May the love and concern of all of us who are not in harm's way today find its way to Dr Alser and provide hope. And may we all be inspired to act, in all the ways we find possible, to create a mass movement that will finally stop the genocide and require compliance with international law..
Reading these kind of reports is heartbreaking. I'm sitting comfortably at home reading this, however knowing that people are suffering horribly and need help right now is crushing. United States will pay heavy for it's support for Israel.
I feel precisely the same way. I'm very sure you know who Qasim Rashid is. I wrote to Qasim, and I told him that if he can find any Palestinians who can get here, I have a guest room, and they can live in my house.
“I have a guest room, and they can live in my house.“
How about if I send some of the illegal Venezuelans who hang out in my alley in Chicago? Give me your address so that I can send them to your house. There was an illegal woman with a baby who spent two days in my alley. I’m sure she’d like to live at your house with her baby. Next time I see her I’ll tell her about your offer.
If the Venezuelen are outside your door, that means they are legal. Our government has given them asylum. THEY ARE LEGAL. United States put sanctions on the country. Having done that, the US grants asylum to several thousands of people. You are ignorant, selfish and need to understand what your government is really doing.
Your Democratic Party weaponized the “asylum seeker” policy and used it to flood the country with 10 million illegals, mostly single young men that we know nothing at all about, who do not belong here. Chicago has 50,000 supported by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. NYC has over 200,000 and is spending billions on them. You people have destroyed this country. You people are evil and insane. Shame on you and all your hate whitey, Woke white leftist friends. And Chicago blacks are furious about having all these illegals dumped in their neighborhoods and supported by their tax dollars.
“Chicago residents speak out against democrats for putting illegals before locals.” (11 min)
Biden admin has deported more undocumented ppl than Trump admin did. That said, both Trump and Biden-Harris admin are pro-genocide, so I'm not voting for either.
Democrats play games with the deportation numbers. I believe nothing they say. America has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally and why it’s ever more ungovernable plus whoever wins will be hated by half the country plus the ever worsening social breakdown in our cities due to out of control crime and the endless flood of illegals. America is a failed state in rapid decline and the world knows it since they see it online every day just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
It’s not people like me who destroyed this country. For the past 8 years you fanatics have been demonizing Trump supporters like me as racist white trash who are supporting “another Hitler!” and one of the most monstrously evil men to have ever walked the earth. You people are insane.
“Priority in this election is to defeat the blue team.” (1 min)
It is so frustrating that this all happens with the support of the US government. And it seems nothing we do, be it protesting or contacting representatives, has any impact. Never again, should mean never again to anyone.
I feel like Netanyahu governs American citizens more than Biden, and that operatives of BOTH cartel parties have SOLD rights to govern our nation, American citizens, and coerce them against their will and ethical judgment to support the ethnic cleansing perpetuated by a murderous Israeli government. For bribery to succeed requires both buyers with money and WILLING sellers.
It's increasingly difficult not to become antiSemitic (most Jews do not, to my knowledge, approve of this kind of behavior, and increasing numbers are leaving Israel out of disgust) and antiZionistic (Israel was established by the world community for what everyone considered an extremely good reason).
The task is to remember that the problem is almost entirely Netanyahu, but it's increasingly hard to remember that that's the problem.
I have a long time friend -- and she's a medical doctor! -- whose parents were harmed in the Holocaust (if you know anything about the offspring of people harmed in the Holocaust), and she, a lifelong American, is willing to assume that all Muslims and all Palestinians are terrible, and reared that way from birth (so there's no reason not to annihilate Palestinian newborns). She ignores the fact that the Holocaust was the project of Germans, not Muslims, and she is one of the people who make it hard to keep the focus where it should be.
Why people like Biden and Harris continue to promise "ironclad" (and unquestioning) support of Israel/Netanyahu, while they/he are on a genocidal rampage is inexplicable.
Over 70% of Israelis by some accounts support the Zionist assaults against the Palestinians as well as the appropriations of Palestinian land. The prosecutor in Harris must follow USA laws against arming genocidal armies.
Very disheartening to hear. I hope that "some accounts" are wrong.
Biden didn't follow that law, and Harris she doesn't intend to, either. I keep hoping it's just campaign banter, but every minute she doesn't shut off the spigot, more Palestinians get killed, and their land gets seized.
maybe censorship inside Israel of the inhumanity plays a role?
