600 Israeli spies say there’s no reason for more war
Don’t believe me that the ethnic cleansing genocidal war crimes by Israel are unnecessary?
How about from the mouths of Israeli spies then?
About 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former spies, solider and police, have written to US President Donald Trump to pressure Israel to immediately end the war in Gaza.
“It is our professional judgement that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel,” the officials said.
“Your credibility with the vast majority of Israelis augments your ability to steer Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government in the right direction: End the war, return the hostages, stop the suffering,” they wrote.
In an open letter to the White House, the retired officials said the campaign has ceased to be a “just war” and that it was “leading the State of Israel to lose its security and identity” as a result, The Telegraph reports.
Come on.
Let’s be honest.
The reason you are still defending Israel is the same reason you refuse to acknowledge climate change.
Like Climate Change, Israel’s genocide stopped being about rational objective reasoning a long time ago.
This is now a culture issue.
For those on the Right who have been sucked into defending Israel, they do so not because they support Israel’s genocide, they do it because the Left are against it and so they are for it! It’s the exact same dynamic with Climate Change, those on the Right KNOW climate change is real, they just can’t admit the Left is right.
Social Media Hate Algorithms have created an All Tribe No Village dynamic now where hating those opposed to you is more important than the actual truth.
It’s your ego that is making you support the polluters, it is your ego that is making you defend Israel.
Time to take a long hard look at yourself Kiwi, your anger has been manipulated by the Right to make you a simp for climate change and genocide.
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“Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend, in vain” Friedrich Schiller, German poet and philosopher
To which I would add; “Against empiricism the wilfully ignorant contend, with success”
The genocide deniers – They are not who you think they are
The genocide deniers are not who we think they are.
Genocide denial is not a Right Wing phenomenon, it is a Left Wing phenomenon. The Right, especially the Far Right, accept the reality of genocide, indeed they make a fetish of it. There are many instances of the Far Right calling for genocide and celebrating it. The Right and Far Right don’t deny genocide, they justify it.
Genocide deniers come from the Left and Centre of the political spectrum. especially from what I like to call the Far Centre. The phenomenon of genocide denial is not confined to the Far Centrists, but also found on the Far Left among what are commonly referred to as the ‘Tankies’.
Anonymous Standard author and editor Bill, provides us a classic example of Tanki behaviour and genocide denial, including censorship of views and evidence that rebuts his Tanki dogma.
https://thestandard.org.nz/heroes-2/#comment-1299116
Another notorious Tanki editor and author at The Standard, is former general-secretary of the Labour Party, Mike Smith, who regularlly posts pro Kremlin propaganda, especially in support of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
https://thestandard.org.nz/denazifying-ukraine/
The Far Left, The Far Right, The Far Centrists, all have something in common. What unites them is their denial of empirical evidence. Each have a dogma, a dogma that when the evidence conflicts with the dogma, they reject the evidence and stick with the dogma. The more extreme, they are in their Left, or Right or Centre dogma, the more they ignore and reject the evidence that contradicts their dogmatic views.
These dogamatists, as Owen Jones likes to say, want us to ignore the evidence of our lying eyes.
From Google:
Empirical evidence is information gathered through direct observation or experimentation, rather than through theory or speculation. It relies on sensory experience and data collection to support or refute a hypothesis.
Thanks Martyn – hard to believe that Israel, who have been on the receiving end of racism and the holocaust, are unable to see the parallels here. Netanyahu is a MONSTER and needs to be charged and prosecuted; the sooner the better. Those of you who are still chanting ‘Hamas’ are so thick – Hamas hasn’t been a problem for a very long time. The wanton murdering of a race, that has no military protection, is abominable and totally unacceptable to the majority of human beings. Also clear our pathetic PM is dead from the waist up and should fall on his sword! He’s hell bent on getting his snout into everything that has a photo shoot. How he disgusts me. His enablers should be ashamed – there are no excuses good enough. When he is not parading around like a ‘show pony’, he is hiding overseas or under his bedclothes. How in the hell did he ever get to be our PM – please Key tell us again!
“How in the hell did he ever get to be our PM ”
To get to lead the National Party all you need to be is the richest white male candidate in the room running for the job. It’s that easy.
To get from there to being PM, well, that’s a much more Machiavellian process.
The Far Centre deny genocide, the Far right celebrate genocide.
From Middle East Eye:
Smotrich poses next to ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti in illegal West Bank settlement
Far-right minister told settlers accompanying him on visit that Israel will expand its settlements in occupied West Bank
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-smotrich-poses-next-death-arabs-graffiti-illegal-west-bank-settlement
Zero sympathy for Israel. All of the elected representatives and religious leaders and military and conservative citizens still supporting this atrocity deserve complete condemnation. Hell fire could rain on them and I would not care.
Sleepy H it is hard not to have those feelings now. I think there must be a good number of Israelis that don’t support the vile bastards that make up their government, but the leadership needs to go to trial and pay.
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Pat O’dea has highlighted one of the significant reasons Israel gets away with this shit. That group of people who see white Israelis against brown Arabs. Of course it’s not reality because if you are truly Semitic you won’t be lilly white. Get all those ‘strait out of Brooklyn’ land thieves to spend a few days out in the desert and you’ll find those Sydney Sweeny ‘jeans’ don’t cope so well.