This is probably the most barbaric genocide in all humanity:
After a week long siege on Al Shifa that included:
-executing medical staff
-abducting hundreds of patients and medics
– raping and then killing womeñ
– allowing injured to bleed to death and leaving patients with festering wounds without access to food, water, medicine or doctors (who had been rounded up and taken somewhere else)
-blowing up the surgery department that had been made partly functional after it was destroyed the first few times
-leaving all inside without food or water for a week
Israel is now laying seige to Khan Younis hospital and
The Palestinian Red Crescent has issued the following press statement regarding the surprise Israeli military raid and siege of its Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis:
Israeli occupation forces have closed the gates of the Al-Amal Hospital with earthen barriers.
The Israeli forces fired smoke bombs towards the hospital buildings to force medical teams, wounded, and displaced persons to leave.
An Israeli drone requested all those present in the hospital to leave it naked.
So many more people would be alive today or would have died less painfully without this war on Gaza hospitals.
https://youtu.be/3mN1SRUx0R8?feature=shared
Account from Al Shifa. Quds News Network has more on horrifying rapes.

Posted by: Pq | Mar 24 2024 16:17 utc | 3

On Friday, the UNSC vote on a temporary Gaza ceae-fire resolution presented by the United States was vetoed, due to its language which was deemed too one-sided in favour of Israel. The Algerian representative described the resolution as tacitly allowing “for continuing civilian casualties and lacks clear safeguards to prevent further escalation.”
Following the vote, the U.S. representative described an impasse whereby any “alternative resolutions” which fail to “support the diplomacy happening on the ground” – I.e. the acceptance of the U.S.-Israel negotiating position – will continue to face veto by U.S. This impasse is effectively the status quo, and it will likely take a sudden catastrophe, anything from mass famine casualties or a collapse of Israel’s government, for the necessary humanitarian mission to proceed.

Posted by: jayc | Mar 24 2024 16:34 utc | 5

From Xymphora March 23:
“WHAT!? Yemen just Closed Red Sea to Israeli and US Ships in Deal with Russia, China“ (Haiphong). “Yemen’s Houthis penetrate Israel’s missile defences in Eilat for first time“ (The New Arab).”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 24 2024 17:07 utc | 7

The survival of the Palestinian people now rests wholly in their own hands.
The entirety of mankind has been proven to be morally bankrupt, or if not that then impotent and if not that then feeble.
All that must be said has been said.
Nothing that should be done has been done.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2024 17:09 utc | 9

I posted this last week and I will post it again. The US is building a temporary pier in Gaza to exfiltrate Palestians from Gaza. The humaitarian aid and medical assistance will come in, people will go there for help, offers will be made to leave. Money will be paid out to resettle.
In 5 years the US Christian Zionists will be sunning themselves on the beaches of Gaza in hotels built by the Trump organization. All the back and forth between Israel and the US is a charade. It is for the election. The US will step in and save the day by paving a path for a couple of million Palestians to leave Gaza.

Posted by: circumspect | Mar 24 2024 17:20 utc | 11

There’s an amusing line in the movie Mr & Mrs Smith which reminds me of “Israel.” The plot involves a married couple who operate as assassins for 2 competing US.gov secret agencies – unbeknown to each other.
Things get complicated in the Smith household when Mrs Smith is ordered to eliminate Mr Smith. During one of their many potentially violent confrontations, Mrs Smith asserts that “If a story has a happy ending, it’s not finished yet.”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 24 2024 17:37 utc | 13

Palestinians brought this on themselves with 10-7.
Pull the lions tail and get eaten…

Posted by: Javier | Mar 24 2024 18:09 utc | 15

Posted by: Javier | Mar 24 2024 18:09 utc | 15
###############
What did the Palestinians do that brought the previous 60 years of apartheid and oppression on them?
Race supremacists like yourself (whether you know it or not) are barely human, IMO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 18:17 utc | 17

Javier | Mar 24 2024 18:09 utc | 15
thanks. I’d never thought of it that way before:
Because Palestinian forces attacked Israeli sttelements-on Palestinian land- on October 7th Every dwelling place in Gaza, 20,000 plus women and children and all other inhabitants can justifiably be killed.
Does the same logic apply to Israel? Or to your family and your neighbourhood?

Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 18:20 utc | 19

“Nothing that should be done has been done.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2024 17:09 utc | 9”
Agreed. The entire rest of the world should enter occupied Palestine in force, destroy the Israeli military, and rescue the Palestinians- before they starve, instead of waiting, and if the damned bastards currently running the U.S. don’t like it, there’s a simple gesture the rest of the world should use. If the U.S. tries to stop them by force, there’s a perfectly justified response for that, too.
“We’re just humans.” And just humans are the only force for good in the universe. No one and no thing is going to do it for us if we sit around pointlessly talking to the sky or banging our heads on the floor. If “we” were “just humans” in the sense of being for justice, action would have been made months ago.

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 24 2024 18:38 utc | 21

“Why is the genocide in Gaza invisible for the educated in the EU?”
Sum of causes:
(1) the Media Bubble made of Tons and Tons and Tons of silence, sulence anda more silence: the main function of the Media Bubble is to act as a firewall.
(2) ignorance, i have chatted with now ex-friends, university professors, and i can assure you that any Afghan goat knows more than this bunch of brutes.
(3) Western Mental Software is a Fusion of Roman imperial ideology and bloody Aramaic fantasies: the new fusion (Zionism) has easily replaced the old fusion (so-called Christianity).
(4) Natural identification with the Dominant who takes them out of their insignificant lives.

Posted by: Simon | Mar 24 2024 19:07 utc | 23

@La guerre 6
As the saying goes, both sides are played. If you are from the left and defend Palestinians you are anti-semitic, if you are from the right even more so.
The left have tied themselves into a knot, so many times I have previously been attacked from left for simply questioning if modern themes that raised the “plight of jews” were not possibly fabricated (for example a recent Kristallnacht controversy in Germany).
The modern european right not only try to distance themselves from previous nationalisms, but are tied up into US nationalism which is also tied into Zionism via religious channels at voter level. The US is an accepted “success” story of colonisation, self identity. “Israel” is a “biblical homeland”. The extremes used to enforce the view are accepted at right because the alternative is to be powerless and without identity given the nihilist approach of the opposition.
So VOX in Spain is funded by M.E.K. for example… Le Pen backs “Israel”.
Identity, localist, traditionalist movements are hammered because they pose too many obvious questions to both sides. In EU regionalism and destruction of nation state is priority, but in a centraly controlled manner.
CNRS – In France, at least until recently, national survey by ethnic classification was not allowed because it was considered descriminatory. You know how authority there can be to anyone who is thought to challenge, some choose exile. I chose not to return after forced entry to home and arrest in front of family without warrant, jail, only released after signing a form waiving responsibility. I am not even politically involved, am more academic and certainly not confrontational. Critical study requires us to contemplate from various angles, some don’t like that, some expect an answer and not to be shown apparent contradictions.
Even the definition of “semite” is so broad as to make “anti-semite” useless … it is a “you know what it means wink wink” term. Do Palestinians consider themselves children of Shem ? The word is completely biased. The search for a definition of what “a jew” actually stands for has already been had (race, religion, nationality etc.).
Well, when you have people in authority directly and openly threaten your family, when what you write gets banned in search for no apparent reason…even here, I write when I have something to say and walk, one comment per post and I don’t return, because I know what to expect. So not interactive, just thoughts and observations as participation.
I have had the same kind of attention with regard to monetary theory. If you point out falsity or corruption in the system you don’t find friends.
Anyway, I should be one to dislike Palestinians because I was set up to carry explosives onto a flight by a couple, when I was slightly more naive…but I didn’t, and I don’t.
If I witnessed anyone behaving towards any other creature the way “Israel” is towards Palestinians I would be disgusted and outraged.
Jonathan Cook attempts to understand the modern nature of “anti-semitism” here:
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-03-07/antisemitism-shield-israel-genocide/

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 24 2024 19:23 utc | 25

Agreed. The entire rest of the world should enter occupied Palestine in force …
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 24 2024 18:38 utc | 21
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It is brave of you to go to the front line next week to implement your heroic ideas.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 19:35 utc | 27

When Thatcher invited her paedophile Jewish friend Jimmy Savile to Chequers, she was signing Israel’s green light to rape Palestinians.
What Sunak is doing now by doing it, or technically speaking giving orders for it to be done, is signing for
the total destruction of Israel and the permanent expulsion of Jews and Zionists.
It may take 40 years , like Savile and Thatcher’s plan. Or as Allah says many times in the Qur’an:
‘ We did not do them injustice. They did injustice to themselves, ‘
expulsion and eternity in Hell.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2024 20:01 utc | 29

