I was watching this documentary about how John Gotti was convicted, and I was amazed at how many times they missed. Regardless of how good your lawyer is, I imagine it to be pretty hard to beat a RICO charge if they want you for it. Yet, he was able to beat his first RICO case, but barely. All of the writing was on the wall that he was guilty of everything they claimed he did, I mean bodies in the streets, money, clothes, his lifestyle in general was proof…but they still missed. It only fell down when people (primarily Sammy the Bull) decided to snitch on him. We won’t get too deep into snitching, but you yourself have to have been in on the spoils to truly be a snitch. The issue is the only time people snitch is when they themselves are facing heat. Without that element, complicit parties remain silent as long as they’re still benefitting in some way from the wrongdoing.
Who sees the problem?
I watched a video this morning of a Palestinian boy with scrapes and scratches on his face and a bandaged arm. They rescued him from a building that Israel bombed. They were asking him questions about what happened, clearly still in shock, he explained to them that his family was staying in the house “away from the violence” then the building exploded and unfortunately, he was the only survivor from his family. Hard not to feel empathy for this young boy, no more than 8 or 9 years old, having his entire world stripped of him due to the desire to ethnically cleanse the area he lives in. There are enough examples of who the true aggressor of the Hamas-Israeli conflict is, but in the U.S. and Europe, our governments have pledged allegiance to the aggressor. For the life of me I couldn’t make sense of how quickly the U.S. condemned Russia for its actions in Ukraine, while also vowing support for Israel…until I watched that Gotti series.
European nations have colonized, raped, and pillaged the globe for hundreds of years, establishing generational wealth for their respective nations while exploiting the local population. The U.S. was built upon subjecting Africans to slave labor, and “annexing” land from Native Americans to manifest their own destinies. Spain, France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, the United States and Canada are benefitting from the wrongdoing. The actions of Israelis towards the Palestinians are far worse than what Russia is doing with Ukraine, so why not say that unequivocally so? The only thing I can think of is there is no need to snitch. Acknowledging that evil means these nations have to also acknowledge their own crimes against humanity, both past and present.
Hold up now…
When North Korea threatened danger to American allies, sanctions were levied upon them. Iran was accused of treating their people unfairly, and being friendly with terrorists, heavily sanctioned. Russia invaded Ukraine, sanctions as well. The entire Zionist plan of the Israeli Government has been to wipe Palestinians off the map, and now that they’re actually doing it, we are supposed to “stand with Israel”. I don’t know about anyone reading this, but f*ck that. I don’t stand with them or support their actions in any way, at all. Worse though, I hate the fact that the United States is turning a blind eye to it and we’re playing the “they’re our allies” card…even though our ally here is more brutal and inhumane than ANY of our enemies.
Where’d those guns come from?
In the real world, if your friend is doing some dumb shit and they need to be checked, as a friend you tell them “relax with that nonsense” and you’re cool again afterwards…but you stop the dumb shit first! Without weapons, backing and funding from all of its allies, Israel would be very humble in the region they’re located. However, the UN acts as their big brothers and all the brothers got some serious skills with the hands. That and that alone is what has allowed them the ability to maintain in a region where they mock everyone around them and cry at the slightest offense. This reminds me of an evening hanging with one of my knucklehead cousins. I’m no saint by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m further from being stupid than I am from being a saint. He had in his mind that he needed my help to do something stupid. I began with “nah chill” and ended with “you can do it by yourself if you so desire”. My integrity was worth far more than the money I could have made…and he ended up in jail, so there’s that.
Selective memory or something
I personally don’t care what the pot calls the kettle, in the moment right and wrong are all that matters. When something your friend or relative does goes against your values, regardless of their rationale for doing it, if you assist or in this case, pretend like nothing’s wrong, you’re just as bad. To be fair, the United States IS just as bad considering what we’ve done in the Middle East over the last 3 decades. Israel supported our efforts of taking out their enemies, for whatever reason. I don’t know the intricacies of Euro-Israeli relations so much, but I’m sure they are teamed up in something as well. I think the ONLY country that kinda has to ride with Israel regardless is Germany and that’s 100% because they owe them that. There’s probably some really old German guy sitting in his house right now watching the news saying, “we tried to tell them”. How ironic, 90 years after the holocaust began, the same people that say never forget, suddenly seem to have amnesia.