From Caitlin Johnstone article this morning:
“Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has published an explicit statement of genocidal intent toward the people of Gaza, threatening civilians in the enclave with collective punishment in the form of “total devastation” if they do not find a way to overthrow Hamas and free all Israeli hostages.”
Here is Katz’ statement:

“Residents of Gaza, this is your final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza, and the second Sinwar will bring upon it total ruin. The Israeli Air Force’s attack against Hamas terrorists was only the first step. What follows will be far harsher, and you will bear the full cost.
“Evacuation of the population from combat zones will soon resume. If all Israeli hostages are not released and Hamas is not kicked out of Gaza, Israel will act with force you have not known before.
“Take the advice of the U.S. President: return the hostages and kick out Hamas, and new options will open up for you — including relocation to other parts of the world for those who choose. The alternative is destruction and total devastation.”

Posted by: Otto Penn | Mar 20 2025 12:09 utc | 3

US Stages Fresh Attacks on Yemen as Trump Vows to ‘Annihilate’ Ansarullah in Support of Israel
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/20/744745/United-States-fresh-attacks-Yemen-Israel-Gaza-war-genocide-Trump-annihilate
“The United States has engaged in fresh military escalation against Yemen after President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the Arab peninsula nation’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement, which has served as an instrumental force in regional retaliation for rampant aggression by the Israeli regime, Washington’s closest ally.
‘They will be completely annihilated!’ Trump had earlier written on his Truth Social media platform, referring to Ansarullah.
The developments came after Yemen’s Armed Forces resumed their anti-Israeli operations at the discretion of Ansarullah’s leader Abdul-Malik-al-Houthi.
Houthi had set the Israeli regime a 4-day deadline to open the Gaza Strip’s crossings to let vital aid into the Palestinian territory. Tel Aviv has closed off the terminals amid its deadly attacks against the coastal sliver.”
All Out For Palestine! All Out For Yemen! DOWN with USrael! Silence is complicity! Resist don’t collaborate!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 12:16 utc | 5

@ Tom | Mar 20 2025 12:30 utc | 6
So did the Israelite god violate the Ten Commandments when he ordered the extermination of the peoples of Canaan? Did the Israelites?

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 12:36 utc | 7

Posted by: Tom | Mar 20 2025 12:30 utc | 6
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A problem with the Bible is that it is a collection of stories presented as revelation (the word of God) when it’s really Matthew, John, James supposedly recollecting their experiences and observations.
The other issue is there is no authoritative Bible or “chain of accuracy” for any version.
At the end of the day it is an amorphous text that the Romans bound to several pagan beliefs and traditions.
A handy tool to rule people with.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 13:14 utc | 9

“I don’t blame people for hoping Trump would end all the wars continuing over from the Biden Administration – no matter how unreasonable that was and no matter how involved Trump himself was in preparing for and provoking these wars during the previous term…
https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1902044268702920777
“I will blame them for now justifying wars they opposed under Biden now that ‘their guy’ is continuing them…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 13:29 utc | 11

Hmmm, no mal-intention here:
Google to acquire Israeli firm staffed by former Unit 8200 officers
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The historic acquisition coincides with growing efforts by western governments and social media platforms to silence and persecute critics of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
On 18 March, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced plans to acquire the Israeli cloud security startup Wiz in a $32 billion deal, marking one of the largest-ever influxes of former Israeli intelligence officers into a US tech company.
“Google LLC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction,” the US tech giant said on Tuesday.
Reports from western media indicate that following the acquisition, Wiz will keep its brand and operate independently from Google. Additionally, an extra retention bonus will be offered to employees, potentially totaling $1 billion, along with a break-up fee that Google would owe to Wiz if antitrust regulators block the deal.
The Israeli tech company was founded in 2020 by four former members of Unit 8200.
Wiz employs around 1,995 people, with most of its sales and marketing personnel located in North America and Europe. However, most of its engineering staff is based in Tel Aviv, a major hub for cybersecurity talent primarily linked to Unit 8200 alumni.
A 2018 study cited by Haaretz estimated that 80 percent of the 2,300 people who founded Israel’s 700 cybersecurity companies at the time had come through Israeli army intelligence. Two years earlier, Forbes estimated that over 1,000 companies were founded by Unit 8200 alumni.
“There are at least five tech companies started by Unit 8200 alumni publicly traded in the US, together worth around $160 billion. Private companies started by ex-8200 soldiers are worth billions more,” the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last year.
“While Unit 8200 alumni once talked about their service in hushed tones, they now tout it in press releases to attract clients and investment money for their startups,” the report highlights.
As an integral part of Israel’s intelligence apparatus, Unit 8200 conducts signal intelligence (SIGINT) and cyber operations, emphasizing advanced technology, cybersecurity, and intelligence gathering.
Unit 8200 played a crucial role in the planning and execution of Israel’s pager terror attacks in Lebanon last year. Specifically, western security sources revealed that the unit was involved in embedding explosives inside the pagers ordered by Hezbollah, with the operation reportedly taking over a year to plan.
The Israeli spy unit is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) tool similar to ChatGPT, which is “capable of answering questions about people it is monitoring and providing insights into the massive volumes of surveillance data it collects.”
“It’s not just about preventing shooting attacks, I can track human rights activists, monitor Palestinian construction in Area C [of the West Bank]. I have more tools to know what every person in the West Bank is doing,” an informed source told The Guardian earlier this month.
https://thecradle.co/articles/google-to-acquire-israeli-firm-staffed-by-former-unit-8200-officers
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Posted by: teri | Mar 20 2025 13:43 utc | 13

