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Sean Griobhtha's avatar

Zionism knows the power of religion to achieve its fascist glory, and Zionists praise the power of fascism (Romans, Spartans, Zionist, and Slavery); which, in turn, makes reality of the gullibility and ignorance of the populace and utilizes religion to achieve clearly antagonistic ends, in order to solidify power (this clearly applies to Christian Zionists as well). And again, like Mussolini:

“It is a well-known ability of viciousness to mimic the appearances of virtue and truth; else, should evil look as ugly as it is, its power upon humans would be small. This favorite guile of the fiend has long been adumbrated in the allegory introducing Satan as a handsome angel, nay, the handsomest in all the celestial array. Accordingly, the first section of Mussolini’s dissertation smuggled the anarchy and tyranny of the One as a remedy against the disintegrating individualism of many; while the latter section disguises lust for carnage and sadistic glory as heroism, nay, as the only possible redemption from cowardice and selfishness.

“It should have come out clearly for the readers and for the author as well that it is not the amount which decides the quality of human energy. Such phrases as “the maximum of tension” or “the storm i the people’s hearts” are liquor spilt from a cheap romantic cask. It used to be intoxicating; it is now lees and sourness. Were the amount or violence of explosive energy the measure for human conduct, the fury of the arsonist should seem better than the architect’s endurance and the rapist should be above the saint.” (ibid)

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Tessa Wilson's avatar

Nothing, I repeat, nothing Hamas has done to Israel even scratches the surface of the destruction Israel has done to itself in the eyes of every fair-minded human being on this planet since 8 October 2023 and for those who know the sad history of this region, a long time before that date. Since that date, the people of the world are seeing daily, the evil a nation can do when its true goal is to steal land that belongs to others for its own state. This began in 1948 with the creation by the winners of WW2, starting a new 'colonialist venture' by using a third party (on the premise of an apology for ignoring a genocide before their eyes during WW2) but actually creating an 'allied' nation to feather the West’s oil and military interests in the Middle East.

This Western folly has continued ever since and now we are witnessing the end game: Israel taking the entire region on the pretext of destroying Hamas and confirming their dishonest intent by also annexing areas of The West Bank - is Hamas in the West Bank??

For a highly intelligent nation, Israel - I have four questions:

Is the price you are paying for the State you were ”given” worth it?

What will come next to avenge what you have done?

Do you always want to be living in fear of the justice you deserve to receive?

Is it any wonder the rest of the world has decided to react to this injustice by joining together to probably challenge the current world order?

We are witnessing a horrible truth: democracy as we thought we knew it, is in fact legitimised terrorism. Hopefully the world’s ordinary wise, fair humankind will rise up and forbid it - NOT IN OUR NAME. There simply cannot be in Gaza, Ukraine or anywhere else a victory for land thieves - now, or in the future.

Israel - stop what you are doing - you are destroying yourselves … as well as the Palestinians!

Mathias's avatar

This is an excellent and thorough class in critical media literacy. Thank you for doing what you do.

Adelia's avatar

Thank you as always... I'm in a debate with a friend at the moment who is very anti-Hamas because, I believe, her particular Christian beliefs make her very anti-Moslem. I don't feel well qualified to comment on the goodness or badness of Hamas - I actually don't know. All I do know is that extreme situations, violence and injustice breed extremist responses... However my friend tells me that there is a mafia-like culture in Hamas. She says "I think it’s fairly widely known the former “public” leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, made his name as a tough guy by forcing the brother of a suspected “traitor” in Hamas ranks to bury his own brother alive." I have no idea if this is true or not or where she got this information - this may not be the place to have this discussion with Hamas being a proscribed organisation but I was interested to know if you have any thoughts on this.

Michael Holloway's avatar

MSM complicit in genocide.

Daragh O'Rourke's avatar

WE CAN'T ALL GO TO GAZA BUT WE CAN FIGHT BACK HEREAT HOME * KICK THE ZIONISTS OUT * GET THEM OUT OF GOVERNMENT * GET THEM OUT OF POLITICS * GET THEM OFF LOCAL COUNCILS * GET THEM OFF POLICE BOARDS * GET THEM OUT OF OUR COURTS * GET THEM OUT OF SCHOOL BOARDS * GET THEM OUT OF OUR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS * IF THEY DON'T STAND WITH HUMANITY AND STOP SLAUGHTERING PALESTINIANS THEY DON'T DESERVE A PLACE AT THE TABLE * ♥️🇵🇸♥️

Kojo's avatar

Your explanations about the media complicity in the lie, with Reuters as a blatant example, are right on the money.

