Israelis' and Palestinians' Unwillingness to Forgive Casualty-Free Attacks Leads to Deaths on Both Sides

       Yesterday (on October 7th, 2023), several periodicals - including The Wall Street Journal - published articles asserting that the State of Israel, and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have "declared war" on the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

     Leaving aside the issue of whether "declaring war" on Hamas serves to legitimize it as if it were a state or political entity, it is necessary to address the mainstream media's narratives regarding the recent violence exchanged between Israelis and Palestinians in the last several weeks.

 

     This "declaration of war" against Hamas follows what Reuters, C.N.N., and others described as "surprise attacks", carried out by Hamas against Israeli targets.

     http://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/sirens-warning-incoming-rockets-sound-around-gaza-near-tel-aviv-2023-10-07/

     http://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/middleeast/sirens-israel-rocket-attack-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html

     However, "surprise attacks" is hardly an honest way to characterize these attacks.

 

     Two weeks ago (on Sunday, September 24th, 2023), N.P.R. published an article titled "Israel strikes Gaza for the third straight day as West Bank violence escalates".

     http://www.npr.org/2023/09/24/1201381201/an-israeli-military-raid-has-killed-two-palestinians-in-the-west-bank?fbclid=IwAR1omulobWR5oOF6Whiku445zRLHBHc9jYhtj63vaI3sxVRd_bMerpgkS50#:~:text=Majdi%20Mohammed%2FAP-,Palestinians%20inspect%20a%20damaged%20building%20following%20an%20Israeli%20army%20raid,24%2C%202023

 

     Right off the bat, it is plain to see, from this article, that the attacks on Israeli targets which were carried out by Hamas over the last several days, were, most assuredly, not "surprise attacks", but were carried out in response to the strikes on Gaza which occurred on September 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2023.

     Despite this fact, the Israelis - and Israel-sympathetic media - have been quick to point out that the attacks which occurred in the first week of October, were (apparently) timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, which began on October 6th, 1973.

     But if these attacks were, in fact, timed to coincide with that anniversary, then that narrative would not make sense, if it could be proven that there had been exchanges of violence in the previous two weeks leading up to that October 6th anniversary.

     In fact, if you read the article that N.P.R. published on September 24th, you will find that – in the very first sentence of the article – it reads: 

     “Israeli airstrikes struck militant sites in Gaza on Sunday for the third straight day, the Israeli military said, after Palestinian militants near the border fence launched incendiary balloons into Israel and threw an explosive at soldiers.” [emphasis mine]

      [Correction, written and posted on October 20th, 2023:

     The aforementioned incendiary balloons might not have taken place before those "three straight days" of Israeli attacks, after all.
     The following article from Al Jazeera clarifies that the recent violence began when "stone-throwing protesters" in Palestine threw stones at Israeli soldiers, prompting the closing of the Beit Hanouna border crossing between Israel and Gaza, which itself prompted Palestinians' launching of incendiary balloons into Israel.
     This article also mentions that Israel killed 12 Palestinians in Jenin in July, which runs contrary to the mainstream media narrative that there was no violence between Israel and Palestine between May 2023 and October 7th, 2023.
     You can read that article by clicking on the following link:
     http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/israeli-military-attacks-gaza-strip-amid-protests-at-border]

     

     This suggests that the Israeli airstrikes were carried out in response to the aforementioned border violence (although it’s not clear exactly which day those incendiary balloons were launched).

     This shows why it is important to read articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict very carefully.
     Especially because there’s no indication that those incendiary balloons (which started two fires within the State of Israel’s borders) – nor that explosive which was thrown at I.D.F. soldiers – killed or injured anybody.
     I suspect that, if these bombs had killed anybody, then the articles reporting on it, would have mentioned that fact.

 

     We might feel tempted to conclude - from the information above - that those late-September Israeli airstrikes killed Palestinians in response to Palestinian bomb-throwing that killed nobody.

     But that is not accurate either.

     If N.P.R.’s reporting is correct, then so is the sentence from the fourth paragraph in that article, which reads as follows: 

     “There were no reported casualties from the strikes in Gaza.”

 

     Let us assume - for a moment - that “no reported casualties” means “no casualties occurred”, rather than that casualties on the Gazan side occurred but were simply not reported.

     If that is an accurate assumption, then this would mean that the late-September Palestinian bomb-throwing killed zero people, and then was met with Israeli retaliation that also killed zero people.

 

     On March 11^th, 2004, nearly two hundred people were killed, and over two thousand people were injured, in a series of coordinated bombings upon the commuter train system in Madrid, the capital city of Spain.

     Shortly thereafter, my high school Spanish teacher, Ken Finkelstein, told us that the people of Spain responded to these attacks by calling for peace and forgiveness. He contrasted this against America’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, 2001, after which President George W. Bush declared “the world will hear from all of us soon”. This statement foreshadowed America’s invasion of Afghanistan the following month, and its invasion of Iraq eighteen months later.

