As Palestine and Ukraine burn, the South rises again in America and Donald Trump is the white suprematicsts's Führer

 

Charlottesville

MAGA rally

January 6

    This very true title below showed up in my email account this morning, but the accompanying text did some weaving and winding that reminded me of how Donald Trump and MAGAs, and even Joe Biden, weave and wind ...

It's Insane That Anyone Is Still Supporting Israel

Caitlin Johnstone

JAN 5, 2024 

 

It honestly blows my mind that there are still people adamantly supporting Israel after all this. After all the people they’ve killed. After all the lies they’ve been caught in. After all their comments endorsing genocide and ethnic cleansing, and all their actions showing they mean it. 

If you’re still supporting Israel at this point, you’re just telling everyone you don’t care about truth or morality. You’re announcing to the world that you care only about your weird ideological agendas and geopolitical control. 

You are publicly proclaiming that you are a dogshit human being. That you have lived on this earth all these years without arriving at any level of emotional or psychological maturity. That you have wasted your life on this planet.

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You guys it’s really really really important that Trump doesn’t get re-elected, because if he does then the US will have a president who supports mass murder and genocide and ethnic cleansing and he’ll probably let a ton of people get killed by racist tyrants.

In all seriousness it’s extremely ridiculous that Biden sabotaged peace in Ukraine and is sponsoring a genocide in Gaza and we’re all sitting here praying that he doesn’t start a new war in the middle east, yet we’re still meant to be super duper worried if Trump gets back into the White House. Biden is everything people were worried Trump would be.

     Click this link to read the rest of Caitlin’s rant: 

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-insane-that-anyone-is-still-supporting 

    My comment to Cailin, who has yet to reply to any of my many comments under her bash Israel, defend Hamas newsletters.

Sloan Bashinsky

Donald Trump has said he is Israel’s best friend. 

 

I agree that anyone who supports Israel now is insane. I also think anyone who supports Hamas now is insane. Yet, I think it’s worse than insane. It’s demonic. 

 

I am 81 years old, and have been around the globe twice, including spending time in Australia. 

 

Caitlin lives in Melbourne.  

 

I don’t see how Caitlin, or anyone, who does not live in Ukraine, can be an expert on what’s going on in Ukraine. 

 

Nor do I see how anyone, who does not live in America, can appreciate the threat Trump poses to America, first, and to the entire world, second. 

 

When Trump was married to Ivana, he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet on his side of their bed and sometimes he read it at night. When later asked about that, Trump said, if he ever had such a book, he didn’t read it. 

 

Photos and videos of the Charlottesville Confederate monument removal protest showed oceans of white people and some Confederate and Swastika flags. Photos and videos of MAGA rallies showed oceans of white people.  Photos and videos of the January 6 insurrection showed oceans of white people and some Confederate flags.  

 

A picture is worth a thousand words. Res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. 

 

After Trump was elected in 2016, he made it very plain that he admired Vladimir Purtin being elected President for life. Now he talks about being a dictator, if he wins the 2024 electron. 

 

About a month ago, a tech buddy and I did a podcast about Amendment 14, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. 14/3 bars anyone, who engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the US Constitution, after making an oath to defend the Constitution, from holding public office.

 

Several private citizens had filed 14/3 legal actions to have Trump disqualified, and the actions were dismissed for lack of standing. Finally, a 14/3 action was filed in a Colorado state court, and the judge ruled Trump had engaged in insurrection, but there was no evidence 14/3 applied to the presidency. The plaintiff appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. 

 

My tech friend and I did a podcast about 14/3 and the Colorado case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool2d7q6hag

Amendment 14 Section 3 Law School Exam Question Not for Faint of Heart. 

I wrote article, couched as a law school exam question and answer about bringing a 14/3 action in federal court, which was a free read at the internet library: 

 https://archive.org/details/amendment-14-section-3-law-school-exam 

The podcast and the article were picked up by a satellite radio station in Denver, Colorado, and the radio show host had a federal judge, who was a Republican, on the show to discuss our 14/3 podcast and article.

The host and the judge were not on the same page at all. He was dismissive of me and the host kept after him, and finally he conceded that President Biden should have brought the 14/3 action after it was known T/rump would run again. 

 

And that was the point I made the podcast and the 14/3 article.  

 

Biden and Trump both swore oaths to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, so it was Biden’s duty to bring the 14/3 action, and if he failed in that duty, a private U.S. citizen could bring the action for him. 

