"It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention." United Nations Human Rights Council
Are you one of those men, Marcus? Am I? No use appealing to or blessing others. It's down to us. Nobody else is going to do it for us. Real change always comes from the grass roots. Maybe deal with the hopelessness and helplessness you feel by actually doing something other than sitting on the sofa writing encouraging comments? We are the men the world needs, Marcus. Let's DO something!
The thing is, this ongoing, live-streamed genocide could not be maintained one week but for the resources, logistics and other matériels and supports furnished by the United States.
I also understand and can respect your [how to put it] Constitutional Fundamentalism.
That said, at some point, simple ninth commandment integrity necessitates recognition that with the Constitution having power neither of restraint nor requirement over the branches of government, their operations and interrelations, the agencies, institutions and processes of state — we really have no option but to acknowledge that the Republic has fallen, passed from history and no longer exists.
As I see it, the greatest danger facing the planet today is not US military capacity and capability.
The greatest danger facing earth today is that said military power is wielded NOT by any government, but by the arbitrary whims of the least stable, most incompetent and deviant sections of the population.
I’m not asking for family secrets, but if I had to guess, I’m closer to Dad’s age than yours. I won’t be storming any barricades, or drafting a new Constitution for a Second Republic.
But until that happens, all 330,000,000+ of us are basically stateless persons.
Atomized as the ‘citizenry’ [loosely speaking] is, we can’t do much of anything that has effective, civic import. Under these conditions, anything that MIGHT be done necessarily has revolutionary import.
Calling or writing representatives, voting [even if an election WERE to be hosted] presumes the existence of a nation that has passed.
Loved or hated, the US Republic is gone. But it is for our youth to decide what comes next.
Never were truer words spoken. It's shocking to think in these terms, but how can anyone really disagree that we are now (and have been, for quite some time) a stateless people?
Too few realize that the Republic was sidelined by The Act of 1871 and subsequently declared insolvent and dissolved (along with the federal government) by The Emergency Banking Act 1933.
“In April 1943, the Germans dispatched thousands of SS soldiers and paramilitary auxiliaries to Warsaw, where they began the systematic destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.”
“Netanyahu has been brandishing Amalek in the wake of the Hamas attack … for the last seventeen years, Gaza has been a hyperdensely populated, impoverished, walled-in compound … in other words, a ghetto. ... like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany. … The term “open-air prison” … the more fitting term “ghetto” would have drawn fire for comparing the predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews. It also would have given us the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The ghetto is being liquidated.”
As a teenager I read Leon Uri's book "Mila 18" about the 1943 Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprisng. Last night, I googled "warsaw ghetto uprising ruins” Same as Gaza today.
In 1943, Nazi SS General Jurgen Stroop liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto. When the poorly armed Jewish resistance fought back, the Nazi's starved out, burned out, and leveled the ghetto. The survivors were “transferred” to the death camps.
The following year, after the Polish 1944 uprising, Hitler ordered, 'Warsaw is to be razed to the ground while the war proceeds.’ … Himmler made sure his officers understood exactly what was intended: ‘The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth… No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to it's foundation.' … less than 5 per cent of pre-war Warsaw remained intact … in the city of ruins … genocide and urbicide march in lockstep.”
This past weekend [3-03-25] : “The decision we made last night [3-01-25] to completely halt the entry of humanitarian aid [e.g. food , water, etc] into Gaza until Hamas is destroyed or surrenders completely and all our hostages are returned is an important step in the right direction— ‘standing at the gates of hell,’” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. “Now, we must open these gates as quickly and as lethally as possible …”
Don't you hear echos of Hitler and Himmler in Smotrich's promise (and President Trumps] to “open the gates of hell.”? Doesn't take much imagination.
Gessen is self-damned. She spent what felt like 50,000 words on that article, which to my horror, I read in its entirety, of which about 500 were on Gaza. These tribalist maniacs, even at their apparent 'best,' are filthy, lying, self-aggrandizing and self-pitying scum.
Professor Israel Shahak - "In the Warsaw ghetto, (where he lived) even during the period of the first massive extermination (June to October 1943), one saw almost no German soldiers. Nearly all the work of administration, and later the work of transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths, was carried out by Jewish collaborators"
Why is there no Peace Movement? There is, and we are part of it, but it isn't being covered by the mass media because the Democrats are AIPAC and started the whole genocide and listen to Bill Gates who got rich making viruses and the vaccines to treat them that don't work, was in the Epstein in-group, and spouts propaganda from MSNBC, NBC, and NPR through the Bill and Melinda foundation. It is amazing the thought processes of everyone who depends on their TVs to define political reality. Dems are protesting "No Kings" which has no bite while ignoring the fact that Trump is supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians because Biden, Obama, and Hillary are all in with Israel too. They are all Zionists.
