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We are sharing this urgent update as violence continues to escalate in different parts of Syria, putting countless lives at risk and leaving entire communities gripped by fear.
At the heart of the crisis, that has so far claimed hundreds of civilian lives over the past months, is a dangerous truth and information vacuum. Disinformation and hate speech are deepening divisions, inciting violence and weaponising the anger that so many understandably feel as a result of lack of justice and accountability for the crimes committed by Assad and other groups.
Just this week civilians in Jaramana and Sahnaya, home to a large Druze community on the outskirts of Damascus, have been bombed and killed in so-called retaliations by armed factions, believed to be hardline extremists. Communities in Suwayda, southern Syria, are also facing attacks. The violence has sparked fears of escalating tensions between different sects leading people to flee their homes in uncertainty and fear.
The inability – or unwillingness – of the current authorities to control armed factions and end sectarian hate speech is deeply alarming. While fear is growing across Syria, so is a powerful, cross-sectarian demand for an end to the killing, justice, dialogue, and coexistence. From grieving families to feminist activists and local leaders, Syrians from all backgrounds are calling for peace. Their voices must be heard.
If you’re on social media, share this post to show solidarity and raise awareness of the urgent situation. Every share sends a message of support to those at risk and increases pressure to stop the killing.
Now is the time for the Syrian interim authorities to take immediate, decisive action to stop the violence, protect all civilians regardless of sect, and uphold human dignity and international law. Their failure to act swiftly and effectively only deepens the crisis and leads to more bloodshed.
Syria is at a pivotal moment. It faces Israeli attacks, impunity for war crimes and disinformation designed to divide communities online. Together we can show that there is power in peaceful activism and that the Syrian revolution demanding a just, inclusive and democratic Syria is not yet over.
The actual Coup in DC is underway. I don’t want to waste much time writing this when most of you already know that, and because every hour right now is precious.
It is Day 18 of the Coup. If you had been waiting for confirmation of that, there’s no need to wait for the ref to look at the instant replay or make a call to the front office. None of what’s happened in these past 18 days is surprising, as I — like many of you — have been watching all of this unfold since the day he and his spouse rode down the “golden” escalator on June 16, 2015 to the cheers of the hundred or so SAG extras he had hired for the event. This was almost ten years ago.
And none of Trump’s actions since January 20th have surprised me. He is the most “honest” President we’ve had in our lifetime. He has announced over and over what he was going to do should the American people let him back into the White House. He is transparency on steroids. He hasn’t just given us the facts and the blueprint of his long-promised coup, he has done the most audacious thing any autocrat in history has attempted — he has openly BRAGGED about exactly how he was going to pull it off. The more he performed his schtick, the more people thought either “I can’t wait for him to shut down the FBI, the CIA, the Deep State and AOC” or “Everybody should calm down, it’s just Trump! Haha!”
His latest announcement of the newest country that he intends to take over — “Gaza, we will own it” — has already shocked the Palestinian people, the entire Arab world, most of Europe, and numerous Jewish peace groups. He has much more up his sleeve.
Trump believes that this is actually his country and can do whatever the fuck he wants to it. Like Gaza, he owns it. What he doesn’t know is that there are literally thousands of us working right now to stop him. We have numerous ways to do that — through the courts, in Congress, mass actions of civil disobedience, police and district attorneys refusing to break the law and joining with us to block the only person the Supreme Court has declared can break the law.
Our work, though, is enormous. But not insurmountable.
Yes, the daily roundup of Brown people from mostly Catholic countries has begun. He hopes to arrest upwards of 3,000 people per day to be sent to Guantanamo or to be deported to other nations. By the end of the year he will have removed 1-2 million people from the US. He will claim that another 3-4 million people will have “self-deported.”
He has also announced his desire to defund and shut down the United Nations. He hopes to exit NATO. He has already removed the United States from the World Health Organization. Let me be very clear about this one. A worldwide bird flu epidemic seems to have begun. To remove ourselves from the World Health Organization, and for him to refuse to let the CDC tell us how many Americans are contracting this deadly virus, these are the actions of a lunatic and the results will be the potential deaths of millions of people. Every one of those people will have family and friends who are grieving. At some point, Mr. Trump, the people will rise up against you.
