no news on the radio for ages does that mean the slaughter is over?
is it still 30 odd thousand strange it seems to stop around the mid 30s
i would imagine with all the kosher big bomba the real figures would be more than 160 thousand at this point in the talmudick blood ritual baal molech spectacular spectacular
oded yinon new khazaria are big ideas the kaballa slaughter must go on or the crops may fail and israel may never be mighty

Posted by: todd | Mar 15 2024 16:31 utc | 4

Two big points:
First, the Tik-Tok ban passed by Congress is fundamentally because of Gaza, not China. Thus, it is a further attempt by the captive US Congress to shut down free speech. See https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/15/washingtons-renewed-urgency-for-tiktok-ban-is-due-to-war-on-gaza/ .
Second, Schumer’s abandonment of Netanyahu indicates tremendous disarray in the Zionist camp and a panicky fear that Israel’s murderous push is too much for the world and even for the normally sessile American public. See https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/14/sen-schumer-says-netanyahu-is-obstacle-to-peace-calls-for-israeli-elections/ . This is a very big straw in the wind, that Schumer should feel moved to interfere in Israeli politics. The impudence!

Posted by: Cabe | Mar 15 2024 16:43 utc | 6

4 you have not included thousands buried under bombed buildings…nor the many that will die from starvation…increasing disease
effects of no sanitation freshwater… …nor the many seriously maimed..the many who could die from lack of treatments medications that they should normally have ie cancer …kidney dialysis..lack of dentistry…mental illnesses and lack of support services. future lack of economy..no pensions .living conditions heat cold….

Posted by: Jo | Mar 15 2024 16:56 utc | 8

8 Jo Thank you.
Let us shout it to the rooftops – Hamas is only putting numbers onto identified bodies. This is an example of being scrupulous – meticulous honesty. Hamas has scruples.
The concept of synergistic effect is a constant background process occurring in my brain. 2 apples plus 2 oranges can equal, 5 or 6 or 8. The lack of water damages the kidneys which exacerbates the lack of calories which is further compounded by the immune system degradation which is affected by the human waste present. The kidney damage is permanent.
8 Jo Mange tusen takk Many thousand thank you’s.
Not much really new out of Al-Manar or Mayadeen ( have not checke this morning) The israeli attack on Baalbek in Bekka Valley up north and east appeared to me to be a real upping of the ante by israel. I just hope we are not seeing the calm before the storm.

Posted by: paxmark1 | Mar 15 2024 17:33 utc | 10

I was wonder why Hamas seemed so lenient, “working with US”… latest was a straight “hostage” for prisoner exchange. Nothing else really except for “future talks” for permanent ceasefire and gradual release of rest of “hostages”.
But then, even this Netanyahu balked at.
He doesn’t want hostages back… any…
Only war.
https://www.rt.com/news/594321-natanyahu-approves-rafah-operation/
“Israeli PM approves Rafah operation plan
Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF is prepared to conduct the attack and evacuate the civilian population”
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the latest truce and prisoner-exchange proposal by Hamas and has approved an IDF plan to launch an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Israeli media reported on Friday.
”The IDF is prepared for the operation and to evacuate the [civilian] population,” the PM’s office said in a statement, as cited by the Times of Israel.
Earlier in the day, Hamas announced on social media that it had presented its “vision” of a prisoner swap with Israel to Qatari and Egyptian mediators and was looking towards a ceasefire agreement which would to involve the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from Gaza.”
I realized it doesn’t matter how “accommodating” Hamas is or appears to be, they got Israel’s number and kniws they won’t accept a thing, but at least looks to world, ICJ etc that they are negotiating in good faith.
This all looks like the last 75 years. US/Israel promise “later”…
Time to talk is over… IMO

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 15 2024 18:01 utc | 12

, Canada!
Moon of Alabama is going to lose Canuck.
Canada is moving to pass Bill C-63, also known as the Online Harms Act.
You can get life in prison cleaning fish if you post anything deemed not PC or status quo.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/03/government-gaslighting-again-unpacking-the-uncomfortable-reality-of-the-online-harms-act/
Posted by: librul | Mar 15 2024 16:56 utc | 7
“I’ll give you my keybordd when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.”

