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August 7, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-178
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Reports of many MAGAs becoming disillusioned with Israel. So hard when you have to choose between being anti-Semitic and Islamophobic. Life was so much easier when you could be both at once.
Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Aug 7 2025 15:24 utc | 1
Again, here’s my notice related to Roger Waters Resistance Ballad, “Roger Waters Resistance Ballad: “Sumud”, which includes Pepe Escobar’s review.
So much water over the dam…
I had forgotten about babies “hanging in a row on a clothesline”.
This article is lengthy but gives one a sense as to how Israelis become so distorted.
https://jfjfp.com/how-israeli-media-became-a-wartime-government-propaganda-arm/
Yishai Cohen, the political editor of the ultra-Orthodox news website Kikar Hashabbat, who is also a guest commentator for Channel 12, has experience in this regard. On November 28, he tweeted a short promo for an interview with Lt. Col. (res.) Yaron Buskila of the IDF’s Gaza Division in which Buskila claimed that on October 7, he saw babies “hanging in a row on a clothesline” at Kfar Azza, which had been invaded by Hamas terrorists.
The story hadn’t been reported earlier, and for good reason. No babies had been killed at Kfar Azza, as Haaretz reporter Amir Tibon quickly pointed out to Cohen. “[I] admit that I hadn’t thought I need to check the veracity of a story coming from a lieutenant colonel,” Cohen replied in explaining why he deleted the tweet just a few minutes after posting it. “I made a mistake.”
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler.
The interview with Buskila, who is the director of operations at the Israel Defense and Security Forum nonprofit, which is identified with the right wing, had been offered to Cohen by the IDF spokesman. A representative of the spokesman’s office was present at the interview.
Following Buskila’s statement about the babies, the spokesman’s office is no longer offering press interviews or meetings. In a statement from the spokesman’s office in response to a request for comment, the office said, “An investigation was conducted, and the necessary lessons were drawn.”
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 15:36 utc | 3
@Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 15:36 utc | 3
Are barflies aware that Israel has a Military Censor?
Military Censor, that is an actual title
and he reports to the Defense Minister.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 15:40 utc | 4
This is what happens when people embrace victimhood. The same process is happening in America.
Don’t look at Oligarchical financialization. Focus on Mexicans and Canadians “ripping us off”.
Zionism is predicated on faux hyper-tribalism.
Hamas defends people and that makes Hamas terrorists. The Fox News MAGA crowd eats that stuff up.
Judeo-Christians.
What kind of sicko bombs children and then cries victim?
Zionism is the rot which is eating itself.
Subtract colonialism, capitalism, and Zionism, nothing of America is left.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 15:48 utc | 5
As someone who loves long term planning, Zionism is an impressive project.
In 130 years, millions of people have become obsessed with an end times conspiracy theory that dominates political, educational, and commercial bodies.
Shades of COVID mass formation psychosis again.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 15:51 utc | 6
Mahmood OD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouvPTc5nJs
“The crucial [Israeli] cabinet meeting: Here are all the options.”
Syriana Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_sl-5T-9g
“From Pakistan to Syria: America’s middle-east geopolitics exposed.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 7 2025 15:52 utc | 7
Netanyahu scotched the ceasefire process back in March so to impose a “military solution”, which over the five months since has led effectively to little more than continuing attacks on soft targets amid a starvation siege. It is unclear what is exactly triggering the current impatient posture, which is exacerbating internal division and the sense of crisis.
From Times of Israel:
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior security officials on Tuesday to hammer out Gaza war plans, and reportedly came out in favor of the military taking control of the entire enclave, even if it meant that the remaining hostages could be harmed or executed by Hamas…Military officials believe that if Israel proceeds with the plan, it will lead to heavy casualties among Israeli troops… It is also unclear what such a move would mean for the Strip’s millions of civilians and humanitarian groups operating in the enclave…”
Posted by: jayc | Aug 7 2025 16:17 utc | 8
“It is also unclear what such a move would mean for the Strip’s millions of civilians and humanitarian groups operating in the enclave…”
Seems pretty clear to me that they’ll slaughter as many as they can. They’re all Hamas, after all.
Otoh, seems it would entail f2f combat, so they’ll be taking a lot more hits.
I read yesterday they’ve created a new battalion over “over 50s.” Already more attrition than they can handle.
Trump has already greenlighted the plan. The higher ups meet & vote on it today.
Posted by: Mary | Aug 7 2025 16:29 utc | 9
“Ahhh…Just one more thing…”
– Peter Falk, Columbo
Sometime after Israel secretly captured Hamas’ detailed jailbreak plan,
in the Spring of 2022, Israel came up with it’s own plan.
The assessment in February 2021 was this:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-idf-commander-says-hamas-has-7000-rockets-dozens-of-drones/
The Hamas terrorist group ruling Gaza has replenished its arsenal since a 2014 war with Israel and now has a vast collection of rockets, guided missiles and drones, a senior Israeli military commander said Thursday.
According to Israeli military estimates, Hamas has some 7,000 rockets, as well as 300 anti-tank and 100 anti-aircraft missiles, the commander said.
It also has acquired dozens of unmanned aerial vehicles and has an army of some 30,000 men, including 400 naval commandos who have received sophisticated training and equipment to carry out seaborne operations, the commander added. He spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines.
HOWEVER, the IDF went from a status of informed diligence in 2021
to one of know-nothing complacency in 2023.
After it captured Hamas’ detailed plan the IDF went
to an assessment of “complacency”:
“Hamas was more interested in governing and providing for the 2 million
Palestinians of Gaza, then it was in attacking Israel.”
Where did such a IDF plan for complacency come from?
Answer: From Hamas’ detailed plan.
In Hamas’ detailed plan it specified right there how it would create a false sense of calm.
It planned to make Israel complacent.
It is right there in Hamas’ plan.
So how could the IDF claim that it had been TRICKED into complacency?
Easy, it would keep it a secret that Israel was in possession of Hamas’
detailed jailbreak plan. And it’s media would control the narrative,
and the Defense department would control the media through it’s
military censors.
The media would wring it’s hands after Oct 7th and speak at
“how did the IDF become so complacent?”
