Readers, one of the very best interviews I've ever listened to on the U.S. military-industrial complex and the corruption of U.S. militarism. Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson drops truth bombs here with utmost precision.
Israel is doing this because it can -- because it's backed up by a U.S. government bipartisan consensus coerced and cowed by AIPAC money. And let's not forget the evangelical influence, the belief in a Second Coming in Palestine. And the discovery of major gas reserves off Gaza.
I do believe you're correct on all points, Bill. And I think the ill-advised Dem leaders are going to pay the price for their greed and stupidity. The line should have been drawn in the sand for the Israelis on October 8th: attack indiscriminately, forfeit all chance of aid. But no.
It's a Biblical thing. Push the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert where they will wander around for 40 years and pass from this earth. All that's missing is manna, which of course they don't have because of the blockades and sanctions.
For me, what's "true" about the Bible is what speaks to my heart, my beliefs, my sense of morality and fair play. I don't obsess about Bible being the literal word of God.
I think there's "truth" in all major religions when those religions support compassion, charity, love, and similar traits.
I also think you don't need religion to believe in those traits.
Dec 5, 2023·edited Dec 5, 2023Liked by Bill Astore
"If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid". - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Old Testament sense of morality and fair play you say Bill? Speaking to your heart and beliefs eh?
Do you believe in slavery as well? The Bible does!
I'm not a Biblical literalist, Dennis. In fact, I've never read most of the Old Testament.
The focus of my religious upbringing was the New Testament. Again, I'm not a "good" Christian because I'm not a literalist and I reject that which makes no sense to me.
I know what speaks to my heart and beliefs, Dennis. Do you?
"The power of AIPAC is reinforced here by the MICC, the military-industrial-congressional complex that Ike warned us about in 1961, which stands to profit immensely from more war in the Middle East as well as Ukraine. "
It is bad enough that we are allowing this slaughter, but the fact that Biden is paying for, and the MICC is profiting from this slaughter with my tax money, makes me want to revolt. I regret that I ever voted for this war criminal.
The best historical comparison I can think of would be the Warsaw Ghetto established by the Nazis. An open-air prison on a much smaller scale than the Gaza Strip, but basically the same model. And in my mind, the October 7th events are akin to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which ever since has been celebrated around the world as a brave and heroic act of resistance against the brutal and horrific conditions. Funny, isn't it, how one's act of resistance is another's act of terrorism.
Exactly so, Charlie. I also use the example of the American Indians who, backed to the edges of their lands and deceived repeatedly with the old version of "the two state solution" decided to fight and did so in a way to equal anything that HAMAS did on Oct. 7.
We must support Israel and its ability to defend itself.
My reply;
What Israel is doing in Gaza IS NOT Self-defence. It's MASS MURDER and Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. How many all expenses paid trips to Israel did Israel and their US proxies provide you?
Did you see Ted Cruz telling Krystal Ball that he is ok with anything the Israeli government decides to so, and this was during the brief ceasefire, when Israel announced the slaughter would be continued.
It is time to label AIPAC for what it is--a fascist hate organization and those politicians beholding to them for what they are--war criminals and traitors of their oath to the constitution.
And, incredibly on the basis of what AIPAC does but perfectly understandable due to our corruption of government by money, AIPAC has not had to register under FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
I was an immediate Trekie convert when it 1st came out in the early 60s. It was so Civilized!
Captain Kirk coincidentally is from Montreal where I was born and had my Spiritual Awakening February 1, 1975.
The Israeli WAR of Gaza Ethnic Cleansing takes more of my thoughts and concern, going against the stream of Israeli WAR Propaganda our MSM Magnifies out of all proportion in a manufactured manipulation of the People's Emotions, if not Reason.
I couldn't remember the name of the episode, but my Google search terms from such a long forgotten memory were sufficient to bring me right to it.
"A Taste of Armageddon" is the twenty-third episode of the first season shown in 1967, the year of the Israeli 6 Day WAR and the Beginning of the OCCUPATION of Palestine.
Reading Israel is using AI to decide Hamas targets most probably summoned up the thought to revisit it?
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are declared all killed in action in a bizarre computer-simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.
