There is a lot of Isreali’s that have been harmed and murdered to, war is ugly.
Posted by: Fortuna | Oct 29 2024 13:34 utc | 40
Well you know ehat they say. What goes around, comes around. Drive people from their homes at gunpoint, murdering & stealing, & someday it will come back at ya.
“With all the money US has sent to Ukraine we could have rescued the innocent Palestinians in Gaza and set them up in a refugee camp.”
Or the zionist Jews could have just stayed home.
And by the way, the Palestinian people have already spent the last 80 or so years in a “refugee camp.” Very conveniently penned in for more efficient slaughter by the zionist filth.

Posted by: Mary | Oct 29 2024 17:03 utc | 104

Some countries in the west have not been bought out by the zionists and aren’t afraid to call for serious action against Israel. Futile maybe, but something has to be done.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1029/1477949-middle-east/

Posted by: Ogre | Oct 29 2024 17:05 utc | 106

Vargas 105
The Arab dictator/monarchies are children of Empire, sucking on the teats of Empire , and only the dollar milk from the bosom of Empire is protecting them . Otherwise they’re bacon.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 29 2024 17:11 utc | 108

The world needs to hand back Palestine to its people. The Zionists must leave.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 29 2024 16:42 utc | 98
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Think bigger. War crimes tribunals. Confiscation of assets. Death penalties.
I don’t think it will happen but it’s not enough to push the Zionists out. Zionism must be completely discredited and destroyed as an ideology.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 29 2024 17:17 utc | 110

RE: “A US direct attack on Iran would mean open war and a Persian Gulf shutdown for sure since it would be American surface and submarine launched Tomahawks, in waves of **hundreds, that would be needed to do the job.”
Is even addled Biden that idiotic/insane?
Posted by: c1ue | Oct 29 2024 16:32 utc | 96
More like 1000s.
Biden is a by-word. Removed from any decision making process, not that he made any anyways.
It’s looking more and more like WW3, not Iran vs USReal.
Ukraine desperation escalating dramatically and quickly now. West looks ready to get stupid there. Droning on and on about N. Korean troops (non-existent in war front, but training together per strategic pact… like NATO does).
So, maybe the NATO figures a way to “busy Russia” while USReal attacks Iran?
Hard to say, but what’s obvious, is there is no de-escalation anywhere in the world atm. Only intensity in fighting, including Sudan, noise makers in Georgia, Moldova, Greece, Syria, even drills with the Finland groupies to escalate.
As Putin has said:
“If a fight is inevitable, strike first”…
Iran went through the legal motion, now it’s strike time.
I’ve no doubt that Iran will strike before elections.
Probably this weekend after Friday, close oil market/stock markets.
I don’t see any other more advantageous time for Iran.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 29 2024 17:24 utc | 112

@LoveDonbass | Oct 29 2024 17:17 utc | 110

Think bigger. War crimes tribunals.

Yes, I agree. But the Zionists must leave and then answer for war crimes. The Palestinians are suffering, and the first priority is to stop the suffering.
It is not just what the Zionists are doing that must trigger war crimes tribunals. What the west has done in Ukraine also demands war crimes tribunals. He is a puppet, but I will never get peace of mind until Stoltenberg is forced to answer to the world.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 29 2024 17:35 utc | 114

Granted, Trump is unlikely to change anything, but the blood of little children that is being spilled right now is not on Trump’s hands. It is on the TDS freaks’ hands. You can fume and rant all you want about what Trump might do, but as things stand, he is the lesser evil by a million miles.
Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2024 16:48 utc | 101
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The blood of Qassim Soleimani and the Russian speakers in Donbass killed by the weapons he proudly and loudly gave to Zelensky is on Trump’s hands.
We already know that. You know that.
How many Syrians suffered under Trump when he was unable to remove troops because his own Generals wouldn’t follow orders? And how will that be different this time? How many Yemenis were slaughtered by the KSA in an American proxy conflict with Iran?
Bill, you’re too smart to play dumb.
The lesser of evil is still evil.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 29 2024 17:43 utc | 116

