War On The Middle East - The Time Of Monsters
Yesterday 3 U.S. troops were killed and 34 wounded due to an attack that allegedly hit on a place known as Tower 22. This is part of the Al Tanf area where U.S. troops illegally occupy parts of Syria to control the traffic on the main road between Iraq and Syria.
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The reporting so far does not answer many arising questions.
Tower 22 is on the Jordanian side of the boarder but Jordan insists that no attack had happened on its grounds.
Another anomaly are the high rate of wounded from the alleged drone strike. Drones are used in mass in the Ukraine war but the casualties they cause are usually less than a handful per drone.
The highly automated short and medium range air-defenses (C-RAMs, the equivalent of naval Phalanx guns) at the base should be able to shoot down any drone. Why didn't they work?
The U.S. has also used Al Tanf base and the Rukban camp to house and train ISIS splinter groups so they are able to attack perceived U.S. enemies. Were any of those folks around?
The U.S. claims that an Iraqi resistance group, allegedly supported by Iran, is responsible for the strike. There are several such groups allied with Iran in Syria and Iraq. Which one of them did this? Does the U.S. know this at all?
Iran denies any involvement in the attack.
The attack is certainly an escalation over previous ones. President Biden has said that he will respond to it.
The question in then to where to respond (Syria, Iraq, Iran) and to what grade. Most likely the U.S. will escalate from its previous bombing of this or that Iraq resistance group. Should the U.S. attack any state related institutions or position, the situation will escalate further.
The resistance camp would then try even harder to damage more U.S. assets. Since the U.S. assassination of General Quassam Suleimani its overall aim is to remove the U.S. from the Middle East.
The U.S. immediate response to the hit was the activation of long range tanker planes:
OSINTdefender @sentdefender - 0:21 UTC · Jan 29, 2024At least 6 U.S. Air Force KC-135 Aerial-Refueling Tankers, most from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California, are heading Northeast across the United States and preparing to Transit the Atlantic towards the U.K. and Europe. I wonder what kind of Aircraft they are Refueling? 🤔
Aerial-refueling tankers are used to keep fighter jets in the air for several hours. The reasons to keep jets in the air may not necessarily be to attack someone, but to prevent them from being destroyed by an attack on ones own airports.
The U.S. has plenty of bases in the Middle East which house a lot of expensive jets.
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If the U.S. suspects that those bases will come under attack it will need lots of air-tanker capability to save the jets currently stationed on them.
One could conclude from this that the U.S. will attack a target so important that it has to prepare for an all out response attack on its own Middle East bases.
There are several other possibilities but this seems to be the most likely conclusion.
Now let's take a step back to take a look at the larger picture.
The current escalation in the Middle East is happening because the Zionist attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the West Bank and south Lebanon. The U.S active support for this aim has led to more U.S. wars in Yemen, Iraq and now in Syria. While the U.S. has claimed that it did not want an all out war in the Middle East it has done its best to further one.
The dystopian decision by the U.S. and its European vassals to deny all support for UNRWA as response for the International Court of Justice decision against Israel's genocide of Palestinians was a further escalation. That a dozen or less of the 30,000 UNRWA worker were probably involved in the October 7 events was known for weeks. To roll this out just after the ICJ dictum happened is a clear act of revenge against the whole UN system.
This is the rule based order, where the U.S. makes and discards all rules at will, fighting against long established international and humanitarian law.
Sam Husseini @samhusseini - 18:58 UTC · Jan 27, 2024Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is "no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3(e) criminalizing 'complicity' in genocide. These States are now also directly violating Genocide Convention article 2(c) by themselves: 'Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...'"
ICJ is the highest independent court humanity has. The U.S. and its proxies decided to fight against the standing law of the world.
It is the rules based order against anyone not following it. This is the unilateral past fighting the rising multilateral future. A dangerous time.
As Arnaud Bertrand quotes:
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
Antonio Gramsci
Posted by b on January 29, 2024 at 12:50 UTC | Permalink
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This New York Times article is mind-blowing and illustrates the insane extent to which America has escaped reality.
They literally blame China - of all countries - for the Middle East crisis, writing that "the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East shows how ineffectual Mr. Xi’s promotion of peace and tranquillity has been, and it’s coming back to bite China."
When everyone who lives in the real world understands that the root of the current issue is OBVIOUSLY Israel's decades-long occupation and progressive annexation of Palestinian land, with full US backing...
And the detonator of the crisis was the Biden administration's efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia by sidestepping the Palestinian issue.
The Palestinians were effectively put in a position where - in the words of Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet - they felt "alone and abandoned" and as a result "chose the Samson option" because "they felt that they had nothing to lose and this was the only way for them to show to the world 'you will not be able to create stability in this region if you will bypass Palestinians.'"
China did undertake its own normalization efforts - between Iran and Saudi Arabia - and this occurred without a hitch, entirely peacefully, and has held since. So much so that both countries just joined the BRICS together. So the fact is: China did improve peace and stability in the region substantially - reconciling the two historic enemies of the region was no mean feat - whilst America managed to trigger YET ANOTHER major war in the Middle East, creating untold human suffering and dramatic region-wide repercussions as we can see with Yemen. The contrast between both countries' respective impact on the region just couldn't be starker.
Posted by: MD | Jan 29 2024 13:02 utc | 2
It is simply a 100+ year war at this point.
We still have 50 years or so left.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 29 2024 13:03 utc | 3
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/black-hawk-down-for-biden-in-the-red-sea/
‘Black Hawk Down’ For Biden in the Red Sea
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 2024
The breaking news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea today (Friday, 26 Jan.) underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory” beyond hoping that the mere presence of US warships would intimidate them into surrendering...
Posted by: MD | Jan 29 2024 13:07 utc | 4
You always hope clearer heads prevail in a situation like this, but we are dealing with the US government. These US casualties I fear, will be the start of many.
Posted by: Chicago Bob | Jan 29 2024 13:10 utc | 5
The Houthis again launched an attack in the Red Sea. And this time, the target, judging by the statements of the press service of Ansaralla, was the Lewis Puller expeditionary mobile base of the US Marine Corps.
There are still no details of the attack. At the same time, there were no statements from the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, which is quite surprising, given that the Americans, as a rule, try to confirm or deny this kind of information in a timely manner.
Four days ago, the floating base was off the coast of Djibouti. Transport helicopters flew from the ship to the Chabeli airfield, so the strike on it was carried out somewhere in this area.
In addition, the Iranian Behshad reconnaissance ship operates in the same place about 70-80 km east of Djibouti, which greatly simplifies the process of searching for and directing missiles to cruising ships and vessels.
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Posted by: more war | Jan 29 2024 13:12 utc | 6
It was a Voltron combined formation of Russian bots, thru Iranian proxies, with Yemeni girded loins that hit Colonel America in the Schroedinger's Tower 22 with the candlestick. >:( Now we'll have to sink their battleship through the power of our hungry, hungry hippos! Where's Nuland and her cookies? Just you wait, Corn Pop's a bad dude!
Posted by: titmouse | Jan 29 2024 13:27 utc | 9
b wrote: The current escalation in the Middle East is happening because the Zionist attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the West Bank and south Lebanon.
Here is the setup to that.
Five fingers
1) The full Izraeli leadership -- military, intelligence and political -- were given Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan as much as a year in advance.
2) The decision up and down the military/intelligence chain of command was made to stop monitoring Hamas' tactical radio network months before Oct 7th.
3) The majority of IDF forces around the Gaza border were temporarily moved to the West Bank just prior to Oct 7th
4) Support troops did not arrive in force to repel Hamas' jail break for several hours.
