rivera of the Middle East. His son in law alluded to that some time back. So, hey, you know, just clear out of there all you Palestinians. It's all torn up and destroyed by the cruel western installed settlers since after WWII. They want an ethnically "pure" country. Kind of like the Nazi's did in Europe prior to the big war. Our new commander in thief want's to just take Gaza over for a new luxury development project. It's quite a lucrative location. Beachfront hotels, restaurants, high end shops. You name it. Israel after all is our project, our landed aircraft carrier in the Middle East. Our military fortress to maintain our national interests. Oil. A dementia addled president fueled the genocide and the new corrupt businessman president want's some payoff for the billions sunk in the project to rid those people out of their homeland. That's progress in the scheme our value system.
Israeli culture has been known for some time as one that regards following rules and norms of civility to one another as being taken advantage of. It's called "freier", or, someone who plays by the rules and misses the opportunity to cheat others. An article from the LA Times gives a glimpse of this trait in Israeli society from back in 1997. It's A Sin to be a freier, Sucker in Israel. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-25-mn-16208-story.html A Jewish institution did a poll of Israeli's about Trump's plan for Gaza. 8 in 10 Israeli's support it. They just want Palestinians to be taken out of the picture once and for all. They're inconvenient. They're dangerous. They're not Jewish. The world isn't like the 19th century when the American Indians were treated similarly in our country. Or the Aboriginal people in Australia. But colonization from the formation of Israel is no different to the people that were original to that region as were the people in other centuries, other countries. But there is global sentiment now with our technology. And the majority of the world has called out this mess in the Middle East for what it is. The people of Israel have taken on a dog eat dog mentality to their situation that is dependent on the United States providing their security from Israel having caused apartheid and now genocide. It's shameful for both countries. That won't realize what they've collectively done together. As Daddy Warbucks Biden said. If there were no Israel, we'd have to create one.
It was bound to fail. So Israel has resumed "murdering" Palestinians. Bombing indiscriminately and starving the weary Palestinians. All under the feeble pretext of Hamas reneging on releasing the few hostages left. The Israelis have been breaking the rules of the ceasefire all along, killing Palestinians. And Trump is no more less an enabler of Israel's murderous behavior than Biden was. Bombing Yemen and killing civilians because of their support of Palestine by cutting off shipping to Israel All of this falls back on America's foreign policy and phony blanket national security policies. The world's true terrorist disguised like a wolf in sheep's clothing. It's our sovereign right as the worlds most exceptional nation.
let's try and understand something. Israel was created by some empathy to the holocaust by the British & American's as a colonialist nation that like the US and Australia had initially European settlers come in but in no time start displacing the much greater population of Arabs indigenous to the area. And like the US and Australia the indigenous population have been marginalized to the point of apartheid and now genocide for the ethnic purity desire of the mostly European heritage Jewish government and population. The US has kept a hands off attitude with the Israeli government and let them run their country anyway they saw fit. Including running a budget for their military. All for having a ally in the region for our own military presence. The large population of Jewish faith people in the US have put together also a powerful political organization influencing American lawmakers allegiance. Making any politician taking a stand critical of Israel's government a pariah considered to be anti-Semitic and subject to a campaign against them. Many of the Arab nations of that region are complacent with what Israel has done over the years to the Palestinians as they have leaders that are both autocratic and dictatorial and in the pocket of American financial interests. But a few such as Iran and little Yemen have shown empathy for their Arab brother & sister Palestinians. Vilified both by Israel of course and the US who tolerates Israel's actions without any moral conscience due to our overriding national security myths governing our lack of virtue. And the Jewish lobby at home keeps any misfit politician at bay. Yemen whom the US has contracted the Saudi Government for years to attack with aerial bombardment has commenced itself bombing Yemen now for the sake of the corrupt Israeli government due to the Houthi groups of Yemen firing on ships supplying Israel before and now since the ceasefire and the renewed starvation and bombing of Palestinians commenced again. They had stopped during the ceasefire. Which really was a fraud since Israel had broken their end by selectively killing Palestinians throughout the ceasefire. The Trump administration is rattling war sabers against Iran now again. Tensions are building again in the region. But its another prime example of the American covert and overt empire expression of false two faced democracy. We're a war mongering and declining empire that our finance capitalism has ruined. We may well end up isolated to ourselves as being unfit to trade or have relations due to our low moral turpitude. Or now with an unhinged leadership create nuclear Armageddon striking out against those whom we feel defies our right to rule anyway we see fit in this world.
