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cfall's avatar

Chilling.

Their test run with New Normal's health rules, whose violence and absurdity were barely concealed, has followed the same method to make us complicit through inertia or indoctrination, to strip us of any sense of human community under the pretence of protecting it.

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Carlé Costa's avatar

Well linked reflection to the CovidEra achievements of the elitist: there are a "collusion" of agendas. My guess: behind the health dictatorship and the bloody militar psycho dictatorship are the same money-power supporters, or "bosses" .... Full Spectrum Dominance´s dream.

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Billy C's avatar

Mass murder by the West in the current context has differences from WW II because of the specific populations targeted and their position versus the West (or rather Western governments and their corporate masters), but during WW II the West embraced mass murder of civilian populations by firebombing cities in both Germany and Japan to try to force them to surrender. Ironically, both Germany and Japan are enthusiastic supporters of US/Israeli mass murder in Gaza today, which resonates perfectly with their own murderous pasts. Germany's is perhaps better known, but Japan killed an estimated 20 million Chinese in the 20th century before being stopped by their 1945 WW II defeat. Imperialist countries aren't going to change their character and become peaceful but their alliances will always shift with their changing fortunes and the resistance of those they have in their gunsights.

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JoaoMoreira's avatar

Excellent text. Thank you. I’ve watched an interview from Garland Nixon to Joti Brar (on You Tube, must watch), where she talks about Palestine in the context of what Imperialist Powers have done since WWI.

Where capitalism needs to create wars to maintain their existence. Because the crisis in the Imperialist system is so deep that the way out is hummgungs destruction and hummgungs looting. If you destroy enough people and enough city’s than you can get your economy going. Then you a balance between production and consumption. When there’s a crisis of over production, you create a war to maintain high levels of profit and recovery of a major economic crisis.

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Rick's avatar

I’m reminded of a Marxian quote that “ Capitalism is a system of creative destruction “applied to the forces of material production. In the same way redundant or resistant populations act as a brake on the system and must be creatively destructed.

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Malcolm MacPhail's avatar

Good post. I agree that one of the main reasons Biden has let his Israel attack dog off the leash is to provide an example to other nations and groups of the world outside of Europe and the Anglo-sphere, of the consequences of disobedience to the Global Godfather. However I think there is also a more particular reason too, and that is to severely punish the Palestinian resistance for blowing up the Abraham Accords. Biden and Blinken seemed to have continued the efforts of Trump and Pompeo in trying to force a multi-lateral agreement between US client states in the region - Egypt, Israel, UAE, and KSA - to keep the region under ultimate US control. Also it was the hope of Israel that these agreements would bury the Palestinian issue once and for all. The October 7 attacks shattered these efforts and the Arab states which were supposed to be part of this now have put things on hold because of their populations’ sympathy for the Palestinians.

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Kouros's avatar

Maybe the workers building all those bombs and ammunition in the west should be targeted and shown the fruits of their labours....

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I've often wondered how those who work in the armaments field sleep at night. I've been told the big pay checks and alcohol/drugs help.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"We are being trained in accepting genocidal warfare as a new normal."

I fear you are absolutely right. If you can make the Western populace accept the slaughter of innocents, mothers and children and tiny babies in incubators, then you can make them accept anything up to and including nuclear war. It's why we can't ever stop the protests, stop the calling out of the West's immoral leaders with their sick and perverted tactics. The moment we shut up and stay quiet, they'll win and we will have lost everything--including our souls.

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Carlé Costa's avatar

Brilliant synthesis of what we are experiencing. As cfall said, it has to do with the brain-washing and crimes against humanity erased laws, disinformation, the whole "democide" package of the Covid Era. As you said: Precedent, too. These psychopaths-in-charge fo almost West-North regimes, now with this mad-bloody-gigant-attack on Gaza, achieve another level of destruction: of the civilians there, of the perception of reality for the world population, and of the international law and justice apparatus. They want to show that they are above the law, and convince us that they are dangerous psychos to fear. They bilded biases in the popular mindset, even to perceive this obvious plan. Now is on us: we debunk this biases and begin to act... or we dive in the virtual reality they want to cajole us in.

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Imants Virsnieks's avatar

Each of us has power, and purpose. Discover yours and act accordingly.

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Hermes the goat's avatar

A startling, but rational conclusion. Peaceful protest is no remedy to this situation.

