@ Mary
Read somewhere that Israel channel 14 reporting similar

Posted by: necromancer | Apr 3 2025 16:57 utc | 4

– Israel, as of yet, has no plan or concept of how or where to displace two million persons from Gaza, let alone what to do with the even larger population contained within the West Bank which, according to the more vocal members of Israel’s coalition government, is next in the displacement line.
– These same vocal members of the coalition are letting on that the main reason Israel continues ceasefire violations in the south of Lebanon is because an occupation (or absorption) of the territory up to the Litani River remains the operative goal.
– Israel’s coalition government’s new budget represents wartime austerity measures, with deep cuts to programs associated with civil society and large increases in “security” spending. There is no anticipation of when this imbalance may end, with the more fanatical political representatives foreseeing an indefinite future of war-making, occupation, and emergency decrees. This with an already deeply polarized population and major crises in divisions of power.
– A recent poll found upwards of 40% of Israelis were at least considering leaving the region themselves.
– The American government has repeatedly demonstrated that it has internalized zionist narratives and lacks the capacity for rational judgement or reflection. Yet it expects, after inflicting humiliation and destruction across the region, that everything will regardless become “normal”.
– Accordingly, the hegemonic “last stand” scheduled for the South China Sea will instead play out in the Mid-East, as Israel traps its patron in escalatory dynamics where the accumulation of hubris will result either in a major defeat or a pyrric “victory”. That 40% of Israel’s population will then leave and a “one-state” multi-denominational solution will prevail. Maybe.

Posted by: jayc | Apr 3 2025 17:10 utc | 6

Not going to happen. All psyops.
There’s no real way for israel and the US to win this exchange
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 3 2025 17:03 utc | 5
Yeah, right, the US never started or starts wars it can’t win…

Posted by: Zet | Apr 3 2025 17:23 utc | 8

Mary no. 7
“The Israeli army has said Eric Kurilla, head of the US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM), landed in Israel yesterday as the “official guest” of the military’s chief Eyal Zamir.
The two held a joint panel with senior Israeli army commanders “in which they discussed operational issues and regional strategies”, it said in a statement on Telegram.
April 3

Posted by: KingCobra | Apr 3 2025 19:10 utc | 10

LOL I’ve long said that Trump needs a pretext to actually bomb Iran. A new 9/11 if you will.
Until that happens, I can’t see this “EXCLUSIVE” scoop being true. The economy is in the shitter at the moment. Prices are only going to rise. I can definitely empathize with folks like @canuck who have long positions on gold and other precious metals. I don’t 100% share their philosophy, but I always empathize with a lucky or prescient position taken by a person who isn’t in power to alter markets (like Trump or the Fed or Nancy Pelosi for examples). But my own 401k is in the shitter and that puts me in a better place than millions of non-stock holding Americans who are now paying $12 for a dozen decent eggs. Only going to get worse.
War with Iran…right NOW…would be an absolute economic disaster, not to mention a humanitarian one likely not confined to Persia or “Israel”.

Happy Liberation Day, America!
Your 401k has been liberated from the past, unburdened of unrealized capital gains. It is now free to embrace the future. The future will have fewer digits.
You’re welcome,
Don

Get your popcorn ready. While you can afford it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2025 19:55 utc | 12

see the 27-secondo video at the second link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_e9uBnfQrA
Laith Marouf: Tensions Explode: Resistance Never Rests — Fight to the Final Breath!
Dialogue Works
https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/1905706319451189676
Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael
Israeli soldiers have begun posting drone footage of detonations, this time from invasions in the northern West Bank, documenting their crimes just as they did during the Gaza genocide.
https://x.com/liamcunningham1/status/1907458944148054225
liam cunningham @liamcunningham1
Israel attacked a United Nations clinic today in Gaza murdering 19 people including 9 children. Still silent? #silenceiscomplicity

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 3 2025 20:09 utc | 14

LOL I’ve long said that Trump needs a pretext to actually bomb Iran. A new 9/11 if you will.
But my own 401k is in the shitter and that puts me in a better place than millions of non-stock holding Americans who are now paying $12 for a dozen decent eggs. Only going to get worse.
**********
A “Roger” over at Sonar21 has suggested that Israel will wait until all the pieces are in place & then do a false flag so big Trump will have no choice.
I probably already pay that much per dozen eggs, but they come from my own very well fed, free range hens. I’m still finishing 2+ dozen from last year & have already put up 2+ dozen for next winter!
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2025 19:55 utc | 12

Posted by: Mary | Apr 3 2025 20:20 utc | 16

to Mary and michaelj72 thank you for your posts. Keep on keeping on Arch. Huge gratitude to Nima at Dialog Works. Cheers.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 3 2025 20:30 utc | 18

