Washington and European governments are cheerleading Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
This unfolding genocide in Gaza has its many precursors in the wars of aggression the USA unleashes without accountability against civilian populations across the globe. This murder policy is our narcotic.
Brilliant, as always, Chris. But I will ask you one question: What are the Palestinians to do when the goal of the Jews of Israel from the Nakba forward was to eliminate the Palestinians from their own land until there were no people there but the Jews? Just lie down and die from minimum calories, filthy water, no electricity, no medical care, no escape from their prison, no help in the courts, no keeping their homes, no keeping their children safe, seeing their livestock stolen, their orchards uprooted, their crops poisoned, their family members put in prison for no cause, being brutalized daily, and no freedom to escape? Were they never to fight back?
If you've been amidst the Jews in Israel, you can't miss the all pervasive arrogance that is palpable. Gideon Levy says the Jews are three things: 1) God's chosen therefore superior to all others, 2) the eternal victims, 3) have the right to kill off the inferior Palestinians who are "cockroaches" to be stamped out. When you go to the West Bank and Gaza, that arrogance is missing and replaced by warmth and welcome. So, Chris, what would you suggest the Palestinians do instead of fight? Nothing? You do know Palestinians were over 90% and Jews about 5% in 1948 when Palestine was given away by Britain. Then the world watched while over 700,000 were murdered by the Jews. Again, if Palestinian, what would you do?
I would finally just take up arms, too, and fight back.
And that what I have said is now happening through Hamas and is the actual starting signal for what is coming in the Middle East and in the world that can no longer be stopped.
Hamas, too, is a murderous organisation, just as any military is, just as Al-Qaeda, which will once again become openly active and will now also be directed against America.
Everything will unfortunately carry over into the future in an unpleasant way, as I know and have experienced with Sfath, and that will not be able to be changed.
Israel will act as brutally and criminally when weapons are seized and used against Hamas, as the Americans did in Vietnam and the NAZIs in the last world war.
So Israel too will know no pardon and act in the same way as Hamas, whereby many innocent human beings will also die as a result of Israel's resistance, and as I have seen together with Sfath, it will even be Israeli citizens, but this will then be mendaciously attributed to Hamas.
Israel will be just as ruthless in committing murder after murder and in causing destruction and annihilation as Hamas, with the uninvolved population of Palestinians suffering as a result.
You'd think, after all they've been through, they'd know better and have more compassion. But apparently it's a two-rulebook world: one set for me and another for thee. No wonder Noah took only animals as his passengers.
Chris, this headline, “The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana” is entirely predictable because of “The Quiet American” Empire — which is far from the supposed ‘American Dream’, because of the camouflaging power, wealth, and global leading concentration of GINI Coefficient of Wealth Inequality.
‘Negative Externality Cost’ Looting is the malevolent engine of vast inequality.
“Accumulation by Dispossession” [David Harvey] is the insane mechanism for the pyramid of Global Empire.
SRI [Socially Responsible Investing] was a lie.
ESG [Economic Social, and Governance] is a scam.
PEP [Positive Externality Profits] for the people are the solution.
I could only listen to this today. The anger and grief I feel for the Palestinians is just too much, I need breaks from reading the news. And I don't even watch or read mainstream news.
What is not being said - or at least not enough - is the disproportional response to the Hamas attacks. Yes, it was vicious. It was criminal. It was, maybe, a crime against humanity. But isn't this type of attack, the attacks that kill civilians that are just going on about their lives, what Israel does almost daily to Palestinians? Maybe this outrage is how all should react but why don't we react in the same way any odd day when Israel flattens another building in Gaza, or when it allows extremist settlers to kill and dispossess Palestinians in the West Bank. Is it the shock of the unexpected? Should we all just become immune to Palestinians death then?
I am starting to get annoyed by leftists - real leftists - journalists and talking heads crying on podcasts, or writing pieces to explain their feelings of outrage because they are jews and this is not supposed to happen to Jews. They are right, of course, but this is not supposed to happen to anyone and Palestinians have been suffering similar attacks for 75 years. While I can feel their pain, what pains me the most are the Palestinians who are told to "leave" (where?), then are bombed on their way out, as they comply with the Israeli orders. Not to mention no food, no water, unless it is sewage, not basic care. Under constant bombing
Also annoying that, while I can understand the urge of Jews to write about their feelings, not one of them has acknowledge that that land is Palestinian land, and that Israel is the occupier.
I didn't think I could be more disgusted with our politicians. The democrats, cowering once again, afraid of siding with humanity. The republicans, who are fast to condemn anything Biden does, in complete agreement with him, as our president openly and enthusiastically supports ethnic cleanse.
