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Its important to understand this isnt merely terrible behaviour. Its a careful coordinated conditioning program. Israel is shadow member of NATO - they even have a "laison" office at NATO HQ in Brussels. And this here is a coordinated nation disinformation effort.

They are doing this deliberately in order to brainwash the citizens of countries in NATO to think that Israel is under attack, because they plan a massive expansion of the horriific violence on muslims that Israel has been carried out. The plan is to expand the use of Israel as their killling spearhead .. tol kill even more innocent Palestinians, and Lebanese, and Yemenis and Syrians and Iranians too. Because "Poor victim Israel". Even though in fact israel is a lawless mass-murdering regime.

People need to start seeing what's going on here. NATO is deep into gaslighting and deceiving its own people.

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Yet another excellent piece. It's a pity that there aren't more journalists of your calibre exposing what's happening. Thank you.

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Being a victim of Holocaust never justify them to do another Holocaust to another human....

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DARVO. Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offeneder. Israel/Zionist not just vile and dengerous but very deceitful people. Can never be trusted, ever. They are like a biggest cult organization. Noone can understand them because the brain is too brainwashed (or they can pretend to be dumb since they can no longer be trusted).

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The Zionist Jews are Snivelling Cowards and Pathological Liars who rely on the Guilt of the American and British Houses of Power, Biden, Harris, USA and Starmer Rayner Reeves UK and all the other European Leaders who are also Lickers of Netanyahu’s Arsehole and are just as culpable of the Murderers of every Baby Child Teen Woman and Man from Palestine Lebanon Syria and Iran, As for the Zionist Jew Nazi Compliant majority of the Worlds Media may as well be in the cockpits of the Murdering Zionist Pilots or Sniping from the rubble of the Gaza Strip and Southern Lebanon and Driving the Bulldozers crushing the already lifeless corpses littering the devastated streets of Palestine and Lebanon. It is way past time for every Government who have Supported this Genocide and every Newspaper Outlet to be thoroughly investigated by a Independent Body the Lies Lies and more Lies and Propaganda they have passed onto their readers is a deliberate act of Brainwashing a Criminal Act.

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They might rely on the carefully groomed guilt of the population of Western countries, but the houses of power have different incentives in creating this false narrative. And the media and political response is obviously coordinated internationally.

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I'm just waiting to see Paris DO IT BETTER!

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'WASHINGTON, Nov 1 [2024] (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refueling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave the region...'

And:

'...The US military said Thursday that additional F-15 fighter jets arrived in the Middle East as part of a buildup meant as a threat to Iran...'

Scheer Post, 10/11/24.

And:

'Patrick Lawrence: "Israel does the 'wet work' " ', Scheer Post, yesterday. (Includes a fulsome hat-tip to Jonathan Cook.)

Just so we know what page we're on. And who's the dog wagging whose tail.

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Don't be defeatist. Women were not allowed to vote anywhere until comparatively recently. Their right struggle was successful. Equally, Zionism which is as wrong as misogyny can be defeated. So struggle for what is right.

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It seems Cook denies the fact that Judaism has an organized political arm, which is legitimately referred to as the Jewish Lobby. This lobby consists of the Jewish leaders of over 400 Jewish political organizations in Western countries that are funded to the level of billions of dollars by both the Jewish community and Israel. Here's the data:

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

That's the smoking gun that substantiates my claims.

The largest part of this lobby lies in the USA, where over 350 US Jewish political organizations are supported. There's nothing wrong in identifying this political group as "Jews" or "Judaism," in the same way we identify any other political group, such as the "USA," the "UK," "Germany," "Russia," etc. Why should Judaism be any different? During WWII, we identified the wrongdoers as "Germans," even though, "not all Germans were Nazis." Why is it so hard to understand such a reality? We are not talking about the religious, ethnic, or cultural aspect of Judaism, in the same way we are not talking about those features when we use the labels listed above. We know not all US citizens and Israeli Jews support Israel's genocide. But we still say that the USA is complicit in genocide. By the same English usage, Judaism is complicit in genocide. Virtually all the polls indicate that both the USA and Judaism overwhelmingly support political leaders that make this genocide possible. The protests from student groups and Jewish groups does not invalidate those labels.

