Palestine Open Thread 2024-192
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Posted by b on August 11, 2024 at 12:52 UTC | Permalink
next page »Imo, Iran is using psywar tactics on Jewrael. Hezbollah, 'Hamas' and Yemen have contiued their daily attacks on the IOF. And US bases are being attacked in Iraq. But nothing from Iran 10 days after vowing to severely punish Jewrael.
It seems that Iran, knowing how much of their own bullshit the jews believe, has decided to let them torment themselves by recalling and embellishing the nightmare Holocaust scenarios they were taught at the feet of their parents and grandparents.
They were already on the verge of insanity before October 7. Is Iran's delayed response merely a ploy to push the nuttiest jews over the edge?
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 11 2024 15:19 utc | 2
Psychological warfare. New billboard posted in Tehran Square. "the next blow is near"
A huge billboard depicting Hamas’ new leader, Yahya Sinwar, has been set up in Tehran’s Palestine Square with a text in Hebrew on it reading: "You received a military blow on October 7th and a political blow on August 7th. The next blow is near."
Posted by: Mary | Aug 11 2024 16:02 utc | 3
We are about to learn a new word in Iran's military dictionary
Posted by: Mary | Aug 11 2024 16:06 utc | 5
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 13:49 utc | 1
I find your post misplaced and in very bad taste, provided you are not deliberately intending to turn the focus from grave Zionist crimes, including rape, to a totally irrelevant subject of "how gay Israel is". Who cares how gay anyone is, let alone Israel.
Be respectful and humble in the face of human suffering, especially that of the Palestinians.
This is the Palestine open thread concentrated on developments in a most barbaric conflict with profound consequences for the Palestinian people, the Middle East, peace in the world and the conscience of the human race.
Posted by: JB | Aug 11 2024 16:07 utc | 6
@ AI | Aug 11 2024 13:49 utc | 1
Strange, nobody accused the NYPD of being gay when it anal-raped Abner Louima with a broomstick.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 16:17 utc | 7
Posted by: JB | Aug 11 2024 16:07 utc | 6
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Reading your words it seems you support the Zionist regime, their attrocities and genocide.
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 16:17 utc | 8
Reading your words it seems you support the Zionist regime, their attrocities and genocide.
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 16:17 utc | 8
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No.
Reading your words it seems like you were trivializing systematic sexual abuse in Israeli prisons and also using "gay" as a general term of insult---almost jokesy.
I think it has been fairly well established by investigators in various disciplines the rape is not about sex or sexuality but about power and humiliation.
I can't see any reason to call Israel "gay" --- unless perhaps you are an adolescent boy and can't think of a better word to describe the monstrous entity Israel.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 16:39 utc | 9
Funny in an obscure sense that there are people who still are all concerned about Nazi atrocities which occurred some 80 years ago. By contemporary I$raeli standards; the Nazis were mere pikers.
When the majority of a given culture actually approves of anal rape by means of a metal rod, a broomstick or any other unnatural forced entry into the most private part of a human's body...we have to come to the simple conclusion that Talmudist upbringing is utterly toxic and dehumanizes the "Chosen" into a Satanic mob.
Even the Gestapo and the SS never stooped so low as the MAJORITY of those invaders squatting in Occupied Palestine.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 11 2024 17:00 utc | 10
Dr D Rich posted this analysis of Scott Ritter's situation at The Automatic Earth today. Reposting this today on the Palestinian and Ukraine forums as Ritter has surely pissed off tptb on both issues.
"Scott cannot now legally travel anywhere outside the US because the FBI previously seized his passport.
The Deep State’s plan:
1. sieze his passport
2. raid his home and confiscate all his electronics
3.plant kiddie porn on his computer
4.stage a Kafka-esque show trial in a kangaroo court
5. jail him forever based on this bullshit entrapment setup
6.if the public outcry to free him proves too inconvenient, get some ukronazi crim inmate to cut his throat, or maybe we’ll find Scott hanged in mysterious Epstein-like circumstances.
Anybody who thinks due process and justice can prevail in today’s USA is stupid and naive beyond belief. The Deep State has nothing but contempt for ordinary Americans eg. operation Northwoods, and does not hesitate to jail/kill American peacemakets and truthtellers eg. JFK, Gary Webb.
My suggestion to Scott:
1. get your wife and daughters to leave immediately for Georgia (in the Caucuses, not the US).
2.All Scott supporters must find a way to smuggle him to Mexico or preferably to Cuba, or to Venezuela via Mexico
3.Ask Russia for asylum and reunite with his family in St Petersburg or Moscow."
Posted by: morongobill | Aug 11 2024 17:03 utc | 11
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 11 2024 17:00 utc | 10
'joy divisions' don't ring a bell?
The Einsatzgruppen, and in particular the Waffen SS units, did exactly what the IDF is doing. There is nothing special about this. Also nothing special about the solution. The IDF must be destroyed and its leaders put on trial. Then the backers of it need to be hunted down. That's what went wrong after WW2. The rottenfella's and their oligarch friends in the west got away richer after funding the 3rd Reich.
Posted by: badjoke | Aug 11 2024 17:17 utc | 12
Posted by: JB | Aug 11 2024 16:07 utc | 6
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The self-loathing and psychopathic nature of Israel is very tied to how gay it is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 17:22 utc | 13
Posted by: morongobill | Aug 11 2024 17:03 utc | 11
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Scott, Larry, and to a lesser degree Doug McGregor all still believe in American mythology (democracy, "free speech", land of the free, etc). They see honor in going down with the rotten ship.
A shame that none of them believe in a spiritual power higher than America (the idea).
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 17:25 utc | 14
Calling what israel does "Anal Rape" diminishes the act.
Call it what it is. It is torture. Brutal, medieval torture. Wrought on helpless Humans by sick,mindless, evil, souls.
