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 | 99
We are witnessing Karbala. The odds are against them and it looks like their fate will be the same as that of Husayn and his men. I commend Ansar Allah for their bravery. They are under siege by land, air and sea, getting bombed by the US and UK but still manage to shoot missiles and drones towards occupied Palestine. They have faith but unfortunately faith is not enough. More Yemenis are going to continue dying. All the progress they made is getting destroyed. The US and UK are bombing cancer centers, food shelters, cotton factories, roads etc. Unless a bigger power steps in, Gaza and North Yemen are done. The US, Saudi Arabia and UAE plan on using their proxies to take over North Yemen while Ansar Allah is busying defending its self from the bombs.

Posted by: Georgie | Mar 20 2025 21:35 utc | 103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljphGVQ_8aM
Scott Ritter: Is the US on the Brink of a Major Middle East War?
Dialogue Works
https://x.com/squatsons/status/1901825373761089676
ayden @squatsons
Our non interventionist president has toughened sanctions on Russia, bombed Yemen, green lit Israel’s massacre tonight and it’s only been two months…
The Uniparty has one common objective.
https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1902044268702920777
Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic
…..No – the Yemenis aren’t “pirates.”
The US overthrew their government in 2011 and waged a brutal proxy war against them via Saudi Arabia for nearly a decade.
Yemen is fighting back against the illegal, unwarranted, indefensible presence of the US military across their region and their proxies brutalizing them and their neighbors.
But Trump supporters already know this – because they opposed this war when it was Biden fighting it and they voted for Trump because he promised them he’d end it!

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 20 2025 21:44 utc | 105

ICJP announces prosecutions vs UK citizens participating in Gaza war crimes – likely to include Starmer
The International Centre for Justice for Palestinians has announced that it will launch private prosecutions against UK citizens who assist the Israeli occupation in its genocide in Gaza – whether by joining the Israeli military or in any other capacity, with the first prosecutions to be announced within weeks.
And the targets of its prosecutions are likely to include Keir Starmer, David Lammy and other UK politicians like them who have provided political cover and direct military and financial support for Israel’s genocide.
Full article : https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/19/icjp-announces-prosecutions-vs-uk-citizens-participating-in-gaza-war-crimes-likely-to-include-starmer/

Posted by: Red Star | Mar 20 2025 22:02 utc | 107

Posted by: canuck | Mar 20 2025 20:09 utc | 89
I forgot to add: Not only is the perception of world-wide antisemitism important to Israeli leaders and the Israeli ownership class, but they go the extra step of literally, intentionally, creating that perception.
There have been numerous examples of Israelis and pro-Israel Zionist Jews both in Israel and in “the west” doing things like vandalizing public spaces or their own businesses, calling in bomb threats tinged with antisemitism, and openly flouting their own bigotry in public (ex. the Amsterdam riots). This goes back to the Irgun and Stern gangs; bombing the King David hotel bombing and other “false flags” or the sinking of the ship at Haifa during the British Mandate – literally carrying out attacks on diaspora Jews to scare them about living anywhere but Israel.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 20 2025 22:23 utc | 109

Ansarullah member Nasreddin Amir: “Or rather, we will drive you into shelters like dogs. Let Trump help you. By the power of God, we will strike the Americans and the Israelis at the same time.”

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 22:40 utc | 111

Western owned media blames hamas for derailing peace. Meanwhile Israeli media says its Israel.
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1902661429028655111?t=hf-SiJmTZmgotYtgIxHKHg&s=19

Posted by: Hankster | Mar 20 2025 22:59 utc | 113

https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1902708815482523868
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
The Red Sea is not part of the United States, and Yemen has the right to defend itself.
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1902768158571659685
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
Given the fact that he is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, why is Netanyahu allowed to appear- even if just symbolically – in unlawfully occupied West Bank [where Israeli soldiers/settlers continue to ravage Palestinian life], without consequences, instead of being in The Hague, or wherever he can face justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OGyd0819Iw
Gaza & Yemen BLAST Tel-Aviv, Ben-Gurion & Jerusalem | Why The IDF Invasion WILL FAIL | Live +
Mahmood OD | محمود عودة

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 20 2025 23:22 utc | 115

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 23:48 utc | 118
##############
Thank you for your comments.
Not all people who post do so thoughtfully, and you do.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 20 2025 23:55 utc | 117

Here’s the thought. I can meditate for hours it’s a lovely thing. You could say I’m deeply spiritual and nature. I was jokingly known as The Atheist follower of Christ.
I can put my mind in different states too. And the one I find most frightening and disturbing is to become religious. And the worst of all is looking for signs. It’s hard to explain what it does to me in a meaningful way. Signs are everywhere. It is in our nature to see them everywhere.
My visions were all nightmares and traumatizing to some extent.
So I ask myself, who gets to decide if I am a prophet or a Madman? And putting aside the god of Mammon motivation, why? How and why do people go down this path?