And even more tragic is that an overwhelming number of Jewish political leaders both inside and outside Israel are running a successful propaganda campaign to hide their true identity as wrongdoers. The only way out of this atrocity is for enough US citizens and enough ordinary Jews to rise up against their leaders. What happened in Germany is now happening in the USA and Judaism.

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Are you conflating Russia's war to stop UkroNazi genocide of a Russia-speaking people with Israel's genocide??? Goddam, read some fucking history.

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Read the fucking article to discover the answer... which is no, though your framing of the comparison, through a question and an angrily barked order, leaves some gaps that could be filled by reading more widely. Just because 'genocide' is the current term du jour, that's because it is being used to describe an actual genocide... claiming that there was one (even pending) in Ukraine this century is a deeply dishonest assertion.

I hear you and raise the bullshit flag.

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Excellent reading, Jonathan!

And, while most people are commenting and arguing about the supposed persecution against the Israeli hooligans, the genocide against Palestinian keep going.

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And what is even worse, an open insult to every citizen, is the solution that the Dutch cabinet is proposing: Integration! The problem is that this Arab youths (third or fourth generations born in The Netherlands) don’t respect our cultural values! We need to RE-Educate them! We will create Re-education camps to put them all there and teach them what it means to be a GOOD DUTCH CITIZEN!

This government is ridiculous and shameful. It’s gaslighting its people with their open racism. They are an insult to our intelligence. You pretend that we don’t see the truth, twisting it around in an act of blatant lying. It’s obscene.

The rhetoric of the government is nauseating. Dick Schoof is just a parrot of Geert Wilders. Pure racists.

They just repeat hardline statements not really knowing what they are really saying.

They are a total shame.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/11/eradicating-anti-semitism-is-a-top-priority-says-dutch-pm/

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The wonder is that most of aren't antisemitic by now. We know the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and that MANY Jews are also anti-Zionists, but the mainstrem media seems determined not to explain the difference.

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Regardless of the historical origins behind the term "antisemitic," it's being used today by Jewish political leaders to suppress criticism of the wrongdoing these leaders are doing.

The IHRA Leaders Insult our Intelligence

(Not just human intelligence, but AI as well)

https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-ihra-jewish-leaders-insult-our

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If the media have lied in unison here, I wonder what else we have been lied to about? And what was it like before the age of the internet and social media?

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There's a long, long history. Mark Curtis at DeclassifiedUK (declassifieduk.org) is particularly good on this (the 'how' & the 'why').

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Excellent article Jonathan. These are scary times. Thank you for telling the truth about all of this. I wish people in my country would quit watching the msm b/c it is nothing but lies. My Dad still watches it and no matter what I say he still thinks Putin is like a czar or dictator who just decided to invade Ukraine no matter NATO was pushing into Russia’s back door and Ukraine’s Nazis were shelling the Donbas region since 2014 and of course Israel is just “defending itself”. How long are Americans going to fall for this bull shit, I ask???? I want to see a free Palestine in my lifetime. 😢☮️🇵🇸

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European countries have indeed buried their Nazi pasts - too well...

They buried the right so deep the left was left unrestrained and is now the anti-semitic champion. It is the left that is responsible for dangerous 5th column Muslim population that has made home in the West. Hopefully Trump's comeback is just the beginning of a complete nativist wave.

What is referred to as Western "racism" is just rightful self-preservation of one's own nationality in one's own nations.

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Go and read some BOOKS!

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I have followed the ME conflict all my life and am well aware of the facts. What do you think I am missing out on?

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IF you do not know.......read?

ALL the people in Europe are fighting for our lives AGAINST the political mainstream Politicians.

What are YOU doing?

You vote your 'pocket books' and have absolutely NO idea about foreign nations.

Do you know where Canada is!

I had a daughter in school in the US.

No Civics/NO Geography NO world History.

What you are missing out on (through no fault of yours if you are young)Education.

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I am an Australian born in central Europe - not sure who you think I was... I have an undergrad & postgrad degree. People who don't agree with you are not "evil or stupid", nor are all Americans uneducated.

What am I doing? Trying to make a living and afford a home.

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You people are demonic.

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