As far as the Palestinian people are concerned, there is not a trace of daylight between "liberal Zionists" and "hard-core ideological Zionists": they are all genocidal megalomaniacs who imagine that Jews are the master race.

Posted by: traducteur | Apr 8 2023 16:27 utc | 1

Israel just backed down from the fear of a multifront escalation with Hezbollah and Hamas.

The establishment in Israel can try to externalize the contradictions of the entity by turning on the Palestinians but they can't do that with impunity anymore. Hezbollah has now established that deterrent. One people, one struggle, one resistance is the new equation.

Posted by: Ringo | Apr 8 2023 16:31 utc | 2

i think if "
a lasting Peace does not come to middle east there will be no Israel after the dust settles.

Forces are in place to push Israel out of the Middle East.

Posted by: snake | Apr 8 2023 16:33 utc | 3

Let's also remember Trump's contributions to peace in the middle east with the Abraham accords.

Iran to Israel through Saudi arabia?

Hard to see now but the bridge is there and its saudi arabia.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 8 2023 16:34 utc | 4

Well this news in terms of the Yemen War is fantastic truly wonderful. It is also brilliant to see the troubles in the Middle East being jointly finished by all countries. It's a beautiful gift for Easter.

It shows what truly Great Statesman and Leaders can achieve with Diplomacy, Dignity and Courage real courage in the face of continued aggression by the USA.

God Bless Xi and Putin and the Crown Prince Bin Salman. They are changing the World for the better.

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Apr 8 2023 16:36 utc | 5

The clown prince is no clown any more. Au contraire! His Games of Thrones style purge of all possible challengers has put him into a position where he is almost immune to the usual regime change operations. What he did was brutal but effective. This really makes you think about the assumed superiority of democracy. His 180 degree turn and open confrontation of the US would have been almost impossible for any leader who faces the judgement of a population manipulated by the western media apparatus.
The leadership of Geogia can't even introduce a law against US meddling, whereas the prince of SA can openly humiliate the empire.

Posted by: futkon | Apr 8 2023 16:37 utc | 6

Where are those A-10's going to be based? They can't operate off aircraft carriers. Middle Eastern countries should probably invite the US to evacuate their military bases and go home.

Posted by: Jeff Harrison | Apr 8 2023 16:44 utc | 7

Peace in the Middle East? As in they made a desolation and called it peace.

And we mustn't underestimate the Jewish Supremacists. Epstein and Maxwell were/are Jewish Supremacists. Most Israelis are the same. As one can't imagine a world without Russia, to the those who believe in the Chosen, the world is unimaginable without Israel.

Peace in the Middle East? The world is on fire. And that includes the Middle East.

Posted by: gottlieb | Apr 8 2023 16:49 utc | 8

What a joy it would be to have peace in the world.

Thanks for the posting b.

What I keep expecting to see is/are assassination attempts of a few leaders to scare the others.

With the leadership of Xi, Putin and others, the world outside of empire is turning all that war energy back on empire such that it will destroy itself.

That is what we have been watching so far and there is more to go.....think about when all those US troops on foreign soil are forced home to a country that is a financialized shell of its former self.....it won't be pretty but needs to happen, IMO.

I will try and live through it and educate my fellow Americans about alternatives to the God Of Mammon way

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 8 2023 16:51 utc | 9

Any attacks upon Iran would immediately make fascist amerika's 5th fleet targets .. and well within Iran's own missile capability.

Posted by: Karl NoWay | Apr 8 2023 16:56 utc | 10

The best hope for a secure and peaceful Jewish State remains UN Resolution 181. 181 remains the sole internationally recognized boundries between the 2 states.

Let‘s pray that peace comes soon.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 8 2023 16:57 utc | 11

Posted by: futkon | Apr 8 2023 16:37 utc | 6
"The clown prince is no clown any more"

If you noticed that B also dropped that moniker some time ago...

Posted by: notlurking | Apr 8 2023 17:04 utc | 12

Great to hear that there's light at the end of the tunnel regarding the war against Yemen. Now, it's only a matter of time for US-led forces in Syria to be evicted. The big one will be the closure of Al Udeid Air Base; no need for other forces to take over. I hope the old trick of offering a solution for a problem that you purposefully created doesn't fool anyone anymore.

Posted by: Ian2 | Apr 8 2023 17:09 utc | 13

@Ian2 | Apr 8 2023 17:09 utc | 13

Great to hear that there's light at the end of the tunnel regarding the war against Yemen.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2023 17:15 utc | 14

The rapid disintegration of whatever it was the Trump administration had been attempting in the ME - and at the time it appeared as a major shift, particularly by KSA - is a stark and visible reversal of the usual bi-partisan continuity in US foreign policy. It underlines that a Washington Consensus is a very real thing, and that the Trump admin was not part of it. But why or how this Consensus lost its local affiliates so relatively rapidly after the Dem foreign policy team returned to power is interesting to ponder.

Posted by: jayc | Apr 8 2023 17:22 utc | 15

" The Saudi-Emirati-Yemenite agreement will be announced soon. "

I wouldn't be too happy just yet. The true agenda of the agreement will be revealed in how the Houthis are treated by it. If things just go back to the Status Quo , like before the war, then its worthless. The Houthis saved Yemen by paying with their own blood, they deserve nothing less then to rule it.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 17:30 utc | 16

Strange times.

For the coalition lacking the shock&awe brute force USSA slaughter the innocent women and children to win the war. A tried and true method by the USSA dating back to 1948 in Korea.

On the ground. The supposedly so called back in the stone age native militias. Rather than being an easy clay pigeon target. Have consistently out fought out shoot and outwit and completely confuse the invading forces. Since the day UK planted the flag in Aden.

As for this so called illusion of peace put forward. Will be stuck on the point as to how much the greedy Faisal family of thieves can steal all the fossil pollutant reserves held within the 200 km coastal reserves.

I would classify this as fake truce of sorts to allow the Faisal family to steal every last barrel or cubic meter of gas from Yemen.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Apr 8 2023 17:32 utc | 17

The “Jews-only Nation State”/Jew State In the Levant (JSN/JSIL) may have an appetite for a big war, but it knows it cannot afford for 1 very simple reason: any “smart” move against Iran (that's where the big war would have to be fought) would result in the annihilation of JSN/JSIL by missiles from Iran, South Lebanon, Gaza and Syria.

Posted by: Ernesto Che | Apr 8 2023 17:34 utc | 18

The moneylenders tables being well and truly turned over; Happy Easter

Posted by: Red | Apr 8 2023 17:47 utc | 19

I notice this reportage from Jared Szuba, who b quotes above: "The Pentagon's rare disclosure of the location of one of its Ohio-class submarines..."

This was written after saying the sub transited the Suez Canal. What should be obvious: When a sub transits the canal there is no 'disclosure'. It's seen, and we should assume, noted.

