Noting: "When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews - campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and .. reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. "Israelism" has sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023."
Also note that the: "Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy .. sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government."
And that: "This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world."
"I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be." Also importantly, please try to carefully consider:
"A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities - confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium." Further, and ONLY IF you dare, consider:
and "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
Finally note that Nutjobyahu, has tried to denounce the International Criminal Court charges against him as 'antisemitic' but one of the lawyers who reviewed and approved of the charges was Theodor Meron a highly respected jurist, Holocaust survivor & past Israeli legal advisor, who that ^ last article, is all about!!
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
The information above incl. the final video, has to be seen in the round & in the context of ISR's political divisions but seen in totality they form a picture of who knew what n' when! These videos are important!
How can anybody really have a true opinion on events in Gaza 12 months ago ... without recourse to the information in these videos above, given the very deeply partisan nature of U$A's Main Stream Media?!! Finally & very importantly indeed, please try to carefully consider the consequences of the following info:
WHICH ... "One article describing the Israeli Prime Minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
"The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war, but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.'” Many users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning - but what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy or at least he was until recently.Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 & as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the IDF.
"Unit 8200, is Israel’s largest & perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage & terror operations, including recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top US media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions." WTF?!
Note that "Prof.Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview; one which explains why now he's changed his view & believes Israel is committing Genocide"!
As ... "Naomi and Mehdi discuss how, as with the Oslo peace process, the never-ending Gaza ceasefire negotiations simply allow Israel to prolong the war and ‘put facts on the ground.'"
Re. notion of "Villa In The Jungle", please note the reference to that propagandist, racist & supremacist phrase; here at 9 minutes, in this very revealing interview about Israeli society!!
I wish I could remember how to directly post jpegs here on the OWS Forum. I think I remember doing that several years ago but at 78 I can't be certain. Oh well ...
OMG & well, Well, WELL! The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Bendyermind Nutjobyahoo & his ex-Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant! So now what? Are ISR's US/UK guardians going to protect Benjamin Netanyahu's hate filled, fascistic murdering extreme nationalist ass - once again?!!
If he gets away with his Scorched Earth, Collective Punishment, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocidal Apartheid War of Annihilation, then please try to consider that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-L_hJAobAY !
"From sabotaging Oslo, to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict, even after Oct 7/23, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy."
Bernie Sanders: "I am holding a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate to block the sale of offensive arms to Israel.
"The extremist Netanyahu government is breaking U.S. and international law. Every Senator who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions."
also - "The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7"!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNV0Csj46Q [29m] and note that this^is a Totally Devastating Reprise, by Jeremy Cahill and Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman - of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!!
Further "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!!"*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc a clear, concise & clinical deconstruction of the events from 12 months ago and a precis of this video:
while noting "The rise to prominence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other extremists has placed a radical ideology at the heart of political power in Israel." - And now as a post script ... by Jessica Buxbaum:
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!! Finally, 1 year on, note:
The conservative/states rights movement started with John C. Calhoun in the 1820s. As the Confederacy they lost the Civil War but have never given up the fight to destroy the Federal Government and subvert the Party of Lincoln. Trump's cabinet picks advance that movement.
The "United States of Amnesia" (Gore Vidal) & its Imperial Vassal State, UK - would like us to totally forget about "Operation Ajax" in 1953 et ego ...
Noting that "Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who burned himself to death to protest the Gaza genocide, was awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence in memoriam on Saturday" Nov 2.
"He was hopeful, not foolishly so, but due to the evidence he had amassed that human societies have taken myriad forms, that the people who are supposedly powerless can together wield quite a lot of power, and that ideas matter."
"Hope is a tricky business among intellectuals and activists. Cynicism, though it’s often inaccurate about both human nature and political possibilities, gives the appearance of sophistication; despair is often seen as sophisticated and worldly-wise while hopefulness is seen as naive, when the opposite is not infrequently true. Hope is risky; you can lose, and you often do, but the records show that if you try, sometimes you win."
While many of us feel hopeless now, perhaps we should remember that with hopelessness comes only despair and we can't live with that, can we?
