Meanwhile back to the (plausible) Genocide:
Thousands of Palestinian families continue to flee the central Gaza refugee camps of Bureij and Nuseirat following fresh Israeli displacement orders issued on Sunday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live-beirut-flights-cancelled-fears-israeli-attack-grow

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2024 9:17 utc | 103

From a few months ago;
“….There are EU nations refusing to partner with
Israel’s genocide and vow to continue funding UNRWA:
Ireland 🇮🇪
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Norway 🇳🇴
Slovenia 🇸🇮 doubled funding
Portugal 🇵🇹 donating an extra €1ml
Spain 🇪🇸 trebled funding to €50ml….”

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2024 9:23 utc | 105

Post
Conversation
Nour Naim| نُور
@NourNaim88
🚨Breaking: The Israeli army has killed Hind Muslim, the librarian at the Ministry of Education. She worked as a teacher for many years and was well-known by all the residents of Khan Younis in southern #Gaza.
https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1817646398353137814

Posted by: Menz | Jul 29 2024 10:09 utc | 107

“It looks like Russia might take Nui York by summer’s end. Congratulations barflies.
“Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.” ”
Mick Jagger
Posted by: Napoleon | Jul 28 2024 17:58 utc | 9
“Maggot” is a quite self descriptive; a more descriptive phrase of your persona would be, “delusional maggot”
And you moron, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger we co-writers of the song but you are ignorant as well.

Posted by: canuck | Jul 29 2024 10:10 utc | 109

ADAM
@AdameMedia
BREAKING:
UN Human Rights Council finds Israel GUILTY of war crimes:
“Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes..extermination..murder, using starvation”
No forgiveness for ALL politicians, businesses and celebrities that support/ed this.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1817651569351098776

Posted by: Menz | Jul 29 2024 10:12 utc | 111

Iran Observer
@IranObserver0
⚡️JUST IN
Dozens of Iron Dome batteries are being transported by Israel to the Lebanese front
https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1817612861755261087

Posted by: Menz | Jul 29 2024 10:13 utc | 113

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jul 29 2024 9:58 utc | 106
Excellent post, thank you

Posted by: canuck | Jul 29 2024 10:51 utc | 115

IMO, the Chinese initiative for a minimum agreement between the Palestinian organizations and the prospect of normalized relations between Syria & Turkey freeing up Syrian forces to be deployed in the South & Eastern fronts are “fear factors” and, combined with the time frame of US election campaign, accelerators for the Zionist entity’s escapades and their “opportunity window”.

Posted by: Memory Man | Jul 29 2024 11:07 utc | 117

michaelj72 | Jul 29 2024 1:35 utc | 65
Rafah’s water reservoir blown up
. Israeli soldier from the combat engineering corps sharing footage on his personal account blowing Rafah’s water reservoir in Tel Sultan neighborhood “in honor of Shabbat” as he describes it
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Thank you for posting the videos about the Israelis blowing up the water treatment plant. These people are depraved freaks without a doubt. Ryan Grim co-wrote an article about this incident yesterday; it happens that this water reservoir is the same one that Rachel Corrie defended during the last month she was alive. The article gives lots of details and information.
Grim’s article is at Drop Site News:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/idf-canada-well-rachel-corrie-rafah-water

Posted by: teri | Jul 29 2024 12:27 utc | 119

Re: Tee-Shit with Palestine Flag in Berlin
It’s my observation, based on just a few incidents, that the German Interior Minister Nancey Fraser (Green) has embarked on a ruthless campaign on anything and anyone remotely anti-genocide.
German barflies can confirm or deny my observation .

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2024 13:03 utc | 121

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 29 2024 6:32 utc | 93
An isreal has as much right to exist, as a Palestine. Just not in its current form, it just needs to play well w others is all.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Jul 29 2024 13:55 utc | 123

OMG!!! Check out Trump’s reaction to Bibi!!!!!
Posted by: Suresh | Jul 29 2024 5:55 utc | 88
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Even more amazing is that it doesn’t show Trump bent over in front of Bibi. Not that that means much.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 29 2024 14:07 utc | 125

@Exile 121
Faeser is SPD and appears to be auditioning for some ghastly role in the E U or NATO some such organisation.
Would agree with your observation, and Helmer has recently posted an article about an attempted suppression of free speech via the courts. They are getting more and more desperate as the lies and spin meet gritty reality.