Harris said the Gazan deaths and blown away body parts was horrific, but seems not to follow USA law against more weapons to Israel nor follow International Court of Justice orders for Israel and its weapon suppliers to prevent acts of genocide.
A complicated Pew article to understand. First, it was a survey of only 1000 people. Second, they talked about the differences in approach among groups, but didn't address which groups they interviewed. Third, there's a dramatic divergence between how many survey subjects thought the US' role was about right or not aggressive enough (the 73% you quoted) and the percent who preferred a "diplomatic" solution (72%, which seems like the same percent who were content with the military solution). And fourth, although this is not a brand new survey, the number of Israelis who have left Israel is not factored in. Presumably, that erodes the 73%.
This report is six pages, and I only read page 1. So I'm not sure if the opinions would have gotten messier or tidier. But it's a survey of 1000 Israelis. Israelis do not get to dictate US foreign policy. To the extent that any of us disagree with what's happening, we disagree with Biden and Harris.
I read the 73% more about Israel's war efforts "39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough." Totally agree about the tail wagging the dog.
With allies like this, who needs despots? What is wrong with US government? It is clearly a bad player on the world stage. Not even trying to spin it anymore. Here is a highly trained and regarded surgeon imprisoned and tortured for the crime of trying to save lives and heal the wounded. Better send them 20 billion in weaponry and some backup battleships so they can defend themselves against….?
It is difficult to read of yet more horrors coming out of Gaza. It is more than difficult when the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, in her CNN interview, states that her Administration would not stop shipping arms to Israel. Yet, somehow, she still wants my vote!
I feel the same way. But we have no option. The DNC (and AIPAC's money) have limited us. It's going to be either Harris or Trump, either of whom will do the same thing about this issue. You get to pick.
I remember the good old days when we had a southern border. I’m voting for Trump because he at least believes a country needs borders to be a country. Chicago has many of these Venezuelan illegals. They like to drink in my alley and hang out there. My next door neighbor told me there was a young woman with a baby in the alley for two days. I saw her there but didn’t realize she was one of your beloved illegals. You people have destroyed this country. We’ll never recover from the damage you’ve done and are determined to continue doing.
This is the second time you mention the Venezuelen people. They have come because United States put hard sanctions on the country. Their shelves in grocery stores were literally empty. There was no food for the poor. No gasoline. They began to starve. Babies died. Violence broke out. Out country did this. You seem to be ignorant of what United States has been doing all over the world. Thanks to people like YOU. We find ourselves as the most hated country.
I believe most Americans are unaware of the hardships the US sanctions, as well as the restrictive and destructive loan terms used by the IMF, have done to developing countries. Venezuela was incredibly rich by world standards back in the '60s, but Hugo Chavez fought for the worker, the average Venezolano, and the large oil interests (the US refineries preferred Venezuelan crude) stepped in. The rest is Venezuela's inevitable economic downturn under those sanctions. Sadly, the US has no preparation for this onslaught of unemployable indigents, and we now have welfare colonies chock full of disease, crime, poverty and little for school age children. Trump was not great, but Biden/Harris have in four years sent the country into a tailspin. Yes, the US is despised, but we also hate ourselves for letting this happen.
I taught ESL for five years, and I was privileged to serve as a witness to five new families that earned their citizenship. They are just as concerned about the influx of people with nowhere to reside, no language or ability to work. As with Gaza, it's the children that carry the burden. Let's hope for a brighter future.
Ms Galvan, I have told this to others, and I'll tell it to you: do yourself a favor. Ignore anything "Seva" writes. When you say "Seva" "seem[s] to be ignorant," you could not be more correct.
And I hate you at least as intensely as you hate me. The idea that America still exists as a country is simply absurd. Does the world know America is a failed state in rapid decline? They sure do.
"Seva," I don't hate you at all. I don't even dislike you. You're a far right winger (I'm not, but that's OK), you like to provoke, and I don't think you're very intelligent.
I agree with you that the United States is now a failed state in decline.
I know all about that and it’s your despicably evil Democratic Party that belongs to our ruling class, not the republicans. Your party is waging a two front war: Internally against Trump/MAGA, externally against Putin/Russia. You people destroyed this country. You people are evil. Once I was a Marine and a patriotic American but that was when America was still a country. Those days are long gone and will never return.
