Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter Oct 21, 2023
Hundreds of US congressional staffers are passing around a letter urging their bosses to call for a ceasefire, there’s a silent mutiny brewing in the State Department over the Biden administration’s Gaza actions, mainstream reporters have been refusing to parrot Israel narratives, and the streets are full of pro-Palestine demonstrators.
This is different. What we are seeing right now is a deviation from the usual script.
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The western press have been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to do reporting alongside the middle easterners they’ve been lying about for generations, and discovering that a lot of those middle easterners speak English and have a few things to say.
Check out this clip of Egyptian podcaster Rahma Zein laying into CNN’s Clarissa Ward at a protest at the Rafah Crossing border gates:
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And this clip of a Palestinian man telling off CNN’s Sara Sidner — who helped circulate the infamous “40 decapitated babies” psyop — saying “You are genocide supporters! You are not welcome here! Genocide supporters! Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!”:
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An urgently needed message and a long overdue confrontation.
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If Israel didn’t bomb that hospital then why did it doctor up a fraudulent audio clip pretending to show Hamas fighters saying Israel didn’t bomb the hospital?
The only way to reconcile this fact with a belief in Israel’s innocence is rigorous psychological compartmentalization.
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A lot of the distortion around this current crisis arises from confusion between peace and the baseline status quo. Because Israel had been trucking along at the same status quo for so long, people assume there was a state of peace when Hamas attacked it, which was why the western political/media class were able to frame it as an “unprovoked” attack. But in reality the status quo in Israel has been one of continually escalating violence, tyranny and abuse for generations, not one of peace.
The trouble with abusive dynamics that have been going on for a long time is that after a while those who aren’t directly affected by the abuse tend to get used to that way of being and start thinking of it as normal. So when there’s pushback against that abusive status quo, it looks to them like it came completely out of nowhere at the hands of an unprovoked aggressor.
Stand on someone’s face for long enough and one day it will surprise you if he eventually bites your foot. You might even feel like you were the victim, because that’s just what you’d gotten used to.
And the imperial media of course do everything they can to exacerbate public confusion about this crucial distinction. The Hamas attack is being constantly framed as an unprovoked act of aggression by evil men who wanted to do evil things to Jews, solely because they are evil and hate Jews. History began on October 7, and all the events from 1948 onward never happened.
Empire propagandists do this constantly by the way, wherever it suits the information interests of the empire. After 9/11 it was “they hate us for our freedom” and all the US aggressions in the middle east which provoked Al Qaeda were swept under the carpet. When Russia invaded Ukraine the well-documented NATO provocations and violence in the Donbass which gave rise to it were written out of the history books, and history began on February 24, 2022. If China ever reacts to the US military surrounding it with war machinery and its aggressive provocations in Taiwan, that will be framed as a completely unprovoked attack which came completely out of nowhere as well.
Circumstances aren’t peaceful just because we are used to them. Just because you are able to go about your daily routine without major disruption doesn’t mean someone isn’t being horrifically abused by the status quo which makes your way of life possible. Peace doesn’t look like everyone complying with the status quo regardless of its abusiveness, it looks like the absence of abuse.
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Trying to praise wogs if they are in Europe but condemn them if they are near Israel cannot work forever
If those protestors think CNN is bad…
they ought to get a dose of Israel’s scum-sucking sychophants that pass for ‘The Media’ in ZOGUK…
not to mention the pronouncements of the Hairbrained-Hindu Richie Scumbag!
Debate in Glasgow Herald newspaper about Glasgow Celtic supporters holding po-Palestinians banners.
Read the comments; the commenter called Robert day is going to be banned and the whole debate cancelled. Absolutely fantastic that the real jew truth is getting out into the public forum in a national newspaper.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/23870333.pig-watch-palestine-protest-put-celtic-ultras-brink/
I wonder who pays to run BBC Persia, or is it BBC Iran?
Don’t tell me it’s the British.
An ally slaughtering innocent civilians is quite an insult against the Western media who has to put a friendly spin on all that murder and mayhem.
We read they are not.
GOOD!
Semites (Jews) vs. semites (Arabs) or mongrels vs. mongrels. Whatever you prefer. So what horde or gang of anti-white scum do you support?
Hamas and the israeli government are both controlled by the globalist banksters.
It was a false flag attack on israeli civilians to justify the genocide of 2.3 million Palestinian civilians.
I could not but notice the title of this article, Middle Easterners Have Words For The Western Press Who’ve Been Lying About Them.
They righteously have a case against the Jewish (Gog) owned mainstream media, and G*d expresses even a greater one.
Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD; but they that deal truly are His delight. Proverb 12:22 (Jewish Publication Society)
But Proverbs also states in 12:17, He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit. and in 12:20, Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Yet, Mossad’s official motto is, By deception that shalt do war.
But what does G*d say about deception followed by evil? From the Prophet Micah in 6:11-12, ‘Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?’ For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Zionist Christians, why do you consider these as the ppl of G*d (according to the leaven of Cyrus Schofield’s blasphemous false commentaries) and continue to support them?
Now here is an interesting article, perhaps Rixon can post it:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/22/713212/gaza-turn-into-graveyard-israeli-forces-launch-ground-offensive
This appears to coincide with Ezekiel 39:4, Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee; I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field, to be devoured.
Gog’s military forces through their puppet controlled America, Britain and satellites are now gathering to rally upon the middle of the earth (Palestine) to support Magog at this very hour. According to Ezekiel Chapter 39, the final destruction of Gog’s forces will be done in such a thorough manner that all people will recognize that this is of G*d.
When the Jew wanted to light up a prominent building in Israel colour s in Sydney the Mayor knocked them back rightly so. Now the the mayor has to meet with the Jew community today so we’ll see how it goes later today. The Jew response in the press to the decision was to say it’s “false moral equivalence”. What poo are they rolling in now. Seriously the Jew thinks itself clever when it’s just another idiot.
Well, I never knew that. Conan Doyle’s Professor Moriarty was based on the Jewish criminal, Adam Worth, who was called “The Napoleon Of Crime” by a Scotland Yard detective, Robert Anderson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Worth
“DESTROY, ANNIHILATE, KILL” – Israeli lawmaker Moshe Feiglin calls for genocide on national TVpic.twitter.com/fysnvURp6i
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000)
Yahwey has not appeared yet. These are all the horrible doings of the secretive murderous people of Ba’al coming out in the open, feeling omnipotent, calling white black, good evil, children’s blood gushing out of their mouths. JEWS! They LIE all the time. They steal murder all the time.
And they do use Adrenochrome twice a year, and do kill children to get it!.
It’s time for their end to come, NOW! But what is next is worse than even the JEWS. Lawfull evil. The true people of Israel, the twelve tribes of white Israel, scattered through the world for 2700 years are about to try to obey the law one more time for Yahwey.
The European nations are under attack right now, and they shall be saved from it, by Yahwey!
Call on the name of The Lord Jesus Christ while you still can.
It really may be too late by tomorrow.
nutenyahu paying jounalists for good pres on israel
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/22/713215/exposed-israel-paying-social-media-influencers-whitewash-gaza-genocide
Someone needs to arrest Biden’s Kyle Kleptocracy. And pronto! Staffers can make a citizens arrest.
No need to bother with “The Big Guy,” just drop him off at the nearest Chuckie Cheese, with a hundred bucks for snacks and ice cream.
Sorry, make that “Kyke Kleptocracy.
western MSM papers would be only
toilet paper for me , mediawhores can smell !
The UK’s Daily Mail – the British Establishments populist mouthpiece – has surpassed itself in its lies about Gaza. There can be no doubt about who controls it.