The UN Human Rights Council has issued a lengthy report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide.” As the title indicates, it describes in detail the ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza.
Thank you John for bringing this report and more to be read, heard, uncovered and shared. I am without words, exhausted from the pain so many millions are suffering from. My need is to scream ‘Stop’ at the same time my cries seem to do nothing.
I become more paralyzed by the fact that much of the world is ignoring the slaughter and genocide of thousands of little children and their families… innocent Palestinians. There are millions of people from other nations who have been and are also victims of unbearable suffering, oppression and killings… yet collectively we do nothing.
My thoughts run wild trying to find a way to make this nightmare Stop…perhaps you can help me. I am exhausted living in a world more and more unrecognizable and unrepentant. There is so much hatred, it is devastating.🌸
AnaMaria, if it is any consolation (and it probably isn't) I find it difficult to sleep knowing about these horrible crimes. Please consider writing or calling your Congressmen and Trump and let them know they are just as guilty of these crimes due to their continued support.
Yes Richard, I do comment and write. I called Congress for a time…mostly the lines were out of order, their answer machines full and unable to receive any messages…and one out of 15-20 calls would be picked up.
I have little energy to spare… so the decision to write and comment became an important one. If there is one thing I do this is it…since I woke up on or about August 2024 to the fact that more than 30,000 (at that time) innocent Palestinians has been slaughtered by Israeli forces.
**I do not condone the killing on October 7, 2023 of innocent Israeli civilians…1200 and taking 251 hostages by Hamas.
Hamas aren't terrorists sweetums, just like the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto weren't. They are, and have been, fighting for Palestinian freedom from the ongoing genocide turned Holocaust, for 77 years now.
Note: Hamas was established in 1987 and the ongoing genocide has been 77 years.
If Hamas is a "terrorist" group, then so too were America's Founding Fathers. The REAL terrorists get to define what a "terrorist" is. That's the root of the problem!
They're not really comparable, but I get what you are TRYING to convey. American's founding fathers were terrorists because they decimated the native American population. They decimated the buffalo to stage them. They spread small pox...on purpose. They forced Africans to die on slave ships and enacted slavery and all the evil that came with it.
Hamas are from the land. Hamas are Palestinians, not some colonial "founding fathers". Hamas are more akin to native Americans who were slaughtered and sent to what is now known as Oklahoma on the trail of tears.
Israel was responsible for the AMOUNT of people killed on October 7. After standing down the military while the Hamas invasion occurred, it unleashed its deadly firepower on EVERYONE, resulting in the number of Israelis killed. There were no "headed babies" or "mass rapes". Everything that Israel has done since O7 is based on a lie, which makes the genocide in Gaza and elsewhere that much more criminal!
Jenny are you asking me to reply to your question? “Considering ‘we are the people’ who elect Govt. what happens when none of us vote?”
Sorry Jenny, I cannot answer your question like an Elected Official would.
I do feel more than anything, we are witnessing the dismantling and wrecking of Government almost on an hourly scale.
I am just a person who is fighting to protect my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren from the evils of fascism and the destruction of this great yet imperfect democracy, the United States of America. Of course, my peaceful protest is against all things evil, destroying the world at large.
And everyone sat and watched as Biden participated in the genocide, only now when Trump creates the chaos and upsets the thoroughly complicit media does anyone take notice, was what Biden did better?
Then they wouldn't have to spend as much money to rig the elections. But they'd still claim they had a 100% mandate, even if their one vote came from themselves.
Can you honestly imagine Hillary saying "Oh look! Only 1% of the country voted for me in the election, I'm going to reject the Presidency out of respect for their wishes"?
Or Trump, Biden, Harris, Vance? Bush, Obama, Willy Clinton?
These people want "power" at any cost. And they're not tremendously concerned over legitimacy from elections - any of them.
From the start I doubted the whole story of paragliders and bulldozers and terrorists penetrating the (otherwise) impenetrable barrier. Netanyahu's connection to Hamas and its like has been reported on by bother sides of Israeli media over the years. Can't be sure, but there's an aroma of connivance for me. Are there true, random hostages? I'd be surprised.