People need to understand that Reuters, CNN, BBC etc - any of the western media who operate in Tel Aviv, are CENSORED: every thing they publish is run by Israeli regime sensors. That is for example why they ALL published no real information about the nature and details of the ETENSIVE damage Israel suffered in its failed aggression on Iran: such publication is banned under Israel's censorship regime. The same is true about cases like this attack on journalists at a hospital: every word is an Israeli approved word. And the Israeli regime are manipulative, lying jackals - so that is what you get from their propagandfa partners in the western media.

These are not independent media in western countries - they are NATO stenographers. Israel is a shadow member of NATO and it will be clear later on in history, this was a coordinated NATO genocide in gaza as part of an intention to kick off WW III by conquering the near east.

Griswall Goblin's avatar

The gist of this comment is that, even in itsmost despicable atrocities, the Israeli Jew is not acting out of its own interests and by its own volition, but as the US "attack dog vassal" controlled by US corporations "who want us to hate Jews/Zionists/Israeli proxies" . In other words, helpless Israel, the homeland of the worlds greatest victims, is "proxy" puppet of antisemitism coerced to commit massive war crimes every day to engender even more antisemitism. Thus, the Chomskyan "client state," "Fateful Triangle" bullshit emerges in one of its more psychotic inversions of reality among the many used to dismiss Zionist Jew total capture of US institutions of policy making and resource allocation.

Jonathan Cook's avatar

Well done, you're right: I'm not buying the idea that centuries of a genocidal western imperialism would have withered if only Jews, or Zionist Jews, had not taken it over in 1948 when they established a state on the Palestinians' homeland.

Presumably, according to this logic, these same Zionist Jews repurposed western imperialism, against the wishes of western states, and forced those western states, which would otherwise have seen the error of their ways, to continue acting in genocidal ways.

Let me introduce you to Occam's razor...

Frances Kay's avatar

Excellent piece, thank you Jonathan. How desperately we need mainstream media journalists that are as courageous and honest as you.

juliet solomon's avatar

I have been wondering when the truth about 7 October, and how many of the Israeli deaths were at Israeli hands, will be allowed to see the light of day?

Diana's avatar

In addition, from the Fosna website: A final twist to the absurdity of this story came in the form of news stories appearing in the Hebrew-language Israeli press (but not covered in the Western Press at all) whereby the soldiers involved were furious at Netanyahu for apologizing and stating that this was a mistake, insisting that the “double tap” operation was duly authorized by the higher echelons of the army in advance and “consistent with acceptable policy.” A number of prominent Israeli journalists also publicly supported the action, saying “there are no journalists in Gaza” and that killing all those terrorists, who were “pretending to be journalists only to serve the Hamas narrative,” was mandatory and that their killing was “better late than never.”

Why did Reuters not mention this?

Michael Bailey's avatar

Well done, Jonathan. Another excellent piece on this theme of the Western media’s connivance and compliance with Israeli efforts to conceal the truth of what is happening in Gaza. This is important for two reasons. First your articles will contribute to the background of whatever international criminal court proceedings eventually take place to hold the instigators and perpetrators of genocide to account. Second your pieces serve to confront western journalists with their professional failure to uphold the very foundations of their calling.

Majesterial Joy's avatar

An Israeli civilian OSINT informer who actually called the strike after he used the camera information that he found online stated unequivocally that he knew that they were all journalists, but that 'they are all Hamas anyway' and so he notified the military that it was a Hamas gathering on the hospital.

Katy Harries's avatar

This is such an impprtant article

Jim KABLE's avatar

Australia's political leaders (assets of the Zionist lobbies within Australia) and its Zionist-run Security institution called ASIO (its leader Mike Sturgess has a wife - it has been suggested - who is a Zionist, as well) - certainly his info that Iran (you couldn't make this up unless you were a Zionist "hasbara" unit) orchestrated (minimal) attacks on synagogues in Sydney and Melbourne - frightening the Australian politicians more than anyone else and clearly managed by Mossad to kick the politicians into line. Iran a country with the biggest Jewish community in Western Asia (behind Israel) with a permanent Jewish representative seat in the national Parliament interested in attacks on suburban synagogues on the other side of the world! Pull the other one! For crying out loud - and our politicians froth at the mouth over Iran - revealing their appalling ignorance and/or subservience to the line dispensed from Tel Aviv.

Dieter's avatar

Thank the lord for J.Cook.