It’s there money they own you

Muslims in the west MUST pay taxes and support Israel aka the winners of WW2. The losers of WW2 are in a bad situation.

And, to the best of my knowledge, their Health Service ....

And it’s why Arabs hate the US. Same as it ever was.

AIPAC, NED, AOL

Sykes, Picquot, and Balfour screwed many other ethnics too. Kurds still have no country. Iraq wanted Kuwait. Turks and Ottomans are like the Confederate southern Dixiecrats. They both yearn for a lost cause. Taking a country based on a bible was nuts. The War on Terror has made over 37,000,000 refugees.

I often think how many Palestinian Christans were Jewish before Christianity, likely among the first Christians.

It was determined by the winners of WW2 that Israel shall be installed. A cold reality is that winners of wars EARN land and losers LOSE land. Winner are masters and losers are slaves. The Palestinians are losers of war and now they fight a lost war since 1948. The Palestinians also lose more land as they fight and lose lost wars. Losers of wars are supposed to SURRENDER, otherwise they can be completely knocked off. It is clear many people wanted the other side to win WW2, but they lost. You yourself needed Hitler to win, but he lost. You may have success in the next World War, but right now, I’m pretty sure you are just confused about what is going on as a left wing individual. If you are far right, you support the losers of WW2. If you are Islamic, again, you support the losers of WW2, but I’m pretty sure you like gay people and feminists, so you are a left winger who wishes Hitler won, that makes you very confused

Just an example of capitalism on display.

@@user-dj6hu9gq4t looks like religion to me. Capitalism means no welfare for corporations or individuals. Religion means welfare for individuals and corporations. Perhaps you can blame socialism which is religious, but the invisible hand of the market is not at play, it’s being controlled and manipulated and central planners aka communist

100%

Exactly. And the thing is, they're setting their kids up to live in the same world as today. They continually recreate the situation and then wonder why . They're condemning their children.

That’s exactly the Machiavellian plan .

Well said diego!

That would have already happened then. It's been a concentration camp of children and young adults who lost most of their family and several homes, have been starved, deprived healthcare, subjected to some of the worst poverty imaginable, and terrorized for their entire life. They are stuck with Hamas. There is no formal opposition. Israel saw to that.

Stop it why don’t you clowns go accuse the source of who’s making civilians stay and not leave it’s Hamas. That’s a fact . They took over 200 hostages as well including 12 Americans. Amazing how y’all are crying when Israel decided they had enough of this bombing crap . They should’ve never gave up the land back in the 60s

Israel has warned all the civilians in northern Gaza to leave the front line of this conflict for their own safety. It is Hamas that is preventing them from doing so so they can use collateral deaths for propaganda purposes

in my dreams I see all those children with shredded up bodies, but they have my kids' faces. I didn't feel this way even while covering the war in Syria or Daesh, and it was already so brutal...

HONEST?🤮🤪🤣

@Joe-no7gs of course. But from what I’ve heard from them - their accounts- they are relatively well cared for. Well, except for the bombing that doesn’t discriminate between terrorists, and the Israeli hostages and Palestinian children and women. I’m concerned for the hostages because they have bombs being thrown on them (potentially). Hopefully not. I care about all human life. In particular the suffering of children and babies. What happened on Oct 7 was an atrocity. For sure. But that is now in the past. The bombing of 12000+ (75% women and children) is ongoing (minus temp halt). Must stop. Otherwise, the people around the world that aren’t knowledgeable enough to distinguish between Israel’s Likud gov and the Jewish people at large WILL judge this ongoing massacre in a very bad way. How can you not when so much suffering has been caused by Bibi and gangs?? All humans are humans. They all suffer the same. I am a human being. I am uneasy and suffer when I know thousands of children are in pain and loosing their lives. What are you? “Human beings are members of a whole…in creation of once essence and soul. If one member of afflicted with pain, others uneasy shall remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, the name of human you cannot retain” Saadi 13th century Persian poet.

Ask yourself who armed the armenians in the Ottoman empire(before the events) where they lived in peace for centuries. Right the creators of israel.

you and me both!

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💯 lsrael don't live by golden rule

The word Nazi comes from AshkeNAZI.

No Abrahamic mythology is about love of fellow humans, only about “othering” humans so that they can have a scapegoat. Buddha taught only love.

​@@kennybachman35 Interesting? 😏

I know. But i pray and hope that he is wrong on this.

@@sidraali9967 Sorry. But he states the truth-of-the-matter.

Hedges can't be right asserting Biden has no ability to insist stop and desist.

@@janezimmerman7987 I think he was just saying, even if the USA stopped giving them weapons, Israel has a big enough stockpile to "finish the job"

@@Guitarisforgrins The US is sending weapons shipments to Israel every day now. Even if they did have enough for this massacre, the threat of losing US support would force the Israelis to listen. Israel ceases to exist if the US abandons it. So even though I think a hell of a lot of Hedges this is something I don't believe.

