From Middleeasteye live feed today:
– According to Wafa, Israel’s military fired white phosphorus bombs on Qaizan al-Najjar, an area south of Khan Younis, and also were reported to be dropping bombs near al-Najjar Hospital located east of Rafah.
– NetBlocks, a telecommunications watchdog organisation, said that the internet blackout in Gaza has now lasted for 144 hours, or six days.
– The Times of Israel said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly rejected a plan set by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that would see Saudi Arabia normalise relations with Tel Aviv in exchange for Israel agreeing to pave a path for Palestinian statehood.
According to NBC, Netanyahu told Blinken he was not ready to accept a deal that would allow for the creation of a Palestinian state.
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– and excerpts from a longer article (link to this article at end):
The mother of a hostage who died says her son inhaled fumes from weapons deployed by the Israeli army in Gaza.
Israel repatriated the bodies of soldiers Ron Sherman and Nik Beizer, and French-Israeli civilian Elia Toledano, from Gaza in December, and initially claimed the hostages were killed by Hamas.
However, Maayan Sherman, mother of Ron, accused the Israeli army of poisoning her son.
“We were told that there is a reasonable possibility that he inhaled toxic gases from the IDF bombs,” she wrote on Facebook.
The Israeli army says it does not know how the men died.[…]
The army said it found the bodies of the abductees in a Hamas tunnel in Jabaliya, near the site where Ahmed Jarandor, commander of Hamas’ northern brigade, had been killed a month earlier.
It claimed that it was not aware of the hostages’ location when they struck the tunnel Jarandor was in.
Maayan disputes this claim, saying army Major General Rasan Alian told her they were aware of her son’s location at any given moment.
She called the army’s latest statement “another lie in the mask of lies”.
Maayan also questioned whether Israel was trying to whitewash the operation, as she believes they may have sacrificed the three hostages in order to kill Jarandor. […]
She said the Israeli army pumped poisonous gas into the tunnel area where her son was being held.
On Facebook, she claimed that her son was “indeed murdered – not by Hamas. Think more like Auschwitz and the showers, but without Nazis.” […]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israeli-army-unable-confirm-reason-behind-hostage-deaths

Posted by: teri | Jan 18 2024 17:59 utc | 3

Tucker Carlson who is the most popular conservative media personality in America and had the highest rated cable show until he was fired by Fox News in April gets as close as possible to naming Jewish donors, intellectuals, editors, and deep state officials as the reason the US is once again nearing a war with Iran.
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1747303249684598941
Tucker: “A Nikki Haley presidency is a lot like a war with Iran. It’s a terrible idea, no normal person wants it. But because a small, well-funded group of activists are determined to have it anyway, we are perpetually on the verge of getting it.”

Posted by: sevenfields | Jan 18 2024 18:25 utc | 5

The Siege of Leningrad will have started 80 years ago on January 27th.
Gaza has been a ghetto far longer than the Warsaw Ghetto of WWII.
The Siege of Gaza began on 27th of October 2023. It involves the deliberate starvation, denial of medical services to the civilian population of Gaza.
Hitler ordered the mass murder of the population of Leningrad through starvation.

Posted by: Veri1138 | Jan 18 2024 18:43 utc | 7

This headline is also from MEMRI. Note the whataboutism:
While Palestinian Authority Says Israel Murders Palestinian ‘Children’ Without Provocation, Fatah Military Wing Praises These ‘Children’ As Martyrs For Their Attempted Terror Attacks In West Bank During Which They Were Killed By Israel

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 18 2024 19:04 utc | 9

Posted by: Michael A | Jan 18 2024 18:46 utc | 9
Ridiculous. One fingernail clipping of a jew is more powerful than a hundred goys. Talmud says so or something. Surely they don’t need training, spineless assassinations, extortion, child kidnapping, medical poison, a planetary banking cartel, bioweapons, hijacking every political organisation in the world, food embargoes, a hundred years of overwhelming media torture, weaponry that’s a century ahead of their targets, hundredfold manpower advantage, every lawyer in the western hemisphere, intentionally picking off children and old people, bombing across borders, helicopter gunships, epstein setups, orange trumps, or tormented golem nations with million-man armies, just to win against a handful of cattle? Chutzpah!
Clever sarcasm ,and well put Michael.

