The Cradle has an excellent article about the “land bridge” and Ansarullah’s shipping inderdiction, “Yemen’s dagger slices through ‘normalization'”, exposing the de facto alliance of UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan with the Zionists.
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 21 2023 19:03 utc | 54
The Cradle article is sloppy research and disinformation but anything that shows Zionists in cahoots with the “traitors” get clicks I suppose.
The primary source of all these articles is Hanan Fridman, the CEO of a small Israeli company Trucknet.
Trucknet.io
They have a digital platform, basically a trucking app where one can put bids, track real time and calculate emissions. In September 2023 they signed an MOU with Cox Logistics a Bahrain company founded in 2016 by a US Army Logistics Officer which services US military vehicle in KSA and Bahrain. They were very proud that Israeli tech would infiltrate KSA in this way.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-757844
In December this Fridman guy started running around giving interviews to Israeli media. To Jewish News Syndicate Fridman declined to specify how many trucks were now running the land route daily, but noted that the maximum capacity is 300 trucks a day.
https://www.jns.org/uae-israel-land-corridor-operating-despite-war/
The Cradle article links to this article https://cars.walla.co.il/item/3629150
Fridman claims that 10 trucks made the journey
The most curious part is the UAE company that Trucknet claims to have partnered with. It only has one web page remarkably similar in content to Trucknet itself, an incomplete address and a twitter account opened this December with no content.
In conclusion: “ Following the success of the pilot, Trucknet received first transport orders from spice importers in the country, and exporters of plastic and quarry products. Tarkant connects to truck owners’ operating systems and locates trips where they are not fully utilized or empty. On the other hand, it presents the transport options to cargo owners looking for available freight, and carries out a tender for the cost of transport, in accordance with the minimum prices set by the truck owner. Once the winner and transport is found, the driver’s app plans an optimal route according to the size of the truck and the loading and unloading points, so as not to put a long truck into a crowded urban area, and a high truck to a road where bridges are lower.”
Fridman concludes “And so the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are helping Israel break through the Houthi siege.” (machine translation).
Does this sound like the governments of UAE, KSA and Jordan breaking the siege or does it sound like a sheister trying to sell his company?
In a November blog post in which he equates Hamas with ISIS he quotes Churchill, ““Never let a good crisis go to waste”
https://www.trucknet.io/the-role-of-transportation-in-supply-chain-management-in-israel-during-wartime/

Posted by: pq | Dec 21 2023 22:31 utc | 104

And I want to be on record as in full agreement with Jane and Sunny Runny Burger about Russia. How lame and disingenuous the “I want my cake and eat it too” yikyak coming from there while famine stalks all of Palestine
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 21 2023 22:30 utc | 106
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Thanks!
Actually my much longer and considered post regarding the very questionable retooling of a certain word by a certain blonde lady never saw the light of day here.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 21 2023 22:41 utc | 106

Pepe Escobar said something interesting on Danny Haiphong youtube today.
On the sideliines of some Atlanticist conference in Astana he met Edward Luttvak one of these Jewish geopolitical types very influential in the District of Corruption, advising Pentagon etc. for 50 years.
Luttvak is obsessed with the war in China. He says the war has started, it’s the only war which matters, China will lose. He said as much in a panel on China. According to Pepe this is dangerous because what he says reflects consensus among powerful players in the Beltway.
In a short conversation on Israel, Pepe asked him, “Edward, what is Israel’s strategy in the end?” Luttvak said:
Don’t touch us. Or we will kill you
Pepe said, so that precludes the use of diplomacy? to which Luttvak replied, “NO DIPLOMACY”.
This is the mentality that Palestinians have to deal with.

Posted by: pq | Dec 21 2023 22:56 utc | 108

canuck | Dec 21 2023 23:23 utc | 112
If that explanation works for you adopt it.
It is nonsense, as you are almost certainly aware but if you want to wear a clown’s hat, bde my guest.
I’m not looking for a ‘prolix” intellectual explanation- you are being deliberately insulting by suggesting that I am.
These are serious questions those who use them as excuses to show off are like raucous drunks at a funeral service.

