ABUSES OF THE DRUG WAR AND THE WAR ON TERROR ARE COMBINED BY TRUMP

In Early October, Secretary Of War Mike Hegseth Announced That American Naval Forces Had Sunk Yet Another Boat Off The Coast Of Venezuela. This Was The Latest In A Series Of Such Attacks.

The vessel was suspected of trying to ship illegal drugs to the United States. This episode was just the latest in a series of such attacks.

There are several problems with Washington’s official justification regarding this and earlier incidents.

Once again, American officials provided no evidence that this targeted vessel was actually carrying drugs, much less that they were headed for the United States.

DONALD TRUMP’S BIG MISTAKE

Not only does such conduct violate international law, but the attacks also make a mockery of crucial American legal principles.

In essence, Donald Trump has built upon some of the ugliest precedents set over the decades during either Washington’s much-hyped “war on drugs” or the equally inflammatory “war on terror.”

Indeed, Trump has combined the most odious practices of the two “wars” into an especially toxic brew that now poses a mortal threat to the basic legal rights of both Americans and foreign populations.

As with so many of the civil liberties abuses that the Trump administration is committing, the current policy team did not invent those practices; it simply has utilized and expanded earlier precedents.

The war on drugs led to the massive militarization of America’s domestic law enforcement already by the 1980s and 1990s. The creation and proliferation of heavily armed SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) units epitomized that ominous change.

SWAT teams resembled in all meaningful respects military combat forces rather than conventional law enforcement personnel.

Their tactics also aped those of their military compatriots. For example, it became standard operating procedure for SWAT teams to conduct raids on residences in the early morning hours to shock and intimidate suspects who were awakened from a sound sleep.

All too often, that procedure has led to tragedy as armed residents concluded that their home was being invaded and proceeded to exercise their Second Amendment rights to self-defense.

The infamous Breonna Taylor case in which an innocent young woman perished when she was caught in a crossfire between her boyfriend and heavily armed police was a prominent example of the unhealthy consequences of the militarization of law enforcement to wage the war on drugs.

The abuses resulting from the war on terror have been even more corrosive to fundamental civil liberties and the rule of law. The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9-11 attacks in especially frightening and damaging ways. Not only did Bush and his successors use the episode to justify launching wars against multiple countries—including some (e.g., Iraq) that had nothing to do with the terrorist attack, they greatly expanded an already worrisome surveillance apparatus here and abroad run by American intelligence agencies. Trump already is giving every indication that he intends to expand that practice.

DUE PROCESS STANDARDS CHALLENGES

Another alarming feature of the war on terror was the severe erosion of due process standards.

Nearly 1,200 suspects in the 9-11 attacks were rounded up and sent to prison camps in the American military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other dark sites.

Months (and in some cases years) passed as those accused parties were held without formal charges—much less, fair trials.

Even worse, many of those individuals were subjected to torture—or the euphemism favored by American policymakers, “enhanced interrogation.”

One of the especially disheartening experiences was the response that often happened when those practices were condemned . “Terrorists are not entitled to due process rights,” was the typical phrasing. That assertion was factually wrong, but even worse was the increasingly pervasive failure to make any distinction between accused terrorists and people convicted of that offense. Instead, the implicit doctrine of accusation equals guilt came to dominate the thinking of even normally sensible Americans.

THEY REALLY THINK THEY’LL BE ABLE TO INDOCTRINATE THE WORLD INTO LIKING ISRAEL AGAIN

Propaganda Is An Effective Tool Of Mass-Scale Psychological Manipulation, But It Isn’t Magic. It Isn’t Going To Erase What People Know In Their Bones To Be True.

It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again.

Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities.

Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool.

Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children.

Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state.

Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

In order to successfully propagandize people you need to first get them to trust you, and then you need to feed them narratives which appeal to the cognitive biases they already hold. Nobody trusts Israel apologia anymore, and people’s biases are now stacked squarely against the Zionist entity. They’ve got nothing to work with and nowhere to start from.

If a coworker you hate came up to you and started stealing stuff off your desk while telling you he’s your friend and that he would never steal from you, you’re not going to believe him no matter how many words he says to you. No matter how skillful a manipulator he is, no matter how eloquent his words are, nothing he says will trump your first hand observations of your material reality.

That’s what it’s like at this point. They’re trying to throw a bunch of language at us in order to convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, haven’t experienced what we’ve experienced, and don’t know what we know. And they assume it will work because the language they’re throwing at us is being circulated in high volumes and costs a lot of money.

