Palestine Open Thread 2024-083
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EU's Borrell says Israel is provoking famine in Gaza - Reuters, Mar 18 2024
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that Israel is provoking famine in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war, an accusation Israel's foreign minister rejected."In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine, we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people," Borrell said at the opening of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels.
"This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine."
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Posted by b on March 19, 2024 at 10:00 UTC | Permalink
next page »And this brutal genocide is invisible to the educated, art loving and sensitive European minds.
Posted by: vargas | Mar 19 2024 10:10 utc | 2
Someone already pointed it out: a perfect example of the banality of evil.
It is really striking the presence in the world of (in archaic language of the 1st century) the "satanic" in the history of the world, which arises from a fusion of our ape minds with identity-arousing narrative fantasies.
Half of my fellow apes justify the satanic by a mixture of ignorance, classism and identification with the dominant.
Evil has a normal face
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 10:21 utc | 3
Ho hum. He's just making all the right noise to sound "correct".
Posted by: Surferket | Mar 19 2024 10:30 utc | 4
All societies are classist, but some have made classism a religion (for example, perhaps India).
The curious thing about Zionism 1.0 (read for example the Book of Deuteronomy) is that it made of satanism a cult, a perfect fusion of simian mind and identity fantasies.
Evidently it is the perfect Mental Software for a violent and bloodthirsty Viking horde that worships itself.
But a complete disaster if you want to have for example a Civilized state.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 10:35 utc | 5
Gaza faces famine during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting
'When dawn broke last Monday morning, signalling the beginning of Ramadan, it brought a cruel irony for the people of Gaza.'
'Compared to this year, it is like heaven and hell," she said. "The children now are craving a loaf of bread, it is a meal they dream of. Their bones are becoming softer. They are dizzy, they struggle to walk. They are becoming very thin.'
'The situation for us now, in the Gaza Strip, it makes me envy the dead," Mr Naji said.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68577026
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 10:46 utc | 6
Satan is there and if you worship that then you get temporary things in return for your soul:
'usually thought that individuals who make a pact also promise to demons that they will kill children or consecrate them to the devil at the moment of birth'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 10:52 utc | 7
'The pact is between a person and the Devil or another demon, trading a soul for diabolical favours, which vary by the tale, but tend to include youth, knowledge, wealth, fame and power.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 10:57 utc | 8
The real reason Israel stormed al-Shifa Hospital yet again
In the past two days, a number of things happened that seemingly had nothing to do with each other. ... on Monday, the Israeli army stormed al-Shifa hospital ... killing and injuring dozens ... the day before, 13 aid trucks arrived in northern Gaza for the first time in four months ... People flocking to the UNRWA warehouse ... stood in uncharacteristically orderly lines and patiently waited for the handouts ... Many could be seen cheering once the aid arrived ...But what few people know is that this successful delivery of sorely needed food aid to northern Gaza is what led the Israeli army to launch its deadly raid on al-Shifa Hospital the next day.
The connection between these two events can only be explained by understanding who Israel was targeting in the raid — the now-martyred Faiq Mabhouh. Mabhouh was the Director of Operations of the Gaza police force, a part of the Gaza government’s civilian administration. Unlike Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, Mabhouh did not operate clandestinely at the start of the war, because he didn’t have to — he was in charge of civil law enforcement. Hamas released a statement after his death confirming that he “engaged in purely civil and humanitarian activity.”
But the true significance of the attack lies not in its desire to empty northern Gaza’s largest civilian refuge, which houses 30,000 people, but in foiling Faiq Mabhouh’s pivotal role in coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid to starving civilians in Gaza while restoring a semblance of social order to the north.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-real-reason-israel-stormed-al-shifa-hospital-yet-again/
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Mar 19 2024 11:03 utc | 9
The Zionists have entered a faustian bargain and have sold their souls:
'Faust is unsatisfied with his life as a scholar and becomes depressed. 'After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which toindulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world. In response, the Devil's representative, Mephistopheles, appears. He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved. '
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 11:08 utc | 10
Flavius Josephus
Flavius Josephus, a haughty aristocrat, writes with bitterness saying that "the people of the land", the people of Idumea, Galilea and Perea were in his eyes very strange Yehudim because they respected foreigners and, on the other hand, were enthusiastic about the idea of beheading the priestly ruling class of the city-Temple, and indeed that is what we see in texts of "the school-current of the Nazarenes" for example in the very archaic text of Mark (ca. 40-66)
The tremendous thing about this history (return to square one) is that Judaism (200-1870) in the end has been a parenthesis in the history of Zionism.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 11:12 utc | 11
n the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus is offered a series of bargains by the devil, in which he is promised worldly riches and glory in exchange for serving the devil rather than God. Upon rejecting the devil's overtures, he embarks on his travels as the Messiah.
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 11:13 utc | 12
"I wouldn’t have expected Borrell to have the guts or honesty to admit what has been blatantly obvious for months."
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 19 2024 10:06 utc | 1
In my opinion 'guts or honesty' was not what led Borell to this admission; he is just another messenger rat on a sinking ship called 'zionist allies'; he has seen the public grow weary and disgusted with the Zionist genocide such that he has swum off the boat to save his won skin, no one else's.
@ SattaMassaGana | Mar 19 2024 11:03 utc | 9
Thank you for posting that. I was going to point out this morning what Mabhouh's actual position was and how well he did his job. Someone at one of the aid agencies remarked to the Israeli government that Mabhouh had proven that Israel had no excuse for refusing to let aid trucks in; he had handled the distributions without any issues.
Every single article in the Western media is repeating Israel's bullshit that they had targeted a "Hamas terrorist" (meaning Mabhouh, whom they all name) and successfully killed him. These articles also state his official title, but not a single one explains what his job actually was or point out the fact that Hamas has a legal and mandated role to play in the civil life of the people of Gaza. It's what they were elected to do. They were doing it well, too, until Israel started sniping the police and civil servants and killing all of them.
As an aside, there was a mention in a few articles that the IDF found some envelopes of cash addressed to various people in a safe somewhere in or near the hospital. Since Hamas is also responsible for paying the civil servants for their jobs, I immediately wondered if that is what this money was for. Several weeks ago, the IDF stole the cash from the main bank in Gaza, so there is no longer a way for Palestinians to cash their paychecks (those that still have work). The other possibility, of course, is that the IDF just made up the story about finding money.
Posted by: teri | Mar 19 2024 11:22 utc | 14
Let's see the merits of Zionism
(1) "our colonial project" (Vladimir Jabotinsky) was founded by Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian fascist fanatics, a bunch of rabid European anti-Semites who hate with all their souls "the land of Canaan" and would have preferred the land of Canaan was an island somewhere between Denmark and Norway.
(2) They tell us that Harvard and Columbia professors, film and television producers, owners of media outlets throughout the world of the deadly Western empire and high-ranking officials in the Treasury Department and high-ranking officials in the State Department need this delirious monstrosity to feel safe.
(3) They have devoured and destroyed rabbinic Judaism, putting it at the service of their bloody delusions.
(4) They have destroyed the coexistence of numerous Jewish quarters, think for example of Morocco.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 11:25 utc | 15
The only good thing about Zionism is that
(5) holding the reins of the imperial Beast from 1963/67-1997 will lead to the collapse of the Anglo Empire 2.0 latest version of the empire of the Romans
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 11:37 utc | 16
In addition to Mabhouh, mentioned in posts above, this morning Israel assassinated another Palestinian official who handled the security of aid trucks into Gaza. They also killed his wife.
