Biden has just been following the orders of his own plutocrat bosses, who have been planning the Gaza genocide since at latest when they decided to blow up Nordstream, a decision which makes no sense unless they were planning to use offshore Gaza oil and gas as a substitute for Nordstream.

Posted by: Lysias | May 15 2024 15:41 utc | 4

@ Christian J Chuba | May 15 2024 15:35 utc | 3 // Lysias | May 15 2024 15:51 utc | 5
the parallels here are rather depressing, expect the roles have reversed…

Posted by: james | May 15 2024 16:04 utc | 6

“Biden has just been following the orders of his own plutocrat bosses, who have been planning the Gaza genocide since at latest when they decided to blow up Nordstream, a decision which makes no sense unless they were planning to use offshore Gaza oil and gas as a substitute for Nordstream.”
Posted by: Lysias | May 15 2024 15:41 utc | 4
Never thought of that angle-good point!

Posted by: canuck | May 15 2024 16:20 utc | 8

Happy International Nakba Day!
As a Scottish-American whose ancestors watched their neighbors evicted from the highlands of Scotland in the Clearances back in the 1700s, I can empathize with the Palestinians.
My neighbor and good friend’s grandfather escaped Korea when the rest of his family were murdered during the American “Clearances” of northern Korea 70 odd years ago.
Almost all of us have had ancestors whose homes were taken unjustly. (Similarly, we also all have a lineage which includes father sucking sons of bitches who did the stealing!)
It is only the Israelis, however, who believe that their ownership of land (by killing all previous occupiers) 3,000 years ago and subsequent loss to other occupiers, gives them a divine right to evict, or failing that, kill, all people who currently live in this desert we call Gaza and reclaim same.
Nina Paley showed it best in her cartoon of the song This Land Is Mine from movie Exodus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY Peace to all on this beautiful day of Nakba.

Posted by: Butte Bill | May 15 2024 16:32 utc | 10

Southern Front Daily SITREP
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2110044
Comment – both Al-Quds and Al-Qassem claim successful ambushes and other strikes. 1 amusing video of heavy mortars being fired – suspect this is harassing fire only. They don‘t have time to dial in the range; so just pop off a few rounds and scoot

Posted by: Exile | May 15 2024 16:54 utc | 12

Northern Front SITREP
https://english.almanar.com.lb/
Comment: beaucoup activity, like hammering everywhere

Posted by: Exile | May 15 2024 16:58 utc | 14

It is clear that Palestinians shall gecdefeated.
Nobody can stop Israel.

Posted by: vargas | May 15 2024 17:16 utc | 16

“a decision which makes no sense unless they were planning to use offshore Gaza oil and gas as a substitute for Nordstream.”
The NordStream pipelines were blown up to stop the EU dependency on Russia oil/gas, the Zionists are already stealing oil/gas from the Syrian Golan Heights, and have been for years via a company called Genie Energy.
The EU gets its oil/gas from multiple outlets Qatar, the USA, and get this India buys huge amounts of Russian oil and sells it on to the EU at a higher cost, I also think Norway is building a pipeline to Europe.
The EU authoritative bodies are captured by Atlanticists and Zionists, they don’t give a toss about EU citizens. The EU is now ran by a bunch of racketeering crooks.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 15 2024 17:48 utc | 18

As we type here Egypt is building a huge concentration camp in the Sinai desertm
That would be “the final solution” of the Palestinian problem. The latest genocide. For the Jews this is a full circle of crime.
Iran, Arabs, Russia… cannot stop that and are not interested in stopping that.

Posted by: vargas | May 15 2024 18:37 utc | 20

Appreciate the content here. Great reading.

