How is hrt possiible that so called academic community, universities in the US and EU are totslly indifferent to the suffering of the Palestinians.
But not only them, also the Arab street and elites.
Is this lack of emphaty and solidarity niy s clear sign of the moral degradation if mankind?
But why has that happened?

Posted by: vargas | Aug 24 2025 13:43 utc | 4

Blind Rage Atrocities are the hallmark of defeated militaries. See Rape of Manila or the US Army in SE Asia for exanple.
Imagine the frustration of poorly Trained IDF conscripts and weekend warriors being forced to go in yet again, only to be attacked by „ghosts“. That the IDF has suffered ~150,000 WIA and ~15,000 KIA might be kept hidden from the news media, but the IDF ground pounders know the score.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 24 2025 13:52 utc | 6

If you have the app delete it now, f*ck TikTok, and f*ck the Zionists.
“TikTok updated its content guidelines to prohibit labeling Israeli forces as “terrorists,” shortly after appointing a former Israeli soldier and self-described “proud Zionist” to oversee its so-called “anti-Semitism” policies.
TikTok appointed Erica Mindel as its new Public Policy Manager for Hate Speech 15 days before the ban was announced, according to users on X.
They also pointed out that the guidelines previously prohibited “all racial supremacy” but have now been narrowed to exclusively address “White supremacy.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 24 2025 14:13 utc | 8

Zio-Monster and minister Israel Katz, using Hamas as an excuse to commit war crimes and to carry out a scorched earth policy in Gaza city.
“Former Israeli minister of military affairs and ex-chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon has said that the current minister, Israel Katz, effectively admitted to committing a war crime when he threatened to turn Gaza City into rubble like Rafah and Beit Hanoun during the military’s planned takeover.
Katz said on Friday that “the gates of hell will soon open over” Hamas fighters in Gaza — “unless they agree to Israel’s conditions for ending the war,” primarily the release of all captives and “their disarmament.”
“If they do not agree, Gaza, the capital of Hamas, will become Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” he added.
Both cities have been reduced to ruins following Israeli military offensives.
Katz’s comments came after the Israeli cabinet approved plans for a massive assault on Gaza City, despite widespread international and domestic opposition.
On Sunday, Ya’alon asserted that Katz’s comments are “an admission to committing a war crime — the evacuation of the residents and the destruction of their homes.”
“The intention to carry this out in Gaza City is clearly an illegal order,” said the ex-military official, calling for Israeli authorities to intervene and prevent the Gaza City offensive from going ahead.
He highlighted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is “messianic,” “evasive,” and “corrupt” and “does not serve” the Israeli regime, but rather “its grip on power”, while “neglecting” the captives.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 24 2025 14:28 utc | 10

An analysis via Al-Akhbar [/arab/856060/]
“Gradual escalation towards Gaza: The enemy begins a campaign to evacuate the city.
The Israeli occupation army is paving the way for an invasion of Gaza City, with displacement operations and mass massacres, under the guise of “humanitarian zones,” while reality confirms an Israeli deception masked by an American green light.
Youssef Fares Palestine
Gaza | While the Israeli security establishment estimates that the first week of September will mark the actual start of the operation to occupy Gaza City, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dubbed “Operation Iron Fist” instead of “Gideon 2,” the Israeli military has begun applying a new level of pressure on the ground to displace residents from the city.
Over the past two days, airstrikes and bombings using booby-trapped robots have intensified, particularly in the Sabra neighborhood southwest of the city and the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast. Field pressure also shifted yesterday to Jabalia al-Balad, Jabalia al-Nazla, and the Saftawi and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, while the enemy army shifted from sending leaflets and broadcasting audio messages urging residents to evacuate, to intensive artillery shelling and committing mass massacres against them.
One of these massacres was committed on Al-Ghabari Street in the Abu Iskandar area of ​​the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where artillery shells struck a school housing dozens of displaced families, killing 12 civilians and wounding dozens more. This resulted in the displacement of hundreds of families who preferred to leave for an unknown destination rather than remain in the area, which is being subjected to continuous bombardment. In the Al-Sabra neighborhood, warplanes raided the neighborhood school, which was housing hundreds of displaced people, and carried out dozens of raids targeting residential buildings and inhabited homes. In total, the Ministry of Health recorded the deaths of approximately 60 citizens in separate Israeli raids yesterday.
The occupation army is conducting a major deception operation, deluding the world into believing that it is fulfilling its role in taking care of the humanitarian situation.
The forced displacement, which is expected to take a violent turn over the next two weeks, is paralleled by an Israeli propaganda campaign that is not matched by the facts on the ground. The occupation army claims it has begun establishing humanitarian zones by bringing in quantities of tents and tarpaulins, and has begun rehabilitating the European Hospital south of Khan Yunis to replace hospitals in Gaza City. The Coordinator’s page also published a call between an Israeli officer and a director in the Ministry of Health in Gaza, asking him to prepare a plan to transport equipment from the city.
This massive propaganda campaign is identical to a similar one launched by the Israeli occupation army prior to the raid on Rafah. However, the facts, both previous and subsequent, confirm that all Israeli statements are baseless, and that the occupation army is waging a massive deception, deluding the world into believing it is fulfilling its role in addressing the humanitarian situation, when in reality it is abandoning the displaced to their fate in the streets and open air, without any international support or relief efforts.
As part of the same deception campaign, the occupation authorities have, in recent weeks, allowed the entry of goods to only three merchants from Gaza. These merchants supply limited quantities of secondary food and luxury items sold at exorbitant prices, a fraction of which only the wealthiest residents of the Strip can afford. The entry of these items, such as fruits, vegetables, and chocolate sold in dollars, serves the occupation’s propaganda about flooding Gaza with goods and commodities. In reality, a kilogram of tomatoes costs more than $30, a kilogram of mangoes costs $40, a box of chocolates costs $100, and luxury items such as Nescafé cost $120.
As a result, the occupying army is heading toward invading and destroying Gaza City, while perpetrating a humanitarian and political deception, using negotiations and ongoing, fruitless procrastination as a cover for destruction and devastation, especially since it has received an American green light to continue the war to the fullest extent without any restrictions.” Al-Akhbar

