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Ramadan ends this morning

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I’m afraid a general conflict will spill out into free for all rather than a loose confederation against Israel. Everyone pursuing their own historical grievances.

“This Israeli chaotic ‘Biblical’ nihilism.”

It’s interesting to see the culture being inducted to see violence as the norm, it’s just a given nowadays.

Blood sports, overly graphic television, gaming and countless online videos showing real graphic violence.

Rubber bulllets used to be seen as a violation of human rights, now levelling city blocks is justified.

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Recall Hollywood's series of dystopian movies such as "The Purge, and Hunger Games based on novels of same names. The endless stream of violent video games, and the propaganda that has our younger generations fearful, anarchic, indoctrinated to hate and express violence toward those the current regime despises. No wonder our culture continues to reflect the sort of violence that gave the middle ages the notion of life being violent, brutish and short.

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You mention Mr. Macgregor's concern that Americans aren't engaged. I notice in recent twitter posts he's been telling us to "Wake up." Who does Mr. Macgregor think his audience is? 99% of us who might read his twitter posts, his interviews, or this substack have known for a very long time how bad it is. What I really want to know from Mr. Macgregor is (other than voting) what exactly those of us who are "awake" are supposed to do with this knowledge. The Pentagon's actions (in reality) don't require approval of US presidents or voters. Neither do Mitch McConnell's. The entire political class rabidly favors endless wars. At minimum, "Their blood, our bullets."

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Agree with your questions. The ONLY way to make politics work for regular folks is for regular folks to get involved in politics. Spend time finding people who are sane and support them with time and money. It is very hard. Crazy people abound. Eventually one will find intelligent effective people with whom to slowly push in the right direction. It took more than a century for progressives (our revolutionary communist vanguard disguising themselves with a name that implies that everything they do results in PROGRESS!!! when in fact all they do is further centralize power into their hands) to hijack the US. The process to turn the ship back to a sane society that is focused on the well-being of ordinary people will take just as long or longer. Everyone who sees this has talents, skills and resources that can contribute to pushing against what is happening. It is very hard but it is the only way.

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Perhaps readers would be interested to get a taste of the type of e-missives I receive:

Your historical ignorance is equal

Only to your unethical and immoral bias. Jewish supremacy????!!! Blood libel is in your dna. Do you condemn the genocidal Hamas? Archaeological truths about Jerusalem…Israel…Palestine. Jews. Ancient homeland of these newly aggrieved population…Gazans…then…

What is the ancestral language, cuisine, history of this population. Why would these poor innocents not be allowed into Egypt or Jordan to save them from genocide?

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Keep wearing the flack jacket made of Teflon for us Mark!!!

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Thanks for sharing. Too bad you have to deal with that. Glad you are mature. You are also over the target and taking fire.

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This foaming lunatic projects some very ugly things from his own dna.

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To whoever wrote this may I express my point of view that murder is wrong regardless of who does it, including Hamas and the Israeli government. There is no excuse (ethnic, cultural, or historical) for killing people who are civilians and not active combatants in a conflict (as per the Geneva Conventions) and who have not been convicted of any crimes. A government that allows and encourages this without regard to its own laws and without regard to any constraints of morality is barbaric in its lack of restraint and lacks authority - it cannot be said to be acting either ethically or in a civilized fashion.

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Western nihilists creed: annihilate or be annihilated. Both could possibly occur in sequence, when insane, evil, idiots are in charge worst case scenarios become more likely.

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With all the negative stuff the Biden Administration is doing, I’m amazed their polling is good as it is.

Interesting point:

“ Netanyahu knows there is a closing window of time within which he must widen the war to entangle American Military Power or risk the redirection of American attention to pressing internal matters. ”

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Very sober analysis by Doug Macgregor. Israel is playing with fire.

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I have to wonder if Macgregor still admires Israel and believes they are a good ally.

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I agree with Steghorn. I think that Mr. Saudi hinted that McGregor has had his eyes opened.

I certainly have.

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I suspect, like many of us, he's seeing a side of Israel that he hadn't noticed before.

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Maybe he had a come to Jesus moment.

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That or reality hit him upside the head.

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“Those damn Israelis are gonna wind up getting us all killed”

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I love how, right on cue, Lindsey! tries to destabilise him by going full-on over abortion. Just like he did before the 2022 midterms. Trump dodged it with more finesse than I would expect from him.

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The date of the Luongo podcast was Jan 5.

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Removed (Banned)Apr 10
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Hate speech free zone

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The zealots all are over the internet on every blog where criticism of Israel and Zionism can be found. Whoever this is you keep banning is likely on every blog where truth is being told spinning their web of lies and spewing hatred.

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There's nobody that I keep banning. Every ban is unique.

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Interesting. Thanks for your explanation.

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