DuchessAndBob 23:57
I had totally forgotten that. LOL. ISISreal still taking them in?
https://web.archive.org/web/20151029043413/http://www.presstv.ir:80/detail/2014/12/01/388372/israel-hospitals-treat-syria-militants

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 0:00 utc | 103

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 0:00 utc | 108
Israel treated jihadi militants, of the sort the US was supporting in Syria, but they were not ISIS as far as I remember. They crossed over the Golan front, and there were/are no ISIS in the south of Syria.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 5 2024 0:24 utc | 105

The Vietnam War!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 0:17 utc | 109
Henry Kissinger via Cambodia. (That was too easy, I wonder if I am falling into a trap.)
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 4 2024 23:56 utc | 106
Paul Volker’s decision to destroy the economy in 1979 in order to also destroy stagflation.
Interest rates are perpetually understated. A nice, coastal home with a water view in the 70s, $50 k and tuition for hundreds per semester.

Posted by: Turk 151 | Jan 5 2024 0:51 utc | 107

KusaMahshi
@SidiShaban
Look how Western women treat Palestinian men in interviews. Listen to this and tell me that this is an acceptable behavior from a journalist. She clearly attempted to dehumanize Barghouti and use anti Arab men tropes to shut down the conversation.
https://twitter.com/SidiShaban/status/1743063889049223319

Posted by: Menz | Jan 5 2024 0:55 utc | 109

Henry Kissinger via Cambodia. (That was too easy, I wonder if I am falling into a trap.)
Posted by: Turk 151 | Jan 5 2024 0:51 utc | 112
Darnit. Ok, I give up. I hope you realise being right is anti-semitic.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 1:23 utc | 111

Eric Prince says Hezbolah has pre-positioned soldiers in NYC, Miami, LA and Chicago at a minimum. He would know. China has been sending soldiers here by the tens of thousands and have personnel previously here in the hundreds of thousands. That along with the fact that Iran, China and Russia are all allied now seemingly with the entire Middle East. Against Israel and the US.
Given Israel’s audacious terrorist strikes against Russia, Beirut and Iran in the last few days, All calculated to provoke a response and draw the United States into total war, Israel’s and Zelensky’s (Jews all) desperation is apparent and is a result of the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah and Russia are defeating them.
The other parties haven’t taken Israel’s bait yet. The only question is whether the US is sufficiently controlled by the Zionists to be compelled to enter the fray.
If that happens fully expect all of those internal sleeper cells to be activated in the US major cities and against infrastructure, while the US simultaneously attempts to fight a three front war against Russia, China and the entire Middle East.
Externally the US military would be annihilated. Internally there would be a blood bath of the invaders by the legacy
Americans.
Read history, it only took 400 white men on horseback to conquer tens of millions of Incas, same with the Aztecs, same with the Mayans and same with every Indian tribe in North America. What do you think ten million White American Men will do with 400 million rifles and trillions of rounds? You think flooding the US with 30 million Aztecs, Incas and Mayans along with a few hundred thousand Chinese will do the job? Great replacement? Good luck.
Then the US will have to withdraw within itself and would no longer be capable of projecting genocide against other nations at the behest of the Zionist to exploit their resources. US will essentially be reduced to minding its own borders, producing its own goods and becoming internally and economically self sufficient. Just like Russia is now. I like it.

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 1:47 utc | 113

Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 4 2024 22:17 utc | 94
It was a hellfire missile fired from a drone. He also spied on and charged and imprisoned Assange.
In any case, come on. Kushner? Moving the embassy to Jerusalem? Sheldon Adelson was the real “Russia” in “Russia”gate which should have been called “Israelgate” except for the fact that Israel usually holds sway over who can get elected. Moving the embassy was an incredibly controversial and inflammatory thing to do, and it led up to the confrontations at the mosques, etc.
No the killing wouldn’t be any more with Trump, but it wouldn’t be any less. The only thing I agree on is Ukraine. Trump likely would have been fine with some sort of provocation via Taiwan though.
Now, the usual response from die-hard Trump fans is the he wasn’t actually directly responsible for any of it, and that isn’t true either. Even Soleimani and Assange. In both cases he was asked to choose options and in each he chose the most extreme. No better than Killary or Biden.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 2:15 utc | 115

Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs:
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israel-defender-alan-dershowitz-named-in-epstein-court-docs/
Dershowitz, the former Harvard law professor who is being considered to defend Israel against genocide charges being brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Dershowitz has also promoted unsubstantiated claims that Hamas committed mass rapes against Israelis on 7 October during the Al-Aqsa Flood attack.
Posted by: Vortex | Jan 4 2024 21:01 utc | 82
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Dershoshit is the scum of the world.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2024 2:26 utc | 117

Henry Kissinger via Cambodia. (That was too easy, I wonder if I am falling into a trap.)
Posted by: Turk 151 | Jan 5 2024 0:51 utc | 112
Darnit. Ok, I give up. I hope you realise being right is anti-semitic.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 1:23 utc | 116
From what I’ve heard, LBJ’s mom was Jewish… which would make LBJ…. Ethiopian?

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 5 2024 2:44 utc | 119

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 0:00 utc | 108
Israel treated jihadi militants, of the sort the US was supporting in Syria, but they were not ISIS as far as I remember. They crossed over the Golan front, and there were/are no ISIS in the south of Syria.
Posted by: laguerre | Jan 5 2024 0:24 utc | 110
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In Iraq “ISIS” was used by the Bush / Chaney administration and the UK, to promote war between the Sunnis and the Shia’s. Later, under the Obama / Biden Administration select ISIS and Al-Qaeda members were renamed “Moderate Rebels” to wage war against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad while pretending to be fighting ISIS. These “ISIS” and Al-Qaeda members were trained and armed by General Lloyd Austin: You can’t make this shit up!

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2024 2:48 utc | 121

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 1:47 utc | 118
LMAO @ talk about Incas, Maya and Aztec. For one thing those men on horseback killed most of them with disease, about 500 years ago.
Regarding who is masterminding the mass migration to the USA’s southern border, take it up with every Democrat and Republican presidential administration and every Democrat and Republican Senator or Representative inclusive of Trump and any of his acolytes in the legislature.
You don’t want them coming in droves, then stop inflicting neoliberal economic policies on them and Monroe Doctrine regime change policies and allow a socialist government or 3 the opportunity to exist unmolested in Latin America and watch those “waves” of migrant caravans dry to a trickle. End the brutal economic sanctions, end the embargo of Cuba, stop shipping imprisoned newly minted MS-13 gang members – fully created in the US of A – back there.
Not three years ago the number of Venezuelans coming was near zero. Now they are the most prevalent during a time of massive border encounters. Why do you think that is? The socialist government that has been in place through two successive presidents since before 2000, or the sanctions and sabotage that began in earnest under Bush I, and which were doubled and then tripled down on during Trump’s administration, on purpose, when the Venezuelans’ not so bright full dependence on oil revenues happened to already be biting them in the ass (with a lot of help from the USA and Saudis)?
Hell, pretty much everything you’re talking about is “blowback” – had the USA not kicked a hornets nest or stuck his nose somewhere it didn’t belong in search of a few bucks, none of it would even be happening.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 3:05 utc | 123

RLTW and his merry band of chickenshit Nazis would last about 5 minutes in the end of civilization scenario he jacks off to.

Posted by: Dumb Cracker | Jan 5 2024 3:20 utc | 125

I’m not racist. I did missions all over Central and South America in the 90s during the “war against drugs.” El Salvador was the most dangerous though, even for an SFODA.
I hated Hispanics so damn much that I married a Hispanic woman.
But then I graduated to the “war on terror” which I fought in for the last two decades.
But I was so happy when Nayib Bukele became President of El Salvador and turned it from the most dangerous country into the safest country in the world. What a great man and leader!
But oh crap! Bukele is a Palestinian! I’m not allowed to like Bukele because the Jews don’t like Palestinians. Oh my! Will me and my children be put on a list by the Jews and never be allowed to get a job or go to college?
I’m so confused my little Zionist tools. Am I a racist because I married a Latina immigrant or because my children are Hispanic. Or because I traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq to slaughter Muslims at the behest of Israel. Or is it the fact that I acknowledge Bukele as currently being the greatest leader in the Western Hemisphere, with Putin being the greatest in the East.
Keep throwing your little tantrums Zionist trolls. It will change nothing. The world sees through you now.

