Once again, the US and Israel subtly change their position.  Whatever “Part 2” of the “Peace Plan” was supposed to be – and no-one knows anything beyond rumors – it is now said to be that Israel keeps the whole area it now holds, which is at least 53% of the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians will be allowed to live in the ruins of the rest of it, where they will be completely under Israeli and foreign control. 
 
There seems no pushback of significance from the UN to this continued occupation and starvation regimen;  the UN doesn’t even threaten actual repercussions to Israel for what it is doing in Palestine, just some muttered “tut-tut’s”.
 
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-outlines-plan-for-a-divided-gaza-under-israeli-foreign-troop-control
 
Also, Trump is now trading F-35s, drones, and possibly nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia in exchange for investments in Trump properties – and this personal deal does not necessarily include Saudi Arabia’s alignment with Israel.  I.e.; Trump is using US-made weapons and permission for nuclear enrichment (or actual already-built nuclear weapons) to enrich his own family, as though the Trump family owns these things themselves and are free to trade any of them.  The idea is that if it came to war with Iran, Saudi Arabia would have weaponry for use in supporting the US side.  And, of course, the Trumps make piles of cash on the properties without ever having invested a dime of their own money.
 
https://thecradle.co/articles/trump-branded-luxury-property-coming-to-saudi-arabia-as-kingdom-outlines-defense-wish-list
 
The future is looking rather bleak no matter where you live on this planet.  And poor little Gaza…..good God, how they have suffered!

Posted by: teri | Nov 16 2025 14:16 utc | 3

And poor little Gaza…..good God, how they have suffered!
 
Posted by: teri | Nov 16 2025 14:16 utc | 3
 
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But what righteousness and heroic suffering it has been! The Gazans and the Yemeni have demonstrated the best of what humanity is capable of.
 
That contrast is made so clear by the insanity of the Israelis and their Imperial masters.
 
Tragedy is suffering without purpose. There is infinite purpose in this conflict both material and metaphysical.
 
Zionism (and its gay proponents) is the greatest evil the world has confronted.
 
Zionists have opted out of humanity with their psychopathic beliefs masquerading as religion.
 
There is no other significant religion that preaches murder, rape, and theft.
 
Anti-humanity. The enemy of us all.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 14:59 utc | 5

Doest this mean Russians helped in the genocide of Palestine ?
 
” Putin highlighted the presence of the nearly 2 million Russian-speaking residents of Israel. “It is almost a Russian-speaking country today. And, undoubtedly, we always take this into account in Russia’s contemporary history,” he said. ”
https://www.rt.com/news/620076-israel-russian-speaking-putin/
 

Posted by: The Painter | Nov 16 2025 15:25 utc | 7

Posted by: canuk | Nov 16 2025 15:22 utc | 7
 
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No one cares what a bunch of sodomites Greeks had to say about anything except sodomites Zionists…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 15:29 utc | 9

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 15:31 utc | 11
 
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How?
 
With what money and engineering expertise?
 
I can proclaim that I am establishing a lunar colony but that is obviously insane, as I do not have the means to do so.
 
Trump (and the Zionist human trafficking West) rule by press release. They talk big and deliver nothing. Constantly.
 
Their inability to execute highlights their inability to compete.
 
Notice, the Axis Powers rarely make such proclamations. They plan and execute. They talk when the job is done, not while its still a dream.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 15:37 utc | 11

WE know they’ll never truly be a Palestinian state, until the Zio-Monster illegal settlers squatting in Palestine are removed completely.
 
“The United States announces officially and explicitly that the goal of the “Gaza Plan,” which is expected to be approved this week at the UN Security Council, is the establishment of a “palestinian state.” The U.S., Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Turkey stated in a joint declaration, published through the U.S. mission to the UN that: “We issue this statement as member states convened at senior levels to begin this process, which offers a path to self-determination and to the establishment of a palestinian state.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 15:43 utc | 13

 LoveDonbass @ (11) 
 
I take it you are referring to my (10) comment
 
Yes, you make good points – and I can’t say one way or the other if its propaganda or not, but I can say that Azerbaijan will be used as some sort of staging post – as most US allies are – and in the case of Azerbaijan,  it must surely be used to carry out disruptive actions against BRICS nations.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 15:51 utc | 15

The Venezuelan traitor speaks – Maduro should arrest this treacherous b*stard – no doubt the US Terrorist state would see her arrest as a cue to attack.
 