 

The judge kept insisting Trump was not leading a white supremacist movement, he had blacks in his administration. The radio show host kept pointing the judge to photos and videos and res ipsa loquitur, which every lawyer and judge knows is evidentiary in a legal action.  

 

After that interview, watches of the podcast and reads of the article blew up. The radio station was inundated with death threats. The station’s insurance carrier canceled the station’s insurance. The station went off the air. 

 

Then, the Colorado Supreme Court, in a 4/3 decision, reversed the state court judge, amd ruled Trump could not be on the Colorado ballot, but the Court stayed implementation of the order, to give Trump a chance to appeal to the US Supreme Court. The Colorado Supreme Court was inundated with death threats. 

 

Already, the New York state judge presiding over the civil action against Trump’s businesses, and the judge’s law clerk, and their families, were inundated with death threats.

As were election officials and courts in other states inundated with death threats over 14/3. 

 

The Georgia state prosecutor and her legal team producing Trump under Georgia’s RICO statute were inundated with death threats. 

 

Yesterday, bomb threats were made against many state governments, which were perceived to oppose Trump. 

 

I think anyone who backs Trump is insane. I think anyone who backs Biden is insane.  

 

And there’s the rub. Insane people are not legally responsible for their actions. 

 

The further rub is, because they are insane, insane people cannot be reasoned with. 

 

The further rub is, it’s worse than insane. It’s demonic..

So, what’s the solution?  

 

If I were the U.S. President, I would declassify everything the U.S. Government has about ETs, UFOs, etc.. I would give all of it to the news media and social media. 

 

That would fuck up everything and perhaps would made a difference.

 

Or perhaps not.

    This morning, January 6, I added to my comment above. 

Sloan Bashinsky
Today is January 6. 

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court, containing 3 justices appointed by Donald Trump, agreed to hear the Colorado Supreme Court Amendment 14, Section 3 appeal. There are 9 justices, 6 are conservatives, 3 are liberals. it will be interesting to his former law clerk to a United States District Court Judge to see how the 9 justices deal with 14/3, see below, knowing if they rule against Trump, their and their families’ lives will be at grave risk.  

14/3 was passed to prevent leaders of the Confederacy from holding public office. 

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

    While all of that was going on:

Feral Finster

If you insist on making that silly argument, I lived much of my adult life in Ukraine. I speak Russian and a passable version of Ukrainian, although I am in no part Russian or Ukrainian, nor am I related by blood or marriage to a Russian or Ukrainian.  

 

Sloan Bashinsky

If you lived in Ukraine during the current Russian invasion, I’m interested in your assessment of Ukraine and Russia today.

A fellow living in Ukraine watched a podcast we did about the most recent Russian invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin (we were banned from Russia and Belarus), and emailed my tech buddy, who makes the podcasts possible. Without telling me, my tech buddy used his money and his contacts from prior work he had done to get the man in Ukraine and his girlfriend and his grandmother and 13 more Jews and 6 Christians into a UN refugee camp on the Polish border, and the Jews were accepted by Israel and flown there for free by either the UN or Israel, and the Christians were accepted by the Czech Republic and were flown there for free. I learned of that via email from the Ukrainian man, who said a Russian rocket had killed his mother in Ukraine, and all of them, the 21, were friends and stayed in Kiev sewers at night, which were safer from Russian rockets than the Kiev bomb shelters.

When I see Caitlin sometimes blame President Biden and the Ukraine President for what Russia is dong in Ukraine, I wonder if she needs a brain transplant.

Back in October, Australian voters decisively rejected a proposal to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country's efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples. That’s Caitlin’s country. I did not follow her back then, and I wonder if she tore into that? 

 

Feral Finster

How many red herrings and irrelevant assertions and arguments by association can you pack in one paragraph? 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

How many angels can dance on the head of a needle? :-)

For weeks now I have watched Caitlin and her fans and Chris Hedges and his fans give Hamas and Islam unlimited free passes while blaming everything going on in Gaza on Israel, when it’s crystal clear to anyone with half a brain that what’s going on in Gaza is what Hamas hoped would go on in Gaza after the October 7 attack. Hamas would have been really disappointed if Israel had not taken the October 7 bait. 

So, if you and others here and Caitlin wish to continue thinking like half-brain people, that’s what Hamas is doing, and Israel is doing, and President Biden is doing, and a lot of people in America are doing with respect to Palestine, and with respect to Ukraine, and with respect to something far bigger and potentially terrible looming in America, centered around Donald Trump, whose base wants Israel to turn Gaza and Islam into a giant wasteland. 