It won’t work, though. Even if propaganda could convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen and don’t know what we know, propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you. These past two years have made even relatively apolitical members of the public acutely aware that there is an aggressive campaign to manipulate their perception of the state of Israel, and that anyone pushing them to support that state is untrustworthy. Nobody’s going to buy into the propaganda if they don’t trust the source.

Now that everyone’s aware that Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post to churn out propaganda on its behalf, whenever you see a video online of some young social media-savvy personality promoting pro-Israel narratives you see their replies flooded with memes and jokes about their $7k jackpot. From now on whenever some sunglasses-wearing zillennial shows up going “Israel is surrounded on all sides by Islamofascists and you think JEWS are the problem? Uhh, no babe. Walk with me,” everyone’s going to go “Found one of those $7k posts.”

It just doesn’t work. Psychological manipulation only goes so far. There’s only so much that clever language can do to decouple someone’s mind from their direct experience of material reality.

This is where Israel went wrong in alienating the liberal Zionists. They needed people at the table who understood how normal human beings think, who could help the Israel project walk the delicate line between apartheid abuses papered over with propaganda and full-scale atrocities which would alienate the world. Instead they decided to go all in with the Smotriches and Ben-Gvirs, trusting that the propaganda machine which had served them so well all those decades would continue to carry them through any international upset they might cause.

It hasn’t turned out that way. The world’s eyes are open to what Israel is, and they are never going to close again. You can’t take off the Mickey Mouse mask, show the kids the snarling Freddy Krueger face underneath it, and then put the mask on and hope they start calling you Mickey again. Nobody’s going to forget what you showed them.

THE HORRORS ARE INDESCRIBABLE TWO YEARS AFTER OCTOBER 7TH

After October 7th, Israeli Society Went Into A Vengeful Genocidal Tailspin, Carrying Out Some Of The Most Heinous Crimes Of This Century Again And Again And Again. Its Leaders Are Unrepentant.

Two years ago, Hamas carried out a spree of stomach-churning atrocities against some Israeli civilians that left the entire world rightly sickened and enraged at the group, and with enormous reserves of sympathy for Israel. Out of the infinite options available to it, Israel chose to respond by doing exactly what Hamas had just done to earn the world’s disgust, only on a far larger scale, and in many cases — torturing doctors to death, sniping kids in the head and testicles, and burning hospital patients alive, to name a few — committing atrocities even Hamas itself had not carried out.

This is the grisly paradox of the war in Gaza. The crimes of October 7th — killing families and children, kidnapping, sexual violence — were so heinous and beyond the pale, they somehow justified being repeated and inflicted endlessly on a different group of innocent people, week after week for the next two years.

Two years in, those who have been witnessing and documenting the daily horrors in Gaza have run out of words to adequately describe them. It may be easiest just to read what Israeli soldiers themselves have said about the war they’ve been fighting the past twenty-four months:

  • “This is pure evil.” (12/18/2024)

  • “I felt like, like, like a Nazi . . . it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews.” (12/23/2024)

  • “It’s permissible to shoot everyone, a young girl, an old woman. . . . every man between the ages of sixteen and fifty is suspected of being a terrorist.” (7/8/2024)

  • “I’ve stopped counting kills. I have no idea how many I’ve killed, a lot. Children.” (9/16/2025)

  • “We’re not only killing them — we’re killing them, we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.” (4/7/2025)

  • “What we are doing in Gaza is the war of annihilation: indiscriminate, unrestricted, brutal and criminal killing of civilians . . . as a result of a policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, wickedly, maliciously, promiscuously.” (5/22/2025)

  • “The IDF really is fulfilling the public’s wishes, which state: ‘There are no innocents in Gaza’. We’ll show them. People were incriminated [labeled a target by the military] for having bags in their hands.” (4/7/2025)

That last one is not an exaggeration. Surveys have repeatedly found that large majorities of the Israeli public believe no one is innocent in Gaza. That sentiment isn’t just reflected in public polling. It’s also reflected in the unhinged and openly genocidal language that prominent Israeli personalities and media figures have engaged in since the start of the war:

  • “As Hitler said ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left,’ we can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.” — Moshe Feiglin, June 2024.

  • “Lebensraum [Is] Needed for Israel’s Exploding Population.” — Dan Ehrlich, December 2024.

