Khan Younis now under siege from Israel. If you click on the “live” link on the homepage, you can scroll and read the updates as they come in (latest first). Just in case the link below does not automatically take you to the live reporting.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-gaza-live-war-hamas-conflict

Posted by: teri | Jan 23 2024 14:42 utc | 4

two different perspectives from the Zionist government (from the Jerusalem Post article). Maybe this disaster will mobilize Israelis against this genocide of the Palestinians.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said “Precisely now it is clearer than ever – the war must not be stopped, the fighting must not be reduced. We must continue to subdue, crush and mow down the Nazi enemy in Gaza with all our might. ” This guy is nothing short of a war criminal…
I like this guy:
Far-left Hadash MK Ofer Cassif gives his “condolences to the families affected and best wishes for a speedy and full recovery to the injured.
“Their blood is on the hands of this atrocious government that sacrifices masses just for its own survival. They led us into the abyss, and they have no one to blame but themselves! They, in a messianic nightmare, ask for houses on the beach to be built on the corpses of soldiers, hostages, and thousands of Palestinians.
“There must be an uncompromising and fearless alternative in front of them that will stop the rivers of blood! A Jewish-Arab alternative of justice, equality, and peace. These criminals must leave already! Elections now!”

Posted by: ctiger | Jan 23 2024 15:03 utc | 6

palestinian refugees by the millions are coming to the West…Israel is reclaiming its territory…
MOA tears are delicious!

Posted by: Bye Bye palestine! | Jan 23 2024 16:08 utc | 8

MOA tears are delicious!
Posted by: Bye Bye palestine! | Jan 23 2024 16:08 utc | 8
Those aren’t tears, it’s piss. Drink up!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 23 2024 16:25 utc | 10

Posted by: pq | Jan 23 2024 15:36 utc | 7
Thanks very much for the detail and links. I always thought the idea of a trans-desert freight corridor was difficult to believe. More than the very occasional truck would be difficult to get through. The locals are hostile, and however dim they are, a large number of trucks would be noticed, and vulnerable to attack by jihadis of various attachments.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 23 2024 16:33 utc | 12

Well done pq- another imperialist myth debunked under the sign of the Moon of Alabama.
To turn to a more general matter, Steel City Scribblings today has a quotation from Jon Schwartz that is so pertinent it’s worth repeating
“Zionists from Herzl to Jabotinsky to Ben Gurion were clear they were engaged in settler colonialism; in an effort to permanently take land from its occupants as had the United States of America.
Everyone has to face this. The question of Israel is now whether a settler colonialism can make peace with the rest of the world without obliterating it. ”
People are inclined to forget, in part because only the older generations can recall the extent to which it was believed, the power of the imperial idea- the Victorian belief in the hierarchy of races with the Amglo Saxons at the top, the Celts (impractical, romantic etc) below and, right at the bottom barely out of the ranks of brute animals, the indigenous peoples.
It was a philosphy which was all the more widely believed (in the face of mountains of contrary evidence) because so much depended on it. Every one of the setler colonies, which included both American continents. But that was only the start.
The entire pattern of Europe’s predatory relationships with the rest of the world- the non-settler colonies such as India, Indonesia and Indo China but also including the entire world east of say the Elbe and west of Galway (though that is to forget the treatment of the ‘inferior’ Irish) were all held to be not plunder but assistance. By enslaving Africa Europeans were giving them a hand up, they were being exploited as part of a harsh, but justifiable, education.
Such are the bases of Israel. It is nothing to do with the Bible or archaeological evidence or the return of victims of persecution. It is an entirely anomalous, historically, imperial project- like the last child of a woman who suddenly gives birth on the brink of menopause.
A child destined to watch its parents slipping into decline from the beginning.
De Gaulle understood what the position of Israel was- like French Algeria it was doomed to destruction.
It is no accident that the most enthusiastic defenders of Israel, those who have placed themselves, morally and politically, in the ‘last ditch’ along with Netanyahu and the fascists, are the settler colonial regimes themselves (the US, Canada, Australia etc) who instinctively defend a country which is modelled in every detail on their own, historically illegitimate, societies. And, in the persons of the British and French, countries which have never disavowed in their state traditions, pageantry and ideology, the roles they played in setting up the settler colonies, justifying colonialism and retaining their immoral earnings.
Israel and its supporters are like men who justify rape on the grounds that women like it. Or, if they don’t, benefit from it.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 16:38 utc | 14

