JOHNSTONE

I get so tired of all this American hand-wringing about "boots on the ground". It's a symptom of a wildly sick dystopia that these people are fine with raining military explosives on a densely populated city but draw the line at putting American troops in the line of fire.

Reading by Tim Foley.

As soon as you accept that Israel must exist as a "Jewish state" no matter what, you are accepting that there will never be peace in the middle east. Because Israel cannot exist as it is without nonstop violence.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Western civilization is what's bombing Iran. It's what's strangling Cuba. It's what's torching Lebanon. It's what's exterminating Palestine. It's what stole Venezuela. It's what's plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It's what's keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon.

There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran.

Reading by Tim Foley.