On a visit to my local library at the weekend my eye was caught by a book with a flashy and colourful, albeit grammatically questionable, cover: a kids [sic] book about immigration, by M.J. Calderon. My children are the children of an immigrant; for years I also lived as an economic migrant in a foreign country; and in any case immigration is up there with the most salient political issues of our time. So I decided to take the book out and see what it has to offer its five- to nine-year-old readers.
I don’t really know what I was thinking. I am a father of small children in the mid-21st century West, so I have become accustomed to being disappointed and dispirited by the nakedly didactic drivel that contemporary children’s authors tend to serve up. Why, then, did I allow hope to trump expectation? I’ve no idea. But, in any event, while the book itself is worse than useless as an actual spur to conversation between parents and children about its subject matter, it does at least have value as an aid to reflection on certain currents within contemporary culture, which are not limited to immigration or kids’ (or even kids) books. Of these, I think there are three that are worth commenting on: first, the replacement of the embodied by the abstract; second, the weaponisation of ‘conversation’; and third, the use of the ‘education’ of children as a solvent to the barrier posed by the family against both the state and commerce.
First, then, a comment about a trend in our media landscape which I have noticed and reflected on from time to time, but which I don’t think is sufficiently widely recognised – the death of fiction per se as having the primary objective of telling a story about particular characters imagined as individual human beings in their own right, and its replacement by an understanding of the role of fiction as chiefly being a model through which to imagine an idealised future or to critique an idealised past. And this seems connected in particular to a preference for abstraction over embodiment: a need to break down the act of storytelling itself into its constituent parts – plot, character, dialogue – so as to maximally instrumentalise each. Story becomes significant only because of what it teaches us; character becomes significant only in the sense of what each character represents; dialogue becomes significant only as a vehicle through which good, or bad, ideas are exposed and taught or criticised respectively. The result is a dissatisfying, two-dimensional, modular approach to fiction, in which the enterprise is reduced to a fitting-together of bits in order to achieve an objective: this character has these characteristics, and so it is important that they be seen to be doing this in this particular moment, and important that they say that.
This is not, I think, how fiction writers of the past would have understood their task, because what they were doing was so much more implicit, intuitive and integrated into the whole. Read any interview with a great writer about his or her process of writing, and you will come across, again and again, the same kind of message: fiction is an exercise through which the writer first discovers the story (this is the word that is very often used) through the telling, and then hones and sharpens it until it is fit for public consumption. It is almost as though it is revealed, rather than invented. Of course, what is being revealed is all within the author’s own mind. But it is almost entirely unearthed from the unconscious rather than carefully plotted or worked out in advance.
Anyone familiar with modern storytelling (in books, TV or film) will I think understand my complaint (and regular readers may once more bring to mind Iain McGilchrist). To any lover of literature or film the modern trend is a deeply depressing and alienating one, and indeed it is largely the reason why I have given up on even trying to engage with any work of fiction created since the start of the internet age. And it is no accident that children’s books – which are often the only books that many adults nowadays buy in quantity – should be at the cutting edge of this. I can’t think of a children’s book written after around 2010 that I have read that hasn’t struck me as being primarily a means of transmitting a fairly obvious message (usually that it is the most important thing in life to be yourself, but that if you are a girl it is equally important that you be adventurous, risk-taking and strong, and if you are a boy it is important that you do not display those qualities). Indeed, the ongoing popularity of J.K. Rowling seems to me to at least in part derive from the fact that kids intuit that her main goal is always to tell a great story about these particular characters, warts and all, rather than being to achieve an instrumental goal of some kind.
A kids book about immigration represents the next stage in the process, in that it is a kids’ book that has no story at all, nor really indeed any pictures, and simply comprises a series of statements which the child is supposed to directly imbibe. These photos are representative; this is what every single page of the book looks like:
And the reasons for this are, of course, as plain as day. If you know what the Truth is, and you know what message you want your book to bring across, and you know ultimately what it is that the reader is supposed to think – and if your understanding of story is the impoverished contemporary understanding in which fiction only serves to achieve (or stand in the way of) an end – then why bother with story in the first place? Why bother with characters, dialogue, picture, plot? Story is for imparting a message, so just maximise the efficiency of the process and transmit the message in undiluted form. It goes without saying that no child in their right mind would want to touch the result with a barge pole, but since they’re not going to be the ones buying it (teachers, school librarians and über-liberal parents are obviously the primary market) that hardly matters.
