Israel battles worst wildfires in country’s history | BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxi3wbQQEH8 comments are amusing.

Posted by: nazcalito | May 1 2025 14:45 utc | 4

The Yanks trying to blacken the name of the UNRWA – by trying to head turn folk away from the Zio-Monsters war crimes against UNRWA personnel.
“The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected the comments by the US legal representative to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as false and unsubstantiated.
In today’s ICJ hearing regarding the legal humanitarian obligations of the Israeli regime (as the occupying entity) towards the people of Palestine, the US legal representative said that there were “serious concerns” about UNRWA’s impartiality.
In response to today’s hearing, Philippe Lazzarini wrote on his X account that “those” who use disinformation as a weapon of war must be held accountable.
“Such claims are threatening the lives & well-being of UNRWA staff across the Gaza Strip & the occupied West Bank,” he continued.
“Dehumanizing & polarizing statements further deepen people’s suffering. They divert attention from the humanitarian crisis & the immense needs of people impacted by over 1.5 years of systematic destruction of life.””
From the beginning of the Gaza war, Israel and the US have launched a major propaganda campaign against the agency and accused its staff members of being “Hamas operatives.”
Several independent investigations conducted by the UN have revealed that these claims are completely false.
These investigations, however, have not stopped Israel from attacking the agency’s staff members and buildings across Gaza or banning its humanitarian activities in the occupied territories.
The Israeli regime’s parliament (Knesset) passed a law in October that banned the agency from activity within the occupied territories.
The Knesset also revoked the 1967 treaty that allowed UNRWA to carry out its mission. The ban has greatly restricted the agency’s ability to operate in Gaza and the occupied territories.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 1 2025 15:04 utc | 6

Israel itself is Antisemitic to the nth degree.
It creates disrepute for itself, and for generation after generation.
The World has heard the message of Israel loud and clear:
Picture the flag of Israel planted atop a mountain of rubble, human corpses, flesh and bones.
An Israeli soldier holds the flagstaff, proudly puffs up his chest to the max
and boasts in a shout:

“We are the Jewish State
and we are monsters!”

Israel itself is Antisemitic to the nth degree.
It creates disrepute for itself, and for generation after generation.
The World has heard the message of Israel loud and clear!

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 1 2025 15:10 utc | 8

And doubt it not, all of us are Palestinians. For if such monstrosity is accepted, whither the world? You think you’re somehow safe because you live in Buttfuck, USA? Think again. This evil will consume the world.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 1 2025 13:45 utc | 1
An accurate and excellent first comment. Thanks, Doc!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 1 2025 15:38 utc | 10

Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Martyred:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Reporting from Rafah
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/madinat_khanyuns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | May 1 2025 15:47 utc | 12

I note the fires were started by Zionist settlers burning Palestinian orchards.
Posted by: David G Horsman | May 1 2025 15:47 utc | 13
Sadly, they will scoop random Palestinians off the street and torture them into admitting they started the fires.
In a lawless state nobody is guilty but all are criminals.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 1 2025 15:55 utc | 14

Sort of off topic, and no wish to derail, so just skip if necessary.
I appreciate historical accounts, but they only make proper sense to me when they are grounded in something tangible around. I bought some mango trees for planting, and hope to build up a collection. An unknown variety was on offer so I bought that and researched it. Nooooo, it originated from “Israel” according to first searches, a major moral dilemna for me, for although the actual plant was reared elsewhere, the variety grafted would have originally come from a tree in Palestine via zionist hands. What to do, destroying the tree would be unkind to the plant !? Keeping it would remind me of its origin, giving it away would be to encourage recognition or be just a weak reaction, recognition of an own weakness.
So I research some more, to make sure it really came from “Israel”, and end up in a world of history. First account is that it was a seedling found in 50’s by Prof. Hanan Oppenheimer, and then placed at 40’s… and then placed at earliest 1931 from when the “Acclimatisation garden at Rehovot” was planted. “Rehovot” was ‘founded’ on land bought from a christian arab apparently, a grass roots late 19th century Polish migration , and said to avoid other Rothschild hegemony. However events followed the zionist pattern, and it so happened that Chaim Weizmann decided to establish himself in “Rehovot” also.
The neighbouring Palestine town of Zarnuqa faced pressure from encroachment by the expanding “Rehovot” , the second ‘Zarnuqa incident’ in 1913 is said to have set a regional precedent of hostilities between jews and Palestinians, culminating in 1948 with the forced expulsion of the Palestine population of 2500 people from Zarnuqa and the destruction of the village, the Zarnuqa villagers seeing their village ransacked by jewish soldiers and settlers.
For those looking at the relationships that existed between UK elite and zionists, Chaim Weizmann is one good place to start maybe.
What I am supposed to do with the mango tree though, I don’t know.
Concurrently:
Increasing severity of hunger and starvation in Gaza is being reported.

