I don’t know if this has been reported from The Cradle
 
Israel bombs Lebanon using banned cluster munitions
 
More barbaristic war crimes by the Chosen of our species…../s

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 21 2025 5:59 utc | 403

John Gilberts 402
 
I wish this lovely lady wasn’t unconsciously emanating the powerful and genocidal perfime of Muslim Brotherhood  bullshit.
And how are we supposed to believe that Zionist , US envoys like Barrack who support Nutter’s genocide that has targeted and tortured and massacred women and  children indiscriminately , – like Ustinking piece of MB shitAE in Sudan, – is not a sexual abuser of children?
 
These Sauds and Muslim  Brotherhood collaborators with USUKIS might not hsve formally NormyLiesed with Satanstan, but they all talk the same child-molesting shit. 
My aunt’s husband worked for Shell in Turkey and the Middle East.  One sick oil sheikh asked his daughter , and got his request, for her to renounce her family so that he could own her outright as a slave.
 
Muslim Brotherhood and especially Turkish supremacy is as bad and as violent as Israeli Kazhar supremacy .
I am taking her words with a very large dose of Afghan Himalayan rock salt.
Nothing good for Palestine is ever going to come from MB , Sauds or the Russian, predatory , colonial , Deep State.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 21 2025 6:29 utc | 405

Excellent in interview , Vanessa Beeley and Fiorella Isabel.
On disgusting UN resolution, and shadowy deals behind it>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whgEoX8jP6A&t=4219s
Strongly reccomended.
 
Well, the et storm above, so have to get off now,

Posted by: stranger | Nov 21 2025 12:28 utc | 407

This is really sick… Prof Jiang stating in one of his recent yt lectures that the Bible exists before 600 BC and that this is why the Israelites brought by Nabuchodonosor in Babylon were “good administrators”. By that time, if anything existed, it was the Samaritan Pentateuch only. By the way, a lot of BIblical books are explaining how justified and legal it is to kill the Samaritans. But he didn’t discuss that.
Maybe the Chinese have understood, just like the US, that letting the Middle East on fire most of the time is the best way to keep the Europeans busy and poor? 

Posted by: Tom | Nov 21 2025 13:22 utc | 409

The Zio-Nazis have bombed so many Gazan civilians and infrastructure – that Nato has ran out of TNT for the other Nazi’s the Neo- Nazi’s in Ukraine.
 
“NATO is reportedly running low on TNT, a key explosive in heavy munitions. The shortage is linked to a large amount of TNT being used in Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza, the supply being diverted, Europe is unable to arm Ukraine. ‘Without Polish-made TNT, unprecedented scale of aerial bombardment that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians… would not be possible’ — The Telegraph”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 21 2025 19:06 utc | 411

UN Security Council Rubber-Stamps Trump’s’ ‘Peace Plan’ As Israel Bombards Gaza & Lebanon
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/21/zhzq-n21.html
 
“…The fact of the matter is that American imperialism facilitated the genocide of the Palestinians. The Biden and Trump administrations supplied the Zionist regime with tens of billions in high-powered weaponry since Israel launched its onslaught of Gaza in October 2023. Authorities in the US and all its imperialist allies viciously cracked down on anti-genocide protesters and sought to smear them as ‘anti-semites’. 
 
Trump held numerous meetings with the war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oversee the ongoing genocide, while ensuring that the outstanding arrest warrant for Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court has yet to be carried out. And all of this came after decades in which Washington was instrumental to Israel’s relentless persecution and dispossession of the Palestinians.
 
Monday’s UN vote provides yet another devastating exposure of the dead end of the perspective of protest politics that has guided the leadership of the anti-genocide demonstrations around the world since 2023. The anger of millions of people was misdirected behind making bankrupt appeals to the UN and the consciences of politicians to reconsider their support for Israel’s imperialist backed extermination of the Palestinians and pursue a different policy.
 