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
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 20 2025 14:11 utc | 15

teri #13 thank you

Posted by: paxmark1 | Mar 20 2025 14:17 utc | 17

Many people talking today about Erdogan being done.
I say until he has been out of office for 6 months it is too soon to get excited.
Russia probably won’t bail him out after his Syria escapade.
Democracy is dumb and ineffective, but people get mad when they think it is being undermined.
Meanwhile China has a “President for Life” and for the most part, things are calm and happy.
Go figure … 🤷

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 14:24 utc | 19

Riots in Turkiye, Morocco, and Israel
Arab leaders should be feeling nervous right now.
The world could look quite different in 12 months.
I dislike camera phones (don’t use them) but they are changing the world as we can see what was previously kept hidden from us.
The days of state propaganda being ubiquitous and effective (outside of America) are nearing an end.
More truth (even ugly uncomfortable truths) is better than living a lie.
Cypher was wrong. The steak tasted real but it was not. Ignorance is ignorance.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 14:36 utc | 21

@Posted by: Otto Penn | Mar 20 2025 14:40 utc | 22
edit:
rationalize whatever one already believes or WANTS to believe.

Posted by: Otto Penn | Mar 20 2025 14:45 utc | 23

Pepe Escobar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_u2zEBbXA
“Trump, Yemen and Iran.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 15:16 utc | 25

Posted by: Cabe | Mar 20 2025 15:24 utc | 27
A magisterial explanation-thanks for the tutorial.
I should have figured that out myself, I knew about the Anglicans commencing the Zionist project but I couldn’t put the dots together..

Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 15:33 utc | 27

Daily I see videos of pro-palestinian demonstrations in European cities: Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Germany. All the Govts in these countries are silent or lukewarm towards the renewed bombing in Gaza. There are also protests in countries such as Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan. The Govts of Russia, China, and India also seem to be lukewarm to the disaster. But has anyone seen any videos of pro-palestinian protests in these countries? If you have, please share the links here. If not, why not? Why are the “big powers” and their people silent? Anyone?
There is little point in abusing Israel and the US in this thread. We KNOW. But, why are we not analyzing what the big guys are not doing?

Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 20 2025 15:46 utc | 29

I suspect the reason a lot of the “Big Guys” aren’t doing anything is that they know Israel has nukes. A lot of nukes and they are totally unhinged. The Samson Directive means that if they start losing, they take the world down with them and they are nuts enough to mean it. I’m not sure that even a decapitation strike would deter them from ending the world. So, there’s that, I guess. What do you do with the crazy neighbor who doesn’t mind being taken out as long as he takes you out with him?

Posted by: GK | Mar 20 2025 15:52 utc | 31

“Destroying” Ansar Allah and/or Iran.. does anyone happen to know how high the bill for the last three days of bombing might be?
I guess as Israel is all gloves off now the weapons cache will have to be replenished soon. (again).
Eerie how quiet all the moral authorities got by now, guess all the Western values have died entirely, not even claims any more..

Posted by: SOS | Mar 20 2025 15:57 utc | 33

@ Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 14:19 utc | 18
What Otto Penn said.
Never had any use for Kierkegaardian bullshit myself.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 16:02 utc | 35

Tom@1339 Vernal Equinox highest Holy Day.
There is very little original in the Old Testicles, most of which was composed by the Jewish Septuagint in Ptolemaic Alexandria around 200 BC. Even the Ten Commandments were lifted almost whole from the Babylonian Hammurabi’s Code. Those “creators” of Hebrewism copped numerous elements from several actually ancient cultures via their extensive researches into the greatest library known to human history…the Library of Alexandria…burned by both the Romans and the Romanized Crosstians.

Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 20 2025 16:11 utc | 37

“Needless to say, I am as big a fan of Ansar Allah as I am of Herbert. To my mind, Ansar Allah is everything that a Muslim is meant to be. Brave, honorable, fierce, pious, and protecting the oppressed with their lives.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 4:52 utc | 250
Bless Ansar Allah. The Freeman. May their Victory come sooner than anyone could hope.
You know I find physicists very frustrating and dull headed. There is a Bedrock reality. It occupies a space outside of our perceptual View.
But everybody enjoys a good steak. Well everyone except those left-wing worktard flag waving meat deniers. Yeah. Yeah. They don’t eat hotdogs never mind steak. Damn them in the reality that they rode in on. Blink… Where was I?

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 20 2025 16:15 utc | 39

A Handful of Stories
A) The history of some Arab tribes living on the fringes of the despotic and fiscal power of the Egyptian Empire. These Arab tribes were called “Hebrews”. “Yahweh” is an Arab deity, as we know from various sources. Without going any further “Moses” father-in-law was an Arab priest (Exodus 3,1), and the great Temple was built by an Arab king: Herod “the Great”, son of “the Idumean” and a princess of Petra.
B) The ‘Old Testicles’: bloody pamphlets from an Aramaean ruling class that arrived in the province of “Yehud” in “the land of Canaan” with books, money, and Persian power.
C) A Religion that, in the time of the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, spread like wildfire among women (!) and was formed by people from “all nations of the world” (Flavius ​​Josephus = other classical sources): “Eretz Yishrael” was exactly like today’s Saudi Arabia in relation to Islam, and Jerusalem, the place of pilgrimage, Mecca
D) A medieval ethnic group forged by rabbis with the help of the Roman Church and the passage of time: after the expansion of Christianity, some rabbis decided NOT to be a religion, and with great determination, they succeeded and forged (600/1033-1880) an ethnic group: the Polish-Ukrainian Yiddish people.
E) A group of very violent Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian emigrants who arrived (1917-) with the British Empire to found “our colonial project” (Vladimir Jabotinsky) in “the land of Canaan”. Zionism 2.0

Posted by: Simon | Mar 20 2025 16:36 utc | 41

@ 38 I have always believed Moses based the 10 commandments on the Egyptian Book Of The Dead.
Who came long before King Hammurabi. Moses was an Egyptian priest. Some connect him as Osarseph.
https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/07/15/ten-commandments-based-forty-two-principles-maat-appeared-2000-years-earlier/

Posted by: golddigger | Mar 20 2025 16:44 utc | 43

No surprises here I think – Carter must eb fine with the Zionists committing genocide. If I recall correctly these “Military Co-operation Agrrements with the Zionists used to have to be renewed every ten years – until the last one that is, which I think is now a permanent deal – so Britain is now tied to the Zionists military machine permanently.
“The former head of Britain’s armed forces is providing advice to Israeli arms firms, sparking questions over his role in a country whose prime minister is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
General Sir Nick Carter was chief of the defence staff – Britain’s most senior military position – from 2018-21. Months before stepping down, he signed a military cooperation agreement with Israel.
That pact has never been published – despite freedom of information requests and questions in parliament – but it was hailed as a landmark moment in relations between the two militaries.
Carter had visited Israel earlier in his tenure, touring military bases and shaking hands with his opposite number, General Aviv Kohavi.
That experience of rubbing shoulders with the top of the IDF is likely to come in handy for his new job at Exigent Capital, a boutique financial services firm based in Jerusalem.
Carter is one of Exigent’s two “domain experts” in its “strategic advisory” wing, with his focus on “aerospace and defence”.
His role there is to “develop international growth strategies for our clients as well as identify and open doors to new business opportunities that accelerate growth”, according to the company’s website.
Or, as the Jerusalem Post put it, Carter provides “strategic consulting services to Israeli companies operating in the defense sector.””
https://www.declassifieduk.org/deeply-concerning-british-generals-israeli-weapons-job-criticised/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 20 2025 16:46 utc | 45

To add to the discussion about why it’s (spoken and unspoken) Israeli state policy to increase the perception of anti-Semitism (or in reality “Jew hate”) around the world, it is important to understand that part of the approach is weaponizing “anti-Semitism.” This serves to make critical discussion of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians much more difficult. A “thought ender” to put it another way. And by extension in compliant third party governments (US, UK, Germany, Australia, etc.), there can be no “politics of accountability” on Israeli actions.
But I fully agree with the previous explanations, too. As a settler colonial state that by definition relies on inward emigration and population expansion, reserved for the Jews, it benefits Israel to create an image of rampant worldwide Jew hatred.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 20 2025 16:52 utc | 47

