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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

Absolute nonsense. You want it ended? Return the hostages and surrender. Stop calling for and working toward the genocide of all Jews.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

This ends when proletarian law, truth, equity justice and the premise of decency say that it ends.

We have seen the ascendancy of ideologies of blood, race and soil. We know what they are, where they go, how they end.

All those responsible will be prosecuted for their crimes against humanity, crimes of war against peace, and for genocide — in Old City Jerusalem, or Washington, DC. The global Palestinian population gets to decide where.

In the mean time, it will be increasingly understood that this conflict was never about Judaism and always about US imperial dominance, its intention to reduce the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, and ongoing plans for WW III.

These comments, although under the antecedent post, are intended not for Raymond, but for others.

I’m done teaching political neophytes. That includes anyone refusing to recognize the distinctive origins of two movements — one of which began in the Mount Sinai region some 8 - 7 centuries BCE, and the other originating in Switzerland in the late 1800s.

As for you, Raymond: Grow up.

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

Spare me anarchist, communist or fascist drivel...whatever you are. You defend ruin, poverty and chaos. The opposite of law and order. The opposiste of morality and decency. You are like Hamas, hiding behind the civilians they sacrifice for PR only the jig is up. Trump and his people are dealing with your ilk. You are done. Old lady getting knocked down stories wont save you. The people are fed up with you, your hate, your violence and ruin. Grow up? The lack of self awareness is typically astounding. Undo your conditioning, stop hating and learn to love your fellow man.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

The essential background needed for a comprehensive evaluation of the antecedent post is available in text or video here:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/19/pers-d19.html

The same text is available in printer-friendly pdf format for close study, which I recommend highly. It is accessed at:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/19/pers-d19.pdf

This lecture also addresses the powerful, historical support of working class Jewish persons for revolutionary socialism, and exposes Zionism’s bourgeois social class alignment that is evident in the reply to my antecedent post.

In addition to refusing to engage directly the filth or epistemological nihilism associated with the account ‘RAY MCMULLEN,’ I encourage readers to follow Gaza-related developments published at https://www.wsws.org/gaza

Relevant articles are published there most days. They redirect the global response to these developments, and contextualize them in the broader discussion of class struggle and the ongoing drive for WW III.

The wsws.org has published on class struggle in Israel and Palestine long before the current crisis.

Israel: https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/country/israel

Palestine: https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/country/palestine

Articles on specific countries are found at:

https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/countries

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

Spare me the propaganda. I have been educating myself on these questions likely longer than you have been alive

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e.pierce's avatar

Brainwashed cargo cult zombie. Paid $7,000 per post???

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TeeJae's avatar

Pure PROJECTION. Look in the mirror.

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Deborah Watson's avatar

Brilliant 👍 THANK YOU 😃

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

Sorry for being a loose cannon

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Not a problem, Raymond K.

Had the other Ray a real reply, he’d have posted it. Instead he doubled down on semantic inversion and said what he did.

The terse admonition stung. It seems it came a bit too close to home.

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Rita Camara's avatar

Absolute nonsense. If Netanyahu wanted the hostages he would have accepted the deal in October 2023, when Hamas offered to release all the hostages, if Israel didn’t ground invade the strip. You’re so gullible that, after 2 year, you still think this has got anything to do with the hostages…

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Jim's avatar

You obviously didn’t read the article, or you’re on the $7000 a post Hasbara payroll. Israeli officials are quoted here openly stating that they are committing ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir all view the remaining captives as an obstacle to their overarching goal of eliminating Palestinians. So stop lying.

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e.pierce's avatar

SEEK PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT, ASAP.

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SUSAN GALLAGHER's avatar

And… you know this how⁉️⁉️⁉️

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Washington’s DC's avatar

And Israel is committing suicide in the process.

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

No, it isnt. That is propaganda. The fake population you call Palestinians have grown by millions while Israel has been accused of genocide. Quite the incompetent genocide. This while being fed, employed and supplied with energy.