     My teacher’s statement affected me profoundly, and (obviously) I still remember it to this day. And I agree that there is a time for forgiveness. Although it may be difficult to forgive atrocities which see hundreds of deaths (as in the Madrid train bombings) or even thousands of deaths (as in 9/11), it is much easier to forgive attempted acts of violence which result in zero deaths or injuries.

     And that is what has just happened.

     Both sides – Israeli and Palestinian – have just declined to forgive attacks, by one-another, which (evidently) resulted in zero injuries or deaths.

 

     I would never condemn someone for defending oneself; even if it’s an individual human being, or a political entity which claims to have the right to use violence legitimately. But self-defense is far from what is happening here.

     Yesterday (October 7^th, 2023), The Times of Israel reported that 1,600 people are wounded, and that at least 230 people are dead, in Gaza, following Israel’s attacks.
     http://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-reports-some-200-palestinians-dead-1600-wounded-after-hamas-assault-on-israel/

     An article, published today (October 8^th) by A.B.C., stated that 1,790 Gazans are wounded, and over 300 Gazans are dead; while Israeli death tolls number over 100, with some 900 Israelis injured.

     http://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-hamas/?id=103804516

     This article from N.D.T.V. claims that six hundred Israelis have been killed in the fighting.
     http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hamas-rocket-attack-on-israel-israel-gaza-conflict-palestine-over-500-dead-in-hamas-surprise-land-air-sea-attack-on-israel-4460666

     If the worst of these reports is accurate, then this means that at least 900 people are now dead because of both the Israelis’ and the Palestinians’ refusal to forgive attacks that killed nobody at all.

 

     Throwing a bomb at someone does not automatically mean that the target was killed or harmed in any way. We have to read these reports more closely, instead of lashing out, and killing by reflex.

     We have no choice, now, but to forgive attacks that harm nobody; or else we should expect the bloodshed to continue into the holiday season.

     Thus, the only alternative to forgiving casualty-free attacks, is to endorse the murder of not only our enemies, but ourselves.

      As musician Kimya Dawson sang – in her song “Hold My Hand” – “the cycle of violence has to end somewhere”.

 

 Update:

     The Biden Administration has deleted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's call for a cease-fire.

     Read more at the following links:
     http://nypost.com/2023/10/09/blinken-gets-blowback-for-now-deleted-sunday-post-promoting-cease-fire-in-israel/

     http://newrepublic.com/post/176090/state-department-blinken-delete-tweets-ceasefire-israel-gaza-palestine

 

Written and published on October 8th, 2023.

Update added on October 12th, 2023.

Correction written and added on October 20th, 2023.

Witalij Martynow Repackages Rebirthing Therapy as "Breathwork Therapy", Which Involves Partial Suffocation

      A maniacal quack named Witalij Martynow is currently touring America, promoting "breathwork therapy", a therapeutic practice that involves what he describes as "intermittent hypoxia" (a/k/a choking people half to death).

     He claims that temporary oxygen deprivation is good for the blood, in the same way that hunger is good for digestive health.

 

     What his followers fail to realize is that Martynow's therapeutic technique is basically the same thing as rebirthing therapy, which was invented and pioneered by Dr. Leonard Orr in the 1970s. Orr is now widely considered a "crazy hippie".

     Rebirthing therapy is basically breathwork therapy plus surrounding people in pillows and blankets. And people are, indeed, (partially, but not completely) surrounded by pillows and blankets, as a part of Martynow's breathwork therapy today.

     The similarities don't end there. Martynow's patients are in denial of the fact that patients are being actively restrained; by having their chests pushed down. People are held down; yet patients claim they are "free to leave at any time".
     Moreover, in 2022, a Reddit user named “warpedhands” claimed to have been a patient of Witalij’s, and said that Witalij “helps prevent you from giving up or stopping out of fear.”

 

     There are also stills, in these promotional videos, of a woman holding a trash bucket next to her face, as if she's about to vomit.
     According to Martynow's website, vomiting is a common side effect of consumption of ayahuasca.

     Similarly, the original rebirthing therapy involved induced vomiting.

 

 

     Rebirthing therapy is designed to simulate being born, as a way to make a child feel as if their new parents are giving birth to them again. The stated purpose was to help the child form attachment with the new caregivers.

      Rebirthing, breathwork, and similar techniques employed by Dr. Neil Feinberg, are intended to treat a variety of ailments; most importantly; Reactive Attachment Disorder (R.A.D.). This is a (probably made-up) disorder in which a child who is adopted, fails to form a proper attachment with his new parents.

     Dr. Neil Feinberg even traumatized a child who had previous sexual abuse trauma, by screaming at him, poking him in the chest, and forcing the child to admit that he hated Dr. Feinberg. Feinberg thus attempted to treat revulsion towards forced sexual touching, with more forced touching. Feinberg's therapy was called Coercive Restraint Therapy (C.R.T.).

