Escalation In Northern Palestine
The situation on the northern Israeli border is escalating. It is likely to soon evolve into a full fledged war. The situation is already increasing the economic price Israel has to pay for its misdeeds.
The international rating agency Moody's has downgraded Israel's credit rating. This will lead to higher interest payments on Israeli government debt:
In a report dated last Friday but not issued until Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, the agency officially reduced Israel’s rating from A1 to A2, and added pointers of further downgrading to come. The Anglo-American press immediately reacted against Moody’s.
“Israel hits back”, the Financial Times headlined. The newspaper added: “[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, in a rare statement over the Jewish Sabbath, said: ‘The rating downgrade is not connected to the economy, it is entirely due to the fact that we are in a war. The rating will go back up the moment we win the war — and we will win the war.’” In the Associated Press report, “Israel’s finance minister blasts Moody’s downgrade”. Rupert Murdoch’s platform Fox claimed: “Israel has a strong, open economy despite Moody’s downgrade”. “Israel’s creditworthiness remains high,” according to the New York Times, “but the rating agency noted that the outlook for the country was negative… A rating of A2 is still a high rating.”
There are several negative issues that could lead to a further downgrading:
According to Moody’s report, “downside risks remain at the A2 rating level. In particular, the risk of an escalation involving Hezbollah in the North of Israel remains, which would have a potentially much more negative impact on the economy than currently assumed under Moody’s baseline scenario. Government finances would also be under more intense pressure in such a scenario.”
Shortly after the Moody's report appeared Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah set out to increase the pressure on Israel:
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah reiterated that Hezbollah will continue its border offensive against the Israeli occupation sites near Lebanon border till the Zionist barbaric war on Gaza ends.“When the aggression on Gaza stops fire will be ceased in South Lebanon,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.
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Hezbollah Secretary General commented on the recent threats made by the Zionist defense minister Yoav Gallant who said that the IOF will not stop aggression on South Lebanon even after Gaza ceasefire, stressing that, then, Hezbollah will continue its offensive.“When the war on Gaza ends, we will stop our offensive. If the enemy resumes its hostilities, we will, act in light of the rules and the formulas.”
Nasrallah rejected western demands, passed through the Lebanese government, to pull back Hizbullah's forces and to cease fire:
It is Hezbollah duty and responsibility to deter the enemy and prevent the assault on Lebanon, Sayyed Nasrallah affirmed, adding that the Resistance responses will be proportionate, yet effective and productive.Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the hundreds of thousands of settlers already displaced from the North will not be able to return to their homes in case of escalation.
‘Israel’ must prepare shelters, basements, hotels and schools to house 2 million settlers who will be displaced from northern Palestine if it expands the war zone, Sayyed Nasrallah warned.
If the Israeli enemy expands its war zone against Lebanon, Hezbollah will do too, Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized.
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“It is easier to move Litani River forward to the borders than pushing back Hezbollah fighters from the borders to the Litani River,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.
More will be announced later:
Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that ‘Israel’ has failed over 130 days to achieve any target in Gaza war, except the monstrous attacks on the civilians.Concerning the Zionist war on Gaza, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that he will address more details about during a speech he is scheduled to deliver on Friday (February 16) the anniversary of Hezbollah Martyr Commanders.
Rarely mentioned in western news is the extend of Hizbullah's activities against the military of the Zionist entity:
Al-Manar correspondent:The resistance in Southern Lebanon, has so far attacked:
- HQ of the Northern Region Command in Safad.
- Command HQ of the 91st Galilee Division in “Branit”
- HQ of the 769th Eastern Brigade in Kiryat Shmona.
- Meron Air command and control base
- Beit Hillel IOF base
- Training camp in Kela, in the occupied Golan Heights
- Ma’ale Golan IOF base on Mount Hermon
- Most artillery positions along the rear front and military concentrations
- Every single border military IOF sites
All of these attacks carried out by the resistance confirm that all military and fire pressure and Israeli threats will not deter it from continuing its operations. The resistance is proceeding with full confidence, first relaying on God, and then its military capabilities, the spirit of its fighters, and the resilience of its people.
The Safad headquarter site was only hit this morning. This followed after more Israeli attacks had hit civilian structures in southern Lebanon.
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber - 23:01 UTC · Feb 13, 2024URGENT: #Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets targeting an army base #Israel’s northern city of Safed.
One reportedly killed & eight wounded, one in serious condition.
The IDF said some of the rockets hit the Northern Command headquarters base in #Safed, some 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the Lebanese border.
Hitting Safad was a (mild) escalation after previous attacks.
Unlike the daily Palestinian victims of Israel's brutality, the Israeli casualties of the strike created headlines in Israel:
An Israeli woman was killed and eight others were wounded as a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into Safed and an army base in the northern city, the military and medical officials said.In response to the attack, the IDF said it launched “widespread” airstrikes in Lebanon.
There was no immediate claim for the rocket fire, although it was believed to have been carried out by the Hezbollah terror group, which has been launching daily rocket, missile, and drone attacks on northern Israel in recent months, saying it is doing so in support of the Hamas terror group in Gaza, against whom Israel is waging war.
The Israel Defense Forces and Safed’s municipality said rockets hit an army base in the area, some 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the Lebanon border.
The casualty count on Israel's northern border is still very uneven:
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least nine IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 194 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 29 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and some two dozen civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
If Israel does not evacuated more settlers, at high economic costs, the casualty ratio is likely to change.
The Lebanese Hezbollah expert Amal Saad, who is currently teaching in Cardiff, Britain, explained Hizbullah's thinking:
Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb - 10:58 UTC · Feb 14, 2024There are several messages behind Hizbullah's qualitatively different strike on Safed this morning, which Israel is treating as the gravest attack since the start of the war, with Ben Gvir calling it a "declaration of war".
At the forefront, is Hizbullah's message that it won't capitulate to Israeli and western demands that it cease hostilities across the border, as per Nasrallah's speech yesterday. It's also a response to several Israeli assassination strikes in South Lebanon, reaching as deep as Sidon.
But the timing of this escalation also appears to be related to Netanyahu's scuppering of the Paris cease-fire proposal and his government's threats to invade Rafah, which in turn, would make a full-out attack on Lebanon more likely. Hizbullah is giving Israel a taster of the type of strikes and casualty tolls its military will have to bear, should Netanyahu continue to reject a cease-fire.
Predictably the Israeli occupation forces responded to the strike on Safad by escalating further:
The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets "began a series of strikes in Lebanon", raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire.The military gave no further details of the air strikes, while Lebanese media reported air raids on southern villages including Adchit, Sawwaneh and Shihabiyeh.
The strikes came hours after fire from Lebanon wounded multiple people in northern Israel, according to medics.
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Fears have been growing of another full-blown conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, with tens of thousands displaced on both sides of the border and regional tensions soaring."I don't know when the war in the north is, I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher than it was in the past," Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi said last month.
Following the last Israeli strikes, the Lebanese side said that four civilians had been killed or wounded by them.
The increase of hostility is getting to a point where there will no longer be the question "if" another war between Israel and Hizbullah will occur but only the question of "when".
Posted by b on February 14, 2024 at 15:23 UTC | Permalink
next page »The only thing that will downgrade Israel's economy and credit rating would be a full scale war with Lebanon (Hezbollah is Lebanese, they are part of Lebanon's defense). Unfortunately, western arrogance discounts the idea that Hezbollah will fight back.
Such a pity, Nasrallah is always clear and precise about this escalation ladder. He always states when and why Hezbollah will attack yet Israel and the U.S. ignore him. You would think 20 yrs of being consistent should gain him SOME credibility but it does not. What on earth is wrong with us?
Posted by: Christian J Chuba | Feb 14 2024 15:47 utc | 2
How much longer can Israel and their Fifth Column inside the US/DC keep a ginned up, bloody-minded Israel Political gang tuned into full crazy?
The British experiment in Israel, adopted by Israel loyalists (calling themselves Americans), was always tenuous, given the Geographic and Demographic realities.
Without a "Good Neighbor" mindset, Israel has sunk itself.
Posted by: kupkee | Feb 14 2024 15:49 utc | 3
Looks like the 2024 election will be the most important one of our lives (again). Will Americans choose Ukraine First or Israel First as their national policy priority? Only time will tell.
