Englishman,
 
I would guess Putin sees the value of maintaining a military presence in the Med.  Hold your nose Pragmatic.
 
The mighty Wurlitzer is going warp speed now.  EU wants to declare the army of Iran a terrorist organization.  This seems to be most absurd thing anyone can do.  It totally removes the meaning of terrorism and will just make it harder to re-establish relations with Iran when the current situation is resolved.  Perhaps they know that it will never be resolved so what the heck….go with it so as not to upset the masters in occupied Palestine.
 
slightly OT but I have not yet seen the resident bootlicker crow about how Mr Pretti spit on an ICE vehicle and broke a tail light on that vehicle.  Obviously such a disrespectful vandal needs killing.

Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 29 2026 15:19 utc | 3

Syrian President Visits Moscow For Second Time in Under Four Months
 
https://www.rt.com/russia/631681-syrian-russian-president-visit-talks
 
“Relations between the two countries ‘continue to progress,’ according to Vladimir Putin…Al Sharaa thanked Putin for Russia’s efforts to stabilize the situation in Syria and the Middle East, adding that Moscow plays a major role in the region…”
 
 
JF: Sharmine Narwani
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzfhdkDECc
 
“The slow strangling of Syria & Lebanon…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 29 2026 16:15 utc | 5

Posted by: Englishman | Jan 29 2026 14:46 utc | 1
 
 
I believe this is just, essentially, long-standing Kremlin foreign policy. ‘We do business with those in charge of the country,’ would be I think a succinct way of putting it. I may be wrong about this, but I think I remember Putin or Lavrov stating this regarding their way of doing business vs. the West’s way. I’m sure karlof1 can correct me if I’m wrong or bolster me if I’m right. Also, as dan of steele says, they want to maintain their bases in the region. It is definitely ‘hold your nose pragmatic’

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 29 2026 16:59 utc | 7

If you’re interested in Palestine you won’t miss EI’s weekly livestream..
 
The Electronic Intifada Livestream: Ghassan Abu Sittah
 
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
 
“Breaking news and analysis on day 846 of the Gaza genocide.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 29 2026 17:24 utc | 9

Another BRICS member close to Israel and NOT for Palestine…
 
PM Modi Likely To Visit Israel in February To Deepen Strategic Ties
 
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pm-narendra-modi-likely-to-visit-israel-in-february-to-deepen-strategic-ties-10901153
 
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Israel in February, giving a fresh push to the rapidly expanding strategic partnership between the two countries, Israel’s Ambassador to India Reuven Azar has hinted to NDTV.
 
India and Israel have steadily upgraded their ties over the past decade, with defence and security cooperation emerging as one of the central pillars of the partnership.
 
Israel is among India’s key defence technology partners, supplying critical systems ranging from missiles and drones to surveillance and air defence platforms…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 29 2026 19:29 utc | 11

“What i want to know is what the Hell Putin is thinking hosting the head hacking savage Julani in the Kremlin?”
Posted by: Englishman | Jan 29 2026 14:46 utc | 1
 
You talk to your enemies.
Thomas

Posted by: Thomas | Jan 29 2026 20:41 utc | 13

“Cats make friends with cats and nowhere in the world do cats make friends with mice.” – Mao

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 29 2026 20:45 utc | 15

Posted by: Thomas | Jan 29 2026 20:41 utc | 13
 
#####
 
And you also talk to your enemy’s allies.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 29 2026 21:03 utc | 17

Caveman 7
 ‘they want to maintain their bases in the region.’
 
The way that Russia wants to achieve that goal is  by climbing on board the Saud , Prince Bandar, bandwagon, because it was his ill-gotten swatches of limitless cash that keep  the disgusting Zionists and their Gollum Jewlani in power.
 
What Putin doesn’t understand is that the Gulf Monarchies are all fully Zionist, may the curse of Allah be upon them for allying themselves with USUKIS Zionism. 
So Putin is unwittingly sweetening up his real  enemies who are destined to lose power.
 
When Imam Mahdi arrives, the first to be killed will be the Gulf hypocrites who fund jihadists to fight for USUKIS , Crusading, satanist Zionism.
 
