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Veteran Israeli journalist: “I've been talking to people from Gaza since this morning, most of them say the same thing: If ships docked at the Gaza coast, they would take them to places where there are Palestinian communities, such as Sweden, England, and Canada, if they were guaranteed medical insurance and their children had somewhere to study, they would leave. Egypt and Jordan are not really an option, if they were to leave, then to a place that would give the next generation the opportunity to live. To breathe. To integrate. People want to live better, to allow their children a future. The question is whether such a move is even feasible, whether the world is ready, able, and willing to go with Trump on such a move.”

People ask me how you get someone who’s brainwashed out of a cult. The short answer is, you can’t, but there’s a catch. Let me explain. Being in an authoritarian cult is like living in a 360-degree interactive virtual reality movie theater that has such advanced technology you perceive it like the real world. Or, think about “Truman Show” if you’ve seen it. The cult leader is the movie theater operator and their minions have a clear set of jobs: —Recruit people to come TO the theater —Entice them to come INTO the theater —Close the door and DON’T let them leave. If they do, punish them —Keep the movie projector on at all times to TRAP them in a different reality As long as the door is closed to the movie theater people are trapped in, trying to intrude on their reality is like someone pointing a flashlight directly into their eyes or talking in their ear at the movies. They immediately want it to stop. In reality, this effect is called “cognitive dissonance” which is mental pain caused by a dissociative disorder induced by repetitive trauma. This trauma can be caused by propaganda and psychological warfare—which has been done to tens of millions of people. This means trying to force someone out of a cult while they are still in the movie theater created for them is nearly impossible. What must be done is the projector in the movie theater has to be shut off and the lights turned on, so people can find own way out. Some will immediately find the exit, while it will take some time for others to realize what happened to them. Regardless, the solution to helping someone who’s brainwashed is to stop them from being brainwashed. It’s really that simple. The job of people who know someone trapped in a cult/movie theater is to make sure they know you are still outside waiting for them when they’re ready to come out, or sit quietly with them in the theater for a little while and hand them some popcorn. In other words, be there for them, stay in touch, but don’t fight them about what they’ve been programmed to believe. This just makes you the enemy. It makes them hate you and want to stay in the theater even more. The way we get our loved ones back is to defeat the transnational criminal conspiracy creating and operating the movie theater trapping millions of people. We know who’s running this malevolent show, we know how it works, and we know how to stop it. Now, we just have to do something about it. #ArrestMikeFlynn