“USA has sanctions on 1/3rd of world.”
“How the US wages economic war on countries all over the world.” (37 min)
Are you happy about the dreadful schools in your democratic run cities like Chicago? Is there any area of this society you people haven’t ruined? No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation.
“The Chicago public school where no student can read or do math.” (2 min)
I have a long time friend who is totally pro Israel and doesn't want to hear anything about the plight of the Palestinians. My friend is highly intelligent, knowledgeable and finds it difficult to hear about anything different than what my friend thinks. How do you possibly discuss the horrible plight of the Palestinians at the hands of Israelis when you can't even discuss it with a friend of 50 years?
People reveal themselves in situations like Gaza and genocide. Maybe you never knew that side of your friend of 50 years--don't think you're alone in that, it can happen. Don't bother with discussion/persuasionl Walk away for a while.
Although Gaza may still be the most urgent issue, and we cannot turn our eyes from them, there is another grevious situation in the increasing settler violence and land confiscation in the West Bank, aka illegally Occupied Territory. There are some, too few, organizations trying to help, at least up until this most grevious situation in the West Bank, this week, where there is an actual military invasion by Israel, with public officials threatening the same death and destruction as in Gaza.
There are those inside Israel who stand for justice and humanity, made up of committed Israelis and Palestinians working together to protect the Palestinians.
Work on the Ground: Transforming Lives in Israel-Palestine — American Friends of Combatants for Peace
This "torture" is meant to fracture bones, rupture ligaments, and cause potential pneumothorax. With no attention to wounds, splinting of fractures or lung bruising, permanent disability or even death will occur. I've seen pictures of detainees released from Israeli jails, barely hobbling, disfigured or blind. These IDF guards are trained to do this -- is this the "defense" that is Israel's "right"? I fear for Dr. Alser and this lost generation of Israelis and Palestinians. The world is changed forever, and not in a good way. AIPAC must be purged from our Congress and the Biden regime made accountable for their criminal protection of a terrorist, pariah state.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, in memory of Hind Rajab, or Dr Jumann Afra, the mother of newborn twins killed by Israel using US bombs.
He describes the formation of Israel as penance by the west for the Holocaust, but at the expense of the Palestinians. He described the creation of Israel as murderous, ugly and cynical - uncomfortable and inconvenient truths.
Baldwin was right about Israel. The founding Zionists collaborated with the nazis and abandoned the Jews in the ghettos. They didn't save jews, they saved Jewish wealth.
No one connects the dots....border security and US military hegemony are very related
If Washington DC, Virginia, Kentucky, and any other state that makes, sells, or profits from weapon sales or manufacturing....took in refugees from the fallout, they'd stop bombing everything very quickly.
Give those states to Palestinians and those refugees coming from the border from our neighbors that we chronically destabilize, until they get the message and find something better to do
Why don't we help the Palestinians push the IDS back onto the Israel side "of the border. And maintain a temporary military presence along the border (with UN. assistence) til an agreement is negotiated.
This has to end cause its destabilizing the reagion , the world order (not USA world order) cause its demented but the UN established world order.
When the history of this period is written, I sincerely hope that Joe Biden is treated fairly… and recorded as America’s worst president; a purveyor of murder, genocide, and corruption, and a traitor to morality, humanity, and dignity. Kamala seems ready to follow in his footsteps. I could say that America has lost its soul, but a country formed with slavery in its bosom, and its own history of genocide to native people, it’s hard to lose what you never had.
Mr Protas, I agree that Biden has handled this tragically, and Harris says her plan is the same. But it's been going on at various levels since 1948, no Israeli government has stopped it, no American government has intervened, and it was Netanyahu who initially funded Hamas. So, if you think before Oct 7, you could rightly ask why Hamas was hostile, instead of grateful. The Israelis have always been abusive to the Palestinians, and American governments have always been enabling. What I think kicked this dysfunction into a higher gear was Trump's moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, which is a purely Israeli city, to Jerusalem, which had been protected as an international city that was equal parts Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Trump put not his finger, but his whole upper body, on that scale.