The Orthodox Christians are Zionists and the Roman Christians are Zionists, and being  Zionists , they both have zero relevance to the future of the World. 

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 29 2026 21:45 utc | 19

• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are convinced the world is closed to a global catastrophe.
• On Tuesday this week, the Doomsday Clock moved closer than ever to midnight: 85 seconds to midnight.
• Be kind to each other before the 12 minutes war emerges.
• The Perimeter is ready.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 29 2026 22:03 utc | 21

ZH links no longer allowed so posting title is
 
Israeli, Saudi Officials Swarm DC As Trump Weighs Iran Strike Options
 

Senior Saudi and Israeli defense and intelligence officials are converging on Washington this week as the Trump administration weighs potential US strikes on Iran, according to Axios. This as the same report also observes:
“A ‘limited strike’ is an illusion. Any military action by ‌the U.S. — from any origin and at any level — will be considered an act of war and the response will be immediate, ‌all out⁩, and unprecedented, targeting the heart of ‌Tel Aviv⁩ and all those supporting the aggressor,” Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, wrote on X.
Israeli officials, including IDF Intelligence Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, are reportedly presenting intelligence on Iranian targets to Pentagon, CIA, and White House officials, while Saudi counterparts are attempting to slow-walk Washington away from outright war. The Saudis lately joined the Emirates in barring the Pentagon for using airspace for any strikes.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 29 2026 22:29 utc | 23

Posted by: JamesBond | Jan 29 2026 22:09 utc | 22
UAE is the most vulnerable, highest value target that nobody really cares about.  
 
 

Posted by: Deniz | Jan 29 2026 22:35 utc | 25

see the 17-second video at the third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/2016912128402182459
Jeremy Corbyn  @jeremycorbyn 
 
There’s only one reason the IDF accepts this figure: they know the real number is much, much higher. 
 
Palestinians tried to tell the world. Shame on all those who discredited them. 
 
By hiding the genocide, you fuelled the genocide
 
 
https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2016825955403067788
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry estimate of over 70,000 killed in war
 
—————
 
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/2016888506358939711
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده  @RamAbdu 
 
🚨Israeli occupation bulldozers are uprooting more than 1,000 olive and almond trees in Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah. These trees are a vital source of livelihood for 200 Palestinians. The operation is carried out under a military order to expand buffer zones near a settler road.
 
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https://x.com/tparsi/status/2016874479792607434
Trita Parsi  @tparsi 
 
“Israel Hayom, the daily closest to the Israeli government, reported that Jordan, the UAE and the UK would provide logistical and intelligence support to the US military in the event of an attack [on Iran].” 
 
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/irans-battle-survival-arab-worlds-fight-too
Iran’s battle for survival is the Arab world’s fight too  – David Hearst 
Everyone in the region, whatever their past history with the Islamic Republic, should do their utmost to defend Iran and guarantee its sovereignty
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 29 2026 23:01 utc | 27

”Iran’s battle for survival is the Arab world’s fight too  – David Hearst ”
 
Arabs have lost their way.
 
In my thought dreams ,  after the first volley of USReal tomahawks ect..
a clamoring cry rings out in the night, blow the nefar loudly, proclaiming the Ayatollah Khamenei is in critical condition, raise the Shia Banner and call for global Shia action….
 
then pull up a lawn chair & watch West Asia correct itself…
 
there are Arabs that are waking from their long lost slumber,  we can watch MBS go slap UAE twit around… 
 
and Turkey doesn’t miss a beat, they’re already daydreaming of carving out a “buffer zone” INSIDE of Iran, should things go awry & they fear “refugees”…
 
…sigh… never goes in reality like my daydreams…
 
except the beer & lawn chair part…
 
 

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 29 2026 23:37 utc | 29

@29,
The article is good and he is right. If there is a time for those Muslim nations to grow a spine, it will be now. I’m not optimistic but indeed, at least the situation is a bit better for Iran in the region than it was a few years ago.
It’s not much though but at least its something. Outside of UAE & Jordan, I don’t think any other nation in the region would support IL or US attack. It wouldn’t make too much sense either, a Pahlavi regime would be no means be an ally of Turkey or Saudis.
As for the Turks carving some territory in Iran, I doubt it. Western media usually writes crap, Erdogan mentioned a few times that Iran security is crucial for Turkey as well. He is not the most reliable leader out there but I think in this case, he might be telling the truth. Considering their situation in the region for them, having another potential enemy in the East like Iran with Pahlavi at the helm .. is not great. Considering that now they have Greece, Israel and Cyprus to deal close by.

