Ralph welcomes back Hassan El-Tayyab, the Legislative Director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation to talk about the FCNL's recent lobbying efforts in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the recently-introduced bill to restore funding to UNRWA.
We need to keep up the pressure on our Congressmen letting them know we're disgusted with their policy on Israel and with Ukraine, backing a now unelected head of that country. Ukrainians are being slaughtered in large numbers according to objective analysts such as Jeffrey Sachs, Colonel Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, and Ray McGovern.
When you contact your congressmen let them know that the US is a co-war crimes participant.
Like this:
Dear Senator Blumenthal;
Israel's continuing attacks on innocent civilians in the Middle east continues to be a source of great anger and worry by those who follow US foreign affairs. Israel is an American proxy. What Israel does, the United States is responsible for, especially when the U.S. does not do what a conscientious greater power would do; defund, call out the state terrorism that Israel engages in, negotiate peace on all fronts and exercise its best prerogatives when it comes to a proxy that is using the money and military resources we give them, the intelligence that the CIA shares, to commit war crimes and the deaths of countless innocent civilians.
I'm disgusted and discouraged by your stance of foreign affairs and your mindless backing of Israel. You among others have echoed the morally bankrupt term "Israel has a right to defend itself..." even while it engages in criminal actions. The PM Netanyahu is a convicted criminal as you must know. This is the same thing as backing a dictator and his cult of henchmen under guise of "self-defense" as he murders innocent people without a basis in international law or any concept of real self-defense. What Netanyahu is defending is his own criminal status.
What we've had with the Biden administration in foreign affairs is a lack of real diplomatic resolutions to conflicts especially with Israel and Ukraine. The costs are immeasurable, the misery these victims of failed US policy are suffering will continue as far as we can see due to the extremely hawkish, and frankly senile form of leadership.
The real question is why the Democratic Party is not representing traditional goals of this party such as peaceful resolutions of conflicts through diplomacy, a lack of and intolerance of bigotry, bias, favoritism toward particular ethnic and religious groups?
Also on turning pagers into hand grenades it should be pointed out that Mossad delayed the detonations after the paging alerts in a way to maximize the great maiming and injuries. These people are satanic and diabolical in all their tactics and need to be shunned and boycotted at every turn.
We need to get a lot tougher on failed politicians like Blumenthal.
We should be meeting with him and the other Congressmen, pushing them on bad war-mongering policies and asking them why they are fanning the flames of these terrible military conflicts?
We should be demonstrating every day, handing out literature on these bad US foreign policies.
I am truly grateful to FCNL and Hassan for their urgent and important work. But with much respect and imho they have not learned the main strategic lesson of US social change history: ELectoral and Congressional strategy are absolutely essential for major social change, but also, with almost no exceptions, absolutely insufficient without the handmaiden of major mass nonviolent resistance.
As he admitted twice, and Ralph, thankfully emphasized, FCNL needs to be much more “muscular.” So that begs the question about the elephant in the room, which is why are the Quakers of all people-- the religious group who actually co-pioneered much of nonviolent resistance in this country from the anti-slavery movement to stopping the war in Vietnam and much else, not recruiting from their large coalition hundreds of people willing to sacrifice at worst a night in jail in Washington DC to shut down critical committee hearings, or far better, why have they not yet recruited tens of thousands to shut down Congress itself for 2-3 weeks, long enough to stop military aid to Israel?? After all, the history of almost every major advance in American history since the Civil War, have ALL required, massive nonviolent resistance, not merely electoral strategy, or using the levers of power/Congressional strategy? Of course, having accomplished more than any other single American, in this country through Congressional and electoral strategy, and being a lawyer himself, it’s no surprise that Ralph rarely if ever has mentioned the critical historical necessity (and now more than ever ) of massive nonviolent resistance. And such mass nonviolent resistance is now more feasible than ever before thanks to recent simple tech advances that have demonstrated that it’s possible to triple and even quadruple normal rates of nonviolent resistor recruitment – – to actually catalyze moral courage at scale. Given the more than 100M Americans and Europeans outraged at US military support for Israel, it would be quite feasible to raise the $12-15M necessary for organizing, bail and transport expenses and with this new simple tech to in fact recruit the 100,000 true citizens of conscience to shut down the US Congress for 2-3 weeks, long enough to force an end to US military aid to Israel, hence a cease fire, and an immediate reinstatement of our support of UNRWA as explained in the AdoptaGenocideResister project ( see ter one pager at bit.ly/AGR1p)
