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October 11, 2024
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We get an erie feeling as the blocks form, everyone is taking sides. Hard times for Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf Arabs who have to force their population to side with Usrael.
Posted by: Biochar | Oct 11 2024 13:39 utc | 1
So in retaliation for the Irainian misile strike, israel has invaded Irainian backed Lebanan, mostly by air bombing the inocent public and chikdren (a war crime)
What happens next ?
By who ?
And when ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 13:42 utc | 2
So in retaliation for the Irainian misile strike, israel has invaded Irainian backed Lebanan,
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 13:42 utc | 3
“Invaded” is perhaps too strong a word.
The iof crossed the border and got bent over a barrel.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 13:48 utc | 3
Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye today, both indispensable:
“….More than 20 years ago, a group of extreme ideologues known as the neoconservatives seized the foreign policy initiative during the presidency of George W Bush. They have since become a permanent foreign policy elite in Washington, whichever administration is in power.
“What is distinctive about the neoconservatives is the centrality of Israel to their worldview. They regard Israel’s unapologetic Jewish supremacism and militarism as a model for the West – one in which it returns to an unashamed white supremacism and militarism in a revived spirit of colonialism.
“Like Israel, the neoconservatives see the world in terms of a never-ending clash of civilisations against the so-called Muslim world. In this context, international law becomes an obstacle to the West’s victory, rather than a guarantee of global order.
“In addition, the neoconservatives view Israel as the battering ram to keep the US in charge of international affairs in the world’s main oil spigot, the Middle East. Israel lies at the heart of Washington’s policy of full-spectrum global dominance.
The neoconservatives have long been sold on Israel’s strategy for achieving such dominance in the Middle East: by Balkanising it. The aim has been to demand utter subservience to Israel, with any source of dissent not only punished, but the social structures that support it crushed into ruins.
“In Gaza, that method has been on full show. In destroying government buildings, universities, mosques, churches, libraries, schools, hospitals and even bakeries, Israel has sought to reduce the Palestinian population to the barest of human existence. National identity, and the desire to resist, are luxuries no one can afford. Survival is all.
“Israel is beginning to roll out the same scheme for the occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Iran….”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-war-wants-finish-job-washington-started-after-911
Posted by: bevin | Oct 11 2024 13:49 utc | 4
I don’t think I’ve read a more schizophrenic article/op-ed in the Guardian in quite sometime (see article link below). The writer, who presumes to be some sort of human rights expert, is perhaps attempting to be diplomatic in his insistence that the US is on the whole a global force for good when it comes to human rights, presumably both on its own and in the context of such ostensibly powerful and influential independent entities as the United Nations. However, contrary to this claim, lies the objective reality that the US, both before and after the collapse of the USSR, has been absolutely needlessly causing mass carnage throughout the world, most deceptively, yet demonstrably, and destructively in Iraq/Afghanistan, but also Libya and Syria (by funding ISIS).
Fundamentally the US, because of its incomparable size and wealth, is able and has been quite willing to engage in all manner of vastly destructive conspiracies in order to undermine states against which it has held grievances and vendettas for decades, such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, either by directly destroying these places or by covertly funding mujahideen and neo-mujahideen, such as ISIS, and potentially by co-opting Hamas and other black box operators, such as Hezbollah.
Obviously it doesn’t take a Chomsky to note that the best way to maintain peace in most of the world is by respecting the peace that already exists, whether it be in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, and especially China and Russia. Otherwise Anglo-Saxon style liberalism becomes a messianic pro-war ideology, the likes of which has rarely been seen on the world stage since the time of Hitler. However, as liberal practicioners (like the late Albright) would clearly tell one, the difference is in the end goals. Yes, the majority of the infrastructure that made Iraq an advanced country was intentionally targeted and destroyed by the US, but they assevere their end goals were righteous and just: destruction of non-existent WMDs and possibly even R2P.
Such is how neo-fascism in the West launders itself in the servile MSM press. Obviously this so-called virtuous cycle is ultimately about dollar hegemony. A cold hard fact against which everything else, not least of which the avowed aims of US-based established ‘human rights’ experts, is at a very distant extraneous remove from the preservation or pursuit of American military and economic hegemony.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/us-un-human-rights-israel
Posted by: Ludovic | Oct 11 2024 14:00 utc | 5
Arch Bungle @ 3
True enough, but they can continue to bomb and terrorise Lebanan from a safe distance, for a long time, cowards that they are. With less risk and damage to israel. So thats what their likely to do. Imagine the damage after a year, another Gaza.
Reward to risk equation.
Also the israelies like to brag and boast about their dirty tricks before during or after their sick actions.
Netinyhoo recently boasted about a surprise comeing for Iran, going by the pager incedent, i think we can beleave him. The scale of which we/Iran dont know.
My conclusion… Iran needs to defend itself ..premptively.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 14:03 utc | 6
Posted by: bevin | Oct 11 2024 13:49 utc | 5
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The US of A and the Zionist project have been exercising genocide for too long and they will continue until karma arrives and they get seriously punished for their evil deeds. That’s all what everyone needs to know.
Posted by: AI | Oct 11 2024 14:05 utc | 7
‘Letter from the soldier Moshe to Rabbi Shim ‘on Weiser
I could not arrive at a clear decision, whether Arabs should be treated like the
Amelekites, meaning that one is permitted to murder [sic] them until their
remembrance is blotted out from under heaven, or perhaps one should do
as in a just war, in which one kills only the soldiers?
Rabbi Reply:
‘The non-Jewish nations have a custom according to which war has its
own rules, like those of a game, like the rules of football or basketball. But
according to the sayings of our sages, of blessed memory, […] war for us is
not a game but a vital necessity, and only by this standard must we decide
how to wage it.’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 14:09 utc | 8
The Gaza Palestinians and their leaders deserve nothing less.
Posted by: Packard | Oct 11 2024 13:49 utc | 4
Some people in Germany in the 30’s and 40’s thought the same about the jews, the same desire to kill children that you and your country has now.
You will end in the same way or may be even worse than the nazi people, because at the end you are also a ethno supremacist, apartheid lovers, child murderers bunch of fascist
Posted by: Dave | Oct 11 2024 14:22 utc | 9
My conclusion… Iran needs to defend itself ..premptively.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 14:03 utc | 7
You are right.
And not just Iran but everyone.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:24 utc | 10
‘the descendants of the Jews of pre-1795 Poland (often called east-European Jews’ – as
opposed to Jews from the German cultural domain of the early 19th century,
including the present Austria, Bohemia and Moravia) now wield predominant
political power in Israel as well as in the Jewish communities in the USA and other
English-speaking countries;’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 11
Agreed, let’s nuke the fucking israelli cockroaches while we’re at it.
Posted by: Boo | Oct 11 2024 14:08 utc | 9
This is the riddle.
You are faced with a supreme evil.
Manifested in human flesh.
To destroy the evil, you must destroy the flesh.
But to destroy the flesh,
You must destroy the human,
And to destroy the human
You must become inhuman.