Posted by: golddigger | Aug 11 2024 17:25 utc | 15
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 16:39 utc | 9
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No Miss, I was condemning the actions of the IOF Zionists including anal rape. Unless you are gay or homosexual there is no other explanation or reason to humillate someone like that.
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 17:38 utc | 16
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 16:39 utc | 9
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No Miss, I was condemning the actions of the IOF Zionists including anal rape. Unless you are gay or homosexual there is no other explanation or reason to humillate someone like that.
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 17:38 utc | 16
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No, Mister, this is where you are wrong.
I think I explained it clearly.
So I am not going to waste more time on you and your confusion.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 17:48 utc | 17
Calling what israel does "Anal Rape" diminishes the act.
Call it what it is. It is torture. Brutal, medieval torture. Wrought on helpless Humans by sick,mindless, evil, souls.
Posted by: golddigger | Aug 11 2024 17:25 utc | 15
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Exactly.
And may possibly be chosen because in many cases it may not leave obvious external evidence of torture.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 18:14 utc | 18
With all that the man here describes it is hard to understand why the people like him dont ask for political asylum anywhere, en masse.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-radicalization-of-israels-military
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 11 2024 18:15 utc | 19
This is what the poor Palestinians are up against.
” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after he suggested this week that it might be “justified and moral” to cause 2 million Palestinian civilians to starve to death until Hamas returns Israeli hostages. ”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/09/palestinians-demand-icc-arrest-warrant-for-smotrich/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 11 2024 18:21 utc | 20
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Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 11 2024 18:26 utc | 21
The self-loathing and psychopathic nature of Israel is very tied to how gay it is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 17:22 utc | 13
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Demographic trends suggest that if Occupied Palestine continues to exist for another couple of decades -- god forbid -- then it will become increasingly less gay. The settlers aren't particularly LGBT-sympathetic, and the ultra-Orthodox regard it as an abomination. These are the two fastest-reproducing segments of the population. Who knows? We may well see the reintroduction of Levitican punishment.
I doubt that Occupied Palestine will become less self-loathing and psychopathic as time goes by, gay or no gay.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 18:29 utc | 22
Just repeating the set of local Palestine reporting links...
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 11 2024 18:37 utc | 23
The purposes of Iran’s delayed response is to:
1. Increase its legitimacy by giving Israel more opportunities to show its depravity;
2. Give Iran’s allies time to coordinate their actions;
3. Give Iranian leadership time to define the extent of the response. Contrary to comments made in the Western media, Iran’s new prime minister has no objections to a destructive response. But Prime minister Pezeshkian does support a response over several days as pushed by the IRGC.
My buddy in Tehran tells me the IRGC plan has more support among Iranians… It would involve hundreds of missiles daily over 3-7 days. Most targets would be Mossad and IDF bases of operation. The main economic target still under consideration is the Haifa oil infrastructure because it is easy to hit; it would burn easily for days and would paralyze Israel.
Posted by: Liberator | Aug 11 2024 18:38 utc | 24
My suggestion to Scott:
1. get your wife and daughters to leave immediately for Georgia (in the Caucuses, not the US).
2.All Scott supporters must find a way to smuggle him to Mexico or preferably to Cuba, or to Venezuela via Mexico
3.Ask Russia for asylum and reunite with his family in St Petersburg or Moscow."Posted by: morongobill | Aug 11 2024 17:03 utc | 11
Scott on many occasions refers to himself as a Patriot and and has also stated that he will never seek refuse in a 3rd country.
His point seems to be that he would rather fight for the "good" of America and to "return" it to some previous notion of of it hallowed self then to leave.
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Aug 11 2024 19:03 utc | 25
Exactly.
And may possibly be chosen because in many cases it may not leave obvious external evidence of torture.Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 18:14 utc | 18
... and even worse I think its about destroying the man on a psychological level so that he feels less of a man.
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Aug 11 2024 19:07 utc | 26
Posted by: Liberator | Aug 11 2024 18:38 utc | 24
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4. Give Israel and USA time to become arrogantly confident that the attack is not coming. Let them become complacent. Then whack them when they are not expecting it. And the USA and Israel are spending many tens of millions a day on alert for the attack. The longer the wait, the more they spend. And the anxiety of the wait can't have good mental effects on the Israelis.
All energy production facilities of any kind should be hit. USA will tanker in fuel, but that leaves all kinds of new, and very flammable, targets. Air and sea tankers are REALLY easy targets.
Also wondering if the delay is to get some Russian AA equipment in place. No need to kick off the coming regional war proper until your defences are well set up and reliable.
Or, as some others have suggested, Iran is all bark and no bite. I don't know but it certainly does look that way at times.
Strange world this one.
Posted by: saner | Aug 11 2024 19:33 utc | 27
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 16:39 utc | 9
"I think it has been fairly well established by investigators in various disciplines the rape is not about sex or sexuality but about power and humiliation. "
This is the same tired trope drawn out by feminists since the 70's. Nobody but you actually believes that nonsense. Anyone who has actually studied crime without bearing some ideological cross can see that rape is often about sex. And yes homosexuals are many times more likely to rape, children and otherwise, because of their mental abnormalities. Humans with normal psychology don't spend their time fantasizing about sticking things up someones ass.
Posted by: anonymous | Aug 11 2024 19:37 utc | 28
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 18:29 utc | 22
I believe Israel will ethnically cleanse the WB and Gaze starting with the latter. There is no alternative since almost the entire population of Israel wants it. As Washington weakens Israeli policy will be less guided by fear of offending the Americans. The public in the US is so militantly ignorant that it doesn't matter, the MSM, where most Americans get their Narrative (even if they don't trust it) is controlled by Zionist-centered capital. So there is no force against such an outcome.
