Your “advice” is not only unasked-for (worst kind), but, obviously, superfluous.
I hope you can understand this basic fact.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 23:35 utc | 200
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Sheesh. You might be a bit more … gracious to someone who’s obviously on your side here.
That would certainly make me think twice about coming to your defense.
This kind of behavior isn’t limited to you, of course, but far too common across this whole damn site.

Posted by: Sheesh | Aug 25 2025 23:59 utc | 204

Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 23:35 utc | 200
You do have a unique way of twisting an agreement with you into an attack or a belittlement of you, and fighting back. No, I was not “man-splaining” at you.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 0:03 utc | 206

No, the list of 1,030 expulsions is written in such a way as to present the details of an enormous rap sheet. There is nothing exculpatory in it.
Posted by: Kansas | Aug 25 2025 17:12 utc | 171
Pity you can’t bring yourself to give us a link. By the way, I don’t believe you. Anybody who has compiled such a lengthy list, which must include some quite minor events, must have had a quite particular interest. And usually only one sort of person does.

Posted by: laguerre | Aug 26 2025 0:05 utc | 208

Posted by: Sheesh | Aug 25 2025 23:59 utc | 204
Posted by: George the Zeroth | Aug 26 2025 0:05 utc | 207
No, what Sheesh and Jane referenced was posted by me.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 0:13 utc | 210

see the 2:21 video at the first link
see the 44-second video at the third/fourth link
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1959936432425816517
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Israel deliberately targets journalists because they’re the voices & eyes of Gaza, they’re the people who are showing the world every day what life under Jewish supremacy looks like.
“In an earlier interview, martyred journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, killed by the Israeli army in the attack on Nasser Hospital, shared her fears while documenting the Israeli genocide in Gaza from the very first day.” – Qudsn
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959896863219270090
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
🚨BREAKING: Journalists killed today by Israel in a horrific massacre in Gaza:
•Hossam El-Masry, Reuters
•Mohamed Salama, Al Jazeera
•Mariam Abu Daqqa, Independent Arabic & AP
•Moaz Abu Taha, NBC
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https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1959680248124940419
Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
The sickest society on planet earth
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1959670881061339156
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Zionist youth broke into a bus and tried to attack the driver, shouting “Death to the Arabs” in Bnei Brak
One of the youths grabbed the bus’ emergency hammer and smashed windows, while women and children burst into tears.
The level of indoctrination at this young age is insane.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 26 2025 0:17 utc | 212

I fear we haven’t seen the worst yet.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2025 15:14 utc | 159
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And then, without even looking for it, there is always an even more despicable Israeli action to disturb one’s equilibrium. I’ve
always thought I’ve seen it all, but a half an hour later, there’s something even more depraved that’s come to light.

Posted by: teri | Aug 26 2025 0:17 utc | 214

The Sauds proudly and publicly alluded to having “some Jewish ancestry” a few years ago.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 26 2025 0:35 utc | 216

@197 persiflo
Thanks
“…and sheer luck” that’s cheating 🙂
Will try to write my thoughts better on open thread if/when I find time to.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 26 2025 1:04 utc | 218

With the US continuing to protect the genocidal maniacs of the Likud coalition in Israhell (see the latest letter of yhe US ambass to France accusing Macron of antisemitism) we are soon going to see a redefinition of antisemitism as “siding with the Antechrist”. This augures of an intetesting US general assembly.

Posted by: Tom | Aug 26 2025 1:28 utc | 220

Zionazi isolation news:
1. Brazil is not accepting the nomination of the newly-appointed Israeli ambassador, and the Zionazi embassy in the country will remain mostly closed. Brazil has called home its ambassador in Tel Aviv last yeat, and the diplomatic ties between the two countries have been severely downgraded.
2. Turkey announced it would not allow ships going to or coming from Israel to dock in in any of the country’s ports. This decision has major implications for Israel’s economy and shipping industry.
After next month’s parade of countries officially recognizing Palestine, the pressures and isolation are going to increase significantly. Good.

https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1960150048907710574
I agree with Alon, this is good.
It would be terrible to end the genocide but leave Israel untouched.
The West is going to try that at some point.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 2:51 utc | 222

