Bombing Gaza – The Burning Platform

The history of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict is a long and winding one, and no date is of more import in this recent timeline than October 7th, 2023: a day which has been likened by Israel’s leaders as the country’s “9/11”. (As if that statement alone doesn’t give the game away). In an audacious and bombastic attack, Hamas was credited with taking one of the most advanced surveillance gathering networks in the world by “surprise”, penetrating deep into Israel and taking hundreds of hostages. Just hours into the attack, a former Israeli speechwriter at the UN was among the first to spread the (largely) unsubstantiated reports of sexual atrocities. This was followed closely by reports of beheaded and barbecued babies, spread by a well known and fanatical Israeli influencer. The Hamas “barbarians” had gone too far this time, and what has followed is a “gloves-off”, unrestrained annihilation of all those deemed to be Hamas — which conveniently includes the entire voting aged populace of Gaza.

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RICH MAN’S WAR, POOR MAN’S BLOOD

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” – General Smedley Butler

I don’t need your civil warIt feeds the rich while it buries the poorYour power hungry sellin’ soldiersIn a human grocery store

Guns N’ Roses – Civil War

Whether it is a distinguished general who came to his senses in 1935, after doing the bidding of the monied interests by initiating conflict throughout the world to fill their coffers with blood money, or a rock & roll star fifty years later writing a hit song about the exact same theme, the song remains the same. The wealthy always benefit from war, the poor always die in their wars, and politicians are bribed to continually foment conflict, hate, and railing against whoever their puppet masters choose as the enemy of the moment. This is not a recent development, it has spanned centuries, just the sums of money feeding the military industrial complex are now astronomical.

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