Posted by: Áobh Ó’Sheachnasaigh | Jan 18 2024 19:22 utc | 11

I have not been a huge fan of the BLM nor the DEI but do we realize what is now happening? Now that South Africa is making waves and the former president of Harvard, who was made to resign because of condoning “antisemitism” on campus, was black, the BLM, which was THE thing not so long ago, and the DEI seem to be becoming totally uncool. I can’t see how Israel is going to pull this one off.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 18 2024 19:43 utc | 13

Veri1138 | Jan 18 2024 18:43 utc | 8
The Siege of Leningrad began in September 1941 shortly after Barbarossa was launched. It ended in late January 1944 when Soviet Army forced German troops to retreat.
The actual date is September 8, 1941, but it could be a day, or a few days, before or after due to the fog of war.

Posted by: Joseph B | Jan 18 2024 19:49 utc | 15

RE:Hankster @ 13,
One thing the current Israeli government, and Hamas both agree on is a “one state” solution. I fail to see why then all these 3d parties continue to push the “two state” idea. Reality is the “two state” idea is dead. Only question that the Israeli govenment and Hamas are arguing about is what kind of state will the future one state be.

Posted by: Gee Eye Joe | Jan 18 2024 19:53 utc | 17

@ (real) James at Jan 18 2024 19:44 utc:
Thanks for the heads-up re: India Punchline.
For those that haven’t read the latest from M. K. Bhadrakumar (India Punchline), don’t let another minute pass by without doing so.
The article addresses the strategic allies defense agreement between Russia and Iran that many have been expecting.
A key excerpt:

On Monday, finally, the Russian Defence Ministry disclosed in a rare statement that Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu called his Iranian counterpart Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani to convey that Moscow has agreed to sign the pact.

Here’s the link again: Iran-Russia Strategic Alliance Ready to Sign

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 18 2024 20:44 utc | 19

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/98976?single
Mq9 reaper shot down in Iraq.

Posted by: Scot1and | Jan 18 2024 20:57 utc | 21

Posted by: Gee Eye Joe | Jan 18 2024 19:53 utc | 18
Exactly. The two-state solution is a canard and doomed to fail for many reasons, not the least of which is the illegal Israeli settlements in the areas which would naturally comprise the Palestinian’s state. But also not least of which is the fact that it has been a canard from the beginning to divide and conquer, much like how Hamas was initially supported and funded by right wing Israelis as a means to divide the Palestinians and curtail any left-leaning or secular tendencies among them.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 21:10 utc | 23

The genetic geographical origins of the Caucasian looking trespassers in the illegal apartheid entity in the Levant is now trending throughout the social media sphere. Young people are pointing it out! Like a naked emperors hairy arse.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 18 2024 19:51 utc | 17
All the google and mossad servers (same thing?) will be overheating now, gobbling up the personal info of all these dangerous new “terrorists” and storing it away with feverish, paranoid zeal. Soon half of the human population will be on the kill list… oh, I forgot that they already are 😀

Posted by: Michael A | Jan 18 2024 21:12 utc | 25

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/98976?single
Mq9 reaper shot down in Iraq.
Posted by: Scot1and | Jan 18 2024 20:57 utc | 22
They should save a few of those horrible things for a couple of troll missions to select private islands, Antarctica, New Zealand or whatever place the tapeworms are hiding.

Posted by: Michael A | Jan 18 2024 21:15 utc | 27

Bhadrakumar also used the term Anglo Saxons. There was some debate over it here when Lavrov and Putin were commonly using the term.
I was watching a video the other day, something to do with British history, can’t remember what but it was by a retired British policeman. Of interest was that he talked a bout how learning British law was a very big part of the training. Learning British law begins with the Saxons making (my take) the Saxon period the foundation of British law.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 18 2024 21:24 utc | 29

Mq9 reaper shot down in Iraq.
Posted by: Scot1and | Jan 18 2024 20:57 utc | 22
This won’t play for me (I seem to have a lot of problems with Telegram), do you have a non-telegram source?

