They only want you looking at the parts of Oct. 7 that make Israel look like an innocent little lamb who was attacked completely out of the blue and had no choice but to reluctantly respond with military force.
A girl walks inside Gaza to get food in August 2024. (Jaber Jehad Badwan/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Everything before Oct. 7 explains why Oct. 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since.
Look at what happened before Oct. 7 and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse.
Look at everything that’s happened since Oct. 7 and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been living under this entire time.
Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before Oct. 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. They just want you to pretend history began and ended with a bunch of Hitlerite savages attacking innocent Jews for no reason.
And they don’t even want you looking at the day of Oct. 7 too closely, either.
Looking too closely at the events of that day bring up inconvenient questions about the Hannibal Directive and what percentage of the death toll was actually caused by the IDF firing on their own people.
Inconvenient questions about the suspicious stock trading in the lead-up to the attack and the mountains upon mountains upon mountains of evidence that high-level Israeli officials allowed the attack to proceed undefended in order to advance the genocidal land grab we’re seeing advanced now.
They only want you looking at the parts of Oct. 7 that make Israel look like an innocent little lamb who was attacked completely out of the blue and had no choice but to reluctantly respond with military force.
Forget the scorched earth incineration of the Gaza Strip.
Forget the bombed-out hospitals and methodically dismantled healthcare system.
Forget the hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza who’ve been deliberately starved to death.
Forget the fact that every relevant human rights institution on earth has determined that Israel is committing genocide, and that zero comparable humanitarian institutions have said it isn’t.
Forget the fact that human rights experts had been describing Gaza as a giant concentration camp or open-air prison for years prior to Oct. 7.
Forget the fact that Israel had been routinely murdering Palestinian children and other civilians in the months prior to the Hamas attack.
Don’t look at any of that stuff. Just look at the stuff that makes Israel look like the victim.
That’s the story, anyway. Luckily, fewer and fewer people are buying into it.
The longer this genocide goes on for, the more the world has come to view Oct. 7 as Israel reaping what it had long been sowing.
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“Don’t look at any of that stuff. Just look at the stuff that makes Israel look like the victim.” Caitlin Johnstone.
W/o a doubt Trump-Vance, Inc., rock an alternate Stae of consciousness. For example, DJ “the Big $hot” Trump said about Greta Thunberg, “You mean, she’s no longer into the environment. She’s into this. She’s just a troublemaker. She’s got an anger management problem. I think she should see a doctor,” he added. “She needs anger…have you ever watched her? She’s a young person. She’s so angry. She’s so crazy. No, you can have her.” DJ “the Big $hot” Trump, a f/mirror image of Jo$eph “the Big Guy” Biden, a “dirty, old, perverted old man,” w/nada, none, zero, zip couth.
The bottom line is, “She’s just” NOT “into him!!” AND, Greta says “Peace Out!” POTUS, Donald J. Trump:
…..“I have seen that Donald Trump once again has expressed his private, flattering opinions about my health and I appreciate his concern for my mental health. I gratefully accept all recommendations you may have for handling these so-called ‘aggression problems’ since you – given your impressive history – also seem to suffer from them.”
….. Exhibit A-Z: “I think she should see a doctor. She is a young person and so angry, she is crazy.” said DJ “NOT a Doctor” Trump. It’s reported, on The Hill, Trump’s got a doctor’s Appt., on Friday, 10.10.25.
“Happy Friday!” The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 10, 2025. Only one laureate or organization will receive the prize out of this year’s 338 nominees. The award ceremony takes place on Dec. 10 every year. All winners in the six Nobel Prize categories are set to be announced BY Oct. 13.”
Search: 2025 Nobel PEACE Prize. The findings, “PEACE: awarded for efforts to advance human rights and promote peace.” On 10.10.25, imo, DJ “the PIECE-Maker” Trump is gonna get his “chops” busted!!!