As for the rest of the West, they are entirely irrelevant. I believe the deal will be to carry out the ethnic cleansing in exchange for Israel not attacking its neighbors to expand even more and offer the Palestinians sweetheart deals, reperations and so on in moving them outside Israel. I see no other solution other than the destruction of Israel as a Zionist/fascist state and integrating non-barbaric Jews into the general population of a Israel/Palestine state. Two-state solution is utterly out of the question. The other solution is general war in the region and I don't think the finance oligarchs want that because Iran is too powerful at this time. Iran will hunker down for a long war of attrition and Israel will lose even with US help since the US has only air and naval power and, even in those areas it's already in decline.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Aug 11 2024 19:43 utc | 29
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-radicalization-of-israels-military
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 11 2024 18:15 utc | 19
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The New Yorker has been crypto-Zionist ever since David Remnick became the editor there. I couldn't stand it; canceled my sub.
I expect anything they write will be a limited hangout or a retrenchment to some position they think they can hold/defend.
Such as: Things have changed, when it is really plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose--i.e., same old same old.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 19:48 utc | 30
“'joy divisions' don't ring a bell?
The Einsatzgruppen, and in particular the Waffen SS units, did exactly what the IDF is doing.”
Not really.
Those were regulated brothels, the women were forced into “service.”
They were not anal torture to death centers.
Still heinous, but not what the IDF is doing.
Joy Division, great band.
Posted by: Archetypex | Aug 11 2024 19:50 utc | 31
Posted by: Liberator | Aug 11 2024 18:38 utc | 24
I think your comment is credible but if Iran does attack on that level it will bring in the US and who knows who else to attack Iran's bases and the US has the best eyes in the sky, so to speak.
However, Iran will face Israeli attacks not just on military bases but population centers and I doubt the US can stop that. Remember Israel, at this point, does not recognize morality vis a vis non-Jews. A week long missile barrage will bring a fury out of the Zionists that is, therefore, hard to predict. Millions will die and nuclear weapons will be used.
I think Iran is not going to like that possibility. I say they stand down and won't make a huge attack.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Aug 11 2024 19:56 utc | 32
Anyone who has actually studied crime without bearing some ideological cross can see that rape is often about sex. And yes homosexuals are many times more likely to rape, children and otherwise, because of their mental abnormalities. Humans with normal psychology don't spend their time fantasizing about sticking things up someones ass.
Posted by: anonymous | Aug 11 2024 19:37 utc | 28
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Odd.
I don't bear any ideological cross. What makes youi think I do?
Oh, silly me!!
I have a woman's name!
All women are the same!
Barflies often think very stereotypically.
Have you actually studied crime? Please give some details.
If anal rape with a broomstick were about sex and pleasure I should think these Israeli "heros" would be using their penises, not a broomstick. Videos of these sessions have been circulated (I couldn't look at them myself). Did these show the torturers enjoying sexual pleasure? Or were they high-fiving with their pals as they tortured a Pal?
This has to be sadistic pleasure at causing pain, not sexual.
Also I read somewhere, perhaps in a comment here, that some women soldiers engage in these acts of torture.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 19:59 utc | 33
Luv to see Smotrich captured and put on trial for crimes against humanity.
Posted by: librul | Aug 11 2024 20:18 utc | 34
Col Douglas MacGregor seems to be tweeting
any moment now Iran is responding...so George Galloway said on his MOATS broadcast 7pm UK time
Posted by: Jo | Aug 11 2024 20:24 utc | 35
This has to be sadistic pleasure at causing pain, not sexual.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 19:59 utc | 33
I'm sorry, but "sadism" is outright defined as a sexual perversion.
Posted by: Tichy | Aug 11 2024 20:29 utc | 36
Oh, silly me!!
I have a woman's name!
All women are the same!
Barflies often think very stereotypically.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 19:59 utc | 33
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Rule #30. "There are no girls on the internet"
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 20:30 utc | 37
Important to consider geopolitical connections and shifts as providing some context to current events in the Middle East. US is currently in a never before occurring interregnum with a president who may or may not be alive, but at any rate is non compos mentis and the vice president absent campaigning. Are Klain, Blinken, Sullivan, Garland and Mayorkas running the country? Inquiring minds are suggesting that some of these coordinate closely with Zelensky and Netanyahu and their respective war cabinets. Which would suggest the possibility that actions on both fronts are carefully calibrated so as to achieve common goals - thus, when Netanyahu is under high levels of pressure after taking a step too far in the assassination of the principal Hamas negotiator, while violating the sovereignty of a very powerful country, Zelensky concurrently moves forward to Kursk. All designed to continually provoke Russia and/or Iran into the intemperate moves so characteristic of the Axis of the West. Very speculative but the sequences of action appear to be those of a "system" whose nodes reflect carefully coordinated affiliation. As well as carefully shared outlook, which encompasses some unfortunately very large blind spots.
Posted by: abierno | Aug 11 2024 20:38 utc | 38
Posted by: Jo | Aug 11 2024 20:24 utc | 35
Isn't it past 7 PM London time now?
Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 11 2024 20:38 utc | 39
Rule #30. "There are no girls on the internet"
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 20:30 utc | 37
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Rule #31: Grow up.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 20:45 utc | 40
It's like Israel has turned into a Lil Naz X satanic video in real-life.
Posted by: Al Balog | Aug 11 2024 20:49 utc | 41
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 19:59 utc | 33
"I don't bear any ideological cross. What makes youi think I do?"
Your parroting of a feminist talking point was a big hint.
"Oh, silly me!!
I have a woman's name!"
There are no women on the internet. Furthermore, you don't have to be one to share that viewpoint.
Posted by: anonymous | Aug 11 2024 20:49 utc | 42
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 20:45 utc | 40
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Being humorless doesn't become you, even if it is very "on-brand".
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 20:50 utc | 43
I'm sorry, but "sadism" is outright defined as a sexual perversion.
