The Lutheran church in Bethlehem recently put out their variation of this year's nativity scene -- baby Jesus swaddled in a kaffiyeh, lying amid the rubble of a building in Gaza.

Winning arguments in the Matrix -- or extracting ourselves from it.

Despite the high death toll in this genocidal bombing campaign of children, medical workers, journalists, this apocalypse is being televised for all who want to tune in to Al-Jazeera or any number of other networks outside of the west and watch it unfold.

I got an email from a friend in Jenin, who runs a cultural center there. One of the young men active at the center has just been murdered by the IOF.

Meanwhile in the Occupied West Bank, many hundreds have been killed in the past two months in ongoing, extremely violent and destructive pogroms carried out by armed settlers, aided by soldiers. 

Those of us paying attention to the news outside of the west will be aware that the World Health Organization and just about every other UN department is holding constant press conferences, trying to sound the alarm about an imminent genocide, and all the people in Gaza who are about to die of famine and disease.

Once the last Palestinian is killed, then the pundits and politicians will say "how could we have known," and they'll open another museum. 

Henry Kissinger's reign of terror is over (having been very effectively passed on to his protege, Antony Blinken).

A culture of resistance can be built, and it can also be methodically dismantled, and sabotaged.

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