Ted Miller @ 2
It certainly feels like that. 2 million Christian Zionists sunning themselves on the beaches of Gaza staying in hotels build by Trump. A couple of hundred thousand Palestinains left on a small patch of Gaza far from the Egyptian border. The countries in the region will do nothing. Once completed they will use their fleet of F-35’s to reduce their oppostion in Lebanon.
There is no stopping them.

Posted by: circumspect | Mar 31 2024 14:33 utc | 3

Sorry that was not quite the right link
Israel’s attacks on Syria take a new and unexpected direction
this is the article i recommend

Posted by: swiss | Mar 31 2024 14:45 utc | 5

If it became revealed and thoroughly accepted by the citizens of Israel
that Israelis were treacherously betrayed on Oct 7th by their own trusted leaders
that would be a knock-out blow.
Posted by: librul | Mar 31 2024 13:29 utc | 1
My take is that the betrayal can’t be proven in the present environment, but it surely does look like it happened. The problem that goes with getting the citizens of Israel to realize that they where betrayed, is that the realization won’t happen unless Israel suffers an enormous setback. That will produce a desire to scapegoat the leadership, and the betrayal will be treated as a fact.

Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 31 2024 14:58 utc | 7

So, I read Nuttyahoo is undergoing hernia surgery today for a hernia discovered yesterday, under full anesthesia. Stay tuned …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undergo surgery for hernia, office says

Posted by: Bemildred | Mar 31 2024 15:02 utc | 9

Hi,
Can you repost the link to hareetz article re 7th attacks. The current link doesn’t seem to work.
Thank you .

Posted by: Aamer | Mar 31 2024 15:33 utc | 11

Link works for me

Posted by: Tom | Mar 31 2024 15:57 utc | 13

I entirely disagree that Israel is getting away with this scot free. The tide is clearly turning, and Israel is on the downward slide. Their policy of militarism since 1948 could never work, as the Crusaders found out. I can’t say how long it will take, but it is now obvious that they can never change policy, and every one else is getting fed up. The loss of reputation is permanent.
Posted by: laguerre | Mar 31 2024 15:57 utc | 14
Thank you, I agree, once they go down the road to militarism, full tilt, it is just a matter of time. The USA itself today stands as exempary of that. Human capital must not be wasted, or society itself is doomed.

Posted by: Bemildred | Mar 31 2024 16:31 utc | 15

Hi,
Can you repost the link to hareetz article re 7th attacks. The current link doesn’t seem to work.
Thank you .
@Posted by: Aamer | Mar 31 2024 15:33 utc | 11
By now you have probably already gotten the link to work.
That website gets busy sometimes. Works most all the time, but
sometimes you just have to come back to it later.

Posted by: librul | Mar 31 2024 17:02 utc | 17

Supposedly Hezbollah now has Russian TOS MLRS systems.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 31 2024 18:22 utc | 19

400+ Israeli’s were massacred by IDF gunships and tanks on 7.Oct following direct orders
Posted by: Exile | Mar 31 2024 19:08 utc | 20
================
What is the source for this?
What is the answer to the (likely) question “How do you know that?”

Posted by: Jane | Mar 31 2024 19:25 utc | 21

A couple things:
1) Hamas strategy? Did they have one? Perhaps theu just want to drag it out as long as possible, hoping for Israeli economic collapse, and then American.
Hezbollah and Ansar Allah are helping, the former is taking casualties well beyond what they inflict, but they are harming Israel’s economic north and pinning forces in the north that could otherwise be fo used on Hamas.
IF the continues as it is now for three or four more years, Israel will be defeated, but that is a HUGE if.
I still see Israeli defeat odds at about 10% – 15%, and total annexation of gaza around 33% chance.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 31 2024 20:22 utc | 23

according to ===> UK govt lawyers conclude Israel in breach of humanitarian law – media — RT World News
https://www.rt.com/news/595188-uk-israel-rights-violation/
Lawyers for the UK government have established Israel has been breaking humanitarian law amid its ongoing conflict in Gaza with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, a senior Tory is claiming, according to leaked audio revealed by the Observer newspaper on Saturday.
The legal experts’ assessment effectively makes the UK complicit in the Israeli military’s violations, and defense cooperation should have been severed by London immediately after they produced their evaluation of the situation in Gaza.
<== who knows more about this?