Posted by: bevin | Dec 21 2023 23:33 utc | 110

When Christopher Black writes about International Law he knows what he is talking about.
In this article he begins by explaining that the Canadian government was lying when it accused China of taking the “two Michaels” as hostages. They were, as it knew, spying.
“….But the single incident that proves the Israeli intentions, is the murder of the three Israeli prisoners held by Hamas in Gaza, who were shot multiple times by the Israeli soldiers several days ago, The three had managed to escape and make their way towards Israel forces, with their shirts off to make sure the Israelis could see they were unarmed, not Hamas fighter, and they carried a white flag and called out for help in Hebrew, The white flag is the internationally recognised symbol of surrender. A white flag signifies to all that someone is unarmed, with an intent to surrender or a desire to communicate. Persons carrying or waving a white flag are not to be fired upon. This has been international law since ancient times. The white flag was used in Han China, in the Roman period and in all wars.
“They were gunned down without mercy. The Israelis claimed their men made a mistake. They thought they were under threat, that the flag was a ruse by Hamas fighters. But no one is going to believe them when the findings of their own inquiry are that there was no threat whatsoever. Then why were they shooting? It is clear. They were shot as deliberate policy by the Israeli army, which claims to take prisoners, but instead has shown it will shoot down any Hamas fighters trying to surrender. Their so-called rules of engagement cannot be what they claim. Those soldiers were clearly ordered to shoot everyone and white flags? Ignore them. Shoot to kill.
“And what will happen to those soldiers, their commanding officers, for this crime? Nothing, They have been exonerated already. It was all a mistake. More “mistakes” will take place because for them, dead Palestinians are good Palestinians.
“And what about international criminal law? Well, what about it? The International Criminal Court Prosecutor has done nothing, said nothing, apparently thinks nothing. The world demands the ICC issue charges against Netanyahu and his government and army, but in response the ICC remains silent, is thereby complicit, confirming its illegitimacy as a world court. It has proven itself to be, once again, a tool of power politics, a tool of the West…”
https://journal-neo.su/2023/12/21/white-flags-black-flags-wheres-the-flag-of-peace/

Posted by: bevin | Dec 21 2023 23:45 utc | 112

Israeli and Israeli Zionist identity is based on an imagined and fictitious continuing “trauma” – such that Israeli children truly believe they will be killed for the simple fact that they are Jews if they were ever to set foot in the West Bank or Gaza. The mythology of Israel is propped up by a trauma industry that permeates every facet and level of Jewish Israeli life. Young Israelis take annual trips to Eastern Europe where they visit the Nazi concentration camp sites. As soon as they deboard their buses, they expect to be spat upon and accosted with anti-Semitism; they never are, but they remain convinced it’s real. It is a totalitarian society in ways that our Western elites currently only dream of, but which they are slowly figuring ways to implement – as evidenced by COVID, the surveillance state, the police/carceral states, and the as-yet behind the scenes Ministry of Truth.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 21 2023 23:55 utc | 114

“The extremist, racist propaganda is so very useful to prosper at the expense of both populations in the conflict.”
Posted by: g | Dec 21 2023 16:51 utc | 15
If you want to go this road of lecturing “others” on morality, here are some historical facts that the zionzied MSM and educational system never touch:
The Armenian Genocide was organized and run by Dönmeh. You should know your tribe’s history, “g:” Dönmeh were a crypto-jew sect in Turkey, which produced Young Turks who organized the mass murder of 1.5 millions of Armenians.
Enters a rabidly Russophobic banker Jacob Schiff, an organizer of the Russo-Japanese war 1904/1905, complete with revolutionary agitators (see the Milejkowsky’s financing of Hamas, “g?”). These efforts did produce the First Russian revolution in 1905. But these results were not adequate for the jewish banksters in the UK, Germany, and US. Next was the financing of Bronstein (Trotsky) and other jewish revolutionaries…
The Bolshevik revolution followed at the time when Russia was weakened during WWI. Among the worst genociders of Russians (the melting pot of the Russian empire) were jews. They were the organizers of GULAG (a system concentration camps), the sadistic secret police, the mass murders of officer corps, poets, philosophers, clergy, nobility … In the millions of the human beings. Jews own an enormous bloody debt to the Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs… It was Shaya Itsikovich (Goloschyokin) who organized and run the Goloschyokin Genocide that eliminated 40% of all Kazakhs. Shaya Itsikovich (Goloschyokin) was an obnoxious racist hating all “others.” He ran the Kazakh Autonomic republic “with virtually no outside interference as a local dictator. Shaya Itsikovich was also active in the execution of the Tsar’s family.
Are you still in the woods why decent people are disgusted with Madeleine Albright (a daughter of a jewish thief Korbel), who proclaimed that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it), and with certain Stuart Seldowitz, a sadistic zionist? None other ethnic group but chosen has been the loudest about its “superior morality” and “incomparable victimhood.” The ongoing genocide/holocaust of the Palestinian babies, toddlers, women, and infirm by Israelis has been televised. These anti-human facts of sadism and murder define the image of zionism for the global populations. Tell us, “g,” why Milejkovsky (bibi) who has zero Semitic/ancient Jewish blood in his veins quotes tora and talmud to justify the Israeli‘s mass murders of children and women, while pretending to be the first jew among all jews? Jewish supremacism would be comical if not the psychopathic characteristics of the tribe. “Psychopathy is a mental health condition characterized by impaired empathy, the absence of remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.”

