Russia made life for Joe “Genocide” Biden more difficult. Biden’s re-election became much more difficult. Russia used its veto to block a resolution to demand an inmediate cease-fire in Gaza.
Posted by: WMG | Mar 22 2024 14:07 utc | 109
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/un-security-council-does-not-pass-us-resolution-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire

Posted by: WMG | Mar 22 2024 14:14 utc | 104

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Same would appear for bankers and banks.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 22 2024 9:29 utc | 101
Yes. Banking system is key to control right (not for much longer) with the Western monopoly money loan shark op run by WB, IMF and SWIFT stranging the Global South economy. Not to mention CFA france etc. The ECB is the biggest scam in the business. You can’t even know from their site what corporate friends have received the taxpayer money they gift to friends and family. Not to mention tax havens.
At least a third of the world population already lives under sanctions if I remember correctly.
TIL: the US instead of doing something constructive is working hard to figure out how to stop a pipeline between Iran and Pakistan. The West is a parody of itself now. Cheering on genocide while preaching about human rights and democracy.
Galloway pointed out (to an empty Parliament) that the UK has an unelected head of state, PM and foreign secretary. The US has a demented pedo. Scholz, Trudeau, Meloni et al are like a clown parade. We have the EU represented by an unelected plagiarist von der Liar and a Chief Gardener who can rarely get his foot out of his mouth.
Posted by: Minaa | Mar 22 2024 14:15 utc | 111 I hope your personal take is correct.
Guyana also voted abstained surprisingly.
The siege at Al Shifa is on the 5th day now. Nurses and doctors have been taken somewhere (the ones who were not taken to the morgue and executed. Patients were festering wounds are left without care or supplies. This is at least the second siege. The world just closed its eyes the first time so now Israel does it again after they put some parts of the hospital back in operation.
I am sick to my stomach. It’s like living in a horror movie and that’s from a long way away. I can’t even begine to imagine the trauma of people in Gaza. We’re at over 40,000 dead if you count under the rubble and what is the prognosis for 75,000 injured without hospitals?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/21/ozkx-m21.html
Israel allegedly carried out mass summary executions at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Robert Inlakesh suggests escalation is the only way to ceasefire.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/escalation-of-resistance-is-the-only-road-to-a-ceasefire-in
Spoiler alert:
“Without a dramatic change to the status-quo, the situation inside the besieged Gaza Strip will only continue to get worse during Ramadan and after it, which is why there must be an escalation that comes in one way or another, in order to alter the current dynamics. In the absence of new developments on the ground, this will be a very tragic and painful Ramadan, topped off with an Eid that will be stripped of its usual happiness. This is a genocide and those who are committing the crime of all crimes aren’t going to stop on their own.”

Posted by: pq | Mar 22 2024 14:56 utc | 106

Chas | Mar 22 2024 13:43 utc | 107
Thanks. I’m sure that you are right. No doubt it as true of Northern Ireland as the South. But I’m sure that her point is sound- the sympathies of racists everywhere, from India to Ulster, are with the Israelis. The good thing is that it is now very unfashionable to be sporting Stars of David- they mark the wearers out as supporters of child killing.
Anyone interested in the significance of the recent vote in Ottawa on Palestine should read the Canada Files Newsletter:
“Meltdowns and words aplenty came around a March 18 Palestine vote in Canada’s parliament. But this non-binding vote and the final product which was voted on, is much more hype than a real victory.
“The vote occurring is a credit to the Canadian movement in support of Palestinian liberation. The credit comes in scaring Canada’s coalition government into feeling it needed to create the appearance of standing with Palestine in a substantive manner. But appearances don’t always match the reality.
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/the-palestine-vote-in-canadas-parliament-its-no-victory?…”utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Posted by: bevin | Mar 22 2024 16:05 utc | 108

Alberto Toscano reviews Haidar Eid’s ‘Decolonising the Palestinian Mind’, at the NLR’s sidecar site.
Haidar Eid and his family escaped the onslaught on Gaza- following the destruction of the University he worked at and most of the colleagues he worked with- because he has South African citizenship.
“….Looking back on the (Oslo) Accords, Eid asks whether we have been forced to endure horrible massacres, a genocidal siege, the unstoppable annexation of our land, the building of an apartheid wall, detention of entire families and children, demolition of hundreds of homes, and many other abuses only because a comprador class saw ‘independence’ at the end of a closed tunnel!?
“A return to the anti-colonial tradition of Said, Césaire, Fanon and Biko is necessary to counter a Palestinian ‘neo-nationalism’ which ‘beautifies occupation, endorses normalisation, and defends the racist two-state solution’, regardless of the fact that it ‘denies the rights of two-thirds of the Palestinian people, namely refugees and Palestinian citizens of Israel’. By tacitly accepting the existence of Israel as a Jewish state and coordinating with its repressive apparatuses, writes Eid, this neo-nationalist ideology has become a partner of the Zionist project. Its only ‘solution’ is to give a circumscribed political class the trappings of statehood (flag, anthem, police force) and delegated power over a fragmented population. This means denying the existence of the Palestinian people as a people, and reducing Palestine to the status of a governable or ungovernable enclave. Statehood, thus conceived, is tantamount to surrender. At most, such a state would grant the Palestinians notional ‘autonomy’ on 22% of their land, with no control over their borders or water reserves, no right of return, and no defence against Israel’s military juggernaut….”
Meanwhile as all will know, China and Russia- after a strongly worded statement by the Russian representative at the UN- vetoed a US resolution not actually calling for a ceasefire while claiming to do so in the Security Council. Those who recall De Gaulle might remember that he prophesied the demise of Israel on the grounds that its colonial cause was as doomed as Algeria’s- Algeria voted with Russia and China, Guyana (true to the memory of Cheddi Jagan) abstained and the lap dogs wagged their tails and leaped on to Uncle Sam’s insalubrious lap.

