Spark That Lit the Fire: Untold Story of Oct 7 Attacks

Palestinians know full well that the current fight will either mean a new Nakba, like the ethnic cleansing of 1948, or the beginning of the reversal of that very Nakba — as in the process of liberating the Palestinian people from the yoke of Israeli colonialism.

While Israel is determined to end Palestinian Resistance once and for all, it is evident that the Palestinian people’s determination to win their freedom in the coming years is far greater.

Source: Spark That Lit the Fire: Untold Story of Oct 7 Attacks

NYT- Fraudulent Hamas Rape Story Debunked

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community Rabbis Against Israel

Rabbis hold a peace action

“The U.N. was created in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, with the very intention of ensuring ‘Never Again,'” said Rabbis for Ceasefire. “We are here as Jews, as rabbis, to urge the U.N. to follow through.”

Source: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

‘You have lost these judges’: Legal expert says Trump lawyer blew it with assassin answer – Raw Story

'You have lost these judges': Legal expert says Trump lawyer blew it with assassin answer

Case for immunity

Williams, lawyer John Sauer blew his case when he told the judges that Trump could order the military assassination of a political opponent, and that wouldn’t be a prosecutable offense unless he was already impeached for it.

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney crashed and burned trying to convince the D.C. Circuit appellate judges that former President Donald Trump has absolute immunity from being prosecuted in the federal election conspiracy case, former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams said during a panel on Tuesday.

Source: ‘You have lost these judges’: Legal expert says Trump lawyer blew it with assassin answer – Raw Story

Trump was such a ‘crook’ that Jeffrey Epstein cut ties with him: Epstein’s brother – Raw Story

Trump was such a 'crook' that Jeffrey Epstein cut ties with him: Epstein's brother

Trump was sooo bad even Mossad didn’t want anything to do with him

During an interview with Piers Morgan this Tuesday, Mark Epstein, the brother of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says the billionaire sex trafficker’s death was likely orchestrated by someone who wanted him to keep quiet. “Do you think that one of those people who may have had a vested interest…

Source: Trump was such a ‘crook’ that Jeffrey Epstein cut ties with him: Epstein’s brother – Raw Story

Old Dog Thought- The ALP shames Australia

May be an image of text that says "...I DON'T THINK THEY'RE HOME... KNOCK! จัe KNOCK! HELLO? LIT's IT'S SOUTH AFRICA! AUSTRALIA? FROM ACROSS THE WAY! WE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT SUPPORT OUR GENOCIDE CASE AGAINST THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT. AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE? 19.1.24 THEY MUST BE HOME - THE TELLY'S ON,, " No, I HEAR THEY'RE ALWAYS OUT NOW, DOING MIDDLE POWER DIPLOMACY..."

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Not everybody can be a star, Michael Sukkar – » The Australian Independent Media Network

You can be pretty sure that Michael Sukkar will never be homeless. That is because, as of May 2022, he owned three properties. You might be interested to learn that he was, for several years, our man tasked with addressing homelessness in Australia. He was appointed to the ministry in 2017, by Malcolm Turnbull. He…

Source: Not everybody can be a star, Michael Sukkar – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian killed in Lebanon: Selected targets; selective morality

Israel Kills

The death of an Australian national in Lebanon has been selectively dismissed by the Australian Government, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

THE KILLING OF an Australian-Lebanese national Ibrahim Bazzi, his Lebanese wife Shorouq Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi by the Israeli Defence Forces in a missile strike in southern Lebanon, has been an object exercise in selective outrage, selective ethical concern, and, generally speaking, selective morality. 

Source: Australian killed in Lebanon: Selected targets; selective morality

Will 2024 be the year to rein in the military-industrial complex, the biggest threat to global peace? – Pearls and Irritations

Toy soldiers on money showing USA President Lincoln's face.Image: iStock/keepphotos

Every nation, regardless of its size or power, must step up to the plate and share the burden of deconstructing the MIC.

Source: Will 2024 be the year to rein in the military-industrial complex, the biggest threat to global peace? – Pearls and Irritations

The Spectacular Failure of the Zionist Project

In any event, it is time to acknowledge that the Zionist project has been a spectacular failure and the status quo can no longer be maintained. Israel has become a pariah state in the eyes of most of the world and the winds of change are now howling across the region.