Posted by: junebugboaz | May 15 2024 18:55 utc | 22

My view to this ongoing news about Joe Biden is that he, and all who in his party politically do not speak against him on this, must be voted against in upcoming USA elections. If genocide is the greatest evil, as we have so been taught for generations, then there is no more room for excuses: Joe Biden and the Democrat politicians who support or endure him, *must* lose. Only from than position — the most extreme evil must be stopped & punished, not supported or abetted in any way — can anything approaching normalcy be entertained, chips fall where they may.
USA body politic must show resistance to the greatest evil, a lesson often repeated to its children about tyranny & inhumanity, if it is to have any hope of redemption. If it be another Civil War, so be it. We’ve been through one before, if it takes another to repent and relearn old lessons, apity but I guess its time has come again. 🙂
Be brave and support your safety net of love so that we may emerge through to the other side of this baptism by fire, for one’s soul and country and planet. =)

Posted by: titmouse | May 15 2024 19:49 utc | 24

Some UK Minister wants to allow “Highly qualified Palestinians” to be “saved” from Rafah, by means of the Pier, and to be sent to the UK. (Cheap labour, cheap PR)
Unfortunately the Zionists kill the most well known as soon as they can identify them.
Example of the prospects for well educated Palestinians;;
“Seventh mass grave discovered at #alShifa Hospital. #Israeli propaganda: we didn’t do it, they were all terrorists, the numbers are wrong, anyway .. Hamas”

Posted by: Stonebird | May 15 2024 20:09 utc | 26

@ Patroklos | May 15 2024 18:56 utc | 23
lol….

Posted by: james | May 15 2024 20:18 utc | 28

Thanks a lot. I did not know that.
Posted by: Roberto | May 15 2024 17:15 utc | 15
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I guess this is meant sarcastically.
Most historians have understood that the Protocol (January 1942) used euphemistic language.
It does, however, state clearly that earlier solutions to rid Germany of Jews and other undesirables had been fairly successful but had not sufficed, and that the occupation of eastern Europe presented new challenges.
Hence, the final solution.
Jews (and Poles) were to be worked to death.
That is a large part of what occurred. Of course Communists, and Jewish Communists, were among those worked to death, but I am unaware that this reason was put forth for exterminating Jews and others—that they were all Communists. And, I don’t think anyone accused the Roma/Sinti of being Communists.
Plans for immediate extermination of people who arrived in concentration camps but were not selected as being capable of providing labor developed unevenly—as did the extermination technology.
The permanent exhibition of items from the archives of the Firma Topf, in the Topf Memorial in Erfurt, is one source of detailed information on this process (https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/exhibitions/permanent_exhibitions/index.html).

Posted by: Jane | May 15 2024 20:33 utc | 30

Biden has just been following the orders of his own plutocrat bosses, who have been planning the Gaza genocide since at latest when they decided to blow up Nordstream, a decision which makes no sense unless they were planning to use offshore Gaza oil and gas as a substitute for Nordstream.
Lysias | May 15 2024 15:41 utc | 4
Sorry, that doesn’t add up.
Developing Gazan offshore gas and building a pipeline to EUrope takes 20 years, roughly. A substitute for Russian oil & gas to EUrope is needed *now*. EU leaders have been running around, buying any LNG they can get a hold on. To the detriment of poorer countries priced out of the market. (Strategically, it makes perfect sense since shipped LNG arrives via sea lanes controlled by US/UK navy.)

Posted by: smuks | May 15 2024 21:01 utc | 32

The off shore oil and gas discussion makes the assumption that if Israel is successful in exterminating every last Gazan, it rebounds to them as the new owners of Gaza land. However, the state of Palestine is not only enshrined in UN declarations but most recently has had their status in the General Assembly upgraded with referral to the Security Council for accession to full membership. In their upgraded status, the Palestinian state has the right to independently bring petitions to the GA and the larger UN. Why is this important? Because UNRWA has enshrined the citizenship of 7 million non resident Palestinians over the years, who share in the rights to this offshore bonanza. Inquiring minds would wonder if this contributes to Israel’s obsession with eliminating UNWRA and all its records. Most recently the repeated arson attacks on their Jerusalem headquarters. Even if Israel attempts to accede to rights to the gas and oil (along with EU/US/UK) the international litigation will be on a par with that currently taking place regarding Israel’s attempted usurpation of Lebanese portions of the gas field. To say nothing of heavily armed non state players who could easily destroy any and all pumping platforms (although rarely discussed, current platforms off Israel are in a state of hiatus as the owning companies recognize the current situation is far too unstable to allow operation). Current UN, BRICS+, Chinese, SCO activities have significantly enhanced the status of the Palestinian diaspora. Litigation could extend for years and years, as the multipolar world grows in strength.