TY, Caitlin Johnstone & Tim Foley, CN, et al. Onward & Upwards. Ciao
“Looking too closely at the events of that day bring up inconvenient questions about the Hannibal Directive and what percentage of the death toll was actually caused by the IDF firing on their own people.”
And don’t ask any awkward questions about 9/11 either.
On 11 September 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman stated:
“I think the very kindest thing that we can say about George W. Bush and all the people in the U.S. government that have been involved in this massive cover-up, is that they were aware of the impending attacks and let them happen. Now some people will say that’s much too kind. However, even that is high treason and conspiracy to commit murder.”
The visual reference to Napalm Girl, intentional or coincidence?
Reality ,Stump reality.
Have you noticed that Israeli officials and corporate media never say how many people were killed on October seventh? “About twelve hundred.” Israel certainly has an exact number of civilian and military dead, wounded and those taken hostage, but they deliberately never offer exact numbers or make any differentiation between soldiers and civilians.
Once upon a time, a large majority of people in the West would default to support Israel, generally without digging into the facts. Now, as Johnstone points out, fewer and fewer are buying into Israel victimhood and large numbers, including many on the Conservative/Libertarian spectrum, are turning away. This past weekend, a quarter of a million people – ordinary working & middle class folks – turned out in an orderly demonstration in Amsterdam to register their disgust at the behaviour of the Netanyahu regime in Gaza. Their peaceful & resolute message was: “enough is enough”; our government must stop supporting this mass slaughter.
As for October 7, it ought to have been clear within 24 hours that this was a false flag. Anyone who has worked in a modern military knows the pattern: a casualty-rich, horrific event (staged or opportunistically leveraged, and amplified if necessary) is followed immediately by a tidal wave of propaganda; blame is attributed directly to an already demonized “enemy”; and a carefully crafted narrative follows, accompanied with “survivor witnesses” (the latter fade away once the initial propaganda blast has receded & reasonable questions begin to be posed). The subsequent Israeli military operation made clear why October 7 was necessary: for the “good guys”, every act of violence needs a pretext, especially something as brutal as a full-blown ethnic cleansing operation.
I suspect that the draining of support for Israel in the West will further gather pace & things will come to a head fairly soon. The result will be a failure for Israel. For notwithstanding the fact that Israel has destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure utterly, murdering north of 250 000 Gazans in the process, there will still be many Palestinians in this part of Palestine & also the West bank. That will mean that the real war aim of Netanyahu & his acolytes – a thorough ethnic cleansing of Palestine in accordance with the ‘Greater Israel’ policy – will have been thwarted. And however much Netanyahu may bluster before he disappears into the dustbin of history, at some point in the future, an equitable two-state construction for Palestine will be negotiated.
I like to thank George W. Bush for opening my eyes to this Palestinian Israeli conflict. Actually, not a conflict but a slaughter, bit by bit, by the Israelis. Before the Iraq war I was your typical ignorant American that believe the Palestinians were the “bad guys2, to put it simply. After the Iraq war started and I began to realize that this war was based on lies, I began to research this Palestinian Israeli conflict to understand it better. What really opened my eyes was when I started to read Israeli websites, most written by individuals, that I discovered the truth about the Israelis, especially the Zionist. Today I have no reason to have any respect or consideration of the Israeli people, especially their supporters.
I like to think of myself as an enlightened individual (no longer an American) and immune to western news propaganda and Israeli lies. I just wish that the majority of Americans, and western Europeans, would open their eyes and demand that their misguided political leaders change course, then throw all of them out of public political participation. Maybe decent people with true human rights beliefs would replace them all.
What is needed is an operation Al Aqsa Flood a million times bigger.
The big problem with many of these Zio supremacists is that they harbor a failure to self-reflect to a pathological degree.
Every harm that’s inflicted on them – in their extremely sick eyes – is due solely to the irrational hatreds or jealousies of the perpetrator, as if it just comes out of thin air, out of nothingness. This lack of self-reflection skills coupled with their extreme paranoia is turning the Middle East into a tinderbox and indeed much of the entire world.
100% correct Caitlin