GAZA (Gernika berria, Palestina) versus Israel (gehi AEB + NATO, Pentagonoa eta EB) (12)
Gogoratzekoa
This is a 1947 map issued by National Geographic.
There was no such thing called “Israel”.
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Segida:
The October 7 Hamas Assault on Israel
The Most Successful Military Raid of this Century
13 Nov 2023
Hamas paraglider troops cross into Israel, October 7, 2023
There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do with the problem involved is, literally, no solution at all.
Israel has characterized the attack carried out by Hamas on the various Israeli military bases and militarized settlements, or Kibbutz, which in their totality comprised an important part of the Gaza barrier system, as a massive act of terrorism, likening it to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States. Israel supports this characterization by citing the number of persons killed (some 1,200, a downward revision issued by Israel after realizing that 200 of the dead were Palestinian fighters) and detailing a wide variety of atrocities it claims were perpetrated by Hamas, including mass rape, the beheading of children, and the wonton murder of unarmed Israeli civilians.
The problem with the Israeli claims is that they are demonstrably false or misleading. Nearly a third of the Israeli casualties consisted of military, security, and police officers. Moreover, it turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasn’t Hamas or other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself. Recently released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Re’im, the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters. Many of the vehicles that the Israeli government has shown as an example of Hamas perfidy were destroyed by the Israeli Apache helicopters.
Likewise, the Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the “Re’im massacre,” citing a death toll of some 112 civilians it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding or being held hostage by Hamas fighters. It took two days for the Israeli military to recapture Re’im. It only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupants’ home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and killing.
Footage from Israeli Apache helicopters of attacks on Israeli civilians, October 7, 2023
This scene was repeated in other Kibbutzes along the Gaza barrier system.
The Israeli government treats the Kibbutz as being purely civilian, and yet has publicized how armed security teams of several Kibbutzes—drawn from the so-called “civilian” residents—were able to mobilize in time to successfully repel the Hamas attackers. The reality is that every Kibbutz had to be treated by Hamas as an armed encampment, and as such assaulted as if it were a military objective, for the simple fact that they were—all of them.
Moreover, until Israel relocated several battalions of IDF forces to the West Bank, each Kibbutz had been reinforced by a squad of around 20 IDF soldiers who were billeted in the Kibbutz. Given that Hamas had planned this attack for well over a year, Hamas had to assume that these 20 IDF soldiers were still located in each Kibbutz, and act accordingly.
Scott Ritter will discuss this article on Ep. 114 of Ask the Inspector.
Bideoa:
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxRvPNqVgxl
The Israeli government has had to walk back its claims that Hamas beheaded 40 children and has provided no credible evidence that Hamas was involved in the rape or sexual assault of a single Israeli female. Eyewitness accounts describe the Hamas fighters as disciplined, determined, and deadly in the attack, and yet courteous and gentle when dealing with civilian captives.
The question arises as to why the Israeli government would go out of its way to manufacture a narrative designed to support the false and misleading characterization of the October 7 attack by Hamas on the Gaza barrier system as an act of terrorism.
The answer is as disturbing as it is clear—because what happened on October 7 was not a terrorist attack, but a military raid. The difference between the two terms is night and day—by labeling the events of October 7 as acts of terrorism, Israel transfers blame for the huge losses away from its military, security, and intelligence services, and onto Hamas. If Israel were, however, to acknowledge that what Hamas did was in fact a raid—a military operation—then the competency of the Israeli military, security, and intelligence services would be called into question, as would the political leadership responsible for overseeing and directing their operations.
Hamas video still of drone attack on Israeli guard tower, October 7, 2023
And if you’re Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this is the last thing you want.
Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life. He was already facing a crisis of his own making, having pushed for legislation which re-wrote Israeli Basic Law in a way which placed the Israeli judiciary under the control of the Knesset, effectively terminating its status as a separate but equal branch of government (so much for Israel being the “greatest democracy in the Middle East”). This act brought Israel on the verge of a civil war, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets to denounce Netanyahu. What makes Netanyahu’s actions even more despicable is that it represented little more than a naked power play designed to prevent the Israeli court system from trying him on several credible allegations of corruption which, if Netanyahu were found guilty (a distinct probability), would have put him in jail for many years.
