The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.
Western nations sanctioned South Africa and ended their apartheid, now they MUST do the same to Israel, whose behaviour is infinitely worse. It is to our eternal shame that we did not do this decades ago, when the peak cruelty began.
It is all part of the same problem: a deeply corrupted government that works for its sponsors, and not for its constituents. However, if given a choice between being a Gazan, or and an American, nobody would choose the former, because Americans are simply suffering neglect. Gazans are suffering cruelty, and genocide. The only way to end this holocaust is to have voices like Chris Hedges' educating people about just how cruel and destructive that the Israelis really are.
Because Chris has focused on Gaza (THE issue of the present time), you are accusing him of "deserting the working class". That is arrant nonsense. In fact your comments on this thread appear to me to be adversarial for the sake of it - perverse attention-seeking. Either that or you are trolling for the Israelis. Either way you are wide of the mark.
Perhaps the more accurate expression of the US's view of human rights for poor and marginalized minorities is this:
the poor minorities, whether within the US or in foreign countries, do not 'Not Matter', they matter but only for the US to uphold its self-image of superiority, of benevolence, of generosity, of star-spangled compassion and righteousness. That is it. When it serves American interest to invade, destabilize, exploit, pilfer poor countries of their resources, or replace their leaders with pro-US corrupt kleptocrats, or convert them to do US bidding, these same poor minorities will be cast aside, driven into the gutter, forced to leave their homes, and in some cases, become cannon fodder against countries the US wants destroyed. The many examples are well-known and well-documented. Gaza is perhaps the most egregious of these examples. In front of the World, the US aided the mass-murder of civilians, mostly women and children, for more than 6 months. Relentlessly, unflinchingly, without pause, without remorse. There is no way back from this. We remember Nazi Germany for their heinous crimes from 1937-1944. We remember Imperial Japan for their heinous crimes from 1937 - 1945. We remember Cambodia for the Killing Fields in 1970s. We remember Rwanda in 1994. We will remember Israel and the US for what is happening in Gaza in 2023-24.
I don't doubt Yemen's tragic loss of life as a result of Saudi and US backed civil war and intervention. But there are two things we need to keep in mind, when assessing Hedges' position on Gaza:
1. The UN estimates 150k killed in the Yemen war from 2014 - 2022, and another 227 died because of famine. By all accounts a horrendous humanitarian disaster. This happened over 7-8years. What we're seeing in Gaza, 33 killed in 160 days, is another level of mass-murder. Also, there's no place to go, no safe harbour for Gazans from direct Israeli fire. Only more crowding in ever denser makeshift camps which the Israelis continue to target like shooting fish in a barrel.
2. Much of the deaths in Yemen were due to war-induced famine. This is deliberate and unconscionable. We're seeing the beginnings of mass starvation in Gaza, due to deliberate action of the Zionist state. The only difference is, the mass dying from hunger hasn't fully kicked-in ... YET! If the restriction/blockade of food and water into Gaza persists for another 50 days, we will start seeing deaths perhaps hundreds/day. This is something the World (except the US) is trying desperately to prevent from ever becoming reality. The Yemen war did not see the level of intervention by the International Community, this is true. But it was a different time, where few countries are in a position to challenge the US and its G7 cronies. 2023-24 is not the same world.
Lastly, I don't think Hedges is Jew baiting. He has on many occassions lauded the protests from various Jewish civil groups pushing for a ceasefire, and stressed the importance of keeping the matter in the consciousness of the public. His animosity is towards the Zionists, not Jews. This is an important difference.
The problems of a mother of four watching her children STARVE TO DEATH, having lost her husband, parents and siblings to Israeli bombing, are far more pressing. Red herrings are not appreciated.
Unfortunately, correct. What will it take for the real people of the global south to organize an effective resistance movement? I'm talking about groups and leaders no one has yet heard of, not the heads of state who fight for the crumbs of power and wealth that fall from the tables of the global north, the United States, Russia, and China in particular. And we, the figurative south who live in the north, need to reach out to our comrades in subservient countries and make common cause with them.