The second notable feature of the book – and here we come to the substantive content – is the way in which it uses the concept of a ‘conversation’ to achieve the exact opposite. This is a book which wears the immanent critique of itself on its sleeve: it tells us it is designed to do one thing, but it is transparently an attempt to do something very different. Here’s the ‘intro for grownups’, in full, with important emphases added:
Understanding the world and those who inhabit it is a wonderful, beautiful and sometimes very difficult journey. Which is why grownups tend to make the mistake of tiptoeing around certain topics rather than taking the time to ask questions about their own understanding, listen to questions from kids and then learning together.
Immigration can be one of those topics. It’s complicated. Immigration often involves making hard decisions out of desperation, fear and love. And it’s often a difficult journey that is driven by hope. So the goal of this book is to encourage discussion and to understand that we all contribute to making our countries – and the world – a better place. No matter who we are, or where we come from, we matter.
We are just human beings, after all.
Got that? We need to encourage discussion and ask questions, because immigration is so very complicated. And yet the goal of the discussion makes everything very simple: at the end of the discussion, we’re all going to understand that everybody makes the country they live in, and the world, a better place – in other words, that immigration is basically good and that only a heartless villain would want to make immigration difficult.
Does that sound to you like a discussion? It sounds to me more like a lecture. And it goes without saying that while asking questions is welcomed, this only refers to certain questions, and not others. You’re allowed to ask why people become immigrants (“to protect [their] family from danger, a lack of resources and limited opportunities where [they] were living”), and you’re allowed to ask about the “language, culture or story” of anyone you know who is from a different country. But you are not allowed to ask the troubling, mean-spirited, vexatious kinds of questions that might problematise the central assumptions of the author. For example, off the top of my head:
- Is it really the case that we all contribute to making our countries better? Even, say, Abdul Ezedi, who came to the U.K. from Afghanistan illegally in 2016, committed various sexual offences, and then went on to throw a corrosive alkaline substance at a mother and her two young children, causing them life-changing injuries? Did he make the U.K. a better place?
- Is it perhaps the case that the extent to which immigration makes a country better depends on the overall numbers of immigrants, so that we might for example say that 50,000 immigrants have a qualitatively as well as a quantitatively different impact to 500,000?
- Is it perhaps the case that there is a distinction to be drawn between skilled and unskilled immigrants?
- Is there perhaps a case to be made that while immigration may make a country better for some of the resident population (the middle- and upper-classes) it makes life worse for others (the working classes, who become forced to compete and find their wages get driven down)?
- Setting aside the rights and wrongs of the matter, in a democracy shouldn’t the Government aim to achieve a level of immigration which the demos supports?
You may have other questions. But you get the point. A kids book about immigration claims to be an attempt to generate opportunities for children and adults to talk through a complicated subject. But that isn’t what it actually seeks to do. What it actually seeks to do is to close off genuine conversation and discussion in favour of inculcating a worldview, in which the only problem with immigration (specifically into the USA) is that to come legally is a “really complicated process [which] takes a long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long [etc.] time” and that sometimes when people talk about immigrants they use “mean and offensive words” which make it “difficult for immigrants to share their struggles, ask for help when they need it and advocate for [sic] change”. The aim is not to reflect the underlying complexity of the issues. It is to simplify everything to a matter of good versus bad.
This brings us to the third, more oblique, theme which A kids book about immigration raises: the idea that children and adults alike should be “learning together” about immigration rather than the adults taking charge. The implication of this is clear enough, of course: when it comes to understanding the issue of immigration, no parent can be said to possess more authority than the child; true understanding derives from equality between the two. In the conception of parent-child relationships which the book envisages, it is both parents and children who come to the feet of the expert (i.e., M.J. Calderon) to learn what to think about the complexities involved in the issue at hand. The role of the parent is as facilitator of the educational process by which expertise is made known, rather than the one who him- or herself guides the child from a position of experience and knowledge.
