We Deserve Better Psyops
Or "Do Western Governments Really Care About 14,000 Babies Dying in Gaza Within 48 Hours When There’s New Charges of Antisemitism to Whine About?"
What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor—inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing—permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children. --Howard Zinn, The People’s History of the United States
We Deserve Better Psyops
by C.A. Matthews
Have you ever known a person whose word you couldn’t take seriously? They’ll say they’ll mow your lawn, but they never seem to get around to it. They say they care about you, but they never return your calls. They promise to pay you back when you loan them money, but do they ever? You can’t trust a single word this person says because of what they do—or don’t do, more than likely.
That’s how I feel today about Western governments’ politicians and diplomats. They’re always trying to cover their asses when the shit hits the fan as a result of their actions. They’ll fake tears of concern, saying that they truly care about starving and suffering Palestinians, although hundreds of thousands of innocents in Gaza have been dying over the past 19+ months due to their direct material, financial, and “moral” support of the genocidal Israeli regime.
(Fortunately, there’s at least one European Parliament Member who actually does care and speaks out against genocide—Lynn Boylan. She said: “I stand here today to do what EU leaders won't do and that is to apologize to the people of Gaza and Palestine…”)
We can’t trust sociopathic politicos of the West to show empathy. All along they’ve been a proud part of this genocide of the Palestinian people. Whether they do what they do for money or for the power they seek in West Asia and/or the petroleum resources they’ve been promised makes no difference. They’re okay with 14,000 babies starving within 48 hours. Selfish, heartless bastards the lot of them.
I particularly distrust the genocidal state of Israel, even more than I distrust Western politicians. They’ve claimed all along that they want their hostages back, but their implementation of their Hannibal Directive on October 7, 2023, demonstrates that they’ve never really cared about their own people’s safety. Photographic evidence revealed how they shot from helicopters at their own soldiers and citizens in escaping cars in order to make it seem like a much larger incident than it was by a small, ragtag group of oppressed Palestinians.
Israelis simply want to steal the entirety of the Gaza Strip and keep it for themselves. They want the oil and natural gas reserves located just off shore. So, why would any thinking person believe the Israelis actually care about any of their victims, let alone the young and innocent?
And just when the mainstream media was beginning to crack—just a little—because of photos of starving babies in Gaza, the headlines are grabbed by the zy0nists again. Several EU leaders were getting cold feet about their part in the genocide and walking back their support of Israel, but out of the blue there was a shooting incident involving Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC. Good-bye to any mainstream media attention for the suffering of Palestinian children.
Independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone puts this incident in perspective:
Two Israeli embassy staff getting shot in Washington DC is less newsworthy than tens of thousands of Palestinians being killed in Israel’s genocidal land grab. It is less important. It deserves less attention. It is not the main story. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the main story.
My first impression was this incident is a false flag. A false flag is a psychological operation (or psyop) committed by state actors for the purpose of distracting the public and provoking them into sympathizing with the “victims,” in this case a young couple who both worked for the Israeli embassy. And it worked—the mainstream media took the bait and completely forgot all about the blockade of much needed food and medicines to Gaza. The starvation of children disappeared.
This incident also got me thinking: What if these two Israeli embassy staff members had been African Americans instead of a white Israeli-American couple? Would this incident have provoked such media attention and outrage? Would the deaths of two young Blacks in DC have wiped out the headlines about the 14,000 babies dying of starvation within the next 48 hours in Gaza or the headlines of how European diplomats were shot at by the IOF while on a fact-finding trip in Jerusalem? Probably not.
This whole thing seems a little too set up to me. Podcaster Sabby Sabs puts it well: “The timing is suspect as hell.” Watch her video to see what I mean. Sabby makes some very pertinent points about the slightly off background of the accused, Elias Rodriguez. I agree with her assessment that Elias could very well be a plant working for the CIA or Mossad.
The video of the aftermath of the shooting shows how the cops didn’t jump on Elias or bully him into surrendering like they do most “anti-semites” nowadays. Elias stands there calmly and then makes sure to turn and yell “Free Palestine!” sort of as an afterthought as they casually escort him into the building. Plus, you see a cop or FBI agent picking something off the ground next to Elias and pocketing it. They’re not using very good crime scene techniques if that object turned out to be actual evidence, right?
Is Elias Rodriguez an authentic protester? Like Sabby Sabs, I’m not feeling it. Most pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protesters I've encountered are against all types of violence and war. And don’t forget the Hannibal Directive—the state of Israel will shoot its own if it serves a higher purpose. So, why wouldn’t the Israelis have a possible CIA or Mossad agent shoot a handsome couple (one being a zy0nist Christian and former Israeli soldier of three years, the other an American Jewish woman) to rile up Americans about “threats of antisemitism.” Why wouldn’t they sacrifice two of their own so their genocide of Palestinians could continue unabated?
I don’t trust a word these genocidaires say, so I can’t trust that the Israelis wouldn’t do something this despicable in order to keep the narrative spinning in their favor. Another wise word from Caitlin Johnstone: "Israel weaponizes sympathy…"
Israel always plays the victim, never the victimizer. Somehow hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have mysteriously dropped dead in Gaza these past 19+ months because Israel is always the victim. You might believe that to be the case if you only read the headlines of the New York Times or Washington Post. Palestinians mysteriously die according to these rags, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with an Israeli blockade of food and medicines or the fact that Gazans are constantly being bombed by the IOF.
