Cargo jet carrying 14 tons of explosives departing JFK for IZ
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cargo-jet-carrying-14-tons-of-explosives-departs-jfk-for–is

Posted by: Sticker | May 11 2025 12:19 utc | 3

Red star 2 . Unfortunately we are past the crest of ” the onion” being satire. As they say it’s a documentary in 2025.

Posted by: Hankster | May 11 2025 12:47 utc | 5

Re. the previous Isr-Pal thread.
While I veer between a Berletician ‘no change in US policy’, i.e. signs of a US-Isr split ‘are just all window dressing’ or ‘kabuki theatre’ vs. YES, some change by Trump / DT admin re. Isr. is taking place… I’m on the YES aisle ..*Today*
Question: Can the split last, hold, can it go forward, are any important, perhaps irreversible moves made (Such as DT dealing with KSA etc. while not imposing normalisation with Isr. as was previously the case – that is quite a commitment..)?
Idk. DT deliberately shows he is ‘mercurial’ and can change position on a dime, one shouldn’t always take him too seriously on the moment. Plus, there are ugly quarrels within the admin, who knows, etc. (Like in a Biz enviro. screaming about cancelling some franchise and setting up some new deal with another Co.) This is part of his modus operandi, unsettle ppl, hire, fire, etc. then go in for whatever advantage can be squeezed out.
Hegseth cancelling his visit to Isr. and the firing of Walz are extremely strong split-off signs. Other countries will have noted that, and will be acting on it.
Imho, one important element is the genocide in Gaza has become very difficult, maybe impossible to cover up, blanket over, or rationalise – killing ‘terrorists’ as an excuse, we must support Isr. etc. rings hollow. After at least 25 years of mainstream public discourse about ‘protecting minorities and giving them rights’ and ‘condemning *hate* of xyz groups’, vilifying ‘apartheid of any kind’ and implementing RTP in ‘wars’, killing Gazans by bombs, destruction, starvation, etc. is a hard sell.

Posted by: Noirette | May 11 2025 13:41 utc | 7

Time to invade Iran I think, with a false flag attack on the British regimes, Israeli embassy in the making, and Iran to be blamed for it – and with planes ready and prepped in Diego Garcia, it can’t be long now until a full scale attack on Iran opens up.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/05/mi5s-fake-terror-plots/
“The US could default on its obligations by the end of summer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned. In a letter to Congress on Friday, he urged lawmakers to act by either raising or suspending the debt ceiling – a cap on how much the government can borrow – to avoid running out of money to cover federal expenses.
The country hit its current statutory debt limit of $36.1 trillion in January. Once the ceiling is reached, the government can no longer borrow to meet its obligations in full and on time. By now, total US debt has risen to $36.2 trillion, according to official data. However, the Treasury has relied on ‘extraordinary measures’ – primarily accounting tactics like pausing payments into civil service retirement funds – to continue to meet its obligations and delay default.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 13:47 utc | 9

I’m in a grateful mood, this morning….
Thank-you, b, and God bless you, and yours. 🙂

Posted by: metamars | May 11 2025 13:49 utc | 11

Total victory is assured for Israel and there is nothing that can stop it.
Keep crying and moaning, you keyboard warriors!

Posted by: Abraham Linsky | May 11 2025 14:00 utc | 13

Mary (12).
Thanks for that Mary – one wonders why they we called back.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:07 utc | 15

Le Petit, (Macron) – quickly hiding the tinfoil, his coke was wrapped in as the cameras roll.
https://nitter.poast.org/Kathleen_Tyson_/status/1921537537484489125#m
Below is an alternative video source for those who can’t get access to Nitter.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1921505980258353152/vid/avc1/540×540/DhEWNRgsTTLBR7to.mp4

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:16 utc | 17

The ultra Zionist and Britsh regime PM Starmer invites the leader of the proscribed terrorist outfit in Syria (HTS) to visit London and 10 Downing street – the Western, including England, backed and funded head choppers – have been on a concentrated ethic cleansing campaign in Syria, since the fall of Assad.
“The Starmer government has issued an invite to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the terrorist coalition that ousted, with US, Israeli and UK assistance, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to visit the UK for talks.”
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/10/starmer-invites-terror-listed-al-jolani-to-uk-while-misusing-terror-act-against-pro-palestine-voices/#:~:text=The%20Starmer%20government%20has%20issued%20an%20invite%20to,Bashar%20al-Assad%20to%20visit%20the%20UK%20for%20talks.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:50 utc | 19