Posted by: JamesBond | Jan 29 2026 23:48 utc | 31

“Gaza Under an Impossible Condition:

Netanyahu stated that the occupation is entering a new phase in Gaza aimed at completely disarming the resistance, denying that the next phase would be one of reconstruction.

In response, Mousa Abu Marzouk affirmed that Hamas has neither agreed to nor discussed any formula for disarmament or the surrender of weapons.

Researcher Rami Abu Zubaida discusses three scenarios being considered by the occupation:

1.Moving to the second phase without dismantling the resistance = strategic suicide
2.Dismantling the resistance politically under American auspices (unacceptable)
3.The most dangerous of them: a temporary military administration for Gaza… the dream of the extreme right

Abu Zubaida asserts: Linking reconstruction to disarmament aims to impose a deadly stalemate.
No reconstruction
No withdrawal
No total war

Gaza as a giant prison… awaiting an impossible condition: the disarmament of the resistance.”

Via https://t.me/s/Military_Security

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 30 2026 0:00 utc | 33

JamesBind 32
 
The intelligence  of the Heart is not measured in IQ. 
The intelligence of human understanding  has not got even above zero of the Muslim leaders choose to listen to Western politicians instead of their own Scriptures.
 
We have Unity, but it is Western Imperialist unity they found on a scrapheap somewhere.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 0:17 utc | 35

Ornot 33
 
The reality of Gaza hasn’t changed , but the world has changed dramatically.
 
The Palestinian cause is completely legitimate, but most of Political Islam sees it as a negotiating tool for their own self- interest. 
 
Mulim Brotherhood has swallowed the British lie that Islam must fight jihad, while Britain has always maintained military superiority, and can suppress any whiff of insurrection instantly and completely.
 
Iran hasn’t swallowed the British lies and has armed itself to be in military parity with USUKIS.   But theologically there’s no agreement between Shi’a and Sunni Islam.
There never can be unity.
 
So Political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Sauds.  and others, have  completely betrayed Palestine to Israel. 
 
But Iran , like Russia, is threatened directly by Israel, and sees Palestine and now Jolani only as a proxy to attack Israel.
 
The logistical impossibilities srem are a feature of Arab treachery and Iranian duplicity.  
Palestinians have no allies in the Muslim world, possibly because of their location on the site of Christianity, which has evolved differently from Islam.
 
Christianity defeated Western Paganism in Europe and its colonies, and then stopped fighting. Islam turned East and has never defeated all of Asian Paganism. It’s mission is still unaccomplished.
 
Palestine is in the Western, Christian sphere and is being attacked by a resurgence of German Paganism, the European Nazis.
This is not the  traditional Muslim , Eastern sphere of influence,  nor does Christianity know how to revive its former military duty of Resisting Western Paganism, in the form of  the European and US Khazar Zionists.
 
So  the Palestinians will only be saved from their destruction , by Muslims who are not engaged in wooing the West with the lure of Conquest  and plunder, for West  to arm them to continue their unfinished jihad against Pagans in the East.   
Maybe Iran or Afghanistan will save Palestine.
The West abandoned its jihad against Paganism after wresting Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union. I very much doubt that the UN will rekindle its fury to save Palestine through the UN. 
But it might happen.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 1:12 utc | 37

Watch your back, Iran…
 
Russia, Turkey Seeking US-Iran Talks To Stave Off Conflict
 
https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-turkey-seeking-us-iran-talks-to-stave-off-conflict-amid-trump-threats/
 
“Russia and Turkey are pushing for negotiations in the standoff between Tehran and Washington after US President Donald Trump threatened new military strikes on Iran.
 
