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Welcome to the world of blatantly biased, political, dysfunctional, divisive, hateful, self serving leaders in the United States.
Instead of fixing problems they spend much of their time CREATING problems.
Creating dynamics to push one sided agenda's. Using their influence to enrich themselves.
Congress should be ashamed
45 responses |
Started by metmike - April 22, 2024, 4:32 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/103404/
Antisemitism is WRONG!
38 responses |
Started by metmike - April 23, 2024, 11:36 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/103460/
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-joe-biden-impeachment-withhold-israel-aid-1899516
Sen Tom Cotton says the House must abide by the Dems' precedent set during then-President Trump's 2019 impeachment
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/no-choice-impeach-biden-delayed-israel-aid-gop-senator-says
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https://www.newsweek.com/biden-withholding-aid-israel-sure-looks-impeachable-opinion-1898978
U.S. says Israel's use of U.S. arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete
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For the record, Joe Biden is an extremely corrupt man that did numerous corrupt things to generate millions as VP selling his influence to several foreign countries.
However, on the arms to Israel topic.
1. He is doing the right thing, which 95% of the people/countries in the world agree with.
2. He's not really doing it for the right reason. Biden doesn't think that way. He's doing it to get votes in November.
Because we actually have Americans in this country that can think for themselves. In this particular case the are mostly Ds. They get objective truths that don't come from our government/media propaganda. They strongly object to the US involvement in Israel's ethnic cleansing/war atrocities in Gaza. These outraged Americans that aren't bamboozled by the blatant, blind pro Israel propaganda trying to convince us that Israel is always right and collective punishment on 2 million innocent people is "defending Israel". Killing or seriously injuring 5% of the population, mostly defenseless children and women is not really a cowardly or diabolical thing to do. We are told that starving 99% innocent people, depriving them of fresh water, power......destroying their homes, schools and hospitals with thousands of 1,000+ lb bombs made in the US is what Israel needs to do to defeat Hamas.
We are told that it's not Israel's fault that all things are happening.
this is really trying to get this message thru. Israel is fighting for survival. They are fighting chicken shit terrorist who are where? Among schools and hospitals in Gaza. Wonder where Israel should look. Now if everything or anything you say is factual about this mess just why these poor mis understood people are not out every day aiding Israel in this fight....in a thousand different ways to finally rid themselves of these terrorists? They sure ready to fight when the aid trucks from Israel show every day in Gaza by the hundreds but not fight the terrorists......sure seems strange to me.
Since October, 2023, Israel has waged unprecedented aerial and ground attacks on Gaza after Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at a historic pace, mostly unarmed civilians, and most of the Gaza population has been displaced. These attacks may amount to a genocide, according to a preliminary ruling by the International Court of Justice, a U.S. federal court, as well as dozens of U.N. experts and legal scholars. Israel's attacks in Gaza have been accompanied by a surge of Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, clashes between the Israeli military and militant groups in Lebanon, and Israeli aerial strikes in Syria.
Shortly after Oct. 7, the U.S. government started transferring massive amounts of weapons to Israel. By Dec. 25, Israel received more than 10,000 tons of weapons in 244 cargo planes and 20 ships from the U.S. These transfers included more than 15,000 bombs and 50,000 artillery shells within just the first month and a half. These transfers have been deliberately shrouded in secrecy to avoid public scrutiny and prevent Congress from exercising any meaningful oversight. Between October and the beginning of March, the U.S. approved more than 100 military sales to Israel, but publicly disclosed only two sales. A list of known U.S. arms transfers is maintained by the Forum on the Arms Trade.
Much of these weapons were purchased using U.S. taxpayers’ money through the Foreign Military Sales program, while some were direct commercial sales purchased through Israel’s own budget. An undisclosed amount of weapons was also transferred from U.S. military stockpiles already stored in Israel, known as War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I). The use of WRSA-I to provide Israel with weapons serves to further obfuscate the full picture of U.S. arms transfers, as there is no public record of these stockpiles' inventory.
