I guess Biden is on the right path. Obama, Clinton and he stand on the stage together in solidarity and raise 26mil from their loyal flock for the cause of his reelection.
The only reason any and all of this is happening is because The American Peoples have done and are doing absolutely nothing to stop it from happening.
Just like they have done nothing to stop America's War On Russia in Ukraine from happening.
Just like they did nothing to stop "The Forever War" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and so on and so forth from happening.
If the United States doesn't survive to celebrate its 250th birthday on Jul 4, 2026 [826 days from today], one major reason for it will be what this Nation has done all over this Planet since 9/11, and the complete and total failure of the American Peoples to force their government to Cease and Desist.
Thus, the first Critical Question at this point is: SHOULD the United States survive to celebrate USA-CCL? And if so, WHY?
Chris Hedges concludes his March 30 piece A GENOCIDE FORETOLD as follows:
“THE GENOCIDE, WHICH THE U.S. IS FUNDING AND SUSTAINING WITH WEAPONS SHIPMENTS, SAYS SOMETHING NOT ONLY ABOUT ISRAEL, BUT ABOUT US, ABOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE, WHERE WE CAME FROM AND WHAT DEFINES US. IT SAYS THAT ALL OUR VAUNTED MORALITY AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS A LIE. IT SAYS THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE POOR AND VULNERABLE, DO NOT COUNT. IT SAYS THEIR HOPES, DREAMS, DIGNITY AND ASPIRATIONS FOR FREEDOM ARE WORTHLESS. IT SAYS WE WILL ENSURE GLOBAL DOMINATION THROUGH RACIALIZED VIOLENCE.
This lie — that Western civilization is predicated on “values” such as respect for human rights and the rule of law — is one the Palestinians, and all those in the Global South, as well as Native Americans and Black and Brown Americans have known for centuries. But, with the Gaza genocide live streamed, this lie is impossible to sustain.
WE DO NOT HALT ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE BECAUSE WE ARE ISRAEL, INFECTED WITH WHITE SUPREMACY AND INTOXICATED BY OUR DOMINATION OF THE GLOBE’S WEALTH AND THE POWER TO OBLITERATE OTHERS WITH OUR INDUSTRIAL WEAPONS. Remember The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman telling Charlie Rose on the eve of the war in Iraq that American soldiers should go house to house from Basra to Baghdad and say to Iraqis “suck on this?” That is the real credo of the U.S. empire.
THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE INDUSTRIALIZED FORTRESSES IN THE GLOBAL NORTH IS ACUTELY AWARE THAT THE FATE OF THE PALESTINIANS IS THEIR FATE. As climate change imperils survival, as resources become scarce, as migration becomes an imperative for millions, as agricultural yields decline, as costal areas are flooded, as droughts and wild fires proliferate, as states fail, as armed resistance movements rise to battle their oppressors along with their proxies, GENOCIDE WILL NOT BE AN ANOMALY. IT WILL BE THE NORM. The earth’s vulnerable and poor, those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth,” will be the next Palestinians.
Americans need to come out of their Walmart, Costco Temu Amazon stupor for starters. Want to slow or stop climate change? Stop buying the useless junk these companies are selling. A national consumer boycott.
On this site and others no one can agree on anything. Extremism rules. Everyone wants a "perfect" solution when there is no such thing. People have been divided on so many issues/nonissues and are such extremists that one issue will separate them from agreeing on anything and everything. The propaganda machine is well oiled and tuned up. If they (the elite and gov-
one and the same) can keep us arguing over who is at fault in Ukraine/Russia or Israel/Gaza mission accomplished. It's nothing more than a magic show. Watch the left hand while the right hand does the trick. Divert attention.
Want to stop the arms sales to Israel and Ukraine? If 25% of the workforce walked off the jobs for the arms mfg it would stop. Those jobs are high paying with good benefits so that won't happen. Those working for the arms mfg have been selected for their loyalty and beliefs. So protest at these sites and blockade entrance. Dangerous but it would be far more effective than protesting in times square. Has anyone asked how much of the GDP for our "booming" economy is the result of the military budget and arms mfg? (No pun intended with booming).
Isn't Biden setting a great example for his Green energy policies driving his 400 HP Corvette as a promotion for them? Climate change is going to cause far worse problems than anything happening in Gaza or Ukraine and it's coming soon in a few years. And nothing is being done about it. Another diversion.
