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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In an op-ed published in The Spectator on Saturday – ex-UK PM Boris Johnson said that – its over for Russia – and that Ukraine will have Nato membership – and a trillion dollars to rebuild. Johnson added that we must abandon – any idea of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Johnson – is also for allowing the Neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine – to use Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles – to strike deep into Russia.
Lammy, it can be inferred, thinks so too. What a dangerous, war-mongering idiot that man is.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/lammy-urges-fortitude-over-ukraine-using-storm-shadow-missiles-in-russia
Lammy is certainly an idiotic warmonger. The concept of initiating a possible nuclear war hasn’t entered his tiny mind.
Lammy is a moron. He won’t be causing the Foreign Office or the Ascendancy any trouble at all.
His famous appearance on British regime media’s Mastermind show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsR4Nx-ELgc
SOAS then Harvard.
Johnson is utterly and totally unhinged over this. His nearest competitor to play Dr Strangelove is Senator Lindsey Graham, though there are a few other equally potty people that might audition for the part.
He is a puppet of the US – always has been, hence Brexit too.
Lol, they’ve been saying that for two plus years.
Johnson is a bloated, bloviating, fleshbag of flatulance and an utter charlatan. Who cares what he says?
Brass tacks: The West doesn’t have a trillion dollars to spare, their fancy wizz-bag wunderwaffen, have failed time & again.
The Ukrainian army is losing on the battlefield, and the Russian military & MIC is bigger than it was two years ago.
NATO for it’s part had two years to mobilize and/or intervene, they haven’t done it, because they can’t.
No peace-deal on terms the Kremlin finds acceptable. Probably means the end of Ukraine at this point.
If you want to know what Putin thinks, listen to what he says. We have become so used to our politicians lying that the idea of an honest adversary just seems far fetched. Ukraine had a coup. The democratically elected president left. The new government banned the Russian language, cut off funding to the eastern regions, which are Russian speaking and supported the Azov Brigade to shell the regions with impunity. Russia tried to get an agreement based on Minsk 3 to end this. Russia provided infrastructure funding for pensions and schools. Eventually the regions voted for independence and to secede from Ukraine and Russia came to help them secure their borders against the shelling from Ukraine. The people in these regions have been hammered from both sides fighting across their countryside. A lasting peace would withdraw Ukraine from these independent regions which could be a buffer between Ukraine and Russia and would keep the Russian speaking peoples of the Donbass safe.
But the US wants control of Russia’s oil and gas and so ‘regrets the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people’ but has no intention of showing any human decency or respect for international trade. The hegemon will not be diverted from its intent, any more than Netanyahu will pause the annihilation of its surprised and disappointed neighbours, and Smotrich will encourage depravity and horror by removing all Palestinian rights to own or sell property for those areas in the West Bank which are still home to Palestinian towns and villages.
We are deeply shocked that our political leaders have no moral integrity.
“Servant of the People” was predominantly in the Russian language until long after the Donetsk and Luhansk regions seceded in 2014.
They could borrow the trillion, kill half of us, and enslave the other half to produce enough value so they can pay back the lenders.
…A plan comes together?
But why the delay in showing Russia a bit of Kenny Everett treatment?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2oisrDclc
Absolutely love that graph. Does it show the number of rockets fired indiscrimately over the border?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-bans-words-genocide-and-apartheid-conference-literature-amid-protests
A totally Zionist controlled UK Labour Party Conference it seems.
Zionist controlled for whom?
That’s a very good question.
I suspect the answer lies with US oil interests over the years and in the future. The future being fought over here of course.
If there was no oil there, the US (and many others, to be fair) would not be the least bit interested. And the protection of Jewish people would hardly be mentioned.
Kissinger wasn’t interested in Bangladesh – yet George Harrison was. One non-human – one very much a human being.
Put simply – if there was nothing there for the US, they wouldn’t be there.
Contrary to popular opinion there are a few places where the US isn’t.
It is easy to prove that is completely wrong. For decades, the pro-Arab US oil interests fought against the militaristic “pro-Israel” forces. Big Oil lost.
Mearsheimer & Walt gave an accurate picture of this. Noam Chomsky gave an incoherent one, based on no evidence whatsoever, that the US used Israel as its regional proxy. The reverse is the scarier truth: the most insane elements of Israel usually win and manipulate the most deranged US politicians, who also usually win.
They will stay in control either way. Both main candidates for President are bought (and the Congress.)