‘It is clear that the potential for negotiations is not exhausted,’ spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday…Peskov’s comments came a day after Trump urged Iran to come to the table and make a deal on nuclear weapons or face a possible US attack.
 
Meanwhile, [NATO] Turkey’s foreign minister will offer to mediate between the two countries during a visit by his Iranian counterpart on Friday, officials said as Ankara considers reinforcing security along its border should the dispute escalate…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 1:43 utc | 39

Russia, Turkey seeking US-Iran talks to stave off conflict amid Trump’s threats

Kremlin spokesperson warns of ‘very dangerous consequences’ if force used; officials say Turkish FM will offer mediation during meeting with Iranian counterpart

https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-turkey-seeking-us-iran-talks-to-stave-off-conflict-amid-trumps-threats/

https://archive.ph/gEqVZ

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Jan 30 2026 2:08 utc | 41

“Britain looks after moderately mad Mullahs, like the RSPCA looks after mistreated animals. There is no real Islam anywhere.” 
Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 0:05 utc | 34

  
Think you have a point.
 
But there are still some that recognize just and unjust actions.  At least there are still “real” bits of the teachings trying to be observed.
 
Thats hopeful.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 30 2026 2:22 utc | 43

DH: ‘US-Iran War Starts’ with Mohammad Marandi
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGjPrX93EA
 
“Iran’s next strike obliterates US Navy & Israel, war has begun.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 4:20 utc | 45

 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 5:10 utc | 46
 
NATO has article 5 which has not been triggered since 2022 concerning Ukraine as you obviously know. But there is no reason why the Iran, China, Russia strategic pact has to have the same structure or articles. It does say however: 
 
“For the United States and NATO partners, this raises the stakes in multiple regions: any escalation with Iran now risks broader strategic responses involving Beijing and Moscow, increasing the threshold for conflict and reducing the effectiveness of unilateral threats.”
 
I think that leaves the US facing a dangerous unknown as to what the above three countries could do, and when they could act.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 30 2026 6:02 utc | 47

 
‘They’re trying so hard not to say CONCENTRATION CAMP. ‘.
 
When they get Cryo-d , seconds before Armagedon, they’ll find it hard to say anything.  Not a chicken cluck or lamb Baa comes out of my freezer.
But I jest,  no civilisation,  no electric.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 7:07 utc | 49

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 7:18 utc | 50
 
###$$
 
Peace through strength is a military industrial complex marketing slogan.
 
In America, it has become a school of thought synonymous with mass murder and looting.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 30 2026 7:43 utc | 51

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 30 2026 8:41 utc | 52
 
My feeling now is that Trump will back out.  As John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 5:10 utc | 46 pointed out, Russia, China, and Iran have signed a strategic agreement in the last couple of days. It is unclear as to how that may play out which will keep the US guessing. If the Strait of Hormuz is blocked as Iran threatens to do, or an aircraft carrier is sunk or more ships go down, then that would be a disaster for Trump. They are realistic possibilities now. Also Saudi Arabia and UAE have shut their airspace to US military, when last time it was only for commercial aircraft. The stakes have raised, and Trump cannot afford another blunder. What would he cover this one over with? I think the US military will be more rational than the White House and I think they had a role in stopping the last US Iran offensive too.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 30 2026 9:33 utc | 53

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 30th January 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update Covers Gaza, Iran and ME.

Posted by: The Busker | Jan 30 2026 11:52 utc | 55

@ Saint Jimmy | Jan 30 2026 12:04 utc | 56
 
Wherever Miss Lindsey goes, people ahould hold up signs with big pictures of ladybugs. (If you don’t know why, any web browser can help out.)

