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How to get him on all the ballots is a big issue. Please inform everyone of the best method. I know all states are different. If he's not on a particular ballots, do all write-ins count?
He will be on the ballot in all 50 states. As you know, each state is different. Please join as a Volunteer on his website if you are interested in helping in this effort. Thank you for your support! https://www.kennedy24.com/volunteer
He lost my vote when he exposed himself as an Israel shill. So disappointing. Very encouraged to see that his voting base recognized this immediately and didn’t try to defend it but recognized it for the hypocrisy it was. He has no chance now
I have read the whole article.. I certainly believe he's right in wanting to try and broker a peace with the Ukraine and Russia. It's a nobody can win war that will go on forever. You seem to take the total side of the Palestinians with no regard to Hamas invasion of Israel. 650,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948. Yes, that's very sad, but the Arab nations did nothing to help them. Many more Jews have been displaced by numerous countries over the centuries. If you read history, you will learn that the Jews were actually indigenous to that land over 3,000 years ago. The Palestinians voted in the terrorist group Hamas, certainly to their disadvantage. Instead of helping them, Hamas uses them as human shields. You blame Israel which always wanted peace with the Arabs and it was never given to them. The terrorists want to wipe them off the map and they need to defend themselves. I support RFK,Jr as the only logical and best candidate. Good for him supporting Israel. Trump is a Fascist, Biden forces dangerous vaccines that injure and kill. I pray RFK, Jr. wins
Don't forget that Israel/US have propped up and funded hamas to create chaos and discord. Yes, in 2006 they voted in hamas...but most of them alive today were either not born back then, or weren't old enough to vote. Israel controls their borders, water, power, etc. They can't go in or out without permission.
P.S. I'm on the side of the innocent people of Gaza AND Israel...they are both at the mercy of their corrupt/evil governments...and ours.
Prove to me they funded Hamas. I keep hearing people say that but I've never seen the proof.Can you show me financial records or something similar? 50% of the p[opulation if 18 or under. So many were able to vote. I believe that Hamas controls the people in Gaza and Israel had to step in later to control water etc because of Hamas attacks on Israel, no matter how limited, they continued. Remember Israel won Gaza in war, but gave the area back to the Palestinians. There was a time in the past when many Palestinians could pass back and forth, many even held jobs in Israel, but with Hamas leadership, it became too difficult. Same with the West Bank. I am on the side of the innocents of Gaza and I support Israel and its people to continue to be a State.
One of many articles/videos. In 2019, Netanyahu himself said that propping them up must be Israel’s strategy, to prevent a two state solution. We’ve been lied to - what a shock.
Yes, Israel propped them up early, early on and it was a big mistake on Israel's part, thinking they could help rid of the PLO.
In the later years 2000's til now it was all Iran aftere Israel saw them as nothing but horrible terrorists who treated the Palestinians like slaves.m Enuf
Nope. They are STILL doing it. Bibi himself, said it in 2019 in a meeting with his party members. Please stop with the excuses for Israel's part in this catastrophe. Read what Scott Ritter has to say, what Dr Norman Finklestein has to say, Dr Gabor Mate, and many more experts on the Gaza/Israel situation.
That's laughable that supposedly Israel sees hamas as "horrible terrorists who treated the Palestinians like slaves"...when someone (Israel) controls your borders, your water, power, food, etc, and you must get special permission to go through a border, and the borders are currently closed/being bombed so they can't get out...sorry, that is a slave/master scenario. This is not to say that hamas is benevolent, at all. The official narrative we've been fed all these yrs is full of lies. As I said above, both the Palestinians and Israelis are victims of this situation created by their governments.
Today I got an email from this web site about an article written by Jeffrey Sachs. It had to do with the idea that Israel should stop the suicide mission it's on and it's psychopathic drive to drag the world into World War III. It was an insightful and wise piece. I wanted to comment on it here because of the cognitive dissonance between it and what I understand RFK Jr's position to be, and when I clicked on the link to read it on Kennedy Beacon I got a "page not found" error.
So, why is it not here anymore?
I have pasted it in below for the record.
I am so, so disappointed on RFK Jr's position on this issue. Might as well vote for the warmonger UniParty if RFK Jr is apparently just as eager for WWIII. He's apparently not the alternative we thought he was, just more of the same.
