Hey, Obama, war criminal Bibi nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Israel cannot dictate the future of the Middle East | David Hearst | MEE Opinion
(Middle East Eye) June 25, 2025: David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, says Israel’s blitz on Iran has collapsed into a strategic defeat. In 12 days, none of Israel’s war aims were achieved.
Dictator Trump claimed Iran’s nuclear program had been "obliterated," but US intelligence quickly contradicted him.
Peace? "Ceasefire"?
Iran’s core infrastructure survived, and key nuclear materials were moved before the strikes. Iran may have already built deeper facilities elsewhere.
Israel also failed to destroy Iran’s missile arsenal. After D. Trump declared a "ceasefire," Iran launched new waves of air attacks, hitting Beersheba and other strategic sites across Israel. The damage was greater than anything local rebels Hamas or Hezbollah had inflicted.
Hearst says Iran did not need to win outright. It only needed to keep fighting. Its missile strikes pinned Israeli civilians in shelters, drained missile defenses, and exposed Israel’s limits.
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The quick victory CIA-strongman Bibi Netanyahu sought never came. Iran’s ability to stand firm has shifted the balance of power.
He argues this was NEVER about ending any nuclear weapons program.
It was a clash between two worldviews -- one that insists Israel (a proxy for US and EU imperialism) must dominate the region and one that resists occupation.
Hearst concludes that Dictator Netanyahu’s long project to destroy Iran may have gone too far. Israel has exposed its population to a new kind of war and gained little in return. The result is not dominance but danger.
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Look, America, look what Iran is doing to us. Jump in and save us. All we did was bomb and kill them discriminately, saying we only "target" intended sites and can't be held accountable for "collateral" damage in the prosecution of our internationally illegal war of aggression. When we rule this entire region, Europe and our partners will be glad they stepped in and joined our "crusade" and march to imperial victory. With America's resources, we could have an empire of our very own, making us the strongest regional power with secret stockpiles of banned nuclear weapons we do not allow to be inspected. That may have gotten Iraq blown off the map, but Uncle Sam says it's okay if we do it, right, Mr. Trump? The CIA already talked to you and told you Benny Netanyahu is our man on the ground, installed to do this job with an international coalition of Zionist backers (Christian collaborators), many of them secular Jews bandying about biblical references as part of the psyops and propaganda campaigns that are a part of every war.
What did Hollywood Mel Gibson say about "Jews starting all the wars in the world"?
Gibson, a hardcore Catholic Christian one would think would be a Zionist for the cause of biblical propaganda to usurp the Middle East and put it in the hands of secular Jews who say, "God loves us and gives us all this land and anyone who says otherwise will be cursed." Do Zionists and secular Jews disproportionately influence the media in the West? [You can't say that! You can't even suggest that! That's antisemitism or at least anti-Zionism and the propagandists are conflating the two. If you say a word against the criminal state of Israel, it's because you hate all Jewish people, and that will not be tolerated in much of the Western world.]
It's either true or not. I said it. Sorry to offend.
Mel Gibson, an Australian American in Hollywood, allegedly said: "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," asking a police officer: "Are you a Jew?" [as if to accuse that officer of being a Jew, which he may have been.]
Mr. Gibson said in a statement: "Please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my [Catholic] faith. There will be many in that [Jewish dominated Hollywood] community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable," he added. "But I pray that that door is not forever closed [and that we can make blockbuster movies together soon about my favorite Jew, Jesus the white god of Israel and King of the Jews]."
Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, commented: "The process of repentance in Judaism is three C's: contrition, confession, and change. Gibson clearly is contrite, and he has made a public confession. But the third step can only be evaluated after an extended period of time."
The Hollywood actor (who became famous as Mad Max) is known for holding strongly conservative, Catholic views on religion and politics and last came under fire from Jewish groups in 2004 for his super successful Christian movie The Passion of Christ [which almost eclipsed the memory of the pro-Jewish Jesus Christ Superstar movie that takes a Jewish perspective on the so-called "Messiah," which most Jews say is not the "savior," not the "Messiah," and nothing but another rabblerouser giving the nice Romans so much trouble].
George Lucas based the Star Wars character Yoda on two Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist rinpoches, the 14th Dalai Lama (with his distinctive ESL syntax and ejaculative pronunciation and peculiar articulation) and one of his seven teachers, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche (Ven. Serkong).
Okay, there's a similarity there. Call the lawyer.
Buddhists want peace, so Yoda wants peace. And if we can't have actual peace, we at least demand a stop to wars (psychotic state-sponsored overt violence). "Fight war, not wars," as the liberating punk rock lyrics go.
The name "Yoda" was chosen because Lucas envisioned the character as a [wise] "little Dalai Lama," and he wanted him to have an "Eastern-sounding" name [9] (Wiki).
