Splitting up the Ottoman Empire was a huge mistake.
Posted by: lester | Sep 12 2024 15:45 utc | 3
I don’t agree with that. The Turks weren’t really interested in the Arab provinces, and didn’t do much to develop them.

Posted by: laguerre | Sep 12 2024 16:02 utc | 4

Increasingly the conflict is moving towards Lebanon as well as of turning over the West Bank (where since Oct 7 @ 750 have been killed). In Gaza massacres continue.
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Channel 12 Hebrew:
Within one month in the Israeli police:
– Resignation of the head of the investigations unit.
– Resignation of the commander of the Northern Brigade
– and today the resignation of the commander of the West Bank Brigade.
Why are these developments important? Because the investigations department and the West Bank Brigade are among the most important parts of the Israeli police, and the appointment of new commanders for these departments under Ben Gvir’s authority effectively means the completion of Ben Gvir’s control over the police.”
From Youssef on Syria
“After Hebrew news about an attack by commandos from the entity’s army on an Iranian site on Syrian territory and the seizure of equipment and the capture of two Iranian figures,
Iranian Tasnim News Agency, from sources:
-Capture of two Iranian figures during the Israeli attack on Masyaf in Syria is a false claim
-We did not have forces at the targeted site in Masyaf, and we deny that we had any casualties or captures.”
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma on Syria:
“Eva G. Koulouriotis, a political analyst specializing in Middle East affairs:
“A security source confirmed to me that special forces from the Israeli army carried out a special operation last Thursday against a military facility belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, six kilometers southwest of the Syrian city of Masyaf.”
Koulouriotis:
“The operation began with an airstrike targeting a number of roads leading to the military facility, in addition to a headquarters affiliated with the Syrian military security and the security points affiliated with the facility. After that, Israeli military helicopters carrying Israeli special forces moved towards the facility, supported by combat helicopters and drones, to prevent any forces affiliated with the Assad regime from reaching the area.
According to Koulouriotis, the operation lasted for about an hour, during which the Israeli special forces were able to enter the facility, withdraw important equipment and documents, mine the facility from the inside, then destroy it and withdraw under air cover through fire belts surrounding the site, to prevent any air movements by Syrian regime warplanes.”

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 12 2024 16:36 utc | 6

Ornot,
The IDF and Likud no longer have the slightest credibility. Zero credibility .

Posted by: Exile | Sep 12 2024 16:45 utc | 8

Kazan closed-door meeting on October will be a game changer for historical Palestine, one in which the Islamic Repuplic of Iran (“IRI”) will sign a new large transnational treaty designated to bring Russian-Iranian relations to the level of strategic partnership. Can’t wait!

Posted by: AI | Sep 12 2024 17:19 utc | 10

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has left the Zionist project and now heading back to the US of A. Not a good sign.

Posted by: AI | Sep 12 2024 17:42 utc | 12

When Bibi says HAMAS, it’s rather obvious that HAMAS is yiddish for Palestinians of any age or gender.
It’s reminiscent of Bush II’s Wars For The Jews after 9/11. Remember Evil Saddam, Evil Assad and Evil Gadhaffi? They were the fig leaves to provide cover for the wholesale civilan slaughter, destruction and looting in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
As the Thai girls say “Same like dat” in Evil Palestine.
Fortunately, Jewrael’s jews believe all of their own balderdash. So when the endtime of the Parasite Statelet comes, it’ll be ugly but amusing.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 12 2024 17:45 utc | 14

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 12 2024 17:43 utc | 13
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Maybe this, See you, hear you…

Posted by: AI | Sep 12 2024 17:51 utc | 16

“Millions” ???
The last hard figure published was 500,000 Israelis had fled Likud governed Israel. I think that figure was from sometime in Nov 2023.
If the figure is now, say, 2 million, that’s absolutely devasting to the Likud. 2 million is roughly 25% of Jewish Israelis.
I doubt this.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 12 2024 18:17 utc | 18

Likud’s 1977 Charter defined Israeli borders as from-the-river-to-the-sea or similar language

