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Paul Street's avatar

US Amerikan political years tend to suck but 2024 sucked more and harder than most such years thanks to the continued and worsened US-Israel genocidal war on Gaza and the election of a flat out Hitler-channeling fascist back to the most dangerous office on Earth. Best slogan I heard in 2024 came from the Revcoms: No Fascist Trump, No Genocide Joe, the Whole Damn System's Got to Go

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Laurie McL's avatar

The horror inflicted on Palestinians with US support is a War Crime that WILL be atoned for. The US people cannot say that 'they didn't know'. Heck, they PAID for it, and many owe their jobs to the war machine.

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Robert Kolkebeck's avatar

To further illustrate this insightful NewYear’s Eve writing of yours, Paul, take a moment to read the MSM headline edits that Iranian-American academic Assal Rad regularly posts on Twitter/X.

Somewhat related: many of our seat holders in Congress, including Durbin, repeatedly use the term “unprovoked” as a talking point to describe any acts against Israeli apartheid.

Congress funds war criminals with US taxes, then gets a cut in campaign donations and by not getting “primaried”.

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Gerald Cummings's avatar

It's good to read from one American who has the morality and ethical standards to call out the American administration for not only being complicit in the Gaza genocide, but having the termidity of the senile old white man in the WH to say he has done more for the Palestinians than anyone - yes, he's right on that count, he's constantly caved to the zionists (he calls himself a zionist - not understanding what a zionist represents), crossed his own red lines, and perpetuated falsejhoods like the 40 beheaded Israeli babies; he's right about beheaded babies but they were/are Palestinian babies. Through his, yes his complicity in this genocide, he has become the world's greatest serial murderer of women and children, something the western msm refuse to speak about. The unfortunate fact, acknowledged by several American analysts I follow, is that the greater American public is totally unaware of what is actually happening in Gaza and the West Bank, and the American politicians and msm ensure they are kept in the dark - money talks, as AIPAC knows, and that is why what once was a democratic country is now an oligarchy run by the military industrial complex, banks, large corporations, lobby groups like AIPAC, and asset management companies such as Blackrock.

I despair for those unfortunate Palestinians living in tents during this bitter winter, heavy rains and freezing cold, without proper clothing, food, medicine, and water, and losing hope. History will judge the evil people like Biden, Harris, Trump, Starmer and other western leaders, but it will be too late for the Palestinians because their lands will have been totally stolen by the zionist land thieves, backed by the world's military superpower.

Thank you, Paul, for this very informative dialogue, if only the hard hearted people in the US administration took the time to reflect on what they are actually doing.

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Paul Street's avatar

But quite a bit of the genocide is reported, no?

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Dan R Myers's avatar

Sila was admitted last Wednesday to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where Dr Ahmad al-Farra, the director of its paediatric department, said she had suffered from "severe hypothermia, leading to the cessation of vital signs, cardiac arrest, and eventually death". Possibly one of the infant deaths cited in the Times article, Sila was 3 weeks old. The hypothermia caused by her family forced to live in a tent in the middle of winter with nothing but cardboard mats for sleeping on.

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Glen Anderson's avatar

20 years.. Vietnam.

20 plus years.. Middle East.

Those innocent lives were less important than the Palestinians?

History is a school too few attend!

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potshot's avatar

Copied pages 3, 4, 5, and 6 to send to my completely indifferent and apathetic family. I have a cheap Canon printer so the prints weren't all they might have been. Enough though to get a sense of the horrors. Let those of them who have eyes, see.

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