Israel and its supporters are like men who justify rape on the grounds that women like it. Or, if they don’t, benefit from it.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 16:38 utc | 14
Or, on the grounds that it is better than being murdered …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 23 2024 16:56 utc | 16

I don’t know whether anybody’s yet mentioned it, but I very much liked this 12 minute analysis from David Hearst of Middle East Eye: How Netanyahu’s War could DESTROY Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MjES_3iNE. Rather on the lines of Alastair Crooke’s warnings.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 23 2024 17:02 utc | 18

Don Firineach | Jan 23 2024 16:56 utc | 17
Sickening stuff. Not that, in practical terms, it meant that the Imperial ruling class was not staffed from top to bottom by Irishmen and Scottish Highlanders or that most of the routine and important decision making in places like Malaya, India and eg Nigeria was not in the capable hands of Malays, Indians and Nigerians, who among other things ‘spoke the language.’
Victorian racial theories were transparently self serving ideologies and nowhere more than in Ireland. I am sure that Mr Greg, like Galton, was greatly esteemed in pre-war Germany’s governing circles.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 17:21 utc | 20

Australian police attack pro-Palestine protests blockading Israeli ships
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-australia-pro-palestine-protesters-blockading-israeli-ships-police-attack

“Legal observers from the Melbourne Activist Legal Support reported a case of a nurse being sprayed while attending to a sprayed person on the ground; they also reported a person in a wheelchair being manhandled and removed from his chair. He was then ordered to move while on the ground and pepper spray was used multiple times,”

One can only salute the protesters and their vow to continue despite this official intimidation. Hope there is a paper trail from the suspected CEO of the port.

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Jan 23 2024 17:24 utc | 22

As you can see from the photos here, THIS is what the Ocean Jazz, struck by Ansarullah earlier on today, routinely transports across the high seas: Death machinery, utilized by the US-‘Israeli’ Empire to slaughter Muslims in Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan. source: Flobal Resistance Channel, Telegram.
And who owns the Ocean Jazz? There are two players: The first is the Harren Group, located in Germany. The owner is a Jew, Dr. Martin Harren. Yes, Harren is Jewish, a Hebrew simplification of “Aharon”, and it means “high mountain”. The German town of Haren is also home to many Jews, mostly Polish refugees, which was the site of a “Hey Rabbi, Whatcha Doing?!” type false flag in 2020.
And the second player behind the Ocean Jazz is Seabulk Fleet Management, a subsidiary of SEACOR, chaired by Eric Fabrikant and Bruce Weins… Two more Jews.
If there is war… death… massacres… and Gentile blood to drink… You are 99.9 times out of 100 guaranteed to find the Yahoud, particularly when it is related to Yemen, who they hate more than any other Islamic nation.
We note this because the moujahideen of the Yemeni Islamic Resistance didn’t just have the right to HIT the Ocean Jazz… But to SINK the accursed thing if they so chose. Their maneuver was entirely, perfectly justified. On anti-imperialist grounds; on Anti-Zionist grounds; and most critically of all, on Islamic Anti-Parasitic grounds.
The age of Jewish free passage in the Red Sea is over. It’s Ansarullah’s rules… And Ansarullah’s world now, Shlomo!

Posted by: End Jewish supremaci | Jan 23 2024 17:31 utc | 24

….and before I get ripped for being OT, they are strong supporters of the Palestinian cause…..

