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March 23, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-061

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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According to a US official who spoke to Fox News, the US plans to support Israel to the end, destroying all its rivals, be they the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah or others.
The United States will do everything to make Israel the sole and secure Power in the region, and it is now in the early stages of that process.- Militarist telegram post
Posted by: Suresh | Mar 24 2025 2:50 utc | 98
And therein lies the means to bring the Empire to its knees.
Suck them into decades of non-stop war in West Asia.
Let them pour their blood and treasure into an endless black hole until they cast themselves into it as their own last offering to Moloch.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2025 4:11 utc | 101

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 24 2025 0:03 utc | 94
According to a US official who spoke to Fox News, the US plans to support Israel to the end, destroying all its rivals, be they the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah or others.
The United States will do everything to make Israel the sole and secure Power in the region, and it is now in the early stages of that process.- Militarist telegram post
RE: Posted by: Suresh | Mar 24 2025 2:50 utc | 98
fact is, this is a fool’s errand, what the US beats its chest about and claims to want to do: to secure for its lackey israel hegemony over the entire Middle East,
and cannot be done unless every single person in Yemen, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Gasa/Palestine and around the whole world that supports Palestine et al. who supports those resistance groups, is killed.
sooner will the state of israel disappear (and it cannot happen soon enough) than the Houthis, hamas, hezbollah, and all the Resistance members….
maybe the USA will support israel to the end,…. but it will be to israel’s end!

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 24 2025 5:32 utc | 102

LoveDonbass 13
“Israel is a European colonial project. It is well documented in the Balfour declaration.”
100% correct. It was a project of the British Empire. But…
The Nazism that characterises this genocide is absolutely nothing to do
with Britain.
This Neocon Nazism only arrived in post war Britain after Mrs Thatcher came to.power in 1978/9. The Ukrainian Nazi Revisionists Zionists, or Neocons for short, forced themselves into Bitish politics and have held us in a vice-like grip ever since.
This genocide is an entirely US abortion of commonsense and humanity. Our politicians here are maybe blackmailed, maybe just stupid , but either way compketely subservient to US power.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 6:29 utc | 103

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I think it’s true to say that the youbger generation in Britain and the Immigrant population that had no experience of the shadow of Nazism from WW2, see Nazism as a potential alternative to socialism, or at least as a facet of Capitalism, which comes as part of the Capitalist package.
I am of Putin’s generation and the addiction to Extreme right wing ideas of the newcomers and the indigenous but still wet behind the ears makes us oldies feel sick.
karlof1 still refuses to call out Netanyahu as a Nazi, and Political Islam is a bonded slave to ZioNazi ideas.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 6:49 utc | 104

Mike Waltz on Face the Nation last night, threatening Iran:

“Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see,” Waltz said. “It is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon, and they will not and cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program. That is its weaponization and its strategic missiles program.
Speaking about Iran’s nuclear program and echoing some of Mr. Trump’s previous threats, Waltz on Sunday warned Iran: “Give it up, or there will be consequences.” He emphasized that the U.S. seeks to dismantle the “full program.”
“We’ve seen the death and destruction that it’s doing through its proxies,” said Waltz, referencing Iran’s support for groups such as the Houthis. “If they had nuclear weapons, the entire Middle East would explode in an arms race. And that is completely unacceptable for our national security.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-waltz-national-security-adviser-iran-nuclear-program-face-the-nation/
Iran must give up its strategic missile program? Sounds proximate to a declaration of war, to my ear.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 24 2025 7:28 utc | 105

Palestinian police but no “factions”. This was already accepted by the Pal themselves in Pekin more than a year ago.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/543464/Egypt/Foreign-Affairs/No-role-for-Palestinian-factions-in-future-governa.aspx
The only hamas guy who says the contrary is the Turkey-owned one. The MB still believe they are going to rule the entire Near East with German money apparently.

Posted by: Tom | Mar 24 2025 7:55 utc | 106

Posted by: Polli | Mar 23 2025 15:23 utc | 2
How would a “good Jewish Israeli” act?
A good Jewish Israeli has historical precedents on how to act. All s/he needs to do is remember South Africa. A good Israeli should join their Palestinian neighbors and fight for justice and lasting peace.
A good Jewish Israeli should fight for the one state solution: Palestine, a homeland for all its citizens.