Not only does Israel gain a strip of Med coast and much beside, if it can force huge numbers of angry Palestinians into the Sinai then an excuse to push on toward Suez becomes available. Terrorism, doncha know. Party like it's 1956!
Hope I'm wrong, because the deceit and calculation make the inflicted misery all the more terrible.
"The story I will tell is straightforward. Contrary to the wishes of the Obama administration and most Americans – to include many American Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to have a viable state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank. Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a “Greater Israel,” which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa. Nevertheless, a Jewish apartheid state is not politically viable over the long term. In the end, it will become a democratic bi-national state, whose politics will be dominated by its Palestinian citizens. In other words, it will cease being a Jewish state, which will mean the end of the Zionist dream.
[...]
The main problem that Israel’s defenders face, however, is that it is impossible to defend apartheid, because it is antithetical to core Western values. [..] The problem with depending on the lobby for protection is that most American Jews will not back Israel if it becomes a full-fledged apartheid state. [..] Righteous Jews have a powerful attachment to core liberal values. They believe that individual rights matter greatly and that they are universal, which means they apply equally to Jews and Palestinians. They could never support an apartheid Israel."
I think we can agree by now that the lobby and American Jews are prepared to go to any length necessary in order to defend Israel's actions, regardless of the Israeli government in charge, its rhetoric and the actions themselves. Actually, we have reached the point where the US is importing the worst elements of Israel's apartheid with attacks to basic constitutional rights and silencing of speech, while providing platforms for the worst genocidal elements of the Israel government (like Ben Gvir) to present their racist and murderous views to the American public.
Between adhering to basic liberal values and protecting the Israeli apartheid, American Jews have chosen the latter in large numbers.
Sadly the UK government and opposition are equally silent on this issue, but culpable as the UK supports Israel with technology etc. The Israel lobby is live and well in the UK and exercises influence on the MSM. History will not be kind.
There is absolutely no excuse for the actions of the Zionists. These people who supposedly survived genocide are now the very perpetrators of genocide. They seem to have learned well from their NAZI tormentors. Somehow it has suddenly become OK to kill ANYONE bears the slightest historic or family connection to those maniacs who attacked on Oct 7. The Western nations that participated in the conquest of the NAZIS are now the enablers of genocide. It seems that no one has the will or the motivation to question these monsters. Despicable.
When a hundred thousand march, they can be ignored when a hundred thousand march in a dozen cities they might take notice but until millions march everywhere, they are just more noise, but too many people are too lazy or afraid to get off their -as- couch and protest the participation of their governments in a genocide.
And therein lies the problem, thousands protesting is just noise, and a minor one at that, it will take multiple millions protesting simultaneously and repeatedly to make them move. Look at the different/million man marched', did they make a difference? Not really because they were one and done and could be ignored after that, it takes consistent, repeated protests to make a difference, general strikes may be what it takes, but then that would affect the protesters lives, not as much as the victims of the genocide but it then becomes an inconvenience, to the protesters.
Scattered millions yes, but when are they being noticed when their are cities shut down by protests the powers that be might notice, too many are too comfortable for them to care.
I'm one of an huge army of pro Palestinian activists from all over the world. I've been commenting and protesting the genocide in Gaza from Oktober 7th, 2023 - day in day out 24x7 (when not sleeping). I write, listen, read, demonstrate. Sometimes in company on the streets. Most of the time on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn shadow-bans pro Palestine activists. One’s posts comments and reactions are made invisible for (most) others: one can see one’s own post or comment, (most) others cannot. They don’t see it. The post or comment is made invisible to others. Many times LinkedIn doesn’t tell you. You just wonder what happened. I've been repremanded many times I had written something against their policy, but they will never explain what you did wrong and it is impossible to find out. One can complain, but the check is done by algorithms and you can't appeal. There is not possible to have contact with a human being: no telephone-number, no emailadress of any other way of contact. Sound of silence.
