“If you’re still wondering which is the terrorist state, then you’re not paying attention.”
Posted by: forceOfHabit | Apr 17 2025 11:31 utc | 2
Amen

Posted by: canuck | Apr 17 2025 11:39 utc | 3

“We write as representatives of the British Jewish community, out of love for Israel and deep concern for its future.
…
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 17 2025 11:52 utc | 4
Stopped reading right there.
The statement, to me, is equivalent to:
“We write as representatives of the British German community, out of love for NAZI Germany and deep concern for the future of the Third Reich …”

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 12:57 utc | 5

Website of martyred Journalist Hossam Shabat
“Khan Yunis Municipality Spokesperson:
– We warn of an escalating humanitarian disaster in the city due to the Israeli siege and attacks.
– The city has become completely isolated and besieged, and is on the verge of a complete collapse of services in the absence of any effective international intervention.”
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:
– Famine is imminent in the Gaza Strip after 45 days of comprehensive blockade, and urgent action is required to prevent its spread.
– We have observed dangerous indicators warning that the population is entering a state of severe food insecurity that is about to tip into famine due to the severe shortage of food necessary for survival.
– In recent weeks, the occupation has worked to disrupt and destroy what remains of the agricultural and food infrastructure.
– Some residents have been forced to sell part of their basic assets to secure food, indicating the beginning of the collapse of their coping mechanisms.
– Bread, fresh and frozen meat are completely absent from the markets of the Strip, and vegetables are available only in small quantities and at exorbitant prices that most residents are unable to secure.
– There are estimates of daily deaths due to food shortages and weakened immunity, in light of the ongoing blockade and the prevention of the entry of aid. ”
For the just above bare in mind that these kind if statements are blanket, meaning that similar have simply been repeated over the last 18 months on various themes, until they run out of adjectives or simply repeat. They DO NOT say people are being starved to death, NO ONE in authority is saying Palestinians are being starved to death. Instead there are words to the likes of …
“..estimates of daily deaths due to food shortages”.
The effort that is taken to avoid calling a spade a spade is just incredible, especially since a large swathe of any population are fully aware of various facts. We are at the absurd reality of analysing why any politician or representative lifts a spade from behind a podium and sits there trying to explain to everyone that it is not a spade. Why they would even bother to put on such a show … maybe it is just a way to convince themselves, or they find it amusing to make a display of their own confusion, or of how intelligent they must be to be able to reinvent definitions. They actually look stupid and corrupt to everyone else, might as well go on stage and flash at the audience … it would probably get more attention and be given more respect than what they are all about now.
Ayman Hanideq
“The Yemeni Islah Party condemns the Jordanian youth’s attempt to support Palestine. It previously condemned the Ansar Allah operations in Yemen, calling them piracy, and welcomed the US strikes against it!!
What’s next, Muslim Brotherhood?!”
Pictures of the children murdered by “Israel” and US in the attack on refugee tents last night (not graphic)
https://t.me/madinat_khanyuns/7324

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 17 2025 13:23 utc | 7

I insist on repeating this from previous thread :
Tens of thousands reportedly in Rafah without aid…forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza into spaces where they have little or no access to lifesaving services, including water, food and shelter…. one meal a day for 1 million people supplied to 2 million people…90% water insecurity…nutrient supplement for severely malnourished at 10% of requirements…aid delivery within Gaza very restricted…and I add that there are untold tens of thousands out of reach in other displacement order zones.
Please, figure out for yourselves what the circumstance is for Palestinians in Gaza now, it is not so very hard to understand.
I will explain it in simple words, words that the relief organisations are not allowed to use, for not wanting their existing efforts interrupted, for not being able to access large parts of the population:
As I write, as you read this, numerous thousands will be starving to death with no strength or ability to reach aid, and with no perspective of aid reaching them.
Information taken from a recent report:
“As of 9 April, over 401,000 people are estimated to have been displaced again…with no safe place to go….
In total, about 69 per cent of the Gaza Strip is under active displacement orders, within the “no-go” zone or both. According to the SMC, over 401,000 people are estimated to have been displaced between 18 March and 9 April…
31st March Tens of thousands of Palestinians were reportedly in Rafah, with no access to humanitarian aid, and tens of thousands have reportedly been displaced from the governorate under very difficult conditions amid ongoing attacks…
The increasing issuance by Israeli Forces of ‘evacuation orders’ – which are, in effect, displacement orders – have resulted in the forcible transfer of Palestinian [sic] in Gaza into ever shrinking spaces where they have little or no access to lifesaving services, including water, food and shelter, and where they continue to be subject to attacks…
Since 18 March, OHCHR recorded at least 23 incidents of strikes on IDP tents in Al Mawasi area of Khan Younis, where Israeli military orders instructed civilians to relocate, and a large percentage of overall fatalities recorded by the Office were children and women. “In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children,” …
As of the second week of April, over one million individual meals are being prepared daily at approximately 175 community kitchens supported by more than 20 Food Security Sector (FSS) partners that are sharing the remaining limited food commodities available in the Gaza Strip…
FSS emphasizes that one cooked meal per day is far from sufficient to meet a person’s daily minimum caloric intake and dietary diversity needs—particularly as the entire population of over two million people remains entirely dependent on food assistance for survival…
In March alone, 3,696 children were newly admitted for acute malnutrition, out of 91,769 children screened—marking a sharp increase compared with February, when 2,027 children were admitted from a total of 83,823 screened…
In March, the number of children who received blanket supplementary feeding – medium-quantity, lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS-MQ) – decreased by more than 70 per cent, from 84,509 children reached in February to only 22,382 children. This represents less than 10 per cent of the Nutrition Cluster’s target of all 290,000 children between 6 and 59 months…
The survey found that 91 per cent of assessed households experienced water insecurity between the end of February and the beginning of March…
Widespread water insecurity in Gaza is fueling a severe survival crisis with far-reaching public health and protection consequences. Water is essential for survival, yet access to safe water has become dangerously limited… ”
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-situation-update-280-gaza-strip
Given “Israel” has US backing and approval of its actions, both of which are absolutely necessary for it to act as it does, from now on I will include US as co-author of events. So US bombs its own citizens, US murders Palestinian children, US enacts mass starvation policy. There is not really any other way to view this, given the now full open support declared by the US.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 17 2025 13:40 utc | 9