On a mission to establish diplomatic relations at Star Cluster NGC321, Kirk and Spock beam down to planet Eminiar 7 to learn that its inhabitants have been at war with a neighboring planet for over 500 years.
They can find no damage nor evidence of destruction but soon learn that their war is essentially a war game, where each planet attacks the other in a computer simulation with the tabulated victims voluntarily surrendering themselves for execution after the fact. When the Enterprise becomes a victim in the computer simulation and ordered destroyed, Kirk decides it's time to show them exactly what war means.
All of Gaza is only 26 miles long, 13 miles for each side of the North-South dividing line.
Israel told the Palestinians to go South for Safety, so now there are about 1,700,000 People concentrated in that 13 mile area.
Israel is now telling them to move again for Safety but they can't return to the North side of the Strip where many have HOMES still standing.
Israel declared it a "Closed Military Zone" like they do in systematically in the OCCUPIED West Bank but inevitably, Jewish settlers move in.
That's how I see it, and it summons up angry thought like I very rarely experienced in my Life. I relate to this Old Testament record in my Bible printed in 1855 before Israel reappeared: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger.
Isaiah1:4
That dovetails with the New Testament record and the Revelation of Jesus Christ: And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come,..................
There is an article on a web site called Global Research titled " Ben Gurion Canal to replace Suez Canal" by Richard Medhurst. I have no idea who the author is because Global Research doesn't give out that info, though I looked for it. Some of their authors I know well and respect, so I'm sort of assuming this article has accurate research and from what I know of some of it, it seems to be. The article posits that the US, Israel and other western countries have been plotting for years to get control of oil routes - and a main reason for the Gaza slaughter is so that Israel can have full access to the large amount of oil found off the coast of Gaza. There's more and it's pretty dreadful, so I'll stop there, and ask if you, Bill, know anything about this, and what do you think? I'm also interested in your readers' opinion of this. If this is even moderately accurate, it seems to me that incomparable greed and heartless evil without parallel has overtaken the governments of the Western world led by the US (regardless of party) and leaves me feeling desolate and hopeless for my children and especially my grandchildren along with everyone else's across the planet.
As anyone who has been following events in the West Bank for decades as I have, what the IDF and settlers are doing now is only more of the same on steroids. Burning of Pal olive orchards, outright beating of Pal farmers in their fields as the IDF watches is same old-same old. Settlers have always been armed, but not directly by the government as is happening now. Let's call it the old routine but now done with gusto and more firepower against a native people that have never had the right to own firearms of any kind.
I can't help but think of the situation of the Jews in Germany in the 1930's. The American gun lobby at one point had a smiling Hitler giving the Nazi salute and the caption was "All in favor of gun control, raise your hand" the implication being that had Jews been armed they would have saved themselves. If there is a bigger load of BS, I don't know of it. Jews in pre-war Germany made up 2% of the population. Palestinians make up far more than 50% of the population of the West Bank and one can only imagine how they would be slaughtered were they armed. The only reason they were not slaughtered in 1948 by Zionists was they fled in reaction to well publicized public executions (see Deir Yassin) and "promises" by the Zionists that they would be able to return to their homes, where were in fact quickly bulldozed and dynamited to prevent that very thing.
it has now been confirmed by PROJECT HOPE NABLUS, under whose aegis i was volunteering as a teacher for 3 months this year in the 4 refugee camps surrounding nablus in the west bank, that 7 of my former students are now confirmed dead. thank you, israel, your rampaging illegal settlers, and the US genocidal, megalomaniacal bastards supporting you. may you all live to taste the poison in your own denitrifying viscera.
I believe that many Jews after the holocaust, not just survivors, but Jews around the world including in the US, were subject to the ultimate PTSD that altered their outlook on the world and their fellow man. It was crystal clear that Jews had been marked for wholesale extermination, limited only by the fight against Nazism to spreading even further than it did. I know of one Jew in particular, now very elderly, who has a terrible case of misanthropy, can see no good in anyone, is the first to offer a harsh judgement on people that I know not to be what he sees in them. His entire family with the exception of his parents died in the holocaust and he is also a victim in a way that has him in a mental prison that has turned him against all but other Jews and even against them if they don't think, like he does, that the Palestinians are animals.