A reliable government-source said that LinkedIn - like Meta (Facebook+) – employs ex-workers from IDF Mossad and the mass surveillance industry of israel.
I've been documenting the way LinkedIn shadow-bans pro Palestinian voices. LinkedIn does so much more sophisticated and subtle than Meta (Facebook+). There are many ways to hamper tease obstruct block and make one’s live on LinkedIn miserable. It is too much to explain here. It is not difficult to recognize the israeli signature in the many creative ways of making one’s life on LinkedIn unbearable.
I offered my notes to the Dutch government (Autoriteit Consument en Markt ACM) that is obliged to protect my legal rights on social media like LinkedIn by European legislation, the Digital Service Act). They are not interested. I’m not surprised: my government supports the genocide politically, economically legally and with weapons.
In short. There is an army of pro Palestinian voices, protesting against the genocide and the support of that genocide. But many of those voices on LinkedIn are isolated and silenced. That's why you miss them.
At what point do people in power say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
If Muslims had done what Jews have done in Palestine and continue to do there would be hysterical outrage. What gives Jews the right to defy international law, rule of law and to commit atrocities which make even the Nazis look civilized?
And always, Hamas made me do it!
Yes I killed those emergency aid workers but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that three year old through the head and heart but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that pregnant woman in the stomach but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I raped that Palestinian woman but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I raped that Palestinian man with my gun barrel but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that Palestinian child but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that doctor but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that old woman but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered 232 journalists but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered hundreds of doctors but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered hundreds of thousands of children but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that boy through the testicles so, if he lives, he will never have children but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I drove my tank/excavator over the bodies of dead and injured men, women and children, back and forth, again and again, shredding them, but Hamas made me do it.
Yes, I decreed that children and adults would have one or four limbs amputated or one or both eyes removed without anaesthetics but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I am starving them all, most of them children, but Hamas made me do it.
Yes, I am denying them clean water and shelter but Hamas made me do it.
What sort of cretin can hold the Israeli catchcry, HAMAS MADE ME DO IT, as credible?
Despite secrecy and complexity, more discovery of the workings of investment capitalism, ie institutionalized predation, is urgently required to stop their genocidal machinations. Palestinians and others are being barbarically sacrificed in wealth wars by Big Oil, Blackrock, et al as geopolitical, financial, military power shifts from west to east, north to south. Zionists may be in the driver's seat for now, but the engine they operate is the ruthless industrial extractor of planetary resources for oligarchs.
The merciless predatory strategies of these corporations fueling mass murder and crimes against humanity must be exposed and dismantled!
Thank you John for bringing this report and more to be read, heard, uncovered and shared. I am without words, exhausted from the pain so many millions are suffering from. My need is to scream ‘Stop’ at the same time my cries seem to do nothing.
I become more paralyzed by the fact that much of the world is ignoring the slaughter and genocide of thousands of little children and their families… innocent Palestinians. There are millions of people from other nations who have been and are also victims of unbearable suffering, oppression and killings… yet collectively we do nothing.
My thoughts run wild trying to find a way to make this nightmare Stop…perhaps you can help me. I am exhausted living in a world more and more unrecognizable and unrepentant. There is so much hatred, it is devastating.🌸
AnaMaria, if it is any consolation (and it probably isn't) I find it difficult to sleep knowing about these horrible crimes. Please consider writing or calling your Congressmen and Trump and let them know they are just as guilty of these crimes due to their continued support.
Yes Richard, I do comment and write. I called Congress for a time…mostly the lines were out of order, their answer machines full and unable to receive any messages…and one out of 15-20 calls would be picked up.
I have little energy to spare… so the decision to write and comment became an important one. If there is one thing I do this is it…since I woke up on or about August 2024 to the fact that more than 30,000 (at that time) innocent Palestinians has been slaughtered by Israeli forces.
