Palestine Open Thread 2025-049
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Posted by b on March 9, 2025 at 14:27 UTC | Permalink
next page »I have been trying to decipher what Trump's ME plan is.
He's shrinking the Empire and cutting costs, Israel is a massive burden for the US.
Will he find a way to divest America of its greatest parasite and liability, and if he does, can he survive the Republican party and the fate of JFK?
Or will he only shrink the Empire a little, withdrawing trivial numbers from Europe and Africa?
Trump's "new" (old) America won't have the money to fund an Empire with a kinetic footprint.
If I am Israel, the American funded welfare state may be coming to an end, and without American money, Israel is unsustainable.
Or is Zionism the only sincere Trump ideology?
Can his love of fascism win out over his love of money?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
1st Amendment to only apply to Zionist-approved speech, press, and assembly:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza
Posted by: Gengar | Mar 9 2025 14:51 utc | 3
The Security Belt-2025 joint exercise is about to commence near the Iranian port of Chabahar. The aim is to strengthen military mutual trust and foster pragmatic cooperation among the naval forces of the participating countries: the Russian Federation (RUF), the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).
Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 14:58 utc | 4
Or is Zionism the only sincere Trump ideology?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
I have come to believe this. Ukraine was an outlier, both because such an obvious disaster for anyone not swallowing the Beltway line, and because of Trump’s own personal animosity towards the country/cause because of the ways the Dems spent weaponizing it against him. Remember, Term 1 Trump expanded lethal aid to Ukraine; it’s only post-Russiagate hoax he soured on them.
Trump is not anti-war, he is anti-American involvement in one specific case war in Ukraine. He has already pivoted towards saber-rattling with Iran. He is fully onboard with the Greater Israel project. His foreign policy will be dictated by his real masters in Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Gengar | Mar 9 2025 14:59 utc | 5
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
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Zionist DJT is privatizing morality with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.
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Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 15:00 utc | 6
A huge slaughter is underway in Syria - by the proscribed terrorist outfit (HTS).
"Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain have issued statements supporting the HTS attacks on Allaouite areas in Syria.
It is important to understand that the worrying level of support for HTS atrocities in the UK is emanating from Saudi and Gulf funded Salafist mosques."
https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1898468754666774650#m
https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:08 utc | 7
Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 14:58 utc | 4
In the Strait of Hormuz
https://x.com/amuse/status/1898720797084037128
Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:18 utc | 8
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:08 utc | 7
If they step outside they are killed. If they stay inside, they are dragged outside & killed.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:20 utc | 9
I haven't seen it mentioned but a couple of days ago, the leader of the Houthis gave Israel 4 days to lift the blockade (food, medicine, water) on Gaza or Yemen will shut down the Red Sea.
Today, Israel has passed the government order to shut down electricity.
Trump may not want war but he may get one anyway.
Remember, the only solution to all of the issues in the ME is a sovereign Palestinian state. Nothing else will last, and as long as Zionism has a presence the local populations will be agitated.
I saw a propaganda bot (an automated propaganda account) on Twitter talking about the violence of Islam. If America and the British (as in Africa) had never arrived, these regions would be relatively calm and peaceful.
Looking around the world, the majority of unstable and violent situations have colonial fingerprints on them.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 15:23 utc | 10
"Can his love of fascism win out over his love of money?"
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
Trump got the ceasefire executed in Israel before he became president; he has stopped sending US military equipment to the Ukraine. he has began rapprochement with Russia by harkening back to communication between the powers.
Obviously, Trump wants peace.
Kindly please tell me how he is a Fascist with facts not your own stunted personal emotions that are currently overwhelmed with Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Your TDS overwhelms your reason.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 15:24 utc | 11
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Run along Ziocuck.
Trump has the blood of thousands of Arab lives on his hands.
Not just in Gaza but Syria and Lebanon too.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 15:46 utc | 12
Canuck, Trump just sent $3billion worth of 2,000 lb bombs to the Zios while they’re committing a genocide in Palestine and carving out territory from their neighbors in Syria and Lebanon. He was in office less than a month before announcing “Maximum Pressure on Iran” as official foreign policy. These actions are consistent with supporting Israel in their quest for the elimination of the Palestinian people, the establishment of Greater Israel, and the cementing of Israel as sole hegemony in the region. They are not consistent with peace.
TDS can go both ways.
Posted by: Gengar | Mar 9 2025 15:46 utc | 13
And not to get too far OT, Trump reminded us last week that he armed the UkroNazis and sanctioned the Russians in his first term.
Trump is a psychopath.
That's not TDS. That is the record he is proud of. Like Warp Speed. 😂😂😂
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 15:49 utc | 14
English police officers in what looks like London, tell - pro-Palestinian protestors to move on - or be arrested, one protester - ask what if we start chanting FOR Israel, can we stay then - and that is seen by the cops as okay.
https://nitter.poast.org/tiffy201/status/1898627178884890698#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:56 utc | 15
Lets see if the Arab plan goes ahead.
"The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK say they support the Arab-backed plan for the rebuilding of Gaza that would cost $53bn and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:09 utc | 16
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:09 utc | 16
##########$
The Europeans are Zionists as well.
They are trying to antagonize Trump, IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:12 utc | 17
Meanwhile in Germany - the armour clad German police, beat the living shit out of women pro-Palestinian protestors.
https://nitter.poast.org/LailaAlarian/status/1898503714937442709#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:18 utc | 18
15 - Maybe at the command level they have some smarts, but the generality of cops in my experience are quite stupid, and this guy would seem to illustrate it. But pro-Israeli "counter-protest" is in any case facilitated by the cops - I have seen it more than once in London.
Posted by: Waldorf | Mar 9 2025 16:27 utc | 19
Ben-Givir Moves To Cancel Key Agreements
https://x.com/PalestineChron/status/189873116758458439
"Itamar Ben-Givir has submitted a bill to the Knesset to annul the Oslo Accords, Hebron Protocol, and Wye River Memorandum."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 9 2025 16:28 utc | 20
Corrected: Ben-Givir Moves To Cancel Key Agreements
https://x.com/PalestineChron/status/1898736116758458439
"Itamar Ban-Givr has submitted a bill to the Knesset to annul the Oslo Accords, Hebron Protol and Wye River Memorandum."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 9 2025 16:37 utc | 21
Holding Fire is the word of the day. Thank goodness for that. The genocide is temporarily minimized. Meanwhile the Izzies are mourning their 9,000 combat casualties evoked by the resistance to evil. At the same time they are resting their weary "warriors" and attempting to recruit new ones to replace both the KIA and severiously wounded or psychoed. Then there are the refuseniks, who have seen the elephant and no way intend to return to the fray.
Thus that's the day's sitrep. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Best case scenario is that the evil ones are in a state of stasis due to whispered threats from Iran, along with steadfastness by Ansar Allah and also from Iraqi groupings. Meanwhile, both Egypt, with troops right up to the Philadelphia Corridor and even the Jordanians mumbling under their breaths, due to heavy pressure from their Palestinian majority population.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 9 2025 17:02 utc | 22
It's about trade routes from India to Europe and the West. Gaza needs to be fixed before that can become reality. Israel is going to be very rich between trade and selling arms and tech to the feckless Europeans. CENTCOM may move to Gaza to stabilize it. Good times.
