It’s just too heartbreaking.

Posted by: Mary | Dec 28 2024 17:35 utc | 3

There is a long game being played here. Israel is now fighting on seven different fronts – buoyed only by US/UK armament, and most probably additional boots on the ground. This is a country which could not manage a belligerent occupation in Gaza or the West Bank – now they are looking to manage more than belligerent occupations in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. Gaza has stood up for more than a year to the worst the US/UK/IS has to offer. While the buildings – homes, hospitals, schools, churches are ground to dust, while the Palestinians are starving – they are still belligerent, still fighting and Hamas is experiencing no shortage of man power. Meanwhile rumor has it that 60% of the Israeli reservists are refusing to show up (or outright deserting). Hezebollah is on pause, holding the rules of the ceasefire, Hezbollah Syria is on pause but non state actors are starting to move into action.
Meanwhile the BRICS affilitates, partners and members, now represent the majority of the world – and this is important as regards the voting in international panels such as the UNGA, the Security Council (with onlyl the US fully supporting Israel), the Hague. This is a crucial step by Russia, Iran and China. Look at the distribution of the GA votes most recently on all issues involving Israel.
Meanwhile,considerable internal dissension in Israel as well to say the least.
Not a good picture for US/IS – now regarded throughout the world as viscious, barbaric pariahs.

Posted by: abierno | Dec 28 2024 17:49 utc | 5

It’s just too heartbreaking.
Posted by: Mary | Dec 28 2024 17:35 utc | 3
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Yes, words fail.
How often can one write “words fail”?
I think everyone who has ever posted on a Palestine thread here (except the Hasbara trolls) cares deeply about the sufferings of the Palestinians and shares the frustration of witnessing the world, and own governments, doing nothing or, worse, enabling the monsters.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 28 2024 18:23 utc | 7

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 28 2024 17:37 utc | 4
Hezbollah might have been waiting for the moment when Iran tries to get a nuke. In that case Israel would consider nuking Iran to eliminate the nuclear program. Iran has some missiles as deterrence but probably not many long range expensive ballistic missiles that can reach Israel. Hezbollah’s rockets were probably counted on by Iranian planners as the most effective deterrence needed to keep Israel from nuking Iran. With that role, even if Hezbollah lost 90% of its rocket inventory, it has to stay disciplined to help Iran maintain deterrence for the special contingency. However, no one expected Syria to simply collapse. If there is no supply line via Syria, I don’t think Hezbollah can pose enough deterrence to stop Israel from nuking Iran during the special contingency.

Posted by: guessing | Dec 28 2024 18:39 utc | 9

F…ing cowards at the head of Western states……
11:15 UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Julien Harneis, who narrowly escaped an Israeli aerial bombing raid on Sanaa’s airport, denied on Friday that the facility had any military purpose.
Harneis said the airport “is a civilian location that is used by the United Nations.”
“It’s used by the International Committee of the Red Cross, it is used for civilian flights — that is its purpose,” he told reporters by video link from Yemen.
“Parties to the conflict have an obligation to ensure that they are not striking civilian targets,” he added. “The obligation is on them, not on us. We don’t need to prove we’re civilians.”
Harneis described how he, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and 18 other UN staff, were caught up in the attack, which he said also took place as a packed airliner was touching down nearby.
One UN staffer was seriously wounded in the strikes, which destroyed the air traffic control facility, Harneis said. The rest of the team was bundled into armored vehicles for safety.
“There was one air strike approximately 300 meters (985 feet) to the south of us and another air strike approximately 300 meters to the north of us,” he said.
“What was most frightening about that air strike wasn’t the effect on us — it’s that the air strikes took place… as a civilian airliner from Yemenia Air, carrying hundreds of Yemenis, was about to land,” he said.
“In fact, that airliner from Yemenia Air was landing, taxiing in, when the air traffic control was destroyed.”
Although the plane “was able to land safely… it could have been far, far worse.”
The Israeli attack, he said came with “zero indication of any potential air strikes.”
Harneis said the airport is “absolutely vital” to continued humanitarian aid for Yemen. “If that airport is disabled, it will paralyze humanitarian operations.”
The United Nations has labeled Yemen “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” with 24.1 million people in need of humanitarian aid and protection.

