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.
Your opening paragraph explains why veterans are at 57% higher risk of suicide than those who haven't served, and 125K+ veterans have died by suicide since 2001. Who can live with what they are ordered to do to other human beings.
I actually for the first time in your reports felt some emotion.
We here in France are fighting the establishment. We are supposed to be quiet..meanwhile Macron has called out the Army to disperse us BUT France will always fight.
I am a daughter of British Colonialism in Sri Lanka and to my knowledge never understood why white people were in my land!
As it is I feel sick and unsupported EVEN though Macron seems to think he has eyes everywhere which he does not.
What is startling is to see how the Israeli people have displaced Palestinians from their homeland with the destruction of orchards and theft of water for new Jewish settlements. 95% of the land has been taken by the new Jewish colonizers whose approach is not different from that of other colonial powers over past centuries. Small wonder that those controlling the American Empire and those in the UK who dream of regaining past glories are so intent on supplying the Israeli people with weapons of mass destruction to enable their crimes against the Palestinian men, women, and children.
The media corporations that serve the elites have also been complicit with their censorship of the news to prevent Americans from learning the true extend of Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing.
I believe the point of the counterattack is to create more chaos and death. Victory over Hamas is not the goal - chaos and confusion is. Netanyahu I believe is in league with the globalists and hopes to achieve what they cannot do directly, create the global crisis they feel they need to establish their New World Order -- the technocratic fascist alliance of banks, corporations, governments, and NGO's that will enslave the entire world. They will most likely fail eventually, but not before they orchestrate the murder of thousands or millions more innocent people.
I really appreciate your effort in writing this piece, Chris! I am so disturbed and angry at the carnage already in Gaza, with constant promises of Israeli government psychopaths to make it much worse...it's so painful! I'm at the edge of violence sometimes, though still in control, but the powerlessness is driving me nuts! Thank you for letting me see one more sane voice to continue believing in people and love...
Yet again, thank you, Chris, for bearing witness to the insanity of our times and for speaking, and feeling, the truth of horrors in our past and horrors in the present. The sad and awful truth is that Israel was born out of Palestinian blood and theft of Palestinian land, and no nation born in such a way can ever be at peace. It is tragic and horrifying that Jews, who themselves have suffered appalling, inhuman outrages, should be the ones to use murder and savagery to found Israel and to expand its borders. America is another prime example of a nation built on slaughter, land theft, lies and duplicity - it, too, will never be at peace. So many other nations have been built in the same way. As our planet collapses we see the true colors of so many people and so many nations. Biden is a war-lover and so, too, are many, many other so-called leaders of nations who eagerly follow Biden's blood-lust bidding. Led by America, nations around the world are throwing aside reason, compassion, truth and fairness, and going full tilt into a blood-filled nightmare.
It takes guts to speak truth to power - especially in these times. Chris, thank you for writing this in the interest of peace, truth, love. Your friend, Dan Berrigan would be proud of you.
Thanks, Chris. There is one aspect that is completely missing from the media coverage. Just like with 9/11, Israel is now doing exactly what Hamas wanted. The idea was to convince the entire Arab-speaking world that the Global North does not view them as humans. The "universal" human rights apparently only apply to the people of the former colonial powers. IDF is now willingly complying with their demands.
And - Hamas was invented and supported for years by -- the “beloved Bibi” - see recent article by Sy Hersh in Sub-stack.
Seymour Hersh – Oct. 12, 2023 – Netanyahu is Finished -- The Bibi doctrine—his belief that he could control Hamas—compromised Israeli security and has now begat a bloody war
Hamas was created and financed for years by “our beloved” Bibi, who believed that Arafat’s secular PLO was a more serious enemy. Hamas was also rejecting a two-state solution -- just like Bibi and his extremists who together with US sabotaged a two-state solution for decades.
This piece reminds and often mirrors a piece written in 1948 by Hannah Arendt. Arendt talked about the dangers of a unanimity of opinion. From Tel Aviv to DC the wolves of war are baying for blood and destruction in Gaza; Hedges is standing opposed to that doomed idea. Hedges will be ignored, dismissed, you'll never see him on television, but, like Arendt, history will confirm the principles he defends.
The entire saga of Palestine since the creation of a Jewish state in the region has been one of atrocity. And it doesn't take a ph.d. to understand it. I am deeply ashamed of the leaders of the west, and more than a bit terrified by what it means about us........and the world we seem eager to create.....once ideological partisanship becomes so second nature, that we condone any wars against any supposed enemies.........our western elites see fit to designate.
The Horror and the Shame for what is happening, about to happen is overwhelming. Is our entire civilization no more than the thin veil obscuring the leering face of the tyrant? Is there no one with the power to enforce the Geneva Conventions and demand that Israel cease its genocidal revenge tactics??
As this has unfolded, my mind has repeatedly returned to War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
I sometimes wonder: if this book was standard reading in education, might some of these things unfold differently, or at least make a difference with respect to collective opinions and popular support.
I know that your work has helped me to see more clearly and understand with greater perspective.
Your opening paragraph explains why veterans are at 57% higher risk of suicide than those who haven't served, and 125K+ veterans have died by suicide since 2001. Who can live with what they are ordered to do to other human beings.
Chris thanks for this.
I actually for the first time in your reports felt some emotion.
