There’s No Violence Until the Government Shows Up
Path to sanity involves awareness, opposition, awakening, and consciousness—precisely in that order.
I won’t beat around the bush with this article. I won’t work on my form here or mold my prose into a stunning piece. I’m exhausted. As you are, we all are. I want to check in with you and ensure that this current quandary we’re witnessing in the world is at least clearer for you. Me. All of us.
Where can we find hope, given what we've witnessed over the past week? We find it by not misinterpreting the power dynamics. We find it by fully understanding what’s actually happening in the world. There's no longer any excuse for being a lethargic, passive observer of global politics and geopolitics; it all concerns you and impacts your life.
Being hopeful is hard today.
Only the cessation of the violence we've been witnessing on our screens can heal us. This is not a groundbreaking concept, and you are fully aware of it. However, I firmly believe that the path to sanity involves awareness, opposition, awakening, and consciousness—precisely in that order.
The last six days have been unbearable. The genocide on our screens. A “rescue mission” that saved 4 and killed 274. The United States who claims “we lead the rule-based order” while they are the least compliant country in the entire world. The disrespect they are showing to their citizens and the whole of the international community by lying and manipulating every single ceasefire deal. US lawmakers blocking funding for Gaza reconstruction. US Congress diverting the 35 million of funds collected for the Palestinian Authority to Israel. Claiming they support a two-state solution to then veto a Palestinian UN membership.
I want to jump-start your awareness.
The realization is ugly, but it’s the only way. You won’t feel better but you’ll feel clear, and being clear about the world and not letting yourself be propagandized into submission is the only thing we have left here.
I need you to reprogram your mind about The United States’ role and Israel’s role in this horror we have been witnessing.
“Why is the United States doing all this for Israel”, “Why is Israel ruling the United States government”, “Why is the United States lying for Israel”, and “Why is the United States not holding Israel accountable for anything” - have been the constant occupants in my inbox for months now. Most of the people I talk to are bothered daily by the influence Israel has over America and are struggling to comprehend why the most powerful country on earth would be a bitch to some tiny state in the Middle East.
This is where you’re failing. Israel is not ruling The US and making them do anything, America IS masterminding all that you are seeing on your screens. It’s the American zionists who are doing this. Israel does not rule the American Congress, American zionists ARE the American Congress. Israel is nothing more than a military post of the American zionists and the whole Western empire, there to destabilize the Middle East, and perpetuate a circle of violence that feeds the Military-Industrial Complex. Money that the United States invests in Israel is not a handout, it’s billions that circle back to the United States economy via the companies employed by the Military-Industrial complex.
Last Saturday, all this was proven to all of us. You saw American assassins being smuggled into Gaza in the humanitarian aid trucks to slaughter 274 civilians, women, and children while rescuing 4 hostages and killing 3; then letting the famous “pier for aid” crumble into the water once its actual purpose has been served.
What happened on Saturday is much worse than any small child’s limbs ripped to pieces.
How can anything be worse than children being slaughtered?
It can, because that particular maneuver revealed the most real, raw, and brutal truth of this genocide: the West is not merely implicated but is masterminding it.
You heard Joe Biden some decades ago: “If there weren’t an Israel, we would have to invent an Israel. It’s the best XY billion investment we could make.” I noticed many of you trying to read between the lines, but why are you doing that? The American government is telling you directly what they are all about. To your face, bluntly.
I will break it all to you in this article, with the help of some iconic people who have been fighting the good fight for a while now.
Israel is created to uphold the values of Western imperialism. Israel is just a military base, an outpost of Western imperialism’s ruler, The United States. Its purpose is to destabilize the resource-rich Middle East. How do you do it? With constant wars and colonial pursuits.
For all that to function seamlessly, Israel needs to pretend to be a state. A fully functional one. With good international relations. Have you ever wondered why a Middle Eastern state is competing in the Euro or sings at the Eurovision?
