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April 24, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-088
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Why has no one condemned Abbas and the “Palestinian Authority”?
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 20:21 utc | 101
Trump State Department spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, was stumped by a reporter asking whether Trump had approved of bombing Gaza food depots after Ben Gvir was high-fiving Republican leaders about it at Mar-a-Lago.
I don’t think this stuff will change policy or Trump, but every moment like this chips away at the MAGA narrative about Donald being a peacemaker, and given how helpless most of us are, embarrassing the psychopaths feels good.
I expect more of this as China and several ROW countries are increasingly pointing out and laughing at the absurdity of America online.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 25 2025 20:28 utc | 102
Why has no one condemned Abbas and the “Palestinian Authority”?
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 20:21 utc | 101
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To what end?
Abbas is perfect for the West Bank, just as Aoun is perfect for Lebanon, and Al-Jolani for Syria.
Incompetents and tyrants create their future replacements. Abbas (and the PLO) will have no role in the future Palestinian state.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 25 2025 20:31 utc | 103
Why has no one condemned Abbas and the “Palestinian Authority”?
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 20:21 utc | 101
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Oh, I have — I just can’t decide whether to consistently call him kapo, quisling, or Pu Yi — but then, I’m reasonably happy being a nobody. 😁
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 25 2025 20:39 utc | 104
Why has no one condemned Abbas and the “Palestinian Authority”?
@Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 20:21 utc | 101
When you say ‘no one’, you mean outside MoA, surely,
as I criticized Abbas here:
Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 24 2025 15:58 utc | 18
Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 25 2025 20:42 utc | 105
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 25 2025 20:28 utc | 102
which reporter working for who would date ask that question?
I bet they will not be at next press conference.
Posted by: UWDude | Apr 25 2025 20:54 utc | 106
Posted by: UWDude | Apr 25 2025 20:54 utc | 106
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It was a fairly young brown-skinned sister in West Asian clothing.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 25 2025 21:06 utc | 107
reuters: “WFP says crossings into Gaza have been shut for seven weeks”
shut by WHOM??
a reminder to all: “The Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. This prohibition is found in Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP I), specifically in Article 54. The protocol also prohibits attacking, destroying, removing, or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, including foodstuffs and water sources.”
They (Reuters) don’t even bother to mention in the Headline *who* is blocking aid.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-food-programme-runs-out-food-stocks-gaza-aid-block-persists-2025-04-25/
World Food Programme runs out of food stocks in Gaza as aid block persists
WFP says crossings into Gaza have been shut for seven weeks
Israel denies hunger crisis, blames Hamas for aid misuse
The World Food Programme said on Friday it had run out of food stocks in Gaza due to the sustained closure of crossings into the enclave, while Gaza authorities said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 78 people in the past 24 hours.
“The WFP has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza,” a WFP statement said, adding the U.N. agency on Friday delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in Gaza.
The agency said no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remained closed, resulting in the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.
Israel has previously denied that Gaza is facing a hunger crisis. The military accuses the Hamas militants who have run Gaza of exploiting aid – which Hamas denies – and says it must keep all supplies out to prevent the fighters from getting it…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 25 2025 21:35 utc | 108
My bad Malenkov, Otto.
I should have clarified as the Alt Media or State leaders, even Yemen and Hezb’Allah who have earned that right to do so.
Maybe Yemen might aim for targets closer to them soon. Their civilian infrastructure has been destroyed and deserves retaliatory action.
We are all nobodies here. Not when there’s an ongoing genocide with no concrete action to stop it.
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 21:47 utc | 109
“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” Pope Francis wrote.
“It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.
Suppose a genocide is going on, and you know it. Then saying such a thing is not just half-assed, reluctant diplomatese, but willfully obscuring. They take cover behind the legal technicalities to qualify the crime as an open question – by the way completely ignoring the proceedings at the ICJ. They also could have used other verbiage instead to sharply condemn what’s happening. What he did amounts to phoning in with the bombed to see how the bombing has been today. “How are you, John? Could you go out?”
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 25 2025 21:55 utc | 110
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1915840918319485223
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
2 billion Muslims in the world, mostly busy fighting each other
https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1915839698817163680
Hussein @EyesOnSouth1
55 days since Zionists last allowed a single item of food, water, medicine or fuel into Gaza.
2.2 million Palestinians. 1.1 million are children. Without any means of survival.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 25 2025 22:04 utc | 111
to Badjoke #100. Yes indeedy. As I said, Patrick died of Gulf War Syndrome, aka depleted uranium dust, burn pits and “anthrax” vaccinations. DU has been used for a long time with disastrous results for all living things. My point and question is/arre: are the Izzinazis dumb enough to think that they will not be affected. ???? Or are they so convinced of their “superiority” and guaranteed rights from the Holocost ™ that they will be immune?? In other words, to repeat one of the Iraqi war cries “they’re killing their own people.” Hard to fathom for a simple island girl. Cheers. PS from what you are saying, it would seem that DU is all over Ukraine. Death and Destruction it’s the mur-iel way.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 25 2025 22:12 utc | 112
israel is a terrorist-nazi state
see the 29-second video at the first link
see the 17-second video at the third/fourth link
https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1915402557922410992
TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza
The Israeli bombing hurls a child from one house to another; there are also some children who are torn apart.
https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1915461267348766932
Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis
⚡️ Israel assassinated Professor Dr. Fayyad Al-Naouk, Vice President of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, along with several members of his family in an Israeli airstrike that targeted him and his family in northern Gaza.
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https://x.com/BobSmithWalker/status/1915866385038594073
BobSmithWalker @BobSmithWalker
Zionist snipers are literally hunting children in Gaza
https://x.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1915824668428152854
Royal Intel 👑 @RoyalIntel_
🚨Israeli sniper shoots and kills young girl in broad daylight, her family is left in awe.
This is beyond fucking devilish. Hell is too kind for these demons.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 25 2025 22:20 utc | 113
@ Suresh
The Palestinians know already what Abbas is, local reporters and factions do not hold back. Currently, corrupt election process in Fatah is being exposed, yet recognition of Fatah/PLO still holding a proportional say (i.e. minor) in any broad concensus being formed by the various factions is not questioned due to inclusivity, even tbough Fatah direction is frequently criticised and widely disliked.
Many regional governments do not criticise him or Fatah because he is “the moderate” western aligned approach that they also back.
The various regional governments, authorities, or political groups that oppose western backed direction follow a code of respect of not meddling in the political realities of their neighbours (i.e. Palestinian politics) .
For example, you will not find Palestinian journalism questioning, or even analysing, decisions made by Hezballah, out of respect, and as a demonstration of trust and appreciation.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 25 2025 22:29 utc | 114
Via Gazanewsnow2021
“The World Food Programme announces that all its food supplies for the people of Gaza have been exhausted.”
Via Youssef Fares
“UNRWA :
– Nearly half a million Palestinians were displaced in the past month in the Gaza Strip.
– The remaining space for Palestinians in Gaza is fragmented, unsafe, and barely livable.
– Repeated displacement orders leave Palestinians with less than a third of Gaza’s area.