 

Feral Finster

Pretty rich that you insist that only those who live in Ukraine are entitled to judge it, but you blame Australia in general the way you think they should, and blame Caity in particular, without knowing how she came down.

Basically,.your beef boils down to the fact that we're not knee-jerk Team D tribalists. 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

I said only people living in Ukraine can be experts on Ukraine. So, if you wish to learn about Ukraine, talk with someone living there, like I did. :-). I have been to Australia, and I saw up close and personal the effect white Australians and their brand of Christianity had on aborigines. Much the same happened to the real Americans after the sailing ships arrived. I have followed Caitlin’s occasional peeps about Ukraine. I think she should go live there a while and experience a year of Russian rocket attacks and see for herself what’s going on in Ukraine. 

Feral Finster

So you visited Australia and that makes you qualified to pass judgment on Australia in general and Caity in particular. (I won't judge you based in Alabama, don't worry.) And I suppose you also are an expert on Donbass because you talked to a Ukrainian and got sucked into their ethnic beef because Team D. 

I lived there and I don't have an ethnic dog in the fight. But you wouldn't like what I have to say. Because I don't argue for Team D.

Sloan Bashinsky

I never talked with anyone about Donbass, but I think I recall you, or someone at Caitlin’s forum, said a little about it a while back. I suppose that’s good enough reason for Russia to be sending Iranian rockets into Kiev and other Ukraine cities. The way you and Caitlin think reminds me of the way Donald Trump and MAGAs think.

Last fall, Australia passed judgment on itself when it rejected an amendment to its constitution to recognize its indigenous people. I’d love to hear Caitlin’s thoughts about that, because she is an expert on Australia, which I admit I am not, but I did spend some time there, and did see plenty to remind me of the way the early colonists and their descendants treated the aborigines in America, and the African slaves they brought to America. 
I see plenty of that in Alabama, which is a Trump and MAGA stronghold. The South is rising again in America, and Donald Trump is the white supremacists’s Führer. 

 

Feral Finster

No, you passed judgment on Caity because Australia voted the way it did.

And Ukraine has been shelling Donbass since 2014. 

You squirm like a cornered rodent, but you corner yourself because you are a partisan hack, and not even a very clever one.

Sloan Bashinsky

Australia passed judgment on itself, and since Caitlin is Australian, I would like to know what she said about that. Meanwhile, this from Aljazeer looks like ethnic cleansing to me, after perhaps a wee bit of genocide like what happened to the real Americans. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/14/australia-rejects-constitutional-reform-to-recognise-indigenous-people

Australia rejects constitutional reform to recognise Indigenous people

Australia rejects constitutional reform to recognise Indigenous people The proposal did not garner enough votes among the country’s six states, nor an overall majority with its popula...

 

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com 

I wonder if international war correspondent Chris Hedges newsletter revenues increased after he started bashing Israel, President Biden and America and giving Hamas and Islam a free pass?

  

    When I lived in Key West, my friend and, lawyer and city commissioner Sam Kaufman told me that it didn’t bother him that I talk about my dreams, because Jewish people believe dreams come from God.

    In a dream around dawn yesterday, I saw Sam, and then a voice said maybe Sam didn’t understand my MRSA post. On waking, I could not imagine how anyone could read my recent post about Key West and Florida Keys waters being full of MRSA flesh-eating bacteria, and be confused.

    After breakfast, I opened my laptop and saw in my email account a new Israel-Hamas-Gaza newsletter from former international war correspondent Chris Hedges, who has rigorously blamed Israel, President Biden and America for everything going on in Gaza, while giving Hamas and Israel a free pass

    Chris has a lot of paid subscribers to his newsletter, including me. As I read his latest, I felt it I had found the MRSA in my dream, and I responded differently than I had in the past.

Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust

Chris Hedges

Text Originally Published Dec 29, 2023

Never Again and Again and Again - by Mr. Fish

Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starving — and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary. The Palestinians are being forced to choose between death from bombs, disease, exposure or starvation or being driven from their homeland.

There will soon reach a point where death will be so ubiquitous that deportation - for those who want to live - will be the only option.

Danny Danon, Israel's former Ambassador to the U.N. and a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israel’s Kan Bet radio that he has been contacted by “countries in Latin America and Africa that are willing to absorb refugees from the Gaza Strip.” “We have to make it easier for Gazans to leave for other countries,” he said. “I'm talking about voluntary migration by Palestinians who want to leave.” 

The problem for now “is countries that are willing to absorb them, and we're working on this,” Netanyahu told Likud Knesset members.