Posted by: Minority Outlier | Feb 14 2024 15:51 utc | 4
The Zionist Entity is bogged down, getting ready to try and finish the genocide it started, and it can hardly spare troops to fight in the north. And by what I've seen of Resistance videos, their soldiers are not the best, to put it mildly. Being a racist supremacist state comes with the fatal military flaw of necessarily underestimating your opponents. On that note, I wonder if the IOF would last even a month in the conditions Ukraine has been fighting for two years now and, though losing, still putting up a fight even when their army is made of press-ganged men snatched from the streets.
Posted by: furnace | Feb 14 2024 15:52 utc | 5
"Looks like the 2024 election will be the most important one of our lives (again). Will Americans choose Ukraine First or Israel First as their national policy priority? Only time will tell.
Posted by: Minority Outlier | Feb 14 2024 15:51 utc | 4"
"Election"?
What election? Election would mean voters have a real choice. There is no real choice. Regardless of who wins (Trump/Kamala)
The policy will be the same.
Posted by: Comandante | Feb 14 2024 16:00 utc | 6
@kupkee | Feb 14 2024 15:49 utc | 3
The British experiment wasnt meant to create a good neighbour but to support an intensely patriotic race. The intention was for the empire to get a foothold/a beachhead there for imperial expansion and to have it populated by around 3-4 million so they would always need imperial protection.
The cynicism of the imperialists wasnt even concealed.
Netanyahu lives up to the epithet for the jews of being 'stiffnecked and darkhearted' stated by Shaftesbury when he pleaded for a people without land for a land without people.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 14 2024 16:08 utc | 7
until the oil refinery of haifa are on fire this is all satanick zio performance puppetry amongst the real killing fields of an erased Gaza.
many partners in crime in lockstep
Posted by: todd | Feb 14 2024 16:09 utc | 8
How much longer can Israel and their Fifth Column inside the US/DC keep a ginned up, bloody-minded Israel Political gang tuned into full crazy?
Posted by: kupkee | Feb 14 2024 15:49 utc | 3
A VERY long time. Check out 'conservative' American forums like "Free Republic." They are nearly 100% behind this genocide and actually believe israel is being too merciful and should take the gloves off.
Posted by: bored | Feb 14 2024 16:10 utc | 9
I wonder if the IOF would last even a month in the conditions Ukraine has been fighting for two years now and, though losing, still putting up a fight even when their army is made of press-ganged men snatched from the streets.
Posted by: furnace | Feb 14 2024 15:52 utc | 5
I doubt the cowards would last a week against Russia or even a weaker peer competitor.
They are cowards. The Zionazis refer to mass killings of women and children as a "war" and then brag about winning it. Their army and whole society have been revealed to be a sick joke in the last 4 months, along with all their 5th columnist cheerleaders in the west.
The good people of the world would love to see the Zionazis simply fight someone their own size.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 14 2024 16:10 utc | 10
Israel needs the war in Lebanon to attract NATO help. It probably needs it now, no matter what happens in Rafah, because Rafah is not going to change much militarily, although the death toll there will be awful.
Is Israel asking too much from the US? If so, we will go to the brink of the abyss and back to some type of deal. If not, it's regional war.
Posted by: biochar | Feb 14 2024 16:12 utc | 11
The Cradle's reporting on north Palestine escalation, fwiw...
https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-launches-unprecedented-attack-on-northern-israel
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 14 2024 16:20 utc | 12
How hard would be it for Hizbullah to get their hands on a few S-300s. This would seriously change the game would it not?
Posted by: WJ | Feb 14 2024 16:23 utc | 13
@Posted by: Minority Outlier | Feb 14 2024 15:51 utc | 4
Jill Stein is running for US President.
Here is her pledge regarding The Other Genocide:
https://www.jillstein2024.com/pledgetostopgenocide
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Don't know what it will take for US voters to wake up (Ha!).
They went all silly when Obama was first running. Even when he
obviously had lied to their faces BIG TIME during the first primaries
silly voters just shrugged it off and voted for him anyway.
Even worse than Bush.
Now a lot of independents are repeating history and supporting an obvious
Manchurian Candidate - RFK, Jr.
Don't know what it will take for US voters to wake up.
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 16:34 utc | 14
"...Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that ‘Israel’ has failed over 130 days to achieve any target in Gaza war, except the monstrous attacks on the civilians."
Israel's only objective is precisely that- monstrous attacks, genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
No civilians are being caught in any crossfire-they are not aiming to kill the militiamen of Hamas, Islamic Jihad or the Popular Front, their objective is to kill women, who bear children and children, who grow up and procreate. Genocide is precisely what they have been aiming at and fantasizing over for more than a century. Now they sense that they are closing in on the final act.
Given that this in itself is proof of their madness we have to turn elsewhere to discover the guilty- those who license their crazy actions, and apologize for their crimes.
These are not hard to find- thanks to the Parliamentary system there is likely to be one of these willing accomplices in and apologists for genocide in every Congressional or Parliamentary constituency.
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 16:39 utc | 15
How hard would be it for Hizbullah to get their hands on a few S-300s.
@Posted by: WJ | Feb 14 2024 16:23 utc | 13
That would be cool. If they have them, or something almost as good,
I bet that they are not showing their hand until the Big Moment comes.
I have wondered at what is going on with Syria. They have S-300 but
seem to be holding back in using them. Perhaps iZrael wants them to use them
so they can pick them off piecemeal.
Maybe Syria is keeping them for just the right occasion.
Could be approaching.
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 16:40 utc | 16
thanks for the overview b..
@ bevin | Feb 14 2024 16:39 utc | 15
exactly... israel is pursuing a policy of genocide.. until israel and those gov'ts supporting israel are held accountable, this will continue..
Posted by: james | Feb 14 2024 16:45 utc | 17
A2 is still unjustifiably high as a rating for an artificial state that cannot survive without a "blood transfusion" from the US. Ukraine's Moody's rating is Ca.
Posted by: CIROC | Feb 14 2024 16:52 utc | 18
Israel's silencing of the "Palestinian problem" for years, combined with massive foreign inflows of money, have created a lot of prosperity for the Jewish settlers. This war is a serious hit to that, but as long as the foreign money keeps flowing in, it is not a structural threat to Israel, unfortunately.
Posted by: Bob | Feb 14 2024 16:53 utc | 19
it was always going to go this way. the ashkeNAZIs are subhuman and subhumans understanding nothing except brute force. the west has declared loud and proud that there's a "good kind" of genocide and they think their lumbering retard giant of a military can enforce it. these f_cks get off HARD on dead children so let's give them some of their own.
all the talk of a "palestinian state" is bullshit. one state denazified. if that has to be built on the smoking rubble of tel aviv, then oh well. if The Hez can find a way to minimize "israeli" air power then it's all over. gaza has proven what i've said about those savages all along: if they're less than 5,000 feet in the air they can't compete. see also: ukraine.
Posted by: das ist paar | Feb 14 2024 16:59 utc | 21
Field executions, torture, and threats of rape: In Gaza, Israel’s army replicates the crimes committed by Zionist gangs in 1948
Posted by: Dennis | Feb 14 2024 17:05 utc | 22
Bibi "today, we were forced to bomb Moody's in self defense due to their antisemitic refusal to recognize Israel's right to a high credit rating.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 14 2024 17:07 utc | 23
The days of fake quick victories for the idf against traitorous Arab rulers are long gone. Studying their massacre in Gaza, it's become evident that the idf cannot win so they take out their frustrations against defenseless targets like hospitals, nurseries, kids, elderly, women etc. Hamas wins simply by surviving the war. No settler in their right mind will stay along the Gaza border so long as Hamas exists. October 7's shattered any faith they had in their army. I've seen videos of Palestinians resistance fighters casually walk over to IDF positions and blowing them up then simply withdrawing. Of course, the idf retaliates by massacring more civilians to maintain their invincible image and establishing "deterrence". This army is going to break at some point soon. No amount of US support will help them.
Another good thing we've seen from this war is the exposure of Western/Arab government support for the occupation and their hatred for human life. Israel is the last Western colonial outpost in the world and they'll protect it at all cost.
