Palestine Open Thread 2025-097
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Posted by b on May 4, 2025 at 14:30 UTC | Permalink
next page »Eyeless in Gaza: the preface
Mass starvation looms
This week’s Substack.
https://waltking.substack.com/p/eyeless-in-gaza
I have been fortunate to have been put directly in touch with people in Gaza which will enable me to do two things.
I have a Gaza resident’s bank account details in the Bank of Palestine in Ramallah. Money can be transferred digitally from there into Gaza. They still need cash. I have sent a trial donation, it seems to have got through, but charges are $30, horrendous. So I am trying to set up an account in China, Hong Kong or the Philippines purely to build up a balance of donations that can be transferred in bigger chunks, and then transfer without taking commission. This way we can by-pass Gofundme and Paypal which I would prefer not to use.
Internet access there is intermittent. They have phones. We are trying to set up a WeChat group. Then they can send me video clips directly by-passing western media of day to day happenings and I can edit them into some sort of coherent narrative which will go on Rumble. I can post links here. Then you can view and share them and more people can be made aware of facts on the ground.
There is a short introductory video message focusing mainly on Gaza children I met in 2019 on the Substack, just 15 minutes. Please watch it.
Posted by: Walt | May 4 2025 14:34 utc | 2
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/eu-president-must-face-war-crimes-charges--albanese
EU President must face war crimes charges: Albanese
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has called for top EU officials, including Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to face prosecution for complicity in war crimes in Gaza.
Listen
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other top EU officials should face prosecution for complicity in war crimes committed during "Israel’s" war on Gaza, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has advocated.
In an exclusive interview with The Intercept, Albanese argued that their political and diplomatic support for "Israel" amounts to aiding and abetting crimes under international law.
“They will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity,” Albanese said. “I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then.”
......A complaint was filed at the ICC against EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes in Gaza, as critics accuse top EU officials, including foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, of supporting "Israel's" actions despite international legal obligations to prevent genocide.
Calling Albanese's assessment "entirely correct," Mouin Rabbani, a Middle East analyst and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies emphasized that “The 1948 Genocide Convention calls upon signatories to not only punish but also prevent genocide."
Beyond demanding accountability from EU leaders, Albanese said she is working on a report that will expose banks, pension funds, tech companies, and universities for complicity in Gaza’s destruction.
“All those implicated and involved in the unlawful occupation, in providing it with support, are aiding and abetting violations of international law and human rights violations and a number of these amount to crimes,” according to her........
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 4 2025 14:40 utc | 3
Posted by: Walt | May 4 2025 14:34 utc | 1
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Thanks Walt.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 14:44 utc | 4
Here is a fundraiser for the Nusairat camp:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/yfwstc-help-us-in-gaza
Posted by: Mary | May 4 2025 15:11 utc | 5
Here is a fundraiser (from indi.ca substack) for an extended family in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/127208-help-muhammads-family-afford-baby-supplies-and-medication
Posted by: Mary | May 4 2025 15:14 utc | 6
@ michaelj72 | May 4 2025 14:40 utc | 3
Indeed! Von der Leyen and several others must answer for their war crimes.
Posted by: Norwegian | May 4 2025 15:27 utc | 7
Link to list of 500 gofundme requests in Gaza. I haven't been through the links for verified accounts. The Nusairat gofundme I linked to above is verified. It will say in the accounts whether or not they are.
https://www.gofundme.com/s?q=Gaza
Posted by: Mary | May 4 2025 15:31 utc | 8
The Empire thunders threats against Yemen, and strikes it with a hammer.
"Stop defending Gaza!"
"Stop attacking Israel!"
The Empire thunders threats against Lebanon and strikes it with a hammer.
"Stop defending Gaza!"
"Stop attacking Israel!"
The Empire thunders threats against Iraq and strikes it with a hammer.
"Stop defending Gaza!"
"Stop attacking Israel!"
The Empire thunders threats against Iran and strikes it with a hammer.
"Stop defending Gaza!"
"Stop attacking Israel!"
But little but little they pick away at the Empire and it's colony.
And the picking never stops, it goes on night and day.
And whenever one goes silent, another emerges to pick away.
And so it goes, the murder continues but the Empire is wasting away ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 16:03 utc | 10
@drinky crow | May 4 2025 15:31 utc | 10
🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️You can tell how deep the hole made by the Yemeni missile is by the height of that Israeli policeman...https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/40456
Posted by: Norwegian | May 4 2025 16:10 utc | 11
Re: Complicity to Genocide
These charges might fester for decades before they finally bite. War Crimes have no statute of limitations. For example; Von der Leyen‘s considerable fortune ( much of which stems from the Slave Trade ) will be at risk of seizure 4vr.
Posted by: Exile | May 4 2025 16:13 utc | 12
Jerusalem is not holy ground.
Jerusalem is a blood drenched altar to murderous gods.
There is no sacredness in this temple of Shalem.
There is no sacredness in this altar of Salem, son of El.
For a thousand years they have drenched it in blood in the name of Jehova
And a thousand years before that in the name of Allah and Yaweh
And a thousand years before that in the name of Salem and myriad nameless and forgotten gods.
Jerusalem is a mountain of skulls.
Jerusalem is a lake of blood.
Jerusalem is the altar of Baal and Moloch.
Jerusalem is the dusk of humankind before the darkness descends.
There will be no peace on earth until the altars are gone from Jerusalem.
For altars demand sacrifice and the only worthy sacrifice is blood.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 16:18 utc | 13
@Norwegian | May 4 2025 15:27 utc | 8
@ michaelj72 | May 4 2025 14:40 utc | 3AproposIndeed! Von der Leyen and several others must answer for their war crimes.
https://t.me/European_dissident/68388
Posted by: Norwegian | May 4 2025 16:23 utc | 14
Ansar Allah does lots of targeting but not so much striking of targets. The recent missile attack on the Tel Aviv airport put Israel in a tizzy for a couple hours but the only damage appears to be a hole in the ground. Now if they had targeted the oil refinery at Haifa, with acres of oil and gasoline tanks close together,they would have caused significant damage even if the missle hit a couple hundred meters off target. For some reason AA doesn't target the refinery. Hezbollah didn't either.
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 15
Zionist Israel’s army chief Eyal Zamir says the military has issued orders to call up tens of thou[sands] of reservists to expand the gen-ocide on Gaza.
Posted by: pepe | May 4 2025 16:45 utc | 16
My guy, Sony Thang,
People ask why Palestine matters.Why a small strip of land, half a world away, has come to symbolize something far greater than itself.
The answer is simple.
Because in Palestine, the mask slips.
It is where the lie of Western morality collides head-on with the truth of colonial violence.
And in that collision, something is revealed—not just about Israel, but about empire itself.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 16:53 utc | 17
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 16
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Those facilities are future Palestinian assets.
I think many believe that Israel can be defeated militarily. They cannot.
Zionism is a mind virus that exists throughout the West.
What the Resistance has been doing is making it very uncomfortable to colonize Palestine further, raising the cost of doing so.
Wrecking the economy, wrecking the airport, and continuing to defame Israel globally.
The point is not to win this chapter but to close the book for good because as soon as Gaza and the West Bank rebuild, Israel will be back to "mow the grass" again.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 16:59 utc | 18
The UK, US, and France will all deploy ground troops if it gets that bad for Israel militarily.
All of the colonial powers have a massive investment in making this colony "stick".
I believe we're getting close to Israel being the last colony on Earth.
The financial model of the Anglo-Saxon world is predicated on colonization. This is an existential fight for the City of London (which doesn't answer to the Queen) and exists independent of any national identity while wielding the influence of a superpower.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 17:03 utc | 19
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 16
Indeed.
And;
There are giant solar arrays near Dimona. Hundreds of acres of mirrors and solar panels, highly susceptible to shock damage. Huge targets, near impossible to miss.
Take away electricity and there is no living in Israel.
When I see the opposition to Israel lobbing fireworks at unimportant or minor targets instead of firing for severe effect, I really wonder about the thinking of these attacks. Is it some sort of bizarre thinking that they don't want to piss off Israel TOO much? I simply do not understand the restraint.
