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Nov 26, 2023·edited Nov 27, 2023

It's really more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners. It is also 2.3 million prisoners in a concentration camp. Prisoners aren't the same thing as hostages. Israel doesn't even offer to let them out so holding people prisoner endlessly is worse. With hostages, the prisoner goes free at the end. Israel just locks people up. Neither type of action should be condoned. But the temporary hostage situation pales in comparison with Israel's long, traumatizing imprisonment and firing at millions. I certainly hope the hostages are all returned very soon. But this endless imprisonment of Gaza -- when does it end?

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Thank you, Richard. My thought and sentiments align with yours.

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Hear, hear!

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Bravo! I'm with you, Richard. I've had enough, too. Enough of the denial. Enough of the Western propaganda that turns smothered under rubble little boys and girls into "terrorists" and tells you to scorn them, not mourn them. Enough is enough! #FreePalestine

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I, too, have had enough of Rich Men's Wars. Tricksters. #donotcomply (with their tyranny).

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That was everything.

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Happen to agree. It's time for a globalised rage! Woodstock generation granny Chicago IL.

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I've had enough too, my brother. Thank you. Raging right alongside you

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Part 1 …

Richard,

Mate… I stand and agree with you, as a kiwi living at the far most reaches of the world watching and worse listening to the filth that is passed off as justification for the Zionist evil the world has been forced to swallow for decades now, like you I’ve had a right guts full.

It is both despicable and abhorrent, that we have had to endure this crap for so many decades, always like the cowards, frauds and filth the Zionists represent, hiding behind the veneer of victimhood, always crying antisemite, antisemitism that time worn overused trope always on hand, rolled out to deflect any justified and indignation against the criminal acts these most odious of human beings perpetrate, almost gleefully, bragging, laughing, despicable as they are with the haughty indifference by which the have promulgated against an innocent people.

Worse, the so called leaders of the free world crotch deep up zionists arse kow towing to their every whim, frightened, scared, timid, weak, to stand up to these cowards and criminals these frauds.

These people the Zionists do not represent nor speak for Jewry, many not even Jews as truly defined by the scriptures they now obscenely cite as legitimacy for their murder, the destruction they have wrought upon an innocent people.

Good on Palestine for rising against their tormentors, their jailers, their oppressors, these sadists who gleefully inflict this suffering, ignoring every International call to reign in their behaviour, to comply with the diktat of the International community, not for them or their. U.S psychotic overlords, nor the as stated those nations comprising the much vaunted “Garden” loving up, as they turn a blind eye to these breaches of International Law and Convention, to that even more odious fool, their Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, who labelled every other nation outside of their “ Garden” the “ Jungle”, sick, narcissistic and pure evil as we witness their true belligerent attitude, an attitude obviously predicate upon bias, prejudice and overt racism toward anyone who looks different, has a different culture, so much for the maturity and finesse of Europe and the West, my reply, shove your rules based order, your self righteous indignation where the sun doesn’t shine.. up your collective arses.

How dare these hypocrites who patently and clearly, as a consequence their lack of humanity, of any decency, have been found wanting by the intelligence agencies of the U.S and Israel, just what “drop”, what are the “goods” , rather the filth that they’ve accumulated on these weaklings, these cowards, all to quick to rush to judgment Oct 7 and endorse right of defence… well that cuts both ways, as I said, HAMAS and the Palestinian populace they represent have every right, as much as Israel cries for, to retaliate against their oppressors, indeed it is their duty, sanctioned as such is under international law, let alone the natural laws of human instinct, seemingly not for the Palestinians a weak, lame submission to their oppression readily accepting the punishment meted out to them, sad the Jews didn’t show the same fight, the same spirit of resistance WW2 against their Nazi oppressors, maybe the death toll would have been less than the 6million who died in the holocaust, or alternatively they could have died fighting to save their lives, in dignity, better that for me if facing the same predicament than lamely accepting my fate, walking to my death, fight, fight, fight, it’s the last human and most basic instinct we all possess, so how dare they critique any oppressed human being from exercising basic human instinct, time they asked the stone hard questions.

We know what this is truly about, the Ben Gurion Canal project, to develop the Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea project, see the following…

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-israel-destroys-gaza-control-world-most-important-shipping-lane/5839470

a project endorsed the U.S OR the Condensates Grab of the Leviathan (Levant) resources, (See Below)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-gas-oil-and-trouble-in-the-levant/5362955

once again a colonialesque heist, brazen in its scope, also endorsed the U.S, U.K, E.U and E.U nations France, Italy, Germany in the main, all salivating over the circa USD$600+Billion in resources identified as lying under and off of the Coast of Gaza, funny that, little wonder they raced to this psycho Israeli governments side, standing rigid, erect beside them double QuickTime, it was as disgusting a display of wanton gleeful greed as ever witnessed, you could almost see them salivating at the prospect of finally being given the opportunity to clean up once and for all. these people who stand in their way of realising their collective “Wet Dream”, only issue is we know, we know and are aware of the truth, we cannot allow them, the Zionists and their monied backers, this brazen theft of resource from a peaceable people.