In the Warsaw Ghetto, the Germans handed out three kilograms of bread and one kilogram of marmalade to anyone who “voluntarily” registered for deportation. “There were times when hundreds of people had to wait in line for several hours to be ‘deported,’” Marek Edelman, one of the commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, writes in “The Ghetto Fights.” “The number of people anxious to obtain three kilograms of bread was such that the transports, now leaving twice daily with 12,000 people, could not accommodate them all.”

The Nazis shipped their victims to death camps. The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel. Israeli leaders are also cynically advertising the proposed ethnic cleansing as voluntary and a humanitarian gesture to solve the catastrophe they created.

This is the plan. No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.

The most disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing executioners. The line between the victim and the victimizer is razor thin. The dark lusts of racial and ethnic supremacy, of vengeance and hate, of the eradication of those we condemn as embodying evil, are poisons that are not circumscribed by race, nationality, ethnicity or religion. We can all become Nazis. It takes very little. And if we do not stand in eternal vigilance over evil — our evil — we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters. 

The cries of those expiring under the rubble in Gaza are the cries of the boys and men executed by the Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica, the over 1.5 million Cambodians killed by the Khmer Rouge, the thousands of Tutsi families burned alive in churches and the tens of thousands of Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen at Babi Yar in Ukraine. The Holocaust is not an historical relic. It lives, lurking in the shadows, waiting to ignite its vicious contagion.   

We were warned. Raul Hilberg. Primo Levi. Bruno Bettelheim. Hannah Arendt. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. They understood the dark recesses of the human spirit. But this truth is bitter and hard to confront. We prefer the myth. We prefer to see in our own kind, our own race, our own ethnicity, our own nation, our own religion, superior virtues. We prefer to sanctify our hatred. Some of those who bore witness to this awful truth, including Levi, Bettelheim, Jean Améry, the author of “At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities,” and Tadeusz Borowski, who wrote “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” committed suicide. The German playwright and revolutionary Ernst Toller, unable to rouse an indifferent world to assist victims and refugees from the Spanish Civil War, hanged himself in 1939 in a room at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. On his hotel desk were photos of dead Spanish children.

“Most people have no imagination,” Toller writes. “If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.”

Primo Levi railed against the false, morally uplifting narrative of the Holocaust that culminates in the creation of the state of Israel — a narrative embraced by the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. The contemporary history of the Third Reich, he writes, could be “reread as a war against memory, an Orwellian falsification of memory, falsification of reality, negation of reality.” He wonders if “we who have returned” have “been able to understand and make others understand our experience.” 

Levi saw us reflected in Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi collaborator and tyrannical leader of the Łódź Ghetto. Rumkowski sold out his fellow Jews for privilege and power, although he was sent to Auschwitz on the final transport where Jewish Sonderkommando —  prisoners forced to help herd victims into the gas chambers and dispose of their bodies  — in an act of vengeance reportedly beat him to death outside a crematorium.

“We are all mirrored in Rumkowski,” Levi reminds us. “His ambiguity is ours, it is our second nature, we hybrids molded from clay and spirit. His fever is ours, the fever of Western civilization, that ‘descends into hell with trumpets and drums,’ and its miserable adornments are the distorting image of our symbols of social prestige.” We, like Rumkowski, “are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our essential fragility. Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting.”

Levi insists that the camps “could not be reduced to the two blocks of victims and persecutors.” He argues, “It is naive, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism sanctifies its victims; on the contrary; it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself.” He chronicles what he called the “gray zone” between corruption and collaboration. The world, he writes, is not black and white, “but a vast zone of gray consciences that stands between the great men of evil and the pure victims.” We all inhabit this gray zone. We all can be induced to become part of the apparatus of death for trivial reasons and paltry rewards. This is the terrifying truth of the Holocaust.

It is hard not to be cynical about the plethora of university courses about the Holocaust given the censorship and banning of groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace, imposed by university administrations. What is the point of studying the Holocaust if not to understand its fundamental lesson — when you have the capacity to stop genocide and you do not, you are culpable? It is hard not to be cynical about the “humanitarian interventionists” — Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Samantha Power  — who talk in sanctimonious rhymes about the “Responsibility to Protect” but are silent about war crimes when speaking out would threaten their status and careers. None of the “humanitarian interventions” they championed, from Bosnia to Libya, come close to replicating the suffering and slaughter in Gaza. But there is a cost to defending Palestinians, a cost they do not intend to pay. There is nothing moral about denouncing slavery, the Holocaust or dictatorial regimes that oppose the United States. All it means is you champion the dominant narrative.