Posted by: canuck | Mar 15 2024 18:11 utc | 14

Warrior
My family comes from the Czech Republic, where is your family from? From Ukraine or from Poland ? Or you are from New York ?
Zionism is a monstrous ideology because it establishes a brutal distinction between a dominant people and a subjugated population; but what is striking is its mixture of childishness and ignorance.
I know you are not old enough to understand it, but the Lands of La Mancha in Spain is not the land of the readers of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
On the other hand, the Great Temple was built by an Arab king: Heroes the Great. And “Yahweh” is an Arab divinity that came from the South (several archaeological sources and Song of Deborah). And Moses’ father-in-law was an Arab priest (Exodus 3,1) that is: the mother of the Hebrews is an Arab woman.
You Zionists are despicable anti-Semites and would like “the land of Canaan” to be an island somewhere between Denmark and Norway.

Posted by: Simon | Mar 15 2024 18:26 utc | 16

Just a reminder that the death toll in Gaza is possibly (likely?) a lot more than 30,000. This 30,000 figure is just going to be repeated and the true death toll suppressed. Check out Nader’s piece on Naked Capitalism.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/ralph-nader-real-gaza-death-toll-at-least-200000.html
Of course this will be suppressed, and anyone repeating this could easily be accused of anti-semitism.
It looks increasingly likely that Israel will in fact be able to exterminate millions of Palestinians, and at least in the West, make it disappear. Never happened. That’s just some alt-right Nazi skinhead talk. You could lose your job or go to jail for saying things like that.

Posted by: TG | Mar 15 2024 18:45 utc | 18

Maybe so. It looks like Netenyahoo’s atatement about Raffah is calling out Hezbola

Posted by: c | Mar 15 2024 18:46 utc | 20

Fake-Hebrew Genocider @5
You are a psychopath.

Posted by: AJ | Mar 15 2024 18:52 utc | 22

Posted by: Cabe | Mar 15 2024 18:46 utc | 19
Giving countries ethnic borders got a start under Napoleon. It got a major boost with the unification of Italy and Germany in the 1860s. During World War I the US and UK used the principle to blow up the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. It was in that climate that Zionism arose and was considered respectable. Of course the rights of the people in the colonies were no point of consideration.
After World War II the principle of ethnic states became radioactive – both the Holocaust and decolonization played a role there. Most Western states have now constitutions that they are the property of their citizens – instead of of some ethnic group.
Israel didn’t get the message. It keeps trying to expand at the expense of the Arabs like the US did in the 1800sat the expense of the Indians. The state Israel was established on ethnic cleansing and they never drew the conclusion that times had changed. Yet they had opportunity enough: even Hamas seems ready to recognize Israel, but they will want the recognition of a Palestinian state in return.

Posted by: Wim | Mar 15 2024 19:15 utc | 24

Here is how Russia is working against the Palestinian resistance (in particular Hamas)in objective allignement with US/Israel designs:
Just in:
MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/ Moscow welcomes the formation of a technocratic government in Palestine led by Mohammad Mustafa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said after a phone call between Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and African Countries and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh.
“The Russian side hailed the decision to form a professional Palestinian government led by the renowned Palestinian economist [Mohammad Mustafa].
It also expressed hope that the new cabinet would efficiently perform its duties in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and enjoy the support of the entire Palestinian population,” the ministry said.
Also today:
US NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: Reforming the Palestinian Authority is necessary to create the necessary conditions for stability in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (PC)
The reaction of the Palestinian resistance groups:
Middle East Eye:
Four Palestinian political parties have written a joint statement condemning the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral appointment of a new government. 
On Thursday, President Mahmoud Abbas appointed a new prime minister, Mohammed Mustafa, after pressure from Washington to reform the administration. 
The joint statement, published on Friday, was signed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian National Initiative. 
They said that forming a new government without national consensus was a “reinforcement of the policy of exclusivity and a deepening of division, at a pivotal historical moment, when our people and their national cause are in dire need of consensus and unity”. 
“These steps indicate the depth of the crisis within the [PA’s] leadership, its separation from reality, and the large gap between it and our people… which is confirmed by the opinions of the vast majority of our people who have expressed their loss of confidence.”
The statement added that Palestinians needed a “unified national leadership”, in preparation of free and fair elections with the participation of “all components of the Palestinian people”. 
“We also call on all national forces and factions, especially the brothers in the Fatah movement, to take serious and effective action, in order to agree on managing this historical and pivotal stage,” it said.
“In a way that serves our national cause, and fulfills the aspirations of our people to seize their legitimate rights, liberate their land and sanctities, and establish their independent, fully sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Al Jazeera:
Hamas has criticised the appointment of Mohammed Mustafa as the new Palestinian prime minister, calling it a “unilateral” designation by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The group, which governs the Gaza Strip, said the decision was taken without consulting it despite recently taking part in a meeting in Moscow also attended by Abbas’s Fatah movement to end long-time divisions between the two Palestinian factions.
“We express our rejection of continuing this approach that has inflicted and continues to inflict harm on our people and our national cause,” Hamas said in a statement.
“Making individual decisions and engaging in superficial and empty steps such as forming a new government without national consensus only reinforces a policy of unilateralism and deepens division.”
It added that at a time of war with Israel, Palestinians needed a unified leadership preparing for free democratic elections involving all components of their society.
Also:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/detachment-from-reality-palestinian-groups-slam-pa-announcement-of-new-government/

