Another absurdity:
https://apnews.com/article/pope-vatican-gaza-israel-genocide-book-62907898cead13dbcfd603592263904c
“WORLD NEWS
Pope Francis calls for investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute ‘genocide’”
“ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide, according to excerpts released Sunday from an upcoming ***new book ahead of the pontiff’s jubilee year.”
Highlights:
“The book, by Hernán Reyes Alcaide and based on interviews with the Pope, is entitled “Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world.” It will be released on Tuesday ahead of the pope’s 2025 jubilee. Francis’ yearlong jubilee is expected to bring more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome to celebrate the Holy Year”.
Pope uses “genocide” in Gaza to pimp his new book out.
Shows I haven’t “seen it all” yet.
As usual… West’s disgusting.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 17 2024 16:41 utc | 4

You are morally depraved fact twisters.
It is a book review by AP of which the Holy Father probably has no knowledge.
To accuse him of using the deaths of Palestinians to promote his jubilee book shows your abysmal evilness.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 17 2024 17:59 utc | 6

Hezbollah Media Relations Chief Mohammad Afif was martyred in an airstrike on the headquarters of the Lebanese Baath Party in the capital Beirut.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-media-relations-officer-afif-martyred-in-israeli-a
Justa after
Secretary General of Iraq’s Harakat Ahd Allah al-Islamiya (HAAI) Sayed Hashim Al-Haidari called for stronger presence by the resistance groups.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/224511/Resistance-must-be-stronger-in-media-coverage
It would be a great development if the Resistance Front found a way to counter Zionist(et All) intelligence so that the murder of Resistance officials stops.

Posted by: JB | Nov 17 2024 18:14 utc | 8

Posted by: Exile | Nov 17 2024 18:01 utc | 7
Wasn’t the Bar Kochba uprising a similar case of depravity?
( a factor in the jewish diaspora . 1900 years … )

Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2024 18:38 utc | 10

shows your abysmal evilness.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 17 2024 17:59 utc | 6
In my world needing another investigation into whats happenning LIVE
on all the screens worldwide would be abysmal evilness. Give zero fucks about some silly book hes claiming to have written. A real pope would have come out immediately and susinctlty against it.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 17 2024 19:12 utc | 12

At least 111 Palestinians have been killed in the coastal enclave since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Earlier, we reported an Israeli attack on a building in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, which killed at least 72 people.
– Al Jazeera livefeed
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The US has catagorically denied that Israel is committing a genocide.

Posted by: teri | Nov 17 2024 19:49 utc | 14

All priests are very evil or very stupid.
They read the New Testament and think “I want to be a Pharisee”. Evil or stupid.
I have noticed stickers of Free Palestine and the green, red and white fist on lampposts. Not much!! But this is a painfully average Australian suburb – so that is more than it seems considering the local absolute apathy to everything.

