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Bob Martin's avatar

I guess Gallant is an anti-semite for admitting what everyone knew all along, right?

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Jasmine's avatar

Thank you for continuing to report the truth , Asa . You have been constantly targeted by our fascist state for being the whistle blower on October 7th

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Finn's avatar

They don't respect the locals and they don't respect their own.

War criminals walk the streets freely while journalist who expose their crimes are arrested for their troubles.

I think everyone knows what needs to be done but no one is saying it, so here's something to get you in the mood >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMIb9HRKJJQ

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DrSpooglemon's avatar

If I told you what I think needs to be done the police would come to my door.

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Finn's avatar

To me and many more it's perfectly obvious that the enemy is already inside the gate.

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2033ICP's avatar

These partly false flagg operations happens often in the western world.

So why shouldn’t it also happen in the Zionist country, Israel, to promote even more surveillance and security measures and as we now are witnessing; ethnic cleansing or worse?

Psychopaths don’t mind at all if it serves their interests.

We saw that with Perl Harbour, Vietnam, JFK, John Lennon, Oklahoma City, 9/11, London, Paris, Spain, Sweden, Utøya Oslo and many many more.

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letterwriter's avatar

and those interests, for Israel, are to then have a justification to wave for embarking on an Accountability Doctrine campaign of mass destruction well beyond measure for measure. https://warontherocks.com/2016/09/the-war-doctrine-israel-does-not-talk-about/

In fact that over response was embedded in the mindset as early as 1904, when Israel Zangwill began proselytizing the idea that Zionists had to "drive the Arabs out by the sword" https://archive.ph/Qz3Mp with the false claim that they have always hated us -- in fact the Palestinians had been suffering Zionist abuse, beatings, and economic warfare for a couple decades by that point, as was documented in 1891 by Ahad Ha'am in his essay, "Truth from Eretz Yisrael". I'll edit to drop a quote in.

Here, in 1891 there was no "always hated us":

"

From abroad we are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all

desert savages, like donkeys, who neither see nor understand what goes on

around them. But this is a big mistake. The Arab, like all children of Shem,

has a sharp intellect and is very cunning. The cities of Syria and Eretz Israel

are full of Arab merchants who also know how to exploit the public and to

proceed furtively with all those with whom they deal, exactly as in Europe.

The Arabs, and especially those in the cities, understand our deeds and our

desires in Eretz Israel, but they keep quiet and pretend not to understand,

since they do not see our present activities as a threat to their future.

Therefore they try to exploit us as well, to extract some benefit from the new

visitors as long as they can. Yet they mock us in their hearts. The farmers are

happy to have a new Hebrew colony founded in their midst since they

receive a good wage for their labor and get wealthier from year to year, as

experience shows; and the owners of large properties are also happy with us,

since we pay them a huge price—more than they dreamed possible—for

stony and sandy land. However, if the time comes when the life of our

people in Eretz Israel develops to the point of encroaching upon the native

population, they will not easily yield their place. . .

"

but even this observer couldn't connect all the dots when he continued on and wrote,

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alone; in all things it is our custom to learn nothing from

the past for the future. There is certainly one thing we could have learned

from our past and present history: how careful we must be not to arouse the

anger of other people against ourselves by reprehensible conduct. How

much more, then, should we be careful, in our conduct toward a foreign

people among whom we live once again, to walk together in love and

respect, and needless to say in justice and righteousness. And what do our

brethren in Eretz Israel do? Quite the opposite! They were slaves in their

land of exile, and they suddenly find themselves with unlimited freedom,

the kind of wild freedom to be found only in a country like Turkey. This

sudden change has engendered in them an impulse to despotism, as always

happens when “a slave becomes a king,”35 and behold they walk with the

Arabs in hostility and cruelty, unjustly encroaching on them, shamefully

beating them for no good reason, and even bragging about what they do,

176• israel studies, volume 5, number 2

and there is no one to stand in the breach and call a halt to this dangerous

and despicable impulse. To be sure our people are correct in saying that the

Arab respects only those who demonstrate strength and courage, but this is

relevant only when he feels that his rival is acting justly; it is not the case if

there is reason to think his rival’s actions are oppressive and unjust. Then,

even if he restrains himself and remains silent forever, the rage will remain

in his heart and he is unrivaled in “taking vengeance and bearing a grudge.”36

What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable

attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous

hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue, etc.? But in

what I have already said there is enough, it seems to me, to prove to

ourselves that “This Is Not the Way”37 to accomplishment of the goal, and

that, if we continue in this way, spending our days and energies in separate

and conflicting actions without the necessary preparations, without first-

rate organization, without decent leaders, without system and order, then

we might indeed manage finally to place in Eretz Israel a few thousand

vintners and plowmen, who in time will earn their bread easily or with

difficulty, by divine or human agency; but the principal goal we will almost

certainly never achieve; and instead of finding a complete and lasting an-

swer to the Jewish question, we will only add the question of the Jews where it

did not previously exist—in the land of our fathers . . .