Israeli population is declining PDQ.
More than 10% have left since 2.Oct. Very few want to return – a poll Shows 80% of Israeli citizens currently living abroad have no intention of ever returning.
Geez – even Bibi‘s son lives in Miami.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 24 2024 20:30 utc | 31

RE: “Our anger (and I get angry too) is misplaced as this is all happening beyond our ability to affect.”
“We’re just humans.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 17:18 utc | 10
If we were talking about an earthquake or hail storm, I’d agree.
This is neither of those, and hiding behind “God” to make everything alright someday, is hardly absolution. We are humans indeed. Humans willing to serve a mammon loving satanic death cult, and this is the consequence.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 24 2024 20:31 utc | 33

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
According to a poll, Hamas has the support of 70% of Palestinians in the West Bank/Gaza, and Ismail Haniyyah wins against Mahmoud Abbas 70-22%. Yet, US and Gulf despots insist that Fatah and Abbas represent the Palestinians. West loves democracy only if results are in their favor
https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1771972286578618725

Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 20:37 utc | 35

@HossamShabat
Sexual assault according to testimonies from Al-Shifa hospital :
“A husband and wife, along with their young children who were displaced, sought shelter at Al-Shifa Hospital. The pregnant wife was forcibly undressed by Israeli forces despite informing them of her pregnancy; they continued to kick her. Then , they assaulted and raped her in front of her family and other men, threatening to shoot her husband and the other men if they closed their eyes.”
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1771777966743175420

Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 20:39 utc | 37

Prem Thakker
@prem_thakker
The US continues to suspend funding UNRWA — a UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees — and now moves to ban funding for a year as 1.1 million people in Gaza face famine.
As Israeli accusations remain unproven, other nations have reinstated funding.
Read: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/22/gaza-unrwa-funding-congress/
https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1771291187946688612

Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 20:43 utc | 39

Stephen Semler
@stephensemler
All but two Democratic senators just voted to:
-give Israel $3.8B in weapons, violating US law
-defund a UN inquiry into Israel’s violations of international law
-defund UNRWA, worsening famine in Gaza
-sanction the UN Human Rights Council if it highlights Israeli abuses
https://twitter.com/stephensemler/status/1771572433016791403

Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 20:50 utc | 41

There is a reason why people pray for others in trouble, people who have gone missing, and people who are in mortal danger.
That is because when the SHTF, people know that they can’t do much about a serious crisis.
As they say, “No atheists in foxholes”. When you can’t do anything, you’ll appeal to even what you think doesn’t exist for help.
Or, that person doesn’t care as much as they like to put on in public among others. They like to emote for virtue signaling but know that if help came, then the attention would be off of them, and then they would have to go back to being a nobody. Some people need problems to have self-esteem.
I find it amazing that some humans think that other humans are so wonderful when no one knows us better than ourselves.
We all lie, we all put our interests first, and we all fail. Why do we expect another person to do that much better, and what does it say about ourselves that recognize our inferiority and still won’t accept it?
It is entirely possible that to be human is to be crazier than a bag of cats.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 21:10 utc | 43

AJ+
@ajplus
Israel is accused of stealing organs from dead Palestinians.
Medics and relatives in Gaza have reported bodies being returned with missing hearts, kidneys and livers.
But this isn’t the first time Israel has been accused of organ theft.
Watch the video for proof:
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1771634271050211595

Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 21:25 utc | 45

Do you have a link?
Posted by: Menz | Mar 24 2024 21:30 utc | 46
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Warfare Analysis News on telegram
I would add that like most things Putin does there has likely been a lot of analysis, preparation, and coordination.

Posted by: financial matters | Mar 24 2024 21:43 utc | 47

“Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 19:35 utc | 27”
And brave of you to ridicule someone who’s right while you advocate that everyone should sit on their asses and let non-existant fairy-tale beings do it, which they by definition will not. I’m not in charge of any country. If I went to Israel alone, and tried to stop them alone, they’d just kill me and it wouldn’t save anyone’s life, thus I have no duty to do so. Guess I shouldn’t say anything to criticize hypocrites who tell everyone there’s nothing they can do, everyone should sit and do nothing and let the Palestinians die while their made-up crap deities do nothing either. If your statements are enough to stop people from pushing for real action that would save lives, then you are an accomplice in mass murder. At least I’m doing what I can do to help.