Moving North, they're stuck in the bind. They're not sure what to do with Lebanon as Hezbollah keep pounding them on a daily basis. They're hoping the problem simply go away but it wont. They may have to evacuate their entire occupied Northing territories as Hezbollah doesn't seems to be backing down any time soon.
Posted by: Zico | Feb 14 2024 17:10 utc | 24
Israel's response to the Hezbollah attack on the military base was air raids on civilian towns in northern Lebanon. This is in keeping with what had been threatened: disproportionate attacks on civilian targets.
Netanyahoo has cancelled Israel's participation in hostage / ceasefire talks in Cairo. CIA head Burns had actually flown in for these, so the rejection is in part directed at the Americans. What is the tipping point, when Israel is finally instructed to understand they exist solely on the reliance on others? On the other hand, Blinken's stern instruction that Israel's military operations would be allowed only a few more weeks was delivered more than ten weeks ago.
Has there been any military conflict in recent decades which has seen the repeated overt sieges, attacks, and destruction of civilian hospitals the way it has happened in Gaza? Israel insists Hamas uses these structures for "command and control", but it is apparent that they actually don't know.
Posted by: jayc | Feb 14 2024 17:17 utc | 25
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 16:34 utc | 14
US voters don't want to wake up. This should be obvious. Even though opinion polls show Americans don't trust the media or politicians they still believe the entire official Narrative manufactured by PR flacks (all reporters today are PR specialists) with help from the goons at FBI and CIA (and so on).
American voters don't care about the truth--they will consciously "believe" the most obvious lies even if they don't actually believe them. People need a consistent Narrative without it people flounder. All this goes double for Europeans who seem to still trust the authorities at least USA-ans don't trust the authorities (though they desperately want to) so change will come earlier and more intensely in the USA and is likely to take much more in Europe.
Israel has made a calculated risk--it knows it can inflict dramatic damage to Palestinians as they consistently have done and they can count on complete support from the Empire of Washington that controls Europe and a few other countries occupied by US military and covert forces. I'm pretty sure Israel can safely kill significant numbers of Gazans, say 100k,before the Empire puts a stop to it. On the other hand Israel knows the Empire is getting weaker so they are motivated to be more draconian and at least attempt 100% ethnic cleansing in the territories it controls since hatred of Palestinians and Arabs is part of the collective ethic of nearly all Israelis--they are almost all closeted Nazis.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Feb 14 2024 17:24 utc | 26
jayc @ 25
Israel's response to the Hezbollah attack on the military base was air raids on civilian towns in northern Lebanon. This is in keeping with what had been threatened: disproportionate attacks on civilian targets.
It's only a matter of time before Hezbollah switches from military targets to civilian ones. Then then entire Northern occupied territories will have to be evacuated - adding more burden on their already struggling economy. Perhaps the US senate will give them more billions?
Posted by: Zico | Feb 14 2024 17:26 utc | 27
If this trend is true and persistent, then the end of the state of Israel could be possible. They lost a half a million net out of 9 million? That's huge.
Posted by: Eighthman | Feb 14 2024 17:33 utc | 28
Eighthman | Feb 14 2024 17:33 utc | 28
The Zionist population amounts to about 7 million- the nine million figure includes the residual Palestinian population of the 1948 state. I don't believe that either figure includes the West Bank's non Jewish population or Gaza.
So it isn't huge but 'huger.'
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 17:52 utc | 29
Since b believes the Axis of Resistance that Hamas is winning, why would he advocate a ceasefire? Why does anyone think a ceasefire is a good idea if the Axis of Resistance propaganda is true, the days of the Zionist entity are almost over.
Advocates of a ceasefire are just quislings willing to give the Zionist entity breathing room to resupply and fight again.
According to Hamas we are on the cusp of fulfilling the dream (fantasy) of river to the sea. There strategy of using human shields will prevail and all the martyrs will not have died in vain.
Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering.
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 16:39 utc | 15
yes, that's pretty much it in a nutshell.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 14 2024 18:05 utc | 31
The IOF could do the honorable thing and stop committing genocide.
Posted by: ZinaZ | Feb 14 2024 18:09 utc | 32
Risk and insurance have no ethnic, religious or political allegiances. Jew? Jew, schmew: if you ain't good for it we gotta bump the spread. Nothin' personal. My guess though is that Moodys probably wanted to go lower... "Nice ratings agency you got here... pity if something should happen to it."
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 14 2024 18:11 utc | 33
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Feb 14 2024 15:35 utc | 1
The zionazi establishment dictatorship under which we are forced to live in Europe without democratic choice,
have the trillions from the covid genocide scam all the wars all the looted gold all the stolen sovereign wealth funds the 9 and 11 blood financial
talmud ritual. the world wide b i s bank,imf,world bank central bank scams they already own everything.
the temple and the red heffers are needed they want a world government in satans counterfeit israel
tony montana once said he wanted the whole world and everything in it to late the fake donmeh yahu have it all
they can pump tel aviv for 100s of years for free via all you schmucks that pay your governments taxation demands look at ukrainia .
israel and ukraine are important financial black holes laundry trillions of dollars a kosher nostra public private partnership the biggest finance crimes in history 911 was toy town low level dry run
Posted by: todd | Feb 14 2024 18:14 utc | 34
Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf, Feb 13, 2024
“Is Rafah the tipping point?”
Excerpt: (from auto generated transcript with some added punctuation but far from perfect, please excuse — if I had more time...)
GN...my entire lifetime when people said the Holocaust, people thought of ... the Nazi death camps and certainly horrible terrible things. You know, we don't never want to...belittle the memory of Holocaust of groups of people...I think that ... the genocide in Palestine has taken the strength off of ...that argument...the strength off of that concern that people had.
Now what people what I hear ...have issues with... let's say
the Russians and the Russians are saying, wait a minute, we lost 27 million people you know what I mean we got our Holocaust 27 million people
the Chinese are sitting over there saying we lost 20 million people to Japanese imperialism right
indigenous people in Australia and in the US and what have you are saying whoa black people hey what about the slave trade let's not forget how many people died in the Atlantic Crossing
we're hearing the Africans...saying for God's sake wouldn't talk about genocides ... the algerians...
now for God's sake the Indians for 190 years of British occupation estimated 50 to 60 million people Holocaust by the UK
so I think what's happening is the fact that they're involved in a genocide, Zionism is involved in a genocide and then the zionists tried to come out to the [ICJ] court when they were accused of genocide
(and as I say, Zionism is not Judaism. Joe Biden's a Zionist he's not
Jewish.)so the zionists went to try to excuse their genocide using the
Holocaust and I think all of these other groups from black people in America to indigenous people in Australia to the Russians and the you know the tAfricans and the Indians all said, “time out here. you're being accused of genocide by an African country that has suffered apartheid in all kinds of terrible genocides and you're going to use genocide as though you're the only ones?”I think the strength of the genocide argument from World War II has the Zionist Jewish people certainly but the Zionist using that as an excuse for their nefarious Deeds misdeeds and Military Misadventures that day is gone and other people are starting to like say, you know we need to talk about how the hell we were genocided most of the time by some European Colonial Imperial power about 99% of the time.”
your thoughts?
LM: ...I'm gonna say something that probably very few people will ever say.
Zionism is not only responsible for the genocide in Palestine since 1948 but Zionism is also responsible for the rise of the Nazis.The zionists are responsible and culprit in the Holocaust.
How would we say this? why would I say this?Everybody knows the BalfourDeclaration where Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UK Lord Balfour wrote a letter saying that they will allow the creation of Jewish state in the land of Palestine. what people don't understand is who this letter was written to. This letter, the Balfour Declaration, was written to Lord Rothchild of Germany, the richest and biggest industrialist in Germany during World War I. Why did he receive a letter from Lord Balfour promising the creation of the Zionist colony?
Because ... in the middle of World War I the British were at the edge of bankruptcy. They were losing the war against the Austrian
Hungarians and the Ottoman Empire and so Lord Rothschild, who's a German citizen (his family is one of the only ones that were given Lord title as Jewish Germans) ...went to Lord Balfour and said, if the British Empire promises us Palestine as a land that we can colonize to have a quote unquote Jewish State, I will withdraw all my money along with many of the other Zionist industrialists in Germany. [We] will withdraw our money from the German economy, close our factories and collapse the German Austrian Hungarian economy and that's what they did.So the Austrian Hungarians [Germany] Lost World War I because the Zionists destroyed their economy in return for the Balfour Declaration and the creation of the the Zionist colony.
