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May 18, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-109

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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– Trump: “Gaza is a disgusting place right now, and I will turn it into a free zone. During my visit to the Middle East, I spoke with various countries that would agree to accept Gazans.”
– The Yemeni Armed Forces:
Has the Ummah of two billion Muslims become incapable of saving two million Muslims from genocide and starvation?
– We didn’t find it newsworthy to report on the Arab summit. (https://tgstat.com/channel/@enemywatch)
– Multipolar Fantasy: Russia and China Won’t Save Us | Vanessa Beeley & Fiorella Isabel
https://globalsouth.co/2025/05/17/multipolar-fantasy-russia-and-china-wont-save-us-vanessa-beeley-fiorella-isabel/

Posted by: JB | May 18 2025 12:18 utc | 1

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi made a statement at the annual meeting of the Tehran Dialogue Forum in the Iranian capital on Sunday.
Exc:
“It is regrettable that the world failed to respond adequately and responsibly to this crime. The heavy silence and inaction of powers that claim to be the defenders of ‘human conscience’, alongside the inability of international institutions to contain this catastrophe, is truly shocking and a global wake-up call,” Araghchi said.
“Today, the Palestinian issue is the most important and urgent matter on the regional agenda. For over 70 years, the land of Palestine has been gripped by occupation, oppression, and injustice,” Araghchi said.
“The reality is that the Israeli regime has become a chronic threat to regional peace and stability; a threat that at the same time encompasses occupation, apartheid, genocide, and access to an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.”
We propose a peaceful solution to the Palestine issue: holding a national referendum with the participation of all original inhabitants of the land of Palestine—including Muslims, Christians, and Jews—to decide on the future political system of this land,” Araghchi said.
“The democratic and comprehensive solution, inspired by the successful experience of fighting apartheid in South Africa, can terminate decades of occupation, discrimination, and injustice and pave the way for the return of refugees and the formation of a unified, inclusive state across historical Palestine.”
Full:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/18/748167/Iran-Abbas-Araghchi-Gaza-Strip-extra-regional-forces-think-tanks
Comment: As I have stated here before, Iran is the only state as far as I know that has always advocated the only principled, fair, just and properly legally founded solution to the Palestine question that would ensure peace and stability in WA.

Posted by: JB | May 18 2025 12:31 utc | 3

Strikes continue thtough the nights now, with massacres of displaced and bombing close to hospitals, on occasion forcing them to halt the work they are still able to carry out.
Via Hossam Shabat’s site:
“Press release issued by the Civil Defense in Gaza
– The pace of Israeli bombing and targeting of residential homes is escalating, leaving us unable to respond to citizens’ calls due to the scarcity of material resources, most importantly fuel, heavy rescue equipment, spare parts, and vehicle repair supplies.
– We announce that 75% of the total Civil Defense vehicles have stopped working in all governorates of the Gaza Strip due to the lack of fuel necessary to operate them.
– Our fuel crisis is still ongoing and is worsening daily, as the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the delivery of fuel quantities to operate our vehicles, even at the minimum level, to continue our humanitarian services.
– We warn that within the next 72 hours, we will be facing a halt to all services for our vehicles, and our crews will be unable to carry out their humanitarian duties if we do not receive even the minimum quantities of fuel to operate them.”
Ayman Hanideq
“Four US Air Force C-17 cargo planes landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv”
https://t.me/NewsPs0/181322
…And the commander in chief is …? …”Gaza is a disgusting place right now, and I will turn it into a free zone”.
“Moataz Wadih Salem was martyred, joining his mother, his wife, his four daughters: Sham, Maria, Shams, and Mona, his sister, her husband, and their children, who were all killed during the war of extermination.
The entire family was wiped out. May God have mercy on them and accept them.” (Not graphic)
https://t.me/pal74press/107818
‘I spit on you’…
https://t.me/NewsPs0/181327
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“Channel 12:
An Israeli official confirms: “Zakaria Sinwar, the brother of Mohammed and Yahya, was not killed in last night’s bombing, but was seriously injured and his condition is described as critical.” ”
“Gaza Health:
132 martyrs in Israeli raids since dawn today, 61 of them in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 12:34 utc | 4

Can anyone find out which IDF unit yuval raphael belongs to ? yuval raphael Is the Eurovision singer. Her band members are also likely IDF.

Posted by: Exile | May 18 2025 13:02 utc | 5

Journalist Youssef Fares
“Director of the Indonesian Hospital, Marwan Sultan: There are currently approximately 40 people in the hospital, including medical staff, patients, and the injured, and we are surrounded by quadcopter drones.
An Israeli drone targeted a person in the vicinity of the hospital located in the northern Gaza Strip, and so far we have been unable to move to save him. The drones are shooting at anyone moving in the vicinity of the hospital and preventing entry and exit.
We are almost out of service, but we will remain inside the hospital to preserve the existing medical capabilities.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 13:03 utc | 6

Alastair Crooke: “Israel Is in full moral meltdown”
https://sonar21.com/israel-is-in-moral-meltdown

Posted by: WMG | May 18 2025 13:49 utc | 7

Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
– “The Israeli army announces the start of a large-scale ground military operation in the north and south of the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Gideon.
The Israeli army announced the implementation of an opening strike, bombing 670 targets before the start of the ground operation.”
Journalist Youssef Fares
– “i24 News:
Israeli source: “The disagreement in the negotiations is Hamas’s demand for American guarantees to end the war.”
– Witkoff: We have mobile kitchens and lots of flour.

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 14:07 utc | 8

@8 WMG
“Israel Is in full moral meltdown”
Just a necessary part of annexing Gaza. They will rebuild their self esteem by providing a free holiday to the locals and picking up the litter they left behind. /

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 14:16 utc | 9

Journalist Khalil Nasrallah:
“While Israeli sources are leaking information about serious negotiations and talk of a comprehensive deal that would end Hamas, as they put it, the occupation army is launching a large-scale ground operation in the south and north of the Gaza Strip.
While it may be used to pressure Hamas to sign the terms of surrender, it is a prelude to an occupation that paves the way for displacement and then settlement.
The only one capable of disrupting its goals is the resistance, and only the resistance.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 14:19 utc | 10

@WMG #8 – On my mind while reading Alistair’s piece was that today, being a Sunday, there are literally tens of millions of Americans on their knees in church praying for the beloved ones and their vicious, holy cruelty. This once again ordains my station as a fundamental, orthodox agnostic.