It's ironic because I really had hope for him when I heard this speech, and started donating (admittedly a paltry sum) monthly:
I question the people who run this web site as to their association with Jeffrey Sachs. Why has this article been removed? Has he endorsed this web site or do you just paste in the articles he writes that come from elsewhere that are convenient and delete them when not?
Listen to Scott Ritter describe what happens if Hezbollah declares war toward the end of this interview with Garland Nixon:
Israel is overrun and in a last ditch "take 'em down with me", nuclear missiles are launched from Israeli submarines sitting in the Mediterrranean on Cairo, Tehran, Ankara.
I have to conclude that RFK Jr. is in favor of mass nuclear death in the Middle East. Why can't he see the obvious outcome here if the US doesn't rein the completely psychopathic Netanyahu in? Haven't heard RFK Jr call for ceasefire or peace talks or any other viable solution that ends the killing. It's sickening and immoral.
I don't think the uncle and father he references constantly as the inspiration for his campaign would be ok with what's happening in Gaza.
And if they were, well, forgive my heresy, but maybe they aren't as honorable as we thought.
Israel is running out of time to save itself—not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten to destroy Israel’s civil, political, economic, and cultural relations with the rest of the world. There are growing calls in Israel for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign immediately. A new Israeli government should seize the opportunity to turn carnage into lasting peace through diplomacy.
Netanyahu is leading Israel into the same trap that the U.S. fell into after 9/11. Hamas’ goal in its heinous terrorist attack on 10/7 was to goad Israel into a long and bloody war, and to induce Israel to commit war crimes to bring on the world’s opprobrium. This is a classic political use of terror: not merely to kill, but to frighten, provoke, debase, and ultimately undermine, the foe.
Al-Qaeda, the perpetrator of 9/11, goaded America’s political class to launch disastrous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. The result was carnage, torture by U.S. agencies and military forces, $8 trillion in debt, and the collapse of U.S. prestige and power worldwide. Hamas is similarly goading Israel into war crimes and potentially into a region-wide war. Israel’s actions are turning Israel’s friends around the world against it.
Israel’s instinct is to ignore global opinion, chalking it up to anti-Semitism and believing that the U.S. has Israel’s back. Yet the U.S., weakened as it is in world affairs, can’t possibly save Israel from itself. Just look at how the U.S. is “saving” Ukraine. Ukraine is being destroyed by its pursuit of NATO membership and rejection of diplomacy, both of which have been encouraged by America’s ineffective pledge to support Ukraine militarily “for as long as it takes.”
There is another deep similarity of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 and Hamas’s 10/7. Al-Qaeda was a U.S. creation that later boomeranged. By covertly funding Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union during the 1980s, the CIA effectively launched al-Qaeda. In the case of Hamas, Netanyahu—as is well-documented—secretly backed Hamas in order to divide and weaken the Palestinian Authority.
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Israelis are told by Netanyahu and his cabinet that there is no alternative to achieve security and peace other than to invade Gaza to defeat Hamas. The acquiescence of the U.S. and European governments as Israel invades Gaza conveys the message to the Israeli people that their leaders are telling the truth: that Hamas can be defeated militarily, that the civilian deaths in Gaza are being limited by careful targeting of military operations, and that Israel is doing the only thing it can do for its own security. Yet these misguided views are perpetrated by the same political class that let Israel’s guard down in the lead-up to 10/7. Israeli leaders are seeking to cover up their blunders through the war in Gaza.
The facts are these. First, while Hamas demonstrated its capacity to commit a surprise terrorist attack, the truth is that Israel let its guard down on 10/7. By bolstering its borders and its intelligence, Israel can block Hamas from a repeat attack. Nor is Israel at risk of any kind of military defeat by Hamas inside Israel, since Israel has vast military dominance. The same was true with 9/11, which was a catastrophic failure of U.S. homeland security and intelligence operations, but did not even remotely represent a threat of U.S. military defeat.
This is not to say that defeating Hamas inside Gaza would be straightforward. With a major Israeli ground invasion, Hamas would have the advantage of urban guerilla warfare on its own turf, and no doubt large numbers of Israeli soldiers are likely to die in such a campaign.