The moral universe has been turned upside down. Those who oppose genocide are accused of advocating it. Those who carry out genocide are said to have the right to “defend” themselves. Vetoing ceasefires and providing 2,000-pound bombs to Israel that throw out metal fragments for thousands of feet is the road to peace. Refusing to negotiate with Hamas will free the hostages. Bombing hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, ambulances and refugee camps, along with killing three former Israeli hostages, stripped to the waist, waving an improvised white flag and calling out for help in Hebrew, are routine acts of war. Killing over 21,300 people, including more than 7,700 children, injuring over 55,000 and rendering nearly all of the 2.3 million people in Gaza homeless, is a way to “deradicalize” Palestinians. None of this makes sense, as protesters around the world realize.

A new world is being born. It is a world where the old rules, more often honored in the breach than the observance, no longer matter. It is a world where vast bureaucratic structures and technologically advanced systems carry out in public view vast killing projects. The industrialized nations, weakened, fearful of global chaos, are sending an ominous message to the Global South and anyone who might think of revolt —  we will kill you without restraint. 

One day, we will all be Palestinians. 

“I fear that we live in a world in which war and racism are ubiquitous, in which the powers of government mobilization and legitimization are powerful and increasing, in which a sense of personal responsibility is increasingly attenuated by specialization and bureaucratization, and in which the peer group exerts tremendous pressures on behavior and sets moral norms,” Christopher R. Browning writes in Ordinary Men, about a German reserve police battalion in World War Two that was ultimately responsible for the murder of 83,000 Jews. “In such a world, I fear, modern governments that wish to commit mass murder will seldom fail in their efforts for being unable to induce ‘ordinary men’ to become their ‘willing executioners.’”

Evil is protean. It mutates. It finds new forms and new expressions. Germany orchestrated the murder of six million Jews, as well as over six million Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Freemasons, artists, journalists, Soviet prisoners of war, people with physical and intellectual disabilities and political opponents. It immediately set out after the war to expiate itself for its crimes. It deftly transferred its racism and demonization to Muslims, with racial supremacy remaining firmly rooted in the German psyche. At the same time, Germany and the U.S. rehabilitated thousands of former Nazis, especially from the intelligence services and the scientific community, and did little to prosecute those who directed Nazi war crimes. Germany today is Israel’s second largest arms supplier following the U.S. 

The supposed campaign against anti-Semitism, interpreted as any statement that is critical of the State of Israel or denounces the genocide, is in fact the championing of White Power. It is why the German state, which has effectively criminalized support for the Palestinians, and the most retrograde white supremists in the United States, justify the carnage. Germany’s long relationship with Israel, including paying over $90 billion since 1945 in reparations to Holocaust survivors and their heirs, is not aboutatonement, as the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé writes, but blackmail. 

“The argument for a Jewish state as compensation for the Holocaust was a powerful argument, so powerful that nobody listened to the outright rejection of the U.N. solution by the overwhelming majority of the people of Palestine,” Pappé writes. “What comes out clearly is a European wish to atone. The basic and natural rights of the Palestinians should be sidelined, dwarfed and forgotten altogether for the sake of the forgiveness that Europe was seeking from the newly formed Jewish state. It was much easier to rectify the Nazi evil vis-à -vis a Zionist movement than facing the Jews of the world in general. It was less complex and, more importantly, it did not involve facing the victims of the Holocaust themselves, but rather a state that claimed to represent them. The price for this more convenient atonement was robbing the Palestinians of every basic and natural right they had and allowing the Zionist movement to ethnically cleanse them without fear of any rebuke or condemnation.” 

The Holocaust was weaponized from almost the moment Israel was founded. It was bastardized to serve the apartheid state. If we forget the lessons of the Holocaust, we forget who we are and what we are capable of becoming. We seek our moral worth in the past, rather than the present. We condemn others, including the Palestinians, to an endless cycle of slaughter. We become the evil we abhor. We consecrate the horror. 

 

the suck of sorrow

Although I read this article yesterday, it is still as horrifying upon reading today.

Whatever feelings one has for Germans alive during the Third Reich, similar thoughts will exist for Israelis and the populations of Western States today in another 70 years.  

 

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter

Chris, two of my Polish Jew ancestors migrated to America in the late 1800s, and the rest remained in Poland and they and their descendants were killed by the Nazis. My Polish great grandfather married a Southern Baptist lady, and although he did not convert, they raised their children in the Baptist church, and that was how their descendants went about it. So, I do not consider myself Jewish, and I do not carry the Holocaust terror in my psyche, which every Jew I have known did. The Nazis weaponized the Holocaust, and some people today weaponize the inane view that the Holocaust never happened.

