In God we trust – Pearls and Irritations

Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza 16 Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Humanitarian Ceasefire. Security Council votes on a draft resolution on the situation in the Middle East put forth by Algeria. The resolution demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. The resolution received 13 votes in favour, one against (United States) and one abstention (United Kingdom). The resolution was not adopted due to the veto by one of the Permanent Members of the Security Council (United States). A view of Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, vetoing the resolution. image: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Biden must think people are stupid if he thinks we believe his hollow words of chastisement to Israel and Netanyahu, asking him to use caution yet signing off even more multibillion-dollar funding to continue the war and genocide.

The U.S. administration could stop the war with one phone call. With one vote in the UN.

They have made the horror of Khan Younis their own to bear.

The U.S. administration could stop the war with one phone call. With one vote in the UN. The horror of Khan Younis is their own to bear.

Source: In God we trust – Pearls and Irritations

Human Rights? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Declaration of Human Rights was written as a response to the inhumanity of the Holocaust which saw the killing of 13 million people because of their race, their religion, their ideologies were not acceptable to the Nazi regime in Germany. The races targeted were Jews and Gypsies, two marginalised groups, marginalised not just in Germany, but in much of Europe, and marginalised for centuries, Jews for their religious beliefs, Gypsies were ‘the wandering spirits of the earth’. On ideologies, these included homosexuals and people with disabilities.

Palestinians are marginalised in Israel, but not just in Israel, also in Lebanon, in Jordan, in Egypt where they are placed in Refugee camps, denied employment, treated as second class people and have really nowhere to go.

It seems those who ignore history are likely to repeat it while those who know history can only look on in wondrous amazement.

Source: Human Rights? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to Israel for Violations of Laws of War

More than thirty independent experts appointed by the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations said Friday that arms exports to Israel must cease immediately, given Israeli violations of the international laws of war and the government’s announced intention to invade Rafah in south Gaza, which would create a further humanitarian catastrophe.

Source: UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to Israel for Violations of Laws of War

Bloodthirst of Israel lobby can’t be quenched | The Electronic Intifada

The European Leadership Network’s goal is to make lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic equally beholden to Israel. Its website notes that while 80 percent of US Congress members have visited Israel, “only 10 percent of European counterparts have done so.”

To rectify that imbalance, the group regularly organizes junkets to the Middle East. Since 7 October, it has hosted 12 “solidarity missions” for politicians who approve of the genocidal war against Gaza.

Source: Bloodthirst of Israel lobby can’t be quenched | The Electronic Intifada

Opinion | Behold! Trump’s GOP Theocracy Is Coming | Common Dreams

Painting by Albanian artist Avni Delvina during the exhibition 'The Donald'

A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a democracy.

Source: Opinion | Behold! Trump’s GOP Theocracy Is Coming | Common Dreams

Old Dog Thought- Can Biden Beat AIPAC, Christian Zionists Bibi and Trump now that Democrats are turning against him?

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I’m Not A Racist Butt… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Yes, I know people tell me that I shouldn’t call Dutton by that name. It has been pointed it’s upsetting and cheap and commenting on a physical resemblance that he can’t help is not fair. However, I simply reply by reminding people that Voldemort is a fictional character and therefore won’t actually be upset by the comparison…

If you look at the position Dutton takes on just about any issue, it’s worth asking who is actually going to be swayed into voting for him based on what he’s said.

Source: I’m Not A Racist Butt… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The best defence against authoritarianism is to create the best Democracy possible

Source: Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Mable, the Uber of care work. Innovation or a race to the bottom? – Michael West

healtcare workers

Mable was launched in 2014 with a mission to “unlock productivity gains” in Australia’s aged care and disability sectors. It says it now has over 17,000 independent contractors and 22,000 clients on its platform.