Or is Zionism the only sincere Trump ideology?
Can his love of fascism win out over his love of money?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
Posted by: John Wick | Mar 9 2025 17:03 utc | 23
Commemorating International Women's Day
https://x.com/IRIan_Military/status/1898758495005995152
"Commemorating International Women's Day for the brave Palestinian women enduring 80 years of siege and bombardment by the barbaric Zionist cult."
Women hold up half the sky and more.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 9 2025 17:25 utc | 24
In my view Julani is weakening himself by this display of atrocities. Perhaps he didn't order the massacres, but they will be attached to his name. They have been called atrocities even by the bbc. Inevitable cosequence of employing jihadis, whether Syrian or UYghur. They're too idealistic, raging for Salafi Islam.
Posted by: laguerre | Mar 9 2025 18:03 utc | 25
Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 15:24 utc | 11
Trump is facist in the economic sense where its all profits before people. The stance he has taken on immigration definitely rhymes.
The gutting of public service definitely has night of long knives vibes. The continual blame the other for murican problems rings a bell as well. He may not be a full card carrying member but his bosses are.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Mar 9 2025 18:18 utc | 26
"Head of the Bakery Owners Association in Gaza, Abdel Nasser Al-Ajrami:
All bakeries operating with "cooking gas" in Khan Yunis have stopped working.
There are 5 bakeries, including two automated bakeries and the rest semi-automated.
The remaining amount of diesel to operate the rest of the bakeries is barely enough for two weeks only.
The warehouses are almost empty, and do not contain sufficient quantities of diesel or food.
The continuation of the siege threatens to starve the residents of the Gaza Strip, which requires rapid action."
"Children and women wait in a long line in the rain and cold to get bread in northern Gaza"
https://t.me/youseffares19/69938
Now electricity is cut:
"The Israeli Ministry of Energy, by official order of Energy Minister Eli Cohen, has stopped supplying and selling electricity to the Gaza Strip."
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/95823
And water is said to be next.
In west bank 40 000 remain displaced with ongoing destruction of their previous residence.
Negotiations, I won't comment on but talk is that all are stalled. Currently "Israel" has not moved to phase2 and is imposing a siege of civilian starvation on Gaza.
Regarding Houthi targeting "Israel" again due to siege of starvation, I linked the statement in a previous thread. They also say US bases might be targeted.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 9 2025 18:32 utc | 27
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 | Mar 9 2025 18:33 utc | 28
....1st Amendment to only apply to Zionist-approved speech, press, and assembly:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza
Posted by: Genga......
Barflies, please read this article. It's straight out of The Gulag. Columbia U. is definitely supporting Genocide which evenuqtlly will cause Columbia's endowment to be seized to help pay for damages.
signed CC '81
Posted by: exile | Mar 9 2025 19:00 utc | 29
@ exile | Mar 9 2025 19:00 utc | 29
Columbia’s endowment, at last report, was an obscene $14.8 billion. And yet that’s a pittance compared to the endowments of Harvard and Yale…
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 9 2025 19:06 utc | 30
Kindly please tell me how he is a Fascist with facts not your own stunted personal emotions that are currently overwhelmed with Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Your TDS overwhelms your reason.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 15:24 utc | 11
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
― Benito Mussolini
Oh, and Trump Derangement Syndrome is more like Trump worshippers switching off their brain & rejecting reality because their messiah said so.
Anyway, I guess the next we will see from you guys is dancing around the WH singing "Kumbaya, My Trump, Kumbaya"...
Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 19:16 utc | 31
The head of MI6 looks pretty stupid now for saying that HTS had reformed itself.
He should be sacked for ever saying, or at least added to the ICC wanted list.
Maybe they think Trump has reformed himself as well.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 9 2025 19:22 utc | 32
Zet (31).
Trump backs the genocide in Gaza by the Zionists - and if we go to the lengths of saying, he backs the Genocide, but that doesn't prove he's a Zionist at heart - that he's repaying his Zionist backers, who funded his campaign by deeply supporting Israel, then we still have the unshakable proof that - he is aiding and abetting in genocide.
As for Zionism and Nazism.
"Modern-day Zionism, political Zionism, was supported by the German SS and Gestapo. Hitler himself personally supported Zionism. During the 1930's, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. As late as 1942, Zionists operated at least one of these officially authorized “Kibbutz” training camps over which flew the blue and white banner which would one day be adopted as the national flag of “Israel”.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, recognized that anti-Semitism would further his cause, the creation of a separate state for Jews. To solve the Jewish Question, he maintained “we must, above all, make it an international political issue.” Herzl wrote that Zionism offered the world a welcome “final solution of the Jewish Question.” In his “Diaries”, page 19, Herzl stated, “Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
The Transfer Agreement (which promoted the emigration of German Jews to Palestine) implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII is an important example of the cooperation between Hitler’s Germany and international Zionism. Through this agreement, Hitler’s Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930's to support Jewish development in Palestine and further the Zionist goals. Hitler and the Zionists had a common goal: to create a world Jewish Ghetto as a solution to the Jewish Question.
THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT
The Zionist so-called “World Jewish Congress” declared war on the country of Germany, knowing that it would affect their Jewish brothers residing in that country who would be left without protection. When others tried to help them escape to other countries, the Zionist movement took actions which caused those countries to lock their doors to Jewish immigration (read more in the books, “Perfidy” and “Min Hametzer”). As a result of the Zionist influence five ships of Jewish refugees from Germany arriving in the United States were turned back to the gas chambers. The fundamental aim of the Zionist movement has been not to save Jewish lives but to create a “Jewish state” in Palestine."
https://medium.com/@Yusuf_kn/the-parallels-of-zionism-and-nazism-ba6f0535fecd
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 19:37 utc | 33
The Europeans are Zionists as well.They are trying to antagonize Trump, IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:12 utc | 17
But isn't Trump Zionist too?
Posted by: joey_n | Mar 9 2025 20:15 utc | 34
Posted by: Gengar | Mar 9 2025 15:46 utc | 13
Per Reuters, the $3B in arms won't be delivered until next year through '28.
That suggests it hasn't even been built yet. Meantime we China has banned shipment of certain items to the US that are critical components of weaponry.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 20:32 utc | 35
Posted by: joey_n | Mar 9 2025 20:15 utc | 34
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And?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 21:06 utc | 36
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 19:37 utc | 33
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Birds of a feather flock together.
His Cabinet is not just Zionist. Many of them like Hegseth, Bondi, and Lutnick are fanatical Zionists.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 21:08 utc | 37
@35 Mary
On the other hand he released Mk84 that arrived, has said US will support "Israel" fully in a renewed conflict, and use of the US strategic stockile in "Israel" is opaque :
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 9 2025 21:36 utc | 38
There needs to be a Syria thread.