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 14:37 utc | 12

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 24 2025 14:38 utc | 14

Not lack of empathy but pressured to the core.
Arab street: hybrid economic war, covid, extreme poverty.
Academia: job cuts every year, only the most obedient and the narcissists in need of an audience can survive.
Why can’t the BRICS start doing some brain drain, that is the real question.

Posted by: Minaa | Aug 24 2025 14:52 utc | 16

🇻🇪 🇮🇱 Venezuela President Maduro: “They want to completely exterminate the reproduction of new generations of Palestinian Arabs. They believe that this is possible.”

Video
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/1959510279831650372

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 14:57 utc | 18

Merz still sending military aid to the Zionists.
” Israeli MoD Boeing 747 Freighter (4X-ICK) leave for Cologne, Germany, where it will pick up to 128 tons of Military equipment.
German Chancellor Merz on August 8th: “We will not authorise any exports of military equipment that could be used in Gaza until further notice.””
https://nitter.poast.org/MenchOsint/status/1959562029733187640#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 24 2025 15:02 utc | 20

Bernard has linked to articles by Caitlin Johnstone several times in the recent past, so I’d like to suggest he follow her lead by not calling the slaughter in Palestine a war.
(He has referred to it as a war from the beginning in describing this column as “News & views related to the war in Palestine”)
Here’s what Johnstone wrote on 29 April this year:

Calling the Gaza genocide a “war” is like seeing a man beating a toddler to death and calling it a “fight”.

More by Johnstone in the same article:

So much evil hides behind calling this thing a war. If you accept that it’s a war then you have to take seriously arguments like “It’s a war, civilians die in war,” or “Hamas shouldn’t have started a war they can’t win.” If it’s a war then it has two sides who share comparable levels of responsibility for any bad things that happen during that time. If it’s a war then it’s taken as a given that Israel’s primary target is Hamas, and not the civilian population of Gaza in its entirety.
But it’s not a war, it’s a naked ethnic cleansing operation being carried out by a highly sophisticated military with the backing of the most powerful empire that has ever existed. It’s a globe-spanning power structure openly purging a Palestinian territory of Palestinian life using a full siege and the systematic destruction of all healthcare and civilian infrastructure, being resisted by a few thousand guys with homemade rockets and dwindling supplies. That’s not a “war”.

Posted by: Mark Mosby | Aug 24 2025 15:05 utc | 22

Where is China ? Where is Russia ?

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 16:04 utc | 24

Where is China ? Where is Russia ?
Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 16:04 utc | 24
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https://maps.google.com/

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 16:26 utc | 26

” https://maps.google.com/
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 16:26 utc | 26 ”
Stop posting please.

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 17:00 utc | 28

– How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare –
Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 16:19 utc | 25
I see no sign in practice of Game theory being used. It may be being used, but I see no provable sign. all there is to see are the basic consequences of the policies of the early Zionists, e.g. Jabotinsky. If you commit to a policy of eternal war with the neighbours, then you have to choose certain paths, as Israel has done. No need for game theory. And there are certain consequences which will happen sooner or later, I can’t say when. Could be in a century. And that is the extinction of the state of Israel (not of the Jews who live there, of course). Expansion, over-expansion, and then defeat, inevitable as night follows day.

