Using insider speak, officials can transmit one image to the public and a very different one to their colleagues. This sets up the legal construct for carnage.
The blatant lying in our faces can make us feel helpless and despair. The mocking, the sadistic pleasure they take in presenting barbaric violence as heroism, the callous cruelty with which they flaunt their impunity, all reinforce their power and keep us in our place.
It's enraging.
Thank you for your journalism. I'm sorry you don't have many colleagues with integrity.
The fact that our elected representatives repeatedly and intentionally lie to the American public to make sure that we are completely ignorant should really give us pause. Where is the outrage!? I have tried so many times to share that Israel does not have a right to self defense but I am met with total skepticism and denial because of these direct lies from people that the public mistakenly trusts. I do think that the US and Israel have no intention of complying with any laws that do not serve the interests of white nationalism.
And please share Dr. Ralph Wilde's advisory opinion, delivered to the ICJ in February that per international law, the only legal action Israel can take is to leave. IMMEDIATELY. Which would cut through so many dead end arguments about political resolution.
Also, your description of "Project Baseless" made me think they've probably named their program of systematic starvation & massacres of Gazans as the "Very Clear Project," because they keep repeating that phrase when asked about civilian deaths.
Thank you for persisting with your questioning in the daily briefings. It is blindingly obvious they daren’t engage with you on the level. If they admitted the truth the whole edifice of lies would collapse immediately. But it’s enough to make one tear one’s hair out.
I really would love to have you, or another intrepid journalist, ask these spokespersons, "Just when did you realize that you would be willing to defend genocide, and be ok with that?"
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
I'm reading this in Nov. of 2025, as it was linked to an entry this day. The names of Blinken, Harris,* Sullivan, and Patel (continue to) make me sick.
"Insider speak"? Don't let this one get away. Oct. 28, 2023, Netanyahu gives a speech in which he's nearly frothing at the mouth over the Amaleks, you know, those people whom no one ever heard of before, whose only existence appears to be mention in the Old Testament - the central historical vs. mythological and fabulist text of the Zionists - otherwise there's no archeological record of their existence, a tribe who from 3,000 years ago are still lurking about, ready to strike. Well, Netanyahu is using the imputed lessons from this fable to declare "war" on Hamas, which he has thus far carried along successfully to genocidal effect not only on Hamas - convenient excuse - but on the entirety of the Palestinian population because, after all, "all is fair in love and..."
The blatant lying in our faces can make us feel helpless and despair. The mocking, the sadistic pleasure they take in presenting barbaric violence as heroism, the callous cruelty with which they flaunt their impunity, all reinforce their power and keep us in our place.
It's enraging.
Thank you for your journalism. I'm sorry you don't have many colleagues with integrity.
The fact that our elected representatives repeatedly and intentionally lie to the American public to make sure that we are completely ignorant should really give us pause. Where is the outrage!? I have tried so many times to share that Israel does not have a right to self defense but I am met with total skepticism and denial because of these direct lies from people that the public mistakenly trusts. I do think that the US and Israel have no intention of complying with any laws that do not serve the interests of white nationalism.
Apologies. Without seeking permission, I shared your comment to Quick Update, a freshman representative's substack. I watch to see what he writes - and for the gobsmacking comments of his readers.( I relate to Elizabeth Morley's remark on hair tearing.) And since I shared your comment there, my own comment from there to here, https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjacksonnc/p/national-defense-vs-culture-war?r=3c7k2&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=59309596
No worries! I will check there.
And please share Dr. Ralph Wilde's advisory opinion, delivered to the ICJ in February that per international law, the only legal action Israel can take is to leave. IMMEDIATELY. Which would cut through so many dead end arguments about political resolution.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/sites/laws/files/ralph_wilde_palestine_policy_brief.pdf
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/league-of-arab-states-presentation-to-the-icj-by-ralph-wilde/
Also, your description of "Project Baseless" made me think they've probably named their program of systematic starvation & massacres of Gazans as the "Very Clear Project," because they keep repeating that phrase when asked about civilian deaths.
"We've been very clear ..."
Thank you for persisting with your questioning in the daily briefings. It is blindingly obvious they daren’t engage with you on the level. If they admitted the truth the whole edifice of lies would collapse immediately. But it’s enough to make one tear one’s hair out.
I really would love to have you, or another intrepid journalist, ask these spokespersons, "Just when did you realize that you would be willing to defend genocide, and be ok with that?"
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Code pink
https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate
Also we can all support the brave doctors who have gone to Gaza: https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023
Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.
Here’s a new petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
Once again Norman Finkelstein is indispensable: "The only right the Israelis have is to pack their bags and leave."
Thanks for your excellent reporting. Israel had a right to defend itself on October 7, and they didn't.
I'm reading this in Nov. of 2025, as it was linked to an entry this day. The names of Blinken, Harris,* Sullivan, and Patel (continue to) make me sick.
"Insider speak"? Don't let this one get away. Oct. 28, 2023, Netanyahu gives a speech in which he's nearly frothing at the mouth over the Amaleks, you know, those people whom no one ever heard of before, whose only existence appears to be mention in the Old Testament - the central historical vs. mythological and fabulist text of the Zionists - otherwise there's no archeological record of their existence, a tribe who from 3,000 years ago are still lurking about, ready to strike. Well, Netanyahu is using the imputed lessons from this fable to declare "war" on Hamas, which he has thus far carried along successfully to genocidal effect not only on Hamas - convenient excuse - but on the entirety of the Palestinian population because, after all, "all is fair in love and..."
Yeah, it's an "insiders" game...
I actually think that there are a few liars but the rest are cowards.