Wolff Responds: "Gaza and the Tragedy of Settler Colonialisms" October 16, 2024 

First of all, Hamas has accepted cease-fire deals, but the US comes out and always claims they have not while “Israel” has then “Israel” turned around and says no we don’t accept the deal. Second of all what about settler colonialism happening in the West Bank right now that needs to be addressed and solved for this to come to an end. Third of all on your point of war crimes, the US is just as complicit and culpable of committing war crimes as “Israel” is.

Algeria suffered european settler colonialism for 132 until they fought them and kicked them out. Some people don't understand how brutal and violent settler colonialism is. Genocides are common crime in settler colonialism.

Richard. Brilliant as per your usual. A little short in my opinion, but still invaluable. Thanks. Love you and Michael Hudson on Nima's show every time.

Thanks for the facts Wolf

An excellent explanation of settler colonialism and how it relates to the ongoing struggle of Palestinians and indigenous peoples of north America and elsewhere. This must stop!

Thank you Dr. Wolff, I hope for peace. Free Palestine.

This is the simplest explanation to understand something so complex to a simple fact brilliantly said 👍👏👏👏

Thank you!

Thank you mr wolff for speaking the naked truth ⚘️👍

Thank you so much for this - agree wholeheartedly.

Secondly, Richard, there is NOT a war in Palestine. It is a genocide.

I always like your honest opinion on world issues.. I am from Malaysia 😊

Thank you Professor

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I wish i found Richard years ago. But its been a year now and there is not a thing i dissagree with. He has the same ideas just better ways of explaining it

God bless you prof Wolff 🙏😇

There is way too much both-siding going on. 14:44 Implying Hamas is equally in the way of a path forward as Israel and the United States is infuriating.

Yes, it is not a proxy war like Ukraine or Taiwan, but a settler colonial project which in addition has the issue of the elites of both, Israel and USA/UK being extremely co-mingled through marriage and financial interest.

Professor, you are ( and I´ve already said that here on youtube) one of my best friends inside my gauche solitude -- which bends to the left I´m a Brazilian almost elderly, and I´d like to extern my salute to you -- kind of warrior with out swords, words of trues only having. So therefore... ... Excuse me for my rococo poor style trying to be a shakesperian one

You a brave person Prof Wolff.

Beautifully clear and plainly explained, without equivocation or pretense. Nobody tells the unvarnished truth as well as Dr. Wolff.

Important point for the majority of Israelis to acknowledge-that they are European.

I remember well what the British had to say about that. They told me, they were helping the people there by giving them an employment, as well as educating them (or pacify them) and make them civilised.

That is right Professor

Thank you so much for covering this. Organized protests and vote against genocide

Educate them Professor

Great Analogy. Thank you Dr. Walff!

Thanks!

There so many issues and aspects to the current events in the Middle East. I’m looking at the individual Israeli soldiers… at what they are being commanded by their superiors to do . What are they feeling? Either they have been convinced or brainwashed into believing that their barbaric actions are justifiable and right,or they have turned off their sense of human decency just so they can function. Beware. When you join the military, you stop being an individual and you become a tool without the right to act according to your conscience. And the emotional damage you experience as a result,is often not because of what has been done to you but by what you have done to others!

Thank you @Prof Wolff for an enlightening exposition of this most wretched and dastardly issue.

a truthful analysis. thank you so much, Richard!

Hurts My Heart everytime I think about it.

Ever succinct.

Well said Richard

NEVER FORGET THE TRAILS OF TEARS 8:09

Thank you, Sir.

Very insightful.

❤Thank you very much for this lesson

I think Professor you should research a bit more about New Zealand, we have a multi-cultural society and have integrated the Maori population into many parts of this society. We don't have reservations like the United States and Australia. However, we do have a lower class(Poor) and a high prison population that is significantly filled by the Polynesian/Maori population. Also, Oct 7 may have been a war crime by Hamas taking hostages and having a firefight within a civilian event(Should never have been there in the first place) However, Hamas primarily destroyed a military target that housed two units of Special Forces, which is not a war crime. I understand what is being said here but the truth is a significant number of civilians were killed by the IDF enforcing a Mass Hannibal Directive using helicopter gunships and many other devices to kill what they believed to be Hamas fighters in the black of night.

💯 % true. We in the Netherlands were specialists in this manner to. Even to date when we go abroud we have the same mentality.... Its in the DNA 😢

Well-said. These are harrowing, grave times indeed, in the history of humanity. I have often found myself wondering, of late, if America's war-mongering efforts around the world are ruthless strategies enacted to prop up the failing economy.

Prof Joseph Massad gave a longer, more in depth explaination on Electronic Intifada last week. Amd he isnt 'two-siding' anything. Check it out

Succinct, erudite and spot-on sir. Your content is informative, educational and enlightening.

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at least im not crazy. thanks for speaking up

Colonialism is not (only) an European thing , why this woke revisionism ?

Richard: Bottom Line. Your Brillant. I Really respect your opinion Ph D level

There's one group of people who are in top places almost whenever we see evil in this world, and we are not allowed to be spoken about, it belongs to your tribe prof. Richard

Amén professor

Hamas has agreed israel change goalposts because bibi cant have a ceasefire did same in Lebanon ceasefire...you dont kill a leader if you want a ceasefire...upto that point agree with you

Do you think a universal wage would resolve the slave labor?