The scale of destruction and war crimes in Gaza would not be possiblewithout this continued flow of weapons from the U.S. Despite massive public protests, the Biden administration has been working to give Israel over $14 billion to buy more weapons. This is on top of the $3.8 billion the U.S. already gives to the Israeli military annually. Israel is required to use this money to buy U.S.-made weapons. This is a form of corporate welfare not only for the largest weapons manufacturers, like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, and General Dynamics, which have seen their stock prices skyrocket, but also for companies that are not typically seen as part of the weapons industry, such as Caterpillar, Ford, and Toyota (see below).
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These are FACTS that the media and politicians are HIDING FROM US!
The bought and paid for and controlled media and politicians (Jewish coalition and military-industrial complex) continues to, instead try to make the protesters at college campuses the bad guys. Accusing them of anti semitism and twist them into the evil vilans because THEY KNOW THE TRUTH, while the rest of the country exists in blissful ignorance thinking that Israel is just defending itself and that diabolical, delusional psychopath, Netanyahu is a great leader defeating Hamas and not really just saving himself from prison for these crimes on top of the ones that he was being prosecuted for BEFORE THE WAR.
I condemn all forms of antisemitism, regardless of the circumstances.
However, these young people, depicted as ignorant, indoctrinated, extreme left spoiled brats by Fox News and others..........are actually the ENLIGHTENED ONES!
It's people that watch Fox and listen to the propaganda that are the ignorant ones. I watch Fox. They have not once mentioned what these protesters are actually protesting and what they want. NOT ONE TIME while I've been watching.
Talk about brainwashing and stealing people's intelligence with blatant lies and propaganda. All day long this is the type of thing we get from Fox on this topic and the media in general on numerous topics.
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And Joe Biden, does the best thing he's done as president by a wide margin(to get votes NOT to save lives) and the Rs want to impeach him over it!
Everybody's heads are filled with a bunch of manufactured realities from the message gatekeepers in politics and the media that were put there to control our thinking.
In 2024, people can't think for themselves anymore. They just go to the sites that tell them what they want to hear and read. Hanging out on social media and in echo chambers all day.......having their intelligence stolen, instead of using the internet to educate themselves and figure out the authentic truths for themselves.
Spoon fed propaganda for brains conditioned to be too lazy to figure things out by themselves anymore. Instead of looking at all the objective facts themselves and applying critical thinking/logic.........just flip to our favorite "go to" source that does all the work for us and has all the answers DELIVERED IN ENTERTAINING FASHION!
The entertainment, simultaneously steals our intelligence away. Instead of GAINING new knowledge and insights, millions are having their brains programmed and manipulated so that the gatekeepers will control what we think that we know.
And it works because they sell messages that WE WISH WERE TRUE!
If you're a R, you go to places that tell you how the world needs 100% R agenda. Ds are all evil and are wrecking the world.
If you're a D, the Rs will cause us to lose our democracy(even as they have already stolen it with the Trump Trials) . Rs are the evil ones, Ds are the only hope for mankind to survive. Or for the planet to survive as the planet greens up from the best weather/climate and CO2 levels since humans existed. Fact is, fossil fuel emissions HAVE RESCUED THE PLANET from dangerously low, beneficial CO2(which is still less than half the optimum level) and created a climate optimum. But our message gate keepers have convinced us it's, absurdly a climate CRISIS and THEY know how to fix it. If we don't do what they say.........the planet will be lost!! While the fixes, reward crony capitalism and governments/politicians/media that steal our money to do it.
What has been lost is people's intelligence and ability to see clearly that this is a CLIMATE OPTIMUM!
That Israel has been committing horrible, unjustified atrocities to 2 million people for 7 months. Again, the same elite actors benefit, while us peons/tax payers lose and the people in Gaza lose everything while suffering unthinkably.
They got Ukraine obliterated, with over half their army killed or disabled. This is NOT supporting Ukraine or Ukrainians (that want peace more than anything). it's supporting these same elite gatekeepers.
And we're letting them do it!!!