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 3:55 utc | 127

Posted by: Menz | Jan 5 2024 3:16 utc | 129
To say nothing of the particular demographic of Americans who join the military and go overseas to fight unsuccessful urban insurgent wars. Ain’t exactly the best and the brightest, if ya know what I’m sayin’. Army and Marines crootin’ has been suffering for years and they’re taking pretty much anyone.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 3:57 utc | 129

The Cradle has the posting up linked below
Drone strike on Iraq’s interior ministry complex kills top PMU commander
the quote

Iraqi authorities announced that the Ministerial Council for National Security would convene on Thursday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to discuss the latest violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.
“In a blatant assault and violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and security, a drone carried out an act no different from terrorist acts by targeting a security headquarters in Baghdad,” the spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi armed forces said in a statement.
“The Iraqi Armed Forces hold the [US-led] International Coalition Forces responsible for this unprovoked attack on an Iraqi security body operating under the powers granted to it by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, which undermines all understandings between the Iraqi Armed Forces and the International Coalition Forces,” the statement adds, calling the drone strike “a dangerous escalation and assault on Iraq.”

Iraq voted to expel the “2500” US troops in 2020 but they are still there and now under more attack so this is their response….escalation, I think it is called.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 5 2024 4:31 utc | 131

@ Ludo | Jan 5 2024 4:40 utc | 137 with the totally OT comment
The MoA bar has an Open Thread for yours and much of the BS I am reading these days on focused threads.
It shows the level of barflies this place has attracted. People don’t have the decency to develop some context and appropriateness for their supposed contribution to the conversation….sad.
Think more and contribute less so the rest of us don’t have to skim through your blather MoA barflys.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 5 2024 4:49 utc | 133

Hehe! Yeah I’m directly over the target!
But I got a family to take care of. So for now I’m just gonna pop smoke, move out and draw fire.
So to all the globohomo Zionist trolls who are sitting in your mama’s basement reading this, standby.
Another JDAM will drop at the time and place of my choosing.
Kind of gives you one millionth of the feeling that every humble Muslim goat herder has been living with constantly for the last 20 years.

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 5:11 utc | 135

Not directly related. But indirectly?
“Residents of a South Korean island in the Yellow Sea across from North Korea were ordered to evacuate on Friday due to shelling by the North, the South’s military said.”

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 5 2024 5:17 utc | 137

Deserve?

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 5 2024 5:21 utc | 139

Terrorist attack in Kerman, Iran? IMO, not ISIL.
Ever heard of MEK – Mojahedin-e-Khalq?
They are/were in Albania since 2018.

Posted by: scanalyse | Jan 5 2024 5:28 utc | 141

@ RLTW | Jan 5 2024 1:47 utc | 118
I doubt there are “sleeper cells” of any kind of foreigners in the US who will or are capable of doing any significant actions here, especially against the powers that be. Yet your anger at the ruling establishment is real and also is shared, as you claim, by a very large swath of the US population. So the hostility of the population to the ruling elite is there, has grown and continues to grow, and does constitute a serious problem for that elite. But how exactly might this evolve into a systemic change? As usual, the devil is in the details, the various groups one generalizes about are only uncertainly united, and there are too many variables to be sure about any outcomes.
It would seem to me that the Gaza situation, by so nakedly exposes the sinews of power in the US, does validate the idea that the whole Middle East policy for decades has been primarily dictated by Zionist influence. This does not mean that the US ruling class are all Zionists, but it does mean that the non-Zionist part of the ruling class has conceded that area to the Zionists because it hitherto hasn’t cost them anything much and because of the Zionists’ “passionate attachment” to promoting the State of Israel and its interests. Furthermore, the Zionists are thoroughly entwined in the ruling class, and to stand against them would certainly disturb the ruling class’s unity and threaten the republic.
Yet, if the policy is to change, it is precisely the favoritism shown to Israel that must be removed, which would certainly seem to be a tall order. Yet here is Israel completely wrecking the foreign policy of the US worldwide by making it complicit in a genocide that may turn into a real Holocaust, leaving the US ruling class with no argument for itself before others at all. This is putting on a pressure that may cause things to break inside the ruling class. And indeed, any revolutionary change here will require a split to develop in the ruling class. Obviously, fissures already exist, but maybe not yet to the point of no return.
If such a further development does occur, however, one would have to make an accounting of what the forces are that would go against the state. I think that a lot of the US military, including its trained but retired veterans, are livid about the imperialism. When Portugal was fighting to retain its empire 1961-1974, its military became radicalized with disgust at the useless and failed imperialist wars and overthrew the Estado Novo of Salazar and Caetano. The US military as a whole would hardly do that, but a lot of the disgusted rank and file might eventually reach a point where they viewed the existing regime as the enemy rather than the focus of their loyalty. At that point, I would watch out, because things could get really messy. It is also possible that splits could develop in the CIA and FBI as well. CIA officials have often not been pleased with the US moneyed classes’ despoilation of the world.
The trouble is, the masses and the military opposition do not have any ideological resources to fall back on apart from US nationalism. Thus, there is a tendency to blame foreigners for everything that is so easily exploited by the ruling class. That is how the Zionists were able to sic the US on the Muslim world, convincing the people that evil outsiders were the problem and deflecting attention away from themselves. The puny left seems to be onto this game, but I don’t see the general public as too easy to convince about it. Maybe the opposition can portray the rulers as being traitors for favoring the foreigners. There is some of that going on on the right, but I don’t think that it gets to the crux of the real problem, which is the domination of a completely amoral, murderous, genocidal, self-interested, obviously exploitative, essentially parasitic ruling class that cannot be gotten rid of without a better understanding and, most sadly, a lot of bloodshed.