The fact is Trickle Down Economics is demonstrably total horse-$H!T and most people either know or can intuit that! There are now many different names for 'The Ideology That Does Not Want To Speak Its Name' & there is: Reaganomics; Thatcherism; 'Trickle Down Economics'; Free Market Fundamentalism; Neoliberalism; Macronism Supply Side Economics; etc. etc. - ad nauseam! In reality it's a Pro-Oligarchy, Military Industrial Complex, Private Fiat Banking; anti-99%, deeply RW ideology, with a now very clearly defined history, ideology and PR/opaganda and now, here is THE very best short essay I know about it:
We'd still be screwed the only chance we really had was for Nader to support Gore in 2000 and get that Dem elected, back then we had a chance but Nader and the 3rd party movement killed us. It was because of that election when i realized the 3rd parties were filled with polical hacks that didn't give a shit about the world. People like Jill stien who has been "nominated" like 20 time by the Greens, go figure what's the chance in "free and fair" elections?
I see the Greens haver nominated Stien, agian, she controls the Greens for longer than Trump has controled the GOP, if only Nader had supported Gore in 2000 maybe the planet wouldn't be on fire today, of well, it's all over now.
media has been telling me "democracy" is on the ballot, well it lost and now they want ME to fight? how? in the future the GOP will count the balots and they will not be losing any more than Puttin does
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 8 hours ago
Try to consider - "Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews | A Featured Documentary"!
Noting: "When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews - campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and .. reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. "Israelism" has sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023."
Also note that the: "Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy .. sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government."
And that: "This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world."
bellum se ipsum alet!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 9 hours ago
"No propaganda on earth can hide the wound that's Palestine: Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech"!
https://thewire.in/rights/palestine-israel-apartheid-arundhati-roy-pen-pinter-prize + 22/66m video:
'The PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Arundhati Roy' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWzyotJKFQ
"I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be." Also importantly, please try to carefully consider:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-war-wants-finish-job-washington-started-after-911 - by Jonathan Cook & further, re. "The Lobby" note:
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1843956908375293979 [3m 30s] & further - carefully consider
https://truthout.org/articles/israels-blockade-bars-wfp-from-distributing-food-in-any-form-in-north-gaza/ - by Sharon Zhang
and finally note: "SHE EXPOSED A PRESTIGIOUS MEDICAL JOURNAL’S SILENCE ON THE HOLOCAUST. NOW SHE’S ASKING ABOUT GAZA"! https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/new-england-journal-medicine-israel-gaza-hospitals/ - by John Valdez, as ...
"A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities - confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium." Further, and ONLY IF you dare, consider:
"'Israel’s Antisemitism Cyber Monitoring System by 'If Americans Knew'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erICS5Z5BJQ (8m) 6 years old and now even more relevant!
Finally, "Understanding Ireland's solidarity with Palestine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpu3tfE2Pc (25m)
fiat lux et pax nunc!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
"Dr. Gabor Mate: Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history"!
and "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
Also: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZupDJ37sww 100% Truth! And further consider this video:
Gaza; this morning and shame on us: https://x.com/Bernadotte22/status/1858448901550039060
NB "Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza": https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/14/israels-crimes-against-humanity-gaza &, also consider this info:
"The Man Who Tried to Save Israel From Itself" ... https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/04/israel-settlements-occupation-theodor-meron-gaza-netanyahu/ by Gershon Gorenberg (Israeli journalist and historian.)
Finally note that Nutjobyahu, has tried to denounce the International Criminal Court charges against him as 'antisemitic' but one of the lawyers who reviewed and approved of the charges was Theodor Meron a highly respected jurist, Holocaust survivor & past Israeli legal advisor, who that ^ last article, is all about!!
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
Re.'Nukes for Nakba' & as per the OP try to closely consider
the info in these 2 videos from 11 months ago, is still relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6sQTqzfu48 [11m]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CTbGAdjnk [9m]
&, try to consider this site: https://ifamericansknew.org/
Further note this https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Also it's noted how you have nothing to say re. my prior^reply!
And 'What role do US tech giants play in powering Israel?'
ESPECIALLY in the dark light of recent pager & phone attacks!!
Further try to note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day and
https://www.afcfp.org/2024-joint-nakba-remembrance-ceremony
Finally per the OP, Daniel Ellesberg RiP & Julian Assange, note:
https://www.the-berliner.com/politics/daniel-ellsberg-wikileaks/
ad iudicium?
