Palestine Open Thread 2024-271
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Posted by b on November 10, 2024 at 14:32 UTC | Permalink
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Hind Khoudary
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip
Having no civil defence teams and no ambulances in northern Gaza is making the situation way harder.
Dozens of Palestinians are still trapped under the rubble with no one to rescue them. Even those who are injured, it’s very hard for them to get to the only functioning hospital, Kamal Adwan, due to the lack of vehicles, fuel and the shortage of medicine.
People there have been under siege for more than a month now. We are entering the fifth week without food, water, or medicine.
We see that these Palestinians are the Palestinians who survived more than 30 days of the siege without any food, any water, nothing. And they are simply being targeted because they chose to stay in Jabalia.
Attacks continue elsewhere in the strip, including in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Khan Younis, and in Rafah. Since the Israelis took over the Philadelphi corridor and since they took over Rafah, there has been continuous bulldozing of the lands there.
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10 2024 14:41 utc | 2
As long as Israel doesn't assassinate any more Iranian officials (or Hamas/Hezbollah leaders on Iranian soil), I doubt that Iran will attack Israel directly again.
There is currently a lull, and the longer the lull continues, the stronger it gets and the less profitable it becomes for either side to end the lull.
Posted by: Mark Mosby | Nov 10 2024 14:50 utc | 3
Northern Gaza Strip:
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We bring you more information on the house in Jabalia that was bombed this morning at six. We now have a confirmed report that everybody in that house was killed. The last few remains were removed from under the rubble in the past couple of hours, and it’s believed that the total number of people inside was 32 or 33.
The hope for more survivors has faded, as the rescue mission has stopped in the area due to the dangers involved.
The presence of surveillance drones, which are creating a sense of intimidation for volunteers and for local community members who are trying to help their neighbours and relatives and rescue them from under the rubble, has further complicated efforts.
Al Jazeera live-blog
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Netanyahu formally admits Israel was behind the pager terrorist attacks and the assassination of Nasrallah (no kidding) and is enjoying his talks with Trump:
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Netanyahu takes credit for the operation to blow up the radios that targeted Hezbollah members, and the assassination of Nasrallah
Netanyahu says he spoke to Trump 3 times in past few days
Netanyahu says his talks with Trump were good and very important, says he sees great opportunity to expand peace in the region to include new countries
Netanyahu says he and Trump agree on Iranian threat
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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And now Netanyahu is threatening to assassinate al Assad in Syria:
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per Israel Hayom (Israeli newspaper):
Our newspaper has learned that Israel sent threatening messages to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, stating that if he does not cooperate in preventing the transfer of weapons from his territory to Lebanon, his fate will be like that of Hassan Nasrallah.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Every day I think of the people trying to just survive in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon. Grabbing thier children and the last little sack of possessions they hold and walking past dead bodies and the almost dead, desperate for food and shelter in a place that has been home for thier entire lives, but is now a barren, hard, destroyed pile of rubble. And I wonder how it is that the mass murderers who are smirking and laughing at the slaughter they carry out are allowed to walk about the earth freely and eat sumptuous meals and go shopping and visit whatever friends they might have without fear that anyone will arrest them, much less kill them on the way.
The injustice is intolerable.
Posted by: teri | Nov 10 2024 14:56 utc | 4
Israel's impunity to international standards is just appalling. FDR had to think about killing Yamamoto and was discreet. Israel does whatever and announces it.
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2024 14:59 utc | 5
Posted by: teri | Nov 10 2024 14:56 utc | 4
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There is no justice to be found in this world.
Don't torture yourself that things (beyond your control) are as they are. Focus on what you can do in your life. Be kind with kin. Help someone in need. Prioritize your health.
Don't let these evil people also poison your life on top of the ones they are destroying in the Holy Lands.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:19 utc | 6
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2024 14:59 utc | 5
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The Americans and the remainder of the West do as they please. It was that way 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago.
Never forget this is an American genocide.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:22 utc | 7
Friends, don't deceive yourself by hanging on anything Bibi or Trump says. They both have to perform for audiences that we are not a part of.
Judge what they do.
Both are capable of kissing a baby as they order thousands killed.
They are not like you and can easily do things that you never would.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:27 utc | 8
British politicians kept on privatising/ selling British government assets until there's nothing left. Whatever military assets were sold to Israelis must now be privatised back without compensation because contracts did not anticipate this genocide.
We are powerless and Tory and Labour politicians are rich. In addition to his salary my MP Liam Byrne claims £60,000 in parliamentary expenses. For doing nothing except asking questions that supposedly might satisfy his constituents that he represents us.
In short the sole justification for his expenses is that he asks questions which might interest some people. Well I have a question for him. Which nation owns the company that runs the British Nuclear Weaponry Systems? Who sold it to them and why was it sold against Britain's national interests?
Invoice date 10 Nov 2024 £ 10,000.00
Payable to Giyane @ MoA Inc.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 10 2024 15:43 utc | 9
Posted by: teri | Nov 10 2024 14:56 utc | 4
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There is no justice to be found in this world.
Don't torture yourself that things (beyond your control) are as they are. Focus on what you can do in your life. Be kind with kin. Help someone in need. Prioritize your health.
Don't let these evil people also poison your life on top of the ones they are destroying in the Holy Lands.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:19 utc | 6
You are both right.
The level of injustice and genocide is at all time high, and what differs is that it's broadcasted live on Instagram, telegram, Twitter, TikTok, but all that doesn't matter to the global west.
Justice to the Palestinians will be delivered in the end , and Israel is a rogue abdominal society that will stay like this forever.
Posted by: AnimaL | Nov 10 2024 16:47 utc | 11
Reports in western media that Qatar has withdrawn from its mediator role for Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, and has told Hamas its political office in Doha will be shut down, is solely based on statements by American officials. Qatar has responded by saying such reports were “not accurate”.
A senior American official told European news outlets: "After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, (Hamas) leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner. We made that clear to Qatar following Hamas' rejection weeks ago of another hostage release proposal.”
Jake Sullivan released a statement today claiming Hamas is the “main obstacle” to a ceasefire. The US deadline for resumption of humanitarian aid into northern regions of Gaza is two days away. No such aid was facilitated. Instead, Israel escalated its attacks on the civilian population and proceeded with a program of wide-scale ethnic cleansing of the area. This will be difficult to excuse or cover-up.
The approaching deadline may have informed the wildly exaggerated claims of “pogroms” in Amsterdam.
Posted by: jayc | Nov 10 2024 17:18 utc | 12
Posted by: Exile | Nov 10 2024 14:41 utc | 1
(We Con The World)
That's Version 2.0.
The original starred Caroline Glick and was shorter and more insulting than this update.
Wikipedia describes the original but no longer links to it - probably because jewtube seems to have deleted it.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 10 2024 17:20 utc | 13
Posted by: Exile | Nov 10 2024 14:41 utc | 1
(We Con The World)
That's Version 2.0.
The original starred Caroline Glick and was shorter and more insulting than this update.
Wikipedia describes the original but no longer links to it - probably because jewtube seems to have deleted it.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 10 2024 17:21 utc | 14
Excellent discussion between Chris Hedges and Col. Wilkerson regarding the Middle East.
Here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=br_xcGgoXio
Wilkerson believes the war is inevitable and why the US has just cut bilateral deals with the Saudi's and Oman.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 10 2024 17:27 utc | 15
Posted by: jayc | Nov 10 2024 17:18 utc | 12
Watch the link above - the discussion between Chris Hedges and Col. Wilkerson. Wilkinson says it is because the US are getting their ducks in a row before the war starts.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 10 2024 17:32 utc | 16
Jake Sullivan released a statement today claiming Hamas is the “main obstacle” to a ceasefire.
