Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-01-23 at 22:21:08 )

Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Pay less attention to peoples words about wanting "peace" and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.

Everyone says they want peace, but they mean different things by this. To an anti-imperialist, peace means the end of violence, oppression and exploitation. To a Zionist, peace means Palestinians lie down and accept their fate and neighboring nations cease disobeying Israel. To a supporter of the United States empire, peace means all nations around the world submit to United States unipolar hegemony. Many say they want peace when what they really want is tyranny.

If "peace" to you means other populations bow down and submit to your will, then it makes perfect sense for you to believe that your wars are being waged to attain peace, because those wars are being used to violently bludgeon those populations into obedience. If your definition of peace means the cessation of all violence and abuse, then you will support ceasefires, peace negotiations, diplomacy, the de-escalation of tensions, the cessation of imperialist extraction, and the end of apartheid and injustice.

Pay less attention to peoples words about wanting "peace" and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.

Make no mistake: Israel has lost control of the narrative about Gaza, and they are very, very worried about this.

That is why they are making big moves like the below. Do not let anyone tell you your efforts to expose Israels criminality to more people make no difference.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) January 19, 2024

Someone asked "Can we all agree that our world would be better without a Hamas?"

This is the sort of question that can only make sense to you if you view Hamas as some kind of invasive alien presence that was imposed upon Palestine from the outside instead of a natural emergence from the material circumstances that have been forced upon Palestinians.

If you have got a group of people being sufficiently oppressed and violently persecuted by the ruling power, you are going to start seeing violent opposition to that ruling power as sure as you will see blood arise from a wound.

If Hamas had been completely eliminated a decade ago, there would be a Palestinian group organizing violence against the state of Israel today under that or some other name.

If Hamas is completely eliminated tomorrow, there will be a Palestinian group organizing violence against the state of Israel in a matter of years (assuming there are any Palestinians left when this is all over, of course). If a man starts strangling me, at some point I am going to try to gouge his eyes and crush his testicles. That is just what happens when humans find themselves under a sufficient amount of existential pressure.

Asking if the world would be better without Hamas is as nonsensical as asking if Alaska would be better without coats. The presence of coats in Alaska is the natural consequence of the material conditions in that region, and as long as those material conditions persist for the population of Alaska then there will necessarily be coats.

Do not ask if the world would be better without a Hamas, ask if the world would be better without the conditions which make a Hamas inevitable.

Biden has started a new United States war in Yemen while backing a genocide in Gaza, both of which are fully supported by the party which supposedly opposes him. But by all means go ahead and spend the rest of the year fixating on the United States presidential race.

Know how you can tell it no longer matters who the United States president is? They stopped getting assassinated.

The Biden administrations justifications for its acts of war in Yemen are premised on the absurd assumption that the world economy should march on completely uninhibited during an active genocide.

Supporting the worlds most powerful government bombing the poorest country in the middle east for trying to stop a genocide is the most sycophantic bootlicking you can possibly cram into a single political opinion.

Feminism was supposed to mean freeing women from oppression and inequality. Now it means gunning down civilians for being the wrong race.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) January 19, 2024

Israel is not relentlessly murderous and abusive because it is run by Jews, it is relentlessly murderous and abusive because that is the only way to maintain an ethnostate that was abruptly dropped on top of an already existing civilization. This would be true if it had been a Mormon state or a Romani state.

Take any already existing country with its own ethnic and religious makeup and its own relationships with surrounding countries and drop a brand new artificial ethnostate on top of it with a deluge of immigrants who are designated special and above the people in that region, and you are going to get a ton of violence.

You are also going to see the dominant group espouse supremacist ideological beliefs to justify why its fine for them to be placed above the other group and receive better treatment by the state. These things would happen regardless of what those respective ethnic and religious makeups happen to be.

How can we be sure of this? Because we have seen it happen time and time again in other settler-colonialist projects throughout history which had nothing to do with Jews or Muslims.

It is not about Jews and Judaism, it is about the nature and character of the ethnostate which got placed overtop a pre-existing civilization in the 1940s. The religions and ethnicities are interchangeable with pretty much any other in terms of how much violence would be necessary to institute and maintain such a state.

People who say they oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza but do not forcefully oppose Bidens facilitation of Israels actions in Gaza do not actually oppose Israels actions in Gaza.

There is a type of uninformed comment I keep seeing, usually from Americans, that goes something like this: "What do I care about Israel and Hamas? It is none of our business and we should stay out of it."

This comment is born of the misunderstanding that people want the United States to meddle in middle eastern affairs to stop the slaughter in Gaza, which is a notion many Americans reflexively oppose these days because they have learned that United States "humanitarian interventions" in that region are consistently disastrous and often very costly.

But that is not what is being called for. What is being called for is for the United States to STOP intervening in Israel and Gaza - to END an intervention that is ALREADY taking place.

The United States has been pouring billions of dollars of weaponry into Israel every year for many years now, and has sent a whole lot more since October 7 to assist the Israeli butchery that has been happening in Gaza. If the United States ceased supporting Israels violence in Gaza, that violence would necessarily be forced to end.

As a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick told the Jewish News Syndicate in November, "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it is all from the United States. The minute they turn off the tap, you can not keep fighting. You have no capability.. Everyone understands that we can not fight this war without the United States. Period."

If you do not want your government engaging in foreign conflicts and intervening in foreign affairs, then you should oppose the United States-backed massacres in Gaza, because that is exactly what it is. The anti-interventionist position for an American to have is to demand that the Biden administration stop actively facilitating this mass atrocity.

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