Source: Mable, the Uber of care work. Innovation or a race to the bottom? – Michael West

Has the IDF slaughtered enough children to make Israel safe from terrorism yet? – The Shot

They too were once babies raised and socialized to dehumanize and hate. 18 years ago PM of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed a peace pact and shared the Nobel Peace Prize. The Priminister of Israel was assassinated by the coalition in power now. In 2006 Palestinians in Gaza voted for Hamas  not the militia bearing their name their political arm because of the welfare programs they had already delivered. Israel  & the USA declared them “terrorists” not the UN and they still don’t today. Who are Internationally out of order? Who are rogue states? Israel then turned Gaza into a “concentration camp” ( Israel’s own description) and it’s been one since 2006.

Israel has been doing what Hamas did on Oct7th on more than one occasion  Operation Cast Lead 2008 and Operation Protective Edge (2014) are just two of many.

The Goldstone report contains an objective assessment of what took place during the military attack on Gaza, which was described by the Mission as serious violations of international humanitarian law and other relevant international instruments.

The effort Israel is currently putting in to prevent any Independent investigation into what has been happening these past 4 months is as much a crime as what has been clearly visible but disguised by their systemic and gigantic flood of rhetoric on International media. So much so they are now losing the media war by shooting themselves in the foot.

This war didn’t start on Oct 7th as the Israelis would like the world to believe

The 12,300 Palestinian children taken from their funny dads, their kind dads, their adventurous dads, for the crime of being born in Gaza, to keep Israel safe from terrorism.

Source: Has the IDF slaughtered enough children to make Israel safe from terrorism yet? – The Shot

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 139: As Palestinians in North Gaza Starve, Israel Attacks MSF Building in Rafah – ScheerPost

Israel has disparaged and attacked the UNRWA, the WHO, the HRC and any UN agency in general and even tried to establish sufficient doubt about the integrity of the rest of the world. Now they have turned their guns on another “antisemitic enemy” Medecins Sans Frontieres. Next it will be those bloody Jew haters in space

Israeli attacks on the supposed ‘safe areas’ have continued. On Wednesday, a shelter run by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) in al-Masawi was targeted by Israeli forces.

Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 139: As Palestinians in North Gaza Starve, Israel Attacks MSF Building in Rafah – ScheerPost

Australian media’s greatest crime against Gaza is ignoring it

IF ANY ONE CRIME of the Australian establishment press over the assault on Gaza has been the most unforgivable, it is perhaps the crime of omission.

Source: Australian media’s greatest crime against Gaza is ignoring it

BBC Hamas ‘Exposé’ Obscured Israel’s Genocide

Israel was put on trial for committing genocide in Gaza last month by the judges of the International Court of Justice.

So far Western governments have not only done nothing to intervene but are actively assisting in that slaughter. They have supplied arms and turned a blind eye to Israel’s denial of humanitarian aid.

The people of Gaza are slowly being starved to death.

But it was at this moment, as the world watches in horror, that the BBC’s chief news investigation programme, Panorama, chose not to scrutinise that massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians but to hand the microphone over to the very military doing the killing.

 

Source: BBC Hamas ‘Exposé’ Obscured Israel’s Genocide

Misrepresenting the ICJ and muzzling our press – the Empire strikes back – Pearls and Irritations

THE HAGUE - President Donoghue and other judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) before the hearing of the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa. According to the South Africans, Israel is currently committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Image: ANP / Alamy Stock Photo/ REMKO DE WAAL

On 26 January, the World spoke to Israel and its supporters – on the issue of Gaza. The World spoke through the International Court of Justice (ICJ). There can be no doubt about that. A number of provisional orders were made. Israel, and its primary accomplice, the United States – hereinafter “the Empire” – did not like what the World said. The Empire has struck back. Let us consider what it has done.

Nevertheless, the Empire continues to strike back. Israel has made it absolutely clear that it does not consider itself restrained in any way by the ICJ’s rulings. The rest of the Empire seems to be content to accept Israel’s position.