Sorry, but it has the be the Israeli narrative, because that was what was bought with those billions $ handed over to them.

Because Zionists own the media

The MSM in America is NWO propaganda. Time to wake the hell up !

That stopped along time ago decade by decade paid for talking heads…. the idea of mass control of news goes back to Bernay’s

Because the owners of America own the mainstream media. They are the gate keepers. But we are going around them. They can't control the narrative now

Our tax $ are funding the genocide

Even sadder my country is the largest terrorists and war criminals. Ashamed our country is gone.

Our country is referred to as the United Snakes around the world. But the Almighty has other plans Revelation 2:9. & Revelation 3:9

I mean, if they can ignore the death and suffering of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, most of Central America and so on, why is it hard to understand? This is the common stance of the US government. Mass murder is just a means to an end.

@@jb2736 the irony of posting that crap on a journalism episode that focused in large part on the lunacy of extremist theocracy

There is no genocide occurring. You need to study some current affairs. You’re definitely twisting your lack of knowledge of history, too.

​@@crystalbluebutterfly The educated one. Well done 👍🏽. Your knowledge on genocide shines.

@@crystalbluebutterflyoff the stuff 😂

​@@crystalbluebutterflygenocide!

Since 2006 there is no single Israeli in Gaza. So, why did they invade Israel and murder 1400 civilians, rape, burn babies, behead? 3000 thousand Gazans entered Israel for the kill and the entire population of Gaza was jubilant and happy and distributed sweets.

@@irieify9334 I have been asked why I don't like that particular group of people's agenda and my answer is because they are taking away America's freedom of speech. If one says they like the people but not the agenda, you are still considered anti-semitic.

HOW ABOUT STARTING AS AN AMERICAN RECOGNIZING WHO LIT THE MATCH. PUTIN/IRAN and Bibi looking the other way LIT THE MATCH. Bibi has been betraying his own people for awhile. PUTIN & IRAN WITH THEIR OWN SELFISH agendas, the US should not IGNORE OR FORGET. YES NOW WE ARE DRAGGED INTO THIS INEVITABLE TINDER BOX OF UNRESOLVED ISSUES. WE SHOULD NOT BE FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING ISRAEL ANY LONGER. BUT AS AMERICANS WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHO LIT THE MATCH BECAUSE THAT WAS MEANT TO WEAKEN THE US & NATO SO PUTIN WINS IN UKRAINE.

​@@irieify9334voltaire actually explained it nicely. “If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

I care less what idiots want to label me, I speak the truth and spread the truth always no matter what !!! That's called integrity and being righteous.

I don’t hesitate to speak out - who’s stopping you?

So Israel are NOT supposed to DEFEND themselves is that it 🔔END?

Americans are in the diaspora now. This is not a country for the people anymore.

The Reason FOR IT IS that the same EVIL CULT that is SLAUGHTERING the Palestinian People IN THEIR OWN LAND, IS The EXACT SAME EVIL CULT THAT 100% CONTROLS THE U.S.A. AND WEST!!!

@@mkbnett It's not like most people in Europe blame people in US. You seem to be unable to get rid of military industry and corruption and most good independent channels come from US. Mainstream media should start military uniforms , they are Psy-Ops unit at this point. These neo-lib-cons are most horrible people that exist and they practiced regime changes EVERYWHERE so now they apply it to people of US. US citizens will have to realize sooner or later that it's them or you.

I never have felt it acknowledged this to be 'my country ' being a descendant of the African slaves regardless of us w many may think or claim and ho on about ' strides made.' the entire situation, it's intentions now clear and underlying motives reflect the same as the leaders of this country and I can not pledge any allegiance to them as I see them as a glass bal enemy to and of all indigenous people of the world

yes.

Add Norman Finkelstein to the list.

Did any of them mention the cause? Or did they walk past that like they do Oct 7th right now.

@@bradrichards8122 The cause was genocidal aggression by European Jews stealing the land that belonged to others.

Yes Nakba, Arabs slayed Jewish Men women and children in their settlements then the Jews attacked them back but before doing it they told all women and children to leave, then the Arabs blamed the Jews as usual

Yeh and WHAT would that be GENIUS?🤪

BOYCOTT THE JEWISH BUSINESSES ALL OVER THE WORLD. BOYCOTT ONLINE BUSINESSES TOO, AMAZON INCLUDED, THE MOM AND POP LOCAL STORES, JEWISH BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN, BOYCOTT EVERYTHING!!

@@craigthurlow9308 UN and almost all countries in the world said "Give Palestinians Gaza West Bank and capital in East Jerusalem and international coalition can come and make sure they are disarmed and Israel safe". But since Israel doesn't want that go read what Torah says about eye for an eye.

Yes, the people are standing up for humanity.