The Proud Boys are ICE agents.
https://nitter.poast.org/58bugeye/status/1921258125274849763#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:56 utc | 21

Netanyahu has a history of mendacity.
💣 1992: Iran “3 to 5 years” from nuke
💣 1995: “3 to 5 years” from nuke
💣1996: Iran is a threat to “all mankind”
💣 2002: Iraq is on its way to nuke … “no question”
💣 2009: Iran “1 or 2 years away” from acquiring nuclear weapons
💣 2010: Iran can make a bomb
💣 2012: Iran “few months away” from WMD nukes!

Posted by: Exile | May 11 2025 15:13 utc | 23

see the 1:46 video at the first link
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1920785809558376896
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
The NYPD use violent arrests on students, removing them off campus at Brooklyn College, peacefully protesting ties to the israeli genocide
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1920958529260654964
Tiberius @ecomarxi
Every member of AIPAC should be arrested for treason for using widespread propaganda and election interference to invalidate any possible whisper of democracy in the US on behalf of a foreign government guilty of war crimes
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1921139721704444149
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn
Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 11 2025 15:22 utc | 25

https://x.com/ghida_fakhry/status/1921142767104741638
Ghida Fakhry @ghida_fakhry
Palestinian kids starve live on social media and world leaders respond by bravely posting thoughts and prayers— if they dare at all.
290,000 children are starving in Gaza, but apparently they picked the wrong oppressor —otherwise, there would be a ‘coalition of the willing’, benefit concerts and hashtags trending. Instead, the ‘international community’ stays willingly beholden to Israel.
https://x.com/TanausuX/status/1921168483347218615
Tanausu Unchained @TanausuX
EU leaders are willing to starve an entire population to death.
They are either bribed or being blackmailed.
https://x.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1921533029404549152
Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek
The former Al Qaeda leader who became Syria’s president is trying to sell his country to U.S. empire and throw Palestinians under the bus. Sick.
The offer from Ahmad Al Sharaa/Mohamed Al Jolani to the U.S. for sanctions relief includes, among other things:
– Shutting down Palestinian resistance groups in Syria under the cover of countering Iran
– Handing Syria’s oil and gas fields to U.S. companies for priority exploitation
– Normalization with Israel

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 11 2025 15:49 utc | 27

@Ahenobarbus | May 11 2025 15:54 utc | 28

The working class has emerged in Norway. A great lesson for the wage slaves of the world. Thanks, Red!

The LO labour organization was founded in 1899. It represents a large portion of workers in Norway.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 11 2025 16:01 utc | 29

https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1921502983545622533
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️Hamas Statement:
The world must raise a loud “No” in the face of Netanyahu and his use of the filthy weapon of starvation against children and unarmed civilians.
Preventing thousands of trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger is a compounded war crime. We support the stance of UN organizations that reject any arrangements which do not respect humanitarian principles in the entry and distribution of aid.
The positions of Arab and Islamic countries do not rise to the level of the catastrophe caused by the war of extermination and the crime of starvation in Gaza.
https://x.com/derJamesJackson/status/1921469771809247588
James Jackson @derJamesJackson
Irish band The Murder Capital were banned from performing at Berlin club Gretchen for having a Palestinian flag 🇵🇸 as part of their stage setup

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 11 2025 16:07 utc | 31

Silence Breeds Silence on Gaza [paywalled, StClair at Counterpunch+]

