Israel’s tentacles stretch as far as Australia, Melbourne, and into your work place demanding laws to criminalize the likes of Australia’s Medical Profession. But don’t be surprised if they don’t counter this with antisemitism again by crying out against Israel isn’t being antisemitic. Zionists have just tipped the expression on it’s head like the extreme right-wing have “Woke”, “Racism” and “Feminism” Meanwhile crying out “Stop killing Gazans” isn’t antisemitic. Killing Gazans is!
Medical doctor and sexual assault specialist Dr Jennifer Martinez said she was attacked and trolled online by Zionists and Israel sympathizers after she responded to a comment about human rights.
Martinez maintains she has never made an antisemitic comment in her life, nor has she commented on the rape allegations of October 7.
PM Albanese is moving to criminalize doxing after names of 600 Zionist creatives leaked. But who is doxing the doxer?
But Australian doctors are calling out the hypocrisy after flagrant breaches of their privacy went unchecked.
Source: Doxing hypocrisy: pro-peace doctors doxed en masse – Michael West
If only he were Black, Muslim or a woman he’d be gone.
After Barnaby Joyce MP was filmed sprawled on his back on a Canberra footpath, managing editor Michelle Pini explains why Australian voters should indeed take a dim view of his persistently chaotic behaviour.
Source: Why Barnaby’s drunken planter tumble – and other mad acts – matter
Gillard’s preposterous and legally prejudicial inept remarks last year, condemning Assange’s activities as “illegal” will forever staple her to the marginalia of Australia’s political history. It immediately signalled to all Australia’s sons and daughters that at the first sign of any ‘trouble’ we are to be immediately abandoned by our Prime Minister and also by her obsequious and flaccid Attorney General, Robert McClelland. Still, we should be getting used to it by now from our Governments. Think Hicks. Think Habib.
This is a true act of Terror and cruelty about as little regard as shooting your own Israeli hostages
The young man, bound by zip-tie cuffs, delivered his Israeli captors’ message but was shot as he tried to walk out of the hospital gate.
Source: Israel Sent Palestinian Prisoner to Tell Nasser Hospital to Evacuate
What a surprise hasn’t anyone realized that Israel’s army is Mossad, the IDF, and Multimedia who exists to counter the dust storm of negative information they stir up. Israel’s tentacles stretch far and wide to counter any opposition promoting and bribing their way forward not to reverse their interests by saying sorry. Take a mile and give an inch only reluctantly and only as a ploy until the next push forward.
Ashkenazi moderates were far too slow for this new generation of hot-headed avaricious minority. Their interest is wanting everything promised. They saw what previous generations got for nothing and they also want it, but now. The Greater Palestine with all its resources parts of Syria Jordan and Lebanon in a little longer term they can use as their defensive perimeter ” From the River to the Sea”
Intelligence sources say Israel seeks to counter information sent to the U.S. by the PA, fearing actions against West Bank settlers.
Source: Israel is surveilling U.S. data on settler attacks to thwart sanctions
These are the recent facts and allegations. But is there more that needs to be said if we are to understand Hamas? Is there room for a more complex understanding? We think so. It is, after all, the responsibility of journalism to produce exactly that. In this paper we probe the term “terrorism,” and discuss Hamas’s original, as well as its updated, charter and its largely unknown efforts to use diplomacy in search of a just peace. In the process, a comparison of actions and policies will be made between Hamas and Zionism/Israel.
Source: A deeper look at Hamas and what terrorism means in Israel-Palestine – Pearls and Irritations
Israeli troops execute detainee
Ahmad al-Mughrabi, the head of the burns department, said that Israeli troops sent a Palestinian detainee, wearing PPE and his hands cuffed, into Nasser Medical Complex to deliver the military’s order to evacuate on Tuesday. When he returned to the troops as they had ordered, they executed the young man.
Source: Israel lays siege to Gaza hospital as Rafah stares death in the face | The Electronic Intifada
There are only between 70-100 trucks entering Gaza per day “in the best case scenario,” with only “two of those trucks going to the northern governorates,” according to estimates by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Source: Israel engineers “deep pockets of starvation” across Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
Tens of thousands have been killed, including thousands of children. Many more are starving. American taxpayers’ money is partly responsible. Where is the moral clarity? Where is the moral authority? Why aren’t we doing everything possible to stop the deaths?
Source: Children in Gaza: Why Aren’t We Stopping the Deaths? | The Smirking Chimp
An invasion of Rafah would be the most dangerous stage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians yet, causing death on a scale unseen even in these four months of sheer brutality.
Source: Rafah May Prove the Most Dire Moment in Israel’s War on Gaza
As I speak with Saleem the sound of the Israeli advance can be heard in the distance. “I don’t know when we can speak next,” he says. “I don’t know where I will be.”
