I tell you, folks. These people are out to kill us in every way possible.
And the evidence is all around you!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 1 2024 1:54 utc | 100
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People who feed their infants “baby powder” are already on a downward evolutionary trajectory.

Posted by: Jane | Nov 1 2024 2:36 utc | 104

Baby powder asbestos:Arch, Jane.
The asbestos contaminant is in powders made from talc, which is a mineral that is mined. Many, but not all, sources of talc naturally contain a tiny percent of asbestos which was ignored by US regulators for decades. Think about how one uses these body powders—thoroughly aerosolizing them so one easily inhales some. Contaminated talc powders used as a post shower product, especially by women, became the subject of much litigation a couple of decades ago. These suits, both from people who actually got an asbestos related disease and from people who merely were long-term users of the product, successfully sued Johnson and Johnson, the major US manufacturer. Johnson and Johnson supposedly reformed its manufacturing by 1)only utilizing talc sources tested and validated as asbestos-free, and, 2) producing an alternative powder made from corn starch—if you use the latter, you have no worries. Arch is probably old enough like me to remember high school gym shower rooms that had a low platform you were supposed to jump on to release an anti-athlete’s foot powder that probably contained talc. I am not aware of a new round of litigation concerning baby powders, but perhaps the manufacturers couldn’t find enough sources of asbestos-free talc. I think I would have heard of children getting asbestos disease from powder use as infants—so I suspect these are speculative suits with competing lab results with the litigants either detecting or not detecting asbestos in product sourced from supposed asbestos-free mines.

Posted by: mjh | Nov 1 2024 3:10 utc | 106

Dear LoveDonbass,
What you say about Queen Isabella, the Inquisition, the slaughter of the Aborigines and other matters relating to the Spanish Empire is what is known as the Black Legend.
Thanks to Spain we are still Catholic and the vast majority of us have Spanish and aboriginal blood.
Posted by: Roberto | Oct 31 2024 20:15 utc | 51
This is about Palestine, but your “argument” forces me to say something. I am Peruvian. We don’t need the black legend to tell things as they are. The arrival of the Europeans was the worst thing that could have happened to us. We had a civilization, our religion, our language and our customs. All of that was destroyed because of your ilk. After the revolt of Tupac Amaru, the Spanish forbade us to speak our own language, wear our traditional clothes and practice our religion. Big deal the Catholic Church, an organization of hypocrites and perverts. Nothing the Spanish imposed we needed.

Posted by: Jaime | Nov 1 2024 3:56 utc | 108

Al Manar last 24 or so hours:
2024-10-31
22:21 Islamic Resistance targeted a gathering of “Israeli” forces in Al-Metula settlement with a missile barrage: statement
22:16 Sayyed Houthi: Hezbollah Resilience Shocked Israeli Enemy More..
17:05 100 Israeli Officers, Soldiers Killed So Far in Ongoing South Lebanon Battle: Hezbollah Attacks Continue More..
16:16 Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded the Krayot area north of Haifa with a large missile barrage: statement
15:02 Islamic Resistance fighters target Israeli gathering at Yiftah settlement with a barrage of rockets: Hezbollah statement
14:47 Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon: Israeli warplanes engage in clashes taking place in Khiam as they cover the withdrawal of Israeli infantry force that infiltrated into the area near the town’s detention center
13:48 Israeli occupation army says some 30 rockets fired in latest barrage of rockets at Karmiel
13:47 5 Israelis killed, one seriously wounded in direct Hezbollah rocket strike near Metula: Israeli media
13:34 Islamic Resistance fighters target Israeli gatherings south of Khiam with barrages of rockets for two times: statements
12:35 Israeli media: Rockets fired from Lebanon towards Karmiel
12:30 Lebanese Health Ministry: 173 paramedics martyred, 277 others injured since the start of the Israeli aggression
11:16 Sirens sound north of Golan over suspected drone infiltration
11:15 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters pound Israeli gatherings south east of Khiam with salvos of rockets for the fourth time today: statement
11:05 Lebanese Army soldier martyred as an Israeli drones strikes its motorbike in Al-Amriyeh south of Tyre
10:10 Islamic Resistance in Iraq Targets Israeli Sites in Drone Strikes More..
10:03 Israeli Kan broadcaster: The army deploys soldiers at observation points along the border with Lebanon to monitor drones
09:51 Martyr as an Israeli drone strikes a motorbike on Qaraoun road in Western Bekaa
09:44 Israeli strike on a house in Boudai, west of Baalbeck: NNA
09:41 National News Agency: Clashes continue in Khiam as explosions rock Kfar Kila
09:20 Israeli media: Sirens sound in Nahariya and its surroundings amid fears of drone infiltrations
00:03 Islamic Resistance bombards Kiryat Shmona settlement with a missile barrage: statement
2024-10-30
23:14 Islamic Resistance strikes IOF gatherings in Kiryat Shmona with a missile barrage: statement
23:07 Islamic Resistance targets IOF gatherings in Liman and Gesher Haziv settlements with missile barrages: statement
20:21 Islamic Resistance strikes an IOF gathering in Wata Khiam (southeastern the town) with a missile barrage: statement