In conclusion, we, Australia, must understand the ICJ’s orders and act accordingly. We must oppose the Empire. And we must publicise the message: “Palestine has the right to exist – and therefore the right to resist”.

Source: Misrepresenting the ICJ and muzzling our press – the Empire strikes back – Pearls and Irritations

Settlers and army blocking West Bank roads to Palestinians

Large boulders block the entry and exit of cars outside Beit Jala, occupied West Bank. (Yuval Abraham)

In the Illegally occupied West Bank

Since October, Mahmoud Amer’s village in the occupied West Bank has been under an effective blockade. He can’t leave by car, and every time he wants to leave on foot — whether to visit a relative or run an errand — or invite a guest into the village, he has to ask the adjacent Israeli settlement for permission.

“I call the settlement security coordinator every time the children go to school, or when my sister comes to visit,” Amer told +972 and Local Call. “We were told that if we left on foot without telling them, they would cause us problems.”

Source: Settlers and army blocking West Bank roads to Palestinians

DMFI Ad: Michigan Primary “Uncommitted” Democrats Help Trump

MI: Palestine protest for "uncommitted" primary vote

The pro-Israel group DMFI wants to undermine a Michigan protest vote against Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Source: DMFI Ad: Michigan  “Uncommitted” Democrats Help Trump

Old Dog Thought- Israel wants all the gold in Paris anything less would be antisemitic

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The vile game – Pearls and Irritations

American and Israel Israeli flag flags on eggs

Zionists have been playing the same strategic game for well over 100 years. They initiated and began fomenting division in a peaceful Palestine as far back as 1917 with terrorist militias that evolved to become The Haganagh the Jewish defacto “defense force” a duplicitous terrorist militia “assisting” a weak and reluctant British Force to help quell those Muslim hordes. The peace that once was natural to Palestinians and Jews was intentionally disrupted by Zionist idealogues knowing the British wanted to leave the region and other of their colonies. The UN could then proclaim Palestine the State of Israel as they did in 1948 but not enough. Jews who were once seen as the victims of WW2 weren’t about to give that mantle up too easily and have been carrying it ever since despite being dubbed America’s proxy and 4th most powerful army on the planet

Israel has played the victim all along with sighs of sympathy and offers of support from Western governments and audiences. They declared themselves ‘the’ victim, not just The victim but the ‘only’ victim. As such, they are entitled to do to us, the Palestinians under their control, whatever they wish with Impunity.

Source: The vile game – Pearls and Irritations

Hamas chief’s trip lifts truce hopes as Israel hits Rafah

Israel has targeted the Gaza border city of Rafah once again with bomb attacks.

If Israel could destroy an American ship USS Liberty and cover it up they could bomb Egypt and easily say “it never happened”. Just as they say they are the most moral and ethical force on the planet without blinking. If only they could obliterate all the credible facts that amplify and indicate they are the opposite.

Israeli bombs on Rafah have flattened a mosque and destroyed homes in what residents called one of their worst nights yet, while the Hamas chief was in Cairo for talks Gazans hope could bring a truce.

Source: Hamas chief’s trip lifts truce hopes as Israel hits Rafah

Will Netanyahu bring down Biden? – Pearls and Irritations

Tel Aviv, Israel. 18th Oct, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, October 18, 2023. Image: Alamy/ Pool Photo by Miriam Alster/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, dated by scholars to the 7th century BC, God promised the land to the Jewish people and instructed them to destroy the other nations living in the promised land. This text is used by extreme nationalists in Israel today, including by many of the 700,000 or so Israeli settlers living in occupied Palestinian lands in violation of international law. Netanyahu pursues the religious ideology of 7th century BC in the 21st century.

