Alon, have you ever read a humourous essay titled "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity"? It's one of those works like Parkinson's Law, The Peter Principle or Murphy's Law which is funny on the surface, but illustrates deeper truths about human behaviour. It was written in the 1970s by by an Italian guy named Carlo Cipolla. It's not very long. I like this version of it -- there several other reprints floating around the Internet -- because of the laff-worthy illustrations like the guy slicing his hand off when he's trying to make a sandwich:
(Not sure if that will come across as a clickable link, but you can cut 'n paste if it doesn't and you want to read it.)
Cipolla's definition of stupidity was "doing things that cause unintended harm" He's not picking on people who don't know how to do trigonometry or other complex topics.
Anyway, don't feel bad that you could not accurately predict what USrael was going to do. One of those laws about stupid people is that you can never out-think a stupid person because they will do something SO stupid that you couldn't have imagined it. That, and Cipolla's postulate that there are more stupid people in this world than you'd ever realise, are part of the lens through which I view everything.
“They look like children.” Yes they do. Well they are children. I find it in the concept Gods Children. Not a fan of any monotheism but for some intuitive reason, Islam might do much better then the other “children”
USA, UK and Israel are the axis of EVIL and the cause of so much suffering and killing round the world for decades. US has spent 239 years out of it's 249 of it's existence waging wars, invasions, coup d'etats, bombings, kidnappings, creating and funding terrorist groups, creating and funding fake viruses and killer jabs round the world.
USA has been trying to topple the Iranian regime since early 50's when the elected PM Mossadegh refused to give OIL to US and UK and said that Iranian OIL belongs to the Iranian people, then they toppled him, just like they did later on to Saddam of Iraq and Qaddafi of Libya.
USA still fund and support Israel with weapons and now with total support with naval force and maritime force all over the Gulf. Add to that France, Germany, Italy and Canada are just as EVIL as they are ALL supplying weapons and finance to the genocidal psychopaths against Palestine -who has no army- and against Iran now! Gaza has definitely exposed Western democracies which are ALL Zionist controlled and brainwashed but also exposed Arab Zionists in the Middle East such as Jordan, who's leaders are traitors from the king, the father to the king son, who got paid for intercepting Iranian missiles.
Also Egypt traitor SISSI who's mother is a Jews and who works under the orders of his boss Nethanyahu to close Rafah and not let Humanitarian Aid or the Global March For Gaza to enter. UAE and Saudi Arabia the biggest Arab Zionists - created by the imperialist colonizers - who opened their skies for Israel to strike Iran easily and so did the Syrian terrorist ALSharaa, created and funded by US, UK and IS who also opened the skies of Syria for IS to hit Iran easily. UAE also pays for IDF child killers to go to UAE of free vacations all paid for by UAE criminal government. The whole world is sick, satanic and controlled by Zionist criminals, however, truth always prevails and EVIL can never win!
The Zionist genocidal child killers can only bomb defenseless children from skies with the help of AI and US WMD's because they cannot fight face to face, not against The Palestinian Resistance Movement who'd majority is made up of Orphan Palestinians, nor that they can fight Iran or Yemen - the only countries in the world who uphold International Law - and who stood up to the terrorist bullies: US and IS.
The world has woken up especially the Yankees who have been brainwashed for so long!
"Whom the gods would destroy, first are made mad." Something like that. Irrespective of who actually first penned it, that seems to be a powerful prediction. Given we are surounded by, and lead by, mad men, it doesn't bode well for us, does it?
I’ve been abroad and had no access to the Internet. I found your piece only after the attack was made.
After you declared your position—and before hearing your defense of it—I thought to myself … this won’t be about the competence of the analysis, but about the unstated premise that Mr. Trump’s tortured mind has sufficient discipline to arrive at firm conclusions about anything.
The rapidity with which you acknowledged the error elevated my assessment of you as a man AND as an analyst.
A sane mind can not predict what mad men may do. The curtains are falling as we speak and all the crazies, racists, genocide supporters, war mongers… are out fighting with claws and fangs… only to further empower/ enrich themselves.