“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has called on the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to lay down their arms and cease following the orders of the Venezuelan government. “What is going to happen is already happening. That decisive hour is imminent. Act now, at this very moment. Lower your weapons, do not attack your people, make the decision today to stand with Venezuela’s freedom when the precise hour arrives. The worst hostages are those who are forced to carry out this barbarity. Those who obey infamous orders, ruining the lives of their own brothers. They feel guilty. They cannot look their children or their mothers in the eyes. The position each one of you takes will mark your life forever. History, the law and the Venezuelan people will be your judges”
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 15:56 utc | 17

Posted by: canuk | Nov 16 2025 15:22 utc | 7 ##### No one cares what a bunch of sodomites Greeks had to say about anything except sodomites Zionists…
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 15:29 utc | 9

 
       Thanks for confirming your Philosophical  Philistinism.
 
       Oh , so if we are conflating philosophy with  personal morality you must have a problem with the Prophet Muhammad as he married his thirteenth  wife , Alisha, when she was 6 years old-that is child smuggling.  Then he consecrated his marriage with Aisha when she was nine years old-that is statutory rape.
 
Yet, in your absurd  morality, its  the Greek philosophers whom the ‘evil’ ones.
 
You are such a hypocrite.
 

Posted by: canuk | Nov 16 2025 16:08 utc | 19

Tensions rising between China and Japan.
 
“China sends three warships towards Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan-related remarks prompted a sharp response from Beijing. China has also warned its citizens against any travel to Japan as relations between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deteriorate – South China Morning Post.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 16:18 utc | 21

 robin (20).
 
No I personally don’t believe it,   al-Julani as you say – wouldn’t allow his forces to fire a shot in anger at the Zionists – just as the Aoun, won’t allow the Lebanese army to fire a shot back at the Zionists – parts of Syria and Lebanon fall within the Greater Israel plan, and the Zionists are making moves on them.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 16:24 utc | 23

Where the US Terrorist State might attack first in Venezuela – ideally the turning of the military heads would be preferrable – to depose and kill Maduro.
 
With the USS Gerald R. Ford CSG now inside SOUTHCOM, the U.S. could launch land strikes at any time
 
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Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 16:30 utc | 25

Republicofscotland #16. Will you please provide more background regarding Claudia Sheinbaum.   Yes, I know that she is jewish, but I had not seen any indication that she was allied with or promoting zionism.   In fact, I had the impression that she was standing for sovereignty.
 
Also, apparently off topic, but not really.  Today is a very important election for chile.  the two leading candidates are Jara (#1) and Kast (#2).   Jara is said to be a “communist” but to me she seems more of a chile for chilenos.   Kast is a horrible ultra right fanatic who wants to sell off all of chile to the globalists.   In other words, a chileno Melei.     Trump and Bessett just bought Melei for $20 billion and he has snapped right to attention.   Rather, I should say, Trump and Bessett just bribed the argie zionist billionaires …
 
to John Gilbert.  I would love to hear your take on the following links.   Milei’s Explosive Glacier Bill – teleSUR English.pdf  and Guatemala Extradites Argentine Multimillionaire On Drug-Trafficking Charges – teleSUR English.pdf.   The multibillionaire drug trafficker mentioned was/is prominent in mining in Argentina.  Many of the mining companies operating in south america are canadian.    Chile has currently strict laws protecting glaciers, which are likely to be overturned if Kast takes power.     Remembering that canadian nazi Christa Freedland was the founder of the Lima Group which sought to over throw Maduro back in the O’Bomber days and that the current overthrow lunatic, Machado, from her residence in Miami is calling for zionist help in invading Venezuela and stealing all its assets, one wonders if Claudia Sheinbaum is being set up for a fall or is involved.   Lots of canadian mining going on in mexico as well.
 