5) The Hannibal Doctrine was implemented which accounted for many if not most of the casualties.
Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2024 13:28 utc | 10
Everything about this makes me think US is being deliberately drawn into the killing field of a well prepared ambush.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 13:28 utc | 11
The fact that the UNWRA is being defunded will guarantee that when Israel reports to the icj next month they will be held liable for genocide. Not only will this put more pressure on Israel diplomatically and isolate them and make them a pariah State like apartheid South Africa near the end but it guarantees America will be complicit in aiding and abetting genocide..
I still don't think a lot of people understand the ramifications of this.
In regards to us retaliation against the strike and let's be real here this isn't the first time that Americans have been killed it seems like by finally admitting to death the US actually wants to finally at least a large scale attack so by admitting to the deaths they can get Americans to supposedly rally around the flag.
The problem is other than attack the popular mobilization forces in Iraq there's not much they can do they definitely don't have the capability to hit Iran no Arab country will allow them to use their airspace for fear of Iranian retaliation.
In theory they could use the carrier strike group but let's face it between Yemen which still owes the US revenge and Iran's Navy that's not a possibility either so I don't expect much however considering how incompetent this fighting regime is who knows.
Posted by: Pj | Jan 29 2024 13:29 utc | 12
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 13:28 utc | 11
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I'm no hunter myself. If I were, I would try to use the nature and habits of my prey to take it down.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 13:39 utc | 13
US is is attempting to have excuse to attack Iran. I smell Mike Pompeo. If Trump is "elected" look for definite war vs.Iran
Posted by: Pj | Jan 29 2024 13:29 utc | 12
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I still think people rely too much on legal opinions and rulings. We're not as far removed as many would like to believe from clubbing another tribe member to death to take their woman and their belongings.
Wandering a little on this tangent, what restrains a secular person from excusing, or in the case of Zionists rationalizing, their participation in atrocity? A law somewhere? Moral condemnation? None of these have worked.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 13:43 utc | 15
"America" (Biden's) is now 1944's Germany, standing in Ukraine, bleeding, and facing a Soviet onslaught—and suddenly hearing a loud "boom" from far, far behind.
Posted by: Robert Italia | Jan 29 2024 13:45 utc | 16
Posted by: wt baker | Jan 29 2024 13:39 utc | 14
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Trump is a phony. He likes to threaten and bluster, and do targeted attacks for the cameras. He has no stomach for a real war.
All of his "strength" and bluster is a front for an incredibly vain and insecure man. He's the kind of guy who if no one is watching, will happily cut a deal with people who threaten his people.
Pompeo is another Bolton. Their value is not in what they can do or how clever they are, it's how loud they can agitate for the MIC and the neocons' fantasies.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 13:47 utc | 17
The proxies will fall hard and fast . The emirates, Saudis if they allow their western proxy mercenaries to use the bases.The artificial implausible glass cities (of cards ) full of eastern and western compradors enjoying their homes in the sun, their insane airline hubs and most of all their oil and gas terminals - ever calculated the energy dissipation if an LNG carrier destructs? Never mind a whole port full!
The illegal apartheid entity appears to want to go out with a bang rather than a whimper.
So be it. I thought they might attempt a slow emigration over a year but it seems they will have to go carrying what they can! Never mind , the Levant won’t miss the frothing mad Zionazis.
These air tankers are supposed to provide sustained bombing runs to Iran and Syria.
Perhaps support for jets from a/c carriers far from their attack points.
Russian AF is ready. Iranians too. As will be the Chinese forces in the region. Let’s not forget them, they too have ships, carriers and ports in the region.
I guess it’s on. And soon too late to stop. Am going to top up my fuel tank for car now and hunker down for the escalations. Might as well enjoy the fireworks. Eh?
Thanks for great upto date reporting b. Stay well.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 29 2024 13:47 utc | 18
Alternative Media's modern Walter Cronkite...
Posted by: canuck | Jan 29 2024 13:26 utc | 8
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Wut? Cronkite was a Dulles associate.
https://bobafeldman.substack.com/p/cbss-historical-cia-connection-revisited
Posted by: too scents | Jan 29 2024 13:48 utc | 19
Thanks, b, for the post. Ray McGovern says this:
“Do we now have ISRAELI FALSE FLAG ATTACK killing US troops? It’s “Iran-backed” MSM says. Biden: we already “know” that; “while we are still gathering the facts.” Neocons/Israel lust to get US atk on Iran. CENTCOM lied threw its teeth under then Gen. Austin”
I checked his website because I’d heard him warn of a potential for a false flag in two recent interviews.
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jan 29 2024 13:50 utc | 20
The dystopian decision by the U.S. and its European vassals to deny all support for UNRWA as revenge for the International Court of Justice decision against Israel's genocide of Palestinians was a further escalation.
I want to take this opportunity to express my overwhelming disgust of the government of the United Kingdom, the country of my birth. I did not think they could sink any lower in my estimation but my god they have succeeded in spades. I had already abandoned Britain three years ago and vowed never to set foot in it again but their involvement in the White conspiracy to starve Palestinians by illegally denying UNRWA their funding in cahoots with the Israeli monsters makes me vomit.
Yes, I am pleased to see that South African lawyers will now seek to incriminate the leaders of the main UK parties in charges of genocide. I want to see Sunak, Starmer et al, up against the court. Yes, I am proud of the state of Ireland, the country of my mother’s ancestry, in standing against the continuing implicit Western support of genocide. And yes, I am pleased to note that the rest of the world can now see this cabal—Israel and their Western allies—for the devils they are. Let those devils respond with references to “antisemitism”, let them refer again and again to the “holocaust”, now proven to be a fantasy, and we will laugh in their faces. The state of Israel must now be destroyed and given back to its rightful inhabitants: the interlopers can go home.
(PS. Currently in Sabah, East Malaysia, and pleased with the Malaysian government's attitude to the situation, and my old PSC T shirt is well appreciated here. The difficulties I have experienced in recent months in commenting while in China seem to have evaporated. VPNs have vanished from China so my only opportunity to participate is when I am out of the country).
Posted by: Walt | Jan 29 2024 13:54 utc | 21
So, if I understand the situation correctly, the US has all these bases dotted around a potential warzone with possibly inadequate AD to handle even drones. It has two choices really. Up the ante and hope to deter via some military action. Bombing something to show who's boss. Will this eye-for-an-eye get them very far? Yes, retaliation. The whole base complex in the MENA region will have to go on permanent alert "in case". An attacker can choose the timing and location of any actions so may decide on some unexpected and uncovered axis of attack.
Net: US suffers more casualties and its position becomes more perilous in the region.
Not good for team Biden in a re-election year.
Choice Two. Pull back out of harm's way. Loss of prestige and so forth could and will likely follow. America seen as weak and cowardly.
Also not good for team Biden in a re-election year.
You can construct your own variations on this (no real retaliations, etc. [procrastinate in the hope it all goes away]). But essentially, isn't the situation one of Zugzwang?
Who are the masters at chess? Iran, Russia, China?
Does someone want Trump in the White House ;-)
Posted by: The Scots bloke | Jan 29 2024 13:57 utc | 22
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 13:43
I agree with you 100%. But what I am saying is that a lot of the global South will finally have their excuse to sanction boycott and their best israel. A perfect example is Colombia whose president wanted to sever diplomatic relations back in October but came under tremendous US pressure.
Well after Israel is held liable for genocide they can economically boycott Israel in spite of US pressure and there's definitely dozens if not nearly 100 countries in the global South willing to severe economic ties with Israel.
