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January 17, 2024
Palestine Open Thread 2024-018

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the country did not target any Pakistani nationals in its recent attack but rather targeted the terrorist group Jaish al-Adl.
@PressTV

Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 16:04 utc | 1

Day 103: 86,000 dead and injured Palestinians, >500,000 starving
The US continues its constant airlift of bombshell and munitions to Israel. Germany sending 10,000 rounds of tank ammunition.
The number of Palestinians killed so far in the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 24,448, in addition to 61,504 injured, since October 7. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/day-103–24-448-palestinians-martyred–61-504-injured

Posted by: Perimetr | Jan 17 2024 16:09 utc | 2

Just caught the tail end of a piece on China Global Television Network – there is finally medical aid being allowed to enter Gaza today?

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 16:16 utc | 3

https://t.me/FotrosResistance/4442
The person left, sitting next to the MOSSAD commander, is the leader of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), Hossein Yazdan, who officially declares hostility to Iran and collaborates with Mossad to achieve the separation of Iranian Kurds from Iran with Israeli support through terrorist operations inside Iran, and he uses the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as his base and support.
— It is worth mentioning that the Islamic Republic of Iran has openly and clearly warned the Iraqi authorities about the presence of these Israeli-supported terrorist organizations. The Iraqi authorities pledged to address the issue, and when they failed to fulfill their promises, the armed military bases affiliated with Yazdan were subjected to bombing and destruction in the Koya district, Altun Kubri district, and the village of Sarkiwizla in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, northern Iraq.
The source stated that this is just a drop in the sea of terrorism harbored by the Kurdistan Region.
@FotrosResistance
I have always thought of “Kurdistan” as an Israeli project. Use it as a proxy to wedge in and splinter apart the bits of Syria, Iraq, Iran that they want for “Greater Israel”. Especially if oil is available.
That’s why there is always such enthusiastic support for “Kurdistan” among NATO countries. Like Kosovo. The project likely dates back to the 1980s. Given all the false narratives around use of chemical weapons in Syria (see Grayzone), I have to wonder how many of the allegations around Saddam’s use of chemical weapons against Kurds (Halabja etc.) were either cooked up by or actively aided by USUKIS precisely to justify the creation of “Kurdistan”.
Meanwhile Iran Pakistan FM have talked on the phone.
Death+injuries+ missing in Gaza is now over 100,000 according to Euro Med monitor. But with 6+ day telecom blackout, it might be even worse.
Jordanian field hospital badly damaged by Israel.

Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 16:19 utc | 4

Let’s hope this author is wrong…
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/17/technicality-could-sink-genocide-case-v-israel/
South Africa may have given the World Court a way out of ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and must halt its attacks, writes Joe Lauria.

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 16:22 utc | 5

Posted by: Perimetr | Jan 17 2024 16:09 utc | 2
I read today in Euro Med monitor that it’s over 100,000 among dead, injured and missing.
Duchess and Bob: a deal between Hama’s and Israel: Israel will allow some medical aid in return for medical aid to Israeli captives.
Also Iran and Pakistan FM have spoken on phone, so hopefully things stay calm on that front.

Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 16:23 utc | 6

How weird this sounds after Austen’s prostate cancer surgery:
Buckingham Palace revealed that King Charles III would undergo a “corrective procedure” next week for an enlarged prostate. The palace said that the king’s condition was benign.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 17 2024 16:37 utc | 7

South Africa may have given the World Court a way out of ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and must halt its attacks, writes Joe Lauria.
Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 16:22 utc | 5
That’s wrong. Israel claims there is no dispute, because it never replied to SA’s communications. You don’t get away with that in domestic law. If you don’t reply, you’re still hauled before the court. It’s not a valid argument.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 17 2024 16:47 utc | 8

Hi and thanks pq – yes that piece ran again and said the agreement was brokered by Qatar and France and the meds let in were to be delivered to “israelis” via Red Cross (Crescent?) and some for areas in Gaza that have not had any since the genociding began. “israel” far right are fuming at the Netanyaho for allowing trucks to be uninspected.
(a quick thanks to you and bevin for countering the errors of those who train their ire at the brown skin working class instead of the rich mostly white architects of the global race to the bottom of the wage scale in previous thread)

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 16:53 utc | 9

Slavyangrad this morning had the IDF KIA data:
8000 out of 20000 terrorists already sent to their 72 horny homos down there.
Israel lost around 170 soldiers from the 8th October onward (the total number is around 520, but some 2/3 were killed on the 7th).
That’s a KIA ratio of around 47:1, in an urban warfare environment where the usual experts like Berletic and Ritter predicted a vale of tears for the IDF if they dared to go in and enter Gaza directly, with proper boots on the ground.
One can, of course, choose to drink his kool-aid and abandon himself to his fantasies of 30,000 destroyed Merkava tanks, 400,000 dead soldiers noone knows anything about in Israel, and an economy that has tanked 1240% and keep sinking. But he would know that he is just behaving like those readers and commenters of R/Ukraine, pathetically looking for always new excuses to cope with the devastating reality on the ground.
The reality is that this operation is, on month 4, going much better than even I had hoped. The best takeaway of these 4 months is, however, that Israel has shown a remarkable degree of resilience to the pressure of Biden & Co., who desperately need their Michigan and Minnesota Arabs on their side, as they don’t know how many votes they will be able to steal and fake again in November.
Meanwhile, Iran seems more willing to cross swords with Pakistan than with Israel.
Ouch!

Posted by: Augusto Pi | Jan 17 2024 16:55 utc | 10

‘TEMPERATURE’S RISING’ IN IRAQ FOR >THE EMPIRE OF LIES< AKA U.S.A. ! Side effects of GENOCIDE-JOE's politics. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-base-evacuated-in-syria-due-to-repeated-iraqi-resistance
According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Syria, US occupation forces have evacuated the Hemo base in the countryside of the city of Qamishli, north of Hasakah, as a result of repeated attacks on this base by Islamic resistance factions in Iraq.

Posted by: MD | Jan 17 2024 16:57 utc | 11

@Posted by: Augusto Pi | Jan 17 2024 16:55 utc | 10
The Izzy leadership used their own citizens like sheep to the slaughter in order to create blood lust and enable the slaughter of Palestinian women and children. The real target of Netanyahu is not Hamas it is the Palestinian people and their land and their offshore gas fields.
Treachery, betrayal, genocide and theft.
You must be as soulless as Adolf Eichmann.

