The worst case of imposter syndrome in history

"In order to have a negotiated end, the Iranian side is going to require President Trump to give up some big things upfront, before Iran does anything, and I can’t see the president doing that. He would have to acknowledge that we had lost, by submitting to Iranian demands for giving things like lifting sanctions and releasing frozen funds BEFORE Iran does anything. I just can’t see him agreeing to that. But what he can do, is just claim that we have inflicted so much harm on Iran, that it will “take decades to recover,” and therefore we just walk away. Claiming we succeeded when we didn’t, and just walking away won’t change the reality, but it will open the SOH to traffic, and yes, that will mean Iran will be in control of the SOH and be charging a fee indefinitely. But the SOH will be open, and oil and gas, and all the derivatives will start to flow again – and most of all, we will avoid the catastrophic outcome of the exchange of devastating attacks on oil and gas infrastructure on all sides. President Trump needs to take care of this last this opportunity, because it may be the last chance to avoid disaster."

Daniel Davis an hour ago

“Trump probably, on some level, despite the fact that he’s a narcissist and a psychopath and all these other things... has the worst case of imposter syndrome in history.” David Rothkopf

"Donald Trump is in the Oval Office shouting, swearing, screaming and powerless with rage. He's kind of like King Lear. He's a ranting, mad king. And it's all because, as you say, of this war, which he started."

Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty, 25 July

"And the Iranians have now adopted the Israeli doctrines of pre-emptive attack.If you see the possibility you may be attacked, even if that's likelihood is very low, you do what the Israelis did in 1967.You respond with a surprise attack on your potential enemies. if you if you are attacked, you do not respond proportionately as international law requires, you do so with great disproportion in order to drive home the lesson that you can't attack me."

"I'm sorry to say in the west in the United States and in Europe it's always you're nasty people who are doing evil things and we are righteous people who are doing correct things and you know uh the righteous and unrighteous can't coexist so you should eat faecal matter and die."

Chas Freeman yesterday talking to Glenn Diesen

"If you enter Israel's prisons now under my supervision, you can see what I did there. When you enter a cell, the Palestinian prisoner starts to tremble and curls up into a ball. I've taken away their bread, the dining hall, the sports... they have nothing." 

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

​"My credit card doesn't work, I can't pay bills or transfers; my health insurance was cancelled. I feel like Pablo Escobar—all because I said, 'Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.'"

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

"I hope your viewers hear this. There is not one single frame of Hamas committing rape or sexual violence. Bear in mind, there's not only just an absence of any digital evidence which would take SEVEN months to go through. Of all the various technological paraphernalia; CCTV, traffic cameras, body cam, dash cam, GoPro. Not one of rape. Not one of sexual violence. Not one frame."

Norman Finkelstein discussing October 7

‘Every American life lost is an American life that was not only unnecessarily lost, but was unconstitutionally sacrificed at the altar of Trump's ego.’ 

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Robert Barnes on the Going Underground podcast

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim

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This is why what is happening in Gaza is a genocide. Part of the definition of genocide is "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction." That is exactly what Israel is doing by destroying the hospitals, killing the doctors, stopping evacuations, and destroying all stockpiles of medical supplies.