Netanyahu Plays Chicken 901


Netanyahu is desperate to keep war simmering along and to draw the USA closer and closer to him. At the same time he cannot send ground forces into South Lebanon where they will take massive casualties.

Israel can assassinate, it can employ indiscriminate terrorism and it can bombard from the air, and it has done all these things against Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. But Israel cannot destroy Hamas nor Hezbollah, cannot get back its hostages from Gaza and cannot make Northern Israel safe for its colonialists.

Nothing Israel is doing in any way advances those declared objectives and in fact makes all of them increasingly unlikely ever to be attained.

But as Biden and Harris accept and reinforce every single escalation and every single illegality, Israel’s stranglehold on its western vassal politicians gets ever stronger. Those have now all (including both UK Labour and Conservative ministers) supported illegality well beyond the stage where there is any going back. They have now to hope that they will be “justified” by military victory.

The Iraq war shows that however illegal the war, if you win you get to write – or at least interpret – the rules of international law. I wish I could come up with good counter-examples. “Justice” is visited only upon losers.

But the problem for Netanyahu, Sunak, Starmer, von der Leyen et al. is that just what victory looks like, nobody seems in the least clear.

We appear to be locked into a hideous distortion of existentialism, where the killing of Arabs of any age and sex is in itself the path of virtue and a reason for living.

Israel’s TikTok army of child-killers, rapists and lingerie-flaunters will take heavy casualties if it advances into Lebanon. It is currently launching intense air attacks, but it cannot destroy Hezbollah that way, not even were it to triple the colossal amount of explosive it has dropped on Gaza.

Netanyahu’s strategy of assassinations and deadly stunts appears to be an attempt to goad Hezbollah out of their own territory into a suicidal advance into Israel. But Nasrullah is not falling for it.

It is worth stressing that, contrary to the propaganda, in the last year Israel has hit Lebanon with five missiles for every one sent by Hezbollah.

Meantime the United Kingdom’s claims to respect international law are exposed as an utter sham as it failed to vote for the UNGA Resolution giving effect to the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territory.

The ICJ’s ruling that the Occupation is itself an illegal act, and that states must do nothing which can assist Israel to maintain it, sets out a clear legal status quo which the UK is equally clearly breaking.

When the ICJ decision came out on 19 July, the FCDO statement was as follows:

We have received the Advisory Opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on Friday 19 July and are considering it carefully before responding. The UK respects the independence of the ICJ.

The promised response has never come; unless you take the failure to vote at the UN General Assembly for the implementation of the ICJ ruling as the response. The decision to suspend 8% of arms export licenses for Israel was framed not in terms of this ICJ ruling – which logically can only require the cessation of all arms sales to Israel – but more broadly in terms of unspecified possible breaches of international humanitarian law.

In its “explanation of vote” at the UN General Assembly, the UK deliberately ignored a key tenet of the ICJ Opinion. The UK stated:

“our abstention reflects our unwavering determination to focus on efforts to bring about a peaceful and negotiated two-state solution,”

This ignores the ICJ ruling that Israel must leave the occupied territories before any negotiations. An occupied people cannot negotiate with, in effect, a gun held at their head. That is explicitly why the ICJ did not accept that the Oslo Accords alienated any Palestinian rights in international law.

The UK is still – directly contrary to the ICJ – attempting to maintain that Palestine’s right not to be occupied was signed away at Oslo.

British military flights, weapons supplies and intelligence cooperation with the Israel occupation continue unabated. Starmer’s total support for Israel is now a fixed part of the governing landscape, as the failure to condemn the terrorist device attacks on the Lebanon makes clear.

The US and UK are now hopelessly yoked to a Netanyahu nihilist strategy of which the primary aim is to retain his own power and immunity from prosecution by permanent conflict, of a kind which makes his allies ever more complicit and which will rope them in to active military support.

That requires constant Israeli aggression against an axis of resistance that has so far refused to be provoked into major conflict. Israel’s plan is to humiliate Iran and its allies to an extent that a full-on regional war becomes inevitable, in which the United States will fight alongside them – and very probably the Sunni Arab regimes too, I am extremely sorry to say.

This is plainly madness that is entirely against the interests of the Western powers themselves. But their politicians, including very directly Biden and Starmer, are so compromised by Zionist-lobby money that there appears to be no escape, short of popular revolt in the West.

The West is bound to Israel by the simple, unalloyed mechanism of cash paid to politicians. That is the truth.

 

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  • Republicofscotland

    Starmer doesn’t miss a beat – as he follows in the footsteps of Sunak – one wonders what fancy and expensive apparel – Netanyahu is buying Starmer, and his wife.

    “Britain’s Labour government has ordered 100 spy flights over Gaza to aid Israeli intelligence, it can be revealed.

    This amounts to an average of more than one a day since Keir Starmer became prime minister on July 5.”

    https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/

    • Goose

      RoS

      And cosplaying military hawk. Defence Secretary, John Healey, thinks all this shows that Labour are tough.

      John Healey, remember, was singing a different tune under Corbyn. Talk about, these are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.

      Was he faking it then, or is he faking it now?

  • Goose

    I just watched a bit of BBC’s Question Time, from Dundee. I really wish I hadn’t, because it’s put me in a bad mood before bed.

    The panel discussed the Middle East, if you can call it a discussion. This panel ‘discussion’ consisted of Iain Macwhirter, basically being allowed to act as an apologist for Israel’s war crimes, nonstop, for six minutes. His view broadly being Hamas and Israel had to fight it out. as if a fair fight. No mention of the 12 months of bombardment of a small strip of land of a people with no defences – the heaviest bombardment in human history courtesy of Uncle Sam, He was followed by the SNP’s Jenny Gilruth who gave a brief answer during which she could barely stop f**king smirking. They then moved on to the next question.

    Sorry about the language, but this programme is a f**king disgrace and the whole team, including the snarly, despicable Bruce, need disbanding and showing the door. The worst of it, is the fact the audience appears to be rigged. A guy in the audience made a point about stopping arms sales to Israel, and others around him were shaking their heads. This the BBC for you. You’d get a more honest debate on Russian TV.

    • Goose

      Apparently, Conservative MP Andrew Bowie, also on the show, was even worse in his take, which I missed.