     Even worse, a 10-year-old girl named Candace Newmaker DIED in a rebirthing therapy session in Colorado in the year 2000. She was surrounded by blankets, and gave repeated warnings that she was vomiting inside the mess of blankets, and that she had to defecate. She died from a combination of asphyxiation and inhaling the smell of her own vomit and shit.

     Republican Bill Owens, then Governor of Colorado, signed a statewide ban against rebirthing therapy shortly thereafter.
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1174742/

 

     Curiously, Martynow's American tour does not include any dates in Colorado.

     Maybe he has done his research, and knows that his techniques are probably too similar to rebirthing therapy to be considered legal in that state.

 

     Martynow claims, in his promotional internet posts, that "no substances are consumed during these sessions". However, his critics have pointed out that some patients in these sessions have been seen consuming the hallucinogenic herb ayahuasca (an allegation which Martynow freely admits is true on his website). It's not clear what percentage of patients are expected to consume ayahuasca as part of these sessions, nor whether the consumption of ayahuasca is optional.

     Additionally, Martynow's patients include African-Americans, whom are disproportionately predisposed to being afflicted with sickle-cell anemia, a disease characterized by a deficiency of oxygen in the blood cells. Martynow has, apparently, made no attempts to warn his patients that they should not do breathwork therapy if they have sickle-cell.

 

  

     Tragically, it seems that the therapeutic community has learned nothing over the last fifty years. This repackaging of rebirthing therapy is an attempt to heal people through re-traumatizing them; it is trauma bonding.

     I have even spoken to a patient of Martynow's, named Soleil, who believes that, if someone dies in these sessions, then there is not necessarily any causal relationship between the suffocation and the death, and it is simply that person's time to go.

     Evidently, some of these "patients" (read: followers) are already okay with being killed in these sessions, even before their deaths occur.

     Thus, breathwork and rebirthing therapy bear all the hallmark signs of being a cult.

 

  

     Scam artists like Martynow will get away with killing people if this is not stopped.

 

     You can learn more about “Dr.” Martynow’s “therapeutic” techniques at his website, which can be found at the following address:

     http://www.witalijmartynow.com/

 

 

      Update:

 

     Just a few hours after posting this article, I discovered the Facebook page of yet another therapeutic workshop which is similar to the aforementioned forms of therapy; and this one explicitly uses the phrase "rebirth".

     It is called "Intuitive Rebirth".
     http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067309680986


     It seems that this form of "therapy" is spreading like wildfire. We must stop this before it is too late.

 

     I have previously written about this topic; in my March 2021 article “Delinquent and Abused Minors Subjected to Physical and Psychological Abuse Disguised as Therapy: W.W.A.S.P.S. and C.R.T.”.

     You can read that article at the following address:

     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/delinquent-and-abused-minors-subjected.html

 

Written and published on October 6^th, 2023.

Expanded on October 7th, 2023.

The U.S.A. of E.T.O.: The Brad Schneider National Anthem

     During the 2017-2018 congressional campaign season, U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (Democrat from Illinois's 10th District) accepted $7,736 from the medical company Medline.

     [Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]

     Medline emits Ethylene Oxide from its smokestacks. Ethylene Oxide - abbreviated E.T.O. - is a chemical which is both explosive, and known to cause cancer.

     Medline has used the fact that E.T.O. sterilizes medical equipment, to justify allowing the poisonous chemical to contaminate water and air supplies in Lake County, Illinois. But the company has also refused to use safer chemicals to sterilize medical equipment (of which there are at least five alternatives). It has also refused to either: 1) make their smokestacks shorter (in order to reduce the distance that polluted air can travel from said smokestacks), or 2) relocate their facilities to a more sparsely-populated area (in order to reduce the number of people who have to breathe said polluted air).

     Despite touting what he sees as an exceptional record on environmental issues, Rep. Schneider has also accepted campaign contributions from Abbott, AbbVie, and Baxter, which have polluted Lake County with other chemicals aside from E.T.O..

     [Source: http://www.opensecrets.org]

     You can learn more about Schneider's sources of campaign funds by reading my February 2020 infographic and campaign pamphlet "Where Does Congressman Brad Schneider Get His Money?: The True Sources of Schneider's Campaign Donations", available at the following address:

     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/02/where-does-congressman-brad-schneider.html

     It is also worth noting that Schneider's wife, Julie Dann, is a senior vice president at Alliant / Mesirow Insurance Services.

     [Source: http://www.readsludge.com/2019/03/01/stock-ticker-wife-of-rep-on-health-subcommittee-is-trading-health-stocks/]

     Despite being one of the richest congressmen in the country, Schneider is rumored to be on his wife's health insurance plan.

     You can learn more about the suspicions regarding possible corruption involving Schneider and his wife, by reading the following article:

     http://www.businessinsider.in/investment/news/democratic-rep-brad-schneider-of-illinois-violated-a-conflicts-of-interest-law-with-late-stock-trade-disclosures-his-office-blames-a-missed-mouse-click-/articleshow/90404303.cms

     

     I composed the following set of lyrics - a parody of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key - about the corrupt relationship between Congressman Schneider and these four pollution-emitting companies.