I consider myself well read on the history of Palestine and Zionism, and the history goes back further than 1948, all the way back to the First World War. You can point the finger at Trump if you like, and I won’t try to defend anything he did, but in the history of the modern Middle East nothing comes remotely close to what ‘Genocide Joe’ has done. He has a direct hand in murder and genocide that ranks right up there. I will not equivocate nor will I obfuscate (and you should not, either): Murder and Genocide; deliberate, continuous, and forceful.
Mr Protas, let me put this another way. You consider yourself well read on this history, and you focus your antipathy on Biden. So you're able to see problems beyond Netanyahu. The question, then, is why you can't see the problem Trump created. Maybe you're a hard right winger, and you just refuse to blame Trump for anything. Anyone who is genuinely well read about anything should have more perspective than that. "In the history the modern Middle East, nothing comes remotely close to what 'Genocide Joe' has done?" Netanyahu doesn't come remotely close? Trump doesn't come remotely close? I encourage you to rethink.
Mr Protas, I agree that the reconfiguration of the Middle East after WWI had a very disruptive effect. It caused regime changes and resentment against the "west."
Biden had nothing to do with that. I also already said I agreed with you about the horrifying effects of Biden's policies, whencever he got them. He most certainly, as you say, "has a direct hand in murder and genocide" by not stopping it, and by enabling/supporting/encouraging it instead. That is a central part of his "legacy." I doubt anyone here will disagree with you. Yes, I very much point a finger at Trump. Jerusalem was protected as an international and ecumenical city, until Trump gave an advantage (and permission) to Israel, because that's what his son-in-law wanted. Helluva way to manage international relations.
Allow me to first correct your misperceptions: I have been a life-long Democrat that leans far to the left in that tribe. I consider myself to be a progressive who held his nose in the last three elections to vote for the lesser evil. I would sooner put a gun to my head than vote for Trump. Got that?
Having said that, you picked this fight to throw Trump into the mix – thus my comment to you about equivocation and obfuscation. Donald Trump, the lowlife POS that he is, has nothing to do with the ongoing murder and genocide in Gaza; the cause of that crime is the political leadership of Israel, and the political leadership of the USA, to whit, Joe Biden. Full stop. Pointing your finger in any other direction only serves to cloud the truth, which you, for some reason desire.
Mr Protas, I did not misperceive anything. I wondered why you couldn't see what seemed obvious to me, and I simply wondered if you were a hard right winger. You're not. Neither am I.
I, like you, held my nose the last three elections.
I have mostly agreed with you, although you seem to want to argue with me. The only thing I have suggested to you, since you describe yourself as more knowledgeable than most about this topic, is that moving the US Embassy had a destabilizing effect that enabled Netanyahu to accelerate the already ongoing assaults on Palestinians, and which in turn eventually resulted in Oct 7 as a reaction. You are welcome to say you gave my suggestion some thought, and decided you don't agree. Do you have some other way to understand why the Embassy was moved, apart from the provocative and Israeli-backing effect? It had been as it was for a long time. Why change it?
I did not pick any fight. I'm trying to have a conversation with you. You choose to read Drop Site News, but your version of the "truth" is what's mindlessly prevalent on Fox News. If you think Trump is a "lowlife POS," why aren't you more skeptical about what he does and why he does it?
OK, I'm done. You choose to see"moving the US Embassy" as the proximate cause of Oct 7. I believe that view to be narrow and a serious misreading of the history of Palestine. Peace be upon you!
May the love and concern of all of us who are not in harm's way today find its way to Dr Alser and provide hope. And may we all be inspired to act, in all the ways we find possible, to create a mass movement that will finally stop the genocide and require compliance with international law..
How about a “mass movement” to restore our southern border? Fat chance of that ever happening.
Especially if we keep sending billions in aid to Israel...
Reading these kind of reports is heartbreaking. I'm sitting comfortably at home reading this, however knowing that people are suffering horribly and need help right now is crushing. United States will pay heavy for it's support for Israel.
I feel precisely the same way. I'm very sure you know who Qasim Rashid is. I wrote to Qasim, and I told him that if he can find any Palestinians who can get here, I have a guest room, and they can live in my house.
“I have a guest room, and they can live in my house.“
How about if I send some of the illegal Venezuelans who hang out in my alley in Chicago? Give me your address so that I can send them to your house. There was an illegal woman with a baby who spent two days in my alley. I’m sure she’d like to live at your house with her baby. Next time I see her I’ll tell her about your offer.