Posted by: Rae | Nov 17 2024 20:53 utc | 16

So, the ICJ case wasn’t sufficient for him. What a morally bankrupt and evil man.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 17 2024 17:10 utc | 5
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“While the Catholic Church has apologized for various other events throughout history, there is no specific apology for the genocide of the Cathars. However, in 2016, Bishop Jean-Marc Eychenne offered a formal apology for the suffering endured by the Cathars, who were denounced as a heretical sect and faced violence, execution, and persecution from the Inquisition”
The Cathars are considered the most radical and revolutionary Christian sect in history. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church invented the Great Inquisition to stamp out the Cathars as they were the greatest threat that, up to that time, had ever been posed to the Roman Catholic Church. Simon de Montfort led the royal army to the South of France on behalf of the king and church. When asked how to distinguish Cathars from Catholics at the first military engagement at Béziers he famously answered, “kill them all, God will recognize his”.
The Cathars were a religious sect of obscure origin which arose in the Middle Ages and thrived in what is now considered Southern France. They called themselves Cathars, taking their name from the Greek word for “pure”. In every sense, the Cathars were pacifists.
After a papal legate was allegedly murdered by a Cathar, the King of France launched a so-called “crusade” against them, using it as a cover for territorial acquisition. The fact is that we have not so much as a hint in the historical record that the papal legate was killed by a Cathar. No one was ever charged with or tried for his murder.
From 1208, the Church continued to wage a war of terror against the indigenous population of the Languedoc and their rulers. During this period an estimated half-million Languedoc men, women and children were massacred, Catholics as well as Cathars. The Crusaders killed the locals indiscriminately.
How was the Cathar religion so different than the Catholic religion? The Cathars did not believe Jesus died on the cross. Cathars largely regarded men and women as equals. Cathars believed in reincarnation and refused to eat meat or other animal products. They were strict about biblical injunctions – notably those about living in poverty, not telling lies, not killing and not swearing oaths. They respected nature and all living things, held their ceremonies in grottoes and open spaces and didn’t believe in material possessions. As Dualists, Cathars believed in two principles, a good god and his evil adversary (much like God and Satan of mainstream Christianity). The good principle had created everything immaterial (good, permanent, immutable) while the bad principle had created everything material (bad, temporary, perishable). Cathars called themselves simply Christians; their neighbors distinguished them as “Good Christians”. The Catholic Church called them Albigenses, or less frequently, Cathars.
Meanwhile, the Catholic religion was gaining power through murder, greed and building churches, amassing wealth and dressing in fine materials and jewelry. The Crusades against the Cathars resulted in the genocide of all Cathar.
(more) https://www.maisondesreves-france.com/history-blog/history-cathars-extermination-languedoc
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Approximately one million innocent people in the name of Jesus, (but he loves you). There has been no specific apology for the Cathar genocide; not even from the current pope.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 17 2024 21:44 utc | 18

@ Ed | Nov 17 2024 21:44 utc | 18
Only once Holy Mother Church (*gaaahhh*) lost temporal power did She adopt the pretense of pacifism.

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 17 2024 22:48 utc | 20

From Gilbert Doctorow the other day, talking to the Judge…
Doctorow claims the Russians are helping the Houthis with their targeting of US ships via Russian satellite systems; he also claims that the Russians have given Iran the S-400 air defense systems – some very advanced technology.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/15/transcript-of-judging-freedom-14-november-2024/
Doctorow: “….But then there are things that are going on that nobody talks about. And so I’ll just throw something out here, which I don’t think you’ve heard. We all watched yesterday when the Houthis claimed, to have attacked the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its escort ships in the Red Sea.
And they said they used a variety, a combination of drones and hypersonic ballistic missiles. The United States, the Pentagon spokesman, acknowledged there was such an attack, and then listen to what he said. He said, “We knocked down all their drones.” He didn’t say they knocked down the ballistic missiles. So– and the next thing we hear is the Abraham Lincoln is headed back to San Diego.
So I think that perhaps the Houthis did some damage to the aircraft carrier. And we can imagine, since they named the missile this Palestine II, we assume it was provided to them by Iran. But nobody is talking about something else. Who provided the targeting, the satellite information necessary to have precise targeting?…..”
….Napolitano: Right, so as I understand it, Professor Doctorow, the Houthis, with the aid of the Russians, did enough damage to the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, an American aircraft carrier, that it had to get out of there and go back to the United States. And the Western press hasn’t covered this.
Doctorow: Precisely……