His example of this mega-PTSD has so warped the views of so many people that they cannot see themselves as anything but victims-in-waiting if not actual victims as was the case on Oct 7. In fact, for these people, Oct 7 was nothing but validation of their upside down view. The history of who did what and why amounts to nothing. Rational argument amounts to nothing. As Netanyahu has said "we will always live by the sword" never considering it is the sword that Israel wields that gives credence to his words. He repeatedly says "ask HAMAS" as he truly believes it is HAMAS that is responsible for all his killing of innocent people. His hand is forced, but it is a clean hand. Mega-PTSD.
Mega-PTSD fired up Zionism and drove the terrorism that was led by such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir who would both become Israeli Prime Ministers preceding Netanyahu (whose father was a rabid Zionist). Mega-PTSD drives the odd tunnel vision version of "never again" which means destroy before being destroyed (pre-emption) and the most perverted aspect of all which is that what one thinks is true, is true, and there can be no refutation of it by anyone, anyone who for the simple act of disputation is per se antisemitic. A Zionist cannot be questioned regarding any destruction or killing by Israel as it is, by definition if Israel is doing it, a necessity and only a pale shadow of what Jews suffered in the holocaust against which no tragedy, past, present or future is worthy of the name. Thus the slaughter without hesitation we are witnessing. Mega-PTSD.
Most Israelis suffer from this mental illness because of the holocaust though the problem is not limited to Israel. Israel promotes this mental illness, seeking to pass it on by sending public high school students to Auschwitz to be bathed in the horror and supplied with Israeli flags they are welcome to wrap around themselves as they contemplate what is clearly intended as a horror that is directed at them for which Israel is the one and only shelter.
This mental illness cannot be cured, short of some trauma that results in waking up, so the only hope of escape is the rise of new generations that can see clearly rather than down the dark holocaust tunnel with Israel a shining light at the end. Because of the indoctrination of Israeli youth, it is American Jews that offer real hope and that is evidenced by the outstanding actions of Jewish Voice for Peace, which I cannot praise too highly and with which I have been actively involved since before the turn of the century. These "kids" are inspired by their Judaism, using it as an escape from Zionism by which it has been hijacked.
If you hate what you see going on in Gaza, as I do, don't hesitate to not only give generously to JVP but to turn out for any event they sponsor near you. They welcome all, including Palestinians, Christians, atheists, you name it, because they understand so well the humanity we share and that they believe is not just valued but honored by their religion. They say "not in our name" and "never again for ANYONE!" from the heart and I say bless those hearts that have escaped the cruel grip of Zionism.
The issue will only be settled on the field of battle with iron and rivers of blood.
As we are seeing. Thousands slaughtered in the name of imaginary GODs.
As it has been done since man invented GOD's.
There will be no winners.
Every religion claim's that theirs is the only true God!
What evidence do Israelis or Palestinians have that their religion is not just other false religion?
Why is their "God" real and all the others are not?
When they understand why they dismiss ALL the other possible "Gods", only then will they understand why the non-religious dismiss theirs. And why religion has been the cause of so much evil and human suffering.
"Religion poisons everything" - Christopher Hitchens
thank you beyond the empyreal zone, dennis, for all the websites you have directed us toward. sharing them w/ us is critical for those who live under the obnubilated tenebrity of MSM/MIC/zionist divulgations.
The Universe itself is God, and we are that oneness for a little while, and all are sons and daughters of the Universe-- to know that you are this God the Universe expanding and evolving/ changing we are rooted and connected to it. Why I feel more at peace and in the midst of a profound reality when under the stars at night!You feel that wholeness of the energies of yourself as one in the galaxies it is intimate and strange I know, but we are intimately I must once again say we are bound up in... Our seeing, hearing, talking, our thinking, moving. We express that which it is that moves our star the sun and all the other stars as well...!
It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
Now Israeli whistleblowers have provided details of how these crimes against humanity are being carried out – and how they are being rationalised internally within Israel’s military and political echelons.
An extraordinary series of testimonies jointly published by the Israel-based publications 972 and Local Call last week established that the huge death toll of Palestinian civilians is, in fact, integral to Israel’s war aims, not an unfortunate side effect.