If the Venezuelen are outside your door, that means they are legal. Our government has given them asylum. THEY ARE LEGAL. United States put sanctions on the country. Having done that, the US grants asylum to several thousands of people. You are ignorant, selfish and need to understand what your government is really doing.
“Our government has given them asylum.”
Your Democratic Party weaponized the “asylum seeker” policy and used it to flood the country with 10 million illegals, mostly single young men that we know nothing at all about, who do not belong here. Chicago has 50,000 supported by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. NYC has over 200,000 and is spending billions on them. You people have destroyed this country. You people are evil and insane. Shame on you and all your hate whitey, Woke white leftist friends. And Chicago blacks are furious about having all these illegals dumped in their neighborhoods and supported by their tax dollars.
“Chicago residents speak out against democrats for putting illegals before locals.” (11 min)
NumbersUSA. Aug 22, 2024
https://youtu.be/cVllEpbqEHA?si=YBWVUc-giZ6VOSW0
Biden admin has deported more undocumented ppl than Trump admin did. That said, both Trump and Biden-Harris admin are pro-genocide, so I'm not voting for either.
Democrats play games with the deportation numbers. I believe nothing they say. America has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally and why it’s ever more ungovernable plus whoever wins will be hated by half the country plus the ever worsening social breakdown in our cities due to out of control crime and the endless flood of illegals. America is a failed state in rapid decline and the world knows it since they see it online every day just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
Shame on you.
It’s not people like me who destroyed this country. For the past 8 years you fanatics have been demonizing Trump supporters like me as racist white trash who are supporting “another Hitler!” and one of the most monstrously evil men to have ever walked the earth. You people are insane.
“Priority in this election is to defeat the blue team.” (1 min)
Dr Bret Weinstein. Aug 28, 2024
https://youtube.com/shorts/njMeOt1bsUI?si=Wgms5gMYykGS6PlV
May the love of Christ be with you.
In a sane and uncorrupted world the United States and Israel would pay a heavy price.
It is so frustrating that this all happens with the support of the US government. And it seems nothing we do, be it protesting or contacting representatives, has any impact. Never again, should mean never again to anyone.
I feel like Netanyahu governs American citizens more than Biden, and that operatives of BOTH cartel parties have SOLD rights to govern our nation, American citizens, and coerce them against their will and ethical judgment to support the ethnic cleansing perpetuated by a murderous Israeli government. For bribery to succeed requires both buyers with money and WILLING sellers.
The Israeli military behaves as do fascists. They are beasts.
Palestinians are not viewed as humans in the eyes of these poorly disciplined thugs.
It's increasingly difficult not to become antiSemitic (most Jews do not, to my knowledge, approve of this kind of behavior, and increasing numbers are leaving Israel out of disgust) and antiZionistic (Israel was established by the world community for what everyone considered an extremely good reason).
The task is to remember that the problem is almost entirely Netanyahu, but it's increasingly hard to remember that that's the problem.
I have a long time friend -- and she's a medical doctor! -- whose parents were harmed in the Holocaust (if you know anything about the offspring of people harmed in the Holocaust), and she, a lifelong American, is willing to assume that all Muslims and all Palestinians are terrible, and reared that way from birth (so there's no reason not to annihilate Palestinian newborns). She ignores the fact that the Holocaust was the project of Germans, not Muslims, and she is one of the people who make it hard to keep the focus where it should be.
Why people like Biden and Harris continue to promise "ironclad" (and unquestioning) support of Israel/Netanyahu, while they/he are on a genocidal rampage is inexplicable.
Over 70% of Israelis by some accounts support the Zionist assaults against the Palestinians as well as the appropriations of Palestinian land. The prosecutor in Harris must follow USA laws against arming genocidal armies.
Very disheartening to hear. I hope that "some accounts" are wrong.
Biden didn't follow that law, and Harris she doesn't intend to, either. I keep hoping it's just campaign banter, but every minute she doesn't shut off the spigot, more Palestinians get killed, and their land gets seized.
73% Israeli support -- https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/
maybe censorship inside Israel of the inhumanity plays a role?