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 18 2024 0:53 utc | 22

IDF Officer and His Cell Phone – Resistance Roundup – Day 408

…If an Israeli soldier is unable to leave his hiding place for more than few seconds, would Israel ever be able to control Gaza?
It seemed as if it was a lapse of judgment. The Israeli officer ventured out briefly from his hiding place inside a Palestinian building in the Khazindar area northwest of Gaza City.
The officer stood behind a concrete pillar, only part of his body exposed. He picked up his cell phone, he looked at the screen. He either received a call or was about to make one.
Within that precise moment, his brain wondered, he stepped a foot or two, exposing his full body to the Palestinian sniper who had been patiently waiting on the other side.
Now in full view, the Palestinian resistance bullet penetrated his body. He immediately collapsed.
This was one of many scenes that emerged from the Palestinian resistance in Gaza in the last two days, where Merkavas were blown up, bulldozers set ablaze, and Nemer personnel carriers shattered.
Yet, this particular scene is of great importance. The Israeli army keeps talking about tactical victories in Gaza and the right-wing extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu is discussing the future of Gaza after the war.
However, a pressing question remains: if an Israeli soldier is unable to leave his hiding place for more than few seconds, would Israel ever be able to control Gaza?
Below are the latest statements by the two main Resistance forces in Gaza, and the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-soldier-and-his-cell-phone-resistance-roundup-day-408/
Merkava Tally as of Sunday night
night local time
259 destroyed (unchanged)
702 approximate; struck but not destroyed (added 2)

Posted by: Exile | Nov 18 2024 1:01 utc | 24

Posted by: Rae | Nov 17 2024 20:53 utc | 16
I live basically in the buckle of the Bible Belt in the US.
Wherever I go I post stop the genocide, free Palestine stickers. They have a special adhesive where you have to destroy the surface to scrape them off.
I love going to places I’ve already been and seeing they destroyed the wall or divider to remove them. I then take great joy in placing another 20 or 30.
I actually got caught at one location by an employee. He put his finger to his lips, smiled, and held the door for me to leave.
This gave me some hope.
The battle is won one mind at a time.

Posted by: Archetypex | Nov 18 2024 1:24 utc | 26

worth listening to
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1858216863982830036
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Many analysts argue that #Israel is “negotiating a ceasefire under fire.”
I can’t entirely agree with this theory. The resistance operates with a mindset where every individual is, in a sense, expendable, and no single figure wields decisive influence over whether a ceasefire is accepted or not.
Decisions are driven by broader strategic objectives rather than the fate of specific individuals or isolated events.
#Israel has already devastated much of the property belonging to Lebanese Shiites, leaving the resistance with little to lose. In this context, the resistance’s calculations are less constrained by material losses.
Moreover, if Israel were to escalate by targeting displaced Shiite civilians, the consequences for Israeli civilians in Haifa and other cities would be severe. Hezbollah’s arsenal of drones and rockets, capable of evading Israel’s missile interception systems, serves as a potent deterrent, indirectly offering a measure of protection to Lebanese civilians.
Ultimately, the trajectory of the ceasefire will not hinge on diplomatic theories or speculative analyses but rather on the outcomes achieved on the battlefield. The resistance’s ability to sustain pressure and impose costs on Israel will likely be the determining factor in shaping any potential agreement.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1858217598338445622
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Israel doesn’t want and can’t end the war in #Gaza and #Lebanon. Keep your analysis away from the “ceasefire negotiations”.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 18 2024 2:05 utc | 28

RE: Doctorow: Precisely……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 18 2024 0:53 utc | 23
Well, he’s expressing a thought on ISR. Or another source is China, directly from their Djibouti base, who also has very sophisticated satellites as well.
Frankly, China has more reason to be helpful to the resistance than Russia, but I rather see a collaborative effort, like the 5 eyes thing, going on here. Satellite & data sharing, China, Iran, N.Korea & Russia, with lesser known allies as well. Hezbollah is getting razor sharp images from their drones and many other technologies that are shared with the resistance group(s) and also, the resistance group’s are very clever, coming up with many makeshift weapons, both offensive and defensive at low cost, easy to assemble offensive weapons that these countries are benefiting from their “field” experience use.
China is the “silent” partner. But a partner nonetheless.
Just my opinion. China is helping much more than is recognized, there is a lot at stake here for them.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 18 2024 2:34 utc | 30

