{"id":249109,"date":"2023-11-27T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=249109"},"modified":"2023-11-26T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:27:17","slug":"israel-has-damaged-israels-reputation-far-worse-than-its-enemies-ever-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/11\/israel-has-damaged-israels-reputation-far-worse-than-its-enemies-ever-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Has Damaged Israel\u2019s Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Israel has done more to damage Israel\u2019s image in the last seven weeks than antisemites did in the last seven decades. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

26 Nov 2023<\/em> – Israel raging at Hamas for killing Israelis is like a man raging at his shadow for darkening his floor. It\u2019s maddening to see grown adults acting like Hamas are these foreign invaders who attacked Israelis out of the blue because of a hatred for Jewish people, like they\u2019re internet-radicalized neo-Nazis from eastern Europe or something.<\/p>\n

Hamas attacked Israel because Israel is a murderous and tyrannical apartheid regime who butchers children and makes lives miserable for the Palestinian people. The violence on October 7 was the echo of the violence Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for generations. Only a fool gets angry at his echo for talking back to him.<\/p>\n

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Israel has done more to damage Israel\u2019s image in the last seven weeks than anti-semites did in the last seven decades.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve ever wondered why society\u2019s most famous and influential voices all have dogshit status quo politics, just look at the current purge of pro-Palestine actors<\/a> in Hollywood. If your own elite class interests and having loyalty to your rich friends isn\u2019t enough to keep you supporting the empire\u2019s information interests, you\u2019ll just get thrown out.<\/p>\n

The influence which comes with celebrity status means you\u2019ll become a threat to the establishment power structure if you start sharing ideas and information which go against its interests. That\u2019s why there are so many safeguards in place to prevent that from happening. If you\u2019re forcefully critical of US foreign policy you won\u2019t be permitted to rise to celebrity status by the Hollywood gatekeepers who are responsible for US cultural hegemony and propaganda, and if you manage to sneak past the gatekeepers they\u2019ll throw you right out on your ass when you make it clear you\u2019re not a trustworthy empire loyalist.<\/p>\n

This has created a system where all the most influential and highly amplified voices in western civilization are those who support the political status quo, while the normal people who suffer under that same status quo are left almost voiceless. This helps create the false impression that the system is working fine and no revolutionary changes are needed, because all the most visible people are saying things are peachy.<\/p>\n

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Fun challenge: try to name a famous westerner that forcefully and consistently criticizes US foreign policy who never gets accused of being an anti-semite and\/or a Russian agent.<\/p>\n

\u2756<\/p>\n

One of the most evil things Trump did while in office<\/a> was trying to cripple humanitarian aid to Yemen by designating Ansarallah a \u201cterrorist\u201d organization. Now Biden is considering the same action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The claim that supporting Israel doesn\u2019t serve US interests is both true and false, depending on how you mean it. It\u2019s arguably true that it doesn\u2019t serve the American people and doesn\u2019t help the US as a nation<\/em><\/strong>, but it most certainly serves the interests of the US empire<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There are absolutely arguments to be made that the American people don\u2019t benefit from their nation\u2019s wealth being continuously poured into a foreign state and that the US doesn\u2019t benefit as a nation from backing nonstop aggression and militarism in the middle east, but there\u2019s no way to argue that it doesn\u2019t serve the globe-spanning power structure that is loosely centralized around Washington.<\/p>\n

If the US was a normal country minding its own affairs and caring for its own people it would indeed be nonsensical for it to invest so much wealth and resources in Israel, but the US is as far from a normal country as can be. It\u2019s the hub of a vast, undeclared empire made up of allies, client states, proxies, and systems of military, economic and financial coercion which keeps most of the world moving in accordance with the wishes of the empire managers.<\/p>\n

History has shown us that this power structure can only be maintained by endless violence, threats, coercion, mass-scale psychological manipulation in the form of propaganda, and fear of nuclear annihilation. As a reliably US-aligned nuclear power which is intimately interwoven with the western war machine and the US intelligence cartel, Israel may not serve the interests of the people who live in the United States, but it is an absolutely indispensable component of the US empire.<\/p>\n

Biden wasn\u2019t fully lying when he said<\/a> \u201cWere there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.\u201d He\u2019s just telling a half-truth, because by \u201cthe United States\u201d he means the US empire, not the US as a nation.<\/p>\n

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People always bitch and moan when I say Gen Z are just plain better people than all previous generations, but these last seven weeks have provided a lot of evidence<\/a> for my position.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re always hearing that Hamas has proven it cannot be allowed to remain in control of Gaza, when you should be hearing that the Israeli regime has proven it cannot be allowed to remain in control of Palestine.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly\u00a0<\/em>at <\/em><\/a>Medium<\/a>. Contact: <\/em>admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26 Nov 2023 – Israel has done more to damage Israel\u2019s image in the last seven weeks than antisemites did in the last seven decades. Hamas attacked Israel because it is a murderous and tyrannical apartheid regime that butchers children. October 7 was the echo of the violence Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[87,865,1029,88,427],"class_list":["post-249109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-north-africa","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249111,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109\/revisions\/249111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}