– Displaced persons’ shelters are overcrowded and in a dire state, and relief agencies are struggling to provide services. ”
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 25 2025 22:41 utc | 115
I joined Trump’s Truth Social to post comments, news, videos about Trump’s attack on Freedom of Speech and Israeli war crimes against the people of Gaza. I suggest everyone do the same and insert truth into their comfortable echo chamber so they can’t hide behind claims of ignorance. Get your friends to do the same.
Posted by: Willow | Apr 25 2025 22:41 utc | 116
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915876181573882229
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
🚨MIT Cuts Ties With Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit Systems After Student-Led Campaign
In one of the most high-profile academic dissociations from an Israeli weapons manufacturer in the U.S. to date, MIT has cut ties with Elbit Systems following a six-month campaign led by the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston.
➤ The decision removes Elbit from MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), a membership platform that connects corporations with MIT’s research labs, faculty experts, and emerging technologies.
➤ Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest private arms company, supplying drones, surveillance systems, and other military equipment used in genocide in Gaza and across occupied Palestinian territories.
➤ The campaign targeting MIT’s relationship with Elbit reportedly involved disrupting ILP conferences in Boston, Bangkok, Seoul, and Tokyo.
➤ “Let this be a message to all the merchants of death: You have been put on notice.” Student organizers called the move a victory for academic accountability and a rejection of partnerships with firms complicit in Israeli war crimes.
(Video via BDS Boston and M1T_CAA Instagram)
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 25 2025 22:44 utc | 117
@Badjoke | 100
DU rounds were used extensively in the first gulf war and in training during the late cold war period.
All 20mm, 30mm cannons in the US arsenal used DU in the AP rounds as well as the 105mm and 120mm APFDS rounds fired by American tanks.
What with the 25mm on the Bradley? The M919 cartridge was developed 1996 and is currently in production … I’ve often wondered about their use in Ukraine, though I guess we would have heard something about that.
While we’re at it, does anyone know what their Challenger tanks are using now? Last I heard they were mostly kept away from the front, possibly because of issues resulting from the Khmelnitsky strike against the ammo train, which may have been an effective deterrent.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 25 2025 23:15 utc | 118
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 25 2025 22:44 utc | 117
Thank you for all your posts I read and watch them all
Good news BDS !
Posted by: ld | Apr 25 2025 23:19 utc | 119
@114 Ornot
“The various regional governments, authorities, or political groups that oppose western backed direction follow a code of respect of not meddling in the political realities of their neighbours (i.e. Palestinian politics) .
For example, you will not find Palestinian journalism questioning, or even analysing, decisions made by Hezballah, out of respect, and as a demonstration of trust and appreciation.”
This was not meant as a comparison of Fatah with Hezballah, needless to say. The point being that whether ‘good or not good’ the etiquette shown is pretty much the same. It just so happens that sentiment towards Hezballah tends to be positive as well.
i.e. for other Lebanese groups that are not Palestine friendly, there is not official Palestinian questioning or criticising either … just reporting and official reactions that carry an unspoken but perceivable message of dislike or disregard.
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 25 2025 23:22 utc | 120
“ 🚨MIT Cuts Ties With Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit Systems After Student-Led Campaign”
— dearth of wealthy Jewish donors to the MIT Office of Foundation Relations?…
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 25 2025 23:54 utc | 121
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 25 2025 23:15 utc | 118
Yes the 25mm bushmaster also uses a DU AP round but as you already noted it was not in service during GW1.
DU is ideal for armor penetration because it is hard, ablates its surface readily, and the ablated material burns at a very high temperature. However this produces a cloud of oxidized heavy metal that people can breath in. It was known long before GW1 as OSHA required respirators be used during inspections of targets back in the 70’s. Nobody gives a fuck about solders getting heavy metal poisoning, that’s their job.
Posted by: Badjoke | Apr 26 2025 0:05 utc | 122
Larry says it could only be from depleted uranium. Bullets just make holes not infernos.
Do I sound angry? I am.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 25 2025 19:48 utc | 98
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The burned cars look like they were incinerated by Hellfire missiles with Thermobaric warheads to me.
Thermobarics detonate with a very large fireball that burns hot and sucks the oxygen out of the air. But leaves structures and vehicles intact unless hit directly. They usually detonate in the air over the target to maximize the fireball size. They leave a scene Exactly like all those burned vehicles.
DU rounds are very hard armor piercing rounds designed to penetrate Tank and other armor. Like bullets they leave small holes.
Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2025 0:26 utc | 123
Quote:No one should propagate hatred. It is a poisonous, destructive emotion that leads solely to conflict and violence.
Correct. Behind hatred is always fear and fear is a very poor and dangerous basis for decision-making. The horror that is Israel, the State of Hate, was conceived, created, founded and has functioned in hatred and look where that took them? The Judaic fear and hatred of goyim has been used by Zionism and aspects of the religion, to brainwash Israelis and their supporters into believing that if they don’t kill non-Jews, then the goyim will kill them.
Quote: One should not hate Zionism, as Mizrahi proposes, but be knowledgeable about it in order to understand it.
When there is understanding, effective ways of rejecting, countering and defeating it as an ideology and a practice can be devised and applied.
Correct. One can condemn and reject without the presence of emotional hatred and fear.
Quote: A natural, sane reaction to Zionism and all similar projects is – opposition, disgust, feeling sickened and repelled by everything they represent.
Posted by: JB | Apr 24 2025 14:39 utc | 3
Correct. And remembering it is not simply Zionism which can be blamed here. Most Jews have supported, funded and promoted the State of Israel, either not knowing or not caring about the atrocities and evil crimes committed in the name of their religion. Zionism has drawn on the most backward, primitive, hate-filled and fear-driven aspects of Judaism.
And Christians and Christian Zionists have drawn on the most backward, primitive, hate-filled and fear-driven aspects of Christianity.
It is too easy, too simplistic and too convenient to blame Zionism for all of this evil when Jews have played a major part in it and so have many Christians.
@Otto Penn,
Any knowledge of Judaic teachings regarding victimhood, and Zionist exploitation of such victimhood and the Jewish glory of persecution, real and imagined, provides understanding for the horror that is Israel..
In psychological terms, any trauma which is not processed so the individual can move beyond it, becomes entrenched and destructive. Judaism and Israel are psychologically deformed and mentally ill in this regard. The psychopathic narcissist, writ large.
To believe one is superior as a human being is to create an ego-inflated version of any suffering. The reality is that all humans are descended from the persecuted and the suffering and yet most do not become bestial savages as the Israelis and many Jews have become.
Judaism has encouraged the belief in superiority and its ego-driven need for eternal and exceptional victimhood. Jews stand at the Wailing Wall in Occupied Palestine and recite a litany of wrongs done to Jews going back thousands of years. As a psychological study in dysfunction leading to psychopathic narcissism, Israel will keep psychiatric and psychology students busy for a century.
Like many people I have a Jewish strain to my family, one of a dozen different religions littering my ancestral past. Fortunately in my line all religions were dropped, including Judaism and psychological health became possible. However, having traced the family back for 300 years living in England for most of the time and then for a century in Australia, it seems that those Jews were not persecuted and were in fact relatively sane. Jews lived in England for more than a thousand years and while there were some moments, mostly without persecution. Indeed, less persecution than Protestants suffered under Catholic rulers or Catholics suffered under Protestant rulers.
