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bless your heart....

 

The ultimate expression of “everyone is twelve now” theory is in the mainstream worldview promoted by western pundits and politicians which holds that the world is full of evil villains doing evil things simply because they are evil, and that these Bad Guys are opposed by the virtuous Good Guys of the US-led world order.

 

You Believe the Mainstream Narrative? of Course You Do, You're Twelve

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

 

You think Hamas killed Israelis because they’re a bunch of monsters who hate Jews? Of course you do, you’re twelve.

You think Trump is trying to get rid of Maduro because Maduro is an evil dictator who wants to poison Americans with fentanyl? Hell yeah homie, you’re twelve.

You think Putin invaded Ukraine because he hates freedom and democracy and wants to conquer the world? Bless your heart my twelve year-old buddy.

You think the US and Israel have been attacking and eliminating rivals in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine in order to fight terrorism, stop tyranny, and protect the world from nuclear weapons? Yeah, that checks out, you’re twelve.

The mainstream western worldview is like a children’s cartoon, with the Bad Guys doing Bad Things simply because they are Bad, and the Good Guys striving heroically to stop them. It sounds like a shitty PG-13 summer blockbuster starring The Rock, but it’s the consensus worldview of serious professional pundits and analysts who share this perspective on mainstream platforms with serious expressions on their faces, and anyone who calls any part of it into question is dismissed as an extremist or a deranged crackpot.

Because everyone is twelve now.

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I said the above on Twitter and I got a reply from a guy saying “Western countries like Denmark, Holland and the UK, US and Israel too are objectively nicer and happier places than the third world ones you mentioned. You can see by walking around, looking at people and things. So we’re doing something right that they’re doing wrong.”

It always fascinates me when people think this is some kind of checkmate argument. Yes obviously it’s nicer to be in the countries doing the bombing, sanctioning, extracting and stealing than the countries being bombed, sanctioned, exploited and robbed. It’s nicer to be a mugger than the person being mugged, too. It’s always more pleasant to be the hammer than the nail.

It’s such a self-evidently stupid argument, but you see it all the time. Whenever I talk about the abusiveness of the western empire I always get empire simps in my replies all “hoho, but have you considered that it is nicer to live here than to live there?” Of course it is, dickflop. It’s always going to be easier being the abuser than the abused

 

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reportedly advocated shooting children who get too close to the “Yellow Line” dividing Israel-controlled parts of Gaza from the parts under Hamas control. After a while you start understanding why so many people refer to the Israeli regime as “demonic” and “satanic” even if you’re not religious. At a certain point you just run out of strong enough adjectives.

It’s so weird how the western political/media class regards Ben-Gvir as a fringe kook whose comments should be ignored despite the fact that he (A) is Israel’s national security minister and (B) consistently ends up getting what he wants.

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Zohran Mamdani is outside my area of political interest and it’s none of my business who New Yorkers elect as their mayor, but the Islamophobic shrieking I’ve been seeing online in response to his campaign has been absolutely jaw-dropping. No one with mainstream political or media aspirations could ever get away with talking about the religion of a Jewish politician the way Zionists have been openly talking about Mamdani and his faith.

From what I can tell Mamdani is a just a regular guy and a fairly ordinary progressive Democrat with an extraordinarily high level of campaign talent, but these freaks are claiming he’s going to impose sharia law and start throwing gays off the Chrysler Building. It’s a degree of mass hysteria about Islam unlike anything I’ve seen since the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which any normal person will agree led to some extremely bad thinking and terrible decisions.

Some of it is arising from organic American racism and the knee-jerk rightist impulse to throw anyone to the left of Bill Clinton out of a flying helicopter, but a lot of it has nothing to do with Mamdani at all. As we’ve discussed previously, Zionists have been seizing on every opportunity to promote hatred of Muslims because it’s a lot easier than convincing people to like Israel.

To be clear, I am not speculating when I say this. Drop Site News published a reportlast month based on leaked documents which showed that the Israeli government had commissioned an American polling company to help it with the PR crisis caused by its genocidal atrocities, and the report found that the most effective strategy would be to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism”.

So this agenda is already in the waters of Zionist consciousness. The election of a Muslim to the most high-profile mayoral position in the United States provides Israel supporters with ample opportunity to stir up panic about Muslims in America on the assumption that Israel will benefit from such sentiments, since Israel is always killing Muslims. There is no argument to be made that Israel is a good nation that is inherently deserving of support, so they’re banking on circulating the belief that it’s good to drop bombs on Muslims instead.

Western politics is getting more and more diseased, and US politics is leading the way. It’s making people dumber, crazier, and more hateful, and is preventing them from seeing that the real minority that’s been causing everyone’s problems are the rich and powerful oligarchs and empire managers who rule the western power alliance. Keep ordinary members of the public hating each other and fighting each other, and they won’t start hating and fighting their actual oppressors.

https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/you-believe-the-mainstream-narrative-of-course-you-do-youre-twelve/

bibi lied.....