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 18 2024 21:27 utc | 31

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 18 2024 21:27 utc | 32
It won’t play for me either but I don’t think it’s a video, but rather a photo.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 21:33 utc | 33

Also, with respect to October 7th, this hasn’t gotten much traction here at MoA, but also speaks to (nearly exact) foreknowledge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/israeli-authorities-investigate-claims-of-short-selling-before-hamas-attacks

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 21:35 utc | 35

Honzo | Jan 18 2024 21:10 utc | 25
Very early on, Hamas stated they trust Russia. The trappee using the trap against the trapper is a specific Putin hallmark.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 18 2024 21:42 utc | 37

indian punchline today.. Decoding Iran’s missile, drone strikes
Posted by: james | Jan 18 2024 19:44 utc | 15
and rightly applauded by Tom Pfotzer
good read yes very worth the time Thanks!
reciprocating:
https://globalsouth.co/2024/01/18/the-worlds-new-political-architecture/
from that page you can get to Ramin Mazaheri’s substack, too. He is always worth reading in my book. His book on China is a real eye opener; you’ll see it listed/mentioned anyone interested
Total Global Geopolitical Upheaval we’re going through is no joy but so very overdue. If only the Palestinians weren’t paying such a heavy price for all of us to be allowed into a better future. Humanity owes them more than we can ever repay. Curses on my wicked, worthless usa government.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 18 2024 21:59 utc | 39

This will spark some discussion (if it wasn’t already posted in a different thread):
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-european-philosophy-ethically-bankrupt-exposed

magine if Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Turkey – fully backed, armed and diplomatically protected by Russia and China – had the will and the wherewithal to bomb Tel Aviv for three months, day and night, murder tens of thousands of Israelis, maim countless more and make millions homeless, and turn the city into a heap of uninhabitable rubble, like Gaza today.
Just imagine it for a few seconds: Iran and its allies deliberately targeting populated parts of Tel Aviv, hospitals, synagogues, schools, universities, libraries – or indeed any populated place – to ensure maximum civilian casualties. They would tell the world they were just looking for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet.
Ask yourself what the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and Germany in particular would do within 24 hours of the onslaught of this fictional scenario.
Now come back to reality, and consider the fact that since 7 October (and for decades before that date), Tel Aviv’s western allies have not only witnessed what Israel has done to the Palestinian people, but have also provided it with military equipment, bombs, munitions and diplomatic coverage, while American media outlets have offered ideological justifications for the slaughter and genocide of Palestinians.
The aforementioned fictional scenario would not be tolerated for a day by the existing world order. With the military thuggery of the US, Europe, Australia and Canada fully behind Israel, we helpless people of the world, just like Palestinians, do not count. This is not just a political reality; it is also pertinent to the moral imaginary and philosophical universe of the thing that calls itself “the West”.
Those of us outside the European sphere of moral imagination do not exist in their philosophical universe. Arabs, Iranians and Muslims; or people in Asia, Africa and Latin America – we do not have any ontological reality for European philosophers, except as a metaphysical menace that must be conquered and quieted.
Beginning with Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and continuing with Emmanuel Levinas and Slavoj Zizek, we are oddities, things, knowable objects that Orientalists were tasked with deciphering. As such, the murder of tens of thousands of us by Israel, or the US and its European allies, does not cause the slightest pause in the minds of European philosophers.
Tribal European audiences
If you doubt that, just take a look at leading European philosopher Jurgen Habermas and a few of his colleagues, who in an astoundingly barefaced act of cruel vulgarity, have come out in support of Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians. The question is no longer what we might think of Habermas, now 94, as a human being. The question is what we might think of him as a social scientist, philosopher and critical thinker. Does what he thinks matter to the world anymore, if it ever did?
The world has been asking similar questions about another major German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, in light of his pernicious affiliations with Nazism. In my opinion, we must now ask such questions about Habermas’s violent Zionism and the significant consequences for what we might think of his entire philosophical project?
If Habermas has not an iota of space in his moral imagination for people such as Palestinians, do we have any reason to consider his entire philosophical project as being in any way related to the rest of humanity – beyond his immediate tribal European audiences?
In an open letter to Habermas, distinguished Iranian sociologist Asef Bayat said he “contradicts his own ideas” when it comes to the situation in Gaza. With all due respect, I beg to differ. I believe Habermas’s disregard for Palestinian lives is entirely consistent with his Zionism. It is perfectly consistent with the worldview in which non-Europeans are not completely human, or are “human animals”, as Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has openly declared.
This utter disregard for Palestinians is deeply rooted in the German and European philosophical imagination. The common wisdom is that out of the guilt of the Holocaust, Germans have developed a solid commitment to Israel.
But to the rest of the world, as now evidenced by the magnificent document that South Africa has presented to the International Court of Justice, there is a perfect consistency between what Germany did during its Nazi era and what it is now doing during its Zionist era.
I believe that Habermas’s position is in line with the German state policy of partaking in the Zionist slaughter of Palestinians. It is also in line with what passes for the “German left”, with their equally racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic hatred of Arabs and Muslims, and their wholesale support for the genocidal actions of the Israeli settler colony.
We must be forgiven if we thought what Germany had today was not Holocaust guilt, but genocide nostalgia, as it has vicariously indulged in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians over the past century (not just the past 100 days).
The charge of Eurocentrism that is consistently levelled against European philosophers’ conception of the world is not based merely on an epistemic flaw in their thinking. It is a consistent sign of moral depravity. On multiple past occasions, I have pointed out the incurable racism at the heart of European philosophical thinking and its most celebrated representatives today.
This moral depravity is not just a political faux pas or an ideological blind spot. It is written deeply into their philosophical imaginations, which have remained incurably tribal.
Here, we must recap the glorious Martinican poet Aime Cesaire’s famous statement: “Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the 20th century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for [Arab, Indian and African peoples].”
Palestine is today an extension of the colonial atrocities Cesaire cites in this passage. Habermas appears ignorant that his endorsement of the slaughter of Palestinians is completely consistent with what his ancestors did in Namibia during the Herero and Namaqua genocide. Like the proverbial ostrich, German philosophers have stuck their heads inside their European delusions, thinking the world does not see them for what they are.
[…and so on…]

