Palestine Open Thread 2025-076
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Posted by b on April 10, 2025 at 12:42 UTC | Permalink
next page »Posted by: Skip59 | Apr 10 2025 13:10 utc | 1
In others' interests, lie my best interests.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 10 2025 13:41 utc | 2
I accidentally thought this was the Palestine thread
Israeli government goals remain
Keep Bibi out of jail
Prevent an election
Destroy the left wing
Increase worldwide antisemitism
Posted by: Polli | Apr 10 2025 13:53 utc | 3
Netanyahu's remarks to his cabinet after meeting with Trump:
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Channel 12:
Netanyahu to the cabinet this evening:
- We will leverage Trump's good relations with Erdogan to prevent a clash with Turkey in Syria.
- There are secret negotiations with two countries to absorb the people of Gaza as part of Trump's displacement plan.
- Iran's negotiations with the Trump administration were with Israel's knowledge, and the government supports dismantling Iran's nuclear weapons through diplomatic means first.
Israeli Defense Minister from the Mawarij axis in Rafah:
If Hamas continues to refuse to release the hostages soon, we will escalate the fighting throughout the Gaza Strip.
We will dismember the Gaza Strip, seize more territory, and include it in the security buffer zones.
We are working to advance a voluntary migration plan for Palestinians in Gaza, in accordance with Trump's vision.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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80 Palestinian prisoners released, give recounting of conditions. 10 had to be taken to the hospital immediately:
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The Israeli military has released 80 Palestinan detainees at the Israeli-controlled Kissufim crossing in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Anadolu agency is reporting, citing local sources.
According to a medical source, at least 10 of the freed prisoners were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah for treatment, as they were in such poor health.
The source reported that one of the detainees is "in a very critical condicion and unable to move," adding that his body bore "clear signs of torture".
In an interview with Al Jazeera, one of the freed prisoners reported "endless" abuse, with detainees forced to stand continuously from 7am until 11pm.
“Sometimes, they made us kneel for two or three hours straight. Anyone who moved was beaten. After that, they made us stand with our arms raised above our heads. If your arms dropped, they would beat you," he said.
“Every week, they would assault us and beat us with metal rods. Our chests and backbones are broken. Our knees too. The situation was unbearable – complete humiliation. There was no sitting, no sleeping, no food – nothing.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-releases-80-palestinian-detainees?nid=420885&topic=Gaza%2520Under%2520Attack&fid=543807
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US Feds detain attorney at airport as he and his family return from vacation. They tried to force him into giiving up his cell phone, but he refused. He was eventually released and calls the episode one of clear intimidation because he works with student protesters. Short interview:
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Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detained-by-immigration-authorities
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Posted by: teri | Apr 10 2025 13:54 utc | 4
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-the-delusion-of
Lol
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 10 2025 15:17 utc | 5
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
Reporting from Rafah
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/madinat_khanyuns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 10 2025 15:33 utc | 6
A settler propaganda proposing taking over Al Aqsa
https://t.me/youseffares19/73083
What settlers enact in practice
https://t.me/youseffares19/73066
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 10 2025 15:40 utc | 7
https://x.com/permabulla/status/1909681972630151606
🤍permabulla🤍 @permabulla
Israel having nukes is a much bigger problem than Iran having nukes
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/04/06/trump-shares-collateral-murder-style-snuff-film-on-15th-anniversary-of-collateral-murder/
Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder
President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its Red Sea attacks, writing “They will never sink our ships again!”
There is no public information about any US ships having been sunk by Houthi attacks. As of this writing there is also no evidence supporting the president’s claim that the people killed in the airstrike were combatants; there are photos online of unarmed Yemeni tribesmen standing in the exact formation seen in the video Trump posted for normal civilian gatherings.
I’ve seen many observers comparing the video Trump posted to the leaked Collateral Murder video published by WikiLeaks in 2010, which showed US servicemen firing on Iraqi civilians and journalists from Apache helicopters while laughing and joking about the carnage they were inflicting. What hasn’t received quite enough attention is the fact that Trump actually shared his Collateral Murder-style snuff film on the 15th anniversary of the day WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder.......
....Even if Trump could mass murder his way into ending the Houthi blockade, that wouldn’t be peace — at least not the kind of peace that normal, healthy people care about. It would be the kind of “peace” that exists in a room full of corpses. The kind of “peace” that exists on a slave plantation where all the slaves have been successfully whipped and tortured into obedience.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPzwxOY4-FQ
Laith Marouf: Yemen Strikes Back: Resistance Grows Stronger Than Ever!
Dialogue Works
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 16:29 utc | 8
Teri@1354 Apr 10
Thanks. The human factor is to readily overlooked.
Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 10 2025 16:34 utc | 9
see the two videos at the last link
https://x.com/yayathehun/status/1910078552009330914
yaya 🍉 @yayathehun
easiest boycott ever lol fuck u losers
https://x.com/MiddleEastMnt/status/1909952720091382151
Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt
Burger King to distribute $128,000 in vouchers to Israel soldiers
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250409-burger-king-to-distribute-128000-in-vouchers-to-israel-soldiers/
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https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1910172666385903846
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️JUST IN:
A “skunk” water cannon is spraying throughout the Issawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem. A house caught fire after being hit by a tear gas grenade.
There are no threats or targets — they’re doing it solely to torment Palestinians.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 16:58 utc | 10
For anyone interested in some concrete and neatly visualised data on the zionist holocaust: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide
This is not up-to-date, yet even without the current abhorrent atrocities it creates a geographic sense of the totality of the ongoing annihilation.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 10 2025 17:13 utc | 11
Hamas pretty much made the same damn mistake, alas!
not hitting them where it really hurts
I vote for the bases in the UAE and saudi arabia, the worst of the pro-zionist arab states.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1910229063244918802
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Yemen should stop targeting the ships and start targeting US Bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE & Qatar, before it gets too late.
These are 100% legitimate targets and hitting one of these will make Trump think twice.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 17:44 utc | 12
Important point about Indonesia's readiness to take in 1000 injured Palestinians -
Solidarity is not about removing Palestinians from danger. It is about removing the threat from Palestine — ending the occupation, the siege, and the impunity.:
by Dina Yulianti Sulaeman, assistant professor at Department of International Relations, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia and founder of Jakarta based organization Free Palestine Network (FPN).
Exc:
Humanitarianism must not be separated from political justice. Otherwise, it becomes an empty gesture or a tool of pacification and erasure.
The danger today in Palestine is not only military annihilation—it is historical erasure. Palestinians are not mere victims to be rescued and relocated; they are people with roots, memory, and resistance.
No matter how well-intentioned, every policy that removes them from their land must be scrutinized. Because every step in that direction risks fulfilling Israel's ultimate aim: a land without its indigenous people.
Solidarity is not about removing Palestinians from danger. It is about removing the threat from Palestine—ending the occupation, the siege, and the impunity.
True solidarity means standing with the Palestinian people where they are: in Gaza, in the occupied West Bank, in Jerusalem al-Quds—not taking them away from their struggle, but joining them in it.
Posted by: JB | Apr 10 2025 18:32 utc | 13
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1910395319541784714
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
A potential breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated under US supervision, appears imminent. The emerging deal reportedly includes the release of 24 surviving Israeli hostages, out of the 59 believed to remain in Gaza. The bodies of the deceased are expected to follow in subsequent stages.
Real estate developer, Trump associate and special envoy Steve Witkoff has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the fine print of the deal and acting as a guarantor for commitments toward the Palestinian side—an unusual but politically significant move that may help bridge lingering trust gaps between parties. While final terms are still being refined, all parties are under increasing pressure to finalise the agreement and end the stalemate.
https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1910323285079830737
UNRWA @UNRWA
"Every day without basic supplies, #Gaza inches closer towards very, very deep hunger," says @JulietteTouma
, UNRWA Director of Communications.
Nearly six weeks into the Israeli-imposed siege, food supplies are almost depleted, and hunger is deepening. Immediate action is crucial.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 19:17 utc | 14
Meanwhile, in London ...
Six Greenpeace activists were arrested today following a demonstration outside the US embassy in London against the continued sale of arms to Israel.
Protesters tipped 300 litres of non-toxic, biodegradable blood-red dye from containers with the words “Stop Arming Israel” written on into a large pond in front of the embassy building.
The containers were delivered to the embassy on bicycles disguised as delivery couriers.
Among those arrested was Greenpeace UK co-executive director Will McCallum, on suspicion of conspiracy to cause criminal damage, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
(The protest used biodegradable pond dye that is designed to disperse and wash away naturally. )
In a separate action, a niqab-wearing Youth Demand supporter was assaulted by a passer-by as she took part in a protest outside Holborn Station calling for a total trade embargo on Israel.
Zahra, who only wished to share her first name, was knocked out and suffered two seizures.
She said: “I think this was an Islamophobic incident. Because I’ve got a niqab and an abaya on, it’s easy to see I’m of faith.
“I will continue take action with Youth Demand — one prick won’t stop me.
“Those of us of Islamic faith have a responsibility to support our brothers and sisters in Palestine.