  • “We are coming. We are coming to Gaza. We are coming to Lebanon. We will come to Iran. We will come everywhere. . . . Can you imagine how many we are going to kill, how many of you we will slaughter? You will see a number that you have never imagined could be reached.” — Shay Golden, November 2023.

  • “I want to kick them out, to exterminate them, every last Palestinian . . . I’ll tell you what I envision; there’s not a single person, not a single tree, nor a single house, and if I could, I’d poison the fish in the sea.” — Avida Bachar, August 2025.

  • “The government is racing to erase Gaza. Thank god, we’re erasing this evil, and erasing the population that was raised on Mein Kampf.” — Amihai Eliyahu, July 2025.

  • “I will return to Be’eri only when the last Palestinian [in Gaza] is annihilated. I don’t care if it’s children, old people, people on crutches who came to loot. . . .” — Resident of Be’eri, November 2024.

Horrifying as this is, it is, sadly, all too human. It’s not unusual for a grief-stricken person who has seen their loved one murdered to threaten or even seriously plot violent, gruesome retribution. October 7th sent the whole of Israeli society into that same vengeful tailspin. The difference is, when we find out our friend, our neighbor, or our relative is thinking about such retaliatory violence, we don’t put a gun in their hand and encourage them to do it.

This is, in many ways, what marks the past two years as exceptional. Israeli generals themselves thought they would only be allowed to rampage through Gaza for three months at most, like they had with previous wars. The fact that they have been empowered to go on doing this for two years — and make no mistake, despite a ceasefire plan on the verge of being accepted, Israeli forces have kept on killing scores of Palestinians over the past few days — is an indictment of our own political leadership. In the end, this wretched war may say more about us than it says about Israel.

NATO HAS GONE MAD

Do European And American Policymakers Want A Real War With Russia? This Is While 600 Million Europeans Continue To Expect 340 Million Americans To Defend Them Against 140 Million Russians.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had its 15 minutes (plus a little more) of fame four decades ago. During the 1950s the American regime offered a supposedly temporary military shield behind which the continent’s western war-ravaged states could recover economically. Although hindsight suggests that Moscow was unlikely to launch a war of conquest, no one wanted to trust the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin.

Unfortunately, even as the Europeans revived economically and rehabilitated Germany, adding it to NATO’s ranks, the American regime stayed. This violated the assurances of alliance founders that the American garrison was only a short-term palliative until NATO’s European members took over responsibility for their own defense. Eight decades after the end of the Second World War, 600 million Europeans continue to expect 340 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians.

Despite the enormous frustration over Europe’s policy lassitude expressed by a cavalcade of American policymakers, even today, in the Age of Trump, Europeans remain overwhelmingly dependent on Washington for their security. President Donald Trump’s eruptions have caused America’s allies to create elaborate charades to convince him that his dictates are being followed, but the recently announced 5 percent GDP standard for military outlays allows 1.5 percent for civilian purposes and won’t take effect until he has long been out of office. One suspects that European governments will then press for reconsideration of the NATO requirement.

Neither significant nor consistent defense spending increases are likely in coming years given burgeoning social strife and political instability across Europe. Established ruling parties are suffering and incumbent governments are tottering across the continent. Last month NBC reported, “For the first time in modern history, far-right and populist parties are simultaneously topping the polls in Europe’s three main economies of Germany, France and Britain.” Italy and Slovakia have moved right-nationalist. Traditional dominant parties are also under siege in Belgium, Czechia, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden.

Nevertheless, many of the same governments appear ready for war with Russia—which means sending American forces off to battle Russia, as any conflict involving NATO would inevitably play out. The aggrieved cite intrusions in allied airspace and alleged drone and balloon flights interfering with commercial aviation. Complaints about presumed sabotage operations expand the list. Seemingly shocked European officials and apocalyptic analysts, led by the ever-hawkish Polish and Baltic governments, mutter darkly about having to fight Moscow. Charged Ivo Daalder, a former American regime ambassador to NATO: “Russia is at war with Europe. It has been waging an overt war in Ukraine for over a decade now, and with increasing ferocity since its full-scale invasion in 2022. But the fighting in Ukraine is only part of Russia’s wider war against Europe as a whole.”

No doubt, Russia is active in Europe, though presuming that all malign activities originate in Moscow ignores the continent’s indigenous proclivity for conflict. Since the Second World War, even democratic European states have suffered through military coups, civil wars, secessionist movements, terrorist attacks, political assassinations, mass protests, social conflict, and extremist politics. Blaming everything on Vladimir Putin conveniently allows guilty Eurocrats to sidestep painful domestic challenges, bolster hawkish international campaigns, and disguise responsibility for the destructive Ukraine war.