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 22:04 utc | 41

Seems that, for the moment, the strategic goal of torpedoing Israel-Saudi normalization has been fulfilled. From Middle East Eye:
* Netanyahu says Israel needs to control ‘from the river to the sea’
* Saudi Arabia says no Israel normalisation without path to Palestinian state
Bonus: Biden says air strikes are not stopping the Houthis, but will continue
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 18 2024 22:12 utc | 43

From what I’ve seen it is an American ship, ‘Chem Ranger’, which was struck by Yemeni missiles in the Gulf of Aden

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 18 2024 22:25 utc | 45

Honzo | Jan 18 2024 21:10 utc | 25
Very early on, Hamas stated they trust Russia. The trappee using the trap against the trapper is a specific Putin hallmark.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 18 2024 21:42 utc | 38
The CIA knew? MI6 knew?
Posted by: librul | Jan 18 2024 21:59 utc | 39
I don’t doubt that the CIA knew, or even picked the start off date. Whether Putin knew, I have no idea, but I have no doubt that Russia and China have been communicating a certain style of response to western aggression/oppression and signaled how they would respond, and what those actions might achieve in the larger global conflict.
I knew 10/7 was a falseflag on 10/8. Among other things, Bibi told us it was. “Israel’s 9/11”
My point about Larry Johnson is that he’s a ‘former’ CIA analyst and he’s been pushing the ‘incompetence’ narrative since the first couple of days of the conflict. To be absolutely explicit, I think that it’s mistake to ever credit the ‘former’ or ‘ex’ part of this kind of designation. What you’re getting is limited hangouts, running stuff up the flagpole, and previews of the official narrative to make people outside the mainstream more susceptible to buying it because they heard it months before the MSM started pushing it.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 18 2024 22:34 utc | 47

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/98976?single
Mq9 reaper shot down in Iraq.
Posted by: Scot1and | Jan 18 2024 20:57 utc | 22

