The Iron Dome is penetrable.
The Islamic Republic of Iran about to be ready.
The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Jordan and NATO – are on high [alert].
“They” could theoretically be unable to defend themselves against thousands of Iranian medium-range cruise missiles and long-range ballistic missiles, and Iran’s effective drones could bypass air defense systems.

Posted by: AI | Aug 22 2024 10:48 utc | 4

A scathing encapsulation of the ‘essense’ of the genocide and Israelis
https://www.unz.com/imercer/de-sade-at-sde-teiman-when-genocide-snuff-films-extra-judicial-assassinations-rape-are-de-facto-legal/

Posted by: ld | Aug 22 2024 11:29 utc | 6

“Joyful warrior,” the new joyfully lethal missile system brought to you by Raytheon
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 22 2024 11:05 utc | 5
What kind of people must these Arabs be if new missiles need to be developed to kill them?

If the best the American arsenal has failed, thus far, against them then how much more “missile” do they need to finish the job?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 22 2024 11:34 utc | 8

If you vote for Republicans or Democrats then you vote in support of Genocide.

Posted by: librul | Aug 22 2024 12:29 utc | 10

Israel is building a second corridor across Gaza. Below is part of an article on The Cradle; they include a link to a twitter briefing that has satellite images and maps. This is some of what the US is funding. Link to the full Cradle article at the end of the excerpt.
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Satellite images reveal Israel building new land corridor inside Gaza: Report
Satellite imagery analyzed by the Forensic Architecture research group reveals the building of a new Israeli army land corridor east of Gaza City in the northern strip since November. 
Our analysis of satellite imagery from Nov 2023 – Jul 2024 reveals evidence of a new Israeli military corridor east of Gaza City. This new corridor is the second Israeli-built east-west passage through Gaza, after the so-called ‘Netzarim Corridor’. These corridors are infrastructural indications of an intended permanent Israeli military presence in the northern parts of the occupied Gaza Strip. [see brief video on twitter]:
https://x.com/ForensicArchi/status/1825937603557732593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1825937603557732593%7Ctwgr%5Ec1b93810c4904c9d1d0680182e5a7196019859bf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecradle.co%2Farticles-id%2F26528
[…] The new corridor east of Gaza City is located near the town of Beit Hanoun, according to Forensic Architecture. 
Farms and orchards belonging to the displaced Abu Suffiyeh family, as well as homes, have been cleared out by Israeli forces for the establishment of this new corridor, which began in November. The road provides Israel with direct access to Gaza City. 
Netanyahu confirmed in November that Israel plans an “indefinite” military and security presence in Gaza. 
This indefinite presence is also part of Netanyahu’s “day-after” plan for the strip. 
https://thecradle.co/articles/satellite-images-reveal-israel-building-new-land-corridor-inside-gaza-report
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Posted by: teri | Aug 22 2024 13:20 utc | 12

The London O2 Arena has apologised after denying a man entry to a show for wearing a “Free Gaza” t-shirt.
The O2 can hold up to 20,000 people and has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in Britain.
A video has recently gone viral of security stopping a fan and his partner at the arena’s entrance at a stand-up comedy show last Saturday, telling him he would need to “get another t-shirt”.
The footage shows the man asking staff whether he could turn the shirt inside out – to which staff said no.
“This is crazy,” his partner said. “He can’t even turn it inside out and wear it backwards?”
Video footage shows venue staff telling the couple that the O2 is “not a political venue”.
The performer was Peter Kay, an English stand-up comedian and actor who has not publicly commented on Israel’s war on Gaza.
According to the Daily Mail, O2 bosses have admitted that “entry should have been granted” to the couple, saying that security “made a judgement call and got it wrong” and apologising “for any offense and upset”.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Aug 22 2024 13:57 utc | 14

My ongoing question has been the effect of drone warfare,defensively on the battlefield. It is growing exponentially, as far as I can see. Any references for that would be great. As far as I can tell, The greatest developments have been on tight battlefield conditions. But how are they employed with the broad hi speed incursion that Ukraine is exercising in this Kursk region? How do you measure weakness for strength in offensive versus defensive conditions on the open field? My belief has always been “NATO“ entire strategies are about testing all the shit at the expense of expandable Ukrainian troops? Russia didn’t have the goods to defend against it under these circumstances. Just left Ukrainians opportunity of racing in with conventional equipment and overcoming large spaces?