We, the people still have a democracy. It's just not in the form of government which is no longer our government. It's in the form of the peoples actions. The government is supposed to unite people for the common good of all. Instead it is dividing them for the good of the few. People need to wake up and see this. Use your paper ballot for toilet paper behind the ballot box curtain and place it carefully in the ballot box. It'll help save a tree. And just think about the supreme Court counting them to select the next POTUS.
While War Rages in Gaza, the West Bank Has Undergone a Metamorphosis
Israel has seized the opportunity to intensify the occupation, with mass arrests of Palestinians, hundreds killed, a host of new illegal settler outposts and roads. Shepherds expelled from their homes, violent settlers rampaging in uniform. All under the aegis of the war.
In the past six months, the occupied West Bank has undergone a metamorphosis. War broke out in the Gaza Strip, but the West Bank's "punishment" for the events of October 7 wasn't long in coming. You don't need a particularly sharp eye to notice the revolution on the ground. No special insight is necessary in order to understand that Israel and the settler communities have exploited the dark specter of war to alter reality in the West Bank: to intensify the occupation, extend the boundaries of the settlements, remove the last remaining constraints on interaction with the Palestinian
Unless you subscribe to Haaretz, you can't real Gideon Levy's latest article, but you can read the comments at the bottom of the page below the adverts.
People in Power are not like the ordinary people and usually don't listen to what the people think, and the people by their comments think the Biden Administration is totally complicit with the Israeli genocide.
Reading the comments on Levy's columns and the comments on any article in the NYT and The Washington Post on the Gaza Massacre, the ethnic cleansing and Jewish terrorism in the ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED West Bank is not covered much and while the Palestinians in the West Bank had nothing to do with October 7, they are paying a price heavier than ever since 1967.
Craig Murray on Israel's blatant WAR CRIME destroying the Shifa Hospital, hundreds of people in and around it, and all the Medical equipment within it.
I read everything Craig Murray puts out, but this is the 1st Time seeing him in a video presentation.
I have noticed since the US-Israeli Massacre of the People of Gaza started, Israel has systematically destroyed the Hospitals and Health Care in Gaza. The Israelis always tell us Gaza's Hospitals have Hamas terrorists operating in there, not Doctors, and so far it's just accepted without question because Israeli says it in WAR Propaganda. TRUTH is still the 1st casualty of WAR in demonizing 'the enemy.'
Israeli spokespeople always assure us, Israel takes extreme care to avoid civilian Causalities. They can say it 1000 times, but my eyes aren't lying from what I see of TV, the Israelis are.
The reasoning is very simple! If the 30,000 + US bombs Israel dropped on Gaza since October 8, an area NO BIGGER that Greater Philadelphia, don't KILL INSTANTLY, not including those buried under the rubble from those US-Israeli bombs, then without any functioning Hospitals or Health Care, many, many, many more Palestinians will die of their untreated wounds over a longer period of time living in the rubble with No Escape but for our COMMON HUMANITY.
That is ON TRIAL these Days seeing the EVIL brutality in Gaza which is not SELF-Defence, but the brutal Massacre of defenceless WOMEN and CHILDREN.
'And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things say he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.
I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, TO TRY THEM that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation of Jesus Christ 3:7-10
WE COLLECTIVELY, the HUMAN SPECIES, without acting on any NOTION of COMMON HUMANITY with the People of Gaza, become complicit with our silence and there could be Hell to pay for all of us down the Road.
Anyone with eyes wide open can see the Israeli operation just ended to get Hamas out of what Israel calls their place of operating, the last big Hospital operating in Gaza, Israel just completely destroyed it so that there was no distinction in Israeli eyes between Civilians and Hamas.
To my mind, reading the article and seeing the pictures, is Israeli EVIL made manifest to the World. so there can be no doubt!!!
This was Israel demolishing the last place where Doctors operated from, not Hamas, and now they can't even do that!
‘No life here’: Israel’s army withdraws from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital'
Witnesses say hundreds of bodies were found inside al-Shifa Medical Complex and outside in the surrounding streets.
Israel has withdrawn its forces from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital following a two-week operation, leaving behind scenes of devastation.
The Israeli military confirmed the sudden pullback on Monday, saying it had completed operational activity in the area of the hospital and claiming to have killed and captured numerous Hamas fighters. Witnesses report a swath of death and destruction at the medical complex, where a large number of displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
“Troops have completed precise operational activity in the area of the Shifa Hospital and exited the area,” the Israeli military said. Despite the LIE the Israeli military said, looking at the result of the Israeli operation, "IT WAS NOT PRECISE" in any way.
