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May 29, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-118

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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Here is why Israel thinks it should exist and be a member in good standing at the UN:
     
1) I torture UN workers
2) I bomb embassies
3) I refuse to declare my official borders as I want more and more of other countries’ (plural) land
4) I openly interfere in the affairs of other countries.
5) All criticism by any member of the World Community just reinforces my sense of privileged Victimhood
6) I never tell a lie as I have no concept. I only know what serves me.
7) I invented the Samson Option and will take the rest of you with me.
8) I commit collective punishment
9) I kidnap thousands, including children, with no judicial oversight
10) I will commit torture if I see fit and even if I don’t
11) I oppress occupied inhabitants and enjoy doing so
12) I commit rape with impunity against mine enemies
13) I steal land with impunity
14) I murder with impunity
15) I commit premeditated Genocide
16) I look forward to war and prod my neighbors for more
17) I need money, send a check
18) I commit false flags and if friends or even my own people are sacrificed so be it.
19) I implement the Hannibal Doctrine
20) Treachery and betrayal of my own people are a means to an end
21) I support and conduct terrorism.
22) I openly interfere in the affairs of other countries, seeking support for all of the above
23) I know that I can count on other amoral nations to support my wars, oppression and theft.
24) I know that the World Community will not stop me as I commit future Genocides
25) I target aid trucks and kill their workers;
26) I especially target hospitals;
27) I kill civilians prisoners, women and children and old people.
28) I use my lobbyists to attack, intimidate and silence freedom of speech
29) I torture and kill UN workers and their dependents
30) I protected Zionist perpetrators of the Holocaust and lie about their role.
31) I cannibalize living Palestinian captives for their internal organs
32) I use human shields
33) Most of my people support mass murder, racism and theft, and thus make known the true nature and meaning of Israel.
     
Those that would make it illegal to protest against Genocide support the Psychopathic Genocidal Entity that has given voice to the urge to kill us all (Samson Option). When madness speaks people had darn well take notice.

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2025 15:50 utc | 1

Otto Penn @ 1: Israel, because I am a hyper-sadist.

Posted by: Quentin | May 29 2025 16:23 utc | 2

Those that would make it illegal to protest against Genocide support the Psychopathic Genocidal Entity that has given voice to the urge to kill us all (Samson Option). When madness speaks people had darn well take notice.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2025 15:50 utc | 1
Late stage Imperialism. The good news: the whole infrastructure that supports Hitlers beaten step children in Israel is about to come crashing down.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 29 2025 16:25 utc | 3

35) 1 shot 2 kills

Posted by: Exile | May 29 2025 16:28 utc | 4

@Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2025 15:50 utc | 1
#34 I use starvation as both a tactic and for my strategic goal of Genocide.

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2025 16:29 utc | 5

The genocide committing Zio-Nazi’s – to expand their settlements in occupied lands.
“Far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced the creation of 22 new settlements in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law.
“We have made a historic decision for the development of settlements: 22 new communities in Judea and Samaria, renewing settlement in the north of Samaria, and reinforcing the eastern axis of the State of Israel,” Smotrich said on X, using the Israeli terms for the occupied West Bank.
Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz said the expansion plan “changes the face of the region and shapes the future of settlement for years to come.”
In a statement on Telegram, the right-wing Likud party of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the move a “once-in-a-generation decision”, saying the initiative had been led by Smotrich and Katz.
The party published a map showing the 22 sites spread across the territory.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied territories in several resolutions.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:27 utc | 6

We know Youtube is crawling with ex-IDF/8200 Unit murderers, and so is Microsoft.
“Last week Microsoft admitted providing large amounts of AI and cloud storage services to Israel during its genocide of Gaza, but said an internal investigation found no evidence the IDF “used these services to target or harm Palestinians.”
This is not a serious claim and no one should take it seriously.
Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.
This week it was also revealed that Microsoft disabled the email account of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan, impeding the court’s work on executing the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other senior Israeli leaders.
This is no surprise.
The links between Microsoft and Israel are so long, deep and extensive it can be hard to see where Microsoft ends and the Israeli state begins.
Microsoft employs more than one thousand ex-IDF soldiers and intelligence officers in its offices in Israel, and dozens of ex-IDF in its global headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, and at its offices in Miami, San Francisco, Boston and New York. My investigation, drawing on an extensive list of names provided by a source, has identified well over three hundred former Israeli intelligence personnel who are currently working at Microsoft.
Current Microsoft employees in the US who had significant roles in the IDF include:
Jonathan Bar Or, a principal security researcher for Microsoft at its Redmond HQ. He spent six and half years in the IDF, leaving in 2015.
Eitan Shteinberg, a senior manager working on Microsoft’s cloud platform in its downtown Bellevue office. Shteinberg is a dedicated soldier for Israel, spending over a decade in the IDF across numerous stints. He also worked for Israeli arms company Elbit.
Roy Rubinstein, based in Boston and who leads Microsoft’s data analytics platform Fabric. He spent over nine years in the IDF ‘focused on state of the art technologies for autonomous vehicles and fast paced development for special units.’
Joseph Berenbilt based in Pennsylvania who works on the Microsoft Azure system implicated in the genocide was ‘an operator in an elite Israeli special operations combat unit.’
The extensive collaboration between Microsoft and Israel, including its employment of at least one thousand Israelis, has been confirmed previously by Israel lobby groups. The full list of ex-IDF I’ve identified working for Microsoft in the US can be found here.
The collaboration is long-standing and over the years Microsoft has been intensely focused on expanding its links to Israel. This focus has resulted in Microsoft buying seventeen Israeli tech companies since the year 2000, all of which were founded by former intelligence officers in the IDF’s spy unit. The company spent billions on these acquisitions, and made the founders, all of whom are digital architects of apartheid, extremely rich in the process. These acquisitions also deliver billions to Israel in tax revenues, keeping an economy reliant on the IDF-to-US-tech-giant pipeline, afloat.
Microsoft’s most recent acquisition of an Israeli start-up was web tracking and analytics company Oribi in 2022, whose founder, Iris Shoor, served in Israeli intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
The full list of Microsoft-owned companies which, once again, were all founded by former IDF intelligence unit personnel, is below.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:52 utc | 7

Republicofscotland@1727 May 29
Just wondering when the Houthis would pay a visit to various infrastructure elements within those evil “settlements”. No direct attack on those creeps individually…just degrade their lifestyles, in response to what they are doing to the Palestinians on the West Bank.

Posted by: aristodemos | May 29 2025 17:53 utc | 8

The Zio-Monsters infiltrate everywhere.
“Ben Soffa, the national secretary of the UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
You would think he was a dedicated pro-Palestine campaigner. He has, after all, worked since 2013 at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the lead UK group organising the massive demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine over the last two years.
In addition, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign states that it is anti-Zionist. Its 2024 annual report states this unambiguously: “We are an anti-Zionist organization.” Soffa has even been referred to as an “anti-Zionist Jew” by that doyen of non-Jewish Zionists, the sometime arms industry lobbyist, Labour Party enforcer and We Believe in Israel head, Luke Akehurst.
So surely the national secretary of the PSC is actually an anti-Zionist?
Unfortunately, matters are not so clear. In a new disclosure to MintPress News, he has admitted for the first time that he worked together in the Labour Party with former Israeli spy Assaf Kaplan. Stating that they had “limited interactions” in his role working at the Labour Party as head of digital organizing. This was at the same time as he worked as national secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
In addition, Soffa serves as the chair of the Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community(LLJC), based at Lancaster University. It’s a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD).
As is well known, the BoD has been Zionist since 1939. In its 2020 annual report, it boasted about its relationship with the genocidal Zionist regime. It has a “close working relationship with the Embassy of Israel in the UK” and “strengthened links to the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and the IDF Spokesperson Department.””
https://www.mintpressnews.com/uk-psc-ben-soffa-israeli-spy/289860/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:57 utc | 9

Like I said the Zionists are everywhere.
“Israeli opposition figure and former Deputy PM Avigdor Lieberman says the Mossad and Israeli Defense Ministry are covertly funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the aid boondoggle founded in Switzerland and run by a former USAID administrator with Trump admin political cover.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927437119804321859#m
The Zionists are giving ISIS and Al-Qaeda gangs in Gaza weapons and aid to fight against Hamas.
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927568593228628362#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:12 utc | 10

Appears thar Microsoft is msking itself open to a lawsuit for supporting Apartheid etc. Worth tens of billions. Easily filed in a anti-genocide jurisdiction

Posted by: Exile | May 29 2025 18:17 utc | 11

How is it known that Israel will fall down. A staggering number of Israeli support killing Palestinians. This is what ultimate appeasement looks like when a country suffers no serious consequences. I don’t see much stopping this short of a coalition of countries invading Israel and dismantling their government, and the U.S. would rather go down with it’s crazy step-child.