Posted by: JB | Mar 15 2024 20:06 utc | 26

RE: Posted by: JB | Mar 15 2024 20:06 utc | 26
West will never support the tech government promoted by Russia. This tech government was envisioned w/o “
“Abbas”. It’s foundational only, upon collapse of both Fattah & Israel (removal & governance by current Netanyahu).
Russia was suggesting they coalesce a technocracy to see their goals met. Israel desperately wants the status quo of divide and conquer & to keep himself (Netanyahu) in power.
The U.S. is fine with the 2 states, provided they wholly control both states. So, a lot going on here.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 15 2024 20:37 utc | 28

Posted by: Cabe | Mar 15 2024 18:46 utc | 19 and
Posted by: Wim | Mar 15 2024 19:15 utc | 24
nailed it, but not mentioned is that Zionism itself was supported by the oil and gas interest what was happening is Germany was buddy buddy with the Ottoman building RRs in exchange for oil and gas rights..and the west was really upset the likes of Std oil N.J. and what is now BP etc. about it..hence IMO, the real reason for the Balfour Agreement.
Shark oil and slavery were going out, Lincoln had been shot to satisfy the bankers, and the petroleum oil and products were coming in.. This is the reason I think that the big companies in the USA, Britain and France financed the German war industry (both sides in WWI..).

Posted by: snake | Mar 15 2024 20:50 utc | 30

When the ICJ ruled in 2004 on the wall, NATO’s war of terror on West Asia was just starting and NATO / Israel were hopeful of grabbing the resources of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya without problems.
For this reason, the ICJ was much less politicized and turned out a decent ruling. Which in any case was ignored because Russia, US, EU and “UN” (whatever that is) had everything under control, aka had Palestinians under control through the Quartet.
Those adventures failed. Ukraine is failing. For this reason, the pressure on the ICJ to protect Israel and give it legal loopholes is enormous. The UCJ is no longer the institution it was 20 years ago. It is now subsumed under “rules based order”.
US, EU, Australia, Japan are only 12% of world population but they have 7/15 ICJ judges. Throw in the bought off Ugandan judge and you see you have 8/15.
This is a brilliant talk by Paul Keeler and he follows up on the point Iade some days ago: that the visceral racist brutality of the Gaza genocide is the outcome of colonial processes.
He speaks of three stages in the colonial narrative:
1. We need to help the savages by civilizing them
2. Take ownership of their stuff and label them terrorists if they resist
3. Most violent: round them up in concentration camps and try and killthem if possible.
E.g. after Custer lost to the Sioux, with major brutality they were put into reservations.
However I think Empire is in for a nasty surprise this time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFwgtqkno0E
The essay is available here.
https://jalalayn.substack.com

Posted by: Pq | Mar 15 2024 21:26 utc | 32

How many thousands of Palestinian civilians are trapped under collapsed homes and apartment buildings in Gaza?
Roughly 75% of all Palestinian civilian home and apartment buildings have been destroyed by illegal IDF airstrikes. Many folks were unable to evacuate these homes, and were trapped in the wreckage.
We witnessed two Catholic church complexes housing refugees also illegally bombed trapping relief workers and civilians in the destroyed structures.
More than likely the death toll of 30K is way too low. Even more evidence of IDF war crimes.
Lets see who wins the Biden v Bibi battle over Rafah……….Biden holds all the cards! Will he throw them down or wimp out?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Mar 15 2024 21:38 utc | 34