It is the picture of Israel totally demolishing the WHOLE HOSPITAL in SELF-DEFENCE!
Everybody knows who Israel is getting its weapons of war from.
But who is supplying Hamas and how are those weapons getting to them? Also, who is supplying Hamas with food and medical supplies, and how are those things getting to them?
Given that Americans have never voted a War-Time President out of office, it looks like Biden’s main strategy for re-election is to have not one, not two, but THREE wars he is Commander-In-Chiefing come November 5: Ukraine, Palestine, and China…:
US, JAPAN, AND PHILIPPINES TO LAUNCH JOINT PATROLS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA by Dave DeCamp /antiwar.com 033124
The US, Japan, and the Philippines will launch joint patrols in the South China Sea later this year in a move sure to escalate tensions with China, POLITICO reported on Friday.
The joint patrols will be announced in April when President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marco Jr. hold their first-ever trilateral summit.
THE US HAS BEEN BOLSTERING ITS ALLIANCES WITH TOKYO AND MANILA AS PART OF ITS PREPARATIONS IN THE REGION FOR A FUTURE WAR WITH CHINA AND HAS ALSO BEEN ENCOURAGING THE TWO COUNTRIES TO INCREASE THEIR JOINT COOPERATION. LAST YEAR, THE THREE COUNTRIES HELD THEIR FIRST TRILATERAL MARITIME EXERCISE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
The US has repeatedly told China that the US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty applies to attacks on Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, meaning the US is threatening to intervene if the dispute turns into a shooting war. The US support has emboldened Marcos to push back on China’s claims but has not deterred Beijing.
Sources told POLITICO THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT WILL “SERIOUSLY CONSIDER” MAKING JAPAN A PARTNER IN SOME ASPECTS OF AUKUS, A MILITARY PACT BETWEEN THE US, AUSTRALIA, AND BRITAIN THAT FOCUSES ON TECHNOLOGY SHARING.
Financial Times has reported that the US and Japan will announce the most significant restructuring of their military alliance since the 1960s when Biden hosts Kishida at the White House on April 10. The trilateral summit is scheduled to be held on April 11.
Dave DeCamp’s 1 Apr 24 antiwar.com piece “Israeli Airstrike Hits Iranian Consulate Building In Damascus, High-Level Iranian General Reported Killed” concludes as follows:
"ISRAEL APPEARS TO BE TRYING TO PROVOKE A MAJOR REGIONAL WAR IN HOPES THAT THE US WOULD GET DIRECTLY INVOLVED. US OFFICIALS HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED TO THE MEDIA THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU MIGHT VIEW A FULL-BLOWN WAR IN LEBANON AS KEY TO HIS POLITICAL SURVIVAL. A REGIONAL WAR WOULD ALSO TAKE ATTENTION AND SCRUTINY AWAY FROM ISRAEL’ S GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IN GAZA."
*** Note: It should be remembered that the US has wanted a war with Iran since 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah. Looks like it might just get it just in time for Election2024.
Ron Paul’s Easter Message is worth a very serious read, reflection, and ponder…:
In 1916, the Irish chose Easter as a time to rise up against British oppression and proclaimed themselves a republic – a daring move inspired by a desire for liberty.
This Easter in the United States of America, rather than an occupying one, we face a government that has grown more and more oppressive daily – through extraordinary abuses of the legal system, unprecedented assaults on the right to free speech, and the ongoing exploitation of the coronavirus crisis to push ill-tested drugs upon the population, destroy the fabric of family and community life, and further degrade our civil liberties.
Thomas Jefferson is often attributed for having said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” That does not only mean we should be prepared to defend against foreign invaders. Perhaps more importantly IT MEANS WE MUST RETAIN THE LESSONS FROM THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN AND IRISH REVOLTS AND GUARD AGAINST A GOVERNMENT THAT VIEWS THE PEOPLE AS THE ENEMY.
Just a few years ago, Americans were told they must not gather in groups and should stay home on Sunday. Churches and businesses were closed or faced capacity limitations because the government deemed them “non-essential.” [Note: While Health Spas and Churches were closed, Liquor and Marijuana stores stayed open as “essential.”]