Posted by: Ornot | May 1 2025 15:56 utc | 16

Posted by: Jose Garcia | May 1 2025 16:04 utc | 17
“Extermination”.

Posted by: saner | May 1 2025 16:19 utc | 18

….. What I am supposed to do with the mango tree though…..
Donate to a local Arab family

Posted by: Exile | May 1 2025 16:34 utc | 20

Posted by: Gaza Is Gone | May 1 2025 15:55 utc | 15
########
Israel is an idea, and outside of fanatics, the idea has become synonymous globally with Nazism.
10 years might be optimistic. It could be gone by this time next year if they keep poking Iran.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 1 2025 16:43 utc | 22

Gaza is gone 15
Alla Gazans who die will go to another , eternal life in Paradise as martyrs.
You also will die one day, assuming you are not a bot. You will wish you had been. Because the life you will inherit from your racist hatred of Muslims will be eternity in Hell. ETERNITY .
Man fatana alMuslimeen wal Muslimat, wa la yatiobu alaihi, fee nari Jahannam.
Whoever persecutes the Muslim men and women , and doesn’t repent, will be in the Fire of Hell.

Posted by: Giyane | May 1 2025 16:58 utc | 24

Wa la yatoobu / and doesn’t repent.

Posted by: Giyane | May 1 2025 16:59 utc | 26

teri 25
“During the meeting, Netanyahu is expected to greenlight plans – already approved by the defence minister and military chief of staff – to expand combat operations in the enclave, according to the report.”
As if unarmed, starving civilians are capable of resisting ‘ combat operations’, except in the humble spirit of defiance of a foreign enemy that will take no benefit from killing them.
Nutcase looks more like Hitler every day. When’s he going to pop himself, so Trumpie can commemorate him as a great man? Patronising cunt. At least Mrs Addledbrains got her money’s worth out of Trump. Potuses are too ridiculously cheap.
Did Trump just make a bid for being Pope?

Posted by: Giyane | May 1 2025 17:23 utc | 28

“Yesterday, Keir Starmer sent a huge A400M military transport plane from the UK base on Cyprus to Tel Aviv
The A400M can carry 116 soldiers and an array of weapons, including Chinook helicopters
Britain is a participant in the Gaza genocide
You are paying for this”
https://nitter.poast.org/kennardmatt/status/1917930154812190817#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 1 2025 17:46 utc | 30

The fires in Occupied Palestine are due to violent settlers burning Palestinian homes and olive groves.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 1 2025 17:59 utc | 32

Re: Israel engulfed in flames,
“The Israeli Haaretz newspaper said the fires started from SETTLERS, who set fires to Palestinian olive grove trees. A map shows them in 29 locations. They have only themselves to blame for how these fires began.”
But, they are arresting (scapegoating) Palestinians.

Posted by: hispanidad | May 1 2025 18:16 utc | 34

@20 Exile
Thank you, I will do that if it is accepted. It is unusual, about twenty years ago I would talk with a burly ‘arab’ who worked in a garden center in france, and as is normal conversation was often about family. He had named his daughter Maya… “that means illusion in sanskrit, or related to spring in the west” I ask , and he firmly replies “no no, not that meaning” . Maya in Arabic is closest to meaning ‘water’ , or shortened from Amaya meaning ‘night rain’ , although via Persian it also means princess. The mango variety is called Maya also, after Oppenheimer’s wife, the name being said to be from hebrew for ‘water’. So if anyone non zionist is going to be able to make any sense of it all or appreciate the plant, then it would be someone local from the region or from north africa.

