How long will it be before anti-semitism becomes the regrettable but default condition for billions of caring and morally responsible citizens of the world?
The wickedness of Netanyahu and his cronies is now blatant. The result of their black-hearted, ungodly killing is that anyone who supports or defends Israel is a disgrace to humanity.
Biden, Sunak and all other politicians who support or defend Israel (or who dishonestly use money raised from their taxpayers to support Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians) deserve to be tried alongside the ruthless, merciless Zionists behind this outrage.
Jews who think Israel can do no wrong will fill the internet with anonymous abuse and threats but the fact is that Israel is now the most wicked nation the world has seen for generations, and those who claim that Israel is entitled to defend itself (and, by some perverted, obscene logic entitled to bomb refugee camps and hospitals and slaughter babies with impunity) are living in a moral desert way beyond contempt.
I seem to remember hearing, by the way, that the Israelis had claimed that hospitals in Gaza were stuffed to the brim with Hamas fighters and arms.
What happened to the evidence for that claim?
It appals me that Western Governments and the Western media continue to support Israel when they should be condemning Netanyahu and threatening to go in and take away his weapons. The big question Biden and Sunak et al should be considering should be: `Should Israel be allowed to continue to exist in its present form and situation?’
The Western media continues to put the genocide in Gaza back with the crossword puzzles and small ads. Celebrities are too cowardly to speak out lest they are condemned as terrorist supporting and labelled as anti-semitic.
And yet, as predicted the Israeli forces are moving into the West Bank and the southern part of Gaza. Their plan has been patently clear since early October.
I note incidentally that the corruption trial against Netanyahu has now been resumed. The trial was paused after the events of October 7th. Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to appear in court accused of fraud, breach of trust and bribery – in three separate cases. Netanyahu denies the charges. One hopes that whatever the outcome of this trial, Netanyahu will be charged with war crimes. Oddly I haven’t been able to find any reference to the resumption of Netanyahu’s trial on the BBC website. Maybe it’s there somewhere.
A comment that `Adolf Hitler would be proud of Benjamin Netanyahu’ was reportedly attacked as being anti-semitic.
If that was the crux of the comment then I fail to see why it should cause dismay. It was, it seems to me, a reasonable comment on Israel’s senior war criminal.
Does this now mean that anyone who accuses a Jew of anything will automatically be accused of anti-semitism?
There certainly seem to be some folk who assume that any criticism of anyone Jewish is automatically anti-semitism. It is, it seems, perfectly acceptable to be rude about Christians but never acceptable to be rude about Jews.
This, of course, is nonsense as well as being elitist and racist and I am sure that no thinking Jew would want the world to perceive them as automatically superior simply because of their religion. That would be absurd as saying that Baptists cannot be criticised because they are Baptists or that Methodists are all automatically beyond criticism. It would mean that we would no longer be allowed to criticise Goldman Sachs, for example.
And what about Hitler? Jewish writers have denied the possibility but some studies have in the past suggested that Hitler had Jewish connections. If that suspicion were correct it would mean that criticism of Hitler would be anti-semitic and therefore forbidden.
The bottom line is that Israel’s actions are clearly disproportionate and like many in the world I find it difficult to understand why NATO hasn’t become involved to defend Gaza and put a stop to the genocide taking place.
Whether we are Christian, Muslim, Buddhists or Jews we all have a duty, a responsibility, to stand up and condemn Israel.
Israel’s supporters, blind to human suffering, will doubtless defile the internet with anonymous abuse and threats.
What they fail to realise is that their blind wickedness merely makes things worse and helps build the global storm of anti-semitism which is building and which will, I fear, soon be unstoppable.
Those who love Israel should join the rest of us in condemning Netanyahu and demanding an end to the pitiless slaughter of the innocent.
People love to have their ears tickled. Consider Eve in the Garden. she believed the first lie ever to be uttered. Safe and effective is as nasty as collateral damage.