Posted by: Anon | May 29 2025 18:41 utc | 12

Who didn’t see this coming?
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‘Very risky’: Palestinians stuck near aid distribution point
Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud says Palestinians who walked to a newly opened aid distribution point at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza are unable to leave due to Israeli military activity in the area.
“Many of the people who showed up at the site are trapped right now and unable to leave the area due to the presence of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles [and] the ongoing shooting,” Mahmoud said.
“They’ve been sending appeals to the Red Cross to coordinate their departure from the area. It’s becoming very risky for them to walk on their own.”
He explained that many of the people who are stuck near the site walked more than 5km (three miles) to reach the distribution point.
“Exhausted, tired, traumatised and hungry – many of the people showed up earlier today just to pick up one food parcel,” he said.
https://aje.io/0mbhv4?update=3740732
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Posted by: teri | May 29 2025 18:53 utc | 13

@RepublicofScotland… note that a majority of young Israeli man do have the obligation to serve in the IDF. Worh that regard it is not strange that all have a trackrecord with military activities. This counts for every sector. Not only tech unfortunately..

Posted by: William | May 29 2025 20:09 utc | 14

Who couldn’t see this coming? According to the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) Herod the Great, king of Judea, ordered the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. Sound familiar?
“The Qibya massacre occurred during Operation Shoshana, an Israeli so-called reprisal operation that occurred in October 1953, when IDF’s Unit 101 led by future Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank, which was then under Jordanian control, and killed more than sixty-nine Palestinian civilians, two-thirds of whom were women and children.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre
“The Sabra and Shatila[a] massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut…In February 1983, an independent commission chaired by Irish diplomat Seán MacBride, assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, concluded that the IDF, as the then occupying power over Sabra and Shatila, bore responsibility for the militia’s massacre. The commission also stated that the massacre was a form of genocide.” Ariel Sharon had his hands slapped for being held responsible and then a few years later became Prime Minister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
Jennin Massacre (2002): “Despite reports of a widespread massacre numbering hundreds of casualties by some Palestinian officials, subsequent investigations found no evidence to substantiate it (because the IDF bulldozed the refugee camp, thereby burying the evidence?)Israel did not allow emergency workers into the camp after the battle with Palestinian militants had ended, drawing condemnation from a UN envoy.The battle led to widespread destruction of the camp, as at least 140 buildings were completely destroyed, and severe damage was caused to 200 additional buildings rendered uninhabitable or unsafe.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jenin_(2002)
Gaza 2023-2025…
Some love to repeat “never again,” and some of those even love to repeat it, curiously enough, even while doing it over and over again. The perpetrators count on the short memories of people in the West and the even shorter memories of political elites.

Posted by: JohnH | May 29 2025 20:17 utc | 15

Republic of Scotland 7
You can add saner to your list of IDF trolls.

Posted by: Giyane | May 29 2025 21:37 utc | 16

https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1927819484489716203
Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
As long as you don’t speak against Israel, you have ‘free speech’ in the West
https://x.com/MohammedJHasan/status/1927670341020582327
Mohammed Hasan @MohammedJHasan
Mehdi Hasan removed from MSNBC, Sangita Myska removed from LBC, Glenn Loury removed from the Manhattan Institute, Bella Donati fired from Sky News, Candace Owens forced out of the Daily Wire, Katie Halper let go from The Hill, Zahraa Al-Akhrass fired from Canada’s Global News, Emma Wilder fired at the AP…
Conspiracy theory or an obvious pattern?
https://x.com/drav666777/status/1927672601666568264
Gin@drav666777
Don’t forget BBC take-over by friends of Z10nism and removal of @GaryLineker
https://x.com/phillyharper/status/1927684467767812378
Phil Harper @phillyharper
Don’t forget Gary Lineker fired from the BBC – after 26 years!

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 29 2025 21:45 utc | 17

You can add saner to your list of IDF trolls.
Posted by: Giyane | May 29 2025 21:37 utc | 16

Well, we already established quite clearly that you are a liar on the Palestinian thread.
Kind of a lazy idiot too apparently, as if you were to review my previous posts, you would see that your assertion is ludicrous.

Posted by: saner | May 29 2025 21:56 utc | 18

Posted by: saner | May 29 2025 21:56 utc | 18
Don’t worry about Giyane.
He pretends that he is Muslim but he doesn’t have any real knowledge of the religion.
He got bullied in public school (private school) in England-probably because he was an asshole (like now)-and changed religion-so he says.
Ignore the IC-Intellectual Clown.-

Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 22:12 utc | 20

see the video with Laith Marouf at the first link – he’s one of the most knowledgeable and articulate of the observers/commentators on Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and the middle East I’ve come across. He lives in Lebanon and often visits the southern part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOzCzaED6Y
Laith Marouf: Yemen Just Changed EVERYTHING — And Now Hezbollah Is Involved!
Dialogue Works 294K subscribers 45K views
https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1927744552443547948
Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster
the vast majority of politicians in the Israel, the UK, Germany and the US will spend their retirements not at think tanks but living in hiding out of fear of being arrested for perpetrating the crime of genocide.
https://x.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1927841302361620581
Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois
The reasons why I believe Gaza qualifies as a genocide has relatively little to do with enforced starvation – which may be a means to an end, rather than an end – but because I witnessed an organised, systematic attempt to eradicate a society through the destruction of:
– mosques, churches and cemeteries
– monuments and landmarks
– museums, historic and archaeological sites
– universities and schools
– agricultural means of subsistence
– aquifers and wells
– water and food storage
And the systematic, targeted killing of:
– Intellectuals and academics
– Poets, novelists and other artists
– Journalists and social media influencers
– Doctors and nurses
– firefighters, paramedics and first-responders

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 29 2025 22:25 utc | 21

see the 36-second video at the first link
https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1928044777657827611
Double Down News @DoubleDownNews
600 days of Israel killing children with total Impunity
600 days of extermination, ethnic cleansing & genocide
600 days of media lies defending indefensible
600 days of world leaders choosing Zionism over humanity
600 days of a live streamed Holocaust
——-
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927942196965015617
Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
A new consensus is emerging. After the dropping of the equivalent of 6 nuclear bombs on an area the size of Las Vegas, countless statements of genocidal intent by Israeli officials dating back to 10/8/23, and thousands of kids shredded on camera, op-ed editors at a billionaire owned corporate outlet have decided it’s permissible for a single Muslim contributor to state a softened version of the truth that was abundantly obvious to the rest of us 18 months ago.
https://x.com/shadihamid/status/1927731824442146822
Shadi Hamid @shadihamid
A new consensus is emerging. Israeli is committing a genocide in Gaza. We should say so. Words have meaning, and they should be used when they describe reality. My essay in the @washingtonpost:

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 29 2025 23:46 utc | 23

The narrative may be shifting toward genocide. However, it is pretty late in the Gaza tragedy and a significant genocide has already occurred. Netanyahu may well be within sight of completing the Final Solution, which the media somehow managed to miss.
So what is the media’s game plan here? Is it their intent to be late enough to NOT change the outcome but soon enough to cover their a**es by offering enough virtue signaling content as to tell future generations, “oh, but we tried so hard. We were on the right side of history after all. (Crocodile tears.)”
A similar approach was taken to the holocaust in Germany…

Posted by: JohnH | May 29 2025 23:59 utc | 24

This is well worth listening to …
[SPECIAL] Max Blumenthal : My Weeks In Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGw8NcXa6Wc [half an hour

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 30 2025 0:26 utc | 25

see the 1:06 video at the link
Yemeni President Mahdi Al-Mashat in the video: “….I say to the Zionist enemy, we will not retreat, we will not surrender, and our will shall not be broken…. I say to the filthy criminal netanyahu: you will not be able to protect the Zionist herds from our missiles. And I say to all companies still operating flights to Lod airport (so called ben gurion airport): You are at risk at any moment. To the herds of Zionists I say: The missiles are now designed to reach their targets – the shelters will no longer be safe for you from this day forward…..”
https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1927779760312091077
Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد @Ahmed_hassan_za
From Sana’a Airport, President Mahdi Al-Mashat sends a message to the Israeli enemy.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 0:39 utc | 26

Mahmoud Fanana from Gaza
May 1st
“Whenever you feel worried or sad, look up a new clip of the Gaza tragedy and reflect on the lifestyle people like you live on this planet. At first, you’ll become more sad, then you’ll forget what you lacked and remember what you have.”
“The hardest famine I have ever experienced was in 2024 in northern Gaza. This famine had no vegetables, no flour, nothing. Honestly, in this famine, I was hungry every day with the lack of food and nutrition. I became weak and emaciated, but nevertheless I was patient and considered all of this to be for God. This hunger, and now a famine is on the doorstep in 2025 in all of Gaza from north to south. I said to myself, how many famines will we live through? How many famines in which there is no food and nutrition? This is the second famine in Gaza. People know what our condition will be in the coming days.
So I always pray to God to grant us a year in which people are helped.”
May 16th
“The situation in Gaza is very difficult. If Gaza falls and is broken, peace be upon the world.”
May 27th
“Hunger is an infidel. You have seen the hungry people in Gaza who want to eat. Hunger is more deadly than fear. Honestly, hunger is a red death.”
(Note: A “red death” signifies a death of “hardship” or “difficulty”)