I presume this is Amaranth’s Middle East/West Asia thread posting since it’s from her Global South website and no other author is given:

We can list atrocities daily, one by one, pages full, including a young child cut in two pieces and the combined image of fetuses killed in the womb, and the images of burning tents over the heads of those that have no place to go … forcible displacements, torture; the list goes on.
We can say and lament again, where is the world? Or we can simply breathe and continue. Last evening, I prepared a simple dinner for us: braised chicken, a simple potato salad, and mixed vegetables. I looked at my tasty and well-presented meal and wished I could hand it to Gaza across the ocean.
No amount of understanding of the geopolitical issues of the Ukraine war, and the stance of China, and that of Iran, and the other regional countries, the BRICS, the SCO and others, will allow me to give anyone a pass. We support you and your governments, but unfortunately, you are not equal to that support today, and I question our love, as you are doing nothing from a state level to end a modern genocide perpetrated with modern weapons of war.
Your legal stance for international law falls apart because the law states that if you see a genocide and you do not act, you are complicit.
Is it only Ansarallah that actually understands this? Is your law unequal to the task of supporting Ansarallah, who, for their trouble and correct understanding, just lost their water plants for hundreds and thousands of people?
You are equally responsible for genocide because of your inaction. Russia, stop negotiating with the perpetrators and call them out! China, your strong words at the UNSC are so much mist that it disappears when the light of day shines. Boycott, divest, and sanction and take some of your new spiffy planes and thousands of cargo ships, break the Gaza blockade, and let the people receive aid.
BRICS on the level that we saw with their latest so-called joint statement? Meh! [My Emphasis]

Hard to disagree with her rant. Unfortunately, it will go unheard for as she stated inaction equals complicity. Russia claims its SMO’s aim was to stop the Genocide in Donbass, yet the Gaza genocide is far more overt and openly confessed to by the Zionists and has murdered many more people. During WW2, the Allies claimed they knew nothing about the Nazi death camps, but their archives proved those statement to be lies. There was an alliance with the Zionists to refuse Jewish refugees and redirect them to Palestine. And we know oh so much more. Clearly, only the “small people” have the will and ability to defend other “small people” while the “Big People” turn up their noses and look the other way. What would Mao think of his Chinese now becoming “Big People”?

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2025 20:38 utc | 20

see the 1:27 video at the second link
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1907849724515737902
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Israel killed 106 Palestinians today, including the bombing of a school where 30 children were killed & 100 wounded.
On the other hand, always on the same day today, the US carried out 36 air attacks on Yemen in support of Israel’s crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza.
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1907471407027728657
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
Gaza isn’t merely a war zone; it is a zone of genocide. Under blockade since 2007—a war crime in itself—Gaza has been frequently subjected to destruction and indiscriminate slaughter and injury of civilians. Since October ’23, the evidence of genocidal intent has become overwhelming. IT MUST BE STOPPED.
https://x.com/UNOCHA/status/1907155887338226143
UN Humanitarian @UNOCHA
⚠️⚠️⚠️
Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing Rafah under gunfire.
#Gaza continues to be one of the most dangerous places in the world.
The entry of aid has been blocked for nearly a month. Humanitarians must be allowed to deliver assistance.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 3 2025 21:04 utc | 22

Nicaragua announces its withdrawal from the International Court of Justice in The Hague proceedings against Israel.
###########
For there to be a new global order, the old one must collapse.
We get to know who is who by what they do.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 3 2025 21:12 utc | 24

Thank you for sharing that Karlof1.
I agree with her and I agree with you. There are many more of us than are easily visible.
We have a right to expect more of those with power, a human right expressed both through the UN charters and the convention against genocide.
We must continue to do whatever we can no matter how embarrassed or awkward or dejected it may make us feel. We must also live and not defeat ourselves. We must support each other and everyone everywhere who share the outrage against the genocide and be kinder despite whatever might ordinarily separate us.
Even tiny grains will eventually wear down mountains.
Seeing someone with a sign can be enough for two people to discover they share the same general opinion, it happened to me in a taxi ride nearly two weeks ago. Maybe it stops there but maybe it doesn’t, maybe it happens thousands of times each day, maybe tens of thousands or more, maybe it builds and inspires! Maybe at some point somewhere it is that little thing that finally results in something bigger.
I say this because the people we drove by would have no way of knowing (they started the conversation, they were long behind us as it continued).
My excellent cabbie said he had to turn off the radio before he picked me up because he couldn’t stand to listen to the news (about Gaza etc.) any more. That is perfectly fine, he already knew, he needed the emotional break, the respite. We eventually managed to talk about nicer things, that was what he needed and maybe I did too. But we know, we will always know.
Don’t give up. Don’t burn out. Survive, continue 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Apr 3 2025 21:17 utc | 26