Source: There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go – CounterPunch.org
The Armenian quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is facing its biggest crisis in a long time. A Jewish businessman with connections to the radical settler movement is poised to develop a quarter of the neighbourhood’s territory, with plans to build a luxury hotel. If this goes ahead, it will significantly change part of Jerusalem’s Old City and hasten the demographic shift towards the city’s Jewish population which has been happening for some years.
Source: Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter
If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that global average warming over the last twelve months — February 2023 to January 2024 — had exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C), it was likely because too many people had succumbed to the predominant but delusional policy-making narrative that holding warming to 1.5–2°C was still on the cards.
Source: Shock as warming accelerates, 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast – Pearls and Irritations
The Government has been happy to have Australia be the world’s quarry. But now, Labor is shaping a role for us as the world’s CO2 dump.
Source: Vision 2024: aim to “make Australia a better quarry” … and a CO2 dump – Michael West
Under a repressive new act, British nationals could face prison for undermining London’s national security line. Intended to destroy WikiLeaks and others exposing war crimes, the law is a direct threat to critical national security journalism.
Source: UK Steps Up War on Whistleblower Journalism With New National Security Act – ScheerPost
Oh Shit and I gave the Dutch Government the credit thank you OXFAM
Oxfam Novib, together with PAX, and the Rights Forum organisations, has won a lawsuit against the Dutch Government for exporting arms to Israel that are being used in the war in Gaza. The Dutch Court ordered the government of Netherlands to stop supplying F35 fighter jet parts to Israel within seven days, due to the clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law. The decision comes following the three organisations’ appeal to the court case against the Dutch government for supplying Israel with military equipment despite knowing they are used to commit war crimes in Gaza. The judge concluded, based on reports from Amnesty and the UN, that many civilians, including children, are being targeted.
Cynical politicians like John Fetterman and Benjamin Netanyahu are trying to pit calls for a cease-fire in Gaza against efforts to bring Israeli hostages home. The reality is a cease-fire is the only way to do just that.
Gruesome new data shows that kids make up around 43% of the death toll from Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.
Source: “Are They ‘Hamas’?” 12,300 children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations
Updated: Since the early morning hours Monday, Israel’s missiles have killed nearly 100 Palestinians, and injured at least 300, including many women and children …
Source: Updated: “Israel’s Missiles Kill 100, Injure 300, In Rafah” | – IMEMC News
Palestinians in Rafah’s rapidly growing makeshift camps talk about all they have lost and endured throughout four months of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Source: “Where Can We Go?”: Terror, Panic Set In as Israel Readies to Invade Rafah
Levy illustrates the direct connection between these phenomena and various sociological changes that have occurred within the Israeli army in recent years. First and foremost, he points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces and their replacement by new groups: settlers and religious Zionists, ex-Soviets and Ethiopian immigrants, Mizrahim, and Druze.
Source: ‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’
If anyone touches Trump they will be on Putin’s wanted list for monument-ous damage.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kallas was wanted for “desecration of historical memory”.
Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, its state secretary and Lithuania’s culture minister on the wanted list, according to the Russian interior ministry’s database.
Trump echoes Hitler’s ‘final solution’ rhetoric in his latest speeches over the weekend.
“Give me a break—I mean, it’s Trump,” said Lindsey Graham.
“I have zero concern,” said Marco Rubio.
“I don’t think it’s encouragement at all,” said retired Gen. Keith Kellogg. “We know what he means when he says it.”
The press must find this very familiar. The dismissive attitude that Republicans claim to have toward Trump’s expressed intent to turn his back on Europe is the same mindset the national media shows toward Trump flat-out proclaiming that he’s going to rid the nation of political opponents and conduct a purge of “globalists” and “communists.”
It’s just Trump. It’s not like he actually means what he says. And says again. And again.
Now, let’s check in to see if Biden made an error in grammar. That’s worth a headline.
Source: Here We Go: Trump’s Got A ‘Final Solution’ | Crooks and Liars
The same could be said of Dutton and Albanese if a comparison was to be made.
The person who is making America great again is Joe Biden even as the opposition tries to portray him as a lost old soul, bent in the back, scratching pictures in the dirt with a short stick, alone and mumbling. Media and analysts will continue to snort and sniff about his age even as he keeps working and building coalitions to accomplish goals that have left other leaders confounded. A measure to resolve the border crisis moved through the Senate and ran into Speaker Moses in the House because Republicans don’t want to solve the immigration problem and rob Trump of the issue he plans to use as a campaign cudgel. Party before country in the Trump cult. No voter should have to struggle with their decision in November. As President, Trump did nothing but hand out a giant corporate tax cut and bungle the pandemic response and cause millions to die through his incompetence. Joe Biden’s leadership and legislative accomplishments are transformative and will continue to improve life in the United States.