Posted by: abierno | May 15 2024 21:05 utc | 34

Posted by: Jane | May 15 2024 20:14 utc | 27
I’ve talked about it without response so I figured it was a no-brainer that didn’t need elaborating. Apparently it’s now an ‘insight’.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 15 2024 21:21 utc | 36

Joe Biden is that he, and all who in his party politically do not speak against him on this, must be voted against in upcoming USA elections

While that is a noble thought, the problem is the GOP is no better on this genocide. And some are even worse. Biden did pretend to maybe think about slowing down some aid at one point (until his JMasters gave him a talking to). GOP wants to throw all critics of Isreal in jail (if not just shoot them on sight).

Posted by: c matt | May 15 2024 21:28 utc | 38

“Joe Biden has done more than arm Israel. Leaked documents reveal his own officials see him as complicit in Gaza’s devastating famine – Independent”
Is Biden a Dispensationalist, like Bush II was? Convinced he needs a Jewish state to bring back Jesus and the Judgement next week? I’d assumed such nuts were mostly Reptoids, not Demoniacs, but I could easily be mistaken. 🙁

Posted by: lester | May 15 2024 21:51 utc | 40

lester 41
100 years in advance about oil and now water and lithium, not politics.

Posted by: Giyane | May 15 2024 22:23 utc | 42

Is Biden a Dispensationalist, like Bush II was? Convinced he needs a Jewish state to bring back Jesus and the Judgement next week? I’d assumed such nuts were mostly Reptoids, not Demoniacs, but I could easily be mistaken. 🙁
Posted by: lester | May 15 2024 21:51 utc | 40
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No, just a depraved hack. And corrupt — the Ziolobby pays well, dontcha know.

Posted by: malenkov | May 15 2024 22:34 utc | 44

Fico shows Gladio never went away…..

Posted by: Axholmer | May 15 2024 23:26 utc | 46

From the Guardian Australia edition:

‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
Jo-Ann Mort
A majority of Israel’s Jews today are not descended from Europe, but rather from Arab nations. To expect them to leave Israel is unprecedented, unrealistic and wrong

Ummm… if the majority of Israel’s Jews aren’t descended from Europe, why do Israelis and their supporters keep going on about the Holocaust? I mean, the Holocaust happened to European Jews, not those from Arab nations. By invoking the Holocaust aren’t they just appropriating the suffering of all those who were actual victims of the Nazi regime?
Or is it that Israelis are European Jews when that’s convenient, but are non-European Jews, when that’s slightly more convenient.
But then, we are dealing with people who constantly cried “Never again” and are now are the ones who are doing it again, so intellectual integrity does not seem to be something they’re overly concerned with.

Posted by: Kukulkan | May 15 2024 23:57 utc | 48

Israel war cabinet split looms as defence minister demands post-war Gaza plan
Yoav Gallant, who Benjamin Netanyahu tried to fire in 2023, says he will not allow Israeli rule of Gaza
A long-festering split at the heart of Israel’s war cabinet has burst into the open with the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, challenging the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to come up with plans for the “day after” the war in Gaza, and saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory.
Gallant’s comments, immediately backed by his fellow minister Benny Gantz, plunged Israel’s leadership into a highly public row, in the midst of the Gaza conflict, raising immediate speculation over his future in the Israeli government and of Netanyahu’s fractious coalition.
In uncompromising remarks, Gallant – whose firing last year by Netanyahu triggered mass protests, a political crisis and an eventual reversal by the PM – publicly demanded that Netanyahu describe plans for a “day-after plan” for Gaza.
Gallant’s comments provoked an immediate political row, with Netanyahu pushing back rapidly with a videotaped statement and a call from the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, for Gallant to be replaced.
[…] “I will not agree to the establishment of a military government in Gaza,” he said, adding a “civilian-military regime in Gaza will become the main effort in there and come at the expense of other arenas. We will pay for it in blood and victims – and it will come at a heavy economic cost.”
The comments by Gallant appeared to be the culmination of growing frustration with Netanyahu among Israel’s military leadership.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 16 2024 0:14 utc | 50

RE: Posted by: Don Firineach | May 16 2024 0:14 utc | 50
Good post. Internal combustion & civil strife. Even the ever hating want-to-invade Gaza Israeli’s will soon tire of the inconvenience of it all to them. Then it’ll be the maniacal death squad settlers against the ordinary haters at each other. Let alone, the ever-drama political cabinet against the war cabinet…
While the resistance groups harmonize like a symphony on the battlefield synchronized in combat, mourning the losses of brothers (mothers-sisters et el) with vindication and determination to remained United in one clear goal:
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 16 2024 1:32 utc | 52

