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This is not a war. This is a GENOCIDE

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Yes, unprecedented in all the worst ways.

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💯% Beautifully written summary of the horrors of this genocide.

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Thank you, Sadie!

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I can’t believe we are watching this happen, it sickens me to my very core and yet I feel helpless to do anything. I can only support all the valiant writers and journalists who are bringing us the truth from the front lines of this tragedy and the few Palestinian people who mange to tell their stories in real time . My heart is breaking .

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Facebook won’t allow me to post this.

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Facebook sucks, as zuck does. I'm personally not at all enthusiastic of going back onto instagram myself.

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Yeah, I’m the same way about everyone announcing excitedly that they are “migrating to Blue Sky 🦋”. I just think “ugh no thanks, i don’t need any *more* social media.

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bluesky is really just for the "shitlibs" as some like to call them.

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An even worse ‘echo-chamber’ than Twitter (yes, i “dead-name” it 😆)

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Telegram is ok. I get a lot of updates from Palestine and Lebanon from that.

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Yeah me too.

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It is not elimination. It is annihilation.

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War On Terror Or War on the Planet Itself

I remember when the so-called war on terror started after 911. I only heard one report about the devastating impact of depleted uranium on the environment. The toxicity of these weapons last for thousands of years. I simply could not make sense of the disconnect. Why are these climate activists, naysayers, political alliances, public-private partnerships, the UN, WHO, and other so-called world bodies who supposedly care about the health of the planet and its inhabitants seem to completely leave out the utter eco-side that happens with wars and the instruments of it. https://topicsfromatoz.substack.com/p/he-got-out-of-gaza-but-gaza-didn’t

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#No Thanksgiving

We owe it to every Palestinian and Lebanese to refuse this “American Extermination Feast” this year; and every year after. Going forward, it should become a day of protest against the Genocidal tendencies that were inside the corrupted minds of the early colonists, and continue to exist in the twisted mindsets of our political class and their heartless followers. I’m not attending the family function; and I find no shame in telling them why I won’t be involved...ever again! I will most likely drive to a piece of native forest still in the hands of indigenous peoples; stroll amongst the trees along trails that are loved and respected for their connection to the Divine, sit by a stream and read a chapter in ....

James Blue Wolf’s American Myths &Madness

A Red Power Perspective

Then meditate with my heart centered on the Beautifully Divine Palestinians....

Lord I just can’t be happy

Unless they’re happy too

I wonder often... are there are others who would refuse to celebrate this Stain on the country’s calendar... perhaps you’ll join me too...

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Oh, thanks 🙏 for documenting and keeping the scorecard lit for this nation that is sinking in the quicksand of it’s culture of contest.

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While I don't celebrate any of these so-called Holidays, Thanksgiving was the one that I would visit a family member just for the food, but you know what, this year and every year from now on, I will follow suit as you have suggested. It was hard enough to wrap my brain around the original event that this day was really about, but I would succumb to the pressure. Now, you have given me more than a good reason to say "NO THANKSGIVING" for me. We may not be able to stop these mad men from continuing to commit genocidal acts, but we can silently protest in our own way. I was actually wondering how I was gonna say "NO" this year, thank you for giving me a great reason to do so. Peace & Blessings.

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But it is not a “war”: it is mass extermination, otherwise known as genocide.

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Jonathan Howard. Strong stuff and true. Unspeakable. There is no consolation, and no justification, but urgent to remind that the Jewish world of Central Europe suffered a catastrophe last century.

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Yes.

There are many right-minded people who are rightfully distressed and even angry about this genocide.

Some of these people are being provoked into behaving inappropriately within their own countries and attacking Jews or damaging and destroyinjg Jewish property.

Apart from the inherent wrongness of such acts, they do nothing to win over those who currently support Israel so that they see what Netanyahu and his warmongers are actually doing. Attacking Jews in other places only gives Netanyahu supporters the opportunity to claim that antisemitism is on the rise and then the authorities start to impose tighter security on all Israeli or Jewish establishments and institutions and the media constantly talk of opposition to the ethnic cleansing as ‘antisemitism’, thus conditioning the general public to see it that way.

The fact is, that what Netanyahu and the IDF are doing is criminal, callous, and as bad as what the NAZI regime did in WWII. Those opposing it are not doing so out of a hatred of Jews but out of respect for humanity and anger at the impunity with which Israel is able to bomb and destroy and kill, not only in Gaza but, it seems, virtually anywhere it so chooses, the latest place being Syria, to add to Lebanon, Iran, Syria and, of course, Gaza and the West Bank.

If the US true to its supposed beliefs in freedom and democracy and justice, it would not be supporting Israel and the troops it sends there would not be helping the Israelis but instead, stopping their atrocities.

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Declan, did you hear that the idiot mayor of Amsterdam apparently "regrets" calling the soccer riots started by genocidal israelis a "pogrom against Jews"?

She's still a lying snake but it's funny seeing her trying to backtrack considering everyone can see what a stupid lie that was.

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