Thank you, Mr Kouddous, for your (as usual), excellent coverage. I know this must be heartbreaking work for you, as it breaks the hearts of we who read it. It also inspires us to do what we can, whenever we can.
Remember, Capitalist slavery was the invention of devout Calvinists who revived the Judaic concept that "God plays favorites and clearly favors the wealthy." More oppressive Abrahamic thought.
Time to eradicate Abrahamic being before they kill and rape everyone else, as is their long habit. Abrahamism celebrates Genocide, obs. Today is a great day to stop being Jewish.
Israel just continues to tighten the noose around Gaza. The western colonial settler countries are cowards. The WHO and similar organizations are cowards. The politicians in my country (USA) are cowards and I have no respect for them.
The god of the old testament is a vengeful god who appears to lack any compassion. This may help explain the cruelty and viciousness we are now witnessing.
Thank you for speaking out on this. MSM has not said a word about medical staff not being able to enter Gaza. This is one more clear example of genocide. Israel could not do this without the support of the US and other western countries. This is colonialism in action. Our leaders in the West , in govt , in education , in the press, in technology and social media, in healthcare do not care if every single person in Gaza will be killed. They will do anything to keep their position of power. They will not speak out nor take action to stop this genocide. The one country brave enough to take a moral stance against genocide in Gaza is Yemen. And now the US is going to bomb them even more
Why do you think everyone should care so much? I’m Czech, I have nothing to do with Gaza. If everyone in that region vanished overnight and the whole Middle East became a smoldering crater, my life would probably improve.
Well, maybe it’d be a little dull since it’s a great source of reading—and in some sick way, entertainment.
People have their own problems to deal with. Let me ask you—do you think more people in the U.S. care about how the Dallas Cowboys played or about the lives of Palestinians?
Of course, everyone will say they want peace—who wouldn’t? But for me, this conflict doesn’t even crack my top 20 concerns. And I’d bet most people feel the same. Honestly, I hope my government prioritizes my top 20 problems over this endless pile of shit.
No, but honestly, that would be far above what's happening in Gaza or the Middle East in general.
From everything happening in the world, I’m far more concerned with the war in Ukraine—it’s happening just 1,000 km away from me. Plus, I care that some midget in heels with a Napoleon complex might strike a deal with the orange man, pushing us back into Russia’s sphere of influence. That’s my #1 geopolitical concern, Top 3 overall.
I care more about Taiwan, because if that escalates, we’re looking at a full-blown USA vs. China war—bad for literally everyone.
I care about where the EU is headed.
I care about ongoing trade wars.
I care about AI development.
Honestly, I could list at least 20 conflicts or geopolitical situations that affect me way more. And that’s not even counting basic stuff like food, shelter, and, you know, the urge to bone.
Reading this back… Gaza wouldn't even crack my Top 50.
A glaring example broadcast to the world of just how much a regime can get away with. I always thought the Jews were intellectuals and wondered why there was antisemitism...we are beginning to understand ...a bit. It's in their religion the Torah and down deep inside them like the German inclination of Naziism.
Yes, the Jews stand for the intellect, for scholarship, for education, for decency, for humanity, for culture, for what is life-affirming, and for more. But I draw a distinction. The Israelis and the Zionists (I see these as synonymous) are something wholly apart, the antithesis of what being Jewish stands for, cynically usurping and speciously expropriating all of those estimable qualities in order to camouflage, obfuscate, and propel their supremacist virulence on the innocent. They are not Jews, they are instead what they call others, "human animals."
What about American Jews who support Israel with their votes, money and apparently are now controlling our government? Are they good Americans or should we lump them with the Zionists, those "human animals"?
Why is our government going after all the Muslim countries surrounding Israel? Why are we now bombing civilians in Yemen when all they did , so far, is threaten shipping if Israel doesn't let donations into Gaza? These countries are giving up fortune and lives for Muslims of another country. Perhaps, now, we are seeing why there has been antisemitism for centuries.