Posted by: Tom | Dec 28 2024 18:49 utc | 11

@ Aleph_Null | Dec 28 2024 17:12 utc | 2
Yes, the whole situation is very disheartening. Yet, it is a major historical series of events, and the outcome(s) are anything but clear, despite all. Therefore, early triumphalism is misplaced. Rather, there exist big informational questions.
1) What is the actual Palestinian loss of life to date in the Gaza Strip? This is a big unknown, but it will become known, eventually, in the information age. I have stated before that I can’t imagine how fewer than 1 million Palestinians in Gaza have already died, because of the bombardment, the deliberately-imposed starvation of the people, the lack of medicine, and especially the length of time this has been going on for. I would love to stand corrected by someone demonstrating to me that the death toll can’t actually be that high yet, but I have seen no evidence to the contrary. Also, associated with this question is the big point that it is not over, so the death toll grows day by day, at an unknown rate.
2). Is it the actual Israeli intent to exterminate the entire population of 2.3 million people there? That certainly appears to be the case from Israel’s actions. If so, is such a massacre simply going to happen without further consequences? This admits of two possibilities, yes and no. If yes, the massacre will happen with no further consequences, then we will have truly sunk into an openly barbarous age. But wouldn’t even that bring further consequences, on the principle of what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, so that everyone can do that then? Could such a world ever be good for capitalism? Aside from the other result in that case, that other powers will all arm themselves to the hilt, starting with nuclear weapons, just to prevent the monstrous criminal terrorists of the capitalist juggernaut from messing with them
If no, there will be consequences, those might be especially in the spectacular moral damage done to the so-called “West,” its virtual complete delegitimation. This type of consequences might seem less immediate, but it seems likely to have a massive effect. In particular, by exposing the true nature of Israel and its Zionist nationalism, it also exposes the utter clash of parochial Zionist expansionist interests with the national interests of the US. At some stage, this seems likely to lead to explosive pressures inside the US elite that may tear the fabric of the US political system apart, and call for some total realignment of forces and interests. Previously, despite it not being in the interest of the US, Israel got a free ride because it didn’t cost too much. Now the cost is growing.
Another likely cost in any event is going to be the continuation of efforts by the Zionists to utterly crush and eliminate all opposition to their discourse in the US and other western countries, and in the whole world if they can manage it. Such a move eventuating in a system like that portrayed in Orwell’s 1984 is not achievable without a huge and probably losing battle. It is more a sign of Zionist desperation than triumphalism.
3) What are the actual total casualty figures of the Israeli army and public in the war, both in Gaza and on the other fronts? These seem to be deliberately concealed by Israel, just like the belligerents concealed casualty figures and losses during the Second World War.
I think it is definitely not true that the Israelis feel triumphant, ecstatic, or happy. First, all that would contradict the bitter pessimism Israelis have normally felt toward the situation. Second, they are hurting too, even if less than the Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians, at least physically. Third, their offensive, arrogant bravado, exhibited by the Zionist trolls who occasionally raid this list, actually conceals a deep-seated lack of confidence about the future that they have to compensate for.
4) The outcome in Syria is murky and unclear. If I had to hazard a guess, I would suppose Syria will remain a divided country. The US and Israel can hardly welcome a reunification of Syria under al-Sharaa and HTS, unless as a complete puppet regime, but it can’t be that; it just won’t work. So they would rather keep Syria divided, as Libya is.

Posted by: Cabe | Dec 28 2024 19:10 utc | 13

sorry – bad editing in my previous comment – it should be:
‘The BDS movement in EU needs to ‘target’ the cultural sphere much more – to make the artists, scientists, sports-men and -women shun the ostensibly European events, such as football, singing, movie competitions. Those events must be made ‘not kosher’ for the participants and for the public, for any civilized person of honor. Israel is not Europe, it will never be.

Posted by: fanto | Dec 28 2024 19:25 utc | 15

❎ Report | Reports confirm that Israel conducted a test of a small tactical nuclear bomb in the Syrian city of Tartus:
This conclusion is supported by the high radiation levels detected in Cyprus and Mersin, as well as the recording of an earthquake in the area at the same time.
Satellite images revealed the disappearance of a section of a mountain approximately 70 meters wide and the evaporation of tree leaves in a circular area with a radius of about 1 km.
According to sources, the objective may have been to either destroy a concealed target or test a new weapon in real-world conditions.
🔹@enemywatch
??????