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 21 2025 0:40 utc | 119

@118 All Under Heaven
You are saying that after over a year of day to day massacres, the various countries that still co-operate with “Israel” … “just happen to be there ” ?
They know.
VVP expressed his distaste at what was occuring even.
State pressure though, disassociation, isolation ? Effective official means ?
Not happening.
What are you going to tell me next, that Russia cannot criticise “Israeli” genocide for not wanting to appear anti-semitic ?
“The focus should be on how Westerners should stop the genocide that is armed and backed by the West.”
But hey, they look around and no one else is calling it out ! Not Russia, not China , representing the other % of the world. Leaders who say what they want without fear, unlike in the west where it takes millions protesting to have them reconsider their fed narratives.
To attempt to use the genocide in Palestine as a political crusade against the US (or west), as opposed to supporting intervention so that it does not continue is …too low.
You are not placing me into any category except in your own imagination.
My own hands are not bloody, and I don’t see any lecturing on my part.
Why would you be so sensitively triggered towards any kind of criticism ? It is like you have already thought out what the dicussion is in advance. If so, why pretend to discuss ? Just post what you have to say without leaning or stepping on gb_grave, or myself for that matter.
I talk of Russia and you reply with China ?
You are not playing into my hands, criticism of the political stance of any country regarding a continuing genocide is fair play, except towards those who consider themselves more equal, obviously.
You are so far out with your misrepresention of what was said that it has me thinking that you are just purposefully hijacking or disrupting the thread, or resolution of that topic.
I’m really not sure what are you trying to prove.
So enough from my part (i.e. no continuation of this discussion) , because this reply did interrupt what I was going to post, and I think the differences and difficulty of the topic are clear :
No one has been able to properly explain the discrepancies shown by the countries mentioned so far.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 21 2025 1:38 utc | 121

” I had to intervene because I know what that rat fink gb_grave is trying to do here and pushing back against it is better than letting it spread unchallenged.”
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 23:48 utc | 118
One of the most important roles that say plays is to counter false narratives. That was an excellent retort. I would add that this is surely the third time I’ve seen your views expressed. Whoever you have a gift for language and imparting knowledge. Carry on.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 21 2025 2:34 utc | 123

Hamas time has come. Time to take out the garbage.
Posted by: John | Mar 21 2025 1:20 utc | 122
I’ve been hearing this refrain for more than 20 years now.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 21 2025 2:36 utc | 125

As Israeli society continues to unravel, the IDF is having a hard time mustering troops to go back into Gaza.
Too many suicides. I saw one female soldier on her way to jail, saying she would never again fight for “these traitors’.
Hamas doesn’t need to beat Israel militarily. They already did that on Oct 7th. They need an Israeli state to become untenable.
With the economy in shambles and so many having fled (nice patriotism! LOL), Israelis fighting each other in the streets means that Hamas is close to the victory they seek.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 2:56 utc | 127

Someone earlier was arguing that one missile from Ansar Allah is pointless.
I have thought about it, and I think it is brilliant.
Muslims don’t want to kill out of anger or vengeance. That one missile sends 3 million people to bomb shelters.
The disruption to Israeli civil life is priceless. You’re trying to work at your job, and just as your day is starting, the air raid siren goes off and you won’t return to your job for an hour (at least). Do that every day for a week, and no one will be able to accomplish anything.
When you’re a little guy (Yemen/Hamas) taking on a big guy (Empire), you have to think and operate outside of the box. Asymmetric warfare.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 3:06 utc | 129