Posted by: Exile | Nov 1 2024 4:39 utc | 110

‘Qualitative Rockets, Attack Drones’ – Resistance Roundup – Day 391
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/qualitative-rockets-attack-drones-resistance-roundup-day-391/
Comment – Northern Front; Lebanese appear to be increasing quantity and quality of actions. Southern Front – another Merkava destroyed by land mines ( Return to Sender) couple of firefights. Mention of IDF “troop carriers” which may mean thin skinned vehicles . TBD
Merkava Tally as of Thursday
night local time
253 destroyed (added 1)
689 approx. damaged (unchanged)

Posted by: Exile | Nov 1 2024 4:51 utc | 112

did the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution calling for boycott, divestment and or sanctions for Israel’s refusal to comply with the Security Council resolutions?
Posted by: chet380
UNGA on 18.Sept 2024 overwhelmingly passed a resolution :
1) Defining the Likud Gov’t as a Apartheid State
2) Demanding Exvacuation of all occupied territories
3) payment of reparations
Full Text
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/266/48/pdf/n2426648.pdf

Posted by: Exile | Nov 1 2024 5:16 utc | 114

‘Dead in the Water’
https://x.com/MouinRabbani/status/1852085101112479787
“Reports of ‘significant progress’ towards a Lebanon ceasefire agreement are accurate.
The problem is, that this concerns significant progress in negotiations between the US and Israel, particularly the Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty Warshington is prepared to accept and support.
Dead in the water.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 1 2024 5:34 utc | 116

Starmer’s repressive state
Right now, ten activists are being held in UK prisons on remand for damaging weapons intended for use in Gaza. They are being shockingly mistreated, in an outright abuse of draconian counter-terrorism powers. As their family and friends, we’re asking you to sign and share this petition today.
Action against Israeli weapons in the UK
The Filton 10 are charged with taking direct action in August this year to disable weapons at a facility belonging to Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, in Bristol. The weapons included drones currently being used in Gaza, which mimic the sounds of children in distress in order to draw civilians out to help, in order to kill them. 
Six of the ten were arrested on site. Four were arrested in raids on their homes by counter-terrorism police – one of them at gunpoint.
Who is behind this chilling repression of activists? There is evidence of conversations between the Home Office, the CPS, the Israeli Embassy and Elbit Systems UK about stopping pro-Palestine activists which is deeply concerning.  
Treated like ‘terrorists’
Why are our loved ones being treated like terrorists? Six of them are aged 20 – 30. All have strong social consciences – many do voluntary work to help vulnerable people in their communities. They couldn’t bear to see the scale of the suffering of innocent people in Gaza, especially children, and strongly oppose the genocide that Elbit Systems is profiting from, and that the UK government is complicit in.
Yet, in a flagrant abuse of counter-terrorism powers, the ten were held incommunicado in solitary confinement and interrogated constantly for a week without charge.
Despite only subsequently being charged with non-terror offences (including aggravated burglary and criminal damage) they have been held in prison on pre-trial remand since then, and are still being subjected to greater restrictions upon their rights and freedoms than those faced by regular prisoners, on spurious counter-terrorism grounds. 
This has included being denied reading materials and the right to practice religion,  intrusive medical testing, and restrictions on association with other prisoners and communication with the outside world.
One of the ten has been designated an escape risk without due cause, so that they are subjected to additional ill-treatment, including being woken up every hour, all night, every night. This sleep deprivation is a clearly politically motivated form of psychological torture. 
https://subversivesuburbanite.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/is-my-daughter-a-terrorist-for-trying-to-stop-a-genocide/

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Nov 1 2024 9:11 utc | 118

It’s possible Bibi plans to defer fully exterminating all Palestinians from Palestine until after defeating, if he can, their allies outside Palestine.
Posted by: I forgot | Nov 1 2024 8:51 utc | 117
In which case we can breathe a sigh of belief because this will never happen.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 1 2024 9:19 utc | 120

meanwhile back at the ranch
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1851817049544175917
Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst
Gaza exposed the West’s moral standing, and the facade of human rights and free speech
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1852106469669237165
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
Footage from Al-Awda Hospital’s morgue…
Palestinian journalist Hani Abu Rezeq reports: Israeli attacks targeting families in Nuseirat and Deir Balah have claimed the lives of 21 Palestinian civilians, including children and women.
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/34925
ResistanceTrench
🇮🇱⚡🇵🇸 The few survivors of the Abu Nasr family from the aggression on the Beit Lahia:
The occupation destroyed the residential building days ago without prior warning
We buried 117 members of our family.
The targeted building housed 250 civilians and we walked surrounded by the dead bodies of our loved ones and relatives.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 1 2024 9:25 utc | 122

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 1 2024 1:54 utc | 100
It is hard to mine pure talc-most talc deposits have asbestos with it.
No conspiracy just corporate ‘cheapness, and sloppiness now J and J will be paying the price-see my above post.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 1 2024 9:57 utc | 124