I posted yesterday about the Turkish lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı being released. However, he has been arrested again, as the Prosecutor’s Office objected to his release. This happens fairly often in Turkey. These judicial cat and mouse games are common in Plaza Erdoğan.

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 17 2025 13:50 utc | 11

LoveDonbass I believe that you are correct. Still, the only possible response for me is to live with a pure heart and continue to be appalled by the thuggery. Salud.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 17 2025 14:31 utc | 13

The goals of the Israeli government remain:
Keep Bibi out of jail
Prevent an election
Destroy the left wing
Increase worldwide antisemitism
Nothing about Arabs at all; but if you would ask the security minister Ben Gvir he would say that they need to find a permanent solution for the subhumans so there is room to live.
Whoever says Jews can’t be Nazi’s has never been to Israel.

Posted by: Polli | Apr 17 2025 14:40 utc | 15

And now we read that Murika the Murderer is contemplating mercenaries (Eric prince where are you? ) to invade Yemen.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 17 2025 13:46 utc | 10
This, I welcome though. I have no doubt that the Houthi will destroy Prince’s mercs, the STC and any US special forces they send in.
How do I know this?
Well, that’s because I watched them do it for a decade straight. There’s no evidence like historical evidence.
The Houthi are actually sitting in their mountain perches salivating over the thought of finally getting Western troops to meet them on the ground instead of tossing missiles from afar.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 14:48 utc | 17

I disagree. Jews must be held to account for their silence.
Posted by: JessDTruth | Apr 17 2025 15:04 utc | 18
I think it is fair to begin analysing in depth what it means to be a “Jew” and what it means to subscribe to “Jewishness” and what claims to land, heritage and rights come with these names.
For sure the “Jews” who disclaim and reject israel, who lay no claims to Palestine can be excluded from this group.
However, if the broader accepted definition of “Jewishness” (by the majority of Jews) is intimately bound up with support for Israel and Zionism, if Jewishness cannot be separated from support of Zionism in any form, then it must be acknowledged that to identify as a Jew is no different from identifying as a Zionist.
I’m sure there were Nazis who didn’t approve of the WW2 death camps.
I’m sure there were Nazis who were totally against it.
I’m sure there were Nazis of this stripe who went along with it anyway.
And for those Nazis that rejected the atrocities committed by their fellows and fled far from it, they ceased being Nazis the moment they saw the light.
As for those Jews who reject Zionism and everything to do with it, well what do we call them?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 15:28 utc | 19

https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1912544219450745294
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Palestinian writer and photojournalist Fatema Hassouna and at least nine of her family members were slaughtered Wednesday morning in a Zionist regine airstrike on their home in Gaza City.
Where are all the fake Western journalists and women’s rights activists?
#GazaHolocaust
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1912436471924916268
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
It astonishes me that Western governments fail to acknowledge the right of the Palestinian people in international law to armed resistance of illegal occupation.
To posit a legal duty to comply with your own genocide is monstrous.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2025 15:36 utc | 21

Posted by: jr | Apr 17 2025 16:01 utc | 22
Bingo.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 16:02 utc | 23

One can be Jew and condemn zionism, one can be Jew and condemn israel.
As many Germans were opposed to nazism (it was for them that the concentration camps were opened).
Prevaricating on these matters plays into the hands of zionists, nazis and zionist-nazis.
Free Palestine,
Peace!

