The Livestream Genocide Is Breaking Your Brain

I am sorry to be the one to have to tell you that you are not a victim of Israel.

Unless you are actually reading this in Palestine somehow (for which I apologize) you are probably an American journalist, podcaster, Congress member, or lawmaker, and that is why you need to pay attention. There are real victims of Israel in Palestine.

Now that your heart rate is pumping, I want you to reground yourself in what I am actually writing, and what I am not. I am saying that you are not a victim of Israel but you have possibly been playing one on tv. Maybe you play one online, or with your friends and family. All you are at best is an outsider. A tourist (to use the Fight Club analogy) in a sea of open source suffering that you have adopted for yourself.

Actual victims need help. Yet they will not get the help they need because of you.

Yes, you. The person reading this. You think the Senators have the power. You think Trump could stop this “with one phone call,” don’t you? How ridiculous. Donald Trump is not capable of bringing this genocide to an end. He is a selfish inept buffoon with nobody’s interests in mind but his own, and he has been profiteering with Netanyahu. Yet even his biggest critics in the media act like he is all powerful.

The victims in Palestine do not need theatrical speeches on the Senate floor or Bernie Sanders pretending to be anti-war with a half-hearted bill to block weapons sales. In fact, they need those things to stop. They need critical aid to reverse the effects of starvation and other unbelievable cruelty.

More than that, somehow or another they need a future.

Something beyond this moment.

That is not something they can think about right now while they all struggle to survive. But the more you act like this is happening to you the less useful you will be in the peace process. The morale of this piece of writing is simple: stop watching the horrors and get involved in creating peace.

Standing on the sidelines jeering at the aggressors is not noble work.

It is cowardly.

Watching Snuff Film Footage Is Radicalizing You Into Learned Helplessness

In 2020, I wrote a book called “The Digital Lynching of George P. Floyd,” where I studied the inception & spread of murder video that was used to market a fake grass roots revolution. At the time I came to the sullen conclusion that Americans have become willful in their own brainwashing, whenever it comes to a story that is presented to them as newsworthy. The problem comes when it is distorted, the actual effects of this content. It is presented as necessary in order to make sure people do not ignore the problems. Those who consume this content and spread it, are determined and committed to the belief that they are doing the right thing.

Unfortunately, this has created a sense of learned helplessness.

It has become a kind of torture.

However, it is a torture that people subject themselves to.

You cannot even compare that to the torture of the people in Gaza. Unfortunately, at this point, too many Americans have convinced themselves that they are the victims of this atrocity. You think you are a victim here. The chant that many Americans echo, thinking it will compel others into action is, “our taxpayer dollars…” are being used to fund a genocide. As if, you should absolve yourself of concern if a genocide is going on in the world outside of funding from the American government.

Withhold Your Taxes If It Moves You

How do I know that people who make these taxpayer dollars arguments aren’t serious? Because they act like they have no agency over the dollars they pay the government. Sure, we are taxed on our money all over the place. But nothing is stopping you from refusing to pay. Or delaying paying. To whatever degree you can.

Many people reading this might think of that suggestion as extremist or illegal or something of that nature. Yet, it is an actual point of leverage that the people have. It will necessitate a longer conversation about how this government doesn’t actually need all of our liquid capital anymore to falsify capital or print it – so to speak – but again; it is a point of leverage the people have.

If you complain about your taxes going to fund this stuff, restrict the government access to as much of your money as you can.

That is something you can do, if you’re serious.

Nothing About Watching People Die On Camera Makes You Righteous Or Morally Superior

I do not watch murder movies, snuff films, or torture content. It is not only disturbing and uncomfortable, it serves zero legitimate purpose. Watching this content does not motivate action. It does the opposite. Watching this content creates malaise, sadness, depression, and in some people it is inspiring suicidal thoughts and actions. Ironically, when I was growing up, the website rotten . com was a sensation for displaying this kind of content. They have gone through a lot of legal hurdles to justify that there is a 1st amendment right to distribute such things. Constitutionality aside, the point I’m trying to make here is that watching videos of starving people in another country does not cause you to get creative about how to feed them. In fact I have seen people in the media miss opportunities to push for aid, in favor of virtue signaling about their moral superiority.

By the way, being “against genocide,” is not a position one needs to fight incredibly hard for. It should be obvious in your actions. Yelling about it, arguing with people about it, and debating it, does not make you a freedom fighter or a hero.

For example, many people in the political media space got very excited by podcaster Krystal Ball interviewing Senator Elissa Slotkin.