Note to NATO propagandists: this is how you demonstrate an aerial object has been destroyed. Evidence. I realize your societies have been faith based for some time, but the concept of verification should not be a foreign one.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 18 2024 22:39 utc | 49

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 18 2024 22:23 utc | 45
Gotcha. I agree. And check out his comments section for some pretty good pushback on that narrative. I haven’t been keeping up, and don’t know if he’s still talking about October 7th, but he was a few weeks ago. Which gets me thinking that if he is still publishing pieces “explaining” the “failures” of October 7, then yes, he’s 100% running the narrative “up the flag pole” so that it can be better massaged for eventual mass consumption.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 22:45 utc | 51

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 18 2024 22:34 utc | 47
I also liked the ‘open letter’ that was written to Habermas by the Iranian sociologist. The hypocrisy is so glaring at this point; and TPTB are ramping up their tools for narrative management/information totalitarianism in direct proportionality; no coincidence at all there. At least the rubes within the Imperium must be managed and assuaged until it all comes crashing down.
Posted by: Honzo | Jan 18 2024 22:34 utc | 48
Which reminds me of a different Larry Johnson post over at SONAR21 in which he attempted to push the bullshit line that the explosion at the hospital in Gaza was in fact an errant Hamas missile. He got shut down completely in comments and I think deleted several of them, which was also complained about – rightly so. I definitely do not think Johnson is 100% reliable.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 22:50 utc | 53

Both Pakistan and Iran claim that a a couple of children were killed in both attacks…god only knows what really went down but I hope the score stays at 1-1. Don’t need more drama.
Posted by: pq | Jan 18 2024 21:16 utc | 29
That alone tells you the (casualty) claims are bollocks prima facie.
Just kids, hanging out in an empty complex doing nothing … just waiting to be bombed.
No adults, just kids in the middle of nowhere. not even a goat to add some diversity.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 18 2024 23:17 utc | 55

Tom Collins @ 42
“It is also in line with what passes for the “German left”, with their equally racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic hatred of Arabs and Muslims, and their wholesale support for the genocidal actions of the Israeli settler colony.”
[quoted material]
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It seems to me that this statement may be confusing and conflating two things: (1) the response of the German “left” to the contemporary issue of pushback against the recent surge of Muslim migrants into Germany, which the left interprets as right-wing AfD racism and (2) supposed historical German racism against all Muslim peoples. Has the writer by chance missed the giant rallies in Berlin and other German cities in support of the Palestians?
As it stands I don’t agree with the statement, but not being a professional philosopher, very likely I do not understand it . . .
The writer needs to provide documentation for his charges against the German people. As in just about every “western” country today, government actions do not reflect the people’s will.
Americans of any intelligence and historical awareness should be now have realized that we have failed every “test” regarding knowledge of and complicity in genocide that we have so gleefully subjected the German people to. (Actually Germans saved more Jewish Germans than did any other European people, so there is that.)
As for Habermas, well, yes, he seems to be extremely confused—guilty as charged. But he is an individual, not a people.
Recently I have read staements in two articles in the same issue of the London Review of Books, one of them by Neal Ascherson, to the effect that the postwar German state’s fundamental building block was support of the State of Israel. That was pretty dumb. But the Germans did not have agency at that point to challenge such a “building block” for their state, and an argument can be made that they never have had since WW1.
Did the German people choose this short-sighted guilt-based building block? Did anyone ask them?
It seems like there are no limits to the accusations of racism that can be hurled against the German people. It is an easy-to-win sport. Accusations and throw-away comments that would be considered anti-teutonic “hate speech” in a non-German context, if that concept even existed) are A-ok when it comes to Germans.
Hmm, I think I’ll just coin that phrase right now. I am sick of gratuitous, shallow, hypocritical and, yes, racist, anti-teutonism.
Pfui!