“Weren’t Kathars gnostics who postulate that the material world was created by God’s adversary, Demiurg, also known as Jehovah, that contradicts tenets of Christianity but solves the conundrum of God allowing evil to happen so frequently (evil Jehovah being in charge of this material world). According to Catholics, the origin of Cathars was early gnostics –> Paulicians persecuted as heretics by Eastern emperors, some exiled to contemporary Bosnia –> Bogomils of Bosnia –> Cathars. And it could be correct.”
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Nov 17 2024 22:24 utc | 19
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Can you imagine Christianity without the Old Testament Bible?
It was worth genocide for that not to happen.
Posted by: simon cro
w | Nov 18 2024 0:20 utc | 22
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Piotr Berman, the key point is this: “According to Catholics, the origin of Cathars was early gnostics.” Marcion was the first “Christian” to bring this issue into the Christian domain. According to Marcion, Paul is the author of the two God theories. But what difference does that make? The God of the Catholic church is obviously evil, even to this day, apparently, just as the Zionists are also evil from Old Testament biblical times if we believe all that trash. [Ed].
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Marcion was active in the 130s and 140s. In 139, he came to Rome to join the Christian community. He apparently was booted out about five years later when the church leaders found his forcefully proclaimed views unacceptable. He then traveled around Asia Minor (from Sinope on the southern coast of the Black Sea), establishing churches. He held popular views that attracted many followers.
Marcion and his followers believed that Jesus — whom they considered their Lord and Savior — was not connected with Judaism. (That seems weird to us because in the Gospels, he absolutely is, but keep reading: Marcion didn’t have our Gospels).
Jesus had nothing to do with the Law since he represented a different God from the one who gave the Law. The Law was given by the Creator of this world, who called Israel to be his people and then judged them, and all people, harshly for not obeying his law, leading to universal condemnation. Jesus came from a different God, a previously unknown God, who was not the God of the Old Testament, but a higher spiritual being who intervened on behalf of people to save them from the wrath of the Creator.
We would love to know many things about Marcion’s belief system, but we do not. The main reason is that Marcion’s own writings have not been passed down to us from antiquity. That should not be a huge surprise. Other Christians considered Marcion to be an arch-heretic, an evil representative of the Devil who came to deceive the faithful. They censored his writings and simply refused to copy them. That was the easiest way to destroy books in antiquity. You didn’t have to have a public book burning. If you simply didn’t copy a book, it wouldn’t survive.
We know of two books by Marcion. The first was his own composition, the Antitheses: This book appears to have starkly contrasted the differences between the God of the Jews, who gave the Law, and the previously unknown God of Jesus, who provided salvation. Marcion claims he learned of this contrast from the writings of the apostle Paul, his hero, who did indeed differentiate between his “gospel” and the law.
His second book was his canon of Scripture, an edited collection of ten of Paul’s letters and a version of the Gospel of Luke; we don’t have either writing today.
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Without Marcion, we may not have had the Gospel of Luke or most of Paul’s epistles, even though some are forgeries. Oops, I meant “pseudodepigrapha.” [Ed.]
This discussion was lifted from Forged—A BooK by Bart D Ehrman and edited for clarity and brevity.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 18 2024 3:42 utc | 32

Ed
Ideas cannot be extinguished by genocide. Many centuries before Hitler , Martin Luther was vehemently antisemitic. Hitler’s persecution of Jews led to some Jews being sent to colonise Palestine, while the Ukrainian Revisionist Zionists fled to the US and became today’s Neocons.
Netanyahu , their spiritual heir, is greatly mistaken if he and his fellow genociders, including the Catholic Pope, all of USUKIS, and anybody else, think they will extinguish the ideas of the people of Sham. They will travel, settle, propagate and return with a vengeance further down the road.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 18 2024 5:08 utc | 34

Medicine Amidst Genocide in Gaza
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/18/mxjm-n18.html
“…I mean, the sheer cruelty of first besieging and starving the population and then allowing the smallest trickle of a supply which is really just for public relations, and then immediately turning around and destroying it. How cruel is this?
And this is a recurring theme. Even in my own travel to Palestine I’ve witnessed this. The level of cruelty being imagined is so creative. They are spending time thinking about the uniqueness of the crimes that they want to commit on this population or even on an individual…”
Time to put this mad dog down.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2024 6:59 utc | 36