Under the Wannsee Protocol jews people were going to be deported to the east and not murdered.
Posted by: Roberto | May 15 2024 17:15 utc | 15
“Deported to the East” was a common phrase indicating the Endlösung. No official german document has survived WW2, which says “killing” or “gasing”. Also the Wannsee Protocols uses always euphemistic phrases.
In Germany of today every person over 15 knows that – they learn it at scool.
In other countries people learn it from life, when they are grown up.

Posted by: prometheos | May 16 2024 1:42 utc | 54

There are many rules to when a jew is an american or European, etc or when they are just a jew.
They can also be White but that’s only when they do very, very awful things. Such as Epstein. Those gosh darn White men !
They can also be White when they are on TV and attempting to convince other gullible Whites to adopt clearly harmful government policies, usually by appealing to White empathy and/or signaling that support of this harmful is a ‘high status’ virtue.
When they are being attacked by muslims and its possible to agitate racial tensions and give the White public at large a ‘racism pass’, this is also a time the jew may be one of ‘my fellow Whites’.
When the houthis attack a Guatemalan flagged, Hindu Indian staffed and Singaporean owned vessel, through jewish chutzpah magic (and complete news media domination) – the jew will be each of these nationalities in each of these countries on the media in those countries. In this case, they just also happen to be jewish.
Now, when a jew does something that everyone will hold in high regard. Saving an entire orphanage, etc, etc – they are only a jew. No other people will even by accident be associated with this new revered hero.
Really all you have to do is ask yourself, “how does this jewish person portraying himself in this moment, in this context, further the power of the jewish people ?”
And poof, your vision returns, crystal clear.

Posted by: ryanggg | May 16 2024 1:57 utc | 56

@ Don Firineach | May 16 2024 0:14 utc | 50
Important news, the Gallant-Gantz clash with Netanyahu. The situation is very volatile. A main problem with Israel in the eyes of much of the world is, no doubt, not so much that it is a settler state as that it is a settler state still determined on further expansion and expulsion of yet more people, possibly millions of people, from their homes to seize and steal their lands and properties. If Israel would just give that up completely and not demolish even one more home or seize a single property again, there would be a lot less hostility to it. Because of the threat that the end of Israeli expansionist plans and dreams will be the outcome of the current struggle and genocide, the settler movement is really freaking out.
If Israel is so triumphant in the current situation, why is it that the Palestinians are so upbeat, despite all their sufferings and losses, while the Israelis and Zionists are so depressed? It is because whatever Israel does, it has lost, lost, lost. Its deterrence is broken and cannot be restored by any means. The alienation of the whole earth means that for the Zionist expansionism to survive, they have to establish political control over all the countries of the earth, a complete impossibility, despite their now nakedly exposed control over the US political system, which is also jeopardized by its coming out. The previous situation of before 7 October can never be recovered by them. Thus, the Palestinian attacks on them of 7 October, whatever anyone thinks of them, successfully caused a fundamental change in the situation that will not be reversed.
So some of the Israeli political elite, and a lot of the diaspora Jews, although not most of the wealthiest ones, seeing the writing on the wall, are ready now to settle for less, not because they want to, but because they see they must. This will mean ultimately a smaller Israel, but they think continuing on the expansionist course will endanger the future existence of Israel altogether, and that is no doubt a correct assessment. The counterargument of the settler movement is that once the Israelis make a single concession of any kind, their whole project will start to be rolled up like a carpet, and the aroused enmity of the surrounding Arab world will constantly attack them and never give them rest. They completely underestimate how tired the Arabs are of the struggle as well.
A dream scenario to end the conflict would be for an Israeli military disgusted with the settler movement to make a military coup and then suppress the settlers by violent force. Unfortunately, the time for that, if it ever comes, is not now.

Posted by: Cabe | May 16 2024 2:05 utc | 58

Posted by: c matt | May 15 2024 21:28 utc | 38
go back and read it again. I cannot understand why you felt the need to report on your ability to grasp the obvious – that the republicans are as bad or worse. The writer knows this,I know it. Everyone here knows this. Read it again. If you’re still Charlie Brown and the football about this and unfazed by genocide, continue chanting four more years by yourself.