Posted by: Pj | Jan 29 2024 14:01 utc | 23
statutes of fraud
all acts by demonic actor
The modern day nation of Israel is a satanic counterfeit of God's Old Testament nation of Israel.
Therefore, it follows that Satan would make a nation called Israel and give them the land of Palestine.
and so it goes
What exactly is the “Khazarian Hypothesis?” Simply stated, it holds that the Jewry genome is a mosaic of ancestries which rise primarily out of the Khazars.
Jews are Khazars, not Israelites the children of gaza are the real coen cohen and have the dna to validate verify the claim.
a tribe of turkic pirates killers name stealers and identity thieves self identify as jewish only a vital part of the rotten shield crime syndicate
When the Khazarian Empire was defeated by the Mongol invasion by Jenghiz Khan in the 13th century, the Khazarian "Jews" were dispersed into eastern Europe.
a. "In general, the reduced Khazar kingdom persevered. It waged a more or less effective defence against all foes until the middle of the thirteenth century, when it fell victim to the great Mongol invasion set in motion by Jenghiz Khan. Even then it resisted stubbornly until the surrender of all its neighbors. Its population was largely absorbed by the Golden Horde which had established the centre of its empire in Khazar territory. But before and after the Mongol upheaval the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centres of eastern Europe." (Arthur Koestler (quoting Baron), The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 141)
b. "We remember that long before the destruction of their state, several Khazar tribes, known as the Kabars, joined the Magyars and migrated to Hungary. Moreover, in the tenth century, the Hungarian Duke Taksony invited a second wave of Khazar emigrants to settle in his domains (see above, III,9). Two centuries later John Cinnamus, the Byzantine chronicler, mentions troops observing the Jewish law, fighting with the Hungarian army in Dalmatia, AD 1154. There may have been small numbers of 'real Jews' living in Hungary from Roman days, but there can be little doubt that the majority of this important portion of modern Jewry originated in the migratory waves of Kabar-Khazars who play such a dominant part in early Hungarian history." (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 142)
c. "The Khazar origin of the numerically and socially dominant element in the Jewish population of Hungary during the Middle Ages is thus relatively well documented. It might seem that Hungary constitutes a special case, in view of the early Magyar-Khazar connection; but in fact the Khazar influx into Hungary was merely a part of the general mass-immigration from the Eurasian steppes toward the West, i.e., towards Central and Eastern Europe." (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 144)
d. "While the main route of the Khazar exodus led to the west, some groups of people were left behind, mainly in the Crimea and the Caucasus, where they formed Jewish enclaves surviving into modern times." (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 146)
e. "Other Khazar enclaves have survived in the Crimea, and no doubt elsewhere too in localities which once belonged to their empire. But these are now no more than historic curios compared to the mainstream of the Khazar migration into the Polish-Lithuanian regions - and the formidable problems it poses to historians and anthropologists." (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 146-147)
Posted by: todd | Jan 29 2024 14:06 utc | 25
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 29 2024 13:47 utc
I honestly don't see Israel existing next year at this point. Netanyahu has to keep the war going even though he knows the IDF is not up to the task because if he stops fighting his Coalition will fall apart.
But their economy is under tremendous pressure and there is a buffer zone within Israel itself about a quarter of a million Israelis had to flee to Central Israel because of Hamas in the South and Hezbollah in the North.
Therefore the IDF must fight their way out but everyone knows at this point that the IDF is nothing more than a glorified police force and not a genuine military force.
I expect the pressure and the escalation to build up to such a point that later this year the nation will just completely collapse and there will be Mass evacuations to Europe and North America.
Posted by: Pj | Jan 29 2024 14:15 utc | 26
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 29 2024 13:47 utc | 18
The big question is whether Turkey allows US to strike Iran or Syria from its territory, or use the bases in Turkey to do that.
If not, Nato will effectively lose their air power advantage after the first strike. They will lose ability to mostly use fighter aircraft, left only with long range bombers based out of UK or Diego Garcia, etc.
And a Nato plane will probably never again be based in the Persian Gulf countries, Iraq or Syria. The Israel air bases will become un-supplyable and un-utilizable.
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 29 2024 14:17 utc | 27
"America" (Biden's) is now 1944's Germany, standing in Ukraine, bleeding, and facing a Soviet onslaught—and suddenly hearing a loud "boom" from far, far behind.
Posted by: Robert Italia | Jan 29 2024 13:45 utc | 16
Afaics the trigger to that boom was pulled by the US or Israel.
Is this trying to get away from wearing down by small cuts, facts working into the global populations mind and bring the conflict to a fiery cusp?
Posted by: MAKK | Jan 29 2024 14:23 utc | 28
Just wunderin - if US/UK/Israel knew immediately who dunit - why didn't they prevent it? Is the 77th Red Flag Brigade stationed at al Tanf?
Posted by: Eric Blair | Jan 29 2024 14:44 utc | 29
why didn't they prevent it?
Posted by: Eric Blair | Jan 29 2024 14:44 utc | 28
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For the same reason as Boeing is broken.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 29 2024 14:54 utc | 30
Trump is a phony. He likes to threaten and bluster, and do targeted attacks for the cameras. He has no stomach for a real war.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 13:47 utc | 17
There are two main strains of Trump derangement syndrome:
- Type A: believe Trump is the root of all evil
- Type B: believe Trump is the New Hope of America
A milder strain, Type C, holds that Trump is the lesser of two evils.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 14:57 utc | 31
"America" (Biden's) is now 1944's Germany, standing in Ukraine, bleeding, and facing a Soviet onslaught—and suddenly hearing a loud "boom" from far, far behind.
Posted by: Robert Italia | Jan 29 2024 13:45 utc | 16
Afaics the trigger to that boom was pulled by the US or Israel.
Is this trying to get away from wearing down by small cuts, facts working into the global populations mind and bring the conflict to a fiery cusp?
Posted by: MAKK | Jan 29 2024 14:23 utc | 27
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Back to 1944 Germany, standing in Ukraine, and realizing a new front (D-Day) just opened in France. Actually, Germany lost the war when they decided to invade the Soviet Union. How ironic the same is happening to America/NATO (yes, they "invaded" first). A very bad high school play run by drug-addled teenagers, now sharing the stage with NAZI ghosts. Just like those NAZIs, America/NATO can't reverse, and they know it. They're in it to the bitter end. A trap of their own making (with Russia/China/Iran assistance). The problem is, they'll take the world economy with them.
Posted by: Robert Italia | Jan 29 2024 14:58 utc | 32
1 The current escalation in the Middle East is happening because the Zionist attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the West Bank and south Lebanon. The U.S active support for this aim has led to more U.S. wars in Yemen, Iraq and now in Syria. While the U.S. has claimed that it did not want an all out war in the Middle East it has done its best to further one.2 The dystopian decision by the U.S. and its European vassals to deny all support for UNRWA as response for the International Court of Justice decision against Israel's genocide of Palestinians was a further escalation. That a dozen or less of the 30,000 UNRWA worker were probably involved in the October 7 events was known for weeks. To roll this out just after the ICJ dictum happened is a clear act of revenge against the whole UN system.
3 This is the rule based order, where the U.S. makes and discards all rules at will, fighting against long established international and humanitarian law.
1 Suspect this is a Solemeini-initiated plan of region-wide Resistance whose mission is to turn US bases from Empire Assets into Empire Liabilities thereby undermining her ability to provide Israel unconditional cover which is the single main obstacle to a well ordered Middle East. Critically, without such support Israel's oft-flouted supremacy over the indigenous will no longer fly; they will have to adapt or flee.