israel first
trump and biden should have been running that on their platforms/tickets, cause that’s what we got
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1901819362568208791
Disclose.tv @disclosetv
NOW – White House press secretary, Leavitt: “All those who seek to terrorize not just Israel, but also the United States of America, will see a price to pay. All hell will break loose!”
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1902129235822629176
Dan Cohen @dancohen3000
I’m an American Jew and spent several months working in Gaza as a journalist. Hamas could have easily harmed me, taken me captive or killed me, but it took extra measures to protect me, while never interfering in my work.
Hamas is resisting against genocide, just like the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto resisted against the Nazis.
Zionists are today’s Nazis, and they have such influence in the U.S. government that the White House press secretary mentions Israel before her own country.
The U.S. does not have sovereignty under Zionism, and allowing this fifth column to influence our country will destroy it.
—-
https://x.com/TomLondon6/status/1902688990077108380
Tom London @TomLondon6
I’m a British Jew. I’m 63
All my life I could not understand how millions of ordinary people could take part in the Holocaust
NOW I see Israel’s GENOCIDE & the support from the West including people who consider themselves thoughtful, liberal, & upholders of human rights, NOW I understand

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 21 2025 4:00 utc | 131

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 4:37 utc | 134
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Words don’t matter. The UN, ICC, and ICJ don’t matter.
What matters is making Palestine inhospitable for Zionists.
We can shout “genocide” a trillion times and it won’t change anything.
A month of non-stop daily trips to the bomb shelters will demoralize and frustrate the architects of the apartheid.
While cutting off sea traffic and crushing the economy, that’s the sort of approach that I think can work.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 5:26 utc | 133

Supporting a “Two State Solution” however, means naught to me and most from the “Global South” who lived and grew up under some of the most atrocious colonial rule.
Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 4:37 utc | 134
You are correct in your assessment of what China should do if they are to remain (in principle) morally consistent, or even consistent with their own purported “anti-imperialist” ideology.
However, from a pragmatic standpoint the two state solution, if implemented, would be the end of the ‘State’ of israel.
Since “Israel” can only exist as a regional hegemony. Israel cannot exist alongside a sovereign Palestinian state, or any sovereign state for that matter.
So there’s two ways to interpret the Chinese stance:
a) They know that a two state solution would terminate the existence of ‘israel’ and will support it for that reason.
b) They don’t really care and are just adopting the UN majority position and will support it merely as lip service.
What their intentions really are has never been clear.
The fact is that the Chinese are profiting off the colonial oppression of Palestinians. This is undeniable.
There is no morality among states. This applies equally to Russia.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 21 2025 6:06 utc | 135

Posted by: Marija | Mar 21 2025 6:07 utc | 138
#################
I am talking about the God of Isa (Jesus), Abraham, Adam, and Muhammad (peace be upon them all).
I believe that God is truth.
Where we came from, where we are going, and why.
That life has meaning, which gives it value, and that our lifetimes have a purpose.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 6:15 utc | 137

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 21 2025 6:17 utc | 140
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Therein lies the problem, my dear brother Arch.
They don’t have the capacity to wage a zero sum tit-for-tat game.
They have to steal small meaningful victories like Oct 7th. Victories of opportunity not overwhelming power.
As I stated recently, Muslims don’t think like European colonizers. God has commanded them to fight a certain way. To abandon that is to behave like a disbeliever, which is one of the worst things a Muslim can be.
I think my perspective on assymetry would be entertained by the Axis of Resistance. It might be too weak or missing a detail but Ansar Allah, and the Iranians, aren’t trying to annihilate the Israelis. They want them gone and a Palestinian state in their place.
The Zionists can be chased off or squeezed out, the result would be the same.
Revenge won’t change the past or bring the dead back. Believe me, no martyr would want to come back. Martyrdom is the highest achievement that a Muslim can attain.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 6:32 utc | 139

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 5:26 utc | 135
Words don’t matter. The UN, ICC, and ICJ don’t matter.
I hear ya but to an old fella like me, word is bond or should be.

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 7:22 utc | 141

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 23:48 utc | 118

Here are the known facts:
1. China supports the two-state solution. China is very open about this. There’s no way that Palestinians or Yemenis don’t know.
2. China recognizes both the official Yemeni government and Ansarallah.
3. China trades with Israel.
4. Yet, Chinese ships traverse the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait without being attacked by Ansarallah.
5. And, China was trusted enough by Hamas and other Palestinian factions to serve as a meeting spot for reconciliation talks (2024 Beijing Declaration).

The only requirement for ships to pass through in 2024 was that they were not going to Israel. There is nothing special about those Chinese ships passing through because they made it clear they were not going to Israel. They sent out notices like: “No connection to Israel”. Lots of ships from other countries passed through. Only Western propaganda made it seem like all ships were banned.
All the Palestinian groups had a meeting in China but what came out of it? China is just pretending to care about the Palestinian cause. They talk a lot but what have they done? No one is asking them to go to war with Israel. The least they can do is stop trading with them.