Many were destroyed for good. Those who spoke out were smeared in the media, those who perpetrated these acts of tyranny were unpunished, and the legal machinery to do it again is still intact and ready to be revved back up.
One hundred years ago, a young writer Randolph Bourne said, “WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE,” and he lamented governments' success at taking authority and resources during conflict. But Bourne further explained, “IF THE STATE'S CHIEF FUNCTION IS WAR, THEN THE STATE MUST SUCK OUT OF THE NATION A LARGE PART OF ITS ENERGY FOR ITS PURELY STERILE PURPOSES OF DEFENSE AND AGGRESSION. IT DEVOTES TO WASTE OR TO ACTUAL DESTRUCTION AS MUCH AS IT CAN OF THE VITALITY OF THE NATION.”
What we face today is not against foreign enemies, but rather against our own government as they seek more and more power, and as they suck out the vitality of our citizens.
The actions being taken benefit the special interests. They benefit the statists whose “expertise” is leading to disaster. They benefit the mainstream media. They benefit the wealthy.
THE GOVERNMENT IS USING EVERY PRETEXT – NATO’S WAR IN UKRAINE, THE BANKING CRISES, THREATS OF PANDEMICS TO COME, AND ITS OWN CONTRIVED “WAR ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM” – TO FURTHER GUT OUR FIRST, SECOND, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH, AND TENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. ALL UNDER THE GUISE OF “KEEPING US SAFE” FROM THE THREAT DU JOUR.
The state uses their power to take away our freedoms. IF WE WISH TO SURVIVE AS A FREE SOCIETY, WE MUST BEGIN TO EXERCISE SOME OF THAT “ETERNAL VIGILANCE” JEFFERSON SPOKE OF AGAINST AN EVER MORE OPPRESSIVE STATE – AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE INTEND TO DO. IF THE PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE, THE POLITICIANS WILL LISTEN.
These are truly somber times. But please don’t forget this Easter and Passover holiday, like this time of year, is about renewal and freedom. Ihope you have a peaceful weekend and are able to spend some time with your loved ones.
It appears that Israeli politics in 2024 is as screwed up as American politics. And there is something almost totally obscene about a sect of Israeli Jews refusing to serve in Israel’s military NOT on the grounds of Conscientious Objection to War and Military Service, but because they are “preserving Judaism” by being students in a religious school.
The conclusion of the Reuters 29 March article ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELIS RESIST PUSH FOR MILITARY SERVICE reads:
“For secular Israelis, whose taxes subsidise the Haredim and who are themselves obliged to serve in the military, the exemptions have long bred resentment and this has grown in the six months since the start of the war in Gaza.
“Many Israelis regard the war against Hamas as an existential battle for the future of the country, and some 300,000 reservists joined up to fight. Opinion polls indicate very broad public support for removing the exemptions on the Haredi draft.
“WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR NETANYAHU?
“For Netanyahu the stakes are high. While public opinion appears to favour removing the exemptions, HIS GOVERNMENT INCLUDES TWO HAREDI PARTIES WHOSE DEPARTURE COULD TRIGGER NEW ELECTIONS, WHICH OPINION POLLS INDICATE HE WOULD LOSE.
“ON THURSDAY, THE TWO PARTIES, UNITED TORAH JUDAISM AND SHAS, DENOUNCED THE LATEST SUPREME COURT RULING AND VOWED TO FIGHT IT, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SO FAR NOT EXPLICITLY THREATENED TO QUIT THE GOVERNMENT.
“From the other side, allies of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, including the centrist Benny Gantz, a former army general who is in pole position to become prime minister if elections were held, want more Israelis to serve to share the burden more widely.
“Gallant said recently that any new conscription law would need the support of all parties, suggesting he would oppose any new legislation that maintained the exemptions.”
I guess Biden is on the right path. Obama, Clinton and he stand on the stage together in solidarity and raise 26mil from their loyal flock for the cause of his reelection.
Genocide is only a crime when it is conducted against people we like. When conducted against people we don't like, it's patriotic.
there's words and than there's action. Biden talks crocodile tears for Palestinians and walks weapons to Isreal to kill Palestinians.
Well.....I think Bibi unquestionably IS the bad guy. But that certainly doesn't make Biden the good guy.
The only reason any and all of this is happening is because The American Peoples have done and are doing absolutely nothing to stop it from happening.
Just like they have done nothing to stop America's War On Russia in Ukraine from happening.
