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November 23, 2023
Palestine Open Thread 2023-282

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Now the difficulty of all this is obvious in terms of the fact that you’ve got an Israeli cabinet that is the most determined, genocidal cabinet the world has ever seen, and I don’t excuse the Nazi cabinets from that comparison.
Posted by: bevin | Nov 24 2023 23:42 utc | 203
Very strong words, thanks for posting this.
To corroborate, a recent article from Simplicius for those who may still harbor any doubts on the veracity of the above.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Nov 25 2023 0:09 utc | 201

Thomas Fazi
@battleforeurope
This testimony from Paul Ley, a doctor at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, is absolutely sickening:
“I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia… but I have never operated on so many injured children as I am now in the Gaza Strip. In the burns unit of the European Hospital we now have 78 patients, nearly two-fifths of them children under five. I have never seen anything like it. I have been in many war contexts where the type of wounds are the same but the number is huge. We never leave the hospital. We work round the clock. We do operations with minimal anaesthesia. If we run out, we can’t operate but there is no clear line. There are a lot of people crying, screaming with pain, but we don’t have enough analgesics. We keep them for the kids or very severe cases. Normally we would change dressings on patients with 40% burns with them under sedation and minimise the time by using more attendants… Now it has to be done with a lot of pain. We try to keep our heads cool and steady, but for local staff this is their families, friends, their people. They never want to amputate. They say: ‘I can’t do it any more’ and so I say: ‘OK I will do it, don’t worry,’ and you can feel the relief”.
https://twitter.com/battleforeurope/status/1727986460882620440

Posted by: Menz | Nov 25 2023 0:17 utc | 202

Jamal Dajani جمال
@JamalDajani
Every released Palestinian prisoner (women & children) talked about being abused in Israeli jails and during their transfer. Everyone of them thanked Hamas for their release. Not a single one thanked the PA or Mahmoud Abbas.
https://twitter.com/JamalDajani/status/1728132447538409944

Posted by: Menz | Nov 25 2023 0:21 utc | 203

Palestine Now.
@PalestineNW
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https://twitter.com/PalestineNW

Posted by: Menz | Nov 25 2023 0:27 utc | 204

Posted by: bevin | Nov 24 2023 23:42 utc | 203
What is the source of those quotes? I like them but a “google” search yields nothing.

Posted by: jr | Nov 25 2023 0:27 utc | 205

Interesting both from the point of view of the censorship of Palestinian voices in the US and on the legalities of Israeli actions towards Palestinians.
Essay by Rabea Eghbariah, a human rights attorney completing his doctoral studies at Harvard Law School.
Argues that while Israeli actions have aspects of apartheid and genocide to them, they don’t neatly map onto the Holocaust or South Africa and should be given a new category of Crime: Nakba.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/
A scholarly work with dozens of excellent historical references and other materials to know about. A keeper to share widely.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 0:31 utc | 206

@ jr # 209
Here is where the interview of Chas Freeman took place. Interviewer is Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies channel.
Nov 20, 2023
Interview part 1 of 3 with former US Ambassador Chas Freeman.
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXWHOhugyM

Well, this is as bad as it gets. A Genocide in plain sight, for everyone to see, merciless and cold blooded and “the West” with all its human rights talk, with all its hubris is in full support—maybe give the Palestinians a coffee break before continue killing them, but that’s about the maximum the West is willing to concede to the victims.
Ambassador Chas Freeman is one of the view former US public officials willing to speak out against this travesty. In addition, he is a superb analyst of West Asian and World Affairs. In this interview, he analyses what the current tragedy in Palestine will mean for Geopolitics in the region and beyond.
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Posted by: suzan | Nov 25 2023 0:43 utc | 207

Most Jews are not Zionists.
@ bevin | Nov 24 2023 23:50 utc | 204
Do we really know that for certain? What’s your basis for believing that Bevin… old polling surveys etc? I’m curious.
Given some info reports out of Israel eg Crooke it sounds like maybe as high as 96%
of jewish israels now want the eradication disposal removal of all palestinans – sounds quite zionist. Dick cheny and every other Neocon known to man are zionists, jewsih or not.
I’m wondering how would anyone know from one moment to the next what “all the jewish people” opinions are about zionism, genocide of the Palestinians, the occupied territories and israel.
eg what about non-practicing Jews who quit, have nothing to do with the religion at all – are they still considered Jewish, because I don’t think they should be, same as if you don’t believe in Catholicism or the Pope or don’t go to church anymore you’re no longer a Catholic/Christian.
Is there a credible source that has such info? cheers

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 0:43 utc | 208

Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 0:43 utc | 212–
IMO, if you’re allied with the Zionist Project, that makes you a Zionist. The last figure Crooke cited was 86% wanted fulfillment of the Zionist Project, and that might be higher or lower now. Dr, Hudson and I had an email exchange on the issue, “Dr. Hudson Email Chat–Palestine Solution”.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 25 2023 0:57 utc | 209

Sounds like Pepe hasn’t been keeping up with comment section here. Nonetheless, he agrees with one of his commentators that eviction notice for the empire has been written.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/11/24/the-eviction-notice-is-being-written-and-will-come-in-four-languages/
I wrote the following almost two years ago, to date, when Mr. Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist what assassinated. b had an expose on it. Oh, and if you happen to open that MoA page, check out Bennie “the butcher/comb over” in front of his picture.

My condolences and congratulation to Mr. Fakhrizadeh’s family, and by extension, Iran.
Pin pricks I say. Pin pricks. This is akin to what they call brain drain out of Iran. What they don’t explain, is that, for every brain, drained, out of Iran, there is another hundred being made.
Revenge? No revenge necessary. Iran is achieving it’s strategic goal of kicking the empire out of SW Asia. Acts like, Suleimani’s murder and this cowardly act, will only hasten that exit. Orange man is unveiling the exit plan in his last days.
Mistakes like this, make the empire’s mercenaries — er — soldiers, feel more unsafe, where they go to cower in bunkers when attacked, and not out defending their bases.

