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Why no mention of the Hamas charter, paragraph 20?

“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

Maybe that is the cause of peoples concern?

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I wrote a comment again branding the CIA- NATO countries as racist warmongers . But it didn't go through. I don't know enough about sending such posts. Nearing 81 is perhaps too late.

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An excellent dissection of the methodology used to turn the night to day and vice versa when discussing the desire of Palestinians to live on their own farms, harvest their olive groves, send their children to school and university in safety, travel to hospitals for treatment when necessary, fish their waters, laugh and love and dance. From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.

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👏👏👏

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Helen,

I think the Anglo Saxons killer Combo of the CIA - NATO - the Five Eyes is racist. The Slavs ( Russians) , Asians( Hindus) , Chinks, Arabs, Iranians, South Americans et al are considered fit for mayhem.

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I think ego is at the heart of the two groups you mention - the CIA, NATO.

Racist thinking is only one product of that ego, and can be attributed to many individuals. Such labelled thinking should not be generalised towards entire members / citizens of one group / country or another. To think so simplistically is I think a tool used by many to incite / maintain conflict.

Ego and the subsequent lack of consciousness this evokes is what needs to be addressed.

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To be dispossessed of one's childhood home is almost a trauma. If it's done by deceit the injustice is unbearable. I am sufferring this. I support the Palestinians.

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Nov 30, 2023·edited Nov 30, 2023

You are so right!

I have not endured such suffering as your own, but when you say dispossession of your childhood home is 'almost' a trauma, please feel the right to say 'it is a trauma'.

As an empath all I can offer is my deepest love for you. You know intimately your home, you have personal bonds of love and all manner of emotions in those images only you can share well with others who also know your home in the same way you do. To be unjustly denied is a trauma.

Your voice is so important. Keep talking so those of us deaf, dumb and blind for so long can begin to really understand - if only in our minds eye.

We all must stand with you, speak with you, beside and behind you, and at times in front leading on your behalf when you are not being heard or seen, because you are our family and we are yours - to live in peace, free, with opportunities all around us, this is everyone's most basic right.

The leaders of all crimes perpetrated by their lies and complicity must be tried in law and must accept their fate under those laws.

Injustice is unbearable when the crimes and lies continue and those responsible appear untouched and untouchable. I can imagine only your pain.

Justice under the many laws we know have been repeatedly ignored and broken is the very least we can demand.

You have billions of eyes and ears seeing you and hearing you - only together can we make the changes needed. It is obscene how unseen and unheard you have been. I will work for justice, for you and every family hurt by these inhumane crimes.

I hope you have found some support and healing for your pain. My thoughts and actions are with you.

With deepest love and respect, Helen

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Israel, where I spent quite a few pleasant months in 1984, simply disgusts me. As do those armchair zionists who haven't got the courage to leave their comfy homes in Maynsrd Keynes and go live there.

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Thank the Creator that there are people in Britain marching in support of the Palestinians. If there are more such marches , the Israeli genocide will be exposed .

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Excellent reporting once again Jonathan, keep exposing the lies and propaganda coming out of the IDF and Netanyahu.

Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone) has extensively investigated the Oct 7th attacks and has exposed so many staged events, lies and complete rubbish the IDF continue to propagate. Funny how western media don't report the real events of this day including what appears to be Israels invoking of the Hannibal Directive against it's own military and civilians.

see link on Spotify to Max's interview with Afshin Rattansi.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qrEuMiBnnJpH3688oIOBD?si=V4VekIZiQh6dJzvavhF86A

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Yes, they do a great job putting snippets of evidence together. Facts and testimonies which barely see light in MSM. Always so balanced too - historian investigation like i think best describes their thoroughness. Ty for link.

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Thank you for articulating this so precisely! I am absolutely furious, frustrated and sometimes frightened by this fake propaganda machine of Israel! The sooner Netanyahu and his cronies are locked up for war crimes the sooner the world will have peace!

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The regular Sunday arvio Pro-Palestinian rally & march in Sydney (NSW) got a mention on one of the local evening teevee news - at last ! But so too did a pro-Israeli rally. 'held nearby' .at the same time,

get mentioned...To mention the latter meant having to mention the former...

Footage of the pro-Palestine march was of marchers bunched at a spot, not of the long stretch of numerous participants - a perspective selected so as to not indicate its considerable support...

Worrisome: the timing of the pro-Israeli rally to coincide with the pro-Palestinian march is not merely a competition for media coverage, but has created the conditions for a likely provocation, a clash...

A clash likely to result on the banning of any further marches: the most likely intention ?

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If Israel really has all this evidence, why does it keep presenting clumsy and easily detected fakes as evidence? Why can't it present the real thing?

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It’s a sad fact of life that ALL are dehumanised by those in positions of authority... most of us just don’t realise it yet. And if we do realise we have been dehumanised it’s only because they already destroyed our lives, our families, our reputations and our futures.....

Those poor babies...

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"The problem is our susceptibility to the endless lies and deceptions told by western establishments to promote their narrow interests over our shared humanity. " -- what a beautiful sentence.

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Well that is good news if Hamas has dropped their demand for Israel and Jews to be eliminated.

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