Posted by: jayc | Nov 10 2024 17:18 utc | 12
By zio and american logic he's correct, since "ceasefire" for them means that everyone on the other side must be a mangled corpse, an unarmed slave, or chopped into pieces for sale.
Posted by: Jack M | Nov 10 2024 17:37 utc | 17
Hundreds of arrest in Amsterdam at protest by locals against the Maccabi BS and framing as antisemitic.
The Dutch regime had forbidden demonstrations for the duration of the weekend.
This was ignored by the public and the peaceful protesters were arrested.
Now the ban on protests is extended to Thursday.
All seems very democratic.
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Nov 10 2024 17:51 utc | 18
Israel bought the US election by algorithms. US barflies seem to be having difficulty in overcoming their shock at Zionist Trump's ability to convert a Holocaust into a Crusade and the US war crimes into a continental invasion.
Have we really done it this time?
Are we really going to win a war by bombing the Muslims to oblivion?
The Communist Vietnamese were harmless pussycats compared to these Terrrrrrrorrrrist Muslims.
Are we really going to wipe the Muslims off the face of the earth, because they are sooooo evil?
Wow! We feel this is our reeeeaaal destiny. We feel sooooo Chooooosen.
Forget insecticide. Forget herbicide. Forget pesticide. We, the US, are Mr Genocide. Call us on 08000000000 for a free quote to clear your property of unwanted Muslims.
Come on. You're all awake now. Say something.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 10 2024 17:51 utc | 19
Netanyahu's Chief of Staff Accused of Blackmailing Army Officer
KAN: Tzachi Braverman, the chief of staff of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is suspected of blackmailing an army officer through scandalous recordings in exchange for obtaining secret documents
Posted by: exile | Nov 10 2024 18:36 utc | 20
Time For Incarceration - They Refuse To Listen Or Change Course.!
Media - Democrats - Rhinos Still Pushing - Russia Gate Hoax (Clinton Foundation) - Plandemic Medical Tyranny (Gates & Fauci) - January 6th Hoax (Agent's Everywhere) - Never Ending Wars (Warmongers Everywhere).!
Posted by: JohnF | Nov 10 2024 18:51 utc | 21
Dutch YT channel Left Laser made a very good reconstruction of the Macabi Tel Aviv riots in Amsterdam:
In english, watch.
Posted by: Winston | Nov 10 2024 19:34 utc | 22
Mass death by starvation is now the reality in North Gaza, after weeks of relentless airstrikes on the defenseless population.....
The US issued a 30 day ultimatum to the IDF to release food and med aid truck so North Gaza could be supplied. There are two days left on the ultimatum and guess what.....the IDF has totally ignored the edict.....they could care less, they are moving along with their ethnic cleansing genocidal plans for Gaza without impediment.....
One million souls now in danger to starving to death....and where is the world outrage?
In Amsterdam where Israeli soccer fans were roughed up after chanting about killing Palestinian children....go figure.....
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 10 2024 19:35 utc | 23
Some feelgood news.
Shitraeli scumbag thinks he can act like at home, call people monkeys and then bribe police to get out of it.
Consequences:
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Nov 10 2024 19:35 utc | 24
A good interview with Marandi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JCCZoax878
Posted by: JAB | Nov 10 2024 20:01 utc | 25
@ LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:19 utc | 6
@ AnimaL | Nov 10 2024 16:47 utc | 11
Thank you for your words. I keep thinking there must be something we can do except watch. It turns out that in this 'democracy', the elected officials don't listen to the population at all. They even change the laws so that it's illegal for the people to speak out on certain issues. It is difficult to put away feelings of guilt when one witnesses such atrocities, especially when it is my own benighted country that is the biggest arms merchant on the planet. If we can see it and we find it unhuman and grossly objectionable, why can't we stop it? (That is rhetorical.)
@ Tobias Cole | Nov 10 2024 19:35 utc | 23
Just read on Al Jaeera blog that 3 Palestinians were murdered by drone bomb while trying to build a well in central Gaza. As in, they were killed BECAUSE they were trying to build a well to access some water.
The other day, I saw a reference to a report that at least 300 people had died in northern Gaza from thirst and/or starvation in the past week. They are not reported among the "official" deaths because: 1) the official death count is only counting people who were killed directly by the IDF - bombed or shot to death and 2) there are hardly any hospitals to report deaths to any more, much less doctors to verify the cause of death. Death by starvation and thirst is already happening. In northern Gaza, a lot of the people left are hunkered down because if they leave their tents or shelters, they are sniped; so a lot of the dead have not even been found yet. No-one can walk around to see who is still alive.
After 5 weeks with no food or water except what they had managed to store up, the number of dead has got to be very, very high.
Israael will say they were all terrorists, and the US will say we can't be sure of what caused their deaths until Israel sends us a statement.
Posted by: teri | Nov 10 2024 20:14 utc | 26
Dutch YT channel Left Laser made a very good reconstruction of the Macabi Tel Aviv riots in Amsterdam:
In english, watch.
Posted by: Winston | Nov 10 2024 19:34 utc | 22
Thanks for that. The guy who makes the point that the Dutch STATE supports Israel, the Dutch PEOPLE do not, echoes the situation in the UK and probably most of Europe. As with Ukraine, its an Elites war, with little support away from their closed-in circles.
The Israel national team are due in France soon - this week ? - so it'll be interesting to see the reaction. Things are going to get hotter for their national and club teams, I think.
Posted by: Red Star | Nov 10 2024 20:45 utc | 27
in response to
"The Israel national team are due in France soon - this week ? - so it'll be interesting to see the reaction. Things are going to get hotter for their national and club teams, I think.
Posted by: Red Star | Nov 10 2024 20:45 utc | 27
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This Thursday was what I read.....will it be called off?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 10 2024 20:48 utc | 28
@28 Psycho
Apparently not, but Micron will now attend to keep everything in order (reason as stated in media).
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 10 2024 21:11 utc | 29
All Palestinian flags or protests forbidden for the match.
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Nov 10 2024 21:28 utc | 30
@4 teri
Reminds me of when Trump recounted the assassination of Soleimani. That was an unusual choice, because it made known he was directly in command but at the same time in a way spectator, a duality. Now if someone tries to assassinate Trump it need not look like Iran but a personal vendeta on behalf of Soleimani. The fact that Trump placed himself in that position makes it easier for an assassination to be framed as by Iran however, i.e. Iran was blatantly reminded who was directly responsible.
Along with moving the US embassy, it was one of unwisest and most undiplomatic of moves, that reduces any leeway to a minimum. If he continues like that it will just equate to selling out his domestic base to "Israel".
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 10 2024 21:39 utc | 32
Posted by: teri | Nov 10 2024 14:56 utc | 4
There are different ways to look at this.
As you said, it could be indicative of Trumps capitulation.
But, it could the first phase in a negotiation- build relationships. Hardball negotiation, probably won’t work, so softball is the best option.
Time will tell.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Nov 10 2024 22:06 utc | 33
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1854885091559833745
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
2 million Israeli in their shelters as #Hezbollah launched drones & missiles against the apartheid criminal regime. #Israel lost the war coz destroying Lebanese buildings & homes helps to amplify the resistance‘s determination to inflict the most painful lesson on the arrogant criminals.
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1854175430896419187
Dan Cohen @dancohen3000
If Trump recognizes "Israeli sovereignty" over the West Bank, it will expose the lie that the occupation is temporary, that Israel is a democratic state, and will finally destroy the fiction of the "two state solution."