The swift response of Israel to Oct.7 betrays advance knowledge, even possibly participation, in the attack, by IDF forces. We are dealing with a most duplicitous country imaginable after all, and based on the sheer violent depravity of its response, nothing is off the table with these Jewish Nazis.
It was only a year or so ago that the world was fretting, wringing its collective hands, at what Netenyahu's far right government would do once in power. Less than a year later, Gaza has been completely obliterated and nearly 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, are. Now we know what Netanyahu would do.
Let’s get the Biden Administration to focus on the criminal charges they so rightly deserve. 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute, the Genocide Convention in US criminal law. Members of this administration shouldn't go a single day without have this statute in their faces, up front and center at every protest at every meeting, press conference, briefing, and trips home and abroad. They may feel they are immune now, let's get them considering what is possible when they leave office. They should have visions of prison all the days of their lives. Let us find the way.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.
Let us call for a No Fly-Zone over Gaza!
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
I don't think that it was, because Hamas were so well prepared for the follow up. Still, who believes the Israelis stats on the number of IDF killed in the subsequent IDF actions in Gaza? On Oct 7th Hamas did a military raid to kill soldiers, and to take hostages, and they succeeded in doing this. However, the MSM reports about Oct 7th fail to mention that 80% of the CIVILIAN deaths were due to IDF actions. Firing from tanks, on houses that had both Hamas and Israeli civilians in them, and turning helicopter gunship fire on people and cars at the music festival - AND posting footage of same.
All I know is every single time I've followed the "narrative" it's been an outright lie. And indiscriminate killing of their own seems to tell me I'm on the right track. It's hard to believe this stuff because we've been so conditioned over our lifetimes to believe something else.
@CraigMokhiber 'The Israeli slaughter of the starved, sick, brutalized, displaced civilians sheltering in Rafah has begun, in the final phase of this #genocide in #Gaza. Forgive us. We have failed. But the perpetrators & their supporters will be held to account.'
This, while in the Middle East a merciless mass murderer named Netanyahu is willing to carry out a genocide against the Palestinians and will even have helpers from all over the world murdered because he suspects spies among them, who are employed to uncover the many war crimes of the Israeli army of murderers, as if to claim and lie afterwards that it was all just an unfortunate oversight.
This is despite the fact that everything was precisely calculated in advance and the intention was that no more spies, aid workers etc. would enter the Gaza Strip.
This is precisely because Netanyahu wants to carry out genocide, as Quetzal and Bermunda found out when they investigated his mindset and also discovered his secretiveness, that he wants to 'cash in' on Lebanon and Syria and later also Jordan and is not afraid to criminally 'sting' these countries with nasty attacks and raids for the time being.
Internationally, the Palestinians are not to receive any more aid, because that does not fit in with Netanyahu's genocide plans, which is why he will secretly arrange for all the Palestinians' helpers to disappear from the Gaza Strip, and thus also the spies he suspects are supposed to uncover all the Israeli war crimes committed by Israel's murderous military, as he assumes.
Secretly, donated food is also being poisoned and brought into the Gaza Strip as aid from all over the world, which then kills many Palestinians, ...
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Western nations sanctioned South Africa and ended their apartheid, now they MUST do the same to Israel, whose behaviour is infinitely worse. It is to our eternal shame that we did not do this decades ago, when the peak cruelty began.
Israel's older bible: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
Israel's newer bible: "A thousand Palestinian eyes for an Israeli eye, and 20 thousand Palestinian teeth for an Israeli tooth"...!!!
It is all part of the same problem: a deeply corrupted government that works for its sponsors, and not for its constituents. However, if given a choice between being a Gazan, or and an American, nobody would choose the former, because Americans are simply suffering neglect. Gazans are suffering cruelty, and genocide. The only way to end this holocaust is to have voices like Chris Hedges' educating people about just how cruel and destructive that the Israelis really are.
...and your criticisms of Chris over this essay are more than a bit disingenuous.
Because Chris has focused on Gaza (THE issue of the present time), you are accusing him of "deserting the working class". That is arrant nonsense. In fact your comments on this thread appear to me to be adversarial for the sake of it - perverse attention-seeking. Either that or you are trolling for the Israelis. Either way you are wide of the mark.