What this did, this humiliation of Germany at the hands of the Zionists, lead
to the rise of the Nazis who said, “Well, these Jewish German Elite went and betrayed us, destroyed our economy and supported the British, and said that they will be leaving to the Zionist Palestine, so clearly they are enemies of the Germans.”
This is what the Nazis saidIt doesn't mean that the Jewish people were actually this.. [it was the Zionist elites] within. The majority of Jewish Germans refused Zionism they all believed that they were Germans, including Einstein and others, and they said they are Germans, okay. But the zionists put them in this situation.
They led us to the rise Zionism, led to the rise of the Nazis, and the crimes
that the Nazis committed wouldn't have happened if there was no Zionism okay?...so the zionists are responsible for the Holocaust as much as the Nazis are and they are responsible for the current genocide happening in Palestine.
After this exchange Garland (~52:47) speaks of a conversation he had with his recently passed brother, who was a convert to Judaism after military service. Worth a listen and action if you are a USA’n cause when the collapse happens, if it comes tumultuously, people need to have their heads screwed on right to weather the transition to the next phase without rhyming history
Posted by: suzan | Feb 14 2024 18:15 utc | 35
zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
hasbara just gets nastier.
The resistance is winning because it is showing Israel that Nazi violence cannot work- the Palestinians are saying, pace Stolypin, "Not intimidated."
And intimidation is the last arrow in the zionist quiver- they long ago gave up the pretence (so cleverly projected by Abba Ebban et al) of sincerely wanting to talk and being ready to reason, perhaps compromise.
They are silly men, proving to the world that one of the largest and best equipped armies and air forces in the world, aided by a powerful fleet including six nuclear submarines, can shoot fish in a barrel. Better yet, they can shoot children in a school, and laugh as old people starve in the rubble of their homes.
They have become worse than a laughing stock- the collective image of a crazed murderer.
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 18:17 utc | 36
Posted by: todd | Feb 14 2024 18:14 utc | 34
I have to say there is a rhythmic poetry to your posts, almost metrical. 'Kosher nostra' is priceless.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 14 2024 18:19 utc | 37
"... in the middle of World War I the British were at the edge of bankruptcy. They were losing the war against the Austrian
Hungarians and the Ottoman Empire and so Lord Rothschild, who's a German citizen (his family is one of the only ones that were given Lord title as Jewish Germans) ...went to Lord Balfour and said, if the British Empire promises us Palestine as a land that we can colonize to have a quote unquote Jewish State, I will withdraw all my money... '
I am sorry but this is absolute nonsense. A tissue of nonsenses. For example Rothschild was not a German citizen he was British and a long standing landowner, one of very many Jews in that position. ...and so on.
The reality is that the British government were veery happy to acceded to the zionist demands pressed on them by, inter alia, CP Scott and Lloyd George as well as the imperialist establishment.
Many books have been written on the subject....I expect that you know all this and quote the nonsense to illustrate the depths to which discussions in the States have fallen
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 18:23 utc | 38
Posted by: suzan | Feb 14 2024 18:15 utc | 35
Lord Rothschild, who's a German citizen (his family is one of the only ones that were given Lord title as Jewish Germans)
When I read this kind of historically inept attempt to support an argument I switch off, I'm sorry.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 14 2024 18:24 utc | 39
The chosen people!
No sir. If there is a god, he would never choose an ugly, both in appearance and in spirit, treacherous and arrogant race to be his chosen. And chosen for what? To bring beauty and peace to this world, so they can inherit its fruits? They bring anything but beauty and peace.
And if there is such a thing as god who punishes treachery, he sure seems to be sleep at the wheel.
Then, it is up to us to put an end to this ugliness and bring peace to the world. I wonder if the solution is reaching its finality.
Posted by: alpi | Feb 14 2024 18:26 utc | 40
MINTPRESS Has Egypt caved to Israeli demands on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
The Sinai for Human Rights organisation has reported that Egyptian authorities are creating a buffer zone in Sinai to receive Palestinians displaced from Gaza by Israel.
The project is said to have been commissioned by the Sons of Sinai Construction and Building Company, owned by Ibrahim Al-Arjani, who is linked to the Egyptian government. The work is to create an area surrounded by walls 7 metres high to absorb the Palestinians.
Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Feb 14 2024 18:30 utc | 41
I do remember Moody's and others artificially boosting credit ratings not so long ago. Like they can be trusted.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Feb 14 2024 18:58 utc | 42
Ironic that Israel finds itself in the same exact situation as Ukraine with the only viable military option to draw in the US/NATO via escalation in Lebanon.
You can't make this stuff up, while US elite know a US ground war with a draft would mean a total narrative loss domestically and reform at home and at best a temporary loss of power, it's a non starter.
Israel is in the process of sacrificing itself for the credibility of the USA as a hegemon.
Posted by: silverdog | Feb 14 2024 19:03 utc | 43
Months in. By crediible estimates approaching, even over 30k dead and many more wounded. Gaza leveled and population displaced. That population starving and in critical desparate need.
A lot of talk. An internatiional court case. So many know the truth of what Israel, the US administration and their EU lackey are doing.
Yet nothing. Nothing from the Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Iran. Only the Houthis and some Hezbollah resistance.
Posted by: Áobh Ó'Seachnasaigh | Feb 14 2024 19:04 utc | 44
When it's not very complicated : cease the genocide and the attacks will stop
US cockroaches keep traveling to lebanon to negociate with corrupt government to make Hezbollah stop
The USA is really a long continuous history of genocides, domination and wrath brought to this world. I really wish the quick collapse of this empire of hell, maybe children in this world could have some peace.
Posted by: Animal | Feb 14 2024 19:08 utc | 45
“Convert, submit or die”will never be a meaningful basis for peace negotiations for any parties with the will or means to resist.
Posted by: seethesigns | Feb 14 2024 19:13 utc | 46
Moody's rating is far too high; it ought to be in the B range and ready to go lower. The US Congress is locked-up on providing any monies to warring parties--Zios and Ukies. And the military larder is rapidly depleting. I doubt any accurate figures on capital flight from Occupied Palestine are available, but I would assume it's large and damaging. Furthermore, most Zionist internal refugees aren't working and thus can't contribute to the economy and instead must be supported by a rapidly weakening economy that will soon run out of money to service its social needs. That latter issue is the real reason why the Zionists need to try and reclaim their northern occupation areas. What Hezbollah can do is increase the number of internal refugees and destroy more of the Zionist economy by damaging the Med. port facilities. And there are other areas where the economic blockade can be tightened. As I wrote back in October, there will be two sieges--Gaza and Occupied Palestine.
fyi
Ireland and Spain demand EU reviews Israel trade deal over rights obligations
Joint letters from prime ministers implore the bloc to act over ‘deteriorating’ situation in Gaza
“Given the critical situation in Rafah, Ireland and Spain have just requested the European Commission urgently review whether Israel is complying with its obligations to respect human rights in Gaza,” Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, wrote on X.
The joint letter from Sánchez and Leo Varadkar, from Ireland, to the commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, published on Wednesday, is a highly unusual move, even for the two leaders who have come to be the strongest champions of Palestinian rights in Brussels.
[...] The three-page letter, which threatens to cause further divisions in the bloc over Israel, has demanded a review of the EU-Israel association agreement that came into force in 2000 and is the main basis for trade ties.
[...] Ireland and Spain were among the handful of countries that criticised von der Leyen for her unequivocal early support for the Israeli offensive in Gaza after Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people. The countries pushed strongly for a ceasefire in an EU leaders summit in October and language asserting Israel’s obligation to comply with international human rights law in the defence of its own country.
Since then, the two countries have become more and more vocal in the defence of ordinary Palestinians. They were also among at least seven European countries, including Luxembourg and Slovenia, who vowed to continue funding UNRWA, the UN agency that supports schools and hospitals across the Palestinian territories, after several large donors backed away after Israel claimed 12 employees had participated in the 7 October attacks. Two UN investigations are under way.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 14 2024 19:29 utc | 48
Yet nothing. Nothing from the Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Iran. Only the Houthis and some Hezbollah resistance.