This has a great deal in common with a subject – sexuality education – about which I have written at length before (here and here). I noted in one of those posts, citing the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, that the role of education is increasingly conceptualised as “the main fundamental tool for combating patriarchalism and generating the cultural shift so necessary for equality among individuals”. As I also noted, this led to a disturbing conclusion, which again was made plain by that former UN Special Rapporteur:
Although fathers and mothers are free to choose the type of education that their sons and daughters will have, this authority may never run counter to the rights of children and adolescents, in accordance with the primacy of the principle of the best interests of the child.
The modern state, in other words, increasingly conceives of the family, and particular parenthood, as a barrier to be broken down so that it can more directly interface with the child so as to secure the latter’s “best interests”, which it presumptively has a better idea of than the parents. What the state desires vis-à-vis children, as I have elsewhere discussed, is to intervene as closely and intimately as possible, in the name of creating the future client class which it needs to legitimise its own Government. One way of doing this, it goes without saying, is to diminish the authority of the parent and to reduce the importance of the parent-child relationship by putting the parent in a position of equality with the child, such that both approach life on the same footing and the same level of expertise. The parent doesn’t know more about a given issue (such as immigration) than the child – far from it. The parent is probably in a position of benighted ignorance and malice, and at best as much in need of ‘learning’ as his or her offspring. The real figure of authority is the ‘neutral’ expert, self-appointed or otherwise.
As A kids book about immigration shows us, however, the undermining of the family is led as much by commercial actors as it is by governmental ones. The state is poised against the family and wishes to break down the barrier between public and private because to do so expands its power and provides it with legitimacy; commercial actors like to do so because convincing parents they lack authority and wisdom causes them to buy books and other products. And at the heart of the storm are people like M.J. Calderon, no doubt totally sincere in their desire to make the world a “better place”, but whose efforts chiefly suit the objectives of both state and market – the baptist to the bootleggers, earnestly working to increase “respect, fairness and kindness”, but facilitating much baser motives among governmental and commercial actors alike.
The punchline of all of this, of course, is not that there are no children’s books to be written about immigration at all (although I certainly think that children aged five to nine are too young to be exposed to matters like this – they should be focused on learning how to navigate school, family and friendship rather than worrying about Big Issues). It is that, in the right hands, we are crying out for books for older children (what we euphemistically call ‘young adults’) which actually present both sides to this and other such stories in a genuine and non-judgemental way. The grim irony of A kids book about immigration is that, in seeking to “break down the complexities of immigration” and avoid “tiptoeing around certain topics” it ends up presenting a glib, patronising and patently false distortion of the issue which serves absolutely no-one. If “kids are ready”, as the tag-line for akidsco, the company that publishes A kids book goes, then they are ready for a real discussion which does justice to the complicated reality, and not for mere propaganda masquerading as debate.
More broadly, what is bleakly emblematic about the approach taken in A kids book about immigration is what it shows us about the nature of public discussion – such as it is – across the West in general. M.J. Calderon’s book, it seems to me, exemplifies the way in which ‘experts’, often self-appointed, reduce complex subjects (immigration, climate change, gender identification, war in Ukraine, lockdowns and so on and so forth) to simple ‘four legs good, two legs bad’ binaries, and then present those binaries to us as the inevitable consequence of whatever public discussion might conceivably take place. “Yes,” the message always seems to go, “in a democracy it is important to debate the issues, but only insofar as this results in the outcome which we, the experts, have ratified in advance.” We may not discuss whether we want a particular outcome; we may only discuss how it is to be implemented, and why the alternative is evil and wrong. Having an “open conversation” turns out in fact to be the most closed one imaginable: “Let’s all discuss what the best approach to immigration policy is, and why it’s open borders,” This is what public debate has come to; not so much discussion as the rehearsal of asinine soundbites, repeated until they get themselves into our thick skulls.
Dr. David McGrogan is an Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School. You can subscribe to his Substack – News From Uncibal – here.