Posted by: Tichy | Aug 11 2024 20:29 utc | 36
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That’s true only if you subscribe to a quasi-Freudian notion that everything is sexual. Otherwise there would seem to be no end to the varieties of sadism that lack a sexual motivation. One can, for instance, pull wings off flies without having any desire to perform a sex act with them.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 20:52 utc | 44
rulz -1
Ya canna' tell the difference:
https://www.rt.com/news/602417-no-way-distinguish-man-woman-ioc/
Posted by: Fubar el Haq | Aug 11 2024 20:52 utc | 45
Israel issued order for all IDF soldiers to leave Azerbaijan Republic and Georgiahttps://t.me/ResistanceTrench/29931
Barak Ravid, an Israeli reporter for the Axios website, quoted two informed sources as saying: Israel's intelligence community believes Iran has decided to directly attack Israel and that the attack could last for days.https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/29932
Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 11 2024 21:06 utc | 46
@Jane | Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:39:00 GMT | 9
I think it has been fairly well established by investigators in various disciplines the rape is not about sex or sexuality but about power and humiliation.
This is true. I'd like to give my own argument on it here.
Sex is not simply about body-to-body encounter. From a metaphysical viewpoint, our bodies somehow seem to stick to our mind and soul, rather than the other way round.
From this follows that the encounter is primarily one of person-to-person, which may or may not include touch. Even being sexy does not necessarily involve touch, shared fantasies are beautiful.
So desire, if it is longing to be with a person, includes the presence (though not necessarily physically at one moment) of that person as a condition for its fulfillment. Everything else is not truly it.
Sexual encounter is, in that sense, a bit like the Ourorobos, the circle of two snakes each biting the other's end. It is a self-reinforcing loop of ongoing encounter of self and other. It is about kindness, trust and understanding.
All these things are not present (actually neglected and suppressed) in a rape, so rape does not qualify as a sexual encounter; it is something else.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 11 2024 21:17 utc | 47
Got caught :-(
"In a complex process.
After difficult intelligence efforts,
the occupation police announced in a statement the thwarting of an operation to smuggle 10 chickens from the West Bank to the Jerusalem area"
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/64590
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 11 2024 21:27 utc | 48
The situation in the world is truly sick, but sometimes you have to have a giggle.
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/29860
Posted by: saner | Aug 11 2024 21:28 utc | 49
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a big elephant in the room sabbatai zvi jacob frank the synagogue of satan ritual slaughter
maria ambrovieitch jacob roth in front of a painting with title lucifer summoning up the legions
all of them witches in lock step even trump says get the job done
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying
Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore
Posted by: helmut | Aug 11 2024 21:43 utc | 50
Azerbaijan media has reported that "Israeli soldiers on holiday" have been recalled to Israel.
This is of course complete BS and is hiding the truth that the Mosssad and IDF airbase (officially Azerbaijani) is likely to be hit by Iran and there is no adequate defence, hence withdrawal.
Also, the well known Israeli drone based in Georgia is also being evacuated.
Israeli media have now confirmed that "Soldiers on holiday in Georgia and Azerbaijan have been recalled".
They would not flee like this unless they had intel Iran was going to hit them and soon.
Posted by: From Azerbaijan | Aug 11 2024 21:54 utc | 51
Anal rape by Israelis is deliberately breaking the most fundamental rules of Islam. The reason for doing it maybe that Jews don't like their own religion's endless , meaningless rules, and they want Muslims to hate their religion as well.
Allah forgives any forbidden act that is committed by force . Allah doesn't forgive the Jews following a made-up set of rules that cancels every human being who isn't a Jew.
Laysa ba'ada kufri dhamb.
Rejection of God is the greatest of sins, greater by far than what us humans see as appalling, such as the burning of humans by huge , burning explosives or shoving objects up them.
In fact , the Jews know that their rejection of His prophets 'Eesa AS and Muhammad SAW, is their worst sin.
They are simply defying God for taking Palestine from them.
So Jews raping Muslims is neither sexual nor torture. For Jews It is defiance of God, which is , they know, the one sin God doesn't forgive.
Is it a good idea to blatantly defy your Creator ? Are they waiting for some Biblical portent to devour them?
Not going to happen.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 11 2024 22:12 utc | 52
That’s true only if you subscribe to a quasi-Freudian notion that everything is sexual. Otherwise there would seem to be no end to the varieties of sadism that lack a sexual motivation. One can, for instance, pull wings off flies without having any desire to perform a sex act with them.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 20:52 utc | 44
'Quasi-Freudian' seems like one of those terms that disparages without it having any actual meaning. If you would define the term, I might try to address it, but my guess is that it's a throw-away like... calling someone 'gay.'
As for the relationship between sadism and power, that of course is inherent in the term. However this does not diminish the distinction between actual sadism and plain vanilla psychopathic and/or sociopathic cruelty. Sadism is not about cruelty per se, it is about taking sexual pleasure from cruelty. As such, one might argue about whether the Israeli guards are sadists or not, but if they are, it might well have a complex link to repressed homosexual urges.
Also worth noting- arousal states share a lot of the same features, and there's an evolutionary link between sexual arousal and many forms of aggression, because in less civilized times males who weren't aggressive had considerably fewer offspring. I am not suggesting that all men are rapists, but any kind of physiological arousal can lead to sexual arousal absent inhibiting factors. Endorphins be endorphins.
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 11 2024 22:37 utc | 53
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This whole forcing their way onto Palestine is a spiritual crime.
All Religious Jews know that, but some Khazar Jews maybe don't know that, but see barging into Palestine as pure grift crime.
Certainly the Ukrainian Nazis of Likud , like Smotrich, see Zionism as a form.of colonialism, not as a spiritual rejection of God. These people are constantly trying to persuade the religious Jews that it's not a spiritual crime of defiance of God to be a Zionist.