      Why have we got a political class that are so indifferent to the 12 months of completely overkill, daily horror bombings in Gaza, and now the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; plus the bombings in Syria?
      The ‘terrorist’ label has been deployed and used so effectively by Israel’s army of propagandists in the media and online, exterminating a whole people seems possible and even acceptable on that basis. It’s as though, “logic and proportion, have fallen sloppy dead, And the White Knight (Starmer) is talking backwards’,,, as the lyrics to Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit go. It’s the most unreasonable I’ve ever known the West. Maybe it was something in the Covid jabs that removed empathy? I jest, I hope :-).

      • Stevie Boy

        The basest instinct: ‘professional’ politicians will do anything for money. They don’t represent us, they represent themselves.

    • Allan Howard

      Bring back Robin Day, that’s what *I* say!

      Yes, I can’t stand Fiona Bruce either, and especially since she and whatshername did their number on Diane Abbot. Apart from the following week – because it had been all over the MSM and I wanted to see if Bruce apologised – I’ve never once watched it since then.

      Oh, right, and there was some guy in the audience who puts Labour down, and Bruce says to Diane ‘I’m sure you want to follow that’ but she has to let ‘Isobel respond to the question first’, and then never gets back to Diane to let her respond to what the guy said. And it was blatant that she deliberately didn’t, no doubt to amuse all the Tories in the audience. Just found this short video clip of it on youtube:

      Question time Diane Abbott gets told off by audience Member

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnNC1nfJd4 (34secs)

    • Greg Park

      I sincerely meant what I said on the previous page: even Starmer himself does not stand out as especially degenerate among the political-media class that elevated him. Who is there in British politics or media it is possible to admire? You are only hurting yourself by listening to them.

    • Vivian O’Blivion

      School teacher, Jenny Gilruth was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2016. She was recognised as a “future opinion leader” by the US State Department with astonishing rapidity. 35 working days after being sworn in as a rookie MSP, she was in Washington as part of an International Visitors Leadership Program delegation.

  • craig Post author

    Hi everyone,

    Sorry been quiet lately. Had to leave Greece and established a new base in Rome. Then dash to Strasbourg for Julian’s appearance. Now in London for Richard Barnard’s court appearance and Saturday’s national demo, though still no response from PSC to my request to speak. Then Blackburn for a couple of individual cases of persecution of Muslims I wish to pursue. Then couple of days back home in Edinburgh, and back to Rome.

    Quite surprised not to have been arrested at Gatwick but could be picked up any time.

    • nevermind

      Zionist XL bullies, attack dogs for US chickenhawks.
      I wish you well Craig, we are in Edinburgh for a week come 22.Oct.
      Will try to join you this Saturday on London.
      Good luck with Brics, if you are still going.

    • Alyson

      Israel has an agreement that Russia will support it if Iran attacks Israel first. Israel is expressing its displeasure that the agreement wasn’t actioned after the recent take down of some of its key infrastructure. Israel would claim this is a proportionate response to feeling let down, and of course has taken out a key area of hardware should Russia not choose to support it in future.

      The audacity is stunning, yet they are running within a set of prearranged agreements and so are confident the risks are worth taking.

    • Brian Red

      Never underestimate the extent to which many racist Jews hate Russia. They hate Russia far more than they dislike or have contempt for Germany, Africa, the USA, or anywhere else, even the Arab world.

      This hatred is evident for example in academia. The demonym “Russian” is spoke as if it means “lump of dogsh*t”.

      A big division inside Russian-speaking Jewish mafia circles is between those who still have loads of assets and operations inside Russia and those who got out (taking lots of assets with them of course) – not necessarily relocating to Israel but some going to e.g. London, although having Israel as one of their citizenships or an option. No Jewish billionaire anywhere in the world falls out with Israel, even if they’ve never been there or asked for their passport. (There’s a lesson there.)

        • fonso

          Talking of which, Kamala Harris tells Liz Cheney, “I also want to thank your father, Vice President Dick Cheney, for his support and for what he has done to serve our country.”

          She knows Cheney is an unrepentant war criminal whose “service” was dedicating his career to waging wars of aggression.

          Ominous words indeed.

      • Pears Morgaine

        Over 1.5 million of Israel’s 9 million population are ethnic Russians who fled the old Soviet Union when it collapsed. Russian is the third most commonly spoken language in Israel after Hebrew and Arabic.

        Would that place it in Russia’s ‘sphere of influence’?

          • Goose

            I’d wager they make up the bulk of the population in the newly formed West Bank settlements. Richer Russians who’ve taken citizenship, like Abramovich, will just go prime beachfront.
            This is the thing, in many ways it’s a totally artificial population and country. The land earmarked for a future Palestinian state, is, with the full knowledge of Europe and the US, being slowly stolen by people invited in by Israel. Call for the 1967 boundaries, and a smirking US spokesperson will tell you that “the realities on the ground have changed,” which is pure US State Dept doublespeak.

            I also think this US conveyor belt of bombs, used to bomb civilians in Gaza, and now Lebanon, will be remembered in history alongside the US’s infamous carpet bombing of Cambodia with B-52s. How do the people who work in the US munitions factories sleep at night?

          • Republicofscotland

            Goose.

            Yeah – I could envisage the brochure to entice them to Palestine – (West bank), saying something like come to Israel – shoot some Palestinians, and steal their lands from them – build your dream house – oh and don’t worry no one will stop you – because we have the West as our attack dogs if they do – so, come and live the dream – in the ever-expanding Israel.

          • Goose

            RoS

            If you look at these large settlements in the West Bank, they’re built defensively, i.e. fortified similar to ancient towns in Italy and Spain.

            “Italian hilltop settlements were built upon hills for defensive purposes, surrounded by thick defensive walls, steep embankments”

            If you move there, that’s a bit of a giveaway to the fact it might not exactly be the ‘paradise” presented in the brochure. Everyone is armed, as having a gun is seen as a necessity, and adult family members can expect armed patrol duties. Not fun, imho.

        • David Warriston

          ”Over 1.5 million of Israel’s 9 million population are ethnic Russians who fled the old Soviet Union when it collapsed. Russian is the third most commonly spoken language in Israel after Hebrew and Arabic.
          Would that place it in Russia’s ‘sphere of influence’?”

