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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you haven’t been paying attention to Benjamin Netanyahu’s crimes against humanity, here is the latest. The Israeli military has begun its plan to remove every Palestinian from Gaza, despite warnings from other countries and various humanitarian organizations. [The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) meanwhile said further displacement and an intensification of hostilities "risk worsening an already catastrophic situation" for Gaza's 2.1 million population.] I look at it this way. Hitler hated the Jews, Trump hates anyone who is not pure white, Putin hates the LGBTQ community, and Netanyahu hates Muslims. Each of these men were or are brutal dictators. Evil is real. It exists in the space where their hearts should be. America was once a nation which was proud of its compassion, tolerance, and understanding. That was when I was a younger man, not today. Op-ed by James Turnage Follow my blog and be informed Source: https://www.bbc.com/n...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Benjamin Netanyahu is the reason why there has not been peace in the Middle East for nearly three decades. His policies are the primary reason why there has never been peace in the Middle East. Netanyahu has always believed in the policy of “land grabbing” from his Palestinian neighbors. He has moved to genocide; attempting to remove all Palestinians from Gaza. Meanwhile, one of his greatest admirers, Donald Trump, is engaged in ethnic cleansing in America. Netanyahu has enjoyed his Hitler-esque attacks on the people living in Gaza. His hatred for the Palestinian people has been openly displayed for decades. In recent attacks more than 64,000 men, women and children have been slaughtered. To put this into perspective, the War in Vietnam, from 1955-1975, resulted in the loss of over 59,000 American men and women. Trump’s personal support for Netanyahu was displayed a couple of days ago. He has now ordered the repeal and end of humanitarian visas for the people wh...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Republicans hate older Americans, including their own families. It is far more important to increase the bloated bank accounts of our nation’s 813 billionaires than to care for our elderly. What is “COLA?” This is the annual adjustment to Social Security checks, allegedly to account for inflation, which is a greater threat to seniors than any other group. Like my wife and I, our Social Security checks account for all or most of our monthly income. The increase is rarely enough to keep our quality of living consistent. However, Trump and his latest fascist appointee want to eliminate the two percent increase we receive each year, although our grocery store bill is 60 percent higher than it was a year ago. E.J. Antoni, who comes from the fascist extremist group, the Heritage Foundation, calls our annual increase a "Ponzi scheme." Obviously, he has no understanding how Social Security is funded or how it was intended to work. Social Security has been ba...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump was born on June 15, 1946. Benjamin Netanyahu came into this world on October 21, 1949. They are both old, white men who live in the past. However, these are only two of the personal traits  they share. Both men claim to love their countries. Both are liars. They love what their countries can do for them. Both men talk about the law, but have no respect for their Supreme Courts, or the laws agreed to by the World Court, protecting human rights and preventing atrocities, including ethnic cleansing and genocide. At this very moment, Trump is engaged in ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu has murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children in Gaza, in what can only be called ‘genocide.’ Not only do both old men choose to force their people to live in the past, where hatred, racism, and bigotry were commonplace, they have chosen to become dictators, renouncing their elections as democratic leaders. I feel it necessary to make some thing...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I was born in 1946. Israel was granted Statehood in 1948. To the best of my knowledge, the nation of Israel has received unwavering support by our government. Without American support, Israel would have been destroyed by its Muslim neighbors long ago. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, share a despicable commonality. Both bigots are engaged in a form of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Trump is attempting to remove all Americans who are not pure white from our nation. Netanyahu is obviously murdering the Palestinian people who once resided in Gaza as quickly as possible. 90 percent of all of Gaza’s former residents have been displaced: their homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals have been destroyed by the Israeli military, with weapons  supplied by the United States. Only 32 percent of all Americans support Netanyahu’s total destruction of Gaza. In Washington, some Democrats are questioning Israel’s motives, and are concerned about the Pa...