Posted by: snake | Mar 31 2024 20:56 utc | 25

Posted by: librul | Mar 31 2024 17:13 utc | 18
My take is that the betrayal can’t be proven in the present environment, but it surely does look like it happened. The problem that goes with getting the citizens of Israel to realize that they where betrayed, is that the realization won’t happen unless Israel suffers an enormous setback. That will produce a desire to scapegoat the leadership, and the betrayal will be treated as a fact.
@Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 31 2024 14:58 utc | 7

That’s reasonable: if they lose, the betrayal story will out and a scapegoat will be found. But before we consider that, perhaps good to reflect that a high percentage of Israelis
a) know the main story is self-serving propaganda but
b) don’t care because it gives them all great talking points with which to justify clearing the hated untermensch rats out of their basements; a bit of collateral damage is perfectly acceptable.

Posted by: scorpion | Mar 31 2024 22:22 utc | 27

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 31 2024 20:07 utc | 22
at the risk of —
Norman Finkelstein, in a long conversation with Chris Hedges, carefully detailed: YES, Hamas had a military plan, primarily to take hostages, that involved relatively little death & destruction.
But once Hamas breached barriers, other Palestinians entered and were far less disciplined than the original Hamas force; overcome with thoughts of vengeance, perhaps. The death toll from this group was higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEz22kyukY

Posted by: ChasMark | Mar 31 2024 22:33 utc | 29

The well-known images of hundreds of destroyed cars at the rave venue from Oct7, piled up on both sides of the road, make a very clear point. This could not possibly have been done by Hamas militants with small arms and the odd RPG. It could only have been achieved by helicopters with chain guns. It is beyond any question the IDF that caused that destruction. It’s surprising (not) that no-one in the 4R media shows any curiosity as to exactly how that scale of destruction was physically caused.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 31 2024 23:15 utc | 31

Posted by: ChasMark | Mar 31 2024 22:33 utc | 29
I don’t think they have the numbers to justify any death toll, let alone a higher one attributable to the “2nd wave” of Gazans, many of whom were unarmed or armed only with small pistols/rifles. The IOF is likely responsible for the vast majority of deaths, including the hundred (or was it 200+ ?) that were so badly incinerated it took weeks to ID them. Hamas just didn’t have the ability to do that, either.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 1 2024 0:00 utc | 33

How to hold Israel accountable for torturing Palestinians
Samah Jabr
27 March 2024 12:14 GMT
Amid a surge in torture cases since 7 October, there is an urgent need for health professionals to properly document such atrocities
Israeli soldiers transfer detained Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip on 21 November 2023 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
Torture remains a pervasive reality in Palestine, where countless individuals have endured unspeakable physical and psychological trauma at the hands of Israeli forces.
This has been an especially serious problem since the Gaza war began on 7 October, with Palestinians telling Middle East Eye that they have been physically tortured with dogs and electricity, subjected to mock executions, and held in humiliating and degrading conditions. One man described how he was handcuffed, blindfolded and detained in a metal cage for 42 days.
Addressing such grave human rights violations demands a comprehensive approach, including the development of specialised skills for healthcare professionals tasked with documenting and treating survivors.
Trained in the Istanbul Protocol for torture documentation, I have dedicated myself to equipping fellow professionals with the necessary tools to navigate this challenging terrain.
As violence continues to escalate – with torture not restricted to detention centres, but also witnessed in the streets of the occupied Palestinian territories and captured on video – it is more imperative than ever to bolster health workers’ capacities to document such incidents, thus amplifying the voices of survivors in their pursuit of justice.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-hold-israel-accountable-torturing-palestinians