Now, his U.S. attorney, Edward R. Martin Jr., and the DOJ have announced they will begin arresting anyone who “threatens” actions against this Administration, especially anyone who bears ill will toward Elon Musk. Do not misunderstand the above paragraph as in any way denigrating to Mr. Musk. As is the duty of any society, we must protect our best and brightest.
I, as you can imagine, am already busy on what you would expect me to be doing. There’s no need to send me to Guantanamo yet. Also, what I’m cooking up is not only legal and safe, it is being kept at room temperature per the terms and conditions that I have agreed to sign. (Note to NSA person who reads my mail: According to my lawyer, there’s nothing to worry about as long as the Constitution is being strictly adhered to. Meanwhile, I’ll just be catching up on past seasons of “Below Deck” on Bravo.)
Finally, I want to encourage all of you to read yesterday’s column from Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and one of the stars of my film Fahrenheit 11/9.
Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech. Out jump a couple of dozen young men, dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes. After giving Nazi salutes, they grab guns and run to one government departmental after another, calling out slogans like “all power to Supreme Leader Skibidi Hitler.”
Historically, that is what coups looked like. The center of power was a physical place. Occupying it, and driving out the people who held office, was to claim control. So if a cohort of armed men with odd symbols had stormed government buildings, Americans would have recognized that as a coup attempt.
And that sort of coup attempt would have failed.
Now imagine that, instead, the scene goes like this.
A couple dozen young men go from government office to government office, dressed in civilian clothes and armed only with zip drives. Using technical jargon and vague references to orders from on high, they gain access to the basic computer systems of the federal government. Having done so, they proceed to grant their Supreme Leader access to information and the power to start and stop all government payments.
That coup is, in fact, happening. And if we do not recognize it for what it is, it could succeed.
In the third decade of the twenty first century, power is more digital than physical. The buildings and the human beings are there to protect the workings of the computers, and thus the workings of the government as a whole, in our case an (in principle) democratic government which is organized and bounded by a notion of individual rights.
The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and there is no office that would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal. It is also a coup in its intended effects: to undo democratic practice and violate human rights.
In gaining data about us all, Musk has trampled on any notion of privacy and dignity, as well as on the explicit and implicit agreements made with our government when we pay our taxes or our student loans. And the possession of that data enables blackmail and further crimes.
In gaining the ability to stop payments by the Department of the Treasury, Musk would also make democracy meaningless. We vote for representatives in Congress, who pass laws that determine how our tax money is spent. If Musk has the power to halt this process at the level of payment, he can make laws meaningless. Which means, in turn, that Congress is meaningless, and our votes are meaningless, as is our citizenship.
Resistance to the coup is the defense of the human against the digital and the democratic against the oligarchic. If Musk controls these digital systems, Republican elected officials will be just as helpless as Democratic ones. The institutions that they voted to create can also be “deleted,” as Musk puts it.
President Trump, for that matter, will also perform at Musk’s pleasure. There is not much he can do without the use of the federal government’s computers. No one will explain this to Trump or to his supporters, of course.
A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely.
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33 770 vues 27 oct. 2024 #colonialism#catastrophe#hateIs it ok to use the Holocaust and its perpetrators as analogy for recent potential threats? Is it ok for Israel to label whoever is her enemy as Nazis or identify them as monsters about to commit another genocide of the Jews?
This is the approach by the leadership of Israel over the last 50 years. To inject fear into its own people. To remind those international nations who looked away when the events of the Holocaust took place. To remind them of their guilt so that they may accept all the hostility and inhumanity that Israel will reign down on its enemies. µ
It’s a touchy subject, but analogies can be misguiding and misrepresent both the reality of any threat as well as diminish the real significance and uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy. This video addresses the methodology of how the Holocaust was transitioned from an event Jews wanted to forget to a weapon used on a daily basis.
