One more thing: the Palestian cause would be a lot more successful in getting followers if it were not blended with that Islamic thing all the time. Giyane is now saying Islam does not hurt civilians because there are drops of this and oceans of that, which is a really creative take on reality. I have my own religious obligations to follow and MoA is not worth my time and effort anymore. See you after Easter if ever.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Feb 16 2024 7:33 utc | 103

Posted by: Jonathan W | Feb 16 2024 7:33 utc | 104
Giyane is sensitive about a stereotype thrust upon his religion, that has not been thrust upon the other bloody, major religions.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2024 7:54 utc | 105

Bibi‘s son shirks his military duty and lives the life in a $5,000/month condo in Miami.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-s-son-dodges-draft–enjoys-time-in-luxe-florida-ap

Posted by: Exile | Feb 16 2024 10:06 utc | 107

ICJ published Israels defense regarding South Africas application to order immediate measures.
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240215-wri-01-00-en.pdf
Their claim is basically, that the circumstances
referred to by South Africa are not qualitatively different than three weeks ago. Well, just about five thousand more people killed. Makes no difference …

Posted by: Udkanten | Feb 16 2024 10:57 utc | 109

My understanding has been that Blackwater, Erik princes company’s biggest customer has been the United Arab Emirates, probably in Yemen. With Saudi as a close second.
Of course, nowadays they seem to be on the same side as Netanyahu…
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Feb 15 2024 17:35 utc | 29
Don’t be shy about letting ignorance get in the way of Islamophobia!!! It’s one thing to provide a reasoned critique of policy decisions made by countries based on detailed research. It’s another to constantly keep bashing Arabs and Muslims for not ending up like Syria or Iraq.
I insist: inciting Islamophobia in the sheeple is a key element of (failing) imperial geopolitical strategy, going back about 40 years. Architect: Zionists. If you keep bashing the Gulf Countries, you’re doing EXACTLY WHAT THE ZIONISTS WANT.
The point of the Islamophobia strategy is to justify invasion and genocide of the Islamic world which of course includes indigenous Christians and Sephardic Jews.
The first tool is to equate Islam with terrorism in the minds of the sheeple.
The second element is to insist to the sheeple that Islam is uniquely predisposed to bring religion into politics and that this is bad because of point one above.
This is not me saying so. This is directly from a David Miller interview. The only “good” Muslim is the one being genocided, ethnically cleansed or sanctioned as they resist. They’re the underdog so we can momentarily show we’re humans by suspending our prejudices.
1. The moment they arrive as refugees in the Axis of Genocide all hell breaks loose. The xenophobes come out screaming. You’ll find them all over MoA too.
2. If Muslims stay in their own prosperous countries surviving by WHATEVER COMPROMISES, god forbid, rich Arabs. Can’t have that.
3. If they make what we consider insalubrious compromises, we, as their imperial masters tell them they need revolution and democracy, you know, like the Zionist controlled democracies we have in the Axis of Genocide.
Note: I am not commenting on their decision. I am saying that I do not judge them from my lofty “moral” perch in the Axis of Genocide.
I digressed. Blackwater is no longer Blackwater. Not that Dr. Delhi deals in details. Academi / Xe / Blackwater / Tripe Canopy / Constellia….by the time I finish typing they will have changed their name again.
https://www.constellis.com/press/constellis-company-triple-canopy-wins-dos-wpsiii/
Constellis, a leading provider of essential risk management and mission support services to government and commercial clients worldwide, announced today that the Department of State (DOS) awarded the company’s Triple Canopy subsidiary a 10-year protective services contract in Baghdad, Iraq, under the WPS III Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a $1.3 billion contract value.
$1.3 billion to guard an Embassy? Dafuq dey be doing in dat embassy????
There is a large media industry (MSM and indy) built around ALLEGATIONS that rich Gulf countries use Blackwater, they tried to invade Russia (via Chechnya), they fund mercenaries all over the globe. FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR OWN ACCUSATIONS. All of the “independent” news media sites like MEE, The Cradle, New Arab who seem to have NO visible source of funding devote a LOT of time to attacking Gulf countries.
Ask yourself why?
If you were an Zionazi imperial neocon (and no the imperialist mindset has NEVER gone away, just that it now includes some nominal “diversity hires”) what is the grand prize you would go after???
For example we get these types of stories
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE74E3NZ/
The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the United Arab Emirates, the New York Times said Sunday.
The Times said it “obtained documents”…. The Times quoted a U.S. official who was aware of the program
Translation:
With the failure of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and apart from the fact that Constellis needs new contracts, the assets of the richest Gulf countries are being eyed. US Gulf refineries are set up for Saudi sour. Previously it was thought that destabilizing Saudi was not a good idea. Now, with the Axis of Genocide imploding from within, they are NOT happy about recent developments with BRICS etc.
IF Constellis is indeed in Saudi / UAE the MOST LIKELY explanation is that they have BEEN SENT THERE BY THE CIA to make sure the sheikhs don’t get too independent.
Look at the recent Anti Assad Normalization Bill passed by the US. They want to:
-spy on any Arab countrv having diplomatic visits with Syria
-sanction any Arab country that invests more than 50,000 in Syria reconstruction.
This is the kind of SHIT that our Axis of Genocide governments keep imposing on the world and that we, as taxpayers pay for. So before using tired tropes, take a few moments to research the situation. I don’t think you grasp the enormity of the tentacles of a failing empire.