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Apr 17 2025 17:26 utc | 25

Putin & Qatari Emir Discuss Crises in Gaza and Syria
https://www.rt.com/news/615886-qatar-russia-talks-gaza-syria/
“Both leaders praised the state of Russia-Qatar relations and reaffirmed their commitment to expanding cooperation in trade, investment and regional diplomacy.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2025 17:49 utc | 27

Arch,
Thanks again, agree with your notes – IDF wasn’t holding ground. And on their first attempt to gain ground ; a entire armored squad destroyed.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 17 2025 17:52 utc | 29

“Two former Israeli PMs warn: ‘Israel stands at the brink of the abyss; closer to civil war than ever before’”
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/two-former-israeli-pms-warn-israel

Posted by: WMG | Apr 17 2025 17:53 utc | 31

IF IT IS THE CASE that the objectionable element affecting Israel is Zionism, should a program of De-Zionization, similar to the De-Nazification program, take place in Israel? Among American & other diaspora Jews to determine & eradicate their “zionist” proclivities?
Posted by: Errata | Apr 17 2025 17:50 utc |
That’s actually the solution.
Anyone who proclaims to be a Jew should be required to sign a document stating their position on Zionism and Israel.
If they are for, then they should be tried in a genocide court as Complicit in the Palestinian holocaust.
It’s fair, consistent and backed by historical precedent.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 18:07 utc | 33

As for those Jews who reject Zionism and everything to do with it, well what do we call them?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 15:28 utc | 19
Jews who are not Zionists are Jews unless they choose to identify otherwise.
Zionists are not Jews, nor are they Christians. They don’t get to assume any identity other than their own. Zionists are zionists, period.
Within the shithole that calls itself Israel, resistance is growing as the real Jews choose jail over genocide.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1911295713796927598

Posted by: Mary | Apr 17 2025 18:47 utc | 35

Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces:
In one of their messages, they even asked us not to carry out Operation True Promise, proposing instead to start negotiations on Gaza.
This information is classified and concerns secret political negotiations behind the scenes. The Zionists are trying to hide it from the public, because it reveals how weak they are in front of Iran.
Netanyahu bluffs in front of the cameras, lies – and nothing more. He knows full well that Iran has the power to wipe Israel off the face of the earth

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 17 2025 19:08 utc | 37

Posted by: Mary | Apr 17 2025 18:47 utc | 35
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When I say that Israel is UNTENABLE, I am talking about a “democratic” nation of Jews.
They will be too busy kvetching about anything and everything to accomplish a goal that requires unity.
The social backlash globally, which they hear about online, exacerbates that.
When the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) got to Medina, there were quite a few Jewish tribes. They repeatedly broke agreements (sound familiar?) and betrayed him to his enemies despite the Prophet giving them honored status and usually forgiving them.
The idea of a nationalist Jewish State is like herding feral cats.
Contradictions, over time, always undo efforts to institutionalize evil, IMO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 17 2025 19:22 utc | 39

Instagram censorship ?
The Instagram platform appears, at least for some users, to have switched this morning from showing videos from recent hours of Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people to showing only videos that are four to five days old or older
Are you seeing the same thing? Is Meta censoring Gaza from western eyes to help hide Israel’s crimes?
Full article : https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/17/instagram-feed-now-only-displaying-old-gaza-news-videos-for-at-least-some-users/

Posted by: Red Star | Apr 17 2025 19:49 utc | 41

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1912409195162255547
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2
Autopsies prove Israel executed the paramedics with direct gunshots to the head, chest &/or back before burying them in a mass grave & LYING about it
Israel shot each multiple times at point blank despite wearing clear uniforms, & driving in ambulances with sirens & lights on!
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/middleeast/gaza-medics-autopsies-israel.html
https://x.com/MSF/status/1912399244360638465
MSF International @MSF
Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them.
Israeli forces are systematically destroying Palestinian life and showing a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical workers:
https://www.msf.org/gaza-has-become-mass-grave-palestinians-and-those-helping-them
As Israeli forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, forcibly displacing people and deliberately blocking essential aid, Palestinian lives are once again being systematically destroyed, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A series of deadly attacks by Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical workers in Gaza.
We call on Israeli authorities to immediately lift the inhumane and deadly siege on Gaza, protect the lives of Palestinians, humanitarian and medical personnel, and for all parties to restore and sustain the ceasefire…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2025 20:33 utc | 43