Posted by: Jane | Jan 18 2024 23:41 utc | 57

If only the Palestinians weren’t paying such a heavy price for all of us to be allowed into a better future. Humanity owes them more than we can ever repay.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Jan 18 2024 21:59 utc | 40
They are heroes and they will be honored for years to come. They deserve only admiration.
The Israelis, I pity. Socrates said that it is better to be wronged by someone than to wrong someone. The burden they create is much heavier.
I find that this powerful video encapsulates that juxtaposition.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 18 2024 23:51 utc | 59

We think its israel cold bloodedly murdering Palistinians, it isnt its england and america. Full stop

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 18 2024 23:58 utc | 61

“… The White House responded by saying the US would continue working towards a two-state solution and that there could be no Israeli reoccupation of Gaza when the war concluded.”
Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 18 2024 23:38 utc | 57
Time for a re-circulation of the Epstein files. Their tune will change quite soon …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 19 2024 0:54 utc | 63

LIHOP (high level) + lack of training (mid-level) + fear (grunt level) + Hannibal doctrine (multi-level) = October 7th
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 18 2024 21:32 utc | 33

That equation needs to be repeated. Conspiracies happen and many of them fail to be smooth operations. People pooh-pooh conspiracies’ existence because of the assumption they must be flawless in execution.
False. And in fact “conspiracy theory” was coined by CIA intelligence agency to bandage the curtains from revealing them. Many times the ideal is planned, the plan goes sour, and instead of ending and backtracking it is too far gone to anywhere else but onward through with things. Reality is ugly and messy and you’ll be surprised how much people will cling to denial than face the truth.
This ethnic cleansing genocide is planned. Many things messed up, and are currently messing up, in execution. Onward they march with illegal & immoral seige tactics trying to get some success.
It is our job to look with open eyes, bear witness to a horrible truth in all its layers, and stop it from continuing. They give no quarter to their Palestinian victims, we should give no quarter to their excuses for genocide. Their behavior can be many layers of evil, stubborn, stupid, and incompetence blended together in a very human mix of villainy.
Zionists are not special; they are as pathetic and banal as the evil of Nazis before, and Nazis now in Ukraine, and of colonists the world over throughout history. Again, just another human behaving abominably, not special. Villains!, Return to humanity before you are wholly lost, reject your claims of being special and repent. You are a failure as old as humanity, though you ‘mayest have power over evil’ in your own heart.

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 19 2024 1:20 utc | 65

Jonathan Cook on UK’s Ephraim Mirvis:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/18/uk-chief-rabbi-blesses-war-crimes-in-gaza/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 19 2024 1:26 utc | 67

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 18 2024 22:44 utc | 51
Thanks! Apparently this didn’t make a controlled descent like the one over Iran.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 19 2024 1:46 utc | 69

Can someone from America explain why Tulsi Gabbard is not running for anything? Also how negative she is, towars Russia and China? What i could follow she seemed almost to Ritter’s, Johnson’s etc. scope. But she also sounds very Trumpist – that is bad for Ukraine, but somehow better for Israel, if she ever was.
Posted by: whirlX | Jan 19 2024 0:30 utc | 63
Tulsi another WEF plant. She denies it, but she fits the pattern of someone who ‘comes out of nowhere,’ ticks some diversity boxes, and takes controlled-opposition positions so that when the powers that be get in real trouble, the tainted figureheads can be replaced by somebody who ‘has a long track record’ of speaking out against the most egregious policies. Obama, Ramaswamy, Gabbard, and Bernie Sanders 1.0 all fit the pattern very neatly. She was already in congress, but to stay would have required her to vote in ways that wouldn’t contradict her image later when she was really needed. Now is not the time for her to run again, for the same reason. Whatever happens to Trump, if we’re still having elections in the next cycle, maybe she and/or Vivek will run for the top job as ‘outsiders.’

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 19 2024 2:01 utc | 71

.they want to destroy the deeds & titles of property ownership held by the Palestinians in places like Haifa…etc…
Posted by: Prometheus1200BC | Jan 19 2024 1:23 utc | 67
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Of course.
That is why the Zionists destroyed the Municipal Building in Gaza. Because that is where many such records have been stored.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 19 2024 2:12 utc | 73

Lathe Biosas,
Your comments are appreciated.