The known dead so far are estimated at almost 16,000, with a further 6,000 missing, presumably crushed under rubble. Two-thirds of those killed by Israel are women and children.
Two years ago, during an earlier attack on Gaza, Israeli military officials admitted for the first time that a computer was supplying them with potential targets. The intention appears to have been to bypass the restraints imposed by human assessments of likely casualties by outsourcing the killings to a machine.
The whistleblowers confirm that, given new, generous parameters of who and what can be attacked, the artificial intelligence system, called “Gospel”, is generating lists of targets so rapidly the military cannot keep up..............................................................................
Readers, one of the very best interviews I've ever listened to on the U.S. military-industrial complex and the corruption of U.S. militarism. Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson drops truth bombs here with utmost precision.
https://rumble.com/v3zfbx7-empire-of-war-interview-with-col.-lawrence-wilkerson.html
For me, there are no words. The Israeli government tells the Gazans to evacuate to the south, and then they bomb the south. The evil is indescribable.
Israel is doing this because it can -- because it's backed up by a U.S. government bipartisan consensus coerced and cowed by AIPAC money. And let's not forget the evangelical influence, the belief in a Second Coming in Palestine. And the discovery of major gas reserves off Gaza.
I do believe you're correct on all points, Bill. And I think the ill-advised Dem leaders are going to pay the price for their greed and stupidity. The line should have been drawn in the sand for the Israelis on October 8th: attack indiscriminately, forfeit all chance of aid. But no.
Israel (Bibi) is daring Biden to do something, knowing Biden won't dare.
Again, I have no doubt you have the right of it, Bill. Unfortunately.
It's a Biblical thing. Push the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert where they will wander around for 40 years and pass from this earth. All that's missing is manna, which of course they don't have because of the blockades and sanctions.
Yes, it seems biblical in an Old Testament way ...
Bill, when pointing out problems with the Bible, one of the more common responses is, "But that's the OLD Testament". What does this mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRy-UfUYYGk
Yes, that's true.
For me, what's "true" about the Bible is what speaks to my heart, my beliefs, my sense of morality and fair play. I don't obsess about Bible being the literal word of God.
I think there's "truth" in all major religions when those religions support compassion, charity, love, and similar traits.
I also think you don't need religion to believe in those traits.
"If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid". - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Old Testament sense of morality and fair play you say Bill? Speaking to your heart and beliefs eh?
Do you believe in slavery as well? The Bible does!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL0FttPX-4
???
I'm not a Biblical literalist, Dennis. In fact, I've never read most of the Old Testament.
The focus of my religious upbringing was the New Testament. Again, I'm not a "good" Christian because I'm not a literalist and I reject that which makes no sense to me.
I know what speaks to my heart and beliefs, Dennis. Do you?
Yes I do. And it's not from any old religious Holy Book.
The "God" in the old Bible1.0 was evil and imperfect, so they changed it to make him all knowing in Bible 2.0.
Cherry Picking The Bible For Your Morals. The Atheist Experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkD5XDwT6Us
"Christianity-the belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God."
tnx for this directional finder to dillahunty, dennis.
"The power of AIPAC is reinforced here by the MICC, the military-industrial-congressional complex that Ike warned us about in 1961, which stands to profit immensely from more war in the Middle East as well as Ukraine. "
It is bad enough that we are allowing this slaughter, but the fact that Biden is paying for, and the MICC is profiting from this slaughter with my tax money, makes me want to revolt. I regret that I ever voted for this war criminal.
The best historical comparison I can think of would be the Warsaw Ghetto established by the Nazis. An open-air prison on a much smaller scale than the Gaza Strip, but basically the same model. And in my mind, the October 7th events are akin to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which ever since has been celebrated around the world as a brave and heroic act of resistance against the brutal and horrific conditions. Funny, isn't it, how one's act of resistance is another's act of terrorism.
Exactly so, Charlie. I also use the example of the American Indians who, backed to the edges of their lands and deceived repeatedly with the old version of "the two state solution" decided to fight and did so in a way to equal anything that HAMAS did on Oct. 7.
Senator Marco Rubio on Twitter this am
@SenMarcoRubio
We must support Israel and its ability to defend itself.