I live in Florida and urban legend says that this is a swing state (it is not, it is bright red) and I will not vote for Biden even if my vote is the one that will put trump in the White House again. There is no way that cheering genocide gets a pass from me. there is a lot that Trump can damage, and he will (if not him, any other republican, they are the party of destruction) but Biden is done as far as I am concerned.
Fully agreed with you, Adriana. Unfortunately this unjust and horrendous behaviour from our politicians has been their trademark in all of our history. Who knows what is going to happen to our America and the whole world if any of the leading candidates win the presidential election. Right now, Biden has secured a prominent position at the hall of the unfamed by the right side of St. George W. Since I don't watch the networks, I don't know what the other candidate, Donald Duck, has quacked in relation to the Palestinian situation.
I am pretty sure all candidates are "very pro-Israel" as my representative's office told me. Not sure what that means. Does it mean being very pro-whatever Israel does including genocide?
I wasn't going to vote for Biden anyway (my candidate is Cornell West)
After this week, I would not vote for him even if my vote was the deciding vote in the election
But my post was mostly about the disproportionate response of the left media that is so terrorized about what happened only because it happened to the Israelis. The events of last Saturday are part of the day-to-day of Palestinians in Gaza, and the the left media, the podcasters, anti-capitalists and socialists are literally crying on air. It is like something like that NEVER happened. Well, it happens all the time, it happens to Palestinians.
I watch/listen to Electronic Intifada and the anguish over what is happening to Palestinians is with me constantly. I wish those journalists and podcasters would at least acknowledge that they don't grieve for Palestinians enough, and that the land Israel occupies is stolen land.
You are quite right, but I don't make distinction among left or right media.They all are funded by the corporate elites which care about profit, not humanity. That is why I only listen to honest intellectuals and commentators like Mr. Hedges and I get the news from independent media like Democracynow.org Amy Goodman has distinguished for her honest reporting during more than a quarter century and her current coverage about what is happening in Palestine and the commentators she hosts in her show are the best.
I am not even talking about the corporate media. I am talking about journalists that are independent, that are pretty good at reporting what the corporate media doesn’t say, they have podcasts and you tube accounts, and they are all shock and dismay about what happened in Israel, as if Israel is this unique place where, if and when things like what happened do happen, the grief, the shock, the atrocity is much worse than if it had happened in any other place in the world - except here because the US is the “most special place ever”.
They say all this without even mentioning that Palestinians die every day because of Israeli government policies and actions
Apparently there are critics of Hedges “grim” assessment of genocide. I appreciate the honest language trying to describe the reality and not softening it. Important article.
I've been always trying to understand why democracy is dying in Israel where its citizens are the children of the victims of fascism in Europe. I'm transcribing a part of a very revealing interview of Max Blumenthal by David Barsamian on April 2017 "Palestine: Fifty Years of Occupation" that I downloaded from Alternativeradio.org and helped me to understand the current events in that awful place.
D.B: You write of the “authoritarian trend” in Israel in the political realm. How is that connected to being an occupier?
M.B: The authoritarian trend in Israel is the result of course of religious messianism, as in many other societies, particularly in the Middle East. But I would really trace the militarization of Israeli society—Israel is the most militarized society on earth—to the rising authoritarianism and the sense of eliminationism, particularly among Jewish Israeli youth, in the way that they view Palestinians.
Because of universal conscription—every Jewish Israeli has to go into the military at age 18—you’re
prepared for the military from age 4 on. In your kindergarten class there are young women wearing
military uniforms who are presenting the soft side of the army. For Purim, which is the Jewish festival when Jews dress up—it’s kind of like a Halloween party—Israeli youth as young as 5 dress up in military outfits. I’ve seen them go shopping with their parents in Tel Aviv for the outfit of the unit that their parents were in that they hoped to be in. That just continues endlessly until age 18. You go through pre-military training, then you go into the army, and then you go and participate in the occupation. And even if you’re at a desk—and they will find a job for you in the army no matter what your abilities are—you will be participating in one way or another.....