Posted by: saner | May 4 2025 17:06 utc | 20
I think many believe that Israel can be defeated militarily. They cannot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 16:59 utc | 19
This notion descends from the mind-virus of Islam, which contains within it seeds of Islamic Zionism, i.e:
The eschatological notion that the Yahud cannot be defeated and that only Allah will destroy them.
In reality, these are neither the Yahud of your prophecy, nor the israel of the Bible, nor are they beyond defeat.
The Western Empire rails against Islam, little does it know that Islam is it's greatest ally.
It should fear the day the colonised mind is free from this Abrahamic mind-virus.
For on that day 2 billion minds will set forth to crush it and nothing will stand in their way.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 17:11 utc | 21
For on that day 2 billion minds will set forth to crush it and nothing will stand in their way.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 17:11 utc | 22
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If only. Predators that use religion as cover for their evil will continue to be evil & simply find new cover.
More likely, the coming orgy of violence will leave the surviving normies so sick to death of it that they will refuse to engage.
The core of resistance is to just say no.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1911295713796927598
Posted by: Mary | May 4 2025 17:24 utc | 22
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 17:11 utc | 22
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I was not speaking spiritually; I was speaking materially.
The material always lags behind the spiritual.
The entire Western world, including Russian Jews, will unite to defend Israel if push comes to shove, kinetically.
It's not about Zionism, religion, or prophecy. This is potentially the "final battle" against colonialism in this age.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 17:35 utc | 23
B's April 29th essay, The Cult That Murders Gaza, caused the usual polarizing firestorm that occurs whenever this topic is raised. It was helpful that many contributors added bits and pieces of history to the comments. But it needs more than random factoids.
Six years ago, well before covid, Ukraine, or Gaza, I compiled my own history of Judaism and Zionism and posted it online. It certainly didn't cause a ruckus. People seem to have taken it for what it was - a collection of historical facts and theological exegesis that provides a deep context for the discussion of Zionism.
That essay is still up online at Caucus99percent. Monotheism and Its Discontents Monotheism and Its Discontents (with apologies to Sigmund Freud)
Be aware, the essay comes in five parts and is over 13,000 words long. The main essay linked to above contains links to four more sub-essays. Here are a few paragraphs from the main essay.
If you want to discuss Israel without starting a flamewar, you need to be very familiar with their long history, and you need to be able to point to references to back up your claims. That's (why I wrote) a Cliff Notes style summary (call it an outline) of Jewish history as a reference to be used when discussing anything concerning Israel, Judaism, or anti-Semitism.----
Even an outline is a huge task. As I studied the history, it seemed clearest to divide the notes into this introduction and three essays. That would give the reader meaningful organization of the material, and allow him to absorb it in chunks instead of all at once. The three essays (Actually, the third essay is so long that I broke it into two parts.) are organized as follows:1) Monotheism - Placing Judaism in the context of monothesim and discussing the well-known failure modes of all monotheisms.
2) The Dual Revolution and the Fundamentalist Backlash - How the French and Industrial Revolutions released Jews from the ghettos, but left them smack in the middle of the brutal, racist politics, and the rise of nationalisms and fundamentalist religions that enveloped the West after Darwin.3) Zionism - Part 1 and Zionism - Part 2 - its supporters among the British Christian Zionists, and how that led to the creation of Israel.
I decided to stop at the foundation of Israel, because that is well within the historical period. Of course, there is plenty to discuss in this period - the Suez attacks, the theft of nuclear secrets and materials, the ongoing illegal occupation, the Yinon Plan, the increasingly racist behavior and policies. But, it is the foundation of Israel that is misunderstood, mythologized, and generally unknown to the casual reader. IMHO, the details of today's fights would only obscure the deeper history that people need to know to speak cogently about Israel.
If you don't care about anything but Zionism and the founding of Israel, skip straight to the third essay.
If even that two-parter is too long, there are eleven bullet points in Section "3.8 CONCLUSION".
Upon re-reading this, I found one thing that demonstrates no progress has been made on the "get out of jail free" card that the Zionists have for genocide:
In a sane world, all these fanatics should be in jail. But it has become taboo to call out murder. Calling out sectarian murder is "prejudiced". Objecting to the ongoing massacres in Gaza is anti-Semitic. Supporting murderers like ISIS is excused as realpolitik in the US and is touted as virtue in KSA. We are told that we must be tolerant of the murderous intolerance of religion. Sane people will disagree with this. But sane people are no longer in charge. That has happened in the past, with disastrous results for civilizations.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 17:44 utc | 24
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For some reason AA doesn't target the refinery. Hezbollah didn't either.
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 16
Petroleum storage tanks are built in the centre of a dam with the capacity to safely contain the contents of the tank. This means that the tanks at a tank farm are never close enough to each other for the fire from a damaged tank to spread to neighbouring tanks.
This is world-wide S.O.P.
DW's Kings College military consultant, Marina Miron, said that the Houthi claimed that the Ben Gurion Airport missile was a Mach 8 hypersonic variety - which helps to explain why the Genocide Jews failed to intercept it - even though they detected the launch(!?)
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 4 2025 17:50 utc | 25
Following up on the earlier post, here is some material on Israeli intelligence. The British influence throughout is notable.
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Israel’s intelligence capabilities can be traced all the way back to 1909, long before the official formation of the Israeli state. Hashomer, or the Watchmen, was a group founded by some of the earliest Israeli immigrants into Palestine. An unofficial unit, it was tasked with blending into the local communities and collecting information on potential attacks. Over its 10 years of existence, Hashomer had at most 100 members but its modus operandi — of adopting local customs in order to remain overlooked — was the basis of the current intelligence community.
Some members of Hashomer were recruited by the British during World War I, and organised into a network known as NILI. Operational between 1915 and 1917, NILI counted around 30 members but despite its diminutive size, was rendered greatly effective due to British training. Erez David Maisel, in an interview with Spycast, a YouTube podcast, explains why the formation of the NILI was so seminal. Maisel, who formerly served as Brigadier General and Director of the Israel Defense Forces, states, “the most important thing about the World War I experience is that there suddenly is intelligence capability, although its nascent. It’s very new, it’s very small, it’s very secret but it has some success.”
From 1920 onwards, the Hashomer and NILI were replaced by the Haganah, founded to defend Jewish presence in British Palestine. According to Maisel, the Haganah established intelligence services on a national level but their activities were relatively moderate until 1940, in accordance with the Jewish community
From Hashomer to Nili, the History of Israeli Intelligence
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The history of Israel's intelligence services dates back to 1929, during the British Mandate in Palestine, many years before the declaration of an independent Jewish state. Conflicts with the Arab population, as well as contradictions with the British authorities, required intelligence assessment to prevent militant attacks on Jewish settlements and to ensure the illegal immigration of Jews into Palestine. It was at this time that the first Jewish intelligence service, the Shai, was established.
After the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948, the intelligence services were reorganized along British lines. As a result, the prototypes of the modern Israeli intelligence services emerged: Shin Bet (Hebrew שירות הביטחון הכללי) and AMAN (Hebrew אגף המודיעין) under the Ministry of Defense and the Political Directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The establishment of the first foreign residences began.
Numerous tensions between the military and political intelligence services led to their reorganization according to American lines in 1951. It was then that the legendary Mossad (Hebrew המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים) was created, reporting directly to the Prime Minister and eventually gaining the power of the KGB and CIA. Isser Harel, who headed the Mossad from 1952 to 1963, also supervised all other intelligence services and became the No. 2 man in the state.
...the Nili, an underground organization that informed the British Armed Forces about the state of the Ottoman army during World War I....
- Wikipedia, History of the Israeli Intelligence Community
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Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 18:09 utc | 26
I posted on the last Palestine thread about starvation levels in Gaza:
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More than 3,500 children below the age of five in Gaza face “imminent death by starvation” and about 290,000 others are “on the brink of death”, as Israel continues to prevent the entry of baby formula, nutritional supplements and all forms of humanitarian aid, according to Palestinian officials.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 70,000 children are hospitalised in the enclave due to severe malnutrition as Israel blocks the entry of baby formula, nutritional supplements and humanitarian aid.
https://aje.io/p407e2?update=3686918
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When they say "Phase 5 - Catastophe/Famine", this is what they mean - in the past couple of hours since I last checked the ME websites for the latest news, 7 more children have been admitted to hospital for malnutrition due to starvation. Imagine if anywhere in the Western nations 3 or 4 children per hour were being diagnosed as starving to death:
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...Health officials at Nasser Hospital reported seven new malnutrition cases just in the past few hours. Parents did not even know their children were malnourished but displayed symptoms such as headaches and vomiting....
https://aje.io/p407e2?update=3687538
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Posted by: teri | May 4 2025 18:24 utc | 28
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
(GazaNewsNow seems temporarily restricted ?)