Genocide?😂😂 does anyone even know the history the Palestinians had with the Nazis of WW2 against the Jews...and now you expect their to be peace??😂😂 only the Nazis and Hitler can match the hate palestinians have for Jews and it goes back way before 1948...I say for the sake of peace these palestinians must go one way or another because they do not want peace and are unwilling to give up their hatered for the Jews

Genocide has being going on for 50 years! Now it's called "The Final Solution"!

No genocide taking place so calm down. How many are militants ? Even if all civilian they were warned to go south and 800000 plus have done so, Kudos to Israel for caring more about gazans than HAMAS which hides behind children and fires rockets. Do you understand HAMAS thinks of the children as martyrs who go to paradise and so death is not a bad thing.

It's important to arbitrarily inflate language when emotionally convenient.

He makes me less depressed. Everyone's out here pretending to be all happy. Not this guy. He's genuinely miserable and it's nice that I'm not the only one.

Same @@Max0r847

Barack Obama's Administration slogan was 'The Party of Hope'. Over 5 million Syrian people's lives were terminated or changed forever.

The truth doesn't always constitute a holiday!!

The truth hurts. It’s down to us to make it stop!

Mind Begs the Question: - Nazis Policies were Death Camps,Starvation,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - If a Nation/Govt Policies are Death Camps,Starvation,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - Democratic or Fascist?

Not true. Palestinians need to Denounce Hamas and Isreal will help a Palestinian gaza build farms and food products..but Palestinians just want free Aid and don't want to work..they need to get smart and learn to love forgive and respect their neighbors..look at South America no wars only middle East..Isreal should run Gaza for 50 years teach a trade to Palestinians so they can fend for themselves..

Chris is a very gloomy guy. If you listen to any of his interviews he never offers any hope.

@@rico2207 you really shouldn't have stopped taking your meds. Israel couldn't careless about Hamas, they hate Palestinians period and they want that land and the 1.7 trillion worth of oil under it.

@@Pomegranate_David its just the facts

And he knows everything and is right no matter what

@@whatsthemonsterbelow that about sums it up as bleak as it is.

It's not that he's ignorant of the facts, it's just that he knows a lot of things that "just aren't so".

But Chris is lying. Hamas genocide of Jews was intended to get Israel to attack Hamas. And Hamas uses its own civilians, without their consent, as pieces of meat to be sacrificed for their genocide of Jews.

In 1948 Israel's Government offered all Muslim son's of Ishmael inhabitants of Israel to remain in their homes, have seats in the Knesset, if only they would acknowledge Israel as a legitimate nation and the Jews right to exist and dwell there? Most refused went to Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and tried to exterminate Israel and Israelis from the face of the Earth in 1948. Several times since 1948 has Israel offered the self proclaimed "Palestinians" their own State consisting of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, every time the Philistine Palestinians have refused. How many times have Sons of Ishmael, Muslims, Arabs, or Philistines chanted "death to Israel", or called for Israel to be destroyed and wiped from the face of the Earth? Answer; many, many times. How many times have Philistines/"Palestinians", Hittite/Turks, Arabian/Saudi Arabians, Assyrian/Syrians, Phoenician/Lebanese, Ammonite-Moabite/Jordanians, Egyptians, Persians/Iranians, Babylonians/Iraqis tried in Wars to exterminate Jews and Israel from the face of the Earth? Since 1948? Answer; 4. 1948 Arab-Israeli War 1956 Arab-Israeli War ll 1967 Six-Day War 1973 Yom-Kippur War How many times has the Philistines fired rockets into Israel, bombed Israelis, suicide bombed Israelis, mass shot Israelis, kidnapped and executed Israelis, assassinated Israelis? Answer; thousands upon thousands of times since 1948, not including the millions dead in the Holocaust, as there were many Philistine/Iraqi/Iranian/Arabian/Lebanese/Assyrian/Jordanian/Egyptian/Muslims who were allies of National Socialist Germany, also not including hundreds of times in antiquity that Philistine/"Palestinians", Babylonian/Iraqis, Persian/Iranians, Phoenician/Lebanese, Assyrian/Syrians, Arabian/Saudi Arabians, Hittite/Turks, Ammonite-Moabite/Jordanians, Greeks, Holy Roman Catholics, have slaughtered millions of Jews and repeatedly removed the Jews from their ancient homeland. Not to mention the U.N. in peacetime gave Israel to the Jews, there was no talk then of giving "Palestinians" their own homeland State, because there were NO "Palestinians". "PALESTINA" was an ancient Greek word for JEWS by Greeks for Jews who dwelled in Judea during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, Palestina was never a name for Arabian/Assyrian/Phoenician/Hittite/Moabite/Ammonite/Egyptian/Philistine inhabitants who lived in Israel/Judea. The Jews were slaughtered and removed from their land, and their Temple destroyed by the Babylonian/Iraqis in 586 B.C, and again by the Roman/Italians in 70 A.D., amongst many other persecutions in antiquity, wandered without their homeland for 2,534 years until 1948, and without the City of David until 1967. Israel has offered a two State solution multiple times, and has offered and given land for Peace, see Olso Peace Accords, this is why Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated because he made a deal with the PLO and gave land back. The gains of land Israel has gained is because of the "Arab" Conglomerate repeatedly attacking Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, and PLO/Hamas/Philistines keep attacking Israelis ad nauseam. The Arab Committee in 1947-48 voted to reject the U.N. borders and recognition of The Two States of Israel and Palestine, then had a civil war amongst themselves, the Israeli Jews voted to accept the State of Palestine. Since Indigenous claims seem to be paramount above all else? Why is there no clamour to give the Canninites their homeland back and remove their Palestinian occupying oppressors?