 

What Israel is doing in Gaza is reprehensible, but it is not what Hitler and his mesmerized Nazis, condoned by the mesmerized German citizens, in the main, did to the European Jews. Hamas buried itself into Gaza, and it hides behind and underneath the people of Gaza, who cope with or condone Hamas. The only way Israel can fight Hamas is the way it is doing it now. I hate it, but I’m looking at it from a purely military standpoint. In doing that, I also say there is no way Israel can beat Hamas in Gaza, because Hamas is so dug in there, and so well prepared, and Israel is not prepared to lose a lot of its soldiers there, and if IDF goes into the Gaza neighborhoods, fighting hand to had from building to building, and in the tunnels, IDF will lose a lot of soldiers 

 

I think President Biden should be hanged for not cutting off money and weapons and munitions to Israel, after he saw what was happening in Gaza. But who’s going to hang President Biden for that, when half of America is fully behind Israel, and about the same number of Americans will try to overthrow the American government, if it hangs Donald Trump?  

 

There also is the problem that America stockpiled a huge quantify of weapons and munitions in Israel, for America’s military to use in war zones in the Middle East, and Israel has access to those weapons and munition stockpiles and is drawing on them and there is nothing America can do to stop it. There is the other problem that Israel has nuclear weapons, which everyone who isn’t totally unwoke knows Israel will use against Islamic countries and organizations, which Israel feels threatens its very existence. 

 

It’s a really fucked up mess, and, there is another piece to it, which I have yet to see you address in your ongoing assault of Israel. Which is, Hamas’s original charter identifies it as an Islamic entity, and that its reason for being was to destroy Israel. Hamas’s amended charter, using less direct words, calls for the same thing, all in the name of the peaceful religion of Islam, which isn’t even peaceful within itself. 

 

Only the unwoke cannot, or will not see, that Hamas figured out how to punch all of the buttons in Israel’s religious fanatic leaders, and that was the October 7 attack. The reaction of Israel’s political leaders and IDF was precisely what Hamas hoped would happen. Unable to beat Israel militarily, Hamas hoped to bait Israel into destroying its reputation worldwide, and in that Hamas has succeeded, except in the American right, whose leader, Donald Trump, has told Israel that he is their best friend. 

 

Palestine is Christendom’s so-called Holy Land, and the American right will not stand for America abandoning Israel, and every American president candidate knows that all too well. This war dates all the way back to Abraham, and that’s why there is no military solution, and probably no solution, and why America should abandon Israel, but Ameria won’t do that. It’s a shame America did not offer the WWII European Jewish refugees sanctuary in America. 

 

The only solution I see now is for America to offer Israel sanctuary in America. But I can’t imagine Israel going along with it, nor can imagine America offering it, because there would be a huge political backlash. And, the American Christian right wants Israel to stay where it is, doing what it is doing, protecting the so-called holy land from Islam, because that’s where Jesus was born, and that is where Jewish leaders had Jesus crucified. And because, a lot of the American right are as biased against Jews as against blacks and other people of color. They want an Ayyan nation, and if you don’t believe it, look at photos and film footage of MAGA rallies and the January 6 insurrection and the Charlottesville rally, and you will see oceans of white people .

 

Therefore, Chris, I hope you will devote some of your time and experience to writing about that, and the very real possibility of a second civil war in America, whose military is full of MAGAS and Aryans, etc., who won’t for a heartbeat fight against Donald Trump, who wants to be just as powerful in America as Adolph Hitler was in Germany, and Vladimir Putin is in Russia. The Nazis weaponized the Holocaust, and some people today weaponize the inane view that the Holocaust never happened. I wonder if your newsletter subscription revenues increased while you bashed Israel, President Biden and America, and gave Hamas and Islam a free pass?

 

Judith DyerWrites Judith’s Substack

No solution to this...the human race is a badly programmed animal. Too bad evolution didn't stop with the monkeys; then there would not be the ruination of the earth. Soon China will bring Taiwan back into the fold like they did HongKong. And, N. Korea will bomb S. Korea. Thugs taking over African countries and forget Honduras...already a hellhole. I am fortunate to be 84 and leaving this mess which I forecast many decades ago. There is no way 10 billion people can live peacefully on this poor planet.  

 

Sloan Bashinsky

I agree, I’m 81. Except, Darwin got it backward, humans devolved from monkeys, and invented FUBAR- apologies to monkeys.  