Israel took Hamas’ plan to create calm and complacency and it played along.
But instead of playing along with Hamas and AMBUSHING Hamas when
it came through the Gaza wall, Israel calculated that there was
much more to be gained if there were Israeli casualties.
That is where the Hannibal Doctrine would serve it’s purpose.
And if that wasn’t enough the IDF could put thousands of youths
attending a Rave Party in harms way. Combine a Rave Party and
Apache helicopters and you get the pretext for Genocide that you
sought.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 16:48 utc | 10
“Just one more thing…”
– Peter Falk, Columbo
It was a guarded secret that Israel was in possession of Hamas’
detailed plan for their jailbreak. And it would remain a
guarded secret until late in November of 2023 that
the New York Times was chosen as the place to publish a
Limited Hangout. [It is more aptly called a
“limited Limited Hangout”]
What is interesting to seek from a Limited Hangout is
what it *doesn’t say*. Obviously, the most sensitive bits
are what are left out.
Following Israeli media was required
to observe what was missing from the NYT limited Limited Hangout.
Hamas’ detailed plan said that it would jailbreak on the Sabbath
or a Jewish holiday, as the IDF permitted soldiers to take leave
on these days, and Hamas knew it. Oct 7th was BOTH of these,
the Sabbath and a Jewish holiday. Israeli media estimates that
50% of the IDF was on leave that day. Including Luck Larry,
the commander of the Re’im military base which was the prime
target identified in Hamas’ jailbreak plan, and was completely
overrun by Hamas, AND which the
Rave Party was located on the path to (besides being 3 miles
from the Gaza wall). What a place for a party!
Did the NYT mention the choice of days for the jailbreak
as found in Hamas’ detailed plan? NO. An eye on Israel
media writings about the captured plan DID.
How about Hamas’ vital plan to create complacency?
This was left out of the NYT limited Limited Hangout too.
One had to keep a careful eye on Israeli media to learn
that it was in Hamas’ detailed plan.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 16:52 utc | 11
from Yousef Fares:
Gaza Ministry of Health: The total number of victims of famine and malnutrition has risen to 197, including 96 children.
And in the “oh, tough luck” department:
Channel 12 : Israeli Airlines offices in Paris attacked, with slogans declaring it a “genocide company”
– El Al Israel Airlines decides to evacuate its Paris office after anti-Israel slogans were written.
“>https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
The US human rights report will not be presented the way the human rights groups globally consider the issue:
US to soften human rights criticism: The Washington Post reports the Trump administration will reduce condemnation of Israel, El Salvador and Russia in its upcoming human rights report.
“>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-recap-105?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=547005
The US Congress continues its annual AIPAC-sponsored trip to “Israel” for US politicians (freshmen politicians are particularly encouraged to make this trip), despite bombs blowing people up 50 miles away, and starving Palestinians dying just on the other side of the fence. The article does not detail whether the US’ians will go to the fence to watch and cheer, the way so many Israelis do.
Netanyahu Hosts 20 AIPAC-Sponsored House Republicans in Israel
• A delegation of roughly 20 AIPAC-sponsored Democrats is also heading to Israel during the congressional recess
• by Dave DeCamp | August 6, 2025 at 4:22 pm ET | Israel
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he hosted a delegation of House Republicans who were in Israel on a trip organized by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, as members of Congress are flocking to the country amid their August recess.
• “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday evening, met with an AIPAC-organized delegation of Republican members of the US Congress,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “The Prime Minister briefed the members of Congress on the war in the Gaza Strip and commented on the issue of the humanitarian assistance and the mendacious campaign being waged by Hamas against the State of Israel.”
According to Punchbowl News, about 20 House Democrats are also headed to Israel during the recess on an AIPAC-sponsored trip. The strong show of support for Israel from so many US lawmakers comes as Israel is regularly massacring over 100 Palestinians a day in Gaza, including many desperate people seeking aid, and Palestinians are starving to death in Gaza every day due to the US-backed Israeli blockade.
According to Punchbowl, the Democrat delegation will be led by House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (CA) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (MD). Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is also visiting Israel and joined Johnson in his visit to West Bank settlements.
“>https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/06/netanyahu-hosts-20-aipac-sponsored-house-republicans-in-israel/
Trump, Rubio, and Huckabee said yesterday that the new plan is for the US to take over humanitarian aid to Gaza. The new plan? What they came up with is that instead of 4 aid stations run by GHF killing Palestinians, there will be 16. This is American cruelty at work. This is the sort of thing America likes to call “genius” and “ingenuity”.
Huckabee: US to support 12 more GHF aid sites in Gaza
Trump admin is clearly embracing the shadowy distribution centers, where over 1000 Palestinians have been killed since May
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that a controversial American contracting firm tasked with delivering aid in Gaza is expanding operations, from the four hubs it is currently operating to 16.
Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians at or near aid centers run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), leading to humanitarian organizations and 21 U.S. senators to call on the GHF to cease operating.
“The immediate plan is to scale up the number of sites up to 16, and begin to operate them as much as 24 hours a day, to get more food to more people more efficiently,” Huckabee said.
Huckabee did not directly confirm or deny Axios reporting on Tuesday that President Trump will “take over” aid distribution in Gaza. When asked about that reporting, he said during an interview on Fox News that the Trump administration “stood up” GHF in the first place.[…]
“>https://responsiblestatecraft.org/huckabee-ghf/
Posted by: teri | Aug 7 2025 17:03 utc | 12
A reminder of how a Limited Hangout is defined
and, most importantly, it’s purpose.
According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
a limited hangout is “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals.
When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public,
they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and
damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks
to pursue the matter further.”
While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political
– Wikipedia
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 17:06 utc | 13
A delegation of roughly 20 AIPAC-sponsored Democrats is also heading to Israel during the congressional recess
@Posted by: teri | Aug 7 2025 17:03 utc | 12
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, 1945
80 years ago
Good timing, AIPAC-Congress, go visit Israel.
How many have already called for the nuking of Gaza?
How many will?