Just like they did nothing to stop "The Forever War" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and so on and so forth from happening.
If the United States doesn't survive to celebrate its 250th birthday on Jul 4, 2026 [826 days from today], one major reason for it will be what this Nation has done all over this Planet since 9/11, and the complete and total failure of the American Peoples to force their government to Cease and Desist.
Thus, the first Critical Question at this point is: SHOULD the United States survive to celebrate USA-CCL? And if so, WHY?
Chris Hedges concludes his March 30 piece A GENOCIDE FORETOLD as follows:
“THE GENOCIDE, WHICH THE U.S. IS FUNDING AND SUSTAINING WITH WEAPONS SHIPMENTS, SAYS SOMETHING NOT ONLY ABOUT ISRAEL, BUT ABOUT US, ABOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE, WHERE WE CAME FROM AND WHAT DEFINES US. IT SAYS THAT ALL OUR VAUNTED MORALITY AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS A LIE. IT SAYS THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE POOR AND VULNERABLE, DO NOT COUNT. IT SAYS THEIR HOPES, DREAMS, DIGNITY AND ASPIRATIONS FOR FREEDOM ARE WORTHLESS. IT SAYS WE WILL ENSURE GLOBAL DOMINATION THROUGH RACIALIZED VIOLENCE.
This lie — that Western civilization is predicated on “values” such as respect for human rights and the rule of law — is one the Palestinians, and all those in the Global South, as well as Native Americans and Black and Brown Americans have known for centuries. But, with the Gaza genocide live streamed, this lie is impossible to sustain.
WE DO NOT HALT ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE BECAUSE WE ARE ISRAEL, INFECTED WITH WHITE SUPREMACY AND INTOXICATED BY OUR DOMINATION OF THE GLOBE’S WEALTH AND THE POWER TO OBLITERATE OTHERS WITH OUR INDUSTRIAL WEAPONS. Remember The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman telling Charlie Rose on the eve of the war in Iraq that American soldiers should go house to house from Basra to Baghdad and say to Iraqis “suck on this?” That is the real credo of the U.S. empire.
THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE INDUSTRIALIZED FORTRESSES IN THE GLOBAL NORTH IS ACUTELY AWARE THAT THE FATE OF THE PALESTINIANS IS THEIR FATE. As climate change imperils survival, as resources become scarce, as migration becomes an imperative for millions, as agricultural yields decline, as costal areas are flooded, as droughts and wild fires proliferate, as states fail, as armed resistance movements rise to battle their oppressors along with their proxies, GENOCIDE WILL NOT BE AN ANOMALY. IT WILL BE THE NORM. The earth’s vulnerable and poor, those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth,” will be the next Palestinians.
Full article at https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-genocide-foretold ; EMPHASES added.
Americans need to come out of their Walmart, Costco Temu Amazon stupor for starters. Want to slow or stop climate change? Stop buying the useless junk these companies are selling. A national consumer boycott.
On this site and others no one can agree on anything. Extremism rules. Everyone wants a "perfect" solution when there is no such thing. People have been divided on so many issues/nonissues and are such extremists that one issue will separate them from agreeing on anything and everything. The propaganda machine is well oiled and tuned up. If they (the elite and gov-
one and the same) can keep us arguing over who is at fault in Ukraine/Russia or Israel/Gaza mission accomplished. It's nothing more than a magic show. Watch the left hand while the right hand does the trick. Divert attention.
Want to stop the arms sales to Israel and Ukraine? If 25% of the workforce walked off the jobs for the arms mfg it would stop. Those jobs are high paying with good benefits so that won't happen. Those working for the arms mfg have been selected for their loyalty and beliefs. So protest at these sites and blockade entrance. Dangerous but it would be far more effective than protesting in times square. Has anyone asked how much of the GDP for our "booming" economy is the result of the military budget and arms mfg? (No pun intended with booming).
Isn't Biden setting a great example for his Green energy policies driving his 400 HP Corvette as a promotion for them? Climate change is going to cause far worse problems than anything happening in Gaza or Ukraine and it's coming soon in a few years. And nothing is being done about it. Another diversion.
We, the people still have a democracy. It's just not in the form of government which is no longer our government. It's in the form of the peoples actions. The government is supposed to unite people for the common good of all. Instead it is dividing them for the good of the few. People need to wake up and see this. Use your paper ballot for toilet paper behind the ballot box curtain and place it carefully in the ballot box. It'll help save a tree. And just think about the supreme Court counting them to select the next POTUS.