Netanyahu had billed himself as Israel’s top defender, a specialist on the threats facing Israel abroad, and how to best respond to them. He has openly advocated a military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu is also a proponent of political Zionism in its most extreme application and has promoted the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which use tactics that forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes and villages, as part of an overall plan to create a “greater Israel” that mirrors that of Biblical times.
Part of Netanyahu’s strategy to accomplish this dream of a “greater Israel” is to weaken the Palestinian people and their government to the point of irrelevancy, thereby preventing them from achieving their dream of obtaining an independent Palestinian state. To facilitate this strategy, Netanyahu has, over the course of the past two decades, promoted the growth of Hamas as a political organization. The purpose of this support is simple—by promoting Hamas, Netanyahu weakens the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of Palestinian people, headed by its President, Mahmoud Abbas.
Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority
Netanyahu’s plan was working—in September 2020 Netanyahu signed the Abaraham Accords, a series of bilateral agreements brokered by the administration of then-President Donald Trump that sought the normalization of relations between Israel and several Gulf Arab States, all at the expense of an independent Palestinian nation. Prior to the Hamas attack on October 7, Israel was on the cusp of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, an act which would have proven to be the final nail in the coffin of Palestinian statehood.
One of the main reasons for Israel’s progress in this regard was its success in creating a political divide between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
On October 7, however, this success was washed away by the victory that Hamas achieved over the IDF. The precise means by which this victory took place is the subject for another time. But the basic elements of this victory are well-established.
Hamas effectively neutralized Israel’s vaunted intelligence services, blinding them to the possibility of an attack of this scope and scale.
When the attack occurred, Hamas was able to strike with precision the very surveillance and communication nodes the IDF relied upon to mobilize a response in case of an attack.
Captured Israeli Merkhava tank, October 7, 2023
Hamas defeated those Israeli soldiers stationed along the barrier wall in a stand-up fight. Two battalions of the Golani Brigade were routed, as were elements of other vaunted IDF units.
Hamas struck the Headquarters of the Gaza Division, the local intelligence hub, and other major command and control facilities with brutal precision, turning what should have been a five-minute response time into many hours—more than enough time for Hamas to carry out one of its primary objectives—the taking of hostages. This they did with extreme proficiency, returning to Gaza with more than 230 Israeli soldiers and civilians.
The Marine Corps defines a raid as “an operation, usually small scale, involving a swift penetration of hostile territory to secure information, confuse the enemy, or to destroy his installations. It ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the assigned mission.”
This is precisely what Hamas did on October 7.
What were the objectives of this raid? According to Hamas, the purpose behind the October 7 raid were threefold.
First, to reassert the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland not defined by the Abaraham Accords.
Second, to release the more than 10,000 Palestinians held prisoner by Israel, most without having been charged with a crime, and none with any notion of due process.
Third, to return the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest place, which had been desecrated repeatedly by Israeli security forces over the past years.
Hamas Special Forces
To accomplish these goals, the October 7 raid needed to create the necessary conditions for victory. This was achieved by humiliating Israel sufficiently to provoke a predictable outcome—the implementation of the Dahiya Doctrine of collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza, combined with a ground attack on Gaza that would lure the IDF into what was in effect a Hamas ambush.
The taking of hostages was meant to provide Hamas with negotiating leverage for the release of the 10,000 prisoners held by Israel.
The Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza has resulted in international revulsion against Israel as the world recoils from the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding before their very eyes. The streets of major cities around the world are full of angry protestors demonstrating on behalf of the Palestinian people—and Palestinian statehood. The United States is now stating that a two-state solution—something the Abrahams Accord was designed to prevent—is now the only way forward for peace in the Middle East.