Source: The Spectacular Failure of the Zionist Project

Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

Palestinians attend a protest condemning the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Haifa, May 11, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Administrative detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually being directed toward those with citizenship too.

Source: Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

Journalists killed while reporting in Gaza

Freelance reporters Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya have been killed in an air strike.

Israel claims that the killing of over 100 journalists and photographers, and over 150 UN workers all proportionately higher in number than the killing of Palestinians is an unintended IDF act. But it will continue as long as their vetted reporting isn’t given total priority.

The Israel Defence Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike or on the TV network’s allegation that the two journalists had been deliberately targeted.

In a statement on December 16, in response to the death of another al-Jazeera journalist in Gaza, the Israeli army said “the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists”.

Source: Journalists killed while reporting in Gaza

CNN Admits ‘Disturbing’ Israel-Palestine Coverage Policy ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

Where there is no Free Press

A spokesperson for the network confirmed to The Intercept that its news coverage about Israel and Palestine is run through and reviewed by the CNN Jerusalem bureau—which is subject to the IDF’s censor.

Source: CNN Admits ‘Disturbing’ Israel-Palestine Coverage Policy ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

US officials renew calls for Israel to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Israeli tank operates

Blinken is still insisting Israel had the right to kill Palestinians because Hamas was hiding behind them.  The problem was which citizens? Women children,Journalists ,UN workers, Medical professionals  anyone who could give independent evidence became their target. If they couldn’t kill maim as much as possible. Tonnage of bombs used on such a small space has never been seen before. The illegal use of white phosphorus has been overlooked. The bulldozers used to hide the bodies under the rubble was ever so Nazi of Israel. Nth Gaza has been forensically cleaned.

US officials have reiterated calls for Israel to ease its assault on Gaza as the Ministry of Health in the besieged Palestinian territory reports hundreds of more deaths.

Source: US officials renew calls for Israel to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

‘Horror Is Growing By the Minute,’ Says Rights Group, as Israel Starves Gaza

Children wait for food relief

Israel is starving Israeli hostages and soon death and disease will be knocking. This is the ongoing Israeli Hannibal Directive “You only have yourself to blame for being caught so  ”

“If current conditions persist,” said Israeli group B’Tselem, “there is significant risk that famine will be declared throughout the entire Gaza Strip within six months.”

Source: ‘Horror Is Growing By the Minute,’ Says Rights Group, as Israel Starves Gaza

US ignores silence of Netanyahu on ethnic cleansing | The Electronic Intifada

Benjamin Netanyahu and Brian Mast meet with an injured Israeli soldier at a hospital as an additional person looks on

The denied reality of ethnic cleansing will be what the US is forced to accept after all is simply done is the Netanyahu plan.

But that is not, in fact, the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has reportedly asked Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs and a member of the country’s war cabinet, to design a plan to “thin” Gaza’s population.

Michelle Goldberg noted in The New York Times, “By acting as if Ben-Gvir and Smotrich can be hived off from the government in which they serve, US policymakers are fostering denial about the character of Netanyahu’s rule.”

This denial is very real. Mainstream media have time and again made clear that Israel’s practice of apartheid will not be broached at this juncture. This is the “character” not just of Netanyahu’s government but its predecessors. Netanyahu is just clearer than most in his practice of anti-Palestinian racism and apartheid.

The Israeli prime minister, according to The Times of Israel, reportedly told a recent Likud faction meeting that “our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it.

Source: US ignores silence of Netanyahu on ethnic cleansing | The Electronic Intifada

Refuseniks Forsake Israel Army Amid Post-October 7 Nationalism

Jewish youth against the bombing of Gaza refuse to serve as soldiers in Israel

Israeli Hero

Teenage conscientious objectors won momentum during the anti-Netanyahu protests, but the post-October 7 world is a new test.

Source: Refuseniks Forsake Israel Army Amid Post-October 7 Nationalism

Old Dog Thought A Pillar of our Democracy has been diminished

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Does ‘Radicalisation’ have to be a Problem? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Any progressive change in the history of this country began with protests, civil unrest, and generally from the bottom up, not the top down. It comes from the belief that the systems we inherited were man-made and can be changed, need to be changed, and that there is an alternative.