The difference being this genocide is supported by the morally bankrupt Western regimes. Srebrenica couldn't be compared to Gaza as the Serbian militia didn't have anything resembling Israel's air power. It was a land operation amplified by propaganda.

I'm so sorry you experienced that. 😢😢😢

The Israeli genocide is the only one in history to see the trippling of its victims population in a matter of a few decades.A bit ass backwards for some kind of genocide don't you think.

Instead of being preyed upon? I’m embarrassed to be an American today! We are not a people of Law but rather a right wing Christian theocracy now, shame

Since 2006 there is no single Israeli in Gaza. So, why did they invade Israel and murder 1400 civilians, rape, burn babies, behead? 3000 thousand Gazans entered Israel for the kill and the entire population of Gaza was jubilant and happy and distributed sweets.

Religiosity gone to extremism, antii-christs , in which there are many. False doctrines. Warned beware of the wolves.

@@foipa1wow, the USA would look like the Muslim world if we were a Christian theocracy lol. You must be off your rocker

@@foipa1Somalia and Ilan Omar would love to have you

If it's real genocide the population would be going down. Instead the population has gone up fivefold. It's a mythical genocide, a narrative for propaganda purposes.

So is every war ever genocide? Was the Oct 7th attack by Hamas genocidal?

@@antonego9581 Could be considered an attempt.

They come back with the Israeli point of view sadly

@@karinwallace3031 They do unfortunately. But they also do because they don't really know about how the two people became the way they are today. They think it has to do with the stories and some historical truth in the Bible or the Torah. But it's so much more.

No, Chris is lying, he has his own agenda.

"It's not my job to sell hope, that's not journalism. It's my job to assess the situation as clearly as I can ." -why Chris Hedges is the best journalist ever

My horror trump wins Netenyahu is putins buddy , and has funded the war in Gaza , the USA cuts money to Ukraine , Russia wins oh it’s a nightmare in the making .

The winners of WW2 installed Israel. The Palestinians were the losers of WW2. Any other questions?

Exactly! Israel's independence date - May 14th 1948. Palestine's independence date, November 15th 1988.

How about just simple defense vs offense gaslighting as well

@@sleekblackroadster Israel is not in Gaza since 2005

@@sleekblackroadster can you explain what do you mean in relation to the coments

The UN human rights Rep that just resigned a few days ago detailed the situation at the UN. US and Israel in turn have an outsized influence that’s preventing any human rights action by the UN.

yes this is no news just the "media" is utterly owned by the Golden Children, 75 years of identical actions, ask the UN,,, never reported.

Because the UN is ultimately controlled by the US, and America sanctions the occupation and mass murder, so long as it's being done by Israel.

Ask Jo Biden and his predecessors.

For 60 years the US has vetoed every resolution against Israël killing de facto any solution/ evolution in favor of 2 states solution

What’s happening in Gaza is about the same as what happened at Dresden, it is absolutely horrific but war happens. After wars are won, the winners gain land. The losers lose land. The winners are masters and the losers are slaves. The winners of WW2 didn’t turn the Palestinians into slaves, but they definitely took land. The winners of WW2 tried to give some aid to Palestinians, like lots of aid, but the Palestinians decided to take that aid and use it for war efforts fighting from the losing side and the slave side. Masters will become quite harsh towards their slaves when there are uprisings. people believe that slavery can be eliminated, but that is impossible, it can only be less severe by degree. Sometimes people don’t even know they are slaves. Imagine Germany trying to take over again playing from the losing side? The winners of WW2 may come down hard on them. However, as the future unfolds, the far right European and the far right Islamic worshippers may come together to win in WW3. This would obviously come with the ending of Israel and the scatter of Jews throughout the world. Otherwise it’s the scatter of Palestinians. It’s quite strange the situation boils down to this. The far left is confused and I’m sure you reside on the left. But you don’t want female or gay oppression from the far right European or the far right Islamic worshippers. What we see is the left is confused but definitely doesn’t like the violence. The people the far left has to side with actually makes the far left…. Far right. But you don’t want female oppression or gay oppression. This actually puts you on the side of the Jews. This is why there will only be protest by the left, but no action. Any action would be taken by the losers of WW2 such as not sees and far right religious zealots. The center is surrounded by people who are quite extreme. This group won WW2. It’s quite interesting that the center supports Israel which in fact is far right. What we see is that the far right are the only ones with a real fight in them. They put their nation first and most left wing westerns are very much against nationalism to the point that they betray their own people. Jews will Not be doing that because their nation is not that large

Not the genocide deniers

Good news civilian t warned to go south and 800000 plus have done so, Kudos to Israel for caring more about gazans than HAMAS which hides behind children and fires rockets. Do you understand HAMAS thinks of the children as martyrs who go to paradise and so death is not a bad thing.