**I do not condone the killing on October 7, 2023 of innocent Israeli civilians…1200 and taking 251 hostages by Hamas.
Hamas aren't terrorists sweetums, just like the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto weren't. They are, and have been, fighting for Palestinian freedom from the ongoing genocide turned Holocaust, for 77 years now.
Note: Hamas was established in 1987 and the ongoing genocide has been 77 years.
If Hamas is a "terrorist" group, then so too were America's Founding Fathers. The REAL terrorists get to define what a "terrorist" is. That's the root of the problem!
They're not really comparable, but I get what you are TRYING to convey. American's founding fathers were terrorists because they decimated the native American population. They decimated the buffalo to stage them. They spread small pox...on purpose. They forced Africans to die on slave ships and enacted slavery and all the evil that came with it.
Hamas are from the land. Hamas are Palestinians, not some colonial "founding fathers". Hamas are more akin to native Americans who were slaughtered and sent to what is now known as Oklahoma on the trail of tears.
Israel was responsible for the AMOUNT of people killed on October 7. After standing down the military while the Hamas invasion occurred, it unleashed its deadly firepower on EVERYONE, resulting in the number of Israelis killed. There were no "headed babies" or "mass rapes". Everything that Israel has done since O7 is based on a lie, which makes the genocide in Gaza and elsewhere that much more criminal!
AnaMaria I am feeling the same.
What I would like to see from these 'talking heads' is questions. I am so bored with hearing what John and everyone thinks.
I have a question which might be very simple to answer BUT I don't know the answer.
Considering 'we are the people' who elect Govt. what happens when none of us vote?
I would appreciate a reply which you never do.
Thank you.
Jenny are you asking me to reply to your question? “Considering ‘we are the people’ who elect Govt. what happens when none of us vote?”
Sorry Jenny, I cannot answer your question like an Elected Official would.
I do feel more than anything, we are witnessing the dismantling and wrecking of Government almost on an hourly scale.
I am just a person who is fighting to protect my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren from the evils of fascism and the destruction of this great yet imperfect democracy, the United States of America. Of course, my peaceful protest is against all things evil, destroying the world at large.
And everyone sat and watched as Biden participated in the genocide, only now when Trump creates the chaos and upsets the thoroughly complicit media does anyone take notice, was what Biden did better?
John Meersheimer was one of the few voices to call Biden out for being complicit in the Israeli genocide.
Nope.
I was asking John actually AnaMaria.
He never comments on here!
Then they wouldn't have to spend as much money to rig the elections. But they'd still claim they had a 100% mandate, even if their one vote came from themselves.
Can you honestly imagine Hillary saying "Oh look! Only 1% of the country voted for me in the election, I'm going to reject the Presidency out of respect for their wishes"?
Or Trump, Biden, Harris, Vance? Bush, Obama, Willy Clinton?
These people want "power" at any cost. And they're not tremendously concerned over legitimacy from elections - any of them.
Agree.
Thanks for your great work Professor Mearsheimer! We've shared the link on our daily report.
A Skeptic War Reports
https://askeptic.substack.com/
Thank you for speaking out by posting this. Not everyone is silent but clearly so many more need to stand up and be brave.
These three believe it takes more than that and I regrettably agree. Excellent conversation.
https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/only-war-can-end-zionism-kevork-almassian
From the start I doubted the whole story of paragliders and bulldozers and terrorists penetrating the (otherwise) impenetrable barrier. Netanyahu's connection to Hamas and its like has been reported on by bother sides of Israeli media over the years. Can't be sure, but there's an aroma of connivance for me. Are there true, random hostages? I'd be surprised.
Not only does Israel gain a strip of Med coast and much beside, if it can force huge numbers of angry Palestinians into the Sinai then an excuse to push on toward Suez becomes available. Terrorism, doncha know. Party like it's 1956!
Hope I'm wrong, because the deceit and calculation make the inflicted misery all the more terrible.
I'm with you in this and have thought this since day 1
I’ll bet you don’t believe there were people in Australia before the Townshend clan arrived either.
I'll have to think about that retort, Doug....and think...