But this is all predicated upon a rejection of the hegemony of neo-liberal ‘Centrism’ and the realisation that radicalisation is not always such a bad thing. We can change the world, but it all starts with a rejection of the ‘Common Sense’ that ‘There Is No Alternative’.

Source: Does ‘Radicalisation’ have to be a Problem? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Circle of Secrecy: The Iraq War’s Missing Cabinet Documents – » The Australian Independent Media Network

One needs to ask where is the justice system that holds the people at the top accountable” None it seems when we read the Epstein List, or the sudden “convenient disappearance of documents”. Pedophilia is allowed to flourish except if you’re indigenous and accused. Intervention is ignored if you’re indigenous you’re guilty as charged. And in the case of the Epstein List the only person jailed was a woman.

And as for anything to do with revealing the Australian decision-making process about the decision to invade, despoil and ruin yet another Middle Eastern state in 2003, one is better off consulting records from the White House and the US State Department.

Source: Circle of Secrecy: The Iraq War’s Missing Cabinet Documents – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Michael West Media -Fightback Spam: how to beat those dirty data rats

Fightback Spam: how to beat those dirty data rats

Happy New Year Accredible and Aussie Home Loans. I have a great big box of accountability just for you!

We are spammed relentlessly but when Aussie Home Loans and Accredible spammed Andy Schmulow, they bit off more than they could chew. Andy shows us how to bam the spammers.

Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

‘False balance’: Media has a responsibility to call out lies in U.S. and UK elections

The media’s reporting on the upcoming U.S. and UK elections will have significant political implications, and they must do so without bias, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.

Manipulative media are media organisations with an agenda. The best example of agenda-driven media is the Murdoch media. Murdoch outlets may claim to be producing “news”, but, like News Corp Australia did for the “No” campaign during the Voice referendum, during the U.S. and UK elections, they will be campaigning for the U.S. Republicans and the UK Conservative Party.

Source: ‘False balance’: Media has a responsibility to call out lies in U.S. and UK elections

Hamas’ strength stems from its role as a welfare organisation – Pearls and Irritations

Israel and Hamas flags painted over cracked concrete wall.And lava flows behind.Israel vs Hamas war.

While Israel is an army Hamas is a small military wing, No ships, No Planes, Minimal Hardware. Israel has dropped 65,000 lbs  or 1.5 times more bombs than were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on an area that is smaller and denser than both. Add to that the tank shells the white phosphorus and other killer hardware why has the world turned to support Palestine?

Hamas was voted in by Palestinians in Gaza in a fair election (as agreed by international monitors). It was primarily a welfare organisation providing services and infrastructure for the general population. It primarily still has this role, with an attached small military wing.

Source: Hamas’ strength stems from its role as a welfare organisation – Pearls and Irritations

Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

“Israeli authorities should disclose how many workers from Gaza were in Israel on October 7, how many were detained, whether any remain in detention and the basis for their detention,” Randhawa said. “They should investigate reports of abuse in detention and ensure the humane treatment of all detainees.”

Source: Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

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Israel is far more Right Wing than you will ever be told or hear in their media or sound bytes

By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – After more than 90 days of war in Gaza, in which at least 22,000 Palestinians are reported to have been killed, Israeli officials have shifted their attention to what happens once the fighting has ceased. There has been considerable controversy over proposals from far-right members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. The pair, who Netanyahu needed to include in his coalition to form a government last year, have advocated for Palestinians in Gaza to be resettled in countries around the world, making space for Israeli civilians to

Source: Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide | The Smirking Chimp

The LOBBY is in full action along with its donees and donors does anyone imagine Palestinians can generate that kind of organized power and influence? Israel pretends to be merely the tip of the iceberg when it’s the full-blown bottom.

Israel is mounting a full-court press to prevent an ICJ finding that it’s committing genocide in Gaza. On January 4, the Israeli Foreign Ministry instructed its embassies to pressure politicians and diplomats in their host countries to make statements opposing South Africa’s case at the ICJ.

Source: Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide | The Smirking Chimp

Six Palestinians, Israeli killed in West Bank clash

Israel says its aircraft fired on Palestinian militants who had attacked troops in the West Bank.

Israel’s problem is how to rid Palestine of Palestinians and be a majority of Jews. This has always been Israel’s priority. Even more so given the rapid transition of energy away from oil to renewables What will be the need for an Israel when the West no longer depends on fossil fuels?