Posted by: chunga | May 18 2025 14:36 utc | 11

I have been saying for over a year that Israel is America.
Israel blames America, America blames Israel. America keeps delivering bombs. The UN doesn’t actually exist in action.
It’s an ugly picture, but for your sanity, see things as they are, not the obvious lies you’re being fed.
There is not a lot to talk about until someone takes action to stop the genocide. There is a possibility that no one does until the Palestinians are eradicated.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 18 2025 14:55 utc | 12

Middle East Spectator – MES
—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: The IDF announces start of operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’, a large scale ground invasion of Gaza to permanently occupy it and expel the Palestinians
@Middle_East_Spectator
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09:41

Posted by: Mary | May 18 2025 14:58 utc | 13

MUST READ – Kahanist evil – no other word for it …
Israel is in Moral Meltdown
Conflicts Forum’s compilation tracking strategic developments in Israel, 17 May 2025
Conflicts Forum
May 17, 2025
‘The War to establish a Fascist State’ — “The Chariots of Genocide are Warming their Engines” /
Israeli Law Professor Orit Kamir: ‘Israel is flooded with evil, a lack of empathy … and an addiction to hatred and bloodlust’ /
The line between Likud and Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit is increasingly blurred /
Netanyahu marked the families of the kidnapped for the poison machine as early as Oct 2023
[These compilations are drawn from analysis & commentary by Israeli political and security commentators, predominantly published in Hebrew — as reports in Hebrew often provide a different window on Israeli internal discourse].
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/israel-is-in-moral-meltdown
It is a difficult read – but this the reality of Kahanist Zionism

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 18 2025 15:09 utc | 14

If a ground invasion, operation has truly been launched the meaning of Trump’s words that he will make Gaza a “free zone” are becoming clear:
Gaza “free” of Palestinians and everything Palestinian
Gaza “free” for Zionist, terrorist Israel to take
Gaza “free” for US/Israel and pals’ companies to make in their own image
The ‘negotiations’ are a prop that provides time for the Zionist criminals to make Gaza a “free zone”.

Posted by: JB | May 18 2025 15:27 utc | 15

Posted by: JB | May 18 2025 15:27 utc | 16
#######
Negotiations with Hamas, with Iran, with Russia.
All farce.
All of the tariff negotiations too.
There is nothing credible about the Empire of Lies, and Trump may be the greatest liar yet.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 18 2025 15:37 utc | 16

@#1 Walt
Bless you

Posted by: aristodemos | May 18 2025 15:37 utc | 17

There is no way in this world that one person’s miserable failures to win back the failed Khazar Empire, the miserable Nazi nihilism of Benzion Netanyahu, assisted by his miserable offspring, are going succeed in genociding the entire Palestinian nation.
Many an evil Empire, having grown fat on lies and oppression , have lost power because nobody could support them any more. The British Empire , having been destroyed by its own stupidity in WW2, has attached its hopes to these miserable Zionist Neocons in the US, copying the Khazar lies, copying the Khazar nihilism that by destroying an oppressed minority in Palestine, somehow something of their former pride is going to be restored.
The British inhabit a long obsolete mindset of Victorian gentlity. They commute to dilapidated villages in the countryside in powerful foreign cars, as if only by clinging onto these 1000 year old relics of Christianity and Feudal economic disparity, they still feel privileged and secure.
The other side of this facade of genteel nobility is the greenlighting of vicious war against a better religion, a better community, a better vision of life, a better understanding of the meaning of existence, than their own jaded, cruel and deceitful past.

Posted by: Giyane | May 18 2025 16:00 utc | 18

Having seen General Sis talk about being ready to help in the reconstruction of Gaza, I now realize that the reason Egypt has not helped the starving Gazans is because he is thinking of all the money he is going to make for the reconstruction. Egypt has already made millions upon millions from Palestinians wanting to leave for medical care of just escaping the latest phase of the war.

Posted by: Georgie | May 18 2025 16:01 utc | 19

@ Posted by: Don Firineach | May 18 2025 15:09 utc | 15
The problem with Alastair Crooke is that he seems to think there are moderates in Israel. The Likud are good and Netanyahu has taken over the party with the right-wingers he created a coalition with.
This is where Norman Finekelstein sets us all straight. There are no moderates in Israel. Netanyahu is the perfect representation of the Israeli colony. Unlike Alastair, Norman Finkelstein shows us there has never been a time in this colony’s history where it was good. From its creation, it has been evil. The Israeli colony was created by evil terrorists. How can such a place be expected to ever be good? From the beginning, they were killing, cleansing and raping the native population of Palestine.

Posted by: Georgie | May 18 2025 16:25 utc | 20

@ Posted by: Don Firineach | May 18 2025 15:09 utc | 15
The problem with Alastair Crooke is that he seems to think there are moderates in Israel. The Likud were once good/are good and Netanyahu has taken over the party with the right-wingers he created a coalition with.
This is where Norman Finekelstein sets us all straight. There are no moderates in Israel. Netanyahu is the perfect representation of the Israeli colony. Unlike Alastair, Norman Finkelstein shows us there has never been a time in this colony’s history where it was good. From its creation, it has been evil. The Israeli colony was created by evil terrorists. How can such a place be expected to ever be good? From the beginning, they were killing, cleansing and raping the native population of Palestine.

Posted by: Georgie | May 18 2025 16:27 utc | 21

see the photo of them at the first link – four male and one female journalist, killed by israel in one day
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1924109892425511038
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
The Zionist regime murdered 5 Palestinian journalists last night, but Western “journalists” are completely silent.
#GazaHolocaust
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–killed-153-palestinians–injured-459-in-gaza-in-24
‘Israel’ killed 153 Palestinians, injured 459 in Gaza in 24 hours only
With aid blocked for over 10 weeks, UN agencies continue to warn of mass starvation and a collapsing health system……
https://x.com/Mahmoud_Bassam8/status/1923148417900933566
Mahmoud Bassam محمود بسام @Mahmoud_Bassam8
The bombing on the Gaza Strip has been ongoing for three hours without pause, with unprecedented intensity — as if it’s the first day of the war.
Explosions shake the ground, smoke fills the sky, and the scene brings back memories of those early days we thought had passed.
Gaza is bleeding once again… and the world continues to merely watch.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 16:32 utc | 22

Via gazanewsnow2021
“Israeli army spokesman:
“We will carry out an offensive until complete victory, unlike in the past.””
Confusion and ambiguity, displacement orders, many armed drones active.
Houthi warn airlines to evacuate airports, missiles due to be launched.
Previous last night said intercepted but not verified so.

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 16:43 utc | 23

Palestinian ournalists not only document atrocity, their work makes them living testament to all that they record. Hence why they are assassinated. It leaves no one able to validate their first hand experience.
They become…
Pictures without a story, and a story without a person.
Keep their efforts alive.