The point is, yes some Jews have suffered in some places at some times in history but many did not. All religions have faced persecution and some did not survive. So, religious persecution was never particular to Jews, it just morphed into a cult of victimhood because Judaism taught that Jews were exceptional, elite and the only real humans. Well, lots of primitive religions and cultures believed that, but in Judaism it did not just survive, it thrived and bore ripe, rotting fruit with the Zionists harvested with joy.
So, while some Jews could and did manage to avoid the paranoid exceptionalism, many, probably most did not. You do not have to scratch deep, even with the fake atheist Jews, to get a visceral reaction of Judaic paranoia.
This is what you become if you do not, cannot, will not or are not allowed to process trauma in psychologically healthy ways. A belief in superiority brews a huge ego and when joined in marriage with a belief in exceptionalism and victimhood, the ego becomes shall we say, Omnipotent. The individual becomes God and can do no wrong. Here endeth the first and last lesson of the State of Hate, Israhell.
The Cradle has a posting up with the title
Iran signs landmark gas, nuclear cooperation deal with Russia
https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-signs-landmark-gas-nuclear-cooperation-deal-with-russia
quote
Russia and Iran signed a preliminary agreement on 25 April to deliver up to 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas annually to Iran, marking a significant step in strengthening their strategic partnership amid sweeping western sanctions.
The deal, announced during Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad’s visit to Moscow, also includes a $4 billion investment by Russian companies to develop seven Iranian oil fields and Moscow’s commitment to fund the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Iran.
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Despite holding the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia, Iran has increasingly struggled to meet domestic demand. Years of US sanctions and underinvestment have hampered Iran’s energy infrastructure, forcing the country to import gas from neighbors like Turkmenistan.
I wonder how this fits with US/Iran negotiations?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 26 2025 4:14 utc | 126
Kneecap again – interview today with their manager on fall-out etc. Very Good.
Kneecap manager’s response on Coachella controversy shows Irish moral clarity | Janta Ka Reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BUQViZWkPY [14 mins
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 26 2025 4:43 utc | 127
DU rounds are very hard armor piercing rounds designed to penetrate Tank and other armor. Like bullets they leave small holes.
Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2025 0:26 utc | 123
I concur … if you fire DU at a soft target, it will simply punch through and pop out the other side with minimal friction and no incendiary effect. It might start a fire if it cuts into the engine block, or a similar large chunk of iron.
Hellfire missiles are designed to be launched from helicopters … hence the name, “Helicopter Fired”.
Posted by: Tel | Apr 26 2025 5:17 utc | 128
Posted by: Tel | Apr 26 2025 5:17 utc | 128
Definitely AGM-114-N. Lots of pictures of what they do to groups of cars out there. Recognized it as soon as a saw the photos. The holes however were likely from the 30mm chain gun and those are DU although sheet metal is not going to get them burning. Engine block would.
Posted by: Badjoke | Apr 26 2025 5:56 utc | 129
The late pontiff , like the Jews in Israel, spent his entire life breaking the clear rules of the current prophet of Islam, Muhammad sal allahu alaihi wa salam, an the thinks that sympathising with the victims of Jewish and Christian oppression of Islam will compensate for a lifetime of defiance against God.
As Alon Misrahi so rightly points out, the Israelis who are protesting against Nutcase fully support the genocide, but they don’t likecthecinevitable consequences of their religion, their property, their invented entitlement to others property etc to be universally despised and condemned by the entire world.
US exceptionalism is a Bible based travesty of reality, same as the Catholic Church. They each think, Catholics, Jews and Americans , that their size makes them bigger and better than God.
Their destination is Hell and damnation.
The Potus is but a wart on the Dick-waving Pox Americana. The Pope just a wart on the Dick-waving Pox Romana, and Nutcase just a wart on the Dick-waving Pox Judaica.
If Western Civilisation, both Roman and US, and Zionism succeed in nuking themselves to destruction, the world will regenerate in the scorched tundra from the beautiful seeds of Islam.
Inshallah.
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2025 6:06 utc | 130
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 26 2025 4:14 utc | 126
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I don’t feel that the Axis powers are waiting on American deals. They have a future to build and no time for Zionist games.
If anything, this will bind Russia and Iran militarily more substantially.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 7:02 utc | 131
see the 35-second video at the first/second links
see the 23-second video and narration text at the third link
https://x.com/OmarBaddar/status/1915837161162899867
Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar
If a mob of people in New York were chanting “death to Jews” while attacking pro-Israel demonstrators, it would be the top story on every outlet.
But chants of “death to Arabs” will be ignored because, as US foreign policy demonstrates, some lives matter more than others.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1915817929704190116
The Resonance @Partisan_12
ZI0NISTS in NYC yelling “D€ATH TO ARABS” while kicking & harassing a lone woman….
https://x.com/MerruX/status/1915832187913474270
Ali @MerruX
Not only this they are attacking anti Zionist jews in front of nypd.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2025 7:17 utc | 132
see the photo at the fourth link.
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1915433237716885863
Khalissee @Kahlissee
🇮🇪🇬🇧 BREAKING:
Irish Band Kneecap is under investigation by UK counter-terror police for demonstrating solidarity with Palestine during their Coachella performance.
Kneecap Response: “18-Months Of Genocide Footage Not Under Investigation By UK Counter Terror Police”
https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1915764096550453373
Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi
Israeli Member of Knesset from Netenhayu’s own party Moshe Saada
“Yes, I will starve residents of Gaza, yes indeed — it is our duty. I want to starve the residents of Gaza, to impose a full, full siege.”
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1915764253128065087
IsraelExposed @xIsraelExposedx
There has never been more genocidal intent recorded by a government in human history.
https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1915691299337801883
أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0
A number of martyrs, including children and women, were recovered from the house that was targeted yesterday in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2025 7:43 utc | 133
Maybe Yemen might aim for targets closer to them soon. Their civilian infrastructure has been destroyed and deserves retaliatory action.
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 25 2025 21:47 utc | 109
Divine help is forthcoming if you adhere to His rules. Islamic rules explicitly prohibit targeting civilians, places of worship and food sources, plus many more. They are following the Divine guidelines. Undoubtedly, (I) fathan qareeb. Victory is near. What we see is only at the surface of what maybe happening to violent aggressors and those complicit in the region.
For those writing about Abbas, as far as I know, he is neither Muslim nor Christian.
Posted by: sal | Apr 26 2025 11:18 utc | 134
“The walls may be closing in on Trump. The punters believe all of his negotiations talk but my reading is that China and Russia are getting ready to start putting the screws to the US.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Apr 25 2025 18:51 utc | 94
You read?
What did you read that gave you that idea?
I call bullshit-you just said that to give yourself a little credibility and said what you want to believe..
Pathetic.
Posted by: canuck | Apr 26 2025 11:28 utc | 135
Adam Houda
@LawyerAdamHouda
Still no answers on the mysterious death of French journalist Marine Vlahovic who was found dead a few months back at her residence in Marseille amid making a documentary on the genocide in Gaza https://
https://x.com/LawyerAdamHouda/status/1915911284463439897
French correspondent found dead in Marseille amid making documentary on Gaza genocide
Monday, 02 December 2024 11:11 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 02 December 2024 11:11 AM
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/02/738332/France-Marine-Vlahovic-Palestine-Gaza-Israel-Marseille-documentary-
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:49 utc | 136
Yo Ho! HasbaRats!!