Here are the less reliable information:
1. US officials and other US-friendly sources keep insisting that China is arming Ansarallah.
2. A Twitter/X account claims that all arms are manufactured indigenously in Yemen.

The Newsmax report is nonsense on the basis that they claimed the reason Chinese ships were allowed a safe passage was due to China selling arms to Ansar Allah. The “anonymous sources” in that article are anti-China and want to somehow make it seem like they are involved in the Red Sea battle while the reality is that China has nothing to do with it. Their goal is to justify putting further sanctions on China.
This is similar to the reports of North Koreans fighting for Russia. It is nonsense.
There is truth to Ahmad Hassan’s claims about the weapons being manufactured in Yemen. People have to look at the map of Yemen. Realize it is divided into five small mini states. Ansar Allah controls the North. They have been under siege by land, air and sea for 10 years. During the fake Arab springs, the Yemen army was divided. Some of them joined forces with Ansar Allah, others joined the Saudi/UAE puppets. The missile forces sided with Ansar Allah. There were already factories in Yemen. Even Scott Ritter recently mentioned in his latest talk with Judge Napolitano about how during his time as a weapons inspector in Iraq, he discovered they were getting arms from Yemen. Nasrallah mentioned too how Ansar Allah was making its own weapons and the Saudis did not believe it because they see Yemenis as inferior. Search deep on X/Twitter and you will find someone selling weapons with the inscription “made in Yemen” on them.

Israel and the US just murdered hundreds of Palestinians and Yemenis in a fresh bombing campaign. The discussion in this thread should revolve around these aggressors and victims. But here I am talking about Russia, India and China, just because gb_grave decides to go into every thread related to the ongoing Middle Eastern conflicts and bring up Russia, India and China.

A genocide is taking place. Men, women and children are being killed while in tents. This conversation should not only revolve around the aggressors and victims. We are constantly being told about this alternative to the current global system. Multipolarity. These are defining times and what are these 3 super powers doing? They are enabling a genocide by supporting a colonial country that the current global powers are breaking all their so called international laws to defend and help in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Posted by: Georgie | Mar 21 2025 7:52 utc | 143

I had to intervene because I know what that rat fink gb_grave is trying to do here and pushing back against it is better than letting it spread unchallenged.
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 20 2025 23:48 utc | 118
Let me assure you that neither am I a troll nor a wolf in sheep’s clothing (or a rat fink, as you put it). I think it is legitimate to ask why our “friends” are not doing more than what they are doing to stop this genocide by the brutal Zionists, aided and abetted by the USA. I was not asking questions “innocently”. I gave my answers in subsequent posts. So please stop the name calling and stop imputing imaginary motives. Comments here are going to be read by Barflies, who are mature enough to discuss these points. This is not an X post which can be used by the Zionists to bash Russia.
Ornot, Georgie, and Menz have made substantial points which I agree with.

Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 21 2025 8:14 utc | 145

Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 21 2025 8:14 utc | 147
Of course it is right to ask what “your friends” are doing when civilians are being destroyed en masse.
It is not only right, but obligatory because “friends”, and those one admires for whatever reason, are not exempt from protecting innocent people if they have the means. The least they must do, as a priority, is to stand up for them in concrete ways.
I have written here numerous times and don’t think repetition is necessary if posters read the threads and remember at least some of what they have read. But I will say once again – everyone who is in a position to stop US/Israel fury and the genocide is – complicit. Guilty!
That includes Russia, China, the Arabs and every state on the planet. That is the foremost human duty, and when genocide is being committed, it is also a legal obligation.
From those one admires and looks to in hope of a better future not less, and be more critical of them than of others. Instead, they are shielded from critical scrutiny and all sorts of excuses are found for their inaction, while ulterior motives are attached to those who are keeping a sober mind. That is emotional, not rational.
Many posters here are intolerant and combative when it comes to Russia, China and other matters they hold dear and refuse to view in full light. How is that different from those who have the same attitude to the US and the like?
The facts are in plain sight – The Palestinians are being deliberately destroyed because they are Palestinians, which is the crime of genocide; Lebanon has been invaded with no reaction by the Lebanese state: Syria is destroyed and in the process of being dismembered; Yemen is being bombed and Iran is under constant threat, while all, but the Resistance front, are doing – nothing. Except talking. And even the talk is mostly polite and inaccurate, does not match the impoliteness and nature of the actions of US/Israel and various appendages.
There is no excuse under heaven for what is being done to the Palestinians, and the criminal ferocity of US/Israel doings in West Asia. None.
So instead of trying to find excuses that do not exist, it is better to start thinking about what should and must be done, who should do it, and how to ensure that it is done.
That is the only productive attitude apart from actual – action.