Posted by: Cabe | Jan 5 2024 5:47 utc | 143

Apologies if this has already been posted but John Mearsheimer’s latest email has a link to a pdf of South Africa’s ICJ statement If you are interested in the case and want to know exactly what it is about rather than what media, opinion whisperers and influencers reckon it is, click the link to grab the pdf and read it.
I’m happy Pref Mearsheimer has had no murmurings about his continued presence on substack as I’m sure some are aware are aware that a few days ago Norman Finkelstein announced he would no longer be using Substack. He really didn’t give a reason, sorta left me feeling that now he was doing lots of interviews and appearance cranking out ‘something meaningful’ a coupla times a week. I’m sure others can agree Finkelstein’s ubiquitous appearances in the media and on the ‘net have reached all over our old rock and been important in getting humans especially ‘western humans’ thinking critically what the israel project actually is, along with the immorality of israel carrying it out. The good prof needed to be able to concentrate on continuing his other work.
Somewhere between 24 and 36 hours later I stumbled across this piece in the englander guardian:

“Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis
The email newsletter service Substack is facing a user revolt after its chief executive defended hosting and handling payments for “Nazis” on its platform, citing anti-censorship reasons.
In a note on the site published in December, the chief executive, Hamish McKenzie, said the firm “doesn’t like Nazis”, and wished “no one held these views”.
But he said the company did not think that censorship – by demonetising sites that publish extreme views – was a solution to the problem, and instead made it worse.
Some of the largest newsletters on the service have threatened to take their business elsewhere if Substack does not reverse its stance.”

The drivel goes on to list a couple of types I’ve never heard of before and prolly never will, who claim to have told Substack to censor nazis or they are going to take their business elsewhere.
Substack responded by saying they didn’t like nazis either but a free speech platform can only work if it remains a free speech platform blah blah.
This sort of zionist driven nonsense wouldn’t normally get anywhere near Finkelstein’s bullshit detector but considering how much time he’s had to spend responding to tosh such as “Do you condemn Hamas, professor?” along with the inevitable follow-ups from tin-eared media interviewers, I cannot help but wonder if Norm decided this was a hassle he could do without.
Now I’m sure some will regard my comments about Finkelstein & Mearsheimer as too credulous but I actually reckon that while we enjoy commentaries from a preferred commentator we are just not critical enough of that we read which they have written.
It would be better to regard every fresh post, as something to treat skeptically until were are satisfied its author has “done it again!”
However many people do not do this, instead adopting the same sorta fan – star relationship with some writers as they once had with singers & musos generally.
This is not a way forwards for obvious reasons. Humans must independently consider every statement anew lest contemporaneous events unmentioned in the post have undue effect, leaving attitudes for modern journalism identical to that which has gone before. The result of which would be ‘same bullshit, different lies’
There are a few current commentators badly in need of a ‘going over’ right now but Mearsheimer & Finkelstein are mos def not among ’em.
Here is the final par of Mearsheimer’s post:
” the United States is a liberal democracy that is filled with intellectuals, newspaper editors, policymakers, pundits, and scholars who routinely proclaim their deep commitment to protecting human rights around the world. They tend to be highly vocal when countries commit war crimes, especially if the United States or any of its allies are involved. In the case of Israel’s genocide, however, most of the human rights mavens in the liberal mainstream have said little about Israel’s savage actions in Gaza or the genocidal rhetoric of its leaders. Hopefully, they will explain their disturbing silence at some point. Regardless, history will not be kind to them, as they said hardly a word while their country was complicit in a horrible crime, perpetrated right out in the open for all to see.”

