By Tommy Acosta
Sedona, AZ –While all the pundits are scratching their heads, wondering why students across the country are holding anti-Jewish rallies, the answer is obvious.
Simply put, the students are demonstrating against the war in Gaza and want peace. Period. Just like they demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam back then.
But there is a caveat.
The anti-Semites, the Jew haters, the Hamas supporters are embedded and organized in the midst of the demonstrators, fomenting hate and waving flags, even though most of the demonstrators are there because they are outraged by the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza.
None of the pundits are pressing this point and would rather use the terms anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish, pro-Palestine and anti-Semites in labeling the demonstrators.
These young people, those honestly appalled by the war, believe the killings and starving of the population are genocidal in nature.
The outside provocateurs participating in the demonstrations are taking the demonstrators down a radical path, leading chants calling for the death of Jews and America, burning flags, and intimidating Jewish students.
But the heart of the demonstrations is the protest against the obliteration of an entire civilian population by the relentless military onslaught in Gaza.
The students see it as inhumane, and therefore they are out there protesting.
Images such as the one below, are easily found on the Internet, and compassionate students are horrified that this destruction is going on with our support.
They are becoming aware of the true purpose of war, and of the military industrial complex behind it all. Thus, the calls for divestment.
The U.S. government and the international community have urged Israel to ease up and allow more humanitarian aid, even threatening them legally.
Israel is stuck between a rock and a hard place because if it wants to avenge the massacre of Oct. 7 and achieve its stated goal of wiping out Hamas, it might have to destroy all of Palestine to do it. It appears this is the only way Israel can ensure its security in the future
Meanwhile, the hostages remain in limbo with no deals yet in sight.
Hamas is not just a terrorist group, as labeled; it’s an idea, and ideas are extremely difficult to crush. Ideas live in the heart and soul of those who believe in them and are willing to kill or die for what they stand for.
Hamas hides behind civilians and institutions giving Israel little choice on how to eliminate them without killing the innocent.
It’s a Catch 22 that puts Israel in a dark position, because to wipe out Hamas requires ruthless military action, 
and perhaps the demolition of most every city in Palestine.
Only an uprising against Hamas by the people of Gaza can end it. And that’s not about to happen.
The demonstrations in the U.S. by students and those posing as students will continue as long as the press gives them prime time coverage and images of Palestine’s ongoing annihilation remain available on social media.
Major media will play over and over again the flag burnings and violent attacks against the police, ad nauseam, further frightening the public and fomenting fear and hate.
Meanwhile, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Technologies Corp. and General Dynamics Corp., to name a few, will continue to rake in the blood money hand-over-foot, as America is further divided and anti-Semitism spreads.
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8 Comments
Unlike the Orange Idiot I’m going to say there are extremist (not “good people”) on both sides inflaming the situation like a candle burning from both ends at the same time.
Criticizing atrocities, war crimes and unwarranted civilian deaths on either side should not make one pro Hamas nor an anti semite, it’s being human and humane.
Threatening or committing violence to bolster your argument only makes you the problem not the solution.
Unfortunately we live in a steroidal induced he man women haters club society where violence is considered cool like the he man women hater steroid freaks in the movies shootin shit up with never ending ammunition, driving cars like a-holes, storming the Capitol, shooting up the schools just like Draft Dodger Sly Stallone in Rambo. The Italians have a great word for this “Americanaci”! And the Russians “Cowboys”! Neither is complimentary.
Our world and society are sick and plagued with vengeance seeking morons with guns, bombs and whatever else they can use to kill innocents senselessly.
Both sides of the student protests claim to want one thing, an end to the war and senseless violence. Hamas is wrongfully clinging to their wrongfully obtained hostages and the Netanyahu regime wants to flatten all of Gaza and it’s inhabitants in order to punish Iranian backed Hamas and Hezbollah for centuries of cross border skirmishes, assassinations, kidnappings and bombings committed by both sides. It’s an eye for an eye until everyone is blind!
in the 60’s we said make love not war… I say it NOW……L
Unfortunately as in the 60’s violence was and is part of these protests. And unlike Vietnam 1958-1971 where we had underprivileged draftees (unlike the privileged perfumed putz, 8 deferment Draft Dodger Dump)forced to fight a war of lies only to return home and be treated horrendously by anti war protesters as if they were the liars who caused the war when they absolutely were not! They were pawns used by Right Wing Extremismist jackasses like Nixon, Westmorland etc. who actually considered nuking Vietnam because they couldn’t win their war of lies in a conventional war.