Posted by: The beek | Aug 22 2024 14:18 utc | 16

““The use of assassinations is a step threatening to ignite the entire Middle East, decided upon by the three pyromaniacs, Netanyahu, Gallant and Chief of Staff Halevi, without thinking about the significance of their irresponsible decisions,” he stated.” Says Brick in Haaretz
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/sinking-deeper-into-gazan-mud-general-brick-predicts-israels-collapse-within-a-year/

Posted by: Minaa | Aug 22 2024 14:34 utc | 18

sean the leprechaun 17
Are sure that Israelis want the land, rather than just to take out their pent up rage of thousands of years of anti semitism in Europe against unrelated neighbours.
I ask because of your Irishness. Some English people took the land in Ireland , but mostly the Brits wanted to scapegoat the Irish Catholics in revenge for thousand years of being bullied by Italian Popes.
Forgive my ignorance , but this genocide in Palestine looks to me like kicking the Palestinians for centuries of being persecuted in Europe.
The settlers will end up being like the Anglo-Irish, mad, hated, and not very rich.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 22 2024 14:49 utc | 20

“DNC attendees cover their ears as the names of dead Palestinian children are read as they leave the convention.” Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 22 2024 10:02 utc | 1
The one woman even mouthed “la la la” the universal “I can’t heeeeeeeeeeear yooooooou”
Revolting.

Posted by: Share | Aug 22 2024 15:10 utc | 22

All western governments under the nato banner seem to have no autonomy when it comes to anything that counts.
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 22 2024 14:39 utc | 19
Now we who live in the West, have seen the true nature of the bogus product that the West is peddling under the guise of ‘democracy’ in a very blatant way.
I think the basis of the battle that China, Russia and the so called BRICS are fighting.
They are fighting not to be like us.
They still not give up their autonomy.
Because once a country is ‘westernised’, it falls into the same horrible state that our country is in.
The Zionists, oligarchs and the military-industrial complex have virtually seized every resource and major discourse in our country, and when we ask, ‘Isn’t what Israel and the West are doing to the Palestinians genocide?’ and we are marginalised in every way possible when we ask.
It is the mad West that has been saying that this rotten social structure is to be spread around the world as a ‘democratic model for the all world’.
This is truly insane.
China, Russia, Iran, or Venezuela and Palestine,(Any countries fiercely opposed to the West, led by US imperialism.), are just sane countries saying NO to it.
I naturally want the West to be defeated.
The society we are living in now is a crazy society.
I would hope rather society of China and Russia survive than society of the West today.

Posted by: Nokaz | Aug 22 2024 15:22 utc | 24

@Posted by: librul | Aug 22 2024 15:26 utc | 25
The LIHOP of October 7th completes the circle for the Zionists and those that put their faith and trust in them.

