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April 20, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-085

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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Assal Rad
@AssalRad
“Opposing the mass slaughter of children is a moral failure”
Pope Francis’s moral compass faltered on Israel – editorial

From the very beginning of his papacy, Francis struck a markedly different tone toward the Jewish State than toward its adversaries.
Pope Francis will be remembered for many things: his humility, his gentle demeanor, his compassion for the poor, and his tireless calls for peace in a fractured world.
He was the first pontiff to take the name “Francis,” in tribute to the saint who championed the poor and the powerless. And true to that inspiration, he steered the Catholic Church through turbulence – from the European refugee crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic – while taking long-overdue steps toward confronting sexual abuse within its walls.
But on one front, the pope’s moral compass faltered time and again: his relationship with the State of Israel. From the very beginning of his papacy, Francis struck a markedly different tone toward the Jewish state than toward its adversaries.

Don’t bother reading more, it’s more of the same…
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-850940

Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:08 utc | 201

Danny Postel
@DannyPostel
Badar’s fellowship is partially subsidized by the Scholars at Risk program, which works with U.S. universities to host international scholars facing threats in their countries. He never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/teaching-gandhi-in-a-texas-detention-center/

Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:12 utc | 202

jeremy scahill
@jeremyscahill
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After meeting with “senior Republicans” at Mar-a-Lago, Itamar Ben-Gvir said: “They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed.”
https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1915000741757964352

Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:14 utc | 203

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
An “independent” agency running a government propaganda service:
“the independent agency tasked with running Voice of America”
Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1914824630218662293

Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:17 utc | 204

To the Western World:
Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Are you happy with this?
This is Gaza!
https://x.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1914773774810890268

Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:20 utc | 205

@ Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:14 utc | 203
Yeah, Ben Lucifer Gvir. He’s got an arrest warrant out on his name, right? But he got to eat chocolate cake at Mar-a-lago with some evil movers and shakers (and the Fat Boy Trump) and is, in actual fact, able to pretty much wander to and fro over the earth like any free man.
I hope these people – American, Israeli, whomever participates in this genocide – feel the kind of hunger and pain they are imposing on the Palestinians. And that they suffer it for 75 years.
I’ve never felt such loathing for people I’ve never actually met in my life.

Posted by: teri | Apr 23 2025 22:51 utc | 206

How I feel:
Eddie Vedder – Masters of War
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I’ll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwa2jK0xglk

Posted by: teri | Apr 23 2025 23:17 utc | 207

see the videos of the often enormous crowds/gatherings/protests at each of the links
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914371051552641339
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinklle
🇵🇸 🇵🇰 PAKISTAN STANDS WITH PALESTINE!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914363511758840067
🇵🇸🇳🇴 Norway STANDS with Palestine!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914378601928982843
🇵🇸 THE WORLD IS WITH PALESTINE!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914386151953326120
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinklle
🇵🇸🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS STANDS WITH PALESTINE!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914482199706878186
South African football fans call for Israel’s expulsion from FIFA.
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914348403615568303
🇵🇸 🇯🇵 Japan STANDS with Palestine!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914340851276546256
🇧🇪 🇵🇸 Belgium STANDS with Palestine!
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1914355952079552635
🇳🇱🇵🇸 THANK YOU NETHERLANDS!

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 23 2025 23:32 utc | 208

“The only surviving child from the Israeli bombing of the Hassouna family’s home in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/74161
“”Saba” and “Sana”, four-year-old twins, were born together and were killed together when the occupation forces bombed their home in the Gaza Strip.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/74160