The yoof have woken up and gone right through the propaganda.
‘Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis
@DrLoupis__
18h
54% of UK youth believe Israel shouldn’t exist.
Apr 25, 2025 · 5:22 PM UTC ‘
Ooopsie! This takes me back to my yoof in the early 80’s when punks, mods and rockers overcame our differences and became full on anti-apartheid , freedom for South Africa, Mandela and aware of Steve Biko’s murder.
Boycots and protests at ships and banks by the young educated the older generations.
They stopped buying Cape goods and changing accounts from Barclays… etc.
The dumb acoubter attack on Kneecap the band has just multiplied the awareness of the YOOF – most will drip the bs of their incarceration under Covid robbing them of their teenage years. They need aggrieved at injustice.
Not buying the fake Nazis of Ukraine anymore
Not buying into fake Uyghurs and Sinophobia or Russophobia anymore either.
As VE Day gets cooked up without the heroic sacrifices and Nazi killing USSR ! The Yoof will change gears further.
They have NOTHING to lose – the majority who aren’t trustafarian of the 1%.
Now not buying into the fake narratives of the illegal apartheid entity or it’s supposed ‘right to exist’ pulled out of some butt hurt ziofascist arses as they lost to the Red Army.
The illegal entity is Wasrael for sure now and all our media and political hacks and whores are going to cry like the racist fascist apartheid lovers of the now disappeared South Africa and Rhodesia.
Make space as the crazed illegal ‘settlers’ come back home to roost from their decades of supremacist murderous colonialism of the Palestine.
54 PERCENT and RISING exponentially!
From the River to the Sea!
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 26 2025 11:49 utc | 137
Saul Staniforth
@SaulStaniforth
BBC News: “according to the Reuters news agency, the missile that killed at least 8 people in that aerial attack on Kyiv was a North Korean ballistic missile”
Are you going to start reporting the origin of all the bombs & missiles that Israel uses to kill Palestinians in Gaza?
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1915340885891391886
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:50 utc | 138
Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuToha
People who were posting “All Eyes on Rafah” should start using “Where Is Rafah?”
SEE PIC…
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1915088872595218737
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:51 utc | 139
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Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Gaza’s polio vaccination campaign has been suspended as the Israeli blockade halts medical supplies Health officials warn over 600,000 children are now at risk of a polio resurgence.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915765362047545684
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:52 utc | 140
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
WATCH | Ryan Grim points out that, not long ago, a diagnosis like HER2-positive breast cancer was often a death sentence for women. However, due to NIH funding and groundbreaking research at UCLA—where treatments like Herceptin were developed—millions now have a real shot at life. That same public funding is what Trump and Musk are now trying to shut down.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915985216771952804
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:53 utc | 141
You read?
What did you read that gave you that idea?
I call bullshit-you just said that to give yourself a little credibility and said what you want to believe..
Pathetic.
Posted by: canuck | Apr 26 2025 11:28 utc | 136
I dunno. I read today that aliens built the pyramids, that the earth is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. If your default position is that the claim “I read it” lends any credibility to anything, then maybe you ought to re-examine your priors.
Posted by: forceOfHabit | Apr 26 2025 11:55 utc | 142
Can I expect them to be deported?
Dyab Abou Jahjah
@Aboujahjah
Anti Arab Pogrom in New York City organised by a Zionist mob. A mob of men is seen harassing one woman and chanting “death to Arabs” in Hebrew.
https://x.com/Aboujahjah/status/1915833597476429843
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:55 utc | 143
Kerry Burgess
@KerryBurgess
America, despite what your perverted, blackmailed, self-serving political representatives try to tell you, Palestinians are human beings. These are real children that you are bombing, sniping, and murdering.
Just stop.
https://x.com/KerryBurgess/status/1915546452190793734
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:57 utc | 144
Saturday:
Gaza Ministry of Health: 56 martyrs (including 7 recovered) and 108 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Trump:
I discussed the situation in Gaza with Netanyahu and asked him to be lenient with the Strip.
Channel 12:
Israel decides: Humanitarian aid will not be allowed into the Gaza Strip despite pressure.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Clear as mud:
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NEW: Trump has clarified that he didn’t ‘stop’ Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites but did not ‘make it comfortable’ for them, preferring a deal over military action
He expressed no concern about Netanyahu dragging the U.S. into war, stating that the U.S. will not be ‘unwillingly involved,’ and he would willingly engage if a deal isn’t reached.
He adds that ‘By the way, he [Netanyahu] may go into a war’ and says that U.S. will not stay out of it.
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
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The moment of the massive explosion at the Rajaee Port in southern Iran,
hundreds of deaths and injuries reported.
Maariv, citing Israeli military officials:
The army has nothing to do with the explosion that occurred in Iran.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Al-Qassam: —
We shot and killed 4 occupation soldiers, including two soldiers, east of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.
NEW: The United States is reportedly set to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package exceeding $100 billion, with the announcement planned for President Donald Trump’s visit to the kingdom in May
U.S. defense firms Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman are expected to be involved.
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
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Posted by: teri | Apr 26 2025 12:19 utc | 145
Honeyeater 74 – Wrong, Pope Francis I has been continuing condemned the IDF for atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and Syria. I only hope the next Pope will continue his policies.
Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Bishop of Jerusalem even visited North Gaza post 10/7 to show solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians.
These Catholic leaders have stood up for the Palestinians, even as Catholics in the Holy Lands face continuing discrimination and oppression (witness the chaos caused by Israeli police at the Cathedral of the Holy Seplucuria in Jerusalem on Easter morning).
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2025 12:27 utc | 146
World Food Program is reporting that all food reserves in Gaza are now expended, and that all food supplies, medical supplies and fresh water supplies have been now embargoed, deliberately by the IDF.
Starvation is now occurring in real time.
War crimes ignored by the UK/US/EU news media. USPBS ran an extensive report on News Hour last night about the food blockade in Gaza and quoted Cindy McCain as stating the dire situation among the civilian populace.
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2025 12:34 utc | 147
Israel launches another major cyberattack at the Shahid Rajaei port in the (IRI) crashing the computer systems network.
Last time it caused transport chaos for days.
Posted by: pepe | Apr 26 2025 13:06 utc | 148
135
“The walls may be closing in on Trump. The punters believe all of his negotiations talk but my reading is that China and Russia are getting ready to start putting the screws to the US.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Apr 25 2025 18:51 utc | 94
You read?
What did you read that gave you that idea?
I call bullshit-you just said that to give yourself a little credibility and said what you want to believe..
Pathetic.
Posted by: canuck | Apr 26 2025 11:28 utc | 136
What we have here is bs calling itself out. Just stop. Or do you two really want to be nominated for the og. Clogging up threads with personal shit directed at anonymous sources award?
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 26 2025 13:32 utc | 149
Yemen strikes Nevatim airbase with Palestine-2 hypersonic missile
By
Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
Today 15:09
Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit Nevatim airbase in the occupied Negev with a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile, vowing continued resistance until Gaza aggression ends.
