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John's avatar

Jonathan, your article is both insightful and thought-provoking, and it undoubtedly deserves the attention of mainstream media outlets. However, I feel compelled to express my differing perspective on this complex issue.

To me, the role of mainstream media goes beyond mere complicity in the genocide; I see them as active partners in perpetuating the ongoing conflict. This perspective stems from my understanding of how these media outlets are often controlled by powerful corporate entities with pro-Israeli interests, along with religious Zionists and advertisers who align closely with these owners' viewpoints. This dynamic creates a troubling environment where reporters are frequently guided, or even constrained, in terms of what stories they can cover and how they can present those narratives. It raises significant questions about journalistic integrity and independence.

You may recall that this very environment was one of the reasons you chose to leave your previous position—because you refused to allow others to dictate your understanding of truth or limit your ability to report on matters that you found essential. Your commitment to uncovering the whole truth is commendable and underscores a vital need for transparency and accountability in journalism today.

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damien flinter's avatar

"One of the biggest lies promoted by the US and Israel is the pretence that, in slaughtering Gaza’s children, Israel has been acting in the interests of Israelis held in the enclave."

The BIGGEST of I$ra€£'s £i€$ is its foundationa£ £ie that it is a 'Jewish' state.

Judaism is a faith or religion based on its Torah, its commandments and laws: among them those ten delivered by their leader and guide, Moses.

Antisemitism was created by the Roman Christians' belief the Jews killed their messiah (ignoring the fact that their executed preacher/healer and critic of the temple corruption was himself a Jewish practitioner, as were his followers).

When did the Zionist fabrication ever edhere to those Torah laws?? I would hold that their often proclaimed atheism and fratricidal addiction self-excommunicates them from Judaism as any code of conduct inherent in its belief system, and exposes its true imperia£ predatory origins to any rational examination of its history.

British Isralism emerged as the brainchild of Puritan Protestant literalist reading of the Judaic bible folk histories; written with metaphor, allegory and other devices of priestcraft picked up by Jewish scribes during their sojourns in Egypt and Babylonia, using an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenicians.

In the beginning was the word....and that locomotive drew a £ooooooong trainnnnn of £i€$.

And on that long train£oad of $hifting quicKKK$and$ was fortress I$ra€£ built.

Its true deity, behind the $KKKr€€nery, remains the Roman Mars, god of war and its totalitarian eponymoU$ MarKKK€t.

Hence the desire to 'rebuild the temple', complete with rein$ta££€d $anhedrin uber a££€$.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-group-mints-trump-coin-to-honor-jerusalem-recognition/&ved=2ahUKEwiMrZOg1_yLAxWIQUEAHYe7AJ4QFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0YfkXVYMeR7DirOcpUTIhp

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AlternativeNarrative's avatar

Tip of the iceberg. Again. I came across this Aussie vid on media reports in Australia that paid actors are being funded from abroad to engage in attacks that are then reported as genuine anti-Semitic acts. This is the tip of the iceberg. Zionists are also traipsing about the world, especially in Europe, but also in Iraq, Pakistan etc engaging either in genuine terrorism but pinning it on Muslims, the infamous "false flag". Or they are outright faking Islamist attacks, knifings & car-attacks, for example, & the pliant, Zionist-controlled media go about reporting faked & hoaxed attacks as genuine. They all feed into the Zionist paradigm, though some are westerner response attacks against migrants. Obviously, some of the more simpler knifing & vehicle attacks can be genuine & some probably are. Bigger attacks are often hoaxed or false flagged.

Not only have Zionists attacked themselves, or allowed themselves to be attacked, on 9/11 they also attacked their best friends & ever since the world has been deluded that the terror attacks of 2001 were Muslim attacks against America. They were false flags attacks by Zionists against America. We've been residing under a paradigm of Zionist Islamist terror ever since so when there are no real ones, they fake them just to keep our heads in place.

Check my Substack, Alternative Narrative on Youtube, Bitchute & Rumble for more evidence. I'm even on fb!

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Debbie Liu's avatar

Yes, and that narrative has now come undone with the media finally reporting that the so-called "antisemitism" behaviour was done by criminal gangs. The whole "caravan explosive" thing was a hoax. "Fabricated by criminals for their personal benefit."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/10/a-sydney-caravan-laden-with-explosives-was-a-fake-terrorism-plot-heres-what-we-know-ntwnfb

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A Parseeker's avatar

Does this tweet by Trump not make him culpable at the ICC for inciting, aiding and abetting genocide? Self incriminated, signed, sealed and delivered. Can’t wait.

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Ian Duncan Kemp's avatar

It is sad that BBC our MSM carry on with the lies being told to them by Israel. They are not very good at either. The Nazis with Goebbels were much more clever. The main reason that Israel does not care is because the west has always let Israel get away with war crimes. But there are signs that the world is waking up to what Israel is about particularly among the young. The future of Israel in its present state is not good.