Stealing our money. Stealing our intelligence.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_etds_theses/986/
2021
This study reviews the current US and Israel militarized response to Palestine, the negative impacts on the Palestinian and Israeli people that result from this policy, and the military-industrial complex that benefits from the US-Israel relationship. I also note that the military industry profits from the Israel-Palestine conflict and, thus, has an incentive for the conflict to continue. I argue that despite billions of US dollars that have been appropriated by the U.S. Congress for Israel’s security, the US and Israel have failed to build peace in the region, ultimately wasting funds and exacerbating current conflicts. I also argue that Israel’s militarization has measurable impacts on Israeli citizen’s quality of life. Finally, this paper provides several alternatives to US and Israeli foreign policy regarding Palestine and the military industry. I conclude that US policy toward Israel should focus on divesting from Israeli weaponized digital technology and military capabilities.
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
The United States provided Israel considerable economic assistance from 1971 to 2007, but nearly all U.S. aid today goes to support Israel’s military, the most advanced in the region. The United States has provisionally agreed (via a memorandum of understanding) to provide Israel with nearly $4 billion a year through 2028, and U.S. lawmakers are considering billions of dollars in supplementary funding for Israel amid its war with Hamas.
Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?ind=D
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https://www.citizen.org/article/military-industrial-complex-contributions-report/
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/capitalizing-on-conflict
Hamas released a statement calling the Republican senator’s remarks “shocking,” adding that it shows the “deep moral decline and the genocide and colonialism mentality that he harbors,” according to Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu Ajansı.
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Pretty sad day when statements by an evil group, like Hamas, make much more sense and demonstrate more ethical standards than bought and paid for/corrupt US politicians like Lindsey Graham.
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Re: Congress should be ashamed
By metmike - April 27, 2024, 8:58 a.m.
tough choice MM? Be nuked and have it over and know nothing of what happened but dead and burned. Or be a young pregnant girl and be raped, baby cut from you womb, decapitated and then put in a microwave. Guess nuked would be more human, right?
mcfarm,
You are being used with propaganda.
That position is actually destroying Israel’s credibility right before our eyes for the 95% of the world that knows the truth.
1 bad atrocity does not justify an atrocity 100 time worse to 2,000 times more completely innocent people, mostly children and women.
96% of them are NOT Hamas. Since when is it ethical or reasonable to punish 25 innocent people to get every guilty 1 person.
To kill or seriously injure over 5% of a population of 2 million that are mostly innocent?
Justify killing ALL of them?
I have bad news for all of us very pro Israel people, including me.
Netanyahu is not defeating Hammas, as much as he’s massively inspiring new terrorism by 10 times.
How do we know this?
Look around the world, man.
95% of the people in the world are outraged by this ethnic cleansing and the horrific crimes. Antisemitism has tripled BECAUSE OF this. Hatred for Jewish people and hatred for Israel like any hatred is what inspires people to hurt and terrorize and organize against the hated ones.
For every 1 Hammas that is killed, at least 10 more will replace them.
Diabolical and very corrupt, psychopath Netanyahu is doing this to delay facing the music for his previous crimes and to hold power as long as possible.
Israel is its own enemy here. Self destructing in front of us.p with this false narrative of protecting itself and winning a war against an opponent that they are strengthening by their actions.
what sort of heinous leader does this to 2 million innocent people and thinks that the rest of the world will believe that punishing and killing innocent, mostly children and women with a never ending war ….is just Israel defending itself.
The bought and paid for US politicians and media are on board with that crazy rational because it BENEFITS THEM..
Dehumanizing the 2 million innocent people and suggesting it’s ok to kill them all to wipe out Hammas??
And the laughable real world logic that this is making Israel and Jewish people safer.
Look around you, man.
Is it a better world for Jewish people today or worse than it was a year ago or MUCH worse?
We need to stop the reason causing this NOT enable it and certainly not collude with what’s been the worst public relations disaster for the Jews/israel in history.
If we really want to help Israel, we need to get Netanyahu out of office ASAP.
Its up to those people but as long as they let him rule, they have nobody but themselves to blame,
the last thing the US should be doing is helping Netanyahu to survive in office.
again, I’m pro Israel and very pro honest Jewish people….which is almost all of them
not being used MM. so just answer the above question. good and evil. been fighting this battle since old testament days. similar to pearl harbor or the german invasion of Poland evil must confronted and defeated. thank the Lord we had brave, brilliant, and loving soldiers to defeat what many just let slide for a decade of the 30's. Do you not know what all the terrorist groups around the Mideast, led by iran of course have for a ultimate goal?