Posted by: Exile | Sep 12 2024 18:19 utc | 20

@ Exile 8
I am already familiar with the propaganda methods and so do not take anything said as reliable. In this case it is Syria TV
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_TV_(Turkey)
that provided the report : MB, Qatari, Syria opposition , you tell me. There is a fuller description of the would be event at their site.
However if part true even, the event would be important. The claim is Russian radar was hit and a Russian also.
If not true it would show the above working as disinfo on behalf of occupation.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 12 2024 18:27 utc | 22

Ornot,
Thank you for the clarification – therefore agreed it’s rather a significant escalation

Posted by: Exile | Sep 12 2024 18:37 utc | 24

@ Exile 24
I should be clearer. Often when I post I just assume the reader will have the same level of cynicism regarding occupation presentation and will be trying to understand why exactly they are making the presentations they do.
For example the purported letter to Sinwar, there a denial of added invented info is not easy by Hamas if a letter was actually intercepted. As Sinwar would not lie that it wasn’t intercepted , and to deny part of the info would be to admit it was intercepted as well as enter into meaningless dispute, nothing is said and it ends up as some very manipulative ploy designed to hurt Hamas and to use the presentation for own benefit as well. It is the sort of thing they would come up with to sow confusion. Equally it is completely invented, but I have the impression that they use a grain of truth to make sure they can redirect questioning onto the opponent. That is just my view, I might be wrong on that.
Being presented with their propaganda is not pleasant or helpful normally so I keep that to a minimum.
My apology for not being clearer – I forgive myself because I don’t always have time to write down an analysis of some kind , so it just ends up as “for anyone’s consideration” if I think it is relevant enough a report.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 12 2024 19:32 utc | 26

Are both USN CVN’s heading home or heading to protect the UK from a RF countstrike if Moscow or St. Petersburg are struck by Storm Shadow missiles directed and co-ordinated from UK RN bases?
Are the Brits really that suicidal?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 12 2024 20:11 utc | 28

The IDF is delusional. After almost one year of pounding Gaza with airstrikes and tank fire, they still have not really impacted the fighting power of Hamas or the PIJ or the PFLP. These groups continue daily ATGM and sniper attacks on IDF tanks and IFV’s and on infantry squads too. The IDF has resorted to attacking defenseless UN schools and killing UN volunteers out of spite at their failures to stop these continuing attacks, and Hezbollah continues its daily missile and ATGM fire into Northern Israel.
The Brits fought the IRA from 1916 to 1998, and the IRA was never defeated as a military force. Yet the IDF actually believes that it has destroyed in the insurrection – not even close.
The Palestinians have been fighting the Israeli occupiers since 1948 and there is no end in sight. The Palestinians will never give up the fight to return to their pastures, vineyards, farms and orchards.
The Brits finally gave in in 1998, its time for the Likud government to do the same……….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 12 2024 20:22 utc | 30

Ornot @ #31
I have found those links very informative since you first posted them weeks ago. I check them a couple times a day.
Just want to say thank you again!
– Teri

Posted by: teri | Sep 12 2024 20:35 utc | 32

“in Syria a couple of days ago when it was reported that Bashar Assad’s military shot down an Israeli military jet that violated Syrian air space.”
12 September Doctorow on Napolitano. True or False?
Can’t find a whisper about it in MSM or the Monopolies that run the Internet.

Posted by: kupkee | Sep 12 2024 21:08 utc | 34

Kupkee @ 34, heard the same from an Twitter post from warmonitor4u a couple of days ago. Site is now blacklisted. No other verification.
Did see a hoto of Blackhawk down in Gaza though, 3 KIA.

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 12 2024 22:11 utc | 36

censored?