Biden needs to take back U.S. policy from the Israel lobby. The U.S. should stop backing Israel’s extremist and utterly illegal policies. Nor should the U.S. spend any more funds on Israel unless and until Israel lives within international law, including the Genocide Convention, and 21st century ethics. Biden should side with the UN Security Council in calling for an immediate ceasefire and indeed in calling for an immediate move to the two-state solution, including recognition of Palestine as the 194th UN member state, a move that is more than a decade overdue since Palestine requested UN membership in 2011.

Source: Will Netanyahu bring down Biden? – Pearls and Irritations

Jewish-Led NYC Rally Targets AIPAC, Dem Allies Who Oppose Gaza Cease-Fire

Jewish protesters in NYC hold a banner reading, "AIPAC funds genocide"

“AIPAC uses money and racist bullying to ensure congressional complicity in the genocide of Gaza,” said Jewish Voice for Peace.

Thousands of Jewish-led protesters descended on the New York offices of the American Israel Public Affairs Council on Thursday, taking aim at both AIPAC and Democratic lawmakers who take millions of combined dollars from the lobby group while opposing a Gaza cease-fire.

Source: Jewish-Led NYC Rally Targets AIPAC, Dem Allies Who Oppose Gaza Cease-Fire

Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel releases allegations without credible sources. The UN releases information by credible ones that become instant targets of disparagement by Israel’s media hounds who bark Hamas Hamas Hamas

UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

* The experts: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences; Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967; Dorothy Estrada Tanck (Chair), Claudia Flores, Ivana Krstić, Haina Lu, and Laura Nyirinkindi, Working group on discrimination against women and girls.

Source: Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Inside Gaza, this child is forced to eat bread made from animal feed and tea made from sticks – ABC News

A young girl wearing a pink jumper holds a piece of bread made from animal feed.

In Gaza, Maazize is feeding her children ground up animal food and tea made from sticks and leaves, just so they have something in their starving stomachs.

Source: Inside Gaza, this child is forced to eat bread made from animal feed and tea made from sticks – ABC News

Opinion | One Key Reason Behind Israel’s War on Gaza? Gas | Common Dreams

Palestinians protest in boats off Gaza coast.

Israel’s desire to seize Gaza’s gas can partially explain Netanyahu’s intransigence when it comes to cease-fire initiatives, as this project hinges on Israel maintaining security control over the territory and expelling the Palestinian population.

Source: Opinion | One Key Reason Behind Israel’s War on Gaza? Gas | Common Dreams

If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study

Source: If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study

History will record that Israel committed a holocaust | The Electronic Intifada

It is a minimal ask. A minimal recognition of Palestinian humanity.

Despite Israel cutting power and internet, Palestinians have managed to livestream a picture of their own genocide to a world that allows it to continue.

But history will not lie. It will record that Israel perpetrated a holocaust in the 21st century.

Source: History will record that Israel committed a holocaust | The Electronic Intifada

Old Dog Thought- Apparently the rate & density of a kill has no bearing on the plausibility it’s geneocide

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George Pell’s sexual abuse of boys to be tried in court again as the High Court rejects the Church for Special Leave to AppealKangaroo Court of Australia

CARDINAL GEORGE PELL

No media that I can find, except for The Gaudian, has reported the above story about the High Court win. The more media that report the above story the more likely other survivors and their families will come forward and sue the Church and other organisations that covered up for paedophiles. So please make sure you share this article.

Source: George Pell’s sexual abuse of boys to be tried in court again as the High Court rejects the Church for Special Leave to AppealKangaroo Court of Australia

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

Source: US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws

Students from Hunter College chant and hold up signs during

A Russian Ballerina has been arrested for TREASON for donating $50 to the Ukraine. The ADL wants the same laws instituted and enacted in America.

The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law suggested that members of Students for Justice in Palestine, the largest Palestine solidarity campus organization in the country, may have been violating a law that prohibits people from providing “material support” — a broad category that includes money as well as services or other assistance — to U.S.-designated terror groups. “We certainly cannot sit idly by as a student organization provides vocal and potentially material support to Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the ADL and the Brandeis Center wrote.