Like populist Boris Johnson he's doing a fine job of persuading religious Jews to abandon their religion of tolerance and get Brexit, sorry, Genocide, done.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 11 2024 22:43 utc | 54
"Your parroting of a feminist talking point was a big hint."
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What does what some feminists say about some heterosexual relationships or encounters have to do with Israeli soldiers anally group-raping other men with broomsticks?
I guess it means that all Israeli soldiers are sex-starved and they satisfy their needs with broomsticks.
If this is "sex," I wonder what their wives and girl friends think of this.
If the torture is just in the line of duty, just doing a job, that is prolly OK. Wish I were a fly on the wall to hear the pillow talk.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 22:44 utc | 55
Being humorless doesn't become you, even if it is very "on-brand".
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2024 20:50 utc | 43
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Poor Donbass.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 22:48 utc | 56
Too much about the inside & out about how sex works in the comments.
All I can say is that we're dealing with the part of the world where Sodom & Gomorrah happened.
“Therefore, I will bring upon you all the disasters I have announced. Prepare to meet your God in judgment, you people of Israel!” Amos 4:12
Posted by: Al Balog | Aug 11 2024 23:22 utc | 57
I don't know, I just feel like this conflict is some sort of Biblical prophecy where it won't look good for the Zionists.
I don't have a dog in this fight (I'm definitely not a Hamas fan), but speaking as a neutral outsider, I think it's expected that Israel falls in some way & that these people are related to ancient people who did gay versions of Hitler/Tojo style war crimes.
Posted by: Al Balog | Aug 11 2024 23:27 utc | 58
anyone remember reading about some the american colonialists intentionally spreading disease/s among the Native American tribes during those genocidal days?
imagine some of what 2.2 Million poor Palestinians are suffering in Gaza right now....
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1822670393586692310
Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
This report is a tacit admission that Israel is spreading disease among the general population in Gaza by bombing their hospitals & water treatment facilities
And it contains no mention of sexual abuse, undermining Israel’s propaganda, even as it is deployed to distract from documented evidence that Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinian prisoners
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1822634699186913482
Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas
Doctors who treated former Israeli hostages shared insights into the horrific conditions in Gaza captivity:
Blood tests showed they had been exposed to a range of diseases, including typhus and spotted fever.
Many were experiencing head lice due to poor hygiene conditions, including a lack of running water.....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 11 2024 23:27 utc | 59
Journalist Youssef Fares
"Hezbollah: In response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe houses, especially in the town of Ma’roub, on Monday 8/12/2024, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance bombed the new headquarters of the 146th Division’s command in Jatoun with a barrage of Katyusha rockets."
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/64601
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/64600
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 11 2024 23:28 utc | 60
Rockets launched from S Lebanon
Iron Dome fails
https://x.com/i/status/1822773547111940110
Posted by: ld | Aug 11 2024 23:38 utc | 61
"What does what some feminists say about some heterosexual relationships or encounters have to do with Israeli soldiers anally group-raping other men with broomsticks?"
"I guess it means that all Israeli soldiers are sex-starved and they satisfy their needs with broomsticks."
Is it even technically correct to call it "anal rape" when broomsticks or other objects are violently inserted into someone's anus for the purpose of torture? Isn't rape itself explicitly defined by the insertion of a penis? Asking anyone here.
Posted by: Wisco | Aug 11 2024 23:40 utc | 62
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 16:17 utc | 7
Wasn’t the NYPD deployed to DC for Netanyahu’s disgusting speech? Am definitely not the smartest, but do seem to remember DC not being in New York. NYPD may not be the best example for what you are trying to say.
Posted by: eman | Aug 11 2024 23:41 utc | 63
This is of course complete BS and is hiding the truth that the Mosssad and IDF airbase (officially Azerbaijani) is likely to be hit by Iran and there is no adequate defence, hence withdrawal.
Also, the well known Israeli drone based in Georgia is also being evacuated.
Israeli media have now confirmed that "Soldiers on holiday in Georgia and Azerbaijan have been recalled".
They would not flee like this unless they had intel Iran was going to hit them and soon.
Posted by: From Azerbaijan | Aug 11 2024 21:54 utc | 51
Thanks, I have been wondering about that. I thought that Azerbaijan might be implicated in the Haniyeh killing, perhaps Raisi too.
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 11 2024 23:44 utc | 64
@ Wisco | Aug 11 2024 23:40 utc | 62
I’m quite sure that there’s a universally accepted “explicit definition” of the term rape.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 23:45 utc | 65
Jane 55
As it happens , in this hot weather, I have a fly on my bedroom wall which is bugging me. Obviously not sent by you Jane. I hope I'm not completely bonkers.
I was petrified by covid. So many projects I wanted to finish, which thanks be to Allah, I am now finishing. Then to find it was all planned and organised by the State Dept for Defence , it gave purpose and meaning to my paranoias.
One of which is that the purpose of people doing disgusting and evil things is to divert attention from another thing, maybe a US financial crisis or maybe a terrible realisation by USUKIS that multipolarity has arrived.
The Israelis thought Uncle Sam would take out Iran for them but Uncle Sam said No because Putin and Xi would take action.
Sexuality is definitely linked to frustration. So these appalling rapes may be part of a sudden realisation by Israelis , male and female, that they are on their own. Uncle Sam has neither the power nor the pocket to do anything to help anyone.
Then , if there's a banking crash instead of a genocide, and Israel backs down, Israelis going to get a thrashing by the Muslims.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 11 2024 23:47 utc | 66
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 23:45 utc | 65
Thanks. Not sure how "universal" the following definition is, but my thoughts on it expressed above in #62 were wrong:
From dictionary.com:
"noun. unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the person subjected to such penetration. sexual assault."
By this definition, it seems to me it would be necessary to prove that the IDF or prison guards who inserted the broomsticks or whatever into the Palestinian prisoners did it at least partly for sexual reasons, in order for the term "anal rape" to be applied to these actions of undeniably brutal torture.