@@lucythermopylaewhat genocide? I watched a video of Palestinians being escorted to safety by IDF. Can you explain why hamas builds tunnels under hospitals? Did you see the footage of hamas rockets misfiring and landing back down into Gaza killing their own civilians?

rot

And the US created both those slaughters.

I took the opposite lesson from the Rwandan genocide. Bill Clinton couldn't bring himself to use the word "genocide" until it was over. No country intervened to stop it. (It was stopped by the Tutsi-dominated RPF defeating the government). So my takeaway from 1994 was genocide is "doable" in the modern world if you go about it the right way (unfortunately).

yes, you were, but we all were. the wise learn and grow and share their stories. thank you for yours.

Humans are a Violent Tribal Waring Species. There was War since the very beginning of Time and there will be War for as long as man exists on earth.

So called democracy in process...built on indigenous genocide and slavery.

100% brother

It's too bad that so many young people are so cynical that they don't vote. If I was 25 I'd vote to defeat the old boomer generation of politicians who have no stake in the future.

"morally bankrupt society"👍

@@reidwhitton6248 watch ‘Requiem of the American Dream’ Our vote has been more and more liquidated as individuals in favor of the super wealthy. The young, who are seeing no future and who often see through the BS, are feeling backed into a terrible corner. Find your real power in compassion and truth. Believe in the invincible loving and wise energy within your body and manifest it everyday in a self expression of that!

What about the 1200 Israelis and American citizens that were brutally killed on Oct 7? Is your heart broken for them? What about the children that were beheaded by Hamas? The women and girls that were raped and murdered in front of their families? Is your heart broken for them? What about the over 200 hostages stolen and being used as human shields? Is your heart broken for them? I see you have no empathy for any of the innocent Israelis and Americans that were slaughtered and hostages now suffering every day . Maybe you should shift your prayers to them as well if you are a person of God that prays as they need prayers too

Seriously, do you watch the news at a surface level only? They've dispelled with the 40 beheaded babies bs weeks ago. As of yesterday, the release of video showing what happened at that damn rave clearly shows who was destroying people in massive quantities; the IDF. Wake up.

Prayers do nothing. If all of you millions protesting all over the world would take planes to a neighboring country and then march from there to palestine, then I might believe you are actually concerned with this, just like if you were to have a sick child, you take it to the hospital, you don't just pray for him.

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@ Protests help but UN security council can send armed forces and plenty of Chinese and Russians among others like Turks stand ready to stop this madness.

Exactly. All that propaganda had to do with the Jewish lobby who got away with using words like holocaust , Democracy, freedom to get public support for their secret crimes

And now you know which side would you be in WW2 right ?

@@nemanjastankovic4439 wtf..? Wasn’t about “which side” to be on

@@_John_Tyree_ Well if I had access to Hitler and gun that would be it. Netanyahu is much more of a problem 9/10 people in Israel support destruction of Gaza to make it unlivable and most of Israeli government is more radical than even Netanyahu. Killing Hitler is not valid analogy here. Netanyahu has 4 % approval rating in Israel but most in Israel want even crazier person.

Mind Begs the Question: - Nazi Policies were Death Camps,Starvation,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - If a Nation/Govt Policies are Death Camps,Starvation,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - Democratic or Fascist?

Israel has dropped a number of bombs equal to 2 nuclear bombs on Gaza in 3 weeks.... and yet the total casualty rate (that includes civilians and Hamas) is 9,000+ according to the Palestinians... If Israel were to actually throw 2 nuclear bombs, that number would have been already in the 100,000's. I am not justifying the deaths of innocents, I am just proving how the statement that "Israel is genociding Palestinians" is absolutely false. Israel tries to be as precise as possible, but in urban warfare (especially in a scenario in which the enemy force intentionally hides behind civilians), no wonder that there are innocents lost.

The 1940s boyband The Nazis has reformed as the 1950-2020s satanic worshipping group, The AshkeNazis

ik en veel mensen met mij zijn blij dat hamas vernietigt gaat worden!🤗

I have Palestinian neighbours so I get information from them about what's been going on for decades. Israelis haven't known a different type of government for decades. The "traditional" Zionists always had the intent to remove all Arabs and Christians out, reclaim the lands the Jews hadn't lived in with sufficient numbers to claim the "Holy Land". Palestinians have lived there since 1000 years before Jesus was born. Yet they're considered the interloper.

