Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter Oct 31, 2023
The response to the Gaza crisis from western leaders and media outlets and celebrities shows very clearly that we really are led by the least among us. The least wise. The least intelligent. The least compassionate. The least insightful. We are ruled by sociopaths and morons.
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You are being offered two narratives to choose from:
- Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed.
- Palestinians in Gaza are thinking human beings who are reacting to intolerable abuses inflicted upon them.
Which is more believable?
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We’re being told that Israel needs to wage a relentless bombing campaign which is killing civilians by the thousands in order to eliminate Hamas, because Hamas must be destroyed to achieve a lasting peace. Every part of this is transparently false.
Firstly the premise that Hamas must be eliminated to achieve peace is fallacious; peace can be achieved by eliminating the abuses and righting the wrongs which gave rise to Hamas in the first place. There’s no rational reason to believe Hamas would continue to exist in its current iteration or keep waging violent resistance if the theft and injustice from 1948 onward were rolled back, refugees had the right to return, apartheid abuses were ended, and people were no longer kept in a giant concentration camp where they are deprived of basic human needs.
Secondly the premise that you can bomb people into accepting an abusive status quo is self-evidently absurd. Even if Israel kills every single member of Hamas, there will be hundreds of thousands of survivors of this onslaught who see the depravity of Israel and refuse to accept it. You think all these orphaned boys and all these men who saw their loved ones ripped apart by military explosives are just going to be cool with the status quo from here on out? Of course not.
And Israel knows this, which is why its preferred solution is to kick all survivors of this onslaught out of Gaza and into refugee camps in the Sinai Peninsula. It knows that nothing it’s doing will actually work and it refuses to make the reparations that will work, so its only other option is the elimination of Gazans one way or the other. Ethnic cleansing and mass displacement is not “peace” by any stretch of the imagination, but it might allow Israel to keep its abusive status quo intact.
Those are Israel’s only real options for sustainable stability: either right all the wrongs which led to this, or go the opposite direction and inflict far more wrongs to answer the Palestinian question once and for all. It’s pretty clear watching all this that Israel has opted for the latter.
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The narrative managers are still struggling with the problem that when they announced that Palestinians had escaped from their concentration camp and killed a bunch of Israelis, an inconvenient number of people started asking “Wait, what were they doing in a concentration camp?”
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I find nothing less morally or philosophically interesting than pontificating on how the traumatized prisoners of a horrible concentration camp should have conducted themselves once they broke free of its confines. As far as I’m concerned everything that happened on October 7 was the result of generations of Israeli abuse, the British decisions which made it all possible, and the American backing which has kept it going.
Israeli policies created Hamas. I don’t mean this in the usual “Netanyahu boosted Hamas to sabotage peace and undermine its more moderate rivals” sense, I mean it in the “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable” sense. If you stomp out every possible peaceful avenue of resistance, naturally you’re going to see the rise of factions which favor violent resistance.
One of my most formative experiences in understanding this conflict happened in 2018 when I watched Israeli soldiers firing on protesters with sniper rifles and live ammo. B’Tselem explicitly denounced this as unlawful. There’s nothing that could possibly make such a thing okay, and it was a very clear illustration of the way Israel has cut Palestinians off from all the normal pathways toward peaceful resolution.
I said when all this started that I believe the Hamas attack will ultimately be a net negative for Palestinians, but that I can’t in good conscience “condemn Hamas” because nobody can articulate a positive direction that Palestinians should be taking. The fact that all peaceful avenues of resistance have been cut off is not the fault of the Palestinians, and it’s not the fault of Hamas. It’s the fault of the Israeli government.
Hamas is just what you get when you create an intolerably abusive apartheid state which keeps millions of people in a concentration camp whose inhabitants are cut off from basic human needs and make peaceful revolution impossible. Hamas isn’t the disease, it’s a symptom of the disease. The disease is an apartheid settler-colonialist project which cannot exist without endless violence, warfare and abuse.
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I refuse to be shamed and demonized for supporting peace by people who support the murder of thousands of children.
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There’s no prospect of any change. I’d be tempted to say hope, but hope is a pathetic word, a bit like ‘nice’, which these days has more negative condescending connotations.