Another Black Knight of the Left spitting in the eyes of his enemies, daring them to sever another mother and child, another father and son, another old man and women seeing all that they'd lived for severed from it's past present and future. Another brave knight…
Alon, this was a very good ~20min overview. Why is it good? Because you identify few things that not many people do. First, your diagnosis of something unprecedented in world history about the Israeli society level of divergence from normality. The admission of struggle to employ words to capture the bizarre and crazed atmosphere over there. Second, the emptiness of the United States, the fact that it stands for nothing, the fact that it doesn’t exist(!) Not many say this. That it functions like a terror organisation and that all we have in the west is “Reality TV and Israel”. As a result, you feel that state symbols such as the flag become, as they must, a joke. But when you get to the framing of the entire operation, I would add the following: Yes, US doesn’t exist. But why? Because it has very little agenda that concentrates on its own people. Moreover, it leaves Americans in the dark about the meaning of their country and its policies. This can only mean one thing: they forgo obligations to the public, they work for someone else. That someone is not Israel. Because Israel is a lie as well. A small group of financial elites run the movie that we are in. The US movie and the Israeli movie is the necessary narrative which is being told to the populace. Israelis are told about; heroism, about the few against the many. But this is just a story. There is no intention to create normality, stability or continuity for them is it constantly being shaped for the maintenance of profits and for the security of those at the top to remain there. Most people have agreed to this deal. We will be nothing, we will have no real life, you the elite, you will tell us who we are. You will tell us that we are brave warriors. You will tell us that we are chosen. We leave everything to you. Israel is a new nation that was created in 48 from broken historical fragments. The historic Jewish people stopped existing 250-300 years ago. A creation of a NEW Jewish people is the movie that they play for the last 77 years. This movie should have ended in 48 after Israel was born – it was the responsibility of Israeli leader to furnish normality and regional sustainability. If this was not provided (and it never did, not for one day) then something doesn’t add up. It was never meant to be normal. It was supposed to be a new army people for the maintenance of chaos, to enrich European and American elites. Theoretically the empire could have reversed the course and force Israel back towards normality and shrink it into being another small country in the middle east. But Israel acts as a crime centre for empire. It funnels billions of shady deals to too many corporations around the world is acts like the kidneys of the west which over they years became reliant on more and more solutions Israel provides it. Israel became an organ of imperialism and all sorts of criminalities right at the top of western elites. The west & Israel is the same group of elites. For legitimacy Israel is being wrapped in Jewish symbols and the US is being wrapped in freedom symbols. Its one big criminal mafia that has plenty of weapons in the form of state armies. But those states more and more function for the financial owner that also hold the military force. Netanyahu, Trump, starmer, they all have double hats. On one hand they run countries but their obligations to the mafia only increased over the last 20-30 years. Crime is now too big to fail. Israel doesn’t control the US. This is a distraction because Israel and the US are made up of operators of the same mafia. They are the same. We are all being deceived that we have a gov’t that work for us. The US (or the mafia behind it) is more than ready for a war. It wants to do to Iran what it did to other countries, to topple its regime, to split the territory and have no opposition and better access to natural resources. If they have done it before I see no reason why they wouldn’t go for it and remove any resistance. All the rest is just technicalities for them.
I agree and disagree with what you say here. Regardless of their authenticity, big narratives have a lot of power to shape public opinion and political systems and their actions. So Israel may not be real, but it is real enough as a coherent political and colonial interest to drive major moves. I don't discount what you argue here, I just assign a little different weight to it in the overall picture.
Yes, most people are not too displeased if the narrative is 100% bullshit. As long as they get their needs and the possibility to have entertainment, authenticity of the narrative is not important to them. Once a certain critical mass of people buys into the narrative, social-pressure forces will kick in and the public will settle down into a routine and a status quo. I was talking about the reality not via the eyes of the deluded masses but from the position of an objective observer who watches from the side. I have just heard that Trump announced a “ceasefire” between Israel & Iran (to start in 6 hours). Do I buy this long term? No, of course not. I just don't see how further hostile action (by any means) can be prevented if you take into consideration what already happened. I guess we shall see in the coming days and weeks. Empire wants another regime in Iran and maybe also to get rid of Netanyahu – this way empire wins and both Bibi & Khamenei lose.
I agree 100%. This is regime change by the back door. If Iran falls we're all sunk, BUT, neither will it go well for the West because, what is beyond this? More dollar debt, more economic collapse and an EU going down the tubes.
Also, the American people need to know that with Israel bombing Iran they are putting our military at risk for those who are in Iran and the surrounding countries. But Trump is so war hungry and has never cared about US troops (remember he has called them and Vets ‘losers’).
