My thought for the day
We dislike and resist change in the foolish assumption that we can make permanent anything that makes us feel secure. Yet change is, in fact, part of the very fabric of our existence. (John Lord )
It was not hard to see the irony in the Western response, as Scheer points out: “The hypocrisy of Germany, which was the author of the worst crime of modern history, the Holocaust, and the French, who certainly were anti-Semitic to a considerable degree, and others in Western Europe, [are] now saying you can’t even demonstrate for Palestinian rights.”
In the days leading up to the lecture, Ascherman used his car to block a convoy of settlers, which was accompanied to a Palestinian village by a military Jeep “to do who knows what to a shepherding family that they’d already the day before, sent three of them to the hospital, and broke windows, solar panels and cars.”
Ascherman was hit with a rifle butt and had his phone stolen.
“But … they didn’t get to the family. We protected them, as a human being should do,” he said.
When Ascherman went to the police station to file a complaint against the settlers and soldiers, he was shouted at by a cop on the balcony, who told him he wasn’t welcome in the police station. The officer called him a traitor and accused him of doing human rights work for the money.
(Wonder who gets paid more — a rabbi volunteering to put himself in physical danger to protect Palestinians in the West Bank, or a cop?)
Source: Israeli Rabbi Describes Settler Rampages Across West Bank – CounterPunch.org
Today, the same is even more true for the large, impressive protests about Gaza led specifically by Jewish Americans. There have also been smaller protests in Israel calling for a ceasefire.
Source: The Gaza Protests Can Save Lives — Maybe Even Your Own
The even better news is that the so-called Democratic “Majority” for Israel is anything but. Fifty-six percent of Republican voters, 57 percent of independents, and a whopping 80 percent of Democrats agree with Tlaib about the urgent need for a cease-fire. The DMFI ghouls have a lot of money to spend on ads. But they’re still losing the argument.
Source: A Pro-Israel Super PAC Is Smearing Rashida Tlaib for Standing Up for Palestinian Lives
The neo-McCarthyist trend is particularly rife in the press, where debate and critical thinking are, at least in theory, supposed to be crucial for the sake of an informed public.
Source: A Tidal Wave of State and Private Repression Is Targeting Pro-Palestinian Voices
Israel’s early support for strengthening Hamas set the stage for Hamas to seize total control of Gaza in 2007, and for its October 7 massacre of 1,400 civilians and Israeli soldiers. As of this writing, Israel has unleashed a bombing campaign that has killed more than 9,000 Gazans, according to The Gaza Health Ministry. Israel has now started a ground invasion that will yield even more casualties.
Israel’s support of Hamas for reasons of political expediency has resulted in decades of tragedy for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Now, that support has unleashed a new wave of death and destruction that threatens not only to surpass all previous carnage, it threatens to destabilize the entire region, and perhaps even lead us into the darkness of World War III.
Source: What Do You Know About Israel’s Role in the Origin Funding of Hamas? | The Smirking Chimp
This is a picture of those Israel says it has to kill to win fucking what? The wealth of the Gazan Gas Fields? The Land these kids are sitting on? These are children. Since October 7th Israel has endangered all Jews around the world in an effort to have them come and colonize Gaza and the West Bank? Jews are the most educated people on the planet led by the most primitive and barbaric. Is it any wonder more Jews are leaving Israel than running to it as they did in 1967?
The discussion should now return to where it should have always been – the priorities of the oppressed not the oppressor.
It is time that we speak about Palestinian rights, Palestinian security and the Palestinian people’s right, in fact obligation, to defend themselves.
It is time for us to speak about justice – real justice – the outcome of which is non-negotiable: equality, full political rights, freedom and the right of return.
Gaza has told us all of this, and much more. And it is time for us to listen.
Every Palestinian-Arab overture for peace was rejected, even the supposed ‘peace process’, namely the Oslo Accords, turned into an opportunity for Tel Aviv to entrench its military occupation, expand its settlements and to corral Palestinians in Bantustan-like spaces, humiliated and racially segregated.
Source: ‘Turning Gaza into Ashes’: Israeli Hasbara vs the World – CounterPunch.org
“War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilised pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” ~ Walter Cronkite
What’s odd about this photo it is not a photo of Goliath the world’s 4th greatest military power but one of David with a slingshot. Today there is no equivalence between a picture of these dead men walking prepared to fight in the name of freedom from tyranny of millions. It’s hardly a photo supporting the argument that our “species” will be wiped out as it doesn’t show the face of real evil. However it shows who along with thousands of children will be killed. These men have an iceblock’s chance in hell of defeating the billions of dollars of firepower aimed at them by men showing no mercy only intent on their death, no negotiation as they stand in the way of power and money.