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Raveen's avatar

'So they can carry on with the genocide, without pressure to deal with the fate of the Israelis held in Gaza.'

A nation that doesn't at all care about its own citizens' survival. We've seen this in less extreme forms in other countries at various points throughout history.....but this just takes it to a whole new level of depravity and viciousness.

The question now is, how much longer before Israeli citizens realize this and turn against their system?

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Mark R. Elsis's avatar

Dear Jonathan Cook

I'm happy to see you have "almost" woken up...

...were "almost" certainly caused by Israel invoking its scorched-earth directive that day.

Please, I was certain of this as soon as I saw the first cars and houses blown up, so within a month of Oct 7. I also stated that the majority of Jews that died that day, were cause by the Jews themselves.

And, you are still equivocating about this 17 months later.

Love Is The Answer

Mark R. Elsis

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

I think we all know who is “sick and twisted”!

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Fran's avatar

What a despicable remark Trump made! I've read about this issue before. I always thought they were untruthful about the number of Israeli's who were slaughtered as a result of implementing the Hannibal Directive. It would not surprise me if they implemented the Directive to up the number of Israeli dead to justify their genocide. When Netanyahu won in 2022 he was talking about his plans for the West Bank which sounded like he was planning a genocide there, and he is certainly clearing out the West Bank and doing so with little attention being paid. I would even go further in saying Israel knew this attack was going to happen, since they were forewarned on a number of fronts, spotters monitoring the gates of Gaza reported suspicious behavior by Hamas, ignored, and they also had their plans that were to be implemented, but they ignored those as well, and there were warnings from Egypt, ignored. They were absent during much of that assault which they have not been held accountable, and the subject according to Netanyahu is to be discussed later. I also heard a tape posted on Unz that translated a statement by an invading member of Hamas on that night who said he thought this was going to be a suicide mission, since he must have thought they would be right behind them instead of being absent long enough for them to hit some 20 towns. I personally believe Israel knew this was going to happen, and let it happen in order to implement their genocide.

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Guillaume Dohmen's avatar

The more you look at Israeli action in Palatine the more it looks like the SS actions in Russia.

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RamboDave's avatar

There is evidence that Biden and his Zionists zealots intentionally delayed the Gaza cease fire deal for eight months so that Israel could launch its attack on Hezbollah, weaken it, and allow for a coordinated regime change offensive by al-Qaeda rebels in neighboring Syria after the US election. They wanted time to prepare the ground for regime change in Syria, which had been an ongoing neocon CIA project since 2011. They had to keep the Gaza war going to accomplish this.

But now, there is not as much "Deep State" motive for Trump to keep the Gaza war going. I predict that Trump will eventually be forced to tell Israel to get out of Gaza, including the Philadelphia corridor.

YouGov.com polling analysis shows that the continuation of the war in Gaza for those eight months cost Kamala Harris the election.

What this means is that Biden put his zealotry for Israel, allowing Israel to keep and steal more Palestine land, above his own Democrat party loyalty. This is the ultimate betrayal. Despite 80% of the party calling for a cease fire, Democrat elites made an intentional choice. They chose genocide.

After refusing to let a Palestinian be scheduled to speak, Democrats spent the first two days of their convention chanting ad-nauseam ... "we love Joe ... we love Joe". They were totally unaware how obnoxious that was to millions of Democrats who saw the genocide in Gaza he was enabling?

Do Democrats still "love Joe", now that Joe has cost them the election?

All reports indicate that the Gaza cease fire deal that was announced is, word for word, the same as what was put forth last May, and which Hamas agreed to last June. Israel and Biden intentionally delayed the deal so that it could weaken Hezbollah starting in September, with the exploding pagers, ground invasion, assassinations, and massive aerial bombing. All of it done in coordination with al-Qaeda rebels preparing their offensive from Idlib province in Syria. It was all coordinated between Israel, Turkey and the U.S. That is why the Gaza cease fire deal was delayed by the US for months, with Blinken lying about Hamas delaying the deal. They wanted time to prepare for regime change in Syria.

Here is the evidence. The US supported al-Tanf rebels, located in the Southeast of Syria, at that US controlled border crossing, say that they were instructed to prepare for the 'mother of all battles' days before the al-Qaeda rebels even launched their offensive toward Aleppo from Idlib, and then later down to Damascus. These al-Tanf rebels were so prepared that they actually captured Palmyria far to their North, cutting off the road to Deir Ezor in the East, and the only remaining road to Baghdad, which Iraqi Shia militias might use to rescue the Syrian Army. The al-Tanf rebels advanced all the way to the suburbs of Damascus days before the al-Qaeda rebels even got to Damascus. A U.S. B-52 bomber was flying cover for them high above each day, just in case it was needed. This was not done without a lot of planning.