An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip with a dog from the army’s canine unit in January, 2024.Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s UnitGideon Levy
Aug 14, 2024 11:39 pm IDT
The Israel Defense Forces has decided to downsize the Oketz unit, Unit 7142, ahead of its cancellation. The unit for dogs and their trainers has been suffering from a shortage recently. Quite a number of dogs have been killed in the Gaza Strip, and it was therefore decided to use cheaper, more efficient means. It turns out that the new unit, which has yet to be given a name by the IDF computer, brings the same operational results. There’s no need to train dogs for months, no need for the iron muzzles that shut their frightening jaws, and their food will be cheaper,pp too: Instead of expensive Bonzo dog food, leftovers from battle rations.
And the money for burial and commemoration will also be canceled: The Oketz dogs were generally given ceremonial military burials, with weeping soldiers and tear-jerking articles on the first page of the IDF newsletter Yedioth Ahronoth. The replacements have no need for burials, their bodies can simply be tossed out. The annual August 30 memorial ceremonies for the dogs can also be dispensed with. The new dogs will have no monument. The sensitive souls of the soldiers who handle them will no longer be damaged when they die.
The pilot project is now in process and there’s already one dead in the new unit. Soon, the IDF will export the knowledge it has acquired to other armies worldwide. In Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen and maybe even in Niger, they’ll be happy to rely on it.
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According to the Oketz Wikipedia page: “The unit activates unique war materiel – the dog, which provides unique operational advantages that have no human or technological substitute.” Oops, a mistake. There may be no technological substitute, but a human substitute has been found. “Human” is an exaggeration of course, but the IDF has a new type of dog, cheap, obedient, and far better trained, whose lives are worth less.
The IDF’s new dogs are the residents of the Gaza Strip. Not all of them of course, only those that the army scout chooses carefully, out of 2 million candidates; the auditions take place in the displaced persons camps. There is no age restriction.
The army’s headhunters have already found children and elderly people, and there are no restrictions on the activation of the new manpower. They use them and then toss them out. Meanwhile they haven’t been trained for attack missions and for identifying explosives by smell, but the army is working on that. At least they won’t bite Palestinian children in their sleep like the previous Baskerville hounds.
On Tuesday, Haaretz published a photo of one of the new dogs on the first page: a young resident of Gaza in handcuffs, dressed in rags that were once uniforms, his eyes covered with a rag, his gaze downcast, armed soldiers standing next to him. Yaniv Kubovich, the most courageous military correspondent in Israel, and Michael Hauser Tov revealed that the IDF uses Palestinian civilians to check tunnels in Gaza. “Our lives are more important than their lives,” the commanders told the soldiers, repeating what is self-evident.
These new “dogs” are sent to the tunnels in handcuffs. Cameras are attached to their bodies, and from them one can hear the sound of their frightened breathing.
They “cleanse” shafts, are held in worse conditions than Oketz dogs and their activity has become widespread, systematic. Al-Jazeera, boycotted in Israel for causing “damage to security,” revealed the phenomenon. The military denied it, as usual, with its lies. Two Haaretz reporters brought the full story on Tuesday, and it’s terrifying.
There were soldiers who protested at the sight of the new “dogs,” several brave ones even gave testimony to Breaking the Silence. But the procedure, which was once specifically forbidden by the High Court of Justice, has been adopted on a broad scope in the army. The next time that the public protests the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu ignores High Court rulings, we should remember that the army also brazenly ignores its rulings.
The process of dehumanization of the Palestinians has reached a new height. Haaretz reported that the IDF senior command knows about the new unit. In the opinion of the army, a dog’s life is worth more than a Palestinian’s. Now we also have the official version.
This is Palestine, In Your Inbox, Making Sense of the Madness The 8 Tiers of Israeli Apartheid, Explained The State of Israel recognizes 8 tiers of people under its control. For all 8 tiers, Israel controls the registration of births, marriages, divorces, deaths and address changes. Israel controls the telecommunication networks, electricity grids, water supply, airspace and currency. Israel controls the movement of people in and out of the country. All tiers of people are controlled by a single state, with a single Prime Minister, a single Defense Minister, a single cabinet and a single chain of military command. But each tier has different legal rights. That’s why every major human rights organization has called Israel an apartheid state. This is a brief survey of how it operates.