Harris said the Gazan deaths and blown away body parts was horrific, but seems not to follow USA law against more weapons to Israel nor follow International Court of Justice orders for Israel and its weapon suppliers to prevent acts of genocide.
Thank you!
A complicated Pew article to understand. First, it was a survey of only 1000 people. Second, they talked about the differences in approach among groups, but didn't address which groups they interviewed. Third, there's a dramatic divergence between how many survey subjects thought the US' role was about right or not aggressive enough (the 73% you quoted) and the percent who preferred a "diplomatic" solution (72%, which seems like the same percent who were content with the military solution). And fourth, although this is not a brand new survey, the number of Israelis who have left Israel is not factored in. Presumably, that erodes the 73%.
This report is six pages, and I only read page 1. So I'm not sure if the opinions would have gotten messier or tidier. But it's a survey of 1000 Israelis. Israelis do not get to dictate US foreign policy. To the extent that any of us disagree with what's happening, we disagree with Biden and Harris.
I read the 73% more about Israel's war efforts "39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough." Totally agree about the tail wagging the dog.
I’ve often seen that reported on Breaking Points by Krystal and Saagar.
With allies like this, who needs despots? What is wrong with US government? It is clearly a bad player on the world stage. Not even trying to spin it anymore. Here is a highly trained and regarded surgeon imprisoned and tortured for the crime of trying to save lives and heal the wounded. Better send them 20 billion in weaponry and some backup battleships so they can defend themselves against….?
It's hard to "like" such an important and painful article. I'm grateful that you cover this.
It is difficult to read of yet more horrors coming out of Gaza. It is more than difficult when the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, in her CNN interview, states that her Administration would not stop shipping arms to Israel. Yet, somehow, she still wants my vote!
I feel the same way. But we have no option. The DNC (and AIPAC's money) have limited us. It's going to be either Harris or Trump, either of whom will do the same thing about this issue. You get to pick.
There are better choices on the ballot. You do not have to vote for the horrible choices AIPAC has picked.
I remember the good old days when we had a southern border. I’m voting for Trump because he at least believes a country needs borders to be a country. Chicago has many of these Venezuelan illegals. They like to drink in my alley and hang out there. My next door neighbor told me there was a young woman with a baby in the alley for two days. I saw her there but didn’t realize she was one of your beloved illegals. You people have destroyed this country. We’ll never recover from the damage you’ve done and are determined to continue doing.
This is the second time you mention the Venezuelen people. They have come because United States put hard sanctions on the country. Their shelves in grocery stores were literally empty. There was no food for the poor. No gasoline. They began to starve. Babies died. Violence broke out. Out country did this. You seem to be ignorant of what United States has been doing all over the world. Thanks to people like YOU. We find ourselves as the most hated country.
I believe most Americans are unaware of the hardships the US sanctions, as well as the restrictive and destructive loan terms used by the IMF, have done to developing countries. Venezuela was incredibly rich by world standards back in the '60s, but Hugo Chavez fought for the worker, the average Venezolano, and the large oil interests (the US refineries preferred Venezuelan crude) stepped in. The rest is Venezuela's inevitable economic downturn under those sanctions. Sadly, the US has no preparation for this onslaught of unemployable indigents, and we now have welfare colonies chock full of disease, crime, poverty and little for school age children. Trump was not great, but Biden/Harris have in four years sent the country into a tailspin. Yes, the US is despised, but we also hate ourselves for letting this happen.
Everything you said, I agree.
I taught ESL for five years, and I was privileged to serve as a witness to five new families that earned their citizenship. They are just as concerned about the influx of people with nowhere to reside, no language or ability to work. As with Gaza, it's the children that carry the burden. Let's hope for a brighter future.
Ms Galvan, I have told this to others, and I'll tell it to you: do yourself a favor. Ignore anything "Seva" writes. When you say "Seva" "seem[s] to be ignorant," you could not be more correct.
And I hate you at least as intensely as you hate me. The idea that America still exists as a country is simply absurd. Does the world know America is a failed state in rapid decline? They sure do.
"Seva," I don't hate you at all. I don't even dislike you. You're a far right winger (I'm not, but that's OK), you like to provoke, and I don't think you're very intelligent.
I agree with you that the United States is now a failed state in decline.
Thank you.