So now I'll take my fair share of abuse.
While War Rages in Gaza, the West Bank Has Undergone a Metamorphosis
Israel has seized the opportunity to intensify the occupation, with mass arrests of Palestinians, hundreds killed, a host of new illegal settler outposts and roads. Shepherds expelled from their homes, violent settlers rampaging in uniform. All under the aegis of the war.
In the past six months, the occupied West Bank has undergone a metamorphosis. War broke out in the Gaza Strip, but the West Bank's "punishment" for the events of October 7 wasn't long in coming. You don't need a particularly sharp eye to notice the revolution on the ground. No special insight is necessary in order to understand that Israel and the settler communities have exploited the dark specter of war to alter reality in the West Bank: to intensify the occupation, extend the boundaries of the settlements, remove the last remaining constraints on interaction with the Palestinian
Unless you subscribe to Haaretz, you can't real Gideon Levy's latest article, but you can read the comments at the bottom of the page below the adverts.
People in Power are not like the ordinary people and usually don't listen to what the people think, and the people by their comments think the Biden Administration is totally complicit with the Israeli genocide.
Reading the comments on Levy's columns and the comments on any article in the NYT and The Washington Post on the Gaza Massacre, the ethnic cleansing and Jewish terrorism in the ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED West Bank is not covered much and while the Palestinians in the West Bank had nothing to do with October 7, they are paying a price heavier than ever since 1967.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/2024-03-30/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/while-war-rages-in-gaza-the-west-bank-has-undergone-a-metamorphosis/0000018e-8d23-d9a4-a7bf-cd7b2c270000
I am ashamed of US
Craig Murray on Israel's blatant WAR CRIME destroying the Shifa Hospital, hundreds of people in and around it, and all the Medical equipment within it.
I read everything Craig Murray puts out, but this is the 1st Time seeing him in a video presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf3ixJxILdg&t=204s
I have noticed since the US-Israeli Massacre of the People of Gaza started, Israel has systematically destroyed the Hospitals and Health Care in Gaza. The Israelis always tell us Gaza's Hospitals have Hamas terrorists operating in there, not Doctors, and so far it's just accepted without question because Israeli says it in WAR Propaganda. TRUTH is still the 1st casualty of WAR in demonizing 'the enemy.'
Israeli spokespeople always assure us, Israel takes extreme care to avoid civilian Causalities. They can say it 1000 times, but my eyes aren't lying from what I see of TV, the Israelis are.
The reasoning is very simple! If the 30,000 + US bombs Israel dropped on Gaza since October 8, an area NO BIGGER that Greater Philadelphia, don't KILL INSTANTLY, not including those buried under the rubble from those US-Israeli bombs, then without any functioning Hospitals or Health Care, many, many, many more Palestinians will die of their untreated wounds over a longer period of time living in the rubble with No Escape but for our COMMON HUMANITY.
That is ON TRIAL these Days seeing the EVIL brutality in Gaza which is not SELF-Defence, but the brutal Massacre of defenceless WOMEN and CHILDREN.
'And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things say he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.
I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, TO TRY THEM that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation of Jesus Christ 3:7-10
WE COLLECTIVELY, the HUMAN SPECIES, without acting on any NOTION of COMMON HUMANITY with the People of Gaza, become complicit with our silence and there could be Hell to pay for all of us down the Road.
Anyone with eyes wide open can see the Israeli operation just ended to get Hamas out of what Israel calls their place of operating, the last big Hospital operating in Gaza, Israel just completely destroyed it so that there was no distinction in Israeli eyes between Civilians and Hamas.
To my mind, reading the article and seeing the pictures, is Israeli EVIL made manifest to the World. so there can be no doubt!!!
This was Israel demolishing the last place where Doctors operated from, not Hamas, and now they can't even do that!
‘No life here’: Israel’s army withdraws from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital'
Witnesses say hundreds of bodies were found inside al-Shifa Medical Complex and outside in the surrounding streets.
Israel has withdrawn its forces from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital following a two-week operation, leaving behind scenes of devastation.
The Israeli military confirmed the sudden pullback on Monday, saying it had completed operational activity in the area of the hospital and claiming to have killed and captured numerous Hamas fighters. Witnesses report a swath of death and destruction at the medical complex, where a large number of displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
“Troops have completed precise operational activity in the area of the Shifa Hospital and exited the area,” the Israeli military said. Despite the LIE the Israeli military said, looking at the result of the Israeli operation, "IT WAS NOT PRECISE" in any way.