This is the Riddle.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 12
This is the Riddle.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 15
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Don’t elevate humans beyond the dirt they grow in.
Posted by: too scents | Oct 11 2024 14:31 utc | 14
‘Perhaps the most shocking example of this type is the delight with which some Zionist leaders in Germany welcomed Hitler’s rise to power, because they shared his Jewish History, Jewish Religion belief in the primacy of ‘race’ and his hostility to the assimilation of Jews among ‘Aryans’. They congratulated Hitler on his triumph over the common enemy – the forces of liberalism.
Dr Joachim Prinz, a Zionist rabbi who subsequently emigrated to the USA, where he rose to be vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress and a leading light in the World Zionist Organization’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 14:35 utc | 15
‘Perhaps the most shocking example of this type is the delight with which some Zionist leaders in Germany welcomed Hitler’s rise to power, because they shared his Jewish History, Jewish Religion belief in the primacy of ‘race’ and his hostility to the assimilation of Jews among ‘Aryans’. They congratulated Hitler on his triumph over the common enemy – the forces of liberalism.
Dr Joachim Prinz, a Zionist rabbi who subsequently emigrated to the USA, where he rose to be vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress and a leading light in the World Zionist Organization’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 14:35 utc | 16
And to destroy the human
You must become inhuman.
This is the Riddle.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 15
To destroy the human
You must become inhuman
To become inhuman
You must embrace Evil
Becoming Evil,
On what basis do you destroy Evil?
Om ma ne pad me om.
Om ma ne pad me om.
Om ma ne pad me om.
Buddham Saranam Gacchâmi.
Dhammam Saranam Gacchâmi.
Sangham Saranam Gacchâmi.
Dutiyampi Buddham Saranam Gacchâmi.
Dutiyampi Dhammam Saranam Gacchâmi.
Dutiyampi Sangham Saranam Gacchâmi.
Tatiyampi Buddham Saranarn Gacchâmi.
Tatiyampi Dhammam Saranam Gacchâmi.
Tatiyampi Sangham Saranam Gacchâmi.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:36 utc | 17
@ Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 15
Stream of conscious(conscience) … scroll on by …
Were the WWII French Resistance fighters against the Nazi occupation ‘Freedom Fighters’ or ‘Terrorists’ & ‘Human Animals’ ? Hague Conventions, Laws of War, etc declared inapplicable by the illegal occupying power …
Collective punishment, individual & mass reprisal, 100 at random selected for public execution, as death reprisals for each Wermacht soldier killed, 10 for each wounded. Entire villages, communities erased/exterminated for simply being near/or suspected of supporting a Resistance attack, just fer starters. The Nuremberg Trials, et al, created binding legal obligations in the form of the UN, Geneva Conventions, Humanitarian Law, revised Laws of War, etc … yet the world has been turned upside down, 24/hrs a day, online, in real-time, unfiltered & raw as never before.
Empire & it’s Vassal States & proxies are fully exposed, continuously revealed for what they truly are & represent …
Did the global forces behind the Third Reich truly lose, did the myth of Allied(?) victory by the ‘greatest generation’ (who’d be abhorred) happen as portrayed, given the decades long abhorrent revisionism … all the sacrifice, horror & loss only to now be unmasked, materially exposed.
Who defends basic humanity & decency now ? Who are the Freedom Fighters now, the designated ‘Terrorists’ … The Resistance ???
Are we, ‘the West’, truly become the ‘Baddies’ now ?
How did we permit this to come to pass …
Everything one held dear, believed, defended, served, held true beyond question, long ago exposed as a satanic(?) deceit …
Dissonance & denial just don’t cut it …
Scroll on by …
Don’t elevate humans beyond the dirt they grow in.
Posted by: too scents | Oct 11 2024 14:31 utc | 16
Isn’t that the whole point?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:42 utc | 19
In response to
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And to destroy the human
You must become inhuman.
This is the Riddle.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 15
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I see the China/Russia axis of resistance as being very human in their pursuit of other than the God Of Mammon barbaristic world. Please tell me where they are being inhuman.
@ bevin #5 with the good words from Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye today…thanks
Will humanity continue to allow people to be genocided and their lands appropriated like the US and other empire are known for? The very brazen attempt at that going on currently has not been stopped by the “human axis” and all keep waiting for that human effort that will make a difference…..I hope it comes soon.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 11 2024 14:45 utc | 20
Bevin quoting Johnathan Cook: “What is distinctive about the neoconservatives is the centrality of Israel to their worldview. They regard Israel’s unapologetic Jewish supremacism and militarism as a model for the West – one in which it returns to an unashamed white supremacism and militarism in a revived spirit of colonialism.”
So the same neocons that are for mass immigration to the point whites are minoritised in their own countries are “white supremacists”? LOL. Cook is a moron. This is about Jewish supremacism, and nothing else. BTW, Cooky, how many of those neocons are dual citizens, and how many of the rest have been bought by AIPAC?
Posted by: ADB | Oct 11 2024 14:45 utc | 21
Bevin, someone as intelligent as you certainly understands the history of empire and conquest. As has been repeatedly demonstrated over millenia, it’s the time/place (culture), not the actors, which define an era.
The current crop of Zionazis are just the latest group who happen to be nominally managing/directing the state. If they fail they will be replaced; in actuality, demographics dictates other generations will assume the helm anyway.
Just as a reminder that nothing is new under the sun, let us note a very quick recap of Gaul’s subjugation:
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Caesar captured Vercingetorix in the Battle of Alesia, which ended the majority of Gallic resistance to Rome.
As many as a million people (probably 1 in 5 of the Gauls) died, another million were enslaved, 300 clans were subjugated and 800 cities were destroyed during the Gallic Wars.
The entire population of the city of Avaricum (Bourges) (40,000 in all) were slaughtered. Before Julius Caesar’s campaign against the Helvetii (Switzerland), the Helvetians had numbered 263,000, but afterwards only 100,000 remained, most of whom Caesar took as slaves.
Posted by: Markw | Oct 11 2024 14:47 utc | 22
Isn’t that the whole point?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:42 utc | 20
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Participation awards are pointless ex post facto.
Posted by: too scents | Oct 11 2024 14:49 utc | 23
The Gaza Palestinians and their leaders deserve nothing less.
Posted by: Packard | Oct 11 2024 13:49 utc | 4
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The events in Gaza for the last year is truly a David and Goliath event. With the Palestinians having the rock and the sling shot trapped inside a 5 X25 mile prison, and the IDF armed with 2000 lb. bombs and guided missiles. If I were a Christian, I would reexamine my loyalty to the Zionist; God may be trying to tell you something.
And what Israel and their leaders deserve is a big one right in the in middle of Tel Aviv: Is that what you meant to say?
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 14:50 utc | 24
It’s always fun watching genocide supporters fall over themselves to say what Iran should or shouldn’t do. Lots of noise and desperation increasingly evident.