How does this relate to Gaza?   Trumpstein and zionist money.    The world’s going to hell in a hand basket.   I figured out why they wear the tiny hats.  To receive direct instructions from Satan.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Nov 16 2025 16:39 utc | 27

I wouldn’t put anything past Trump.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇺🇸⚡- In an email from March 2018, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark suggested asking Steve Bannon if Putin possessed “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba,” which is Bill Clinton’s nickname, to which Jeffrey replied, using the Yiddish word “tsuris” (troubles). Mark then joked that he and Trump could remake the American comedy film “Get Hard.” Bubba is Bill Clinton’s nickname.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 16:41 utc | 29

Formerly Miss Lacey (27).
 
Some info I found.
 
Claudia Sheinbaum – Wikispooks

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 16:47 utc | 31

Here are the links.   Sorry about that.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/glacier-law-rollback/   https://buenosairesherald.com/society/crime/argentina-approves-fred-machados-extradition-to-us
There is a telesur post also which I can’t find right now and various others.   Please note the “coincidence” of the name: Machado.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Nov 16 2025 16:55 utc | 33

Formerly Miss Lacy (27).
 
Probably Jara is better the Kast, Jara is a communist – Kast well.
 
“The Times of Israel had a similar reaction to the news. “Chile’s new president is bitter Israel critic, whose win has many local Jews worried,” its headline read. It, too, glossed over Kast’s background, describing him merely as a “right-wing, pro-Israel politician” whose father was only “likely” a Nazi. In reality, as The Times of Israel itself had reported only weeks previously, the elder Kast voluntarily joined the Nazi Party and was a senior lieutenant in Hitler’s war machine.
Haaretz was at least more open about who Kast was. However, it treated Boric’s opposition to Israeli Apartheid as similarly problematic, seemingly equating supporting Palestine to perpetrating the Holocaust. “In Chile Election, Jews Must Choose Between a Pinochet Supporter and an Israel Basher,” it wrote, explaining that “Kast’s father was in the Wehrmacht; Gabriel Boric demands that Chile’s Jews denounce Israel’s policies. In an election driven more by who they’re against than who they’re for, the Jewish community is in a bind.””
 
Israel Freaks Out as Gabriel Boric’s Elections Signals New Direction for Chile
 
Jara.
 
Of course what politicians say – and what they do once elected – is usually two-different things, but you never know.
 
“Hundreds of locals crowd onto the paved park grounds. Pockets of friends dance together, and children race around their parents’ legs.
They have come to hear one of the frontrunners in Chile’s presidential race: Jeannette Jara.
A former labour minister, Jara is the nominee representing the leftist coalition in Sunday’s election.
But it is her membership in the Communist Party that makes her presidential bid historic. Not since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 has a Communist candidate enjoyed such broad, mainstream support.
For some, Jara’s success is a barometer for the economic malaise fuelling this year’s election cycle. For others, her candidacy is a symptom of the growing polarisation within Chilean politics.
Jara has campaigned on the former, playing up her working-class roots. She has pledged to support Chile’s public healthcare system, build affordable housing and raise wages.
“Considering that politics generates so much mistrust, being able to gather like this, with hard-working people, really fills my heart,” Jara, 51, told the crowd in Villa Alemana, dressed in blue jeans and a loose-fitting blazer rolled up at the sleeves.
“It will be my priority to improve people’s quality of life.”
 
Who is Jeannette Jara, the communist leading Chile’s presidential election? | Elections News | Al Jazeera
 
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 17:02 utc | 35

 drink crow (28).
 
Yip it begining to look more and more like a Colour Revolution.
 