          Back in the day, Stalin thought it might be. The USSR was one of the first countries to recognise the state of Israel in May 1948. It provided weaponry to the fledgling state at that time. And many early leaders of Israel had been born in what became the USSR: Belarus ( Shamir, Begin, Peres) and Ukraine ( Sharret, Golda Meir.)

          Nowadays Israel has acquired a much richer sponsor in the form of the USA but I doubt they have forgotten who cleared the Nazis from eastern and central Europe. Israeli criticism of Russian actions in Ukraine has been far more muted than what is heard in Europe itself.

      • David Warriston

        The Russophrenia exhibited by the likes of Applebaum, Yellen, Nuland and her husband Kagan is indeed quite visceral. Their family roots lie in Belarus and Ukraine and I think the women at least are fluent in Russian language.

        Why the hatred? Some of it must be inherited through the family, perhaps as a memory of pogroms under the Tsarist regime. But as fully fledged neo-cons their fear of communism must run very deep, and the potential for modern day Russia to confront dollar autocracy must seem like history repeating itself for these millionaires. Applebaum was recently interviewed by a couple of useful idiots- Alistair Campbell and a Tory who once stood for leader but whose name I forget- and what struck me was her stridency- often an indication of unease. She seemed oblivious of events in the USA (her native land) or Gaza and had a fixation on Russia, a country I think she has only visited briefly once in her life.

        • Alyson

          This discussion got me curious about the history. Jews were forbidden to own land or property in pre revolution Russia but the expansion of the USSR into neighbouring countries included areas with many Jewish citizens. The area known as The Pale (as in beyond the pale) swept across Ukraine and Poland and Belorus where Jews were allowed to live. Gradually they obtained the same rights as all Soviet citizens but throughout its previous history there were periodic purges when they became too wealthy for the nation to sustain them, and wealthy bankers moved to Paris and London in the 18th and 19th centuries. Hasidism was quite new then but became the majority by the 1930s. Older Jewish cultural groups had long history around the Black Sea, especially Crimea.

          Just for context.

          • Brian Red

            @Alyson – “Gradually they obtained the same rights as all Soviet citizens.
            I don’t know where you got that from.
            Jews were emancipated in Russia in 1917 by the Bolshevik-led government under Lenin.
            The USSR was created in 1922.
            Jews formally always had exactly the same rights as non-Jews throughout the entire life of the USSR.
            When new countries joined the USSR, or new territories were annexed, there was no formal discrimination against Jews.

            “Emancipation of the Jews” also meant in many places that Jews were freed from tyrannical rabbinical control in the areas to which they were hitherto confined (and to which they were returned by Christian authorities if they escaped).

            Hasidism was quite new then but became the majority by the 1930s.
            The majority of whom and where?

  • Brian Red

    Ehud Barak is sounding like a cryptic oracle.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/israel-may-launch-symbolic-attack-on-iran-nuclear-facilities-says-ehud-barak

    I’m sure there are messages in there that most of us don’t get. But in a nutshell he’s saying Iran will get nukes anyway, so the Zionists should bomb the bejeesus out of their oil and fast. The strange thing is that while he berates Netanyahu for not having a plan for “the day after”, he doesn’t discuss possible Iranian responses to having an enemy destroy its economy. He’s a military man too – a former general. (And a kibbutznik former leader of the Labour party, for those cretins stupid enough to believe there is such a thing as “socialist Zionism”.)

  • Vivian O’Blivion

    Cast your minds back to 2021 when the Suez Canal was blocked for 6 days when the mega container ship, Ever Given slewed across a narrow section and became wedged between the banks. That ship was 100% undamaged and under its own steam. The naval architects tasked with designing the Ever Given were told to build the biggest ship that could fit in the canal. That created a unique vulnerability.

    Such is the laissez faire prime directive behind NeoLiberal philosophy, squeeze an extra 0.25% efficiency out of the system, it’ll probably work and if it doesn’t, then …

    What if rather than Pilot error (failing to anticipate bank effect), a similar mega carrier was hit by ballistic missiles? I don’t know whether the players involved have the technology to hit a moving target, but these ships have a big, slow moving footprint. Equally, I don’t know how much damage a missile would do to the infrastructure of the ship (protected as it is by many layers of shipping containers), but just stopping it would be enough to present a stationary target for a subsequent barrage of missiles to finish the job.

    Tolls from the Suez Canal represent a substantial percentage of GDP for the Egyptian state, a state that we are told is the second biggest recipient of foreign aid from the US of A (after it’s proxy, terrorist entity). The Egyptian state is of course a military dictatorship in all but name, its current President having been installed in a US backed coup d’état. The forbearance of the Egyptian folk is purchased with subsidised staples such as flour and cooking oil. I foresee trouble ahead.

    This is just one hypothetical. In the pell-mell rush for NeoLiberal, global trade and interconnectivity, the Western, Permanent State created multiple, critical vulnerabilities.

    I’m off to purchase a bicycle, the 40 litres of diesel fuel in jerry cans in the garden shed won’t last forever.
    Perhaps PetroIneos at Grangemouth will receive a reprieve after all?

  • Republicofscotland

    Iran’s Foreign Minister made a low-key visit to Lebanon to meet with officials, one wonders if a defensive – or even an offensive – plan was discussed.

  • Harry Law

    “We can’t afford to doubt the West’s moral legitimacy,” Matthew Syed writes in the West’s support for Israel, he backs both Israel and the West 100%.
    https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/03/patrick-lawrence-who-do-you-want-to-win/
    In June 1942 on orders from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and acting Reichsprotektor Kurt Daluege, successor to Reinhard Heydrich he initiated the Lidice massacre which was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
    It has gained historical attention as one of the most documented instances of German war crimes during the Second World War, particularly given the deliberate killing of children.
    In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 men from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942.
    Fast forward 82 years and the political establishments in Europe and the US are cheering on the deaths of nearly 200,000 men, women and children [the Lancet] and the intentional eradication of a whole people in a televised Genocide in a similarly occupied territory Gaza. Obviously there is no doubt about the ‘west’s’ moral legitimacy.

    • Brian Red

      Germany is a western country. There wasn’t much Orthodox Christianity there in 1942. But thank you to Matthew Syed, PPE graduate from Oxford, and all round very obedient doggie.