I went on ChatGPT once and asked that question: Why is Israel a member of UEFA, given its location is not in Europe but in the Middle East? We went back and forth, and this is the final answer I got after pressing on how a non-European country can be in the Union of European Football Associations:
“The inclusion of Israel in UEFA has indeed been a topic of discussion and debate. Some critics argue that sporting and cultural events can be used to project a positive image or divert attention from political controversies, such as concerns about apartheid policies. The question of including a country in sporting events involves complex ethical considerations. It often sparks debates about whether engagement through sports can help promote positive change or whether inadvertently legitimizes oppressive actions. Different people and organizations hold varying views on this matter, reflecting the complexity of balancing sports, politics, and human rights.”
Are you getting there?
No state needs to work this hard at appearing to be one and wants to be accepted as one, as the state whose existence is created to uphold Western domination.
We have been groomed into islamophobia for our entire lives, putting groundwork for this moment here, right now. Western powers don't want stability in the world if that stability means a competitor’s position improves. Competitor? Global South.
Caitlin Johnstone explains this:
“This isn’t about Jews, it’s about settler-colonialism and the geo-strategic objectives of the Western empire — both of which we’ve seen manifest in countless examples that have nothing to do with Jewish people. Zionism is just one belief system the empire managers will utilize to advance their agendas of planetary hegemony, just as they do with Christian fundamentalism, Islamophobia, humanitarianism, conservatism, progressivism, and any other worldview that can be exploited to their advantage.”
You have to understand this synergy between America and Israel, rather than lose your days trying to grasp why Israel is manipulating America. They aren’t manipulating America. Constantly questioning yourself with “Why would America go through all this trouble for a foreign nation, no matter how strong the allyship” - misplaces your perspective and emotions. America benefits from Israel as much as Israel benefits from America.
I realized a while ago that these two entities call each other allies, but in reality, they are the same entity, feeding off each other's interests like a perfectly coordinated love affair based on transactional passions. I had an Israeli guy boast about “US giving us billions” in my TikTok comment section, like a beautiful girl bragging about the amount of money her boyfriend throws at her, while the guy is boasting about the girl’s beauty; it’s the flawless, clockwork unison last seen in the pages of Tolstoy or Dickens. A sensual dance, a transactional yet passionate affair.
You still don’t see how all this mess benefits America?
The Israeli writer Alon Mizrahi, a Jew of Arab origins explains it concisely:
“A war in the Middle East provides American establishments with the perfect excuse for internal oppression and censorship.”
And:
“America has dedicated more resources and shown more resolve in dealing with a few weeks of students' peaceful protests than it did with decades of school shootings.
A break with Israel threatens the American system more than dead American kids.
This is the system telling us it is operating in the name of colonialism; it seeks to achieve nothing but the practice of violence for violence's sake, as part of the colonial mission.
Finally, because colonialism was allowed to remain dormant in the American psyche, its hierarchical essence means it must take precedence over everything else; whoever woken, it immediately becomes the meaning of America. This is why American fundamentalists see this as an attack on America.”
This guy is just too good at this:
“As Israel is unleashing its Rafah operation, as many of us suspected was inevitable, I can't stress enough to grasp and come to terms with just how vicious America's involvement in this is, led by the Democrats.
I think that many people are still not getting that the US is employing a strategy of deception, including against its own citizens, to help this genocide sail smoothly.
It is really hard to accept, but we have to: the American government is working to create a false narrative of occasional disagreements with Israel, and it is doing it to achieve two objectives:
The first is saving face. The second is confusing and weakening global and especially Western opinion by creating false hope (“they are not going to allow this”, “surely now this will stop”).
But it is all a lie. A strategically used lie, do you get it?
They have been in on every part of it. They are assisting it in every way possible. They will never stop.
They will never stop till all Palestinians are dead, or civil unrest brought the US to a standstill. But these are the only two options. It is all a massive, massive deception operation.”
“A potentially timely reminder: good and normal ideas do not require violence, censorship, and obsessive control. Only bad ideas, that go contrary to human nature and understanding, need to be enforced this way.”
American Empire?
It’s paramount to understand the American Empire and its role in the current Gaza siege. Instead of being a dignified part of the international community, a nation among nations, the United States dominates other nations by force or threats of force. America has 800 military units abroad and 130 Special Operations in various countries. It wants to dominate the globe.
Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mongolian Empire, and British Empire all collapsed. The American Empire, the 68th Empire in the history of the species, existing in modern times—refuses to use any form of diplomacy, discussions, or considering anyone’s interest but its own. It rules by violence, lies, and manipulation.
Jeffrey Sachs, an economist, public policy analyst, and professor at Columbia University explained this in-depth on Judge Napolitano’s Judging Freedom show:
“There are no standards right now. We are in a thuggish time, we are at war because we do not entertain diplomacy at all, there is no talk of peace anywhere, there is only talk about military escalation. It is a disgrace of the Biden administration and the people in that administration who do not have any language of negotiation whatsoever, we are in the spiral and the American people are simply being left out from this story.”
Calling Russia, China, Iran - the axis of evil while the US sent arms to Taiwan, which is part of China; they have stationed troops on Kinmen Island - part of Taiwan which is part of China, and they have the nerve to say this.
We are on the warpath, what are we thinking?
Nothing but unrelenting hostility from the US toward China. And everyone cheering in Congress over this, this is bipartisan. What are we thinking? Do they want to destroy the world? We don’t honestly want to have discussions? No other countries have interests? Only the US gets to decide who does what to whom and when? Only the US can put out sanctions, and only the US can decide whom the ICC does or doesn’t indict? This is a kind of madness right now that is leading us closer to doom than we can recall in our modern times.”
Is there any hope?
Yes. In collective. Hope is in the collective. In all of us.
Alon Mizrahi puts it to bed, again, brilliantly:
“Palestine is giving young people meaning the capitalist, corporate world order viciously denied them.
At the most precise moment in history when it seemed a completely mechanical, vertical, and isolated form of existence was about to burry humanity for good, this genocide sparked a long-forgotten truth: that we (the people) are creatures of community; that we only find true joy and meaning in connecting with other people.
That we cannot be happy when others around us suffer.
Palestine is an actual and concrete struggle but it is also, and crucially so, an instrument of philosophical liberation of universal importance.
As prophecized, the revolution is not televised, as establishment media is an essential part of the oppressing mechanism. But rather than let it fool you, see this violent denial for what it is: proof of the magnitude and potential of this movement.
The Palestinian Revolution may yet prove to be more consequential than the French one.”
You can’t find any motivation in this world? You have to. I read a comment on Instagram the other day: “Throughout human history, there has been constant horror but in the midst of that people sought to make and share art. Michelangelo carved David amid plague and witch trials.”
Re-read all the people I sourced in this article.
You must persevere, maintain your sanity, and contribute your creativity to the world despite the ugliness you see. Above all, stay aware and conscious of what’s happening. Never again allow yourself to be propagandized by the Western media and the government that employs them.
Every day, I talk to people about the overwhelming sense of hopelessness we've all felt in light of recent events. We expected accountability and justice, but have seen none, leaving us tired, angry, and demoralized. However, the paragraph by Caitlin Johnstone offers a pathway forward. As I said at the beginning of this piece, awareness, opposition, awakening, and consciousness—precisely in that order:
“If too many people realize that their government is psychopathic and their news media and other indoctrination systems have been lying to them about it all their lives, the empire will lose the ability to propagandize them, because propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you. If too many people wake up from the propaganda matrix it won’t have any effect any longer, and without their propaganda our rulers cannot rule, because that’s the entire control system upon which their rule is premised.
The empire therefore needs to tread very carefully when public opinion starts to turn against it, and retreat whenever public trust in imperial institutions would be compromised too severely for the empire to continue on a given path. It simply cannot afford to wake the public up from the propaganda-induced coma it has spent generations lulling them into.
What this means is that the empire can be pressured into retreat simply by spreading enough awareness and sowing enough opposition to its depraved actions. If enough eyes open to the truth of what’s happening in Gaza, there’s no amount of geostrategic middle east agendas or Israel lobby funding that can outweigh the empire’s existential need to prevent a mass-scale awakening from the mainstream imperial worldview and a transition into widespread revolutionary consciousness. The empire would necessarily need to step back before things reached that point, because its very existence depends on it.”
The blueprint is here.
Well done!
Grear read! Well articulated as usual 🤍