Posted by: Mary | Apr 26 2025 14:13 utc | 150
It’s a bit bizarre to me that the hardest hitting anti-Zionist news comes from Haaretz.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-30/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/theres-no-auschwitz-in-gaza-but-its-still-genocide/00000194-b8af-dee1-a5dc-fcff384b0000
(paywalled, but you can still see the headline)
I hope this finds you well
Posted by: ockham | Apr 26 2025 14:32 utc | 151
Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit Nevatim airbase in the occupied Negev with a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile, vowing continued resistance until Gaza aggression ends.
Posted by: Mary | Apr 26 2025 14:13 utc | 151
So still warnings, conventional strikes on an airbase with 2 missiles is unlikely to do anything serious. On the other hand 2 judiciously placed ballistic missiles in the port of haifa might block it for a while.
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 14:38 utc | 152
I apologize if this is redundant to any other barfly’s post.
—
“War Dust and Collateral Inhalation — Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Death”
by Dennis Kucinich
April 25, 2025
… The sustained bombing of Gaza pulverizes stone, heavy metals and the human body. The vaporizing of human beings under extreme heat and pressure combines with dust, water vapor and metallic particles the size of microns, all blasted upwards, aerosolized and wind-driven across borders into Israel and surrounding countries…
Israel, in bombing neighboring Gaza, is breathing in its own fallout, along with the vaporized remains of its declared enemies…
On a clinical level, breathing in bioaerosols can compromise human immune systems. Breathing in ultrafine particles from non-biological war dust can cross the blood-brain barrier and contribute to neurodegenerative disease.
Israel and the Palestinians share a common atmosphere. They inhale the same war dust from bomb materials, carbon soot and the fine particle remains of vaporized Gazans.
Human cremation occurs at temperatures between 1,400°F and 1,800°F.⁶ The blast temperatures of the bombs identified as being dropped on Gaza — MK-84 bombs: 4,496°F; GBU-39s: 4,892°F; BLU-109s: 3,632°F — far exceed this range.⁷ In comparison, blast furnaces used to melt steel operate at 2,500°F to 2,800°F.
People at the epicenter of such bombings in Gaza are instantly turned into dust…
As 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped in Gaza, the matter destroyed takes a different form, as toxic pollutants carried aloft in gas, dust, vapor and particulates.
Specifically, toxic quantities of cadmium, nickel, lead, mercury, and arsenic are released into the air, together with dioxins, furans, PCBs, (polychlorinated biphenyls), PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and VOCs (volatile organic compounds).¹³
One calculation indicates that 100,000 tons of bombs, exploded in a densely populated area of Gaza, can generate between 800,000 to 1.2 million tons of pollution.¹⁴
Add to this the dust of Gazans’ human remains and you have extreme airborne consequences carried by the wind, directly into Israel, particularly the central and northern regions, and far beyond…
southern and central Israel, western Jordan, the northeast Sinai Peninsula, northern Egypt (Delta and Cairo), Lebanon, Cyprus, southwestern Syria, northwestern Saudi Arabia, southeastern Turkey, Crete, Greece, Sicily, and Malta. Additionally, sea spray can carry aerosolized particles clear across the Mediterranean Sea.¹⁹…
https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/25/war-dust-and-collateral-inhalation-israel-breathes-in-gazas-dust/
Posted by: suzan | Apr 26 2025 14:40 utc | 153
@ suzan | Apr 26 2025 14:40 utc | 154
Holocaust in every sense. Humanity cremated here.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 26 2025 14:46 utc | 154
It’s a bit bizarre to me that the hardest hitting anti-Zionist news comes from Haaretz.
Posted by: ockham | Apr 26 2025 14:32 utc | 152
Only a jew can say that without being called a nazi…
That’s how screwed up things are right now.
A genocide by any other name stinks as badly, and few governments are risking saying anything
Some do, don’t like sanchez, but kudos to him
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/24/spain-halts-controversial-7-5m-deal-to-buy-ammunition-from-israeli-company
Also to ireland, go get them, kneecap them, south africe of course, iran , and of course the always stoic and unrelenting people and rulers of yemen.
Sad how so many other just look the other way and whistle… even some who joined RSA on the ICJ trial have fallen short on serious action but something is better than nothing so…
Cuba
Djibouti
Egypt
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Jordan
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Maldives
Mexico
Namibia
Pakistan
Palestine
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Slovenia
Spain
Syria
Turkey
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
African Union
Arab League
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Non-Aligned Movement
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 14:51 utc | 155
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 14:38 utc | 153
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I was of the understanding that Haifa was already shut down.
The point of the missiles isn’t to blow stuff up the point, IMO, is to harass and send Zionists to shelters constantly.
Like the point of attacking the carrier groups is not to sink a carrier as cool as that would be. It is to tie down (fix) US naval assets while exhausting their munitions, and mentally taxing the seamen.
If Ansar Allah sunk a carrier Trump would have to nuke Yemen. The media, DoD, and Congress would tolerate nothing less.
And as cool as sinking a carrier would be, it would not meaningfully diminish Israel or the mental illness of Zionism.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 14:54 utc | 156
I saw on Twitter that Norway is officially recognizing Palestine.
Little by little, then all at once.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 14:57 utc | 157
On the other hand 2 judiciously placed ballistic missiles in the port of haifa might block it for a while.
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 14:38 utc | 153
The intelligence center of Occupied Palestine is in Tel Aviv.
Why the Houthi have not hammered that place is a mystery.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:01 utc | 158
This just in:
The Iranian state media reported that at least 516 people were injured at the explosion at Shahid Rajaei port, located more than 1,000km (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.
Iranian state television said initial reports indicate negligence in the storage of flammable materials at the site, while Tehran Times reported that the explosion of several containers was the initial cause of the blast.
Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, director of Hormozgan province’s crisis management organisation, told state television that the injured have been transferred to medical facilities.
He said that safety officials had previously visited the site of the incident, and issued safety warnings.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/massive-explosion-fire-strike-iranian-port-city-of-bandar-abbas
Somewhat of a Beirut Port explosion vibe.
Sometimes I get the impression the Axis of Resistance’ biggest enemy is simply occupational health and safety. Not even the Zionists.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:05 utc | 159
If Ansar Allah sunk a carrier Trump would have to nuke Yemen. The media, DoD, and Congress would tolerate nothing less.
And as cool as sinking a carrier would be, it would not meaningfully diminish Israel or the mental illness of Zionism.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 14:54 utc | 157
That’s why, lately, they just sent drones and cruise missiles, no ballistic ones.
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The intelligence center of Occupied Palestine is in Tel Aviv.
Why the Houthi have not hammered that place is a mystery.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:01 utc | 159
A bit like the previous answer, not forcing israel to retaliate full retard.
Now for both, yes, houtis would prefer things don’t go full nuclear, they are used to rubble, not glowing rubble
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 15:09 utc | 160
French correspondent found dead in Marseille amid making documentary on Gaza genocide
Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2025 11:49 utc | 137
Also, joining a far-way dot:
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has died by suicide aged 41, her family has said.