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 23 2024 17:40 utc | 26

There used to be a LOT of trucking from Jordan to UAE through Saudi, especially fruit and veg, food. Probably from Jordan to Saudi as well. I don’t know about recent statistics. There are good highways through Saudi I don’t know of any terrorist issue.
Posted by: Pq | Jan 23 2024 17:24 utc | 21
No, I wasn’t suggesting you had the explanation wrong; you’re certainly right. I’m aware that there was a lot of trucking. In the 80s, all the two-lane roads were rebuilt as dual highways. The change since 7th October is the massive resentment in the Arab world over what is happening to Palestine; the old quietude, which Israel relied on, has completely disappeared. Jordan is trying to keep the lid on the pressure, and succeeding to a degree, though Abdullah must be living in terror from day to day. Do not forget that Saudi is a state that was built on jihadism, and then, when Ibn Saud had finished conquering the country, had the jihadis massacred in 1937. But Saudi has continued to support jihadism abroad, as in 911, Syria, etc., but not allowed it at home. Openly flaunting Israeli trucks in columns on the highways across Saudi, would provoke very great resentment, and I’m sure MbS has enough sense not to allow it.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 23 2024 17:46 utc | 28

It’s been too rainy (or snowy) and windy for kite flying weather. We might have to resort to symbolic white kites as bumper stickers, or window decals. 🙂 Ideally do-it-yourself projects involving printer paper, markers, and sticky tape for the cars’ inside windows.
And if anyone asks who doesn’t know, just say the white kites represents angels of love looking back at us smiling. 🙂 Anyone who knows knows, and anyone who conspires to call that a hate symbol looks rightfully like a lunatic. (:

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 23 2024 17:52 utc | 30

I am most interested in finding out just what they have on a man who is obscenely wealthy. Anybody have a guess or theory?
Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 23 2024 17:30 utc | 23
I’m pretty sure about the following:
1. Elon’s entire life has a construct of rich, Jewish oligarchic interests pushing forward as the frontman of their investments.
2. His entire wealth is in actual fact not due to his own brilliance and hard work but in fact the result of funding by the American MIC obtained through influence of a circle of Jewish oligarchic interests to which he must have sworn allegiance to or indebted himself to at an early age – I’d estimate around the time his brother founded PayPal.
3. Having somehow inserted himself into a circle of Jewish oligarchs, of which of course the majority of them would have been die hard Zionists (name a Jewish oligarch who is not a Zionist?) he would have acted as a money mule for laundering wealth in various schemes masquerading as venture capital investments.
At this point, the threat could be made to reveal that he really achieved nothing on his own and is entirely a creation of the US MIC-Zionist-Complex or the threat could be made to simply remove him from his role as the administrator of the very large MIC venture capital fund masquerading as a business empire.
4. During Musk’s long and intimate association with the Jewish oligarch class he would have certainly been forced to participate in certain “rites of passage” to remain within the circles of power: Orgies, illegal financial transfers and investments, association with wanted persons, acquisition and trade in illegal items etc … All of this would have been recorded as “kompromat”, to be used at a future time.
Fundamentally, Musk’s apparently obscene wealth is a facade. He is in fact merely an administrator for the venture capital of the American MIC, mediated by the American Jewish Oligarchical class.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 23 2024 18:05 utc | 32

@ bevin | Jan 23 2024 16:38 utc | 14
It was good to read you mentioning De Gaulle and Algeria – this reminds me very much of the German/French writer Peter Scholl-Latour. He described how he was witnessing the end of French Algeria in 1950s; I do not know if you can read German, but if you do, I recommend his books. In one of them he quotes the French General Massu – who admitted that the French ended up in the blood and shit (‘nous avons glissé dans le sang et dans la merde’) while fighting the Arabs in kasbah. (Kampf dem Terror – Kampf dem Islam?, 2002 ).
De Gaulle was a statesman and had the judgment to leave Algeria, and took the risk of being assassinated by the French colonists, who felt betrayed by him. Peter Scholl Latour suspects (in my interpretation) that the situation in Israel would end similarly, if the Jews in Israel will not learn to live in peace with their Palestinian cousins.
I am awe struck by some observers like Scholl – Latour, and some statesmen, like De Gaulle and Nasrallah, who have predicted the future events – they all have seen the beginning of the end of Pax Americana, the end of colonialism, the end of NATO. Needless to say, they all became ‘enemies of USA’