THIS IS ALL I'M SAYIN' ON THE SUBJECT... I ACTUALLY COULD WRITE A NOVEL ON MY THOUGHTS, BUT.....
THESE SNOT NOSED "EDUCATED" PRO GAZA FOLKS. I WOULD LOVE TO ASK THEM A FEW QUESTIONS. DID THE JEWS ATTACK US WITH OUR OWN PASSENGER JETS? DID THE JEWS JUMP UP & DOWN IN SHEER JOY WHEN THOSE ATTACKS HAPPENED? HAVE YOU NOT BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT 9-11? IF SO, DID YOU COMPREHEND THAT ERA?
I'LL SHUT UP, NOW.
Mike said:
"1 bad atrocity does not justify an atrocity 100 time worse to 2,000 times more completely innocent people, mostly children and women.
96% of them are NOT Hamas. Since when is it ethical or reasonable to punish 25 innocent people to get every guilty 1 person."
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Hey Mike,
From where did you get 96%? That sounds very high. TIA.
mcfarm said:
not being used MM. so just answer the above question. good and evil. been fighting this battle since old testament days. similar to pearl harbor or the german invasion of Poland evil must confronted and defeated. thank the Lord we had brave, brilliant, and loving soldiers to defeat what many just let slide for a decade of the 30's. Do you not know what all the terrorist groups around the Mideast, led by iran of course have for a ultimate goal
jean said:
THIS IS ALL I'M SAYIN' ON THE SUBJECT... I ACTUALLY COULD WRITE A NOVEL ON MY THOUGHTS, BUT.....
THESE SNOT NOSED "EDUCATED" PRO GAZA FOLKS. I WOULD LOVE TO ASK THEM A FEW QUESTIONS. DID THE JEWS ATTACK US WITH OUR OWN PASSENGER JETS? DID THE JEWS JUMP UP & DOWN IN SHEER JOY WHEN THOSE ATTACKS HAPPENED? HAVE YOU NOT BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT 9-11? IF SO, DID YOU COMPREHEND THAT ERA?
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mc and jean,
Whereas I get your points, the issue is that a large portion of the Gazans are non-terrorists: innocent women and children as well as elderly men and an unknown number of innocent non-elderly adult men. Don't you care about those lives? What if these innocents were your loved ones? Can't a more precise method of attack be used when going after Hamas? I realize that Hamas uses the innocents as human shields and doesn't care about their lives, but still. Also, I don't agree with impeachment of Joe for this. I didn't think that disagreements over policy were a valid reason for impeaching.
(EXCUSE ME... THIS WAS DIRECTED AT LARRY...I MADE AN ERROR) MIKE: "Don't you care about those lives? What if these innocents were your loved ones?"
ABSOLUTELY, I DO. IF THEY WERE MY RELATIVES & I KNEW FOR A FACT, THEY WERE INNOCENT... I'D HAVE OUT OF THAT **** HOLE COUNTRY, AS TRUMP MAY REFER TO IT AS. IF I COULDN'T GET THEM OUT... I'D PRAY FOR THEIR SOULS, JUST LIKE I DO FOR ALL SOULS. (MY OWN COUNTRY IS FAST TURNING ONTO A ****HOLE, TOO.)
EDIT... SEND THOSE SNOTTY NOSED BRATS TO GAZA
Thanks Larry,
The 96% number is based on an estimate that 4% of the population are members of the Hammas terrorist/militant group that Natanyahu claims to be defeating and 100% of the population in Gaza is being subjected to collective punishment.
2.3 million people X .04 = 9,200 Hammas terrorists/militants.
2.3 million people X .96 = 2.2 million innocent people
I'll be happy to adjust those uncertain numbers based on any good sources that you have (and grateful) but the points will be the same.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-death-toll-netanyahu-un-civilians-women-children/
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One reason that we know this is wrong is that the majority of deaths are children and woman.