CPlease obliterate all references to nonexistent user “Sheesh”.c
Posted by: George the Zeroth | Aug 26 2025 0:17 utc | 213
Sometimes lurkers jump into the fray when someome says something that strikes them, and makes them respond. I’m not one who disregards everything a new poster says just because they haven’t earned “seniority” status here.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 3:59 utc | 224

Your “advice” is not only unasked-for (worst kind), but, obviously, superfluous.
I hope you can understand this basic fact.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 25 2025 23:35 utc | 200
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Sheesh. You might be a bit more … gracious to someone who’s obviously on your side here.
That would certainly make me think twice about coming to your defense.
This kind of behavior isn’t limited to you, of course, but far too common across this whole damn site.
Posted by: Sheesh | Aug 25 2025 23:59 utc | 204
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Like any concern troll, you merely amplify the nonsense.
Plus, you missed the point, as did ThouShalt.
Reading comprehension.
He/she undoubtedly means well but also ends up being a concern troll.
I can speak for myself and don’t need others to speak for me or provide inappropriate pointers on how I should conduct myself (“Just ignore it”) when openly, and repeatedly, slandered by another commenter. The “pointers” on blog conduct should by rights be aimed at the attacker, not at me.
Now for heaven’s sake, find something more useful to write about.

Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2025 4:21 utc | 226

No, I was not “man-splaining” at you.
Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 0:03 utc | 206
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I didn’t say that.
What is wrong with you people?

Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2025 4:30 utc | 228

Jane, at times you seem like my Woke boomer sister-in-law. Always looking out for an excuse to claim she is being ridiculed, and then claiming victimhood. Even when one is explicitly agreeing with you.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 4:40 utc | 230

https://www.gofundme.com/f/wefeedgaza
A new update from Omar at WeFeedGaza:
This weekend, our incredible team delivered 400+ kg of meals and food parcels throughout the besieged strip. Among those gracefully served were 4 amazing and special families in North Gaza. They were the families of Batoul, Rafiq, Jameel, and Jannah.
The items served were rice, flour, pasta, canned peas, beans, chickpeas, cheese triangles, feta cheese, tahini, sugar, sauce, and yeast.
The areas served included Passports Camp, Beach Camp, Balkhiya Area, and Abu Asi Area.
Batoul, age 9, along with her brother Mohammed, age 7, lost their beloved father in the “war”, their mother says the children always see food in markets but cannot afford them, and currently live with their grandparents.
Rafiq, age 35, has an amputated leg due to medical negligence and lack of treatment, had hemiplegia before, and his mother not only lost much weight due to malnutrition but also lost 2 children…their family urgently needs a wheelchair and continued food.
Jameel, age 10, is under the care of his elderly father who valiantly raises five daughters and two sons.
Jannah, age 4 , a darling child with cerebral palsy, is an only daughter raised by a lovely mother who struggles to carry Jannah and urgently needs a baby carrier for her care.
These sweet and amazing families were provided nourishment, relief, and hope in time of soaring prices and ongoing deprivation. Mothers expressed that high food prices had left them unable to buy even basic staples. Families shared deep gratitude for the food parcels, which were the first in 6 months!
These are the people of the North, whose precious lives are threatened by IDF attacks, starvations, and displacements. A few days ago, for the first time in a long time, they found a little hope, moments of peace, and brief satisfaction from the horrors of total besiegement.
For more special initiatives like this, feel free to support our campaign! If you would like to sponsor a family, please message us. Your contribution makes a day, thanks for being our heartbeat in the heart of Palestine.

Posted by: Mary | Aug 26 2025 6:30 utc | 232

Sooner or later, Israel will have to answer for its actions! No country can sow such barbarity without facing divine or human justice!
@ michaelj72 | Aug 26 2025 1:31 utc | 221
I’m very grateful for your diligence, sharing links in here. But your conclusion contains a treasured philosophical/theological assumption — which unfortunately seems without foundation and precariously tenuous. Developments on the other side of the world can be profoundly, personally transformative if they destroy our comfortable but fallacious assumptions, leaving us less sure of anything.
That’s what Gaza has been for me. It sounds intolerably solipsistic to even weigh my irrelevant state of mind, when babies are deliberately starved in my name, but Gaza has permanently changed me, at any rate. That long “arc of history” — the one which “bends toward justice” according to MLK? I no longer think so, in the wake of Gaza’s unstoppable extermination. The arc of history is circling the drain, imho.
I inhabit a world which has no feasible future anymore. I don’t recommend it. I’m torn between the loyalty I owe Sophia, the Goddess of Truth, and a responsible reluctance to impart my kind of awareness, which causes depression, big time. Who needs it?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 26 2025 7:21 utc | 234

