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I have immense respect for Gideon Levy. I wish more people in the US were aware of his work. Instead, his voice is drowned out by powerful pro-Israel forces. The US is at a cross-roads. It can support universal human rights, or it can support countries like Israel that engage in the mass extermination. Biden deserves the "Greatest Hypocrite of the Year" award for the way he has handled the Gaza crisis.

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I'm still very angry at my friends for giving their votes to genocidal monsters like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Donald Trump. Very short sighted and selfish of them!

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The repetition of October 7 is misleading. Israeli Authorities admit killing 800 civilian and

300 soldiers on October 7. They admit this in Haaretz. They admit invoking the Hannibal Directive three times to kill 1100 Israeli white citizens. This has been obvious with the melted cars strafed by helicopter gunships and tank fire into houses.

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misleading and mendacious. 6 months into a genocide where 100,000 children have been murdered, Levy publishes a book using the term "Hamas scum", when he knows the scum and murderers are Jewish scum.

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I agree. Hamas was defended and used by the various Israeli regimes, until it was vilified for following International Law and fighting back against the occupiers. Mahatma Ghandi isn’t being quoted for some reason. The Holocaust Museums are showing a noticeable decline in visitors for some reason.

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Susan Abulhawa, human rights activist, novelist and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine

spoke at the Oxford Union recently. She spoke in proposition of the motion that This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide. I draw your attention to what she said, " in the spirit of Malcom X and Jimmy Baldwin" and recommend you consider her for an interview on the program. She is more certain than Gideon Levy at where this genocide of

our time will end when Zionist impunity has ended; they will leave or finally learn to live with others as equals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCWCGebAuU

Susan Abulhawa | This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide | 7/8

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sadly, with the collapse of the resistance (Hezbollah, Syria, Houthis and Iran) there is no hope for Gaza. Palestine is lost. The Jews have won.

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I just have to take issue with the "otherwise compliant media" comment. Democracy Now is always right there, speaki4g truth to power like you. I am very grateful for all of you.

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Language and history count.

IOF -- "Israeli" Occupying Forces.

Oct. 7? Those terrorist pager and phone and television bombs were placed years ago into the hands of doctors and nurses and others. Israel has ALWAYS been a terrorist state, and so any affinity to it is, well aiding and abetting terrorists.

Regrettably, some Israeli Jews believe that there exists a hierarchy of victimhood atop which their ethno-national and religious group sits, which is why they dishonestly blame Poles for the Holocaust in order to uphold this false perception that some have exploited to demand socio-economic and political privileges.

Look at this dirty Israeli --

Prominent Israeli activist Arsen Ostrovsky, who’s also a senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, provoked a scandal in Poland. He tweeted on Friday about “how sad” it is that Warsaw will arrest Netanyahu per its international legal commitment to the ICC if he travels to Auschwitz to attend its 80th liberation anniversary event next month. Ostrovsky then added at the end of his post that “Perhaps Poland has not fully learnt lessons of the Holocaust, or their own responsibility…” [Israeli Activist Arsen Ostrovsky Is Wrong To Collectively Blame Poles For The Holocaust]

It was this last part that provoked Poles to fact-check him since their ethno-national group was the only occupied people that the Nazis threatened to execute for helping Jews during World War II. Many were murdered for this act of charity that they carried out in solidarity with their fellow Jewish citizens. The Polish Underground State even had an entire group, Zegota, dedicated to saving Jews. Even so, some Poles still collaborated with the Nazis, but historian Edward Reid proved that this was only 0.1% of them.

Therein lies the crux of the issue since this statistically insignificant percentage of that ethno-national group has been maliciously misportrayed by some Israeli Jews to collectively blame all Poles for the Holocaust. Former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin even once boasted to local media about telling his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda that “you have to learn what happened in the past. Saying that nothing happened that we were both the victims is not correct.” This is factually false historical revisionism.

Poles were the first victims of the Nazis’ genocides, not Jews, and they were targeted for extermination from the very first day of the invasion after the Nazis had already assembled a list of over 60,000 Poles (the “Special Prosecution Book – Poland”) to murder through “Operation Tannenbaum”. That was part of what’s known as the “Intelligenzaktion”. In fact, the very first prisoners of the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz were dissident Poles. By comparison, Jews weren’t targeted for extermination until mid-1941.

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Someone really needs to get Gideon a better AV setup - his voice should be clearer for the world to hear and understand. I'd do it, if I had a way to get it to him.

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I'm afraid the next chapter of the privileged Israelis backed up by US zionist interests will be to put the target on Iran as I heard on Kudlow today. They will try to disable the Iranian nuclear installations as they did with Syria. This could be far worse than what has come before. If you follow accurate sources of media out of the US ones, you may get a sense of the reality.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/21/swbm-d21.html

On Friday, Communication Specialist Rosalia Bollen of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) gave a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in which she said:

Children in Gaza are cold, sick and traumatized. Hunger and malnutrition, and the dire living conditions more broadly, continue to put the lives of children at risk. Right now, over 96 percent of women and children in Gaza cannot meet their basic nutritional needs. Most are surviving on rationed flour, lentils, pasta and canned food—a diet that slowly compromises their health.