My reply;
What Israel is doing in Gaza IS NOT Self-defence. It's MASS MURDER and Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. How many all expenses paid trips to Israel did Israel and their US proxies provide you?
Did you see Ted Cruz telling Krystal Ball that he is ok with anything the Israeli government decides to so, and this was during the brief ceasefire, when Israel announced the slaughter would be continued.
Sounds like Ted Cruz!
Gazacide
It is time to label AIPAC for what it is--a fascist hate organization and those politicians beholding to them for what they are--war criminals and traitors of their oath to the constitution.
And, incredibly on the basis of what AIPAC does but perfectly understandable due to our corruption of government by money, AIPAC has not had to register under FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Indeed! Of course, FARA only is applied when it slots into the "rules based order," which of course has zero to do with actual international law.
Not one bomb would have been dropped if USA had not permitted it!
16000 dead 40%; children 99% of the rest non combatant Palestinians.
Per the Old Testament: "May they stand the judgement"
I was an immediate Trekie convert when it 1st came out in the early 60s. It was so Civilized!
Captain Kirk coincidentally is from Montreal where I was born and had my Spiritual Awakening February 1, 1975.
The Israeli WAR of Gaza Ethnic Cleansing takes more of my thoughts and concern, going against the stream of Israeli WAR Propaganda our MSM Magnifies out of all proportion in a manufactured manipulation of the People's Emotions, if not Reason.
I couldn't remember the name of the episode, but my Google search terms from such a long forgotten memory were sufficient to bring me right to it.
"A Taste of Armageddon" is the twenty-third episode of the first season shown in 1967, the year of the Israeli 6 Day WAR and the Beginning of the OCCUPATION of Palestine.
Reading Israel is using AI to decide Hamas targets most probably summoned up the thought to revisit it?
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are declared all killed in action in a bizarre computer-simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.
On a mission to establish diplomatic relations at Star Cluster NGC321, Kirk and Spock beam down to planet Eminiar 7 to learn that its inhabitants have been at war with a neighboring planet for over 500 years.
They can find no damage nor evidence of destruction but soon learn that their war is essentially a war game, where each planet attacks the other in a computer simulation with the tabulated victims voluntarily surrendering themselves for execution after the fact. When the Enterprise becomes a victim in the computer simulation and ordered destroyed, Kirk decides it's time to show them exactly what war means.
https://youtu.be/akCNrhrjEjQ?si=zSvJQb49D1_O5XBY
All of Gaza is only 26 miles long, 13 miles for each side of the North-South dividing line.
Israel told the Palestinians to go South for Safety, so now there are about 1,700,000 People concentrated in that 13 mile area.
Israel is now telling them to move again for Safety but they can't return to the North side of the Strip where many have HOMES still standing.
Israel declared it a "Closed Military Zone" like they do in systematically in the OCCUPIED West Bank but inevitably, Jewish settlers move in.
That's how I see it, and it summons up angry thought like I very rarely experienced in my Life. I relate to this Old Testament record in my Bible printed in 1855 before Israel reappeared: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger.
Isaiah1:4
That dovetails with the New Testament record and the Revelation of Jesus Christ: And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come,..................
Revelation 11:18
There is an article on a web site called Global Research titled " Ben Gurion Canal to replace Suez Canal" by Richard Medhurst. I have no idea who the author is because Global Research doesn't give out that info, though I looked for it. Some of their authors I know well and respect, so I'm sort of assuming this article has accurate research and from what I know of some of it, it seems to be. The article posits that the US, Israel and other western countries have been plotting for years to get control of oil routes - and a main reason for the Gaza slaughter is so that Israel can have full access to the large amount of oil found off the coast of Gaza. There's more and it's pretty dreadful, so I'll stop there, and ask if you, Bill, know anything about this, and what do you think? I'm also interested in your readers' opinion of this. If this is even moderately accurate, it seems to me that incomparable greed and heartless evil without parallel has overtaken the governments of the Western world led by the US (regardless of party) and leaves me feeling desolate and hopeless for my children and especially my grandchildren along with everyone else's across the planet.
Richard Medhurst.
I saw this segment on Richard's channel.
