There is literally no act so vile that the UK, US and Germany will not support if perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel.
Yesterday Israel:
- deliberately attacked UN peacekeepers in three separate bases;
- bombed residential central Beirut killing and maiming hundreds;
- abducted, beat up and held an American journalist;
- slaughtered 30 Palestinian refugees in an UNRWA school;
- was found by an official UN Commission Report to be guilty of the crime against humanity of “extermination” in Gaza.
Any single one of these outrages would be roundly condemned if committed by any country at all except Israel, and would lead to repercussions.
But Israel can commit them all in a single day and suffer not one word of obloquy from the leading Western powers (although it does appear that the attack on UN peacekeepers may have snapped Macron’s subservience – whether it’s just a blip remains to be seen).
The UN Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, dated 11 September but released yesterday, is incredibly damning and will be a key document for the ICJ Genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa et al.
It notes 498 Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities in the Gaza strip and – much less known – 500 attacks on healthcare facilities in the West Bank, although individually less severe.
Here are some highlights of the report:
9. Hundreds of medical personnel, including three hospital directors and the head of an orthopaedic department, as well as patients and journalists were arrested by Israeli security forces in Shifa’, Nasr and Awdah hospitals during offensives. In at least two cases, senior medical personnel died in Israeli detention. Reportedly, 128 health workers remain detained by Israeli authorities as at 15 July, including four Palestine Red Crescent Society staff members.
10. As at 15 July, 113 ambulances had been attacked and at least 61 had been damaged. The Commission documented direct attacks on medical convoys operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and non-governmental organizations. Access was also reduced owing to closure of areas by Israeli security forces, delays in coordination of safe routes, checkpoints, searches or destruction of roads.
11. The Commission investigated the 29 January attack in Tall al -Hawa on a Palestinian family and a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance that had been called to their aid. The family consisted of two adults and five children, including 15-year-old Leyan Hamada and 5-year-old Hind Rajab. They were attacked while trying to evacuate in their car. The ambulance, carrying two paramedics, Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, was dispatched after its route had been coordinated with Israeli security forces. It was hit by a tank shell at a distance of some 50m from the family’s car. Hind was still alive at the time that the ambulance was dispatched. The presence of Israeli security forces in the area prevented access. As a result, the family members’ bodies could not be retrieved from their bullet-ridden car until 12 days after the incident. The ambulance was found destroyed nearby, with human remains inside.
I find it impossible to get inside the head of our Zionist politicians. Have they persuaded themselves that somehow these things did not really happen, or have they convinced themselves that this is a price worth paying in some wider scheme of things?
If so, what precisely is that wider scheme of things?
22. According to the Media Office of the de facto authorities in Gaza, more than 500 bodies were found in mass graves located on hospital grounds, including at Shifa’ and Nasr hospitals. Satellite images from 23 April show at least two possible mass graves at Nasr Hospital. The de facto authorities in Gaza have said that several bodies were found undressed and handcuffed, indicating that the victims might have been executed. One witness involved in the exhumation of bodies near Nasr Hospital told the Commission that he had seen bodies with gunshot wounds in the head or neck. Israeli security forces have denied burying bodies in mass graves, although they acknowledged that soldiers searching for the bodies of hostages had exhumed some mass graves.
It is very well worth reading the entire report. It was very hard to extract highlights for you because it is all worth posting. I skip over a huge amount on the devastating consequences of the destruction of medical facilities, and on torture of detainees. But this next really is a must read:
62. The Commission documented more than 20 cases of sexual and gender-based violence against male and female detainees in more than 10 military and Israel Prison Service facilities, in particular in Negev prison and Sde Teiman camp for male detainees and in Damon and Hasharon prisons for female detainees. Sexual violence was used as a means of punishment and intimidation from the moment of arrest and throughout detention, including during interrogations and searches. Acts of sexual violence documented by the Commission were motivated by extreme hatred towards and a desire to dehumanize the Palestinian people.
63. The Commission found that forced nudity, with the aim of degrading and humiliating victims in front of both soldiers and other detainees, was frequently used against male victims, including repeated strip searches; interrogation of detainees while they were naked; forcing detainees to perform certain movements while naked or stripped and, in some cases, also filmed; subjecting detainees to sexual slurs as they were transported naked; forcing naked detainees into a crowded cell together; and forcing stripped and blindfolded detainees to crouch on the ground with their hands tied behind their back.
