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Mercilin Vere πŸ‡―πŸ‡²'s avatar

Thank for this piece. Yes, the G’cide regime should have no say in the governance of Palestinians. The governance of Palestinians should be left to freedom fighters and the people of Palestine, Palestinians will decide who they want to lead them. Oppressors should NEVER be trusted to rule the oppressed.

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Stephen Walker's avatar

This is a very powerful argument, which I think deserves to be discussed and debated in a wide range of forums. The Electronic Intifada livestream, and such podcasts as Dialogue Works (Nima), Glenn Diesen, India & Global Left, The Grayzone, Danny Haiphong and Rania Khalek come to mind. At the very least, I hope this essay is shared far and wide.

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valerie losell's avatar

just listened to the cbc β€œworld report” ( once a week in the car to hear what zio empire shit they are peddling now). once i finished screaming back at the nonsense about rescuing precious israelis as the reason zios give for stopping the β€œ action” in Gaza, ignoring utterly the slaughter of hundreds of thousands and imprisonment and torture of at least 20,000 scooped off the streets, i came in to read your piece.

man, you got my blood pressure back in normal range by seeing sane words to validate my inner compass of what points to justice.

a daily fight. I hone in on the fightback in actions large and small ALL OVER THE PLANET! whoo hoo!

instagram documents the mostly youth rage and β€œal Mayadeen” and β€œelectronic intifada β€œ documenting resistance fighters’ ambushes and LAITH MAROUF’s freepalestinetv documenting Lebanese resistance …. it all lets me know there is hope.

btw. Lots of oldsters who still can smell the bullshit and psychopathic murderousness are out there getting arrested and giving money to the fightback as well ( that’s me)

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Irit Shimrat's avatar

This is so excellent! Thank you, Justin. If only the world would listen.

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Tim N's avatar

Exactly so, and what I've been saying since October 8th, 2023. Johnathan Cook has said essentially the same: when some clown says, "do you condemn Hamas?", say "no, I do not."

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sami's avatar

Pretty soon u will not be able or allowed to writte even this much. Just been told in australia any thing voilent ie antisemitic 5 years imprisonment. So never mind 2 state solution cant even say even symbolic soon.were r we heading ? Were r rights to freedom liberty's speech action . Just slaves subjects .

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Tatjana's avatar

Take example from Palestinian people. Resist!

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Theresa Barzee's avatar

Huge thanks for putting into words the very feelings, understandings, & sheer disgust about how long it is taking for obvious decency to be awarded notice. Palestine is occupied by zioni$t infiltrators supported by their ziopal$. A sick & dangerous rampaging ignorant, violent & criminally insane mob-mafia would rob, murder, maim, & destroy the very viable earth we all require for their fantasy of world dominion.

It is up to us all to stop it. Because it is evil.

The ones who resist the lies upon lies that this crazed, suicidal mob spew, are the humanity we require to survive intact within earth's

natural laws of reciprocal care. Only love can fight the fascists.

Genocidiers must be stopped & given life sentences of hard labour & only the "choice" now of their days spent in Reparations. In Gaza. No bail. No parole. No escape. Consequences for mass murder, theft of lands, destruction of all infrastructure, is only acceptable response to their/our evil deeds. That which would deliberately destroy human (& other) life is a punishable war crime.

May these monstrous fools be made to dig wells, clear rubble, & have to grow their only food on the poisoned ground their/our "weapons" have desecrated. Punshments must fit the crimes.

Reparations only. For life.

May it be so.

amen.

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Wendy's avatar

Thank you, Justin! Well done. I too was disappointed with the level of discussion in that video people were sharing and praising. Not to mention utterly revolted by Bernie's statement.

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Quds Mon Amour's avatar

Thank you for another straightforward and truth telling piece. Exactly, freedom fighters are the ones doing the liberating, not the colonizers. It's so obvious yet so obscured by propaganda.

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KC's avatar

Thank you for this piece, Justin.

Was the July 19, 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion - that enshrined the Pal’s inherent right to resist - just another β€œsymbolic gesture”? In my naivety at the time I said wow okay let’s fn go!! But noooo. Silly me

What’s the point of having a β€œWorld Court”

at all if their rulings & judgements are chunked to the trash bin by the members & signatories who are bound to honor them?!

The absurdity of it all is so infuriating

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DEREK HANDS's avatar

Their illegal genocidal settler project β€˜Israel’ needs to be dismantled.

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Jane Ellen B.'s avatar

So good to read your brilliant article. In fact it's the first time I've read any attempt to rearrange Israel's "facts" into what you could call the correct order. It feels like a step forward to me. Thanks so much.

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Elenara Joubert's avatar

Ever since 10/8/23, I have felt as if the world had turned upside down - right was wrong and wrong was right. Everything I thought I knew about the importance of honesty, integrity, honor, laws and justice suddenly had no value at all. For the last 23 months, I felt like I was living in an alternate universe that was a dark bottomless pit of horror, rage and grief. Your words reflected so perfectly what to me was the only honest way to witness everything happening in Gaza, Palestine, the genocide and starvation, barbaric cruelty, and Hamas as a protector. I found myself questioning Israel’s place in the world because they could perpetrate such evil acts upon others and be fine with and proud of the harm they’ve done. I owe you a debt of gratitude for putting so plainly what I needed to hear right now when I learned β€œThe Lancet” determined 680,000 Palestinians have been murdered. 380,000 in the total were the littlest ones under five years old and 99,000 were children over five. 63,000 women and 138,000 men. You sent your article at a moment when I felt lost in this upside down world. Now, I feel that I’m not so alone and there are others who think like me. Thank you, Justin, for your priceless gift of truth.

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Justin James's avatar

Quantitative blunders like Xuetong’s do make a difference. Fortunately, the UN is already ahead of him. That should make you suspicious. He’s either this embarrassingly ignorant or he’s helping the other side by inciting genocide, since he’s literally calling for the destruction of Hamas. If he gets defensive when corrected, he’s insincere. If he does correct his disinformation and apologizes (also symbolic), then he’s good, he’s on our side. But you don’t get on our side by helping the enemy. It’s that simple.

Hezbollah is Hamas, the people’s defense. I’ll be writing about this in my own sit rep from South Lebanon. They’re the people’s defense; of course, they’re not a professional army, that’s usually a bad sign anyways. I may have seen this before. The armed, inclusive β€œAll People,” were an armed militia. They just take these forms, and I don’t accept any Western slander anymore; β€œbarbarian” is murderous slander, like β€œterrorist,” and β€œwarrior society” is probably borderline going forward. The β€œAll People," aka Alemanni, grew to include other groups and, knowingly are not, we do what the Israelis do when we say β€œHamas” and inadvertently sideline other Palestinian groups. This is permitted because it may help the cause. When the Romans realized they couldn’t beat the Alemanni, they tried genocide. When that failed, then at long last, it was time for offense to help finish off the empire.

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Julia McMillian's avatar

Thank you..

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Tatjana's avatar

Thank you for this article, everything you wrote is so true! Yes, reject Western propaganda! No more reacting to propaganda, let's call spade a spade! Truth is not negotiable!

Zionist entity has lost its right to exist back in 1948, and even before, when these extremists started killing the indigenous people of Palestine! The country is Palestine and it belongs to Palestinian people. Zionists should go home from where they came! No more dual citizenships!

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