And then the other aspect of it is the way that the Holocaust is seen in Israeli life and the fact that it’s used as a device to gain total moral license for the occupation, not as a way of seeing Jews in the context of other oppressed people. There are so many factors that you have this totalistic atmosphere pushing you to the right, to fear,to a siege mentality, what the political psychologist Daniel Bar-Tal called “the Masada complex,” that it’s very difficult to not be a right-winger. That’s why we see, if
you look at the Israeli democracy index polling of the attitudes of Jewish Israeli youth, they’re consistently more and more right-wing than their parents and their grandparents
The acceptance and even worse,the support of such heinous actions against oppressed suffering civilians is the definition of evil. The U.S. and Western powers appear to have morphed into an empathy-less black hole where powerbrokers coagulate without conscience. Jesus Christ would weep over his people"s demise
...and I didn't even mention checkpoints, which are godawful to go through for Palestinians. If Israel is a "democracy," why on earth are there checkpoints and why are all citizens equal? I've noticed people who have spoken up in public for the Palestinians, get shut down and even retract what they've said (like cowards).
Yes, it is true. Hamas was created by Israel and the US and funded by the US. It was to be a divide and conquer strategy so well known by the white settlers.
But it got out of hand and now Hamas is tens of thousands.
We did the same thing with Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Israel might just slaughter half the population of Gaza.
If they do or do not, Israel is now on slippery footing and faltering forward will become the norm.
Hedges finally comments on breaking international news ...
But there's a truckload of stuff going on here in the U.S. that he just won't touch because his followers ask for nothing more than to be spoon-fed their weekly dose of darkness by this man ... get him off the record, and I believe he would tell you there's no hope ... but just this week Martin Armstrong insisted once again that there is light at the end of the tunnel ... his amazing SOCRATES cycle system predicts we will have an opportunity to rebuild circa 2032 ... in the meantime millions will die and be displaced, so expect Hedges to stick to his playbook as his flock of clapping seals keep coming back here for more grim commentary ... here in the U.S., the lowlight for me was Alan Jackson, the leader of a Christian ministry in Tennessee, proclaiming: "WE STAND WITH ISRAEL" ...
Bend over and take it Jews. Just like you did in the 1940s. That is what all the smart and caring leftist want you to do. Or maybe just kill yourselves.
Or maybe give a finger to the leftists and do what it takes to survive yet another global attempt at your genocide.
And no, the clearing of Hamas from Gaza is not genocide you leftist asses.
Yeah, "clear" Gaza just like the Americans cleared those pesky savages out of their new country. Except now the savages have powerful friends and tribesmen with better weapons, whole countries full, so the Israelis will need some help with their own ethnic cleansing.
This unfolding genocide in Gaza has its many precursors in the wars of aggression the USA unleashes without accountability against civilian populations across the globe. This murder policy is our narcotic.
Nothing less than a crushing reality we condone through our support of Israel’s war machinery. Thanks for brining this to light.
Brilliant, as always, Chris. But I will ask you one question: What are the Palestinians to do when the goal of the Jews of Israel from the Nakba forward was to eliminate the Palestinians from their own land until there were no people there but the Jews? Just lie down and die from minimum calories, filthy water, no electricity, no medical care, no escape from their prison, no help in the courts, no keeping their homes, no keeping their children safe, seeing their livestock stolen, their orchards uprooted, their crops poisoned, their family members put in prison for no cause, being brutalized daily, and no freedom to escape? Were they never to fight back?
If you've been amidst the Jews in Israel, you can't miss the all pervasive arrogance that is palpable. Gideon Levy says the Jews are three things: 1) God's chosen therefore superior to all others, 2) the eternal victims, 3) have the right to kill off the inferior Palestinians who are "cockroaches" to be stamped out. When you go to the West Bank and Gaza, that arrogance is missing and replaced by warmth and welcome. So, Chris, what would you suggest the Palestinians do instead of fight? Nothing? You do know Palestinians were over 90% and Jews about 5% in 1948 when Palestine was given away by Britain. Then the world watched while over 700,000 were murdered by the Jews. Again, if Palestinian, what would you do?
I would finally just take up arms, too, and fight back.
Tuesday, 10th October 2023
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Billy:
And that what I have said is now happening through Hamas and is the actual starting signal for what is coming in the Middle East and in the world that can no longer be stopped.
Hamas, too, is a murderous organisation, just as any military is, just as Al-Qaeda, which will once again become openly active and will now also be directed against America.
Everything will unfortunately carry over into the future in an unpleasant way, as I know and have experienced with Sfath, and that will not be able to be changed.
Israel will act as brutally and criminally when weapons are seized and used against Hamas, as the Americans did in Vietnam and the NAZIs in the last world war.
So Israel too will know no pardon and act in the same way as Hamas, whereby many innocent human beings will also die as a result of Israel's resistance, and as I have seen together with Sfath, it will even be Israeli citizens, but this will then be mendaciously attributed to Hamas.
