I just want to share some positive news related at least in part to the resistance movement and that is the effect of the Boycott/Divest/Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel. It is playing a major role in tanking the Israeli economy with corporations pulling their investments out of the country and even Israelis divesting from their economy to try to shield some portion of their personal wealth.
You can learn more of how BDS is playing a role in this good 10-minute overview video on the crumbling Israeli economy:
I know all this is hard, but whatever we are experiencing isn't even a shadow of what the Palestinian people are experiencing in Gaza and the West Bank. We need to speak for those who can't speak or are killed. Pus. Resist. Expose the cruelty and venality of the Israeli/US cabal.
Be ready to rally Americans when Congress rips away what few benefits Americans have to prop up the collapsing Israeli economy.
Spot-on, Mark: it's indeed absolutely morally atrocious the extent to which average spoiled Westerners think it's worse to bring up the right-wing Judeonazi Holocaust against the Palestinian people than the very fact that our taxpayer dollars are being poured into the Zionazi death machine.
A while ago, a "friend" of mine IRL (not that he was ever a sincere friend anyways) said that he's trying to "stop reading the news because it's full of negative stuff." IOWs, he was too comfortable with his plentifully spoiled and luxurious life to be even slightly mentally disturbed by what our country is funding in the Middle East. Too many people in typical American day-to-day life are like this, I'm sorry to say.
When I'm accused of being "too negative" for paying attention to what we are doing in the world I know I'm talking with someone who has closed down their soul. I live in a community where I can literally count on one hand the number of people who have engaged in any discussion about the US/Israel genocide and still have a couple fingers free.
Probably a relatable feeling for me; in what I've noticed, there are plenty more people, exclusively on the "progressive left" and associated broad adherents of what we may call "neo-Marxist" cultural mentality, who only talk about these issues (and on social media mainly) when they become "trendy" but otherwise give little concern on an average basis. So all in all, there's only a small fraction truly concerned with the human rights plight sincerely in their heart.
Essentially, a lot of these typical "woke" college students don't *really* care about Palestinian human rights all the way. They just co-opt the pro-Palestine movement when expedient for their own public image and toss aside the issue when it means making a personal sacrifice to some extent. Of course, these are the privileged "typical" spoiled Americans in sharp contrast to the Arab/Muslim movement organizers who are the ones with a moral spine and whose firm convictions I (as a Christian, BTW) greatly respect.
Interesting, especially since I live in Wisconsin.
I have shocked a few people when I have said even if the Democrats got Medicare For All passed if they still supported the US/Israel genocide I would not vote for them. I point out that Hitler did a lot of good things to pull Germany out of the depths of the Great Depression, he created jobs and broadened social services -- hell, he even built the Autobahn -- and NONE of that outweighed the obscenity of his genocide.
Genocide (and ecocide) is the ultimate crime that outweighs any performative gestures of good a government may do.
Yep, you're pinpoint spot-on in where your priorities are politically! In my case (I've been a "conservative" for all these years and more or less still broadly identify with basic realist, traditional conservative principles, as much as I now completely loathe the mainstream "right" and its predominant Orange Bolshevist sewer), I haven't talked to that many right-wingers in the past half-year, though I'd imagine that they similarly would be surprised/peeved at me refusing to vote for the GOP over the party's Zionazi funding.
100%. And yet, there must be many of us....do we just not know who we can trust out there? I wear my little kufiya wristband every day, hoping that customers or anyone else might see it and say something to let me know they're one of us....but no one ever does. In my business we have a kufiya wrapped around a mannequin....but the white baby boomers in our neighborhood don't even recognize it and think it's just a scarf 😞
It's shocking how deeply people have buried their heads in the sand. Meanwhile for me, and many of us it seems, this genocide has completely changed my life and my outlook on all things.
Yes, I do wake up every morning like this. I dread reading the news or looking at Twitter and YouTube. I'm still as outraged as 10+ months ago when this began. However I'm sickened more intensely with each daily atrocity and act of depravity. Will this ever end? I realized there's no White Knights in the US - Western colonialism. No one, despite the hand wringing and carefully measured admonishments, will lift a finger to stop this. 'Murica will continue to fund, support and defend it's genocide to the bitter end 🤬 no matter how many US people die doing it... WW3 must go forward. Crazy assholes and psychopaths 😤🤬
Yes resources are part of this. Another is that the US Western colonialism is dying. The world is evolving into a cooperative global society (BRICS) and warmongering is the only hope for staying in power. Biden has stirred up so much craziness globally that we're on the brink of exploding. The US is only about warfare, It's the #1 arms dealer for the world. Without war we'd go broke 😂😢
For 11 months now I have lived and breathed it from dawn til dusk… friends tell me I need to concentrate on my mental health. NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE GENOCIDE. I have almost fallen out with two of my friends! I post about the atrocities all day everyday on Facebook and instagram and only one dear friend who I met at the Marches responds.