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 17:14 utc | 14
Iran FM Calls For Emergency OIC Meeting Over ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’ in Gaza
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/07/752656/Iran-Palestine-Aragchi-Gaza-OIC-humanitarian-catastrophe-Israel-Fidan-Farhan
“Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to address a ‘historic catastrophe’ unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
‘The appalling situation in Gaza has now become one of the gravest crises facing the Islamic Ummah and the international community,’ Araghchi said.
‘The conditions in Gaza have exceeded the limits of human endurance. What is unfolding is not merely a humanitarian crisis – it is the systematic destruction of a besieged civilian population. The scale and intensity of the crimes being committed call for immediate and coordinated action.’
‘Equally alarming is the mounting evidence of the occupation regime’s unlawful and strategic interest to reoccupy and fully annex Gaza,’ he said.
‘Statements by senior officials of the Zionist regime, along with its military actions and political posturing, clearly indicate the existence of a deliberate plan to erase Gaza’s territorial and political identity through permanent control, demographic engineering, and the destruction of any prospect for Palestinian sovereignty,’ Araghchi added.
‘The meeting should adopt unified, actionable measures – diplomatic, legal and economic – to stop the aggression, ensure accountability, and reaffirm the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, sovereignty, and return, marking the starting point for restoring justice,’ Araghchi said.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 7 2025 17:23 utc | 15
“And one more thing…”
– Peter Falk, Columbo
The Israeli news media is controlled by the Military Censor and
the Military Censor is controlled by the Defense Minister.
As the Defense Minister was deeply involved in the planning
for the false-flag of October 7th
one of the prerequisites is the messaging, the narrative in the
aftermath of the false-flag.
What would be the guiding instructions for the military censors?
Can barflies imagine this set of media guidelines?
1) Hamas planned this attack meticulously. For many months, perhaps years, they created a false impression as if they were deterred and refrained from responding to the operations carried out by the IDF against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and events in the West Bank and Jerusalem. In Israel, they bought into this calm and embraced a paradigm that Hamas would refrain from launching an all-out attack.
[It was supposed to remain a secret that Israel had captured Hamas’ detailed jailbreak plan.
Israel’s plan was to keep saying that Israel was tricked into complacency by Hamas.]
2) Hamas, of course, knew that it was a holiday, meaning that the IDF was relatively lowering its guard and a significant portion of the forces were at home, with a complacent atmosphere in the settlements.
3) Such an operation requires early preparation with many collaborators.
[Is the latter a Freudian Slip?]
4) All of this escaped the view of the Israeli intelligence, which knew nothing.
[The above is KEY to the Israeli narrative. Remember the Limited Hangout did not come until
late November. No one was to know that Israel had captured Hamas detailed plan for it’s jailbreak.]
5) Gaza cannot be more immune to any type of activity or response.
[The genocide is justified]
6) Now, the IDF must quickly mobilize tens of thousands of reservists and send them to the territories to free up regular units to fight in Gaza and to be prepared for the possibility of an escalation in the north.
[Israelis should be prepared for an expanded war.]
7) Behind all this is Iran, trying not to be left out of challenging Israel.
[Iran, Iran, Iran, keep saying Iran]
8) Exactly 50 years and one day after the Yom Kippur War, Israel experienced the surprise of October 7th. Just like then, Israel is required to act quickly, and it cannot have these hostilities end without a clear and unequivocal victory.
[The failures of October 7th are not unprecedented, and the goals are clear]
9) This is a leadership and command challenge of the highest order, in a period when Israeli society and the public are torn from within. All of this must be put aside now and we must be laser-focused on the ultimate mission – victory and restoring calm.
[Forget that Netanyahu has tried to nullify the judiciary, it is time for Israelis to come together]
As Peter Falk, Columbo, would say, “Just one more thing”.
If October 7th was just a multi-point cluster of unfortunate failures
there would be no need for a Military Censor to construct a
narrative before the fact.
But on October 7th — on October 7th itself! — while smoke is still in the air,
and IDF commanders are way too involved in dealing with Hamas’ jailbreak,
an article is published which contained ALL of the above. ALL of it.
The above items 1 through 9 were taken verbatim from an article
written on October 7th.
Instead of the explanation for October 7th growing organically over time
the narrative was pre-written.
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israels-failure-of-imagination-on-hamas/
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 18:27 utc | 16
This might be a good time–in fact there is never a bad time–to remember the hideous courage of Aaron Bushnell. This is his statement and memorial. Let it burn into your consciousness. Never forget. And never forget the thousands upon thousands of innocents who have been and are still being brutally murdered by the same malign forces Bushnell died to protest.
Here it is.
Posted by: pasha | Aug 7 2025 18:30 utc | 17
“Shades of COVID mass formation psychosis again.” @6
You talking about the 1% of people who still mask up in the U.S. or the 99% who ignore the continuing pandemic?
Gen*cide Joe said to himself, “Why have gen*cide over there only when we can have it here too?” And so he told everyone it was safe to take off the masks and throw caution to the winds.
My friends and fam are dropping like flies, how about yours?
Posted by: Share | Aug 7 2025 18:34 utc | 18
@Posted by: Share | Aug 7 2025 18:34 utc | 18
Off topic
(but you knew that already)
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 18:40 utc | 19
@Otto Penn
Your long statement sounds convincing. Craig Murray on Twitter has openly voiced, perhaps for the first time, the probability that Israel had actionable intelligence about what would happen Oct 7. However this doesn’t exempt Hamas from being religio-fanatical neanderthals who fell into an all too obvious trap.
Posted by: Ludovic | Aug 7 2025 18:50 utc | 20
Judge Nap: Col Lawrence Wilkerson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46iZ8g-qo_I
“US troops in Gaza?”
The Cradle, Ep 102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9YseabsLc
“US fans the flames of civil war in Lebanon.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 7 2025 19:05 utc | 21
UK : Legal protest rights website taken down, depriving thousands of legal advice
The defendourjuries.org website has been disabled by apparent government legal threat to the site’s hosting provider.