Samuel 🇲🇽 (@resisres): “🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WASTED ON WEAK ANTI-SHEINBAUM PROTEST IN MEXICO The protest was sponsored by the usual NGOs tied to U.S. interventionism — like the Atlas Network — and by Salinas Pliego, the recently humiliated billionaire forced to pay his taxes, who spent millions trying to rival Sheinbaum’s massive crowds and only managed to gather a fraction. Despite the very violent rioters, they only managed to gather a small geriatric crowd for their supposed “Gen-Z” protest. Once again, the right wing’s dreams of a color revolution have failed to materialize.” | nitter.poast.org
 
Atlas Network – Wikispooks
 
Atlas Network 

Sponsored by
Koch family foundations, Scaife Foundations

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 17:07 utc | 37

And you know what – the Zionists will get it, and as usual the US taxpayer will get shafted.
 
 
Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani): “TRUMP’S NEW $76 BILLION WEAPONS DEAL FOR ISRAEL Axios just revealed that Israel is demanding a 20-year, $76 BILLION weapons package from Trump, all funded by US taxpayers. 📍 Previous deals were $21B (1998), $32B (2008), and $38B (2016). Now they want nearly double, locked in for 20 years. 💰 That’s $3.8 BILLION every year while Americans struggle to afford rent, food, and healthcare. 🏛️ It’s time for Congress to step in and BLOCK Trump’s weapons giveaway.” | nitter.poast.org
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 17:22 utc | 39

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 17:02 utc | 34
 
Thank you for a very informative post on Chilean politics.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 16 2025 18:03 utc | 41

The Americans are employing brinkmanship at the UNSC, having delayed a vote on the so-called “Trump plan” until the eve of the designated expiry of the initial ceasefire. The American sponsored Resolution is on its face a bad proposal, fatally compromised in favour of Israeli interests and priorities. There is an alternative and more even-handed Russian-sponsored proposal in play – presumably intense negotiation and arm-twisting regarding UNSC votes, abstentions and vetoes is ongoing. 
 
If the American plan is adopted then despair is warranted. It is a blueprint for continued punishment of the Palestinian people, and would constitute a backdoor UNSC endorsement of the Greater Israel project. However, for those of us within the “Zone A” (western mediasphere) bubble, useful to remember the reporting on this issue is skewed and incomplete. For example, western press today is uniformly ignoring the backstage politicking, instead focussing on a supposed controversy over Israel’s refusal to allow a Pal state vs the Trump Plan’s weak and unrealizable “pathway to statehood”. 

Posted by: jayc | Nov 16 2025 18:09 utc | 43

So many of the comments here are not appropriate for the Palestine thread. It’s too bad this website couldn’t put “Posted by” and the name first instead at the end. Then if we saw who was writing we could get on to the next one without having to waste time and effort reading the malarkey and/or trollers.

Posted by: Oscar Romero | Nov 16 2025 18:15 utc | 45

Posted by: canuk | Nov 16 2025 18:14 utc | 43
 
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Don’t bother every regular know you post from Wikipedia and AI.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 18:30 utc | 47

Westerners are so funny in a retarded child sort of way.
 
The Chinese had mastered tragic story-telling long before the Stoics molested their first not.
 
The self-congratulatory posting is to be expected from uncultured and ignorant Zionists.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 18:32 utc | 49

Should come as no surprise, Canada is mainly pr-Israel and pro-Ukraine, or at least its politicians are.
 
Drop Site (@DropSiteNews): “Richard Falk, 95, the former UN special rapporteur who spent years documenting Israeli abuses in the occupied territories, says he and his wife, legal scholar Hilal Elver, were detained and questioned for more than four hours at Toronto Pearson airport on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported. A security officer told them, “We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,” Falk said. He adds that they were asked about their work on Israel, Gaza and genocide, calling the questioning part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth” about Israel’s war on Gaza. 🎥 Video: Professor Richard Falk speaking at the Gaza Tribunal in October” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 18:36 utc | 51

hmmmm
always looking for a fight?
“Turkey is the new Iran. It has ambitions to expand its influence in Syria. It is building bases in Syria. It has ambitions to extend its influence to Gaza.”— Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs & Social Equality, Amichai Cikli, searching for a new Israeli enemy🔗 @MyLordBebo

Posted by: Jo | Nov 16 2025 18:55 utc | 53

“The Chinese had mastered tragic story-telling long before the Stoics molested their first not. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 18:32 utc | 48 ”
 
Care to share some examples ? 