Israel will be just as ruthless in committing murder after murder and in causing destruction and annihilation as Hamas, with the uninvolved population of Palestinians suffering as a result.
https://www.figu.org/ch/
https://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Site_News
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You'd think, after all they've been through, they'd know better and have more compassion. But apparently it's a two-rulebook world: one set for me and another for thee. No wonder Noah took only animals as his passengers.
Chris, this headline, “The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana” is entirely predictable because of “The Quiet American” Empire — which is far from the supposed ‘American Dream’, because of the camouflaging power, wealth, and global leading concentration of GINI Coefficient of Wealth Inequality.
‘Negative Externality Cost’ Looting is the malevolent engine of vast inequality.
“Accumulation by Dispossession” [David Harvey] is the insane mechanism for the pyramid of Global Empire.
SRI [Socially Responsible Investing] was a lie.
ESG [Economic Social, and Governance] is a scam.
PEP [Positive Externality Profits] for the people are the solution.
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Good talk!
I could only listen to this today. The anger and grief I feel for the Palestinians is just too much, I need breaks from reading the news. And I don't even watch or read mainstream news.
What is not being said - or at least not enough - is the disproportional response to the Hamas attacks. Yes, it was vicious. It was criminal. It was, maybe, a crime against humanity. But isn't this type of attack, the attacks that kill civilians that are just going on about their lives, what Israel does almost daily to Palestinians? Maybe this outrage is how all should react but why don't we react in the same way any odd day when Israel flattens another building in Gaza, or when it allows extremist settlers to kill and dispossess Palestinians in the West Bank. Is it the shock of the unexpected? Should we all just become immune to Palestinians death then?
I am starting to get annoyed by leftists - real leftists - journalists and talking heads crying on podcasts, or writing pieces to explain their feelings of outrage because they are jews and this is not supposed to happen to Jews. They are right, of course, but this is not supposed to happen to anyone and Palestinians have been suffering similar attacks for 75 years. While I can feel their pain, what pains me the most are the Palestinians who are told to "leave" (where?), then are bombed on their way out, as they comply with the Israeli orders. Not to mention no food, no water, unless it is sewage, not basic care. Under constant bombing
Also annoying that, while I can understand the urge of Jews to write about their feelings, not one of them has acknowledge that that land is Palestinian land, and that Israel is the occupier.
I didn't think I could be more disgusted with our politicians. The democrats, cowering once again, afraid of siding with humanity. The republicans, who are fast to condemn anything Biden does, in complete agreement with him, as our president openly and enthusiastically supports ethnic cleanse.
I live in Florida and urban legend says that this is a swing state (it is not, it is bright red) and I will not vote for Biden even if my vote is the one that will put trump in the White House again. There is no way that cheering genocide gets a pass from me. there is a lot that Trump can damage, and he will (if not him, any other republican, they are the party of destruction) but Biden is done as far as I am concerned.
Fully agreed with you, Adriana. Unfortunately this unjust and horrendous behaviour from our politicians has been their trademark in all of our history. Who knows what is going to happen to our America and the whole world if any of the leading candidates win the presidential election. Right now, Biden has secured a prominent position at the hall of the unfamed by the right side of St. George W. Since I don't watch the networks, I don't know what the other candidate, Donald Duck, has quacked in relation to the Palestinian situation.
I am pretty sure all candidates are "very pro-Israel" as my representative's office told me. Not sure what that means. Does it mean being very pro-whatever Israel does including genocide?
I wasn't going to vote for Biden anyway (my candidate is Cornell West)
After this week, I would not vote for him even if my vote was the deciding vote in the election
But my post was mostly about the disproportionate response of the left media that is so terrorized about what happened only because it happened to the Israelis. The events of last Saturday are part of the day-to-day of Palestinians in Gaza, and the the left media, the podcasters, anti-capitalists and socialists are literally crying on air. It is like something like that NEVER happened. Well, it happens all the time, it happens to Palestinians.
I watch/listen to Electronic Intifada and the anguish over what is happening to Palestinians is with me constantly. I wish those journalists and podcasters would at least acknowledge that they don't grieve for Palestinians enough, and that the land Israel occupies is stolen land.
You are quite right, but I don't make distinction among left or right media.They all are funded by the corporate elites which care about profit, not humanity. That is why I only listen to honest intellectuals and commentators like Mr. Hedges and I get the news from independent media like Democracynow.org Amy Goodman has distinguished for her honest reporting during more than a quarter century and her current coverage about what is happening in Palestine and the commentators she hosts in her show are the best.
I agree
I am not even talking about the corporate media. I am talking about journalists that are independent, that are pretty good at reporting what the corporate media doesn’t say, they have podcasts and you tube accounts, and they are all shock and dismay about what happened in Israel, as if Israel is this unique place where, if and when things like what happened do happen, the grief, the shock, the atrocity is much worse than if it had happened in any other place in the world - except here because the US is the “most special place ever”.
