There's not as many blogs and online alternative news sources that I read nowadays. Having read them all one day not that long ago, I turned to CBC News in desperation to read something else. I wasn't expecting any sort of enlightenment. But I was entertained by the vapid, obviousness of the propaganda.
First off, it seems that mainstream outlets such as the CBC have been forced to walk-back their sensationalist headlines about anti-Semitic "pogrom" in Amsterdam.
The leaders of the Gulf Monarchies get a living subsidized by their cut of the swag for keeping the price of oil "reasonable" to the USA, Europe and Japan. Obviously, this must involve pay-outs to other power blocs in their societies, and, a "security" establishment to eliminate radical nationalists and others. Since the huge increases in oil prices after 1973, the subsidy has gone into annual pay-offs to entire populations. (similar to Doug Ford's upcoming $200 bribe to Ontarians) the bullshit public-sector jobs and other perks for the population, cost less than the price of pursuing independence and an extortionate price for oil* and genuine economic development. For decades they have beein importing Asians and Africans and Filipinos to do the work that the Arab working class used to do. And they treat these "guest workers" as veritable slaves. It's all cheaper (in the short run) than creating a viable future after the oil runs out. (Or stops selling.)
MBS and the others at the top of this infernal system are degenerates who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves. Many of them have never like the Palestinians. But they are Arabs and co-religionists with the Palestinians. And even these sold-out Princelings who bribe their populations must occasionally bow to public opinion. Especially if many members of your military/security apparatus are also vulnerable to public opinion. Especially if the pay for being a lieutenant in such an army isn't enough to drown your anger at the Zionists' treatment of your fellow Arabs. Or the anger of that lietenant's family and friends which he will notice when he is not at work and will have to live with.
These Arab puppet-monarchies are probably handing out bonuses and promotions as I type. And MBS is calling Israel's genocide a genocide because he just has too. (He might even mean it for all that I care.) But, recently I head that Iran has a million-man army. At first I thought: "So What?" Neither Israel or the USA is going to invade Iran with troops. And there are all those countries between Iran and Israel.
But consider this: Iraq hates the US-Occupation and no doubt the Iraqi military AND the far more viable Iraqi militias could easily side with Iran. Anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence systems could defend the movement of that million-man army through Iraq, co-ordinated with Syria and Hezbollah and pro-Muslim/anti-Zionist/pro-Arab/pro-Palestine nationalists in the militaries of the Gulf monarchies.
*The same way the capitalists have priced things elsewhere.
Jonathan Glazer's film "The Zone of Interest" (based on a novel by Martin Amis) was about how any attempt at a normal life by mass murderers is fraudulent. The story deals with an SS commandant of a nazi extermination camp trying to pretend that he is just a man providing for his family as best he can by being an efficient functionary for his employer. The film shows that his inhuman behaviour hollows out his own humanity and that the world he has created is a lie.
I still get into it with fuck-faces who dream of stuffing their noses up the rancid shit holes of vermin such as Pee-Pee Poilievre and stephen harper. On phase-buck recently, some douche-bag (obviously riffing off of US-American stupidity) told me that "the Conservatives are the party of the working class." (This was after he farted out how socialism will destroy civilization.)
And I'm just getting warmed-up!!!
It's how the individual representative of the species survives. Look at children fighting over stuff. Three-year olds don't really recognize the humanity of the individual they're struggling against. (Very often we have to dehumanize the humans who have things that we want. Israelis and Arabs is just the most recent graphic example.) Much of childhood is learning that you can't have everything. Much of being an adult is knowing how to navigate society to maximize what you get. (This doesn't have to mean material things.)
But the main thing is that we're selfish.
Being gullible, childish and ill-informed, many Westerners of a progressive bent are brainwashed and therefore their analysis of the world is poor. From those hopeless intellectual failures who have always seen any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism, to those liberal (or liberal influenced) types who believe that the unsavoury character of some opponents of the Washington DC imperialists makes defending them, or seeing things from their perspective, as "supporting" them. (Protesting the invasion of Iraq equals supporting Saddam Hussein. Criticizing the occupation of Afghanistan makes you a Taliban lover. Condemning the starvation sanctions on North Korea means you embrace Kim Jong Un. And so-on and such-forth ["Putin puppets" "PRC-puppets"].)
