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February 10, 2024
A Move On Rafah Might Be The Spark That Ignites A Bigger Explosion

The Middle East is short of exploding.

Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty – Times of Israel, Feb 10 2024

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have added their voices to a rising tide of criticism of a planned Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that such a campaign was forthcoming.

Netanyahu announced Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to present the cabinet with a plan to both evacuate the city’s civilian population — augmented by over one million refugees from the strip’s north and center — and destroy Hamas’s remaining battalions in the area.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Egyptian officials warned the decades-long peace treaty between Egypt and Israel could be suspended if Israel Defense Forces’ troops enter Rafah, or if any of Rafah’s refugees are forced southward into the Sinai Peninsula.

In addition, Saudi Arabia — which has already conditioned normalization with Israel on an end to hostilities and steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state — issued a statement Saturday warning of “the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip,” given the city being “the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of people.”

Reuters reported that in an effort to forestall a massive influx of refugees, Egypt has over the past two weeks stationed some 40 tanks near its border with Gaza, after having reinforced the border wall since the beginning of hostilities, both structurally and with surveillance equipment.

On Friday, Israel’s Channel 12 also reported that IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was opposed to Netanyahu’s plan for a swift Rafah campaign, saying that although the military is technically capable of such an operation, it would be unwise to undertake it without coordination with the Egyptians and plans for the city’s massive refugee population.

Plans are made to react to an onslaught on Rafah:

Sayyed Nasrallah Receives Iranian FM, Discuss Latest Regional Developments – Al Manar, Feb 10 2024

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, received the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,

Amir-Abdollahian and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah discussed a variety of issues regarding the developments in the region and the situation in the Gaza Strip during the meeting.

Preparations are ongoing:

Hezbollah Escalates Attacks on Enemy Border Sites in Response to Israeli Aggression on South Lebanon – Al Manar, Feb 10 2024

I have a bad feeling here. Many things could get wrong and people will be hurt on all sides.

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May have been posted before. The BBC’s Panorama is back up to its old tricks.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/planned-bbc-smear-uk-palestinians-will-rely-israeli-spy-source
Under the guise of “exposing” Hamas’s billion dollar (alleged) network of rich guys, the BBC will smear everyday Palestinians (presumably in Britain and elsewhere). Hearkens back to the hit job they did on Corbyn.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 10 2024 22:01 utc | 101

