Likely Iranian Strike upon Israel might happen on Sunday night in order to have the strongest effect on 5 November voting.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Nov 3 2024 16:05 utc | 3

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Nov 3 2024 16:05 utc | 3
The supreme leader of Iran gave a speech to students yesterday (i think) about the importance of Nov 4th in Iran’s history with the US.. so I too was wondering if they would strike on the 4th.. but which candidate is helped and who is hurt and how does that effect Iran’s calculations?

Posted by: dp | Nov 3 2024 16:33 utc | 5

i think this thing is somehow predetermined but at least there is a chance isreal will be glassed

Posted by: paquo | Nov 3 2024 17:28 utc | 7

aristodemos 1
In spite of Google promotions and free advertising for an anti- Israel propaganda by Wikipedia and Gov.uk , I couldn’t get onto the blog. Is it legal for these corporate bodies to advertise anti- Israel sites so blatantly? I was so looking forward to having a read.
Suckered Starmpooper might get them on Terror charges for hate crime.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 3 2024 17:35 utc | 9

In the west’s massive empire of lies, where the ruling elite’s servants are extremely skilled in the art of mass deception, some here may want to see this:
Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza (Premiered ~10/07/24)
Youtube Grayzone documentary shows media deceptions & hoaxes
Israel used to manufacture consent for GeNOcide.
https://youtu.be/bFEurGy05ps?si=kUwCRfYGiIjJEUcx
44 minutes

Posted by: WillSeymour | Nov 3 2024 17:38 utc | 11

teri 6
Are you telling me the US charges Israel for its bombs? The US wants to extend the runways on its unsinkable base, for projecting colonial power into West Asia all the way to the Pacific. Empire has to pay.
Israel has converted its left-wing opposition into Fascism by following the Left wing General’s plan for genocide.
Didn’t NAZism stand for Nationsal Socialism last time round?
All those long , boring comments about the Jews being genocidal Bolshevics I didnt read. Have I got to go and read them now?

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 3 2024 17:49 utc | 13

Very informative and insightful interview here: DialogueWorks – 45 mins
Prof. Mohammad Marandi | Israel on the Brink? IDF OVERPOWERED by Hezbollah & Iran!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzW1fWXs2pM

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 3 2024 18:35 utc | 15

in trying to guesstimate how many nukes Israel might have, I would look at their latest flop, see how many nuke capable missiles were intended for Iran, call it a dry run, and multiply by 5.
That would mean the last exercise was an attempt to see if they could launch a nuclear strike on Iran, and to learn more about how to do it. It appears the results were so dismal, that they dod not even learn anything from it.
This is all half-baked thoughts, so please spare me the insults when countering the theory, as it is not an incredibly personal and dearly held belief.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 3 2024 19:14 utc | 17

IDF is rumored to have approx 240 tactical nuclear war heads in storage in the “secret” Nagev nuke base……the first one was “stolen” from the US, with the approval, wink-wink from LBJ in 1967.
That war head was orbiting over Sinai during the ’73, carried by an IDF A4 Skyhawk, after the EA breached the Sinai defense line, and started to move rapidly toward occupied Palestine proper.
Ariel Sharon’s successful counter strike south of the EA breach point, ended the need for the nuke use, and the Russians also sent a strong message that any nuclear attack on Egypt would engender a counter nuclear strike by the Russians, (and any further penetration of Egypt by the IDF Sharon battlegroup would also cause direct Russian ground support for the EA).
LBJ is the same arse clown who vetoed the USN counterstrike against the IDF for the bloody, unprovoked, cowardly attack on the virtually unarmed USS Liberty in 1967………….
If the IDF ever uses one of these warheads, the US is completely culpable………..

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 3 2024 19:59 utc | 19

Incisive essay in current VeteransToday site by Brett Redmayne-Titley: “We are all Palestinians now”.
Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 3 2024 15:38 utc | 1
“We are all Palestinians now” is such a bullshit phrase. Very few are suffering what Palestinians are experiencing now.

Posted by: Ново З | Nov 3 2024 21:04 utc | 21

Posted by: teri | Nov 3 2024 17:11 utc | 6
Very interesting Teri. But it needs to be more than arms deliveries. No deliveries of any imports would be a good start.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 3 2024 21:38 utc | 23

@ michaelj72 | Nov 3 2024 22:27 utc | 24
Don’t underestimate the Western press’s role in suppressing news of beheaded Palestinian girls (and other Zionazi atrocities).

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 3 2024 22:53 utc | 25

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 3 2024 22:27 utc | 24
Where is the humanity, the outrage, for these young, precious lives?