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 1:26 utc | 27

Laith Marouf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOzCzaED6Y
“Yemen just changed everything and now Hezbollah is involved…because the Zionists are genocidal, crazy, fractious, freaks and murderers…”
Zio-Nazis. Either they go or we do.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 30 2025 1:29 utc | 28

[Reposting my response to Exile from the old thread]
Note – the IDF strategy of scorched earth and clearing away rubble might eventually be successful, since Al-Qassem relies on using rubble for cover when popping out of underground fortress. TBD
Your thoughts ?
Posted by: Exile | May 26 2025 15:27 utc | 132
To clear away the rubble their military operation will have to change significantly to become a civil engineering operation. These two aspects are at odds with the IDFs doctrine:
– It will interfere with their air-strike programme (bombing the rubble), thereby giving AQB a break.
– They’ll have to bring in thousands of earth moving equipment pieces, creating a target rich environment.
Based on the initial rash of reports of Hamas detonating IEDs to collapse ruins on IDF it looks like this will just project higher.
It’s like the “flooding of tunnels” nonsense that never really succeeded. Now:
– The tunnels are still there. No indication the network has been destroyed.
– The rubble has completely obscured the tunnel routes.
– To launch an effort to root out the tunnels the IDF must first embark on a collossal multi-year civil engineering project … but with what resources?
Basically, this is what Hamas has been waiting for all along.
This is exactly the phase of resistance warfare where the greatest strength of guerrilla warfare becomes clear.
The IDF will never succeed in clearing the rubble. They’ll be chasing ghosts in the ruins for years to come.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 2:36 utc | 29

Must read by Chris Hedges
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/29/chris-hedges-trumps-useful-idiots/

Posted by: Tom | May 30 2025 3:05 utc | 30

I was reading yesterday that Hezbollah is getting ready to make some moves after re-constituting and organizing politically to tell Aoun what is what.
I didn’t see anyone post about it, but Israel destroyed a Yemeni passenger jet loaded with people going on the hajj.
Bibi needs to take a shot at Iran to get this party started. Trump is too weak with the GOP right now and will have to deploy troops to the region to protect Israeli aggression.
I’ve taken the last week off from seeing starving children and parents carrying the bodies of their loved ones in grocery bags. My soul feels about 8% lighter. Doesn’t change what is happening there, but neither does torturing myself over things that I cannot change.
I am sick of the “news” reports about a ceasefire that will never happen. I am sick of seeing the people who should know better, like Jeffrey Sachs, talk about the responsibilities of the UN and what Trump “should” do.
The UN is useless (by design), and Trump is a hardcore Zionist; he always has been. He doesn’t believe in much, but he believes in the mass murder of non-whites.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 3:23 utc | 31

I didn’t see anyone post about it, but Israel destroyed a Yemeni passenger jet loaded with people going on the hajj.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 3:23 utc | 31
My understanding was that the passenger plane was empty at the time?
Do confirm this because if those passengers had been killed it should be all over the news!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 4:16 utc | 32

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 4:16 utc | 32
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It was not empty. It was full.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 4:27 utc | 33

RE: I didn’t see anyone post about it, but Israel destroyed a Yemeni passenger jet loaded with people going on the hajj.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 3:23 utc | 31
My understanding was that the passenger plane was empty at the time?
Do confirm this because if those passengers had been killed it should be all over the news!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 4:16 utc | 32
See the photo of the blown up civilian airliner at the link. Israel waited for approx 35 minutes after the airplane had landed, and then attacked.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-sanaa-airport-airstrike-blocks-800-yemeni-pilgrims
Israeli Sanaa airport airstrike blocks 800 Yemeni pilgrims
Israeli airstrike on Sana’a airport halts all flights, blocking 800 pilgrims and patients, prompting Yemen to call it a grave violation of international law.
The Director General of Sanaa International Airport, Khaled Al-Shaif, confirmed that the latest Israeli aggression targeting the airport has prevented 800 Yemeni pilgrims from traveling to perform the Hajj in Mecca, in addition to thousands of patients who were awaiting travel for treatment abroad.
Speaking at a press conference, the government in Sanaa strongly condemned the targeting of the airport by Israeli warplanes, noting that the strike occurred while a group of pilgrims was preparing to depart. The attack was described as a “gross violation and serious breach of international law and its principles.”
Al-Shaif stated that the only remaining Yemenia Airways aircraft, which had been operating three flights a day, was completely destroyed in the strike, resulting in a total shutdown of air traffic at the airport.
He added that this latest attack brings the total number of civilian aircraft destroyed at Sanaa International Airport to eight since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Yemen…….
…..On May 6, Israeli aircraft launched 30 direct airstrikes on the airport, causing massive destruction to civilian planes, terminals, and key infrastructure, including both the main and secondary runways…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 4:29 utc | 34

see the 14-second video at the first link
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1928134239285039212
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinklle
ISRAEL DID THIS!
ZIONISM IS EVIL!

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 4:36 utc | 35

It was not empty. It was full.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 4:27 utc | 33
This is a grave atrocity. If the world was silent during this then damn them all to all.
Every last one of them.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 5:52 utc | 36

If the world was silent during this then damn them all to *hell*.
Every last one of them.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 5:52 utc | 36

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 5:53 utc | 37

Give it a rest with the troll accusations, will you please, Giyane? And take a rest also.

Posted by: Lavieja | May 30 2025 5:58 utc | 38

…On May 6, Israeli aircraft launched 30 direct airstrikes on the airport, causing massive destruction to civilian planes, terminals, and key infrastructure, including both the main and secondary runways…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 4:29 utc | 34
No words.
Except to say that any future atrocity conducted against israelis would not be a crime but justice.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 30 2025 6:58 utc | 39

Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
A fairy tale for our times 🧚‍♀️
Once upon a time, the genocidal empire could just get on with its work of genociding and stealing — but suddenly, for a few years, social media showed us all the truth — before the wicked witch of censorship returned under the guise of stopping disinformation.
And we all lived in ignorance for ever more, or at least until it was our turn.
Saul Staniforth
@SaulStaniforth
The USA at the UN security council: “Israel does have the right to defend itself & has taken numerous measures to limit harm to civilians”
Unfortunately for the US the world has seen the footage of what Israels done & it knows this genocide is as much Americas as it is Israels
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1928009227668443329

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 7:57 utc | 40

Barry Malone
@malonebarry
Israeli settlements are not “widely considered” illegal under international law. They *are* illegal under international law. You don’t need to say “Israel disputes that”. If someone disputed the sky was blue would you report it?
https://x.com/malonebarry/status/1928089009500090712

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 7:58 utc | 41

Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
By Daniel G. B. Weissmann 05.29.2025
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
…this is an interview by the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel with linguist and antisemitism scholar Matthias J. Becker in the wake of the cancellation of Albanese’s talk at the Free University. In it, he accuses Albanese of comparing Israel’s policies in Palestine with that of the Nazi regime and alleges that she failed to condemn the October 7 attacks.
While the latter accusation is simply false (Albanese did denounce attacks on civilians) the former claim is stated without evidence. The shrillest accusation, however, is that Albanese is projecting the “blood libel” onto Israel. This refers to a medieval antisemitic canard that charged Jews with the ritual murder of Christian children. While this accusation is used against anyone pointing out the scores of children killed by the Israeli military, it is primarily deployed by Israel’s lobbyists and spokespeople, and rarely by serious academics.
Becker was consulted by the Tagesspiegel because of his affiliation with the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, which he led from 2019 until 2025. With the help of a large language computing model, the project aims to create “an [AI] algorithm that will automatically recognize antisemitic statements in web comments . . . so that antisemitic posts can be removed more efficiently and accurately” by online platforms. In a talk to the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, Becker lays out the political focus of the project:

What we are interested in is not so much the antisemitism of the alt-right or white supremacy platforms but mainstream society, because . . . antisemitism on campuses, antisemitism coming from the left, among artists, it is actually the mainstream, the political moderate discourse that is a challenge in itself. . . . Because as soon as antisemitism is communicated . . . in implicit ways there is very often a lack of sanctioning in contrast for [sic] examples of antisemitic tropes uttered by a neo-Nazi.