Posted by: librul | Aug 22 2024 15:36 utc | 26

Posted by: librul | Aug 22 2024 15:26 utc | 25
Thanks, librul, for your correction to Giyane’s comment @ Aug 22, 14:49:
Forgive my ignorance , but this genocide in Palestine looks to me like kicking the Palestinians for centuries of being persecuted in Europe.
In addition, Giyane and all barflies should re-examine their thinking: it is not the case that Jews endured “centuries of being persecuted in Europe.”
1. Numerous Jewish “scholars” of Jewish history (like Ken Ruderman, prof. of Jewish history at U Penn) narrate the centuries of outstanding success Jews enjoyed in Europe https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/jewish-intellectual-history-16th-to-20th-century?pfm=BestSellers&pos=435
Especially noteworthy in Ruderman’s lectures is his treatment of “Jews in the Italian ghetto in the 15th century.” He twists himself into a pretzel trying to focus on the evil of the imposed ghetto while also reporting that what the Italian ghetto really was = where impoverished people, predominantly Catholic, lived, not unlike the situation where immigrants to USA first found shelter. Further, Ruderman relates, Jews were integrated into the lives of their Catholic neighbors in the ghetto; learned much from them; adopted many of their practices, such as (Baroque) music in Catholic liturgy and joyous celebrations of family life-events.
2. “Jews” were not the only people or ethnic group or class or category of people who experienced bad times in “Europe” or anywhere else.
Please, barflies, expand your worldview & refrain from broadcasting that of which you are not well informed.
Megaphoning that untrue statement puts the speaker in the same category as “40 beheaded babies.”

Posted by: ChasMark | Aug 22 2024 16:07 utc | 28

Posted by: Liberator | Aug 22 2024 16:45 utc | 29
Let’s hope that all of this is true.

Posted by: Michael A | Aug 22 2024 16:58 utc | 30

I haven’t been paying much attention to the DNC convention because I have no interest in voting for either the Dems or the Repubs and find pretty much all politicians to be disgusting pieces of shit. But I did read on Middle Eastern news sites today that the DNC refused to grant time for a Palestinian speaker to talk on the main stage of the convention. “The Uncommitted movement had asked for Tanya Haj-Hassan, a doctor who had worked in Gaza, to speak on the main stage, but the DNC only offered a panel on the sidelines of the convention.”
The DNC allowed Israeli hostages’ families to speak on the main stage last night.
The Uncommitted delegates held a sit-in last night and said that Biden, Harris and both their teams were aware of the request for a Palestinian speaker (and presumably aware of the denial). They had offered a list of dozens of potential speakers to the Democrats, so clearly it was not an issue about the doctor they had suggested as their top choice.
As a result of the DNC denial, a group called Muslim Women for Harris-Walz has decided to disband. They put out this tweet along with their statement:
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“Muslim Women for Harris-Walz” is disbanding over the DNC’s refusal to allow a Palestinian-American on stage.
They write: “The family of the Israeli Hostage that was on the stage tonight, has shown more empathy towards Palestinian Americans and Palestinians, than our candidate or the DNC has.”
Statement: We cannot in good conscience, continue Muslim Women for Harris-Walz, in light of this new information from the Uncommitted movement, that VP Harris’ team declined their request to have a Palestinian American speaker take the stage at the DNC.
The family of the Israeli hostage that was on the stage tonight [Wed], has shown more empathy towards Palestinian Americans and Palestinians, than our candidate or the DNC has.
This is a terrible message to send to Democrats. Palestinians have the right to speak about Palestine.
We pray that the DNC and VP Harris’ team makes the right decision before this convention is over. For the sake of each of us.
https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1826474641470161378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1826474641470161378%7Ctwgr%5E0d7c2f4eeb81f8df91466c787138a48509fc1886%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.middleeasteye.net%2Flive-blog%2Flive-blog-update%2Fsit-launched-dnc-after-palestinians-denied-speaker-main-stage
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There’s an article at both Middleeasteye live-blog and at Palestine Chronicle about this.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/pro-palestine-delegates-denied-opportunity-to-speak-at-dnc-while-ilhan-omar-slams-us-arms-supply-to-israel/

Posted by: teri | Aug 22 2024 17:50 utc | 32

How Jews Targeted Jews in the Levant
2024 Interview with Avi Shlaim a historian and author of “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew”. He joined Ash to talk about the Israeli right, Mossad’s covert operations in Baghdad and what it means to have hyphenated identities. ge also describes how Arab Jews are treated as second class citizens by the Askenazi Jews in Israel.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJJiZlXOi0
Friday 28 December 2018

How Jews Targeted Jews In Order To Create The State Of Israel
by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
https://historylessonsdeleted.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-jews-targeted-jews-in-order-to.html

