Trump and the Election

Israel’s War on Gaza has awakened many to react to our global plight today. The fight to stop the production of fossil fuels, the cries to save democracy as the means to guarantee our freedoms and matters dealing with government spying, the supremacy of technology, political corruption and the increasing unaccountableness of the super-rich in a world entrapped in finance capital, forced immigration, these and more weigh on everyone’s mind. Many writers have pointed to the tragedies of assassinations in the 1960s, the attack on the twin towers on 9/11, the crimes committed in wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and other Near East nations, none honestly examined and accounted for by government, as precursors and groundworks for our problems.

The U.S. government has lied and covered-up the truth in such a blatant manner, as if it considered the citizenry too ignorant to doubt it, that investigative scholars and journalists have had a field day exposing the culpability of its leaders. Governments have enablers, criminals and sycophants who use their positions to quash investigators. The public’s duty is to read those books exposing the crimes and question those who try to muddy the waters. I want to examine Laurent Guyenot’s The Unspoken Kennedy Truth (2020, 2023) concerning the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and JFK Jr. in a later blog. For now, the discussion in TV and social media argues over Donald Trump’s fitness to be president. Trump’s supporters are often uneducated, at least sufficiently to know they are being lied to constantly by this grifter.

{Recently Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC referred to Trump’s often repeated claim that the Chinese had to pay for the tariffs he imposed, to applause from his audience, which was not aware that by law the increasing costs in tariffs are paid by Americans. And so these gullible voters swallow another lie.} Voices warning that Trump would be a dictator are late to the subject. Donald Trump’s Hidden Agenda for America; Institutionalizing Bigotry, Dismantling Democracy by Michael Haas appeared in 2019. An educated public would have absorbed it.

The major question concerning Trump’s fitness for office seems not to be his criminal indictments, his mental instability, his tendency to violence, his treacherous behaviour but his leading an insurrection against the government which excludes him from holding elective office under Amendment 14 of the U.S. Constitution. Scholars with expert knowledge of the Constitution such as Laurence Tribe and Michael Luttig, from opposite political beliefs, have asserted that the arguments in favour of the Amendment are “unassailable”, an observation verified by the Supreme Court of Colorado which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the subject. I have, however, heard political operatives and TV journalists argue that Trump’s political right to be on the ballot supersedes the Constitution. Some fear a public riot by Trump supporters whose fanaticism Trump has nurtured. They say, as if in confirmation, that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in Trump’s favour as if the conservative court overbalanced with Trump appointees will put politics over the law.. 

My view is that if the Constitution is ignored on one issue it can be ignored on any issue, which means there is no Constitution and the nation will have no mooring. The franchise in the U.S. is victimized by the archaic Electoral College in which the voters in smaller states have greater representation than in larger states, which sometimes leads to the candidate who loses the popular vote winning the presidency. This happened when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote to George W Bush and when Mrs Clinton won the popular vote but Trump won the presidency with the electoral vote. In both cases the result was catastrophic for the United States and other nations. This procedure was introduced by slave-owners who feared the popular vote in which Blacks could be counted and who kept the concepts of the slave states alive. The 14th Amendment was a result of the Civil War fought over slavery in which Congress, wary of the Southern Confederacy seizing power, legislated that anyone engaged in insurrection against the U.S. government could not run for office. The winners of the War insured that the sacrifices they made to keep the union could not be undermined by someone like Donald Trump who promises to trash the Constitution and rule for his benefit. Some predict that Trump will lose the national vote to a weakened Biden but win the electoral vote to win the presidency again. If the U.S. Supreme Court ignores the Constitution and decides that Trump can remain on the ballot for the presidency it will transfer “victory” in the Civil War to the Southern Confederacy—a travesty of history. In that case will the voters follow Trump and trash their history? One trusts that honesty will prevail and intelligence guide the nation to reform rather than civil war. The latter will surely happen if Trump becomes president because democratic government is essential to half the population at the least.

There is a further problem. Trump will not accept defeat and will claim the election was rigged if he loses. The ensuing violence that political operatives fear if Trump is not on the ballot could happen when he is on the ballot. The U S Supreme Court has a fatal problem to adjudicate. If it refuses to deliberate Trump’s appeal of the state courts’ rulings, the wisdom of the states shall decide Trump’s status. Good luck to the intelligent Americans.