Posted by: The Painter | Nov 16 2025 19:08 utc | 55

Just a thought.
The Qur’an acknowledges that God once granted the Children of Israel a blessed land (Q 5:21) but insists that God’s favor belongs to “those who believe and do righteousness,” a formula repeated throughout the Qur’an (e.g., Q 2:82; 5:9). The true ummah (Arabic for “nation”) is a community of believers united by faith and moral conduct rather than ethnic descent.
Judaism’s covenant, Christianity’s church, and Islam’s ummah are therefore three versions of a single concept: divine election as responsibility, not supremacy.
Scripture traces every life back to one ancestor, binding humanity into a single family and leaving no room for claims of superiority. Each person bears the divine image, embodying an entire world in miniature – since from Adam came all humanity – and carrying within himself the potential of all future generations. Each life is infinitely precious; to harm one is to harm all.

Posted by: pepe | Nov 16 2025 19:12 utc | 57

Isn’t it both ironic and disgusting that the Palestine open thread became the place for some to throw up their hatred of Muslims… ?

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 16 2025 19:49 utc | 59

Isn’t it both ironic and disgusting that the Palestine open thread became the place for some to throw up their hatred of Muslims… ?
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 16 2025 19:49 utc | 58
 
 
Hear! Hear! Not only, but attacks on other posters in general, often viciously.
 
The reason I’ve lost interest in reading and posting.

Posted by: Menz | Nov 16 2025 20:07 utc | 61

Posted by: teri | Nov 16 2025 20:04 utc | 59
 
#######
 
Sister, in Islam (and should be in Christianity and Judaism) death is not the end and an unavoidable element of existence.
 
Now imagine being conscious of that when being broke or heartbroken. The perspective everything changes.
 
Definitely inspires more bravery because there is nothing to lose when making a stand for love or justice.
 
And that is why the Resistance cannot lose this conflict.
 
From their (and mine) perspective, dying doing what is right, and never losing hope, is the ultimate victory.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 20:30 utc | 63

Okay, maybe not quite done.
 
@ Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 16 2025 20:14 utc | 61
 
I did see that, but such a long time ago that I barely remember it.  I will re-watch it.  Thanks.
 
@Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 16 2025 20:30 utc | 62
 
Just thank you in general.
 
Salam, Teri
 
PS: I really don’t know what has happened to my spelling.  Maybe it is ye olde brain tumor, or just old age.  

Posted by: teri | Nov 16 2025 20:50 utc | 65

 
https://x.com/BeckettUnite/status/1989996211466584195
Howard Beckett  @BeckettUnite 
 
The UN reports on the ‘systematic’ torture of Palestinians 🇵🇸 held by Israel 🇮🇱 
 
‘Beatings’
‘Including to the genitals’
‘Electric shocks’
‘Starvation’
‘Water boarding’
‘Threats of rape’ 
 
Israel 🇮🇱 is a racist, apartheid, pariah state 
 
Sanctions
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN 
The Hague now
 
—————
 
 
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1989919584800182302
Assal Rad  @AssalRad 
 
Any chance you want to mention who destroyed it?
 
 
https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1989689869367456107
The Economist  @TheEconomist 
 
The scale of the damage in Gaza is unprecedented. Around 1.2m people—60% of the population—are homeless. And shelter is not the only need
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 16 2025 21:59 utc | 67

The zionist is a mad scientist. They built a Frankenstein that’s hard to kill but can be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3hfw0paZI
 

Posted by: dobby | Nov 16 2025 22:25 utc | 69

Michael/69
The most depraved shameless scum who have ever walked this planet……
 
Since the reset, all our questions, what happened before? Where did all this old world architecture come from they want to erase and have erased through wars and historical propaganda? Star forts with megalithic stone blocks being built on artificial islands. I’ve seen these and their false history explanation they were forts for war where we were in the horse and buggy age where it would be impossible to build, never mind the man power carrying stone megalithic blocks? Something happened and look who controls us today.
 