Posted by: Squeeth | Apr 3 2025 21:14 utc | 25
Absolutely. Just like most of the previous ones.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2025 22:01 utc | 28

@21 LoveDonbass
“I sympathize with that argument. It is emotional and illogical.
By that rationale, the author needs to go attack a US embassy and kidnap some Americans as leverage to protect Palestinians.”
That is a ‘way out’ interpretation of what the post was saying.
These countries are not taking a stance, not calling out obvious acts as contrary to all convention, are not isolating “Israel” for its actions, are not making any motion to try to supply relief to the Palestinians.
The use of force is secondary, essentialy cannot be obligatory, and would be understood if not used. The questions raised were not about the use of force, however, and so how you managed to redirect its meaning to that lacks explanation.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 3 2025 22:40 utc | 30

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
Martyred:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Of particular focus:
Reporting from Rafah
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/madinat_khanyuns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Aggregate of reporting mainly from occupation sources, especially regarding military build up and political and statements
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/a3galazzon?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 3 2025 22:50 utc | 32

Mary@1:
I wonder how quick they can get that base ready for a potential attack on Iran? This takeover is just too conveniently timed.

Posted by: morongobill | Apr 3 2025 23:53 utc | 34

Fake News or trying to spin? Or has Iran decided to commit suicide?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 3 2025 23:24 utc | 33
Trump had agreed to indirect negotiations Iran sent a team; Trump reneged.
This is the latest I’ve seen on Iran negotiations, from earlier today:
Middle East Spectator – MES
Middle East Spectator – MES
— So, the Americans walked back some of their earlier demands. It seems we will engage in indirect negotiations and just try to drag them out as long as possible, with no result. If we’re smart, we’d work on nukes in the meantime. In any case, the outcome…
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 For those who don’t know, the Iranian demands for a new Nuclear Deal with the U.S. are basically the following:
1. The deal must be an official treaty, ratified by U.S. Congress, so that a future American President cannot unilaterally withdraw (like Trump did).
2. Before any negotiations begin, the U.S. must remove sanctions on Iran’s medical sector and others. After the deal is signed, there must be FULL sanctions relief, meaning all sanctions have to be removed, not just a few.
3. In case of a U.S. withdrawal from the deal, Iran has the right to engage an immediate ‘snap-back’ clause: Installing advanced centrifuges and beginning rapid enrichment of uranium and increasing the stockpile.
4. Iran must be allowed to reconnect to the SWIFT payment system, in order to perform international transactions.
5. Iran will be allowed to keep its nuclear program, including advanced enrichment for ‘research purposes’.
6. There will be no negotiations or limitations on Iran’s ballistic missile program or support for regional groups.
7. Iran’s financial assets that have been frozen abroad must be released.
If any of these points are not agreed to, the likelihood of a new Nuclear Deal is extremely unlikely. Many of these clauses are the result of distrust due to previous U.S. betrayal.
@Middle_East_Spectator
20.3Kviewsedited
13:11

Posted by: Mary | Apr 4 2025 1:29 utc | 36

One possibility of the publicizing the “coming bombing” of Iran is that the spies on the ground and by satellites are looking what and from where people and hardware to where are moving, – for future “smaller”, more targeted bombings, or sabotage acts.
Otherwise, it is heartbreaking how little people on the whole are able to do, or willing to do, for fear of economic consequences in their lives. Only single young people have more courage in that respect.
The “liberation day” may be the beginning of the end of the US economic prowess and this will be the end of the state of Israel, which will not help the tragedy of Palestinians today or tomorrow, but in some farther time.

Posted by: fanto | Apr 4 2025 1:45 utc | 38

39
My MP , Shabana Mahmoud, Labour Lord Chancerer, voted against Britain attacking Islamic State , now HTS, back in the days. That tells you all you need to know about what Power and Islam means in modern UK. Muslim children climbing the Lithium Greasy pole of Zionist politics in SpUK.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 4 2025 3:43 utc | 40

Typo , Shaytana Mahmoud, lol.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 4 2025 3:57 utc | 42

see the 6-second video at the first link
israel delenda est
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1907908140408119771
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
This is what Zionists do to tents housing Palestinian families.
And yet the West has the audacity to demand Iran recognize this abomination.
Never.
https://x.com/HadiNasrallah/status/1907864364381503973
Hadi @HadiNasrallah
I can’t even share the footages. They are too disturbing. More children were burned alive and blown up to shreds today in Gaza. The genocide is worse than ever and it’s expanding to the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. The world failed to stop this but we must not get used to it
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1907141811216568790
Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook
New research shows Israel’s slaughter in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War and the Ukraine War COMBINED.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2025/Journalists