Posted by: Wisco | Aug 12 2024 0:25 utc | 67
imagine the outcry in the West and from its tightly-controlled propaganda Media if this very thing happened to israel and its population of some 9.5 million.
At least 760,000 of them would now be dead or dying within the next few months from all the bombing, lack of medical care, starvation and disease!
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-07-31/death-toll-gaza-lie/
Gaza’s official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher
The figures have been stalled for months. That serves Israel’s interests by lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency
"....So, even by the simplest calculation, there is a large shortfall in deaths – a shortfall that needs explaining.
Such an explanation is easy to provide: Israel destroyed Gaza’s institutions and its medical infrastructure, including its hospitals, many months ago, making it impossible for officials there to keep track of how many Palestinians are being killed by Israel.
The death toll figures started to stall in the spring, around the time Israel completed its destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and kidnapped much of the enclave’s medical personnel.
More than a month ago, Save the Children pointed out that some 21,000 children in Gaza were missing, in addition to the 16,000 known to have been killed by Israel......
....The linear figure entirely misses the bigger picture. How?
1. Because in addition to the continuing Israeli bombardments, Palestinians have had to endure three more months of an intensifying famine. With each day of a famine, more people die than died the day before. The deaths in a famine are not linear, they are exponential. If 5 people died yesterday of starvation, 20 people will die today, and 150 tomorrow. That is how prolonged famines work.....
2. Because Palestinians have had three more months deprived of medical care after Israel destroyed their hospitals and medical institutions...
5. Because we know that – given the insanitary conditions, the lack of water and food, the weakened health status of the population, and the destruction of hospitals – epidemics now are breaking out.....
....A letter from researchers to the Lancet medical journal this month warned about the likely massive undercount of the dead in Gaza, even relying, as they had to, on the established death toll.
Their point was that indirect deaths – of the kind I enumerate above – need to be factored in as well as the direct deaths from Israeli bombs.....not just from bombs but as a result of the lack of medical care, insanitary conditions and famine – is 186,000, or 8 per cent of the population....
....The medical researchers suggest a less conservative estimate could ultimately put the death toll in Gaza nearer 600,000, or a quarter of the population. Again, that assumes Israel reverses course immediately...."
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 12 2024 0:37 utc | 68
Is it even technically correct to call it "anal rape" when broomsticks or other objects are violently inserted into someone's anus for the purpose of torture? Isn't rape itself explicitly defined by the insertion of a penis? Asking anyone here.
Posted by: Wisco | Aug 11 2024 23:40 utc | 62
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I agree with Golddigger---torture, not "rape":
Calling what israel does "Anal Rape" diminishes the act.
Call it what it is. It is torture. Brutal, medieval torture. Wrought on helpless Humans by sick,mindless, evil, souls.
Posted by: golddigger | Aug 11 2024 17:25 utc | 15
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I have no idea how the "anal rape" phrase came into being. Probably invented by some with cognitive limitation who analogize the anus with the vagina.
Rape is an assault on a woman via her genitalia.
Or an assault on a male using male genitalia as the assault weapon.
If someone sticks a broomstick up a woman's anus I very much doubt that that would be considered either a sexual act or rape.
It would be plain torture.
Same for a male.
That's my take.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 12 2024 0:38 utc | 69
Quds News Network
@QudsNen
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Breaking | Israeli occupation aircraft target the home of Jamil Mazhar, Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1822726331773169889/photo/1
Posted by: ld | Aug 12 2024 1:02 utc | 70
@ eman | Aug 11 2024 23:41 utc | 63
Yes, they were there according to Max Blumenthall who jested them by inquiring, “Can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building?” Or some such quip.
Posted by: suzan | Aug 12 2024 1:10 utc | 71
This has been a difficult day as i have been unable to get anything done, a preoccupation not even settled by beer is how bad it is.
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 12 2024 1:13 utc | 72
72 Simon Crow
Try to be calm and focus! It's summertime, watch for sunburns & moskits.
Posted by: NJH | Aug 12 2024 1:30 utc | 73
see the video in the second one by Richard Medhurst
https://x.com/wallacemick/status/1822599203178049585
Mick Wallace @wallacemick
President @vonderleyen says we have 'shared values' with Israel - Fascism lies at the heart of the #EU...
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1822283639691833526
Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst
When you're a child, you find it confusing or a bit of an exaggeration why people call America the "great Satan". Then you grow up.
An inferno. 100 people blown to pieces by the West and their Israeli colony.
https://x.com/tastefullysaucy/status/1822714217859789102
inqilāb @tastefullysaucy
In the last 10 months, Israel has dropped more tons of bombs on Gaza than were dropped on London, Hiroshima, and Dresden combined during World War II.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 12 2024 1:37 utc | 74
Dr Mads Gilbert post
Please please watch it
https://x.com/i/status/1822378753252859933
Posted by: ld | Aug 12 2024 1:52 utc | 75
@NJH
Thanks for a really good chuckle.
The moskits might be a welcome sight!
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 12 2024 1:56 utc | 76
michaelj72 - That is an amazing stat......more bomb tonnage dropped on Gaza urban homes, and apartment houses and hospitals and aid stations, and water and sewer infrastructure and churches and food warehouses then dropped on London and Hiroshima and Dresden combined.......this illustrates the level of depravity and war criminality of the Bibi War Cabinet and the IDF in general.
Over 240000 Gaza civilians murdered, maimed or missing as the result of IDF actions in Gaza and the West Bank.
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Aug 12 2024 2:11 utc | 77
I watched it.
I couldn't watch it again.
We are witnessing the bald face of tyranny stripped of its mask.