As for American Jews, many do not care a whit about Israel; others I suspect have fallen for the same fabrications and mythologies and outright lies about Israel as has most of the Western world. And that includes the Israelis/Zionists themselves, who can't face historical truth and indulge in unhinged indoctrination in their own storytelling. For yet others, I suggest doing a You Tube search under "norman finkelstein jewish supremacy" for some worthwhile commentary and explanation. Also, it'd be worthwhile to delve into the history of Zionism and its principal figures, the background to the UN vote in 1947 to create Israel, as well as Truman's decision to recognize it. Many ardently opposed his doing so, foretelling what we have been seeing now for decades. This was also a cherished goal for the already existing Israel lobby, which has only magnified and solidified its influence since then.
Not to be forgotten, but too much to go into here, has been American (and British) interest in Middle East oil, and the incorporation of the British Empire into our burgeoning own at the end of World War II, with Israel conveniently serving as an outpost in that strategically important part of the world (Arabs peoples seeking democracy in their own countries be damned if they threaten the supply of oil).
The history of antisemitism is also too much to go into here, but to repeat, I draw a distinction between historic antisemitism and how it is expropriated by the Israelis/Zionists to excuse, rationalize, deflect from their treatment of the Palestinians (and Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Yemenis, and others). They have been quick and unceasing to invoke the holocaust of the European Jews to further their supremacist, aggrandizing, "can do no wrong" ends. In other words, antisemitism is not the same as anti-Zionism, despite the protestations of Israel. Witness the campaign to have the flawed and intellectually disingenuous International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism adopted by governments, universities, and others.
To add: I have 54 pages of notes on Israel, plus that region, in google docs. If called upon I could teach 2 semesters. Teaching is the best way to learn more.
Norman was the first I happened upon on Oct. 7. I'm a huge fan, as is everyone who hears him. I have read 2 of his books. Ilan Pappe, Gideon Levy, David Levy, Max Blumenthal , ..Just a few who have been on to this situation for decades. They are called self hating Jews, but they know who they are.
Not a history buff, I have much to catch up on. the Middle East, it's a lot. I love Iran and am sick that they will be at war with us..all for that no good brat Israel.
It's like having a psychotic child who one just keeps supporting, no matter what, and will be taken down by it. Sucking our resources, ruining us in the eyes of our neighbors...destroying our values. Which it seems are on the way down anyway. With King God Trump in charge: forgetaboutit.
I am rooting for Muslims now, who I thought were kinda like terrorists...But, it's us! We are the terrorists!! I watched 9/11 from 2 miles north and frankly we did it to ourselves.
You are well beyond me in self-education here. For certain, there's a lot of history to absorb, I shudder to think where we would be without Norman Finkelstein's debunking of Joan Peters' "From Time Immemorial" (should be retitled "Lies Dreamed Up") and the work of the courageous "New Historians" (e.g., Pappe', Shlaim) and journalists you reference. Without their work the lies upon which Israel is based would have substituted for the truth, in the Western world anyway. The rest of the world knows better, but have we been allowed to hear their voices?
Upping the ante with Iran is taking us further down the path to ruin, for the sake of Israel. They have inveigled their way too far into our government, our institutions, our society - and distorted each of them - that no degree of metaphorical surgical skill can separate these conjoined twins. With the perversions of our values, with the never-ending militarism, this has become true: "Israel 'R' US." I think we are witnessing the end of the American Experiment.
If it should ever come about, a just peace for Palestine would require not only that the "state" of Israel be dismantled (for the sake not only of the Palestinians and other peoples in the area, but for humankind as a whole) and the land returned to its rightful indigenous people, but that the Zionists be compelled to develop (using their own money, not US aid) a site encompassing the entirety of their now-former capital of Tel Aviv to establish, akin to The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, The Memorial to the Murdered, Displaced, and Dehumanized People of Palestine.
Finally, "terrorist", as understood by past proto-fascists and present de facto ones, means any individual, group, or organization opposed to the American Empire and its acolytes.
Finally finally, I think you meant Muhmood OD, not AD? Thank you for the tip.
Right. But, I figured you would find him anyway. then I added the link. I just love that man. His breadth of vocabulary and even slang is so much fun. He is Palestinian. Not sure where he's living.
I don't think anyone can fix the Zionists, who are just Mega Jews. No one wants to say the obvious. It's verboten.
Jews who thrived and fit right in. All the while there were others, maybe the same ones, who were going to support that country over the USA. over anything... .......Really a dumb thing to do. But, oh well.
I recall those Never Again Memorials that NEVER acknowledged Cambodia..etc. Only Them.
It's like we are living in a monster movie. Who knew that the cute thing we were feeding would rise up and devour us???