Posted by: Jo | Dec 28 2024 20:24 utc | 17

Hans Benjamin Braun is possibly the Swiss scientist mentioned:
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/87887
https://x.com/Ben68638515/status/1872355834459722219
https://x.com/Ben68638515/status/1872389285183365401

Posted by: Ornot | Dec 28 2024 21:06 utc | 19

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Dec 28 2024 19:08 utc | 13
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More asymmetric conflict, IMO.
Erdogan is an Ottoman enthusiast. Who better to tie up the US in the Middle East? It is preferable to be ruled by Turks than by Zionists.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 28 2024 21:21 utc | 21

LoveDonbass 22
HTS IMHO is funded by Saudi Arabia, who previously funded Al Qaida in order to get a toe-hold in Damascus.
There are reportedly large numbers of US troops in Syria, supporting HTS, but the most significant change is the rapport between President Putin and MbS, through which Putin has accepted Saudi’s total rejection of Alawites and Assad as a heretical sect and a stooge of colonial power.
I have zero evidence for this opinion other than King Salman’s previous frustration with the US for being unable to prevail against Russia in Syria in spite of the Saudi funding of Al Qaida.
US and UK must have somehow managed to explain to the Saudi tyranny that the image of headchoppers for some strange
reason is unpalatable in Western Democracies, a fact that Saudi tyrants find hard to comprehend.
Saudi tyrants also strongly support Israel’s Nazism, because they have zero patience with being nice to ethnic minorities who are poor.
So, the answer to your question is that IMHO the Saudis , who are unable and most unwilling to do anything themselves, are letting the Turkish Deep State grab a bit of Syria in exchange for organising HTS, and trusting the US and UK to run the military and diplomatic side of their presence in Damascus.
It’s a massive gamble, because ‘Eesa AS was one hell of a rebel , and one hell of a supporter of the weak and the poor, and he might well choose to ignore the Saudi tyranny, while befriending the Sunni Turks and China and Russia.
I would imagine that ‘Eesa AS would find a “”””Normalised with Israel “”” Saudi tyranny after the genocide of the Palestinians, pretty unsavoury.
Bearing all that in mind, maybe USUK might accidentally fail to deliver a Saudi presence in Damascus, ahem, because they personally detest Arab dictators, letting the Saudis piss in the wind like last time.
The world is not run by Arab dictators.
Alhamdulillah . Erdoğan is not a dictator. The Caliphate is a sunnah of Islam. I see no objection to Turkiye recreating the Sunnah. But it would have to be completely independent of the Zionists in USUKIS, and therefore completely independent of the USUKIS band of brainwashed pirates called HTS, Daesh or Al Qaida.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 28 2024 23:26 utc | 23

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to undergo major surgery after infection requires treatment

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to undergo major surgery to remove his prostate after an infection, his office say.

Here

Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 28 2024 23:53 utc | 25

@ Cabe | Dec 28 2024 19:10 utc | 14
Warm thanks for your very thoughtful interrogation of key questions on Palestine. I’ve been afraid to look at the Palestine thread, because I’m frankly ashamed of myself. I question whether there’s any point being honest about the resignation I feel (possibly reflected in the Palestine/Ukraine response ratio, here at MoA).
Please forgive me for saying your own thoughts (and my own thoughts, for that matter) only verge on severe moral-hazard territory I see visited by halfway consientious columnists out at Strategic Culture or Naked Capitalism: to wit “Chin up! The Palestinian slate gets wiped clean of Palestinian lives, but just think of all the social progress to ensue from the resulting revulsion — subsequent turmoil could mean the final curtain for global capitalism.”
Edward Said weeps. Who will stop complete expulsion, total eradication? Centuries of olive trees and ancient structures buried in the rubble; never coming back, like the diaspora. Oh but, just wait, we’ll build a better world to honor the memory of Palestine.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 29 2024 0:35 utc | 27

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 28 2024 23:26 utc | 24
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I’m not sure the signs have arrived before a righteous Caliphate is to be established.
Ironically, our mutual friend Arch knows the prophecies even better than I do.
Erdogan’s son recently said something about a 3 part march towards Palestine. Hagia Sophia => someplace in Damascus => Al Aqsa.
If nothing else, it puts the Zionists on alert that another big player has entered the game.
And hopefully creates another variable the West must account for in West Asia. Turkiye in the equation makes the Russian mutual defense pact with Iran very important, IMO.
The issue is that the Iranian people want to be more Western, which is why they elected such a weak leader.
Victory over the Occupiers is so close.
Those Arabs who have been wicked and don’t repent will face their punishment. Allah SWT sees and knows everything. He is Al-Alim.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 29 2024 1:15 utc | 29