Unable to attack Iran without daddy Maerica, and with a chunk of their airforce smouldering wrecks, Usrael acts like a belligerent drunk who gets his ass handed to him at a bar then goes home and beats his wife and kids. They pretend murdering people in Gaza and Lebanon is ‘striking Iran’ but inside, their pride knows theyre gutless scum, and it infuriates the bloody minded toddlers.
What is known for sure is the bedwetting IDF gets murdered whenever they try any actual ground actions. Killing kids from the air they have perfected, but actual fighting? Not so much. The Zionazis don’t have stormtroopers, they have rapists and cowards. Tank parking lots. It’s a shitshow, these clowns are good only at provocation and murder.
Usrael has lost all credibility, any vestige of its reputation, amongst the few who still paid them any heed.
It’s a long slide to hell for these scumbags. They deserve it, unlike the children they’re shooting in the head.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 11 2024 14:50 utc | 25
Will humanity continue to allow people to be genocided and their lands appropriated like the US and other empire are known for? The very brazen attempt at that going on currently has not been stopped by the “human axis” and all keep waiting for that human effort that will make a difference…..I hope it comes soon.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 11 2024 14:45 utc | 20
No.
That era is over.
Technology will not allow colonialism to persist as it was in the past.
These are the last days of that era.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:52 utc | 26
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.”
Jonathan Lethem “The Ecstasy of Influence” Harper’s Feb. 2007
One such idea would be “progress”.
Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 11 2024 14:52 utc | 27
@ Markw | Oct 11 2024 14:47 utc | 22
Suggest, now take the next step … and adjust the numbers (total fatalities/etc) as a percentage of the total populations ~2 millennia ago, in comparison to today’s country & global populations … in comparison.
All by sword/spear/sling/club … without modern mass industrial warfare & high tech machines/weapons of death & destruction.
Raw numbers, out of context are akin to apples vs oranges. Orders of magnitude … though not live-streamed. online, unfiltered/uncensored, accessible globally 24/7 … as for today …
Read an idea from elsewhere and am curious about getting input from anyone here who understands the internal Middle East politics of countries:
If Israel and the US were to attack Iran, what are the odds that Azerbaijan would join in? And how impactful would they be in a strike on Iran?
Thanks
Posted by: Alienation | Oct 11 2024 15:01 utc | 29
So in retaliation for the Irainian misile strike, israel has invaded Irainian backed Lebanan, mostly by air bombing the inocent public and chikdren (a war crime)
Yes, in their minds this is retaliation, desperate to stir up an Iranian response. The fact it looks clownish and chickenshit doesn’t escape the bloodthirsty Usraelis. They feel humiliated but are afraid to actually attack Iran, for good reason. So Usrael will continue to murder soft targets and shy away from igniting the kind of kinetic action that sees their pusillanimous faces kicked in in such a way that would be impossible to obscure.
Maybe that war criminal Sullivan can make some more speeches about how hard they are, how tough their response will be. Keep talking it’s what they’re good at..big words. They’re puffed up coward scumbags, every one of them.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 11 2024 15:01 utc | 30
‘The ancient Chinese sage Mencius (4th century BC), much admired by Voltaire,
once wrote:
This is why I say that all men have a sense of commiseration: here is a man
who suddenly notices a child about to falI into a well. Invariably he will feel a sense
of alarm and compassion. And this is not for the purpose of gaining the favor of the
child’s parents or of seeking the approbation of his neighbors and friends, or for fear
of blame should he fail to rescue it. Thus we see that no man is without a sense of
compassion or a sense of shame or a sense of courtesy or a sense of right and wrong.
The sense of compassion is the beginning of humanity, the sense of shame is the
beginning of righteousness, and sense of courtesy is the beginning of decorum, the
sense of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Every man has within himself
these four beginnings, just as he has four limbs. Since everyone has these four
beginnings within him, the man who considers himself incapable of exercising them
is destroying himself.
We have seen above, and will show in greater detail in the next chapter how far
removed from this are the precepts with which the Jewish religion in its classical and
talmudic form is poisoning minds and hearts.’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 15:06 utc | 31
Also let’s dispense with the fiction, as b exhorted in his recent article, that there is any difference between Maerica and Israel. They are one. It is a useful fiction – like Ukraine -to pretend Israels actions aren’t controlled and fully sanctioned by the US. The US is in complete control, this is their proxy. Hence Usrael.
‘Where were you during the genocide, grandpa?’ https://youtu.be/dtoWptrhPOM?si=cKtavy96l2dzPxWL I found this quite powerful and a reminder of just how abhorrent Israel’s actions are.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 11 2024 15:06 utc | 32
Seldom have I read a more pertinent, to the point short article than this one by Bob Moriarty:
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty100924.html
Posted by: g wiltek | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 33
No.
That era is over.
Technology will not allow colonialism to persist as it was in the past.
These are the last days of that era.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:52 utc | 26
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Not so fast Arch, AI Technology seems to be aiding the advancement of a very dark form of dystopian colonialism.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 34
Not so fast Arch, AI Technology seems to be aiding the advancement of a very dark form of dystopian colonialism.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 34
AI? The technology in which the Chinese have the highest number of patents?
Think again …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 15:10 utc | 35
Not so fast Arch, AI Technology seems to be aiding the advancement of a very dark form of dystopian colonialism.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 34
AI is and always has been bullpucky. To get a human like intelligence, you need a human-like body and sensory apparatus, and a long period of education. It would be nice if it was cheap, self-repairing, and self-reproducing like we are too.
Arch is right, the to-be-subjugated know the score, and they can handle all that modern tech just fine. For 100 years now the colonizers have been trying to keep their old game alive, and losing all the way.
Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 11 2024 15:15 utc | 36
Doctor Eleven @ 30
You / we have just nailed it !
We have in a couple of comments found israels….. ‘Achillies Heel’.
They like to inflict pain on the vonrable.
But hate feeling pain them selves.
Thats the way forward. The deterent.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 15:16 utc | 37
Alienation@1501
Now that Russia has proven that they are NOT “a gas station masquerading as a nation”…the title goes to Azerbaijan. They were able to defeat a terribly led Armenia due to a huge military boost by “Sultan” Erdogan of Turkey. Against Iran they would simply be conquered and cease to exist as a Soviet created nation state.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 11 2024 15:20 utc | 38
One such idea would be “progress”.
Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 11 2024 14:52 utc | 27
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Progress for whom? Progress for the greater part of humanity and progress for the elite wealthy few are two different things. Progress for the elite means better ways to control the majority while the majority produces wealth for the elite. Everything comes back to class struggle for control of resources and the abality to control how those resources are distributed.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 15:21 utc | 39
ADB | Oct 11 2024 14:45 utc | 21
the same neocons that are for mass immigration to the point whites are minoritised in their own countries are “white supremacists”? This is about Jewish supremacism, and nothing else.
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Not an American and/or not a capitalist?
By far and away the biggest driver behind white replacement are higher status whites. And not just the bourgeoisie either; working class business owners (trades, commerce) vastly prefer Hispanic employees.
[Who in their turn continue the cycle. Now, almost all contractors in SoCal speak English with a Spanish accent and run their own crews of recent arrivals.]