Ball and her co-host confronted Slotkin about her support for Israel, something that is viewed by many as some kind of tough journalism. In reality, it was a wasted opportunity. Slotkin claimed she was organizing aid with constituents of both Jewish and Islamic faith. She said they were attempting to get baby formula, so it was unlikely to (her words) be stolen or co-opted by Hamas.

Ball did not question this, press on this, or even engage with it at all.

Ball did take about 5 minutes to cry about how, as a mother, she thinks about her own daughter (who is not starving in a foreign land) and then performatively begged Slotkin to vote against sending weapons to Israel.

This was not just bad journalism, but it was a chance to find out if a Senator who supports Israel is also helping the innocents in Palestine – or if she is lying about that for some reason. Either way, the public (and her constituents) deserve to know.

That’s why the public deserves better than the likes of Krystal Ball and Breaking Points. Too many of these so-called independent media outlets are run by people with a fetish for these real-life horror shows. They get off on acting superior to whoever is responsible, while not in any way sacrificing their own personal comfort.

My History of Protest Netanyahu’s Political Movement

I am 38 years old.

Benjamin Netanyahu first became Prime Minister of Israel in 1996.

I was about 9 years old.

In American synagogues back then, services always included pitches about the necessity to support the state of Israel. At an early age we were told about the dangers of the intifada. Suicide bombers, hating Jews. The simplicity of those narratives were elegant and believable. It always came with a tenor of suggesting that we could be in danger if the state of Israel is attacked. The premise rabbis would put forth was that somehow the world (in this case non-Jews in America) would see that Israel was attacked, and therefore Jews are weak, and therefore Jews would be attacked for being Jewish even in America.

I did not agree with modern zionism. 

This alienated me from my parents, my synagogue, and broader Jewish life.

Even though I went to Israel for Taglit, I have never been accepted in American Jewish community.

In business, I have been passed over for opportunities and investment because of this. Sometimes directly. Other times indirectly, because people assume that due to being Jewish, I have money already. I do not. My family deprived me of childhood investments I was enabled to make (by my grandparents) due to my aptitude for picking stocks and directing wealth. They retaliated against me for my views about the state of Israel.

This genocidal chapter of Netanyahu’s militaristic leadership is the worst we have seen in recent history. And that has caused a lot of people in mainstream America to take notice. The whole world is watching now. But if you look back through the last 20 years there have been many times where aggression spills over. Kidnapped hikers or students. Random terror attacks. Things of that nature. They are sadly commonplace. Solving such a complex and terrible conflict is difficult.

Yet the commentariat online, or broadcasters in the news industry, and young politicians (and old politicians) have all become regimented in their talking points and outrage. This is because too few of them are honest about the personal stake they have, and others are too dishonest about how impersonal it all is for them.

For me, it is familiar.

Stop Pretending You’re the Victim When There Are Real Victims Who Need Help

When you act like Krystal Ball does, as if she only cares about her own money and explaining the world to her child, the real victims continue to be abused. So stop pretending you’re the victim, when you can – and should – simply stop watching material that is torturous. It is not fixing you to do anything but act like it is happening to you, which it is not.

In hearing this advice, you are likely to get defensive.

Thinking something like, “Don’t tell me what to do, who are you?!” Or something like, “You just want me to look away and pretend it isn’t happening?!” No. Not at all and quite the contrary. What I’m saying is that you’re watching a screen, not doing anything to help the people you see on the other side of it. I have been working to understand the financial structure that keeps this atrocious relationship in place while also writing philosophically about the possibility of other solutions besides the two-state mantra that has been the party line for decades.

There are other solutions and answers I know I have.

Ways to get the press access.

Possibilities to end the starvation.

Yet, I dare not publish them here.

Stop Stealing From Me, Because It Is Killing People

I should be in a position to share my ideas openly, invest in and develop them, bring them to bear, and help millions.

Instead, my own parents (two avid readers of this blog) and Jewish associates, and others who are intent on embarrassing me out of existence, will co-opt, censor, or plagiarize anything I publish.

So I have to be careful with how many valuable ideas I put out for free.

If I provide a solution to something as complex as the starvation of Palestinians, and it gets censored, do you have any idea how crushing that is to them? Even though you don’t care, do you have any idea what that does to me? It is heartbreaking. More heartbreaking than you could possibly imagine, because if you’re reading this you are undoubtably also one of those people holding me back from being able to contribute.

You don’t know what to do.

You feel helpless.

I am not helpless.

I may not be able to heal these divides overnight, however, I have some very practical answers and solutions to ease the suffering. I know a lot about the connection between America & Israel that is easy to understand, but still kept as an open secret.

So stop feeling sorry for yourself, and get out of my way.

I have a lot of work to do.