Posted by: Áobh Ó'Seachnasaigh | Feb 14 2024 19:04 utc | 44
There is a reason Islam means Submission. Since God is not around, we will submit to Erdogan, Sisi, MbS and MbZ, who are more than happy to be stand ins for God. So, is all ZIOUS has to do is bribe Erdogan with oil, Sisi and MbS with weapons and a billion people stand down against a tiny shit country with 15 million people. They tell us that we need to ignore 2 million Palestinians being genocided and that is exactly what we do. The Jews who concocted these Abrahamic religions 2000 years ago knew exactly what they were doing.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Feb 14 2024 19:32 utc | 49
Dearest Mr. Bevin @ 34
Many books have been written on the subject...
Would you be as kind as to recommend a couple? Ta.
Posted by: Nuff Sed | Feb 14 2024 19:46 utc | 50
Next time your favourite blogger or journalist gets banned, or anyone berates you for thinking Western media is not run by or for the juice... ask them why this was ever allowed to happen:
'The Era Of War Crime Influencers'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8GuuilC9_Y&ab_channel=YUGOPNIK
Posted by: Rubiconned | Feb 14 2024 20:06 utc | 51
To the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail. Israel has planes and bombs. The conflict has lasted long enough this was inevitable.
Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 14 2024 20:09 utc | 52
From what I can see of it, Hezbollah's cross border strikes are intended to draw the Zionists into Hezbollah home turf and a repeat of 2006.
Hezbollah move into Israel, they are out of their dug in positions, out in the open and vulnerable to airstrikes, tank and artillery fire
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 14 2024 20:15 utc | 53
"“It is easier to move Litani River forward to the borders than pushing back Hezbollah fighters from the borders to the Litani River,” Sayyed Nasrallah said."
I love this. It sounds downright Shakespearean.
Posted by: Jane | Feb 14 2024 20:27 utc | 54
What does nature teach us about what is happening now ?
What lesson is Israel, america and england blind and obliveous to ?
What lesson never gets learned through out history ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 14 2024 20:36 utc | 55
What happens in Gaza
is Gazschwitz
but today not against the jews,
but done by them.
Posted by: KAT | Feb 14 2024 20:45 utc | 56
Answer....
To every action ther is a reaction.
Never fails.
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 14 2024 20:49 utc | 57
Israel's only objective is precisely that- monstrous attacks, genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 16:39 utc |15
Spot on.
Israel does not try to defeat Hamas, because it's been well-documented that it needs Hamas to justify its own atrocities.
The Zionist objective was always what they're doing: another Nakba, another genocide, the "Greater Israel".
They've had to crowd Palestinians all the way to Rafah and start planning their expulsion to Egypt before Hezbollah upped the ante.
I'm not in Nasrallah's mind or shoes, and I can't demean his efforts, but they seem too little too late.
It saddens me to see Israel is succeeding in its genocide with the backing of the USA.
Bored asked above how much longer can Israel and their Fifth Column inside the US/DC keep it up.
For a while, it seems.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Kamala's overture of being ready to serve in Biden's place, and questions on the latter's mental capacity, come a few days after he was quoted calling Netanyahu an asshole.
Israel has the USA so much by the balls, it flexes that it can blatantly dictate even who the president can be.
Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Feb 14 2024 21:11 utc | 58
Posted by: Turk 152 | Feb 14 2024 19:32 utc | 49
"..There is a reason Islam means Submission. .."
Hence, bending over 5 sessions a day?
Apparently Alawites don't do that.
My fantasy is 10,000 of Kadrov's Chechens ready to go just north of the Golan Heights.
If anyone has being following news, statements coming from the Chechen Republic, could you pass on anything of interest?
Posted by: Ново З | Feb 14 2024 21:31 utc | 59
Israel's population is a little over 9.8M of which about 73% are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank.
The IDF does not conscript Arab citizens of Israel who are Muslim or Christian, however, they may choose to volunteer for military service. For Druze and Circassian men, enlistment is mandatory. I'm guessing the numbers/percentages are pretty low for Muslims and maybe a little higher for Christians.
Moving on, the Israeli Occupation Defense Service law says that men are "of military age" between 18 and 54 years of age, and women between 18 and 38 years of age.
As per the Axios report, around 169,500 active-duty individuals and 465,000 Israelis in the reserve units. Since the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel has called up approximately 300,000 reservists. This seems pretty high, possibly unrealistic at least in that infantry-capable individuals are probably a relatively low percentage of those call-ups and reserves, but I am just speculating. I also wonder about collective morale.
In any case, can Israel really fight a multi-front ground war with constraints on available ammunition supplied by the West with so much having been depleted in Ukraine over the last couple of years and their unprecedented bombing campaign in Gaza? Infantry/ground forces need air cover and their advances to be prepped by artillery.
If Israel ends up invading Lebanon again, do they have the 'manpower' to mount a successful campaign with or without the ammunition/materiel question answered? I guess where I'm going with this, is that I could easily see the US and UK (who already deployed some soldiers there in the past few days) getting sucked into a ground war on behalf of their allies parasites in Occupied Palestine. And what if Syria, with Russian assistance were to respond to any attacks on that country? Let alone Iran and their "Iran-backed" proxies or affiliates.
This is not looking good for Israel.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 14 2024 21:35 utc | 60
What lesson is Israel, america and england blind and obliveous to ?
What lesson never gets learned through out history ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 14 2024 20:36 utc | 55
Taking the last 500 years, a relatively short time span in our long human history but one which marks a distinct era for several reasons:
We could call it the era of colonialism and settler colonialism.
- mass emigration for five hundred years by Europeans taking the form of settler colonialism in temperate zones (24 to 66 degrees lat): Americas, Australia, southern part of Africa. Displacement of local populations.
- colonialism in other climatic zones
- Europeans "escaping" from feudalism recreated feudalism wherever they arrived.
With the age of "enlightenment" (not so much) and age of "reason" (even less) too much belief in
-one's own superiority
-therefor everything and everyone else exists only for your own benefit
-use up natural resources as quickly as possible because "progress"
This attitude being neither enlightened nor reasonable is a bad business model doomed to fail.
Successful empires in history usually expanded contiguously. Only clowns try to control stuff thousands of miles away.
Lessons not learned:
1. If one is pompous based on claims of being "superior"...you better be a real genius. Or else.
2. Managing win win situations is easier than managing zero sum game situations in the long run.
3. Treat others as you want to be treated.
For this reason the era of peace and prosperity (for over 80% of the population) for settler colonies and ex-colonial powers has been remarkably short: just a few post war decades. As a continent, Europe has been at war for most of the last five hundred years. After 1945 Europe---and sidekicks in North America and Australia--realized that outsourcing the conflict through proxies might be less destructive.
Do you think that has worked out well?
And after I wrote this, I realized you answered your own question.
For every action if you miscalculate the reaction.... watch out.
If aboriginals had boomerangs figured out...they must have been ok at calculating the reaction to an action.
Posted by: pq | Feb 14 2024 21:37 utc | 61
@ Patroklos | Feb 14 2024 18:24 utc | 39
Not my words. I am posting what the interviewee said. When myth takes on subjective reality, prudence says, pay attention but no need to be credulous too.
Posted by: suzan | Feb 14 2024 21:43 utc | 62
"On Wednesday Israel warplanes have been widely reported to be flying at low altitude over Beirut, which is a rarity, amid fears the conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border is about to expand into major war."
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 21:56 utc | 63
Pq @ 61
Thanks for that well considered reply.
I knew you wos a good'n.
Warning....the above train of thought i'l be milking for days to come. its deep reeeal deep.
And encouraging, goodness knows we need some light.
Peace to all
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 14 2024 21:56 utc | 64
pq @ 61
"- Europeans "escaping" from feudalism recreated feudalism wherever they arrived. "
===============
Not sure about this one.
"Escaping" can mean a lot of things---different things in different eras. Also, "feudalism" means different things.
Maybe it is used nowadays more as a metaphor.
The crumbling of the European feudal system was one of the drivers of the Age of Discovery (so-called).
Just a few thoughts on the above assertion.
Posted by: Jane | Feb 14 2024 22:16 utc | 65
Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering.
