" Hypotheticals from Iran are much worse than actions from Israel, such as blowing up a Palestinian mother and her twins while their father was registering their birth certificates. Obviously, Iran is the regionโs terrorist."
I honestly wept for that poor, poor man watching his reaction on the news today. The question everyone asks in these situations should be writ large and in neon: WHY?!
War is evil, but this war, is despicable and wrong and should be stopped. Full stop. <3
This is NOT a war! This is Einsatzgruppen operation vs. Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian civilians! Calling it a war is the unconscious replication of Anglo-Zionist propaganda!
Israel has to bomb... Somebody. And it's nearly out of buildings to bomb in Gaza. What do you expect them to do, just not bomb something? After the US just sent another USD3.5 billion in bombs? That's just crazy.
"Part of the new financial aid will go to an Israeli military unit, which is accused of carrying out human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The State Department said it had decided against sanctioning the unit โ which would have been the first-ever blocking of aid to the Israeli military โ saying it was satisfied with Israeli efforts to address โviolations by this unitโ which have been โeffectively remediatedโ... While the US has not publicly named the unit, it is believed to be Israelโs Netzah Yehuda battalion, which has historically been based in the occupied West Bank.
The battalion and some of its members have been linked to the abuse of Palestinian civilians, including the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American man after his detention by the unit in 2022.
The greenlight given to Netzah Yehuda comes after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined in a finding made public in April that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human rights abuses against Palestinians, triggering an investigation under US legislation related to US military aid to foreign forces known as the Leahy Law.
In the face of protests from Republican lawmakers over the findings of abuse related to the battalion, Blinken said he would allow aid to continue to the unit in order to give Israel time to address the wrongdoing."
Sadly, one of my Substack reads (I want to say Jonathan Cook) recently predicted the US would use this exact loophole in international law to prevent independent investigations into human rights abuses by Israel. That's the depressing part about reading so many smart people: they're often right.
Israel, through AIPAC buys US politicians with bribes, these brought politicians then go on to vote money and arms to Israel so it can continue breaking every single law and convention and kill anyone it wants while the same US politicians cover its arse!
The US government does NOT work for Americans...it works for whoever bribes best...
Thanks Rebel. This story hadn't been in the UK press. I found this Counterpoint Youtube coverage of the story. The video says its not being reported in the US either (see Drop point on substack;: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/an-american-was-just-shot-in-the) and questions why Biden said 'If any US citizen is attacked [in Israel]; we shall respond' and yet despite a number of these shootings of US citizens now, seemingly, the only response of the Biden administration is to turn a blind eye and fund yet more ammunition and weapons.
In our superheated capitalistic system 'enough' is never enough, we obviously need ever more bombs and ever more shoes and like the addict we just cant stop.
That's the bit I never understood about the Republican opposition to supplying arms to Ukraine, Rebel. The money doesn't go to Ukraine, it goes to the manufacturers all over the USA. Ukraine gets the arms they make. They're just hurting their own. But then, it's a well known fact Conservatives are less intelligent that the rest of us. That's why they are such bullies, they can't support their own arguments.
I donโt know whatโs going on under the surface propaganda in the GOP, but Iโm sure theyโre lying when they claim itโs to save our tax dollars, which they just love handing to Israel. Republicans on the street are too stupid to have thought anything through - theyโre just following Donaldโs embrace of Putinโs authoritarianism. Why Trump is doing that is mysterious and scary. Lots going on here that is very hidden. This is an interesting article, although I find it to be naively accepting of GOP explanations of its own behavior, and just plain wrong in some of its viewpoints: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/how-stalled-u-s-aid-for-ukraine-exemplifies-gops-softening-stance-on-russia
tRump will say anything to fool people into voting for him. His 1st term did NOTHING for the ignore-ant people that think he's a savior of some kind. Education in the US is and has been massively dumbed down over the years. This is especially true in the South and Republican states.
It's also a spectacularly bad slaveholder Constitution that disproportionately enables small states, (2 senators per state, regardless of population), to have the same representation as large cities in more educated, populous states.
The system: A huge issue as it's bi-polar to have only 2 real choices. It's massively corrupt! Maybe that's why so many have mental health issues. It's Bi-Polar!!!
A man who walks into a bar and punches everyone in the face has a right to defend himself. Those who got punched donโt. Donโt get it? Then youโre like the rest of us.