Albanese: ‘But Iran!! Expel their ambassador!!!’
Mass Pro-Palestinian Rallies Across The Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJX9ppCavZg
“At least 100,000 people stand in solidarity in every capital city rallying for the Australian government to push for sanctions on Israel…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 26 2025 8:09 utc | 236

That long “arc of history” — the one which “bends toward justice” according to MLK? I no longer think so, in the wake of Gaza’s unstoppable extermination. The arc of history is circling the drain, imho.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 26 2025 7:21 utc | 234
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I know I’ve posted to this effect before, but what the heck —
MLK Jr was half right. If the “arc of history bends toward justice”, then it’s the nature of arcs to bend right down again. Think of it as a dialectic — in fact exactly the one detailed by Adorno and Horkheimer.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 26 2025 11:02 utc | 238

“Now for heaven’s sake, find something more useful to write about.”
Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2025 4:21 utc | 226
I second that motion.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 26 2025 11:34 utc | 240

About time one of them broke rank.
“Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has announced that she is stepping down from her position as a stringer at Reuters news agency after eight years, saying that she can no longer be associated with an agency that is “justifying and enabling” the systematic killing of journalists in Gaza.
Zink, whose work has appeared in the American daily newspaper New York Times, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television news network, and various outlets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, said on her personal Facebook page that Reuters’ reporting has played a role in the circumstances leading to the deaths of 246 journalists since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in early October 2023.
She referenced the case of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed alongside several other colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City on August 10.
“Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” Zink wrote.
She also took a swipe at Reuters’ reaction to the murder of its own employees.
Hussam al-Masri, who worked as a photojournalist for Reuters, was among at least 20 people killed on Monday, when Israel bombed the main hospital in southern Gaza.
Zink characterized it as a “double tap” assault — an initial attack on a civilian location succeeded by a subsequent strike aimed at medics, rescuers, and journalists.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 26 2025 11:58 utc | 242

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism said Kushner, Zionism is a form of Fascism, so we know where Kushner stands.
“France has summoned US Ambassador Charles Kushner after he sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron criticizing Paris for failing to do enough to stem “anti-Semitic” violence, a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson says.
Kushner, who is an ally of US President Donald Trump and father of his son-in-law Jared, published the open letter in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
In the letter, he focused on France’s criticism of Israel and its plan to recognize a Palestinian state.
He claimed that “public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state embolden extremists, fuel violence, and endanger Jewish life in France.”
“In today’s world, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism – plain and simple,” Kushner wrote.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 26 2025 12:06 utc | 244

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism said Kushner, Zionism is a form of Fascism, so we know where Kushner stands.
“France has summoned US Ambassador Charles Kushner after he sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron criticizing Paris for failing to do enough to stem “anti-Semitic” violence, a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson says.
Kushner, who is an ally of US President Donald Trump and father of his son-in-law Jared, published the open letter in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
In the letter, he focused on France’s criticism of Israel and its plan to recognize a Palestinian state.
He claimed that “public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state embolden extremists, fuel violence, and endanger Jewish life in France.”
“In today’s world, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism – plain and simple,” Kushner wrote.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 26 2025 12:11 utc | 246

Here is what an IDF goon looks like after his tank has been struck by a Palestinian RPG:

A newly surfaced video has revealed the moment Israeli soldier Nimrod Cohen was dragged from a burning tank and taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The 19-year-old was the only survivor of a four-man crew attacked with RPG fire on the Gaza border, while his comrades were killed and their bodies seized. The footage, recovered by the IDF, shows Cohen being marched toward Gaza as voices assure him he will not be harmed.
https://youtu.be/F4J6h8eImk8?si=F5-NXJ95ckyQuo5-

Notice how completely disoriented he is?
Notice that the tank isn’t even heavily damaged.
So if that’s the real effect of an RPG on combatants in the tank one can infer that every strike we’ve seen had that same effect on all of them, every time.
The casualties are far higher than we’re being told.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2025 12:29 utc | 248

Re 209. Sex with a three year old girl is morally repugnant. So too is a fifty-three year old man’s marriage to a six year old girl. If he actually existed.