Posted by: canuck | Nov 1 2024 9:52 utc | 123
I suppose the original intent of “baby powder” was misused before you replied. The OP clearly meant infant formula which is breast milk substitute. They may have wrongly called that “baby powder” (“giving” or “feeding”) but you are of course correct about actual talcum baby powder. And to add to your comment, I was aware of other lawsuits that didn’t involve babies at all with respect to such products containing asbestos.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 1 2024 11:47 utc | 126

BINGO!
“Check out that hustler Bernie’s article on Guardian today. He explains why you should vote for Kamala despite her support for Israel’s “war”.
Nobody has done more to ruin the reputation of Socialism since Stalin. The guy is the worst enemy of the working class in the US today.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 31 2024 20:18 utc | 53

Posted by: LindaJ | Nov 1 2024 12:43 utc | 128

Israel has no intention of ending its terror campaign. The US doesn’t care.
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Israel will ask US Congress to pressure South Africa to withdraw genocide case at ICJ: Israeli media
As reported by Israeli news website Walla, a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry document said that Israeli officials want members of the US Congress to warn South Africa that there will be serious consequences for continuing the case against Israel.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240831-is-israel-extending-its-war-on-gaza-to-the-west-bank/
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that “Gaza must be reoccupied”.
“The Israeli army will remain in the Gaza Strip for many years to ensure security,” Smotrich said, in an interview with Israel’s Makor Rishon newspaper.
“The army will maintain operational security control in the long term in Gaza to achieve the objectives of the war and to prevent Hamas from recovering.
“In my estimation, a political settlement will be reached by the end of the year,” he added.
AJ live-blog
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The occupation army is still preventing the entry of any aid into the northern Gaza Strip.
The occupation is carrying out extensive bulldozing operations in Block 5 in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
The occupation committed a massacre against 5 families from the Al-Ghandour family in Jabalia camp
A member of the Al-Ghandour family spoke to me a short while ago, confirming that the Israeli occupation aircraft committed a massacre against his family and brothers in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza yesterday, and until now no one has been able to reach the place where the four-story house was bombed, and there are more than 120 people inside the house, and there are also displaced families.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?after=56943&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Washington Post:
Nearly a quarter of buildings in 25 Lebanese municipalities near the Israeli border were damaged or destroyed
16 martyrs and more than 30 injuries as a result of the occupation bombing two houses in the new camp area north of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Posted by: teri | Nov 1 2024 13:54 utc | 130

Forget the stratagems, whether financial, military, or (a distant last) diplomatic. It’s a might makes right world and that’s an absolute paradigm and fairly easy to calculate. Second place means servility and the USA arrived there some time ago. They will strut and squawk like another Anglo runner-up now does, one of whose power realists, Thomas Babington Macaulay, swept away the facades and got it brutally right.
Might too often wins out and there’s already a new boss in town.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Nov 1 2024 14:04 utc | 132

June Jordan wrote this, many years ago:
How many of my brothers and my sisters
will they kill
before I teach myself
retaliation?
Shall we pick a number?
South Africa for instance:
do we agree that more than ten thousand
in less than a year but that less than
five thousand slaughtered in more than six
months will
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME?
I must become a menace to my enemies.
https://poets.org/poem/i-must-become-menace-my-enemies

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 1 2024 14:18 utc | 134

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241030-un-briefing-in-us-congress-cancelled-after-rapporteur-labelled-anti-semitic/
UN briefing in US Congress cancelled after Rapporteur labelled ‘anti-Semitic’
A planned briefing to Congress by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Gaza was cancelled due to political pressure, according to organisers.
American author and human rights activist, Medea Benjamin, shared a video expressing frustration at Congress, with Albanese noting that her report highlighted Israel’s crimes against Gaza, questioning the US role in undermining 75 years of progress in international law.
In a video posted on X, Benjamin criticised Congress, citing allegations in Jewish Insider that labelled Albanese’s position as anti-Semitic, which reportedly led Democratic leadership to pressure for the cancellation….
….She added, “Now this is crazy. You can label anybody anti-Semitic who is faulting Israel for the slaughter that it’s doing but they’re not anti-Semitic. And Francesa Albanese is not anti-Semitic but, because of that article, the representative who was hosting us here got scared; he said he was getting calls from ‘higher ups’, which we assume is higher up in the Democratic Party that pressured him to cancel this briefing.”
https://x.com/medeabenjamin/status/1851343785889812987
Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was set to brief Congress today on her latest findings from Gaza. But in a last-minute twist, pressure from “higher-ups” led to the cancellation. The halls of Congress should echo with voices of truth and accountability, not fear and censorship.
Israel’s actions in Gaza deserve scrutiny under international law, and it’s unacceptable that those exposing these realities are silenced. Our gratitude goes out to the Congressional staffers who were ready to hear from the UN Special Rapporteur about Gaza.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 1 2024 16:14 utc | 136

Come on now, Jane.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 1 2024 3:08 utc | 105
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Meaning what, pray tell?