I do not profess to be a military expert of any kind but I am curious as to why so many appear to see Israel’s invasion of Syria and the fall of Syria as a triumph.
Israel has failed to achieve its objectives in both Occupied Palestine and Lebanon and now it has opened a third front, fourth if you count Yemen, in Syria, taking advantage of the chaos in that country. There is nothing clever in any sense, including military, of being opportunistic in such a way, unless you know you can secure the land you have taken. Israel cannot even secure Palestine, let alone Lebanon, so why would it be able to secure Syria?
The rebel groups in Syria are not united so it is not as if the Israelis country control them in any cohesive way. And one thing is certain, they all hate Israel more than they hate each other. And then there are the Turks who also hate Israel and want to see Al Aqsa liberated. What a hornet’s nest the Israelis have taken on.
The general view seems to be that Syria was destroyed so weapons could not reach Lebanon or Palestine. Human nature being what it is, if one door closes another opens. And anyone who thinks the various rebel groups can be so controlled they will not participate in moving weapons where needed, has no understanding of human nature or innovation.
Perhaps even more problematic, in 14 months the Israeli army has demonstrated it is weak, poorly trained, with expertise in nothing but controlling and killing women, children, the old, sick, maimed and helpless, and most of its soldiers are mentally ill to the point of dysfunction.
Psychopathic sickos may well be in the army, but when most of your army consists of such people, it will be impossible to organise any sort of serious fight.
And the Israeli dependence on techo toys has demonstrated that just as a war cannot be won with bombs but needs boots on the ground, which Israel does not have, neither can a war be won with robots. Humans and the brilliant capacities of the human mind are what win wars, along with luck.
The Israeli soldiers are cowards and trained to be cowards through practising on the helpless and unarmed and reliance on robots and bombs. If they cannot defeat Hamas and Hezbollah, how on earth are they going to defeat a dozen rebel groups in Syria, let alone secure anything well enough to allow setters to return or make a greedy grab for more of Syria?
And since, if the Jordanians and Egyptians have any intelligence, and one can presume that they do, then they will know they are on the hitlist for the USRaeli screamteam of genocidal fanatics. Self-preservation, combined with hatred of an oppressor makes a powerful force.
Not forgetting the Turks, who have their own agenda in Syria and are not about to let the Israelis take more and may well ensure they do not even keep the Golan Heights.
Meanwhile BDS and sanctions grow and Israel is loathed around the world, including by increasing numbers of Jews, and the Shitraeli lunatics are running the show, hellbent on their own destruction with a likely attack on Iran.
None of that seems like winning if one applies common sense.
In terms of justice for Palestine in particular and the Middle East in general, this is the beginning, not the end. Although it may well be the beginning of the end for Sickrael.

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 2:18 utc | 31

To #33 re: fall of Syria: All I know is that to US neocons Syria and Russia are of equal importance. And they wish Russia was smashed to bits yesterday. Billions of US tax dollars have been spent killing Syria. Beginning in 2012 and running thru 2017 in order to destroy Syria the US ran the largest illegal weapons trafficking operation in history. It was code named “Timber Sycamore.” In 2017 the operation was taken over by Kravis and Petraeus.

Posted by: susan mullen | Dec 29 2024 3:10 utc | 33

@LoveDonbass,
I have posted before but not much.
I am not talking about justice but about physical realities and dynamics. If Israel cannot defeat Hamas or Hezbollah, how does it think it can control the various Syrian rebel groups enough to hold the land it has taken and secure it enough for settlers? It cannot even get its settlers back where they were before October 7.
I agree that Israel may well have bitten off more than it can chew but is so irrational, it will keep eating even if it vomits.
Turkey has its own agenda but it also hates Israel and did not Erdogan’s son say recently that Al Aqsa was on the list for liberation?
Yes the other Arab states have demonstrated a lack of interest in acting for Palestine but even they, if and when they come to understand that they are also on the USRael hitlist, might change their attitude. If you are going to be a target why sit back and wait for it to happen?
More so because the world has changed and social media exists even in the Arab world and the horrors of Palestine quickly reach the Arab street. Most of these States are insecure and all of them fear to varying degrees, what the ‘street’ might do.
Governments may kowtow to Israel because Mossad has a very impressive collection of personal photos, but the public is free to take a stand, to protest, to boycott, to punish the Israelis. I read this morning that boycotts of Israel in Arab countries are large and growing.
I am not so sure Hezbollah is sidelined. I sense there is a bigger game at play and as the maxim goes, it is wisest to ‘keep your powder dry,’particularly when your enemy is busy destroying itself and creating more war fronts than it can ever handle.
I suspect that is the view the Iranians are also taking as the Israelis chomp and vomit their way around the region.
I know Egypt and Jordan are American vassals but, survival is the strongest force for all humans and the potential for internal chaos may well see them deciding that the price of being an American vassal is too high. A common glue is also hatred of the Israeli thugs and religion, whether Muslims, which most are, or Christians. Indeed, for common cause, Muslims and Christians unite in many countries and have long done so in Palestine.
And then there is fate and destiny where events occur, leaders rise and fall, and the cards dealt deliver very different outcomes to the big players.