Those 400,000 people could have cleaned up the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco in no time. Then they would have done something with their lives.
Netanyahu is evil for sure. Using his people as C19 guinea pigs, etc.
I don't for a minute think it should have taken 6 hours to get Isreali defense in place on 10/7.
What will Netanyahu do now that his trials are restarted?
I totally agree with you Vit B12 tablets daily statement. I have malabsorption syndrome and take one daily and my levels are always high.
I wonder how you feel about lipitor.
I started taking 10mg day a year or so ago. I always refused it. My cholesterol runs 169 without it. It is now 136. My son is an MD/PHd and he talked me into trying it. I haven't had side effects that I can tell. (My husband was taking 80mg a day and had joint pain and other side effects. I finally got his VA provider to discontinue it.) So, what's your opinion? Be nice. :-)
First, on the Israeli thing, you are right, F15s fly at Mach 2+. where were they? Waiting in their cockpits for orders to defend Israelis, like the helicopter pilots? What?
At Pearl Harbor did our pilots wait for orders?
On Lipitor, scrap it, immediately, don't use up the pills you have remaining, only a fool would take it with the information we have and have not gleaned. Sorry about your son!
As for my son no worries, after 2 years in residency, he left and went home to Milwaukee and is happily working as a medical writer with a balanced work life and home life. His liberal leaning is tempered by me and my very conservative leaning is tempered by him.
I enjoy reading your substacks. If I could afford it, yours would be a paid subscription for sure.
Keep positive, it can't get any worse, can it? :-p
Whoa. I'm on board with everything you say here, doc, bur your comments about Israel seem to put you in the same camp as our Rashida Talib!!! Doesn't this seem. to be about Sharia Supremacy and not Israel ?
Dr. Coleman realizes the gas fields are what's important, not human life, according to the powers that be, senseless killing is OK, even nuclear, genocide acceptable. NOT
Coleman’s first law of medicine is quite simple: `If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.’
Doctors are notoriously reluctant to admit that the treatments they recommend can do harm. There are several reasons for this. First, they often simply don’t know how dangerous drugs can be (doctors rarely bother to read drug company information sheets). Second, they are frightened of being sued. (Doctors fear that if they admit that their treatment made someone ill they will receive a letter from a lawyer.) And finally, there is a natural human unwillingness to admit responsibility for something that has gone wrong. This brand of unwillingness is unusually well-developed among doctors who are encouraged to think of themselves as godlike by many of their other more passive patients. Admitting to having made someone ill reminds doctors that they are mortal and fallible.
Because doctors almost never admit that the drugs they have prescribed might have caused unpleasant or dangerous side effects, very few incidences of drug-induced illness are reported to the official watchdogs which exist to measure and assess drug side effects. This enables doctors and drug companies to claim that prescription drugs are safe. (The word ‘safe’ is, of course, relative. Even though the number of reported side effects is absurdly low, doctors are now officially one of the top four causes of death and serious injury in the world. They share the top four spots with cancer, heart disease and stroke.)
Taken from the book `Coleman’s Laws’ by Vernon Coleman. `Coleman’s Laws’ is published in paperback and as an eBook and is available on Amazon. To Purchase a copy CLICK HERE
1. The Israelis have reportedly taken more new hostages than they’ve released. They’ve been picking up civilians in the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) in order to keep their prisons well stocked.
2. Palestinian prisoners released by the Israelis have complained of being badly mistreated.
3. Some time ago, Zelenski introduced a law banning any discussion of peace negotiations.
4. Some of the Israeli hostages who died were killed by Israeli attacks. Israeli prisoners who complained of not getting enough to eat should blame their Government for banning food trucks entering Gaza.
5. The Israelis failed to produce evidence showing that Hamas was operating in the hospitals, schools and refugee camps which they bombed and destroyed.