Finally, some corporate media reporting the truth about Israel AND the United States feeding their genocidal push to rid all Palestinians from their own land they've occupied for centuries. Just like we did to the American Indians. Might makes right. Even when its cruel and sinful. But that'll be glossed over in time. The push is on now for that Gaza strip luxury condo, casino's and Trump hotel to be erected after the dead Palestinian corpses are plowed out of the rubble we help to create. We are an evil empire now wrapped in the phony pretense of democracy. Whatever Wall Street deems as a democracy. Pretty sad sack. All the ideals of our constitution perverted as they are now. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/imagine-silent-terrible-evil-committed-gaza-inaction-censorship
I support the Houthis. They are righteous. Supporting their Palestinian brothers & sisters. Israel is an evil genocidal state now. And we are not much better. Craven and complicit in sustaining evil intent. If we send troops over there instead of forcing Israel to back off Gaza. Then we too are evil. https://sonar21.com/attack-yemen-yeah-i-warned-you-mr-trump/
Most Americans sense it seems of this grotesque event happening daily view it as unfortunate. The sentiment being, "Those people over there just can't seem to get along". Nobody though seems to try to understand why this is coming to a fruition that appears particularly ugly now. The politicians in this country always preface Israel, "They have a right to defend themselves". They did that on that October 7th day. Killing their own people with Hamas via their Hannibal Directive as is known to stop Hamas from being in their territory at any cost. From then on its been sheer destruction of Gaza and the people in it. And ours and Europe's complicity in this continuing is backed up with condemning people that protest about Israel. That's being antisemitic! So most people are comfortably numb about the whole aspect of genocide happening in our present day. Not an ugly chapter of yesteryear. The latest Moon Of Alabama shows what ugly cult mentality isn't a new occurrence with the state of Israel and the faithful here in this country. Its been cultivated for some time. Quote: The Cult That Murders Gaza I have not written much about the war on Gaza. It is so brutal and and the Zionist behavior is so alien to me that I lack words to describe it. I have difficulties to understand how anyone, any group of people, could set themselves so far outside of the common human realm, as I perceive it, and commit itself to starve and genocide millions of people. Yasha Levine helped me to get a grip on it: .. I came across this…a brief statement by a celebrity Chabad rabbi about his thoughts on the proper way to wage a war in the Jewish style. I wanted to share it with you I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle). The first Israeli prime minister who declares that he will follow the Old Testament will finally bring peace to the Middle East. ... Rabbi Manis Friedman Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies St. Paul, MN It is a cult. As Levine explains: Rabbi Manis Friedman is well known in the Jewish world. .. ... [H]is views on the right way to wage a war on Palestinians were published in 2009 in Moment, a mainstream Jewish magazine that was cofounded by Elie Wiesel. ... Now fifteen years later Friedman’s views are basically mainstream in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world. What he described as the only proper, godly way to wage war against the enemies of Israel is in fact what Israel is currently doing in Gaza and beyond…with total support from the United States and the Europeans. What can one say? Chabad is a religious sect with 18th century roots in some Belorussian village. Levine has written a number of pieces about it. This bears the question: How can one 'deprogram' a large people who have fallen for a cult like this?
The genocide narrative is starting to "finally" appear in publications and in political circles. Well hells bells ain't it about time! The Israeli government is still going after their intent to their final Nazi solution in Gaza. Leave or die. Or probably dying trying to leave. The Prayers for Israel should become prayers for Israel to be put in its place as a cruel, warped and selfish society bent on annihilating a race of people to purify their undeserved status as a sovereign country. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/multiple-western-press-outlets-have The politicians though probably have realized that their status is in jeopardy by standing by Israel's gruesome religious initiative that they are the chosen ones.