Source: How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws

In Likely Illegal Attack, Israeli Navy Fired on UN Food Convoy in Gaza

Damaged UNRWA aid truck

“Gaza has become very fast one of the most dangerous places to be an aid worker in,” one UNRWA official said.

Source: In Likely Illegal Attack, Israeli Navy Fired on UN Food Convoy in Gaza

The Destruction of Gaza’s Historic Buildings is an act of ‘Urbicide’

Buildings are often celebrated as symbols of history, political events and creative expression. However, the simplest, most pure function of buildings is often forgotten: the way they fulfil needs and form memories.

Source: The Destruction of Gaza’s Historic Buildings is an act of ‘Urbicide’

Humanising war victims: The media’s shameful coverage of the Gaza conflict – Pearls and Irritations

Silence is Complicity Graffiti on the concrete wall built by Israel

 

But guess what? Almost all these victims are Israeli, almost none are Palestinian, with The Australian running around 40 stories in the paper humanising Israeli victims and only three doing the same for Palestinian victims, even though 20 times as many Palestinians have been killed in the conflict. And even though almost two million are homeless and hungry.

We also approached News Corp for comment, along with several questions for the editor of The Australian, but we received no response.

We think their coverage has been shameful.

Source: Humanising war victims: The media’s shameful coverage of the Gaza conflict – Pearls and Irritations

It’s the OCCUPATION, stupid: What have Australian journalists got against Palestinians? – Pearls and Irritations

Young woman reading.

Finkelstein’s conclusion concerning the events of October the 7th was that ‘you don’t justify what happened but you don’t condemn them either’. And if resisting occupation of one’s land by another state is legal in International law, then Hamas acted legally when organising an attack on the Israeli forces. This does not excuse or justify breaches of the law by particular soldiers or their leaders, but accurate reporting of Gazans’ incarcerated condition would allow Australians to better understand the tragic events we are witnessing.

Source: It’s the OCCUPATION, stupid: What have Australian journalists got against Palestinians? – Pearls and Irritations

Israel’s Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession – Amnesty International

For half a century, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip has resulted in systematic human rights violations against Palestinians living there.

Source: Israel’s Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession – Amnesty International

What comes after Rafah

THIS IS a very important Independent Australia editorial because the world is at a crucial stepping point, a junction, a crisis, where whichever path is chosen will dictate the next 30, or maybe 50, years for global peace.

Source: What comes after Rafah

Old Dog Thought- The Fuel that started the fire is on it’s way out

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Border Paranoia in Fortress Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The border fetishists also make a crucial omission. The people smugglers, who are of all stripes of opportunism and exploitation rather than some monolithic bloc, are merely facilitating the provisions of the United Nations Refugee Convention. All who arrive should not be discriminated against on the basis of how they arrive or their backgrounds – the articles of the Convention state as much – yet Australia’s border policy remains persistently cruel and defiant. Whenever a boat appears with a small cargo full of desperate individuals who make it to land, the fantasies of invasion, unwarranted intrusion and unwanted infiltration catch alight. It was high time they were snuffed out.

Source: Border Paranoia in Fortress Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Ok, So This Is A Boring Post… Or Should I Say A Boring Read? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Every time the media report on education they have a tendency to report on the failures within the system and present some solution as though it’s the panacea for everything, while overlooking the fact that some of the reasons for poor performance are known to everyone and ignored. For example, why does NAPLAN compare like schools? Well, everyone knows if we compared all schools with all schools and didn’t take into account socio-economic factors, we’d find that socio-economic factors were the biggest element in the difference in ranking.

Source: Ok, So This Is A Boring Post… Or Should I Say A Boring Read? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Deconstructed: Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange

deconstructed-assange-hero

Putin Killed Navalny quickly Americans prefer a slow kill like Guantanamo

Over two days this week, a U.K. court will hear Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the U.S.