Posted by: Steve from Oz | Jan 19 2024 2:25 utc | 75

I would like to posit this…the source of so much evil & warmongering emanates from Britain. Can we put forth the idea that the world should boycott Britain until is ceases planning wars, financing wars, implements wars, advocates for wars, propagandizing for wars, creates alliances for wars, this country must not be a pariah state until this is effectuated…also is there any brilliant barfly that can post all the wars this nation has implemented since say…1776…also…I think the Palestinians should sue Britain for a minimum of 30 trillion dollars for reparations…none of this genocide would be happening without this nation…and I insist on buying Jane a drink…

Posted by: Prometheus1200BC | Jan 19 2024 3:08 utc | 77

by Honzo | Jan 19 2024 2:01 utc | 72
Well, thanks, as it is time for some non-geriatrics to take over America. Trump is funny still old, and I think that he can fade away lost and surrounded with utter idiots, surfing on a deep state wave – as he was in his first turn.. Difference to today;s state of the mind, is the same, just Biden is very evil and Trump is not.
Tulsi and Vivek might take some high positions still to lear the business there, for further push.
Never the less, Trump bought 4 years for Russia and that will not be forgotten. I hope he changes a foreign policy 180° and not 360° like the last time..

Posted by: whirlX | Jan 19 2024 3:11 utc | 79

Iran Contra is the memory hole .

Posted by: Paleologos | Jan 19 2024 3:31 utc | 81

Yanis Varoufakis
@yanisvaroufakis
The French government has joined the German government in stating that international law on genocide does not apply to Israel – that, because Jews have been subjected to genocide, Israel has moral & legal immunity for any war crime, even a genocide, it chooses to commit.
https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1747888452694163909
Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
Unbelievable. Stéphane Séjourné, France’s new minister of foreign affairs, essentially said that France wouldn’t support the ICJ’s decision if it rule against Israel because accusing them of genocide is “crossing a moral threshold” and is “exploiting the notion of genocide for political purposes”.
Here’s the exact quote (translated):
“As for the International Court of Justice, we firmly tell the Israelis that international law applies to everyone, the systematic strikes in Gaza must stop… but words have meaning and accusing the Jewish state of genocide is crossing a moral threshold! We cannot exploit the notion of genocide for political purposes, that is our consistent position.”
So first of all it’s an egregious lie that it would be their “consistent position” that “we cannot exploit the notion of genocide for political purposes” because less than a year ago the French parliament (including Macron’s party) voted to recognize as “genocide” the Holodomor in Ukraine, and the year before that they voted (also including Macron’s party) to recognize the so-called “Uyghur genocide”; both clearly done for political purposes (on the Uyghurs only some Western countries – led by the U.S. – have ever called it a “genocide” and a UN Human Rights Office investigation on the ground did not retain this designation)… So when it’s directed at geopolitical foes of the West, France happily exploits the notion of genocide for political purposes.
And in this case this isn’t even about this, since we’re speaking about an official ruling by the International Court of Justice, of which France is a founding member. So if the ICJ ruled in the sense that Israel was indeed committing genocide, by definition it wouldn’t ‘be an “exploitation of the notion of genocide for political purposes” but a ruling based on international law.
So as I’ve said since the very beginning, this demonstrates once again that the war in Gaza is essentially the war of the “rules-based order” with all its double standards vs “international law”. And sadly now France has made it clear that faced with the choice, they opt to side with the rules-based order against international law 😢
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1747806233711743122

Posted by: Menz | Jan 19 2024 3:57 utc | 83

James 15
Indian Punchline
‘There were signs already by the latter half of 2023 that the US with Israeli axis was planning to use terrorism as the only viable means to weaken Iran and restore the regional balance back in favour of Tel Aviv, which is critically important for Washington’s prioritisation of Asia-Pacific and yet need to control oil-rich Middle East. Indeed, a conventional war with Iran is no longer feasible for the US, as it risks the potential destruction of Israel. ”
This article is saying here that US Empire, for whom Old Empire and Empire Dream both work, is making the genocide bombs and calling the genocide shots.
Netanyahu is Roman Provincial Governor. Sunak is Roman Senator, and it is Emperor Biden who will destroy Israel , not Hamas, if Israel tries to embroigle Empire into an unwinnable war against Iran Russia and China.
Empire uses State Terror like Al Qaida and Daesh to.operate in West Asia. But Israel runs the Terror Network and wants to cash in on the Khazar mythological Chosen Land. Neither in 73 A.D. nor in 2024 will Empire give Zionism the Empire of which they dream. Russia , China and Iran are too powerful for Empire to fight direct.
Even the Iraqi Kurds are starting to see who runs the Barzani Zahawiri Oil Network. Mossad. And a Roman Governor who can’t control the local political infighting will get Zapped. Who will the FoI in Old Empire England be Friends of next? Putin? Yes!
Kissinger was correct, that the only thing to do with a hornet in the bedroom is to whack it.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2024 4:07 utc | 85