The site provided legal advice to those affected by the government’s ‘lawfare’ war on freedom of speech and protest about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, informed potential jurors about their rights in court to decide their verdict regardless of orders and pressure from the Establishment – and also campaigned for the de-proscription of Palestine Action …
As the group behind the site explained this evening in a short thread of X posts, the take-down – through implied legal threat to the hosting company, either from the government or an Israel lobby group – attempts to deprive potentially thousands of people of information on their legal rights
Full article : https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/07/legal-protest-rights-website-taken-down-depriving-thousands-of-legal-advice/
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 7 2025 19:19 utc | 22
If you’re interested in Gaza EI’s weekly podcast is a must-see…
The EI Podcast – Day 671 of the Gaza Genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbUc9yoX6I
Breaking news & analysis including Jon Elmer’s resistance report
Free Palestine – from the River to the Sea!
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 7 2025 19:25 utc | 23
Palestine Action is not funded by Iran, but Yvette Cooper IS funded by Israel.
https://nitter.poast.org/kennardmatt/status/1953427873332695505#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 19:57 utc | 24
However this doesn’t exempt Hamas from being religio-fanatical neanderthals who fell into an all too obvious trap.
Posted by: Ludovic | Aug 7 2025 18:50 utc | 20
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Hamas are resistance fighter against genocide and colonialism from Zionist religious end-of-days fanatics.
The neanderthals rape and murder. That’s Zionists.
Oct 7th was a brilliant plan that is going excellently. Palestinians would rather die than be goyim slaves to mentally-ill European Jews.
All credit to martyr Sinwar for having the vision and courage to destroy Israel by encouraging Israelis to reveal their psychopathy to the world.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:06 utc | 25
You’ve been trained to think history is a movie.
And the empire always plays the hero.
But the world isn’t made of “good guys” and “bad guys.”
It’s made of power.
And the people crushed beneath it.
You ask who the good guys are?
Maybe start with the ones who bled under bombs they didn’t drop.
The ones who were enslaved, colonized, and carpet-bombed.
The ones who resisted, not because they were perfect,
But because they refused to kneel.
You don’t have to find saints.
You just have to stop mistaking the strongest army for moral authority.
America is not the good guy.
https://x.com/nxt888/status/1953528543260160091
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:13 utc | 26
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 7 2025 18:40 @19
“Off topic (but you knew that already)”
How’s it off-topic when I actually quoted a comment in the thread and asked what the commenter meant. It seems to me it’s the covid-deniers who are “the psychotic masses”, not really that different from the deniers of the Gaza gen*cide that is the topic of this thread…that I mentioned in my off-topic-in-your-holier-than-thou estimation.
Your comment that I am responding to is a waste of space. But you knew that already.
Posted by: Share | Aug 7 2025 20:13 utc | 27
Egypt has just inked a $35 Billion deal with Israel for the Gazan Offshore oil and Gas field(s).
Now we know why Egypt has not opened the frontier more effectively for aid to get in.
Oct 7th was a brilliant plan that is going excellently. Palestinians would rather die than be goyim slaves to mentally-ill European Jews.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:06 utc | 25
Palestinians who are starving to death might disagree with you.
Posted by: NoName | Aug 7 2025 20:16 utc | 29
Vile evil b*stard.
“Lord Dannatt lobbied ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the request of a US armaments firm he is ‘employed’ by. How rotten & disgusting our politics are.”
https://nitter.poast.org/JoeBrolly1993/status/1952691089460076766#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:19 utc | 30
Posted by: NoName | Aug 7 2025 20:16 utc | 29
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Some may, but many do not. Accepting slavery is un-Islamic. Better to die than be a traitor to God.
There are still people in this world who put principle over comfort, and that is why Israel is losing.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:20 utc | 31
Why am I not surprised by this.
“Gaza: It is being subjected to biological warfare by the occupation via food aid. Aflatoxin B1, a carcinogenic mycotoxin, has been found in white beans and legumes, and the narcotic oxycodone has been found in flour. There are strong suspicions of other bacterial contaminants in food aid provided by the occupation. We call on the United Nations to take samples of food aid for testing to confirm whether there is biological warfare in Gaza.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Medo198518/status/1953335080782369003#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:22 utc | 32
Lebanon is on the brink of civil war after the quisling government passed a law to disarm Hezbollah and all militias.
Laith Marouf has been reporting that most Lebanese have been arming up. No one trusts the Lebanese military to protect the country from Israel.
Non-stop riots and protests are ongoing.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:23 utc | 33
Countries like Jordan – who flout this rule should be not only be expelled from the ICC, but some sort of fine or something should issued against them – for aiding a war criminal by not doing their duty and arresting him.
“On March 25, Benjamin Netanyahu’s official plane “Wing of Zion” landed at Aqaba King Hussein International Airport in Jordan
It flew from Nevatim airbase—the central node in Israel’s air campaign in Gaza—and arrived in Jordan at 7.53pm
It flew back to Nevatim an hour later
Arrest warrant for Netanyahu was issued by ICC in November 2024
Jordan is a signatory to Rome Statute and member of ICC”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:27 utc | 34
The British government has been using spy planes out of British airbase in Cyprus to gather targeting data that’s then passed onto the Zionists who then bomb and kill women and children in Gaza – now afraid of being found complicit in genocide the British government is/has handed over the spying flights to a private company.
Its way way too late, the British government is up to its eyes in aiding and abetting in genocide – and war crimes.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:32 utc | 35
Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/october7_23?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Martyred:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Reporting from Rafah
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/madinat_khanyuns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 7 2025 20:37 utc | 36
The Guardian uncovers that Israel’s Unit 8200 has been channeling millions of Palestinian phone calls into Microsoft’s Azure cloud — up to 1 million calls per hour since 2021.
Leaked documents reveal over 200M hours of conversations stored in Europe for military purposes.
https://nitter.poast.org/S2FUncensored/status/1953109297874747849#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:39 utc | 37
Hezbollah is at risk of being disarmed: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/focus-on-lebanon-they-want-to-disarm?r=25fc37
Opinion and statements are very diverse and contradictory at the moment regarding just about everything. I don’t even know if the “Israeli” govt meeting underway for previous five hours and still underway, will provide any information.
What stands out is a ‘softening of position’ at same time as increased military activity is being suggested, the first likely to try to cover for the other being implemented.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 7 2025 20:45 utc | 39
Israelis force an innocent child to strip and slap and bully him for no reason.