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 4 2025 18:27 utc | 29
Sometimes I feel like I am being unjust, for only posting selected images of those killed/martyred by "Israel", but it would otherwise be more posts than are posted on any thread, so I post occassionally, choosing those I think carry a clearer message to the wider world. These aren't for regular readers really, but for those who happen to call in on the thread ...
https://t.me/madinat_khanyuns/8654?single
https://t.me/GazaNewsNow/406970
Posted by: Ornot | May 4 2025 18:49 utc | 30
see the 4:23 video at the second link
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1918777590866645114
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
Yemen issues a decision to ban the passage of American crude oil through the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab al-Mandab Strait,
in response to the U.S. strike on the Yemeni oil port.
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1918657429044134021
IsraelExposed @xIsraelExposedx
Masked Israeli military try to intimidate and arrest @louistheroux for exposing Israel's apartheid in the West Bank.
https://x.com/JoeBrolly1993/status/1918539661045010678
Joe Brolly @JoeBrolly1993
“I broke the record - 42 Knees in One Day'.” Israeli Snipers Boast About kneecapping Palestinians | Israel News | http://Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-03-06/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/42-knees-in-one-day-israeli-snipers-open-up-about-shooting-gaza-protesters/0000017f-f2da-d497-a1ff-f2dab2520000
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1918922990500093989
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
So it's the 4th Ballistic Missile launch from Yemen in 48 hours.
What Americans should be concerned about is not the damage done by these missiles, but the fact that THAAD, ARROW fail to intercept them.
Lesson: THAAD can't defend Americans against Iran, the DPRK or China
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 4 2025 19:05 utc | 31
The China-Iran railway is almost online.
Meanwhile, Larry Wilkerson says that over 90% of China's oil imports come from Russia.
Trump is a day (years) late and billions of dollars short.
Iran is somewhat safe from the West economically unless there is an invasion, which could cause chaos.
The stakes keep rising every month that the Zionists don't act.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 19:10 utc | 32
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 4 2025 17:11 utc | 22
More likely, the coming orgy of violence will leave the surviving normies so sick to death of it that they will refuse to engage.
Posted by: Mary | May 4 2025 17:24 utc | 23
You misinterpret # 22. There are only a few thousand hypocrites that control the 2 billion plus.
The moment they break free from the mental shackles there is no telling what could happen.
Posted by: sal | May 4 2025 19:22 utc | 33
Re: "International Law" coming to save the day: I refer readers to Caliman's comment in today's Open Thread.
Additionally, the recent pieces that b and others have linked to regarding Israel's role in finally destroying the pretend concept of international law, which never applied to Empire or its proxies in the first place.
https://husseini.substack.com/p/is-the-purpose-of-israel-to-destroy
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/us-tells-world-court-israel-has-right-to-starve-gaza/
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/gaza-the-us-and-china-the-future
What comes next will likely be the chickens coming home to roost much closer to the core of the imperium.
On another topic (Oct 7): https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/22/nova-founder-israeli-intel/
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 4 2025 19:30 utc | 34
The Yemeni Armed Forces announce a complete air blockade on the Israeli enemy in response to its decision to expand aggressive operations in Gaza.
They include Syria and Lebanon as where aggression has to stop. So they expanded their mission to include these.
They call on International carriers to drop air routes to Israel. And say they will target the airport repeatedly from now on.
Wow that's some poker all in . In a game of escalation dominance. THAAD arrow , all the Israel systems, nothing can stop Yemen hitting anything they want. And I note on Dima the growing questions verage Americans are asking about cost , effectiveness and reasons for this war. Especially as the economy tanks.
Time for zionists to ride that donkey back to Poland
Posted by: Hankster | May 4 2025 20:07 utc | 35
And I note on Dima
Posted by: Hankster | May 4 2025 20:07 utc | 36
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What does any of this have to do with NATO's favorite mapper Dima?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 20:11 utc | 36
Official statement from Yemen about the air blockade
Statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces Regarding the Imposition of a Comprehensive Aerial Siege on the Israeli Enemy through Repeated Targeting of Airports, Foremost Among Them Ben Gurion Airport
04-05-2025Statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Allah Almighty says:
“O you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet.”
— Truthful is Allah the AlmightyIn response to the Israeli escalation through the decision to expand its aggressive operations on Gaza,
the Yemeni Armed Forces announce that they will impose a comprehensive aerial siege on the Israeli enemy through the repeated targeting of airports, foremost among them Lod Airport, known in Israeli terms as Ben Gurion Airport.All international airlines are urged to take this statement seriously as of the moment of its announcement and publication, and to cancel all their flights to the airports of the criminal enemy in order to ensure the safety of their aircraft and passengers.
The dear, free, and independent Yemen will not accept the continuation of the violation that the enemy seeks to impose through the targeting of Arab countries such as Lebanon and Syria.
It affirms that this nation will not fear confrontation and will reject submission and surrender.Allah is sufficient for us and He is the best disposer of affairs, the best protector, and the best helper.
Long live Yemen — free, proud, and independent
Victory to Yemen and to all the free people of the nationSana'a
6th of Dhu al-Qi'dah, 1446 AH
Corresponding to May 4th, 2025Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 20:13 utc | 37
see the 34-second video at the first/second links
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1918559704873136440
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
WHY: after 19m of genocidal violence, and 60 days without a grain of rice entering Gaza, Palestinians have to be "shown" to the world while scrambling for food as if they were gasping for air, grabbing it from filty grounds, getting hurt while seeking a hole in the human flesh ammassing for a handful of emptiness?
People of Gaza. Palestinians.
Your hunger today is our shame.
We should not be given access to your suffering if we are too indifferent, too lazy, too selfish, too corrupt, to stop it immediately.
https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1918322042853613886
Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani
Today marks 60 DAYS since a single grain of rice has entered Gaza.
The Freedom Flotilla that Israel drone struck last night was trying to help fight this famine
The world MUST address this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLjNTYvY4E
🚨International Airlines: “WE’RE NEVER GOING BACK TO ISRAEL AGAIN!”
Mahmood OD | محمود عودة
123K subscribers
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https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1919048898863095930
Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI
Clearly this is genocidal rhetoric (by Rep. Randy Fine - florida) but, it’s worth noting, the 83 senators—including 30 democrats—who refused to end weapons shipments to Israel last month as it starves Gaza hold the exact same position, they’re just polite about it. Starving children is bipartisan US policy
https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1919055387082236211
Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI
If you support arming a country openly using starvation of civilians, namely children, as a terror tactic then you support using starvation of civilians, namely children, as a terror tactic. It’s that simple, everything else’s is spin and vibes
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 4 2025 20:19 utc | 38
🇾🇪⚔️🇮🇱 Yemen:President Mahdi Al-Mashat (The President of the Supreme Council) - May 4, 2025:
The Zionist usurpers should never trust the Netanyahu and Trump administrations.
We will not stop our strikes on the occupied territories until the aggression stops and the siege on Gaza is lifted.
We will resort to other escalation options if the Zionist aggression against Gaza continues.
The Zionists can still return to their homeland and leave Palestine before they are unable to do so.
Ansar Allah is one of the best things to happen in the world. Peace and blessings to the fighters.
For all of the useless Arab kingdoms, for all of the cuckolded European Christian states, only Ansar Allah (and Iran) will stand against genocide.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 20:27 utc | 39
Ansar Allah is goading the US into doing a ground operation.
Drip, drip, drip.
Last I heard, the Houthis have mobilized millions of men.
The invasion of Iran will never happen if the Zionists (including UK, France, US, etc) go into Yemen.