As for the capitalist regimes in Moscow and Beijing, they chose to let Trump’s resolution pass by abstaining in the vote, which either of them could have blocked with a veto. Part of their motivation for this course was the despicable role played by all the despotic Arab regimes, who have swung behind Trump’s plan but also serve as important trading partners and sources of investment for Russia and China. However, the more fundamental reason is that both the Putin and Xi regimes represent the interests of oligarchies that want nothing more than an accommodation with imperialism to secure a share of the spoils in a new redivision of the world…
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 21 2025 20:32 utc | 413

R2R: ‘NATO’s War on Humanity’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifQ0uPmZ5Y
 
“From Libya to Palestine the UN Security Council betrays Arab and Muslim peoples.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 21 2025 20:49 utc | 415

see the photo at the first link
 
 
 
https://x.com/derJamesJackson/status/1991919299490111741
James Jackson@derJamesJackson 
 
The German government’s human rights commissioner took part in a paid trip by Israeli lobbyists linked to weapons manufacturers Elbit
 
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https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1991430308823199842
Sarah Wilkinson  @swilkinsonbc 
 
28 Palestinian people murdered by the israelis in airstrikes east of Khan Younis this morning as civil defense teams try to pull out the survivors
 
 
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/11/20/351981/
Israeli army carries out renewed attacks on Gaza following day of massacres
 
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https://x.com/cbonneauimages/status/1991562704222339344
courtneybonneauimages  @cbonneauimages 
 
Update: 10,000 Israeli breaches and counting. 
 
Per UNIFIL: 
 
7,500 airspace violations 
 
2,500 ground violations including an illegal wall on Lebanese land, making over 4,000 m² of land inaccessible, all in breach of UN Resolution 1701. 
 
Reminder that these violations include hundreds of assassinations of men, women and children.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 21 2025 23:43 utc | 417

 
 
https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/1991903584607170914
susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى  @susanabulhawa 
 
my new favorite actor. @TheGuyPearce
 
 
https://x.com/TheGuyPearce/status/1991743562921439724
Guy Pearce @TheGuyPearce 
 
I’ve never been so disgusted by a group of people in my life as I am by Israelis. Everyday I witness their utter disregard & disdain for Palestinian life. It is shameful & sets humanity further backwards with every vile act like this.https://instagram.com/reel/DRSdquLD5
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 22 2025 4:17 utc | 419

413 John Gilberts. This is indeed the reality of this terrible crime against the Palestinians. Now, low-life thug militias are being armed by USIsrahell against Hamas. Sooner or later the criminals will pay.

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 22 2025 6:16 utc | 421

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 21 2025 22:59 utc | 416
 
Lol. Funny. I’m a LD supporter. Continue your opinion and commentary good sir.. It’s not a statement about his critics. I think you have that in hand. 😁

Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 22 2025 8:10 utc | 423

Excuse my messy post.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 22 2025 8:18 utc | 425

396 The Painter– “The greatest con pulled on the world was combing the teachings of Jesus with the Old Testament. This was a trap and a well designed one at that. It should be obvious to everyone that the god of the Old Testament is not the God that Jesus spoke of.  Yahweh is a blood thirsty, vengeful, cruel, insecure, war demon deity of the “Synagogue of Satan”.”   
 
Here is a ‘Christian’ philosopher’ promoting that con with specious ‘reasoning’, a blasphemous apostate, whom some Christians follow. In his book ‘Reasonable Faith’, this  pundit, William Lane Craig, considered a leading proponent of the philosophical school known as ‘Christian apologetics’,  puts forth that yahweh’s instructing the Israelites to massacre every man, woman and child of the Canaanites was justified because the Israelites were inspired by a desire for that land. So Craig calls it ‘divine genocide,’ a shocking and repulsive use of words, imo.
 