I appeal to @pq, to start posting again. Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 15:37 utc
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I don’t think we need more defenses of the USA’s bestest MENA satrapies hidden under a thin veneer of concern for the Palestinians, thank you very much. Posted by: malenkov | Feb 10 2024 17:33 utc | 104
Too bad. Here I am. Thank you Mark2 and Stranger.
-Feb 19 to 26: ICJ hearings on occupation. 50+ countries are intervening incl from Axis of Genocide.
-Nicaragua application to ICJ to intervene in RSA vs Israel brings up issue of reparations.
– Algerian efforts at UNSC don’t seem to be moving: Axis of Genocide at UNSC (Fr, UK, US, Japan, Malta, Korea, Switz, Ecuador, i.e. UNSC 8/15 blocking drafts from being tabled (I assume).
-Saudi and the rest of the GCC have been rebuilding Gaza since 2006 every time Israel bombs it. In addition they contribute large sums of aid annually.
-The Saudi aid campaign launched on 2 November 2023 has so far collected $160 million which far exceeds UNRWA cuts announced COLLECTIVELY by Canada, Switz, Neth, Italy, UK, Australia, Finland, Japan, Austria.
In the UK you could find go to jail for “terrorism” if you donate to a genuine Palestinian aid organization. In KSA and UAE (the two that I know of) they set up an official fund so anyone can contribute. MI6 offered a British Palestinian Rafah the opportunity to get out of Rafah if only he would work for them. He refused. Charming, the Axis of Genocide.
–Military actions by Egypt / any Muslim state actor will have Al Crook jumping up and down in his armchair excitedly shouting “CIVILIZATION CLASH”. Genocidal Garden of Settler Colonialism vs Friedman’s Jungle. He keeps repeating this phrase because it is the mindset of Axis of Genocide which sees an existential threat to their supremacist ideology.
– Axis of Genocide Blameshifters may not know the UAE is NOT an “empty” country. Those gleaming towers of Dubai include MEASA HQ of many SIFIs. I hope GCC can wield their soft power rather than more conflict. I hope there’s more going on in the background than we know about.
– ICJ did NOT tell Zionists in clear terms to halt Genocide. They were told to PLEASE prevent killing under Art II of Genocide Convention. This is a loophole to argue that deaths occurred OUTSIDE the scope of GC. Israel will try to downgrade killing to lesser crimes under Rome Statute. Anyone who believes Israel takes the order seriously has not been to Israeli tiktok lately. RSA had asked for Israel to be order to HALT all military operations. That of course did not happen.
– There is NO land bridge from UAE to Israel. There is NO Arab government participation to “screw the Houthis”. Those capable of reasoning and logic will understand why:
Hint #1: container ships of Maersk etc. carry THOUSANDS of containers EACH.
Hint #2 Check cross border trucking regs at SHB.
Hint #3 Look at a map to see why for a decade there are a small number of trucks crossing at SHB.
-There IS an Israeli entrepreneur Hanan Fridman flogging this rumour to anyone who will listen (publicity for his trucking app). The point is Israel is definitely feeling the pressure.
– https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/101823-opec-plays-down-irans-call-for-oil-embargo-on-israel-after-hospital-blast
-The largest share of Israel’s oil is stolen from Kurdistan. Table above is a guesstimate. Exact figures are top secret. Followed by Kazakh oil going through Novorossiysk, followed by Azeri oil going through Ceyhan. I find it odd that the same people slamming Erdo don’t ask for Putin to block Kazakh oil for Israel in Novorossiysk. Ukraine is literally the only reason Russia is not leaning more towards Axis of Genocide on Israel. There’s that.
Axis of Genocide’s supremacist ideology gets its power from these 2 camps within its population:
a) those who hate Muslims for resisting and
b) those who hate Muslims for not resisting
As long as you’re hating Muslims for one reason or another, it’s all good. Being an Axis of Genocide Blameshifter bitching about GCC, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey is more fun. That’s why freeing Axis of Genocide from Israeli lobby is on nobody’s priority list.

Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:02 utc | 102

” I don’t believe Israel is proceeding under some delusion that Hamas is on the ropes. I suspect “total victory” means the dispersal of the population into the Sinai, and that this has been the operating plan the entire time.
Posted by: jayc | Feb 10 2024 18:32 utc | 36 ”
They dont need Hamas ” on the ropes” they just need most of the civi population gone. At that point they can do anything they want to the remaining Hamas groupings.The world wont even bat an eyelash since Hamas are considered “terrorists”.

Posted by: Moonie | Feb 10 2024 22:03 utc | 103

Blind Rage atrocities are a sure sign of a frustrated and defeated Military.

Posted by: Exile | Feb 10 2024 22:08 utc | 104

” $235M is a drop in the bucket compared to the “aid” the US gives Israel and KSA.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 10 2024 19:58 utc | 61 ”
Thats on top of what Egypt gets every year from the US.

Posted by: Moonie | Feb 10 2024 22:09 utc | 105

It’s silly to expect much from the Arab states. After all, they could easily use their oil wealth to fully fund UNRWA following the withdrawal of financial support from the US and its vassals, but the only sound emanating from those quarters is crickets. To the oil sheiks, western money is still all-important.

Posted by: Rob | Feb 10 2024 22:14 utc | 106

Blind Rage atrocities are a sure sign of a frustrated and defeated Military.
Posted by: Exile | Feb 10 2024 22:08 utc | 104
On one hand I agree these acts are a sign of a defeated and frustrated military.
On the other hand, terrorizing civilians is how Palestine was settled by European Zionists. It is the modus operandi for one hundred years now. Lehi, Irgun, Haganah, now IOF.
Tbh, I don’t think it’s blind rage. Just that atrocities are more numerous and more visible now. They shoot at over a dozen civilians standing near a water truck and destroy both the people and the water. This seems deliberate.
The targeting firstly of doctors, journalists and now policement and civil administrators is deliberate.
The fact that tens of thousands of IOF participate in torture and random shooting, maiming of civilians, the blocking of aid, vandalization of houses, the hundreds of thousands of sadistic acts: this is decades of systemic indoctrination. Meanwhile the settlers seem to just go nuts from the moment they arrive. Don’t forget the West Bank.
There was this old man moved away from his farm, the settlers had cut down 300 olive trees. He was just sitting there, his whole life gone. They play with people’s lives.

Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:21 utc | 107

” The Zionists really are a crazy cult that thinks nothing whatever of assassination, progroms, and genocide to get closer to their goal. They hold the rest of the Jewish population more or less in thrall, like the shtetl rebs.
Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 20:45 utc | 71 ”
If its just the “Zionists” how does one explain actions such as described below? This was before the Khazars so even the Ashkenazim cant be blamed for such “activities”.
” Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put a certain Andreas at their head, and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would eat the flesh of their victims, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood and wear their skins for clothing; many they sawed in two, from the head downwards; 2 others they gave to wild beasts, and still others they forced to fight as gladiators. In all two hundred and twenty thousand p423 persons perished. In Egypt, too, they perpetrated many similar outrages, and in Cyprus, under the leader­ship of a certain Artemion. There, also, two hundred and forty thousand perished, 3 and for this reason no Jew may set foot on that island, but even if one of them is driven upon its shores by a storm he is put to death. Among others who subdued the Jews was Lusius, who was sent by Trajan. ”
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/68*.html

Posted by: Moonie | Feb 10 2024 22:21 utc | 108

Posted by: Rob | Feb 10 2024 22:14 utc | 106
Read about COGAT. Many MoA readers don’t seem to know about the Israeli stranglehold on trade and every aspect of life in OT.
The reason Axis of Genocide funds most of UNRWA is because of control. They want to maintain control. The UNRWA funding is nothing for the US. Just a few hundred million. But with Axis of Genocide being the primary funder of UNRWA it gives Israel CONTROL. The only reason UNRWA still exists is because Axis of Genocide contributes to it. If it was all Arab funding Israel would be screaming: TERRORISM SUPPORTERS.
The BIG outlays on civil infrastructure are provided by GCC, Indonesia etc. and this time they’re saying: we’re not going to keep rebuilding if Israel keeps bombing it.
Axis of Genocide allows and helps Israel in maintaining an occupation and siege.
According to you Arabs should pick up the WHOLE tab for maintaining this siege and the occupation…only to then be called traitors for helping to maintain the siege and occupation….brilliant logic.
Do you understand the depth of the problem?

Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:33 utc | 109

Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:21 utc | 107
I’ve watched the footage of settler bulldozers uprooting those ancient olive trees. Knowing well how long it takes to establish these beautiful trees I feel an agony of impotent rage for their unimaginable sorrow and at the unfathomable vandalism. Violence to trees and animals, the lone dead donkey in the Gazan streets, the farms destroyed, the vacuum of empathy toward the world itself… Well, what do we do with such cancers? For a start, we stop bringing knives to gunfights.

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 22:36 utc | 110

Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:33 utc | 109
I have to say that your relentless citation of acronyms comes off as in-crowd speak. I may be showing my naivety here, but what the hell is COGAT, OT and GCC? “Most MoA readers don’t seem to know” because you’re not explaining or providing links… maybe?

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 22:40 utc | 111

Israel has only one abiding strategy: ‘facts on the ground’
While they will say anything they don’t care about anyone, only the final outcome. After all is said and done Israel won’t let refugees back in and you can’t bring the dead back to life so Gaza is theirs. Those will be the facts on the ground.
They know all too well that the USA will exert its pressure proactively to force people to reconcile with Israel no matter what they do and no matter how barbaric it is. They are committed to this course, only very few things will cause them to back out now. What do they care about Egypt, which is frightened of the USA, or Saudi Arabia, who joined BRICS+ so is already a ‘traitor’ to the USA,?
The USA will come in to save Israel’s bacon, no matter who suffers. Israel has already shown it doesn’t care for US or even Israeli lives.