64. Several male detainees reported that Israeli security forces personnel had beaten, kicked, pulled or squeezed their genitals, often while the detainees were naked. In some cases, Israeli security forces personnel used such objects as metal detectors and batons. One detainee who had been held in the Israeli security forces personnel Negev prison stated that, in November 2023, members of the Keter unit of the Israel Prison Service had forced him to strip and then ordered him to kiss the Israeli flag. When he refused, he was beaten and his genitals were kicked so severely that he vomited and lost consciousness.
65. The Commission also received credible information concerning rape and sexual assault, including the use of an electrical probe to cause burns to the anus and the insertion of objects, such as sticks, broomsticks and vegetables, into the anus. Some of those acts were reportedly filmed by soldiers. In July, nine soldiers were questioned and several arrested for allegedly raping a detainee and causing life-threatening injury at Sde Teiman.
66. The Commission has determined that detainees were routinely subjected to sexual abuse and harassment, and that threats of sexual assault and rape were directed at detainees or their female family members. One detainee held in Sde Teiman reported that female soldiers had forced him and others to make sounds like a sheep, curse the Hamas leadership and the prophet Muhammad, and say, “I am a whore”. Detainees were beaten if they did not comply. In another case, a soldier took off his trousers and pressed his crotch to a detainee’s face, saying: “You are my bitch. Suck my dick.”
67. Female detainees were also subjected to sexual assault and harassment in military and Israel Prison Service facilities, as well as threats to their lives and threats of rape. The sexual harassment included attempts to kiss and touch their breasts. They reported repeated, prolonged and invasive strip-searches, both before and after interrogations. Women were forced to remove all clothes, including the veil, in front of male and female soldiers. They were beaten and harassed while being called “ugly” and had sexual insults, such as “bitch” and “whore”, directed at them. In one case, a female detainee in an Israel Prison Service prison was denied access to her lawyer after she had informed him of rape threats.
68. The Commission received reports from the Palestinian Authority about the rape of two female detainees. It is attempting to verify the information.
69. Female detainees were photographed without their consent and in degrading circumstances, including in their underwear in front of male soldiers. In one case, a detainee was subjected to repeated and invasive strip-searches following her arrest at a police station in northern Israel. She was beaten, verbally abused, dragged by her hair and photographed in front of an Israeli flag. The photos were posted online.
You will recall that a UN inquiry was by contrast unable to confirm any of the allegations of rape by Palestinian resistance on 7 October 2023 – despite the fact that Israelis are obviously much freer than Palestinians to communicate and provide evidence.
The commission does however go on to state that there is credible information that some Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been subject to sexual abuse.
The heart of the conclusions of the Commission’s report is this:
88. The offensive on Gaza since 7 October has resulted in the destruction of the already weak health-care system in the Gaza Strip, with detrimental long-term effects on the civilian population’s rights to health and life. Attacks on health-care facilities are an intrinsic element of the Israeli security forces’ broader assault on Palestinians in Gaza and the physical and demographic infrastructure of Gaza, as well as of efforts to expand the occupation. The actions of Israel violate international humanitarian law and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and they are in stark contravention of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of July 2024 .
89. The Commission finds that Israel has implemented a concerted policy to destroy the health-care system of Gaza. Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of wilful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination. Israeli authorities carried out such acts while tightening the siege of the Gaza Strip, resulting in fuel, food, water, medicines and medical supplies not reaching hospitals, while also drastically reducing permits for patients to leave the territory for medical treatment. The Commission finds that these actions were taken as collective punishment against the Palestinians in Gaza and are part of the ongoing Israeli attack against the Palestinian people that began on
7 October.
I understand that there may be nothing here that you did not already know. But to see it all set out starkly, by a UN Commission which has verified the information, makes it much more difficult for the political class simply to ignore.
I am simply unable to begin to understand, on a personal basis, the politicians who can condone, support and in fact participate in what Israel is doing. It is simply beyond me.