Like I said, the zio monster Frankenstein with their fake history writers, we need to find the truth. Then eliminate them, then the truth will be free instead of hidden behind their secret societies they control us with.

Posted by: dobby | Nov 17 2025 1:17 utc | 71

jayc 67
 
” Israel claims the so-called Sharam El-Sheikh agreement (concluded by US, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey) established the “structured process allowing Gaza’s to leave…”
 
Obviously I wasn’t there,  but reading between the lines, Kazachstan’s joining the Abraham Accords tells me that Egypt , Qatar and Turkey are also.closet AA members,
Alcoholics Anonymous has privacy rules but Palestinian blood- swiggers Anonymous is less shy. 
 
All one can say is that the closer one gets to Evil, and its cobweb of connections of base human  instincts, terror, brazen arrogance and defiance of Allah, the easier it becomes to reject Evil. 
Both the Egyptian and Turkish deep military states had contracts to dispose of European garbage and toxic waste and they released it into their lands and seas, poisoning their own populations. 
 
These countries have no legislation whatsoever on the release of toxic refrigerant gases.  Turkey is no more than an offshoot of Israel’s human bodyparts industry. Turkey’s deep state is based on  Egypt’s Al Azhar Colonial , Political Islam.
 
So the reality is that when one looks closely at the countries which embrace Political Islam of either the Russian Federation or the USUKIS varieties, they are actually just as corrupted in their westernized  actions as the Shi’a sects are corrupted in their inventions about Ali ra.
 
Jewlani , MbS and Erdogan  don’t have to  be Mizrahi Jews to be  enemies of Islam. 
They may be, but Turkey’s Turkic Nationalism is enough to disqualify it as a Muslim nation. Exceptionalism of every kind is poison. The selfish behaviour of Pakistani car  drivers and car dealers puts the beautiful name of Islam to shame.
 
This crisis in Palestine is a crisis inside Islam as to whether our individual behaviour as Muslims generates the respect that would cause the world to save Palestine .  English people that I come across at work generally seem to prefer their disgusting, broken  lifestyles to the steadfast and peaceful morality of Islam
 
Most English people while hating Israelis and Americans, absolutely reject the rigid morality of Islam.  Hence LoveDonbass definition of tragedy, that the morality of the Palestinian Muslims will earn them no friends in the world. 
But their steadfast morality will likely earn them a place in Allah’s Heaven.
That is the supreme achievement of success.
 
 

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 17 2025 2:16 utc | 73

The E3 is at it again – drafting an anti-Iran resolution at IAEA to justify the next USraeli aggression on Iran: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/irans-response-to-e3s-anti-iran-iaea

Posted by: Ismaele | Nov 17 2025 5:11 utc | 75

 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/richard-falk-detained-cbsa-palestine-conference-9.6980514
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine 
Richard Falk says he and his wife were held for close to 4 hours in Toronto 
 
A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians. 
 
Richard Falk, a retired Princeton University professor who was a special rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility on Friday and Saturday. 
 
Dubbed a “people’s tribunal,” the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document “Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza,” says a news release from its organizers. 
 
But upon arriving at customs at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Thursday with his wife, he says border agents took their passports and led them to an interview room.
 
He said border agents told him they needed to determine whether he and his wife were a national security threat to Canada………
 
————–
 
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1990150704607248690
Assal Rad  @AssalRad 
 
This story is appalling in any case, but so much worse when you remember the West Bank is PALESTINIAN TERRITORY. 
 
Palestinians are denied medical care in their own land. This is what Israeli occupation means.
 