Posted by: laguerre | Aug 24 2025 17:25 utc | 30

Was it possible to cause the extinction of Nazism without the extinction of Nazis ?
Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 17:37 utc | 31
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A question I have been dancing around for months.
Can a Nazi be rehabilitated? Can a pedophile be safe to privately care for children one day?
Does blood wash off, and things be “good as new”?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 17:47 utc | 32

” Can a Nazi be rehabilitated? Can a pedophile be safe to privately care for children one day?
Does blood wash off, and things be “good as new”?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 17:47 utc | 32 ”
” Historically, Jewish communities have been expelled from many places across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa at different times over the last two millennia. Historians generally record over 100 documented expulsions between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ”

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 18:01 utc | 34

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 17:37 utc | 31
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And let’s ask ourselves a serious question, “Was Nazism ever extinguished”?
I don’t think a serious attempt was even made. The Japanese were wrecked, but many Nazis migrated to North America, and the first leader of NATO was a former Nazi.
Without getting too specific, I feel confident to broadly say that 90% of Western mythology is dishonesty.
No one likes being told that their self-image is a lie.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 18:04 utc | 36

How much does it cost to destroy Gaza?
19 AWST 2025 Hagai Amit
The operation of hundreds of heavy vehicles at high rents that consume thousands of liters of diesel fuel per day, thousands of cubic meters of concrete poured into tunnels, and hundreds of thousands of tons of substrate that were pumped into the IDF for the purpose of paving roads: The destruction of the Gaza Strip is apparently the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Israel – and one of the most expensive of them ■ It is carried out without an orderly directive from above
In the week that passed between the time work on this article began and the time these lines were published, hundreds of heavy Israeli vehicles destroyed hundreds, if not thousands, of homes in the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Defense spent millions of shekels on this activity.
Never before in the history of Israel have so many houses and buildings been demolished in a row. The excavators, shovels and D9s in Gaza do not stop working for a moment – in a process that is not expected to stop. The Cabinet’s approval of the occupation of Gaza City guarantees Israeli forces many more months to demolish thousands of homes and buildings, given the destruction that accompanies any IDF occupation of the Gaza Strip.
In fact, in the Cabinet meeting, the voices of ministers who did not understand why Gaza was not destroyed like the other cities in the Gaza Strip were explicitly voiced. The approval granted on Sunday by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to renew the entry of tents and shelter equipment into the Gaza Strip – for the first time since the closure was imposed on the Gaza Strip in March – also mentioned that hundreds of thousands of Gazans will have to replace their remaining homes with tents. This is an unprecedented engineering event, which is taking place despite the fact that there is no official military policy or a decision made by the political echelon to demolish all the houses in the Gaza Strip. The policy comes from the field, from the commanders of the companies and battalions, for whom the buildings that remain standing endanger the lives of their soldiers.
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Officers who were asked about this explained that “no one demolishes buildings for fun,” but in practice, in the Gaza Strip, any building that remains standing is a threat, since every building can be booby-trapped, and in every building there can be a sniper or a tunnel shaft from which a Hamas member will come up and fire on our forces. From the point of view of the forces on the ground, the safest thing to do is to leave any territory in which the IDF operates flattened to the ground.
The dominant infrastructure companies that lease their services to the Ministry of Defence are not many. Among them are Talor Karadi; Assia Company; Olenik; Ofer Farm Company, owned by Alon Algali; and the Eran 14 company, owned by Eran and David Yifrach.
Each of them rents dozens of heavy tools to the Ministry of Defence. The income per working day is significantly greater than the remuneration for the same activity within Israel. If for regular work of heavy equipment, not for the Ministry of Defense, within Israel’s borders, the industry pays 3,500 shekels a day for the owners of the vehicle, the Ministry of Defense currently pays 5,000 shekels for a day of heavy equipment work in Gaza. Of this sum, about 1,200 shekels a day is transferred tothe operator of the vehicle, who if he worked in Israel would earn only two-thirds or a half of that amount.
Alongside the large companies, there are smaller contractors in Gaza, who lease 2-3 vehicles directly to the Ministry of Defence, and hundreds of reservists who operate the heavy equipment owned by the IDF. That’s why we bring in special teams of companies like ours,” says Lior Karadi, owner of Talor Karadi. Each team has at least five heavy tools. “For example, we come in with 8-12 tools. Such a team demolishes close to 100 buildings a day. And they work all the time. We have an executive arm for Gaza, with foremen and skilled workers. All the teams enter with IDF guards.”
“The demand leads to the fact that there are currently no heavy tools in stock with the importers. If you order a heavy vehicle from a company like Volvo, you’ll have to wait six or seven months for it to be delivered. That’s why last week we were in China to examine a large import of equipment for the mouth,” says Karadi. “The teams that demolish the buildings in Gaza flatten them to a height of zero, so that there won’t be even a pillar left standing – so that terrorists can’t hide behind it. In this way, even if there is a tunnel under the building, it is sealed with the waste.” Despite all this, Karadi says, “We would have preferred to build the country rather than destroy Gaza.”