Posted by: librul | Sep 12 2024 22:20 utc | 38

@ Teri
I used to read Al-Jazeera to keep up but often found myself side tracked into longer explanations and so on – it seemed too much agenda along with the reporting although a lot of the reporting is good. The telegram sites are concise, carry the most relevant, and are very close to the Palestinian’s reality, so I much prefer reading those now. Occasionally the posts are horrific or incitement (both of which are a plain reality) but the first two tend to avoid those for those who are more fragile. Between them there is usually at least one awake and posting up to the minute. For now I have found time to keep up with MoA mostly, and try to include those on first page for anyone new visiting, at some point I might be more busy so if not on first page then anyone feel free to copy paste the links post on second page – I don’t own the links and it is those reporting who deserve most thanks. Thanks for the thanks also.
@ Suresh
You know, I follow events from a purposefully detached position, I try not to project too much speculation but stay to what I feel sure of, which is plenty already. When I think of capabilities, all the possibilities of political manipulations, well it is better I don’t think like that because it is both often pesimistic and treacherous, even if only speculative from a cautionary standpoint. What am I to say ? To underestimate would be to mislead, to estimate as capable would be to lower the moral.
What I can say is to respect the enemy and look at what is actually occuring. I know the occupation are capable. The ground troops in Gaza are mostly average infantry, helicopters aren’t used except for evacuation because they are vulnerable in that setting. The method of warfare they are using is disgusting, it could hardly be described as warfare even . If they clear northern Gaza to south they will kill anyone and anything that remains. They will probably bulldoze it flat. Yes, they have lost already because it is pure atrocity and it will not be forgotten. In practical terms they are however moving towards displacing all Palestinians and will say as they do now “What are you going to do about that ?” . Going on a year and other nations barely even sanction them except occasionally verbally.
NYT “so it must be true” also insists on a raid in Syria. Iran and Syria have not denied that yet.
For the wider picture including Russia it is very unusual the direction being taken. If there are actually no backroom negotiations to lay out a path forward then it is that they will test Russia. If there are quiet understandings they will only be tentative because of the level of current distrust, so that is also a very difficult presentation.
I’m not here to prove myself right or to prove others wrong, I think we are at a very critical junction in history and it is necessary that we try to figure out what is going on as best as possible, even if only to orientate our own positions with regard to our own settings.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 13 2024 0:43 utc | 40

@AI | Sep 12 2024 17:51 utc | 16
Thanks for that.. D

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 13 2024 1:40 utc | 42

krypton 40
The Zionists , whose motives I don’t pretend to understand, have put the Israelis into a state of deep.psychosis in which they have no remorse about genociding Palestinians
I don’t think a mental illness is normally considered a state of freedom, in fact I would expect the Israelis who have been mentally paralysed Not to be able to recognise any need to flee.
Those Israelis who are self-aware enough to disagree with the genocide would be completely terrified by guilt and despair about the genocide. They are going to be paralysed by fear from facing the outside world.
A pigeon has just landed on my window sill. For years, decades even , I was saying on Craig Murray’s blog that USUKIS was using torture rendition to drug and then torture innocent Muslims into becoming Zombie terrorists. Dr Mengeles style.
I can’t remember anybody ever taking notice of this idea, which touches or deepest taboos about interfering with human behaviour. The torture creates rage, but the chemicals , maybe Lithium burn out the brain path of what caused the rage.
As I understand it USUKIS military personnel are subjected to hardening up procedures in order to make them harder fighters , using similar methodologies.
So the pigeon that has come home to roost in my brain is that the Ukrainian Revisionist Zionist Nazis who we call Neocons, who encarcerated hundreds of thousands of Muslims after 9/11, don’t need to Encarcerate Israelis because they have already self-renditioned themselves to Israel.
Maybe this Israeli state of psychosis is induced by psychosis- inducing chemicals in Israel drinking water.
I am not expecting anybody, after 25 years of talking about this taboo, to take any notice of this idea. It’s taboo..
Anyway , my point is, that only the organisers, the poisoners , would be in a fit mental state to leave Israel. The psychotic would see no need. The balanced would be gripped with shared guilt.
Fly away Pigeon , nobody at all will listen to such an outrageous idea.
Kindly take that olive twig of truth away with you please. Both sides are:
” High-stomached are they both
and full of ire .
In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. ”
Shakespeare. Richard II.
I don’t think Nazism allows anybody any freedom, neither the Palestinuan scapegoats in their prison, nor the Israeli prisoners in theirs.
of their psychosis