Humans are a Violent Tribal Waring Species. There was War since the very beginning of Time and there will be War for as long as man exists on earth.

Unless the number of fire pests drops from 8 billion to less than 1 billion, we are doomed as a species.

Justice is prevailing as we speak.

And then if any repercussions or insurgent violence occurs in revenge, they can cry anti-semitism!! and play the victim again to deflect responsibility and justify more aggression

Why a swastika though. I understand everything else

@@oliverking3901 Maybe she thinks zionists are behaving like Nazi's?

I can relate to, and empathize with, what you wrote here. I'm going through some rough things too, all of which pale in comparison to the living nightmare that is Palestine. When I listened to Chris this morning, my first instinct was to numb my emotions. But I read your post and decided rather than "drink my breakfast," to instead put on a pot of coffee and reply to you. I'm your age and also live in the South, raised Baptist (walked away from it 40 years ago) so that's good enough in my book to consider us pen-pals, as we called it back in the day. I don't talk to those around me about this atrocity - not because I'm afraid to take a stand or to stand alone - but because I dread hearing the ignorance and stupidity that I will hear coming out of their mouths. And I (half-way) dread what my reaction would be. You actually made me chuckle with your reaction to the church sign. Last night a photo and headline popped across my feed, featuring that monstrous imposter The Pope, calling for cease-fire and more aid to Palestine. Re-directing the narrative and distracting the deceived, but never addressing the root of the problem. I was reminded of a break-down that one of my spiritual teachers did years ago (she would roar with laughter if she heard me call her that) on Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men in a Tub. The Butcher, the Ba(n)ker, The Candlestick Maker. Yeah, most people's brains auto-switch to religion when they see Vatican images but it is truly The Bank and all wars are bankers wars. Then I had an aha moment - The Butcher (worldwide military industrial machine), The Candlestick Maker (media, politics, sports, race-baiting, all that "lights our fire" in our root chakra and distracts us from the spiritual pursuit we came here for.) I went on a deep dive through the etymology of this so-called nursery rhyme and found the ending of it quite interesting, as it changed at different times, in different cultures: #1 And all of them out to sea #2 And all of them gone to the fair #3 And turn them out, knaves all three (original version) Lots of people would label me New Age and/or kooky too but I've learned to accept that it's not my business to worry about what others think of me. Your words rekindled my strong faith that WE can unite and tune our hearts into a powerful vibration of love that will deafen this latest call to Divide & Conquer humanity. Those of us who see "beyond the veil" grow frustrated with the masses who gobble up the propaganda that is spoon-fed to them, but I do have faith that many will awaken through broken hearts. Through the cracks and wounds is where Christ consciousness may enter. (Wasn't it Rumi who said that the wound is where the light enters?) Just wanted to thank you for writing from your heart so that mine could receive it right on time.

​@@cyndeetaylor❤❤❤

I have had my husband and three 15 year old beloved dogs die in 3 years and my Catholic faith sustains me with a sense of humor about my blessings...I went right out and adopted a dog soon facing the ax after several months....a pointer who really keeps me hoping at 76....in Savannah and I don't drink, the chief pastime. A moderate liberal Catholic is very lonely these days... all the best.

West is devil, but Iran for example, Russia, north Korea they are actually angels compared to West

People really can't put their minds around the whole situation. It is so much easier to simply accept what the Israeli's put out Oct 7. Most sheeples also gravitate to power, leaving the powerless to fend for themselves. It happens every day in business and politics; expected behavior, not nice, but expected non-the-less. Why would this be any different?

It's been this way for centuries now. The major difference is modern technology putting the brutality and sociopathy on display like never before.

... I mean, you should expect the people who call themselves "civilized nations" to hurt the other nations. Why else have such a dichotomy? It's the language of imperialism.

Could not have written that better myself. The awful feeling I have as my own parents brought me up to understand "never again" and visited holocaust museums often conversing how ordinary people could be convinced to murder their neighbours and see them now justifying the killing is soul destroying. I can no longer speak with either of them about this because it angers me so much. I have to look past it, they are set in their ways and have to figure out the level of evil required to justify what is happening. They mean more to me than anything so I have to compartmentalize this. Nearly 50 and the first time I have ever had to do that.

what about the children that were killed and behead on oct 7th

Free Palestinians from Hamas and terrorists.

​@@shaunwilson3059mY Dod rest their soul 🙏

Yup.. if citizens stop letting power/money hungry corrupt leaders do what they want

Those were Israeli dude that’s well known right in NYC

War pays. These humans only know profit and power as a motivation. Sad days for true hearts.