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
13 months on, note - "Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan Over a Year Ago: The New York Times"!
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/01/israel-knew-hamass-attack-plan-over-a-year-ago-the-new-york-times/ by Ronen Bergman (Text and video)
https://youtu.be/vu4Txxw9bOo (a 11m stand alone video link)
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
Also "Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack"!! https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/02/klox-d02.html - by Andre Damon & now, consider:
that from some perspectives: "Israel Is Losing this War"!!! Tony Karon & Daniel Levy: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-war/ ...
as: "Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals!"
Further "This Is Not a War Against Hamas"! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/11/israel-hamas-war-civilians-biden/ by Jeremy Scahill
and note "Leaked Israel lobby presentation urges US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas Rape’ claims"!! https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/06/leaked-israel-lobby-officials-war-gaza-mass-rape/ by Max Blumenthal and ...
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
Further consider this tweet ... https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1799119035491295443
And now in keeping the 1st^2 links "Reckoning: Israel and Gaza"!!! with Ben Swann https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1798006776211677634 [an essential 14m 25s vid]
Also NB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1i0UbAyrpk 30m of important infomation
& NOW per OP consider this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miV355h7nFQ [20m]
The information above incl. the final video, has to be seen in the round & in the context of ISR's political divisions but seen in totality they form a picture of who knew what n' when! These videos are important!
respice, adspice et e tenebris lux?
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
One year on "Investigating war crimes in Gaza - Al Jazeera Investigations" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A (81m) Very Important Doc.
"October 7: Al Jazeera Investigations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY (1 hr)
&, "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc (16m) and a precis of the 1hr video immediately above.
Further this - https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1798006776211677634 & embedded 14m video
How can anybody really have a true opinion on events in Gaza 12 months ago ... without recourse to the information in these videos above, given the very deeply partisan nature of U$A's Main Stream Media?!! Finally & very importantly indeed, please try to carefully consider the consequences of the following info:
WHICH ... "One article describing the Israeli Prime Minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
"The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war, but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.'” Many users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning - but what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy or at least he was until recently.Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 & as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the IDF.
"Unit 8200, is Israel’s largest & perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage & terror operations, including recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top US media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions." WTF?!
Finally: "Francesca Albanese perfectly deconstructs the bad faith question “does Israel have the right to exist?” https://x.com/AbbyMartin/status/1857915326790512796 (1m ESSENTIAL VIDEO)
& https://x.com/FranceskAlbs to follow the words and info from one of the clearest PAL defenders
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
Never forget "Everybody Wants Gaza's Gas"! by Rachel Donald:
"The $500 billion windfall shoring up EU supplies" and please also try to see ...
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1723051649722130862 (4m 30s video)
and also closely consider this https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide
Now try to please consider: "Gaza War: Creating Facts for the Ben-Gurion Canal?!!!" https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/11/15/gaza-war-creating-facts-for-the-ben-gurion-canal/
Further note "Industrial Killing of Civilians in Gaza Won’t Defeat the Armed Insurgency"!! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/20/gaza-israel-biden-netanyahu-war-strategy/ - Jeremy Scahill
Also, consider this - "'Pure evil' – Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDnZ1OYR9w&t=1262s {Almost unbelievably horrific details}
PS: https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1736461692970688675 [Very Relevant Short Video!]
& PPS: https://truthout.org/articles/over-200-unrwa-workers-have-been-killed-in-israels-genocide/
Meanwhile re "Nordstream": https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/rising-anger-in-germany-in-response
Also consider .. "Israeli Holocaust Scholar: Why Gaza Is Genocide - w/Prof. Omer Bartov"!!! w/Owen Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDePmAFle4A (51m)
Note that "Prof.Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview; one which explains why now he's changed his view & believes Israel is committing Genocide"!
As ... "Naomi and Mehdi discuss how, as with the Oslo peace process, the never-ending Gaza ceasefire negotiations simply allow Israel to prolong the war and ‘put facts on the ground.'"
et ergo - cui bono?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
Re. notion of "Villa In The Jungle", please note the reference to that propagandist, racist & supremacist phrase; here at 9 minutes, in this very revealing interview about Israeli society!!