A few weeks ago the Democratic National Committee voted in support of Israeli policy in Gaza. There were no “nay” votes, nor any abstentions. The vote was unanimous in support of Israel’s current genocide in Gaza. Let that sink in for a couple of minutes. Neither of our two entrenched political parties will condemn the genocide our broad spectrum support has enabled and sustained. We Americans are complicit up to our eyeballs in mass murder.
Will we Americans ever regain our moral standing in the world?
Our government is complicit .......run by AIPAC, fearing Bibi and the network of control they have created for 78+ years .......it is clear, most of us are horrified by our tax dollars paying for this - most of us. The operative word. That anyone could support this is both sad and sickening but clearly, some of our populace does.
It's the plan to deal with the End of Days as promoted by the new Pope. We need an Armageddon so Jesus comes back. At least it has a happy ending, so make it happen Netanyahu. So he plays the Anti-Christ, or is it Macron, while we hold Jerusalem for the money changers. Things look great for the erection of the New Temple, but its just another let it happen.
What we are witnessing is NAZIONISM. Where the German Nazis spoke openly of their racism but tried to disguise their murderous genocidal programme the Israeli Nazis also openly declare their racist intent but don't hide their genocidal actions and in fact brag of the objective of ethnic cleansing.
Our silence makes us complicit as does the tacit if not practical support given by our governments whose leaders wring their hands and utter platitudes whilst assisting Israel in their holocaust of the Palestinians.
We must speak out and come to the aid of the people in Gaza's concentration camp
"In January 1943, Jewish resistance to efforts by the Germans to deport the remaining Jews of the ghetto broke out.”
. . .
Last week, at my nephew's wedding in Omaha, NE I stumbled upon a book, "The Stroop Report -- The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!" It contains a summary, 32 teletype daily reports, and photos assembled by General Stroop for SS Chief Himmler.
Last March, after watching the Oscar-winning documentary '”No Other Land” (it's co-director Basel's West Bank village is currently being “cleansed”) I posted the following comment:
"Transfer" of Palestinians, and the total leveling of their homes, has been going on over the past 50 years in the West Bank on a smaller scale than Gaza, village by village. This film is worth watching to put into historical context the impending "gates of Hell" about to be unleashed by Israel on Gaza (similar to the leveling of the entire city of Warsaw by the Nazi's after the 1944 Polish revolt and the Nazi's 1943 liquidation of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto).
The Gaza "War" has never been about '"October 7th, "Hamas, or the hostages. It's about "finishing the job" (started back in 1947) of the killing or "transfer" of the Palestinians out of historic Palestine.
By the way, "transfer" was the same term used by the Nazi's; last year in Vienna, I remember seeing that word used in a display at the Jewish museum; my wife's father & family fled the city in 1938. It was sombering to walk the Jewish section of the cemetery and see the neglected gravestones that are seldom visited.
" It's about finishing the job... " 1943, First president of Israel Chaim Weizmann, leader of World Zionist Org - "Palestine will never be an Arab land again"...in 5 years, US Zionist lobby persuaded Pres Truman to have State dept personnel who disliked Zionism transferred or forcibly retired"
Source The Fatal Post World War II Contradiction" by Laurence Davidson
I am a contemporary of your father and it breaks my heart to say that sociopaths have chipped away at all of the protections we once had. I think we've gone as low as any country can go. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?.
Scott: your father is an inspiration. Thank you for following his footsteps.
The world needs many men like you, like your Dad.
I constantly feel the hopelessness and the helplessness over Gaza. It haunts me daily.
God bless you and your work.
Are you one of those men, Marcus? Am I? No use appealing to or blessing others. It's down to us. Nobody else is going to do it for us. Real change always comes from the grass roots. Maybe deal with the hopelessness and helplessness you feel by actually doing something other than sitting on the sofa writing encouraging comments? We are the men the world needs, Marcus. Let's DO something!
Thank you for this heartfelt piece . I’m counting the days until Isreal collapses.
When the majority of the world will celebrate 🎉🎉
Yes 🙏🏼❤️
Me too. I cant normally drink wine, but I'm keeping a bottle of Champagne on hand for that one.
Yeah, champagne mixed with teardrops ❤️
Hopefully you can remember me in Cuenca! Several years (it feels like lifetimes)ago!
I would love to join you for a toast on that day!
Yes, we'll keep it in mind.
The thing is, this ongoing, live-streamed genocide could not be maintained one week but for the resources, logistics and other matériels and supports furnished by the United States.