The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror.
Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to subdue Gaza, depopulate it of Palestinians, and seize the Strip for itself. Israel will not change. It hasn’t deviated from this genocidal course since October 8, 2023. For 19 months, every Palestinian has been a target because Israel wants Gaza cleansed of Palestinians. Therefore, everyone can be bombed. Everyone can be starved. Everyone can be denied medical care and the mere essentials of life.
Those who make distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate targets, between Hamas and civilians, between adults and children, themselves become targets. Humanitarians are targets because they insist on seeing Palestinians as humans. And even their deaths, their systematic slaughter, evokes silence from the countries they came to Gaza from, many killed by weapons made and sold by their home nations. Anyone who associates with a Palestinian is treated as a Palestinian, as someone to be silenced, one way or another: Banned, gagged, exiled, deported, jailed, killed.
Silence over one atrocity serves to legitimize all those that came before and those that follow. After Israel got away with bombing its first hospital in Gaza, it knew it could get away unscathed with bombing all hospitals and clinics in Gaza. And it did.
It’s clear, Israel will not yield to public opinion; it can only be constrained by those more powerful than it. By its funders and weapons suppliers. Yet nothing changes. No one intervenes. Not the US, certainly, not the UK, not Germany, not China, not Russia or Saudi Arabia, not Turkey, India, or France. Only silence, a silence that amplifies and isolates the screams of burning children. This collective silence invalidates the West’s exalted concept of itself, exposing the monstrous hypocrisy beneath the shimmering veneer of human rights laws and fatuous rhetoric about the sanctity of civilian lives.
I’m not convinced there are any “just wars,” but there are unjust ones. There are wars that traduce every cherished notion of civilized conduct, every rule combatants have been meant to abide by since 1919. And this war, if you can call it a war, has violated all of them: not only killing, but targeting, civilians; blowing up non-military infrastructure; bombing schools, universities, churches and mosques; burning agricultrual fields, slashing down orchards, cementing wells, poisoning and gunning down livestock; killing doctors, nurses and rescue workers; murdering aid workers; using chemical weapons; detaining 1000s with without warrants; inflicting torture and sexual abuse on prisoners; using human shields; practicing perfidy during raids; assassinating diplomats and journalists; shooting children in the head.
The rules of war are set by the winner. What will the new rules look like after Gaza, where what was once forbidden became standard operating procedure?
Biden wanted credit for working toward a ceasefire he never pressed the Israelis to enact. Rafah was flattened on Biden’s watch, after he publicly said (but didn’t mean) that an Israeli invasion of the city would cross a red line. Cross one red line, cross them all. Trump wants credit for a temporary ceasefire and the swift resumption of a total war designed to empty Gaza of Palestinians. But the end result for both Biden and Trump was always going to be the same: mass slaughter of civilians, destruction of Gaza’s liveable spaces, displacement of two million people and eventual Israeli annexation of large swaths of the Strip. In a word: genocide.
Members of the Israeli war cabinet vowed this week that its military will pulverize every building with more than two stories if Hamas, whatever is left of Hamas, doesn’t surrender. Who are they saying this to? The people who don’t know that Israel has already pulverized more than 80 percent of the buildings in Gaza? What is the purpose of saying this other than as a kind of unabashed triumphalism, a declaration of impunity to commit the worst of crimes and not only get away with it but have those institutions that outlawed genocide and land theft say nothing about it.
Silence breeds silence.
Israel no longer fears any international institutions: not the UN, not the International Criminal Court, not the International Court of Justice, not NATO, not the Arab League, not BRICS, not Interpol. As Israel itself breaches international laws, knowing there will be no consequences. Netanyahu travels freely, knowing the charges and warrants against him will never be enforced. Israel has humiliated the Western powers and has been embraced by many it humiliated for doing so.
In this time of silence, many of the words that are spoken have lost all meaning. In fact, their meaning has been inverted, twisted inside out. Humanitarian zones are tent cities, whose populations of refugees are deprived of water, food, clothing, sanitation, and heating. Humanitarian zones are where you are forced to flee in order to get starved, sickened, become hypothermic or get firebombed as you sleep with your kids in a tent made of garbage bags and rotted cloth. A humanitarian zone is where humanitarians aren’t allowed to go. A humanitarian zone is where inhuman acts take place in plain view.
Gaza’s population of two million people, most of them women and children, isn’t “starving.” They’re being starved. We’re conditioned to think of famines as natural events, caused by prolonged drought, floods, earthquakes. That’s not what is happening in Gaza. What’s happening in Gaza is an unimaginable thing. Except we don’t have to imagine it, because it’s taking place before our eyes. The famine in Gaza is completely engineered. This is famine as a weapon, designed quite literally to “starve out” the entire population of Gaza.
Palestinian mothers are so malnourished that they can’t breastfeed their newborns. This is appalling enough, but Israel has also blocked the entry of infant formula into Gaza. But there is no shortage of food. Food is within sight of Gaza, inside trucks backed up for miles at the entry points Israel has blocked. If one can’t draw the line at the intentional starvation of newborns, where will one draw the line?
How many Palestinians has Israel killed in Gaza? 100,000? 200,000? Could Ralph Nader be right in saying the total will grow to 500,000 or more? We won’t for years.
The death toll in Gaza defies human comprehension. Viewed through a statistical lens, each new death becomes less and less significant. The first image of a Palestinian baby decapitated by an Israeli quadcopter provoked disgust, anger, and sorrow. Now, eight or 10 babies similarly slaughtered in a day barely rate a notice in the media. Our voices are silent, our revulsion has been numbed, our capacity for human empathy muted. We are dehumanizing ourselves.
The first deaths hit the hardest. The most recent deaths slip by us. We can’t think of them without condemning ourselves for doing nothing to slow the killing since seeing those first shocking images more than a year and a half ago.
Many have been silenced. Many, many more have silenced themselves.
Let me submit one recent case for your consideration, that of Joseph Borrell, former head of the EU’s Human Rights office, who had a front row seat for what was going down in Gaza, where he witnessed refugee camps being strafed, ambulance drivers ambushed, poets and engineers assassinated, desalination plants destroyed and sewage pipelines ruptured, fishing boats torpedoed, bakeries detonated, Rafah, Gaza City, and Khan Younis bombed into ruins, two million people displaced, and 12,000 children killed. Yet he remained silent about what was really happening, what he knew was happening, until after he retired. Only then, at the moment when it would have the least political impact and mainly to salve his own conscience, did he feel free to call it what it was and is: genocide.
When Palestinians have attempted to break through the wall of silence that encloses the Gaza Strip and describe the crimes Israel has committed, they have been systematically killed: while reporting, while videotaping and photographing, while driving, while interviewing, while sleeping at home with their families. More than 210 have been killed, with more being targeted each week. All to keep the word from getting out. There’s never been this kind of “censorship” by drone in any other war. Yet, here we must confront a confounding double silence. Not just the terrible silence of the murdered journalists, but the deadly silence of their colleagues in the Western media about their killings and those who killed them. This is a silence that kills and buries the story along with the journalists who risked their lives to report it.
In Gaza, even the dead speak, but we refuse to hear them.