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Jul 29 2024 14:50 utc | 127

minea@1058
Germany remains an occupied nation. Both the U$$A and Perfidious Albion refused to sign a peace treaty with ANY German regime since May 8,1945. Thusly, the German government is nothing more than a puppet regime, brutally held down by those who are the attack dogs for the evil ones in City of London and Wall $treet. Their long-held aim is to keep Germany down and Russia out.
When the R.U. completes its liberation of Ukraine from the Maidanite coup masters; things may rapidly change throughout the EU and NATO lands. Those fake entities will not last for very many more years.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 29 2024 15:11 utc | 129

Thanks for the info on the Izzies pushing their Iron Dome systems close to the border of Lebanon. Likely indicates that the assault is ON.
…
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 29 2024 15:21 utc | 130
I wonder if they left any behind to protect the gas fields of Haifa …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 29 2024 15:33 utc | 131

Combat footage :
Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile strike vs IDF Drone Dome anti-aircraft system south of Ramiya, Upper Galilee. [Hezbollah 27/7]
https://x.com/jonelmer/status/1817406484969300464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1817406484969300464%7Ctwgr%5Ea2194c8e560e57cd38875e7caa1ce8831e82ccb1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.palestinechronicle.com%2Fgaza-live-blog-khan-yunis-under-attack-two-killed-in-lebanon-starmer-ceasefire-now-day-297%2F

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2024 16:55 utc | 133

France Macron calls Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian to beg him to rein Hezbollah/Lebanon “response” and let Israel have a victory. A “limited” victory. Iran stays steady.
Press TV:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/07/29/730282/Iran-France-Pezeshkian-Macron-Israel
“Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian warns the Israeli regime will suffer “heavy” consequences if it makes the big mistake of attacking Lebanon.
The new Iranian president issued the warning in a Monday phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.”
Another article reveals France continues to believe Lebanon is their colony still, and is actually acting in a role as messenger between Israel/US & Israel.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iran-warns-of-serious-consequences-for-any-israeli-hit-on-lebanon/ar-BB1qPDwU
“The presidency said Macron had reminded Netanyahu that France was fully committed to doing “everything to avoid a new escalation in the region by passing messages to all parties involved in the conflict”.
The usual Israeli messages:
“Please please please let us smack you in the face and you do nothing… then peace will come…we promise”…or the not begging via threats…(ie Erdogan) “you’ll end up like Hussein in Iraq”…
Guessing all resistance groups are dying of boredom as the rest of us, regarding US/Israel ranting and ravings daily.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jul 29 2024 17:11 utc | 135

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 29 2024 16:26 utc | 132
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is centre right.
So, the UK government has resumed funding UNWRA.
UK are still providing surveillance flights, weapons and logistical support to Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
Yesterday someone posted a video of another war crime, Israeli soldiers destroying a water facility. This is exactly what that war criminal Starmer said Israel “had a right” to do.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jul 29 2024 17:54 utc | 137

Merkava Tally now 208 knocked out since 2.Oct
(Thanks for the tickler)

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2024 18:06 utc | 139

Germany remains an occupied nation.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 29 2024 15:11 utc | 129
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True, and the ramifications are scary as well as absurd.
A new poisonous morsel: Ullstein has withdrawn and refused to reprint copies of Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.
It owns/owned the translation.
Demand is high; Germans want to read this.
But I guess Ullstein—an “ancient” highly respected publishing house founded by Leopold Ullstein in 1877 with the famous owl logo—“knows better” than to let grown-ups choose their own reading material!
Their announcement is pretty silly:
“At the time of publication, the book made a valuable contribution to understanding the disintegration of US society,” the publisher said. “He is now officially acting on [Tump’s[[sic]]] side and represents an aggressive, demagogic, exclusionary policy.”
https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/07/german-publisher-drops-hillbilly-elegy/
Sounds like a whoopsie! to me.
Maybe US society isn’t disintegrating the way Ullstein expected!
I haven’t read the book nor seen the TV thing made of it, but a lot of people must have liked it.
Stay tuned for Ullstein to bring out Kamala Harris’s memoir, “Border Daze,Yee-Haw.”

Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 18:46 utc | 141

OMG!!! Check out Trump’s reaction to Bibi!!!!!
Posted by: Suresh | Jul 29 2024 5:55 utc | 88
_____
Even more amazing is that it doesn’t show Trump bent over in front of Bibi. Not that that means much.
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 29 2024 14:07 utc | 125
Trump knows Netanyahu is the key to Miriam Adelson’s and Paul Singer’s checkbooks, the GOP’s biggest donors. Adelson last contributed $150 millions to Trump’s campaign. Netanyahu can get the millions flowing again.
One might argue who is screwing whom, since they clearly expected him to attack Iran the last time he was in office, and were disappointed.

Posted by: Delhi literally | Jul 29 2024 19:09 utc | 143

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Jul 29 2024 13:55 utc | 123
States do not have rights, they have duties. If they fail those duties they are to be dissolved.

Posted by: badjoke | Jul 29 2024 20:12 utc | 145

Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 29 2024 15:21 utc | 130
Yiddish culture and language were outlawed in Israel until 1989. It was part of the brainwashing to convince gingers that they were indigenous to the middle east. Pick a better insult.

Posted by: badjoke | Jul 29 2024 20:25 utc | 147

Terri 119 – Why is anyone with any knowledge of the genocide now underway in Gaza and West Bank surprised by the destruction yesterday of the Canada Well, the main source of fresh water in Rafah, by the war criminals of the 601st IDF Combat Engineers.
They deliberately attached satchel charges to the water station pumps and blew them to bits. Very difficult to replace this vital civilian infrastructure. A premeditated war crime depriving hundreds of thousands of civilians of desparately needed fresh water, many of them are war refugees on the run from IDF airstrikes.
So far we have seen the IDF war criminals deliberately target UN schools (a recent favorite and packed full of children), hospitals (another favorite packed full of the wounded and the maimed, and providing shelter to war refugees), churches – schools – community halls – Holy Name and St Porpryius both in Gaza City; all civil servants such as police officers, firefighters, building inspectors, council members, clerks all murdered in their own homes by IDF airstrikes using the infamous Lavender AI system of extermination; UN food warehouses, volunteers, and aid stations workers; doctors, nurses, EMT’s, ambulance crews; foreign volunteer medical and food aid workers; imans, priests and nuns; and kids playing soccer in the streets.
Over 200,000 murdered, maimed, missing or wounded, and the toll advances daily……….with no end in slight….as the Israeli radical right wing including cabinet officers, call for the complete extermination of the Gaza population by starvation and thirst………is the ICC paying attention??

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jul 29 2024 20:36 utc | 149

these guys have been at war for months now. It’s been clearing the coast for supplies(Gaza) while it softens the north. The west needs a landing zone and Israel needs the promised land

Posted by: OohCanada | Jul 29 2024 20:41 utc | 151

@152 They fly the line often and what do we hear of that ? The talk is of clearing a buffer zone, which could simply imply targeting anything that moves in that zone. The occupation advantage is by air. The reaction by Hezbollah might be to storm the border. So it is all asymetric, for example unacceptable targeting by occupation now might lead to escalation and the above scenario.
The escalation initiative is being taken by the occupation, but escalation ability is held by both sides. Each will be calculating what scenario and timeframe suits their own strategy best.
Additionally, while attention is on the north and Lebanon, Gaza receives less notice.
So to my view, it is not possible to guess how this actually unfolds.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 29 2024 21:16 utc | 153

Izrael, a non-member of NATO, ***demands*** from the USA & the other NATO members to expel Turkey from the organization after the recent statement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry comparing Netanyahu to Hitler and arguing that as Nazis stood trial, so Israelis must face trial for the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Which in turn was Turkey’s answer to Izzy FM Katz’s threats to Erdogan to “remember the fate of Saddam Hussein”.
Zionists feel they are sitting on top of the world…Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell, to remember the late Louis Tillett.