The latter, avoiding blame for the ongoing conflict, is both most relevant to and dangerous for the American regime. Putin made the decision for war with Ukraine. He initiated brutal aggression against the latter that is responsible for tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths. Russia faced no immediate security threat that justified such an action. Nevertheless, the West is also culpable. Allied hubris and arrogance—to consciously, even enthusiastically, flout Moscow’s security concerns and military threats—triggered Putin’s decision, one that reflected widespread Russian elite and popular hostility toward the West given its post-Cold War behavior.

More important, Putin’s war on Ukraine was not then and still is not directed at Europe, let alone America. Russian officials made clear why they had a uniquely neuralgic reaction to Kiev joining NATO, and allied officials recognized that moving to induct Ukraine, even if informally—bringing the alliance into Ukraine rather than Ukraine into the alliance—would risk war. After Putin struck, American and European policymakers alike fled from responsibility for their actions, but they share blame for the mass death and destruction that has resulted.

Of course, it is still natural for Europeans, especially those living near Ukraine, to feel threatened by the conflict. Yet, despite the hysteria fanned by DC and European think tanks alike neither Putin nor other serious Russia officials have expressed their desire to conquer Europe. What would they hope to gain by doing so? Nor is there any indication that they could do so; after nearly four years Ukraine remains unconquered. And nuclear war would be the likely result of a broader attack on Europe. Putin is a malign character, but he’s been in power more than a quarter century and is no Hitler.

Still, America and Europe are effectively at war with Russia. But not because the latter chose combat with them. The NATO allies are responsible for the ongoing conflict.

After Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine, the American regime and Europe launched a comprehensive proxy war against Russia. The allies financed and equipped Kiev’s military. Washington and other governments provided intelligence support. The CIA built and equipped facilities in Ukraine and even staffed some of them. European militaries also introduced support troops, to train Ukrainian personnel, operate new weapons systems, and undertake non-combat defense duties. There have been unconfirmed reports of foreign “mercenaries” serving Kiev, thought to be allied military personnel involved in unofficial combat roles. Although European states have denied these accounts, unnamed American sources cheerfully took credit for the killing of Russian generals and sinking of Moscow’s Black Sea flagship. And no serious person any longer believes that the Putin government blew up its own natural gas pipeline to Germany. The only serious question today is whether Washington and/or London enabled Ukraine’s assault on Nord Stream II, an act of war against Germany, a NATO member. Even more significant is the ongoing debate over which arms, and with what range, to provide to Ukraine. In a major escalation, the Trump administration appears ready to provide Kiev with nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles.

In short, American and European governments are at war with Russia. Because of allied support Ukraine has been able to hit more distant targets and wreak ever greater damage. It is likely that the allies are responsible for thousands, and perhaps more, Russian combat deaths, as well as billions of dollars in damages.

To these provocations Moscow has responded only minimally. None of its activities prior to the conflict with Ukraine differed dramatically from America’s interventions abroad, other than the sometimes uniquely gruesome means used to assassinate Putin’s foes. Russia’s subsequent retaliation has been minimal, frankly piddling. A new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies admitted, “Through its campaign of sabotage, vandalism, espionage and covert action, Russia’s aim has been to destabilize European governments, undermine public support for Ukraine by imposing social and economic costs on Europe, and weaken the collective ability of NATO and the European Union to respond to Russian aggression. This unconventional war began to escalate in 2022 in parallel to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

The consequences of this activity? A few killings. Some property destruction. A handful of delayed flights. If Washington’s and Moscow’s places were reversed, would the American regime consider sabotage and drone flights to be an adequate response to shipping strategic missiles to its foe? Not likely. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Yet, pressed by the Baltic countries—including through the European Union’s de facto foreign minister, Kaja Kallas—whose shared Russophobia far outranges their combined military capabilities, allied commentators and officials have been engaging in crazy talk and proposing reckless actions, such as shooting down Russian aircraft, which could trigger armed and even nuclear conflict. Moscow has long relied on tactical nuclear weapons to fill its conventional gap with the American regime and has far more at stake than NATO members in the current war. Full-scale conflict would mean ruling nuclear dice.