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 12 2024 2:11 utc | 78
More than likely the IRGC and Hezbollah and the Houthis are preping for a multi day attack on the IDF and Israeli infrastructure, and Haifa is the vulnerable key target here, with its in oil refinery and vast oil tank farms, and its large port full of important targets.
Most likely the IRGC, Hezollah and the Houthis are also gearing up their AA capacities, in conjunction with their Russian allies. The Syrians too will be upgrading their AA facilities, because while not directly involved in the hostilities they will be targeted the IDF in axiomatic fashion. The interesting conflict point here is to observe as to whether the IDF will challenge the Russian naval and airbase defenses near Latkia when the attacks begin...... will S400 system be used against IDF aircraft?
In the meantime this interlude has caused massive damage to the Israeli economy ..... the tourism industry has collapsed in total, air traffic has largely been halted, shipping insurance rates to Israeli ports have quadrupled, most shipping lines are refusing to ship during the current crisis. Agricultural products in the north of the Galilee Valley rot in the fields. Not a good situation, with no end in sight. No ceasefire no peace........
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Aug 12 2024 2:27 utc | 79
Torturing brown men is a routine, everyday nothing to the Empire. But rape, that is a real crime because that is what brown and black men do to white women.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 12 2024 2:37 utc | 80
Snipers at Work – Resistance Roundup – Day 310
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/snipers-at-work-resistance-roundup-day-310/
Comment - southern front , resistance appears to be targeting troops carriers and IFVs rather than MBTs these days. Al-Quds takes control of IDF drone and captures it. Northern Front - Lebanese make 9 strikes. Couple of videos.
‘Far from Victory’ – Israeli Officers Challenge Claims of Victory in Gaza in Open Letter
Comment - the underground fortress continues to be intact
Posted by: Exile | Aug 12 2024 2:38 utc | 81
Isreal is not "gay" it is Insane which explains the the nature of the kabalistic death cult they live in. They believe, really believe that the creator of the Universe has chosen them to rule the world and they can "utterly destroy" every other living thing not of the Tribe. The rabbi's "hear" voices giving them instructions within their bi-polar ill warped minds. In reality what they are hearing is the left hemisphere of what remains of their malfuctioning brain communicating with the right side hemisphere. They are mentally ill and the evidence of this is exposed in the barbarism toward all other humans including the few sane but doomed jews in the stolen land promised by the creator of the Universe. 11,33,23,8,3,2,5 They also firmly believe everything in this world belongs to them or else....
Posted by: Stritchplatte | Aug 12 2024 2:43 utc | 82
We are about to learn a new word in Iran's military dictionary
Posted by: Mary | Aug 11 2024 16:06 utc | 5
Thanks Mary. In a similar vein, Russia has taught me a new military terminology too. SMO - what a wonderful concept.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 12 2024 2:53 utc | 83
rulz -1
Ya canna' tell the difference:
https://www.rt.com/news/602417-no-way-distinguish-man-woman-ioc/
Posted by: Fubar el Haq | Aug 11 2024 20:52 utc | 45
rulz - #2
NHS to test men for pregnancy
https://phescreening.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/13/pregnant-men-best-care/
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 12 2024 3:04 utc | 84
Shared Values ?
Civilian Officials and Polticians in the EU and US will certainty be indicted and tried for supporting ,plausible, genocide ( ICJ decisions this Jan, Feb, and April) and Apartheid (ICJ Advisory Opinion a few weeks ago).
One can predict that these genocide enablers will be required to pay immense fines as part of restitution. Von der Leyen’s fortune (gained through colonial era slave trading ) will be a juicy target for lawfare.
This is stone cold serious. crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations.
The constellation of forces has changed.
Posted by: Exile | Aug 12 2024 3:06 utc | 85
Posted by: Jane | Aug 11 2024 16:39 utc | 9
Sexuality within patriarchal societies is inextricably riddled with the assertion of and submission to power.
Only need to look at Hollywood's production of stereotypes to see that.
Rape is an extreme expression of this cultural standard from a standpoint position ranging from confidently assumed power to wielding it in desperate absence of the actual thing.
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 3:14 utc | 86
Int. Medical Student Association suspends 'Israel' amid Gaza genocide
Posted by: Exile | Aug 12 2024 3:19 utc | 87
In real news, Hezbollah has bombarded the Ga atun base housing the 146th division HQ.
Additionally, Israeli Media: Unusual and abnormal bombing of the Western Galilee. Major attack by Hezbollah.
Magen David Adom is on alert after receiving calls about injuries in various areas in Nahariya.
Loud explosions heard in eastern region of Acre city following Hezbollah’s rocket attack. At least 5 rocket impacts in Nahariya. The Iron dome failed to intercept them, amid Israel’s high preparedness. Reminder: Each Iron Dome Interceptor missile (Tamir) can cost up to $100,000, and they're being used to shoot down $300 Katyusha rockets..... and missing most of them.
US Department of Defense: Austin informs his Israeli counterpart that he ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to speed up its arrival to the Middle East —Skynews Arabiya
Israeli intelligence believes that Hezbollah will strike on August 12, and a few hours later Iran will launch its attack - CNN.
Israeli media: "Tel Aviv" promotes lies that no one believes anymore.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-28/ty-article/.premium/after-years-of-deceit-and-manipulation-no-one-believes-netanyahu-anymore/00000187-28b2-d6f0-af9f-79f62c3b0000
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 12 2024 3:23 utc | 88
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2024 20:52 utc | 44
Erotic pleasure in such behaviours can and would most usually be auto-erotic, not interactive.
The acts of sadism engage pleasure centres and endocrinal responses similar to those activated within 'normal' sexual activity.
The definition of 'sexual' becomes the vital determinant.
Is it the physical purpose and form of the action, procreation / direct stimulation of the relevant organs, or is it the underlying body/metaphysical mechanisms that are being engaged?
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 3:26 utc | 89
It is about kindness, trust and understanding.
