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Carol Shaw's avatar

Israel doesn’t simply weaponise language, it perverts it- it’s the Israeli Superpower.

Along, of course, with a talent for turning the ME to rubble. Israel is the mirror image of its twin, bigger shithole country built by slaves on stolen land. Both feral, squatter psycho-skanks. No wonder they’re joined at the hip.

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Anna's avatar

Should Israel wait for Iran to launch a nuclear bomb before reacting? How would you have reacted? What should Israel do to avoid being condemned by people who don't know what it means to live near countries that want your destruction?

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Carol Shaw's avatar

@ Anna. Oh, but we do know what it’s like. Seven hundred years of brutal British colonialism- and a manufactured famine thrown in. Make sure to read Rashid Khalidi’s forthcoming book on how Ireland was the laboratory for what became ‘Israel’ - aka the Brits ‘little Jewish Ulster.’

I’m Irish.

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Anna's avatar

You didnt answered to simple questions..

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Carol Shaw's avatar

Yes, I did.

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Anna's avatar

Can you point me to where your answers are to these 3 questions:

1 Should Israel wait for Iran to launch a nuclear bomb before reacting?

2 How would you have reacted?

3 What should Israel do to avoid being condemned by people who don't know what it means to live near countries that want your destruction?

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Carol Shaw's avatar

@Anna: just go up a couple of comments.

You can’t miss it.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

You have created a totally false scenario. There is no evidence that Iran will build a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon there is no evidence it would use it on any other country. Israel knows this but, like the USA, Israel was born of terror, genocide, racism, and war and it needs enemies and war to survive. The aggressors we need to worry about are those who have a long history of illegal aggression against other countries (USA and Israel, likely also England), not countries that mind their own business.

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Alan's avatar

Tired of the same old lies justifying anything Israhell wants to do. Why don't you address the ongoing holocaust in Palestine? Why do you kill the reporters? There is no justification for this. NONE!

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Anna's avatar

What lies?

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Patricia Ryan Green's avatar

WMD’s in Iraq

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Carol Shaw's avatar

🤣

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Neil Procter's avatar

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons, Israel does though. How does your logic sit with that?

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Denise's avatar

Those that do not acknowledge that the zionist nation is currently executing a genocide are soulless. I have learned not to waste time or energy communicating to those without a soul. Almost like they are invisible. It helps with my sanity.

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Anna's avatar

UN and IAEA have denounced the violation of nuclear agreements and the construction of atomic weapons. This is not my personal opinion, it is a fact. How does your logic sit with that?

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Ron Stockton's avatar

They have not said Iran was constructing a nuclear weapon. That’s either a lie or you have a comprehension problem.

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Neil Procter's avatar

I think your concerns about Iran and nuclear weapons are your opinion, albeit an opinion manufactured for you by the Military Industrial Complex.

It is actual fact that the Zionist rogue state of Israel has had nuclear weapons for a number of years and has avoided admitting to this by not signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran however, has been an NPT signatory since 1970.

Even American intelligence does not believe that Iran is making nuclear weapons.

Kelsey Davenport, director for non-proliferation policy at the US-based Arms Control Association, said Israel's prime minister "did not present any clear or compelling evidence that Iran was on the brink of weaponizing".

The fact is the public are being manipulated by what Noam Chomsky describes as manufactured consent; Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran being 3 to 5 years from creating nuclear weapons since 1992, and yet the decades roll on and Iran still hasn’t.

Now though, Netanyahu’s 33 year old attempt at manufacturing consent amongst the public in the West is finally gaining traction thanks to his fellow capitalist warmonger Trump.

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follow the silenced's avatar

Should Iran wait for Israel to "preemtively" launch their already existing nuclear bombs because of rumors saying Iran "is close to" a nuke?

What does it mean if Israel is attacking Iran "preemtively", other than it wants Iran's destruction?

Who else has the right to self defense?

Have you noticed that after two years of massacres in Gaza, the mood has turned against Israel and that the status of the only victim can only be restored by taking on the "arch-enemy" who doubts the right of an occupying power to exist?

Oh, I know, because "Holocaust", because "Hamas", because "chosen ones".

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Anna's avatar

nuclear or not, iran's DECLARED goal is the destruction of israel. as long as a state has as its goal the destruction of israel, israel is entitled to defend itself.

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follow the silenced's avatar

You are very poorly informed. Iran allows control of its nuclear program, Israel does not. Iran doesn't have a bomb, Israel supposedly does.

Iran has never, to my knowledge, said they want to kill all Israelis. They have said Israel as a state has no right to exist because it is an occupying power, built on terror, displacement and mass murder. From that point of view, I can certainly understand the wish for this regime to end.

Most Israelis hate everyone who is not "chosen". That in no way makes them "sympathetic". What a surprise.

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Konstantinos's avatar

Just to be clear…, "Israel" shouldn’t exist.

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pinecone's avatar

Yes. Israel should wait for around for Iran to launch a nuclear bomb before reacting.

Come to think of it, I would love to see Israel hold its breath for Iran to launch a nuclear bomb. In this manner, only Israel would be harmed. Iran is only trigger happy on its own citizens. Iran is a good neighbor! It doesn't want to expand outside its borders.