Every time I worry that public interest is faltering and people have become inured to genocide, the Israelis manage to do something still more outrageous. Thankfully social media makes it very hard to hide this.
The political class will never restrain Israel from empathy for the suffering or any sense of moral duty. They may start to do so from a sense of self-preservation.
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My interest is shifting from reports of Israeli atrocities to reports of Palestinian resilience, for example administrative detainees:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/12/israels-mass-detention-of-palestinians-is-aimed-to-break-our-spirit
I am also interested in reports that indicate that Gaza and Lebanon are becoming Israel’s Viet Nam, and that the IDF has failed to destroy Hamas (or Hezbollah):
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/videos
I gather from Youtube videos that while Ilan Pappe respects UK law that makes it illegal to support proscribed organisations, it is his expert academic opinion that such organisations in Palestine should not have been proscribed, since they are resisting occupation. What’s more, the IDF judging by its known actions seems to satisfy the requirements for proscription:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version
Therefore the UK should proscribe the IDF and enact full arms sanctions against Israel, and shouldn’t be taking sides in Palestine at all; the same applies to the USA.
Correction: instead of “taking sides” I should have said “taking the side of the oppressor.”
I can only echo Craig’s thoughts and so many sentiments here. However, it is fairly clear that Israel are getting desperate, and that, rather like toxic individuals in our personal lives who are cornered, have nothing left but to try to incite evil in others to make themselves look better by comparison. The restraint of the UN is absolutely the best response, in my opinion.
These videos are from 4 hours ago, saying that Biden is pulling back from a full scale direct attack on Tehran in favour of sanctions on Iran’s ghost ships (no transponder signals) delivering Iran’s oil around the world. China is its biggest market.
Israel is promising Iran something surprising. The Stuxnet infiltration of Iran’s nuclear development program was perhaps the most audaciously inventive Israeli sabotage imaginable. The PBS documentary was incredible.
The missing MH370 allegations relate to the inventors of remote control technology leaving only a Rothschild as the sole patent holder. Rumours. AI technology has advanced a long way since then and the control mechanisms of the pagers and walkietalkies are hard to comprehend.
That Biden is back-pedalling on his desire for a direct strike would suggest he is happy with the replacement plan. The Hindustan Times has a few video newsreels up today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ClG_il9pfFs
The US has no other option, Netanyahu must be furious, not to worry China [Iran’s best customer] is bound to agree with US sanctions /S
The US are the laughing stocks of the world, wait till they do a runner from Ukraine leaving Europe holding the tar baby.
Will a President Trump accept this change in policy?
President Trump will go golfing and leave anything that requires intelligence to others.
Alex Salmond has died…
Badly treated.
?? Whacked by MI5??
O/T
Breaking****
Alex Salmond dead.
Sad news indeed
R.I.P
Clearly superior to his political contemporaries.
Why did Salmond accept Sturgeon as his successor?
What was his speech in North Macedonia about?
He is said to have died moments after he finished it.
A few outlets are mentioning his final tweet, a 5-parter (sent today) criticising the British government’s attitude towards Scotland.
Not so many are mentioning his second last tweet, a 3-parter (2 Oct) criticising the British government’s support for Israel and referring to international law:
“Starmer’s “we stand with Israel” declaration seems eerily reminiscent of a previous Labour Prime Minister’s open-ended commitment of some 20 years ago to stand with the USA on Iraq “come what may”. (1/3)”
“Is the UK to “stand with Israel” in Gaza, in Lebanon, in flagrant breaches of international law, in tens of thousands of civilian deaths over the last year? In opposition, Starmer qualified such remarks on Israel by immediate reference to international law. (2/3)”
“Britain is the former colonial power and the Middle East is one of the few areas where what is said by the PM actually matters. Would a better policy not be to simply say “we stand to uphold international law and unequivocally back the UN’s pursuit of peace”? (3/3)”
You can read his tweets without opening a Twitter-X account here:
https://nitter.poast.org/AlexSalmond
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/last-picture-alex-salmond-macedonia-33879259
He was speaking at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Forum alongside Alba deputy leader Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
The event on Friday morning was titled ‘Young Leaders for International Cooperation, Cultural Understanding and Peace’.
Goose.