 

Judith DyerWrites Judith’s Substack

first time I ever came across the word devolved. and I am pretty educated. where is it mostly used? In science? 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

Darwin postulated humans evolved from apes, evolution is a scientific term, it is also a spiritual term. Its reverse is devolutionary, or devolve.

Actually, humans didn’t descend or ascend from monkeys, they were planted here, but religions really got that story twisted, too :-).

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Even old shaman grinches try to have some fun on Christmas

 

    Been getting lots of Merry Christmas wishes, even though I don’t see much going on inside of me or in America and the world that feels Merry. 

    I’m 81. Each day is a physical struggle for me, which has been the case since I was 26 and I woke up one morning and my G.I. tract was all fouled up. Diet, exercise, medicine, Christianity, the New Age, yoga, tai chi, chi kung, prayer, meditation, spiritual, herbal, shaman, light, Reiki, naturopathic, chiropractic, homeopathic, radionics, crystal, flower remedy, Hakomi, cranio-sacral healers, Rolfers, massage and physical therapists and other kinds of bodyworkers had no answer. So, my gut and I reached a tenuous live and let live agreement.

   Sometimes I came across something that seemed to be helping my gut feel better and me be hopeful and even joyful, until something decided enough was enough, and quickly I started feeling a whole lot worse, to the point that I was terrified, and I discontinued what I was doing to try to feel better, and whatever in me had reacted backed off, and back to the tenuous arrangement we went. That’s how I discovered whatever was behind it was intelligent, which was, yeah, disturbing.

    I also came to see that whenever I took on a new spiritual assignment, my gut got grumpier, and it stayed that way until I had worked a bit on the new spiritual assignment, and then my gut relaxed and we went back to our tenuous arrangement. That was further proof that whatever was behind it was intelligent, which added to the rather disturbing, as did my realization that I processed other people’s psychic shit, and my own psychic shit, through my gut.

    I spent a lot of time pondering and guessing what might be the root cause of if my disagreeable gut. Was it something I did that I ought not to have done? Something I didn’t do that I ought to have done? In this life, in a prior life? Many times I asked the angels, who had taken me on as an experiment, to show me what was behind my disagreeable gut, and I got no answer, which left me pondering and guessing.

   Prostate cancer radiation therapy in early 2020 didn’t agree with my disagreeable gut, and we worked a different even more tenuous arrangement.

    That, and feeling like I ran out of new things to write, and dreading getting older and more feeble and hurting, and worrying about ending up in a facility for people medicine has to keep alive at all costs, caused me to hope my Christmas present this year would be the Lord would take me. But since I’m still here this Christmas morning, I figure that means the Lord has other plans for me today. 

    A dream around dawn, and a dream during a nap after breakfast, left me feeing I had shat and sat in something I should have left alone, or maybe I had shat and sat in two somethings I should have left alone. I sit in lots of shitty stuff, as part of working for God, I hope, as opposed to working for my ego, or worse, the Devil. I came to accept that. But sitting in shitty stuff I should leave alone makes me feel like an idiot. It also creates a sense of dread, bordering on terror.

    I noticed in the latter 1990s, that special days, including Christmas, tended to be really rough for me in just about all ways, and I came to dread special days coming. So, yeah, I dreaded this day coming, and now that I didn’t get taken by the Lord yet, and I don’t feel up to driving two hours today, to visit one of my daughters and her husband and their children home for Christmas, also helps explain why I don’t exactly cheer up when I hear “Merry Christmas.”

    There are impersonal reasons, too, and I will provide some examples. 

    The first happened after I posted a link to the Mary Poppins, I ain’t, but sometimes wish I was post at this blog onto my Facebook timeline, and this happened.

Doug
MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Sloan Bashinsky
Thanks, Doug, but not much Merry going on in America, Palestine, Ukraine, to name a few places that cause Jesus to weep ongoing. 
 
Charles
Sloan Bashinsky wish as happy of a Merry Christmas as you can deal with in this fractured world

Sloan Bashinsky
Hard to be happy looking at many millions of American Christians backing Israel murdering Gaza civilians, and as many Americans giving Hamas a free pass. Just as hard to be happy seeing many millions of American Christians believing everything their pagan leader in Mar-a-Lago tells them. They all really should study Jesus a bit more, especially the parts where he spoke of demonic possession.

    And this:

December 19, 2023 
The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of 'Western Values'
Caitlin Johnstone
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-atrocities-in-gaza-are-the-perfect/comments#comment-46012884 

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. 

Sloan Bashinsky
Writes Sloan’s Newsletter

Hamas was founded to destroy Israel. Unable to do it, Hamas baited Israel to do what it is doing.