This is life before Oct 7.
video
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1953226427987288575
And that is why people join Hamas.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:49 utc | 40
Posted by: Ismaele | Aug 7 2025 20:42 utc | 38
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Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Ansar Allah will never be disarmed.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 20:51 utc | 41
Top Israeli Rabbi: “IT’S A GLOBAL WAR” | Irish President: “INVOKE CHAPTER 7” | 80,000 IDF CASUALTIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBMnebnZk8 8 mins
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 7 2025 20:51 utc | 42
Posted by: Share | Aug 7 2025 20:13 utc | 27
One of their own introduces the OT, then they lecture (or worse) any responder.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 7 2025 21:36 utc | 43
Irish president urges UN to intervene in Gaza, citing ‘destruction of an entire people’
rish President Michael D. Higgins has called on the UN to take urgent action in Gaza, asking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to invoke powers under Chapter Seven to bypass Security Council gridlock and deliver humanitarian aid, Anadolu reports.
In a video shared by RTE News, he described the crisis as the “incredible, incredible destruction of an entire people.”
“Are we to watch children starving, women dehydrated, or trying to feed their children? So something must happen,” he said.
President Higgins expressed support for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to invoke powers under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter—a mechanism that allows for enforcement action, including the use of force, without Security Council approval if deemed necessary.
“I am personally in favor of the secretary-general of the UN using Chapter Seven procedure, by which, whether or not the Security Council agrees, and even if there’s a blockage, the right exists for the secretary-general to seek to put together an international defense of a corridor,” he said.
Referring to blocked humanitarian aid, Higgins added: “There are 6,000 trucks with enough food for three months, and it has been blocked, and it is outrageous.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250804-irish-president-urges-un-to-intervene-in-gaza-citing-destruction-of-an-entire-people/
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 7 2025 21:38 utc | 44
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:27 utc | 34
Ergo: Null & Void. De facto anarchy.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 7 2025 21:41 utc | 45
AI Overview
No, Chapter VII of the UN Charter does not allow for enforcement action, including the use of force, without Security Council approval. Chapter VII outlines the UN’s powers to maintain or restore international peace and security, and it explicitly requires Security Council authorization for actions like military intervention. While it does provide the framework for such actions, including the use of force, it does not bypass the need for Security Council decisions.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 7 2025 21:47 utc | 46
If it’s any consulation to the poor people of Gaza….
I can report that england is a moral waistland at the momment.
The public totaly brain dead as a result of missinformation.
Turning their back on reality by choice.
Desperate to scramble above the riseing tide of extreme povity.
They will sell their own granmother for her life savings.
They will fight the poor and vonrable to pretend they are strong and on the winning side.
But they are zombies without a soul.
Like cattle weighting for slaughter.
Karma.
Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 7 2025 22:02 utc | 47
And this nonsense from netinyhoo today.
Dont be fooled for one momment.
Dont give it the ligitamacy of sereous debait.
He’s going to murder avery last person in Gaza.
We should surly know by now he’s the bigist lyer this world has ever seen, a psychpath.
Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 7 2025 22:11 utc | 48
Not only are most english polititians bribed by israel and the jews, but they are also scared, intimidated into doing netinyhoo’s bidding.
Consider what would happen to anyone of them who go’s against israel in any meaningfull way.
Other than some half harted bleating followed by the regulatory blame Hamas ie blame the victems.
Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 7 2025 22:17 utc | 49
It gets worse….
The media…
I hope they rot in hell.
Every last one of them and their offspring.
No expanation needed.
Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 7 2025 22:21 utc | 50
see the 41-second video at the first link. israel is a pure terrorist state and must pay for its crimes against humanity and should be abolished as it cannot live in peace with any of its neighbors. they are demons from Hell.
see the 44-second video at the second link
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1953176753079226777
sarah @sahouraxo
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping bombs on several civilian villages in South Lebanon in the middle of the night.
No military targets.
No warning.
No justification.
Just pure, calculated terror.
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1953052053342662682
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
They were all killed while they waited for humanitarian aid trucks to arrive: hey, America, is this your Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkpUwPavy-s
🚨INTENSE STRIKES AGAINST LEBANON | IRAN RESPONDS | HIZBULLAH’S FIERCE RESPONSE AGAINST GOV’T
Mahmood OD | محمود عودة
157K subscribers
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 7 2025 22:34 utc | 51
Looks like civil war in Lebanon will soon break out again or is Hezb’Allah finished?
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 7 2025 23:20 utc | 52
I wish Hezb’Allah would just shut up and respond with action.
All their big talk only resulted in a humiliating defeat and left them neutered.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 7 2025 23:23 utc | 53
Netanyahu says he wants to occupy all of Gaza, but that Israel doesn’t want to stay there. I assume the plan is to occupy it and then claim that they are being forced to stay there, given that this is all in service of Greater Israel..
Posted by: D J G | Aug 7 2025 23:29 utc | 54
Irish President Michael D. Higgins has called on the UN to take urgent action in Gaza
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 7 2025 21:38 utc | 44
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What was Mr. Higgins doing and saying last month? I truly don’t know.
A lot of ass-covering is going on among European politicians.
Now that it is “prudent”, many are speaking out before they get tarred with complicity.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 23:31 utc | 55
All their big talk only resulted in a humiliating defeat and left them neutered.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 7 2025 23:23 utc | 53
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Day drinking isn’t productive, friend.
Hezbollah has not been defeated. They will never be defeated.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 23:33 utc | 56
Mahmood OD is reporting that the Zionists are planning to use Arab troops to occupy Gaza because the IDF cannot.
Which creates the question, which of Trump’s Arab pals is willing to occupy Gaza?
That’s where America is at right now. They are trying to find Arabs to rule on behalf of the Israelis.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 0:16 utc | 57
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 23:33 utc | 56
Diverting attention from Israel to Saudi Arabia is also not productive.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:20 utc | 58
NBC News
Satellite images show Israel building up forces for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, sources say
16 minutes ago
lol
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:37 utc | 59
Diverting attention from Israel to Saudi Arabia is also not productive.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:20 utc | 58
I think it is.