We've heard that Reagan DID stand up to Israel and changed their behavior even with AIPAC perverting our politics AND with Israel being our "aircraft carrier" for our oil wars. What's relatively new is that Israel has Pegasus spyware and maybe Jeffrey Epstein's recordings and is likely using them to blackmail Congress and its owner/donors, so many of whom have much to hide The author who broke the Epstein case says this has legs: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-writer-who-broke-epstein-case-a-rumored-mossad-link-is-worth-digging-into/
Yes, I've long guessed that the two forces stopping US from cutting off the arms shipment is that Mossad is using blackmail against Pentagon highups, and even Biden or his son or highups in the Dems, based on lots of secret recording they have that make Assange's revelations look like babyfood; and the other force of course being major strong Hollywood Zionist money (eg Saban, totally probably at least 100-200M)to the Dems
“The peace movement needs to get more muscular.” - Hassan El-Tayyab
Before the peace movement needs to get more muscular, the peace movement need to do their homework and devise a better electoral and policy action plan. As of right now, they really don’t have anything at all outside of some nonsensical fluff which is more of a detriment than any kind of advantage as the peace movement seems divorced from the economic and other needs of the citizenry.
The peace movement really has nothing in terms of plans to nationalize the private sector military industry and use that industrial engineering and manufacturing force to benefit peace while still maintaining employment such that the people working for defense contractors are assured of jobs in their communities at the same or better wages doing similar type of work with similar qualifications.
In order to understand how this is feasible, the peace movement has to understand macroeconomic policy to avoid the austerity claptrap which the peace movement often advocates for in the rare instances that they even consider economic factors at all. Even peace-seeking citizens will not vote their jobs away or the jobs of their neighbors. Furthermore, citizens do not want to choose between having jobs or healthcare, they want to have both. This can all be funded. The peace movement needs to be able to communicate how the peace movement aims to keep jobs and make gains in healthcare while promoting peaceful causes. This is all part of the brains and brawn approach which the peace movement needs to follow, but is unfortunately inept at in the current time.
Have ever been to one of those meetings that you were told to show up at and if you didn't you were in big trouble ?
Now is the time ,, I don't mean one of those social , let's be polite,,, united nation affairs. You know where we pick up the tab , everyone wears their best , talks with grand authority and nothing ever gets done ,
The guy with the big stick , money and power should set the date and time , and I bet you know who the 4 or 5 who should show up are ,,?
So I won't bore you with those details .
At this meeting Around this private table all will agree because everyone will know the guy with the big stick will explain in great details how he will use it , and let's rest assured those in attendance won't leave the meeting go home and say let's do something different.
Is it big stick time ? Hey diddle. diddle, the U S should start playing it's fiddle ? , what do we got to lose ,? good luck and ,,,for all the rest ,
Today on Al Jazeera (Gaza/Palestine updates) WATCH: Israeli middle schoolers harass Palestinian classmate
This video shows Israeli middle schoolers dancing and chanting hate messages at a Palestinian classmate who called for a free Palestine and accused Israeli forces of being “murderers”. that is exactly what I wrote about!
Izzy children would never communicate with Palestinian children. Izzies are taught from birth that Palestinian children are "snakes". The izzy children are raised to only believe what their "new history" teaches them. We all know that narrative, since we are witnessing its objective in real time.
Próspera and its kind seem to be the next phase of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), included in Free Trade Agreements, that empowers multinational corporations to sue governments before panels of corporate lawyers.
These lawyers can award the corporations unlimited sums to be paid by taxpayers, including for the loss of expected future profits that the attorneys forecast the corporations would have earned if not for the challenged policy.
In April 2021 Google and Amazon clinched a $1.2 billion deal to assist the izzies in their genocide of Palestine. The deal was for Project Numbus, which is a spy system.