What did they achieve with the murder of the other four nuclear scientists? Nothing for their part, but hundreds of Iranian college students that switched track to nuclear science.
All the targets for sanctions have now dried up, so, the empire has let it’s Chihuahua loose, to take these cowardly actions…
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Nov 28 2020 18:16 utc | 155

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Nov 25 2023 1:16 utc | 210

re Karlof1’s #213
Crooke cited 83% of Israeli Jews, who are of varying religious dispositions, atheists included. Please remember to use qualifier.
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Why should people of Jewish ethic descent who reside in another country be viewed as Israelites by the Israeli state and/or by people elsewhere worldwide? What percent of global ethnic Jews choose this categorical lumping? I don’t know anyone who does but then i don’t know many elites so my personal survey is skewed.
This mis appellation, thinking that all ethnic Jews globally are or should be Israelis, which was apparently seeded by British elites in the 19th century both amongst Christians aka Christian Zionism, and in the early 20th century with the Sykes-Picot partition Agreement imperialist resource land grab in West Asia which then spatially birthed the Balfour Agreement decades before the Jewish Holocaust, was conceived and promulgated by elite British ruling-class anti-semites and an atheist Jew or two. or so i’ve read, launching the conditions we have today where imperialism runs amok, fueled by zionist identity mongers.

Posted by: suzan | Nov 25 2023 1:41 utc | 211

karlof1 | Nov 25 2023 0:57 utc | 213
A transcript I need to dig up is I think Xi’s speech at BRICS meeting. Judging freedom played a short bit of video with subtitles. Xi spoke somewhat bluntly for China in saying something along the lines of using force to enforce the two state solution. In looking at what has been occurring, I suspect Russia China led RoW is maneuvering the US into a position where it will at the least abstain on UNSC resolutions recognizing Palestine as a state, A border, and then a RoW peacekeeping UN approved peacekeeping force to enforce that by using force if necessary.
It could also be that Russia China Iran are going through the necessary motions first before they do something else.
I think you may have posted the link to Xi’s BRICS speech transcript which I wasn’t up to reading at the time but I feel is quite important now.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 25 2023 1:55 utc | 212

Lathe Biosas, I appreciate your reply and thank you for it, but I do not understand how you can know this:
“The inner part of the onion is all about unity and love.” – when the books that define what Judaism IS command the Jews to lie to all who are not Jewish and always deceive us. It is their own identification of who they are that makes us foolish to ever trust a thing they say – a foolishness that endangers our survival.
You say it’s not Judaism that is the problem, but separation and exceptionalism. But if two or more groups have equality and none can out-power the other then isn’t separation a rather contained ignorance? I say it’s different for exceptionalism. The placing of people into positions of superiority and inferiority is the recipe for all evils to consume humanity. Somebody thinking they are supreme matters not much in a sea of humans who have made it impossible to gain extreme wealth and power – but we are not there yet, obviously. We are still where people who dream they are supreme can ACT on that idea – and again, that idea is the very core of the Jews’ “holy books”.
You say “This exists in all major cultures throughout history.” And you gave me “A non-inclusive list that comes to mind:
– Πας μη Έλλην βάρβαρος (Pas Mi Ellin Varvaros – every non-Greek is a barbarian, originally used to denote language differences but soon became an exceptionalist ideal)
– The Hua-Yi distinction in China
– Mleccha in Hinduism
– The Aztec Chichimeca
– Deutschland über alles
– The American City upon a Hill”
I am ignorant about most of that list. Are those examples you gave really equivalents to what the Jews have – their very guide to life being absolute inferiorisation of all non-Jews, along with commands to ACT upon that belief?
And when you say “In exoteric Judaism, it indeed found its strongest expression, by formally denouncing all non-Jews as goyim and this became an established accepted fact by most of the populace: they were (in their eyes) God’s chosen people.” … I seriously hear that it IS a must-do for human survival to outlaw Judaism.
I love freedom and equality and justice. I am for letting people be who they are. So I am sad to say what I am saying and I don’t take it lightly. I take less than zero pleasure in thinking that we really have no choice but to rid this planet of Judaism because it IS a cancer.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Nov 25 2023 2:16 utc | 213

jr | Nov 25 2023 0:27 utc | 209
I’m very sorry: they are from a twitter feed which is published on Information Clearing House today.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 25 2023 2:30 utc | 214

Re “Crooke has been presenting important new insights, ”
Yes, Crooke brought some very valuable insights as to the (then) political struggle within Israel: the right wing (Mizrahi Jews) showing its muscle. Since then it looks as though the right wing has succeeded in monopolizing the narrative and dragging the tepid into the genocidal right-wing camp.
Broad-brush putdowns of Crooke are a total waste of time.
I love Crooke.
I don’t always agree with him 100%, but 99% is a pretty good average.

Posted by: Jane | Nov 25 2023 2:30 utc | 215

@ Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 0:43 utc | 212
Thierry Meyssan wrote recently,
“Today, most American Jews are anti-Zionists, while the majority of European Jews are Zionists.”
I don’t know where his sources come from or how accurate they are. Still, due to Christian Zionist fervor in USA, there is probably more zionism in USA than in Europe.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220031.html

Posted by: suzan | Nov 25 2023 2:55 utc | 216

Peter AU1 | Nov 25 2023 1:55 utc | 216–
Its’ here Peter. Here are the two main paragraphs:

The conflict in Gaza is raging on into its second month. China is gravely concerned that the conflict is causing enormous civilian casualties and a humanitarian disaster, and tends to expand and spill over. China believes that the following is urgent and imperative: First, the parties to the conflict must end hostilities and achieve a ceasefire immediately, stop all violence and attacks against civilians, release civilians held captive, and act to prevent loss of more lives and spare people from more miseries. Second, humanitarian corridors must be kept secure and unimpeded, and more humanitarian assistance should be provided to the population in Gaza. The collective punishment of people in Gaza in the form of forced transfer or water, electricity and fuel deprivation must stop. Third, the international community must act with practical measures to prevent the conflict from spilling over and endangering stability in the Middle East as a whole. China supports the resolution adopted at the emergency special session of the U.N. General Assembly on October 27. The U.N. Security Council under China’s presidency has adopted Resolution 2712. All the parties must act to deliver on these resolutions through concrete measures on the ground.
The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli situation is the fact that the right of the Palestinian people to statehood, their right to existence, and their right of return have long been ignored. I have emphasized on many occasions that the only viable way to break the cycle of Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies in the two-state solution, in the restoration of the legitimate national rights of Palestine, and in the establishment of an independent State of Palestine. There can be no sustainable peace and security in the Middle East without a just solution to the question of Palestine. China calls for early convening of an international peace conference that is more authoritative to build international consensus for peace and work toward an early solution to the question of Palestine that is comprehensive, just and sustainable. [My Emphasis]

