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“They” do this every time they want to lead us by the nose. If you criticized when Clinton trashed Glass-Steagall you were racist and anti-poor.

If you questioned 9/11 you weren’t a patriot and didn’t care about the dead.

Question 1/6 and you’re a domestic terrorist insurrectionist.

Question the mRNA or climate change and you’re an anti-science conspiracy nut.

War is probably the worst.

Question any of them and you’re a traitor to democracy.

But questioning how the attack on Israel happened in such a basic and rudimentary fashion in a country noted for high level security does not mean you don’t give a shit about the victims.

That’s the sleight of hand that misdirects from the implausibility of the event. That narrative makes me instantly suspicious. My heart bleeds for the victims but that doesn’t stop me from being very suspicious of motive.

The amount of failures is pretty high for a country living surrounded by enemies for decades.

There’s been a theme lately of “failures” to protect citizens. From trashing Nuremberg to holding doors open at the Capitol, to multiple broken sirens in Hawaii, multiple camera “failures” to record Epstein’s suicide, or the Vegas shooting. Failure of top law enforcement to stop bricks from being delivered on street corners for rioters, and more.

The failures have been numerous and overwhelming. By design I suspect. Hard to get a bead on multiple moving targets in a world riveted to lamestream media.

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You are right on target!

It surely doesn't help when people like Dr. Alexander spout off with their brain-washed "Oh, the poor Jews are being victimized again." Just as our mortal enemies did their utmost to conceal the origins of Fauci-Virus, or the proper ways of treating it, or the idiocy of using the entire spike in a vaccine, or the unscientific absurdity of vaccinating in the face of a pandemic ... so do they do their best to conceal the origins of the state of Israel. Unfortunately, people like Dr. Alexander are taken in by the brainwashers.

As are so many purported "conservatives". The very same people who used to admire the FBI. And who think the police will be on our side.

Just as idiocy about the Fauci virus, masking, non-treatment, school closures, quarantines, vaccinations, et al must be condemned and counteracted, so too should idiocy about Israel vs. Palestine be condemned and counteracted.

Starting with you, Dr. Alexander.

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I find Substack interesting. I question many of the writers who purport to be advocates of freedom and against big pharma. It’s been a learning experience. Bottom line, I trust no one entirely. But I’m willing to listen. Alexander is prolific to the point I wonder if he has a staff of writers. I doubt anyone could churn out that much content unless Substack was their main job.

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"I trust no one entirely."

You're so right. Perhaps a better word than "trust" would be "believe". Dr. Alexander (and virtually everyone else, including myself) was the victim of systematic brain-washing at different points in our lives.

This fact becomes a major problem when we set ourselves up (like Dr. Alexander) as an authority. Dr. A is indeed an authority on some subjects, and on others, he's an idiot. If he would limit himself to subjects about which he has cleansed himself of the brainwashing and filled himself with knowledge, he and we would be better off. The rest, he should save for cocktail parties.

But since he (and virtually all of us) believe all our opinions are valid, we need to engage in Hegelian (or other) Dialectics, and present our own antithesis to any thesis that we believe is wrong.

In this particular case, about the State of Israel, I ask all readers to research two highly relevant subjects:

-- The British Mandate for Palestine

-- The Irgun; and the Stern Gang

Their are countless other relevant, important subjects. But these two should spark a bit of questioning in brain-washed minds. In a similar manner, the war waged against Trump by the FBI (so loved by so many "conservatives") led some of them to explore further and to conclude that the FBI is our mortal enemy that must be exterminated if we are to retrieve OUR America.

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I've been a lifelong conservative, have friends who are also, and nobody I know has trusted the FBI since about 2000. Including me...

A disagreement with Dr. Paul and others can enable you to make your point without insults, pejoratives, and ad hominems. I don't think you're in a position to judge him.

Some of us who have been around for some years, love history and are well-traveled, know all about those things, but have different conclusions. That doesn't make them intellectually inferior or brainwashed. In fact, they might have better historical evidence then you do.

Nothing in history is simple... Nothing. Because humans are complex. And some of us were in Iran a few days before Khomeini came back (and feared for our lives), or have spent time in Saudi during Ramadan IN AUGUST, or saw Beirut before and after the Muslims ruined a beautiful, civilized country and made a civil war for 14 years or so. Some of us have seen this evil up close and personal. And Israel looks pretty good, compared to the alternative.

I suggest you read some older out of print academic publications. Many can be found on www.jstor.com. IF, in fact you're interested in learning some things. I'm not sure you are...

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Oct 11, 2023·edited Oct 11, 2023

"Brain-washed" is a description of the process by which the Deep State, Elite, Mass Media, et al enforce their propaganda on normal citizens. It is not a pejorative. It nicely describes their messages on:

--Cold War

--Assassination of JFK

--Vietnam War

--State of Israel

--Fauci-China-CIA virus and the all-consuming, conspiratorial operation around it

--And much else.