We here in France are fighting the establishment. We are supposed to be quiet..meanwhile Macron has called out the Army to disperse us BUT France will always fight.
I am a daughter of British Colonialism in Sri Lanka and to my knowledge never understood why white people were in my land!
As it is I feel sick and unsupported EVEN though Macron seems to think he has eyes everywhere which he does not.
The 'left' has been annihilated.
I fear hate.
What is startling is to see how the Israeli people have displaced Palestinians from their homeland with the destruction of orchards and theft of water for new Jewish settlements. 95% of the land has been taken by the new Jewish colonizers whose approach is not different from that of other colonial powers over past centuries. Small wonder that those controlling the American Empire and those in the UK who dream of regaining past glories are so intent on supplying the Israeli people with weapons of mass destruction to enable their crimes against the Palestinian men, women, and children.
The media corporations that serve the elites have also been complicit with their censorship of the news to prevent Americans from learning the true extend of Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing.
https://theanalysis.news/the-making-of-norman-finkelstein-reality-asserts-itself-pt-7-8/
I believe the point of the counterattack is to create more chaos and death. Victory over Hamas is not the goal - chaos and confusion is. Netanyahu I believe is in league with the globalists and hopes to achieve what they cannot do directly, create the global crisis they feel they need to establish their New World Order -- the technocratic fascist alliance of banks, corporations, governments, and NGO's that will enslave the entire world. They will most likely fail eventually, but not before they orchestrate the murder of thousands or millions more innocent people.
I really appreciate your effort in writing this piece, Chris! I am so disturbed and angry at the carnage already in Gaza, with constant promises of Israeli government psychopaths to make it much worse...it's so painful! I'm at the edge of violence sometimes, though still in control, but the powerlessness is driving me nuts! Thank you for letting me see one more sane voice to continue believing in people and love...
Yet again, thank you, Chris, for bearing witness to the insanity of our times and for speaking, and feeling, the truth of horrors in our past and horrors in the present. The sad and awful truth is that Israel was born out of Palestinian blood and theft of Palestinian land, and no nation born in such a way can ever be at peace. It is tragic and horrifying that Jews, who themselves have suffered appalling, inhuman outrages, should be the ones to use murder and savagery to found Israel and to expand its borders. America is another prime example of a nation built on slaughter, land theft, lies and duplicity - it, too, will never be at peace. So many other nations have been built in the same way. As our planet collapses we see the true colors of so many people and so many nations. Biden is a war-lover and so, too, are many, many other so-called leaders of nations who eagerly follow Biden's blood-lust bidding. Led by America, nations around the world are throwing aside reason, compassion, truth and fairness, and going full tilt into a blood-filled nightmare.
It takes guts to speak truth to power - especially in these times. Chris, thank you for writing this in the interest of peace, truth, love. Your friend, Dan Berrigan would be proud of you.
We are the beasts.
Thanks, Chris. There is one aspect that is completely missing from the media coverage. Just like with 9/11, Israel is now doing exactly what Hamas wanted. The idea was to convince the entire Arab-speaking world that the Global North does not view them as humans. The "universal" human rights apparently only apply to the people of the former colonial powers. IDF is now willingly complying with their demands.
Hatred, fear, and rage are no basis for a policy.
And - Hamas was invented and supported for years by -- the “beloved Bibi” - see recent article by Sy Hersh in Sub-stack.
Seymour Hersh – Oct. 12, 2023 – Netanyahu is Finished -- The Bibi doctrine—his belief that he could control Hamas—compromised Israeli security and has now begat a bloody war
Hamas was created and financed for years by “our beloved” Bibi, who believed that Arafat’s secular PLO was a more serious enemy. Hamas was also rejecting a two-state solution -- just like Bibi and his extremists who together with US sabotaged a two-state solution for decades.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/137880462
Sy Hersh - The Plan to Wipe Out Hamas -- As refugees crowd the border with Egypt, Israel prepares to hit Gaza City with US-supplied bunker busters https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-plan-to-wipe-out-hamas?r=byea&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post (Oct 14)
It seems Amerikans can't spell the name of their warships properly. Surely that should be USS Rampage and USS Carnage?
This piece reminds and often mirrors a piece written in 1948 by Hannah Arendt. Arendt talked about the dangers of a unanimity of opinion. From Tel Aviv to DC the wolves of war are baying for blood and destruction in Gaza; Hedges is standing opposed to that doomed idea. Hedges will be ignored, dismissed, you'll never see him on television, but, like Arendt, history will confirm the principles he defends.
The entire saga of Palestine since the creation of a Jewish state in the region has been one of atrocity. And it doesn't take a ph.d. to understand it. I am deeply ashamed of the leaders of the west, and more than a bit terrified by what it means about us........and the world we seem eager to create.....once ideological partisanship becomes so second nature, that we condone any wars against any supposed enemies.........our western elites see fit to designate.
The Horror and the Shame for what is happening, about to happen is overwhelming. Is our entire civilization no more than the thin veil obscuring the leering face of the tyrant? Is there no one with the power to enforce the Geneva Conventions and demand that Israel cease its genocidal revenge tactics??
As this has unfolded, my mind has repeatedly returned to War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
I sometimes wonder: if this book was standard reading in education, might some of these things unfold differently, or at least make a difference with respect to collective opinions and popular support.
I know that your work has helped me to see more clearly and understand with greater perspective.
Thank you.
Heartbreaking
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