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 24 2024 22:20 utc | 49

When WW2 allied soldiers liberated Nazi concentration camp Bergen Belsen, they recalled a striking event within cages containing groups of prisoners. The SS guards kept informers within each cell, who had power of life and death over their fellows by informing on them. They exerted control within cells on behalf of the guards.
Once the liberating allied soldiers appeared and it became clear that the SS guards were gone, a violent commotion broke out within each cell accompanied by terrified shrieking. In every cell, all the inmates were literally tearing apart with their hands and teeth the informer within each cell. The power support of those informers was gone and their position fatally vulnerable.
This incident is an analogy of what will happen to Israel when the support it receives from the ISA and Europe, stops. As it will. Justice will come quickly.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 24 2024 22:22 utc | 51

From Richard Seymour, one of the ablest political commentators now writing:
“Calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinian children”
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As to the genocide in Gaza, one question has been troubling me: to what extent is it executed from the top, and to what extent does it follow from the initiative of rank-and-file Israeli soldiers radicalised by the politicians and given ample latitude by the brass?
The famine is a clear case of execution from the top. Former foreign secretary David Miliband, currently the CEO of the International Rescue Committee which is trying to deliver aid to Gaza, tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour how “the fastest acceleration of a hunger crisis that has ever been seen” has been brought about by decisions and blockages imposed by Israel. For instance, one of the arguments used by Israeli officials is that certain items are “dual use”, meaning they could be turned to military purposes. What sorts of items? A pair of scissors for use in a hospital. “When a pair of scissors is found on a truck, the whole truck gets turned back.”
Unicef official James Elder describes the predictable consequence: “As soon as you drive through the north, you get that universal gesture of hunger of people putting their hands to their mouths.” You see “children, women with very gaunt faces”. You see “skeletal” children “on the brink of death, just skin and bones”. Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto just returned from Gaza, describes “a mother walking in holding her 8, 9-year-old, skinny — because they’re all starving — boy who’s dead, he’s cold and dead and [the mother is] screaming, asking for someone to check his pulse and everybody’s busy in the mass chaos.” The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, in words that will almost certainly appear in the ICJ’s deliberations, says that this deliberate blocking of aid appears “to be calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinian children”. And not just physical destruction: slow, torturous physical destruction. Calculated sadism.
The biological consequences will be felt for generations. If you haven’t looked into it before, take a look at the epigenetic effects of the Dutch Hunger Winter at the end of the Second World War. Imagine a woman starving in the Netherlands, pregnant with her daughter. Her daughter, when she is born, will already be equipped with a lifetime supply of eggs. The egg that produces her grandchild will have spent time in the womb of the starving, pregnant woman. Her grandchild will therefore suffer some of the effects of starvation, with a higher risk of diabetes, obesity and schizophrenia. The epigenetic effects of war trauma similarly reverberate through the generations. I don’t quite know how to calculate the full implications of that for Gaza, where a fabric of trauma and privation connects the grandparents of today’s grandparents with the grandchildren of today’s grandchildren.
Western politicians, perhaps alarmed by the legal consequences of their complicity as the cruelty of the manufactured famine becomes impossible to ignore, are beginning to acknowledge the severity of what Israel is doing – without, of course, using inflammatory words like ‘genocide’ or ‘war crime’. Foreign secretary Lord Cameron has recently accused Israel of blocking aid to Gaza, and threatened to stop sending arms shipmentsif it continued. Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy refers, in his letter demanding Cameron publish legal advice on arms shipments to Israel, to a “man-made famine”.
This is hardly news. Israel announced its full siege by describing Gazans as “human animals”. As far back as October, Oxfam was warning of Israel’s use of “starvation as a weapon of war”. In December, IPC data warned that a quarter of Gazans were already in famine. Better late than never, is still too late. Most of this suffering was avoidable if Israel’s express intentions had been acknowledged in October and due action taken. Nonetheless, the open acknowledgment of this practice now has grave legal ramifications for Israel. Of the ICJ’s six preliminary orders to Israel, order 4 required it to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance”.
What, though, of the day-to-day, low-level operational decisions taken by Israeli commanders, snipers and drone pilots? To what extent are the military and political leadership knowingly enabling atrocities? Take, for example, what eyewitnesses allege is taking place at Al-Shifa hospital, which Israel previously claimed was a Hamas ‘command and control centre’, during the latest Israeli siege. According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, testimony from released detainees and eyewitnesses suggests that Israeli soldiers have been engaging in extrajudicial executions. Reportedly, they lead detainees in groups of eight to ten at a time to the hospital morgue and shoot them. They are also reported to have destroyed the main surgical building, and used civilians as human shields during their operations. Most distressingly, an escaped eyewitness, Jamila al-Hissi, told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli soldiers had “raped women, kidnapped women, executed women”.