Ms Giuffre was one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex offenders Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend. She alleged they trafficked her to the Duke of York when she was 17, which Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I get the sense the Mossad is embarking on a massive intelligence “cleanup” against everyone who’s ever said anything nasty about the Zionist Empire.
Dark days ahead for the truth-tellers …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:10 utc | 161
Sometimes I get the impression the Axis of Resistance’ biggest enemy is simply occupational health and safety. Not even the Zionists.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:05 utc | 160
Elves&safety?
The elves are often blamed for things that others did…
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 15:11 utc | 162
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 15:09 utc | 161
Unfortunately, that makes sense.
Now, if ever there was a case for nuclear weapons this is it.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:11 utc | 163
US exceptionalism is a Bible based travesty of reality, same as the Catholic Church. They each think, Catholics, Jews and Americans, that their size makes them bigger and better than God.
Their destination is Hell and damnation…
Inshallah.
@ Giyane | Apr 26 2025 6:06 utc | 130
Hell and damnation can and does arrive in the present moment — as Kucinich so vividly describes the damnation of toxic microparticles filling “Israel’s” atmosphere. The best anti-colonial poets — Aime Cesaire most brilliantly, also James Baldwin — sing of “sympathy for the devil” as it were: imaging the torment oppressors bring on themselves.
It’s unbearably ugly to imagine lining up a child’s head in your rifle’s telescopic sight; pulling the trigger; seeing the result. Somewhere in there, at least in some cases, there’s a damned human being whose whole life turned irredeemably bad, stinking like a dead fish.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 26 2025 15:12 utc | 164
Posted by: forceOfHabit | Apr 26 2025 11:55 utc | 143
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Some of it is my fault. I keep writing colloquially, forgetting that certain autists nitpick the bar seeking self-worth and attention.
The level of comprehension among natural born English speakers at the bar can be terribly poor at times.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 15:12 utc | 165
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 26 2025 15:12 utc | 165
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Simpler answer.
That is the result of Talmudic Judaism.
You know it goyim.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 26 2025 15:14 utc | 166
“Closer view of the moment of the explosion at Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.”
https://t.me/pal74press/103873
Aftermath
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/99721
https://t.me/pal74press/103859
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2025 15:18 utc | 167
The Iranian state media reported that at least 516 people were injured at the explosion at Shahid Rajaei port, located more than 1,000km (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran. Iranian state television said initial reports indicate negligence in the storage of flammable materials at the site, while Tehran Times reported that the explosion of several containers was the initial cause of the blast.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:05 utc | 160
Southfront:
There is a possibility that the explosion at Bandar Abbas was the result of sabotage by Israeli intelligence, with the target being materials meant for Iran’s missile program. This would be a response to the Islamic Republic refusal to discuss its missile capabilities in the ongoing talks with the U.S., or even an attempt to sabotage the talks.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:20 utc | 168
Posted by: ockham | Apr 26 2025 14:32 utc | 152
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Then there’s this. Israelis debating on Israeli tv whether babies in Gaza are innocent or should be killed:
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64915
Posted by: Sticker | Apr 26 2025 15:24 utc | 169
According to this report the timing of the explosion (at preparation loading point), makes it less likely that this was an accident:
“Iran’s BOMBSHELL Announcement After DEVASTATING EXPLOSION In Vital Sea Port Shakes Middle East!”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:32 utc | 170
@pepe | Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:06:00 GMT | 149
Israel launches another major cyberattack at the Shahid Rajaei port in the (IRI) crashing the computer systems network.
The moment of the massive explosion at the Rajaee Port in southern Iran,
hundreds of deaths and injuries reported.
Maariv, citing Israeli military officials:
The army has nothing to do with the explosion that occurred in Iran.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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It is burning in several places at once.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 26 2025 15:42 utc | 171
@pepe | Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:06:00 GMT | 149
Israel launches another major cyberattack at the Shahid Rajaei port in the (IRI) crashing the computer systems network.
Perfect timing.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 26 2025 15:43 utc | 172
Araghchi warned of such a few days ago. “Israel seeks to derail diplomacy. Iran on high alert for sabotsge, cyberattacks.”
Posted by: Sticker | Apr 26 2025 15:52 utc | 173
I hope Iran has learned from Lebanon’s example:
1. Use it – or lose it.
2. Rise and Kill First.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:55 utc | 174
Southfront:
There is a possibility that the explosion at Bandar Abbas was the result of sabotage by Israeli intelligence, with the target being materials meant for Iran’s missile program. This would be a response to the Islamic Republic refusal to discuss its missile capabilities in the ongoing talks with the U.S., or even an attempt to sabotage the talks.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2025 15:20 utc | 169
Israel launches another major cyberattack at the Shahid Rajaei port in the (IRI) crashing the computer systems network.
The moment of the massive explosion at the Rajaee Port in southern Iran, hundreds of deaths and injuries reported.
Maariv, citing Israeli military officials:
The army has nothing to do with the explosion that occurred in Iran.
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It is burning in several places at once.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 26 2025 15:42 utc | 172
Elves… no surprise orcs have a beef with them 😀
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 26 2025 15:58 utc | 175
Question:
What should Iran’s response be ?
(Hint: 3 power plants, 2 harbors, 1 airport )
Posted by: Exile | Apr 26 2025 16:11 utc | 176
@177
Never mind what it should be, we all know what it will be … crickets.
Iran’s feckless leadership (Particularly the ineffectual Pezeshkian) will write it off as ‘improper storage’ (they are already saying this in the Iranian press) to go along with such other obfuscations including Raisi’s helicopter ‘accident’ and the Beirut port explosion, again, ‘improper storage’.
Now. I have no idea whether this was an accident or not, but I don’t see ports (and other infrastructure) routinely spontaneously combusting in countries that are friendly to the US and Israel, and the timing is just a little too convenient.
Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 26 2025 16:49 utc | 177
Iran already hit the Likud hard 2 times in the last 18 months.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 26 2025 17:22 utc | 178
@179
They hit them, I’d argue about how hard tbh. I think it was more kabuki fireworks than anything else.
You don’t tell your enemy you are attacking them, it all very bizarre.
But that’s just my opinion.
The real problem with those attacks is that there was very little real visual evidence to confirm or deny how severe the damage was.
Nevertheless, I will agree that they did do something.
I don’t think Pezeshkian is the right guy for the job tbh, in a calmer world maybe, but not with the challenges Iran faces.
Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 26 2025 17:30 utc | 179
The fascists in Spain aid the Zio-Nazi’s in Israel.
“Despite promising to halt weapons trade with Israel, Spain has reportedly signed 46 contracts worth over €1 billion with Israeli military firms since the Gaza war began.
The revelation came after Spain scrapped a controversial ammunition contract with an Israeli supplier for its Civil Guard, sparking internal divisions in Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s fragile Socialist coalition in recent days.
While Sanchez – one of Europe’s most vocal critics of Israel’s war on Gaza – halted arms transactions with Israel after the regime launched the October 2023 war against Gaza, the Barcelona-based Centre Delàs found that Spain, nevertheless, approved 46 military deals worth €1.045 billion ($1.2B) with Israeli firms.
According to a statement released by the think tank on Friday, which previewed an upcoming report, out of the 46 contracts involving rocket launchers and missiles, 10 have yet to be formalized.