After all, they’re one and the same now.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 0:40 utc | 60
possible ground invasion of Gaza, sources say
16 minutes ago
lol
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:37 utc | 59
Very confusing. I thought that’s what they’ve been doing all along.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 0:43 utc | 61
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 0:43 utc | 61
So you can tell the difference.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:49 utc | 62
Mark2 @ 49, 50
Canucklheads all mixed up too…
https://angusreid.org/israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-state/
And Canada’s AIPAC, CIJA – The Centre For Israel & Jewish Affairs would like to keep it that way:
https://www.cija.ca
“Our community priorities.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 0:50 utc | 63
Journalist Sohaib Al-Masalmeh
[Not official afaik, but probably correct]
“Hebrew sources:
The expanded Security Cabinet meeting … 10 hours …
The decision is to occupy the entire Gaza Strip.”
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 8 2025 1:08 utc | 64
EI: Jon Elmer’s Resistance Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgAkWMZtlCk
“Israeli tanks caught in resistance minefield.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 1:10 utc | 65
@LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 23:31 utc | 55
https://president.ie/en
When you know fu€k all about someone it is very unwise to insult said someone in an Irish bar.
Accept the gift of a virtual black eye ye little know-it-all fukkin bollix.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 8 2025 1:19 utc | 66
MEE Live: Gideon Levy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EM4Z0-fVU
“Inside Israel: a fractured state amidst genocide. ‘At the end of the day Israeli society supports the occupation and is much more united than you may believe.” Recommended.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 1:41 utc | 67
Journalist Sohaib Al-Masalmeh
“Urgent:
The Cabinet approves the occupation of the Gaza Strip”
[Still better to cross check with other sources…the decision to overtly declare that aim is significant]
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 8 2025 1:43 utc | 68
Odd that some in the bar have suddenly decided to gang-bang LoveDonbass.
It’s usually a sign of someone hitting too close to home.
Meanwhile, back at the Genocide Ranch, where is Al-Julani?
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 8 2025 1:44 utc | 69
To Our Land
BY MAHMOUD DARWISH
TRANSLATED BY FADY JOUDAH
To our land,
and it is the one near the word of god,
a ceiling of clouds
To our land,
and it is the one far from the adjectives of nouns,
the map of absence
To our land,
and it is the one tiny as a sesame seed,
a heavenly horizon … and a hidden chasm
To our land,
and it is the one poor as a grouse’s wings,
holy books … and an identity wound
To our land,
and it is the one surrounded with torn hills,
the ambush of a new past
To our land, and it is a prize of war,
the freedom to die from longing and burning
and our land, in its bloodied night,
is a jewel that glimmers for the far upon the far
and illuminates what’s outside it …
As for us, inside,
we suffocate more!
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 8 2025 1:56 utc | 70
ZH has a posting up with the title
Trump Tells Mideast Nations To Join Abraham Accords Now That Iran’s ‘Nuclear Arsenal Totally Obliterated’
quote
President Donald Trump on Thursday once again issued a call for Middle East countries to join his Abraham Accords, on the basis that this will ensure peace now that Iran’s “nuclear arsenal” had been “obliterated”.
“Now that the nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been totally OBLITERATED, it is very important to me that all Middle Eastern Countries join the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
So far, the four Muslim-majority countries of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Morocco, with Sudan have signed on – normalizing relations with Israel – which was the result of efforts during Trump’s first term.
Trump is the Wag The Dog producer of Abraham Accords mythology, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 8 2025 2:24 utc | 71
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 8 2025 1:19 utc | 66
######
I didn’t insult him.
I looked through his website. I don’t see any mention of Gaza except for “Sabina” lighting a candle.
Do you have a link to something substantial from the last 3 months?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 2:33 utc | 72
The IDF has dropped more explosive ordinance on Gaza than contained in SEVEN Hiroshima A bombs….that is an amazing stat.
The US is the primary supplier of this ordinance.
An estimated 400,000 civilians, so far, have been murdered by the IDF, including tens of thousands buried alive in the rubble of their homes and apartment blocks. That is more deaths than the total deaths from the A bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The US is totally responsible in this massive genocide.
Posted by: tobias cole | Aug 8 2025 2:37 utc | 73
see the 1:25 video at the first link. if you can stand to listen to netanyahu tell lie after lie on Fox, that is
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1953554564357218543
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️JUST IN: Israeli PM netanyahu claims that the images of massive destruction in Gaza are not because of Israel.
80% of Gaza is destroyed and areas have been razed to the ground by bulldozers but he continues to deny any responsibility.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1953511799472763022
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Relax!
There is no civil war in Lebanon, and nothing will happen. No worry! The government’s decision is folkloric and will please the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, but can’t be translated on the ground. No army in the Middle East can present a viable military plan to disarm Hezbollah.
How does the Lebanese army implement this decision against 100,000 Hezbollah-trained ground force members and a total of half a million Shia men ready to fight for their existence?
——-
https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1953544976538693674
Matt Kennard @kennardmatt
Even the Guardian is covering it now
The dam has burst
We have all the receipts
This is direct participation in genocide. For 20 months – and counting
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/07/uks-surveillance-flights-over-gaza-raise-questions-on-help-for-israeli-military
UK’s surveillance flights over Gaza raise questions on help for Israeli military
Government says it controls what information is shared as critics question the role of intelligence gathering
….Jeremy Corbyn, the co-leader of an unnamed new left political party, said “the UK’s continued military cooperation with Israel is utterly indefensible” as “a genocide is livestreamed around the world”. The former Labour leader said: “We still don’t know why these flights are continuing and what intelligence is being provided.”……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 8 2025 2:40 utc | 74
Senior Hamas Official Dr Basem Naim –
Al Arabiya English Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh71XHCqZFo
“Accuses US Envoy Steve Witkoff of undermining peace deal. Says group will not disarm.”
by any means necessary – all out for palestine – resist don’t collaborate.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 2:46 utc | 75
‘The meeting should adopt unified, actionable measures – diplomatic, legal and economic – to stop the aggression, ensure accountability, and reaffirm the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, sovereignty, and return, marking the starting point for restoring justice,’ Araghchi said.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 7 2025 17:23 utc | 15
===============
Only military action can stop the Ziomaniacs.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 8 2025 3:00 utc | 76
“Only military action can stop the Ziomaniacs.”
