Yes, George, hypocrisy writ large is ubiquitous today.
It is so, not only from many in offices of high authority but, just as disturbingly and perhaps even more so, among the general populace.
Socialisation by parents, peers, schooling, media and religion have created a society where far too many are apparently no longer capable of exercising their intellect and are even too lazy to make the effort or take the time to ascertain the actual facts relating to events or the history and causes leading up to them.
The irrational prejudice against Islam or more precisely, 'Muslims' and the just but overly used sentiment of sympathy for Jews because of what happened to them under National Socialism, contribute in no small way to the warped and/or ignorant views of what is now happening in the Middle East and why it has happened. - We mustn't, of course, criticise Israel or even their 'leader' Netanyahu, (whose criminal trial is still pending having been delayed because of the conflict), because it is evidently antisemitic to do so.
Instead, we must listen to and agree with Netanyahu as he makes public statements claiming that the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of South Africa and anyone else who speaks out or takes action against the Genocidal activities of Israel or its blatant ignoring of international human rights law or the Genocide Convention, are speaking disgusting, wrongful, misguided and prejudiced nonsense against Israel.
Just a day or two ago I saw a televised statement by Netanyahu who, with a smirk on his face, hurled abusive accusations at Iran for one of their missiles having hit a hospital in Israel. According to Iran, the missile was aimed at a nearby military facility, not at the hospital. However, whether one believes that to be the case or not, Netanyahu was in no doubt and asserted that to target a hospital was the most despicable and appalling of acts.
If that is the case and it is probably one of the few statements of his with which I agree, then I have to ask myself why he approved and quite probably ordered the deliberate targeting, often multiple times, by both ground and air forces, virtually every hospital, school, university, police station or other significant public building or centre in Gaza and evidently considered it to be reasonable, presumably on the grounds, that the patients, children, aid workers, doctors, ambulance officers, police officers and such were attacking Israel and therefore it was necessary for 'self defence.'
That many of my neighbours, acquaintances and fellow citizens apparently swallow this type of tortured illogicality and absurd fallacy is driving me towards insanity of a different sort, i.e. complete despair at the state of humanity and obstinate ignorance and susceptibility to propaganda and manipulation that they lose all sense of reason, compassion or intellectual acuity.
It leaves me feeling that I should exit this life for the vista before me is one of insanity and horror that I am driven to a depression and despair too intense to carry. Yes, that does cause me to feel guilt because I am not starving and being shot at whilst attempting to get a bowl of food from an aid station to take back to my family, (or those left of it), who are waiting under a sheet of tin among the devastation and ruins of their homes.
What Israel has done to the Palestinians is - in their own words - a ‘shoah”, a holocaust. It means a catastrophe, a ruin, and that is exactly what they are hellbent on creating in the Middle-East. There simply aren’t words to describe or explain how far Israel has exceeded what most decent people would consider to be humanity. Genocidal is just too kind a word to use here as a descriptor. It is an unsuitable adjective. What they are doing now resembles an aspiration or ambition to commit atrocities. Why else would they continue an operation that slaughters innocent people and their harmless children who have barely a bag of flour to fight back with.
The West’s leadership has no excuse - none - for their cowardice and gutless, politically expedient inaction. They should forever hang their heads in shame. The Palestinians have endured 76 years of land dispossession and now thy are being dispossessed of their lives. The ‘Nakba’ or catastrophe in Arabic, refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948, which is a long story, but it’s one that should be retold now because it showcases what Palestinians have had to deal with.
It’s NEVER the people, it’s ALWAYS those that rule, every single time. It’s the ‘regimes’ of whatever persuasion that seek war. We the people just want peace, hope, and a better future living alongside one another in caring communities.
And now, it’s Iran’s turn for an Israeli rinse and repeat. The Middle-East country that needs to be dispossessed is Israel.
We also need to know about the deep state’s ‘project for a new american century’ and rebuilding america's defenses 1998’, ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ and ‘clean break; the strategy for securing the realm 1996’ policy documentation.
With Russia and China arming Iran, America and Israel will be defeated and destroyed. America has always been the Primary Offender because it always has been its weapons. A new currency, the Gold Dinar, will be born. It will unite the Middle East and northern Africa, and replace the dollar as the World Currency used to buy oil. The economic crash in America will happen overnight and will be far worse than the Depression of 1929. Because in 1929, America was flush with oil, fertile land, full aquifers, and timber. Those days are gone and will never return. I write about things like this
The gold dinar is not new; Gaddafi wanted to bring it in for all African Countries and states ... you know what happened next !. Agree with what you state 100%.