They say all this without even mentioning that Palestinians die every day because of Israeli government policies and actions
Apparently there are critics of Hedges “grim” assessment of genocide. I appreciate the honest language trying to describe the reality and not softening it. Important article.
I've been always trying to understand why democracy is dying in Israel where its citizens are the children of the victims of fascism in Europe. I'm transcribing a part of a very revealing interview of Max Blumenthal by David Barsamian on April 2017 "Palestine: Fifty Years of Occupation" that I downloaded from Alternativeradio.org and helped me to understand the current events in that awful place.
D.B: You write of the “authoritarian trend” in Israel in the political realm. How is that connected to being an occupier?
M.B: The authoritarian trend in Israel is the result of course of religious messianism, as in many other societies, particularly in the Middle East. But I would really trace the militarization of Israeli society—Israel is the most militarized society on earth—to the rising authoritarianism and the sense of eliminationism, particularly among Jewish Israeli youth, in the way that they view Palestinians.
Because of universal conscription—every Jewish Israeli has to go into the military at age 18—you’re
prepared for the military from age 4 on. In your kindergarten class there are young women wearing
military uniforms who are presenting the soft side of the army. For Purim, which is the Jewish festival when Jews dress up—it’s kind of like a Halloween party—Israeli youth as young as 5 dress up in military outfits. I’ve seen them go shopping with their parents in Tel Aviv for the outfit of the unit that their parents were in that they hoped to be in. That just continues endlessly until age 18. You go through pre-military training, then you go into the army, and then you go and participate in the occupation. And even if you’re at a desk—and they will find a job for you in the army no matter what your abilities are—you will be participating in one way or another.....
And then the other aspect of it is the way that the Holocaust is seen in Israeli life and the fact that it’s used as a device to gain total moral license for the occupation, not as a way of seeing Jews in the context of other oppressed people. There are so many factors that you have this totalistic atmosphere pushing you to the right, to fear,to a siege mentality, what the political psychologist Daniel Bar-Tal called “the Masada complex,” that it’s very difficult to not be a right-winger. That’s why we see, if
you look at the Israeli democracy index polling of the attitudes of Jewish Israeli youth, they’re consistently more and more right-wing than their parents and their grandparents
Fanatical Zionism has captured the governments of the West. We are living in the age of the anti-christ; Hell has been unleashed.
The acceptance and even worse,the support of such heinous actions against oppressed suffering civilians is the definition of evil. The U.S. and Western powers appear to have morphed into an empathy-less black hole where powerbrokers coagulate without conscience. Jesus Christ would weep over his people"s demise
...and I didn't even mention checkpoints, which are godawful to go through for Palestinians. If Israel is a "democracy," why on earth are there checkpoints and why are all citizens equal? I've noticed people who have spoken up in public for the Palestinians, get shut down and even retract what they've said (like cowards).
Yes, it is true. Hamas was created by Israel and the US and funded by the US. It was to be a divide and conquer strategy so well known by the white settlers.
But it got out of hand and now Hamas is tens of thousands.
We did the same thing with Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Israel might just slaughter half the population of Gaza.
If they do or do not, Israel is now on slippery footing and faltering forward will become the norm.
Hedges finally comments on breaking international news ...
But there's a truckload of stuff going on here in the U.S. that he just won't touch because his followers ask for nothing more than to be spoon-fed their weekly dose of darkness by this man ... get him off the record, and I believe he would tell you there's no hope ... but just this week Martin Armstrong insisted once again that there is light at the end of the tunnel ... his amazing SOCRATES cycle system predicts we will have an opportunity to rebuild circa 2032 ... in the meantime millions will die and be displaced, so expect Hedges to stick to his playbook as his flock of clapping seals keep coming back here for more grim commentary ... here in the U.S., the lowlight for me was Alan Jackson, the leader of a Christian ministry in Tennessee, proclaiming: "WE STAND WITH ISRAEL" ...
Bend over and take it Jews. Just like you did in the 1940s. That is what all the smart and caring leftist want you to do. Or maybe just kill yourselves.
Or maybe give a finger to the leftists and do what it takes to survive yet another global attempt at your genocide.
And no, the clearing of Hamas from Gaza is not genocide you leftist asses.
Yeah, "clear" Gaza just like the Americans cleared those pesky savages out of their new country. Except now the savages have powerful friends and tribesmen with better weapons, whole countries full, so the Israelis will need some help with their own ethnic cleansing.