     I hope that this parody will, one day, be sung in protest, straight to the congressman's face.

Bradley Schneider takes bribes

Fro-om Bi-ig Pharma

To pollute all our air

With the ethyle-ene oxide

E.T.O., it explodes

And it gives us cancer

Still Brad takes those bribes

From Abbott, AbbVie, Medline, and Baxter

But they say it’s sterilized

To-oo keep us a-live

But even that is a lie

‘Cause the smokestack’s too high

O say does tha-at Schneider

He... really really really su-ucks

‘Cause he’s pri-vately insured...

So he don’t... give a... fuck

Song composed in summer 2023.

This article written and published

on September 6th, 2023.

Originally posted under the title
"The Brad Schneider National Anthem".

Title changed on October 8th, 2023.

Which Members of the Trump, Pritzker, and Rothschild Families Appear in Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book?

      The following images were taken from the 95-page version of Jeffrey Epstein's personal book of contacts (dubbed his "Black Book"), a document that was dated 2004-2005.

     Link to the redacted version of the Epstein black book, on DocumentCloud.org:

     http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted

 

     That document became publicly accessible after Epstein allegedly lost it on the street in New York City in 1997.

     [Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-other-little-black-book-2021-6]

     [Author's Note: The source above contains a searchable database of the entries in a 92-page version of the black book, but the full article database search feature are only available with a subscription to BusinessInsider.com. There are websites - such as www.printfriendly.com - that allow users to copy and paste links, to read full articles without subscriptions, but that method does not allow access to the searchable database. Please e-mail me at jwkopsick@gmail.com if you would like me to e-mail you the file.]

 

 

     Below you will see pages 50, 53, and 59 of the 95-page black book PDF. On those pages, several members of the Trump family, the Pritzker family (who own the Hyatt chain of hotels), and the influential Jewish banking dynasty the de Rothschilds, are found:

p. 50

p. 53

p. 59

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     Here is a list of all the members of the Pritzker family whom are listed in Epstein's black book:

 

     - Pritzker, Nick

     - Pritzker, Thomas

     Here is a list of all the members of the Rothschild family whom are listed in Epstein's black book:

 

     - Rothschild, Edouard de

     - Rothschild, Evelyn de




     Here is a list of all the members of the Trump family whom are listed in Epstein's black book:

      - Trump, Blaine & Robert

     - Trump, Ivana

     - Trump, Ivanka

 

 

 

    Note: Donald Trump does not appear in the Epstein black book; nor do Bill and Hillary Clinton. However, Bill Clinton’s name appears in the flight logs of the Lolita Express 26 times. It is not clear whether Trump’s name appears in the Epstein flight logs.

 

 

 

Written and published on August 29th, 2023.

Edited on August 30th and December 11th, 2023.

Is Paul Dead?: Four People Who Looked Enough Like Paul McCartney to Have Replaced Him

 

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Image created and published on August 21st, 2023.

Based on research conducted in September 2021.

Which Members of the Kennedy-Shriver-Radziwill-Cuomo Family Appear in Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book?

1. Kennedys in the Epstein Black Book

      The following images were taken from the 95-page version of Jeffrey Epstein's personal book of contacts (dubbed his "Black Book"), a document that was dated 2004-2005.

     Link to the redacted version of the Epstein black book, on DocumentCloud.org:

     http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted

     That document became publicly accessible after Epstein allegedly lost it on the street in New York City in 1997.

     [Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-other-little-black-book-2021-6]

     [Author's Note: The source above contains a searchable database of the entries in a 92-page version of the black book, but the full article database search feature are only available with a subscription to BusinessInsider.com. There are websites - such as www.printfriendly.com - that allow users to copy and paste links, to read full articles without subscriptions, but that method does not allow access to the searchable database. Please e-mail me at jwkopsick@gmail.com if you would like me to e-mail you the file.]

     Below you will see pages 35, 51, and 54 of the 95-page black book PDF. On those pages, several members of the extended Kennedy family - including members of the Shriver and Radziwill branches of the family - are found:

 

p. 35

p. 51

p. 54

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     Here is a list of all the members of the Kennedy, Shriver, Radziwill, and Cuomo families whom are listed in Epstein's black book [note: all names transcribed directly from source text, with typographical errors included]:

     - Kennedy, Bobby (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; son of John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert F. Kennedy; listed under "Bobby & Mary")

     - Kennedy, Mary (presumably Mary Richardson Kennedy)

     - Kennedy, Senator Edward (U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, known as “Ted / Teddy”)

     - Kennedy Jr, Ted (Edward Moore Kennedy Jr., son of Teddy Kennedy)

     - Kennedy, Ethel (widow of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)

     - Kennedy, Jo (possibly Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, born in 1980)

     - Kennedy Cuomo, Kerry (former wife of Andrew Cuomo, listed under “Kennedy Cuomo, Andrew & Kerry")