None of this would be out of character for the occupying army. Extrajudicial executions and the use of human shields is a long-established IDF practice. As for allegations of sexual assault, both the US State Departmentand experts from the UN Human Rights Council have said that there is detailed evidence of hundreds of Palestinian women detained after 7th October being sexually abused, raped, threatened with rape, or subjected to degrading strip searches. Nor would this be an unprecedented breach of norms. The IDF’s chief rabbi is someone who has claimed that the Torah permits rape during war: a soldier was allowed to “satisfy the evil urge … for the purpose of the success of the whole.” That is as much as I can say about the allegations for now: they are prima facie plausible, and consistent with the pattern of previous atrocities.
Given this, one wonders to what extent the IDF leadership is driving these actions, or is relaxed about them, or has lost a degree of control. On Tuesday, Ha’aretz published an enlightening story about the decomposition of the chain of command in the Israeli armed forces. Specifically, it reported that junior commanders and lower ranking soldiers had been openly disobeying the orders of their superiors. For example, in November, Brigadier General David Bar Kalifa, commander of the 36th Armored Division, issued a handwritten battle directive to his troops, calling on them to take revenge on the Palestinians. Brigadier General Barak Hiram, the commander who had ordered troops to open fire on Israeli civilians at the Be’er kibbutz on 7th October, had also ordered soldiers to blow up a university in Gaza without permission. Ha’aretz notes that the senior chain of command uttered not a word of criticism of any of this, still less of the pattern of soldiers inconveniently posting videos of their war crimes, or expressing genocidal intent, or condemning excessive “restraint”, or demanding the full Israeli resettlement of Gaza.
When pressed about soldiers’ conduct by international media, Israeli sources say that the behaviour “does not align” with “the expected morals and values of IDF soldiers”, or “does not comply” with the IDF’s orders. But if anyone has been sanctioned over such behaviour, it hasn’t been published. To the best of my knowledge, the first express instruction to Israeli soldiers to stop committing war crimes so brazenly occurred in late February. Over four months into the war, and expressly to avoid “strategic damage” in the international arena following the ICJ ruling, the Israeli military’s advocate-general warned troops that they might be prosecuted for “improper conduct” such as “unjustified use of force”, “looting” and “destruction of civilian property”. Now, these actions have been openly publicised by soldiers in videos and photographs posted to social industry platforms since October. The anthropologist Sophia Goodfriend points out that they are continuous with an established pattern since 1948 of Israeli soldiers taking photographs as trophies and as evidence of triumph. Given the recent spate of “flour massacres” in which Israeli tanks, snipers and jets have killed Gazans queueing for humanitarian aid, and the continued flow of vile social media posts it is difficult to say what effect, if any, the warning had – or was intended to have.
According to the Ha’aretz analysis, military discipline on the ground is weakened by the large number of volunteer reservists called into action, the high proportion of rightists among them who believe they are saving Israel from past failures under ‘leftist’ governments and a weak military leadership, and the open intervention of right-wing politicians in support of “soldiers and officers’ unusual behaviour”. There are some problems with this assessment. The behaviour described is “unusual” only in extent rather than type. And it is obviously continuous with, and conditioned by, the genocidal rhetoric and goals of the government. You can’t starve a population to death and then say it’s going too far to steal or destroy their property. However, with those provisos the analysis is convincing, and is consistent with what we know of changes going on in the Israeli army. The higher-ranking officers and reservists have been among the Netanyahu government’s most powerful critics, but the rank-and-file are representative of a population that has been moving consistently to the right since 2009. What’s more, at the base of the Israeli army, which until 7th October was mainly occupied with defending settlements in the West Bank, there has been a growing fusion with settler society, and particularly with settler militias. The IDF intends to take this further by recruiting settlers on a fast-track to defend ultra-orthodox settlements in the West Bank. Meanwhile, at the top of the chain of command, the far-right has a significant outpost in that Belazel Smotrich has a post in the ministry of defence, which he has been using to attack the existing IDF leadership.
Suppose Ha’aretz is right, then, in saying that there is a rebellion in the base, encouraged and defended by politicians like Smotrich, enabled by a top brass that is unwilling to chasten them as long as it needs them to be its perpetrators. This would be a classic instance of the ‘dialectic of mutual radicalisation’ that I have been talking about in relation to disaster nationalism. This is a relationship that arises specifically in moments of crisis, where the usual chain of command is weakened, and where there is an opportunity for war on the nation’s enemies, be it paramilitary violence, pogroms or a full-scale military offensive. At such moments, normal legality loses some of its force, and the authorities can be relied upon to be either weak or complicit. And there forms a symbiosis of incitement and escalation between a leadership usually constrained by the trappings of officialdom, and a base usually constrained by the risk of punishment. Such a dynamic playing out in Gaza would not only serve to catalyse and aggravate the genocidal character of the war – it would also prepare the perpetrators for more resolute and aggressive action against the ‘failed’, ‘traitorous’, ‘leftist’ establishment in the future.