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 5 2024 5:54 utc | 145

The best PR that KSA, Iraq or Iran could do is to call the anti-war Israelis jews to emigrate “en masse” and build a multi religious society on better bases.

Posted by: Minaa | Jan 5 2024 6:13 utc | 147

Why RF re not using such fuel air bombs against
Ukro nazis trenches, tunnels @ buildings?
…
“Today a new type of bomb was used by Israel in Gaza which creates enormous fireballs (much larger than usual)”
…
Posted by: pq | Jan 4 2024 12:13 utc | 4
The Yanks developed a device they called a fuel-air bomb a few decades ago. It creates a huge cloud of flamable liquid which, when it ignites, can suck the breathable air out of caves, tunnels etc.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 4 2024 15:36 utc | 27

Posted by: SlowSoft | Jan 5 2024 6:36 utc | 149

Cabe. Thank you for the response. You are clearly an accomplished intellectual and historical scholar. I stand humbly before you as a product of the US public school system.
That being said, back when there was standardized testing I was identified and went forth “as such.”
I can assure you that there are sleeper cells and that those who control Biden are amassing armies in many of the major cities. With what Israel has done to Iran, Beirut and Russia in the last few days it will be a miracle if those countries don’t retaliate.
Which of course is exactly what Israel is trying to instigate in order to draw the US into their predicament and theoretically save them. We cannot.
Our weaponry is garbage. Women, blacks and trannies command our troops. 70% of our troops are classified as obese. Only 4% of our troops are actual trigger pulling infantry war-fighters.
We have zero hope of fighting and winning any war ang any country unless it involves dropping bombs on illiterate goat herders. But after twenty years of dropping bombs on the goat herders in Afghanistan and Iraq, they kicked our asses.
I moved to a small rural town where I can protect my family just because of these inevitable outcomes. Don’t over analyze. Just look at the basic known facts. May you and your family be safe in this new year.

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 7:03 utc | 151

AP report from October (South Korean officials are to me as “credible” as the IDF):
Hamas fighters likely fired North Korean weapons during their Oct. 7 assault on Israel, a militant video and weapons seized by Israel show, despite Pyongyang’s denials that it arms the militant group.
South Korean officials, two experts on North Korean arms and an Associated Press analysis of weapons captured on the battlefield by Israel point toward Hamas using Pyongyang’s F-7 rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-fired weapon that fighters typically use against armored vehicles.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 5 2024 7:21 utc | 153

Posted by: JB | Jan 4 2024 21:34 utc
I’m sure the Russian security service has gathered all the evidence to prove genocide by the Ukrainian Junta and its militias against the Russian-speaking people (including the Odessa massacre and the Bio labs and crimes against Russian prisoners), which they will present in a court they will organize after demilitarizing and defeating the Nazis, rather than to rely on Western-bribed institutions to bring justice. Russia will use its power to locate and punish the guilty Ukrainians, at least, and also possibly those criminals from other countries.

Posted by: norecovery | Jan 5 2024 7:43 utc | 155

Man whoever did that [ISIS e-zine] had far better Adobe In-Design skills than I do, and I use it professionally, LOL! Sometimes I think our spooks get so far ahead of themselves they forget what their media arms are capable of selling to the public and what they aren’t.
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 4 2024 23:49 utc | 103
Regarding the rich variety of shit-sandwiches which may easily be fed to US Americans, you can fool practically all of the people from here until the end of time, most likely, in my most humble opinion.
(As to getting shackled with Adobe In-Design, I should convey sincere condolences as a (former) fellow sufferer in those squalid vineyards of graphic production.)
We’d like to be clear about why we think this ISIS business belongs here in the Palestine thread. Because that Cui Bono? rubric practically answers itself. USUK48 are looking increasingly desperate to escalate anywhere, anyhow. Why? Because a wider conflict would distract from the historic outrage of ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 5 2024 8:16 utc | 157

Re: Epstein
Note, given the close family connections and similarity in ages – it’s a near certainty that Blinken and Ghislaine Maxwell were childhood playmates.