Posted by: Cerena | Dec 22 2023 0:12 utc | 116

Begin 11
Here’s a ukronazi kid . He seems fully comfortable merging Nazism Ukrainian and Zionism.
https://t.me/antinatocoalition/14239

Posted by: Hankster | Dec 22 2023 0:23 utc | 118

The time has come-it is long past- for a serious study of the question “Why did the Israelis become the Nazis?”
Posted by: bevin | Dec 21 2023 16:28 utc | 11
I am of the opinion you are outthinking the question; instead of prolix intellectual explanations how about simply employing Occam’s razor and accept a Freudian explanation:
The child (Jews under the Nazis) learn from the Father figure (Nazis killing abusing Jews) and when they become the Father (1948, Nakba) abuse their children (the Palestinians)
Posted by: canuck | Dec 21 2023 23:23 utc | 112
canuck | Dec 21 2023 23:23 utc | 112
If that explanation works for you adopt it.
It is nonsense, as you are almost certainly aware but if you want to wear a clown’s hat, bde my guest.
I’m not looking for a ‘prolix” intellectual explanation- you are being deliberately insulting by suggesting that I am.
These are serious questions those who use them as excuses to show off are like raucous drunks at a funeral service.
Posted by: bevin | Dec 21 2023 23:33 utc | 113
I asserted that there may be a simple answer to your question.
Then instead of refuting my potential answer you personally insult me with your awkward, “clown’s hat”, barb.
I ‘deliberately insulted you’ by supplying an answer to your question? Touchy?
Instead of supplying a concise short [Bevin is extremely long winded, he can’t help it editor] retort of my ‘answer'(which I now surmise you posed as a rhetorical question) you employed an Freudian ego defense mechanism, intellectualization” (1).
Which only clouds the discussion.
Kindly please use your obvious intellect to forward the discussion rather than to merely fortify your political beliefs.
1. In psychology, intellectualization is a defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves emotionally removing one’s self from a stressful event.

Posted by: canuck | Dec 22 2023 1:06 utc | 120

I read this piece earlier today, and its interesting in that The Guardian can be counted to dutifully amplify the required narrative, but yet in this article they are highlighting the fact that Hamas is not as defeated as the Israelis would like the world to believe …

Israel is losing the war against Hamas – but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it
On 12 December, there was a skilful triple ambush staged by Hamas paramilitaries in a part of Gaza supposedly controlled by Israeli forces. An IDF unit was ambushed and took casualties. Further troops were sent to aid that unit, and they were then ambushed, as were reinforcements.
Ten IDF soldiers were reported killed and other seriously wounded, but it was their seniority that counted, including as it did a colonel and three majors from the elite Golani Brigade. That Hamas, supposedly decimated and with thousands of troops already killed, could mount such an operation anywhere in Gaza, let alone a district reportedly already under IDF control, should raise doubts about the idea that Israel is making substantial progress in the war.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/israel-losing-war-against-hamas-netanyahu-idf

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Dec 22 2023 1:18 utc | 122

Xymphora had a link to a December 18 Mint Press News article naming the Top 10 recipients of AIPAC political donations. Genocide Joe was #1 with a career total of $4,346,264 which seems quite cheap, per annum, considering the length of his political career.
Josh Gottheimer comes in at #9 with a total of $1,109,370 since 2017. One presumes that these stats are drawn from Official Records of declared donations and begs the question “Do Official Donations merely open a door to Unofficial Donations?”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Dec 22 2023 1:41 utc | 124

Jewish Voice for Peace in the US is bigger than a flee’s breath and they are mounting active dissent putting themselves on the line here in US.

Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 22 2023 1:55 utc | 126

Bevin @ 11:
“… The time has come-it is long past- for a serious study of the question “Why did the Israelis become the Nazis?”…”
A seemingly simple question, to which the answer (necessarily perhaps) is complicated.
You would probably need to know the history of the Jewish diaspora experience, in which many Jewish communities, finding themselves threatened by larger ethnic-majority communities, clung to governments for protection, irrespective of whether their overlords liked them or not, or of how those overlords had treated them in the past.
A good reference book in this respect is Benjamin Ginsberg’s “The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State” which is available on Amazon.com, if you’re not troubled at the thought of enriching Jeff Bozo and his octopoid empire.
In the 19th century, European Jewish communities, increasingly enabled to participate in mainstream society as a result of governments coming more and more under the influence of the Enlightenment, began entering the middle class (and public bureaucracy and academia) in droves. They may have come under the influence not only of Enlightenment values but also some of the more negative aspects perhaps of the Enlightenment and what its values might have led to, coupled with the residue of past pre-Enlightenment beliefs (once religious, now secularised), coupled with whatever beliefs they selectively brought from their own cultures and histories.
That’s my answer in a nutshell, for the benefit of other MoA barflies wanting something succinct and not too long to read.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 22 2023 2:00 utc | 128

Thanks!
Actually my much longer and considered post regarding the very questionable retooling of a certain word by a certain blonde lady never saw the light of day here.
Posted by: Jane | Dec 21 2023 22:41 utc | 109
Because you said it better than I could, it should be me saying thanks, Jane – yes, for this post:
“Maybe diplomats understand that MZ is redefining antisemitism . . .
This is such a loaded word, and an intrinsically mendacious one, one that was created to gaslight, deflect, and confuse—it is IMO a weak tactic.
IMO basing her supposed condemnation of US and Is actions on this and her supposed redefinition of it is, well, lame. And, BTW, did the Palestinians ask to be officially grouped by MZ with the Jews as “semites” who are all suffering equally? Given this word’s propaganda history and its use against against them and all non-Jews and, latterly, anyone who defends the Palestinians, perhaps they would rather prefer to be called PALESTINIANS? MZ just created a lot of confusion and dodged the real issue.
Plus, she equated Israeli suffering and Palestinian suffering.
That is incorrect, and it is wrong.
Plus, she implies that the Israelis are helplessly suffering—whereas the truth is that the Zionists are the agents of ALL of the suffering in Palestine, for well over 75 years. Most of the most rabid Zionists were Russians such as Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor. They chose to go to Palestine and harass innocent Palestinians instead of either (1) staying in Russia/the Soviet Union to help their own country or (2) going to Europe to wage guerrilla cp,bat against the Nazis if that is what they wanted to do and actually help the European Jews.
Her comments sound like pilpul. She is obviously trying to avoid “offending” Jewish Russians. IMO it is high time that all Jews were put on notice the same as the Germans: Which side are (were) you on? Are (were) you a “good Jew” or a “genocidal Jew”?
If you as a Jewish Russian are pissed off or righteously offended, tough s— for you.
Go to Israel to defend the Zionists and help them with their genocide.
Here is a plane ticket and a pair of boots. So long.
I say the same for Jewish Americans.”
Posted by: Jane | Dec 20 2023 21:28 utc | 87

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 22 2023 2:10 utc | 130

I can’t lay my head on my pillow at night without my heart breaking for the Palestinians who have nothing like such comfort. I can’t reach for a tissue to blow my nose without wondering how the Mothers of Palestine help their toddlers clear their noses. I can’t hear the furnace click on without weeping for the Palestinians freezing in the cold. I can’t look at the toy the grandkids left behind without breaking down in utter sadness for the innocent kids of Palestine whose toys are long gone, buried with who knows how many siblings under the rubble. I can’t eat a meal without aching to send the plate of food to Palestine. I can’t use the toilet without wondering how awful it is to have to defecate in the open because there simply is nowhere else available anymore – and nowhere private. I can’t take my morning meds without a gut punch of grief for the many dying in Palestine for lack of medicine. I can’t put on clean underwear without wondering what it’s like to have only the clothes on your back now – and where is water to wash anything?
I could go on and on and on and on. Maybe others will say what they think of the take-for-granted daily moments that the psycho jews of “israel” have 100% deprived the Palestinians of?
I feel a rising fury every time somebody expresses “sympathy for the good jews” or scolds us to remember “oh they aint all bad”.
PALESTINIANS are the ones with their lives on the line, dammit!!!!!!