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 3:51 utc | 35

Did the THAAD successfully intercept yesterday Yemeni missile attack? Rumours are Nevatim AFB was hit again by latest strike.
Anyone noticed USS Harry S. Truman has turn tail and ran?
13th MQ – 9 successfully intercepted by Yemen.

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 29 2024 4:22 utc | 37

Good news – Netanyahu is having his prostate removed.
He’ll be permanently impotent thereafter. Unable to achieve an erection; emasculated and limp.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 29 2024 5:10 utc | 39

I don’t wish him well on any terms. I hope he does a slow, painful death from cancer and is haunted by the screams of the children he slaughtered in Gaza.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 29 2024 5:22 utc | 41

michaelj72 42
My understanding is that the lorries on the British M6 are fuelled by Daesh-enabled Mosul oil. Immediately after enabling the theft, the foreign brainwashed nutters were destroyed and the Kurdish Salafis gained control of Kurdish Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Kurdish who are holding Al Qaida for the US in Syria are completely separate from and different from the Northern Iraqi Salafi Kurds, and Northern Iraqi Kurdish Salafist are not supremacists.
They simply gained power in the Mosques by helping the USUKIS that protected them under John Major from Saddam Hussain.
The core of Northern Iraqi society is it’s powerful Islamic faith. USUKIS trained the youth of Northern Iraq that had fled Saddam’s brutality to Iran in the arts of USUKIS Imperial Jihad.
The North Iraqi Kurdish Islam , friend to USUKIS, has nothing to do with the , secular Syrian Kurds that Erdogan hates so much.
Erdogan’s terrorists are in favour of recovering the Power of the Ottoman Caliphate, but not through ideological practice of Islam, so they are the same as the Syrian Kurds, secularised Nationalists.
When you are in Western Turkey, the call to prayer is played on a timed
Loudspeaker and few attend. In Northern Iraq , like Pakistan, everybody attends.
I think what annoys Erdogan is that Northern Iraqi Islam has a much better claim to making a Caliphate than Turkish Islam. But it is , like Erdogan, bound head and foot to USUKIS. No Caliphate can emerge from West Asia, except possibly from Palestine.
A Caliphate can only come from the East, beyond the reach of interest-consuming Globalist Capitalism. Erdogan has links to the East, but cannot cut his links to the West. Hence no form of Caliphate can ever emerge from Turkiye under Erdogan.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 29 2024 5:59 utc | 43

Even John Mearsheimer is admitting what can longer be hidden: The Moral Bankruptcy of the West.
As he states, “Given the West’s presumed commitment to human rights and especially to preventing genocide, one would have expected countries like the United States, Britain, and Germany, to have stopped the Israeli genocide in its tracks.
Instead, the governments in those three countries, especially the United States, have supported Israel’s unimaginable behavior in Gaza at every turn. Indeed, those three countries are complicit in this genocide.
Moreover, almost all of the many human rights advocates in those countries, and in the West more generally, have stayed silent while Israel executed its genocide. The mainstream media has made hardly any effort to expose and challenge what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. Indeed some key outlets have staunchly supported Israel’s actions.
One wonders what people in the West who have either supported Israel’s genocide or remained silent tell themselves to justify their behavior and sleep at night.
History will not treat them kindly.”
The Moral Bankruptcy of the West
https://x.com/SamiAlArian/status/1872152669306921279
Though they strut around the world arrogantly boasting about the superiority of “Western values,” the Americans, British, and Germans have inadvertently revealed to the world the true bloodthirsty character of their vaunted values.

Posted by: ak74 | Dec 29 2024 8:10 utc | 45

I’ve asked before, any IT gurus here able to hack into a pacemaker?
Posted by: Menz | Dec 29 2024 8:56 utc | 52

You can find more on this here (use machine translation):
https://www.root.cz/clanky/kardiostimulatory-maji-tisice-chyb-kupte-ho-na-ebay-a-zkuste-hacknout/
It’s a bit older article, but I don’t expect things significantly improved since then.

