On 20 March 2025, I was on Judge Napolitano’s podcast — “Judging Freedom” — where we talked about the results of the lengthy Trump-Putin telephone conversation and where we are in terms of shutting down the Ukraine war.
Everyone should listen to this podcast. It’s one of the best programs available and this one was especially useful. Possible resolution of the cruel, needless, war in Ukraine, compared to support for the heartbreaking tragedy of Gaza, does nothing to polish Trump’s imagined halo. He’s writing his name in blood.
In the year 1900 there were about 24. 000 Jews in Palestine.
40 years later they had been joined by 400.000 European Jews, animated by Zionism. These colonializers created their own society on arab soil. This was made possible by the violent, British occupation. So far. cold facts. The zionists were annoyed that the Brits tried to protect the Arabs, and used violence against them.
By 1948 about 250.000 more European Jews had arrived, and the stage was set for the Nakba.
Since then, it's been a slow Nakba every day - also a fact. Every day another Palestinian in jail, or murdered by a sniper; another square metre of soil taken from the indigenous population. Another insidisous law, or another violation of law, all to further the Zionist cause. Facts.
Today a society worthy of the word apartheid. Again, a fact. HRW; AI, or ask any Palestinian.
The only true nakba is that the Palestinians refused their own state in 1947—and every other time it’s been offered since. Time and again, they’ve walked away from peace because their goal isn’t coexistence—it’s all the land, from the river to the sea. That means no Israel. Every Palestinian leader has rejected peace, and it’s the Palestinian people who have paid the price for that refusal.
Mearsheimer, let’s be clear: Hamas started this war.
They murdered 1,200 innocent people.
They kidnapped 251 more.
They executed many of those hostages.
They still refuse to release the remaining hostages—the one act that could end this war immediately.
They rejected the latest ceasefire terms, even after Israel agreed to them.
Your repeated use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions is not just factually wrong—it’s offensive. If Israel intended genocide, Gaza would have been leveled in an hour. Instead, Israeli soldiers risk their lives going door-to-door, clearing terrorist strongholds after issuing evacuation warnings to civilians.
Meanwhile, it’s Hamas—not Israel—that explicitly calls for genocide. Their charter openly demands the eradication of Jews. That’s not hyperbole. That’s documented intent.
So let’s call things by their name: when you use Hamas talking points and distort facts to blame Israel, you become a collaborator with terrorists.
No, they attacked military installations and killed soldiers - legitimate targets. It was the IDF that massacred those hundreds of civilians. You really should follow Israeli media, they are more honest than Western media - or you.
They took hostages to demand the release of the hostages that Israel takes with impunity, and then tortures and murders in Israel's dungeons. Sounds fair.
Israel has killed more of the Israeli hostages than Hamas ever has - if Hamas has killed ANY hostages, which seems doubtful.
Amalek is an open genocide call. Of course, you know that, you're a paid propagandist and disinformer.
The Hamas Charter does no such thing. It calls for the Nazi regime of Israel to be disbanded, not for Jews to be eradicated. Much as was done with Germany at the end of WW2.
The IDF is a blatant state-terrorism force. It is YOU that is the terrorist collaborator.
Wow, one more stupid comment after another. I guess this is who Mearsheimer attracts. Explain to me how young people at a music festival are soldiers? How people sleeping in their homes are soldiers? How mothers with babies are soldiers? You are a sick fucker.
So I know *exactly* how young Israelis at a music festival were soldiers. They were either in the IDF, or had just finished their military service.
I also know many of them were armed, which is what started the gunfight.
Sucks to be a propagandist facing someone who knows the facts, doesn't it?
How many of the 200.000 Gazan women and children and infants were soldiers? You don't even think about them. "Sick fucker"? You need to look long and hard in the mirror.
Most of the Kibbutznik victims were killed by the IDF. I have heard this from the Kibbutzniks in the area themselves.
Now take your genocide-apologist asse and go haul it. Fucker.
You dumb shithead. The sick Palestinian homicidal murderers filmed their own atrocities. There are recordings of people bragging about how many Jews they killed. Defending them makes you complicit. It's a tragedy that the kibbutz you supposedly lived on wasn't one of those attacked on Oct 7, 2023.
The funny thing is, I know you would instantly find good reasons if the Israeli state launched its nukes at the major Goyim capital cities, with millions of casualties.
Without a blink, you would be on here to justify that atrocity too.
