Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder"
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IDF Intelligence Service report from June 1948 lists 11 factors which precipitated the exodus, listing them in order of importance as:
a. Direct hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements. (The Haganah was the army of the Yeshuv, or Jewish community in Palestine, and was the precursor of the Israeli Defense Force, or IDF.)
b. The effect of our hostile operations on nearby Arab settlements (especially the fall of large neighboring centers).
c. Operations of the Jewish dissidents (terrorist organisations like Irgun and the Stern Gang, also known as the Irgun Tzvai Leumi, Lehi, etc.).
d. Jewish whispering operations (psy-ops) aimed at frightening away Arab inhabitants.
e. Expulsion orders (by Haganah/IDF).
The Israeli Intelligence Service gives an explanation re. the main factors, concluding that “without doubt, hostile (edit: own) operations were the main cause of the movement of the population”.
According to the own analyses, it was a forced expulsion, or ethnic cleansing. Note that more than half of these actions took place before the Arab attack of 1948, so that the typical apologetic "it was war you know," is no excuse.
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Remember all their names.
But as millions of individuals, maybe we should start thinking about a different strategy.
All around the world, millions of others like Aaron have finally figured out they are on the wrong side of a 100-year old imperialist war in the ME, but they are not as connected or organized like the outside meddlers have been for 100 years. Right from the start of this conflict 100 years ago, the meddlers' strategy has been "divide and rule", and it has been all about OIL and outside Western CONTROL over strategic locations on the map.
Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting.
Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this:
- You are not going to achieve much by voting in elections.
- You are not going to achieve much by posting on social media.
- You are not going to achieve much by debating on any plattform, real or virtual.
- You are not going to achieve much by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way.
- You are not going to achieve much by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference.
Here is what you can do, easily:
1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours)
2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed
3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands". 👍👋
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Slavery was abolished, because there was more to be gained by abolishing it, than by perpetuating it.
With a few exceptions, nobody in the landowner class abolished slavery because they woke up one morning feeling sorry for "poor slaves" lanquishing in misery. In the British Empire, the families who had gained enormous wealths off the backs of slaves for hundreds of years, now earned massively again in return for abolishing slavery, at the expense of British taxpayers. The slave owners were paid in advance. The last installment of this gaint "wealth distribution"-scheme from the bottom up (the armies of taxpayers) to the top (ruling class), was only paid back in 2015.
Furthermore, the freed slaves were immediately replaced by a system of exploitation called "indentured servitude". For the landowner class, the grift was double as good. Reimbursed upfront, whilst engaging the next exploitive scheme. What a coincidence that the British Empire "freed slaves" at just the same time they had finished their brutal conquest of India, and the "divide and rule/conquer" subjection of almost the entire Indian subcontinent, meaning that GB came into the possession of an inexhaustible amount of cheap labor. An imperialist advantage no other state on the planet enjoyed: The British Empire simply did not NEED slaves anymore to prosper, but other rivals, like the USA did. The British Empire could now strutt about, all goody-two-shoes, pointing at all those other nasty white people who still held slaves. Forbidding slave trade and slave labor, was a form of economic warfare on its potential rivals, mainly the USA and had little to do with empathy for suffering, since these "white devils" were was still meting out unprecidented suffering everywhere they turned up.
All the while, the poor and middle-class paid of the slavery debt.
Sorry "taxpayer class".
You lose.
Again, and again, and again, and again...because you fall for the dumb stories your ruling elites tell are "the truth."
And today? The families who received their enormous "reinbursements" for "lost property" (slaves/human beings) upfront 200 years ago, still block any and all freedom of information acts, to keep hidden who they are.
YOU and your working-class ancestors were allowed to pay, but you are not allowed to find out WHO GAINED BIGTIME 200 hundred years ago.
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They chant, "Palestine was never a state..." because Israel never intended for Palestians to ever live in full sovereignty.
Netanyahu, quoting Yitzhak Rabin, “We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”
“We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, [aka/edit: the "Apartheid dependency, of a Bantustan"] and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority. The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”
“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”
“Jerusalem,” Rabin said in his speech, would be “united as the capital of Israel under Israeli sovereignty,” and “will include both Ma'ale Adumim and Givat Ze'ev”.