“I’m still willing to bite the bullet and tackle the tougher question of how an all-good, all-loving God could issue such horrendous commands. My argument in Question of the Week #16 is that God has the moral right to issue such commands and that He wronged no one in doing so. I want to challenge those who decry my answer to explain whom God wronged and why we should think so. As I explained, the most plausible candidate is, ironically, the soldiers themselves, but I think that morally sufficient reasons can be provided for giving them so gruesome a task.
     “There is one important aspect of my answer that I would change, however. I have come to appreciate as a result of a closer reading of the biblical text that God’s command to Israel was not primarily to exterminate the Canaanites but to drive them out of the land. It was the land that was (and remains today!) paramount in the minds of these Ancient Near Eastern peoples. The Canaanite tribal kingdoms which occupied the land were to be destroyed as nation states, not as individuals. The judgment of God upon these tribal groups, which had become so incredibly debauched by that time, is that they were being divested of their land. Canaan was being given over to Israel, whom God had now brought out of Egypt. If the Canaanite tribes, seeing the armies of Israel, had simply chosen to flee, no one would have been killed at all. There was no command to pursue and hunt down the Canaanite peoples.
     “It is therefore completely misleading to characterize God’s command to Israel as a command to commit genocide. Rather it was first and foremost a command to drive the tribes out of the land and to occupy it. Only those who remained behind were to be utterly exterminated. There may have been no non-combatants killed at all. That makes sense of why there is no record of the killing of women and children, such as I had vividly imagined. Such scenes may have never taken place, since it was the soldiers who remained to fight. It is also why there were plenty of Canaanite people around after the conquest of the land, as the biblical record attests.
     “No one had to die in this whole affair. Of course, that fact doesn’t affect the moral question concerning the command that God gave, as explained above. But I stand by my previous answer of how God could have commanded the killing of any Canaanites who attempted to remain behind in the land.”
 
Can a person throw the OT into the dumpster and remain a Christian?
 
 
 

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 22 2025 9:49 utc | 427

🇵🇸⚡️🕊 Al-Quds Brigades Martyrdom Announcement:
 
“Mujahid Younis Waleed Ashtiya martyred in armed clash during siege in Tal village – 21/11/2025”

Remember the name.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 22 2025 10:08 utc | 429

Fixed:“A new report reveals that “Israel” received over 21 million metric tons of oil during its aggression on Gaza, with key suppliers including the US, Russia, and Azerbaijan…According to the report, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were the dominant suppliers of crude, accounting for 70% of total deliveries. Russia, Greece, and the United States emerged as the top exporters of refined fuel…”Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 22 2025 1:11 utc | 418Russia again? I have had difficulty reconciling their support of this genocide. I would like to hear karlof’s take on these recent revelations and the increased criticism of Russia on this forum. That may not be a legally available option though.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 22 2025 8:21 utc | 426

 
This is a child’s take on geopolitics, but I’m not surprised that a Canadian would be taken in by the simplistic good-versus-evil Sunday school narrative peddled by michaelj72 of the Palestinian conflict.
 
Here are some points for you to ponder:

• Did you know that as of October 2025 Russia still sells fossil fuels to Europe despite Europe seizing Russia’s funds, and Europe funding and backing the Kiev regime with weapons?
• Did you know that just last week, Russia is trying to run a US naval blockade to supply oil (naphtha) to Venezuela that it needs to dilute its heavy crude oil?

 
Al Jazeera, 3 Oct 2025

It comes as US President Donald Trump has piled pressure on NATO members to stop buying Russian energy, in a bid to end the Russia-Ukraine war. At the UN last week he said, “They’re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?” Trump was referring to the more-than one billion euros ($1.35bn) EU countries are still paying to Russia each month for fossil fuels.

 
Latin Times, 11/21/2025

A sanctioned Russian oil tanker reversed course while en route to Venezuela after encountering a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Caribbean, according to vessel-tracking data reviewed by Bloomberg. The Seahorse was carrying a cargo of naphtha to Venezuela on November 13 when the USS Stockdale appeared in its path near the country’s coastline. The Russian vessel turned away and headed toward Cuba.

 
Russia is doing its best to minimize the harm it does not only to others (by selling oil to Israel) but itself (by selling oil to Europe), while still doings its best to support its allies like Venezuela. 
 
There is no escaping trade in the capitalist world-economy controlled by America. The poster child of most-sanctioned countries, North Korea and Cuba, would struggle to develop themselves if they’re not backed by countries with larger territories and more developed economies and therefore better access to more natural resources and goods like Russia and China. Even Russia itself, after its 2022 SMO made it rise to the top of the most-sanctioned country list, had to occasionally lean on China to obtain access to goods. Why do you think Iran was so eager to cut deals with America just so that it could have sanctions against it removed?
 