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-11-16/ty-article/.premium/israel-bars-u-s-physicians-from-entering-west-bank-treating-palestinian-patients/0000019a-8bf5-d3ce-a7de-fffda17c0000
Israel Bars U.S. Physicians From Entering West Bank and Treating Palestinian Patients 
 
Two doctors were denied entry despite receiving permission from a Defense Ministry unit to enter the West Bank. According to their lawyer, the Diaspora Affairs Ministry determined that the nonprofit group HEAL Palestine ‘operates to delegitimize Israel,’ but offered no proof……….
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 17 2025 6:03 utc | 77

I myself have an A series Samsung phone. AppCloud can be found by going into apps, then type into search the name AppCloud – you can disable it – but it will switch itself back on and it can even download by itself without permission. 
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 18:58 utc | 54
 
Your quotation missed out one vital phrase: ‘in the region’. As far as I understand it, the spyware is implanted in Samsung Galaxies sold in the Middle East, not in your Galaxy in Scotland.
 
Collecting data from all Samsung Galaxies sold worldwide would fill numbers of whole data centres. As you know, the Israelis collected all telephone calls made in Gaza, and it filled up an entire data centre in Holland, which they then had to evacuate when the scandal got out (the massive consumption of Dutch water and electricity, just to further Israel’s nefarious activities). And that was only one data centre.

Posted by: laguerre | Nov 17 2025 9:18 utc | 79

Israel & India Strengthen Defense Ties
 
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/11/13/israel-and-india-strengthen-defense-ties/
 
“United by ‘shared values of terrorism,’ Israel and India are moving to deepen their already robust security cooperation. The governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on November 4 to expand their ‘defense, industrial and technological cooperation,’ according to the Israeli and Indian ministries of defense…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 17 2025 11:56 utc | 81

More : India-Israel Boost Ties
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCtubpFbno
 
Hindutva & Zionism

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 17 2025 12:21 utc | 83

This on the Eve of Mark Carney Visit to UAE…(&vid)
 
https://x.com/MohSir25/status/1990135814362198504
 
“The UAE is arming the criminal RSF militia, violating UN/Cdn sanctions. Your silence equals complicity. The world is watching. Honor your ethical duty: stop the flow of Canada-sourced weapons immediately…”
 
mark.carney@parl.gc.ca

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 17 2025 12:53 utc | 85

  “Thanks, canuk.  The “Poetics” is a good place to follow Aristotle’s ideas about what makes a good play.      The point about tragedy is  well taken. When television began there were some really good theatrical presentations,  and in the early days they were live as well.  Are there any new shows that are not propaganda today?  If there are they are not available to the general public unless that public can pay for the privilege.”
 
Posted by: juliania | Nov 16 2025 18:27 utc | 46
 
juliana you are a Christian-Jesus death was Tragic-but it was also the redemption of mankind through Jesus’s death..
 
Much like when Socrates could have escaped his fate -went into exile -but took death-his last words were: “Crito I owe a cock to Asclepius ; pay it for me .  Remember to do so”
 
Asclepius was the god of healing; hence, death was a healing for a soul.  This sacrifice foreshadows Jesus crucifixion 500 years later.
 
  

Posted by: canuk | Nov 17 2025 14:07 utc | 87

Posted by: Hankster | Nov 17 2025 13:31 utc | 86
are you suggesting Russian Jews are corrupt and willing to betray anyone for a few coins ?

Posted by: Exile | Nov 17 2025 14:17 utc | 89

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 17 2025 0:19 utc | 70
 
Thank you for that information, and for the information you and so many others of “b’s” contributors are putting up here.  A daily catalogue of the unacceptable.
 
 On eyewitness accounts from Westerners on Western/Israeli conduct in general – for it could not have been done without the West assisting or promoting the atrocities –  Craig Murray travels to that region and also bears witness.  As you will know Alastair Crooke, though I don’t think he goes into Israel now, also has detailed knowledge of the region as a whole and is well-informed about what is occurring.   Neither of those can put what is occurring in full perspective.  Their official background means there’s a lot they can’t say.   But they can speak from that full perspective and that gives them more authority than most.  
 
 Some relatives of mine travelled in the ME in the 80’s and brought back albums of now sepia-coloured photographs.  Wonderful photographs.   I leafed through them recently.  Dead history now.  Many of the ancient buildings gone and with them the people who lived there and tended to them or worshipped there.  William Dalrymple has written of that mosaic of communities that survived in spite of millennia of disruption and persecution.  Many now shattered, sometimes exterminated.  They did not survive us.  
 