For me Salmond was neutralised – just like Willie McRae, or Robin Cook, who spoke out against the illegal war on Iraq in Westminster and wound up dead later.
Salmond had his day in court coming up, which would probably have done considerable damage to those who tried to stitch him up – and it might also have set back the English government’s ironclad grip on Scottish politics.
Salmond will be a huge loss – as is Iain Lawson. Many Scottish politicians spoke about Scotland in the present – but very few had the historical knowledge that Salmond had.
RoS
I didn’t know about any upcoming court developments?
I remember outside court, after the verdict, he did say that the truth would eventually fully come out. But I just assumed he’d decided to stay silent about those matters, because it’s been so long.
Goose.
On the previous court case: on Salmond being a sex pest, a jury of his peers (with a majority of females on it) found him not guilty. The Scottish Court of Session found that the case against him was biased and tainted, and he was awarded I think it was £510,000 pounds in compensation.
Get this – one of claims is that Salmond did something to a complainer – yet several witnesses testified that the complainer wasn’t even in the building when the supposed crime occurred – and no, none of the complainers have faced any charges such as perjury; all have had lifelong anonymity awarded to them.
The case that was coming up would’ve blown Scottish politics wide open – it has been somewhat held back, due to the ongoing case (three years and counting) of Police Scotland investigating the SNP and some of its high heidyins. The Operation is called Branchform – of which I cannot say too much about, as it’s live.
The jury found him not guilty on 12 charges, and the case not proven on one, RoS.
As you might expect, Wings is not taking the untimely death of his friend particularly well:
https://x.com/WingsScotland/status/1845169202597888007 (Warning: tweet contains very bad language.)
Still no word from Sturgeon’s former chief of staff Liz Lloyd, or Women’s Enterprise Scotland ambassador Jennifer Robertson yet. I’ll keep you posted.
R.I.P. Eck. Condolences to his friends & family, if there’s any reading.
Obviously the recent history is a tragedy for the independence movement too; namely, how Sturgeon and Salmond’s once close working relationship descended into internecine power struggles and petty jealousy.
Without the ongoing power struggle, independence could’ve/should’ve been gotten across the line. I think Craig said, that had the SNP leveraged the Brexit result more – in which Scotland voted to remain- independence would’ve been assured. The SNP fumbled so badly, I don’t really know how they’re going to recreate a similar ‘perfect storm’ opportunity – and that assumes they actually want one? It’s certainly not going to come under someone as dry, dull and dreary as Swinney. The way Sturgeon promised a referendum “no ifs , no buts” then walked away, was bad enough. But the way the party then dropped the policy altogether for some reason , is hard to comprehend. Why aren’t SNP members furious about the betrayal?
This is very sad news. Unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary (for example – a medical report based on an examination carried out by an honest cardiologist saying that the heart was unstable and that a heart attack could have happened at any time) I won’t believe in natural causes.
Very sad news, particularly for his family and scotland.
Was it a natural death, yes. Look at the pictures, he was not healthy. Plus let’s not forget the ‘medical’ events of the last few years …
@Stevie – “Medical” means to do with medics. Using the word to mean health-related is like calling anything to do with learning “teacher stuff”.
It’s true Salmond didn’t look well in those photos. Also he was an overweight drinker, which isn’t good for anyone’s health. But it’s also true he criticised the British government’s support for Israel a few days before he unexpectedly died, minutes after attending an event alongside an Israeli former minister who presumably had bodyguards.
If Britain enters a war against Iran in the next few days, what might Salmond have said? I don’t know. But some may have been in a strong position to form a reliable opinion on that.
Brian. I would have been censored if I had said anything else. Anyway, medics are the ground troops …
Regardless, Salmonds death is very sad. enuff said.
Had missed this news until saw your post earlier at MoA.
Aww
Big Leck!
A braver heart never lived.
Eulogies first.
Justice must follow.
The bbc reporting crocodile tears of his persecutors – makes me think the worst.
It’s sickening.
Did they rally go that far?
To stop the truth
Condolences to CM and the whole Scottish Independence True Believers.
He must be helping family and maybe in situ to help with arrangements.
Best man with his experience of such matters.