There is a completely different approach to Israel’s security, the one that Israel’s political class has rejected for decades, yet the only one that can deliver real peace and security. It is a political solution for Palestine, coupled with comprehensive, enforceable security arrangements for Israel.
Israel sits on top of a volcano of unrest because it has long denied basic human, economic, and political rights to the Palestinian people. Gaza has famously been described by Human Rights Watch as an open-air prison. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is tantamount to apartheid in the view of human rights groups such as Amnesty International. The UN Security Council and UN General Assembly have rightly and overwhelmingly voted resolution after resolution calling for a two-state solution, most recently on October 26, just days ago.
I refer readers interested in the detailed history of this long saga to the wise and scholarly study by my esteemed colleague Professor Rashid Khalid, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Historian Ian Black, in his book Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017, recounts that Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, “was not prepared to make the concessions needed to make [the two-state solution] possible.”
The failure of Israel’s political class to achieve true security for Israel and justice for Palestine opens the door to a different approach. Here is how a diplomatic solution could work.
The UN Security Council would commit to the disarming of militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Countries funding and arming these groups, notably Iran, would agree to join with the UN Security Council in defunding and demobilizing these groups as part of the peace deal. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran would establish diplomatic relations with Israel as part of the peace deal. Israel and the UN Security Council would recognize a sovereign, independent, and secure state of Palestine, with its capital in East Jerusalem, and with full membership in the United Nations. Palestine would be given sovereign control over the Muslim holy sites of East Jerusalem, including Haram al-Sharif.
The five permanent powers (P5) of the UN Security Council—the U.S., Russia, China, UK, and France—all favor such a peace deal. Indeed, Biden has recently reiterated U.S. support for the two-state solution. Moreover, there is scope for favorable diplomacy among the P5. The U.S. and China will soon hold a summit of President Biden and President Xi, and there are even glimmers of behind-the-scenes diplomacy between Russia and the U.S. to sort out and end the tragic conflict in Ukraine.
Iran can be brought on board to such a deal, as long as the deal includes the normalization of Iran’s diplomatic and economic relations with the E.U. and the United States. In 2015, Iran negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with the U.S. and European nations to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program in return for an end to Western sanctions. It was the U.S. under former President Donald Trump, not Iran, that brazenly withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018. More recently, Iran has reconciled with Saudi Arabia and joined the BRICS nations, demonstrating Iran’s interest in dynamic and creative diplomacy.
The rest of the UN member states also clearly support a two-state solution. As soon as Israel embraces a comprehensive peace deal, it will garner friends worldwide, and cause a worldwide sigh of relief.
If Israel swallows Netanyahu’s poison that “this is a time for war,” Israel will isolate itself from the rest of the world and pay a devastating price. Israel’s attainable objective is lasting peace and security through diplomacy. Israel’s friends, starting with the U.S., must help it choose diplomacy over war. Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity, much less provide them with the finances and arms to do so.
If Trump is ruled in eligible to run for president by the Supreme Court, I would assume that Nikki Haley is the most likely person to get the nomination. If so, I suspect many Republicans will flock to RFK and some others to the libertarian candidate. One thing is for sure. Nikki Haley running on the Republican ticket does not help Joe Biden. Although I have a major problem with Nikki Haley's general warmongering, pro deep state and corporate cronyism positions, if RFK doesn't make it to the California ballot, I'd vote for her as long as she promises not to force me to take experimental drugs.
Regarding the absolute need for RFK, Jr., to start speaking out for peace in the Middle East, it was somewhat encouraging to see an article posted earlier today on the Kennedy Beacon by Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs entitled: "Israel's Chance to Turn Carnage Into Peace: Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity." The main point is the need to embrace the "two-state solution" offering nationhood to the Palestinians within narrowly prescribed geographical borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. However, Prof. Sachs' article has two major deficiencies. First, calling Hamas terrorists without acknowledging Israel's terror against the Palestinians over the last 75 years eliminates the level playing field needed for meaningful negotiations. Second, Prof. Sachs makes no mention at all of what the people of Palestine themselves view as their legitimate aspirations. Thus his solution is a top-down arrangement dictated by the great powers that an oppressed population is supposed to be grateful for just because they are at last given some recognition. However, what is called the "Resistance Axis" that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, and other regional parties, all backed by Iran, has no interest at all in a two-state solution. They want what they consider to be a genocidal and illegitimate "entity" simply to be gone and are willing to fight "as long as it takes" to achieve that. Prof. Sachs writes that Hamas "lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily," but Hamas is not alone. RFK, Jr., seems to be facing the fact that the U.S. is a power in decline. The ability of the U.S. to impose its will on the rest of the world is rapidly disappearing. Israel, among others, will have to face the consequences.
