"Sick and Twisted" is the perfect description of all that is currently transpiring in the western empire's focused and brutal assault on all humanity that doesn't belong to their cabal of exploiters and oppressors.
"Never Again" has been rendered a meaningless and cynical expression. Great post, Diane.
To be correct and this is too often overlooked, the Zionists and too many Jews for too long, think they are chosen and superior as humans. Israel could not exist and could not have done what it has for nearly a century or be doing what it is doing for the past 17 months without the support of most Jews.
While Zionism may have poisoned Judaism the reality is that Jews, most of them, have allowed Israel to commit genocide, occupation, colonisation, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, murder, theft, sadistic cruelty and bestial savagery at levels of evil greater even than the much and too often touted Nazis.
And, 'but I didn't know' was not allowed for Germans so why should it be allowed for Israelis and their supporters in the modern age when there is no reason not to know? Particularly the last 17 months when the heights, or is that depths of barbaric savagery inflicted on the Palestinians has been so easy, so horrifyingly easy, to see and read about.
"How sick and twisted it is for Zionists Jews to believe that, because they are chosen (or self-chosen) by God to sit at the top of the chain of being, they are free to murder, maim, displace, dispossess, intimidate, terrorize, torture, humiliate, harass, imprison and dehumanize the Palestinian population, and never face any legal or moral consequences? How sick and twisted is it for any people to believe that they and their war crimes are above the law?"
I never thought I could ever sum up such sick and twisted behavior in one word before October 2023, but now I can. That one word that sums up everything evil and immoral and heinous in the world is this word: Zionism. There's no way the Zionists will ever not stand for this genocide and their sadistic war crimes. Never.
Zionist Israel will face its reckoning one way or another: before the ICC (unlikely), before international public opinion (on-going and growing), in internal disruption, disintegration and civil war (very likely), in the afterlife (I wouldn't count on it, but I can hope that there is such a place as Hell).
Hell is actually here, on Earth, IMO. (Not just the small town in Michigan, either!) We can make the Zionists' lives a living hell, like they have for so many others. That's a promise we can make to ourselves and keep!
I think all sane people of conscience are sickened and enraged that not only is such slaughter going on but those committing it, most Israelis and their supporters are literally rejoicing in it, delighting in it, revelling in their blood-drenched genocidal torture of men, women and hundreds of thousands of children.
How can anyone claim to be the victim when they are using their massive military power against prisoners, nearly half of them children, in a concentration camp to punish them for daring to exist and resist the savagery of their occupation over 76 years.
How can Zionists, Israelis and Jews keep a straight face spewing out constantly about the suffering of European Jews nearly a century ago as they do worse to Christians and Muslims in Palestine today? It is the level of sadistic cruelty, bestial savagery and demonic insanity committed by the Israelis and their supporters which is most horrifying.
But, Diane, Israel has a right to self defense. I guess it is just unfortunate that their self defense means that thousands of children have to die, that all hospitals and universities in Gaza must go. I guess Trump is defending himself agains the Amerikan people by gutting the government, and attacking the educational system. Maybe he will get rid of hospitals next. He has to defend himself, after all. And certainly he cannot have people living in Amerika and commenting on the fascist, nazi like behaviour of the State of Israel. Where will the money for his next attempt at getting elected come from if the State of Israel is not respected?
Israel occupies Palestine and no occupier has any right to self defense against the people it crushes under military occupation rule. The Palestinians have the right under international law to take up arms against their oppressors and Israel has no right to stop them.
Perhaps the most horrifying thing of all is that the US and most of its lackey allies are not just allowing Israel to commit this genocide, but arming them and supporting them so they can do it and keep doing it.
It’s happening now for Israel. Since its modern political creation, the Israeli state found itself hungry for living space, driven to destruction of everything that surrounds it. Israel’s inhumanity and narcissism is nurtured within its borders, and lied about and hidden from its primary source of sustenance, the United States. We are told God created it, and nothing trumps the command of God; but in fact, Zionism was created by very human, mostly secular, wholly immoral, and politically- not spiritually-driven people. It dumbly follows the 19th century colonial project, of divide (its creation of the PA, and later Hamas) and conquer (Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria for years). For Zionists, the enemy is everywhere; they struggle daily for life amidst mindless, animalistic, subhuman goyim.