Yemen, IMO, is buying everyone in the Axis time. Russia, Iran, and China.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 20:39 utc | 40
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 17:44 utc | 25
Thank you John Brewster, i has a quick peek. It looks like a well studied work. You where mentioning the Borgia Popes without mentioning that they were Jewish, Oliver Cromwell's facination for Jews and Jerusalem, British & Hannover, Spanish, Scandinavian Royalty, is, if I have understood it correct very central to understanding why no western country support the Palestinians and are not condemning Zionism and Israel. Am I wrong?
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 20:47 utc | 41
The drone attack on the Freedom Flotilla vessel Conscience near Malta suggests that the war in the Middle East is moving to Europe and the Mediterranean, as I have written in my latest article, where I also cover:
- Ansar Allah leader Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi’s latest speech,
- YAF’s direct hit on Ben Gurion Airport of Tel Aviv (Israel),
- Houthis’ sanctions against the Outlaw US Empire,
- Trumps’s secondary sanctions against Iran,
- some strange events in Karaj (Iran),
- Israeli bombing of Syria.
John Brewster
Please add a chapter on how the protestant EU countries and their minions such as Macron decided to back the genocide because it was difficult to go against Germany having inscribed the religion of the State as Evangelism in its constitution. The result is that a good number of EU countries have adopted a creationnist ideology because it would supposedly be part of their judeo-christian identity.
Posted by: Tom | May 4 2025 21:06 utc | 43
https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics/146614
🇾🇪💥🇮🇱 U.S. THAAD Missile Defense System Failed to Intercept Ansar Allah Ballistic Missile Near Tel AvivAccording to preliminary reports, the U.S. Army’s most advanced missile defense system, THAAD, failed to intercept a ballistic missile launched by Yemen’s Ansar Allah earlier today.
The missile reportedly broke through four layers of air defense and landed near Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.
Just one missile, so not even a saturation attack, managed to hit Israel's main air port.
Imagine how Dimona would look like if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear infrastructure as Iran always practices quid pro quo.
Posted by: xor | May 4 2025 21:09 utc | 44
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 20:47 utc | 42
And maybe the Sefardic Jews that crept north from Spain and Portugal during the 12 century, and ended up in England, Belgium, Holland, The Glourios Revolution, and finaly took complete control over North Europe. The King LEW 1 and his decendants from the Kingdom of Galicia, wrecking hell in Ukraine today. The Jews controlling The Holy Romas Empire/Germany that took us trougth WW1 and WW2 and are leading us into WW3, with their long arsitocratic bloodlines, Von Der Leyden, Christine Lagrade, Stoltenberg, Boris Johnsen to name a few with some blood in their weins and Palestinian blood on their hands.
https://archive.org/details/FRYLesleyTheJewsAndTheBritishEmpire1935/page/n1/mode/2up
The Jews and the British Empire : Fry, L. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 1935-
The financial Jewish power had been transferred from Amsterdam to London under William III (of Orange). At home, meanwhile, Jewish power gets steadily stronger, but drunk with the notion of the mighty British Empire, Britons see only the surface; they still believe that they are ruled by their own Monarch and elected men, and they fail to grasp the ghastly truth … The Great World War even fails to open their eyes.
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/03/the-disraeli-enigma
The Disraeli Enigma - Algora Blog “Saxon” is derived from “Isaac’s sons.” This ludicrous theory offered cheap biblical justification to British colonialism, and even to the genocide of colonized peoples (new Canaanites) by the British Empire (new Israel).[10] Queen Victoria was happy to believe that her noble lineage descended from King David, and had her sons circumcised, a custom that has continued to this day.
And Queen Elisabeth that used arabs to kill Christians
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/sultan-queen-elizabeth-england-islam-jerry-brotton
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 21:10 utc | 45
John Brewster
Please add a chapter on how the protestant EU countries and their minions such as Macron decided to back the genocide because it was difficult to go against Germany having inscribed the religion of the State as Evangelism in its constitution. The result is that a good number of EU countries have adopted a creationnist ideology because it would supposedly be part of their judeo-christian identity.
Posted by: Minaa | May 4 2025 21:11 utc | 46
State as Evangelism in its constitution. The result is that a good number of EU countries have adopted a creationnist ideology because it would supposedly be part of their judeo-christian identity.
Posted by: Tom | May 4 2025 21:06 utc | 44
Hi and thanks Tom, this is new to me, I have never heard about any of this and do not understand any of this. But my gut feeling tell me that you are into something I should be aware of. Any links that can enligthen me, pls.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 21:37 utc | 47
https://x.com/LeylaRostami/status/1919102802367795344
Art from Tehran.
The red flags are incoming missile warning markers over the occupation, in the shape of a ceremonial Yemeni dagger.
Gotta love the people of the Axis countries.
Their spirit is something to behold.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 21:48 utc | 48
⚡️⭕️ Israeli media report :Yemeni missile strikes paralyze the entity, causing significant panic and fear among occupying settlers in Occupied Palestine.
Zionist media is starting to question the U.S efficiency is countering Yemeni strikes and they're hesitant to rely on Trump to save them.
Occupied Palestine.
3rd of May, 2025
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A Yemeni commentator added
Zionists, you've been complaining a lot - all because we wake you up at 5:30 AM. I still don't get it: is that too early, or too late? We can make it 4:30 AM if that will make you feel better. Just say the word. 🚀
UNTENABLE.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 21:51 utc | 49
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 20:47 utc | 42
I was unaware of the Borgia accusations, which have been around since the 1500s. They are plausible, but have been controversial for 500 years. They are beyond proving or disproving; and therefore prime territory for conspiracy theorizing.
I was aware of Cromwell's interest. That sounds sort of like the prototype for the 19th century Christian Zionism.
British & Hannover, Spanish, Scandinavian Royalty, is, if I have understood it correct very central to understanding why no western country support the Palestinians
Yes to British and Hanover, but for the others I'm not sure what you mean. Aren't the Spanish royalty the ones who threw the Jews out? And what did Scandinavia care?
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But, as to your number 46, you come across as a complete conspiracy theorist.
...finally took complete control over North Europe......the Jews controlling The Holy Romas Empire/Germany...
The "facts" you present are exactly why threads about Zionism get labeled anti-Semitic. I will stick to the facts I gave about Perfidious Albion. I do not endorse any of your other contributions.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 21:53 utc | 50
Imagine being woken up day after day to rush to a bomb shelter that may be a false alert because it was an older gen missile that was shot down en route. LOL
Sort of like the psychological tactics the CIA does at Gitmo, subjecting prisoners to loud music at random times during the day.
Vacation in Israel doesn't sound like much fun. Boohoo.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 21:54 utc | 51
Posted by: Tom | May 4 2025 21:06 utc | 44
it was difficult to go against Germany having inscribed the religion of the State as Evangelism in its constitution...the result is that a good number of EU countries have adopted a creationnist ideology
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As I understand it, Germany has a list of state religions, predominantly Protestant and Catholic, but also inlcluding Islam. A German friend had to declare a religion and pay a tax to support his religion of choice. Since Evangelism is a Protestant phenomenon, I would expect that if you are correct, the German Protestants would support that. I can't find anything about Evangelism, but I did find something about creationism:
The board of the federation of Protestant Churches in Germany, the Rat der EKD clearly rejects both creationism and intelligent design from a theological standpoint. It refers to both Calvin and Luther as proponents of a creatio continua, an ongoing creation. EKD stands as well for an intense and fruitful exchange between churches, science and theology in the general public and on university level.[35] Germany has a longstanding tradition of religious education in public (state funded) schools, starting with the Prussian education system in the 18th century.
Could you please give me a cite on Evangelism in the German Constitution. If you are equating evangelism with creationism, the text from EKD says that is not the case.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 21:55 utc | 52
Why are
Posted by: Tom | May 4 2025 21:06 utc | 44
Posted by: Minaa | May 4 2025 21:11 utc | 47
IDENTICAL TEXTS WITH DIFFERENT AUTHORS?
Is somebody being a sock puppet?
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 22:01 utc | 53
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 16
Hey there, the next time you go to the airport (I'm not sure you fly, I'll so just assume that you will in the future) how about someone drops a huge bomb right near the terminal, maybe while you're crossing the street with a suitcase, close enough to be hit by shrapnel (there were injuries at Ben Gurion.)