“We came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”
Even at this point in the 1990s, the last real chance of peace, Israel wanted Arafat to "sign away" millions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, to fall under Israeli control.
What that would have meant, we see today.
Settler colonists, protected by the IDF, occupying one house at a time, making the original inhabitants homeless in their own city...
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@69Solo Yes, that poster above is an apologist for settler colonialism, and in the Levant it "started" long before 1948.
For 100 years, settler colonists (Irgun, Lehi, Palmach, etc.) cooperating with the hegemon, carried out such practices of harassment, trying to coerce the original inhabitants to flee so they could occupy the land.
A hundred years ago the British Empire dispatched psychos like Orde Wingate (Special Night Squads) who took pleasure in random shootings, or waterboarding opposition to the British Empire in oil, sending the tortured back to their villages to report about the actions of their oppressors.
Remember all their names.
But as millions of individuals, maybe we should start thinking about a different strategy.
All around the world, millions of others like Aaron Bushell have finally figured out they are on the wrong side of a 100-year old imperialist war in the ME, but they are not as connected or organized like the outside meddlers have been for 100 years. Right from the start of this conflict 100 years ago, the meddlers' strategy has been "divide and rule", and it has been all about OIL and outside Western CONTROL over strategic locations on the map.
Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers...
*Boycott corporations *
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@Alexdorio-kc9yf Imperialism.
The people of the Greater Middle East, including the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous rulers make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a bark by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the playground during the Cold War).
Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule".
Today, their leaders are ALL tools.
Endless wars, constant dissent.
Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust...
Create favorites: favoritism...
Point the finger, everywhere else...
Divide and Rule.
Oldest trick in the book...
Who wields the POWER? Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline?
Same people and systems. Different times. Same games.
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People...
Stop complaining and getting upset...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands, buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting.
Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this:
- You are not going to achieve it by voting in elections.
- You are not going to achieve it by posting on social media.
- You are not going to achieve it by debating on any plattform, real or virtual.
- You are not going to achieve it by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way.
- You are not going to achieve it by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference.
Here is what you can do, easily:
1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours)
2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed
3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands". 👍👋
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I'm going to go against the common consensus in this thread.
In terms of "power", the tail does NOT "wag the dog".
Ever since WW1, the artificial manmade creation of "Israel" was a TOOL of empires, to destabilze the entire Middle East, as a "divide and rule" strategy of first London and Paris, then later the USA as British and French power weakened after the 1960s...
Zionism became a tool of the British Empire during WW1.
After WW2, the hegemon causing problems in the Levant and the ME in general, became Washington DC.
The Cold War and "oil" (interests), geopolitical/grand strategy strategic interests (like military bases, or the control of geographical chokepoints), was the reason for all of the US/collective West's meddling in the ME for more than 100 years...
From a position of POWER, the USA/collective West used and still uses, the age-old strategy of "divide and rule" over ALL these minor powers in the Middle East and therefore the Levant.
The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists they initially created with their own desire to CONTROL and DOMINATE the world, as terrorists...
It's "divide and rule".
Stand up to the hegemon, and one becomes the outgroup.
It's ALWAYS divide and rule if governments defend wrongs against the wishes of most of its inhabitants. For the "dividers", the resulting division is always good. They can rule over the fear, the discord, manage the "finger pointers", and moderate the "pointed at" alike.
The "winners"?
Those who act like the historical "Rome" in the background, pulling the strings of POWER, affording favoratism to chosen ones, for their own aims and goals.
It's how "divide and rule" works...
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@admetussenatorofthesullane7759 Do not argue with fools: boycott.
Remember all their names.
But as millions of individuals, maybe we the people should start thinking about a different strategy.
All around the world, millions of people have finally figured out they are on the wrong side of a 100-year old imperialist war in Asia, Africa and the ME, but they are not as connected or organized like the outside meddlers have been for 100s of years. Right from the start of this conflict centuries ago, the meddlers' strategy has been "divide and rule", and it has been all about OIL and outside Western CONTROL over strategic locations on the map.
Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join up...
It's free.
Nobody will ask you to sign anything.
Only once there is an impact, there will be change: because the international cross-border politically influencial well-organized rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting...
Start unravelling the connections between the globalist elites, international big business, and lobby-friendly Washington DC, by boycotting ALL big brands.
Do not delay. Start today. 👍👋
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