"Regarding the absolute need for RFK, Jr., to start speaking out for peace in the Middle East" RFK's former campaign manager Dennis Kucinich has been recently speaking out on his Substack" post "The Math of Murder" --The subjugation and annihilation of innocent civilians, bombed into the dust of "collateral damage," does not support America, Israel or the West's claim for moral high ground and a path to peace:
"To watch this relentless bombing, and to maintain silence ... a moral calamity for Israel, the United States and all other complicit countries. .... The murderous actions of Israel, supported by the United States in Gaza, will come home. ... bring the world to the edge of a major war."
Kucinich quit as RFK's campaign manager shortly after 10/07 ....
I just noticed that, since this morning, Sach's article, "Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace" has been deleted from "The Kennedy Beacon" Substack archive. Self-censoring! A bit ironic! (the original article can still be found at "Common Dreams".
This corrupt merger has been called "stakeholder fascism." Like RFK Jr., Donald Trump vehemently opposes stakeholder fascism. One knows from his actions as POTUS what Trump favors but as JFK has not served as POTUS one does not know what he favors. My fear is that he favors "social justice" though this policy is a snare and a delusion.
Trump did nothing to break up the corrupt merger of CDC/NIH/FDA and Big Pharma. Remember Operation Warp Speed? Still today, he has not apologized or admitted he was wrong. Trump did nothing to break up the military industrial complex. The deficit soared because he increased military spending. Trump did nothing to regulate Wall Street and Too Big to Fail Banks. Trump did nothing except incite outrage and chaos while creating headlines.
As soon as there's a survey NOT owned by The City of London's Demon Associates, will be far more valid to believe. There is NO WAY 32% of the Republic tolerates the humiliation inherent to the TREASONOUS, DEMENTIA-RIDDEN PEDOPHILE OBASTARD AVATAR murdering the Constitution and destroying the Republic.
Surveys only about the Intl Death Cult loyal to The City of London/CCP, owning them, showing we arrogant Americans with all our Inalienable Rights endowed by the Creator they seek to kill and replace with themselves THAT THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WISH WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUNISHMENT.
They're shoving the shiest down our throats to choke on it while they uproariously laugh as they have since the beginning of their roll-out 'Martial Law' camouflaged as 'Lockdowns', 'Poisonous Masking, and 'Social Distancing'; ALL TO REMOVE INALIENABLE RIGHTS WHILE INSTILLING TERROR.
Evil is having a wonderful time continuing to view the cowardly and terrified as they continue to hallow-out a Republic once loyal to God now cringing in corners and crying as children as they continue to feed.
How to get him on all the ballots is a big issue. Please inform everyone of the best method. I know all states are different. If he's not on a particular ballots, do all write-ins count?
He will be on the ballot in all 50 states. As you know, each state is different. Please join as a Volunteer on his website if you are interested in helping in this effort. Thank you for your support! https://www.kennedy24.com/volunteer
He lost my vote when he exposed himself as an Israel shill. So disappointing. Very encouraged to see that his voting base recognized this immediately and didn’t try to defend it but recognized it for the hypocrisy it was. He has no chance now
I have read the whole article.. I certainly believe he's right in wanting to try and broker a peace with the Ukraine and Russia. It's a nobody can win war that will go on forever. You seem to take the total side of the Palestinians with no regard to Hamas invasion of Israel. 650,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948. Yes, that's very sad, but the Arab nations did nothing to help them. Many more Jews have been displaced by numerous countries over the centuries. If you read history, you will learn that the Jews were actually indigenous to that land over 3,000 years ago. The Palestinians voted in the terrorist group Hamas, certainly to their disadvantage. Instead of helping them, Hamas uses them as human shields. You blame Israel which always wanted peace with the Arabs and it was never given to them. The terrorists want to wipe them off the map and they need to defend themselves. I support RFK,Jr as the only logical and best candidate. Good for him supporting Israel. Trump is a Fascist, Biden forces dangerous vaccines that injure and kill. I pray RFK, Jr. wins
Don't forget that Israel/US have propped up and funded hamas to create chaos and discord. Yes, in 2006 they voted in hamas...but most of them alive today were either not born back then, or weren't old enough to vote. Israel controls their borders, water, power, etc. They can't go in or out without permission.