“It is time for niqab-wearing women to say stop the bombing and slaughter of innocent children. Stop arming Israel.”
Full article : https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greenpeace-co-leader-among-activists-arrested-pouring-blood-red-dye-outside-us
Posted by: Red Star | Apr 10 2025 19:45 utc | 15
UK - Israel lobby group Labour Friends of Israel tagged for ban on entering Israel by pro-Israel fascist group
Dark comedy as genocide-deniers targeted by even more fanatical outfit for not being apologist enough
The so-called ‘Labour Friends of Israel’ (LFI) lobby group is at risk of a ban on entering Israel after it was targeted by the fascist and even more fanatical Betar group because LFI dared criticise Israel’s decision to detain and deport two Labour MPs last week.
LFI didn’t criticise Israel’s genocide, of course – largely because, like ‘Labour’ PM Keir Starmer, it denies any genocide is happening.
Posted by: Red Star | Apr 10 2025 19:52 utc | 16
Denying food and fresh, clean water and medical supplies and electricity to the civilian populace of Gaza is a war crime alone........not counting the 100,000 civilians murdered in cold blood by the IDF...........100,000 more maimed, and tens of thousands missing.......
The list of war crimes hits just keep on coming...........how about the deliberate execution of 15 paramedics and firefighters in Rafah........and the burying of their bodies and destruction of the ambulances and fire engine too......all part of days work in the IDF, War Crimes Inc.
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 10 2025 20:19 utc | 17
On the Iran option.
If any sign of a serious attack is detected, Iran will have, for most of its arsenal of missiles, a short window of “use it or lose it”
And all those supporting the us attack are “fair game”
What would happen if all skyscrapers , harbors, power stations, oil fields and refineries suddenly go boom?
I don’t mean just Israel, l mean ksa, gulf states, turkey, even Europe in range.
Is it strange to ask?
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 10 2025 20:23 utc | 18
The absurd craziness of it all - a wanted war criminal whose engaging in genocide and has nuclear weapons, is harassing the U.S. (the country they stole the nuke tech from) to attack another country without nukes because they- might get them... and this is all presented as normal!
Posted by: Vortex | Apr 10 2025 20:44 utc | 19
EI Podcast: How Far Will Trump Back Israel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGN7X6Z4O9I
"Breaking news and analysis on day 552 of the Gaza genocide."
Essential viewing.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 10 2025 21:44 utc | 20
Michaelj72 @8
Who the hell is Trump to say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon
I think Iran should come out with six guns blasting at the UN:
Israel must get rid of its nukes first.
The world knows that Israel is a rabid dog of a state.
The world knows that they have nukes, and where they got them: Technology stolen from the USA. Possibly connected to JFK assassination as JFK wntaed to inspect Dimona and was bigly pissed off at David Gruen (Ben Gurion) for stonewalling the USA.
The USA has no standing to order Iran around about its self-defense while threatening to attack it.
When is someone just going to say this to Trump's and Net's faces?
When will Iran get some balls, like North Korea?
As for Russia, can we infer that there is a powerful Zionist fifth column there as well.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 10 2025 21:50 utc | 21
I don’t mean just Israel, l mean ksa, gulf states, turkey, even Europe in range.
Is it strange to ask?
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 10 2025 20:23 utc | 18
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No it is not strange to ask. First to go: US bases within range.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 10 2025 21:52 utc | 22
Posted by Vortex/ Apr 10 2025 20:44 utc/19
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing." - John Stuart Mill
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 10 2025 21:52 utc | 23
More info on some old news (as in, more than 24 hours ago)...Excerpts may seem a bit long-ish, but what the hell. Better to know the truth when it shows up instead of going around all half-assed and uninformed. Skip if the length is too much. I will never know. LOL.
Eva Bartlett wrote an opinion piece on RT regarding the medics killed 10 days ago in Palestine. This article is interesting because she goes into details of the years when she was in Gaza and witnessed firsthand how the IDF targetted first responders. There are a few new details in the most current massacre of medics that I have not seen reported anywhere else before now.
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How Israel hunts and executes Palestinian medics
The Israeli army has executed 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza, buried them and lied about them being “terrorists.” For those paying attention, this barbarism is not new, only the latest war crime committed by Israel in a litany of war crimes over the decades.
[…] On March 31, Jonathan Whittall, the Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) posted on X, “First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances.”
His thread went on to detail how a week prior, on March 23, contact was lost with ten Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and six Civil Defense first responders, in five ambulances and one fire truck, who’d been dispatched to collect injured people, noting, “For days, OCHA coordinated to reach the site but our access was only granted 5 days later.”
When they finally accessed the site, they “recovered the buried bodies of 8 PRCS, 6 Civil Defense and 1 UN staff,” he wrote, noting, “They were killed in their uniforms. Driving their clearly marked vehicles. Wearing their gloves. On their way to save lives. This should never have happened.”
Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, separately said, “One of the Civil Defense crews had his feet tied, another had his clothes removed from his upper body, ANOTHER WAS BEHEADED [caps: Teri] Among all the martyrs, the least harmed had 20 bullets fired at him, in his chest.”
According to the PRCS, a ninth EMT is missing and is believed to have been detained. [Teri: There were 15 bodies in total found; there should have been 16. They found the bodies of 8 EMTs out of the 9 Palestinian Red Crescent medics that were in the ambulances that evening.]
[…] The Guardian cites PRCS’ Dr. Bashar Murad, who spoke to one of the paramedics in the convoy:
“He informed us that he was injured and requested assistance, and that another person was also injured. A few minutes later, during the call, we heard the sound of Israeli soldiers arriving at the location, speaking in Hebrew. ‘Gather them at the wall and bring some restraints to tie them.’ This indicated that a large number of the medical staff were still alive.”
The Israeli army media spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, predictably denied Israeli army wrong-doing and blamed Hamas, claiming the ambulances were “advancing suspiciously” toward Israeli forces. He declared the execution of the medics be an elimination of “a Hamas military operative, along with 8 other terrorists from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.”
[…] In January, I wrote about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian doctor from northern Gaza abducted and imprisoned by the Israeli army last December. In that article I noted that three doctors from Gaza in Israeli prisons had already been tortured to death in the last year plus, and that there is grave concern for Dr. Abu Safiya’s life.
Since then, other Palestinian hostages released from Israeli detention have confirmed Dr. Abu Safiya is being tortured. More recently, the Israeli Beersheba Court has issued a six-month administrative detention order for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, administrative detention being the means Israel uses to imprison Palestinians without charge.
The abduction and torture of Palestinian doctors is another aspect of Israel’s all-out attack on Gaza’s health system. It is part of Israel’s attacks on Palestinians themselves, depriving them of life-saving care, part of the decades-long policy of killing Palestinians by every means possible, including by preventing the entry of medical equipment and food, starving Palestinians who escaped bombs and sniping.
I will post the same rhetorical question I’ve posed ad nauseam: What would the international reaction be like if it were Russia point-blank assassinating uniformed, unarmed medics? It would be non-stop 24/7 howling in corporate media, victims faces and stories spoken of, demands for more sanctions... […]
By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
https://www.rt.com/news/615480-palestine-israel-medics-hunt/
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Trump has not, to my knowledge, said anything about the American-Palestinian boys shot in the West Bank last Sunday night. It happened the evening before Trump's meeting with Netanyahu on Monday. I don't think any media people asked about the subject during the press Q and A later. Turns out, Israel rather routinely murders American-Palestinians. The US never objects much.
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Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, according to Palestinian officials, after the Israeli military said it targeted a group throwing stones at cars.
Ramallah governor Laila Ghannam said the 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy was shot dead by Israeli troops in the village of Turmusaya. Two other Palestinian-American boys, ages 14 and 15, were injured in the incident, according to the mayor of Turmusaya, Lafi Shalabi.
The Israeli military said its soldiers opened fire during a counterterrorism operation in Turmusaya when they saw three “terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving.”
The soldiers killed one and hit the other two, the military said.
The military shared a blurry video purportedly showing the incident, in which three figures are seen. At the end of the short clip, one of the figures appears to hurl an object. The Israeli military said it would continue operating in the West Bank “to protect the residents in the area.”
The injured boys were shot in the abdomen, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
One severely injured boy and another with minor wounds were taken to a hospital in Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said.
The killing of a Palestinian-American teenager came just hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in the United States to meet President Donald Trump. On Monday a US State Department spokesperson confirmed the death of a US citizen in the West Bank, offered condolences to the family and noted the death “occurred during a counter-terrorism operation” and that the Israeli military was investigating.
“Out of respect for the privacy of the family during this difficult time, we have no further comment at this time,” the spokesperson said.
[…] The [murdered - word added - Teri] teenager grew up in New Jersey, according to Governor Phil Murphy, who expressed his condolences for the boy’s family.
[…] The killing or detention of American citizens in occupied Palestinian territories by Israelis and concerns about a lack of accountability date back years. In 2003, American activist Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to block it from razing Palestinian homes in Gaza. Nine years later, an Israeli civil court ruled her death an accident.