Chomsky is full of it. Where are the equivalents to AIPAC, CPMAJO, the ADL, and Hollywood in Zionist-occupied Palestine? Which US, not at all Jewish-owned, company provides security for Israeli nuclear facilities, as the Israeli company Magal does in the US?
Re. insanity, there is some kind of maximum age limit on the red heifer that some zealots want to sacrifice. (This is three or five years according to different brands of zealot.) So if they are to do it with a heifer in the batch brought from Texas, they won’t be waiting indefinitely.
For the US what matters the most is that oil is priced in Dollars. That took on more of an interest when the US went off The Gold Standard.
You could go into the ins and outs of who owns what. The US would not be in that region if there was no oil or gas.
Considering that Israel is armed to the teeth by the US (now maybe, not then) it is the very heavily armed Police Station guarding someone’s interests.
The US does not have friends, only interests. Many times there is a confluence of interests – otherwise why pay Israel big sums of money per year – for what service?
Just out of interest who are Mearsheimer and Walt? Chomsky I know about but not these two.
Mearsheimer and Walt wrote this:
THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (2006).
“Noam Chomsky gave an incoherent one, based on no evidence whatsoever, that the US used Israel as its regional proxy.”
Except for the conduct of the apartheid tyranny….
Lammy speech at Labour conference (Monday 23 Sept) boiled down:
Israel is a victim, Putin and Iran are aggressors.
https://youtu.be/ogu9YiJCh-g
My bad, Lammy’s speech was actually yesterday.
Today Rachel Reeves gave her speech and was heckled from the floor with: “Stop selling arms to Israel”.
Reeves responded: “This is a changed Labour Party. A Labour Party that represents working people, not a party of protest.”
So apparently there’s a new rule in British politics: if you want to represent working people you must also enable and support genocide.
That does seem like Reeves is making a binary distinction between people who work and people who protest.
The Tories have used this tactic all my lifetime by repeating the mantra that trade unionists are not the same as ‘hard working people.’
Notice the ‘useless eaters’ implications in Reeves choice of words. Working class pensioners are no longer ‘working people’ so are presumably of no interest to the present government. Funding the NHS with an ageing population is clearly a problem they intend to deal with by means of a cull.
That is no exaggeration. The government’s own research revealed that at least 4,000 old people would die of cold this winter if they had their Winter Fuel Allowance withdrawn.
Reeves knew that but was very happy to go where even Tories would not.
Yes. And pensioners are more and more having to pay tax on their meagre pensions.
And, labour is fast tracking state euthanasia, so that DNRs can be used to deny care and authorise murder by the NHS.
And, true to type, pub opening hours are being targeted.
And we all thought the tories were despicable scum, welcome to davos socialism.
The heckler looked like part of the theatre. Starmmer didn’t mention that he got less votes than Corbyn did (twice).
Starmmer got 9,706,125
https://ig.ft.com/uk-general-election/2024/results/?constituency=E14001279
Corbyn got 10,292,354 in 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50779901
and 12,877,918 in 2017
Starmmer got a slightly larger percentage of a lower turnout but he won because the conservative vote was split by the Reform Party.
Former PM/FM of France, Dominique de Villepin blast western response to Gaza:
Video: https://x.com/austeni/status/1834447585559347212
Another shameful video from Germany:
WATCH German police chase terrified child carrying Palestinian flag
A video showing officers detaining a small boy during a protest in Berlin has sparked outrage online
https://swentr.site/news/604467-berlin-protest-police-chase-child/
One could easily imagine a black/white video from Germany in the 30s, a jewish boy running around with the Star of David in the streets of Germany, harsassed by the german police.
Absurdly, it seems that the longer the genocide keeps on going, the further away the west keep drifting, becoming more and more insane and more and more pro-israel. Initially they pretended to care about some civilians being killed, they were “concerned” we heard but nowadays they don’t even pretend to care.
“Israel’s TikTok army of child-killers, rapists and lingerie-flaunters
and credit card thieves.
My impression is that Israel’s vassal helper governments in the USA and Britain are being messed about and kept in a state of not knowing how their orders will change from one day to the next. Should they build the floating port? Should they enable the Kiev government to strike Russia using longer range weapons? Will there be an October Surprise in the USA? Will Genocide Starmer’s period in office even be allowed to be longer than his predecessor’s? Etc. It must be such a hard life in the White House, Number 10, the State Department, and the Foreign Office. Tapes can be released. Snipers can snipe. The poor bastards can’t know which way is up.