P.S. I'm on the side of the innocent people of Gaza AND Israel...they are both at the mercy of their corrupt/evil governments...and ours.
Prove to me they funded Hamas. I keep hearing people say that but I've never seen the proof.Can you show me financial records or something similar? 50% of the p[opulation if 18 or under. So many were able to vote. I believe that Hamas controls the people in Gaza and Israel had to step in later to control water etc because of Hamas attacks on Israel, no matter how limited, they continued. Remember Israel won Gaza in war, but gave the area back to the Palestinians. There was a time in the past when many Palestinians could pass back and forth, many even held jobs in Israel, but with Hamas leadership, it became too difficult. Same with the West Bank. I am on the side of the innocents of Gaza and I support Israel and its people to continue to be a State.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
One of many articles/videos. In 2019, Netanyahu himself said that propping them up must be Israel’s strategy, to prevent a two state solution. We’ve been lied to - what a shock.
Yes, Israel propped them up early, early on and it was a big mistake on Israel's part, thinking they could help rid of the PLO.
In the later years 2000's til now it was all Iran aftere Israel saw them as nothing but horrible terrorists who treated the Palestinians like slaves.m Enuf
Nope. They are STILL doing it. Bibi himself, said it in 2019 in a meeting with his party members. Please stop with the excuses for Israel's part in this catastrophe. Read what Scott Ritter has to say, what Dr Norman Finklestein has to say, Dr Gabor Mate, and many more experts on the Gaza/Israel situation.
That's laughable that supposedly Israel sees hamas as "horrible terrorists who treated the Palestinians like slaves"...when someone (Israel) controls your borders, your water, power, food, etc, and you must get special permission to go through a border, and the borders are currently closed/being bombed so they can't get out...sorry, that is a slave/master scenario. This is not to say that hamas is benevolent, at all. The official narrative we've been fed all these yrs is full of lies. As I said above, both the Palestinians and Israelis are victims of this situation created by their governments.
An Israeli shill? Please explain?
Scott Ritter did a much better job of outlining the issue than i could. Check this out, i think it very clearly goes against the peace values of the Kennedy voter: https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJyMUktzmzAY_DVwwyMk8TpwyPjR4Bi7aXBi98II6bMtGxAjiTrw6zu4k-lMT71qtSvtgzMLZ6WHtANtVMtqOYLwNHDVNNAKZqVqPWiYrF2RUuHHQexC6odJHId-ElL3gZVnaEEzC6Jk9i9K4hi5l5RXkR9jRiIaxiwIEEnimEIFJxEkSUwjV6YYYeL7yPdjFCIyIzMixKmKEkpZFSEawEzW5tz1QehQ1JzxzPSVsYzfZlw1rjTlScPjJ6nVPbh1erG2Mw55cvDKwav7_T4zXFmrpbWg4dNqNjEdvOocvKpUVQ3eDdoWxOBJoxnUHmuFZy_gXYZOcS3N4JBVb5uyASH7xiGLx3sODqdDo3rNwSGLpq-t7GrwvvL8J0vjfdGsukE7yQxrn-P34YDrW3ZVn_kiG_PiGGzf7pJ_S0axSrqf8yzMi5zm172_LZbBZr7ujodXubsu8a440-11GWyvmcmad8ofd_k9L179fLzhXN4lO2zH7Kokf36Xm-JId0UmN_P1KD4yuZPre0W2aHNY18ePLWIfSZ-1aPay29fLfTEsnpAPbz9OT-T55dc5nkfjHh2FGb-_8PKziLjXZG7XV-Xksm-lHUpoWVWD-FNF11e15A_vpRRpRCJMIlen9KQ0FWxwKDpPiTyKNH0lVMNkm2pgwrX_scregJ6E_WlBYRL8DgAA___wuvRP never shared a link here let’s see if this works
Who do you vote for - I guess Cornell West, he is no more supportive than Biden or Trump.