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 4 2025 4:17 utc | 44

Special Report: US Dirty War on Yemen
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1907860324939874647
“Washington bombs the water supply for tens of thousands of Yemenis.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 4 2025 5:03 utc | 46

The British Labour Party after the ousting of Jeremy Corbyn by Kier Starmer is a Zionist Party , as was Tony Blair and his War on Islam before.
The US wouldn’t have invaded Iraq without Blair’s Zionist input. Britain’s Geopolitical Interests lie with Russia and Europe, not with Israel and the US.
BoJo instigated the war in Ukraine to weaken Russia, but this fatuous project has only made Russia stronger.
Starmer has used British troops in Syria to assist Islamic State , now called HTS, which was originally founded by Saudi Arabia, CIA, and trained by Israel in Jordan before attacking Mosul.
CIA mercenaries from Sunni Kurdistan who had fled Saddam Hussain to Iran were sent to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The CIA eventually lost Afghanistan, as it will also , inevitably , lose Israel.
The malicious entity driving all these wars is the European Jewish, Revisionist Zionist, Ukrainian and Polish, Neocons.
Their thesis is neither Islam nor Zionism, but Nazism. Zionism is not in the interests of Jews or Israelis. Islamism is not in the interests of Islam or Muslims.
So long as the respected MoA karlof1 diverts the blog’s attention from the Nazism that is driving USUKIS politics, we all continue to speculate about the Israeli genocide, how it can be allowed to happen.
In short , the reactionary citizens of the US have adopted Zionism , the destruction of Palestine, as the nearest approximation to Nazism, the World Hegemony to which they aspire.
The reactionary citizens of Muslim Asia have also adopted Jihadist Islamism , the destruction of the colonial Europe, as the nearest approximation to the type of World Hegemony to which they aspire.
This is not called Nazism, but it uses all the same methods as Nazism, Terror, Spying, Sectarian Hate.
The banality of evil. Churchgoers and Mosquegoers united in the destruction of an innocent scapegoat, Palestine.
It’s as primitive and sacrificial as that. Two vast communities actively celebrating passive Stone Age , Pagan rituals of human slaughter.
International Law needs to work with Russia and China to fund an opposition to this disease of World Domination (Nazism) and this disease of ritual hunan sacrifice.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 4 2025 5:11 utc | 48

Yeah, right, the US never started or starts wars it can’t win…
Posted by: Zet | Apr 3 2025 17:23 utc | 8
Posted by: Mary | Apr 3 2025 17:16 utc | 7
Usually it doesn’t matter wether the U.S loses or wins a war – their elites profit regardless.
The US only starts wars where the penalties are below a certain threshold in terms of economic cost.
A war with Iran will sink the U.S, U.K and E.U economy – probably permanently.
It will sink the economy for the elites and the peasants alike.
It is for this reason that the U.S will not *directly* initiate a war with Iran.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2025 5:14 utc | 50

Dmitry Polyanskiy gives israel hell in the latest U.N session discussing the zionist murder of medical personell:

The United Nations Security Council held a meeting Thursday to discuss the situation in the Middle East and the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Speaking for the United States, Acting Ambassador Dorothy Shea called on the Security Council to apply pressure on Hamas. Whereas, Russia blasted Israeli actions in the war-torn enclave

On Camera: Fiery Clash Between Trump Envoy & Putin Aide In UN Over Israel’s Gaza ‘Brutality’
While Russia clearly has a zionist 5th column infection it’s words like these that give me hope that maybe the Chabad operatives haven’t subverted the entire system.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2025 5:21 utc | 52

When do we stop only blaming the leaders of colonized Palestine’s nearest neighbors and start putting blame on the populations too? For 18 months Israel has been slaughtering Palestinians. The homes have been destroyed and now they are burning people in their tents. The populations of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are all watching and doing nothing. No humanitarian aid has been allowed in. What were these people praying for during Ramadan? All three countries are helping Israel bypass North Yemen’s blockade.
People have been saying only the traitorous Arab leaders support Israel but maybe the majority of the people in these countries do too. 10s of children being slaughtered every single day and nothing from these people. No demonstrations to stop the land bridges from Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Israel. No sabotages. All the food getting rotten on the Egyptian border and the population is just watching it. No demonstrations at the border everyday.
May God curse these bastards.

