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AloeVera

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3. The Two-State-solution mantra of Western leaders was a lie. A charade.
Fri Jun 19, 2026, 10:27 PM
Friday

I hope that is clearer now.

If it had been real, we would have seen real, authentic outrage, sanctions and red lines holding - and Gaza would not have been allowed to be destroyed and its people slaughtered mercilessly. There would not have been 50+ years of creeping settlement expansion in the West Bank with no real push-back or consequences.

But ordinary people the world over do care. Just not those in power and those in thrall to the idea of Israel but willfully blind or not caring about the reality of its apartheid, its history of ethnic cleansing and its brutality and expansionist aims since its founding.

I don't know how this harm to morality and humanity can be reversed. There is too much power and pressure from the MIC (aside from the billions made, defense contractors loved Gaza for the real-life testing of their shiny new weapons, reducing the people of Gaza to guinea-pigs), the Israeli lobby embedded in Western politics, the Donor Class, Big Oil, Big Corporations (making big bucks off occupation and war), so-called Christians, oh and throw in some racism, fear-mongering and decades of narrative control - the list goes on and on.

No end in sight to the suffering though, that's the only thing for sure.


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