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I’m no Rachel Riley fan but I believe she may be right about this! Any war erupting in the middle is something no one should be celebrating, its a very dangerous situation with far reaching implications !
Hamas and Iran are celebrating as are quite a few here in the UK. And yes, that is ‘celebrating’.
Yes it is terrible what has happened in Israel but I am sorry but I cannot stomach Riley’s pontificating.
She is happy to support and be part of Imran Ahmed’s hate organisation the disgraceful Center for Digital Hate’s efforts to stir up hate against the Vaccine Aware and make them the new jews of the 21st Century.
For her it seems to me it is OK to scapegoat them. Shame, shame, shame on Riley.
Naturally this is my view and she is welcome to disagree with it.
Here is more about Ahmed’s Center for Digital Hate:
Who Ghostwrites Reports for the Center for Countering Digital Hate?
Imran Ahmed’s dark money nonprofit pumps out reports with sparkly graphics and questionable conclusions that conceal the names of “researchers.”
PAUL D. THACKER
Rachel Riley Awarded MBE in New Year Honours
It’s amazing what you can learn on here,
I know she’s had some dodgy veiws in the past but I didn’t know some of them when that far! Thanks for the link.
No way on earth did Israeli intelligence not know about this attack in advance. This beggars belief.
More damned bloodshed, misery and death. No surprise Biden’s mob are behind it which also means we are involved.
Well done Fishy. Next Tuesday.
Totally agree. It is unfathomable that Israeli (and US intelligence) did not know about it. The speed at which claims came that Hezbollah would be joining in, the Taliban is ready to move – this was an event many months in the making, nonsense to think they did not have a clue. And it isn’t just that they may not have known the exact how and when – they left one of their most sensitive flanks completely open? An army post was taken over, an entire police station? No Israeli counterforce available for hours? Normally, wouldn’t missiles have been launched on Gaza within less than an hour?
There are now claims circulating that they are using weapons kindly left behind by Sleepy Joe in Afghanistan, but more importantly, weapons kindly donated by the US taxpayer to Ukraine (of which, until late, there was a never-ending supply) which were then sold on the black market. I believe Finland, Austria and Germany had been putting in border controls because of concerns about black market weapons coming from Ukraine – this was months and months ago. No doubt in my mind that a great number of the weapons being used now originated from the US – where Congress, both Republican and Democrats, refused to establish an oversight committee to keep track of what was happening with those weapons. Now we know.
As the war in Ukraine put an end to a corona ‘crisis’ that was running out of steam, the conflict in Israel has just pretty much put the last nail in the coffin of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has also been running out of steam. The plans to start off WWIII have just been switched from the Russia scenario to the much more fertile and easier to light powder keg of the Middle East. With the blessing of a White House that is owned by foreign powers, a White House that has seen fit to deplete its strategic oil reserves, while curtailing US options for being self-sufficient in energy, has depleted its arms supplies to the detriment of its own protection – this is intentional sabotage of the country from within.
As usual, the people on the ground just trying to live their lives, on all sides, will be the ones paying the price, while the rich are counting the billions that will be coming from increased arms sales and increased energy prices.
Fair play Jane – an excellent analysis.
They’re calling it Israel’s 9/11. I think that’s true on many levels.
It serves Hamas, the Israeli state, the MIC, distracts from Ukraine and the busting economies of the West, stirs up hatred, leftist and rightist. Meanwhile the grift goes on.
I agree.
Ultimately what this does is derail the substantial progress made in the Middle East, where the nations there are trying to sort things out peacefully.
The principal beneficiaries of returning to a destabilised Middle East are the western world order. And the method is the same as always. Sow division and hope that they all fight amongst themselves permanently.
Inorgurated and encouraged by president Trump over 4 years, ripped up by Biden in a matter of days!
That is a point mentioned on Mark Steyn’s blog:https://www.steynonline.com/13818/proportionate-about-gang-rape
Thanks for the link. Mark Steyn bang on as usual.