Tier 1: Jewish citizens of Israel (7.2 million people) Jewish citizens of Israel have full voting rights. They can rent, buy or own property in 900+ localities in Israel. They can buy property from the Jewish National Fund, which owns about 13% of the land of Israel. There are no family reunification restrictions on Jews. Jews can destroy Palestinian property in the West Bank with near total impunity. Jews who protest their government rarely encounter lethal or even disproportionate violence by the Israeli police. The Israeli Parliament is likely to forbid the state from placing Jews in “administrative detention,” in which a person is imprisoned without trial and without having committed an offense. In 2018, Israeli lawmakers passed the nation-state law, defining Israel as a state for the Jewish people. The state exists for the purpose of serving the interests of Jews. This is not the case for any other tier.
Tier 2: Palestinian (& other non-Jewish) citizens of Israel (2.5 million people) Palestinian citizens of Israel have full voting rights. But they are in practice barred from buying or owning land in 900+ localities in Israel. They cannot buy property from the Jewish National Fund, which owns about 13% of the land of Israel. Palestinian citizens are prohibited from having their family members in the West Bank or Gaza live with them in Israel. Palestinians who protest the Israeli government often face disproportionate violence or retribution, such as a 1997 protest where Israeli forces injured hundreds of Palestinians protesting the confiscation of 10,000 acres of land near Umm al-Fahm. Palestinian schools, local councils and municipalities receive far less funds per capita than Jewish ones. The Israeli Parliament is likely to pass a law allowing the state to limit the effective use of its “administrative detention” policy to Palestinians only.
Tier 3: Unrecognized Palestinian Citizens of Israel, (85,000 people) These citizens of Israel live in dozens of communities unrecognized by the State of Israel. They are primarily of Bedouin origin and have been living in Israel long before Israel existed, indeed, before Zionism existed. Their communities are denied access to the Israeli electrical grid, water mains and trash-pickup. Israel does not allow public buses to reach them. Israel does not pave the roads nor does it allow new construction in the unrecognized towns. There are outstanding home demolition orders on thousands of homes and structures in the unrecognized towns that can be executed on at any moment. In May 2024, for example, Israeli forces demolished 47 homes in Wadi al-Khalil, an unrecognized Palestinian Bedouin village in southern Israel resulting in the forcible displacement of over 300 Palestinian Bedouins.
Tier 4: Palestinians living in Israeli occupied East Jerusalem (360,000 people) Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem are not given Israeli citizenship at birth, even though they live in territory annexed by Israel in 1967. Instead, they are provided residency permits that can be revoked. Since 1967, Israel has stripped more than 15,000 East Jerusalem Palestinians of their residency permits. Israel also rejects 93% of Palestinian building permit applications in E. Jerusalem, which has meant that 85% of Palestinian homes in E. Jerusalem are considered illegal and could be demolished at any moment. Israeli law also allows Jews to take over property in E. Jerusalem once owned by Jews before 1948, but does not allow Palestinians to take over property they once owned before 1948 in West Jerusalem or anywhere else. In Jerusalem, Palestinian schools, clinics, hospitals, parks and roads are all underfunded relative to Jewish ones.
Tier 5: Palestinians living in Area A of the West Bank (1.6 million) Palestinians living in Area A of the West Bank are stateless peoples who have been subject to a 57-year long Israeli military occupation. They do not have the right to vote for the government that controls their lives. They do not have freedom of movement within the West Bank nor can they leave the West Bank without a permit. And, If they leave for more than 3 years, they can lose their right to be an occupied, stateless person. They can be imprisoned indefinitely without charge, a policy known as “administrative detention.” The water under the ground and the sky over their heads is controlled by Israel. In addition, the Israeli military’s subcontractor, the Palestinian Authority (PA), further restricts their freedom of assembly and freedom of speech through violent crackdown on protests and imprisonment or murder of political opponents, such as Nizar Banat.