It is the picture of Israel totally demolishing the WHOLE HOSPITAL in SELF-DEFENCE!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/no-life-here-israeli-army-withdraws-from-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza
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Everybody knows who Israel is getting its weapons of war from.
But who is supplying Hamas and how are those weapons getting to them? Also, who is supplying Hamas with food and medical supplies, and how are those things getting to them?
Anybody have any ideas?
Given that Americans have never voted a War-Time President out of office, it looks like Biden’s main strategy for re-election is to have not one, not two, but THREE wars he is Commander-In-Chiefing come November 5: Ukraine, Palestine, and China…:
US, JAPAN, AND PHILIPPINES TO LAUNCH JOINT PATROLS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA by Dave DeCamp /antiwar.com 033124
The US, Japan, and the Philippines will launch joint patrols in the South China Sea later this year in a move sure to escalate tensions with China, POLITICO reported on Friday.
The joint patrols will be announced in April when President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marco Jr. hold their first-ever trilateral summit.
THE US HAS BEEN BOLSTERING ITS ALLIANCES WITH TOKYO AND MANILA AS PART OF ITS PREPARATIONS IN THE REGION FOR A FUTURE WAR WITH CHINA AND HAS ALSO BEEN ENCOURAGING THE TWO COUNTRIES TO INCREASE THEIR JOINT COOPERATION. LAST YEAR, THE THREE COUNTRIES HELD THEIR FIRST TRILATERAL MARITIME EXERCISE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
The US has repeatedly told China that the US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty applies to attacks on Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, meaning the US is threatening to intervene if the dispute turns into a shooting war. The US support has emboldened Marcos to push back on China’s claims but has not deterred Beijing.
Sources told POLITICO THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT WILL “SERIOUSLY CONSIDER” MAKING JAPAN A PARTNER IN SOME ASPECTS OF AUKUS, A MILITARY PACT BETWEEN THE US, AUSTRALIA, AND BRITAIN THAT FOCUSES ON TECHNOLOGY SHARING.
Financial Times has reported that the US and Japan will announce the most significant restructuring of their military alliance since the 1960s when Biden hosts Kishida at the White House on April 10. The trilateral summit is scheduled to be held on April 11.
Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/31/us-japan-and-philippines-to-launch-joint-patrols-in-south-china-sea/ ; EMPHASES added. Note: The article contains a very good map showing the overlapping claims of China, the Philippines, and other nations in the South China Sea.
Dave DeCamp’s 1 Apr 24 antiwar.com piece “Israeli Airstrike Hits Iranian Consulate Building In Damascus, High-Level Iranian General Reported Killed” concludes as follows:
"ISRAEL APPEARS TO BE TRYING TO PROVOKE A MAJOR REGIONAL WAR IN HOPES THAT THE US WOULD GET DIRECTLY INVOLVED. US OFFICIALS HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED TO THE MEDIA THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU MIGHT VIEW A FULL-BLOWN WAR IN LEBANON AS KEY TO HIS POLITICAL SURVIVAL. A REGIONAL WAR WOULD ALSO TAKE ATTENTION AND SCRUTINY AWAY FROM ISRAEL’ S GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IN GAZA."
Full article at https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/01/israeli-airstrike-hits-iranian-consulate-building-in-damascus-high-level-iranian-general-reported-killed/ ; EMPHASIS added.
*** Note: It should be remembered that the US has wanted a war with Iran since 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah. Looks like it might just get it just in time for Election2024.
Ron Paul’s Easter Message is worth a very serious read, reflection, and ponder…:
In 1916, the Irish chose Easter as a time to rise up against British oppression and proclaimed themselves a republic – a daring move inspired by a desire for liberty.
This Easter in the United States of America, rather than an occupying one, we face a government that has grown more and more oppressive daily – through extraordinary abuses of the legal system, unprecedented assaults on the right to free speech, and the ongoing exploitation of the coronavirus crisis to push ill-tested drugs upon the population, destroy the fabric of family and community life, and further degrade our civil liberties.
Thomas Jefferson is often attributed for having said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” That does not only mean we should be prepared to defend against foreign invaders. Perhaps more importantly IT MEANS WE MUST RETAIN THE LESSONS FROM THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN AND IRISH REVOLTS AND GUARD AGAINST A GOVERNMENT THAT VIEWS THE PEOPLE AS THE ENEMY.