While officially claiming to focus on “the mainstream,” the project primarily centers on Israel-related, or “new,” antisemitism. Of the roughly 103,000 individual online comments that have been collected to train the algorithm and made available as metadata on the project’s website, two-thirds relate to Palestine and Israel, while one-third concern other antisemitic incidents covered in the media. A subset comprising 21,000 comments collected immediately after the October 7 attacks found roughly 2,400 antisemitic incidents, or 11.7 percent. Almost half of these are categorized as “Attacks on Israel’s Legitimacy.”
The dataset is divided into labels of differing forms of supposed antisemitisms such as “analogies with Nazism,” fascism, apartheid, or colonialism; calling Israel a racist or terrorist state; accusing it of genocide; referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS); giving Israel the sole blame for the plight of the Palestinians; applying double standards; and denying Israel’s right to exist.
Albeit using publicly available data, the Decoding Antisemitism project has not itself released the full dataset. Hence, it is impossible to understand in detail which comments were categorized and archived as antisemitic and why. Further, it forecloses any holistic analysis or checks and balances of the data from outsiders (usually done via peer review in academia). However, last November the project published “A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online,” a five-hundred-page glossary that lays out each label in some detail. It gives examples of explicit and implicit antisemitic comments, followed by non-antisemitic comments as neutral points of reference.
Under the label “Nazi Analogy/Fascism Analogies,” a clear example of an antisemitic statement is given: “Jews are doing what Hitler did to them.” An example of implicit antisemitism reads “you stand against anti semitism and the holocaust but not against killings of innocent Palestinians. You are woman of double standards and a disgrace!” [all sic].
According to the glossary, this is antisemitic because “an implicit equation [is] being established” between Israel and Nazi Germany. This argument becomes puzzling considering the example provided of a non-antisemitic comment: “Studying the Holocaust should be a warning against all forms of oppression and injustice, whether in the Middle East or in other conflicts.” It is not clear where the substantial difference between the latter two examples lies, aside from politeness, civility, and a suspected orientation toward Zionism. Both demand consistency in the lessons learned from the past.
The most egregious instance of this approach can be found in the chapter called “Blood Libel/Child Murder.” The argument goes that accusing Israel of killing Palestinian children is akin to the antisemitic fantasy of accusing Jews of the ritualistic murder of Christian children. It is not explained how this vile trope is somehow equivalent to accusations against the Israeli military. As proof of this crude thesis, the chapter provides an example of explicit antisemitism, which reads “What you mean is, Israel bomb [sic] children. Let’s not mince words here,” whereas an example of implicit antisemitism reads “How many rockets has Israel fired on innocent children???” Perhaps, the commenters could believe in the blood libel trope. Yet clearly, neither of these comments is any kind of proof of that. How these comments are substantially different, and how a medieval antisemitic fantasy relates to a present-day genocide in real life, goes unexplained.
MORE…
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-ai-palestine-israel-antisemitism?s=09

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 8:05 utc | 42

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.
Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life – a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1927729522855600365

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 8:07 utc | 43

Translating Falasteen (Palestine)
@translatingpal
‼️Hanin al-Wadiyya, the young girl whose video walking through fire after the Fahmi al-Jarjawi school massacre in Gaza city spread across news channels, is the sole survivor of her immediate family. She tells the story of how she woke up to find her uncle Hamza’s body beside her, surrounded by flames.
Then she heard her sister Mimi’s voice and began searching for her, crying out, “Mom, Mom!” before running outside in tears.
To survive, Hanin had to walk through flames and charred bodies, unbearable trauma for a child her age. Her uncle, nurse Ahmed al-Wadiyya, confirms that Mimi, her mother, and her father were all martyred in the Israeli airstrike.
Hanin suffered second and third-degree burns on her arms and legs and now carries both the physical scars and the nightmare of being the only one left.
Source: wissamshbat (IG)
https://x.com/translatingpal/status/1927074769653944683

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 8:09 utc | 44

A Short Guide on How to Starve a Population to Death
by Jonathan Cook / May 29th, 2025
A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing:
1. Choose your moment. Ok, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing, and killing your neighbours for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But none of that will matter the moment your neighbours retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry. The Western media can be relied on to help out here. They will be only too ready to pretend that history began on the day you were attacked.
2. Declare, in response, your intention to starve your neighbours, treating them as “human animals”, by blocking all food, water, and power. You will be surprised by how many Western politicians are ready to support this as your “right to defend yourself”. The media will echo them. It is important not to just talk about blocking aid. You must actually do it. There will be no serious pushback for many, many months.
3. Start relatively slowly. Time is on your side. Let a little bit of aid in. But be sure to relentlessly smear the well-functioning, decades-old aid distribution system run by the international community, one that is transparent, accountable, and widely integrated into the communities it serves. Say it is infiltrated by “terrorists”.
4. Use that claim – evidence isn’t really necessary, the western media never ask for it – as the pretext to bomb the aid system’s warehouses, distribution centres, and community kitchens. Oh, and don’t forget to bomb all the private bakeries, destroy all the farmland, shoot all the animals, and kill anyone who tries to use a fishing boat, so that there are no other sources of food. You are now in control of the trickle of aid reaching what is rapidly becoming a severely malnourished population.
5. Time to move into higher gear. Stop the international community’s aid from getting in altogether. You will need a humanitarian cover story for this bit. The danger, particularly in an age of social media, is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. You can get through this. Claim – again, evidence isn’t really necessary, the western media won’t ask for it – that the “terrorists” are stealing the aid. You will be surprised how willing the media is to talk about babies going “hungry”, ignoring the fact that you are starving them to death, or speak of a “famine”, as though from drought and crop failure, not from your carefully laid plans.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/a-short-guide-on-how-to-starve-a-population-to-death/#more-158639

Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 8:20 utc | 45

Lavieja 38
I don’t mind people being genuinely stupid like you, but if they are deliberately stupid like saner, they get called a troll. Maybe the wrong word.
I’ll try to use arsehole, but some snooty people don’t like graphic language used for describing their insanity. Arsehole.

Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 8:22 utc | 46

Ziofascist deepstate DC scumbag – a supposed Catholic Palestinian!
Hiding the great genocide by starvation the most lethal weapon ever.
“IF my post UNINTENTIONALLY.. “
what a c**t.
looks like a duck, quacks like a duck …
‘ Ihab Hassan
@IhabHassane
15h
Clarification and Apology:
Yesterday, I posted a video from Al-Maghazi in Gaza showing people storming a warehouse to take food and aid. Based on reports from some people in Gaza at the time, I initially identified it as a Hamas warehouse. I later edited the post, and have now deleted it. It has since become clear that the warehouse belongs to the World Food Programme. I regret the mistake and any confusion it may have caused.
This video has been misused by Israeli propagandists to justify the mass starvation of Palestinians—a war crime I have consistently condemned.
I want to apologize if my post unintentionally gave fuel to anyone trying to justify the starvation of my people in Gaza. That was never my intention.
My intention has always been to amplify the suffering of our people and hold all perpetrators accountable.
May 29, 2025 · 2:51 PM UTC ‘
Yup Ihab is a Complete Utter Nazionist Turd.
C.U.N.T
And all his supporters and friends… especially the sheepdog Owen Jones the Grauniad turd.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 30 2025 8:48 utc | 47

Lavieja 46
In the last Palestine thread All Under Heaven gave me a compelling argument why International Trade can continue across ideological divides. In your 226 you said that formerly Communist Russia and formerly Communist China should be held to their former Communist stances .
But the US has just announced that they are going to relinquish their old McCartyist excuses for war and respect other countries’ different aspirations.
People will also choose to be themselves, and if I am a Muslim I don’t expect a stranger on MoA to make assumptions about what that means to me based on their prejudices.
Much of the debate here about Israel is about whether Judaism has always been a racist , aggressive, supremacist ideology, or whether Zionism is a new phenomenon . The evidence of the Gospels and the Qur’an and historical records suggest that there has been no change for 2,500 years in Jewish criminality.
What has changed is that other nations and beliefs have decided to utilise Jewish aggression as an excuse for being aggressive themselves.
USUK are doing this because they want to colonise Asia. Once USUK has got control of West Asia they will jettison the Jews through legal prosecutions and pretend that all of the blame is on Israel.
We’re not stupid. Without the US weaponry, none of this would be happening, and although we cannot prevent the US genociding the Palestinians, we are looking ahead, to the next phase of USUK aggression, the Conquest of Asia by military force.
You cannot use politics of yesterday to generate pressure on today’s world. Politics has no father. It will circumvent US McCarthyism, and adopt Capitalism, in order maintain its own sovereignty against USUK aggression.
So it looks to me that we’re asking Russia and China to go back to their former position of vulnerability , so that USUK can manipulate public opinion through McCarthyism to attack Asia.
That may be stupidity , or it may be trolling. I don’t know. But it looks to me like you are whingeing that the sitting duck you wanted to shoot , has moved. It’s called Globalism. What’s good for duck is good for the drake. Not fair, bwaah.
Soz.

Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 9:57 utc | 48

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2025 15:50 utc | 1
Yeah but number 7 is wrong. There is no Sampson option. That’s all bullshit. Same with alleged nuclear weapons. Israel doesn’t have nukes. It’s all bamboozling of the naive to pretend to be strong and mean when in fact Israel is small and weak.
What is the main concern a very small nation surrounded by enemies and fully dependent on daddy USA? Yes. To appear much stronger than it really is.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | May 30 2025 10:44 utc | 49

Re: rubble clearing ?
Arch – you have a good point. Way back at the begining of the (plausible) genocide, some analysts suggested the underground fortress will result in a Dien Bien Phu for the IDF.
Another topic – the few videos of IDF infrantry engaged in combat that the Likud has released indicate friendly fire hits are the norm. Even East LA cholo gangbangers have better fire discipline than the IDF. I just don‘t understand why the IDF is so poorly trained.

Posted by: Exile | May 30 2025 11:26 utc | 50

Looks like a ceasefire for Bibi’s son’s wedding.

Posted by: Polli | May 30 2025 13:17 utc | 51

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKPm3jZAfDF/

Posted by: Apollyon | May 30 2025 13:24 utc | 52

Giyane has just been won his 7th,”The Most retarded Post I Have Read Today Award” for the below baffling nonsense:
Lavieja 38
“I don’t mind people being genuinely stupid like you, but if they are deliberately stupid like saner, they get called a troll. Maybe the wrong word.
I’ll try to use arsehole, but some snooty people don’t like graphic language used for describing their insanity. Arsehole.”
Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 8:22 utc | 46
Pitiful; the idiot can’t even curse properly.

Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:24 utc | 53

Journalist Youssef Fares
“UNICEF:
More than 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or injured since October 2023, at a rate of one child every 20 minutes.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 13:33 utc | 54

Macron and the EU poodles pretend to be putting pressure on Israhell but they have not taken one step in arresting their binationals who joined the slaughter on their own will.

Posted by: Tom | May 30 2025 13:55 utc | 55

Canada Has Taken In 10X As Many Israelis As Palestinians From Gaza (& vid)
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1928201459788574892
“Bumped into former immigration minister [and Zionist] Marc Miller on Sparks St in Ottawa today and he unleashed a tirade of insults, calling me a ‘huckster and phoney’ when I asked why Canada has taken in 10X as many people from the nation committing the holocaust as Palestinians from Gaza?”
Marc.Miller@parl.gc.ca

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 30 2025 14:14 utc | 56

Why Do US & Canada Continue To Refer To Israel as an Ally?
https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1928338510882214068
“What I find most disgraceful about [Foreign Minister] Anita Anand’s refusal to hold Israel accountable is that she was a law professor at my alma mater, U of T Law, before entering politics. She knows perfectly well that Israel is committing crimes against humanity. She cannot plead ignorance.”
anita.anand@parl.gc.ca
*Recognize Palestine!
Expel Israel’s Ambassador!
Stop Supporting Zionist Genocide!

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 30 2025 14:30 utc | 57

The Zio-Monsters, are murdering Palestinian children in different – but effective way – evil to their core.
“Doctors in Gaza needed to use CT scans to figure out why dead children had such small entry wounds. Turns out Israel is using bombs designed to expel tiny pebbles that enter the body and cascade so violently through it they ‘dissolve the spine.’ Evil doesn’t begin to cover it.”
https://nitter.poast.org/NateB_Panic/status/1928381726075543890#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 14:46 utc | 58

Grok says of this.
“The headline “Gaza macht frei” by Ralf Balke in Jüdische Allgemeine, published May 29, 2025, is real, as confirmed by the newspaper’s website and X posts. ”
Gaza Macht Frei- WTF.
https://nitter.poast.org/derJamesJackson/status/1928358384186585412#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 14:49 utc | 59

Israel is using bombs designed to expel tiny pebbles that enter the body and cascade so violently through it they ‘dissolve the spine.’
@ Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 14:46 utc | 58

Instruments of 21st century genocide are mainly designed & built here in the US of A. Just down the road apiece from me, in the Bay Area. And all over the states, of course: plenty of US Americans draw a paycheck from high-tech industrial mayhem like that.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 30 2025 15:05 utc | 60

Lavieja 38
I don’t mind people being genuinely stupid like you, but if they are deliberately stupid like saner, they get called a troll. Maybe the wrong word.
I’ll try to use arsehole, but some snooty people don’t like graphic language used for describing their insanity. Arsehole.
Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 8:22 utc | 46
Well now.
Please do show exactly where I was “deliberately stupid”. You can’t because you are a shameless liar. Again. Still. Always apparently.
See, if we want examples of “deliberately stupid”, we have your shining examples here;
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/05/palestine-open-thread-2025-115.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3d4a3a7200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3d4a3a7200c
Or any post that Giyane makes here. They are all examples of a truly stupid person, totally unaware that they are a moron.
I would ask those who have read Giyane’s ridiculous slander against me to have a look and see.
You see Giyane, you are without a doubt a Dunning Kruger low. Far too stupid to recognize your own stupidity.
Expect no rest from me in regard to pointing out that you are lying sack of shit, too stupid to know your lies are transparent to those with IQs 20 points above your level. So anyone in the mid 80s is going to see you for what you are, a liar, a fool, a moron.

Posted by: saner | May 30 2025 15:09 utc | 61

Every place is Treblinka , Everyday is Vansee …

Posted by: Savonarole | May 30 2025 15:24 utc | 62

https://youtu.be/Ns1h89Rngg8?t=45
Oh look, the Orangetard just called it a genocide.
Noooo, not Gaza, South Africa.
But Gaza? That is just Israel defending itself……..
Unreal.

Posted by: saner | May 30 2025 15:25 utc | 63

The Electronic Intifada Podcast [A weekly must see!]
https://x.com/intifada/status/1928119163048055051
“Breaking news and analysis on day 601 of the Gaza genocide.”
Free Palestine! Delete USrael!

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 30 2025 15:30 utc | 64

” Israeli support killing Palestinians.
Posted by: Anon | May 29 2025 18:41 utc | 12 ”
Not just Israelis but a majority of Jews worldwide. Therefore, Judaism as a whole is culpable till it collectively atones for its sins.
Additionally, Putin is hands off and cordial with Israel because, per popular opinion, Israel has a large Russian population. Logically that means a large number of Russians are responsible for the genocide.

Posted by: The painter | May 30 2025 16:10 utc | 65

Journalist Youssef Fares wrote:
“It has become clear that betting on the prisoners’ card to stop the war was a wrong and losing bet. That card did not succeed in stopping the war when we had 200 prisoners, and it will not succeed in stopping it when we have 20 living prisoners left. The capture operation was originally random and the results were not studied. Also, betting on the international and European position in confronting the Israeli tyranny is a losing gamble. As for time, it is made of abundant and precious blood. Every minute there is a massacre, a family becomes homeless, and an entire people sleeps hungry in the open. As for the resistance, they sacrificed their lives, limbs, the joy of their hearts and families. They fought with their fingernails and arms. The negotiating delegation failed throughout 20 months to invest their sacrifices in what stops the losses and killing. The international and regional position is not in our interest, and those who sell the illusion on satellite channels that the occupation has failed to achieve its goals are pouring gasoline into Gideon’s vehicles so that they can complete… Uprooting us…
The negotiators deserve to be tried. They stuck to stubbornness at a time when concessions would have been fruitful and less harmful. Today they are putting us in the face of their futile gambles and failed experiments with the Americans after they played with the mediators and the mediators played with them. What is required today is that you stop the massacre and the systematic demolition of the city. Pay any price, no matter how high and great, and save what remains, because what is on the table today will be a wish tomorrow. These are the results of the gamble of betting on good faith with the Americans. They will not give you what Netanyahu refuses… America is the devil and the devil is America”
Although I am not sure returning prisoners without guarantee of truce would make that much difference, tbh.
It would be a form of admission of defeat or error by Hamas, and would probably be followed by demands to disarm and exile, and if not the aggression would continue.
Maybe the only question is if the entity is determined to annex Gaza, because if so no amount of concession will do.
I cannot speak or imagine for those there, it is possible many just would like to leave now. To leave but be able to return…which is not likely.
If there was concern for the civilian population at all, refuge in part of Gaza would have been allowed while combat continued in the rest, after which civilian population could return.
That is obviously not the plan. Erasure of resistance at all levels and permanent displacement of most or all of the population appear to be the aim.
So there is irony, because to concede to those who make not even the most basic of concessions, who do not recognise the right to evacuation but only of emmigration, and even that only by destruction and force, is no concession at all.
An alternative reality would be civilians leave and then return. That was not wanted, was not suggested, and every impediment possible was fabricated, including fear of non return, to keep the population within the destruction of conflict.
So that they would leave without return.
I do not see that changing even if Hamas completely conceded on all.
It might be less traumatic for (much of) the population, though.
It is not for me to say.