Posted by: Jane | Nov 1 2024 17:07 utc | 138

reply to 139
How do you say “Einsatzgruppen” in modern Hebrew, I wonder?

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 1 2024 17:19 utc | 140

Al Manar live feed previous 20 hours
Lebanese health ministry issues latest toll of Zionist aggression: 2897 martyrs and 13150 injuries
20:01 Islamic Resistance strikes an IOF gathering in south of Khiam town with a barrage of precision missiles: statement
19:45 Speaker Berri: ‘Israel’ Rejected Lebanon’s Ceasefire Roadmap, Gaza Scenario “Possible” More..
17:12 Sirens sounded in Haifa for fear of drone infiltration: Israeli media
17:10 70 Thousand Israeli Soldiers Unable to Control Lebanon’s Border Villages: Hezbollah Historic Fight Makes More Feats More..
15:03 Islamic Resistance fighters fired barrage of rockets at Kiryat Shmona settlement: Hezbollah statement no. 4
15:01 Israeli warplanes create sonic booms over Beirut, Sidon and surrounding areas
14:49 Speaker Berri: ‘Israel’ wasted since September more than a real chance to achieve ceasefire deal, restore calm and return displaced on both sides of the border
14:43 Speaker Nabih Berri: We affirm Lebanon’s commitment to implementing UN Resolution 1701 as the only option to achieve security and stability in the region
14:30 Islamic Resistance fighters fire a barrage of rockets at Ma’alot-Tarshiha settlement with a salvo of rockets: Hezbollah statement no. 3
14:28 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters target Karmiel settlement with a barrage of rockets: statement no. 2
14:11 Israeli strikes renew on Baalbek and nearby towns: local media
14:00 Casualties as some 30 rockets fired from Lebanon at Karmiel, Ma’alot-Tarshiha and other nearby settlements: Israeli media
13:58 Mikati: ‘Israel’ Rejects Ceasefire, Evacuation Warnings Additional War Crime More..
13:58 Massacre in Beit Lahia: Devastating Airstrikes in Center of the Strip Leave Dozens Dead More..
13:38 Yemeni masses flock to Sab’een Square in Sanaa to voice solidarity with Gaza and Lebanon
12:54 Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at dawn on Friday an Israeli gathering in Khiam’s Al-Maslakh neighborhood with a massive barrage of rockets: Hezbollah statement
12:48 Day 40 of Israeli Aggression: Despite Wide Destruction, Lebanon “Won’t Abandon Palestine” More..
12:03 Ahronoth: 4,600 rockets and drones have been fired at ‘Israel’ in October
12:02 Yedioth Ahronoth: Israeli army’s failure in the ground offensive is due to difficulty in locating the hideouts of Hezbollah fighters
11:59 Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon: Confrontation axes at Khiam witness a decline in the intensity of Israeli movements as the infiltration into the border town has failed
11:38 Metula declared closed military zone following the killing of 5 Israelis in Hezbollah rocket attack on Thursday
11:03 Iraqi Resistance Attacks 6 Israeli Targets Across Occupied Territories More..
10:08 UN: 345,000 Palestinians face catastrophic hunger this winter as food aid falls
09:23 At least 11 people martyred and 14 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Baalbek and the surrounding towns: National News Agency
09:22 Casualties in an Israeli drone strike on a residential apartment in Ain Al-Rimmeneh town between Qmatiyeh and Aley in Mount Lebanon
09:19 14 Israeli airstrikes target Beirut’s Dahiyeh overnight
09:18 Haaretz: Netanyahu exploiting assassination threat to avoid testifying in his corruption trial
09:15 Massive Israeli raids target the southern towns of Bint Jbeil, Shehabiyeh and Majadel
01:31 Islamic Resistance Operations Room: Fronts Are Being Securely Supplied with Fighters, Weapons More..
2024-10-31
22:21 Islamic Resistance targeted a gathering of “Israeli” forces in Al-Metula settlement with a missile barrage: statement
22:16 Sayyed Houthi: Hezbollah Resilience Shocked Israeli Enemy

Posted by: Exile | Nov 1 2024 18:51 utc | 142

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 31 2024 22:38 utc | 70
I am in no way making excuses for the empire, their focus is maintaining power, at almost any cost. Whatever China has done so far, it does not compare to what the empire has done. That said, their attitude is worrying.
I’m getting old. I only vaguely now remember the several books I read back in the day about China’s invasion and brutal takeover of Tibet, and their subsequent erasure of the religion and culture there. And yes, even assuming all accusations were true it still does not compare to what is happening in Gaza today.
Of course China is an adversary of the empire, so any internal opposition will be contacted by empire intel (with or without them knowing that) and supported by empire propaganda. So how much of what I hear relative to Falun Gong, for example (like, massive disappearances, organ donor concentration camps) is true? I don’t know. Supposedly though Falun Gong members in China at one time outnumbered Communist party members, but I’m told they do not exist there today.