Source: Deconstructed: Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange

Where the Palestine laboratory takes us all – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Antony Loewenstein

Israel’s war on Gaza since 7 October has caused the biggest number of Palestinian deaths and largest displacement since the 1948 Nakba.

Why? Because Palestinian lives don’t matter the way that Israeli Jews do. In just one example, US President Joe Biden released a statement on 100 days after 7 October and while mentioning the kidnapped Israelis in Gaza, who should be released immediately, he couldn’t bring himself to even acknowledge the more than 30,000 dead Palestinians in Gaza.

They. Don’t. Really. Matter.

Source: Where the Palestine laboratory takes us all – » The Australian Independent Media Network

PM says Israel won’t ‘pay any price’ to free hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country will not pay any price for the return of hostages being held by militants.

The ultra-right government’s priority was never the release of hostages. Since 1929 the Zionists have used the same strategy to gain increasingly more land than they ever returned. They created a conflict where there was peace. Back then they did it by spreading rumours that the Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Manufacturing hate ensured peace turned into the conflict Zionists wanted. They could then form the Haganagh terrorists calling them defence militias to protect all Jews. Nobody ever said they were dumb but rather disingenuous. They certainly weren’t operating in the interests of all Jews and never have.

The UN, who they now openly call Hamas lovers, solved Britain’s Jewish Problem by ratifying and giving them Israel. The Americans provided welfare in exchange for a ready-made army base in the Middle East the IDF.

In 1969 Israel attacked Egypt and Syria on what PM Ehud Barak openly admitted was a totally presumptive ploy that had no concrete merit. Again it was for more ground which they simply refused to return but illegally settled. In 1978 they returned the Sinai, as a token of peace, to Egypt.

These incursions were continuously called “defence of all Jews” but were rather a strategy to steal land, and water and encourage the diaspora back to Israel. However, that hasn’t happened. While they successfully created “hate” the Jews remained a minority in the region but wanted total control. Leaving the Palestinians with the options of facing Death, Ethnic Cleansing or Apartheid in a Fascist State. They claim 50% of Jews are now Israeli which isn’t true. 1M Israelis at any one time have left without any rushing back. 500k have permanent residency elsewhere and in the meantime, the others are trying to get it.

 Currently, Israel is America’s primary base in the Middle East but what was once a quid pro quo arrangement Israeli Zionist greed has now become the tail trying to wag the dog. For their effort the Zionists have tried to gain Land, Gazan Gas and a 3rd Nakbah and a shitload load of  deserved hate.

Asked about the 134 hostages who remain in Gaza, Smotrich told Kan Radio that their return was “very important” but that they could not be released “at any cost”.

Source: PM says Israel won’t ‘pay any price’ to free hostages

Time to occupy Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Hourglass on Israel and Palestine flags close up.

This century has seen a shift in the term Antisemitism. Away from Jews, as the victims of Germans, to Palestinians. They are the victims of Israel’s adoption of more aggressive policies since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin the Nobel Peace Prize-winning moderate PM who was assassinated by the avaricious extreme right coalition of minority parties currently holding power united in exchange for driving their extreme policies. The policies a Jewish Apartheid State in control of the Judiciary Education and Army to realign control over all of Palestine from the “river to the sea”

To have the appearance of a Democracy the fully formed Fascist State must ensure of an Institutional Jewish voting majority. This means the priority to the ethnic cleansing of the current number of Palestinians, the creation of an even more regulated Apartheid State, or as their final solution the one the Germans had. If not gas chambers in the short term then a guaranteed form of birth reduction in the long term.

Proposals for an occupation of Israel would require sovereignty to be redefined. Current definitions foster violence. Borders must be protected by force of arms. Within those borders, states such as Israel claim entitlement to defend themselves even by attacking people in lands they occupy.