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 0:14 utc | 209

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1913604984132043228
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of antisemitism and violent extremism which is going to ensue from the incineration of Gaza will exclusively be the fault of Israel.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1914942099746611401
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has reportedly downed more than 22 of the United States’ most advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones. It has repeatedly targeted the US aircraft carriers USS Harry S. Truman and USS Carl Vinson, along with their escort warships. These attacks come after over 50 consecutive days of clashes in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, where the US has chosen to bomb Yemen and engage in direct confrontation rather than pressure Israel to comply with international law or lift the ongoing humanitarian siege on the civilian population of Gaza.
The US failed to deter Yemen, to destroy its capabilities and to prevent missile launches on Israel. The giant and most powerful country in the world’s prestige is in tatters when confronting and failing against the poorest country in the Middle East.
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1914996704337678803
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber
History should be a warning:
Yemen has broken empires, Romans, Ottomans, British. Not with matching firepower, but with resistance that outlasts foreign ambition.
Even now, with airstrikes & proxies, the U.S. is learning what others already did:
#Yemen doesn’t surrender. It endures.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 24 2025 0:24 utc | 210

Continued bombing and shelling in Gaza, aggression on Yemen, settlers burning properties in occupied Palestine.
What was not bombed in Rafah, or demolished with placed explosives, is now being pulled down by machinery:
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/99497

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 0:37 utc | 211

the USA is such a depraved Empire
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915186836726600122
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
Scene outside the Yale venue where Israel’s racist minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is scheduled to speak tonight. Follow the thread below for updates.
https://x.com/thomasbirm/status/1915170433042677993
Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm
HAPPENING NOW: Here’s the scene outside the mansion owned by Shabtai, the Yale society that invited Israeli war criminal Itamar Ben-Gvir to speak tonight.
Slightly over a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors currently on the scene.
Some attendees of his talk are now arriving.
https://x.com/thomasbirm/status/1915173749126582334
At least another hundred protestors are gathered at the building’s back entrance.
Very heavy police presence in the area right now. A lot of different chants happening at once. More protestors continuing to arrive.
A crowd of more attendees arrives – they repeatedly shout “SHAME” as Shabtai members check them in.
As they continue to enter, the crowd begins chanting “Judaism YES, Zionism NO, Ben-Gvir has GOT TO GO”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 24 2025 0:55 utc | 212

Translation of Ben Gvirs tweet after meeting:
“I had the honor and privilege of meeting with senior Republican Party officials at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely.”
This is pure psychopathy.
https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/1914922576033337481

Posted by: andy | Apr 24 2025 1:17 utc | 213

Alon Mizrahi on Twitter

A thought that just occurred to me: Zionism is the first ideology since ancient times, or maybe the first ever, that actively convinced large numbers of people to hate children and want them dead
Believe me when I tell you: if you don’t hate Zionism with every fiber of your being, you’re not normal

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 24 2025 2:06 utc | 214

⚡️BREAKING
Bad news for Israel
The King of Saudi Arabia has said in a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader that the Kingdom will not recognise Israel until a Palestinian state is established

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 24 2025 2:18 utc | 215

‘Shark Kills Israeli Reservist in Rare attack…’
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1915153936505561456
“Resistance sharks finish off Barak Tzach from Battalion 8207 of the child killing Israeli regime.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 24 2025 2:24 utc | 216

Nova festival founder outed as Israeli intel collaborator involved in Gaza genocide
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/22/nova-founder-israeli-intel/

Posted by: Exile | Apr 24 2025 4:32 utc | 217

long interview with MD who volunteered in Gaza. The MD is credible witness.
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa)
CHRIS HEDGES
If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza twice and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.
“There is no serious health system in Gaza anymore,” Sidhwa tells Hedges. Instead, what’s left of hospitals are mere buildings filled with medical professionals stripped of the equipment vital to saving lives, refugees seeking anything more than tents and endless streams of people barely surviving the constant onslaught of bombs……….
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-eradication-of-gazas-healthcare-system-w-dr-feroze-sidhwa/

Posted by: exile | Apr 24 2025 4:56 utc | 218

long interview with MD who volunteered in Gaza. The MD is credible witness.
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa)
CHRIS HEDGES
If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza twice and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.
“There is no serious health system in Gaza anymore,” Sidhwa tells Hedges. Instead, what’s left of hospitals are mere buildings filled with medical professionals stripped of the equipment vital to saving lives, refugees seeking anything more than tents and endless streams of people barely surviving the constant onslaught of bombs……….
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-eradication-of-gazas-healthcare-system-w-dr-feroze-sidhwa/