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Director of police investigations in northern Gaza killed
An Israeli air attack has killed the director of police investigations in northern Gaza along with his wife after their house was targeted this morning.
Raed al-Banna was responsible for securing and facilitating the entry of aid trucks into northern Gaza.
On Monday, Israeli forces killed the head of the police force, Faiq Mabhouh, who was also responsible for coordinating aid trucks into northern Gaza.
The killings come after a failed attempt by Israel to force heads of clans in Gaza to take up that responsibility.
Posted by: teri | Mar 19 2024 11:47 utc | 17
What is remarquable here is that at least 2 non US-aligned countries took action: South Africa and Yemen.
This alone is the sign of the ongoing changes in the geopolitical landscape. US which was before considered unavoidable for each geopolitical solution is now considered by a growing number of countries as a problem and a bad faith actor rather than being any part of a solution.
Posted by: W | Mar 19 2024 11:56 utc | 18
Posted by: teri | Mar 19 2024 11:22 utc | 14
Thank you Teri, I appreciate your response.
Further to your point regarding the misrepresentation of Mabhouh, I read articles in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times of Israel and others, and all list him as a Hamas official coordinating attacks against Israel. What is noticeable and has always been so is how many articles are simply a cut and paste job lifted from an IDF statement. No attempt at investigative or informational journalism.
Its all about the narrative, simply put: lies to eradicate an entire people who are surplus to someones requirements and ambitions.
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Mar 19 2024 12:07 utc | 19
@ 11. simon
what do you mean. “judaism has been a parenthetis in the history of zionism”?
and yes, hannah arendts book with the subtitle, the banality of evil was an informative and enlightening book.. thanks..
Posted by: james | Mar 19 2024 12:07 utc | 20
Sikhism
Moh, or Attachment
Lobh, or Greed
Karodh, or Wrath
Kaam, or Lust
Ahankar, or Egotism
One who gives in to the temptations of the Five Thieves is known as "Manmukh", or someone who lives selfishly and without virtue. Inversely, the "Gurmukh, who thrive in their reverence toward divine knowledge, rise above vice via the practice of the high virtues of Sikhism. These are:[40]
Sewa, or selfless service to others.
Nam Simran, or meditation upon the divine name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 12:25 utc | 21
Judaism (rabbinic) was born on the same dates (ca. 200) as Christianity (orthodox)
The founder of Judaism (200/400-1870) was "Yehuda ha nasi" when he compiled the "Mishnah" around the same time when the christians compiled the collection of writings of "the current school of the Nazarenes": the "New Testament".
In dates as apparently late as around the year 400, Jerome wrote to Augustine of Hippo saying: "all the synagogues of the East are full of Nazarenes who believe in Jesus, son of the virgin Mary."
The Christian legend of the Exile triumphed because it served the rabbis and the church as a demarcation criterion, given that at that time they competed in the same cities: they were Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola The Zionists knew (ca. 1920) that the Christian legend of the Exile assumed by the rabbis was a children's story and that the Palestinians were largely Hebrews, in fact they were surprised by the survival of Hebrew culture that let us not forget that It is the name of some Arab tribes.
So the Zionists 2.0 (1917-) built their identity and their ideology by injecting into their veins Zionism 1.0, which was the Mental Software designed by an Aramaic ruling class (= "Jacob") to kill and enslave Hebrews (= "the firstborn" : "Esau") in "the land of Canaan".
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 12:28 utc | 22
Speaking of "satanic"...
Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians.
If the Arab world will not take them, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken proposed during his first round of visits after Oct. 7, the Palestinians will be cast adrift on ships. It worked in Beirut in 1982 when some eight and a half thousand Palestine Liberation Organization members were sent by sea to Tunisia and another two and a half thousand ended up in other Arab states. Israel expects that the same forced deportation by sea will work in Gaza.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/19/chris-hedges-israels-trojan-horse/
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 19 2024 12:28 utc | 23
Jungle Joseph is a strange chap.
Home schooled under Francos Dictatorship. A Fullbright scholarship. Kibbutz experience.
Representing Barcelona but against Catalan Independence.
Involved in just about every misdeed by the EU as a senior representative - yet claims to be a socialist.
How is he still a EU representative when :
‘ In 2019, he acquired Argentine citizenship through descent, stating that he wished to honour the memory of his father, who grew up in Mendoza, Argentina. ‘
The EU has no legitimacy with such a charlatan nor its many unelected Gardeners.
Who are complicit in the natzionist attack against the RF in Ukraine as they are as Zionazis decades long occupation and colonisation by the Zionists they all serve and belong to of the Illegal Apartheid Entity in the Levant.
Enough please.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 19 2024 12:34 utc | 24
1) It is reported today on Press TV that the current DOHA negotiations are at another impasse. Nothing again will he agreed on.
2) Another report that Israel filed Monday to the ICJ to ignore So. Africa’s new request for immediate intervention because of imminent starvation & potential Rafah incursion.
This was filed because of the UN & UNRAW latest declarations of imminent starvation.
“Israel has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) not to issue emergency orders for it to step up humanitarian aid to Gaza to address a looming famine, dismissing South Africa’s request to do so as “morally repugnant”.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 19 2024 12:36 utc | 25
Borrel,who spent his youth summers on a kibbutz built on the site of a massacre , is terrified of the various genocide cases wending their way through the courts. All the smart genocide enablers are backpedaling as fast as they can - it’s just CYA.
Posted by: Exile | Mar 19 2024 12:39 utc | 26
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 19 2024 12:36 utc | 26
I posted the link to the original submission by Israel yesterday.
As I said yesterday, a weak provisional order from ICJ gave Israel licence to argue that deaths are regrettable and unpreventable.
Rather than relying on msn please read this to understand how the weak ICJ order gave Israel loopholes.
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
Doc 15 March by Israel.
I fail to understand the reason why pro Palestinian people do not want the ICJ to just comply with South Africa's request and say: Israel must STOP military action.
Such a clear and unambiguous order would enable UNGA etc. to come up with better enforcement mechanisms. By saying: please prevent deaths, Israel can overwhelm the ICJ with all the paperwork from results of its self investigations showing how it tried to prevent deaths.
The ICJ did it for Russia so it could certainly do so for Israel if at least 8/15 judges were not working hard to protect Israel.
Posted by: Pq | Mar 19 2024 12:51 utc | 28
They are a handful of threads that only have a tangential relationship.
(1) the history of some Arab tribes, the "Hebrews", and an Arab divinity: "Yahweh".
(2) Zionism 1.0: the bloody Mental Software of an Aramaic ruling class from Persian imperial times.
(3) Judaism 1.0: a Religion that spread like wildfire among women and that was present "in all the nations of the world" (Flavius Josephus) that is, the sum of the Persian world, the Greek world and the Roman world.
(4) Judaism 2.0: Rabbinic Judaism (200/400-) which took centuries to prevail in synagogues.
(5) An Ethnicity forged by the rabbis when they decide not to be a religion: the Yiddish people. Ethnicity that triumphs demographically in Poland-Ukraine-Lithuania-Belarus by finding a gap between the Catholic ruling class and the Christian peasantry.
