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Joanna Seidel's avatar

Thank you. I’m wide awake but indescribably sad and pessimistic. Doom is burying me.

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Patti Waterfield Art's avatar

You a right on the button with this, except it started before Trump

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subcomandante Felix's avatar

It's like what Churchill said to Truman on the defeat of Nazi Germany, "Fascism is dead. Long Live neo-fascism."

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Paul Seligman's avatar

Great analysis.

Although to say that most Israeli Jews are "recent immigrants" is misleading; something like 75% were born in the country. Most of those born in the country are at least second generation born there and many go back further.

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Michael Spillane's avatar

Thank you.

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Laurent Bourgey's avatar

Very good article.

Thank you.

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PerraVerde's avatar

thanks Jonathan, long but necessary read. (I keep waiting for the sane grown-ups to take over, but maybe thats too hopeful and naïve.)

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Kieran Jaegar's avatar

Oh, it's possible.

It's just gonna take some strong collective "wake-up juice."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvz8RfEwqqg

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Kristian Jonholt's avatar

The land belongs to the Jews and has done so for 3500 years. There has always been a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, or "Palestine" (Philistia) as the Romans called it in the year 70. The Arabs as a people have never had any connection to the Jewish land or Judea (the name comes from the one tribe, Judah, after Jacob/Israel, who is their ancestor through Abraham and Isaac). The Arabs have all of Arabia with plenty of Muslim and Arab nations. The Jews have Judea or Israel. The Jews are fighting against a Muslim irrational religious hatred and political distortion of history. Israel is forever, and those who curse Israel will be cursed, but those who bless Israel will be blessed.

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Squeeth's avatar

Zionists aren't Jews, they are the racist, fascist, antisemite, genocidal creatures of American Caesar. The rightful owners of Palestine are the Jewish, chris, Muslim, secular, atheist and either or neither, indigenous inhabitants.

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Kristian Jonholt's avatar

The Jews have never given up their ancient land, they have been chased from it and occupied by foreign nations, peoples and cultures, but have never given up the hope of returning. This hope is called Zionism.

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Squeeth's avatar

Actually-existing zionism is the late C19th antisemitic, racist and fascist ideology invented by Theodore Herzl and his camarilla of proto-nazis to replace Judaism, you don't get more antisemitic than that. Oh and there were plenty of Jewish Palestinians living in Palestine in the late C19th. Guess who the zionist filth started murdering first?

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Richard Wilding's avatar

Bullshit. Every single word. This is the certainty of studiously attained stupidity. It threatens everyone. Everywhere. It must not stand.

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Andrew Robert Richards's avatar

Insightful, courageous & well said. The West has at least one genuine journalist with a properly functioning moral sense. Thankyou Jonathan.

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Eleanor M Owens's avatar

Great article. Your "arriving in disguise" section is very well articulated. Of course the Nazis weren't going to return brandishing swastikas--because then we'd recognize those symbols and would understand their true intentions. So of course they had to wear costumes. As Jolani in Syria wore a suit to imply legitimacy, our leaders also wore costumes of false benevolence to disguise their complicity within warmongering and genocide. Thank you for writing.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Clothes and appearances are so important because politics is theatre and they're all putting on a show. Puppet Zelensky was dressed in fatigues until the time was right to humiliate him over them. Trump, Vance and Witkoff wear suits, speak politely and say nice things about Putin pretending to be friendly trading partners all the while arming the EU, putting tariffs on everyone they don't like and preparing for war with Iran and China.

The US funded neonazis in Ukraine do actually proudly wear swastikas, they must be good Nazis because they kill Russians?

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Velociraver's avatar

Hundreds of thousands of American Bund Nazis ( and even more Americans who sympathized but simply didn't join) didn't just vanish after the Madison Square Gardens rallies and the war ended. They simply went underground, and joined with the thousands of Operation Paperclip Nazis imported to seed the nascent US "intelligence" agencies in forming the Fourth Reich.

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Frances Kay's avatar

Brilliant analysis, which needs stating and should be broadcast everywhere. The fact that it won't is a sorry reflection on our mass media and our supine politicians who refuse to see fascism when it stares them in the face. Please keep writing, Jonathan, we who feel like a silenced minority are greatly heartened by your words.

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Thank you, Johnathan!!! If history still exists following these days, it will "look back in Anger" at our complicity.

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Gloria Sharp's avatar

Love your writing but hey not everyone has the time to read such long postings. I fear that there will be the use of AI to put stories together which will lose the readers.

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Lucia Nicastro's avatar

We should instead take the time to read and Think, and to go Beyond the sensazionale headlines whicjh only aim to manipulate emotions and strip us of critica thinking For quck and impactful posts, there is already Instagram-heavily censored by the way. So welcome Substack as it allows to write and to read.

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Jim KABLE's avatar

Except, GS - people like me - of a certain age - for whom the lengthier outlining of the sequences of events is necessary - to retain the narrative.

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Duane McPherson's avatar

"There are fascist-leaning parties inside the governments of Italy, Hungary, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Croatia. Openly far-right parties are jostling for power in France, Germany, Austria, Sweden and, for the first time, Britain. That trend was reflected in a surge of ultra-nationalist delegates elected to the European Parliament last year."

I agree with almost all of you analysis. But here, I think, you are bundling too broadly. Specifically, I see in the governments of Hungary and the Czech Republic a resistance against the impersonal social politics of the US, and against the globalist humanitarian imperialism of the US-inspired social justice movement. Which, beneath its benign out-pointed face, represents the denigration of all genuine social diversity in favor of the particular views of the dominating powers of the US. Far from promoting genuine diversity of national attitudes, it demands that all attitudes adhere to the particular views of the culture-dominating elites in US universities and think-tanks.

I am no scholar or expert on Hungary, but I see in Orban a leader who is not so much far-right as he is nation-protective; that is, a leader who seeks to maintain for Hungary its potential to develop along its own trajectory rather than one dictated by the US (or any other nation). I see something similar in Belarus, which maintains a separation from Russia but which benefited when Russia helped it deal with the threat of a Color Revolution instigated by the US. I do not see Hungary as a country actively moving toward fascism, but I recognize that countries may react defensively in ways that reflect fascist elements, as the US did during WW2.

There are a lot of moving parts in the current geopolitical game. I appreciate your analysis and hope you will keep posting your stimulating and informative analyses.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Agreed. One could add and argue that the mass immigration seen in Europe is also Jewish led; it is most certainly "Globalist" (see Peter Sutherland, was he Jewish?).

It is totally synthetic as it is happening in Canada, Australia and New Zealand too and the protest against it is now smeared as "far Right" which is completely unjust in its implications.

In Australia obviously ridiculous false flags have been uncovered to move money to Jewish interests and enact "Hate Speech" laws which will limit right to complain.

The author neglects to mention Weimar Germany etc in favour of some spastic, sudden hatred of Jews by unhinged Fascists but one understands the need for brevity.

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