Meanwhile Israel continues to supply surveillance equipment to all the world’s leading countries. Perhaps the intended market for the message of the terrorist attacks in Lebanon and Syria wasn’t in the Middle East at all.
Beware using the term “occupation” to denote only territories captured in 1967 and not in 1948-49. Some of the latter were not just under occupation but all-out military rule until 1966. The conquerors made widespread use of terror, including by means of biological weapons and carrying out the mass killing of unarmed women, children, and elderly men.
They are going to keep saying ‘victory is at hand’ until Trump gets in and then defeat can be blamed on him.
Hillary Clinton claims that the year of anti-genocide protests and encampments on US college campuses was a paid foreign influence operation with distributed talking points, and that ignorant students were brainwashed by the Chinese mindcontrol algorithm on TikTok into opposing Israel.
https://x.com/FareedZakaria/status/1837921734252527900
(Some have dared to mention that the same stateswoman praised youth protests in Iran and commanded the Iranian government to listen to their rightful protests.)
Thanks, wow this woman is so full of herself, so deep in her own twisted worldview, believing she have the truth. Of course she have not read any report by any human rights organisation proving that the pro-palestinian movments are correct in their accuations against Israel. She seems to have become senile too since she blasted Khadaffi for the exact same crimes Israel now flagrantly commit!
2011:
Clinton cites atrocities by Gaddafi forces: Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, says the US is receiving disturbing reports of new atrocities by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya.
Gaddafi regime militias and mercenaries have fired mortar and artillery rounds into residential areas in Misurata, Clinton said in a statement on Wednesday.
She said that Gaddafi’s forces destroyed food warehouses and cut off water and power to the contested city in an apparent attempt to starve the people into submission.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/4/14/clinton-cites-atrocities-by-gaddafi-forces
But pointing out that Israel fire not only “mortar and artillery” but ballistic missiles into civilian areas in Gaza is to be considered being “one sided”, being brainwashed according to Clinton.
And if cutting off water/power, destroying food was bad in Libya according to Clinton, why on earth does she support the same measure being taken on a way larger scale by Israel in Gaza!?
What a nutcase she became, lead by no morals, no principles and apparently no memory.
She is an unlikely heroine, I agree, but it’s clear she’ll continue to be presented as one by establishment media, come what may.
Well there you have it – Zionist terrorism – I wonder will the West now proscribe the IOF? answer no chance.
It should go without saying – that the CIA IS a terrorist organisation.
What next indeed – must have been the thoughts running through the mind of now deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro, when he was alive – the CIA tried to assassinate him over 600 times, and in many different ways, including exploding cigars, poisoned ice-cream – and exploding lobsters – to name but a few.
“The former US defense secretary and director of the CIA spy agency has acknowledged that Israel’s deadly attack in Lebanon involving the explosion of telecommunication devices is “a form of terrorism.”
“I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism,” Leon Panetta said in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.
“This is going right into the supply chain… And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question, what the hell is next?””
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/23/733811/US-CIA-Panetta-Israel-terrorism-Lebanon
I doubt he’d be so blasé if some turned up on Ebay for sale. potentially bought by unknowing buyers in the US or UK and Europe. How many other devices have they added undetectable explosives to, and then lost track of? Western allies should be demanding full disclosure.
So reckless, releasing thousands of pager and other devices into the wild like that. If a plane in the West is brought down by one, it’d be who’d have thought it.
Goose.
Yes – and it make you wonder whether or not other electronic firms sales – to countries that certain countries see as potential enemies – if the electronic equipment has been intercepted, somewhere along the shipping line – and had a nasty surprise added to it.
that would not surprise me a bit, also if some US politicians are walking around on eggshells, not knowing whether they will get blown up.
Are there any scanners or X-ray machines that can detect explosives? Someone could make a killing…..
Striking admission by the former CIA leader. And of course he is right, this is terror. If Panetta would have develop his view he would likely come to the same conclucion human rights organisation said about the attack:
UN’s human rights council pointed out that:
International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.
It is a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/09/disrespect-for-international-law-a-matter-of-international-peace-and-security-hc
Amnesty: pointed out the indiscriminate terror tactic and that i was a war crime:
Therefore, the attacks were carried out indiscriminately, would be unlawful under international humanitarian law and should be investigated as war crimes.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/09/lebanon-establish-international-investigation-into-deadly-attacks-using-exploding-portable-devices/
>”The West is bound to Israel by the simple, unalloyed mechanism of cash paid to politicians. That is the truth.”