To understand the West, you must view it as an annual garden. There is constant turnover and crop rotation – no one gets to rest on their laurels.
The mistake white ‘Muricans made is believing the country was “theirs”. Like a woman, it’s not yours but rather just your turn.
One can criticize neo liberal policies and engage in debates about social justice, but that wont protect you from the realities of being propertyless in your 50s on.
It’s a tough, vicious, cruel world. The only counter to power is power. I have said for years in advising against political activism (ie you cant vote yourself out the situation) is that the only way to reform the system is the imposition of force by a bigger bully.
We are witnessing this universal truth in real time.
Posted by: Markw | Oct 11 2024 15:23 utc | 40
The Irish have a spot of history with centuries of anti-colonial struggles against the English imperialists … hence their support for The Palestinians …
US political adviser resigns after calling for Israel to ‘drop napalm’ over Irish peacekeepers
A former adviser to the Trump administration has resigned from his position as an adviser to a Republican candidate for congress following a deleted X/Twitter post he made last week calling for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to drop napalm over where Irish peacekeepers are currently stationed in Lebanon.
[…] In his post, Mr Brodsky, who is also a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank the Gold Institute for International Strategy, stated that Israel “should carpet bomb the Irish area and then drop napalm over it”.
His post was later deleted.
In a separate post on October 5, Mr Brodsky, quote-tweeted a post from another user on the Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, saying: “I hope every one of those useless POS Irishmen are blasted to bits.”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41493389.html
May I assume that Mr. Brodsky remains a ‘senior fellow’ at the Gold Institute for International Strategy?
https://www.goldiis.org/
Matthew R. J. Brodsky
Senior Fellow
Matthew R.J. Brodsky is a Middle East expert, geopolitical analyst. Previously, he was the Director of Policy for the Washington, DC-based think tank, the Jewish Policy Center (JPC) and Editor of the JPC’s journal, inFOCUS Quarterly. Before joining the JPC, Mr. Brodsky was a Legacy Heritage Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). He has briefed members of Congress, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, Special Operations Command, and the National Security Council.
https://www.goldiis.org/unnamed-cbe39abc-0023-42b3-87cb-e083e847289d
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 11 2024 15:24 utc | 41
Some people in Germany in the 30’s and 40’s thought the same about the jews, the same desire to kill children that you and your country has now.
You will end in the same way or may be even worse than the nazi people, because at the end you are also a ethno supremacist, apartheid lovers, child murderers bunch of fascist
Posted by: Dave | Oct 11 2024 14:22 utc | 9
The way the nazis ended was that the jew-owned western countries saved all the real nazis and put the worst ones in charge of things like Nato and NASA. Random other people were then tortured to confess imaginary crimes in the Nurnberg trials and executed.
It’s very possible that the current nazis will have the same “fate”, soon living peacefully somewhere far away with their riches.
Plus it’s always worth remembering that only jews can do a Nurnberg trial.
Posted by: Michael A | Oct 11 2024 15:27 utc | 42
Now that Russia has proven that they are NOT “a gas station masquerading as a nation”…the title goes to Azerbaijan. They were able to defeat a terribly led Armenia due to a huge military boost by “Sultan” Erdogan of Turkey. Against Iran they would simply be conquered and cease to exist as a Soviet created nation state.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 11 2024 15:20 utc | 38
Thanks.
As for “gas station masquerading as a country”: the country that best fits this description is actually Canada (with some real estate thrown in, I guess)
Posted by: Alienation | Oct 11 2024 15:27 utc | 43
@ Arch Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 13
The riddle leaves out crucial context which is that all men and women eventually die. One may kill them one by one but their supremacist, aggressively violent, militarist belief system will live on if it itself is not extinguished, countered by truth and humane values & deeds which embrace peace, harmony and the well being of all.
If an individual is going to murder many, then the taking of that person’s life does not render one inhuman imo. The problem however is having accurate foresight, the wisdom to act without error and even then he who kills will suffer the karmic result. One still remains human, perhaps becoming an animal in the next rebirth if one thinks according to endless beginingness of the ground of consciousness.
Given the horrors we are witnessing, obviously wisdom and insight did not prevail when it could have prevented genocide and militant violence against innocents despite our long sorrowful history. We are left with looking in the mirror and with the challenges of fixing what’s wrong with full understanding of the power of modern technology and unaccountable capital.
Remove the odious system which cultivates odious thought. This is a must.
Posted by: suzan | Oct 11 2024 15:29 utc | 44
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:36 utc | 17
Yes.
My translation (hopefully useful):
Om Mani Padme Hum: The Jewel is in the Lotus
(You are the lotus, growing from the earth, blossoming (awakening) but not yet fully awake. Within you lies the jewel waiting to be discovered (that at your core which does not perish, the great universal power of which you are a part. Unconditional Love.)
Buddham Saranam Gacchâmi: I go to the Buddha for refuge
Dhammam Saranam Gacchâmi: I go to the Dhamma (Pure Mind) for refuge
Sangham Saranam Gacchâmi: I go to the Sangha (Community of Buddhists) for refuge
Dutiyampi: For the second time…
Titayampi: For the third time…
Tat tvam asi. (Thou art That)
“Throw me in the fire now. Love is what remains.” — from a song by Joan Osborne
Posted by: Clever Dog | Oct 11 2024 15:31 utc | 45
Don’t elevate humans beyond the dirt they grow in.
Posted by: too scents | Oct 11 2024 14:31 utc | 16
Perhaps the author has not developed beyond the dirt that he arrived in. But the vast majority of Humanity is far more than that. Good and Evil (outside the extremism of Religions edicts) are choices, partly innate, partly learned. Therein is the only hope for humanity and the only possible end of dark absurdities.
The earth has far more resources than necessary to feed all humanity. Malthus was and will continue to be wrong. And the rate of growth of population is on a decline which will result in a peak population in the next decade or so.
The yet unsolved issue is how to stop the killings, to diminish the Neanderthal references to killing your neighbors by referencing self-supporting edicts from anachronistic writings of your fearful ancestors.
Posted by: kupkee | Oct 11 2024 15:32 utc | 46
Arch is right, the to-be-subjugated know the score, and they can handle all that modern tech just fine. For 100 years now the colonizers have been trying to keep their old game alive and losing all the way.
Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 11 2024 15:15 utc | 36
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I don’t know, neo-Colonialism seems to be thriving. The west has formed a colossal neo-colonial system via the US, the EU, and NATO.
By the way, the concern with AI that I have is not “Robots,” it is devices that allow the state to intrude into our personal affairs and control our thoughts and redirect our activities.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 15:32 utc | 47
Talmudic rules:
when it comes to a Gentile, ‘one must not lift one’s hand to harm him, but one may harm him indirectly, for instance by removing a ladder after he had fallen into a crevice … there is no prohibition here, because it was not done directly’
He [rabbi] points out, however, that an act leading indirectly to a Gentile’s death is forbidden if it may cause the spread of hostility towards Jews.’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 15:36 utc | 48
@Alienation | Oct 11 2024 15:01 utc | 29
1000/1
Azerbaijan expelled the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabah, with the full support of Turkey, so not interested in getting involved in further. It is content with this major victory. Its oil also goes to Israel through Turkey. It is a Turkic nation. Further, Hamas is on site so its leadership doesn’t wish to join the de-capitated legion in the region.