I highlighted four of Xi’s five “Musts”. The original Chinese might have a stronger meaning, but I don’t know. Must is a rather powerful word in this situation.
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suzan | Nov 25 2023 1:41 utc | 215–
The post I replied to had the proper geographical context, so I felt known was needed.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 25 2023 3:02 utc | 217

Since the Russian Federation is in the de-Nazification business it would probably be helpful if it used the satellite data gleaned from 6 weeks of Zio-Nazi genocide, to obliterate “Israel’s” Air Force, air strips, and ammunition dumps. It would put a big dent in Bibi’s Superiority Complex and win Russia millions of anti-genocide fans worldwide.
Putin could say “Oops, soŕry” when the task is complete.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 25 2023 3:06 utc | 218

I think Xi’s speech at BRICS meeting. Judging freedom played a short bit of video with subtitles. Xi spoke somewhat bluntly for China in saying something along the lines of using force to enforce the two state solution.
@ Peter AU1 | Nov 25 2023 1:55 utc | 216
Hi, now I saw that somewhere too but didn’t save it. and I cannot recall where.
I checked this Judge N. with mearsheimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WbC-AR-QG0 see at 5.50 mins with XI subtitles, but it is the same text as Karl put up on his site. Nothing about using force in a UN style peace keeping type situation. I will keep an eye out.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 3:11 utc | 219

no choice but to rid this planet of Judaism because it IS a cancer.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Nov 25 2023 2:16 utc | 217
I agree. Problem is, a definition is needed, by which all belief systems must be tested. (unless we arbitrarily ban judaism).
Lathe Biosas gave a list which is silly. Any belief or ideology is based on the idea they found the best way.
We have to find the ideologies which has at its core the belief that not only they are superior (common), not jus encourage their adherents to enforce it, but actually instructs/compells them to use violence to bring the whole society/region under such supremacy.
Such ideologies, which don’t want to change, should be outlawed.
Problem is, Catholics, Evangelists, Sunni Muslims too have this idea of using violence on infidels. (the Joshua syndrome)
Many Christians might be willing to let go of parts of the old testament but how about others?
Hopefully after 500000 Palestinians are dead humanity can take on these vile ideologies. Maybe the old gods will return and help.

Posted by: chola3 | Nov 25 2023 3:18 utc | 220

I couldn’t care less either way, but I don’t think ‘ridding the world of Judaism’ is a civilized approach!
Let us say that the exceptionalist bent behind the ‘Chosen’ notion is a tad extreme. As such it’s the extremism that is the problem. Both individually and collectively as human beings we tend to oscillate between being too much or too little – on all sorts of levels in all sorts of ways.
The problem with the Zionist project is that it has been allowed to get out of hand by providing them with a situation without constraints. We all have people or powers above us, or rather we all need that, as well as having obligation to those below or whom we can help.
We do not inhabit self-existing, self-maintaining islands. We always have to work at things which oscillate between very good and very bad, both of our own creation and the fault of others.
So the Israel project is Judaism in an overly extreme manifestation. The external situation and good old fashioned persuasion needs to talk them down off the ledge somehow. They need to return to the human realm and get off their asura/jealous god/titan high horse.
It’s a bad mentality issue….

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 3:29 utc | 221

It’s a bad mentality issue….
Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 3:29 utc | 225
Not really. Some times ago my father in law tried to teach my son how great Joshua was for obeying god’s instructions.
If not for my intervention, my son would grow up thinking genocide, of the correct people, is a must.
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For what is supposed to be the eradication of Ameleks, the death toll is too low after 40 days.
I think the Zionist christians are subconsciously realising that once a genocide happens, the world might turn on all these vile ideologies.

Posted by: chola3 | Nov 25 2023 3:37 utc | 222

I love freedom and equality and justice. I am for letting people be who they are. So I am sad to say what I am saying and I don’t take it lightly. I take less than zero pleasure in thinking that we really have no choice but to rid this planet of Judaism because it IS a cancer.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Nov 25 2023 2:16 utc | 217
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Are we at MoA now discussing Hitler like propositions in regard to Judaism? Really? Zionism is NOT Judaism. Surly, Zionism, like fascism, Nazim, and the KKK should be banned from planet earth, but Judaism is a religion: How do you ban a religion? It must die of its own contradictions as most religions have done throughout human history. There are far more dead religions that those that exist today.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 25 2023 3:47 utc | 223

Posted by: chola3 | Nov 25 2023 3:37 utc | 226
It’s a bad mentality issue….
Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 3:29 utc | 225
Not really. Some times ago my father in law tried to teach my son how great Joshua was for obeying god’s instructions.
If not for my intervention, my son would grow up thinking genocide, of the correct people, is a must.

Well, that’s basically what I’m suggesting is needed: an intervention of sorts. (Leading to a three year or more cease fire detox clinic until they sober up.)
As to the Christian Zionists, I may be wrong since don’t think I know any, but I suspect they are more sheep than wolves. The Zionists are much more hard core, but then again they’ve been allowed to get away with too much for too long because of the financial and blackmail cover they get from powerful sponsors in the not-for-much-longer rich and powerful West.
Times are a-changing….

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 3:49 utc | 224

I’d like to bring attention to the YouTuber “BadEmpanada’s” hour long analysis of the weaponisation of the term “anti-semitism”.
Weaponized Anti-Semitism Allegations: How Israel Plays the Victim, Inverts Reality & Stifles Dissent
Weaponized Anti-Semitism Allegations: How Israel Plays the Victim, Inverts Reality & Stifles Dissent
This is one of the most well reasoned, yet accessible and current analyses of the term and it’s use.
BadEmpanada’s take-no-prisoners, “call a spade a spade” style and sound application of logic with fact has always been attractive to me and very well displayed in this production.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 3:56 utc | 225

P.S: Our resident hasbara troll contingent has been suspiciously silent these past few days …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 3:58 utc | 226

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 3:56 utc | 229
You can also turn it around, like ‘the deplorables’ did in 2016. I like the old quote:
‘if you are not anti-semitic you are not paying attention.’
It’s a weaponized BS term. One should be afraid of it.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 4:04 utc | 227

ha ha ha!
It’s a weaponized BS term. One should be afraid of it.
should be:
It’s a weaponized BS term. One should NOT be afraid of it!