Don’t forget the Blackmail.
It’s the:
Ilegal Apartheid Entity in The Levant
It’s not I****L.
Item 1, that name must be removed from our daily consciousness, as we removed ‘Rhodesia’ and other such calamities upon native populations.
There is no need for a ‘two nations solution. That is a insensible option as much as a chimera created in some mad professor’s laboratory from body parts and alchemy. That Frankeinstein Monster must be dissolved and its body parts returned to where they were taken from.
Item 2 is how that is achieved – by cancellation of the fake ‘contract of flesh’, we, the U.K. proples were tricked into during WW1 by the Bankers of the World. Where we ‘promised’ to Baron Rothschild, land in Palestine that we had no right to except as a invaded territory against the ottomans – the Balfour Declaration must be declared as null and void; as much as the Impetilist claims upon the ‘commonwealth nations’ now largely are.
Colonialism must not stand, regardless of whatever name you want to give it and how many ‘Royals’ we send to parade around their ‘ex-colonies’ as representatives of the hoary old Banker families.
Item 3 – is to clearly identify the Bankers Dynasties.
Name them and their age old crimes stretching back through the centuries when they first embarked upon their conquest of the World using AngloEuropean imperialism as its deluded conquistadors.
Know them and their current and future heirs.
Charge them for their crimes aginst humanity and dispossess them of ALL their wealth, power and LANDS.
Item 4 is the final stage of a future without their banality of tying humanity up with their Magik Money ‘contracts’ – a truth and reconciliation process by the willing servants, the politicians, military, media and cultural propagandists. There are way too many of those to punish. But they certainly should not all be allowed to keep all their illgotten gains.
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I have thought about it for years now as I collect and join the dots of real history – there is no need to attack the meat puppets. The likes of the Great Knight Dope and the now back in the fold, Ziofascist controlled NuLabourInc uniparty.
or all its iterations around the Worlds controlled politicians, throughout Europe, 5 eyes and many other colonial conquested lands.
That is the cape of the bullfighter that we, the demented bulls, the majority of humanity raised to be skewered and killed for their whims, must no longer waste our time attacking! Caught up in their pantomime shows. Elections!
The saving chariot is coming! It is rumbling across the whole horizon, we are being coralled into running from that ‘storm’, as a golden Billion in some Garden.
Our unipolar, bipolar psychosis of smugness as the ONLY people who ‘care’ about life on earth; our fake Wokeness around Transhumanism; our total delusional worship of the neo-religions of Western Cultural hegemony and the proletariats current Opium of the Masses – football, sport watching – that occupies any remaining brain cells of the population of the Collective Waste.
It is not an accident that the Great Knight Dope is shown to be a supporter of that sport as he is of the Horsey Race crowd. Same for every populist who is moulded to have a ‘team’.
For him and all such useful CEOs of the Bankers Top Table’s who are invited to earn their seat through mass murder – the end is nigh.
The dusty horizon heralds the Multipolar majority of humanity, they have finally thrown off their yokes, heading now to our unipolar barricade Garden Wall, to kill the Monster for ever! We are the bad guys, the Nazis, the supremacists… yes we are.
Our masters scream Wolf and run around like chicken little.
All we need to do is to not build a wall , open the gates and invite and join the Multipolar, to storm the castles that we are all ruled from – where the real global robber barons have always hidden inside. Shapeshifting through history.
That is why they are in a complete funk over the SCO, BRICS+, the Global South rising and most of all the emancipation from their Magik Money ‘contracts’. That is why the million dead Ukrainians and the endless suffering of the Palestinians and the MENA peoples.
It’ll be done by mid century. The trials will go on through the rest of this one. They will be erased and remain like a stain upon Human Civilisation, ultimately there will be no one who will want to claim any relation with them.
Rivers to the Seas.
We will finally be Free.
Apparently, the saintly SAS are no longer considered out of control, genocidal maniacs thanks to the machinations of honest Ben Wallace:
“The Overseas Operations Bill had originally proposed British troops be protected from war crimes prosecutions relating to alleged offences more than 10 years ago. But under Sir Ben, the 10-year clause was halved to five years.