I think these numbers might put things in some perspective:
Numbers are from Jan 1, 2008 – Oct 14, 2024; however, they do NOT include any figures from Oct 7, ’23 to the present for the Gaza Strip. They DO include all deaths and woundings in the West Bank and Israel for the longer time span (Jan ’08 – Oct ’24).
Number of Palestinians killed by Israelis = 7087
Number of Israelis killed by Palestinians = 345
Number of Palestinians wounded by Israelis = 159,831
Number of Israelis wounded by Palestinians = 6538
So to the above you could add the number of Palestinians killed and wounded by Israel in Gaza in the past 12 months and the number of Israelis killed and wounded in Gaza the past 12 months by the Palestinians.
Source: OCHA, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

Posted by: teri | Oct 29 2024 17:55 utc | 118

RE: Posted by: Konami | Oct 29 2024 17:50 utc | 117
I agree. I think many nations will do their best to sit this WW out if able. Pakistan & India being the most obvious.
As for Saudi Arabia, Scott & Andrei indicated it was a toe dipping. Not so much “military” in Naval drills, as preliminaries, search & rescue, anti-pirating vessels exercises ect. Baby steps. Saudi Arabia is another one I don’t see, if possible, side stepping the firefight.
Anyways, yes you’re right, but I’m not seeing anything other than a more flailing desperate West, wholly obvious via USReal.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 29 2024 18:12 utc | 120

South Africa’s latest filing with the ICJ is derived from meticulous documentation accumulated at ground level in Gaza. It is an unprecedented forensic presentation which, if the court can proceed, will reveal, emphasize, and/or test the current limits to enforcement of international humanitarian law – if not international law in general.
One clear limit – the ability of large powers to stymie the will of the international community – has been front and centre over this last year. This “problem” was identified decades ago and there is no easy answer. An organized international police action to compel Israel to stop would result in the massive war that is already visible if not yet actualized, a result which would be unfortunately much worse than the current situation. Future accountability for the crimes of the last year relies on the maintenance of the international system, which is why the BRICS countries, for example, iterate their support for the UN.
Syria’s Assad is now in the cross-hairs because Hezbollah has successfully stymied the IDF. The Americans have been focussed on trying to establish an interpretation of UNSC1701 which would allow enforcement of effectively a blockade of Lebanon to prevent what is imagined as a resupply effort responsible for Hezbollah’s success. Assad is imagined as directly running weapons to Hezbollah, without which the IDF would surely be in Beirut, This is in part denial of the actual military circumstances, and in part reflective of a heightened reliance on assassination as a tool of warfare, a reliance based on projection.

Posted by: jayc | Oct 29 2024 18:15 utc | 122

Trump may make decisions to escalate the war to defeat Hezbollah or Hamas which may ultimately lead to more deaths as it may involve US boots on the ground. It’s about winning for Trump. But he will never, ever go along with a plan to exterminate people and I doubt he will drop an atomic bomb. What we are likely to see is more conventional warfare, not this psychopath shoot women and children shot. Unlike Biden, Trump is not deranged

Posted by: Turk 152 | Oct 29 2024 18:20 utc | 124

Posted by: teri | Oct 29 2024 17:55 utc | 118
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(Zionist) Human Rights Lawyer, Brooke Goldstein:
“Why are we using the term Palestinian..? There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person”

short video from NY in 2016

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 29 2024 18:38 utc | 126

RE: Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2024 18:13 utc | 121
I agree. That’s a micro view though.
The macro view: a Separation of the Wheat from the Tares.
And it’s global.
The divide and separation has been consistently driven, accelerating by catalyst such as:
(Syria: Benghazi emails? Theatre …Libya: sodomized death if Gadaffi … COVID: major divide.. Assassination Suelimoni and so on to: Palestine)
Every time the sickle raises and wields, the “sides” separate more and more.
And there are only 2 sides – Right — Wrong
Righteous—-Unrighteous Good—-Evil
And it’s global.
It comes out in forms like politics, natural disasters, conflicts, but its roots are separating, liars from lovers of the truth.
With Palestine, we’re all over here… because of our love for the truth, looking across the field in wonderment.
Well, that’s my take on the condition of humanity at the moment, just my opinion.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 29 2024 18:39 utc | 128