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 22 2023 2:34 utc | 132

I must have missed all those billboards all across the usa that jewish voice for peace has been putting up for the last 30 years informing citizens that billionaire zionist jews own all the media and your government and they’re brainwashing you.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 22 2023 2:45 utc | 134

DuchessAndBob
It is hard to enjoy anything without the juxtaposition.
This is causing the entire world to grieve.
The effects of this horror will permate humanity with untold repercussions
the only salve is Justice

Posted by: ld | Dec 22 2023 2:49 utc | 136

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
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6h
Western NGOs should be treated like Western governments treat Arab NGOs in their countries. Germany closed down an Arab feminist group yesterday. 170 German police people went after this organization accusing it of affiliation with a largely defunct Palestinian leftist group.
While West NGOs roam around the Arab world freely interfering in the minute affairs of Arab countries and spreading their Zionist and racist agenda, Germany yesterday went after an Arab feminist NGO in Germany. And you dare preach freedom of speech to us?
https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1737928688929505435

Posted by: Menz | Dec 22 2023 2:55 utc | 138

Posted by: Jane | Dec 22 2023 2:38 utc | 135
The assimilation of regular Jews in Europe pre-1932 was clearly difficult but the families that really wanted a low-key stable life, were willing to make a go of it. However in 1933 when New York Zionists put out a decree stating that Jews worldwide must declare war on Germany and with it, sanctioning government and boycotting all products immediately. This caused a serious concern for all Jews within Germany as they couldn’t make a living and support their families properly. You can imagine the anger and fury emanating from Bonn and Berlin and all points in between because of this decree. Many “comfortable” assimilated Jewish families had to leave their adopted country because they knew there would be a backlash to the Jewish “War” on Germany.
I saw a picture of a document that had a list of European countries that killed a lot of Jews during the war. This list was created by the International Red Cross. Poland was actually at the top of the list with roughly 2.1 million Jews killed within their borders and Germany was 3rd or 4th with “only” 267,600 Jews killed within their borders as estimated by the Red Cross.

Posted by: bisfugged | Dec 22 2023 3:15 utc | 140

Jonathon . Malaysia amongst Indonesia and other nations doesn’t recognise Israel as a state. It bans visa for Israelis, has had mossad commit assassinations on its territory and its old president has spoken out against apartheid and Zionist regime much to the aghast of fawning westerners. So to wanting to have no part of Israel’s economy to help commit genocide isn’t really much of a chinese issue than an actual omestic Islamic principle. China seems to be the one that’s OK doing business with everybody. As far as Singapore goes. It’s the old British bankers city , not so much of cargo as its islands made navigating more tricky. Anyway look up “Mahathir Mohamad and antisemetic” in a search to see pages of articles about his public views. He recently resigned after much pressure internationally and he was getting well past his prime age wise

Posted by: Hankster | Dec 22 2023 3:20 utc | 142

bisfugges 142,
“This caused a serious concern for all Jews within Germany as they couldn’t make a living and support their families properly.”
I would be very interested to see some documentation of how many Jewish German families left Germany because of this declaration.
Can you provide a source for this statement?
It is far more likely and also easy to document that assimilated Jewish Germans started to think about getting out of Germany because of Hitler’s Machtergreifung in March 1933 and the persecution of both Jews and political dissidents that immediately followed. However, a great many of them didn’t want to go and couldn’t believe that they could be “unassimilated” with Hitler’s accession to power. It became more and more difficult to get out of Germany as the 1930s wore on, and as Nazi policies and priorities kept changing.
Your figures re how many Jews were killed in Germany vs. Poland are confused on two issues: the number of Jews in Germany vs. Poland, and the period of the Third Reich and the war.
In 1933 the total number of Jews in Europe was ca. 9.5 million.
In Germany there were only ca. 500,000; of these only ca. 400,000 were actually citizens.
In Poland there were about 5.5 million.
Furthermore, the effort to rid Germany of Jews basically took place in the period from 1933 to 1939. It consisted mainly of trying to get Jewish Germans to leave Germany voluntarily via a carrot and stick approach. It was a form of ethnic cleansing.
The effort to rid Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe and also occupied Western Europe (France, Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, etc.) of its Jewish populations took place after the war began, in Sept. 1939, with the invasion of Poland. This was the beginning of the true Jewish genocide. So IMO your comparisons are apples to oranges. These two periods of the Third Reich were very different and also within each period were sequences of specific events that characterized different years and even months.
The basic difference—the change-up to a new MO, so to speak, once the war began and Germany and the Nazi Party were under increasing stresses—is made very clear in bulleted points in the Wannsee Protocol, in early 1942.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 22 2023 3:52 utc | 144

