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Sadie E.'s avatar

Thank you. Well thought out and written. I sometimes wonder though, how many in the West ( specifically America) has truly woken up as our population also exposed to propaganda constantly and is more self obsessed and seemingly unconcerned about foreign affairs or the Middle East. Many Americans don’t keep up with US current events let alone foreign, & when they turn on the news they are fed propaganda. I just wonder if we on Substack are sometimes “preaching to the choir “ here, an echo chamber of like-minded people who bother to read and question our government which the majority of Americans do not.

Thanks for your well-written article.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you, George, for seeing and stating so clearly the most fundamental reversal and lie that has been repeated over and over again, especially in the last two and a half decades since 9/11 where the "War on Terror" was officially coined, much as the date Oct. 7th is used and for the same purpose. The US/Israel, UK and Colonial Corporate allies have systematically taken over and corrupted the media to invert the truth and create the narrative you describe. Invoking the refrain "War on Terror," (a war on a concept, so deliberately never ending and unwinnable) while projecting and accusing every country slated for "interventions", that is, war, destabilization, regime change, as "terrorists", and then raping and pillaging for the purposes of, as you say, domination and subjugation, and I would add most especially vast profits from weapons, oil, land for pipelines, resources like lithium, titanium and on and on. A path of devastating death, destruction and unimaginable suffering.

Few people have addressed this so explicitly, perhaps out of fear of being silenced, as the freedoms of speech and protest have been increasingly suppressed, even criminalized, in the West. Israel, a tiny state placed in the center of the Middle East is purely a product of the West, UK, US and allies in the last hundred years; an entity whose population has been molded from childhood into being a country, aka military base, of barbaric mercenaries, without mercy, a lethal proxy, funded, weaponized and doing the bidding of the warmongering Corporate Colonial Powers That Be.

This picture will not change until all the masks come off and the truth be told as you have in this post and as is happening in countless venues all over the world. It's time. Thank you for stating the heartbreaking truth that October 7th was a "desperate cry for freedom." The Hannibal Directive in which the IDF was told to kill and fire bomb a large percentage of those killed - Palestinian and Israeli - was very briefly aired then squashed and "forgotten" to keep the false emotion laden narrative about "Hamas" and "October 7th" intact.

Your post gives me hope that the collective consciousness and moral conscience is growing around the world, in unison with the urgency of all Life on Mother Earth. Much of the West, certainly the "leaders," the corporate governments, have become cruel morally bankrupt voracious addicts in these last materialistic centuries. We owe the earth loving Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Lebanese, the Yemenis, and so many others, such an enormous and incalculable debt of gratitude for their steadfast, humane, heart centered courage and resistance against their oppressors against almost impossible odds and at the price of their unimaginable suffering and martyrdom. Far from being terrorists, they are the Earth's moral compass for the multitudes whose hearts are opening and whose eyes can see.

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