(6) Zionism 2.0: "our colonial project" (Vladimir Jabotinsky) founded (1917-) by violent Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian emigrants and terrorists from Ukraine, Poland, Bielorussia ...
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 12:59 utc | 29
"Violence, attachment, covetousness and wrath," says Guru Nanak "are like four rivers of fire; those who fall in them burn, and can swim across, O Nanak, only through God's grace
Guru Nanak
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 13:04 utc | 30
RE: Posted by: Pq | Mar 19 2024 12:51 utc | 29
Agree. All these international organizations were primarily set up as legalistic entities to protect and carry out West centric policies & agenda’s.
The ICJ “interim interventions” as a “recommendation” hardly means squat on the ground. But one after another West serving organization is falling in merit, legal weight and international legitimacy. Beginning with OPCW in Syria, the IEAE, over Iran, the UNSC, the UNHR, the UN, the ICC and now, supposedly the highest international Justice body for United Nations, failing its mission serving the UN.
It’s important to rid the world of the trash that surrounds & defends the source of the corruption & evil. More spotlight on the complete ineptitude and impotence of these systems the better. Obviously, the Palestinians are left to defend themselves in Gaza.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 19 2024 13:29 utc | 31
And this brutal genocide is invisible to the educated, art loving and sensitive European minds.
Posted by: vargas | Mar 19 2024 10:10 utc | 2
If you point out hard facts to the same demographic.
Expecte deplatforming and jail.
Posted by: jpc | Mar 19 2024 13:29 utc | 32
The Zionists have entered a faustian bargain and have sold their souls:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 11:08 utc | 10
Aaah, time to cue history.
When a Zionist was accused of selling his soul to the Nazis,
Zionists came to his defense. Incredibly, so so incredibly, some Zionists
argued from the point of view of contract law. They rolled out their contract lawyers.
Talk about tone deaf. Their concern wasn't for the hundreds of thousands that
had been betrayed in this faustian bargain, it was concern that contract law be properly
observed! They were already humanely tone deaf and soul less.
The following is from the judgement of a Zionist whose organization, the Jewish Rescue Committee,
tricked hundreds of thousands to go trustingly onto the trains to Auschwitz. This was the first
trial. A curmudgeon named Malkiel Grünwald had distributed pamphlets letting people know about
Rudolf Kastner (or Kasztner) and his Jewish Rescue Committee. As Kastner was part of the current
administration in Israel the administration sued Malkiel Grünwald for defamation. Malkiel Grünwald prevailed
in the first trial. As Kastner was a member of the current Israeli administration it was kicked upstairs to
be white washed. The Supreme Court of Israel ruled 3 to 2 that the Jews of Hungary were not
worth saving so it was alright for the Jewish Rescue Committee to do what they did.
From the court records of Israel, the Judgement of Judge Halevi:
The question here is not, as stated by the Attorney General in his summation, whether members of the Jewish Rescue Committee were or were not capable of fulfilling their duty without the patronage of the S.S. chiefs. It is obvious that without such S.S. Nazi patronage the Jewish Rescue Committee could not have existed, and could have acted only as an underground. The question is, as put by the lawyer for the defense, why were the Nazis interested in the existence of the Rescue Committee? Why did the S.S. chiefs make every effort to encourage the existence of the Jewish Rescue Committee? Did the exterminators turn into rescuers?The same question rises concerning the rescue of prominent Jews by these German killers of Jews. Was the rescue of such Jews a part of the extermination plan of the killers ? The support given by the extermination leaders to Kastner's Rescue Committee proves that indeed there was a place for Kastner and his friends in their Final Solution for the Jews of Hungary - their total annihilation. The Nazi's patronage of Kastner, and their agreement to let him save six hundred prominent Jews, were part of the plan to exterminate the Jews. Kastner was given a chance to add a few more to that number. The bait attracted him. The opportunity of rescuing prominent people appealed to him greatly. He considered the rescue of the most important Jews as a great personal success and a success for Zionism. It was a success that would also justify his conduct - his political negotiation with Nazis and the Nazi patronage of his committee. When Kastner received this present from the Nazis, Kastner sold his soul to the German Satan.
The sacrifice of the vital interests of the majority of the Jews, in order to rescue the prominents, was the basic element in the agreement between Kastner and the Nazis. This agreement fixed the division of the nation into two unequal camps: a small fragment of prominents, whom the Nazis promised Kastner to save, on the one hand, and the great majority or Hungarian Jews whom the Nazis designated for death, on the other hand. An imperative condition for the rescue of the first camp by the Nazis was that Kastner will not interfere in the action of the Nazis against the other camp and will not hamper them in its extermination. Kastner fulfilled this condition. He concentrated his efforts in the rescue of the prominents and treated the camp of the doomed as if they had already been wiped out from the book of the living. One cannot estimate the damage caused by Kastner's collaboration and put down the number of victims which it cost Hungarian Jews. These are not only the thousands of Jews in Nodvarod or any other community in the border area, Jews who could escape through the border, had the chief of their rescue committee fulfilled his duty toward them.
All of Kastner's answers in his final testimony were a constant effort to evade this truth. Kastner has tried to escape through every crack he could find in the wall of evidence. When one crack was sealed in his face, he darted quickly to another".
Judge Halevi reverts to the meeting of Kastner with the S.S. officers Becher and Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz at the time when the 'new line' of rescuing Jews was revealed by Hoess. He says:
From this gathering in Budapest, it is obvious that the 'new line' stretched from Himmler to Hoess, from Jutner to Becher and Krumey. According to Kastner, however, these Nazis were all active in rescuing Jews. This meeting of these important German guests in Budapest exposes the 'rescue' work of Becher in its true light. It reveals also the extent of Kastner's involvement in the inner circle of the chief German war criminals. Just as the Nazi war criminals knew they needed an alibi and hoped to achieve it by the rescue of a few Jews at the eleventh hour, so Kastner also needed an alibi for himself. Collaboration between the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and the Exterminators of the Jews was solidified in Budapest and Vienna. Kastner's duties were part and parcel of the general duties of the S.S. In addition to its Extermination Department and Looting Department, the Nazi S.S. opened a Rescue Department headed by Kastner. All these extermination, robbery and rescue activities of the S.S. were coordinated under the management of Heinrich Himmler . . . Kastner perjured himself knowingly in his testimony before this court when he denied he had interceded in Becher's behalf. Moreover, he concealed the important fact that he interceded for Becher in the name of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish World Congress.
As to the contents of Kastner's affidavit, it was enough for the defense to provide Becher was a war criminal. It was up to the prosecution to remove Becher from this status, if they wished to negate the affidavit. The Attorney General admitted in his summation that Becher was a war criminal. The lies in the contents of Kastner's affidavit, the lies in his testimony concerning the document, and Kastner's knowing participation in the activities of Nazi war criminals, and his participation in the last minute fake rescue activities - all these combine to show one overwhelming truth - that this affidavit was not given in good faith. Kastner knew well, as he himself testified, that Becher had never stood up against the stream of Jewish extermination, as Kastner has declared in the affidavit. The aims of Becher and his superior, Himmler, were not to save Jews but to serve the Nazi regime with full compliance.