If humanity doesn’t find a way to end wars, the very existence of our species is at risk of being wiped out, writes Gerry Georgatos.
Calls for a ceasefire in Gaza are intensifying as the traumatic toll on civilians sees thousands of children being killed, many health and aid workers and journalists dying on the job, the destruction of health services, surgery taking place without anaesthetic, and civilians unable to access necessities, including life-saving healthcare, food and water.
Source: “This cannot go on” – a cry for an end to intolerable suffering – Pearls and Irritations
The next U.S. presidential election is almost exactly one year from now. All of us have a moral duty to do everything we can — non-violently — to ensure that our democracy endures.
Source: Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Johnson: The Neo-Fascist Spectrum | The Smirking Chimp
Strange goings on. This is the 2nd leak to News Corp that could influence the outcome of the trial against Bruce Lehrmann as it did against Brittany Higgins. Is News Corp practicing the same corrupt media methods that saw Murdoch’s UK tabloid News of the World shut down? Do we have the laws to bring News Corp to heel?
The Bruce Lehrmann plot thickens as News Corp journalists claim to have obtained confidential information regarding new accusations against the alleged rapist.
Are News Corp journalists in possession of confidential or privileged information about this case that will not be used in court, should the matter proceed to trial?
If so, will they publish any of it, as did The Australian journalist Janet Albrechtsen after Lehrmann’s A.C.T. trial with the leaked Higgins text messages that were not used as evidence in court?
This is the second time a police brief concerning Lehrmann has mysteriously found its way to the wrong address.
Source: News Corp vultures exploit legal system to control Lehrmann story
Advance network was run from a fake “national headquarters” in Canberra’s CBD.
The “virtual office” cost Advance $85 a month.
The entities include Advance Aust Ltd and its campaign brand Fair Australia (which both claim the Voice goes too far); “Not Enough” (a site suggesting the Voice doesn’t go far enough”); Australians for Unity (the “charity” arm of the network) and “Referendum for News” (which falsely holds itself out as an impartial news source).
The latest donors to Advance, for the year to June, won’t be known until next year, given peak federal political disclosure laws.
In the 2022 financial year, its AEC filing states, Advance received total donations of $2.24m.
The sources of donations of $14,500 or less were not required to be disclosed.
The disclosed 21 donations, from the ten entities, totalled $723,422.
There are no laws against lying in federal political advertising or in referendums.
Advance has a history of lying to the public.
Before last year’s federal election, it ran billboards falsely claiming independents, including now Senator David Pocock were actually secretly Greens candidates. It also ran advertisements of the Chinese President “voting” for the ALP.
Entities were well hidden from the press
Source: WHITE MAN’S DARK MONEY: MEET THE BANKROLLERS – The Klaxon
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says the Albanese government’s goal to achieve 82 per cent renewables by 2030 was ‘irrational’. The latest appointee to the board of NewsCorp made his comments while dressed only in an under-sized pair of bright red Speedos, and lightly drumming his soot-blackened fingers on a dangerously distended tummy, after eating an entire 20kg bag of export quality coking coal.
Source: Tony Abbott wins extreme coal-eating contest, labels Climate Science a cult.
Gaza City is not the only place that has been reduced to rubble in the past week. Dan Stillman at WaPo points out that Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco on October 25 with 205 mph winds, “among the strongest ever measured.”
The Netanyahu Israeli Government has warned that thousands, potentially even millions of minors are still at large in Gaza, despite sustained bombing over the past few weeks.
Source: Thousands of Children Still Alive in Gaza, Netanyahu Warns — The Shovel
As the Israeli military uses ever more violence against Gaza’s civilian population, there have been massive demonstrations calling for a cease-fire. The protesters are taking a stand for basic human solidarity against the moral bankruptcy of Western leaders.
Source: Slander and Threats Won’t Stop the Protests Against Israel’s War on Gaza
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In Israel, the crackdown against Palestinian solidarity is reaching grim new heights. Activists and ordinary citizens alike are getting fired and arrested for daring to say a word in support of Palestinians.