Posted by: fanto | Jan 23 2024 18:09 utc | 34

Reading the list of the 21 reservists killed in the bomb blast, I was struck by the fact that not one of them was lower ranked than Sergeant. Are there no ordinary soldiers in the IDF?

Posted by: Kane | Jan 23 2024 18:17 utc | 36

“What does any Arab country get from normalizing with Israel who considers them all Amaleks anyway??
If I made an agreement with Israel in exchange for my own security, how could I ever trust them?
If I were KSA or Kuwait I would be extra suspicious because a huge chunk of Saudi and most of Kuwait is in “Greater Israel”.
Posted by: Pq | Jan 23 2024 17:41 utc | 27
The problem is that KSA and other rich Arab states and , more importantly their Elites, have huge investments with the West and are quite confident if they much more ‘get out of line’ the West will sanction their assets faster than you can say ‘Jackie Robinson’ as they did to Russia.
Not to mention KSA American military technology cannot be used on the Empire and KSA’s army is crap anyways so as much as these countries would like to ‘give it to the Empire’ they do have these tremendous constraints.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 23 2024 18:22 utc | 38

Elon has never, not once in his publicly recorded life, carried out an act of genius.
In fact, the bulk of what he has demonstrated is mere midwittery supported by tons of money and I hype.
I hold as Exhibit A, The Hyperloop …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 23 2024 18:09 utc | 33
Yes, access to other people’s money is the key to his success, but that’s irrelevant. Success is not the measure of genius, and MOST geniuses are failures by the measures of contemporary society. Elon would be too, without other people’s money, and of course, those other people have something to say about what he does with it. I don’t believe that he is the one who chooses what needs to be done, but we can see in the way he goes about it that he is by no means a midwit like the upper echelons of the rest of the MIC. Just the fact that he hires on the basis of ability instead of certifications sets him apart.
There are good reasons for not putting geniuses in charge of things, but Elon is not really in control. The problem is that his abilities and proclivities may well him to find an ‘outside the box’ solution to that, in the impending chaos, and take control into his own hands, as barons often do. What happens if Elon does get into a position to make his own decisions is anybody’s guess, but I think that when he attempts to, it will cause all sorts of unanticipated shocks to the system.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 23 2024 18:25 utc | 40

Re: Elon Musk
Arch‘s analysis is mostly correct. BTW -Musk is likely ethnically Jewish.

Posted by: Exile | Jan 23 2024 18:28 utc | 42

More Elon Musk courtesy Caitlin Johnstone:
Elon Musk has named his newborn son “X Æ A-1”, which is pronounced “Elon Musk is an insufferable wanker”.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 23 2024 18:56 utc | 44

Musk is a stalking horse. A made man with invisible support.
So many well documented obvious scams were swept under the rug.
. cave rescue mini-sub pedo slander
. giant NV giga-factory copper theft and cover up.
. NV giga-factory cartel drug dealing.
. solar shingles solar city inside dealing.
. billion dollar NY development that was spent elsewhere.
. robotaxis built in a tent.
. TSLA magically qualifies for irregular S&P 500 listing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+hansen+musk+whistleblower
Musk’s brand of mediocrity and magical thinking is a literal car crash.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 23 2024 18:59 utc | 46

Hamas refused the offer of releasing all hostages in exchange for genocide restarting in 60 days
Smh