…The bill was subsequently amended to exclude war crimes, torture and genocide, alongside rape and sexual violence, from the presumption against prosecution.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ynkdxx9zo
And, if you’re feeling down here is a little video to cheer you up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3275665/Video-Putin-media-envisages-nuclear-strike-London-estimating-850k-deaths.html
Dreaming is not yet regulated.
If Netanyahu wanted to go to war with Hezbollah the pagers would have been the first salvo, the equivalent of an artillery barrage before going over the top, it may well be the IDF advised against the invasion of Lebanon, they remember 2006, hence the corrupted devices were detonated before someone discovered they were boobytrapped.
It’s a bombardment before going over the top and a creeping barrage once the infantry start to move.
And, apparently the good ol’ USA is steaming into the fray. Obviously, not to protect the Lebanese from their mad, attack dogs.
A good time for the Houties to drop a few missiles on Tel Aviv.
However.
“Hezbollah’s military effectiveness hardly seems to have been crippled. Early Sunday morning, its forces fired off some 150 rockets, cruise missiles, and drones into Israel, bombarding areas far south of those they had previously targeted. The very tight Israeli censorship makes it difficult to estimate damage, but it sounds like Israel’s Iron Dome defenses failed to stop many of the projectiles, which inflicted numerous injuries and started large fires” [Unz Review]
“While there will be many pictures of damage and casualties from Lebanon there will only be few reports of Hizbullah hits in Israel. The Israeli government has (again) issued a general directive to all media to refrain from picturing and reporting of any damage. The military censors, which sit in every news room, will make sure that these orders are followed.” [MoA]
“On Sunday [17Sep24], Yemen’s Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, launched what they said was a hypersonic missile at central Israel. It caused fires, triggered air raid sirens, and sent residents running for shelter in the area around Ben Gurion Airport. The Houthis said Israeli defence systems could not take down their missile” [AlJazeera]
Israel is being hammered but we aren’t supposed to know !!
The Guardian is estimating that by the end of 2024 the number of deaths in Gaza will be 335,500.
It thus knows quite well the historic scale of the crime Sir Keir is participating in, but continues to portray him as a good man (especially in comparison with the racist Jeremy Corbyn).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/scientists-death-disease-gaza-polio-vaccinations-israel
“The Lancet medical journal recently published an estimate of deaths in Gaza from several respected scientists, who outline their process of estimation (comparison with similar conflicts) and final numbers. They estimate that about 186,000 total deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza, which is roughly 7.9% of its population, by mid-June 2024. This high number is despite various ceasefire agreements over the past six months. If deaths continue at this rate – about 23,000 a month – there would be an additional 149,500 deaths by the end of the year, some six and half months from the initial mid-June estimate. Using the method, the total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total”.
Don’t you love it when a western state finally condemn Israel they of course manage to frame it like Israel responded to an attack:
“The Spanish government expresses its deep dismay and condemnation of the Israeli bombardment of southern and eastern Lebanon today, which has left hundreds dead, in response to Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel over the weekend,” the Foreign Ministry in Madrid said on Monday evening.
https://swentr.site/news/604528-spain-condemns-israel-lebanon/
…apparently Spain alreadly forgot that the actual response was done by Hezbollah because of Israel’s pager-attack (amongst other provocations)..
The Jewish Chronicle has published the following article:
“Why it’s not OK to laugh at those in who died in the Hezbollah pager attacks“.
When has anyone in the Party of God (“Hezbollah”), the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”), or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) ever laughed at either enemy combatants or civilians whether adults or children being maimed or killed?
Jane Prinsley has already chosen, and keeps on choosing, to be on the side of inhuman barbarity and genocide. Practically every sentence she writes in that article contains hasbara for the genocidalists.
You f*cking can’t have it both ways. Those who support the genocidal side don’t uphold human values. That shouldn’t be difficult to recognise. You don’t need a fancy concept such as “the banality of evil” to manage it.
Who TF needs to be told that human beings getting maimed and killed isn’t funny? Who TF is on the same side as those who think like that? (Prinsley is, and so is everyone who works at or contributes to the Jewish Chronicle.)
US and UK arms companies are making billions, whilst Israel is burning and slaughtering its way towards their next land grab, their next target.
Lebanon is a mere staging post, more dead civilians and more hardship caused for hundreds of thousands.
Who is next? Iran for daring to supply the evil empire Russia with drones and missiles?