Posted by: Snowleopard | Nov 1 2024 19:45 utc | 144

N.B. – those IDF armored vehicle casualty estimates only apply to MBT’s; hundreds more APC’s (many obsolete US M113’s), IFV’s, trucks, jeeps, Humvees (many incredibly still equipped with canvas side panels -wow – apparently the IDF never learned the painful lesson of US forces in Iraq, who early on in 2003 had the majority of Humvee not equipped with undercarriage and side armor resulting in massive losses) have also been destroyed or heavily damaged by ATGM and RPG fire………so my estimates may very well be a tad bit conservative at 2.5 K KIA’s and 6K WIA’s.

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 1 2024 20:01 utc | 146

@michaelj72 | Nov 1 2024 16:14 utc | 136
The US Congress is a cesspit of avaricious vipers feeding on the profits of the apocalyptic genocide of Palestinian generations.
Cicero would nuke it.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 1 2024 20:02 utc | 148

Posted by: Snowleopard | Nov 1 2024 19:45 utc | 144
China is sensitive to religious cults, since their bloodiest war ever, (Taiping Rebellion) was between a cult and the empire.
BTW, the rebellion by some estimates was the highest casualty war in history, ww ii included. It was massive and crude, (mostly hand weapons and bows mixed with firearms, and poor first aid).

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 1 2024 20:12 utc | 150

whoa, this is the Palestine thread, and there is actually a newer China thread active..

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 1 2024 20:14 utc | 152

UWDude | Nov 1 2024 20:14 utc | 152
oops. will repost on rlevant thread (Although there is more to China than weapons)

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 1 2024 20:36 utc | 154

imagine the incredible outcry and vitriol in the Western capitals and the mainstream propaganda system I mean the Great Free Press, if Hezbollah or Iran did this kind of mass murder of innocent people/children in say tel aviv or haifa in israel…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/1/live-israeli-attacks-kill-95-in-gaza-6-medics-among-45-killed-in-lebanon
Fifty children killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza
Two Israeli attacks on residential buildings in northern Gaza killed 84 Palestinians, including over 50 children, Gaza’s government media office says.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 1 2024 20:58 utc | 156

The Birth of Israel and the Death of Zionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD6s61grck
“Can Israel survive the current war in Gaza? Israeli historian Illan Pape believes it can’t.”
Trajectories of Resistance in the ME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QVVWWkD3o
“Gaza in context – a collaborative teach-in series, with Begum Burak and Nijmeh Ali.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 1 2024 21:21 utc | 158

Won’t happen cuz UN so corrupted, but at least a door was opened:
https://tass.com/world/1865941
UN should suspend Israel’s membership for genocide in Gaza — expert
“It is time to consider suspending the credentials of Israel as a member state of the UN,” the organization’s website wrote, quoting the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory. Albanese said the international community must recognize what is happening in Gaza as genocide and “understand the bigger design behind what’s happening in Palestine today.” It is not simply war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Palestinians are experiencing, she pointed out.
The UN rapporteur acknowledged suspending Israel’s credentials as a member state is a sensitive topic, explaining that all countries in the world have difficulties in respecting human rights. Nevertheless, no other country has maintained an unlawful occupation that violates decades of UN resolutions as Israel has, she said.
The report also notes that Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, accused Israel and its allies of “knowingly and intentionally imposing famine and dehydration” on people in the Gaza Strip and warned that these practices would stunt an entire generation. “The Strip now is a wasteland of rubble and human remains,” she said, adding that the Israeli leadership’s promise last year to destroy Gaza has been fulfilled.”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 1 2024 22:02 utc | 160

Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma, specialist and follower of Hebrew affairs
“Pentagon:
Deploying ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighters, tankers and long-range bombers to the Middle East
US equipment to begin arriving within months as aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln prepares to depart
We will deploy B-52 strategic bombers to the Middle East
12 B-52 bombers will be stationed in the region in the coming hours
Deployment of additional military assets in the Middle East builds on decision to deploy THAAD missile system in Israel
Deploying additional assets is part of our commitment to protect our citizens and forces, defend Israel, and de-escalate tensions”

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 1 2024 22:33 utc | 162

I watched Bill Clinton give a stump speech for Harris in Michigan on 10/30/24. Old Bill said that, and I paraphrase, Hamas forced Israel (the IDF) to murder women, children, and old people, because Hamas chose to hide among the civilian population.
So, where does Bill Clinton (who dodged the draft by going to school at Oxford), think that Hamas should fight the IDF terrorist? Where in Gaza can one fight in a 5-mile x 20-mile open prison without there being civilians nearby? The answer is that they aren’t supposed to fight, they are supposed to surrender and be killed.
I have heard this excuse before, but it doesn’t hold water. Israel decided to build a wall around Gaza to imprison Gazans, so the blame belongs to Israel. Also, imprisoning a large portion (2.4 million) of a colonized population is, by itself, a crime against humanity, that the Palestinian people, and their designated leadership, have every right to violently resist. I think Bill knows that already; he is a lying sack of dog poop.
You can see it on today’s Judging Freedom with Larry and Ray @ about 26.39.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 1 2024 22:48 utc | 164