Posted by: Georgie | Apr 4 2025 5:43 utc | 54

To everyone who is frustrated about various institutions and governments not stepping in.
You have to be the change in the world. You don’t need to kowtow to the Zionists. You can help document their war crimes, you can help organize ideas for when the Palestinian state is finally created.
I had an idea the other day that someone should start growing olive trees so that they can be transported and planted in the Levant when the Zionists are gone. Maybe pomegranate too.
Someone very enterprising could probably register a charity to do it. Be warned, any kind of state registration may be a huge liability. The Zionists control all Western governments, as Viktor Orban reminded us today.
They will need school books, clothes, shoes, tablets, watches, etc. Hair brushes, miswaks, towels. They will have almost nothing on Day 1.
We don’t know when a Palestinian state will come to be, but we can act as though it is an inevitable and done deal. That sort of positive energy will be much more productive than posting multiple times every day about how many people have been martyred.
Stay future-oriented and hopeful.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 6:02 utc | 56

https://x.com/medeabenjamin/status/1907881054603473109
Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin
Senator @CoryBooker, in another moment of “moral clarity”, just voted to send 35,000 more bombs to Israel to kill children in Gaza.
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1907843675142410263
IsraelExposed @xIsraelExposedx
Israel bombed a school in Al Tufah, killing 30 people, mostly women and children.
Some footage is too gruesome to post, but you can find it on our telegram channel.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-aggression-on-gaza-kills-112-palestinians-in-24-hour
Israeli aggression on Gaza kills 112 Palestinians in 24 hours
The massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces within 24 hours kill 112 Palestinians amid widespread condemnations.
…..The Israeli military targeted a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City’s al-Tuffah neighborhood, killing 31 people, including women, children, and the elderly, while three others remain missing. Dozens were injured in the attack.
Among the victims were 18 children, a woman, and an elderly person, the Gaza government media office stated.
The Israeli air force also launched intense strikes on multiple schools across Gaza City, further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis…..
….Hamas condemned what it called the “heinous massacre” at Dar al-Arqam School in eastern Gaza, where thousands of displaced civilians were sheltering. The attack killed dozens and wounded over 100 people.
“This is yet another brutal crime by the fascist Israeli government, escalating its genocide against innocent civilians in Gaza,” the movement said…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 4 2025 7:12 utc | 58

see the two photos of the father and his son, at the first link.
I remember this too…..
https://x.com/cprazevedo/status/1907226585331007496
Carlos Azevedo @cprazevedo
I was in my early twenties, and I have never forgotten watching this on the news. That was the moment I started paying attention to the Palestinian cause. 1/3
For a long time, I tried to understand Israel’s position, especially regarding the trauma of the Holocaust. But I also studied what has been happening in Palestine since the 19th century — the birth of Zionism, the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, the apartheid system, and so on. 2/3
Now, with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, I just want to see Israel held accountable for this horrifying crime against humanity. 3/3
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1908056986513461592
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
NEWS: USC students have relaunched their pro-Palestinian encampment at Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University Park campus.
This comes after previous attempts were disrupted by LAPD and USC Department of Public Safety, including a major sweep of the Alumni Park encampment on April 24, 2024, after the university barred valedictorian Asna Tabassum from delivering her commencement speech due to “security concerns” related to her pro-Palestinian views.
The new encampment continues demands for USC to divest from Israel and its associated industries.
https://x.com/MariamBarghouti/status/1907849935082659933
Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti
Israel has created a population of monsters.
Monsters that have been convinced of their divinely ordained right to wage killing sprees in the name of finding their place with God.
It’s depraved. Any way you look at it, it’s depraved.
Meanwhile Palestinians are suffering at the hands of these depraved people.
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1907934711663473024
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
The United States owns 200 MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are used for reconnaissance and strike missions, and are among the most advanced drones in the world.
The Yemeni army has downed 21 MQ-9 Reaper drones, including 17 since October 7, 2023, and 4 before October 7 during the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
“More than 10% of this type of drone owned by the U.S. has been destroyed in Yemen.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 4 2025 7:31 utc | 60

Gulf Arab airspace is not necessary.
US B2 squadrons can attack Iran direct from Diego Garcia.
Israeli aircraft can route Jordan, Syria, Iraq.
But Israeli airforce knows that stealth is visible to Iran radar.
Thus they will false flag US airforce to destroy enemy air defense.
US would have to be insane. But that is the question…

Posted by: necromancer | Apr 4 2025 8:55 utc | 62

Posted by: necromancer | Apr 4 2025 8:55 utc | 62
They must be damn shure to be able to destroy Iran AD.
I would not bet on it.

