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Cat's avatar

Trump & Netanyahu are one in the same… DICTATORS Who must be removed. They will not be happy until every last Palestinian is killed and there is a golden resort with golden effigies of both men looking over the sea.

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Don Glass's avatar

Yes Trump and Netanyahu are dictators. Trump is a convicted felon. Netanyahu is running away from the jail-sentence that he earned.

Yes, there is a need for a new world order, but that order should not be led by the crazy dictators and or authoritarian leaders that the world has thus far produced

It must be lead by peace, loving nations, combined, and working together to eradicate the threat posed by the likes of Trump and Putin and musk

These tyrants have had backgrounds that have made them angry and irrational, and there will be no peace until they are gone in the world, replaces them with peace, loving leaders

Please consider this as food for thought. There are people from small nations to small communities who are peace, loving, but will fight to the death.

Our children get to understand what a peace loving world is

If you’ve gotten this far, thank you very much. Please contribute your thoughts of ways to achieve this.

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Monica Roland's avatar

The key line: "Evil does not give you a blank check for atrocity." I agree.

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Cat's avatar

GENOCIDE….. for a resort

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Randi's avatar

Disgusting! Inhumane! Repulsive!

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Joan-Marie Lartin's avatar

I deeply appreciate such a succinct and focus summary of this unfathomable atrocity. As an ordinary citizen, what can one do I ask that? Honestly it seems like calls and messages to senators and the federal government don’t seem to make much of a difference given the influence of various lobbies, and other factors that I or we may not even know about

Thank you folks for doing the work that you do

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Ana Cervantes's avatar

I know: it's all terribly discouraging. But please, don't let those people convince you that your voice, OUR voice, is worthless. That is what they want you to think, because the truth is that our *collective* voice can move mountains, and move them out of power.

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Andrea Cherez's avatar

This is not a war. It’s a slaughter. Killing or maiming a hundred thousand children is not self defense. It’s hell on earth brought to you by Uncle Sam.

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Robert Clyman's avatar

Closer to the edge: Your piece blew me away. It was poetry. Beautiful and terrible. And true. You get at the basic core humanity of the whole monstrous and hideous catastrophe. And our moral responsibility to stop this in any way we can.

Palestine is our generation’s Vietnam in a way that Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t. It brought down the Biden government just as Vietnam destroyed Johnson.

We will not win the peace if Palestine is our focal issue. We must fold it into the fight for justice and fairness for all working people. Both Economic and Social Justice.

We know the main issues:

- Disregard of basic rights sanctified in the Bill of Rights. ICE kidnapping and abusing people.

- Destruction of all government institutions that provide essential services for working people.

- DOGE downloading all government data into their private servers. Stealing, privatizing government files and installing AI spyware and controls.

- Corruption of the U.S. Armed Forces, endangering service members and permitting reckless fascists to control the world’s most lethal weaponry.

We stick to these main points and rally the 99%, including the 3 million 99% who serve in the Armed Forces, to overthrow them.

Revolution, then evolution.

Once we control government, then we can completely change its structure and function, policies, priorities and laws. We could stop Israel tomorrow if we controlled government. We have aircraft carriers and destroyers within launch distance of its shores.

The 99% could remake the United States into a nation that valued social healthy communities, peace, fairness, justice, tolerance, diversity, spirituality and creativity. Also respect and support for indigenous populations around the globe. Right now, our actions are triggering an escalation in weapons manufacture globally, to protect from us. While the planet’s on fire. And dying. For decades, our government has promoted war and militarism that most likely has driven burning of fossil fuels, destruction of ecosystems and displacement of indigenous people more than consumerism. Think of the amount of steel, plastics, and rare minerals it takes to build an attack submarines. And the energy required to excavate and refine the raw materials, then assemble the sub, and power it. The fossil fuels, lithium, cadmium or whatever it takes to build armies of drones, space rockets, satellites. And to manufacture powerful bombs, nuclear warheads. Our nation alone, tested 1,052 nuclear warheads. Detonated. 928 in Nevada, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. War has destroyed this planet. And Palestine is one of its latest victims.

Rally and unite working people to defeat the fascist corporate machine. The 99% doesn’t support the annihilating of Palestine.

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Delia Wozniak's avatar

What an amazing analysis!

You hit every point with clarity and conviction!

You present a comprehensive view, connecting military priorities with military spending! Corporate Wealth sucks up the trillions in military contracts like pigs at the trough !

The pentagon budget is OUT OF CONTROL!

George W. Bush took a trillion dollars ( give or take) out of Social Security Trust Funds to finance the Iraq Wars!

The money was never repaid!

Our country’s wealth is wasted on the military-industrial complex!

Dwight D. Eisenhower, IMHO our best Republican president since Teddy Roosevelt, warned us to watch the “military-industrial complex!”

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Patricia Reed's avatar

This is what a dose of truth looks like and it's a bitter, lethal pill to swallow. We all have to step to the plate right now and do whatever we can, wherever we can and for as long as we can. There is no other option.

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V Baldwin's avatar

Cannot look away.

Terrifying sights

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Aux Arc Maquis's avatar

That’s the great irony of Israel’s existence. Many Jews of course in Israel and even here see this and are disgusted and hate it, and we’re all stuck protesting and writing and writing and protesting, against Trump, Vance and Musk. It’s a terrible era of leadership for us all: Putin, Trump, Netanyahu.

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Delia Wozniak's avatar

It’s all immoral! Period!

All people deserve better governance!

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Delia Wozniak's avatar

Gaza is Genocide!

National and global aggression pursue views of the Mediterranean!

Netanyahu wants housing with Mediterranean views!

Trump wants his Casino Golf Resort with views of the Mediterranean!

Putin wants a military base on the Mediterranean to threaten Europe!

Voila! Gaza Gone

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Rob Wise's avatar

There is a man with tattoos in our local lock up convicted of murder. The Gaza rule, as it now seems to be an accepted inclusion into how we conduct civilization, means that I and my freinds have a license to hunt down all of you who are tattooed. Nothing it appears is off the table in the way that we can undertake our retribution for your ink, not age, not sex, not innocence. Know that when we have destroyed you, your home and possessions which are not yet rubble, this will be the land on which we will build a playground for the enjoyment of the wealthiest among the ink hunter fraternity.

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Liz Socci's avatar

It’s disgusting and sad how many feel justified in killing thousands of people.

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Charlie Hardy's avatar

I agree

What precisely do you want us and in this world to do that you believe will be effective to stop this genocidal murdering now?

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Solveig Roberts's avatar

Thank you for redocumenting this for us.

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LElgy's avatar

Why is it that the slaughter of Jews is just a pass-by comment? Look at the HISTORY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, the FACT that Hamas has governed Gaza, and are involved in all schools, kids programs, hospitals and you say these people are just civilians? How is it that you continually never separate the military terrorists killed (over 20,000) from the "civilians?"

Why? Because you don't truly understand the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood, their tactics, their long range goals, their propaganda techniques, etc. You look at one piece of history and THINK you know what's happening. You don't.

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