As winter sets in, Bollen said the conditions of Gaza’s children has “drastically diminished.”

On Friday, a report published by Haaretz quoted Israeli soldiers describing the blatant murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Unnamed soldiers, including career officers and reservists, told the Israeli daily that commanders were given unprecedented authority to operate in Gaza.

According to Al Jazeera, the soldiers said commanders had “ordered or allowed the killing of unarmed women, children and men in the Netzarim Corridor, a seven-kilometer-wide (4.3-mile-wide) strip of land that cuts across Gaza from Israel to the Mediterranean, and which has been turned into a military zone.”

The Haaretz report quoted an officer who recounted an incident, where a commander had announced that 200 fighters were killed, when actually “only 10 were confirmed as known Hamas operatives.” The soldiers told Haaretz they received questionable orders to open fire on “anyone who enters” Netzarim.

So-called Israeli settlers are not "settlers"; they are fanatical religious thieves.

In the West Bank, fascist Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and vandalized property in the north on Friday, according to the head of the Palestinian village council.

Associated Press reported, “Nasfat al-Khafash, the head of the council in Marda where the attack occurred, said a group of settlers arrived early in the morning, setting the mosque on fire and scrawling hateful messages on it.”

Associated Press video showed spray-painted stars of David and the words in Hebrew, “the mosque will burn, the temple will be built,” an apparent reference to the ultranationalist desire to establish a Third Temple for Jews in Jerusalem at the holiest and most contested site in the Holy Land.

“These slogans reflect their upbringing and hatred towards Palestinians and Arabs,” said al-Khafash, adding that the settlers received “full support” from the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the furthest-right government in Israel’s history.”

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Kiliing people because of killing people does not work out to well , the body the count keeps goes up and both sides that do the counting claim innocents .sure ,, leave your office ,,,, step on to the killing fields ,,I bet it would be over soon ,,,

Any takers ,?

Good luck America

Have a great day my friends

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Many American Christians believe that Israel is God-ordained since its founding in the late 1940s through British intervention. There are large numbers of "Christian-Zionists" believing that whatever Israel does is somehow sanctioned by God.

I wrote this to Scott Lively who I gave money to years ago. It would have been sensible if he had used his legal expertise to do the humble thing and offer free legal services to the needy. Instead he got political fighting in extremist cases.

Scott Lively has been on a number of government lists for his positions and books against homosexuality. I guess a public personality cannot be unpopular on most areas as being a fascist in one area may not mean he'll be a fascist in other areas, but the guy aligned with Trump and the MAGA cause as a lawyer a long time ago.

"Dear Scott;

"I would suggest you read through columnists on the Lew Rockwell site, David Stockman, Reagan's one time budget director has regular and incisive articles well-documented. Many of Napolitano's guests have articles there, thoroughly documented and well-reasoned, very little bias as far as I can see. The United States were founded on the principle that all men are created equal; the Founders had seen many decades of religious factionalism and fanaticism.

"I've regularly read the major news sites, many are highly influenced by the US intelligence agencies. Zionism and Jewish favoritism are heavily represented by the mainstream media. Major legal analysts and the ICC and ICJ and other organizations have heavily documented Israel's war crimes, especially referencing the criminal Netanyahu. Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gen Gvir are fanatics are war criminals. Any objective analysis shows this. We are not in an era when theocracies would have any validity, they would just be demonocracies, serving the devil, which seems to have been modern Israel's current standing, killing innocent people, probably well into the six figures in Gaza; they also have been committing egregious war crimes in Palestinian regions, and in Lebanon, as well as committing other violations of international law.

"War crimes and blood guilt are among the most serious of transgressions, I cannot but imagine a future merciless hell for people who instigate or seek to justify blood guilt. 2 Samuel 21 is just one example of how the murder of the innocent Gibeonites demanded the death penalty for Saul's offspring to satisfy God's judgment. What modern Israel has done is far worse, inviting far more aggressive judgment.

"Israel has justified many of their crimes with fabrications of babies being beheaded on Oct. 7,2023, or atrocities of pregnant women being tortured which did not happen. There is no question that many killings and some limited atrocities occurred on Oct. 7, but nothing as Israel's paid propagandists have claimed. "The Gray Zone" and many other sources have documented the Israeli lies and propaganda. When asked by the ICC for Israel to provide names of those who they claimed were pregnant and had been victims of atrocities, they could not name one.

"The current outrages by Netanyahu should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed him. He has been calling for the overthrow of governments a problem for Israel since the 1990s, and the US has done his dirty work.

"I'd just ask you, Scott, to provide any significant unbiased foreign affairs expert to refute any of the claims made by long time experts on Israel such as John Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs. No serious student of international affairs regard "Newsmax", "Fox News" or similarly biased sites as credible sources. It all comes down to real evidence and those critical of Israel have plenty of it and in many cases have gained little by being vocal against the type of aggressive militarism that Israel incites."