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False Flags

In my essay entitled “Joe Biden, politician” I surmised that if Israeli intelligence knew the details of the Hamas raid on Israel a year in advance, American intelligence knew of it since they work closely together. The removal of troops from the area where the incursion was to take place would seem foolhardy to any observer and definitely to American intelligence operatives which have a responsibility to Israeli security. The apparent indifference of the Israeli political leaders must have alarmed them as much as the Israeli operatives and a satisfactory answer from the political leaders must have been known to the operatives of both countries, whether as an explanation or an order. 

The wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli bombers and rockets in the guise of Israel defending itself would have been foreseen by Hamas leaders who experienced fierce retaliation in previous years. The young Hamas officer who was said to have planned the attack and led his division of soldiers into Israel was pictured on television in the early news of the attack along with scenes and reports of savage deeds perpetrated on innocent Jews enjoying a national holiday. What was the purpose of the attack? To show Israelis that they were more vulnerable than they thought? To sabotage the recent negotiations between Israel and some Arab neighbours to form an alliance which threatened Hamas’s existence as an armed defender of Palestinians and thwart the two-state solution that neither Hamas nor the right-wing Likud Party and its leader Netanyahu wanted, for different but collusory reasons? Would Hamas leaders be willing to accept the killing of 21,000 Palestinians, wounding of 55,000 and burying of 8,000 in rubble, at least half being children, as a reasonable sacrifice to effect such aims?

It is difficult to ask these questions when hospitals, schools and places of worship are targets, when Israeli soldiers shoot students sheltering in schools, when women are shot taking shelter in Churches, when ancient and sacred buildings are pulverized erasing the very meaning of Palestinian culture. The swirl of propaganda and misinformation blurs the landscape. Only when Israeli hostages escape from Hamas captivity, waving a white flag and running toward Israeli troops who shoot them does the Israeli public realize the fatal goal of the war. Israeli leaders care little for Jewish protests and mock the fury of the world’s peoples. Meanwhile Biden’s government vetoes the United Nations’ demand for a ceasefire and Biden, while calling on Israel to observe the rules of humanity, unilaterally supplies it with more weapons and funds to continue the slaughter.

Israel through its intelligence agency, the Mossad, is infamous for using false flag operations to incite a war or an event where an innocent party is blamed for a terrorist act and the real perpetrator achieves its purpose. The insightful Laurent Guyenot in his book JFk—9/11: 50 Years of Deep State makes a believable argument that Israel planned the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 with help from Jewish Neo-Cons such as Richard Perle and their allies in the U.S. government. Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were immediately declared responsible by the American media which has been partial to Israel in its reporting. The ruse was successful. Israel incited the U.S. to invade and disarm Israel’s enemies Afghanistan and Iraq at the cost of American lives and funds.

    The horror of the destruction and high death toll on 9/11 would have had to be planned and carried out by psychopaths. Workers who were asked to build or set certain tasks quite innocent of the purpose would be compromised when they discover how they were used. There is group psychopathy or sociopathy as in the present Israeli government. The statements by those leaders to erase Palestinian vermin and their lack of conscience over the genocide they commit are a verification of a mind-set that could perpetrate a 9/11 catastrophe—even on an ally and protector like the U.S.A. Israel’s willingness to attack the U.S. was memorialized when Israeli fighter jets bombed the U.S. Liberty in the Mediterranean in June 1967 killing many American sailors. Israel expected Egypt to be blamed and attacked by the U.S. but the truth was revealed, although covered up for a time by President Johnson.

Mossad has trained Palestinians to be their agents, infiltrate Palestinian militants and lead them to commit acts detrimental to the Palestinian cause. Sometimes after a sabotage is successful and the misled party is declared an enemy, Mossad will kill the agent to cover its tracks. Could the Hamas attack on Israel have been a false flag? It has the marks of one. The leader of the attack, so quickly exposed on television to the world, could have been a Mossad agent. Nothing more has been heard of him. Were Hamas leaders aware of his operation? How could his plans be given to the Israelis a year before the attack? A fake or training exercise could have been made real as some believe happened in the 9/11 instance. Or was the attack planned by the Israelis and carried out by their “agent”? Hamas gained nothing by it, but Israel may annihilate Hamas and expropriate its land.