Posted by: Mario | Apr 4 2025 9:44 utc | 64

Not going to happen.
All psyops.
There’s no real way for israel and the US to win this exchange
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 3 2025 17:03 utc | 5
but perhaps winning is not the goal, rather return the world to the stone age for whatever reason
“Blew the city off the map
Left nothing there but fire
The wife of Lot got turned to salt
Because she looked behind her

Posted by: natrat | Apr 4 2025 10:59 utc | 66

54 – I don’t know about Jordan, but Saudi and Egypt are certainly run by people who regard demonstrations as a threat. A demo about Palestine could turn into a demo about food prices, resentment of the government etc. etc. Even in the UK there are attempts to discourage demos, and it isn’t because the authorities think it might spill over into major unrest. How much more vulnerable are these others?

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 4 2025 11:53 utc | 68

Kevork Almassian: Thread (& vid)
https://x.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1907883453028200636
“Bombshell Israeli report claims Julani’s Syria opened backchannels with Israel, brokered by Saudi Arabia. Here’s what really happened…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 4 2025 13:54 utc | 70

Wider war in ME? None of this looks good:
———-
The Israeli army announced the expansion of its ground operation once again, this time in the northern Gaza Strip, in the Shuja’iyya area, with the aim of “expanding control and securing a security zone.”
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
————
South Korean News Agency: The United States and South Korea have agreed to temporarily transfer Patriot air defense batteries from South Korea to the Middle East.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
————-
The Wall Street Journal: Witkoff will be part of the team negotiating directly with Iran if they are held.
US officials to the WSJ: We will eliminate the Iranian nuclear program if Khamenei rejects negotiations.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
—————-
The U.S. mission to the United Nations has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stating its opposition to the renewal of Francesca Albanese’s role as UN Special Rapporteur due to allegations of ‘antisemitism.’
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
————–
Israel has turned two-thirds of Gaza into no-go zones, UN says
The latest displacement orders in Rafah and Gaza City have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee again.
Israel has now restricted Palestinians’ access to roughly two-thirds of Gaza, either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Among the restricted areas is a large swath of southern Rafah, where Israel’s military issued a new displacement order on March 31, declaring it was returning to “fight with great force”.
[…] The military push follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s threat to intensify the offensive to pressure Hamas into further concessions.
“We are now dividing the Strip and we are increasing pressure step by step so they will give us our hostages,” Netanyahu said in a video message on Wednesday.
On Friday, Israeli forces continued devastating aerial attacks, killing at least 30 people since dawn, according to local medical sources and Gaza’s civil defence agency. This followed an intense day of bombardment on Thursday that left 112 dead – many of them women and children.
Conditions inside Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, where many victims in the north were taken, are “nothing short of apocalyptic,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said after visiting the facility. […]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/israel-has-turned-two-thirds-of-gaza-into-no-go-land-un-says
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The Trump administration moved forward with the sale of more than 20,000 US-made assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the matter, pushing ahead with a sale that the administration of former president Joe Biden had delayed over concerns they could be used by extremist Israeli settlers.
The State Department sent a notification to Congress on 6 March for the $24 million sale, saying the end user would be the Israeli National Police, according to the document.
The rifle sale is a small transaction next to the billions of dollars worth of weapons that Washington supplies to Israel. But it drew attention when the Biden administration delayed the sale over concerns that the weapons could end up in the hands of Israeli settlers, some of whom have carried out attacks on Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-sending-israel-20000-assault-rifles-biden-had-delayed?nid=420023&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=543654
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Lebanon is facing increased pressure from the US in the form of an ultimatum to either disarm Hezbollah by force within a specified time period, or face a renewed Israeli war against the country, according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. 
US envoy to the region Morgan Ortagus, who praised Israel’s war against Lebanon during a speech at the Lebanese presidential palace in February, is expected to visit Lebanon in the next two days. 
This visit “carries a US message demanding the initiation of a plan to disarm Hezbollah as a condition for all other issues, from [Israeli] withdrawal to reconstruction,” Al-Akhbar reported on 3 April. 
“Threatening messages have been reaching officials that deviate from the framework of UN Resolution 1701 and carry suicidal proposals for Lebanon,” sources told the newspaper. 
According to the report, officials feel cornered and unable to circumvent US–Israeli pressure, which is pushing Lebanon to accept one of two options: “disarming [Hezbollah] by force, which would mean an internal conflict, or a new large-scale Israeli war to disarm it,” the report goes on to say. 
The sources reveal there is a possibility of a new Israeli army operation against Lebanon.
“Israel will launch a military operation within a specific timeframe, and that the Americans have given the green light for it. It is unknown whether this will occur after Ortagus’s visit or whether she will delay her visit until after the operation is carried out,” they said. 
They added that Lebanon as a whole is “living in a state of fear.” […]
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-gives-lebanon-ultimatum-to-disarm-hezbollah-or-face-war-report
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Posted by: teri | Apr 4 2025 14:16 utc | 72