How Jews Killed Jews In Order To Create The State Of Israel
http://zaprasza.net/a.php?article_id=31867
Naeim Giladi: Former Mossad Agent, Forced Jews to Move to Israel
 Greg Carr
Jan 9, 2024

“In his book, “Ben Gurion’s Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews,” Giladi discusses the crimes committed by Zionists in their frenzy to import raw Jewish labor.”
“·I write this article for the same reason I wrote my book: to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism.” I write about it because I was part of it.”
https://gregorycarr.medium.com/naeim-giladi-former-mossad-agent-forced-jews-to-move-to-israel-72fc8159c1c2
Evidence of Zionists bombing Jewish neighborhoods in Arab countries to get them to migrate
by Naeim Giladi and Edward C. Corrigan
Sat, Jul 5, 2003 1:09PM
…https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/07/05/16250561.php?show_comments=1

Posted by: Exile | Aug 22 2024 18:06 utc | 34

Yes. You are correct AFAICT. The “resistance” so far is putting up a show of opposition without actually contesting seriously.
Israel kills at least one resistance military or political leader per week, sometimes several. The Resistance response is threats and a few to several rockets, which destroy some military infrastructure and occasionally kill a soldier or two. How many Israeli military or political leaders have been killed in response??
Meanwhile Israel conducts one to several massacres of Palestinian civilians per day which draws little or no response from the so called resistance. Not to mention squads of IDF who have kill count contests on unarmed civilians where the loser has to buy the beer or find the next young girl for gang rape night.

Posted by: Snowleopard | Aug 22 2024 18:34 utc | 36

An honest Ta-Nehisi Coates article on Palestine, the Gaza war, & the Democratic convention. By American standards it’s a brilliant piece, considering US “democracy” is quite defective & the MSM so self-suppressed. Elsewhere what the author states would simply be viewed as non-Orwellian commonsense: https://archive.is/REbRY

Posted by: Ludovic | Aug 22 2024 18:43 utc | 38

Why is the US buying Tinder ads in Lebanon?
https://reason.com/2024/08/22/why-is-the-u-s-military-buying-tinder-ads-in-lebanon/
The US government has placed ads on Tinder which appear to American users and threaten that the US is preparing to bomb Lebanon in the event of a Hezbollah reprisal against Israel.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 22 2024 18:58 utc | 40

Snowleopard,
Au contraine – the IDF has suffered so many casualties that they‘ve taken to conscripted 49 year olds, orthodox rabbinical students, and doubling the terms of weekend warriors.
In addition, 210 Merkava MBTs have been “destroyed” and approximately 600 more disabled.

(excerpts) The parents of more than 900 Israeli soldiers deployed in Gaza have signed a letter urging the military to call off its ongoing offensive in Rafah, calling it a “deadly trap” for their children……
….. “Our sons are physically and mentally exhausted,” adds the letter, addressed to the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi. “And now, you intend to send them into this perilous situation? … This appears to be nothing short of recklessness.”….
…. “Rafah is a death trap,” said Anat, the mother of an Israeli special forces soldier deployed in Gaza. “Hamas had a lot of time to prepare the place for the killing of our soldiers. We are very concerned and worried.”…..
……“Our apprehensions have materialised as we witness the military withdrawing promptly from an area, only for Hamas to swiftly regain control over it,” Anat said……
….. Idit, the mother of an Israeli commander, said: “My son sent me a message on WhatsApp a few minutes ago. They are on the move to Rafah, he told me. And I’m terrified……

Posted by: Exile | Aug 22 2024 19:19 utc | 42

@Tom_Q_Collins #4
Re US buying Tinder ads, are there no Grindr ads? Are they only worried about blowing apart hetero/cis normative folks with their bombs?

Posted by: billb | Aug 22 2024 20:00 utc | 44

German, France, Spain colonizer targets: https://thecradle.co/articles/france-spain-install-radars-in-south-lebanon-to-monitor-hezbollah-report. Pressure these proxy/colonizers first.