Posted by: Pq | Jan 23 2024 19:15 utc | 48

Last night Lavrov was interviewed by CBS with the transcript being published today. All manner of topics were mentioned with the CBS presstitute behaving as expected. The translation and some short commentary is available here, “Lavrov Interviewed by CBS”.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 23 2024 19:34 utc | 50

Bodycam footage of IDF weekend warriors hopelessly befuddled in close combat. Poorly trained utterly confused. No wonder all they can do is Blind Rage atrocities against women and children Tragic
https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1749821844838924501?s=20

Posted by: Exile | Jan 23 2024 19:57 utc | 52

Hezbollah has hit Meron air control center in north Israel, which has drastically reduce combat sorties.
https://t.me/Anlystintel/15129

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 23 2024 20:55 utc | 54

Israel Supreme | Jan 23 2024 21:10 utc | 57
Seek help. NATO will not save you

Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 21:13 utc | 56

Take you 1 minute, 15 minutes, 4 – 16 times per day, to make an internal reflection about all you have read in your life.
And, think:
Why the humans are prone to conflict between themselves?
Why the humans are prone to genocide other humans?
Is it nature or culture?
The thing is that we are contempleting the death of our human brothers in a massive sacrifice: with what purpose?
The 7 basic qualities of the human consciousness:
Under the diafhragm
1. Lust: gonades
2. Sloth: kidneys and spleen.
3. Gluttonity: stomach and guts.
4. Wrath: liver.
Beetween the diaphragm and the head:
5. Envy: laringe.
6. Greed: heart.
Between the neck and the head:
7. Pride: head.
The thing is that we are sacrificing millions for nothing, just blood: under the collective diafhargm, the same archetypes are strugling with we are: before any fucking intent to be more, we must be humble, and, for the sake, the same, as humans.
This bloody sacrifice, this human mess between humans who try to be Ants.
BtW: We are “sapiens”. The best manifestation of the self-consciouss-ness in this area of the known Universe.

Posted by: David | Jan 23 2024 21:38 utc | 58

Let us know when he does something you like. I wouldn’t hold your breath. Mean tweets don’t count.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 23 2024 19:57 utc | 51
He’s already done something I like: whipsawed the right on free speech absolutism. He’s a billionaire, I’m not expecting him to make anything better, but he has so much potential for creating little shit storms that rattle people’s understanding of how things work he’s fun to have around. Much like Trump in that respect, although Trump probably has more genuine empathy for the working class than Elon. Not enough for him to reform the banking system, let alone jettison capitalism, but Elon isn’t going to do those things either. They’re both destabilizers, though, even when they’re doing what the elite want them to do.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 23 2024 21:52 utc | 60

Posted by: Exile | Jan 23 2024 19:57 utc | 52
Dude is clutching his blankie to his face and rocking…
No wonder they issue these guys diapers.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 23 2024 21:58 utc | 62

Bellwether for decline of usa hegemony is TEXIT. Texas has long debated separation from the union like California, but Texas is at least at a voting stage. If it succeeds that’s a very powerful internal disintegration move.

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 23 2024 22:27 utc | 64

Second Phase started after US attacked PMU forces in Iraq
Iraqi Resistance leader Abu Alaa al-Walai:
“At a time when the criminal American occupation is again blatantly targeting our security forces and our sacred PMF/PMU in a number of areas of Iraq, we urge the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq to begin the second phase of their blessed operations, which includes enforcing the blockade on Zionist maritime navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, and removing the entity’s ports until the Zionist usurper is out of service, and this will continue until the unjust siege on Gaza is lifted, and the horrific Zionist massacres against its people are stopped.”
TLDR: Mediterrane Sea Blockade started

Posted by: AntiZion | Jan 23 2024 22:37 utc | 66

Arch Bungle #33
“Musk has never once in his life carried out an act of genius.”
In 2010 3 senior Tesla engineers die in plane crash. Were they the real brains behind Tesla?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mourning-a-few-notsoordinary-ees