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 16:52 utc | 24

@25 Ornot
‘ournalists’ => journalists

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 16:55 utc | 25

imagine if 40 israelis/jews were killed in an air-stike or missile-strike by Hezbollah or Iran or whomever anywhere in the world; the Western Great Free Press would repeat it ten thousand times every day, and for months on end…
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1924033616390005054
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Another major massacre. Over 40 Palestinian civilians, mostly displaced families, were slaughtered in an Israeli regime airstrike targeting tents in Gaza’s Al-Mawasi area.
This crime against humanity isn’t even being reported in Western media.
#GazaHolocaust
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1923979947959308720
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
This morning, Israel killed 97 Palestinian civilians in its daily routine genocide in Gaza.
https://x.com/Mahmoud_Bassam8/status/1923877654736011513
Mahmoud Bassam محمود بسام @Mahmoud_Bassam8
I was only a few meters away from the site of the bombing… we were documenting injuries from a previous strike when suddenly a powerful explosion shook the area. In terrifying moments, the tents caught fire and the place was filled with screams and smoke. We thank God who saved us with His mercy from this tragic scene
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/18/live-israel-kills-24-in-gazas-al-mawasi-resumes-truce-talks-with-hamas
LIVE: Israel launches ‘extensive’ ground operation as 140 killed in Gaza
– Israeli military says it has begun extensive ground operations throughout northern and southern Gaza as part of its “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.
– The relentless bombardment of Gaza on Sunday has killed at least 140 Palestinians and rendered all the public hospitals in northern Gaza out of service.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 17:07 utc | 26

Michael Tracey: Have you noticed that Trump’s big lavish tour of the Gulf monarchies literally coincided with Israel commencing its end-stage annihilation campaign in Gaza — subduing regional opposition from the already docile potentates, and even the ruler of Syria also seemingly neutralized
https://nitter.space/mtracey/status/1923782028614406279
But wasn’t Trump the peace maker who would stop US’s imperialism?!? It doesn’t require an above average IQ to determine that Trump is a pathological liar.

Posted by: xor | May 18 2025 17:17 utc | 27

Any claim to the superiority of Islam is gainsaid by its votaries in ISIS, Boko Haram, al Quaida, Taliban, Pakistani rape gangs, and its decapitations, and its burning churches filled with Christians. These are the faces of Islam.

Posted by: Kansas | May 18 2025 17:21 utc | 28

see the photos at the first 2 links
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1923773143736324593
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn
Today, more than half a million people demonstrated on the streets of London to call on our government to end its complicity in genocide.
We are an unstoppable movement for Palestine.
https://x.com/glenninluton/status/1923815929219067940
Glenn Jenkins @glenninluton
Here’s today’s half a million strong Free Palestine march, in contrast with the pro genocidal Israel ‘counter protest’ of around 100. This is a fair representation of the public opinion in UK metinks
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1923815884730114311
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
To everyone who has marched for Gaza—once or a thousand times—THANK YOU.
From London to Sana’a, Cape Town to Melbourne, we walk one street: the long path to justice. Against genocide, racism, apartheid, and those who profit from it. And we are one.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 17:32 utc | 29

From Dutch news in English website.
Quote

” Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of The Hague on Sunday to protest against the right-wing cabinet’s position on Israel and the war in Gaza. The organisers called on the Dutch government to take concrete action to stop Israel’s continued violations of international humanitarian law.
Many of the demonstrators wore red clothing to symbolically draw a “red line”, which they say is something the government had previously refused to do./
The protest organisers estimated attendance at more than 100,000 people, calling it the largest demonstration in the Netherlands in the past 20 years. Police said the protest passed peacefully but declined to give an official crowd estimate. ”

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/05/tens-of-thousands-protest-against-cabinets-israel-stance/

Posted by: Firéan | May 18 2025 17:35 utc | 30

(More from same source) Estimate 100,000 attendees.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/05/100000-people-turn-out-for-gaza-protest-say-organisers/

Posted by: Firéan | May 18 2025 17:41 utc | 31

Palestine.
The reason the West’s Christian Democracies are turning a blind eye to the crimes of the Genocide Jews in Palestine, is that they are undemocratic Mock Democracies.
In a Genuine Democracy it is illegal for polticians to accept gifts/bribes as an incentive to breach their duty by bestowing favours upon the Donors.
China solved this problem by shooting politicians found to have accepted bribes. China is now a Model Democracy.
In a Mock Democracy it is legal for politicians to actively seek and accept donations/bribes and to perform favours for the donors. As a result, the biggest donors get the biggest favours. This ultimately enables donors to dictate Government Policy.
And because Wasrael is the West’s biggest political donor, it is able to dictate Government Policy toward Wasrael’s whims, desires. and daydreams.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 18 2025 17:51 utc | 32

Re: Yemen
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, “The best of men are the men of Yemen, belief is Yemeni, and I am Yemeni”. He also said that faith is Yemeni and wisdom is Yemeni.
It should surprise no one that Yemen continues to kick the West’s butt as one of the poorest (materially) countries in the world. They have always been a formidable people.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 18 2025 18:04 utc | 33

The sub-human Zio-Monster Netanyahu was too scared to go to Rome incase he was arrested – of course many genocide enabling countries governments to their great shame – wouldn’t arrest this evil monster if he landed on their soil.
“Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly scrapped his plans to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration at the Vatican, fueled by fears over a potential arrest related to a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
According to Ynet, Netanyahu’s decision came after behind-the-scenes negotiations between the occupying entity and Italian and Vatican officials to assess whether Netanyahu could enter the country without facing detention.
However, Italian and Vatican officials’ responses have been ambiguous, and it remained unclear whether they would comply with the ICC’s warrant should Netanyahu set foot on their soil.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 18 2025 18:10 utc | 34

“The Zionist regime murdered 5 Palestinian journalists last night, but Western “journalists media mouthpieces” are completely silent.”
fify
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 16:32 utc | 23

Posted by: forceOfHabit | May 18 2025 18:13 utc | 35

“Any claim to the superiority of Islam is gainsaid by its votaries in ISIS, Boko Haram, al Quaida, Taliban, Pakistani rape gangs, and its decapitations, and its burning churches filled with Christians. These are the faces of Islam.”
Posted by: Kansas | May 18 2025 17:21 utc | 29
Islam, Christian, Jewish, Hindu religions-they have many good people and many have bad people.
Period.
Anyone, like that idiot Giyane, whom pretends that one religious group is morally superior is a total retard!

Posted by: canuck | May 18 2025 18:14 utc | 36

Sacred cows are never slaughtered; they simply vanish.
That doesn’t bode well for Israel, America, or NATO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 18 2025 18:19 utc | 37

The only people burning Churches these days are IDF.

Posted by: Exile | May 18 2025 18:27 utc | 38

Posted by: canuck | May 18 2025 18:14 utc | 37
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Moral relativism is moral cowardice.
Hinduism and Judaism are exceptionalist religions. That is why they get along with each other so well.
Don’t conflate Islam with racial supremacism, when it is explicitly for all people of all races anywhere in the world.
Hinduism is only for high caste Hindus, and Judaism is primarily for Ashkenazi (white) Jews, not the Mizrahi (of West Asia and Africa) Jews.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 18 2025 18:35 utc | 39

Scientists are only now beginning to weigh in on the ecoside occurring in Gaza. And, not surprisingly, Netanyhu et. al., Trump et. al., appear to anticipate that the range of their powers extend to wind currents and that airbourne vectors of pollution, disease, micron level dust containing radioactive, heavy metal and fragments of mutated bacterial and viral dna – magically drop out of the air at the border between Gaza and Israel. Not even remotely true. Having dropped more bomb tonnage on Gaza than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, having ensured that disease and contamination are rampant, the ecoside – affecting the the entire region, including Israel is enormous. Air bourne vectors ensure that Israeli children, Israeli citizens are daily breathing air loaded with contaminants. Given studies on this issues, the Israeli public can anticipate an acceleration of cancers, orphan diseases and heavy metal toxicity which disrupts memory and cognition. Such consequences will emerge over the long term – scientific research would suggest that they are inevitable. Gives truth to the comment in Exodus that the iniquities of the fathers will be laid on the children and their children, through third and fourth generations. Netanyahu, Biden and Trump have done Israel no favors. Diplomacy would have been a far, far safer pathway…