Posted by: Jergus Lapin | Dec 29 2024 9:57 utc | 47

and one can only wish him well on that count.

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 5:16 utc | 44
Christian love thine enemy wooly nonsense. Nuke the bastard, and every one of his confederates.

Posted by: mogambo | Dec 29 2024 11:25 utc | 49

I’ve asked before, any IT gurus here able to hack into a pacemaker?
Posted by: Menz | Dec 29 2024 8:56 utc | 52
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Be careful what you wish for. If Bibi croaks, his successor will be either Smotrich or Ben Gvir.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 29 2024 12:38 utc | 51

Posted by: Chen | Dec 29 2024 3:55 utc | 39
“There are some US troops in the east (Kurdish region) and the sth east border with Iraq, possibly around 900 all up, which is not a number defined as large.”
Pat Ryder, Pentagon Press Secretary, was reported to have said (20th December 2024) that there are now 2000 active personnel in Syria.
Ryder was quoted as saying that the increase in US troop numbers is to meet “shifting mission requirements”.
Source: DD Geopolitics (on Telegram).
“Shifting mission requirements” sounds very much like military-speak for: ‘getting involved in more shit’ to me.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 29 2024 14:58 utc | 53

https://thehill.com/opinion/5058156-israel-strike-iran-trump/
Another grossly irresponsible advocate of pushing towards nuclear war. Do these sick people fantasize that a national culture based on martyrdom in particular would simply slink away in cowardly defeat?
I haven’t seen anyone say that a nuclear armed Iran could hold all of Israel hostage. It wouldn’t take that much to nuke most of Israel and render it uninhabitable for decades to come. I believe Rafsanjani pointed this out years ago – I think as a what if feeler for the Muslim world.

Posted by: Eighthman | Dec 29 2024 15:24 utc | 55

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 29 2024 5:10 utc | 41 “He’ll be permanently impotent thereafter. Unable to achieve an erection; emasculated and limp.”
Hopefully the other information you post is more reliable than the above.
“For men who undergo a radical prostatectomy (removal of the prostate gland), the estimates of how many men will regain their ability to have erections vary widely, from 25% to 80%. ..”

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 29 2024 17:18 utc | 57

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 2:18 utc | 32 “Israel has failed to achieve its objectives in both Occupied Palestine and Lebanon and now it has opened a third front, fourth if you count Yemen, in Syria, taking advantage of the chaos in that country. ”
I think Israel disagrees with you on Lebanon. How many rockets have been fired into Israel since the ceasefire? I also don’t think Israel opened up a front with Yemen. Yemen opened that front.

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 29 2024 17:22 utc | 59

Posted by: abierno | Dec 28 2024 17:49 utc | 5 ” Israel is now fighting on seven different fronts”
Are they doing any “fighting” in Lebanon, Syria or Iran these days? It might not stay that way, but when was there last fighting on those 3 fronts?

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 29 2024 17:25 utc | 61

“Shifting mission requirements” sounds very much like military-speak for: ‘getting involved in more shit’ to me.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 29 2024 14:58 utc | 57
You are not wrong. They way I’ve seen it presented is that they (USA) want to continue to squat on the oil and wheat areas in order to be able to “apply pressure” on the other hyenas at the feast. I think the extra bodies are there because somebody realized that without the Syrian Arab Army and government, security of those troops is much more precarious. The extra manpower could be useful to evacuate or move as well.

Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 29 2024 17:47 utc | 63

@ 69 Strike Haifa in above post I ment Eliat.

Posted by: golddigger | Dec 29 2024 18:38 utc | 65

Posted by: golddigger | Dec 29 2024 18:38 utc | 70 “Eliat”
Yeah, the port of Eilat has declared bankruptcy. It did handle about 8% of Israel’s trade.
A difference between Eilat and the 3 Yemeni ports is that Eilat hasn’t had anything blown up in it yet.

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 29 2024 19:48 utc | 67

Christian love thine enemy wooly nonsense. Nuke the bastard, and every one of his confederates. Posted by: mogambo.
If we are condemning Naziyahoo and the shitraelis for their atrocities then it behoves us to stand by civilized principles.
I follow no religion.