Tier 6: Palestinians living in Area B of the West Bank (1.3 million) Palestinians living in Area B of the West Bank are stateless peoples who have been subject to a 57-year long Israeli military occupation. They face the same restrictions on their freedom of movement and speech and right to residence and assembly as Area A West Bank Palestinians. In addition, they encounter Israeli checkpoints whenever passing into Area A or C of the West Bank. They must obtain permits to access their lands if they happen to be in Area A or C. Moreover, the current Israeli government has begun expanding its control over Area B just as it has over Area C (discussed subsequently), making it the next major site for Israel’s ongoing land seizures and depopulation efforts. This has involved the legalization of five settlement outposts in the West Bank, and the issuance of tenders for thousands of new housing units in Israeli settlements in Area B.
Tier 7: Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank (100,000 people) Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank are stateless peoples who have been subject to a 57-year long Israeli military occupation. They face even more restrictions on their freedom of movement and speech, as well as right to residency and assembly as Area A and B West Bank Palestinians. Less than 1% of the land in Area C is currently available to Palestinians for construction. Palestinians living in Area C are 100 times more likely to have demolition orders placed on their homes than be granted permits to build homes. Meanwhile, a dozen some Palestinian communities in Area C have been ethnically cleansed in the past few years in Khirbet Humsa, Masafer Yatta, Ein Samiya, Ras a-Tin, Lifjim, Khirbet Zanuta, Khirbet al-Ratheem, al-Qanub, Ein al-Rashash and Wadi al-Seeq.
Tier 8: Palestinians Living in Gaza (2.2 million people) Palestinians living in Gaza are stateless peoples who have been living under Israeli military occupation for 57 years, as well as a 17-year long siege and a 9-month genocidal onslaught. In just the past 9+ months, Israel has denied the people of Gaza the right to shelter, health care, water, food, electricity and the right to life itself: Israel has killed at least 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza with as many as 186,000 likely to die from the genocide. Israel is also starving to death more than 1 million Palestinians in Gaza and leaving the rest in conditions of hunger and catastrophic food insecurity. Israel has reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94%. Israel has damaged or completely destroyed every single hospital in Gaza and completely destroyed 76% of Gaza’s schools. Israel has also forcibly displaced nearly all 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next, as they were all destroyed by the IDF. He has not been back to his home in Jabalya since the start of the war, and last December all trace of him disappeared. Recently, it transpired that he had died in an Israeli jail, apparently due to the torture of beatings during interrogation.
The last people to see him were other doctors and detainees who have been released. They told Haaretz correspondents Jack Khoury and Bar Peleg that they had barely recognized him. “It was clear he had been through hell, torture, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. He wasn’t the person we knew; he was a shadow of himself.” (Haaretz, May 12.) A photo of him published after his death showed an elegant man. A photo from during the war showed his hospital gown covered in blood. He had a wife, Jasmine, and they had six children. He studied medicine in Romania and did a residency in the United Kingdom. The rapper Tamer Nafar wrote a beautiful lament for him. (Haaretz, May 6.)
A doctor, a hospital ward director, was beaten and tortured to death in an Israeli jail. That did not set off alarms here. Nearly all his physician colleagues, including heads of the medical establishment and those who take part in the horrific torture ongoing at Sde Teiman base and in Israeli prisons, did not say a word. A department director was beaten to death. So what? After all, almost 500 doctors and medical staffers have been killed in the war and their fate failed to arouse any attention. So why should Al-Bursh‘s death attract any attention? Because he was a department director? No war crime committed by Israel in Gaza has aroused any feelings here in Israel, with the exception of the joy felt by the bloodthirsty right-wing.
On top of the doctor’s death came another heinous act: the response of the authorities. The Shin Bet was silent as usual. Ex-Shin Bet officers are now star commentators on television, asked to show us the way, to give us their opinion, but the Shin Bet never talks about those it has interrogated and tortured. The IDF shirked responsibility; the doctor was only “processed” at an army detention facility, and was immediately transferred to the Shin Bet interrogation facility in Kishon, and from there to Ofer Prison, which is under the charge of the Israel Prison Service. The IPS response was pure audacity: “The service does not address the circumstances of the deaths of detainees who are not Israeli citizens.”
