Scott Ritter: "He Fooled Us All. Because We Thought He Was About Pressuring Hamas. But It Turns Out Trump Was About Pressuring Israel."
"Hell To Pay," in Context. "Israel Didn't Want This Ceasefire. This Is Being Imposed On Them, That's Why There's So Much Angst…Be Careful With Your Spin. He Didn't Repost Jeffrey Sachs For Nothing."
“If you’re in the chat saying ‘This is a bullshit ceasefire’ you’re against it—screw you…The CHILDREN IN THE CAMPS ARE CHEERING IN THE STREETS. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. If the Palestinians who live in Gaza are happy about this, that’s all you need to know. Unless you live in Gaza, unless you’ve been bombed, unless you’ve been starved, unless you’ve had senior family slaughtered, shut the F up. You don’t matter. The only thing that matters is from the perspective of the Palestinian people who live in Gaza who are saying: ‘Thank God. We have aid coming in. Thank God, the bombs will stop falling. Thank God, we can look to a future where the collective slaughter of our people stops. That’s where I stand on this.”
Well, Mr. Ritter is certainly entitled to his opinion and his expletive-deleted rant but given the fact that I am someone he is ranting about I will put forth my two cents for what it is worth.
I pray for the Palestinians. I pray for everyone in war torn countries. I pray for humanity.
But I do not, and will never again, believe in one single word of a main stream media story about anyone in public office anywhere in the entire world. And I certainly do not believe that wars or the "end" of them are fought for anyone's protection.
I have been lied to my entire life by the United States Government and the news media it controls. I am sad, disgusted, disheartened and untethered.
I have lived through 4 assassinations by the time I was 12, newsreels of my own governement aiming fire hoses at United States citizens in the South, photos of children in Viet Nam, Tuskegee experimentation, forced sterilization until 1972, convenient deaths of many politicians and new journalists, Iran Contra, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, 9/11 and the past 5 years of death and destruction because of the biggest lie ever foisted on a republic.
So, Mr. Ritter, forgive me if I don't jump up and down at this very conveniently timed news.
Too little, too late. Besides the fact that it never should have happened in the first place.
It's all planned. It's all scripted. And it's all the time.
Could. Not. Agree. More.
Finally, something concrete to assure me I did the right thing when I voted for Trump. I know he has promised to end the slaughter in Ukraine and hints that he's as fed up with NATO as I am, but those things aren't CONCRETE realities yet, only promises or even hints of promises. Trump is giving all kinds of signals that he wants to return the US to what it at least resembled before I was born 80 years ago, viz. a normal country.