Posted by: jonny law | Aug 22 2024 20:55 utc | 46

fyi
A Look at Iran’s First Ever Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Promises to Expand Reach of Stealth Drone Fleet
Iranian media has published the first clear footage of the country’s first aircraft carrier, the Shahid Bagheri, which is set to facilitate forward drone operations by the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Referred to as a “forward base ship,” the warship features an angled flight deck and ski jump launch system similar to those on Russian Kuznetsov Class and British Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. Iran has been able to built the carrier on a very low budget by converting a commercial container ship, the Perarin, into a carrier. A second container ship is also expected to be converted into a drone operating platform, which will be designated the Shahid Mahdavi. The use of converted container ships imposes serious limitations on performance compared to purpose built aircraft carriers, in particular in terms of their ability to take damage in combat, although for drone operations without any manned aviation components this approach appears to be considered sufficient.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-carrier-shahid-bagheri-drone
h/t nakedcapitalism.com

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 22 2024 21:10 utc | 48

ChasMark 28
” In addition, Giyane and all barflies should re-examine their thinking: it is not the case that Jews endured “centuries of being persecuted in Europe.”
Sir, you are completely ignorant of the subject I was speaking about, but thus isn’t the time or place to educate your and your society I genenerall’s ignorance.
Briefly I was not talking about physical oppression, but spiritual oppression . The Roman Catholic Church forbade knowledge of their scriptures indeed knowledge of any sort. The people were taught that God had created different classes and they all had their own places in the class system.
The Christians in Europe who worshipped Jesus AS as the ruler of the day of judgement and ascribed to him knowledge of the unseen, were , and are to this day, totally ignorant of the truth of Judaism and Islam to worship God Alone.
The Christians of Europe suppressed the truth of Judaism.and Islam when from 1400 AD knowledge of Hebrew and Arabic was taught in British universities and were forbidden to proclaim the Oneness of God ON PAIN OF DEATH.
The Jews were blamed for killing Jesus AS and were equally under pain of death for proselytising THE TRUTH.
You put words into my mouth and you would be very well advised to follow your own pompous words:
” Please, barflies, expand your worldview & refrain from broadcasting that of which you are not well informed. ”
Now fuck off, all in the best of all possible tastes, of course.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 22 2024 21:44 utc | 50

Since the bar is rather pensive tonight and quiet as we seem to be in a state of unknown anticipation (my normal state).
I am reminded of of a scene from the Star Trek series, the next generation where Jean Luc is being tortured by the Cardasians, excuse the spelling.
He, Jean Luc Picard see’s four lights in front of him as his senses tell him. But he could just as easy be saying there is a genocide in front of him.
The torture begins and persists until he admits to and can see five lights in front of him. In other words it is only self defence.

Posted by: simon crow | Aug 22 2024 22:52 utc | 52

ChasMark and others, in my notso humble opinion, Giyane (what’s he doing with a hindu name?) is so confusing on a regular basis, that in a words/coherent argument ratio, he ranks as highly full of shit.

Posted by: Ново З | Aug 22 2024 23:05 utc | 54

Col. Macgregor posits that an Israeli response to the presumably imminent Iranian riposte to recent assassinations would involve attacks on Iranian and Iraqi oil assets.
Would this not be detrimental to the economy of Israel?
And of USA if oil price exploded?

Posted by: necromancer | Aug 23 2024 0:34 utc | 56

@ Posted by: simon crow | Aug 22 2024 14:39 utc | 19
I now think that people here in Canada don’t know what “freedom of speech” really means and why it is needed. Our society, basically, is almost blind without free speech. We are captured by the few who xontrol the monopolies and we become their slaves. Scott Ritter in the US is currently feeling the anger of those who want to keep us ignorant.
We had a feeling of freedom in the early 70’s but it started to deteriorate in the 90’s when fhe Military Industrial Complex lost the Soviet Union as a convenient enemy and then created the “terrorist” threat by rebranding those who were called freedom fighters by Reagan into terrorists. The reaction to 9/11 combined with the activism of the Anti-Defamation League ended up breaking the institutions of free speech including the news outlets.
So fhere we are, with a Western political class all singing the same song and aupporting the genocide going on in Gaza.
Now, can we flush that captured political class or, sadly, do we have to wait for some external event to wake up the people? I feel we are heading for the ‘waiting’ option. Option 1 would be the better alternative though.