Posted by: Jim | Feb 10 2024 22:41 utc | 112

The USA lacks the capabilities to “save Israel’s bacon”. No one can save this wretched entity anymore. The die has been cast; they have through their Hubris called Nemesis, and she is here to deliver vengeance. For if they could not defeat Al-Qassam and the rest of the Gazan resistance, what makes them think they can beat all the other countries combined? Hezbollah is still holding back; the Iraqis are furious and have yet to unleash their full might; the Yemenis can still escalate substantially. This genocidal nightmare shall end, horrifically on the backs of thousands upon thousands of dead Palestinians, which is the usual outcome of all anti-colonial revolutions (has the Algerian Liberation War been forgotten? The French, though not up to Zionist standards of genocide, did do their fair share of horrors, tortures and the like).
But the Zionist bootlickers, the usurpers of land, the bloodthirsty worshipers of death, those will have a most cursed fate. I for one would not want to be in Occupied Palestine.

Posted by: furnace | Feb 10 2024 22:49 utc | 113

I have to say that your relentless citation of acronyms comes off as in-crowd speak. I may be showing my naivety here, but what the hell is COGAT, OT and GCC? . . .
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 22:40 utc | 111
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I figured out that OT = Occupied Territories.
I would say “THE Occupied Territories.”
I have no idea what these and other acronyms used by pq mean, nor why he or she must use them.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 23:04 utc | 114

Posted by: Jim | Feb 10 2024 22:41 utc | 112
Yep. It ends with Gaza Sunset International 5-star Resorts Inc. with direct shuttle to and from Netanyahoo International Airport. Discounts for engineers from the LNG platforms and their families.

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:04 utc | 115

I have to say that your relentless citation of acronyms comes off as in-crowd speak. I may be showing my naivety here, but what the hell is COGAT, OT and GCC? “Most MoA readers don’t seem to know” because you’re not explaining or providing links… maybe?
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 22:40 utc | 111
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COGAT – Come Over Girls Any Time
OT – Orange Trump
GCC – Gift Certificate Celebration
😏

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 10 2024 23:07 utc | 116

Don’t even know what to comment, when I think they can’t go any lower, israeli zionists evil murderers show everyone that they can.
Netanyahoo has really lost his mind, he is on rampage.
Arab leaders, besides one or two statements, don’t care much.
ICJ : israel ignored.
UN : israel ignored, US vetoed.
Nasrallah was always right, israelis only understand the language of violence.
Let’s all hope the axis of resistance put a stop to Israel.

Posted by: Animal | Feb 10 2024 23:19 utc | 117

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 22:40 utc | 111
Posted by: pq | Feb 10 2024 22:33 utc | 109
COGAT – Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
OT – Occupied Territories
GCC – Gulf Cooperation Council
The general rule regarding acronyms is to write the full name when first mentioned (with the acronym in brackets) and then use only the acronym after this.
Example: ‘The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will decide on the issue. NATO leadership is made up of…’
However, some acronyms are so familiar we can assume readers recognise them and, hence, we do not need to write them out in full e.g. NATO, USA.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:21 utc | 118

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 10 2024 23:07 utc | 116
Nice one dude 😂

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:22 utc | 119

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:21 utc | 118
The explanation was sufficient. The assumption of stupidity was gratuitous.

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:24 utc | 120

A big move to push the Gazans over the border will cause a lot of response. But if they make Gaza unliveable and keep it that way then they can make people leave gradually over time without providing large enough triggers. So I thought this ‘boiling the frog’ would be the plan.
Are they going to provide a big enough trigger now or just incrementally find new ways to make the place unliveable?

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Feb 10 2024 23:26 utc | 121

A long time ago I heard the following Israeli joke:
“A visitor comes to a market in Jerusalem and finds a stall selling Arab and Jewish brains. The Arab brains are very expensive, the Jewish ones cost almost nothing. He asks the vendor why this is so.
The trader replies that the Arab brains are almost unused, like new.”
The Arab states were created with a ruler. The states in which popular movements have formed have been fought over, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya.
Otherwise there are probably only monarchies (correct me). A free Palestine would not be a monarchy.
The monarchies could apparently live “well” with the previous status quo.
At the latest since Israel became a nuclear power, the Arab states have stopped their military ambitions.
But why there is no land blockade and sanctions makes no sense from the point of view of the Arab states.
After all, many in Israel have completely different ideas about their future border.
But if you (Saudis) need Israeli support (Pegasus) to control your own state, you are turning the enemy into the protector, or the goat into the gardener.