Posted by: Traven's ghost | Apr 8 2023 17:50 utc | 20

Russia & China outplayed Amerika in the ME and that's a good thing for them. Pepe E. for your reading pleasure.

https://thecradle.co/article-view/23394/iran-and-saudi-arabia-a-chinese-win-win

Thanks b

Posted by: jo6pac | Apr 8 2023 17:58 utc | 21

Probability of a false flag by the zionists is increasing, unfortunately. The empire of chaos cannot have peace.

Posted by: Taras77 | Apr 8 2023 18:00 utc | 22

Uh oh, guess Commissar is part Houthi in addition to being Slav master race.

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 8 2023 18:04 utc | 23

The USA has grown so weak that it can only maintain its control over the rest of world by pitting one country against another and one group of people within a country against another.

Soon the USA will be no more when Russia launches. After the USA goes down, peace will break out world wide except for a few countries like Israel.

I have no doubt that the USA along with its vassals in NATO have crossed the Russian red line way too many times. Russia will launch soon after it takes and secures the Donbas. With the linchpin (Bakhmut) of the Donbas now falling it may not be too many more months before the Donbas falls. We will see!

Soon Israel will no longer have the USA to rely upon. When that day comes, Israel will either repent coming to the Lord Jesus Christ or they will perish. The best I can understand from the Bible, they will repent obtaining the protection of the Lord.

Posted by: young | Apr 8 2023 18:05 utc | 24

Let's also remember Trump's contributions to peace in the middle east with the Abraham accords.

Iran to Israel through Saudi arabia?

Hard to see now but the bridge is there and its saudi arabia.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 8 2023 16:34 utc | 4
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Trump did what? Contributions to peace?

Posted by: Ed | Apr 8 2023 18:05 utc | 25

Taras77 | Apr 8 2023 18:00 utc | 22:

How? The US is spent. They can't field another large military force like previous years. Limited strikes will not change the situation on the ground.

Posted by: Ian2 | Apr 8 2023 18:09 utc | 26

Posted by: Exile | Apr 8 2023 16:57 utc | 11

Why should any part of this land be shared with a bunch of grifters who murdered so many to get it?

And if this land is partitioned between those grifters and it's native people, who will have the rights to the resources around it, and who will have the right to an army? Who will have the sovereign right to host any ally of it's choosing on the land? What happens in conflicts with other bordering states?

UN resolution 181 is another stupidity brought to us by the 'geniuses' who created this mess to begin with ...

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 8 2023 18:11 utc | 27

The rules of the game are changing
You still have rabid governments
Unwilling to acknowledge shifting alliances
They will fight to the last dollar the last ukranian the last palestinian
Other nations know this, and are acting accordingly
Isolation is a good strategy , marginalize the oppressor.

Posted by: Dingo | Apr 8 2023 18:14 utc | 28

Soon Israel will no longer have the USA to rely upon. When that day comes, Israel will either repent coming to the Lord Jesus Christ or they will perish. The best I can understand from the Bible, they will repent obtaining the protection of the Lord.

Posted by: young | Apr 8 2023 18:05 utc | 24
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You're a sick puppy Mr. Young. Your kind has been singing this song for 2223 years (plus or minus), yet nothing. Events in almost every generation brings out the end of days prophets, and the generations pass, on, and new prophets rise, but Jesus never does.

But one does have to respect the pertinacity of the of the end of days prophets; as someone who has lived part of my childhood in a fundamentalist orphanage and/or with fundamentalist foster parents, I know that I do.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 8 2023 18:29 utc | 29

" Uh oh, guess Commissar is part Houthi in addition to being Slav master race.

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 8 2023 18:04 utc | 23 "

I support all who oppose Israhell and ZioAmerica.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 18:40 utc | 30

The most dramatic story here of all is Saudi Arabia continuing to thumb its nose at the US. Fifty years ago, there was a lot of talk about the US simply invading the Arab side of the Persian Gulf, taking all the oil, and building a wall around the area after expelling the few inhabitants. This was never really doable, but now the neocons can't even mouth it. Fifty years ago, Al Sa`ud was considered an unpopular royal family that ran to the US for protection, so the US protected them in exchange for their undertaking to modulate the price of oil and recycle their dollar-denominated profits to purchases of US government bonds and US military equipment. And the US security-trained MBS didn't seem likely to rock the boat, because who would have ever thought such a small and weak country could turn on the US that much? Without Saudi Arabia as the linchpin of the American system in the Middle East, what do they have? Egypt, which is more dependent of Saudi and the Emirates than it is on the US? So this is a great reversal of fortune.

As for the comparison of Saudi Arabia with Georgia @ futkon | Apr 8 2023 16:37 utc | 6, the Georgians continue to hope for US support against Russia to get back what they regard as their terra irrendenta in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so opposing the US is not so popular, despite what the alignment with the US has actually done to their country. But in the Arab world, after all the US, its military, and its neocons have inflicted on the region, the street is decidedly very anti-US, so MBS can only gain in internal popularity by opposing it.

The other thing is the hysteria of the settler movement in Israel. It seems that many of the non-settler Israelis are starting to worry enough about their survival to come out against the settlers. The settlers have only one goal: the complete ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Palestine. This fits with their nationalist logic but looks especially ugly in our world of mass communication today, nor are the settlers very popular even within their own nationality, let alone outside of it. So no wonder they are hysterical. They continue to hope for a general war that will give them cover to drive out the Palestinians, but that wouldn't be easy in any case. Nevertheless, they remain a dangerous element in the mix, and the US as usual remains supine before their depredations.

Posted by: Cabe | Apr 8 2023 18:42 utc | 31

"The Saudis have had enough of U.S. interference in their region. They are looking for development and development requires peace."

That is surely part of it. I think another part though was the illuminative aspect of the $300B confiscation of Russian assets by the west on the excuse of the Uke war, a war that the western powers were not even involved with, except by proxy. I think the Arabs thought to themselves "if they can do this to Russia, why wouldn't they do it to us in the future using some other stupid and convenient excuse?"

All the trillions they have invested in the west are vulnerable and they know it. As soon as it's convenient, there will be some proxy war, "terrorist event," etc. that will allow London and DC to lock down and then absorb the $$. The Arabs need to begin the process of divestment from the west ... but they need to do it in such a way as to not trigger an immediate takeover.

Posted by: Caliman | Apr 8 2023 18:46 utc | 32

" You're a sick puppy Mr. Young. Your kind has been singing this song for 2223 years (plus or minus), yet nothing. Events in almost every generation brings out the end of days prophets, and the generations pass, on, and new prophets rise, but Jesus never does.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 8 2023 18:29 utc | 29 "

Well said. Cuckstianity is a Zio form of mind control by design. Notice how willing he's to absolve his Zio masters of any crimes and guilt as long as they "repent". Fortunately, thats not how the universe works. At this point, the only way for the Zios to " repent " is if they collectively " off " themselves.