Since you think it's no big deal, I am sure you'll be OK with this.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 4 2025 22:01 utc | 54
Posted by: Chas | May 4 2025 16:43 utc | 16
Hey there, the next time you go to the airport (I'm not sure you fly, I'll so just assume that you will in the future) how about someone drops a huge bomb right near the terminal, maybe while you're crossing the street with a suitcase, close enough to be hit by shrapnel (there were injuries at Ben Gurion.)
Since you think it's no big deal, I am sure you'll be OK with this.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 4 2025 22:03 utc | 55
Arch Bungle 22
There are three Turkic cousins involved in this genocide. The Ukrainian Jewish Khazars, the Ottoman Turks and the South Asian descendants of the Mughal Empire which originally acted in Uzbekistan.
In one sense they are rivals to eachother in bloodthirsty warmongering, but at the same time they're diametrically opposed to each other in religious terms.
Prophecy is not an exact science, and Alkah might be testing the Zionists by predicting the Jewish Empire Greater Israel, which the Jews agree with, but holding them to account for simultaneously rejecting first the Messiah AS and then Islam.
It is the entirety of USUKIS that is as thick as two short planks. It proclaims support for something it absolutely doesn't understand.
Meanwhile Muslims proclaim Rage at a genocide which truth be told , they absolutely do understand, and maybe are a little envious of, deep down.
I will get torn apart limb from limb for saying so, but there is a kind of raw, Pan- Turkic energy to this genocide, as well as being a totally evil and punishable crime, like cockfighting and dog fighting.
Like the Ukrainian War porn.
Posted by: Giyane | May 4 2025 22:03 utc | 56
Arch Bungle 22
There are three Turkic cousins involved in this genocide. The Ukrainian Jewish Khazars, the Ottoman Turks and the South Asian descendants of the Mughal Empire which originally acted in Uzbekistan.
In one sense they are rivals to eachother in bloodthirsty warmongering, but at the same time they're diametrically opposed to each other in religious terms.
Prophecy is not an exact science, and Alkah might be testing the Zionists by predicting the Jewish Empire Greater Israel, which the Jews agree with, but holding them to account for simultaneously rejecting first the Messiah AS and then Islam.
It is the entirety of USUKIS that is as thick as two short planks. It proclaims support for something it absolutely doesn't understand.
Meanwhile Muslims proclaim Rage at a genocide which truth be told , they absolutely do understand, and maybe are a little envious of, deep down.
I will get torn apart limb from limb for saying so, but there is a kind of raw, Pan- Turkic energy to this genocide, as well as being a totally evil and punishable crime, like cockfighting and dog fighting.
Like the Ukrainian War porn.
Posted by: Giyane | May 4 2025 22:03 utc | 57
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 21:54 utc | 52
Operation "Prosperity Guardian" has shat the bed. Bigly. And whatever der Trumpenliar followed it with has turned out to be a very efficient furnace for US dollars, and not much else.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 4 2025 22:05 utc | 58
Wow, so Abbas is about as treasonous as he could be against his own people. Although perhaps he considers the Israelis his own people now. They probably don't even have to pay him that much. He seems to enjoy being their attack dog.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to visit Lebanon on 19 May to announce the disarmament of Palestinian resistance factions, by force if necessary, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Palestinian and Lebanese sources told MEE that Abbas will travel to Beirut on an official visit to meet the Lebanese president and other top officials.
During the trip, Abbas will announce the demilitarisation of his own Fatah movement as well as other Palestinian factions based in refugee camps in Beirut and across Lebanon.
Sources said Abbas has already agreed to a plan to remove Fatah’s weapons from the camps.
He will also explicitly call on other Palestinian factions fighting against the Israeli occupation to disarm—a move likely to be welcomed in Tel Aviv but one that could provoke serious unrest within Palestinian society.
If these groups refuse, a military operation will reportedly target those who defy the Lebanese state’s disarmament orders, the sources said.
Abbas is expected to provide political cover for such an operation under the banner of the Palestinian leadership.
A Palestinian source told MEE that Abbas intends to form a security committee tasked with overseeing the disarmament process and setting a clear timetable for the surrender of weapons.[...]
The sources also revealed that Abbas’ decision to disarm Fatah and other factions followed a Saudi request, conveyed through the Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.[...]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-palestinian-president-visit-lebanon-plan-disarm-palestinian-factions
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Posted by: teri | May 4 2025 22:05 utc | 59
Posted by: teri | May 4 2025 22:05 utc | 59
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Abbas has no autonomy. Everything he says and does is what the occupation government tells him to do.
Hamas and the resistance don't listen to or recognize him. He wins elections in the West Bank with people who don't want to resist the Occupation.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 22:11 utc | 60
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My point is that the Palestinians experienced Christianity and Islam, which makes them Westerners living on the Mediterranean. Similarly Russia is fully European in its own eyes.
Are the Palestinians Westerners in the crosshairs of the Turkic , Khazar and Mughal minds?
Posted by: Giyane | May 4 2025 22:12 utc | 61
@ LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 20:13 utc | 38
Your contributions raise our spirits (and the quality of this thread) greatly. If Ansar Allah can exemplify fearlessness, why can't I? May the fourth be with you.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 4 2025 22:13 utc | 62
What comes next will likely be the chickens coming home to roost...
@ Tom_Q_Collins | May 4 2025 19:30 utc | 35
A prediction we attribute to brother Malcolm. Was his prophecy right or wrong? That would depend on what we mean by "next": after what? -- complete capitalist Seppuku to reset by rearranging guts spilled all over the floor? I'm reminded of Jackie Kennedy trying to stuff hubbie's bits of gray matter back into place, on a November cruise through Dallas at eleven m.p.h. The desperate effort must have made sense to her at the time, but some deeds cannot be undone.
The "American Experiment" is 10 degrees and 45 minutes past done. You can't even stick a fork in it. It's crispy.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 4 2025 22:29 utc | 63
The "American Experiment" is 10 degrees and 45 minutes past done. You can't even stick a fork in it. It's crispy.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 4 2025 22:29 utc | 64
Saw a quote somewhere today, but can't remember where now.
“Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.”
— David Korten (may have been said several years ago at this point)
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 4 2025 22:43 utc | 64
If Ansar Allah can exemplify fearlessness, why can't I?
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 4 2025 22:13 utc | 62
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Do you try to completely surrender your existence to God? Are most of your conscious moments committed to worship and gratitude to the Creator?
What Ansar Allah does is not trivial. Anyone can do it if they want to; most do not.
There is a massive gap between Judeo-Christians (a term designed to cut Abrahamic descended Islam out of the tradition) and Muslims by how dedicated they are to worship. Christians give a nod to the 10 commandments. Muslims live and breathe the Shariah.
I cannot speak to Jews, although if they follow the Talmud, they are closer to Satanists than believers IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 23:03 utc | 65
The youth in Gaza sing for Yemen, "This Yemeni is our Yemen — and no one holds sway over us" 🇾🇪❤️🇵🇸
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Mural from north Gaza to Yemen:
"Dear Yemen, from steadfast Gaza, men's greetings to you." 🇾🇪🇵🇸
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 4 2025 23:09 utc | 66
The "facts" you present are exactly why threads about Zionism get labeled anti-Semitic. I will stick to the facts I gave about Perfidious Albion. I do not endorse any of your other contributions.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 21:53 utc | 51
Mr Brewster: You have done the research over many years and published a "great" report:
But Not seen the TV-series the Borgias and fact checked the facts it shows and chected the clues it provides
Never heard about the Toledo Gates
To stay in Scandinavia:
You have researced and not seen or heard of the Tribe of Dan?
https://img.ma-shops.de/raffler/pic/26290_x7550_g.jpg
This Coin is sold for about 1000 US$ in Norway - and you should know why the symbol of the dollar has been created like that
Never heard about the Battle of Bergen(Vågen) were Dutch and English East Asian companies fougth- and therefore simply merged 50 years later
Not heard about the Rosen- family of Sweeden- Gøring's favorits- helping both jews and nazis to escape to Argentina who has one of the biggest jewish polpulatinos in the world
Nor heard about Gørings wife, Dougther of a certain Bankier. Magda Gøring
The Wallenbergs in Sweeden?