Jeffrey is right on this.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 11 2025 16:38 utc | 33

1 billion Muslims have watched the slaughter in Gaza. Silence. WHY haven’t they done anything? For the Gazans? Against Israel…?
Posted by: flyingcow | May 11 2025 16:53 utc | 34
Can’t speak for other countries, but most of the ones in the US who protested politely or wrote op-eds in college newspapers were catalogued, doxxed, jailed and/or deported. So there’s that. But again, no clue what’s up in Jordan or elsewhere.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 11 2025 17:13 utc | 35

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:56 utc | 21
#######
Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, all manufactured opposition.
Not unlike MAGA…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 17:27 utc | 37

@LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 17:36 utc | 38
What I like about Tucker is that he can also be very self-critical. For example, on the subject of the Iraq war.
I think it’s quite brave and noble what he admits in this short interview (see below).
But I do realize that you can’t always trust a person based on a short interview.
Here the short clip where he speaks about the Iraq war and the media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL–KXNZxVA

Posted by: NoName | May 11 2025 18:10 utc | 39

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 11 2025 18:36 utc | 41

“Israel” now attacking Yemen ports.
At least 1 B2 left garcia according to osint, several B52s arrived there. Not possible to know really, movements are usually able to be hidden or false movements reported.
Officially B2s are not declared as departed, new B52s are declared stationed.
Gaza as previously, last night there were reports of straffing shelter tents.
Tomorrow discussion on ceasefire Pakistan/India, then US visit to region with deadlines for Iran, offer of talks by Russia re. Ukraine slightly later.
What to make of that.
“Israel” not ‘offering’ more than temporary ceasefire for prisoner release.