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(Double Down News) May 17, 2024: While all eyes are on Gaza, Israel is arming, promoting, and protecting illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank to commit genocide as the state is doing in Gaza. This is a war against all Palestinians, not merely an ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This is not a misunderstand or a rogue element on the prowl stealing property by driving Palestinians out of their homeland. These are crimes against humanity aided and abetted by the Israeli military, the Knesset, the IDF, the court system, PM Netanyahu, and of course the Mossad. All of Israel is involved, except for the few Jewish Israelis who are vocal anti-Zionists, like the Ultra-Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem (Mea Shearim) such as Neturei Karta (nkusa.org).
(Claire Villarreal) May 4, 2022: Buddhist Wisdom Modern Life. Happy May the 4th, fellow Star Wars nerds! π€
If, like me, you've ever wondered, "Is the Force real?" then this video is perfect for you!
Let's look at a few impressions and thoughts on ideas from Buddhism and Asian martial arts about the literal animating principle or "life force" energy (qi, ki, chi, prana, etc.) that circulates through the body and throughout the living world around us.
Lucas was naming real things.
Did you know that when the creator George Lucas came up with the Jedi, he was inspired in part by Zen Buddhism? Yoda looks like a Buddha statue and speaks in the bad syntax of the 14th Dalai Lama.
The coincidences are real because Asia seemed exotic but close enough to us in a shared reality. Yep.
So nerd out with me, and if you have other Star Wars/Buddhism questions, please drop them in the comments! "May all living beings be well and happy," as the Buddha used to say. π
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War is ugly, but Israel doesn't mind. It's a traumatized diaspora read to traumatize others.
MAN SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE NEAR WHITE HOUSE, EXTINGUISHED, ARRESTED
Do I love Gaza or hate being a US soldier?
A man (Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty military serviceman in the US Air Force, who no longer wanted to be complicit in Israel's genocide against Palestine, particularly the US-funded ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank by government-backed illegal Jewish settlers) protested Israel's war in Washington, D.C. Bushnell set himself on fire in a park near the White House and was only saved -- for the moment, as he died later -- by cops, who quickly held him at gunpoint ready to execute him with service revolver cause if he gave them cause, surrounded and extinguished him.
Look at this other American guy set himself on fire (and not blurred out by censors) tmz.com/watch/0-6x0dv368
One of the many reasons Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc was wrong to do this (ritual suicide), even if he was doing the good of calling attention to US war crimes in Vietnam in the summer of 1963 is that he, inadvertently, inspired others to think this was a way to get attention for good causes like protesting bad wars. Is it bad karma? Can one know his thought at the moment of ignition or death? Was there not hatred (aversion, dosa) present at that moment? If he died, his mind clear, no aversion, then it would not condition his rebirth negatively. And if he was enlightened before dying, there would be no rebirth at all. The minutiae of such matters is explained in detail in the Abhidharma ("Doctrine in Ultimate Terms" literature, an explanation of Buddhist psychology).
Israel used its air force to bomb the rave (IDF militants and veterans partying with a very few civilian refuseniks) near Gaza by the kibbutzim spying on Palestinians and hosting their own security police forces to make sure no Palestinians entered Israel. Israel did it, killing their own soldiers and civilians in addition to anyone the Al Qassam Brigades' fighter attacked. Now Israel is BURYING the physical evidence of the burned-out cars and charred Israeli Jewish corpses they first tallied as 200 bodies, later found to be Palestinians Israel had fried from above. Israel attacked itself on October 7 along with Hamas fighter attacking, partly by overreacting with cowardly air force bombers rather than police and IDF troopers coming to fight rag tag Hamas volunteers.
PM Netanyahu's 'PSYCHOTIC' tweet deleted as GROWING COALITION of Jewish Israelis push to DEPOSE him: Analysis
(The Hill) : WASHINGTON, DC. Senior correspondent at Vox Zack Beauchamp weighs in on Israel's view of Prime Minister Benny Netanyahu amid his dispossession and/or extermination of all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip concentration camp in the name of "war with Hamas." #Palestine#Gaza
"From the desert to the sea, Palestine will be free!"
COMMENTARY: It's time to dump corrupt and vicious Prime Minister Benji Netanyahu. It's also time to resume his corruption trial and, if found guilty, imprison him. So long as he prosecutes a "war" on an ideology, movement, and political party called "HAMAS" (an acronym). It is wrong to call it a "war" if one side has a full US funded military with army, navy, air force, propaganda arm, CIA (called the Mossad), endless funding from fellow colonial settler countries in the West (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), Britain (who started all of this with its Balfour Declaration promising Jews worldwide land with people by saying there were no people on the land, because they were people but not "a people" which they also were), and the CIA (a country unto itself not controlled by the US government).
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