Also sent him this, when I suggested he was pandering to zionists for financial advantage:

"I'm not intending to be insulting, sorry if you took it as such but frankly everyone I know with a web presence has an audience that they have to cater to. If we offend others we need to be called to account, I've tried to practice that teaching of Jesus, but usually people don't want to hear.

"Judge Napolitano has seasoned experts he interviews on Youtube; I'd recommend you to check them out. Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter, Amb. Freeman, former CIA analysts such as Johnson and Ray McGovern, and others, some are Jewish some are not. They all agree that the Ukraine-Russian war was a needless disaster and that Israel is the biggest menace in the world deserving of no special rights.

"There are so many of these Scriptures that far from speaking of any unique role for Israel speak of the opposite: https://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/36-16.htm

"God's people are those who are fulfilling His teachings and His word. The Christians that are the closest to the Bible in my opinion are the Mennonites of the Mid-West, etc.."

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Biden I'm afraid has condoned a genocide - one that will be continued by Trump. It seems that the majority of Israelis have easily reverted to being angry tribal apes. Unfortunately these apes have access to state of the art propaganda and horrible weapons without being humane or civilized enough to use them. In addition they hide behind the facade of religious mythology to perpetrate their crimes, as well as using the holocaust as an excuse to murder their genetic cousins. They display the very worst traits of our human tribe and ones that are preventing us from evolving into fully conscious, civilized human beings.

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Oh. That east coast Talmudic University system?

Two professors declared “personae non gratae”, or PNG, by New York University have accused the university of escalating suppression of pro-Palestinian speech under pressure from donors, politicians and pro-Israel groups.

NYU has barred the two tenured faculty members, Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier, from entering some buildings after they joined a sit-in at the library and other protests over two days last week to demand the university make public its investments in companies tied to Israel and close its campus in Tel Aviv. On the second day, they were arrested and charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, relatively minor offences that do not result in a criminal record.

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Pure terrorists, and that is the underpinning of Israeli-Jewish society (sic).

At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and 30 wounded in Israeli air attacks Thursday on two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

Medics in Gaza told Anadolu news agency that most of the victims were women and children in the attack that hit the Dar al-Arqam and Shaaban al-Rayes schools in the Tuffah neighborhood.

Witnesses added that the Israeli attack caused huge destruction to the schools and nearby residential buildings.

The Israeli army claims, without providing evidence, that the deadly attacks carried out on the two school shelters were a “precise strike”.

In a statement on Telegram, the army said the attack targeted “terrorists who were operating in command and control centers” in the buildings

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Hey Nader!!! You let a pro-genocide motherfucker call me anti-Semitic, then remove my comment? You can kiss my ass goodbye Nader!!! I will not buy your paper either!!!

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Oh, those Jews . . . .

The Yinon Plan promotes various forms of conflict.

It promotes conflicts between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East (e.g., in Lebanon, Egypt).

It promotes conflicts between different ethnicities in the Middle East (e.g., Arabs, Kurds, Turks).

It promotes sectarian conflicts between Muslims (e.g., Sunni, Twelver, Zaidi).

It promotes conflicts between different groups of Sunnis (e.g., Traditionalist, Sufi, Salafi, Ikhwani).

Conflict is promoted in many ways. The US sanctions and invades Muslim-majority countries, weakening and collapsing the governments. With no unifying central government, the population naturally splits into groups which fight one another for power.

The US pushes Muslim-majority states to adopt massive programs to “reform” Islam, in the name of “counter-extremism” and “counter-terrorism.” These programs are geared towards weakening the eliminating shared Islamic teachings capable of unifying groups of Muslims within countries and between countries.

The US pushes Muslim-majority states to discard a broad Muslim identity and instead adopt narrow artificial nationalist and ethnic identities (e.g., the Jordanian or Emirati identity). Lacking a strong shared Muslim identity, the populations of Muslim-majority states are less likely to ally with one another.

The US prevents Muslim-majority states from allying with one another, or helping one another (e.g., ensuring the worthlessness of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation). Rather, the US pushes Muslim-majority states to form alliances against one another.

The US also directly or indirectly creates terrorist organizations (e.g., al-Qaeda, ISIS), which launch random bombings on holy sites of various groups (e.g., Christians, Muslim sects). These bombings help spark inter-group conflict.

The aim of all this is to create mass political instability and civil war within every Muslim-majority country, as well as war between all Muslim-majority countries – and no alliances between these countries.

Weakened Muslim-majority countries of this kind pose no threat to Israel. They are unable to help the Palestinians, and they can be easily intimidated and controlled by Israel.

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Michael,

Which Jews are you referring to? The violent ethno-nationalist supremacist colonialist who identify as Jewish; the European Zionist that Einstein exposed for organizing their colonial settler cult along the lines of Fascism and Nazism or the anti- Zionist Jews who who share values similar to those of an anti-Zionist congregation like Tzedek Chicago?

https://www.tzedekchicago.org/our-values

Recommend you see "From Ground Zero" if playing in your area.

It shares a truism that was also shared by Susan Abulhawa.

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