Posted by: Ornot | May 11 2025 19:10 utc | 43

Outrageous @ University of Toronto
https://x.com/sasa_gada/status/1921567680349262183
“Faculty at my institution who were online and anonymous sent shit, gun, explosion and ambulance emojis while people were talking about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and apartheid. I feel for the students that have to sit in their classes.”
Because settler state Canada, ‘our home on Native land’, an admitted Indigenous genocider and land-stealer itself, has achieved what Israel can only dream of.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 11 2025 19:36 utc | 45

Posted by: Minaa | May 11 2025 19:41 utc | 46
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Qatar and the other Gulf monarchies barely constitute the Islamic world.
God is the creator and master of everything, and hence everything is preordained. The only way “free will” could make sense is if there is no all-powerful creator.
Western conceptions of “Free will” are incompatible intellectually with belief in God.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 19:55 utc | 47

The Qadr of Allah (Predestination) is one of the 6 articles of faith in Islam.
It is impossible, IMO, to believe in any conception of God that is logical and denies God’s supremacy at all times, in all things.
One is either God or they are not.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 20:04 utc | 49

The Qadr of Allah (Predestination) is one of the 6 articles of faith in Islam.
It is impossible, IMO, to believe in any conception of God that is logical and denies God’s supremacy at all times, in all things.
One is either God or they are not.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 20:04 utc | 49
I absolutely agree.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 11 2025 20:43 utc | 51

@Republicofscotland | May 11 2025 14:16 utc | 17
I didn’t think you would fall for this.
We have to be very sceptical with images these days.
Especially when they give potato quality evidence to make a claim.
AI fakes can do better.
In this case the 8K shows it was a tissue and a cocktail skewer.
These clowns were just drinking GT’s.
Endorsing this fake news undermines credibility.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | May 11 2025 21:13 utc | 53

Watch his face. I believe it.

Posted by: bassplayer | May 11 2025 22:03 utc | 55

God is not all-powerful. Prove me wrong if you please.
But use a proper argument, simply slaying me doesn’t count.
The addition is necessary, as historical precedence shows.

Posted by: persiflo | May 11 2025 22:16 utc | 57

Posted by: persiflo | May 11 2025 22:16 utc | 57
#########
I suggest that you examine what you think you know for contradictions and consequences. Better understanding should result.
That approach works in every domain, not just spiritual concerns.
I don’t do dawah (missionary work), certainly not at MoA in the Palestine discussions where we’re focused on a brutal colonial occupation.
If you believe, great.
If you don’t believe, great.
It will all work out the way it is meant to (the Qadr of Allah).

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 22:45 utc | 59

George Galloway
The hooter and the Houthis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvashT9P17g 17 mins _ Cocaine Coalition

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 11 2025 23:30 utc | 61

Norman Finkelstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsx8LXEcoc
“Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the criminalization of dissent.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 12 2025 0:22 utc | 63

01:31 “First follow-up..
After the second targeting of a school in Jabalia Al-Balad, our crews were able to retrieve 7 martyrs, including children and women,
and a number of other martyrs were transported by other service providers.
Medical Services – Northern Gaza Strip,
Monday, May 12, 2025”
02:10 …now at 16 with injured and missing.
Don’t tell me, people are trying to torpedo the president’s arrangements, but he will save the day, right ?
It is like a b grade amateur wrestling match.
…but hey, don’t criticise them or piss them off, because they’ll just kill more kids out of spite, or to teach you to be quiet ?
Eh?

Posted by: Ornot | May 12 2025 1:25 utc | 65

persiflo 57
We’re here to be tested, by good and bad. Nothing inherently belongs to us, except what God gives us, so the idea of murdering 5 million people in Sham who are living somewhere from which God expelled you 2,500 years ago , looks dodgy spiritually , as well being intrinsically alarming
Not sure that US and UK supporting the genocide looks too glamorous and sexy either. Oh well, if they want to destroy their / our civilisation, Who are We to get in their way? God’s pooper scooper will despatch us to the bin of History, but there is a remote possibility , I personally believe, after History has damned us, that God will save those of us who protest against USUKIS viciousness and greed, in another world , one day. Dies illa.
Dies iræ, dies illa,
Solvet sæclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sibylla.
The Bible coincides with the Qur’an in many ways. I get the message in stereo.
Too overwhelming to be ignored and impolite to turn off God , imho.

Posted by: Giyane | May 12 2025 2:02 utc | 67

I enjoy Will Schryver’s commentary
This is from a recent thread asking why Iran doesn’t simply erase Israel.