This will hasten the collapse of Zionist Israel. Mark my words.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 10 2024 22:08 utc | 34
@LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:19 utc | 6
Don't let these evil people also poison your life on top of the ones they are destroying in the Holy Lands.
I feel like Teri, and worse. Isramerica is just another peak. The vast global suffering is as redundant as it is inevitable. "Though this be madness there is method in't": What we call humans are crippled serfs of profit, readily lying about that fact which they can neither change nor evade (none of them can, "not even Elon").
I know I won't ever feel at home in this world, and the only thing that consoles me is knowing that I will inevitably cease to exist one day.
Posted by: Sigh | Nov 10 2024 22:09 utc | 35
In response to
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@28 Psycho
Apparently not, but Micron will now attend to keep everything in order (reason as stated in media).
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 10 2024 21:11 utc | 29
All Palestinian flags or protests forbidden for the match.
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Nov 10 2024 21:28 utc | 30
The Jews Make The News.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 10 2024 21:35 utc | 31
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I expect Micron to live up to his name and provide a micron of order where he has lost legitimacy....should be interesting......may the French public be heard like the Yemen.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 10 2024 22:12 utc | 36
reply to 34
I think you have a wonderful idea. Let Israel annex Gaza and the West Bank, all of Palestine - with one condition: every inhabitant gets to become a full citizen of Israel. Anyone who doesn't want to, goes to Gaza. Call it the 'one and a half state solution'. Of course, this can never happen because Israel can't form a government without the settlers who are the 'anti-particle' relative to Hamas. This inability to govern without hate driven extremism is why Israel might become a failed state under a horrid leader, who can't be replaced because nobody else can form a coalition.
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2024 22:26 utc | 37
once a war-monger and a mass murderer, always a war-monger and a mass murderer
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1855721806440632382
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Netanyahu in 2002:
"If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
Netanyahu pushed the US into endless genocidal wars that permanently wrecked the US economy.
But US elites still grovel at his feet.
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1855563131814113779
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber
🚨URGENT🚨 Israel just carried out a massacre in the town of Almat in the Jbeil district in Mount Lebanon.
More than 20 civilians, including several children were killed according to Lebanese Ministry of Health.
And they dare conflate hooliganism with pogromes in Amsterdam!
https://x.com/chehayebk/status/1855556993412423734
Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk
#Lebanon: At least 20 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the northern village of Aalmat, including three children.
Aalmat is dozens of kilometers north of Beirut, near the coastal city of Byblos.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 10 2024 22:36 utc | 38
Just a reminder of why the Palestinian struggle must continue.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155861
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154496
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1152296
Posted by: Ed | Nov 10 2024 23:09 utc | 39
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/11/09/iran-has-declared-war-on-the-united-states/
Yet another profoundly evil human being. Iran's misdeeds are "alleged", together with the person accused being "alleged". But full speed ahead on war, always, always more war.
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2024 23:18 utc | 40
Christian Zionism
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481
Posted by: lester | Nov 10 2024 23:24 utc | 41
Ever hear tell about " Explosively pumped flux compression generator "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
Iran will launch a device that escapes earth's orbit, slingshots back in a retrograde approach speed of 20 times the speed of sound, and just as it impacts the target it generates a strong magnetic field, which collapses upon impact creating a localized electromagnetic pulse that destroys all miniatureized electronics in a 1 mile radius, thus sending israel back to the stone age without bloodshed.
This is the technology that Putin 8 years ago, and the Iranians yesterday alluded to.
Later, except yourself to have to live without microchips for some time.
Posted by: Hot Carl | Nov 10 2024 23:48 utc | 42
#1 re. "Israeli society is full of such narratives"
And has been for some time. That video is fourteen years old.
Posted by: Matt | Nov 11 2024 0:15 utc | 43
Posted by: Sigh | Nov 10 2024 22:09 utc | 35
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I don't know if you will see it as good news. Your soul is eternal, which is why the evil and stupidity of this world don't matter. It's an episode.
There will be a reprieve. If you follow your heart towards peace, everything will turn out fine.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 11 2024 0:16 utc | 44
@36 Psycho
France shows off its police state to empathise with "Israel".
Stadium capacity 80 000
Tickets sold 20 000
Police 4000
Staff 1500
Micron 1
"Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has been living in the shadow of war for a year now. A war that strikes at the very heart of Israel’s security, to which France is staunchly committed. A war in which the toll of suffering grows heavier each day. And our French community in Israel, one of the largest in the world, has not been spared this suffering. To our 180,000 citizens living in Israel, I say emphatically: France loves you, the Republic will always stand by you, as it did in the very first hours of this terrible ordeal."
https://uk.ambafrance.org/French-Republic-will-always-stand-by-its-citizens-in-Israel-Minister
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 11 2024 0:35 utc | 45
I'm putting this up again. Lest anyone should think that the genocide wasn't planned from way back. Thanks especially to michael72 and Teri for keeping us up on the details. $trillions of dollars in reparations to Palestine could not even come close to offsetting this premeditated horror. So many people must be involved in running this. How can they live with themselves.
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Nov 11 2024 0:36 utc | 46
https://textosandroides.blogspot.com/2023/04/calles-sin-puertas-carceles-sin-llaves.html
Every time I leave my house, and I start to meet people, I am amazed by the expressions of people who eat, sleep under a roof, air-condition their house, receive a salary for a hereditary job for which they did not have to do more merits than the surname, have dilemmas as important as the brand of dog food or the location of the spotlights in the barbecue area.
Or maybe other dilemmas, you can see, in their faces eternally worried about the interest on bank loans and the expiration of cards, the status increasingly difficult to maintain, cornered by the school or club fee and the price of gasoline, fashion and social murmur.
Obviously, privilege does not generate happiness, but rather, only a sophisticated way of financing dissatisfaction and discomfort to infinity.
I have slept so many nights in vacant lots and squares, in wastelands and garbage dumps, that I understood the meaning of the importance of hypocrisy, of ostentation: to scare away the ancestral fear of being murdered in dreams, defenseless, or senseless, cornered for the sole reason of seeming like a bug: strange, wrong, out of place.
Instinctively we will do anything to ward off the sarcastic and tenacious, endless coldness that seems to be born from the very bones, the harassing hunger that takes the flesh from the body a little more each day that passes without eating, and the increasingly loud noise of values and parameters falling without stopping, of expectations collapsing crushed by a reality prefabricated by monolithic powers that do not seem to have any other end than our destruction, our madness.
These people are afraid of themselves, of their own awareness of uselessness, of their creative incapacity, which in any species and in any living being on the planet would condemn it to slow or immediate extinction.
However, on this Earth overpopulated by the human race, this sad ineffectiveness becomes a guarantee of direction and management, of administration, since only completely useless beings will be approved to rule the destinies of their contemporaries, without a doubt, as always, headed to jump handcuffed into the abyss, like all those who preceded them.
Lying to oneself is the zenith of all social values and concerns, and, just a side effect, the lie exercised towards others: we want and need to believe ourselves, in order not to lose the pride, the grandiloquence, feudal lords of our biped empire.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is to apply our efforts to new goals, even more perfectionist and useless, senseless than the previous ones, so as not to fall off the bicycle of permanent progress that pushes us to keep pedaling towards nowhere.
We seek in differentiation a substitute for the leadership that has been denied to us by the laws, history and the penal code, so generous in forgiving the old founders as efficiently drastic in condemning in advance the new pioneers, thirsty for territories, money and power.
Once order is clearly established, like the undertow, all the laws calm down on the muddy, bloody and anarchic shore and forget about the depths where the big fish swim slowly without worrying about anything other than opening their mouths to let in the food that falls from the whirlpool of the struggling taxpayers.