Israel’s Far-Right Government Is Suffocating Domestic Dissent
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Under the cover of darkness, the show goes on. Nothing is what it seems. Switch on the lights and The Governor of New York trip was funded by the UJA which funds the West Bank Settlers
“The UJA has helped destroy any semblance of a ‘peace process’ or possibility of a two state solution, instead deepening a violent apartheid reality for Palestinians with no end in sight,” Borgwardt told The Intercept. While funding groups operating in settlements, UJA has not supported efforts to de-escalate the current war, Borgwardt said: “If the UJA and Governor Hochul are concerned about safety for Israelis and hostage returns, they should join us in calling for an immediate ceasefire, release of the hostages, a de-escalation, and an end to the conditions of occupation, apartheid and siege that led to the current nightmare.”
Source: Kathy Hochul Israel Trip Bankrolled by Group Funding Settlements
History in Perspective
“His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”. The great British Lie needs to be understood.
This British alliance with Zionism and the Israel it created, has held firm from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to Israel’s violent formation in 1948 to today. Even as Britain fled Palestine and its responsibilities in 1948, allowing war to break out in the process and the Nakba (Catastrophe) to befall the Palestinians, and as its empire faded, Britain has continued to play a cynical and deadly role in the region.
“These scholars offer different perspectives than traditional media, providing insights into the arguments that reconfigure the narrative that seeks to dismiss Hamas as a freedom-fighting movement. Why was Nelson Mandela seen as a ‘terrorist’ by the US until 2008?”
“We know very well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Nelson Mandela.
The military occupation of Gaza aims to transfer sovereignty over the gas fields to Israel, a crime that violates international law and involves massacres, to displace Palestinians until the objectives are achieved.
While mineral wealth and strategic natural resources flow in the depths of the ocean and beneath the land of Occupied Palestine, the Zionists and their allies spend for a $100,000 missile, launched by a $20 million plane, traveling at a cost of 6 thousand dollars per hour to kill people who live on less than 1 dollar a day in the Gaza Strip, whose financial equation has been sustained for 75 years by the blood of thousands of innocents in mercilessly Occupied Palestine!
BG Group drilled two wells in 2000: Gaza Marine 1 and Gaza Marine 2. British Gas’ gas reserves are estimated to be approximately 430 million cubic meters, which is equivalent to around 4 billion dollars. These are the figures announced by the British Gas Company, although it is possible that the size of gas reserves in Palestine is even greater. The issue of sovereignty over the gas fields in Gaza is extremely important and, from a legal point of view, these reserves belong to Palestine.
First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism — like British rule in India — by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.
There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.
The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying the remaining Palestinian lands in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.
Israel’s – harsher version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.
In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).
None of that has anything to do with Hamas. The most one can say is that Hamas’ resistance has forced Israel’s hand. It has had to abandon its siege-apartheid model — the long-term imprisonment of a population with no resources, no freedom of movement, no clean water, no jobs.
Instead, it has returned to the tried-and-tested formulas of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Threats and intimidation are hallmarks of mob bosses.
Mob rule is incompatible with democracy.
Source: Trump the Mob Boss: His Threats To Mobilize His Mob Are Escalating | The Smirking Chimp
Bruce Lehrmann losing his suppression order protection last Thursday (26/10/23) and being outed as the “high profile” alleged Toowoomba rapist will have a huge impact on his defamation cases against Channel 10, Lisa Wilkinson and the ABC. Reports are that Bruce Lehrmann used cocaine on the night of the alleged rape in Toowoomba and his…
We treated Indigenous Australians as slaves. From the 1930s until the 70s our FNP faced the Aboriginal Control Act where up to 70% of their wages were withheld and in many cases lost by governments without any restitution. It’s taken until 2023 for that to be finally recognized in WA where the government has been ordered to pay $180M in compensation. Mind you WA wasn’t the only state to lose funds this way Qld was another. Yes, Aboriginals were slaves they built the cattle Industry in this country and in return, were paid a pittance, far less than Whites were. But then they were judged under welfare regulations that justified stealing their children.