Only the world hegemon America can have the impunity to deny others access to goods, enforce its unilateral will with the military forces it has occupied the whole planet with, and suffer no consequence for its belligerence. You, David G Horsman, think about this world exactly like an American would, which is not surprising since Canada is a genocidal settler colony just like America and Israel.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 22 2025 14:51 utc | 431

Why hasn’t the Palestinian-American Ali Abunimah said anything about Zohran Mamdani, whom he has pinned all his hopes on for Palestinian liberation, getting chummy with Trump? The very same Ali Abunimah who did not hesitate for a single second to condemn Russia and China for not vetoing UN resolution 2803 now shows hesitation in condemning his idol Zohran Mamdani.
 
Despite every proper Marxist calling Mamdani a sellout right away due to Mamdani’s condemnation of Cuba and Venezuela as dictatorships and Mamdani’s portrayal of October 7 as a terror attack, Abunimah was breathlessly defending Mamdani on a livestream that the Electronic Intifada held right after Mamdani’s victory.
 

Livestream: Why Israel fears Zohran Mamdani
 
“Zohran Mamdani has a very long and very explicit and very detailed commitment to supporting Palestinian rights that none of them had,” said Abunimah. Abunimah first met Mamdani in 2013 when Mamdani was co-chair of the SJP chapter at Bowdoin College in Maine and invited Abunimah to speak. Mamdani’s electoral win can be seen, at least in part, as a product of that shift. More changes may also be ahead, Abunimah speculated. “People are skeptical because they say things are the same because they’ve always been the same. But then eventually they change. Is this that moment? I don’t know. Probably not. Could be. Might be the start of it. I’m saying keep an open mind.”

 
Where is that long, detailed, explicit commitment to supporting Palestine now? The shift/changes that Abunimah envisioned—is that a union between Democrats and Republicans through a very public revelation that America has always been a uniparty of two different strains of fascism? Trump and Mamdani just declared that they shared common ground in that they believed in socialist solutions for the nation of America. You might even call it a National Socialist Trump-Mamdani alliance. 

 
Mamdani and Trump traded political barbs throughout the mayoral election. A reporter in the room on Friday reminded the two men that Trump had called Mamdani a “communist” and Mamdani had referred to the president as a “despot”. Both men deflected multiple questions about their previous statements and pivoted back to praise.
 
Trump even let Mamdani answer a question about whether the mayor-elect thought the president was a “fascist”. “That’s ok, you can just say yes,” Trump interjected, giving Mamdani a light tap on the arm and smiling. “It’s easier than explaining.”
 
The closest Trump came to criticising Mamdani’s politics was telling reporters, “He’s got views that are little out there”. Perhaps most striking, Trump dismisssed a question echoing an attack on Mamdani by one of Trump’s top political allies in New York. “Do you think you’re standing next to a ‘jihadist’ right now in the oval office?” a reporter asked, quoting Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who is mounting a run for governor of New York. “No I don’t,” Trump quickly said.
 
Perhaps part of the reason the two men appeared in lock step on Friday was their shared focus on cost-of-living issues. Facing one question about their different views on achieving peace in the Middle East, Mamdani responded that Trump voters had expressed to him a wish for “an end to forever wars” and for leaders to address “the cost-of-living crisis”. On law enforcement and immigration, they also appeared to find some common ground. Mamdani said he and Trump discussed federal immigration-enforcement operations in New York, and he relayed concerns from residents about how they are being conducted.
 
But Trump said they discussed crime more than immigration. “He doesn’t want to see crime and I don’t want to see crime,” the president said. He had “very little doubt” the two would get along on that issue.
 
Trump even said he would feel safe living in a Mamdani-led New York.

 
Nick Fuentes would applaud the two fascists slobbing each other’s knob in public. Recall that Nick Fuentes openly called America an empire and affirmed his belief in expanding the American Empire as advocated by Manifest Destiny. In what seems like pure coincidence, Nick Fuentes has recently not only talked about Democrats and Republicans finding common ground, but on the same issues as well.

He called for a political realignment built on cooperation between nationalist Republicans and populist Democrats, describing it as a coalition that would prioritise borders, reduce foreign influence and challenge entrenched economic interests. Fuentes suggested that issues like the release of the Epstein files and ending foreign aid to Israel could unite both sides and that such a platform would have huge public support.
 