      Imagine talking about the “West’s” “moral legitimacy”, though, even if the term denotes only the regimes in the USA and Britain and their allies west of the Rhine. What f*cking moral legitimacy have those regimes that were founded on slavery and genocide and which are still the elitist c***s of the world ever had? One of them is a monarchy with boarding schools FFS. “Listen to me, you oiks, I’ve got the moral legitimacy here.”

      Meanwhile, has somebody got a figure for the number of people currently sitting in British jails for opposing the ongoing genocide? I dunno but it could be 20–30 already. Might be a good idea to set up an info point, because every last one of those fine people deserves support.

      (As someone who fears being arrested in the near future in relation to support for Palestine, and who has already been raided with many of my files seized, I have a personal interest in saying this!)

      • Squeeth

        Britain and France weren’t democracies in 1939 (Britain still isn’t) they were slave empires who committed most of their atrocities outside Europe, unlike Hitler who committed most of his inside Europe. There might have been other differences between them but I haven’t noticed any.

    • M.J.

      Good article by Patrick Lawrence. Matthew Syed’s looks like straightforward Zionist propaganda saying that Israel is a part of Western civilisation, so the West must support it no matter what. Apartheid South Africa tried the same thing. The antidote may be to point out that the West has moved away from the racism that was part of its colonialism 100 years ago. Therefore, just as apartheid South Africa was forsaken on account of its racist regime, so will Israel be.

      • Goose

        As if their genocide-washing wasn’t bad enough, a macabre consensus has emerged among these columnists, arguing that it’s time to start a full-blown war with Iran to protect Israel’s future. Even if that means escalation and the extermination of tens of millions of Iranians. This is why I stated, Zionism is a mental illness, in some.
        They have this ‘eternal victim’ mentality, coupled with a persecution complex the size of Mount Everest. Some of these people see a Hitler around every street corner e.g. Simon Heffer, of the Times, Mail and Telegraph. His grave claim on LBC that Corbyn, if PM, would seek to reopen Auschwitz made even fellow Zionist, Iain Dale, ask, “you’re not serious, are you?” He was deadly serious.

        They’re completely mad.

    • David Warriston

      ‘It is the steel we need…’ – an ominous metaphor from Sayed, one that echoes Himmler’s exhortations to show mettle following a visit to some concentration camp in the mid 1940s. Himmler’s sympathies lay entirely with the executioners who found their work difficult – he acknowledged such work must be – but he insisted that they see the business through to the end.

  • Harry Law

    Mr Murray in a comment up thread plans on attending a case at the Old Bailey where a member of ‘Palestinian action’ has been charged with criminal damage and breaching the Terrorism Act 2000, section 12. here…
     A person commits an offence if the person—
     (a) expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation
    It is important for any lawyers representing the accused to preface any defence by not believing or agreeing with United Nations resolution 3246 November 29th [1974] which….
    “Affirms the legitimacy of armed resistance by oppressed peoples in pursuit of the right to self determination, and condemns governments which do not support that right”.
    It is also important for them to reject the recent ICJ ruling that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide, also they should reject the ICC arrest warrants sought by the Prosecutor for Netanyahu and his Defence Secretary for grave war crimes, because they are obviously Anti Semitic. They must also reject the ICJ opinion that everyone has the moral and legal duty to attempt to stop this Genocide which according to the Lancet Medical Journal is 200,000 dead and counting. Failure to preface their clients defence with the above could see the lawyers themselves facing 14 years in prison. You could not make this up.

  • Goose

    More on why Al Jazeera has disappeared from Freeview:

    “The shake-up is a result of an expiring Digital Terrestrial carriage deal between Al Jazeera’s English channel and @FreeviewTV multiplex operator Arqiva.”

    Maybe all legit, but the timing seems incredibly sus to me with Israel’s expansionism going into overdrive. Throughout the ages, UK elites have always sought to censor and stymie that which they disapprove.

    On which…

    Boris Johnson has reemerged like a bad smell; he’s arguing, not only should the European Convention on Human Rights be removed from UK law, but that we should – uniquely among western states – leave the Convention, and by extension the Strasboug Court’s jurisdiction altogether. Other Tory candidates are in agreement.

    This is so ridiculous, where to begin. Raab, and then Gove remember, worked on the Tories’ much ballyhooed replacement for the ECHR: a British Bill of Rights that, we were told was coming. But apparently they couldn’t agree on what rights the lowly plebs i.e. us, should have; hence progress stalled and they basically gave up. They were also worried about UK judges feeling more empowered to uphold ‘British rights’, rights that originated from the British parliament. These Tory elitists are always only looking out for fellow elites, they will never see UK citizens as equals, worthy of immutable rights. They seemingly now want to dump the ECHR and have nothing in its place.

    • Steve Hayes

      There are of course carriage deals between every broadcaster on Freeview and the multiplex operator and I’m sure they all expire from time to time and need renewing. Funny that it should be Al Jazeera…

    • Brian Red

      IF the international situation changes to a state of big war that’s an order or two of magnitude bigger than the current Russo-Ukrainian war,

      THEN many people’s experience of things like what they can or can’t do on the internet, with their bank, on the streets, in the area of putting food in their mouths, how things work with medicine and schools, etc., will CHANGE and it will change FAST. Many won’t know what hit them. And inside the new normal, things will change fast too. There will be shocks.

      Incidentally Israel sells surveillance equipment to ALL leading countries in the world, including Russia and China.

      • David Warriston

        Much of the groundwork for this dystopia has already been done. The mobile phone/internet has made it less necessary to venture out into the streets. Working from home has been pushed as a positive in bourgeois newspapers as a breakthrough in work/life balance. Attending any entertainment venue – even a game of football – now requires a ticket most of the time. Pubs are closing at the rate of over a dozen a week in the UK.

        So rather like the caricature of cold war films where the eastern bloc policeman says ‘Show me your papers, comrade’, we can now be asked when out in public ‘Show me your ticket, chum.’ Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Pedestrian’ warned of this back in the early 1950s.

  • Republicofscotland

    Justice for Assange looks unlikely – the US makes up its own rules as it goes – to protect itself against any rightful justice against it. It’s not just Assange that was/is caught up in US machinations surrounding US laws.

    https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/03/deal-or-no-deal/

    “Though he is now free, Assange has not, it is important to note, received justice and most likely never will: A victim of outrageous abuses of state power, the crimes against him have not even been acknowledged by their perpetrators. Instead, to escape further persecution he was forced through a plea deal to pretend to recognize his own non-existent guilt. As he put it in Strasbourg – clearly with ironic reference to the title of a famous Soviet dissident’s memoir – he “chose freedom over unrealizable justice.”