The United States would never have said this on October 6.
The fact that the United States has taken this stance is because of the Hamas raid of October 7.
Attendees, Meeting of Islamic States in Saudi Arabia
Israel is in negotiations with the United States and others about a possible prisoner exchange involving the Hamas hostages and certain categories of political prisoners—women and children—held by Israel (yes, you read that right—children. And now you know the wisdom of Hamas’ decision to take Israeli children hostage.)
Such a possibility would never have occurred if it weren’t for the Hamas raid of October 7.
And in Saudi Arabia, the largest gathering of Islamic nations in modern history has convened to discuss the Gaza crisis. One of the top agenda items is the issue of the Al Aqsa Mosque and ending Israeli desecration.
This was a discussion that would never have taken place if it were not for the Hamas raid of October 7.
It goes without saying that the Hamas raid of October 7 unleashed a firestorm of brutal recrimination in the form of bombs, shells, and bullets on the civilian population of Gaza. These are people who, for nearly eight decades, have been denied a homeland of their own by the Israelis, who violently evicted the Palestinians from the land currently called Israel in one of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing in modern history—the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948.
The destruction of Gaza by Israeli forces, October 2023
These are people who have suffered untold deprivation at the hand of their Israeli occupiers while awaiting the moment they will see their dream of a Palestinian homeland come true. They know that a Palestinian homeland cannot be realized so long as Israel is governed by those who embrace the notion of a Greater (Eretz) Israel, and that the only way to remove such people is by defeating them politically, and the only way to trigger their political defeat is to defeat them militarily.
Hamas is accomplishing this.
But there is a price to pay—a heavy price. The French lost 20,000 civilians killed to achieve the liberation of Normandy in the Summer of 1944.
So far, the Palestinian civilians of Gaza have lost 12,000 civilians killed in the effort led by Hamas to militarily defeat their Israeli occupiers.
That price will go higher in the days and weeks to come.
But it is a price that must be paid if there is to be any chance of a Palestinian homeland.
The sacrifice of the Palestinian people has compelled an Arab and Islamic world which, with few exceptions, has been mute over the depravations carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people. Who did nothing as the cause of Palestinian statehood was mooted by the Abraham Accords.
Only because of the suffering of the Palestinian people is anyone paying attention to the cause of Palestinian statehood today.
Or the welfare of the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Or the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
These were all stated objectives of Hamas in launching their attack of October 7.
And all objectives are being accomplished as we speak.
Only because of the actions of Hamas and the sacrifices of the Palestinian people.
Which makes the October 7 assault on Israel by Hamas the most successful military raid of this century.
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Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight
Horrific conditions under which Gaza doctors work at the Indonesian Hospital due to lack of fuel and electricity.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724071904502297002
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The War Crimes being perpetrated by the Far Right #Israeli Regime are also the War Crimes of the enabling #US #EU #UK – All those who have supported this Genocide against the people of #Palestine should be tried for War Crimes. Where’s the International Criminal Court…?
Aipamena
The CCR@theCCR
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BREAKING: Palestinians are suing @POTUS, @SecBlinken, & @SecDef to stop U.S. support for Israel’s unfolding genocide, asking a U.S. Court to enforce the most basic & important legal—and moral—obligation in the world – preventing genocide.
Read more: http://ccrjustice.org/stop-the-genocide
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A cabinet reshuffle will not change the fatal consequences of a continued refusal to call for a ceasefire.
It will not mask our government’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
And it will not stop us demonstrating for a just and lasting peace.
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Angelo Giuliano@Angelo4justice3
Sensitive content. Just a reminder of what white phosphorous does to your body. Israel is using it these days on Gaza civilian populations.
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My latest:
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Every Brooklyn-born advocate of Eretz Israel who participated in the robbery, brutalization, and murder of Palestinians while stealing their homes and lands should have their American passports revoked and have warrants issued for their arrest under American jurisdiction.
Otherwise, the rule of law is meaningless.