Do not forget, do not forgive.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 18:46 utc | 33

Some in the US Senate want war against Iran for the Syria situation.
Republicans question US military response to Iranian attacks

. . .“Despite the more than 80 attacks by Iranian-backed militias, the United States has only responded with force just a handful of times. In my view, that's unacceptable,” said Senator Ted Budd.
Iran has launched 83 attacks against the US since Joe Biden became President in January 2021, according to testimony from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
The Pentagon chief clarified that many of those attacks yielded no significant damage or deaths.
“An attack can consist of a number of things,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “It can consist of a rocket that's fired in the direction of one of our bases but is not effective.”
Mr Austin defended the military’s responses.
“When we respond, we want to make sure that we are going after the element that is responsible for whatever that activity is,” he said.
“So it takes a little time to develop attribution and then we want to make sure that we are holding the right element accountable, and we're doing everything that we can to protect our troops.”
But Mr Austin's comments did not satisfy Republicans.
“Seventy-nine and four is Iran’s record right now,” said Senator Tom Cotton. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 34

The US Govt is like someone with herpes who thinks preventing everyone else from getting laid will somehow cure it from the nasty disease it got from being the reckless arrogant bunch of (#*&$ we all know they are.

Posted by: Et Tu | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 35

The attempt to nobble the Israeli judiciary is exposing the fractures within Israeli society ... 150,000 protesting today in Tel Aviv ... and the fractures are deep - spot of heightened existential crisis from the norm existential crisis ...
... some silly comments up above - it has a very powerful military, security service, and global cabal of very wealthy and powerful fellow travellers ... Hezbollah fought to a draw but a win is beyond them - and most others in the region ..

Whither the Palestinians in all of this .... ? basically hammered as usual ..

Netanyahu's plan for an agreement with Saudi Arabia, which had been progressing nicely and likely to further progress when Faisal died, is now in shatters.

UAE acts in its own ruthless self-interest and has been particularly brutal against Islamists in Yemen - hiring US mercenaries to kill its leaders etc ... taking over the Island of Socroto etc and is now the place to launder ill-gotten gains etc and also incredibly powerful above its station ...

I'll believe Saudi and UAE exit from Yemen when I see it - the fractures within Yemen itself will remain ... Yemenis could do with a break - but I suspect that the Iron Hand of Saudi and UAE influence on Yemen will remain .... unless Iran can come in as facilitator of the future ...

There really is some acceleration in geopolitics these days ... and it only cost a mere $300 Billion Dollars!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 36

Lovely if it happens.
The details will be worth looking at very carefully.
I wonder if Socotra will be mentioned. (A Yemeni island where Israel the Emirates are setting up military bases. Expelling the Yemenis who lived there)

But there is always hope and the bright side to look for.

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 8 2023 18:49 utc | 37

In response to Deplorable Commissar@30,

No doubt, I've seen it myself. Support them to the bitter end.

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 8 2023 18:49 utc | 38

" I'll believe Saudi and UAE exit from Yemen when I see it - the fractures within Yemen itself will remain ... Yemenis could do with a break - but I suspect that the Iron Hand of Saudi and UAE influence on Yemen will remain .... unless Iran can come in as facilitator of the future ...

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 36 "

In the agreement with Saudi Arabia, Iran purportedly agreed to stop arming the Houthis.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 18:51 utc | 39

What future holds in store for the Anglo-Zionist's land-based aircraft carrier - Israel - is a big question. Their main purpose and mission of being in the area in the first place was to make sure all the Arabs / other Persian Gulf oil producers are glued to the petrodollar system, on behalf of the City of London financiers. Until now everything went smoothly, but with Russian-Chinese and Iranian support, today, Saudi Arabia is slowly moving on its own independent course. Now the Eurasian powers must make sure, the US doesn't succeed in performing a regime change in Riyadh by planting a military junta there.

Posted by: maskazer | Apr 8 2023 19:01 utc | 40

Ever since Iran announced its proposed security/peace plan--HOPE--at the UNGA in 2019 by President Rouhani--which was a mirror of Russia's long proposed plan--there's been lots of diplomatic negotiations between all the players along with some pushing on the battlefield that led to the Outlaw US Empire's cancellation of itself in the region when Trump murdered Soleimani and his Iraqi partner. Iran's response then showed the region its capabilities and that peace is a much better path. That this peace is being arrived at between what's called a hardline Iranian government and the Saudis shows the continuation of Rouhani's policy, which is clearly Khamani's. As Escobar, Crooke and others familiar with the regional dynamics have written over the years, to get results of this sort takes much diplomatic tact, time and related patience, things the Outlaw US Empire lacks as we just saw with the DCI's visit and the weak show of force. Apparently, the Empire pukes didn't notice that Russia and China are the guarantors of this agreement and the others that are forthcoming.

What happens within Occupied Palestine has been the subject of speculation since the beginning of February when the centrifugal forces made themselves overt. Crooke's latest today addresses the larger moves to peace and relegates Nuttyahoo's problems to the corner but doesn't completely dismiss them and is a must read. The parent site has several articles about current happenings, this being the first I'd suggest.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 8 2023 19:02 utc | 41

Israel will have to deal with China, and I hope American boys don’t have to do the dying for Israel.

Posted by: Wokechoke | Apr 8 2023 19:05 utc | 42

According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,4 genocide includes various acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” as such, including:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.5
This definition is reflected in Article 6 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has jurisdiction over crimes occurring on the territory of the State of Palestine since June 13, 2014.6
The Genocide Convention was written in the aftermath of World War II

Unfortunately it is the Dream and ideological aim of right wing Israel & many US Christians.

Posted by: ATM | Apr 8 2023 19:15 utc | 43

And, and also there is this:

A thaw in Türkiye-Syria relations can be a step toward a ‘New Europe’ in the Middle East
Ankara and Damascus, with Moscow’s backing, are making an effort to reconcile. This could lead to a thriving, integrated region

Delegations from Syria, Iran and Türkiye met in Moscow with their counterparts this week to discuss the normalization of ties between Türkiye and Syria. It’s the prelude to a higher-level meeting that will take place later this month.

Improved cooperation would be particularly important in bringing a close to the ongoing Syrian conflict, as Ankara and Damascus share a long border and frozen relations since the beginning of the war.

Syrian officials had said their delegates would focus on ending Türkiye’s military presence in their country, cooperating in fighting against terrorism, and non-interference in Syria’s internal affairs by other countries. The meeting is the latest in a series of steps, heavily backed by Moscow, towards reconciliation between Ankara and Damascus after an 11-year break in relations. Similarly, these negotiations follow a reconciliation between perennial regional adversaries Iran and Saudi Arabia recently brokered by China. [.]