    What the Assange saga says about the state of the American empire
    Read more What the Assange saga says about the state of the American empire
    Justice for him “is now precluded” in the future, too, because Washington has written into the plea deal that he “cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act request” in the US. So much, again, for the rule of law in the “rules-based order”: Perverted to the last moment and beyond. This extremely murky outcome also means, again in Assange’s own words, that he is “not free today because the system worked,” but because he pleaded guilty to, in effect, journalism, which is, of course, simply not a crime.”

    • Goose

      Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange,…so suppose there’s that to be thankful for.

      Like living in a real life version of TV show, the Sopranos.

      • Republicofscotland

        Like the Zionists – the Yanks think they can get away with just about anything – sadly they can and do – there’ll be no justice for Assange; like Gitmo in Cuba, the Yanks again managed to steal the largest of the Chagos Islands – Diego Garcia, which houses a secret military base and probably a torture chamber to boot.

        • Stevie Boy

          I believe, the hegemon only ever, in theory, rented their base on Diego Garcia from the UK. It has been extensively used as a black site for renditions. Another case of the UKs complicity.

          • Brian Red

            @Stevie – Yes indeed. And the idiot feed that is the British media product is focusing on “Will Starmer give the Falklands and Gibraltar to the foreigners too?”

            The Foreign Office really stitched Starmer up on this one.

  • Republicofscotland

    The penny, drops down the slot a wee bit – for some EU diplomats – though I’d imagine that Europe – would need to be ablaze, before the penny drops for the rest of them – and for the European Atlanticists (turncoats) – no amount of damage to Europe, could justify, dumping the US and Israel – for the benefit of their own citizens.

    “One European diplomat told the Financial Times that Israel has been asked to stop short of attacking Iran’s oil or nuclear infrastructure but has given no guarantees that it would meet that request.

    Another senior EU diplomat also told the outlet that it is “depressing to see how little influence we have on these events” and that it “injects some pessimism, some fatalism into our discussions on it.””

    https://www.rt.com/news/605255-eu-israel-no-influence/

    • Pears Morgaine

      I’d have thought if the CIA really wanted to kill Julian they’d have had ample opportunity whilst he was in Belmarsh. Plenty of bad guys in there who’d have done the deed for enough cash; and that’s just the screws…

      • Goose

        A piece in the Guardian explains what happened when, and why: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-officials-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange

        “The then CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his top officials were furious about WikiLeaks’ publication of “Vault 7”, a set of CIA hacking tools, a breach which the agency deemed to be the biggest data loss in its history.”

        The ‘fury’ part is understandable. These ‘zero day’ exploits are often expensively purchased and/or take thousands of man hours to develop, so leaking them may have compromised operations, limited planned future operations and created opportunities for hostile nations. I suppose it’s akin to a workman being robbed of his toolkit; a toolkit so unique there is only one in the world. Whether agencies like the CIA, MI6, GCHQ, NSA should be hoarding such a treasure trove of zero day exploits, is a different question altogether. WikiLeaks believes they shouldn’t, hence why Pompeo described them as acting like a “hostile intelligence service”.

        Does any of this justify wanting to kidnap and kill Assange? No way, in my opinion. Besides, Assange had been stuck in the embassy since June 2012. Utimately, leakers tend to contact WikiLeaks not vice versa. And what leaks from any given intel agency, is solely an internal matter for that agency.

        • Goose

          What I’m trying to say in that last sentence, is personally, I don’t think a free press should be under any obligation to act as a firewall for official secrets with criminal threats hanging over investigative reporters who wish to publish factual information which is of public interest.

          If some intel agency has a problem with leaks, then whose fault is that ? Some journo, who is handed sensitive top Secret information, or the Director General of the leaky agency? This is what has been wrong with the recent moves and legislation; it attempts to switch responsibility to the press for what are essentially govt failings.
          Throughout our history of having a ‘free press’ – and certainly America’s- acting as a firewall for the elite and their secrets, has never been the role of a free press. This is why I think Pompeo ,was and is in the wrong. If anything, he should have resigned.

        • Stevie Boy

          The reality, IMO, is that none of the western countries are, in theory, at war with anyone, so there is no justification to be spying on anyone. Maybe that’s naive but spying in a time of ‘peace’ is an offensive action. The actions of the likes of the CIA/MI6 are nothing to do with national security and are all concerned with creating conflict and feeding the MIC. They deserve to be exposed.

          • David Warriston

            Under capitalism we are always at war of some kind. There are different levels of course: international competitors; hostile states; enemies.

            The problem with capitalism is that at some point you run out of either rockets or soldiers and have to agree some (temporary) peace deal. Before staring all over again once the musical chairs have been re-arranged.

          • Goose

            Those who wrote the US constitution, understood the central role of a free press. In any healthy democracy ‘the press’ however defined in a digital era, should be govts and the intel agencies’ equals. For if govts and the intel agencies can dictate what stories are published, what is to limit their crimes and corruption?

            It’s very specific: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”

            The print media era is obviously largely over now, and what we call the ‘corporate media’ or mainstream media, is full of compromised individuals who are rightly held in low public esteem for their lack of curiosity and their obsequiousness around the powerful. Through corporate media consolidation, the elite have completely taken control of that which is published.

  • Jack

    Israel allegedly killed the new leader of Hezbollah almost on the hour(?) one week back when they killed Nasrallah. Very sinister and calculating move by Israel but after all they are psychopaths so what to expect. It seems that after the iranian attack Israel got so mad that they took out their sheer rabid hatred on Lebanon.

    When is enough enough? Just last week, in 1 single day Israel almost murdered 500 lebanese. 500, in 1 day.
    Israeli strikes kill 492 in Lebanon’s deadliest day of conflict since 2006
    https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-lebanon-hezbollah-e3ca9c83642056f962fdf76319e3b8de

    Is there really no nations in this world that will rise up, ever, they will sit through all this human carnage, this industrial killing? No former presidents, PMs etc that will group, unite speaking out, speaking the truth and saying enough is enough Israel?!
    Instead I see the rotten G7 condemning… Iran!? Get F out of here.