Many thousands of Alawites, Christians, and others have been killed by the Turkish/US backed death squads.
HTS militant: "There is a city in Syria called Baniyas. It was half Alawite and half Sunni. Today it is half Sunni and half dead ."Local sources confirm that the city is literally littered with corpses. Bodies are lying right on the streets.
@voekorKotenok
Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 9 2025 21:41 utc | 39
I am going to get some serious heat for this, but the time for resistance against HTS was when Assad was in Syria.
Trying to resist after he left was foolish.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:07 utc | 40
Who stands to profit from the balkanization of Syria?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 22:21 utc | 41
MiniMo 39
To understand this slaughter you have to know that HTS is following one part of the Qur'an, to fight polytheists who dedicate their worship to other than God.
This is the part the Brits have always liked, a law which legitimise genocide of Britain's colonial enemies, and blame Islam.
But the part of the Qur'an which HTS is ripping up and trampling on is the instruction to NOT make politucal affiliations with the enemies of Islam , like USUKIS.
Political Islam has ALWAYS lied that a time will come when it is prophesied in Islam the Muslims will help Rome, and that that time is NOW. Rome meaning the compassion of Christianity. That time is not now. And Evangelical, Zionist , US Chritianity isn't Roman Christianity, it's Zionist hate.
HTS is therefore condemned completely by the Qur'an itself. USUKIS who run HTS, completely against God, while the Alaeites think Ali AS was a manifestation of God's qualities, i.e. polytheistic.
I see your eyes glazing over. In simple terms it is blasphemy to support HTS when HTS is paid, housed, controlled , sponsored , supported and run by USUKIS.
Anybody who supports HTS is an apostate.
End of story. Chalas. Saudi Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood are USUKISHTS, colleagues of USUKIS. Outside the pale of Islam. Liars, funded by USUKIS.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 9 2025 22:29 utc | 42
UWDude 40
When Assad was in power HTS was in US camps. Lol. Do keep up.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 9 2025 22:31 utc | 43
UWDude 40
When Assad was in power HTS was in US camps. Lol. Do keep up.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 9 2025 22:31 utc | 43
stupid and untrue.
I "kept up" the whole war, fool, which means you cant fool me with semantics and sophistry.
I can see the little hamster wheel in your head trying to claim idlib was a "US Camp", and making all sorts of logic twists and word redefinitions to win your silly argument...
...and you are free to waste your time doing so, but I wont dignify any such drivel with a response beyond this one, pointing out how ridiculous you are.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:43 utc | 44
@41 LoveDonbass
Giyane asked a similar question last thread, but via mercenary disruption.
Apart from the usual (corporate, energy, finance, land grabs etc.) is that EU/NATO/west (in that order mostly) are expanding eastwards and southwards. All gulf states are on board with HTS, EU backed the Syrian civil war attempt, all support "Israel" , all prefer Lebanon tame and Iran "returned east" . North africa is weakened by attempts at revolution and attempted transition. Turkey is asking again about entry to EU, considering peacekeepers to Ukraine. EU has absorbed a large near eastern population that will return to rebuild along european lines. This is a long geostrategy, where from europe to Basra, including Arabia , near east/levant, north Africa , is merged into a 'harmonised' reality. That is at the doorstep of India and so Asia...
That is what I understand as occuring, in big picture terms.
Balkanisation is really just to weaken an independent nation that did not "neoliberate" when ordered, so as to repart a share of spoils, so as to protect "Israel" from resistance by disarm, so as to install a pliant/corrupt rule or rulers, so as to put pressure on Iran or close a method of retaliation from it.
Who gains ? Lots of people, but not so much the local populations ...a few amongst those left after years of civil war...but mostly "big players" from outside the region.
Eventually it will be told as the bad times under previous admin vs good times under new. Who could say better, as the previous was interrupted and not allowed to flourish to its potential...
As with previous civil war, the outcome is not given, but they will just continue until it all reaches an acceptable format.
:-(
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 9 2025 23:13 utc | 46
If you are wondering what Turkish news is saying about the country’s participation in the latest genocide, the answer is absolutely nothing. They are just running stories about Israel’s attacks on Palestine so everyone thinks we are the good guys.
Posted by: Deniz | Mar 9 2025 23:39 utc | 47
Posted by: Deniz | Mar 9 2025 23:39 utc | 47
I am sure the millions of displaced Syrians are finding the news.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 23:45 utc | 48
I know a second gen Syrian Christian. Her parents moved here many years ago. They are orthodox, she is protestant.
When I first met her, she mentioned she was Syrian, and I said, "really, I am quite unterested in the history of Syria and Lebanon", and she immediately said, "I think it is horrible what Assad is doing to our people over there"
I said, "Ah, I see", and changed the subject.
My guess would be, she has no clue right now, what is happening to the Christians and Alawites there.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 23:57 utc | 49
"Hundreds of people [1,000+] are reported killed in Syria in what is described as mass executions conducted by the new authorities.
A warning: these reports contain disturbing images.
It's a trail of death and destruction from the IDF's bombardment of southern Lebanon. Churches are left in ruins as Israeli officials insist only Hezbollah military sites were targeted."
RT News - March 09, 2025 (17:00 msk)
https://www.rt.com/shows/news/613900-rtnews-march-09-17msk/
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 0:04 utc | 50
I heard that Trump's hostage negotiation guy Boehler (Jewish from Albany NY, if you can believe it) met with Hamas.
The US didn't tell or ask Israel first, the Israelis leaked the information about the meeting hoping to embarrass Trump.
Instead, it sounds like they may have a deal with Hamas that cuts Israel out of the hostage negotiations.
The reason the Israelis couldn't proceed with Witkoff's phase 2 of the ceasefire was that Bibi had promised Smotrich (his coalition partner) that they would continue the war. Smotrich is of Ukrainian descent and is a bloodthirsty fanatic.
Anyway, Bibi got some dirt on Smotrich illegally acquiring classified information, which is a big deal in paranoid Israel. Now he can force Smotrich to go along with whatever Trump wants.
The Americans keep insisting that Hamas lay down their arms like Trump has been insisting that Russia will have to give back territory to Ukraine. Not going to happen. Everyone who is not a braindead Israel supporter knows that if Hamas disarms, the Israelis will continue the genocide to extinction of the people of Gaza.
Part of me wonders if they make these DOA demands for the Israelis/Ukrainians or their domestic audiences.
Trump verbal repetition stuff works on low information MAGAs but it's not going to work on the Russians or Hamas. Unlike Trump, they have had to bury their sons.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 0:13 utc | 51
@46 Ornot
I add that that is all occuring under a broader form of US hegemony, synchronised with "Israel" , and with a variable amount of UK complicity. Various european nations are also independently involved to a certain degree, apart from via EU impetus or under its political umbrella.
The order wanted is however a form of unification, and EU is central to that.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 10 2025 0:16 utc | 52
Yemeni View of the Creature at Work in Syria...