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
Asinine and absurd on so many levels. First, even if "Hamas surrendered" the IOF would continue murdering more Gazans because in their minds, ALL Gazans of ANY age are "Hamas terrorists" and subhuman. Secondly, Israel needs Hamas. Third, even if Hamas collectively surrendered, what would happen? The Izzies would simply do what they plan to do anyway, namely finish demolishing Gaza in preparation for new beachfront condos and off-shore LNG and other petroleum exploration. And really, how much actual fighting with supposed Hamas is still taking place in comparison to the IOF's blanket bombing and clearing campaign? I don't mean to minimize the Resistance's capabilities or courage, I'm just saying that at this point most of Gaza has already been destroyed and it's gotta be tough for Hamas fighters to re-arm.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 14 2024 22:18 utc | 66
Posted by: bevin | Feb 14 2024 16:39 utc | 15
Thanks for that.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Feb 14 2024 22:25 utc | 67
Israel does not try to defeat Hamas, because it's been well-documented that it needs Hamas to justify its own atrocities.
@Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Feb 14 2024 21:11 utc | 58
Bullseye!
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 22:27 utc | 68
librul | Feb 14 2024 16:40 utc | 16
*** I have wondered at what is going on with Syria. They have S-300 but
seem to be holding back in using them. Perhaps iZrael wants them to use them
so they can pick them off piecemeal.
Maybe Syria is keeping them for just the right occasion.***
More likely the Putin gang prevent their use against attacking Israeli aircraft.
Posted by: Cynic | Feb 14 2024 22:40 utc | 69
Eighthman | Feb 14 2024 17:33 utc | 28
*** If this trend is true and persistent, then the end of the state of Israel could be possible. They lost a half a million net out of 9 million? That's huge.***
Danger is, they fancy getting Ukraine and/or Patagonia instead.
Probably *as well as* anyway.
Posted by: Cynic | Feb 14 2024 22:54 utc | 70
RE: “Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering.”
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
Of course Israel could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Palestine more suffering by surrendering and returning to the EU.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Feb 14 2024 22:56 utc | 71
https://www.ft.com/content/6e80aebb-7ff2-4ac4-853c-95431ce447e1
"US facing ‘serious’ national security threat, House intelligence panel chair says
Congressman Mike Turner calls on White House to declassify information."
What could it be? A set up terror attack like 9/11, pearl harbor, the Maine to help the population contract the war fever of the ruling class? Or just another phony threat to get the Dem 100 billion senate war bill passed?
Stay tuned...
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 14 2024 23:09 utc | 72
Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering.
@Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
A Zio uses the words 'honorable' and 'courageous'.
Fuuuunnnnyeeeee
How about 'Hannibal Directive'?
Zios are more familiar with treachery and betrayal.
Posted by: librul | Feb 14 2024 23:11 utc | 73
Of course Zargo could do the courageous and honourable thing and admit that s/he is a troll.
But of course for Zargo to do that would take much longer than it would for Israel to do the courageous and honourable thing by admitting that it needs Hamas and the Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank as diversions to beat up to distract its public from focusing on its real problems at home.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 14 2024 23:24 utc | 74
Israel can only afford a short, sharp war. Its creditworthiness is only a small part of that, and not particularly concerning so long as DC backstops it. But the reality is that the population is too small to prosecute a high intensity conflict for very long without severe impacts on the economy.
Last I saw, there were like 200,000 settlers evacuated from southern Lebanon. Those aren’t casualties but they kind of are. They’re not doing whatever it was that they’re doing. They need state aid. They have the potential to be a political problem.
There’s almost no way Israel can fight in Gaza and Lebanon simultaneously. Israeli casualty numbers are almost certainly higher than reported and it sure looks like a lot of the wounded got their brains scrambled by being inside an APC/tank when a close range RPG hit it. Elite brigades needing to be rotated out for refit, large numbers of reserves already called up. They’re not having an easy time of it. Netanyahu has nothing but bad choices left.
Posted by: Lex | Feb 14 2024 23:37 utc | 75
Thanks b, your insight goes hand on hand with recent articles in Dancing with Bears and Big Serge.
The former delved into the money managers and the behind the scenes moves that indicated the Occupation regime's economy was tanking.
The latter highlighted the Zugzwang position both the US and the Zionist faces. He compares how the overmatch responses by both bears semblance to the fall of the Roman Empire. The very fact that overmatch no longer serves as deterrence points to the hopeless situation both have been caught in.
Cheers
Posted by: Suresh | Feb 14 2024 23:38 utc | 76
Danger is, they fancy getting Ukraine and/or Patagonia instead.
Probably *as well as* anyway.
Posted by: Cynic | Feb 14 2024 22:54 utc | 70
ukrainia new khazharia after an epic local population cull buying up everything pennies in the pound cents in the dollar.
patagonia has had huge areas purchased over the last 10 years that zio temple loving chabad dude ginger headed pirate running argentina will do a thatcher tony blair gordan browns bottom and sell everything off to the parasites ask a nazim.
sisi mom was oriental jew so the children of gaza are going to the desert sinai
oded yinon never sleeps baal and moloch owl need blood flowing israel turkey steal the oil and take the organs.
yahu have plenty of location options why not washington wall street,the vatican,city of london square mile city state or the swiss banksta cuntry
Posted by: todd | Feb 14 2024 23:40 utc | 77
"Of course Israel could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Palestine more suffering by surrendering and returning to the EU.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Feb 14 2024 22:56 utc | 71
Good thinking, 99!
Ukraina does appear to be working towards becoming a
"Land without people, for people without a Land"
Posted by: Rain | Feb 14 2024 23:45 utc | 78
North Stream Demolotion Crew visited IRAN.
Sure, it is connected to this thread.
Posted by: 600w | Feb 14 2024 23:48 utc | 79
Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering.
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
What makes you think the murder of Palestinians by the Zionist regime will stop with the removal of Hamas?
Honestly seeking an answer here, and unless you're a troll you'd provide a sincere answer.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 15 2024 0:20 utc | 80
British foreign secretary David Cameron seem to have developed some sort of a spine and has been more critical towards Israel. This could explain why Hasan Nasrallah is "increasinf the pressure" on Israel.
Posted by: WMG | Feb 15 2024 0:31 utc | 81
Interest rates in Israel have gone up from (about) 1% in 2020/2021 to over 4% right now. That also puts A LOT OF financial pressure on the israeli economy (think: higher mortgage costs).
Posted by: WMG | Feb 15 2024 0:34 utc | 82
Of course Hamas could do the courageous and honorable thing and spare the people of Gaza more suffering by surrendering wiping Israel off the map completely.
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
Fixed it for you. Surrendering, and thereby no longer defending the people of Gaza, would not spare them anything in any way whatsoever. The only way to spare them any suffering is by stopping those who are intent on causing it, and there seems to be only one way to do that. If they have enough courage, honor, and support from the rest of the world to accomplish it, that is.
Posted by: Dalit | Feb 15 2024 0:39 utc | 83
Since b believes the Axis of Resistance that Hamas is winning, why would he advocate a ceasefire? Why does anyone think a ceasefire is a good idea if the Axis of Resistance propaganda is true, the days of the Zionist entity are almost over.
Posted by: zargo | Feb 14 2024 18:03 utc | 30
A psychopath wouldn't understand this.
B, like most normal human beings, understands that a ceasefire is required to stop the further death of vulnerable people in the strip.
Since a normal non-psychopathic human being holds human life to be sacrosanct, and the life of the children more so, the first choice would always be to cease the loss of life - ceasefire.
The settler regime is on its way to history's dustbin anyway, with or without a ceasefire but we would rather not see more children like Hind Rajab gunned down with her family for mere sport by the zionists.
A ceasefire is requested on the basis of Compassion. Resistance, on the basis of the need to defend against annihilation.
Again, a psycopath wouldn't get this.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 15 2024 0:40 utc | 84
No one does anything to stop the genocide in Gaza. Well it's time we brought the genocide to those committing it, I hope every israeli/zionist is exterminated with all there fucked up offspring. Death to all israeli's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: joe_mars | Feb 15 2024 1:07 utc | 85
"librul | Feb 14 2024 16:40 utc | 16
*** I have wondered at what is going on with Syria. They have S-300 but
seem to be holding back in using them. Perhaps iZrael wants them to use them
so they can pick them off piecemeal.