Posted by: Osori | May 16 2024 2:11 utc | 60

Cabe 58
The Khazars are losers. In Ukraine and Palestine. They survived Nazism by becoming Nazis and they will survive the shame of this genocide by another group metamorphosis.
If it looks like a Khazar, walks like a Khazar and quacks like a Khazar, it’s a Khazar, not a Jew.
What are these chameleon squid doing in Palestine anyway? What are they doing in Ukraine? They’re not Jews and they’re not Slavs. They’re just, like zelensky and Netanyahu , addicted to pretending to be whatever the colour of the sand underneath them might be.
Hatespeak Mender pretends to be a posh Englishman. Gallant pretends to be military. Smotrich pretends to be a finance Minister. But all of them are just arseholes doing the colonial will of US Hegemony and UK Empire2.

Posted by: Giyane | May 16 2024 2:43 utc | 62

ICJ Hearing’s start tomorrow
https://menafn.com/1108219058/ICJ-Rejects-Israels-Request-To-Postpone-Thursdays-Hearing
ICJ rejects Israel request for extension.
Israel will appear with legal team.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 16 2024 2:58 utc | 64

ICJ case:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/390029
“Political officials in Israel have estimated that in the wake of the South African request, the court would issue orders to punish Israel for “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. A diplomatic source clarified that “Israel does not intend to stop the war – even if a decree is issued on the matter.”
Who here expected any different from Israel?
Good. Keep going Israel… you’re doing fine…
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 16 2024 3:04 utc | 118
Accidentally posted in Ukraine thread.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 16 2024 3:07 utc | 66

Bueno despues de leer una y otra vez este foro. si consideramos todo lo que se dice sobre lo que se esta haciendo, mi conclucion es que no existe dios. solo un monton de malditos seres humanos.

Posted by: Manuel V | May 16 2024 4:45 utc | 68

@ #43:
Nope. Just do search the internet for information about the population statistics of the Middle East.

Posted by: WMG | May 16 2024 6:20 utc | 70

Kicking Palestine is all Biden’s got to keep the proles in line.

Posted by: too scents | May 16 2024 6:55 utc | 72

…] “I will not agree to the establishment of a military government in Gaza,” he said, adding a “civilian-military regime in Gaza will become the main effort in there and come at the expense of other arenas. We will pay for it in blood and victims – and it will come at a heavy economic cost.”
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What Gallant is admitting is that “Hamas” can never be eliminated. Yet that is the stated US/Israeli goal.

Posted by: Gene Poole | May 16 2024 7:32 utc | 74

Posted by: Giyane | May 15 2024 22:25 utc | 43
What has basic population arithmetic to do with eugenics?

Posted by: Greg | May 16 2024 8:18 utc | 76

Posted by: juliania | May 16 2024 2:45 utc | 63
Well said Juliana. I hope that you are right and there is a sea change in comprehension of Palestine in the West. The Zionist controlled MSM has spreading their poison unquestioned for far too long.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | May 16 2024 8:35 utc | 78

11:57 Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters successfully destroy an IOF “Merkava 4” tank advancing east of Jabalia city using a `Shawaz` projectile, resulting in the death and injury of the crew members.
Comment – Claimed tally now 182 Merkavas knocked out since Hostilities restarted on 2.Oct. Strikes on Merkavas is maybe 2x. Note this includes Northern Front claims

Posted by: Exile | May 16 2024 9:28 utc | 80

Never thought of that angle-good point!
Posted by: canuck | May 15 2024 16:20 utc | 8
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It has been mentioned numerous times in these threads, but only AFAIK by Lysias and me.
Actually, it is kind of a no-brainer.
For more background,
check this out:
https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves
Posted by: Jane | May 15 2024 20:14 utc | 27
Thanks, Jane

Posted by: canuck | May 16 2024 10:06 utc | 82

Greg 77
God gave us the urge and the means to procreate. The West constantly attacking Muslim countries and killing and terrorising Muslims triggers an unconscious survival urge
which the pampered West lacks.
The problem in Egypt is government corruption which has polluted the seas and the drinking water with Toxic Western chemicals.
The genocide of Muslims by USUKIS is not confined to Palestine, and it is counterproductive because it increases reproduction . Stupidity incarnate by brainless Mammon worship.