Posted by: Lydia Gorbik | Apr 1 2024 0:33 utc | 35

@25
“…defense cooperation should have been severed by London” … when Britain left the region, in 1948.
FCDO has around 50 lawyers as legal advisors
Oct 2023, not the above lawyers but an example:
https://lawyersletter.uk/
That the obvious is “leaked” is more likely UK political mangle at work, part of the spectacle, and if not will be processed to that end.
While the US is supportive, the rest changes little.
Is anyone actually going to find their way to Palestine to defend people there ? Even Arab rulers must think of their own nations first, in spite of popular discontent. Put differently, of those not complicit in some way, they know what will happen if they take part. They might “win” but the cost would be too high.
Western remorse and a shift in attitude is mentoned ? A million Iranians, several hundred thousand Iraqis later etc. … and ?
ICC and UN are politicised. In the west once the headlines change most will go home . In the middle-east it all just matches the pre-existing local view.
Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt and more all have their mega projects, it is where rulers see their countries headed, towards western. The locals often not so much so.
So they will get away with what they choose in Palestine, barring regional conflict and direct confrontation with Russia.
Interesting video @36 , different letter than the above I think. Clarity there is that only once western countries change their leadership will there be any effect. Reality at shift is often weak parliaments, placatory in nature but dedicated to underhand technocratic tactic.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 1 2024 1:46 utc | 37

Do you care if the genocidal psychopathic entity…
Posted by: librul | Mar 31 2024 13:29 utc | 1

I encounter that figure of speech, “entity”, all the time in that context. Entity, entity, entity. Again and again, ad nauseum. I don’t know when and how that usage originated, but it’s very popular among Islamists, whom I suppose you are echoing. The problem with it is obvious though.
If we were to search for the “entity”, we would find the land, a bunch of people doing stuff, and various material objects like buildings, cars, guns, menorahs, razor wire, and so on. Oh, yeah, we’d find some torah scrolls, too. I almost forgot about that. LOL. How careless of me during the Simchat Torah War.
We could find also maps with words like Yisrael written in the square letter script upon them, but searching the land itself would lead to no “entity” of the sort that you mention. Just land, some people, and the stuff to which they are clinging.
The land long predated the declaration of the State of Israel. The people who declared it didn’t change what they were by their declaration. Houses, cars, etc. are just these. No new thing came into existence at the moment of declaration in 1948. There was no new “entity”.
What changed was how the Jewish bosses and hoi polloi there were organized in Palestine. They changed what they were doing sometimes, and they started writing מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל much more frequently on various pieces of paper. They changed how they identified theirselves to the world, too. And of course they published some maps with lines and shaded areas to distinguish their territory from the surrounding areas.
So is not their state a fictional “entity”, like a corporation? People say that it exists, and they act as if it exists, and they may become agitated when thinking and talking about it. Yet for all that sound and fury, the State of Israel is no more real than a ghost. No one can truthfully say that Israel has a right to exist.

Posted by: Drive-By Shooter | Apr 1 2024 3:22 utc | 39

Posted by: Drive-By Shooter | Apr 1 2024 3:22 utc | 39
I liked your comment..so I thought I would offer a definition of entity for your consideration because fictional entity denotes so much.
Fictional entity is a declaration/recognition of sovereignty; its attributes include authority, ownership..and management. The declaration involves a scope (depth, width, length and reach). Generally reach of influence and enforcement of authority define the entity.
An often occuring Example: States privatize their monopoly powers, properties, and authorities when they grant charters, contracts or resources to entities (corporations or contractors). Once formed, the entity operates as as state, its benefactors its citizens, so the entity accumulates resources and profits independent of the state for the benefit of a privileged few. This process is sometimes classified as privatization.
All of the states in the nation state system are divide and conquer fictions. What sets them apart is the source of authority by which they claim the authority to be an entity. Use of force, right of self determination, etc.