John Wick@1448 on this most Holy holiday of this today New Year of 47 Anno Eros
“Hamas is finished”. Have you been engorging on the evil words coming from the enemies of humanity or are you actually disapairing in the misinformation from those evil ones?
Truth IS. Lies fade away as those in power are coming to realize that according to Robby Burns: “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy”.
The schemes and plots of the Evil Ones are going down the Big Swirly as we transition on this most high Holy holiday, while the Apocalypse charges into high gear. The Revelation is upon us…and those who yearn for the “Rupture” will soon swallow their tongues. The miss-taken ones, those BELIEVERS in lies, will rue the Second Coming, which is not individual, rather a mass phenomenon, akin to a solid snowball rolling down a thawing mountainside.

Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 20 2025 16:56 utc | 49

Two – points here – where did the Yemeni forces get the hypersonic missile – and why did they only launch one missile instead of a barrage of missiles – was it a token gesture – in response to the Zio-Monsters murder of hundreds of Palestinian civilians the other day?
In saying that, Yemeni forces appear to be the only real visible resistance ( Hamas aside) to the Zio-Monsters genocide – though Iran is surely pulling some strings from behind the scenes as well.
The UN is as expected toothless on this matter, and the ICC’s warrants are being ignored by those countries aiding and abetting in genocide – of course the ICC is trying to cover-up its impotence – with regards to the ongoing genocide in Gaza – by trying to look relevant, through the apprehension of Duterte from the Philippines.
“Yemeni Armed Forces have claimed responsibility for a qualitative operation against a strategic Israeli installation in the occupied territories, in support of the people of Gaza and in response to the Israeli regime’s renewed atrocities in the besieged coastal sliver.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for Yemen’s military, stated on Thursday morning that Yemeni missile units targeted Ben Gurion International Airport, located 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the southeast of Tel Aviv, with a Palestine-2 hypersonic hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 20 2025 16:58 utc | 51

Canuk 16
Worldwide increase in antisemitism as an Israeli coalition goal
A fair amount of the ruling coalition are colloquially described as ‘religious crazies’ who believe that the temple will rise when all the Jews return.
Many Jewish people seem to live just fine without the religious crazies.
The religious crazies want to pressure these people.

Posted by: Polli | Mar 20 2025 17:13 utc | 53

“Yemen is not trying to physically destroy Israel. It wants Israel to collapse and go away. That is how they make sure Israel is “finished”.”
LoveDonbas (53)
Firing one missile at an airport, will not make Israel go away – it may hinder Israeli actions for a short period, however only force will stop the Zionist genocide – for its obvious – to me at least, that the Zionists only respect force – the only other way to neutralise Israel is to cut-off it funding – again for me the US – nor the UK would even consider doing that – so we’re back to force – it can be done think Afghanistan – the Palestinian forces (Hamas etc) and the Yemeni forces – (Hezbollah etc) just need the right long-term backers.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 20 2025 17:22 utc | 55

Posted by: Cabe | Mar 20 2025 15:24 utc | 27
>>>
Besides Madagascar you left few other places out in the region.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 20 2025 17:31 utc | 57

The tendency to refer to Houthis as rebels brings me to ask why it’s not the group in Aden (Presidential Leadership Council I think is the current jargon) that is not regarded as a foreign intervention, that is, the true rebels.
In regard to that, see https://www.geo-ref.net/ph/yem.htm
Guess which areas are PLC and which are Houthi?

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 20 2025 17:40 utc | 59

@47 gb_grave
That is roughly as I see it.
Added to that, for local citizens it is just not their inclination to become involved in other people’s arguments. It is just the west that has made itself appear responsible towards everything and anything that goes on in the world.
i.e. They feel they bare little responsibility for current events, whereas the west definitely does.
In reality, at high levels both India and Russia have interests in staying ‘relatively onside’ with western hegemony or presentation, of not cessating certain terms or understandings that involve “Israel” .
China does its own thing, I think is cautious. Humanitarian involvement in Palestine would easily be interpreted as permissiveness towards sectarian differences. Protecting muslims would become a theme, and then “what about those in China ?” It just isn’t their approach I think.
At higher levels they just do not need to be drawn into direct confrontation with the west, say by applying sanctions against “Israel”.
I don’t know China well enough to have a qualified opinion on that though.
Others might provide better or clearer explanation.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 20 2025 17:46 utc | 61

@aristodemos re: Desolation Row
Absolutely right! See Every Story is a Love Story, short novel written by John Moncure Wetterau who shared cafe space with Dylan in the mid-60’s.