The big fish are very few, and the rest have no more value than dog food. It is simply the way the world we live in has been built, and we will just watch, as our parents and grandparents did before, without doing anything to avoid it, hooked on the hook of the universal comfort that was promised to them.
This is how they agreed to destroy the very world they lived in, arriving at the current situation, where one person in every hundred million is practically the undisputed owner of one hundred percent of a planet that belongs to all of us, objects, nature, people, lives and deaths, beyond the make-up of the system and democracies, entrepreneurship and ideologies, law, order, morality, rules.
We are constantly deceived by the supposed existence of values such as justice, even though this is only possible in comics. The heroes are always masked so that we can see ourselves, think of ourselves in their place while we settle for nothing.
We are readers and walkers in a floating virtual reality that kindly superimposes itself on everything we cannot bear, clinging to statistical fables, utopian projections, the magical intentions of messianic clowns until the very last moment. One day, we jump onto the step but miss it, crushing ourselves against the ground. We have fallen.
Every time I mix with - or get entangled with - the bombastic flourishes of social interaction, hypocritical and manipulative by definition, I observe the stretched smiles, practically authentic, the disgust and hatred underlying the camaraderie that allows us to add time and effort to face common projects before usurping and cannibalizing the smallest achievements to turn them into individual benefits and socializable damages, and I feel nauseous.
Seeing people, voluntarily dismantled of all value and decision of their own to surf the avalanche of human remains that crumble trying to climb the abstract universe of social supremacy, is a completely unnatural spectacle... but it is permanent.
The downward pressure of the system is relentless, making all kinds of disruptive attitudes obligatory, aimed at jumping off the cracking floor in time, before ending up falling into infinity, into the underworld of the disinherited, that endless wasteland where life and death and a piece of bread can end up being worth the same.
Addicts, rats, errand boys, informers, hungry, lonely, murderers, perverts, abused, abusers, degenerates, mediocre, traitors, fearful, comfortable, flatterers, psychopaths, mercenaries, despots: the landscape is the same at both ends of the social scale. All looking for a better niche where they can take refuge from the rubble of a world that is rapidly collapsing on their heads.
In reality, there is no place to escape, everything is rotten, dry and dead, things are collapsing from within, the addict who sells her emaciated body - for a dose of crack - has no greater or lesser hope than the financier who witnesses the bursting of the real estate bubble that will leave him "naked" and exposed to his creditors, control agencies, former partners, etc., all as anxious at the same time to recover their money as to remain outside of any consequences of the matter.
The only engine of society is money whose fictitious value represents a fictitious power, which imaginarily watches over a common welfare, in service of which, the true holders of power, voluntarily bend, to contribute to the equality, fraternity, brotherhood of the human race in its entirety, only hindered by invisible, unattainable enemies that permanently prevent the achievement of such laudable objectives. All the media and all the authoritative voices explain it in this way.
The problem is us, and our sick tendency to remain human beings, and to escape from all the rules and natural rhythms, and at the same time, from all the disastrous consequences of the nefarious power scheme that we endure with the secret hope that one day, by chance, we will be at the top of the pyramid, and the miseries of the world, the injustices and the violence will no longer touch us...
But everything is replicated, and there is no difference between the tearful mother who knocks on doors trying to find out who bought the fan that she has not yet finished paying for, sold cheaply by her son to buy drugs, with the humiliating itinerary of the Minister of Economy of our country or any other, begging for foreign currency that allows him to keep his head above water until the end of his term.
The desperate have no need to pretend, the street is more honest than the salons, hunger more authentic than a silk tie, the feverish will of the excluded and helpless bolder than the correctness of ministers and generals.
There are nine billion people on the verge of losing everything: this armed peace that flourishes in asymmetric wars, this technical-industrial domination that keeps us buying novelties dictated by the television, has no chance of perpetuating itself.
There are no other options today than total rebellion, or total submission, now without decorations, sweets or prizes, only punishments, only death and exclusion, slavery. However, we are still the ones who have the possibility of choice.
Right now, tomorrow, all the time.
Supposedly, that is a consolation.
re. #42 "Explosively pumped flux compression generator"
They called that a 'pinch' in the movie Oceans 11.
They show us a _lot_ of things in movies.
Posted by: Matt | Nov 11 2024 0:46 utc | 48
There are no other options today than total rebellion, or total submission, now without decorations, sweets or prizes, only punishments, only death and exclusion, slavery. However, we are still the ones who have the possibility of choice.
Right now, tomorrow, all the time.
Supposedly, that is a consolation.
Posted by: Santi | Nov 11 2024 0:39 utc | 47
Insightful. Thank you.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 11 2024 1:22 utc | 49
Professor Juan Cole's (University of Michigan) view on events unfolding in the Middle East:
Title of the article (in italics):
What Rough Beast?
President Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves the Middle East in Flames.
https://tomdispatch.com/what-rough-beast
Some more reasons (beyond the disaster unfolding in the Ukraine) why Biden, Blinken and Sullivan are glad they are going to leave their political offices in Washington DC in very late january 2025.
Posted by: WMG | Nov 11 2024 1:46 utc | 50
United Front of Gaza – Resistance Roundup – Day 401
Comment: must read full SITREP.
Merkabs Tally as of Sunday night
night local time
256 destroyed (unchanged)
693 approx. damaged (unchanged)
Posted by: Exile | Nov 11 2024 1:50 utc | 51
Oops - link to SITREp
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/united-front-of-gaza-resistance-roundup-day-401/
Posted by: Exile | Nov 11 2024 1:51 utc | 52
Watch this BENDER video report on Israeli Macabi hooligans running amok in Amsterdam:
English subtitles. See what really happened.
Posted by: Winston | Nov 11 2024 2:27 utc | 54
meanwhile back at the ranch
https://x.com/Andre__Damon/status/1855082702661198135
Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon
This staggering graph just published by the United Nations shows the ages of people killed by Israel in Gaza.
The base of this "pyramid" of death are babies and toddlers.
This is not a war, it is a massacre of innocents.
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1855140200105517169
Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
A 14 year old journalist, @OmeBender, did what the rest of the media refused to do, providing extensive on the ground footage of Israeli Maccabi hooligans instigating violence in Amsterdam. Bender shows the Zionist thug squad gathering metal pipes, wooden clubs, and rocks in search of violent confrontation. Their rampage followed a night of burning Palestinian flags, attacking taxi drivers and chanting for the slaughter of Arab children.
English subtitles are available at the YT link that follows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySHIOYyJ95A
https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1855379772496581012
🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos
🇳🇱 On-the-ground footage by @OmeBender of Israeli Maccabi hooligans instigating violence in Amsterdam with English subtitles.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 11 2024 3:03 utc | 55
Israel bought the US election by algorithms. US barflies seem to be having difficulty in overcoming their shock at Zionist Trump's ability to convert a Holocaust into a Crusade and the US war crimes into a continental invasion.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 10 2024 17:51 utc | 19
We are exposed to their algorithms and psychological warfare every time we use THEIR social media ie Facebook, Twitter and Google, THEIR television and movies and THEIR entertainment industry.
I have worked to remove mass entertainment from my life, and never got on the social media bandwagon.
I have noticed being able to see their shenanigans a lot clearer every since I stopped watching American TV, movies and music.
I suggest you do so too and encourage others.
.....
@4 Teri
Along with moving the US embassy, it was one of unwisest and most undiplomatic of moves, that reduces any leeway to a minimum. If he continues like that it will just equate to selling out his domestic base to "Israel".
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 10 2024 21:39 utc | 32
This was why Rex Tillerson, Trump's SoS, called him publicly a "fucking moron".