Posted by: snake | Apr 1 2024 5:30 utc | 41

The word entity to me signifies that nobody else accepts the claims or assumptions made by that entity.
The word entity signifies blatant deception, as if one was talking about a fictional person or cause.
The current British Conservative Party and Labour Party are both entities because their current status depends on electoral fraud in the 2019 election. The administrators of the election were under control of Tory MP Peter Lilley and the fake result also forced Jeremy Corbyn to resign.
If these shenanigans had not happened the Ukrainian Jew would not be in power in Kiev and the Ukrainian Jews would not be in power in Tel Aviv.
The US knows that they can only commit war crimes if the UK supports them 100%. The opinion of Lawyers is merely a sop to.public opinion.
We know that the venture political class of both countries is owned by Israel.
Having said all that they are few and we are many. The election looms and voters won’t be conned this time.
Only new , untarnished faces will satisfy electorates that are disgusted by the USUKIS genocide in Palestine.
Israel cracking up . Its leadership is exposed by its own Haaretz. Its military is out of control and its population is leaving fast. It cannot exist as a pariah state, whose only function is to keep its criminal PM out of jail.
Remember how long Sharon lay in a coma after imprisoning the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel knows that it cannot afford the backlash of world opinion, time and time again when Ukrainian mafia take over their government. Enough is enough . No more road left for USUKIS.
Feed the Palestinians. Check mate.
Israel is finished . US is finished. Empire2 Tories are finished. Good riddance to the USUKIS empitity.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 1 2024 5:57 utc | 43

The term ‘entity’ can relate to a vast range of things including: a person, a spirit, a landscape, a legally or socially recognised assemblage of people and/or people’s interests.
The equivalent range could equally be termed ‘thing’.
Evidently due to connotations arising out of N.W.O, ‘Great Reset’ and So. Cit. politics, some people have assigned a very narrow character to the term ‘entity’. This character has become so powerfully imbued to them that they can’t disarm that word’s trigger value. Thus Librul’s correctly simple usage of the term isn’t read.
To avoid this patterned language response he should have instead denoted the AngloZionist force by writing: “Do you care if the genocidal psychopathic thing… ”
Maybe ‘thing’ is actually more evocative of the truth.
‘Entity’ does convey a gravitas that this evil incarnate should not be afforded.
More broadly this illustrates how we can let language get in the way of understanding just as much as facilitating it. We need to try to think of the context the author intended rather than leap immediately to our own preferred construction.

Posted by: Greg | Apr 1 2024 7:29 utc | 45

Greg 44
The shit you mention is obfuscated by the word entity. A large part of the problem is the deception either by AI using neutral words like entity or humans. When a neutral word is used euphemistically to describe shit, the word rapidly comes to gain shit connotations.
Maybe for you words mean what you want the to mean. Doesn’t work like that. Sometimes words mean the opposite, because they are seen to be euphemistic or obfuscation.
Of course if USUKIS was a truthful power, genuinely interested in the survival of smaller nations, and different customs, and truthful reporting, one wouldn’t have to interpret words as the opposite of their actual meanings.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 1 2024 9:35 utc | 47

Be sure to vote with your wallet, everybody! 🙂 That includes slow rolling your expenditures on Western mega-corporation products! Be the straw upon the camel’s back…

Posted by: titmouse | Apr 1 2024 9:44 utc | 49

JUST SEEN THIS – ACCURATE OR NOT? WOULD WELCOME ANOTHER VIEWPOPINT –
The Latest Jordanian Unrest Hints At Hamas’ Desperation
ANDREW KORYBKO 1 APRIL 2024
With their back against the wall and on the brink of being militarily defeated, the only realistic chance of saving themselves is to open up another regional front that could possibly distract Israel from finishing its campaign, ergo why Hamas and its ideological allies are stirring up trouble in Jordan all of a sudden.