Posted by: JB | Mar 21 2025 10:55 utc | 147

Posted by: Exile | Mar 20 2025 21:36 utc | 106 “Arch will have his hands full updating the Metkava Tally”
LOL. Don’t we have enough fantasy here?

Posted by: Ed4 | Mar 21 2025 11:38 utc | 149

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 7:28 utc | 144
China doesn:t give a fuck. Uighur genocide is, more or less, a western propaganda. By the way Uighur went from 5 millions to 25 millions during the genodicide.

Posted by: Mario | Mar 21 2025 12:26 utc | 151

Arch Bungle 137
Maybe Israel can only present its intentions in a package that the God of Mammon West can understand , ‘We want this chunk of West Asia we once used to have. It’s oil rich and you can share in the spoils ‘.
Then, to the Muslim countries they present themselves as seeking an ancient form of Nazi Shari’ah.
To the Communist countries, they present themselves, even now , as some kind of socialist experiment.
The reality of Israel is that it represents the wishes of Global Capitalism which like Black Rock has direct access to Fiat money, without having to be a country.
This is the fantasy fulfilment of the selfish corporate world, a non-state, unregulated, militarised , anonymous corporation that can steal land and murder anybody anywhere.
The ultimate Criminal Mafia.
And the reason why it succeeding is because our leaders in the West are in revolving doors with Corporate business.
We need a new word after Nazism , which has associations with Nation-states.
Corporate Global Capitalism would be better. Globcorps. The idea of linking it with a 13 millennia old , dead religion which nobody know anything about is a brilliant red herring.
The qualifications for joining Globcorps are, you must be interested in World government by a privatised, unaccountable entity that has no scruples and unlimited military power.
Once we know who our enemy are, we might do a better job of fighting it.
Inshallah

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 21 2025 12:43 utc | 153

The genocide is not Russia and China’s problems to fix.
If you’re in a Western country, it is your problem to do something about it.
I’d argue that Russia is already fighting the genocidal Western powers. The Ukrainians, if they were winning, would be conducting a genocide against Russians as they did in the Donbass between 2014 and 2022.
If you’re a secular atheist, it’s on you to reconcile that the institutions of men are unable to contain the actions of men, and often become institutions and vehicles of oppression.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 13:22 utc | 155

The far-right and extremist Likud government in Israel is falling apart and DJT and captain of the Titanic is assisting the demise of not only Netanyahoo’s government but also Israel and its shrinking society.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 21 2025 13:33 utc | 157

https://x.com/boycatapp/status/1902418515304353866
boycat @boycatapp
If you’re not horrified that Israel broke the ceasefire and is doing things unchecked you are heartless.
The one thing we want to do is pressure them with economic collapse so they cannot continue to kill our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
Keep boycotting. Its your duty.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/20/744789/Yemen-attacks-Yaffa-Tel-Aviv-missile-ballistic-hypersonic-Ben-Gurion-United-States
Yemeni forces strike Yaffa near Tel Aviv in 2nd major anti-Israeli operation in 24 hours
The Yemeni Armed Forces have launched a hypersonic ballistic missile against a military installation south of the occupied city of Yaffa, near Tel Aviv, marking their second major operation against Israeli targets within 24 hours.
Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced implementation of the second operation on Thursday, describing it as a “qualitative” military strike in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people…..
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1902997507883290704
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The Middle East heading towards a new challenge: Iran and the US.
The US war on Iran is no longer impossible, neither the participation of Iran’s allies if necessary. Indeed, the message sent by the US President , the “peace president”, to the Iranian leadership requests immediate guarantees to halt any advancement in the nuclear program, subject it to comprehensive Western oversight, cease interference in regional affairs, withdraw inwardly to focus solely on Iranian internal matters, and stop cooperation with any groups stretching from Yemen to Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine.
Moreover, the message includes a direct threat, stating that if Iran does not comply with these demands, the Trump administration will feel compelled to deal with it differently (militarily). In response, several European countries have renewed warnings advising their citizens not to travel to Iran or urging those already there to leave Iranian territory immediately.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 21 2025 13:43 utc | 159