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 30 2026 12:58 utc | 57

New Zealand makes a meaningless remark:
 

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister: New Zealand will not join the Peace Council in its current form, but will continue to monitor developments
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

 
What is there to monitor?  It is exactly what it appears to be:  the world watches and golf-claps ever so politely as one sadistic, self-important cretin bearing a remarkable likeness to a Duroc hog – should one be honest about which animal the man most closely resembles – with his small, round piggish eyes and facial features too small for his broad visage, steals the land of a society who has lived there for at least 5000 years so that he can build ugly hotels for wealthy people who will pay him boodles of cash to eat and drink to gross excess while they talk about ‘investments’ in the natural gas and oil deposits offshore that have (coincidently) also been yanked away from the rightful owners.  The Palestinians will be killed, exiled, or turned into slave labor to serve the every whim of the world’s upper crust, including (there can be no doubt about this, as we have learned by now) being forced to satisfy the strange and louche sexual impulses that are part of the broken psychology of the ultra-wealthy.
 
So, go ahead and monitor that, New Zealand.   Sit and watch with the other nations while one white man claims the right to simply kill at least a million (how many can be left at this point?) people on a whim, so that he can take the land they stand on.
 
Yeah.  We see how you treat the Maori in your own country.  We know better than to expect any more of you and all the colonizers now.
 

Posted by: teri | Jan 30 2026 15:12 utc | 59

From today, in no particular order:
 

Israeli occupation aircraft sprayed unknown substances over agricultural lands in several villages and towns in the central and northern countryside of Quneitra in Syria.
 
Urgent | Israeli artillery shelling targets the eastern areas of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
 
Doctors Without Borders : After several months of fruitless attempts to communicate with the Israeli authorities, and in the absence of any guarantees that would ensure the safety of our staff or allow us to manage our operations independently, Doctors Without Borders has concluded that it will not share a list of the names of its Palestinian and international staff with the Israeli authorities under the current circumstances.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
———————-
 
The Al-Hilal Field Hospital and Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip reported that six Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.

Six US F-35 fighter jets landed temporarily in Portugal before continuing their journey to the Middle East.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
———————
 
The occupation army killed 4 Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip near the Green Line last night.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
——————————-
 
Putin: Iran is our strategic partner, and we will stand by it with all our strength.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Gazaplatform?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
—————————
 
— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian government plane departs Tehran for Moscow
 
NEW: In response to the European Union designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization, Iran’s Foreign Ministry will designate the German, French and British armed forces as terrorist organizations.
 
Iran is also considering expelling the E3 ambassadors and closing their embassies.
 
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
——————————
 
Israel Hayom reported that America and its allies – Britain, France, Israel, and four Arab states – have prepared a list of targets ready for possible strikes on Iran.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
 

Posted by: teri | Jan 30 2026 15:53 utc | 61

The world is changing very quickly. The year 2026 should be marked by the return of spheres of influence and the end of colonial empires. Above all, it will see the return of international law to the rules we have known until now. Only those who are able to understand these developments and adapt to them quickly will continue to thrive.
 
https://www.voltairenet.org/article223573.html
Actually i think it is put upside down,
There can never be a new world order based on ignoring , abetting genocide.
It is on us now, citizens, as obviously our govts are not serving anything but themselves- it wont do.
 

Posted by: stranger | Jan 30 2026 18:59 utc | 63

” Putin: Iran is our strategic partner, and we will stand by it with all our strength. https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Gazaplatform?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en ”
 
 
He said similar things about Syria and Venezuela. 

Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 30 2026 19:46 utc | 65

CENTCOM Force Posture Update — 2026-01-30
⚓️ Carrier Strike Group 3 ⚓️CSG-3 (USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72) has reportedly moved into the blue waters of the Arabian Sea, putting considerably more distance between itself and Iranian anti-ship missiles. Little surprise here. This is the same position the USS Fraidy Abe assumed during its last deployment to the region in late 2024. (See the full story here: x.com/imetatronink/s…)
3 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers accompany the carrier. (96 Tomahawk total missiles)
There are now 5 additional destroyers, 2 allegedly in the Persian Gulf (those guys are playing with fire), 2 in the eastern Mediterranean, 1 in the Red Sea. (160 total Tomahawk missiles)
There is also assumed to be 1 Ohio-class missile submarine. (154 total Tomahawk missiles)
There are also rumors that 1 Virginia-class attack submarine is in the region. (12 total Tomahawk missiles)
Total Tomahawk missiles: 422 (Tomahawk estimates assume a standard load-out of 32 TLAMs per destroyer.)
I would still characterize this as a relatively modest array of naval power — especially given the USS Fraidy Abe has now apparently distanced itself from potential Iranian anti-ship fire.
I find it very unlikely the Fraidy Abe will launch carrier-based airstrikes into Iran from such a distant stand-off position. In my view, CSG-3’s movements in the past several days strongly confirm my longstanding thesis that carriers are obsolete relics of a bygone era.
Fact is, the Yemeni proved that thesis in 2024-2025.
On the other hand, US air assets have been considerably augmented in recent days. More tankers, more strike aircraft (including at least one F-35A squadron), more SEAD aircraft (E/A-18 Growlers).
No credible indication of strategic bomber assets (B-2, B-52, B-1B). But they could appear with relatively short notice.
It also appears that the US has transferred pretty much all its available THAAD and Patriot systems to the region. They’re obviously trying to prepare as best they can for an Iranian counterstrike — although both THAAD and Patriot had abysmal success during the 12-Day War, and both the US and Israel effectively exhausted their stockpiles of interceptors, which was the primary motivation for them begging Iran for a ceasefire.
So that’s pretty much where we stand at this point.
“Negotiations” between the US and Iran have completely broken down — no surprise there, since the US is effectively demanding that Iran prostrate itself and submit to imperial vassalage.
I figure the fireworks could start as soon as tonight, but it’s also possible that the whole thing gets called off at the last moment.
Why would they call it off at the last moment? Because the whole thing is nucking futs.
Sure, I understand that virtually everyone around the world believes the empire can go anywhere it chooses and do anything it wants against any country on the planet — and that “third-world Iran” poses no credible threat to US military awesomeness.
But I remain convinced the US attacking Iran is an extremely high risk undertaking.

Posted by: Deniz | Jan 30 2026 21:16 utc | 67

see the 8-second video at the second/third link
 
 
 
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/south-africa-expels-top-israeli-diplomat–gives-him-72-hours
South Africa expels top Israeli diplomat, gives him 72 hours to leave  ‘
South Africa expels “Israel’s” chargé d’affaires Ariel Seidman over violations of diplomatic norms and rising tensions related to the Gaza genocide case at the ICJ. 
 
South Africa has declared “Israel’s” chargé d’affaires, Ariel Seidman, persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Friday. The decision was published in a statement on the Ministry’s website. 
 
The Ministry accused Seidman of “unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice which pose a direct challenge to South Africa’s sovereignty,” citing the repeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to launch insulting attacks against President Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as a failure to notify the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of visits by senior Israeli officials……
 
—————-
 
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/2017136335786823956
Assal Rad  @AssalRad 
 
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺: It’s not genocide 
 
Israelis: Kill all the babies
 
 
https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2016013299545158049
HatsOff  @HatsOffff
 
Israeli activist on Palestinians: ‘Destroy their offspring to prevent them from creating more offspring’
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 30 2026 21:39 utc | 69

70 Lavieja. I mistakenly called Dr. Abu-Sittah, Dr. Ghassan in above post.
     At the end of his discussion with the four Electronic Intifada panel, Dr. Abu-Sittah told them this:
“There’s a data base called Pub Med for medical research and I came across a research paper from ’96, an Israeli research paper that found that 66% of the Israelis are allergic to the pollen of olive trees. And for me that is what got me through the day in having to spend the day writing and recalling some of these horrendous experiences.
We will continue to fight for that land because we are an extension of that land.  We are not allergic to it in the way the colonial settler is allergic to it. We are attuned to it’s every beating heart and breath, and we will continue. We will continue. We will be here …”
 
I say, Let the Israhelli Zionists continue their age old tradition of wandering the earth despised and rejected as they deserve to be, but since they are not welcome anywhere, they will have to go to an island, rather like the lepers were isolated on an island, not an island which has resources that are relied upon by any other humans or beasts, rather a barren island that has little fauna or flora to which the israhellis may be alergic.
 