Posted by: Kansas | Aug 26 2025 12:33 utc | 250

“Iran has vowed to take appropriate reciprocal action after Australia’s expulsion of the Islamic Republic’s ambassador over allegations of “anti-Semitism,” stressing that acts of religious discrimination have no place in the nation’s culture, history, or faith.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks during a presser on Tuesday, shortly after a related announcement by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Baghaei communicated Iran’s “absolute” rejection of such accusations, pledging due retaliation in the face of any such “improper and unjustifiable diplomatic” action.”
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“ASIO’s Mike Burgess expects you to believe Iran’s ambassador scribbled anti-Semitic slurs on two Australian bank notes, which happened to be taken out of an ATM by two separate Jewish people.
What are the odds?”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 26 2025 12:56 utc | 252

If monotheism is logically incoherent, it follows that adherence to a mono-god is a form of satanism.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 26 2025 12:58 utc | 254

While he was in Israel, Mike Huckabee made the rounds talking to ultra-Orthodox rabbis to assure them that they were on the correct side of history. Imbedded in the tweet (below) is a 90-second video of Huckabee talking to two of them, telling them that anti-Semitism is actually “anger at God” from people who are “against God” and shows “good vs evil”, although he mistakes who the good and who the evil are.
Tweet:

It took me a minute to realize this was not an AI-generated Groyper video
Turns out this is the true face of diplomacy in the Zionist-controlled Trump administration
“>https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1960043273306656988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1960043273306656988%7Ctwgr%5E55899b5e9b7b2995c3f5bfd8eaba7c423698484b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2025%2F08%2Flinks-8-26-2025.html

Posted by: teri | Aug 26 2025 13:25 utc | 256

HERE IT IS:
The Complete List Of The 1030 Jewish Expulsions In Human History
The vast bulk of these cases holding Jews to account are by Catholic sovereigns.
https://archive.org/stream/TheCompleteListOfThe1030JewishExpulsionsInHumanHistory/The%20Complete%20List%20of%20the%201030%20Jewish%20Expulsions%20in%20Human%20History_djvu.txt
Posted by: Kansas |

Posted by: Kansas | Aug 26 2025 13:46 utc | 258

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 26 2025 12:58 utc | 253
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So, basically, you don’t understand Islam at all.
Everything “fits” inside a Quranic perspective.
Everything.
Aliens, earth being billions of years old, a race of giants, dinosaurs, etc.
All of it.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 13:55 utc | 260

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 26 2025 14:23 utc | 260
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Understanding is difficult to come by when one’s intellectual cup is overflowing.
Little room for new information.
A terrible mess if the status quo of understanding is jolted or disrupted.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 14:34 utc | 262

‘BE QUIET… ACT CIVILIZED’ — Outrage in Lebanon at Trump’s envoy Barrack scolding reporters not to be ‘animalistic’
Threatens to leave if they don’t appreciate cash spent on trip
‘Do you think it’s economically beneficial… to be here putting up with this insanity?

video
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1960307920400261379
People are worked up in Lebanon but I think their debasement by America is just ramping up.
Obviously Trump’s envoy and fellow Epstein friend Tom Barrack is frustrated with Hezbollah’s endurance.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 14:56 utc | 264

“In 10 days Germany sold/transfered 256 tons of Military equipment to Israel.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MenchOsint/status/1960225781524632006#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 26 2025 15:24 utc | 266

teri | Aug 26 2025 13:25 utc | 255
*** While he was in Israel, Mike Huckabee made the rounds talking to ultra-Orthodox rabbis to assure them that they were on the correct side of history. Imbedded in the tweet (below) is a 90-second video of Huckabee talking to two of them, telling them that anti-Semitism is actually “anger at God” from people who are “against God” and shows “good vs evil”, although he mistakes who the good and who the evil are.***
Perhaps if the evidently unhinged cultist Huckabee tried reading a bible (instead of 20th century propagandist side-notes in some versions?) he would realise he has been thoroughly conned by the rabbis.
Far from being “the chosen”, the Jews were most emphatically de-selected for being persistently recidivist arseholes.
If he was British, the appropriate place for Huckabee instead of an embsassy would be Broadmoor. Why does the USA appoint such raving nutcases?