In the neighbor hood, only Iran has the military capability.
Any disputes? Criticisms?
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 3:07 utc | 77
I am still shunning my mosque prayers, in which the imam is continuing to take a takfiri position supporting HTS slaughter of Alawites.
I see no difference whatsoever between HTS slaughtering Shi’a and Zionists slaughtering Palestinians. To subscribe to the takfiri slaughter of HTS isctonsubscribe to the Genocide by USUKIS and Israel.
On the day that our prophet , Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him , conquered Mecca, he said this was a day for asking for forgiveness and he ordered that only the most inveterate of the isolators should be killed.
But, if the old US McCarthyist jihadists against Communism can take pleasure in the defeat of Socialism in Israel, and the raising of the flag of Fascism in the USUKISphere, all I can say is that gĺoŕifying genocide is what they fought for in Afghanistan. What has changed? They still seek to obtain power from it today, 50 years later.
Those who worship US power now are no different from those who worshipped British Empire power in the time of the British Raj. It would be more respectable to oppose USUKIS power by rejecting USUKIS HTS Takfirism intolerance, than to continue to preach it in the Mosques of Britain.
I suppose the teenager inside the takfiri imam and the teenager inside the retired USUKIS jihadist are entitled to ignore the crimes of the flag they espouse. Teenagers are entitled to ignore inconvenient truths that Israel runs AlQaeda
Lakum deenukum, wa lee addeen./
Fir you is your religion , and for me is mine.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 8 2025 3:41 utc | 78
78
I love Isolators, I use them all the time as an electrician. I don’t like idolators and those who take money from Trump and Netanyahu to shill for the Ignorance of Fascism . Lol.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 8 2025 4:01 utc | 79
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 0:20 utc | 58
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No one makes good decisions under duress. A lot of pressure on the Zionists right now. There is a humanity-wide referendum being quietly held about Israel and America.
Big stakes and no obvious solutions for the psychos. It’s not like the Israelis can give up on Greater Israel or the rapture now, and everyone will forgive and forget.
That is the true genius of Sinwar’s plan. The Zionists, being who they are, were compelled to push things so far that humanity at large would have to render a verdict about Israel and Palestine.
Things will never be the same, and inshallah, after this, colonialism will be a thing of the past. Good for West Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 4:06 utc | 80
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 4:06 utc | 80
That matters had to be resolved this way is exclusively on our Western `leaders’, their sponsors and supporters. There is no escape from condemnation, there are no mitigating circumstances.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 4:51 utc | 81
@76/77: I agree. But the OIC isn’t up to that nor yet apparently Iran so it is pitched the way it is.
It may have gone down differently had Raisi not gone down in his helicopter…
Ebrahim Raisi’s Vision For the Palestinian Cause:
https://en.abna24.com/news/1461768/Ebrahim-Raisi-s-Vision-for-the-Palestinian-Cause
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 4:59 utc | 82
Little Satan’s security council voted to occupy Gaza City. IOF forces are madding on the border.
https://x.com/TheWarMonitor/status/1953630753201566195
https://x.com/TheWarMonitor/status/1953622957349114268
Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 5:59 utc | 83
JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 4:59 utc | 82
Why he’s dead, no doubt. So is Israel now.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 6:03 utc | 84
Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 5:59 utc | 83
Massing on the border, not “madding.”
Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 6:48 utc | 85
“Israel hides 10,000 death IDF soldiers fallen in Gaza”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PafLClsdRqQ
Posted by: WMG | Aug 8 2025 6:53 utc | 86
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 0:43 utc | 61
Nutty is planning takeover of Gaza, starting in Gaza City & spreading from there. Survivors, if any, to be forced south. (A feedlot/killpen imo)
IDF head is against it due to insufficient forces & high casualties. The security council met for 10 hours today & voted for it.
(I just realized Hani’s kitchens are just west of Gaza City 😟)
Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 6:56 utc | 87
see the 47-second video at the first link. paybacks and karma will someday be a real bitch for you, israel
see the photo at the second link of Vanessa Redgrave at the Academy, 1977
see the photo at the third link, Redgrave at 88 years old, just the other day protesting
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1952128592894480814
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
🚨Horrific Moment: The Israeli army executed a group of aid seekers in Gaza by directly opening fire on them today.
———
https://x.com/awards_watch/status/1952075778981855479
Erik Anderson @awards_watch
She was right then and she’s right now
https://x.com/vijayprashad/status/1951982540916420623
Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad
Vanessa Redgrave (age 88) bangs a pot for Gaza at the Lambeth Town Hall in London.
In 1977, Redgrave produced the film The Palestinian. The various Zionist groups tried to shut down the film. She won the Oscar for her role in Julia that year, and told the Academy, ‘In the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threat of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums, whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world, and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression’.
The following year, the Jewish Defence League bombed the Doheny Plaza theatre in Los Angeles, where The Palestinian was to be screened.
A conscience of the world of art.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 8 2025 7:11 utc | 88
Nutty is planning takeover of Gaza, starting in Gaza City & spreading from there.
Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 6:56 utc | 87
If that’s the case then good.
Hamas’ greatest wish is that the IDF engage with it on it’s own terms.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 7:35 utc | 89
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
@SholaMos1
My God. Israeli Jews are evil. You mean Israel rejected Hamas 2 offers in 2024 to release all hostages even agreed not to rule Gaza! Instead Israel continued to kill babies, torture, starve & ethnically cleanse millions of Palestinians? Listen to Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin
Video (1:07)
https://x.com/SholaMos1/status/1953211705879576995
Posted by: Menz | Aug 8 2025 7:58 utc | 90
Abier
@abierkhatib
“Were their officers aware they were shooting kids”
Anthony Aguilar “Yes”
Video (1:12)
https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1953311822305517878
Posted by: Menz | Aug 8 2025 8:00 utc | 91
COL. Lawrence Wilkerson on UN Chapter 7 peace keeping force for Gaza:
https://youtu.be/46iZ8g-qo_I?t=1203
——
Report: Trump yelled at Netanyahu during phone call over Gaza starvation:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-trump-yelled-netanyahu-during-phone-call-over-gaza-starvation?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=547023
“Netanyahu told Trump on the phone that starvation in Gaza is not real and that it had been fabricated by Hamas, the report said, citing a senior US official, two former US officials and the Western official.