A man dies in prison, yet the Israel Prison Service does not think it should report the circumstances of his death to the public because he was not a citizen of the state. In other words, the lives of those who are not citizens have no value in Israeli prisons. We should remember this when an Israeli is arrested in Cyprus for rape, or in Peru for drugs, and we are outraged by the conditions of his detention. We remember this even more poignantly when we complain to the world, and rightly so, about the fate of our hostages.
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, who was the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
How can people identify with the pain felt by Israelis over the fate of the hostages, when these same Israelis turn out to be cold-hearted and indifferent to the fate of the other side’s hostages? Why isn’t there a single banner in Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square” calling for an investigation into the killing of the doctor from Gaza? Is his blood less red than the blood of the Israeli hostages who died? Why should the whole world take an interest and work only for our for hostages, and not for the Palestinian hostages, whose conditions of imprisonment and whose deaths in Israeli prisons should horrify everyone?
The most repulsive thing I saw yesterday was a Zionist justifying the genocide of Palestinians by reference to the genocide of Syrians. Three points. One: One genocide doesn’t make another OK. Obviously.
Two: Israel was a major reason why the US stopped serious weapons reaching the Free Army. Other than a few rhetorical comments, the US worked with Iran (doing a deal) and Russia (welcoming it into Syria to ‘solve the chemical weapons problem’, which of course it didn’t) to save Assad. This, according to what American officials told Syrians lobbying for weapons, was because Israel was worried about ‘instability’, especially about Syrians having anti-aircraft missiles and heavy weapons. So hundreds of thousands of Syrians were murdered, millions expelled, and the country utterly destroyed, for the sake of the apartheid state’s ‘stability’.
Three: Israel is doing exactly the same to Gaza as what Assad/Iran/Russia did to Homs, Aleppo, the Ghouta, etc: it is destroying the civilian infrastructure, imposing starvation sieges, hitting schools, hospitals, residential blocks, bakeries. Its aim is the same – to remove or annihilate the civilian population. Its genocidal rhetoric is the same, but it seems to be far more deeply spread amongst Israeli Jews than it is amongst Assad’s ‘loyal’ Alawi community. The difference in method is that Israel does the killing faster and more efficiently, with more advanced western (American and German) weapons.
So Israel does the same as Assad/Iran/Russia, only faster, and Israel contributed to the disaster in Syria anyway, and you can’t justify your fascist genocide in the south of bilad ash-sham by pointing to the fascist genocide in the north. You are all fascists, and the people of the region in their overwhelming majority despise you both. There will be no peace until both of your ideologies and murderous power systems are dismantled.
It is because the Assad regime (murderer of tens of thousands of Palestinians, which kept the border with the occupied Golan quiet for decades and silenced all Syrian political organisation) and Israel have so much in common that they have protected each other over the decades.
The Zionist line on this is : ‘look how Assad committed a real genocide, whereas Israel does its best to protect civilians.’ These people are worse than liars. They are propagandising to cover a clear genocide, whose sole aim is to destroy civilians. It’s ‘look at the savages doing genocide, whereas we are civilised people doing gentle, civilised police work.’ But you, if you are Zionists, are perpetrating genocide, murdering the children first, in order to defend an apartheid state built on land stolen from another people.
(Meanwhile, there are also ‘leftists’ and supposed ‘anti-Zionists’ who say, against all evidence, that Assad/Iran/Russia are anti-imperialists working to stop Israel. Such people are ignorant at very best, fascists laughing at the slaughter of Arabs and Muslims at worst. Don’t trust them.)
Maybe it was German Zionists who invented the ‘look at the Syrian genocide’ tactic, because their usual argument is ‘because of our genocide of Jews, we should also commit genocide against Palestinians’. They are used to justifying one genocide by referring to another. (And this is their genocide, their weapons, their arrests of protesting Jews and Muslims, their visa bans, their racist hysteria against Arab immigrants. This genocide is being perpetrated by the US and Germany as well as Israeli Jews, and the UK, France, Canada, and many others are complicit. This is the worst thing the west has done in half a century, and it changes everything.)