The Turkish desire to quell Kurdish movements on the Turkish-Syrian border is both understandable and a point of mutual agreement for both parties. It could also help Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his upcoming election, giving him a boost for quelling a terrorist threat and improving cooperation with his neighbor.

In terms of how this will close out the war, the obvious outstanding issue is the remaining US bases and troops in Syria, which are stationed in the country in violation of international law and the very military authorization they are acting under. The latter point was even stated by the former US ambassador to Syria and one-time advocate of supporting the Syrian opposition against Assad, Robert Ford. Consequently, losing ground support from Kurdish militants along the Syrian-Turkish border, where US troops had previously been stationed, will weaken the position of the forces still stationed in Syria’s eastern section.

It is hoped that the thawing of Syria-Türkiye animosities will usher an end to foreign meddling in Syria, including the occupation of its oil-rich regions by US forces. Given that Türkiye is a powerful US military ally in the region and was a major staging point for US military support to anti-Assad militant groups, this would undermine Washington’s logistical, strategic and diplomatic abilities to interfere in Damascus’ internal affairs. It would also help integrate Syria back into the Middle East and global communities.[.]

[Source: RT]

link to r and t is an impediment to posting.

The folks in D.C. will need a truckload of facial tissue to dry the tears.

And for that hell hole - the sliver of land occupied by Khazaars, their time has arrived.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 8 2023 19:16 utc | 44

It's more coordinated and concerted than it meets the eye.

Many believed that countries would de-dollarize in response to anti Russian sanctions and asset seizure merely out of self preservation.

While that's indeed happening, no one predicted so many would de-dollarize so fast in so little time. Last month witnessed dozens of agreements including those between Brazil-China, pan-Latin American currency, Mexico desiring BRICS, Russia-global Yuan trade, India-ASEAN, first yuan LNG transaction from UAE, Kenya of all countries demanding non-dollar with Saudi etc.

But these peace deals in the Middle East are a complete surprise to everybody.

I have an incredibly difficult time believing they're organic and not in the works for a very long time.

The global conspiracies like the "big reset" schemed up at Davos are nothing compared to the behind-the-scenes master plans carefully formulated by Putin and Xi Jinping to overthrow the US empire with almost all Global South leaders in on it with various degrees of cooperation.

We're most likely witnessing the largest revolution in human history to overthrow an empire.

Posted by: FieryButMostPeaceful | Apr 8 2023 19:18 utc | 45

"agreements between Iraq and Iran to reign in a Kurdish uprising in Iran that was controlled by Kurdish forces in Iraq"

That is a US/Israeli attack on Iran, longstanding. The US has protected and paid the Kurds, and in return they do this.

Israeli agents are all over it.

Of course the CIA comes with the money.

Now what China has brokered includes ending these specific US/Israeli operations against Iran. That is what Iran got for what it promised the Saudis. And that is why the US was threatening the Saudis.

Posted by: Mark Thomason | Apr 8 2023 19:20 utc | 46

🚨 BREAKING: A burst of three rockets from Syria targets the occupied Golan without activating the "Iron Dome." One of the rockets made impact near a zionist settlement in the area. Two fell in an open area.

Syria breaks its slumber.

Resistance fighters open fire on zionist settlement guards in the settlement of "Rehelim" near #Nablus.
Resistance fighters open fire on IOF soldiers in #Qalqilya.
🚨 Settlers' homes in the settlement of "Ma'ale Gilboa" are damaged after being heavily shot at by resistance fighters. This settlement is built on the Palestinian land of Jalboun, #Jenin.

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/53610
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/53611
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/53613

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2023 19:33 utc | 47

@15 Trump is the hero America needs but maybe not the one they want.

Like the song says
You don't always get what you want you get what you need.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 8 2023 19:34 utc | 48

Iran Observer tweets:

Hebrew sources: Unofficial reports from Lebanon indicate the arrival of senior Iranian military officers in Beirut right now; The heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad are there along with Hezbollah Secretary General Nasrallah

7:21 PM · Apr 8, 2023 · 3,434 Views

https://twitter.com/Iranobserver01/status/1644752263749988353

Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2023 19:35 utc | 49

Don Firineach | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 36

Hezbollah fought to a draw but a win is beyond them

Yeah, dream on, dude. Israel's another paper tiger. Lots of unsupported pretension. Their days are numbered. Start counting.

Posted by: john | Apr 8 2023 19:52 utc | 50

The dragon is coming. Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2023 17:15 utc | 14

It is here and has had its eyes open for a while. It moves slowly to guarantee momentum.

Posted by: Rae | Apr 8 2023 19:56 utc | 51

" Now what China has brokered includes ending these specific US/Israeli operations against Iran. That is what Iran got for what it promised the Saudis. And that is why the US was threatening the Saudis.

Posted by: Mark Thomason | Apr 8 2023 19:20 utc | 46 "

And how does China plan on ending these operations ? I'm very curious.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 19:59 utc | 52

Threats to the Saudi's and Iran by the US might not be enough this time and conflict might be a foregone conclusion, the US and its oppressive apartheid regime of Israel can't afford to stand by and see China and Russia get Iran and the Saudi's onside, which in the most art would lead to a breakout of peace in the region.

I expect some sort of event to take place that leads to hostilities, the USA's proxy terrorist fighters will probably begin the conflict and give the US an excuse to step in.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 8 2023 20:11 utc | 53

thanks b and most posters..

Posted by: james | Apr 8 2023 20:19 utc | 54

Republicofscotland | Apr 8 2023 20:11 utc | 53

So, the US will not only fight Russia, threaten China ... they will fight Syria, Iran and KSA and the rest of the Arab countries in ME ... for Israel?

With what?

Posted by: crone | Apr 8 2023 20:19 utc | 55

@Ed | 29

who wrote:

You're a sick puppy Mr. Young. Your kind has been singing this song for 2223 years (plus or minus), yet nothing. Events in almost every generation brings out the end of days prophets, and the generations pass, on, and new prophets rise, but Jesus never does.

Scripture is out in front of you:

"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation"

2 Peter Chapter 3 verse 3.

Only time will tell. The foundations of jew hatred in the west were laid by perhaps 1500 years of Catholic teaching on Jews as Christ Killers and most importantly the false idea of replacement theology: that the promises God made to the seed of Abraham, Issac and Jacob have been transferred to the "Church". Even the Protestants carried much of that baggage forward until late in the 17th century and early 18th.

Now Israel has been restored in unbelief to the annoyance of many. They do not fit anyones expectations. A nation born out of the death camps. A secular, socialist people, inured to notions of compromise, mercy and ease by history and necessity. A challenge to the "certainties" of Christians because they have been raised up in unbelief - seemingly at odds with the demands of the NT (but only seemingly in my view) with no real hint of national "conversion" in the cards.