The Hanseatic League?
Never heard about or had a DR Oetker pizza? Who provided war rations to the Werhmacht and still exist? Hallstein - Adenauer?
But what do I know?
You have spendt years compiling this. But you are never truthful about the genozide and the reason for the urgent genozidie. The Gaz and oil in the waters outside Palestina.
To understand what is happening in Gaza you have to understand the forces who is against you. Can you explain the sanhedrin comments in the Cromwell periode.
And Abbas are taken away the weapons of the palestinians, PKK just announced a truce after 47 years? in Turkie.
Tallath Pasha- the genozider of Armenina is he known to you. Same stuff by same guys who are killing kids in Palestine now.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 23:27 utc | 67
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 4 2025 23:27 utc | 70
Well, that makes it easy.
Everything you cite is classic CT. And your prose is classic CT - a Gish Gallop of barely related nonsense.
TV shows with a vested interest in sensationalism.
A battle in the 8th century where the Jews sided with Moslems instead of the Christians who demanded they convert to Catholicism. Wow, that's really disloyal of those Jews.
I don't care who copied what coin design.
You quote obscure battles, obscure individual people. You throw around ideas without connecting them. What has the Hanseatic League to do with Jewishness. They were a bunch of German and Scandinavian cities with very tightly knit family bonds, which is how commerce had to operate in those dark ages.
You see connections that are not there. In a thousand years of history of an entire continent, one can always find anomalies. Connecting the anomalies, claiming some secret cabal acting through the centuries is the core of CT.
Go away. I will not communicate with you any more.
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I apologize to the thread. I seem to have attracted kooks AND sock puppets.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 23:46 utc | 68
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 4 2025 22:18 utc | 63
Posted by: Spectator | May 4 2025 22:41 utc | 65
I agree. I tried to add some facts to the Zionist discussion, but all I did was atract kooks and sock puppets.
That's why rationsl discusion of Zionism is so damn near impossible.
Sorry for dirtying up the thread.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 23:49 utc | 69
That's why rationsl discusion of Zionism is so damn near impossible.
Sorry for dirtying up the thread.
Posted by: john brewster | May 4 2025 23:49 utc | 72
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Drawing people into endless autistic arguments is a classic Hasbara technique.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 5 2025 0:14 utc | 70
History unambiguously testifies that Zionism originated as Christian Zionism, as propounded by profoundly anti-Semitic British evangelical fanatical followers and cohorts of Lord Shaftesbury, back in the 1840's. Prior to Britain seizing the "Palestine mandate" as fair winnings from WWI, as divied up by Wilson's ineradicably racist League of Nations, we had high-ranking British nutjobs proposing Palestine as the perfect place to stage Armageddon.
Evangelical Christians, perhaps like mainstream Christianity, hate planet Earth as an evil place, awaiting sanctification via destruction by God's grace. Only we have to prepare the way by re-establishing a bogus Kingdom of Israel. A totally idolatrous, obviously Christian solution to the "Jewish problem" behind the inception, growth, and continuing sustenance of the Zionist entity, the so-called "Jewish state." As if such statehood had anything to do with the long-awaited return of somebody's savior. 100% pure poppycock, six ways to Sunday, is the heart and twisted, self-loathing soul of Zionism.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 5 2025 0:38 utc | 71
I'll add that, here at MoA as practically elsewhere, we find references to various and sundry other groups, historical to imaginary, besides the historically valid Christian origin of Zionism. Somewhat resembling a deliberate distraction from those truly responsible. I wonder why?
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 5 2025 0:49 utc | 72
Via gazanewsnow2021
"Barak Ravid:
A senior Israeli official said that the Israeli Political and Security Council unanimously approved expanding the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip.
Axios, citing an Israeli official, reported that the expanded military operation will not take effect until 10 days after Trump's visit to the Middle East.
Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia will be on the 13th of this month. "
Unrestricting supplies of food to Gaza is reportedly to be based on the expanded occupation of Gaza. The format suggested is that occupation military will take full control of various zones where supplies will be handled by foreign "civilian organisations" (apparently private US) . "Trusted couriers", meaning local Gazans of choice, would work as distributors of supplies to the displaced population.
The UN is said to have refused to take part in this scheme, the reasons for refusing would seem obvious enough.
While (and if actually) this is all going on, the occupation will look to steadily increase the area it controls as well as the level of hostility.
Whatever goes on, as stands it looks as though entry of supplies to Gaza will be denied by the occupation forces that siege Gaza, for at least another couple of weeks.
Posted by: Ornot | May 5 2025 1:01 utc | 73
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 5 2025 0:38 utc | 76
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 5 2025 0:49 utc | 78
Thanks. Yes. Its all down to the Brits and Lord Shaftsbury.
Posted by: john brewster | May 5 2025 1:56 utc | 74
see the 44-second video at the second link
see the 12-second video at the third link. the israelis are total f*cking demons from Hell
https://x.com/rafatsl/status/1917549178533646597
Rafat Al-Khalili 🍉🌍🕊️ @rafatsl
Large-scale fires are raging in the Jerusalem mountains, Israeli occupation requested assistance, with Greece, Croatia, Italy & Cyprus expected to send firefighting aircrafts.
Meanwhile no one sending aid or firefighters to Gazans being burnt alive by same occupation.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1917233554544591167
ADAM @AdameMedia
"Arabs are inferior to us. That's why we kick Palestinians and slap them. We train dogs so they will bite them strongly and tightly. That's why we shoot them. They're nothing"
—Tel-Aviv school principal, literally teaching kids to hate.
https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1917194436435493324
Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine
In a scene that sums up thirst and siege... a barefoot Palestinian child runs after an empty water truck in southern Gaza, searching for a drop to quench his thirst, while the world stands by helplessly, watching in silence - unable to deliver even water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5A5zZmdlw
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Posted by: michaelj72 | May 5 2025 2:05 utc | 75
History unambiguously testifies that Zionism originated as Christian Zionism, as propounded by profoundly anti-Semitic British evangelical fanatical followers and cohorts of Lord Shaftesbury, back in the 1840's.
Barflies, does this stand scrutiny? It sounds like a missing link (for me at least).
Just hoping the Lord ain't a crypto-Jew./s
Posted by: persiflo | May 5 2025 2:06 utc | 76
Posted by: persiflo | May 5 2025 2:06 utc | 82
My interest has been piqued a bit, too.
The Life and Work of The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury from Internet Archive.
Posted by: lex talionis | May 5 2025 2:18 utc | 77
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Posted by: lex talionis | May 5 2025 2:18 utc | 83
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I gave this in detail in my original post. Here is a relevant excerpt:
It looks like Evangelical Britons were at the root of the promotion of Herzl's Zionism. Just like today's religious zealot nutbags, they drove the political agenda of a modern state based on questionable religious motives. I was not up on the latest research in this area. But, by reading the Wikipedia article on the Balfour Declaration (more on that later), I found a 2010 book that lays it out in some detail.Donald M. Lewis, The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii + 365 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-51518-4.
Lewis situates Christian Zionism within the context of Protestant theology and evangelical philosemitism, and that philosemitism is further contextualized by Lewis in this manner: “Central to the argument of this book is the thesis that British evangelical interest in the Jews was part and parcel of a wider process of evangelical identity construction that took a decisive turn in the early nineteenth century” (p. 12). Why then did these British thinkers identify with and seek to protect Jews in England and elsewhere? Lewis links this sense of identification to two related ideals: first, that Britain needed to live up to its sense of self as a biblical, elect nation; second, that the Jews of the time provided a “visible historic link” to the biblical past (p. 13).