Posted by: Richard L | Aug 23 2024 2:51 utc | 58

Novo3 53
Yar, ChazMaz, these swine pearls are yummy.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 23 2024 5:30 utc | 60

Ten months on.
Going on 11.
The Gaza Tunnels have withstood the combined power of the USA and Israhell.
The Achilles heel of American military power has been revealed.
One of many to come …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 23 2024 6:36 utc | 62

Proof there is no God:
AJ+
@ajplus
·
Aug 22
This 4-year-old in Gaza has cancer in his eye. And Israel is blocking him from getting the treatment he needs.
https://x.com/ajplus/status/1826378640050782297

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 7:13 utc | 64

Hadi
@HadiNasrallah
In response to Israel targeting civilians in Lebanon, Hezbollah is bombing Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan to the ground. An eye for an eye. A civilian for a settler.
https://x.com/HadiNasrallah/status/1826183023227810195

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 7:15 utc | 66

IDF female prison guard breaking her silence:
ADAM
@AdameMedia
·
13h
Israeli prison guard reveals she
“took part in ritual, violent abuse”
“We didn’t see them as people”
“I can’t even admit what I did”
We now know r*pe is part of it. We know it.
Ziønism is a disease and Israel is beyond redemption.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1826675269916393701

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 7:19 utc | 68

Ryan Rozbiani
@RyanRozbiani
Medical Professionals in G۸Z۸ are REALLY angels
PLEASE Listen to Dr. Ahmad Yousaf is a pediatrician who spent 3 weeks volunteering at a G۸Z۸ hospital
This is a press conference in Chicago THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR HI
https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1826650772815163689

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 7:24 utc | 70

An eye for an eye. A civilian for a settler.
Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 7:15 utc | 66
I’m glad they’re beginning to make the distinction.
A settler is not a civilian.

Hopefully once the lies have evapourated all of humanity will realise that there is no such thing as an Israeli “civilian”.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 23 2024 8:00 utc | 72

What I find curious about MoA on the night shift , US daytime, is that it is the US that is supplying the disgusting bonbs and weaponry , the clapping seals in Congress, from its totally misguided religious beliefs and unspeakable self-righteousness, and yet nobody has yet understood .
Big bombs on or near human beings flip them psychologically. The Muslim Faith copes, the Zionists have become devils. Trump described these new bombs as ‘ beautiful ‘ and half of you want to vote for him as Predident.
It looks from the outside as though the US is a nation that is incapable of introspection. Everything is somebody else’s fault. No the US is wholly responsible for this genocide, and the US totally fails to understand itself.
If you vote for TV showmen and lifetime war criminals, they will use your approval to increase their insane violence.
You made the genocide happen and you did it. Now, if you know the meaning of repent, please go and re-think.
The trouble with believing that god is human, who knows nothing and is anyway dead or absent sitting on the right hand side of God, is that you miscalculate the omniscience and power of God. Christianity is responsible for this genocide.
Christianity the false creed that neither Jew nor Muslim agree with, that your god is a human who has no.power , so you can do what you like.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 23 2024 8:35 utc | 74

RIVER TO THE SEA.
The semetic Palestinian suffering will never be forgotten.
The evil imperialists will forever be tainted in the future history books. But I don’t expect them to treat all ‘gammon’ peoples the same as the white supremacist ziofascists have treated them and most poor westerners too (yes even the deluded few who think they somehow own the world but are piss poor in everything , especially brains)