I'm glad you've been around for some years, as have I. Yes, the vile Islamic fanatics (Iran and everywhere else) are just as bad as the Zionists. So what? In what way does this possibly negate the evil surrounding the origins of the State of Israel?

Nor does the damage done to Lebanon by the Palestinian invasion of their country negate the evil of the Zionist state..

I believe that the Palestinians are ill-served by those who wish to create a Palestinian rump state, and by those who are unable to adapt to a lost cause. The interests of almost all people involved -- Israelis, Palestinians, and any others living in the area of what used to be Palestine -- would be best served by combining a fait accompli (the State of Israel) with absorbtion of the Palestinians, wherever they might live. The resulting, peaceful state could not be Zionist; it must be secular. Naturally, the Zionists who founded Israel would not like this. And I suspect you would not like it either.

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Well stated. Truth!

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Funny you afford him his opinion on certain subjects but not on others you don’t agree with. How un American. Nobody is right in all things.

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“Nobody is right in all things” which is why I don’t always agree with everything everyone says. Debate is as American as apple pie.

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I have those concerns, too. This takes wisdom and serious thinking. How Israel missed this is very odd. They DO have the best security, bar none.

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I honestly think you are right. Add, Seymour Hersch exposed Nordstream2, and more importantly exposed who is behind ISIS.

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Kevin looks like prime zionist in US congress. Of course he doesn't know history. But how US can delete Israel from it's continuous support? It's not possible at this stage. Too many zionists in US government, media, bigpharma, and public life.

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Umm... "securing our own open border" is number 4? Sorry, the lesson here is to FIRST SECURE OUR BORDER and begin deportation of military age illegal aliens immediately.

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He would not even work to protect our own citizens. His words mean nothing, except a promise of more warmongering, which is always well received by the MIC.

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McCarthy is trying to use the Israeli tragedy to worm his way back into the Speakership. But we need someone else. He lied to representatives and worked to continue the same old hidden government spending spree, over too many years, that has put the entire country in danger. Kevin's top priority was always Kevin. Trump's top priority was always the country, and its citizens--not the lobbyists or companies that have captured most of Congress to faithfully do their bidding.

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He is too busy posturing with dems and uniparty rinos to get any real work done on behalf of the people.

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All talk and fake outrage as usual

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They never have America First or Americans First in their minds - it’s always corporate interest, stock gains, military industrial complex first. Their campaign contributions first.

The obvious FIRST would be America and Americans - close the border immediately! Arrest and deport all those who came in the last 3 years immediately! Identify all who have come illegally since the Obama admin and get them out as well. That’s America first and Americans first. I don’t care how much they costs - it would benefit us more than any involvement in military action overseas.

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Kevin who?

MIddle managers (or even COE's) don't get to run companies after they've been fired.

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Israel is not our ally, Israel is our enemy. We just don’t realize it yet.

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McCarthy is a political opportunist. He is not to be taken seriously anymore.

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We don't even know if Israel needs financial aid. This needs serious reflection and investigation, before action. Too many oddities here.

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Count the number of Jewish Zionist Zillionaires yachting around the planet and explain why THEY can’t scrape together $4.3B per year. Why should Americans pay for it?

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At this point of near bankruptcy, I'm against ALL foreign aid. Let Europe do it. I suspect that a large part of ALL foreign aid gets laundered back to members of Congress. We can't afford it.

And our US munitions, to defend US, are severely depleted. What about US, OUR DEFENSIVE CAPACITY? We won't have replacement for the Javelins we sent to Ukraine until another 8 months or so!

We need to take care of US!

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He just wants back in as Speaker.

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An Israeli strategist named Oded Yinon wrote a strategic plan for Israel in the late 1970’s which encouraged Israel to break up all the countries in the mideast that were insufficiently compliant with Israeli demands. Over recent decades, we’ve seen how Israel has used false-flag terrorism against the USA in order to get the USA to do all the bloody, shameful, murderous, and unaffordable destruction called for by that plan. 9/11 was the “New Pearl Harbor” in the plan presented by PNAC. After the wars since 2003, Iran is the last target country left in that wicked, evil plan, and predictably, ever chicken-hawk neocon in the AIPAC pantheon is lying into their Zio-media megaphone trying to deceive Americans into attacking Iran.

Only misinformed idiots will fall for this. Don’t be such an idiot.

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I'm not an idiot. You make a lot of assumptions about me, without knowing me. And the rudest commenter on any SS are the Jew-haters. You're all filled with vitriol and spew it out all over civilized trying have a conversation. Go away.

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Navy Ship, U.S.S. Liberty.

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You lost me at "Zio-media".

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typical American brainwashed. Oh you're so intellectual and morally superior that the minute you hear your trigger words you shut down. typical cotton-candy brain pseudo-thinker.

think critically, investigate. for the most part the jews DO own the media, news, movies and tv programming. it is a certifiable fact. and with the news, it is next level control when you throw in the CIA (& its helper, mossad).

grow up and start thinking based on fact.