Good idea. Maybe you should remove the swastikas from your sleeve when you do so.
Omg shut up Doug. You sound like such a twat.
Heil Lily!
Yeah yeah, try that shit on someone who was born yesterday. It's so lame and pathetic. Keep flailing 😘
Thank you Mr Mearsheimer for your constant attention and words on the subject. You are one of the few articulating the truth.
Nevertheless, I have to say that you got the long-term trajectory of the Israel lobby wrong. Your main thesis on the subject is in the paper "The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners" https://pulsemedia.org/2010/04/30/the-future-of-palestine-righteous-jews-vs-the-new-afrikaners/
"The story I will tell is straightforward. Contrary to the wishes of the Obama administration and most Americans – to include many American Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to have a viable state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank. Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a “Greater Israel,” which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa. Nevertheless, a Jewish apartheid state is not politically viable over the long term. In the end, it will become a democratic bi-national state, whose politics will be dominated by its Palestinian citizens. In other words, it will cease being a Jewish state, which will mean the end of the Zionist dream.
[...]
The main problem that Israel’s defenders face, however, is that it is impossible to defend apartheid, because it is antithetical to core Western values. [..] The problem with depending on the lobby for protection is that most American Jews will not back Israel if it becomes a full-fledged apartheid state. [..] Righteous Jews have a powerful attachment to core liberal values. They believe that individual rights matter greatly and that they are universal, which means they apply equally to Jews and Palestinians. They could never support an apartheid Israel."
I think we can agree by now that the lobby and American Jews are prepared to go to any length necessary in order to defend Israel's actions, regardless of the Israeli government in charge, its rhetoric and the actions themselves. Actually, we have reached the point where the US is importing the worst elements of Israel's apartheid with attacks to basic constitutional rights and silencing of speech, while providing platforms for the worst genocidal elements of the Israel government (like Ben Gvir) to present their racist and murderous views to the American public.
Between adhering to basic liberal values and protecting the Israeli apartheid, American Jews have chosen the latter in large numbers.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER.....STOP NAMING USA UK EUROBE ISRAEL ETC AS THE LIBERAL WEST !
THEY ARE TYRANTS MURDERERS !
PETER TANG
They are the 'terrorists!'
Just look at Macron today with the 'supposed' new President of Syria. A man soaked in blood.
FWIW, both are soaked in blood, it's just that Macron has always worn a suit.
Sadly the UK government and opposition are equally silent on this issue, but culpable as the UK supports Israel with technology etc. The Israel lobby is live and well in the UK and exercises influence on the MSM. History will not be kind.
There is absolutely no excuse for the actions of the Zionists. These people who supposedly survived genocide are now the very perpetrators of genocide. They seem to have learned well from their NAZI tormentors. Somehow it has suddenly become OK to kill ANYONE bears the slightest historic or family connection to those maniacs who attacked on Oct 7. The Western nations that participated in the conquest of the NAZIS are now the enablers of genocide. It seems that no one has the will or the motivation to question these monsters. Despicable.
The 'worms' are turning..........too late.
The people of the world have been demonstrating on the streets for years against this genocide. Did our Governments listen to us?
GOVTs are 'supposed' to take notice of what their citizens are saying!
ALL western governments are complicit...........bring them to Justice NOW. Not later.
When a hundred thousand march, they can be ignored when a hundred thousand march in a dozen cities they might take notice but until millions march everywhere, they are just more noise, but too many people are too lazy or afraid to get off their -as- couch and protest the participation of their governments in a genocide.
I have seen thousands protesting all over the world.
And therein lies the problem, thousands protesting is just noise, and a minor one at that, it will take multiple millions protesting simultaneously and repeatedly to make them move. Look at the different/million man marched', did they make a difference? Not really because they were one and done and could be ignored after that, it takes consistent, repeated protests to make a difference, general strikes may be what it takes, but then that would affect the protesters lives, not as much as the victims of the genocide but it then becomes an inconvenience, to the protesters.
There are literally millions protesting worldwide against the IsraHELLi Holocaust of Gaza.