Posted by: pq | Feb 16 2024 10:58 utc | 111

Posted by: Udkanten | Feb 16 2024 10:57 utc | 110
Thanks.
I had a really bad feeling when ICJ opened on Jan 26 by declaring that history started on Oct 7. They have no jurisdiction over Hamas so there was no need to stick hostage release into the end of their document without ALSO mentioning the Palestinian hostages.
The fact that ICJ did not grant RSA’s first and most important request “Israel must STOP ALL MILITARY OPS” was a total cop out. My first reaction, “FUCK THE ICJ” stands.
Now South Africa has asked for
“South Africa thus respectfully calls upon the Court to consider as a matter of the greatest
urgency whether the developing circumstances in Rafah require that it exercise its power under Article
75(1) of the Rules of Court to prevent further imminent breach of the rights of Palestinians in
Gaza. South Africa also reserves its own rights to take further action in respect of the situation.”
South Africa cites LaGrand as the precedent.
Article 75
1. The Court may at any time decide to examine proprio motu whether the circumstances of the case require the indication of provisional measures which ought to be taken or complied with by any or all of the parties.
2. When a request for provisional measures has been made, the Court may indicate measures that are in whole or in part other than those requested, or that ought to be taken or complied with by the party which has itself made the request.
3. The rejection of a request for the indication of provisional measures shall not prevent the party which made it from making a fresh request in the same case based on new facts.

Posted by: pq | Feb 16 2024 11:14 utc | 113

sisi the dwarf not king of jordan and dog erdogan are snakes
turkye,u a e egypt jordan and saudi the axis of assistance
partners in satanick criminal enterprise
when israel is mighty

Posted by: todd | Feb 16 2024 11:29 utc | 115

There are a number of informative and thoughtful posts in this thread for which I am grateful.
In particular I appreciate the posts of pq (and sln2002), and agree with his caution not to view the Arab countries based on Wikipedia, western media and in general western discourse.
While I am very critical of the Arab states’ reactions to the destruction of Palestinians and Gaza, I am learning about these countries, their histories and present. Things are not the way they are presented in the West and in the media, corporate or many of the independent ones.
For those who are not basing their “knowledge” solely on twitter and the internet, I want to recommend the articles, and first of all books, of Joseph. A. Massad, considered the successor of Edward Said.They were colleagues and friends.
At the moment I am reading his book:
The Persistence of the Palestinian Question (Essays of Zionism and the Palestinians), published in 2006 by Routledge
You will be amazed by what you learn from this book.

