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How many western governments have been infiltrated by the zio lobbies?

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Prosecute the war criminals for Christ's sake.

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You wrote: “…the Palestinians – long the victims of an illegal occupation…”

Where’s your data?

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That's like asking where is the "data" that when it rains, the streets get wet.

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Asking for the data—the proof—of an illegal occupation. Or, for that matter, that there is actually (historically) such a people group—“Palestinian.”

So, data please.

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Your not a serious person. My job ain't to school you or anybody on basic historical facts, reason, or morality. You're struggling with these things, I get that. Good luck.

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Got it. You’ve got nothing.

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Thank you for reminding us how humans can bear the suffering of others so long as it doesn’t impact us as individuals. We are told this genocide is different as what happened during the genocide in European countries was unknown to the general public. Not so as the Nazis made sure people knew that if they protected Jews, they would share their fate. So non Jews had a vested interest in not resisting genocide. We in the West have no such excuse. None of us will be carted off to the prison that is Gaza and still we refuse to push for BDS in our work and domestic spheres. We in the West must step up. We must do better in 2025.

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Jonathan...your article prompted me to write a short stack with a video I made based upon your article here. You might enjoy it. https://sunlotus17.substack.com/p/where-is-hell-this-christmas

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I cannot add anything new to all these honest, intelligent, aware, and heart-felt comments made by all of you. I can only state that Jonathan’s factual article and all of these comments are medicine for me. I often feel such despair and heartache over the depravity of my country (US) and other western nations, actively supporting this Genocide. It is a bit of comfort to see others standing with me. It gives a sliver of hope , though small , that humanity has not also been slaughtered in this Horrific Genocide.Godspeed to us all….soldiers for Humanity.

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Jonathan keeps trying to point the finger at the people behind this genocide. Of course, we all know that "Israel" is doing the deed, but we also know that it couldn't happen without the people who enable Israel. All such wrongdoers are the perpetrators.

Jonathan has pointed the finger at billionaires, our institutions, the USA, the UK, the western governments, the media, and more, and there's truth to all that, but he always leaves out Judaism itself, which is the unmentionable entity behind all these factions. By Judaism, I really mean the organized political arm of Judaism, and even more precisely than that, the leaders of the countless Jewish political organizations that are funded to the billions of dollars by the Jewish community and Israel. Here's a list of well over 400 of those organizations:

https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-jewish-lobby

Does anyone deny that Jews are politically organized? I don't mean Israelis or Zionists. I mean Jews. But in truth, there's little difference, since a powerful ethos within Judaism is Zionism/Israel, and it's deeply shared by over 95% of Judaism. Without Israel, Jews have no rudder to the endless future. The people here are Jews. Zionism and "Israel" are only the principles or philosophies expressed by the Jews. It's erroneous to say that "Zionism" or "Israel" is the entity behind the genocide. People are behind the genocide, and those people are Jews.

And how can anyone look at the above humongous list of political organizations and not conclude that this is a powerful political force? Who can tell me that this list doesn't mean anything? Who can produce a list involving any other minority that does not pale in comparison? Jews are a force - as Jews - that cannot be ignored. Do I mean "all Jews?" Don't be silly. Does Jonathan mean "all billionaires?"

How can we bring a wrongdoer to justice if we don't identify who it is? Why doesn't Jonathan understand that Judaism isn't just a religion or an ethnic group or a culture, but also the most powerfully organized minority the world has ever seen? Or maybe he does, but maybe he's afraid to say it?

Along with the "crime of crimes," we must be honest, brave, and forthright to make the "accusation of accusations." And that is that organized Judaism is the primary culprit behind the Palestinian genocide. Thanks to the propaganda of the Jewish Lobby (above), this is currently the best kept secret in all the West - at least in the official public discourse. But if you listen to the folks on X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other social media, you find that very large numbers of people aren't being fooled by the Jewish Narrative, which is the propaganda behind the cover up. Get this, as they commit genocide, they tell us that the biggest problem in the world is "rising antisemitism." Clever, huh?