Will Erdogan get involved? A better question. 999/1
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 11 2024 15:38 utc | 49
This is why I say that all men have a sense of commiseration: here is a man
who suddenly notices a child about to falI into a well. Invariably he will feel a sense
of alarm and compassion. And this is not for the purpose of gaining the favor of the
child’s parents or of seeking the approbation of his neighbors and friends, or for fear
of blame should he fail to rescue it. Thus we see that no man is without a sense of
compassion or a sense of shame or a sense of courtesy or a sense of right and wrong.
The sense of compassion is the beginning of humanity, the sense of shame is the
beginning of righteousness, and sense of courtesy is the beginning of decorum, the
sense of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Every man has within himself
these four beginnings, just as he has four limbs. Since everyone has these four
beginnings within him, the man who considers himself incapable of exercising them
is destroying himself.
This quote is from Mencius. That sense of commiseration is usually called in English today, empathy. Psychopathy is an abnormal inability to feel empathy for the pain and suffering of others. Combined with other traits, this abnormality can be part of a person who is destructive of the social order, hence the tendency to blend psychopathy with a catchall term, AntiSocial Personality Disorder. There are two failings in Mencius, one is the prescientific misunderstanding that Man is just as biological as every other living organism: All of them are varied. The other is that lack of empathy for other humans can be learned. Sometimes it is consciously implanted, as in basic military training or—my opinion here—the average MBA program. All such dehumanization of enemies can be advocated as patriotism or MAGA. In terms of contributing useful understanding of our world today, Mencius as is, is merely moral suasion conducted on false premises.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 11 2024 15:39 utc | 50
The West/USReal Machinations & the quiet part said out loud- The Dog/Tail – The New Middle East/Russia theatre move—
Long – Long article, filled with delusions, but insight into the plots, which shed light on the rampage.
Highlights: (not in order)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-the-west-including-israel-should-help-ukraine-fight-russia-in-syria/ar-AA1s2BQ0
“Opinion: The West, **including Israel, should help Ukraine fight Russia in Syria”
“Since mid-2024, Ukraine has launched a series of targeted strikes against Russian military assets in Syria. Building on this momentum, Ukraine has the potential to further weaken the Russia-Iran alliance in the region by continuing to disrupt Moscow’s entrenched military presence.”
“Ukraine’s military intelligence has already started engaging Russian assets in Syria. For instance, in June, Ukrainian special forces attacked Russian positions in **Syria’s Golan Heights, as Ukraine attempted to ***undermine Moscow’s military footprint in the region.**
It was also reported that Russia used its outposts in the Golan Heights to monitor Israel’s use of Western weapons in Syria to learn how to more effectively counter similar Western arms in Ukraine.”
“Targeting Russian assets throughout the Middle East and Africa would be beneficial over the medium term. Still, it remains the most plausible and useful approach would be to expand on Ukraine’s existing campaign against Russian military assets in Syria.”
“Finally, the benefits to the West would be Russia’s ability to project power and support its regional allies, **potentially damaging its standing in the Middle East and ******allowing Western powers to **reassert** their position in the region.”
“Ukrainian military operations targeting Russian interests in Syria could also serve as a powerful deterrent against future Russian provocations, such as efforts to further ***destabilize the Middle East by supplying anti-ship cruise missiles to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias”
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 11 2024 15:55 utc | 51
@steven t johnson | Oct 11 2024 15:39 utc | 50
Are you citing Lucretius?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 11 2024 15:57 utc | 52
‘If a Jew murders a Gentile, he is regarded as a murderer,
except for the fact that no court has the right to punish him’
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 16:00 utc | 53
“In particular, a Jewish doctor must not treat a Gentile patient. Maimonides –
himself an illustrious physician – is quite explicit on this; in another passage he
repeats the distinction between ‘thy fellow’ and a Gentile, and concludes: ‘and from
this learn ye, that it is forbidden to heal a Gentile even for payment…’
Thus Maimonides continues: ‘ … but if you fear him or his
hostility, cure him for payment, though you are forbidden to do so without payment.”
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 16:09 utc | 54
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 15:10 utc | 35 AI? The technology in which the Chinese have the highest number of patents?
How is this significant? Any government that choose can use someone else’s patented work in a weapon of some sort. It would be fairly difficult to know unless the offending countries publicly announced it and what would the patent holding country do?
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 11 2024 16:12 utc | 55
This story have any legs: https://en.majalla.com/node/322499/business-economy/bunker-busting-bombs-could-also-be-targeting-hezbollah-cash-reserves ?
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 11 2024 16:21 utc | 56
‘One Saturday the building collapses; one of the ten – it is not known which one – is away, but the other nine are trapped under the rubble. Should the rubble be cleared, thus desecrating the sabbath, seeing that the Jew may not be under it (he may have been the one that got away)? The Shulhan ‘Arukh says that it should, presumably because the odds that the Jew is under the rubble are high (nine to one).
But now suppose that nine have got away and only one – again, it is not known which one – is trapped. Then there is no duty to clear the rubble, presumably because this time there are long odds (nine to one) against the Jew being the person trapped’
This is unfortunately a most utilitarian immorality.
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 16:23 utc | 57
from Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 11 2024 16:25 utc | 58
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 11 2024 14:41 utc | 18
Could you please named just one french village erased by the nazis.
Thanks
Posted by: Roberto | Oct 11 2024 16:26 utc | 59
But to destroy the flesh,
You must destroy the human,
And to destroy the human
You must become inhuman.
This is the Riddle.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 11 2024 14:28 utc | 12
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But us “the human” the flesh? Or is “the human” the soul & spirit which inhabit the flesh?
The destiny of the child killers is set. Hope the enjoy the heat because because the flames of Gehenna burn & eternity is a long, long time.
The child’s destiny is unknown. Rebirth? straight to “heaven?”
Posted by: Mary | Oct 11 2024 16:38 utc | 60
Interesting yet seemingly counterintuitive suggestion that resistance leaders might be especially targeted if they are willing to agree to a ceasefire. The corollary being that a resistance leader who’ll keep up their end of the conflict might be goal of assassination strikes.
https://t.me/bayraktar1070/2784
“Malyavas” and “Roads” of Hamas
Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar contacted members of the group after a long silence. Earlier, the media speculated that Sinwar could have been killed in the Gaza Strip. However, the Israeli authorities said they could neither confirm nor deny this. Sinwar has not been seen in public since the beginning of the war last fall. But there is no exact information about his whereabouts.
At the same time, the Israeli army announced the day before that it had eliminated the commander of Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut, Suheil Hussein Husseini. The commander was responsible for arms supplies from Iran.