Posted by: JB | Feb 16 2024 11:43 utc | 117

“With the failure of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and apart from the fact that Constellis needs new contracts, the assets of the richest Gulf countries are being eyed. US Gulf refineries are set up for Saudi sour. Previously it was thought that destabilizing Saudi was not a good idea. Now, with the Axis of Genocide imploding from within, they are NOT happy about recent developments with BRICS etc.
IF Constellis is indeed in Saudi / UAE the MOST LIKELY explanation is that they have BEEN SENT THERE BY THE CIA to make sure the sheikhs don’t get too independent.
Look at the recent Anti Assad Normalization Bill passed by the US. They want to:
-spy on any Arab countrv having diplomatic visits with Syria
-sanction any Arab country that invests more than 50,000 in Syria reconstruction.
This is the kind of SHIT that our Axis of Genocide governments keep imposing on the world and that we, as taxpayers pay for. So before using tired tropes, take a few moments to research the situation. I don’t think you grasp the enormity of the tentacles of a failing empire.
Posted by: pq | Feb 16 2024 10:58 utc | 112”
A well written informative post, thank you.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 16 2024 12:36 utc | 119

But I rather suspect that most commenters on this blog are all Axis of Genocide folks.
Posted by: pq | Feb 16 2024 11:07 utc | 113
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I wonder whether you could provide information without insulting other commenters here along the way.
Your constant high dudgeon and SHOUTING makes it hard to even read your comments, even though they contain good information.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 16 2024 12:46 utc | 121

@furnace | Feb 16 2024 12:48 utc | 123
There are 30 Million Kurds.
Largest ethnic group without a state of their own.
Dispersed between Turkey,Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Screwed by Sykes/Pichot after WWI – all those colonial lines but but No Kurdistan.
Are they all colonised? Good question.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 16 2024 12:55 utc | 123

Posted by: Jo | Feb 15 2024 22:31 utc | 68
In the aftermath of the war in Germany,
a. hundreds of German cities had been firebombed by Allies and reduced to rubble. As many as 7 million German civilians were “dehoused.”
b. Germans lived in rubble for over 2 years
c. Jews were housed in sound and secure places, not infrequently, Germans were forced out of their homes so that Jews cold dwell there.
THEREFORE: Palestinians should be housed in homes etc. in Israel; Palestinians should be provided medical aid in Israeli hospitals.
Move Israelis out. Let them find what shelter they can in Gaza.
That is what the West deemed to be just in the aftermath of the war in Germany.
For starters.
Several million ethnic Germans were evicted from their homes after WWII.
Erik Prince can oversee the forced transfer of however-many million Israelis to the undeveloped African regions he proposes colonizing.
Palestinians can move into the vacated Israel, from which center they can oversee the rebuilding of their ancient homeland and begin the process of developing their maritime oilfields.
Germans were brutally “de-Nazified.” (See Cora Sol Goldstein’s Capturing the German Eye )
Similarly, the ideology of zionism must be extirpated from the Jewish psyche.
An American-born Jew who had been a Ritchie Boy, M. Parloff, drafted an extensive questionnaire that became the standard test for “Nazism” that every German had to complete and defend.
Similarly, every Jew must be required to complete a questionnaire, reporting his/her involvment with zionism, with the war crimes committed against the Palestinians, etc. No Jewish person may be allowed to travel into another country until such a form is completed in an acceptable manner.
Zionists and others who actively particpated in the slaughter, including by incitement, such as Caroline Glick, should be tried and publicly hanged.
Legislation requiring “holocaust” education should be rigorously enforced: complete and graphically illustrated record of the genocide committed against Palestinians must be the opening chapter in this education.
Churches should be required to present this information to their congregations.

Posted by: ChasMark | Feb 16 2024 13:03 utc | 125

Posted by: SG | Feb 16 2024 13:27 utc | 127
Okay, I know this isn’t the case, but you sound like borderline hasbara. Look, the costs are obviously enormous given the power imbalance, but the situation of the Zionist Entity has never been worse. Strategically speaking, it was a massive defeat. This is hardly debatable! The Tet Offensive, as the current events are often compared with, was, to my knowledge, a tactical and operational defeat. And yet who won the war?
Also, a dimished Palestine? What State of Palestine, pray tell, existed before October 7th? The PA letting settlers steal land outright? You can’t be serious.
As for the Kurds, I have mentioned I’m no expert, so I’ll defer to what you said.