Posted by: Giyane | Sep 13 2024 2:30 utc | 44

The Turks weren’t really interested in the Arab provinces, and didn’t do much to develop them.
Posted by: laguerre | Sep 12 2024 16:02 utc | 4
Are you sure about that?
I recommend you go back and read a couple of books before you spout off randomly.
Not a fan of the ottoman empire but bullshit is is bullshit and has to be called out.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 13 2024 3:09 utc | 46

8200 Unit Casualties Revealed – Resistance Roundup – Day 342
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/8200-unit-casualties-revealed-resistance-roundup-day-342/
Comment: southern Front – Merkava “targeted”, thin skinned jeep wacked by Landmine. Eastern Front – no report. Northern Front – 9 strikes
Merkava tally remains unchanged at 210

Posted by: Exile | Sep 13 2024 3:26 utc | 48

https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1834379865530986890
حسام شبات @HossamShabat
Palestinian Reporting from the North of Gaza
I walk through the hospital and see so many injured kids without any surviving family to comfort them, dying in pain and agony, all alone. The amount of trauma and pain that kids in Gaza are enduring requires years of rehabilitation.
After all this ends, we will need years to recover .

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 13 2024 4:57 utc | 50

Arch Bungle | Sep 13 2024 3:09 utc | 45
Giyane | Sep 13 2024 2:50 utc | 44
From imperfect memory TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
re: 1968 assass of RFK by accused/convicted Sirhan Sirhan
Thane Eugene Cesar was the moonlighting, armed, security guard positioned in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen that night.. “Gene” as many knew him, later went to work at a very major brewery and retired from same after many years of service.
It was about 1991 an “underground” cassette video circulated about Thane Eugene Cesar and his clear connection to RFK’s killing. Gene had already worked at the brewery well over 10 years. The Maintenance Department learned about the video and his past, so “Gene” was shortly thereafter interviewed by a Maintenance Superintendent about the matter.. Some of Gene’s coworkers were given to understand that Gene confirmed his presence; that he pulled his weapon; that he could not recall if he fired it; that he later turned his weapon over to Los Angeles PD and that they gave it back to him.
LOTS of Gene’s co-workers got to know a LOT about Thane Eugene Cesar. Surely RFK,Jr knows all about this matter and thus his credible attempts to free Sirhan Sirhan, who remains imprisoned. [Many witnesses saw Sirhan fire his pistol and he was convicted, alone, ignoring recovery of more bullets than were in his gun and without investigation of any other shooter. To wit, any 2nd shooter would thoroughly mess the open-and-shut case against the accused.].
The details attendant to the above data were and are known to hundreds, probably thousands of people. But those details directly step on the feet of many powerful persons and their .gov employers and .gov’s private/dark-contractors and therefore are efficiently censored,[
Most “Miind-Control” was darkly funded and much was was done in projects that were never openly associated with that purpose [such as Dr. Wilder Penfield et al work at McGill Univ at Montreal in the late 1950’s funded by Rockefeller Fdn.].
Now in 2024, there are many totally effective “forgetter drugs” widely used in medical practice that were researched and developed in the dark. Combining hypnosis and hypnotic tech and drugs and EMF signals, etc is hardly mentionable except as Science Fiction or fantasy.

Posted by: Chu-Teh | Sep 13 2024 8:02 utc | 52

Netanyahu is playing the “plausible deniability” act
as seen upstream in this thread.
Netanyahu’s best hope is that there is never a national commission of inquiry
and he is working hard to obstruct one. As a backup plan to direct obstruction
he has had his hand-picked State Comptroller begin an investigation in order
to make a national commission of inquiry redundant.
https://archive.is/AkZMO

Opposition leader Yair Lapid called Netanyahu out even more explicitly, saying that when a national commission of inquiry does take place, he will be there to testify that he “saw the same intelligence materials that the prime minister saw” and that the information made it “clear to anyone who understands anything that something terrible was going to happen.”

Below are from a link provided at Posted by: librul | Sep 12 2024 22:19 utc | 37

[August 18, 2024]
Saturday night’s report was the latest in a long series of revelations that began emerging soon after October 7 about material in Israel’s hands pointing to the looming Hamas invasion that was ignored, dismissed or misinterpreted. The TV channel said its report was compiled under military censorship limitations, and that it was unable to detail an additional dramatic piece of information regarding the hours before the invasion “that should have lit all the red lights.”
[That should be interesting!]