A real problem. But one that may be explained by the notion that in God's view of the return of the King, there are no good guys on the earth, no righteous nations - not even his own inheritance that he reserved for himself. Israel will "pass under the rod" one more time and all the nations with it, before the remnant steps out of the cauldron.

Or, it may very well all be nonsense and superstition. If we are honest, we have to admit to that possibility. Even a good soldier waiting at the start line for the signal to step out can have doubts in his heart.

Gentle Jesus, soft eyed and soft spoken...thats who we are familiar with today...but is that who is coming ? The king who will "rule with an iron rod" and to whom "every knee will bend and every head will bow" ? Our heads are all filled up with images and notions handed down to us through many hands for 2000 years.

Today we live in amazing times. To one who does not believe, belief is nonsense and madness, so insane and dangerous as to warrant destructions...same as it ever was.

Posted by: Dan Farrand | Apr 8 2023 20:25 utc | 56

@Deplorable Commissar, #52:

Smart as you are I thought the answer to your curiosity should have been self-realizable easily. China has refrained (so has Russia)from supplying Iran with top-notch weaponries, in consideration for Israil security. There isn't any international law against doing so. China/Russia doing so would chill the Anglo-Zionist spines.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Apr 8 2023 20:29 utc | 57

The US is getting desperate vis a vis the dollar situation. We're on the brink of a total war involving China, Iran, and Russia against the US and whatever vassals are still returning their phone calls (and not denouncing their policies on TV). This is not a situation that is going to be resolved by diplomacy, at least not until they get tired of fighting.

The weaponization of the economy has been the biggest mistake. There are now alternatives to the west's ghetto loan shark operation cum global finance and people are reducing their dollar facing risk like it's going out of style. Even the some of the pigs are sick of having their shit taken and are trying to remain relevant in the emerging world order.

Let's face it, the European centric, greek based western power structure is in full blown crisis mode. Centuries of bullshit have been exposed and rewritten with the dawn of the information age. The next big leap in either transportation or communications technology will bring with it similar conflict, if the species as we recognize it survives.

Posted by: liveload | Apr 8 2023 20:29 utc | 58

By the way, Israil, on the other hand, has stealthily supplied top notch weaponries to India. Not that China is paranoid about it. It has been understood mutually that China/Israil would not do things to undermine each others' national securities.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Apr 8 2023 20:31 utc | 59

@ Dan Farrand | Apr 8 2023 20:25 utc | 56

It is weird that the believers of the Abrahamic religions fight each other with the same God on their side.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2023 20:32 utc | 60

Lurking behind the peace push is the well recognized, beyond essential requirement, to diversify economic development in preparation for the days when the hydrocarbon riches are depleted. I've mused about that before and posted the following comment at Escobar's VK in response to his recent column:

"Your article sparked an idea: Under Persian Gulf pipeline from Saudi to Iran, then to Pakistan and onto China that would help get the Peace Pipeline finished through Pakistan into India and beyond. And Iraq must get involved. My quick addition says India will need to consume at least as much oil as China has this century just to catch up, and then there're the needs of all the nations to India's East. And the energy rich also need to send their products West to Africa, which will need as much as India just for starters.

"Over 25 years ago, you noted energy would be the main driver of geopolitics and geoeconomics in the 21st Century, but it appears too many have forgotten that North America has used up most of its endowment and within the next several decades will become energy poor. When the history of the early 21st Century is written in 50 years, the Neocons will be seen as huge failures for their inability to capitalize on capturing West Asian energy--their failure was to prioritize Occupied Palestine over the energy riches and to allow the Neoliberal Parasites to run wild."

Getting the dollar out of the international energy trade is key because US-based inflation will cease to cause poor nations to lack for energy, with the arrangement between Kenya and Saudi being the first of many. IMO, it's important to stop comparing the dollar with all other national currencies and start referencing the yuan over the next several years until Ukraine is solved and the ruble regains its convertibility. The other part of this equation are the illegal sanctions, as once the new regime of clearing mechanisms is in place circumventing the remaining choke points the Outlaw US Empire can employ, the sanctions become meaningless as they become unenforceable.

Many nations set goals for 2030, and the main requirement for most to come close to attaining those goals is peace and stability in the international marketplace, which is currently being rendered dysfunctional by the Outlaw US Empire's illegalities as it tries to enforce its waning hegemony. China's three Initiatives, its similar agreements with Russia combined with Russia's newly announced foreign policy concept are all designed to lead, promote, shape, and bring to reality a revamped multipolar system of relations are desired by all nations outside of the NATO Bloc. Again, that's 7/8s of the planet's people and the nations having the vast majority of essential resources. All EuroAmericans have is fiat cash and massive corruption along with a feeble industrial base that continues to be robbed of its vitality.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 8 2023 20:35 utc | 61

Threats to the Saudi's and Iran by the US might not be enough this time and conflict might be a foregone conclusion, the US and its oppressive apartheid regime of Israel can't afford to stand by and see China and Russia get Iran and the Saudi's onside, which in the most art would lead to a breakout of peace in the region.

It is much more likely that threats from the likes of Burns... and the presence of the sub might make the parties pissed off, at the insousance of the US...

Does anyone here really believe that MBS has no spine??? Ditto the Iranians???

INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Apr 8 2023 20:36 utc | 62

It is weird that the believers of the Abrahamic religions fight each other with the same God on their side.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2023 20:32 utc | 60

It's the height of arrogance and navel gazing hubris to assume that an entity created all of the matter, space, and energy that comprises existence just for some johnny come lately talking monkeys on a tiny spec of dust in middle of nowhere. Top that off with that entity being concerned with who you fuck, what you think and any significance your existence from the state change that brought you into consciousness and the one that took you out.

What could possibly be the use of continuing such a consciousness whatsoever? Torture the tiny stupid creature ad infinitum? Come on what the fuck does anyone know or have achieved that would serve any purpose in keeping a record of? So this perfect creation of yours actually requires micro-mangement or the talking monkeys lose their shit? Seriously.

Posted by: liveload | Apr 8 2023 20:40 utc | 63

too scents @60 "It is weird that the believers of the Abrahamic religions fight each other with the same God on their side."

Not really. They each (all) have a different perception of God. I always think of Yahweh as stern and vengeful. Allah is strict but compassionate. The Christian version is fair and forgiving.