Posted by: furnace | Feb 16 2024 13:33 utc | 127

have my own religious obligations to follow and MoA is not worth my time and effort anymore. See you after Easter if ever.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Feb 16 2024 7:33 utc | 104

And nothing of value was lost. Hasbara screeching nonsense. Your screed doesn’t extend to Judaism, as though all the Abrahamic desert cults haven’t committed litanies of atrocities. Zionists invented modern terrorism to create Israel, the Irgun and similar organizations.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Feb 16 2024 14:13 utc | 129

If there were more “good” jews in “Israel” than hate-filled, genocidal jews, could they demand that Bibi stop genociding Palestinians?
Or is “Israel” the same sort of Mock Democracy that the citizens of the US, UK and the rest of the West have been tricked into accepting as a 3rd rate substitute for Representative Democracy?

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Feb 16 2024 14:41 utc | 131

I saw this and not being an American wasn’t sure if it was parody or an actual political advert.
https://t.me/RiseGS/14670
Anyways put those eggs back as that’s what it costs to bomb kids in Palestine this week

Posted by: Hankster | Feb 16 2024 15:06 utc | 133

Does anyone here have any insight as to what the Jordanian King is doing? The U.S./EU “tour”?
Aside from the obvious…
I wonder if there is any self awareness for him at all as to the message he is sending his citizens?
He’s awfully confident. His return home could be interesting. He is a fool, especially with Ramadan approaching.
Or heck, maybe I’m the fool. Anyways, good grief the latest show with Macron was vomit inducing…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Feb 16 2024 15:12 utc | 135

The leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Nasrallah, has today given his probably most important speech since Oct 7, based on the available excerpts.
Some:
– Operation Al-Aqsa Flood exposed this long-standing Israeli objective of establishing a purely Jewish state extending from the sea to the river
– The Israeli goal was to displace Palestinians from occupied Palestine, relocating the people of the West Bank to Jordan, those of Gaza to Egypt, and those of the 1980s to Lebanon
– The project of establishing a purely Jewish state not only targets Palestinians but also poses a threat to Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon
– Many believed in the Israeli historical falsification regarding October 7, including countries that claim to be friends with the Hamas movement
– Today, one of our responsibilities is to clarify the facts, as there has been a significant Israeli distortion of events since October 7
– The Palestinian Resistance has been subjected since October 7 to the worst humiliation and fraud campaigns any Resistance movement has been subjected to in our contemporary history.
– The sacrifices made by Resistance movements are not born out of a reaction or a temporary response, they are born out of a social awareness, a vision, and a knowledge of end goals.
– Today, in Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and throughout the region, we must never lose sight of the truth about the costs of resistance versus the costs of surrender
– The cost of capitulation is great and devastating and even existential.
– Isn’t it humiliating and a sign of weakness that countries ruling over two billion Muslims are unable to deliver medicine to the people of Gaza?
I hope there will be a full transcript.
See excerpts:
https://english.almanar.com.lb/
https://english.almayadeen.net/shortnews

Posted by: JB | Feb 16 2024 15:27 utc | 137

The Cradle has a new posting up with the title
Biden discusses ‘next stage’ of Gaza war with Netanyahu
https://thecradle.co/articles/biden-discusses-next-stage-of-gaza-war-with-netanyahu
the quote

Netanyahu had been meeting with CIA chief William Burns, the Israeli war cabinet, and the security cabinet before stepping out of the meeting to take the call with Biden, according to Hebrew media reports.
“My positions can be summarized in the following two sentences. Israel categorically rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians. Such an arrangement will be reached only through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions,” he said after the phone call.
“Israel will continue to oppose the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition in the wake of the October 7 massacre would give a huge reward to unprecedented terrorism and prevent any future peace settlement.”