These is not truth and no good faith in Kastner's testimony, 'I never doubted for one moment the good intention of good Becher'. It is clear that the positive recommendation by Kastner, not only in his own name but also in the name of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish World Congress was of decisive importance for Becher. Kastner did not exaggerate when he said that Becher was released by the Allies because of his personal intervention. The lies in the affidavit of Kastner and the contradictions and various pretexts, which were proven to be lies, were sufficient to annul the value of his statements and to prove that there was no good faith in his testimony in favor of this German war criminal. Kastner's affidavit in favor of Becher was a wilfully false affidavit given in favor of a war criminal to save him from trial and punishment in Nuremberg. Therefore, the defendant, Malkiel Grünwald, was correct in his accusations against Rudolf Kastner in the first, second and fourth of his statements."
Posted by: librul | Mar 19 2024 13:30 utc | 33
@Posted by: librul | Mar 19 2024 13:30 utc | 34
A clarification. Kastner had gone, after the war, to Nuremberg and testified on behalf of Nazis that he had collaborated with. Some Nazis were released.
One hand washes the other.
Kastner had perjured himself about going to Nuremberg.
Adolf Eichmann was not captured by the Allies and thus was not at Nuremberg for Kastner to testify for. Would his testimony have been enough?
Posted by: librul | Mar 19 2024 13:41 utc | 34
(4) They have destroyed the coexistence of numerous Jewish quarters, think for example of Morocco.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 11:25 utc | 15
In a way this is Bismark and the unification of various (German) feudal entities
into the "Deutsches Reich" by way of starting wars with those outside that group
forcing allegiance ...
did not notice the similarity.
Posted by: MAKK | Mar 19 2024 13:56 utc | 35
Gaza's two million people are experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about conditions in the territory.
Mr Blinken called on Israel to prioritise providing for those in need.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68605401
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 13:59 utc | 36
Are Blinken's statements anything beyond going through the motions of faked compassion?
Posted by: MAKK | Mar 19 2024 14:08 utc | 37
'defined as a situation of " limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable ... Food security incorporates a measure of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply due to various risk factors including droughts, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic instability, and wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 14:09 utc | 38
horrible to see this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Posted by: Not Ewe | Mar 19 2024 14:10 utc | 39
The right to food, and its variations, is a human right protecting the right of people to feed themselves in dignity, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individual's dietary needs. The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_food
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 14:16 utc | 40
Well, it looks like I have my answer. Thanks B.
There is also an article in RT News, citing the UN.
https://www.rt.com/news/594472-gaza-suffers-from-catastrophic-hunger/
2 deaths per day per 10,000 starting imminently, so for the 300,000 in northern Gaza that means a little over 400 deaths a week until and unless aid starts arriving in meaningful quantities. It bears noting that number is likely a lower bound and that the the situation will only get worse over time unless substantial aid starts showing up.
Posted by: team10tim | Mar 19 2024 14:17 utc | 41
The former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, defined three dimensions to the right to food.
Availability refers to the possibilities either for feeding oneself directly from productive land or other natural resources, or for well functioning distribution, processing and market systems that can move food from the site of production to where it is needed in accordance with demand.
Accessibility implies that economic and physical access to food is to be guaranteed. On the one hand, economic access means that food should be affordable for an adequate diet without compromising other basic needs. On the other hand, physically vulnerable, such as sick, children, disabled or elderly should also have access to food.
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 14:17 utc | 42
@23 / 40. simon
i guess that is a type of answer to my question @ 20.. thanks.
Posted by: james | Mar 19 2024 14:19 utc | 43
I do not think it is only Zionists who have sold their souls. They have the full enthusiastic support of the institutions of the Collective Waste and most of the "professional" class which runs it.
This Zionist shitshow would last less than a week if North America and Europe withdrew ALL military, financial, media, political, legal support.
That UN slug Guterres can't even say "Israel killed 160 UNRWA workers" or whatever the latest number is.
According to WHO, hospitals in Gaza self destructed and they are "highly concerned. The health system has collapsed, all by itself.
As for the Chief Gardener Slug Borrell: just look at his smirk at 1:01 when he gets cauught saying everything Hamas does is a war crime but Israel's slaughter of Palestinians is fine as he's not a lawyer.
And this is on Arabic TV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8Uc5tRMTw
This is the face of Europe, the originator of long distance colonialism and settler colonialism for the last 500 years. Not to mention a highly xenophobic and Islamophobic European public notwithstanding the nominal "DEI" hires.
And this is on Arabic TV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8Uc5tRMTw
After 25 years of Abu Ghraib, collateral damage, Guantanammo, bombing any Arab / Muslim casually like squashing a cigarette butt and basically throwing out any semblance of normal human behaviour make no mistake that Europe and North America are fully behind their last settler colonial project even if it's "embarrasing" to have the hypocrisy exposed.
The issus is NOT that "lesser people" are being genocided in Gaza with European support but rather that this has caused the hypocritical human rights mask to fall off. It's not only Palestinians or Arabs who are lesser beings. There were Koreans, Vietnamese, Africans etc.
I remember all the racist comments on Chinese 25 years ago in the business world: they're too stupid, they only clone and copy stuff. Arrogant people can't be bothered to even do basic research to "know their perceived enemies". Same thing with Russia to a degree although "ethnic Russians" are OK (Chechens a bit dodgy for Tucker's base).
One can theorize all one wants but for sadistic cruelty to occur, one has to see the other as "not human".
Poor Borrell. I cry for him. How is he going to lecture the Global South on human rights???
ps: sorry to slugs.
Posted by: pq | Mar 19 2024 14:22 utc | 44
ICESCR of which Israel is a signatory states:
'an adequate standard of living, including adequate food'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Economic,_Social_and_Cultural_Rights
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 14:32 utc | 45
Posted by: MAKK | Mar 19 2024 14:08 utc | 38
Are you truly wondering if anything Blinken has ever said in public serves any purpose other than furthering the power and material wealth of his tribe ?
Or are you being cute ?
Did you know there is recent video of Blinken telling a provable lie about his grandfather being saved in the black forest of Germany by an African American mechanized tank crew ?
The man literally crafts as many topical, ideological & manipulative talking points into a single lie as he possibly can.
Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 19 2024 14:35 utc | 46
Posted by: MAKK | Mar 19 2024 14:08 utc | 38
And of course this story is about his grandfather surviving the "holocaust'.
Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 19 2024 14:36 utc | 47
There's a simple solution for the food blockade; Put US troops behind the wheel of the trucks and order them to drive through the roadblock. Let's see if the IDF is as eager to shoot at armed soldiers as they are at unarmed civilians.
Posted by: Brian Bixby | Mar 19 2024 14:37 utc | 48
I still talk to a few local Jews. It gets harder. The bloodlust is still raging. Normal mundane non-exceptional people you see every day. They want death. They want a blood sacrifice. This is nowhere near an end.
Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 19 2024 14:40 utc | 49
All the religious analysis and history lessons in the world are not going to fix one fucking thing. Stop cluttering the threads with this bullshit. Stop wasting your precious (according to scarcity theory) neurons on it. Fuck.
Posted by: Honzo | Mar 19 2024 14:46 utc | 50
Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 19 2024 14:40 utc | 50I still talk to a few local Jews. It gets harder. The bloodlust is still raging. Normal mundane non-exceptional people you see every day. They want death. They want a blood sacrifice. This is nowhere near an end.
You go far enough down a wrong turn, rejecting several opportunities to turn back onto the right path, and at some point you come to the dead end of hate.