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Randy Credico Live On The Fly@CredicoRandy
Roger the Great! Wish I was there!
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Just so you have more insight as to why I despise you so much. I could have left the Marine Corps in November 1990. My nation was heading toward a war I did not support. But I volunteered to not only stay in, but to deploy. Because that’s what Marines do.
I had a cushy job in a bomb-proof underground bunker, doing BDA on Iraqi Scuds.
But we weren’t killing them, and our failure to do so meant missiles were landing on Israel.
To try and improve our ability to detect and destroy Iraqi Scuds, I volunteered for two special reconnaissance missions deep into Iraq to collect intelligence.
Yes, I volunteered to leave a cushy job in a bomb-proof bunker to go behind enemy lines to gather intelligence that would be used to stop Iraqi missiles from hitting Israel.
And when the war ended, I spent seven years with the UN in Iraq, working with AMAN, Unit 8200, and other Israeli organizations to make sure Iraq never again threatened Israel with Scud missiles.
The Israel I helped defend—not as an IDF soldier, but a US Marine and UN inspector, no longer exists—it died the day a believer in Eretz Israel murdered Yitzhak Rabin.
You wrap yourself in the flag of Eretz Israel, and proclaim yourself as a proud “ex-IDF” armor repairman.
Your nation is at war—an existential struggle for the future of Eretz Israel.
Why aren’t you serving?
I did more in the defense of Israel than you ever have, and ever will.
That Israel no longer exists.
And I know you as the coward you are.
You know… If Hamas hadn’t slaughtered 1200+ Jews, taken 240 hostages and fired 1000s of rockets at Israel … Hamas wouldn’t have all these shortages, the people of Gaza wouldn’t be in a war, and 1000s of Gazans wouldn’t have died. All of this is on Hamas. All of it.
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If Israel hadn’t illegally occupied Palestine, taken 10,000 Palestinians prisoner/hostage, and defiled the Al Aqsa Mosque, October 7 never would have happened.
It’s all on Israel. All of it.
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When boys were trapped in a Thai cave for 2 weeks, the world was rightly obsessed with their safety. When people were lost in the Titanic submarine, the world was anxious. When 239 people, including babies, are kidnapped and held deep underground by Hamas for over a month…
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When 10,000 Palestinians (including women and children) are illegally detained and imprisoned by Israel for years…
Fuck off with your crocodile tears, hypocrite.
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George Galloway@georgegalloway
Those lies have fuelled a genocide
The truth of what happened on October 7 is beginning to emerge.
Emerging not from the western press but from the Israeli media, and from the Israeli public who are a switched on and Internet savvy public.
And the latest revelation is the actual footage from the Apache helicopters that were machine gunning people and vehicles at the music festival, where people were dancing almost within earshot of the anguish behind the wire, in the refugee camp, the concentration camp called Gaza.
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #GazaGenocide
Watch the latest excellent #No2Nato broadcast featuring Katie, my
@WorkersPartyGB colleague Chris Williamson, David Clews, and contributions from yours truly:
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724172912825930158
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Appalled by Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Iranians voice their support for Palestine Gisoo Misha Ahmadi reports from Tehran. #GazaGenocide
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724248283055616223
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The last video of Julia with her mother and father!
After that scene, Julia was left alone!
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724193752347021438
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Jackson Hinkle 
@jacksonhinklle
ISRAELI PROPAGANDIST points to a random calendar at the Rantisi hospital as “evidence” of a “hostage keepers’ list” with “terrorists’ names”
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But the ONLY thing on that “list” is literally the days of the week (Saturday-Friday).