In spring 2022, prominent Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting in the West Bank. That November, Defense Minister Benny Gantz confirmed that Israel would not cooperate with a US probe into her death. A CNN investigation suggested that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces, despite wearing a vest marked “Press.”
In February last year, Florida-born US citizen Mohammed Khdour, 17, was killed by Israeli forces who shot him in the head while he was in his car. The teenager was taking the car out during a study break, snacking on chocolate waffles, posing for Instagram.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) referred questions about Khdour’s case to the Israeli Security Agency, known as the Shin Bet, which did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Three weeks before Khdour’s death, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old Palestinian-American who grew up in Louisiana, was also shot in the head by apparent Israeli gunmen. The IDF told CNN they received a report that an off-duty police officer and an Israeli civilian shot at a Palestinian “suspected of throwing stones” – which his family vehemently denied – and that the Israeli Police were investigating the shooting. […]
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The CNN article above left out Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. About her, from an article in Wikipedia:
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old woman from Seattle, who was shot dead Sept. 6, 2024, by an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israeli West Bank settlements, according to an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting.
[...] After President Biden endorsed the conclusion from the Israeli initial investigation that Eygi's death was accidental, the victim's partner, Hamid Ali, reiterated the family's skepticism and added that neither President Biden nor the White House has contacted the family since the activist's death. The family said of President Biden's remark that it "is not only insensitive and false, it is complicity in the Israeli military’s agenda to take Palestinian land and whitewash the killing of an American." [...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ayşenur_Eygi
Posted by: teri | Apr 10 2025 22:06 utc | 24
Pay attention:
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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests.
The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.
Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.
He said that while Khalil's activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
“Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective," Rubio wrote in the undated memo.
The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.
Attorneys for Khalil said the memo proved the Trump administration was “targeting Mahmoud’s free speech rights about Palestine.” [...]
https://news.yahoo.com/pressed-evidence-against-mahmoud-khalil-173708087.html
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Posted by: teri | Apr 10 2025 22:22 utc | 25
Bibi had to sack 100 IDF pilots who wrote a letter resisting deployment and who had criticized the government.
They are trying to keep a lid on it domestically.
UNTENABLE.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 23:29 utc | 26
No it is not strange to ask. First to go: US bases within range.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 10 2025 21:52 utc | 22
Even Al Udeid will be probably emptied if the us goes for anything serious..
The other targets can't go anywhere...
Cyprus and turkey might be worth a shot...
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 10 2025 23:54 utc | 27
Posted by: teri | Apr 10 2025 22:22 utc | 25
I remember discussion here a week ago or so that Mahmoud Khalil may not be the martyr he is portrayed as in the media.
from the Wikispookia about his arrest:
Khalil then spent years working for the British government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, managing the Chevening Scholarship from the British embassy in Beirut and supporting diplomats with his language skills and local knowledge.
Humm.
Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 11 2025 0:28 utc | 28
An in-depth analysis of Qatargate. I can't imagine a better video on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGmaHwJ9Jo
Interestingly, Iran will indirectly negotiate with the US in Oman rather than Doha, Qatar, where most regional negotiations usually occur.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 0:51 utc | 29
RE: Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 19:17 utc | 14
Thx for report, how silly of them, there is no “stalemate”, just a genocide, and Witkoff was the signature “guarantor” last “ceasefire”, that USReal breached.
Let all the “hostages” die, and carry on, as Gazans will maybe get food for 2 whole weeks after “hostages” released, then back to the fattened slaughter.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 11 2025 1:06 utc | 30
From ZH
Trump Suggests Israel Would 'Lead' Possible Attack On Iran
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"If it requires military, we’re going to have military," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, responding to a question on whether US would attack if a nuclear deal isn't reached with the Iranians....
This begs the obvious question of whether anyone should be listening to him now on the question of Iran and its nuclear program.Trump addressed this in adding to his Oval comments: "Israel will obviously be very much involved in that — it’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do."
However, this appears a clear admission that Israel would indeed 'lead' any such attack. Israel has for years threatened preemptive strikes on the Islamic Republic if it's believed Tehran is close to producing a nuclear warhead.
I guess we wait until Saturday, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 11 2025 1:47 utc | 31
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 11 2025 1:47 utc | 31
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I hope a bunch of Israeli and American planes (death machines) get destroyed. That should take the starch out of their pants.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 1:53 utc | 32
RE: “I guess we wait until Saturday, eh?”
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 11 2025 1:47 utc | 31
Long after Saturday. More gaslighting & threats first.
Or no matter what happens, Trump will say: We’re making some progress”…
I’d like to see… USReal “lead”…
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 11 2025 4:09 utc | 33
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1909856869486637524
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
The Yemenis shot down an US Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper last night in Al-Jawf Governorate.
The drone was shot down using a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile
The third one in 10 days ($32 million x 3)
https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1909219949932888532
Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI
Since Israel recommenced their exterminationist “war” on Gaza March 18 none of the “agenda setting” Sunday shows—ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, CNN’s State of the Union—have mentioned Gaza once. It’s just disappeared from the Washington Discourse
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1909806619732344864
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
BREAKING: Israel systematically rapes Palestinian hostages and forces them to perform sex acts on each as they watch and tape it. The BBC which fabricated the rape hoax that enabled this intentionally buried this deep in their article
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1909807585718382861
every single line fabricated as part of the rape hoax by the NYT, BBC's Lucy Williamson, Guardian's Bethan McKernan, Washington Post's Shira Rubin, is now actually being done systematically to Palestinian children, girls, boys, women and men. They did this
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1903591309094371620
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
BREAKING: New evidence presented at the UN confirms Palestinian women are being gang-raped by Israelis who videotape it as they do it. Not a single Western media outlet that fabricated and spread the genocidal atrocity propaganda rape hoax have reported on this actual mass rape....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 4:35 utc | 34
The big issue w/ regard to Iran—it’s not a question whether or not they’re building bomb. The problem is that Iran has the capability of enriching uranium & plutonium in order to make a bomb. Israel wants to nullify the possibility of Iran ever building a bomb.
But Iranians have made it manifestly clear that they are not going to give up their ability to enrich uranium & plutonium. Bombing Iran would require a massive undertaking for the U.S. right now. The Israelis want the U.S. to wreck Iran as the U.S. wrecked Syria.
Israel's demand---that Iran *cannot* have nuclear weapons---has to be a Libya-style mandate, where the U.S. goes in to emasculate Iran, removing all missiles, all defense.
Iran, China, Russia and North Korea understand that DJT is a loose cannon; this encourages them to fortify their support for each other. If the U.S. bombs Iran, the Russians will continue to stock Iran w/ defensive weapons. Both China and Russia will forcefully & publicly support Iran diplomatically.
But if the U.S. and Israel destroy Iran’s oil facilities, Iran will destroy oil facilities across the Middle East.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 11 2025 5:27 utc | 35
how do you guys see anything getting any better? If "the west" starts to lose unipolarity, won't it just take out the whole world in the process? if the west doesn't take out the whole world, then doesn't the ROW just destroy the west slowly/eventually? is that really any better? what are the different (good, bad, neutral) possible world outcomes?
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 5:39 utc | 36
I have to say, hypocrisy and corruption are pretty much par for the course both for Western politicians/politics and among the Media Elites as well... But israel really does take the cake in all these departments, including that of savagery and depravity
below, one of the many 100s of thousands of reasons to abolish israel:
https://x.com/wyattreed13/status/1910434027536101706
Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13
Imagine the pearl-clutching if an Israeli prisoner came back from Gaza with a crescent and star shaved into their head.
The endless faux outrage. The nonstop holocaust comparisons. The inevitable Netflix documentary. It would be drilled into our brains every day for years.
https://x.com/cherinoblossom/status/1910369283370033388
cнёяї @cherinoblossom
They carved a six-pointed star on his head during imprisonment, you can still see it.
The liberated prisoner Mus'ab Qatawi from Qalqilya.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 6:02 utc | 37
I begin with a new Palestine Resistance Tally for 2025:
IDF casualty tally as of Sunday 11/04/2025:
- Merkava: 1 destroyed (+1 ), n/a approximate damaged, n/a targeted (unchanged)
- Narmer n/a
- Other Armoured Vehicle: n/a
- Officers ~ 6
- Bulldozers 1 destroyed
- Weapons Trucks n/a
- Missile/Drone Strikes on Israel: 3
- Fighter Jets (as of 22/12/2024) : n/a
- Yemeni attacks on Zionist Shipping 0
- Yemeni attacks on US Navy Ships ~ 32 (average 2 per week for 4 months)
- Yemeni strikes on US Drones 17
- Yemeni strikes on US Aircraft 1
Commentary:
There have been very few direct engagements between Palestinian fighters and the IDF in Gaza in the past 3 months as the IDF appears to be afraid to engage Hamas directly on the ground. They've been moving in buffer regions or making heavy use of air strikes.