This segment is another masterpiece made by him. Brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ier4W5lwiSk
But you won't be seeing any more of him on YouTube Ranney!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM769_OTUnU
They're monsters alright.
peace
and for those war hawks: may you rot in hell
Unfortunately, with the entrenched POWERS that be in control, if I believe all the leading indicators, they're leading us all to rot in Hell.
Gaza is the WARNING SIGN of what Hell is like in THIS Material World we could expect in the larger Future World if we don't get involved NOW.
Watching Al Jazeera TV this morning Ray. The IDF fighting with folks in the West Bank.
Five courageous IDF "soldiers" beating up one poor young guy.
When he does not give up - they shoot him point-blank.
He is lying on the ground wounded and tries to stand up.
They shoot him again
He's dead now - on TV for the World to see.
HOW MUCH LONGER CAN WE LET THIS GO ON?
And yesterday I saw Netanyahu visiting the troops. Smiling all the time.
As anyone who has been following events in the West Bank for decades as I have, what the IDF and settlers are doing now is only more of the same on steroids. Burning of Pal olive orchards, outright beating of Pal farmers in their fields as the IDF watches is same old-same old. Settlers have always been armed, but not directly by the government as is happening now. Let's call it the old routine but now done with gusto and more firepower against a native people that have never had the right to own firearms of any kind.
I can't help but think of the situation of the Jews in Germany in the 1930's. The American gun lobby at one point had a smiling Hitler giving the Nazi salute and the caption was "All in favor of gun control, raise your hand" the implication being that had Jews been armed they would have saved themselves. If there is a bigger load of BS, I don't know of it. Jews in pre-war Germany made up 2% of the population. Palestinians make up far more than 50% of the population of the West Bank and one can only imagine how they would be slaughtered were they armed. The only reason they were not slaughtered in 1948 by Zionists was they fled in reaction to well publicized public executions (see Deir Yassin) and "promises" by the Zionists that they would be able to return to their homes, where were in fact quickly bulldozed and dynamited to prevent that very thing.
it has now been confirmed by PROJECT HOPE NABLUS, under whose aegis i was volunteering as a teacher for 3 months this year in the 4 refugee camps surrounding nablus in the west bank, that 7 of my former students are now confirmed dead. thank you, israel, your rampaging illegal settlers, and the US genocidal, megalomaniacal bastards supporting you. may you all live to taste the poison in your own denitrifying viscera.
:-(
I believe that many Jews after the holocaust, not just survivors, but Jews around the world including in the US, were subject to the ultimate PTSD that altered their outlook on the world and their fellow man. It was crystal clear that Jews had been marked for wholesale extermination, limited only by the fight against Nazism to spreading even further than it did. I know of one Jew in particular, now very elderly, who has a terrible case of misanthropy, can see no good in anyone, is the first to offer a harsh judgement on people that I know not to be what he sees in them. His entire family with the exception of his parents died in the holocaust and he is also a victim in a way that has him in a mental prison that has turned him against all but other Jews and even against them if they don't think, like he does, that the Palestinians are animals.
His example of this mega-PTSD has so warped the views of so many people that they cannot see themselves as anything but victims-in-waiting if not actual victims as was the case on Oct 7. In fact, for these people, Oct 7 was nothing but validation of their upside down view. The history of who did what and why amounts to nothing. Rational argument amounts to nothing. As Netanyahu has said "we will always live by the sword" never considering it is the sword that Israel wields that gives credence to his words. He repeatedly says "ask HAMAS" as he truly believes it is HAMAS that is responsible for all his killing of innocent people. His hand is forced, but it is a clean hand. Mega-PTSD.
Mega-PTSD fired up Zionism and drove the terrorism that was led by such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir who would both become Israeli Prime Ministers preceding Netanyahu (whose father was a rabid Zionist). Mega-PTSD drives the odd tunnel vision version of "never again" which means destroy before being destroyed (pre-emption) and the most perverted aspect of all which is that what one thinks is true, is true, and there can be no refutation of it by anyone, anyone who for the simple act of disputation is per se antisemitic. A Zionist cannot be questioned regarding any destruction or killing by Israel as it is, by definition if Israel is doing it, a necessity and only a pale shadow of what Jews suffered in the holocaust against which no tragedy, past, present or future is worthy of the name. Thus the slaughter without hesitation we are witnessing. Mega-PTSD.