Posted by: Willow | Jan 23 2024 22:58 utc | 68

“Fundamentally, Musk’s apparently obscene wealth is a facade. He is in fact merely an administrator for the venture capital of the American MIC, mediated by the American Jewish Oligarchical class.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 23 2024 18:05 utc | 32
I, for a long time really thought (and hoped) Elon was the real deal.
Now after a few years I agree with you, Arch. He is controlled opposition given his marching orders/financings by the City. It looks like he is saving ‘freedom of speech’ on X yet it/Elon could be essentially be the Pied Piper.
JP Morgan was a huge American financier, he saved Wall Street from a crash in 1907 which paved the way, the excuse for the City, to install the Federal Reserve on December 24, 1913 to ‘prevent future market distortions’.
Morgan died in March of 1913 and guess what his estate was worth?-just over a million dollars. Even 100 years ago that isn’t much for a big financier.
Because JP Morgan was nothing more than a well paid agent for the City disguising the source of his capital..
Elon is much the same creature in my opinion.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 23 2024 23:01 utc | 70

Re: Lavrov
I am unimpressed and frankly disgusted by Russia. All they care about is Israeli security.
Russia has been part of the Quartet BLOCKING Palestine statehood and supporting Israel for the last 20 years from 2002 to 2021.
Along with US, UK, UN.
Russia is again trying to subvert international law in favour of a political process.
Just apply the freaking law to Israel. Arrest the war criminals, vacate enough houses in Israel for Palestinians to live in while Israel pays for Gaza to be rebuilt.
Why the F is he bringing in normalisation of Israel? Who wants to normalize with a genocidal psychopath???????
Palestinians don’t need to be united. They can have 20 political parties like other countries if that’s what they want.
Abolish the damn UN.
Russia: you were screaming about genocide in Donbas and you can’t even endorse South Africa’s application to the ICJ.

Posted by: Pq | Jan 23 2024 23:12 utc | 72

War machine, more a war pram , dummy spits and stinky nappies. Firmly attached to the teat secure in the knowledge the parent colony will provide.
For the first time I support a israeli one state , if there’s equal voting rights and services to all. For the one reason I know Israel never will allow that , and HAS to eradicate all Arabs from the state and its future lands. Demographics. Israel will be out bred in a few decades and out voted within their own country. There’s not a dam thing they can do about it. No amount of jew hate all over the planet will draw enough to israel to balance the simple fact that Arabs will multiply faster and end up being the dominant voting block. So even the Zionist dream of submission and integration like the druze are paraded about as , will never be a reality. Israel simply can’t have any variations of state that have Arabs included. That’s why we are at the Jewish state for the jews only , it’s on borrowed time and they know it.

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 23 2024 23:19 utc | 74

I can barely read English. I blame rock ‘n’ roll.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 21:07 utc | 56
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It’s never too late to learn.
Try Duolingo. It’s free.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 24 2024 0:03 utc | 76

Posted by: bevin | Jan 23 2024 23:49 utc | 78
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I can’t contribute much on this board. I have no inside info on foreign policy. But, I can call out historical BS from the LaRouche/Ehret-Kump faction.
BTW, J.P. Morgan earned his fortune the old-fashioned way. He inherited it.

Junius Spencer Morgan I (April 14, 1813 – April 8, 1890) was an American banker and financier, as well as the father of John Pierpont “J.P.” Morgan and patriarch to the Morgan banking house.
In 1864, he established J. S. Morgan & Co. in London as the successor to George Peabody & Co., of which he was junior partner. With his son’s aid, Morgan grew his banking house into a trans-Atlantic financial empire that included firms in London, New York City, Philadelphia, and Paris. By the time of his death in 1890, the Morgan banks were dominant forces in government and railroad finance, and his was the pre-eminent American banking house.
“>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Spencer_Morgan

He inherited it from one of the oldest families in America.