Posted by: librul | Jan 17 2024 17:15 utc | 12

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 16:22 utc | 5
I don’t think it’s possible to get out of a Genocide charge on a technicality.
This is genocide, after all. The procedure is so poorly defined and open to legal interpretation that anything considered a technicality can simply be waved away with the statement : ” yet, we have sufficient grounds to believe a Genocide case is warranted, and that must take overriding precedence …”

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 17 2024 17:19 utc | 13

Augusto Pi, I will give that (17:15) context.
The NYT revealed that the Zionist leadership, including Mossad and the IDF, had the Hamas Oct 7th plans months in advance. They knew.
About the same time, Unit 8200 made the decision to, according to them, cease “real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios”.
That would be the absolute opposite of what one would do if one were analyzing Hamas’ jail break plan. One must conclude that Unit 8200 restricted access to
intelligence gathered from Hamas’ tactical hand-held radio network. Such information would include the readiness of Hamas’ Oct 7th plan. They did this to
enable their false-flag plans and to create deniability.
Also, the IDF border watchers reported unusual activity. They witnessed Hamas training for Oct 7th. This activity was reported for weeks in advance. And Mossad had spooks crawling all over Gaza. They knew.
They knew.
So what did the IDF do?
In the months before Oct 7th they limited the sharing of intelligence gathered by real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios.
They withdrew the majority of their forces at the Gaza border just prior to Oct 7th.
They inexplicably delayed their response to the Hamas jail break **for hours**.
They **multiplied** the number of their own casualties by implementing the Hannibal Doctrine.
They used their own citizens like sheep to the slaughter in order to create blood lust and enable the slaughter of Palestinian women and children. The real target of Netanyahu is not Hamas it is the Palestinian people and their land and their offshore gas fields.
Treachery, betrayal, genocide and theft.

Posted by: librul | Jan 17 2024 17:21 utc | 14

Israel lost around 170 soldiers from the 8th October onward (the total number is around 520, but some 2/3 were killed on the 7th).
Posted by: Augusto Pi | Jan 17 2024 16:55 utc | 10
Try using your admittedly poor intellect for reasoning instead of bullshit :
1. More soldiers were killed in 7 hours of a telegraphed Hamas attack than 3 months of full scale battle in an urban environment?
Really?… Seriously? … Are you that dumb??
2. If only 170 soldiers was the price izzrael paid for three months of battle, if battle was so cheap, wouldn’t it be the case the entire Gaza would be under idf control by now???
I mean, 170 is the amount you lose in about as many months during peacetime through natural attrition to the elements.
You stupid enough to believe that number?
How many idf have have been sent to hell by hezbollah on the northern front by taking pot shots? 200? 300?
Yet somehow you think the Gaza numbers are lower despite the fact that the battle is more intensive and the IDF clearly more exposed???
Cretin.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 17 2024 17:31 utc | 15

How weird this sounds after Austen’s prostate cancer surgery:
Buckingham Palace revealed that King Charles III would undergo a “corrective procedure” next week for an enlarged prostate. The palace said that the king’s condition was benign.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 17 2024 16:37 utc | 7
Buttsex is a favourite pastime of the elites.
When they say “benign” they don’t mean it in the way we common folk understand it…

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 17 2024 17:35 utc | 16

@ Arch
I agree, but this could be a good test of the ICJ independence from zionist/US/UK control. The technicality would be an excuse SCOTUS would use as they are beholden to the aforementioned.
In reference to loony-tunes Iran/Pakistan mention (#10):
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240117/irans-strikes-into-pakistan-sent-strong-message-to-us-israel-and-their-terror-proxies-1116226148.html
“Of course, the Pakistani government needs to protest, but behind closed doors, both sides are cooperating, and both sides are very concerned about terrorism. The same is true with Iraq. The central government in Iraq has to protest against Iran for obvious reasons. But they know quite well that they do not have the sort of control over northern Iraq that they should have. They understand that American and Israeli influence there is detrimental to their interests and to the interests of the Iraqi people. So, behind closed doors, the relationship is very different. Iran and Pakistan as well as Iran and Iraq, will continue to preserve strong relations,” the scholar stressed.

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 17:36 utc | 17

The ICJ is not a done deal, international institutions are very compliant with the US. I hope they rule for South Africa, but if they want to duck the issue they will find a way, no matter how credible it is.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 17 2024 17:44 utc | 18

Regarding ICJ case being dismissed on technical grounds argued by Israel – there is no dispute, hence no jurisdiction (todays consortiumnews article)
My comments on the article:
– there is no basis for the claim (Craig Murray) that the judges “would like to get out of this”. And no basis was given.
– There IS a dispute
– The arguments presented by SA about the existence of a dispute are strong and clear. (Watch the hearing).
– Israel had to make some kind of arguments, because it has literally nothing to counter the daily evidence of its clear-cut genocide in Gaza, so it emphasized technicalities.
– If a case like THIS, with THIS kind of evidence was dismissed on a technicality, it would be the end of the credibility and authority of the ICJ. (The judges certainly don’t want that).
– The interests of justice, an important legal concept, does not allow such a case to be dismissed (on technical grounds, or any other.
– The case will end with a judgment that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
In human affairs anything is possible, but it is not reasonable to expect that the judges of the ICJ, with a decent record in its relatively long existence, would allow the Court to end in the junkyard of history because of US/Israel/EU interests. They have dealt with the US before, and have found it responsible.
Projecting US/UK legal practices and abuses on the ICJ may be understandable to a degree when coming from US/UK citizens, but that just shows how closed the US/UK/Western mind is.

Posted by: JB | Jan 17 2024 17:45 utc | 19

Jonathan W.@1637
There is no such thing as coincidence. Carl Jung remarkably described such phenomena as “congruence”. Everything is connected in this multiverse. Many lessons for higher learning are to be accessed by analyzing “coincidences”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 17:48 utc | 20

Israel lied to the ICJ about the number of aid trucks per day. They told the court that the number of trucks had increased to 109 from a prewar level of 70 per day. But the prewar number was 500 a day accourding to the UN and AP.
Here are the claims and the numbers from a couple of different sources:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-rafah-aid-us-senators-2bc2a3c5e5f8af8e2d3f0b7242c1a885
https://twitter.com/cogatonline/status/1744639652764483860
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/15/craig-murray-your-man-in-the-hague-day-2/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/12/icj-genocide-case-what-are-israels-main-arguments
The public may be fooled when the MSM reports Israeli claims as facts, but the ICJ won’t be fooled. I imagine that lying to the court will antagonize the judges too. Why did Israel do this?

