This is not normal

How Israel and the Jewish holocaust are driving me insane

I was at a business meeting last night and I wore my little Palestine bracelet. I bought this bracelet from a Palestinian mother who attends the weekly pro-Palestine rally in our city. She and her daughter make these bracelets and other crafts as well as baked goods. They raise money to send to their family in Gaza and the West Bank. The strangest thing happened at this business meeting. I got scared. There’s at least one Jewish person who attends these meetings. I suddenly felt the urge to hide my bracelet so as not to offend anyone. I turned my little bracelet over my wrist so that the little map of Palestine was invisible. I observed myself and I was appalled. There’s people who boldly wear their keffiyehs in public and I only wear mine at protests. I cannot believe that to wear these things has become a radical or brave act. I cannot believe that I am afraid and intimidated just to wear this bracelet or the keffiyeh. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Trump sanctions ICC judges

The International Criminal Court gave us hope when charges were laid and arrest warrants were issued. Maybe there was an international justice system working for humanity. Some sort of independent system that had a way to stop the carnage. Maybe there was some justice in this mad world. Apparently not. The USA hosted Netanyahoo and gave him a heroes welcome at the White House shortly after the arrest warrants were issued. Arrest warrants seem to be some sort of symbolic gesture with no real impact on the criminals. The Trump regime imposed sanctions on the ICC judges. So they are the ones endangered and punished for doing their job. How many UN resolutions for a ceasefire and end to the blockade on Gaza has the US vetoed since October 2023? Seven? Eight? I think there’s been 5 in the last year. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Day after day for almost two years we have witnessed shocking images of horrors live streamed out of Gaza and the West Bank. Journalists and their families are targeted. The voices coming out of Gaza are becoming rare and quieter. Slowly, gradually and inexorably, they are silenced. Hunted down, picked off and murdered, one by one, over 240 journalists have been eliminated. Working with dwindling, failing internet access, there’s only a handful left to get the word out. The only voices we still hear from are from Doctors without borders who have served in Gaza for short terms. Volunteers who cry out to the world for help as they describe the deliberate, systematic carnage. Their voices are silenced by our own complicit media. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

We protest, we pray, we donate to relieve some of the suffering. We petition, we write we worry, but it all feels like a drop in the bucket. Whatever our efforts are and wherever we turn we are denigrated and shamed for our views. We are forced to not only collectively participate in the genocide, we watch helplessly as our governments, businesses, universities and banks supply the genocidal parasite with whatever they need. There’s not one politician left to vote for who isn’t if not a rabid Zionist, is at least an apologist and an enabler. There’s not one mainstream media outlet that doesn’t provide cover, to whitewash and downplay Israels horrific rampage. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

I have noticed that for the last year and a half, my mood is low. No one wants to talk about the Israeli genocide except for one of my 6 siblings. I’ve developed a morning coffee ritual. I write in my journal, read a daily reading then I get on Substack. With hope in my heart, I search for some good news. A break from the relentless atrocity news coming out of Palestine. I think “please Lord, let it be over.” “Something must have happened to stop this madness.” Instead of any good news, I find with a sinking feeling that no, the holocaust continues unabated. There’s always something new. Some new terror. Some new horror. Some new type of malignant, diabolical, cleverly and methodically implemented form of torture unleashed upon the trapped population of Gaza. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

I remember the relief when I learned of the ceasefire right after Trumps inauguration. “Could the nightmare finally be over?” I thought. “Thank God!” But like every other “ceasefire” Israel continued to massacre and assassinate and then torpedoed the entire “ceasefire” without even getting the rest of the “hostages” out. I get my hopes up only to be dashed. I keep scrolling. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Sane, decent people are protective and caring. We are especially wired to protect and nurture the children. When we witness a hurt, endangered or suffering child our natural instinct is to defend and protect. To act, to do something, anything is our right as human beings. This is a basic need that we have. This need is thwarted in so many ways. The entire system is working against us. The level of gas-lighting is incredible. Every single organization and system that we rely on is working against us and enabling this genocide. Every single “authority” is being weaponized against us. Our need, our passion, our natural inclination to help the endangered, starving, people targeted by Israel is crushed at every turn. The Zionist lobby is deeply embedded into every part of our military, banking, political, educational and judicial system. How did one group of dangerous, racist, violent people gain so much influence through out the Western world? It’s as if we are captured and our systems controlled by the worlds most deviant group. I watch in dismay as they rampage through life with impunity. They inflict the most horrific suffering, devastation and humilation upon others and we aren’t even allowed to criticize them. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Basseem Youssef breaks it down here:

Stop Zionizing us

I did not think the world could get any more insane than it did during the Covid Hoax. I thought this was peak gas-lighting, brain washing, abusive, psychological operation with mass psychosis and cognitive dissonance. I still haven’t recovered form that and probably never will. The damage to my mind, my social life and my faith in humanity is wrecked. This seems to trigger all of my childhood trauma and PTSD. I isolate, I insulate myself as much as possible. I’m tired of trying to talk to people about the issues and get stonewalled, eye rolled or rudely dismissed. I gave up trying. I cannot even speak to my closest family members about the Israeli genocide. Except for one pro-Palestine sister, they don’t want to hear about it. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

The Israeli’s have attacked Iran. The atrocities in Gaza continue. No one and nothing is stopping the genocide. It’s accelerating relentlessly. Starvation is imposed on top of every other means the serial killers invent. Now it’s daily massacres at so called food distribution centres. The last remaining hospitals are dying along with the sick, starving and wounded people and the medical staff inside them. How do we go about or daily lives with this awareness in the back of our minds 24/7?

I take great joy in watching the missiles striking Tel Aviv. It gives me hope. War is hell but perhaps it will take WW3 to put an end to the present status quo. I wish the worst on Israel. I wish the worst upon the USA. I hope the world economy crashes and that stuff I’ve stockpiled and the archaic skills I have come in handy. I’m bitter, angry and I think I am a terrible failure as a Christian. I don’t know how to turn off my rage, resentment, horror and defiance. Maybe others with similar ideas will find comfort in knowing they’re not alone. Because if you’re feeling like the madness rocking the world is driving you mad, remember, THIS IS NOT NORMAL.