So Israel, the Epicenter of Evil in the world, blithely cuts off health care, in addition to food, medicine, fuel, and other basic goods to expedite the genocide, goes apeshit when Ben & Jerry's attempts to end sales of its ice cream in the Occupied Territories. The next two paragraphs from an NBC News item (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ben-jerrys-returns-israel-ice-cream-makers-objections-rcna36116) are just grotesque, but thoroughly Zionist in nature:
"Unilever [parent company of Ben & Jerry's] sold [its Israeli business interests] to Avi Zinger, the owner of Israel-based American Quality Products Ltd, who had sued Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s in March in a U.S. federal court over the termination of their business relationship, saying it violated U.S. and Israeli law.
"Zinger’s legal team said the decision by Unilever was part of a settlement. He thanked Unilever for resolving the matter and for the 'strong and principled stand' it has taken against BDS. 'There is no place for discrimination in the commercial sale of ice cream,' Zinger said."
Thank goodness there is now no question as to where discrimination against human beings - indeed, their very survival - and the primacy of international law stand in relation to ice cream in the Zionist consciousness.
This is ethnic cleansing. Absolutely cruel.
Cleanse Tel Aviv not Gaza.
Refuse Fascism
Oppose Oppression
Palestine will be free
Thank you, Mr Kouddous, for your (as usual), excellent coverage. I know this must be heartbreaking work for you, as it breaks the hearts of we who read it. It also inspires us to do what we can, whenever we can.
The killcount of the west is much more higher than all terrorgroups, dictators, mafia and gangs together. Think about that
Factually, Abrahamism is the killingest, rapingest ideology in world history by many tens of millions more innocent murdered and violated. How divine!
Remember, Capitalist slavery was the invention of devout Calvinists who revived the Judaic concept that "God plays favorites and clearly favors the wealthy." More oppressive Abrahamic thought.
Time to eradicate Abrahamic being before they kill and rape everyone else, as is their long habit. Abrahamism celebrates Genocide, obs. Today is a great day to stop being Jewish.
Israel just continues to tighten the noose around Gaza. The western colonial settler countries are cowards. The WHO and similar organizations are cowards. The politicians in my country (USA) are cowards and I have no respect for them.
The god of the old testament is a vengeful god who appears to lack any compassion. This may help explain the cruelty and viciousness we are now witnessing.
Thank you for speaking out on this. MSM has not said a word about medical staff not being able to enter Gaza. This is one more clear example of genocide. Israel could not do this without the support of the US and other western countries. This is colonialism in action. Our leaders in the West , in govt , in education , in the press, in technology and social media, in healthcare do not care if every single person in Gaza will be killed. They will do anything to keep their position of power. They will not speak out nor take action to stop this genocide. The one country brave enough to take a moral stance against genocide in Gaza is Yemen. And now the US is going to bomb them even more
Why do you think everyone should care so much? I’m Czech, I have nothing to do with Gaza. If everyone in that region vanished overnight and the whole Middle East became a smoldering crater, my life would probably improve.
Well, maybe it’d be a little dull since it’s a great source of reading—and in some sick way, entertainment.
People have their own problems to deal with. Let me ask you—do you think more people in the U.S. care about how the Dallas Cowboys played or about the lives of Palestinians?
Of course, everyone will say they want peace—who wouldn’t? But for me, this conflict doesn’t even crack my top 20 concerns. And I’d bet most people feel the same. Honestly, I hope my government prioritizes my top 20 problems over this endless pile of shit.
So why are you here?
As I said in my response, it's a source of entertainment for me.
Ahh you can’t help stupidity
There’s nothing like not giving a toss about anyone
Until it bites your ass
You call it stupidity, I call it locality.
Actually, I think it's called Tribalism: a most obvious human attribute.
So your top 20 likely includes getting your Corn Flakes and milk in the morning?
No, but honestly, that would be far above what's happening in Gaza or the Middle East in general.
From everything happening in the world, I’m far more concerned with the war in Ukraine—it’s happening just 1,000 km away from me. Plus, I care that some midget in heels with a Napoleon complex might strike a deal with the orange man, pushing us back into Russia’s sphere of influence. That’s my #1 geopolitical concern, Top 3 overall.
I care more about Taiwan, because if that escalates, we’re looking at a full-blown USA vs. China war—bad for literally everyone.