Chapter 2, “Shaftesbury and the Jews,” focuses on Lord Ashley, the Earl of Shaftesbury, “best remembered as Britain’s most prominent social reformer as well as its quintessential evangelical lay leader.” Lewis’s contribution to Lord Ashley’s story, a story already told by many historians of nineteenth-century British political life, is to show us how he became “the leading proponent of Christian Zionism in the nineteenth century and the first politician of stature to attempt to prepare the way for Jews to establish a homeland in Palestine” (p. 107). Lewis reminds us that Shaftesbury’s Zionism sprang from evangelical philosemitism. He and his fellow evangelicals aimed “to establish as part of British national identity a unique responsibility toward ‘God’s chosen people’” (p. 188). A Tory member of Parliament for decades and later a member of the House of Lords, Shaftesbury was not a cabinet member and did not directly influence British foreign policy. But he was closely linked, by family and friendship, with an English statesman who had great influence in domestic and foreign affairs. This was Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, foreign secretary from 1830 to 1841 and prime minister from 1855 to 1865. For political reasons more than for religious reasons, Palmerston too became an advocate for Jewish restoration. Among other factors that came into play in his deliberations about British support for Jewish return was “the view that the Jews could be useful in buttressing the collapsing Ottoman Empire, thus helping to accomplish the key object of British foreign policy in the area” (p. 185)...
Lewis makes the case that “both the religious and ethnic backgrounds of the British War Cabinet (of World War One) deserve far more attention than historians have hither to given” (p. 332). Lewis demonstrates that this cabinet, dominated by non-English members from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Cape Colony (South Africa), was deeply influenced by evangelicism: “The influence of the religious culture that had nurtured them disposed to think of the Jews as a ‘people’ a ‘race’ and ‘a nation’ and inclined towards the idea of a Jewish homeland.” More so, these cabinet members were influenced by the idea that “Britain had a special role in enabling this to happen” (p. 334). Against this background, the decision to issue the Balfour Declaration and later to assume the Palestine mandate, seem as firmly linked to religious history as to diplomatic history.
Goldman on Lewis, 'The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland'
Another review of this book on the same website.
NOTE: These reviews are from H-Judaic, the Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of Hebrew College and Shamash.
The bottom line here: there was a strong strain of religiosity behind the British elite's embrace of Zionism. And, by implication, that embrace was unique to Great Britain, which was looking to buttress its place as a unique and god-chosen country. (Gee, where have I heard that recently?)
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Thank you for your reply and reposting your previous comment. Interesting stuff.
Mark Stewart and the Mafia - Jerusalem (1982)
Posted by: lex talionis | May 5 2025 2:39 utc | 79
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 5 2025 0:38 utc | 76
Can't leave out the influence of the oil and chemical oligarchs in the USA for getting behind it after their failure to destroy the USSR using Germans. It was Chevron that picked up 98% of the offshore leases for Gaza at the opening bell on October 8th after all. They also grabbed the leases for Lebanon when that invasion began. Isreal is fucking up their kids for life and turning themselves into pariahs for the benefit of the Rockefellers and the Du Ponts. It would be comical if it was not so disgusting.
Posted by: Badjoke | May 5 2025 2:53 utc | 80
From Tehran!
MOATS with George Galloway - Ep 444
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1919092843009737017
'The Art of the Kneel'
Marandi & Okechukwu
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 5 2025 2:56 utc | 81
@82 persiflo
It's a circular argument that goes round and round and round. "Promised land" a.k.a. Zion is old testament and jewish. New testament, also known as teachings and life of Jesus does not speak of this as far as I remember, he set a distinct path and example. Though he claimed to be the Messiah (at least his words are taken to mean that) which would imply validity of old testament prophecy, and hence feasibly also validity of "promised land", his example was non violent and so would be unrelated to attempts at claiming the levant by force, theft or deceit.
Christianity, whatever that actually is but taking it to mean an organised religion, is therefore jewish where it applies the old testament ideas outside of the teachings or example as provided by Jesus.
So, if Christianity started Zionism it is because it is actually jewish...or as (something like) Arch put it, he was wondering if the west were all crypto-jews.
Posted by: Ornot | May 5 2025 2:58 utc | 82
Further points to consider to some comments made by michaelj72, LDB and GoZ.
USS Truman's evasive maneuvers suggest failure of the proven Aegis system.
Failure to intercept a ballistic missile that fell way too close to discount as "intercepted" suggest as failure of the Iron Dome and THAAD systems.
Those useless Patriots still being used to boost confidence in KSA, Bahrain, UAE & Jordan in now making all of them rather nervous.
If Iran plays its cards right, it will unveil its plan for assuring its compliance with NPT at the UN publicly and wait for the US to reject it.
Time to throw down the gauntlet.
Posted by: Suresh | May 5 2025 3:26 utc | 83
Posted by: lex talionis | May 5 2025 2:39 utc | 85
Thank you for your reply and reposting your previous comment. Interesting stuff.
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You're welcome. I am glad that other people are discovering Shaftsbury and the UK Christian Zionists. The more I learn about the British elite, the more I can't stand them. They starved the Irish and the Indians, murdered Indonesians and Kenyans.
And they seem to have colluded to create Israel as another one of their imperial schemes.
Thanks for your link as well.
Posted by: john brewster | May 5 2025 3:48 utc | 84
Posted by: Ornot | May 5 2025 2:58 utc | 88
It's a circular argument that goes round and round and round. "Promised land" a.k.a. Zion is old testament and jewish.
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The argument you refer to is based on the false ground of monotheism, which is at the root of all the bigotry and murder that the West has been mired in for millenia.
As I quoted in another part of the big essay:
monotheism has been characterized by what scholars call exclusivism, the belief that worship is to be offered to a single god to the exclusion of all other gods and goddesses...some monotheists insist that anyone who dares to offer worship to a false god is worthy of not merely exclusion but death. Indeed, the most militant monotheists - Jews, Christians, and Moslems alike - embrace the belief that God demands the blood of the nonbeliever...the most rigorous biblical authors do not define wickedness and sin in terms of moral and ethical conduct. Indeed, they are far more concerned with the purity of religion rather than the pursuit of justice. The worst sin of all, as they see it, is not lust or greed, but rather the offering of worship to gods and goddesses other than the True God...
The strict and uncompromising attitude of monotheism, approvingly described in the Bible itself as "zeal", sometimes manifests itself in a strange phenomenon called rigorism - that is, extreme strictness in religious belief and practice. (paganism too produced its own rigorists)...But tragically rigorism is not always or only expressed through acts of self-discipline and self-affliction. Extreme strictness in religious observance...becomes quite literally a matter of life and death...Turned outward, rigorism may inspire the same man or woman to punish others who fail to embrace the religious beliefs that he or she finds so compelling. The history of religion reveals that rigorism in one's beliefs and practices can readily turn into the kind of zealotry that expresses itself in unambiguous acts of terrorism...Examples of this can be found in every faith, in every place and in every age, including our own.
my comment on that is:
one should always keep in mind that these behaviors are theology-agnostic. It is important not to start flinging accusations of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, or persecution of Christians around when the detailed failings of someone's particular monotheism are being discussed. I'm not picking on any one religion. I'm picking on them all.in reading the various historical facts, keep in mind that exclusivism, rigorism, zeal, and terrorism are the common coinage of all monotheisms. In short, monotheism is tribalism on steroids, tribalism with a bureaucracy.
Posted by: john brewster | May 5 2025 3:56 utc | 85
Anyone been to Shaftesbury? William Wordsworth witnessed the dereliction caused by wealthy landowners , driving families off their land in order to Enclose the Land Estates of the Landed aristocracy.
Shaftesbury is not his name.
Thatcherite , drip down screwyou economics before it's time. The Roman Catholic Church had preached that God had created peasants and landowners and the peasants had bloody well accept their Divinely arranged lot in life.
Like slaveowners who wanted compensation for the loss of their property , their slaves when they had to free them, the landed aristocracy wanted compensation when the Reformation brought the Gospels into the vernacular English, to be read and understood by all, exposing the Church's millennia old lies.
So the landowners decided that if they had to give up feudalism, owning the people, they were bloody well going to own the land in exclusion of the people.
The Bible's Ten Commandments would justify oppression of anybody who was jealous of the aristocracy's fucking land.
So Shaftesbury can go and shaft himself.
These Landowners , like Netanyahu today , try to use the Bible to justify their clear oppression of others. These bastards have still kept their title of " Lord", a title which in Christian polytheism is shared with none other than the Creator of the Universe and Owner of the Day of Judgement.