"Israeli Youth Targeted Over ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ (a doc film) Screening" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6huCGHTtsI (41m) Gaia Dan w/ Abby Martin & ..
"Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s (1 hour 24 miutes)
"Israelism: The Awakening of young American Jews" Important Documentary!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw (1 hour 20 minutes)
et veritas vos liberabit!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
Et Ergo, Deus Vult?! Please try to be wary if invoking "God"!!
Lest an alledgedly God believing man, speaks Truth to Power!
Who says: "No one hates Americans more than America"!!!
And - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmKmCIvSZU [5m]
ecce homo ...
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2552) from Fredericksburg, TX 5 days ago
I wish I could remember how to directly post jpegs here on the OWS Forum. I think I remember doing that several years ago but at 78 I can't be certain. Oh well ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
OMG & well, Well, WELL! The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Bendyermind Nutjobyahoo & his ex-Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant! So now what? Are ISR's US/UK guardians going to protect Benjamin Netanyahu's hate filled, fascistic murdering extreme nationalist ass - once again?!!
If he gets away with his Scorched Earth, Collective Punishment, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocidal Apartheid War of Annihilation, then please try to consider that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-L_hJAobAY !
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
At some point, The PR/opaganda Function of Israel - has to be analysed!
"Zionist influencers and ‘hasbara’ online | The Listening Post"!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KASmLbDM4 (9m 45s) & now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkUfZJFQhY 13m from May24!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p68fbA0EgJY 1hr, w/Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstZREKPkHs [25m] Anat Mater
Also note https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ by Tal Shneider from the day after Oct 7th 2023 - and an important info source!
& https://www.972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-october-7-adam-raz/ and from which, try to note:
"From sabotaging Oslo, to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict, even after Oct 7/23, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy."
e tenebris - lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
Bernie Sanders: "I am holding a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate to block the sale of offensive arms to Israel.
"The extremist Netanyahu government is breaking U.S. and international law. Every Senator who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions."
from: https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1859343647939944572 and this as:
the "US vetoes UN security council push to call for ceasefire in Gaza"! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/20/un-gaza-vote-veto .. AND -
as "UN security council voted 14-1 in favor of resolution but it was not adopted because of the US veto"!
e tenebris - tenebris!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
So "HOW DOES AIPAC SHAPE WASHINGTON? WE TRACKED EVERY DOLLAR"! - by Akela Lacy
"The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress"!
e tenebris - lux?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
See how "New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBnzzGmH7c (19m 30s) via+with: DemocracyNow!
Also - "NETANYAHU’S WAR ON TRUTH"! by Jeremy Scahill: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/
"Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians" Also consider these vids:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_propaganda_gaza 17m DemocracyNow!
& https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_hamas_negotiations_daniel_levy [24m]
also - "The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7"!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNV0Csj46Q [29m] and note that this^is a Totally Devastating Reprise, by Jeremy Cahill and Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman - of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!!
Further "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!!"* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc a clear, concise & clinical deconstruction of the events from 12 months ago and a precis of this video:
"October 7 - Al Jazeera Investigations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
Now note: 'What will happen When the Holocaust No Longer Prevents the World from Seeing Israel as It Is?' https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/16/what-will-happen-when-the-holocaust-no-longer-prevents-the-world-from-seeing-israel-as-it-is/13/ Hagai Elad
Further; "Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel's Pandora's box of violent extremism"! by Philippe Pernot: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israels-pandoras-box-violent-extremism - and ...
while noting "The rise to prominence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other extremists has placed a radical ideology at the heart of political power in Israel." - And now as a post script ... by Jessica Buxbaum:
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!! Finally, 1 year on, note:
"Israeli soldiers ‘tiktoked’ war crimes: filmmaker Richard Sanders on new Al Jaz. film" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1qz2QtNG0 (36m) and VERY IMPORTANT VIEWING!
FINALLY and per OP above, NB .. "Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw (80m) -AN ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTARY!
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 3 points by agkaiser (2552) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 week ago
The conservative/states rights movement started with John C. Calhoun in the 1820s. As the Confederacy they lost the Civil War but have never given up the fight to destroy the Federal Government and subvert the Party of Lincoln. Trump's cabinet picks advance that movement.