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1898872965263192350
"Thank you Yahya Salah."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 0:24 utc | 53
I have been trying to decipher what Trump's ME plan is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
You can't see it ?
Brian Berletic nails it again. It is obvious it is right on the end of your nose LoveDonbass.
The Trump Administration's Silent Complicity as Syrian Death Squads Slaughter Alawites, Christians.Trump Administration Defends Terrorists, Meddles in Thai-Chinese Relations.
Here:
https://m.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas/videos
Using all of the facts of Trumps actions ( not words ) during his first term.
His ME plan is EXACTLY the same as his NATO plans. Make American power stronger in both fronts.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 0:37 utc | 54
It's An Absolute Scandal...
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1898854634401177886
"It's an absolute scandal that in every Catholic, indeed Christian Church, in this land and throughout Christendom there was no organised highlighting of the massacre of Christian and other minorities in Syria today. It is a betrayal of all things Holy. It is a betrayal of Christ."
Ditto Palestinian Christians, Lebanese. Shameful abandonment.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 0:38 utc | 55
I have been trying to decipher what Trump's ME plan is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
You are very clearly not asking my yourself the right questions LoveDonbass.
On the 20th of January he could have stopped both conflicts with a stroke of one of his pens. Stopped funding and stopped supplying and stopped intelligence and star link. Pulled the US Navy away from the Mediterranean.
The question you should be asking yourself. Is why didn't he?
Brian Berletic has laid all out in full view until it is so bloody obvious. Only somebody with Trumps baws in their mouth can't see it.
Even others are now starting to see it LoveDonbass..
Here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVhPqNMvG4&pp=ygUOYnJpYW4gYmVybGV0aWM%3D
More and more everyday are now singing Brian's arguement.
" It's all theatre - continuity of agenda. "
It's so bloody obvious.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 0:50 utc | 56
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 0:37 utc | 54
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You're clearly intelligent, but raving like a fanatic every day compels me to tune you out.
I know what Bereletic is saying and I disagree. It's a shallow and trite analysis becoming holy gospel for Trump haters.
Analysis like that works in a black and white world with few variables.
Brian makes the too common error of not factoring in the responses to whatever America is doing or planning.
Even though he lives in Asia, his American chauvinism dominates his thinking too much for me.
There is what Trump wants to do. And then there is what China, Russia, and Iran are going to do about it.
Somewhere out of that soup of motives, capabilities, and action lies the truth.
I feel confident saying that America was in decline under Obama and neither of the Presidents since have been able to do anything about it.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 0:54 utc | 57
There is a Chinese saying "换汤不换药“, meaning you change the soup but not the ingredients.
The continuity of agenda is EXACTLY the same but because the US have been defeated on both fronts. This is just a pause because they are weak. But the ingredients are exactly the same.
The Americans are playing for time.....
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 0:58 utc | 58
Over 1,000 Dead as Western-Backed HTS Regime in Syria Escalates Massacre of Alawites
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/09/qrim-m09.html
"...This is not about being pro or against the former Assad regime. These are sectarian massacres that aim to expel the Alawite population from their homes."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 1:14 utc | 59
YES!
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1898901155994034534
"UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has called for the suspension of Israel's membership in the United Nations due to its failure to adhere to international law."
I support!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 1:26 utc | 60
When Betrayus tried to ignite a sectarian Sunni/Shi'a war in Iraq by mosque and marketplace bombs he planted with his pageboys, it took a while for the Mullahs to convince the people to not react to the provocation.
Later we saw mall children interviewed about these events and they all understood completely that it was USUKIS provocation. It's hard to believe that USUKIS is so dumb as to employ exactly the same stupid stunts again 20 years later in the heart of Civilisation that has been continuously in Islam for 13 millennia starting with prophet Ibraheem AS.
YeeHa! Wild West shooting injuns.
This won't start a civil war in Syria, but it might start a civil war in Texas because Trump's policies are un-Christian. I can't see Trump surviving a yet another cycle of Jihadist , eating his own vomit, in the the Republican heartlands.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 10 2025 3:09 utc | 61
@LoveDonbass
"I have been trying to decipher what Trump's ME plan is."
"There is what Trump wants to do. And then there is what China, Russia, and Iran are going to do about it."
Different questions, the second one is "How does that plan play out ?
A third one would be "Does Trump know the answer to the second question, and is that part of his plan ?"
Etc. etc.
And then there are further questions, like "Does Trump's plan matter, given that there are possibly more powerful interest running the US, or the actions of US "allies" ?"
I take Trump's presentation at face value, and that it fits in with larger regional ambitions that are managed by more powerful authority.
You don't think Trump calculates the geopolitics of the middle-east or the world do you ?
You do know the sort of organisation that do though.
I think he wants peace, but would authorise military confrontation with Iran, is ready to balance the "defense of "Israel" " against anyone who upsets a particular peace path. Like I have said, he is going to get mired with this approach, not least because he will find himself caught up in all the biases of "Israel" and other US regional activity.
He excuses "Israeli" actions as self defence, has commited to that view because the alternative is ICJ, ICC, UN etc. view that "Israel" is a genocidal state replete with war criminals. His previous shows of alliance fully compromise his ability to act otherwise.
So he only knows "forward" , with imposing a US centric view and reality to that presentation. In a more (sometimes less) reasonable manner. With various forces looking to derail or use his approach.
Anything else looks 5D, however I could not rule out that there is some very clever intrigue underway, even at the cost of his own reputation.
We are not likely to ever know, anything might be explained away with whatever.
For those who judge by actions, regarding Palestine there is a complicity with "Israel" that so far might be excused as useful in managing a peaceful resolution. i.e he has not directly backed "Israeli" atrocity since investiture, only abrogated certain responsibilities.
It looks more like he has placed himself completely on the line in a near impossible circumstance that the US should not necessarily even be involved in, though. When it is his call we will know for sure what his true intent.
"Give peace a chance"
As they say, so I just stay quiet and point out discrepancy as constructively as possible.
For whatever that is worth.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 10 2025 3:41 utc | 62
Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:08 utc | 7
*** It is important to understand that the worrying level of support for HTS atrocities in the UK is emanating from Saudi and Gulf funded Salafist mosques."***
Recall years ago the UK and EU governments had no objection to such indoctrination centres being built and staffed by Saudi trained jihadist-type clerics.
Given that UK governments for a very long time have been entirely subservient to Israeli/Jewish interest groups ... why would they welcome such mosques?
Posted by: Cynic | Mar 10 2025 4:28 utc | 63
Ornot 62
Trump doesn't have any choice because his first constituency, ordinary Americans, is directly opposed to his second constituency, the Zionist Neocons.
He will probably activate his main support roots , ordinary Americans, against the aggressive Nazi Neocons, because Ordinary people support International Law and Christian or similar morality.
Where will he hide when the Zionist Neocons try to pin the entire Sham genocide onto him? He is a comfortable, rich man who doesn't like prison.