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 23 2024 9:45 utc | 76

“Christianity the false creed that neither Jew nor Muslim agree with, that your god is a human who has no.power , so you can do what you like.”
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 23 2024 8:35 utc | 74
I know it is difficult for you but have, just a teeny, weeny bit of class.
Have respect for other people’s religion.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 23 2024 11:38 utc | 78

@ Menz | @ 68
I know I posted a part of an article in the last week or so, in which a Palestinian prisoner, since released, said he had been raped by a female guard. Other prisoners said the same and pointed out that sometimes the female guards were only in their late teens.
What gets me about the tweet you link to is that although this young woman hints that she has done worse things than withholding food and water, beating, hitting, tightening handcuffs, etc. (she never says “rape”, but I’m sure that’s included), and she coyly says she can’t even bear to say what she’s done, the bitch JUST CANNOT QUIT SMILING. She wants the viewer to like her. She clearly wants to be seen as an innocent who was caught up in the moment. Isn’t she cute? Everyone did it and when she had to escort the prisoners, it wrecked her time off – yeah, that’s it! That’s why she tormented and tortured them! Them – the ones that she calls “transparent people that you don’t see”. She refers to them as “an object”, “a herd of cows or sheep”. A “carcass”.
So even while she is trying to explain herself, she still can’t call them fellow humans. Even as she is trying to sound contrite, she still can’t weep over what she did. And she never says she regrets it, she never says she is sorry.
And at the end, the big finale is that she has to face herself in the mirror; but this too is said with a little shrug, a perky tilt of the head, and a SMILE.
Makes me sick.

Posted by: teri | Aug 23 2024 12:18 utc | 80

RE Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 23 2024 11:00 utc | 77
Agreed and like you, I’d like to see those glass feet shatter, splinter and be swept into a trash bin and bear witness to that as well before I die.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 23 2024 12:32 utc | 82

Posted by: simon crow | Aug 23 2024 16:26 utc | 83
Thanks for that, Simon, link worked fine.
I studied the Cathars, sometimes called the Albigensians, in school-it was a fascinating topic.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 23 2024 16:47 utc | 84

It is interesting to note that in the 13th century, both Christianity and Islam institutionalized their faiths by eradicating their own “heretics.”
In this period, Sunni “Islam” was formalized into four madhabs, and madrasas were established to exclude non-Sunnis such as Shia and Sufi/Batiniyya. A key figure in this process was Al-Ghazali, who played a significant role in the establishment and promotion of these institutions.This marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age, as intellectual and cultural advancements began to decline with the increasing Sunni orthodoxy and exclusion of diverse theological perspectives.

Posted by: Ali | Aug 23 2024 21:00 utc | 86

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.
To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a link to an easy to read Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim Slave:
https://www.baytalfann.com/post/the-autobiography-of-omar-ibn-said-a-muslim-slave

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2024 22:32 utc | 88

This marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age, as intellectual and cultural advancements began to decline with the increasing Sunni orthodoxy and exclusion of diverse theological perspectives.
Posted by: Ali | Aug 23 2024 21:00 utc | 86
First inform yourself or you will be putting more than your foot in your mouth.
The Golden age came to an end because of politics. Just like you are trying. Ghazali, a brilliant philosopher and scholar had no part of it. The end came with the Mongol destruction of all institutions, with the treachery of a ‘certain’ vizier-prime minister. Read up. Ali.
Remember there was no internet and firewalls. Each group was free to practice its belief. Otherwise there would have been only one group.

Posted by: joey | Aug 24 2024 12:12 utc | 90

The comment count here…it must truly be out of sight out of mind in the world of regular media

Posted by: Hahajizzjizz | Aug 25 2024 5:53 utc | 92

Latest from Ritter points out Palestinians are betrayed by fellow Arabs in Saudi and other Gulf states.
From personal observation: the Arab elites hold the Palestinians in abject contempt. Even though they were used as the professional class back in the 20th century. Syrians, higher up the esteem tree are merely held in amused contempt.
Abdul Malik Al-Houthi May be their only friend

Posted by: necromancer | Aug 25 2024 6:50 utc | 94