Posted by: exile | Apr 24 2025 4:56 utc | 219

long interview with MD who volunteered in Gaza. The MD is credible witness.
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa)
CHRIS HEDGES
If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza twice and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.
“There is no serious health system in Gaza anymore,” Sidhwa tells Hedges. Instead, what’s left of hospitals are mere buildings filled with medical professionals stripped of the equipment vital to saving lives, refugees seeking anything more than tents and endless streams of people barely surviving the constant onslaught of bombs……….
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-eradication-of-gazas-healthcare-system-w-dr-feroze-sidhwa/

Posted by: exile | Apr 24 2025 4:56 utc | 220

I made the case some posts ago that the entirety of the Modern West is controlled by the Jews, up to and inncluding its most prominent Scientific, Cultural, Political and Commercial institutions.
Every day I receive more concrete confirmation of my hypothesis:

Edward Bernays was born in Vienna to a Jewish family.[13] His mother, Anna (1858–1955), was Sigmund Freud’s sister, and his father Eli (1860–1921) was the brother of Freud’s wife, Martha Bernays; their grandfather, Isaac Bernays (through their father Berman), was the chief rabbi of Hamburg and a relative of the poet Heinrich Heine.[14][15]

… Masters of The Lie …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 24 2025 5:45 utc | 221

Nova festival founder outed as Israeli intel collaborator involved in Gaza genocide
Posted by: Exile | Apr 24 2025 4:32 utc | 217
I suppose every israeli is implicitly an “intel collaborator involved in Gaza genocide”.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 24 2025 5:46 utc | 222

After meeting with “senior Republicans” at Mar-a-Lago, Itamar Ben-Gvir said: “They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed.”
https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1915000741757964352
RE: Posted by: Menz | Apr 23 2025 21:14 utc | 203
ben-gvir is just about the absolute worst that humanity can possibly produce on this Planet
he is a monster, a depraved zionist scumbag, and a war criminal, and should be put on trial at The Hague,
and then just like with the nazis at Nuremberg….
“The Geneva Conventions, specifically Additional Protocol I (AP I), explicitly prohibits starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. This prohibition is found in Article 54, which also forbids attacking, destroying, removing, or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population…”
and
“Intentional starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”
someday and somehow, many (powerful) people in israel, the USA, the EU et al. are going to pay for all this genocide and mass murder of the poor Palestinians. and it ain’t gonna be pretty

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 24 2025 6:04 utc | 223

Re: War Crimes Trials ?
The constellation of forces will indeed eventually change. The war crimes trials will be epic in scope and reach. It’s worth examining the post-1945 Tokyo Trials and subsequent trials of hundreds of thousands of Japanese for a preview.
The 20 year old Pentagon clerk filling out Bills of lading for bombs being shipped will be held complicit to genocide. This might happen 70 years from now when she is 90 years of age.
Various genocidal billionaires ( ie Ron Lauder ) will have their estates taken to pay for damages long after they have passed on.
War crimes have no statute of limitations.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 24 2025 6:36 utc | 224

Men will retrieve their balls when someone will finally arrest Ben-Gvir and bring him to The Hague (where I suspect the Netherlands will do everything to release him, just the way they delivered Jews to their German allies between 1933-1938, in the name of “neutrality” and well before being “annexed” … they had actually married the future Queen to a German prince working for the Nazis).

Posted by: Tom | Apr 24 2025 10:28 utc | 225

@ Arch Bungle | Apr 24 2025 5:45 utc | 220
Another stunning discovery unearthed in the course of Arch’s Struggle: Ed Bernays was a goddam Jew, of the infamous Freud clan!
Noted.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2025 11:58 utc | 226