Posted by: Exile | Jan 5 2024 8:28 utc | 159

Posted by: Exile | Jan 5 2024 6:29 utc | 153
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 8:55 utc | 165
I wonder how they’d react to:

“Toasted Anne Franks”

as a menu item …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 8:57 utc | 161

… I actually reckon that while we enjoy commentaries from a preferred commentator we are just not critical enough of that we read which they have written.
It would be better to regard every fresh post, as something to treat skeptically…
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 5 2024 5:54 utc | 150
Excuse me, all posters, but many of us keeping track of these Palestinian threads come to you reading from the newest and last post on the thread — and I have just, in the middle of a very cold night, been wading through what I would classify as a lot of muck. Why are you even choosing to write in this manner? It is a discourtesy to other posters and it is totally unnecessary. I am tired of dirty words; I am tired of disreputable and dishonorable people even being named. I consider such talk dredging up the names of fools and reprobates as totally negative and black propaganda (if you want a name for it), and I am sure that other readers do as well. Sure we get discouraged – every one is – by the scum of the earth and the dishonorables who currently seem to have the bully pulpit but why are we doing their job for them?
It’s not being Goody Two Shoes to be someone who cares about a clean discourse that says important stuff; it is being adult and conscious of the effect words have on the people we would like to persuade. We can all do it — I know we can. We are all able to choose our words carefully. Honor them as you do your readers. Words matter.
Clean up your act, people. Just because you have the freedom to post, take some time to post something that is worth the effort to read, or don’t post at all. I’m sorry to go off topic here but a rant is deserved. Stop posting trash.
I for one am totally sick of hearing about the scum of the earth. I want to hear what is happening that stays with facts and will be inspirational to the poor souls seeking insight and wisdom, who seek positive alternatives involving the good in human nature in order to change what is presently happening. We know things are terrible; we’ve seen the depravity — there’s no philosophy in that. Make your words count on this forum; use them wisely; the world is listening in.
I scroll past swill. If everyone will do that, perhaps we can improve this excellent forum b has given us. Trash talk doesn’t belong here, even late at night. And I am guilty too. I just went through this post and removed all the exclamation points; it’s better that I did that, much easer for the reader to digest. A bold now and then, or italics, those are sufficient emphases – I’m gonna try and tone it down myself in future. We all want to be read; let’s make that easier on the eyes of our weary readers.
Thanks.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 5 2024 9:23 utc | 163

…. By the way, 1.5 – 2 weeks remaining in my estimate …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 9:23 utc ……
You said that 2 weeks ago 😂
I stick by my Late Feb – Mid March estimate.

Posted by: Exile | Jan 5 2024 9:50 utc | 165

Posted by: juliania | Jan 5 2024 9:23 utc | 168
Off topic. Swill.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 5 2024 10:21 utc | 167

I hope this isn’t too tangential, but simply can’t understand how the most wealthiest university in the world didn’t not better prepare their president
Posted by: Ludo | Jan 5 2024 4:40 utc | 137
It’s very relevant to this thread. Especially compared to the amount of distracting racist garbage (RLTW).
Jewish Voices for Peace protests get huge coverage. They call for peace and their T-shirts read: not in my name. If a group of Muslim taxpayers objected to their tax dollars being used to kill anyone anywhere and called for peace wearing the same t-shirts they’d be shut down.
University presidents are presidents because they are competent bureaucrats. This means they are good at fundraising, take credit for anything good, they dump blame for anything bad on someone else, they know which powerful interests to please and so on. They don’t want to lose ANY donor and therefore they try to please everyone. I suppose there are some large “progressive” non-Zionist donors
However they are incapable of original thought. This is the exact conversation:
Asked by Stefanik whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment, Gay responded, “It can be, depending on the context.”
“Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct and we do take action,” Gay said.
Judge Nap points out there was no reason for any university president to be questioned at that hearing which was little more than an open attack on the first amendment. The US government does not have a right to conduct witch hunts to suppress free speech.
According to the Judge they only had to provide their name, address and plead the fifth.
However, not showing up to showing up to a hearing requires taking a stance. That takes courage.
A bureaucrat with courage?? Find me even one.