Chang ChokaskiWrites Chang’s Substack
I would recommend that you read the following book "Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance" by Tareq Baconi.
It explains Hamas (and its ideologies, goals, and evolution) better than what can be gotten from media sources or second hand information.
To clarify - Israel purports to represent Judaism (or Jews). But it doesn't do either. Israel (and Israeli Zionists) are a subset of Jews - they are trying to tie the religion of Judaism to their Zionistic beliefs. One reason for this strategy is so that if one insults Israel, they are insulting Judaism or Jews. They then use this to attack and silence anyone that criticizes Israel.
Similarly, Hamas uses Islam for its own purposes of resistance and increasing the ranks of its members. I doubt its values are religious, even though they claim to be based on religious values.
Ordinarily, I would agree with you that both are terrorist outfits. But that is painting with a very wide brush. Yes, both have committed terrorist acts. But distinctions need to be made here. Hamas grew out of a need for resisting the occupation. If there were no occupation, there would be no need for a Hamas. It would be more accurate to say that Hamas is a resistance outfit that has often used strategies of terror to resist.
Similarly, Israel and its Zionist ideology is not a terrorist organization. Their goal is to completely occupy Palestine. Ideally, they would like to achieve this with "ethnic cleansing". If that fails, they would move on to "genocide". What is deplorable and unforgivable is that they use strategies of terror to achieve their objectives - in my opinion to a greater extent than Hamas.

Sloan Bashinsky 
Whatever the history of Israel and Hamas, beginning October 7 of this year, both behaved like terrorists, so that’s what they are. The broken record I keep playing in this forum is, unable to defeat Israel militarily, Hamas figured out how to punch every button of the people running Israel and its military, to provoke them to do what they are doing in Gaza and thereby turn the entire world against Israel. In that context, Hamas and Israel are joined at the hip in destroying Gaza and its people, culture, buildings, infrastructure and economy. The only solution is for Israel and Hamas to stop fighting, exchange their hostages, and leave each other alone henceforth, and Israel stops taking more land. Is that wishful thinking? Yes. But it is the solution.

    And this from an old friend about yesterday’s post: A Hurt Feelings Report for Christmas stockings, Hamas lovers, Israel lovers, and Gaza, Israel and West Bank tourism industries 

Linda

Re your not very timid post

I hope you're well ensconced with loving friends and family this Christmas Eve--  it's very quiet over here, which is how I like it, and in a bit I'll leave for the Church and hope I can get in for the 4:00 Lessons and Carols without having to stand in a long line.  Although not anything like what happens to you when you think or know too much about IPC, I'm having such negative thoughts about what's happened over the last year or so that the Spirit should probably bar the door when I presume to cross the threshold.  I'll report on it, but only to the extent that it doesn't hurt you.

I've read your long message and am now going back in search of your blogpost.

So much to talk about--  we'll make a firm dinner date after tomorrow.

Sloan

Home alone all day, but it’s been pretty peaceful, for a change. I don’t want to get re-involved in your church. It’s not part of my life, it’s not important to me. But if God insists ...  Meanwhile, Dietrich Bonhoeffer summed it up: "Silence in the face of Evil itself is Evil, God will not hold us guiltless." Only people in your church have standing to deal with it. Or consent by silence. Or leave. That you have not left, nor been barred by the Spirit from entering, could mean you are being called to make a rumpus, which is where we disagreed the other time :-).

Linda

Merry peaceful Christmas!  Thanks for the note--  we can take up our weighty matters later, but at the moment, after a really depressing ministerial intrusion on Lessons and Carols yesterday, I and a number of my friends are truly bummed out, and some of us have decided to talk about what to do about it.  You and Herr Bonhoeffer are right, it's up to us.  It's not that our minister is evil, but his personal difficulties seem to be flooding the church.  

I totally agree with you about Palestine.  

More this coming week.

Sloan

Heh, I’ll send you a link to my Christmas Day blog post.

Am looking forward to dinner with you, but not to hearing about what’s happening in your church, other than I might like to hear of any rumpus you made there. 

    Now something that did cheer me up yesterday was a meme posted on Facebook by a south Alabama amiga, under which I commented, “Amensky”.

    I ain’t neva gonna fergit her “Pigs in mud” pome:

All want the security of the well fed pig.
Horror at the baseness unrecognized.
A lifetime spent in shirt stuffing.
And pen comparison.
Is truth more palatable when honeyed?
Is a stark soulscape less so with the eyes of Monet? 
May my affectations always be understood.

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