I share your pain but you probably know the answer yourself: a lot of people care about the massacre in Gaza and Lebanon, also among ordinary people in the West (but clearly less than the majority, in my experience).
The other, larger part doesn’t want to know. It’s easy to ignore unwanted information like this, as we all know ourselves: “It’s bad on all sides.”, “There are so many other horrible things going on. (Sudan etc.)” and that’s even ignoring the lies we’re fed in the West about antisemitism, Hamas raping raver girls and so on.
I probably found this comment here and, as a German, it spoke to me: “If you wonder what the Germans did about the genocide in the 1940s — they behaved exactly as you do today.” (I am paraphrasing.) I have entirely sane, well educated colleagues who shrug off and laugh about the idea of boycotting Israel. When this happens, I always point out matter-of-factly that I attend our local Palestina rallies because this would make further sneering personal (and they’re too nice to do that) and to shift the Overton window a tiny but away from the mainstream. Proper discussion is impossible.

Posted by: Konami | Nov 3 2024 23:14 utc | 27

Countries that don’t sell arms to “Israel” ask the UN (which also does not sell arms to “Israel” afaik) to not sell arms to “Israel” .
Maybe half or more of the arms come from one country, and that could be increased to 100 % . Short of a blockade or similar, which is not going to happen, because US has veto, and because it would bring blockaders into direct confrontation with the US and “Israel”.
I don’t like to call good intent a charade or point scoring, am close to that though, but what they are saying is:
“We will not act to isolate or disassociate from “Israel”, it was the US”
And all carries on.
Boom, dead women and children before your very eyes.
Sisi or MBS or Putin or Erdogan, you might try this :
“Unfortunately, Israel is killing children” .
Just one small publicly spoken sentence of recognition, for those innocent slaughtered by the entity, and let your own or wider conscience take it from there.
Spoken or not, you cannot escape that fact, it stares you in the face endlessly, and you look weak and incapable for not recognising it as a reality.
Boom, more dead and suffering people.
You going to rea…
Boom
You g…
Boom
Satisfied now , with the silence ?
But we are here, many of us are here, millions upon millions of us are here, after this is finished.
And we will be staring into your faces, until you are gone.
That is fate.
And you would lose.
“It was the US”
For having already lost.
.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 3 2024 23:31 utc | 29

I probably found this comment here and, as a German, it spoke to me: “If you wonder what the Germans did about the genocide in the 1940s — they behaved exactly as you do today.” (I am paraphrasing.) I have entirely sane, well educated colleagues who shrug off and laugh about the idea of boycotting Israel….
Posted by: Konami | Nov 3 2024 23:14 utc | 27
One big difference is that social media did not exist in the 1940s. We don’t know how the average German at that time would have reacted to TikTok videos from Auschwitz, but we do know how most Israelis react to videos of the carnage in Gaza: a large majority approve of what the IDF is doing there.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Nov 3 2024 23:55 utc | 31

“”If you wonder what the Germans did about the genocide in the 1940s — they behaved exactly as you do today.”
Konami @ 27
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I find this type of statement particularly annoying.
Ever since the Seizure of Power Germans were living in a totalitarian state erected very rapidly in a domestic Blitzkrieg called Gleichschaltung. By the 1940s, when the genocide was taking place for the most part in eastern Europe, many to most Germans knew little about it and if they did, they were living in a totalitarian state that was also at war, hence, uebertotalitarian. Everyone was just trying to survive. That any Germans tried to help Jewish and other prisoners that they saw in local labor camps etc. is a miracle, as such assistance was severely punished, possibly by summary execution.
Of course you as a German don’t need explanations from me.
More relevant, IMHO:
“I wonder what the Americans did about the detention in concentration camps of German Americans and Japanese Americans and the postwar theft of their property and businesses, much of it by Jewish-mobster-connected judges such as David Bazelon and Kosher Nostra mobsters such as the Pritzkers, of Chicago?”
Answer: Nothing. Americans were not living in a totalitarian state, but they still did nothing to stop these detentions and slimy “appropriations” of millions and millions of dollars’ worth of property, businesses, and valuable patents.
IMO, the Germans (esp. the Wessis) must shake off their mental and emotional shackles, think critically, face the Zionist reality, and stop taking personal responsibility for past events most of their forebears could not affect.
American should stop comparing contemporary Americans to war-time Germans.
Americans should cultivate their own “guilt garden” as a point of reference and leave Germans out of it.
Americans need to acquire a sense of outrage not only for the colonial past but for the racially motivated crimes against our own citizens committed within living memory in our proud democracy (including putting innocent civilians in detention camps), and those being committed by our government now.