The fool’s errand of Amos Hochstein and other lethal follies in Lebanon…

Even ten days ago, Gallant was saying that Israel had moved from “the phase of defeating Hezbollah to the phase of destroying it.” But Gallant’s tone would shift in a matter of days.
What happened in the interim was that Hezbollah regrouped and redoubled its military efforts in repelling the Israeli onslaught. Instead of collapsing after the assassination of its entire top military echelon, rocket fire from Lebanon increased in intensity and destructive capacity, challenging Israeli claims that the majority of Hezbollah’s arsenal had been destroyed or disabled.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israel-is-hitting-a-wall-in-lebanon-what-is-its-endgame/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 1 2024 23:14 utc | 166

@163 karlof
Appreciated Karlof. I could not underline the importance enough of resolving the policy stance regarding Palestine. Even for Russia to just wash its hands of “Israel”, would be better than to continue as is. That is easier said than done however, because historically Russia has (and does) recognise “Israel” , which is to say that it has somehow been part of facilitating its current form. This places Russia in a bind, because to disassociate from that would mean to recognise own errors. If it had done so the moment “Israel” started bombing civilians it would have had every excuse, but now it would look opportunistic. Furthermore, for Russia to derecognise a state ‘cannot’ be done due to atrocity caused by that state, just as lack of atrocity does not justify recognition.
Even more complex to understand is the normal order of sanctioning a state. There are a series of powerful and significant steps that can be implemented before derecognition, and many of those might well have stalled “Israeli” excesses. To name a few (and to be honest I don’t know if any have been taken) , expulsion of diplomatic staff and embassy, increasing visa requirements based on proof of non participation in genocide, restrictions on trade of all kinds, obligation of third party traders to provide certificate of non participation , rejection of currency or trading platforms, embargo. There are more. Any of these steps are not an infringement but , diplomatically speaking, are very decisive and imposing in nature even though based on neutrality. They leave no room for misunderstanding.
Clearly there is part of the equation I and others fail to understand, but how could anyone understand a form of permisivity towards genocide ?
So I also see Russia being dragged unwittingly into the mire of events, and it is not like Russia to be outsmarted this way.
I think it is possible that Russia knows that to directly challenge “Israel” in the mentioned ways would lead to an unpredictable backlash. That would be very hard to admit.
Equally it is possible that Russia has just hit “pause” and has decided that if “Israel” wants to go ‘beyond’ then it must deal with what the region serves it up. That still looks like complicity though.
For now at least I refuse to be so cynical of Russia as to portray its position as a lower propaganda form, say of allowing civilians to be murdered so as to build a case. That does not fit with how I understand its character. That would also include working to a globalist agenda of regional management of some kind.
It does really all come across as Russia being phased by events, or caught out, though.
That being so, a blunt and declared and effective reaction to obvious genocide would be expected all the same.
The ‘phased’ part mentioned however is in fact just that, incrementalism where each step is not enough to cause strong reaction based on comparison to the next previous – self defense, targeting militants, targeting militants with civilian colateral, increased civilian colateral, questionable if militants present, not questioning if militants present, clearing out civilians in case there are militants present:
Somewhere along that path Russia finds itself holding hands with a genocidal entity. That is what it will be seen as. To retreat is to admit making a mistake, but it is much more honourable than not doing so.
I wrote an essay just previously on how this (non reaction by nations) seems to me. Will post it later.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 2 2024 0:54 utc | 168

@ Ornot | Nov 2 2024 0:54 utc | 168 with the perceptions about nations reactions to the genocide we are watching….
I think the reactions you are seeing are because of MAD and the civilization war we are in.
We don’t know the red lines behind the scenes and I expect they are different than the ones the public sees to some extent…..the public does not see the ongoing MAD rhetoric and posturing that makes this current genocide unassailable by other nations…..is my assumption.
My $0.02

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 2 2024 1:29 utc | 170

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 2 2024 0:54 utc | 168
Do a man a favor, and it becomes your job.
Would Russia be happy or dismayed if the west started a big war started with Iran or China?
Russia does not have the luxury of concerning itself with issues that do not directly affect it, as it is locked in an existential war.
Jewish oligarchs and trade with Israel must be kept as good as possible, (Israel condemns Russia, but barely sanctions them), just as every other citizen of Russia who is not directly aiding Ukraine. It’s a matter of priorities.
Russia still has not been able to end the conflict in Syria.
It would be akin to asking why doesn’t Hamas send troops to Syria to fight the FSA, and condemn the FSA. Hamas really does not need the ire of Turkey right now.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 2 2024 1:33 utc | 172

Posted by: Exile | Nov 1 2024 18:51 utc | 142
Thank you for your service.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 2 2024 1:49 utc | 174

too late, too late
for the two-state solution
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1851995332722545094
Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye
“A Palestinian state must be established, and the only to achieve this is to apply sanctions against Israel.”
Haaretz publisher called for sanctions against Israeli leaders who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, describing the policies as an “apartheid regime”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 2 2024 2:27 utc | 176