Posted by: team10tim | Jan 17 2024 17:50 utc | 21

Israeli murderers
are called Commandos
Arab Commandos
are called terrorists
George Carlin

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 17 2024 17:51 utc | 22

A. Pi @1655
Piss be upon you. Support for genocide is the very hallmark of evil.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 17:51 utc | 23

Support for the Palestinian Cause

What you need to know about a group of Celtic fans known as the Green Brigade who display their solidarity with Palestine at Celtics matches (Press TV TG Channel)
https://t.me/presstv/85067
The Green Brigade (Full article from which the TG post above is taken)
As the Israeli-American genocide against Palestinians continues, the popular support for the people of Palestine among many nations throughout the world grows.
One example is the outspoken support of the Celtic Football Club fans. In this episode, we take a close look at the Green Brigade’s adamant support for Palestine.
Additionally this article covers Aida Celtic, a Palestinian football team officially launched in 2019 in the Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem (said to be the most heavily tear gassed place on the planet).
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/13/718143/TheGreenBrigade
Why Celtic Football Club Supports Palestine
Celtic is the most successful football club in Scotland and is consistently showing solidarity to Palestine. But why is that the case?
The answer lies in the clubs history and its connection to the Irish struggle for liberation.
Palestinian Aya Joumaa Zabadne takes a closer and very interesting look at Celtic and the Green Brigade, an ultra type supporters group who have firmly, resolutely and unapologetically allied themselves to the Palestinian cause.
He delves into the history of British historical genocide against Ireland which gave rise to Celtic Football Club and shines a light on Palestinian embracing of the Green Brigade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVlYRtWj0nk
Aida Celtic – The Beginning Aida Celtic website
https://www.aidaceltic.com/aida-celtic-an-imminent-legacy

Massive salute to the Green Brigade.

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Jan 17 2024 17:52 utc | 24

MD@1657
Looking forward to the time when Syrian armor moves right up to the Turkish border on several vectors, while the Iraqi forces establish solid barrier forces on the most frequented border crossings into Syria. It’s a simple matter of reestablishing national jurisdiction.
Now that Uncle $hmuel and the tail which wags him are busy dealing with brushfires galore; the timing may soon be optimal.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 17:57 utc | 25

“Cretin.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 17 2024 17:31 utc | 15
That’s betted, you’ve recovered your Mojo…

Posted by: canuck | Jan 17 2024 18:01 utc | 26

Arch@1735
The vast majority of your postings are informative and provocative. Valuable and interesting, even. Good job on those.
But when you resort to personal belief memes, indoctrinated when you were still in the age of relative innocence; your homophobia is sticking out like a newly circumcised sore pecker.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 18:03 utc | 27

Posted by: JB | Jan 17 2024 17:45 utc | 19
Finkelstein did a couple of interviews on this; in the first, he predicted South Africa would lose, in the second he was very guardedly optimistic. The ICJ is better than the ICC, but it does not have a great record, from what I recall.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 17 2024 18:04 utc | 28

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 16:53 utc | 9
Thanks I hope the Red Cross are kept out of it. Imho, they leak info to Israel.
They never visit Palestinian hostages in Israeli jails even after they’ve been tortured;
they recently released a statement of concern for Israeli capttives without mentioning almost 1000,000 dead and injured Palestinians; and
worst of all, they were involved in setting up the trip of the Paltel communication team to repair infrastructure….but the Paltel team members were killed.
Red Cross was the intermediary between Paltel and IOF.
Red Crescent ambulances are bombed all the time. So many Red Crescent paramedics killed.
Red Cross always safe and sound. How is this possible?

Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 18:05 utc | 29

pretzelattack@1744
One way or another, the Zionist entity will lose in their appearance before the ICJ. In the first instance, the court might find on the basis of simple justice. If, however, bribery and blackmail serve the interests of the wicked ones; that court and any other UN-related institution will find that the reverberations worldwide have smeared dog-shit all over their wigs.
The upshot will be for the ROW to ultimately eschew all those globalist institutions and establish an alternative which will be located far, far away from the Rottenfeller crime clan’s dominant position on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 18:09 utc | 30

aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 17:57 utc | 25 @27
Right on both counts: we’re all looking forward to Syria setting things to right .
And homophobia is always as idiotic as the homophilia of the woke. Live and let live. Fuck and let fuck.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2024 18:12 utc | 31

Thanks for that Pq, I don’t recall ever reading anything in that vein but it makes a lot of sense.

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 18:12 utc | 32

Red Cross? I lost all respect for that pack of grifters after their behavior in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Shouldn’t have taken me that long, actually.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 17 2024 18:14 utc | 33

@ aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 18:03 utc | 27
Bullshit. Your reading comprehension skills must be in the mediocre-to-poor category. If you want to criticise a commenter for something very specific, quoting them would be the minimum courtesy. Is copy and paste too hard for you?

Posted by: tawharanui | Jan 17 2024 18:19 utc | 34

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 17 2024 18:04 utc | 28
The ICJ has a very sound record in upholding the law in resolving disputes between states. It also has produced some very fine and important law.
Its judgments are sometimes flawed and to that extend disappointing. They are constantly being analysed by the legal scholars and practitioners, and the literature is vast.
The judges themselves in dissenting opinions identify the weak points in findings of the majority.
The ICJ is a credible court. We should trust it, until it proves otherwise.
What we should look for in every court is a persuasive judgment (or other decision), even if we may not entirely agree with it. If it is not persuasive (strong reasoning on the evidence and the applicable law) – then it is not a good judgment.

Posted by: JB | Jan 17 2024 18:20 utc | 35

Iirc the MEK (Mujahideen E Khalq) , a terrorist group operating in Iran had been labelled a terrorist group by the US especially after they murdered American officers in Iran in the Seventies.
This designation was lifted at the behest of the Neocons making the MEK totally legit and able to receive assistance in the US. Among its lobbyists was a certain Rudy Guiliani.
Am I right? Care to comment?

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Jan 17 2024 18:54 utc | 36

As a famous US President once said “[US Supreme Court Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it.” Even if SA wins its case and the ICJ completely agrees with SA, who will enforce the decision and how?

Posted by: c matt | Jan 17 2024 18:58 utc | 37

Sometimes there are comical twists in deadly-serious events.
The Palestine Chronicle has a write-up today which towards the end will make you laugh due to Gaza Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar-s – shoes.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-military-airdrops-and-sinwars-shoes-what-is-happening-in-khan-yunis/

Posted by: JB | Jan 17 2024 18:59 utc | 38

aristodemos mentioned that there are no coincidences and that C G Jung named them congruences, but more correctly Jungs concept was synchronicity not congruence. Synchronicity is an instance where two or more things happen (at the same time)and are connected with meaning(which necessarily includes perception of a consciousness), not causality etc.