For contrast, for historical note, this was my last recorded tally from 2024:
IDF casualty tally as of Sunday 23/12/2024:
- Merkava: 275 destroyed (+1 ), 710 approximate damaged, 1 targeted (unchanged)
- Narmer (As of 8/12/2024): 4 (+2)
- Other Armoured Vehicle (As of 8/12/2024): 3 destroyed (unchanged), 2 damaged (+2), n/a targeted
- Officers (As of 8/12/2024): 56 eliminated (+3)
- Bulldozers (As of 8/12/2024): 1 (unchanged)
- Weapons Trucks (As of 8/12/2024): 3 (unchanged)
- Missile/Drone Strikes on Israel (As of 8/12/2024): 6 (unchanged)
- Fighter Jets (as of 22/12/2024) : 1 (unchanged)
- Yemeni attacks on Zionist Shipping (As of 8/12/2024): 0 Destroyed (unconfirmed) damaged 6 targeted.
At that time the IDF was still under the impression that it could fight Hamas face-to-face on the ground.
However 2024 proved that the IDF is not a match for either Hezbollah or the AQB, PFLP or any of the resistance factions in ground combat. They had to resort to heavy reliance on air power.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 11 2025 8:02 utc | 38
teri 25 - many thanks for the reports on these continuing war crimes. Your comprehensive detailing of these horrific incidents is always welcome, and hopefully folks will disseminate widely.
Unfortunately the MSM has chosen to ignore these war crimes, so we must do their jobs....spread the word.........
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 11 2025 11:35 utc | 39
Macron just stated that he will recognize Palestine soon.
I'm perplex ; why did baby Rothschild said that ? (also he had done nothing official yet ...)
Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 11 2025 11:47 utc | 40
how do you guys see anything getting any better? If "the west" starts to lose unipolarity, won't it just take out the whole world in the process? if the west doesn't take out the whole world, then doesn't the ROW just destroy the west slowly/eventually? is that really any better? what are the different (good, bad, neutral) possible world outcomes?
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 5:39 utc | 36
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I for one do NOT see “anything getting better”.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 11 2025 11:59 utc | 41
Macron just stated that he will recognize Palestine soon.
I'm perplex ; why did baby Rothschild said that ? (also he had done nothing official yet ...)
Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 11 2025 11:47 utc | 40
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If by “recognizing Palestine” he means recognizing the quisling (and illegal) PA regime, the gesture is worse than meaningless.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 11 2025 12:00 utc | 42
michaelj72 34
Islam has always dealt with Crusader tape by sweeping it under the carpet. The Ummah is used to it.
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 11 2025 12:23 utc | 43
Behind the lines
"On the effectiveness of the current negotiating approach of the Palestinian resistance.
Negotiations with the Zionist enemy can no longer tolerate the approach followed since the outbreak of the last war. Following the recent military escalation, the rules of military and political engagement have changed, and it has become imperative that negotiations themselves become a bargaining chip in the hands of the resistance, rather than merely a path to achieving gradual demands that would culminate in a ceasefire.
In the absence of any additional bargaining chips on the enemy—except for the strategic assets the resistance currently possesses, such as prisoners, weapons, the will to fight, and popular steadfastness— negotiations themselves must become a pivotal tool of pressure . Negotiators must be protected from populist sentiment or media pressure under the weight of the unprecedented genocide, suffering, and pain our people are experiencing. This is to ensure that the supreme national interest is not compromised or that rash concessions are made that would gradually distance us from the path to stopping the war.
It is imperative that the Zionist military escalation be confronted with greater intransigence and harsher conditions , so that the price the enemy must pay rises with each round of escalation. This approach creates accumulated internal pressure within the Zionist entity, ultimately pushing it to accept the conditions previously proposed, if not higher ones.
The greatest danger lies in allowing the enemy to monopolize the card of military and political escalation. A weak or flexible response to this escalation will gradually weaken the negotiating position , opening the door to offering piecemeal concessions under the weight of constant pressure. This will distance us completely from the path to stopping the war and bring our people closer to facing forced displacement with their backs exposed—a scenario that must be avoided at all costs.
For example, sitting down for negotiations itself must be treated as a pressure card . Furthermore, the ceiling of demands in the face of military operations must be raised, such as increasing the number of prisoners to be released and introducing new conditions, such as demanding financial compensation for the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and civilian homes.
All these elements turn negotiations into a true battlefield, transforming the negotiating table itself into a weapon against criminals devoid of any human or moral sense. Dealing with them becomes all about force, because that's the only language they understand and obey."
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 11 2025 12:27 utc | 45
Macron 's
'Spot of bother on the North West Fromtier darling ', moment
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 11 2025 12:33 utc | 46
@42 malenkov
EU just pledged over a billion to PA.
Seems like US Riviera and full occupation takeover is the baton being used to usher Gaza into PA/"Int. Community" hands. That said, there are those that are serious about the "Greater Israel" project and a US Gaza.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 11 2025 12:33 utc | 47
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 5:39 utc | 36
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I for one do NOT see “anything getting better”.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 11 2025 11:59 utc
It will be good enough for me if the misery becomes evenly spread between the Empire and its victims. That's all I'm really asking for at this point.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 11 2025 12:42 utc | 48
"Israeli government goals remain
Keep Bibi out of jail
Prevent an election
Destroy the left wing
Increase worldwide antisemitism" while, simultaneously, making it illegal.
Posted by: Migmaw | Apr 11 2025 12:43 utc | 49
Yemen should stop targeting the ships and start targeting US Bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE & Qatar, before it gets too late.
These are 100% legitimate targets and hitting one of these will make Trump think twice.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 17:44 utc | 12
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Excellent point. Those stationary targets at US bases should be easier to hit and cause extensive damage. They are such obvious targets that there must be a good reason why Yemen doesn't attempt to hit them. Maybe Iran is holding them back. Yet it seems all the resistance forces hesitate to strike crippling blows against the empire.
Posted by: Chas | Apr 11 2025 12:44 utc | 50
I'm perplex ; why did baby Rothschild said that ? (also he had done nothing official yet ...)
Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 11 2025 11:47 utc | 40
He expects that very soon there'll be nothing but a plot of land the size of a graveyard to "recognise" as a state and only bones where once a nation existed.
He imagines to then be able to say:
Quel dommage, il ne reste plus grand-chose… mais je te reconnaîtrai quand même. Ainsi va la vie.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 11 2025 12:46 utc | 51
EU just pledged over a billion to PA.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 11 2025 12:33 utc | 47
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The joke being that any money pledged to the pockets of Abbas and his gang has to go through the Zioterrorist entity first, which decides when or whether to disburse any of it.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 11 2025 12:47 utc | 52
Posted by: Chas | Apr 11 2025 12:44 utc | 50
I'm guessing everything is done to irritate & illuminate the empire's weakness, but not drive the Emperor to a nuclear rage.
Posted by: Mary | Apr 11 2025 13:24 utc | 53
"....will test Washington’s goodwill and seriousness"
the current political leadership of Iran is run by a bunch of fools
the real tragedy of all this so-called 'diplomacy' is that it gives israel, the USA and the UK et al. time to slaughter 10s of thousands more Palestinians, which Iran could have done something about by, you know, actually (partially) de-militarizing israel with its True Promise III - but nooooooo the current President of Iran is a numbskull who believes the words of the trumpsters. the USA is agreement incapable, and Iran and the Palestinians will pay for it, too. again....
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/11/745942/Iran-says-Saturday-talks-test-US-goodwill
Iran says ‘giving diplomacy a genuine chance’ with Oman talks
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says upcoming indirect talks between the Islamic Republic and the US on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program will test Washington’s goodwill and seriousness.
“In earnest and with candid vigilance, we are giving diplomacy a genuine chance,” Baghaei said in a post on social media platform X on Friday, a day before the start of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington in Oman......
....On Tuesday, Araghchi said the Saturday talks are an opportunity to test the seriousness of the US, “which has a long history of non-commitment and unilateralism."....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 13:31 utc | 54
@ tobias cole | Apr 11 2025 11:35 utc | 39
I just found out this morning that the American-Palestinian boy who was killed by the IDF as a "terrorist" for throwing rocks in the West Bank (see my @ #24) was shot 11 times. Eleven bullets at one 14-year-old child. No reporting on how many bullets struck the other two kids who were also American-Palestinians and who were wounded. Must have been a real hail of bullets, though.
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"Khalil then spent years working for the British government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, managing the Chevening Scholarship from the British embassy in Beirut and supporting diplomats with his language skills and local knowledge.
Humm."
Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 11 2025 0:28 utc | 28
@ lex talionis,
Khalil should not be deported for expressing support for Palestine. Period. As far as his curriculum vitae, so he spent a few years helping to manage a scholarship program and doing translation for the Brits. That only speaks to his language and diplomatic skills. It does not make him a covert self-hating Muslim, or double agent, or some such shit.
All I know about Wikispookia is that anyone can enter data there. From a brief perusal, it looks like a hotbed of rumors and a limited hangout. But to repeat my point, there is nothing nefarious about Khalil working for an embassy.
The original source suggesting that he must be a British agent and not sincere in his support for Palestine came from The Gateway Pundit. This is a far-right fake news outlet that is well documented as publishing hoaxes and falsehoods. I wouldn't trust that source any further than I could sling a piano.