The land titles are also kept online these days. No idea how vapid these electronic titles are. Agreed that the IDF blind rage attacks are intended to wipe out all traces of Arab inhabitants. The bulldozing of cemeteries and taking bodies from graves is the most clear sign of the Likud’s intentions.
Palestinian Land Society
https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases
The book – a compendium of photos of Arab life in Palestine
https://cigacriticalvoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-book-1983.pdf

Posted by: Exile | Jan 19 2024 4:16 utc | 87

The Ukraine had weeks of 20,000 deaths, the total of the Gazan ‘Genocide’.
Damn our white culture, anything is better, even Hamas: the WEF couldn’t agree more and got the borders open.
Reading above, they have a point.
Posted by: Antonym | Jan 19 2024 2:03 u

Ah yes, the trite comparison of a Israeli fascist.
Whereas one – NATO vs Russia – is a military conflict, with two sides having armored vehicles, and air force and all the modern technology supporting war.
The other – Israel and USA vs the Gazans – is cowardly ethnic cleansing, where the same apparatuses directed against a civilian population without armored vehicles or an airforce, just a handful of teenaged militia who through pure courage and righteousness resist those whonwould slaughter the women and children around them.
If you’re looking for the monster have a look in the mirror. The Palestinian children who may, despite the crimes of the IDF, yet survive the horror being inflicted on them may grow up to visit people just like you, who pretend not to see inhuman crimes because it suited their bigotry and greed.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 19 2024 4:44 utc | 89

It is ironic that Zionists like Dershowitz are trashing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) while NYT’s DealBook runs stories about the need to tackle antisemitism – at the WEF in Davos. If you get to take your concerns to the WEF you may not be as oppressed as you may like to think. Some people’s delusion knows no bounds.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 19 2024 7:23 utc | 91

https://www.timesofisrael.com/father-of-fallen-soldier-terrorist-decapitated-my-son-tried-to-sell-head-for-10000/
Terrorists.
Bastards.
Animals.
Though I have no doubt more than one here would pay for the decapitated head of a fallen Israeli soldier.

Posted by: Augusto Pi | Jan 19 2024 8:12 utc | 93

Posted by: Augusto Pi | Jan 19 2024 8:12 utc | 94
Still trying to disseminate the atrocity propaganda at this stage. Just like the boy who cried wolf most people have stopped listening to compulsive liars after the false antisemitism claims, fictitious baby beheadings, the fantastical orgy at the rave. Turns out the Israeli forces killed most of the victims that day. What about last week at ICJ Genocide court hearing “we have increased food and fuel supplies to Gaza”, “we are taking care not to murder civilians”, “we really want to get the hostages out”. Patent lies.
The evidence of the 84 page genocide indictment suggests that all these things are made up by Zio fascists and spread by their media sources, which you without a functioning brain, enthusiastically try to spread here of all places.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 19 2024 8:34 utc | 95

Here’s hoping she wins the Australian Open:
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
@jacksonhinklle
💔🇵🇸 Tunisian tennis player Anas Jaber says she will donate her prize money to PALESTINE in an emotional speech.
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1748136530554614097

Posted by: Menz | Jan 19 2024 8:46 utc | 97

How both Shia Iran and Sunni Pakistan suppress a free (mostly Sunni) Baluchistan just like Israel is fed up with Hamas-Gaza: national security: https://www.dawn.com/news/1806777/trust-issues-why-are-pakistan-and-iran-up-in-arms
A long history…

Posted by: Antonym | Jan 19 2024 8:51 utc | 99