Less than 3 weeks ago Peter Dutton was telling Australia that the Yes campaign would divide a nation already divided and that a No vote guaranteed to keep things as is united. Indigenous Australians don’t just suffer a glass ceiling but a cast iron one providing them with less historic room for growth. Dutton’s call for a Royal Commission into Indigenous Child Abuse is a shameful treatment of victim blaming. Dutton declares they’re different and deserve to be blamed for that difference a continuation of the Racist reality that’s always existed. Dutton said Yes to the Cash Card, Yes to a donation of $12M to a school run by Jacinta Price’s mother, and Yes to an audit on money received by remote communities. The fact is Yes was recognition of 235 years of racism that has continued to exist in this country and a wish to change it. Dutton’s No is a continued 235 of division and a continued denial that fails to explain why Australia remains, unlike any other other colonial nation on the planet. Australia is the standout without any treaties or any Constitutional principle that recognizes its FNP’s Universal Human Rights. It
The results of the Voice Referendum have highlighted ongoing issues of racism from which Australia is struggling to move on, writes Michael Galvin.
But if you are going to cheer on the slaughter – and people will – at least don’t be a coward about it. Don’t mentally deny the humanity of those you are wishing and sanctioning genocide upon. That’s the easy way out, and it should be beneath every educated, loved, healthy mind. Palestinian children are just as real as yours, just as real as mine. Powerful forces are working diligently to strip the Palestinian people of their humanity – do not let them take yours as well. If you find yourself cheering on the massacre of thousands of children, you’ve already lost.
Source: This is genocide – The Shot
“It’s important to understand that what’s happened is that the unipolar moment is in the rearview mirror. We are now in a multipolar world”
The US wasted the Unipolar moment fighting regime-change wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan and Somalia, destroying nations all across the Islamic world, generating massive refugee flows that are destabilising Europe, and causing massive hatred of the US within the Islamic world. One of the major US war aims in supporting Ukraine was to achieve regime change in Russia. Both China and Iran know that if that is achieved, they are next on the regime-change agenda, and this has solidified Russian support. And Putin’s popular support in Russia is over 80%, double Biden’s.
Imperial overreach has caused other empires to fall.
When it’s adjusted at the start of 2024, what time will the Doomsday clock show?
Source: John Mearsheimer and the decline of US hegemony – Pearls and Irritations
Soon after America jumped the gutter calling for a “Humanitarian Pause” After meeting with the Australian PM. Meanwhile, Peter Dutton calling for ally loyalty found himself standing alone
On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14, for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” in Gaza. The resolution was sponsored by the government of sometime U.S. ally King Abdullah of Jordan. Israel’s UN Ambassador responded with utter disdain, accusing those who voted in favor of the “ridiculous resolution” of supporting ‘the defense of Nazi terrorists’ over Israel. In Gaza, Israel’s response to the global call for a truce was to escalate its bombing
The Arab and Muslim worlds are increasingly radicalized, and the West by its reaction to Israeli assaults on Gaza, has made Hamas more popular than ever. Even those who used to criticize Hamas find it now difficult to do so. Jordanian journalist, Bassam Baddarin, observed that Abu `Ubayda (the spokesman of the military wing of Hamas) could be elected in any Arab country.
That is your doing.
That has not happened and will not happen now. Instead, there is every prospect of a bitter war with many thousands more Palestinians killed, tens of thousands of young Palestinians all too ready to fight in the future, and a peaceful resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict delayed by at least another generation.
Israel calls itself a “Jewish state,” but there is nothing “Jewish” about mistreating people because they are of a different religion or ethnic group. Indeed, Zionism has, it seems, turned its back on the universal Jewish moral tradition which Jewish critics of Zionism such as Albert Einstein, Judah Magnes, Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt warned that it would.
What effect on the status of diaspora Jews if the state is defeated?
What effect on Jews elsewhere from manifestly wrong or immoral actions of that state?
The call from Israel when Jews abroad are in danger is, Come home to Israel, where you belong and will be safe from violence inflicted because you are Jewish.
It is now less credible to think of Israel as a safe place for Jews as Jews, in an ironic twist. And the more extreme measures Israel wreaks on Gaza for Israel’s safety, the more imperiled by association Jews outside Israel will be.
Source: Endangered and Dangerous Israel, Endangering Jews – CounterPunch.org
One of the founders of the “Peace Now” movement was the late novelist Amos Oz, a dear friend whose book on the settler-induced divisions In the Land of Israel (1983) I would later translate. He was among the first Israelis to advocate a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Oz warned of the dangers of the occupation back in1967 and called the radicalized settlers neo-Nazis. At the same time, he also said he loved Israel, “even when I can’t stand it.” In one way or another, all of us were called “traitors.” But like Amos, we’d respond: “At least we’re in good company.”