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 26 2025 16:34 utc | 268

Racists supremists are co-opting religion to justify crimes against humanity. Zionists are to Judaism as Klansmen are to Christianity.

Posted by: Willow | Aug 26 2025 16:53 utc | 270

How do you defeat America?
You do what Vietnam did.
You let it spend itself into madness.
You let it fight shadows until its economy collapses,
Its people overdose,
Its leaders cannibalize each other for power.
America is not destroyed from the outside.
It rots from within.
You only have to hold the line.

https://x.com/nxt888/status/1960388220207947998
Also applies to Israel and the UK.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 18:10 utc | 272

Hezbollah Commenting on the insult directed by the American envoy Tom Barrack to journalists
We were never surprised by the logic of American foolishness and arrogance expressed by the American guardianship envoy Tom Barrack towards Lebanese journalists in the Republican Palace in Baabda and the severe insult he directed at them.
The envoy faithfully embodies the reality of the United States of America and the essence of the savage aggressive philosophy upon which it was founded, which is, in short, a philosophy of genocide and the absence of any ethical or moral logic that can be appealed to, represented, or complied with.
A state founded on exaggeration in the sanctification of materialism and the worship of capital, and the deification of the logic of power and considering it the criterion of truth, its envoys can only perform similarly to what we have seen and heard.
The major shock was the performance of those responsible for the media in the palace who did not take the initiative to expel this envoy to preserve what remains of respect for the place, status, human value, and national dignity.
The primary duty of the Lebanese authority in all its pillars and concerned ministries, especially the Ministries of Information and Foreign Affairs, is to immediately summon the American ambassador, reprimand her, and protest against the insult inflicted by her country’s representative on Lebanon and the Lebanese.
Advocates of sovereignty, freedom, and independence from forces, parties, and personalities must rise up for the dignity of their country and citizens and not swallow their tongues in front of the foolishness of the representatives of American guardianship.
We strongly condemn the logic of American arrogance and its superiority over our media, and what is required now is for this authority to immediately rectify the situation and take appropriate measures to preserve what remains of dignity and homeland.

https://x.com/SprinterExpres0/status/1960405067804151988

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 18:25 utc | 274

As people’s protests against the horrific USraeli genocide in Palestine grow and intensify, we must unfortunately once again note the significant absence of these in Russia.
Russians need to step up their game on this. Please post anything relevant you may come across. Friends of Russia need to criticize and question this further not avert their eyes and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Russia into the streets to stop the genocide and Free Palestine!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 26 2025 20:49 utc | 276

He found out
The Israeli military confirmed on Saturday that an officer was killed in southern Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports.
He was named as Lt. Ori Gerlic, 20, a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion, from Meitar.
(Al Mayadeen)
20 years old – just a boy, the zionist war criminal is killing his own.

Posted by: Monty | Aug 26 2025 21:25 utc | 278

Mahmood OD (corrected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae7XLvS98LM

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 26 2025 21:42 utc | 280

The latest Alon Mirahi, which may be his last YouTube video for some time.
Palestine against Palantir: there can be only one winner
Humanity versus the coming techno-feudalism.
Israel is just the tip of the Satanic spear.
He’s defiant but clearly a bit frustrated by how hard it is becoming to produce pro-Palestine content.
That said, the good guys are winning. Cracks are appearing everywhere.
Depending on how things go with Venezuela and Iran, this year may be a major turning point in the war against the pedos.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2025 22:42 utc | 282