Scattered millions yes, but when are they being noticed when their are cities shut down by protests the powers that be might notice, too many are too comfortable for them to care.
Sad. But almost completely predictable. Dr. Fauci got a pardon. The West is morally bankrupt. The love of money is the root of all evil.
I'm one of an huge army of pro Palestinian activists from all over the world. I've been commenting and protesting the genocide in Gaza from Oktober 7th, 2023 - day in day out 24x7 (when not sleeping). I write, listen, read, demonstrate. Sometimes in company on the streets. Most of the time on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn shadow-bans pro Palestine activists. One’s posts comments and reactions are made invisible for (most) others: one can see one’s own post or comment, (most) others cannot. They don’t see it. The post or comment is made invisible to others. Many times LinkedIn doesn’t tell you. You just wonder what happened. I've been repremanded many times I had written something against their policy, but they will never explain what you did wrong and it is impossible to find out. One can complain, but the check is done by algorithms and you can't appeal. There is not possible to have contact with a human being: no telephone-number, no emailadress of any other way of contact. Sound of silence.
A reliable government-source said that LinkedIn - like Meta (Facebook+) – employs ex-workers from IDF Mossad and the mass surveillance industry of israel.
I've been documenting the way LinkedIn shadow-bans pro Palestinian voices. LinkedIn does so much more sophisticated and subtle than Meta (Facebook+). There are many ways to hamper tease obstruct block and make one’s live on LinkedIn miserable. It is too much to explain here. It is not difficult to recognize the israeli signature in the many creative ways of making one’s life on LinkedIn unbearable.
I offered my notes to the Dutch government (Autoriteit Consument en Markt ACM) that is obliged to protect my legal rights on social media like LinkedIn by European legislation, the Digital Service Act). They are not interested. I’m not surprised: my government supports the genocide politically, economically legally and with weapons.
In short. There is an army of pro Palestinian voices, protesting against the genocide and the support of that genocide. But many of those voices on LinkedIn are isolated and silenced. That's why you miss them.
What a god damn shame. Yet I am very thankful for people speaking the truth even if it is frowned upon these days. Cheers from Germany.
Thanks for spreading the truth ....God bless ...🙏🏾🙏
At what point do people in power say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
If Muslims had done what Jews have done in Palestine and continue to do there would be hysterical outrage. What gives Jews the right to defy international law, rule of law and to commit atrocities which make even the Nazis look civilized?
And always, Hamas made me do it!
Yes I killed those emergency aid workers but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that three year old through the head and heart but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that pregnant woman in the stomach but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I raped that Palestinian woman but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I raped that Palestinian man with my gun barrel but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that Palestinian child but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that doctor but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I tortured that old woman but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered 232 journalists but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered hundreds of doctors but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I murdered hundreds of thousands of children but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I shot that boy through the testicles so, if he lives, he will never have children but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I drove my tank/excavator over the bodies of dead and injured men, women and children, back and forth, again and again, shredding them, but Hamas made me do it.
Yes, I decreed that children and adults would have one or four limbs amputated or one or both eyes removed without anaesthetics but Hamas made me do it.
Yes I am starving them all, most of them children, but Hamas made me do it.
Yes, I am denying them clean water and shelter but Hamas made me do it.
What sort of cretin can hold the Israeli catchcry, HAMAS MADE ME DO IT, as credible?
Thank you Roslyn.
Does a list of action items exist? Please point me to it. I am tired of gazing on in horror.
Despite secrecy and complexity, more discovery of the workings of investment capitalism, ie institutionalized predation, is urgently required to stop their genocidal machinations. Palestinians and others are being barbarically sacrificed in wealth wars by Big Oil, Blackrock, et al as geopolitical, financial, military power shifts from west to east, north to south. Zionists may be in the driver's seat for now, but the engine they operate is the ruthless industrial extractor of planetary resources for oligarchs.
The merciless predatory strategies of these corporations fueling mass murder and crimes against humanity must be exposed and dismantled!