There is absolutely nothing Iran could hope to do to prevent Israel from slaughtering the inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank.
There is nothing Iran (nor Russia) could do to prevent Syria from crumbling. They propped up the hapless Syrians for several years. The blame for Syria’s dissolution falls entirely on the Syrians themselves.
As for Hezbollah, I am not AT ALL convinced they are a defeated force. The IDF took SEVERE losses in southern Lebanon, and advanced no more than about 1 km.
Hezbollah has simply done as it has several times in the past: melt into the background for a period of time until better opportunities present themselves.
I think it is particularly revealing that very few of the evacuated inhabitants of northern Israel have returned. They understand very well that the threat from Hezbollah has not been destroyed.
Meanwhile, Israel has weakened itself to a substantial degree by moving into southern Syria, and by exceedingly attriting its precision strike munitions stockpiles.
Both Israel and the US are SIGNIFICANTLY weakened here in mid-2025 compared to late 2023.

This is the OP of the thread
https://x.com/imetatronink/status/1921656733254013379
Btw, I saw something today about how the Qataris bribed the Syrian leadership to open the gates for the barbarians while distracting the Iranian General stationed there until the coup was complete. Sounds plausible to me. The Arab kingdoms have no honor.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 12 2025 2:07 utc | 69

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 20:04 utc | 49
I absolutely agree.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 11 2025 20:42 utc | 50
1. God is meaningless without free will.
2. God is meaningless if Logic cannot identify him.
3. If Faith is the only path to God then there is no difference between faith in God and faith in Satan.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 12 2025 2:15 utc | 71

LoveDonbass 69
Who are we to know the ins and outs of political Islam? Trump says it’s Turkiye, but he always lies, so reverse that.
Crooke said it was Bandar, but Brits always lie, so reverse that.
You heard it was Qatar, but political Islam = Lies, so reverse that.
I expect it was USUKIS, the controllers of HTS, who bribed / ordered the coup.
Allah knows.

Posted by: Giyane | May 12 2025 2:26 utc | 73

Pendant. Mixed metaphors is poetry, mixed sounds music ,and mixed light
is Art. When USUKIS is starving, bombing, sniping, raping, disintegrating , harvesting , crushing dissent simultaneously, why are we only allowed one metaphor at a time to describe the panoply of USUKIS civilisational Art manifested by this genocide?
Chacun a son gout, I suppose.
Posted by: Giyane | May 12 2025 2:12 utc | 70
I concede, your argument is beyond compelling. I couldn’t beat that with a dead horse.

Posted by: jr | May 12 2025 2:37 utc | 75

@LoveDonbass | May 12 2025 2:18 utc | 72
A restless mind.
Have you considered a Buddhist retreat? In the spirit of Ecumenism of course.

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 12 2025 4:27 utc | 77

Suspicious Ice Cream Truck parked near Palestinian protest:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wyo_X5Fn0JU

Posted by: Menz | May 12 2025 7:30 utc | 79

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي
@MariamBarghouti
Doctors in Gaza are warning that thousands of Palestinians are losing their sight due to the severe conditions of starvation, in addition to wounds being sustained and lack of medical aid/ capacity.
This is in addition to those suffering from organ failure due to starvation and in addition to the 52,000+ people that have been killed by Israel in the span of 19 MONTHS.
https://x.com/MariamBarghouti/status/1921512250264756368

Posted by: Menz | May 12 2025 7:31 utc | 81

Patricia Dowling
@ketchmeifucan
The man on the left is @VoteRandyFine
an American “representative” from Florida who used his government account to tweet that all Muslims should (he used a hashtag) #StarveAway.
On the right is one of his victims.
https://x.com/ketchmeifucan/status/1919720299307606389

Posted by: Menz | May 12 2025 7:34 utc | 83

Yippee!
In jewed-up Oz, the weekend before last, the jewed-up Liberal Party was wiped out in the Federal Election; by the jewed-up Labor Party: Lib 40 seats, Lab 82+ seats
= an absolute majority.
Luckily, PM Albinese is as dumb as a rock, and as greedy as a pig, and yesterday demoted 2 Cabinet Ministers for declaring that they can no longer support what the Genocide Jews are doing in Occupied Palestine. Thus Labor has decided to commit political suicide by quietly endorsing the Genocide.
The next Federal Election is 3 years away; so unless the jewed-up Labor Party wakes up and smells the Zionists, they’ll be wiped out too! And Oz will no longer be governed by Greedy, Sleazy Jew$laves!