Time for these lordy aristos to stop shafting the Palestinians and worship Allah. Ukrainian Khazar neocons take note. This means you too, Ficky Nuland.
Posted by: Giyane | May 5 2025 3:58 utc | 86
Sorry for the double input. It is a case where we are in agreement. One does not need to facilitate botactivities more than needed.
Germany does not have a separation of church and state as france does. Thus Germany still teaches religion classes at school based on lutherianism, which of course families can refuse (and instead the kids get a course on "ethics"...one wonders that they put under this definition today).
A lot of public hospitals and subsidized charities are still in the hands of religious bodies in Germany.
Posted by: Tom | May 5 2025 4:02 utc | 87
Regarding comments above about Gofundme, I should enlarge on what I said, I had tried to make a donation previously but when I tried to pay, the country I live and where my debit card was registered was not on the list. I wrote to them about this and other matters but did not receive any reply. I looked again last week to see if it was fixed but couldn’t come up with any Gaza charity. That was one of reasons I decided to start my own. Anyway the more there are the better, they need everything we can give them.
Posted by: Walt | May 5 2025 4:30 utc | 88
@ john brewster | May 5 2025 2:32 utc | 84 with the following quote from the excerpt provided
Among other factors that came into play in his deliberations about British support for Jewish return was “the view that the Jews could be useful in buttressing the collapsing Ottoman Empire, thus helping to accomplish the key object of British foreign policy in the area”
I see the God Of Mammon cult using the monotheists to create this deadly embrace and landed "usury" aircraft carrier in ME
The God Of Mammon cult know what myth is.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 5 2025 5:40 utc | 89
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/17941
Middle East Spectator – MES
— 🇾🇪/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce that in response to the IDF's decision to expand operations in Gaza, they will implement a comprehensive 'air blockade' alongside the naval blockade on Israeli-linked ships. They will continue targeting Ben Gurion Airport and warn international airlines against flying to Israel.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1918870523334799535
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: Elad Barashi an Israeli media figure affiliated with Hebrew Channel 14 made a post which is an extreme and explicit call for genocide, invoking the Holocaust as a desired model for violence against Palestinians in Gaza.....
"....And I ask: Who? Who is the person who doesn’t want to see Gaza burned and scorched by IDF fire? Who is the person who finds justification or pity for these Nazis? Who is that fool who claims there are ‘innocents’ in Gaza? Who is that vile scoundrel who wants to let them flee freely to Arab countries or to Europe?
Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! They deserve death! They deserve death! Men, women, and children — in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them — yes, read that again — H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis. Without fear, without hesitation — simply crush, eradicate, slaughter, flatten, dismantle, smash, shatter.
Without conscience or mercy — children and parents, women and girls — all of them deserve a cruel and harsh death......
Gaza deserves death.
Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza."
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 5 2025 6:29 utc | 90
michaelj72 91
They've already written the Hollywood drama version. If only they had stuck to writing unbearably boring movies. I don't have a TV. Film is a highly corrosive medium.
Posted by: Giyane | May 5 2025 7:01 utc | 91
Gaza deserves death.
Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza."
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 5 2025 6:29 utc | 91
This is why I keep saying that the Jews need to experience another Holocaust to be reminded of why genocide shouldn't be tolerated for anyone.
We repeat the lesson until it is learned.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 5 2025 7:36 utc | 92
The UK media reporting on a large scale anti terror operation against “Iranian’ suspects. Convenient timing.
Posted by: Clem Fandango | May 5 2025 8:06 utc | 93
The UK media reporting on a large scale anti terror operation against “Iranian’ suspects. Convenient timing.
This certainly bears watching. sure does stink. My bet is it will be accepted by the British public the same way the Skripal affair was. Any takers?
Posted by: dan of steele | May 5 2025 8:26 utc | 94
George Galloway is currently in Iran:
https://rumble.com/v6sylv9-its-not-looking-like-war-between-us-and-iran.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Always entertaining, informative and with the right spirit! Very recommended! Topics are beautiful Iran, Britain's demise and also a good comment on right wing populism vs. true left socialism.
Posted by: Hamburger | May 5 2025 9:44 utc | 95
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
see the 1:50 video at the first link
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1917659652252123503
ADAM @AdameMedia
Settlers burned down a 92 year old Palestinian’s olive farm.
This man was born 16 years before the invention of Israel.
lsraeI has destroyed over a million olive trees.
Now God is burning lsraeI. Justice 🔥
https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1918716017892552839
Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber
After systematically destroying food systems & stores, killing aid workers, obstructing aid for 18 months, and attacking hungry people lining up for food, the Israeli regime is now blocking all aid from reaching the genocide victims in gaza, is facilitating the looting of remaining aid by armed gangs & shooting at Palestinian police and others when they try to stop the gangs, and has bombed a humanitarian aid ship in the Mediterranean because it was destined for Gaza.
The West is responding by ignoring these crimes, further arming the regime, and sending it aid for its wild fire problem. If you are an American, a Brit, or a German, and you are silent, you are directly complicit.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1919014943363416265
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Boycott truly hurts Israel. So much that the US wants to put its own citizens up to 20 years in prison for boycotting the entity.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/231419/Iran-s-defense-minister-issues-stark-warning-to-Americans
Iran's defense minister issues stark warning to Americans
Speaking to the Iranian national TV presenter in an interview aired on Sunday evening, which also showed the new domestically made Iranian missile Qassem Basir, the defense minister warned the Americans that "If we are attacked or a war is imposed on us, we will respond with might."
"We will attack their interests and their bases, and we will not be reluctant and will not see any limits in this regard," General Nasirzadeh underscored.
"We are not enemies of our neighboring countries, and they are our brothers, but American bases on their soil will be our targets," he warned.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 5 2025 10:17 utc | 96
Barflies, does this stand scrutiny? It sounds like a missing link (for me at least).
Just hoping the Lord ain't a crypto-Jew./s
Posted by: persiflo | May 5 2025 2:06 utc | 76
Never heard about Shaftesbury but in my youth I wasted much time in Christian retreats run by American missionaries.
It seemed obvious to me at the time that Zionism was essential within the structure of evangelical Christianity.
How that links to Shaftesbury, I don't know.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 5 2025 10:27 utc | 97
Trump's new anti-boycott laws would see jail time plus a one million dollar fine.
Posted by: ld | May 5 2025 11:09 utc | 98
When Trump was asked if he should uphold the Constitution of The US,
he replied, "I don't know."
Further, he said he has a team of Lawyers, the very best Lawyers.
(Presumably to make such decisions for him.)
Posted by: chakakhagan | May 5 2025 11:23 utc | 99
hasanabi
@hasanthehun
falsely claiming that nelson mandela never engaged in violence to end the apartheid is ahistorical nonsense. he was offered a commutation of his sentence if he disavowed violent resistance TWICE. he refused, extending his prison sentence TWICE.
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@zei_squirrel
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Nov 17, 2023
this is amazing. Nelson Mandela actually visited Gaza in 1999, and said: "Choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence."
https://x.com/hasanthehun/status/1917687405873934544
Posted by: Menz | May 5 2025 11:35 utc | 100
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Eyeless in Gaza: the preface
Mass starvation looms
This week’s Substack.
https://waltking.substack.com/p/eyeless-in-gaza
I have been fortunate to have been put directly in touch with people in Gaza which will enable me to do two things.
I have a Gaza resident’s bank account details in the Bank of Palestine in Ramallah. Money can be transferred digitally from there into Gaza. They still need cash. I have sent a trial donation, it seems to have got through, but charges are $30, horrendous. So I am trying to set up an account in China, Hong Kong or the Philippines purely to build up a balance of donations that can be transferred in bigger chunks, and then transfer without taking commission. This way we can by-pass Gofundme and Paypal which I would prefer not to use.
Internet access there is intermittent. They have phones. We are trying to set up a WeChat group. Then they can send me video clips directly by-passing western media of day to day happenings and I can edit them into some sort of coherent narrative which will go on Rumble. I can post links here. Then you can view and share them and more people can be made aware of facts on the ground.
There is a short introductory video message focusing mainly on Gaza children I met in 2019 on the Substack, just 15 minutes. Please watch it.
Posted by: Walt | May 4 2025 14:34 utc | 1