Payment for daily use of heavy equipment – NIS 5,000 (compared to NIS 3,500 in routine)
Yafit Algali, the wife of Alon Algali, owner of a dirt farm, says: “We have been working with the IDF since the beginning of the war, and the scope of activity has increased over time. They went down during the ceasefire, and after the end of the ceasefire, we returned to activity with force and strength. We are doing what is necessary.”
Algali says, “The army has no choice. It’s a workforce and tools of a size that the IDF doesn’t have, and the cost of wages is obviously higher, because of the level of risk. Several of our vehicles were disabled and out of operation because of mortar shells fired at them.”
S., who operates heavy vehicles in the Gaza Strip, adds: “You have to be not afraid of the gunfire and shelling, and be prepared to drive in a Leopard armored personnel carrier from the border to Khan Yunis. There, you get on the excavator, and you get an order on the radio: ‘You see the White House on the right, take it down.’ That’s how you take down three to five houses a day.” According to him, “The tool belongs to one company, another contractor rents it from it – and he pays me 1,200 shekels a day instead of the 600 shekels I would earn in a regular place.”
“You have to not be afraid of the shots and shells, and be prepared to drive in a Leopard APC from the border to Khan Yunis. There you have to get on the exger, get an order on the radio: ‘You see the White House on the right – take it down.’ That’s how you take down 3-5 houses a day.”
S., who operates heavy equipment in the Gaza Strip – IDF forces in the southern Gaza Strip. To date, the army has brought nearly 250,000 tons of bedding into Gaza, mainly for the purpose of laying roads Photo: David Bachar
Demand is increasing in other areas
Each vehicle held by the Ministry of Defense in Gaza brings in 150,000 shekels a month to its owner. The costs of diesel fuel are at the expense of the Ministry of Defense. The cost of operating 500 heavy vehicles, for example, is approaching NIS 100 million a month. But the demand for heavy tools doesn’t end there.
According to Karadi, “The need stems from what is happening in Gaza, and certainly from the fact that another market has opened because of the need to demolish the buildings that were damaged in the Iranian attack – and before it. The effects of the attacks on Israel were also reflected in the area of waste disposal and the renovation that needs to be carried out in buildings. There is currently talk of an additional million tons of construction waste as a result of the demolitions created by the attacks in Israel.
Lior Karadi. “Today, it is estimated that there are 60-70 million tons of rubble in Gaza. The assessment of professionals and myself is that it will take 8-12 years to treat this waste.”
“We are carrying out work in Holon, we have carried out work in the entire Gaza envelope. And next week we’ll work in Beersheba. To this we must add that work has been opened inside the country to expand the bases of the Ministry of Defense, and projects such as the creation of organizing areas. It can be said that today most of the activity in the industry in which we operate is for the Ministry of Defense.”
In addition to the heavy equipment work, the infrastructure work industry is in demand from the Ministry of Defense in other areas. “Our concrete factories work much more,” says Karadi. “Besides the fact that we build and sell armored vehicles and safe rooms, our trucks and mixers have been recruited to seal tunnels. The amount of concrete that the army needs is insane. We are talking about thousands of cubic meters of concrete.”
Karadi adds: “The impact of the war is also felt, for example, in the quarry industry. It’s an industry that shouldn’t have any apparent influence. However, to date, the army has brought close to 250,000 tons of bedding into Gaza, mainly for the purpose of laying roads. We are trying to promote a pilot with the Ministry of Defense so that this will be done with recycled material. At the moment, they don’t give us permission to do so – not to use recycled materials from the rubble in the Gaza Strip and not materials from the rubble here in Israel.
“If they had given permission for it, they would have saved dozens, if not hundreds of millions of shekels. While there is the use of recycled materials in large quantities inside Israel, Gaza does not approve of it. The day we have to return the Gaza Strip to them, a day that I hope will not come, they will use this platform for reconstruction.”
“Today, it is estimated that there are 60-70 million tons of rubble in Gaza, and that it will take 8-12 years to treat this waste. This is waste that requires surgical work to treat, because some of the destroyed buildings are still booby-trapped. It has a lot of iron. And transporting it on the sandy ground of Gaza is complicated.”
Lior Karadi, owner of Talor Karadi – 12 Years of Waste Disposal
The IDF Spokesperson said: “The IDF is in the midst of a complex and intense fight against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, including the Hamas terrorist organization, which uses civilian buildings and exploits them in a cruel and cynical manner for terrorist purposes. In this context, IDF forces repeatedly encountered buildings, roads, and infrastructure that were booby-trapped with powerful explosives that led to the death and injury of IDF soldiers.
“The IDF is required to manoeuvre through these complex areas in order to locate and dismantle Hamas infrastructure in accordance with the objectives of the war, and it is required to demolish buildings based on a clear military need and threats to IDF forces in the area. According to military orders, the destruction of property is done only when there is an operational basis that requires it, and the IDF has never had a policy that allows the deliberate destruction of civilian property.” (REALLY!!!!!!!!!)