I predict that nothing will stop the extermination of Palestinians until the world openly exposes who the true perpetrator is. I also think it would be helpful to stop quibbling over the definition of "genocide" and acknowledge that Palestinians are being exterminated by Jews, just like Jews were being exterminated by Germans.

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Brilliant, thank you! Please read my second open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on my Substack!!

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I have one big question: How many expert reports calling out a genocide as a genocide will it take until the West shuts down the Israelis for good? We can't allow this nightmare to continue much longer. Where is the United Nations in all this mess? #FreePalestine

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I don't think you understand that the people in the driver seat are Jews, and unless/until that fact is address, Palestinians will continue to be exterminated by Jews just like Jews were being exterminated by Germans.

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I think you need to distinguish between "the West" and Western authoritarian propaganda.

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Using "the West" as a short-hand for the mouthful you suggest is easier, and I think most people who pay attention to these things know what's what.

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The genocide in Palestine has been ignored by mainstream media from the start. Nothing has changed. It has been ignored for 76 years.

The difference now is that citizen journalism in social media is the news source and it does and can make a difference. Mainstream media is lost to Ziojewish manipulation.

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"Ziojewish?" Most Zionists are Christians, like Joe Biden, the man most responsible for the current genocide. Mainstream media is lost to plutocratic and financial/capital actors. These same people deliver propaganda about EVERYTHING, including the Ukraine/Russia war. Blaming all Jews for the crimes of some is an old game.

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Many Zionists are Christians but a lot of Jews are Zionists for Israel. I do not blame all Jews, just those who support Israel.

I have stated that clearly many times. I would never blame all followers of a religion for the actions of their fanatics. The problems for Jews is that most of them have supported the evil that is Israel for seven decades.

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With news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating

quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls,

a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation

justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness

— “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus

make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.”

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According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced

five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown

to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime.

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So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom

right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account

involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely

nothing civil; therefor caught in the warring web are civilians most

unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility.

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And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations

where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the

fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter

(plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means

of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments

and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds

resulting from smart bombs often launched for the

stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. …

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Hence where humane consideration and conduct were unquestionably

due post haste came only few allocated seconds of sound bite — a half minute

if news-media were with extra space or time to spare — and one or two

printed paragraphs on page twenty-three of Section C. Such news

consumed in the stable fully developed, fully ‘civilized’ Western world

by heads slowly shaking at the barbarity of ‘those people’ in that

war-torn strife which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to post-haste

gather what’s left of their shattered lives and limbs and flee. …

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Thus comes the imminent point at which such meager measure

couple-column-inches coverage reflects the civil Western readers’

accumulating apathy towards such dime-a-dozen disaster zones

of the globe, all accompanied by a large yawn; then the

said readers subconsciously perceive even greater human-life devaluation

from the miniscule hundreds-dead-yet-again coverage.

The immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.

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Consequentially continues the self-perpetuation of the token-two-column-inch

(non)coverage as the coldly calculated worth of such common mass slaughter,

ergo those many-score violently lost human lives are somehow worth

so much the less than, say, three Englishmen drowning in the Thames. Perhaps

had they all been cases of the once-persecuted suddenly persecuting

or the once-weak wreaking havoc upon their neighboring indigenous

minorities — perhaps then there’d be far more compassionately just coverage.

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The human mind is said to be worth much more than the sum of the

human body’s parts, though that psyche may somehow seem to be of

lesser value if all that’s left are bomb-blast dismembered body parts.

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Jonathan Cook, you must get tired of being constantly told that you are right and seeing that nothing changes.

But you are right (and nothing changes).

It is unconscionable that what the BBC's 'Miss Information'* on the 'Americast' podcast/radio programme calls 'the professional media' (because 'msm' is passé) gaslight their audiences so brazenly. And sickening to see the depravity of Israel's (and the 'Five Eyes') rampage across a widening swathe of lands and peoples continue with impunity.

Even as a witness at remove, I have to take a break from it. (Others have written of the traumatic stress of witness, even at remove. As real as, 'tho very different from, PTSD.)

