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April 14, 2024
Palestine Open Thread 2024-110
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In his all encompassing essay, leading academic/historian author of American Pravda holds no punches.
Kudos to Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/runz/israeli-assassinations-and-public-scrutiny/
Posted by: ld | Apr 15 2024 22:38 utc | 201
Re. 202. I think removal of restrictions imposed on Palestinean prisoners is a newer demand of Hamas in current negotiations with the entity. Palestinian prisoners are now being shakled head and foot.
Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 16 2024 0:11 utc | 206
They are being shackled hand and foot for most of the day.
A few days of that means an amputated foot or hand.
No country does this!!
Even the shittiest of countries!!!
Not even in the legendary Turkish prisons!!!!
Not to mention that most of these people are just randos being pulled in to satisfy the sadistic urges of the “chosen.”
Everything I’ve observed leads me to the conclusion that the “chosen” are just sadist psychopaths.
Posted by: Archetypex | Apr 16 2024 0:57 utc | 203
The video on Palestine that got Yanis Varoufakis BANNED from Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXXBhruGhc
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 16 2024 4:59 utc | 204
@ George | Apr 16 2024 7:21 utc | 209 with the set of too long OT comments ….I didn’t read a word after initial skim
I am surprised if they stay up and would suggest in the future a simple link and enticing intro to it.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 16 2024 13:56 utc | 205
@ George | Apr 16 2024 7:21 utc | 209
Please send me your address so that I can send you the bill from my orthopedist from the carpal tunnel pain I incurred by scrolling through your godbothering hooey.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 16 2024 14:29 utc | 206
I don’t know if someone has already posted this, but it is really important reading:
Gaza: The strategic imperative
interview with M.Hudson
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/gaza-the-strategic-imperative/
I don’t share his very dark prediction of how this will end for Gaza, but it is certainly possible.
Posted by: JB | Apr 16 2024 17:12 utc | 207
In his all encompassing essay, leading academic/historian author of American Pravda holds no punches.
Kudos to Ron Unz
Furthermore, Israel’s lack of battlefield success against the entrenched Hamas fighters has become rather obvious. Few if any of the Israelis captured in the October 7th raid have been successfully freed and none of Hamas’ top commanders have been killed or captured. The extent of Hamas’ battlefield losses is unclear, but since the group consists entirely of adult males and the demographic profile of the Gazans reported killed seems very close to that of Gaza’s general civilian population, it seems likely that only a small fraction of Hamas’ 30,000 combat troops have fallen. Indeed, Israel’s failure to capture almost any Hamas members has led to grotesque incidents in which the Israelis seized and stripped male Gazan civilians and falsely paraded them around as captured Hamas militants for a propaganda video.
https://www.unz.com/runz/israeli-assassinations-and-public-scrutiny/
Posted by: ld | Apr 15 2024 22:38 utc | 201
I want to say one thing about that: if the Izzies had killed or captured any obvious Hamas fighters, I would expect them to brandish the dead or tortured bodies around in the media, and I have seen none of that. So I think they are few and far between.
Posted by: Bemildred | Apr 17 2024 0:59 utc | 208
At this point it is more than likely that the Iranians have obtained a tactical, or several tactical nuclear weapons…..their confidence in the mass drone, cruise and ballistic missile attack on Israel points to this being the case.
These tactical nuclear weapons capable of being stalled on any one the various types of ballistic missiles Iran has available, could have been obtained from North Korea or Pakistan.
The IDF era (over many decades) of dominance in the nuclear field, courtesy of “stolen” US nukes, is now at an end. The era of ME MAD has arrived.
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Apr 17 2024 10:26 utc | 209
Was it not forty f days that Jesus( Jewsuss) Apollonius of T , spent in the Desert being tormented and tempted by Satan ? Well 40 days since Bidet proclaimed a F Pier in Gash Gaza . I promise you a civil war in ISRAEL AND AMERICA IN 40 days ! Zeus will make you pay , because Pythagoras was not A .. F “Slave “Mason . God is a mathematician and he counts the DEAD BEAT.
Posted by: Paleologos | Apr 17 2024 12:09 utc | 210
Owen Jones: “Israel Has Been DEFEATED. A Total Defeat” – Israeli Newspaper’s Shocking Admission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDQBti3YeM
Length: 12 minutes 32 seconds
Jones cites the liberal israeli newspaper Haaretz. Now I start to start to understand why Israel attacked the iranian counsulate (/embassy ??) in Damascus. Israel seems to be desparate to shift the attention away from this disaster called “the war on Gaza”.
Posted by: WMG | Apr 18 2024 0:34 utc | 211
Owen Jones: “Germany Arrests Jewish Activists, Shuts Down Palestine Congress, Acts Deranged”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1si1pzTszE
Length: 14 minutes
Posted by: WMG | Apr 18 2024 7:07 utc | 212
Owen Jones: Jewish German ARRESTED Over Gaza Speaks Out – w/. Udi Raz
Lenght: 15 minutes
Posted by: WMG | Apr 18 2024 7:09 utc | 213
Owen Jones: Jewish German ARRESTED Over Gaza Speaks Out – w/. Udi Raz
Lenght: 15 minutes
Posted by: WMG | Apr 18 2024 7:09 utc | 213
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CZatA7CsY
Posted by: WMG | Apr 18 2024 7:10 utc | 214
Damn it’s busy here, and too many thread open,
OK well here is Ritter on jimmy dore
https://youtu.be/l7n1QVrc0N8?si=TCC8h70n-QETrx1r&t=126
I think they give a good presentation (with video examples) of what happened with missiles that hit Israel…. how they got thru, and that these were not Iran’s most advanced missiles but were 7 to 12 years old technology.
as Ritter says — 5 of 7 missiles struck the most defended spot on planet earth —
Israel is defenseless and the US is defenseless ….
this goes with ritters article on the subject here
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/checkmate
cheers
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 18 2024 11:33 utc | 215