The centrepiece of his proposal is what he calls a “populist compromise”: the left would “give up immigration”, including both legal and illegal inflows, and the right would “give up on the free market” by accepting a larger social safety net, healthcare intervention and public subsidies. He claimed this alignment could form a movement capable of winning “90 per cent of the vote”.

 
This was the sort of compromise that the fascist barfly Ahenobarbus was peddling.
 
Israel’s days are numbered now that the socialist Mamdani has buddied up with the America First nationalist Trump! Long live the National Socialist Trump-Mamdani alliance!
 
You may think that I was being hyperbolic by claiming that Abunimah was a fascist just by virtue of Abunimah being an American, but reality swiftly proves my point yet again.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 22 2025 15:30 utc | 433

Does the ADL also consider Haaratz readers  anti-semitics ? 

Posted by: Exile | Nov 22 2025 16:23 utc | 435

IDF behaving badly while on R&R in Thailand. Local Paper
 
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3127748/badly-behaved-israelis-to-feel-the-wrath-of-thai-law#google_vignette
 

Posted by: Exile | Nov 22 2025 17:43 utc | 437

“Russia is doing its best to minimize the harm it does not only to others (by selling oil to Israel) but itself (by selling oil to Europe), while still doings its best to support its allies like Venezuela.  There is no escaping trade in the capitalist world-economy controlled by America…
*Death to AmericaMarg bar Âmrikâ
*Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 22 2025 14:51 utc | 431
 
“The spice must flow”
I was aware of the facts and details but disagree. Russia has been highly legalistic during VVP’s term in office. But not in this case. Israel gets a pass.
 
Russia has supported ” the resistance “, when in suits them. It is this support in the ME that contributed to her good reputation here. Until recently. Recent revalations around Syria (ie Vanessa Beeley) cast a cynical light on that. Now they support the foreign extremists; maybe they did for some time.
 
And then the abstentions on the UN vote. Wtf? 3D chess setting un a failure? An attempt to invalidate the UN because of this illegal resolution?
 
And now this petrochemical issue? 
 
How a country’s people think, and their nature, is by nature a demographic characteristic, it exists as a bell curve with tails. I MUST think like Canadian but that would suggest a zombie or nascent left here. That’s a minority position outside of the bar. Me me me.
 
The energy supply is the first thing you cut off, not the last. Well, unless it’s the EU. Someone has to fund the war there.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Nov 22 2025 19:13 utc | 439

Lavieja @ 421:
 
“Sooner or later the criminals will pay.”
 
 May the good people of the world arise, unite and  direct sufficient power to make it soon. As it is USA, Russia, China and the UN Security Council protect and defend the criminals. This is an urgent problem we must deal with.
 
‘All over the world cats make friends with cats and nowhere in the world do cats make friends with mice.’ – Mao

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 22 2025 21:07 utc | 441

Posted by: Exile | Nov 22 2025 16:23 utc | 435
Depends. Does Haaretz sufficiently support the Zionazi Lebensraum project in both Palestine and beyond (Lebanon and Syria)? If not, they must surely be “anti-semetics”.
It’s quite cynical that the ADL and those that sponser it, are eastern European Khazars that aren’t even Semites in the first place, who are ethnically cleansing and exterminating the actual Semites to which the people of the Levant belong to. Lebanese like Hezbollah and Palestinians of whom 1/4 of the Gazan population (more than 600.000 of the 2.200.000) was massacred and exterminated since the Zionazi onslaught of October 7th.

Posted by: xor | Nov 22 2025 21:41 utc | 443

And of course, there is this.  More and more testimonies are leaking out about the “rapiness” of the Zionists and their IDF soldiers.  I don’t think that I have ever heard so many stories about any other society that is so involved in the raping of male and female prisoners, not to mention Israelis raping each other and their children.  It takes a certain special contempt for basic morals.   A certain zeal for satanic, ghoulish predilections.
 
Warning, the article below has some fairly vivid details.  I did not paste the entire article here.
 

‘They Rape Them All’: How Israel Weaponized Sexual Torture Against Palestinian Hostages
 
By the time international treaties were drafted, after the world witnessed what humanity is capable of inflicting upon itself, certain acts were marked as absolute red lines. Rape. Sexual assault. Coercive nudity. Sexualized humiliation. Crimes that strip the human being down to their rawest vulnerability. Crimes that, when committed systematically, are defined as crimes against humanity.
 