“It is a fact that Israel has a long history and grand expertise in false flag terror,” Guyenot writes. “The pattern was formed . . . with the bombing of the King David Hotel, headquarters of the British authorities in Jerusalem.” When on July 12, 1946, six terrorists of the Irgun dressed as Arabs placed 225 kg of explosives hidden in milk churns in the lobby, a British officer became suspicious, a gunfight broke out and the Irgun members fled after igniting the explosives, killing 91 people, mostly British, and 15 Jews. In Egypt during the summer of 1954. Egyptian Jews trained in Israel bombed British targets and placed the blame on the Muslim Brotherhood to discredit Nasser in the eyes of the British and Americans to compromise British withdrawal from the Suez Canal that Nasser had demanded. The accidental detonation of an explosive device exposed the conspiracy. 

Perhaps the actors initiating the War on Gaza will be exposed but the misery can never be propitiated. The world’s conscience has been awakened. When Alex Jones and Stew Peters can inform millions of listeners that American politicians are bought by Jewish interests and government departments controlled by forces inimical to the welfare of the people, there is a tsunami of doubt sweeping the nation that propaganda cannot control.    

Ron Unz and Clarity

The video interview on Rumble conducted by Keith Woods, ”Israel’s War on Gaza with Ron Unz”, is exceptional for its clearing away the Israeli propaganda and giving a reasoned depiction of the War. For instance, the beheading of Jewish babies by Hamas fighters was “nonsense”. One baby was killed in a gunfight. {I saw on American TV three boys about 2 or 3 years old lying on beds with feet toward the camera. One could not discern if their heads were severed. They might have been props.The news announcer claimed many such atrocities but no more were shown.} Western media must follow the dictates of Jewish control which is beholden to Israel. 95% of the US Congress must answer to the Jewish lobbies. It is impossible for Westerners to know the truth unless they abandon the mainstream press and search for the independent news outlets.

A friend alerted me to the online interview because of my suggestion that the Hamas attack may have been an Israeli false flag operation. Unz discounts this supposition. He cites past occasions of Israeli negligence, especially in a war with Egypt when Israel survived by the skin of its teeth. The arrogance and over-confidence of Israeli leaders led to dependence on advanced technology which Hamas overcame. Hamas killed top Israeli officers and badly damaged its army’s confidence. Israeli helicopters bombed the fighting indiscriminately killing those fleeing the festival in cars and on foot. Moreover Israel’s relentless bombing of the people of Gaza reveals a thirst for revenge that, according to Unz, makes it unlikely that Netanyahu could have connived with Hamas in a black flag ruse.

Unz, however, sees the issue from the viewpoint of the Israeli leadership. He does not look at it from the Hamas side. The raid on Israel could not have intended to overwhelm the state. It was foolhardy for Hamas to attack knowing that Israel’s response would be catastrophic. Either the leader of the Hamas raid had been compromised by Israel and turned a training exercise into a real invasion or Hamas planned an incursion to seize hostages for which it could exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons as in the past. Israel’s apparent negligence and its erratic response embarrassed the far right government into pushing its propaganda of horror. With the support of western governments, which viewed Hamas as a “terrorist’ organization, it could have reversed its understanding with Hamas over the two-state solution, no doubt to Hamas’s surprise, and determined to terminate Hamas.

It surprises me that Germany is as attached to Israel as the United States and gives unconditional support to its massacre of Palestinians. Unz observed that Nazism seems modelled after Judaism. The Talmud’s teaching that Jews, united by Jewishness, are chosen by God as a super race and must treat non-jews or goyim as enemies to be manipulated and erased is reflected in the Nazi belief in the German as an Aryan super race. Most Jews today are unaware how dominant the teaching of the Talmud was when Jews were led by rabbis but the essence of the teaching remains in their background. Rabbi educators at the state-sponsored military prep-academy Bnei David in the West Bank settlement of Eli hail Hitler’s Nazi racist ideology as “100% correct,” only criticizing it for not being applied to the right people – that is, the Jews should be the master-race, and non-Jews the ‘untermenschen’. Israel’s government is beholden to the Orthodox for its hold on power. Netanyahu’s bizarre religiosity directs his inhuman war on Gaza.

Unz speculates that the reaction of people across the globe against Israel and its allies for relentlessly killing women and children may undo the Jewish control over societies. When 50% of the young favour cancelling out Israel and turning it over to the Palestinians, the Jewish oligarchs may have a more difficult job containing so-called antisemitism (which is really Judeophobia) with media propaganda and dark money. Unz points to the hatred of millions of Americans for the established U.S. government with its untrustworthiness, its bias and its disregard for the common man which spirited Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence. Republicans are limiting access to education and books in the name of religion and ignorance. To assure the success of autocracy and dictatorship, the government must censure education, its eternal enemy. The evangelist Christians’ rallying behind Israel’s massacre of Christians and Muslims arises from misinformation to which a blinkered education falls victim. My early novel, That Other God, which cries out for the recognition of the god of humanity, may yet be relevant if and when the populace can reform a world where dirty money and ideology determine the rule of the crooked over the aspirations of the people. The War on Gaza could be its wake up call.