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 16:12 utc | 66

” The evidence of the Gospels and the Qur’an and historical records suggest that there has been no change for 2,500 years in Jewish criminality.
Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 9:57 utc | 48 ”
Then it seems this bloodthirsty cult is irredeemable. What is the solution to this problem?

Posted by: The painter | May 30 2025 16:19 utc | 67

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1927398594924929178
The Cradle @TheCradleMedia
US delivers 90,000 tons of weapons to Israel in 600 days of genocide
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/31043
The 800th planeload of US arms shipments to Israel landed in Tel Aviv on 27 May, as the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that, since the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza began, Washington has delivered over 90,000 tons of armaments and military equipment.
Tel Aviv called the constant US arms shipments via sea and air “a significant component” in allowing the Israeli military to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign, which entered day 600 on Tuesday.
Over the past 19 months, the US government has approved nearly $30 billion in arms sales to Israel, including $7.4 billion in missiles and bombs in February and a $3 billion “emergency” arms package in March……
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/18825
Middle East Spectator – MES
— 🇦🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Argentina’s President Javier Milei will visit Israel on June 11 to receive the ‘Genesis Prize’ for reversing Argentina’s anti-Israel positions at the UN and designating Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 16:20 utc | 68

https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1928476119696548235
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
UNRWA has thousands of trucks stationed in Jordan, 3 hours from Gaza, capable of feeding approximately 200,000 people for an entire month. However, Israel continues to block their entry, effectively weaponising food supplies that are meant to sustain the Palestinian population.
This deliberate obstruction adds a grave dimension to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, turning essential resources into an unlawful tools of pressure and control.
For over a century, Palestinians have endured a relentless cycle of violations and crimes against humanity and war crimes, dating back to 1920. Their suffering, marked by displacement, violence, hunger, genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and systematic oppression, persists to this day, reflecting decades of unresolved injustice and ongoing human rights abuses.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 16:31 utc | 69

Map of zones annexed or under evacuation
https://t.me/youseffares19/77958
While demolition of evacuated zones continues
https://t.me/Ahaamd1985/369742
Including if civilians are still present.

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 16:40 utc | 70

“Far too stupid to recognize your own stupidity.”
Posted by: saner | May 30 2025 15:09 utc | 61
Agreed.
“It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.”
Franz Kafka

Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 16:42 utc | 71

The Israeli General who said THE WORLD IS GUILTY of not stopping us kill almost 100 children in one day, reminds me of the logic of Daesh. We were forced to do it by our masters USUKIS. They are guilty for not stopping us.
With minds like this, the Victim playing minds of Hungarian, Jewish Lawyers, the Jewish Mafia, viz Trump, have taken over the US.
Genocide 1/ The genocide of Africa
Genocide 2/ The genocide of Native Americans
Genocide 3/ The Genocide of European Americsns
Genocide 4/ The Genocides of the US’ Southern American neighbours
Genocide 5/ The Genocide of the US’Pacific side neighbours
Genocide 6/ The Genocide of the USSR
Genocide 7/ The Genocide of Russia and Eastern Europe
Genocide 8/ The Genocide of Israel’s neighbours. In progress.
Still to come:
Genocide 9/ The Genocide of
Canada, Greenland and Australia.
Genocide 10/ The Genocide of Central Asia.
If as Laith Marouf says, China is the biggest exporter of goods to Israel, it is not behaving as the last potential victim of the Hungarian Jewish Mafia should be behaving.
When that Genocide #10 comes, after this one, it will also be China’s fault , according to the Hungarian Jewish Mafia US, for not taking sufficent precautions against them

Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2025 16:59 utc | 72

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 30th May 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-266
I also cover Middle East events, especially Gaza, Netanyahu, the Houthis and Iran.

Posted by: The Busker | May 30 2025 17:07 utc | 73

Giyane,
You missed these genocides
5 million SE Asians by the Pentagon
10 million Koreans by the Pentagon
Now list the English genocides starting with
4 million Bengalis by Churchill
10? Million Chinese by the Sasoons

Posted by: Exile | May 30 2025 17:11 utc | 74

Just when will Hamas learn, that the Zio-Monsters and the Yanks just can’t be trusted to do the right thing.
“Israel and Hamas have agreed to accept the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by the US, several media outlets reported on Thursday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled his readiness to accept a roadmap presented by US special envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting with the relatives of hostages still in Hamas captivity in Gaza.
Arab media later reported that Hamas had also accepted the deal to release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the enclave in exchange for a temporary truce.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 17:12 utc | 75

The Yanks are 100% behind the Zio-Monsters genocide.
“John Kelley, the US representative at the UN, just said Palestinian statehood would be an “unconscionable reward.””
Watch this vile b*stard say it.
https://nitter.poast.org/mamoun_linda/status/1928176804898165213#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 19:17 utc | 76

@michaelj72 | Fri, 30 May 2025 04:29:00 GMT | 34

See the photo of the blown up civilian airliner at the link. Israel waited for approx 35 minutes after the airplane had landed, and then attacked.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-sanaa-airport-airstrike-blocks-800-yemeni-pilgrims
Israeli Sanaa airport airstrike blocks 800 Yemeni pilgrims

Ample time to disembark the travellers. No mention of casualties.

Posted by: persiflo | May 30 2025 19:24 utc | 77

Jefferey Epstein was blackmailing politicians and giving the info to Mossad – maybe this is why many politicians across Europe, and elsewhere – either remain tacit on the Zio-Monsters genocide – or openly support it.
https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1928498201549590804#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 19:25 utc | 78

@Menz | Fri, 30 May 2025 08:05:00 GMT | 42

The most egregious instance of this approach can be found in the chapter called “Blood Libel/Child Murder.” The argument goes that accusing Israel of killing Palestinian children is akin to the antisemitic fantasy of accusing Jews of the ritualistic murder of Christian children.

Ron Unz wrote an article called “Oddities of the Jewish Religion” where he reviews some of the old accusations, I suggest you go and read there. I’m also aware of a report by the Tsarist Russia criminal police on this.

Posted by: persiflo | May 30 2025 19:31 utc | 79

Expect no rest from me in regard to pointing out that you are lying sack of shit [etc]
– saner

Gyiane, don’t let yourself get worked up by this targeted campaign from the trolls. They’re choosing you because you are a bit of a hothead. Be Buddha instead.

Posted by: persiflo | May 30 2025 19:42 utc | 80

Posted by: persiflo | May 30 2025 19:31 utc | 79
Holy sh|t! So the Blood Passover book was/is real?!

Posted by: bored | May 30 2025 19:48 utc | 81

see the 2:24 video at the first link
https://x.com/intifada/status/1926516784204587487
Electronic Intifada @intifada
Yemen’s ruling Ansarullah movement has “shamed the rest of the world by their willingness to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians,” says @FranckMagennis
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1927059171259666620
Assal Rad @AssalRad
In Gaza, they’re burning children alive.
In Jerusalem, they’re chanting ‘Death to Arabs’
In the West Bank, they’re terrorizing Palestinians to force them off their land.
What more do you need to see before admitting Israel’s goal is eradicating Palestinian existence?
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1926207983387639930
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
In Rotterdam, Netherlands, protesters opposing the genocide in Gaza burned the Israeli flag and replaced it with the Palestinian flag.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 20:19 utc | 82

(this was) Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:52 utc | 7

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled”

Just as US-UK crimes could not have been committed without the technology provided by US-based Eagle and Dixon pencil companies to track, round-up and murder Germans, Italians, Japanese and the French . . .