Some perspective on the new and hilariously named ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’, and two predictions
First, let’s remember reality (always important when dealing with propaganda, and I’ll touch on this in a sec). In real life, Israel and Netanyahu don’t have anywhere to go.
Wherever Israel and Netanyahu look in real, head reality, there is a very serious wall of opposition. Iran and Hizbullah tower over Israel’s ambitions (read: delusions), Egypt and Jordan, pliable as they are, cannot be just swept aside, and politically as well as geographically, Israel and Netanyahu can expand nowhere. A heavy wall of ideological and military resistance makes any major advance impossible. Even Rafah is going to be pricey, and killing another 20,000 Palestinians will only make Israel’s situation more dire while providing absolutely no benefit.
So where can Netanyahu and Israel go? In reality, nowhere. But there is one place where he (and the deranged beliefs that he represents) can make substantial gains, and that’s America. Or, to be more precise, American consciousness.
Knowing he has hypnotic power over American lawmakers and absolute control over mainstream media, Netanyahu knows he can create an illusion of progress by making American public life crazier and crazier, haunted, paranoid, and clinically insane.
So this is where he concentrates his efforts at the moment. By throwing America in an antisemitic scare, he can present his and Israel’s war as a heroic war of defense waged by brave fearless warriors, rather than a campaign of senseless killing that has no purpose.
Netanyahu exploits his (and his Zionist followers) unlimited access to American consciousness to distort how his idiot’s murder crusade is perceived, and he cannot care less if America is destroyed in the process. As a matter of fact, I think he’ll enjoy it very much. This is both ancient revenge, but also a sense of self-affirmation in a license to do whatever the hell you want (If you can kill and annihilate with impunity, then you must really be God’s chosen one).
But there is an even more sinister aspect to this onslaught on America (which is just beginning). This is the political objective of destroying the American left, which is connected deeply to the Palestinians, but also sees fighting Islamophobia as an important part of its mission.
So by presenting Palestinians and Muslims, and their American sympathizers, as antisemites, Netanyahu can employ the full force of the American state to completely crush them. This is the strategic aspect of this effort, of which ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’ is a nig first step.
Netanyahu needs Americans to see Arabs as Muslims, and those who support them, as enemies of the state, which is the American wording for dehumanization.
Legislation is not enough: violence is needed, and it will suddenly and spontaneously (of course) start to appear soon. American Jews will all of a sudden be under a great and imminent threat, and it will be used to delegitimize, criminalize, and punish a political camp.
Predictions
I was asked yesterday what I think was going to happen in America. So the rise of violence and tensions between Jewish and Arab and Muslim communities, and far-left activists, is my first prediction. I have two more.
The deep connection between Israel and the US became a symbiosis and now is a complete unity. This unity is not making Israel strong anymore. It only makes America weak, as it absorbs and embraces Zionist views as its own. One major aspect of this is victimhood. Soon you’ll start to hear what you never heard before: American politicians speaking as if they were victims of dark, conspiratorial, global forces.
This will be part of the shift America is undergoing from (at least partially, if not mostly) reality-based discourse to one completely dominated by fantasy and fiction (and this is why resistance must bring up reality first, always).
2. As the protest spreads and becomes radicalized by establishment brutality, thousands will be arrested, and then more. If the war is not seen as coming to an end, and as freedom of speech continues to be crushed in America, new legal mechanisms for detaining large numbers of people will be discussed and perhaps implemented. I have no doubt Israel is already providing guidance on this issue. Some of these new measures will bear a prominent resemblance to Israel’s ‘Administrative Detention’.
It is really hard to see how this Zionist takeover of American consciousness is going to end. I don’t know American society enough, and this is really unchartered territory. I do know, though, that reversing from this back to normalcy is going to be long and painful. But you have to fight for your future and your country, that’s all I know
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