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Thank you for this reporting! Now, how do we get the war criminals locked up?
I am most grateful for your careful writing about this awful situation. Jabotinsky's 'Iron Wall' of, I think, 1921 certainly gave a very clear strategic direction to the zionist's project...
Many thanks for the explanation. It’s very sad that people from Gaza could be evicted. Gaza’s population is formed by its original people plus those who were expelled from Israel when it was created or even before by groups of extreme nationalists.
I'm old enough to remember when Israel fervently called for the "Arab refugees" (dispossessed Palestinians of the Big Nakba of 1948 and the Little Nakba of 1967) to be assimilated into the host countries - Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, etc) wheere it was hoped Israel's crimes would melt away.
It never happened because Palestinians demanded the Right to Return to their homeland, an internationally recognized right several decades old.
Compare the Zionists' dubious "right to return to Palestine" by mainly converts to Judaism after an alleged "absence" of 2,500 years.
Only in the racist, Evangelical self-serving West can the fabricated claims of colonial-settler Zionists trump the living, contemporaries claims of the Palestinians exiles still carrying the keys to houses.
We are in a new era of politics where the realtors have taken over, property foreclosures, poaching, stealing the deal ,scams on commissions and flagrant omissions. Our "leaders" have no end of insane ways to cover up their stupid competencies and avoid the obvious truth West is going down hard. They are a bunch arrogant bastards running from the truths of our times. The West is suffering a pandemic of arrogant stupidity with no antidote available.
"Western leaders had hoped to bring about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza with more decorum – in a “humanitarian” way that would have been more effective in duping western publics and maintaining the West’s claim to be upholding civilised values against a supposed Palestinian barbarity."
And it's failed--there's no way to make a genocide seem more "civilized/civilised". Mass murdering women and children and entire families can't ever be seen as anything less than barbaric. The West and Israel have given their dirty little plan away and made their behavior blatantly obvious. It's now obvious what decent and moral persons worldwide need to do: End this genocide and shut down the barbarous IDF and US War Machine for good!
A comment about the Substack reader. I rarely read articles these days, I listen to them, and Substack's reader is forcing us to change the way we use inverted commas. When you use the double inverted comma, it reads it - it says it out loud, "end quote", every time, and you use inverted commas a lot. But the solution is easy. You can use single inverted commas, which it doesn't read literally. Please consider this because listening becomes quite unpleasant when" end quote" punctuates every few words. Thanks.
With news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating / quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls / a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation / justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness / — “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus / make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.” //
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According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced / five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown / to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime. //
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So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom / right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account / involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely / nothing civil; therefor caught in the warring web are civilians most / unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility. //
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And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations / where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the / fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter / (plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means / of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments / and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds / resulting from smart bombs often launched for the / stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. //
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Hence where humane consideration and conduct were unquestionably / due post haste came only few allocated seconds of sound bite — a half minute / if news-media were with extra space or time to spare — and one or two / printed paragraphs on page twenty-three of Section C. Such news / consumed in the stable fully developed, fully ‘civilized’ Western world / by heads slowly shaking at the barbarity of ‘those people’ in that / war-torn strife which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to post-haste / gather what’s left of their shattered lives and limbs and flee. //…
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Thus comes the imminent point at which such meager measure / couple-column-inches coverage reflects the civil Western readers’ / accumulating apathy towards such dime-a-dozen disaster zones / of the globe, all accompanied by a large yawn; then the / said readers subconsciously perceive even greater human-life devaluation / from the miniscule hundreds-dead-yet-again coverage. / The immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’. //
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Consequentially continues the self-perpetuation of the token-two-column-inch / (non)coverage as the coldly calculated worth of such common mass slaughter / ergo those many-score violently lost human lives are somehow worth / so much the less than, say, three Englishmen drowning in the Thames. Perhaps / had they all been cases of the once-persecuted suddenly persecuting / or the once-weak wreaking havoc upon their neighboring indigenous / minorities — perhaps then there’d be far more compassionate, moral coverage.//
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The human mind is said to be worth much more than the sum of the / human body’s parts, though that psyche may somehow seem to be of / lesser value if all that’s left are bomb-blast dismembered body parts. //
Once again, good on you Jonathon. What are the chances of you publishing a raft of your articles in book form Jonathon? It would be great to have at hand … before they shut this down.
I don't understand why 2007 is stated as the beginning of Zionists' plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. See this document ( vol36-141_b (1).pdf) in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 141, written by Ilan Pappé, documenting plans from 1940-1947 mapping the Arab villages with the goal to ethically cleanse Palestinians and take over their lands and homes. This came to pass in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were either murdered or driven from their homes, their lands. Zionists moved into these properties, providing no compensation for homes, furnishings, farmlands, livestocks, orchards. However, this ethic cleansing can be traced even father to the father of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, who in 1897 stated “The Jewish State,” Herzl wrote, “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries while denying it any employment in our own country.”
Don't worry about length of message, that is not Substack's limit. It is a gmail limit to size of incoming mail, and ppl can click to view o this web page if it's cut short.
Thank you for this reporting! Now, how do we get the war criminals locked up?
Fuck america
I am most grateful for your careful writing about this awful situation. Jabotinsky's 'Iron Wall' of, I think, 1921 certainly gave a very clear strategic direction to the zionist's project...