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
The "United States of Amnesia" (Gore Vidal) & its Imperial Vassal State, UK - would like us to totally forget about "Operation Ajax" in 1953 et ego ...
"Coup 53 (2019) by Taghi Amirani" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrz5elP56hc (2hr)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/12/100_years_of_us_interference_regime from: 2018 +
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/23/ervand_abrahamian_iran_coup_1953_anniversary +
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-generation-ago-israelis-found-paradise-in-iran/ (1/Nov. 2013) +
"Before the Revolution" (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2466950/ (as referenced by 'TofI^)
Also consider: https://youtu.be/6x-Kyi99rL4 (1m 40s); a trailer to the doc "Before the Revolution"
REALLY Not Sure how anyone can have any opinion re. ISR/USA & Iran without insights into the above!
Of course this entire forum-post & thread takes on a new significance in the dark light of current events!!
PS: Minutes 1 hr 38--1hr 42 in 1st doc. film link, are of particular interest for those with the eyes to see!!!
Finally please consider & try to: "WATCH: Soldier Who Self-Immolated Wins Adams Award"! https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/03/watch-soldier-who-self-immolated-wins-adams-award/
With an alternate video link, available via this link here ... https://youtu.be/DDc74tsuRQA (88m)
Noting that "Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who burned himself to death to protest the Gaza genocide, was awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence in memoriam on Saturday" Nov 2.
fiat lux et respice, adspice, prospice ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
Consider that: "Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration"! by Christiaan Hetzner:
caveat!
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23822) 2 weeks ago
"‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit
"He was hopeful, not foolishly so, but due to the evidence he had amassed that human societies have taken myriad forms, that the people who are supposedly powerless can together wield quite a lot of power, and that ideas matter."
"Hope is a tricky business among intellectuals and activists. Cynicism, though it’s often inaccurate about both human nature and political possibilities, gives the appearance of sophistication; despair is often seen as sophisticated and worldly-wise while hopefulness is seen as naive, when the opposite is not infrequently true. Hope is risky; you can lose, and you often do, but the records show that if you try, sometimes you win."
While many of us feel hopeless now, perhaps we should remember that with hopelessness comes only despair and we can't live with that, can we?
[-] 2 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
The fact is Trickle Down Economics is demonstrably total horse-$H!T and most people either know or can intuit that! There are now many different names for 'The Ideology That Does Not Want To Speak Its Name' & there is: Reaganomics; Thatcherism; 'Trickle Down Economics'; Free Market Fundamentalism; Neoliberalism; Macronism Supply Side Economics; etc. etc. - ad nauseam! In reality it's a Pro-Oligarchy, Military Industrial Complex, Private Fiat Banking; anti-99%, deeply RW ideology, with a now very clearly defined history, ideology and PR/opaganda and now, here is THE very best short essay I know about it:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/15/neoliberalism-zombie-doctrine-root-all-our-problems - by George Monbiot & please also try to closely consider these 2, 5 year old pieces:
https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberalism-paved-the-way-for-authoritarian-right-wing-populism/ - by Henry A. Giroux and ...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/04/how-neoliberalism-reinvented-democracy - an interview with Niklas Olsen
as "Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer, pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace"!
e tenebris, lux?
[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8342) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
We'd still be screwed the only chance we really had was for Nader to support Gore in 2000 and get that Dem elected, back then we had a chance but Nader and the 3rd party movement killed us. It was because of that election when i realized the 3rd parties were filled with polical hacks that didn't give a shit about the world. People like Jill stien who has been "nominated" like 20 time by the Greens, go figure what's the chance in "free and fair" elections?
[-] 2 points by factsrfun (8342) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
This could in fact be the answer to the Fermi paradox, the great filter is energy use.
[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8342) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
do you have any clips of Bernie without the self important idiots stepping on what he is saying?
[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8342) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
I see the Greens haver nominated Stien, agian, she controls the Greens for longer than Trump has controled the GOP, if only Nader had supported Gore in 2000 maybe the planet wouldn't be on fire today, of well, it's all over now.
[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8342) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
media has been telling me "democracy" is on the ballot, well it lost and now they want ME to fight? how? in the future the GOP will count the balots and they will not be losing any more than Puttin does