Shani Louk

Good analysis. The Zionists don't care - they point to the passages in the Old Testament where God declares he will give them this stretch of land and it will be theirs, forever. Mind you, the Old Testament is not a legal document, but it's in writing, none-th-less, Lord-only-knows who wrote it, could have been a scribe at the time, carving out the letters on a clay cuneiform. They really don't adhere to the "seed" of Abraham bit, as the original Zionists were European converts, not descended Jews. But it doesn't matter to them, that is just a technicality, just use what works to persuade the world they have a right to this whole area.

That's why they are friendly

Israely? LOL! 🤣

When are you going to vocade USA land..it was not white..

@@megatron6382 no one is calling for anyone to vacate a land. People are there. Ethnically cleansing is bad. You know, what Israel is doing right now.

Yes, but please don't confuse the Israeli people with their fascist government anymore than we confuse the Palestinians with Hamas.

Who came first? The Jew or the Arab?

THEY are the terrorists

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They weren't resisting when they broke through the Isreal/Gaza border and committed the largest single day mass killing of Jews since the holocaust. There was a ceasefire. There was self governance. Tens of thousands moved back and forth between Gaza and Isreal for work and trade. All before Oct 7th.

Technically they see the Israelis as colonisers, and most Israelis serve in the military and carry personal guns ....

@@bradrichards8122 It's almost as though they have been oppressed to the breaking point. I do not support their attack, but I fully realize that a human being can only take so much. When you read about and see what Israel has been subjugating these people to for decades, one cannot blame a violent response. If anything, the restraint the Palestinians have shown is pretty incredible. One of Israel's senior officials Giora Eiland even referred to Gaza as "A huge concentration camp". What would you do to escape/ fight back against something like that?

When you see all these things come to pass, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh...

What part Oct 7, the part that started it all or should we just forget about that as if it never happened.

Are there any links ?

those 5 to 6 million are descendants of those 750 000 Palestinians refugees. So no one is denying anything.

Video's? Lad, there weren't 5-6 million Palestinians in 1948. There were 1.37 million. Next you will tell us that 500 billion Palestinians were murdered by Israel.

There was in Jordan Syria etx more than 3 million Jordaan has huge amount s of 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinians were registered with UNRWA as refugees, of which more than 1.5 million live in

Initially in 1948 700k had to move since then it just went up

It's funny how for some strange reason nobody cares about the 377,000 Yemen citizens that have been slaughtered. Or the countless thousands of Syrian civilians that a murderous dictator is slaughtering. Or the countless thousands of Libyan civilian deaths. Weird. Is it because you all just hate Jews?

No he's not he ask all the questions that are easily used to bash Israel. Not a single question about Hamas, how the Palestinians overwhelmingly support them and How Gaza was given self rules in 2005 and immediately turned to terror.

@@Mad-genius So what if Israel support Hamas? You support Israel and its a terror organization.

Absolutely true, Hedges is a man of integrity.

No, he is a sociopath, he is lying to people full well knowing he is. @@jpenneymrcoin6851

"Not a single question about Hamas" What "question about Hamas" - an organisation created by Israeli governments to act as a radical Islamist alternative to the secular PLO and keep the Palestinians divided - will change the reality that collective punishment of civilians is a war crime, indiscriminate attacks on the most densely populated civilian area in the world are war crimes, and pronouncements by far-right, racist, genocidal officials of Israeli governments are clear about their intentions against Gaza? "the Palestinians overwhelmingly support them" Did you do a survey with them? Have they had an opportunity to use elections to show who they support since 2006? And even if they supported the party, do you realise that if the same logic was used in relation to Israeli civilians and their support for their genocidal, racist, apartheid governments, it would make them valid targets for war crimes and slaughter? Just stop this dishonest game please.

Free Free Free Palestine, Peace and no war. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@@-THE-REPENT-Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 spell it right at least 😒

Mask is totally off nowadays

@berniefynn6623 @berniefynn6623 1 second ago DILL BRAIN, AT THAT TIME THE MUSLIMS DECLARED THEY WANT NOTHING LESS THAN ISRAEL WIPED OFF THE MAP, HOW LONG WOULD YOU LIVE WITH THREAT???????????????????

hahahahahaaaa......what a blueprint of people writing here......hahahahahahahaaaa@@panchosvillos

palestinians had a chance of integration into israeli state or a peaceful exsistance, but they chose violence and war every chance they get

​@@shaunwilson3059 The fascist Zionist government did not give the Palestinians any choice, except to create a concentration camp in Gaza. They are war criminals, fascist European Khazarian Jews encouraged by the west (UK then the US) to build a colonial military outpost in the middle east. The Khazars don't belong in the middle east.

@@shaunwilson3059 Shaun, suppose that European political leaders created a political framework and then told local people anywhere in the world, Africa, Iceland, Java, that this is how your land will be organized from now on. Wouldn't that inevitably cause a hostile reaction from local people anywhere who would feel that their sovereignty had been taken from them? That was my point about the Israel/Palestine situation. The creators of the initial framework "the state of Israel" should have been astute enough to realize in advance that the locals would never accept some Europeans coming in and telling them this is your political organization from now on. That they went ahead and imposed "Israel" anyway is the cause of the problem and the European imposers of the political abstraction "Israel" there fore are to be blamed for the decades of instability and death that has followed.