Just a few years ago, Americans were told they must not gather in groups and should stay home on Sunday. Churches and businesses were closed or faced capacity limitations because the government deemed them “non-essential.” [Note: While Health Spas and Churches were closed, Liquor and Marijuana stores stayed open as “essential.”]
Many were destroyed for good. Those who spoke out were smeared in the media, those who perpetrated these acts of tyranny were unpunished, and the legal machinery to do it again is still intact and ready to be revved back up.
One hundred years ago, a young writer Randolph Bourne said, “WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE,” and he lamented governments' success at taking authority and resources during conflict. But Bourne further explained, “IF THE STATE'S CHIEF FUNCTION IS WAR, THEN THE STATE MUST SUCK OUT OF THE NATION A LARGE PART OF ITS ENERGY FOR ITS PURELY STERILE PURPOSES OF DEFENSE AND AGGRESSION. IT DEVOTES TO WASTE OR TO ACTUAL DESTRUCTION AS MUCH AS IT CAN OF THE VITALITY OF THE NATION.”
What we face today is not against foreign enemies, but rather against our own government as they seek more and more power, and as they suck out the vitality of our citizens.
The actions being taken benefit the special interests. They benefit the statists whose “expertise” is leading to disaster. They benefit the mainstream media. They benefit the wealthy.
THE GOVERNMENT IS USING EVERY PRETEXT – NATO’S WAR IN UKRAINE, THE BANKING CRISES, THREATS OF PANDEMICS TO COME, AND ITS OWN CONTRIVED “WAR ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM” – TO FURTHER GUT OUR FIRST, SECOND, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH, AND TENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. ALL UNDER THE GUISE OF “KEEPING US SAFE” FROM THE THREAT DU JOUR.
The state uses their power to take away our freedoms. IF WE WISH TO SURVIVE AS A FREE SOCIETY, WE MUST BEGIN TO EXERCISE SOME OF THAT “ETERNAL VIGILANCE” JEFFERSON SPOKE OF AGAINST AN EVER MORE OPPRESSIVE STATE – AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE INTEND TO DO. IF THE PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE, THE POLITICIANS WILL LISTEN.
These are truly somber times. But please don’t forget this Easter and Passover holiday, like this time of year, is about renewal and freedom. Ihope you have a peaceful weekend and are able to spend some time with your loved ones.
For liberty,
Ron Paul
Source: https://www.campaignforliberty.org/42346 .
It appears that Israeli politics in 2024 is as screwed up as American politics. And there is something almost totally obscene about a sect of Israeli Jews refusing to serve in Israel’s military NOT on the grounds of Conscientious Objection to War and Military Service, but because they are “preserving Judaism” by being students in a religious school.
The conclusion of the Reuters 29 March article ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELIS RESIST PUSH FOR MILITARY SERVICE reads:
“For secular Israelis, whose taxes subsidise the Haredim and who are themselves obliged to serve in the military, the exemptions have long bred resentment and this has grown in the six months since the start of the war in Gaza.
“Many Israelis regard the war against Hamas as an existential battle for the future of the country, and some 300,000 reservists joined up to fight. Opinion polls indicate very broad public support for removing the exemptions on the Haredi draft.
“WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR NETANYAHU?
“For Netanyahu the stakes are high. While public opinion appears to favour removing the exemptions, HIS GOVERNMENT INCLUDES TWO HAREDI PARTIES WHOSE DEPARTURE COULD TRIGGER NEW ELECTIONS, WHICH OPINION POLLS INDICATE HE WOULD LOSE.
“ON THURSDAY, THE TWO PARTIES, UNITED TORAH JUDAISM AND SHAS, DENOUNCED THE LATEST SUPREME COURT RULING AND VOWED TO FIGHT IT, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SO FAR NOT EXPLICITLY THREATENED TO QUIT THE GOVERNMENT.
“From the other side, allies of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, including the centrist Benny Gantz, a former army general who is in pole position to become prime minister if elections were held, want more Israelis to serve to share the burden more widely.
“Gallant said recently that any new conscription law would need the support of all parties, suggesting he would oppose any new legislation that maintained the exemptions.”
Full article at https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ultra-orthodox-israelis-resist-push-military-service-2024-03-29/ ; EMPHASIS added.