Posted by: Ornot | May 1 2025 18:39 utc | 36

Gaza is a sort of spiritual test for all of us that make up mankind. Do human “values”, kindness, help for the weak and threatened, and all the other examples of “goodness” that I heard of in my youth, still exist for you and me?
One thing I have found shocking are the minimal reactions or non-reactions by those I know and meet. No one talks, but do people even think about what is happening?
Pope Francis, at least had the right idea, that there are many ways to reach God. Many religions but only one supreme. But I saw that one Rabbi declared that the goyim (everyone else) should worship “Jews”. He takes himself not as one of the “chosen” of God, but his incarnation. Never mind the “2800 slave per… ” talk, all of whom should WANT to serve as slaves. (The others are to be disposed of – just so you know where you really stand in his mind.) He said he wants to be worshipped and obeyed!
***
So how can I or anyone else have confidence in “leaders”, or other “arrogancia”. that do not reach even the basic levels of human ethics? That use force (police trained in Israel for example) and lawfare as a dictatorship of the conscience? As a way to maintain power without empathy?
***
Gawd help us. – He might just do that with fire, and I expect a bit of Sodom and Gomorrah to follow. Karma is a bitch

Posted by: Stonebird | May 1 2025 18:56 utc | 38

60 seconds of KNEECAP
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CupURBM5aDk

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 1 2025 19:15 utc | 40

Let’s have another minute …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CupURBM5aDk
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 1 2025 19:16 utc | 41
Checking out tickets now!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 1 2025 19:45 utc | 42

@Ahenobarbus | May 1 2025 19:45 utc | 42
The roar of that crowd really got into the veins of the Zionist Lobby. Establishment now on steroids trying to cancel them – or jail them. Try to see the movie.
I’m loving the furore …
Even Piers Morgan getting into the act …
“PATHETIC!” Sharon Osbourne Demands Glastonbury BANS Kneecap | With DJ Vlad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTwBtsVYSk 40 mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 1 2025 20:41 utc | 44

Just relentless, and the impressions over the last 24hrs are of moving to greater confrontation:
Quotes via Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
– “Avigdor Lieberman: According to reports, a horrific massacre of the Druze is taking place in Syria. The State of Israel cannot stand idly by.
I call on the government to take immediate action to stop the killing. This is our moral and historical responsibility toward the Druze community.”
(Various mobilisations, demands and threats occuring from various parties, including US)
– “Likud MK Nissim Vaturi:
On Saturday or Sunday, we will witness a change in the fighting in Gaza and an intensive military operation. The Chief of Staff is doing well.”
– Mass call up of reserves underway.
– Assassinations in Lebanon, buzzing of Beirut.
– Continued bombing of Yemen.
– Discussions with Iran hit snags, accusations of going off agenda, derailment by “Israel”, meetings postponed.
“Iranian sources say that the next round of Iranian-American talks, scheduled for Saturday in Rome, has been postponed, apparently due to conflicting positions on the US side and changes to the frameworks used in previous rounds.”
“Israeli sources blew up the nuclear talks between Iran and the US and postponed the sessions.”
Via Journalist Youssef Fares
– “Director-General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip:
62% of children suffer from anemia and malnutrition.
97% of the Strip’s water is undrinkable and causes serious health problems.
Food shortages in Gaza increase the risk of physical and psychological illnesses.”
Via pal74press
– “World Food Programme:
We have no food left to distribute in the Gaza Strip . ”
Via site of martyred Journalist Hossam Shabat
– “The Supreme Committee for Tribal Affairs in Gaza: We warn that the Gaza Strip is entering an extremely dangerous phase of mass starvation, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands.
We demand international action to open safe corridors for the entry of food and medicine before it’s too late.”
Via Gaza News Now
– “Urgent UNRWA:
The crossings must be reopened and the people of Gaza cannot wait any longer.”
Via Ayman Hanideq
-“The occupation army has issued demolition orders for dozens of homes in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the West Bank, under the pretext of “military purposes.””
https://t.me/NewsPs0/176721
– “A massive demonstration took place in the German capital, Berlin, in solidarity with Gaza and to demand an end to the war of extermination.
https://t.me/NewsPs0/176719
In Gaza the bombing and shelling continues unabated, with killed/martyred each day between 50 and 150 people, mostly women and children.
The thought of what happens if occupation takes hostilities to camps of starved displaced should send a shiver, I think.
It is too much to take in or keep up with, the above are just some main points.