In response to
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Remember the Zionists go nowhere without the City-thus Anglo/Zionists
Posted by: canuck | Dec 22 2023 1:16 utc | 123
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I agree and continue to call out the God Of Mammon cult instead of positing that if the Zionists or Nazis were gone, all would be good……monotheism is just another proxy war for the global financial elite.
bevin is sensitive to folks positing that the City of London Corp may be a more significant center of the God Of Mammon cult than the US Fed owners. That said, most of the history he provides is insightful.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 22 2023 4:27 utc | 146

Which Holocaust ?
60 million Chinese by Tojo – Mao

30 million Russians by Bolsheviks

25 million Russians by Fascists
10 million Congolese by Belgians – Leopold II

9 million Koreans by the Pentagon – MacArthur
9 million Chinese by the English – Sassoons
8 million Iranians by the English – Churchill

6 million Southeast Asians by the Pentagon-Kissinger

5 million Bengalis by the English – Churchill
4 million Philippinos by the Americans
3 million Irish by the English
3 million Indonesians by CIA – AntiCommunists

Posted by: Exile | Dec 22 2023 4:34 utc | 148

Re: Land Route
1 mid-sized container ship carries 2,000 containers.

Posted by: Exile | Dec 22 2023 4:45 utc | 150

Poor Hayley makes George bush seem a Mensa club member. The look of dumbfounded from her audience as they try to make sense of her words was funny. They willingly went there and still were confused

Posted by: Hankster | Dec 22 2023 5:01 utc | 152

Jane @1920
Interesting sidenote on Baghdad Jews: The original founder of the Saudi dynasty was a Jewish merchant from Baghdad, who much like the Donmei in Turkey, converted to Islam and allied himself with the Islamic fanaticist Wahabis and with their assistance, managed to conquer most of the Arabian Peninsula in the first third of the 20th Century.
Could it be said that the Saudi rulers are Cryptos? Wondering whether anyone has researched that.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 22 2023 5:07 utc | 154

Posted by: Exile | Dec 22 2023 4:34 utc | 150
More bullshit and selectively presented. The USA/CIA has killed upwards of 30M people since the late days of WWII, worldwide. What are the sources for 30M people at the hands of the Bolsheviks (among other right wing propaganda you’re pushing)?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 22 2023 5:37 utc | 156

Posted by: PBR Street Gang | Dec 22 2023 2:00 utc | 131
As blatantly “anti-Semitic” as your comment comes off, it ain’t exactly wrong. Does Israel, with a 5-decade practice of equating anti-semitism with critiques of the country benefit from this genocide they’re committing? Would it be different if “goys” or white Christian “gentiles” were kept in the prisons of Gaza and the West Bank? One could be forgiven for answering that question with a “NO” considering how they have treated the US and UK since both countries helped their illegal founding in the 40s.
This is a massive PR loss for the Zionists and Israelis alike. And the charge of anti-Semitism has been reduced to its rightful place as a meaningless Orwellian smear tactic.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 22 2023 5:43 utc | 158

17, 38 Susan. Agree with your position. Recently Thousands of mostly Jews attended action in Times Square in NYC organized by Jewish Voice for Peace a major actor in Palestine resistance for years in US.

Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 22 2023 5:54 utc | 160

Posted by: g | Dec 22 2023 5:52 utc | 162
Give us the civilian clobber list. It’s gotta be approaching 30,000 now. Scumbag.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 22 2023 6:14 utc | 162

Actually, “this” will never be over, because it is so big, and it is going to get bigger.
and
Above all, the fact that it has been abetted and sponsored by all the leading lights of the so-called “West” and its ruling class completely undermines any credibility those people and the things they espouse have in the world.
@ Cabe | Dec 21 2023 22:27 utc | 104

While I agree it’s big, I not yet convinced this all won’t be brushed under the carpet and memory holed again. I’m far from convinced russia and china will actually DO anything substantial, now to stop the violence, or to enforce humanitarian aid or to outright condemn Israel and call for an end to the occupation as a crime against humanity. They are far from reliable in supporting the “cause” here. Let alone actually re-start any negotiations between Palestinians and Israel re 2 state solutions — all this is fantasy stuff in my view – patently unachievable in the real world.
No one is currently undermining the western ruling classes … or any other ruling classes … nothing has changed, Israel has the support of everyone who used to support them and have enabled it’s atrocities for decades. Nothing has changed yet. What the Houthis, Hezbollah, Syria and iran can say or do is utterly irrelevant because it makes no difference. South Africa is trying for a Genocide case against Israel …. well even if they was accepted, and investigated, and court case held still nothing would change! Jordan and Egypt are useless, as are the African arabs and the Gulf region. Malaya is a flea on an elephant. Votes in the UN GA are weak as dish water.
Anything major in the UNSC will be vetoed by US, UK and France – period! Russia and China are powerless to do anything and too afraid as well to take on Israel.
This here is the norm – on Dec 13 and a total condemnation of the Terrorist org Hamas …. by Canada, NZ and Australia in the west. This is what most people in the west and europe the OECD nations actually believe and support…. it too is weak as
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/joint-statement-prime-ministers-australia-canada-and-new-zealand
Israel can and will keep doing whatever it wants with non-stop US empire support all the way. Who is going to stop them? No one is.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Dec 22 2023 6:28 utc | 164