The Pagers were manufactured in Hungary by izzy's intelligence shell company in 2022, using the brand of the legitimate Taiwanese company. There they were loaded with the explosives and triggering devices.
Something had to send the signal to trigger the explosives simultaneously. That could be another nefarious use for Project Nimbus.
Very frightening to consider that Google also makes Android cell phones! Those phones are all over the Middle East (and the world), so has Google also rigged certain ones of them? Edit: Or allowed that rigging?
Would you prefer the proper description of apartheid, child torturing/murdering, occupying, murderous, raping, invented, illegitimate, genocidal maniacs?
Thank you for this discussion! Ralph is right to emphasize the urgency of stopping the genocide, but Hassan is right, too, that we need a long-term peace movement that can start to make a dent in our military-turbocharged politics--as Ralph seemed to agree with in his conclusion.
Where can we organize a protest immediately that will also have a long term impact on the big money politicians that are controlled by AIPAC and the military industrial complex?
In the 90% of congressional districts in 2024 that are already decided.
Citizens that want peace can combine with the 80% of citizens that want the big money out of politics and not only withhold their votes from the big money politicians but cast a write in vote to register a vote against the big money politicians and to create and demonstrate demand for small donor politicians that will work for peace.
Without this strategy involved any other protests will be just a feel good effort without any teeth.
Just 10% of citizens in these districts making these demands and enforcing it with our votes in a little over a month will let the big money politicians know we are serious and will exert the pressure that could lead to a cease fire as soon as November and begin the long term action that could have an effect on the 2026 elections.
We need to keep up the pressure on our Congressmen letting them know we're disgusted with their policy on Israel and with Ukraine, backing a now unelected head of that country. Ukrainians are being slaughtered in large numbers according to objective analysts such as Jeffrey Sachs, Colonel Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, and Ray McGovern.
When you contact your congressmen let them know that the US is a co-war crimes participant.
Like this:
Dear Senator Blumenthal;
Israel's continuing attacks on innocent civilians in the Middle east continues to be a source of great anger and worry by those who follow US foreign affairs. Israel is an American proxy. What Israel does, the United States is responsible for, especially when the U.S. does not do what a conscientious greater power would do; defund, call out the state terrorism that Israel engages in, negotiate peace on all fronts and exercise its best prerogatives when it comes to a proxy that is using the money and military resources we give them, the intelligence that the CIA shares, to commit war crimes and the deaths of countless innocent civilians.
I'm disgusted and discouraged by your stance of foreign affairs and your mindless backing of Israel. You among others have echoed the morally bankrupt term "Israel has a right to defend itself..." even while it engages in criminal actions. The PM Netanyahu is a convicted criminal as you must know. This is the same thing as backing a dictator and his cult of henchmen under guise of "self-defense" as he murders innocent people without a basis in international law or any concept of real self-defense. What Netanyahu is defending is his own criminal status.
What we've had with the Biden administration in foreign affairs is a lack of real diplomatic resolutions to conflicts especially with Israel and Ukraine. The costs are immeasurable, the misery these victims of failed US policy are suffering will continue as far as we can see due to the extremely hawkish, and frankly senile form of leadership.
The real question is why the Democratic Party is not representing traditional goals of this party such as peaceful resolutions of conflicts through diplomacy, a lack of and intolerance of bigotry, bias, favoritism toward particular ethnic and religious groups?
Also on turning pagers into hand grenades it should be pointed out that Mossad delayed the detonations after the paging alerts in a way to maximize the great maiming and injuries. These people are satanic and diabolical in all their tactics and need to be shunned and boycotted at every turn.
does voicing one's concerns and emailing policy comments make any dent whatsoever?
No.
Gilens and Page at Pton Univ found they dont listen..:
"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites...." Sept 1, 2014, by Gilens and Page.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595 Published online by Cambridge University Press
Link doesn't work.
"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites...." Sept 1, 2014, by Gilens and Page.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595 Published online by Cambridge University Press
We need to get a lot tougher on failed politicians like Blumenthal.
We should be meeting with him and the other Congressmen, pushing them on bad war-mongering policies and asking them why they are fanning the flames of these terrible military conflicts?