They made the sheeple morons, so they’d vote them in. The thickoality is so ingrained, there’s no hope (lol) of removing it. It is a multi generational brainwashing.
Allegedly, Nazi Israelis have been voting in Bibi, now 4 terms, the longest serving Israeli Nazi PM. He’s gutted the Israeli legal system, and the Israeli sheeple are on the brink of civil war, until Oct 7th semi false flag, where many lay accusations of internal treachery.
After yesterday’s Gaza bombing, very hard to see the region staying out of it. Yeman has declared war on Israel, and many will be say, ‘why haven’t we?’
Has Israel ever test fired an ICBM from Israeli land? It’s a small country, so where are. 200 nukes stored? If Israeli genuinely possess nukes, then we have countries ready to take Israel out. The US, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and China. And another thing, Israel doesn’t have its own GPS systems, so how can they launch. As for plane dropped nukes, Iran probably has advanced Russian radar which can spot stealth aircraft, so good luck with that.
Best not to fall into the trap of supporting Moslems: we have a False Dichotomy here, two enemies, and the enemy of my enemy may not be “my friend”. If he were, both enemies would be our friend
omg – just look at that photo ! The face of Stupidity.
The Buddhists were too kind when they said there is no evil, only ignorance.
The Absolute Truth is they both exist, and they are one and the same.
A little pondering will prove this to you. There is some work to do in this samsara existence, and the real work is all internal.
Funnily enough..whilst whining on about apartheid states the myopic and selectively forgetful and very untrustworthy hack and gatekeeper Caitlin wore her ‘covidiot’ badge with honour…and was only too keen to berate, imprison and force toxxic injections on the perspicacious and follow unquestioningly the mandates of the ‘covid’ cult…
Strangely enough… and should get you thinking about the current ‘event’ ‘cycle’…
She of course has now moved swiftly on and has clambered back onto her old perch (the common imbecile being a forgetful creature).. settling comfortably into the Palestine genocide and displace to Europe debate with all the gusto of the typical fake lefty urbane idiot she is and without of course drawing any of the most obvious conclusions, because that may be hehe.. aunty-semitic…. or racist even..
something they all do… and always have…
Imbeciles…
Don’t worry about it, all these anti-white Palestinian mongrel Muslims will soon be transported to Europe/UK/USA–welcomed by throngs of white humanitarian retards holding up ‘refugees welcome’ signs– & given free flats/money to attack/murder whites & organize their Muslim/Arab sex grooming gangs to pimp out brainless white girls to fornicate with hideous Semites & simians.
Thank you for this: agreement and appreciation.
I must humbly add, as to the “we” and led by “sociopaths and morons”: Antony Blinken is the lead moronic of the three, but he is a jewish-Zionist sociopath, as exemplified by his statement to the Zionist government assembled, “I come to you as a jew.” He is transported there by the government of the United State, as a Secretary of State. For him to say that shows his alliance. Period. Secondly, for him to dismiss any effort to release Julian Assange is sociopathic. He may as well have said, “As a jew, this has nothing to do with me.”
Secondly, the “we” refers to America, to Americans. As to “led by”, America is led by Zionist-jewish power. Period.
“Caitlin Johnstone: We Are Ruled By Sociopaths and Morons” Include in that list Justin Trudeau.
Fighting for Peace is like Fornicating for Chastity!
Great post, but I must just say jutstone thing – how do you know Hamas did anything? How do you know that it wasn’t all theatre? This is the most likely scenario. These people (all of them) are masters of deception. They, after all, run Hollywood. Have you seen the explicit violence in Hollywood movies? Have you? Don’t you think they can make a realistic looking set? C’mon – wake up!
Carl Jones: ‘ It’s a small country, so where are. 200 nukes stored?’
This is an essential question. Remember, years ago, when (1985?) Mordechai Vanunu came to England to tell the world that Israel has nukes. Rupert Murdoch immediately published that news. Murdoch of all people … that arch Zionist, himself a Jew (mother was Elizabeth Green), wanted the world to ‘know’ that Israel has nukes! I thought back then, and I still do, that this was a tactical fake-news exercise intended to make Israel seem far more powerful than it is. Murdoch would never have done anything to harm Israel.