More accurately, the West, for political convenience then and now, subsidizes, arms, funds and covers for Israel, a dangerous golem of their own creation. Despite the origin story of brave Zionists who took their “rightful land” in 1948, in fact it was created to serve the West, in several ways, and has been fed and fueled consistently by its creators ever since. We own the golem, and we are culpable for its grievous and murderous acts.
She's amazing. I listen to the New Jersey Judge's people 1st thing in my morning...what he is doing is a gift ...and getting invited to Russia! apparently the Russians tune into him every day also. that's where the real facts come from...and let's not forget Mahmood OD ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HA9RsnYtm0
As Diana van Eyk said: "You nailed it in this one", Diane! Perfectly stated and sadly true, as the Israeli Zionists, at least in my way of thinking are far worse and much more sadistic than the Waffen SS security guards at those secret "black sites" in Poland where much of the Final Solution was carried out. In a weird way, the ethnic cleansing of some of the European Jews by the German SS and affiliated SS soldiers from allied countries like Western Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, etc. was a bonanza for Jewish people, as they were given stolen Palestinian land to create a country and billions of US taxpayer dollars and unlimited US military support since 1948 and the silent okay by Uncle Sam to do whatever they want in the Middle East, including deliberately bombing the USS Liberty vessel during 1967 and President Johnson covering it up as not too offend Israel. No other ethnic, racial, or religious group in America has as much power and influence in Washington, D.C. as the Jewish people do. In Western Europe and even Australia, the Jewish Lobby has political influence in shaping the minds of Gentiles and the political prostitutes holding office, to support the Zionist/Israeli agenda. The "Chosen People Syndrome" is real, and not an ancient belief, and of course, not all Jewish people believe it, and are probably embarrassed and saddened about the Palestinian Holocaust sanctioned by the decadent US and Western Europe and the worthless UN for letting it happen. Netanyahu is just as evil as Hitler and the IDF equivalent (almost, but hardly as brave) as were the Waffen SS soldiers who drank Adolph's Kool-Aid, but quite brave on the battlefield, fighting heavily armed soldiers rather than just slaughtering women and children as Diane mentioned above. Where's this benevolent "god" to stop this death, destruction, misery and suffering on Earth from happening? George Carlin was certainly right about religion!
I feel you, Diane! What disgusts and twists me most is not only the horrific acts themselves, but also the way they’re carried out so boldly, so publicly, without any shame. As if hurting others has become normal. As if there's no longer a need to hide the violence, because no one’s really watching—or maybe no one dares to speak. That boldness, that pride in cruelty, is what twists something inside me.
And then, the silence. The quiet from those who should care. We’re watching lives shattered, families erased, and somehow the world finds its voice only when something far less painful happens on the other side. It’s hard to make sense of it—the hypocrisy, the selective grief. It's just disgusting. Thank you for sharing such a powerful and moving piece.
"These acts are committed by people who are pathologically psychotic, criminally insane, damaged, deranged and deformed beyond repair and redemption.
I don’t know about you, but I am SICK to death of the whole rotten bunch and I am TWISTED with rage and disgust! And I wish on every guilty party nothing but their just, commensurate and swift comeuppance in their lifetime!"
The West is disgraced for supporting this genocide. Israel should be shunned by everyone—and so should we. The one thing I would add to your excellent essay, Diane:?Israrl holds hundreds of dead Palestinians. It holds some for decades.
I am twisted with rage and disgust too, Diane. You nailed it in this one!
"Sick and Twisted" is the perfect description of all that is currently transpiring in the western empire's focused and brutal assault on all humanity that doesn't belong to their cabal of exploiters and oppressors.
"Never Again" has been rendered a meaningless and cynical expression. Great post, Diane.
Much appreciated, Leon!
"Sick and Twisted" -spot on, but I would also add "EVIL, INHUMANE AND PHYSCOTIC" ...
It has gone FAR beyond "beggar's belief" for me...
As would I, most definitely!
The Nazis thought they were Master Race. The Zionists think they are God's chosen people. In reality, they are all the Devil's spawn!