I know all about that and it’s your despicably evil Democratic Party that belongs to our ruling class, not the republicans. Your party is waging a two front war: Internally against Trump/MAGA, externally against Putin/Russia. You people destroyed this country. You people are evil. Once I was a Marine and a patriotic American but that was when America was still a country. Those days are long gone and will never return.
“USA has sanctions on 1/3rd of world.”
“How the US wages economic war on countries all over the world.” (37 min)
Geopolitical Economy Report. Aug 28, 2024
https://youtu.be/qYUq_9XlQs0?si=Kv9dgJ7LVGrZduHa
Shame on you!
Are you happy about the dreadful schools in your democratic run cities like Chicago? Is there any area of this society you people haven’t ruined? No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation.
“The Chicago public school where no student can read or do math.” (2 min)
Illinois Policy. Aug 22, 2024
https://youtu.be/BP5yR0p7UzE?si=I7DG4Klw-llbu1Qo
I have a long time friend who is totally pro Israel and doesn't want to hear anything about the plight of the Palestinians. My friend is highly intelligent, knowledgeable and finds it difficult to hear about anything different than what my friend thinks. How do you possibly discuss the horrible plight of the Palestinians at the hands of Israelis when you can't even discuss it with a friend of 50 years?
People reveal themselves in situations like Gaza and genocide. Maybe you never knew that side of your friend of 50 years--don't think you're alone in that, it can happen. Don't bother with discussion/persuasionl Walk away for a while.
Although Gaza may still be the most urgent issue, and we cannot turn our eyes from them, there is another grevious situation in the increasing settler violence and land confiscation in the West Bank, aka illegally Occupied Territory. There are some, too few, organizations trying to help, at least up until this most grevious situation in the West Bank, this week, where there is an actual military invasion by Israel, with public officials threatening the same death and destruction as in Gaza.
There are those inside Israel who stand for justice and humanity, made up of committed Israelis and Palestinians working together to protect the Palestinians.
Work on the Ground: Transforming Lives in Israel-Palestine — American Friends of Combatants for Peace
https://www.afcfp.org
For factual information:
https://www.btselem.org
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/index_en.html
And there are more.
Please feel free to add them in the reply.
This "torture" is meant to fracture bones, rupture ligaments, and cause potential pneumothorax. With no attention to wounds, splinting of fractures or lung bruising, permanent disability or even death will occur. I've seen pictures of detainees released from Israeli jails, barely hobbling, disfigured or blind. These IDF guards are trained to do this -- is this the "defense" that is Israel's "right"? I fear for Dr. Alser and this lost generation of Israelis and Palestinians. The world is changed forever, and not in a good way. AIPAC must be purged from our Congress and the Biden regime made accountable for their criminal protection of a terrorist, pariah state.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate
Also we can all support the brave doctors who have gone to Gaza: https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023
Or
Surgeons to Gaza
https://fajr.org/donate/
Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, in memory of Hind Rajab, or Dr Jumann Afra, the mother of newborn twins killed by Israel using US bombs.
Here’s a petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
Listen to this episode of Code Switch on NPR on James Baldwin’s take on Israel. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
He describes the formation of Israel as penance by the west for the Holocaust, but at the expense of the Palestinians. He described the creation of Israel as murderous, ugly and cynical - uncomfortable and inconvenient truths.
Baldwin was right about Israel. The founding Zionists collaborated with the nazis and abandoned the Jews in the ghettos. They didn't save jews, they saved Jewish wealth.
Another uncomfortable and inconvenient truth.
No one connects the dots....border security and US military hegemony are very related
If Washington DC, Virginia, Kentucky, and any other state that makes, sells, or profits from weapon sales or manufacturing....took in refugees from the fallout, they'd stop bombing everything very quickly.
Give those states to Palestinians and those refugees coming from the border from our neighbors that we chronically destabilize, until they get the message and find something better to do
Why don't we help the Palestinians push the IDS back onto the Israel side "of the border. And maintain a temporary military presence along the border (with UN. assistence) til an agreement is negotiated.
This has to end cause its destabilizing the reagion , the world order (not USA world order) cause its demented but the UN established world order.