And what of Macron’s condemnations of the evil occupiers of Palestine? Will he be sending military assistance, his airfarce, to help Lebanon?
Words and UN sessions will not stop this fascist holding his people and the world to ransom, and those who support his child-murdering runaway from justice actions, should also feel our wrath.
Tell anyone who supports these fascists’ action that they are guilty of setting the whole world alight, that they are not setting examples to their children. They have blood on their hands from helping to rip out the hearts of women and children in Gaza and Lebanon; their children should know that and carry the shame, just as the Zionists shamed the children of those that carried out the Holocaust in WW2.
Amalek will bounce back and revenge will happen one day soon.
They think they are setting examples to their children.
The examples just aren’t ones that anyone should set to their children.
The out of control Zionists who are committing geocide in Gaza – killed 500 people in Lebanon yesterday in airstrikes – 35 of them were children – another 1,600 people were injured in the strikes. The Zionist have no qualms whatsoever, about murdering civilians, in Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon.
Netanyahu and his war criminal filled cabinet, really wants an all-out war with Lebanon – I suppose he’s hoping the likes of Iran will step in, and then the USA will also step in – to aid the Zionist regime. Hezbollah chiefs haven’t taken the bait just yet – though they did strike a military target in Northern Israel.
One wonders how smug, and arrogant Netanyahu would be, if Hezbollah began attacking civilian areas – like the Zionists do – and then claiming that those areas were housing IOF personnel – the Zionists wouldn’t be long in complaining to the UN about it – such is their hypocrisy.
This day has been coming for a long time – its just what the Zionists don’t want – or maybe they do – in order to get the US, and possible Nato countries involved – after-all some of them, are already aiding and abetting in the Zionists genocide in Gaza.
“Major groups forming Iraq’s Islamic Resistance, a coalition of anti-terror fighters, have decided to join Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement to “directly confront” the Israeli regime in case of its ground invasion of Lebanon.
The groups made the decision during a meeting in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, a senior Iraqi resistance official told the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed news outlet.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/23/733852/Iraq-resistance-join-Hezbollah-Israel-ground-invasion-Lebanon
I know that it takes two to tango with all to often a third setting the music.
But from what I see would I be wrong to say that Israel is an absolute scum nation. The indiscriminate seeding of thousands of pagers and walkie talkie radios primed to explode tearing out thousands of eyes of men women and children. Savagery – and then some. Or the air bombing of civilians killing tens of thousands and wreaking utter chaos for millions.
And they said the Nazis were evil hating the Jews. Its an interesting sentiment. But God no less is on the Israeli’s side. Slaughter and spare not their men women children or beasts is the command. If God said that then God and his chosen people are evil, evil evil.
Talking, negotiation and conciliation are or should be the way forward but not it seems so. And the music to the tango now ramps up Uncle Sam send more troops to the 40,000 they have already deployed to protect Israel. Certainly looks like everything is set for a big hoedown as the US describe it.
Good luck to them. Sadly many will perish but maybe, just maybe, the mood music dancers, might get a taste of the misery they are so keen to promote.
And then factor in the Russian conflict. More weapons, more weapons, more weapons, ramp it up, ramp it up. Boris Johnson has just said that if it takes a trillion dollars to defeat Russia then that is the price that will be paid. Of course that disregards the millions who might pay with their lives.
Ah well, tis sadly the price of greatness.
One has to wonder who is funding the evil clown BoJo.
We know that bankrupt Churchill was bailed out by Jewish money to enable WW2. Are they doing the same to enable WW3 ?
Cui bono ?
The Mad Dogs at the Pentagon – have said that the 40,000 US troops in the region West Asia – are now not enough, to defend the Zionist occupying military force in Palestine, known as Israel. US General Pat Ryder – has said more will be deployed to defend the Zionists – though operational details will not be disclosed.
The Yanks think they can send troops to any country they want to – here they are set to defend an illegal occupying force that’s committing genocide – which makes the troops, their generals and the Washington suits complicit in genocide as well. The English government recently signed a UK/Israel defence agreement that needs to be renewed every ten years – however it no longer needs to be renewed every ten years – as the UK government has made it a permanent agreement – no doubt, UK troops will be fighting alongside the Zionists who are committing genocide – we shouldn’t be surprised by this – as the UK government is also propping up a Neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine – with Starmer – committing to giving this vile evil regime, among other things, £3 billion quid a year.
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I do not follow this blogger Dmitry Orlov, I think he is a bit crazy.