Posted by: Jane | Nov 4 2024 0:56 utc | 33

Posted by: Jane | Nov 4 2024 0:23 utc | 32
Agree with everything you said. Shallowness is extensive and goes deep (all pun intended). My own defense mechanism against the serious atrocities and shallowness and callousness around me is cynicism and honing my sarcasm.
There are other self-defense mechanisms. Influencing any small piece of the world? Use words that can bite, on occasion.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Nov 4 2024 1:05 utc | 35

One big difference is that social media did not exist in the 1940s. We don’t know how the average German at that time would have reacted to TikTok videos from Auschwitz, but we do know how most Israelis react to videos of the carnage in Gaza: a large majority approve of what the IDF is doing there.
Posted by: farm ecologist | Nov 3 2024 23:55 utc | 31
Germany 1933-45 was a dictatorship without any semblance of democracy. Communists, Social Democrats and trades unionists were violently suppressed or thrown into camps. Even liberals whose consciences led them to oppose the barbarism of that regime were placed at serious risk under that dictatorship.
Israel is an entirely different social formation, it is a beleaguered colonial settler state that is trying to replicate the history of 18th and 19th century colonialism in West Asia in the 21st century.

Posted by: Lengai | Nov 4 2024 1:17 utc | 37

The Jews of today behave in a different way to the Germans of the 1940s. The modern Jews prefer the story about themselves that the world is , again, persecuting them for their Judaism, using the Palestinians as the spearhead of a much wider conspiracy against them.
Jews see the Western support for Zionism as a conspiracy to blame Jews. They don’t have a place in their moral compass to blame themselves. They see USUKIS enabling of the Israeli genocide as the West framing Jews with responsibility for genocide out of “” anti-semitism “”.
Even Kier Starmer, Prime Minister of one third of the triumvirate, maintains a personal charade of permanent victimhood. He always looks terrified, as though enemies beyond his control are sweeping him into the sea. I know his Indian predecessor looked even more bonkers, holding the British , patriotic flag . But Starmer is Victim all over.
Why are they blaming us poor Jews for everything? I’m not the pheasant plucker , I’m the pheasant pluckers’ mate. I’m only plucking feathers ‘cos the pheasant plucker late.
And I’m sick of hearing Netanyahu’s stupid victim excuse that he’s protecting himself from prison.
No, sir, you are not a victim. In fact playing the victim card while you are smashing women and children makes you look like a psychopath.
How dare a Khazar fake Jew play the anti-semitism victim card. ?
Because only the Khazars who hate Judaism are capable of playing the victim.card while destroying Judaism.
I would have thought the world would have worked that out by now , after 80 years of genocide and one year of indiscriminate bombing.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 4 2024 1:25 utc | 39

Posted by: Jane | Nov 4 2024 0:56 utc | 33
Agreed.
Currently in the colonial settler state where I find myself, the government, political parties, media, universities and the rest of the liberal establishment are falling over themselves to make symbolic but ultimately meaningless statements of acknowledgment of the colonial past.
However, mention the genocide in Palestine, criticise Zionism or the establishment’s support for that ongoing colonial project, and they will unfailingly label you an antisemite and bring the full force of the capitalist state and media to bear against you.

Posted by: Lengai | Nov 4 2024 1:59 utc | 41

Tobias Cole@1959
LBJ was aware that he was a Crypto. He masked it well. His maternal lineage was “Chosen”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 4 2024 2:13 utc | 43

“We have never dropped bombs and missiles on the women and children of any country and we have never deprived any people of water, food, and medicine, but they have committed all these crimes against humanity,”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/03/736569/Iran-Israel-US-President-Masoud-Pezeshkian-truce-Gaza-ceasefire-massacre-response-military-aggression-sovereignty-security-
Pezeshkian: Ceasefire and stopping massacres ‘could affect’ Iran’s response to Israel
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says a truce in Gaza and an end to Israel’s massacre of civilians “could affect” Tehran’s response to its recent strikes on the country’s military sites.
“If they (the Israelis) make a revision in their behavior, accept a ceasefire and stop killing the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could have an effect on the type and intensity of our response,” Pezeshkian said in a cabinet session on Sunday.
However, he insisted that Iran will not leave “unanswered” any act of aggression against its sovereignty and security.
The Iranian president warned the Israeli authorities that they will receive a “tooth-breaking” response if they “commit a mistake” against the Islamic Republic.
….Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Saturday warned the United States and Israel that they will definitely receive a crushing response for their atrocities…..
….He (president Pezeshkian) blasted the “shameful and disgraceful” silence of the self-proclaimed defenders of human rights towards Israeli killing of thousands of innocent and oppressed women and children in Gaza and Lebanon.
“We have never dropped bombs and missiles on the women and children of any country and we have never deprived any people of water, food, and medicine, but they have committed all these crimes against humanity,” the Iranian president said……

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 4 2024 2:57 utc | 45

I haven’t checked if Duncan ever criticised the Israelis while he was a sitting minister:
Sulaiman Ahmed
@ShaykhSulaiman
Former British Minister Alan Duncan with a message for Israel:
“Get out of Palestine. It is NOT your country.”
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1852870557982941279