SSDD = Same Shit, Different Day

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 16 2024 15:54 utc | 139

“Israeli rappers call for Dua Lipa, …
Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 16 2024 15:31 utc | 139
Dua Lipa? Well that’s the end of ‘israel’ then!
Posted by: JB | Feb 16 2024 15:27 utc | 138
I always strikes me how in touch with the feelings and sentiment of the “man on the street” Nasrallah always appears to be. Never disconnected from what the common sufferers feel, yet always a guiding and strategic hand.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 16 2024 16:25 utc | 141

israel israel once mighty
ukrainia ukrainia patagonia patagonia
argentina argentina a home land for the chosen
watch out argentine for the locals a cull is coming

Posted by: todd | Feb 16 2024 16:38 utc | 143

@Bemildred | Feb 16 2024 14:24 utc | 131
Yes. It is excellent as you note. Also strong support for Crooke’s ‘eschatological’ argument. I buy it.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 16 2024 15:27 utc | 137
Yes, the US Military is still infatuated with the methods it used against the native americans here, lots of little forts all over, provoke attacks, then move in and massacre and take what you want. The only exception is WWII when they showed real if not great competence against an industrial enemy, and they forgot it all as soon as possible. You could say that they knew what they were doing in the Civil War too, sort of, but that is not as clear. (All IMHO.)

Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 16 2024 17:18 utc | 145

the depravity no longer shocks
Satan walks among us
As a taste of what is to come that is even more bizarre than what has already transpired, Israel’s “most moral army in the world” has now also gone into the entertainment business. It has begun to invite groups of Israeli civilians into detention centers and prisons that have been holding West Bank Palestinian prisoners as well as detainees from the Gaza Strip. The civilians are able to observe the detainees, stripped to their underwear, and laugh and jeer as the men are being beaten, humiliated and tortured, with many of the viewers also allowed to film what is happening on their own cell phones to share with their friends and families.
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/american-foreign-policy-seems-to-have-nowhere-to-go/#comments

Posted by: ld | Feb 16 2024 18:09 utc | 147

The Kurds are presumably the Kardoukhoi, who appear in Xenophon’s Anabasis (4th century BC).
Their language is an Iranian language related to Farsi/Persian.

Posted by: Lysias | Feb 17 2024 1:35 utc | 149

Posted by: Lysias | Feb 17 2024 1:35 utc | 150
I would die a peaceful death if I could see the Kurds and the Zionists granted the same patch of dirt as a Homeland.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 17 2024 5:07 utc | 151
you have been with BuSab ?

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 17 2024 12:45 utc | 151

There are 30 Million Kurds.
Largest ethnic group without a state of their own.
Dispersed between Turkey,Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Screwed by Sykes/Pichot after WWI – all those colonial lines but but No Kurdistan.
Are they all colonised? Good question.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 16 2024 12:55 utc | 124
Don, I doubt we will ever see a Kurdistan. Such an entity currently will need access to water. A Kurdistan will be land locked by the countries you mentioned, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. All opposed to creation of such an entity.
Any commerce with the outside world would need the acquiescence of the surrounding countries.
Colonized?
Kurds of all different colors, are all most definitely colonized, in their mind, that is. They often work against their own interests by allowing themselves to be a plaything of the empire to get screwed and betrayed time and again.
This reminds me of, how general Suleimani took Kirkuk without firing a shot. Now, that’s warfare.
Here is a good article on Kirkuk, which would be but just small part of Kurdistan, and all the variables that contribute to the conflicts in the area, be it ethno-national identity, oil, or regional intervention.
https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/analyses/war-over-city-exploring-kirkuk%E2%80%99s-multi-layered-conflict

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Feb 18 2024 5:23 utc | 153

One more thing: the Palestian cause would be a lot more successful in getting followers if it were not blended with that Islamic thing all the time. Giyane is now saying Islam does not hurt civilians because there are drops of this and oceans of that, which is a really creative take on reality. I have my own religious obligations to follow and MoA is not worth my time and effort anymore. See you after Easter if ever.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Feb 16 2024 7:33 utc | 104
The PLO and its component organization were avowedly secular and included atheists, Christians and Druze among their members.
So has the Palestinian Authority in all its impotent corruption and cronyism.
Did they accomplish
anything more than Hamas has?
The most successful movements fighting against the Axis of Genocide have been Islamic in character while accepting non Muslim fighters. I include among them Hizbollah, Hamas, Houthi and Iran.
None of their operations have targeted civilians, unlike those of their secular brethren.
Zionist smear and propaganda attacks on Islam and its adherents show that they realize this and fear them. The Muslims know who they are fighting and can’t be bamboozled – they were warned.
Meanwhile secular Arab nationalism led to ineffective self-serving crony dictatorships in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Libya…

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Feb 18 2024 20:06 utc | 155