Even the Finacial Times recognizes today that the US is screwed because of the genocide in Gaza. I am paraphrasing. Actually the headline reads “US looks feckless”.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 6:45 utc | 166

The real reason.
https://i.imgur.com/wIixBUZ.jpg

Posted by: Surferket | Dec 22 2023 7:02 utc | 168

While “Israel” continues to massacre civilians unpunished, US State Department officials are discreetly attempting to impede efforts to increase global pressure on the occupation.
State Department documents obtained by HuffPost indicate how US diplomats are finalizing a démarche to Switzerland that Washington hopes will cancel the preparations for an event to discuss Israeli violations of the Geneva Conventions in Palestine.
Formal rulings that “Israel” breached the treaties in its US-backed war in Gaza would be a severe worldwide condemnation of both parties and would support the accusations of human rights groups that have amassed evidence that stands as proof of such violations.
Switzerland, which has always been neutral, decides when meetings of the parties concerned to discuss compliance take place.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists all endorse the urgent meeting. The Biden administration, however, plans on lobbying Swiss counterparts to stop the conference.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-pressuring-switzerland-to-ignore-israeli-war-crimes
My opinion remains, until evidence of significant geopolitical changes are overt, even if the above review was successful and Israel deemed guilty of serious war crimes / breaches of the Geneva Conventions still nothing would happen to bring Israel or the US to heel.
Nothing would change for the Palestinians … no advantages for Hamas or Hezbollah either, and Fatah and the PA would still be totally useless and powerless, and still no one would gain a single “human right” or any justice at all.
Such a judicial outcome would make news, many words would be spoken, and then it too would all be forgotten withe Palestinians in Gaza still caged like wild dogs and starved and being bombed, and the west bank Palestinians being murdered everyday by psychopathic settlers.
Overwhelming military force against Israel is the only think that will make a positive difference and stop these war crimes and genocide and end the occupation. Israel must be defeated and the regime brought to an end – with a new Palestinian State created in it’s stead.
There is no two state solution. And there was the possibility of one.
Nothing short of the above defeat of Israel will solve anything. The state of Israel was always illegitimate and a crime against humanity. It must be brought to an end.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Dec 22 2023 7:09 utc | 170

There is no two state solution. And there never was the possibility of one.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Dec 22 2023 7:13 utc | 172

Contrast this report in MSM:
The human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday accused the Myanmar military of indiscriminate killings, detaining civilians, and using air-dropped cluster munitions in response to an insurgency in the northeast and west, and demanded an investigation into war crimes.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 7:27 utc | 174

And this is how the Harvard president is now being crucified after she was spared after the hearing on antisemitism on campuses:
“Harvard University’s president was planning to submit three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her found that she had made citation errors, a university spokesperson said.
Claudine Gay, who was inaugurated as Harvard’s president in September, has already submitted corrections to two published articles in recent weeks that were the focus of a review by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing board.”

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 7:32 utc | 176

fingrinn 125
Yes the semitic languages nouns have 3 consonant letter foundations and different meanings can be drawn from that base.
Presumably the founders of Hamas understood the Hebrew significance of the word being Arabs. Same rules for both languages.
Since Ishmaeel and Ishaak are brothers, this has a family feud flavour. US non-semires don’t necessarily understand the rules of the family, and if other nations like Russia were to intervene in a family feud, both sides would pile onto Russia’s case.
With families you don’t even know the family rules, and if you did, you’d probably tell them both to get lost.
My sister, in a religious discussion, said my prophet AS was a paedophile, which has slightlly different connotations in post feminist Western politics than in medieval , tribal, family honour.
Nice try, sis, to wind me up, mostly succeeded in fact. Christmas is the season for it.
Maybe somebody in the Semitic culture could tell the Pallestinians that the fact that children of Israel want to fight the children of Ishmael is a sign of their great family love and respect.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 22 2023 8:38 utc | 178

psychic numbing .. leads to compassion collapse….eg in this genocide situation ….Isr. very deliberately using their over targetting bombing shelling housing and hospitals to erase culture and as a people.. taking prioners ..dehumanising .fear…vengefulness… “every palestinian is hamas approach”.
Sadly no UN progress….
IDf and Isr ever more intense and extreme….despite more calls for war crimes investigations… is their still possible to be a tipping point when axis of resistance may step in or does it lose credibility???