And the hate-filled Realm of Hell, by definition, hath no Exit.
To me the greatest contrast in Palestine, for many years now, is that the Israelis truly despise and hate the Palestinians, whereas the latter continue to demonstrate great humanness and patience. Although abused and suffering greatly, they are still very much in the Human Realm. No doubt some succumb to hatred, but by and large it seems not.
Perhaps this further inflames Israeli hatred as some part of their soul knows they have lost the moral high ground long, long ago. As Mercouris says about the neocons: 'they have no reverse gear'.
Meanwhile, Hell has many chambers, each one lower and hotter than the other.
The mass-murder of these people would be prevented in a day if the U.S. Congress would declare war on Israel and demand that scum-of-the-earth Biden order the U.S. military to shoot down every Israeli warplane, sink every Israeli warship, and bomb every concentration of Israeli ground forces, while at the same time delivering water, food, medicine, fuel, and shelter to those in need. Plus demanding that the U.S. draft a UN resolution condemning Israel, and then NOT veto it. (They would also need to immediately draw up impeachment charges for failure to comply, for Biden and the first ten in line for taking his place.) Such an act would repair most of the damage done to the reputation of the U.S. over support for deliberate mass murder. And then I woke up.
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 19 2024 14:59 utc | 52
I can assure you that Borrell did not suddenly come to this conclusion by himself. He was ordered, like Senator Schumer to start flapping his mouth from orders from the oligarch network centered in Washington that the bad publicity of the US/EU complicity in the obvious ongoing horror show is harming the Empire. This does two things, it "absolves" the Empire's complicity and is encouraging the IDF to get on with it--if they want to wipe out the Gazans they have to get on with it. The IDF has been shown to be less than competent in their "war" on Hamas. This slowness in the massacres is annoying to the Empire because this slow movement of the IDF is allowing a resistance axis to organize and grow as popular opinion in Saudi, Turkey, and Egypt may force leaders to "do something." This axis of resistance will take a year or so to grow some teeth so time is limited.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 19 2024 15:06 utc | 53
As if on cue, an article about hate pops up. Today was published Part II; this is from Part I a couple of weeks ago. Via Arktos, a substack which regularly publishes Dugin pieces, though this is by a different author. It is about Trump Derangement Syndrome but in this section it is about creating a cult of hatred. I believe essentially the same dynamic as that described below about Trump has been ongoing in Israel for the past century, and in many ways throughout the Jewish diaspora for millennia. If one substitutes the word 'Palestinians' for 'Trump' it reads quite easily that way, for the underlying dynamic is clearly the same.
For ‘anti-Trumpian’ cultists, the above-mentioned incrementally entrained ‘ritual of hating’ becomes life itself, insofar as, for any religious believer, life is always completely infiltrated by the dogma of his/her particular faith. .....Ironically, and always with little empirical evidence and large amounts of innuendo, dubious ‘testimony,’ and half-truths, as well as from a state of (un-) consciousness or intoxication akin to (based upon ancient descriptions) that present in participants in ancient rites1, anti-Trumpian purity cultists habitually claim that Trump and his supporters are themselves purists: ‘white supremacists,’ to be exact. The extension of the perceived ‘existential threat’ of Trump — as cultists imagine it — from Trump to his supporters is, I contend, from the level of religious commitment, psychologically necessary to cultists in order for them to inflate the nemesis that Trump represents to them, a projection that is psychologically vital to cultists’ maintaining the meaningfulness of the Trumpian threat as a sufficient reason for their (unconsciously) corrupting and degrading their own personality. This monstrous projection onto ‘Trump’ and his supporters of cultists’ own purity fixation is, more generally speaking, a projection of cultists’ obsessive and racialized view of human existence and social structures. In fanatical fashion, as is typical of true fanatics, an internal disharmony present in the subject (in the anti-Trumpian cultist, in this case) is projected onto an external object, person, or group, just in order for the subject to ‘overcome’ in this perceived-to-be external reality something which is really an obstruction in him/herself.
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-psychology-of-the-anti-trumpian
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-psychology-of-the-anti-trumpian-part-2
All 2.2 million people in Gaza do not have enough food to eat, with half of the population on the brink of starvation and famine projected to arrive in the north “anytime between mid-March and May 2024,” according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 15:08 utc | 55
Acute hunger and malnutrition have already “far exceeded” the threshold for famine in northern Gaza and the IPC warns of a “major acceleration of death and malnutrition.”
This is the “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded… anywhere, anytime,” by the IPC, said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 15:09 utc | 57
At least 25 people, including children and babies, have died from starvation and dehydration in the north, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. People have resorted to scavenging, eating grass and animal feed, and drinking polluted water. Starving mothers are unable to produce enough milk to feed their babies and parents beg for infant formula at overwhelmed health facilities, parents and doctors told CNN.
The Open Arms vessel (C) is pictured in the Cypriot port of Larnaca on March 11, 2024. A Cyprus government spokesman said a Spanish charity ship with food aid was set to sail from the island within hours to the coastal Gaza Strip, where the UN has repeatedly warned of famine.
Related article Aid is being shipped to Gaza by sea. But a new maritime corridor is unlikely to stop the looming famine.
The crisis has been described as “entirely man-made” and “preventable” due to Israel’s throttling of aid and widespread destruction of Gaza. The report said famine conditions will spread unless there is an “immediate cessation of hostilities” and full aid access granted to the strip.
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 15:11 utc | 58
Watching CGTN right now. Their reporter in Rafah just said that the 200 tons of food that was delivered by World Kitchen never reached any Palestinian in northern Gaza or anywhere else because the “israeli” army ordered it taken to a warehouse in southern Rafah where it remains.
And of course “israel” is issuing denials that they are restricting food aid.
The longest month in judaism? Jew-lie. It lasts all year.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Mar 19 2024 15:17 utc | 59
"The mass-murder of these people would be prevented in a day if the U.S. Congress ..."
But the sad reality is that a congressman's political career depends on funding from the coalition that is always in power, that is Permanent Washington (1963/67-): the imperial party seeking global domination, the corporatocratic party and the Zionist party.
The amazing thing about this story - hello Josep Borrell, hello Ursula von lies - is that there are a billion of us in this deadly empire, and we are cattle and mere spectators.
Neither they, the rag dolls of the US congress and the puppets of Brussels, nor we have power.
This is the terrible reality beyond the colossal bubble of fantasies created with tons and tons of silence by the mass media.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 15:33 utc | 60
Lebanese TV reports:
14:44 Al-Qassam Brigades says Targeted 5 Israeli vehicles with Yassine-105 shells in the area surrounding Al-Shifa Complex
Posted by: Exile | Mar 19 2024 15:35 utc | 61
"I can assure you that Borrell did not suddenly come to this conclusion by himself. He was ordered, like Senator Schumer to start flapping his mouth from orders from the oligarch network centered in Washington that the bad publicity of the US/EU complicity in the obvious ongoing horror show is harming the Empire. This does two things, it "absolves" the Empire's complicity and is encouraging the IDF to get on with it--if they want to wipe out the Gazans they have to get on with it. The IDF has been shown to be less than competent in their "war" on Hamas. This slowness in the massacres is annoying to the Empire because this slow movement of the IDF is allowing a resistance axis to organize and grow as popular opinion in Saudi, Turkey, and Egypt may force leaders to "do something." This axis of resistance will take a year or so to grow some teeth so time is limited."