     - Kennedy Cuomo, Andrew (former Governor of New York, son of Mario Cuomo; listed under “Kennedy Cuomo, Andrew & Kerry")

     - Radziwill, Carole (widow of Anthony Radziwill; journalist, appeared on “Real Housewives”)

     - Shriver, Maria (daughter of John F. Kennedy’s sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, former wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger)

     - Shriver, Bobby (son of Maria Shriver)

2. Kennedys in the Epstein Flight Logs

     Below, you will see an image I assembled, based on page 26 of the 118-page Epstein flight logs document, which was released in United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell. This document shows that "Bobby Kennedy" (presumably Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the only adult named "Bobby Kennedy" in politics at that time) - and "Bobby Kennedy III" (presumably R.F.K. Jr.'s son) - flew on Epstein's plane "the Lolita Express" on February 17th and 28th, 1994.

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     Below you will see the original, unaltered Page 26 of that 118-page document.

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     Page 1 of that document labels the document as "Government Exhibit 662 -RR" / "S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN)".
     That document is publicly visible at the following address:     
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell

Written and published on August 19th, 2023.

Originally published under the title
"Which Members of the Kennedy-Shriver-Radziwill Family
Appear in Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book?".

Title changed on August 25th, 2023.

Edited and expanded on August 30th, 2023.

Contains an image previously published in my August 3rd, 2023 article
"Eleven Things Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Got Wrong About the Israeli-Arab Conflict
in His Interview with Jimmy Dore".
[http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2023/08/eleven-things-that-robert-f-kennedy-jr.html]

Eleven Things That Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Got Wrong About the Israeli-Arab Conflict, in His Interview with Jimmy Dore

     On Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show, hosted by comedian-turned-podcaster Jimmy Dore.

     In that interview, Kennedy defended his so-called "unconditional" support of the State of Israel, while making a few minor concessions regarding the crimes committed by the Israelis.

     Kennedy made several inaccurate and/or incomplete statements during that interview.

     During the interview, Dore confessed that he was "not the smartest person" to "push back against" what Kennedy was saying. But Dore invited Kennedy to debate Max Blumenthal (a journalist of Jewish heritage whose father served in the Clinton Administration) on the topic of the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

     Since the mainstream media are currently smearing Kennedy as an anti-Semite (over his comments about Covid-19 and Anne Frank), it seems unlikely that the debate between Kennedy and Blumenthal will ever happen.

     That's why I would like to take this opportunity to clear-up a few of the things Kennedy said that were inaccurate.

     You can watch the Israel-Palestine segment, from that interview, at the following address:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVPSTYH240

     1. Although the Jews were obviously aligned against the Nazis, it's unfair of R.F.K. to conclude that the Jews were "on the side of the Allies" completely. That’s because, in 1947-48, during the War of Independence, the Jews kicked the British and Palestinians off Israeli land, at the same time.

 

     2. While R.F.K. was correct that the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine would have given the Arabs four-fifths of the land, most of that land was desert. That plan was not unfair to the Jews; that deal offered Jews plenty of good land.

 

     3. R.F.K. said the Arabs kicked Jews out (which is true), but also that the Jews didn’t kick all the Arabs out. The reason Israel didn't kick the Arabs out, in 1947-48, is because there were (and still are) so many Arabs there, that they couldn't possibly kick them all out. The Israelis did, however, make significant efforts to kick them out, including forcing 700,000 Arabs out in 1947-48, including “driving them into the sea” and onto boats, in an event known to Arabs as the nakba (“catastrophe”). The phrase “driving them into the sea” is now used against Arabs, to stoke fears that they will destroy Israeli civilization.

 

     4. R.F.K. rightfully says "Palestinian children are taught that it's okay to kill Jews". That’s true, but R.F.K. failed to mention that: 1) Palestinians have been under siege for nearly four generations, so they don’t need to be taught racist attitudes in order to find out who is responsible for bombing and imprisoning them; and 2) plenty of Israeli children are taught that it's okay to kill Arabs. Abby Martin can confirm just how many Israelis think it’s not only fine to kill Arabs, and many even seem to think that it is a laughing matter.

 

     5. R.F.K. rightfully criticized the killing of individual Jewish people by Palestinians. But he neglected to mention that a reason why Palestinians kill individual Jews, instead of bombing Israeli military targets (to comport with the rules of war), is because choosing Israeli military targets would be insane, due to the totally disparate levels of military technology and capability possessed by the two sides. Taking out an Israeli military base would get Arabs carpet-bombed. It would be a self-genocide mission.

 

     6. R.F.K. said that it is wrong to bomb non-military targets, but he also admitted that Israel has a policy that they will dig under sites being used as Palestinian militant positions. The reason why Palestinians take refuge in schools, mosques, and hospitals, is not because they are trying to make their children and sick people into human shields. It is because they are praying that the Israelis will not be so inhumane as to resort to bombing them even in their schools, mosques, and hospitals. A person only looks like a human shield if you're already willing to shoot at him. It is regrettable that the Arabs keep munitions in these places, but that is what is necessary for their self-defense, because the Israelis are willing to bomb any and all locations which could ever potentially be used for “military purposes” (i.e., self-defense).