6. The excellent website The Expose reports that young people are dying of cancer at `explosive rates’. Analysts have shown that death rates from cancer are two or three times normal rates. Teenagers and young adults are dying from rapidly metastasising cancers at an unprecedented rate since mass covid-19 vaccination began. I warned that this would happen over two years ago.
7. Individuals criticising Israel’s genocidal attacks on civilians are being sacked and attacked as being anti-semitic. As far as I know no one has been sacked for criticising Palestinians.
8. It has been reported that Israel wants to appoint war criminal Tony Blair as `Gaza Humanitarian Coordinator’. I confess I fell off my chair laughing when I read about this. The Chief Rabbi would be an equally good choice. News items of this type should come with a health warning.
9. Two Aussie researchers have concluded that the wrong sort of humour (notably `far right’ humour) is a danger to democracy. Presumably, far left humour (if there is any) is perfectly acceptable.
10. Since re-wilding began in earnest in the British countryside there has been a serious decline in the population of British birds. The number of woodland birds such as woodpeckers has fallen dramatically.
11. The NHS is introducing virtual wards this winter. Patients will stay at home when they are ill and will be monitored remotely. People who already had carers looking after them thought this was a great idea. Folk living alone will just have to cope. Still, one advantage is that people in `virtual wards’ will be less likely to starve to death and less likely to be killed by injections of benzodiazepines and morphine. And if there aren’t any doctors or nurses around there will be no one to write out a DNR notice.
12. The last shred of decency in British politics disappeared when David Cameron was brought back into the British Government as foreign secretary.
Israel, Jews and Anti-Semitism
Dr Vernon Coleman
How long will it be before anti-semitism becomes the regrettable but default condition for billions of caring and morally responsible citizens of the world?
The wickedness of Netanyahu and his cronies is now blatant. The result of their black-hearted, ungodly killing is that anyone who supports or defends Israel is a disgrace to humanity.
Biden, Sunak and all other politicians who support or defend Israel (or who dishonestly use money raised from their taxpayers to support Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians) deserve to be tried alongside the ruthless, merciless Zionists behind this outrage.
Jews who think Israel can do no wrong will fill the internet with anonymous abuse and threats but the fact is that Israel is now the most wicked nation the world has seen for generations, and those who claim that Israel is entitled to defend itself (and, by some perverted, obscene logic entitled to bomb refugee camps and hospitals and slaughter babies with impunity) are living in a moral desert way beyond contempt.
I seem to remember hearing, by the way, that the Israelis had claimed that hospitals in Gaza were stuffed to the brim with Hamas fighters and arms.
What happened to the evidence for that claim?
It appals me that Western Governments and the Western media continue to support Israel when they should be condemning Netanyahu and threatening to go in and take away his weapons. The big question Biden and Sunak et al should be considering should be: `Should Israel be allowed to continue to exist in its present form and situation?’
The Western media continues to put the genocide in Gaza back with the crossword puzzles and small ads. Celebrities are too cowardly to speak out lest they are condemned as terrorist supporting and labelled as anti-semitic.
And yet, as predicted the Israeli forces are moving into the West Bank and the southern part of Gaza. Their plan has been patently clear since early October.
I note incidentally that the corruption trial against Netanyahu has now been resumed. The trial was paused after the events of October 7th. Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to appear in court accused of fraud, breach of trust and bribery – in three separate cases. Netanyahu denies the charges. One hopes that whatever the outcome of this trial, Netanyahu will be charged with war crimes. Oddly I haven’t been able to find any reference to the resumption of Netanyahu’s trial on the BBC website. Maybe it’s there somewhere.
A comment that `Adolf Hitler would be proud of Benjamin Netanyahu’ was reportedly attacked as being anti-semitic.
If that was the crux of the comment then I fail to see why it should cause dismay. It was, it seems to me, a reasonable comment on Israel’s senior war criminal.
Does this now mean that anyone who accuses a Jew of anything will automatically be accused of anti-semitism?