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Apr 1 2024 10:28 utc | 51

Here’s a question.
The Israeli Air force can operate with impunity over Lebanon and Syria.
No anti aircraft missiles etc to make them feel nervous.
What’s the story?
Stand off weapons?

Posted by: jpc | Apr 1 2024 10:39 utc | 53

Geraint ap Iorwerth 51
USUKIS wants Israel’s neighbours to resist. The US has sent Israel enough bombs to smash all resistance by air.
They’re just waiting for an excuse to do it.
Just as they used the Hamas attack as an excuse to commit genocide against Palestine. USUKIS is on a mission, stated clearly by Nutjob at the UN to change the map of the Middle East.
Unfortunately Hamas were wrongly advised by Political Islam in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who are now sitting finger on cheek observing the destruction and persecution.
Normalisation with Israel is the name of the game. Biden and Sunak romp through their elections on a jingoistic triumph of murdering Muslims.
Only when the Greater Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile is established will the political finger come off the political cheek. Oh dear , Fait Accompli we’d better Normalise with the Empire of Israel. You take Yemen for your East-West overland trade route, and we will buy shares in it to fund it.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 1 2024 11:27 utc | 55

Sicarii, a semi-religious militia using profits from robbery, contract killing and kidnapping to support a vague messianic ideology – not Jewish nationalists nor especially anti-Roman, just hoping for power.
Well worth reading the full article: Israel: Masada 2024? JULIAN MACFARLANE 22.02.24
eg. * Come to think of it maybe Masada and the Sicarii are the symbols of Israel today. Israel’s Masada complex tells us more than Zionists would like to admit.
* Israel seems to want war with everyone.
* Then again, Masada never really happened.
In the last analysis, most people would rather live than die.
The Sicarii didn’t commit suicide – they just wanted money and power.
Isn’t that what Zionism is all about?

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Apr 1 2024 11:57 utc | 57

What I find interesting is socotra island. There’s a israeli military base there and has been for near a decade , usa is building a base there as well. Nothing no missiles pulverising it as should be the case . I know it was taken over to ring Iran and they seem OK with it as well.

Posted by: Hankster | Apr 1 2024 12:54 utc | 59

Decided they weren’t killing enough journalists, so they are going to close down the news networks themselves.
Tell me this is not fascist:
——————-
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Knesset to pass the so-called Al Jazeera law this evening, which would allow the government to shut down foreign news networks operating in Israel.
The law would allow the prime minister and the minister of communications to order the closure of foreign networks in Israel and confiscate their equipment if they believe they pose “an actual harm to the state’s security”.
Netanyahu promised to “immediately act to close Al Jazeera” after the law passes.
The prime minister’s Likud party said that he spoke with coalition whip Ofir Katz to ask him to ensure the bill’s passing through second and third readings today.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-calls-knesset-pass-al-jazeera-law-today-allowing-closure?nid=350241&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=508601

Posted by: teri | Apr 1 2024 13:14 utc | 61

60
The Israeli take on Masada is pure myth.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 1 2024 13:22 utc | 63

Zionazis doing what Euro Fascists have been doing for centuries – genocide.
They will not be allowed to carry on with their Illegal Apartheid Entity – all its ‘ravenous bloodthirsty settlers are GUILTY in Joint Enterprise- the crime, and punishment will be a total dismantling of the colonised Levant and expulsion of the illegal imperial migrants back to where they originated from or whoever wants the callous robbers and cut throats.
‘ 🔴 IDF Implements ‘Extermination Areas’ in Gaza – Where Any Palestinian Man, Woman, or Child Who Enters Those Zones is Neutralized (Haaretz)
‘Extermination areas’ – illegal under international law – but permitted under the US’ ‘rules-based order.’
@RiseGS ‘
There are some many vids of dead kids and unarmed adults by zionazi snipers – for them hanging is too good. A lifetimes hard Labour on bread water is what they deserve and vasectomies.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 1 2024 13:43 utc | 65