The state that normalised the bombing, storming and vandalising of hospitals, bleats so very loudly when Iran targetted military establishments surrounding a hospital.
For years we've been told about Hamas use of human shields, while actual video and photographic evidence of IOF hiding behind Palestinians in their operations was published and some of it recorded on the Israeli veterans website, "Breaking the Silence."
Since the Iranian retaliation began, its become apparent that the headquarters of the IOF is in Tel Aviv, surrounded by business, shops, cafes, and accomodation. Many Iron Dome, and other military installations are in the cities and built up areas.
Last week the Israeli government announced that no Israelis were permitted to leave the country, and all flights out were cancelled.
Every accusation is a confession. Who actually use human shields? ISRAEL.
This week those of us who cared to look, witnessed another mask off event in racist, zionist Israel, when Thai workers were refused access to air raid shelters that are built for jews alone.
Obviously the bloke is well grounded and in touch with the zionists who have elected him for over twenty years. The man has precisely the personal traits required to achieve the bidding of American neocons whose single aim is maintaining US control of the world.
The current crop of Australian "leaders" must think we've all forgotten about WMD. Albanese speaking to the press from Calvary referred to the benefits of Autralia being allied with the USA and proudly mentioned our membership of the Five Eyes, the very amalgum of spooks responsible for the spreading of the WMD hoax.
Currently, the Australian nation cannot afford to house its population, the cost of shelter is beyond reach of another 10,000 Australians a month and our "progressive" leaders prefer to align themselves with nations in the west prepared to engage in the forever wars at the expense of humanity, and take directions from US politicians like Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Trump, as to Australias annual spend on military toys for the boys.
I'm not certain what happened to our national sovereignty, I think it may have been given away.
The West, particularly the USA, suffers from hypocrisy on steroids. It is "good" when Israel bombs a hospital but "evil" when Iran does?? Still, we consider other, clearer examples:
(1) In 2016, Mitch McConnell blocked Obama from filling a seat on the Supreme Court on the grounds that although it was only February, there would be an election in November. However, when an opening occurred in October 2020, he had no problem letting Trump fill the vacancy, even though there would be an election in November.
(2) RFK Junior intends to limit vaccines because they pose a potential danger to people. He wants to end fluoridation of water. He has other such intentions that would ultimately ban or restrict various accepted, clinically tested medical practices on the grounds that they pose a potential danger. Well and good, but meanwhile, more than 20 percent of deaths in the USA are attributable to tobacco (over half a million!), but there are no moves afoot to ban this absolutely lethal product with absolutely no documented benefits.
Sadly, this is the new mentality of the US, and it has infect the rest of the West to a large extent. The Zionist state is thus "defending itself" by bombing another nation with which it does not even share a border. [Iran is more than 1,000 miles/1,700 kilometers away.] It is "defending itself" when it commits repeated acts of genocide in Gaza (and elsewhere). However, the Iranian response is somehow deemed an unconscionable crime. Welcome to NewSpeak, Trump-style...
The dummest people in the world are the idiots of a country that’s losing its religion , creating hate and killing innocent people in a world we distance to be unimportant to humanity and as a result is the end of an empire that should have been a great world leader instead it became a war criminal and thus Israel is now in command of our media and United States for Israel what a crime to the people of America the new idiots that supports Israel right to defend themselves by lying and believing their own lies …. Bye bye American pie !!
This may simply show that the forces that organise the West (and much of the world now) are insensitive to morality. They constitute an automatism, an algorithm that uses (the decision making capabilities and the words of people in) positions of power. The notion of hypocrisy is relative, a metaphor for the interpretation of the Western reality by those who obey moral values. This makes negotiation (and diplomacy for that matter) rather futile. It is also the condition for absolute impunity: the rule of law is a mere algorithm ... a logical result of having replaced spirituality by rationality.
The problem in the UK is our media simply lies to us but in a very careful and controlled manner so, if you try to object to anything, people will tell you that the media did tell you the truth. It’s HOW they tell you that’s the problem. They say what has happened but balance their reports so that the reader is drawn to the conclusion that it’s just poor little Israel defending itself. Isreal wants the entire Middle East and if they have to kill millions to do it, the UK won’t even object. However, our present Government is so absolutely awful in every way that we have other things to worry about besides supporting mass murderers, like the erosion of free speech, for example, and the proposed ruination of the countryside.