Source: Scratchings in the Dirt – » The Australian Independent Media Network
One has to ask had any Indigenous Australian of note had been found under the same circumstance would they have been treated as kindly?
By Bert Hetebry How sad to see the image of Barnaby Joyce on the pavement, cursing at himself as he talks to his wife on the phone. Dear Barnaby is not the first politician to find himself in an embarrassing situation after having enjoyed one or two too many drinks, in fact the list is…
Source: Barnaby, just another inebriated pollie – » The Australian Independent Media Network
As the Palestinian population continues to endure hell on Earth, nothing more is being done by political leaders other than offering “deep concern”, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.
June 8, 1967, Another Date That Lives in Infamy
Sacrificing Liberty, by TruHistory Films, a documentary directed by Matthew Skow. It reveals recently uncovered information, new interviews as well as provocative theories for the attack. Watch the trailer on YouTube or purchase the documentary by visiting SacrificingLiberty.com.
The Day Israel Attacked America, an Al Jazeera documentary directed by Richard Belfield. Watch on YouTube.
Source: Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA – ScheerPost
For the past 56 years, survivors and the families of the Israeli attack as well the families of the dead have petitioned our government in the most civil and respectful terms for a reopening of the investigation into the attack on the Liberty. Each and every plea has gone ignored and unanswered. Funds are currently being raised from the public to help sustain their continuing efforts for justice and recognition of their suffering. Each year, some of them die and the rest “soldier on.” To assist them financially in this worthy endeavor, please visit https://ussliberty.com.
https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/– 4 Episode Docuseries
Gareth Jennings’s statement is what might be expected from a firm that makes a living of war. The Dutch judgment is meaningful in that it’s the “law” that’s intervening against companies like his and is setting an example.
With over 28,000 Palestinians killed by Israel so far in the Gaza Strip, a Dutch appeals court ruled Monday that the Netherlands must stop exporting parts for Israeli forces’ aircraft due to the “clear risk that Israel’s F-35 fighter jets might be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”
Explaining the potential limitations of the Dutch ruling, Gareth Jennings, aviation editor at the defense intelligence firm Janes, told The New York Times that “if one supplier isn’t able to deliver for any reason, the parts can be sourced from another.”
Therefore, the decision seems to be “a symbolic act rather than one having any meaningful effect on Israel’s F-35 fleet,” he said.
In 1967 Israel attacked Egypt & Syria later a Prime Minister admitted it was a “presumptive attack” based on no real evidence. At the time in blind opportunity, they attacked an American ship the USS Liberty killing 34 and wounding 171 sailors. The Americans LBJ helped Israel cover up their mindless aggression and land grab. To date, Israel hasn’t paid a cent in any compensation or reparation but was rewarded with the Sinai until 1978 and the Golan Heights that’s been and is being developed and colonized with a project named Trump Heights what value is that? Trump will say billions. News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch has fossil fuel investments with GoGas there https://michaelwest.com.au/compromised-genie-energy-and-the-murdoch-medias-climate-denial/
Although American newspapers depict Egypt as broke, desperate and easily manipulated, my own estimation is that Cairo absolutely will not accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees on its soil. The Sinai is already a security problem for Cairo, and 2 million radicalized Palestinians would make it ungovernable. No amount of debt forgiveness would make such a bitter pill go down.
Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.
The peace treaty has been the cornerstone of Egyptian-Israeli relations for nearly half a century.
Source: Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah
This is not a war on Hamas but a war on civilians, the military attack of October 7 the pretext used by a genocidal political and military command to wipe out Palestine once and for all.
Far from wanting to save the Palestinians, the US and its camp followers are lining up alongside their killers. The US provides the arms so the killing can continue. They are all helping to starve the Palestinians by cutting aid to UNRWA. They justify genocide with the ‘right’ of self -defense. They even say they share Israel’s values. Their complicity should see them in the dock as well.
Source: Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel – Pearls and Irritations
The West’s reflexive support for authoritarian leaders who claim to be targeting terrorism is widely seen in Yemen (and throughout the Middle East) as fuelling a symbiotic relationship between oppressive regimes, terrorist groups and Western-led military interventions.
For many in the region, groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State function, in part, as “tools” that Western-backed authoritarian leaders use to maintain their power. They provide plausible deniability for the violence these leaders use against civilians, or support their pitch that “if I’m gone, terrorists will take over the country”.
Indeed, the complexities that underpin the Houthis’ new slogan help explain why Western policy across the region will continue to backfire.
Put bluntly, people in the region see Western policymakers as blind to their historical record of strengthening the enemies they come to fight. The fact that Western airstrikes are giving the Houthis a legitimacy that was previously unimaginable is ominous.
The crisis in Gaza shows those nations that should be defending international law and humanitarian values to be openly betraying their commitments.