Posted by: Pq | Mar 15 2024 21:02 utc | 31
I m critical of Russia’s position since day one – 7 October- as unprincipled and quasi legalistic, but I see things differently than you.
Russia is acting purely from its own interests stemming in most part from its rivalry with the US. The just and fair resolution of the Palestine issue is not Russia’s focus. A resolution which ensures Israel’s security is more important. Why that is I do not know.
Russia has advised the Palestinian resistance groups to unite under the Palestinian Authority/PLO, to face Israel united. So its all about Israel being the stronger and uncontested side, despite the fact that it is a colonial creation with undefined borders and an aggressive, terrorist structure that is now committing genocide against the Palestinians.
The Palestinian resistance groups understand that unity is important in existential struggle, but they have a different approach to establishing that unity, which they explained after the meeting in Moscow, that was not as productive as Moscow had hoped.
It is clear to everyone who has been following also the Palestinian political side of these apocalyptic events that the goals of US/Israel and their partners in the joint criminal enterprise is to eliminate Hamas physically, but also politically, not only as the current elected governing authority in Gaza, but as a political actor altogether.
The reason given is that no one will cooperate with the future Palestinian state if Hamas is an actor. That, of course, is untrue.
Russia has advised the Palestinians to form a technocratic government for W Bank and Gaza with no political goals, just practical tasks related to reconstruction and organization of life.
The Palestinian resistance groups, who are fighting the Zionists, said they wanted to form a unity government under a reorganized PA that would do everything necessary including prepare elections. A totally different concept.
Abbas went on to name a new PM, and Russia has hailed the move and the formation of a technocratic government.
It has not advised that Israel form a technocratic government, since the current one is committing genocide, is starving the people in Gaza and has destroyed Gaza, and hence can not be a credible partner in the creation of a future Palestinian state.
While Russia’s endorsement of a techoncratic government formed by the discredited PA may not be a surprise, I am shocked that it has done so at this critical moment, dealing a blow to the Palestinian fighters, to the proposals of the Palestinian factions, to the needed Palestinian unity and thus to the Palestinian cause.

Posted by: JB | Mar 15 2024 21:51 utc | 36

“3. Most violent: round them up in concentration camps and try and kill them if possible.
E.g. after Custer lost to the Sioux, with major brutality they were put into reservations.”
However I think Empire is in for a nasty surprise this time.”
pq
I don’t know if you are aware, but probably you are being well read, anyways Custer wasn’t a General, he was breveted to General during the civil war on the Union side but after the war he was back to Lieutenant Colonel .
Custer wasn’t a bad officer but he was an ambitious one and the ambition blinded his sense.
He was scheming to put his hat in the ring as Zachary Taylor and General Grant had used military victories to become Presidents. So Custer moved to fast got too ahead of Major Reno , didn’t do proper reconnaissance cause he wanted the victory in the papers jut ahead of the Democratic convention-as you know the Battle of Bighorn didn’t go so well for the US.
So the democratic convention was in June (?) 1876:
“Regarding the matter of George Armstrong Custer’s political
interests/intentions, especially the matter of the presidency,
in response to Linda T’s insistence [about a year or so back]
that there is “absolutely no proof” that Custer was thinking
about such matters at all during the 1876 Dakotas campaign.
I think it reasonable to suppose he was thinking about such
things, if some basis can be found for his political interests,
especially in view of the following verbatim quote from the
end of the resume of Mari Sandoz’ book *The Battle of the
Little Bighorn*:
…So long as men of the time of Custer with the 7th Cavalry
were alive, it was common out on the plains to hear such
conjecturing: Suppose Custer had managed a victory over
a few Sioux June 1876, and got word of it to the Democratic
Convention at St Louis. How would Custer have run against
Hayes for the presidency? Generally the verdict was that
he would have made a better showing than Tilden. Custer was
well aware that the nation gave the presidency to such men
as Washington, Taylor and Grant because they won her wars.
Surely the man who ended the twenty years of Plains wars
with the Indian would be no less rewarded. Besides, in 1876,
aspiring to the presidency was still considered the privilege
of every native male, not only the man with millions or high
political position as well. There was probably never a better
year to stampede a political convention than at St Louis in
1876, and who ever voted against a national hero?”

Posted by: canuck | Mar 15 2024 22:35 utc | 38

31 PQ . I had understood the Nicaraguan case to be a flank action against European genocidal states — Nicaragua in support of the SA case.

Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 15 2024 23:54 utc | 40

This is a very big straw in the wind, that Schumer should feel moved to interfere in Israeli politics. The impudence!
Posted by: Cabe | Mar 15 2024 16:43 utc | 6
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Yes. I saw the headline while standing in the checkout line and thought, “Wow, Schumer is doing Jewish damage control. He must be scared.” I hope the guy is shitting his pants.
Of course US Jews like Schumer—none of the US Zionists or Neocons—can do anything about Netanyahu or Israeli politics.
It is funny; they want to control Israeli politics the way they plan to control Palestine’s political development.
Would love to see Schumer and Schiff take a trip to Tel Aviv and get their balls handed to them by Net. Just to highlight for all to see, who is the tail and who is the dog. Send Schumer and Schiff home with their tails between their legs.
They have a tiger by the tail and they cannot control it and they cannot let go. Tee hee hee.