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and then he sets forth a plan for pyramid leveraging of land grabs and an orderly planned influx,

to lead to success:

"...

And consequently, after ten or twenty years, we would find in Eretz Israel

not a motley mixture of gold-diggers and indigent exiles who are good for

nothing, but rather healthy, good, and honest people who love their work

and live from the labor of their hands in peace and good order. People such

as these would not stir up hatred from the country’s populace at the first

opportunity, as they would not provoke them and would not encroach

upon them, and even if, in the course of time, jealousy might cause hatred,

this is nothing. Because by that time our brothers would be able to secure

their position in Eretz Israel by their large number, their extensive and rich

holdings, their unity, and their exemplary way of life.

...

"

He plans to dominate, just without the beatings in the meantime.

It's just a constant, and since 1948 anyone backing away from this ends up in political no man's land or even assassinated. Before then, the Zionist terrorist groups were busy on the British as well as the Palestinians. And those groups became today's IDF. I see very little hope for any trustworthy negotiations out of these people.

* another edit to clean up copy paste character errors.

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

Israel is usually behind the false flags in the US.

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Klonda56's avatar

White supremacy is a cult - and cults tend to be willing to even sacrifice members to fuel or protect the existence of the cult.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

“Fire from Israeli helicopters, drones, tanks and even ground troops was deliberately unleashed, in a failed attempt to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking live Israeli captives who would then be later exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.”

Actually, pretty sure it was a false flag intended to justify a genocide.

Love how the US media has completely ignored a story that is widespread in the Israeli media. Guess they don’t want to be called names.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I won't say I told you so, but... Yes, we knew this was the fact all along and an excuse to start a genocide in Gaza. SIGH.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Since this has been an open secret from the beginning, we can treat this as a modified limited hangout.

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😎 dude's avatar

“modified limited hangout.” My English is pretty good and I understand the seperate words. But not in the context. Please explain?

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Feral Finster's avatar

A limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."

A modified limited hangout has been described as "the release of a package of sensitive information mixed with discoverable falsehoods in hopes that discovery of the falsity of part will lead to the entire package being considered false, and as the release of a package with a core of falsehoods wrapped in secret but verifiable information in hopes that verification of the wrapping will reinforce the believability of the false core."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

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Ben_H's avatar

In my mind a regime that, repeatedly, kills their own in this way (“Hannibal Directive”) is not a state but something else - of a criminal nature. In the case of "Israel" there are additional other reasons too but this one alone is enough. Israel simply does not function as a normal state yet it has the legal status of a state…

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Ben_H's avatar

"Israel" is a fucked-up idea of imperialism. Nothing in that place is normal. It is a synthetically created bizarre entity to leverage history and to create a sick militaristic CULT dressed up as a "Jewish State". The planners of this fraud knew after WW2 it would fit the geopolitical needs.. The whole thing (Professional Zionizmus) is a sick fraud.... To me this is not a genuine organic thing but an out-of-control aberration propped up by imperial decree and economical hegemony.

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Özcan Ates's avatar

It‘s just a perfect parody of itself, when Jew‘s become the worst antisemites themselfes.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

It's time for US carrier fleets to be deployed to take out Israel. It's become a handicap to US foreign policy and regional peace.

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Lauren Seikaly's avatar

If only the United States was interested in regional peace. We support Israel for the same reason we support Ukraine, to destabilize the region, implement regime change, and force these countries into submission. The US is happy to steal their natural resources, use it for our own monetary gain, and we don’t care how many people have to die as a result. WE are the terrorists.

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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

When will commenters here stop using the word "we" when referring to the criminal government that commits all these war crimes? I'm talking about the U.S. government. I am a U.S. citizen, but I am completely opposed to the imperialist government of my home country. There is no "we" amongst the ordinary citizens. The government does not give a damn what the actual citizens want. You can truthfully say that U.S. imperialism is terrorism and I will agree with you. But I will NOT accept personal blame on the part of citizens who have no voice at all. Unless you are personally an oligarch. But if that was the case, you would probably not be reading Asa.

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Lauren Seikaly's avatar

Ok. I hear you. But do you pay your taxes here in the United States? To our corrupt government and its corrupt system? If you do, as I do, then we are unfortunately complicit. I use WE as a way of underlining for my fellow Americans that we are all partly to blame and if we want a better country to call our own then we need to do better and demand better. We can just sit on our couches, watch Netlifx, and wring our hands. Which is what most Americans do, I’m afraid.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I want to tell you something that every American citizen needs to know: your taxes don't pay for anything at the Federal level.

If you would learn Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), you can find out why, because it describes the US monetary system.

You can find it on The Rogue Scholar, Real Progressives, Macro'n Cheese, or MMT Mondays on YouTube. Stephanie Kelton also has several great videos on YouTube about it.

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Adeel Mirza's avatar

Hi Carolyn,

So who did you vote for?

