Comments by "Catherine Birch" (@catherinebirch8263) on "Israel Rejects Calls for Humanitarian Pause in Gaza | Pod Save The World" video.

Could the Jews being forcibly displaced from their homes into camps and then exterminated during WWII ever have imagined that their descendants would one day be doing the same thing to others? And using their suffering as justification?
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Obama is studiously avoiding the whole truth along with everyone else. The whole truth is that the overriding factor in this conflict has been and remains the establishment, perpetuation, and increase of US power and wealth by access to cheap Middle East oil. The US wants a military ally in the heart of the world's most important oil producing district and will do anything, and I mean anything, to keep that. Anything with the possible exception of the loss of too many People's lives, and that only because the powers that be learned their lesson in Vietnam - if too many People die then that inconvenient US domestic public starts to exercise its muscle. (People being American citizens who whose deaths can be directly attributed to the US government. Very few if any Gazan's are People.)
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2:54 Tommy repeats Pentagon propaganda implying that the death toll might be several times less than the figures from the Gaza Health Authority. [Only he doesn’t use the word propaganda.] 3:10 Tommy repeats IDF propaganda that their bombs dropped on Gaza were intended to target military positions. [Only he doesn’t use the word propaganda. Bombing Gazan civilians while attempting to maximize Hamas military casualties is not the same thing as bombing Gazan military while attempting to minimise civilian casualties.] 16:39 10 minutes about Biden administration’s response. They are trying every day to manage this conflict. Their messaging has evolved. They’ve called for a pause to the holocaust. [Only they don’t use the word holocaust. Huh?!? A PAUSE? WTF.] The lack of other countries coming to the defence of the Gazans is praised as a win. Obama’s past rhetoric against some of the worst of Israel’s past excesses was ineffective but a Good Thing. [Bottom line - the US is saying next to nothing about protecting Gazans. And it continues to DO far, far less than nothing. As in it’s sending Israel even more billions of dollars than usual, providing intelligence to them, etc. etc] 43:30 The war on Ukraine. [Same old same old. The mere fact they call it the war on Ukraine rather than the war against Russia says it all. Russia’s choices were to invade Ukraine before a US controlled military base gets installed there or wait for it to happen. The US wants this war to last as long as possible in order to weaken Russia. ]
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@scarletsletter4466 Yeah, but really ... as if the US could care less about secular democracies! There was a secular democracy in the Middle-East in the 1950s and the US crushed it completely in order to re-install a king who gave them cheaper oil access. That country was Iran. It is only an Islamist country because the mullahs were the only group who could hold together enough people to mount an insurrection against the US installed king who wasn't JUST a king, he was a dictator whose actions were comparable to those of Sadam Hussein. Who, BTW, was backed by the US for quite some time. I have no doubt that there are extremists in the Middle east who wish harm to the West - because it has caused them extreme suffering on a massive scale. Mostly they just want the West to Get Out.
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@scarletsletter4466 And when the US has a cheaper or comparably priced alternative to Middle East oil it will create a new cess-pit in whatever country(s) the resources that requires abound. For example, many alternative energy sources require batteries for stability. Batteries require resources.
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So the longer Israel remains the more things remain the same. That's how it was established - by Zionist terrorists telling Palestinians they were going to burn down their houses but they could go somewhere else first.
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@mkfd4571 I have no direct beef with Tommy. For someone who's been swimming in US and Zionist propaganda and obfuscation since forever, which applies to most US citizens, he's doing well indeed in the task of actually listening and processing. Although he has the additional handicap of wanting to get Biden elected and is avoiding any mention of the bottom-line facts there. And of course -a core cause of the situation is the US involvement itself. Discussion about how/whether the US can "solve the problem" avoids the discussion everyone SHOULD be happening, which is how fast can the US get out. Pretty fast I'd think. It's not a question of withdrawing a large number of troops, merely stop funding Israeli terrorism and sending it munitions and military intelligence.
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