Bernie Sanders: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1911961520595927059
“Some anti-genocide people unfurled a Free Palestine flag behind Bernie Sanders at his rally just now and police thugs arrested them as Bernie Sanders looked on and let it happen without saying a word.
A minute earlier Sanders said ‘Israel has the right to itself’ and repeated his lie about ‘not one more nickel to Netanyahu’, when he opposes sanctions and an actual arms embargo and to this day refuses to recognize the genocide.”
Free Palestine! Free Speech! Down with Genocide Accomplices! Silence is complicity! Resist don’t collaborate!
And actually, according to the UN Rapporteur, as a criminal occupier Israel does NOT have ‘a right to defend itself. Only the Palestinians do.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2025 20:55 utc | 45

don’t f*ck with the Houthis
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1912919281446338985
BRICS News @BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US says Chinese satellite firm is helping the Houthis target American warships.
https://x.com/Almutawakkil560/status/1912944677713494199
محمد عبدالملك – Mohamed @Almutawakkil560
1/2 The Ras Issa port has become a lifeline capable of supplying two-thirds of Yemenis with fuel and food, and its destruction is an arrogance aimed at further starving the Yemeni people to stop their support for Gaza.
2/2 However, according to a statement from a member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen two days ago, if America proceeds with that, Yemen may take similar options, and we advise against doing so.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/sayyed-al-houthi-reaffirms-yemen-to-remain-unbroken-despite
Sayyed al-Houthi reaffirms Yemen to remain unbroken despite aggression
….Sayyed al-Houthi accused the United States of escalating its military campaign in Yemen in a bid to pressure the country’s resistance stance. He reported that US forces carried out over 220 airstrikes this week using stealth fighters and F-18 jets, as well as more than 900 air and naval attacks over the past month.
Despite these attacks, Sayyed al-Houthi claimed the strikes have failed to deter Yemen’s operations in support of Palestine. “The American aggression has not succeeded in securing Israeli vessels. The Red Sea and the Arabian Sea remain completely closed to Israeli shipping,” he said……
….Highlighting recent military actions, Sayyed al-Houthi said Yemen’s armed forces conducted missile and drone operations targeting Israeli-occupied cities, including Yaffa and Askalan, during Passover.
“These were symbolic ‘holiday gifts’ for the criminal enemy,” he remarked, referencing the launch of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, including the Zolfaghar variant.
He added that Yemen’s forces also engaged US assets, including targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, which he said had been forced into a purely defensive posture…..
….Commenting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Sayyed al-Houthi said that most of the population has been displaced amid the ongoing Israeli assault, which he described as being carried out with full US support. “The Israeli enemy continues its brutal aggression and drops American bombs on displaced civilians,” he stated.
He also condemned the continued targeting of healthcare facilities, referencing the bombing of the Baptist Hospital, and highlighted a growing famine in the enclave caused by a blockade on food shipments that has lasted over six weeks. “The Israeli regime is committing all forms of genocide in Gaza,” he said…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2025 20:56 utc | 47

…Sanders said ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’…
@Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2025 20:55 utc | 45
NO ONE has a right to commit genocide on ANY circumstance.
Also, you cannot – not even Bernie (snark) – call genocide “self defense” under ANY circumstance.
On top of that,”Israel” is not even defending itself. It is defending an occupation.

Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 17 2025 21:04 utc | 49

@ Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 15:28 utc | 19, who said, “As for those Jews who reject Zionism and everything to do with it, well what do we call them?”
Dear Arch, my answer to your question is, let’s call the Jews who reject Zionism Jews, and the Zionists Zionists only and not Jews, following Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro in his book The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft. I would estimate that at least 10-15% of the American Jews are outright anti-Zionists, and Shapiro identifies the Zionists as the enemy, idolators, Amalek, antisemites, and not Jews at all. He correctly states that practicing or “frum” Jews originally completely rejected Zionism, though many of them have later been captured by it, and that Zionism has no basis in Judaism, merely being a nationalism imported from non-Jewish European nationalisms of the 19th century.
My point would be that, when the Zionists scream “antisemitism” at critics of Israel, why should we concede that they are even Jews in any significant sense. As Shapiro points out, their state-worshiping nationalist commitments, a kind of anti-religious materialism, completely overwhelms any claim to religion that they may adopt. That is, those Zionists who claim to be religious only have taken up the mantle of the Jewish religion as a form of materialist self-legitimation, because state-worship is their actual central idea and goal.
Certainly, the ongoing massacre in Palestine will unfortunately bounce back against both the Jews and the Zionists in the form of more antisemitism, whether that is taken up by most of the world’s non-Jews or not (presumably it will not). But then, that is part of the Zionists’ plans. They deliberately want to foster more antisemitism to disallow Jews any legitimacy in the world except as Zionists in the State of Israel. Antisemitism is fundamental to the Zionists’ worldview and is essential to the existence of their nationalism, which completely evaporates without it. No wonder Herzl said that the antisemites are the Zionists’ greatest and most reliable allies.