2. Suspect a major part of that decision follows from the ICJ ruling which turned the UNWRA workers into likely witnesses to genocide in the upcoming report back to the ICJ. The ICJ changed the goalposts from whether or not Israel has or is perpetrating genocide, which has not yet been officially and impartially investigated, to whether or not Israel, since the Judgement, has been doing everything possible to 'prevent genocide'. Any potential witnesses have got to go!
3. The 'rules-based' order moniker is confusing. First, it's not actually as bad as it sounds because what it originally means is that, absent a higher Authority such as an Emperor or Statutes, all there are is ad-hoc situational agreements, aka ‘rules’. Second, of course the criticism that it is 'rules for thee, not for me' is valid, because such ‘might makes right’ ‘rules’ are unfair. It would be more accurate and helpful, perhaps, to call it 'the No Rules Order' or even ‘The Hegemon’s Rules Order’ which might hasten efforts to develop something more reasonable and effective.
Joint military exercise Israel and U.S. Air Force to carry and deliver bunker busters to Iran … to still the blood thirst of friend and fellow Zionist Bibi Netanyahu.
See all threats from 2012 forward … the craziest of them all will indeed launch an attack … an crucial presidential election year you know. All bets are off…
US sends warplanes with bunker-busting bombs to Mideast in message to Iran — report | TOI - April 2023 | .. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-sends-warplanes-with-bunker-busting-bombs-to-mideast-in-message-to-iran-report/]
The tonnage determines the targets of course … temporary stopover in Syria or the real thrill attack on facilities of Iran …
Obama administration 'supplied bunker-busting bombs to Israel' | The Guardian - Sept. 2011 | [https://www.theguardian.com/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/27/iran-nuclear-weapons]Israel has received 55 US-made GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs, citing it as evidence that the US-Israeli military relationship is deeper than ever, despite the bad chemistry between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu. The other fruit of that relationship, the journalist Eli Lake reports, is an intriguing cooperative venture between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours to set up a radar array to give early warning of an impending Iranian missile attack.
Summary of Ansarallah operations in the Red Sea in support of Gaza:
The Yemeni Armed Forces have so far carried out 18 naval operations targeting 21 military and commercial ships
1- November 19, 2023: Seizure of the Israeli ship (Galaxy Leader)
2- December 3, 2023: Targeting of two Israeli ships (Unity Explorer and Number Nine).
3- December 12, 2023: A qualitative military operation against the Norwegian ship (Astrinda)
4- December 14, 2023: Military operation against a container ship (Maersik Gebrelater)
5- December 15, 2023: Military operation against two container ships (MSC Alanya, MSC PALATIUM III)
6–December 18, 2023: Military operation against two ships linked to the Zionist entity (Swan Atlantic, MSC Clara)
7–December 26, 2023: Targeting of the ship (MSC United)
8– December 31, 2023: Targeting of a container ship (Maersk Hangzhou)
9- January 3, 2024: Targeting of a ship (CMA CGM TAGE)
10- January 10, 2024: A joint military operation using a large number of ballistic missiles targeted an American ship.
11- January 15, 2024: An American ship was targeted in the Gulf of Aden
12- January 16, 2024: Targeting of the ship (Zogravia)
13 – January 17, 2024: The American ship (Ginko Picardi) was targeted in the Gulf of Aden.
14 – January 19, 2024: The American ship (Kim Ranger) was targeted in the Gulf of Aden.
15 – January 22, 2024: Targeting of an American military cargo ship (OCEAN JAZZ)
16 – January 24, 2024: Clash with American destroyers and warships and directly hit a warship.
17 – January 27, 2024: Targeting of a British oil ship (MARLIN LUANDA)
18 – January 28, 2024: Targeting a US Navy ship (Lewis B Puller)
These men have made a mockery of the Anglo-Zionist Empire and their associated flunkeys, fluffers, pimps, hookers and groupies.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 15:11 utc | 36
Alternative Media's modern Walter Cronkite...
Posted by: canuck | Jan 29 2024 13:26 utc | 8
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"Wut? Cronkite was a Dulles associate."
https://bobafeldman.substack.com/p/cbss-historical-cia-connection-revisited
Posted by: too scents | Jan 29 2024 13:48 utc | 19
My post was meant as a compliment, you have managed to cheapen it. And for your knowledge Cronkite was against the war in Vietnam:
"(Reading) Both in Vietnam and Washington to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night." (1)
1. https://www.npr.org/2009/07/18/106775685/final-words-cronkites-vietnam-commentary
The BBC reports that:
“A US defence official said the drone came in ‘very low and very slow’ at the same time a US drone was returning to the base from a mission.
As a result, the auto-response features of the air defence system were turned off so as not to shoot down the US drone, the US official added”.
That meant there was little to no warning for the troops at the base.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68126368
(See note at 12:32)
Posted by: Gordon | Jan 29 2024 15:22 utc | 39
"When the Khazarian Empire was defeated by the Mongol invasion by Jenghiz Khan in the 13th century, the Khazarian "Jews" were dispersed into eastern Europe."
Posted by: todd | Jan 29 2024 14:06 utc | 24
That is incorrect. The Kharzarian Empire was conquered by the Kievan Rus.
"Between 965 and 969, the Kievan Rus' ruler, Sviatoslav I of Kiev, as well as his allies, conquered the capital, Atil, and ended Khazaria's independence."
History rhymes.
It's very much like the Serbian runt Gavrilo Princip (the Houthis) setting off WW I by confronting the Imperium with a huge loss of face (assassinating Imperial ships in the Red Sea). Biden (Germany) is reacting as predicted by supporting carte blanche the out of control Austro-Hungarians (Israel) and their need for war to destroy Serbia (Gaza and Hezbollah), inevitably drawing in Iran (Russia) thereby becoming entrapped in the spreading conflagration.
Posted by: DR-Montreal | Jan 29 2024 15:35 utc | 41
A US "converted oil tanker" functioning as a sea borne FOB for US spec ops in Yemen has come under fire from the Houthis.
Apparently it has a spec ops accomodation module for up to 300 operators and can house a "barge" for another 300.
They can also deploy mini subs and sea drones.
This type of vessel, a highly modified ex tanker, is very similar to the type Iran use, and are often ridiculed for, yet here we have the US using in a war zone.
They are a very cost effective and capable alternative to Amphibious landing ships, especially if deployed in high risk theatres where the loss of a capital ship is a real risk.
Posted by: Amphiguy | Jan 29 2024 15:39 utc | 42
Arch [email protected], mockeries can run both ways, considering a world navel power has an entire fleet at dock, hiding as far away as possible...just sayin'
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 29 2024 15:44 utc | 43
Hezbollah has revealed that they are using advanced "fly by fibre" TV guided missiles and ATGMs to achieve their amazing "sniper rifle accuracy" hits on Israeli targets at up to 5000 metres, sometimes even without line of sight acquisition.
There is a video on Yemen TV of a Hezbollah missile being flown over a hill, around a CIWS type air defence system, and then into a naval radar dome on an Israeli navy base.
Fly by fibre / wire means that EW defence can't disrupt them.
Posted by: Amphiguys | Jan 29 2024 15:45 utc | 44
A new world struggling to be born is more hopeful than the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem, although the geography gives cause for concern.
Posted by: Mike Price | Jan 29 2024 15:45 utc | 45
Reports from the UK indicate that individuals attempting to make donations to UNRWA are having their bank accounts blocked or otherwise disrupted.