We opened the Gates of Hell for countless millions and ignored the resultant carnage, that carnage a disregarded consequence of geopolitical manoeuvring almost entirely concealed from the general public.  Those responsible for the destruction, those sitting in offices in the States and Europe planning the setting of tribe against tribe and faction against faction that led to that destruction, and all too often often took a hand it it themselves, will never be held to account.  That’s not how it works, ever.  But in Gaza the monstrous consequences of our dealings in the Middle East have burst into full view.  
 
A view many do not wish to inspect.  For most of us looking away is the reaction to atrocities one has no veto on; but if one can it is better to bear witness as you do than to look away.  As Mearsheimer has said, some time we’re going to have to stop and consider what has occurred.  What has occurred and is still occurring is even now being swept under the carpet or normalised by the Western politicians, or that is being attempted.  But that daily catalogue of atrocities such as those instanced here will not be forgotten.   Just maybe, the knowledge of what we have done or have allowed to be done in our name will lead to a cessation of those atrocities.  A remote hope but the only hope there is.
 
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Shrine of St Peter, Shama, 2025.
 
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1885024736100413581
 
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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1976231484148285683
 
TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza 
 
 BREAKING Israeli tanks stationed along Al-Rashid Street fired shells directly toward civilians waiting to return to their homes in Gaza City.
 
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 10 2025 6:12 utc | 176
 
 

Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 17 2025 14:48 utc | 91

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 16 2025 18:58 utc | 54
nitter.poast.org is seemingly not accessible from India. Can you suggest a work around?

Posted by: india-guy | Nov 17 2025 15:05 utc | 93

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 17 2025 14:54 utc | 92
 
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If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
 
My burden is that I notice things. Like, I can’t not notice persistent behavior.
 
canuk and several other MAGAs have never condemned the genocide. To Gruff’s credit, he condemns US Imperialism.
 
canuk as with most Western chauvinists are happy to revel in looting, subversion, and murder, but take zero accountability for how their “winning” was obtained. A zero sum approach. Very Zionist, very short-sighted. Parasitic.
 
That’s not ok with me. Disagree with me on every topic, that’s fine.
 
But refuse to acknowledge or worse write pseudo-intellectual rationalizations for oppression, then I have a problem.
 
If you like Bibi, if you like Trump, that’s your thing.
 
Some of us humans find them disgusting, insane, and dangerous.
 
Frankly, as most of us would never let a known pedophile babysit our children, no intelligent person should want to have a Zionist anywhere near them.
 
And I am not diminishing the “power” of the word. I am reinforcing it’s true nature, removing ambiguity.
 
If we can’t agree on what is extermination and theft, then we’re not compatible socially.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 15:22 utc | 95

Ya little gollum canuck,
How many times we have warned you to refrain from shitting and leaving your little smelly turds all along the Palestine threads.
Be gone. little stinking gollum, ugly as you are.
Be gone

Posted by: stranger | Nov 17 2025 15:34 utc | 97

Zionism is a “belief”. It’s not racial, genetic, or ordained by God.
 
What a person believes is optional. No one has to be a Zionist.
 
I keep trying to get an argument going (for learning purposes) about whether Zionist beliefs acted upon removes a person from consideration as a human.
 
I imagine most would agree that cannibalism is not human behavior, in the sense that it violates many human social norms stretching worldwide and across cultures. Someone who decides to be a cannibal is generally regarded as crazy and to be ostracized, if not unalived.
 
As far as being dangerous and vile, it is a narrow gap between being a Zionist and a cannibal.
 
Pedophilia, a big Zionist fixation, is like Cannibalism which is like Zionism.
 
Why can’t people call it out?
 
I notice Zionists get mad when I talk about it.
 
Here’s the thing. Stop stealing, raping, and killing, and I will gladly talk about anything else.
 
Likewise, I will stop talking about the West when the West (admittedly a euphemism for European culture) stops institutionalizing evil.
 
If one doesn’t want the smoke, don’t start fires…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 15:36 utc | 99