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Aug 24 2025 18:13 utc | 38

Another OIC meeting and mores talks if that helps reassure anyone:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/24/753696/Iran-Saudi-Arabia-Araghchi-OIC-extraordinary-Gaza-
Iran FM in Saudi Arabia to attend OIC extraordinary meeting on Gaza
Sunday, 24 August 2025 5:53 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 24 August 2025 5:53 PM ]
“During the two-day event, the participants will discuss the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, possible ways to put an end to Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine, and bring the criminal Zionists to trial.
The OIC said the meeting will focus on the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza and aims to coordinate member states’ positions and responses.”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 18:25 utc | 40

The painter 31
Netanyahu is a Nazi. He has become his enemy, just as Trump has become Stalin.
Netanyahu now faces the collapse of Hitler’s dreams of world domination, and Trump faces the collapse of the US Empire.
Already I fear the next Hitler and the next Stalin. These Satanic energies won’t die with the humans they possessed. Palestine and the US will survive the possessed , Kashoggi mincing Gulf dictators and Armaggeddon Ukrainian Zionist Neocons.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 24 2025 18:26 utc | 42

Whilst the West still has a considerable arms industry
Posted by: Monty | Aug 24 2025 18:26 utc | 41
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Does it really?
They “think” that they have a considerable industry, but the reality and statements surrounding arms transfers to Ukraine tell a different story.
Bombing Yemen right now. Every bomb for Yemen is one less bomb for Gaza or Iran.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 18:39 utc | 44

Florida USA. Jimmy Door
Jimmy Dore and guest Ryan Cristián of the Last American Vagabond discuss Israel’s deepening economic crisis, noting a 3.5% GDP drop, collapsing investment, and reports of 46,000 business closures since October 7.*** They also highlight Florida legislation forcing local governments to buy unrated, high-risk Israel bonds after U.S. credit agencies downgraded them, with billions already purchased by Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties.”
NOTE: Bonds are “unrated” they are so bad.
“The conversation frames U.S. **guarantees of Israel’s debt as taxpayer-backed subsidies*** that mask financial instability, comparing it to disaster aid conditions tied to pro-Israel stances. The two suggest this may be part of a larger financial setup tied to a “technocratic transition” toward digital currencies, while criticizing bipartisan big-government spending that props up failing policies abroad.”
Not sure this accurate:
Dade: 200 Mil
Broward 5 Mil
Palm Beach 700 Mil
These are “local counties” purchasing.
Therefore, when they belly up, since Federally Subsidized,
ALL Taxpayers Pay.
Credit rating bad to unrated.
Private investors won’t touch.
So, dumped on taxpayers.
Good. Wake up time.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 18:45 utc | 46

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 18:45 utc | 46
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People who go on about “taxpayers” do not understand how Western governments work.
Taxes don’t matter to spending at all. They are (IMO) a social control mechanism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHkXfEkQiw
That is why Russia has an attrition approach. The fighting ends when the enemy is dead, not when he “runs out of money”. One caveat, with what China is doing now and the lack of industrial base in America, the fighting ends when the enemy cannot make any more (metaphorical) bullets.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 18:57 utc | 48

” It is telling that the Yankees sent destroyers to Venezuela.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 18:43 utc | 45 ”
One of them is an expandable asset, hence no carriers. Those will arrive later when “righteous vengeance” is needed.
” Venezuelan crude can be refined in several locations, PRIMARILY in the U.S. Gulf Coast. ”