And that says everything about you.
You even wish that more Israeli Jews had been killed, presumably by the IDF and blamed on Gazans.
I've had more than enough of you.
Everything you shout out, its true of you.
When you look in a mirror, do you see your face becoming ever more evil? That must make you so proud.
Explain how the cars were all blocked from leaving by tanks at the end of the road and had Apache gunfire in the long line up of cars. Didn’t know you could mount those kinds of guns on paragliders.
You mean in 1947 and 1948, when the Palestinians were offered their own state alongside Israel but refused? When many were encouraged to leave, with the promise they could return after Arab countries defeated Israel—only to lose that war? And what about the many Palestinians who stayed and today make up 21% of Israeli citizens, enjoying the same rights as their Jewish fellow citizens? In fact, when asked if they would want to become citizens of a future Palestinian state, over 95% of these Arab Israelis say they would prefer to remain Israeli.
Modern day Israel is a Zionist colonial settler state. Zionists are doing to Palestinians the same thing Nazis did to Jews and Eastern Europeans. Their "chosen people" superiority complex appears to be an incurable cultural tradition. It's disgustingly hypocritical and will keep leading to catastrophic outcomes until they discard it... or die trying to dominate everyone.
That’s a shallow/stupid comment, packed with today’s trendy buzzwords but detached from history and reality. Israel is not a colonial settler state—it’s a small strip of land surrounded by a vast Arab region, home to a people with over 2,500 years of continuous presence there. It’s not Israelis terrorizing Palestinians; it’s the reverse—especially under Hamas, which also brutalizes its own population. And the notion of "chosen people" isn’t about superiority; it’s about responsibility. Israelis simply want to live in peace, while facing enemies openly committed to their destruction.
Your opinion that my comment is "shallow/stupid" is reflective of your understanding on our subject of discussion, which explains why you decided to begin your response by "trashtalk" rant, followed by flimsy substantiated denials.
"...over 2,500 years of continuous presence there..." of ethnic Jewish population doesn't legitimate the creation of the current state of Israel, or it's aggressive expansionist policy against the local Arabs, Muslims, etc.
On the contrary, the fact that Jews were allowed to live there so long under various Islamic and Arab governments, proves that Arabs and Islam are not the source of the problem!
Ah. You skipped the part where Israel massacred 15,000+ the day of their “independence” because people refused to abandon their homes and farms and villages. Lined up men women and children and shot them. When others heard what was coming, as unarmed civilians they did flee for their lives, hundreds of thousands of them. And….then Israel locked the borders and proceeded to write a law claiming all this mysteriously abandoned properties as Israel’s. Now who wants to accept a deal for half back of the whole that was stolen from them? This is the type of hasbara play on words that I get really sick of. Then the dispossession of homes and lands continued for years. Killings. Bulldozers. Over 100,000 Palestinians had been murdered before Oct 7 ever happened…and you want to sit there and act like Oct 7 started everything? Why was Israel holding 5,000 hostages, many without charges, already? That number went to over 10,000. Prisoners there died at the hands of the IDF. Just like the hostages died in Gaza at the hands of the IDF also - they knew what and where they were bombing. Dead hostages don’t talk.
Stop calling them Houthis! You’re reflecting the seeds of brainwashing propaganda which marginalizes Yemeni resistance movement by using some tribal designation in a racist way. Yemeni resistance movement and leaders identify as Ansarallah! And they’re not limited to the Houthis or a restricted primitive fascist ethno-tribal identity’. That’s the Israelis! Yemen had a socialist/communist government long before Americans even understood what socialism or communism really mean, or before they even had heard of Yemen! So, at least John M as a professor should be the exception among Americans and begin calling the movement Ansarallah!
Totally cowardly to say ceasefire and them cancel it the next day. Is Trump listening to "advisors"? Does he have a mind to work with? He talks tough to N. and to Z. Then backs off the next day. That is true, isn't it?
Also, I remember seeing Vance in the video clip. He was saying: "negotiate." Really?
AFW - ALWAYS FREE WORLD is a transnational political movement, whose goal is the implementation of a PERFECT POLITICAL SYSTEM.
Free spirits & free thinkers have been always against political systems, because they all have been anti-freedom. Unfortunately, nobody ever came up with a feasible positive option, until now.
Book I of AFW's Trilogy reveals the political system that can change the status quo, foster human freedom, avoid nuclear wars, and solve most of the problems that have afflicted humanity for millennia. Books II and III complement the system.