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Rick's avatar

A good point: peaceful protest in UK has no legal or constitutional protections so it is dispensed at the discretion of the ruling class. A situation exists in UK today resembling 18 and early 19 centuries when any protest or collective action was viewed as seditious and threatening to authority who were often obsessed with fears of mass unrest. Collective resistance must necessarily adopt new forms acting on the example of the global south even progressing to armed resistance if the Gaza Method is employed against resistant neighbourhoods in the North.

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Frigga Karl's avatar

Despite the daily reported obscene and sadistic Gaza genozide since two years people seem not to understand the horrific situation humanity is in. Most people in western societies have drawn a line between them and the rest of the world, not knowing that we are already completely interconnected. On a small level one can see it with the Israeli, jewish population accepting the starvation of their fellow citizen. Western propagande is the most lethal weapon against our brain.

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Sean Griobhtha's avatar

If you use the Substack app, the pleasant “Oliver” voice provided by Substack will read this to you; in your car, your LR stereo, headphones, etc… “He” does a nice job and doesn't get tired.

John’s Hopkin’s Genome Study Proves Jews ‘Interlopers’ in Palestine…no ‘Semitic Blood’ WHATSOEVER…

Eran Elhaik - "Did contemporary Jews descend from the ancient Israelites, as the primordialists claim? Or did they descend from people who converted to Judaism?"

https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/johns-hopkins-genome-study-proves

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john plumridge's avatar

THanks. Coincides with my view of 'The West' doubling down on its own people with the rise of Russian resistance, fall out form Covid debacle, etc... THey would not want to lose their own power base. Therefore we must be the targets of severe repression. Resistance in 'the free world' will not be tolerated. None whatsoever.

We must not let this happen, just as we must not let what is happening to Palestine continue. It is so very important.

We can insist upon public debate, and being informed, and the representatives debating on facts,. Tarik's arguments can help us, We should repeatedly write to them form time to time, and write well.

Think, the average MP is well meaning, powerless these days to oppose what is happening by insane executive rule without our input. We must inform them and insist upon debate.

No time? Of course not. But make a start with a start to an outline. Then it will be finished and sent , much sooner that you think.

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Neville's avatar

Just read this. How perceptive. Over a year on, and how chillingly accurate. Only a film maker with great imagination could create a “Gaza” set. But, if you would allow me to add this. Palestine and now the wider region, is not just about the elites and the poor. What about all the nations who have not ceased trading with, put sanctions on or politically isolated Israel with or without the UN. Is South Africa the only Spartacus?

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Kwasi Bruni's avatar

Did Netanyahu orchestrate the October 2023 attach by Hamas by calling all border guards to abandon the eastern boarder of Gaza just in time for the attack?

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john plumridge's avatar

I do think so.

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aidanangelo's avatar

Their implementation of their Method is explained satisfactorily by you. Their application of the same is rightly understood. Your notes and comments are fascinating as much as your analyses. What about me? I came from likewise experiences, while this much more fascinating experience is satisfactorily understood nearly by likewise experiences during my long past, which showed me how to enter the inviting worm water by the answer to this Lenin question: what is to be done?

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angelo aidan

05/04/25

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Hans-Peter Kohnke's avatar

the cameroonian philosopher achille mbembe called this necropolitics already in 2003. palestine was his exemplar.

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Kojo's avatar

While what is going in Gaza is a "method"...it did not begin there.

Carpet bombing of civilians and the deliberate culitvation of starvation conditions and sanitary condition-generated indirect death, was done by the west in Yemen in the past decade. They used Saudi Arabia as the "hand" that they fed with weapons and ammunition to carry it out.

Why is the "west" doing this? Yes they are losing control of their global empire. Their neocolonial empire. And also right there are more clues to this method not being new. The colonial powers have done this before. One example is the Benin Massacre in Nigeria in like 189-something: in which the British deliberately provoked a conflict then sent an army on an "Amalek" mission: murdering men, women, children etc, then taking over the country. That method was repeated elsewhere in Nigeria by the British. The British did the same to the Mau Mau in Kenya. And the Germans did it in colonies in Tangayika and Namibia: genocide and mass murder when losing control of people who they feel they had under control.

And then gaslighting to shape a false narrative of what happened and why - they did that back then too. That Benin Massacre for example you will find in the history books written by the British, they dont call it a massacre or genocide, they call it the Benin Punitive Expedition - a term implying these people deserved to be mass murdered.

Its a method being REFINED in Gaza with the use of drones and software, but they fundamentals of the method, these colonizers have been doing it for a couple centuries now.

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