Showing posts with label HYPOCRISY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HYPOCRISY. Show all posts
4.16.2015
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel demolished the homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel 15 minutes from Tel Aviv
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel demolished the homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel 15 minutes from Tel Aviv - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/remembrance-demolished-palestinian#sthash.JG1InXPk.dpuf
SPDF Day 45: After torching Palestinian cafe and painting ‘Revenge’ on its door, 4 Israeli teens get community service
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/torching-palestinian-community
4.13.2015
***** This is how much Israelis really care about the Holocaust: On eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 45,000 survivors living under poverty line
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/On-eve-of-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day-45000-survivors-living-under-poverty-line-396924
4.12.2015
***** SPDF Day 41:vlog. "THEY ARE NOT WORTH MY LIFE." This is the ONLY MESSAGE that the world's bystanders hear from the Free Palestine activists. THIS IS MURDER.
Free Palestine activists, our message could not be more clear. The only message that matters to the onlookers when the issue is social change is, in the case of Palestine, with our actions, every day, we scream, at the all important onlookers - THE PALESTINIANS ARE NOT WORTH OUR LIVES. THE PALESTINIANS ARE NOT WORTH MY LIFE. STOPPING THE SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIANS BY ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES, IS NOT WORTH MY LIFE.
This is all the matters. This is all the onlookers hear. And as long as the onlookers hear that message with resounding clarity then extermination of the Palestinians is exactly what we should expect to see. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.
The thousands of young people that went to Tahrir Square, three years ago or so, screamed a very different message - THIS IS WORTH OUR LIVES. RIDDING EGYPT OF MUBARAK, IS WORTH OUR LIVES. They said it individually, they said it collectively, with their actions, with their lives, with their commitment. And the onlookers of the world saw that, understood the message, that something noble was worth the lives of indivuduals, and they screamed - NO, DON'T LET THOSE PEOPLE IN TAHRIR SQUARE BE KILLED, at the powers that be, and they heard, and they stopped the slaughter.
Well, Free Palestine activists, be it JVP, J Street, Ali Abunimah, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Open Hillel, If Not Now When, Peace Now, FaceBookers... etc, on and on and on. Yes, your behavior in many cases is infinitely more heroic than mine was for most of my years. Yes, your behavior screams, at the onlookers of the world, THIS IS NOT WORTH OUR LIVES.
And of course the heroes in Palestine, who are standing up nonviolently, with their bodies, to stop this slaughter, aren't heard, aren't seen, because of the cowardly treason of the US media.
So, unless those of us in countries like America that can do so, put our bodies on the line, and keep them there, offering or giving our lives for the freedom of Palestinians, for their full human rights, then we are simply counting the days until the next slaughter, which may be only 2000, could be 20,000, could be 200,000.
Netanyahu is evil but he is not stupid. He knows that slowly the tide is turning against him. He knows that now he can get away with finishing the job, finishing 48, with impunity, now.
4.06.2015
nd. Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
***** SPDF Day 35: "The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear...." MUST READ.
The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
3.31.2015
SPDF Day 29: I expect to reduce or eliminate all together posting on Facebook. As I have always found....
SPDF Day 29: I expect to reduce or eliminate all together posting on Facebook. As I have always found, and have found again, all on Facebook are passionately committed to unending lip service, and profoundly terrified of, and hostile, truly committed life service. I haven't the time to waste, and it is my duty to not enable such grotesque hypocrisy and cowardice. There is a horrible, wonderful, old saying - the chicken is involved, the pig is committed. There is no activist, never has been, ever will be, of any consequence what so ever, that is not committed exactly in this way. And all on Facebook are committed with every fiber of their being to not be committed to life service in this way.
3.30.2015
***** SPDF Day 28: The Liberal's Denial of duty, personal responsibility, the cowardice, that is destroying the world can best be seen.... ...
***** SPDF Day 28: The Liberal's Denial of duty, personal responsibility, the cowardice, that is destroying the world can best be seen....in these two works of fiction:
The wife in A Dry White Season, the wife of the lone white man of privilege that paid everything for Justice in South Africa.
The towns-folk in the Garry Cooper version of High Noon.
The wife in A Dry White Season, the wife of the lone white man of privilege that paid everything for Justice in South Africa.
The towns-folk in the Garry Cooper version of High Noon.
3.28.2015
SPDF Day 26: An acquaintance on FB wrote: 'Our beloved Palestine." My reply: "Beloved" Palestine? ...
SPDF Day 26: An acquaintance on FB wrote: 'Our beloved Palestine." My reply: "Beloved" Palestine? No. Not by the behavior of anyone in the United States. No one in the US, and few if any outside Palestine behave as tho it was their 'beloved.' What a shameful thing to say."
3.17.2015
Why conservatives hate college The right's decades-long war on academia and "liberal professors" is about defining an elite "populists" can oppose
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/31/why_conservatives_hate_college/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
3.15.2015
3.14.2015
Looks like there never will come a time when 'activists' on the left will put their bodies where their mouths, and typing fingers, are. Nero fiddled.... (detail)
Looks like there never will come a time when 'activists' on the left will put their bodies where their mouths, and typing fingers, are. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Whine, whine, whine, blame, blame, blame, complain, complain, complain, criticize, criticize, criticize, circle-jerk, circle-jerk, circle-jerk.... The 'activists' on the left typed while Palestine, Democracy, Earth's Habitability.... burned. God damn them all. "The world will not be destroyed by the evil people, but by the good people who do not stop them." Einstein. IN FACT.
3.09.2015
Obama declares Venezuela a national security threatWashington targets seven officials with sanctions as US president signs executive order calling Caracas security threat... Obama, you effing scumbag hypocrite. You finally lost me. Were you always a corporate w**** or did they finally get you?
3.01.2015
***** nd. In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delustion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.
In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delusion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.
2.02.2015
1.20.2015
US (Drone program): The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times.... It "target[s] people suspected of perhaps intending to harm us some day, and any unfortunates who happen to be nearby," Chomsky writes. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/noam-chomsky-obamas-drone-program-most-extreme-terrorist-campaign-modern-times
US (Drone program): The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times.... It "target[s] people suspected of perhaps intending to harm us some day, and any unfortunates who happen to be nearby," Chomsky writes. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/noam-chomsky-obamas-drone-program-most-extreme-terrorist-campaign-modern-times
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