Nice latex mask in that photo “Kamala”.
I wonder what is behind that.
evil assholes bathing in aplaus of evil assholes !
enjoying killing women + children ? world ruled
by 2leg PEST !
@ EICHMAN
atleast they are trust worthy born+learned jewhaters !
they are on our side .
between our millions of jewass lickers in all institutions
they are a shining light of hope for us . but because our
state controlers know this they will probably survey + watch
around the clock all movements of their men (WARRIORS)
@LEWIS JONES
one jewhating moslem for me is worth one million
of my deutsche zionasslickers/leftist intelectual scum/
liberal cowards, climaterothschildian hysterikers + perverts !
@CARL JONES
be sure that jews have all knowledge of US Nevadas testside
to calibrate yield at gusto . they atleast have hundreds of
mininukes (already used worldwide) at their disposal + some
remotecontroled stored disguised as refrigerators/wahing machines
in all western secret magazines for their Samson option .
once they probed a nuke in ocean in South Africas Apartheed times .
to the enjoyment of southern wales + white sharks + other animals .
but france is not better with its Muroroa Atol . its a stump like a tooth
with caries .
@Sophie Johnson
Good observation about Mordechai Vanunu and Murdoch.
I also believe the idea that JFK was murdered because of his opposition to Israeli nukes is a double whammy of a red herring. In the first place it misdirects on the assassination question, and in the second place it reinforces the narrative you’ve alluded to.
(I read Piper’s book on the JFK/Israel/Nukes idea years ago, and I wasn’t convinced of it even when I believed in nuclear weapons. JFK was where I first started to question mainstream narratives. My next major deconstruction was the “Holocaust”, but it wasn’t after I had eliminated EVERY “Holocaust” enforcing argument that I could find, I realised it for the scam it was. It took me a long time and a lot of reading to arrive at the conclusion that most people on here now know. Truth takes times to percolate through.)
@Chesterton
Well spotted on the covidiocy…
“Funnily enough..whilst whining on about apartheid states the myopic and selectively forgetful and very untrustworthy hack and gatekeeper Caitlin wore her ‘covidiot’ badge with honour…and was only too keen to berate, imprison and force toxxic injections on the perspicacious and follow unquestioningly the mandates of the ‘covid’ cult…”
Shall we send her some shekels etc… hmmm… no….
Ir should be remembered that the PLO was & is secular (eg Hanan Ashrawi) & that about 15% of Palestinians are christian, albeit many are now in the large Palestinian diaspora.
Israeli membership of the UN was conditional upon allowing back those who fled in the 1940s from Jewish terrorism such as the massacre at Deir Yasin by the Irgun Zvai Leumi.
Ir should be remembered that the PLO was & is secular (eg Hanan Ashrawi) & that about 15% of Palestinians are christian, albeit many are now in the large Palestinian diaspora.
Israeli membership of the UN was conditional upon allowing back those who fled in the 1940s from Jewish terrorism such as the massacre at Deir Yasin by the Irgun Zvai Leumi.
The PLO was prepared to negotiate as the did with the Oslo Accord which is the real reason they were sidelined as Israel has never otherwise shown any real interest in reaching a settlement.
South Africas nuke test was very likely carried out in cooperation with Jews Inc in Israel.
Plus there was that heist of a ship load of Ukrainium….simply disappeared off the face of the earth.
So the fiends will very likely have nuclear weapons….and some of them will be sitting in that boatload of Dolphin Submarines they stole from German taxpayers.(They have recently stolen a fleet of German made offshore patrol vessels….and as they are German made,they will be the best patrol vessels you can buy (or steal).
Recall the Jewish fiends had quite a few ME.109’s stolen from decimated Germany Post ww2 (Recall later they got hold of the plans for the Mirage fighters from France and added new technology under the name Kfir….and to round things off,they had France over a barrel .demanding “compensation” from the French Rail SCNF for transporting ‘Olocau$t “survivors….with the implication that they would not be able to export to the USA.(A variation of this was aimed at The Netherlands).