Efrat Fenigson in Israel sharing her thoughts and details in this 7min video ( with transcript ) from yesterday. She too feels that this was planned. No way could a world-renowned military be taken by a ”surprise attack”, and zero intelligence that this wasn’t being planned. It’s nonsense and people aren’t stupid.
https://efrat.substack.com/p/israel-hamas-war-an-update
The reputation of the IDF is based on performance decades ago.
We can take comfort that while MI5 were describing ‘Incels’, young men who have been incapable of forming relationships with women as the greatest threat to UK security, we have hotels up and down the country full of young Muslim men who have nothing to do but pray in the mosque five times a day and become embittered towards us. A couple of years ago, I read we had 48,000 suspected jihaddists in the country and presumably many, many more today. Hurrah for diversity.! Come, bring your families.
Following the Islamist attack at London Bridge the BBC asserted that we needed to look out for White Supremacy.
‘Young Muslim men’ will never kill more UK citizens than successive UK governments, either with false flags (7/7 Ripple Effect), needless wars or poisonous jabs. We, the taxpayer, enable the wars as all our taxes and fines (all 230 of them) go to the Parliamentary Consolidated Fund which takes off 5-10% for foreign wars – most of which are illegal. No taxes = no wars, no money printing by the bankers = no £50BN annual interest footed by the taxpayer – and no inflation. We have to get out of the FIAT system and bankrupt the bankers overnight so organisations such as the IMF and World bank can’t coerce countries into colonization. No fiscal colonozation (as is happening in Ukraine) = no economic migration.
Good point….I refer anyone that has not seen Ivor Cummings video: Are All Wars Bankers Wars.
“…and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza was shown being dragged and trampled by a crowd screaming “God is great”.
In the Bible is does say, beware of false prophets. Who is likely to be happy with the actions described above – God, or the Devil?
Both even though neither exist per se.
It should be clear from the behaviour of Daesh, the Taliban and any Islamic Fundamentalist that evil does exist. Anyone repeatedly proclaiming ‘God is Great’ while committing an atrocity is not with any kind of life affirming god.
Evil is within men and women, it’s the inevitable opposite of good.
I came across this comment (translated from Arabic) on one of the many Arabic YouTubes covering the Hamas attack on Israel. It should be clear that the ideology is nihilistic and much like a death cult.
“What the West does not understand is that we Muslims are not afraid of death in war, and we consider it a testimony and the reason for our entry into Paradise, and this is what made a small group of resistance destabilize a large army. Israelis, Americans, and Europeans fear death in a very, very terrifying way, and it is their nightmare. So they will find resistance waiting for them. The death of one Israeli or American soldier is considered the death of a thousand soldiers. Greetings to Palestine, the heroes from Morocco. As for us, the world is worth nothing, and the evidence is the Egyptian soldier and policeman who killed the Israelis and the soldier’s martyrdom. The evidence is that the Palestinians enter among the Israeli tanks without fear. If I had found a way to join the resistance and fight for the sake of God, I would have gone with all joy and happiness.”
If life is worthless and the world is nothing then there really is no hope for the Palestinians to make the world a better place for themselves. The fact that Islamists wear black shows they are against the light and wish to bring darkness.
But isn’t Nihillism about nothingness, yet this is a death cult thar believes in the cult.
This is a somewhat naiive opinion.
If you recall, God commanded what today might be called “jihad” to be visited on all the Canaanite settlements in the Promised Land.
To suggest that He is not “life-affirming” then, gets you into rather deeper waters than I suspect you are able to swim in.
You might like to ask yourself whether imposing a death sentence on a murderer is a righteous judgement, or an “atrocity,” as you put it.
Turns out she was a German tourist named Shani louk, not an Israeli soldier but, hey ho, any poor sod will do for these low lifes !
Dual national I read, not sure if that’s correct or not.
Shani Louk doesn’t strike me as a German name.
Possibly not, but we have all sorts of names spread around these days so I couldn’t be certain based on purely a name.
The Muslim Jihad. It is indeed Barbaric and has been since 622 A.D.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Palestinians celebrating in London remind me of the singing and dancing Israeli’s watching and celebrating 9/11.
i thought it was palestinians doing that, not Israelis .