Posted by: Cabe | Apr 17 2025 21:45 utc | 51

@ Newbie | Apr 17 2025 21:04 utc | 48
In “Israel” Jews are quite easily distinguished from non-Jews. And with practically all of them moving to Palestine out of Zionist fanaticism themselves, or else children or grandchildren of such Zionist fanatics, I’m surprised the percentage of “Israeli Jews” supporting Zionism is only 90%. What the hell are the other 10% doing there, anyways? It’s a lot easier to flee Palestine for disgruntled Jews than for indigenous Palestinians.
USA holds the lion’s share of the Jewish diaspora, but the popularity of Zionism among US American Jews is much more difficult to reliably measure. It’s a much more melted pot, such that who is a Jew gets hela complicated. Religiously or genetically? for starters. Polling firms would be limited to self-identification as a criterion of Jewishness and have to leave it at that. Which leaves out my buddy Goldwyn, who insists he’s German on the father’s side and Lithuanian on the mother’s side. Another mutt like me.
As a thought experiment (scientific data of this nature being unattainable) imagine the set of US Americans who are 50% Jewish (like my friend Goldwyn, maybe). By and large, Jews in USA are white enough to “pass” if they want to — that is, to decline self-identifying as Jewish. And besides, why should Goldwyn call himself Jewish because of his dad, whom he seldom saw, if Judaism had almost nothing to do with his upbringing? Racist logical principles insinuating the paragraph above are only meant to illustrate how complicated the fact of individual Jewishness is, here in USA. More to the point: Let’s take all the opinion surveys and make a big bonfire, especially any surveys which delineate different types of people (which is where the racist logical principles insinuate).
Zionism is a geopolitical pathology; a planetary blight like excess carbon emissions, most likely dragging down any hope of a livable future. Whether to stop it before it destroys us is not a question for public opinion surveys, but a moral question of deepest significance.
Deliberately confused for decades by superpowers of incessant propaganda, most people (Jewish or not) don’t get it, and won’t get it. Most people are fools. Moral policy cannot be guided by foolishness.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 17 2025 22:07 utc | 53

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2025 20:56 utc | 47 “He added that Yemen’s forces also engaged US assets, including targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, which he said had been forced into a purely defensive posture…..”
“These were symbolic ‘holiday gifts’ for the criminal enemy,” he remarked, referencing the launch of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, including the Zolfaghar variant.”
What does the Israeli side say about arrivals?

Posted by: Ed4 | Apr 17 2025 22:10 utc | 55

I don’t know if any of the rest of you know who Abubaker Abed is, but he has decided to leave Gaza for now. He’s a 22-year-old reporter who started as a soccer (football) cub reporter, but then switched to reporting on the genocide 18 months ago. He writes for a couple of websites and has appeared frequently on Electronic Intifada. He’s very young, but from what I have seen, even 10-year-old Palestinians are more mature and well-read than most American adults. He lives in Deir el-Balah in the northern/central area of Gaza.
He was diagnosed with severe malnutrition a couple of months ago and he needs medication for another condition as well – also related to the food crisis, although I can’t remember what he said it is. (I heard him talk briefly about it on Electronic Intifada, after the hosts asked him about his weight because they could see how thin he had become, and he had to admit he and his family were barely surviving.)
In any case, he has decided to leave Gaza to get treatment. He posted this on X today, along with a short video:
——————–
Today, I have left my heart in Gaza and taken my fragile body outside it. For 560 days, I have never stopped and have done over my energy to tell the truth and report our pain from my hometown. The story has come to a temporary end. I never ever imagined I would be at such an impossible decision, to leave my family behind and depart for medical treatment and care. My body, since Israel’s ongoing blockade, has become constantly weaker. And since I haven’t found my medicine either, I was plunged into my guilt zone and decided to go.
With this sentiment comes relentless emotional pain. As a young man, I always dreamed to report on football. I was let down many times, instilled doses of courage into me to overcome the challenges, and fought hard to be that dreamer. But once Israel started its genocide, I put everything aside and picked up my weapon to begin reporting tirelessly hour in and hour out.
Maybe, I haven’t done enough and wish I could continue until every inch is rebuilt, but my health has disappointed me this time. It couldn’t take that much horror and suffering. My braves colleagues have stayed. They’re the best of the world. There was indeed a last drop of blood in my veins, and I didn’t want to spend it nowadays. I desire to recharge, grow stronger, and come back to defend my homeland with aplomb and unmatched love. As I have always promised, I will die for the day Palestine will be free.
My mother, my father, and my brothers and sisters, I have failed you. I miss you and will miss you in every second I will be out from Gaza. Love to you. My heart has remained with you and will never leave you. You’re my light in this whole darkness. That’s why I am shining.
For my friends, it’s all about you. You are the companions of the journey. Even if we bid shot farewells, we will reunite and live together again. I want you to be very strong much more than when we were side by side.
And to all people around the world, your support and love have been my solace and respite during the genocide. I am so grateful to every person of you. And I hope we will all be in a free Palestine soon.
To all of you, I love you. And I have really known the meaning of love from you. You have been the sense of safety inside my heart when I felt afraid under the bombardments.
I will continue conveying the message of my people and share my experiences during the genocide abroad and will never stop telling my people’s stories.
Forgive me, all. My homeland, my heartbeat, please forgive me. I promise I will come back soon to water your soil with my blood. We will be all free. We will sacrifice until the last blood.
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1912932230193697008?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Posted by: teri | Apr 17 2025 22:23 utc | 57

Otto Pen@2104 Apr 17
Bernie $ander$ is the biggest hypocrite who ever suffered the psychological abuse performed by the Mohel at his Bris.

Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 17 2025 22:37 utc | 59

Stopped reading right there.
The statement, to me, is equivalent to:
“We write as representatives of the British German community, out of love for NAZI Germany and deep concern for the future of the Third Reich …”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 12:57 utc | 5
Arch, aS always, RESPECT!

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2025 22:46 utc | 61

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
U.S. State Department spokeswoman confirmed new Treasury sanctions against the International Bank of Yemen (IBY) alleging financial support for the Houthis. She also claimed that a Chinese satellite company linked to Beijing’s military has been providing imagery to help the Houthis target U.S. and international vessels.
Details on both the stories are in reply.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1912958097724694665
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
NEW: U.S. Says Chinese Satellite Company Is Helping Houthis Target American Warships
According to U.S. officials speaking to the Financial Times, a Chinese satellite company with military ties is supplying imagery to the Houthis in Yemen—helping them target shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
➤ The company, Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd (CGSTL), is a Chinese state-linked firm that supplies high-resolution satellite imagery. U.S. officials say it has provided intelligence to Iran, which then passed it to the Houthis.
➤ CGSTL is part of China’s military-civil fusion program, where private companies are expected to serve military needs when ordered by the government.
➤ A senior U.S. State Department official told the Financial Times that the U.S. has privately warned China multiple times, but Beijing has “ignored” the concerns. “Beijing’s tacit support… is yet another example of China’s empty claims to support peace,” the official said.
➤ The satellite imagery from CGSTL reportedly helps the Houthis locate U.S. Navy vessels and commercial ships passing through the Red Sea.
➤ CGSTL was already sanctioned by the U.S. in 2023 for providing images to Russia’s Wagner Group, a private military force that supported Russia’s war in Ukraine.
➤ Experts say CGSTL is closely tied to China’s Communist Party and military. It has briefed senior Chinese generals and demonstrated how its technology can support “military intelligence.”
➤ CGSTL currently operates around 100 satellites and plans to expand to 300 by the end of 2025—enabling it to image any location on Earth every 10 minutes.
➤ The Chinese embassy in Washington responded to the U.S. claims by saying it was “not aware of the relevant situation.”
News reported by the Financial Times. Link is shared below.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1912928977057898552

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2025 22:51 utc | 63

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨BREAKING: Hamas has issued a formal response to the Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal, expressing full readiness to release all Israeli captives in exchange for a complete end to the war. The group also welcomed the position of Trump’s special envoy Adam Boehler, saying his stance on resolving both the prisoner issue and the war aligns with their call for a comprehensive deal.
The movement rejected calls for disarmament and “partial agreements”, which they described as Netanyahu’s cover for the “continuation of a war of genocide and starvation.”
The full text of Hamas’s statement, delivered by lead negotiator Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, is below (Video):
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1912989185721729341

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2025 22:54 utc | 65

Otto Penn 46
‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed for two interconnected objectives: First, to prolong the war as a tactic to remain in power, and second, to reshape the reality in Gaza in a manner consistent with his (and his allies’) ideological beliefs.’
My friend, the US MIC needs war, otherwise bombs reach expiry dates, or having no new orders for bombs leavesthe US MIC broke.
In this case Netanyahu is just a retained puppet of the US MIC,and has no need of extending his political life.
Secondly , in this scenario Netanyahu is just a brand, like Azov, with the sole purpose of generating unnecessary military conflict.
I had an uncle whose job was selling US tractors, who used to say that therecwas no evidence that modern farming methods damaged the soil.
This is just the way the US does business, 90% lies and bollocks and 10% grains of truth.
What if Netanyahu is just a salesman for the US MIC?