…
[Israel had Hamas’ attack plan for October 7th a year in advance. This is a hot potato in Israel, with some officers and politicians
claiming that the detailed plan was withheld from their eyes.]

The Israeli Air Force had seen “no scenario” for the kind of mass breach of the border, with dozens of points of entry, that Hamas carried out on October 7, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yaron Rosen, a former senior IAF officer and pilot, told Channel 12, and thus there were “no relevant orders” to activate that morning, and the IAF was forced to improvise. Had it known of the attack plan, it would have drawn up a response and “hopefully” would have been able to prevent the invasion, Rosen said.
The Channel 12 report also described efforts by an intelligence officer in the IDF Southern Command identified by the initial “Aleph” to alert more senior military officers to what he recognized as “something extremely unusual going on — heightened readiness on the other side [in Gaza]” in the hours before Hamas invaded.
It said “Aleph” contacted Haliva and IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman to report these indications, and that this was after Israeli intelligence officers had already noticed that dozens of Hamas terrorists had activated Israeli SIM cards in their phones, another tell-tale sign of attack that was ignored.

Posted by: librul | Sep 13 2024 13:03 utc | 54

Posted by: Chu-Teh | Sep 13 2024 8:02 utc | 52
Thanks for that interesting tidbit.
Good to see you back, Chu Teh.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 13 2024 18:21 utc | 56

teri | Sep 12 2024 20:17 utc | 29
Note that taking the top third of Gaza gives the Zionists full control over the gas/oil off the Gazan coast, if the sea boundaries are then redrawn in Israel’s favour.
At one time they wanted to make an “island” for the same purpose, which fell through.
Looting. Generals are always in favour of that.

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 13 2024 18:56 utc | 58

Hezbollah Hits Israeli Base – Iran Refutes Alleged Israeli Raid on IRGC Facility in Syria
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hezbollah-hits-israeli-base-iran-refutes-alleged-israeli-raid-on-irgc-facility-in-syria/

Posted by: Exile | Sep 13 2024 19:18 utc | 60

Arch Bungle | Sep 13 2024 18:23 utc | 57
Whatever crimes these children commit when they grow up, I will pardon.
…and rhanks your helpful input. I acknowledge the above gem.

Posted by: Dhu-Teh | Sep 13 2024 20:40 utc | 62

Its all so sickening because what is happening in Gaza is not isolated from what is happening in all modern, Nato, urban centres and particularly the shit hole that corporate fascist Canada has become. No, we are not being bombed but we are being dehumanized at every level of society; forced to interact with machines, judged and fined by those same machines; surveillance everywhere; ID obsessed; credential obsessed; repetitive torture every time you go online and participate in their reality. Modern life in the rules based order is essentially anti-human imo.
Ukraine and Gaza may not be much different than where i live minus the bombs.

Posted by: simon crow | Sep 14 2024 0:22 utc | 64

@ Eighthman | Sep 14 2024 0:29 utc | 65
According to the stereotype their peculiar talent is for handling *other people’s* money. I’m sure that Uncle $am and the Eternally (and Eagerly) Guilty Nation will provide — as always.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 14 2024 1:02 utc | 66

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/
Is the tide turning? WaPo does some real reporting AND contradicts zionist narrative.

Posted by: JAB | Sep 14 2024 1:34 utc | 68

“Israel will continue to commit war crimes until the cowardly Western leaders cut all ties and sanction them.”
Of course the west is critical here. BUT how many BRICS, RoW, Global South, Arabs / Muslim nations, or The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) forum of 120 countries have Cut all diplomatic ties with Israel?
How many have recalled their Ambassadors, kicked Israeli diplomats out of their country, joined the ICJ Genocide court case with South Africa, or placed severe Sanctions on Israel or any nation or Corporation that is trading with Israel?
I think the answer is None. Besides Iran and North Korea that might be exceptional cases.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 14 2024 3:16 utc | 70