Take care,
Teri
Posted by: teri | Apr 11 2025 13:36 utc | 55
see the 7:33 video at the first link
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1910292311969251601
IsraelExposed @xIsraelExposedx
Jewish filmmaker, and son of holocaust survivor, Andrew Feinstein, breaks down the holocaust happening right now in Gaza.
'If it walks like a fascist, if it talks like a fascist, and if it kills children like a fascist, then it is a fascist.'
#GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #gaza
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1910216438104707496
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱BREAKING:
970 Israeli Air Force reservists have called for an end to the war on Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli captives, stating that the war is being driven by personal political interests (a reference to Netanyahu).
They published their names in a public statement, and the military has threatened to dismiss them if they don’t back down—despite the ongoing shortage of trained personnel and the long training time required to replace them.
https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1910088485345648979
Prem Thakker @prem_thakker
Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 13:56 utc | 56
Very raw, unabashed article, specifically addressing Arab nation’s contributions & future plans with Israel at helm.
Worth a thorough read.
Although, it’s a stomach turner.
https://thecradle.co/articles/gulf-backed-genocide-how-arab-monarchies-fuel-israels-war-machine
“Gulf-backed genocide: How Arab monarchies fuel Israel’s war machine from weapons and trade to logistics and espionage, Persian Gulf monarchies are quietly underwriting the occupation state’s war on Gaza and its broader regional aggressions.”
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 11 2025 14:02 utc | 57
https://x.com/SammyObeid/status/1909291490381021316
Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid
When did I know that journalism is dead? When I literally watched a journalist burn alive because Israel bombed a tent next to a hospital in Gaza and the only reason I saw is because I have Instagram
https://x.com/danielgoyal/status/1908641351010254872
Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal
When the dust settles, it will be clear to all what happened in Gaza.
Spin won’t work anymore
Sound bites will be meaningless
It will be recorded in history as a genocide
And everyone who defended it will be remembered as traitors to humanity!
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https://x.com/berningman16/status/1910194218322346469
Empire Of Lies @berningman16
The USA is ISIS with B2 bombers
https://x.com/Almutawakkil560/status/1910045411902960086
محمد عبدالملك - Mohamed @Almutawakkil560
Yesterday, America targeted an ancient archaeological fortress that sits atop one of the mountains in the capital, Sana'a, with a series of airstrikes carried out by the American B2 bombers. The fortress is older than both America and Israel.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 15:05 utc | 58
….. Yesterday, America targeted an ancient archaeological fortress that sits atop one of the mountains in the capital, Sana'a, with a series of airstrikes carried out by the American B2 bombers……
A tell that the Pentagon has no good intel on what to target. Blindly bombing what appears to be a fortress from aerial photos - what a bunch of palookas
Posted by: Exile | Apr 11 2025 15:54 utc | 59
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 5:39 utc | 36
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I for one do NOT see “anything getting better”.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 11 2025 11:59 utc
It will be good enough for me if the misery becomes evenly spread between the Empire and its victims. That's all I'm really asking for at this point.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 11 2025 12:42 utc | 48
that's a funny way to describe a more ideal world situation. and maybe there's a way there can be less brutality in the future, but how? when brutality is the "easier" option for those in power, in a finite world with limited resources
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 16:42 utc | 60
This article makes no sense.
Maybe misprint.
Even so, Russian rats everywhere…
https://tass.com/world/1942399
“IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
11 APR, 07:28
“Iranian president asks Khamenei to change his position on talks with US — newspaper”
Highlight(?):
“NEW YORK, April 11. /TASS/. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian asked Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to mitigate his position on talks with the **United Nations, ** (? States?) The New York Times said, citing senior Iranian officials.“
“. At the same time, Khamenei set some conditions for talks. Thus, he permitted to discuss Tehran’s nuclear program, including potential monitoring mechanisms, but said that the missile program is part of the country’s defense system and is not subject for discussion.”
Article never really states what Pezeshkian actually asked Khomeini to do or relax.
“Oman will host the first round of consultations between US and Iranian delegations on April 12. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff will be the chief negotiators.”
What a coincidence, Witkoff & Putin in huddle today, one day prior to Oman meeting.
God forbid there is another Russian orchestrated “deal”…
In any event, think entire article a lie. A Russian/USReal tactic to act like there is a divide between Pezeshkian & Khomeini. There well may be in areas of domestic policy, however, Foreign Policy is Khomeini’s domain, and he and his IRGC have made a point upon installing Pezeshkian that if he should mess around with it, he’ll be gone.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 11 2025 17:42 utc | 61
Meet El Salvador president- the president of the TerrorPrisons
Bukele condemned the 7 October attacks, describing Hamas as "savage beasts" who "do not represent the Palestinians", comparing the group to MS-13. He tweeted that "the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear".[217]
He added that another street would be named in honor of Castellanos, who provided fake Salvadoran passports to 40,000 Central European Jews to help them escape the Holocaust;[22] Bukele renamed 89 Avenida Norte in honor of Castellanos in June 2016.[25]
Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians who immigrated to El Salvador from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1921; his maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox, and his maternal grandmother was Catholic.[4]
Hans kone:
Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez Perezalonso[2] was born on 31 March 1985 in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.[3][4] She is the youngest of four daughters and her husband has claimed she has Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 11 2025 18:02 utc | 62
CrossTalk: Countdown to War?
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/615562-trump-iran-military-attack
"The Trump administration along with Israel clearly appear to be preparing for a showdown with Iran.
Essentially, Iran must surrender its sovereignty or face a massive military attack.
Washington is demanding the impossible. Conflict seems inevitable.
CrossTalking with Georgio Cafiero, Scott Ritter, and Sami Al-Arian."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 18:33 utc | 63
An in-depth analysis of Qatargate. I can't imagine a better video on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGmaHwJ9Jo
Interestingly, Iran will indirectly negotiate with the US in Oman rather than Doha, Qatar, where most regional negotiations usually occur.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 0:51 utc | 29
Thanks for the link. It's been a while since I've seen such a succinct analysis, I added the channel to my bookmarks.
Posted by: Autumn | Apr 11 2025 18:58 utc | 64
Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign To Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook & Instagram
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
"A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel - or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians - was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
The data shows that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023.
Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far and Meta has followed suit - widening the net of posts it automatically removes and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history..."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 19:08 utc | 65
AIPAC should've been registered as a foreign entity decades ago, as once stated by a former POTUS - now it has far too much influence in Washington.
"The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe – and how it believes it can gain “access” to their internal discussions."
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/09/aipac-access-trump-natsec-officials-leaked/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 11 2025 19:10 utc | 66
Yemeni view of Red Sea Operations...
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1910606784357917181
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 19:24 utc | 67
'Shoot to kill': Israeli soldier shares directives on Gaza ‘kill zone’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsSxsRiAvI (lenght: 4 minutes)
Posted by: WMG | Apr 11 2025 19:27 utc | 68
https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1910635810908500400
Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod
“I take this opportunity, once again, to condemn, from the depths of my soul, the State of Israel. Damn you, State of Israel. You are terrorists and assassins. Long live the good and heroic Palestinian people” - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela 🇻🇪.
23 years ago today, the United States launched a coup d'etat against Chavez.
The plan failed, after over 1 million people rose up and filled central Caracas, spurring loyal army units to retake the presidential palace and free Chavez.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1910642012962857216
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Some Saudi accounts deny that their ports are used to supply the USS Truman in the Red Sea.
The Bombs/Missiles for the aircraft carrier and destroyers are delivered in Yanbu 🇸🇦 and then loaded in US Navy's Ships.
The process has been observed in satelite imagery many times.
The USS Truman stays in that area also because it gets daily supplies from the Saudi ports of Jeddah & Yanbu.
USA couldn't do anything in the region without the direct participation of Arabs.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 11 2025 19:29 utc | 69
The dogs used by Israeli forces are usually provided by other countries, most notably the Netherlands. It continues to amaze me how many countries willingly participate in such grotesque enterprises. It's not only immoral, illegal and repugnant toward humans, but also to the animals. The article below has some explicit examples of how the dogs are used; I have cut the article short, but it is horrendous stuff.
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Palestinian Territory – The Dutch government bears direct legal responsibility for complicity in the crimes committed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory—particularly in the Gaza Strip—due to its continued direct and indirect support for Israel’s war apparatus.
The Netherlands has persisted in exporting military dogs to the Israeli army and other security agencies in the region, despite their use as tools of torture and systematic terror against Palestinians. These dogs are deployed as part of Israel’s broader system of domination, aimed at dehumanising Palestinians and erasing their presence.
According to the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Dutch companies obtained veterinary certificates to export 110 dogs to Israel between October 2023 and February 2025. Of these dogs, 100 were allocated to the company Four Winds K9, a dog training centre based in the Dutch village of Heeze. SOMO indicates that the company has a long-standing record of exporting dogs to Israel.
Notably, Dutch lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld filed a legal complaint against Four Winds K9 in 2017. Leaked documents later revealed that the Israeli Ministries of Defence and Justice intervened to defend the company, providing legal support through Dutch law firms in an effort to shield it from accountability for aiding Israeli crimes.