If your honest and truly seeking truth ask yourself… Cui Bono: “To Whom Does it Benefit”

There are strategic, geopolitical and economic objectives behind Israel’s genocide directed against the people of Palestine. “Crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators”: Israel’s War against the People of Palestine serves the interests of Big Money, the Military Industrial Complex, Corrupt Politicians…   “Crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators”

Israel’s War against the People of Palestine serves the interests of Big Money, the Military Industrial Complex, Corrupt Politicians…Politicians who by virtue their own wrongdoing are blackmailed, threatened, intimidated to do the right thing… Jeffrey Epstein a Mossad Agent allegedly spent his life gathering via the filthiest and most nefarious means the goods on those we elect to govern us, by virtue their immorality they become compromised and we pay the price for their behaviour and ultimately… betrayal… filth, the majority of them for allowing themselves to be so compromised.

Time they were replaced, challenged, primaried… stood against, time to end it… boot them all!!

This Genocide is implemented by Netanyahu on behalf of the United States and its monied interests.

The US military and intelligence apparatus is behind Israel’s criminal bombing and invasion of Gaza.

Part 2 Follows..

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Part 2 Response Richard Medhurst …

The targeting of civilians and the killing of children in Gaza is modelled on numerous US sponsored massacres of civilians (1945-2023) including the 2004 attack on Fallujah. (***More than 30 Million mainly civilian deaths in US-led wars in what is euphemistically called the “post War Era”).

Greater Israel”.

Strategic “Anglo-American Hub”  

The Promised Land of Greater Israel coincides with America’s Colonial Design in the Middle East 

The Greater Israel design is not strictly a Zionist Project for the Middle East, it is an integral part of US foreign policy, its strategic objective is to extend US hegemony as well as fracture and balkanize the Middle East.  

In this regard, Washington’s strategy consists in destabilizing and weakening regional economic powers in the Middle East including Turkey and Iran. This policy –which is consistent with the Greater Israel–  is  accompanied by a process of political fragmentation.

The Biden Administration is Intent upon Destabilizing the Iran-Qatar Partnership 

This partnership is supportive of the People of Palestine.

In March 2022, “President Joe Biden  following a meeting with Qatar’s Emir Sheik Tamim “designated Qatar as a major non-NATO ally of the United States, fulfilling the promise that he had made to Qatar earlier this year [2022], the White House said” Reuters 

America’s Promised Land”. Global Warfare

When viewed in the current context, including the siege on Gaza, the Zionist Plan for the Middle East coincides with America’s long war against the Middle East. As we mentioned earlier the Zionist agenda provides an ideological and religious justification of America’s long war against the Middle East. 

* The 1979-80. the so-called Soviet Afghan War, engineered by the CIA 

* The 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War engineered by the U.S. 

* The 1991 Gulf War against Iraq,

* The 2001 The US-NATO Invasion of Afghanistan, 

* The 2003 Invasion of  Iraq

* The 2006 War on Lebanon,

* The Arab Spring,

* The 2011 war on Libya,

* The 2015 war on Yemen

* Obama’s 2014-2017 “Counter-Terrorism” Operation against Iraq and Syria

* The ongoing wars against Syria, Iraq and Yemen

* The destruction and Takedown of Democratic Leaders in nations such as Pakistan ( Imrahn Kahn) Shinzo Abe ( Japan), the attempted Coup against Tycep Erdogan of Turkey being leaders who stood against this U.S led expansionist diktat, considered by the U.S antithetical and enemies of the U.S given their stated positions, positions in the main that extolled diplomacy, peace and relationships with Sovereign States endowed with Natural Resources that their nations could benefit from given strong diplomatic ties.. or from simply being considered neutral in contrast the U.S led hyper confrontational policies.

The “Greater Israel” project consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of a US-Israeli expansionist project, with the support of NATO.

Needless to day, the ideological and religious underpinnings of the “Greater Israel” project are consistent with America’s imperial design.

The Captagon Act… It is hard not to see this as economic and political vindictiveness on behalf of the US and UK regimes particularly with the recent normalisation with Syria and President Assad in the Arab world culminating in Assad’s speech at the Arab League Summit.