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/01/28/exclusive-bank-locks-customers-account-after-donation-to-unrwa/
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 29 2024 15:47 utc | 46
Posted by: canuck | Jan 29 2024 15:25 utc | 39
A tribal insult and injury which rankles to this day and is by far and away the main driver of what is often described by Russian officials and other pundits as 'Anglo-Saxon' irrational and pathological hatred of Russia and Russians.
Tribal motivations, especially those nursing intense animus, tend to endure multi-generationally far more than the muddied principals and sullied leadership classes driving most developed 'Westphalian' states these days.
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 29 2024 15:44 utc | 43
Aye, ma wee leprechaun, the mockery works both ways.
But isn't it true that a mockery still, it remains?
For if the wee little man having already been mocked,
should make a fool of the tall, haughty, stout one,
Who is it then who stands "a-mockery'ed" the most?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 15:52 utc | 48
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call it 'the No Rules Order' or even ‘The Hegemon’s Rules Order’
how about satanick sodimite rothschild eyes wide shut wall street and the rise of hitler and the bolshevik revolution club rules or
Biden sunack nutty yahu empire of the city of london bar temple pirate baal molech policy?
Posted by: todd | Jan 29 2024 15:56 utc | 49
The wise old diplomat MK Bhadrakumar looks at it this way:
"There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins on a drone strike against the super secret CIA station for intelligence and covert operations on the Syrian-Jordanian border, ’nyet’ is the word from Beijing to the Biden administration’s entreaties seeking intervention with Tehran to rein in the Houthis of Yemen, against the foreboding backdrop of the Axis of Resistance expanding its operations against American and Israeli interests.
"President Biden deputed his National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to handle this highly delicate mission with Beijing, instead of the US’s top diplomat Antony Blinken. Sullivan is uniquely placed to switch roles between the US’ domestic and foreign policies. He is a trusted hatchet man of the president and is actively involved in Biden’s re-election campaign.
"Sullivan stayed overnight in Thailand On Friday/Saturday to launch his charm offensive vis-a-vis Foreign Minister Wang Yi. But he came away with no sign that China is willing to use its influence with Tehran. .......
https://www.indianpunchline.com/china-ignores-us-entreaties-of-mediation/
Posted by: bevin | Jan 29 2024 15:56 utc | 50
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 29 2024 15:47 utc | 46
I anticipate, as mentioned earlier, that funds to UNRWA will only be able to come from the non-Western countries from now on.
i.e The line between the Anglo-Zionist Empire and the Unconquered World has been drawn "clear and bright".
This comes at the perfect time, the Russia-Ukraine war and the resulting Economic war on Russia has split the global financial information network in two parts.
It is from the Russia-China-Iran dominated part that finances for UNRWA will now arrive.
In this coincidence we see the hand of the Divine, whatever you divine the Divine to be ...
The only remaining question is:
"Will Izzrael block all aid to Gaza, regardless of whether UNRWA is able to recover from the blockade of Western funding?"
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 15:59 utc | 51
As a result, the auto-response features of the air defence system were turned off so as not to shoot down the US drone, the US official added”.
Posted by: Gordon | Jan 29 2024 15:22 utc | 39
What? No automatic integration of IFF between drone and C-RAM systems?
Meaning the base cannot land drones while under enemy drone attack?
And cannot send out drones while under enemy drone attack either ...?
Isn't that so last century ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 16:03 utc | 52
God only knows what the tanker fleet is to be used for. That there is military planning or military capability in place is beyond doubtful. Dispatching Sullivan is a Hail Mary. Only high ranking official in this admin with IQ above room temperature. But wholly out of his depth here. Sullivan vs. Wang Yi is a Golden Gloves featherweight against Mike Tyson.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 29 2024 16:05 utc | 53
That is incorrect. The Kharzarian Empire was conquered by the Kievan Rus.
"Between 965 and 969, the Kievan Rus' ruler, Sviatoslav I of Kiev, as well as his allies, conquered the capital, Atil, and ended Khazaria's independence."
Posted by: canuck | Jan 29 2024 15:25 utc | 40
For the past 2000 years, steppes of Central Asia have been a tremendous factory of nomadic Turkic tribes which periodically migrated westward, and along the way they established states and empires which lasted from less than a century to more than six centuries (Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Pechenegs, Kipchaks, Kumans, Khazars, Ghuzz (or Oguz = Seljuks, Ottomans),.. etc). They also attempted to foray East and Southward into China and India together with the Mongols, with some success (e.g. Empire of the Kublai Khan in China, and Mughals in India); as a result of which the Chinese built the Chinese Wall to stem those incursions.
These nomadic tribes had Shamanistic-Pagan traditions at their origin, but they gradually assumed (albeit loosely) mostly the beliefs of Christian and Islamic populations as they encountered them during their migrations.
The Khazar Turks, the subject of Koestler’s book “The Thirteenth Tribe”, established their empire in the 6th century in an area encompassing the North Caspian, Crimea, Ukraine, and Southern Russia; and collected tribute from more than 30 nations. From the onset of the Empire, there were great deal of efforts by the two dominant powers of the time, Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad, to convert the Khazars to Christianity or Islam by sending them frequent envoys. Instead, Khazars, in a unique and curious way, accepted Judaism as the religion of the nobility and the Empire in the 8th century. Nevertheless, they tolerated Christians and Moslems to build their churches and mosques in their Empire and allowed their respective Judges to rule in religious matters.
Koestler surmises that the reason why Khazars accepted Judaism, but not Islam of Abbasid’s or Christianity of Byzantium, was because they did not want to play second fiddle to the other two major powers. Quoted from Koestler:
“The country of the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock, occupied a strategic key position at the vital gateway between the Black Sea and the Caspian, where the great eastern powers of the period confronted each other. It acted as a buffer protecting Byzantium against invasions by the lusty barbarian tribesman of the northern steppes – Bulgars, Magyars, Pechenegs, etc. – and later, the Vikings and the Russians. But equally, or more important both from the point of view of Byzantine diplomacy and of European history, is the fact that the Khazar armies effectively blocked the Arab avalanche in its most devastating early stages, and thus prevented the Muslim conquest of Eastern Europe.”
“…The victorious Muslims were met and held by the forces of the Khazar kingdom…. It can… scarcely be doubted that but for the existence of the Khazars in the region north of the Caucasus, Byzantium, the bulwark of European civilization in the east, would have found itself outflanked by the Arabs, and the history of Christendom and Islam might well have been very different from what we know.”
By the middle of the 10th century, the Khazar empire was gradually reduced to a smaller state by the Rus attacks from the north, and they lingered on till the mid-13th century when the Mongol invasion destroyed their state and drove them further west towards Europe. So, what happened to the Khazar Jews after they moved to Eastern Europe? Quoted from Koestler:
“What is in dispute is the fate of the Jewish Khazars after the destruction of their empire, in the 12th or the 13th century. On this problem the sources are scant, but various late medieval Khazar settlements are mentioned in the Crimea, in the Ukraine, in Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. The general picture that emerges from these fragmentary pieces of information is that of a migration of Khazar tribes and communities into those regions of Eastern Europe – mainly Russia and Poland – where, at the down of Modern Age, the greatest concentrations of Jews were found. This has led several historians to conjecture that a substantial part, and perhaps the majority of eastern Jews - and hence of world Jewry – might be of Khazar, and not of Semitic origin.”
Arthur Koestler is a great researcher as well as a great writer. He presented a water tight case to the effect that Ashkenazi Jews of the East European origin, mainly from Hungary, Poland and Lithuania, have Khazar ancestry. This book is a treasure trove of knowledge with some astonishing revelations, for a little-known period in history.