Maybe Syria is keeping them for just the right occasion .***
More likely the Putin gang prevent their use against attacking Israeli aircraft.
Posted by: Cynic | Feb 14 2024 22:40 utc | 69
Methinx Russia has agreed in consultations over recent months with the Axis-of-Resistance to take a back-seat, perhaps being held in reserve as the Hail Mary or "in-case-all-else-fails" - and try to take only a diplomatic role, positioning as 'honest broker', (like China) and continue its 'economic warfare' battles, rather than military -
partly to reinforce and support the Arab/Persian leadership of the conflict (who also don't want to be seen as needing to call on a bigger brother to help out - at least not yet).
and partly, to give time to let all possible international legal, diplomatic, global protest, calls for BDS, UN etc options play out as they will - after those options are exhausted, what's left?
and partly because while Russia is winning against NATO in Ukraine, its still a long, hard, bloody, slog and will be for quite awhile yet (and just now entering the "mud season") - and they don't want to act (or be seen acting) in a 2nd arena and provoke direct confrontation with the US any more than they already have. The US is in a belligerent insane mood, and hence very unpredictable if Russia was seen to be significantly helping in Syria or elsewhere.
Someone above mentioned the Garland video chat with Laith, I saw that too, but am on the fence to 'wait and see' - Laith did predict some plausible stuff, but without much evidence for the casual observer such as myself - only time will tell of the accuracy of Laith's talk. It may just be Hopium/Copium fantasy..
According to Laith, the Axis of Resistance are carefully, very slowly, incrementally escalating for low intensity attrition of Israeli positions, material and manpower - and the 'tipping point' or 'trigger' or 'signal' they are waiting for to escalate more seriously, might well be the full-on attack on Raffa. eg Hezbollah has started attacking Israeli positions in the Golan Heights and Galilee, (possibly because they seem to have run out of targets in the border zone! :-) Yemeni have far more powerful ship-killer weapons than the cheap home-made non-lethal stuff we've seen so far etc etc. Syrian and Iraqi resistance are the weakest, but at least a few of those US bases may not last much longer. According to Laith, the Golan Heights is a primary target.
IIRC - he said Egypt, Jordan and possibly Saudis, are 'wild cards', being "hostage" States rather than true vassals (ie their finances - and probably militaries - are strictly controlled, held "hostage" by the US, they can't afford to anger US/Israel, but also have very angry populations and hence in an awkward position), but hopefully they will just keep their heads down and out of it as far as they can. Turkiye is another ?? -- Iranian foreign minister's recent region hopping tour including meeting with Erdogan, and Erdogan visiting Sisi in Egypt after a decade of torn relations? The pressers only mentioned trade discussions.
For me, as a nobody - the Resistance folks are taking a high-stakes gamble - their last chance, a Do-or-Die moment - like Hamas in October.
Posted by: Rain | Feb 15 2024 1:20 utc | 86
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fredo you broke my heart are from pirate name stealing families coppolla tarantino marty director of casino the older bobby d gets the more he looks like donald rumsfeld al pacino looks like my local rabbi.
as for the great sopranos everything was kosher actors psychologies everything.
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what was tony curtis kirk douglas names
brandos don corleone had to be advised by who in the godfather nobody just a king pin called hymen roth
Posted by: todd | Feb 15 2024 1:21 utc | 87
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A ceasefire is requested on the basis of Compassion. Resistance, on the basis of the need to defend against annihilation.
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Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 15 2024 0:40 utc | 84
Between Resistance (Defense) and Ceasefire (Compassion) there is a tension.
This tension is always in flux, oscillating between the need to stem the flow of blood and neutralise the attacker.
The analogy of brawling with a thug intent on taking one's life in an alleyway works as well as any.
This tension is not only present in the Victim but also in the Perpetrator.
The time will come (and has come in the past) for 'Israel' to experience this tension and it's calls for "Ceasefire" will also sound loud and clear.
What will you say then, Zargo?
In fact, as we speak, 'Israel' is sending it's French vassal to Lebanon to beg for a ceasefire ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 15 2024 1:25 utc | 88
Suresh | Feb 14 2024 23:38 utc | 76
Good to see your posts
I thank you for the tip to the Big Serge article
right on point
Zugzwang (a German word that literally means “move compulsion”) refers to any situation in chess where a player is forced to make a move that weakens his position, such as a king that is backed into a corner to escape from check - each time he moves out of check, he moves himself closer to checkmate. More simply put, Zugzwang refers to a situation where there are no good moves available, but it is your turn. If you find yourself staring at the board, thinking that you would prefer to simply skip your turn, you are in Zugzwang. But of course, you cannot skip your turn. You have to move. And no matter what move you choose, your position gets worse.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang
Posted by: ld | Feb 15 2024 1:49 utc | 89
Posted by: todd | Feb 15 2024 1:21 utc | 87
It seems like this is the script for spoken performance art...
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 15 2024 1:55 utc | 90
Looks like the 2024 election will be the most important one of our lives (again). Will Americans choose Ukraine First or Israel First as their national policy priority? Only time will tell.
Posted by: Minority Outlier | Feb 14 2024 15:51 utc | 4
Will either of them still exist in November?
Posted by: Honzo | Feb 15 2024 2:06 utc | 91
Australian Jewish association (AJA) were the group that created a fake video and fake text translating chants of " gas the jews " at Sydney Opera house. This fakery made global news. Fake as police sound forensics studied multiple other sources of the same event and couldn't find the words used. Now they claim victims as Dr Adler claims lawfare is used against him. Wow another special tactic. Just ask Jeremy Corby about lawfare .
Posted by: Hankster | Feb 15 2024 2:15 utc | 93
From what I can see of it, Hezbollah's cross border strikes are intended to draw the Zionists into Hezbollah home turf and a repeat of 2006.
Hezbollah move into Israel, they are out of their dug in positions, out in the open and vulnerable to airstrikes, tank and artillery fire
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 14 2024 20:15 utc | 53
I haven't seen many detailed reports, but from what I have seen I think that Hezbollah is very deliberately using the opening phase of this conflict as r&d to see which of their inter-war plans and technical developments are most likely to accomplish their missions, and to get troops used to combat operations, which not all of them have experienced. What Hezbollah can accomplish in a major escalation cannot be judged by the present actions or by repeating the last war but in reverse. If Israel makes a major escalation, Hezbollah's missile arsenal can saturate Israeli defenses and destroy anything and everything north of Galilee, from what I've been given to understand. Even if the IDF is able maintain its operational integrity in the face of this, the civilian population will start to flee the whole country in much greater numbers than is already the case, and I doubt they'd come back, regardless of how battles on the ground work out.
The US can play wackamole with the Houthi, because the Houthi strategy is to plink away at shipping to keep the Red Sea closed to Zionism's supporters, a few missiles and drones at a time. A major war with Hezbollah is not likely to follow that pattern. The US and Israel combined do not have the ability to stop the rain of missiles Hezbollah will launch.
Posted by: Honzo | Feb 15 2024 2:21 utc | 94
The so called "October 7" event was a scripted (controlled) false flag event made in Israel. Zionist operatives seeking to “wipe Gaza off the map” first needed to engineer global outrage by creating the conditions for an alleged mass-casualty producing event, such as the one on October 7, 2023. This event was in turn used as a pretext for the current Zionist perpetrated genocide happening now in Gaza (and next in the West Bank). It was one of the most sophisticated land grabs in recent history. Don’t be fooled, and keep in mind the motto of the Mossad, “by way of deception, thou shall do war.”
Below is how the plan was to unfold:
Phase 1) The Israeli Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) infiltrated Hamas, leading and enticing members of the group to enter Israeli occupied lands to capture Zionist settlers. The Shin Bet coaxed (using internal Shin Bet agents within Hamas) Hamas into believing that the strategy was for Hamas to exchange (via a so called “prisoner exchange)” the captured Zionist settlers for Palestinian captives taken hostage by the Israelis over the last few decades who languish in Israel's prisons to this day.
This was all a ploy, as the Shin Bet and the IDF's strategy was to allow Hamas entry into the secured perimeter separating Gaza from the Israeli occupied lands. This area is among the most secure perimeters in the world. Former IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers have expressed this fact, and have acknowledged that absent leaving open avenues for Hamas’ entry, it would have been virtually impossible for Hamas to gain entry. So that Hamas would not face resistance, the IDF relocated IDF units away from the area of the perimeter which Hamas planned to use for entry. The area was left virtually unguarded. Hamas then entered the secure perimeter under the careful observations of the IDF.