 Joe Biden, politician.

“Genocide Joe” protestors call the President of the United States with good reason. Biden’s vociferous support for arming Israel and sending it trillions of dollars when he was a young senator was played on television. The Open Secrets database which monitors the US Congress wrote: “During his 36 years in the Senate, Biden was the chamber's biggest recipient in history of donations from pro-Israeli groups, taking in $4.2 million.” Biden’s unflinching support for Israel and his refusal to stop Israel from massacring Palestinians in Gaza has revealed the shallowness of the man. He has been foremost in giving Israel the latest weaponry, the jet fighters and bombers, the unlimited government payments while watching Israelis imprison Palestinians without trial, try children for alleged crimes and locking them away for years while terrorizing the Palestinians in the West Bank, shooting them with impunity and imprisoning the people of Gaza, treating them as prisoners, humiliating them, killing them with the approval of the United States and its satellites such as Canada. Now that Israel’s continuous bombing of Gaza has claimed over 16,000 Palestinians, 70% of whom are women and children and hundreds of thousands of citizens around the world are protesting the genocide and U.S. warships protecting Israel from reprisal by nations calling for a ceasefire and threatening to intervene, Biden and his spokesmen who have repeated the Israeli propaganda like parrots, claim they have empathy with the Palestinians and are requesting Israel to treat its victims with humanity. The citizens of the United States, although besieged with television commentators to pity Israel and its suffering from an attack on its citizens by Hamas, the militant arm of the Gaza inhabitants, have turned against Biden and his quest to be re-elected as President.

Jewish Americans have organized powerful lobbies to champion Israel in the media which is controlled by Zionists who censure comment detrimental to Israel. Congressmen have taken their money to win elections and, having sold their souls, went so far as to censure the only Palestinian-American congresswoman for pleading for Palestinian lives.

Biden and his intelligence agencies must have known of the Hamas attack a year before it happened. Its blueprint depicting the machinery and routes of the attackers were in the hands of Israeli intelligence yet no precaution was taken. Rather Israeli soldiers stationed where the attack was to break onto Israeli soil were sent to the West Bank ostensibly to stop the illegal Israeli settlers from attacking Palestinian villages—a common occurrence.

“If we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas’s strengthening has been (Prime Minister) ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu,” said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service between 2005 and 2011. Former prime minister Ehud Barak agreed, telling Army Radio in 2019: “Netanyahu’s strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking ... in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in (the West Bank).” Their shared political goal is to thwart the famous “two-state solution,” in which Jewish and Palestinian Arab states would live side by side in peace on the land between the Jordan River and the sea.

Now Netanyahu, for months besieged by protestors opposed to his weakening of the courts to prevent his conviction for crimes while he ran his far-right government, had an excuse for diverting attention to the defence of Israel and the extermination of the Palestinian people. He claimst that it is really the Hamas soldiers he wants to erase. His language and that of his cabinet comes from the mind of a psychopath. Can Biden’s cool indifference to the genocide reflect a psychopathic temperament? His opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump, is psychopathic. Biden claims he is running for re-election because the dangerous Trump is running. What are his chances for re-election?

His allegiance to Israel at all cost has lost him the support of many blacks and the young voter who gets news from the internet to avoid the bias of the networks. Many Democrats have been complaining that he is too old. He walks with pigeon steps and talks through a speech impediment that makes him slur his words. In a word he lacks charisma which his opponent has in spades.

Trump is threatening to be a dictator and millions of Republicans will vote for him. Biden’s stubbornness may lead to his biggest mistake. I recall watching one of his mistakes made while chairman of the Senate Committee that approved Clarence Thomas’ election for the Supreme Court despite credible evidence that he sexually abused his female law clerk. Biden sided with the President and his powerful colleagues rather than support a brave young woman warning the nation about Thomas. These many years laterThomas is found to be the most corrupt influence on the court and a strong supporter of Trump whose corruption will destroy the United States if he is elected. Another mistake Biden admits was his support for the war on Iraq. “Mistake” is the word Americans use rather than “war crime”.