 

     7. R.F.K. claimed that “Gaza isn't occupied; it's under self-rule". That is not true. In 2006, Hamas won elections in Gaza, after being encouraged by the Israelis to run in Palestinian Authority elections. Then the Israelis prevented those Hamas members from taking their oaths of office and their seats, and now considers Hamas a terrorist organization. That is not what self-rule looks like. Also, Gaza is surrounded by a fortified perimeter with razor-wire-topped fences and guard towers. Snipers with the I.D.F. (Israeli Defense Forces) will often shoot at children who come "too close" to those perimeter fences. And Gaza is not allowed sea access, because it’s under blockade. And it’s rarely allowed access to Egypt over land. So it is pretty much an isolated country, like North Korea. No country can be sovereign or self-sufficient which has practically no contact with the outside world. The fact that Israeli troops are not patrolling Gazan streets, does not make the Gaza Strip any less "occupied".

 

     8. When asked about the Gaza Strip, R.F.K. said "Why doesn't Jordan open itself up to the Palestinians?". Jordan is not connected to Gaza. Jordan opening itself up, would only help the people in the West Bank; it would not help anybody in Gaza.

 

     9. R.F.K. argued that Arabs can visit the Temple Mount, but Jews are not allowed to, therefore Arabs have more rights. That is not true, because: 1) The Jordanian Islamic Waqf owns that site, and it's allowed to set the rules; 2) Jews obey those rules because there are Arab as well as Judaic rules in place which are designed to protect the holiest sites from being trod on by the wrong people at the wrong times; and 3) a group of radical rabbis (associated with Machon Ha’Mikdash and the Temple Mount Faithful movement) ascended the Temple Mount illegally in the early 90s.

 

     10. R.F.K. seems to be trying to imply - without saying it directly - that the Arabs do not recognize the right of Jews to exist. But the Arab nations only reject the rights of Jews to exist as a state. Israel as a people (i.e., the Jewish people) has a right to exist. But Israel as a state (i.e., the Zionist imperialist Israeli statist government) does not have an inherent right to exist. Nations only have a right to exist if they do not start too many wars with their neighbors. Israel started all but like two of the wars they've been involved in. States do not have the right to exist. They are based on legitimized violence, and monopoly. If "the Arabs won't negotiate", then it’s because they are being forced to accept Israeli statehood, so no real free negotiation is possible, because one of the terms is non-negotiable. It wouldn’t be a huge challenge to get the Arabs to recognize the rights of Jews as a religion, a people, and a nation, because the Jews are those things, and they will always be those things. But there’s no need to intimidate the Arabs into endorsing a form of imperialist statehood that implicitly claims all the world’s Jews as its potential members, even if they have never visited the land. Jews believe they are protected by G-d, not by a king or a military. There is no need for a “Jewish state”, and various rabbis - such as Yoel and Moshe Teitelbaum, Yaakov Shapiro, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, and Elnahan Beck - have argued that the idea of Jewish sovereignty, without properly ordained rabbinic courts (Sanhedrin), is antithetical to Jewish teachings (specifically, the story of King Saul in the Book of Solomon). According to traditional “ultra-Orthodox” Jews, the Temple Mount is not supposed to be completely open to all Jews, until all people miraculously attain complete knowledge of G-d and His word, and join together in worship of YHWH. Secular liberal Jews who oppose Israeli apartheid do not make this argument, but it is true.

 

     11. R.F.K. said “Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians everything they wanted." That is not true because the Palestinians wanted Israel to stop being a state, and Barak did not offer the Palestinians this option. By the way, this is the same Ehud Barak who hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. And R.F.K. allegedly flew on the Lolita Express on February 17th and 27th, 1994.

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     [Post-Script / Author's Note:

     To see a video of Max Blumenthal debunking of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s talking points, on The Jimmy Dore Show, click on the link below:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCcVvp0eBaQ

     To read my commentary regarding several potential solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict, click on the link below, to read my August 2020 article "Why I Support Autonomy, But Not Statehood, for Palestinians":
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/08/why-i-support-autonomy-for-palestinians.html]

Written and published on August 3rd, 2023.

Post-Script / Author's Note written and added on August 7th, 2023.

Speech to Public Officials in Lake Forest, Illinois, Regarding Child-Molesting Teachers and Other Corrupt Professionals in Lake County

            Thank you, Mr. Mayor,… esteemed members of the City Council.

            My name is Joseph Kopsick. I currently live in Waukegan, but for most of the first eighteen years of my life, I lived in Lake Bluff. I attended Lake Forest High School, graduating in 2005.

            My father is an attorney, a former member of the District 65 school board (in the 1990s), and served as president of the Lake County Bar Association for one year in the 2000s. In 1993, he defended a child molester in court for attempted rape of a 19-year-old. And in 1995 and 1996 – when I was eight and nine – my father molested and raped me multiple times.