This close coordination between Israeli state institutions, Dutch legal entities, and Four Winds K9 illustrates a transnational network of deliberate complicity that is actively fuelling Israel’s machinery of killing and oppression. The arrangement ensures the continued supply of military dogs to units directly implicated in serious violations of international law.
Field investigations conducted by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor have recorded numerous cases in which Israeli forces used military dogs to attack Palestinian civilians, including children, the elderly, and the sick. The reports document incidents of dogs mauling corpses, terrorising families, and torturing detainees, including horrific acts of sexual violence involving dogs. These grave violations demand an immediate halt to all military-related exports, a thorough investigation into the Dutch role in supporting the aforementioned crimes, and the prosecution of entities found to be complicit in enabling Israel’s ongoing breaches of international law.
Israeli forces have been systematically using large military dogs during their assaults in the Gaza Strip, particularly during raids on homes, hospitals, and shelters, as well as in operations carried out in the West Bank.
These dogs are employed in a variety of ways against civilians, including being outfitted with surveillance cameras on their backs to scout buildings before they are stormed by the Israeli army. More disturbingly, they are unleashed to attack civilians, repeatedly mauling their bodies during raids. According to documented testimonies, Israeli soldiers often remain passive during these attacks and, in many cases, directly command the dogs to attack Palestinian civilians before mocking the victims as they suffer.
[...]As per the field team’s documentation, the most egregious use of military dogs has been directed at Palestinian detainees and prisoners. The documented abuses include reports of dogs being used to commit acts of brutal sexual violence against detainees, carried out in the presence of other inmates and prison guards. These crimes are part of a deliberate pattern of sexual violence, including forced nudity, sexual harassment, threats of rape, and actual rape—the insertion of sharp objects into detainees’ anuses—all with the intent of physical and psychological torment.[...]
Posted by: teri | Apr 11 2025 19:35 utc | 71
Who are these people? The daughter of the Settlements Minister in Israel has filed a lawsuit against her parents and one brother for sexual assault. She filed the suit in Italy, presumably because Israel would not hear the case.
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Israeli minister's daughter accuses her parents of sexually assaulting her as a child, Israel quickly bans any publication of story's details
Shoshana Strook, daughter of Settlements Minister Orit Strook, is asking for protection against her parents & "criminal elements"
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli media reported that a gag order has been issued in a high-profile rape case involving Israel’s Minister of Settlements, Orit Strook.
Shoshana Strook, daughter of Israel’s Minister of Settlements Orit Strook, filed a police complaint in Italy. She accused her parents and one brother of sexually assaulting her. The court has restricted the publication of suspect names and investigation details at the request of those involved.
Shoshana also revealed in her complaint that she witnessed the abuse of three younger brothers. “After years of beatings and guilt, I finally spoke out,” she wrote. “The memories are overwhelming, but I need justice.”
The family has a history of violence. In 2007, Shoshana’s brother, Zviki Strook, was convicted of kidnapping and torturing a 15-year-old Palestinian boy. He beat and stripped the boy and left him tied in a field. Zviki also kicked a newborn goat to death during the attack. He was sentenced to 2.5 years but released nine months early.
Minister Orit Strook is known for her support of Israeli settlements and hardline views. She has repeated government claims accusing Hamas of sexual violence during the October 7 military operation. These claims have been used to justify Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Now, Strook herself faces accusations that she raped her daughter.
Sexual violence cases in Israel often go unpunished. A report by The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) said that 81% of such complaints in 2023 ended without indictment. Out of 6,405 cases opened by police, only 663 led to charges.
Israel’s rape culture has been also harming native Palestinians across historic Palestine. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a recent report that Israel is using sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians. It stated that Israeli forces and settlers use rape, reproductive violence, and attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. The report described these acts as “more than a human can bear.”
The UN Commission said these acts aim to dominate and destroy the Palestinian population. It noted that both men and women have been victims, online and in person, across the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
https://qudsnen.co/gag-order-issued-after-israeli-ministers-daughter-accuses-family-of/
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Posted by: teri | Apr 11 2025 19:40 utc | 72
The Grayzone Live: Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1910606784357917181
"The art of the schlemiel."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 20:10 utc | 73
The Grayzone Live (url corrected from above)
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1910749561632759852
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 20:16 utc | 74
Posted by: teri | Apr 11 2025 19:40 utc | 72
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Hyper-violent persons and societies often display sexual dysfunction and degeneracy.
When I think about the systematic rape campaigns by the IDF, as well as invading soldiers wearing victims' lingerie, reminds me of what sad animals (animals because their behavior is inhuman) these folks have become.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 20:20 utc | 75
Israel had an "observer" at the African Union.
They were asked to leave the other day.
Israel keeps trying to set up diplomacy with African countries, but some of them stand firmly against Israel.
The walls are closing in.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 21:00 utc | 76
Israeli PM Criticizes Carney For Gaza War Comments
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is criticizing Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his recent comments on the war in Gaza.
At a Tuesday campaign rally in Calgary, Carney responded to an attendee who shouted: 'Mr Carney, there is a genocide happening in Palestine!'
'I am aware, which is why we have an arms embargo,' Carney is heard saying at the April 8 event.
Thursday afternoon, Netanyahu shared a clip of the exchange to an X account, demanding the Liberal leader walk back his comments.
'Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state. Mr Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!" - Netanyahu.
Gosh. No wonder uber-zio influencer and ex Lib AG Irwin Cotler now has a Conservative lawn-sign in his front yard...
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 21:01 utc | 77
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 20:20 utc | 75
Remember Nuremberg : "I don't feel guilt : I just followed the orders".
The "two stripes one star state" is just a giant Millgram experiment at this stage ... poor humankind.
Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Apr 11 2025 21:02 utc | 78
National March On Ottawa - April 12 - 2PM: STOP THE GENOCIDE
https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/national-march-on-ottawa-2025
"On April 12, we are mobilizing on Parliament Hill to confront Canada's role in this genocide. We refuse to let politicians get away with hollow statements [see #77] while they continue arming and funding Israel's massacres..."
Silence is complicity. Resist don't collaborate. Free speech. Free Palestine. Down with USrael's genocide.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 21:36 utc | 79
but how? when brutality is the "easier" option for those in power, in a finite world with limited resources
Posted by: bond | Apr 11 2025 16:42 utc | 60
Think about it:
In a world where the misery (consequence) of causing pain becomes equally shared between the powerful and the weak, even if not completely absent or far from absent, "brutality" will no longer happen without a price.
That will serve as a regulating mechanism for Imperialism and colonialism.
There's no way to erase the base human instincts which eventually lead to mass murder and exploitation. It's embedded within our neural hardware. We are hundreds of thousands of years of evolution away from rewiring those lethal circuits - by which time it may be too late.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 11 2025 21:51 utc | 80
Various protests continue, with a Takbir call for Gaza being an element today. This was taken up in various cities, including in Mecca, by protestors and clerics. Jordan arrested a group of protestors trying to make their way to the border yesterday.
The following is an "Omani protest near the US embassy":
Also:
CSG Vinson is said to have arrived.
Reports are of US giving Iran a 60 day deadline.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 11 2025 22:24 utc | 81
Complicit Canada's FM Melanie Joly Stands on Guard for Israel (& vid)
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1910714952144289951
"Joly has refused to meet with protesters regarding arms being sent to kill Palestinian children. Twenty police prepare to evict peaceful protesters from the foreign minister's office - rather than Canada stop sending arms."
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 11 2025 22:32 utc | 82
45 Ornot, "Behind the lines."
Can you provide more information about this quote? Is it from Hamas? I am even confused about the date. I went to your link on X but could find no English translation. The statement brings to mind a recent discussion by John Helmer on Iran's strategy in 'negotiating' with US, having to do with characterizing this meeting as direct or indirect talks -- indirect talks meaning strategy used by Iran to deal with whether or not to talk directly with an agressor (US) who can incorporate capitulation into the presence in the same room of Iranian representatives.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 11 2025 22:24 utc | 81
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The US is not a credible partner. They will attack the moment they think they have an advantage, regardless of any deadlines that may have made.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2025 23:27 utc | 84
More on the Mahmoud Khalil case:
Chris Hedges interviewed Katherine Franke, a Columbia University law professor, a few weeks ago. She said this about Khalil’s role during the Columbia protests:
Franke: Mahmoud Khalil I have known for over a year. I’ve worked with him here at Columbia. He was basically chosen by the Columbia administration to be the mediator between the student protesters who had an encampment here on our campus and the administration itself and then later with the police. And Mahmoud had a cool head. He was reasonable. Both sides or all sides respected him. He was chosen for a reason to play that role. And Columbia trusted him.
They relied on him to communicate back and forth with those protesters. And at some point he emails me and he says, I’ve been served with disciplinary charges. And I said, what for? And he said, for Instagram posts that I did not make and an account I have no control over.
So I was his advisor in this disciplinary process and we presented all this information that, you know, whatever you might think about what those posts were, which is a separate issue, he had nothing to do with it, and they would not dismiss the cases. They would not dismiss the case, even though it was quite clear that he had nothing to do with the issue that he was charged with.