Posted by: 600w | Feb 10 2024 23:27 utc | 122

GCC:
“The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf[2] (Arabic: مجلس التعاون لدول خلیج العربية), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; Arabic: مجلس التعاون الخليجي), is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.[3][4] The council’s main headquarters is located in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.[5] The Charter of the GCC was signed on 25 May 1981, formally establishing the institution.[6]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council

Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 10 2024 23:27 utc | 123

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 10 2024 23:07 utc | 116
It’s all in the Iliad, right? Lol.
Google, the tool of Satan, says:
OT: Occupied territories (also other thread, off topic which also make sense as much as this shitty universe does)
GCC: Gulf cooperation council (or is that the Gaza city council, under budgetary strain)
COGAT: Coordination of government activities in the territories, which sounds very euphemistically 1984ish (also Cognitive Abilities Test, on which I did not score bigly).
I guess on the whole not too hard for someone of Patroklos’ abilities to find out. No doubt his COGAT is bigger than mine.

Posted by: Dumbo | Feb 10 2024 23:29 utc | 124

GCC = Gulf Cooperation Council.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 10 2024 23:30 utc | 125

@ malenkov | Feb 10 2024 21:43 utc | 90
that is kind of how i figured it malenkov.. thanks for your posts and commentary…
@ Moonie | Feb 10 2024 21:49 utc | 94
i never thought of it that way, but that makes sense too.. thanks.
@ Formerly T-Bear | Feb 10 2024 21:56 utc | 97
that sounds like a quote from that dire straits song money for nothing../A>
a happy early birthday to you.. people who have lived long have a much broader perspective and your memory of trumans recogition of israel is something i was unaware of…. at this point there’s no doubt the occupation forces are terrorists… such a shame that it has come down to this… politics, ideology and religion is a powerful punch and one that can pollute beyond recognition of what it was meant to present.. happy trails!
@ Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:21 utc | 118
i knew 2 of them, but not COGAT.. thanks… good thing i don’t try to decipher what everyone says here.. too much work..

Posted by: james | Feb 10 2024 23:39 utc | 126

really have to check the preview first… oh well..
@ malenkov | Feb 10 2024 21:43 utc | 90
that is kind of how i figured it malenkov.. thanks for your posts and commentary…
@ Moonie | Feb 10 2024 21:49 utc | 94
i never thought of it that way, but that makes sense too.. thanks.
@ Formerly T-Bear | Feb 10 2024 21:56 utc | 97
that sounds like a quote from that dire straits song money for nothing..
a happy early birthday to you.. people who have lived long have a much broader perspective and your memory of trumans recogition of israel is something i was unaware of…. at this point there’s no doubt the occupation forces are terrorists… such a shame that it has come down to this… politics, ideology and religion is a powerful punch and one that can pollute beyond recognition of what it was meant to present.. happy trails!
@ Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:21 utc | 118
i knew 2 of them, but not COGAT.. thanks… good thing i don’t try to decipher what everyone says here.. too much work..

Posted by: james | Feb 10 2024 23:41 utc | 127

The assumption of stupidity was gratuitous.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:24 utc | 120
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I didn’t register an assumption of stupidity.
And I am a professional editor.
Sid explained a standard practice that some commenters may not know.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 23:51 utc | 128