Here is a practical test for you:
Go to Trump rally as a Black person – spoiler: you will be welcomed like family.
Go to a Harris event with a MAGA hat on – spoiler: you will be physically and verbally assaulted.
Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2024 18:13 utc | 121
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“Get ‘em out,” he shouts, as he did in St. Louis. “Get ‘em out. Come on. Let’s go. Get ‘em out.”
Trump, who encourages his supporters to surround and shout down protesters with chants of “USA,” has openly pined for “the old days,” when, he says, noisy demonstrators would be carried out of a political rally on stretchers.
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“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he told a Las Vegas casino rally crowd last month when one protester was ejected. A white Trump supporter did exactly that on Wednesday at a North Carolina rally, punching a black protester in the face as police led the demonstrator out of an arena in Fayetteville.
John McGraw, who was arrested Thursday, could be seen in phone videos that circulated online striking the protester. He told “Inside Edition”: “Next time we see him, we might have to kill him.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-protester-violence-20160311-story.html
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William, for God’s sake, there is such a thing as the internet. The people managing Trump’s campaign today are more sophisticated than they were in 2015/16. Trump doesn’t love black people, he is still the racist that he has always been, but Trump wants and needs some black votes in a 50/50 race.

Posted by: Ed | Oct 29 2024 18:50 utc | 130

William, for God’s sake, there is such a thing as the internet. The people managing Trump’s campaign today are more sophisticated than they were in 2015/16. Trump doesn’t love black people, he is still the racist that he has always been, but Trump wants and needs some black votes in a 50/50 race.
Posted by: Ed | Oct 29 2024 18:50 utc | 130
William, before you bite your head off, I did not mean to attack you, I was responding to the person (?) you were responding to.
My apologies,

Posted by: Ed | Oct 29 2024 18:55 utc | 132

All the Trump talk!
I am voting Trump and straight ticket GOP.
Because the Harris clan demands we believe murdering human fetus is health care

Posted by: paddy | Oct 29 2024 19:06 utc | 134

According to Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (pp. 235–36), “it was the Israel and the Zionist Jewish organizations abroad that were behind the decision to keep the IRO out of the picture” in Palestine. These Jewish groups insisted on the formation of UNRWA (UN Relief and Work Agency), a separate agency for the Palestinians, that alrealdy hived them off from the rest of the world’s people whom WW2 had turned into refugees. This entity would then be funded separately from other UN agencies. This made the UNRWA into an obvious target of Zionists and their supporters.
The Zionists did not want the International Refugee Organization— which was working with Jewish and other refugees to return them to their homes after WW2—to be involved with Palestinians in any way.
The UNRWA “was set up simply to provide employment and subsidies to the approximately one million Palestinian refugees who had ended up in the camps.”
So there is a horrible logic to the current move by Israel.
An agency created at its behest is also destroyed at its behest–deprived of its raison d’etre by genocide.
The UN caved in to the Zionists from the get-go.
It can be charged with complicity in the creation of the ethnostate. The UN created a monster and labeled it a butterfly.

Posted by: Jane | Oct 29 2024 19:11 utc | 136

Granted, Trump is unlikely to change anything, but the blood of little children that is being spilled right now is not on Trump’s hands. It is on the TDS freaks’ hands. You can fume and rant all you want about what Trump might do, but as things stand, he is the lesser evil by a million miles.
Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2024 16:48 utc | 101
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I totally agree.
Trump certainly has blood on his hands, but so far, no genocide.
We shall see. I shall be very curious to learn what type of influence Tulsi Gabbard will have the Trump administration.
Living in a blue state, I shall be voting for Trump purely to add my drop of red to the attempt to loosen the grip of the Dem. Party on this state and rattle a few certainties.

Posted by: Jane | Oct 29 2024 19:16 utc | 138

Scream!
https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 29 2024 19:16 utc | 140

OT… but ties into my earlier post RE:
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 29 2024 17:24 utc | 112
https://www.rt.com/russia/606691-putin-launches-nuclear-exercise/
Putin launches nuclear exercise
The drills involve ballistic and cruise missile launches, according to the Russian president
“Given the growth of geopolitical tensions as well as the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is important to have modern strategic forces that are constantly ready for combat use,” the president said. Moscow plans to further improve all the “components” of its nuclear triad, he noted.”
Good thorough read needed.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 29 2024 19:22 utc | 142

see the photo at the links
this somehow reminds me of the US soldiers in Vietnam, some of whom collected the cut off ears of the ‘viet cong’ enemy whom they had killed. a bizarre collection or trophies for display of their machismo and ‘success’
https://x.com/HadiNasrallah/status/1851289352158265609
Hadi @HadiNasrallah
There is something really demonic about the entire Israeli society and mentality
https://x.com/MannieMighty1/status/1851242359121436725
Mannie Quinn & The Mighty Hornets🐝 @MannieMighty1
IDF bulldozer, decorated with trophies of toys which belonged to the children who lived in the homes it destroys.
Truly demonic.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 29 2024 19:30 utc | 144