The hunt for Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is ongoing. As the assassination of Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah showed, an 18-meter bunker does not protect against several high-precision depth charges launched one after another, like billiard balls into a pocket. Israeli aviation carried out these strikes based on the combined data of its intelligence. They hit several locations where Nasrallah was likely to be. Most likely, artificial intelligence was used for these calculations.
However, Yahya Sinwar is still alive. And a number of experts attribute this to a special communication system that resembles our prison mail – “malyavas” and “dorogi”.
Sinwar also spent time in prison, albeit in Israel. He was arrested in 1988. Hamas members transmitted their “malyavas” through couriers who wrapped handwritten letters in white bread, rolled them into balls, and then allowed them to dry and harden. These balls were then thrown from one section of the prison to another. Needless to say, the messages themselves were coded.
It is believed that this low-tech communication system, perfected in prison, protects Sinwar from the Israeli intelligence network. Sinwar largely avoids phone calls, text messages, and other electronic communications that Israel can monitor. Instead, he uses a sophisticated system of couriers that allows him to direct Hamas operations.
A typical message is handwritten and first passed to a trusted Hamas member, then passed through a chain of couriers, some of whom may be civilians. The messages are often coded, with different codes for different recipients, circumstances, and times, based on a system that Sinwar and other prisoners developed while in Israeli jails. The note may then reach an Arab middleman who has traveled to Gaza, or another Hamas member who uses a telephone or other method to send it to Hamas representatives abroad. The transmission of messages seems to be extremely time-consuming. But when it is urgently needed, Sinwar’s messages arrive quickly – in near real time.
Although I will express another opinion. Considering that the Israeli government is deliberately escalating the conflict, they may need Yahya Sinwar as a supporter of continuing the war. Exactly one year after its beginning, Hamas declared that they were ready to wage a long war of attrition.
But the Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah accepted the offer of de-escalation and a ceasefire on the eve of his murder. The same fate befell the head of the Hamas Politburo Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, who negotiated through intermediaries in Qatar and Egypt. This high-profile murder obviously disrupted them and added fuel to the fire in the Middle East.
And the East, as comrade Sukhov said, is a delicate matter. Who knows what is hidden from our eyes in these underground tunnels of politics. In the meantime, we only see missile strikes on Israel, ground bombings on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
And something tells me that if the SVO ever enters into negotiations with the West, there will also be many who want to add fuel to the fire. Everything will be very difficult.
S. Shilov
Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 11 2024 16:47 utc | 61
Re: IDF KIA/WIA ?
Question Barflies – if, as reported by Israeli Hospitals, IDF WIA by mid December was 10,000…..1) what do you estimate IDF KIA/WIA by 1.Oct ?
2) What do you estimate the monthly run rate of IDF KIA/WIA now that they are throwing fighters against the Lebanese Fortress ?
Posted by: Exile | Oct 11 2024 16:51 utc | 62
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 11 2024 14:50 utc | 25
I enjoy reading your prose-this one was one of your best.
@Roberto | Oct 11 2024 16:26 utc |
https://www.destination-limoges.com/en/la-destination/incontournables/village-martyr-centre-memoire-doradour-sur-glane/
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 11 2024 16:55 utc | 64
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 11 2024 15:57 utc | 52 asks if I was citing Lucretius: No, I was pasting a quote from Mencius that was part of a comment from a poster who I cannot respect enough to name any more.
Posted by: Roberto | Oct 11 2024 16:26 utc | 59 asks for a French village obliterated by the Nazis, which I believe is ironic/sarcastic? At any rate, https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/oradour-sur-glane-martyred-village
Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 11 2024 16:57 utc | 65
I would like to correct an injustice being perpetrated here on MOA.
Someone keeps wrongly posting “Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years”
This is untrue, and I’d like to provide the evidence.
Please see this indisputable 1,000 year old document describing the beginning of the wrongly labeled “jew” in the year 740 A.D.:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/khazars1.asp
Of “God’s chosen people”, “jew” was only 7 percent of the “God’s chosen” and the tribe of Judah was but one of thirteen tribes. When the nation state of Israel divided into t countries, and the country then called Judah composing two and a half of the thirteen tribes went to war against the then called country of Israel, and the Judah killed the then israelis, do you think the israelis being killed by the Judah called themselves “jew”? (NO, not even a little bit)
Noah had 3 sons, Ham Shem and Jepheth
All “Semites” are decendents of “Shem”, and anyone a decendent of Ham or Jepheth are by the very definition of the word NOT S(h)emites.
Trom Genesis chapter 10:
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10:1] These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.
[10:2] The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
[10:3] The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Did you read the name “Ashkanaz”, and that he was a descendent Japheth?
So, in 740 AD an empire of tens of millions Europeans all decided to call themselves, wrongly I might add, the name of 7 % of the then 1,000 year extinct but legendary country.
Assad of Syria is a jew, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is a jew, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya was a jew but Bibi Nut&Yahoo is NOT a real jew,he’s a European “Ashkanazi” imposter.
And when the poster on MOA writes (copy pasta) “the weight of 3,000 years, you should tell him how he has posted a falsehood. (Maybe he’s to dumb to understand he’s doing something bad?)
Posted by: Hot Carl | Oct 11 2024 17:11 utc | 66
“Israel has the right to defend itself”
A brief statement, which has rhetorically been the most harmful and deliberately misleading phrase of the past year. As a trope of information management, it is presented uncritically as a rote statement of fact, even as it justifies the most horrendous crimes and provides alibi to the worst criminals.
What Israel is doing is not “self-defence”. As an occupying power, its “right” is tempered by responsibilities which have been handled negligently.
Most striking though, is the mantra of a “right” to self-defence – as expressed by US, Europeans, etc – does not apply to the people Israel is bombing. Those people have no rights at all. The Western ceasefire schemes presented for Gaza and Lebanon demand complete subjection of these people. The racial construct of who is permitted “self-defence” and who suffers the consequence is obvious as well, if largely unspoken (in the west).
The west is currently plotting with Israel to punish Iran for practicing exactly the “self-defence” which is otherwise lauded. It is an open conspiracy to escalate the criminal activity, prominently discussed in the major mainstream media with no comment or context other than “Israel has the right to defend itself”.
The UN, for its faults, remains the agreed international institution. The US has neutered the UNSC and GA, and other bodies it has controlled or corrupted such as ICC. However, the UN organizations uncorrupted – UNRWA, UNIFIL, and others – have been unrelenting in condemning these atrocities and their front-line personnel have been paying a high price for their integrity. Every crime witnessed has been carefully recorded and archived, and the arrogant assumption of impunity will yet face some “big surprises.”
Posted by: jayc | Oct 11 2024 17:33 utc | 67
Pretty good video now up at the Duran. My take is they believe the neocon faction supporting Ukraine has lost out. Project Iran is now the neocon main event. Israel with US military assistance will SOON make major strikes against oil and nuclear facilities as well as decapitation strikes against the leadership of Iran. They also believe regime change will be attempted involving the crown prince as they called him.