    Post-nazi/fascist era people could argue that ‘they did not know’, there was no 24/7 live coverage back then. Today there is, and people with power still refuse to act. Sickening. Absolute sickening.

    • Brian Red

      This is one reason why things like not shopping at Marks and Spencer, not buying Hewlett Packard equipment, not buying fruit that comes from Israel, etc., are important – because they help counteract the sick feeling that people who seem to have no power at all can do nothing at all. There’s always something. Once up a time the IWW filled the prisons and won.

      • Brian Red

        Reminder to British journalists:

        1. Israel always “targets”, “launches”, and “strikes”.

        2. The smelly natives fire “rockets”, do lots of “terror”, and wickedly build tunnels. Facilities that “sources connected with them” (never quote any named person) claim to be “schools”, “shelters”, and “hospitals” are really “terror headquarters”.

        3. Make sure you quote Israeli military officials by your third paragraph at the latest, or everything about you will get looked at.

        4. Fancy a free holiday? Get in touch.

  • Brian Red

    Interesting piece in the Washington Post by David Ignatius, the CIA journalist:

    https://archive.is/jbxiG

    If we read past the slurpiness of how he says the assassination of Donald Trump would be a “national disaster”, we see he is suggesting the following scenario:

    1) big talk of supposed Iranian threat to assassinate Trump
    2) Trump gets assassinated
    3) USA launches war against Iran

    Then, crying crocodile tears down his suit, he says let’s remember Franz Ferdinand – oh dear, how sad, what a shame.

    1) is already underway.

    On Ignatius and the CIA, see even his Wickedpedia entry.

    Who knows, we may have cause to remember this article.

  • Goose

    I’m not a religious person, but man, reading this:

    Like Christ, Antichrist will come to Jerusalem, but, as the opposite of Christ, he will be enthusiastically hailed and revered by the Jews. During his reign he will rebuild the Temple and sit on the throne of Solomon in a sacrilegious and hideous inversion of just priesthood and just kingship. He will convert the rulers of the earth to his cause and persecute Christians dreadfully. All those who resist his wiles will be tortured, and—as Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24:21—there will be “great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now.”

    Netanyahu, anyone?

    • M.J.

      I’m no cleric, but here’s my twopence worth.
      Netanyahu is a skilful politician, but no more. An antichrist in my view will be a genius at demagoguery. There is a Christian concept called “types” – people, events or things that providentially prepare the way for someone, particularly the man from Nazareth. Types of an antichrist might be figures like Nero, Mussolini, Hitler or the dictators of North Korea. All these created cults of their personality. The rise of Trump could provide a more recent illustration of what could happen. The Apostle Paul indicated that the misuse of occult power to work apparent miracles will accompany his rise (2 Thessalonians 2:9). Novels like Sinclair Lewis’ It can’t happen here and Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World may well be worth a look.
      However I believe that no man is inevitably fated to be an antichrist. Someone will have to voluntarily make a Faustian pact for that to happen, and so fall to the third temptation, where the man from Nazareth triumphed.

      • Goose

        As I stated, I’m no theologian – nor am I even religious, agnostic, if anything, really.

        But Netanyahu certainly fits the profile; he’s courted all world leaders, getting standing ovations in the US congress, while standing alongside Putin at Kremlin parades. He has the EU (Von der Leyen) and others acting as his apologists. Who else has so many Anglosphere leaders (CAN, UK, NZ , AUS , US) defending him and his cause? Who else has media magnate Murdoch and the American Jewish community revering them, as he has? He also wants ALL Jerusalem for Israel, and he’s been systematically depriving Muslim residents in East Jerusalem of their property rights, in the furtherance of that aim. He’s attacking Christians in Lebanon, and binding govts to work against their own citizens’ interests, by getting them to designate his enemies as ‘terrorists’, as said govts are talked into doing his bidding via ‘dark deeds’ aimed at Middle East regime change, knowledge of which. he can then exploit as leverage over them e.g. Syria’s murky stuff.

        All in all, were I a theologian, he’d be top of the list, based on scripture interpretation and criteria. I don’t know, but I’d wager he’s been lobbying the US in recent days for precipitous action against Iran, action that could easily spiral into a nuclear war that could kill millions. If not the antichrist, he’s an extremely dangerous person.

    • Jack

      Somewhat related:

      Benjamin Netanyahu was told by a powerful Jewish religious figure that he would be Israel’s last leader and hand the sceptre to the Messiah.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeWVgNGeAA

      Time and time again muslims are framed as religious fanatics but when Netanyahu openly recite scriptures of killing the Amalek etc there is hardly even reporting on the matter in the western press.
      When one break it down, what is the difference between ISIS and Israel? Same type of ideology and religiously-based terror.

  • Stevie Boy

    The missiles are getting through.
    https://www.nhpr.org/2024-10-04/satellite-images-show-dozens-of-iranian-missiles-struck-near-israeli-air-base
    And.
    Sputnik’s Michelle Witte also noted that the US has a law that dates back to the 1990s which restricts the quality of commercial satellite imagery that US companies can sell if they depict Israel and Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. An unusually specific restriction, she added, that seems to give Israel a special level of protection other countries do not receive from the US.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20241005/the-myth-of-america-is-over-us-israel-reportedly-downplay-level-of-destruction-by-iran-1120418436.html

    • Goose

      The US are, we are told, in direct contact with Israel, helping plan their ‘retaliation’. That’s retaliation in inverted commas because, quite how it would be Israel’s retaliation when Iran held back over Haniyeh & Nasrallah’s assassinations – the former being in Iran, and in a breach of all international norms of conduct – and multiple other Israeli provocations, i.e. the recent salvo was Iran’s own retaliation albeit deferred.
      A piece in the Guardian notes :
      “Ynet, an Israeli news outlet, has reported that Gen Michael Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command (Centcom), is expected to arrive in Israel within the next day. Joe Biden and his security adviser Sullivan have said they will be in direct consultations with Israel over its military response.”

      The US sponsorship of Netanyahu and specifically, that country’s evil use of US-provided air power and munitions, is 90% of the problem. Iran will surely hit back again if Israel strikes and then at some point Netanyahu will plead to use nuclear weapons on population centers in Iran. Against a non-nuclear-armed foe. It’s oh-so-predictable how this tit-for-tat, strike followed by counterstrike could evolve. The US isn’t constraining or fighting the fire in the ME, they are fanning it – they are directly responsible.