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 19 2024 15:06 utc | 54
Excellent analysis, Chris.
Imperialism is afraid of China and of the Arabs. Israel and Formosa are bases of imperialism in Asia. You are the gate of the great continent and we are the rear. They created Israel for you, and Formosa for us. Their goal is the same.
— Mao Zedong to visiting Palestine Liberation Organization delegates, Beijing, 1965
An interesting series of articles by Charles Xu at MR Online entitled 'The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future.'
Posted by: Wilikins | Mar 19 2024 15:46 utc | 63
"All the religious analysis and history lessons in the world are not going to fix one fucking thing. Stop cluttering the threads with this bullshit. Stop wasting your precious (according to scarcity theory) neurons on it. Fuck."
Posted by: Honzo | Mar 19 2024 14:46 utc | 51
My, my you are rude. Take a stress pill or a strong drink to assuage your flighty nerves.
If that's the way you feel why don't you start your own blog?
Because this blob is 'b's , not yours, and he can manage the blog any way he fancies; and you should have the decency to respect his wishes.
RE: Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 19 2024 15:08 utc | 55
You could “substitute” many groups the way you have. The article is “generalized” and could fit many scenarios in many conflicts and cultures, and equate them to the issue/person you want.
IMO “cults” are amassed everywhere, and Trump has his own variety. Simplistic form, it’s one mafia power group looking to usurp another, and both have no usefulness or anything to contribute to humanity, as evidenced with the uninterrupted genocide.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 19 2024 15:51 utc | 65
oldhippie 50
It's easy to hate people who prevent you from your own preferred vices, like stealing Palestine from its owners.
But every addict knows in their heart of hearts that being prevented from what is actually destroying them is intended to help, even if it doesn't.
The only thing that can help the addict is the missing love that twisted the child's faith in the world and made them resort to addictive behaviour.
Jews wanting a homeland is addictive behaviour. The thing that they were deprived of in 600 BC, in 73 AD, in 600 AD and in 1940 , was not their homeland but their addiction.
God's Truth , the meaning of the Universe is immensely powerful.
The Jews were jealous of sharing this Powerful Knowledge with anybody else.
If you look at how Western Corporate Capitalism guards its Knowledge and how Chinese and Russian Capitalism shares its knowledge, you see the exact flaw of the Jewish Biblical legacy, refusing to share knowledge.
Even though their orders from God were to teach the Knowledge of the Book to all the other human beings who needed it.
My question is, if Israel is allowed its addiction, its whiskey, its drugs, its sex, its chocolate, its homeland, is it ever going to do the only thing that will give it love, which is to share their knowledge of God?
The answer is no, which is why even if they get it by prising its from the Palestinians by force, it will never make them feel loved.
So what's the point of letting them take it? Better to stop the addict by force.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 19 2024 16:06 utc | 66
it's strange to find out that the "resistance" to the ongoing genocide in Gaza
at least that which we get to hear from the media
has absolutely nothing to do with the likes of Borrell and co
or even from those where you might expect to see "resistance"....ie countries like Egypt,Saudi Arabia,Turkey,Jordan, Pakistan
(ie the Islamic world in general),
and obviously not from any (well 99.5%) "Western" source
but from actually many Jewish sources.
one cant help but be ironic in thinking what all this must be doing to their so-called "image projection"
try "https://barelyablog.com/douglas-damien-murray-for-idf-beefcake-other-such-creepy-curiosities"
Posted by: chris m | Mar 19 2024 16:10 utc | 67
free speech and a polite host are wasted on sputtering trolls. What low performance disruptions. Stinks of mechanized desperation. Max percentage posting privilege script might be worth implementation. some way of denying their malignant intentions. No real person would behave this way, it would not be infringing on the freedom of a non-entity.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Mar 19 2024 16:10 utc | 68
History repeats if you don't learn from it.
During WWII Zionists betrayed their own and it led to the death of hundreds of thousands.
After the war those same Zionists were protected by Israel as they were part of the current administration.
That was the history unlearned.
The Repeat. On Oct 7th Israeli leaders betrayed their own and permitted a jail break. They then waited hours before
arriving in force. Then they implemented the Hannibal Doctrine and slaughtered their own.
The Israeli perps are again being protected.
The jail that was Gaza was a hand grenade fashioned by Israel itself. Israel pulled the pin of provocation long ago and held it to it's own chest. The storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque on Oct 2nd being only the latest provocation.
History repeats if you don't learn from it.
Posted by: librul | Mar 19 2024 16:24 utc | 69
remember vk?
kicked out for a fraction of these spamming and OT trolls' bloviations
Posted by: ld | Mar 19 2024 16:32 utc | 70
But what of Hamas?
How to deal with Hamas?
Make Hamas superfluous.
The colonists should leave Palestine.
Israel betrayed and slaughtered it's own.
Israel is committing Genocide.
Israel is giving the finger to the rest of the World when it beseeches Israel to find it's humanity and stop.
Israel is a failed experiment, Failure of Failures.
Time for the colonists to leave Palestine.
Posted by: librul | Mar 19 2024 16:32 utc | 71
(1) the history of some Arab tribes, the "Hebrews", and an Arab divinity: "Yahweh".
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 12:59 utc | 30
This is a nonsense that was discredited long, long, ago. Invented by a Lebanese scholar, the idea depends on the similarity of some names in the Old Testament to placenames in SW Saudi. There's no ethnic relationship. no sign of Hebrews in the inscriptions from Arabia.
Posted by: laguerre | Mar 19 2024 16:42 utc | 72
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 19 2024 15:51 utc | 66RE: Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 19 2024 15:08 utc | 55
You could “substitute” many groups the way you have. The article is “generalized” and could fit many scenarios in many conflicts and cultures, and equate them to the issue/person you want.
Yes, you can apply a general subject matter like 'cult mentality' to many other scenarios, though this particular one involves creating an iconic object of worship via the emotion of hate, which relates directly to old hippie’s earlier comment.
The two articles are some of the best have ever read viz. describing how secular society operates on timeless principles, usually manifest in traditional religions in both enlightened and corrupted fashion. The second one is more dense. He ties together lots of Aristotle's work on human (versus animal or plant) nature/mind/soul, Nietzsche and more and explaining how modern mind manipulation substitutes narrow bandwidth ‘ontologically small’ deities for older, deeper ones - such as Trump, the article’s specific example, or many others such as Hamas or the infamous Adolf. The curated object of cultified hatred, just as with Trump today, is quite different from the actual man himself. B was wondering out loud about our trying to create realities on a whim; this helps explain part of that dynamic; an interesting phenomenon with real world implications and consequences.
Sorry you didn’t find it interesting; I am finding it quite clarifying in my personal quest to understand how societies spawn mass murder since I fear we might soon suffer the slaughter of millions Russia endured a century ago for which now ‘Anglo-Saxons’ are being blamed, judging by the left-leaning commentariat here. (It is not only a profit motive that drives shipments of fentanyl across the American border, I trow...)
"Meanwhile, Hell has many chambers, each one lower and hotter than the other."
Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 19 2024 14:54 utc | 52
When I read Dante's "Divine Comedy" in translation , of course, I am barely unilingual-but I found the Inferno part wonderful-9 levels of Hell? -but the Purgatorio or Paradiso parts not as poignant or as interesting.