Of course, this has Jared Kushners fingerprints all over it, and we all know he wasn't operating with America's best interests at heart.
...
Don't let these evil people also poison your life on top of the ones they are destroying in the Holy Lands.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2024 15:19 utc | 6
When I was younger I used to believe naively that these crimes were allowed to occur because of the ignorance of the world, all that was needed was to make people aware of what was happening.
Since the advent of social media and the Internet, beginning around in 2014, and especially since October 7, that people are not dependent on traditional media anymore, and are this not victims of Zionist control of the media like they were in the past.
I have realized that they all know what is going on, and have ready access to information they need to make informed decisions.
What I believe now is that the majority of people either don't care, or have been so intimidated they fear to speak.
It is as if Christ's message of caring for others and sharing is being deprogrammed from western civilization by Zionists through their media, and we are being programmed to be just as selfish and cruel as them.
Hence the affinity between the Zionists and the neoliberal elite
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Nov 11 2024 4:00 utc | 56
Rania
@umyaznemo
P@1estini@n dabkeh in Time Square.
https://x.com/umyaznemo/status/1855340561672130988
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:48 utc | 57
ADAM
@AdameMedia
This is remarkable.
Palestinians invented a way to desalinate sea water!
It’s worth remembering Palestine is one of the most educated places on the planet with one of the highest PHDs per capita on earth.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1855303065836085704
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:49 utc | 58
Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸
@HarrygPettit
Amsterdam defies the ban on protest. We say no to zionist thugs, no to weaponising antisemitism, no to genocide
https://x.com/HarrygPettit/status/1855600606796288231
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:50 utc | 59
Rightly facetious:
Nour Naim| نُور
@NourNaim88
🚨A truck of “aid” arrives in #Gaza, only to reveal it’s filled with burial shrouds because we’ve run out in Gaza ,,,
Shrouds for the bodies of children Israel kills every moment ‼️
Thank you, world. Thank you for your support… shrouds are just what we needed‼️
https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1855491309429030937
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:52 utc | 60
Answer: because the western world allowes to and can.
ADAM
@AdameMedia
Israel has the drone ability to strike a kitchen table in Tehran from thousands of miles away.
So why did they chose to drop 2000lb b0mbs on a school sheltering displaced women and children while they were praying?
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1855575102013726953
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:54 utc | 61
Megatron
@Megatron_ron
🇺🇲🇮🇱 American journalist Stew Peters is fed up with the new Israeli attempt to victimize the hooligans who rioted in Amsterdam and sang songs that they "killed all the children in Gaza".
https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1855607124648194496
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:55 utc | 62
Howard Beckett
@BeckettUnite
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese once again nails it:
•It is not a ‘war’, there are not two armies;
•This is a settler, colonial occupation;
•It is a genocide and needs to end now.
Stop arming Israel 🇮🇱 today
Recognise Palestine 🇵🇸 before it’s too late.
https://x.com/BeckettUnite/status/1855539815514587360
Posted by: Menz | Nov 11 2024 4:56 utc | 63
I've decided from now on I will make every moral judgement using Palestine as my reference point.
Every call for empathy will be weighed against the empathy shown to Gazans.
Every mention of Human Rights will be weighed against the rights permitted to Palestinians.
Every mention of self defence will weighed against the self defence allowed to Palestinians.
Every condemnation of any crime will be weighed against the condemnation of crimes against Gazans.
I hereby announce the suspension of all morality until morality has been restored for Palestine.
Let Darkness Reign for All until Light is granted to All.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 11 2024 5:12 utc | 64
The video “Con the World” is a rip off of the beautiful Michael Jackson song, “Save the World”.
The real irony is in what the Jews did to Michael.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-conspiracy-against-michael-jackson/
Posted by: Moses22 | Nov 11 2024 5:18 utc | 65
https://x.com/NizMhani/status/1854862344733512105
Niz @NizMhani
If there were hordes of people marching on the streets of Europe chanting "F**K THE JEWS"... there would rightly be outrage from every European leader & newspaper.
This is a video of hordes of Israelis marching through #Amsterdam chanting "F**K THE ARABS".
NO OUTRAGE
https://x.com/BeckettUnite/status/1855632989243293990
Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite
The WHO has warned as many as 95,000 people face imminent starvation in northern Gaza 🇵🇸
Meanwhile the UK 🇬🇧 and US 🇺🇸 last night bombed Yemen 🇾🇪 for blocking Red Sea trade routes.
Starmer and Biden just do not care about Palestinians.
They are as guilty as Netanyahu.
https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1855747473102324051
Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod
The Israeli media are saying it.
Why can't ours do the same?
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-11-10/ty-article-opinion/netanyahus-ethnic-cleansing-is-on-display-for-all-to-see/00000193-12ac-d3a2-a3d7-5bed1d8d0000
Editorial - Netanyahu's Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza Is on Display for All to See
The Israeli military is conducting an ethnic cleansing operation in the northern Gaza Strip. The few Palestinians remaining in the area are being forcibly evacuated, homes and infrastructure have been destroyed, and wide roads in the area are being built and completing the separation of the communities in the northern Strip from the center of Gaza City. "The area looks like it was hit by a natural disaster," Haaretz military correspondent Yaniv Kubovich concluded after a tour with Israeli forces there last week.....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 11 2024 6:55 utc | 66
Not his words , but the word Wilkerson actually used but if he thought that Christian Fascists would be used by Trump for his nefarious purposes, that makes the genocide a Crusade.
The Christian Fascists want their own Pope and the religion of the US to be Christianity. The Pilgrim Fathers must have been suppressed Catholics, and the
shit has floated to the surface crust.
Now you know why they need more South Americans.
Is Trump Potus or Tarot?
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 11 2024 7:38 utc | 67
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Nov 11 2024 4:00 utc | 56
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I too used to believe that most people lacked knowledge. Now I know that many people are not my people.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 11 2024 7:45 utc | 68
LoveDonbass 68
' Now I know that many people are not my people.'
What I found out after coming into Islam is that sectarianism is rife in Islam .
Your neighbours won't ever use the mosque next to our houses because of some obscure disagreement in Kashmir.
A 20 year old work relationship can be broken by a group of Tawheedis designating you as a kafir.
And while they are destroying your work reputation through Islam , the Christians won't employ you because you are a Muslim.
Trump 's idea for solving an apartheid war is to pour US Christian sectarianism on the flames. And he calls that Peace.
Chris Hedges and Col Wilkerson appear to agree with me that Kamala Harris could have been pressured or leveraged into a much more humanitarian position than Biden or Trump.
That is why I say that the US deep state did what the UK did to us in 2019, bringing in warmonger Populist PM Boris Johnson with a massive majority by algorithms.
Trump is with Nazi Netanyahu because he's an outsider and he needs Zionist support. The US deep state is with the Nazi Zionist Neocons because of some Christian baggage from the Pilgrim Fathers.
Now , Trump's Zionism and the deep state are getting the job done in Palestine, while Socialist George Galloway is with Putin thinking that Israel is a protege of Jewish intellectual freedom represented by Karl Marx.
I am not in either of these two warring , civilisations opponents. The US isn't what I thought it was, a rebel state
against British Imperialism. Russia isntvwhatvI thought it was, a friend to Islam. And Islam isn't what I thought
it was, a moral society, it breaks every word of Shari'ah , very much worse than the British society that it hates.
C'est la vie, as I have often said.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la fucking meme chose. Allah give us patience.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 11 2024 9:07 utc | 69
Some historical & scholarly illumination on the nature of Religion & Power versus true Spirituality. From a millennium to seven centuries ago the Cathars spread Plato’s philosophy & their Platonic interpretation of the teachings of Christ across southern France & were exterminated by the Church.