 

Posted by: Lavieja | Jan 30 2026 23:39 utc | 71

R2R: ‘The Israelization of The West’ with Laith Marouf
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSixSYGmZcY
 
“Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestine TV about the ongoing crimes of Western elites in West Asia, and the escalating repression of dissent in the West.”
 
 
Syriana Analysis: ‘Finish the Job’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@SyrianaAnalysis/streams
 
“Jerusalem Post urges Trump to ‘finish the job’ on Iran. Tarik Cyril Amar joins Syriana Analysis for a critical breakdown…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2026 0:44 utc | 73

TOI: ‘No Deal, No Surrender’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ybE9wzgHI
 
“Iran rejects Trump ultimatum. Khamenei shoots down nuclear deadline.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2026 4:23 utc | 75

Good news! 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/30/is-israels-current-path-setting-it-on-course-for-collapse
Arab states should start planning on how not to get those replaced by wasp evangelical colonists…

Posted by: Tom | Jan 31 2026 4:28 utc | 77

https://x.com/academic_la/status/2017356074974908859
 
Subtweet in Hebrew at the link
 
This is probably the most important Hebrew Tweet I’ve ever seen. Moshe Ya’alon is a former chief of staff and defense minister. The absolute cream of the Israeli defense establishment. In this text he admits that the Israeli government and settlers have become Judeo-Nazis and their policy is based on Jewish supremacy.
 
Here is a full translation:
 

“On the last Tuesday evening, I attended an event marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. When I got home, I received a message about Jewish pogromists attacking Palestinians in the south of Hebron, stealing their livestock, and burning their property. “We can’t compare!…”
 
After ambulances, which tried to reach the scene, were delayed by the Jewish terrorists, three Palestinians were evacuated to the hospital, one of them with skull fractures. “No event can ever compare to the Holocaust, which we endured!” …
 
I turned, of course, immediately to the security authorities in the area, and I was assured that the incident was being handled by the IDF. To this day not a single Jewish terrorist has been stopped (as in many other cases), because … the Israel Police is controlled by a convicted criminal, a fascist racist Nazi, the Shin Bet is controlled by a representative of “Jewish supremacy” from the schools of the rabbis Tao, Lior, Ginzburg, and Zini (Dodo), the defense minister prevents administrative detentions of Jewish terrorists, and the other minister in the Ministry of Defense encourages illegal outposts and equips them with off-road vehicles, to torment the lives of Palestinians, to evict them from their land, and to settle the land with Jews (you’ll ask again why I blamed the government for “ethnic cleansing”!?). The ideology of “Jewish supremacy,” which has become dominant in the Israeli government, resembles Nazi racial theory, “but we must not compare!” …
 
When I commanded the Jerusalem and Samaria Division, the Central Command, and the IDF, I was acquainted with the warnings of Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, regarding the process of dehumanization to the point of turning us into “Judeo-Nazis” (as he put it), under our control of another people. I did my best, even as defense minister, “so that we may know how to defeat terrorism and remain human.”
 
I never deceived myself into thinking that only through concessions would we achieve “peace now,” and I also understood the danger of “Jewish supremacy” over our future and our existence. Therefore I advocated separation according to the proto-programmatic speech of Yitzhak Rabin of October 5, 1995, and therefore I named my book is “A Long Short Way.” As of now, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz was right and I was wrong.
 
The task of the next Israeli government is to prove that Professor Leibowitz was wrong, and not to bring ruin upon our state. The government of “Jewish Supremacy” — the government of lies and betrayal — the government of messianism, the traitors and the corrupt — must be replaced before ruin.”

 
Israelis of conscience see that it is adopting the policies of Judeo-Nazism and Jewish supremacy. They have known it for a long time. But most do not have the courage to say so. This is an earthquake.
 
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Ok, Israelis know what the problems are, but they will allow the genocide to continue. I have no sympathy. They are no longer human IMO.
 
