CARTOON: But My Evil Genocider Is A NICE Evil Genocider!

Yeah, okay, what is happening in Gaza is horrible, but...

Jul 25, 2024

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DON’T LOOK AWAY: Gaza Is THE Single Defining Feature Of This American Political Moment

The closer we get to the November election the clearer it will become which American lefties have been using the word “genocide” sincerely and which have been using it solely to gain acceptance and approval in leftist circles.

By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter (7/24/24)

“I’m not a big fan of that presidential candidate’s pro-genocide policies, but I like her positions on women’s reproductive healthcare” is not the sort of thing that would be said in a sane and normal country.

The single defining feature of this political moment in the United States is that all major presidential candidates favor continuing the perpetration of an active genocide — and that everyone’s trying to tap dance around this issue.

That’s it. That’s the main story here. It’s not “American democracy is on the line in this election.” It’s not “Making America great again” or “Taking back our country” or “Fighting the woke agenda” or any of that braindead nonsense. The main story is that an actual genocide is scheduled to continue no matter whom Americans elect, and everyone’s meant to just ignore that point as though it’s some small insignificant quibble and focus on the candidates’ positions on other issues like immigration reform and student loan debt forgiveness.

The main story is this mind-warpingly insane situation in which progressive-minded Americans now find themselves saying plainly ridiculous things like “Gosh I’m not crazy about this candidate’s pro-genocide policies, but I really like what she’s saying about tax credits for low and middle income families!” It’s that right wingers are now forced to adopt the position “Yeehaw, Trump’s gonna end the wars and bring our troops home and Make America Great Again, right after he helps Israel defeat Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Shia militias in Iraq and Syria, and oh yeah, also Iran.” It’s that independents are saying “RFK Jr is going to dismantle the war machine while simultaneously backing a genocide and pledging ‘unconditional support’ for the front-line aggressor in today’s major conflicts throughout the middle east.”

That’s what all the headlines should be about. Not how Trump’s 2024 campaign strategy differs from his other presidential runs. Not the ways Kamala should go after him in their first debate. The main story in US politics is the fact that there’s a genocide happening which all viable candidates support, and that an entire country is trying to find ways to psychologically compartmentalize around this horrifying fact.

You can’t “lesser evil” a genocide. That’s not a thing. …

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“What makes watching the Gaza genocide so much more awful is remembering how nobody suffered any consequences for the invasion of Iraq. Everything just went back to the same dystopian “normal”, despite our just having watched them lie the world into an unforgivable mass atrocity with the full complicity of our news media. It was like a family watching a father casually behead his daughter over Thursday night dinner, and then everyone just returning to their meal and going on as though nothing had happened.” — Caitlin Johnstone, Gaza Is The Single Defining Feature Of This Political Moment In The US

‘Deluge Of Lies & Racist Invective’: Netanyahu's Speech Was As American As It Gets

This is everything Israel is, and this is everything the US empire is. They’re showing you who they are. Believe them.

By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter (7/25/24)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, yet simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.

The Israeli prime minister received no fewer than 58 standing ovations while speaking before both houses of Congress and spewing the most despicable lies you could possibly imagine in his conspicuously American accent. Depending on how politically aware you are, this spectacle could be perceived as either deeply un-American, or as American as it gets.

Netanyahu repeated evidence-free atrocity propaganda about what happened on October 7, falsely asserting that Hamas “burned babies alive” and killed two babies in an attic. He falsely claimed that Hamas “butchered 1,200 people”, pretending it’s not a well-established fact that many of the 1,139 Israeli deaths that day came from both indiscriminate IDF fire and deliberate targeting in implementation of the Hannibal Directive. …

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A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MATRIX: An Example Of How The Zionist Lobby Buys American Souls

This entire video interview on a variety of foreign affair topics is informative and worth watching. An anecdote at the end by former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter is of special interest. He speaks of the time the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) approached him with a lucrative proposal to become a tool for Israeli ZioNazism. His story gives a real world example of how AIPAC and the Israelis work to warp and wrap up our national dialog and perspective on Israel and its brutal colonial rule. Note especially who made the offer and the powerful role he played in US foreign policy. You can find the seqment toward the end of the video at the 10-minute mark.