Posted by: Menz | Nov 4 2024 3:08 utc | 47

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 3 2024 19:59 utc | 19 “orbiting over Sinai during the ’73, carried by an IDF A4 Skyhawk”
On 7 October 1973, when the Egyptian Army breach the Bar Lev line they stopped about 5 miles into the Sinai. That was the plan. A couple of the Egyptian Army generals wrote books on it years afterwards.
On 14 October, 1973 the 2nd and 3rd Egyptian armies attempted to breakout of the beachhead to help the Syrians. This was not in the original plan and was against the advice of the Egyptian Chief of Staff, General Shazly and was unsuccessful. It was 2 days later the IDF crossed the canal. And they didn’t cross to the south, they crossed in the center, where the 2nd and 3rd Egyptian Armies meet.
There was no A4 orbiting with a nuclear warhead. There evidently back up plans that included nuclear weapons but there was no need for such an instant response as the the Egyptian army never started moving toward occupied Palestine proper. And how long would it have taken the Egyptian Army to get to the passes, fight their way though and then drive on to occupied Palestine proper?
You might read “The Crossing of the Suez” by General Shazly.

Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 4 2024 3:12 utc | 49

Posted by: Jane | Nov 4 2024 0:56 utc | 33
Great, smart and sensitive post.
I was born in occupied territory during WW II and raised and educated in The Netherlands. I have avoided for most of my life traveling through Germany, like many of my compatriots of that era. Flying through connecting airports is not the same thing.
The Atlantik Wall left some bunkers and I sustained facial scars from small accidents. Some modes of expression by blond, blue-eyed Germans can cause Dutch friends to pull me by my collar to induce some restraint.
The issue of German guilt persisted for most of my lifetime until last year when I overnighted in Mainz, near Frankfurt. ‘Mad Bomber Harris’, some three weeks before the end of WW II in that area (February ’45, IIRC) destroyed 80 percent of the town. I forgave them then and there. The bridge across the Rhein was not restored until 1958 and named after the First German Chancellor post WW II.
I was not liberated until the first week of May ’45 and that by the Canadians. I now have some 350 cousins living in Alberta.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Nov 4 2024 3:19 utc | 51

https://x.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1853096928025751911
Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib
The Israeli government bombed children while they were trying to get their polio vaccination.
https://x.com/DrTedros/status/1852773716272328933
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros
We have received an extremely concerning report that the Sheikh Radwan primary health care centre in northern #Gaza was struck today while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving #polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed. Six people, including four children, were injured.
A @WHO team was at the site just before. This attack, during humanitarian pause, jeopardises the sanctity of health protection for children and may deter parents from bringing their children for vaccination.
These vital humanitarian-area-specific pauses must be absolutely respected. Ceasefire!
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1853140829465973120
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️ #Israeli media: Netanyahu canceled a visit to Metula today after a drone exploded 20 minutes before his arrival

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 4 2024 4:02 utc | 53

SOF member with Biden in Isreal before being dispatched by the Russians for visiting without a valid visa.
https://t.me/stayfreeworld/34636

Posted by: Suresh | Nov 4 2024 5:11 utc | 55

Sure, Iran is ready to deal a devastating blow to Israel any day now. And then Israel will exist no more. Alternatively, open your eyes.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 4 2024 5:43 utc | 56
We’ve been through this loop before.
Apparently you’ve learned nothing.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 4 2024 5:46 utc | 57

“The results of the autopsy of Yahya Sinwar’s body showed that he did not eat anything during the last 72 hours before his death.”
I thought Hamas were supposedly ‘stealing’ all of the humanitarian aid? 🤔
Posted by: Menz | Nov 4 2024 3:06 utc | 45
Time and time again, we learn and relearn that the Zionists only tell lies.
Even when their words have the semblance of truth, it is only in the service of a greater lie that they sometimes must add a little kernel of truth to their stories.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 4 2024 5:50 utc | 59

BREAKING: The International Court has declared Israel an illegal state (…)
Posted by: Menz | Nov 4 2024 3:09 utc | 47

Nonsense. The link only shows Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki commenting on the opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on July 19, 2024. The court said that the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank are illegal. This is nothing new.
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-pre-01-00-en.pdf

Posted by: Leuk | Nov 4 2024 5:53 utc | 61

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 4 2024 2:03 utc | 41
Like what Aaron Bushnell said…
“​​Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people… Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
“>https://time.com/6821425/israel-embassy-air-force-protest-fire-self-immolation-aaron-bushnell-latest-updates

Thank you for the source!
Yes, conditions in the West today are nowhere near Nazi Germany. I understand Bushnell’s point to mean that the majority of people behave always similarly: indifference, inaction. It’s clearly possible to do/say something about the murder of Gaza, and we see it everyday — even in mainstream media.
Clear to me that when the dust will have settled, and Gaza 2023 is universally recognised as the genocide it is then all the vocal pro-Israel voices will “have known nothing” and the Israelis on the ground will have “just followed orders”. We’ve been there before.