According to the statement, while some contracts involved maintenance or upgrades of existing equipment, others represented new agreements that “could increase the dependence… on an industry essential to perpetrate a genocide.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 26 2025 17:39 utc | 180
I bet you if this guy showed support for the Zio-Monsters or the head-chopping proscribed terrorists in Syria, (HTS) – he wouldn’t have been violently arrested.
“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 26 2025 17:42 utc | 181
—-Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“Fars News Agency:
Several containers exploded at Rajaee Port in southern Iran after fire reached them”
—-Journalist Youssef Fares
Fires at distinct locations video
https://t.me/youseffares19/74335
—-Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“The occupation army
intends to significantly expand the military pressure on the Gaza Strip as soon as possible, and will move to new locations, including a large-scale mobilization of reserve forces.
The Israeli occupation forces say that if negotiations for the release of the hostages do not yield results, additional tools prepared within the framework of operational plans will soon be activated: “We will repeat the Rafah model in other locations in the Gaza Strip.” As pressure on Hamas increases and forces advance and seize new territory, the scope of friction with Hamas is also expanding.”
“Kan Hebrew Channel:
The Israeli army has begun establishing a new “safe zone” in Rafah, in preparation for the transfer of Gazans to it. The zone is located between the Morag axis and the Egyptian border.”
“Very violent raids on the Yemeni province of Saada caused aftershocks in the surrounding areas.”
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2025 18:04 utc | 182
Today there was an “israel day” in berlin. Some sick perverts were selling drinks under a poster showing quarters of watermelon with eyes and mouths and a lion bearing the isr flag drinking a …red juice of watermelon…two drinks were on offer: watermelon juice or the same with vodka.
How long will Germany survive this shit?
Posted by: Tom | Apr 26 2025 18:33 utc | 183
Question:
What should Iran’s response be ?
(Hint: 3 power plants, 2 harbors, 1 airport )
Posted by: Exile | Apr 26 2025 16:11 utc | 177
My guess is that Iran will choose to jaw-jaw as opposed to war-war.
If this was a terror attack and cause this much damage, just imagine the damage that hundreds of sorties would do. Iranians don’t want their country wreaked.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Apr 26 2025 19:26 utc | 184
Iran‘s AD already established that the IAF can‘t come close
Posted by: Exile | Apr 26 2025 19:33 utc | 185
Video at link
Trump: I am putting strong pressure on Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into Gaza. We have to take care of the people there, they are suffering greatly.
https://t-me.translate.goog/gazanewsnow2021/192123?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Here is the truth
Informed sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper:
There is an Egyptian-Qatari proposal stipulating that a temporary ceasefire agreement be reached in Gaza, lasting for six months, in exchange for a cessation of military operations by both sides, and an exchange of some living and dead prisoners as a first batch.
Egyptian sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed:
The ongoing consultations in Cairo discuss a mechanism through which aid will be distributed to Gaza residents in a way that eliminates the pretexts advanced by the Israeli government regarding Hamas’ control over the aid. There are also proposals under consideration, including the supervision of an American security company that previously participated in monitoring the ceasefire agreement signed on January 17th, over the aid delivery and distribution process. The proposals also include the possibility of involving a tribal body not affiliated with Hamas in the aid distribution.
The Egyptian-Qatari proposal was recently presented to the United States by both parties during the Qatari foreign minister’s visit to Washington, where he met with his US counterpart, Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs, Steve Witkoff.
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Here is the truth
Israel Hayom newspaper says that “aid is expected to begin entering the Gaza Strip within two to three weeks and will be distributed according to a new mechanism agreed upon between the political and military levels.”
#Translation_Here_is_the_truth
Posted by: Mary | Apr 26 2025 21:00 utc | 186
Susan #154. I put up a link to the Kucinich article a while ago. It was also posted on Global Research. I don’t think many people actually used the link because there followed a discussion of types of munitions, kind of a guy thing perhaps, without apparently comprehension of the fact that Izzyhell and the ever expanding squatter areas are down wind of the pollution. So thanks much for posting the text which perhaps will be read.
Karma? Or some perverse kind in Samson Option? Or simply hubris. Hard to say. Cheers
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 26 2025 21:30 utc | 187
In case you haven’t noticed, Netanyahu is still blocking the formation of
a State Commission of Inquiry over October 7th.
There are an endless number of articles about this
all saying ‘Netanyahu doesn’t want the truth to come out’.
The vast majority of Israelis say that they want a State Commission of Inquiry,
but almost none of them want the real truth to come out.
Netanyahu and his Religious Zionist allies are not the only ones that
have for years/decades voiced the desire to cleanse all of Palestine of Palestinians.
That Israel gained the pretext for ethnically cleansing Gaza
through betrayal and treachery on the part of Netanyahu and the IDF,
through the sacrifice and murder of their own citizens,
this is a hard truth that few if any Israelis are willing to face.
They cannot face the truth that Israel is committing Genocide
based on a lie, based on treachery and betrayal, based on the
sacrifice and murder of their citizens on October 7th.
This makes them collaborators in not just Genocide
but in betrayal against themselves.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 26 2025 22:59 utc | 188
@Formerly Miss Lacy | Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:30:00 GMT | 188
Susan #154. I put up a link to the Kucinich article a while ago. I don’t think many people actually used the link because there followed a discussion of types of munitions, kind of a guy thing perhaps, without apparently comprehension of the fact that Izzyhell and the ever expanding squatter areas are down wind of the pollution.
Karma? Or some perverse kind in Samson Option? Or simply hubris. Hard to say
It’s a deep question. “The guys”, which includes me, were trying to establish how actually poisonous the dust-up could be. The other angle is implicitly known to everyone here, but it merits more thought. How can anyone develop a real estate project within the rubble and dust of the dead?
It’s not that they can, or must (psychologically) deny that anything happened. They willfully dig it under.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 27 2025 0:08 utc | 189
It is being said/speculated that the explosion in Bandar Abbas was sodium perchlorate. At least one, possibly two, recent shipments from China of 1000 tons of perchlorate docked there. The ammonium nitrate iirc in Beirut was also suitable as rocket fuel.
e.g.
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/shipload-of-rocket-fuel-arrives-in-iran
Posted by: Ornot | Apr 27 2025 0:21 utc | 190
@ Formerly Miss Lacy | Apr 26 2025 21:30 utc | 188
Good to hear Formerly Miss Lacey — that you had posted the link earlier. Thank you.
This time of year i have less time to keep up with postings so I missed that.
Spring here — glorious, really a miracle. But i make it a lot of work, this and that, here and there.
In my opinion this human catastrophe is the result of accumulative previous actions, a karmic unfolding … which is not escapable in our natural world. ( I am of buddhist philosophical persuasion, disclaimer.)
I have no idea about elsewhere if such exists.
Imo, best to recognize, regret, reform and made adjustments to one’s trajectory so as to combat the worst effects of karmic unfoldings — which for sentient beings include consciousness training and relevant actions.
The power of dumbed-down group think leads people and states away from such reconciliation with reality, but imaginary narratives, however well financed, cannot hold in the face of reality.
Posted by: suzan | Apr 27 2025 0:24 utc | 191
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1915914507823812889
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Trump is committing genocide for Israel after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the Adelsons.