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 25 2023 4:07 utc | 228

Thanks Karl. I think that is what I am looking for. will read through it shortly.
Lavrov’s Dog. Thanks for the link. Thew judge generally asks the same questions of a number of people and I assume it will be the same as he put to Macgregor. Will be useful though.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 25 2023 4:08 utc | 229

Arch Bungle 230
At this time of day the flies are not in the kitchen, they’re in the toilet.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 4:34 utc | 230

Weaponized Anti-Semitism Allegations: How Israel Plays the Victim, Inverts Reality & Stifles Dissent
@ Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 3:56 utc | 229
I just finished reading an article which touched on the topic along the way:

“In the early 1970s, South African-born Abba Eban, whose eloquence as Israel’s UN representative and later Foreign Minister was legendary, devised a long-term strategy. Its goal was to prevent criticism of its country by accusing the critics of anti-Semitism.
His efforts continue to bear fruit: accusations of Israeli apartheid towards Palestinians and even boycotts of Israeli produce in supermarkets are officially banned in many Western countries as manifestations of anti-Semitism. Thus, Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians is outside the bounds of free discussion.”
In view of what is now happening in Gaza, Eban’s strategy is losing its credence, but Israel, apparently (or rather obviously) believes that it has no other choice but to stick to this logic.
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/putin-in-the-labyrinth-how-moscow-can-avoid-losing-in-the-middle-east/

Very interesting informative article overall historically fills in a few blanks. cheers

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 5:20 utc | 231

suzan | Nov 25 2023 2:55 utc | 220
TY for that ref …. helpful and led to other useful things.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 5:22 utc | 232

The Zimbabwean Mufti , Sheikh Ishmaeel Menk, aa shining light in Islamic commentary, once said that the tight control of the mosques in his country was a great blessing.
By this I think he meant that only when the eschatological rhetoric of hatred is forcibly contained by a very unsympathetic police force, can reaoned and enlightened religious and ethical so thought prevail.
Netanyahu’s hate speech must be policed by somebody to prevent it becoming fuel for more genocide. Trump’s white supremacy rhetoric has been curtailed by lawsuits , and Netanyahu urgently needs the same treatment.
The UN should prosecute him for genocidal hate speech and he should be prevented from visiting Britain.
@ susan
For exactly the same reason Alistair Crooke should be censured for incendiary speculation that high percentages of Israelis support genocide. Have they been informed about the Hannibal doctrine used on October 7 ? Have they been informed about IDF complicity in the knowledge in advance of the Hamas entry into Israel ?
Have they been informed about IDF lies about Hamas using Al Shifa Hospital ?
Of course popular opinion can be manipulated by lies. The BBC does it all the time.
It isn’t in Jewish Israelis’ interests to be wound up by a small group of racist politicians to support this genocide.
Imho the Judge is being disingenuous.
He should strongly challenge Crooke for not qualifying his statement by reminding his audience of Israel’s propaganda lies.
When a liar lies the liar is responsible for the consequences, not the average listener who expects the media not to lie. I switched off the BBC at the start of the Ukraine SMO. Any media outlet, including Judge N , that propagates bias by not challenging the speaker, gets banned.
You’re free to lap up the garbage if you think that helps solve the genocide.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 5:24 utc | 233

It’s vital to not apply collective punishment and vengeance reprisals to all Israelis ( and by implication Jewish people worldwide) . There are plenty of Jewish people who are against the Likud madness. For example #NotinourName.
That being said – it’s reasonable to support fully sanctions and asset freezes on the entire ruling cabinet as well as various other politicians, journalists, and others citizens. It’s also worthy of discussion if the current Israel gov‘t should have its UN seat removed as well as being banned from all international bodies, sports and cultural events.
Over the last 30 years, there are plenty of examples where a gov‘t was sanctioned in similar fashion. Let‘s hope the Israeli people wake up and finally conclude that the Likud strategy has utterly failed to bring them either peace or security.

Posted by: Exile | Nov 25 2023 7:55 utc | 234

That moniker originated in the field of pro-Palestinian protesters, not MoA.
You can sit down now.
Posted by: sln2002 | Nov 24 2023 23:26 utc | 201
Yeah none of them here.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 25 2023 8:05 utc | 235

St Andrews University rector was urged to apologise or quit after accusing Israel of ‘genocide’. Stella Maris, who was elected to her role last month, made accusation in email to students but denies anti-Semitism. (In Scotland)

Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 25 2023 8:39 utc | 236

It’s vital to not apply collective punishment and vengeance reprisals to all Israelis ( and by implication Jewish people worldwide) . There are plenty of Jewish people who are against the Likud madness. For example #NotinourName.
Posted by: Exile | Nov 25 2023 7:55 utc | 238
The only way to achieve this and justice at the same time is a One State solution.
Those who are willing to seek compromise with the Arabs will remain and integrate.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 8:41 utc | 237

An obveous difference between jews that support Israels genicide of palistinians and those that dont….
Funding, funding, funding.
Lobby groups selecting jews that will support israels mass murder. as polititians, media staff, university and military heads. And then backing them up with the full support of the powerfull lobby net work.
Thats the crux of the problem, an infastruture carefully put into place over years and now activated.
Thats the problem its also the salution.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 25 2023 9:00 utc | 238

If your a young jew and want to get on in the world you will know you have to say the ‘right things’ mix with the right pro Israel people… they have the contacts, funds and support for you.. or not.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 25 2023 9:07 utc | 239

Follow the money.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 25 2023 9:13 utc | 240

https://t.me/presstv/80517

▶️Jim Kavanagh highlights that the captives weren’t a problem for the Israelis; they didn’t want them back but only sought to use them as an excuse for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 25 2023 9:50 utc | 241

https://t.me/IntelRepublic/30955

🎤LEGENDARY MIC DROP in above video from pro-Palestine supporter, shutting down mainstream media’s only 2 questions about conflict (Do you condemn Hamas and what about October 7 (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/30933)) by refusing to stop counting every single day after that IDF (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/30148) committed massacres, leaving reporter baffled before giving up and walking away (00:44).