But people do get all the links you set out here. And maybe a new protocol is being invoked. It might be called, perhaps, the 'United Healthcare Doctrine'.

NOT THAT I, FOR ONE MOMENT, SUPPORT OR ENCOURAGE SUCH A THING.

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For the '*' stuff, see The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)

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Dear Jonathan, many thanks for this article. It was the best that you have written. I remember in the movie Shoah that I saw many years ago, there was a scene showing a big green area covered with forest and then a man spoke, “in this forest not animals were hunted, men were hunted.” This should apply to Gaza, where everyone is hunted. It doesn’t matter their age, their gender, their occupation- nothing matters. It is the season of hunting Palestinians.

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Thanks to the integrity of brave journalists like Jonathan Cook we hope for the future. We will never forgive or forget those in Israel and the west who are complicit in these crimes

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Curious why Hamas has not surrendered and released the hostages they kidnapped. If it is so unbearable in Gaza , why would they not choose that option?

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Curious why you're supporting the genocide. This has nothing to do with the hostages. And that is not a secret. Not that it ever was. You're either ignorant, or just a troll. I'd guess troll, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on that.

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I suspect that you’re not a troll either. No genocide here. Nothing to see. Find another cause. Piss off.

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Wrong Jim. Palestinians are dying because Hamas stated a war they cannot win and they are refusing to surrender and free the hostages that they kidnapped.

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Because you'll kill them.

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Do you have any suggestions?

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Yes. Resign your commission.

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I’m retired. Too old for reserves.

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Netanyahu has repeatedly said publicly that the return of the hostages will not stop Israel's war on Gaza. There are thousands of Palestinian hostages, men, women and children seized and held without charge or trial in Israeli prisons where torture is rife. The bodies of thousands of Gazan civilians have been retained by the IDF, buried in mass graves, obliterated by bulldozers, or left in the streets for starving dogs to eat.

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If Hamas surrenders and lays down its weapons the war will end. Simply releasing the few live hostages will not suffice. Gaza must be cleared of its war machine, otherwise in a few short years we will be fighting again.

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This is nonsense. There West Bank Palestinians will be the next target and another meaningless justification will be given. The same as the hundreds of bombs being dropped in Syria by Israel. It’s Western backed imperialism without any need of rational limitations.

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War? This is not a war, hasbara man. It's a genocide being committed by the US and Israel

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You don’t see our humanity. Your truths are lies. You spew hate with your rhetoric and falsehoods. Don’t whitewash yourself. The martyrs blood is on your hands, exactly where you want it.

Alhamdulillah.

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You are not showing any humanity. That’s exactly what this article is about. Did you bother reading it or just jump to comment on the obvious genocide?

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He's a troll, dude. Leave it be.

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There is no genocide Sam. I know you’re willing it to be…but it’s just not the truth.

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Jews are exterminating Palestinians because Palestinians are not Jews.

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It is NEVER wrong if a Zionist commits genocide upon "goyim". They can obviously justify anything through their 613 "religious" laws. Do not believe it? Just ask them. If you question their "facts", you are a NAZI.

Jewish Zionists view any "non-Jew" in the same way that the committed "Aryan German" viewed the Jew at the time. Lets just face the facts, Zionists consider all non-Jews as "Untermensch" or sub-humans not fit for life.

Untermensch = Goyim.

There are two classes of Untermensch in Zionist minds, those that support the Zionist genocidal racist actions (like the US Government) and those who are or will eventually become the victims of those actions (currently the Palestinians).

Why do so many western governments support this? The answer is obvious, governments fear the financial power that these people hold over the West.

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Surrender to a monster with no conscience, what would you really expect to happen? The killing to end and songbirds to sing as butterflies flitter by? You are blind to the red rage of hate on the Israeli side. And that’s not to say those who resist them have been angels. You evidently utterly lack empathy, believing that a people can be oppressed cruelly for generations and should just meekly submit to whatever their “betters” demand. Dignity and respect, ha! Servants should know their place. Don’t get uppity, we have whips and chains.

As for the hostages, I doubt there are many still alive. Probably none.