Posted by: todd | Jan 29 2024 16:07 utc | 54
"A milder strain, Type C, holds that Trump is the lesser of two evils."
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 14:57 utc | 30
I'm in that stream.
UNWRA has 30000 employees but only 13000 in Gaza.
Posted by: Wim | Jan 29 2024 14:06 utc | 24
Are you trying to prove there is no Palestinians refugees in West Bank, Jordan & Lebanon ? What are you trying to do ? Make ICJ points ?
Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 29 2024 16:09 utc | 56
Catilina | Jan 29 2024 15:14 utc | 36
*** Keeping constantly in the air sounds great. What do the pilots think of it?***
Another question.....
The F35 seems to need extensive engine maintenance after a comparatively short number of flying hours.
So will there have to be a lot of rotation of US aircraft?
Posted by: Cynic | Jan 29 2024 16:09 utc | 57
"Between 965 and 969, the Kievan Rus' ruler, Sviatoslav I of Kiev, as well as his allies, conquered the capital, Atil, and ended Khazaria's independence."
Posted by: canuck | Jan 29 2024 15:25 utc | 39
A tribal insult and injury which rankles to this day and is by far and away the main driver of what is often described by Russian officials and other pundits as 'Anglo-Saxon' irrational and pathological hatred of Russia and Russians.
Tribal motivations, especially those nursing intense animus, tend to endure multi-generationally far more than the muddied principals and sullied leadership classes driving most developed 'Westphalian' states these days.
Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 29 2024 15:47 utc | 47
I am confident the fat, ugly Khazar, Victoria Nuland, has not forgotten.
Making Syria into Jordan was quick, easy. On the tongues of millions already. Parting the Red Sea or multiple authoritative reports of it coming up.
Posted by: Elmagnostic | Jan 29 2024 16:14 utc | 59
Indian Punchline ends with these words from Lavrov, another wise old diplomat, conveying what Hazlitt called the "Spirit of the Age."
“They believe that for 500 years they have ruled the world as they wish, living at the expense of others, and they think this should continue. This logic completely ignores the objective reality, in particular the fact that the vast majority of former colonies have gained independence, become aware of their national interests, want to strengthen their national, cultural and religious identity and are growing so fast that they have left the West behind – at least the BRICS members are.”
Posted by: bevin | Jan 29 2024 16:16 utc | 60
The state of Israel must now be destroyed and given back to its rightful inhabitants: the interlopers can go home.Posted by: Walt | Jan 29 2024 13:54 utc | 21
...to the fire lake.
Coddled israelis and coddled fat american weedsmokers fighting for nothing but the rothchilds, wef, blackrock and epstein, plus maybe the off chance of getting to shoot a 'sand nigger' in the head or rape a child... against normal people fighting for a normal, beautiful life? I wonder who will win in the end?
Posted by: Michael A | Jan 29 2024 16:19 utc | 62
If there is a single phrase that sums up all that is wrong in the practical exercise of electoral democracy in the United States it is 'The lesser of two evils'.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 29 2024 16:21 utc | 63
@ 42
The converted tankers bring to mind the Kevin Costner movie Waterworld, with biden at the helm.
Posted by: golddigger | Jan 29 2024 16:26 utc | 64
Keeping constantly in the air sounds great. What do the pilots think of it?
Posted by: Catilina | Jan 29 2024 15:14 utc | 37
Nothing that an American-sized diaper can't fix.
Posted by: Michael A | Jan 29 2024 16:27 utc | 65
Assuming maximum US perfidy, could the al Tanf 'casualties' actually come from US activity in Israel? Covering up US military activity in Israel while justifying an attack on Iran is the height of cleverness in the US Dept of War.
Posted by: Eric Blair | Jan 29 2024 16:27 utc | 66
thanks b...
@ Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 13:28 utc | 11
it appears that way to me as well..
@ bevin | Jan 29 2024 16:21 utc | 63
and how would you describe a similar situation in canada? the lesser of 3 or 4 evils??
Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 16:28 utc | 67
todd | Jan 29 2024 16:07 utc | 54
*** For the past 2000 years, steppes of Central Asia have been a tremendous factory of nomadic Turkic tribes which periodically migrated westward ***
Attracted by the West's insatiable demand for barber shops and kebabs.
Posted by: Cynic | Jan 29 2024 16:29 utc | 68
Post this Yandex translation: "American air defense systems mistakenly shot down their own drone at the moment when an enemy UAV was flying up to the Rukban camp in Jordan.
Both UAVs were in the air at the same time and at a short distance from each other, which became a key factor in the successful attack of pro-Iranian formations, as a result of which three American soldiers were killed and over 30 were injured."
https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/127253
Posted by: Belle | Jan 29 2024 16:38 utc | 69
I want to take the opportunity on this platform and in this much needed bar to admonish and rage against the incredibly corrupt and evil canadian government that has turned the country I loved into a third-world shithole in the span of 5 or 6 years. I am sickened and horrified to know that my country that I have felt so much pride in my 60+ years is now a party to genocide and directly breaking the rules of the Genocide Convention....
Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 29 2024 16:43 utc | 70
The stoppage of support by the US is a wonderful opportunity.
The only reason that the US has a seat at the table that they built to have a seat at was that they paid for it.
As they stop, it allows China, Russia, and other Global South countries an opportunity to step up.
Will they do it?
I think that they will. It will be slow and glacial, as usual, but they will step up because power (and opportunity) abhors a vacuum.
And the easiest way to defeat America is to occupy the spaces that the Empire retreats from.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 16:45 utc | 71
"deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about it's physical destruction in whole or part". That sounds a awful lot like what they're doing to us here in the US.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jan 29 2024 16:45 utc | 72
Crooke's Monday SCF essay is Homeric, "The Tragic Self-Destruction of an Enraged Israel", and digs into the psychology in play. His introduction sets the table:
Israel is boxed-in, as is becoming very evident to many Israelis. One Israeli correspondent (formerly a Cabinet Secretary) illustrates its nature:“The meaning of the 7th October default is not only the loss of lives … but mainly the potential transformation of how Israel is perceived … as no longer to be feared by Middle Eastern actors”.“The Israeli leadership must internalize that we can no longer be content with a ‘sense of victory’ among the Israeli public … It is doubtful whether victory in Gaza is enough to restore the fear of Israel to the levels we had vis-a-vis our enemies. A victory that boils down to just the release of the captives and confidence-building measures to establish a Palestinian state would not be enough in shoring up Israel’s image in that regard”.
“If the quagmire of Gaza … brings the [Israeli] leadership to the realization that there is no ability to present a clear victory on this front, one that will lead to a strategic change in the region, they must consider switching fronts and reasserting Israeli deterrence through the removal of the strategic threat in Lebanon … victory against one of the richest and most powerful terrorist organizations in the world – Hezbollah – can restore deterrence in the region in general … Israel must remove the threat from the north and dismantle the power structure Hezbollah has built in Lebanon, regardless of the situation in the south”.
“But without victory in the south, a significant achievement in the north becomes that much more important”.
The above quotation goes directly to the heart of the issue. That is: ‘How can Zionism be saved?’. All the rest of the ‘blah-blah’ coming from world leaders is largely bluff. Not only is Gaza NOT giving Israelis a sense of victory; on the contrary, it is widely proliferating a violent anger at a surprise, ‘shameful’ defeat.