Posted by: Die Niemands… | Jan 17 2024 19:02 utc | 39

aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 17:57 utc | 25 @27
Right on both counts: we’re all looking forward to Syria setting things to right .
And homophobia is always as idiotic as the homophilia of the woke. Live and let live. Fuck and let fuck.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2024 18:12 utc | 31
When I was a young man I was always mystified at guys with being ‘homophobic’.
I would get guys that did this, get their attention, usually at a bar and ask them: “See this room here there there is maybe 50 people 30 guys and maybe 6 fuckable girls. If of those 30 guys 29 were gay you would have the complete attention of the 6 hot ones. A guy being gay eliminates competition so the more gay guys the better for your heterosexual sex life. So why the disdain?”
As I got a tad older I realized that it was actually an unconscious fear they had their own latent homosexuals urges…

Posted by: canuck | Jan 17 2024 19:04 utc | 40

The Zionists have always encouraged antisemitism and violence against Jews because it encouraged reluctant Jews to support their project.
Most Jews in Europe did not want to leave Europe as they had no connection to the Middle East. They needed to be convinced, and coincidentally around that time antisemitism and pogroms went on the rise, due to increased lending by bankers to the European aristocracy.
We see a lot of this now, with Zionists abroad encouraging a siege mentality among Jews abroad to encourage displays of support for Israel.
It would not be inconceivable for the Zionists to have allowed the Oct 7 attack to proceed to promote sympathy for the Zionist project and the support for the completion of ethnic cleansing.
The area attacked was not a hotbed of support for Likud and the settler project and they were probably seen as not sufficiently committed to the cause.
Apparently they have overplayed their hand but not in the eyes of Jews.

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Jan 17 2024 19:06 utc | 41

Is there really lacking a dispute between South Africa and Israel, as barrister Shaw alleged, which would allow the ICJ to turn down the request for intermediary measures?
As Shaw rightly noted, the existence of a dispute „is a matter of substance, and not a question of
form or procedure”. Well, isn’t it more than obvious, that there exists a dispute between South Africa and Israel? If not, there would be no need for proceeding the case before the Court.
So this argument about the lacking dispute is just plain bullshit, nothing else.

Posted by: Udkanten | Jan 17 2024 19:08 utc | 42

Pq | Jan 17 2024 16:19 utc | 4
hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 17:36 utc | 17
It is a bit extraordinary. Apparently, Pakistan has recalled its envoy.
Not surprised as the local imperial quislings must have received directions from the viceroy in town. That’s why the decision is 24 hrs late.

Posted by: Joey | Jan 17 2024 19:11 utc | 43

TASS
https://tass.com/world/1732111
“We are following the situation in the Red Sea with concern.”
According to the top Chinese diplomat, his country rejects the use of military force against Yemen
.**”The international community has never let any state deliver strikes on Yemen,”**** he noted,
🤔 bad translation or maybe meant UNSC resolution…
Guess SA bombing the crap out of it for 7 years was ok cuz didn’t disrupt $$$$ like Red Sea.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 17 2024 19:13 utc | 44

Canuck, the problem with your analysis is,if of the 30 guys in the room 29 are gay–your in a gay bar and the 6 HOT ladies are gay looking at each other and not your fat hairy hetro self

Posted by: zargo | Jan 17 2024 19:17 utc | 45

Posted by: c matt | Jan 17 2024 18:58
“Even if SA wins its case and the ICJ completely agrees with SA, who will enforce the decision and how?”
Every nation who is signatory to the ICJ can then be leaned on by their citizenry to stop trading with, exchanging information with, and in any other way working with Israel, as a nation in breach. Total embargo a la South Africa in the 80’s would be the aim.
US would of course not go along … however, if most did, Israel would crumble like a week old cookie …

Posted by: Caliman | Jan 17 2024 19:26 utc | 46

Thanks I hope the Red Cross are kept out of it. Imho, they leak info to Israel.
They never visit Palestinian hostages in Israeli jails even after they’ve been tortured;
they recently released a statement of concern for Israeli capttives without mentioning almost 1000,000 dead and injured Palestinians; and
worst of all, they were involved in setting up the trip of the Paltel communication team to repair infrastructure….but the Paltel team members were killed.
Red Cross was the intermediary between Paltel and IOF.
Red Crescent ambulances are bombed all the time. So many Red Crescent paramedics killed.
Red Cross always safe and sound. How is this possible?
Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 18:05 utc | 29
IMHO the Islamic world needs to divest from the Red Cross ICRC and create its own totally independent organization funded by the Islamic world.
The ICRC receives most of its funding from the West. Guess where their primary loyalty lies.
Especially in this age of dodgy vaccination drives.

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Jan 17 2024 19:27 utc | 47

It’ll be interesting to see who rats out Empire by taking up Ansar Allah on their offer of safe passage.
https://t.me/intelslava/54743

🇾🇪 The Houthis informed that ships that are not bound for Israel, are not associated with Israel and do not belong to Israel can safely and without any fear pass through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. One way to avoid problems is to signal a lack of communication with Israel. There will be no obstacles put in their way. All the Houthis have claims exclusively against Israel. Well, to the USA and Britain more recently.
The attacks will continue until the end of the aggression against the Gaza Strip. Today the US bombed Yemen again in an attempt to hit anti-ship missile launch sites. It is quite obvious that in this way they can bomb Yemen for months with zero effect.

https://t.me/intelslava/54754

🇺🇲 The Iranians claim that they so shook the Hemo base in Syria with their attacks that the Pentagon decided to evacuate it. Therefore, there have been no comments yet from the Lloyd-Austin house.
In fact, Iran had previously forced the United States to reduce the number of bases in Iraq through regular attacks by Iranian proxies on logistics convoys and the bases themselves. The United States decided to switch to a more compact option based on Iraqi Kurdistan, but this did not save them from attacks. Iran’s calculation is based on the fact that while the Iraqi government will demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, strikes by the Hashd Shaabi militia and others will give this process additional acceleration. Iran’s ultimate goal in Iraq is to force the complete withdrawal of the United States and its satellites from Iraq.
The United States is trying to at least maintain the existing status quo. After the start of Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, it became very difficult to support it. The bases in the occupied Syrian territories are very dependent on the US position in Iraq. If a withdrawal begins from there, it will make the withdrawal from Syria inevitable.
Therefore, against the background of chatter about the reluctance to get involved in a war with Iran, the United States recently sent another 1,500 soldiers and officers to the Middle East.

Posted by: anon2020 | Jan 17 2024 19:29 utc | 48

RE:”Red Cross always safe and sound. How is this possible?
Posted by: Pq | Jan 17 2024 18:05 utc | 29
The Pope. The Pope controls Red Cross. Always has.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 17 2024 19:42 utc | 49

8 laguerre.. clearly showing a deliberate intention to avoid the genocide convention rules and regulations and had signed up to those requirements .Cannot use “lost in the post…sorry we were busy (genociding oops).. amnesty international today on aljazeera says it has documentation to persue a case against USA for complicity suppling shells etc ….I wonder if there is a latrst list of participant states and various groups . aljazeera is taking action against loss of its journalists I think I saw.

Posted by: Jo | Jan 17 2024 19:47 utc | 50

Various comments about King Chuck
I assumed Camilla topped Chuckie with toys and strap-ons. Is this my homophobia showing or just that I have contempt for Saxe-Coburgs and all their henchmen (and mistresses)?