When the history of this period is written, I sincerely hope that Joe Biden is treated fairly… and recorded as America’s worst president; a purveyor of murder, genocide, and corruption, and a traitor to morality, humanity, and dignity. Kamala seems ready to follow in his footsteps. I could say that America has lost its soul, but a country formed with slavery in its bosom, and its own history of genocide to native people, it’s hard to lose what you never had.
Mr Protas, I agree that Biden has handled this tragically, and Harris says her plan is the same. But it's been going on at various levels since 1948, no Israeli government has stopped it, no American government has intervened, and it was Netanyahu who initially funded Hamas. So, if you think before Oct 7, you could rightly ask why Hamas was hostile, instead of grateful. The Israelis have always been abusive to the Palestinians, and American governments have always been enabling. What I think kicked this dysfunction into a higher gear was Trump's moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, which is a purely Israeli city, to Jerusalem, which had been protected as an international city that was equal parts Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Trump put not his finger, but his whole upper body, on that scale.
I consider myself well read on the history of Palestine and Zionism, and the history goes back further than 1948, all the way back to the First World War. You can point the finger at Trump if you like, and I won’t try to defend anything he did, but in the history of the modern Middle East nothing comes remotely close to what ‘Genocide Joe’ has done. He has a direct hand in murder and genocide that ranks right up there. I will not equivocate nor will I obfuscate (and you should not, either): Murder and Genocide; deliberate, continuous, and forceful.
Mr Protas, let me put this another way. You consider yourself well read on this history, and you focus your antipathy on Biden. So you're able to see problems beyond Netanyahu. The question, then, is why you can't see the problem Trump created. Maybe you're a hard right winger, and you just refuse to blame Trump for anything. Anyone who is genuinely well read about anything should have more perspective than that. "In the history the modern Middle East, nothing comes remotely close to what 'Genocide Joe' has done?" Netanyahu doesn't come remotely close? Trump doesn't come remotely close? I encourage you to rethink.
Mr Protas, I agree that the reconfiguration of the Middle East after WWI had a very disruptive effect. It caused regime changes and resentment against the "west."
Biden had nothing to do with that. I also already said I agreed with you about the horrifying effects of Biden's policies, whencever he got them. He most certainly, as you say, "has a direct hand in murder and genocide" by not stopping it, and by enabling/supporting/encouraging it instead. That is a central part of his "legacy." I doubt anyone here will disagree with you. Yes, I very much point a finger at Trump. Jerusalem was protected as an international and ecumenical city, until Trump gave an advantage (and permission) to Israel, because that's what his son-in-law wanted. Helluva way to manage international relations.
Allow me to first correct your misperceptions: I have been a life-long Democrat that leans far to the left in that tribe. I consider myself to be a progressive who held his nose in the last three elections to vote for the lesser evil. I would sooner put a gun to my head than vote for Trump. Got that?
Having said that, you picked this fight to throw Trump into the mix – thus my comment to you about equivocation and obfuscation. Donald Trump, the lowlife POS that he is, has nothing to do with the ongoing murder and genocide in Gaza; the cause of that crime is the political leadership of Israel, and the political leadership of the USA, to whit, Joe Biden. Full stop. Pointing your finger in any other direction only serves to cloud the truth, which you, for some reason desire.
Mr Protas, I did not misperceive anything. I wondered why you couldn't see what seemed obvious to me, and I simply wondered if you were a hard right winger. You're not. Neither am I.
I, like you, held my nose the last three elections.
I have mostly agreed with you, although you seem to want to argue with me. The only thing I have suggested to you, since you describe yourself as more knowledgeable than most about this topic, is that moving the US Embassy had a destabilizing effect that enabled Netanyahu to accelerate the already ongoing assaults on Palestinians, and which in turn eventually resulted in Oct 7 as a reaction. You are welcome to say you gave my suggestion some thought, and decided you don't agree. Do you have some other way to understand why the Embassy was moved, apart from the provocative and Israeli-backing effect? It had been as it was for a long time. Why change it?
I did not pick any fight. I'm trying to have a conversation with you. You choose to read Drop Site News, but your version of the "truth" is what's mindlessly prevalent on Fox News. If you think Trump is a "lowlife POS," why aren't you more skeptical about what he does and why he does it?
OK, I'm done. You choose to see"moving the US Embassy" as the proximate cause of Oct 7. I believe that view to be narrow and a serious misreading of the history of Palestine. Peace be upon you!