Posted by: abierno | May 18 2025 18:45 utc | 40

This NYU kid has alot of guts calling out the Zionists; I can’t commend him enough:
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372919160112

Posted by: canuck | May 18 2025 18:46 utc | 41

Posted by: LoveDumbass | May 18 2025 18:35 utc | 40
You are religiously bigoted to such an extent that your ‘logic’ is perverted so badly that your solipsistic bullshit becomes absolutely unintelligible.
In the end one can only laugh at your “Intellectual Antics” (TM)

Posted by: canuck | May 18 2025 18:52 utc | 42

see the photos and videos at the links
https://x.com/BrunellaCapitan/status/1923831303058649149
Brunella C. @BrunellaCapitan
My first Palestine demonstration was in Italy 40 years ago. One life 14 countries I never stopped: I sadly can’t believe that after all this time, we’re still fighting for the basic Human Rights of Palestinians. Decades have passed, but the struggle for justice remains.we will never give up✌🏼#Berlin for #Gaza forever 🇵🇸♥️✊🏼
https://x.com/BrunellaCapitan/status/1924099840155206130
Brunella C. @BrunellaCapitan
Europeans Citizens are with PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️❤️❤️✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
https://x.com/BrunellaCapitan/status/1924129988082626816
Brunella C. @BrunellaCapitan
Europeans are with Palestine 🇵🇸 ♥️

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 18:57 utc | 43

@Georgie | May 18 2025 16:27 utc | 22
I have time for both Crooke and Finkelstein …
As a citizen of a nation subjected to centuries of brutal colonization I also have some understanding of how one’s language, culture, land and civilization faced destruction. A close call but An Empire did not succeed in wiping us out.
We fought. Many, many times … and we still have a spot of bother with Empire …
A dance for the brave Palestinians … I’m out of platitudinous words ..
Riverdance at the Eurovision Song Contest 30 April 1994, Dublin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0v_pu6miJ8 [ 8 mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 18 2025 19:12 utc | 44

@Georgie | May 18 2025 16:27 utc | 22
I have time for both Crooke and Finkelstein …
As a citizen of a nation subjected to centuries of brutal colonization I also have some understanding of how one’s language, culture, land and civilization faced destruction. A close call but An Empire did not succeed in wiping us out.
We fought. Many, many times … and we still have a spot of bother with Empire …
A dance for the brave Palestinians … I’m out of platitudinous words ..
Riverdance at the Eurovision Song Contest 30 April 1994, Dublin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0v_pu6miJ8 [ 8 mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 18 2025 19:14 utc | 45

Via journalist Youssef Fares
“Clarification of what is happening inside the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza:
• Israeli occupation army tanks were positioned a short while ago around the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and began firing directly at the building.
• There are 55 people inside, including 4 doctors and 8 nurses, in addition to dozens of immobile patients who could not be evacuated as a result of the morning attack.
** Sources from the hospital confirm the following:
• No evacuation order was issued to the hospital at any time.
• No warnings were given before the bombing began.
• There are no military targets inside the hospital.
Medical personnel currently inside the hospital appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to intervene urgently to stop this attack and save lives.
Journalist Abdul Qader Sabah”

Posted by: Ornot | May 18 2025 19:30 utc | 46

I had heard chatter that Hamas asked for food to be let in for Edan Alexander, this might be Witcoff delivering. Too early to tell if this will actually arrest the starvation.
https://x.com/MenaLive_/status/1924190507275571578
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | May 18 2025 20:08 utc | 47

@48 ockham
https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1923430721672171595

Posted by: Thurl | May 18 2025 20:29 utc | 48

Posted by: Georgie | May 18 2025 16:01 utc | 20
Let’s be honest and speak about the true state of the world as it is:
Egypt gets $1.3 billion in foreign aid to not attack isreal and keep its population oppressed.
So do many other countries in the region.
The true cost of isreal is far, far greater than stated.

Posted by: ryanggg | May 18 2025 20:43 utc | 49

Churches are being burned and Christians slaughtered in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted by: Larkin | May 18 2025 21:04 utc | 50

we need some moderation on here:
Any claim to the superiority of Islam is gainsaid by its votaries in ISIS, Boko Haram, al Quaida, Taliban, Pakistani rape gangs, and its decapitations, and its burning churches filled with Christians. These are the faces of Islam.
Posted by: Kansas | May 18 2025 17:21 utc | 29

Posted by: Ray | May 18 2025 21:10 utc | 51

Israel is supposedly going to send some food into Gaza. A “minimal” amount to “avoid famine”. (Too late, ya killer scumbags.). They won’t say when the crossings will be opened, however.
The announcement is worded so oddly. It sounds like they are going to let some food in so that they have someone to kill during the ‘Operation Gideon’s Chariots’. They are concerned it might not be a good look for the IDF if they are only blowing up and shooting people who are already dead from starvation. Maybe there is a sloppy translation here, or maybe the way I read it is exactly what they meant to say – they want the Palestinians to live a little longer so the Israeli soldiers have something to shoot at.
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Israel says it will allow ‘basic amount’ of humanitarian aid into Gaza
Israel says it will allow a “basic amount” of humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid a famine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said, more than two months after Israel imposed a total blockade on goods that has left much of the Gaza Strip’s population facing starvation.
“Due to the need to expand the fighting, we will introduce a basic amount of food to the residents of Gaza to ensure no famine occurs,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
“A famine might jeopardise the continuation of Operation Gideon’s Chariots aimed at eliminating Hamas.”
The PM’s office said that Israel would prevent Hamas from controlling the distribution of aid to ensure that it does not reach fighters.
It was not immediately clear when aid would enter Gaza, or how.
On March 2, Israel imposed a blockade on food, water and other critical supplies to the already besieged coastal territory.
https://aje.io/klape0?update=3718821
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Posted by: teri | May 18 2025 21:48 utc | 52

Israel continues to deliberately target and murder journalists in Gaza:
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨Five Palestinian journalists were killed overnight in Israeli airstrikes across different areas of Gaza, along with members of their families, including children.
Those killed are:
1.Abdul Rahman Al-Abdallah
2.Nour Qandil
3.Khaled Abu Seif
4.Aziz Al-Hajjar
5.Ahmed Al-Zainati
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1924092075001197052