            My father has a friend – an attorney based in Lake Forest – who grabbed my behind, and the behinds of other children, at his pool parties in the 1990s. He did this openly, while talking loudly about what he was doing – in full view of the other adults present – who did nothing about it, besides laugh, and continue drinking.

            But that’s not what I’m here to talk about.

            I rise, this evening, to bring your attention to a problem in this community which has gone unresolved for some time now. That problem is Dave Miller.

            You might have heard - within the last three years - that former L.F.H.S. theater director David Miller, was accused of sending inappropriate text messages to several teenage boys.

            Now, some of you might be thinking, “A child-molesting teacher? In my town? That can’t be; or else I would have heard something about it.” And why is that? Because you’ve heard of everything that has ever happened? Or because people enjoy talking about bad news?

            This is the “culture of silence” that allows child abuse to happen undetected and without consequences. If a problem is not pleasant to talk about, then we ignore it. And it festers.

            That’s why it should be no surprise to you, to discover that David Miller has been abusing teenage boys on and off since 1976. He has been allowed to sexually humiliate this community’s children for forty-seven years – more than two generations – without a single trial, and (evidently) without a single criminal charge, an arrest, or even one moment in jail.

            Not only did Miller admit that the texts he sent were inappropriate, but several boys were intimidated into saying that they were not; by an L.F.H.S. official whom I’d be glad to name (Jay Hoffmann).

            In 2019, Judge Joseph Salvi prevented those boys’ lawsuit from going forward, correctly applying Illinois’s Statute of Limitations on reporting child abuse after a certain amount of time (a statute which, of course, does not apply to litigants whom already got trials and lost them).

            But the story doesn’t end there.
            That’s because, in 2020 – thanks to a new law signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker – those statutory limitations were curtailed. The effects of that new law – House Bill 2135 – included a provision that the Statute of Limitations on reporting criminal sexual assault does not begin running during a period when the victim is subject to intimidation.

            Now, Governor Pritzker can pat himself on the back all he wants; for testing a few of those rape kits that had built-up in police evidence lockers, and for partially repealing that Statute of Limitations. But the odds that he would ever sign a complete repeal of those statutes, are probably very low. That’s because his cousin, Tom Pritzker… was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. (Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Business).

            To the public officials in the audience: How many of you knew that there is no longer any limitation on bringing abuse lawsuits, for victims who were intimidated? Raise your hands.

            To the educators in the audience: How many of you knew that?

            Well, how are children supposed to learn that, if you didn’t know that?

            Now, you might say, “That’s too difficult or controversial a subject for our children to learn.” To which I say, “No, it’s not. Not for the juniors and seniors who are studying pre-law at L.F.H.S.. Not if you want your kids to be able to defend themselves against child molesters legally as well as physically.”

            And besides, Dave Miller is not the only teacher in this community who has been accused of attempting to molest children.

            There’s Cynthia Martin, an L.F.H.S. coach and driving instructor who abused girls in the 1980s. She employed the same methods that Miller did; seeking-out students who were vulnerable because they had lost friends or family members, and then plying them with alcohol and marijuana, and gradually introducing physical touch. Martin’s case was decided in February 2022, but information on it is difficult to find. It’s not clear that she was ever punished.

            Next, there’s Lake Bluff Junior High math teacher and soccer coach Charles Ritz III. He abused kids in the 1970s and 1980s, claiming at least five male victims, who alleged that school officials helped cover-up for Ritz, in the same way that school officials did for Dave Miller. In 2017, Ritz pled guilty. He received no jail time, and just two years’ probation. That junior high later changed its name to Lake Bluff Middle School.

            There’s also Diane M. Ross, a mother from Lake Bluff who taught English literature at Lake Forest College. She submitted to arrest in 2000 after police determined that she had shared images of child abuse on an online web forum. She pled guilty to solicitation of child pornography, but the charges of disseminating child pornography were dropped. She received no jail time… two years of probation… - are you noticing a pattern? - … and community service.

            So that’s four teachers – in just two adjacent towns – who were discovered to be pedophiles, within a span of thirty years.

            But that’s not all.

            Jonathan Dick, the owner of Sweet’s ice cream shop in downtown Lake Forest, was accused of molestation and rape by his own nephew, back in the early 2000s. Now, if that’s not true, then why is there an entire book about it?

            The victim’s mother – Jonathan Dick’s sister-in-law – became a psychologist, published a book written by herself and her son, and then fled the state, due to fear and frustration over never getting a trial. She’s worried that Jonathan Dick has a lawyer on retainer, for in case he ever gets accused of molesting a child again.

            Mr. Mayor, these crimes – and this culture of silence – cannot stand. Child rapists don’t deserve fines and community service and probation; they deserve to be in prison; for a long, long time.

            You all might be saying to yourselves, “Well, I had nothing to do with this.” … That’s the problem.