This is very interesting below:
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https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/11/un-halves-its-estimate-of-women-and-children-killed-in-gaza/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-women-children-death-toll-1.7203167
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You might not have noticed but this year, I've tried to stay away from death and injury tally numbers for this exact reason, although recently stated that 5% of the population was killed or injured and will discard that stat too because of the uncertainty.
Stats from Gaza are very unreliable but whats happening is well known.
Re: Re: New impeachment reason
By 12345 - May 15, 2024, 1:11 p.m. MIKE: "Don't you care about those lives? What if these innocents were your loved ones?"
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Jean, that was Larry who stated that.
The friction between the two allies escalated recently when Biden decided to halt a shipment of 3,500 U.S. bombs bound for Israel.
THANKS, MIKE. I CORRECTED MY ERROR.
Hi Larry.....ask this question last week and nobody responded. If 90% of the people who live near gaza are truly innocent then they need to step up and join the fight and throw the terrorist living amongst them out on their asses. If they would join Israel in this fight, then great, Does not appear after years and years and billion after billion has been spent {donated, given, transferred, or wasted} that the so called innocent have much interest in joining the fight. So much that you and the world know what happened in the last election there. The damn terrorists won.
As far as young, old elderly, women etc I feel for all of them but they are part of the problem. Is it not true that most every jew...... during the build up, the actual war II, the murderous camps that killed millions, and after the war...... stepped up and fought with whatever they could muster along side the Americans. And if they were physically able they did other things like intelligence {900 miles of terrorist tunnels under gaza to report on}, moving supplies, first aid on and on and I do not the "innocents" doing much in these areas
as far as impeachment goes the R's are using a sorry excuse.....copying the D's crazy impeachment logic....and I mean crazy
"If 90% of the people who live near gaza are truly innocent then they need to step up and join the fight"
1. Join the Israel Defense Forces in killing, mostly, their children and women in Gaza?
2. Join Israel which is starving them to death?
3. Join Israel which is depriving them of fresh water and power?
4. Join Israel which has dropped many tens of thousands of huge bombs and destroyed most of their homes, schools, colleges, hospitals?
Ahhhh, I don't think so, mcfarm!
The IDS is their mortal enemy, that has killed many family members and obliterated their entire country like no other state sponsored effort in recent times.
The IDS is making many hundreds of thousands of life long, extreme mortal enemies that will want vengeance for what they are doing to innocent people in their country. That's in addition to the billions around the world that are witnessing it but not the direct targets and millions of them witnessing it that are so outraged that it motivates them to take actions.
Of the 4 items listed above, NOT 1 OF THEM was necessary for the IDS to fight Hammas, while minimizing death, destruction and the suffering to innocent people.
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https://www.hi.org/en/news/bombings-in-populated-areas--a-new-extreme-reached-in-gaza
An estimated 45,000 bombs were dropped during the first 89 days of conflict
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PUBLISHED ON November 18th 2022
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https://www.justsecurity.org/90789/israels-rewriting-of-the-law-of-war/
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While ordinary citizens from across the globe have expressed their condemnation of the ongoing carnage and suffering in Gaza, a coalition of 20 international human rights groups on Wednesday excoriated world leaders for standing idly by as Israel carries out "a grave violation of international humanitarian law" with its military assault on Rafah.
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mcfarm,
You want innocent people being decimated by the IDF to JOIN THEM? Most of these people are defenseless and are just trying to survive until tomorrow, let alone able to do any fighting but if they did...........who do you think they would fight against?
The same ones that 95% of the world is condemning.
Updated 1:54 PM EDT, Fri May 10, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/unga-palestinian-membership-resolution-intl/index.html
The resolution won a resounding majority of 143 votes in favor. Twenty five abstained, and nine nations voted against the text: Czechia, Hungary, Argentina, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Israel and the United States.