Not forgetting the additional Assad Anti-normalisation Act introduced in Congress May 2023 to prohibit the US from “recognising or normalising relations with any government of Syria that is led by Bashar Al Assad”. As if these nations can legititimise their illegal acts in breach of International Law by hiding behind such a turgid piece of legislation, it’s akin to the lame excuse for U.S Military Base and personnel profileration justifying the illegal and uninvited occupation of many sovereign states citing as they do “The War Against Terrorism” pull the other one, their presence has hindered not helped that fight… ask any of the nations they are uninvited to be in…. Time to go home and stop flogging other peoples Oil and Natural Resources, plunderers and thieves, pure and simple, thank you NOT for your service…

The US and UK know their regime change plans have been derailed in Syria but they are not going to give up. As long as there is breath in the Empire’s carcass they will suffocate the Syrian people in every feasible way.

Did you know that the United States and its allies have dropped more than 350,000 bombs and missiles on 9 countries since 2001 (including 14,000 in the current war on Gaza)? That’s an average of 44 airstrikes per day, day in, day out, for 22 years.

Israel, in its present war on Gaza, with children making up more than 40% of the more than 14,000 people killed to date, would surely like to mimic the extraordinary U.S. ability to hide its brutality. But despite Israel’s efforts to impose a media blackout, the massacre is taking place in a small, enclosed, densely-populated urban area, often called an open-air prison, where the world can see a great deal more than usual of how it impacts real people. They’ve lost control of the narrative, thankfully otherwise it’d be more of the same a la Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Kosovo et al… not to mention the illegal hits against Iran, etc..sick.

So like you I’m over the lies, the bullshit, the constant propaganda, being treated as an idiot, as if I came down in the last rain shower, enough already, we are over it, many having awakened, they’ve lost this one, the people, many like you and me awake, sick of it, bring on multipolarity, a new paradigm, it’s driving them crazy, the power elite, realising the world is changing, that they no longer can control nor ride rough shod over us anymore, their futures limited, that a preponderance of nations will reinstate, recalibrate and ultimately enforce international institutions, conventions and norms, long polluted by their fraud, corruption, greed and avarice, cannot come soon enough, bring it on I say… the sooner the better. Kia Kaha to you from New Zealand my friend… and all like minded.

***Credit to Global Research and the Authors of both Articles linked hereto… salute to them for their outstanding research and writing, for their awakening of those ignorant to truth… utmost respect…

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Wonderful. I think he covered everything.

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It's now, "Never Again, unless WE are doing it!"

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Jeffrey Sachs Testimony at the UN Security Council Meeting - November 20, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm4qLWc_Co0

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Israel has been blockading Gaza for more than a decade, which is an act of war forbidden by the UN and Geneva convention...but if Hamas launches a pin prick strike, it's "terrorism"...No it's not, but Israel's fanatics in the government are using it for genocide and to seize Palestinian territory...Many jews in Israel and the world oppose this attempted genocide...so it's not the average jews, it's Bibi's fanatical cabinet that are behind this crime...Hopefully, it will backfire on these evil people..

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Spot on in every way. But no one sees past the simplest explanation (propaganda). 90% will never wake up no matter what happens next.

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Bravo. And I have had enough of the struck in headlights fucking deer writing Substacks and Podcasts who somehow think Israel is not a Jewish state but just a ZIonist state. Tired of the human stain who are Zionists AND Jews, cloned to their tribal roots, telling the world what is and is not wrong or right about Isra-Hell and Hamas.

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We have to hear from Cornel West, Gabor Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Glen Greenwald, and others how they see the tragedy of what happened Oct. 7 and thereafter.

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Last time I checked, you HAVE to fight if you are caged, corralled, and ghettoized.

Here, again, Sidney Blumenthal and his shit show with Clinton and Obama, but his son is somehow separated from the old man? Max Blumenthal.

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https://youtu.be/lFZxYoYU2L8?si=Hmju4_1ysC26syJS

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This is worse than genocide. It's orchestrated by proxies, by the Billionaire Class, by the fascists and inner fascists of the Political Elite. We just listen to these fucking poorly educated Poison Ivy League and Oxford and Rhodes scholars (sic) in the media, in the UN, in the EU, in USA, UK, Klanada, and how can one not want to put a bat to their heads?

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https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/toddlers-and-guns-and-happy-fucking

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It took this bloody rabbi 30 years to turn away from Zionism?

https://youtu.be/cI5KnHqA7JQ?si=D5gJXqp2rnYiSrPo

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Crocodile tears, man. Again, the narrative is being rammed down our throats by the chosen people, daily, in Podcasts, on Substacks, in the MSM, in academia, blah blah blah monsters.,

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