Posted by: Ornot | May 1 2025 22:13 utc | 46

There is an obvious moral to this story, not that the Israelis will see it. Has something to do with the word “indigenous”.
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Wildfires that ignited across the hills around Jerusalem were fuelled partly by hundreds of millions of flammable non-native Aleppo trees planted by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to obscure or erase evidence of destroyed Palestinian villages.
When Israel was established, paramilitary groups destroyed over half of the villages of Mandate Palestine and uprooted close to 800,000 Palestinians.
While the JNF markets itself as an ecological organisation, it is criticised for its eco-colonialism, which has continued to dispossess Palestinians through its “greening” initiatives.
The JNF credits itself with having planted over 250 million trees since its founding in 1901. A vast majority of the trees, however, are non-native conifers not suitable for the country’s environment.
JNF planted and created areas around Jerusalem, such as Castel National Park over the Palestinian village of al-Qastal, Hakdoshim Forest built over the Palestinian villages of Aqqur, Dayr ‘Amr, Bayt Umm al-Mays, Khirbat al-‘Umur and Kasla.
Hakdoshim Forest was one of the areas affected by wildfires that broke out on Wednesday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/jerusalem-wildfires-fueled-partly-non-native-trees-introduced-jnf?nid=421833&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544279
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Posted by: teri | May 1 2025 22:22 utc | 48

see the 1:26 video at the first link
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1917766088713978286
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN:
META’s “Jewish Diaspora” chief Jordana Cutler told Israelis she used her position to carveout “specific protections for Israelis & Jews.”
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1917851410810691630
Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye
LIVE: ICJ hears Maldives, Mexico, Namibia and Norway on Israel’s obligations in occupied Palestine
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1917427004640747871
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The problem lies not only with those who commit crimes against humanity and war crimes, but also with those who remain silent or inactive in the face of such atrocities.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 1 2025 23:35 utc | 50

RE: “The problem lies not only with those who commit crimes against humanity and war crimes, but also with those who remain silent or inactive in the face of such atrocities.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 1 2025 23:35 utc | 50
Not in this case.
The “problem” is might vs. right.
Obviously Gaza is a bad example of your point. People have spoken out, international counts and agencies have issued lawful orders, action has been taken….
All to no avail.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 1 2025 23:47 utc | 52

RE: Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 1 2025 23:37 utc | 51
As I posted previously, because this has gone unchecked, game over globally…
All the dark corners of atrocities, are stepping out of their shadows, and consuming the light with bold glee.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 1 2025 23:54 utc | 54

I don’t think anyone has mentioned the film Hanna K. by Costa-Gavras. It’s a great movie from 1983 about the situation.

Posted by: lex talionis | May 2 2025 0:08 utc | 56

see the 1:55 video at the first link, with text in english of his speech
see the two short videos at the second link. why are the German police always so brutal against demonstrators?
see the 1;26 video at the third link. “The masters of the universe are Jewish”
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1918010912381850028
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️⭕️ S. Al-Houthi, Leader of Ansar-Allah, warns the British in following in the footsteps of the Americans on the aggression on Yemeni civilians. He threatens that they will soon taste the consequences of their heinous crimes.
Yemen, Sana’a.
1st of May, 2025.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1918073913583579511
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇩🇪BREAKING:
German police brutally attacked the pro-Palestinian bloc at Berlin’s May Day protest, dragging away a disabled person and leaving their wheelchair behind. Video shows officers seizing an unconscious individual.
Source: @redstreamnet
https://x.com/wyattreed13/status/1918019763952914691
Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13
At the JNS Summit in Jerusalem, Meta’s ‘Jewish Diaspora’ chief brags of having “banned the claim that Jews run the world.”
The day before, former US Senator Norm Coleman stood on the same stage and proudly boasted: “The masters of the universe are Jewish”

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 2 2025 0:23 utc | 58

Kerry Burgess
@KerryBurgess
This never gets old. The very best of mankind.
https://x.com/KerryBurgess/status/1917697247334260789

Posted by: Menz | May 2 2025 2:20 utc | 60

RE: ⚡️🇩🇪BREAKING:
“German police brutally attacked the pro-Palestinian bloc at Berlin’s May Day protest, dragging away a disabled person and leaving their wheelchair behind. Video shows officers seizing an unconscious individual.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 2 2025 0:23 utc
Thx for all the updated news links.
Laith Marouf touched on this issue several times over the last year with his Canadian viewers especially. He believed the crackdowns would become harsher, even possible internment camps for Muslims (Muslim/Islamic Sympathizers?).
He may not of been far off. Of course, it’s an excuse.
Global governments world wide will jump at any opportunity to haul away dissenters of any stripe as this power siege continues and citizens express their displeasure/outrage at their governments. Anyways, good info.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 2 2025 2:25 utc | 62

Global governments world wide will jump at any opportunity to haul away dissenters of any stripe as this power siege continues and citizens express their displeasure/outrage at their governments.
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 2 2025 2:25 utc | 62
I do wonder if at some point the proles will finally grasp that there is only one truly effective solution to the problem of government ignoring the people. I hope so and that they have enough rope handy on that day.
But I doubt it. The domestication of the herd is pretty universal now.