Posted by: pq | Jan 5 2024 10:53 utc | 169

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2024 3:05 utc | 128
Well said. I would add that Venezuelans in particular are subjected to a barrage of propaganda about how amazing the US is. The ones who come are the gullible ones. And they are confronted with the reality and are in shock.
https://news.yahoo.com/asylum-seekers-nyc-america-migrants-crisis-chaos-090039003.html
“I thought of New York differently, but now I also see that New York is in chaos,” said a 48-year-old Ecuadorian woman”
“For one 29-year-old Venezuelan woman…America represented hope. There, she thought, she would find safety and the opportunity to make a living. But four months after arriving in the U.S., she says it’s nothing like she had imagined. Since arriving in New York, she’s struggled to make money and obtain basic necessities while navigating the city’s shelter system….
“I just want a job,” she said. “It is very difficult to get to a place when you have nothing.”
Politico implies that the US is preparing for broader West Asia so all those North Americans and Europeans who don’t want more refugees: demand an end to war instead of whining about more refugees a year from now.

Posted by: pq | Jan 5 2024 11:14 utc | 171

oes Israel really want a piece of Hezbollah?
May God forgive U.S. evangelical Christians who indulge Israel. Hezbollah is a formidable militia and much more capable than any enemy Israel has ever faced while invading a foreign country. I cannot stand the breed of Christians that the U.S. has fostered.
Posted by: Christian J Chuba | Jan 4 2024 18:13 utc | 51
It is a peculiar alliance between evangelical Christians and the Jews.
The evangelicals believe in End Times where Jesus returns into a Jew led Palestine. Then all heathens are put into to Hell and the Christians enter heaven.
So they support Israel/Jews so this event can take place where all the Jews will be thrown into hell s they are heathens according to the doctrine.
Sik.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 5 2024 11:28 utc | 173

Wellcome to the bar RLTW , what cat dragged you in to this Zionazi saloon cowboy?
Or have you been around before?
Anyway some guano you pooped as you swept though our cave like a bat, man.
Before zipping out with smoke from your rear – thanks for the fertiliser, I suppose.
I mean that – always good to get fresh meat (and veg, mostly veg) it helps a healthy diet and body. It refreshes the bars mood.
So please take this as a constructive dialogue inspired by your contribution.
Re 118 – have you not yet realised that the USA IS A ZIONIST project ? From day 1. Or are you still one of those who think there was no such thing as Zionism until some wurzle in SWITZERLAND invented it? Infact do consider that the East India Company was also a Zionist vehicle – perhaps look up their flag compared to your lily white virginal USA-ians.
Second, re 125 – can YOU remember the last time modern China LOST a war against anyone or ‘mighty’ USA? Was it WW2? Vietnam? Korea? Or is it Formosa?
Maybe the BRI is being beaten up by the yankeedoodles around the world.
I will criticise you on one subject though – the strange self deluding myth of the freeman living alone in the wild, protecting one’s family, against all and any control – grow up.
Much ammo that is used by your multiple weapon hoarding yahoos was being supplied by …Russia. Your MIC weapons are shit and only work in movies. They are more likely to rust, fall to pieces or explode in your hands and faces as you try and catch some innocent creature to feed your happy migrant mongrel USAian family – which is you ALL are – except the pure Zionists whether dressed as Judaeohighpriest or their alter ego WASP skins, who own and rule there as they have across Europe though the ages.
They’ve sold everyone on a skyfairy tale of heaven and rising from death for eternal life – whilst laughing at the slaves who keep themselves mentally chained by such beautiful ethereal chains. Genius. That’s why they are in charge and have been for centuries.
That’s why they own you and yours and always will, while you dream your dream of freedom and individuality.
It’s better to know your history and learn from it rather than escaping into some dream future fantasy. Put that in your pipe and make smoke with it. Thanks for the discussion.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 5 2024 11:38 utc | 175

Lebanese TV reports:
Al-Qassam Brigades carries out joint operation with Al-Quds Brigades: 3 Israeli Merkavas destroyed with Yassine-105 and Tandem charge projectiles in Khan Yunis
Comment: tally now 141 Merkavas claimed on all fronts since 2.Oct