Posted by: Menz | May 18 2025 21:57 utc | 53

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Over 100,000 Protest in The Hague, Form ‘Red Line’ for Gaza
On May 18, more than 100,000 people marched through The Hague in one of the Netherlands’ largest protests in decades, demanding a full end to Dutch political, military, and economic support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by a broad coalition of international and local NGOs under the banner “Draw the Red Line for Gaza”—including Oxfam Novib, Amnesty International, Save the Children, and Doctors Without Borders.
Protesters, dressed in red, formed a human “red line” through the city, symbolizing the moral boundary they say has been crossed by Israel’s assault on Gaza and Western complicity in it. The march began at the Malieveld—a 13.9-hectare open field in the city center, known as the Netherlands’ primary site for large-scale demonstrations—and proceeded to the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, where Israel faces ongoing genocide proceedings. The route then looped back through the city center, temporarily shutting down public transit and road traffic.
The protest also highlighted political tensions within the Netherlands. Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp recently urged the EU to reconsider its trade agreement with Israel—a move strongly criticized by far-right leader Geert Wilders, a vocal supporter of Israel.
Organizers called on Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government, sworn in in July, 2024, to uphold international law and end Dutch complicity in war crimes.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1924164411775914122

Posted by: Menz | May 18 2025 21:59 utc | 54

Eye on Palestine
@EyeonPalestine
An Israeli airstrike targeted a group of civilians who were preparing to dig a water well in the Saftawi area, north of the Gaza Strip.
https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1924138495527834101

Posted by: Menz | May 18 2025 21:59 utc | 55

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨Yemen’s Ansar Allah warns that its forces will strike Israeli airports in the coming hours and urges immediate evacuation. The statement:
“In the coming hours, our forces will carry out military operations targeting “Lod” Airport, known as “Ben Gurion,” as well as other Zionist airports. This is in response to the recent Zionist escalation against the Gaza Strip and the aggression against Yemen, and in continuation of the Yemeni leadership’s decision to impose a ban on this airport and others, in addition to the naval blockade and the closure of the Umm al-Rashrash port (Eilat) until the aggression ceases and the siege on Gaza is lifted.
A disclaimer: The remaining airlines at the airport are urged to depart immediately, and all those present there — especially foreigners — must evacuate to ensure their safety.”
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1924141779235807625

Posted by: Menz | May 18 2025 22:00 utc | 56

I continue to be amazed at the depravity on display by the US peace president…from The Cradle

The government of US President Donald Trump is working on a plan to “permanently relocate” as many as one million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, according to informed sources who spoke with NBC News.
In exchange for accepting the forcibly displaced Palestinians, Washington “would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars” that have been frozen since the NATO intervention of 2011.

The US killed Gaddafi for supporting his people with oil revenue and trying to go around the US dollar. They stole Libya money and now want to use it to bribe the country to take Palestinians.
Those commenters here that insist that Trump is a peace president are going to have to show some real results here soon or STFU about the damage he is doing to the US in support of increased genocide with the bigger bombs Trump gave Occupied Palestine.
I give up understanding the posturing of the RoW in our MAD world watching this genocide.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 18 2025 23:12 utc | 57

see the 25-second video at the first link
https://x.com/againstwarvoice/status/1923830589301379543
Voices Against War @againstwarvoice
Tonight in Jerusalem, protestors are chanting: “From the river to the sea, we refuse [to serve] the gen0cide”
https://x.com/MSF/status/1924090177934303691
MSF International @MSF
It’s been over 2 months since the ceasefire in Gaza broke and the hell people are enduring is getting worse by the minute. No food, fuel, medicine or basic supplies have been allowed to enter the Strip since 2 March.
We call on members of the Security Council, the UN Secretary General, the entire NGO community, celebrities and advocates to join us in urging the Israeli authorities to #StopNOW weaponising humanitarian aid in Gaza.
https://x.com/amnesty/status/1923045716298997813
Amnesty International @amnesty
For 77 years, Israel has denied Palestinians their right to return home — violating international law and UN resolutions. Today the Nakba continues. Dispossession, displacement, and apartheid continue to define Palestinian lives.
The lives of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip are now also devastated by Israel’s genocide.
Israel must stop its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and end its unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 18 2025 23:48 utc | 58

https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1923868740720214287
Assal Rad @AssalRad
Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide
Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide
UN Reports: Israel is committing genocide
Genocide Experts: Israel is committing genocide
🇮🇱: No we’re not
Media Headlines: Israel Says Accusations of ‘Genocide’ Are False

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 19 2025 6:43 utc | 59

This is Where We Are…
British ICC Chief Prosecutor Lost Access to Email & Bank Accounts Frozen After Trump Sanctions on Top Court
https://lbc.co.uk/world-news/british-icc-chief-prosecutor-lost-email-bank-accounts-frozen-trump-sanctions/
“The ICC’s chief prosecutor, British barrister Karim Khan, has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen since Donald Trump slapped sanctions on him in February – after a panel of judges issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 19 2025 6:47 utc | 60

CrossTalk Bullhorns: What To Believe?
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/617795-trump-doctrine-israel-rift/
“While on his Middle East tour the US president talked big and bold. Is there now a Trump Doctrine? Also, we are to believe there is a growing US-Israel rift. If so, why does the genocide continue?”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 19 2025 7:23 utc | 61

Laith Marouf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBLAr_uWT9w
“Gaza/Palestine update; Trump’s trip to West Asia; Yemen; India v Pakistan.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 19 2025 8:08 utc | 62

Debunking “Ancient Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQk41nLuhGA
Came across this documentary exploring the historical roots of Israel’s claims — thought it was worth sharing.

Posted by: Silent Waves | May 19 2025 8:30 utc | 63

see the photos of these journalists at the first link
https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1924010051318001922
Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis
⚡️Israel has assassinated 5 journalists in the last 24 hours in Gaza, along with their families and children:
1. Journalist Abdul Rahman Al-Abadleh
2. Journalist Nour Qandil
3. Journalist Khaled Abu Saif
4. Journalist Aziz Al-Hajjar
5. Journalist Ahmed Al-Zinati
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1924105241722568886
Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha
I just heard from my friend who is a physician at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia.
He told me he had to evacuate the hospital after an Israeli quadcopter opened fire at them yesterday night while tank shells pounded the gate to the hospital.
They had to leave all the wounded people behind. He told me many people were killed.
He told me all those wounded people left behind will die soon.
There are no doctors at the Indonesian Hospital now, the main hospital in north Gaza.
https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1923843637932327128
حسام شبات @HossamShabat
Israeli missiles are now burning displaced people inside their tents. A [warplane] targeted the regional camp next to a field hospital in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
Seven martyrs in an initial toll, including children, and there are families trapped between the flames.
Just imagine — a tattered fabric tent being bombed with war missiles!