The West Bank had already experienced its highest levels of unrest in decades during the 18 months before the October 7 attack on Israel.

Source: Six Palestinians, Israeli killed in West Bank clash

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption – ScheerPost

It is the urgent task of the American people to overhaul a foreign policy that is so broken, corrupted, and deceitful that it is burying the government in debt while pushing the world closer to nuclear Armageddon. This overhaul should start in 2024 by rejecting any more funding for the disastrous Ukraine War and Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Peacemaking, and diplomacy, not military spending, is the path to a US foreign policy in the public interest.

Source: US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption – ScheerPost

Old Dog Thought- Israel war is on those watching Journalists, UN and aid workers. The probability of death and injury higher than Palestinians

Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century

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Victoria, SA and southern NSW brace for flooding rain

The storms are expected to develop in Victoria’s west on Sunday morning, before moving through central, north central and eastern parts of the state during the day and into Monday.

Source: Victoria, SA and southern NSW brace for flooding rain

Chris Hedges: Lynching the Deplorables – ScheerPost

There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching against many of those who participated in the Jan. 6 events, a lynching that is mandating years in pretrial detention and prison for misdemeanors. Once rights become privileges, none of us are safe.

Source: Chris Hedges: Lynching the Deplorables – ScheerPost

Further | All This For A Myth: We Have Lost Everything Beautiful | Opinion

A man weeps after his home was razed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis

When Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, Politicians, and Rabbis say it, its what the sociopathic leadership of Israel demands. They assassinated their own Prime Minister and demanded Genocide, and Ethnic cleansing for years and Netanyahu was there back then.

On Thursday, Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli ambassador to the U.K., said the quiet rabid part out loud when she argued Israel must destroy all of Gaza because “every school, every mosque, every second house” sits on a tunnel – even though most tunnels in Gaza were built decades ago by Israel – thus offering up on British national radio what critics agree is now an alarmingly common, clear “call for genocide.”

Abbey Zimit says otherwise

I was taught as a child to save money to plant trees in a desert called Israel, an imaginary place where a people without land discovered a land without people. Now I understand the killing myth, an anathema to faith. I want the money Jewish children save to go to the people of Palestine for five hundred years. I want all the years of the U.S. payments, $318 billion to Israel, to pour into Palestinian hands as reparations. We must return what was stolen, heal what was harmed, apologize for every life ended. Let the next trees planted be peace groves, be olives and oranges watered by indigenous hands; protected by safe, loving, hands, tree-tending hands.

Let us learn from them how to live again on holy land.”

Source: Further | All This For A Myth: We Have Lost Everything Beautiful | Opinion

The Lobby Part1: Friends of Israel- BUSTED

The Lobby -USA Censored

See how they neutralized Havard to rid the University of any President pro-speech

Corporate Media Whitewash

Hamas it’s origins by Chris Hedges. Israel

Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza

How is the tail wagging the dog?

US officials suggested that Israel would have to shift to a “lower-intensity” campaign in Gaza from the new year. But Joe Biden is still unwilling to apply any serious pressure, even if his support for Israel’s war threatens to hand victory to Donald Trump.

Source: Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza

How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas ‘Massacres’

a reconstruction of how that story line emerged as the dominant theme in early press coverage shows that it was deliberately created by a decision by top Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was done by inventing stories about nonexistent atrocities and planting them with credulous U.S. news outlets.

Source: How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas ‘Massacres’

“Unprofessional”: Experts blast Trump lawyer for saying Brett Kavanaugh “quid pro quo part out loud” | Salon.com

Lawyer Alina Habba is seated at the fraud trail against former President Donald Trump in New York, on November 1, 2023. (ANNA WATTS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump attorney Alina Habba on Thursday suggested that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would “step up” and rule in favor of the former president because he “fought for” him.

Source: “Unprofessional”: Experts blast Trump lawyer for saying Brett Kavanaugh “quid pro quo part out loud” | Salon.com

Donald Trump’s Bid For ‘Absolute Immunity’ Is His Most Dangerous Argument Yet | HuffPost Latest News

Hitler’s advice ” if your going to lie mak it big.” If your going to commit a crime make it big. Trump has been doing that his whole life. He’s a psychopath and publicity whore.

Former President Donald Trump is trying to quash his indictment for the attempt to steal the 2020 election by arguing before a federal appeals court that presidents have an “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution, even after leaving office.