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 17 2024 19:49 utc | 51

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 17:36 utc | 17
Agreed. The governances of both nation states have to make their public angry recriminations of Iran, but both governances are secretly grateful as the Iranian targets they want punished as well.
They’ll come a day when the can just blatantly give US/UK/Israel the middle finger…but for now “bad boy Iran”.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 17 2024 19:51 utc | 52

RE: Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 17 2024 19:49 utc | 51
That horrifying image conjured because of you, cost you a round, for all of us!🍻

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 17 2024 19:55 utc | 53

hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 16:22 utc | 5
I doubt a procedural technicality will derail South Africa’s case. The ICJ would lose whatever credibility it has and that is not much. In addition, several legal scholars have publicly opined that South Africa’s case is airtight… including Francis Boyle, who won the first genocide case at ICJ.

Posted by: Joseph B | Jan 17 2024 19:56 utc | 54

20 Aristo.. check out the book on synchoncities Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts, 30)
and by Paul Halpern
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect ,
synchronicity key by Wilcock it is a hidden universal intelligence
you probably know
_———-+——–++
all is all, the pathwayruns through the all that is one….

Posted by: Jo | Jan 17 2024 20:06 utc | 55

No, oldhippie…pegging is a solidly hetero act so you’re safe and contempt is shared by many!

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 20:13 utc | 56

laguerre @8
In civil litigation if you don’t reply within the allotted time you are defaulted and judgment is entered against you. Why shouldn’t that same principle apply here? It will in the court of public opinion. Another strike against you in the PR war…

Posted by: Lawrence Miller | Jan 17 2024 20:30 utc | 57

Back when he was only Prince Charles, the King once told Lady Camilla that he wished he were her tampon — so the insertion would seem to go both ways.
Now as to girls in gay bars, let’s lay this OT business to rest once and for all. Sometimes the girls are lesbian, especially when there’s no lesbian bar in town. Otherwise they’re “fag hags”, who are usually straight. A converse situation obtains with straight and gay “dyke tykes” in lesbian bars.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 17 2024 20:31 utc | 58

Recent history of the war on Yemen — U.S. now stepping into KSA’s place.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/biden-promised-to-end-war-on-yemen–he-just-joined-it–and-h
Excerpt:
In his first foreign policy address to the American public, the US President [Biden] pledged to pursue an end to the devastating war on Yemen and to make this a priority of his government.
However, during the first year of Joe Biden’s term in office, the war on Yemen only escalated and the pledges to end weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia were reneged on. The conduct of the Biden administration toward Yemen in 2021 led to US Senator Bernie Sanders threatening to take action himself to see an end to the war and crippling blockade, which had led to the deaths of roughly 400,000 Yemenis.
Come early 2022, the Ansar Allah movement announced a number of strikes on strategic targets in the United Arab Emirates, followed by drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia. These attacks proved the military capabilities, possessed by the Sanaa-based Yemeni government, to be a major threat to both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, quickly leading to UN intervention in the form of meaningful peace talks. The United Nations managed to broker a temporary ceasefire between the Saudi-led coalition and Ansar Allah, which ended up being extended over the span of nearly two years now; with some smaller confrontations breaking out in between.

Posted by: Patrick al-Henrygazh | Jan 17 2024 20:35 utc | 59

tawharanui@1819
Right. Cut and Paste is terra incognita for a goodly number of technophobes, just a tad on the sunny side of 80.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 20:36 utc | 60

Old hippie @ 51
On topic….
The concern is… Dose king cuck chuck bend over for the izzies ?
Epstien.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 17 2024 20:39 utc | 61

C.Matt@1858
Worldwide public opinion has already condemned the Zionist /Talmudist Entity. A positive declaration by the ICJ would decorate the cake with some tasty icing.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 20:41 utc | 62

Die Niemands @1902
Many explorers have recognized Jung’s early statements on synchronicity. Jung has a considerable body of work. Though I encountered the term years ago, congruence was a further iteration.
Spiritual seekers and searchers, as against rank rationalists/materialists, well conceptualize congruence as inherently a concept that All is One and that One is All and that the whole may be equal to, yet greater than the sum of its parts.
Such a perspective is Metaphysical and is often overlooked, derided and decried by academicist dogmatists.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 20:48 utc | 63

Canuck@1904
When we retroproject back to the Classical Era, or to that of the Italian Renaissance, we can catch glimpses of times where the evolutionary impulse tended to normalize bisexuality.
The break occurred with Constantine’s Bible and his inclusion his endowed Church of Rome as the Imperial state’s mind-control, fear-based mechanism. Renaissance figures such as Leonardo and Michelangelo were somewhat akin to blips in the course of history…as countervailing cyclical developments, particularly empowered by alphabetically lineal literacy on the part of retrogressive types such as Calvin and his Neo-Old Testicles Puritanism…and the masses of newly literate individuals who were exposed to one book and one book only.
Alexander Pope, in one his many couplet aphorisms stated: “Drink deep or taste not the Pierean Spring”. Historical ignorance, imbued and imposed by “Holy Mother Church” which destroyed the great libraries (including that of Alexandria) and the wisdom schools; was established as a totalitarian mindfuck upon the soon to be deracinated people of Europe. Any deviation from their dogmas was considered “heresy” and often eventuated in torture and death to the “unbelievers”.
My term for that devolutionary cultural retrogression is the JudieChristieMagickMindfuck…a lot of verbiage for some to swallow, I admit…yet a distillation of historical and psycho-emotional realizations.
If one were to consider the effect of the historical tidal recession illustrated by the utterly oxymoronic fear-induced “Christian” Zionists and the insane “Chosenness” of Nuts n’ Yahoos in Occupied Palestine…all based on a long misinterpreted, redacted, interpolated and badly translated “Holy” book in which some claim to find all the answers…then this account may come into some level of focus.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:07 utc | 64

Who is going to enforce an ICJ convection against Israel? How would that even work?

Posted by: jef | Jan 17 2024 21:08 utc | 65

It’s behind a paywall but according to WSJ it will take 7-10 years to rebuild Gaza and a year to clean all the rubble. That’s just the housing I think. Never mind all the schools, hospitals, libraries, and the universities. For being such a poor country Gaza has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
Until now, much of Gaza’s infrastructure and rebuilding it time and time again after previous Israeli airstrikes in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2021 (and some other smaller strikes) was done by the “do nothing” Arab countries that people love to criticize.
This time however, it seems they may put their foot down and say what’s the point if Israel will just destroy it again.
If Israel is held accountable for once, it will pick up the entire bill and if it takes 7-8 years to rebuild, well, they’ll just have to empty accommodation across all of Israel to host Palestinians displaced by their indisrcriminate and disproportionate airstrikes. It seems only fair.

Posted by: pq | Jan 17 2024 21:20 utc | 66

Correction, Pq…the US taxpayers will foot the bill, izzys never pay for anything.