Posted by: Memory Man | Jul 29 2024 21:28 utc | 155

As it is illegal occupatation by Isr.-Gaza west bank and Golan etc–….no idea why the relief agencies are not sueing for reparations for absolutely everything they have done over the decades and suffered …..and will have to do…otherwise Isr is saying more fool us to have kept Palestine going and possible reconstruction? ….

Posted by: Jo | Jul 29 2024 21:32 utc | 157

@ Joe | Jul 29 2024 21:40 utc | 158
Said soldiers are accused of repeatedly raping him with a metal rod.

Posted by: Memory Man | Jul 29 2024 21:54 utc | 159

Israeli military police *canceled* the arrest warrants issued against the soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman prison and limited themselves to interrogating them, Israel’s Channel 14 reported on 29 July.

Posted by: Memory Man | Jul 29 2024 22:21 utc | 161

stay calm
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1818004056016830966
Stay calm and nothing out of the ordinary is expected. No need for anyone to leave #Lebanon. #Israel’s drones are looking for a specific target in specific locations and @Netanyahu has no intention of escalating for fear of consequences & painful #Hezbollah retaliation.
If no commander-target is found, Israel will improvise against usual targets, pretending they are “very valuable”.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 29 2024 22:26 utc | 163

I refuse to believe that they are that stupid.
Posted by: joey_n | Jul 29 2024 20:40 utc | 150
Have you seen Ali Abunima’s response to his German arrest warrant?
EI are intensely aware of what Germany is.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 29 2024 22:34 utc | 165

michaelj72 | Jul 29 2024 22:26 utc | 163
Starting to look like this will go the way of the Iran strike. The Israelis hit the Druze village to kick it off but the powers that be in the US have said nyet. It was obvious in the body language as Trump walked away from Nutty.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 29 2024 22:51 utc | 167

Vacations are over for Crook and Napolitano, so Mondays are back showcasing Crooke’s SCF essay and his chat with the judge. And that means a new article is ready to be read, “Crooke: Deep State a “Structure””. Certainly, other questions could be made besides those I raised.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:12 utc | 169

Archetypex | Jul 29 2024 23:09 utc | 168–
Sorry, but the land was supposed to be shared from the outset. Nobody was to be deprived of rights or property. But the Zionists had a different plan/project which the vast majority of the world rejects.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:15 utc | 171

Israel DOES NOT have a right to exist,
The state was illegally created against the international norms set at the time. The mandate was supposed to go to the indigenous people that were there.
Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 29 2024 23:09 utc | 168
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Absolutely correct.
For further clarification please see the excellent
“Dr Ralph Wilde Webinar: How Britain broke international law to stop Palestinian independence”
https://balfourproject.org/wilde/

Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:20 utc | 173

Sorry, but the land was supposed to be shared from the outset. Nobody was to be deprived of rights or property. But the Zionists had a different plan/project which the vast majority of the world rejects.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:15 utc | 171
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With all due respect, I think you are wrong. “land to be shared” is very vague, as is “from the outset.”
Plenty of Jews already lived in Palestine. They were Palestinians. Also I think 20% of Palestinians were Christians. The Palestinians had their own national aspirations long before and certainly in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. PLease see the this informative documentary, “Palestine 1920”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCeQt8zg5o
The Mandate applied to the creation of a Palestinian state whose citizens would be those already there as of the date of the Mandate, April 25, 1920. Not a Jewish “homeland” violently metamorphosing to “Jewish state.” As in any state, later immigrants would have to go through a process to become citizens of Palestine.
The Mandate trumped the Balfour Declaration in international law. The latter was “appended” to the Mandate through backroom deals but had zero force in international law. It was “enforced” by force of the British in Mandatory Palestine. Pls see the Dr. Ralph Wilde webinar linked above. He is extremely clear in his explication of the issues in international law.

Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:33 utc | 175

karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:12 utc | 169
I for whatever reason can no longer concentrate on ling articles. A few years back your substack would have been part of my daily reading. Often I have a few thoughts or opinions I would like to toss around with you but But have not been able to get past the substack sign in stuff to comment at your substack.
I recently wrote an email to my sister on the US or Anglo American five-eyes power structure. I dont know how it would correlate to Crooks view, but it has become very apparent in recent that politicians are merely a facade put up in front of the power structure. Deep state is the common term but after studing it, I find power structure is a better term.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 29 2024 23:39 utc | 177

Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:33 utc | 175–
I’ve linked to and posted the original mandate on several occasions and its very clear about the future disposition. Here’s the link to the Mandate again:
“Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; and…
“ART. 2.
The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.” [My Emphasis]
I don’t like the Zionists whatsoever, but the historical docs are what they are.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:47 utc | 179

It was “enforced” by force of the British in Mandatory Palestine.
Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:33 utc | 175
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Furthermore, concerning the British “care” for the nascent national state in their “care,” many of the British troops sent to Palestine were Black and Tans fresh from the suppression and brutalization of the Irish in their homeland.
Richard Cahill, “The Image of “Black and Tans” in late Mandate Palestine”
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78336
“The “Black and Tans” were an auxiliary force that the British had hobbled together after World War I, in order to squelch the Irish Rebellion of 1919-1920. They became infamous for their use of excessive force, brash tactics (including torture) and communal punishment. In a recent article, I examined how over 650 former “Black and Tans” were signed on to serve in Palestine in the early 1920s. Based on research in the records of the British National Archive as well as newspapers and other sources from the 1920s and 1930s, I traced the activities and several personalities of the former “Black and Tans” who served together from 1922 to 1926 as the British Palestine Gendarmerie, and then as individual members of the Palestine Police. Many rose to the highest rank and some were at the center of controversies. In that same article, I analyzed public discourse, including the media, concerning these former “Black and Tans.” The astonishing finding was that up through the late 1930s, public discourse in the U.S. and Britain did not bat an eye at the conduct of these infamous men.”
These creeps disarmed the Palestinians while arming and otherwise supporting the Revisionist Zionists from Eastern Europe every step of the way. A pox on the British!

Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:52 utc | 181

Someone here recommended a really good book that documented the empire’s crimes.
I can’t remember who posted it (thank you!) but the book is:
Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins
It does not deal with Palestine exclusively but the section on Palestine is vast and chock full of well referenced examples, numbers, stats etc.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 30 2024 0:05 utc | 183

Posted by: Jane | Jul 29 2024 23:52 utc | 181
Get Out Ye Black and Tans · Derek Warfield

Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 30 2024 0:49 utc | 185

Sorry, but the land was supposed to be shared from the outset. Nobody was to be deprived of rights or property.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:15 utc | 171
1. The British had as much right to ‘share’ Arab lands with European colonists as a street pimp has the right to ‘share’ one’s wife with his customers.
(Excuse the crude analogy)
2. This very act of ‘sharing’ necessarily required the deprivation of property.
The Balfour declaration states this in polite language, English is great for that, while clearly telling the reader the intention is to make a Jewish European homeland on top of Palestinians.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 30 2024 1:01 utc | 187

I am with Jane on this.
The Balfour declaration says
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object…”
Mandate says
“…the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ”
The Declaration was “favour” , not “declare the creation of”.
The Mandate was therefore: to put into effect “to favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.
It did not declare “a national home for the Jewish people”.
Wet paper, as they say.
However, even that is besides the point. The local population existed there for two thousand years roughly without anything “Israel” . Even before that through any judaic forms of rule probably.
The settlers, many, most, or all of unrelated historical origin have no modern claim there but via what was bought from locals without any coercion or unfairness whatsoever.
However, they arrived with their own book which said the territory was promised them, and without being able to demonstrate by who. They still say that. They are still trying to prove that by taking all they are able to by whatever means.
Quite literally, the ancestors of any reader will have resided in Palestine at some point, and well before judaism or israelites ever existed.
That does not give a priority of claim over the long existing residents, but it levels any priority “israelis” claim to zero in relation to anyone else in the world.
They pick that fight. The rest of the world, but for a few who choose to overly latch on to certain themes of their book, see them as wrong.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 30 2024 1:08 utc | 189

Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins
It does not deal with Palestine exclusively but the section on Palestine is vast and chock full of well referenced examples, numbers, stats etc.
Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 30 2024 0:05 utc | 183
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I believe Elkins is one (not the only one) who has connected the dots between the Black and Tans in Ireland and in Palestine.
I mean to buy and read her book.
Thanks for the reminder.
According to the Balfour Project, the best source (still) on the very complex story behind the implementation or imposition of the Balfour Declaration is “Palestine: The Reality,” by Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries (1880-1960), first published in 1939 and then basically censored. Like Douglas Reed, Jeffries was an international correspondent for a major British newspaper and saw events unfolding on the ground in real time. It was reissued in a modern edition in 2017 by Olive Branch Press. I have it on my bookshelf but haven’t read it yet—it is 748 pp. without the index. So much for “the documents are the documents.”
Here is a review from Amazon:
“Who would think that a 748-page book on the diplomatic history of the Balfour Declaration and its aftermath could be a page-turner, but this book definitely is. It’s a truly remarkable achievement and a fascinating read in many ways… If one is looking for an “objective”, impartial treatment of the history, this isn’t it. Far from it. Jeffries makes clear from the outset that he has a polemical goal and that is to present what “the Arab case”. This he does with passion, skillful writing, meticulous attention to detail, amazing wit, and insightful analysis. It’s especially interesting to see the events leading up to and including the first two decades of the British Mandate through the eyes of a contemporary – someone without the knowledge of what was yet to come – WWII, the Holocaust, and then the Naqba and creation of Israel in 1948. Jeffries, a man of his times, is no foe of European colonialism in general, but still he finds the treatment of the indigenous people of Palestine by the British and the Zionists to be an affront to justice and the honor of Great Britain. His sense of righteous indignation screams out from almost every page, yet not in a way that either clouds his judgment (which appears razor sharp throughout) or obscures the narrative he has to tell.”

Posted by: Jane | Jul 30 2024 1:42 utc | 191

Irrelevant maybe but I say it all the same. In the 80’s my view was that if there was any possibility of keeping a homeland, it would have been by a major shift of conscience and by voluntarily returning say three quarters of the territory in return for keeping a northern enclave. Arabs would have understood the humility of such an act and out of grace allowed that, and agreeing on a lasting peace. That was what I felt was necessary.
Now, given the events since then and especially the last months, there is no way that would be possible. There is no way they will be able to keep the Muslim or Arab world at bay indefinitely either.
So they should just leave.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 30 2024 1:47 utc | 193

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 29 2024 23:12 utc | 169
I am troubled by your analysis, karlof1. I will, as you advise, reread the Federalist Papers. One query I have concerns what has been the functioning understanding of these matters down through my own education as it proceeded after my midteenage years. I do not feel my teachers have been duplicitous as you seem to be suggesting for the writers of the Constitution. Admittedly their times were differently structured than ours, but it is a big ask to suppose they had in mind what the current ‘Deep State’ is intending, to maintain the oligarchy which currently exists.
I’m not an expert on these matters. I hope others will comment who are.

Posted by: juliania | Jul 30 2024 2:04 utc | 195

Get Out Ye Black and Tans · Derek Warfield
Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 30 2024 0:49 utc | 185
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OMG!
I love the Wolfe Tones.
Didn’t know this one.
Here’s another—OT but this is a fantastic song, and commentary on the Brits.
“James Connolly”
This is a pretty good version of many on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYH5h-5Dz40
There is no doubt that Arab “rebels” in their own land–decent, brave men protecting their communities with inadequate weapons—were similarly executed by British colonial military thugs.
The Israelis are continuing the tradition.
“God’s curse on you, England, you cruel-hearted monster.”

Posted by: Jane | Jul 30 2024 2:19 utc | 197

Posted by: Jane | Jul 30 2024 2:19 utc | 197
The empires treatment of others is not surprising if one knows anything about their naval, privateer and piracy history.
The treatment of their own citizens was just as bad as what they dished out to others.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 30 2024 2:39 utc | 199