Every morning now I'm reading of another airstrike in Gaza. Killing 40, 50 or more with people in the rubble still. The world goes on in its ways. But Gaza must be hell on earth while being starved on top of the terror of night time bombing. No one seems to care. I suppose they deserve it right? After the October raid and all. The lady that cares though makes note to, Imagine if Gaza Was Jewish And The People Bombing it Were Muslims? Our country is still helping this scene happen. <img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a003b78-1519-40d8-8dc0-7679c3cea61e_1080x564.png" border="0" alt="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a003b78-1519-40d8-8dc0-7679c3cea61e_1080x564.png" /> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/imagine-if-gaza-was-jewish-and-the
Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child. What kind of sickness allows for our country to keep supplying the means to accomplish this barbarism? And what does this say about the Israeli's? Their people? Many from Europe and the horrors of what Nazi Germany did in the past. I suppose some would say, "they're just tired of the never ending threat of Palestinian Hamas causing harm to them". And what would someone expect of a group of people that have been pushed around, marginalized apartheid style for decades, murdered and bombed, their homes taken away? Why couldn't they live together in the first place? Are they that dissimilar? One thing that gives the Israeli's the power to exploit their ethnic religious ordained cleansing is the United States. What does that say about our country? I think it says we're pretty messed up in many ways. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/
FASCISM! Is our prescription for diplomacy. We're a sick decaying empire. Flirting with war for the sake of war. Jeffrey Sachs on the Israeli attack on Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAi0uFQY_r8
Behold, the great pretender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBj2HN2uuNA Ben Norton explains the latest in a long line of subversive lies that our deep state and its willing sycophants, our government does in its behalf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0s7O8RU9V0 Why would/should any country trust our record of deceit? Breaking treaties, fomenting wars, regime change, assassinations etc, etc, etc.
From Ben Norton's Geopolitical Economy Report. The United States and Israel are jointly waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? What the US empire would like to accomplish is the following: Maintain US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East) Destroy the anti-colonial Axis of Resistance, making possible the total colonization of Palestine Prevent Iran from ever developing nuclear capabilities Overthrow or at least weaken Iran’s independent, revolutionary government Scare other countries in the region that may seek to move away from the US and the dollar (especially the Gulf monarchies) Preserve the petrodollar system, ensuring global demand for the US dollar Destabilize BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, divide the Global South, and disrupt the multipolar project Break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership, with the ultimate goal of isolating Beijing That said, it is of course by no means guaranteed that these goals will be achieved. My take on this? Let's hope that none of these goals are achieved. That it leads to the weakening of the United States ability to conduct its habitual and wasteful hegemony cause. And concentrate in on itself. Morally, virtuously and willfully becoming a better nation with the rest of the world. As is, we have been like an Ogre, stomping around causing chaos and discord in the world. Our deep state must be exposed and rebuked. Never being able to influence our leadership again.
Sometimes a good old ass whuppin' provides a sobering change of heart. Iran provided that to Israel last month. The evil Zionist regime has clamped down on any reporting that Iran's missile exchange did to them. But it was extensive. Had it continued, Israel's means of terror may have been extinguished. Along with it's government. Too bad. And Iran's military capabilities have certainly gotten America's attention finally. Along with its capability to defend against future missile attacks with what our longstanding belief in military superiority has proven to show the fraud of our military industrial complex. The most expensive yet least efficient ability to produce quantity and quality. The US and Israel wanted a regime change in Iran. They wanted to bring in the son of the late Shah of Iran. An entitled trust fund brat of a dictator that absconded with Iranian wealth when run out of office with their revolution in the 70's. Israel along with help from Britain's MI6 and US CIA carried out a decapitation strike first in Iran, killing scientists and military officials, and their family's. And the Trump administration followed up with an air strike to test out those bunker buster bombs. The whole farse flopped fortunately when Bibi went belly aching to Uncle Sam to make those meanie Iranian's stop raining missiles down on them. That their Iron Dome couldn't cope with. And the US couldn't replenish. Because our bloated war machine spends more on stock buybacks then building weapons efficiently. This article gives the details. Alternative journalism is a godsend for the truth from the rotten crap shoved down the publics throat from corporate journalism. https://sonar21.com/findings-on-an-illegal-war-that-the-west-enthusiastically-waged-and-lost/
An aside to this image is that it reminds me of an art installation I remember from the 1970's that captivated me walking into. I think it was called something like, The infinity chamber or some such. Really cool reflections of lights with mirrors top, bottom and sides like you were suspended in space-time. Anyway, with this read out from a Wolff & Hudson session goes into how our government is so entangled in its belief system of financial capitalism that the hastening of our dominant role in the world is eroding at a pace faster than ever. Thus the preoccupation with breaking up the countervailing economic forces occurring in the world are at the expense of our own domestic vitality. Like a punch drunk prize fighter, out of shape and having lost their edge of skills is going into the ring to be cuffed around miserably by opponents. Our government doesn't get it. Instead of stepping back and rethinking our strategy. Bringing in a fresh approach to our conduct at home and abroad. We double down, say more money for the military, preserve the 1% interests above and beyond their true use. Which is minimal to the status of our economy. The infinity chamber is like a metaphor for our reflection back on ourselves showing the same approach going out indefinitely, fading into nowhere. America No Longer Makes its own Future. https://michael-hudson.com/2025/07/why-america-no-longer-makes-its-own-future/
The "G" word speaketh from the bastion of liberal newspapers, the NY Times. And a Jewish college professor know for genocide research finally "gets it". Well.. DUHHH! A fine example of group think backed by power broking in institutions to follow what the ideology dictates. The NYT's editorial board finally after what was obvious from decades in the past allows for an editorial unflattering to the ethically corrupt and psychotic Israeli government by calling out the obvious. Genocide! With a little help from their friend. The USA. https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/16/the-new-york-times-finally-stops-avoiding-the-g-word/
And Ben Norton's Geopolitical Economy Report follows up with his usual thorough fine reporting. The corporate media like the NY Times is seeing the writing on the wall finally and is trying to distance itself with a sudden "realization" that the reality of ugly truth of blatant genocide committed by Israel is gaining traction with some in our society. He also shows how corporations have profited from a long history of colonialism genocide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb082pTy-Nw The empire strikes back at those with international clout by sanctioning the UN's Palestinian Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from Italy for consistently speaking out against Israel's ugly degenerate ways. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165359 All of this smacks of the total fraud of the Empire. Not its people who languish in its awful behavior.