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 12 2025 7:48 utc | 85

@LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 21:50 utc | 54
Obviously chosing that name implies I’m fully aware of the importance of propaganda and political rhetoric.
While I agree with you 99% of the time I think you are wrong in this case.
Most people will only get what is said now: “Russian disinfo claims…”
It is not beneficial except for the ‘other side’.
I now it’s a tactic they often use.
Anonimously post stuff like this that they can easily debunk later.
Yes humor and mockery are useful tools.
This is not.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | May 12 2025 10:09 utc | 87

Middle East Spectator – MES
— 🇳🇴/🇮🇱 NEW: Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, has divested from Israel’s ‘Paz Retail and Energy’
It previously divested from Israeli telecoms firm ‘Bezeq’ in September 2024.
This comes days after Norway’s Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) approved a comprehensive boycott of all trade and investment linked to Israel.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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Posted by: Mary | May 12 2025 10:56 utc | 89

donation sites:
https://www.palestinercs.org/en/Donation
https://www.gofundme.com/f/yfwstc-help-us-in-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily
https://www.gofundme.com/f/operationolivebranch
https://www.gofundme.com/f/etaam-food-aid-initiative-feeding-families-in-gaza
Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wefeedgaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/global-urgent-gaza-appeal-mansour-shouman
Our works continues in Gaza despite the siege – I will be uploading the work your donations have made happen whether it be food, water, shelter, medical and helping the disabled and injured.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/enfants-de-gaza-nous-sommes-la
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-poor-palesinian-peoples-from-surviving
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-aid-help-over-15-gazan-families-survive

Posted by: Mary | May 12 2025 11:01 utc | 91

@ Mary | May 12 2025 11:01 utc | 91
Any idea how this aid is getting into Gaza?
I’ve seen reports (with video) on Rednote of some airdrops of aid from the PRC, which is remarkable enough when one considers both the logistics and Zionazi control of Gazan airspace, but I’m unaware of anything coming through by land.

Posted by: malenkov | May 12 2025 11:35 utc | 93

Alastair Crooke – my week in Tehran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJlfwksyXQ
Corrected from above.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 12 2025 12:21 utc | 95

While I veer between a Berletician ‘no change in US policy’, i.e. signs of a US-Isr split ‘are just all window dressing’ or ‘kabuki theatre’ vs. YES, some change by Trump / DT admin re. Isr. is taking place… I’m on the YES aisle ..*Today*. . .
Posted by: Noirette | May 11 2025 13:41 utc | 7
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I recently discovered the videos of Alon Mizrahi.
He is an Arab Jew and calls himself a former Israeli.
Hates Israel and everything it stands for.
Very interesting, nuanced turning over of different types of evidence.
He is cautiously on the yes side of this.
Viz., Netanyahu is a conman, Trump is a BIGGER conman, and Trump is getting tired of both Net and the genocide and won’t put up with being jerked about by Net and made to look stupid.
Even if you disagree with Mizrahi’s (tentative) conclusions, his thinking is worth following.

Posted by: Jane | May 12 2025 12:42 utc | 97

Posted by: malenkov | May 12 2025 11:30 utc | 92
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I noticed that too. I assume once cia, always cia. And that Larry is a place of limited hangout.
He still has connections and I do think he leans pro-Israel. Back after 10/7 he started off repeating the party line. He met fierce resistance from the bulk of his followers armed with history, facts & truths. It took weeks for him to open his eyes & accept that the country he imagined is not what he thought it was. And even longer to speak out against the genocide.
He still sometimes seems to back off Israel, but if anything, the pushback just gets stronger.
If he goes too long trying to distract from the genocide, some of us bring it right back to the top. Happy to say I”m not the only 1 who refuses to let it go unnoticed.
I don’t think he’d outright lie, although he may be lied to. So I take everything with a grain of salt but in general he has been a reliable source. And if he makes a mistake he acknowledges it.
There may be a good reason the source is being protected.

Posted by: Mary | May 12 2025 13:04 utc | 99