Most Israelis suffer from this mental illness because of the holocaust though the problem is not limited to Israel. Israel promotes this mental illness, seeking to pass it on by sending public high school students to Auschwitz to be bathed in the horror and supplied with Israeli flags they are welcome to wrap around themselves as they contemplate what is clearly intended as a horror that is directed at them for which Israel is the one and only shelter.
This mental illness cannot be cured, short of some trauma that results in waking up, so the only hope of escape is the rise of new generations that can see clearly rather than down the dark holocaust tunnel with Israel a shining light at the end. Because of the indoctrination of Israeli youth, it is American Jews that offer real hope and that is evidenced by the outstanding actions of Jewish Voice for Peace, which I cannot praise too highly and with which I have been actively involved since before the turn of the century. These "kids" are inspired by their Judaism, using it as an escape from Zionism by which it has been hijacked.
If you hate what you see going on in Gaza, as I do, don't hesitate to not only give generously to JVP but to turn out for any event they sponsor near you. They welcome all, including Palestinians, Christians, atheists, you name it, because they understand so well the humanity we share and that they believe is not just valued but honored by their religion. They say "not in our name" and "never again for ANYONE!" from the heart and I say bless those hearts that have escaped the cruel grip of Zionism.
Great post Clif my man.
God is only a myth in a very old books of fiction. There has been 100's of "Gods".
And the imaginary Christian God started this horror in the first place.
When one party comes armed with the Bible and a 2,000-year-old promise from their IMAGINARY GOD, rational thinking goes out the window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0
The issue will only be settled on the field of battle with iron and rivers of blood.
As we are seeing. Thousands slaughtered in the name of imaginary GODs.
As it has been done since man invented GOD's.
There will be no winners.
Every religion claim's that theirs is the only true God!
What evidence do Israelis or Palestinians have that their religion is not just other false religion?
Why is their "God" real and all the others are not?
When they understand why they dismiss ALL the other possible "Gods", only then will they understand why the non-religious dismiss theirs. And why religion has been the cause of so much evil and human suffering.
"Religion poisons everything" - Christopher Hitchens
thank you beyond the empyreal zone, dennis, for all the websites you have directed us toward. sharing them w/ us is critical for those who live under the obnubilated tenebrity of MSM/MIC/zionist divulgations.
The Universe itself is God, and we are that oneness for a little while, and all are sons and daughters of the Universe-- to know that you are this God the Universe expanding and evolving/ changing we are rooted and connected to it. Why I feel more at peace and in the midst of a profound reality when under the stars at night!You feel that wholeness of the energies of yourself as one in the galaxies it is intimate and strange I know, but we are intimately I must once again say we are bound up in... Our seeing, hearing, talking, our thinking, moving. We express that which it is that moves our star the sun and all the other stars as well...!
Dave knew the score: One with the universe/nothing matters...
It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
Now Israeli whistleblowers have provided details of how these crimes against humanity are being carried out – and how they are being rationalised internally within Israel’s military and political echelons.
An extraordinary series of testimonies jointly published by the Israel-based publications 972 and Local Call last week established that the huge death toll of Palestinian civilians is, in fact, integral to Israel’s war aims, not an unfortunate side effect.
The known dead so far are estimated at almost 16,000, with a further 6,000 missing, presumably crushed under rubble. Two-thirds of those killed by Israel are women and children.
Two years ago, during an earlier attack on Gaza, Israeli military officials admitted for the first time that a computer was supplying them with potential targets. The intention appears to have been to bypass the restraints imposed by human assessments of likely casualties by outsourcing the killings to a machine.
The whistleblowers confirm that, given new, generous parameters of who and what can be attacked, the artificial intelligence system, called “Gospel”, is generating lists of targets so rapidly the military cannot keep up..............................................................................
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-israel-uses-an-ai-genocide-program
That's the bigger picture for sure. Endless wars lead to endless hell on earth
"The VILEST Lies About Gaza Yet."
Honest, straight forward, fact-based journalism on alternative media.
Keep it up Owen my man! You are a warrior 👍💪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqz9YBiKpms
The level of disgusting Israeli evil is beyond normal human imagination.
Every accusation from Israel is a confession.