And in effect, what Columbia did is put a target on his back, because it fed this machine that we have these people here as students at Columbia who are biased in certain ways and are saying outrageous stuff when the university knows it’s not true.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/21/the-chris-hedges-report-americas-constitutional-crisis/
Posted by: jayc | Apr 12 2025 0:33 utc | 85
According to TASS report after meeting with Witkoff, it appears Russia was unable to move US from position & all the original USReal demands remain in place.
Article expects 2 outcomes:
1) Iran to withdraw from NPT
2) Further critical sanctions on Iran.
No military action was mentioned.
No idea if what’s true in regards to conversation. Just passing along a “post” meeting article.
https://tass.com/world/1942537
IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
11 APR, 11:14
US, Iran unlikely to resurrect 2015 nuclear deal —
“Tehran insists on finalizing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, proposing to include provisions for imposing penalties on any party that withdraws from the agreement in the future. The US, on the other hand, demands not only measures to halt the military aspect of Iran’s nuclear program but also the complete dismantling of all nuclear facilities. Additionally, Washington insists that Tehran end its support for allies in the Middle East and restrict its ballistic missile development program. Iran strongly opposes any attempts to curtail its foreign policy and defense capabilities, asserting its right to develop civilian nuclear power”
Another article:
https://tass.com/world/1942587
11 APR, 13:30
US ready to seek compromise in talks with Iran, special envoy says
“US' position begins with dismantlement of Iranian nuclear program, Steve Witkoff said
NEW YORK, April 11. /TASS/. The United States is open to seeking a compromise in talks with Iranian authorities, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said.
"I think our position begins with dismantlement of your [Iranian nuclear] program. That is our position today," Witkoff told the Wall Street Journal, summing up his message to Iranian officials ahead of the negotiations in Oman. "That doesn't mean, by the way, that at the margin we're not going to find other ways to find compromise between the two countries," he added.”
His idea of “compromise”, is starting with a “Libya” style approach… hope it works, and keep salami slicing & threatening forever and a day on all the rest.
Of course they want the “dismantling” of Irans nuclear program “first”…
I see a “North Korea” style coming for Iran next..
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 12 2025 2:30 utc | 86
Excellent article by Declan Hayes @ Strategic Culture.
Declan, an Irish journalist who’s generally jaded and entertainingly so regarding EU particularly.
Anyways, I’m this article, he hones in on the inevitable demise of Israel and lacks puppets around it, in his usual historically factual, yet smirky way:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/11/observe-sons-of-israel-marching-to-their-doom/
“Declan Hayes
April 11, 2025
The pending destruction of both the Israeli Defence Forces and of the Israeli state they serve has so many similarities with the destruction of the Wehrmacht and of the Nazi state they served that they cannot be ignored”.
One highlight:
“Flip back to Israel and we see an army of entitled conscripts and reservists, who have not been trained to fight their own Stalingrads against Hezbollah on Hezbollah’s chosen ground, where they are going to get their asses handed to them, all because Israel’s High Command, like Hitler’s before them, were blinded to the impossible challenges they had set themselves. This is not to say that Hezbollah will “win” but it is to say that those who draw the short straw to lead Israel’s next blitzkrieg into South Lebanon will, like those who preceded them, be also coming out feet first.
If Hezbollah were an isolated case, there might be some hope for Israel. But they are not and there is not. Nothing this side of the Second Coming of the Messiah can save Israel from Iran’s missiles and drones. Though Trump and Netanyahu might well nuke Iran into the next world or gas the Lebanese, **not even that will save them”
Enjoy
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 12 2025 2:56 utc | 87
@83 Lavieja
The quote comes from a site linked to by another dedicated site, is available in english to me at
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/october7_23?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
It appears loyal/religious/ethical, but I do not know more about the authors so could not guarantee authenticity. Who to trust online is always open to certain questions.
My view on what is presented in the article is similar to what you describe for Iran. Even entering negotiation, even indirect, provides credibility to the enemy, which can be used by the enemy. To not negotiate also might be used by the enemy in its propaganda. So it is a difficult choice and I think the essence of what is mentioned is that a strong or correct attitude must be carefully maintained. Clearly enemy propaganda works without input from the resistance, but is only able to go so far without recognition ...it is all presented as hearsay, one sided , so and so has a great plan and are trying to arrange it , etc.
Therefore it is saying if Hamas speaks, it must be from the position of already having been crossed in previous negotiation efforts, so as not to appear trusting of newer offers, so as that the enemy shows aknowledgement that it has wronged the negotiating process.
As LoveDonbass says, the US and "Israel" cannot be trusted, at all. They would strike a fair deal and then kill everyone concerned, then change the agreement to what suited themselves. Hamas know this.
@84 LoveDonbass
Yes, but they have a form also that requires presentation and a degree of credibility to own audience, to other partners. If US goes completely "no plausible deniability" then it will lose position in the wider "game", will not be able to defend its credibility. That is what black ops are for, that is what entities like "Israel" are for, that have not any of remaining US reputation to keep .
I think 60 days fits with cycling Gaza somehow, and for establishing further military buildup, ramping up propaganda and preparing own audience.
In reality we cannot know who means what is agreeing with who , how and why etc. We can guess or be relatively sure of some of that, but still not really know.
However, I think it is clear that the threat of use of force, continued or increased, is not a bluff, given the existing realities.
giyane is quiet lately, I hope all is well.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 12 2025 3:53 utc | 88
@ michaelj72
Americans only care about the gas price at the pump.
Ras Tanura…
If ya don’t use them ya lose them
Posted by: necromancer | Apr 12 2025 7:14 utc | 89
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 12 2025 2:56 utc | 87
Putting aside that Russia does not have a defense treaty with Iran as claimed by Declan, after reading the piece I'm having a hard time following his allusions there's any similarity existing between nazi Germany and the Israelis, as far as a military end game is concerned. Three things. There is no credible "axis of resistance" anymore. No one has the power to threaten, invade and take over the Govt of Israel. Iran is weak, isolated and alone eg Russia and China are not going to back Iran militarily.
Plus I seriously doubt there is a genuine majority support inside Iran for the current regime either. Like many nations of the world the people are likely split down the middle. What is being in Gaza and Palestine/Israel is a crime against humanity, no doubt about it. There's no doubt in my mind no one is going to do anything about it. And that is probably the biggest crime against humanity.
Posted by: Peru | Apr 12 2025 7:15 utc | 90
see the 3:41 video at the third link, and be sure to watch it to the end
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1910505181298491736
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
The closure of Yemeni accounts by Platform X is truly strange. The account of the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Yahya Saree, along with other officials' accounts, has been suspended. It seems that Platform X is now owned by Zionists. All Yemeni accounts must be restored and reactivated.
Platform X has suspended the account of the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces. This is his new account—follow and share the post. @army21yemen
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1910404064388456541
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
The arrival of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson (CVN 70) alongside USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) indicates the failure of Truman in its mission, as it has been subjected to several strikes. We will welcome Carl Vinson with powerful and impactful strikes.
https://x.com/Mustafa2AlMomri/status/1910022395689382351
مصطفى المومري 2 @Mustafa2AlMomri
No compromise 2025 - Butterfly Effect
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 12 2025 8:09 utc | 92
https://x.com/ReallyMarcia/status/1910584279249068062
Marcia Cross @ReallyMarcia
I will never ever understand the silence.
https://x.com/ezzingaza/status/1910453896293539938
Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza
Do you know what unsettles me most about this war?
Not just the bombs. Not just the starvation. Not just the cold, calculated siege of two million souls.
It’s the silence.
It’s the choking, complicit silence of a world that once branded the 20th century as the “century of freedom.” A grand, televised drama of liberation. Where flags of justice were raised in parliaments. Where human rights were no longer ideals, but sacred laws. Where the marginalized were promised visibility, dignity, voice.
We were told we had turned the page. That racism was a relic. That war crimes had courts. That every human life mattered.
But today, in Gaza, human beings are being starved with bureaucratic precision. They are being bombed with Western-backed brilliance. Children are buried beneath concrete, not by accident, but by design....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 12 2025 8:42 utc | 93
michaelj72 93
The religious institutions , which should counterbalance the bullying and violence of politics, have themselves become aggressive , political institutions.
Saudi Salafism , Muslim Brotherhood and others have developed an extremely right wing, Fascist attitude to the rights of Muslims, while other religions, Hinduism and Christianity have become right wing and Fascist in certain parts of the world.
When Iraq was being attacked by USUKIS, the Asians said it was Divine Punishment for being Westernised Muslims. Now that the Palestinians are being genocided, the Gulf Arab kings are helping Israel and the Christian West are universally helping Israel.
There is no political solution to the problem because the sole purpose of politics is power. If religion becomes political it will inevitably and necessarily destroy the spiritual side of a religion.
All institutions dedicate their energy mainly to self preservation including religious institutions. In the end it turns out that it is impossible to run human life by means of institutions, who just smile sweetly while locking themselves into right wing Fascism.