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 21:25 utc | 67

Major news:
Hamas rejects two-state solution
Senior Hamas official, chief of the External Region of Hamas Political Bureau since early 2021, Khaled Mashal, has categorically dismissed the Western proposal for pursuing a two-state solution.
He said that after Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, which kicked off on October 7, 2023, the hope for the establishment of a Palestinian state stretching from the river to the sea, and from the north to the south has been rejuvenated among the majority of the Palestinian people.
The 1967 borders merely cover one-fifth of Palestinian territories, and therefore the Palestinian nation will never accept it, he emphasized.
https://iranpress.com/mashal–palestine-seeks-independence-and-liberation-form-occupying-regime
https://en.irna.ir/news/85357643/Hamas-rules-out-two-state-solution
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3297230.htm

Posted by: JB | Jan 17 2024 21:26 utc | 68

anon2020@1929
Both intelslava postings suggest further interpretation and possible future outcomes. Firstly, those vessels which have been granted safe passage by AnserAllah may become victimized by false flag attacks from one or another of the usual suspects.
In the second instance, Biden has once again gone all Contra-Constitutional as those troops dispatched into the firebox are New Jersey National Guard forces. With a nearly totally corrupted Court system at the Federal level and a thoroughly compromised Congre$$; no countervailing force to presidential over-reach is in the cards. The only legitimate situation where the protective forces for individual states can be “federalized” would be in cases of direct peril to the “homeland”.
Conclusion, already achieved by most MoA posters is that the U$$A regime constantly and consistently acts on behalf of elements which are not in the interests or protection for We The People and are under full control by parties which are inimical to liberty and justice for all.
Please excuse my prolific postings. Sometimes it is a positive thing for an airing out of the sheets, so to speak. On occasion, we all need reminders of things we already understand at some level or another.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:27 utc | 69

Dean Ulich: You know, Coach. I’m going to let the Lambdas live over at the Alpha Beta house while you and your boys rebuild theirs!
Danny Burke, Alpha Beta: Where are *we* supposed to live?
Fred “The Ogre” Palowakski, Alpha Beta: Yeah. What about *us*?
Dean Ulich: You’re *jocks*! Go live in the gym!

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 17 2024 21:28 utc | 70

Mea Culpa: Blame it on retirerdation. In my 2107 posting the Pope epigram was incomplete. Revision follows:
“A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep or taste not the Pierean Spring”.
The aging process does have its consequences. Cross editing is not always easy on b’s one-man achievement which he so generously provides us.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:39 utc | 71

pq@2020
Recompensation by the Zionist Entity for their genocidal destruction of the Gaza infrastructure is indeed justice at work. It would be apposite if the ICJ were to demand that the aggressive entity would be obliged to finance the cleanup and reconstruction work. Such a solution would also pay for OTJ training for numerous survivors of the depredations, as well as outside employment for technical expertise.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:45 utc | 72

Please excuse my prolific postings. Sometimes it is a positive thing for an airing out of the sheets, so to speak. On occasion, we all need reminders of things we already understand at some level or another.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:27 utc | 69
NO I will NOT excuse you and no I do NOT need your precious reminders. Honest to God I think your ego knows no bounds and your tongue wags on autopilot incessantly because you just can’t get enough of your own tedious pontificating. I have been biting my tongue for weeks, but by God I will NOT bite it OFF for the likes of a preening and strutting old geezer peacock who clutters every thread these days. Go be SILENT for an hour for a change!
Now back to what IS important AND DESERVING OF FOCUS as the resistance wants:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/1/17/trauma-replaces-joy-for-mother-giving-birth-during-israels-war-on-gaza
“You know, for such a young baby, he’s learned to recognise the sounds of bombing. Whenever there is bombing here, he startles and is frightened. I don’t think babies this young should recognise danger in this way.”
another Mom:
“The block we were sheltering in was bombed, and I was pulled out from under the rubble by the rescuers, me and my older son, who is 14 months old,” she says, explaining how they came to move to the school.
“Moath was born right here in the classroom about two months ago. When my labour started, we called for an ambulance or something, but there were no resources.
“Oh my goodness, it was such a difficult birth. There’s nothing here that can help during a delivery. I didn’t even have any clothes. People had to rummage around to find something for me to put Moath in.”
While Raeda managed to get to Kamal Adwan Hospital after Moath was born for checkups for both of them, there were no vaccines available. He remains unvaccinated.
“They told me there were no vaccines, … but look at where we are. The baby is here in the school where there are all sorts of diseases spreading. Right now, he has something happening with his chest. He’s having a hard time breathing, but there’s nothing I can do.”
another Mom:
“For weeks leading up to the birth, Aya – who had long been displaced from her home in Bir an-Naaja in the northern Gaza Strip – had been moving from one precarious shelter to another, trying to outrun Israeli bombs.
“In the early days of the conflict, we had moved to my husband’s uncle’s house in Zawayda for safety. But then they targeted the house next door, and my husband died in that attack,” she says.
After that, the pregnant woman took her toddler son, Mohamed. back up north to stay with her family and kept moving from one spot to another until she and her parents ended up in the school with thousands of other displaced people.
“I was so depressed during those last months of my pregnancy. There’s so many things a pregnant woman needs in her last trimester, but there wasn’t enough food or clean water even,” she says, her face exhausted as she held back emotion.
“But the worst was my grief over my husband and not having him there with me during the birth.”
What these young Mothers are going through is beyond agonizing and should NOT be ignored!!

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 22:00 utc | 73

Rebuilding of Gaza:
This is a major part of “day-after” planning which has yet to really be addressed; understandable as the pressing immediate needs are so great.
Any realistic scenario requires that Israel be entirely removed from any and all security responsibilities related to Gaza. Israel’s current position is the opposite: it will greatly increase direct deployments and effective control over the territory. This scenario, based on past precedent, envisions the difficult rebuilding task taking place in an environment of petty and cruel punishments doled out daily by Israeli soldiers against the impoverished population. For years, apparently.
Blinken’s most recent trip around the region was supposedly addressing exactly “day-after” scenarios, but it is virtually certain that the most basic practical concepts such as “how to rebuild?” were not addressed at all. This whole disaster will be massively compounded by the careless and thoughtless failure to comprehend the scale of the inflicted catastrophe.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 17 2024 22:05 utc | 74

65.. I have posted before what happens if Isr does not comply ..if settlers and others decide to ignore..is axis of resistance entitled to take action…hence the current “hold off “at he moment”.. does the genocide convention go to UN GA .. UNSC etc for authorisations of action etc,????
Any precedents…inferrences available?