Perhaps the more accurate expression of the US's view of human rights for poor and marginalized minorities is this:
the poor minorities, whether within the US or in foreign countries, do not 'Not Matter', they matter but only for the US to uphold its self-image of superiority, of benevolence, of generosity, of star-spangled compassion and righteousness. That is it. When it serves American interest to invade, destabilize, exploit, pilfer poor countries of their resources, or replace their leaders with pro-US corrupt kleptocrats, or convert them to do US bidding, these same poor minorities will be cast aside, driven into the gutter, forced to leave their homes, and in some cases, become cannon fodder against countries the US wants destroyed. The many examples are well-known and well-documented. Gaza is perhaps the most egregious of these examples. In front of the World, the US aided the mass-murder of civilians, mostly women and children, for more than 6 months. Relentlessly, unflinchingly, without pause, without remorse. There is no way back from this. We remember Nazi Germany for their heinous crimes from 1937-1944. We remember Imperial Japan for their heinous crimes from 1937 - 1945. We remember Cambodia for the Killing Fields in 1970s. We remember Rwanda in 1994. We will remember Israel and the US for what is happening in Gaza in 2023-24.
I don't doubt Yemen's tragic loss of life as a result of Saudi and US backed civil war and intervention. But there are two things we need to keep in mind, when assessing Hedges' position on Gaza:
1. The UN estimates 150k killed in the Yemen war from 2014 - 2022, and another 227 died because of famine. By all accounts a horrendous humanitarian disaster. This happened over 7-8years. What we're seeing in Gaza, 33 killed in 160 days, is another level of mass-murder. Also, there's no place to go, no safe harbour for Gazans from direct Israeli fire. Only more crowding in ever denser makeshift camps which the Israelis continue to target like shooting fish in a barrel.
2. Much of the deaths in Yemen were due to war-induced famine. This is deliberate and unconscionable. We're seeing the beginnings of mass starvation in Gaza, due to deliberate action of the Zionist state. The only difference is, the mass dying from hunger hasn't fully kicked-in ... YET! If the restriction/blockade of food and water into Gaza persists for another 50 days, we will start seeing deaths perhaps hundreds/day. This is something the World (except the US) is trying desperately to prevent from ever becoming reality. The Yemen war did not see the level of intervention by the International Community, this is true. But it was a different time, where few countries are in a position to challenge the US and its G7 cronies. 2023-24 is not the same world.
Also, Hedges is not the only one projecting the death of Israel. Check out German scholar Tarik Cyril Amar's clip on Syriana Analysis https://www.youtube.com/live/mhZ1Iwzhnjo?si=c6p1EL2J9JMX2HiF
Lastly, I don't think Hedges is Jew baiting. He has on many occassions lauded the protests from various Jewish civil groups pushing for a ceasefire, and stressed the importance of keeping the matter in the consciousness of the public. His animosity is towards the Zionists, not Jews. This is an important difference.
“Since Kennedy assassination all US presidents were factotums” – Jeffrey Sachs
As chairman of the Covid Commission, Sachs had declared that the virus responsible for killing more
than a million Americans and perhaps another twenty million worldwide had almost certainly been
produced in a biolab, while he denounced the U.S. government for desperately working to conceal those facts.
The Transformation of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-transformation-of-prof-jeffrey-sachs/?display=footnoted
The problems of a mother of four watching her children STARVE TO DEATH, having lost her husband, parents and siblings to Israeli bombing, are far more pressing. Red herrings are not appreciated.
Unfortunately, correct. What will it take for the real people of the global south to organize an effective resistance movement? I'm talking about groups and leaders no one has yet heard of, not the heads of state who fight for the crumbs of power and wealth that fall from the tables of the global north, the United States, Russia, and China in particular. And we, the figurative south who live in the north, need to reach out to our comrades in subservient countries and make common cause with them.
The swift response of Israel to Oct.7 betrays advance knowledge, even possibly participation, in the attack, by IDF forces. We are dealing with a most duplicitous country imaginable after all, and based on the sheer violent depravity of its response, nothing is off the table with these Jewish Nazis.
