Re: Yamashita Standard and Command Responsibility
The South African filing at the ICJ specifically referenced command resposbilty . The exact wording of the SA filing is;

Israel has “failed to prevent genocide and has failed to prosecute the direct and public incitement to genocide”.

This is a significant accusation because the standard of responsibility required by military and civilian leaders is strict. The exact language of the Geneva Convention section relating to command responsibility is:

the fact that a breach of the Conventions or of this Protocol was committed by a subordinate does not absolve his superiors from … responsibility … if they knew, or had information which should have enabled them to conclude in the circumstances at the time, that he was committing or about to commit such a breach, and if they did not take all feasible measures within their power to prevent or repress the breach.

Therefore, in the execution of military operations, Article 86(2) obligates a commanding officer to “prevent, and, where necessary, to suppress and report to competent authorities” any violation of the Geneva Conventions ( from wiki ).
The South African Lawsuit casts a wide net. Arguably, civilian officials such as Blinken could be held accountable for delivering weapons…..

Posted by: Exile | Dec 30 2023 16:11 utc | 3

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 30 2023 16:11 utc | 3
I’ve often argue that the US should simply restage that War every year, with costumed actors and no fatalities, in order to remind itself of its glorious military record, instead of invading new countries. it could help the economy of Grenada, and think of the relief in other countries across the globe. The people who already like reenact the Civil War could latch onto it, spending money in local hotels and restaurants. It would be a win win situation for everybody.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Dec 30 2023 16:20 utc | 5

A twitter with a Guardian article-link of what to expect in Gaza from Prof.Devi Sridhar, Edingburgh Univesity
https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1740834350458089974
“We could see almost a quarter of Gaza’s population – close to half- a million human beings – dying within a year. Largely deaths from preventable health causes & collapse of the medical system. It’s a crude estimate, but one that is data-driven…”

Posted by: Poul | Dec 30 2023 16:25 utc | 7

I give you Barfs the Archetype of Alchemical Reversal of Five! 🌟
Yes, they are high on the fumes of their foul dialectic!
They ramp up the 🔥, accelerate the progress.
But like imperfect combustion, they F*

Posted by: FuturePeaceGonzo | Dec 30 2023 16:28 utc | 9

Re: who started the 1948 War ?
Israeli Massacre of Deir Yassin was in April
The Arab Armies marched in May

Posted by: Exile | Dec 30 2023 16:32 utc | 11

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 16:37 utc | 14
You are such a bore Arch. Can’t you hear how excited we are that Israel is achieving its goals after it found that map?

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 30 2023 16:41 utc | 13

Posted by: g | Dec 30 2023 16:08 utc | 1
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Remember when the IOF staged a hospital for the cameras after attacking it?
What matters is what is happening on the ground, not propaganda statements.
Hamas continues to erode racial supremacist forces, and Hezbollah is getting closer to capturing Northern Israel.
The Israeli economy is in tatters, and Israel has become a global pariah state outside of the colonial degenerate West. That’s what happens when you perpetrate a genocide that the world can see via the internet.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 30 2023 16:44 utc | 15

“Gaza had the potential to be a mini Arabian Singapore – now it’s just a bombed out over-glorified wasteland – and it’s all the fault of Hamas.”
THIS IS GOOD STUFF!

Posted by: Jonahan W | Dec 30 2023 16:45 utc | 17

Meditation #1:

If Gaza’s HAMAS tunnel network is so extensive, how much more extensive are the tunnels of Lebanon’s Hezballah?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 16:52 utc | 19

The IDF raped and executed a 13 year old Jewish girl.
If you support IDF you support pedophile rapists.
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If IDF did to America what they did to Israel, Izzrael would be a parking lot right now being bid on by investors and the vast majority of the American population would celebrate the dropping of each bomb — the international community be damned.
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The faster IDF surrenders, the more lives can be saved.
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A Palestinian woman got arrested in the West Bank for praising Hamas on facebook.
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IDF are monsters and needs to be vanquished. At the same time, Netanyahu is also a monster and needs to go.
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Every single IDF soldier who is killed becomes a “civilian” when reported as propaganda by the Izzrael Ministry – which is of course IDF. In reality many more than 8,000 of those killed were IDF combatants.
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It was always up to IDF to create peace. They established the monopoly on violence inside Izzrael. They could have eliminated Likud Extremeists and rooted out Zionist agitators, and then directed aid to tear down the machinery of occupation. They could have worked with HAMAS after the first elections to build trust and security. The border walls could have come down in time. But instead IDF chose to use Izzrael as a forward operating base for a racist Jewish war of Palestinian annihilation – and now they’re crying about the consequences. Izzrael could have been a thriving city state with full employment. Now it’s a bomb crater filled with white Jewish crackers. That’s on them. What did they think would happen?
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Gaza the potential to be a mini Arabian Singapore – now it’s just a bombed out over-glorified wasteland – and it’s all the fault of IDF.
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If you add the 15 years of misery IDF siege of GAZA to the 10 years of misery coming while the strip is rebuilt, IDF will have robbed an entire generation of Palestinians of their lives. 25 years of wasted misery for the living, and thousands of dead.
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The IDF raided Palestinian money changes in the West Bank. Every IDF leader is living on borrowed time.
Posted by: g | Dec 30 2023 16:42 utc | 16
There, fixed it for you.
Before it was fuxxed.
Now it’s fixxed,
you fuxxer.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 17:03 utc | 21