Posted by: Konami | Nov 4 2024 6:06 utc | 63

resistance is a right that every Palestinian in the Occupied Territories can lawfully exercise under international law
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1853315873160700335
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Israel can be safely called THEODORSTAN or HERTZELSTAN or ZIONISTAN coz the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful.
Every Palestinian is a freedom fighter.
link to: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/19/world-court-says-israels-settlement-policies-breach-international-law
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1853198315665703272
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber
🔴IMPORTANT🔴
Many people have asked why the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) are not actively involved in defending the country. I hope that these facts & figures will provide some explanation & insight into these questions:
📌 This issue is not about the size of the LAF or the sectarian composition of its soldiers. The Lebanese army is diverse, with members of all sects, including a significant number of Shiite soldiers.
The problem is not even the bravery of the LAF soldiers. These men are courageous & itching to protect their country. Just look at the martyr Major Mohammad Farhat of the LAF (clip below) who was killed by the invading Israeli forces 9 days ago on (Oct 24) while on a mission to evacuate wounded civilians.
See how he confronted the IOF enemy who tried to install barbed wire on the outskirts of Aita Al Shaab in March 2023.
The question regarding the army’s inability to defend Lebanon against Israeli aggression lies in whether the LAF is equipped or capable of defending the nation, even from a defensive standpoint. We are not discussing offensive maneuvers, but rather the army’s ability to hold its ground defensively.
Quite simply, the LAF is not sufficiently armed to perform such a task or to deter any foreign force.
This is not through any fault of its own, but rather because the collective West, led by the United States, has historically under-equipped the LAF, ensuring that it is incapable of defending Lebanon against Israeli occupation forces.
This decision was deliberate on the part of the U.S., which has played a major role in limiting Lebanon’s access to aviation & air defense systems, effectively neutralizing any potential threat to its most strategic ally in the region – Israel. The U.S. has positioned itself as Israel’s “guarantor, guardian & protector.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 4 2024 6:31 utc | 65

The follow up to the July 19th ICJ AO is the Sept 18th UNGA resolution approved by an overwhelming super majority.
1) Likud runs an Apartheid State as defined in international law.
2) Settlers must excavate Occupied Territories by 17.Sept 2025
3) Likud Gov‘t and their predecessors owe reparations .
Full text
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/266/48/pdf/n2426648.pdf

Posted by: Exile | Nov 4 2024 8:08 utc | 67

Of course it’s new.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 4 2024 6:11 utc | 64

No the July 19, 2024 opinion of the ICJ is no “breaking” news. Nor does it say that “Israel is an illegal state”.
If you would try to understand what people are saying and refrain from posting every time some idea crosses your mind, your contribution would be greatly improved.

Posted by: Leuk | Nov 4 2024 10:54 utc | 69

Leuk 70
It’s the American way, to take every statement Satanic , deceitful and provocative. Islam teaches that Anger eats Intellect. The American style is to load their words with challenge, insult and lies. While you are unpicking g the unnecessary argumentativeness , rudeness and lies, you forget what you ate talking about.
The random thoughts you accuse me of having and compulsorily spew out are about Russia, which is persona non grata in the American psyche. In Britain we regard Russia as a European ally. The US has been brainwashed by McArthurism into seeing Russia as the epitome of evil.
That I think why you try to patronise me. My comments are unacceptable to the US , brainwashed mind.
Russia and RoW have learned by hard experience never to allow themselves to be provoked by American insolence.
It’s insolent to the World Community for the US to fully fund a genocide. It’s insolent for the US to demand worldwide conformity to their mad foreign policy.
It’s insolent for the US to seek to interfere with Lebanon’s and Gaza’s politics, but we are too well-bred and worldly wise to point out US insolence directly. It’s insolent for the US to interfere with its allies, including Israel’s internal politucs, steering us by force into the dogma of US , anti-socialist psychosis.
It’s not your world. You don’t own it, lead it, guide it or even influence it.
All you have is your Nazi psychosis, in your cell, in your straitjacket, on your own. Every body else is doing normal things outside of your US Nazi bubble.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 4 2024 12:26 utc | 71

Hebrew media cites an urgent need for soldiers.

Hebrew source ynet claims that the IOF has an urgent need for 7000 soldiers to replace losses from the fighting.
The proposed solution of mobilizing the ultra-orthodox is running into trouble. Most of them simply don’t show up. Either via exemption, or simply refusing the summons, they find a way to evade the draft. Out of 3000 ultra-orthodox mobilized last summer, only 240 made muster. Since Netanyahu’s government depends on the far-right ultra orthodox parties (this is where he found Smotrich and Ben-Gvir) for it’s parliamentary majority, the government is loathe to do anything. Ironically, the Ultra-Orthodox settlers are constantly stirring up fights with their constant attacks on Palestinians, especially in the west bank, but get to evade the consequences when their violence boils over into war.
As for the numbers, 7000 irrecoverable causalities is a lot more than the Zionists have admitted to previously, and it more or less lines up with earlier reports that 8500 soldiers had been added to the state’s medical rehabilitation lists. The Zionists are bleeding badly. 7000 lost for a few bulldozed villages in Lebanon, as rockets still rain on the north. Doesn’t seem worth it, does it?
🐻It seems like no one wants to die for Zionism anymore. What a pity!