Well worth a viewing, they’re talking sense whether you like the two hosts or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1kC-hDoZSw
Posted by: morongobill | Oct 11 2024 17:35 utc | 68
@ Doctor Eleven | Oct 11 2024 14:50 utc | 25
Truth. Well said.
@ Roberto | Oct 11 2024 16:26 utc | 59
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, 10th June 1944, by elements of SS Division Das Reich. The destroyed remains of the village a remembrance memorial.
Yet you already new that, did you not, literate sock provocateur. So, FOAD. Would you like fries with that ?
I recall that the English and Americans killed 26,000 French civilians in the run-up to the Normady invasion, all in the Normandy region.
Posted by: Exile | Oct 11 2024 17:56 utc | 70
Re: Seldom have I read a more pertinent, to the point short article than this one by Bob Moriarty:
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty100924.html
Posted by: g wiltek | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 33
Thx. Read and was a good article.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 11 2024 18:02 utc | 71
A “decapitation strike” against Iran’s senior leadership certainly fits the bill of a signature neocon scheme, but the consequences of such an attack on a major BRICS country will be severe for the US.
There does seem to be a brake high in US power circles. Trump alluded to it during his debate with Harris when he said Ukraine missile attacks into Russia could not be permitted because “Russia has nuclear weapons.” Biden had also inferred the same.
Posted by: jayc | Oct 11 2024 18:05 utc | 72
@61
But the Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah accepted the offer of de-escalation
We’ve had zero confirmation from hezbollah that this was true and not complete media fiction.
Posted by: Meh | Oct 11 2024 18:53 utc | 73
The World Food Programme (WFP) is utterly compromised – its head Cindy McCain has attended IDF fund raising events – yet she has the sheer bloody cheek to comment – that things are bad in Gaza for the Palestinian people. Cindy McCain is the second wife of the now deceased US politician John McCain – Cindy also participates in the McCain Institute – of which its chair is a Rothschild.
The previous (WFP) Director Josette Sheeran, she was/is still, a US deep state functionary, and also a member of the McCain Institute.
https://www.passblue.com/2023/11/20/the-world-food-programs-boss-faces-backlash-for-attending-an-event-honoring-israel/
“The World Food Programme (WFP) has reported that it has been forced to suspend distribution of food parcels across all of Gaza, and food distribution “in any form” in north Gaza, as Palestinians across the region starve due to Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade.
The group said on Wednesday that aid entry into Gaza has hit its lowest point in months and that food distribution has been halted this month. “If the flow of assistance does not resume, one million vulnerable people will be deprived of this lifeline,” the group said in a statement. Commercial goods are also in short supply.
Worse, in northern Gaza — where Israeli forces have been carrying out a horrific raid with the seeming goal of eliminating every Palestinian in the region — the group said that it cannot distribute any type of food, with kitchens forced to shut down. In May, WFP head Cindy McCain had already warned that there was a “full-blown famine” in the north, and Israel’s raid and blockade are now making a dire situation even worse.”
https://truthout.org/articles/israels-blockade-bars-wfp-from-distributing-food-in-any-form-in-north-gaza/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 11 2024 18:54 utc | 74
Posted by: bevin | Oct 11 2024 13:49 utc | 4
Excellent !
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 11 2024 18:54 utc | 75
@ south re #8
Rabbi Reply:
‘The non-Jewish nations have a custom according to which war has its
own rules, like those of a game, like the rules of football or basketball. But
according to the sayings of our sages, of blessed memory, […] war for us is
not a game but a vital necessity, and only by this standard must we decide
how to wage it.’
The rabbi understands war in an abstract mathematical way as if the Jewish people lived on a separate universe. War is a human thing, not a robotic game. The warring parties, at the end of the conflict, end up living among a society of nations. Other countries will eventually rally against a cruel and genocidal country that can’t live peacefully among its neighbors. Beibg cruel without empathy is also acting stupidly and suffering consequences. The time for payback will come when the US loses its hegemon status and that will be apparent when the Saudis abd Jordan join the axis of resistance. My guess,
Posted by: Richard L | Oct 11 2024 18:55 utc | 76
Posted by: jayc | Oct 11 2024 18:05 utc | 72
I’d like to believe they chickened out of a direct Iran strike, though who knows? Maybe the thinking is to clear Gaza (and eventually the West Bank) and Lebanon up to at least the Litani, without getting into a hot war with Iran. Wouldn’t that be a pretty good outcome from their POV?
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 11 2024 19:02 utc | 77
By far and away the biggest driver behind white replacement are higher status whites. And not just the bourgeoisie either; working class business owners (trades, commerce) vastly prefer Hispanic employees.
Posted by: Markw | Oct 11 2024 15:23 utc | 40
So, that would be a “petty bourgeois”. The working class don’t own businesses. And, hate to break it to you, but Hispanics are also American workers.
You’re a pretty good troll, Mark. Just enough truth to push the lie.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 11 2024 19:04 utc | 78
Not unusual for the Zionist – they’ve already murdered a plethora of UNRWA personnel – not to mention dozens of journalists – and in some cases members of their families.
Israel is a rogue state – it is answerable to no one – it does what it wants, kills who it likes – and it will continue to do so until it is stopped – and only force will stop these evil Zionists, from completing their genocide – and their plans for a Greater Israel.
“Israel has faced international condemnation – after a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, reported on Thursday that two of its members – had been injured by Israeli tank fire.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 11 2024 19:10 utc | 79
Israel has become a sick rabid state that has no respect for human life or International Law: What is to be done?
You put a rabid animal down for its own sake, and for the sake of others’ safety.
Then what do you do if someone uses a sick rabid animal to attack others for its own benefit? Joe Biden has doing just that; he is using the sick rabid state of Israel to help shape US foreign policy in the Middle East, and apparently, the US has been doing this since 1948, so it is not an individual problem, but a systemic problem related to U.S. policy making in both political parties: Imagine a state with veto power using that power to protect “Herr” Hitler before and during WW2? Well, that is the very relationship that the U.S. has with Herr Mad Dog Bibi Netanyahu: So, what is to be done?
The first thing the international community must do is remove the veto power from the United States, because it is no longer a responsible and trusted entity among the pantheon of civilized nations, and apperently, it hasent been for sometime now.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 11 2024 19:11 utc | 80
anon2020 | Oct 11 2024 16:47 utc | 61
“@61 But the Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah accepted the offer of de-escalation
We’ve had zero confirmation from hezbollah that this was true and not complete media fiction.”
Posted by: Meh | Oct 11 2024 18:53 utc | 73
That is false we have had strong confirmation. The Lebanese ambassador to the UN that was there negotiating the ceasefire confirmed this in an interview the following day.
He also confirmed that France and the US had agreement from the Israelis on the ceasefire.
In short it was a setup for and assassination. This is the third time when high level negotiations involved a operation to assassinate a senior negotiator on the resistance side.
It’s kind of sick that France and the US are now trying to revive the negotiations.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Oct 11 2024 19:14 utc | 81
With Gaza and Lebanon in mind – I’d say those Western proxy states fear reprisals from Iran – if the Zionists strike the Iranian energy sector.