Like the peace movement, the international community considers the settlements a violation of international law.
[Related: Biden Administration’s Capitulation to Israel]
Yet, hawkish advocates of national security favoured their expansion. For all practical purposes, they have won. In the early 1970s, there were barely 2,000 settlers in the West Bank. Today, that figure exceeds 500,000. Their problem is that they will never win the peace.
Israel’s Public Diplomacy Minister: “Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence & try to enter Egyptian territory or they will die & their death will be evil. Gaza should be erased!”
Still questioning a genocidal intent?
An Israeli lawmaker from the ruling right-wing Likud Party on Wednesday offered fresh evidence that the Israeli government’s aim in its bombardment of Gaza is a genocidal effort to kill or forcibly remove the more than 2 million Palestinians living there, declaring, “Gaza should be erased.”
With the support of the United States and other Western countries, Israel has claimed since October 7—when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, killing as many as 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage—that its bombardment of Gaza is necessary to destroy the armed group, even though the IDF has repeatedly struck civilian targets and killed nearly 9,000 Palestinians so far, including over 3,500 children.
Source: Israeli MP Says It Clearly for World to Hear: ‘Erase All of Gaza From the Face of the Earth’
Unfortunately, the Biden administration is letting the fascist government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu get away with mass murder. As a result, no one in the global South will ever listen to Biden or Secretary of State Antony Blinken say the words “rules-based international order” again without falling down laughing. The US attempt to cut Russia off from the world economy will now completely fail.
It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his column is no doubt intended to recruit, it is useful in shining a spotlight on a traditionally shadowy architecture of influence.
There were six principal reasons why the “No” campaign triumphed.
The first was its shameful, morally bankrupt slogan: “If you don’t know, vote ‘No’.” The “No” campaign essentially argued “Why bother? Nothing to do with you. Don’t bother to find out. If you know nothing, welcome aboard the ‘No’ campaign.” Many “No” voters never understood what the referendum was about, and there was no imagination, sympathy or understanding.
The second boon for the “No” campaign was its public faces: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine to the right, Lidia Thorpe to the left. They gave a leave pass to the unsure and disengaged, promoting uncertainty and confusion. The argument for these people was: “If the Aboriginal community is divided about the Voice, how can I make a judgement?”
The third key point for “No” was its exploitation of the idea of “division”. This masterstroke was Trumpian. Words were taken and turned to mean their opposite. “Yes” became characterised as a vote for division and “No” was a vote for unity. It did not matter that the inverse was true.
Price and Mundine argued the Voice would entrench division along racial lines, giving privileges to First Nations people that would be denied to other Australians. “Division” became the central theme of the “No” case and proved to be a winner.
Price exploited the “unity” issue relentlessly. If she saw a conflagration in the distance, she was eager to help by bringing more petrol. She said the Australian Electoral Commission had interfered with the referendum process and insisted most First Nations people in the Northern Territory were opposed to the Voice. Many believed her, but polling on October 14 indicated remote communities voted “Yes” at a rate of more than 70 per cent.
Fourth among the factors that favoured “No” was Australia’s curious relationship with the Constitution. This document, unread and unrecognisable in the context of constitutional practice as it has evolved, was invoked during the campaign as a Holy Grail – revered, unknowable, untouchable. Each assertion by the “No” campaign that the Voice would be “risky” was demonstrably false, but the country’s worship of its ill-understood Constitution was enough to scare people away from change.
Fifth, the government and Yes23 were very vague about the structure and powers of the Voice itself, even in broad outline, and that looked shifty, although it followed normal practice in referendums.
Finally, the media overall played a shameful role. This was a campaign defined by Murdoch and Musk. The lies circulated on social media were strategically targeted: First Nations people would be given free houses, free cars, free education at private schools. The “Yes” campaign was allegedly being run by the United Nations, or by Jews, or by condescending urban elites. The Voice would apparently push millions of people off their land. Taxes would rise exponentially to pay for Aboriginal welfare and the country itself would be forced to adopt an Indigenous name.
The government and the “Yes” campaign failed to attack these lies head on. The ABC was overly cautious and News Corp was brutal.
This research delves deep into the world of ransomware attacks, shedding light on the evolving techniques employed by malicious actors and the shifting focus from phishing to vulnerability exploitation.