Posted by: Straightwalker | Mar 20 2025 17:58 utc | 63

@Republicofscotland @ 61 re Romeo Dallaire
Chris Black: The Dallaire Genocide Fax: A Fabrication
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00081/chris-black-the-dallaire-genocide-fax.html

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 18:13 utc | 65

The Govts of Russia, China, and India also seem to be lukewarm to the disaster. But has anyone seen any videos of pro-palestinian protests in these countries? If you have, please share the links here. If not, why not? Why are the “big powers” and their people silent? Anyone?
There is little point in abusing Israel and the US in this thread. We KNOW. But, why are we not analyzing what the big guys are not doing?
Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 20 2025 15:46 utc | 30

Oh hey, it’s you again! I really love your posting style of feigned ignorance, “I’m just asking questions here”, that serves as a pretext to attack Russia, China and India, who conveniently are the geopolitical and economic rivals of the West.
A certain “Jane” on MoA likes to flash their Palestinian protest credentials, just like a certain “Tichy” likes to flash their card-carrying communist credentials. Both of them accomplished the same things: exactly nothing towards helping the Palestinians, but plenty in supporting the status quo of Western imperialism.
The protestors engage in the same sort of showmanship that Trump favors. Did all the Palestinian protests change Trump’s Middle East policy at all? Did Trump making a big show about being the “peace president” made him stop himself from bombing Yemen?
The Westerner cries out in pain (protests) as he strikes you!
The Westerner blames bystanders for not stopping him from striking other people!
What the Westerner will never consider: not striking other people in the first place.
Voters in the West also persist in the delusion that the act of voting is some powerful protest. The act of voting simply validates the system.
Do you even realize that you live in a bourgeois democracy, that your ruling class always acts in their interest of the bourgeoisie? The elections are simply a contest between the bourgeoisie to determine which faction of the bourgeoisie rules, the socially liberal ones or the conservative ones. Faces and parties change, but the substantial policies – the ones which affect their material wealth – do not change.
Russia and China aren’t doing much? You forget that the constraint on materiel is very real when fighting a three-front war. In Europe, they’re getting the EU and other proxies to occupy Russia’s attention. In Asia, the US can only send rickety ships for the farcical “freedom of navigation” exercise through the Taiwan Strait, which is why they’re beginning to rely on vassals like Canada, Australia, Japan and the UK to shoulder the burden. The vassals already pay seigniorage through USD hegemony, now the vassals have to bear the brunt of a US trade war and the global military “policing” costs. While the vassals are far, far away from truly rebelling (harsh words don’t count), it makes vassalage an increasingly unattractive position. I’ve already gone into great lengths in another post about how China (and I neglect to mention Russia) also serves as an alternative source of arms tech, goods, trade and financing.

We KNOW.
Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 20 2025 15:46 utc | 30

No, you do not know. The fact that you’re repeating another genocidal campaign shows that you as an entire society do not know your own history and the full extent of your complicity in the erasure of the Palestinians. The fact that you’re working hard to divert attention and blame to the West’s geopolitical and economic enemies who are not participants in the genocide shows that you do not know.
Should we murder everyone in Russia, China and India because their citizenry are clearly callous amoral soulless automatons (therefore clearly subhumans) that cannot even go out to protest in support of Palestinians, because protests are the only standard by which we judge resistance? Economic sanctions maybe? Color revolutions maybe? Turn these former Western colonies and recipients of Western savagery into neo-Western colonies once again?

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 18:14 utc | 67

Senator Black discusses the results of of US foreign policy.
Operation freedom through rubble.
They hate us because of our freedom.
1. Destruction of happy peaceful and productive nations
2.Installation of murderous and sexual predator despots
3.Catastrophic USA debt resulting in the ongoing and unstoppable US dollar collapse
The solution? War with China. (/sarc necessary?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsXJPN1FQM

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 20 2025 18:17 utc | 69

“@ Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 14:19 utc | 18
What Otto Penn said.
Never had any use for Kierkegaardian bullshit myself.”
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 16:02 utc | 36
OK; but by that, per4haps myopic declaration you basically admit you have never really, or never will, have Faith- unless, until you value Kierkegaard’s insight on this issue.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 18:29 utc | 71

@Posted by: teri | Mar 20 2025 13:43 utc | 13
So Goegle, “Do Be Evil”, is removing the mask,
and sliming itself with Genociders.
It, Goeble, as you report, is bringing on Unit 8200 of the IDF, to enhance control over the rest of us.
Unit 8200, as you may recall, played a big part in scamming the world with Netanyahu’s October 7th false-flag.
It pretended to cover it’s eyes in the lead up to October 7th, as well as restrict the flow of information
about Hamas to possible whistleblowers in the IDF. They wanted October 7th to happen and did not
anyone in the IDF sounding the alarm.
Here is what I posted more than a year ago about Unit 8200.
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It is still puzzling why the “approval from all levels” was made to stop “real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios”.