I guess we’re all supposed to be so thick-headed that we can’t figure out what’s really happening in Gaza, right?
Journalist Ken Klippenstein claims to have received the alleged shooter’s manifesto, publishing it online within the first 24 hours after the incident. I don’t believe this manifesto is genuine because Ken doesn’t elaborate on how he came upon this document. Without knowing a little more on the provenance of the “manifesto” that Ken got his hands on, it’s hard for me to believe it’s the real thing. It smells fishy, another possible false flag.
(The next day, Ken published an account of how the FBI came to his home to question him about the when and where of how he received the alleged shooter’s manifesto. Ken still doesn’t reveal in his article how he got his hands on it, which doesn’t change my opinion about this being a false flag.)
As Caitlin says, the Israelis enjoy playing victims. Why not mark two of their young people for assassination as an excuse to trick the US into joining Israel in a war against Iran? Why not have Mossad find a confused young American and use him as the fall guy when they most needed most to create a distraction? After all, how did Chicagoan Elias Rodriguez even know where to go in DC and when and who to shoot coming out of the building? How does Elias, a history writer, even know how to shoot a weapon let alone be such an excellent marksman?
Remember, the motto of Mossad is: By way of deception, thou shalt do war.
The Israelis have proven through their use of the Hannibal Directive in the recent past that they're more than willing to kill their own in order to make the narrative go their way. I bet those EU leaders who were starting to say the "g-word" in public will stop using it and start selling arms to Israel again.
But there’s one quote from the alleged manifesto that I do find enlightening:
Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can't let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.
I’ll never think Aaron’s and others’ sacrifices were made in vain. I don’t think any of us are wasting our time protesting, marching, boycotting, divesting and generally not shutting up about the horrors of a live-streamed genocide in Gaza, either.
What I do think is that Western politicians and the Israeli government truly don’t understand who they’re up against with the pro-Palestine crowd. We’re not buying what they’re selling—the eternal wars for oil and the genocide of the Palestinian people in order to steal their land and petroleum resources.
We’re not falling for these untrustworthy degenerates’ false flags anymore. We’re not stupid. You could say that we deserve better psyops because this one isn’t changing our minds that the genocide in Gaza is wrong, and we want nothing more to do with it—or them.
What we truly deserve is to have this immoral ethnic cleansing (now called “Operation Gideon Chariots”) shut down and the villains behind it exposed, tried, and locked up. We deserve to see all the responsible countries and corporations make restitution to the Gazans and others for all the death and destruction they’ve caused. Most importantly, the Palestinians and all the peoples of the Levant region deserve to live in peace and dignity. Forever.
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With respect to a false flag, I think that, knowing the level of depravity of both the United States and Israeli gov'ts, it is certainly, at the very least, a strong possibility that needs to be considered (but who knows?).
But at the risk of sounding bonkers, since there are a good number of people/commenters who think the shooting of the two Israeli embassy staffers could have been a false flag, the question I was wondering about is, if one goes with the assumption that the shooting was arranged/planned (with all the people-involvement, detail and cover-up that something like that would necessarily involve), couldn't the actual deaths of the two staffers have also been staged?... I mean news outlets didn't "actually" show two dead bodies, did they??... I actually don't know... not kidding or trying to promote conspiracy theory.. meaning... are they somehow still alive, somewhere?... but I really am just wondering. Maybe it's a "safer" false flag (less blowback perhaps, if two people didn't actually die, just in case the planners end up getting caught down the road). Is it really that much more of a leap to have staged a false flag with fake killings, as opposed to a false flag with real killings (once you've gone that far), I don't know?
Anyway, I'll finish leaving this comment with this (which probably most readers/commenters, at least here, are quite familiar with)... 63 years ago... and it would seem extremely naive for one to think that the "quality" (ability to pull off subterfuge/deception), sneakiness and depravity of U.S. intelligence/gov't departments has not advanced FAR FAR BEYOND back then, like
EXPONENTIALLY SO since 1962... I mean just think about this... a group of grown-ups (Dept of Defense / Joint Chiefs of Staff!) planning the future of this country, the U.S., were actually sitting around at a table thinking it was perfectly fine to perhaps blow up thousands of its own citizens, and were actually going to do it!... until Kennedy stepped in, and had a change of heart by perhaps thinking something like "yeah, maybe we better not do this, perhaps it's not a great idea"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Great piece of writing, Cindy; kudos.
I got in BIG trouble in elementary school when I asked my teacher why we should pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth.
And I’m the one who, at a ballgame or rodeo, remains seated during the national anthem with her arms crossed.
I was undecided about the ALLEGED shooting until I watched the Sabby clip. That girl does the damn thing. Where was the panic? Where were all the people running from the “shooter”? Why was the arrest so nonchalant? Until I read some of the comments here, it never even occurred to me that those two people may not even be dead!
As others have noted the timing was just too convenient.
Keep up the great work, Girl!
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