Attending the marches actually helps to keep me sane whereby I can actually talk to people who also live and breathe this ongoing nightmare 😱
I feel exactly the same way. Gaza is on my mind more than anything has ever been on my mind, for nearly a year. I no longer speak to most of my family and so-called friends, quit my volunteer job, canceled entertainment streaming, have attended no parties, and any time I am not working, I am reading or listening to news about the genocide. I cannot care about anything except my cats and Gaza. And yet, no one in town says a word, just goes about life like it isn't ending, not just for Palestinians but for us all. How many of us are walking around like this, alone in our despair, while Gaza burns and the rich laugh and throw money at each other? And Substack has become my support group. ❤️🇵🇸
I feel the same way, Chrissie. Other than my husband, I don't really know of anyone who feels as strongly about what is happening in Gaza as I do. Some of those I've left behind I'll probably never have another conversation with ever again. I don't mind. If you support genocide--or any politician who supports genocide--I don't really need to talk to you. You'll find me "overtly righteous" and I'll find you "sociopathic." Better to attend a protest and talk to like-minded folks.
You describe my mornings exactly. Few friends or family will comment on anything I post. Be quiet, be compliant, vote blue no matter who, fuck that. If this isn’t worth screaming about and losing friends over, then what is? History will not be kind to those who stood silent while this never ending horror unfolds. No consolation for those under siege, of course, but I welcome the day when our politicians and their media stenographers have to try to justify their actions.
Yeah, I don't even recognize many old friends for the people I thought they were. This genocide is literally tearing the world apart in ways seen and unseen.
I haven’t written in four days because I’ve run out of words and tears. I sit in my easy chair just staring now. Who gives a shit? But, heh, the Catholic Church held a meeting of dumb fu is dressed in purple because they were offended by the Opening Ceremonies of the French Olympics.
Today, I awoke from a dream of a court room with a judge refusing to acknowledge my evidence, and me knowing that my verdict was rigged. My dream was a repeat of my real life. The disturbia is that's the situation for whole countries, millions of people unable to resist what those richer than them have rigged.
I have feelings of deja vu lately. Back in the 80s, I'd dream about waking up to a sky that was blood red and full of flames--the nukes were falling. That dream has come back. Wonder why?
I'm not going to shut up ever about this horror happening in Gaza all due to our tax dollars, bombs, and zy0nist owned politicians. I'm going to keep shouting and shouting until the bombs stop falling, the government of Izrealhell is no more, and the Western politicians are all locked up as the war criminals they are.
Some tough questions…… How can this anarchy be stopped? How can the lobby be destroyed? Powerful politicians across the world are knowingly & willingly accepting lobby donations & willfully allowing & committing horrific mass crimes. How much more of this horror needs to continue to awaken the humanity in powerful people who can make a serious difference if they so choose? Are there no conscientious & humane people who are powerful? Why are the “good” powers not coming together to stop this obviously horrific terrorism perpetrated & facilitated by the lobby? Alas…. the answers to these questions are looking shockingly dismal…..There is no humanity. Greed for power through lobby dollars clearly exceeds human compassion & conscience. The self-serving animal instinct prevails, where there’s really no compassion for the fellow human being. Murder is absolutely 100% acceptable behavior in exchange for lobby dollars & power. This has been clearly demonstrated as the genocide is progressing. The “good” powers are just watching complicitly as it’s not directly affecting them. This clearly means that if one is powerless, one will be helpless & defenseless. No entity will come to the rescue. This just demonstrates the fact that absolute power is the ultimate savior & the ultimate protector. Power supersedes everything. Power decides what’s right/wrong, good/evil. Power commands. Everything else is fake window dressing.
I just want to share some positive news related at least in part to the resistance movement and that is the effect of the Boycott/Divest/Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel. It is playing a major role in tanking the Israeli economy with corporations pulling their investments out of the country and even Israelis divesting from their economy to try to shield some portion of their personal wealth.
You can learn more of how BDS is playing a role in this good 10-minute overview video on the crumbling Israeli economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEhRylJcik&t=611s
I know all this is hard, but whatever we are experiencing isn't even a shadow of what the Palestinian people are experiencing in Gaza and the West Bank. We need to speak for those who can't speak or are killed. Pus. Resist. Expose the cruelty and venality of the Israeli/US cabal.