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 19 2025 8:54 utc | 64

Middle East Spectator – MES
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: This morning, undercover Israeli soldiers disguised as displaced Palestinian women conducted an operation in Khan Younis, reportedly aimed at rescuing Israeli prisoners
Hebrew media reports indicate that the operation was a failure, as the IDF did not locate or release any prisoners and were unsuccessful in interrogating Ahmad Sarhan, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees. Instead, they killed him and kidnapped his wife and children.
@Middle_East_Spectator
12.8Kviews
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01:48

Posted by: Mary | May 19 2025 10:13 utc | 65

Middle East Spectator – MES
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: This morning, undercover Israeli soldiers disguised as displaced Palestinian women conducted an operation in Khan Younis, reportedly aimed at rescuing Israeli prisoners
Hebrew media reports indicate that the operation was a failure, as the IDF did not locate or release any prisoners and were unsuccessful in interrogating Ahmad Sarhan, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees. Instead, they killed him and kidnapped his wife and children.
@Middle_East_Spectator
12.8Kviews
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01:48

Posted by: Mary | May 19 2025 10:42 utc | 66

All of this genocide is approved of by the Palestinian Authority because the Palestinians rejected their alliances with Israel. It’s some kind of organised, Zionist, sick joke to send Macron, feigning concern about the Genocide, to demand a reprieve based on acceptance by the Palestinians of some form of licenced control by the PA.
Even Norman Finkestein, lifelong socialist and supporter of Palestine has totally misunderstood the Palestinians when he says that they will submit to manipulation and bullying. They will Never submit to the Tsunami of deception by the stinking , lying US and its pathetic little flies like Macron and Starmer, Qatar and Fatah, and Jewlani and Turdogan, who are attracted by the US filthy addiction to lying.

Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 11:10 utc | 67

A few weeks ago someone posted a Telegram link to a video of Israeli prison guards anally raping a prisoner while threatening him with a vicious dog.
I chose not to look at it because there’s only so much I can take.
However there’s a Zionist that I want to send it to.
If that person could post it again and I’d appreciate it

Posted by: Barr | May 19 2025 11:14 utc | 68

Barr 69
These insects already share these videos amongst eachother. They don’t need your contribution to their video library of genocide porn.

Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 11:23 utc | 69

Netanyahu: “Israel is going to take over all of Gaza, that’s what we are going to do.”
“[US] Senators I know as supporters of Israel… come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine [in Gaza],” Netanyahu said in a video released on his personal Telegram
The unparalleled criminals will allegedly let “minimal” food into Gaza for the reason the following reason:
“It will allow civilians to eat, for our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Tribunal, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory,” Smotrich states.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu–we-are-going-to-take-over-all-of-gaza

Posted by: JB | May 19 2025 11:26 utc | 70

I wonder if the larger picture perhaps isn’t widely understood.
Every nation on this planet would be fully within their rights to declare war on “Israel” and/or remove or at least greatly diminish any capabilities “Israel” has to conduct genocide. Many nations should consider themselves to have a legal obligation to stop “Israel”.
Unless one considers Ansar Allah to be the actual nation of Yemen (it is not) not a single nation does anything of any particularly impactful or lasting relevance as far as stopping the genocide right now. This includes Iran and The Republic of South Africa and so on.
There is no other way to stop the genocide from being continued. It is already a genocide and will forever remain a genocide even if stopped now but it should still stop and thus also future genocides made less likely.
I am writing this in order for people to grasp just how much remains to be done to force the correct response into existence.
It is meant as an encouragement to increase any and all efforts and to ridicule and despise all those officials and authorities that are hiding behind useless words and pithy non-actions.
Every nation on this planet should be calling out loudly for the end of “Israel” and preparing to do just that by physical means.
This is what they will be held up against, this is what their judgement will be, today, tomorrow, a hundred years from now, forever. It could eventually be used against them all, as it likely should: they have all failed and continue to fail.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 19 2025 11:47 utc | 71

Alastair Crooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bn_7xwZc3Y
“Israel is in moral meltdown.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 19 2025 12:17 utc | 72

JB 71
Netanyahu is a notorious liar.

Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 12:25 utc | 73

With all due respect to Alastair Crooke, it misses the mark somewhat to say that the Zionazi entity is in moral meltdown. It is more accurate to say that the Zionazi entity is self-actualizing.

Posted by: malenkov | May 19 2025 12:26 utc | 74

In the war the destroyed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY, 1991-1995) the UNSC imposed a weapons embargo which left the Bosnian Muslims without arms, even though they were being attacked, first by the Serbian side and then by the Croatian side, both intending to enlarge their republics (Serbia and Croatia) by taking territory from Bosnia.
The rump Yugoslavia (FRY, Serbia and Montenegro) formed in 1992 was placed under UN sanctions.
The Srebrenica genocide, committed in July 1995, when at least 8000 Bosnian mean and boys were executed in four days, was the culmination of a genocidal attack by Serbian chauvinists and expansionists against the Bosnian Muslims (ethinically Slav) which started in 1992 with the same rhetoric and ideology as the Zionists.
Srebrenica, a UN protected area, was under Serbian siege for three full years. The Serbian forces disrupted, delayed and finally did not allow aid and food into the enclave, despite UN peace keepers presence. Cutting off water was also practiced by the Serbian side, for example in Sarajevo.
The Srebrenica survivors testified that hunger was the hardest of all. In the end all that was left was industrial salt, so they ate it.
The Srebrenica genocide was allowed to happen by the UN, US and others, just like the Gaza genocide is being allowed to happen.
The difference is that Israel is committing genocide without any type to sanction or any kind of restraint whatsoever. On the contrary, it is being committed with open, substantial and direct US involvement.
Genocide is a tool for achieving political and other interests of the powerful: in Srebrenica to end the war in Yugoslavia ahead of the US elections by “giving” Srebrenica, a UN protected area, to the Serbian side: in Palestine as a ‘final solution’ to the Palestine question by making Gaza “a free zone”, that is “giving” Gaza and the West Bank to US/Israel.
In conclusion, humanity is still in its infancy; it is barbaric, savage and uncivilised.
All past great civilisations were murderous, and interests of the powerful were achieved by merciless killing.
It is still so today, despite some progress by formal universal acknowledgment of the sanctity of human life and dignity and some legal protections albeit often selectively applied or simply ignored.
The depth, dimensions and consequences of the genocide of the Palestinians, as the final act of their almost 100-yeat long victimisation are unfathomable and will only bring further catasatrophe to human kind. Deservedly.

Posted by: JB | May 19 2025 12:42 utc | 75

Well there you have it – even though the eventual winner was miles behind in the polls somehow he won – of course he’s pro-EU, pro-Neo-Nazi and pro-Zio-Nazi Romanian democracy id dead as the Dodo. Romanians need to rise up in a revolution.
“On Sunday, pro-EU centrist Nicusor Dan was elected president of Romania, defeating conservative and Euroskeptic rival George Simion, who has accused France and Moldova of attempting to undermine his campaign.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 19 2025 13:23 utc | 76

JB 76
The martyred are alive.
Israel is as brain dead as Ariel Sharon who rotted in a coma for many years.
There never was any morality in Israel. I went there in 1977 and even the lefties were gloating over the sufferings of the Palestinians then.
Israel delenda est. It will take time.
It will be impossible for the diaspora to survive the hatred of the entire world even after Israel has been destroyed. Judaism is finished and the US is finished.Two birds with one stone.

Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 13:44 utc | 77

George Simion is more of a pro zio-Nazi…
Dan said he would arrest Netanyahu while Simion wants to host him…
“Israeli leaders condemn Nicușor Dan for stating he would seek to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu in a debate with rival George Simion.”
“In contrast, his opponent, George Simion, a known friend of Israel, expressed his full support for the country and stated: “I would host Netanyahu like US President Donald Trump.”
-source: zioentity national news 408364
There were no good candidates.