Crooke then takes a look into the psychology of the Genocidal state:
But this is not the predominant sentiment amongst Israelis: The latest Peace Index survey reflects the pervasive gloom: 94% percent of Jews think Israel has used the right amount of firepower in Gaza (or “not enough” (43%)). Three-quarters of all Israelis think the number of Palestinians harmed since October is justified to achieve its aims; a full two-thirds of Jewish respondents say numbers of casualties are definitely justified (only 21% say “somewhat” justified).The true price Israel will be paying, however, is not merely the release of Palestinian prisoners (though that, in itself, would create a popular uproar); but rather, it is fear that acquiescence to Hamas demands would spell the end to the Israel-security paradigm:
This paradigm consists of a quasi-religious ‘contract’ that Jews shall enjoy security every, and anywhere, in the land of Israel – brought about by the elaborate matrix of radical insecurity of space and rights imposed on non-Jews (i.e. Palestinians), versus the full force of protection and sovereignty for Jews. This forms the universal paradigm underwriting Jewish security.
And from there the Homeric issues in play are discussed for good reason because they are quite visible. Much of Crooke's essay comes from his other writings and current observation of what the Zionists are and aren't doing. It will be interesting to see how this gets furthered during Crooke's chat with Judge Napolitano, which I've yet to find and watch but will link when I do so.
Oui
Why do you keep the link to eurotrib as your website? It doesnt open for months (from your very place)
Posted by: Minaa | Jan 29 2024 16:52 utc | 74
Keeping constantly in the air sounds great. What do the pilots think of it?
Posted by: Catilina | Jan 29 2024 15:14 utc | 37
Nothing that an American-sized diaper (Whopper) can't fix.
Posted by: Michael A | Jan 29 2024 16:53 utc | 75
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2. Suspect a major part of that decision follows from the ICJ ruling which turned the UNWRA workers into likely witnesses to genocide in the upcoming report back to the ICJ. The ICJ changed the goalposts from whether or not Israel has or is perpetrating genocide, which has not yet been officially and impartially investigated, to whether or not Israel, since the Judgement, has been doing everything possible to 'prevent genocide'. Any potential witnesses have got to go!
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Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 29 2024 15:02 utc | 33
Brilliant theory!
So UNRWA is being punished because the ~12 employees were WITNESSES to the IDF slaughter on October 7, NOT PARTICIPANTS in the Hamas raid?
That works for me. And it fits "Israel's" Modus Operandi like a glove!
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 29 2024 16:59 utc | 76
Al-Qassem Daily SitRep
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2035662
Comment - tone is giddy with Triumph. Usual reports of attacks on IDF. 3 video format. 1st video a complication of pea shooter mortar shooting. Mortar looking like it’s made in 7th grade Metal Shop Class. 2nd Video of 15 missiles attacking Tel Aviv - Video from Tel Aviv perspective. Air raid sirens, locals taking semi-cover 3rd video is a compilation of RPG attacks on IDF armor. The first attack is striking - A Arab fires his RPG at a IDF vehicle while standing in the middle of a street ???? Where is infantry ?
Tally - 156 Merkavas claimed since 2.Oct
Posted by: Exile | Jan 29 2024 17:00 utc | 77
......Tower 22 is on the Jordanian side of the boarder but Jordan insists that no attack had happened on its grounds.
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In order to mask, at US best, the US illegal occupation of Syria which the west media had kept quiet about, US probably will not divulge the true location and the actual weapon employed by whomever.
Where is the Imagesat International (I.s.i) Ltd.? It took so many photos of Russian airports damages by Ukraine bombing. This is a good time to show its capabilities and integrity again.
Posted by: KitaySupporter | Jan 29 2024 17:04 utc | 78
Meanwhile, according to the Democrat apparatchiks in the MSM, Biden's flaccid support among younger people is because "the kids love Hamas."
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1751315680010395848
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 29 2024 17:04 utc | 79
he BBC reports that:
“A US defence official said the drone came in ‘very low and very slow’ at the same time a US drone was returning to the base from a mission.
As a result, the auto-response features of the air defence system were turned off so as not to shoot down the US drone, the US official added”.
That meant there was little to no warning for the troops at the base.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68126368
(See note at 12:32)
Posted by: Gordon | Jan 29 2024 15:22 utc | 39
my ears arent very good, maybe I am a bad listener, but this sounds like that, to me-
Aside from military exercises, a National Reconnaissance Office drill was being conducted on September 11, 2001. In a simulated event, a small aircraft would crash into one of the towers of the agency's headquarters after experiencing a mechanical failure. The NRO is the branch of the Department of Defense in charge of spy satellites. According to its spokesman Art Haubold: "No actual plane was to be involved -- to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find other ways to evacuate the building." He further explained: "It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility, as soon as the real world events began, we canceled the exercise." Most of the agency's personnel were sent home after the attacks.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Jan 29 2024 17:07 utc | 80
turned the country I loved into a third-world shithole in the span of 5 or 6 years. I am sickened and horrified to know that my country that I have felt so much pride in my 60+ years is now a party to genocide and directly breaking the rules of the Genocide Convention....
Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 29 2024 16:43 utc | 70
The country you love imported as much of a Waffen SS Division as they could scrape together at the end of WWII, protected them, and used them. Western capitalist nations have always had more sympathy with Nazis than with their own people, let alone the sub-humans populating the rest of the world. Whatever you loved about your country was an illusion built out of the brutal exploitation of foreign lands, the creation of 'third world shit-holes, to support a disneyland of 'freedom' 'prosperity' and 'democracy.' This goes back a lot longer than five or six years.
Posted by: Honzo | Jan 29 2024 17:09 utc | 81
Okay, here we go, "Crooke: Will Israel Self-Destruct?", Crooke notes in the opening question by Judge Napolitano that the ICJ ruing on Friday was censored in most of Europe--again--but the RoW watched it all, with the rulings sinking the entire Western/Zionist Narrative built up over many decades--the Truth is now laid bare.
And now back to watching.
Re: Israel, the story of the scorpion and the frog comes to mind.
Israel is a fatal attraction for the West. They can't leave it, and ultimately it will kill them.
Like most drug addictions, the addict eventually succumbs to the endless chase for the dragon (the initial high that cannot be replicated with similar repeated doses) leading to the predictable terminal overdose trying to recapture the first euphoric exposure.
God is great because even mankind's evil carries the seed of its end, usually in the form of self-destruction.
Nothing truly heinous lasts forever. It runs its course, causes a lot of harm, and then it is gone. Sadly, we humans are rarely any wiser for having passed through a period like that.
The only civilization that I am aware of having learned and trying to preserve these lessons is the Chinese.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 17:11 utc | 83
..Thank you Todd for the Info on Khazars from writings of A Kostler.{The Thirteenth Tribe},, The Khazars also adopted Judaism as their Religion making Jews of today not of Jacob-Israel descent but Mongol-Khazar. .Biblically, 10 tribed Israel, [ not 2 tribed Judah }, went into Assyrian captivity and never returned to Palestine. Josephus in his writings confirms this . Judah went into Babylonian captivity and returned after 70 years, but a mixed multitude . { see Bible books of Ezra and Nehemiah }
Posted by: leocz | Jan 29 2024 17:15 utc | 84
I missed it.
The ICJ ruling on Izrael's massive ongoing slaughter of civilians in Gaza was on January 26th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was on January 27th.
January 27th had been chosen for the international day as it was the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
by Soviet troops.
Izrael itself chose another day for remembrance, one which falls between the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
and Nakba Day.
The US bows to Izrael in it's choice of remembrance day.