Today I got an email from this web site about an article written by Jeffrey Sachs. It had to do with the idea that Israel should stop the suicide mission it's on and it's psychopathic drive to drag the world into World War III. It was an insightful and wise piece. I wanted to comment on it here because of the cognitive dissonance between it and what I understand RFK Jr's position to be, and when I clicked on the link to read it on Kennedy Beacon I got a "page not found" error.
So, why is it not here anymore?
I have pasted it in below for the record.
I am so, so disappointed on RFK Jr's position on this issue. Might as well vote for the warmonger UniParty if RFK Jr is apparently just as eager for WWIII. He's apparently not the alternative we thought he was, just more of the same.
It's ironic because I really had hope for him when I heard this speech, and started donating (admittedly a paltry sum) monthly:
https://www.kennedy24.com/major_address_peace_diplomacy
I've ended that donation.
I question the people who run this web site as to their association with Jeffrey Sachs. Why has this article been removed? Has he endorsed this web site or do you just paste in the articles he writes that come from elsewhere that are convenient and delete them when not?
Listen to Scott Ritter describe what happens if Hezbollah declares war toward the end of this interview with Garland Nixon:
https://www.youtube.com/live/-AoesPXNxhw?si=Db2lCixhG9ktDh00
Spoiler:
Israel is overrun and in a last ditch "take 'em down with me", nuclear missiles are launched from Israeli submarines sitting in the Mediterrranean on Cairo, Tehran, Ankara.
I have to conclude that RFK Jr. is in favor of mass nuclear death in the Middle East. Why can't he see the obvious outcome here if the US doesn't rein the completely psychopathic Netanyahu in? Haven't heard RFK Jr call for ceasefire or peace talks or any other viable solution that ends the killing. It's sickening and immoral.
I don't think the uncle and father he references constantly as the inspiration for his campaign would be ok with what's happening in Gaza.
And if they were, well, forgive my heresy, but maybe they aren't as honorable as we thought.
Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace
Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity
By Jeffrey D. Sachs, First published in Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-gaza-peace-diplomacy
Israel is running out of time to save itself—not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten to destroy Israel’s civil, political, economic, and cultural relations with the rest of the world. There are growing calls in Israel for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign immediately. A new Israeli government should seize the opportunity to turn carnage into lasting peace through diplomacy.
Netanyahu is leading Israel into the same trap that the U.S. fell into after 9/11. Hamas’ goal in its heinous terrorist attack on 10/7 was to goad Israel into a long and bloody war, and to induce Israel to commit war crimes to bring on the world’s opprobrium. This is a classic political use of terror: not merely to kill, but to frighten, provoke, debase, and ultimately undermine, the foe.
Al-Qaeda, the perpetrator of 9/11, goaded America’s political class to launch disastrous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. The result was carnage, torture by U.S. agencies and military forces, $8 trillion in debt, and the collapse of U.S. prestige and power worldwide. Hamas is similarly goading Israel into war crimes and potentially into a region-wide war. Israel’s actions are turning Israel’s friends around the world against it.
Israel’s instinct is to ignore global opinion, chalking it up to anti-Semitism and believing that the U.S. has Israel’s back. Yet the U.S., weakened as it is in world affairs, can’t possibly save Israel from itself. Just look at how the U.S. is “saving” Ukraine. Ukraine is being destroyed by its pursuit of NATO membership and rejection of diplomacy, both of which have been encouraged by America’s ineffective pledge to support Ukraine militarily “for as long as it takes.”
There is another deep similarity of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 and Hamas’s 10/7. Al-Qaeda was a U.S. creation that later boomeranged. By covertly funding Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union during the 1980s, the CIA effectively launched al-Qaeda. In the case of Hamas, Netanyahu—as is well-documented—secretly backed Hamas in order to divide and weaken the Palestinian Authority.
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Israelis are told by Netanyahu and his cabinet that there is no alternative to achieve security and peace other than to invade Gaza to defeat Hamas. The acquiescence of the U.S. and European governments as Israel invades Gaza conveys the message to the Israeli people that their leaders are telling the truth: that Hamas can be defeated militarily, that the civilian deaths in Gaza are being limited by careful targeting of military operations, and that Israel is doing the only thing it can do for its own security. Yet these misguided views are perpetrated by the same political class that let Israel’s guard down in the lead-up to 10/7. Israeli leaders are seeking to cover up their blunders through the war in Gaza.