Posted by: Giyane | May 16 2024 11:24 utc | 84

Hi Patroklos! I’m glad you stayed with us. 🙂 Have a heart <3 Sharing is caring!

Posted by: titmouse | May 16 2024 11:38 utc | 86

Update: Al Manar TV has been banned in France by the Conseil d’État for “dissemination of anti-Semitic content,” The satellite operator Eutelsat took 12 hours to remove the feed from its Arabic-language bundle. The provider in Tunisia was threatened with removal of all Arabic programming if they refused to remove Al Manar from the bundle. UMP legislator Pierre Lellouche said on the air that the State must find more effective ways of removing “anti-Semitic filth” from the airwaves.
Blocking a Web site is probably easier… I’m not sure if Facebook itself is behind the blockage of almanar.com.lb links or if the French state has pressured them into it.

Posted by: Gene Poole | May 16 2024 12:26 utc | 88

Squeeth@80….those 1.5 Soviet Jews killed, but they weren’t Communists, just Jews? Better question how many Communists were killed along side the Soviet Jews….any idea, maybe bevin has those numbers…..
Cheers M
It might be me likely is, but there are always exactitudes for how many Jews are killed in any given conflict, in fact one might believe only Jews are ever killed…..all other deaths are inconsequential like the inconvenient dead of Palestine.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 16 2024 12:46 utc | 90

So the real reason as some seem to be grabbing on to as a ‘no brainer’ for the utter destruction of Gaza is the small amount of oil and gas off the coast of Palestine, you guys are 100% correct, it is a no brainer, if you need help finding yours, reach out….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 16 2024 12:53 utc | 92

Posted by: snake | May 15 2024 23:26 utc | 47
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My primary point was, and has been, to remember to connect the dots between the Nord Stream sabotage and the plan to steal Gaza’s gas and oil.

Posted by: Jane | May 16 2024 13:14 utc | 94

Giyane | May 15 2024 21:43 utc | 39
NS1/2 was obvious anathema to US/UK, the modern-day equivalent to the Baghdad Railway. Actually it surprised me the attack didn’t come earlier.
But as you rightly say in #42, oil is yesterday’s business. So there’s little point in planning oil/ gas flows which will only start in ~20 years: It’s now (soon) or never.
In theory, Israel/Palestine is perfectly located to be a future gas export hub to EUrope – not only from Gaza, but also Egypt, Qatar, Iran…but it’s preconditioned on a (one state) solution for the Palestinian question. So it will take time, and I don’t think the huge investment required will still be seen as viable in ~10 years.
Slight disagreement on Libya and Somalia.
Somalia’s timeline is 10-15 years ahead of Libya, it’s long past “full-scale catastrophe” stage. Libya is also slowly re-stabilizing, and firmly in the Russian-Chinese camp – see the recent deployment of Surovikin. Its oil exports may increase, but not to US/UK conditions.
juliania | May 16 2024 2:45 utc | 63
Barrel Brown | May 16 2024 6:26 utc | 72
Thanks for replying – so I wasn’t wrong in thinking that the reporting of Nakba Day in western MSM (in my case, German public radio) is something new.
Seems that Hamas has succeeded in showing that the Palestinian question has to be taken seriously (again).