More footage of the resistance attacks in Zionist colonizers:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ae7XLvS98LM?si=K_Jpd62-zohX8mLV
Mahmoud I’d provides commentary and analysis.
What’s notable is that the RPG strikes on Merkava tanks are being targeted to the sides of the tank, the most heavily armoured part.
The theory was that the strikes should hit the back, less armoured.
This suggests the Merkava armour is not even good enough to cope with Hamas’ domestically produced tandem RPGs.
The ‘most advanced tank in the world’, taken out by barefooted hobbyists working from underground workshops.
The fate of Gaza I do not know, but I know the fate of Western military technology in the middle east is sealed and we are observing its eulogy in Palestine.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2025 23:02 utc | 284

see the 36-second video at the second link
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1960358435410653605
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Lebanon: Hezbollah has decided to invest and rebuild the suburb of Beirut, putting on the table 1 billion dollars to reconstruct 515 buildings destroyed and damaged by Israel in Dahiyah. If Israel threatens to bomb these buildings, the minimum to expect is WAR.
Hezbollah has more ballistic missiles left in its arsenal than the ones fired by Iran in the 12-day war.
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1960289644790124681
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber
⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Tom Barrack struts into Beirut like a 19th-century colonial commissioner, calls Lebanese journalists ‘animalistic,’ lectures us on ‘civilisation,’ & blames it all on our ‘region.’ That’s not just arrogance, it’s racism. You don’t run this country, & you don’t get to insult its people @USAMBTurkiye
.
Your contempt exposes you, not us.
Shame on you, & on those in the room who stayed silent instead of challenging your contempt.
https://x.com/infinite_jaz/status/1960421012639502447
jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz
Feels like it should be a bigger story that Hamas accepted a ceasefire proposal over a week ago, and Israel just fully ignored it.
It’s just treated as an inevitability that the genocide must grind on.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 26 2025 23:45 utc | 286

see the 29-second video at the second link. zionist-israelis are not only pathological liars and mass-murderers, but also out-of-control thieves and bandits. israel must be abolished
https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1879901086334460038
Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber
The whole of Western discourse is built on myths, none more self-evidently false than the idea that the West is a civilized, moral force, that it turned away from darkness with the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment, or the end of WWII.
The barbarism of the West (by which I mean its elites and institutions) is its very essence. It never truly embraced the idea of a civilized world. Instead, it insists on a world ruled by brute force rather than justice, never evolving but merely passing the destructive, exploitative, racist, and acquisitive imperial baton between Western powers, now the Americans. The West lurches from war to war, conquest to conquest, colonization to colonization, from genocide to genocide.
Palestine is only its latest victim. Others will bleed before its power fully wanes. But the unipolar moment of US empire is in its final chapter, and it will end as all empires end. Our job is to ensure that the truth is told now and in its wake, and that the next chapter is dedicated not to the power of empires, but to the freedom of peoples. In this path, the dignity and steadfastness of Palestine is our lighted path.
———
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1960421897360867613
Quds News Network @QudsNen
Earlier today, Israeli occupation forces disguised in a civilian vehicle stormed the city of Ramallah, occupied West Bank, where they raided a currency exchange shop and stole nearly 1 million shekels (around $270,000)

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 27 2025 1:24 utc | 288

“The experience of Al-Saftawi neighborhood between today and yesterday tells us that evacuation and displacement is not an option , but rather a forced coercion whose tools are killing, violation, and terror.
Yesterday, I was on a tour of the neighborhood, and spoke at length with dozens of residents. The question was repeatedly on everyone’s tongues: “Where do we go?”
Because of this inability to make a decision or implement one that had been taken, they lived through hellish nights, with robots rigged with four tons of dynamite being pushed hundreds of meters away from their homes and tents. As a result, the helpless residents found no way but to flee under the roar of intense artillery shelling.
It is true that 98% were internally displaced to the western areas of the northern Gaza Strip and the city, and not to the south, but the tactic of evacuation by fire will succeed wherever it is used to achieve the goal of displacement.
We are in a dangerous phase.
It is not healthy to offer preambles of steadfastness, but rather what is required is to describe the reality, no matter how difficult it is.
Journalist Yousef Fares – Occupied Palestine”

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 27 2025 2:59 utc | 290

Journalist Youssef Fares
“Those who raced to take pictures with the chickens that were brought in to us in limited quantities and at crazy prices, are not only stupid and distorting reality, but also partners with the occupation in manufacturing anti-starvation propaganda . These fools and the merchants of suffering are of the worst created by the conflict. Before the genocide, they were nobodies, and after this massacre ends, they will remain nobodies, thieves, and treacherous as well.”
Journalist Hossam Shabat (martyred)
“70 martyrs, including dozens of children and women, have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip since dawn today”