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724211977986142627
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FACTS:
Aipamena
Sunderland Socialist@World_Socialism·
urr. 25
#Israel paid to destroy UK MPs and was behind the Antisemitism #smears used against Corbyn and now the United Nations. #ItWasAScam
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1717203116322386203
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α@ѕιуαнυѕѕαιиـــــــیہ@hussain786_fkh
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“We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” says Avi Dichter, Israel’s Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1723441134221869453
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Look, an honest Zionist war criminal…
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“Voluntary migration”
Aipamena
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
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BREAKING: Israel’s finance minister says the voluntary migration of the people of Gaza to the countries of the world is ‘the humanitarian solution‘
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I am seriously starting to wonder whether most of the loud Zionists on this platform are mentally ill. Innocent people are being slaughtered in their name as we speak, but they couldn’t care less. They care only about The Project. They lack normal human empathy.
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Zionism is a mental illness. Delusional notions of god-given supremacy is pretty much textbook anti-social behavior. In some states, this could lead to involuntary confinement in an institution. Which is pretty much where all Zionists belong. The world would be a safer place.
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Judiciary in Israel….. 
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George Galloway@georgegalloway
Katie Halper @kthalps
As a Jew Israel makes me sick: “Israel likes to claim that it makes Jews safer. And as a Jew, I want to say that Israel does not make me safe. Israel makes me sick, and Israel makes me less safe, because they are committing crimes against humanity in the name of Jews.”
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #GazaGenocide
Watch the latest excellent
broadcast featuring Katie, Chris Williamson, David Clews, and contributions from yours truly: YouTube 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U7KPYzvoJxM
Rumble https://rumble.com/v3ukh5j-no2nato-broadcast-12-war-reports.html
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1724107448946991384
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The only country on Earth that has ever used Nuclear weapons in War, the US, now bizzarely decides who gets to have them. That is unless your the Israelis, who the US pretends, along with everyone else, doesn’t have them at all. Israel even gets a pass on Nukes from Uncle Sam.
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Ukrainaz, oraindik?
CIA director Burns travels to Ukraine on Wednesday to tell Zelenskyy that his time is up. Burns is tasked with ‘freezing’ the proxy war because of Biden’s poor poll numbers in the US.
Good luck to Zelenskyy if he refuses the severance package that Burns will present to him.
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EZpaña, una grande y libre , noski
OPINIÓ | @dianacoromines: “Puigdemont legitima Sánchez davant d’Europa com a demòcrata, Sánchez legitima Puigdemont com a espanyol transversal i dialogant” http://racocatala.cat/62087 https://racocatala.cat/opinio/article/62087/les-escorrialles
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Opinió Diana Coromines
Les escorrialles
Diana Coromines 14.11.2023
Quan tenia Bill Clinton de mediador per fer la independència no el va voler, i ara es treu de la màniga un equip internacional de gent “molt preparada” que, si resulta que el català no acaba sent oficial a Europa (Déu no ho vulgui), “s’encarregarà de certificar-ho”. Els arguments amb què Puigdemont s’esforça a defensar el pacte amb Sánchez són tan prims i les promeses tan grotesques, que potser per això va mirar de compensar-ho fent l’anunci des del Press Club de Brussel·les. Però la comparació amb la roda de premsa de fa sis anys, quan va aparèixer a “l’exili” en aquest mateix escenari i va instar els catalans a defensar-se de l’ocupació ‒flanquejat per desenes de polítics i periodistes internacionals‒ només ha fet que tot plegat sigui encara més tronat i ridícul. Una cosa semblant passa amb els seus altaveus, Turull i Borràs, que aquests dies es passegen pels estudis de ràdio i televisió catalans venent, en el fons, arguments pactistes i de sostre autonòmic tan antics que gairebé ens retornen l’eco de quan els nostres avantpassats de la Renaixença començaven a queixar-se d’Espanya i feien memorials de greuges.