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 22:02 utc | 69

Don’t hate Bibi. Hate Zionism. Hate America’s policies in the Middle East, which are an extension of the British policies post-Ottoman Empire.
Bibi is just a Polish Jew. He is a nobody.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 29 2024 18:55 utc | 71
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Your perspective is of course correct, but one can still hate Bibi too. Multitasking! 😁

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 29 2024 22:06 utc | 71

FFS, Russians are still in Syria. If there is radiation fallout, they will be the first to raise the alarm.
Get a grip @ 48.
The Zionists entity cannot seal Yemeni ports. It can’t even launch aerial attacks. It needs US and UK planes to do that.

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 29 2024 23:18 utc | 73

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgehazim/p/blind-media-narratives-fail-on-hezbollah?r=ppxvi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
An alternative view on the impact the fall of Assad and Syria has had on Hezbollah.

Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 23:56 utc | 75

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 29 2024 23:18 utc | 78 “The Zionists entity cannot seal Yemeni ports. It can’t even launch aerial attacks. It needs US and UK planes to do that.”
Who said they are trying to “seal” Yemeni ports? They have attacked the 3 ports the Houthis controlled territory. It looks like they hit various parts of the infrastructure including the tugs. This will make it much harder to bring things in through those ports in the scale they had been. There are other Yemeni ports, not controlled by the Houthis.
What US & UK planes are you claiming they needed? They have a couple of tankers of their own that are enough to support the size of these raids.

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 30 2024 0:48 utc | 77

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 29 2024 23:18 utc | 78 “FFS, Russians are still in Syria.”
Yeah, but it looks like they have to go through rebel checkpoints to get on and off the base.
https://x.com/savunma_trhaber/status/1873492462628704263

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 30 2024 1:00 utc | 79

Israel wanted Hezbollah moved north of the Litani.
Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 30 2024 0:57 utc | 83
I think that has happened, can’t recall the news ref. But that was a key part of the truce agreement with Hezbollah, and I believe they have retreated north of the Laiani river — or said they will or have.
Who knows how true that might be.

Posted by: just in | Dec 30 2024 1:56 utc | 81

“Syrian elections may not be held for at least 4 years”
because it’s going to take the head-chopping jihadists under Joulani at least that long to ‘pacify’, that is murder, terrorize and ethnically cleans much of old Syria. Not to mention all of their theft and corruption about any incoming future ‘foreign aid’
There will be substantial resistance to these terrorists, too
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1873445118130413783
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Ahmad al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammad al-Joulani: “Syrian elections may not be held for at least 4 years”, says de facto self-appointed Syria new leader-president.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 30 2024 2:04 utc | 83

Nuke the bastard, and every one of his confederates.
Posted by: mogambo.
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it behoves us to stand by civilized principles.
Posted by: rosross | Dec 29 2024 22:02 utc | 74
If I had a button to send multiple war head Nuclear missiles or Oreshniks to strike Israel especially it’s command and control and political and critical military infrastructure ( no matter the collateral damage or deaths) I would do soi in a nano second – and would deem that a CIVILIZED ACT OF SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST UNBRIDLED EVIL IN MY WORLD
I would rain those nukes upon Israel until it’s unconditional surrender. Or kill them all in the process of they refuse to stop their evil acts. I am stunned how anyone sane could disagree with such an act. And I abhor detest those who have the capacity to do but they refuse. For they are as bad as the Zionist dogs for their inhumanity and cowardice.

Posted by: just in | Dec 30 2024 2:11 utc | 85

https://ejmagnier.com/2024/12/29/countdown-to-conflict-israels-withdrawal-deadline-from-lebanon-sparks-tensions/
Countdown to Conflict: Israel’s Withdrawal Deadline from Lebanon Sparks Tensions – Elijah J. Magnier
With just 29 days remaining until the deadline for Israel to withdraw from all occupied Lebanese territories under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSCR 1701), tensions in southern Lebanon are approaching a critical juncture. Sources within the resistance forces have signalled their intent to resume military operations against Israeli positions one hour after the expiration of the 60-day cessation of hostilities agreement should Israel fail to comply with the withdrawal mandate fully.
In such a scenario, Hezbollah would claim complete legitimacy to launch attacks on Israeli positions within Lebanese territory, asserting its role as a defender of national sovereignty. Even critics and political opponents of Hezbollah within Lebanon are unlikely to contest the group’s raison d’être under these circumstances, as any failure by Israel to vacate all occupied Lebanese territories would be seen as a breach of international law and Lebanese sovereignty. This rare convergence of support underscores the gravity of the situation as the region braces for the potential resumption of hostilities.
Compounding the already volatile situation are reports of over 1000 Israeli violations of the truce, meticulously documented by Lebanon and submitted to the five-member oversight committee, which includes representatives from the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel, and the United Nations.
During the ceasefire period, Israel has engaged in unprovoked actions, including the destruction of villages, advancements into strategic areas, and the targeting of symbolic sites and Valley. These actions have exacerbated tensions and significantly undermined the prospects for a sustainable truce along the borders……..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 30 2024 2:48 utc | 87