g.@1608
Only $hitheads and the terminally deluded describe Hamas as “terrorists”. How do you plead?

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 30 2023 17:10 utc | 23

Gaza the potential to be a mini Arabian Singapore – now it’s just a bombed out over-glorified wasteland – and it’s all the fault of IDF
Posted by: g | Dec 30 2023 16:42 utc | 16
Note: Singapore became what it is because it realized it could never impose it’s will on an Islamic majority (Malaysia) to it’s left and an Islamic majority (Indonesia) to it’s right and others like Brunei, Sarawak, Johor Baru or even South Islamic Thailand.
The Singaporean precursors asked merely for a tiny piece of land for their people, they asked NICELY, and they were granted it.
They built that piece of land, together with their own Islamic Malay population and Islamic Indonesian immigrants (among others) into a global force.
Being Asian, and not a bunch of Jewish crackerheads from Ukrainistan and other honkey backwaters, they immediately realized that cooperation with their Islamic neighbours was the only way forward.
They treated their Islamic neighbours with respect, and reaped the rewards of the good will of Muslims all across the region.
Not a single bullet was required.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 17:13 utc | 25

To the Man defending JIF (jews in Palistine)
, If you were the best tree climber in the world I would have the right to point out that, no matter how competently you were doing it, in my opinion you were climbing the wrong tree.
The jews were a minority for 90% of the last 2000 years up to them being given part of Palestine unjustly by Britain. Since that time they stole, took by force, forced Palestinians out of their land up to the present where they have most of it , by no right except by violence. Therefore the Palestinians have the right and duty to push them back and recover their land. As time moves on and military might is levelled up by their neighbours who have the right also to nuclear armament just like Israel which cannot survive as a small postage stamp with a comparatively incompetent army and the USA, whose power is based largely on illusion and PR (wiich does not win wars) will not want to be dragged down or have a nuclear war over it. Even though they have infected the USA brain and control it.
Palestinians have a greater right to exist on this land than do the jews who arrived recently from Russia, Poland, Usa, etc,etc. When these jews pushed the Palestinians out , with no right of return, they did not care to where.. Similarly the Palestinians do not have to care where the jews go. They will be as nice, kind and merciful as the jews were to them. Crushing eight thousand children is worse swine than the Nazis and they are unfit to govern. Jews sing Psalm 136, third verse, ‘How happy we (the jews) will be when we smash their children’s heads on the rocks’. They must be very happy now in Gaza again today.
The adult solution is for these jewish squatters to talk to the owners of Palestine who may consent to some continued presence as rent paying citizens.
This is the tree you should climb. Not one of the millions of Olive trees the jews destroyed to ethnically clear Palestine.

Posted by: Boindub | Dec 30 2023 17:25 utc | 27

Zionist barbarity in Gaza knows no bounds and in fact already exceeds the worst practices and atrocities of the Nazi genocide.
Over 1,000 Palestinian children have now had limbs amputated without anaesthetics. Zionist forces are stealing anaesthetics from the pitifully few aid lorries allowed through the main checkpoint.
Palestinian hostages rounded up by Zionist forces have been subjected to extreme brutality, starved and beaten for days and forced to sign ludicrous confessions. Old men, very young children have been the victims of this grisly farce. A distinguished surgeon was tortured and forced to confess to being a Hamas leader.
Rape and sexual assault are being practised on a large scale against both men and women as part of official policy to degrade and demoralise the civilian population, and not just as an expression of routine Zionist sadism.
Ghoulish Israeli body snatchers and organ traffickers are having a field day. Bodies of Palestinians are being stolen on a large scale for organ harvesting. Israel has long been the world centre of this illicit trade and the Gaza Genocide is a tremendous business opportunity for these people.
The Zionist Genocide is constantly testing the limits and finding ever greater depths to plumb.