Posted by: dh | Apr 8 2023 20:50 utc | 64

@4, @15, @48, The "Trump administration" never existed, was opposite of what it promised 2016 voters, immediately backtracked on The Wall saying would have to ask congress, made Jared Kushner de facto president. "Abraham Accords" was merely a weapons deal betw. Israel & UAE. In 2017 alone Trump dropped 60,000 bombs. He bombed Syria and Afghanistan 10 wks after inauguration, in April 2017 publicly surrendered his Cmdr in Chief duties to "his generals" in Pentagon, in July 2017 went on tv to announce he now thinks endless Mideast wars are necessary. In Aug. 2017, humiliating him in front of the world & nullifying his 2016 voters (who'd voted to normalize relations w Russia), all Russia decisions were removed from him by House & Senate & reassigned to Senate."Hero?" Yes, Hero of Davos. On March 13, 2020 Trump unilaterally overthrew US, suspended US Constitution, said children should stay home from school, thus causing millions of parents to leave or quit their jobs to stay home w. children. Never in history have millions of healthy people been forced to isolate and lockdown. Trump is a girly man whose only job is to stay in headlines 24/7 to raise cash for RNC/WinRed/Trump/Kushner Family & Girlfriends profit centers.

Posted by: susan mullen | Apr 8 2023 20:53 utc | 65

@ b wrote

Thanks to China's and Russia's mediation peace is breaking out in the Middle East.

And they (China and Russia) became enemy Nos: 1 and 2.

Pity the U.S.A, Their dumbsh*t congress critters doubling down with daffy-duck water pistol toys and high heels.

US ready for war with China – congressman

US Congress would approve troop deployment to Taiwan should China attack the island, Representative Michael McCaul said

US Congress would authorize a direct military confrontation with China if Beijing launched an attack against Taiwan, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul told Fox News on Friday evening. The Texas Republican representative was talking from Taipei during a three-day bipartisan delegation visit to the self-governing island.

American lawmakers would consent to putting boots on the ground if people in the US support the measure, McCaul said, without elaborating on how exactly such support would be measured. “If communist China invaded Taiwan, it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by Congress and with the American people,” he said, adding that “if the American people support this, the Congress will follow.”

However, McCaul insisted that a “conflict is always a last resort” and described the US delegation’s visit as a way to “provide deterrence to China.” US-Chinese relations have previously been strained by the visits of American delegations to Taiwan, which China considers an inalienable part of its sovereign territory.

The representative also maintained that discussions about a potential use of force by America in the Indo-Pacific region serve as a “deterrent for peace” since “you don’t have NATO in the Pacific.”Doing otherwise would mean inviting “aggression and war,” McCaul claimed.
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[Source: r and t]

Re-read this bit once more:

[.] "that discussions about a potential use of force by America in the Indo-Pacific region serve as a “deterrent for peace” since “you don’t have NATO in the Pacific.”Doing otherwise would mean inviting “aggression and war,” McCaul claimed.

Hmmm !!!.
On review, use of the descriptor dumbsh*t is an understatement.
You think maybe Americans should stockpile every single item they buy from China before putting boots on Taiwan?

Demonizing China was accelerated by Trump in 2016-2020.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 8 2023 20:54 utc | 66

@liveload63. Its actually the height of arrogance and navel gazing hubris to discount the good that a religious belief can have on an individual.
I get it. It isn't for you, or me for that matter. That being said WTF are you to tell others what to believe? A big fat fucking ZERO is who. Get over yourself and leave others alone. Seriously.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 8 2023 20:56 utc | 67

@ dh | Apr 8 2023 20:50 utc | 64

What is a schism worth?

Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2023 20:57 utc | 68

When a former Israeli Defense Minister known for his hawkish views on the Palestinians and Iran's government comes out publicly with warnings of the Israeli govt's self-destructive actions and behaviour, and warns of Israel becoming a mirror of Nazi Germany (in his references to "Mein Kampf" in reverse), you certainly know that Israel is in a state of existential crisis. Especially as its neighbours are demonstrating the use of diplomacy and discussion to resolve what were once considered intractable problems lasting for decades. Whatever "role" Israel was supposed to serve on its founding in 1948 no longer exists (if it ever did, Israel itself coming into being through terrorist actions) thanks to Israel's own thoughtless activities over the past 75 years.

Future historians are likely to view (if they are honest) the period of Israel's existence for what it really is: a wolf masquerading as a sheepdog supposedly to help keep a neocolonialisr peace in the Middle East on behalf of the West.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 8 2023 20:58 utc | 69

Moshe Ya'alon describing the ideology of two current ministers: "Jewish supremacism. Mein Kampf in reverse. ... To as soon as possible get to a big war. ... This is what goes into the decision making process in the Israeli government."

When the Jewish leadership start throwing the Nazi card look out. The same thing happened to Rabin before he was assassinated. The hardcore Zionists backed by their Anglo American death cult partners. A show that only can end in disaster.

Posted by: circumspect | Apr 8 2023 21:00 utc | 70

too Scents @68 "What is a schism worth?"

I think you have to go back to the beginning of monotheism and work forward from there. Pharaoh Akhenaten usually gets the credit in 1350 BC..

Posted by: dh | Apr 8 2023 21:03 utc | 71

@ dh | Apr 8 2023 21:03 utc | 71

Tithes are not limited to monotheism. Clap if you believe in fairies.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2023 21:10 utc | 72

America sending a warship to the Middle East has nothing to do with ensuring peace they are there to stir up war. people say its the administration not the people, that's bulls**t they are all invested in the military industrial complex, pensions and prosperity of Americans depends on them making a profit from death and destruction. Anyone who is invested in the MIC through there investments individually or through an investment for their pensions etc are just s guilty as the ones who invested in cigarette manufacturers who also profited through death and disease.

Posted by: Les | Apr 8 2023 21:20 utc | 73

these were Trump's policies all along!

anyway, the magnitude of generations of criminality by the house of Saud don't disappear cuz they are trading in rubles now.

if they stop fighting with Yemen then of course that's a good thing. but the history of what KSA has already done doesn't go away.

and the furies must be appeased. doesn't that fact need to be acknowledged? lots of people in Yemen, for one, will want revenge.

the last thing anyone needs is US involvement, for damn sure. but the triumphalism that the KSA investor class sees a better deal elsewhere than the US is mostly unwarranted. early days yet. house harkonnen in the desert there has a long, violent history. that doesn't change cuz one switches bankers.

but hey, welcome to the new club, MbS! meet your new and improved pal, erdogan. maybe i'm being too cynical. we'll see.

btw, bible thumpers, since it's easter and all, i thought i'd share some good news:

"when they say 'peace and safety,' sudden destruction comes upon them." in the bible, towards the back.

i suspected as much all along.

HALLELUJAH! God be praised. "there's power in the blood, wonder-working power," as GW Bush said in one of his EIGHT state of the union addresses. no doubt Netanyahoo agrees.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 8 2023 21:27 utc | 74

@liveload63. Its actually the height of arrogance and navel gazing hubris to discount the good that a religious belief can have on an individual.
I get it. It isn't for you, or me for that matter. That being said WTF are you to tell others what to believe? A big fat fucking ZERO is who. Get over yourself and leave others alone. Seriously.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 8 2023 20:56 utc | 67

See that's the problem, a simple concept cannot be kept intact in any reality involving humans. You say one thing, the damn apes go off, once again, doing their own thing. Do you people even hear yourselves?