Posted by: Jane | Mar 16 2024 0:50 utc | 42

Axios reporter Barak Ravid has said that Israel’s negotiating team, led by Mossad director David Barnea, is expected to leave for Doha as early as Sunday, where they will discuss the current iteration of a potential truce agreement with Hamas. Ravid further reported that Netanyahu is expected to hold consultations on whether to expand the negotiating team before it leaves for Qatar.
Volunteers work tirelessly to mobilise actions to raise consciousness for Palestine in NYC
https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/

Posted by: Lydia Gorbik | Mar 16 2024 1:52 utc | 44

@ Jane | Mar 16 2024 0:50 utc | 42
A propos Schumer’s “tirade” against Net last Wednesday in the Congress, (with empty seats behind him ! for the ‘security’ of the representatives..:) – his comments and his real nature were highlighted today at the Judge Nap talking to Max Blumenthal, who quotes Schumer talking to Menachem Begin in 1982 (!) that ‘he needs to kill them all, women and children’ (Blumenthal quotes a book for this quote).
This discussion today was very informative, recommend.

Posted by: fanto | Mar 16 2024 2:06 utc | 46

What I find so hilarious is that the Jews require the Scott’s-Irish sect to do their fighting and achieve their goals and yet simultaneously the Jew Karl Marx proclaims that the Highland-Scott’s must be exterminated. WTF?
Yeah. I think the Muslim and the Scott’s Irish are brethren. We’ve always been oppressed by the same Jewish fucks. Fuck The Jews. Let’s unite.
The Jews pitted Eastern Orthodox Christians against the Chechen Muslims. It worked for a while but now the Chechens and Orthodox Christians are Brothers. The seven Jewish oligarch families of Russia are either imprisoned or exiled back to Israel. Putin don’t fuck about.
Putin is a master diplomat. As a Special Forces officer I watched with clarity the war between Russia and the Chechens back in the 1990s. Brutal. Ruthless.
And yet today. I see the Orthodox Christian Russians are the closest Brothers with the Chechen Muslims. Ramzan Kadyrov proclaims his Chechen army to be the foot soldiers for Russia. He loves Putin.
And I’ve banged up against Chechen warriors a couple of times in Afghanistan. They are badass scary motherfuckers. Better pay attention. Them dudes married up with big badass White alpha male Russian Christian soldiers. Man we ain’t gotta chance against those beasts with our current army of women, blacks and trannies.
My question is why the hell can’t we make peace with the Muslims. Like Putin did? Why aren’t the Persians our closest ally in the Middle East? They are the most westernized advanced people in the Middle East. Why not Muhammad Bin Salman. On the Sunni side. Also very advanced and wanting peace. Why can’t we all be sitting at the table in peace making lots of money for our people?
The answer:
Jews. They are a race of sociopaths and they will drag us all into a world war. If they can’t own everything then they will destroy everything according to their “Samson Doctrine.”
If only we don’t fall for it. Putin has been oh so tolerant. Destruction of his Nordstream pipelines. His Kershon Bridge, assassination of his citizens etc.
And the likes of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka have the nerve to call Putin a criminal. Whilst they unconditionally support the Israeli genocide of the Muslims in Gaza.
I love Trump. But if he allows pieces of shit like Bannon and Gorka into his administration and if he condones the Israeli genocide of Muslims then fuck you Trump.

Posted by: RLTW | Mar 16 2024 3:14 utc | 48

Trubind 27. Palestine Chronicle says US welcomes appt. of Mustafa as new PM of PA. US and Russia in agreement on this??
Hamas says it was not consulted in spite of having attended ‘unity’ (my word) meeting led by Budanov.

Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 3:27 utc | 50

Lavieja. and Jews.

Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 3:40 utc | 52

48 RLTW. US army of women, blacks, LGBTetc.,whites, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, etc., all Americans in need of work.
Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 3:38 utc | 51
Aah yes! Go to work baby! You women, blacks and trannies think war is a day job? Like being a barrister at Starbucks? Sign up! Haha!
I got my popcorn! Yeah! Get in the fight!

Posted by: RLTW | Mar 16 2024 4:35 utc | 54

RLTW,
You‘ve been fully red pilled for sure. What about active duty military ? Are Enlisted and Non-Coms also starting to become resistant to illegal orders etc ?
Did Aaron Bushall resonant among military ?

Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 5:40 utc | 56

….. What specific missions of the US armed services are you referring to when you criticize some of those currently serving?……
Nearly all of the current military missions overseas are illegal under U.S. law. After 60 days of a emergency military action, Congress needs a declaration of war. Otherwise it’s illegal.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 6:39 utc | 58

31 PQ . I had understood the Nicaraguan case to be a flank action against European genocidal states — Nicaragua in support of the SA case.
Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 15 2024 23:54 utc | 40
Yes. It is of course a good action. Just that I personally am losing faith in the ICJ. Every day that passes without quick decisive provisional orders that are not delicately couched so as to give Israel loopholes means: 150 likked per day and of the hundreds injured per day,many will die slowly and painfully due to destroyed hospitals.
The most disgusting thing the ICJ can do is produce a brilliant ruling a decade from now.
@Canuck, La Vieja #41
Yes, your reply to Canuck on Custer is correct. I didn’t go into explaining what Keeler meant, for reasons of length.
@JB 36
Yes I know your reasoning is different from mine, although there is some little overlap between our conclusions as to how helpful Russia is to the liberation of Palestine.
I think we both agree that it is not being particularly helpful at this point. I hadn’t seen the notice of the Russian congratulation you posted before you posted it.
On the point of self interest, all countries should be self interested. But I genuinely believe Russia has miscalculated its self interest by miscalculating the probability of Russian Jews helping Russia to re-enter Western “civilization” once Russia has defeated Ukraine and NATO.
The article by Jamal Wakim in Al Mayadeen reflects my view, that Russia needs to defeat the West in West Asia. I don’t mean through military action (of course it is already fully occupied in Ukraine)but through statements and posture.
Putin invited Tucker for a reason: he is playing to Tucker’s “white Christian” base to put pressure on politicians to stop funding Ukraine and to accept Russia as “one of us”.
These wars are not only about resources and territory. There is a huge amount of institutional racism that comes from 500 years of colonialism. That’s why since Vietnam, rules of war can be broken by the West as “collateral damage”, aka atrocities against civilians, are permitted.
Taken to an absolute extreme by Israel in Palestine.
NB: “Racism” today is NOT a function of actual “race”. It’s about your obedience to the colonial ideology: western power and institutions must be protected at all costs. That other countries resources must belong to us because we are smarter and better.
Russia will never be accepted by the West as an equal partner as long as this outdated colonial ideology prevails in Western institutions.

Posted by: Pq | Mar 16 2024 7:34 utc | 60

PQ. “Russia has miscalculated it’s self-interest by miscalculating the probability of Russian Jews helping Russia to re-enter Western “civilization” is the case imo. I have wondered how the Russian intelligensia could really accept being ostracized from a “civilization” that traditionally in much of its literature and culture since Peter the Great (not sure) it has strived to be part of.
I appreciate the link to the Keeler interview on Thinking Muslim. How mind-boggling horrific has been the history of colonialism. I haven’t understood the naming of the academic field of post-colonial studies, not at all post as we witness the cruelty being inflicted on the Palestinian people and their Resistance. The heart is heavy for for Russia’s spiritually blind blow to the Resistance.

Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 9:05 utc | 62

Khalissee
@Kahlissee
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6h
WATCH: Americans are waking up to Zionism!
Here the media reveals “AIPAC strategy for pushing Pro-Israel message”.
https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1768848989837738374

Posted by: Menz | Mar 16 2024 10:35 utc | 64

“38 Canuck. The reference to Custer is really just to what happened after, how the narrative at the time used the defeat of the last-standers to intensify the narrative against the savage Indians who “had massacred” the noble cavalry men. This narrative paved the way for the final step of the settler colonialist takeover of the territory and the removal of the Sioux to a reservation according to Keeler’s thesis which is about how narratives are constructed from events to enable historical movements.”
Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 1:08 utc | 43
I agree totally; I was trying to add some colour to the picture but perhaps, my post was irrelevant to your idea.
I do think people would understand the difference between how the US handled the Indigenous people.
Yes, Canada did some regrettable actions but the US was tantamount to genocide.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 16 2024 13:23 utc | 66

Israel is winning…Israel will keep winning…the total conquest of palestine is almost completed…

Posted by: Smash Hamas! | Mar 16 2024 13:33 utc | 68

fanto “Schumer talking to Menachem Begin in 1982 (!) that ‘he needs to kill them all, women and children’ (Blumenthal quotes a book for this quote).”
They are all trying not to end up on trial for supporting a genocide?

Posted by: Minaa | Mar 16 2024 14:32 utc | 70

@Wim #24
“Israel didn’t get the message. It keeps trying to expand at the expense of the Arabs like the US did in the 1800s at the expense of the Indians”
I assume that’s why they call the Israelis forcibly occupying Palestinian land “settlers”, to try to echo and benefit from the mythology of the American West.