I also understand and can respect your [how to put it] Constitutional Fundamentalism.
That said, at some point, simple ninth commandment integrity necessitates recognition that with the Constitution having power neither of restraint nor requirement over the branches of government, their operations and interrelations, the agencies, institutions and processes of state — we really have no option but to acknowledge that the Republic has fallen, passed from history and no longer exists.
As I see it, the greatest danger facing the planet today is not US military capacity and capability.
The greatest danger facing earth today is that said military power is wielded NOT by any government, but by the arbitrary whims of the least stable, most incompetent and deviant sections of the population.
I’m not asking for family secrets, but if I had to guess, I’m closer to Dad’s age than yours. I won’t be storming any barricades, or drafting a new Constitution for a Second Republic.
But until that happens, all 330,000,000+ of us are basically stateless persons.
Atomized as the ‘citizenry’ [loosely speaking] is, we can’t do much of anything that has effective, civic import. Under these conditions, anything that MIGHT be done necessarily has revolutionary import.
Calling or writing representatives, voting [even if an election WERE to be hosted] presumes the existence of a nation that has passed.
Loved or hated, the US Republic is gone. But it is for our youth to decide what comes next.
PS: Thank you for serving, Scott Ritter.
PPS: Good on Dad! 🧓🏼
Never were truer words spoken. It's shocking to think in these terms, but how can anyone really disagree that we are now (and have been, for quite some time) a stateless people?
🎯
Too few realize that the Republic was sidelined by The Act of 1871 and subsequently declared insolvent and dissolved (along with the federal government) by The Emergency Banking Act 1933.
Yes.
Something we all need to learn more about. For me, it is a new revelation of what went wrong so long ago.
Scott, you are a credit to the honor and decency of your father. You’ve been a hero of mine since I heard you stand up to the WMD hoax.
“In April 1943, the Germans dispatched thousands of SS soldiers and paramilitary auxiliaries to Warsaw, where they began the systematic destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.”
. . .
From “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” by Masha Gessen December 9, 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust
“Netanyahu has been brandishing Amalek in the wake of the Hamas attack … for the last seventeen years, Gaza has been a hyperdensely populated, impoverished, walled-in compound … in other words, a ghetto. ... like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany. … The term “open-air prison” … the more fitting term “ghetto” would have drawn fire for comparing the predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews. It also would have given us the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The ghetto is being liquidated.”
As a teenager I read Leon Uri's book "Mila 18" about the 1943 Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprisng. Last night, I googled "warsaw ghetto uprising ruins” Same as Gaza today.
In 1943, Nazi SS General Jurgen Stroop liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto. When the poorly armed Jewish resistance fought back, the Nazi's starved out, burned out, and leveled the ghetto. The survivors were “transferred” to the death camps.
The following year, after the Polish 1944 uprising, Hitler ordered, 'Warsaw is to be razed to the ground while the war proceeds.’ … Himmler made sure his officers understood exactly what was intended: ‘The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth… No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to it's foundation.' … less than 5 per cent of pre-war Warsaw remained intact … in the city of ruins … genocide and urbicide march in lockstep.”
https://geographicalimaginations.com/2013/04/24/city-of-ruins/
. . .
This past weekend [3-03-25] : “The decision we made last night [3-01-25] to completely halt the entry of humanitarian aid [e.g. food , water, etc] into Gaza until Hamas is destroyed or surrenders completely and all our hostages are returned is an important step in the right direction— ‘standing at the gates of hell,’” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. “Now, we must open these gates as quickly and as lethally as possible …”
Don't you hear echos of Hitler and Himmler in Smotrich's promise (and President Trumps] to “open the gates of hell.”? Doesn't take much imagination.
Gessen is self-damned. She spent what felt like 50,000 words on that article, which to my horror, I read in its entirety, of which about 500 were on Gaza. These tribalist maniacs, even at their apparent 'best,' are filthy, lying, self-aggrandizing and self-pitying scum.
The few times of any aid given, IDF has shot at the unarmed skeletal families.
They have truly become the Natzis that once haunted them.
Greta Thunberg's aid boats recently received drone strikes from Israel!
BILLION$ & BILLION$ sent to Israel for MANY YEARS. Our taxpayer money of which we have no say, now blood money.
Professor Israel Shahak - "In the Warsaw ghetto, (where he lived) even during the period of the first massive extermination (June to October 1943), one saw almost no German soldiers. Nearly all the work of administration, and later the work of transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths, was carried out by Jewish collaborators"
http://www.knut-rognes.no/TheGhettoFights.html#FalsificationofHolocaustIsraelShahak
I wonder is George Soros and his daddy got to get in there and sell some more jewish furniture.
