The discussion focuses on the impending defeats currently faced by the ruling Western establishment, on both the Ukraine and Palestine fronts. The panel ponders the various ways in which these defeats will take shape in 2024 including the West’s betrayal of Volodymyr Zelensky, and the extent to which other Western proxies like Egypt’s Al Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah can maintain their regime given the universal disgust that is elicited by their complicity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
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Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR [ENG subs] [Chinese Documentary]
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Prepared by C Ozmun https://cozmun.gumroad.com/ NOTE: Dec 18, 2023 Sound cuts out briefly about 3 times throughout the documentary. I couldn't find a version that doesn't do this. All soundless parts are still subtitled.
A Chinese documentary seeking to explain the slow-motion downfall of the USSR in terms of historical nihilism, basically a cultural disease eventually corroding politics. Obviously, many forces and events contributed to this outcome, both internal and external. During its entire life the Soviet Union was subjected to the immense hostile pressures of world capitalism—economic (boycots, sanctions, sabotage); political, military (wars, arms race), diplomatic (isolation, blockades), cultural (nonstop defamation) etc— all spearheaded by the US and its leading vassals, which forced Moscow to alter its course and often adopt policies that proved more costly to its socialist construction than anticipated.
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ANNALS OF DISINFORMATION: Polls Show Americans Wildly Deceived About Gaza War
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Anti-Israel protester in London. Britain has been the center of massive anti-Zionist demonstrations since this phase of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict began on Oct. 7. The British Government is working double time to quell the protests in the name of anti-Semitism. Similar demonstrations have been seen across Europe and the Global South.
74% of Americans think Hamas wants Genocide of Israelis; 31% think Israel wants genocide of Gazans (which Israel has actually wanted ever since Israel was founded in 1948). Americans also falsely believe that Hamas (which is supported by 88% of Palestinians) is rejected by Palestinians. How can a democracy exist in America if the public are so extremely deceived as this? It can’t (and doesn’t). So: these poll-findings are of wider significance than merely the Gazan war.
Field Dates: December 13-14, 2023
This survey was conducted online within the United States from December 13-14 among 2,034 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX.
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“Should Israel cease all hostilities now [37%Yes] or keep going until Hamas is defeated and the hostages released?” [63%Yes]?
Do you think Hamas is supported by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza [34%Yes] or is Hamas a terror group that rules the people of Gaza with force and fear and is not supported by them [66%Yes]?
Who is primarily responsible for triggering the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - Hamas [73%] or Israel [37%]?
W. 13 December 2023, [atrociously written, and without appropriate context] by KARIN LAUB
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians published Wednesday shows [strong public support for Hamas and rejection of its competitor the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank and which is led by Mahmoud Abbas.] …
57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes. …
88% want Abbas to resign, up by 10 percentage points from three months ago. In the West Bank, 92% called for the resignation of the octogenarian. … nearly 60% now saying it [the Palestinian Authority] should be dissolved. In the West Bank, [the U.S.-Government-backed] Abbas’ continued security coordination with Israel’s military against Hamas, his bitter political rival, is widely unpopular [amongst Palestinians even in the West Bank]. …
The level of anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism is huge among Palestinians because of the positions they have taken regarding international humanitarian law and what is happening in Gaza. [See this and this.] …
The survey was conducted from Nov. 22 to Dec. 2 among 1,231 people in the West Bank and Gaza and had an error margin of 4 percentage points. In Gaza, poll workers conducted 481 in-person interviews during a weeklong cease-fire that ended Dec. 1.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
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“...the Jews were the ones that walked side by side with the Blacks to fight for their rights. And now the Black community isn’t embracing us and saying ‘We stand with you the way you stood with us’? Jews died for their cause. Where’s the history lesson in that? Who’s teaching these kids? Because the fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us, to me, says they don’t know, or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews.” - Julianna Margulies
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer pulled off this dubious feat with his statements about U.S. policy towards Israel, what he perceives to be anti-semitism, and public opinion about Israel’s attack on Gaza. His remarks resembled those of actress Julianna Margulies, whose infamous rant differed only in its lack of politesse. Of course, a senator has better political sense and more awareness than an entertainer, but aside from the manner of delivery, their thought processes don’t differ very much.
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Schumer’s speech on the Senate floor began with a disclaimer that he then proceeded to refute, “This speech is not an attempt to label most criticism of Israel and the Israeli government generally as antisemitic.” Why then did he include claims such as, “The Anti-Defamation League estimates that antisemitic incidents have increased nearly 300 percent since October 7th.” ADL’s data is at best questionable. That organization categorized some protests, even those led by Jewish individuals and organizations, as being “anti-Israel rallies with support for terror.” The Senator’s words don’t mean very much if one can call for a ceasefire in Gaza or express condemnation for the wholesale killing of civilians and be labeled an anti-semite in the process.
Margulies referred to Jews as “marginalized.” Schumer didn’t use the same word but said, “But for many Jewish Americans, any strength and security that we enjoy always feels tenuous. No matter how well we’re doing, it can all be taken away in an instant.” There are people throughout the world who have been historically oppressed and who feel vulnerable as a result of this treatment. The Palestinians certainly feel that way. Black people in this country can surely respond, “Welcome to our world!”