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Old Abe's avatar

Ray, The Dissident is and has always been a place where those indoctrinated souls come to read and/or pile on comments to posts that are far-left leaning and in so many cases anti-American, anti-capitalism, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. There’s rarely any logic, or truth. Instead, it’s all talking points. But that’s to be expected. Indoctrination does that. We should keep attempting to educate, to ask questions that might get them to think a little more deeply and possibly recognize the false narratives they believe in and repeat/parrot, and just how much they have been lied to. But don’t lose sleep over this. Admitting let alone even questioning whether you are wrong is not in most people’s human nature. Plus they have typically dug themselves in so deeply with their identity on social media and with their family and friends. Better to have discussions with those open to the possibility there is more to a story, or other circumstances worth understanding, or history they ought to consider…

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

I understand this. Most are intransigent. My comment here exposes their narrative amd claims that they want the killing to end and how it actually could.

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Old Abe's avatar

@raymondkalberg is that an accurate statement? It’s certainly a blanket statement. But it begs another question: shouldn’t everyone be against extremism of all types - with a passion? Is it “Muslims” or religious extremism and Islamist ideology that is hell-bent on exterminating Jewish people (otherwise known as genocide), and expanding extermination to include all infidels, that Jewish people are against?

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

You are uninformed in the extreme. There is no mass murder of children or anyone else. You are a victim of a prpaganda machine in existence for decades. No military in the history of war has done more to avoid civilian casualties than the IDF. No military has aided civilians in war than the IDF. This war could end instantly with hostages returned and Hamas' surrender. If you cared about civilians you would be angry with Hamas who prevents them from leaving, shoots them if the try and hides under hospitals and schools to make sure they die. Even then, the IDF avoids killing anyone it can. Stop hating Israel and Jews and start looking at the true enemy.

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

It's all well documented. Proof in the pudding. How can you deny the truth when it becomes so glaringly in your face as fact. Pride and arrogance are among our worst enemy.

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

I find your comment astounding and I should be used to it by now. The only places it is "well documented" is the Hamas propaganda you swallow without question, the lies of the fascist at the UN and the NGOs lining up for tax dollars. If you think for yourself, the facts I have laid out are easy to see. The only arrogance is yours and that of your fellow leftists. Arrogance born of hate.

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

The truth is unassailable

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

Yes it is. You just dont know the truth. You leftists are also fond of saying truth is subjective so consistency isnt a strong suit either.

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Trainwreck's avatar

You are correct in saying the proof is inextricably obvious Hamas charter states its goal is to wipe out all Jews and Israel with them That is their only stated goal while Israel has no such stated goal towards Palestinians

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

Actions speak louder than words. Who cares what hamas says it is what Israel does.

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

I would like to ask, if you are open to discussion and not just yelling, how much do you know of the history here before the current iteration of this conflict?

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

Imagine a nation of Jews only. That is Israel ,that is zionism. Extreme racial purity based on tribal allegiance. To hell with the rest .

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

You really need to learn about Israel before you spew such hate and blatantly incorrect statements. Unless of course, like most on this subject, you just blindly hate. Israel is the only democracy in the ME. It is a pluralist society of many religions, races and ethnicities. That which you attribute to them, belongs to those you support. In short, you don't know what you are talking about. You also claimed the Torah and Bible were sacred in Islam. Again. You don't know what you are talking about. Islam's teachings compell the slaughter, enslavement or subjugation of Jews and Christians, not to mention anyone non Muslim.

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

Like I said I love good people no matter what religion.

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TeeJae's avatar

Please provide the exact quotes and citations (i.e. chapter, verse) directly from the Quran where it allegedly "compels the slaughter, enslavement or subjugation of Jews and Christians."

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

Makes Milosovic look like a saint. Jews hate muslims with a passion.

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RAY MCMULLEN's avatar

There is nothing in the Torah about killing Muslims. The Koran and Haddith are full of killing Jews and Christians. Not to mention UN funded schools who train generations of bloddthirsty

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Raymond Kalberg's avatar

The Torah and the Gospels are holy books in Islam. The Quran is the last chapter in the trilogy confirming those books that came before it.

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Trainwreck's avatar

You proved his point Thank you

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RESIST | FIGHT's avatar

Heartbreaking 💔

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Bob Goldberg's avatar

Hahahaha

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Sean Gjerde's avatar

You guys realize that ethnic cleansing definitionally is not the same thing as genocide? Because having been in Bosnia in the 90s the term “ethnic cleansing” was very deliberate as not to have it confused with genocide or a Holocaust. So you mix up two terms that are specifically not to mean the same thing is either a reflection of you knowledge of the Yugoslav conflict and specific lack there of or just bade anti semitism

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Trainwreck's avatar

More BS from an uninformed source

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