I, too, cheered at Cori Bushโs forceful reaction. But how the f**k this even legal! How are the American people allowing this theft to happen. It blows my mind! Every day is a gut punch.
It happens because of the almighty dollar, A. Which AIPAC clearly has in abundance. Itโs nothing more than common bribery and anyone who is the recipient of AIPAC $$$ should be jailed for accepting bribes.
The american people aren't allowing this, they have ZERO say in the matter! The bribed government members do whatever the person (or country) who bribed them tells them to do...simple!
I know right ?!! Bad Iran good Israel. I mean cโmon itโs global common knowledge that if you kill the apartheider govtโs already pissed off people itโs unacceptable
Ah yes once again I smell the scent of the most moral army and their most moral statements of self-defence. There is no possible way we can allow the most moral people and their most moral civilians to be bombed by the bad brown people
Anthropologists dismiss it, but itโs a very strong theory. The history of the world is the story of white or lighter-skinned men attempting to dominate or enslave or exterminate darker-skinned men.
Brilliant, scything through the chaff so we can see the wheat. I wonder if our western leaders realise imploring Iran to not retaliate will leave Israel no choice but to act in self defence.
I am amazed the brown shirts have not kicked down your door and made you go missing already. Brown shirts donโt like their Gaza bombings to be noticed let alone criticized.
Brilliant!! Thank you so much for keeping me sane. Is it just me or are there others that feel their soul is being killed by this relentless inhumanity and lack of appropriate response?
Along with Laura K, my favorite person these days is Tidhg Hickey. He just recently addressed this issue; we are not alone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7G-bvN8l0
Frankly if the luminous intellects at the helm of the Ship of State weren't so keen on starting wars at every opportunity I begin to suspect the rest of the planet would be a ot better off... ๐ค
Beyond any doubt the planet would be way way way better off on every level. More nations could become autonomous. There would be fewer immigrants!! People might want/be able to stay in their indigenous countries.
Would the grass still be greener on the other side though??
Reading events over the past ... I donno.. Since July 29 I guess... is like having someone imparting a smart tap to the top of your head with a 2-pound club hammer.. Your eyes are rolling around their sockets as your tongue does somersaults and your limbs are shaking convulsively and on top of all that, I'm being asked to think sensibly about it? ๐คฏ
Wife just arrived so we can go to the music store. More in a bit.. ๐
It is like Apocalypse Now Colonel Kurtz has gone bat shit crazy he is an embarrassment to the usa so they send in a man to kill him. Israeli has gone bat shit crazy and the western leaders would like someone to take it out. We will see we live in very strange times.
Youโre right - Israel has become a loose cannon and an embarrassment to them. But I think what theyโd like is to get total control there instead. Iโm sure theyโre planning right now to install a puppet โPalestinianโ government to be sure thereโs never a real democracy.
" Hypotheticals from Iran are much worse than actions from Israel, such as blowing up a Palestinian mother and her twins while their father was registering their birth certificates. Obviously, Iran is the regionโs terrorist."
I honestly wept for that poor, poor man watching his reaction on the news today. The question everyone asks in these situations should be writ large and in neon: WHY?!
War is evil, but this war, is despicable and wrong and should be stopped. Full stop. <3
All war is wrong.
Exactly. ALL WARS ARE WRONG. Violence breeds only violence. Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. WAKE UP WORLD
That was my sign back in the sixties. Fond memories of water canons, horse cops with billy clubs, etc. Gosh, we've come so far!!
MAKE PEACE NOT LOVE is mine
That slogan was on a protester's sign from the 60s.
Exactly!
Viet nam quote, and here we still are
This is NOT a war! This is Einsatzgruppen operation vs. Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian civilians! Calling it a war is the unconscious replication of Anglo-Zionist propaganda!
You are absolutely correct. Violence is violence though and I am 100% pro-peace Without violence.
What can we all do to work together to achieve a state of peaceful harmony? Can we, who are in our right minds, work positively towards that together?
The world has the right to defend itself from mad-dog Zionists is more like it.
Israel has to bomb... Somebody. And it's nearly out of buildings to bomb in Gaza. What do you expect them to do, just not bomb something? After the US just sent another USD3.5 billion in bombs? That's just crazy.
"Part of the new financial aid will go to an Israeli military unit, which is accused of carrying out human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The State Department said it had decided against sanctioning the unit โ which would have been the first-ever blocking of aid to the Israeli military โ saying it was satisfied with Israeli efforts to address โviolations by this unitโ which have been โeffectively remediatedโ... While the US has not publicly named the unit, it is believed to be Israelโs Netzah Yehuda battalion, which has historically been based in the occupied West Bank.