The responsibility of Unit 8200 does not end here. In the months leading up to the attack, real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios was halted. Had they been monitored, at the very least Israeli intelligence would have had time to deploy forces and mitigate the scale of the invasion.
The decision to cease real-time monitoring was made with approval from all levels, grounded in professional considerations but fundamentally driven by pride: the belief that we will know everything, always, in every arena and against every enemy. Halevi, immediately after the attack, made it clear that he wanted to avoid internal wars in the military and said the blame game was going to wait until after the war. Later, an agreement was reached with the head of the Shin Bet to prevent clashes between organizations, and to focus on the military campaign.
Unit 8200 is the flagship body of Israeli intelligence. After the war, questions will arise about dependence on cyber and the need to return to fundamentals, especially in the field of human intelligence (HUMINT). But before that, it is essential to ensure that the body that failed – and is incapable of acknowledging its failure – does not fail again.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/23/unit-8200-could-have-save-israel-from-oct-7-why-hasnt-it-owned-up-to-its-failure/
View the multipurpose use of this monitoring:
https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/solutions/critical-infrastructures/spectrum-monitoring/military-spectrum-monitoring/military-spectrum-monitoring-overview_256346.html

“military spectrum monitoring systems contribute to situational awareness. At operating bases and other facilities in the area of operation,
the systems can perform 24/7 monitoring of entire frequency bands. Continuous monitoring of spectrum availability and occupancy also enables
detection of external emissions from sources other than friendly troops. The systems can alert operators and geolocate emitters to provide
situational awareness and help protect areas and

The amount of Hamas’ radio traffic would have gone through the roof as they began to assemble and coordinate into launch areas.
As Hamas assembled and concentrated into group areas a pattern would have become apparent.
At go-hour the amount of Hamas’ radio traffic would have become a volcano.
The dispersal of the traffic into particular directions would have given the IDF a means of tracking the general direction
and location of Hamas squads.
Haven’t even mentioned the collection of voice information and the monitoring of who meets with whom and where.
Nor the loss of signal strength as radios enter tunnels.
“Israel” has been crowing for years about it’s security devices and software, including the use of AI to filter and understand
diverse military intelligence.
That the IDF would hamstring itself by ceasing the “real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios”
seems to be misinformation. But why?
There seem to be only three explanations.
1) Make their Intentional Defense Failure explainable as just arrogant stupidity.
2) They really were arrogant and stupid.
3) Compartmentalization. There were intelligence officers sounding the alarm about an
imminent Hamas jail break. The IDF did not want knowledge of the imminent jail break to
become general knowledge amongst the ranks, so they limited access to certain intelligence
like that gained from real-time monitoring.

Posted by: Otto Penn | Mar 20 2025 18:30 utc | 73

Meanwhile China has a “President for Life” and for the most part, things are calm and happy.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 14:24 utc | 19

China practices democratic centralism like a true Marxist-Leninist party. Xi Jinping is not some president for life. If you can’t do research in the primary language, at least get some perspective from Chinese media that publishes in English:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/201804/1096416.shtml
The presidential term limit has no bearing on how long a top Chinese leader can stay in power and lifting it by no means allows anyone to rule for life. In fact, the position of real power — the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee — has never had term limits. The most recent draft of China’s constitution, written in 1982, set the presidency as a symbolic head of state, with no actual power. Although the two offices happened to have been occupied by the same person for more than 25 years since Jiang Zemin, the institutional mechanics of the offices are rather separate.
As to the issue of lifetime rule, the party does have institutional mechanisms, both mandatory and customary, that govern officials’ retirement. In fact, the party constitution specifically states that no position has lifetime tenure. This system has been developed over decades and covers the many tiers of the party’s organizational structure, from the Politburo to ministerial and provincial positions. Within this framework, it is possible for Xi to lead the country for longer than his recent predecessors. But not for life.