The Nazis were just as insane (there has never been a real difference between the Zionists and their Nazi allies). The Nazis complained about the “terror attacks” on German cities (which aimed at murdering women and children) while firing V1s and V2s at British cities (which aimed at murdering women and children).
That's it exactly - Zionist Israeli hypocrisy and the complicity of the US/the UK especially - re Iran which has the right to defend itself against the unprovoked attack from the regime led by Netanyahu/Mileikowsky!
The force that is driving this travesty is exactly the same as that which killed George Floyd. Naked,unbridled racism but now written so loud and large that it will consume the very skies themselves.
This squalid hatred of a people for their brownness and poverty should force us to examine what lies in our hearts, what demons are we offering succour? The rank hypocrisy that we see displayed without any sense of shame or self awareness is nauseating beyond measure and I can only hope that the reckoning when it comes,and it will come, will be swift and brutal.
In the aftermath of all of this savagery there will be some of us who will be able to stand in the ruins with our hands on our hearts and the deep knowledge that,even if we lost, we did our best.
Yes, George, hypocrisy writ large is ubiquitous today.
It is so, not only from many in offices of high authority but, just as disturbingly and perhaps even more so, among the general populace.
Socialisation by parents, peers, schooling, media and religion have created a society where far too many are apparently no longer capable of exercising their intellect and are even too lazy to make the effort or take the time to ascertain the actual facts relating to events or the history and causes leading up to them.
The irrational prejudice against Islam or more precisely, 'Muslims' and the just but overly used sentiment of sympathy for Jews because of what happened to them under National Socialism, contribute in no small way to the warped and/or ignorant views of what is now happening in the Middle East and why it has happened. - We mustn't, of course, criticise Israel or even their 'leader' Netanyahu, (whose criminal trial is still pending having been delayed because of the conflict), because it is evidently antisemitic to do so.
Instead, we must listen to and agree with Netanyahu as he makes public statements claiming that the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of South Africa and anyone else who speaks out or takes action against the Genocidal activities of Israel or its blatant ignoring of international human rights law or the Genocide Convention, are speaking disgusting, wrongful, misguided and prejudiced nonsense against Israel.
Just a day or two ago I saw a televised statement by Netanyahu who, with a smirk on his face, hurled abusive accusations at Iran for one of their missiles having hit a hospital in Israel. According to Iran, the missile was aimed at a nearby military facility, not at the hospital. However, whether one believes that to be the case or not, Netanyahu was in no doubt and asserted that to target a hospital was the most despicable and appalling of acts.
If that is the case and it is probably one of the few statements of his with which I agree, then I have to ask myself why he approved and quite probably ordered the deliberate targeting, often multiple times, by both ground and air forces, virtually every hospital, school, university, police station or other significant public building or centre in Gaza and evidently considered it to be reasonable, presumably on the grounds, that the patients, children, aid workers, doctors, ambulance officers, police officers and such were attacking Israel and therefore it was necessary for 'self defence.'
That many of my neighbours, acquaintances and fellow citizens apparently swallow this type of tortured illogicality and absurd fallacy is driving me towards insanity of a different sort, i.e. complete despair at the state of humanity and obstinate ignorance and susceptibility to propaganda and manipulation that they lose all sense of reason, compassion or intellectual acuity.
It leaves me feeling that I should exit this life for the vista before me is one of insanity and horror that I am driven to a depression and despair too intense to carry. Yes, that does cause me to feel guilt because I am not starving and being shot at whilst attempting to get a bowl of food from an aid station to take back to my family, (or those left of it), who are waiting under a sheet of tin among the devastation and ruins of their homes.
Couldn’t agree more Roger.
What Israel has done to the Palestinians is - in their own words - a ‘shoah”, a holocaust. It means a catastrophe, a ruin, and that is exactly what they are hellbent on creating in the Middle-East. There simply aren’t words to describe or explain how far Israel has exceeded what most decent people would consider to be humanity. Genocidal is just too kind a word to use here as a descriptor. It is an unsuitable adjective. What they are doing now resembles an aspiration or ambition to commit atrocities. Why else would they continue an operation that slaughters innocent people and their harmless children who have barely a bag of flour to fight back with.