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He is not blind to Israeli hate, not blind to the genocide they are implementing but blinded by his own hate, and perception of the Palestinians as unworthy of life, and less then human. He is no different then those who knew about the genocide carried out by the Nazi's, who said nothing, did nothing, or helped implement it, and not only the Jews, but other groups as well, like the Poles and gypsies, homosexuals, etc. The same mentality prevails, and it is ugly. I hope they know that adopting such an attitude aligns them with that same brutal despicable mindset which is soulless.

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Nazi Germany = Zionist Judaism

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Your “resistance” has brought blind hate to a new level. The atrocities that date back over 100 years continue to this day. If this is your salvation…so be it.

Alhamdulillah.

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Your projecting now, it is your hate, your blindness that has created the horrors I listen to, and watch everyday,

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It' a troll. Best pay it no mind. I know it's tempting to reply (I sure did!), but as you can see, it just moves into ever-expanding areas of lies and misdirection.

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Now it is you who is projecting. We are wasting our time here. I get it, your victory will come from jihad. Our victory will come from defeating your jihad. So instead of all the hysterical whining and wailing every day,let us continue to the end and see what happens. Fair enough?

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I am not a Muslim I am not an Arab so why use words like jihad, and Alhamdulillah? My position is based on my humanity which is something you lack. Goodbye.

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So the only way out is fighting to the death….to the last man? Wouldn’t it be more prudent to live to fight another day? Maybe even give up the dream of destroying Israel? If it was the disputed territories that they wanted, those could have been had in 1948. I don’t understand how continuing this “resistance” benefits the Gazans.

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The Palestinians are destroying Israel while locked in a cage, needing permission to come and to go, while those in the West Bank are routinely imprisoned, no charges and left to rot for years, or killed by settlers, their homes and lives stolen. Spew your trash where the ignorant abide because they might be, might be the only ones who buy it. You refer to 1948, the Nakba, where hundreds of thousand of Palestinians were expelled from their homes and some 70 thousand murdered, and what they left behind, their homes, their belongings all stolen by the Israeli's. People like you find ignorance bliss, because then you can blind yourself to ugly truths.

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Fine. Keep at it. Honour your holy martyrs. You’re making tremendous progress.

Alhamdulillah.

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No, I honor truth, not lies, and not the ugly ignorant hate you spew with your lies and your blindness that is fearful of seeing the truth. I am making no one martyrs, but seeing their humanity which you cannot do.

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No, pride makes us stubborn. We praise the man who said “Give me liberty or give me death!” But then condemn as terrorists those who say that with the wrong tint of skin.

Why not give the Jews what they want, “from the river to the sea,” but then exclude all who glory in that “victory” from polite company world wide. No aid, no support, no membership in the UN, but no attacks either.

Calculate all the aid that Israel was given to crush non-Jews since 1948, adjust for inflation, and devote at least as much to resettling the displaced peoples in fine homes on prime land elsewhere.

It is telling, that the Palestinian’s coreligionists (Muslims) have done so little to support their “brothers,” other than to arm them. Which has done them no favor. Pride can blind us to wisdom.

With the Jews back in possession and the Dome leveled and the Temple rebuilt, watch the skies and see if the fundamentalists are right. I don’t think so. When he returns, the self-righteous will be the ones weeping.

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Look at all the aid that the only eternal refugees in history have received. Untold billions and billions, stolen by Haniyeh and his partners, Arafat, Abbas and company. Billions poured into tunnels and weapons. Billions poured into education of future generations to hate and fight against Israel, and that martyrdom is their greatest achievement. Billions more paid to heroic militants to kill and maim Jews. Those are choices that were made by the people that have refused every partition proposal.

Hang on to your pride. The more you promote martyrdom, the more martyrs you shall have.

Alhamdulillah.

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The best aid is not money, which can be misspent and stolen. The better aid is land, construction materials, and skills education. Green the desert. For example, Sinai is mostly empty, and it was never part of ancient Israel. Do not allow them to claim it. Transform it, regardless of cost. Desalination plants and solar farms, becoming farmland and towns.

Ya, I know it won’t happen. Yet I dream…

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