Yet inside Israeli detention centers, according to survivors, doctors, lawyers, and human rights organizations, these red lines have not only been crossed; they have been erased.
 
[…] At Shuhada’a Al-Aqsa Hospital, intensive care and anesthesia specialist Dr. Ezeddin Shaheen unexpectedly began receiving former detainees after the current truce began.
 
“Since the start of the truce, I treated six or seven patients who later told me they had been raped by Israelis,” he told Quds News Network. “They did not come to me for treatment related to rape; they came for other medical issues. I received this number even though I am not specialized in treating released detainees. But during examination, the truth emerged.”
 
He also documented injuries from dogs, wooden sticks, and, horrifically, an electric drill.
 
“They used a drill on their bodies, hands, and heads. There were holes.”
 
He stresses that this torture is systematic, not incidental. […]
 
Inside these secretive facilities, especially Sde Teiman, Anatot, and Negev, survivors describe a machinery of degradation that operates with clinical precision.
 
Released prisoner Khaldoun Barghouti described the first days of the genocide in the Negev prison as a scene of mass nudity, mass beatings, and dogs attacking detainees. He said Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir even walked on the chests and heads of naked prisoners.
 
“Stick rape, using wooden or iron sticks, became common,” he said.
 
Ben-Gvir later boasted on X:
 
“I saw what pleases me in the Negev prison.”
 
Palestinian journalist Sami Al-Saei endured beatings, forced stripping, and penetration with sticks.
 
“I couldn’t sit, stand, or walk normally. They made me kneel naked with my face on the floor.” […]
 
https://qudsnen.co/they-rape-them-all-how-israel-weaponized-sexual-torture-against-palestinian-hostages/
 

Posted by: teri | Nov 22 2025 22:14 utc | 445

see the 20-second video at the first link
 
see the 10-second video at the second link
 
 
 
https://x.com/JeffreyxEpstein/status/1991676803208081886
Jeff Epstein  @JeffreyxEpstein  Parody account 
 
“We’re not in Tel Aviv, lady.” 
 
An Israeli saw a Palestinian flag and started freaking out, fully convinced she had the same authority to terrorize strangers in NYC as she does in the West Bank to Palestinians.
 
 
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https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1992267366080893340
Megatron  @Megatron_ron 
 
BREAKING:  🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel continues to bomb Gaza despite ceasefire, killing 15 Palestinians, including children, today alone
 
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https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1991870221875851646
Craig Mokhiber  @CraigMokhiber 
 
The world is sleepwalking into an unprecedented period of global tyranny. Under pressure from a violent and lawless US regime, the UN Security Council, a body at the top of the international system, with largely unconstrained legislative and enforcement power, and not subject to judicial review or appeal, has gone rogue, acting ultra vires (outside the legitimate powers granted by the Charter) adopting a resolution that contravenes both the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the highest (peremptory) rules of international law, directly violating precisely the rights of the Palestinian people recently affirmed by the International Court of Justice, and perpetrating an act of complicity with the principal forces responsible for the occupation and genocide in Gaza (US &Israel).
 
The terms of Res. 2803 are an affront to human rights and international law, and must be resisted and opposed at every stage. Members of the Council should move to revoke the resolution. If they are unable or unwilling, then the UNGA should convene under Uniting for Peace to adopt measures to mitigate the dangers of the resolution. The ICJ should be asked to issue an advisory opinion on this unlawful and ultra vires resolution. States must refuse to participate in its implementation in any way. And the people of the world should revolt against it, in every capital
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 22 2025 22:20 utc | 447

Mahmood OD: ‘Israel Prepares Attack on Iran’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD
 
“Three front war: Iran, Gaza & Lebanon; Official Hamas Statement.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 22 2025 23:09 utc | 449