The officials, all of whom were briefed on the call, said Trump interrupted Netanyahu and began yelling.
He said he did not want to hear that the starvation is fake and that his aides had shown him proof that children there are starving, they said.”
Posted by: Vortex | Aug 8 2025 8:02 utc | 92
David Brophy
@Dave_Brophy
Well, my flag was removed. Thousands of malnourished children on the brink of death, Israel escalating the genocide, and the University of Sydney’s priority is ensuring that that there are no visible signs of support for the Palestinians on campus.
https://x.com/Dave_Brophy/status/1953197646451228790
The Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/07/university-of-sydney-removes-palestinian-flag-from-academic-david-brophy-office-window-ntwnfb
Posted by: Menz | Aug 8 2025 8:11 utc | 93
I’m wondering if this could be an occasion for what’s eventually remaining of hezbollah to hit Israel while busy in the Gaza strip operation. 🤔
Posted by: Mario | Aug 8 2025 8:14 utc | 94
It’s on! Ziofascists of the political, media and deepstate classes are to be treated to escalation throughout August as the now fully informed public of all ages hit the streets.
“ Mass pro-Palestine Action protest planned for London this weekend ‘could test Met to the limit’
Protest organisers have encouraged supporters to create their own signs showing support for the recently proscribed Palestine Action “
There are 60 something middle class Anglo Saxon ladies leading the charge now – they are ready to be arrested by their uniformed kids and grandkids of the ziofascist state security and legal apparatus. Let’s see their child police ‘just following orders’!
Death death to the IoF
Decolonise Decolonise the fake state
WasNeverReal
Ziofascist genociders
The illegal apartheid Entity
The monster that bombs, shoots and poisons
Children women and civilians of captured colonised Palestine
Shame shame upon their wilful supporters
Who cheer as the ziofascist Wasraelis
Have turned Gaza into the Guernica of C21st.
The Germans said they were never Nazis only when beaten by the antifascists
What’s going to be our ziobrits excuse?
They didn’t know???
Last chance to see the light
To see that WE are the bad guys!
Turn against the ZioFascist cultural propagandists
Fight the ziofascist state power
Fight fight- the destruction and genocide of Gaza is on us.
From The River To The Sea
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 8 2025 8:44 utc | 95
I suspect the drive to disarm Hezbollah is coordinated with the Zionist plan for a permanent occupation of Gaza.
That suggests the IDF hasn’t the capacity to fight Hezbollah and occupy Gaza at the same time.
If this is the case, it is indeed Hezbollah’s probable last chance to strike a weakened IDF.
This has to be balanced against a potential invasion of the Bekaa valley by Daesh/Syrian Army.
Basically, Hezbollah can’t do anything while the threat from Syria exists: They’re pinned down. If they move, a genocide of the Lebanese Shi’a will likely occur.
On the other hand, just sitting tight will probably lead to a genocide of the Lebanese Shi’a in the near future regardless.
As always:
“Use it, or lose it”
The question then is simply how “it” should be used …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 8 2025 8:45 utc | 96
Leaked Cabinet transcript reveals Israel chose to starve Gaza as a strategy of war
Netanyahu chose to blow up the ceasefire and starve Gaza’s population in order to force a surrender from Hamas, while top military and security officials favored moving to the second phase of a ceasefire, leaked cabinet meeting minutes reveal.
By Qassam Muaddi August 7, 2025
Israel decided to starve the people of Gaza as a strategy of war and in order to sabotage the ceasefire deal, according to Israeli cabinet meeting minutes leaked on Wednesday to Israel’s Channel 13.
The document purports to show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused multiple proposals that would have secured the release of the remaining Israeli captives during the ceasefire between January and March 2025. Netanyahu decided to break the ceasefire, against the advice of top Israeli military and security officials, and to cut off all aid to Gaza to “force Hamas to surrender,” the leak shows.
The Israeli cabinet’s meeting, dated March 1, was to discuss the fate of the ceasefire with Hamas as the first phase of the agreement was set to expire. The prospective second phase of the ceasefire was supposed to see the beginning of talks on the permanent end of the war. The minutes released by Channel 13 show that army and intelligence officials argued for concluding the ceasefire deal, while cabinet ministers opposed it.
Major General Nitzan Alon, the Israeli army official in charge of prisoners and missing persons, reportedly argued that “the only opportunity to release the captives is to discuss the conditions of phase two,” while Ronen Bar, the chief of the Israeli internal intelligence agency (the Shabak), said that his “preferred option is to move forward with phase two,” stating that Israel could “easily” return to war later. “Let’s get everyone back first, then resume the fight,” he reportedly said.
The minutes also revealed that a senior Israeli security official told the ministers that “it is possible to secure the release of more captives, but that requires engaging in talks about phase two — ending the war.” The government, however, led by Netanyahu, rejected the proposal. He was backed by Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, who reportedly said that Israel was “not prepared to end the war while Hamas remains in power.” Dermer, who supports Netanyahu’s hardline position on Gaza, was named by the Prime Minister as head of the negotiating team in the ceasefire talks.
MORE…
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/leaked-cabinet-minutes-reveal-israel-chose-to-starve-gaza-as-a-strategy-of-war/
Posted by: Menz | Aug 8 2025 8:58 utc | 97
“Revealed: the UK is hiding its complicity in the Gaza genocide”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5wtxkjeZpC0
Posted by: WMG | Aug 8 2025 9:19 utc | 98
RT
@RT_com
Israeli troops loot gold, jewellery, and kids’ PIGGY BANKS in West Bank raids – Haaretz
‘If they get caught, soldiers…say they thought it was terror money’
VIDEO: Palestinian man claims his son’s piggy bank was ROBBED by the ID
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1953600977962987689
Posted by: Menz | Aug 8 2025 9:29 utc | 99
Why is there no solidarity with Palestinians in Arab countries?
Even less then in the west?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 8 2025 10:08 utc | 100