[News] Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies

Fri Aug 8 11:45:40 EDT 2025

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here 
<https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2FpdGxpbmpvaG5zdC5vbmUvc3Vic2NyaWJlP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWVtYWlsLXN1YnNjcmliZSZyPWx2cHBiJm5leHQ9aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuY2FpdGxpbmpvaG5zdC5vbmUlMkZwJTJGaXNyYWVsLWlzLWJlZ2lubmluZy10by1jaG9rZS1vbi1pdHMiLCJwIjoxNzA0MTUyODIsInMiOjgyMTI0LCJmIjp0cnVlLCJ1IjozNjc1MTU4MywiaWF0IjoxNzU0NjIxNzgyLCJleHAiOjIwNzAxOTc3ODIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoibGluay1yZWRpcmVjdCJ9.QTWpUAsdiAIpnEtFO0bMMt--imos5lXXgqVa5p_YaX4?> 
for more

  Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
  <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=lvppb&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJpYXQiOjE3NTQ2MjE3ODIsImV4cCI6MTc1NzIxMzc4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgyMTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.AaLRSG7_ohr7CDiBR494eUtDHxOGqclMJfBnbb0ERZU>

Caitlin Johnstone <https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone>

Aug 8, 2025

<https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone>

<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=substack&isFreemail=true&submitLike=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJyZWFjdGlvbiI6IuKdpCIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDYyMTc4MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3MjEzNzgyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODIxMjQiLCJzdWIiOiJyZWFjdGlvbiJ9.JAAnCWDY91NBxrx-xuJeB6f_NbSzb8o-lMtwe-yDAzI&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-reaction&r=lvppb> 

<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=true&comments=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJpYXQiOjE3NTQ2MjE3ODIsImV4cCI6MTc1NzIxMzc4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgyMTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.AaLRSG7_ohr7CDiBR494eUtDHxOGqclMJfBnbb0ERZU&r=lvppb&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> 

<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=lvppb&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJpYXQiOjE3NTQ2MjE3ODIsImV4cCI6MTc1NzIxMzc4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgyMTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.AaLRSG7_ohr7CDiBR494eUtDHxOGqclMJfBnbb0ERZU> 

<https://substack.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.XGBipyskLdrJcGo_LJgTS8nBEh113f8HNQ0WcgVmr7c?&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> 

READ IN APP 
<https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/israel-is-beginning-to-choke-on-its?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app> 

	<https://substack.com/redirect/3231e4c4-9ebc-4161-9cab-f73638d7955a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM> 	

/Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) 
<https://substack.com/redirect/9012f417-015e-4be6-b3a2-1b5e5b87f514?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>/:

<https://substack.com/redirect/9012f417-015e-4be6-b3a2-1b5e5b87f514?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM> 

Netanyahu has confirmed 
<https://substack.com/redirect/70459485-af2f-4472-b453-e8b2ab23016f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>reports 
that Israel plans an extreme escalation in Gaza which will entail the 
total military occupation of the entire enclave and the ethnic cleansing 
of Palestinians 
<https://substack.com/redirect/6257f2f3-c607-4472-9230-d819870e4207?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>, 
which the Israeli spin machine has termed “voluntary migration”.

To be clear, anyone who says the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza 
would be “voluntary” is lying. Starving a population and deliberately 
making their land uninhabitable is exactly the same as forcing them out 
at gunpoint. Saying “leave or you’ll starve” is not meaningfully 
different from saying “leave or I’ll shoot you in the head”. Israel’s 
planned mass expulsion will be as forced and involuntary as any in 
recorded history.

President Trump has fully signed off 
<https://substack.com/redirect/91921e1e-ae1a-46a3-88f5-1849db8585cc?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>on 
this move, washing his hands of the mass atrocity he is cosigning by 
telling the press 
<https://substack.com/redirect/4c790e98-82ac-458f-8608-0811d7f72a3f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>that 
it’s going to be “pretty much up to Israel.”

Trump is lying. It’s up to him. That’s why more than 600 former senior 
Israeli security officials from Mossad and Shin Bet just sent Trump a 
letter 
<https://substack.com/redirect/e37475d3-3cad-4808-a9f9-a5808fdd113d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>urging 
him to compel Netanyahu to make peace in Gaza. They understand that the 
US president has always had the power 
<https://substack.com/redirect/d4ca8568-e722-4edd-8126-34479b5e4ea5?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>to 
end the Gaza holocaust; numerous Israeli insiders 
<https://substack.com/redirect/4f60df81-5d88-48fe-ba2c-bc356063a122?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>have 
said 
<https://substack.com/redirect/b6ddc1db-efe2-4840-a0af-f5f177a61fb8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>that 
this mass atrocity would not be possible without US assistance.

Trump could end all this at any time, and chooses not to. This makes him 
one of the most evil people in the world.

	<https://substack.com/redirect/afef6234-338d-403d-9882-92e57404c2ce?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM> 	

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1953518909300388205 
<https://substack.com/redirect/60346f46-909a-4c1c-a3f0-85212dccaa7e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>

This whole genocide is powered by lies. Netanyahu just told Fox News 
<https://substack.com/redirect/60346f46-909a-4c1c-a3f0-85212dccaa7e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>that 
the horrifying aerial footage 
<https://substack.com/redirect/8a6d1140-be28-4087-a821-7be29962b801?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>of 
the destruction in Gaza that we’ve been seeing is because every single 
building in Gaza was booby trapped with explosives by Hamas.

