JOHNSTONE

"Good westerners don’t start off hating Israel, but, if they are truly good, they end up hating Israel. A sincere dedication to truth, justice and kindness can only lead one to view the Zionist project with complete revulsion after learning the facts about what it really is, what it really does, and why our western governments really support it." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel isn’t killing all these people because it was attacked, Israel is killing all these people because it was given an excuse. Israel has always wanted to grab more land and eliminate the populations who oppose it. It’s using the political moment that October 7 gave it to roll out agendas it has wanted to roll out for generations. Israel has been squeezing and squeezing and squeezing its targets for generation after generation waiting for them to push back sufficiently to hand them an excuse. Reading by Tim Foley.

You can see that the Biden administration is a willing participant in all this bloodshed by simply ignoring their words and their narrative spin and watching their actions instead. While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president's feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with supporting links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ignore-their-words-watch-their-actions

How bizarre is it that our entire civilization is structured around values and priorities which are so fake and ridiculous that ingesting an ancient psychedelic potion causes even wealthy CEOs to quit their jobs and change their lives? Reading by Tim Foley.

The Israeli military says it’s preparing a ground offensive in Lebanon as it continues to hammer its neighbor to the north with bombs. Which of course means we’ll be hearing a lot of anxious hand-wringing from the western political-media class about “antisemitism” in the coming weeks. We know we’ll be hearing a lot more about antisemitism because that’s what always happens whenever Israel does something profoundly evil. People start objecting to its atrocities and demanding that their government stop facilitating them, and the imperial spinmeisters start framing these objections as a frightening rise in anti-Jewish bigotry in order to delegitimize and silence them. Reading by Tim Foley.

It is obviously false to say the US seeks peace in the middle east, but it’s not really accurate to say it seeks war either. To me that would be like saying water seeks wetness or fire seeks heat. War is just what the US empire is made of. It’s the thing that it is. Reading by Tim Foley.

Dive into the murky waters of political accountability as recent revelations expose misleading statements made by the U.S. Secretary of State regarding Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid. Discover the culture of impunity surrounding powerful figures who escape consequences for deceptive claims to Congress. The discussion also sheds light on systemic inequalities within the justice system, particularly how marginalized groups face injustices while elite interests thrive unchecked.

Now that Israel has ramped up its attacks on Lebanon, the IDF is saying that Hezbollah are hiding missiles in civilian homes. So I guess we’re doing this again. If you liked “All the civilian buildings are Khamas,” you’ll love Israel’s new hit “All the civilian buildings are Khezbollah.” Reading by Tim Foley.

Rule 1: Recorded history began on October 7 2023. Maybe some things happened before that date, but nobody can remember. Rule 2: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 1. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or Iran. Rule 3: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does. Reading by Tim Foley.

"It’s to experience all the footage of shredded bodies in Gaza with a visceral understanding that these are real things happening to real people whose lives mattered just as much as your own." Reading by Tim Foley.