In this case Israel has a lying Right Wing Extremist Government and has Right Wing Extremismist Netzah Yahuda Battalions of soldiers doing their scorched earth bidding to make beach front property out of Palestine and Palestinians because of an Iranian backed terror organization’s actions in which innocent civilians are wrongfully being used as human shields so rather than fighting between militants we have militants on both sides targeting civilians while ignoring International Laws of Land Warfare because of ancient religious based hatred of one another’s faith and existence.
Flattening civilian population centers with 500 -2,000 lb dumb bombs, cruise missiles and artillery cowardly fired from miles away to take out one or more suspected terrorist with small arms hiding in a hospital or apartment building is a war crime in violation of Geneva Conventions. The US is guilty of these types of war crimes going back to WWII and yet Israel and the US get to avoid War Crime Tribunals in The Hague committed by everyone but them!
Terrorism committed by Hamas, Hezbollah or any other terrorist/militia groups are also war crimes but killing an entire population of civilians being used by said terrorist (which in this case are Iranian supported militants) as a human shield is Genocide plain and simple! Just as Hamas’s attacks upon Israeli civilians have been Genocidal crimes. Two wrongs never make a right and only bring about generations of hate filled vengeance seeking survivors.
Perhaps Israel’s war machine providers such as the US should stop Israel from continuing it’s path of wrongful death and destruction by halting any and all military arming and funding and then have the UN move into Gaza to hunt down the remaining Hamas militants in hiding while diffusing the tension between Israel and the Palestinian people just like we did in Bosnia when we stopped the fighting but hunted down the murderous thugs who committed genocide on all sides. Israeli war criminals from the grunts to Netanyahu and all surviving members of Hamas need to face justice at The Hague as well but in a court of laws, not from 30,000 ft in the air, 1,000 plus miles away or by crimes committed on the ground as have been and continue to be uncovered in Gaza.
Israel and every other country/nation on earth has the absolute right to defend themselves including Palestinians! Going on the Offensive however is not Defensive unless absolutely necessary to preempt imminent attacks being prepared from outside the country. But even then unless only the imminent threat is pinpointed and target by the minimal force necessary to neutralize it is it justified, unlike the scorched earth policies being committed in Gaza, Ukraine and in other wars of genocidal tactics being against civilians by numerically and militarily superior forces.
Thank you, Tommy, for cutting through all the media fog and misdirection. This seems another example of young people attempting to draw attention to genocide at the hands of the US war contractors. I used to be one of those students. My heart breaks for the civilians caught in this terrible situation. May peace and sanity prevail. As Keb’Mo says: “Put a Woman in Charge”. Listen to that song when you have a chance.
What an excellent article! Impressive.
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This is how to deal with war crimes not through more violent hate crimes! Hopefully they will issue Interpol warrants on all responsible for war crimes including Ismail Haniyeh and all of his remaining militant terrorist!
Oct. 7 was Israel’s 911. The attack was allowed and orchestrated so Israel would have the justification to level Palestine and claim the land as their own. Invest in concrete. Once Palestine is no more Israel will rebuild the shattered cities in its own image.
Seriously doubt even crooked Bibi would stoop so low In criminality as to coordinate the brutal murders, rapes, torture and kidnapping of Jews by Hamas. Butt then again who’d have thunk M’erican’s would believe and support Putin over Ukraine or elect a Draft Dodging Commie Loving Treasonous Insurrectionist and want him back in office to do it Again Again!
Netanyahu’s crooked MAGGOT government is responsible for the war crimes occurring against innocent Palestinians. Hamas from the Top down is also responsible for those war crimes by their crimes against humanity as well as their illegal and immoral positioning among the civilian populace and especially in No Go Targets (Being flattened anyway by the Israeli government) such as cemeteries, mosques, churches, schools and hospitals.
Unfortunately for the World the Geneva Conventions and Rules of Land Warfare do not apply to the US, UK nor Israel as they are not signatories to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Which is why murderers in our Armed Forces such as Former Navy SEAL CPO Gallagher get pardoned by criminals like Trump rather than facing International Criminal Tribunals like all other War Criminals!