To those whining about the PRC/RF voting on the ‘Trump Gaza peace plan’ Alon Mizrahi explains why they did what they did.
In short, there were only 3 options:
1) Vote for it on the SC. To do so slows the rate of the genocide, temporarily, and implicitly approves genocide and colonisation. Nothing to be gained from that one.
2) Vote against, with veto power thus blocking it. Bibi throws his little hat in the air and says ‘Woohoo, it’s back on boys! Moar bombs away!’. Not an option.
3) Abstain. FUKUS and their minions will push it through anyway. Let them own the whole shitshow and the opprobium of the ROW.
And that, my little ones, is realpolitik.
There was brief talk of the RF/PRC putting forward their own plan, but without any votes from the rotating members of the SC and a sure veto from one or likely all of FUKUS just because, a futile exercise.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 22 2025 23:55 utc | 451

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 22 2025 23:55 utc | 451
 
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Great content. Thank you. It is lonely sometimes being one of the few who think in terms of realpolitik.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 23 2025 0:03 utc | 453

Posted by: Giyane/454
Every spiritual  breakdown is a realisation that the narrow confines …
 
I know I didn’t finish your sentence but it’s true.

Posted by: dobby | Nov 23 2025 0:26 utc | 455

Anyone who could wipe out an entire population, are they in their right minds preaching god in 3 2 2?
 
My hope wake TFU! It’s either us or them.

Posted by: dobby | Nov 23 2025 0:48 utc | 457

What came first the nazi or zionist. It’s like the chicken or egg theory.

Posted by: dobby | Nov 23 2025 1:04 utc | 459

re. #412 ” It [naming things] is the first step in producing a thought.” I believe intention comes first. Then thought. Then action. I believe if we can control our intention, from second to second, we can control ourselves to an amazing degree. It’s incredibly difficult and requires enormous amounts of introspection. This is not something most people are inclined to do as far as I can tell, but I believe is necessary to become more fully Human.
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Nov 22 2025 14:53 utc | 432
 
Thank you  both for this.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 23 2025 2:17 utc | 461

Can a person throw the OT into the dumpster and remain a Christian?
 
Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 22 2025 9:49 utc | 427
 
I will take a stab at an answer,  Lavieja.   I was always troubled by some passages in the OT  when first I came to the Orthodox church — the services are full of Old Testament  readings.  On Holy Saturday for instance, there is a series of selections lasting the entire morning.   The Psalms are a constant presence in every service. For the most part the readings on Holy Saturday morning are strongly poetic foreshadownings for a Christian of  the  Paschal saga in which members of the congregation have been immersed during Holy week.  So,  especially for the Orthdox Christian, there has to be a way of overcoming the Old Testament hard sayings at points where we cannot agree with what the text is telling us.
 
I was helped in this difficulty by a Jewish writer,   Martin Buber, who had early joined the Zionist cause but soon detached himself because of the inhuman attitudes being fostered against any nonJewish sympathies.  He never in his life felt his faith ought to come to such conclusions, and he wrote a lot about his own examinations of characters in the bible such as Moses and the other prophets.    His way of addressing the texts he was analyzing was quite simply that in the OT there are indeed passages not able to be digested as ‘the word of God’ but rather themes which maybe different fanatical  elements have attempted to force original texts into oblivion.  Either that or a meaning not the  correct one is being suggested which further study might clarify. 
 
If it doesn’t make sense, in other words, if your conscience objects to it, set it aside!  Buber had no hesitation doing that since his aim was to understand the original texts;  the overall themes of the prophets are very clear — they spoke out very plainly against the sins of the kings, of the people in general, so theirs was not a perfect world, as most certainly ours is not as well.  Promises are not kept by the people who followed those wrote about God, and promises not kept are not honored by God; actions have consequences.  Buber is great on Moses.  Without Moses we have no one to make the connections – he gave us the first five books of the OT.  We need the Old in order to pass over to the New!
 
There are some difficult passages like this in the New Testament as well.  The best way to deal with them is to do that, to  pass over them if they don’t seem right.  Set them aside.  Some of them will clarify themselves later on; (I have found this often, not always, to be true).  Hard sayings are best, for me, treated in this way.  If they seem wrong they are wrong until clarification is given.  If they are saying something difficult to understand, you can object.  The Canaanite woman objected!   It was right that she did, as Jesus says.  His hard saying to her had been a test.  Even the mother of God, when her son says to her “What does that have to do with us?” doesn’t need to argue – she simply says to the servant ‘Do what he tells you’  and a miracle happens.  This is how the texts work sometimes, paradoxically.   They are not always what they seem.  And as in the Old, so in the New as well.
 