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/128822

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Nov 4 2024 12:42 utc | 73

@ Giyane | Nov 4 2024 12:26 utc | 72
Won’t answer, veritas index sui.

Posted by: Leuk | Nov 4 2024 12:56 utc | 75

Hezbollah’s operational readiness surprised Israel. (PressTV (TG) – Short Version)
Brig. Gen. Elias Farhat highlights that the resistance front has inflicted significant Israeli losses while preventing any meaningful territorial gains.
https://t.me/presstv/116801
Zionist Israel’s dual strain (PressTV (Web) – Long Version)
Zionist Israel is currently grappling with escalating losses on the Gaza and Lebanese fronts, where intense resistance from Hezbollah has strained its military effectiveness.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/30/736297/Zionist-Israel-s-dual-strain

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Nov 4 2024 13:15 utc | 77

Arch,
Da’ wife has got me doing chores all week. Can you please post the Al-Manar daily highlights live feed ?
I can keep up the Merkava tally.
Good to see Ed4 presenting the Genociders point of view. Always illuminating to read their compium.

Posted by: Exile | Nov 4 2024 13:40 utc | 79

“Arch,
Da’ wife has got me doing chores all week. Can you please post the Al-Manar daily highlights live feed ?
I can keep up the Merkava tally.
Good to see Ed4 presenting the Genociders point of view. Always illuminating to read their compium.”
Posted by: Exile | Nov 4 2024 13:40 utc | 81
Ed4 is much more subtle than your average Genocidal troll but he has shown his true malevolent colours as you have aptly pointed out.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 4 2024 14:28 utc | 81

“https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1852885418959577584
Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane
The squirrel story has gotten so much attention, coverage, and outrage in the US—people are heartbroken and furious over an animal killed by the government.
While I was reading about the outrage over a squirrel’s death, I came across a video of a 3-year-old Gazan child beheaded in an Israeli airstrike. I searched for a single page or even one headline in Western media dedicated to this beheaded little girl, but found nothing.
How can the world be so outraged by an animal’s death yet completely silent about innocent children being brutally slaughtered? The hypocrisy is infuriating. Where is the humanity, the outrage, for these young, precious lives?”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 3 2024 22:27 utc | 24
Excellent analogy; Western values are upside down.
A year ago my son’s cat ate some rat poison has a seizure and they went to the vet’s immediately. The vet did some examination (12 year old cat) gave my son and my daughter in law some meds -cost $1,000 Canadian.
Then, because it was my daughter in laws’s original cat she was crying so the vet suggested they could get an MRI done right then-at a $4,000 cost.
Thank God,; my son put his foot down; cat, Ivey, has a crooked neck but other than that she’s fine.
The irony is that I know tax paying Canadians who are waiting 4, 5 even 8 months to get an MRI.
Sick!!

Posted by: canuck | Nov 4 2024 14:42 utc | 83

Leuk and canuck
Index sui?
Middle finger to both of you.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 4 2024 14:55 utc | 85

Quite simply, the LAF is not sufficiently armed to perform such a task or to deter any foreign force.
This is not through any fault of its own, but rather because the collective West, led by the United States, has historically under-equipped the LAF, ensuring that it is incapable of defending Lebanon against Israeli occupation forces.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 4 2024 6:31 utc | 66
Now explain this: if Hezbollah could arm itself against all odd how come the Lebanese Army couldn’t?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 4 2024 15:43 utc | 87

No, the life of a squirrel is not so important as the life of a child in Gaza. OTOH ten armed men, weapons drawn, breaking down your door at dawn is not a fun way to start the day. Why on earth does Department of Environmental Conservation even have a SWAT team? Why is said SWAT team dispatched because Karen 1500 miles away complains about misdemeanor harboring a rodent? Does SWAT team really need to disassemble the toilet and send a camera down the stack? What gives DEC permission to threaten someone’s wife about her immigration status? Hold the couple hostage for five hours with much brandishing of automatic weapons?
If you are not angry about this you are an authoritarian.
What is happening in Gaza is so inconceivable many cannot even begin to apprehend it. If the information were in front of their face they could not see it. But the information is hidden.
Internet animals is something people connect to. Again, if you are an authoritarian fuck you. The SWAT team, your buddies, is coming for you next asshole.

Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 4 2024 15:48 utc | 89

Old hippie@89
Thanks for giving background on Peanut the squirrel.
I agree 100% with every word you wrote.
F— the Karen’s and f—- the authoritarians.