Posted by: anon | Dec 30 2023 17:28 utc | 29

Being Asian, and not a bunch of Jewish crackerheads from Ukrainistan and other honkey backwaters, they immediately realized that cooperation with their Islamic neighbours was the only way forward.
They treated their Islamic neighbours with respect, and reaped the rewards of the good will of Muslims all across the region.
Not a single bullet was required.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 17:13 utc | 28
This bit made me laugh. So, true. The Zionazi crackheads are so mentally unstable it’s frightening. And the term honkey! Miss that one. Keep up the good, entertaining work AB.
I guess we didn’t need Colin to keep the peace round here after all.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 30 2023 17:36 utc | 31

A very good article:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-war-on-gaza-encapsulates-entire-history-european-colonialism
A good illustration also from MEE today:
Israeli analyst Eliyahu Yossian said in an interview that Israel should level the ground in Gaza, and “kill as many as possible and spare no one”.
He added: “The woman is an enemy, the baby is an enemy .. & the pregnant woman is an enemy.”

Posted by: JB | Dec 30 2023 17:43 utc | 33

Decades on, Israel tries to bury its darkest times
The National – 22 March 2016
One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions…..
……That is why the unearthing of an Israeli soldier’s letter from 1948 detailing what was probably the war’s worst massacre – one long buried by Israel – is of more than historical significance…..
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-03-22/decades-on-israel-tries-to-bury-its-darkest-times/

Posted by: Exile | Dec 30 2023 18:10 utc | 35

@37
It is not implausible that some rapes occurred. Invading troops have been known to do that. Such rapes are crimes for which the assailants bear responsibility.
But one can not decide which side of a conflict is right on the basis of rape. Thousands of Italian and German women were raped by allied soldiers from 1944 to 1945 but outside of Fascist propaganda, people do not conclude from that fact that historical justice was on the side of the Axis powers.

Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Dec 30 2023 18:12 utc | 37

The war ends in one day if Hamas returns all hostages and lays down their arms. If Israel lays down their arms Israel would be destroyed.
Posted by: genocidal | Dec 30 2023 18:14 utc | 42
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I don’t think you understand what is happening outside the Zionist media sphere.
Hamas is more popular around the world, and among Palestinians than ever before.
Israel doesn’t need to lay down its arms to be destroyed. Its troops are not effective, its terror tactics don’t work on people who are willing to be martyrs. Israel is a global pariah state now.
What Israel is doing is destroying its population, economy, and what little reputation it has managed to achieve through media and academic control in the West.
The Americans are not coming to save Israel. No one is coming to save Israel and Israel has shown a complete inability to save itself from its worst impulses and Zionist mental illness.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 30 2023 18:24 utc | 39

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Israel’s survival is threatened by Israeli demographics… Regardless of how well armed Israel is, it is doomed… In addition, despite propaganda IDF is an incompetent military… Already, Israeli dual citizens are leaving in large numbers…. Expect Intel to cancel the plant it announced with much fanfare.

Posted by: Joseph B | Dec 30 2023 18:29 utc | 41

The best way to create a secure and lasting peace for the Jewish remains for the Likud to finally accept UNR 181 and UNR 194.

Posted by: Exile | Dec 30 2023 18:31 utc | 43

Honzo @2023
Not Mexico, by any means. The Western Hemisphere target would undoubtedly be Venezuela. Currently that nation is having a dispute with British-controlled Guyana over the recently discovered oil finds in the contested border area. So what does Perfidious Albion (controlled by the Rottenchild private bank in City of London) do? They send in a destroyer to threaten Caracas…sort of a shot across the bow, so to speak.
Harkening back to the days of “Rule Britannia…rules the waves”, one single destroyer is certainly not a game-changer, in actuality a trip-wire. The City and Wall $treet Oilygarchs not only have their greedy eyes on that oil patch, but also upon the big one, with the messy crude in Venezuela proper.
Unlike the days when the Monroe Doctrine kept Latin America as a private playground for U$$A corporations.,..think “Banana Republics”…there are new players on the board. Both Russia and China are becoming involved in cooperative agreements with Venezuela. Should huffing and puffing on the part of the pro$titicians in the Di$trict of Corruption, most particularly by the totally Talmudist ruled Department of $tate, get a bit out of hand; it is not totally unreasonable to speculate that Caracas would welcome a Russian base in their land, similar to the Tartus operation in Syria.
Geopolitical reality is faaaaar beyond board-game simulations have produced. Events and possibilities are emerging more rapidly than commercial interests, to say nothing of governments, can possibly comprehend and contend with.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 30 2023 19:21 utc | 45

@ Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 16:44 utc | 19
your post is worth drawing attention to, so i am posting it again below..
“Note to Self:
The next time a Western talking head mentions the disappearance of Russian journalists under ‘The Putin Regime’ (or any other) tell them to bugger themselves with a cactus:
The most lethal place for journalists by far this year was Gaza, where at least 13 journalists were killed while actively covering the war, according to the RSF’s annual report published on Thursday. The total number of journalists killed in Gaza – irrespective of the line of their work – was 56, RSF said.
If even one of these journalists had been an anti-Putin Russian the entire West and it’s legion of NGO/NPO puppet instances would have been screaming blue murder and holding black candlelight vigils for months on end …
But 56 Palestinians journalists? Some murdered effectively live on t.v?
Crickets.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 16:44 utc | 19

Posted by: james | Dec 30 2023 19:30 utc | 47

My tendency is that the US will use as much ‘war by other means’ as possible, focused on the Western Hemisphere, where it is easiest for the US to project power and where Russian-made missile defense systems are in short supply, so that if the color revolution fails, they can back it up with bombing, and even boots on the ground. Most likely target from a military/economic standpoint would be Mexico, but the problem of millions and millions of Americans of Mexican descent is a strong argument against this. Trial balloons are already floating, though.
I’d love to see others’ thoughts on this.
Posted by: Honzo | Dec 30 2023 18:30 utc | 46
A reasonable speculation; taking a tighter grip on things closer to home makes sense, so I would expect it to happen at some point, but since these are not really reasonable people, there might be other things that they try to do first.
Trying to hold onto Europe was behind the Ukraine fiasco, so we know it is on their minds.

Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 30 2023 19:41 utc | 49

@ g | Dec 30 2023 16:42 utc | 16

Gaza had the potential to be a mini Arabian Singapore – now it’s just a bombed out over-glorified wasteland – and it’s all the fault of Hamas.

Classic Netanhayu and bloodthirsty Likudnik talking point. You aren’t paid well are you?
Let me finish your sentiment then “and now we must destroy Gaza, and drive out its people in order to save it for Greater Israel.”
Again, why don’t you people come right out and admit your ultimate goal/desire? At least you’d get a lot more respect from people around here. Instead you act like a dirty little weasel living in the crevices of ambiguity by manipulating the language of morality. You make a mockery of your cause.

Posted by: CrazyTrain | Dec 30 2023 19:55 utc | 51

@ genocidal | Dec 30 2023 18:14 utc | 42

The war ends in one day if Hamas returns all hostages and lays down their arms. If Israel lays down their arms Israel would be destroyed.

Implicit in this position is a profound racism. It’s the assumption that only the Israeli state and its functionaries (including the army) operate on good faith values, and anyone that is not Western or not part of your world consciousness is somehow less than human and only seeks your destruction, are a people that cannot operate on good faith. Its racist and colonial.
Deeply buried in all of this is something even more tragic. It’s the idea of ‘eternal antisemitism’ (a phrase Hannah Arendt wrote extensively about in her criticisms of Zionism), the notion that if you aren’t a jew then you automatically hate the jews — which is itself a racist idea. This belief/assumption is something that according to its adherents applies to and cuts across all levels of society, from the individual right on up to the state.
According to this, no one in the world other than Jews and/or the State of Israel is to be trusted to look out for and/or respect the rights of Jews in any state. It’s the epitome of ethno-religious mania and hatred. It’s implicit in Israeli education and permeates common society. Lots of people there obviously don’t believe any of it, but it is something that is all around and communicated on several simultaneous levels. I know, I lived there long enough….

Posted by: CrazyTrain | Dec 30 2023 20:16 utc | 53

“My tendency is that the US will use as much ‘war by other means’ as possible, focused on the Western Hemisphere, where it is easiest for the US to project power and where Russian-made missile defense systems are in short supply, so that if the color revolution fails, they can back it up with bombing, and even boots on the ground. Most likely target from a military/economic standpoint would be Mexico, but the problem of millions and millions of Americans of Mexican descent is a strong argument against this. Trial balloons are already floating, though.
I’d love to see others’ thoughts on this.”
Posted by: Honzo | Dec 30 2023 18:30 utc | 46
Excellent analysis-new to me, but I think you may be right. America can more easily be Hegemon in the ‘New World’ and their signature terror attacks through indiscriminate bombing is tied to the greed of the MIC as bombing is quite lucrative with no ‘blow back’ as the Central and South American armies don’t have the Russian AA.
The Empire also needs a ‘win’