The Morgan name is traced to Carmarthen, Wales, with his earliest known ancestor being Hyfaidd ap Bleddri, third son of Bledri ap Cydifor of Wales. Miles Morgan, ancestor to the Morgan family in America, emigrated from Bristol, England to Boston in 1636.

The claim that Pierpont died “poor” is ludicrous on its face. He was a golden child. The claim that the Morgan’s were a tool of the city is equally ludicrous. Junius actually rescued a big firm that went under in The City. The Morgan’s weren’t owned by The City. The Morgan’s owned a big chunk of The City.

Posted by: john brewster | Jan 24 2024 0:32 utc | 78

In 2010 3 senior Tesla engineers die in plane crash. Were they the real brains behind Tesla?
Posted by: Willow | Jan 23 2024 22:58 utc | 70
Remember that musk didn’t even start Tesla. He bought it from an actual genius and innovator:
“Tesla, Inc., American manufacturer of electric automobiles, solar panels, and batteries for cars and home power storage. It was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and was named after Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla.”
All musk did was show up with the moneybags.
These days all the innovation musk is doing is encrapulating a decent foundation for electric cars with dodgy a.i of minimal utility.
A game even BYD is handily beating him – and we hear nothing of the geniuses at BYD.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 24 2024 0:34 utc | 80

Good Grief
Somebody needs to invent a quick trendy popular phrase completely equivalent ( and opposite ) to “Anti- Semitic”. Maybe “Ethnic Supremacy”. Or expand ‘anti-semitic’ to include Palestinians, not just Jews.
And while we’re at it, why don’t conservatives insist on a proper definition/use of “racism”? If you hate white/black/brown whatever you’re a racist, period. Seize the field of memes and discourse.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 24 2024 0:59 utc | 82

Posted by: silverdog | Jan 23 2024 22:12 utc | 65
I am struck by the very short term thinking that is currently taking place by the leadership of the US and its western “partners”. …etc.
Very true and spot on.
Also, if the collective west do go “full retard” and engage on the ground on multiple fronts, where are the soldiers (meat) supposed to come from? A very large number (probably 1-3 million) would be needed for any long-lasting tangible results. The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that the KIA, WIA and MIA numbers would be unpalatable to the Western populations- unless perhaps their own home territories were under direct attack which would definitely not be the case (unless Ziostan itself was involved). I think such a scenario is unlikely since the world and the realities of ground warfare have qualitatively changed since the Iraq invasion of 2003.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 24 2024 1:38 utc | 84

Once a thief, always a thief.
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
@jacksonhinklle
🚨🇮🇱 ISRAELI soldiers record themselves attempting to break into a Palestinian family’s safe in Gaza.
I thought they were just in Gaza to “fight Hama?”
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1749702591678656627

Posted by: Menz | Jan 24 2024 1:54 utc | 86

@byebyepalestine,
you are in fantasy land like most Israelis and their supporters. The Palestinian Resistance/Hamas is demonstrating that the Israeli Occupation Forces are weak and both Syria and Lebanon also want to end Israeli occupation. More critical, it is absolutely impossible for Israel to exterminate or remove 6 million Christians and Muslims in Occupied Palestine and the 2 million who are second class citizens in Israel. Even if they could by some miracle achieve that without global outrage ending the Zionist State in a week, there would still be 8 million Palestinians in the Diaspora who would continue the fight to free Palestine. Zionist Israel is done and has destroyed itself in the name of stupidity, bigotry, rage and childish incompetence. The world will cheer, including many Jews when Zionist Israel disappears, just as they did the end of Nazi Germany, for the same reasons.