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 19:03 utc | 50

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Aug 24 2025 18:13 utc | 38
Thanks for posting thar most illuminating article on the nuts and bolts of Netanyhu‘s scorched esrth policy.
Note: article quotes an expert that 1 million tons of rubble needs to be cleared from Iran‘s 12 day strikes. Is a million tons a lot ? Asking for a friend…

Posted by: Exile | Aug 24 2025 19:09 utc | 52

” It sure where China is, but Russia is busy helping the Central Bankers bring Syrian currency back into the fold…
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 18:01 utc | 35 ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo ??
” for Russia to run around and get all the outlier nations ( Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Malaysia) to open channels of trade/currency exchange, and loop them back into the Central Banking System, WHO trade via subjugation/contract. ”
Does anyone actually believe that Russia will attack the US if it were to go after North Korea ?
” The Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership says that if either country is invaded, the other one must provide military and other assistance.”

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 19:09 utc | 54

RE: “I am sure the Israelis are in great fear. The poodles are about to become unleashed.”
Posted by: circumspect | Aug 24 2025 18:58 utc | 49
No, no fear at all. That’s what blinding hubris creates.
Fools.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 19:14 utc | 56

” And let’s ask ourselves a serious question, “Was Nazism ever extinguished”?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 18:04 utc | 36 ”
Or can Nazism ever be “reformed” ? Supposedly in Ukraine it cant ,according to many here, and must be “eliminated”.
Yet, everyone is at a loss what needs to be done about the ” chosen tribe” after they’ve been kicked out of 195 empires, nations, countries, kingdoms …. through no fault of their own, of course.

Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 19:21 utc | 58

Now they are saying they plan to bomb the population into displacement. You would think it was said to try to force displacement without using arms, but after so far, it just looks like they are saying “your fault if you get in the way”, knowing much of the population either cannot or won’t, displace :
Journalist Sohaib Masalmeh
“An Israeli military source said:
The orders we have at the start of the Gaza operation are to destroy everything from the air and then move on the ground.”

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 19:35 utc | 60

RE: “Taxes don’t matter to spending at all. They are (IMO) a social control mechanism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHkXfEkQiw
That is why Russia has an attrition approach. The fighting ends when the enemy is dead, not when he “runs out of money”. “
All citizens of every nation understand when they have no money in their pocket.
Thus, the “social control mechanism” collapses.
Let those Florida County Supervisors tell their citizens that their pensions are gone now cuz they bought Israeli bonds with them.
And Russia will be “attriting” the next 200 years if the goal is to see their enemy dead.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 19:50 utc | 62

RE: Posted by: rk | Aug 24 2025 19:50 utc | 61
You speak of governances. Of course no help will come from governing bodies.
The people will do it. The people will course correct the trajectory.
It’s always been the people. Regular citizens, as many now, willing to sacrifice.
It will come, USReal will be descended upon as locust upon a field.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 20:02 utc | 64

faster than the bear

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 20:10 utc | 66

RE: “At the end of the day, the game is survival. All decisions made without survival in mind are losing moves.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 20:09 utc | 65
Laith speaks of “humiliation” (many have, he just cane to my mind first)
One could say the Palestinians (Hamas) are discounting survival therefore making a losing move.
I say they just don’t want to live a life of humiliation.
Don’t want to survive for generations as a humiliated person.
Yemen seems to demonstrate there are things beyond survival as well.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 20:23 utc | 68

RE: “The orders we have at the start of the Gaza operation are to destroy everything from the air and then move on the ground.”
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 19:35 utc | 60
They’re not bombing to destroy or displace people.
As Arch corrected me, they’re bombing to kill Palestinians. The rest is verbal diarrhea smokescreen.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 20:41 utc | 70

RE: “Also very difficult to believe that OIC conference attendees did not discuss positions with Russia/China before moving forward…”
No need. All in same plan page.
“The collaboration of Sunni and Shia is unprecedented and not remarked on in western press. Slowly but surely the Axis of Genocide is being encircled – “
That’s because USREal keeps expanding into other nations, thus encircling themselves…
“end point won’t be nuclear warfare…
Questionable
“but Nuremberg trials, in full technicolor.”
Where is the entire Western continent going that this should/would happen? even if it is the “intent”?