Posted by: jure | May 19 2025 13:45 utc | 78

Via Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
– “Smotrich said at a press conference:
“We will not allow any aid to Hamas. What was is not what will be. We are destroying everything that remains of the Gaza Strip, and in the future this will lead to the destruction of Hamas and the return of the abductees. The population will come to the southern Gaza Strip, and from there to other countries. I understand the anger, but if we continue this way (starving people), the world will force us to stop the war. It is impossible not to give the leadership a little room to maneuver. We will occupy the Strip, and we will have to carry out humanitarian efforts. There will be nothing to look for there in 20 years.” He called on Netanyahu to “take responsibility, show leadership, and speak to the public.”
Smotrich implicitly criticized Ben-Gvir’s behavior, saying: “No one in the world will allow us to starve two million people.””
– “Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom:
Defense Minister Katz shared the majority’s position opposing the entry of aid into Gaza. However, he agreed with Netanyahu’s decision to allow a few trucks per day into the Strip for the time being.
Katz opposed the entry of aid but allowed it to enter on a limited daily basis.”
– “Channel 12 quotes Netanyahu regarding the entry of aid: “
From the beginning of the war, we said that in order to complete the victory, there is one necessary condition: not reaching a state of famine in Gaza. There are those who will not support us if we reach that point.””
– “Netanyahu:
We have decided, along with our American friends, to establish a new mechanism for distributing aid through points protected by the army. ”
– “The European Union was going to impose sanctions on Israel at tomorrow’s EU meeting if Israel continued its starvation policy in Gaza, so Israel decided to allow aid in.”
– “Israel Hayom:
Thirty aid trucks will enter Gaza daily this week.”
– “Hebrew sources:
The Israeli army issued a warning this afternoon to evacuate residents of Khan Yunis, Bani Suheila, and Abasan, warning of an “unprecedented attack” to destroy the capabilities of organizations in the area.”
– “Channel 12:
Israeli official: “The Doha negotiations have reached a breaking point, and Hamas will not receive guarantees to end the war.””
=> i.e. Trump and EU made ‘humanitarian aid’ happen . They are compassionate and saved the Palestinians.
In reality, allowing people access to food is not “humanitarian aid”. They just decided obviously starving prisoners wouldn’t look good and found a way to gain political milage from throwing them crumbs.

Posted by: Ornot | May 19 2025 13:46 utc | 79

“i.e. Trump and EU made ‘humanitarian aid’ happen . They are compassionate and saved the Palestinians.
In reality, allowing people access to food is not “humanitarian aid”. They just decided obviously starving prisoners wouldn’t look good and found a way to gain political mileage from throwing them crumbs.”
Posted by: Ornot | May 19 2025 13:46 utc | 80
Agreed.
More a PR move than worrying about the Gazans health.

Posted by: canuck | May 19 2025 14:12 utc | 80

“Judaism is finished and the US is finished. Two birds with one stone.”
Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 13:44 utc | 78
No, ding-dong-Zionism will be finished , not Judaism.

Posted by: canuck | May 19 2025 14:14 utc | 81

Bibi and the War Cabinet are clinically insane……..30 trucks per WEEK, to feed a population of 2.3 million people, is not nearly enough and they clearing know that.
If the EU is dumb enough to fall for this charade, then I have a bridge to sell them…….these officials like Smotrich are engaged in massive war crimes and are admitting so in the media daily……they have now issued orders to evacuate the second largest city in Gaza – Khan Yunis and have already completely destroyed in the entire municipality of Gaza City.
In the midst of these evacuation they continue missile attacks on refugee tent cities and hospitals…..
The IDf is now flying drones near hospitals to specifically ID persons with wish to assassinate – including individual public servants, doctors, nurses, emts, ambulance drivers, police officers, firefightters, journalists, every one with a public service duty is now be marked for elimination by the IDF…..
Massive war crimes……all in the name of rump state of Israel……….

Posted by: tobias cole | May 19 2025 14:15 utc | 82

Alastair Crooke:
“Alastair Crooke : Israel is in Moral Meltdown.”
in an interview/podcast with (Judge) Andrew Napolitano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bn_7xwZc3Y (length: 25 minutes)
Crooke explains some of the intricate details of the current events in Israel and the US.
(I only watch the interviews with John Mearsheimer & Alastair Crooke on this YouTube channel.
It seems that the pressure is growing on Israel to improve the situation in Gaza (slightly). I personally also have seen a change in the attitude towards the israeli government and it officials in general. Somehow the media (newspapers, internet, ….. ) in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands have become (more) criticzal towards the israeli actions. Even in the US there is more criticism towards Israel and its actions in e.g. Gaza.
The israeli police is even going after israeli demonstrators who demand the release of the hostages and want Netanyahu and his buddies to do make sure the hostages are released and coming back to Israel.
This reminds me of what the war theorist John Boyd has said:
“War is fought on three levels: 1) the physical level 2) the mental level and 3) the moral level. The moral level is the strongest level and the physical level is the weakest level.”
It’s clear that both the US and Israel already have lost on the “Moral level” and therefore already have lost the support of the rest of the world.
I also look at the financial, demographic, social and economic circumstances in Israel. and those are all pointing to more “turmoil” in Israel up ahead. This is NOT a rosy outlook for Israel.

Posted by: WMG | May 19 2025 14:32 utc | 83

Who gives a fuck what Cuntibollocks said at a press conference. Judaism died on Oct 7.

Posted by: Giyane | May 19 2025 14:40 utc | 84

to abierno # 41. Dennis Kucinick posted an article on http://www.GlobalResearch.ca a couple weeks ago giving lots of detail on this subject. I already posted the link so I will not repost. He says what you say but more emphatically.
What is completely amazing to me is that the IzzyMonsters and the Evil Empire seem to not notice. Do the Izzies really believe they are so very special that this will not affect them? Or, as Orit Samir says they are so addicted to bloodlust that they don’t see anything else?
And, where are the climate change hand wringers wailing about CO2, but saying nothing about the massive toxic pollution? These are just rhetorical questions I guess. One notes that there was a great die off in the “Middle Ages” due to a massive volcano explosion which darkened the sky and blocked to sun for years. No vita D = destroyed immune systems = plague + starvation. Perhaps this is the only way to stop the slaughter and plunder. One can hope that hope will escape from the Izzyhell Pandora’s box. Go to the good and Viva Ansar Allah.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | May 19 2025 15:17 utc | 85

How the Zio-Monsters and their propaganda machine manipulated the vote at the Zio-Vison Song Contest, to give the Israeli entry a 5th place finish – its shows you how disgusting Europe’s leaders are – when they allowed an occupying force, that’s committing genocide, to compete in this political farce of a contest.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/14/israel-astroturfed-eurovision-vote/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 19 2025 15:53 utc | 86

Speaking the truth – will get you arrested in Yankee land no matter who you are.
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/1923309999930978323#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 19 2025 15:58 utc | 87

Quit blaming the proxies.
that is just viral propaganda
providing the mandatory patsy.
Adelson Trump Netanyahu and all of us, I suppose.
Citizens United, unaccountable injustice for all.
we stand and pledge for genocidal mania.
the very monsters we were warned about.