If he 'finishes the job' he gets the entire blame from Zionist Lawyers. If he agrees two states, he gets even more blame from them. His only hope is to go with ordinary people against the Nazi Neocons. The US is more than a bunch of sicko Nazis from Ukraine.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 10 2025 4:31 utc | 64
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1898492786279686157
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Iraq, Russia, Iran or Lebanon are not joining any battle in Syria in the near future.
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1898479669587870123
Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook
Post-Assad Syria's 'liberation' going precisely to plan – that is, the plan of Israel, the US and UK.
Huge numbers of dead reported, with most of them civilians killed by the al-Qaeda retread, HTS, our extremist allies now ruling Syria.
More here (at antiwar.com):
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/08/over-1000-reported-killed-mostly-civilians-as-hts-syrian-forces-attack-alawites/
Over 1,000 Reported Killed, Mostly Civilians, as HTS Syrian Forces Attack Alawites
Government forces reportedly control major cities, fighting continues in Latakia mountains
The situation in northwestern Syria continues to spiral out of control this weekend, as the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has been surging forces into the Alawite homelands in the Latakia and Tartus Governorates, clashing with Alawite militias and slaughtering civilians.
The fighting erupted Thursday, when the militias launched an organized attack on an HTS-run checkpoint near Jableh. It quickly escalated, and now the reported death tolls are enormous. The Associated Press is reporting over 600 killed, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is saying over 1,000 deaths are believed to have happened. Currently, 125 militia fighters and 148 government forces loyal to the HTS have been confirmed killed, though those numbers are expected to rise, as the fighting continues across the region.....
....International reaction has been mixed. The UN has urged calm and the Red Cross have emphasized the need to ensure access to health facilities in the effected areas, while Kuwait and Bahrain have both offered statements of support for the HTS, condemning the Alawite militias as “outlaws” and accusing them of threatening the stability of the Syrian state.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 5:15 utc | 65
I am going to get some serious heat for this, but the time for resistance against HTS was when Assad was in Syria.
Trying to resist after he left was foolish.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:07 utc | 40
Agree with you there.
You know on this topic, I've been browsing the arabic language Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya and their social media channels with the help of translation tools, it strikes me how supportive they are of Mohammad al-Julani's government.
Even now not only is there no criticism of Julani massacring Alawite civies, they're wholly supportive and are ironically framing the Alawites as terrorists who support the former Assad government. The banger is the narrative that Julani has liberated the Syrian people and that the 20 million Syrians all support him.
Which I find comical, considering southern Syria is now occupied by Israel, eastern Syria is under American rule, and the rest is in the hands of Turkiye.
Makes you think the Arab league rapprochement with Syria in 2023 was akin to Minsk with Russia.
Posted by: Autumn | Mar 10 2025 5:34 utc | 66
I have been trying to decipher what Trump's ME plan is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 14:47 utc | 2
Follow the oil.
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:40 utc | 67
Sahat English 🇵🇸
@sahatenglish
#Trump stated that “only sick and twisted people keep bodies.”
But what about those who do not only keep bodies, but also steal their organs?
📌The Israeli occupation holds 1,500 Palestinian bodies at #SdeTeman prison, with no plan to release them (Haaretz).
📌In August 2024, 89 decomposed Palestinian bodies were returned to #Gaza in a shipping container; they couldn’t be identified due to the lack of DNA testing in Gaza.
📌Concerns about organ theft were raised by @EuroMedHR
after missing organs (corneas, hearts, kidneys) were detected by medical professionals.
📌In 2000, Dr. Jehuda Hiss, the-then head of the Israeli Abu Kabir forensic institute, admitted to harvesting organs and skin without consent (Source: Israeli Channel 2).
📌In 2016, @Haaretz
published an exposé about 121+ missing Palestinian bodies.
📌 The Israeli occupation has the largest skin bank in the world; yet, only 14% of Israelis carry donor cards (Haaretz). This has led to suspicions about the theft of skin and organs from Palestinian bodies.
https://x.com/sahatenglish/status/1898447884804096266
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:43 utc | 68
I am going to get some serious heat for this, but the time for resistance against HTS was when Assad was in Syria.
Trying to resist after he left was foolish.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:07 utc | 40
HTS was bused to Idlib. The Syrian government and army made deals with the terrorists to get them to leave (when the terrorists were starting to lose in a city/town). They believed that cutting the fighting short would spare more destruction. But we know how that eventually turned out.
Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 10 2025 5:44 utc | 69
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, says Iran has not yet received a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump regarding nuclear negotiations. Trump claimed in a Fox News interview on Friday to have sent the letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (see below)
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898465718703693987
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:44 utc | 70
asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
Edward Said received so many death threats that the university had to install bullet-proof glass windows at his home.
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@zei_squirrel
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Mar 8
Columbia University has always been a main hub of Zionist anti-Palestinian fascist censorship. When Edward Said taught there he was constantly subjected to harassment, death and bomb threats, Zionists infiltrating his classes, smearing him as a "terrorist". Nothing has changed
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1898387110031192090
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:46 utc | 71
notice, please, how much of the Western Oligarchic Media keeps repeating the meme that the Joliani terrorists slaughtering people are just attacking 'assad loyalists' or 'former Assad-friendly forces'... always bringing up the big bad guy Assad, who in fact is now 5000 miles away.
the Great Free Press and its Wurlitzer diverts attention from the fact that Joliani, HTS, al Qaeda and el Nusra are creations of the Western Powers, especially Turkey, USA & the UK with more than a little help from Qatar and UAE et. al.
these terrorists aren't even terrorists and head choppers anymore, they are 'government security' attacking 'remnants of the fallen regime', not slaughtering at will hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1898955589704646911
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The Christians, Kurds, Ismailis, Alawites, Druze, Armenians, Assyrians/Syriacs, Circassians, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Mandaeans communities, along with all other minorities in Syria, will never trust this regime after the massacre and pogrom of Alawites on the western coast in recent days.
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1898396475786240499
Dan Cohen @dancohen3000
The sectarian mass murder carried out by HTS (rebranded Al-Qaeda) is as predictable as it is horrifying. The goal was never to liberate Syria from Assad’s supposed authoritarian rule, it was to destroy a longtime foe of Israel, using genocidal terrorists as proxies. Now the media outlets that promoted ex-ISIS/Al-Qaeda leader Jolani as a “diversity-friendly jihadist” and “reformer” turn a blind eye or justify the bloodbath as targeting “Assad loyalists.” This stomach churning headline captures it perfectly.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/07/death-toll-rises-syrian-security-forces-struggle-quell-assad-loyalist-attacks
Syrian security forces execute 125 civilians in battle against Assad loyalists
Fighting in Latakia is marked escalation by Bashar al-Assad loyalists against Syria’s new Islamist-led government
....The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), a human rights monitor considered independent and credible, documented “large-scale field executions of men and young adults, without any clear distinction between civilians and combatants”, in north-west Syria.
SNHR has documented the killing of at least 240 people since Thursday, including 100 Syrian security forces and 15 civilians at the hands of Assad loyalists.....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 5:46 utc | 72
Rania Khalek
@RaniaKhalek
“Most Syrians hold - not without a reason - the Alawites responsible for the crimes of the Assad regime.”