Where is Al-Qassam? Resistance Roundup – Day 343

.(excerpts)….Where is the Al-Qassam Brigades? For a number of days, the Brigades has not announced major operations or ambushes in Gaza.
Recently, Israeli media, citing military sources, have been discussing a new phase of the Israeli war on Gaza. Some refer to this phase as ‘phase four’.
The phasing of the war objectives gives the impression that the Israeli army is in control of the battlefield in Gaza, though in actuality, as stated by some former Israeli generals, the army has been striking the rubble of its original targets time and time again.
So what is going on exactly?
On September 7, a former Israeli captive in Gaza, Adina Moshe, said that the Israeli army is ‘clueless’ regarding the whereabouts of Israeli captives in the Strip.
The same logic can also be applied to the overall Israeli targets in Gaza. The fact that the Israeli army, for example, has been carrying out one massacre after another in ‘safe zones’ in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis or in the Al-Jaouni School in Nuseirat, is a reflection not only of the criminality of the Israeli war machine but also its inability to zoom in on actual military targets. Simply, there is none.
So, the ‘new phase’ of the Israeli war is a desperate attempt at conveying, at least to the Israeli public, that the war in Gaza is going according to plan. If a plan existed, it was simply the total destruction of the Gaza Strip, and that has been achieved. What has not been achieved, however, is the destruction of the Resistance on the ground or the weakening of the resolve of the people.
This leads us to another equally important question: where is the Al-Qassam Brigades?
For a number of days, the Brigades has not announced major operations or ambushes in Gaza.
Al-Qassam seems to be in a process of reorganizing its forces and rejigging its strategy to accommodate the changes underway in the behavior of the Israeli army.
We still do not fully understand how this will play out in the coming days. What is certain, however, is that Al-Qassam does not want to expose its fighters beyond the required scope of operations so as not to give the Israeli army a reason to claim a breakthrough or another ‘successful operation’, whether real or imagined.
This lack of success in Gaza may have been the main driver behind what many analysts believe it was a phony ground operation in the Maysaf area in Syria earlier this week.
The Israeli army is fully aware that there is no military victory in Gaza and there are no new targets that could present it with that coveted victory.
The Resistance in Gaza also knows that very well, thus the change of tactics everywhere.
Below are the latest statements from the main Palestinian Resistance groups in the West Bank and Gaza…….

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/where-is-al-qassam-resistance-roundup-day-343/
Comment: southern front Al-Quds active with 3 firefights. The Al-Qassem radio silence explaination seems amateurish. TBD northern front – 8 strikes by Lebanese
Merkava tally 210 unchanged

Posted by: Exile | Sep 14 2024 4:57 utc | 72

see video at the first link of former French Prime Minister de Villepin speaking in the interview and gesticulating rather wildly at times
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1834362369943773606
sarah @sahouraxo
“Gaza is the greatest historical scandal.”
“Bodies are in pieces. Hearts are in pieces. Souls are in pieces. Heads are in pieces.”
—Former French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin
“Gaza is undoubtedly the greatest historical scandal, I dare not find a comparison. No one talks about it anymore in this country; it’s silence, a heavy curtain, the media no longer cover it. I’m forced to go on Google to find a brief update on the death toll in Gaza. It’s a true scandal in terms of democracy.”
video with English subtitles here:
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1834427830806937740

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 14 2024 6:53 utc | 74

War on Gaza: UK has ‘no legal justification’ to continue licensing parts for Israeli F-35s, 37 MPs say
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-on-gaza-uk-has-no-legal-justification-continue-licensing-f-35-parts-mps-say
Comment: is 37 MPs a lot ?