The battalion and some of its members have been linked to the abuse of Palestinian civilians, including the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American man after his detention by the unit in 2022.
The greenlight given to Netzah Yehuda comes after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined in a finding made public in April that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human rights abuses against Palestinians, triggering an investigation under US legislation related to US military aid to foreign forces known as the Leahy Law.
In the face of protests from Republican lawmakers over the findings of abuse related to the battalion, Blinken said he would allow aid to continue to the unit in order to give Israel time to address the wrongdoing."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-to-send-35bn-more-in-military-aid-to-israel-amid-war-on-gaza/ar-AA1oybdp
Effing moral vacuum.
Sadly, one of my Substack reads (I want to say Jonathan Cook) recently predicted the US would use this exact loophole in international law to prevent independent investigations into human rights abuses by Israel. That's the depressing part about reading so many smart people: they're often right.
I sadly agree.
Yup. We the real people are being ignored. It's disgusting to be an American citizen. We pay to be marginalized by liars. ๐ก
Israel, through AIPAC buys US politicians with bribes, these brought politicians then go on to vote money and arms to Israel so it can continue breaking every single law and convention and kill anyone it wants while the same US politicians cover its arse!
The US government does NOT work for Americans...it works for whoever bribes best...
An American activist was just shot in the West Bank. Heโs going to be fine. He was shot in the back of the leg while fleeing for cover under fire.
Thanks Rebel. This story hadn't been in the UK press. I found this Counterpoint Youtube coverage of the story. The video says its not being reported in the US either (see Drop point on substack;: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/an-american-was-just-shot-in-the) and questions why Biden said 'If any US citizen is attacked [in Israel]; we shall respond' and yet despite a number of these shootings of US citizens now, seemingly, the only response of the Biden administration is to turn a blind eye and fund yet more ammunition and weapons.
Here's the link to the news report:
IDF SHOOTS American For West Bank Settlers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMbas0bIlM&t=110s
But the poor bomb makersโ children need shoes!
In our superheated capitalistic system 'enough' is never enough, we obviously need ever more bombs and ever more shoes and like the addict we just cant stop.
That's the bit I never understood about the Republican opposition to supplying arms to Ukraine, Rebel. The money doesn't go to Ukraine, it goes to the manufacturers all over the USA. Ukraine gets the arms they make. They're just hurting their own. But then, it's a well known fact Conservatives are less intelligent that the rest of us. That's why they are such bullies, they can't support their own arguments.
I donโt know whatโs going on under the surface propaganda in the GOP, but Iโm sure theyโre lying when they claim itโs to save our tax dollars, which they just love handing to Israel. Republicans on the street are too stupid to have thought anything through - theyโre just following Donaldโs embrace of Putinโs authoritarianism. Why Trump is doing that is mysterious and scary. Lots going on here that is very hidden. This is an interesting article, although I find it to be naively accepting of GOP explanations of its own behavior, and just plain wrong in some of its viewpoints: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/how-stalled-u-s-aid-for-ukraine-exemplifies-gops-softening-stance-on-russia
tRump will say anything to fool people into voting for him. His 1st term did NOTHING for the ignore-ant people that think he's a savior of some kind. Education in the US is and has been massively dumbed down over the years. This is especially true in the South and Republican states.
It's also a spectacularly bad slaveholder Constitution that disproportionately enables small states, (2 senators per state, regardless of population), to have the same representation as large cities in more educated, populous states.
The system: A huge issue as it's bi-polar to have only 2 real choices. It's massively corrupt! Maybe that's why so many have mental health issues. It's Bi-Polar!!!
JC- Seattle
Itโs completely sick
Brilliant ๐๐ผ Iran should drop leaflets telling the civilians to evacuate.
A man who walks into a bar and punches everyone in the face has a right to defend himself. Those who got punched donโt. Donโt get it? Then youโre like the rest of us.
Laura never fails to make me laugh!
Lauraโs satire is brilliant, but I couldnโt bring myself to laugh. All I can feel anymore is rage, morning, noon and night.
For those who arenโt Amerikkkan (lucky you): my hero in Congress, Cori Bush, got โprimariedโ last week by some sap bribed by AIPAC.