“The reason you see the flattened buildings is because Hamas booby traps 
every single building,” Netanyahu said. “So when we come in, we first 
have the population moved even though Hamas tries to keep them in the 
combat zones. But after they move, and we start to move into the 
neighborhoods that are now populated only by terrorists, they ignite 
these booby traps. So what we do is we put in an APC, an armored 
personnel carrier, with a lot of explosives. Detonate it. It sets off 
all the booby traps and the buildings begin to collapse as a result of 
that. They’re empty buildings, they’re not populated buildings.”

Absolutely nobody believes this is true. Not one single person alive on 
this earth sincerely believes that Gaza now looks like a gravel parking 
lot because Hamas placed explosives inside every single building. 
Netanyahu doesn’t believe it. Israel’s most venomous supporters don’t 
believe it. It’s just part of the nonstop fountain of lies they are 
spewing to avoid acknowledging what we all know we’re looking at. 
They’ve told so many lies by now that they’ve got to keep lying and 
lying just to stay afloat, like a man desperately treading water to 
avoid drowning.

This genocide is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. It’s actually 
degrading at this point. The lies Israel and its supporters have to 
pretend to believe are getting so ridiculous that supporting Israel is 
now an act of public humiliation and self-debasement.

	<https://substack.com/redirect/7b9272cc-426f-42db-981f-c1697ecc7bd4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM> 	

https://x.com/KyleAnzalone_/status/1953240187804209452 
<https://substack.com/redirect/95eb818a-c154-497b-ad0f-221c862e803e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett has a long rant 
<https://substack.com/redirect/7330436c-315f-49f9-87b2-ee6c1bf546e1?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>on 
his social media accounts complaining that Israel’s “status in the 
United States is collapsing”, including among Republicans, with public 
sentiment turning against them because of what is happening in Gaza.

As you might expect, Bennett does not frame this as a sign that Israel 
should stop committing genocide in Gaza, but rather complains of a 
crisis of “antisemitism” in the United States, and accuses Netanyahu of 
failing to adequately propagandize Americans.

“Jews in the United States are subject to a torrential wave of 
anti-Semitism, like him I don’t remember in my life,” Bennett moans, 
adding, “Antisemites increase to compare the ‘hunger’ in Gaza to the 
Holocaust, and thus reduce the memory of the Holocaust. They act that 
the hunger accusation will haunt israel its citizens, our soldiers, for 
generations.”

“If Netanyahu’s propaganda men worked against the enemies of Israel 
*outside* a tenth of the talent, speed and dedication with which they 
operate the propaganda machine against their political rivals *inside* 
israel our situation would be amazing,” Bennet writes, saying he wants 
to “re-establish a rapid and synchronized explanation headquarters”.

“Explanation”is the literal translation 
<https://substack.com/redirect/53f92983-786a-44fa-a403-f8a295902b44?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>of 
the Hebrew word “hasbara”, i.e. pro-Israel propaganda.

	<https://substack.com/redirect/5e202937-ba92-4c96-9ff4-5e55d1dcdaca?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM> 	

https://x.com/briantashman/status/1951325158813159661 
<https://substack.com/redirect/676e6020-5a33-498d-8180-9c2ac2641e84?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>

Meanwhile the term “hasbara” itself is reportedly being abandoned by the 
Israeli Foreign Ministry, as westerners have come to associate the term 
with genocide propaganda.

The Times of Israel reports 
<https://substack.com/redirect/0f9e8ae5-5f29-4e4c-9bd0-f94a6bf0a559?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM>:

    “Long referred to as /hasbara/, a term used to denote both public
    relations and propaganda that has been freighted with negative
    baggage in recent years, the ministry now brands its approach as
    /toda’a/ — which translates to ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’ — an
    apparent shift toward broader, more proactive messaging.”

So they’re not abandoning the genocide, and they’re not abandoning the 
genocide propaganda, they’re just abandoning the /*word*/for the 
genocide propaganda because people have come to associate that word with 
propaganda in support of genocide.

The entire Zionist project is built on a foundation of lies. And their 
lies are starting to catch up with them. They’re now at a point where 
the lies are beginning to damage the public image they’re intended to 
protect.

When a liar is recognized as a liar, his lies will forevermore work only 
as an antidote to his past lies, and as a light to further expose his 
intent. From that point on any lie he tells just shows people how ugly 
his character and intentions really are.

There is no other weapon that works that way. No other weapon which when 
it’s seen immediately stops working, actively disarms the attacker, 
starts fixing what he broke, and starts attacking him.

Truth will win in the end.

Like 
<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=substack&isFreemail=true&submitLike=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJyZWFjdGlvbiI6IuKdpCIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDYyMTc4MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3MjEzNzgyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODIxMjQiLCJzdWIiOiJyZWFjdGlvbiJ9.JAAnCWDY91NBxrx-xuJeB6f_NbSzb8o-lMtwe-yDAzI&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-reaction&r=lvppb> 

Comment 
<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=170415282&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=true&comments=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjc1MTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTcwNDE1MjgyLCJpYXQiOjE3NTQ2MjE3ODIsImV4cCI6MTc1NzIxMzc4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgyMTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.AaLRSG7_ohr7CDiBR494eUtDHxOGqclMJfBnbb0ERZU&r=lvppb&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> 

Restack 
<https://substack.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.XGBipyskLdrJcGo_LJgTS8nBEh113f8HNQ0WcgVmr7c?&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> 

© 2025 Caitlin Johnstone
PO Box 378, Mentone, 3194, Victoria, Australia

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20250808/4a15983b/attachment-0001.htm>