Posted by: Not Ewe | May 19 2025 16:33 utc | 88

Churches are being burned and Christians slaughtered in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted by: Larkin | May 18 2025 21:04 utc | 51
I’d bet the White Man is behind it too.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 19 2025 21:21 utc | 89

“Israel” is a masculine noun in Latin. That saying should be “Israel delendus est.”

Posted by: Lysias | May 19 2025 21:34 utc | 90

Lysias 91
Israeel, as you know, was the name of prophet Yaqoob alaihi salaam.
Btw Chevrolet was once desctibed as ‘ unsafe at any speed’ . Boeing is now ‘unsafe at any altitude’.
Allah SWT commands the atoms of the atmosphere to support the wings of the birds. Will there ever be a US that is taken over by the wisdom of Islam? Or will it always be the US taking over Muslim countries like Syria and Palestine, and subjecting them to US Capitalist Ignorance?
The US brainwashed jihadists are retards.

Posted by: Giyane | May 20 2025 0:48 utc | 91

Arch Bungle 90
Does the white supremacist Orangatan not understand that when the Muslim Black Africans were brutally enslaved Allah SWT cursed the West with centuries of Ignorance.
So much so , that the entire human species marvels at the phenomenon of Jewish nukes being pointed at every civilised city, and US bunker buster bombs beibg dropped on homeless starving people.
The entire human species marvels at a nation that is so morally compromised, cucked for short, that all of its senators are blackmailed by Pegasus Israeli spy ware.
The impossibility of human survival in the poisonous moral world that is Anerica, is the cause of the US punishing the beautiful simplicity of the Arab Muslims in Palestine.
The whole world is asking how the US became SO toxic. How do people survive there? The answer is that the US survives by punishing the innocent for its own moral poisonous situation.
Karma creating more Karma. Horrible.
The US , like Britain before it, spreads its moral poison everywhere. Empire2 Brutish Tories miss the evil of Empire and arecm scrambling to get back to the toxicity they had before.

Posted by: Giyane | May 20 2025 1:19 utc | 92

Yesterday the former SecDef (under G.W.Bush and Obama) Gates gave an interview to Margaret Brenner on Face the Nation – (CBS). He said that if a government official disagrees with the government policy – he/she should resign. Very true. Some people take it to the extreme by burning himself ( Aaron Bushnell, a hero in my eyes).
Today I see that a high official in the CBS TV has resigned – Wendy McMahon, who was the CEO of the News division. She follows another high person in the CBS – Mr Owens, who was in charge of the program “60 Minutes” .
https://deadline.com/2025/05/wendy-mcmahon-resigns-cbs-news-1236404308/
Over past few years several people resigned from the US Dept of State, it was also reported on CBS – and that brought the ire of the owners, a woman who “owns” many shares of the Paramount Company, (see the link).
Many more should follow, to preserve their integrity, or what is left of it. More Hollywood actors and business leader should take some courage and do what is right.
Does the dollar or euro taste so well?

Posted by: fanto | May 20 2025 3:04 utc | 93

David Hearst (Middle East Eye): “Israel has already lost the Gaza war it just doesn’t know it yet” (??????????????????)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorfvoSCNEg (length: 10 minutes)
Quotes from the video:
Up to October 7, 2023 Vietnam was the most bombed country in the world. Now Gaza is the most bombed country in the world. The US dropped 15 tonnes of bombs per square kilometer. Israel dropped 275 tonnes of bombs per square kilometer in Gaza.
Netanyahu suffering under cancer and Hearst thinks he will be replaced by Naftali Bennett.

Posted by: WMG | May 20 2025 6:32 utc | 94

David Hearst (Middle East Eye): “Israel has already lost the Gaza war it just doesn’t know it yet” (??????????????????)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorfvoSCNEg (length: 10 minutes)
Quotes from the video:
Up to October 7, 2023 Vietnam was the most bombed country in the world. Now Gaza is the most bombed country in the world. The US dropped 15 tonnes of bombs per square kilometer. Israel dropped 275 tonnes of bombs per square kilometer in Gaza.
Netanyahu is much more ill from cancer than public sources are admitting and Hearst thinks he will be replaced by Naftali Bennett.

Posted by: WMG | May 20 2025 6:37 utc | 95

These cowards and criminals will try to paint themselves as “heroes”, now that they see the whole world had enough of their “Israel has the right to defend itself” BS! But I don’t think people will ever forget or forgive their total complicity on the genocide. I certainly won’t.
“UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel over Gaza”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxy19n4kpyo

Posted by: Moltke | May 20 2025 12:29 utc | 96

Re Formerly Miss Lacey No. 85 – Thank you very much for the reference to Kuncinich’ article on Substack. I hadn’t seen it. Not only is it an indepth discussion but also the citations are excellent. I would only add two things: 1) It doesn’t deal with the issue of RNA/DNA mutations in virii and bacterium and their impact on humans; 2) Because of the exceptionally small size of the air borne particles, they are not only inhaled but ingested and enter the body via transcutaneous transport. No doubt they also cross the blood-brain barrier. Wreak havoc on immune system, accelerate to high levels of inflammation and can create major disruption of brain functioning. Explains the orphan diseases, acceleration of cancers and brain fog leading to dementia. SA/UAE/Quatar all downwind… Potential to destroy the health of untold numbers of people – children, adolescents, adults and elderly; some will be more susceptible than others.

Posted by: abierno | May 20 2025 15:43 utc | 97

‘The Arab betrayal has become so obscene it suffocates all speech. It silences reason. It annihilates voice. This is the summit of disgrace. And before that disgrace, I do not protest. I apologize.
This is no longer blindness or compromise. It is participation in a crime. And this participation is not just political or military. It is cultural, media-driven, and religious. It penetrates a system stripped of all moral pretense. Evil today is organized, conceptualized, ritualized. The official Arab order no longer merely betrays. It theorizes its betrayal. It gives it language, structure, and legitimacy. And it does so without flinching.’
The Genocide in Gaza, or the End of the Arab World
by Mohamed El Mokhtar
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-genocide-in-gaza-or-the-end-of-the-arab-world/

Posted by: JB | May 20 2025 16:13 utc | 98

Larry Wilkerson:
– Netanyahu seems to want to increase tensions inside Israel with the goal of causing a civil war. I remember that Bezalel Smotrich has a similar view. Smotrich said that we need a crisis to implement our (right wing) policies in Israel.

Posted by: WMG | May 20 2025 23:40 utc | 99

AJ: ‘UK/Fr/Can Threaten Sanctions Israel’ – UN Rapporteur Albanese Responds (& vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBFdR17-IY
“This is late in coming. Words are fantastic but at this point we need action…”
Albanese is a rare treasure. Brava!

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 21 2025 11:19 utc | 100