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I didn't vote for any of them and I believe that we should have "None of The Above" on the ballot. If None of the Above wins, they would have to have a new election with different candidates. And keep doing it until they come up with some candidates that the people want to vote for.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

THANK YOU!

I'm tired of the sweeping assumptions that we are all the same, or that we are the same as the government.

However, since the US government is doing these evil things in our name, and we aren't doing anything to stop them, it seems that we are complicit, even if it's by default.

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Klonda56's avatar

Wrong.

US and Israel are fingers of the same fist of racist colonialism.

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Quentin Brimley's avatar

These Zionist monsters are just like Trump. They survive, and everyone else dies. They can shove their Old Testament nicknames. Supernatural myths to justify a country. How idiotic.

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Cory Buott (Ijiraq)'s avatar

Well we know this is Hannibal Directive. It's no surprise that Netanyahu strategically revised and

Re-strengthened it. The complete ins and outs we don't actually know but we know the basics.

Even the farthest Right don't try to hide behind the 1400 killed by the escapees during the Open Air Prison Break and Uprising of Oct 7th. They lost control of information. What happened next to counter this loss of control, was to quickly work to shift the collective standards; the lines of right and wrong. This brought the weak minded and those through religion or family Judeo-Christian values into accepting a new right and wrong whereas in the case of Palestinians, the abuse is OK.

For those remaining, economics, peer pressure, employer pressure, clamping down on laws, general alienation then is used to exhaust and demoralize. We see many lost here silently through this type of attrition.

Trump set the stage for today four years ago, booby trapping the ship before he last left office. When he came into power, what's left of us that still have fight, well we're in a whole lot of trouble. You see, science, rational thought, truth and lie… These don't matter now. The lie is the power. That's the whole thing with the Far Right and with Capitalism -Now UltraCapitalism 2.0™

The whole driving force of Capitalism requires you to BELIEVE. You must BELIEVE that a new shampoo will change your life. A new improved stick of gum will make all the women or men fall to the ground worshipping you if you buy it. This is America. This is Americanization +Israel®

Your highest value must be faith in Capital. NOT Human being or humanity. Understand how broken and dangerous this is, considering that you are human being: Using rationale and scientific thought, knowing you are human being, what could possibly be more valuable than human being? What happens to us when we lose sight of this???

We seal our fate and die. Thats what happens.

Truth doesn't matter now that the world leader is Trump. Yes, I said it. He really is the world leader. Prove me wrong.

So now what? We were already headed off the cliff. Now we are accelerating even faster. The hope is that YOU will succumb to hopelessness. Or just jump on the party train and spend spend spend and feed these pigs. You won't get to actually be invited to the real party, but the hope in the possibility they lure you with might just be the only hope you have left.

For the rest of us, well they got bombs and missles and bullets in almost infinite supply. The real party for them begins here! Trophies abound for the trophy hunters! The spoils are ripe for the taking. They will mock your mother they just blew to shreds and now take selfies with her undergarments.

Yet we resist. So why do we bother? We cannot out gun them; hell they got nukes!

We resist because in not resisting we die anyway. We resist because we refused to shift our lines of right and wrong even an inch. Did you notice how in killing babies the things like settler expropriation through the courts was no longer a moral issue in your mind? This is how those lines shift.

We resist. Some of us will resist to the emitter end. The enemy cannot win, that's the sad irony. They will ultimately destroy even themselves. It's like watching a drug addict descend in that downward spiral.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

It wasn't Trump who set the stage as much as it was Obama, who signed the National Defense Authoritization Act (NDAA) during his administration. That act stripped us of many of our civil rights.

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Cory Buott (Ijiraq)'s avatar

Quote and misquote all you want, the people have been there for a thousand years or more. Confirmation bias doesn't make it real.

But nothing justifiies a Genocidist you fool. Karma will get people like you

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Cory Buott (Ijiraq)'s avatar

80 generations what? Sorry I can't see you well through the horseshit all over my glasses (I found them btw!). There are Palestinian Jewish, and the White European Newish Jewish Zionists. Who are you talking about? Benzion Mileikowsky? The American Zionists? Who, exactly? Palestinian Christians and Jewish lived in Peace with Muslim Palestinians in their native land. Is that who you speak of? And again, you fail to acknowledge and correct from confirmation bias pointing to more "experts" on the matter. Not hard data. I understand now that you certainly aren't a scientist. No genocide because you, Dude in Minnetonka says they aren't a people therefore not a genocide. Love your methodology for justification. Just wow

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Brian Matthews's avatar

Many of us already knew this , it is written in their law . Kill your own people to stop them being taken as hostages , known as The Hannibal directive . So you see those killed when Hamas invaded were mostly slaughtered by the IDF ,and of course their genocide continues to this day in Gaza . However this genocidal regime is backed up by another genocidal regime America . If you don’t believe it , check up the report made after the Vietnam war , The International Criminal Court in Denmark Roskilde ,known as Thr Russel Tribunal . America was guilty on all charges including genocide .

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Duke1832's avatar

No surprise there and Hamas is a Israel creation ! It’s all BS !

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