To be correct and this is too often overlooked, the Zionists and too many Jews for too long, think they are chosen and superior as humans. Israel could not exist and could not have done what it has for nearly a century or be doing what it is doing for the past 17 months without the support of most Jews.
While Zionism may have poisoned Judaism the reality is that Jews, most of them, have allowed Israel to commit genocide, occupation, colonisation, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, murder, theft, sadistic cruelty and bestial savagery at levels of evil greater even than the much and too often touted Nazis.
And, 'but I didn't know' was not allowed for Germans so why should it be allowed for Israelis and their supporters in the modern age when there is no reason not to know? Particularly the last 17 months when the heights, or is that depths of barbaric savagery inflicted on the Palestinians has been so easy, so horrifyingly easy, to see and read about.
"How sick and twisted it is for Zionists Jews to believe that, because they are chosen (or self-chosen) by God to sit at the top of the chain of being, they are free to murder, maim, displace, dispossess, intimidate, terrorize, torture, humiliate, harass, imprison and dehumanize the Palestinian population, and never face any legal or moral consequences? How sick and twisted is it for any people to believe that they and their war crimes are above the law?"
I never thought I could ever sum up such sick and twisted behavior in one word before October 2023, but now I can. That one word that sums up everything evil and immoral and heinous in the world is this word: Zionism. There's no way the Zionists will ever not stand for this genocide and their sadistic war crimes. Never.
Zionist Israel will face its reckoning one way or another: before the ICC (unlikely), before international public opinion (on-going and growing), in internal disruption, disintegration and civil war (very likely), in the afterlife (I wouldn't count on it, but I can hope that there is such a place as Hell).
Hell is actually here, on Earth, IMO. (Not just the small town in Michigan, either!) We can make the Zionists' lives a living hell, like they have for so many others. That's a promise we can make to ourselves and keep!
I think all sane people of conscience are sickened and enraged that not only is such slaughter going on but those committing it, most Israelis and their supporters are literally rejoicing in it, delighting in it, revelling in their blood-drenched genocidal torture of men, women and hundreds of thousands of children.
How can anyone claim to be the victim when they are using their massive military power against prisoners, nearly half of them children, in a concentration camp to punish them for daring to exist and resist the savagery of their occupation over 76 years.
How can Zionists, Israelis and Jews keep a straight face spewing out constantly about the suffering of European Jews nearly a century ago as they do worse to Christians and Muslims in Palestine today? It is the level of sadistic cruelty, bestial savagery and demonic insanity committed by the Israelis and their supporters which is most horrifying.
But, Diane, Israel has a right to self defense. I guess it is just unfortunate that their self defense means that thousands of children have to die, that all hospitals and universities in Gaza must go. I guess Trump is defending himself agains the Amerikan people by gutting the government, and attacking the educational system. Maybe he will get rid of hospitals next. He has to defend himself, after all. And certainly he cannot have people living in Amerika and commenting on the fascist, nazi like behaviour of the State of Israel. Where will the money for his next attempt at getting elected come from if the State of Israel is not respected?
Freedom of speech is the freedom to agree with, support, love and applaud everything the US empire and Israel do! Or not?
Only if King Trump allows it.
And King Bibi, the Benevolent!
Satire I am guessing.
Israel occupies Palestine and no occupier has any right to self defense against the people it crushes under military occupation rule. The Palestinians have the right under international law to take up arms against their oppressors and Israel has no right to stop them.
Perhaps the most horrifying thing of all is that the US and most of its lackey allies are not just allowing Israel to commit this genocide, but arming them and supporting them so they can do it and keep doing it.
It’s happening now for Israel. Since its modern political creation, the Israeli state found itself hungry for living space, driven to destruction of everything that surrounds it. Israel’s inhumanity and narcissism is nurtured within its borders, and lied about and hidden from its primary source of sustenance, the United States. We are told God created it, and nothing trumps the command of God; but in fact, Zionism was created by very human, mostly secular, wholly immoral, and politically- not spiritually-driven people. It dumbly follows the 19th century colonial project, of divide (its creation of the PA, and later Hamas) and conquer (Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria for years). For Zionists, the enemy is everywhere; they struggle daily for life amidst mindless, animalistic, subhuman goyim.