(However most peopIe I am reading today I considered crazy two years ago – except Craig Murray!)
But apparently Orlov floated the interesting idea the “pager” terrorist attack could have as well been a US operation directed against Israel´s reputation in order to harm their remaining alliances and thus deter IDF´s lust for a large war – which the US does not want – without telling them into the face.
With friends like these…
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And this is a translation of a German (!) interview with Palestinian journalist Ashira Darwish who had been tortured and has fled to the US to avoid possible recarceration for “hate”(!) speech againt Israel.
“The EU is an accomplice in allowing genocide”
https://archive.is/ZFAoY
She appeared in this documentary:
„Where Olive Trees Weep“ (2024)
https://whereolivetreesweep.com/
(With donation via CC/PP you apparently can watch online. You may donate as much as you can it says.)
I cannot find it on Wiki.
Surprise, surprise.
Conversation with the directors:
https://directorsnotes.com/2024/06/07/zaya-maurizio-benazzos-where-olive-trees-weep/
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I have no contact to people in regional German politics any more. So I do not know what is going on there on the insde.
I however doubt they are unaware of the horror.
For now they have decided to look the other side.
This would have to change though if ICJ were to indict their superiors.
p.s. Andrei Martyanov yesterday stated that Russian natives fighting for IDF and having committed war crimes will face prosecution if they return.
Jeez oh, she really does want to see a huge rise in escalations – between not just Ukraine and Russia – but Europe and Russia – this is madness. It’s as if it’s a game to see who can go the furthest – to push for all-out war with Russia – this mad woman, has a bright future in Brussels or Washington – well she does, until what she calls for comes – to fruition.
“Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has claimed that NATO should take a no-holds-barred policy towards the Ukraine conflict and allow Kiev fire long range missiles deep into Russia.”
There’s been some press recently about the British state trying to strong-arm the Lebanese state and I wonder how the French are taking it, considering that they invented Lebanon, to steal half of Syria’s coast.
Quote from the Guardian:
French officials have requested an emergency UN security council meeting to discuss the situation and called on all sides to avoid a regional conflagration.
China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, expressed support for Lebanon and condemned what he termed “indiscriminate attacks against civilians”, Beijing’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
What’s rather intriguing is the total lack of reaction so far from Iran, when they have every reason to express their support, diplomatically or otherwise.
Awareness of Britain’s outsized and key role in the Gaza Genocide is almost exclusively attributable to the investigative work of Matt Kennard at Declassified UK. His revelations are being entirely ignored by mass media in the UK (and its acolytes).
Now the British media is affecting to offer in-depth analysis on the war between Hezbollah and Israel, but is similarly ignoring the outsized and key British role in the conflict in Lebanon which has been exposed by Kit Klarenberg.
In a thread on X yesterday, Kit reported on his discovery that Britain has been grooming Lebanon’s state security apparatus to help Israel defeat Hezbollah, a conflict London has been preparing for for a long time.
“As we appear to be heading into all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel, worth reflecting on how Beirut’s military, security and intelligence agencies are heavily infiltrated by British assets, personnel and technology. Talk about fifth columnists…”
https://thecradle.co/articles/double-cross-how-lebanons-military-intelligence-spies-for-london
“We are to assume Lebanon’s security apparatus will be working towards defeat for Hezbollah, directed by the British. So the conflict is likely to be as much a civil war as it is a regional conflict. London has been preparing for this for a long time”:
https://thecradle.co/articles/secrecy-shrouds-british-military-actions-in-lebanon
“Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces infiltrated by British contractor Siren, led by veteran Royal Ulster cop Jonathan McIvor. ISF routinely use torture against inmates. So does the Palestinian Authority, also trained by McIvor”:
https://thecradle.co/articles/how-britain-infiltrates-lebanons-internal-security-forces
Kit and Asa Winstanley have also exposed how MI6 trains and arms the Palestinian Authority, ensuring it operates as an obsequious vassal for the Israelis in all matters, and oppresses Palestinians every step of the way:
https://electronicintifada.net/content/revealed-how-british-spies-pull-pas-strings/37646
Leaked documents reveal that MI6 also keeps a very close eye on Palestinian refugees residing in countries neighbouring Israel, including Lebanon. The same MI6 operatives running it were also secretly managing the Syrian “opposition”. Ask yourself why.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/british-spy-palestinian-refugees-leaked-documents/287400/
Usual UK hubris about “outsized role”. No doubt they want people to believe their petty mischief is grander than it truly is.