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 25 2023 9:55 utc | 242

Everything in the world is interconnected through trade and business and migration.
The war in Ukraine began in early 2022.
For historical reasons going back over three centuries, there is a very large mixed Russian-German population in Germany. Put at from a million to a million and a half. There was a very large Russian population in the UK and Europe, put at well over half a million.
In 2022, these people were refused medical treatment on the grounds of their nationality or heritage.
They were sacked from their jobs, they were physically attacked, and shops and other businesses were attacked and destroyed by mobs incited by politicians and their media.
Russians were banned from sport, Olympics, UEFA, Wimbledon, even as individuals.
Russian cats and dogs were banned from pet shows. Russian trees and Russian mustard were banned. The works of Russian authors, poets and composers were banned.
The assets of the Russian state and the property of wealthy Russians were seized and confiscated. Legislation was passed and implemented to seize the property of ordinary Russians in the EU – cars, clothing, even things like soap and shampoo.
Russians were required to make public statements denouncing Russia and Putin – though it made no difference at all to their treatment if they did.
Ports and airports were closed to Russia. Russia was banned from the Eurovision song contest. Thousands of Sanctions were imposed banning everything that could be banned.
The response to the Gaza Genocide has been somewhat more muted. No sanctions, no cutting off of trade and travel, no confiscations of assets, no harassment and persecution of individuals.
Maybe the same approach should be adopted towards Israel, Israelis living abroad, and Jews in general? Shouldn’t they be identified and confronted and harassed, persecuted in the same way, sacked from their jobs, have their property confiscated, required to make public statements denouncing Israel and Netanyahu, prevented from travelling, banned from everything?
Where is the consistency?
Just asking.
If discrimination and persecution are the new normal for the Rules Based Order, why not?

Posted by: anon | Nov 25 2023 11:18 utc | 243

Anon @ 247
Exactly that.
In our ‘democracy’ we apoint leaders, and when they cucrupt our democracy. We have to take back control as a soiciety.
Today is saterday. Its urgent that we demonstrait that on our streets today.
We should’nt have to, but they have all but silenced any other channel of comunication.
So be it.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 25 2023 11:40 utc | 244

anon 247
Since you ask, Russia must be doing something very right in terms of challenging USUKIS aggression in the Middle East while Israel must be exceeding all limits of sanity and decency in assisting them.
I see no inconsistency. Two sides of exactly the same coin. Theresa May said Russia had [ defeated Nato in Syria and was therefore ] public enemy no. 1.
BoJo said Ukraine must fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Call that 30 million people displaced in Syria and Ukraine through USUKIS terrorist proxies. 5 million about to be displaced in Palestine by Muslim Brotherhood Hamas. Plus an announcement from Netanyahu that from the Euphrates to the Nile will now surrender to USUKIS murderous colonisation . Possibly adding a further 75 million deaths before accomplishment of mission.
If I was Putin , I would be sending racing pigeons to Washington , London and Jerusalem and wait and see if they don’t come back again. No return means Kinzals have found their destinations.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 12:04 utc | 245

Scorpion @225: “I don’t think ‘ridding the world of Judaism’ is a civilized approach!”
Agreed. I think the Chinese approach to dealing with violent extremism is much more civilized. Send the zionists to charm school to teach them how not to be assholes, and gently redirect the energies of their homicidal aggression to more constructive pursuits. While it would be some satisfying catharsis to exterminate the scumbags, we should consider trying to rise above such primitive Stone Age knee-jerk reactions.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 25 2023 12:07 utc | 246

Posted by: jr | Nov 25 2023 0:27 utc | 209
“What is the source of those quotes? I like them but a “google” search yields nothing.”
https://chasfreeman.net/

Posted by: notlurking | Nov 25 2023 12:27 utc | 247

William Gruff 250
The US fundamentalist Christians have correctly understood that they return of the Messiah pbuh is somehow connected to a Judean Empire.
What they haven’t quite understood is that the Messiah pbuh will return as a Muslim and every single Jew and Christian will recognise him as the Messiah, and therefore have to acknowledge him pbuh.
On previous occasions when the Jews have exceeded all bounds, for example in rejecting him pbuh first time round, God displaced them, trashed their new temple and thus displayed His Wrath at their offensive actions.
Second time round in all fairness the Jews and Christians have all been warned by the Qur’an, and the Messiah’s presence will be a physical warning.
Those who ignored the physical warnings of the miracles given to the Messiah will probably ignore them second time. The Jews already knew that God is One , which is what all God’s prophets have taught from prophet Adam. Peace be upon all of them . We make no distinction between them.
But Christians believe in those miracles and breve in the Messiah according to the adulterated Christian scriptures which falsely imply that Jesus pbuh is part / son of God. They shoukd find it easy like me to understand that their inner faith has been seriously twisted by the Gospel translators. It will be easy for Christians to adjust to the truth of the Qur’an , that God is One. And easy for Jews who.believe that God is One to follow the Messiah.
The problem will come for those in USUKIS whose motive is purely Colonialism, adapting the scriptural narratives to suit their Piratical ends. Many of them will repent , if they know what’s good for them.
That time of the return of the Messiah will be a sorting of the sheep from.the goats, a time of jubilation for some, and great distress for others. God always waits to allow the reality of His message to sink in.
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Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 12:46 utc | 248

Instead of all this never-ending talk about religion which serves no discernible purpose, I suggest – pause, and have a look at these photos:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-gaza-walk-through-ceasefire-day-1-photos/

Posted by: JB | Nov 25 2023 13:10 utc | 249

Instead of all this never-ending talk about religion which serves no discernible purpose, I suggest – pause, and have a look at these photos:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-gaza-walk-through-ceasefire-day-1-photos/
Posted by: JB | Nov 25 2023 13:10 utc | 253
I heartily second that. I just skip all the never ending talk about religion.
The site you linked is very good as is Electronic Intifada. On social media and AL Jazeera there are also many videos of the Palestinians who have been freed meeting their families. Finally something made me smile.
Even if Israel has kidnapped as many new people in the West Bank as it released. Also no news on the 10 doctors kidnapped from Al Shifa and taken away for interrogation by Israeli Genocide Forces.
I think we all know the basic talking points of the religious issues as well the unresolved bullet points about who begat whom and which is the tail and which is the dog.
The “Islamists” here in particular: none of them sound as if they speak enough Arabic to know anything other than the same five or six talking points that come straight from the developers of those narratives and architest of the Global War on Terror (e.g. Alastair Crooke during his decades long MI6 career or Donald and Robert Kagan in DC) and fed to the public whether through “indy” media or the New York Times, FT, WaPo etc.
Trying to figure out whether wacky religious beliefs are more or less important than imperial ambitions and geopolitical strategy is is just a distraction from the key issue of the day: A Eurosupremacist apartheid regime, the last overtly settler colonial project is carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing and is being cheered on by the colonial and settler colonial powers.