Posted by: liveload | Apr 8 2023 21:38 utc | 75

too scents @72

It's all too deep for me. I'm just a humble agnostic.

Posted by: dh | Apr 8 2023 21:43 utc | 76

ahh it seems the time has come

peops you better start to dance because the vibe is coming .)

Posted by: Macpott | Apr 8 2023 21:47 utc | 77

Good news regarding Yemen

Posted by: oldrepublic | Apr 8 2023 21:51 utc | 78

"The Saudis have had enough of U.S. interference in their region. They are looking for development and development requires peace."

That is surely part of it. I think another part though was the illuminative aspect of the $300B confiscation of Russian assets by the west on the excuse of the Uke war, a war that the western powers were not even involved with, except by proxy. I think the Arabs thought to themselves "if they can do this to Russia, why wouldn't they do it to us in the future using some other stupid and convenient excuse?"

All the trillions they have invested in the west are vulnerable and they know it. As soon as it's convenient, there will be some proxy war, "terrorist event," etc. that will allow London and DC to lock down and then absorb the $$. The Arabs need to begin the process of divestment from the west ... but they need to do it in such a way as to not trigger an immediate takeover.

Posted by: Caliman | Apr 8 2023 18:46 utc | 32

yes, that is key, Russia, China all got cured of parasitical fever the same way.

Posted by: [email protected] | Apr 8 2023 21:55 utc | 79

Getting the Israeli military invasion force off Socotra will be an interesting adventure.

But they need to be ejected asap.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 8 2023 22:20 utc | 80

" @Deplorable Commissar, #52:

Smart as you are I thought the answer to your curiosity should have been self-realizable easily. China has refrained (so has Russia)from supplying Iran with top-notch weaponries, in consideration for Israil security. There isn't any international law against doing so. China/Russia doing so would chill the Anglo-Zionist spines.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Apr 8 2023 20:29 utc | 57 "

As smart as you seem , the following information should've been know by you already.

- Israel-China Arms Trade: Unfreezing Times
July 16, 2012 -

https://www.mei.edu/publications/israel-china-arms-trade-unfreezing-times

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ISRAELIS AIDED CHINA ON MISSILES
By David B. OttawayMay 23, 1988 -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/05/23/israelis-aided-china-on-missiles/ac476260-1cc5-4879-9de3-b3993dfec57b/

- Between Beijing and Washington: Israel's Technology Transfers to China
Yoram Evron
Journal of East Asian Studies
Vol. 13, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 2013), -

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26335261

- Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China

24 Dec 2013 -

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china#:~:text=Secret%20U.S.%20missile%20and%20electro,Israeli%20defense%20official%20to%20resign.

- The U.S.-China-Israel Technology Triangle -

https://www.cfr.org/blog/us-china-israel-technology-triangle

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 8 2023 22:30 utc | 81

Posted by: Macpott | Apr 8 2023 21:47 utc | 77

ARCH ENEMY - The World Is Yours
When the bough breaks the Empire will Fall...

Posted by: nathan in WA US | Apr 8 2023 22:33 utc | 82

Mashallah. 140,000 Palestinians and others prayed Tarawi prayers outside Masjid Al Aqsa this evening.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2023 22:36 utc | 83

http://YouTube.be/NcQKW8NSJY

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2023 22:42 utc | 84

Posted by: Dan Farrand | Apr 8 2023 20:25 utc | 56
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A response to the God navel gazing trolls who like to interject their religious views into the very serious MoA discussions about modern geopolitical issues.

God is omnipresent: She knows everything in advance and therefore she cannot change or repent.
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1. "God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of a man that he should repent." Numbers 23

2. "The Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent." 1 Samuel 15:29

3. "The Lord ... will not repent." Psalm 110:4

4. "I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent." Ezekiel 24:14

6. "For I am the Lord, I change not." Malachi 3:6

7. "With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17

God repents; therefore, she is not omnipresent, and neither is she God.
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1.Before the flood (and just after the sons of God had sex with the daughters of men), God repented for having made humans. "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart". Genesis 6:6

2. "And Moses besought the LORD ... Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people. ... And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people." Exodus 32:11-14

3. God threatens to judge his people and repent by killing everyone, saying, "I will make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh." Deuteronomy 32:42

4."For the Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants.... I kill ... I wound ... I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh." Deuteronomy 32:36-42

5. God repented after selling the Israelites to their enemies (because of their groanings).
"It repented the LORD because of their groanings." Judges 2:18

6. After Saul failed to commit complete genocide as God commanded, God repented of making Saul king.
"It repenteth me [God] that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments [Committing complete genocide on the Amalekits] ... and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel." 1 Samuel 15:11, 35

7. After God killed 70,000 men (and 200,000 or so women and children) in a pestilence to punish Israel for a census that God (and/or Satan) inspired, "the Lord repented him of the evil" and quit killing people.
"The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. ... So, the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, it is enough: stay now thine hand." 2 Samuel 24:1-16

8. And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. ... And God was displeased with this thing; therefore, he smote Israel. ... So, the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him [self] of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, it is enough, stay now thine hand." 1 Chronicles 21:1-15

9. If a nation repents of its evil, God will repent of the evil things he had planned to do to it.
"If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them." Jeremiah 18:8

10. "If so, be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I [God] may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. Jeremiah 26:3

11. Therefore, now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. Jeremiah 26:13

12. "Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls." Jeremiah 26:19

13. "If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I [God] repent me of the evil that I have done unto you." Jeremiah 42:10

14. If a nation does evil, God will repent of the good things he was planning to do to it.
"If it does evil in my sight, that it obeys not my voice, then I [God] will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them." Jeremiah 18:8

15. After Jonah's converted the people of Ninevah, God repented of the evil that he planned to do to them.
"So, Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh ... So, the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth ... For word came unto the king of Nineveh ... and he ... covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes ... saying ... let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God. ... God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them." Jonah 3:3-10

16. In Amos's first vision, God makes grass-eating grasshoppers, and then repents.
"GOD shewed unto me; and behold, he formed grasshoppers ... when they had made an end of eating the grass ... The Lord repented for this." Amos 7:1-3

17. In Amos's second vision, God burns up the earth and sea, and then repents.
"Behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. ... The LORD repented for this." Amos 7:4-6

18. "I [God] am weary of repenting." Jeremiah 15:6

Yes, I know that apologists have spent 2000 years trying to explain away these embarrassing contradiction and they have failed.