Posted by: rosross | Jan 24 2024 2:43 utc | 88

Posted by: fanto | Jan 24 2024 1:05 utc | 91
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You appear to have stated one of the characteristics of Anglos that annoys the rest of the world: Their refusal to bother to learn other languages and egotistical assumption that there is no need for them to do so. This translates also as a lack of basic intellectual curiosity. It also renders Anglos relatively “blind” to what RoW is thinking and feeling.
This blog would not even exist if its owner did not have an impressive command of English.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 24 2024 2:51 utc | 90

Having lived through the fall of Apartheid South Africa I can’t help but notice the very same patterns repeating for izzrael.
The trajectory is the same, even if the intensity is of a higher order in the case of Izzrael.
The same logical and cognitive contradictions exist, just of a more grotesque order.
The same upper and lower bounds exist to what the Zionist occupation can achieve over the long term in Palestine.
But whereas the Afrikaner, long mocked for a stereotypical stupidity,was enlightened enough to realize this could not continue, the Jew, long mythologised for a certain cunning and intelligence, seems incapable of making the same cognitive leap …
And just like in South Africa where the Anglo Zionist Empire worked hard to preserve their White colony in Africa and their efforts collapsed under the weight of cognitive dissonance, so their efforts to preserve izzrael too are collapsing under it’s contradictions:
The empire is forced to deny it’s own proclamations of liberalism in place of a primitive colonialism.
The empire is forced to deny it’s proclamations that all men are created equal by openly appending the qualifier: “Except these Jews who are above and beyond even our most sacred tenets”.
The empire is forced to silence it’s screams of “GENOCIDE!” the moment it casts it’s eyes towards Gaza, and begin wailing again when looking at Xinjiang or Ukraine. The hypocrisy is blinding.
The empire is forced to cut of it’s own arms and feet to feed the zionist parasite it has birthed. It grows slowly limbless even as it leaves children and women limbless with it’s bombs …
The oft repeated, oft fulfilled prophecy is coming to pass:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Yeats knew what the fall of empires looked like.
Izzrael is done. Stick a fork in it.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 24 2024 3:19 utc | 92

Fished out of the polluted stream of the internet commentariat:

When 21 IDF soldier are killed, their pictures are broadcast around the world. When 30,000 Gazans are killed by these same soldiers, we get a simple uptick in the overall number of the Gazan dead. But, as Israel says, they are just “animals.”

Truer words have rarely been spoken.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 24 2024 3:40 utc | 94

Arch, “the zionist parasite it has birthed”
That’s a keeper!!

Posted by: Jane | Jan 24 2024 4:10 utc | 96

JB | Jan 23 2024 23:01 utc | 73
Pq | Jan 23 2024 23:12 utc | 75
re Lavrov, Russia’s position at the UNSC on Gaza etc.
I can’t help but agree with Pq general thrust.
I can long counter this insidious notion of a two-state solution – there needs to be a one state called Palestine. and the war criminal genocidal zionist invaders given their marching orders.
Look I get the basic notion from Russia/China and others that the two-state solution is established in international politics and diplomacy as a given stemming back to Oslo …. and so to start “negotiations” from that point is the on;y way to start diplomatically speaking — well sure — yet at the same time it is utterly irrational ludicrous and defies reality.
Israel is a genocidal war criminal entity – fact. ICJ or not. There is no one, no group with integrity or the moral standing capable of negotiating on behalf of Israel and their zionist citizens. No one.
That being said, I agree Russia foolishly continues to default to the imperative of Israeli “security”. Russia has done nothing for the Palestinian cause, or insisted upon UN standards of Justice or human rights for the Palestinians since Putin came to power – they have done nothing but given useless delusional speeches at the UNSC just like this one today.
There is a lot to like about Russia and it’s leadership – it’s stand on Palestine is not one of them.
Me saying so makes zero difference, still …..

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 24 2024 4:18 utc | 98

Zionist treachery and betrayal committed against their own people
to create in them, through falsehoods, murderous blood lust.
In order to harness their worst nature and commit genocide
against Palestinians. All this for the grasping at a brass ring
of ancient psychopathic delusions.

Posted by: librul | Jan 24 2024 4:42 utc | 100