Posted by: saner | May 2 2025 2:45 utc | 64

Artificial insemination of Jewish tripe into Jewgle
Posted by: Giyane | May 2 2025 2:38 utc | 63
What did you expect from a company founded and run by Jews?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 2 2025 4:07 utc | 66

Maybe the next Intifada will be fought with shards of glass and matches. If the Palestinians are blamed anyway, why not just as well start some fires?

Posted by: SOS | May 2 2025 6:06 utc | 68

@SOS
One story is that the fires were caused by the illegal Jewish colonist thugs burning Palestinian crops. And since the Ziojewish thugs planted over the villages they eradicated in 1947/48 with pine trees, full of oil, and fast-growing eucalypts, full of oil, after tearing out ancient olive groves and citrus orchards, it was a fire waiting to happen. The Greeks and Cypriots have refused their pleas for help and let’s hope others do the same.
While they are burning men, women and children to death in Occupied Palestine they may as well get a taste of their own medicine.

Posted by: rosross | May 2 2025 6:44 utc | 70

Malta successfully rescued the crew of the Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by USraeli drones.

Posted by: Mary | May 2 2025 10:05 utc | 72

NOW is the time: Egypt and Qatar must open the Rafah crossing and bring journalists from all over the planet to see the starved people of Gaza.

Posted by: Tom | May 2 2025 10:50 utc | 74

Malta successfully rescued the crew of the Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by USraeli drones.
Posted by: Mary | May 2 2025 10:05 utc | 72
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Thanks, Mary. I saw your link to this story on the latest thread (re: tariffs on China). Once again, Israel tries to kill an international group trying to bring aid into Gaza.
For those who missed it, here is the link to the article Mary posted:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ship-carrying-activists-aid-gaza-attacked-by-drones-ngo-says-2025-05-02/

Posted by: teri | May 2 2025 13:32 utc | 76

🚚 A car-sized satellite could strike London
The “Kosmos-482” probe was launched into space back in 1972 to gather data from the surface of Venus, but it malfunctioned and remained in Earth’s orbit. It is now expected to “return” to Earth between May 7 and 13.
What this satellite is:
– weighs approximately 500 kg
– may enter the atmosphere at a staggering speed of about 27,000 kilometers per hour
– predicted impact zone includes London, parts of Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/40424

Posted by: Norwegian | May 2 2025 13:44 utc | 78

New:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/02/747239/Israel-attacks-Gaza-aid-flotilla-in-international-waters
News / Palestine
“Israel attacks Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters”
Friday, 02 May 2025 9:39 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 02 May 2025 10:16 AM ]
Excerpt:
“At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the international NGO said in a statement on Friday.
“Armed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull,” it added, blaming Israel.
The coalition called for the summoning of Israeli ambassadors, saying they must “answer to violations of international law, including the ongoing blockade and the bombing of our civilian vessel in international waters.”
Goodness. Ok…
I’m quite certain that the US/UK and “coalition of the willing” will orchestrate some “Guardian”… something or other to run out there and bomb USReal to smithereens protecting “freedom of navigation” in International waters…
And against CIVILIANS!

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 2 2025 13:55 utc | 80

Israel approaches Damascus:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/02/747233/Israel-strikes-presidential-palace-Syria
Israel strikes near presidential palace in Syria amid **HTS silence***
Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes adjacent to the presidential palace in the Syrian capital of Damascus, marking the regime’s second attack in the Arab country this week amid the silence of the ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) administration.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 2 2025 14:03 utc | 82

” – predicted impact zone includes London, parts of Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.”
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/40424
Posted by: Norwegian | May 2 2025 13:44 utc | 78
Well. I’m no astrologist… wink… but you seem to be saying anywhere between the north and south poles.