The facts are these. First, while Hamas demonstrated its capacity to commit a surprise terrorist attack, the truth is that Israel let its guard down on 10/7. By bolstering its borders and its intelligence, Israel can block Hamas from a repeat attack. Nor is Israel at risk of any kind of military defeat by Hamas inside Israel, since Israel has vast military dominance. The same was true with 9/11, which was a catastrophic failure of U.S. homeland security and intelligence operations, but did not even remotely represent a threat of U.S. military defeat.
This is not to say that defeating Hamas inside Gaza would be straightforward. With a major Israeli ground invasion, Hamas would have the advantage of urban guerilla warfare on its own turf, and no doubt large numbers of Israeli soldiers are likely to die in such a campaign.
There is a completely different approach to Israel’s security, the one that Israel’s political class has rejected for decades, yet the only one that can deliver real peace and security. It is a political solution for Palestine, coupled with comprehensive, enforceable security arrangements for Israel.
Israel sits on top of a volcano of unrest because it has long denied basic human, economic, and political rights to the Palestinian people. Gaza has famously been described by Human Rights Watch as an open-air prison. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is tantamount to apartheid in the view of human rights groups such as Amnesty International. The UN Security Council and UN General Assembly have rightly and overwhelmingly voted resolution after resolution calling for a two-state solution, most recently on October 26, just days ago.
I refer readers interested in the detailed history of this long saga to the wise and scholarly study by my esteemed colleague Professor Rashid Khalid, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Historian Ian Black, in his book Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017, recounts that Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, “was not prepared to make the concessions needed to make [the two-state solution] possible.”
The failure of Israel’s political class to achieve true security for Israel and justice for Palestine opens the door to a different approach. Here is how a diplomatic solution could work.
The UN Security Council would commit to the disarming of militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Countries funding and arming these groups, notably Iran, would agree to join with the UN Security Council in defunding and demobilizing these groups as part of the peace deal. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran would establish diplomatic relations with Israel as part of the peace deal. Israel and the UN Security Council would recognize a sovereign, independent, and secure state of Palestine, with its capital in East Jerusalem, and with full membership in the United Nations. Palestine would be given sovereign control over the Muslim holy sites of East Jerusalem, including Haram al-Sharif.
The five permanent powers (P5) of the UN Security Council—the U.S., Russia, China, UK, and France—all favor such a peace deal. Indeed, Biden has recently reiterated U.S. support for the two-state solution. Moreover, there is scope for favorable diplomacy among the P5. The U.S. and China will soon hold a summit of President Biden and President Xi, and there are even glimmers of behind-the-scenes diplomacy between Russia and the U.S. to sort out and end the tragic conflict in Ukraine.
Iran can be brought on board to such a deal, as long as the deal includes the normalization of Iran’s diplomatic and economic relations with the E.U. and the United States. In 2015, Iran negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with the U.S. and European nations to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program in return for an end to Western sanctions. It was the U.S. under former President Donald Trump, not Iran, that brazenly withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018. More recently, Iran has reconciled with Saudi Arabia and joined the BRICS nations, demonstrating Iran’s interest in dynamic and creative diplomacy.
The rest of the UN member states also clearly support a two-state solution. As soon as Israel embraces a comprehensive peace deal, it will garner friends worldwide, and cause a worldwide sigh of relief.
If Israel swallows Netanyahu’s poison that “this is a time for war,” Israel will isolate itself from the rest of the world and pay a devastating price. Israel’s attainable objective is lasting peace and security through diplomacy. Israel’s friends, starting with the U.S., must help it choose diplomacy over war. Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity, much less provide them with the finances and arms to do so.
If Trump is ruled in eligible to run for president by the Supreme Court, I would assume that Nikki Haley is the most likely person to get the nomination. If so, I suspect many Republicans will flock to RFK and some others to the libertarian candidate. One thing is for sure. Nikki Haley running on the Republican ticket does not help Joe Biden. Although I have a major problem with Nikki Haley's general warmongering, pro deep state and corporate cronyism positions, if RFK doesn't make it to the California ballot, I'd vote for her as long as she promises not to force me to take experimental drugs.