There certainly seem to be some folk who assume that any criticism of anyone Jewish is automatically anti-semitism. It is, it seems, perfectly acceptable to be rude about Christians but never acceptable to be rude about Jews.
This, of course, is nonsense as well as being elitist and racist and I am sure that no thinking Jew would want the world to perceive them as automatically superior simply because of their religion. That would be absurd as saying that Baptists cannot be criticised because they are Baptists or that Methodists are all automatically beyond criticism. It would mean that we would no longer be allowed to criticise Goldman Sachs, for example.
And what about Hitler? Jewish writers have denied the possibility but some studies have in the past suggested that Hitler had Jewish connections. If that suspicion were correct it would mean that criticism of Hitler would be anti-semitic and therefore forbidden.
The bottom line is that Israel’s actions are clearly disproportionate and like many in the world I find it difficult to understand why NATO hasn’t become involved to defend Gaza and put a stop to the genocide taking place.
Whether we are Christian, Muslim, Buddhists or Jews we all have a duty, a responsibility, to stand up and condemn Israel.
Israel’s supporters, blind to human suffering, will doubtless defile the internet with anonymous abuse and threats.
What they fail to realise is that their blind wickedness merely makes things worse and helps build the global storm of anti-semitism which is building and which will, I fear, soon be unstoppable.
Those who love Israel should join the rest of us in condemning Netanyahu and demanding an end to the pitiless slaughter of the innocent.
Number 18 was hilarious. Tell Dr. Coleman to hang in there and take a break from time to time to have a laugh, and a good cup of tea.
People love to have their ears tickled. Consider Eve in the Garden. she believed the first lie ever to be uttered. Safe and effective is as nasty as collateral damage.
Those 400,000 people could have cleaned up the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco in no time. Then they would have done something with their lives.
I am staying away from the Isreal/Gaza debate.
That being said, both sides are evil.
Hamas raises children to hates Isrealis.
Isreal raises children to hate Hamas.
Netanyahu is evil for sure. Using his people as C19 guinea pigs, etc.
I don't for a minute think it should have taken 6 hours to get Isreali defense in place on 10/7.
What will Netanyahu do now that his trials are restarted?
I totally agree with you Vit B12 tablets daily statement. I have malabsorption syndrome and take one daily and my levels are always high.
I wonder how you feel about lipitor.
I started taking 10mg day a year or so ago. I always refused it. My cholesterol runs 169 without it. It is now 136. My son is an MD/PHd and he talked me into trying it. I haven't had side effects that I can tell. (My husband was taking 80mg a day and had joint pain and other side effects. I finally got his VA provider to discontinue it.) So, what's your opinion? Be nice. :-)
First, on the Israeli thing, you are right, F15s fly at Mach 2+. where were they? Waiting in their cockpits for orders to defend Israelis, like the helicopter pilots? What?
At Pearl Harbor did our pilots wait for orders?
On Lipitor, scrap it, immediately, don't use up the pills you have remaining, only a fool would take it with the information we have and have not gleaned. Sorry about your son!
-Edwin
Thanks. I am going to take your advice.
As for my son no worries, after 2 years in residency, he left and went home to Milwaukee and is happily working as a medical writer with a balanced work life and home life. His liberal leaning is tempered by me and my very conservative leaning is tempered by him.
I enjoy reading your substacks. If I could afford it, yours would be a paid subscription for sure.
Keep positive, it can't get any worse, can it? :-p
Great to hear about your son, a medical writer, something we need more of.
Honey, hope to never start charging for what I write or post of others. I'm not really a writer, but this gives me an excellent sounding board.
Do you read Sundance, the last refuge, conservative treehouse?
He says: "Hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but, It's gonna get way worse."
God Bless
-Edwin
Whoa. I'm on board with everything you say here, doc, bur your comments about Israel seem to put you in the same camp as our Rashida Talib!!! Doesn't this seem. to be about Sharia Supremacy and not Israel ?