I care about where the EU is headed.
I care about ongoing trade wars.
I care about AI development.
Honestly, I could list at least 20 conflicts or geopolitical situations that affect me way more. And that’s not even counting basic stuff like food, shelter, and, you know, the urge to bone.
Reading this back… Gaza wouldn't even crack my Top 50.
Get those Jews out of Palestine.
A glaring example broadcast to the world of just how much a regime can get away with. I always thought the Jews were intellectuals and wondered why there was antisemitism...we are beginning to understand ...a bit. It's in their religion the Torah and down deep inside them like the German inclination of Naziism.
Yes, the Jews stand for the intellect, for scholarship, for education, for decency, for humanity, for culture, for what is life-affirming, and for more. But I draw a distinction. The Israelis and the Zionists (I see these as synonymous) are something wholly apart, the antithesis of what being Jewish stands for, cynically usurping and speciously expropriating all of those estimable qualities in order to camouflage, obfuscate, and propel their supremacist virulence on the innocent. They are not Jews, they are instead what they call others, "human animals."
I wondered for decades, why the antisemitism?
What about American Jews who support Israel with their votes, money and apparently are now controlling our government? Are they good Americans or should we lump them with the Zionists, those "human animals"?
Why is our government going after all the Muslim countries surrounding Israel? Why are we now bombing civilians in Yemen when all they did , so far, is threaten shipping if Israel doesn't let donations into Gaza? These countries are giving up fortune and lives for Muslims of another country. Perhaps, now, we are seeing why there has been antisemitism for centuries.
Yes it’s not something that just happened
This attitude has been going on for centuries and is somehow the cause of the first holocaust
As for American Jews, many do not care a whit about Israel; others I suspect have fallen for the same fabrications and mythologies and outright lies about Israel as has most of the Western world. And that includes the Israelis/Zionists themselves, who can't face historical truth and indulge in unhinged indoctrination in their own storytelling. For yet others, I suggest doing a You Tube search under "norman finkelstein jewish supremacy" for some worthwhile commentary and explanation. Also, it'd be worthwhile to delve into the history of Zionism and its principal figures, the background to the UN vote in 1947 to create Israel, as well as Truman's decision to recognize it. Many ardently opposed his doing so, foretelling what we have been seeing now for decades. This was also a cherished goal for the already existing Israel lobby, which has only magnified and solidified its influence since then.
Not to be forgotten, but too much to go into here, has been American (and British) interest in Middle East oil, and the incorporation of the British Empire into our burgeoning own at the end of World War II, with Israel conveniently serving as an outpost in that strategically important part of the world (Arabs peoples seeking democracy in their own countries be damned if they threaten the supply of oil).
The history of antisemitism is also too much to go into here, but to repeat, I draw a distinction between historic antisemitism and how it is expropriated by the Israelis/Zionists to excuse, rationalize, deflect from their treatment of the Palestinians (and Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Yemenis, and others). They have been quick and unceasing to invoke the holocaust of the European Jews to further their supremacist, aggrandizing, "can do no wrong" ends. In other words, antisemitism is not the same as anti-Zionism, despite the protestations of Israel. Witness the campaign to have the flawed and intellectually disingenuous International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism adopted by governments, universities, and others.
To add: I have 54 pages of notes on Israel, plus that region, in google docs. If called upon I could teach 2 semesters. Teaching is the best way to learn more.
Norman was the first I happened upon on Oct. 7. I'm a huge fan, as is everyone who hears him. I have read 2 of his books. Ilan Pappe, Gideon Levy, David Levy, Max Blumenthal , ..Just a few who have been on to this situation for decades. They are called self hating Jews, but they know who they are.
Not a history buff, I have much to catch up on. the Middle East, it's a lot. I love Iran and am sick that they will be at war with us..all for that no good brat Israel.
It's like having a psychotic child who one just keeps supporting, no matter what, and will be taken down by it. Sucking our resources, ruining us in the eyes of our neighbors...destroying our values. Which it seems are on the way down anyway. With King God Trump in charge: forgetaboutit.
I am rooting for Muslims now, who I thought were kinda like terrorists...But, it's us! We are the terrorists!! I watched 9/11 from 2 miles north and frankly we did it to ourselves.