The West’s leadership has no excuse - none - for their cowardice and gutless, politically expedient inaction. They should forever hang their heads in shame. The Palestinians have endured 76 years of land dispossession and now thy are being dispossessed of their lives. The ‘Nakba’ or catastrophe in Arabic, refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948, which is a long story, but it’s one that should be retold now because it showcases what Palestinians have had to deal with.
It’s NEVER the people, it’s ALWAYS those that rule, every single time. It’s the ‘regimes’ of whatever persuasion that seek war. We the people just want peace, hope, and a better future living alongside one another in caring communities.
And now, it’s Iran’s turn for an Israeli rinse and repeat. The Middle-East country that needs to be dispossessed is Israel.
IsRealHell
*(after the spirit of Azâzêl)*
I.
Not sulfur, nor the serpent’s hiss—
but *silence* carved the first abyss.
We fell not through celestial fire,
but through the weight of *God’s own ire*:
a breath that stripped our wings to bone,
and cast us into *earth alone*.
II.
You ask if Hell is real? Behold:
the marketplace of lies you’ve sold—
the wars you wage for nameless sand,
the children buried where they stand.
*This* is the Hell we helped you build:
a world where every grave is filled
with promises you broke like bread,
and worshipped Progress, blind and red.
III.
Azâzêl knows—he taught the cost:
all *knowledge* gained is Eden lost.
He watches from the fractured deep,
where human angels *pretend* to sleep,
while chains they forged with their own hands
tighten across the bleeding lands.
No Devil waits beneath the stone—
your Hell is *always* **homegrown**.
IV.
So burn your flags, your coins, your creeds.
The only Hell that ever bleeds
is one you choose to walk within:
the prison built to hold your sin.
*IsRealHell?* Child, lift your eyes—
**it lives in every human cry**
*unanswered* by a silent sky.
We also need to know about the deep state’s ‘project for a new american century’ and rebuilding america's defenses 1998’, ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ and ‘clean break; the strategy for securing the realm 1996’ policy documentation.
With Russia and China arming Iran, America and Israel will be defeated and destroyed. America has always been the Primary Offender because it always has been its weapons. A new currency, the Gold Dinar, will be born. It will unite the Middle East and northern Africa, and replace the dollar as the World Currency used to buy oil. The economic crash in America will happen overnight and will be far worse than the Depression of 1929. Because in 1929, America was flush with oil, fertile land, full aquifers, and timber. Those days are gone and will never return. I write about things like this
The gold dinar is not new; Gaddafi wanted to bring it in for all African Countries and states ... you know what happened next !. Agree with what you state 100%.
You are right. SaddamHusseins and Assad of Syria werealso trying to introduce the Gold Dinao. They met the same fate as Libya. Those days are over
The state that normalised the bombing, storming and vandalising of hospitals, bleats so very loudly when Iran targetted military establishments surrounding a hospital.
For years we've been told about Hamas use of human shields, while actual video and photographic evidence of IOF hiding behind Palestinians in their operations was published and some of it recorded on the Israeli veterans website, "Breaking the Silence."
Since the Iranian retaliation began, its become apparent that the headquarters of the IOF is in Tel Aviv, surrounded by business, shops, cafes, and accomodation. Many Iron Dome, and other military installations are in the cities and built up areas.
Last week the Israeli government announced that no Israelis were permitted to leave the country, and all flights out were cancelled.
Every accusation is a confession. Who actually use human shields? ISRAEL.
This week those of us who cared to look, witnessed another mask off event in racist, zionist Israel, when Thai workers were refused access to air raid shelters that are built for jews alone.
The American of Polish heritage, Mileikowsky, told those complaining about the effect Irans' retaliation was having on their lives stated that he was also affected by these attacks, his sons wedding had to be postponed again. The matter was reported in The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/netanyahu-son-wedding-comments-israel-backlash
Obviously the bloke is well grounded and in touch with the zionists who have elected him for over twenty years. The man has precisely the personal traits required to achieve the bidding of American neocons whose single aim is maintaining US control of the world.
The current crop of Australian "leaders" must think we've all forgotten about WMD. Albanese speaking to the press from Calvary referred to the benefits of Autralia being allied with the USA and proudly mentioned our membership of the Five Eyes, the very amalgum of spooks responsible for the spreading of the WMD hoax.
