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Sam's avatar

Wait till our recent created golem, AQ and ISIS in Syria decides to take their show on the road and attack whichever country it chooses. Boy that’s gonna create some really bad blowback.

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Timothy M. Taggart's avatar

Eloquently put.

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CHPD's avatar

Not likely, but thanks for checking, doctor.

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Jimmy's avatar

Col, respect. Thank you. Veteran for peace.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

And perhaps most horrifying of all is that too many Jews still, and too many people and too many nations not only support and make possible, but rejoice in the genocidal slaughter inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians.

Indeed, if Israel were doing to dogs what it is doing to the Palestinians there would be outrage. Well, it is doing it to dogs and cats and no doubt some people care more about that than the humans, hundreds of thousands of whom are children, murdered and maimed.

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harold burbank's avatar

like this essay a lot. so far, there is no evidence trump will 'control' israel, but rather enhance it. i am impressed that karen, a retired usa air force lt. col., has been so precise in her language describing amoral israel, and amoral usa interests supporting israel. i think it is time that all of our usa military branches weigh in firmly against israel today, and any usa government support for israel, for obvious reasons of morality and usa self interest. i hope by karen's example that the vast majority of our military are looking for the right time and place to make it abundantly clear that they will not be used to fight proxy wars for israel (or ukraine for that matter).

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Monkey Hammer's avatar

Your best post yet. A clever and apt metaphor. But what if Trump is simply a goyish golem reanimated by Israel?

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Richard Morchoe's avatar

Perhaps Trump will “win” in Ukraine by ending military support, leaving NATO, and restoring trade relations with Russia in the dawn of great power pragmatism. God willing, he can then use that experience to end the uncontrolled, inhumane and lawless rampage of the Israeli state, a golem that has run its course and is long overdue for a meetup with a goat with golden horns.

Great start, but at the neutralistassociationofthe.us we believe the US also needs to leave all of the Middle East and Asia as well.

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

He is golem

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dyr's avatar

It's pick on Israel again time, is it? Which of the surrounding states and statelets would not be what this writer decries, at origin and still? Where is her blog on Turks decimating Kurds? How about the more recent atrocity in Syria? Nope. Protected rural perch indeed. What would ensue had the perch a single projectile aimed at it? Little point in checking back with this writer. Delete away. Sagacity with glaring holes - gored - sure needs mending.

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Karen Kwiatkowski's avatar

Dear dyr, the numbers speak for themselves in Gaza, and you know it. Doctors, aid workers, journalists, women and children killed, not only by accident, but targeted and uncounted of them buried under 50 million tons of rubble. It needs to stop. My country (the US, in case you weren't sure) is on the wrong side in this fight. Why would I not speak out about that, observe it, criticize US policy, and try to understand its origin? Picking on Israel? Grow up! And the single projectile aimed at my perch is unlikely, as I have stolen no land, and I work to get along with my neighbors. Is that a threat?

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dyr's avatar

was gonna offer criticism by private msg from thsi grown-up if desired but others have mindlessly piled on, so a word of challenge here: numbers? is that the basis of your judgements? what if it turns out 1/2 or 1/4 or more even? or vast majority combatants and those purposely trapped among them? what about normal mortality rates incorporated in your "trustworthy" sources? how about #s basically expelled from Azer? Not enough for you to remark/notice? why not pick on egypt re gassa? "stolen" land, you, in the US talking? look, you fail for not seeing the broad picture - do you get the rhyme of Oct '23 with 1973? do you get who the ultimate perps are in temporarily throwing Isr under the bus for hegemoniac reasons (even as this time elements in Isr were "LIHOP"ing it)? there is some small hope your current admin can effect distance from the anglosupremacist monstrosity that has endeavoured for very long to reduce the possibilities of competition in hegemoniac plans from a successful US, but it is very late, and should somehow that work Isr would likewise stand to be freed from its stuck association with anglosupremacists, too - if you try to understand the deeper stuff at play, you should indeed speak differently - and not fall for the op that threatens Isr in a much bigger way than is surface apparent. so much more to criticize in your and similar commentary

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Karen Kwiatkowski's avatar

How is all of this an American problem? Why should the US and her taxpayers continue to subsidize a quasi religious state of 8 or 9 million people far away who believe and interpret the world as you have described above. A government filled with openly racists and murderous elected politicians (democracy) who wish to clear the land of Palestinians, and take that land for themselves. Trump recently took diplomatic action against South Africa's government for its support and facilitation of land stealing and crimes against white South Africans. Israel falls into the same category of its former ally, the South African government, and Israel should be isolated and not funded, in the same way. We all -- the world -- have long recognized the evil of colonial practices, and land grabs. Why should the best countries subsidize the worst ones? We should not -- and Israel would be far better off without American money and political cover.

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dyr's avatar

Too many angles to contend with what you say just now. Many questions to challenge you with. If you welcome this explicitly here or privately I shall try to make time to collect thoughts to share provocatively.

Know though that you are far from alone - I have written to various others similarly whose writings are reposted as yours was found - falling for one hopes only inadvertently going along with the other side of the op involving Isr as prepared by outsiders, ie minimizing & troubling it (apart from and on top of internal issues shared really with virtually all similar polities in this hypermodernity and hegemonic segue attempt - at the utter core of worldwide issues). I almost can't help jotting here the raft of things that come very quickly to mind re the contentiousness and wrongfulness of what you say, but maple sap is flowing up in these parts to attend to (maybe we Canadians will soon as newly absorbed Americans - as seems real intent from the McKinleyan White House. -will have to directly ask/answer the 1st question you pose ... ifwith less of the background of American historical causality to it all thus attaching moral and practically to the US)

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Sam's avatar

lol…who created and funded the atrocity in Syria?

I love when people think that Israel is the poor little victim.

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dyr's avatar

who thinks thus, poor sam?

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

So, your defense of Israel is predicated by pointing to misbehavior of other countries in the neighborhood as if that should absolve the Israeli's for their ethnic cleansing and genocide of the innocents. Israel has been, along with the USA, funding terrorism via AL-Q and ISIS, that is well known by many. Meanwhile, Iran is blamed for it. Either you are misguided in your zealotry or just hopelessly biased and in favor letting Israel continue to murder anyone in their way.

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dyr's avatar

non-sequiturs and misreading

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