Posted by: Chas | Apr 4 2025 14:31 utc | 74
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Disregard for humanity and decency amplifies as it is practiced.
Chemically castrating young boys didn’t emerge from the aether.
Without core values of decency and reverence for life, a sort of scientific brutalism emerges.
When nothing is sacred, any evil becomes possible.
Colonialism demands the mistreatment of others. The West is built on Colonialism.
Thank you for the book recommendation, as disgusting as it’s contents chronicle.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 14:43 utc | 74

see the astonishing photo at the first link
this right here is one of the great war crimes of the 21st century
israel delenda est
https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1907977286646903292
Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane
Rafah today—no buildings stand, and no people remain. A city erased.
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1907561897282654379
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Iran poses no threat to you or your country.
The Houthis pose no threat to you or your country.
Hamas poses no threat to you or your country.
Hezbollah poses no threat to you or your country.
They only pose a threat to a genocidal apartheid state which does not deserve to exist.
https://x.com/RyLiberty/status/1906883741294928263
Ryan Dawson @RyLiberty
Why is Israel allowed to send war jets into another country and bomb residential buildings?

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 4 2025 15:28 utc | 76

Corrected url for above:
https://x.com/PulaRJS/status/1908008456520380706
“We are witnessing the final murder of the Gazans…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 4 2025 15:34 utc | 78

Mary, why are you in Tel Aviv?
That terrorist child-murdering state “israel” was legally and morally illegitimate from its inception. It must be disarmed and permanently disbanded, with every member of the child-murdering forces (“idf” and “iaf”), knesset, cabinet, and “police” convicted and executed under international law.
Nobody decent should be in “israel” unless you are attacking the child-murderers or trying to bring food, water, medicine, clothes, fuel to the malnourished and degraded Pale#tinian people.
So why are you in Tel Aviv?

Posted by: Houthi n da Blowfish | Apr 4 2025 15:56 utc | 80

Posted by: necromancer | Apr 4 2025 8:58 utc | 63
Interesting that you mentioned Ras Tanura.
I went and had a look on marine traffic site to see how many ships were in the vicinity, and there is an oil tanker (V Prosperity) which has a fire fighting vessel (Najmah) alongside, where it is moored east of the main port.
I’m not sure if this is standard practice with transfers, or something is amiss.
I just thought it curious.
Freedom for Palestine! …and Yemen!

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Apr 4 2025 16:04 utc | 82

@84 Mary
In @3 Mary you might use quotes or block, because the text reads as if you are saying you are in “Israel”.
That is, if you posted @3 Mary.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 4 2025 16:19 utc | 84

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 4 2025 16:19 utc | 85
😂😂😂 And here I thought the 4 periods after the 2nd ‘graph & 4 periods leading into the 3rd ‘graph clearly indicated omitted material with quote continued.

Posted by: Mary | Apr 4 2025 16:29 utc | 86

Posted by: Mary | Apr 4 2025 16:12 utc | 84
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My sister. ❤️🇵🇸

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 16:45 utc | 88

Posted by: teri | Apr 4 2025 14:16 utc | 73
“South Korean News Agency: The United States and South Korea have agreed to temporarily transfer Patriot air defense batteries from South Korea to the Middle East.”
You brought the following to mind that I saw skimming Telegram recently:
“A massive U.S. military airlift operation is underway.
Over the past three days, more than 16 U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft have landed at Osan Air Base in South Korea before continuing to Isa Air Base in Bahrain.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the cargo includes advanced air defense systems — potentially Patriot missile batteries — being repositioned as the region braces for further escalation.”
DDGeopolitics -Telegram 31.03.2025.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Apr 4 2025 17:03 utc | 90

“Blew the city off the map
Left nothing there but fire
The wife of Lot got turned to salt
Because she looked behind her
Posted by: natrat | Apr 4 2025 10:59 utc | 67
To celebrate Lot found a cave
and got drunk with his daughters
What happened next I will not state
Save to say:
Sometimes one’s daughter can also be
one’s grand-daughter …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2025 17:16 utc | 92

Posted by: David G Horsman | Apr 4 2025 17:46 utc | 94
One Mary. I forgot to put quote marks at end & should have put more space at bottom. Next time I’ll remember to add a dividing line.
Everything below the link, from EXCLUSIVE on, is from the article.
The @Mary is the only thing not from the article.