Turull diu que l’acord amb el PSOE és històric perquè per primer cop es reconeix que hi ha un conflicte, com si després d’haver celebrat un referèndum d’independència ara de cop i volta haguéssim d’estar contents perquè ens anuncien que som a la casella de sortida ‒i sense cap garantia d’anar enlloc que no sigui Espanya. Mentrestant, les manifestacions madrilenyes contra Sánchez són un correlat irònic de la retòrica memorialista de la colla de Puigdemont. Les imatges de la policia apallissant ciutadans ‒tinguin les idees o motius que tinguin‒ fan inevitable pensar en les revoltes d’Urquinaona, i apel·len ni que sigui remotament a la memòria de l’1 d’Octubre. A ulls d’un europeu i després dels esforços que ha fet Espanya per vendre al món la idea de la “sedició” i els “disturbis”, no és difícil barrejar-ho tot en un còctel d’ultres i exaltats. Però tots els catalans sabem que, per més pacífica que fos l’essència del referèndum de l’1 d’Octubre ‒fins que els piolins se la van carregar‒ el que hi ha a la base del problema és un enfrontament nacional entre catalans i espanyols: uns es volen alliberar i els altres no volen renunciar a ser els amos.
I què hi ha, als extrems de les dues nacions enfrontades? No pas cap partit ultra, ni molt menys els ciutadans, que tenen les seves raons i responen a una intel·ligència col·lectiva, sinó uns polítics que fan l’orni a banda i banda del conflicte. A un cantó tenim els socialistes espanyols venent l’enèsima promesa de plurinacionalitat sense creure-se-la, amb el perill que això comporta ‒com demostra el cicle polític dels últims vint anys: des de l’aprovació de l’Estatut fins al referèndum. I a l’altre cantó els post-independentistes catalans, que s’esganyiten i fan tota mena de girs retòrics absurds en un intent de presentar com un triomf el que cada vegada es veu més com un fracàs i un símptoma d’incapacitat ‒no de la gent, sinó dels polítics. No ens ha d’estranyar, encara que sembli sorprenent, que diguin les barbaritats que diuen. En una cosa té raó Borràs: quan afirma que el seu objectiu és treballar “sempre” per la independència, cosa que vol dir fins a quin punt, per ells, és una cosa indefinida. També té raó quan descriu l’acord com a “inèdit” i a continuació hi afegeix: “és un acord que expressa els desacords”.
No hi ha cap acord, doncs, sinó simplement uns polítics que es legitimen mútuament les trampes. Puigdemont legitima Sánchez davant d’Europa com a demòcrata, com es va veure l’altre dia a Málaga, on la manifestació “ultra” en contra de donar l’amnistia als catalans li va permetre lluir capa d’estadista assenyat davant d’Olaf Scholz i altres mandataris europeus. Sánchez legitima Puigdemont com a espanyol transversal i dialogant. És en aquest marc que s’ha de llegir el rebuig recent de Junts a la unilateralitat amb l’excusa falsa que no porta al reconeixement internacional. Pretenen tancar-nos mentalment en el cul de sac que ells mateixos han generat: ells són els responsables últims que l’1O no fos reconegut, perquè són els primers que se’n van rentar les mans. Per dissimular el seu fracàs com a polítics ‒entesos com a servidors del poble‒ han de presentar com un fracàs l’èxit democràtic i nacional de l’1O. No és estrany que, politòlegs europeus que fa uns anys ens eren favorables, justifiquin ara l’enuig dels espanyols al carrer com una conseqüència del fet que els catalans no hagin demanat perdó pel referèndum “il·legal”.
En tot cas l’abstenció puja, i aquests polítics estan arribant al límit del seu recorregut. Alerta, però, amb els falsos dissidents que comencen a treure el cap per mirar d’aprofitar la mina de vots lliures que els polítics amortitzats ‒sobretot de l’espai convergent‒deixen darrere seu. Clara Ponsatí és el cas més clar. Ja vaig explicar fa uns mesos el cinisme amb què Ponsatí opera per suplantar, des de dins del sistema autonòmic, la identitat de persones del carrer que ‒amb tot el dret del món‒ protesten contra l’autonomisme que ella mateixa encarna. De quin govern ha format part Ponsatí? Del que ens va deixar a l’estacada. Quan diu que era un govern que “anava de farol”, com si ho hagués seguit per televisió i no des del Pati dels Tarongers, ¿no ho diu per ella mateixa, que l’estiu del 2017 ja va decidir que ella no aniria a la presó, sinó que fugiria cap a Brussel·les? Quan Santi Vila va sortir del govern el 26 d’octubre, cosa que el deixarà per sempre en una posició molt més honorable que els qui van continuar fent girar el bombo de la festa independentista quan sabien perfectament que era buit, ¿per què no va anar a parlar amb ell?