#39 Posted by teri:
“I seriously don’t understand how members of the US congress and senate can stand themselves supporting this abomination. What is wrong with them? Can money really buy someone’s soul and morality so completely?”
The simple answer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
The dark triad traits have significant theoretical and empirical overlap. All three traits share characteristics such as a lack of empathy, interpersonal hostility, and interpersonal offensiveness.

The leaders of the world are all extremely high scoring in all three DT areas. They are monsters unencumbered by any consideration of ‘others’ beyond how they can be exploited and manipulated.

Posted by: saner | Oct 29 2024 19:41 utc | 146

Re: Apartheid Regime and Reparations
On 18.Sept; The UNGA overwhelmingly voted to affirm the 18.July ICJ AO namely:
1) The Likud runs an Apartheid Regime
2) The occupied territories must be evacuated
3) Reparations are due
Define the Likud government as an Apartheid Regime has a host of far reaching consequences for any individual or organization supporting said Apartheid Regime. It’s a very big club.
Now note that the US federal government will feel the full force of De-Dollarization in 2027. That means it’s O V E R for the genociders. The sugar daddy won’t have any influence anymore.

Posted by: Exile | Oct 29 2024 20:01 utc | 148

I am quite sure the child-murderer army will look for a “peace” or “ceasefire” with Lebanon shortly mainly BECAUSE THEY ARE DEPLETING THE IRON DOME DEFENSE MISSILES, with the amount of rockets, missiles and drones Hezbollah is raining on Northern Occupied Palestine nor the US nor Occupied Palestine (under fire) can produce enough to maintain the level of missiles used, and also in all the region, they don’t know where the next barrage of rockets will hit, so they need a huge amount of rockets in ALL the geography of Occupied Palestine.
Not Occupied Palestine, nor USA are big industrial countries, they are not like Russia or China or Iran, they are used to subcontract and off-shore a big part of their production, so they cannot fight an attrition war not because the industrial production nor because the population do not support casualties, they are entitled western countries with the habit to bomb unarmed civilians.
The last thing Hezbollah should do is to agree in any separate ceasefire, because, as the “trap” of the Minsk accords in the case of Ukraine, the child-murderers will use this period to replenish the stock of missiles to the teeth and then start to bomb like mad dogs the civilian population of Lebanon and start again to kill the Hezbollah leaders.

Posted by: Dave | Oct 29 2024 20:12 utc | 150

A few kind words for Catholicism:
“The only standard to judge any epoch is by how much it allowed the flourishing of human dignity. The Catholic Middle Ages are the greatest epoch.” Romano Guardini
The Pope is not answerable for the massacre of Palestinians by Jews.