Posted by: Errata | May 30 2025 20:31 utc | 83

Via Behind the Lines
“What everyone must realize is that Hamas is negotiating primarily on the basis of achieving a ceasefire, rebuilding the Gaza Strip, and reaching a fair deal. It deals seriously and positively with any proposal presented to it, as long as its content actually leads to a ceasefire and provides the basics of a decent life for the Palestinian people.
Demanding that Hamas accept any proposal presented to it, based on the assumption that it might lead to a ceasefire, is a grave mistake. It reflects a superficial and naive reading that is inconsistent with the complexities of negotiating with the enemy.
This militarily asymmetric war has, in turn, imposed an asymmetric negotiating reality, making the position of the weaker party even more complex. Nevertheless, Hamas does not reject the principle of negotiation. Rather, it deals with calculated flexibility, leaving room for discussion and debate within clear boundaries, ensuring adherence to the core demands, foremost among them an end to the war. Giving up these demands undermines the very function of negotiations, empties the resistance of its leverage, and gives the enemy an opportunity to impose new facts on the ground without a political price, including a return to targeting the Palestinian people and displacing them from their land without deterrence.
Hence, it is our duty to support the negotiating delegation’s position in adhering to these just humanitarian demands, which constitute the minimum requirements for protecting the lives of our people. Should any negotiating party show signs of surrender or complacency regarding these principles, they must be confronted and prevented from being implemented, regardless of the justifications or pressures, in order to preserve the national rights and collective dignity of our people.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 21:35 utc | 84

see the 1:25 video at the first link of Glenn Greenwald tearing into and destroying israelis and their genocidal mania and dehumanization of the Palestinian people: “…They don’t recognize moral limits. They don’t acknowledge the humanity of Palestinians. They absolutely consider Palestinians to be animals… The number of children who are dead including under three years old is just as a statistic is shocking in itself….They’ve stripped the Palestinians in Gaza of all remaining humanity….”
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1928506205573623942
Nader @BonsaiSky
“Israelis are like an apocalyptic cult…..” (- Glenn Greenwald)
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1928453533990584351
Tiberius @ecomarxi
People who support Zionists systematically raping Palestinian children want you to believe Glenn Greenwald is a pervert for having consensual sex with another adult.
https://x.com/BonsaiSky/status/1927073713679200520
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
Glenn Greenwald is by far the best journalist of the modern era, having among other things exposed the US military-intelligence complex’s illegal spying on not only Americans but everyone across the world. He has also always opposed the genocidal US-NATO-Israeli empire’s wars and proxy wars, from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and now the ongoing Gaza genocide, while exposing the propaganda fabricated by the entire Western media and political class to launder it all.
What he does in his private life is his own concern, and as he rightly said he has nothing to be embarrassed about. Those who should be embarrassed and exposed are the vile scum responsible for leaking this material as part of an pathetic attempt to censors him.
They obviously did not know who Glenn is if they thought this type of blackmailing tactic would work on him.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 21:38 utc | 85

He has also always opposed the genocidal US-NATO-Israeli empire’s wars and proxy wars, from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and now the ongoing Gaza genocide, while exposing the propaganda fabricated by the entire Western media and political class to launder it all
Greenwald is – at minimum – a grifter. At minimum.
He’s also always struck me as a certifiable pathological narcissist.
I remember commenters on various ‘left’ shows calling Greenwald out for not really being on the left here in the US. He’s more of a civil libertarian type here, but when he went to Brazil to do porn and run an escort service for gay men he was indeed very involved in left politics…in Brazil. Although if you read further you will find that many on the left in Brazil found Greenwald to be more disruptive than valuable to ‘the cause.’
How many people do you know who identify and act as leftists in one country but civil libertarians in another? Could you do it yourself? It says a lot about you if you can.
Remember, the vaunted ‘Snowden Files’ were privatized by Greenwald. Only about 5 percent of the alleged trove of files were ever released. Glenn said this is because it takes a lot of time to go through everything – which he evidently was diligently working on from his compound in Brazil with all his saved pets.
Alas, nothing ever came of it and it was simply dropped. Partner in crime Laura Poitras was asked about this and she just sort of said, ‘Yeah, I don’t know what happened’ and that was that.
What a great open source project that would have been! Greenwald et al could have gone through the files with high school and college kids – a real lesson in how things work.
But no. These sorts of things have to be handled with care by the likes of Glenn Greenwald.
I wonder why multiple copies of the files weren’t made? They couldn’t make a few USB stick backups?
Reminds one of all the state secrets being carried in and out of Mar-a-Lago in bankers’ boxes!
I wonder if people will ever wake up.
Here is Glenn at his best:
‘Speaking to Israel’s Channel 10 — whose biggest shareholder, cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder, is President of the World Jewish Congress — Greenwald criticized “the continued imprisonment of Jonathan Pollard,” who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after passing more than a million highly classified documents to Israel while working as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy. (Incidentally, Channel 10 owner Lauder is also a of clemency for Pollard.) As reported today by Haaretz, here’s what Greenwald told his Israeli audience about the spy, who, in the words of former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, “did more damage to the United States than any spy in history”:
Greenwald agreed that the Snowden revelations are relevant to Pollard’s case. “When the U.S. government goes around the world criticizing other countries for spying on allies and prosecuting them,” he said, “are they going to maintain that with a straight face when they’re doing exactly that?”
It’s proper to raise Pollard’s case in the context of U.S. spying on its Israeli ally, he continued, because that underscores the hypocrisy of what the U.S. itself is doing. The U.S. government, Greenwald charged, does exactly what it accuses its enemies of doing, and no country has the right to say other countries shouldn’t do something while it is secretly violating that very same taboo.
While some may be willing to concede that Greenwald’s charge of U.S. government hypocrisy is perfectly valid, the acclaimed “independent” journalist’s remarks that American national security does not require surveillance of its so-called “ally” in Tel Aviv is at best naïve, at worst disingenuous:
Asked about the U.S. government’s claim that the purpose of the eavesdropping is to fight terrorism, he responded by citing the documents’ revelations that the NSA eavesdropped on both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli officials, asking, Does the U.S. government think Angela Merkel is a terrorist? Or that democratically elected Israeli officials are involved in terror?’
https://thepassionateattachment.com/2014/01/07/ln-israel-greenwald-reveals-whose-agenda-he-is-serving/
Much of the stuff (the facts) I mentioned have unfortunately been scrubbed from the internet but there is still info available for those willing to do the work.
It’s kabuki theater, folks, All of it.
They are all method actors.

Posted by: Dan Kelly | May 30 2025 22:17 utc | 86

‘How many people do you know who identify and act as leftists in one country but civil libertarians in another?’
I should clarify here that obviously ‘left’ and ‘civil ‘libertarian’ are not only not mutually exclusive but in fact there is mucho overlap. My point is that Greenwald got into ‘hard’ left politics in Brazil – the likes of which he was never seriously involved in at all in the US – where he was born and raised.
Greenwald is an actor. He has no principles. We’re seriously supposed to be impressed because now he talks tough about The Jewish State of Israel?
Of course, if one were to confront Greenwald with his many inconsistencies he would have a hissy fit. That’s the game he – and they – play. Seems to be part of the training they get.

Posted by: Dan Kelly | May 30 2025 22:41 utc | 87

@83 Errata
O/T
One wonders…
“In 1644, John Winthrop the younger, son of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first governor John Winthrop, purchased the mine and the area around it from the Nipmuc sachem. The agreement secured “ten miles round about the hills where the mine is thats called black lead.” Indeed, the Colonies were to supply England with the abundance of “all mynes and myneralls, aswell as royall mynes of gould and silver,” as we read in the records from the 17th century.”
http://strangemaine.blogspot.com/2010/12/graphite-from-colonies.html
“…in Germany where we participated in activities celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the construction of the Berolzheimerianum in Fürth, the city of Heinrich’s birth and original founding of the pencil company, Berolzheimer und Illfelder. Donated by Heinrich with assistance of his son’s Emil and Philip (then running the Eagle Pencil Company in New York) the Berolzheimerianum…
– The building was renamed by the National Socialists during the period of the Third Reich erasing for a time the recognition of the Jewish Philanthropist Heinrich Berolzheimer
– Following post war repairs in 1945, the Berolzheimerianum name was restored and the building continued to function for it’s original purpose of supporting education and the arts
– In 1998 following extensive renovations the Berolzheimerianum was reopened as ComÖedie Fürth, one of the leading comedy clubs in Germany including a restaurant and bar.”
https://calcedar.com/berolzheimerianum-100-year-anniversary/

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 23:13 utc | 88

Journalist Youssef Fares
“The situation in Jabalia is very difficult and dangerous now.. The intensity of the raids and the difficulty in locating them, in addition to the screams of the people that are now rising from everywhere..”