Posted by: morongobill | Nov 4 2024 15:57 utc | 91

(as requested by Exile)
The latest update and highlights from the Hezbollah newsdesk (notably still running after the levelling of Dahiya …)

2024-11-04
17:21 Sirens sounded in Nahariya and vicinity for fear of drone infiltration: Israeli media
16:43 Sirens sound in Menara and Margaliot in Galilee Panhandle: Israeli media
15:59 Hezbollah declares three drone strikes targeting Israeli gatherings in the settlements of Netu’a, Zar’it and Even Menachem on Sunday night: statements
15:58 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters fired salvo of rockets at Yesud HaMa’ala settlement: statement
15:51 Israeli Terror on the Rise in the West Bank: Settler Attacks and Arrest Campaign More..
15:08 Hezbollah assault drone precisely targeted an Israeli gathering east of Maroun Al-Ras: statement
14:29 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters flew a squadron of assault drones targeting an Israeli gathering at the settlement of Yiftah: statement
14:27 Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Israeli gathering at Menara settlement with a swarm of assault drones on Sunday night: Hezbollah statement
14:24 ‘Israel’ Officially Terminates UNRWA Work, Informs UN More..
13:33 Hezbollah says resistance fighters launched massive rocket barrage at Nahariya: statement
13:29 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters fired massive rocket barrage targeting Meron Base: statement
13:28 Israeli warplanes create sonic booms over several Lebanese regions
12:51 Israeli casualties as Palestinians confront, throw rocks at settlers who torched olive trees north of Al-Quds: Israeli media
12:50 Israeli settlers torched Palestinian olive trees in the West Bank, north of occupied Al-Quds: Palestinian and Israeli media
12:48 Israeli occupation army says soldier seriously injured in northern Gaza fighting
11:49 Israeli Channel 14: Some 30 rockets fired from Lebanon towards Nahariya and Western Galilee
11:21 Sirens sound in Acre, Nahariya and the surrounding areas: Israeli media
11:18 Israeli drone strike targeted Lebanese house in the southern town of Zawtar Al-Sharqiyyeh: National News Agency
11:07 Israeli oppositionleader Yair Lapid: Since October 7, 2023, 890 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 11,000 others have been wounded with the current gov’t led by Netanyahu “doing nothing”
11:04 Israeli media quotes former chief of staff of the Israeli air force Nimrod Sheffer as saying: We have been going through absurd events for 395 days
11:00 Israeli artillery shells towns of Kawneen, Aynata, Hanin and Al-Tiri: Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon
10:08 Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Safad with a large missile barrage at 9:30 am on Monday: Statement
09:36 Palestinian Resistance Committees: The assaults carried out by settlers on citizens’ property in al-Bireh, including the burning of dozens of vehicles, are a continuation of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli government against Palestinians
09:15 Lebanese Ministry of Health: 3 martyrs are the result of the Israeli raid that targeted Arabsalim in Nabatieh district at dawn today
09:00 Israeli media: Sirens sounded in the southern Golan due to fear of an unknown plane infiltrating
08:46 Yedioth Ahronoth: The combat formation in the Israeli army is experiencing further erosion due to a significant decline in the competence of the recruited personnel
08:45 Lebanese Ministry of Health: 5 martyred, 3 wounded in an Israeli raid on the town of Mashghara in the Western Bekaa today
08:43 Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Aerial Monitoring Unit at Meron Base with a missile barrage at 12:07 am, midnight Sunday – Monday: Statement
2024-11-03
22:14 Al-Manar correspondent: A massive explosion, spanning 500 meters, erupted along the southern outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Manara, reaching as far as the area south of the government hospital in Mays al-Jabal
21:48 Yemeni Forces Vow to Maintain Naval Blockade on ‘Israel’ Until Attacks on Gaza and Lebanon Cease More..
21:12 Yemen’s Armed Forces: Naval blockade and targeting of all vessels associated with the Israeli enemy to continue
17:46 Hezbollah’s Military Media publishes video of new underground missile facility “Imad-5”
17:41 Hezbollah says struck Beit Lid Base, east of Netanya, with a barrage of qualitative missiles
17:38 Israeli occupation military says tracking target from Lebanon that triggered sirens in Western Galilee, Haifa Bay area
17:36 Horrifying Situation in Northern Gaza on Day 394 of Brutal Israeli War More..
17:32 Sirens sound between Acre and Krayot over suspected drone infiltration
16:29 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli gathering near Menara settlement with a barrage of rockets: statement no.13
16:28 Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Israeli Merkava at Metula Gate with a guided missile resulting in confirmed casualties among its crew: statement no. 12
15:22 Israeli dies of wounds sustained during rocket barrage interception in Nahariya last month, Galilee Medical Center announces (Times of Israel)
15:20 Israeli army spokesperson: Some 30 rockets fired from Lebanon at Lower Galilee and Central Galilee
15:17 Lebanese Health Ministry: 3 martyrs, 9 wounded in initial toll of Israeli strike on Haret Saida town
14:29 Leader Decries ‘Israel’ as “Most Wicked Enemy of Islam”, IRGC Chief Vows Its Collapse More..
14:03 Casualties in Israeli strike on the southern town of Al-Ghaziyeh
13:49 Islamic Resistance in Iraq Keeps Up Anti-Israel Strikes in Support of Gaza, Lebanon More..
13:44 Israeli strike reported on Haret Saida, near the southern city of Sidon
13:32 Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon: Khiam is free of any Israeli soldier, including Al-Wata area, located to the east of the town
13:21 Israeli media: Estimations within the Israeli military that elimination of Hamas military structure in northern Gaza Strip will take at least 6 months
13:17 3 martyrs in Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Burj Qalaway
12:36 Sirens sound east of Acre: Israeli media
12:35 Israeli officer with the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion was seriously wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip: occupation army spokesperson
12:34 UNICEF: ‘Israel’ killed more than 50 Palestinian children in the last two days in Gaza’s Jabalia
11:57 Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters strike Katzrin settlement with a barrage of rockets: statement no. 11
11:36 Health Ministry in Gaza calls for dispatching health delegates to northern Gaza Strip
11:33 In the last two strikes on Sunday, Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters fired barrages of rockets targeting Israeli gatherings in Shamir (Upper Galilee) and Kidmat Tsvi (occupied Golan)
11:25 Islamic Resistance fighters have targeted since morning on Sunday 10 Israeli gatherings across and near the border with Lebanon
11:20 Sirens sound in Nahariya and surrounding area: Israeli media