I read about this in 180 degrees. It was Israeli’s dancing in the street apparently. Links to Mossad was mentioned. That is why, in the book, he is suspicious of Alex Jones because he mentioned Palestinians dancing in the streets.
So a sovereign state has been invaded.
I’ll be interested to see if this argument is presented by the media cartel and whether the western establishment will respond in the same way
Or is it one rule for Russia and one rule for the Palestine?
Israel has supported Azerbaijan in its conquest of Georgian territory, which is being followed by the ethnic cleansing of the Christian inhabitants and the likely murder of their leaders.
War is a dirty business…
given the preponderance of those admitted in the past years why would anyone be surprised at their support for Palestinian aggression.
we were worried about disruption by and through the Germany sympathisers in the ROI government in WWII but in any future conflict (before Muslims formally gain control of HMG) we will need more people to police internal opposition than overseas.
The identity of that poor young woman who was killed, stripped then paraded around on the back of the psychopaths’ truck has been confirmed by her mother who, tragically, had to see that footage and noticed the tattoo on her leg. She was a German tourist attending a music festival. Her name was Shani Louk.
”Following the massive terror and on-ground assault on Israel, the streets of Sderot and several border towns of the Jewish-majority nation witnessed blood-curdling scenes on 7th October. Among one such disturbing visual was the naked and battered dead body of an unidentified woman who was being paraded by the Hamas terrorists in a pickup truck.
The terrorists could be heard shouting the Islamic slogan ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ in these gruesome videos of the incident. In some videos that surfaced on social media, a murderous crowd of Hamas terrorists could be seen surrounding the vehicle, chanting slogans and spitting on the woman’s body.”
https://www.opindia.com/2023/10/dead-woman-paraded-naked-by-hamas-terrorists-identified-as-german-tourist/
Unpleasant, but so typical of people who appear to possess little humanity or the ability to identify a person’s origins.
I have two daughters of a similar looking age and to say this had rattled me is an understatement. They follow no God, they follow the devil. Pure evil, plain and simple.
Fu#king knuckle draggers!
Typically focus on what’s been presented by the msm…
But never on the countless children shot dead by the IDF.
I’m not supporting either here, just making the point that we must understand this from both sides
Try this
https://fb.watch/nyO7vyOwRK/
Who’s the “psychopaths”…..
The Zionists are..
One gets suspicious of the possibility of international involvement in any geopolitical event now. What strikes me is how the Western press, which has become so anti-Israel and pro-Palestine over the last decades, has apparently turned on a sixpence to take Israel’s part straight away and condemn the barbarity of Hamas. Once again the lockstep is obvious, whereas one would at least have expected some of the MSM to say, “Israel had it coming.”
The condemnation of the attack is fully justified if it weren’t such a sudden volte face from condemning Israel as an Apartheid State. I find myself wondering if fomenting a middle east war doesn’t serve the West’s interest in distracting attention from the debacle in Ukraine… and from other issues our governments have got us into.
But commenters here are right in saying that any conflict in that part of the world has global implications: those who fund it have much to answer for.
When you treat a people like the Israelis have treated the Palestinians then what do you expect…
The barbaric war against the Palestinians more like…
If you don’t believe the narrative that is…
I wonder how many Israeli lives have been lost due to this attack and how many Israeli lives have been lost due to their own government’s imposition of experimental toxic jabs?
I know who will get blamed the most, regardless of the numbers they have killed.
I wanted to make the point that the Israeli military had been forced to have the jabs as part of the Pfizer deal with the israeli government and that myocarditis had been flagged up by the IDF very early on. The Palestinians by contrast were probably spared the jabs or knew not to take them.
2022 went on to become one of the deadliest years for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since at least 2005, with some 153 Palestinians, including dozens of children, killed by Israeli forces, mostly in the context of increased military raids and arrest operations
Try reading another side to the story…
IDF shoot dead your children… But that’s alright isn’t it…
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-cruel-system-domination-and-crime-against-humanity-enar
Without having done any reading into recent events is this territory, one does have to think why such barbaric scenes, albeit edited, are being released and pushed by MSM to a Western public? Why haven’t we seen such scenes, and I suspect exist, of similar atrocities happening in Ukraine (committed by either side)? Why did we not see the devastation western bombs caused to civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria. These scenes are tragic, Human beings, young and old, men a women, adults and children, killed by, for the most part, weapons,manufactured and sold by Western governments and corporations.