Journalist Youssef Fares
“In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Press Release
In response to the biased statements of the US National Security Advisor, which equate the executioner with the victim, and fully adopt the occupation’s narrative, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirms the following:
– Talk of “Israel’s right to defend itself” is a blatant distortion of reality. The occupier does not have the right to defend its occupation; rather, it is the aggressor in the first place.
– The ongoing Zionist aggression against our people for decades, and the crimes of genocide in Gaza, are what call for condemnation and accountability, not justification and support.
– The claim that “Hamas chose war instead of releasing the hostages” is a distortion of the facts. The Palestinian resistance presented clear initiatives for a ceasefire and the implementation of a comprehensive exchange deal, but the occupation, led by Netanyahu, is the one who rejected them and deliberately sabotaged them to achieve its political interests, as admitted by the leaders of its own security services.
– Talking about the possibility of extending the ceasefire if the resistance releases all prisoners deliberately ignores the fact that the occupation was not serious about implementing the terms of the truce, and did not abide by any of its conditions. Rather, it continued its killing, starvation, and siege, which thwarted the understandings and undermined the chances of an extension.
– The American statements once again reveal the full partnership in the aggression against our people, and the complicity with the occupation in committing the crimes of genocide, starvation, and siege against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including thousands of children, women, and innocent civilians.
– We affirm that the Palestinian resistance is exercising its legitimate right to defend its people, land, and holy sites in the face of occupation and aggression, and that attempts to distort the facts will not succeed in exonerating the occupation of its crimes, nor will they provide Washington with moral cover for its biased policies.
– Attempts to distort the facts will not succeed, and history will record who stood with the truth and who colluded with the killing.
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
Friday: Ramadan 21, 1446 AH
corresponding to March 21, 2025 AD
Official Website – Hamas Movement”
“Hamas Movement (unofficial communication):
▪️We deny what was reported by the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth regarding the severing of communications or the suspension of talks related to a prisoner exchange deal.
▪️We affirm that we remain at the heart of the negotiations, and are following up with all responsibility and seriousness with our mediating brothers. We are still discussing the Witkoff proposal and the various ideas on the table, with the aim of achieving a prisoner exchange deal that secures the release of prisoners, ends the war, and achieves the withdrawal.”
Purposeful estruction of the Turkish Friendship Hospital along Netzarim:
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/97149

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 21 2025 13:54 utc | 161

israel, the USA, the UK and most of Europe are cesspools of lies, corruption, fake virtues, hypocrisy and are filled with warmongering fools and neo-nazis, vapid intellectuals and genocidal Elites. you know, typical Western Values®
https://x.com/wallacemick/status/1902759345370108104
Mick Wallace @wallacemick
The Terrorist State of Israel has been committing War Crimes every day for years and still they have the unconditional support of the EU. More ‘European Values’ for all to see…
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1902757569984094284
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
13 Palestinian people killed by the israelis, 40 wounded, in the bombing of homes & shelters in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in south #Gaza

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 21 2025 14:12 utc | 163

michaelj72 161
”Moreover, the message includes a direct threat, stating that if Iran does not comply with these demands, the Trump administration will feel compelled to deal with it differently (militarily).”
The way that the US deals with Iran at present is to suppress its potential to become a major rival to US power in the region. The US is currently doing that to us in Europe by blowing up Nordstream and creating a violent confrontation in Europe.
To think that Trump could nuke Iran is to think Armaggeddon, and Trump wouldn’t dare. Trump has a shopping list for Mrs Addlebrains and when he has met her demands he can get on with MAGA.
Mrs Addlebrains doesn’t want to live in a concrete bunker on flavoured yeast and recycled urine for the rest of her life.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 21 2025 14:38 utc | 165

Larry C Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4nBVsZP4I
“Air defense breakdown forcing US out of Red Sea.”
On Trump:
“Trump is the prison bitch of AIPAC. He might as well have a collar around his neck. If they call him over to lick their feet he goes over and licks their feet. Whatever they ask for he does.
If they want to destroy the Palestinians, Trump says okay let me help you with that. ‘I’ll send you 2,000 lb bombs and go ahead and start attacking Yemen as a pretext to attack Iran.’
Trump’s committing political suicide. There’s no other way to describe it…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 21 2025 15:08 utc | 167

“Air defense breakdown forcing US out of Red Sea.” Larry C Johnson
I’d guess, that Ansar Allah are not interested in a Pearl Harbour incident. Attrition, disarmament, yes.