Man can much more accurately describe, understand 'evil'- than 'good'
Because this blob is 'b's , not yours, and he can manage the blog any way he fancies; and you should have the decency to respect his wishes.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 19 2024 15:50 utc | 65
He can manage me out of it, if that's his desire- but you can't. The post was directed at users, not b. Most of you spend so much time religious/philosophical bullshit that the actual political/economic analysis is lost in the midden. You, of course, don't need to take my advice, as most won't. For many, this is deliberate obfuscation. Others are just fools.
Posted by: Honzo | Mar 19 2024 17:05 utc | 75
World Kitchen Central's aid barge to Gaza, delivered from Cyprus, was well-covered in the western press, at least to the point of arrival. The delivery was apparently loaded onto 8-12 trucks, under supervision of IDF. Announcements today by the group, and a press release by UAE,
claim the aid has been delivered to northern Gaza, but reports describing this end of the process are fairly vague, particularly in comparison to the earlier activity. (as well, 8-12 trucks constitute a "trickle", not a "flow of aid"). No detail as to how this distribution worked, or whether it had any connection with the assault on al-Shifa and targeted attacks against police officials.
Posted by: jayc | Mar 19 2024 17:09 utc | 76
Posted by: Honzo | Mar 19 2024 17:05 utc | 76The post was directed at users, not b. Most of you spend so much time religious/philosophical bullshit that the actual political/economic analysis is lost in the midden. You, of course, don't need to take my advice, as most won't. For many, this is deliberate obfuscation. Others are just fools.
Some people are interested in the whats: the angle of the blade, the depth of penetration, the amount of time it takes to sever a Palestinian child's head from its body.
Others are interested in why. Why do people do such horrible things? I think you would be better served raising a specific objection to a specific point and why you think it is irrelevant or unhelpful. You are one of the best posters here with specifics and no doubt would come up with some great rebuttals or takes. But the general dismissal of unspecified posts... that's just blather and, frankly, beneath you.
Do you understand what's going on in Gaza? Do you think it has absolutely nothing to do with religion? That doesn't seem very realistic to me, if so.
(1) the history of some Arab tribes, the "Hebrews", and an Arab divinity: "Yahweh":
a) The Great Temple was built by an Arab king, Herod the Great.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great
b) When Saul of Tarsus fell off his horse on the way to Damascus, the first thing he said was "I went to Arabia" and he stayed there for a few years: "Mount Sinai is in Arabia."
c) Moses' father-in-law (Exodus 3:1) is an Arab priest.
d) "Yahweh" comes from the South (Deborah's Song)
e) "Yahweh of Tayma/Teman" appears in the fortress of Kuntillet Ajrud.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayma
f) Benjamín de Tudela did not forget to pass through Tayma/Teman on his trip.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_of_Tudela
g) Egyptian inscriptions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasu
h) Amarna letters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 17:30 utc | 78
It looks like the 'floating island' under construction on the shores of Gaza is the right platform for the IOF to launch a full-blown attack on Hezbollah and Lebanon for that matter. Opposition lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman has called on PM Netanyahu’s war cabinet to take the war to Lebanon, as Hezbollah and Israel trade fire across the border. But before that happens, the innocent Palestinians in the enclave will need to be shipped away to Europe with a large cohort of them to the south and in particular to Spain. Has Sanchez been briefed about this policy already?
Posted by: AI | Mar 19 2024 17:33 utc | 79
Posted by: canuck | Mar 19 2024 16:54 utc | 75
Don't quote me, and at the risk of further angering the estimable honzo, but I seem to recall that in Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation tr. by Guenther (available online) written about a thousand years ago in Tibet, he lists sixteen hot hells and sixteen cold hells, describing each in detail. He also goes through all the other realms (hungry ghost, animal, human, titan/jealous god, gods) whilst explaining the karmic causes for ending up in such realms. It's a great medieval read taking the reader from original confusion into the state of Buddhahood and extremely organized in classic Tibetan style with no end of lists, categories, sub-categories etc. One of the root texts of Asian wisdom, according to many.
For German speakers I believe it was originally translated into German where the language is doubtless more colourful than Guenther's English.
Gaza military update
Video of Al-Quds tram using a ancient Sagger wire guided ATGM against a IDF vehicle with mortar team firing at 4 oblivious IDF
Posted by: Exile | Mar 19 2024 17:44 utc | 81
@ canuck | Mar 19 2024 16:54 utc | 75
“Heaven for the climate; hell for the society.” — M. Twain.
Francesca and Paolo are at least interesting and sympathetic; Beatrice is a bore.
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 19 2024 17:54 utc | 82
One aspect of this conflict that is not discussed is how it will be used as a predicate for Islamic nations for accelerating their move away from conducting their transactions in dollars, as we way of punishing America for its support of Israel. As a result, I expect to see continued expansion of BRICS particularly in the Middle East, along with more concrete proposals to settle debts between their members.
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/politics-economics/brics-next-expansion-could-include-turkey-algeria-indonesia-nigeria-but-major-rifts-remain
https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/03/07/brics-bloc-plans-to-develop-blockchain-based-payment-system-to-bypasses-the-dollar-003033
https://epthinktank.eu/2024/03/19/expansion-of-brics-a-quest-for-greater-global-influence/
Posted by: Noah Nehm | Mar 19 2024 18:03 utc | 83
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Posted by: Merlenna | Mar 19 2024 18:26 utc | 84
Do you understand what's going on in Gaza? Do you think it has absolutely nothing to do with religion?That doesn't seem very realistic to me, if so.
Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 19 2024 17:30 utc | 7
What is going on in Palestine has as much to do with religion as the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas by Europeans or colonialism of Africa and Asia: nothing.
If you're fighting a battle of liberation and resistance, you of course need some platform, some ideology and that's why you see the Palestinian resistance run the gamut from secular, to communist to religious. Hezbollah's charter includes protecting Christians.
When socialism was stronger there were many socialist liberation movements. The PLO were secular but were nonetheless sidelined as "terrorists" by none other than Benjamin Netanyahu with his terrorism institute and conference in the USA in the 1980s.
The Zionist lobby has created the whole concept of "Islamic terror" oin order to get the US to attack Syria, Iraq, etc. to create Greater Israel.
The so called "Wahhabi" death squads take their marching orders from Israel even if the media has shifted the blame to Saudi exactly as they did with 9/11. All the evidence for "Saudi" or other Gulf "terrorist"funding comes from the policy papers written by Zionist think tanks in Washington DC whereupon it is faithfully disseminated by Wapo, NYT, FT, Guardian etc.
Isn't it weird how Israel is the one country that the terrorists never attack and where they go to get treated....
In East Jerusalem Zionists are destroying churches and turning them into resorts but you never hear about it.
The snakes of Empire like Al Crook keep pushing religious civilization clash rubbish because they want to make it into an us vs them thing.
People like Al Crook never say: Israel is an apartheid Eurosupremacist settler colonial project trying to displace indigenous people from their land.
Zionists may weaponize religion, use the Torah as some sort of national land registry and Christian nutjob Zionists may support Israel for that reason.
But Palestinians just want their right of return and to live as equals on their land be they atheist, Muslim or Christian. And yes, there is even an ancient community of Palestinian Jews in the West Bank.
If people get beaten up while praying in the mosque or at a checkpoint in the West Bank, the issue is that they are GETTING BEATEN UP FOR NO REASON, not that they are in a mosque or on the road.