The US State Department acknowledged the International Day with the release of a statement that does not mention Soviet (Russian) troops
liberating Auschwitz. In fact, it does not mention the currently sensitive word of "liberation" -- think Gaza jail break -- at all. It does speak about how "words" are dangerous. And the lesson of the Holocaust (to the State Department) is about "combating antisemitism and other [non-PC] forms of intolerance"
Last year, 2022, the statement *did* mention liberation, but, naturally, stopped short of saying who did the liberating:
"Seventy-seven years ago today, the largest concentration and death camp in Europe, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated."
Maybe it happened by magic.
This year's full statement:
Today, and every day, we mourn the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators, as well as the Roma, Sinti, political opponents, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ individuals, and others persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust began with words – with labeling others as different, “less than,” a threat. Today, we hear disturbing words again in the midst of rising antisemitism. To honor the victims of the Nazis, we reaffirm our commitment to combating Holocaust denial and distortion by speaking out, promoting accurate Holocaust education, and by standing against hate in all its forms. The truth of the Holocaust is not up for debate, and neither is the relevance of the admonition of those who endured its horrors: “never again.”The United States stands with Holocaust victims, their families, and their descendants. We remember and we carry forward the legacy of survivors and their families when we apply the lessons of the Holocaust to combat antisemitism and other forms of intolerance. We do so as we work with people of conscience everywhere to build a world where hate has no place.
Remember, words are dangerous.
Ironically, the word antisemitism is being used to enable genocide, it is being used to intimidate and silence people about the slaughter happening right now in Gaza.
Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2024 17:16 utc | 85
That works for me. And it fits "Israel's" Modus Operandi like a glove!
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 29 2024 16:59 utc | 76
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Well, I was thinking more about the several thousand employees who would otherwise be working there during the coming month prior to the upcoming report back to the ICJ. Obviously Israel is not going to obey - they already killed 200+ more I believe yesterday - so they don't want UN personnel who can be easily called as credible witnesses sticking around.
Especially since Israel may now double down and blatantly commit more atrocities during the next month. After that maybe the RoW community under Russia's BRICs leadership might begin to put their foot down but only once the UNSC (inevitably) fails to do so. However, the notoriously legalistic Putin may prefer to spend the next few years trying to reform the UN rather than take the initiative in the here and now to save Palestinian lives whilst moreover enraging Israel with its two million Russian Jewish dual citizens plus of course quite possibly he is more beholden to Jewish oligarch classes than generally known.
bisfugged | Jan 29 2024 16:43 utc | 70
Unfortunately, none of the four major political parties in Canada find anything wrong with this stance. Too bad Lascaris didn't win the Green Party leadership a few years back.
Posted by: spudski | Jan 29 2024 17:23 utc | 87
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queen fatface victoria nuland no doubt madeline albrights daughter new lands what is her husbands name Kagan who what was the kagan?
nothing new under sun
Posted by: todd | Jan 29 2024 17:24 utc | 88
The BBC reports that:“A US defence official said the drone came in ‘very low and very slow’ at the same time a US drone was returning to the base from a mission.
As a result, the auto-response features of the air defence system were turned off so as not to shoot down the US drone, the US official added”.
That meant there was little to no warning for the troops at the base.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68126368
(See note at 12:32)Posted by: Gordon | Jan 29 2024 15:22 utc | 39
That is incredible!
The Pentagon is always saying that they must not comment on this or that as it will reveal defense secrets.
They used that excuse after the fake killing of Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (no one sees the photos of the bodies, no one talks to the Navy Seals,
the body cameras were made to "not exist").
Here they are telling militants to follow our drones back to base with one of their own.
That is quite the disclosure.
Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2024 17:26 utc | 89
Re: Israel, the story of the scorpion and the frog comes to mind.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 17:11 utc | 83
From another perspective, one finds that the scorpion and the frog were made for each other.
Every frog deserves a scorpion. Do not deny the frog it's scorpion, for it is well deserved.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 17:26 utc | 90
Honzo @ 81
Uhhhh I was talking about Canada here NOT the US, you gotta get your eyes fixed.
There has been many, many instances of real Canadian initiative, greatness and kindness over the decades and we really do like to say sorry a lot. The WEF puppets in the liberal government are enacting The Plan now, any real wrongdoing up until then was mostly invisible to the majority of honest workers and genuine family units living and flourishing here.
Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 29 2024 17:29 utc | 91
Here they are telling militants to follow our drones back to base with one of their own.
That is quite the disclosure.Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2024 17:26 utc | 89
Let me fix that.
Here they are telling the IDF/Mossad to follow our drones back to base with one of their own.
But they probably already knew that.
Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2024 17:32 utc | 92
Thank you Todd as well.
Jewish Khazar joke:
The King of the Khazars was in a geopolitical bind and felt it best for his Kingdom to choose one of the three Faiths.
So he summoned Prelates from all three to his Court and then asked each which Religion they should adopt other than their own. Both the Christian and Muslim leaders indicated Judaism.
And so it came to be....
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(Also, as it happened, many Jews had been steadily moving into the region for a long time from the more semitic zones further South.)
They don't have enough time now. Biden was made president to solve some of Israel's and US problems. Ideally, the Palestinians would have used his time in office to settle somewhere else, for example in Ukraine, Putin would have asked the USA to build a few military bases in Russia and China would have once again drowned in an opium frenzy. Now there is only a little more than half a year left: so if nothing else works, then at least war with Iran.
Posted by: Oliver Krug | Jan 29 2024 17:49 utc | 95
+1 credit to b, only good analysis on what happened I've found anywhere.
Regarding UNRWA the BRICS should make a well publicized statement that they will step in and make up for the loss of US/UK funding.
Peter AU1 @ 11
Everything about this makes me think US is being deliberately drawn into the killing field of a well prepared ambush.
Sulamani's last will and testament? Seems to me too, but the Empire is well aware, they think they can just blow through any trap with sheer firepower, it might be true, they have a lot of firepower.
DunGroanin @18
The artificial implausible glass cities (of cards ) full of eastern and western compradors enjoying their homes in the sun...
Interesting. Six months out of the year all those spiffy new cities are unlivable without AC, all Iran would have to do is knock out the energy plants to have a devastating region wide impact. Other than KSA not much population in the gulf countries, doubt there's that much to take out, few big plants. None of those countries have any industry to replace anything, it would have to be ordered and brought in from around the globe on ships sailing through Houthie waters, outside contractors, all under threat of further strikes. Million of rich refugees fleeing to their 2nd, 3rd, 4th... homes, no need to cry for them but the impact on the Gulf states would be huge, and more rancor towards USA, UK, and Israel.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 29 2024 17:52 utc | 96
librul | Jan 29 2024 17:16 utc | 85
US - "The truth of the Holocaust is not up for debate"
Does that mean it's a lie?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 29 2024 17:53 utc | 97
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 17:26 utc | 90
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Agreed. This relates to what I was saying about problems carrying solutions.
Allah is the best of planners.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2024 17:55 utc | 98
Reports from the UK indicate that individuals attempting to make donations to UNRWA are having their bank accounts blocked or otherwise disrupted.
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 29 2024 15:47 utc | 46
Of course, UNRWA is now a terrorist organization. However, I guess moneys to Zionists orgs will not be blocked.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 17:55 utc | 99
Posted by b on January 29, 2024 at 12:50 UTC |
As quoted by Arnaud Bertrand
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters."
Antonio Gramsci
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Thanks b,
It is amazing how Gramsci was able to sum up the dialectical process of human relations in such a short sentence. By the way, the monsters are the reactionary forces who fight against progress for the masses because the old system (the old world) serves their interest so well.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 29 2024 17:55 utc | 100
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The Houthis are showing us the way, leading by example.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 29 2024 13:02 utc | 1