Many thanks for the explanation. It’s very sad that people from Gaza could be evicted. Gaza’s population is formed by its original people plus those who were expelled from Israel when it was created or even before by groups of extreme nationalists.
Thank you 🙏 #JonathanCook, sharing your post on my linked page.
I'm old enough to remember when Israel fervently called for the "Arab refugees" (dispossessed Palestinians of the Big Nakba of 1948 and the Little Nakba of 1967) to be assimilated into the host countries - Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, etc) wheere it was hoped Israel's crimes would melt away.
It never happened because Palestinians demanded the Right to Return to their homeland, an internationally recognized right several decades old.
Compare the Zionists' dubious "right to return to Palestine" by mainly converts to Judaism after an alleged "absence" of 2,500 years.
Only in the racist, Evangelical self-serving West can the fabricated claims of colonial-settler Zionists trump the living, contemporaries claims of the Palestinians exiles still carrying the keys to houses.
We are in a new era of politics where the realtors have taken over, property foreclosures, poaching, stealing the deal ,scams on commissions and flagrant omissions. Our "leaders" have no end of insane ways to cover up their stupid competencies and avoid the obvious truth West is going down hard. They are a bunch arrogant bastards running from the truths of our times. The West is suffering a pandemic of arrogant stupidity with no antidote available.
"Western leaders had hoped to bring about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza with more decorum – in a “humanitarian” way that would have been more effective in duping western publics and maintaining the West’s claim to be upholding civilised values against a supposed Palestinian barbarity."
And it's failed--there's no way to make a genocide seem more "civilized/civilised". Mass murdering women and children and entire families can't ever be seen as anything less than barbaric. The West and Israel have given their dirty little plan away and made their behavior blatantly obvious. It's now obvious what decent and moral persons worldwide need to do: End this genocide and shut down the barbarous IDF and US War Machine for good!
A comment about the Substack reader. I rarely read articles these days, I listen to them, and Substack's reader is forcing us to change the way we use inverted commas. When you use the double inverted comma, it reads it - it says it out loud, "end quote", every time, and you use inverted commas a lot. But the solution is easy. You can use single inverted commas, which it doesn't read literally. Please consider this because listening becomes quite unpleasant when" end quote" punctuates every few words. Thanks.
I thought that I was the only one who was irritated and annoyed by it.
With news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating / quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls / a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation / justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness / — “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus / make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.” //
.
According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced / five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown / to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime. //
.
So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom / right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account / involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely / nothing civil; therefor caught in the warring web are civilians most / unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility. //
.
And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations / where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the / fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter / (plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means / of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments / and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds / resulting from smart bombs often launched for the / stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. //
.
Hence where humane consideration and conduct were unquestionably / due post haste came only few allocated seconds of sound bite — a half minute / if news-media were with extra space or time to spare — and one or two / printed paragraphs on page twenty-three of Section C. Such news / consumed in the stable fully developed, fully ‘civilized’ Western world / by heads slowly shaking at the barbarity of ‘those people’ in that / war-torn strife which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to post-haste / gather what’s left of their shattered lives and limbs and flee. //…
.
Thus comes the imminent point at which such meager measure / couple-column-inches coverage reflects the civil Western readers’ / accumulating apathy towards such dime-a-dozen disaster zones / of the globe, all accompanied by a large yawn; then the / said readers subconsciously perceive even greater human-life devaluation / from the miniscule hundreds-dead-yet-again coverage. / The immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’. //
.
Consequentially continues the self-perpetuation of the token-two-column-inch / (non)coverage as the coldly calculated worth of such common mass slaughter / ergo those many-score violently lost human lives are somehow worth / so much the less than, say, three Englishmen drowning in the Thames. Perhaps / had they all been cases of the once-persecuted suddenly persecuting / or the once-weak wreaking havoc upon their neighboring indigenous / minorities — perhaps then there’d be far more compassionate, moral coverage.//
.
The human mind is said to be worth much more than the sum of the / human body’s parts, though that psyche may somehow seem to be of / lesser value if all that’s left are bomb-blast dismembered body parts. //
With all due respect (and I hope you get a laugh), but the beat generation and stream of consciousness writing is over Frank
Once again, good on you Jonathon. What are the chances of you publishing a raft of your articles in book form Jonathon? It would be great to have at hand … before they shut this down.
Trump just says the quiet parts out loud.
Well written - thank you
https://forward.com/opinion/696193/trump-gaza-proposal-madagascar-plan-nazis/
IMHO, Trump's disruptions on all sides has to be preferable to BidenBlinken blank check policy.
Thanks Jonathon for your courage and leadership.
I don't understand why 2007 is stated as the beginning of Zionists' plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. See this document ( vol36-141_b (1).pdf) in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 141, written by Ilan Pappé, documenting plans from 1940-1947 mapping the Arab villages with the goal to ethically cleanse Palestinians and take over their lands and homes. This came to pass in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were either murdered or driven from their homes, their lands. Zionists moved into these properties, providing no compensation for homes, furnishings, farmlands, livestocks, orchards. However, this ethic cleansing can be traced even father to the father of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, who in 1897 stated “The Jewish State,” Herzl wrote, “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries while denying it any employment in our own country.”
It isn't. It's stated as the beginning of US involvement in the plan - that we know about.
Thank you for response, got it.