Posted by: Pq | Mar 19 2024 18:37 utc | 85
In the Late Bronze Age
In the Late Bronze Age, in the time of TutMoses III, Pharaoh of Egypt, and his opposite figure "Moses" (Exodus 3,1) the one who let himself be fooled in the valley by the high profitability of the pig then cursed his luck when they fell under the coercive and fiscal power of the tributary palaces of the Egyptian empire.
On the other hand, how well an all-terrain goat sets the pace that leads through hills and mountains to the great free space: the desert.
The goatherd tribes were tribes of free men and bandits who loved goats and despised pigs.
And when the Egyptian imperial power collapses, they settle in "the land of Canaan".
The Polish and Ukrainian founders (1917-) of "our (bloody) colonial project" would have liked "the land of Canaan" to be an island of Norway; but no: the north was Phoenician, in fact the Phoenicians called themselves "Canaanites", and the south was Arab.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 18:53 utc | 86
Haredi Protesters in Al-Quds: We Would Rather Die than Enlist in the Israeli Army
……Declaring that they would rather die than enlist in the Israeli occupation army, Haredi demonstrators blocked a light rail in occupied Al-Quds and scuffled with occupation police on Monday night.
Israeli media reported that dozens of ultra-Orthodox men block the tracks of the light rail in protest against their planned conscription into the occupation army.
“If you go to the army, you and dogs are equal,” they chant, riffing off of enlistment advocates’ call for “equality of the burden” between Haredi and secular Israelis.…..
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2068222
Posted by: Exile | Mar 19 2024 18:59 utc | 87
The original letter from Balfour to Rothschild; the declaration reads:
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I would be greatful if you could bring this knowledge to the Zionist federation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 19:02 utc | 88
Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 19 2024 15:08 utc | 55
Very relevant article, which explains how we get to a state of university professors becoming champions of genocide. I understand that was the point of the Buddha, not being deceived by constructs. However, I am not certain many will get past the Trump as Odysseus portion.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Mar 19 2024 19:03 utc | 89
It looks like the 'floating island' under construction on the shores of Gaza is the right platform for the IOF to launch a full-blown attack on Hezbollah and Lebanon for that matter.
Posted by: AI | Mar 19 2024 17:33 utc | 81
It looks like a big fat target to me.
They could just as well have used a Sa'ar class missile corvette.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 19 2024 19:05 utc | 90
Zionism 1.0 that came with the Almighty (Persian Empire) is as liar as 2.0 that came with the Almighty (British Empire):
They shamelessly placed Abraham coming out of Ur of the Chaldeans which is like saying New York or somewhere in the Ukraine.
-my grandfather was an enthusiastic reader of Don Quixote de la Mancha, I am an enthusiastic reader of Don Quixote de la Mancha and, therefore, by a literary tradition and a sentimental link your lands and your house in La Mancha are mine, I steal them from you according Old Aramaic Pamphlets, "those people you are going to dispossess" (Deuteronomy)
and I put you in a ghetto without civil rights and under military domination; but yes: with autonomous administration like the Warsaw ghetto.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 19:36 utc | 91
Sorry for interrupting.
Some time ago someone - sorry I don't remember your name - here posted a script to block out certain comments. Could someone post a link to the script? And a short description how to use it would be appreciated very much.
At the time I did not find the trolls so annoying, but those sermonizing preachers polluting the threads with their delusions...
Posted by: Darkness | Mar 19 2024 19:50 utc | 92
An important side note: the death toll of the genocide in Gaza so far is not 31k, but more likely in the hundreds of thousands now. The Zionazis have apparently successfully kept the number frozen since Christmas, yet the killing has continued without a break.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 19 2024 19:56 utc | 93
Tomas de Torquemada was an amateur
Note how the book by Thomas Suarez, "State of Terror" has disappeared from the main bookstores, it seems that it has entered the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum".
We have no words left to describe the dystopian novel in which we live, the science fiction writers were short of imagination: "Simulacron-3", 1964
It is simply mind-boggling: a bunch of rag dolls in the US Congress, the pile of puppets in the European Parliament ... And a billion of us are the common people. And none of us play a role.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 19 2024 20:18 utc | 94
We are looking at the attempt to make a spiritual darkness. We will not succumb.
32,161 dead and rising
Posted by: phenon | Mar 19 2024 20:19 utc | 95
Mr Borrell is saying the truth out loud, he always did
Thoughts to the children
Posted by: Animal | Mar 19 2024 20:25 utc | 96
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 19 2024 19:56 utc | 95
This is the 'standard' means by which to achieve a genocide:
Conceal the numbers of dead until the butchery is complete.
When the veil of lies is lifted the true horror is revealed.
Those with the power to intervene uncover their eyes and cry:
"If only we had known"!
(While barely suppressing their laughter)
May all mankind have equal share of the meal Gazans partake.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 19 2024 20:33 utc | 97
My usual Monday item centering on Crooke's SCF essay and chat with Napolitano was delayed by the Russian election and the events at its outcome. Today, I've included an article from The Cradle about Iran's Red Sea policy interests that provides food for further thought, "Crooke on Big Picture Pivot Conflict". In the chat, there's a clip of Borrell stating the obvious about the weaponization of food, which provoked cynical responses from both Crooke and Napolitano.
The President of Turkeyeyey ErDOGan supplies the fuel and weapons and food that is used in the occupation of Palestine.
I mean, the Fuel come from Azerbaijan, through Turkey, and all kinds of whatever is needed also comes through Turkey to the Ashkanazi Occupied Palestine
Without Turkey, the occupation forces would starve and run out of gas and then have to go back home to Europe.
So, a cargo ships with Israeli roots went fast into a big Turkish port and knocked over 4 ship loading gantry cranes, all that were at that port (smiley face)
ErDOGan cased Syria before he and his radical religious extremest invaded Syria. ErDOGan had his Snackbars disassemble all the factories in Aleppo and load the machinery into trucks and ship it to Turkeyeyey where ErDOGan sells it cheep.
ErDOGan sent his Snackbars to kindergartens and schools in Assad's home county, kidnapped the children and teachers, bussed them to Goata near Damascus and held them in tunnels for months then gasses them and made moves of their dead bodies and then burned them so no DNA could trace them to the countries northwest county. Then ErDOGan blamed Assad for the war crime.
Posted by: Hot Carl | Mar 19 2024 20:48 utc | 99
fyi
as far as I am concerned, once again, Elijah M. hits the nail on the head.
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1770011953710112803
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The @UN Security Council demands that #Yemen, THE protector of humanity and what remains of the world's dignity, stop its operations against ships bound for #Israel. The demand is worthless because the UN is incapable of stopping the genocide in #Gaza and imposing international law on Israel.
The #US has destroyed all laws by protecting the Israeli genocide, and the #EU complains but doesn't take any action against the Israeli child murderers.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/artc-unsc-demands-houthis-to-immediately-stop-attacking-ships-in-red-sea
UNSC demands Houthis to 'immediately stop' attacking ships in Red Sea
Members emphasized the "importance of the full implementation of Resolution 2216 and subsequent decisions" to prevent the Houthis from obtaining the necessary weapons for attacks
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 19 2024 21:09 utc | 100
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I wouldn’t have expected Borrell to have the guts or honesty to admit what has been blatantly obvious for months.
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