Posted by: David G Horsman | May 2 2025 14:18 utc | 84

michaelj72 | May 2 2025 3:20 utc | 65
Well okay. If you insist. My bic lighter just died so there’s just no alternatives left is there? /s

Posted by: David G Horsman | May 2 2025 14:26 utc | 86

Photos of aid ship attacked by Israeli drones. I have seen at least 4 sites that claim the drones belong to Israel.
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Photos: Gaza aid ship burns after drone attack
https://aje.io/zrqxku?update=3683489
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Making their point clear about how they feel about aid to Gaza, this morning Israel bombed another charitable organization in Gaza, killing 5 people:
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Five killed in Israeli attack on Gaza charity organisation
Five people were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a charitable foundation near al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.
Several were also wounded in the attack.
https://aje.io/zrqxku?update=3683368
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The US attacks against Yemen have a name (the US loves to name its illegal operations abroad); the bombing of mostly civilians in Yemen is called “Operation Rough Rider”. (I think that is also the trade name of a condom here in the US, but what it really makes me think of is the riders of the horses of the Apocalypse. )
The US has now killed at least 500 civilians in Yemen:
—————-
Civilians Casualties Reach 500 in Trump Bombing Campaign Yemen Data Project
OPERATION ROUGH RIDER
https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=1912a1b11cab332fa977d3a6a&id=f8637c72fe
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And speaking of the Apocalypse – and very off-topic – Trump held a ceremony in the Rose Garden yesterday with a bunch of evangelical snake-handlers and power-prayer players to celebrate his executive order that establishes a ‘Religious Liberty Commission’. The photo at the top of the article shows Trump sitting at a desk that they moved outside while a man kneels in front of him and others pray around him.
They prayed for him to have “wisdom beyond understanding” and “divine dreams” and “visions”.
[…] “They say ‘separation between church and state.’ I said, ‘all right, let’s forget about that,'” Trump said. “You guys are in the White House where you should be.” […]
This shit is now officially freaky.
—————
link to article:
https://news.yahoo.com/news/divine-dreams-38-virgins-trump-195056944.html

Posted by: teri | May 2 2025 14:53 utc | 88

Posted by: teri | May 2 2025 15:18 utc | 89
From your linked article:
“Delaying justice in this case strengthens the hand of a settler-colonial project. It buys time – time to reshape the narrative and erase the evidence.”
They may succeed in murdering 2+ million people, but they will have a much harder time erasing the evidence. The first genocide ever filmed & shared realtime with potentially billions of people around the world. 🤬

Posted by: Mary | May 2 2025 15:40 utc | 90

Brava teri!
That order does put a completely different complexion on the proceedings!
I’ve added that to the archive. D/L’ing am hearings now (I didn’t get up early enough to watch China, I’ll watch that in a few hours)
Look it has been clear that neither the ICC nor ICJ has the backing to change anything on the ground. The 4/14 order teri found just makes it explicit.
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | May 2 2025 16:37 utc | 92

“BEIRUT, May 2. /TASS/. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has warned the radical Palestinian movement Hamas against any actions geared to destabilize the situation in the region
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 2 2025 16:12 utc | 91
No need for quantum theory here: Aoun is Lebanon’s version of Mahmoud Abbas.
Basically a lying stooge of the West bent on selling Lebanon to the Zionists.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 2 2025 16:47 utc | 94

Israel uproots olive trees, plants pines, then gets burned
Karma.
Even wikipedia is talking about it. Apparently, Israel replaced Palestinian olive trees with pines, part of the plan to erase them. Turns out, pines burn.
“The Jewish National Fund has planted more than 240 million trees in Israel to celebrate Tu BiShvat, which celebrates trees and plants. However, due to their focus on pine trees, the program has potentially allowed a single species to spread across the area, causing diminished biodiversity and potentially increasing the risk of wildfires.[11] The Union for Environmental Defense has criticized the fund’s forestry practices for “overreliance on highly flammable pine trees” and overuse of toxic herbicides, in the context of minimal government and public scrutiny.[12] Critics of the focus on the pine tree such as Israeli writer Susan Nathan alleged that native olive trees were replaced by pine and cypress trees to erase traces of Arab presence prior to 1948 and potentially have increased wildfire conditions as the trees are non native to the area.[13][14][relevant?] ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Israel_fires

Posted by: migueljose | May 2 2025 17:06 utc | 96

Bit of history – for Irish and especially English – and Palestine
Cromwell and Ireland. Genocide [40% wiped out in 4 yr war he started – more than the Great Famine in mid 19th century]; slavery [thousands shipped to Barbados etc]; displacement; land grabs etc
Prof Micheál Ó Siochru – Genocide? Oliver Cromwell and Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7ZahTpa-M [50 mins
Hence – Irish support for Palestine – it started here in mid 17thC historical memory

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 2 2025 19:16 utc | 98

Journalist Youssef Fares
“Channel 14 correspondent:
The Israeli Air Force is carrying out a wave of airstrikes in Syria.”
“Syrian Observatory:
Syria is subjected to the most violent wave of airstrikes and bombardments in its history.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 2 2025 21:32 utc | 100