BTW: watch Muhmood AD on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afo1rg1Z5DM
He knows everything and has a way of delivery that verges on comedy. Excellent speaker, every day.
All these independent journalists I support with donations. At 85, I am dumping money and the thing that is the most important to me is TRUTH.
You are well beyond me in self-education here. For certain, there's a lot of history to absorb, I shudder to think where we would be without Norman Finkelstein's debunking of Joan Peters' "From Time Immemorial" (should be retitled "Lies Dreamed Up") and the work of the courageous "New Historians" (e.g., Pappe', Shlaim) and journalists you reference. Without their work the lies upon which Israel is based would have substituted for the truth, in the Western world anyway. The rest of the world knows better, but have we been allowed to hear their voices?
Upping the ante with Iran is taking us further down the path to ruin, for the sake of Israel. They have inveigled their way too far into our government, our institutions, our society - and distorted each of them - that no degree of metaphorical surgical skill can separate these conjoined twins. With the perversions of our values, with the never-ending militarism, this has become true: "Israel 'R' US." I think we are witnessing the end of the American Experiment.
If it should ever come about, a just peace for Palestine would require not only that the "state" of Israel be dismantled (for the sake not only of the Palestinians and other peoples in the area, but for humankind as a whole) and the land returned to its rightful indigenous people, but that the Zionists be compelled to develop (using their own money, not US aid) a site encompassing the entirety of their now-former capital of Tel Aviv to establish, akin to The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, The Memorial to the Murdered, Displaced, and Dehumanized People of Palestine.
Finally, "terrorist", as understood by past proto-fascists and present de facto ones, means any individual, group, or organization opposed to the American Empire and its acolytes.
Finally finally, I think you meant Muhmood OD, not AD? Thank you for the tip.
Right. But, I figured you would find him anyway. then I added the link. I just love that man. His breadth of vocabulary and even slang is so much fun. He is Palestinian. Not sure where he's living.
I don't think anyone can fix the Zionists, who are just Mega Jews. No one wants to say the obvious. It's verboten.
Did you read Atlantic Monthly March '24? The golden age of American Jews is ending.....https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/
Jews who thrived and fit right in. All the while there were others, maybe the same ones, who were going to support that country over the USA. over anything... .......Really a dumb thing to do. But, oh well.
I recall those Never Again Memorials that NEVER acknowledged Cambodia..etc. Only Them.
It's like we are living in a monster movie. Who knew that the cute thing we were feeding would rise up and devour us???
History = Humans lack of compassion
So Israel, the Epicenter of Evil in the world, blithely cuts off health care, in addition to food, medicine, fuel, and other basic goods to expedite the genocide, goes apeshit when Ben & Jerry's attempts to end sales of its ice cream in the Occupied Territories. The next two paragraphs from an NBC News item (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ben-jerrys-returns-israel-ice-cream-makers-objections-rcna36116) are just grotesque, but thoroughly Zionist in nature:
"Unilever [parent company of Ben & Jerry's] sold [its Israeli business interests] to Avi Zinger, the owner of Israel-based American Quality Products Ltd, who had sued Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s in March in a U.S. federal court over the termination of their business relationship, saying it violated U.S. and Israeli law.
"Zinger’s legal team said the decision by Unilever was part of a settlement. He thanked Unilever for resolving the matter and for the 'strong and principled stand' it has taken against BDS. 'There is no place for discrimination in the commercial sale of ice cream,' Zinger said."
Thank goodness there is now no question as to where discrimination against human beings - indeed, their very survival - and the primacy of international law stand in relation to ice cream in the Zionist consciousness.
Israel's behavior has put anti-semitism as a scar in the minds of decent people.
I don’t see it as antisemitism anymore
It’s just the same protest as against the Russians
For their carnage
Israel has to suck it up
They’re causing it
They should learn to suck up the Nazi holocaust too
We’ve got the Gaza holocaust to deal with now
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Anyone familiar with "holocaust industry"?
Incendiary Bombings that vaporise those close to the centre of the explosion beatings. Rape Starvation
And if you survive that and you’re still alive then you will die a slow death alone with no one allowed to relive your trauma
And that’s the Jewish way it seems.
Netanyahu is equally as bad if not worse than Hitler
Hitler never targeted women and children specifically Netanyahu is specifically targeting women and children systematically
Men who kill children should suffer
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