The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, has described Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as a “genocide” and said it was a disgrace that the international community had not stopped “this heinous crime”. To which I say “Amen.”

 

After 21 days of Israel’s War on Gaza’s inhabitants, over 7,000 Palestinians are dead from unrelenting air strikes, mainly women and children, with thousands more expected to die from Israel’s refusal to let food, water, electricity, and medicines into the Gaza prison which Jewish guards have controlled for decades by punishing regulations and periodic killings. Journalists risking their lives to report Israel’s war crimes, have lost 27 of their number under indiscriminate bombing so far. King Abdullah of Jordan’s accusing Israel of treating non Jews as inferior humans is a good starting point for understanding this conflict. 

Yahweh, the Jewish war god, killed off the other gods, and as a revengeful psychopath demanded absolute obedience from his people. The psychoses that a psychopath imparts on his children, who are bound in Jewishness worldwide as their identity and has no belief in after-life as an escape, brands them with guilt, a sense of superiority and an assumption of innocence in the face of lesser humans who are intrinsically evil. Jews may manipulate and even exterminate the “others” with a clear conscience.

Laurent Guyénol in his insightful book From Yahweh to Zion (2018) writes: “In certain essential aspects, Judaism is a form of ‘collective sociopath.’ This does not mean that ‘the Jews’ are sociopaths, but rather that they are victims of a mental trap inherited from their ancestors and imposed by their elites. The difference between collective sociopathy and individual sociopathy according to Freud: participation in a collective sociopathic mentality allows members of the community to channel sociopathic tendencies toward the outside of the community , and to maintain within it a high degree of sociability.” The paradigm of the Jewish group soul “connects  each Jew to the millions  of Jewish victims of Nazism.” “Every Jew killed is a potential genocide; whoever kills a Jew kills the Jewish people. . . .any terrorist act will always be automatically interpreted by Israel as the simulacrum on a small scale of the generalized massacre of an entire population. Here, I think, we have a psychological key to understanding the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

The unconscionable support of the United States of Israel against the Palestinians by supplying  it with billions of dollars, the latest weaponry and aircraft on the canard that it has the right to defend itself—against an impoverished, imprisoned people with home-made weapons, can be attributed to the Jewish power over the media and many years of manipulating the politicians and government officials as well as “the Judaization of Christianity” culminating in American Evangelical Christianity as powerful allies of Zionism. The cries of the world’s nations for a cease fire vetoed by the U.S. condemns the Americans as complicit in the genocide. US. Officials such as President Biden and Blinken mouth the words of the psychopath leaders of Israel to the everlasting shame of the population they represent.

Confident in its power the U.S. is ready to challenge with war any nation driven to rescuing the Palestinians to the extent that a World War might ensue. Yahweh, the god of war, a myth becomes a reality.

“Jewishness seems to induce a blind spot among some high-level intellectuals: they become irrational as soon as they approach a subject with any relationship to their community,” Guyénol writes, “as if an unconscious imperative—some programmed subroutine in the superego—suddenly short-circuited their objectivity.”

Israeli-Gaza (Palestinian) War, October 2023

 I share the dread of watching US  and Canadian news coverage of wars that many feel. I turn to Al-Jazeera for balanced reporting. Israel’s defence minister calls Palestinians “human animals.” Its prime minister wants to annihilate them. Nothing new here. Israel has practiced terrorism from its early formation and with annual billions of dollars and the latest sophisticated  weaponry given it by wayward Americans it has bombed and beaten the Palestinians into enclaves. For a long time Palestinians had stones to defend themselves. Israelis broke the children’s hands for throwing them. Yes, Gaza was turned into the largest open air prison and its citizens endured periodical bombing for decades which had to have a psychological effect. To understand their plight, for example 248 Palestinians killed by Israelis between January 1 and 4 October and thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons without trial, I ask Biden and Trudeau to put themselves in their shoes. The Hamas incursion into Israel was not terrorism; it was men driven to madness and certain oblivion. Inhumanity arises from hatred, of which both sides are guilty. The solution is not more weapons, more  “double standard”, more cries for revenge but an honest attempt to free the Palestinians and make the lying far right Israeli government accede to a Palestinian state. 

David Richard Beasley, Simcoe, ON

Fear

There is fear in the pit of my stomach

Television shows me impending doom

Israel with all its weapons will kill

At long last the offending Palestinians

Their buildings blasted to crush them.