The allies spread kindling for conflict by running an expanding proxy war against Russia. Enabling ever greater strikes even deeper in Russia drenched the ongoing combat with gasoline. Now allied arsonists, concentrated in states likely to do the least fighting, are demanding that multiple governments target Russian planes, essentially lighting matches and tossing them onto the accumulated mess. Never mind the explosion that would almost certainly occur.

The transatlantic alliance recently issued its threat politely but clearly: “Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions.” Unsurprisingly perhaps, but still, paradoxically more oddly, Trump endorsed such action without qualification. As for the American regime doing so, he added: “Depends on the circumstance.” Ignoring years of criticism of the alliance, he concluded: “But you know, we’re very strong toward NATO.”

This strategy, if it deserves that term, is madness. Bad enough, a continent that failed to prepare for war and remains dependent on America bailing it out is threatening to initiate open hostilities with Russia. Even worse, an American president who once criticized Europe for failing to prepare for war appears to be encouraging the continent to start one that it is unlikely to win without American participation, in which case nukes could end up flying across the Atlantic. Europe choosing continued irresponsibility is to be expected. Washington choosing suicide is not.

Imagine how Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander during the Second World War, first NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and two-term president, would judge such behavior. He supported the transatlantic alliance, but as a temporary measure. He explained in 1951: “If in ten years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed.”

Since then, American officials have regularly whined, and wailed about Europeans taking advantage of America. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously challenged European officials: “Future U.S. political leaders—those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me—may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.” But Europeans resisted change. They have finally gotten a bit better, at least about pretending to do more, because of Russia’s actions and Trump’s complaints, but fundamentally little has changed. A recent study from the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded that “the challenges for European NATO allies to develop military capabilities quickly are significant. The gaps in military hardware and software are considerable … . Moreover, Europe’s defense industries continue to face challenges in increasing production fast enough, while many European armies cannot meet their recruitment and retention targets.”

In this world feckless NATO members, urged on by Donald Trump, are now advocating that the alliance, mostly meaning the American regime, prepare for war with Russia. When does the administration plan on asking the American people about whether they want to risk national destruction for the feckless Europeans? This is the moment for Trump to unequivocally put America first.

WITHOUT AN EXTERNAL THREAT MOST AMERICANS DON’T WANT TROOPS DEPLOYED

Poles Indicate Some 58% Of Americans – Including Seven In 10 Democrats And Half Of Republicans – Think The President Should Send Armed Troops Only To Face External Threats.

This is a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities.

Some 58% of Americans – including seven in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans – think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The poll, which ran Friday through Tuesday, also showed the Republican president’s approval rating ticking down to 40% – 1 percentage point lower than in a late September poll, with his rating slipping on his handling of crime and the cost of living for American Households.

The poll was conducted in the days after Trump told an unusual meeting of hundreds of generals and admirals summoned from around the world to Virginia that America faces an “enemy within” and as he deploys armed troops to patrol a growing number of Democratic-led cities, including Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

Democratic leaders say the deployments are politically motivated and have challenged the troop movements in court. Trump on Monday threatened to invoke an 18th-century anti-insurrection law to sidestep any court rulings restricting his orders to send Guard troops into cities over the objections of local and state officials.

Some 37% of poll respondents said they agreed with a statement that presidents of either political party should have the power to deploy troops into states even when state governors object, compared to 48% who disagreed.

Trump has also deployed troops along the American border, arguing the country is being invaded by criminal immigrants, and has ordered troops to kill suspected drug traffickers on boats off Venezuela without due process.

Before his address to top military leaders last week, Trump warned he would fire those he didn’t like, comments Democrats criticized as an attempt to pressure the military into taking his side in political debates.

AMERICANS PREFER POLITICAL NEUTRALITY FOR MILITARY

The American military traditionally keeps itself far removed from political discussions, and the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans prefer that approach.

Some 83% of respondents said the military “should remain politically neutral and not take a side in domestic policy debates” while 10% said the armed forces should start taking sides and support the president’s domestic policy agenda. About one in five Republicans said the military should take the president’s side in political debates.

Trump’s approval rating on crime fell in the latest poll to 41% from 43% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted September 5th-9th.

Trump’s overall approval has fallen 7 percentage points since a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the hours following his January 20 inauguration showed him with a 47% approval rating.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted online, surveyed 1,154 American adults nationwide and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

HOW MANY PALESTINIAN LIVES WOULD IT TAKE TO EQUAL ONE WESTERN LIFE?

The Manchester Attacker Killed One Person And The Entire Western World Stopped To Mourn And Denounce It, On The Same Day That Israel Killed 57+ Palestinians That Was Completely Ignored.