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Coincidence is not correlation, is not causality. I suggest you take your own advice.

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It's probably too late for Linden.

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Look up who owns and controls US media. Look at the guests they invite and the guests they exclude. Look at the lies they’ve told for every war serving Israel’s Oded Yinon schedule of nation-destructions. If Zionists didn’t own & operate US media the US would not be paying the racist colony $4.3B in annual tribute. Senators and Congressmen would not do knee bends 97 times when Netanyahu invites himself to give talks before Congress while literally bring hus dirty laundry for the White House staff to clean.

So who controls politics & foreign policy in the United States and how do they do it? 

https://youtu.be/tkdQbhB7Ckk

Cenk Uygar on Ehud Olmert, W Bush

Mark Bruzonsky

https://youtu.be/klizMuf9yYE

MJ Rosenberg

https://youtu.be/MMVeKK2UhQs

Stephanie Schriock

https://youtu.be/AbFa9SYZlno

Glenn Greenwald

https://youtu.be/Jqse1C0ihvE

General Wesley Clark

https://youtu.be/m58jF8_KgzI

French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas

https://youtu.be/jeyRwFHR8WY

Gonzalo Lira on Vicki Nuland

https://youtu.be/TzR---YDDIQ

We are all Palestinians…

https://mondoweiss.net/2013/02/israeli-lecturing-palestinian/

Lawrence Wilkerson on the dread lobby

https://youtu.be/Sox6MoiiMic

On Jacob Schiff’s support for the Communist takeover of Russia

http://strangeside.com/russo-japanese-war-financed-by-jacob-schiff/

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Quite the list of references. So we should just shit on Israel instead of mowing down Arab "freedom fighters"?

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The references don’t do anything if you don’t watch and listen to them.

If Palestinians fighting back against Israeli’s illegal military occupation if THEIR OWN DAMN Country are not freedom fighters, there is no such thing.

Speaking of shit, next Netanyahu invites himself to speak at Congress, let’s demand he poop on stage and then have all 535 congressmen parade by and take a sniff. Then we ask each of them to vote whether it smelled like shit or roses. Impeach everyone that said roses. Then we might get some positive change. If nothing else, we’d get a whole fresh group and hopefully they would make their first order of business the deportation of those who, through the legalized bribery called lobbying, exert corrupting control of Congress.

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"Freedom fighters"? You're delusional. Those fuckers paraglided into a concert and killed over 250 civilians, raped and kidnapped women; other squads continued the raping, burning a woman alive, breaking people's legs before or after rapes (which they also did to men), shooting children to death in front of their families, oh, and BEHEADING babies. Ergo, the punishment for these sociopathic misfits should be death for all of them.

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BTW, Israel has murdered LOTS of children in cold blood. Including little school girls who turned the wrong way on the way to school. We have transcripts of the soldier shooting her, then saying he was going to “confirm the kill”, finishing her off. She was no threat.

In 2008/2009, Israel waited until the school children were out on the streets between morning and afternoon classes then dropped white phosphorous on them. Ever seen what that looks like? It is more gruesome than anything you described above. The fact the instrument of torture is fired from a mile above doesn’t absolve either the soldier firing the stuff or Israel.

Speaking of outrages against children, look up what Israel did to a couple thousand children under the pretenses of ringworm infestations.

But US audiences are ignorant because US media are mostly operated by Zionists who stack the deck in their favor so heavily most of what Americans think they know about the mideast is pure bullshit.

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I am not referring to anyone committing atrocities against civilians. Everyone who did the should and will surely die. But the same logic applies to the Israelis who murdered over 2000 in Gaza in 51 days in 2014 including over 500 children.

When Israel bombs Gaza, the people, yes, people…. human beings, have nowhere to hide. All Israel has to say is “someone launched a rocket” and then no one in the world cares if Israel wipes out a hospital, a school or a giant apartment building. In 2014, Israel destroyed 14,000 residential units. This is collective punishment and it is a disproportionate response - both are crimes.

Suppose we armed Palestinians equally and they attacked the same way Israel attacks, with mortars, F-16’s, guided bombs and missiles. Would it be OK for them to resist the illegal Israeli military occupation of their country then? Under international law, they DO have the right to fight back. And like it or not, those who do so against the IDF are within international law.

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All those people are political leftists, and the only one I would listen to is Greenwald.

I've followed him for prob 15 years, and although he leans left, I believe that he will follow the facts where they lead him.

But Cenk? Please, he's a joke.

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"Zio-media" refers to zionist media. Don't be an idiot.

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Why wasn't McCarthy screaming at the top of his lungs when the State Department unfroze 6B recently in Iranian assets? Iran is the top state sponsor of terrorism worldwide. Trump called this in September. McCarthy didn't. SHUT THE BORDER & DEPORT ALL MILITARY AGE MALES, otherwise the odds of more homeland terrorism increase.

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Paper tiger with crocodile tears

F him

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Yeah, let’s bomb as usual

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