You will know the institution you belong to is Fascist, when you no longer feel empowered to express your opinions.
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 12 2025 9:46 utc | 94
“Putting aside that Russia does not have a defense treaty with Iran as claimed by Declan,”
** http://kremlin.ru/supplement/6258
Entire agreement. You’ll have to translate. The West is playing word salad as it suits them. Suggesting Russia does not “have to” come to Irans defense. However, if you read thoroughly, you see a different picture, regarding “regional and global security”. No one expects Russian troops in the ground or Russian warships firing from afar, but all other means of support are in contract.
“after reading the piece I'm having a hard time following his allusions there's any similarity existing between nazi Germany and the Israelis, as far as a military end game is concerned”
Whereby I see an exhausted, fed up, bunch of IOF terrorist, marching to their doom.
“Three things. There is no credible "axis of resistance" anymore. No one has the power to threaten, invade and take over the Govt of Israel. Iran is weak, isolated and alone eg Russia and China are not going to back Iran militarily.”
All Western propaganda talking points, that have zero basis in facts.
“Plus I seriously doubt there is a genuine majority support inside Iran for the current regime either.”
Then you haven’t been paying attention to either Iran’s or
Ansarallah weekly and monthly public demonstrations. Let alone, let one bomb fall in Iran, and the ground swell for support will be en mass.
Like many nations of the world the people are likely split down the middle. What is being in Gaza and Palestine/Israel is a crime against humanity, no doubt about it. ***There's no doubt in my mind ***no one is going to do anything about it. ***And that is probably the biggest crime against humanity.
Posted by: Peru | Apr 12 2025 7:15 utc | 90
As Declan reminds us very aptly, there was an end to Hitler, his ethno supremacy, his traipse across Europe, his genocidal (which then wasn’t “war crime” yet) affront, both with prisoners, military and civilians. His “medical” experiments, his rise and power and the many nations that supported him.
No, I also find that most likely the same hand-wringing was abound: “what are we to do? No one stops him”…
Until he was stopped.
The same fate awaits USReal.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 12 2025 10:11 utc | 95
Arch,
Thank you for the updated Tally. Most insightful and valuable.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 12 2025 10:36 utc | 96
Iran talks and Russia talks by the Trump admin are just about buying times for the Israeli genocide. The EU escalating in Ukr is just the vassalized EU DS helping the US in its nego smokescreen
Posted by: Tom | Apr 12 2025 11:15 utc | 97
Starmer, Syria & the Birmingham Bin Strikes (& vid)
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1911007666010312905
"Brilliant this."
Western leaders steal from their peoples to fund their foreign crimes against other peoples. Silence is complicity. Resist don't collaborate.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 12 2025 12:41 utc | 98
Stuff from this morning:
Rafah is now completely cut off from the rest of the Strip and is now part of Israel's so-called security zone:
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Rafah now part of Israeli ‘security zone’ says defence minister
Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, says the country’s army has seized what it calls the “Morag Corridor”, a route in southern Gaza that cuts off Rafah from the rest of the Strip.
This move effectively turns Rafah into an “Israeli security zone”, he said.
In a statement, Katz threatened Palestinians in Gaza, saying, “This is the last chance to banish Hamas and release all hostages, stopping the war.”
If they do not do as he says, he went on, Israeli operations will spread to “most of Gaza’s territory”.
Katz also said that the Netzarim Corridor, a route that divides the Strip in two, will also be expanded. Israel withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor briefly during the ceasefire earlier this year, only to seize it again when it resumed hostilities.
“Willful passage”, he continued, will be granted for Palestinians who wish to flee Gaza, mentioning again US President Trump’s plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza.
https://aje.io/exbl5d?update=3639120
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Also on Rafah:
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Israel announces it has ‘completed the encirclement of Rafah’
The Israeli military says that it has now completed the construction of the Morag Corridor, which cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza.
While Israel says the creation of the Morag Corridor is purely operational and meant to constrain Hamas, it’s actually part of a longer-term Israeli strategy to control Gaza from afar, Robert Geist Pinfold, a lecturer in international security at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera.
“On the one hand, it’s classic medieval siege warfare in 2025. On the other hand, I think there’s a more worrying long-term strategic logic to this. Israel has always sought to control the Gaza Strip, particularly to oversee what comes in and what comes out and ‘security’ over the territories, as Israel would call it,” he told Al Jazeera.
“These [Morag, Netzarim and Philadelphi] corridors are named after settlements, and the settlements did not appear there randomly. They were put there for this specific purpose: to cut off Gaza’s urban areas and give Israel the ability to squeeze the territory when and if it desires,” he said.
https://aje.io/exbl5d?update=3638907
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Gaza Media Office statement:
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The occupation has destroyed more than 90 percent of the water and sanitation infrastructure, prevented technical crews from reaching Gaza to repair damaged infrastructure, and targeted workers while carrying out their humanitarian duties.
We have recorded more than 1.7 million cases of water-related illness, in addition to the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians, the majority of whom were children, due to dehydration and malnutrition.
We urgently appeal to the international community and United Nations agencies to take immediate and effective action to stop the crime of deprivation of water.
https://aje.io/exbl5d?update=3638976
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US "will not allow any reconstruction efforts or aid to be sent to Lebanon or Syria until Israel's objectives are met". US once again going full bully on the rest of the world and demanding that Israel own the entire ME:
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Wars are costly and often devastating to the local populace. The road to recovery can also be long and difficult. This is even more true in Lebanon and Syria, with the US engaged in international efforts to preclude any reconstruction funds being sent by other nations.
Presented as an “undeclared veto,” the Trump Administration has contacted multiple Gulf Arab countries to warn them they are not allowed to deliver any of the promised reconstruction aid to Lebanon or Syria “until Israel’s objectives are met.”
[...]There is no sign they intend to slow these attacks or withdraw from newly occupied parts of Syria. The UN Security Council is meant to have an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the matter, though action seems unlikely. If anything, Israeli forces continue to advance ever deeper into Syria.
The US decision to condition Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others being “allowed” to give aid to those countries on Israel’s objectives is doubly challenging because Israel never makes clear what those objectives even are, and Israeli hostility to both nations seems to be an ongoing matter of policy irrespective of the conditions on the ground.
[...] The Trump Administration placed other conditions as well. Beyond Israeli acquiescence, which will be almost impossible to obtain, they want the Iran nuclear deal to be resolved and the China tariff crisis. Both of those are plainly unrelated to Lebanon or Syria, and completely out of the hands of their respective governments. This suggests the goal is to just prevent reconstruction altogether.
It’s not clear in practice whether the US can really forbid a nation like Qatar from offering reconstruction aid to a war-torn nation. The administration seems to be assuming it can, however, and so far it’s prevented aid from being released.
Lebanon’s parliament includes a number of Shi’ites, and the US appears to hope that if they keep Lebanon in a state of perpetual post-war misery, the voters will punish the Shi’ite candidates since Israel invaded to attack Hezbollah, a Shi’ite organization.
Whether this strategy will be successful remains to be seen, but the US doesn’t have a great track record with these kind of gambles, and trying to impose an election result on Lebanon like this could easily backfire, especially when the reason post-war reconstruction isn’t happening is because Trump is forbidding it. If anything, it could prove a boost to parties looking to resist the US imposition and chart a different course.
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/10/us-vetoes-gulf-reconstruction-for-syria-lebanon-until-israel-is-satisfied/
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Posted by: teri | Apr 12 2025 13:02 utc | 99
Wait a minute. Aren't the Jews non-Christians? This presents a conumdrum for the ruling junta I would think.
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As part of its initiative to enforce a broad new executive order aimed at supporting federal employees who are Christians, the Trump administration has reportedly instructed State Department staff to report any cases of colleagues showing “anti-Christian bias."
Politico reported Friday that an administration-wide task force at the department will help gather information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration." Under this new policy, examples of "anti-Christian bias" will be collected through anonymous employee report forms.
According to the document obtained by Politico, the task force, which was established by an executive order President Donald Trump issued in February, will meet around April 22 to address its findings.
The document calls on State Department employees to report on one another through a "tip form" that can be filled out anonymously.
“Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office) where the incident occurred,” the cable says, per Politico.
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale'-esque,” a State Department official, who was not identified, told Politico.
"Some State Department officials reacted to the cable with shock and alarm, saying that, even if well-intentioned, it is based on the flawed premise that the department harbors anti-Christian bias to begin with, and warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes employees to report on one another," the report says.
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-state-department-anti-christian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.11.2025_8.29pm
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Posted by: teri | Apr 12 2025 13:19 utc | 100
The comments to this entry are closed.
It’s all about money, power & hatred. As President Kennedy said, we all breathe the same air and are all human with our flaws and strengths. I do not subscribe to being prejudiced against a whole people for past events or one person. I have gone to dinner with outright Neocons who, personally, I believe are traitors to humanity. My father taught me long ago to NEVER judge others by your own standards. You must understand their thinking process to grasp why they acted in the past and why they may respond in the future. Everyone and every creature will act in their own self-interest.
Posted by: Skip59 | Apr 10 2025 13:10 utc | 1