@@chrisdiver6224 for this situation the ruling authority/sovereign collapsed (ottoman empire so those who call themselves palestinians then didnt have sovereignty. There was a civil war and the palestinians lost. there was a peace treaty proposed that would of officially recognised palestinian land and israels land but the palestinians rejected it and "chose" violence. The issue who rules the majority of the land was settled over 50 years ago. The current treatment of gazens is a direct result of them being highly violent and murderous toward israel, and rejecting treaties that would improve their prospects. palestinians in the past had the chance of peaceful co existence, but as mention they "choose" to be violent and murderous putting the genocide of civilians in their official policies

@@shaunwilson3059 at this point Hamas and PLO has miseducated so many generations on anti-jewish propaganda that they can never be never be successfully integrated in the future. They should be reintegrated into the Arab world from whence they came.

Nice writing , sad but true 👁

Did you write this poem? It’s beautiful and evokes the sad reality of Gaza.

Thank you for sharing. I also grieve for the innocent who are persecuted by a rogue government in israel. Hard hearts will be broken, loving hearts will remain.

Wonderful! Just a small problem. The last paragraph talks about co-existence... How could co-existence happen if the Palestinian leadership doesn't want peace? The Palestinian leadership doesn't want peace with Israel, it wants peace without Israel... (from the river to the sea...)

​@@theendermc4822So far it have always been the Israeli who have made peaceful coexistence impossible. What are you talking about!

He helped me deal with my disillusionment from Iraq. However, hope, there is none, unless realizing that maintaining it is a waste. The only thing to do is live to our true values and try to love and help where we can. The evil can not be defeated however. That's also basically what Jesus taught according to the gospels... As an ashiest, I can still see that's a good message.

One thats hell-bent on global domination. And they already have a huge chunk of it.

@@deanmartin6052 Everyone is a terrorist who does not fit their world view. You too, if you step out of line.

@@user-yl1sm3pd1c yes, they are the fist of a much larger bid for global domination.

Dangerous neighbours

Please be respectful in your comments, name calling is degrading. Maybe you are the goat.

This is the funniest thread I’ve read all day 🤣😂

It has since 1918, expect it to stop anytime now?

you state that genocide will not be torlerated but the official policy of palestinians is genocide of israel and its citizens

There's no genocide in Gaza. If it was real genocide the population would be going down. Instead the population has gone up fivefold. It's a mythical genocide, a narrative for propaganda purposes.

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It has been genocide ever since the number of fire pests went above 100 million, now we are 8 billion! Fire pests have been committing genocide against the natural world for tens of thousands of years.

Skewed story is more like it.

SHILLS POSTING FROM IRAN

But in fact, they don't have impunity. The world now sees them as a pariah. Generations will despise them in every country of the world. The word holocaust now belongs to Palestinians, and Israel is now Germany. The "victims" are now the assailants. I wouldn't want to be them.

He said that befor October 7th. He has changed his tune now because he has friends and family who were victims of the Hamas attack

Yes I hope they get their land back in Egypt Jordan Iraq and Syria soon. Virtually none hail from ancestors living in Palestine even 150 years ago. They came at the same time Jews were immigrating there and creating jobs.

Who came first? The Jew or the Arab? Then you will know who's land it is.

@@Peekaboo-Kitty so you're saying it all belongs to Africans?

@@jboomhauer It belongs to whoever came first.

@@Peekaboo-Kitty that's not how the world works. It's not all Africa

Shani Louk

Same as it ever was.

Where do you get 100,000 from? Hamas is claiming 10,000 and in previous wars it was fewer than 1000, except 2014, when it was supposed to have been 2000.

One quick way is to make yourself aware of products that are created in israel. I frankly think that the world should boycott US products as well until we no longer support the genocide. It is clear that our government is no longer listening to us.

On this subject and a few others, Chris Hedges shows that he's not a journalist, but rather a polemicist of the worst kind, spinning the truth 180° for clearly hateful purposes.

@@mickimicki5576 In response I’ll only say Mr Hedges credits journalism as one of his skillset tools but I’m hard pressed to think of a better tool then critical thinking from that background. His 7 years in the Middle East for the New York Times in a period when the times was not as corporate controlled as now gave Mr Hedges what he needed to dig down and turn things over and over to find the roots of problems and expose them for his readers. In many ways he still does. As to his radical language I agree he speaks more from his days as an amateur boxing then with measured peaceful context but his conclusions are that actions speak louder than words and we better start acting in the defense of truth or not only our culture but our world will be lost to tyranny wrapped in glitter. .

He's seen it before and he's probably right.

Unless the heavens open and God's holy angels descend and figure this out for the oppressed, he probably has a very valid point.