We should be demonstrating every day, handing out literature on these bad US foreign policies.
I am truly grateful to FCNL and Hassan for their urgent and important work. But with much respect and imho they have not learned the main strategic lesson of US social change history: ELectoral and Congressional strategy are absolutely essential for major social change, but also, with almost no exceptions, absolutely insufficient without the handmaiden of major mass nonviolent resistance.
As he admitted twice, and Ralph, thankfully emphasized, FCNL needs to be much more “muscular.” So that begs the question about the elephant in the room, which is why are the Quakers of all people-- the religious group who actually co-pioneered much of nonviolent resistance in this country from the anti-slavery movement to stopping the war in Vietnam and much else, not recruiting from their large coalition hundreds of people willing to sacrifice at worst a night in jail in Washington DC to shut down critical committee hearings, or far better, why have they not yet recruited tens of thousands to shut down Congress itself for 2-3 weeks, long enough to stop military aid to Israel?? After all, the history of almost every major advance in American history since the Civil War, have ALL required, massive nonviolent resistance, not merely electoral strategy, or using the levers of power/Congressional strategy? Of course, having accomplished more than any other single American, in this country through Congressional and electoral strategy, and being a lawyer himself, it’s no surprise that Ralph rarely if ever has mentioned the critical historical necessity (and now more than ever ) of massive nonviolent resistance. And such mass nonviolent resistance is now more feasible than ever before thanks to recent simple tech advances that have demonstrated that it’s possible to triple and even quadruple normal rates of nonviolent resistor recruitment – – to actually catalyze moral courage at scale. Given the more than 100M Americans and Europeans outraged at US military support for Israel, it would be quite feasible to raise the $12-15M necessary for organizing, bail and transport expenses and with this new simple tech to in fact recruit the 100,000 true citizens of conscience to shut down the US Congress for 2-3 weeks, long enough to force an end to US military aid to Israel, hence a cease fire, and an immediate reinstatement of our support of UNRWA as explained in the AdoptaGenocideResister project ( see ter one pager at bit.ly/AGR1p)
We've heard that Reagan DID stand up to Israel and changed their behavior even with AIPAC perverting our politics AND with Israel being our "aircraft carrier" for our oil wars. What's relatively new is that Israel has Pegasus spyware and maybe Jeffrey Epstein's recordings and is likely using them to blackmail Congress and its owner/donors, so many of whom have much to hide The author who broke the Epstein case says this has legs: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-writer-who-broke-epstein-case-a-rumored-mossad-link-is-worth-digging-into/
I hope Ralph and all will look into this.
Yes, I've long guessed that the two forces stopping US from cutting off the arms shipment is that Mossad is using blackmail against Pentagon highups, and even Biden or his son or highups in the Dems, based on lots of secret recording they have that make Assange's revelations look like babyfood; and the other force of course being major strong Hollywood Zionist money (eg Saban, totally probably at least 100-200M)to the Dems
“The peace movement needs to get more muscular.” - Hassan El-Tayyab
Before the peace movement needs to get more muscular, the peace movement need to do their homework and devise a better electoral and policy action plan. As of right now, they really don’t have anything at all outside of some nonsensical fluff which is more of a detriment than any kind of advantage as the peace movement seems divorced from the economic and other needs of the citizenry.
The peace movement really has nothing in terms of plans to nationalize the private sector military industry and use that industrial engineering and manufacturing force to benefit peace while still maintaining employment such that the people working for defense contractors are assured of jobs in their communities at the same or better wages doing similar type of work with similar qualifications.
In order to understand how this is feasible, the peace movement has to understand macroeconomic policy to avoid the austerity claptrap which the peace movement often advocates for in the rare instances that they even consider economic factors at all. Even peace-seeking citizens will not vote their jobs away or the jobs of their neighbors. Furthermore, citizens do not want to choose between having jobs or healthcare, they want to have both. This can all be funded. The peace movement needs to be able to communicate how the peace movement aims to keep jobs and make gains in healthcare while promoting peaceful causes. This is all part of the brains and brawn approach which the peace movement needs to follow, but is unfortunately inept at in the current time.