I did love Coriโs reaction ( she is some kick-ass lady) when she roared: AIPAC, IโM COMING TO TEAR YOUR KINGDOM DOWN!
I, too, cheered at Cori Bushโs forceful reaction. But how the f**k this even legal! How are the American people allowing this theft to happen. It blows my mind! Every day is a gut punch.
It happens because of the almighty dollar, A. Which AIPAC clearly has in abundance. Itโs nothing more than common bribery and anyone who is the recipient of AIPAC $$$ should be jailed for accepting bribes.
America was broken the day it was invented...
The rest of the world looks on and shakes their heads...
The american people aren't allowing this, they have ZERO say in the matter! The bribed government members do whatever the person (or country) who bribed them tells them to do...simple!
She is a good woman. Hope she comes back. AOC caved. Ilhan? I don't know.
JC-Seattle
I know right ?!! Bad Iran good Israel. I mean cโmon itโs global common knowledge that if you kill the apartheider govtโs already pissed off people itโs unacceptable
and how are all the IDF anal rapists going to keep getting TV interviews if the Israeli public is distracted by such Iranian aggression?
Excellent. Israeli has turned into the heart of darkness everyone can see its wrong and are Secreaty hoping Iran takes them out. ๐๐ป
Then again, maybe not so secretly hoping! ๐
Ah yes once again I smell the scent of the most moral army and their most moral statements of self-defence. There is no possible way we can allow the most moral people and their most moral civilians to be bombed by the bad brown people
Why? Why do men feel the need to bomb, shoot , kill or main people? Why??????
I believe it's caused by severe cases of TDS, tiny dick syndrome. I'm anti-war and always have been, just sayin...
I like a man with nothing to prove. ๐ฉท Way to save the world!
Anthropologists dismiss it, but itโs a very strong theory. The history of the world is the story of white or lighter-skinned men attempting to dominate or enslave or exterminate darker-skinned men.
Do I have to say it?
Iโm with you. The killing needs to stop. Nobody wins in the end.
Brilliant, scything through the chaff so we can see the wheat. I wonder if our western leaders realise imploring Iran to not retaliate will leave Israel no choice but to act in self defence.
I am amazed the brown shirts have not kicked down your door and made you go missing already. Brown shirts donโt like their Gaza bombings to be noticed let alone criticized.
Brilliant!! Thank you so much for keeping me sane. Is it just me or are there others that feel their soul is being killed by this relentless inhumanity and lack of appropriate response?
Along with Laura K, my favorite person these days is Tidhg Hickey. He just recently addressed this issue; we are not alone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7G-bvN8l0
A certain "nation" says that if anyone tries to stop its genocide, they will have to go again to receive applause and support in the US Congress.
Isnโt it just nauseating and utterly misguided?
๐ก
Itโs getting very hard to be ironic these days but you are doing one hell of a great job. Thank you.
It's a difficult one for Iran. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The question really is what are uncle Schmuel, the EU and UK apparatchiks going to do?
I say the West's axis of evil will be very nervous to get involved.
Israel, their favourite prodigal son, will then test true commitment.
Right now, all bets are off.
I think the US is very anxious to get involved. Biden has been grasping at excuses to invade Iran since 2008 and before.
Frankly if the luminous intellects at the helm of the Ship of State weren't so keen on starting wars at every opportunity I begin to suspect the rest of the planet would be a ot better off... ๐ค
Beyond any doubt the planet would be way way way better off on every level. More nations could become autonomous. There would be fewer immigrants!! People might want/be able to stay in their indigenous countries.
Would the grass still be greener on the other side though??
Reading events over the past ... I donno.. Since July 29 I guess... is like having someone imparting a smart tap to the top of your head with a 2-pound club hammer.. Your eyes are rolling around their sockets as your tongue does somersaults and your limbs are shaking convulsively and on top of all that, I'm being asked to think sensibly about it? ๐คฏ
Wife just arrived so we can go to the music store. More in a bit.. ๐
It is like Apocalypse Now Colonel Kurtz has gone bat shit crazy he is an embarrassment to the usa so they send in a man to kill him. Israeli has gone bat shit crazy and the western leaders would like someone to take it out. We will see we live in very strange times.
Youโre right - Israel has become a loose cannon and an embarrassment to them. But I think what theyโd like is to get total control there instead. Iโm sure theyโre planning right now to install a puppet โPalestinianโ government to be sure thereโs never a real democracy.