Posted by: Kansas | Oct 29 2024 20:16 utc | 152

shame on foreign minister Baerbock, and shame on Germany
“….The idea that civilians can lose their protected status due to the presence of combatants contravenes core principles of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, Hague Regulations, the Rome Statute, and numerous UN resolutions. Upholding civilian protections is essential for preserving international law, safeguarding fundamental human rights, and ensuring stability in conflict zones. Undermining these laws opens the door to indiscriminate violence and weakens the global structures designed to protect civilians…..”
https://ejmagnier.com/2024/10/29/annalena-baerbocks-gaza-comments-fuel-accusations-of-german-complicity-in-genocide/
Annalena Baerbock’s Gaza Comments Fuel Accusation of German Complicity in Genocide
By Elijah J. Magnier
A petition led by the Palestine Academic Group (Pal-Ac) calls on Germany to end its complicity in the Gaza genocide and revoke Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s recent statement that disregards and encourages Israel’s violations of international laws in Gaza. Baerbock’s claim that civilians lose their protected status when “Hamas terrorists hide behind people” is viewed as an endorsement of civilian targeting and a dangerous precedent in the context of Gaza, where over two million Palestinians, including civilians, lack safe escape routes due to Israeli-imposed restrictions.
The article highlighted fundamental international legal principles, like proportionality and distinction, that Israel, as an occupying force, is bound to uphold under IHL. It argues that Baerbock’s stance conflicts with these principles and Germany’s commitment to historical lessons against genocide to prevent atrocities and protect civilian life.
The petition has garnered international support from academics and professionals, with over 300 signatories from Germany, the USA, the UK, the EU, the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Canada and many other countries, underscoring a global concern about Germany’s stance. These signatories denounce Germany’s support for Israeli actions in Gaza, labelling them as genocidal and urging the government to retract Baerbock’s statement….
….Accepting that civilians lose protected status if near combatants could set a dangerous precedent with broad and troubling implications. Such a shift would not only affect civilians directly but also increase risks for European and Western troops, including German forces, deployed internationally. Here’s an exploration of these risks:
….The assertion that civilians lose their non-combatant status if military forces operate nearby poses significant violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). International conventions, protocols, and judicial bodies have established a robust framework designed to protect civilians during armed conflicts, irrespective of the presence of combatants. This framework includes the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the Hague Conventions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and various United Nations declarations. Baerbock undermined the specific laws that protect civilian status in conflict zones, the principles they uphold, and the consequences of undermining these protections….
The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949)….
The Hague Regulations (1907)…..
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)….
Principle of Distinction and the Protection of Civilian Status….
….The concept of collective punishment, prohibited under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, reinforces the civilian protections in place during armed conflicts. Collective punishment refers to punishing a group of civilians for the actions of individuals or combatants within that group…
UN General Assembly Resolutions and International Humanitarian Law.
The UN General Assembly has issued numerous resolutions underscoring civilian protection. Resolution 2444 (1968) reaffirms the requirement that warring parties distinguish between civilians and combatants, emphasising the need for restraint. Resolution 2675 (1970) further affirms that “civilian populations, or individual members thereof, should not be the object of reprisals, forcible transfers, or other acts of violence.”
Such resolutions underline the international community’s view that civilian status is non-negotiable, reflecting the normative stance that civilians cannot forfeit their immunity under IHL….

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 29 2024 20:21 utc | 154

Looks like Israelis have been recruited into the “depopulation of useless eaters” agenda…One day they’ll realize that they are useless eaters too…probably too late…

Posted by: Pyrrhus | Oct 29 2024 20:36 utc | 156

@vargas #111
The same moronic analysis behind “shock and awe” sanctions bringing Russia to its knees, underlies your blithe assumption that the West can underwrite an entire war economy, even if it is for a nation of only 10 million people.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 29 2024 20:38 utc | 158

US State Department’s extraordinarily mendacious spokesperson Miller suggested the civilians killed in the Beit Lahiya apartment block bombing were “caught in a crossfire” and that the US was “deeply concerned” by the loss of life.
One point of contrast which should be more widely discussed was Russia’s “deconfliction” strategies in Syria which prioritized the creation of conditions to prevent civilian populations from being trapped in war zones in the first place. This involved the separation of rebel forces from entrenched urban zones, essentially by offering safe passage to Idlib. The contrast to the Israel/US mindset of simply killing and destroying is stark, and received muted attention due to ongoing Russophobic information campaigns. Although now partially forgotten, the hysterical coverage by the western media on Syria during these deconfliction programs was also in stark contrast to the mealy equivocal stance on Israel today.

Posted by: jayc | Oct 29 2024 20:39 utc | 160

Norwegian | Oct 29 2024 19:21 utc | 141
It is a universal piece of art. It’s how I scream on a blog.
Many of us are in that frame.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 29 2024 20:56 utc | 162

Turkey it is front page news all the time, everyday as it is in Iran of course.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Oct 29 2024 13:29 utc | 38
This is heartening when trying to determine how the “wildcard” in everything (ukraine and Palestine) will be played.

Posted by: UWDude | Oct 29 2024 21:17 utc | 164

@Don Firineach | Oct 29 2024 20:56 utc | 161

Many of us are in that frame.

