Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks.
It is clear that the Democratic Party bosses do not begin to appreciate how many Americans are appalled by the financial and political support given to the Zionists in Israel. It is not only those of Arab descent you will not be voting for Biden in 2024 but many Americans of conscience who cannot pretend that they are voting for the lesser of two evils.
As Gore Vidal observed "It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people."
Israel is CAUSING antisemitism. Do these people crave victimhood?? ... Always getting blamed, hated, kicked out, killed, etc......... It's a question I have had in my mind for decades.
I still have some things that I don't think our gov was honest about on 9/11. we already are thought as murderous butchers for our "war on terror" then we back and fund this atrocity. There will be more attacks. It's been awhile, now we are just begging for them. Having a gov loyal to the military industrial complex far before it's citizens, brings nothing good
The role of the US is deeply troubling as well as frustrating. American foreign policy does not respond to the public will. Remember the anti-war protests in 2003? No effect, though those protests were massive and global. Here's one very important idea in this piece, one lost in the deliberate noise created by the Israel lobby and our political leaders: "This is not to excuse it. To understand is not to condone. But we must understand if this cycle of violence is to be stopped."
Possibly the Only Real Solution for Israel/Hamas Is Radically Idealistic
The situation in Israel with Hamas is a wakeup call. Everything needs to be changed and rectified. It is based on a lie.:That Israel is the homeland for Jews, Zionism. Israel is not the homeland for Jews.
Planet Earth is the homeland for Jews and all humans. Is N. America the homeland for all native americans? The young Zionists came to Israel to escape Nazi persecution. The land was "given" to them by rabid anti-semites (Lord Balfour, etc.). A desert region surrounded by Arabs. The Zionists might have considered themselves "guests" of those who inhabited the area, but instead, treated them as colonists would treat the indigenous, resulting now after 75 years of oppression, in the desire for ethnocide.
These Zionists are an abomination for all Jews, creating a real excuse to hate Jews world-wide. They do not follow the precepts of their religion. They need to be removed and incarcerated (their leaders) though all Israelis are implicit in allowing them to reign.
The "homeland" needs to be a home for anyone to live in peace and harmony. Governed in a horizontal fashion to eliminate the possibility of subversion, corruption, and control. All people with equal rights and ethnic differences are honored and permitted. It needs to be an example to the world of how people can live together. The Jews were "chosen" not because they were in any way special, they were chosen to help lead the way to an ethical, just, and peaceful world.
And whatever happened to the 10 Commandments? Thou shalt not kill. And do unto others.... These Zionists are not really Jews, they are blasphemers.
The challenge now is to get this solution into the heads of humanity and especially Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust....I imagine that may be perceived as antisemitic....so be it. A Holocaust is a Holocaust regardless of the numbers slautered or the manner of the slaughter. A pox upon the house of Israel. Am not "religious" in the typical sense, and so do not believe in a heaven or hell...but in the case of this genocide...I wish I did. Isreal no longer can legitimately use the Holocaust Trump card. Those days are over.
"Meaning of holocaust in English - a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people: nuclear holocaust A nuclear holocaust (= destruction caused by nuclear weapons) would leave few survivors.Nov 29, 2023"
Yes, Vote them out. As Ralph Nader said, if you always vote for the lesser evil, you'll always have less and you'll always have evil. Max Blumenthal who has written on this conflict for years says "write in a watermelon if you have too" for president 2024. I'm considering "wasting my vote" to take a moral stance because both Democrat or Republican frontrunners condone evil.
This should place no doubt in the minds of all Americans that we have effectively lost our country to the Israeli lobby. Make no mistake about it. The US Government aka Israel voted for more Genocide, again! There is no justification for the genocidal slaughter of innocent Palestinian people and children, and those in proximity at the hands of Netanyahu, the IDF, and the US Government. Unbelievable and tragic. As an American I am sickened.
Anti Zionism is not anti Semitism! The American public taking notice of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and Gaza through the prism of Oct 7 is divorced from historic context. From past Zionist leaders mouths the truth about this war of revenge and Genocide, is just one more step and example for the well planned fruition of a Jewish ONLY Nation State. If you don't believe me, how about Ben Gurion, called the founding father of Israel? After the 1948 UN partition vote he said "this is just the beginning". To put the "River to the Sea" trope to bed as anti Semitic, Ben Gurion's vision was a hundred fold worse "The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British Mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill, FROM THE EUPHRATES TO THE NILE. Mixing religious Judaism and secularism Ben Gurion said " Since I invoke the Torah so often, let me state that I DO NOT PERSONALLY BELIEVE IN THE GOD IT POSTULATES....I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders and believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of the Books (the Bible) and is the mostly important book in my life!" It proves Israel was a nation built on "Double Think"? A nation defended with "Double Speak"? A nation warned of by George Orwell? Where "Ignorance is Strength" and "War is Peace"? Today Israel is Orwell World on steroids! The dead are piling up in Gaza, with no end in sight! No one day massacre can justify this Genocide, no matter how much Hasbara Israel's "Ministry of Truth" spews out.
I'm so disappointed in current US and Israeli leadership. Pounding the chest like a pair of 800 lb gorillas and laughing off foreign policy like it's only for sissies, when it's one of the prerequisites of civilization. What about the right of self-governance, and respect for the inalienable rights of man?
The statements below are as radical today as they were when authored almost 250 years ago:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-"
It is clear that the Democratic Party bosses do not begin to appreciate how many Americans are appalled by the financial and political support given to the Zionists in Israel. It is not only those of Arab descent you will not be voting for Biden in 2024 but many Americans of conscience who cannot pretend that they are voting for the lesser of two evils.