Be ready to rally Americans when Congress rips away what few benefits Americans have to prop up the collapsing Israeli economy.
Spot-on, Mark: it's indeed absolutely morally atrocious the extent to which average spoiled Westerners think it's worse to bring up the right-wing Judeonazi Holocaust against the Palestinian people than the very fact that our taxpayer dollars are being poured into the Zionazi death machine.
A while ago, a "friend" of mine IRL (not that he was ever a sincere friend anyways) said that he's trying to "stop reading the news because it's full of negative stuff." IOWs, he was too comfortable with his plentifully spoiled and luxurious life to be even slightly mentally disturbed by what our country is funding in the Middle East. Too many people in typical American day-to-day life are like this, I'm sorry to say.
When I'm accused of being "too negative" for paying attention to what we are doing in the world I know I'm talking with someone who has closed down their soul. I live in a community where I can literally count on one hand the number of people who have engaged in any discussion about the US/Israel genocide and still have a couple fingers free.
Probably a relatable feeling for me; in what I've noticed, there are plenty more people, exclusively on the "progressive left" and associated broad adherents of what we may call "neo-Marxist" cultural mentality, who only talk about these issues (and on social media mainly) when they become "trendy" but otherwise give little concern on an average basis. So all in all, there's only a small fraction truly concerned with the human rights plight sincerely in their heart.
Not sure if you saw this article a while ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-are-mad-gaza-many-dont-see-driving-2024-vote-rcna150387
Essentially, a lot of these typical "woke" college students don't *really* care about Palestinian human rights all the way. They just co-opt the pro-Palestine movement when expedient for their own public image and toss aside the issue when it means making a personal sacrifice to some extent. Of course, these are the privileged "typical" spoiled Americans in sharp contrast to the Arab/Muslim movement organizers who are the ones with a moral spine and whose firm convictions I (as a Christian, BTW) greatly respect.
Interesting, especially since I live in Wisconsin.
I have shocked a few people when I have said even if the Democrats got Medicare For All passed if they still supported the US/Israel genocide I would not vote for them. I point out that Hitler did a lot of good things to pull Germany out of the depths of the Great Depression, he created jobs and broadened social services -- hell, he even built the Autobahn -- and NONE of that outweighed the obscenity of his genocide.
Genocide (and ecocide) is the ultimate crime that outweighs any performative gestures of good a government may do.
Yep, you're pinpoint spot-on in where your priorities are politically! In my case (I've been a "conservative" for all these years and more or less still broadly identify with basic realist, traditional conservative principles, as much as I now completely loathe the mainstream "right" and its predominant Orange Bolshevist sewer), I haven't talked to that many right-wingers in the past half-year, though I'd imagine that they similarly would be surprised/peeved at me refusing to vote for the GOP over the party's Zionazi funding.
100%. And yet, there must be many of us....do we just not know who we can trust out there? I wear my little kufiya wristband every day, hoping that customers or anyone else might see it and say something to let me know they're one of us....but no one ever does. In my business we have a kufiya wrapped around a mannequin....but the white baby boomers in our neighborhood don't even recognize it and think it's just a scarf 😞
I have the same with the Palestinian flag pin on my book bag. I even keep a few extra to giveaway in case someone wants one. Nobody has said a word.
It's shocking how deeply people have buried their heads in the sand. Meanwhile for me, and many of us it seems, this genocide has completely changed my life and my outlook on all things.
Yes, it has been a 'mask-off' moment and once the true US monster is seen, it can't go unseen again.
Yes, I do wake up every morning like this. I dread reading the news or looking at Twitter and YouTube. I'm still as outraged as 10+ months ago when this began. However I'm sickened more intensely with each daily atrocity and act of depravity. Will this ever end? I realized there's no White Knights in the US - Western colonialism. No one, despite the hand wringing and carefully measured admonishments, will lift a finger to stop this. 'Murica will continue to fund, support and defend it's genocide to the bitter end 🤬 no matter how many US people die doing it... WW3 must go forward. Crazy assholes and psychopaths 😤🤬
I fear you are right. Big Money wants the resources, so there will be war.
Yes resources are part of this. Another is that the US Western colonialism is dying. The world is evolving into a cooperative global society (BRICS) and warmongering is the only hope for staying in power. Biden has stirred up so much craziness globally that we're on the brink of exploding. The US is only about warfare, It's the #1 arms dealer for the world. Without war we'd go broke 😂😢
The US is nothing without killing kids.