This Michael Wolff guy is such an Ass! Worst POS!
Regarding the absolute need for RFK, Jr., to start speaking out for peace in the Middle East, it was somewhat encouraging to see an article posted earlier today on the Kennedy Beacon by Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs entitled: "Israel's Chance to Turn Carnage Into Peace: Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity." The main point is the need to embrace the "two-state solution" offering nationhood to the Palestinians within narrowly prescribed geographical borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. However, Prof. Sachs' article has two major deficiencies. First, calling Hamas terrorists without acknowledging Israel's terror against the Palestinians over the last 75 years eliminates the level playing field needed for meaningful negotiations. Second, Prof. Sachs makes no mention at all of what the people of Palestine themselves view as their legitimate aspirations. Thus his solution is a top-down arrangement dictated by the great powers that an oppressed population is supposed to be grateful for just because they are at last given some recognition. However, what is called the "Resistance Axis" that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, and other regional parties, all backed by Iran, has no interest at all in a two-state solution. They want what they consider to be a genocidal and illegitimate "entity" simply to be gone and are willing to fight "as long as it takes" to achieve that. Prof. Sachs writes that Hamas "lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily," but Hamas is not alone. RFK, Jr., seems to be facing the fact that the U.S. is a power in decline. The ability of the U.S. to impose its will on the rest of the world is rapidly disappearing. Israel, among others, will have to face the consequences.
See my new article here: https://www.unz.com/article/review-against-our-better-judgment-by-alison-weir/
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"Regarding the absolute need for RFK, Jr., to start speaking out for peace in the Middle East" RFK's former campaign manager Dennis Kucinich has been recently speaking out on his Substack" post "The Math of Murder" --The subjugation and annihilation of innocent civilians, bombed into the dust of "collateral damage," does not support America, Israel or the West's claim for moral high ground and a path to peace:
"To watch this relentless bombing, and to maintain silence ... a moral calamity for Israel, the United States and all other complicit countries. .... The murderous actions of Israel, supported by the United States in Gaza, will come home. ... bring the world to the edge of a major war."
Kucinich quit as RFK's campaign manager shortly after 10/07 ....
I just noticed that, since this morning, Sach's article, "Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace" has been deleted from "The Kennedy Beacon" Substack archive. Self-censoring! A bit ironic! (the original article can still be found at "Common Dreams".
This corrupt merger has been called "stakeholder fascism." Like RFK Jr., Donald Trump vehemently opposes stakeholder fascism. One knows from his actions as POTUS what Trump favors but as JFK has not served as POTUS one does not know what he favors. My fear is that he favors "social justice" though this policy is a snare and a delusion.
Trump did nothing to break up the corrupt merger of CDC/NIH/FDA and Big Pharma. Remember Operation Warp Speed? Still today, he has not apologized or admitted he was wrong. Trump did nothing to break up the military industrial complex. The deficit soared because he increased military spending. Trump did nothing to regulate Wall Street and Too Big to Fail Banks. Trump did nothing except incite outrage and chaos while creating headlines.
As soon as there's a survey NOT owned by The City of London's Demon Associates, will be far more valid to believe. There is NO WAY 32% of the Republic tolerates the humiliation inherent to the TREASONOUS, DEMENTIA-RIDDEN PEDOPHILE OBASTARD AVATAR murdering the Constitution and destroying the Republic.
Surveys only about the Intl Death Cult loyal to The City of London/CCP, owning them, showing we arrogant Americans with all our Inalienable Rights endowed by the Creator they seek to kill and replace with themselves THAT THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WISH WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUNISHMENT.
They're shoving the shiest down our throats to choke on it while they uproariously laugh as they have since the beginning of their roll-out 'Martial Law' camouflaged as 'Lockdowns', 'Poisonous Masking, and 'Social Distancing'; ALL TO REMOVE INALIENABLE RIGHTS WHILE INSTILLING TERROR.
Evil is having a wonderful time continuing to view the cowardly and terrified as they continue to hallow-out a Republic once loyal to God now cringing in corners and crying as children as they continue to feed.
Keep Exposing these Cowards and Prostitutes!