Posted by: Exile | Sep 14 2024 13:52 utc | 76

The Times announced a new theatre play in London staging fictitious discussions between Roald Dahl, his wife and his publisher, allegedly „about the difference between meaningful discourse around the issues of Israel and Palestine and antisemitic stereotyping“.
https://archive.ph/13ZeY
However, it is not really meaningful what one can read in The Times, Roald Dahl being described as antisemitic, which induced his family to publish post mortem an excuse on his homepage
https://www.roalddahl.com/about/apology/
The book review from 1983, which provoked the public outcry and the accusations of antisemitism ist fortunately available online (not linked by The Times, though). Not a single line antisemitic, but a certainly unambiguous condemnation of Israel. And, a pity to say, apparantly nothing has changed since 1983 (1948).
https://literaryreview.co.uk/not-a-chivalrous-affair

Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers. Never before has a race of people generated so much sympathy around the world and then, in the space of a lifetime, succeeded in turning that sympathy into hatred and revulsion. It is as though a group of much-loved nuns in charge of an orphanage had suddenly turned around and started murdering all the children.
…
Is the American President and the Senate and the Congress so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there that they dare not defy them? And what, pray, do those powerful American Jewish bankers think about the murdering of 25,000 people in one month? Nor can the European governments be let off the hook either. They protested. Of course they did. But how feeble those protests were. Where were the sanctions? And where was the total cancellation of all trade with Israel by Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom? And where, above all, were the screams of protest from the millions of decent Jewish people in Europe and America? It is true that some of them expressed their horror in letters to the press. But on the whole it seems clear that the great Jewish communities outside Israel cared very little about what was going on.
…
Mr Begin and Mr Sharon are almost the exact carbon copies in miniature of Mr Hitler and Mr Goering. They are equally short-sighted and no less bloodthirsty.
We had the Nuremburg Trials after the Hitler war. The Nazi leaders were convicted for crimes against humanity, and particularly for crimes against the Jews. It is tragic and ironic that now, only thirty-seven years later, Begin and Sharon and a number of other Israeli leaders should themselves be qualifying for the same treatment. Try them all, I say. Shove them all in the dock with handcuffs on and let us I hear what they have to say in their defence.

Posted by: Udkanten | Sep 14 2024 15:01 utc | 78

From Wikipedia:
“…….The day after his rescue, Al-Qadi was released from the hospital to his home in the village of Khirbet Karkur, which is among the Bedouin villages in Israel that is unrecognized. Celebration in the village of Al-Qadi’s rescue was tainted by a pending demolition order of 70% of the homes in the village, <\b> as the homes were built without permits. A spokesperson for the Israel Land Authority stated that in light of his status as a former hostage, they would not serve a demolition notice on his home……”

Posted by: Exile | Sep 14 2024 15:13 utc | 80

Well the turks are may be not really turks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaat_Pasha
Freemason, his lover, his employer, his wife, his escape, his bloodlust, his legacy
Just as the British are not British
https://bergensia.com/who-has-benefitted-from-9-11-since-2001/

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Sep 14 2024 20:27 utc | 82

Something about this made me sob. I don’t know, maybe it’s the “we are dead and alive”, or maybe the “my dear ones” at the end, or perhaps just the idea that these people are being tortured, starved, and treated like non-humans in these Israeli jails and yet they still just want a simple thing like having a signal so they can pray. I don’t think I am overly religious and I am not Muslim nor do I belong to any organized religion….but here we have the freaking holier-than-thou Zionists strutting around claiming to be god’s chosen people, and they won’t even let the prisoners they beat and torment PRAY in their own way.
This is so fucked up I just can’t stand it.
——————-
A smuggled letter from Ofer Prison to Palestinian prisoners [Note: I don’t think this is translated properly – it probably should be to ‘Palestinians in the area’, or ‘neighboring Palestinians’ since the letter came FROM the Palestinian prisoners.]:
“Peace be upon you, from your brothers in the graves of the living in Ofer Prison, to our people abroad, a warm greeting. We will not talk about our situation, it is enough to tell you that we are dead and alive, but we have a request that we hope will not be too much for you. We hope that our people in Beitunia and Rafat (names of the towns adjacent to the prison) will raise the volume of the call to prayer or place loudspeakers near us, as the jailer has confiscated our watches and banned the call to prayer in the prison, so we do not know the time of the call to prayer, my dear ones.”
‘https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: teri | Sep 15 2024 0:25 utc | 84