All the worst shit happens right out in the open. You don’t need to come up with any elaborate conspiracy theories to see it. It’s right there, completely unhidden.
It’s not hidden, it’s just spun. Disguised by the propaganda of the mass media who frame this holocaust as a war of defense in response to a terrorist attack while constantly diverting our attention to other far less significant issues.
It says so much about the power of the imperial propaganda machine that Trump could openly admit to having been fully controlled by Adelson cash on the campaign trail, get elected, and then facilitate an active extermination campaign in Gaza while aggressively stomping out free speech against Israel throughout the United States — and somehow not have this be the main thing that everyone talks about all the time……
….This is the dystopia we were warned about. It’s not some ominous threat looming on the horizon. It’s here. We are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into consenting to the most nightmarish atrocities imaginable. Children’s bodies are being shredded to bits right in front of us. And when you turn on the TV you see famous people laughing and making jokes with fake plastic grins, babbling about vapid nonsense. This is the dystopia. It isn’t on its way. It’s here…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 27 2025 0:34 utc | 192
Iranians don’t want their country wreaked.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Apr 26 2025 19:26 utc | 185
Use it or lose it.
The Empire will nibble away at just below the threshold required to spur defensive action on Iran’s part until that threshold is lifted too high for any action
“Learned Helplessness”:
They program you with the subliminal behaviour getting used to non response until one day you must respond but can’t.
Then they move in for the kill.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 27 2025 0:44 utc | 193
zionism is a pathology and a cancer in the body politic of the USA and much of Europe
see the 1:41 video at the 4th link
see the two short videos at the fifth link
https://x.com/danpjsheehan/status/1915869709511364822
Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan
This is so incredibly dark.
Can you even begin to imagine the media and political response if a group of Arab men and boys had chased a lone woman down the street of a major American city shouting “death to Jews!”
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1915817929704190116
The Resonance @Partisan_12
ZI0NISTS in NYC yelling “D€ATH TO ARABS” while kicking & harassing a lone woman….
https://x.com/doppelego22/status/1915890500730486922
Highlad 🇸🇦 ❤️ 🇵🇸 @doppelego22
They only show their fangs against the defenseless.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1915918908101439596
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
The woman outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, New York, was terrified.
She was cornered, attacked, threatened with rape, had trash cans and objects thrown at her and harassed by pro-Israel Zionists while they chanted “Death to Arabs.”
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1915889709957714033
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇺🇸BREAKING:
“You want someone to bend you over and f*cking r*pe you”
New footage has emerged from the perspective of the pro- Palestine woman who was attacked by pro-Israel Zionists outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York City.
She was threatened with rape, then attacked, harassed, and mobbed.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 27 2025 1:10 utc | 194
In case you haven’t noticed, Netanyahu is still blocking the formation of
a State Commission of Inquiry over October 7th.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 26 2025 22:59 utc | 189
Who cares about their commissions, inquiries, investigations and any other illusory rituals of legitimacy they may practice?
Colonialism can only exist on the basis of lies and therefore it is antithetical to truth.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 27 2025 1:23 utc | 195
@194 Arch Bungle
Perfectly and concisely explains the way they (US & Friends) operate.
And they have been running that play book on Iran (among others) for quite a while now.
Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 27 2025 1:37 utc | 196
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 27 2025 1:23 utc | 196
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And such commissions often serve to obfuscate, sanctify, and exonerate the criminals.
It’s like the ICC and ICJ. I could have told anyone a year ago that nothing would come from them.
Part of the “performance” of law and justice.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 27 2025 1:39 utc | 197
Al Manar has a posting up about the Iran/US negotiations today
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2392832
Top Iranian and U.S. negotiators have ended a third round of indirect negotiations in Oman, centered on Iran’s nuclear program and lifting of sanctions.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi headed the Iranian delegation while U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff represented the American side.
The technical and high-level talks were facilitated by Omani mediators, a week after a second round in Rome that both sides described as “constructive.”
Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi, deputy foreign minister for political affairs, and Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs who engaged Michael Anton, the U.S. State Department’s head of policy planning in the expert-level talks.
Both Iran and the U.S. had described the first two rounds of negotiations as “constructive and promising” but Araqchi expressed “cautious optimism” about the process this week.
“If the sole demand by the U.S. for Iran is to not possess nuclear weapons, this demand is achievable, ” the top diplomat had said. “We will naturally encounter problems given impractical or illogical demands.”
Iran-US talks held in more serious atmosphere: Araqchi
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi addressed reporters after talks with US delegation in the Omani capital on Saturday, saying today’s third round was held in a more serious atmosphere.
“Negotiations with United States held in much serious atmosphere than before,” said Araqchi.
He said that the “Next round of talks to be held with US envoy Steve Witkoff.”
He continued to say that “We have reached a point where we have to discuss detailed nuclear negotiations .”
“Talks were only limited to nuclear issues, removal of sanctions,” he continued.
“There are still differences on the general issues and the details,” Araqchi said, adding that “Our optimism is extremely cautious.”
“Some of our differences are serious and some are less serious. I think our progress so far has been good. We are satisfied with the progress of the negotiations. Both sides are serious,” he added.
“I’d like to make it clear that the topic of the negotiations is the nuclear issue and we will not accept any other issue,” Iran’s lead negotiator said.
Next round of talks to be held next Saturday: Oman FM
In a post on his X account, the Omani foreign minister said today’s talks between Iran and the US identified a shared aspiration to reach an agreement based on mutual respect and enduring commitments.
“Core principles, objectives, and technical concerns were all addressed,” Busaidi wrote.
He noted that the sides agreed to continue the negotiations “with a further high-level meeting” provisionally scheduled for May 3.
Iran insists on its peaceful nuclear right: Foreign Ministry spokesman
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei reiterated Tehran’s insistence on its legitimate right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes during the indirect talks with the United States.
In a post on his X account on Saturday, Baqaei said the Iran-US talks were proceeding in a “serious” atmosphere.
He noted that the parties exchanged views on terminating sanctions effectively, building confidence in the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, and safeguarding Tehran’s right to civilian nuclear energy, facilitated by Oman.
Baqaei also dismissed claims from certain Western media outlets, emphasizing that Iran’s defense and missile capabilities were not raised in the talks and will never be a topic of negotiation.
The previous rounds of indirect talks between Iran and the United States were held in Muscat and Rome on April 12 and 19, respectively, and were similarly aimed at finding common ground on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Progress?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 27 2025 2:03 utc | 198
3 separate explosions at Bandar Abbas terminal just as new nuclear talks are underway.
Coincidence? Yeah,right!
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 27 2025 2:26 utc | 199
“They program you with the subliminal behaviour getting used to non response until one day you must respond but can’t.”
“Then they move in for the kill.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 27 2025 0:44 utc | 194
Even worse, when the subliminal behavior program is so ingrained, that even when you can respond… you don’t.
Then they move in for the kill and humiliate you.
Many nations are in positions to “respond” or “move in for the kill themselves” …but don’t.
The “nuclear” fear card played to the hilt, makes nations live with the West terrorism and evil at every turn, instead of adjusting their mind set to considering the depth and depravity of life worth living for future generations.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 27 2025 3:38 utc | 200