Dr. Coleman realizes the gas fields are what's important, not human life, according to the powers that be, senseless killing is OK, even nuclear, genocide acceptable. NOT
We use Arabic numerals for our computations.
Coleman’s 1st Law Of Medicine
Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc
Coleman’s first law of medicine is quite simple: `If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.’
Doctors are notoriously reluctant to admit that the treatments they recommend can do harm. There are several reasons for this. First, they often simply don’t know how dangerous drugs can be (doctors rarely bother to read drug company information sheets). Second, they are frightened of being sued. (Doctors fear that if they admit that their treatment made someone ill they will receive a letter from a lawyer.) And finally, there is a natural human unwillingness to admit responsibility for something that has gone wrong. This brand of unwillingness is unusually well-developed among doctors who are encouraged to think of themselves as godlike by many of their other more passive patients. Admitting to having made someone ill reminds doctors that they are mortal and fallible.
Because doctors almost never admit that the drugs they have prescribed might have caused unpleasant or dangerous side effects, very few incidences of drug-induced illness are reported to the official watchdogs which exist to measure and assess drug side effects. This enables doctors and drug companies to claim that prescription drugs are safe. (The word ‘safe’ is, of course, relative. Even though the number of reported side effects is absurdly low, doctors are now officially one of the top four causes of death and serious injury in the world. They share the top four spots with cancer, heart disease and stroke.)
Taken from the book `Coleman’s Laws’ by Vernon Coleman. `Coleman’s Laws’ is published in paperback and as an eBook and is available on Amazon. To Purchase a copy CLICK HERE
Stuff the BBC might have forgotten to mention
Dr Vernon Coleman
1. The Israelis have reportedly taken more new hostages than they’ve released. They’ve been picking up civilians in the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) in order to keep their prisons well stocked.
2. Palestinian prisoners released by the Israelis have complained of being badly mistreated.
3. Some time ago, Zelenski introduced a law banning any discussion of peace negotiations.
4. Some of the Israeli hostages who died were killed by Israeli attacks. Israeli prisoners who complained of not getting enough to eat should blame their Government for banning food trucks entering Gaza.
5. The Israelis failed to produce evidence showing that Hamas was operating in the hospitals, schools and refugee camps which they bombed and destroyed.
6. The excellent website The Expose reports that young people are dying of cancer at `explosive rates’. Analysts have shown that death rates from cancer are two or three times normal rates. Teenagers and young adults are dying from rapidly metastasising cancers at an unprecedented rate since mass covid-19 vaccination began. I warned that this would happen over two years ago.
7. Individuals criticising Israel’s genocidal attacks on civilians are being sacked and attacked as being anti-semitic. As far as I know no one has been sacked for criticising Palestinians.
8. It has been reported that Israel wants to appoint war criminal Tony Blair as `Gaza Humanitarian Coordinator’. I confess I fell off my chair laughing when I read about this. The Chief Rabbi would be an equally good choice. News items of this type should come with a health warning.
9. Two Aussie researchers have concluded that the wrong sort of humour (notably `far right’ humour) is a danger to democracy. Presumably, far left humour (if there is any) is perfectly acceptable.
10. Since re-wilding began in earnest in the British countryside there has been a serious decline in the population of British birds. The number of woodland birds such as woodpeckers has fallen dramatically.
11. The NHS is introducing virtual wards this winter. Patients will stay at home when they are ill and will be monitored remotely. People who already had carers looking after them thought this was a great idea. Folk living alone will just have to cope. Still, one advantage is that people in `virtual wards’ will be less likely to starve to death and less likely to be killed by injections of benzodiazepines and morphine. And if there aren’t any doctors or nurses around there will be no one to write out a DNR notice.
12. The last shred of decency in British politics disappeared when David Cameron was brought back into the British Government as foreign secretary.