Your argument unduly rests upon a over-stretched view of this term. The notion of ‘fictional’ vs natural character of the asserted entity is a largely relativist one and is wholly irrelevant to the points Librul makes.
Posted by: Greg | Apr 1 2024 4:56 utc | 40

On the contrary, I constrained the definition to eliminate most of the common legalist notion of the word. As you wrote, an entity is “a thing with distinct and independent existence”. Ok, fine, but a thing is either exclusively material or not exclusively so. (If not, is it materio-spiritual? Pure spirit stuff? Something else?)
I have shown, I believe, that there is no material thing to call Medinat Yisrael, just the land, some people, and the stuff which some people are clinging to. None of these alone or together may be correctly called the state. Alleged corporations appear to be the same sort of thing. Their existence is declared by bad kings, politicians, bad lawyers, and go-getters to befog our thinking about what exists and what is going on.
Now it should be clear why you wrote “a largely relativist one”. You don’t have a coherent objection, much less a good definition of entity. So you spat out a buzz term much beloved by professors, lefty students, and activists who resort to thought stoppers when trapped in a debate they can’t win without deceit. It was you who missed the point: librul misrepresented the brute facts of the situation. Your objection amounts to a complaint that the brute facts don’t matter.

Posted by: Drive-By Shooter | Apr 1 2024 14:40 utc | 67

If not, could *you* succinctly offer an alternative, thx.

Posted by: librul | Apr 1 2024 15:55 utc | 69

Ok, fine, but a thing is either exclusively material or not exclusively so. (If not, is it materio-spiritual? Pure spirit stuff? Something else?)
This was worked out in Classical times. The term is “res”. The immaterial is called a form. An example would be the essence of “triangle”. If it doesn’t exist, you could never think about it or calculate its area.

Posted by: JackG | Apr 1 2024 18:27 utc | 71

You seem gaslit enough to miss the fact that there was no need to use Nukes on a Japan that was already suing for peace.
Anyway…

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 1 2024 11:56 utc | 56
Yeah, even in the otherwise independent China there are also those you could consider ‘gaslit’ in their belief that the US nukes brought Japan to its knees or that it was done in response to Japanese imperial war crimes (as if the USA gave a hoot). Even GlobalTimes was not above it at one point.
They should consider themselves lucky, because once the US is charged for war crimes like Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and further light is shined on similar US war crimes in China, to say nothing of Soviet Russia being the real winner over Japan) it won’t be that convenient anymore.
But I digress.

Posted by: joey_n | Apr 1 2024 19:30 utc | 73

Andrew Sarchus @ 31
Note also that every vehicle in those famous photos is white. How does that happen? Those cars were towed into position from a junkyard. Props department got cute and got lazy because the intended audience is blind.
Same business with white cars happened on Maui. It is become a signature for the stagehands.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 1 2024 19:56 utc | 75

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 1 2024 9:35 utc | 47
The word is just a word that intrinsically carries a neutral meaning. You are loading it to suit your own desire. Don’t expect others to accept your burden upon themselves.

Posted by: Greg | Apr 2 2024 1:18 utc | 77

Most people in the US refused then to believe and even now refuse to believe that their government first provoked and then allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Not surprising that Israelis now react the same way.

Posted by: Lysias | Apr 2 2024 1:45 utc | 79

Posted by: Drive-By Shooter | Apr 1 2024 14:40 utc | 67
When you overstretch a thing you constrain its breadth, which is what you did.
Relativist simply means relative to the fundaments of a premised view of things, in this case yours and your ilk of thinking, and not to the innate universality breadth of the term.
You seem to have two dogmas simultaneously in the ring on this specific matter in contradiction to each other.
Librul may well have brutally tortured his facts. If so take them up with specificity. Your agony over the term entity isn’t credible in fact or in relevance to that alleged brutality.