Posted by: Jo | Dec 22 2023 8:51 utc | 180

175 – They’re probably wondering, “Why is Fred from Stakeout in civilian clothes and acting up? Has he been transferred?”

Posted by: Waldorf | Dec 22 2023 8:54 utc | 182

The Houthis are smart…
This just in…Red sea is being indicated with an increase of 1000 usd per FCL.
And this…
250 usd surcharge/teu for red sea traffic effective 12/26 on MSC.

Posted by: Scuppers | Dec 22 2023 9:28 utc | 184

I’ve seen several references in this thread, and others over the last few months, to “Normal Jews”. What is a Normal Jew? Do they go to synagogue? Do they follow the teachings of their rabbi? In which case they will have been indoctrinated with the teachings of the Talmud since birth and by default will be supremacists in outlook.
Or are secular Jews “Normal Jews”? If one is not following the teachings of the rabbis or attending synagogue, can one still be called a Jew? Jewishness is not a race, how then would one account for the Ethiopian Jews? Or the Ashkenazi? It is a supremacist religion, based on being the “ chosen people” of their god. So if secular Jews reject the teachings of the rabbi, are they still jews?
Secular jews still enjoy the ability to network with the whole Jewish diaspora to gain advantage in life, specifically against the goy. So in this respect, they are still following rabbinic teachings (Talmud). So are secular jews just lazy jews who still get the benefit of their Jewish faith.
Again, what is a “normal Jew”? As I mentioned previously, jews have institutionalised the bearing of false witness. One only has to look at the quote from Blinken above to see that. All I know is that, as a minority exercising overwhelming influence in the world today, expecting “normal jews” to make any difference to the state of play is naive and self deceptive.

Posted by: Phalanges | Dec 22 2023 9:42 utc | 186

The one who most shaped my perception of the situation in Palestine was and is an atheist Jew, a communist. That is why I don’t want to generalize.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 9:58 utc | 188

Ivanka Trump officially opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem ==> https://youtu.be/WDV6pX1ZLYA

Posted by: too scents | Dec 22 2023 10:18 utc | 190

Posted by: too scents | Dec 22 2023 10:14 utc | 193
Yeah I know but how much worse could anyone, even Trump, be than what we are seeing now with the war going on in Ukraine and brewing in other places. I am just extrapolating from my conviction Trump would pick up the phone and call Putin and then talk Netanyahu out of this.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 10:23 utc | 192

Making Jews and Zionists synonymous is an Antisemitic Zionist Israel Neocon US Empire Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6cGJ0gbI4Y

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Dec 22 2023 10:32 utc | 194

But everybody has a dog in this fight don’t they?
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 22 2023 10:38 utc | 199
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Not by choice.

Posted by: too scents | Dec 22 2023 10:42 utc | 196

Lebanese TV reports:
12:40 Clahes erupt as Israeli occupation forces deny access of Palestinian worshipers to Al-Aqsa Mosque
Comment – this struggle didn’t start on 7.Oct; it started on 2.Oct when settlers escorted by IDF stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and brutalized worshipers. Please note 2.Oct

Posted by: Exile | Dec 22 2023 10:51 utc | 198

Aristodemos @ 156:
You ought to read this English-language translation made by the US Defense Department of an Iraqi intelligence research paper on the origins of the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia. The research and report were done at the request of the then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein back in 2001 or 2002. The report was later found by US soldiers during the US invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003.
The report says that Wahhabism was used as a tool by the British to corrupt Islam and turn it into the fundamentalist bastard ideology that is the official religion of Saudi Arabia. Both the founder of the Saud dynasty and Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism, are said to have Jewish origins, and that one of these unsavoury gentlemen is descended from the leader of a messianic Jewish sect whose members were forced to convert to Islam by Ottoman Turkish authorities in the 1700s and then banished to an area that is now part of northern Saudi Arabia or neighbouring Iraq.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 22 2023 11:21 utc | 200