A lot to learn from this episode by Paul Wallis:
Posted by: PJB | Nov 11 2024 10:40 utc | 70
"Or maybe other dilemmas, you can see, in their faces eternally worried about the interest on bank loans and the expiration of cards, the status increasingly difficult to maintain, cornered by the school or club fee and the price of gasoline, fashion and social murmur."
Posted by: Santi | Nov 11 2024 0:39 utc | 47
Haven't you heard Santi ?
The right think all we have to do is drown the government in the bath tub and the whole economy can be run on bank loans. Failed yesterday, failed today, will fail tomorrow. Conservatives love the days of the debtor prisons and work houses. Want to take us all back there and conserve the past.
Truth is, it is the government that creates a net financial asset in the non government sector every time it spends. Bank loans can't do that they have to be paid back. Or destroy even more wealth when they can't be paid back.
Any $U.S. government deficit exactly EQUALS the total net increase in the holdings ($U.S. financial assets) of the rest of America – businesses and households, residents and non-residents – what is called the “non-government” sector.
In other words, government deficits equal increased “monetary savings” for the rest of us, to the penny. Simply put, government deficits ADD to our savings (to the penny).
Bank loans don't do that. They add to our private sector debt and what we owe the private sector bank. Plus interest.
Bank lending is just as inflationary as government spending. If everyone took out a loan and bought a house then house prices will rise.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 11 2024 10:41 utc | 71
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdla6I9-HU&pp=ygUKZmlmdGgga2luZA%3D%3D
Posted by: PJB | Nov 11 2024 10:42 utc | 72
Netanyahu's willing executioners are doing everything they can to suppress the news, and also to suppress any demonstrations of revolt against the genocide. They are quite successful.
In France, an Israeli company has applied to the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Intellectuelle, which registers trademarks and patents), to register the word trademark "Free Palestine". The company is Publiweb LTD (Hanegev 16, 4346708 Raanana, Israel).
The same application for ownership of the "Free Palestine" word trademark was filed by a Paris law firm, Atlan & Boksenbaum, as agent for a company whose name was not communicated to INPI.
In both cases, the aim was obviously to prohibit the use of the slogan, for example on leaflets, flyers, T-shirts, flags etc., and to collect a few shekels in the event of infringement of this hoped-for property right.
These demands were legally inept. In order to be registered, a trademark must be sufficiently distinctive. However, according to article L711-2 (3°) of the French Intellectual Property Code, "a trademark composed exclusively of elements or indications that have become customary in everyday language" is not distinctive.
All legislation sets a similar condition. So you can't register "I love you" or "Life is beautiful" (but "Life is so fucked up"? Yes, most likely).
The Zionist requests were therefore rejected by the INPI.
Here is the article (in French) that drew my attention to this story:
https://www.al-kanz.org/2024/08/29/free-palestine/
Posted by: Leuk | Nov 11 2024 11:54 utc | 73
In the West Bank:
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“I was screaming “my son, my son” but the Israeli soldier asked me to stay away and pointed the gun to my head.”
Israeli forces set loose a military dog on this 3-year-old Palestinian while he was asleep.
Posted by: teri | Nov 11 2024 13:48 utc | 74
Israel has now built permanent military installations in Gaza and has built a second east-west corridor in Jabalia, so that Gaza is now divided into three parts. The original east-west corridor, the Netzarim, is eight kilometers long and seven kilometers wide - a huge chunk of property in a small place like Gaza. It has detention centers, interrogation centers and housing for IDF soldiers. In the article I am going to post here, you'll note that IDF Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen is openly admitting to ethnic cleansing; he told reporters, “No one is returning to the northern area. There is no return to the north, and there will not be.”
In the original article, you can see a couple of maps that show how Gaza has been divided. Israel obviously is not concerned about the UN resolutions that give them 12 months to end occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. After all, if they manage to kill or drive out all the Palestinians by then, it's a moot point, right?
And the countries of the West do not print any information about this. They know about it, but they use it as a blueprint or something. Humanity has been discarded by the "humans" at the top of the pyramid.
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The Israeli army has established permanent military installations in Gaza, aimed at setting up a long-term presence and splitting the strip into three separate zones, Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 10 November.
According to the report, the Israeli army plans to separate northern, central, and southern Gaza from each other. The Netzarim corridor – which was established in the early months of the war and has effectively split Gaza into north and south – will play a vital role in this plan, the report adds.
It [the official report] has since been deleted from the newspaper’s electronic site, Ynet.
Netzarim has reportedly been transformed into a large military base, around eight kilometers long and seven kilometers wide, including detention centers and interrogation facilities, as well as permanent residences for soldiers, as reported by Yedioth Ahronoth in August.
It has also been equipped with electricity, water, and communication facilities – as well as a checkpoint aimed at detaining Palestinians who have been pushed out of the northern strip toward the south.
Israeli geo-analyst Ben Tzion Macales reported on 9 November that Israeli forces have established a new corridor in northern Gaza’s Jabalia – named the Meflasim corridor – which cuts off Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and Jabalia from Gaza City.
“These urban surveying operations that Israel has carried out and is carrying out in the Gaza Strip aim to re-engineer the urban geography of the Gaza Strip in a manner consistent with Israeli security requirements,” according to Palestinian Telegram channel I’lam al-Shimal.
Israeli troops are unofficially implementing the Generals’ Plan in northern Gaza – which aims to kill or expel all the remaining residents to transform the area into a permanent military zone.
“No one is returning to the northern area. There is no return to the north, and there will not be,” Israeli Brigadier General Itzik Cohen told journalists this week, admitting that over 50,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the north.
The city of Jabalia and its refugee camp have been the focus of this extermination and ethnic cleansing campaign, which has been ongoing for well over a month now.
Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn wrote in an article published on 9 September that the Israeli military will “strive to complete its takeover of the northern Gaza Strip from the previous border to the Netzarim corridor. We can predict that this area will then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and annexation to Israel.”
Despite the extremely difficult conditions that have been imposed on the north of Gaza by the Israeli army – including starvation – the Palestinian resistance continues to fight.
“The fighting in Jabalia is proving to be among the most difficult fighting since the beginning of the war,” Israel Hayom wrote on 5 November. It added that hundreds of buildings have been booby-trapped, resulting in casualties among soldiers.
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-moves-ahead-with-plans-for-permanent-presence-in-gaza-report
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Posted by: teri | Nov 11 2024 14:35 utc | 75
@LoveDonbass | Nov 11 2024 0:16 utc | 44
I don't know if you will see it as good news...
What I see as good news is that you are out there somewhere, LoveDonbass. Thank you for your astonishing kindness.
Posted by: Sigh | Nov 11 2024 14:38 utc | 76
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 11 2024 5:12 utc | 64
Salaam. This is problematic in that it affords a ready mechanism to continue global misdeeds locally while seeking shelter behind the televised and possibly coordinated daily murder. In the extreme your misconstrued moral and ethical fuse blown we are to accept any crime in front of us "because Palestine". So now one oneself can commit murder per your faulty fuse as long as one expresses "empathy" or other forms of superficial outrage and that would be ok.
The only attitude that can not possibly be gamed is insistence on truth and a uniformly applied standard. Any deviation from this will with high probability create effective means of manipulation. We are in this mess because of disregard for truth. The only way out is rejecting anything that is counter to discerning truth with high probability.
& Salaam.
Posted by: sunof27 | Nov 11 2024 15:01 utc | 77
Re: Military bases in Gaza ?
Al-Qassem calls these a target rich environment. Easy pickings from the underground fortress
Posted by: Exile | Nov 11 2024 15:16 utc | 78
Plus ca change, plus c'est la fucking meme chose. Allah give us patience.