However remember these key points, the people who buggered up the UK, and are trying to bugger up other countries. Will bugger *that* up too, due to sheer systemic incompetence.
Also Lebanon had plenty of Israeli/US/French/whomever proxies, back in the 1980’s. Israel still lost & had to withdraw, 2006 was an even bigger fiasco.
Unless you’ve seen something I haven’t, they’re refusing to acknowledge any British role whatsoever in the Gaza Genocide or in the Lebanese security state.
The silent complicity includes self-styled “fearless, adversarial” outlets like the Guardian, Independent, Novara and Channel 4 News.
Well there you have it – the UK’s media is salivating like Pavlov’s Dog – on reporting the Zionists bombing campaign in Lebanon – both the BBC and ITV – took great delight in showing us the devastation in residential areas in Lebanon – as if they were somehow covertly boasting about the IOF’s military prowess, any missiles fired in return by Hezbollah, were shot-down by Israeli defences – said the reporter on ITV’s lunchtime news, as if the IOF – were casually swatting flies.
Of course it was only last month that missiles were fired – and hit the Zionist intelligence HQ base of the 8200 Unit – however I don’t recall the BBC or ITV reporting that.
Yes, that was my reaction too. The UK MSM are disgusting. They are liars and propagandists, including all the presenters.
It was the same with the initial pager attack – the Sky News anchor couldn’t keep the smirk of her face, as if it was somehow smart to blow people’s hands off in supermarkets etc. Basically, they are celebrating terrorism.
James.
The UK’s MSM – are willing participants in Whitehall’s propaganda.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/propaganda-material-will-need-to-be-disseminated/
Indeed, RoS, the BBC are probably the worst, with ‘BBC Media Action’ and the World Service covertly pushing Whitehall’s agenda around the world, fomenting unrest and subverting foreign governments.
Things have only got worse since the Iraq war, in terms of censorship, propaganda etc.
PS There are some good speeches at the UN on Al Jazeera, right now.
Keir Starmer headed the CPS at the time (2008) when the first complaints were made to the police against Mohammed Al-Fayed.
The CPS declined to prosecute.
It is claimed that the file never went to Keir Starmer’s desk and therefore he knew nothing about it.
Given the very high profile enjoyed by Al-Fayed, is it really conceivable that Keir Starmer would not have been informed?
I don’t think so.
I think the CPS is being economical with the truth..
And that Keir Starmer was an arsehole even then.
Still on Keir Starmer: according to Wkikpedia,
“Starmer represented Croatia at the genocide hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2014, arguing that Serbia wanted to seize a third of Croatian territory during the 1990s war and eradicate the Croatian population”.
It therefore appears that, 10 years ago, Starmer believed Serbia had been acting with genocidial intent.
Fast forward 10 years and Keir Starmer believes that there are no limits to Israel’s right to defend itself and refuses to condemn Israel for acting with genocidial intent.
One wonders what happened in those 10 years…….
It’s actually worse.
The Serbo-Croatian “Ukraine” was legitimately threatened by the Ustashe style fascism growing in Zagreb at the time. Then got cleansed themselves, due to Milosevic’s treachery and NATO backed death-squads.
So Starmer is in fact consistent in his defence of genocide, so long as the perpetrators are on the “right” side.
He’s a liar and a monster, but not a hypocrite on this.
“He’s a liar and a monster” and a security services asset, and an Israeli fifth columnist.
Let’s not forget his role in the Assange case and his involvement with Saville.
Indeed.
Yet, the black list of Starmer’s sins runs so long one has to stick to the topic at hand for brevity’s sake.
TBH under a different type of state system. He’d happily send real or perceived opponents to camps or mass-graves. It’s his nature, as a banal, boring, drab, cunty, immoral & mean man.
Rather like “Boris” Johnson. He looks and sounds like, what he actually is.
A debauched, vengeful, cowardly snake-oil salesman and a souless yet thin-skinned automaton respectively.
I had figured out long ago that there is no such crime that Israel won’t commit, the collective Joe Biden won’t approve, and the collective Pears Morgaine won’t find an excuse for.
they are still promoting October 7th rape yarns as the justification. (while CCTV video of gang rape by Israeli soldiers circulates the world).
They repeat rape yarns because some pro-Zionists want to believe them and for them they still function as hasbara.