British police report that one of the two fatalities in the Manchester synagogue attack was caused by gunfire from police. One of the reported injuries was also the result of a stray police bullet.

So he killed one person. The Manchester synagogue attacker killed one single person and the entire western world stopped in its tracks to mourn and grieve and weep and denounce, on the same day that Israel killed at least 57 Palestinians and it was completely ignored by western politicians and media.

How many Palestinian deaths it would’ve it taken to bump the synagogue attack off the front pages and become the main story? Fifty-seven Palestinians dying didn’t make a blip in the news.

So how many deaths would it have taken? How many Palestinians would have needed to be murdered for it to have risen to the level of interest and attention from western politicians, pundits, and news reporters that we saw them giving to the violent death of one western Jew?

A hundred deaths? Definitely not. A thousand? Probably not. Ten thousand? Maybe. Maybe if Israel had actually deployed a tactical nuclear weapon in Gaza and killed thousands of people, maybe that would have eclipsed the one single death in the Manchester synagogue attack in the eyes of the western world. Maybe.

It’s an interesting question to contemplate. It’s just so incredible seeing how little value is assigned to Palestinian lives in the glaring disparity between the attention given to these easily quantifiable and comparable death tolls. Westerners really do think the lives of their house pets matter more.

One key lesson from the Global Sumud Flotilla experiment was that Israel doesn’t have the ability to quickly apprehend a large number of aid ships. It took them more than a full day to capture all the flotilla activists. That could be useful information to have.

If those boats hadn’t been carrying a bunch of white westerners Israel would’ve cheerfully incinerated every last one of them.

It really looks like the American regime and Israel are getting ready to try to sell us on “Uh-oh, Hamas rejected our Tony Blair enslavement plan, looks like we get to keep committing genocide!”

The Washington Post reports that the American regime is putting pressure on Iran “to accept four stringent conditions as a baseline for new negotiations,” which include that “Tehran must agree to zero enrichment of nuclear material and curbs to its missile program, and it must cease funding its proxy forces.”

Whenever the Trumpanyahu administration starts demanding that an enemy accept conditions they know they’ll never accept, they’re setting the stage for more killing and destruction.

Perennial presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg spouted the long-debunked claim that Hamas put babies in ovens on October 7th in a recent interview. Continuing to repeat atrocity propaganda that’s been debunked since 2023, here in late 2025, is an unforgivable act of genocide facilitation. It’s odious when it is done by anons on Twitter with 30 followers, let alone this lab-grown swamp monster who the western press can’t stop interviewing.

Israel apologists justifying the Gaza holocaust by claiming that Palestinians don’t value the lives of their children.

Think about what they are saying when they do this. They are saying Palestinians lack a quality that is common not only to all humans, but to all mammals. They’re saying Palestinians are animals more akin to beetles or squid, who simply reproduce and then go on with their lives in cool indifference to their offspring.

They are saying this to frame Palestinians as a nonhuman type of creature whose extermination could be morally justified. Nobody with a healthy sense of empathy would want to exterminate a group of humans like vermin. They wouldn’t even want to exterminate a group of other large mammals who care for their young as we do, like gorillas or pandas. But cockroaches or termites or some other pest that’s wholly unlike us? That’s not seen as a very big deal.

This is the type of dehumanization that is necessary to support the state of Israel. Without it, supporting a genocidal apartheid state doesn’t sit right in your guts. The cognitive dissonance would destroy you. So you have to make up fake stories about Palestinians being these strange subhuman orc creatures to feel okay about it.

STUDENTS, EDUCATORS AND STAFF HAVE LAUNCHED HUNGER STRIKES ACROSS AMERICA

Both University And High School Participants Are Trying To Highlight The Dire Conditions In Gaza, Where A Genocidal Famine Is Progressively Worsening.

High school and university educators, staff and students are starting hunger strikes across America in solidarity with Palestinians, who are undergoing a widespread famine in Gaza.

More than 100 K-12 educators are conducting a coordinated hunger strike for three days to pressure lawmakers to intercede on behalf of Palestinian children in Gaza, which Unicef named as the most dangerous place to be a child in December 2023, followed by Doctors Without Borders in June 2024.

Some educators will participate in the full three-day hunger strike, while others will fast during lunch only. Four of the participants spoke about what motivates them to take part. They are identified by first name only.