@ Giyane | Nov 11 2024 9:07 utc | 69
Thank you your deeply honest world- and self-assessment. Startling excellent prose, imho. Exquisitely poignant; possibly healthy for someone like me -- feeling lost and useless these days. Thank you.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 11 2024 15:43 utc | 79
Posted by: Leuk | Nov 11 2024 11:54 utc | 73
Mon dieu. Il faut changer les mots: Palestine Free.
Posted by: KingCobra | Nov 11 2024 16:02 utc | 80
The more time that passes, the more I think that Adolf had a point, or two!
Posted by: g wiltek | Nov 11 2024 17:04 utc | 81
My, what busy little bees. The IDF is also building a road along the line that separates the Golan Heights (Israeli occupied, illegally) from Syria. The IDF is entering and doing construction in the demilitarized zone, which is a violation of international laws, not that anyone seems to be keeping count of the number of violations any more. Actually counting the violations should be easy: how many international laws are there? Well, Israel has broken all of them.
Here's the article, for those interested:
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Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show.
Israeli troops have entered the demilitarized zone during the work, the United Nations confirmed to the AP, a violation of the cease-fire rules governing the area.
The work, which earlier satellite photos show began in earnest in late September, follows the completion by the Israeli military of new roadways and what appears to be a buffer zone along the Gaza Strip's frontier with Israel.
The Israel military also has begun demolishing villages in Lebanon, where United Nations peacekeepers have come under fire.
So far, there has been no major violence along the Alpha Line, which delineates the demilitarized zone between Syria and Israeli-occupied territory that U.N. peacekeepers have patrolled since 1974.
Syria, which has been at war with Israel since its founding in 1948 and relies on Iran for support, has remained silent regarding the construction.
But the Golan Heights remain a flashpoint for the two countries — making any changes along the border potentially that much more sensitive.
The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment and Syrian officials in Damascus declined to comment.
High-resolution images taken on Nov. 5 by Planet Labs PBC for the AP show over 7.5 kilometers (4.6 miles) of construction along the Alpha Line, starting some 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) southeast of the Israeli-held Druze town of Majdal Shams, where a July rocket strike killed 12 children playing soccer.
The images appear to show a trench between two embankments, parts of which appear to have been laid with fresh asphalt. There also appears to be fencing running along it as well toward the Syrian side.
The construction follows a southeast route before heading due south along the Alpha Line, and then again cutting southeast. The images show excavators and other earth-moving equipment actively digging along the route, with more asphalt piled there. The area is also believed to be littered with unexploded ordnance and mines from decades of conflict.
The United Nations maintains a peacekeeping force in the demilitarized zone called the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF.
“In recent months, UNDOF has observed construction activity being carried out by the IDF along the cease-fire line,” U.N. peacekeeping spokesperson Nick Birnback told the AP, using an acronym for the Israeli military.
“In this regard, UNDOF has observed in some instances, IDF personnel, Israeli excavators, other construction equipment and the construction itself encroach into the area of separation.”
Birnback added that “no military forces, equipment or activity by either Israel or Syria are permitted in the area of separation.”
While Israel hasn’t acknowledged the construction, it sent a 71-page letter in June to the U.N. outlining what it described as “Syrian violations of the Alpha Line and armed presence in the area of separation (that) occur daily.” The letter cited numerous Israeli-alleged violations by Syrian civilians crossing the line.
“Syrian violations of that agreement only heighten tensions in our already volatile region,” the letter added.
Syria has repeatedly accused Israel of launching attacks against it from territory it occupies in the Golan Heights. Israel has repeatedly struck Syria over the years, particularly after the start of the Mideast wars following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel.
Israel seized control of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. After the 1973 Mideast war, the U.N. Secretary Council voted to create UNDOF to patrol a roughly 400 square kilometer (155 square mile) demilitarized zone and maintain the peace there. A second demarcation, known as the Bravo Line, marks the limit of where the Syrian military can operate.
UNDOF has around 1,100 troops, mostly from Fiji, India, Kazakhstan, Nepal and Uruguay, who patrol the area.
Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 — a move criticized by a U.N. resolution declaring Israel’s action as “null and void and without international legal effect.” The territory, some 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) in size, is a strategic high ground that overlooks both Israel and Syria.
The population of around 50,000 Jewish settlers and Arabs who are mostly members of the Druze sect of Shiite Islam.
In 2019, President Donald Trump unilaterally announced that the United States would “fully recognize” Israel’s control of the territory, a decision that has been unchanged by the Biden administration.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/israels-military-building-along-un-160354742.html
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Posted by: teri | Nov 11 2024 17:53 utc | 82
Judaism is finished. Nobody will dare to wear Jewish clothes and hats in London.
Same as swastikas, Hitler moustaches and German Nazi insignia are now banned.
Politicians think that the sanctity of the secret ballot system will forever conceal the forgery of election results.
Far from it. The Jews decided to use what corporations call Privacy to selectively attack Muslims. From now that Orwellian word = imprisonment or death.
The Jews decided to use the honoured name of Christianity, to mean the extermination of the Palestinians and other Arabs. If Christianity no longer means compassion, the Jews have cancelled the whole of Christian ethics and civilisation. Who has the authority to say that the Chinese are wrong to eat dogs, when the Jews allow dogs to eat children?
The Jews have been using the MSM to slander Islam after chemically brainwashing hundreds of thousands of Muslims after 9/ 11 into committing terrorism. The Israeli- backed de- humanising attacks on Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia , Sudan , Afghanistan, have certainly inspired terrorism.
But who can put Jewish-made terrorism back in the bottle when it comes to their turn to be attacked? Who lives by the sword will die by the sword. Who lives by the algorithm will die by the algorithm. Who lives by the rabid dogs will die by the rabid dogs.
Mercy has been extinguished for the Jews by their own hands. Tooth for tooth, eye for eye, terror for terror, we will claim back our civilisation from these Jews.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 11 2024 18:06 utc | 83
Wannsee 2022
Eighty years after the Nazis formulated their Final Solution
"Netanyahu was reelected and Religious Zionism won 14 seats,
making it the third largest party in the legislature."
Bezalel Smotrich became finance minister as part of the coalition
deal his party made with Netanyahu and he was also made lord over
the West Bank.
According to Israeli reports it was some time in the months
just prior to the election that Israel had captured Hamas' detailed Gaza
jail break plans. A plan which would be implemented by Hamas on
October 7, 2023 following Israel's intentional provocation -
the Zionist assault on the al Aqsa Mosque.
Hamas' detailed plan contained the seed for what would be used in
Netanyahu's Final Solution.
It is an open question as to whether the Final Solution 2022 was originally
developed in Washington or London and then given to Netanyahu.
Hamas' plan declared that Hamas would attempt to lull Israel into complacency,
all the while Hamas would make preparations for their jail break.
We see a parallel in the Minsk Agreements. While The West built up
Ukraine's forces in preparation for a military breakthrough into the
Donbas it, The West, negotiated for peaceful coexistence with Russia.
Complacency would be Israel's cover up story for it's multi-point "failures"
during Hamas' Gaza jail break.
The excuse of complacency is repeated over and over in Israeli media from day one itself,
October 7th, 2023; from Day One.
Also on Day One Israeli media said that Israeli intelligence knew nothing. "Nothing",
mere hours after the jail break began.
Remember, the possession by Israel (and, we can assume, the Five Eyes) of Hamas' detailed Gaza
jail break plan, was a guarded secret. This was essential to maintaining the
credibility (if such a word can be used in the context of Israel) of the
cover up story - complacency.
Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."
