Settler Colonial Contagion: A Long Simmering Plague / Gaza Catastrophe — Checking Israeli and Western Elites

NB: Israeli depravity has equaled Belsen, Maidanek and Auschwitz. Do Israelis not know what ‘the most moral army in the world’ is doing in Gaza? How can you make your young soldiers run over fleeing Palestinians with tanks and think it a good thing to do? Is not this akin to what the Waffen SS was doing in the concentration camps? Reducing human beings to vermin? Do you know how the Captain G. M. Gilbert, US Army psychologist at the Nuremberg trials in 1945-49 defined evil? This is what he said: Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. Read this post for something to think about – if you retain the capacity to think.

“One of the biggest and most influential newspapers in Germany claimed, incredibly, that “Free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler.” The systematic destruction of almost every hospital and school in Gaza is presented as necessary to defeat Hamas….” (Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy)

The most telling line in the article below is this: When your soul is gone, how do you get it back? The answer is simple, you don’t. Because neither God nor the Gnostic Demiurge can loan you another, whitewashed soul. You have plumbed the depths. Once again, I salute all those Israelis and people of Jewish faith all over the world, who have recognised evil and resisted it.

The ‘Free World’ and its self-appointed leader, the USA, has been committing or enabling atrocities for decades now: Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Iraq… and of course, Palestine. The shameless colonial occupation and brutal ethnic cleansing has gone on for so many decades, that we are all accustomed to it – just another massacre in Gaza. This belief, that if you engulf us with mind control and manufactured media, we will become amoral zombies, this is the Orwellian fantasy with which the Western establishment seeks to rule the world. It won’t succeed, but in the meantime, children and innocents will be crushed like grass. May God have mercy on your evaporated souls.. DS

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Settler Colonial Contagion: A Long Simmering Plague

Ownership entitlement barrels into neighboring bodies and lands. The literal tanks that crush bodies move forward. It is as if the world couldn’t understand the figurative so the gods decided on a visual you couldn’t deny. Tanks running over bodies. Yet, the people still say (in the manner of abusers everywhere)……well, it’s a shame they made those soldiers do that…

Kathleen Wallace

The fact that we are still having to contend with the immediacy and toxicity of settler colonialism in this, the year 2024 is nothing short of astounding. It’s probably amazing that we are still even here with philosophy such as this strangling our world. Almost every strain of entitlement and the brutal negating of the rights of others comes down from this short-sighted and ultimately extinction-level mindset.

Ownership entitlement barrels into neighboring bodies and lands. The literal tanks that crush bodies move forward. It is as if the world couldn’t understand the figurative so the gods decided on a visual you couldn’t deny. Tanks running over bodies. Yet, the people still say (in the manner of abusers everywhere)……well, it’s a shame they made those soldiers do that. Beware, however, of the risks involved with such behaviors– you might get PTSD and not want to eat meat if you engage in running over other humans with your tank. I usually leave bits like that unexplained as I give the reader credit for knowing of current events, but this I feel I have to elaborate on….the ever-disgusting CNN did a story looking into Israeli soldier PTSD after “seeing” bodies run over by tanks.

The passive voice use was incredible and it seemed to be taken as gospel that these bodies forced the soldiers to do these acts. It was almost as if a piece was created to make you feel sorry for the executioners at gas chambers. Many of you may know that there was a similar trauma that was reported on in regard to German soldier morale during WW2. Those perpetrating atrocities like the mass shootings of Jewish people and dumping bodies in pits were committing suicide and exhibiting what we, of course, now call PTSD. This seems to have been the impetus for more mass industrialized killing in the form of the gas chambers—to spare the boys the more evident dirty work. This is a chilling fact as we see history repeating itself—we certainly don’t need to see the IDF get more industrialized with their murders (is that even possible, though?).

The notion that the murder itself is the rot never seems to be a consideration when regimes go full fascist. When your soul is gone, how do you get it back? If you’re one of these entities, I suppose you try to hide the death from your own, which is, of course, being done with the systematic slaughter of journalists in the area. With this method, your soul is irretrievably gone, but you can pretend it still exists.

In this current horror, we have the continued dehumanization of Palestinians—even infants are swallowed up as causative agents of their own doom. Americans reacted with rightful disgust and revulsion at events like 9-11 or the Oklahoma City bombing, conveniently ignoring that the Israeli military is parroting the very same types of legitimacy for targets such as these…..

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/29/settler-colonial-contagion-a-long-simmering-plague

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Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy

In the debate over the past few months we have witnessed staggering levels of fabulation. One television presenter said on air that no Palestinian Christians exist. One Israeli official added that there are no Christian churches in Gaza. When the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike, an organised effort started online to portray him as a terrorist. Anything else would be a narrative violation. One of the biggest and most influential newspapers in Germany claimed, incredibly, that “Free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler.” The systematic destruction of almost every hospital and school in Gaza is presented as necessary to defeat Hamas….

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The Gaza Catastrophe — Checking Israeli and Western Elites: Chandra Muzaffar

Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their homes. Many who have chosen to stay behind have been killed. Although some food and other essentials are now available, they are far from adequate. This is why the threat of starvation is still real.

As with the rest of Gaza and Palestine, scores of medical workers have lost their lives. Media workers would be another category of people who have been victims of Israeli aggression . It has been noted that a lot of children have also succumbed to Israeli bombs and bullets. This is a pattern that has expressed itself in almost every Israeli assault upon Gaza in the last so many years.

While Israeli atrocities in North Gaza fit in with its larger agenda of ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the intensity of its current aggression in that area appears to suggest that the Tel Aviv regime has other specific goals. It has been suggested that it is in a hurry to occupy the north to ensure that it will be able to control the oil and gas reserves off the Gaza coast as soon as feasible. There are analysts who have also argued that Tel Aviv wants to convert North Gaza into a buffer zone of sorts to enhance Israel’s security. Whatever its ulterior motive, it is unconscionable that a country whose occupation of Gaza the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regards as “ illegal” should be allowed to get away with its blatant ethnic cleansing of a people and their land. …

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/29/settler-colonial-contagion-a-long-simmering-plague

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