Posted by: canuck | Dec 30 2023 20:25 utc | 55

The war ends in one day if Hamas returns all hostages and lays down their arms. If Israel lays down their arms Israel would be destroyed.
Posted by: genocidal | Dec 30 2023 18:14 utc | 42
Reposting this because it’s a perfect example of the extreme paranoia that is inculcated into Israeli and Zionist (not all Jewish people) diaspora children from their first days of school – be it actual school or religious text.
This – coupled with the blatant racism against Palestinians, Arabs, and often white Gentiles – is necessary to create and maintain the type of mindset that makes the apartheid state possible and enables the outright, open genocide being carried out in Gaza (and soon to be the West Bank) right now as we speak.
There are documentaries and articles out there which go in to much more depth and detail than I will, but suffice it to say that it is also predicated on the Holocaust Industrial Complex which resides in Israel, but has very strong tentacles in Washington D.C., London, Brussels, Ottawa, and South America. It’s a dead end philosophy and they will admit that among themselves, sometimes even to non-Zionists/Israelis. After all, they are God’s chosen people and even if they initiate and/or participate in the end of humanity on Earth, they’ll be fine – better than fine, actually. Nihilism with a cherry on top and a get out of jail free card.
At the end of the day, its ultimate purpose on Earth, however, is to “justify” the ethnic cleansing of the Levant and the emergence and survival of the “Zionist state” in a “pure” form. And the kicker is that doesn’t mean that all diaspora Jews will be welcomed back nor that those diaspora Jews who constitute the “tentacles” will even want to actually move to Israel. They will remain in the RotW and continue their usurious and destructive actions there under the quasi-religious delusion that all Jews are always under immediate threat and faced with non-stop “anti-Semitism.”

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 30 2023 20:46 utc | 57

But 56 Palestinians journalists? Some murdered effectively live on t.v?
Posted by: james | Dec 30 2023 19:30 utc | 51
6 days ago it was 101 journalists in Gaza and 3 in Lebanon for a total of 104. But I am pretty sure I saw a couple more in the past few days. One journalist was being carried away on a stretcher, you could see him struggling and he died soon after. If hospitals were functioning, some might have survived like the Al Jazeera journalist who was left to bleed to death for five hours because Israel blocked the ambulance from going.

Posted by: pq | Dec 30 2023 20:56 utc | 59

Honzo @ 46 — The Red Sea ‘war.’ Big surprise as to its scope and effects.

Posted by: Pundita | Dec 30 2023 21:17 utc | 61

Posted by: pq | Dec 30 2023 21:02 utc | 64
1: Maybe. The US Civil War is already politically violent and violently political, so I’m not sure what threshold would need to be crossed for it to become a regular thread. 2: That would be fun, but I expect it to be slow-rolling and episodic; a thing b will write articles about, but too extended in time frame for a standing open-thread for the foreseeable future. Individual episodes, like armed rebellion in France, for instance, would certainly get their own threads for a time, though. There are a lot of Barflies with relevant knowledge there, as well.
3: Possibly Argentina, it depends on whether the population wakes up and pushes back. There may not be that much to talk about for awhile.

Posted by: Honzo | Dec 30 2023 21:38 utc | 63

Jane @ 62.
Just reading further, and this account of the Peasants Revolt in Palestine of 1834 is a fascinating account of Palestine as territory control of which was contested by Egypt and the Ottomans. The Palestinian peasants and Bedouins and other local big men preferred the Ottomans to the Egyptians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_revolt_in_Palestine
This revolt is called the event that consolidated Palestinian nationalist consciousness.
“. . . Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal state that the revolt was a formative event for the Palestinian sense of nationhood in that it brought together disparate groups against a common enemy. Moreover, they asserted that these groups reemerged later to constitute the Palestinian people. The revolt represented a moment of political unity in Palestine. The goal of the rebels was to expel the Egyptian army and reinstate Ottoman rule to restore the Ottoman standards that defined the relationship between the government and the governed. These standards were made up of the religious laws, administrative codes and local norms and traditions that were disrupted by Egyptian reforms.[4]

Background
Ibrahim Pasha led the Egyptian army in the Levant
In consolidating his power, Muhammad Ali, the rebel governor of Ottoman Egypt, was modeling his rule on the bureaucratic organization characteristic of modern European states.[7] Like earlier rulers of Egypt, Muhammad Ali sought to extend his control over greater Syria (the Levant) for its strategic value and natural resources. Syria also had a prospering international trading community with well-developed markets. In Muhammad Ali’s strategy, Syria would serve as a captive market for goods being produced in Egypt. Moreover, Syria could serve as a buffer state between Egypt and the Ottoman sultan in Constantinople. Muhammad Ali was attempting to become independent of the Ottoman Empire.[8] . . .”