Thanks Psycho.
Canuck if I remember posted a PCR essay where he voiced his frustration at Russia not taking a proactive stance on various fronts. Though I agree partially with that the view was from a US perspective and Russia does not play by the US script. I think I have a reply and links to that that I did not post, if I find that again I will post it here.
My position though, and that is in answer to UWDude also, is that neutrality is unassailable. Where a genocide is taking place to not facilitate in any way (trade, recognition etc.) is neutrality. I would not oblige Russia or any other to enter the fray, but only to disengage and therefore isolate. It is a question of principle and not of strategy, because we know that there are still countries willing to aid “Israel” that would permit it to continue with its manner.
However, to take a principled stance is also a benefit to any strategy that would wish to be effective by being understood by a wider population.
Such a position would not seem to directly infringe on any MAD doctrine.
Although I also understand that we might be on the brink of a major conflict of unknown result, and that any changes in stance would be hyper calculated, I cannot allow that as an excuse for lack of reaction. I explain my sentiment on this in a following post.
To me, at street level, it just seems like there is no will to act to isolate those commiting genocide.
What you are saying UWDude rings also, but it is like saying having to keep the quo when the quo is actually being broken. It is not a pretense that can last and those who do not forge a new position get ignored.
I just add in that previous unposted comment re. PCR here, then post what I said I would to Karlof, then sign out because it is late 🙂
[ The differences in overview on Russian position or achievement are partly that it is easier for us to look from a west-centric scale of importance based on invasion, whereas Russia might well be looking from a purely defensive position. That is to say “winning” is not the priority, but reclaiming, defending and holding is. That has to be carried out along vast fronts which are, from Iran westwards, potentially hostile and to whatever degree supportive of western influence, while at the same time maintaining domestic coherence.
Viewed this way, Russia is now having to tolerate and absorb various attempts against its own integrity. It knows the west will as easily attack it without a clear pretext, it does not need to provide that pretext though as that would be to gift western planners.
The contrary view (partly held by PCR) is along the lines that Putin or Russia have not been decisive or pro-active, have been caught off guard (or deceived), that Russia is playing catch up with western strategy due to not solidifying partnerships previously, or for not being transparent, commited or coherent on foreign policy.
As I both agree and disagree with various points mentioned, and as for anyone else I do not know if there are possible justifications or excuses for any perceived failings, I don’t have an overall opinion but will just remain critical of any obvious incoherence that affects Russian public presentation (hopefully taken constructively). Ultimately however the conflict in Ukraine was clearly primed and even initiated by the west.
As mentioned, PCR here has a focused criticism for Putin, and apart from the above I think PCR is emphasising his understanding of how western spin, strategy and attitude work. That is to say unrelentingly hostile and looking for any weakness, or what can be presented as weakness, to leverage. Where Russia’s organisation is described as lacking is as might be seen or presented from that approach of western hostility.
On the other hand Russia is just not going to act as the west might, it has its own meaning, balance and worldview. Western frustration over western direction is therefore not Russia’s to resolve in a western way.
Anyway, I just continue the theme here a little because it is stepping off point for a lot of thought and discussion. PCR is outspoken and direct , and not afraid of playing the part of antagonist to discussion.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/10/18/is-putin-the-chamberlain-of-our-time/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/10/20/is-russia-finally-acknowledging-reality/
]

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 2 2024 2:45 utc | 178

In response to
”
I speak without hatred, but only with a great sense of sadness at what I must witness in this world.
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 2 2024 2:53 utc | 179
”
Agreed!
Our species is not showing well….

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 2 2024 3:29 utc | 180

Despite IDF and Bibi and the War Cabinet bluster, the facts on the ground are that the IDF has been decisively defeated in southern Lebanon.
The very idea that the IDF will conquer and occupy Lebanon south of the Litani River is ludicrous. They are hardly occupying an territory now, and they experiencing heavy losses in infantry and armor. They are no closer to the Litani River that I am to the Elba………..
In Gaza, Hamas is continuing to attack IDF formations of armor and infantry at will. One year of devastating bombing of Gaza has yielded mass civilian death, wounded and missing and little else. Hamas is still an effective fighting force.
So what to do? The Israelis through blind blood lust have brought themselves a conundrum, 30 K tons of bombs dropped on Gaza have yielded really no military objectives, and in Lebanon is a complete stalemate.
Anyone really believe that all Hamas battalions are gone, well of course not.
Hamas is set up like the old PIRA, with small ASU”s of approx twelve soldiers, fairly independent from the main HQ. They do not operate in traditional company or battalion groups, as IDF propaganda alleges. Small quasi independent groups offer less opportunity for leaks and informers. They ASU groups pick targets of opportunity in the ruins of Gaza, and there are endless numbers of those. They receive their orders via courier, and operate against targets of opportunity. No cell phones means no tracking. Old school tactics for the tech age.
For the IDF, thus genocide is the only option…..LOL