Source: Donald Trump’s Bid For ‘Absolute Immunity’ Is His Most Dangerous Argument Yet | HuffPost Latest News

Old Dog Thought- Independent Press in Gaza over 100 dead, systematically targeted

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2024: A Year of Change for Labor – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In all this excitement about the Conservatives possibly winning the next election, one thing seems to have escaped the minds of those supporting this idea: When in the hurly burly of an election campaign, the electorate is reminded of the sins of the National and Liberal parties over nine and a bit years, the hairs on the ends of voter’s heads will stand on end. Will they then feel inclined toward a repeat dose of the same medicine?

Source: 2024: A Year of Change for Labor – » The Australian Independent Media Network

What was the Scam of the Year

The loss of a true Australian legend: John Pilger dies

 

John sent us articles whenever he could, with this piece,‘ We are Spartacus’, his last article to be published in Independent Australia on 12 November 2023.

Source: The loss of a true Australian legend: John Pilger dies

Why Climate Change Is Not A Problem! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A lot of people don’t seem to be able to distinguish between weather and climate. The climate is what happens over the long term, whereas weather is short term event. A reasonable comparison would be to consider a tennis player such as Coco Gauff. While she’s currently ranked number 3 in the world, there’s no certainty that she’ll win any individual match. However, it would be reasonable to predict that she will win several matches in the next six months and if she were to lose all of them, you’d have to say that there’s been a significant change in her form. In terms of this analogy, her ranking is like the climate while her performance on any given day is like the weather…

Source: Why Climate Change Is Not A Problem! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees

Palestinian men are detained in the streets of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

They are such nice boys they’re not filming it because it would destroy the myth that the IDF are really a bunch of Paskudnyaks (A cruel person, one who enjoys making others suffer.)

The IDF Spokesperson said that Palestinians in Gaza were being detained “for involvement in terrorist activity,” and that “detainees who were found not to have been involved in terrorist activity and whose continued detention is not justified are returned to the Gaza Strip at the first opportunity.”

Regarding allegations of ill-treatment and torture, the IDF Spokesperson said that “any allegations of improper conduct in the detention facility are thoroughly investigated. The detainees are handcuffed according to their risk level and health condition, according to a daily assessment. Once a day, the military detention facility holds a doctor’s lineup to check the medical condition of the detainees requiring it.”

The detainees who spoke to +972 and Local Call, however, said that they were examined by a doctor only upon their arrival at the facility, and they did not receive any subsequent medical treatment despite their repeated requests.

 

Source: Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees

Al-Aqsa Flood & the End of Partition

The world must face the reality that Palestinian political demands cannot be erased or sidelined under the all-encompassing but unconvincing banner of fighting terrorism. Rather than learning these lessons, Western policymakers appear content to serve as active partners in the Israeli regime’s current ethnic cleansing campaign — the nakba of my generation.

Source: Al-Aqsa Flood & the End of Partition

No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2017: Israeli soldier military man saluting to the Western wall in Jerusalem. Western wall or Wailing wall or Kotel is the most sacred place for all jewish people.

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Jewish-Led Protest Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Shuts Down California Capitol

Jews against Israel in California

Hitler Youth’s blinkered education from the cradle to the grave also hoped to achieve the same result. Israel may have done it in the short term but to last they will need to keep them locked in like they do in North Korea. Note the diaspora hasn’t come rushing to save Israel and they remain the majority and are furious.

It points to automatic obedience rather than to good citizenship. The army is trashing an entire region along with its residents, and that doesn’t bother our forces’ consciences.

We will never hear of any PTSD problem just as we never hear unvetted news from Israel. However, we have heard only 15% of Israelis support Netanyahu. How strange is that? Or that the IDF knew the Oct 7th was coming for a year beforehand and did nothing. They even shot their own and tried to cover it up. Pride comes before the fall

Source: No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

‘Criminal practices’: Israel’s cruel apartheid against Palestinians

Yitzhak Rabin will be remembered with Jesus, Marx, and Abraham but not by Zionists

Israel’s apartheid against the Palestinian people is a crime against humanity and a system that is leaving the nation’s global reputation in tatters, writes Bilal Cleland.

Source: ‘Criminal practices’: Israel’s cruel apartheid against Palestinians