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Mar 21 2025 15:22 utc | 169

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Mar 21 2025 15:22 utc | 171
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If anyone commits a Pearl Harbor incident it will be Iran by wiping out US air bases all over the Middle East.
Ansar Allah are brave, feisty, and tenacious but they are not Imperial Japan in this scenario.
America and Israel are both unraveling. What is another year or two of the status quo given that both will probably fade away of their own internal contradictions?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 15:31 utc | 171

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 21 2025 15:36 utc | 174
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If God can’t save the Palestinians, you aren’t doing a very good job. 🤔
Maybe we should get the UN on the job. 😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 15:43 utc | 173

LoveDonbas (175).
Now lest see – which is the most likely outcome of your comment, that god saves the utterly oppressed Palestinians – or is it just a tad more likely, that UN might be able to do something – yes, the UN is hopeless, and corrupt – but at least its real, and it exists – unlike any god.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 21 2025 15:55 utc | 175

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 20 2025 19:13 utc | 81
HAPPYNOWRUZ=5M-AGNI-TUDEEARTH(QUAKES)FIREWORKSLOL(WIDER+DEEPER) – htts://en.mehrnews.com/news/229826/5-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-Iran-s-Natanz-in-Isfahan
QUEUE-MURICAN-GIDIOTS: “We don’t want you to have something that you already have” – MUH-DEPARTMENT-OF-EDUCATION
SAINT-JERONEMO-FOOTNOTES=GIFTOFGABRIELRETURNS2REBUILDTEMPLE=MICHAELPRINCEOFPERSIAKNOWSSECONDTEMPLEDESTRUCTION+THIRDTEMPLENOTONGEARTH(SPIRITUAL=NEWHEAVEN+NEWGEARTH) – https://www.hollymelody.com/christianity/22/what-is-the-signficance-of-the-prince-of-persia-delaying-the-archangel-michael-co
“On the contrary, It is written (Daniel 10:13): “The prince of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me one and twenty days.” But this prince of the Persians was the angel deputed to the guardianship of the kingdom of the Persians. Therefore one good angel resists the others; and thus there is strife among them.

Posted by: MIKHAILCHEESEFACTORY | Mar 21 2025 16:01 utc | 177

@ LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 15:31 utc | 173
I’d suggest a more appropriate historical analogy would be the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. With the USA, the dying empire, in the Russian role. Iran, the rising military power, in the Japanese role.
Russia’s defeat in the far east sparked revolutions back home.

Posted by: EoinW | Mar 21 2025 16:12 utc | 179

The Western backed proscribed terrorist group (HTS) leaders, and war criminals, met with one of their backers (Germany) warhawks.
“German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has been denied a handshake by Syrian President Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa during their latest meeting in Damascus.
A video from the talks on Thursday has captured al-Sharaa avoiding physical contact with the foreign dignitary and simply pointing her to her chair with his hand.
A similarly awkward scene happened during Baerbock’s first trip to the Syrian capital together with her French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in early January. At the time, al-Sharaa shook hands with Barrot, but explicitly avoided doing the same with Germany’s top diplomat, placing his right hand on his heart instead.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 21 2025 16:32 utc | 181

Not sure what is to be made of it, but there is pushback in otherwise institutional pro-Israel circles against the attempted narrative of holding Hamas solely responsible for breakdown of ceasefire negotiations.
For example, chair of UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Thornberry publicly rebuked Israel’s UK ambassador for repeating false information regarding the agreed negotiating Phases. Similar criticism is being directed at other reps from Netanyahu’s government as well as spokespersons for Trump admin. Unusually, accurate reporting regarding the various framework Phases appeared in western mainstream media on Tuesday.
This week has seen the resumption of military violence directed at civilians in Gaza, as well as direct threats of future violence articulated by reps of Trump admin to Yemen, Iran, and Lebanon. These threats are not necessarily any different than positions taken by the preceding US administration, but they are being delivered in a much cruder fashion and in alignment with openly genocidal utterances by high Israeli officials.
Here is some of reporting earlier in the week:
BBC –
“The 19 January ceasefire deal was thrashed out over many months, with US, Qatari and Egyptian mediation, and a detailed three-phase plan for how the truce should move forward…Hamas and Israel were due to begin negotiations to commence the second phase…The first phase finished on 1 March, but the negotiations for the next stage had made no progress. Instead, Israel imposed a total halt on all aid entering Gaza causing widespread international alarm – and said that it backed a new proposal put together by the United States… In recent days, the US and Israel have cast Hamas’s preference for sticking close to the terms of the original ceasefire deal – instead of renegotiating its terms – as a ‘refusal’ to extend the ceasefire.”
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CNN –
“Israel has made clear it wants new terms. It wanted Hamas to continue releasing hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners – but without any commitment to end the war or withdraw its military. The two sides were meant to discuss a second phase starting February 3, but the Israeli government ignored that deadline.”
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Associated Press –
Both Israel and the United States blame the renewed hostilities on Hamas’ refusal to release more hostages before negotiations on ending the war proceed — which was not part of the ceasefire agreement… After the first phase ended, Netanyahu said Israel had agreed to what he described as a new U.S. proposal in which Hamas would release half the remaining hostages in return for a seven-week extension of the truce and a vague promise to launch negotiations over a lasting ceasefire. Hamas refused, pointing out that the new proposal was different from the one they had agreed to in January and again called for the immediate launch of talks on Phase 2. It even offered to return an America-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages to get the talks back on track, an offer dismissed as “psychological warfare” by Israel.