According to this sourced tweet,

Preparations by the Israeli Ministry of Defense for the Civilian Evacuation and Ground Invasion for the City of Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip is reportedly now Complete, with Defense Forces awaiting the “Green Light” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Seeing how Israel has methodically continued its genocide, there’s no reason to believe it won’t go all the way, so most probably they will.
If they don’t, the Zionists’ dream-nightmare is over and they go to jail.
If they do, the Axis of Resistance has two choices:
a. Empty words, i.e. capitulation
b. Go all in Israel from as many sides as possible.
The first would be a serious blow to peace in our world; the monster would have won.
The second carries high risk for very serious escalation.
What would you choose?
Not knowing all th facts, I would choose the second. This menace must come to an end.
It is also great timing.
The multipolar world is being born and can already show in its birth that it helps resolve the greatest wound on the face of our planet.
The US is powerless to help Israel at the moment. Apart from being too embroiled in their own mess, they cannot bear the consequences of their military weakness being revealed in front of the entire world again. Yemen was enough.
So they’ll again shoot some dazzling pyrotechnics to abandoned bases, claim victory and leave.
Without the USA’s assistance, Israel is toast.
So, if it comes to that, we either see capitulation of the Axis of Resistance, or the end of Israel as we know it.
I think historical trends point to the latter.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Feb 10 2024 23:52 utc | 129

Netanyahu requested remobilization of reserve soldiers to attack Rafah.

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 10 2024 23:52 utc | 130

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:24 utc | 120
I didn’t assume anyone was stupid although why you would think that the comment posted by LoveDonbass at 116 merited a “Nice one dude” comment at 119 makes me wonder.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:53 utc | 131

Hundreds protest at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to demand an end to the siege of Gaza and an end to institutional and arts complicity with Israel.
Everyday there is new groups calling for boycotting of the apartheid genocide regime of south africa, umm Israel. I remember growing up being taught it was a moral duty to oppose south africa government

Posted by: Hankster | Feb 10 2024 23:54 utc | 132

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:53 utc | 131
Nice one, dude!

Posted by: Dumbo | Feb 10 2024 23:55 utc | 133

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 10 2024 23:21 utc | 118
The explanation was sufficient. The assumption of stupidity was gratuitous.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 10 2024 23:24 utc | 120
Pomposity and sensitivity are not characteristics I associate with Ozzies. Did him proffering the same advice you might give your students upset you?
GCC – surely the only allowed meaning of that is Global Climate Change?

Posted by: Ново З | Feb 10 2024 23:58 utc | 134

Posted by: Moonie | Feb 10 2024 21:49 utc | 94
Go to the open forum and flesh out the details of hidden archeological info pls.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Feb 11 2024 0:04 utc | 135

Is it just me or have the patrons at this bar been a little more touchy than usual, lately?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 11 2024 0:08 utc | 136

Israel is going to finish the job and there is nothing its enemies can do about it.
Keep crying MOA!!!
Posted by: Harold Balzac | Feb 10 2024 18:49 utc | 39
Few here are Palestinians, as such no skin in the game. We simply see a vile genocide and comment on events. That the death and maiming of children excites you and those of the ilk is a personality defect probably verging on being a sociopath. As sooner or later we all get back what we give out should provide you with something to look forward to, albeit being on the receiving end may lower your enjoyment.

Posted by: Organic | Feb 11 2024 0:12 utc | 137

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 10 2024 23:52 utc | 130
Seriously? Well shit. Get out the popcorn.
BTW what source did you get that from?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 11 2024 0:13 utc | 138

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 11 2024 0:08 utc | 136
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Humor is essential to sanity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 11 2024 0:15 utc | 139

Nothing will happen. The world will look away.

Posted by: Surferket | Feb 11 2024 0:20 utc | 140

Is there any reason that minors, women, and seniors from Gaza could not shelter in ISRAEL until the fighting stops? Seems an obvious enough solution if we could get western leaders to mount a pressure campaign.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Feb 11 2024 0:30 utc | 141

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sH0uR2u7Hs
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning their guns on TelAviv
Above To save our nation

Posted by: ChasMark | Feb 11 2024 0:44 utc | 142

The mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that religion is the chief obstacle to moral progress.
“A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time towards a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create.”

Posted by: Siddhartha | Feb 11 2024 0:55 utc | 143

by noonewhomatters | Feb 10 2024 22:01 utc | 100
As recommended by LpB.
But there will be no real Communists left, true.
Soul is something one cannot lose. Unverletzbar.
Marx crossed into the religious waters often.

Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 1:07 utc | 144

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