Ponsatí diu ara que el pacte de Puigdemont amb el PSOE és una humiliació i un menyspreu als catalans. Si ho cregués de debò ‒més enllà de la retòrica i de l’oportunitat que aquesta crítica li dóna de flirtejar amb els vots que han quedat lliures‒ ja fa temps que s’hauria desmarcat de Puigdemont amb fets. Si fos més capaç de plantar cara a Espanya que Puigdemont, a hores d’ara no continuaria asseguda al seu costat, compartint-hi grup parlamentari i estratègia a Europa. En lloc d’això es dedica a assenyalar i moralitzar des del banc dels convergents, jutge i part alhora, i a envoltar-se d’“assessors” com Jordi Graupera, que fa un parell d’anys va fer pública la seva reculada amb un article de títol eloqüent: “La culpa és nostra“, publicat al mitjà que la Generalitat de Catalunya fa servir per donar una pàtina intel·lectual i seriosa a les idees que li interessa difondre. Són les excrescències que broten als marges del nou universalisme que convé a Europa: Sánchez i Puigdemont, els garants del seny davant de feixistes i radicals; les últimes escorrialles de la lògica simple de bons i dolents heretada de la guerra freda.
No, la culpa no va ser nostra. Però ho serà si tornem a donar la clau de la nostra llibertat a oportunistes, falsos dissidents o patriotes incapaços, que han demostrat que no serveixen per defensar el país i portar-lo a la independència en el món cada vegada més complex i menys maniqueu del segle XXI.
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Zer esan euskaldunoi buruz?
EH Bildu- koentzat, Katalunia da eredua, eta eredua horren barruan, eredurik ereduena ERC!!!
Bota sekulebedarra astakiloei!
Hau dunk hau!!
Neokarlistak, neoautonomistak, neoliberalak, eta abar luzea, oso luzea…
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
When someone buys US Treasuries, the Fed debits a reserve acct and credits a securities acct. But everyone gets twisted around because we call it “borrowing” and we call the securities account “the national debt” and use benign language to describe the other one. It’s all so dumb
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Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
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in reserve accounts at the Fed 
in securities accounts at the Fed 
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MMT founder Warren Mosler saying that without MMT we would not have thrown out the deficit rules in many countries, including those of the Eurozone:
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Ep. 8 – The Bond Vigilante ft. Warren Mosler
Funny Money is a show about the economy; how it works, and how it can work better. In our SEASON 1 FINALE, Ka and Andrés are joined by Warren Mosler, one of …
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/1PzQz3_boAM
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Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
Take 5 min 30 sec for this @wbmosler masterclass in how to answer the question about bond vigilantes. “The government doesn’t have to sell bonds.” “We’re not on a gold standard.” “There is no imperative.”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PzQz3_boAM&ab_channel=FunnyMoney
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Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
In the film, this well-known economist says, “the gov’t definitely borrows, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this debt and deficit conversation.” But because he can’t explain how bond sales function, he can’t see what’s really going on. Nor can most others. And they’re in charge.
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Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
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There’s a scene in the MMT documentary (Finding the Money) where a well-known economist is asked to explain the purpose of government “borrowing.” I answered the question in this paper 20+ yrs ago https://dokumen.tips/documents/bell-stephanie-do-taxes-and-bonds-finance-government-spending.html?page=1
But now the Fed pays IOR, so think about the implications.
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Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
Them: We have to deal with America’s debt problem.
Me: So you want to prevent holders of US dollars from shifting those dollars from checking to savings accounts at the Fed?
Them: I don’t know what that means.
Me: That’s the problem.