As Gore Vidal observed "It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people."
Thank you, Chris, for yet another poignant and accurate portrayal of this horrific situation.
Like complaining that Nat Turner killed the kindly slaveowners who took him in, fed him, put a roof over his head and gave him a job.
Israel is CAUSING antisemitism. Do these people crave victimhood?? ... Always getting blamed, hated, kicked out, killed, etc......... It's a question I have had in my mind for decades.
Another great essay by Dr. Hedges and another great illustration by Mr. Fish!
There will no doubt be another 9/11
I still have some things that I don't think our gov was honest about on 9/11. we already are thought as murderous butchers for our "war on terror" then we back and fund this atrocity. There will be more attacks. It's been awhile, now we are just begging for them. Having a gov loyal to the military industrial complex far before it's citizens, brings nothing good
The role of the US is deeply troubling as well as frustrating. American foreign policy does not respond to the public will. Remember the anti-war protests in 2003? No effect, though those protests were massive and global. Here's one very important idea in this piece, one lost in the deliberate noise created by the Israel lobby and our political leaders: "This is not to excuse it. To understand is not to condone. But we must understand if this cycle of violence is to be stopped."
Possibly the Only Real Solution for Israel/Hamas Is Radically Idealistic
The situation in Israel with Hamas is a wakeup call. Everything needs to be changed and rectified. It is based on a lie.:That Israel is the homeland for Jews, Zionism. Israel is not the homeland for Jews.
Planet Earth is the homeland for Jews and all humans. Is N. America the homeland for all native americans? The young Zionists came to Israel to escape Nazi persecution. The land was "given" to them by rabid anti-semites (Lord Balfour, etc.). A desert region surrounded by Arabs. The Zionists might have considered themselves "guests" of those who inhabited the area, but instead, treated them as colonists would treat the indigenous, resulting now after 75 years of oppression, in the desire for ethnocide.
These Zionists are an abomination for all Jews, creating a real excuse to hate Jews world-wide. They do not follow the precepts of their religion. They need to be removed and incarcerated (their leaders) though all Israelis are implicit in allowing them to reign.
The "homeland" needs to be a home for anyone to live in peace and harmony. Governed in a horizontal fashion to eliminate the possibility of subversion, corruption, and control. All people with equal rights and ethnic differences are honored and permitted. It needs to be an example to the world of how people can live together. The Jews were "chosen" not because they were in any way special, they were chosen to help lead the way to an ethical, just, and peaceful world.
And whatever happened to the 10 Commandments? Thou shalt not kill. And do unto others.... These Zionists are not really Jews, they are blasphemers.
The challenge now is to get this solution into the heads of humanity and especially Israelis and Palestinians.
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What is your opinion?
Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust....I imagine that may be perceived as antisemitic....so be it. A Holocaust is a Holocaust regardless of the numbers slautered or the manner of the slaughter. A pox upon the house of Israel. Am not "religious" in the typical sense, and so do not believe in a heaven or hell...but in the case of this genocide...I wish I did. Isreal no longer can legitimately use the Holocaust Trump card. Those days are over.
"Meaning of holocaust in English - a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people: nuclear holocaust A nuclear holocaust (= destruction caused by nuclear weapons) would leave few survivors.Nov 29, 2023"
Yes, Vote them out. As Ralph Nader said, if you always vote for the lesser evil, you'll always have less and you'll always have evil. Max Blumenthal who has written on this conflict for years says "write in a watermelon if you have too" for president 2024. I'm considering "wasting my vote" to take a moral stance because both Democrat or Republican frontrunners condone evil.
Woe, woe, woe…ad infinitum….
This should place no doubt in the minds of all Americans that we have effectively lost our country to the Israeli lobby. Make no mistake about it. The US Government aka Israel voted for more Genocide, again! There is no justification for the genocidal slaughter of innocent Palestinian people and children, and those in proximity at the hands of Netanyahu, the IDF, and the US Government. Unbelievable and tragic. As an American I am sickened.
Why is it not made clear that likely half of the 1200 Israelis killed on Oct 7 were murdered by the IDF ?
Anti Zionism is not anti Semitism! The American public taking notice of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and Gaza through the prism of Oct 7 is divorced from historic context. From past Zionist leaders mouths the truth about this war of revenge and Genocide, is just one more step and example for the well planned fruition of a Jewish ONLY Nation State. If you don't believe me, how about Ben Gurion, called the founding father of Israel? After the 1948 UN partition vote he said "this is just the beginning". To put the "River to the Sea" trope to bed as anti Semitic, Ben Gurion's vision was a hundred fold worse "The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British Mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill, FROM THE EUPHRATES TO THE NILE. Mixing religious Judaism and secularism Ben Gurion said " Since I invoke the Torah so often, let me state that I DO NOT PERSONALLY BELIEVE IN THE GOD IT POSTULATES....I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders and believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of the Books (the Bible) and is the mostly important book in my life!" It proves Israel was a nation built on "Double Think"? A nation defended with "Double Speak"? A nation warned of by George Orwell? Where "Ignorance is Strength" and "War is Peace"? Today Israel is Orwell World on steroids! The dead are piling up in Gaza, with no end in sight! No one day massacre can justify this Genocide, no matter how much Hasbara Israel's "Ministry of Truth" spews out.
Magnificent, the best piece I’ve read on the current slaughter.
Another excellent column.
I'm so disappointed in current US and Israeli leadership. Pounding the chest like a pair of 800 lb gorillas and laughing off foreign policy like it's only for sissies, when it's one of the prerequisites of civilization. What about the right of self-governance, and respect for the inalienable rights of man?
The statements below are as radical today as they were when authored almost 250 years ago:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-"