All these things are not present (actually neglected and suppressed) in a rape, so rape does not qualify as a sexual encounter; it is something else.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 11 2024 21:17 utc | 47
If sex is wholly about kindness, trust and understanding then it barely exists within any patriarchal society, and certainly not in Western society as typified by Hollywoods power saturated stereotypes.
I fully agree with your expressed ideal however I think you're over-romanticising an essentially biology function.
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 3:30 utc | 90
Could Iran be waiting for jewed-up AmeriKKKa's Salvation Navy to get within rocket range?
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 12 2024 3:39 utc | 91
From Al Manar TV
The group’s military media issued a series of statements outlining the attacks and their outcomes:First Operation
The initial statement reported that on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at 7:30 a.m., Islamic Resistance fighters directly hit the Al-Marj Israeli occupation site with artillery shells.
Second Operation
The second statement stated that at 9:15 a.m., the group’s fighters targeted a position of Zionist soldiers at the Al-Raheb Israeli occupation site with precise weaponry, hitting it directly.
Third Operation
The third report confirmed that at 10:50 am on Sunday, Hezbollah fighters targeted and successfully struck a gathering of Zionist soldiers in the vicinity of the Birkat Risha site with rockets.
Fourth Operation
According to the fourth statement, at 11:10 a.m., the group’s fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Meitat barracks with rockets, achieving precise hits.
Fifth Operation
According to the fourth statement, at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, the group’s fighters used an attack drone to successfully target and destroy the spy equipment at the Al-Malkiyeh Israeli site.
Sixth Operation
At 3:05 p.m., Islamic Resistance fighters targeted and directly destroyed the spy equipment at the Ruwaisat al-Alam Israeli site in the occupied Kfar Shuba hills, as per the sixth statement.
Seventh Operation
Hezbollah’s seventh operation of the day occurred at 4:22 p.m., when fighters struck the Ruwaisat al-Alam Israeli site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shouba Hills with rockets, hitting it directly.
Eighth Operation
Hezbollah’s valiant fighters also struck on Sunday a positioning point of enemy soldiers in the Al-Malkiyeh Israeli site with an attack drone, which hit it directly.
Latest rumor is Iran strikes on the 12th
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 12 2024 3:42 utc | 92
Posted by: suzan | Aug 12 2024 1:10 utc | 71
Heard that on the Judge Napolitano podcast:) Think he is awesome as well as his guests. God bless.
Posted by: eman | Aug 12 2024 3:43 utc | 93
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 3:30 utc | 90
...an essentially biological function.
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 3:49 utc | 94
the neo-con imperialists in the USA are really ramping up things in the Middle East at fever pitch. they will be defeated.
the two devils spoke on the phone:
"...The decision followed a conversation between Austin and Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant...."
if the USA actually intervenes and attacks Iran directly, or tries to destroy Hezbollah/Lebanon, boy, a lot of their ships are going to the bottom of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean sea
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-accelerates-military-deployment-to-middle-east--pentagon
US accelerates military deployment to Middle East: Pentagon
"...US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to accelerate its arrival in the region amid escalating tensions, Reuters reported. This move was disclosed by the Pentagon on Sunday, marking a rare public disclosure of submarine movements.
The decision followed a conversation between Austin and Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant....."
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 12 2024 3:54 utc | 95
Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 12 2024 3:39 utc | 91
Theres something going on. US have signed a Minsk type agreement to mostly leave Iraq I think sometime late 2025, full withdrawal 2026.
As most here would be aware, anything the Empire of Lies signs is not worth the paper it is written on. Russian heavy transport flights, Russian EW systems popping up in Iran....
Something going on. Probably not a good idea to be an american grunt in that part of the world at the moment.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 12 2024 3:58 utc | 96
Several comments here are about Scott Ritter; we all know how passionate Scott is about being an American, a truly patriotic citizen.
The attack against him is to silence him quickly, because he is one of the people who try to organize a rally in late September, 28th if I recall correctly - a rally which is supposed to help voters to chose in the coming elections. It is another quasi 'decapitation' strategy...
Posted by: fanto | Aug 12 2024 4:03 utc | 97
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 11 2024 23:44 utc | 64
Had the thought that maybe Raisi was “accidented” as a way to be able to target Haniyeh where he was.
Posted by: eman | Aug 12 2024 4:20 utc | 98
I am sick and tired of the arguments about broomsticks and anal rape and so on. Why should I care about the technicalities of such peculiar behavior?
Much more important is the likelihood of yet more horrid wars on the immediate horizon. 'Israel' may not economically survive these wars, largely because about 80% of the 'Israeli' population has somehow driven itself totally insane. I find it very distressing that people can do this to themselves, but history appears to show that it happens quite often. Maybe it could be called 'mass formation'. Monday 8/12/24 could be a very dismal day.
Posted by: blues | Aug 12 2024 4:48 utc | 99
Posted by: blues | Aug 12 2024 4:48 utc | 99
You neither have to care about them nor read them.
Neither do you need to impose your values of merit and priority on others who, in their own ways, trying to understand the basis of the atrocities being witnessed.
To be brutally incisive it matters not shit to the impending course and momentum of events underway what any of us here clatter away about it on our keyboards. That is so whether the focus be blow by blow didactic accounts of physical events or attempts at fathoming the strategic or metaphysical genesis of those particular events.
The essence of our participation here is as humans trying to come to terms with unbelievably extreme acts of inhumanity. In practical terms, it really is no less and no more than that. Try to have some insight into the overall breadth of circumstance and not just your own proclivities.
Posted by: Greg | Aug 12 2024 5:17 utc | 100
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Most IOF soldiers enjoy anal gang rape against innocent Palestinians held hostage and under siege in illegal prisons in the region and without due process. The Zionist state supports this policy according to locals. How gay is Israel?
Posted by: AI | Aug 11 2024 13:49 utc | 1