Unfortunately it seems like the Ottomans’ eventually prevailing in Palestine opened the door for the Zionist project. The Wiki entry on Proto-zionism describes this. It is worth reading in its entirety as it basically demolishes the idea that Theodore Herzl was the founder of Zionism. Which leads me to wonder why this is repeated so often? Maybe to erase the actual roots of the Zionist idea?
Anyhow, here is an interesting graf:

“Background
Muhammad Ali seized power of Ottoman Egypt in 1805 following a civil war between the reigning Mamluks and Ottomans. Muhammad Ali dreamed of a new Egypt rising from the ashes of Ottoman decline: “I am well aware that the (Ottoman) Empire is heading by the day toward destruction… On its ruins I will build a vast kingdom… up to the Euphrates and the Tigris”. He envisioned the Levant as the bread basket of Egypt, supplying Egypt with agricultural production and conscripts for their wars against the Ottomans. Most of the Muslim Arab peasantry in Palestine turned against Ibrahim Pasha, Ali’s eldest son and successor, as his constant demands for conscript soldiers came to be seen as a death sentence leading to the 1834 Peasants’ revolt in Palestine.[2] This was the backdrop against which proto-Zionism developed as more Jews started immigrating to the region under Ibrahim Pasha’s rule. After the Ottomans regained control of the Levant in the Oriental Crisis of 1840 the legal structures of land ownership underwent significant reform in the Tanzimat era beginning with the Land Code of 1858. Once based on cultivation, land ownership was now based on title and register, paving the way for later land purchases by Zionists.[2] “

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Zionism
This was the context within which Baron Rothschild (unclear which one) was reported to have tried in 1829 to lure the Ottoman sultan, via a huge loan, to turn all of Palestine over to him to become his private Jewish kingdom.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058342257&seq=997

Posted by: Jane | Dec 30 2023 21:40 utc | 65

@ pq | Dec 30 2023 20:56 utc | 63
thanks.. that is even more depressing.. it does however shine another light on the hypocrisy of the west in its concern for journalists/reporters/investigative reporters with all the cheap talk of protecting access to information and those providing it..

Posted by: james | Dec 30 2023 21:47 utc | 67

@Jane | Dec 30 2023 21:40 utc | 69

It is worth reading in its entirety as it basically demolishes the idea that Theodore Herzl was the founder of Zionism. Which leads me to wonder why this is repeated so often?

Because “white men bad” is the self-comforting creed of so many woke useful idiots. You cannot fight the so called “empire”, if you embrace its most prominent ideology.

Posted by: SG | Dec 30 2023 22:03 utc | 69

Guyana is NOT British controlled (except of course in the sense that everything in the world is controlled by the City of London, operating a secret plan left to it by Cecil Rhodes who was an agent of the Rothschild family etc etc…)
There is an excellent article at the Declassified website which might help explain things for those who know little about Guyana
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-sooner-we-get-these-people-out-of-our-hair-the-better/
In the real world we see that the power dictating events in Guyana since the 1940s has been the US, through the CIA, the CIO-AFL (yes, them) and the State Department.
As to the years when Britain still wielded independent power in Latin America consider the
Monroe Doctrine which was a hundred years old earlier this year and nothing exemplifies it better than the history of the Venezuela-Guyana disputes and the serial destruction and corruption of Guyanese governments.
The medical profession should seriously investigate the growing need for psychiatric assistance for those suffering from The City/Rothschild syndrome and associated Larouchian insanities.

Posted by: bevin | Dec 30 2023 22:05 utc | 71

Thousands of Italian and German women were raped by allied soldiers from 1944 to 1945 but outside of Fascist propaganda, people do not conclude from that fact that historical justice was on the side of the Axis powers.
Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Dec 30 2023 18:12 utc | 40
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And thousands of Russian women were brutally raped by German soldiers of the invading army. I have seen a documentary film that discussed this.
However, when I did a search for “WW2 rapes of Russian women” I got no hits. All the hits —lots of them—were about Russian/Soviet soldiers raping German women.
Then I did a search for “Russian Women raped by German soldiers” and got one hit. This one:
https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/42225/chapter-abstract/356344246?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“This chapter focuses on sexual violence by German troops, which was a widespread reality in the Soviet Union and included coerced disrobement, sexual torture, rape, and sexual enslavement committed by individuals or groups. Women and girls but also boys and men suffered bodily and psychological wounds. Many did not survive to tell their stories. The account draws on narratives by perpetrators, victims and bystanders and elucidates the forms that sexual violence took, in what situations specific manifestations occurred, . . . Ultimately, [commanders] regarded male sexuality as something that could and should be productively incited.”