            If you haven’t heard about these crimes by now, then you are incompetent, because you at least heard about Dave Miller, and you decided not to look into whether any other teachers were hurting kids.

            And if you did know about these crimes, then you are complicit in those crimes, because you said and did nothing, when you should have, at least, spoken up.

            Ladies and gentlemen, I have a list, in my possession, of over one hundred professionals, in this county, who have either molested children, made awkward advances against children, covered-up for child-molesting teachers, stood in the way of children attempting to bring charges against their abusers, or may be using their profession as a way to get near vulnerable children.

            And I’m sure that all of you would like to do something about this. But there’s only one way to be sure.

            That is why - as a precautionary measure – I have placed each and every one of your nine names, onto that list… temporarily… as pedophile enablers…. because you knew about some of these crimes, and yet you did and said nothing.

            The only way to get your names off of that list will be for each of you to… personally, and individually… do something that will lead to arrests, or charges being filed, against the people I have named.

            Don’t worry about what’s legally possible right now; don’t worry about Double Jeopardy, or ex post facto laws. The laws can be changed. We don’t need the law on our side to fight back against child abuse; all we have to do is provide an open forum through which abuse claimants can network with each other, free from censorship. That way, we can compare notes, and figure out which victims of these five people are still eligible to file charges.

            I made a promise, to a mother in this town, that I would attend these city council meetings every month until something is done about this problem. So that's what I'll do.

            If you continue to allow me to speak, at these forums, then I’ll tell you which of this county’s military bases was the scene of a gang-rape of a 12- or 13-year-old girl, back in 2005. I’ll tell you which former L.F.H.S. teacher covertly hit on a student while committing academic dishonesty. I’ll tell you which professional football player had a sexual relationship with an L.F.H.S. student while she was possibly underage.

            And just to prove to you that I’m not bluffing… those names are Great Lakes Naval Station, Laura Flangel, and Dan Roethlisberger.

            But if you don’t allow me to speak, then anyone and everyone who attempts to prevent me from speaking, at these forums, will be added to that list, as an enabler of child sexual abuse. And then, there won’t be one pair of hands, one square inch of sidewalk, or one gutter, in this town, that won’t be clogged with copies of that list, complete with photographs and addresses.

            If you nine elected officials continue to refuse to do anything which will lead to the imprisonment of David Miller, Cynthia Martin, Charles Ritz, Diane Ross, and Jonathan Dick, then every sin of this community – no matter how minor – will be exposed, until there isn’t a single adult in this county who doesn’t know either a racist police officer, or someone who’s been accused of attempting to molest or traffic a child.

            Since the majority of you have been derelict in your duty to educate your children about the specifics of these dangers, I will not rest until every child in this town can name these five people by heart.

            I do not make empty promises. You are looking at someone who has nothing to lose.

            You have twenty-eight days to do something about this. If no arrests are made by September 4^th – the day before the next city council meeting - then the nine of you will no longer be welcome in this town.

            The clock is ticking. Good day, gentlemen.

            [First Author's Note:

            This speech was originally intended to be delivered at the August 7th, 2023 meeting of the Lake Forest City Council.

            I decided not to deliver this speech at that meeting, because: 1) this speech would take about ten minutes to deliver, while the Council stipulates a three-minute speaking limit (as does the District 115 Board of Education for its meetings); and 2) when I called the office of the Lake Forest City Council, the operator informed me that the city council "doesn't have control over the schools", and instructed me to call the District 115 Board of Education.

            I consider that statement to have been an attempt to deflect responsibility away from the people who run Lake Forest (i.e., the mayor and the eight city council members). In my opinion, this is unacceptable, because there are accused child molesters in Lake Forest whom have nothing to do with the schools (most notably, Jonathan Dick), and are therefore not under the so-called "control" of the District 115 Board of Education.

            Therefore, Lake Forest Mayor Stanford R. "Randy" Tack, the eight current members of the Lake Forest City Council, the woman who answers the phones at the office of the Lake Forest City Council, and the seven current members of the District 115 Board of Education, will all be added to my list of corrupt officials and people who turned blind eyes toward child abuse, until further notice.]

     [Second Author's Note:

     If you would like to watch the speech I delivered to the District 115 Board of Education on August 8th, 2023, please click the link below:

            http://rumble.com/v35xk6k-exposing-child-molesting-teachers-at-the-district-115-school-board-in-lake-.html]

Main body of text written on August 1st, 2023.

Edited and expanded on August 7th through 9th, 2023.

First Author's Note written and added on August 7th, 2023.

Second Author's Note written and added on August 9th, 2023.

Originally published on August 1st, 2023 under the title

"Speech to the Lake Forest City Council on Child-Molesting Teachers (August 7th, 2023)"

Handed-out to Lake Forest residents in print form, but not delivered verbally,

at the August 7th, 2023 meeting of the City Council of Lake Forest, Illinois.

Also handed-out in print form,

and delivered, in part, verbally (in a form modified to suit the circumstances),

at the August 8th, 2023 meeting of the District 115 School Board.