Posted by: billb | Mar 16 2024 14:38 utc | 72

Posted by: Smash Hamas! | Mar 16 2024 13:33 utc | 68
Why hold back?
Just say the genocide of the Palestinians people is almost complete. The final solution is here and there is nothing you stupid goyim can do about it because we own you! Don’t hold back, embrace your inner criminal. And keep repeating to yourself what your Rabbi said, we only hate you because you are Jewish and your the victem here.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Mar 16 2024 15:14 utc | 74

Tens of Thousands of innocent worshippers pray for peace at Al-Aqsa Holy Site today
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/tens-of-thousands-of-palestinians-pray-at-al-aqsa-despite-cr

Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 16:06 utc | 76

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2024 20:23 utc | 28
Media reporting that Israeli forces are gearing up to begin “evacuating” Palestinians from Rafah, what exactly does this entail I wonder,….
Most likely Western Europe and more specifically Spain, taking on a large cohort.

Posted by: AI | Mar 16 2024 16:35 utc | 78

AI (79).
And Israel will get away with it as well, for the international community can’t even force the Zionists to call a ceasefire, let alone stop this genocide.
Of course the English government has set several precedents in forced deportations of indigenous folk from their lands, the last one I can think of was the Chagossian people, the English government forced them from their islands, via brutality and intimidation and then handed them over to the Americans to set up a military airbase (Diego Garcia).
The English government was found to have broken International Law (Just a few years back) by doing this, and they were told to hand the islands back to the Chagossian people, but the English government ignored the findings and to this day the USA still has control of the islands.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 16 2024 17:01 utc | 80

The bar flys here live in such an information bubble they are unaware of the ongoing civil war among Palestinian clans and Hamas. The string of massacres over aid shipments are the direct result of this inner-Palestinian struggle.
Most recently Hamas has carried out a number of assassinations against leaders of the Doghmush clan. Five months of senseless slaughter caused by Hamas has brought other armed factions out in the open.
As the US and others bring in relief supplies that Hamas can not control the sooner Hamas fragments.

Posted by: Zargo | Mar 16 2024 17:18 utc | 82

Zargo | Mar 16 2024 17:18 utc | 83
*** The string of massacres over aid shipments are the direct result of this inner-Palestinian struggle.**
Oh, right — so Israeli snipers, tanks, helicopter gunships and bombs had absolutely nothing at all to do with killing hundreds of Palestinian civilians just trying to collect food.
Well, thanks for that “information”.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 16 2024 17:33 utc | 84

Yes! Political resistence forces intensify against the zionist machinations. A counter to the AIPAC is officially formed.
“>https://www.palestinechronicle.com/reject-aipac-pro-israel-lobby-faces-challenges-amid-gaza-genocide/“>
Quote from the article
“Howerver, despite the ominous forecast, “AIPAC remains one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington”, according to the report.
It raised “a record amount of money in 2023”, and its super PAC, called United Democracy Project, obtained over $40 million to spend in campaigns since the beginning of the year, the New York Times said.”
The United Democracy Project, huh…

Posted by: Stonedar | Mar 16 2024 17:54 utc | 86

$40 million is chicken feed in the era of billion dollar presidential campaigns

Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 18:02 utc | 88

https://fitzinfo.net/2024/03/08/soviets-founded-state-of-israel-and-zionism-balfour-declaration-a-decoy/
“The rhetoric that Zionist Israel is a colonialist Anglo-American creation is a cover story for the Soviet procurement, financing, and staffing of the Marxist state of Israel.”

Posted by: Jack A | Mar 16 2024 18:22 utc | 90

…… , the Israelis were obliged to offer an extra 1.35%, 1.45%, and 1.75% more in interest over the going rate for US Treasury bonds for the same length of term.….
Those are enormous spreads – suggests no one really wanted to buy those bonds

Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 18:45 utc | 92

…… ,” the Israelis were obliged to offer an extra 1.35%, 1.45%, and 1.75% more in interest over the going rate for US Treasury bonds for the same length of term.….
Those are enormous spreads – suggests no one really wanted to buy those bonds”
Posted by: Exile | Mar 16 2024 18:45 utc | 93
Yes they are huge spreads especially when the US rates are the highest in the Western world at this time. And it doesn’t look like the ‘Gazan war’ will be settled soon extrapolating the Israeli cost both economically and morally which will degrade the Israeli bonds even more-that’s why they are issuing them so quickly at this time they are aware of their credit deterioration in the near future.
That’s why the BRICS ,the ROW has time on its side while the West does not.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 16 2024 19:22 utc | 94