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But it would be a mistake to engage in an oppression contest when there are other problems at hand. Underlying the remarks of both Margulies and Schumer is an idea that criticism of Israel has to be so severely proscribed as to be unspoken.One can express disagreement with Israeli policy, but not say that the state born of European colonialism is a colonizer or that acts defined as war crimes by the Geneva Conventions can be labeled as such. In effect, Israel’s critics are being told to keep their thoughts to themselves.
Schumer believes that the only acceptable comments about the events of October 7 must condemn Hamas and can express no other thought or point out that Israel is an apartheid state or that the Hamas fighters should be thought of as martyrs. “Many of the people who have expressed these sentiments in America aren’t neo-Nazis, or card-carrying Klan members, or Islamist extremists. They are in many cases people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers.
Not long ago, many of us marched together for Black and Brown lives, we stood against anti-Asian hatred, we protested bigotry against the LGBTQ community, we fought for reproductive justice out of the recognition that injustice against one oppressed group is injustice against all. But apparently, in the eyes of some, that principle does not extend to the Jewish people.”
If Schumer and others expect a quid pro quo for their actions they should just say so. “Black lives matter but only if you say what I want you to say for the next few decades,” would be outrageous if spoken out loud but that is the gist of the criticism. There is also an assumption of superiority, a belief that one group has the right to make itself more deserving of sympathy and is entitled to silence others or to say that disagreements amount to bigotry and hatred.
Most importantly, Black people have every right to speak on any issue that we may choose. We have a right to our own politics. We have a right to choose who we will unite within bonds of solidarity. We have a right to praise or to condemn as we see fit. Expecting otherwise is to treat us as supplicants without agency who depend on the whims of others who can then cast us aside whenever doing so is politically convenient.
The problem for politicians and actresses alike is that the world has changed. Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and its defense of war crimes have created a sea change in international opinion. No one is tiptoeing around Schumer’s feelings. The sight of bombed out hospitals and a body count of more than 20,000 dead has awakened millions of people who once would have been silent. That time has passed and Israel and its supporters are not being afforded any special treatment.
Perhaps that is the cause of the angst. The old methods don’t work anymore. If the millions of people protesting Israel’s war crimes can all be called anti-semites, the word loses its meaning and the fear of being labeled as such is also gone. The vilification will no doubt continue but the responses will no longer be the same. The least the world can do for the dead of Gaza is to speak up on their behalf. Doing otherwise would only add to the terrible wrongdoing that took their lives.
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Filmed during the attack and in the days following the ceasefire, the documentary tells the story of how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outwitted the vastly superior Israeli military and established their ability to intervene against Israeli ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and provocations at the al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
“The Palestinian military capabilities are not highly sophisticated and destructive, but it becomes so effective when it’s used by smart Palestinian youths who believe in their rights and freedom,” a masked al-Qassam commander says.
The documentary features intimate interviews with survivors, many of whom lost family members in the Israeli bombardment.
Among them is Omar Abu al-Ouf, who lost 22 family members in the bombing of his family’s house in al-Remal, Gaza’s main thoroughfare.
“The first missile came down on us in the street with no prior warning or call,” he recounted.
Among those killed was Omar’s father, Dr. Ayman Abu al-Ouf, one of the most senior physicians in all of Gaza.
Others, like 11-year-old Amal Ramzi Muhammed Nasir, fled amid the bombardment to take shelter in United Nations-run schools.
“We were trying to sleep. At exactly 1 a.m., there were sounds of explosions and airstrikes nearby. The house was shaking due to the intensity of the explosions.”
Having escaped to a school, Nasir and her family returned after the ceasefire to find their homes in ruins.
“We arrived and saw that our neighborhood that housed us our entire lives, our shelter, completely leveled to the ground,” she recalled. “Every single house was damaged and bombed.”
Jawad Mahdi, owner of the al-Jalaa tower, described Israel destroying the place he and his family lived for 25 years:
The building collapsed, and it took 25 years’ worth of memories, a place we lived in for 25 years, with my children, grandchildren, neighbors, and friends. Imagine building a house brick by brick, piece by piece, living in your home with your knowledge and dreams. Suddenly, you find yourself out of this house. An indescribable tragedy – being kicked out of your own home in an instant, a matter of seconds, even a minute, under nonexistent, illogical, and unethical reasons.”
As for future confrontations with the Israeli military, the al-Qassam commander sees them as inevitable as long as the occupation remains: “The Israeli occupation experienced our military capabilities in the last aggression on the Gaza Strip and the whole world saw it. And we still have more important capabilities in the shadow.”
He believes that armed resistance presents a viable path to liberation:
The lessons learned from the last aggression on the Gaza Strip is that Israel is an occupation state that could be defeated. It’s not a firm state that has been depicted by the Israeli Zionist propaganda machine. Palestinians can get their liberation and retrieve their rights and freedom.”
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Dan Cohen is the Washington DC correspondent for Behind The Headlines. He has produced widely distributed video reports and print dispatches from across Israel-Palestine. He tweets at @DanCohen3000.
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