  The media once again refuses to tell the truth about one of the most evil and vile efforts to commit genocide in modern history. The terrorist group, Hamas, and those who harbor these evil and worthless scumbags¸ including some of the residents in Gaza, the government of Qatar, and others including the probabil ity of the Saudi Royal family, opportunistic members of our current, corrupt government, and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are participants in the unnecessary deaths of thousand of innocent men, women, and children. The story begins with an attack on innocent Israelis attending a concert. A cowardly group of hate-filled cowards and fake Muslims, armed with personal agendas opposed to the Religion of Islam, attacked innocent and unarmed young men and women from the nation of Israel. 1,196 innocents were killed and thousands injured, and the terrorist group responsible, Hamas, took approximately 251 hostages. No one can blame the Israeli people for taking ever...

Benjamin Netanyahu first came to power in 1996. He is responsible for the “land grabbing” on the West Bank. He is why there have never been honest negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people. He refuses to meet with Palestinian leaders. It is Netanyahu who is attempting acts of genocide in Gaza. The people of Israel should not be the focus of demonstrations in our colleges and universities. Their anger should be directed solely at Benjamin Netanyahu. Don’t misunderstand my words. I am not defending Hamas. Terrorism is unforgivable and needs to be eradicated, whether it comes from foreign nations, or from inside a nation. In the 21 st century, domestic terrorism is the greatest danger to the American people, according to the FBI. Our nation has a larger number of mass shootings than days on the calendar. Guns don’t kill people, but people with guns do slaughter innocents. As of January of this year, Netanyahu murdered more than 46,707 men, women, and children in Gaza, and on...

When I was a young boy, many years ago, I remember hearing the adults around me say: “Why do I bother reading the newspaper? It’s nothing but bad news.” When I was in high school, one of my teachers gave the entire class an assignment requiring us to read the entire first section of the local paper. It was the Los Angeles Times. As I expected, it was mostly bad news. However, what I read today and what is reported on television is far worse than it was in the 1960’s. First and foremost, I believe that most of what I read is filled with lies of omission. I find that the mainstream media is no longer trustworthy. When I fact check their stories, I discover that they seldom contain the complete truth. There is at least one mass shooting every day somewhere in America. Hate crimes have risen by nearly 1,000 percent from where it was in 2015. The greed of corporate America has angered most Americans to a level I once thought unthinkable. A man who shot and killed the CEO of a major healthca...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart “All governments are bad, some are worse than others.” I heard this when I was a young man. Over my nearly 78 years I have learned that it was and is completely true. The only thing I didn’t consider was that my government would become the most corrupt and incompetent of them all. My interest in politics began in 1956, when I was 10 years old. I turned on our television when I arrived home from school, and on the TV was Dwight Eisenhower’s second convention. I was fascinated. Now that I am an old man, I look back on the 13 presidents I have watched, listened to, and read about. Only one of the 13 was a great president; JFK: and three are on the list of the worst in history: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and at the bottom, Donald Trump. Of the nine remaining, three were admirable for their accomplishments; Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden; three were somewhat competent and had good intentions; Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama. The f...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Hatred is the darkest emotion and the greatest danger to mankind. When such a severe emotion controls a person or group, what follows is inevitable: violence and death. Hatred is sometimes personal, but frequently includes an entire race, other demographics, or religious sect. This is an act of pure ignorance and a low level of basic intelligence.  AMERICA HAS A 405 YEAR HISTORY OF RACISM AND BIGOTY Although it is true that our nation has a more than 400-year history of extreme racism and bigotry, which continues today, the United States is not alone in its crimes against humanity. Greed, jealousy, and envy pare segments of the ultimate and most despicable emotion owned by human beigns: hate. RELIGIONS WERE ALL FOUNDED ON PEACE AND LOVE IN THEIR ORIGIN Much of the world’s history involves violence between religions. Battles between Pagans and Christians led to the Crusades and war between Christians and Muslims. These bloody and senseless battles began in 10...