Conditions in Gaza:
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• The medical director of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Khalil al-Daqran, has warned that Gaza has entered the fifth stage of malnutrition — the most critical level defined by the World Health Organization — as a result of Israel’s ongoing blockade, reported Wafa. 
• Speaking to Voice of Palestine, al-Daqran said: “Gaza’s children are going through the most dangerous stages of malnutrition due to a complete absence of food and infant formula, and their lives are in real danger.”
• He also highlighted the plight of around 200,000 Palestinians suffering from chronic illnesses, warning that many could die as essential medications have run out.
• The Israeli blockade, now in its seventh week, has brought Gaza’s healthcare system to collapse and left civilians grappling with starvation.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-enters-most-severe-stage-malnutrition-warns-hospital-chief?nid=420885&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544134
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Gestapo in the US:
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On the morning of April 23, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies executed search warrants at multiple homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Canton Township, Michigan. The raids reportedly targeted a number of student organizers who were connected to Gaza protests at the University of Michigan.
According to the group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), agents seized the students’ electronics and a number of personal items. Four individuals were detained, but eventually released.
TAHRIR Coalition, a student-led movement calling for divestment from Israel, said that officers initially refused to present warrants at the Ypsilanti raid. They were unable to confirm whether ICE was present at the raid. […]
Earlier this month, federal immigration agents detained and interrogated attorney Amir Makled, who is representing one of the targeted students. […]
The mounting repression in Michigan comes amid a wider, nationwide crackdown on the Palestine movement from the Trump administration.
In recent weeks, the government has revoked hundreds, possibly thousands, of student visas, many from individuals who have protested against the genocide in Gaza or criticized Israel publicly. […]
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/fbi-and-police-raid-homes-of-palestine-activists-in-michigan/
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Posted by: teri | Apr 24 2025 12:32 utc | 227

Zio-Monsters are everywhere.
“Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claims senior US Republicans have supported his call to bomb food storage facilities in the Gaza Strip.
During a meeting with prominent Republican Party members at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday evening, Ben-Gvir stated that Tel Aviv needs to begin bombing “the food and aid warehouses” in Gaza.
“This is the way to create military and political pressure (on Hamas) to bring our hostages home safely,” he said in a message on X.
Ben-Gvir added that the Republicans “expressed support for my clear stance on how action should be taken in Gaza—that food and aid depots should be bombed to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home.”
Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer was among the attendees.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 24 2025 12:56 utc | 228

The West is crawling with Zio-Monster protectors.
“French security forces have arrested freelance reporter Shahin Hazamy as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices.
Media reports on Wednesday revealed that the dual Iranian-French national was detained in Paris for expressing support for Palestine.
French magazine Le Point confirmed through Hazamy’s lawyer that the arrest was based on accusations of “apologie du terrorisme,” a criminal charge under French law that pertains to supporting “terrorist acts.”
Hazamy was arrested on Tuesday at approximately 6:14 a.m. at his home in Paris and remains in temporary detention while the French judiciary investigates the case.
Reports said that Hazamy was violently arrested in front of his wife and two young children, aged 1 and 3.
Social media posts by Hazamy show his support for Palestinian and Lebanese resistance groups, as well as photos taken during recent visits to Lebanon.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 24 2025 12:58 utc | 229

Exile 217
Thank you for showing us how artsy Nazi Armin has Goebbelsed hundreds of thousands of Gazans as terrorists.
This is absolute proof that the Oct 7 Rave was year-long, strategically planned operation to justify the genocide.
Let it be a powerful warning to the world how completely integrated the artsy Jewish world is with the USUKIS Zionist genocide. How artsy Green doomers are integrated into Corporate Nazi Business.
Ed Milliband , a lefty Jew, is British Minister for Green Energy and his brother is a corporate Zionist in the US, like former Liberal Leader, Clegg.
The Revolving door of Western Politics has four compartments, Corporate, Artsy, Military and Politics.
These fuckers enter by one door of Lefty Politics and exit by another door of worldwide genocide.
Even Trump is no more than a TV chat show host in his day job.
Sickening hypocrisy of the West.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 24 2025 13:32 utc | 230

Online…
Currently, ambush in Gaza, “fierce fighting is now raging in the northern Gaza Strip”, Hannibal said to be being applied, heavy bombings.
“Israel’s ambassador to South Korea was attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters while he was at a restaurant”