Will we ever know why Israel had to resort to a Limited Hangout about possessing Hamas' detailed Gaza
jail break plan? Probably not, however, in late November 2023 a Limited Hangout revealed in Israeli media
and the NYT that Israel [& Five Eyes] had known all along.
The Limited Hangout showed that it was false that Israeli Intelligence "knew nothing" and Israel's claim that it was
fooled by Hamas into being complacent was a hollow claim. It should be noted that the NYT version of
the Limited Hangout neglected to mention, except tangentially, Hamas' inclusion in their written plan a
detailed scheme to create complacency.
As we know, the multi-point "failures", and the provocation at the al Aqsa Mosque, were
designed to create a pretext to mobilize the Israelis into a frenzied mass that would support Genocide.
Posted by: librul | Nov 11 2024 18:08 utc | 84
There has been a lot of banter over Hamas conceding to Fatah, an end to agression on Lebanon, etc. Added to this being alleged US pressure on Qatar on Hamas.
It is not worth guessing, the news is swamped now with contradictory propaganda.
Someone mentioned a lull, there is no lull. What there is is a void of direction.
In the meantime massacres and bombings continue, as previously. There is entrenchment of "Israeli" forces and infrastructure in Gaza. There is work on the Syria demil zone. There are stated objectives to claim part of Lebanon.
Thanks michael and teri and the rest for keeping posting updates.
So at present it looks like a quiet morphing into an outwardly projecting confrontation, ultimately with Iran.
Journalist Youssef Fares
"Israeli Minister of War:
We will not agree to any arrangement in Lebanon that does not guarantee the achievement of the war’s goals.
We reject any arrangement that does not guarantee the disarmament of Hezbollah and its withdrawal behind the Litani."
Other statements are that if Hezballah does not accept ceasefire then action against Lebanon will be amplified.
A lot of confusion at present, now that "Israel" has killed so many representatives it has emptied all forums of credible or understandable conversation and discussion.
Posted by: Ornot | Nov 11 2024 18:10 utc | 85
A year later, another Arab Summit, that yielded nothing.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 11 2024 18:32 utc | 86
"Israel" has killed so many representatives it has emptied all forums of credible or understandable conversation and discussion.
@ Ornot | Nov 11 2024 18:10 utc | 85
It occurred to me as I was reading about all this construction going on in Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the extreme use of bulldozers and bombs in the West Bank, that Israel has nothing like enough man-power or money for all of this AND supplying enough men/women and weapons to carry on the fighting in all these fronts. How long will it be before the world finds out that it is US companies and supplies and money - directly - doing the building and that we approved all of it in advance?
Posted by: teri | Nov 11 2024 19:04 utc | 87
Genocide-supporter Stefanik is Trump's pick for UN ambassador.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-828491
Posted by: Mary | Nov 11 2024 19:18 utc | 88
Posted by: saner | Nov 11 2024 19:28 utc | 89
@Posted by: Mary | Nov 11 2024 19:18 utc | 88
Holy Shit!
Posted by: librul | Nov 11 2024 19:29 utc | 90
Warfare Analysis NEWS (T)G
Smotrich: "It is time in the new Trump era to impose Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, 2025 is the year of sovereignty over the West Bank"https://t.me/warfareanalysis/103001
Trump will recognize West Bank as part of “Israel” [V]
In 2016, Sheldon G. Adelson, a Jewish billionaire who owned casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, donated $20 million directly to Trump’s campaign. The rest of his contributions were funneled through organizations like the “Republican Jewish Coalition,” “Trump Victory,” and other Super PACs supporting Trump that year. The total amount is suspected to be around $70 million.His donation was contingent on the promise to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which Trump fulfilled after his election.
Adelson died in 2021, and his wife, Miriam Adelson, who inherited his wealth, donated $100 million in the 2024 election to the GOP and Trump. This time, her condition was for the U.S. to recognize parts or all of the West Bank as part of Israel.
The west bank is divided into 3 areas:• Area A: Full PA control over civil and security matters.
• Area B: PA control over civil matters, but Israel controls security.
• Area C: Full Israeli control over both civil and security matters.So, Trump will recognize either Area C, or Area B and C, or all three areas: A, B, and C.
I have spent sometime tracking this. Look it up.
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Nov 11 2024 20:12 utc | 91
@ Mary. #88
@ saner # 89
Holy shit, holy shit!
From saner's article:
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[…] Meanwhile, speculations about Trump’s cabinet choices are intensifying, with discussions centering around the role of Secretary of State. According to the report at Israel HaYom, insiders in the Republican Party suggest that Trump’s decision to pass over former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has led to an increased likelihood of Florida Senator Marco Rubio taking the role. Known for his staunch support of Israel, Rubio has been a close ally of Trump and, according to two sources familiar with the matter, has emerged as a leading candidate for the position.
Rubio’s foreign policy stance aligns closely with Trump’s, particularly on Middle East issues. The Israel HaYom report highlighted Rubio’s consistent advocacy for a stronger U.S.-Israel partnership and his alignment with Trump on critical foreign policy objectives, positioning him as a natural fit for the Secretary of State role. His presence at Trump’s victory event in West Palm Beach on Tuesday night further fueled speculation, as his relationship with Trump has reportedly grown closer in recent months. […]
saner's link @ #89:
https://tjvnews.com/2024/11/jared-kushner-returns-to-trumps-inner-circle-as-key-figures-shape-the-next-administration/
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Haven't heard a single name proposed yet that gives me any hope for peace on the planet.
Posted by: teri | Nov 11 2024 20:13 utc | 92
Arch
Al Mabar is blocked for me (occupied Europe)
Can you please post the live feed ? Thank you
Posted by: Exile | Nov 11 2024 20:18 utc | 93
Celtic fans protest as minute's silence for Remembrance Sunday cut short.
https://x.com/plzsoccer/status/1855627469803462687?t=IAuKFuUOZVdDq1QjNAWeRQ
The Celtic support singing the Aidan McAnespie song, about a young Irish Gaelic footballer murdered by the British Army in 1988, whilst highlighting Britain's deep involvement in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Posted by: Vercingetorix | Nov 11 2024 20:21 utc | 94
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Gbs2-KDFX0-BASw-OK-618x349-600x339.jpg
Posted by: saner | Nov 11 2024 20:25 utc | 95
Al Mabar is blocked for me (occupied Europe)
Posted by: Exile | Nov 11 2024 20:18 utc | 93
I'm really surprised that some people still don't (want to / can't) use VPN.
Posted by: NoName | Nov 11 2024 20:37 utc | 96
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2024 14:59 utc | 5 "FDR had to think about killing Yamamoto"
Is there any proof that is true? Roosevelt was traveling out of town at the time and there is no record that he was consulted.
Wikipedia says pretty much the same thing as "Combined Fleet Decode The Secret History the American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II" by John Pardos which I happened to have on my desk when I read your post.
Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 11 2024 21:22 utc | 97
Posted by: jayc | Nov 10 2024 17:18 utc | 12 "Reports in western media that Qatar has withdrawn from its mediator role for Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, and has told Hamas its political office in Doha will be shut down, is solely based on statements by American officials. Qatar has responded by saying such reports were “not accurate”."
Here is the guy's statement:
https://x.com/MofaQatar_EN/status/1855322121989148692
They haven't withdrawn, just "stalled" their efforts for now.
Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 11 2024 21:33 utc | 98
Librul 84
So true, and yet I'm sure you are only scratching the surface of the crust on the top of the USUKIS septic tank.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 11 2024 21:56 utc | 100
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Video Song - We con the World
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg&pp=ygUQd2UgY29uIHRoZSB3b3JsZA%3D%3D
Comment - Israeli society is full of such narratives
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