 It’s something like, for me that  saying about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  The baby, for Christians,  is Christ. His presence, a Christian believes, is forshadowed, sometimes imperfectly, in the stories of the Old Testament.  Only God is perfect.  The baby is what is important for Christians, washed, wrapped warmly, kept safe.   That does happen as the Old Testament leads forward into the New. 
 
The bathwater  does its job; it can be poured out on the garden to nourish our soil for the fruits of it all to be enjoyed.   The washing is needful ; each of us need to wash.   To scrub hard if the dirt requires it!  So, no, don’t throw the OT in the dumpster; but the garden can use it as mulch.
 
That’s how I understand Scripture, anyway.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 23 2025 3:10 utc | 463

This is from Peter AU1 on the open thread:
 

You come through as a bit of a weirdo.  At the moment, I am not sure if I should put you in the bin for landfill or in the recycling bin.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2025 3:14 utc | 448
 

Great minds think alike, Peter!  [I couldn’t resist]

Posted by: juliania | Nov 23 2025 3:32 utc | 465

AAAarghh!! Wrong again!  Peter’s  succinct saying was from the Week in Review thread.  I think I have it right this time!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 23 2025 3:37 utc | 467

see the 31-second video at the first link
 
 
 
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1992258147877360122
Arya – آریا @AryJeay 
 
🇫🇮🇮🇱| Finnish reporter gets arrested on the spot when he asked the president of Finland about the country’s arms trade with Israel while the genocide they are doing. 
 
So much for freedom of press.
 
—————
 
https://x.com/tparsi/status/1992309926144901449
Trita Parsi  @tparsi 
 
When Israel violates Trump’s ceasefire, the mainstream media calls it “testing” the ceasefire. 
 
There is no circumstance in this or in any other universe in which Hamas could kill 24 Israelis and the media would reduce it to Hamas “testing” the ceasefire.
 
 
https://x.com/AP/status/1992264337654718709
The Associated Press  @AP 
 
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 23 2025 4:05 utc | 469

Perhaps this was the most important video for me today.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQTGnjjjps&t=178s
 
Watch to the end.  God bless you, Craig Mokhiber,  and thank you, Nima.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 23 2025 6:22 utc | 471

see the 22-second video at the link. These zionist folks are psychos 
 
 
https://x.com/SilentlySirs/status/1991828615936274864
SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs 
 
A Jewish woman refused to pay her taxi fare just because there was a Palestinian sticker inside the car.
Then she claimed she felt “attacked”… and kept inventing excuses to justify it. 
 
That’s the real problem: the perpetual victim mentality — even when they’re the ones acting entitled.
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 23 2025 7:14 utc | 473

juliana 463
 
‘If it doesn’t make sense, in other words, if your conscience objects to it, set it aside!  Buber had no hesitation doing that since his aim was to understand the original texts’
 
The reason Muslims don’t tell  Christians that the Qur’an is the fully reformed , original explanation of God’s religion,  after endless garbage being inserted by Jews , Greeks  , Romans etc, into former scriptures , is that you won’t accept the worship of Allah without some tangible intermediary, like priests, prophets or hero politicians.
 
If you read it , you wouldn’t agree with it.
The Jewish rabbis rejected the Torah five millennia ago and the Christian priests  have always  felt the pain of the exposure of their lies by the truth of the Explanation, the  Qur’an 
Some rabbis accepted Islam but most rejected it, as will most on MoA.
Most here don’t even accept that the US proxy genocide of the Palestinians is a Crusade , utilising the tools of Empire like the United Nations, IAEU, ICJ and ICC to legitimise its heretical poison.
 

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 23 2025 12:08 utc | 475

This is a thread for discussion on Palestine and I am really shocked that one person just shows up and quotes false narrations about our Beloved Prophet PBUH. There have been many islamophobic comments but this is OFF-LIMITS. I had always (until now) admired this platform. This post from itsallsotiresome (58) must be removed, the least that can be done. 

Posted by: hanankhan321 | Nov 24 2025 12:15 utc | 477