I hear you guys
For 11 months now I have lived and breathed it from dawn til dusk… friends tell me I need to concentrate on my mental health. NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE GENOCIDE. I have almost fallen out with two of my friends! I post about the atrocities all day everyday on Facebook and instagram and only one dear friend who I met at the Marches responds.
Attending the marches actually helps to keep me sane whereby I can actually talk to people who also live and breathe this ongoing nightmare 😱
The marches I have been able to attend have been inspiring ... especially the young people.
I feel exactly the same way. Gaza is on my mind more than anything has ever been on my mind, for nearly a year. I no longer speak to most of my family and so-called friends, quit my volunteer job, canceled entertainment streaming, have attended no parties, and any time I am not working, I am reading or listening to news about the genocide. I cannot care about anything except my cats and Gaza. And yet, no one in town says a word, just goes about life like it isn't ending, not just for Palestinians but for us all. How many of us are walking around like this, alone in our despair, while Gaza burns and the rich laugh and throw money at each other? And Substack has become my support group. ❤️🇵🇸
@clobberella you’re not alone my friend
I feel the same way, Chrissie. Other than my husband, I don't really know of anyone who feels as strongly about what is happening in Gaza as I do. Some of those I've left behind I'll probably never have another conversation with ever again. I don't mind. If you support genocide--or any politician who supports genocide--I don't really need to talk to you. You'll find me "overtly righteous" and I'll find you "sociopathic." Better to attend a protest and talk to like-minded folks.
You describe my mornings exactly. Few friends or family will comment on anything I post. Be quiet, be compliant, vote blue no matter who, fuck that. If this isn’t worth screaming about and losing friends over, then what is? History will not be kind to those who stood silent while this never ending horror unfolds. No consolation for those under siege, of course, but I welcome the day when our politicians and their media stenographers have to try to justify their actions.
Yeah, I don't even recognize many old friends for the people I thought they were. This genocide is literally tearing the world apart in ways seen and unseen.
I feel that people using emoticons for politeness sake are as ill as those waging death.
I haven’t written in four days because I’ve run out of words and tears. I sit in my easy chair just staring now. Who gives a shit? But, heh, the Catholic Church held a meeting of dumb fu is dressed in purple because they were offended by the Opening Ceremonies of the French Olympics.
Tom, I hear you, but see the newest comment I added to the thread. There actually is some hopeful news on the effects of the resistance.
Fascists
Today, I awoke from a dream of a court room with a judge refusing to acknowledge my evidence, and me knowing that my verdict was rigged. My dream was a repeat of my real life. The disturbia is that's the situation for whole countries, millions of people unable to resist what those richer than them have rigged.
What we now have brought on ourselves
I have feelings of deja vu lately. Back in the 80s, I'd dream about waking up to a sky that was blood red and full of flames--the nukes were falling. That dream has come back. Wonder why?
I'm not going to shut up ever about this horror happening in Gaza all due to our tax dollars, bombs, and zy0nist owned politicians. I'm going to keep shouting and shouting until the bombs stop falling, the government of Izrealhell is no more, and the Western politicians are all locked up as the war criminals they are.
Some tough questions…… How can this anarchy be stopped? How can the lobby be destroyed? Powerful politicians across the world are knowingly & willingly accepting lobby donations & willfully allowing & committing horrific mass crimes. How much more of this horror needs to continue to awaken the humanity in powerful people who can make a serious difference if they so choose? Are there no conscientious & humane people who are powerful? Why are the “good” powers not coming together to stop this obviously horrific terrorism perpetrated & facilitated by the lobby? Alas…. the answers to these questions are looking shockingly dismal…..There is no humanity. Greed for power through lobby dollars clearly exceeds human compassion & conscience. The self-serving animal instinct prevails, where there’s really no compassion for the fellow human being. Murder is absolutely 100% acceptable behavior in exchange for lobby dollars & power. This has been clearly demonstrated as the genocide is progressing. The “good” powers are just watching complicitly as it’s not directly affecting them. This clearly means that if one is powerless, one will be helpless & defenseless. No entity will come to the rescue. This just demonstrates the fact that absolute power is the ultimate savior & the ultimate protector. Power supersedes everything. Power decides what’s right/wrong, good/evil. Power commands. Everything else is fake window dressing.
At every opportunity and in every way, throw sand and gravel in the gears.
Yes!
Speak.
Question.
Resist. In whatever way possible.
To be silent is to be actively complicit.