Why is there no Peace Movement? There is, and we are part of it, but it isn't being covered by the mass media because the Democrats are AIPAC and started the whole genocide and listen to Bill Gates who got rich making viruses and the vaccines to treat them that don't work, was in the Epstein in-group, and spouts propaganda from MSNBC, NBC, and NPR through the Bill and Melinda foundation. It is amazing the thought processes of everyone who depends on their TVs to define political reality. Dems are protesting "No Kings" which has no bite while ignoring the fact that Trump is supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians because Biden, Obama, and Hillary are all in with Israel too. They are all Zionists.
A few weeks ago the Democratic National Committee voted in support of Israeli policy in Gaza. There were no “nay” votes, nor any abstentions. The vote was unanimous in support of Israel’s current genocide in Gaza. Let that sink in for a couple of minutes. Neither of our two entrenched political parties will condemn the genocide our broad spectrum support has enabled and sustained. We Americans are complicit up to our eyeballs in mass murder.
Will we Americans ever regain our moral standing in the world?
"We Americans are complcit..."
As are we Brits
Our government is complicit .......run by AIPAC, fearing Bibi and the network of control they have created for 78+ years .......it is clear, most of us are horrified by our tax dollars paying for this - most of us. The operative word. That anyone could support this is both sad and sickening but clearly, some of our populace does.
Bernie Sanders early on was quite vocal about the slaughter. It is not the will of the people. All need to be fired.
It's the plan to deal with the End of Days as promoted by the new Pope. We need an Armageddon so Jesus comes back. At least it has a happy ending, so make it happen Netanyahu. So he plays the Anti-Christ, or is it Macron, while we hold Jerusalem for the money changers. Things look great for the erection of the New Temple, but its just another let it happen.
You mention "No Kings"
Run by 2 Jews financed by George Soros dedicated supporter of Israel.
Now you know why it has no bite.
God bless you and your hero dad Scott!
Beautifully written.
Agreed
What we are witnessing is NAZIONISM. Where the German Nazis spoke openly of their racism but tried to disguise their murderous genocidal programme the Israeli Nazis also openly declare their racist intent but don't hide their genocidal actions and in fact brag of the objective of ethnic cleansing.
Our silence makes us complicit as does the tacit if not practical support given by our governments whose leaders wring their hands and utter platitudes whilst assisting Israel in their holocaust of the Palestinians.
We must speak out and come to the aid of the people in Gaza's concentration camp
Free Palestine. One State Palestine.
"In January 1943, Jewish resistance to efforts by the Germans to deport the remaining Jews of the ghetto broke out.”
. . .
Last week, at my nephew's wedding in Omaha, NE I stumbled upon a book, "The Stroop Report -- The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!" It contains a summary, 32 teletype daily reports, and photos assembled by General Stroop for SS Chief Himmler.
Last March, after watching the Oscar-winning documentary '”No Other Land” (it's co-director Basel's West Bank village is currently being “cleansed”) I posted the following comment:
"Transfer" of Palestinians, and the total leveling of their homes, has been going on over the past 50 years in the West Bank on a smaller scale than Gaza, village by village. This film is worth watching to put into historical context the impending "gates of Hell" about to be unleashed by Israel on Gaza (similar to the leveling of the entire city of Warsaw by the Nazi's after the 1944 Polish revolt and the Nazi's 1943 liquidation of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto).
The Gaza "War" has never been about '"October 7th, "Hamas, or the hostages. It's about "finishing the job" (started back in 1947) of the killing or "transfer" of the Palestinians out of historic Palestine.
By the way, "transfer" was the same term used by the Nazi's; last year in Vienna, I remember seeing that word used in a display at the Jewish museum; my wife's father & family fled the city in 1938. It was sombering to walk the Jewish section of the cemetery and see the neglected gravestones that are seldom visited.
" It's about finishing the job... " 1943, First president of Israel Chaim Weizmann, leader of World Zionist Org - "Palestine will never be an Arab land again"...in 5 years, US Zionist lobby persuaded Pres Truman to have State dept personnel who disliked Zionism transferred or forcibly retired" Source The Fatal Post World War II Contradiction" by Laurence Davidson
Exceedingly thoughtful and beautifully written. I am not silent.
Nor am I, words are all I now have at 85 but I will use them as much as I can, with any money I can contribute to Palestinian aid.
It’s Very clear this is true and it is abominable.
I am a contemporary of your father and it breaks my heart to say that sociopaths have chipped away at all of the protections we once had. I think we've gone as low as any country can go. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?.
Scott, Your masterful story telling reaches the heart. Sending love to your parents as the member of the silent generation that I am!