I highly appreciate the cognitive journey of the Professor and Judge Nap regarding Trump. I also Trust Trump no longer on the Ukrainian matter, as he apparently attempts to coerce some of money out of Ukraine which has already been lead by the US on the primrose path to the abattoir. That's mean! And what is happening in Europe I also interpret differently. Basically all the people in charge including the opposition leaders are loyal to the US, albeit somewhat and on a lessening degree critical of Trump. They apparently are being successfully coerced to spent 1% or even more of their GDP for arms made in USA. A tough sell to their own populations.
Clearly not only Biden’s Houthis attacks as well as Biden’s letting Netanyahu do whatever he wanted in Gaza but the same Victoria Nuland’s “nasty surprises” in Russia as when Trump comes out with asking Putin not to”kill” captured “special agents” from the Kursk region. I guess they were U.K. operatives. Operatives the Trump knew about.
This bit where the U.K., Germany, and Macron in France is an Orchestrated event to hamstring Putin into a ceasefire.
Trump made this clear, just in different words. He envisions himself as a self-proclaimed "king" of Gaza and perhaps even seizing more territory to extend his influence and relocate his administration there after his U.S. mandate ends. This reminds me of the Dune series and the war over spice. He no longer sees himself as merely a U.S. president, he views himself as a spiritual leader to his followers. The old man is delusional, believing that power alone can grant him anything. But in the end, I doubt he will accomplish much. His influence is already fading, and soon, everything he has thrown out will come back to him.
Everyone should listen to this podcast. It’s one of the best programs available and this one was especially useful. Possible resolution of the cruel, needless, war in Ukraine, compared to support for the heartbreaking tragedy of Gaza, does nothing to polish Trump’s imagined halo. He’s writing his name in blood.
In the year 1900 there were about 24. 000 Jews in Palestine.
40 years later they had been joined by 400.000 European Jews, animated by Zionism. These colonializers created their own society on arab soil. This was made possible by the violent, British occupation. So far. cold facts. The zionists were annoyed that the Brits tried to protect the Arabs, and used violence against them.
By 1948 about 250.000 more European Jews had arrived, and the stage was set for the Nakba.
Since then, it's been a slow Nakba every day - also a fact. Every day another Palestinian in jail, or murdered by a sniper; another square metre of soil taken from the indigenous population. Another insidisous law, or another violation of law, all to further the Zionist cause. Facts.
Today a society worthy of the word apartheid. Again, a fact. HRW; AI, or ask any Palestinian.
The only true nakba is that the Palestinians refused their own state in 1947—and every other time it’s been offered since. Time and again, they’ve walked away from peace because their goal isn’t coexistence—it’s all the land, from the river to the sea. That means no Israel. Every Palestinian leader has rejected peace, and it’s the Palestinian people who have paid the price for that refusal.
It means no ethnic Jewish state controlled by self-claimed ethnic Jews who make good laws for themselves and crappy ones for non-Jews.
What you're writing is first and foremost untrue. It also begs the question of why anyone should "share" their land with an invader.
Secondly, it follows a very strange logic which looks like this:
Zionist: we've taken half your historical lands by force
Palestininan: I'm not happy about that
Zionist: OK, then we'll take all of it
and that's what they've done
one of the best interviews, with very important answers!
Notice when John said “the Israel Lobby”, Andrew was like “let’s switch the gear a bit” — lobby machinery in full effect
Trump is now Israel’s bitch in a long line of US presidents AFTER JFK
Mearsheimer, let’s be clear: Hamas started this war.
They murdered 1,200 innocent people.
They kidnapped 251 more.
They executed many of those hostages.
They still refuse to release the remaining hostages—the one act that could end this war immediately.
They rejected the latest ceasefire terms, even after Israel agreed to them.
Your repeated use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions is not just factually wrong—it’s offensive. If Israel intended genocide, Gaza would have been leveled in an hour. Instead, Israeli soldiers risk their lives going door-to-door, clearing terrorist strongholds after issuing evacuation warnings to civilians.
Meanwhile, it’s Hamas—not Israel—that explicitly calls for genocide. Their charter openly demands the eradication of Jews. That’s not hyperbole. That’s documented intent.
So let’s call things by their name: when you use Hamas talking points and distort facts to blame Israel, you become a collaborator with terrorists.