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 24 2025 21:00 utc | 72

abierno 69
“The collaboration of Sunni and Shia is unprecedented and not remarked on in western press. Slowly but surely the Axis of Genocide is being encircled – “
There is another Muslim collaboration taking place at the same time, between the British South Asians and the Daesh.
Much hand wringing and crocodile tears about the Palestinians, but at the end of the day, Daesh is USUKIS and the British South Asians are USUKIS.
Divide and Rule. With one hand Britain dishes out sweeties and salaries to the Daesh-supporting South Asians, and Israel/USUKIS attacks the Palestinans, Yemenis, Lebanese and Syrians.
Is there a single South Asian voice on MoA arguing the case against Israel?
In the Iraq War the South Asians told us that the West Asians brought these catastrophes on themselves, because they are bad Muslims.
Forget about Muslim Unity. It’s dog eat dog.
Slowly the Axis of Genocide is being assisted by the supporters of the USUKIS terrorists HTS.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 24 2025 21:31 utc | 74

@Trubind
“We’ve all hardened, and becoming (in my case, became) jaded.”
I hadn’t high expectations of mankind, with people just being their best when at their simplest.
All the other illusions are just that, and fleeting. They only make sense while participating, and only last until they are found empty or deceptive.
Just have to be thankful for what we have, and gravitate towards what has proper sense and meaning.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 21:44 utc | 76

“In the middle of this very dark night, where there has been no electricity or street lamps for two years, a bulldozer advances in the Saftawi neighborhood, dragging with it a robot rigged with four tons of highly explosive materials. Someone shouts: “Robot!” Families rush out into the street before the hell of the explosion devours their bodies and the horrific pressure tears through their blood vessels. Now, dozens of families are left in the street between the sky and the shockwave, and other families are confined within the walls, fearing that their escape will coincide with the expected explosion. Half of the families are in the street and the other half are lost in the darkness.
Journalist Youssef Fares – Gaza City”

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 22:33 utc | 78

Saba Issam Madi
https://t.me/madinat_khanyuns/18299

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 24 2025 23:27 utc | 80

similar to the nazis
https://x.com/ZaidJilani/status/1958903958690320724
Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani
NEW: The Israeli governments campaign of denial about the starvation in Gaza echoes some of the worst deceptions used to deny the Holocaust.
I reviewed the history, and there are eery similarities between the tactics of deception in both cases.
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/israeli-denials-of-gazas-starvation
Israeli Denials of Gaza’s Starvation Echo Holocaust Denial Tactics
The starvation in Gaza isn’t equivalent to the Holocaust. But those defending both share a few traits.
….Once that blockade became politically unsustainable, the Israelis introduced the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which set up a handful of checkpoints in the southern part of the region where residents could line up to receive aid. But those checkpoints both provided far too little aid to reach most Gazans and became a killing field where thousands of civilians were shot while lining up to ask for food by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers and American contractors…..
….“There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in late July. This claim has been buttressed in a number of ways, including by inviting C-tier American social media influencers to stand in front of sacks of uneaten food at the Kerem Shalom crossing (inaccessible to most Gazans) in the south…..
….What is happening in Gaza today tests whether we live in a world that demands accountability for atrocities, as we saw after the Holocaust, or one that simply shrugs them off, as we saw during the mass murders in Indonesia.
In their attempt to deflect from responsibility, the Israeli leadership and their allies across the world are using arguments that have very dark roots — in fact, some of them sound so similar to apologia used before and after the Holocaust that they might make your skin crawl……
…..The Israeli state’s social media accounts, meanwhile, have been posting videos claiming that “Gaza City’s culinary scene was thriving this July,” featuring what appears to be a video of an operating Gazan restaurant. One popular Hasbara (Israeli propaganda) account is called Gazawood (like Hollywood, get it?) — it is dedicated to posting videos making similar claims.
In a population of two million people, it is not particularly surprising that there is, somewhere among the rubble, still a restaurant with whatever it can find and there are still people who appear overweight. Hunger, like any social malady, is not evenly distributed, even in a famine.
Even the Warsaw Ghetto still had restaurants…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 24 2025 23:39 utc | 82

Posted by: Jane | August 24, 2025 at 23:51
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Dumbass is a female, for sure.
Of some kind.