Ben & Jerry’s lawsuit accuses parent company of censorship over Gaza
By LISA RATHKE
Associated Press • November 15, 2024
Ben & Jerry’s has sued its parent company Unilever accusing it of silencing the ice cream maker from making statements in support of Palestinians in the Gaza war.
The complaint, filed Wednesday in federal court in New York, says the multinational conglomerate has failed to adhere to its contractual obligations with Ben & Jerry’s by threatening to dismantle the company’s independent board, sue board members, intimidate personnel and censor the company “from publicly voicing support for peace and refugee rights,” the lawsuit states.
London-based Unilever said in a statement that it rejects the claims made by Ben & Jerry’s social mission board. “We will defend our case very strongly,” it said.
Unilever acquired Ben & Jerry’s, a longtime supporter of progressive social causes, in 2000 but distanced itself from the ice cream maker’s decision in 2021 to halt sales in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem.
When Ben & Jerry’s was sold, the companies agreed that the ice cream maker’s independent board would be free to pursue its social mission, including longstanding support for liberal causes on such things as racial justice, climate action, LGBTQ rights and campaign finance reform. But Unilever would have the final word on financial and operational decisions.
More…
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-11-15/ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-gaza-protest-unilever-15860037.html

Posted by: Menz | Nov 18 2024 10:45 utc | 38

Upping the ante:
Examining the meeting with Iran & Syria, forming a “coalition” of sorts, prepping for ME war. Russia openly stated after Kursk attack they would be supplying weapons to their allies, and many believe they did so with Yemen.
Today, it appears even more may be coming:
https://tass.com/politics/1873979
“West’s decision on missile strikes gives Russia free hand to attack NATO bases — expert
According to Dmitry Suslov, retaliatory measures may include the handover of more advanced weapons to the forces “that are directly fighting against the US, ****particularly, in the Middle East”****

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 18 2024 11:30 utc | 40

Thanks Exile.
I read last weekend, Egyptian volunteers were making it to Gaza. I forget where. I read widely. It doesn’t sound very likely though. I suppose it’s possible there are still tunnels operating the izzys don’t know about?
Of course i’m well aware of the amazing recycling skills of the Palestinians. A master class in colonial resistance unmatched in history.

Posted by: Glasshopper | Nov 18 2024 13:09 utc | 42

Apparently some South Africans suspect israelis are eyeing a second (third?) colonial occupation of their country:
https://youtu.be/3u6sAk-AIU0?si=hdNnv9rw0XuFADWm

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 18 2024 13:58 utc | 44

Genocide n. Deliberate extermination of a people or nation. genocidal adj. [greek
genos race, *-cide]

Posted by: south | Nov 18 2024 15:40 utc | 46

Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 18 2024 16:28 utc | 48

Re: Settlement ?
the genociders and their enablers should familiarize themselves with the Peking Declaration before yapping. It’s striking how delusional the genociders have been all this time. The Constellation of Forces has changed, the genociders have not yet realized this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Beijing_Declaration

Posted by: Exile | Nov 18 2024 17:08 utc | 50

How was the Cathar religion so different than the Catholic religion? The Cathars did not believe Jesus died on the cross.\
Posted by: Ed | Nov 17 2024 21:44 utc | 18
Interesting. In this regard they were similar to the Muslims.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 18 2024 17:56 utc | 52

Lebanon “ceasefire” updates:
1) https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-11-18/lebanon-submits-written-response-to-u-s-truce-proposal-lebanese-official-and-local-media-say
“Lebanon Submits Written Response to U.S. Truce Proposal, Lebanese Official and Local Media Say”
“BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon has submitted a written response to a U.S. truce proposal, a Lebanese official source and Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed said on Monday.
There was no immediate response from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to a Reuters request for comment.”
Obviously, US not thrilled, or appears that way.
2) Al Manar
19:56 “Hezbollah MP Hamade: We seek a ceasefire and remain open to dialogue, but we are not begging for any agreement; our focus is on the battlefield”
19:56 “Hezbollah MP Ihab Hamade states stance on the ceasefire has 3 constants: Adherence to Resolution 1701 without any amendment, safeguarding Lebanese sovereignty, and ensuring the enemy gains nothing politically it couldn’t achieve militarily”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 18 2024 19:30 utc | 54