Wow, this is outrageous excuse making for collective punishment of an entire sect.
Alawites are not responsible for the crimes of the previous government just because Assad was Alawite.
Syrians of all sects participated in the previous government. That includes Alawites, Christians, Druze AND Sunnis!
In fact, the majority of regime forces were Sunni because the majority of the country is Sunni.
This framing that implicates the entire Syrian Alawite community seeks to justify the genocidal views that Sunni supremacists in HTS have toward Alawites.
They hate Alawites because they are bigots. Blaming Assad is just an excuse.
What’s even more sickening is that this sectarian perspective is treated as credible among the “very serious” think tankers and analysts who dominate the discussion.
https://x.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1898322621390860396
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:48 utc | 73
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
NOTE | Some misinformation circulating online stating Israel provides electricity to Gaza for free or as a humanitarian gesture. In reality, Israel charges the Palestinian Authority approximately $11 million per month for electricity supplied to Gaza, deducting the amount from Palestinian tax revenues it collects on the PA’s behalf. Electricity used to be delivered via 10 power lines, which normally supply 125 megawatts—about half of Gaza’s total needs. In October 2023, Israel cut off all power lines to Gaza as part of its genocide, leaving almost all residents without power. By December 2024, one line was restored to power a desalination and wastewater treatment plant in central Gaza due to severe sanitation concerns and fears that poor conditions could harm Israeli captives held in Gaza.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898974111251980310
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:51 utc | 74
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/141388
DD Geopolitics
The Patriarchs of the Syriac Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, and Greek Melkite Catholic Churches in Damascus have issued a joint statement, strongly condemning the recent massacres along the Syrian coast.
https://x.com/sayed_ridha/status/1898449531303563652
Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha
SOHR: 501 citizens in the provinces of Latakia and Tartous have been murdered since Thursday, March 6.
In addition to the killing of 62 citizens in Hama and 5 citizens in Homs.
Bringing the total number to 568 citizens, including women and children, killed in 29 massacres.
https://x.com/blackintheempir/status/1898748229019202030
Black in the Empire @blackintheempir
Iraqi soldiers didn't throw babies out of incubators in Kuwait, Gaddafi didn't give soldiers Viagra to commit rapes, Iraq didn't have WMDs, Assad didn't use chemical weapons on his people in Douma, Hamas didn't behead babies, Afghanistan wasn't a success, and Russia was provoked
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 6:17 utc | 75
The methods and practices of HTS are precisely the same as the IDF. One reasonably suspects that the HTS cadre is mostly IDF.
Posted by: exile | Mar 10 2025 6:26 utc | 76
Posted by: Autumn | Mar 10 2025 5:34 utc | 66
Frankly Assad was like a Ghandi taking over Syria when they needed a Stalin.
He really wanted peace and rapproachment. I probably would have followed the same path, thinking I would still have to live with these people.
He was just simply trapped by the Great Satan, long story short. He did the best he could with an unwinnable situation.
I have criticized Hafez, but Hafez also had a terrible situation hoisted upon him, with all those post colonial countries. He tried iron fist, but Bashar could not carry the iron fist.
Honestly, I always found calling him "the lion of damascus" cringe. He clearly was no lion. He was a doctor trying to heal a terminal disease.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 7:01 utc | 77
Hussein in the first link here is referring to Marco Rubio (and US policy makers and their Media pals) and his fake crocodile tears
after the USA and the other henchmen I mean corrupted allies of the US-centralized Empire created these jihadist Frankenstein monsters, they can then step back and act like they're not responsible for all the slaughter and that this isn't part of their overall decades-long plans to balkanize Syria and maintain control of the region through their demolition of secular Arab governments (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon et. al.)
https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1898909029457432665
Hussein @EyesOnSouth1
Beware of their false sympathies. Beware of their false claims that they want to protect anyone, even their terrorist allies - who are expandable once their job is done.
The United States is not only complicit in creating HTS and other Takfiri groups, recruiting foreign terrorists, and installing them through a regime change operation, but also in a broader plot to divide Syria and create a destabilized geography marked by perpetual bloodshed, sectarian divisions, and conflict.
We are witnessing live a new version of the Sykes–Picot being established by colonial powers to dismantle our countries and nations.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1898833468441981178
Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio
The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days. The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families. Syria’s interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria’s minority communities accountable.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 8:00 utc | 78
The UK has sent 50+ cargo planes from Akrotiri to Jordan in the last couple of weeks. Anyone know why?
Sun of Alabama
LoveDonbass 57
Brian Berletic is an insightful commenter with the US armed forces inside view.
But I also disagree with his "two front" assessment of Trump duplicity.
(Not sure Trump would be capable of such nuance!)
Brian and many others - most others - I suspect fail to grasp the totality of the US change of direction under Trump.
As things unfold it is almost unbelievable, and maybe it is.
The destruction of the deep state.
Europe are in grief and denial of Trump dumping them completely.
But we all thought that with his Edelson funding at least Trump would continue pro-Israel, pro-genocide etc.
But if we judge by actions and outcomes rather than words, a different picture emerges.
Within hours of taking office, Trump's administration dealt brutally with Israel to force a Gaza ceasefire.
Forcing Netanyahu to break Sabbath and meet US officials.
Seems Edelson's money ain't needed no more and she wont get it back, sniff sniff.
Now what's happening? Another Trump official meets with Hamas in UAE (or Qatar).
Yes - that Hamas.
And in the CNN interview with stonyfaced CNN zionazis he explains
"the US is not an agent of Israel" (go long on grief councillors),
"Hamas are actually nice people" (go long on cardio meds).
We're used to seeing the US under the old regime of Biden and Nixon.
But the times they are a changing.
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 10 2025 8:38 utc | 80
https://x.com/levantinewitch/status/1898783799728619538
𓁹انجي𓁹 @levantinewitch
seeing children killed and piled up atop the bodies of their parents then reading "70 killed in clashes with pro-Assad forces."
i will never forget that this is the way you choose to describe the murder of our children, our elders, our men. i will never forgive this.
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1898094774759915660
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
Mass executions of Allaouites - irrespective of age or gender - are now well and truly under way in Syria by HTS, exactly as predicted.
Silence from both neoliberal and Salafist HTS cheerleaders in UK.
Meanwhile Israel taking still more Syrian land in collaboration with HTS.
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1898704939662131424
Sprinter Observer @SprinterObserve
Israeli official makes most dangerous public statement
Chairman of the Israeli Knesset National Security Committee Boaz Bismuth:
We wake up the King of Jordan in the middle of the night to make him carry out our orders.
Syria must be completely subordinate to us, as must Jordan, without any military capabilities.
We will not allow a military force to emerge in Syria after Assad's fall.
Damascus must be under full Israeli control, and we will ensure that it comes under our control.
Syria is our bridge to the Euphrates, and in the future we will reach Iraq and Kurdistan.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 8:51 utc | 81
"Hamas are actually nice people" (go long on cardio meds).