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 13:56 utc | 231

“Israel’s ambassador to South Korea was attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters while he was at a restaurant”
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 13:56 utc | 230
####
Good. Zionists are feral humans.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 24 2025 14:08 utc | 232

@221 Arch (and Giyane)
So much (I think unbiased) experience of this, but as only from ‘one person’s own observations’ it can only be anecdotal, just some examples:
A presentation, UK embassador has a jewish minder/anchor who ‘owned’ the floor and took in the audience.
Main online Irish music forums, patrolled by left (openly) jewish identities, main characters with ties to “Israel” . Always a theme as the Irish are ‘supposed to’ sympathise with jews for persecution, plus US is home to both. Any Irish localism or identity getting swamped out, well known characters denigrated (no offence) using woke tactics. You could not defend any point of view without just being set upon, sometimes by US participants, usually ‘defending from exteme nationalism’ or suchlike. What was supported was international fusion and dilution, the ‘Celtic’ brand etc.
Conversation with a very honest academic, he mentions world bank, I say there must be many jewish members, he goes silent.
But where you see jewish, I find jewish/US influence as a combo, or jewish/”Israeli” a lot for UK.
As I mentioned, I know/have known many jews, some as friends and others not. In france the jewish lobby is strong and influential. In UK it used to be city philanthropist (e.g. Rothschild) at high level, and then a ‘sub society’ at everyday level, but that has evolved into an open political and social prominence, position and influence.
I could give more examples but it would take up the thread and serve little. I don’t think it is all upper organised, I think many jews know the themes and the parts they are supposed to play/not play in them, that a lot goes along without saying…it is the same for any group of people, the english for example, or any other, will generally think and act within certain norms and parameters (a lot of british are uneasy with UK wider direction btw, tendency is to differ in isolation)
I don’t make a point of searching out or documenting these influences, they are just what I have encountered.
One of the finest Irish musicians who deserved much better than how he was treated:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EI08_3lyHws

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 15:41 utc | 233

Currently, ambush in Gaza, “fierce fighting is now raging in the northern Gaza Strip”, Hannibal said to be being applied, heavy bombings.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 13:56 utc | 231
Really? There’s a dude that keeps showing up on these forums telling us the resistance is dead …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 24 2025 19:03 utc | 234

@234 Arch
A short circuit always looks like that.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 20:57 utc | 235

There is also the likes of the following, and to be honest, I would not know what representation or approach is true or correct. With the Hamas display of presence during prisoner release for example, I could see that being used by occupation to justify further hostility, but a lack of presence would have been used to demoralise resistance and to excuse not bargaining further (i.e. no resistance on ground to bargain with) …media controls the narrative. Anyway, the following is an alt take, and I could not say, but occupation apparently dropped forty bombs on the site :
“Media deception…
The Hebrew media is talking about violent clashes and difficult fighting between the Qassam Brigades and the Israeli army…
This is called media deception and portraying Hamas as if it is a regular army that possesses a military arsenal…
The truth is that what is happening in Gaza is that we are exposed to genocide… The Zionist side is bombing, killing and destroying randomly and there is no real equality in the fighting…
It is not without an operation of back and forth whenever the opportunity is available to the Qassam…
Of course, we Arabs, and especially the Palestinians, understand what is happening on the ground…
But their malicious media is misleading public opinion in Israel and in the Western world to justify its prohibition against everything Gazan…
May God bless your understanding…
A. Razak Al-Hassan”

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 24 2025 21:22 utc | 236

“Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claims senior US Republicans have supported his call to bomb food storage facilities in the Gaza Strip.
So if Muslims were doing to Jews and American Christians what Jews and American Christians are doing to Palestinian Muslims and Christians that would be okay by the US Government and be seen as a precedent for actions taken by any colonial ruler and in any war?
How much further can the United States fall? How much further will Americans let the curse of Zionists, Israelis and Jews drag them down into the abyss of bestial savagery, sadistic cruelty and a total betrayal of principles of justice, rule of law, democracy, human rights and common human decency?

Posted by: rosross | Apr 26 2025 2:15 utc | 237