*** Nuking Israel is treating the symptom, not the cause.
The cause is American imperialism. ***
Which is itself now controlled by Zionist imperialism.
Posted by: Cynic | Dec 30 2024 2:50 utc | 93

Nope, you aren’t getting away by deflecting the blame to Zionist mind control, which doesn’t exist.
Zionism is simply an offshoot of Nazi Lebensraum, which itself is an offshoot of American Manifest Destiny, the guiding ideology that allowed Europeans to declare the American continent as the New World and terra nullius (because non-European natives aren’t considered people by Europeans), then proceed to genocide the natives and steal the land beneath the feet of the natives. It would be far more appropriate to say that American Manifest Destiny has infected the minds of some unwitting Jews via the intermediary of Nazi Lebensraum.
If you insist on peddling the mind control narrative, then this is the correct statement: An unfortunate segment of the Jewish population are controlled by American Manifest Destiny.
All of the West are complicit so long as they do not overthrow their bourgeois capitalist governments that are funding and arming Israel.
Under Marxism, there’s a good reason that workers in the West are considered as belonging to the class of the “labor aristocracy”, who will align themselves with their capitalist overlords because the overlords occasionally offer them table scraps. For the American mind, here’s an analogy that would help you understand where you stand in relation with the rest of the world: you’re the house slave, which is an immeasurably better position than the field slave. The house slaves would whip and even sell out the field slaves just to earn their master’s favor.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Dec 30 2024 3:18 utc | 89

Santi 67
The things that I am aware of, I don’t condone evil and it’s not hypocrisy to be aware of evil, it’s an essential component of limiting one’s own support and subscription to evil.
In my view, to unsubscribe from evil is step one in overcoming it and I very strongly disagree with hanging my hypocrisy on a clothes peg of my machismo. ‘The real world is corrupt, so I will enter its corruption with Trumpian Zeal, trumpets sounding, and strumpets gasping at my real political marbles.’
Trump commissioned the bombs that have been raining on innocent Muslims in the same of “”” bad things being done on both sides “””. I totally disagree with his moral Relativism. And I disagree with yours too.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 30 2024 6:12 utc | 91

If you have a true religion, who needs Christmas tinsel? Netanyahu spent some much time scratching his balls, making Israel powerful over its neighbours, and now God has removed his dick-wavibg capabilities with some bacteria.
The world is a safer place than it was before. My last anti Christmas hate message for this year. No need to mind Bibi’s boom swinging over West Asia.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 30 2024 6:33 utc | 93

BREAKING: Preliminary reports of Netanyahu being diagnosed with grade 3 prostate cancer.
Middle East Spectator
Posted by: Apollyon | Dec 29 2024 15:25 utc | 60

No direct relieve, sadly.
Internet says:

Around 95 out of every 100 men (around 95%) will survive their cancer for 5 years or more after diagnosis.

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 30 2024 9:10 utc | 95

“You’re advocating a nuclear strike on Israel because the West can no longer maintain its Empire through conventional military, and it desperately needs to use nuclear weapons to even the odds. Nuking Israel normalizes the usage of nuclear weapons.
Nuking Israel is treating the symptom, not the cause. The cause is American imperialism. So, if you truly want to support the Palestinians, the first thing you should do is to nuke the West, starting with America and then Europe.
Or maybe, just maybe, consider building a socialist organization to take down the capitalists in your own country that’s supplying Israel with the funds and the weapons. But that’s too hard. You might jeopardize your own cushy Western life, and that’s unthinkable.
You don’t even have the guts to do what Aaron Bushnell did.”
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Dec 30 2024 2:46 utc | 91
Excellent post-best one I have read today.

Posted by: canuck | Dec 30 2024 11:02 utc | 97

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 30 2024 2:48 utc | 92 “In such a scenario, Hezbollah would claim complete legitimacy to launch attacks on Israeli positions within Lebanese territory,”
This kind of wording is funny. When Hezbollah or some similar group claimed otherwise?

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 30 2024 12:02 utc | 99