So why are we seeing this?
“why are we seeing this”… Because they want you to see this..
All those virtue signalling with the Ukrainian flag can now fly the Israeli flag,and support the political narrative and yet another favorable conflict for the MIC.
Have you ever seen footage of the IDF shoot dead Palestinian children…no you never have and never will..
The US are now to send in Aircraft carriers and support to Israel, as if they need it, this is a paradox of David and Goliath…
Get real folks…… Some facts they don’t want you to see…
https://fb.watch/nyO7vyOwRK/
I see mostly AK47s and RPGs. along with Iranian made drones. There is an alliance between all the totalitarian regimes, which probably explains the recent joint military exercise involving Russia, China, Pakistan, Myanmar and Iran. Russia and China have been pushing the US/Jewish banker bad narrative form the Bolshevik Revolution and it keeps being pumped out unchanged. It’s called projection.
“To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit, a luxury of worry-free and aimless people. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie’s aim”
Lenin
“There are poor peasants and rich peasants, and we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants and they soon hanged them from the nearest tree (Lenin laughs).
“Then the poor peasants rebelled against the state and were starved to death by Stalin (Lenin laughs again).
Lenin From a conversation with Bertrand Russell
When Israel kills it’s self defence, when Palestinians retaliate it’s terrorism…
Zelensky good, Putin bad
Israel good, Palestinians bad……..F me
https://twitter.com/marcfriedrich7/status/1710752764039397487/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1710752764039397487¤tTweetUser=marcfriedrich7&mode=profile
an interesting perspective…
How did Hamas manage to get into Israel?
Israeli security normally knows when a cockroach crosses the border?
Perhaps they did know.
Maybe it is the excuse they want to hammer Hamas?
Well history is full of false flags!
Perhaps it is because they are relying on AI and AI can have “hallucinations” and “autophargy” according to article by Andrew Orlowski Everyone needs to calm down about AI – spiked (spiked-online.com). The Maginot line was thought to be effective until it was not (or so we were taught).
Hamas was set up by Mossad as a counter to the PLO.
They do what Mossad tells them to do.
In this case; to give Israel a licence to kill.
The CIA are usually somewhere in the background.
What doesn’t help is the divisions fueled by the pro-X or pro-Y factions vying for political office & social standing. Those in influential positions who are not directly affected by this decades old conflict, should surely be the voices of reason dialling down the rhetoric before any more with varying interests from the west to Ian and Turkey with the biggest standing army in Europe join the conflict. Ukraine wasn’t dry tinder enough. The Arab-Israeli war has always been that.
The writer,of course, purveys the “Standard Narrative.”
Weighing against it are two posts / video clips on the Gab w/s.
The first one is from a jewish woman who 25 years ago was employed by the Israeli Intelligence service.
She expressed the belief that an unheralded / undetected assault by Hamas against the state of Israel was, in her view, impossible, and so “there is something wrong here.”
The second clip is from this morning; it shows an Israeli film crew setting up a scene in which a young boy is laid out on the pavement.
The crew moves his arms and legs so as to make it appear that he is a victim of some sort of – presumably – Hamas-inspired violence.
Hamas, as is well known, was/is a product of Israeli security services; originally established as a counterweight to the PLO; and thus, fully infiltrated by Israel.
We should remember that both 9-11 and Pearl Harbor were false flag events set up by the USG so as to legitimize violent assaults on various perceived enemies of the US; one must therefore ask exactly the same questions about this present situation.
The banking cartels are getting nervous, the system has collapsed and they need an exit strategy. As with all confrontations (and this has some false flag elements to it even if the main actions have Q-Brigade origins – IDF ‘surprised’, slow to act and the BBC’s constant ‘unprecedented’ and ‘Iran’. Ukraine didn’t provide the dry tinder needed, Israel-Palestine conflict will.