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 2 2024 4:40 utc | 182

Sabotage of Ottawa Factory Producing Parts for Israel’s F-35 Warplanes (thread)
https://x.com/WBWCanada/status/1851991480077849084
“Earlier this week a group of people in Ottawa sabotaged Gastop’s factory in Ottawa, the only place in the world where engine sensors are produced for Lockheed’s F-35s – including the ones dropping 2,000 pound bombs on Gaza…”
Toronto – All Out Against USrael’s War and Genocide and Canada’s collaborationist politicians!
Saturday, Nov 2 – 1:00 PM, US Consulate, 360 University Avenue, Toronto

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 2 2024 5:46 utc | 184

Arch,
Can you take over the Al-Manar live feed highlights ? I’ll continue with the daily Merkava tally.
Da’ wife has given me a very long ; Honey to do list, and I’m falling behind ….
Happy Wife
Happy Life

Posted by: Exile | Nov 2 2024 5:58 utc | 186

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 2 2024 5:31 utc | 183
Link please. Could not find it. Thanks.

Posted by: JAB | Nov 2 2024 6:23 utc | 188

Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم
@JehadAbusalim
If Israel’s supporters in the West, who advocate for criminalizing speech that compares Israel to the Nazis, don’t want these comparisons, perhaps they should call up their Israeli friends and ask them to stop marking detainees by writing numbers on their foreheads.
https://x.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1852081864523079801

Posted by: Menz | Nov 2 2024 9:08 utc | 190

Saul Staniforth
@SaulStaniforth
Israel finally gave the World Health Organisation permission to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the Gaza strip.
5 days later Israel bombed the hospital in order to destroy the supplies.
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1851900496648286410

Posted by: Menz | Nov 2 2024 9:10 utc | 192

Abby Martin
@AbbyMartin
“Had international law been respected, the genocide would have been stopped by the security council after the first set of measures by the ICJ, before Rafah was invaded. But a small number of member states have enabled and nurtured Israel’s conduct, and their genocidal violence has only expanded. If left unpunished, it could encourage other states to carry out these acts.
Israel is not the only country to attack UN Rapporteurs. What’s striking in the case of Israel is there’s a cohort of states that echo and reverberate what Israel says and minions that produce fabrications with only one objective: to distract away from the genocide.”
UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine @FranceskAlbs
after the release of her new report “Genocide as Colonial Erasure” https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?Fi
https://x.com/AbbyMartin/status/1851805188656333067

Posted by: Menz | Nov 2 2024 9:13 utc | 194

Since Iran, once again, did not get UN condemnation sought for in InSC after Israel’s last aggression, perhaps China & Russia thought this might stay Khamenei’s hand:
TASS:
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
2 NOV, 03:42
SCO condemns Israeli strikes on Iran’s military sites — statement
“The organization also stressed that the SCO member states stand for the prompt adoption of effective measures to stabilize the situation in the region exclusively by political and diplomatic means
BEIJING, November 2. /TASS/. The member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have strongly condemned the Israeli strikes on Iran’s military facilities.”
A bit obvious IMO.
Both Russia & China wanting Iran to allow itself humiliation, and the dismantling of both Hamas & Hezbollah to have some pretend PLO Palestinian State (maybe) in future.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 2 2024 10:44 utc | 196

karlof1 163
My encounters with a Greek Orthodox liturgy this week have convinced me that Orthodox Christianity is brazenly Trinitarian, while English Protestants sweep the issue under the carpet.
The Orthodox claim , constantly reiterated in the liturgy, that God , Jesus AS and Archagel Gabriel are ONE is horrendous and libellous blasphemy.
At the same time the Zionists brazenly claim that the purpose of all this savagery in Palestine is to force God’s hand . Well , that tells us how inscrutably pathetic they consider God to be.
Sorry to bore you with that, but it tells me as a Muslim that Judaeo-Chritianity, while absolutely opposed in political vision, UN values v. Ziofascism, is still completely united in terms of its utter disrespect for God and the teachings of His major prophets, Moses AS, the Messiah AS, and Muhammad SAW.
This means that Russia and USUKIS are united intellectually and therefore politically against Islam and individual Jewish and individual Christian thought outside the institutions of politically – charged theology.
Even Messrs Lavrov and Putin, Erdoğan and Biden are answerable to their respective deep states. Mr Lavrov’s public answers at a Press Conference might be opposite to his won private opinions. Hence the two-facedness you alluded to..

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 2 2024 11:51 utc | 198

To Gihane 198
Judeo-christanity, what is this, but a Christian illusion ?
From a Jewish point of view, in my inderstanding, nothing is worse than being Christian, and Jesus is a fake prophet; Bible is not a religious book, rather an historical reference, jet for claiming property of Palestine earth
Only some Christian (mostly protestant and evangelical) deceive themselves by referring to a judeo-christian civilisation

Posted by: Daniel | Nov 2 2024 12:18 utc | 200