Source: Akamai report reveals disturbing trends in ransomware attacks
Why has the prolific social media feed of the Chinese Communist Party watcher in Australia’s Parliament House suddenly gone quiet?
Source: Manchurian Candidate: prolific Chinese Communist spy hunter suddenly silent – Michael West
In an article entitled “What does Jewish law say about the war between Israel and Hamas,” Jay Michaelson explores biblical, talmudic and medieval sources to answer that question, noting the long arc of rabbinic tradition bends toward nonviolence. In Jewish life, the normative perception of Torah is that it was given to protect its weakest individuals as the powerful do not need protection.
Source: How Jewish Nonviolence can help guide the Path forward on Israel-Palestine
While Peter Dutton calls for Australia’s support for Netanyahu the Ceasefife Call Grows. Dutton has his finger on the pulse of a dead man walking.
More than 3,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Israel began bombarding the enclave three weeks ago. The number of children reportedly killed in the conflict has surpassed the annual number of children killed in conflicts around the world since 2019, according to Save the Children.
Although we did have one of the anti-woke crusaders, Mr Howard, telling us: “I have my doubts about multiculturalism, I believe that when you migrate to another country you should be expected to absorb the mainstream culture of that country!” So I guess that means that if he were to have moved to certain islands of Vanuatu, he would have renounced his suit and tie and dressed in nothing but a namba (penis sheath). Two tribes on one island were respectively named as either Big Nambas or Smol. I suspect Little Johnny would join the Smol tribe in order to absorb the culture.
Source: The Middle East Explained As Simply As Possible… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“It’s no surprise… that the same government that tortured Iraqis in Abu Ghraib is funding the same tactics on Palestinians,” said Jewish Voice for Peace.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has reported the ethnic cleansing of at least scores of Palestinian families from their homes and farms in Area C, the Israel-designated West Bank occupation zone completely administered by Israel.
“While all eyes are on Gaza… the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank could intensify further,” Israeli international law and human rights professor Neve Gordon wrote for the London Review of Books blog Monday, “with Israeli forces pushing Palestinians out of their homes and possibly across international borders.”
Source: ‘Abu Ghraib 2.0’: IDF Torture Videos Spark Renewed Calls to End US Military Aid to Israel
As to Netanyahu, his blood lust is far from sated. On Monday, in a chilling speech experts deemed “an explicit call to genocide,” he termed Israel’s slaughter of innocents “a holy mission” and invoked their ancient foe from the Old Testament: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible: ‘Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'” Calls for a ceasefire, he declared with stunning cognitive dissonance, are “a call for Israel (to) surrender to barbarism…The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war.” Still, mournfully, Ahmed Nehad nonetheless pleads for the trifling mercy of a ceasefire, that “a mere handful might endure.” “Grant us the luxury of one last hug,” he writes. “Our end is nigh, rest assured.” Those already dead and documented – name, age, ID number – total 6,747; the number excludes thousands still under rubble or not yet identified. To read the list, you must keep scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. May their memories be for a blessing.
Israel, the U.S. and the rest of the West cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the grave, grave error of al–Nakba in 1948, when began the forcible removal of Palestinians from their land. See the Toynbee reference above: Nobody in power has the creativity, imagination, or confidence to confront the present as the consequence of this error and begin acting to correct it. And so Israel will continue to pull us in the wrong direction—or further in the wrong direction, I ought to say. I hope I am not around if ever Americans start in with the sadistic videos.
Source: Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity – scheerpost.com
Even this article amplifies Israeli suffering more than it does it’s genocidal attack on 2.3M people one needs to asks what’s wrong with the New Daily’s approach to News? It’s unbalanced there is no justification for Netanyahu’s madness so why report what Israel tells you?
Israel has confirmed responsibility after a deadly explosion “like an earthquake” reportedly killed about 50 people in Gaza’s largest refugee camp.
The mounting death toll has drawn calls from the US, Israel’s top ally, other countries and the UN for a pause in fighting to allow more humanitarian aid to reach the enclave.
Source: Israel confirms responsibility for jet strike on Gaza refugee camp
More killed in 3 weeks than Russia did in 19months
The mass murder of innocent Palestinian civilians by Israel continues, with the bombing of the Jabaliyah refugee camp north of Gaza City on Wednesday. History has seen a procession of genocides. But this is the first to be televised.
Source: The First Televised Genocide
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