Posted by: Marija | Mar 24 2025 8:08 utc | 107

Posted by: Polli | Mar 23 2025 15:23 utc | 2
How would a “good Jewish Israeli” act?
A good Jewish Israeli has historical precedents on how to act. All s/he needs to do is remember South Africa. A good Israeli should join their Palestinian neighbors and fight for justice and lasting peace.
A good Jewish Israeli should fight for the one state solution: Palestine, a homeland for all its citizens.

Posted by: Marija | Mar 24 2025 8:09 utc | 108

see the incredible videos at the first and third links.
this genocide is unbelievable. but what is perhaps almost as unbelievable is how much support it has among the Western Powers and their subservient Media Elites
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1904008274082496616
IsraelExposed @xIsraelExposedx
Israel is literally bombing tents, with starved refugees in them, just because they can.
https://x.com/HumaZhr/status/1903550892248326424
Huma Zehra @HumaZhr
“I will play golf in Gaza, whether you like it or not”
Former Consul of the Republic of Austria Günter Wiehl-Volgger, during a visit by Israeli Ambassador to Austria David Roet.
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1903809068474532331
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
Massive explosion as the israelis continue to target Palestinian families and children in Gaza in an attempt to kill and maim as many as possible

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 24 2025 8:43 utc | 109

Money trail evidence is more proof the deadly Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 was allowed to happen to get international support for the Greater Israel Project.
The rapid rise in trading activity from the typical 2,000 shares shorted to 227,000 on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges on Oct 2nd i.e. insider knowledge.
The festival was moved from a secured, well-guarded place to a very unsecured area, just days prior to the festival taking place.
Israeli witnesses in the kibbutz said the IOF was withdrawn from the kibbutz before the Hamas attack.
The idea that Hamas could breach the perimeter fence without detection is utterly absurd.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza lead by the Outlaw US of A, etc. isn’t about rescuing hostages or defeating Hamas.
It’s all about the Greater Israel Project which includes all of Palestine plus parts of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
And do not forget the gas pipelines through Qatar and Turkey [noticed the riots recently] to feed the EU.
Malevolent people do sinful things, always.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 24 2025 9:10 utc | 110

“karlof1 still refuses to call out Netanyahu as a Nazi, and Political Islam is a bonded slave to ZioNazi ideas.”
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 6:49 utc | 104
karlofi is a fine author and analyst; you, on the other hand, are a complete joke.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2025 10:48 utc | 111

LoveDonbass wins his 4th ,”The Most Retarded Post I Have Read Today Award”, for the below TDS inspired nonsense:
Tucker Carlson has become a regime tool.
Interviewing Witkoff after interviewing the Qatari PM. They are apparently IRL friends. I don’t believe in coincidences. Qatar is Islamic but a hive of Imperial villainy as well.
Tucker’s audience is mostly hillbilly ISIS (MAGA) these days, but it is clear to me that he is doing messaging for Trump, as an Anglo Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 23 2025 19:19 utc | 56

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2025 10:58 utc | 112

canuck 111
Are you a US citizen yet?

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 10:58 utc | 113

“Trump is putting on the same “peace” performance he did in his first term when he starved thousands of Syrians and stole oil for Israel.
These guys are all-in for genocide.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 23 2025 18:45 utc | 49
Your TDS has destroyed what’s left of your mind.
In October 2019 Trump ordered troops to leave northern Syria but his order was disobeyed (1).
You embarass yourself.
1.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/mark-esper-syria-kurds-turkey.html

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2025 11:04 utc | 114

The thing about witkoff is what are his credentials ?
What about him, besides the fact he is a rich and powerful jew, qualifies him to be conducting foreign policy for america ?
And may I be so bold to upgrade the bar’s rhetoric on good jews, bad jews, Zionists and isrealis, etc, etc…
The only thing that matters is that jews don’t have power in our nations. That they are not able to dictate every aspect of our government & corporations.
Enough of the debates about categorizing every last one of them. Get them the fuck out of our governments.

Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 24 2025 11:06 utc | 115

Suresh 98
” The United States will do everything to make Israel the sole and secure Power in the region, and it is now in the early stages of that process.”
If only that dumb simplistic US Imperialist idea was true, that the US wants to turn the Middle East into Texas and Florida for producing oil, and for using Kibbutzim and Muslims to grow oranges .
Then the poisonous mask of Neocon ZioNazism can be thrown off and Netanyahu is just a psyops actor.
This is Extraordinary US copium, to think that the region will return to peace after the Zionist catalyst is no longer needed.
US Imperialism believes in giving the residents what they want, just to live in peace as sincere Jews or Muslims, but harvest the resources of the land.
In this simplistic US dream, the only sin the Palestinians have committed is aspired to ownership of the land. Trump’s vision is that neither Muslims nor Jews will own the land. The US will own it as Rome owned it beforehand, and as the US currently owns South Korea , Australia and the Philippines.
A secular US Colony inhabited by multifaith communities in pure , productive harmony. The simple US , cowboy dream of genociding the insects that live there and creating Texas and Florida.
The only fly in the ointment is that three religions contest the area .
In the Red neck Texas minds of US Trump imperialists these annoying sects are no more than Astecs and primitive natives, which Christ will subdue and conquer.
Where do you start, if that is really the US idea?

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 11:42 utc | 116

canuck 114
You’re the one spreading the TDS virus. We all caught it from you.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 11:50 utc | 117

@ michaelj72 | Mar 24 2025 5:32 utc | 102
First, thank you for all the updates.
Second, I think there’s a better chance that the USA ends before Israel. So long as there is an USA there will be endless money flowing to Israel. The key to ending Israel is cutting off those funds. The key to doing that is breaking the USA economically. Luckily the USA has never been more fragile financially than it is now.
Yes Iran can flatten Israel if it comes to all out war. But will the Iranians do that and risk a nuclear response? Will they go for total destruction when 20% of the population of Israel is Palestinian? The more humane, and less damaging strategy is to break America financially.

Posted by: EoinW | Mar 24 2025 12:24 utc | 118

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Hasn’t Trump already claimed half Ukraine for the US to pay for the US expenses in helping fight Russia.
Of course he will charge Israel for the billions of dollars of expenses for genociding Palestine,Lebanon, Syria, and later Jordan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kurdistan.
In Trump’s mind he has already got Ukraine in a peace deal with Russia just by announcing as Potus in public.
Imperator Pharaoh Trump will recoup MAGA swagger in West Asia.
Innit?

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 12:27 utc | 119

@ canuck | Mar 24 2025 11:04 utc | 114
Aren’t you getting tired of the Trump head fakes? That’s what the “getting out of Syria” was.
He’s really piling them up this 2nd term. Ending aid to Ukraine? Yeah right. A ceasefire in Gaza…which he then breaks. DOGE to save the US government financially. Yet how much more money has he wasted giving Ukraine/Israel weapons and bombing Ansar Allah? Now the Vinson carrier group is sailing from the other side of the world. Who’s paying for that?
Trump is a Big Government, Deep State, fake populist. Worse: he hates non-Americans(unless they’re Jewish). That’s why he’s picking fights with everyone now – except Russia, which he fears too much.
No this isn’t a TDS rant. If I was calling him megalomaniac then it would be TDS. He’s simply the latest Deep State figurehead. A valuable one as he suckers the MAGA crowd and buys the system a bit more time.

Posted by: EoinW | Mar 24 2025 12:34 utc | 120

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 24 2025 7:28 utc | 105
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Libya disarmed and we all know how that turned out.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2025 12:35 utc | 121

The US is 100% behind Israel because it has no other “myth of foundation”. Europe follows because it cannot admit to say openly that since the New Testament is quoting the Old Testament, if the latter is debunked as a compilation of Cananean, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Phenician myths, the whole New Testament “veracity” is gone. They consider that the NT is part of their “identity”, rather than limit themselves to art, for example (nowhere in the Bible is it said that you can draw God or the prophets, but this is what European painters did).
Obviously Jesus, if he existed, did not write the NT, nor the books after the four gospels have much to do with his teachings. But about this neither politicians don’t care. What they look at are the stats and figures telling them that a speech in this or that community will get them another 1-2 percent of votes.
Same with the Gulfies who have difficulties admitting the non-historicity of the Bible, even if their own tradition tells them of the “tahrif” of previous texts by the rabbis and monks. One could argue that the Nag Hammadi and Qumran discovery proved that the tahrif hypothesis was correct. But these idiots can’t think that far, since they look more a the real estate and tourism opportunities.
The danger here is that by obliging the Christians to follow blindly the Israeli government in its interpretation of the Bible, people will end up doing just as in politics: voting for the original and reverting to… judaism or some heavily politically influenced sects, such as the evangelicals.