Colin, a middle school teacher in Massachusetts who plans to take part, said he had never gone three days without eating. “It feels like a long time,” he said. “But after those three days, I’ll be able to eat again, and the people in Gaza won’t be able to.”

He expressed concern that American tax dollars were being pumped into military expenditure in Israel, which, in turn, was harming children in Gaza.

Stephen, a high school special education teacher from Oregon who is participating in the hunger strike, said: “I think that public school teachers in K-12 have a duty to protect children and young people, no matter what side of a line or border those children live on.”

The hunger strike has been organized by Educators for Palestine, a caucus of the National Education Association (NEA), which is the largest teachers’ union in the United States.

Educators for Palestine is also working to push the NEA to disassociate from the pro-Israel advocacy organization Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Members had voted in favour of a resolution to cease interaction with the ADL, but the NEA overturned the decision after pressure from the ADL.

Theresa, a middle school nurse from Minnesota, said she had been organizing in the union, contacting legislators, attending protests and donating money before deciding to take part in the hunger strike, which she believed was taking things to the next level. “We are putting our own bodies in harm’s way,” she said. “A hunger strike is a more active way to participate and use my body to show resistance and solidarity.”

Anoush, a high school English teacher from California, said that her students knew what was happening in Gaza and “pick up on the fact that we’re not supposed to talk about it in school”.

She believes it is important for students to see teachers’ words translated into action. “We teach stories about injustice. We ask them to be courageous, to do what they think is right. It’s important for them to see their teachers model that integrity.”

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN SOLIDARITY

At New York University (NYU), which has pushed back on pro-Palestinian activism, faculty, staff and students began a weekly fast in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday.

Launched by the NYU chapters of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) and Students in Justice for Palestine (SJP), participants plan to fast every Wednesday from sunrise to sunset throughout the semester.

They will also donate money that would have been spent on meals to mutual aid funds providing food and medical aid in Gaza, and some of them will be fundraising additional funds.

Those fasting will also come together in solidarity and to raise awareness.

Abigail Balbale, an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, explained that she was fasting because she had witnessed how people in Gaza are being “systematically starved to death while the world and our country stand by”.

“We fast today out of compassion for the people of Gaza, and commit to educating ourselves and our community about the illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war,” she said in a press release issued by NYU FSJP.

Kathy Engel, an associate arts professor in the Tisch School of Arts and poet, said: “We fast because Palestinian people in Gaza are starving. We fast after two years of nonstop horror. We are part of a worldwide movement committed to Palestinian sovereignty. We will not stop.”

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a United Nations-backed global hunger monitor, officially confirmed famine was underway in Gaza almost two months ago.

GRETA THUNBERG’S FOCUS HAS TURNED TO THE GAZA GENOCIDE AFTER HER RELEASE FROM ISRAELI DETENTION

“I Will Never Comprehend How Humans Can Be So Evil,” Says The Swedish Activist.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke publicly Monday for the first time after being released from an Israeli prison, where she was reportedly beaten and forced to kiss the Israeli flag.

Thunberg was among 171 people deported by Israeli authorities after being detained for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The group was flown to Greece and Slovakia following their release.

There were cheers as Thunberg and other activists arrived in Greece, greeted by supporters after their ordeal.

Thunberg spoke at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport in Athens, emphasizing that her personal experience was not what mattered most.

“I can talk for a very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me,” she said.

“But that is not the story. Let me be very clear: there is a genocide going on in front of our very eyes, a live-streamed genocide,” Thunberg said.

“No one has the privilege to say we are not aware of what’s happening. No one in the future will be able to say we did not know.”

Thunberg accused Israel of “continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocide of intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation in front of you.”

“We cannot take our eyes away from Gaza, from all the places of the world that are suffering, living on the forefront of this business-as-usual system: Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza and many, many more,” she added. “What we are doing is the bare minimum.”

“I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

In a video posted on her Instagram account, Thunberg said the Global Sumud Flotilla is a demonstration of “international solidarity” with the Palestinians.

Israel violated international law by impeding the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, she said, adding “our imprisonment by Israel is a direct result of our governments.”

“States have a legal obligation to end their complicity in genocide, which the UN commissioner now also confirmed it is,” she highlighted, emphasizing that Israel has “no impunity” from the genocide.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, en route to break the Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, approached Gaza waters on the evening of Oct 1st.

The Israeli army attacked the flotilla, illegally seizing dozens of boats and ships and detaining hundreds of their passengers.