I think it is worth noting because rape of German women by Soviet soldiers is assumed to reflect only the innate bestiality of Soviet soldiers. Obviously it is quite possible that Soviet soldiers—or some portion of them—were taking revenge on German women for what had been done to Russian women. It is also quite possible, as noted in the last sentence cited, that military commanders consciously incited their men to degrade the enemy’s women as a weapon.
This whole Soviet soldier as monstrous rapist by dint of being Russian has taken on a life of its own and is still being weaponized against Russia, and is a kind of repeated echo when Hamas soldiers are accused of raping Israeli women.
As for the latter case, it is very convenient to say the women are too traumatized to provide any evidence. “Just believe whatever we, the rape experts, say.” If these women were later buried under rubble, it is fair to say that Israel destroyed evidence of rape by killing the women. IF they buried the women without doing any autopsy, then likewise they destroyed the potential evidence and now should shut up.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 30 2023 22:23 utc | 73

Because “white men bad” is the self-comforting creed of so many woke useful idiots. You cannot fight the so called “empire”, if you embrace its most prominent ideology.
Posted by: SG | Dec 30 2023 22:03 utc | 73
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I don’t follow your argument re “white men bad.”
Everyone, also the Jews, puts Herzl at The Creation of Zionism.
It just isn’t true!

Posted by: Jane | Dec 30 2023 22:27 utc | 75

Zionist forces in Gaza are routinely shooting civilians at random, in a manner reminiscent of ghettos in Eastern Europe in 1941, for no apparent reason other than hate and killing for its own sake, and to spread terror among the population.
Large numbers of male civilians of all ages, and some women, are being rounded up, starved, beaten and tortured, until they sign ludicrous confessions confessing to being “terrorists.” The victims include very old men and young children. They are kept in makeshift barbed wire pens in the desert, handcuffed for days, deprived of food and water, and subjected to every form of mistreatment sick Zionist minds can imagine. Some are taken away and summarily shot, Einsatzgruppen style.
The “lucky” ones, released after a few days of this treatment as “guests” of their Zionist hosts, resemble Belsen concentration camp inmates released after MONTHS of Nazi mistreatment, emaciated, broken, all bearing wounds and torture injuries.
The crimes of the Zionist Regime surpass those of Nazi Germany at its worst. They make the Nazis look like rank amateurs.
The Nazis did at least try to conceal their crimes, either out of shame or for other reasons.
The Zionist Regime proudly celebrates its atrocities, shouts them out across the roof tops, and constantly threatens more of the same.

Posted by: anon | Dec 30 2023 22:41 utc | 77

Arch Bungle 80
“Singapore became what it is because it realized it could never impose it’s will on an Islamic majority (Malaysia) to it’s left and an Islamic majority (Indonesia) to it’s right and others like Brunei, Sarawak, Johor Baru or even South Islamic Thailand.
The Singaporean precursors asked merely for a tiny piece of land for their people, they asked NICELY, and they were granted it.
They built that piece of land, together with their own Islamic Malay population and Islamic Indonesian immigrants (among others) into a global force.
Being Asian,”
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I am curious as to who the “precursors” were.
Who were the Asians who asked merely for a tiny piece of land for their people? Who were “their people”?
Meyer and Lee Kuan do not occupy the same historical time frame.
It seems like the modern commercial entity Singapore was basically a creation and outpost of the British Empire.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 30 2023 22:42 utc | 79

What will the next dedicated open thread on MoA be about?
Posted by: Honzo | Dec 30 2023 18:30 utc | 46
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Whatever its ostensible theme, the discussion will deteriorate quickly into one on MMT or climate change.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 30 2023 22:48 utc | 81

It astonishes me that people expect “vassals” to defy two psychotic nuclear armed powers?
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Frantic nonsense. They are vassals and I expect them to behave like vassals.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 30 2023 22:53 utc | 83

And before new years eve explodes – about South Africa filing the genocide charge: If it’s true as somebody posted and the UNSC has the ultimate ‘guilty or not’ binding decision, I don’t get why anybody thinks it’s a big deal that it got filed. I mean, did jew-controlled amurdica absurdica get kicked out of the UN while i wasn’t looking??