Posted by: Tom | Mar 24 2025 13:38 utc | 122

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXwCyt9dHk
Alistair Crooke on Judge Nap’s show this morning.
War with Iran via a US decapitation strike similar to recent Yemen bombings may be about to happen.

Posted by: morongobill | Mar 24 2025 13:47 utc | 123

NCFPeace is worth watching on “Dictatorship in Syria”. It seems the SDF forces never joined Julani’s HTS. His sources claim it was just a cover for the genocidal attack on the Alawites in Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT75H3mIV5c

Posted by: laguerre | Mar 24 2025 14:01 utc | 124

canuck 114
“You’re the one spreading the TDS virus. We all caught it from you.”
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 11:50 utc | 117
I support Trump in most matters, though I am not encouraged by his latest ME policies-ie. bombing Yemen when he should have told Netanyahu to stick with the truce.
Anyways, how in the fuck can I give you TDS when I am on the other side.
God, you are a dope.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2025 14:35 utc | 125

Canuk, you are the poster that increases my TDS the most by far. Sometimes I think you are a paid troll with the goal of making Trump and his supporters look very bad. I just remind myself that Trump and Trump supporters are not as bad as the way you present.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 24 2025 14:56 utc | 126

Journalist Hossam Shabat was martyred
“According to what Hossam, may God have mercy on him, told me, he signed a contract with Al Jazeera Mubasher in August of last year. Since then, the channel has described him in all the exclusive scenes he filmed as “our correspondent.” This is attested to in dozens of clips posted on social media platforms and his live interventions in the studio. Is it acceptable to be mourned in such a cold manner and to have the word “collaborator” written next to his name? Hossam carried Al Jazeera Mubasher on his shoulders and with his soul throughout the genocide. Is this the way to be rewarded and fulfilled?
Hossam was a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, documented and contracted, and the channel honored his coverage and he was loyal to it until the last drop of his blood. It is now obligated to bear the legal consequences of his assassination before itself, its moral conscience, and before the world.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/71550

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 24 2025 15:06 utc | 127

canuck 125
I like you and I am joking with you.
Nothing else. If everybody drank the full bottle of poison put out by USUKIS politicians we would all be dead.
I just need to kick out against this madness from time to time , or go mad.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 24 2025 15:16 utc | 128

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyEjLdMAGJA
US Faces Total Defeat if War with Iran Begins — Yemen Was Just the Warning | Col. Larry Wilkerson
Dialogue Works
“….it’s still a question in my mind, will israel be a state…” – Larry Wilkerson
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/16712
Middle East Spectator – MES
—❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇹🇷 BREAKING: The Syrian Government is in ‘advanced talks’ with Turkey to hand over parts of the country, reportedly near Palmyra, to the Turkish military
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold an emergency meeting, and has been telling press that a direct Israeli-Turkish confrontation in Syria is ‘almost certain’.
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1903904262330925192
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️⭕️ Al -Aqsa Channel:
The occupation assassinates a member of the #Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Barhoum, by bombing the surgery room inside Nasser Hospital, where he was receiving treatment after he was critically injured in the Israeli aggression a week ago.
5 martyrs, one of whom is a child died in the bombing.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 24 2025 15:20 utc | 129

Journalist Youssef Fares
“Sources to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: Gaza ceasefire negotiations reach a dead end after an Israeli delegation leaves Cairo and the Egyptian proposal is rejected.
Israel has rejected all proposals despite Hamas’s positive response to a proposal for a humanitarian ceasefire.
Israel has agreed with regional parties to exert maximum pressure on Hamas before new negotiations.”

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 24 2025 15:23 utc | 130

Mohammed Mansour had his house targeted, Hossam Shabat had his car targeted.
“Farewell to our colleague, journalist and correspondent for Palestine Today satellite channel, Mohammed Mansour, at Nasser Hospital.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/71539
I don’t like that they target journalists. Said as a complete understatement.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 24 2025 15:32 utc | 131

“The occupation army had previously published a threat list of journalists who it claimed belong to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and work with Al Jazeera, and targeted some of them. Today, it targeted Hossam Shabat”
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/97591
The following are graphic:
Mourned while being transported
https://t.me/youseffares19/71547
As found
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/97587

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 24 2025 15:41 utc | 132