Alon, have you ever read a humourous essay titled "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity"? It's one of those works like Parkinson's Law, The Peter Principle or Murphy's Law which is funny on the surface, but illustrates deeper truths about human behaviour. It was written in the 1970s by by an Italian guy named Carlo Cipolla. It's not very long. I like this version of it -- there several other reprints floating around the Internet -- because of the laff-worthy illustrations like the guy slicing his hand off when he's trying to make a sandwich:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
(Not sure if that will come across as a clickable link, but you can cut 'n paste if it doesn't and you want to read it.)
Cipolla's definition of stupidity was "doing things that cause unintended harm" He's not picking on people who don't know how to do trigonometry or other complex topics.
Anyway, don't feel bad that you could not accurately predict what USrael was going to do. One of those laws about stupid people is that you can never out-think a stupid person because they will do something SO stupid that you couldn't have imagined it. That, and Cipolla's postulate that there are more stupid people in this world than you'd ever realise, are part of the lens through which I view everything.
“They look like children.” Yes they do. Well they are children. I find it in the concept Gods Children. Not a fan of any monotheism but for some intuitive reason, Islam might do much better then the other “children”
USA, UK and Israel are the axis of EVIL and the cause of so much suffering and killing round the world for decades. US has spent 239 years out of it's 249 of it's existence waging wars, invasions, coup d'etats, bombings, kidnappings, creating and funding terrorist groups, creating and funding fake viruses and killer jabs round the world.
USA has been trying to topple the Iranian regime since early 50's when the elected PM Mossadegh refused to give OIL to US and UK and said that Iranian OIL belongs to the Iranian people, then they toppled him, just like they did later on to Saddam of Iraq and Qaddafi of Libya.
USA still fund and support Israel with weapons and now with total support with naval force and maritime force all over the Gulf. Add to that France, Germany, Italy and Canada are just as EVIL as they are ALL supplying weapons and finance to the genocidal psychopaths against Palestine -who has no army- and against Iran now! Gaza has definitely exposed Western democracies which are ALL Zionist controlled and brainwashed but also exposed Arab Zionists in the Middle East such as Jordan, who's leaders are traitors from the king, the father to the king son, who got paid for intercepting Iranian missiles.
Also Egypt traitor SISSI who's mother is a Jews and who works under the orders of his boss Nethanyahu to close Rafah and not let Humanitarian Aid or the Global March For Gaza to enter. UAE and Saudi Arabia the biggest Arab Zionists - created by the imperialist colonizers - who opened their skies for Israel to strike Iran easily and so did the Syrian terrorist ALSharaa, created and funded by US, UK and IS who also opened the skies of Syria for IS to hit Iran easily. UAE also pays for IDF child killers to go to UAE of free vacations all paid for by UAE criminal government. The whole world is sick, satanic and controlled by Zionist criminals, however, truth always prevails and EVIL can never win!
The Zionist genocidal child killers can only bomb defenseless children from skies with the help of AI and US WMD's because they cannot fight face to face, not against The Palestinian Resistance Movement who'd majority is made up of Orphan Palestinians, nor that they can fight Iran or Yemen - the only countries in the world who uphold International Law - and who stood up to the terrorist bullies: US and IS.
The world has woken up especially the Yankees who have been brainwashed for so long!
Great appreciation for your insight and integrity. 🙏
Oil and money devoid of values
Watch for the ‘red flag’
A lot of wisdom here
"Whom the gods would destroy, first are made mad." Something like that. Irrespective of who actually first penned it, that seems to be a powerful prediction. Given we are surounded by, and lead by, mad men, it doesn't bode well for us, does it?
I’ve been abroad and had no access to the Internet. I found your piece only after the attack was made.
After you declared your position—and before hearing your defense of it—I thought to myself … this won’t be about the competence of the analysis, but about the unstated premise that Mr. Trump’s tortured mind has sufficient discipline to arrive at firm conclusions about anything.
The rapidity with which you acknowledged the error elevated my assessment of you as a man AND as an analyst.
Well done!
A sane mind can not predict what mad men may do. The curtains are falling as we speak and all the crazies, racists, genocide supporters, war mongers… are out fighting with claws and fangs… only to further empower/ enrich themselves.