No, they attacked military installations and killed soldiers - legitimate targets. It was the IDF that massacred those hundreds of civilians. You really should follow Israeli media, they are more honest than Western media - or you.
They took hostages to demand the release of the hostages that Israel takes with impunity, and then tortures and murders in Israel's dungeons. Sounds fair.
Israel has killed more of the Israeli hostages than Hamas ever has - if Hamas has killed ANY hostages, which seems doubtful.
Amalek is an open genocide call. Of course, you know that, you're a paid propagandist and disinformer.
The Hamas Charter does no such thing. It calls for the Nazi regime of Israel to be disbanded, not for Jews to be eradicated. Much as was done with Germany at the end of WW2.
The IDF is a blatant state-terrorism force. It is YOU that is the terrorist collaborator.
One would have to be soulless to pretend this is not an apartheid state executing a genocide. It is best not to engage with those without a soul.
Wow, one more stupid comment after another. I guess this is who Mearsheimer attracts. Explain to me how young people at a music festival are soldiers? How people sleeping in their homes are soldiers? How mothers with babies are soldiers? You are a sick fucker.
Unfortunately for you, I lived on Kibbutz.
So I know *exactly* how young Israelis at a music festival were soldiers. They were either in the IDF, or had just finished their military service.
I also know many of them were armed, which is what started the gunfight.
Sucks to be a propagandist facing someone who knows the facts, doesn't it?
How many of the 200.000 Gazan women and children and infants were soldiers? You don't even think about them. "Sick fucker"? You need to look long and hard in the mirror.
Most of the Kibbutznik victims were killed by the IDF. I have heard this from the Kibbutzniks in the area themselves.
Now take your genocide-apologist asse and go haul it. Fucker.
You dumb shithead. The sick Palestinian homicidal murderers filmed their own atrocities. There are recordings of people bragging about how many Jews they killed. Defending them makes you complicit. It's a tragedy that the kibbutz you supposedly lived on wasn't one of those attacked on Oct 7, 2023.
The funny thing is, I know you would instantly find good reasons if the Israeli state launched its nukes at the major Goyim capital cities, with millions of casualties.
Without a blink, you would be on here to justify that atrocity too.
And that says everything about you.
You even wish that more Israeli Jews had been killed, presumably by the IDF and blamed on Gazans.
I've had more than enough of you.
Everything you shout out, its true of you.
When you look in a mirror, do you see your face becoming ever more evil? That must make you so proud.
Explain how the cars were all blocked from leaving by tanks at the end of the road and had Apache gunfire in the long line up of cars. Didn’t know you could mount those kinds of guns on paragliders.
Or did it start with the killings and ethnic cleansings of the Nakba?
You mean in 1947 and 1948, when the Palestinians were offered their own state alongside Israel but refused? When many were encouraged to leave, with the promise they could return after Arab countries defeated Israel—only to lose that war? And what about the many Palestinians who stayed and today make up 21% of Israeli citizens, enjoying the same rights as their Jewish fellow citizens? In fact, when asked if they would want to become citizens of a future Palestinian state, over 95% of these Arab Israelis say they would prefer to remain Israeli.
Modern day Israel is a Zionist colonial settler state. Zionists are doing to Palestinians the same thing Nazis did to Jews and Eastern Europeans. Their "chosen people" superiority complex appears to be an incurable cultural tradition. It's disgustingly hypocritical and will keep leading to catastrophic outcomes until they discard it... or die trying to dominate everyone.
That’s a shallow/stupid comment, packed with today’s trendy buzzwords but detached from history and reality. Israel is not a colonial settler state—it’s a small strip of land surrounded by a vast Arab region, home to a people with over 2,500 years of continuous presence there. It’s not Israelis terrorizing Palestinians; it’s the reverse—especially under Hamas, which also brutalizes its own population. And the notion of "chosen people" isn’t about superiority; it’s about responsibility. Israelis simply want to live in peace, while facing enemies openly committed to their destruction.
Your opinion that my comment is "shallow/stupid" is reflective of your understanding on our subject of discussion, which explains why you decided to begin your response by "trashtalk" rant, followed by flimsy substantiated denials.
"...over 2,500 years of continuous presence there..." of ethnic Jewish population doesn't legitimate the creation of the current state of Israel, or it's aggressive expansionist policy against the local Arabs, Muslims, etc.
On the contrary, the fact that Jews were allowed to live there so long under various Islamic and Arab governments, proves that Arabs and Islam are not the source of the problem!