      I really wish Russia would come out fully behind Iran, making it clear that any nuclear weapon use is their red line. If only to raise the ante for Netanyahu. It needs to be clear to this monster that he will lose everything if he goes down that route. The vast majority in the West already have an unfavourable opinion of Israel over Gaza. If they use a nuke, those with unfavourable opinions will turn into sworn enemies.

  • Goose

    Israel ‘preparing response’ to Iran attack as 7 October anniversary looms…

    The planned attacks on Iran may coincide with October 7 the Guardian reports. It’s as if they think this is all some sick marketing exercise aimed at a US audiences and US News networks – helping them sell the Israeli strikes as justified, replete no doubt, with footage from October last year.

    I still find it hard to believe they were completely in the dark about the planning for last year’s October 7: the motorized paraglider training and all the rest. Notoriously, people can ‘t break wind in Gaza without Israel knowing about it; masters of electronic surveillance, even Hezbollah fell victim to their cunning (pagers and walkie-talkies) what chance those stuck in a open-air prison that is Gaza, where Israel control all borders : land, air, sea? Having infiltrated Hamas and previously boasted of having multiple informants too. We’re being asked to suspend our disbelief and accept the slow response on the day was because they knew nothing at all. in advance
    Then there are the deaths on the day; the destroyed vehicles that looked like they’d been hit by hellfire missiles not small arms, the Hannibal Doctrine. Reports of multiple helicopter gunships emptying their ammo.

    The implications are sick, were I an Israeli coming up to Oct 7 again, I’d want definitive answers that are thus far, not forthcoming.

    • Allan Howard

      Yep, there’s a lotta people who believe BN and Co knew an attack was coming and let it go ahead, and they are right of course. Even Frank Gardner – in an article posted on October 7th – found it inconceivable that Israel didn’t know well in advance that Hamas were planning an attack:

      How did Israeli intelligence fail to stop major attack from Gaza?

      With the combined efforts of Shin Bet, Israeli domestic intelligence, Mossad, its external spy agency and all the assets of the Israel Defense Forces, it is frankly astounding that nobody saw this coming.

      Or if they did, they failed to act on it.

      Israel has arguably the most extensive and well-funded intelligence services in the Middle East.

      It has informants and agents inside Palestinian militant groups, as well as in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.

      It has, in the past, carried out precisely timed assassinations of militant leaders, knowing all their movements intimately…..

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67040221

      • Allan Howard

        It’s tragic beyond words that Egypt only thought to put it in the public domain that they warned Israel ‘something big’ is about to happen AFTER it happened, and not BEFORE it happened. Surely it must have occured to them that the reason BN and Co were ignoring their warnings is because BN and his fascist buddies wanted it to happen. And for a number of glaringly obvious reasons.

        • Goose

          Allan Howard

          In the Spycops scandal trial in the UK, it was revealed that some of the most zealous within the various organisations put under surveillance, were undercover officers; their zeal for committing criminal acts unconfined, by the knowledge they themselves could never face prosecution. Freddie Scappaticci, codename : Stakeknife (FRU), was the British Army’s “golden egg” within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) remember. Those unburdened by the normal fears within such organisations rise high obviously, because their confidence marks them out as natural leaders.

          Pure conjecture here : but what’s to say something similar didn’t happen within Hamas; with the key instigator, planner behind October 7 being an IDF asset? On the day, he enters Israel, never returning to Gaza – presumed dead, resumes his life in Israel. Israel has no shortage of Arab speakers.

          • Goose

            I’ve no knowledge whether such events occurred, it’s merely conjecture. I find it very hard to believe Hamas’ leadership weren’t compromised at the highest levels, given Israel and the US’s resources and the time they’ve had in which to carry it out.

            And the Oct 7 attack was clearly disastrous for ordinary Gazans; it wouldn’t have taken much intuition or foresight, to realise how Netanyahu and his religious extremist cabinet would respond and how they’d use Oct 7 to justify ethnic cleansing and a land grab. The actual results though, have shocked the whole world : the heaviest sustained bombardment of a defenceless civilian population in human history. Hope the arms suppliers : the US, are proud of themselves. Bravo! slow handclap.

          • Allan Howard

            ‘…. but what’s to say something similar didn’t happen within Hamas; with the key instigator, planner behind October 7 being an IDF asset?’

            Yes Goose, the same thought occured to me a long time ago. And something else occured to me shortly after I posted my replies to you above, which hadn’t occured to me before – ie that if Egypt had discerned that Hamas were planning a big attack, it’s inconceivable that ‘Israel’ themselves hadn’t done so.

            And something else occured to me at the time as a consequence of this (the following passage is from a TImes of Israel article on October 9th):

            In one of the said warnings, Egypt’s Intelligence Minister General Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu only 10 days before the massive attack that Gazans were likely to do “something unusual, a terrible operation,” according to the Ynet news site.

            Unnamed Egyptian officials told the site they were shocked by Netanyahu’s indifference to the news and said the premier told the minister the military was “submerged” in troubles in the West Bank.

            And what occured to me is this: That BN and his fascist buddies et al (incluing Biden and Blinken and Co) knew long before the attack was due to happen that Hamas was planning and training for a big attack, and so they fomented incidents in the West Bank so as to warrant a large contingent of the IDF being there in the West Bank when the attack happened, thus having a ‘legitimate’ reason for leaving the border area relatively unprotected when the attack happened.

            https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/

          • Allan Howard

            The follwing article is from July 6th, 2023:

            This year is now the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank in almost 20 years

            Islamic Relief is calling on the Israeli government to immediately end the escalation of violence against civilians in the West Bank, with this year now the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank in almost 20 years.

            Halfway through 2023 at least 156 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli action in the West Bank – more than in the whole of 2021 and the highest yearly total since the end of the second Intifada in 2004.

            https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/year-now-deadliest-palestinians-west-bank-almost-20-years

            And this, from August 22nd, 2023:

            More than 200 Palestinians, nearly 30 Israelis killed so far this year: UN

            UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland says deaths from violence so far this year are the highest recorded in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians since 2005.

            https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/22/more-than-200-palestinians-nearly-30-israelis-killed-so-far-this-year-un

            And this, on September 18th, 2023:

            2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank

            RAMALLAH, 18 Sept 2023 – At least 38 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank so far in 2023, making it the deadliest year since records began, said Save the Children.