https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1834493648832020613
Tiberius @ecomarxi
AOC has been more critical of Jill Stein for opposing genocide than she has of Kamala Harris for committing genocide, and I think that single sentence should put to bed any arguments, ever, that AOC is anything more than masquerading as a radical to advance neocon politics
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1835067241131589768
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Westerners are so morally bankrupt that I often find myself saying things like “Imagine if Kamala Harris live-streamed herself murdering a puppy” because talking about her support for an active genocide of human beings in the middle east doesn’t morally resonate with them.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1835005825565573551
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
A ground invasion is not expected. #Israel cannot invade #Lebanon or #Syria, but it can use its air force, continue to destroy, and extend the bombing to new areas. #Hezbollah can follow suit and reach #Haifa gradually and, if necessary, depending on how far Israel would go. Expect more IDPs on both sides. Netanyahu wants a permanent war.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 15 2024 2:42 utc | 86

Someone maybe whose name is fun to pronounce, just woke a lot of people up in yisrael.. it was so loud, hopefully it was heard clearly in the us and britain and throughout the west.

Posted by: NJH | Sep 15 2024 4:43 utc | 88

@ michaelj72 | Sep 15 2024 6:52 utc | 89
That is encouraging, as was the Hezbollah info above.
If only …… they can keep it going and cause much more problems for Israel, along with Iran, Syria and others.

Posted by: Escobar | Sep 15 2024 8:01 utc | 90

Hypersonic?
Can someone explain to me HOW this is a ‘hypersonic’ from Yemen?
Did they make it? Doubt it very much
So where did they get it?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 15 2024 9:20 utc | 92

So where did they get it?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 15 2024 9:20 utc | 92
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The Scud really kicked off missile technology transfer and international production.
https://tutorials.nti.org/delivery-system/case-study-north-koreas-scud-story/
After decades of experience, improvements and collaboration they’ve gotten quite good.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 15 2024 9:42 utc | 94

Hypersonic, and associated technical expertise, was my query
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 15 2024 9:48 utc | 95
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The patent for heat resistant re-entry tiles is expired.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7381459B1/en

The ceramics of the various embodiments are formed from four primary parts, three of which are shown in a composition diagram in FIG. 3. A first material component is tantalum disilicide (TaSi2), which can act as either the emittance agent or as the matrix itself, depending upon the composition. A second material component is molybdenum disilicide (MoSi2), which acts as a secondary emittance agent or as an oxygen getter within the finished composite. A third material component (optional) is tungsten disilicide (WSi2), which behaves in a manner similar to the first and/or second components. A fourth material component, borosilicate glass (B2O3•SiO2), acts as a source for boron and as an alternative matrix depending upon the composition. A fifth material component is silicon hexaboride (SiB6), which acts as a processing aid. The fifth component is a minor constituent and generally ranges from about 1-5 percent by weight of the total composition. As used herein, all composition percentages will be by weight unless otherwise noted.

Not only is the cat out of the bag, because the patent has expired it is available for commercialization.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 15 2024 10:05 utc | 96

updates given here: english.almayadeen.net/shortnews
Operation executed with new ballistic hypersonic missile that arrived at its target.
Yemeni sources: Yemen will not suffice itself with one target, and reaffirms to Israeli enemy that Yafa (tel Aviv) is not safe, and that it must take its threat seriously.
Yemeni Armed Forces spox: More than 2 million Zionist settlers fled to shelters for first time in Israeli history.
Yemeni Armed Forces: Our advanced technology is capable of bypassing all land-, sea-based defense systems.
We will remain committed to our religious, moral and humane obligation to support the Palestinian people.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1835236872613675238
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Yemen announced the missile was fired from 2040 km and reached its target in 11.5 minutes which means almost 9 Mach.
This is what #Iran can hit #Israel with and what #Yemen (and #Hezbollah) can do in case of a wider war before taking any decision.
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1835264034527957246
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
The Yemeni missile traveled over 2,000 kilometers, passing over two American destroyers and a French frigate operating in the Red Sea region

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 15 2024 10:51 utc | 98

@michaelj72 | Sep 15 2024 10:51 utc | 98
This is getting very interesting …

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 15 2024 11:02 utc | 100