Source: Time to occupy Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Israel-Hamas War: Norman Finkelstein vs Rabbi Shmuley | Full Debate

Shmuley an absolute maniac calls this a “debate”? If he regards himself as a self appointed representative of Israel in America does Israel want to even acknowledge him. If he is the leading example along with Michael Rapaport of the current state of the Israeli mentality it’s no wonder Israel is going to the dogs.

Dr Finkelstein has a Political Science doctorate from Princeton. While Shumley is little more a performing monkey. The Rabbi who has gained attention with his Trump-style salesmanship and performances. Just say anything an everything and hope something sticks. The Rabbi is a Republican an ultra-conservative Zionist who believes Trump was “the most pro-Israel president in history”.

Of the three Finkelstein was a man of facts and considered rationality Morgan a typical anchorman forcing answers to questions that needed a framework for a more rational answer to a gotcha question. While Shumley was a total MAGA-minded Jew. He was a man locked in a barn blasting away and missing everything that a blind man might hit. A man who still believed he was the only one on target.

Old Dog Thought- Since 1929 Zionist plan has been the same. 1) Foment antisemitism 2) Incite resistance 3)Attack with force and take more 4) No hostages they complicate things 5) Hannibal Directive

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Revealed: Properties in nature’s firing line – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Andrew Bolt and Sky News say it’s bullshit but his insurance premiums will boom

Key facts:

  • 40 per cent of all properties in NSW are now at moderate to high risk of flooding.
  • The risk of catastrophic loss, both financially and physically, will drive up insurance premiums.
  • NSW’s so-called Black Summer bushfires of 2029-20 cost $4.9 billion.
  • Insurers have paid our $13 billion in climate-related claims in NSW.
  • The combined value of coastal properties exposed to coastal erosion damage is $25 billion.
  • Some suburbs and land lots will see reductions in risk from the elements due to favourable weather forecasts.
  • Some regions will see no change at all. But for many, the situation will worsen during the next 30 years.

 

Source: Revealed: Properties in nature’s firing line – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Michael West Media – Last chance for Julian Assange. It is time for Albanese to put his words into action.

Last chance for Julian Assange. It is time for Albanese to put his words into action.

Last chance for Julian Assange. It is time for Albanese to put his words into action.

Source: Michael West Media – independenthttps://michaelwest.com.au/last-chance-for-julian-assange-it-is-time-for-albanese-to-put-his-words-into-action/

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Final Appeal

He exposed that Obama, Hillary Clinton and the C.I.A. backed the June 2009 military coup in Honduras that overthrew the democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya, replacing him with a murderous and corrupt military regime.

He revealed that the United States secretly launched missile, bomb and drone attacks on Yemen, killing scores of civilians.

No other contemporary journalist has come close to matching his revelations.

Julian is the first. We are next.

Source: Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Final Appeal

US Deceptions at the Heart of Assange Case

Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher charge that while British courts looked the other way, the U. S. has been distorting and withholding evidence to engineer his extradition, Cathy Vogan reports. By Cathy Vogan in London Special to Consortium News

A clue to some of the legal arguments Julian Assange’s lawyers will likely make at a two-day hearing this week at the High Court in London is contained in a 150-page submission that a judge rejected last June.

Source: US Deceptions at the Heart of Assange Case

First the CIA, now the US Dept of Justice, could take actions that would see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dead – Pearls and Irritations

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The stakes in the Assange case could not be higher for journalists everywhere. The outcome will determine whether the US can seek to extradite any journalist of any nationality, from anywhere with which it has an extradition treaty, for disclosing US war crimes.

And if Assange is extradited and forced to pleading guilty to some charge in exchange for a relatively lenient Australian served sentence, it implicitly endorses the US claim that its laws have global reach over journalists everywhere. There goes any “free press” and any real prospect of keeping power accountable.

Finally, unless the Australian Government can stop the extradition by the UK or the prosecution by the US or both, it will also show that our ‘alliance’ with them is little more than our subservience.

Source: First the CIA, now the US Dept of Justice, could take actions that would see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dead – Pearls and Irritations