Posted by: pq | Nov 25 2023 13:38 utc | 250

IF YOU’LL AGREE WITH HIM OR NOT, OR WHATEVER INBETWEEN… PEPE ALWAYS GETS SOME SPOTS RIGHT !
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/gaza-a-pause-before-the-storm
Gaza: a pause before the storm
The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce.
But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos…
By Pepe Escobar

Posted by: MD | Nov 25 2023 13:40 utc | 251

JB 253
Sorry you cannot discern any purpose even in an ostensibly religious genocide.
To explain why there is no effective Muslim opposition to Zionism
The Qur’an gives two different instructions to two different questions.
For those Muslims who are dealing with non Muslins, the Muslims are instructed to show a hold example of the beautiful religion of Islam.
For those Muslims who are dealing with persecution from non.Muslims they are instructed to sufficiently arm themselves to defeat their persecutors, not just annoy them.
The Muslims spare no effort in Non Muslim countries to arm themselves with multiple mortgages, Mercedes and Mammon and show the non Muslims they are dangerous drivers with dodgy dealings.
When they are persecuted by their enemies, all they can think of doing is to pimp their countries’ resources and fight FOR the USUKIS Crusaders against the Muslims.
Sorry JB if this is boring you.
Maybe you find it amusibg or exciting.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 13:43 utc | 252

fyi,
I can hardly believe that the BBC is doing journalism, for once; talking to an israel zionist mininster like this. lmap
https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/1728363969256251527
BBC presenter Lucy Hockings told Israeli Minister Nir Barkat that lawyers around the world want to put Israel in front of the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Hockings roasted Barkat after he said Israel was considerate to civilians in Gaza

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 25 2023 13:45 utc | 253

If your a young psycopath and want to get on in the world you will know you have to say the ‘right things’ mix with the right psycopathic people… they have the contacts, funds and support for you.. or not.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 25 2023 9:07 utc | 243
Indulge my re-reading of your (not completely untrue!) statement.
I wish to illustrate that this choice probably applies to every sub-culture, faction, class and ethno-ideological grouping one wishes to name …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 13:49 utc | 254

“In the early 1970s, South African-born Abba Eban, whose eloquence as Israel’s UN representative and later Foreign Minister was legendary, devised a long-term strategy. Its goal was to prevent criticism of its country by accusing the critics of anti-Semitism.
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 25 2023 5:20 utc | 235
Thank you, that’s a very interesting piece of information.
It reminds me of the time I spent in the ZAR during that time: I remember noting that the South African Jews, for all that is made of Jews who stood up against apartheid (Ronnie Kasrils most notably) the Jewish community by and large profited from and under the system and were part of it’s enforcing infrastructure (they were “whites” after all!).

How appropriate that a South African Jew would be among the most influential architects of Isreali apartheid.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 14:09 utc | 255

Instead of all this never-ending talk about religion which serves no discernible purpose, I suggest – pause, and have a look at these photos:
Posted by: JB | Nov 25 2023 13:10 utc | 253
Indeed, a very good point. The only problem is that Islam is not a religion per se. It is a Way of Life. As the hadith very aptly stated: A middle path. No extremes. A complete Way of living encouraging all goodness and prohibiting all evils. Muslims are people like all others with the usual shortcomings. If one chooses to follow the spirit of Islam to the letter, there can only be peace.
This is not a sermon. Only FYI to those unfamiliar.

Posted by: Joey | Nov 25 2023 14:12 utc | 256

So I read today that “Biden” is trying to empty our weapons repositories in the Middle East so that the IDF will to be able to keep bombing Gaza:
JOE BIDEN MOVES TO LIFT NEARLY EVERY RESTRICTION ON ISRAEL’S ACCESS TO U.S. WEAPONS STOCKPILE
The level of foolish obsession here boggles my mind. Somewhat revealing about how the war is going too.
(Sorry for the all caps, their idea, not mine.)

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 25 2023 14:28 utc | 257

Posted by: JB | Nov 25 2023 13:10 utc | 253
Posted by: Joey | Nov 25 2023 14:12 utc | 260
The day will come when Religion becomes the most sophisticated technology known to man.
It will be designed. Patented. It’s teachings protected as state secrets.
It will confer immense power upon it’s adherents, power increasing towards the center.
Like software, once downloaded into the brain it will effect healing, enhanced capabilities upon the organism, defenses from neuro and cognito-hazards and perhaps even physical ones.
It will not contend with Science as religion does now, but employ it as a means to ends.
It will give birth to new Sciences, new technologies.
The day will come when Science does not merely explain the Creator, but provide a means to access Him/Her/It/Them.
And more: It will allow the individual to access whatever incarnation of the Creator he is most able to relate to.
In this era, humankind will truly tame our Gods …
In the future religious wars will be fought, not in the name of Religion but using religion as the primary weapon.
Religion will truly be the means and not the ends of war.
Victory will go to those with the superior religious technology.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 14:47 utc | 258

I had to laugh. NBC News reported on the hostage exchange. Every name of the 13 released was quickly announced but not a single name of the Palestinians. Israelis are humans, others not.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 25 2023 14:56 utc | 259

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 14:47 utc | 262
Sounds just like the Massih ad dajjal’s program.
Its coming for sure and some of that stuff is happening.

Posted by: sal | Nov 25 2023 15:00 utc | 260

Arch Bungle @262: “The day will come when Religion becomes the most sophisticated technology known to man…”
I think they call it “Marketing”.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 25 2023 15:01 utc | 261

Joey@260…yes, all religions are benign, safe warm and secure environments.
It’s the asshole adherents, who wish to ram every word of ‘their’ theology down other people’s throats. Enforcing human dictates conjured up from sick minds, infected with the belief that God made them, numero uno. Which is typical of Zionistazism fanaticism that lies at the base of all man made religions, regardless of path.
Cheers M
For those that believe God speaks openly and directly to them ie some humans, not inclusive of all humans, so they can convey ‘exactly’ what God said, I say, lay off the ergot or seek professional help.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 25 2023 15:10 utc | 262