Men get arrested, dogs get put down.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 7:16 utc | 79

Tom 27
 
In 1992 a left wing Sociology College Lecturer explained Thatcherism to us for  the first time.  
For twelve years the Thatcher Lobby had produced nothing but PR , meaningless garbage about Conservative ideas. 
 
Your adversary understands you and AlJazeerah cannot in any way be described as Israel’s adversary.  Pure waffle, framed in  meaningless statistics. 
Qatar enabled Oct 7, making sure that USUKIS was well informed in advance, so that they could plan their Hannibal and their Nazi Apartheid propaganda reponses.
 
This is why the Thatcherites under BoJo and the one whose name I forget chickened out of power and created Starmer, so that it was harder to trace their direct responsibility for both the Ukraine Genocide and West Asia.
 
Israelis Hate Netanyahu, who is a conceited academic narcissist with no respect with religion or Law. The posture of Al Jazeera is of a Muslim supporter of Israel’s genocide, only wishing that it could itself replicate Israel’s violence without incurring the wrath of the Muslim Ummah.
 
“No two state solution. That train has come and gone”
 
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1996756349942653199?s=20

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 31 2026 11:34 utc | 81

malenkov 82
 
Simple question. Will you believe in God when it happens?

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 31 2026 13:12 utc | 83

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 13:14 utc | 84
 
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Fair question.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 13:39 utc | 85

last comment @ LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 13:39 utc | 85

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 14:09 utc | 87

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This Islamist arrogance has gone too far.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 31 2026 14:15 utc | 89

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 14:09 utc | 86
 
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Belief, IMO, is about the believer, not the subject. Divine belief is one of the few times that humans don’t make something all about themselves.
 
One of the things I like best about Islam is that it isn’t Messianic or oriented around proselytizing.
 
If someone wants to participate, they are welcome. If not, as we say, “Allahu a’alam” (God knows best).

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:27 utc | 91

Posted by: teri | Jan 31 2026 14:22 utc | 90
 
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The Chinese have brokered a rapprochement between KSA and Iran, which is no small thing. Sunnis and Shias have a long and contentious history.
 
Over the last year, the Saudi Defense Minister has visited the Ayatollah to discuss relations several times. Note that’s a military meeting, not with the civilian government.
 
I have become quite jaded. Until a conflict has passed, I expect everyone, except Ansar Allah and Hezbollah to betray Iran.
 
Self-interest and betrayal are timeless “values” in the Arab world.
 
The UAE is the Arab regime most close to the Israelis and an arch enemy of KSA.
 
hth

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:36 utc | 93

Other news sources say that Saudi Arabia and the UAE won’t allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.  So where do the Sauds actually stand on the ‘regime change’ thing and the impending attack?
 
Posted by: teri | Jan 31 2026 14:22 utc | 90

 
Even if they wanted to, KSA and UAE couldn’t prevent the USA from using their airspace for an attack on Iran. And why assume the’d be opposed? Sure, they hate each other, but they hate Iran much more.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 14:45 utc | 95

Great News. From Scottish courts with the Palestine Action proscription challenge success led by Craig Murray (Currently reporting from Venezuela and the Economist doesn’t like that! Lol) .
 
Fuck the presstitute transcribers and their editors and publishers as Jonathan Cook who debated the Economist toad concludes in the same vein – courtier.  
https://nitter.poast.org/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2017230323214434690
I’ll post it on open thread. 
 
in the meantime make sure to check out Craig’s latest on the case and next steps.
 
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/01/palestine-action-judicial-review/
 
 
They can proceed in Scotland without waiting for the obfuscation of Englands spivvy law lords!
 
Spread the word and encourage whatever spare coins to go into the next stage of that legal battle  – there are many ‘establishment’ who are rising to legally challenge the U.K. fake terrorism proscription of support for Palestine.
 
 
There are going to be some massive demonstrations returning for the spring. The grassroot grannies will return to present themselves for arrest in their thousands  
 Fron The River To The Sea. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 15:18 utc | 97

Posted by: teri | Jan 31 2026 14:53 utc | 96
 
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Some things can only be understood in retrospect.
 
Action always trumps words.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:42 utc | 99