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This is 94% in favor vs 6% against for the countries that actually voted!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel
The following is a list of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel. As of 2013, the State of Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Since the UNHRC's creation in 2006, it has resolved almost as many resolutions condemning Israel alone than on issues for the rest of the world combined. The 45 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the UNHRC, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance).[1] From 1967 to 1989, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted 131 Security Council resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict. In early UNSC practice, resolutions did not directly invoke Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. They made an explicit determination of a threat, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and ordered an action in accordance with Article 39 or 40. UNSC Resolution 54 determined that a threat to peace existed within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter, reiterated the need for a truce, and ordered a ceasefire pursuant to Article 40 of the Charter. Although the phrase "Acting under Chapter VII" was never mentioned as the basis for the action taken, the chapter's authority was being used.[2]
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a number of resolutions stating that Israel's strategic relationship with the United States, a superpower and permanent member of the Security Council with veto power, encourages the former to pursue aggressive and expansionist policies and practices in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
A Threshold Crossed
Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
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mcfarm,
You want the people in Gaza who have always been suppressed with other Palestinians based on THE WORLD's definition of humanitarian rights to, instead of fighting the atrocities committed against them by the oppressors to join the oppressors and oppress themselves. Committing self inflicted suicide?
Next time somebody blows up your house and kills your wife, try to contemplate joining up with the person that did it to you and her. Only then, would you truly understand how people in Gaza feel about THEIR REAL WORLD.
Not the manufactured one on Fox and other sources. They are selling complete bs using propaganda for their self serving agenda, that often originates with the Military-Industrial-Political-Media complex in the United States. Add in the extremely powerful Jewish coalitions and you have the recipe for convincing propaganda used to indoctrinate us via the gatekeepers and elites that control the messaging.
I was was a member of the indoctrinated for 6 decades.
This war and dozens of hours of studying history and AUTHENTIC, independent and objective facts were a wake up call.
I still can't be anything but pro Israel at this point but am seeing this from the vantage point of them having a viable country that can exist in the future.
You can believe them stating that's what they are fighting this war for......to defend themselves and to survive.
A smart tactic for survival would not cause the vast majority of the would to be outraged with that tactic and condemn you for it and cause tens of millions to hate you even more to the point of being incentivized to eliminate you.
Netanyahu needs to stop his nonsense of eliminating Hamas to make Israel safe. Actually, people need to stop believing it.
you are damn straight. If the people of gaza truly want free independent lives that productive and peaceful then join the damn fight. I do not see it. Did not see it in the elections. Do not see it on the street, in the tunnels, on the water where terrorist fired hundred of missiles at our very own servicemen. Good Lord what if the slaves in the south had behaved that way...yes they still would be slaves and slavery would still be alive. Of course by your naïve definition slaves would of been too meek, uneducated. or have enough yearning to be free to stand and fight. I think every human deserves the right to be free and responsible for that freedom.
. Good Lord what if the slaves in the south had behaved that way...yes they still would be slaves and slavery would still be alive.
The Palestinians are like slaves/prisoners alright but you are blaming the wrong side for that. They are in fact doing what you suggested.....rebelling against the ones oppressing them. They did it in extreme UNACCEPTABLE fashion on Oct. 7th.
Obviously this is complicated but until Israel works towards a 2 state solution, there will be never ending attacks on them by Palestinians and pro Palestinian sources and along with it intense hatred. They can't kill 100 times more people than the ones in Hamas. In fact, the last 7 months, they just GREW that number a great deal by their actions.
One only needs to open their eyes and see the strong reaction of 90% of the world. The college campuses of enlightened young people. Bash them and call them names and ignore their message if you want but its a GROWING MOVEMENT. A LEGIT movement. I condemn antisemitism in every form but their message is the right ethical one for humanity.
June 14, 2022 12:01AM EDT
Israel, Egypt Movement Restrictions Wreak Havoc on Palestinian Lives
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-prison-15
(Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives, Human Rights Watch said today on the fifteenth anniversary of the 2007 closure. The closure has devastated the economy in Gaza, contributed to fragmentation of the Palestinian people, and forms part of Israeli authorities’ crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinian
“Israel, with Egypt’s help, has turned Gaza into an open-air prison,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “As many people around the world are once again traveling two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gaza’s more than two million Palestinians remain under what amounts to a 15-year-old lockdown.”
mcfarm,
I totally get why you think this way.
A year ago, I would have been on your side for the most part. Totally indoctrinated to believe that the Jews are descendants of God's chosen people and they are almost infallible when it comes to right or wrong in the Middle East.