I think they call it “Marketing”.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 25 2023 15:01 utc | 265
I work with Marketing. They’re a bunch of idiots.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 15:12 utc | 263

michael72 257
“Hockings roasted Barkat after he said Israel was considerate to civilians in Gaza”
No the interview was pre-rehearsed to make it look as though the person being interviewed was morally outraged , and that the interviewer was being roasted.
In reality it was staged to make it look as though journalism was being done.
Jews do war by deception. Always. The BBC is the main mouthpiece for Zionism in the Western world.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 15:12 utc | 264

Sounds just like the Massih ad dajjal’s program.
Its coming for sure and some of that stuff is happening.
Posted by: sal | Nov 25 2023 15:00 utc | 264
I think the Dajjal will bring his Spiritual Technology and the Mahdi will bring his and we shall see which prevails …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 15:14 utc | 265

I think the Dajjal will bring his Spiritual Technology and the Mahdi will bring his and we shall see which prevails …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 15:14 utc | 269
… But personally I believe the Maitreya will transcend both.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 15:16 utc | 266

Arch Bungle 262
Talking of software, Gos must have some pretty powerful 3D printing software to because to re-assemble on the Day of Judgement every single once living creature’s exact original DNA.
Speaking metaphorically of course, they can clone bits and bobs of us even now.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 15:20 utc | 267

sean the leprechaun 266
What is ergot and is it used by barflies please? If it’s anything to do with French escargot or Chinese sea slug soup, I’ll skip it for today.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 15:28 utc | 268

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 15:20 utc | 271
The thought of God reviewing my browser history from backups chills me to the bone. The Akashic record if ever there was one …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 15:29 utc | 269


Victory will go to those with the superior religious technology.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 14:47 utc | 262
Your most interesting post I have read so far. Sounds like a combination of the bene gesserit from dune and the extrapolation of the psychohistorians from Foundation.

Posted by: Bartholomew Cubbins | Nov 25 2023 15:29 utc | 270

Victory will go to those with the superior religious technology.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 14:47 utc | 262
Sounds like Scientology. Religion as Television is very popular already in any case.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 25 2023 15:34 utc | 271

@Eighthman | Nov 25 2023 14:56 utc | 263

I had to laugh. NBC News reported on the hostage exchange. Every name of the 13 released was quickly announced but not a single name of the Palestinians. Israelis are humans, others not.

Did they mention the names of the 12 Thais?

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 25 2023 16:16 utc | 272

Thank you chola3:
“We have to find the ideologies which has at its core the belief that not only they are superior (common), not jus encourage their adherents to enforce it, but actually instructs/compells them to use violence to bring the whole society/region under such supremacy.
Such ideologies, which don’t want to change, should be outlawed.”
Education has a lot of work to do, and brutal honesty must prevail.
My thanks to all who responded to my thoughts. Your posts did not fall on deaf ears.
The notion of being “God’s chosen people” is “a tad extreme”? Sigh. Apologetics for madmen aids and abets their ability to genocide whom they will. Sigh.
Ed, the Hitler reference was 100% unfair/innaccurate. I made it clear we are absolutely not discussing a mass murder Hitlerian final solution.
I’m fighting the flu. No more energy for this. But thanks again to the board for all you all do.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Nov 25 2023 16:44 utc | 273

Arch Bungle 262
God has had all the technology always.
Look at the ozone layer and the alternation of the seasons and the hours.
Pretty precise engineering.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 25 2023 16:49 utc | 274

Did they mention the names of the 12 Thais?
Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 25 2023 16:16 utc | 276
You should know by now they don’t care about brown people.
/s

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 17:44 utc | 275

Your most interesting post I have read so far. Sounds like a combination of the bene gesserit from dune and the extrapolation of the psychohistorians from Foundation.
Posted by: Bartholomew Cubbins | Nov 25 2023 15:29 utc | 274
Very appropriate association indeed. You could throw in the Fremen Zen-Sunni agglomeration as well.
Of course, as someone pointed out, my description treads uncomfortably close to Scientology, but that was not my intent – Scientology is complete nuttery end-to-end.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 17:46 utc | 276

Did they mention the names of the 12 Thais?
Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 25 2023 16:16 utc | 276
____
Better if they didn’t. Can you imagine how badly they’d mangle the pronunciation?

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 25 2023 19:11 utc | 277

Of course, as someone pointed out, my description treads uncomfortably close to Scientology, but that was not my intent – Scientology is complete nuttery end-to-end.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 25 2023 17:46 utc | 280
Multi-level marketing converted into a religion, with layers and layers of “secret teachings”.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 25 2023 19:32 utc | 278

Giyane@273….a black fungus that infects wheat/rye grains making the flour unstable for consumption. It is the base ingredient for Hoffman’s LSD. Consuming ergot infected foods may cause and or have various hallucinatory effects on the human brain not limited to “hearing voices” or “seeing things”.
Cheers M
Many recordings throughout history of mass hallucinations culminating in witch hunts, stake burnings and other macabre killings.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 25 2023 20:44 utc | 279

ZH has a posting up with the title
Israeli-Owned Ship Comes Under Iranian Suicide Drone Attack In Indian Ocean
the quote

Another Israeli-linked shipping vessel has been targeted by Iran-backed forces against the backdrop of the Gaza war. A US defense official was cited in the Associated Press as describing that a container ship owned by an Israeli businessman came under attack by an Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone on Friday.
Separately, the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Mayadeen said an Israeli ship was targeted. The Malta-flagged, French-operated CMA CGM Symi vessel was in international waters when the suicide drone armed with a bomb exploded into the ship, causing damage but not resulting in injury to crew members.
The US official cited in AP said “we continue to monitor the situation closely” but did not cite any specific evidence showing Iran to be behind the attack.
Maritime security company Ambrey said the vessel had departed a port in the UAE, and soon the ship’s tracking signal went offline. “The vessel was managed by an Israeli-affiliated company, which was assessed to be the reason why it was targeted,” a statement from the security company said.
As for Israeli ties, The Times of Israel has learned that “The ship, its cargo, its operating company and its points of departure and destination did not appear to have any clear ties to Israel. Rather, the Symi is leased to CMA CGM by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is a company ultimately controlled by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.”
According to further emerging details:

CMA CGM, a major shipper based in Marseille, France, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, the vessel’s crew had been behaving as though they believed the ship faced a threat.
…The ship had its Automatic Identification System tracker switched off since Tuesday when it left Dubai’s Jebel Ali port, according to data from MarineTraffic.com analyzed by the AP.