Sure, but I know the location where it is from and the field of view. That is why I am literally in the frame.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 29 2024 21:38 utc | 166

For those who defend the fringes of Islamic cults:
The Taliban in Afghanistan have implemented a bizarre new edict that will further curb the voices of women who are already prohibited from speaking in public.
Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, declared that women must refrain from reciting the Quran aloud in the presence of other women, reported Amu TV, an Afghan news channel based in Virginia, US.
“When women are not permitted to call takbir or athan [Islamic call to prayer], they certainly cannot sing songs or music,” he said in remarks reported on Saturday.
“Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear … How could they be allowed to sing if they aren’t even permitted to hear [each other’s] voices while praying, let alone for anything else.”
Mr Hanafi was also quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph that; “A woman’s voice is considered awrah, meaning that which must be covered, and shouldn’t be heard in public, even by other women, the minister said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/afghan-women-banned-from-hearing-each-other-in-bizarre-new-taliban-rule/ar-AA1t75mM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ade223c87d8f49be974a52fe8d06f14b&ei=51

Posted by: Ed | Oct 29 2024 21:45 utc | 168

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 29 2024 19:21 utc | 141
About the Norwegian Painter Edward Munchh’s Scream:
“I am in the frame of that painting, literally and figuratively.”
Well Norwegian: then you, as he was- are one of THEM

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 29 2024 22:04 utc | 170

John Gilberts | Oct 29 2024 14:57 utc | 64
“I seriously don’t understand how members of the US congress and senate can stand themselves supporting this abomination. What is wrong with them? Can money really buy someone’s soul and morality so completely?”
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter
They have no soul or morality. Its a prerequisite for the job.
I have been sick over this for a long time and just as sick over the people I know who see nothing wrong because they are told its all OK by the Western Media owned and controlled by you know who.

Posted by: circumspect | Oct 29 2024 22:22 utc | 172

Compare and contrast the way Russia and Israel are treated by western governments. One gets sanctioned for defending people, the other gets encouraged to kill innocents.

Posted by: D J G | Oct 29 2024 22:24 utc | 174

Why use a tool that doesn’t work, Love? Is it your backwards religiosity?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 29 2024 20:12 utc | 150
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Why can’t I talk about race when I am referring to racial supremacists? What next, I cannot “notice” that much of the Western media is controlled by Zionists?
If my comments about race make you uncomfortable, I recommend that you investigate that and dig deeper into why it provokes a response. All of your answers can be found within you.
You keep trying to blame my age and religion when really, it may be that you don’t understand it because you have not experienced racism firsthand. I don’t wish it on you.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 29 2024 22:54 utc | 176

Oh, and add in the wheel as an introduction to the stone age natives by the colonizers of Kansas.

Posted by: Kansas | Oct 29 2024 23:05 utc | 178

The Zionist are a killing orgy because they know the end game is in sight. A cease fire is required due to the casualties they are taking on reservists not turning up after rotation. A cease fire is also their hope of staying Iran’s hand.
I hope Iran responds in a manner that seriously clips the Entity’s wings and its ability to inflict wanton destruction on civilians.
The genociders are not resilient.

Posted by: Suresh | Oct 29 2024 23:18 utc | 180

Ok, I got caught….don’t feed the
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Native life improved 714% with the introduction of the horse.
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troll…..LOL!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 29 2024 23:28 utc | 182

Words to live by, from Alastair Crooke:

If culture is unable to offer a meaning to the notion of sacrifice and loss, it does not put man in a position to face the tragedy of his condition.

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/29/a-heroic-preference-for-self-destruction-is-taking-hold-in-israel/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Oct 29 2024 23:52 utc | 184

Posted by: Suresh | Oct 29 2024 23:18 utc | 179
I think of trump wins, he can negotiate a ceasefire, which saves Israel’s hide, leys them keep some of North Gaza, and lets them continue with the slow genocide they were doing on 0ctober 6th, 2023. If he loses, the grind continues, and Harris admin too incompetent to save Israel, and it just slowly bleeds out.
One of the many reasons I don’t care who wins.
1) Que sera, sera.
2) I cant predict or know anyways.
3) Even if I could, cant change it.
Not voting, and have not watched any news, or read any thing about the election, except the recent Joe Rogan podcast, because he is always honest in his dialogue.