More accurately, the West, for political convenience then and now, subsidizes, arms, funds and covers for Israel, a dangerous golem of their own creation. Despite the origin story of brave Zionists who took their “rightful land” in 1948, in fact it was created to serve the West, in several ways, and has been fed and fueled consistently by its creators ever since. We own the golem, and we are culpable for its grievous and murderous acts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/karenkwiatkowski/p/can-trump-control-the-golems?r=ppxvi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Excellent article! Thanks for the link, Roslyn! I’ve listened to Karen Kwiatkowski on Judging Freedom, and she’s one smart cookie!
She's amazing. I listen to the New Jersey Judge's people 1st thing in my morning...what he is doing is a gift ...and getting invited to Russia! apparently the Russians tune into him every day also. that's where the real facts come from...and let's not forget Mahmood OD ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HA9RsnYtm0
Yes I have a lot of time for her. Solid
As Diana van Eyk said: "You nailed it in this one", Diane! Perfectly stated and sadly true, as the Israeli Zionists, at least in my way of thinking are far worse and much more sadistic than the Waffen SS security guards at those secret "black sites" in Poland where much of the Final Solution was carried out. In a weird way, the ethnic cleansing of some of the European Jews by the German SS and affiliated SS soldiers from allied countries like Western Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, etc. was a bonanza for Jewish people, as they were given stolen Palestinian land to create a country and billions of US taxpayer dollars and unlimited US military support since 1948 and the silent okay by Uncle Sam to do whatever they want in the Middle East, including deliberately bombing the USS Liberty vessel during 1967 and President Johnson covering it up as not too offend Israel. No other ethnic, racial, or religious group in America has as much power and influence in Washington, D.C. as the Jewish people do. In Western Europe and even Australia, the Jewish Lobby has political influence in shaping the minds of Gentiles and the political prostitutes holding office, to support the Zionist/Israeli agenda. The "Chosen People Syndrome" is real, and not an ancient belief, and of course, not all Jewish people believe it, and are probably embarrassed and saddened about the Palestinian Holocaust sanctioned by the decadent US and Western Europe and the worthless UN for letting it happen. Netanyahu is just as evil as Hitler and the IDF equivalent (almost, but hardly as brave) as were the Waffen SS soldiers who drank Adolph's Kool-Aid, but quite brave on the battlefield, fighting heavily armed soldiers rather than just slaughtering women and children as Diane mentioned above. Where's this benevolent "god" to stop this death, destruction, misery and suffering on Earth from happening? George Carlin was certainly right about religion!
If only George Carlin were still alive!
Obviously, if there are no more hostages in Gaza, then real hell will rain down...maybe gas. Israel needs to finish them off. All of them.
No hell to pay for Israel. Only Luxury resorts and Trump Casinos....They have their plans.
My plan: all the Jews should get the hell out of Palestine.
Good plan , Judith!
Trump is an obscenity visited upon the body politic.
Please subscribe, Penelope!
Done and dusted, dear.
I feel you, Diane! What disgusts and twists me most is not only the horrific acts themselves, but also the way they’re carried out so boldly, so publicly, without any shame. As if hurting others has become normal. As if there's no longer a need to hide the violence, because no one’s really watching—or maybe no one dares to speak. That boldness, that pride in cruelty, is what twists something inside me.
And then, the silence. The quiet from those who should care. We’re watching lives shattered, families erased, and somehow the world finds its voice only when something far less painful happens on the other side. It’s hard to make sense of it—the hypocrisy, the selective grief. It's just disgusting. Thank you for sharing such a powerful and moving piece.
"These acts are committed by people who are pathologically psychotic, criminally insane, damaged, deranged and deformed beyond repair and redemption.
I don’t know about you, but I am SICK to death of the whole rotten bunch and I am TWISTED with rage and disgust! And I wish on every guilty party nothing but their just, commensurate and swift comeuppance in their lifetime!"
Amen to that. Me too.
The West is disgraced for supporting this genocide. Israel should be shunned by everyone—and so should we. The one thing I would add to your excellent essay, Diane:?Israrl holds hundreds of dead Palestinians. It holds some for decades.
Trump is an Israeli - ANY CHARGE HE MAKES IS A CONFESSION.
A bought-and-paid-for-by-Miriam-Adelson Zionist!
Are all WESTERN POLITICIANS a megalomania?