Posted by: Jane | Aug 24 2025 23:59 utc | 84

see the 8-second video at the third link
https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1959458344239796704
Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah
Just a reminder that gun for hire @mehdirhasan fervently promoted the Oct 7 rape hoax atrocity propaganda, and has never retracted. That’s all you need to know. His priority is always to ingratiate himself and suck up to people in power. I couldn’t care less about American politicians and their parties but I appreciate anyone who speaks out against the Congress-funded holocaust in Gaza and no rep is doing it louder right now than @RepMTG. It’s unexpected and welcome. No one is stopping the others from outdoing her, including weasely, slippery @RepAOC
https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1959449711187734911
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan
I’m sorry but the new love for @mtgreenee from some pro-Palestine folks, combined with hate for @AOC, is insane. Abunimah has spent the past 22 months attacking AOC, calling her a fraud, but now says “thank you” to MTG. Let’s just compare their Israel/Gaza records, shall we?
AOC called for a ceasefire shortly after Oct 7th. MTG didn’t and said “anyone that is pro-Palestinian is pro-Hamas” and filed a censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib calling her antisemitic and pro-terrorist……. blah blah blah………
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https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959434329966194957
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
🚨BREAKING: Gaza is under a massive Israeli attack right now. Local sources say Israel is using chemical agents, residents report severe burning sensations when they breathe.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 25 2025 0:13 utc | 86

The origin of me referring to Jane as “Genocide Jane” stems from her writing that the natives (Indians) in America should have moved when the settlers came.. . .
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 24 2025 15:05 utc | 21
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I am waiting for you to document this statement.
Well?
Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 0:10 utc | 85
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Failure to document is an acknowledgment that you are a liar.

Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 0:25 utc | 88

Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 0:25 utc | 88
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I couldn’t find our precise discussion, but I can find you opining on and dissembling on the slaughter of the American natives.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/a-final-solution/comments/page/3/#comments
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Posted by: Jane | Feb 22 2024 2:20 utc | 266
I don’t want to sully this discussion with talking about you; narcissism isn’t helpful to the Palestine issue, IMO.
If you want to take it to the Open Thread, I would love to litigate your genocidal and hypocritical postings.
Or, you could take it all back and prove that you’re capable of moral evolution. Your call.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2025 0:53 utc | 90

32 Geraint ap Iowerth — “there are currently no heavy tools in stock with the importers. If you order a heavy vehicle from a company like Volvo, you’ll have to wait six or seven months for it to be delivered. That’s why last week we were in China to examine a large import of equipment for the mouth,” says Karadi.
Thank you for this detailed information. Please clarify, is it ‘equipment FROM the mouth’ or ‘equipment for the MONTH’ or what?

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 25 2025 1:10 utc | 92

” Historically, Jewish communities have been expelled from many places across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa at different times over the last two millennia. Historians generally record over 100 documented expulsions between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ”
Posted by: The painter | Aug 24 2025 18:01 utc | 34
Yes and were supposed to believe they did nothing to deserve the treatment, every time, over a thousand years. It’s like someone with a rap sheet a mile long complaining he’s being picked on. Historical consciousness is the only antidote to Zionist propaganda.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 25 2025 1:29 utc | 94

AOC appears to be quite a confused young woman.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 0:23 utc | 87
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You say “confused”; I say “opportunistic”. Maybe “soulless” or “sociopathic” as well.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 25 2025 2:51 utc | 96

From The Cradle
Israeli army warns demolishing Gaza City could take ‘over a year’: Report

The army chief has doubled down on his concerns about the occupation plan, and is demanding that ceasefire negotiations be exhausted before the assault begins

https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-warns-demolishing-gaza-city-could-take-over-a-year-report
Another posting at The Cradle reports about how Occupied Palestine expects to decapitate Yemen leadership at the same time…..how thin can the IDF be stretched before it breaks?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 25 2025 3:42 utc | 98

Geraint ap Iorwerth 38
Thank you for submitting this report.
The European mind at work in the Holy Land has completely externalised the problem. By which I mean , obstinately refused to consider the human aspects of what they are trying to achieve.
The Middle East has been taken over by European , spiritually and socially dead , Zombies. Over whom Trump presides , who has just engaged in a three year , European mindset, Zombie Spectacular , brain-dead war in Ukraine. Where 20 years of US , concrete fortifications that Trump planned, have taken one million Ukrainian lives to defend.
The mind boggles at the scale of construction and destruction of the little Dalek occupying the Potus chair.
How could anything so pointless and futile as Western Civilisation waste much Sand, steel and cement on Civil Engineering and Civilisational Destruction?
When Netanyahu says that he understands America, is this what he means? That fearless extravagance of Hillary Clinton whose construction company Lafarge built countless, concrete bunkers for Al Qaida in Syria, each one to be blown to smithereens by Russian Cruise missiles.
I have worked in Construction for 30 years, but never encountered projects on the vastness of scale of US WAR.
The US are brainless maggots on the face of the planet, with ZERO comprehension of the spiritual energy of the locations they are operating in.
To the US, the inhabitants of West Asia abd Ukraine are of no more spritual significance than Aztecs, literally to be bulldozed and built over. Holy Shit! It is The Beast, that was prophecied of yore.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 25 2025 4:26 utc | 100