Ok, dummy. Why don’t you tell me when Mohammed began Islam.
Ah. You skipped the part where Israel massacred 15,000+ the day of their “independence” because people refused to abandon their homes and farms and villages. Lined up men women and children and shot them. When others heard what was coming, as unarmed civilians they did flee for their lives, hundreds of thousands of them. And….then Israel locked the borders and proceeded to write a law claiming all this mysteriously abandoned properties as Israel’s. Now who wants to accept a deal for half back of the whole that was stolen from them? This is the type of hasbara play on words that I get really sick of. Then the dispossession of homes and lands continued for years. Killings. Bulldozers. Over 100,000 Palestinians had been murdered before Oct 7 ever happened…and you want to sit there and act like Oct 7 started everything? Why was Israel holding 5,000 hostages, many without charges, already? That number went to over 10,000. Prisoners there died at the hands of the IDF. Just like the hostages died in Gaza at the hands of the IDF also - they knew what and where they were bombing. Dead hostages don’t talk.
He certainly does not have the interests of Palestinians in mind. Nor does Hamas.
Stop calling them Houthis! You’re reflecting the seeds of brainwashing propaganda which marginalizes Yemeni resistance movement by using some tribal designation in a racist way. Yemeni resistance movement and leaders identify as Ansarallah! And they’re not limited to the Houthis or a restricted primitive fascist ethno-tribal identity’. That’s the Israelis! Yemen had a socialist/communist government long before Americans even understood what socialism or communism really mean, or before they even had heard of Yemen! So, at least John M as a professor should be the exception among Americans and begin calling the movement Ansarallah!
Totally cowardly to say ceasefire and them cancel it the next day. Is Trump listening to "advisors"? Does he have a mind to work with? He talks tough to N. and to Z. Then backs off the next day. That is true, isn't it?
Also, I remember seeing Vance in the video clip. He was saying: "negotiate." Really?
"Israelis simply want to live in peace, while facing enemies openly committed to their destruction."
Could you please help me understand your point of view, by telling me about the origin of these Israelis you are talking about?
I'm guessing they didn't just magically materialize into existence out of nowhere, right?
AFW - ALWAYS FREE WORLD is a transnational political movement, whose goal is the implementation of a PERFECT POLITICAL SYSTEM.
Free spirits & free thinkers have been always against political systems, because they all have been anti-freedom. Unfortunately, nobody ever came up with a feasible positive option, until now.
Book I of AFW's Trilogy reveals the political system that can change the status quo, foster human freedom, avoid nuclear wars, and solve most of the problems that have afflicted humanity for millennia. Books II and III complement the system.
https://www.alwaysfree.world/
I highly appreciate the cognitive journey of the Professor and Judge Nap regarding Trump. I also Trust Trump no longer on the Ukrainian matter, as he apparently attempts to coerce some of money out of Ukraine which has already been lead by the US on the primrose path to the abattoir. That's mean! And what is happening in Europe I also interpret differently. Basically all the people in charge including the opposition leaders are loyal to the US, albeit somewhat and on a lessening degree critical of Trump. They apparently are being successfully coerced to spent 1% or even more of their GDP for arms made in USA. A tough sell to their own populations.
Clearly not only Biden’s Houthis attacks as well as Biden’s letting Netanyahu do whatever he wanted in Gaza but the same Victoria Nuland’s “nasty surprises” in Russia as when Trump comes out with asking Putin not to”kill” captured “special agents” from the Kursk region. I guess they were U.K. operatives. Operatives the Trump knew about.
This bit where the U.K., Germany, and Macron in France is an Orchestrated event to hamstring Putin into a ceasefire.
Putin was right, doesn’t matter whom Americans vote, they just get the deep state.
Like I said, it doesn’t matter who Russians vote for because their only choice is Putin
So refreshing hearing real truthful news..
Trump made this clear, just in different words. He envisions himself as a self-proclaimed "king" of Gaza and perhaps even seizing more territory to extend his influence and relocate his administration there after his U.S. mandate ends. This reminds me of the Dune series and the war over spice. He no longer sees himself as merely a U.S. president, he views himself as a spiritual leader to his followers. The old man is delusional, believing that power alone can grant him anything. But in the end, I doubt he will accomplish much. His influence is already fading, and soon, everything he has thrown out will come back to him.
Thanks for your great work John!
We've shared the link on our daily report.
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