I know you heart is in the right place, but you perspective on China is too often informed by Western media. I have also refrained from trying to correct in other matters, like your erroneous claim of China’s governance being religiously influenced because of lingering Confucianism.
If my comment makes you turn against China, that is fine too. There are also folks out there who praise China because they believe (wrongly) that China practices fascism. China has no need for such “allies”.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 18:41 utc | 75

OK; but by that, per4haps myopic declaration you basically admit you have never really, or never will, have Faith- unless, until you value Kierkegaard’s insight on this issue.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 18:29 utc | 73
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I an rigorously and above all proudly faithless.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 19:02 utc | 77

Russia China and Iran are chilling because of the Chinese military buildout. China is using its production capability to build military with technical assistance from Russia. Every day that passes the new ChIRu alliance grows stronger. Of course they hope that the USA can mature into a healthy responsible nation that respects other nations and cultures but they are also realists. IMO the idea that ChIRu alliance can be separated and Iran taken down is very unlikely. Whatever path ensures best chances of winning WW3 will be taken. Nuclear weapons complicate this. What constitutes winning. Nuclear weapons are a unprecedented challenge for humanity. With many millennia of war as a solution suddenly war becomes suicidal. Humanity has shown very little ability to adapt to this which at its base is technology growth beyond humanity’s ability to control its consequences. Technological growth is exponential and the inability to control its consequences is exponential also. WW3 will of course end industrial civilization and quite possibly also result in the extinction of the human species. War the quintessential solution fo solving differences simply is no longer possible without extinct event. War has been relied upon as the solution to near everything. fundamental cultural and religious differences. Resource allotment. Suddenly and without warning the primary tool of humanity has become suicide. The phenomena of the EU occurs well we will just get rid of war we will dictate everything. Dictating everything is of course the primary reason for war. We witness attempts to limit wars to small non nuclear armed countries but basically humanity has no replacement for war other than solutions that represent the return of slavery on a scale and scope previously unknown. A fundamental freedom is I would rather war than accept slavery. Agreements and alliances are fine but what has made them work is if someone violates them there is war. The fundamental conundrum is now this freedom which is fully understood as valid has become a new question. If war is now extinction is slavery inevitable? Alternative solutions to war are regarded with a great deal of justifiable suspicion and almost no real attempts at solutions acceptable to all nations have been made . Technology expands exponentially while humanities ability to adapt remains linear. The probable outcome is not favorable for humanity’s continuation. No where is this more observable than in Israel and North Korea nuclear armed countries that will certainly destroy all rather than accept domination. Humanity has not come to terms with the reality that every nuclear armed nation is now a terrorist nation by definition. The ubiquitous policy of use of nuclear weapons to counter a “existential threat” is terrorism by definition.
All nations prepare for war now. They know nothing else. They accept the extinction of humanity. All alternatives are regarded as eternal slavery and extinction is preferable. This however is not a conscious decision but the result of complete lack of ability to adapt to technological progress. The wonderful richness of different cultures and beliefs present in the world was only made possible by war as a solution. Now it is demanded that humanity find a different way of solving things suddenly and without warning but it has no skills and the process to develop these skills is also non existent. This is no different than when there are rapid environmental changes and a species is unable to quickly adapt and goes extinct. Time ultimately is the ultimate resource. It is regarded as infinite but actually from the perspective of continuance it is not.

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 20 2025 19:13 utc | 79

@69 All Under Heaven
Blame game and deflecting attention is not an answer, and no matter gb-grave’s background the questions are valid.
Few question the west’s responsibility in events, however (and I write regarding Russia only because I am more aware of Russian policy choices) Russia:
Does not agree with US “Rules based order”
Does not seem to lead any UN initiative to defend Palestinians.
Does avoid criticising “Israeli” actions or placing sanctions on the country.
So what does Russia stand for ?
“Israeli” actions are acceptable is what Russia appears to be saying.
Out of complicity, convenience, being compromised or whatever else, Russia has not taken a stand, but maintains ties with “Israel”.
It is not a question of being “less bad” than the US or west. When actions are judged (and I try not to judge), they are looked upon in an isolated manner.
i.e. Did Russia (or China or India or any other country) facilitate, profit from, or simply fail to impede in a reasonable or even minimal manner, the genocidal mass murder of civilians by a regime that it maintains relations with.
The world looks on and takes note of these kinds of realities.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 20 2025 19:43 utc | 81

Trump’s Prosecution of Speech: Academics Arrested Following Mahmoud Khalil
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1902804634890064152
“US President Donald Trump stated earlier in an interview with Fox News that the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is ‘just the beginning’, adding that more individuals will be detained for their pro-Palestine activities.
Today, an assistant professor, Bader Khan, was abducted from his home for the same reason, and Trump continues to threaten further actions. Donald Trump has alleged that pro-Palestinian protesters are antsemitic…”
Phil Giraldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkrlAI9aas
“Death of Free Speech.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 20:00 utc | 83