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 27 2025 3:22 utc | 292

@ michaelj72 | Aug 26 2025 23:45 utc | 286
re. Hala Jabber snippet
Billionaire & Contrarian real estate investor Thomas Barrack founded Colony Capital in 1991 to buy bad real estate loans from busted S&Ls. The firm now manages $34 billion in assets, including $18 billion in 16 commercial real estate and distressed debt-focused funds. The grandson of Lebanese immigrants to Los Angeles, he has built his fortune through buying out-of-favor assets, including some $200 million in Middle East real estate and $534 million in non-performing German real estate loans. Quirkier investments include Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and a $24 million loan to photographer Annie Leibowitz.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/thomas-barrack/
Diplomacy!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 27 2025 3:35 utc | 294

Just so defensive and combative. It really isn’t all about you.
Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 26 2025 4:59 utc | 231
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Exactly.
It is not about the original attack on me.
It is about you. You who butted in in order to tut-tut about and advise me on my speech under the guise of “defending” me.
And you end up insulting me.
You totally failed to notice that I had ENDED THE EXCHANGE with the words “final verdict” and “wrap up.” No, you picked it up and ran with it, soon you felt like a victim, and then you attacked me.
Concern trolls often miss the actual content, so eager are they to butt in and fix things.

Posted by: Jane | Aug 27 2025 3:39 utc | 296

I didn’t say that.
What is wrong with you people?
Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2025 4:30 utc | 228
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Just. Let. It. Drop.
‘K?
Posted by: George the Zeroth | Aug 26 2025 4:37 utc | 229
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Now George jumps in.
Just. Stay. Out. Of. It.
‘K?
I “let it drop” on the previous page.
Too bad the concern trolls didn’t notice and kept spinning this further.
Hence my comment: “Reading comprehension.”
For the record: Putting words into another commenter’s mouth is unacceptable.

Posted by: Jane | Aug 27 2025 4:00 utc | 298

see the first link. There is only one political party in the USA, the War Party
https://x.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1960430484128719067
Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus
The DNC just voted down a resolution calling for the US to cut off arms to Israel as it continues is genocide and then withdrew another resolution calling for a ceasefire and aid to flow into Gaza. Don’t tell me the Democratic Party is against this genocide. They have clearly spoken, and they are not.
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https://x.com/MairavZ/status/1960261925910323309
Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ
76% of Jewish Israelis believe there are no innocents in Gaza (42% fully and 34% partially). This includes a majority who voted for “opposition” parties. In other words, a genocidal society
https://x.com/RonGerlitz1/status/1960255043166216542
רון גרליץ 🟣 Ron Gerlitz @RonGerlitz1
Translated from Hebrew by Grok
This is one of the most difficult findings of our research at the Institute for Policy and Strategy since the beginning of the war: a significant majority of the Jewish public agrees with the claim that there are no innocents in Gaza: 42% of the Jewish public fully agree with this claim, and another 34% partially agree, and in total 76% of the Jewish public partially or fully agree that there are no innocents in Gaza. There are indeed significant gaps between opposition and coalition voters, but still among all opposition voters in Israel, 47% fully support (15%) or partially (32%) this claim. Among Jewish opposition voters, it is also a majority that agrees with the claim.
There are many difficult things in relations between groups: fear, hostility, hatred, perceptions of superiority, and more. But dehumanization and the perception that there are no innocents on the other side is the hardest and most dangerous of all, and it is the one that has led throughout history to terrible and horrific things time and again. In this sense, Israeli society is on the brink of the abyss or actually already in it.
These findings can of course shed light on the enormous number of Palestinian civilians killed in the war in Gaza. It is important for me to write that agreeing with “there are no innocents” is not the same as “we need to kill everyone there.” It’s not the same thing. But the consciousness of “there are no innocents” is the toxic soil that grows dynamics and actions that cause the killing of innocents.
Because after all, in times and areas of war, the accepted practice is to separate or at least try to separate between enemy combatants and innocent civilians. But if the prevailing perception is such, among the public and the fighters, that there are no innocents, fueled and empowered by political leadership that says there are no innocents in Gaza and we need to destroy and so on, and when the media normalizes the calls and the perception that there are no innocents in Gaza (in this matter, the media has enormous and terrible responsibility), it cannot but lead within the army to disregard for human life and the killing of so many innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza……..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 27 2025 5:09 utc | 300