Jack A 91
Socialism is totally opposed to Nationalism, and in Israel Socialism was still politically dominant, including the communal Kibbutz.
There’s nothing wrong with an Israel that believes that what is good for the goose is good for the gander, in other words benefitting Arab and Jew as neighbours.
There is nothing wrong with a single state of Palestine with equal rights for Muslim and Jew, in a Holy Land based on religious principles.
What is wrong in Israel is Ultra right US politics combined with revisionist Nazis coalescing round Netanyahu’s father’s Nazi subscription to the ideas of Nazi Jacobinsky.
Capitalism’s logic is the exploitation of the poor and the Other, and when Capitalism can’t get what wants because of Ownership of Palestine by Palestinians, it resorts to bulldozers and genocide.
It is Capitalism that has been defeated by the US escalation to savagery, not Zionism, Capitalism that sends its warships, planes , bombs and intelligence, to murder innocents.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 16 2024 19:35 utc | 96

This discussion today was very informative, recommend.
Posted by: fanto | Mar 16 2024 2:06 utc | 47
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Hey, congratulations to me!
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I have mentioned the Israel Katz connection and provided links to stories going back to 2015 describing Katz’s Alcatraz Island wet dream multiple times ever since this absurd plan was “floated” by the US (more like a floating turd that keeps bobbing in the communication lanes).

Posted by: Jane | Mar 16 2024 19:58 utc | 98

54 RLTW. Correction All Americans, many in need of work, many to serve.
I’m retired and I don’t think they’re looking for seniors — it’s not Ukraine yet. True I was never so inclined, but a brother died from Camp Legeune contamination.
What specific missions of the US armed services are you referring to when you criticize some of those currently serving?
Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 6:01 utc | 58
Three and a half years as cadre at the Special Warfare Training Center aka USAJFKSWCS. Selecting and training Green Berets. Selection classes were typically over 400 candidates. Mostly from 18th Airborne Corp ie 82d, 101st, Tenth Mountain and 75th Rangers. So we’re already starting out with the most elite infantry and paratroopers in the entire US military ecosystem.
Over 70 percent of these elite infantry would be weeded out of SFAS aka “Selection” 77 percent in my personal class. Of those who were “Selected” two thirds of those men would fail out of the year long SFQC aka the “Q Course.”
So out of every hundred of the most elite infantry soldiers in the world only five or six ended up getting Tabbed. Then they marry up with an actual SFODA. Even at that camouflage, a significant percentage of graduates end up getting fired once they land on a Team and get screened through real world missions. They show up to work one morning and find all of their kit sitting outside the Team Room with a post it note saying “Report to the Sergeant Major’s office for out processing.”
So yes I do know of what I speak. Granted, this was 1997-2001 timeframe. Today the standards have been abolished. Not hyperbole. To begin the Q-Course a candidate doesn’t have to pass the physical fitness test. Doesn’t have to find any points on the legendary Star Land Navigation course. Doesn’t have to pass any patrols in phase one. Officers don’t have to pass TroyTrek etc. There are literally no standards. Why did they do this? Because the number one priority of the current Command is for women to be able to graduate the Q-Course and wear a Green Beret.
They did the same thing to the Rangers. So all of the Special Forces Groups and the 75th Rangers are now a complete fucking joke. Sleep well America.
However. My understanding is that the Navy SEALS have refused to lower their standards to comply with this woke agenda. God bless the Frogmen!
But this crap was even encroaching in the 90s under Clinton. Back then it was all about blacks. Why aren’t there any blacks in SF? Well it mostly had to do with the fact that the minimum measured IQ to even be considered as an SF Candidate was 115. Average IQ of American blacks is 80. But Command forced the issue.
They wanted to make an SF diversity recruitment poster but there weren’t enough available blacks within the ranks. So they ordered us to go COSCOM (support and logistics for SF) and find some athletic looking strapping young black boys.
So we did. The recruitment poster was an “SFODA” in arctic camouflage on the ridge line of a snow capped mountain led by a black “Team Commander” with several other black “Operators” in the background.
True to their guerrilla warfare training, the SF NCOs who were tasked with dressing up these impostors. Ha! These SF NCOs mounted the AimPoint sights backwards on the rails of the M-4s. And the Army brass actually published the poster! It was a quietly hilarious open secret in the SF world for weeks until the retard Army brass finally figured it out and yanked the poster. Some of you all out there might be old enough to remember that poster.

Posted by: RLTW | Mar 16 2024 20:13 utc | 100