Posted by: Jo | Jan 17 2024 22:12 utc | 75

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/17/israel-ramps-up-attacks-on-khan-younis-as-aid-for-gaza-arrives-in-egypt
Every. single. person. in Gaza. is hungry.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 22:12 utc | 76

Anyone who actually believes that the IDF has suffered only 170 KIA’s in the Gaza offensive, needs to consult the facts………
– Over 150 IDF MBT’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 200 IDF IVF’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 250 trucks, jeeps and command cars destroyed by RPG’s
– Numerous IDF infantry patrols ambushed or bobby trapped or sniped in the Stalingrad ruins caused by the IDF AF.
More than likely IDF KIA’s are in the 2000 range, with 5,000 + WIA’s. Need I mention that the most IDF casualties on Oct 7th were caused by friendly fire from IDF Merkva MBT tank fire and Apache air support. The ruined housing stock in Gaza City (95% of housing stock destroyed by IDF airstrikes) is the perfect asymmetrical environment for insurgent operations.
Finally this current round of the continuous 1948 war started on Oct 2nd, when Israeli settler radicals who is invaded the Al Asqua Mosque……not on Oct 7th (why were unarmed IDF female reserve troops assigned to FOP duty near the Gaza line…yet another unanswered question, or why did IDF Apache gunships open fire on the Rave Concert goers with rockets and 20mm auto cannons?)
Questions to ponder…….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jan 17 2024 22:17 utc | 77

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 21:07 utc | 64
The great library of Alexandria was not destroyed by the “Holy Mother Church”. Part of the library was inadvertently burnt down by Julius Caesar in 48BC. In 272AD the forces of the emperor Aurelian laid waste to the Broucheion quarter of the city in which the main library was located. If the library still existed at this time then it was almost certainly destroyed as a consequence of this act.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Jan 17 2024 22:18 utc | 78

just checked.. a series of Notes Verbale had been sent to Isr. by South Africa but had not been satisfactorily answered…..

Posted by: Jo | Jan 17 2024 22:28 utc | 79

Another ship gets hit in the Red Sea. Off of Aden. The west just got an answer.
Any one know what percentage of shipping has been now reduced.
Cargo and oil ?
Anyone for a Gaza ceasefire yet ?
The effects of this Red Sea action is only now begining to bite in the west.
Doubling the cost of alot of items on the shelfs, shortage of stuff destinded for factory producton lines resulting in loss of jobs, closure of busenesses.
I think a ceasefire would be a benifit to the western public and the Gaza residents.
Lobby your polititans.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 17 2024 22:39 utc | 80

Siddhartha@2218
Your history lesson requires about a 200 year forward march from the Aurelian incident vs the Library of Alexandria. The local Bishop induced a group of sun-crazed, cave dwelling monks to both tear limb from limb the entire body of the woman who managed the library AND to effectuate the final, fiery destruction of that repository of ancient wisdom.
Like John D. Rottenfeller’s infamous comment in later centuries, those early Crosstians concluded that “Competition is a Sin”. Every subject of Imperial rule would become deracinated and rendered illiterate. Nobody was allowed to go “off message”, by questioning the narrative. Does that sound familiar in today’s mass-media’s noose coverage?

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 22:44 utc | 81

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 17 2024 17:35 utc | 16
Buttsex is a favourite pastime of the elites.
When they say “benign” they don’t mean it in the way we common folk understand it…

There is no medical evidence to suggest a link between gay sex and enlarge prostrates or prostrate cancer.
I’ve been married to the same wonderful lady for 45 years and never have any form of “butt sex” and fortunate to have survived and beaten two different bouts of cancers, including prostrate cancer.
My advice to all men is to have regular blood tests, including a PSA test for signs prostrate cancer, and more frequently as you get older:
What are the 5 warning signs of enlarged prostate?
Symptoms of an enlarged prostate include:
finding it difficult to start peeing.
straining to pee.
having a weak flow of urine.
“stop-start” peeing.
needing to pee urgently and/or frequently.
needing to get up frequently in the night to pee.
accidentally leaking urine (urinary incontinence)

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2024 22:46 utc | 82

D&B@2200
Regrets that your sensitive butt-hurt being is disrupted by my inclusions to this site. Could your tongue be forked from all the biting? I don’t think so, as you are to be lauded for posting the accounts of motherly distress over what is being done to their precious children.Human empathy is a blessing in our war-weary world. Good on you for that.
Relief from my postings may be imminent when my little corner of the world emerges from below zero weather conditions, keeping me confined to quarters and needful of expression. Weather warms and my energies will be directed at serious physical labor out at the homestead. So relax, already and if need be pray for a warming trend encompassing the Northwoods.
Not much posting time available when days are longer and warmer.
In the meantime, it will be a simple matter for you to skip my postings.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 23:01 utc | 83

why is a meme of augusto pinochet still whitelisted on this site? shut the fuck up and find your own feedback loop to hide inside. i recommend others to simply ignore this fascist scum

Posted by: B: warum? | Jan 17 2024 23:12 utc | 84

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 17 2024 22:00 utc | 73
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 17 2024 23:01 utc | 83
As Mark Twain said (paraphrasing Pascal and Locke), “If I had more time, I would have written less”.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Jan 17 2024 23:14 utc | 85

@ Delhiliterally | Jan 17 2024 19:06 utc | 41
Nothing has changed. Except for a few, out of poverty or ideology, most Jews worldwide need to be scare-mongered, browbeaten, bribed or shamed into giving up their abodes and moving to the Middle East.
As seen in the Entity, many — a majority perhaps — retain dual citizenship to this day. So they can “go HOME”just in case.
Reports are upwards of half a million dual citizens almost immediately exercised that option in the aftermath of Oct 7.
One of the blatant recent examples of this phenomenon that I’ve seen:
Happened to catch a clip of Jared Kushner on teevee exhorting people in Israel to STAY THERE because, um, “even with Hamas going crazy, you’re safer in Israel than on a college campus in the U.S.A.”
Ba-da-ding
Haven’t seen his squirrelly Eddie Haskell face lately.

Posted by: Patrick al-Henrygazh | Jan 17 2024 23:17 utc | 86

jef @# 65 “Who is going to enforce an ICJ convection against Israel? How would that even work?”
Israel is spending billions on propaganda, algorithms, and censorship to preserve their reputation in the court of public opinion and con congre$$. That they had to respond to charges of inciting genocide in the ICJ the entire world witnessed. Whether there is a finding against Israel, the bell can not be unrung. The world heard it. “Israel genocide, Israel genocide, Israel genocide” They claimed South Africa committed blood liable for daring to bring the charges to the ICJ. Let’s hope Israel is foolish enough to sue South Africa. Then the world can have another airing of proof of Israel’s genocide as evidence is again presented by South Africa, further exposing Israel’s war crimes.

Posted by: Willow | Jan 17 2024 23:51 utc | 87

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Jan 17 2024 17:52 utc | 24
Massive salute to the Green Brigade.
——————
Thank you for sharing this my brother. This horrendous genocide better stop now or Israel will face an army the likes the world has never seen.