Posted by: UWDude | Oct 30 2024 0:11 utc | 186

https://x.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1851044848096190538
Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @PhilipProudfoot
Credit to Oxfam for moral clarity here
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/oxfam-reaction-to-israels-ban-of-unrwa/
Oxfam reaction to Israel’s ban of UNRWA
In reaction to the Knesset passing bills banning UNRWA from operating in areas under Israel’s control, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa said: “Israel has bombed Palestinians to death, maimed them, starved them, and is now ridding them of their biggest lifeline of aid. Piece by piece, Israel is systemically dismantling Gaza as a land that is autonomous and liveable for Palestinians. Its banning of UNRWA today is condemnable and another step in this crime.
“The decision will further undermine the ability of the international community to provide sufficient humanitarian aid and to save lives in any safe, independent and impartial way.
“UNRWA is not only the biggest and most established agency that has been delivering aid and sustenance to the people of Gaza for years, it is also a thread that connected them in some hope of solidarity and security to the United Nations.
“We are in no doubt that Israel and its allies are fully aware of the terrible consequences that this decision will have on Palestinians living in Gaza, many of whom are already starving. We join others in warning again that this will result in more death, more suffering, and more forced displacement of people from their besieged homeland. It is impossible not to believe that this is their aim.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 30 2024 0:13 utc | 188

♦️We have been for weeks warning of Israel’s Generals’ Plan, which is being currently executed for the 16th consecutive day. The plan is aimed at emptying northern Gaza Strip by imposing a strict siege and exterminating and starving the population to force them to leave southwards.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 29 2024 23:19 utc | 180
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“The plan is aimed at emptying northern Gaza Strip by imposing a strict siege and exterminating and starving the population to force them to leave southwards.”
After emptying Palestinians from Northern Gaza into the South, the zio-Nazis will draw a new line in the South and begin the process all over again until they will have push all the surviving civilian population against the fence and the Philadelphia Corridor, leading into Egypt where they will be dumped like garbage into desert.
That is the Israeli PLAN to empty Gaza, and they know that Trump will allow this because Trump is in contact with Netanyahu during the camping. Trump is Natanyahu favorit candidate to win the U.S. election, and you can bet that AIPAC is all but running Trumps campaign.
“Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, mainly about the Middle East wars. According to Trump, the Israeli leader said he disregarded President Joe Biden’s warning to keep troops out of Rafah in southern Gaza, a decision that resulted in the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a shootout in the area. Trump also said Netanyahu asked him for advice on how to respond to Iran’s missile attack on Israel—to which Trump said he responded, “Do what you have to do.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-s-phone-call-with-netanyahu-is-so-alarming/ar-AA1sGWH1

Posted by: Ed | Oct 30 2024 0:42 utc | 190

Posted by: UWDude | Oct 30 2024 0:11 utc | 185
Agreed, the “winner” of the US election will not change the direction in the ME.
But, in my humble opinion, why not vote for Jill.

Posted by: Suresh | Oct 30 2024 1:45 utc | 192

But, in my humble opinion, why not vote for Jill.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 30 2024 1:45 utc | 191
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It a protest vote, for what that is worth.

Posted by: Ed | Oct 30 2024 2:18 utc | 194

#110 re. War crimes tribunals. Confiscation of assets. Death penalties.
I think a great time for mass arrests in USSA Inc would be at candidates’ election results parties next Tuesday. Their location is known and the parties are generally broadcast live.

Posted by: Matt | Oct 30 2024 2:28 utc | 196

@b,
Here’s wishing you well. I hope you have gathered enough data points to tell us your thoughts on the entity’s attack on Iran, from military, and geopolitical standpoint.
There are many that say it was a failed attempt, while others scream success. What do you think?
Was there aborted waves? Is Iranian AD up-to snuff? What is this ‘unknown AD’ they are talking about? Why the glum faces in the entity’s war-room?
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There is a lot of talk about the empire coming to the entity’s rescue and put down Iran, once and for all – then the peace will ensue.
Will it really? So far the empire has shown how cowardly it is, hiding behind the chihuahua for the attacks, providing support in every dimension.
I maintain Iran has MAD capabilities, even without nukes. Even a decapitated Iran, via a nuclear bomb dropped in Tehran, has – I think it’s called dead-man’s-hand – plans to respond. Every war game played over successive years – at least since Millennium Challenge 2002 – have resulted in the empire losing. Are we to believe any blow by the empire will not end the empire? Are the empire’s managers hateful enough to allow that?

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Oct 30 2024 3:06 utc | 198

How many children must we kill?
Before we make the waves stand still
Men die to build their Pharaoh’s tombs
And still, and still the teeming wombs
How many men to conquer mars?
How many dead to reach the stars?
Saigon Bride (Joan Baez)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbsG30riSro

Posted by: south | Oct 30 2024 4:31 utc | 200