It was the largest flotilla to ever set out collectively to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

THE WORLD HATES ISRAEL IT DOESN’T HATE JEWS

It’s Crazy That Two Years Into A Genocide And You Are Still Being Hammered By Propagandists Pretending To Believe That The World Has Just Spontaneously Started Hating Israel For No Reason.

“U.S. registers most outbreaks of global antisemitism in August,” reads a recent headline from Fox News.

“Report: Antisemitism Hits Post-Holocaust High,” blares a headline from Newsmax.

“Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson,” says a headline from The New York Post.

During a recent “counter-terrorism” summit at Reichman University, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt complained that the entire world is becoming increasingly hateful toward Jews.

“This year, ADL’s Global 100 survey of antisemitic attitudes around the world found a 46 percent shift of the adult population — 2.2 billion people — harbor elevated levels of antisemitism,” Greenblatt said. “That’s nearly double the rate that we saw a decade ago. For the first time since we started tracking these attitudes in the 1960s, the younger generation is more likely to hold elevated anti-Jewish views than their parents or grandparents.”

They’re just talking about people who oppose Israel for perpetrating a live-streamed holocaust. People don’t hate Israel because it’s full of Jewish people, they hate Israel because of the things Israel does.

It is absolutely mind-boggling that to this day we’re seeing a hypermilitaristic apartheid ethnonationalist state starving and massacring civilians because of their ethnicity, bombing hospitals, assassinating journalists and medical professionals, murdering humanitarian workers, starting wars, invading neighboring countries, manipulating foreign governments, threatening activists, and actively working to crush free speech throughout the western world, all with the backing of the most powerful empire in history — and we’ve still got western institutions trying to convince us that people hate Israel because of religious prejudice.

This is the same genocidal apartheid state that has been terrorizing activists for trying to bring formula to starving babies.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader just appeared before the UN and announced that the victims of his genocide were being forced to listen to his speech because Israel had taken control of their phones.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader is publicly boasting about having seized control of TikTok in order to manipulate the things westerners are allowed to say to each other about Israeli atrocities.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader is reportedly going around bragging that he owns the president of the United States and can make the American regime do whatever he wants.

For two years we’ve been watching footage coming out of Gaza showing things being done to human anatomy that we hadn’t seen depicted in even the goriest horror movies ever produced by Hollywood. Stories about rape, torture, people being mauled to death by dogs. Suffering the likes of which we cannot even imagine over here in our sheltered little western homes.

And they’re still trying to tell us that our revulsion toward the state that is doing these things is the result of “antisemitism”.

If you were on the bus with a man who was constantly hurting the other passengers, abusing them, attacking them and degrading them, you would think that man is an asshole. It wouldn’t matter if he was wearing a Star of David, a cross, a turban or a keffiyeh; you should think he evil regardless.

If you looked out a window and saw people massacring children, you would probably think thoughts like “That’s horrible!” and “How can I stop this?”

The furthest thing from one’s mind would be thoughts like “What religion are they?” or “Their religion is very relevant to any discussions we might have about this massacre” or “We should definitely be very careful about discussing this massacre because we don’t want to offend people who have the same religion as the people doing the massacre.”

It would never occur to moste to consider such things, much less that such considerations should be central to all discourse about the massacre for years on end.

There’s a video going around showing anti-genocide protesters in South Korea throwing shoes at a large picture of Benjamin Netanyahu. These are people who’ve probably never met a Jew in their lives, for whom the Jewish faith has no cultural relevance whatsoever. They’ve probably spent close to zero time thinking about Jews and Judaism. They just hate Netanyahu because he’s perpetrating an active genocide.

The world doesn’t hate Jews, it hates Israel. The world hates Israel because Israel is a profoundly evil state whose profoundly evil actions are tormenting millions of people, and are having a direct effect on our own lives to a greater and greater extent as well.

Anyone who babbles about “antisemitism” in the year 2025 is just trying to shut you down and shut you up so you don’t oppose the most nakedly evil thing that is happening in your world today.

EVERYTHING BEFORE AND AFTER OCTOBER 7TH EXPLAINS WHY OCTOBER 7TH HAPPENED

Israel Supporters Don’t Want You Looking At What Happened Before October 7th , And They Don’t Want You Looking At Anything That’s Happened Since.

Look at what happened before October 7th and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse.

Look at everything that’s happened since October 7th 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 October 7th, 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 October 7th 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 October 7th 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 October 7th.

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 October 7 as Israel reaping what it had long been sowing.

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