When settler colonialists write the rules of war, you know they want to apply it to their enemies and not themselves. See ICC and ICJ.

I would’ve liked you to mention two state solution. Resolution 242.

“The European conception of and attitude toward those outside of the culture together compromise one of the most significant and definitive characteristics of European culture. It is the way in which the European treats those outside of his culture, which is most indicative of the nature of the culture itself.” “White nationalism and aggression, both cultural and economic, are endemic to European culture: embedded in its ideological matrix. To reverse the tendency of which European imperialism is a manifestation would be to radically change the basis, the essential nature of the culture itself.” “Yurugu: An African Centered Approach To European Culture And Thought,” by Dr. Marimba Ani

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You're right.But........

Clear facts and great analysis. Yet the ulrimate conclusions from them must be : only a one-state solution - a democratic and nonaparteid state- could be now on the table, to be enforced by the international community. A two-state solution has been de facto rendered impossible by Israel based on hard facts created on the ground.

The United States had its glory days after the second war, and it is now in a decline, this is a natural law that dictates how long an Empire can sustain itself. An Empire can prolong its life if it makes good decisions but it can also accelerate its demise by making the wrong decisions - the latter can be seen with the useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the continuous expenditures of billions of US dollars in support of the Ukraine war and the Gaza conflict. On the other side of this coin, we have China …….…. China does not waste its resources in useless wars or conflicts, instead, it is investing in its military, technology, and infrastructure, the day will come in which China will be the number one economy and military power, and the United States will become less relevant.

South Africa is in the same situation, can this system benefiting racism collapse.

Peace needs help

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Settler Colonialism still alive

Remember, even _Chomsky_ made the horrendous continuous-mistake of telling people to vote for Democrats. You have to fully oppose Noam Chomsky telling you that, _and also all these media “journalists” for the Ds or Rs of the duopoly._

This guy talked too long .... focus please

British made a big mistake they should sent all jews to Falkland Island

When it comes to NZ Maori, I do think your genocidal narrative is a little exagerated RW (I do enjoy your delivery on many topics overall, esp your recent debate with Gene Epstein). I concur there were genocidal behaviours (Both by UK colonial aggressors upon Maori & by Maori upon Moriori). When it comes to modern treatment of historical tribal aggression, I offer the following response to Bill O'Reillys reaction at KH's recent politicisation of Columbus' "virtues" - Down in the Colonies we've seen similar politics confronting misdeeds of James Cook (the British Explorer of the late 18th century, not the Buffalo Bills Running Back). I recognise the values carried by our immigrating forefathers in a typical Monty Python "What did the Romans ever do for us?" fashion, but I also believe that we should connect with our longer standing cultures in our modern societies to help them uplift their lost (& damaged?) cultures for our collective benefit. If public monies can play a role in this uplifting without wasting our collective funds on disposable handouts, then I would suggest this is better social investment than warfare & bloated election budgets; Alternatively we might conclude that money just turns so many things to sh*t & we're simply better off investing our time instead. To see genocidal acts unfold today in Gaza, is obviously more confronting. There is a difference between [1] Secure Occupation to promote peaceful Freedom for the occupied; [2] Settler Colonialism; [3] A prolonged Apartheid State; [4] Untethered acts of extermination. Interestingly, the Jewish People are in a unique position having been occupied by states both new & old; I do gauge their current misdeeds are fuelled by this historical experience & the raw fear of incurring yet another existential threat. I also believe some Jews have more perspective (leaning on orthodox beliefs of exile), but the modern israeli it seems has succumbed to a darker force. Ma te Atua e manaaki o tatou tupuna katoa - Nga Tawhito me nga Mea Hou! 🕊🦅🕊

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This ain't it, professor

_Vote this way in November:_ *1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Tim Walz, Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge. _Vote this way in November:_ *2 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

This is a man made mess....had everybody stayed where God placed them we'd bout be at peace

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Wilbur Wolfe don’t know crap

Your argument is totally fallacious. Here is why: Israel and its Jews were never nor aspired to be an "empire" as were the Romans, the British, the Spanish, the Arabs or the Ottomans. Jews were persecuted in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, England, Russia etc) as citizens therefore do not qualify as Europeans. They were a persecuted religious minority, an despised exiled people. Half of the population of Israel is coming from Arab countries because of being kicked out of these countries. Their origin was not European. Israelis are therefore not settlers but refugees coming back to their ancestral refuge. The only people that got pushed in Israel were Arabs who had been on a religious war and colonization since the 7th century. Christians or Druzes were not pushed. Pushing back on real colonizers is exactly what the Arabs did to the French empire in 1962. What Israelis are doing is pushing back on Arab violent colonizers not out of a desire for land resources, but to regain a defensible refuge after many pogroms and a holocaust. As a professor of Jewish origin you should know this better than anyone else. Jewish people have every right to their only country, including the right to aggressively defend it, in spite of what the world may think. Arabs have 22 States acquired through violent colonization. Israel is the sole tiny Jewish State.

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