Joe Biden’s neo-liberal Zionists thought that their alliance with the leftover Bush neocons, like Liz Cheney and Lincoln Project Republicans, a rehabilitated George Bush, and Zionists controlled mainstream media, would be enough to allow them to overcome the millions of Democrats in their own party that refused to vote for genocide enablers. They thought that their neo-liberal / Zionists / neocon alliance could achieve all of their goals in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, and they could still win in November. They miscalculated.

That is why they delayed the cease fire deal in Gaza for eight months. That is why these criminals thought it was necessary for more Palestinians to die.

And that is why Donald Trump is now President !

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Blucey's avatar

👏👏👏

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CarbonCopy's avatar

Spot On! Trump is a sick and twisted Zionist Nazi who is actively engaged in GENOCIDE! ARREST THE WAR CRIMINALS ARREST THE GENOCIDE COMMITERS ARREST GENOCIDEJOE AND THE ZIONIST NAZI POLITICIANS!

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Elizabeth Block's avatar

It doesn't make sense for Hamas to kill its captives. A live hostage is an asset. A dead one is worthless. Can't people figure this out?

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Judith Dyer's avatar

The main reason I started studying the situation on Oct 8 was that Israel began bombing the same day, Oct 7, that Hamas had invaded Israel in a suicide mission and was able to kill more than the military they were after but even civilians due to no military action by the Israel military. They knew their own citizens were there. I was shocked.

The first expert I accessed was Norman Finkelstein....then on and on and on to many independent experts..including Jonathan Cook. I have spent 2-4 hours a day and have over 50 pages of notes.

Last night I watched on PBS the stories of the extensive art plunder by the Nazis that included every country they invaded. 90% of that art is still in circulation. Germany supports the Jews unconditionally in their killing and plunder of Palestinian's land. This is in their blood. Besides their deep guilt (or, embarrassment) of the Holocaust being revealed, they are still Nazis at heart. Israel is a Nazi regime. Do they identify with and admire the Jewish Israelis because they are so like them?

I believe that the USA has been and still sees Israel has their ticket to control the Arab countries and their oil. "Regime change" has been going on for over 100 years.

I have disliked and hated Trump for decades, having lived in NYC where he was so low class with his golden toilets and behavior learned from Roy Cohn. But, maybe he, even as awful as he is, will somehow cause a situation where Israel will stop or be annihilated by the Arab countries fed up with it.

I don't think that Israel has a right to exist. I don't think those people can change.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

It's lavatory, not "toilet", which is a twee misunderstanding of the French.

I visited NYC from Rome when I read gossip concerning Trumps' building on 5th Ave'. T'was truly repulsive like an explosion in a gilded abattoir. I only realise now that it replaced elegant Bonwit Tellers where I spent a good deal of the 70's waiting for my mother.

Viva Palestina!

Fvck israel.

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Sam's avatar

“ Germany supports the Jews unconditionally in their killing and plunder of Palestinian's land.”

Meanwhile Germany is supporting the Ukraine Nazis. Figure that out.

Today I read that 30,000 Jews have moved to Ukraine. I’m curious to see how they will get along with the Nazis.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Well fine one presumes as was it not Kolomoisky etc who partly funded both they and the churlish midget?

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Judith Dyer's avatar

I can't figure most of it out.

The propaganda/lies we have lived with for so long.

Iran is an enemy!!! we must attack!!!

Guess what: Iran has been fighting western control for their oil for 100+ years. Brits, Germans, now the USA.

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A Parseeker's avatar

Iranians. Palestinians. Afghanis. What do they have in common? Grit. Oodles of grit. That’s why the West has never been able to conquer them or bribe them into subservience. History tells us that they will prevail. Shalom means peace; so it’s goodbye to Trump, and his ilk and their coterie of small minded, ignorant, corrupt goons.

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Sam's avatar

Yup. Every country’s leader that we don’t like is the new Hitler. It’s how the PTB manufactures consent for they’re going to destroy a country so corporations can steal the resources. And people fall for it every time.

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Judith Dyer's avatar

We get fed a pile of garbage propaganda. When will the American public get wise to this rip off? Tax $ used for war, not health care or higher education.

If you have PBS there is a video of China building a indoor luxury ski resort in a quarry. UNBELIEVABLE!!! this is what the Chinese are doing. not bloody wars.

Frankly, it looks like Disney World. Fake. Bad taste. .... the rich Chinese will LOVE it.

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Elizabeth Block's avatar

My MPP (member of Provincial Parliament), who knows I am Jewish, actually phoned me and asked if I thought Israel had a right to exist. I said, "As a Jewish-Supremacy State, NO."

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Judith Dyer's avatar

*******!!!

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Greta Berlin's avatar

Ralph Nader writes that Israel has slaughtered over 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

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