Posted by: Greg | Apr 2 2024 2:16 utc | 81

now
·
Script 1 — For Senate Offices:
Tell Congress: Stop funding the Israeli military.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/03/27/finally-the-un-passes-a-ceasefire-resolution/
My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Senator’s Name}. In the wake of the U.N. Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, I ask that the Senator firmly oppose sending any U.S. weapons and military funding to the Israeli government. Israel has killed over 32,000 Palestinians in five and a half months, and is now starving children to death. Ongoing U.S. support for the Israeli military is unconscionable and must end now. Thank you for your time.
Script 2 — For House Offices:
My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Representative Name}. In the wake of the U.N. Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, I ask that the Representative firmly oppose sending any U.S. weapons and military funding to the Israeli government. Israel has killed over 32,000 Palestinians in five and a half months, and is now starving children to death. Ongoing U.S. support for the Israeli military is unconscionable and must end now. Thank you for your time.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tell-congress-end-us-military-funding-to-israel/

Posted by: Lydia Gorbik | Apr 2 2024 2:30 utc | 83

b has refereed, intentionally or not, the use of the word ‘entity’.
The first line of post #1 is thus amended to:
Do you care if the genocidal psychopathic zionist entity that has been thieving, murdering-at-will and oppressing Palestinians for decades exists in such a crazed state?
It is a long name. If it is allowed to remain in the UN
will that moniker fit on the name plaque at the UN?
Genocidal Psychopathic Zionist Entity

Posted by: librul | Apr 2 2024 14:30 utc | 85

“Most people in the US refused then to believe and even now refuse to believe that their government first provoked and then allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Not surprising that Israelis now react the same way.”
Posted by: Lysias | Apr 2 2024 1:45 utc | 79
We are witnessing a replay that happened in 1939 when the US provoked Japan and 2014 US V Russia:
“Accordingly, the Roosevelt administration, while curtly dismissing Japanese diplomatic overtures to harmonize relations, imposed a series of increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Japan. In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”[2] The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia.”(1)
1. https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1930

Posted by: canuck | Apr 2 2024 14:38 utc | 87

Fascinating.
No one posted for nearly four hours in this thread until I did.
Then 1 minute later came a “filler” post, followed 7 minutes later by 2 more posts.
Seen this before. When is it a ‘Hasbara avalanche’ intent on burying something they
don’t want anyone to read, and when is it something else?

Posted by: librul | Apr 2 2024 14:48 utc | 89

Posted by: b | Apr 2 2024 15:10 utc | 90
Thank you, b.
Keep Palestine in our prayers on the long walk to the second Easter, everyone.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 2 2024 15:19 utc | 91

@librul
Seen this before. When is it a ‘Hasbara avalanche’ intent on burying something they
don’t want anyone to read, and when is it something else?
The simple fact is that no one is buying your conspiracy theory even after you have posted it like 20+ times.
Could there be sound reasons for that?
Why not ask those involved in this?

deeeeeee @revolutionaryem – 4:05 UTC · Apr 1, 2024
Thread 🧵
More than 2 weeks ago, “Israeli” media published a report about Hamas’ intelligence capabilities, who incredibly used everything at their disposal & managed to blind “Israel” on October 7 and execute the attack
Below is a ~rough~ translation of the article …