Currently, the Australian nation cannot afford to house its population, the cost of shelter is beyond reach of another 10,000 Australians a month and our "progressive" leaders prefer to align themselves with nations in the west prepared to engage in the forever wars at the expense of humanity, and take directions from US politicians like Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Trump, as to Australias annual spend on military toys for the boys.
I'm not certain what happened to our national sovereignty, I think it may have been given away.
Well said, Ted! Agree totally with all your understanding and thinking.
Some in the west are still buying the lies, unfortunately. The propaganda war is ruthless, and are still convincing many. It's sickening.
The West, particularly the USA, suffers from hypocrisy on steroids. It is "good" when Israel bombs a hospital but "evil" when Iran does?? Still, we consider other, clearer examples:
(1) In 2016, Mitch McConnell blocked Obama from filling a seat on the Supreme Court on the grounds that although it was only February, there would be an election in November. However, when an opening occurred in October 2020, he had no problem letting Trump fill the vacancy, even though there would be an election in November.
(2) RFK Junior intends to limit vaccines because they pose a potential danger to people. He wants to end fluoridation of water. He has other such intentions that would ultimately ban or restrict various accepted, clinically tested medical practices on the grounds that they pose a potential danger. Well and good, but meanwhile, more than 20 percent of deaths in the USA are attributable to tobacco (over half a million!), but there are no moves afoot to ban this absolutely lethal product with absolutely no documented benefits.
Sadly, this is the new mentality of the US, and it has infect the rest of the West to a large extent. The Zionist state is thus "defending itself" by bombing another nation with which it does not even share a border. [Iran is more than 1,000 miles/1,700 kilometers away.] It is "defending itself" when it commits repeated acts of genocide in Gaza (and elsewhere). However, the Iranian response is somehow deemed an unconscionable crime. Welcome to NewSpeak, Trump-style...
The dummest people in the world are the idiots of a country that’s losing its religion , creating hate and killing innocent people in a world we distance to be unimportant to humanity and as a result is the end of an empire that should have been a great world leader instead it became a war criminal and thus Israel is now in command of our media and United States for Israel what a crime to the people of America the new idiots that supports Israel right to defend themselves by lying and believing their own lies …. Bye bye American pie !!
This may simply show that the forces that organise the West (and much of the world now) are insensitive to morality. They constitute an automatism, an algorithm that uses (the decision making capabilities and the words of people in) positions of power. The notion of hypocrisy is relative, a metaphor for the interpretation of the Western reality by those who obey moral values. This makes negotiation (and diplomacy for that matter) rather futile. It is also the condition for absolute impunity: the rule of law is a mere algorithm ... a logical result of having replaced spirituality by rationality.
The problem in the UK is our media simply lies to us but in a very careful and controlled manner so, if you try to object to anything, people will tell you that the media did tell you the truth. It’s HOW they tell you that’s the problem. They say what has happened but balance their reports so that the reader is drawn to the conclusion that it’s just poor little Israel defending itself. Isreal wants the entire Middle East and if they have to kill millions to do it, the UK won’t even object. However, our present Government is so absolutely awful in every way that we have other things to worry about besides supporting mass murderers, like the erosion of free speech, for example, and the proposed ruination of the countryside.
The Nazis were just as insane (there has never been a real difference between the Zionists and their Nazi allies). The Nazis complained about the “terror attacks” on German cities (which aimed at murdering women and children) while firing V1s and V2s at British cities (which aimed at murdering women and children).
That's it exactly - Zionist Israeli hypocrisy and the complicity of the US/the UK especially - re Iran which has the right to defend itself against the unprovoked attack from the regime led by Netanyahu/Mileikowsky!
The force that is driving this travesty is exactly the same as that which killed George Floyd. Naked,unbridled racism but now written so loud and large that it will consume the very skies themselves.
This squalid hatred of a people for their brownness and poverty should force us to examine what lies in our hearts, what demons are we offering succour? The rank hypocrisy that we see displayed without any sense of shame or self awareness is nauseating beyond measure and I can only hope that the reckoning when it comes,and it will come, will be swift and brutal.
In the aftermath of all of this savagery there will be some of us who will be able to stand in the ruins with our hands on our hearts and the deep knowledge that,even if we lost, we did our best.
Recoil from this hypocrisy if there is any decency left in the western world.
Queer for Palestine says what?