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 30 2023 22:59 utc | 85

Bevin @2205
You have thoroughly outed yourself as (1. a materialist (2. an apologist (3. a denialist and ultimately an unrepentant ideologue. If you had the stones to do some objective research you will discover that the Rottenchild Crime Clan, primarily seated in The City, happen to be the ultra-capitalists. It dawned on me that you do not consider yourself as pro-capitalism. N’cest pas? Why is it then that you refuse to countenance the existence of highest finance capitalism….a level of financial power which has full operative control over all Western governments. They decide policy. Consider the composition of the U$$A Department of $tate. Identities of the cast of characters heading that entity are most evident.
Oh, I will concede that Wall $treet,is effectually dominated by the Rottenfeller Crime Clan, with their 54% shareholding presence in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Their #1 Minion…and fixer, the finally late Heinrich Kissinger, the frontman dwarf, was suspected by some sources as an ingester of adrenochrome. Maybe. We do know that he lived to 100 and his longterm master, David Rottenfeller, lived to the overripe ordure of 101. Inheritors of inconceivable wealth and the power that it brings to essentially all major institutions across the fruited plain…are simply incapable of human empathy. Being spiritually vacuous they also fear their ultimate demise.
City of London is and remains the world center for banking, insurance, maritime affairs, mining and metals and international media…for starters. They have controlled British finance since their premiere Rottenchild broke the Bank of England immediately after Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon in 1815. He took over the Bank from a consortium including the Montefiores and the Goldsmits.
Why do your ideological presumptions constantly deny history? As a materialist, such as my late Trotskyite friend David, perhaps you suffer from an existential fear of death, believing that we only live once and then we simply cease to exist. If that were indeed the case, then why do materialists even bother to keep living an essentially meaningless existence? Why are so many of them ensorcelled by possessions and power over the lives of others?
There is a spiritual dimension. Yes, it cannot be proven by the materialistic scientistic postulations of being able to prove a theorem by means of our five known primary senses. But as Hamlet admonished Horatio: “There is more to heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.”

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 30 2023 23:02 utc | 87

@ anon | Dec 30 2023 23:02 utc | 90
your last sentence – exactly.. and thanks for the other details too.. cheers..

Posted by: james | Dec 30 2023 23:07 utc | 89

However since Chinese and Malay were beating and stabbing each others daily, Singapore was made independent in a couple of years.
Posted by: SG | Dec 30 2023 23:04 utc | 92
This never made sense and probably was a cover for the real reason: disputes over tax contributions to the federation.
The reason why I think it’s a cover is that Malaysians, Chinese and Tamils were beating each other up well into this century, long after the creation of post-colonial Singapore.
A large part of Singapore’s government goes into making sure race riots don’t break out between it’s Chinese population, Tamil Indians and the very large indigenous Malay community.
And just like that we’re way off topic …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 30 2023 23:16 utc | 91

Posted by: CrazyTrain | Dec 30 2023 20:01 utc | 56
The truth is that Hamas are driven by bloodlust and extremism, all the while being the only viable resistance to Israel that was permitted by Israel to be there in the first place.
There is much misconception on the lead up and aftermath to the Palestinian elections at the end of January 2006. Vanity Fair published a fairly detailed account in March 2008:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804

Posted by: Menz | Dec 30 2023 23:19 utc | 93

Assal Rad
@AssalRad
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Dec 29
Israel keeps bombing areas it tells Palestinians to move to:
https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1740648370862248380

Posted by: Menz | Dec 30 2023 23:22 utc | 95

But don’t worry – they will soon get up into treble figures. Genocide Joe and Blinken have just announced they are sending another $150 million worth of bombs and shells to the Zionist forces, because as Zionist leaders helpfully explain, not enough children have been killed in Gaza yet, and they need to kill all of them.
This will go with the 50,000 tons of US bombs already dropped on Gaza, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
And don’t worry about the all dead journalists in Gaza, because the US and UK regimes are hosting big conferences to condemn the harassment of journalists in China and Iran.
Posted by: anon | Dec 30 2023 23:02 utc | 90
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Biden bypassed Congress (again) and approved the $150 million in new bombs because he said it was an emergency. What was the emergency Mr. Biden: Was the IDF running out of enough bombs to kill ALL the children in Gaza? My God! It makes you ashamed to be an American.

Posted by: Ed | Dec 30 2023 23:28 utc | 97

109 humanitarian aid trucks were inspected at Nitzana and transferred to Gaza via the Rafah crossing today.
Posted by: g | Dec 30 2023 16:08 utc | 1
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So the Zio-Nazis allow the feeding of powered milk for the babies as a humanitarian gesture just before they bomb them into baby heaven. You area sick Jew Mr. g.

Posted by: Ed | Dec 30 2023 23:43 utc | 99