Netanyahu Orders ‘Immediate and Powerful’ Attacks on Gaza      by Dave DeCamp

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to “immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” his office said in a statement, signaling the Gaza ceasefire deal is about to collapse.

Israel is claiming that its forces in Rafah came under attack by Hamas fighters, and Palestinians on the ground reported hearing gunfire and strikes in the south, but Hamas has said that it had “no relation to the shooting incident in Rafah and reaffirms its commitment to the cease-fire agreement.”

Israel currently controls about 58% of Gaza’s territory, and Netanyahu has reportedly decided to take over more territory.

After Netanyahu’s announcement, a series of airstrikes were reported in Gaza City and Khan Younis. According to Al Jazeera, witnesses said a “massive” strike hit near the Al-Shifa Hospital. At least five people have been reported killed in Khan Younis, and four have been killed in Gaza City.

Netanyahu’s statement also came after Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal over claims that it was delaying and staging the recovery of the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. Before the agreement was signed, Israeli officials acknowledged that the bodies would take time to find, and CNN cited officials who said some remains may never be found.

Israel released a video on Tuesday that it said showed Hamas burying a body and then bringing in the Red Cross to recover it, but according to Israeli media, the US didn’t buy Israel’s claim that the footage showed that Hamas violated the ceasefire and objected to Israel launching airstrikes. Then, the alleged attack took place in Rafah, and Netanyahu renewed airstrikes.

Israel has also impeded efforts to recover more bodies by refusing to allow Turkish and Qatari teams to enter the Strip and help locate and retrieve remains, according to two Arab officials speaking to The Times of Israel. The initiative would have also involved representatives from Israel, the US, and Egypt aiding in the effort.

In response to Netanyahu’s announcement, Hamas has said that it has postponed the planned handover of another body due to Israeli “violations.” Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said any Israeli escalations “will hinder search, digging, and retrieval operations of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in recovering the bodies.”

While there has been a de-escalation in Gaza, Israeli forces have continued launching attacks since the ceasefire deal was signed on October 10, killing at least 94 Palestinians in that time, according to numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel has also not allowed the agreed-upon number of aid trucks to enter Gaza.

Comments from President Trump have also made clear that Israeli officials are eager to restart the full-scale genocidal campaign, and would do so if he gave the word. Despite Netanyahu’s announcement, a US official told Al Jazeera that the ceasefire is “still holding” and that the US intends to “continue to work to implement President Trump’s peace plan.”

Vice President JD Vance later insisted that the ceasefire was holding despite the renewed Israeli airstrikes. “The ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes,” he told Fox News. “We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond — but I think the President’s peace is going to hold.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/28/netanyahu-orders-immediate-and-powerful-attacks-on-gaza/

donald lies....

US President Donald Trump has defended Israel’s renewed strikes in Gaza nearly three weeks into a ceasefire he helped broker.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “immediate and powerful strikes” on Tuesday evening, citing Hamas attacks on Israeli soldiers still holding parts of the Palestinian enclave. At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the action, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run government.

“As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday en route from Japan to South Korea. “They killed an Israeli soldier. So the Israelis hit back – and they should hit back. When that happens, they should hit back,” he added.

Trump argued that “nothing is going to jeopardize” the ceasefire. He insisted that Hamas was “a very small part of peace in the Middle East, and they have to behave,” otherwise “their lives will be terminated.”

Vice President J.D. Vance said earlier that the ceasefire was holding despite “little skirmishes here and there.” Axioscited unnamed senior US officials as saying that the White House urged Israel not to take “radical measures” that could collapse the truce.

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), last week two of its soldiers were attacked and killed by Hamas in Rafah, southern Gaza, and more soldiers came under fire in the same area on Tuesday. Hamas denied involvement in both incidents, accusing Israel of “a blatant ceasefire violation.”

The Palestinian armed group warned that the escalation “will lead to a delay” in recovering and returning the bodies of the 13 remaining hostages in Gaza. Israeli officials earlier accused Hamas of dragging its feet in handing over all the remains, as agreed under the ceasefire mediated by the US, Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye, which took effect on October 10.

https://www.rt.com/news/627086-gaza-trum-backs-israel/

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

hypocrites....

 

Alison Broinowski

The easy way or the hard way to the same result

 

National leaders deceive most people most of the time. Israel’s long, atrocious, US-backed assault on the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon is the latest example, as are their joint attacks on Syria, Yemen, and Iran.

What President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have led the gullible to believe is a three-phase “peace process” for Gaza has not even completed phase one. Already, Israel is finding pretexts to abrogate it.

Those who take Netanyahu at his word should recall that no past ceasefire has ended Israel’s multiple assaults on Palestinians. Hamas, whose welfare-delivery operation Israel at first funded, was elected to lead Gaza in 2006, instead of Fatah which Netanyahu expected to win. Hamas was then repeatedly targeted by the Israel Defence Force, with major attacks occurring in 2008, 2014, and 2018-19. The IDF has murdered hundreds of Hamas leaders in Gaza and Lebanon and thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. After 17 years of repression, Hamas and other Palestinians broke through the barricades on 7 October 2023, killing 1200 Israeli citizens and military and foreigners, and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza.