ISRAEL IS THE AGGRESSOR.

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pinecone's avatar

Don't get me wrong, Iran is trigger happy on its own citizens. I have a lot of issues with this. But Israel is not trying to save the day for Iranians.

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Sofia Steinhagen's avatar

The whole world is disgusted, repulsed and done with the psychotic Jewish supremacist state of ‘israel’.

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Jodi Yaccino's avatar

Go away, idiot

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Patricia Ryan Green's avatar

Netanyahu also said we had to invade Iraq because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was going to use them. So Bush did his bidding. And how did that turn out? And, by the way, remind me - where DID they find those WMD’s? There’s video of Bibi saying this, so don’t try to deny it.

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Anna's avatar

The Bush administration started talking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and after all its allies repeated it. So what do you want to prove?

anyway we were talking about today, not 2002. It is not a lie or my personal opinion that Iran has broken its nuclear obligations, it is a fact declared by the UN and the IAEA. if you then want to deny everything that is your problem.

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ACK's avatar

wow this is powerful "This is not just a military problem. It is a discursive one. For decades, Israel has mastered the art of narrative manipulation, presenting itself as the eternal target, even as it becomes the aggressor. This is how Israel manufactures permission. It imposes a logic of perpetual exception onto itself, demanding the world accept that its “anxiety” justifies everyone else's annihilation." Thank you for putting this together.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I am here in France.

STOP this egregious assault on Iran.

NO statements from Europe.

Europe has a huge History as does Iran: Will you Europeans decide to side with Israel?

FUCK off Europeans.

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OddBird79's avatar

I just posted a long-form article on the division that is happening between the Republicans due to the current activity of Israel and Iran. Most are opposing US involvement but I don't have any faith that this opposition will stop the Administration from entering into the conflict whether it's sending money or troops (arms). Hopefully these fractures within the party will allow us to get them all out in the '26 midterms.

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Jean Kates's avatar

I really admire the post you wrote. It sums up many aspects of how we got to the present situation. I've given this issue a lot of thought also and I ask myself every day why we can't stop what's going on.

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JennyStokes's avatar

The last sentence here: The Western Empire (Europe) at this present moment has NOT condemned Israhell.

I live in Europe and I am continually DISGUSTED with white supremacy/

I suspect that France/UK are aiding Israhell.

as they have done the same in Ukraine.

Dismantle the EU they are nothing but warmongers.

27 million Russians died fighting the Nazis and Europe STILL supports Israel

Get out on the streets Europe.

Iran did not begin this war.

Bow on bended knee Europe to the great US Empire.

Dismantle the EU

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Carol Shaw's avatar

Great piece, by the way!

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Patricia Pouncey's avatar

An excellent analysis of the State of Israel continuous aggression towards its neighbours & how it has been getting away with it for so many years. The ongoing conflict with Iran & the genocide & deliberate starving of civilians in Gaza are mentioned too. We are left in no doubt that Israel is committing genocide, while protesting its innocence, while our govts hardly ever try to restrain them. :(

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Alan's avatar

The best overall summation of Israel, by far!

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Kojo's avatar
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"....Until the international community is willing to stop rewarding that entitlement with silence, impunity, and weapons, the violence will continue..."

But it's time to drop this idea that there is such thing as an "international community".

In fact the "term international community" is mainly something invented by the US to suggest that there is global consensus on the thuggery it has over the years carried out under the guise of a "rules based order". The global south never was in on it nor did they ever have a consensus on going along with this, other than a few obvious puppet regimes like in Kenya and Rwanda that are selling their own people out.

What you had was the US conducting thuggery and a chorus of colonial European states and colonial legacy countries like Canada, Austrialia, New Zealand following. Japan and South Korea, which are literally under armed military occupation by the US, are occupied lands pretending to be independent nations. Even Germany and the UK, if you look closely, are under active military occupation by tens of thousands of US troops, and have been so continously since 1945!

So there is no universal "international community" and the bloodthirsty, mass-murdering transatlantic zionist alliance knows no rules.

The only thing we can be sure of is white supremacy is running amok in that group of colonial nations - the wolves in sheep's clothing that has previously pretended to be "the international community".

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Jodi Yaccino's avatar

Anna is a genocide supporting troll

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Shauna Gunderson's avatar

I hope Iran crushes Israel

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Alice England's avatar

Thank you for such a powerful and honest article. I’m English and hate what my country owned by powerful jews has done to others and to us, the English. I’m with Iran 100% as I am with Palestinians having the right to their own land where they can live in peace and prosper. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that the above plight of innocent Palestinians will not improve whilst jews occupy their land. I want Jews out of England Europe and Isreal. Send them to a remote island where they can no longer inflict their satanic agenda on the rest of humanity. It really is the time for us all to unite against our common enemy.

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follow the silenced's avatar

Because the international public mood was threatening to tip, the victim's position had to be restored. You can only do that if you take it hard enough. Do people know that they are instruments of narrative correction?

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Alan's avatar

All of them. Everytime you people open your mouth or write something. EVERY SINGLE TIME. ALL OF THEM!

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