At MoA, using religion to support a position about modern geopolitical issues is nonsense, and off the subject; but the neo-God trolls keep bringing it up as an answer to complicated issues, and they often work in pairs and groups. I have noticed this on many other sites as well.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 8 2023 22:42 utc | 85

http://YouTube.be/NcQKQW8NSJY

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2023 22:45 utc | 86

@ Ed 85
Your counting is good.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2023 23:00 utc | 87

Posted by: susan mullen | Apr 8 2023 20:53 utc | 65

So true.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 8 2023 23:07 utc | 88

@85 Ed

The Gnostics openly declared the war mongering schizophrenic Old Testament God a pretender. A creator he may be, but Yaldabaoth a bastard child of Sophia's irreverence toward the natural order of things.

Posted by: Jacq | Apr 8 2023 23:20 utc | 89

Chad gives German ambassador 48 hours to leave country.

Germany's ambassador to Chad will be expelled within 48 hours for his "impolite attitude" and "non-respect of diplomatic practices", the government in N'Djamena said in a statement Friday.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/04/07/701151/Chad-to-expel-German-ambassador-over--impolite--attitude

Posted by: Menz | Apr 8 2023 23:26 utc | 90

Saudi delegation in Iran to discuss reopening diplomatic missions:

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/04/08/701199/Iran-Saudi-Arabia-delegation-embassy-consulate-general-Tehran-Mashhad-Foreign-Ministry

Posted by: Menz | Apr 8 2023 23:29 utc | 91

@liveload. Thanks for the sitrep on your anti human stance. FOAD. As kindly as humanly possible that is.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 8 2023 23:31 utc | 92

The dinosaurs ruled the earth for 230 million years
I doubt the human race can survive that long
So take a step back from yourself, and have a good laugh.

Posted by: Dingo | Apr 8 2023 23:35 utc | 93

65 is just an atheist. To the posters at 56, 60 and 64; It all comes down to whether you believe in the Bible as being scripture, and if you do, whether you follow the ten commandments. Number 4 is honour the sabbath, which sunday worshippers do not...they are going to be very surprised when after his return, that he tells them to "begone from my sight".

Sunday worship is the mark of the beast, and obviously, we must first see the last rise of the Holy Roman Empire, coming soon to our very surprise. I believe it will be a culmination of the death of NATO, EU and the American hegemony that will result in the ten Catholic countries banding together as a Catholic superpower led by Germany. Daniel is chockful of these end time prophecies.

My opinion, anyhow.

Posted by: Arcticman | Apr 8 2023 23:40 utc | 94

Hezbollah fought to a draw but a win is beyond them -- Don Firineach | Apr 8 2023 18:47 utc | 36

Yeah, dream on, dude. Israel's another paper tiger. Lots of unsupported pretension. Their days are numbered. Start counting. -- john | Apr 8 2023 19:52 utc | 50

I think that if "a win" was within reach of Hezbollah, they could go for it. IDF has a big advantage in terms of weapons and manpower, and it seems to be diligent in training the soldiers and periodically recalled reservists (this diligence may vary according to my sole observation point, a visit to Israel to do some joint research, as my host was called to reserve duty, I visited his rather hilarious military unit consisting solely of reservists).

IDF also has an illustrious history of blitzkriegs and large scale battles. Recently, it developed unparallel expertise in harassing villagers, e.g. unique formulation of "skunk water", specialized machines for uprooting olive trees and application of herbicides (a bit less successful with sheep), clobbering worshippers etc., raising doubts if their current capabilities match their former glory. But I still see no match between defensive capabilities of IDF and offensive capabilities of Hezbollah. IDF has very complete kit of weaponry, can mobilize a vast trained manpower and a short border to defend. Hezbollah has at least 5 if not 10 times smaller manpower and very incomplete kit of weapons. However, if the tables are reversed, defensive capability of Hezbollah is nothing to sneer about.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Apr 8 2023 23:47 utc | 95

"The Pentagon's rare disclosure of the location of one of its Ohio-class submarines came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran after an American military contractor was killed by a drone attack on a US base in Syria last month."

"Pleikus are like streetcars."

Posted by: John Kennard | Apr 8 2023 23:47 utc | 96

@liveload. Thanks for the sitrep on your anti human stance. FOAD. As kindly as humanly possible that is.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 8 2023 23:31 utc | 92

Again with the butthurt, lol yeah ok dude. Like that's what this is about. See this is what I'm talking about. You immediately assume you think you know what I'm talking about but you don't know a fucking thing. Where did I attack you personally? Now you can either address any of my points and withdraw your idiotic ad hominem attacks.

Posted by: liveload | Apr 8 2023 23:50 utc | 97

Ayhol there!
Salute fellow slaves! Evil daze, was it ever otherwise? We are all almost free, and almost destroyed. Simultaneously.... it is rather fraught. Ah, qua sky?

What middle east? We are subsumed in conception. You can fear and delete my perspicacity, you can call me an AI chat bot (I coined, "machine plagiarism" !) But brothers and sisters, from all lands and traditions, we are deeply trapped in a mind control nexus. The current, but not natural, human condition. We can of course, make up our own story. We must earth need not entertain our stupid mankeyshines. Really boring (for 111 years) the denial of the meaning of technology. Relativity. Quantum mechanics. Electromagnetism. We went gutter and nonsense with fake democracy and fake communism experimenting on capitalism unbound from reason. Now we face a very real killed ecosphere and a choice. Quantum AI controlled nano science utopia or heat death? (etcetera.) Very sad that it has come to this in such fashion, fighting primitive battles. Yet here we are.

Here is the deal. Free Tibet. Free East Turkestan. Call Vladivostok, Vladevostok. Russia exit Crimea and it, LPR and DPR will be autonomous zones under Ukraine administration. No Kremlin support in these areas of military or politics. Sevastopol base may be retained on old lease terms.

It is China that leveraged this move. It did not work out. It is very embarrassing, but, so what. We go forward, no?

PRC or NATO. Who is Russia's true ally?

Last chance to salvage the Russian Empire.

Or PRC will feast. (And then crumble. Leaving pain.).

Poor earth! So wasteful of our blessings!!!

PRC wants lake Baikal. Badly.

CIA drawing PRC into Myanmar nightmare. (Operation Vanilla if you care)

Another one.

It all has to be kayfabe, a show, right? All too stupid for words.

Good luck. Mutual aid. Build decent real communities.

Gonna be quite the next few months I fear.

OM

Posted by: ayhol | Apr 8 2023 23:53 utc | 98

About prophecies and documented edicts of the Lord: it is clear that the Lord is changing His mind from time to time, and why should He not? So, after so many centuries without credible prophecies (apologies to Latter Day Saints, Rastafarians etc.), we need to use our reason to figure the good and the bad, who should be smitten, who should be lauded etc.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Apr 8 2023 23:55 utc | 99

My opinion, anyhow.

Posted by: Arcticman | Apr 8 2023 23:40 utc | 94
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You know what they say about opinions? Everybody has one, but opinions are not fact or truth.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 9 2023 0:07 utc | 100