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deeeeeee @revolutionaryem – 4:05 AM · Apr 1, 2024
This is an important read as it perfectly dismantles the false conspiracy that “Israel” coordinated the October 7 attack or erroneous claims that Hamas is an “Israeli” invention that works for the entity
Such dimwitted claims ignore the history of the Palestinian struggle and resistance, and feed into an orientalist narrative that “Israeli” intelligence is omniscient & cannot be outsmarted or defeated by the resistance— who has been battling it since its inception
Despite the superiority of the enemy in terms of equipment and western support and despite fighting an asymmetrical battle, the resistance utilized the tiniest details to its advantage and managed to bridge such a vast gap and humiliate “Israel”
in the most successful military operation of the century. “Israel”, unable to achieve a semblance of victory, abuses its airforce superiority on public infrastructure, hospitals, universities and civilians to regain its prestige that was trampled upon on that glorious day
October 7 was a glorious, well-planned and executed military operation that perfectly showcased to the world that the entity is truly weaker than a spider’s web. A fragile, weak-minded colony that will be dеstroyed by the hands of the resistance, God willing.
I translated this super interesting portion of a documentary a while ago of Al-Qassam foiling a plan by Sarayet Matkal, one of “Israel’s” most advanced units, to infiltrate the resistances’ communication system.
The resistance managed to even seize some of their equipment. …

Posted by: b | Apr 2 2024 15:28 utc | 93

Many thanks b for staunching the ‘Librul’ flood of compounded nonsense regarding Israeli awareness of the Actober 7 attack.
What Librul cannot understand is that October 7-the 50th Anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur attack- was a day on which there must have been a multitude of alerts to the IDF and the goveenment. It was part of Hamas’ genius to anticipate this and to take advantage of the confusion to attack on that day.
There is a tendency, particularly strong among north Americans, to deny any agency to Arabs or muslims and to attribute any intiaives on their part to the omnipotent, all seeing Empire.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 2 2024 15:44 utc | 95

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/al-shifa-hospital-ruins
A full rundown on the destruction of Al-Shifa, if you’ve got the stomach for it. This is what the description by Mads Gilbert was about, posted earlier by waynorinorway | Apr 1 2024 10:29 utc | 52.

Posted by: KMRIA | Apr 2 2024 16:16 utc | 97

@Posted by: b | Apr 2 2024 15:28 utc | 93
That is fascinating, b.
This is an important read as it perfectly dismantles the false conspiracy that “Israel” coordinated the October 7 attack or erroneous claims that Hamas is an “Israeli” invention that works for the entity
As you know, I have made neither of those two claims.
As to:
“orientalist narrative that “Israeli” intelligence is omniscient & cannot be outsmarted or defeated by the resistance”.
I see stereotyping in that statement. I must be promoting an ‘orientalist narrative’ if I don’t attribute success fully to the resistance.
It is simply just too bad that someone doesn’t like sharing credit for the resistance’s success with Israeli treachery.
When I had read …
“There Are Certain Things I Can Not Write About”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/there-are-certain-things-i-can-not-write-about.html
…I took it (mistakenly?) as hint that your site was hosted in subjugated Germany and thus you had limits about what you could post
and thus was protecting yourself and MoA.
Since that time a different website I had been reading was forced to remove all content regarding the Genocidal Psychopathic Zionist Entity.
I produced a lengthy anthology sourcing my ‘conspiracy theory’ and was preparing an updated one to post in this thread.
And, also, I know that you are mistaken when you wrote: ‘ no one is buying your conspiracy theory’
Here is the old one
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/palestine-open-thread-2024-058.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b
Your opinion counts for a lot so I was quite saddened when I read it.
People can still make up their minds for themselves.
Looks as though Israeli news media agrees with deeeeeee @revolutionaryem .
But just because he agrees with Israeli news media no one is going to accuse deeeeeee @revolutionaryem of being their mockingbird.
“Unit 8200 could have saved Israel from Oct. 7; why hasn’t it owned up to its failure?”
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/23/unit-8200-could-have-save-israel-from-oct-7-why-hasnt-it-owned-up-to-its-failure/
The door is closing on US freedom and it won’t be long before it too is thoroughly subjugated.
One day sites like MoA will just be a memory and people will hardly believe that there was time that they could actually express their opinions without their bank accounts being locked up, etc…
Sad day.

Posted by: librul | Apr 2 2024 16:28 utc | 99