Posted by: JAB | Mar 24 2024 22:43 utc | 53

BRICS supporters and MAGA supporters are very clearly in complete denial at this point in history.
One thinks Trump is their saviour the other thinks BRICS will save the world. The FACTS on the ground support neither delusion. They seem to forget which class of people, leaders represent.
I’ve always said what we are watching every day on every form of media is a right wing fuckfest. A battle for the soul of the conservatives. Whoever wins will decide Conservatism in the future. It is so, so ,so obvious.
The Upper ruling class View the so called left wing parties as a Containment Vessel for Popular Discontent.
When so called left wing parties fail to attract popular discontent and they in agitating outside governing roles or acting in governing roles generate more popular discontent, other political actors, including center-right and far right political actors and movements, can capture popular discontent for their own purposes. Call themselves populists.
Voters are stupid ideologues. When the IMF and Argentinian central bank created a crises to achieve regime change in Argentina. The far right for their man in in power the Conservatives the world over cheered. Without even noticing it was straight out of the George Soros playbook.
BRICS is the same it will be used as a Containment Vessel for Popular Discontent. The FACTS on the ground so far, prove it beyond any reasonable doubt.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Mar 24 2024 22:48 utc | 55

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2024 22:44 utc | 54
You are very welcome Giyane.
Over the last 3 days I have given at least a dozen facts why BRICS should be treated with extreme caution at this point in history.
This bullshit fetish regarding de-dollarisation and BRICS is going to save the world is getting out of control. So many are in denial about it.
ALL the facts show BRICS is talking left but walking right. The Truth is ALL that matters to me.
If you are right wing you are going to adore BRICS. Even the way they are going to design their money. It will be based on a money scarcity model.
So not everyone is going to be disappointed.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Mar 24 2024 23:03 utc | 57

I’d say that BRICS has already saved the world- for the moment. The creation of BRICS is one of the elements that keeps US sanctions from being effective against Russia. It provides a sanction-proof platform for creating an independent medium of international debt settlement. So far, so good.
It is not a panacea, however.
I’m curious as to how you would design a currency model to sidestep the US-dominated one we now have? By having all the member states freely print the new currency to pay for what they want? As I understand it, the currency is to be pegged to the international trade price of a group of commodities. Since these are not ‘unlimited’ in practical terms, this is bound to create a currency that is limited by the value of the commodities. What is the problem with this kind of ‘scarcity’ of money?

Posted by: Honzo | Mar 24 2024 23:20 utc | 59

JAB 53 – Many thanks for posting this fine article.
This conduct or misconduct i.e.: war crimes by the IDF is really nothing new, anyone who has read about the exploits of the 7th and 8th Armored Regiments in the 1948 war knows full well that this war rage is ingrained in the IDF psyche to a very large extent. These regiments apparently murdered hundreds of unarmed Palestinian villagers in Judea and Samaria and the Galilee Valley during that war.

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Mar 25 2024 0:01 utc | 61

A very large demonstration in Amman. The Jordanian government, which has been collaborating with Israel since 1948 (the Arab Legion never entered “Israeli” territory in that year’s ‘war’) is finding it increasingly difficult to keep the lid on its angry population.
The situation in Egypt is almost as dire.
The prospects of a regional war are growing. In such a war the continued existence of the Empire- which has so cavalierly allowed Israel free rein- would be at stake.
It is not insignificant that, in the UN this week, the Russians took a very strong line against both Israel and the US- a sign that the Kremlin judges the Zinists to be holding a losing hand.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-jordanian-police-clash-protesters-near-israel-embassy
“MAN-MADE HELL ON EARTH”: A CANADIAN DOCTOR ON HIS MEDICAL MISSION TO GAZA
“I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

Posted by: bevin | Mar 25 2024 0:24 utc | 63

🙂 Soon kite flying weather will come and we shall have white kites of angelic love flying all over, encouraging a better world! 🙂

Posted by: titmouse | Mar 25 2024 0:30 utc | 65

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 25 2024 0:14 utc | 62
What is the point of supporting the Palestinians if you hold their fundamental cultural beliefs in such contempt?
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Because it’s their land?