            This horrific record was reached this month after the deaths of two 16-year-old boys on two separate occasions1.

            On average, it equates to more than one Palestinian child killed per week. At least six Israeli children have also been killed this year.

            As the second consecutive year for record numbers of child fatalities in the West Bank, this highlights the worsening situation for children’s safety across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

            https://legacy.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-year-record-children-occupied-west-bank
            __________________________

            The Save the Children article then goes on to say this:

            A Palestinian child interviewed by Save the Children last year was one of the children killed this month. His words are a haunting reminder of the fears Palestinian children face on a regular basis, and his death drives home the reality of those risks. Yousef* said:

            “My dream is to be able to look at anything on my way to school, like birds and greenery. I want to see the things I always imagine. I don’t want to smell gas or see soldiers everywhere. I don’t want to be scared to go outside. I don’t want my mother to be scared that I might get hurt or roam the streets looking for me, fearing I was hurt by Israeli soldiers.”

            Oh, right, but they’re all human animals!

          • Goose

            Well, if so, it wouldn’t be the first time in history some were sacrificed for a perceived greater cause.

            Max Blumenthal has produced a documentary, to be released, fittingly, on October 7 : https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1842593155407110527

            This October 7, I’ll premier a documentary that rips the cover off the cynical hoaxes and media deceptions Israel spread to justify its genocidal rampage

            Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells its Destruction of Gaza

            Should be worth checking out.

            Of course, if Western states helped, in any way, they’ll never admit it and the press will never report it. These things are limited to five or so people and it’s strictly need to know only, because of the gravity. None would ever break ranks. Look how the Nord Stream story went nowhere.

            This also goes back to the need for a free press, talked about above. Without one, you get elites having total impunity to do truly unconscionable acts.

          • Goose

            Allan Howard

            Speaking of coincidences. The removal from the political scene of Imran Khan may be related to clearing the decks of Rumsfeld’s so-called “unknown unknowns”.

            Do you remember how the State Dept assesses such risks and plans long in advance: “known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.” Well, nuclear armed Pakistan’s involvement would’ve been a big ??? I’m not saying Pakistan would’ve come in behind Iran, though they did have far closer defence cooperation under Khan than they have now. What is certain, is that Khan would’ve been more outspoken over Gaza and street protests would’ve been allowed.Making Pakistan very volatile. Think about it, have the UK/ US effectively neutralised Pakistan for Israel?

            I honestly think it’s possible a war with Iran was always the aim, all planned for the Zionists, and I fear Iran is heading into a trap.

          • Goose

            Sometimes weird world events only make sense with hindsight.

            The US State Dept, CIA, and in a UK context, FCDO, MI6 have way, way too much unaccountable power, as Robert Kennedy Jr says.

  • M.J.

    FYI:
    The 2nd edition of Avigail Abarbanel’s Beyond Tribal Loyalties has a 2018 preface which is excellent resource material. As is the whole book, of course.
    In this preface she mentions the 2013 film Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad, starring Adam Bakri) about how Israel operates in the West Bank, which can be highly recommended, and in fact it has won prizes at various film festivals including Cannes and was even nominated for an Oscar.

  • Jack

    And now Netanyahu blast Macron publicly:
    Netanyahu Says ‘Shame’ On Macron For Urging Halt To Arms Supply To Israel
    https://www.barrons.com/news/netanyahu-says-shame-on-macron-for-urging-halt-to-arms-supply-to-israel-804404ed

    So much the west do for Israel but the israelis are never satisfied, always demand more, always demand full, total support. What a spoiled and greedy regime. If western leaders had any courage they would step up against this Hitler-like man. He will not stop and he he have no qualms about dragging the whole world into a world war if it somehow fits him personally. We are dealing with a narcissistic psycho.
    But again, Israel do not care for the west, they only care for their own ultra-nationalistic regime and their own race. Just like Hitler.
    Remember David Ben-Gurion’s saying:: “it does not matter what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.”

    • Brian Red

      Israel’s press is subject to permanent military censorship.
      Mind you, so is Britain’s, but it’s not called that.
      And non-military oversight too, e.g. no MSM outfit will ask whether Nicola Sturgeon’s marriage is real or fake, even though the whole political class know it’s fake.
      For a current example, no MSM outfit is asking why Sue Gray really resigned. I’m guessing she has been important in leaking the material about Starmer taking bribes. Oops, I mean “accepting donations”.

      It’s as if administrations in Britain, France, the USA, and probably soon Germany, are being pushed to a place where a little bit of extra pressure applied without prior warning by certain interests, at the point where certain interests know how to apply it, would bring any of these administrations down in about 1-2 days flat.

      That’s power.

  • Alyson

    Asa Winstanley has published a detailed timeline of events on October 7th last year, in the Electronic Intifada. The Hamas attack on the IDF barracks was long planned. The Rave Festival’s location was only provided to ticket holders the day before the event. Roadblocks for fleeing soldiers caught fleeing festival goers. The IDF fired a tank on all the vehicles and called in a helicopter gunship which incinerated everyone in range. The hostages were to raise the profile globally of the onslaught on Palestinian civilians and most didn’t get as far as the border but were destroyed on route. Some were captured soldiers who were shot escaping. Some were shot by IDF soldiers after being rescued. Some were killed in air strikes on civilians in Gaza, and some are still with families who are keeping them alive. The child that died was hit by a bullet through a door which ricocheted off a wall when hostages were being taken. If you can download the long article it also includes some videos but my computer strongly objected to me downloading it all and shut down multiple times. I have only read bits of it but it seems to have been meticulously collated.

  • Jack

    Some chutzpah alright:
    Photo of the IDF is using the Irish peacekeepers as human shields.
    https://preview.redd.it/the-idf-is-using-the-irish-peacekeepers-as-human-shields-v0-wudan12j7itd1.png?auto=webp&s=f1e865d90e625b61777ce7006d0dd409b61b11f6

    Israel have zero respect for anyone but themselves. West somehow believe that Israel is “only” against the “arabs” “iranians”, oh no, they are against the west as much. They want all aid by the west they could get, but other than that, west means nothing to Israel.
    This particular move by Israel, against Ireland, of course comes after Ireland being one of the more critical of states in the west, that is how immature they are.

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