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 17 2025 23:41 utc | 67

…
As for those Jews who reject Zionism and everything to do with it, well what do we call them?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 17 2025 15:28 utc | 19
Imaginary Jews.
In Oz, the Jewish Lobby has 24/7 access to the TV, Radio and Print Media. Since the Gaza Jailbreak, NOT ONE Jewish resident of Oz has spoken out against the Genocide in Gaza.
It’s easy to forget that there are circa 10 classes of jews in the pecking order. Guess how far down the pecking order the jewish concert goers who were slaughtered by the IOF on February 7 were?
Remember the 3 IOF clowns who, early in the Genocide, tried to surrender to their “comrades” after being separated from their platoon during a raid? Despite stripping to their undies to confirm they were unarmed, waving white flags, and displaying jewish ID, 2 were gunned down on the spot and the 3rd was chased into a building and executed.
Jews are irredeemably sick, sick, sick little puppies full of Fear, Hatred and Bloodlust. There’s only one cure. And they’re using it themselves against the Palestinians.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 18 2025 1:19 utc | 69

Wake up and smell the roses. It’s all over.
Posted by: PalestinePete | Apr 18 2025 1:14 utc | 69
The poor fucks who got ambushed in Rafah this week, currently having their remains scraped into a bag to be traded to Netanyahoo, would beg to differ – if they could.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 18 2025 1:56 utc | 71

The Saudi Defense Minister, after a meeting with Senior figures in Iran called for the Arab world to unite against the occupation and the Zionist entity
The Ummah is calling for Jihad against Israel
Doesn’t sound like it’s over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slalhlMtSm8

Posted by: ld | Apr 18 2025 2:05 utc | 73

Contradictions, over time, always undo efforts to institutionalize evil, IMO.
LoveDonbass | 39

An important thought. I believe so, too.

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 18 2025 2:11 utc | 75

Contradictions, over time, always undo efforts to institutionalize evil, IMO.
LoveDonbass | 39
An important thought. I believe so, too.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 18 2025 2:11 utc | 77
But over time can endure for centuries …
Só no indue optimism, please, nor stop trying to correct it .

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 18 2025 2:19 utc | 77

A point of attacking Iran is to give cover for Israel to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
A distraction.
I am no diplomat, but the Ummah doesn’t need to become BFFs. They just need to unite for a year, and they can set the entire region right amongst themselves.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 18 2025 2:24 utc | 79

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/90-percent-of-israeli-jews-call-themselves-zionists-herzl-day-poll-finds-454347
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 17 2025 21:04 utc | 48
Just read that 32-year old billionaire Palmer Freeman Luckey, whose Anduril company is in partnership with Palantir and Elon Musk to support Trump’s Golden Dome plan, named his religion as “radical zionist.”

Posted by: Errata | Apr 18 2025 2:43 utc | 81

The next day I saw the Lebanese owner of a manouche shop I visit frequently has posed with him for a photo op on social media and endorsed him in the upcoming election. Needless to say I’m not fucking eating there again.
Posted by: ArtinOz | Apr 18 2025 2:37 utc | 82
I am frequently cheesed off by the numbers of Lebanese and other Arabs in the West that support the very countries that are complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians and the bombing of Lebanese women and children by driving around in new/ish Medcedes, Audis, Landrovers and american “trucks”.
Thick as a brick they are, until their own are affected by the bombing.

Posted by: Menz | Apr 18 2025 3:29 utc | 83

Given the evolution of the concern trolls into defeat trolls, I’m just going to link to this Substack article on Western Psychological Warfare
I used to get demoralised when I’d read the shit they write, but now it just bounces off the knowing that they’re a bot or a hired troll. You can see by the concerted push of the same talking points.
Also, I like reading LoveDonbass’ posts.

Posted by: ArtinOz | Apr 18 2025 3:48 utc | 85

You Muslims couldn’t fight you way out of a wet paper bag. You’re fukcing useless cowards and dumb as.
Posted by: ChineseRule | Apr 18 2025 3:14 utc | 89

Let’s look at the facts first:

If it’s “Muslims” you’re grouping as the target of your insults consider this:
1. The Crusades Muslims defeated the West over and over again for a thousand years of crusades. The latest crusader kingdom (israel) is far from the first one – what happened to all the others?
2. Afghan Muslims: Afghanistan was the graveyard of at least two Western Empires (three if you count Alexander’s). Afghan Muslims recently made white Americans flee, tail between legs, under fire after twenty years of futility.
3. The Ottomans: The Ottoman “Muslims” led the West a merry chase for 500 years at least, beating and embarrassing the Christian White Man for centuries. The Hagia Sophia, a Jewel of Christianity, still now held in their hands because the “Muslim” Turks, though a shadow of their former selves, are still not to be trifled with.
4. Chechens: The “Muslim” Chechens brutalised one of the world’s most powerful countries for decades. Defeating Russia in the first Chechen war, and messing up their hairdo pretty badly in the second. In the end the only way to defeat the tiny minority of “Muslim” Chechens was to use against them – more Muslim Chechens (under Khadyrov).
5. The Houthi: Need I say more? They’ve been handing the White Man his ass for 100 years at least. From the British Empire to the American to the Zionist Empire. Saying they can’t fight is a stretch.
6. Hamas: Most glaringly of all: Hamas and it’s affiliated groups. What do you call it if the entire military-technological might must be thrown against a handful of poor, under-armed, under-trained fighters imprisoned in an open-air concentration camp? Locked up there for decades and yet here we are, fighting for years and getting no further than where Israel was in the 1980s!
7. Hezbollah: Saying Hezbollah “can’t fight” is pretty stupid. If they couldn’t fight you wouldn’t be here at the third major war in three decades trying to root out a handful of resistance fighters.
8. Iran: The West is so terrified of a full-scale invasion of Iran because it understand that these Muslims are not to be fucked with. They’ve hit back in ways that have been painful to the West over the last forty years and given the White Christian West no option but sit back on it’s haunches and consider it’s life choices again. If Iranian Muslims could not fight, they’d have gone the way of Iraq or Libya ages ago
It is in fact the White Christian that cannot fight, for to make any significant dent on the Muslim world he has no means but to:
1. Bribe their rulers to the tune of trillions to pacify their people.
2. Murder their women and children with massive amounts of firepower in an effort to demoralise the men
3. Engage large “coalitions of the willing” requiring dozens of White, European countries to organise the destruction of Muslim countries in planned multi-decade operations.
4. Marshall the entirety of his political, media, economic and technological resources to fight poor desert nomads or rural goat farmers.
So no, Muslims can fight. They fight very well indeed, for the few resources they have in hand.
Your logic is off. Your facts are fucked. You have no argument.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 18 2025 4:04 utc | 87

Re: “This is just the way the US does business, 90% lies and bollocks and **10% grains of truth.”
What if Netanyahu is just a salesman for the US MIC?
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 17 2025 23:41 utc | 67
Hum…
10% is quite generous, in my experience.
I haven’t seen Nutty actually consider anything or one over his own political career & his own self centered self. Pretty sure he believes he presides over the US mic.
Remember when Austin met with Nutty, pretty much slammed his idiocy & was subsequently “ill”, hadn’t “informed” Biden about some “surgery” ect and all that shadoo..?
Nutty figured he had to get his mind right. Just an assessment that Nutty is no salesman for the MIC, quite the opposite…genocide & war crimes are hardly “war supporting” PR sales, unless to like minded terror organizations, but not actual rational nations.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 18 2025 4:22 utc | 89

Posted by: Menz | Apr 18 2025 3:29 utc | 91
Yep, it’s hard not to see it as a betrayal. Divide and conquer has worked well enough that unless it’s blood family, a lot of Levantine/Arabs* think it doesn’t involve them. That plus absorbing the West’s “greed is good” indoctrination makes them as fixated on their own personal life as anyone else. Also the fact that they’ve been a target of Western Psywar for decades has created a lot of division and confusion.
I explain to Lebanese I meet – look at the map of Greater Israel that’s on the IOF’s soldiers uniforms. It contains all of Lebanon. If we say “it’s not us” – we will be next, and your family will be the ones crying for help while Egyptians, Jordanians etc. say “it’s not us”, and then over and over until it’s all conquered. When you’re a group fighting one attacker, you need to coordinate and fight at the same time. Otherwise it’s just a succession of one on one fights, and the Israelis aren’t going to stop until they’re forced to or it’s all theirs.
*I say Levantine because the Israelis deliberately call Palestinians/Lebanese Arabs to make it seem like they’re not native to the Levant, and are part of a “Sea of Arabs” who want to “invade Israel”.

Posted by: ArtinOz | Apr 18 2025 4:30 utc | 91

“We can’t win”
100,000 IDF write letter refusing to fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ay77f8MJKY

Posted by: ld | Apr 18 2025 5:21 utc | 93

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 18 2025 5:00 utc | 103
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Occasionally my responses are for the benefit of the gallery and not the interlocutor.
Also, I sometimes use those posts as opportunities to develop and refine my rhetoric.
Waste not, want not…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 18 2025 6:18 utc | 95

Is it fair to blame Zionism on Jews, when Zionism’s principle inventors, including Lord Balfour himself, were astonishing Jew-haters raw in tooth and claw?
Large numbers of Jews — little doubt the majority of surveyable US American Jews — have been egregiously misled into supporting Zionism: the most profoundly antisemitic project in history. But US American Christians have enthusiastically endorsed indigenous genocide from time immemorial. Hitler learned from USA’s “Indian wars,” then “Israel” took up where Hitler left off.
If anyone should shoulder most of the demographic guilt for the Holocaust in Palestine, it should be white US Americans, whose vicious example and leadership in white supremacy stands head-and-shoulders above all other culprits, from deep history clear through the morning headlines.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 18 2025 7:16 utc | 97

like he has some sort of right.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/17384
Middle East Spectator – MES
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘I never said I’m ruling out an attack on Iran, but I’m not in a rush to do it’

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 18 2025 7:53 utc | 99