Posted by: Áobh O’Sheachnasaigh | Jan 17 2024 23:56 utc | 88

i recommend others to simply ignore this fascist scum
Posted by: B: warum? | Jan 17 2024 23:12 utc | 84
There is some (marginal) value in responding to his dumb arguments (as well as those of twits like antonym, genocidal, et al) in that we get some idea of what the hasbara crowd are preaching to the uninformed massed.
I usually stop responding when I’m satisfied the particular nonsense argument they’ve ginned up has been properly debunked.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:15 utc | 89

There is no medical evidence to suggest a link between gay sex and enlarge prostrates or prostrate cancer.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2024 22:46 utc | 82
I’m not drawing any correlation between the two.
Not to go too deeply into the subject (no pun intended!), but these buttsex events among the elite have the potential to get out of hand some times.
People get carried away. Prolapse happens. Mild elective surgery may be required to correct the situation.
And that’s all I have to say on the matter.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:20 utc | 90

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2024 22:46 utc | 82
If in the USA, I would also suggest to any man who receives a diagnosis of prostate cancer, especially late state, and whose primary physician or urologist DID NOT do PSA tests, or discouraged you from getting one, sue them for malpractice. Trust me, I’ve been through that with a family member; there’s no excuse for any decent doctor NOT to do PSA screenings past the age of 50.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 0:25 utc | 91

Posted by: B: warum? | Jan 17 2024 23:12 utc | 84
In addition to what Arch said, the Pee-no-shay goober provides an excellent peek into the inherently racist and highly propagandized (aka: brainwashed) mind of a Zionist scumbag. And there are a lot of them out there. IOW, it’s educational, because that’s really how they think and talk openly among themselves. Again, they’re scum.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 0:28 utc | 92

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1747770408386896245
🇮🇷🇵🇰🚨‼️ An explosion was heard on the border of Iran and Pakistan!
Iranian bases in Sistan Balochistan are on full alert and are preparing for Pakistani retaliatory attacks.
Pakistani F-16s were flying around the Iranian border.
Situation is tense, unclear if anything serious happened and what that explosion was.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 0:35 utc | 93

Started off just one ship last week with its AIS saying no link Israel, now there’s more . Very powerful international message.
https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/1747494594776866908?s=20

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 18 2024 0:36 utc | 94

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:20 utc | 90
Please inform the patrons of the bar how us plebs can avoid buttsex events getting out of hand.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Jan 18 2024 0:36 utc | 95

Anyone who actually believes that the IDF has suffered only 170 KIA’s in the Gaza offensive, needs to consult the facts………
– Over 150 IDF MBT’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 200 IDF IVF’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 250 trucks, jeeps and command cars destroyed by RPG’s
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jan 17 2024 22:17 utc | 77
Amen.

Even a naive calculation shows the IDF numbers to be pure bunkum on it’s face:

– Over 150 IDF MBT’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 200 IDF IVF’s destroyed by Russian made Kornet ATGM’s or satchel charges
– Over 250 trucks, jeeps and command cars destroyed by RPG’s

Assume just 1 IDF was killed in each of the above events:

150 + 200 + 250 = 600 killed.

But that’s an incredibly naive view. Just as naive, but approaching a better answer:
Assume 2 IDF soldiers were permanently incapacitated along with the one killed in each event (not killed, but never able to fight again):

(150 + 200 + 250* x 3 = 1800 IDF permanent casualties (dead + incapacitated)

That’s all it takes, a moderate casualty rate for each vehicle destruction event and you’re already approaching the 2000 mark.

And We haven’t even looked at direct combat encounters, mines, booby traps, mortar strikes, rocket strikes, attrition due to disease, accidents, friendly fire.

What if we account for all that by simply doubling the casualty rate?

1800 * 2 = 3600 IDF permanent casualties (dead + incapacitated)

These are with the most conservative assumptions.
(If I’m off by 50% then we’re already in the range of 7000+)
And we haven’t even considered casualties of a less permanent nature that remove soldiers for a few weeks or months with potential to return to battle.
Those will be a much high number. Conservatively, let’s double it:
3600 (back to our conservative estimate) x 2 + 3600 = 10,800
We’re conservatively sitting at around 10800 permanent plus recoverable casualties

And we haven’t included psychological trauma cases which will manifest later as PTSD and impact the IDF future conflicts which appear to be brewing on the horizon, e.g a direct conflict with Hezbollah and an explosion on the West bank and perhaps border conflicts with Egypt and Jordan …

The IDF is lying egregiously, as usual.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:40 utc | 96

We’re conservatively sitting at around 10800 permanent plus recoverable casualties
And we haven’t included psychological trauma cases which will manifest later as PTSD and impact the IDF future conflicts which appear to be brewing on the horizon, e.g a direct conflict with Hezbollah and an explosion on the West bank and perhaps border conflicts with Egypt and Jordan …
The IDF is lying egregiously, as usual.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:40 utc | 96
Addendum:
Compare this to the American losses in each of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria during the multi-year occupation of those countries to get an idea of the seriousness of these losses for the IDF …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:42 utc | 97

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 17 2024 16:37 utc | 7
Me thinks His Majesty will need a new Royal Chamber Pot soon.

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Posted by: Siddhartha | Jan 18 2024 0:36 utc | 95
Speaking from a general knowledge of mechanical systems and their interactions I would assume extensive lubrication has something to do with the matter.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 0:45 utc | 99

Hot Takes from Davos
Some may already have seen Blinken’s thumbprint on ChatGPT headlines

I think for so many of us, what we’re seeing every single day in Gaza is gut-wrenching

It was plucked from his “conversation” with the flatulent D.C. fixture Tom Friedman today. Evidently, OpenAI’s algorithm left quite a few tasteless one-liners on the table.
From “holocaust denier” calumny heaped on mendacity

There are large swaths of the world—going back to one of the first things you said—where information technology, information environments have been used and abused in such a way that large numbers of people don’t believe October 7th actually happened.

and

The way I see it is that Ukraine was trying to join the West and Israel was trying to join the East through normalization with Saudi Arabia

and

I’m hearing from virtually every country, they want the United States. They want us present. They want us at the table. They want us leading.

across Asia

When you’re engaging with Xi on these issues and Russia, do you ever say to him, “Russia’s a loser. Why are you hanging out with this loser?”

to Taiwan

One of the hallmarks of success of the relationship between the United States and China since the establishment of diplomatic relations has actually been the management of the Taiwan issue.

To be sure, each non sequitur is a farcical representation of the PNAC, but taken together stake NATO’s tent to “facts on the ground”.

President Biden liked to say, he’s never been to any kind of country where the United States was not all at once the source of its problem and the source of its solution.

video | transcript

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