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 10 2025 8:38 utc | 80
Did he actually say that? lol if he did.
results? Ceasefire withon 24 hours of him being president, -24, actually.
And Hamas and Hezbollah seem more content with it than Israel.
I've always liked Berletic, but I just dont see ANY indication of cultural build up for war with China.
I mean there is mypillow mike lindell with his chinese hacking 2020 claims, and Steve Bannon with Miles Guo and that bizarre new Chinese government they tried to claim was yhe goverment of China, and the silly Missouri lawsuit, but none of this has ANY of the type of messaging that starts to encourage war. Culturally in movies and TV, Russians/Easter Europeans are bad guys, sometimes Semites, bit never Chinese, so I just dont see it.
War with China is just fanciful nonsense, when Russia is clearly the target.
In fact, it would be unreal to suddenly be told we are going to war with China, not to mention foolish. I simply do not see it happening in the next four years.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 8:58 utc | 82
Also, only 22% of Jews voted for Trump. The same percentage as black men.
But he pardoned a lot of Jews and black men at the end of his last term.
And then you just have his whirlwind of tarriffs, threatening to annex wierd places, like Canada, lol. He is just moving and acting so different this term than his first.
I'd suspect it is a whirlwind if bluster and flash to cover his real moves, and bolster his bluffs.
He somehow got Tulsi and RFK jr in... ... i thought those were blusters to bring in his compromise picks, but no, he wanted them, and, somehow got them.
My working theory is... ...he is using the ring of power, aka, the Epstein blackmail list. Hence its release was redacted to nothing.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 9:11 utc | 83
michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 5:15 utc | 65
*** ....International reaction has been mixed. The UN has urged calm and the Red Cross have emphasized the need to ensure access to health facilities in the effected areas ***
How mild could such agencies be (but only when it suits their masters)? They basically couldn't care less when Donbas was being attacked for eight years either.
*** Kuwait and Bahrain have both offered statements of support for the HTS, condemning the Alawite militias as “outlaws” and accusing them of threatening the stability of the Syrian state.***
Time them, the Saudis, Emirates and Israelis were literally wiped out .... with only a few individual exceptions, they're all the stinking same.
Too many Pakistanis seem to be like them as well.
Posted by: Cynic | Mar 10 2025 9:19 utc | 84
Hamas is holding fast.
March 10
Gaza News Now
🔴 🔴#Urgent Channel 12 Israel, from sources:
⬅️The negotiating delegation is expected to stay in Doha for two days to discuss the release of ten hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire.
⬅️Israel has no choice but to send its negotiating delegation to Doha, where Trump's envoy is located.
⬅️There is great embarrassment in Israel because of the secret direct negotiation channel that the United States has established with Hamas.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 10 2025 9:19 utc | 85
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⬅️The negotiating delegation is expected to stay in Doha for two days to discuss the release of ten hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire.
⬅️Israel has no choice but to send its negotiating delegation to Doha, where Trump's envoy is located.
⬅️There is great embarrassment in Israel because of the secret direct negotiation channel that the United States has established with Hamas.
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🔴 #urgent 🔴
....The Americans are tired of Israeli stagnation on an issue that affects the security of the region, so they decided to act on their own. Instead of Israel leading the process on its own terms, it will find itself in a situation where American terms are imposed on it. Why? Because American interests are not necessarily identical to Israeli interests.
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Channel 12 Israel: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar did not participate in yesterday's cabinet meeting due to tension between him and Netanyahu.
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🔴 #urgent 🔴
The Israeli Prisoners' Families Authority: We demand that Netanyahu give the delegation in Doha full authorization to return the kidnapped soldiers all at once.
- The Israeli Prisoners' Families Authority: A comprehensive agreement to return all the kidnapped soldiers is possible and is a commitment from the government to its citizens.
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And according to a military source: The negotiations between Washington and Hamas were a surprise to Israel because they prevented it from threatening to return to fighting.
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🔴 #urgent 🔴
Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif Al-Qanou:
- We dealt flexibly with the efforts of the mediators and Trump's envoy and we are waiting for the results of the expected negotiations and the occupation's obligation to agree and move to the second stage.
- The negotiations that took place with the Egyptian and Qatari mediators and Trump's envoy are based on ending the war, withdrawal and reconstruction. -
We have fully committed to the first stage of the agreement and our priority now is to house and provide relief to our people and ensure a permanent ceasefire.
- We agreed to Egypt's proposal for the Community Support Committee and to begin its work in the Gaza Strip to strengthen the steadfastness of our people and establish them on their land.
- The occupation's talk about military plans to resume fighting in Gaza and the decision to cut off electricity are options that have failed and pose a threat to its prisoners and will not free them except through negotiations.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 10 2025 9:22 utc | 86
Is this a threat?
Gaza News Now
🔴 #urgent 🔴
Chairman of the Knesset Justice Committee: Boehler and anyone negotiating with Hamas are making a grave mistake and putting the lives of the kidnapped soldiers at risk.
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Posted by: Mary | Mar 10 2025 9:26 utc | 87
From Boehler...🙏
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Trump's Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler in an Interview with Al Arabiya: Meetings with Hamas Gave Me Hope That Gaza Can Be Rebuilt
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Bowler to Al Arabiya: Agreement with Hamas is possible
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Bowler to Al Arabiya: There are positive indications that the current situation in Gaza will end after the meetings we held
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Bowler to Al Arabiya: We are committed to ending the war in Gaza and returning the hostages
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Bowler to Al Arabiya: We discussed a long-term ceasefire with Hamas
Posted by: Mary | Mar 10 2025 9:31 utc | 88
Winning?!?
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Channel 13 Hebrew, quoting senior Israeli officials, commenting on the direct American negotiations with Hamas: There is an attempt to conduct negotiations over our heads.. There is not much room to maneuver for Israel, and if Trump reaches understandings with Hamas, it will be very difficult for Netanyahu to say no to him, and the Americans know that
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End of the Israeli cabinet meeting that discussed the prisoner exchange deal negotiations
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Trump's Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler: We discussed with Hamas what the end of the war might look like
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Trump's Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler: I can say that Hamas is aiming for a long-term ceasefire.. We talked about a ceasefire that includes disarming Hamas, a ceasefire in which they will not be part of the political administration of Gaza, a ceasefire in which we ensure that they cannot harm Israel.. Part of that includes rebuilding Gaza
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Trump's hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, when asked if there is a deadline for implementing Trump's threats against Hamas: President Trump has not set a deadline
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Gili Cohen-Kan:
While the Israeli government is discussing the mandate it will give to the delegation that will leave for Doha tomorrow, the United States has begun to spread optimism.
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Trump's hostage envoy Adam Boehler in an interview with Channel 12: I think there will be progress on the swap deal
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Bowler to Channel 12: The goal of the contacts with Hamas is not only the release of the American hostages, but of everyone
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Posted by: Mary | Mar 10 2025 9:34 utc | 89
Murphy’s Law!