No Faith in your partner? In Gold? Death and taxes? Zionists are always Evil? Surely, there is some faith even if it isn’t in the Gods themselves?
Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:01 utc | 86
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I thought we were talking about metaphysical garbage, not about my interpersonal relationships.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 20:06 utc | 85

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 20 2025 16:52 utc | 48
Tom you are 100% correct; you cottoned on to this counter intuitive explanation of how anti-semitism actually works to the benefit of the Zionists well before yours truly.
Respect.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:09 utc | 87

John Gilberts (85).
John.
Khalil, might not, at first appear to be what some folk think.
“In which case the motive for choosing him as the target for arrest is very plain. Both the US and UK will be worried about revelations Khalil might make about support to jihadists in Syria from his time working on this in Lebanon. Whisking him into incommunicado detention, whilst maximum pressure is applied to persuade him to keep silent, is then an obvious move.”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/03/the-curious-case-of-mahmoud-khalil/comment-page-1/#comments

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 20 2025 20:12 utc | 89

“No Faith in your partner? In Gold? Death and taxes? Zionists are always Evil? Surely, there is some faith even if it isn’t in the Gods themselves?”
Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:01 utc | 86
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“I thought we were talking about metaphysical garbage, not about my interpersonal relationships.”
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 20:06 utc | 87
Fair enough.
Although in Kierkegaard’s terms any Faith if it be metaphysical (big (‘F’), or interpersonal (small ‘f’), there is the idea that ‘believing’ in anything but yourself, without reason, depending solely on emotion, is a type of faith that is indistinguishable from ‘belief’

Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:15 utc | 91

Although in Kierkegaard’s terms any Faith if it be metaphysical (big (‘F’), or interpersonal (small ‘f’), there is the idea that ‘believing’ in anything but yourself, without reason, depending solely on emotion, is a type of faith that is indistinguishable from ‘belief’
Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:15 utc | 93
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Oh do please FUCK OFF with that desperate wankery.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 20:20 utc | 93

Blame game and deflecting attention is not an answer, and no matter gb-grave’s background the questions are valid.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 20 2025 19:43 utc | 83

No, the questions are not valid.
The intended end result of this little game that gb_grave is playing is to put Russia, India and China on the same level as the West by falsely implicating the three non-Western countries in the genocide of the Palestinians. This can then be employed as a reason for preserving the status quo – American hegemony: “The rest of the world is just as bad as us anyway!” Or, it can be used as a pretext for punitive Western actions against Russia, India and China: “They stood by and did nothing when the Palestinians suffered, we must sanction them!”
I’ve seen this tactic before.
Over on Twitter/X, a large number of Trump cultists are using the fact that the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian Nazi as a reason to justify the US annexing Canada. Of course, these Twitter/X users forgot about Trump who was loudly bragging about sending Javelins to Ukraine.
Over here, we have a certain “Jane” who’s using Greenland’s status as a Danish colony as a reason to justify the US annexation of Greenland. The thought of letting Greenland have complete independence never occurred to her.
I know what these people are doing.
Let me repost the Jiang Zemin quote:

You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple — sometimes naïve. Understand, or not?

And let me give context to the quote:

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Chinese-saying-too-young-too-simple-sometimes-naive-mean/answer/Ian-Liang-5?share=1
The Hongkong reporter imply that the presidency election in HK is just a show as CPC has already appointed the candidate that they want. The reporter is trying to get Jiang to agree with the implication by playing around with words so that the media company she work for can put up a headline news about this and attract more audience. ( which I think it’s really a cheap stunt)
But Jiang clearly know the motive of the reporter and avoided the ‘trap’. He implied that the reporter is too young to play such ‘word game’ and the questions asked are really ‘too simple’ (pointless) and such acts of the media are sometimes naive.

The questions from gb_grave are neither innocent nor valid.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 20:30 utc | 95

@ tobias cole | Mar 20 2025 20:32 utc | 98
I hope you’re right, but I do worry. Ulster Catholics never suffered from carpet bombing, let alone MOABs; and Hamas doesn’t enjoy having a ratline to Boston banks — unlike the IRA. I am amazed by (and proud of, although I have no right to be) Gazan resistance, but the Gazans are up against horrible odds.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 20 2025 20:37 utc | 97

Jonathan Cook: Israel Doesn’t Care About the Captives
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/20/jonathan-cook-israel-doesnt-care-about-the-captives/
“The Netanyahu regime always planned to reboot the genocide. From here on, Trump and his administration must be held responsible for every Palestinian death.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 20 2025 20:49 utc | 99