Posted by: Exile | Jan 5 2024 11:43 utc | 177

3 Israeli Merkavas destroyed with Yassine-105 and Tandem charge projectiles in Khan Yunis
Posted by: Exile | Jan 5 2024 11:43 utc | 182
The Empire can’t deal with these home made Palestinian weapons. They’re trying to paint them as “North Korean” supplied.
Who could believe two states, hermetically sealed from each other, both by a wall of Western tyrrany, are still capable of arming each other?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 12:07 utc | 179

Wellcome to the bar RLTW , what cat dragged you in to this Zionazi saloon cowboy?
Or have you been around before?
Anyway some guano you pooped as you swept though our cave like a bat, man.
Before zipping out with smoke from your rear – thanks for the fertiliser, I suppose.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 5 2024 11:38 utc | 180
Cut with the awkward ad hominens; if you want a proper discussion to express your views act like a rational person rather than a faux, deranged poet.
Off Topic: And, you are wrong about diet; more meat, little vegetables if you want to the upmost health. When civilization 10,000 years or so switched from hunting, gathering to agriculture the human race lost 6 inches in height and lost 15% of brain size. (1)
1. https://modernfarmer.com/2022/04/farming-made-our-ancestors-shorter/

Posted by: canuck | Jan 5 2024 12:16 utc | 181

RE: Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 12:07 utc | 184
Yes and the recent barrage PR that North Korea and Iran are supplying Russia with missiles. As though Russia can’t produce in quantity what they need for themselves.
I’m guessing it’s really all about US public PR building the “hate” as the U.S. wants to open the China & Iranian war fronts. Talk about anything but… Israel ineptitude.
In any event, North Korea currently not taking their crap, and they may soon have their wished for North Korean War.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 5 2024 12:49 utc | 183

the ‘most’ ‘wealthiest’ university
pq | Jan 5 2024 10:53 utc | 174
JFC.

Posted by: strunk | Jan 5 2024 13:26 utc | 185

I really don’t get the Lebanon governance at all. I know the “sold out” weak, divided and indebted situation.
Trubind1 | Jan 5 2024 12:10 utc | 185
What more do you need to get it?

Posted by: clarence | Jan 5 2024 13:31 utc | 187

Exile@159…..maybe they can start a Class Action Lawsuit…..then put all the names of the dead Palestinians that have also been killed by Pentagon bombs, all those maimed by Pentagon bombs, all those left homeless by Pentagon bombs all those facing a life of pain and suffering, mental and physical illness, all from Pentagon bombs.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 5 2024 14:08 utc | 189

Listen to what she says motivated her abusers. Why has this been covered up?
https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1743026957686624680
Posted by: Menz | Jan 5 2024 6:13 utc | 151
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OMG.
Thanks for posting that.
I had seen this some years ago—maybe when Whitney Webb was writing about all of this.
I can’t recall exactly.
But I had forgotten about it.
In particular I note Maria’s question (which I haven’t actually heard put so simply before):
“Chosen for WHAT?”

Posted by: Jane | Jan 5 2024 15:00 utc | 191

I don’t believe even the NAZIs sank to this level of depravity.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 5 2024 8:55 utc | 165
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These people are clearly demented. They obviously need help—but the Jewish shrinks are fleeing.
They need to be confined, heavily tranquilized, and reprogrammed.
It sounds like their chant equates Palestinians with Philistines. Which would indicate that they know perfectly well who the Pals are—the true reason for hating them and dispatching them stems not from the Pals’ “modern” residence in Palestine, but from their ancient residence there.
IOW Zionistan is just another inning in a thousands-year-old match.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 5 2024 15:11 utc | 193

Posted by: RLTW | Jan 5 2024 3:55 utc | 132
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And you are a very confused racist.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2024 15:23 utc | 195

Nanny posters, always correcting others, in a fucking bar no less. Never forget this is a bar, bars are not for the pure of heart easily offended by a few words, or how they are presented, petty petty petty.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 5 2024 14:14 utc | 195
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Sometimes called concern trolls.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 5 2024 15:33 utc | 197

https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1743026957686624680
Posted by: Menz | Jan 5 2024 6:13 utc | 151
Thats a keeper (if real).
Don’t let it totally poison you though.
Remember:
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/12/19/hanukkah-media-roundup/

Posted by: librul | Jan 5 2024 15:36 utc | 199