For all the constant worrying about how we are moving towards a fascist west - hardly any ultimate decision is made - about the ACTUAL fascist racist supremacist illegal apartheid entity imperialist colony and its support and expansion in The Levant.
A colonisation that Britain has a direct parentage of, over a hundred years ago, by virtue of a ‘contract’ made with a private individual. During war time, about that part of the world which Britain didn’t even have any ownership over at that time - the Balfour Contract made to Lord Rothschild during WW1. In exchange for what??
Money from the USA? And it’s newly set up privately owned Federal Reserve Bank?
A ‘contract’ that should have had no legal force , should never have existed, should have been challenged under international laws and cancelled - how can one give a land claim of lands which are occupied by natives and settled continuously for thousands of years; with their unique Peoples? That is grand larceny, confidence trickery, fake - like the AngloEuropean yankee doodles did, as they ‘Went West’ grabbing native lands and handing them to settlers in ballots and ugly races amongst massive immigration encouraged for that pillage and Settler Colonialism!
Which in fact has occurred throughout Europeans Imperialism over the last Millenia. Creating the 5 eyes plus this latest and last one, the +1 - the fascist Zionist entity.
It seems to have an unusual dominance over all the other 5 Eyes and only exists by the guarantees and unflinching imperialist military and financial support of the OLD IMPERIALIST ‘nations’ ; often against the will and ‘empathy’ of the majority of their own citizens, who have great empathy and sympathy for the Native Semetic Peoples long suffering.
The hypocrisy of allowing that illegal entity any legitimacy while dismissing the Two State illusion LIE that has allowed it to grow like a tumour is astounding.
That it has now been expanded further into neighbouring lands of Syria with its ancient Peoples being brutally murdered by the placed head choppers of our Collective West and that of the illegal Apartheid entity - let’s not pretend they are anything but our mercenaries dressed as Muslims with a fundamentalist ideology which had no presence until we encouraged it with the desert slaver tribes elevation to be the fronts for the capture and exploitation of the oil and gas of west Asia.
You can not support the existence of the illegal apartheid entity and cry about Elon and Empathy that you clearly do not have for the native Palestinians.
One either supports the decolonisation or you are guilty of the genocide of the native peoples and theft of their lands and resources.
Anything else is rank hypocrisy and excusing the imperialist hegemonic expansion using the Zionist cause as the latest imperilist flag.
Fake empathy!
Crocodile tears.
From the Rivers to the Sea Palestine is free.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 10 2025 9:58 utc | 91
Gorilla Radio: Syria Insurgency
https://radio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-syria-insurgency-special
"Laith Marouf and Syria's genocide"
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 10:05 utc | 92
see the 1:12 video with subtitles at the first link
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898104993003323624
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthi leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has issued a four-day ultimatum to Israel, demanding the lifting of its blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza. He warns failure to comply will result in Houthis resuming naval operations against Israeli targets.
https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1897782535163105785
Aaron Maté @aaronjmate
Syria, decimated by a decade-long dirty war and crippling sanctions, is seeing a new wave of violence. And the dirty warriors who fueled sectarianism from afar have nothing to say about it:
https://x.com/sayed_ridha/status/1897697789812863031
Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha
Jolani regime opened fire on protestors in Tartous. There are martyrs and wounded.
Clashes reported in Jableh and Qardaha regions
HTS reinforcements pouring in from Idlib and Aleppo
https://x.com/LindseySnell/status/1897791503503872376
Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell
HTS is dragging the bodies of Alawites behind cars in Latakia. Utterly horrific.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 10:36 utc | 93
Mary: Many thanks! Here is a link to an interview with Boehler:
Boehler Video
Hamas armed wing should agree to be disarmed and to surrender and agree to be deported from Gaza. This will ensure a 10 year ceasefire. Why should they do that? It is clear they cannot harm Israel sitting in Gaza as the civilians in Gaza will be targeted as soon as they fight. So it is better to get out of Gaza then fight from outside! From Jordan maybe?
Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 10 2025 10:41 utc | 94
Rania Khalek
@RaniaKhalek
“Most Syrians hold - not without a reason - the Alawites responsible for the crimes of the Assad regime.”Wow, this is outrageous excuse making for collective punishment of an entire sect.
Alawites are not responsible for the crimes of the previous government just because Assad was Alawite.
Syrians of all sects participated in the previous government. That includes Alawites, Christians, Druze AND Sunnis!
In fact, the majority of regime forces were Sunni because the majority of the country is Sunni.
This framing that implicates the entire Syrian Alawite community seeks to justify the genocidal views that Sunni supremacists in HTS have toward Alawites.
They hate Alawites because they are bigots. Blaming Assad is just an excuse.
Posted by: Menz | Mar 10 2025 5:48 utc | 73
I do not know what happened to Rania Khalek. She changed and supported HTS taking over Syria. She was making excuses for them. How anyone can support ISIS and Al-Qaeda taking over a country is something I fail to comprehend. I watched the same nonsense happen when Al Qaeda was allowed to take over Libya.
Anyone who thinks something good can come out of these terrorists taking over a country is dumb. Even in Afghanistan, the Taliban was created because of the brutality of Al Qaeda.
You are right. They are using Assad being an Alawite as an excuse to ethnically cleanse them from Syria. Seeing how traitorous Sunnis are. if I were Assad I would not have had so many of them in top positions. 70%+ of the government was Sunni. The Minister of Defense and Deputy Minister of Defense both being Sunni was a mistake. I would have made the Deputy Christian or an Alwawite. He should have done what Maduro did in Venezuela.
Posted by: Georgie | Mar 10 2025 10:44 utc | 95
Sun of Alabama 54
Most of us cannot fathom the depths of the shallowness of US hypocrisy. Brian Berletic has served it and suffered the emotional pain of its callous , vindictive deceit.
Like raw sewage running down a sandy beach into the sea, US hypocrisy is a continuous trickle of hate into a sea of God's vast earth which purifies it and conceals it.
The world is much bigger than this poisonous entity.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 10 2025 11:24 utc | 96
Georgia 95
You have just conflated USUKIS terrorists of HTS with Sunni Islam.
Did they brainwashed HTS, or did they brainwash you?
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 10 2025 11:27 utc | 97
Georgie, sorry , 95
Seeing how traitorous Sunnis are.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 10 2025 11:37 utc | 98
New Video: The Trump Admin's Silent Complicity as Syrian Death Squads US Put into Power Slaughter Alawites, Christians
https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1898716670207853010
"...US-European-Israeli-Turkish-backed death squads sweeping through ethnic/religious minority villages in Syria.
Another example of continuity of agenda under the current Trump administration, just as it continued under his previous administration..."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 11:46 utc | 99
Protest in Cologne, Germany today at 5 pm against massacres of Syrian Alawites. Initiative by Alevis from Turkey.
Posted by: Waldorf | Mar 10 2025 11:50 utc | 100
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Next door in Syria...
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1898689097746501804
Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 14:35 utc | 1