Posted by: smuks | May 16 2024 13:21 utc | 96

Jewish Biden staffer resigns over Gaza on Nakba Day. “President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands” Decensored News 15 May 2024
Two days after the high-profile resignation of US Army Major Harrison Mann on Monday, Lily Greenburg Call—a Jewish Biden political appointee—has publicly resigned from her position at the Department of Interior.
“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” wrote the (now-former) special assistant to the chief of staff.
While her resignation is getting significant coverage (including in the “MSM“), few if any outlets are actually publishing Call’s full, unedited letter, which is not only well-written, but also carefully sourced and footnoted.
Because of this, and because it speaks so well for itself, here it is in full. It’s addressed to US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and dated May 15, 2024:
Dear Secretary Haaland,
I joined the Biden Administration because I believe in fighting for a better America, for a future where Americans can thrive: one with economic prosperity, a healthy planet, and equal rights for all people. I have dedicated my career to candidates who I believed would further this vision. I worked for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2019, and then moved to Arizona to work for President Biden’s campaign in 2020. I was thrilled to join the Department of Interior because I was inspired by your principled track record of championing progressive causes, in addition to your role as an Indigenous woman leading a Department that historically harmed Indigenous communities, and the potential that it has for reparations, reconciliation, and healing.
However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.ᶦ
I am an American Jew.
My family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and found refuge in America. They changed their names at Ellis Island and worked as farmers, peddlers, and salespeople. My grandparents could not go to college. Two generations later, I have the honour of working as an appointee for the President of the United States.
The weight of this position is not lost on me.
This is the story of many people in my community: a story of survival, upward mobility, and fulfilment of the American Dream. And yet, I have asked myself many times over the last eight months: what is the point of having power if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?
My whole life has been spent in Jewish community in the US and Israel.
I have spent time in Israel/Palestine, and I learned Hebrew and Arabic both formally in school and through connection in community. I have family and friends who are Israeli, Palestinian – and have loved ones who have served in the IDF. People in my community lost loved ones during Hamas’s attack on October 7thᶦᶦ; beloveds killed, displaced, and taken as hostages. I am terrified by rising antisemitism around the world.ᶦᶦᶦ And yet I am certain that the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement,ᶦᵛ famineᵛ, and ethnic cleansing.ᵛᶦ
Israel’s ongoing offensive against Palestinians does not keep Jewish people safe – in Israel nor in the United States. What I have learned from my Jewish tradition is that every life is precious. That we are obligated to stand up for those facing violence and oppression, and to question authority in the face of injustice.
As of writing this, Israel has killed over 35,000 people in Gaza, including 15,000 children.ᵛᶦᶦ The Israeli military has bombed medical infrastructure,ᵛᶦᶦᶦ besieged a hospital,ᶦˣ left mass graves behind,ˣ destroyed every university in Gaza,ˣᶦ targeted journalistsˣᶦᶦ and aid workers,ˣᶦᶦᶦ and committed many, many inexcusable atrocities. These are all violations of international law,ˣᶦᵛ none of which would be possible without American weapons,ˣᵛ and none of which have been condemned by President Biden.
The President has the power to call for a lasting ceasefire, to stop sending weapons to Israel, and to condition aid. The United States has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable; quite the opposite, we have enabled and legitimized Israel’s actions with vetoes of UN resolutions designed to hold Israel accountable.ˣᵛᶦ
President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands.
The United States has long enabled Israeli war crimes and the status quo of apartheid and occupation.
That status quo does not keep Israelis safe, nor Jews around the world.
It certainly does not protect Palestinians, who have the right to freedom, safety, self-determination, and dignity, just as much as Jewish people do, and every person does.
Any system that requires the subjugation of one group over another is not only unjust, but unsafe.
Jewish safety cannot — and will not — come at the expense of Palestinian freedom. Making Jews the face of the American war machine makes us less safe. What seems like a lack of awareness in the Administration leadership of how critical this issue is to the American public is devastating to both communities, and politically disastrous.ˣᵛᶦᶦ
Today, May 15th, is Nakba Day,ˣᵛᶦᶦᶦ which recognizes the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the displacement of the majority of the Palestinian people for the formation of today’s modern Israel. Nakba and Shoah, the Hebrew word for Holocaust, mean the same thing: catastrophe.
I reject the premise that one people’s salvation must come at another’s destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen — and this cannot be done from within the Biden Administration.
My choice to leave is not a reflection of this office or the Department. I have felt supported by many individuals here, but I do not feel supported by the policies and actions of this Administration. I have the utmost respect for my colleagues at the Department who have given so much of themselves to doing the good work of preserving our public lands and strengthening Indian Country, and the many public servants across the federal government. I urge you all to take a stand for Palestinian lives. All of our futures depend on this.
Respectfully, Lily Greenberg Call

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | May 16 2024 16:15 utc | 98

“lester 41
100 years in advance about oil and now water and lithium, not politics.
Posted by: Giyane | May 15 2024 22:23 utc | 42”
Nope. Our modern equvalents to Roman haruspices, pretending to predict eh future from the bumps on sheeps’ liver, are no more reliable.

Posted by: lester | May 16 2024 20:58 utc | 100