Some suspect Netanyahu knew in advance of the mission and let it happen to enable the retaliatory IDF onslaught and keep himself in power and out of jail. Certainly, he permitted the “Hannibal Doctrine” to take effect. This meant permitting IDF attacks on vehicles returning to Gaza with their colleagues inside, rather than letting them be captured as hostages. “We look after our own,” say some Israelis and Jewish expatriates, but in this case they didn’t. Instead, Netanyahu dragged out the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, making a ceasefire and hostage return impossible for at least two years. The crowd of 100,000 Israelis in Hostage Square on 12 October 2025 thanked Trump for the return of their remaining hostages but hooted when his envoy, Steve Witkoff, mentioned Netanyahu’s name.

Israel always asserts its right to defend itself against Palestinians, but the right of Hamas to defend Gaza against Israel is never proposed. Hamas has to disarm, while Israel does not. The US and its allies (including Australia), having declared that Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are “terrorists”, continue to arm Israel against them and share intelligence. The US alone has provided weapons worth US$22 billion to Israel since October 2023. Only when the slaughter and starvation of many thousands of Palestinians became undeniable, did the remaining minority of UN member states join those supporting Gaza against Israel and the US. Even then, some did so with reservations.

Nothing like the worldwide opposition to apartheid in 1980s South Africa has yet been applied to Israeli Zionists and American supporters of their “new Nakba”. The US has consistently vetoed UN Security Council resolutions condemning the genocide, and Trump has imposed prohibitions on members of the International Criminal Court and ignored its rulings. The US State Department is pressing African countries to take Palestinians willing to leave Gaza. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner plans a resort development on the ruins of Gaza, and he of all people is to lead its “reconstruction”. For some eight months, he has been working on plans for post-war Gaza together with Tony Blair, a designated “Board of Peace” member.

No Palestinians are on the Board. They were repeatedly excluded from discussions about their own future, including the “peace talks” at Camp David in 1978, Oslo in 1993 and 1995 and the Abraham Accords in 2020. Representatives of Hamas took part for the first time in negotiations in Qatar and Egypt in 2025, and members of the Palestinian Authority did so in France. Yet Palestinians were refused US visas to attend the UN General Assembly in September.

Trump’s proposed “temporary transitional government” of Gaza will not include Palestinians. It is to be backed by an “International Stabilisation Force” to guarantee the agreement. Details about it are few, except that it won’t include Hamas which, by giving back the living hostages and the few dead ones it can find, is surrendering its bargaining power. All Palestinians in Gaza are regarded by Netanyahu as Hamas and hence as “terrorists” whom the IDF has a right to exterminate. Hamas knows from the two failed ceasefires in November 2023 and January 2025 that it must disarm or die, or both.

Accused war criminal Netanyahu repeatedly visits the US and is not arrested, although he doesn’t go to Egypt or Qatar for peace negotiations, perhaps for fear of arrest there. Israel ignored the Arab League’s proposals to legitimise its place in the region, at Fez in 1982 and at Beirut in 2002. But several Arab states have been collaborating with the US and Israel for years, and their armed forces were secretly training together even while their leaders denounced the “Zionist entity”. Now, the Arabs no longer trust the US to restrain the Netanyahu junta, a former American defence official says. Israel “has become a terrorist state that rules Palestine and adjoining countries through violent intimidation and the culling of their populations”. (Chas Freeman, ‘Israel or America First?’ Address to the Arab Center, Washington, DC. 16 October 2025).

Netanyahu has told Hamas to choose between “the easy way and the hard way” to peace. That he is proud of Israel’s record of discrimination, ethnic cleansing, assassinations, war crimes, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians since 1947 is well documented. It is modern, and so better recorded than the earlier exploits of other settler colonisers, European, American, and British — including in Australia — but comparable in its method and intent to theirs. All seized territory, oppressed or killed the inhabitants and lied about it. The difference is that decades of self-indoctrination — and the example set by the Nazis — have emboldened many Israelis, Zionist Americans, and Jewish citizens of other countries publicly to assert that Jewish people have a God-given right to “Greater Israel”, extending from the Nile to the Euphrates, and that the Palestinians living there are “vermin”, sub-humans to be expelled or exterminated. No “ceasefire” or Hamas’ “disarmament” will stop Netanyahu doing it.

This is what Trump’s “peace deal” is reduced to, while the world does nothing. Only when Israel’s supply of weapons and intelligence is cut off will the war crimes and genocide end. Until then the leaders of nations delivering them — Americans, British, Europeans and Australians — remain complicit. Australia’s calls for a two-state solution, our arrest warrants for two Israeli ministers, our calls for humanitarian aid and our belated recognition of Palestine are minimal gestures that do not absolve our leaders from guilt for gross inhumanity.

 

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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/the-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-to-the-same-result/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.