It was only a year or so ago that the world was fretting, wringing its collective hands, at what Netenyahu's far right government would do once in power. Less than a year later, Gaza has been completely obliterated and nearly 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, are. Now we know what Netanyahu would do.
Are dead, my sentence should have read.
Let’s get the Biden Administration to focus on the criminal charges they so rightly deserve. 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute, the Genocide Convention in US criminal law. Members of this administration shouldn't go a single day without have this statute in their faces, up front and center at every protest at every meeting, press conference, briefing, and trips home and abroad. They may feel they are immune now, let's get them considering what is possible when they leave office. They should have visions of prison all the days of their lives. Let us find the way.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Code pink
https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.
Let us call for a No Fly-Zone over Gaza!
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
It's our bombs
Snuffing out the life force
and vibrant potential of the young.
It's our weapons
Delivering the indignity
Of burnt body fragments,
Crushed limbs and deadly shrapnel
To bodies once lovely.
The sudden deaths of children,
Beloved by large families,
Leave psychological holes,
Make rubble of lives.
O these pointless tragedies;
Their biographies nag at my heart.
How difficult to love life,
One's intimate life,
When this genocide is allowed,
With more bombs on the way.
I'd be suprised if October 7th wasn't an inside job.
I don't think that it was, because Hamas were so well prepared for the follow up. Still, who believes the Israelis stats on the number of IDF killed in the subsequent IDF actions in Gaza? On Oct 7th Hamas did a military raid to kill soldiers, and to take hostages, and they succeeded in doing this. However, the MSM reports about Oct 7th fail to mention that 80% of the CIVILIAN deaths were due to IDF actions. Firing from tanks, on houses that had both Hamas and Israeli civilians in them, and turning helicopter gunship fire on people and cars at the music festival - AND posting footage of same.
All I know is every single time I've followed the "narrative" it's been an outright lie. And indiscriminate killing of their own seems to tell me I'm on the right track. It's hard to believe this stuff because we've been so conditioned over our lifetimes to believe something else.
I can only hope that these Zionists are swinging in the air from a tree branch.
@CraigMokhiber 'The Israeli slaughter of the starved, sick, brutalized, displaced civilians sheltering in Rafah has begun, in the final phase of this #genocide in #Gaza. Forgive us. We have failed. But the perpetrators & their supporters will be held to account.'
“The U.S. funds wars, while China funds development.”
Yellen Dispatched to Beg China for Face-Saving Slowdown – Simplicius - Apr. 9, 2024
https://substack.com/inbox/post/143376573
Worth careful reading -- Such a thought / analysis is VERY rarely stated:
Billy Meier:
This, while in the Middle East a merciless mass murderer named Netanyahu is willing to carry out a genocide against the Palestinians and will even have helpers from all over the world murdered because he suspects spies among them, who are employed to uncover the many war crimes of the Israeli army of murderers, as if to claim and lie afterwards that it was all just an unfortunate oversight.
This is despite the fact that everything was precisely calculated in advance and the intention was that no more spies, aid workers etc. would enter the Gaza Strip.
This is precisely because Netanyahu wants to carry out genocide, as Quetzal and Bermunda found out when they investigated his mindset and also discovered his secretiveness, that he wants to 'cash in' on Lebanon and Syria and later also Jordan and is not afraid to criminally 'sting' these countries with nasty attacks and raids for the time being.
Internationally, the Palestinians are not to receive any more aid, because that does not fit in with Netanyahu's genocide plans, which is why he will secretly arrange for all the Palestinians' helpers to disappear from the Gaza Strip, and thus also the spies he suspects are supposed to uncover all the Israeli war crimes committed by Israel's murderous military, as he assumes.
Secretly, donated food is also being poisoned and brought into the Gaza Strip as aid from all over the world, which then kills many Palestinians, ...
Contact Report 882
Date of contact: Sunday, 31st March 2024
Billy Meier and the Plejaren extraterrestrial Ptaah
https://www.figu.org/ch/
https://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Site_News
https://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Contact_Report_882