My stomach turns when I see TV

The righteous Jews and their acolytes 

Official faces once excited by politics

Now creased in hatred at invaders

Who dared shoot innocents on their land

Driven by madness, rampant, insatiable.

Decades of humiliation, persecution within

Terror, fanaticism, revenge without.

Too late armed Israelis stopped the slaughter

Their great army, tanks and cannons

Ready to crush the bombed ruins of Gaza.

Americans exhibit butchered babies on TV

—To justify the coming genocide of a people

Trapped in their prison by sadists.—

Propaganda in a world led by psychopaths.

Questions arise how could this happen?

Frantic to hide their incompetence

Israel’s leaders call the invaders “animals”

Blaming a failure of intelligence

Which monitors every movement in Gaza

Egyptian intelligence warned them of invasion

An awkward news item to be managed

Israeli troops stationed elsewhere

As if the nation had no care

Israel’s furious rioters calmed by the holiday

Its criminal leader keeping them at bay.

I rage at the hypocrisy

At Western duplicity

Weaponizing a people of greed

Sanctimonious in religion

As if a god would sanctify their deeds.

Palestinian children dying in scores

Bereft of medicine, food, water and love

Awaiting the crushing of tanks

While their parents wail in peril.

The future lies in wait

To erupt in Armageddon

There is fear in the pit of my stomach

Television shows me impending doom.

I watched habitually Lawrence O’Donnell weekday evenings at 10 o’clock on MSNBC. I like the lawyers he asked to analyze the charges against D. J. Trump and his stern denouncements of the cruelty to children, the hypocrisy of politicians and the stupidities of officials in government and business. In the early days of the Gaza—Israeli War he showed a large crowd of Jewish residents in Brooklyn clamouring outside Senator  Schumer’s house with signs pleading that he stop the genocide of Palestinians before switching to Schumer speaking in Israel. Schumer had ignored his constituents to bemoan the attack by Hamas, praise Israel and vow solid support for it without a word for the Palestinians. Was O’Donnell emphasizing the hypocrisy of the politician against the genuine feelings of the Jews who understood only too well the murderous intentions of the right-wing government in Israel? From his blanket endorsement of Jewish politicians and retired generals fiercely calling for the annihilation of Hamas, I assumed not. I was disgusted by O’Donnell. Any sense of justice, any scrap of integrity he may have shown was lost. Had he surrendered his soul to the station’s owners? or the lock-step orders of government minders?

The wholesale destruction of Gaza and slaughter of thousands of Palestinians and the complicity of the United States in these war crimes will never be forgiven by the world. We all, including Jews, knew from history that Israel was incapable of reason, let alone mercy. I quote from a respected online newsletter: “In Gaza, Israel is gearing up to commit genocide. It is not doing so quietly. It is repeating its intent every day, announcing it to the world in both its words and actions. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant described those in Gaza as ‘human animals’ while declaring that Israel was cutting off water, fuel, electricity and food to the entire blockaded strip. Likud officials have called for nuclear strikes as well as a second Nakba. Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, has rejected the distinction between civilians and combatants, asserting that ‘it is an entire nation out there that is responsible’. Israeli military officials have made clear that their aim is ‘damage, not precision’. All the while, Israel has subjected the 365-square-kilometre area to relentless shelling, dropping the same number of bombs on its 2.3 million inhabitants as the United States unleashed on Afghanistan in an entire year at the height of its murderous invasion. Hospitals, mosques, schools and homes – all have been deemed adequate military targets. . . ."

As of last count over 4,000 Palestinians have been killed, including great numbers of children,  many thousands wounded, Lawrence, whom I hope will stop his constant praise of Joe Biden, sycophant, whom Netanyahu embraced and then ignored.

D. R. Beasley

A news item in the Toronto Star that York University officials demand that Student Union newspapers erase their championing of the Palestinians demonstrates how controlled such organizations are and how out of touch they are with the feelings for humanity that are being expressed by protestors in the streets of cities throughout the world.

 Through Paphlagonia with a Donkey: an Adventure in the Turkish Isfendiyars has been reissued after 30 years out of print. When first published in New York City in 1983 it had much praise. One journalist called it 100 times better than Steinbeck's Travels with Charley that was in the bestseller column then. It has not lost its appeal. It is timeless. I, David Beasley, will launch it at The Ledge, 31 Norfolk St, North, Simcoe, ON on May 27, Saturday afternoon, between 2 and 5 pm. Some of my other books will be there if you want some signed.