Israel doesn't need prayers. They need to be denied weapons and financial aid. Shooting starving people while they frantically move towards a trickle of food aid is beyond barbarism. It's just monstrously sick & perverted. So is our government.
Witness evil. The IDF is shooting starving children and anyone clamoring in desperation for food, or water. Dr.'s have noted the snipers change up "body parts" to key on on different days. Abdominal, heads and even genital areas. Our country stands alone as the only means by which this abomination has gone on and continues. Part of the sickness of our empire management system that sows chaos out into the world. Out of greed and arrogance. It's shameful.
Among the many reasons, this Israel murder racket is the prominent reason for a vote of no confidence for our government. It is corrupt. No morals, no ethics, no humanity, just money and power and greed. We do not have a democracy. It is a plutocracy. A bunch of rich guys and gals that buy the government off to their satisfaction. Trump tells Israel to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas weeks after suggesting ceasefire deal in sight https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/donald-trump-israel-hamas-war Hamas is literally, The Palestinians. All of them. And the worn out pretext of "Hamas" hanging around starving people as justification to shoot them all is as bogus as what the whole genocide reason is. Using the pathetic cover of being antisemitic to criticize Israel's and the United States for this corrupt tragedy to occur from the get go. I would hope, "a fantasy" for some kind of vindication. Maybe like a Nuremburg sort of trial for the officials who allowed and planned this abomination to have occurred. Maybe hemp necktie's for some of them.
And now the elite enablers of this horror show have come to the conclusion to shore up their image some. By saying well yes there is rather a bit of evidence of Israel actually "starving" the entire population of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli ministry of death proposed that from the get go! But being craven spineless political hacks they seem to get the message now. So the, "Israel has a right to defend itself" mantra is being shelved somewhat to perk up their standings with world condemnation of this sick and demented regime called Israel. Don't forget folks, "Our landed aircraft carrier" of the Middle East. "If there wasn't an Israel, we'd have to create one" old dementia Joe said. America First is our feted fraud of an Empire. These politicians are spritzing perfume over the stink they created long ago and still continue by trying to acknowledging the obvious. History will show them if the authors of it are truthful, as being as accomplices to mass murder. You can't pretty that up.
Two American officials, Witcoff & Huckabee are to inspect the distribution of food sites in Gaza that will undoubtedly be a "Dog & Pony Show", contrived by Israeli officials to be an orderly process based on humanitarian concerns. All a farce. The sites themselves are run by a shell company of Two Oceans Trust called UG Solutions run by a lunatic ex green beret Jameson Govoni running the distribution security with former US soldiers. https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/24/gaza-checkpoint-contractor-wealth-management-firm/ One of them is speaking out now towards the conditions there and as a witness to the atrocities being carried out by the IDF and by some of the contractors of the distribution outfit. Here being interviewed by Tucker Carlson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjEMbHXM4Q What all this shows is how the United States mismanages and creates most the chaos in this world. With Israel now finalizing its genocidal atrocity in Gaza with starvation as a tool to rid a whole society once and for all from their midst. With the help of American weapons of destruction. And even this degenerate method of making a buck for some investment group to contract food aid. This should be a United Nations run entity without any financialized kickback. Its a sickness that runs deep in our government.
Two years since the Hamas attack, our prayers are still with you. So many deaths on both sides. Hopefully, the ceasefire talks will stick and peace will begin. Fingers crossed.