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Oct 10, 2023Liked by Jamie Paul

There's a quote by Dan Carlin, to paraphrase, if I was a civilian in a disaster in a war, would I think that I was to blame for my country, or would I just feel that I was being grinded in the gears of history? My wife made me turn this off this morning, because she was starting to cry. I have sympathy for those in the gears on all sides.

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Oct 12, 2023Liked by Jamie Paul

Bravo!!

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Claiming it is a left/right thing instead of a power, money, and wealth thing is a mistake. I am a leftist and I am socialist (the horrors!), but I have never approved of the Israeli slow genocide of the Palestinians, nor have I have ever supported the PLO, and now Hamas, habit of murdering civilians. It does not matter the reason. The murder of children is evil.

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Like 9/11, the Israeli deep state allowed this attack to happen. That’s the commonality between the American and Israeli deep states. They both follow a philosophy and methodology of pursuing a particular geopolitical agenda by attrition, specifically a numbers game of actively allowing the murder of a minority of its citizens in order to ultimately justify the even more substantial mass homicide of the other people seen as standing in the way of those geopolitical agendas. I mean, seriously, how absurd is the notion that the most militarized state in the world per capita could’ve been so ‘unprepared’ for this attack? It’s as absurd as the notion that not just one but two airliners could fly directly over the airspace of Manhattan, let alone one directly over DC as well, without one Air Force jet being scrambled to intercept when that nation has something called NORAD? We have been living in an age of false flags, and no governments understand that playbook better than the American and Israeli governments. For those thinking I’m just a tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorist, I would point anyone to the following article ‘How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas’ from the Wall Street Journal, not exactly a left wing antisemitic rag:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html

To quote from the article:

“Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today”

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The only thing worse than the killing of civilians is letting it continue.

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Looks like this comment section is well on its way to being as big of a delusional mess as this essay is. Great opportunity for fine-grained learning of how neurotypicals think about matters far too complex for them to understand, invoking strong emotions, degrading their thinking quality further.

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'' “Decolonization” is just left-speak for ethnically cleansing the right people — which, we now definitively know, includes the Jews. '' What a load of shit. This is 70+ years of ethnic tension and conflict. It is colonizer vs settler, the oppressor vs the oppressed, it is only a matter of circumstances that one side of that conflict, and in this case the side doing the oppressing, is Jewish.

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