Another Black Knight of the Left spitting in the eyes of his enemies, daring them to sever another mother and child, another father and son, another old man and women seeing all that they'd lived for severed from it's past present and future. Another brave knight…
Alon, this was a very good ~20min overview. Why is it good? Because you identify few things that not many people do. First, your diagnosis of something unprecedented in world history about the Israeli society level of divergence from normality. The admission of struggle to employ words to capture the bizarre and crazed atmosphere over there. Second, the emptiness of the United States, the fact that it stands for nothing, the fact that it doesn’t exist(!) Not many say this. That it functions like a terror organisation and that all we have in the west is “Reality TV and Israel”. As a result, you feel that state symbols such as the flag become, as they must, a joke. But when you get to the framing of the entire operation, I would add the following: Yes, US doesn’t exist. But why? Because it has very little agenda that concentrates on its own people. Moreover, it leaves Americans in the dark about the meaning of their country and its policies. This can only mean one thing: they forgo obligations to the public, they work for someone else. That someone is not Israel. Because Israel is a lie as well. A small group of financial elites run the movie that we are in. The US movie and the Israeli movie is the necessary narrative which is being told to the populace. Israelis are told about; heroism, about the few against the many. But this is just a story. There is no intention to create normality, stability or continuity for them is it constantly being shaped for the maintenance of profits and for the security of those at the top to remain there. Most people have agreed to this deal. We will be nothing, we will have no real life, you the elite, you will tell us who we are. You will tell us that we are brave warriors. You will tell us that we are chosen. We leave everything to you. Israel is a new nation that was created in 48 from broken historical fragments. The historic Jewish people stopped existing 250-300 years ago. A creation of a NEW Jewish people is the movie that they play for the last 77 years. This movie should have ended in 48 after Israel was born – it was the responsibility of Israeli leader to furnish normality and regional sustainability. If this was not provided (and it never did, not for one day) then something doesn’t add up. It was never meant to be normal. It was supposed to be a new army people for the maintenance of chaos, to enrich European and American elites. Theoretically the empire could have reversed the course and force Israel back towards normality and shrink it into being another small country in the middle east. But Israel acts as a crime centre for empire. It funnels billions of shady deals to too many corporations around the world is acts like the kidneys of the west which over they years became reliant on more and more solutions Israel provides it. Israel became an organ of imperialism and all sorts of criminalities right at the top of western elites. The west & Israel is the same group of elites. For legitimacy Israel is being wrapped in Jewish symbols and the US is being wrapped in freedom symbols. Its one big criminal mafia that has plenty of weapons in the form of state armies. But those states more and more function for the financial owner that also hold the military force. Netanyahu, Trump, starmer, they all have double hats. On one hand they run countries but their obligations to the mafia only increased over the last 20-30 years. Crime is now too big to fail. Israel doesn’t control the US. This is a distraction because Israel and the US are made up of operators of the same mafia. They are the same. We are all being deceived that we have a gov’t that work for us. The US (or the mafia behind it) is more than ready for a war. It wants to do to Iran what it did to other countries, to topple its regime, to split the territory and have no opposition and better access to natural resources. If they have done it before I see no reason why they wouldn’t go for it and remove any resistance. All the rest is just technicalities for them.
I agree and disagree with what you say here. Regardless of their authenticity, big narratives have a lot of power to shape public opinion and political systems and their actions. So Israel may not be real, but it is real enough as a coherent political and colonial interest to drive major moves. I don't discount what you argue here, I just assign a little different weight to it in the overall picture.
Yes, most people are not too displeased if the narrative is 100% bullshit. As long as they get their needs and the possibility to have entertainment, authenticity of the narrative is not important to them. Once a certain critical mass of people buys into the narrative, social-pressure forces will kick in and the public will settle down into a routine and a status quo. I was talking about the reality not via the eyes of the deluded masses but from the position of an objective observer who watches from the side. I have just heard that Trump announced a “ceasefire” between Israel & Iran (to start in 6 hours). Do I buy this long term? No, of course not. I just don't see how further hostile action (by any means) can be prevented if you take into consideration what already happened. I guess we shall see in the coming days and weeks. Empire wants another regime in Iran and maybe also to get rid of Netanyahu – this way empire wins and both Bibi & Khamenei lose.
I agree 100%. This is regime change by the back door. If Iran falls we're all sunk, BUT, neither will it go well for the West because, what is beyond this? More dollar debt, more economic collapse and an EU going down the tubes.
About one year ago there was a practice attack done by U.S and Israel.
bingo
Also, the American people need to know that with Israel bombing Iran they are putting our military at risk for those who are in Iran and the surrounding countries. But Trump is so war hungry and has never cared about US troops (remember he has called them and Vets ‘losers’).