It seems that some Israeli hooligans provoked a riot in Amsterdam with their obnoxious behaviour. (Tearing Palestinian flags from private residences/chanting "Death to Arabs!"/jeering during a moment of silence for the victims of flooding in Spain.) They were fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv that was in Amsterdam to lose to Ajax Amsterdam 5-0.
Minor riots with Maccabi fans actually took place on two nights. On the night of the 6th to 7th November, a day before a game against Ajax Amsterdam, hooligan soccer fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, presumably under Mossad 'protection', teared down Palestinian flags from private Dutch dwellings (video) and attacked Dutch taxi drivers of Arab descent:
Taxi Driver @DutchTaxiDriver - 2:55 UTC · Nov 7, 2024Schandalig en onacceptabel: een Amsterdamse taxichauffeur aangevallen en mishandeld door Maccabi hooligans. Dit geweld moet stoppen. Steun voor onze chauffeurs die onze stad draaiende houden, ook in moeilijke tijden. #StopGeweld #Amsterdam #RespectVoorChauffeurs #Ajax
Outrageous and unacceptable: an Amsterdam taxi driver attacked and abused by Maccabi hooligans. This violence must stop. Support our drivers who keep our city running, even in difficult times. #StopGeweld #Amsterdam #RespectVoorChauffeurs #Ajax
VideoAs The British Mail Online reported yesterday:
Israeli football hooligans tore down Palestine flags as they marched through Amsterdam in a Wednesday night of chaos ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv's visit to Ajax.Videos show dozens of hooded figures dressed fully in black cheering and chanting 'f*** you Palestine' and 'ole' as one climbed halfway up the front of a building and removed a flag on the Rokin, a major street.
Footage also shows one thug thumping a taxi with crowbar before the driver takes off, while there have been reported clashes between the visiting hooligans and cabbies.
Meanwhile, clips shared by a prominent pro-hooligan page depict bust-ups purported to be between Maccabi fans and a group of Moroccan Ajax supporters.
On the evening of November 7 Maccabi Tel Aviv lost its game against Ajax Amsterdam. Ajax won 5 to 0.
Before the game a minute of silence was asked for victims of flooding in Spain. The Mossad directed Maccabi hooligans ignored it.
After the game more scuffles and riots reportedly happened. But this time the Zionist hooligans were apparently in a minority against a group of pro-Palestinian Ajax fans and had to flee to their hotels.
Caitlin Johnstone shows how this is being presented and mentions the hypocritical pearl clutching of Western politicians:
Whatever fascist authoritarian policies Trump might introduce have only been made possible by the authoritarian powers enabled and maintained and used and expanded by the Democratic Party over decades of bipartisan anti-democratic policy. Remember that the post-9/11 "Patriot Act" was built on J. R. Biden's "Anti-Terrorism" legislation. The surveillance state, the transfer of military weapons to local police forces, the incarceration state, torture, extra-judicial killings ("targetted assassinations" or "murder") have all been embraced by Democrats as well as Republicans.
I've seen a few of those red paper poppies here and there and I realized that November 11th is coming. That's the day when the empty-headed war-mongers dress up in funeral formal and go to war memorials and try to look solemn and grave while ignoring the fact that their careers are a direct contradiction to the ceremony they're attending.
Veneration for veterans? The best one for that was stephen harper. The complete intellectual failure and the pants-pissing coward who infamously nickeled and dimed wounded veterans (sadistically) and shared the psychiatric records of their ombudsman.
Anti-war? Our current prime minister, the air-head narcissist Justin Trudeau, is aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine. Way to go Justin! The Canadian soldiers who were killed or wounded or traumatized fighting the genocidal nazi regime can now be said to have helped achieve the victory of Canada so that Canada could go on to support genocides it approves of. Also, with his shit-for-brains total support for everything that Israel is doing against Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, and with everything that NATO has been doing to provoke Russia, he is well on his way to making sure that this country did its stupid part to cause World War III.