Phase 2) After Hamas’ entry into the Israeli occupied lands they would be allowed to begin to take Zionist settlers as captives. The IDF would allow Hamas time to conduct this phase of the operation. Shortly thereafter, the IDF along with Israeli police would then begin their attack against Hamas using maximum force to annihilate the Hamas combatants and to also cause significant deaths among the Israeli captives. By doing so, the Israeli plan was to show that Hamas attacked and killed the Israeli captives. When in reality, the vast majority of deaths were actually caused by the IDF and the Israeli police.
Phase 3) The IDF would then falsely allege that Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza. The IDF would then activate their so called “Iron Dome” missile defense rockets that actually shoot into the air, explode and don’t actually intercept anything. See this link for video discussing this matter: https://rumble.com/v3pbk7s-israeli-expert-says-iron-dome-defence-is-a-hoax..html. The IDF would then detonate smoke bombs on the ground to falsely convey that Hamas’ alleged rockets damaged buildings in Israel. However, there is no evidence that any buildings (except for a few that were actually destroyed by the IDF) were actually destroyed by these alleged Hamas missiles. In reality, Hamas did not fire a massive barrage of missiles into Israeli occupied lands. Hamas had no interest in firing rockets into Israel. As mentioned, Hamas was led to believe that the operation was to take captives alive to exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. This false narrative was all part of this Israeli scripted “October 7” event.
Phase 4) Propaganda (Hasbarra). The Israelis knowing well how to manipulate world opinion, knew that this “October 7” false flag event can be a useful pretext for the Zionist regime to ethnically cleanse Gaza, created the false narrative that the Zionists are attacking Gaza to allegedly root out Hamas. Immediately, the pre-planned Zionist propaganda machine was set into action coining the term “October 7” and filing the media with false claims that the IDF and Israeli security officials were “taken by surprise” by Hamas’ alleged infiltration into Israeli occupied lands. When in reality, the Shin Bet set the entire process in motion. Israeli officials gave scripted interviews and published false propaganda throughout the world’s Zionist controlled media outlets. The Zionist controlled media continues to repeat the false narrative that 1,200 Zionists were killed by Hamas during the “October 7” event. There is no evidence to support this high casualty figure. This number was created out of thin air, to convey to the world that this was was a high casualty event. When in reality, it was not. We observed scripted false narratives that Hamas beheaded children, and committed atrocities. Media in the West were inundated by fabricated accounts created by Zionist Hasbarra spinmasters. All these stories were fabricated to pave way to mold Western public opinion into accepting what was to follow - the massive ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Gaza.
Phase 5) Empty Gaza’s Palestinians into Egypt or other foreign states (on the grounds of humanitarian assistance or bribery to foreign countries) and permanently settle Jews in Gaza. The West Bank is next. Another false flag operation is most likely in the works to create a similar situation in the West Bank and drive the Palestinians into Jordan. Permanently settle Jews in the West Bank.
The scripted “October 7” event was to be used as a pretext to kill hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s Palestinian population by the indiscriminate dropping of 2,000 pound bunker buster bombs, razing all of its buildings, starving the remaining population who survive the massive explosions, and otherwise killing by preventing medical treatment, and using any means to make the Palestinians to want to disperse and leave Gaza, and force their way into Egypt. Israel's plan was to coax the Palestinians into Rafah by dropping leaflets and robocalls advising them to move south prior to bombing, and then when they moved into Rafah, then bomb them so that hundreds and thousands of Palestinians would trample one another as they press their way past the Egyptian border. Israel's strategy was from the beginning to kill or expel the Palestinians in Gaza, and to make way for Jews to move into the area to permanently settle. Next, will be a similar process for the West Bank.
The so called "October 7" event was a scripted (controlled) false flag event made in Israel. It was one of the most sophisticated land grabs in recent history. Hamas was used as an unwitting tool to further this deception. Keep in mind the motto of the Mossad, “by way of deception, thou shall do war.”
Posted by: JimmyJKnows | Feb 15 2024 2:28 utc | 95
@ JimmyJKnows | Feb 15 2024 2:28 utc | 95 who reads like a librul clone
Gawd we all wish we were as smart as you..../s
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 15 2024 2:31 utc | 96
I rather like and respect Nasrallah. In a rules based international order, dictated by the US/ISISRAEL, who rarely obey their own rules, Nasrallah, Putin seem to be the only adults on the International world stage.
Having said that, that Nasrallah did not capitulate to the filthy Zionazis, IS NEWS. It just seems to me that no Arab country is going to step on US/ISISRAEL toes. Why is each so AFRAID of the US/Isisrael?
In almost every commentary/analysis I've read or
watched over the last few days, if Israhell does a GROUND invasion of Rafah, apparently THAT is the red line, but NOT if Israhell just bombs Rafah and 1.3 million Palestinians to death? What the hell difference does it make? A GENOCIDE IS A GENOCIDE
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that? Apparently, the Jordanian King and al Sisi in Egypt are getting a little edgy, as their people have reached a point where they have had enough of their gov and Israhell collaborations despite what IsraHell is doing to Palestinians. The majority of population in Saudi Arabia are against the Zionazi entity and GENOCIDE too. What will these
Arab leaders be forced to do should a major war break out?
The ME is a powder keg. As is the US/ISISRAEL for that matter. Never in all my 60 years have I seen our political sociopathic REPS so deluded and so OUT OF TOUCH with the population they are supposed to represent, also a majority of whom want the GENOCIDE to stop..
Will be a very interesting few weeks coming up.
Posted by: Kay | Feb 15 2024 2:39 utc | 97
I rather like and respect Nasrallah. In a rules based international order, dictated by the US/ISISRAEL, who rarely obey their own rules, Nasrallah, Putin seem to be the only adults on the International world stage.
Having said that, that Nasrallah did not capitulate to the filthy Zionazis, IS NEWS. It just seems to me that no Arab country is going to step on US/ISISRAEL toes. Why is each so AFRAID of the US/Isisrael?
In almost every commentary/analysis I've read or
watched over the last few days, if Israhell does a GROUND invasion of Rafah, apparently THAT is the red line, but NOT if Israhell just bombs Rafah and 1.3 million Palestinians to death? What the hell difference does it make? A GENOCIDE IS A GENOCIDE
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that? Apparently, the Jordanian King and al Sisi in Egypt are getting a little edgy, as their people have reached a point where they have had enough of their gov and Israhell collaborations despite what IsraHell is doing to Palestinians. The majority of population in Saudi Arabia are against the Zionazi entity and GENOCIDE too. What will these
Arab leaders be forced to do should a major war break out?
The ME is a powder keg. As is the US/ISISRAEL for that matter. Never in all my 60 years have I seen our political sociopathic REPS so deluded and so OUT OF TOUCH with the population they are supposed to represent, also a majority of whom want the GENOCIDE to stop..
Will be a very interesting few weeks coming up.
Posted by: Kay | Feb 15 2024 2:39 utc | 98
@ Bevin
“British government were veery happy to acceded to the zionist demands pressed on them by, inter alia, CP Scott and Lloyd George as well as the imperialist establishment”
@ bevin | Feb 14 2024 18:23 utc | 38
I am interested in the sources you recommend on this subject. Someone upthread also requested this from you who I see as, one of our valued in-house historians.
Also, could you recount a short narrative, if possible, of the unfolding of an allied capital strike against Germany as WW I hostilities unfolded? I appreciate your depth of understanding of such matters, which I lack.
Last, enjoy your travels.
Posted by: suzan | Feb 15 2024 2:51 utc | 99
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The zionazi establishment dictatorship under which we are forced to live in Europe without democratic choice, howl in unison like trained dogs in defence of their bully dog pet israel, in a pathetic spectacle. I still come across the odd person, mostly above 60 in age, who are able to create for themselves a world in which you can genocide 30,000 people, enforce an apartheid state and still be the good guys. That must be a strange place indeed. The ruling elites of course require no such artifice - the equation of raw naked power is more than sufficient.
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Feb 14 2024 15:35 utc | 1