“Several Arab states in the Persian Gulf have lobbied the US to restrain Israel from striking Iranian oil facilities, fearing that Tehran could take revenge by hitting their production and disrupting global markets.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly told Washington they will not allow Israeli jets to use their airspace for an attack.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 11 2024 19:17 utc | 82
Seldom have I read a more pertinent, to the point short article than this one by Bob Moriarty:
Posted by: g wiltek | Oct 11 2024 15:07 utc | 33
Is that the very same Bob Moriarty who throughout the whole of 2023 said it’s much, much bigger than a banking collapse, entire financial system is bankrupt, the world is functionally bankrupt, and I quote – in 2023, promised we are going to have more change in the next 6 months than the last 50 years.
That Bob Moriarty ? Did he apologise to the public for lying to them ?
No thanks , I’ll give that gold bug a pass thank you. Stupid is as stupid does.
You know, when a weatherman every night predicts a storm. I tend to look elsewhere for my weather forecasts.
Bob Moriarty, Jimmy Dore, the judge and everyone else involved in the latest version of the ” pump and dump scam ” are going to have to pay the piper soon enough. Just like the newspaper stock pickers in the 90’s that got their hands caught in the till.
You do realise without the wars escalating, it is going to be a dejavu moment all over again.
Here:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=10895
You do realise that don’t you ? Will Bob Moriarty apologise or keep shearing the flock ?
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 11 2024 19:26 utc | 83
‘Unprecedented’ – Rights Group Files ICC Case against 1,000 Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes in Gaza
(excerpt)… The “meticulously collected evidence demonstrates the extent of their participation in violations of international law”.
A Belgium-based rights group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, has filed “an unprecedented and historical complaint” with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against 1,000 Israeli soldiers for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the Gaza Strip.
“These individuals, all of whom have been identified by name, are accused of participating in systematic attacks against civilians during the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the organization, affiliated with the March 30 Movement, said in a statement this week….
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/unprecedented-rights-group-files-icc-case-against-1000-israeli-soldiers-for-war-crimes-in-gaza/
Comment – Lawfare will expand its tesch and scope against the Genociders and their enablers. To be continued
Posted by: Exile | Oct 11 2024 19:29 utc | 84
@81
Like I said, we’ve had zero corroboration from Hezbollah that there were any negotiations.
France and USA are suppliers are to the Israeli death machine, so their statements are worthless.
I don’t know the specifics of the Lebanese ambassador but I do know Lebanon is a fractured country with many anti-hezbollah factions.
There’s been absolutely no statement from Hezbollah indicating they were betrayed or engaged in ceasefire negotiations. They always predicated a ceasefire to the situation in Gaza.
Posted by: Meh | Oct 11 2024 19:32 utc | 85
“The working class don’t own businesses.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 11 2024 19:04 utc | 78
And I hate to break it to you, but you would be dead in less than a month without all the working class business owners that keep the Parasite Class and Monopoly businesses alive.
Posted by: kupkee | Oct 11 2024 19:42 utc | 86
I believe the financial system is bankrupt. It is just a matter of time. I have gold. What is there to apologize for? Are you Jewish? It is a choice, not genetic, so yo can change that.
No reason to apologize.
Posted by: g wiltek | Oct 11 2024 19:43 utc | 87
Another example of the careful and meticulous documenting of serious crimes committed by IDF:
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/262/79/pdf/n2426279.pdf
Posted by: jayc | Oct 11 2024 19:54 utc | 88
Now would be a good time for israel to realese all their hostages.
How many do they have ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 19:55 utc | 89
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 11 2024 17:36 utc | 69
I am not a provocateur. I like the truth and the original text speaks of villages in the plural and you only mention one.
Regarding the one you mention, there is a complete study that shows the falsity of the “official truth” to which you refer.
Posted by: Roberto | Oct 11 2024 20:05 utc | 90
So, that would be a “petty bourgeois”. The working class don’t own businesses.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 11 2024 19:04 utc | 78
Working class people own lots of businesses.
They are my customers, electrical contractors, and trust me, they work, fucking hard.
Just like the plumbing, HVAC and myriad other trades.
Some are one man bands, some employ 3 to 5 guys, some around here as many as 30 to 50.
Very few of them make enough where the owner doesn’t work. Even those are still working class people that worked in the trade a long time to get their contractors license.
Posted by: Archetypex | Oct 11 2024 20:18 utc | 91
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 11 2024 19:04 utc | 78
Without working class there will be no business owner.
Posted by: Mario | Oct 11 2024 20:32 utc | 92
Could you please named just one french village erased by the nazis.
Thanks
Posted by: Roberto | Oct 11 2024 16:26 utc | 59
Ouradour sur Glane
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Oct 11 2024 20:41 utc | 94
— 🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Smoke is seen rising from an industrial power plant in the Tel Aviv area; it seems Hezbollah has started to target Israeli critical infrastructure
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/10975
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 11 2024 20:46 utc | 95
I and others have been interested in Turkey’s stand point.
Prompted by a comment from RepublicofScotland (love that nic) about countrys refusing to let the US or israel attack Iran from their bases, i found this.
https://nordicmonitor.com/2024/10/pro-iranian-mp-from-erdogans-party-calls-for-jihad-against-israel-in-turkish-parliament/
Things are developing. And it wont all be done or said in public.
Watch this space.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 21:04 utc | 96
“The health ministry in Gaza said on Friday that at least 42,126 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli military in the territory since the war started a year ago, 61 of them in the most recent 24-hour period. The conflict was triggered on 7 October by a Hamas raid into southern Israel, in which its militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostage.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-report-blasts-at-hq-for-second-day-running
I understand that Israel has made it exceedingly difficult for the local authorities to do their jobs in Gaza, yet is it credible that the official casualty count in Gaza has essentially remained frozen for months? When does this incognizance cease to be a reflection of the empirically possible and become a sort of complicity with the aggressor?
Posted by: Ludovic | Oct 11 2024 21:08 utc | 97
🇱🇧🚀🏴☠️ The Islamic Resistance warns settlers to avoid military gatherings in major occupied cities such as Haifa, Tiberias, Acre, and others.
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/33673
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 11 2024 21:12 utc | 98
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 11 2024 19:26 utc | 83
The Financial System did collapse. “Too Big To Fail” was a scheme to enlist the U.S. Treasury and the Fed to directly rescue the Special People from their own corruption.
Yet. U.S. Government Debt increased from $10 Trillion to pushing beyond $36 Trillion since then. And the Fed printed money from a base of $1 Trillion to over $9 Trillion.
The Private losses of the bankrupt (financially and morally) of Gott’s Chosen have been transferred to the U.S. Public.
Quite the sleight of hand. And not even a thank you after the unconsented leg spreading.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN
Posted by: kupkee | Oct 11 2024 21:13 utc | 99
Ludovic
Israelie army killed most of the israelies on 7 oct. Fact.
Not Hamas.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 11 2024 21:17 utc | 100