Some empirical observations:
Fact #1: The rocket, drone and missile traffic from Lebanon to all areas of ‘Israel’ has simply increased in volume and lethality regardless of the IOF invasion of South Lebanon.
Fact #2: Therefore the IOF invasion has failed in it’s stated objective thus far.
Fact #3: The withdrawal of the IOF from Khiam signals an inability of the IOF to hold any ground in the South Lebanon “UNR 1701 region”
Deduction: That the IDF could not maintain control of Khiam and any other towns thus far indicates what will be the trend going forward: There appears no factors at play which lead one to believe they’ll be able to control any region of Lebanon going forward.
Fact #4: Hezbollah fire has increased in lethality and consistency: Rocket/Missile/Drone fire is daily. Each new day brings barrages of higher intensity and bigger single impacts.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 4 2024 16:06 utc | 93

Now explain this: if Hezbollah could arm itself against all odd how come the Lebanese Army couldn’t?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 4 2024 15:43 utc | 87
LAF is basically owned by the US which pays their tab for weapons and supplies. They get only what their master wants.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-lebanon/
You probably knew this but for those that didn’t.

Posted by: Archetypex | Nov 4 2024 16:24 utc | 95

…
How can the world be so outraged by an animal’s death yet completely silent about innocent children being brutally slaughtered? The hypocrisy is infuriating. Where is the humanity, the outrage, for these young, precious lives?”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 3 2024 22:27 utc | 24

One has to view both instances from a certain perspective. If you are in any way humane you might view the girl as possibly your own daughter, and if so would naturally imagine how you would feel in that circumstance with the attendant emotional rage and anger directed at the perpetrators for the loss of such a loved innocent.
On the other hand if you happen to believe that you are “chosen” or “exceptional” then her life is of no consequence, a mere inconvenience as you move towards greater things. Finally if you are too indoctrinated to think for your self and you follow wholeheartedly the spiel that you are allowed to follow, then you can feel some “righteous” anger on behalf of the squirrel (as that type of anger after all, is encouraged and allowed).
The simple truth is that the value of a life in the societies in which we live is not what we’ve always been led to think it was, and to be fair although we were taught it was so, it never was. To paraphrase a book I read as a child – “… all lives are equal but some are more equal than others … “.
The moral for me is to hold onto your humanity and never lose sight of the duplicity which surrounds you and the crafters of such duplicity and the actions needed to keep it in the position it currently (but temporarily) holds.

Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Nov 4 2024 17:29 utc | 97

0T: God @TheTweetOfGod
https://x.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1853171452058718303
Posted by: Menz | Nov 4 2024 3:13 utc | 50
You know 10 years ago I expected to get kicked off of Twitter for my radical politics and writing on future nuclear Armageddon. Hell I even wrote on the cannibalism that would result from it. A short piece I called “I remember the billion eaten.”
I also like to practice comedy in a variety of different styles. And nothing quite says funny like a pack of roving cannibals… I digress.
So one day, for about the 100th time, Tweet of God was again telling us about how violent we were and he never should have created us.
So I tweeted back “You lie! I’m going to kill you!” Which if you think about it is kind of absurd. She’s already dead. Like my account.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 4 2024 18:12 utc | 99