But an open minded person CANNOT UNSEE what has happened in Gaza the past 7 months.
After my "awakening" I decided to learn about Middle East history using an open minded, objective mind. ......but still a pro Israel biased mind.
I want Israel to survive but my mind can see why they are doing the wrong things to accomplish that.
I see people as human beings first as God does.
With that being the case, Israel does NOT represent God's will or God's work in Gaza, regardless of what religion you believe in. It's the complete opposite of what every religion stands for!
Unless you define Netanyahu as your God!!!
The Razor of Judgment
Divine Judgment and the Consequences of Rebellion
Despite the severity of the impending judgment, Ezekiel 5 ultimately serves as a profound reminder of the significance of obedience to God's laws and the dire consequences of disobedience. Though His judgment is severe, it comes as a response to relentless rebellion and refusal to follow His laws. In contemporary life, the chapter calls us to take heed of our actions, making sure they align with God's commandments, underlining that God's love for His people does not negate His justice.
Verses 1-4: The Symbolic Haircut
God instructs Ezekiel to shave his head and beard, dividing the hair into thirds. Each portion represents the various judgments that will befall Jerusalem: death by plague and famine, death by the sword, and dispersion to the winds. A few hairs saved in his garment symbolize the remnant that will be spared.
Verses 5-8: Jerusalem, the Center of Rebellion
God declares that Jerusalem, located at the center of the nations, has been more wicked than the nations surrounding it, not following God's laws and decrees. As such, He is against Jerusalem and will execute judgments in the sight of the nations.
Verses 9-17: The Severity of the Judgment
God foretells of a judgment so severe that it has never been done before and will never be done again. He will reduce the supply of bread and water, bring about famine and wild beasts, and send pestilence and bloodshed. Jerusalem will become a ruin and a taunt to all the nations around when God executes His judgments. God’s wrath will cease, His anger will rest on them, and He will be comforted.
Ezekiel 5 is a dramatic chapter in the book of Ezekiel, in which the prophet Ezekiel, guided by God's hand, uses vivid symbolic actions to predict the severe judgment about to befall the city of Jerusalem due to its rebelliousness against God. The chapter underscores God's profound disappointment with His chosen people and reveals the impending consequences of their disobedience.
https://biblehub.com/chaptersummaries/ezekiel/5.htm
Thanks mcfarm and jean!
Regardless of what's in the bible and religion, the REAL world with millions of REAL humans beings, being subjected to REAL, extreme, widespread, horrific atrocities from a diabolical, powerful psychopath means there will be reckoning/accountability from 95% of the REAL people/countries who base their discernment on the REAL authentic facts.
The US and Israel can push their propaganda and religion nonsense to obfuscate what is crystal clear to the vast majority of people in the world with a conscience, including atheists and Muslims but it doesn't change the REALity.
This is one of those times when many Christians and Jews embarrass themselves as hypocrites (not you, Jean) by using religious tribalism to define and interpret the dynamics going on in Palestine/Gaza.
What Israel is doing is insanely 1 sided and profoundly wrong!
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My main thought on this is..........
WHAT THE HECK TOOK SO LONG!!!!
Why would Rs even want Biden impeached?
Don't fix something that's not broken?
In this case, don't help something to resurrect that's already dead!!!!
MIKE SAID: "This is one of those times when many Christians and Jews embarrass themselves as hypocrites (not you, Jean) by using religious tribalism to define and interpret the dynamics going on in Palestine/Gaza." THANK YOU, MIKE.
KINDA LIKE I'M A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, BUT... WITH THE PAST FEW CYCLES, I REFER TO MYSELF AS AN ACTUAL RINO. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW R'S THAT I AGREE WITH ANYMORE. THEY'RE LIKE THE D'S... THEY'VE LEFT THE GOP... LIKE THE D'S HAVE LEFT THEIR PARTY. I MAY REGISTER AS A I DON'T KNOW WHAT. I GOTTA BE REGISTERED TO VOTE, THO. I HAVEN'T GIVEN TO THE RNC IN MANY YEARS.