RE: Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 18 2024 19:20 utc | 54
Frankly, that has/was attempted already in Biden administration, Any admin is now openly Zio Czar-like and harassing free speech. Same with COVID. Will it get worse? So far has, year after year… couldn’t question 911 or Sandy Hook openly. So this year it is Zio speech.
The mask is completely off in US. The American Zio’s should be careful how far they push their lunacy, unlike Gaza, pissed off Americans that are armed to the ceiling in every basement, are unlikely to be “shushed” when they’ve had enough. It’s a violent nation.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 18 2024 19:46 utc | 56

Interesting updates and article regarding Lebanon:
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274766661/lebanon-to-file-complaint-to-unsc-over-israeli-attacks-on-army
“Lebanon to file complaint to UNSC over Israeli attacks on army.”
Highlights:
1) “Lebanon stressed that “targeting the army undermines international efforts to implement resolution 1701” and “ensuring the army’s security and supporting it to carry out all its tasks is an urgent necessity to enhance security on the Lebanese borders,” the statement said.”
“The latest Israeli attack has brought the death toll among Lebanese ***army ranks to 36 since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict on Oct. 8, 2023.”
2). “Also on Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati welcomed the decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to grant** 34 Lebanese cultural properties ***enhanced protection***amid the ongoing conflict.”
(?) (how are grants & enhanced protection executed?)
3) …”34 Lebanese cultural properties on the International List of Cultural Property under Enhanced Protection.”
“Non-compliance with these clauses would constitute ‘serious violations’ of the 1954 Hague Convention and would constitute potential grounds for prosecution,” the statement said.
Obviously USReal could care a less, however, charges are piling up, and many interested parties who don’t give a hang about the genocide, but have wealth & influence & do care about historical sites will start ranting & raving soon. USReal continues their arrogance as the future of obvious collapse continues.
And obviously, Lebanon told USReal to take their threats and shove them.
Guessing bombings will get even worse, maybe by sea even soon. These are terrorist West ways.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Nov 18 2024 21:18 utc | 58

Will Trump put USA interests interests or Israels first a debate. We find out soon enough.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ksQNqYnu6IoW

Posted by: deadend | Nov 18 2024 21:52 utc | 60

Mohd Javad Larijani in an interview said that reports of Iran being able to produce a nuclear warhead in 48 hrs is not wrong. In fact, he declared that Iran can produce a nuclear warhead within 24 hrs.
If this is true, then Iran has everything set up ready to go.
Does not ring true when you consider IAEA has already been invited back and recent statements about not pursuing nukes.

Posted by: Suresh | Nov 19 2024 0:26 utc | 62

A compelling account of mounting tensions in Yemen:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/yemen-mobilizes-for-war-anticipating-us-invasion-under-trump/288681/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 19 2024 1:34 utc | 64

From Beit Lahia to Rafah – Resistance Roundup – Day 409

….Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that it had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 shell in the center of the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam fighters were reportedly able to target an Israeli infantry force, consisting of 12 soldiers, with an anti-personnel missile.
Additionally, the Brigades said that their fighters managed to snipe five Israeli soldiers in the area of Al-Jawani, also in Beit Lahia.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades said that it had shelled Israeli occupation vehicles and soldiers in the center of Beit Lahia with 60-caliber mortar shells.
The group announced that it had destroyed an Israeli military vehicle penetrating the Atatra area, west of Beit Lahiya, by detonating a high-explosive barrel bomb that had been planted in advance.
The Al-Quds Brigades, according to a statement, shelled a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at the Palestinian-Egyptian border, south of Rafah.
Below are the latest statements by the two main Resistance forces in Gaza, and the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah. ….

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-beit-lahia-to-rafah-resistance-roundup-day-409/
Merkava Tally as of Monday night
night local time
259 destroyed (unchanged)
703 approximate; struck but not destroyed (added 1)

Posted by: Exile | Nov 19 2024 2:09 utc | 66

Posted by: Exile | Nov 19 2024 2:09 utc | 67 “Merkava Tally as of Monday night”
Got any after photos of them? Otherwise in Gaza, 1 Merkava and 2 Namer destroyed.

Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 19 2024 2:42 utc | 68

it has now been 25 days since Israel’s strike on Iran, which was 25 days after Iran’s strike on Israel.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 19 2024 5:10 utc | 70

Ship Tracker live
Haifa – busy
Ashdod – below normal
Eilat – 1 sailboat and 2 tugs
Suez Canal Approaches – heavy traffic as always
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:33.5/centery:29.8/zoom:6

Posted by: Exile | Nov 19 2024 7:28 utc | 72

https://x.com/ClaudaTanios/status/1858757633785688158
Clauda Tanios @ClaudaTanios
Britain is allowing parts for F-35 fighter jets to be exported to Israel despite accepting they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, lawyers for a Palestinian rights group told a London court on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/palestinian-ngo-ask-uk-court-block-f-35-parts-israel-over-gaza-war-2024-11-18/
Palestinian NGO to ask UK court to block F-35 parts to Israel over Gaza war
….West Bank-based Al-Haq, which documents alleged rights violations by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is taking legal action against Britain’s Department for Business and Trade at London’s High Court.
Israel has been accused of violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza war, with the U.N. Human Rights Office saying nearly 70% of fatalities it has verified were women and children, a report Israel rejected.
…..Al-Haq’s case comes after Britain in September suspended 30 of 350 arms export licences, though it exempted the indirect export of F-35 parts, citing the impact on the global F-35 programme.
Al-Haq argues that decision was unlawful as there is a clear risk F-35s could be used in breach of international humanitarian law…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 19 2024 8:37 utc | 74

@UWDude | Nov 19 2024 8:01 utc | 74
Hochstein is in Beirut at the mo chatting to Berri ….
No mention of Gaza! A ceasefire would really surprise me ….

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 19 2024 9:46 utc | 76

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
There’s no such thing as “Western civilization.”
#GazaHolocaust
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1858612257938403395

Posted by: Menz | Nov 19 2024 10:39 utc | 78

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
Unbelievable
This is not Gaza.
This is not Lebanon.
Watch NATO backed Zionists execute an injured Palestinian young man inside a house in the occupied West Bank.
These are the real “European values.”
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1858806606076551169

Posted by: Menz | Nov 19 2024 10:41 utc | 80

Top genocide scholar calls Starmer and Lammy ‘hypocrites’ over Gaza stance
Published date: 18 November 2024 17:58 GMT | Last update: 4 mins 1 sec ago
One of the world’s leading scholars on genocide, William Schabas, on Monday denounced British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy for refusing to label Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.
“These people are hypocrites. They speak with a forked tongue. They do not interpret or apply the Genocide Convention in a consistent manner,” Schabas, a Canadian academic specialising in international criminal and human rights law, told Middle East Eye.
“The statements of British parliamentarians vary depending upon whether they are referring to their friends or their enemies,” said Schabas, who is the former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the author of more than 20 books on genocide and other international law topics.
Last week, Starmer was asked to share his definition of genocide and to outline what action he was taking to save the lives of people in Gaza.
In response, he said he was “well aware of the definition of genocide” and that this explains why he has “never described or referred to [the situation in Gaza] as genocide”.
MORE…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-genocide-scholar-calls-starmer-and-lammy-hypocrites-denying-gaza-genocide

Posted by: Menz | Nov 19 2024 10:49 utc | 82

As predicted, another attack on Tel Aviv, the second in 24 hours.
The second of many to come.
https://youtu.be/ujxBYWkbw34?si=YCY7VpDMpURDnf-g
Hezbollah will pound Tel Aviv until they beg Uncle Sam to beg for a ceasefire.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 19 2024 13:02 utc | 84

Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“IAEA Quarterly Report:
Iran has increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium by 17.6 kg and has 182.3 kg of uranium enriched to this level.
Iran has also increased its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium by 25.3 kg, for a total of 839.2 kg of uranium enriched to this level.
Theoretically, developing one nuclear bomb would require 42 kg of 60% enriched uranium or 125 kg of 20% enriched uranium.
Iran’s enriched uranium has exceeded 32 times what was permitted under the nuclear deal.”
In other words, it would be expected as responsible that actions against Iran were kept within a framework that acknowledged Iran being in possession of nuclear deterence.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 19 2024 17:04 utc | 86