Relevant and concise. I'd say you made the paper cut.
Sare-Vega Zoom Discussion on Rumble @Sara4Senate interview wth Dr Mark Perimutter
Listen to this report. Listen to his testimony to French & German parliaments (ICJ) on his Instagram platform
Dr Perimutter is tirelessly ENDING military support As a result of his efforts they've halted the sales of arms to Israel IDF.
Have ever been to one of those meetings that you were told to show up at and if you didn't you were in big trouble ?
Now is the time ,, I don't mean one of those social , let's be polite,,, united nation affairs. You know where we pick up the tab , everyone wears their best , talks with grand authority and nothing ever gets done ,
The guy with the big stick , money and power should set the date and time , and I bet you know who the 4 or 5 who should show up are ,,?
So I won't bore you with those details .
At this meeting Around this private table all will agree because everyone will know the guy with the big stick will explain in great details how he will use it , and let's rest assured those in attendance won't leave the meeting go home and say let's do something different.
Is it big stick time ? Hey diddle. diddle, the U S should start playing it's fiddle ? , what do we got to lose ,? good luck and ,,,for all the rest ,
Have a great day my friends
Update on izzy childrens' upbringing:
Today on Al Jazeera (Gaza/Palestine updates) WATCH: Israeli middle schoolers harass Palestinian classmate
This video shows Israeli middle schoolers dancing and chanting hate messages at a Palestinian classmate who called for a free Palestine and accused Israeli forces of being “murderers”. that is exactly what I wrote about!
Izzy children would never communicate with Palestinian children. Izzies are taught from birth that Palestinian children are "snakes". The izzy children are raised to only believe what their "new history" teaches them. We all know that narrative, since we are witnessing its objective in real time.
Próspera and its kind seem to be the next phase of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), included in Free Trade Agreements, that empowers multinational corporations to sue governments before panels of corporate lawyers.
These lawyers can award the corporations unlimited sums to be paid by taxpayers, including for the loss of expected future profits that the attorneys forecast the corporations would have earned if not for the challenged policy.
In April 2021 Google and Amazon clinched a $1.2 billion deal to assist the izzies in their genocide of Palestine. The deal was for Project Numbus, which is a spy system.
The Pagers were manufactured in Hungary by izzy's intelligence shell company in 2022, using the brand of the legitimate Taiwanese company. There they were loaded with the explosives and triggering devices.
Something had to send the signal to trigger the explosives simultaneously. That could be another nefarious use for Project Nimbus.
Very frightening to consider that Google also makes Android cell phones! Those phones are all over the Middle East (and the world), so has Google also rigged certain ones of them? Edit: Or allowed that rigging?
Izzies? Is that a new slur?
Would you prefer the proper description of apartheid, child torturing/murdering, occupying, murderous, raping, invented, illegitimate, genocidal maniacs?
Thank you for this discussion! Ralph is right to emphasize the urgency of stopping the genocide, but Hassan is right, too, that we need a long-term peace movement that can start to make a dent in our military-turbocharged politics--as Ralph seemed to agree with in his conclusion.
Im voting for Jill Stein or Cornel West because they will at least attempt to make some dent in longstanding "military-turbocharged" policies.
Of course this isnt what most Americans want.
They want either Trump or Harris to continue the military-turbocharged policies.
oh, ralph the spoiler is against the genocide of jews? FInally he's right about one thing.
Immediate impact combined with long term action.
Where can we organize a protest immediately that will also have a long term impact on the big money politicians that are controlled by AIPAC and the military industrial complex?
In the 90% of congressional districts in 2024 that are already decided.
Citizens that want peace can combine with the 80% of citizens that want the big money out of politics and not only withhold their votes from the big money politicians but cast a write in vote to register a vote against the big money politicians and to create and demonstrate demand for small donor politicians that will work for peace.
Without this strategy involved any other protests will be just a feel good effort without any teeth.
Just 10% of citizens in these districts making these demands and enforcing it with our votes in a little over a month will let the big money politicians know we are serious and will exert the pressure that could lead to a cease fire as soon as November and begin the long term action that could have an effect on the 2026 elections.