Thus it’s likely the crew switched off the tracker as it suspected a drone was overhead seeking to target the ship. In the attack aftermath, a statement from the operator indicated that as of Saturday, “The vessel in question is currently sailing as planned” and that “all crew are safe and well.”

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 25 2023 20:59 utc | 280

“On ‘Sub-Imperial Power’ (by Arnaud Bertrand)”
“Sub-Imperial” = vassal, strong only through connection with the empire.

Posted by: lester | Nov 25 2023 21:47 utc | 281

For those barflies interested in the topic, I’ll continue the discussion on religion, noting that this is not an academic topic but pertains to the power dynamics at play today.
DuchessAndBob, I see you agree with me that “the placing of people into positions of superiority and inferiority is the recipe for all evils to consume humanity.”
My understanding and point was that you will find groups of people in most religions/cultures that elevate themselves in relation to other groups, claim exclusivity to truth, and call forth action against the latter. This has been expressed historically by jews, christians, muslims, hindus, shintoists, even buddhists. They are the fundamentalists.
The examples I cited indeed call for action against the others. See the crusades and christian rapture thinking, Islamic fundamentalism, Nazi Germany, US exceptionalism, and Hindutva.
You’ll also find within the same religions/cultures people who call for tolerance, understanding, compassion, unity, and peaceful coexistence. Christian mystics, sufi muslims and hindu avatars come to mind.
(Chola3, it might interest you to read Archbishop Anastasios’ book on Islam, that puts side by side prayers of Greek orthodox and muslim mystics and shows they’re the same; not everyone is bigot enough to think their own truth is the Truth.)
I see this compassionate approach also in jews: those I’ve personally met, in hassidic thinking, but also in those brave followers of Judaism who against very harsh conditions raise their voice and the Palestinian flag against the monster that is Zionism.
Since at least some jews are publicly open for peace, it indicates that it’s not Judaism that’s the problem, but bigotry and fundamentalism.
There are also muslim, christian and hindu fanatics, should those religions be banned as well? There are white supremacists also, should we kill all whites? And how? A religion cannot be “banned” except by killing all its adherents and burning down their temples and literature. Only time bans religions bloodlessly.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Nov 25 2023 23:18 utc | 282

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Nov 25 2023 23:18 utc | 286
You are trying the whataboutism here.
Hindutva or Buddhistva or Druidva etc are not religions. Do you know the thuggees in india? easily banned.
The problem is those religions and ideologies which explicitly instructs the followers to commit violence.
e.g A wahabi Muslim who do not strive to impose sharia is going against instructions. A jew who considers others humans with soul also goes against instructions.
White supremacists are not a recognized religion. There is a difference between a father telling his son “we whites are the greatest” and organised regions classes with “holy” scriptures instructing children about genociding and enslaving people.
Every son thinks his mother is the best. every person thinks his race is the best. The point here is organised intruction to commit destruction and mayhem.

Posted by: chola3 | Nov 26 2023 1:20 utc | 283

There is something about islam that non Muslims don’t know and Muslims won’t tell you.
In one sentence, they will say Quran is the perfect book which contains the +whole* truth. Not an expert Quran reader but haven’t seen destructive stuff in it so far.
There are some who are called Quranic Muslims, who just follow it. In most Muslim countries, they are hunted down and likely to be jailed.
For most muslim denominations, Hadith is important. Don’t you dare ask why you need Hadith when al-quran is perfect and wholesome. Different denominations use different groupings of Hadiths. This is why Iranian Shia is more into martyrism compared to Wahabis who are, well …
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The Catholics do something similar. When necessary, they start their old testament and go all Joshua on everyone.
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The Hindu talks about his original Vedas but have a habit of being sucked into Brahmanism. I consider it a non issue because it is internal stuff to be solved by themselves. South India doesn’t follow Brahmanism while north is slowly eradicating it.
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Anyway, i am not woke. I don’t care what a society do internally. multiple wives? go ahead. multiple husbands? why not!
We just have to rid of vile genocidal/enslaving ideologies so each society can live according to whatever ways they come up with.

Posted by: chola3 | Nov 26 2023 1:53 utc | 284

fyi
meanwhile, back at the ranch…..
“western values” as practiced by the zionist occupation state
will Amnesty and Human rights watch et. al. be investigating/interviewing all these released Palestinian women and children about their imprisonment/experiences?
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1728596253666136549
BREAKING: CHILD HOSTAGE YASER ZAAMIYEH FREED AND SPEAKS OUT
Zaamiyeh was jailed at 16 and said;
The prison administration was horrible.
They treated us violently. They’ve beaten up a lot of people, some of them died in their own [Israeli guards’] hands.
Some people’s heads were split open in our section of the prison, little children – 10 years old, 12 years old – are being treated with extreme violence.”
He said that they are fed dry rice, and are kept in freezing temperatures that prevent them from being able to sleep for more than a few hours a day

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 26 2023 8:29 utc | 285

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 26 2023 8:29 utc | 289
Never Again.
Forever Again.
Again and Again.
And again …
When Shoah 2.0 comes around I will not mourn.
When Shoah 2.0 comes around I’ll sip my coffee,
Take a pull from my pipe,
And blow smoke rings,
Again and again.
Forever Again …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 26 2023 13:55 utc | 286

Lathe Biosas gave a list which is silly. Any belief or ideology is based on the idea they found the best way.
We have to find the ideologies which has at its core the belief that not only they are superior (common), not jus encourage their adherents to enforce it, but actually instructs/compells them to use violence to bring the whole society/region under such supremacy.
Such ideologies, which don’t want to change, should be outlawed.
Posted by: chola3 | Nov 25 2023 3:18 utc | 224
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It is also an ideology to oppose other people’s ideologies. One is an ideologue who wants to impose their ideology on others by outlawing a system of ideas which they oppose, because ideologies are simply systems of ideas that one group supports and consider it to be the best or the correct view of reality, or they oppose another group’s system if ideas that they consider to be a false or dangerous ideology.
Not everyone who has an opinion about politics or religion is an ideologue, they simply have an opinion, unless the ideas are systemized for others to accept or to be rejected. Rejecting a false or dangerous ideology is not a bad thing, but outlawing ideologies will generally lead to violence and therefore may also be dangerous.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 26 2023 18:26 utc | 287

Every son thinks his mother is the best. every person thinks his race is the best.
Posted by: chola3 | Nov 26 2023 1:20 utc | 287
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I disagree with you chola3, not every one belibes those things.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 26 2023 18:32 utc | 288