Posted by: bevin | Mar 22 2024 18:43 utc | 110

Interesting!

Posted by: Mella | Mar 22 2024 18:56 utc | 112

Highly recommended essay
Shoah After Gaza byPankaj Mishra:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
The London Barbican refused to host a London Review of Books winter series because of Mishra’s topic (read the essay).
You can also acquaint yourself with the Barbican’s softly worded pure bullshit explanation of
why it did not allow Mishra’s topic.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/a-statement-from-the-barbican-in-relation-to-the-london-review-of-books-winter
Is there better evidence of the total moral entropy of Western culture and the human mind it has produced.

Posted by: JB | Mar 23 2024 11:19 utc | 114

It looks like Russia has taken a leaf from the Israeli tiktok army and UNRWA playbook: torture, post to social media.
For some bizarre reason, the Russian authorities allowed the interrogation of alleged “suspects” to be plastered not only to social media but even to RT and Ria Novosti. I thought it was Telegram junk but no.
1. One suspect “confesses” while having his ear chopped off and being made to eat it
2. Another has his face on a Russian boot while he “confesses”
3. The third is a chubby scared teenager who “confessed” after being stabbed in the eye. I mention his body type because he looks incapable of handling a big gun which requires strength and training.
Some random unemployed foreigners were offered a paltry sum to go Krasnogorsk and kill people? OOOKay
Nobody asks how four guys with small backpacks and guns managed in only ten minutes to kill 40 people between 20:03 and 20:13 (that was the death toll when they left) AND set a fire that was so huge that the roof collapsed and the building now looks a lot like a Gaza rubble scene.
I can only imagine that these three unconvincing frightened tortured men are being offered up to satisyfy public bloodlust for strategic reasons. Maybe all the real perpetrators have not been caught yet. Or maybe they are “Slavic Banderite brothers” from Ukraine. Or some other equally embarrassing species.
The same voices that were reaching for their smelling salts when it comes to Zionist torture now unquestioningly accept confessions extracted through Russian torture.
The veneer of being civilized is thin and explains exactly why Israel is getting away with genocide.
At the bar there is a human hierarchy: who can be tortured and who is allowed to torture with impunity.
I might have believed this story if only it had been offered as a neutral official statement rather than fed to the public in bits and pieces through gruesome torture videos and photos.
The herd stampedes to another corner of the bar and the burning question is not “how believable is a confession from torture” but rather: what is the ethnicity of the perpetrators?
Just as Europe/Israel can’t move beyond seeing the world as divided between Garden and Jungle, neither can most of the bar although it seems the consensus is that “Garden” includes Russians and Slavs (not Chechens, Central Asians etc.). Two days ago I listened to Dmitry Orlov whom I had respected but at some point he said: Russia has a skilled labour shortage. Russia can import a lot of manual labour from Central Asia but nobody from Central Asia is really capable of much more than that. Possibly they can do some factory work with training. With supreme arrogance he just dismisses a whole bunch of countries as incapable.
This is the essence of colonial and settler colonial thinking.
The NYT investigates within hours: Quickly the global narrative shifts to “ISIS” which is quite useful for Israel. Distracting as it does from the
-blowing up of the surgery department and most functional parts of Al Shifa
-mass executions of medics and patients
-some people run over by tanks
-another flour massacre
-some women raped and killed near Al Shifa
-800 Palestinians abducted from Al Shifa
-families who died trapped in burning houses
The evil is not only in the halls of power, it’s right here in the bar amongst those who accept torture as a means of extracting confessions.

Posted by: pq | Mar 23 2024 21:37 utc | 116

ZH has a posting up with the title
‘Will Send Netanyahu To Allah’: Erdogan’s Words Spark Outrage In Israel
the quote

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has from the start of the Israel-Hamas war been among the most aggressive and fiercest critics of Israel and especially its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
While Erdogan has long denounced Israel’s operation in Gaza, on Thursday he unleashed his harshest rhetoric yet, which came close to perhaps being a direct threat against Netanyahu’s life. In an election rally the Turkish president vowed to “send [Netanyahu] to Allah to take care of him, make him miserable and curse him.”
The threatening and inflammatory words were widely picked up in Israeli press reports, causing outrage. He additionally described that “Netanyahu and his administration, with their crimes against humanity in Gaza, are writing their names next to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, like today’s Nazis.”
Another media outlet which covers regional events translated Erdogan’s words as follows:

In a fresh attack on the Israeli prime minister over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Erdogan told the crowd gathered at an election rally in central Anatolia on Thursday, “I’m leaving the person called Netanyahu in the Lord’s hands.” He then added, “May the Lord damn him.”

Thus depending on how the remarks are translated, the statement leaves itself open to interpretation possibly as a direct threat against the Israeli leader.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 24 2024 0:47 utc | 118

Israeli army has raped Palestinian women in Gaza before killing them. This is all in the past few days as Al Shifa has been under a siege.
As Israeli forces stormed Al Shifa and destroyed the hospital, they used Palestinians as human shields sending them ahead. Of course no fighters were in the hospital.
Now they have started a siege of Al Amal Hospital. Just unbelievable.

Posted by: pq | Mar 24 2024 9:39 utc | 120

Hezbollah SitRep
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2071060
Comment – A 60 rocket barrage against a IDF base hosting the re-training of the Golani Brigade after getting mauled in Gaza. Must be major PTSDs among those weekend warriors these days.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 24 2024 13:14 utc | 122