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 25 2024 0:53 utc | 67

What is the point of supporting the Palestinians if you hold their fundamental cultural beliefs in such contempt?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 25 2024 0:14 utc | 62
All that’s required is a sense of fair play and a conscience.
The Pals had their land stolen by gangsters using murder, pillage, war, rape etc. I support the Pals getting their own land back, Israel being dissolved and the guilty being punished.
That doesn’t mean I care one whit in general about them, their culture or their religion. I certainly don’t want them here and think the world would be better off without any of the desert religions.
It’s possible to support what’s fair without having an affection for the wronged or their habits.

Posted by: Archetypex | Mar 25 2024 1:32 utc | 69

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 25 2024 0:53 utc | 67
Posted by: Archetypex | Mar 25 2024 1:32 utc | 70
Thankfully there aren’t upvote features on b’s wonderful website, but I would “big up” both of your additions to this discussion.
What a sad situation.

Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 25 2024 1:59 utc | 71

lex talionis, thanks, I had assumed you left me off your list due to my complete lack of charisma and diplomacy (which I gave up on years ago).

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 25 2024 2:13 utc | 73

I ripped a hellacious stinker just now…goddamn it smells heavenly…

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 25 2024 2:24 utc | 75

“https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
Posted by: bevin | Mar 25 2024 0:24 utc | 63”
This article repeats something from an earlier article that b linked in one of his main posts, it seems to me to be about a week to 10 days ago. As I’ve made clear previously in this thread, I’m solidly on the Palestinian side. But I’m very skeptical of this part:
“On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.”
This particular anecdote strikes me as being extremely unlikely for numerous reasons (not a single one being Israeli murderers being unlikely to have deliberately murdered Palestinian children – that part was quite believable). I can’t find it back, the search feature of this blog being unreliable, but I asked numerous questions about this, and got no answers from anyone. Some that I remember asking were: how many adults had single sniper shots to the head? How many children died and weren’t brought to the hospital? How many children died after sniper shots to the head while they were being carried 2.5 miles (over an hour??). Of the ones that somehow got to the hospital alive to be seen by the doctor, despite that type of injury: What were their names, where and when were they buried (since none survived)? Witnesses? Caliber of bullets removed? From the same rifle, or multiple snipers? It just seems to me this part of that article would be trivial to make up in order to fan the flames of outrage, and I’m not going to believe it without some damned good evidence backing up the claim. There’s plenty of outrage based on well-supported events, so if this was made up, it was entirely unnecessary.

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 25 2024 2:57 utc | 77

PQ 118 March 23. You have reason to be angered by academics and you express the price to know the truth in the dominant climate of (non)thought in the US and minions but Palestine supporters and armchair watchers will look at differences between the PLO and Hamas. This won’t always “hurt the resistance”. NLR Sidecar article on the book by South African academic Haidar Eid discussed by Bevin (115 March 23) does lead to a question of why this book came out when it did to criticize while Hamas fights for the existence of Palestine. But the writer of the article (not of the book itself) clarified something that imo is important, which is that four of the groups supporting Hamas, including PFLP, are opposed to the unilateral appointment by the PLO of Muhammad Mustafa as Prime Minister to lead a ‘unifying’ Palestinian authority. I have read that the fighting militias know what each other is doing and coordinate; furthermore Hamas government was voted in by the majority of Gazans. Why are Russia and the US and others fixated on “the need to bring together” the Palestinians apparently under the leadership they approve?

Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 25 2024 3:20 utc | 79

80
Thanks also to LoveDonbass 10 for:
” The survival of the Palestinians, and all life, has always rested in the hands of God. The youngest child in Gaza knows and is willing to die for this belief.”
Really it is unbelievable that the Jews who are supposed to be the masters of narrative manipulation in Hollywood, presumably because of their long , historical persecutions, could now be replicating those persecutions at warp speed and intensity on an entirely innocent population that has never done any wrong to them except for owning a plot of land .
So really this is direct war against God for removing them from that land in 600 BC , allowing them back to participate in Trade between East and West and get rich enough to rebuild the Temple, but not spiritually healthy enough not to Idol-worhip ‘Eesa / Jesus AS instead of worshipping God alone.
How did the Chosen ones become narrative experts who worshipped a Clint Eastwood narrative version of Jesus AS, instead of God?????
I presume because their trade with non-believers had erased their faith in God. God didn’t choose Jews to hold power in London and Washington.
He chose them to teach what these Muslim children in Palestine all know from Islam, That God is in charge of every single thing.
So let’s us get off the fake Hollywood narratives and get onto what these little Muslims believe.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 25 2024 3:55 utc | 81

Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky
@quadrismegistus
The US State Department is accusing Israel of systematically raping Palestinian women in Al-Shifa Hospital. There are no words for this horror of horrors
REPORT

Posted by: Menz | Mar 25 2024 5:40 utc | 83

87 full utopia. I’m within earlier poster that Gaza will be cleansed no matter usa and EU will take them and offers some huge financial package to make it palatable, job done. What’s a few more million illegals in either Europe or usa. As sad and defeatist as that is I don’t see some magical international court redirecting things. Usa hasn’t collapsed enough yet for an alt reality to occur.

Posted by: Hankster | Mar 25 2024 7:09 utc | 85

Posted by: circumspect | Mar 24 2024 20:21 utc | 30
What are you talking about, acting as if people are just free to convert into Judaism.
This is now common knowledge, everyone knows, jews act as if they are any other religion and you can join just like Christian and Muslim, but its not true.
Quit writing and commenting so much, please.l

Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 25 2024 8:10 utc | 87

Posted by: pq | Mar 25 2024 8:16 utc | 91
pq, don’t know about the others but I’m pretty sure Finklestein has acknowledged unequivocally that the Palestinians have the right of return. He gets to it in the clip linked below, albeit in a roundabout way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OXP6Jy49I

Posted by: KMRIA | Mar 25 2024 8:43 utc | 89

Lebanese TV reports:
11:37 Israeli occupation army says troops “deployed and prepared” following reports on infiltration from Gaza into bordering Israeli settlements
Comment : The Likud believed the 800 meter killing zone created inside Gaza was enough to prevent Al-Qassem raids. Apparently not.
As the U.S. Army painfully learned in Vietnam, the only way to eliminate enemy army units using a underground fortress is to go into the tunnels Mano-a-mano. The IDF has hardly effected the underground fortress despite 6 months of effort.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 25 2024 9:51 utc | 91

Anyway if someone does hear Mearsheimer, Finlestein or Sachs advocating for right of return please link and I will listen and if they do a proper job I will change my opinion of them from negative to positive.
Posted by: pq | Mar 25 2024 8:16 utc | 91
You have the typical absolutism of the ideologue. If Mearsheimer said something in a way you disapprove of nearly twenty years ago in 2007, he has to be condemned for ever. Changing your mind is not allowed. But much of the point I was making in comment 6 was that it is obvious that Mearsheimer has changed his thinking over time. When I first heard Mearsheimer, his US nationalism wasn’t very agreeable, but he has softened, probably with the developing horror of the situation in Gaza. And the same is true of Sachs. Anybody capable of independent thought would do likewise.

Posted by: laguerre | Mar 25 2024 10:38 utc | 93

…… (video) Testimonies from survivors of the Israeli siege of Al-Shifa Hospital and the surrounding area describe field executions, house burnings, civilians being run over by tank treads, and army dogs attacking both the living and the dead……
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1772181437837406553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1772181437837406553%7Ctwgr%5E125f5f1eec80955f64f707ab4aca820d763a40f0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.almanar.com.lb%2F2071324

Posted by: Exile | Mar 25 2024 10:46 utc | 95

“I didn’t read your article , I’m only commenting on the whole 2 state one state zero state. The idea has been thrashed to death for 75 years”

Posted by: Simon | Mar 25 2024 11:14 utc | 97

@ Posted by: pq | Mar 24 2024 22:42 utc | 52
One of the most incisive comments I have ever read. Thanks.
It’s the epitome of the reason why the two dimensional Left/Right was invented – to control with sheepdogs which work both ends to steer us into our cages or worse to turn us into fascists, mass murderers – whilst letting us feel that is ‘normal’ because everyone else is doing it too! Moronic sheep.

Posted by: V123ren@gmail.com | Mar 25 2024 11:37 utc | 99