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas will not rule Gaza after the war ends and that Israel has destroyed the Palestinian group’s military capabilities.
Speaking from within Gaza, Netanyahu also said Israel has not given up on locating the remaining captives.
“Anyone who dares to harm our hostages will have blood on their head. We will hunt you down and get you,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/19/
TEL AVIV, November 19. /TASS/. Israel is ready to pay $5 million to anyone in Gaza for each released hostage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said while touring the Gaza Strip.
“I am telling those [Palestinians] who want to get out of this situation: anyone who hands over a hostage to us, we will ensure a safe exit. To him and his family. We will also offer a remuneration of $5 million for each abducted. The choice is in your hands, but the result will be the same. We will bring everyone home,” he said in a video address released by his office.

Posted by: JB | Nov 19 2024 18:27 utc | 88

https://substack.com/@matthewhoh
Mat Hoh on the field describing the banality of evil

Posted by: Minaa | Nov 19 2024 19:13 utc | 90

Canada is Still Arming Israel (thread)
https://x.com/WBWCanada/status/1858846198376914950
“Blockade at Collins Aerospace in Oakville going strong as the sun rises. No one is coming into work today to supply the F-35s, F-16s and Apache helicopters Israel is using to rain bombs on Gaza.”
The Suppression of Palestine Solidarity at McGill University and Beyond
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1858927926676246613
“Online rally Nov 21, 11am in response to McGill cancelling room for UN Special Rapporteur Albanese, banning SPHR and asking court to ban protests near University buildings.
Event coincides with 2-day student strike for Palestine at many Quebec universities and colleges.”
Palestinian-Canadian Discusses Visa Program for Gazans: ‘Was This Program Deliberately Designed to Fail’?
https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/palestinian-canadian-discusses-visa-program-for-gazans–november-19-2024?id=23f9e689-d54f-4c1b-8ee0-4c69746f6979
“Omar Omar, a representative of the group Gazan Families and founder of the Gazan Canadian League, discusses Canada’s temporary visa program for Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war.”
Compare and contrast treatment of Palestinians seeking visas vs Ukrainians or Jews.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 19 2024 20:19 utc | 92

Turns out Hamas off’ed twenty settlers, not Palestinians.
Gaza police battle Jewish squatter gang members accused of stealing humanitarian aid
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/11/19/gaza-police-battle-jewish-squatter-gang-members-accused-of-stealing-humanitarian-aid/

Posted by: Carl | Nov 19 2024 20:39 utc | 94

Posted by: Menz | Nov 19 2024 10:45 utc | 82
That’s a very serious offense during a famine.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 19 2024 21:04 utc | 96

@93 Newbie
“The program itself and its potential activation have not been stopped. We delayed its implementation for 10 years…”
Firstly I do not know if there is a ‘program’, but given that the capability exists for Iran to build a nuclear weapon in relatively short order (if it has not already done so), the rest of the ‘talk’ is simply not relevant (i.e. is propaganda, or simply a form of profanity).
It is known “Israel” is not ‘willing’ to live under threat of nuclear annihilation, and given its history and methods that is not surprising, is nothing to do with having any ‘responsible approach’ of its own.
It could well be argued that the extremes that “Israel” displays are facilitated by its possession of nuclear weapons. That would have it believe that as it always had a final say, therefore it could behave as it wanted to without any effective repercussion. Loss of that position must make “Israel” fearful, but so concocted is its own story that it does not even recognise when it has lost immunity of any kind due to its very own actions, from people repelling it with what are effectively only sticks and stones by comparison.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 19 2024 21:24 utc | 98

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 19 2024 21:24 utc | 100
Just wanted to point out as something and its opposite are propagated without any worry about inconsistency and dissonance.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 19 2024 21:44 utc | 100