Source: Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is the Gravest Moral Crisis of Our Time | Common Dreams
The latest data shows Indigenous Australians in prisons have reached a new all-time high, Alan Austin reports.
Source: No end in sight to ever-rising Indigenous incarceration numbers
What would Sky News have to say had it been a senior ALP politician? What would Peter Dutton have said? If he were indigenous we know where he’d be
Source: Barnaby Joyce video: Medication mix emerges as explanation
Australia’s leading business lobby, Business Council of Australia, glosses over its tax avoiding members while cashing taxpayer cheques. Zacharias Szumer delves into the latest donation disclosures from the AEC.
Source: A tangled web of donations and grants. Business’ top lobby, DFAT and the AEC – Michael West
Words from the world’s largest delinquent debtor to the UN
US allies have criticised Donald Trump for saying he would “encourage” Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO country that doesn’t meet his spending guidelines.
Source: ‘Unhinged’: Trump alarms allies with Russia encouragement
In the meantime, Lazzarini has been scrambling to fill the funding void, making visits to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait. The dying and starvation in Gaza continue with the prospect of even more horror as Israel’s armed forces prepare their offensive on Rafah. A fine thing, then, to see donor countries for UNRWA, some of whom continue funding Israel’s military efforts, to moralise about terrorists and the agency.
Source: Absence of Evidence: Israel’s Case Against UNRWA – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Now one might well ask why would that be?
Meta’s internal rules around the word “Zionist,” first reported by The Intercept in 2021, show that company moderators are only supposed to delete posts using the term if it’s determined to be a proxy for “Jewish” or “Israeli,” both protected classes under company speech rules. The policy change Meta is now considering would enable the platform’s moderators to more aggressively and expansively enforce this rule, a move that could dramatically increase deletions of posts critical of Israeli nationalism.
Source: Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”
The UN was the Darling of Israel in 1948. Who changed Israel or the UN. The spoilt child gone selfishly rogue or some 200 nations on this planet?
Israel will bulldoze over anyone who stands in the way of the Zionist project. How frightening. And anyone who is in the way of said Zionist project will be subjected to the violent wrath of Israel because Israel doesn’t respect international law, they don’t care about UN resolutions, they don’t care about international public opinion and have total disregard for international norms of human rights.
The Israeli Mafia Don Netanyahu’s position is becoming tenuous. Who is there to replace him surely not either of the two leaders of the minority parties? Ben Gvir a once-declared terrorist or Smotrich the leader of the colonizing invaders?
By Anne Irfan, UCL | – (The Conversation) – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected a ceasefire plan put forward by Hamas, calling the terms “delusional”. Claiming that an Israeli victory in Gaza is “within reach”, Netanyahu has vowed to fight on until Hamas is completely destroyed. But the US, which is involved in negotiation efforts along with Qatar and Egypt, has said that there could still be a path to a deal. Hamas’s plan came as a counter offer to a proposal put forward a week ago by Israel, the US, Qatar and Egypt.
All the while, the war in Gaza continues. With United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reporting a toll of more than 26,000 Palestinians killed, more than 65,000 injured, and 1.7 million displaced, the UN is now warning that famine is inevitable in the Strip.
As negotiations continue to go back and forth, time is running out for the most vulnerable.
Source: Netanyahu’s Position becoming more Uncertain as he rejects Hamas Deal to end War
Are priorities so misplaced that world leaders cannot articulate the necessity of a permanent cease-fire as the way to alleviate the Palestinian people’s suffering?
Source: Opinion | The International Community Is Killing Palestinians Through Useless Debate | Common Dreams
Yes, you can argue Labor remains too rigid, traumatised by their past ordeals and the limp, wet threat of the Murdochracy. But for every shuffle they make dragging Australia into some form of responsible government, however much they stink at climate change management, or understanding genocide in Gaza, they’ll never extinguish the wretched stench of the years Australians spent under the hands of the Enemies Of Woke, the federal Coalition, whose only achievement after over 9 years in power has been an uptick in national corruption commission referrals and Canberra cocaine sales. Roll on 2024.
Source: Goodbye to all that – the Coalition’s year of living aimlessly – The Shot
Dutton has never been a leader and as the party’s thug has never had a mind of his own. Ever since winning the opposition’s leadership from a reluctant membership Dutton flew to America and has returned
Trump’s formula
Concentrating on the base, concentrating on outrage and division and never letting facts get in the way of a good headline, is the Trump formula, right down to Sky News YouTube and social media promotion mimicking its Fox News model.
We can only speculate on which of these areas will benefit most from Submarines being built in the UK and the US, the announcement is long on rhetoric and very, very short on detail. But who are we to argue? That AUKUS pot of gold is very real, even if the rainbow isn’t.
Source: Banana Shire takes AUKUS by storm. What’s the scam? – Michael West
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