{"id":252886,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252886"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:42:31","slug":"many-say-they-want-peace-when-what-they-really-want-is-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/many-say-they-want-peace-when-what-they-really-want-is-obedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/israel-usa-flags.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-252888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/israel-usa-flags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/israel-usa-flags.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/israel-usa-flags-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/israel-usa-flags-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pay less attention to people\u2019s words about wanting \u201cpeace\u201d and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>24 Jan 2024<\/em> &#8211; Everyone says they want peace, but they mean different things by this. To an anti-imperialist, peace means the end of violence, oppression and exploitation. To a Zionist, peace means Palestinians lie down and accept their fate and neighboring nations cease disobeying Israel. To a supporter of the US empire, peace means all nations around the world submit to US unipolar hegemony. Many say they want peace when what they really want is tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cpeace\u201d to you means other populations bow down and submit to your will, then it makes perfect sense for you to believe that your wars are being waged to attain peace, because those wars are being used to violently bludgeon those populations into obedience. If your definition of peace means the cessation of all violence and abuse, then you will support ceasefires, peace negotiations, diplomacy, the de-escalation of tensions, the cessation of imperialist extraction, and the end of apartheid and injustice.<\/p>\n<p>Pay less attention to people\u2019s words about wanting \u201cpeace\u201d and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/01\/24\/many-say-they-want-peace-when-what-they-really-want-is-obedience\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE Go to Original &#8211; caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Jan 2024 &#8211; Pay less attention to people\u2019s words about wanting \u201cpeace\u201d and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":252888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1111,1050,88,70],"class_list":["post-252886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-civil-obedience","tag-imperialism","tag-israel","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252886","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=252886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252889,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252886\/revisions\/252889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}