Posted by: Mary | Apr 4 2025 18:31 utc | 94

Journalist Youssef Fares
-“The Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian Territories:
What is happening in the Gaza Strip violates humanity and law. Over the past few days, 100,000 people have been evacuated from Rafah.
We cannot access 64% of Gaza’s areas, and there is no safe place. Humanitarian aid has not entered the Gaza Strip for a month, and the humanitarian crisis is spiraling out of control.
Political action is necessary to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 200,000 people have been displaced within the Gaza Strip since the collapse of the ceasefire agreement.”
-“Gaza Municipality: The Mekorot pipeline supplying some areas of the city has been shut down. This pipeline constitutes 70% of the water supply available to the city’s residents and displaced persons.”

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 4 2025 19:02 utc | 96

The Palestinians are saying their good-byes. The Israelis are bombing so thoroughly now that nobody thinks they will live through this.
Some of the tweets and messages from this article are pasted below. What is wrong with so many humans that this is happening? I can only think that we have become completely corrupt and terminally indifferent to life itself.
Full article at:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/we-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online
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Palestinians are posting final messages and letters of farewell on social media, expressing their fear they will not survive amid the intensity of Israel’s carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip.[…]
Over the past 24 hours however, posts expressing hopelessness amid the severity and destructiveness of the attacks and fear that people in Gaza might not survive this time, have soared. […]
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Almost everyone in Gaza is posting this at the moment. People know the world has let them down and thus feel their killing is a matter of time.
“It seems we won’t make it this time.”
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1908051240988168490
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It seems we won’t survive this time. Save us, do something for us, defend us. I hope my family and I die from bombing and not starvation.
https://x.com/Mahayasir248909/status/1907564805654822918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1907564805654822918%7Ctwgr%5E8ed2caca9da6c3dc3cc1558719b95a36aaef7384%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.middleeasteye.net%2Ftrending%2Fwe-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online
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After this tweet, I have decided to stop posting permanently and bid farewell to everyone I had the honor of knowing here.
Writing has always been, and still is, my only escape from everything I feel. Amid this genocide, I decided to share what I wrote and expose the crimes of an occupation that can only be described as more horrific than any horror one could imagine—or fail to imagine.
Like any fool, I believed that my voice could make a difference. At first, I was eager, sharing everything my hands could write. But I do not know what you need to see or read to finally rise against all that is happening—not for our sake, but for your conscience, for your faith, so that you do not struggle with your conscience when you go to sleep, so that your free thoughts do not contradict your actions.
But it seems I am just another number, like the countless martyrs who have ascended to the sky. You will grow used to my absence, just as you have with the others. Perhaps I will be martyred, and you will never even know. I do not want to ask you to remember me—because that will not help me then. I will be in the hands of Allah, the Just, under whom no one is wronged.
I will not forgive.
https://x.com/OmarHamadD/status/1907887413080522766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1907887413080522766%7Ctwgr%5E8ed2caca9da6c3dc3cc1558719b95a36aaef7384%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.middleeasteye.net%2Ftrending%2Fwe-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online
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At this very moment, I’m Dr Hamza, speaking to you from the Gaza Strip.
The occupation is exterminating us all at this very moment.
The bombing is intensifying across all areas of the Strip, from north to south. Children are bereft of heads, and martyrs are dismembered, their bodies indistinguishable from their bodies. Blood is everywhere, and body parts are hanging from trees and walls.
Will you pay attention to us, even for a moment?
Will you speak for us?
Can we have a minute?
https://x.com/Hamzasharif5750/status/1907887103989502063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1907887103989502063%7Ctwgr%5E8ed2caca9da6c3dc3cc1558719b95a36aaef7384%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.middleeasteye.net%2Ftrending%2Fwe-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online
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“If I die, I am not a number, I am a planet in itself, I have dreams and ambitions that I wanted to achieve. Don’t forget me in your prayers and keep talking about me,” Dr Alsharif wrote in a post pinned to his profile since 18 March. […]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/we-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online

Posted by: teri | Apr 4 2025 19:18 utc | 98

Retry as “select all” copy skipped end of HTML. Apology.
Reporting of background realities in Jordan:
“Imprisonment of activist Abeer Al-Jamal: When support for Gaza becomes a “crime” in the eyes of the Jordanian regime” TheLensPost
Will try to hyperlink translate page as link in arabic doesn’t display well …
HREF=”https://thelenspost-com.translate.goog/%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%85-%D8%BA/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#”>Link

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 4 2025 19:33 utc | 100