Posted by: Ornot | May 30 2025 23:18 utc | 89

see the 17-second video at the first link.
these poor Palestinian people, our hearts go out to them
see the photo at the second link
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1927409465000673464
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinklle
ISRAEL DID THIS!
ZIONISM IS EVIL!
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1928413185301778670
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
“With the death of the young Hussein, the entire Aqilan family has been wiped out,erased from the Palestinian civil registry.”
A US-backed Israeli genocide. That’s how it should be remembered.
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1928407038373073127
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
🚨BREAKING: Mohammed Hussein Aqilan, a young Palestinian boy, has succumbed to his injuries after an Israeli airstrike targeted his family’s home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, two days ago.
With his death, the entire Aqilan family has been wiped out,erased from the Palestinian civil registry.
https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1926852558875722238
Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
They are burning children alive, on video.
And no embassy in Tel Aviv has closed its doors yet

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2025 23:28 utc | 90

PBI: Large Protest Challenges CANSEC Weapons Show in Ottawa
https://x.com/PBIcanada/status/1928407311141183981
“Thirteen arrested at demonstration calling for the upholding of international law and action on state and corporate obligations relating to arms transfers that enable genocide…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 30 2025 23:28 utc | 91

To attempt to draw a view of what is occuring now:
All hospitals and services in the northern half of Gaza are closed.
The population (of several hundred thousand) there has been under starvation siege with virtually no food reaching them.
Two days ago :
“The IDF Arabic spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, published a broad and unusual evacuation notice to residents of several areas in northern Gaza Strip, including the entire Shuja’iyya neighborhood, Daraj, Tuffah, Zeitoun and part of Jabalia. The notice stated: “Terror organizations continue their activities in the area, therefore the IDF will expand its attack to destroy the capabilities of terror organizations in your area. From this moment, these areas will be considered a dangerous combat zone. These areas have been warned before, for your safety – move west immediately.”” Ynet (pro-zionist)
Or view map linked further above.
Those who did not or could not evacuate are now irrelevant to the subsequent military action taking place (bombing, shelling, drone attack, being targeted in any way) and may/will be killed without any further question being asked .
I appealed to readers once as starvation set in in Gaza, explaining the difference between what is being reported and what would be occuring at ground level.
Now I have the impression that northern parts of Gaza will be, are being, raised to the ground with occupants still present.
On the first I was not wrong, because I have since read various accounts of the extremes being suffered. I hope I am wrong on what is occuring now.

Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2025 0:00 utc | 92

92 Ornot. Thanks for keeping us informed.
This horror sickens the heart.

Posted by: Lavieja | May 31 2025 2:25 utc | 93

saner 61
It is my lifelong policy to lie to liars. You seem to find it as annoying as I find your lies. Which is funny.
But your lies are mostly your country’s lies about itself. One big bag of fleas.

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 2:40 utc | 94

see the videos at the links below
the israelis are the German nazis and the Italian/Spanish fascists of the 21st century. It’s all unbelievable
https://x.com/AjAqrabawi/status/1928480778867949581
Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi
Do you see that building that collapsed under the explosive power of Israel’s airstrike?
It was full of civilians. Children. Families.
Or do you think Israel flattened it to find a hidden hostage?
https://x.com/AjAqrabawi/status/1928484103952982188
Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi
Pause. Watch closely, and look at the size of that building.
https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1928482266776326651
Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis
⚡️Israeli airstrike targeted Al-Noor residential building in Al-Saftawi neighborhood, northern Gaza Strip, moments ago.
https://x.com/AjAqrabawi/status/1928485214327582811
Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi
Watch, as they implement their final solution.
https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1928475181200150684
Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis
Footage documents the moment Israeli airstrike targeted Al-Yazji family’s residential building and commercial shops in Gaza City today.
https://x.com/Ema97n/status/1928489772235776153
Ema🇵🇸 @Ema97n
You can hear the cries and screams of the children. 💔💔💔

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 31 2025 3:06 utc | 95

The way I see the US is that it is still in the mindset of a monarchy with a court, and a Papacy that believes that every sin is forgiven just by falsely projecting onto Jesus AS some imaginary powers.
The US believes that it can substitute the king with the wealthy, but doesn’t give power to intellect or compassion, ever. The US thinks it can decide, like a king , to take certain actions, like destroy the Palestinians, completely irrespective of anybody and that nobody has the right to question that prerogative.
As such, it isn’t the shining new, young society that it thinks it is , but a medueval vestige of the Feudal Divine right of kings. As such , it is a Jurassic dinosaur living amongst humans, which confounds the humans sharing its planet at every turn.
I’m not saying it’s run by lizards. I’m saying it’s run like a Medieval society which pays zero attention to any of its citizens. One day very soon its blinkered arrogance is going to hit the electric fence and die. But in Palestine, for reasons not yet analysed, the power to the Jurassic fence was off and it broke through its confines.
In the Democratic world we live in , no country is equipped with the technology to bring this ancient thing under control.
It’s never a convenient moment to have a nuclear confrontation. But sooner or later , if Humanity wants to survive, this Tyrannus Rex will have to be put down.

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 4:10 utc | 96

Discussion of Free Fire Zones in Vietnam:

a village could not be bombed without warning even if American troops had received fire from within it; a village known to be Communist could be attacked only if its inhabitants were warned in advance; only once civilians had been removed could a village be declared a free fire zone and shelled at will.
According to an article by Maj. Mark S. Martens of the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate-General’s Corps and a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School, all these rules were “radically ineffective.” Often they were simply ignored. In some cases, illiterate peasants couldn’t understand leaflets dropped to warn them that their villages would soon become a free fire zone. In other cases, hurried, forcible evacuations left large numbers of defenseless civilians behind, to be killed by bombing, shelling, small arms assaults, or burning.
“The only good village,” went one bit of cynical GI wisdom, “is a burned village.”

https://www.crimesofwar.org/thebook/free-fire-zones/

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2025 6:20 utc | 97

Giyane 48. What can be the
reason for comparing the progressive legacies of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions with the rightwing repression of McCarthism other than that they occurred in the past, unless to fabricate an ‘argument’ that I am a troll? Indeed somewhere you sneak in your 3rd troll accusation in 36 hours. I am trying to instigate McCarthyism by promoting pro-active remembrance of that progressive era in 20th century history, when for ex. Mao tse Tung said “… revolution is the main trend in the world today.”
If I support that we keep in mind the enduring influence on the world of the revolutionary history of Russia and China and call upon those 2 countries to honour that tradition in more concrete ways than brandishing banners of Mao and statues of Lenin, to recognize their important history that made them strong — by cutting at least some support to Israel, Giyane says that position will result in resurrecting McCarthyism in the US. And to weaken Russia and China is my secret intention, which is why I am a troll. That’s a good one! But Russia-phobia is going strong and has been in the US for some time, and suppression of support for Palestine continues to rise without my input. Your premise is too convoluted to be called an argument, but off-the-charts as it may be, its topped by the contortionist ‘reasoning’ you used in Palestine thread 2025-115, when you said, without any quotes from the accused or any documentation whatsoever, of poster 251, “The troll has managed to argue that because Muslims believe in God and His commandments, the non-believers are justified in exterminating them.” (I have left out the name of the alleged offender.) (May 28 2025 21:28 utc). I tried to use hyperbole to show the absurdity of this statement when I wrote post 257, “Is Giyane’s desire to turn this MOA thread into a holy war?”, (an ill-considered and not- funny joke realized too late) –but I maintain that your troll accusations are as far- fetched. One can come up with all kinds of connections in ones mind, but that doesn’t make them valid arguments. To fling about troll accusations every time someone’s words agitate one lowers the level of discourse here, perhaps more derailing even than the epithets.
All Under Heaven’s argument — which you say you like in your words: “a compelling argument why international trade can continue across ideological divides” — AUH asks why would anyone question that in the age of capitalist imperialism? But hardly anyone on the MOA threads does question that –that this is imperialism, the highest capitalist stage. Of course, accumulation in the interest of the world’s ruling classes constructs the unifying ideology, human rights, diversity, the best of all possible worlds, the end of history … capitalist ideology. The petrodollar isn’t worried about Islam vs. Christianity. So, where’s the revelation in that?
Then out of the blue this: “if I am a Muslim I don’t expect a stranger on MOA to make assumptions about what that means to me based on their prejudices.” The post is to me so is this statement also directed at me? It says if anything is said, any criticism that Giyane is imposing his religious concerns which may not apply to the matter at hand, that criticism must be coming from anti-Muslim prejudice. Actually, I admire Islam and see that it can be extremely helpful in handling real-life situations. And the Resistance are powerful and righteous people, brave beyond all.
Beyond that, I cannot speak because my spiritual life is unsettled and personal.
That’s not All Under Heaven’s main thesis anyway. It’s just building up to that since the USA is the super-imperialist, every citizen in that country also lives off robbing the world and if posting on MOA cannot be expected to be anything but an apologist for imperialism at best.
Your forth paragraph: “UsUk are doing this because they want to colonize Asia”. Yes, that is received knowledge. “Without the US weaponry, none of this would be happening.” More received knowledge.
One question: You said earlier that Israel started all this 2500 years ago. The Israhellis say that also, by the way. So which one is it, way back in biblical time or in the 19th century with Britain challenging the Ottomans? I choose the 2nd. I’m into chronology, not floating- cloud synchrony. I imagine you’ll come up with a way to make it both .
“You cannot use politics of yesterday to generate pressure on today’s world. Politics has no father.” Sounds like liberal capitalism’s “end of history” theorizing. Nowhere with that.

Posted by: Lavieja | May 31 2025 8:47 utc | 98

Eratta (83).
Indeed, I couldn’t agree more.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 31 2025 10:30 utc | 99

A database of IDF ‘soldiers’ (war criminals):
https://youtu.be/hZ_sDd-jHSY?si=u0qdMKYDwEVt85h5
Find them, and dispense justice.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2025 10:36 utc | 100