Posted by: jayc | Mar 21 2025 16:47 utc | 183

4:10, a short video
Zionism is Yiddish for Western Colonization
Richard Medhurst gave me a similar thought last month.
Israeli leaders are all white Europeans using made-up Semitic names.
They are mostly Ashkenazi and try to keep Sephardic Jews out.
Just another European racial supremacy project.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:37 utc | 185

“One of several issues with your “thinking” is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
LoveDonbas (186).
A desperate attempt to pass the buck – the onus is on you to prove the existence of something, in this occasion it is god – of course you know fine well – that this task is an impossible one – so switching the onus is the next best thing.
The lies on at least the Christian religion, were laid down at the First Council of Nicaea in (325).

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 21 2025 18:53 utc | 187

As far as I make out, people are pretty much left to figure it all out for themselves. This could be understood as a living creation that discovers its own meaning.
Religion and conflict are often two sides of the same coin, sometimes opposing and sometimes complementing each other.
We are endowed with knowledge of, and trust in, this creation, we are able to relate to others as though they were ourselves and share our experiences. That is already a lot to be thankful for, as well as having a beautiful world to discover.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aTi1YVqMFjI

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 21 2025 19:27 utc | 189

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:05 utc | 186 You didn’t invent these but…

One of several issues with your “thinking” is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

If you’ve looked for the evidence, then not finding it really is evidence of absence.

Good luck proving a negative.

Finding evidence for an alternative explanation does refute the purported explanation with no evidence. The moves the burden of proof to the proponent of the refuted hypothesis or so-called negative. You cannot simply cite an abstract proposition like it’s impossible to prove a negative, you have to provide evidence for the alternative(s.) Or, undermine the disproof by citing other relevant facts. You could call it an application of the principle of sufficient evidence? The so-called negative has to have a reason or cause to be a genuine hypothesis, meaning in this exchange, evidence. And an empty phrase about disproving a negative doesn’t refute evidence for the alternative.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 19:37 utc | 191

@IDontFitInUrBox
On mother’s day, our hearts turn to the Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Sudanese mothers who carry the weight of grief for their children—mothers who have cradled the lifeless bodies of their loved ones and buried them with trembling hands.
https://x.com/IDontFitInUrBox/status/1902842252638179660

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 20:15 utc | 193

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
Not in Western media: Jordanians expressing solidarity with Yemen.
PS I really don’t know how Western correspondents in the Middle East cover the region. I feel they merely replicate Saudi and UAE regime media’s talking points.
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1903144597783711946

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 20:17 utc | 195

https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1902775643361689654
B.M. @ireallyhateyou
Fuck every country in the world except for Yemen
….And South Africa maybe
….Oh yeah and obviously Palestine.
https://x.com/MiamiHerald/status/1902409766451765622
Miami Herald @MiamiHerald
Most Republicans support the right to protest — unless it’s against Israel, poll finds
https://x.com/StopArabHate/status/1902479465491390698
Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate
🚨 “It is good to start eliminating future savage Muslim terrorists”
– Joan Daniels, attorney in Los Angeles, responding to the massacre of children

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 21 2025 20:18 utc | 197

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Massive Israeli bombing in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, with what appears to be a massive bunker-buster bomb. Residents are searching the rubble for survivors.
Source: @HossamShabat via @translatingpal
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1903107345426567591

Posted by: Menz | Mar 21 2025 20:19 utc | 199