I find it astonishing too. I suppose holocaust guilt and islamophobia count for a lot, but even so. The Americans are desperate to keep the upper hand over the Chinese, a struggle they are bound to lose. This would explain their desperate attempt to shore up Israel and to use Israel to dominate the entire region. It is not so much about oil any more, it is about trade. The West is vulnerable to 2 chokepoints, one in the Persian Gulf, controlled by Iran, and one in the Red Sea, which is being attacked from Yemen. As I say, it is desperation and will backfire or could lead to WW 3 eventually.
You can’t use Israel to dominate China. Not geographically relevant.
That’s the point: the crisis over Israel is diverting the US from pivoting to China. The Israelis are only concerned about their own obsessions, not with US geo-strategic interests. Not that militarily confronting China is a useful activity, but that is the stated American aim.
Deepest Condolences to Alex Salmond’s wife and sisters.
Captain, my Captain – who will lead Scotland to independence now?
Gutted!
I don’t know how ‘The West’ can simply stand by and allow this to happen. People criticised the German people for not standing up against the Nazi regime. The world is watching as Israel, of all countries, sets about the extermination of the Palestinians and wages war in the Lebanon.
For me, the leaders of ‘Western’ countries, who are acting against the wishes of the majority of their own electorate – should face whatever charges are appropriate for aiding and abetting Israel.
The German people stood up to the nazis in every democratic election and even in the half-bent election of March 1933. Lots of them also fought the nazis on the streets.
And the reason that parts of “the west” went to war against Nazi Germany in 1939 and at the end of 1941 wasn’t because they had any problem with the Nazi regime. They didn’t oppose the Nazis’ pals in Spain during the 1936-39 war, or indeed at any time afterwards. They let fascism die out in Spain and Portugal rather peacefully in the 1970s. WW2 was a great power war and spheres of influence war in the same way as WW1.
Lots of headlines about the reemergence of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, this from the Telegraph :
The drums of global jihadism are again sounding around the world : experts warn that without a military presence in Iraq, US efforts to contain Isis in Syria are likely to fail.
Find it incredibly strange, how if Assad’s forces, or Russian mercs like Wagner, cross a certain invisible eastern line in the desert, US jets emerge to bomb them back. Yet ISIS merrily exist in those eastern areas right under American noses, and they apparently can’t do anything to prevent their growing strength, if you read the piece?
Al-Qaeda, ISIS (and the white helmets) are kept in a cupboard by the west and brought out when needed. Like Israel these terrorists couldn’t survive without western money, training and support.
Remember that evil bitch Priti Patel visiting ISIS fighters being treated in hospitals in Israel ?
For the benefit of anyone who doesn’t already know, and who may feel a bit intimidated when they read senior journalists’ scribblings about “the complexities of Sunni versus Shia”, here are three cast-iron facts:
1. Daesh (ISIS) is a Sunni organisation whose members believe that all Shia Muslims, whom they do not view as Muslims, should be killed. (This is no exaggeration.)
2. Hamas is a Sunni organisation whose members (like the vast majority of Sunni Muslims) do NOT share that view.
3. The Iranian regime is Shia, as are ~80% of the Iranian population.
The reason I write these words is to give people a handle on the wretched Zionist propaganda, which is pumped into the heads of anyone who is sufficiently ignorant to believe it, that Hamas is basically ISIS under a different name. If they were ISIS, they would tell everyone that ~80% of the Iranian population deserve nothing but death – because that is what ISIS believe.
Iran does not fund ISIS, for reasons that are f*cking obvious to everyone in the whole Middle East and Muslim world.
I hope that is clear.
Thanks Brian.
4. The Judean People’s Front, not to be confused with the People’s Front of Judea !.
While you’re at it, I’ll have a Bag of otters’ noses, then.
Daesh have a very consistent ideology which allows them to chop off heads and rip out livers wherever they choose to go. I had thought they were funded by Saudi but someone who I had expected would know merely replied, yes, I used to think so too.
Alex Salmond was appearing in Ohrid, North Macedonia, alongside Yossi Beilin, Israel’s former minister of religious affairs and deputy foreign minister who was involved in the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo agreement.
See 3rd photo here:
https://news.sky.com/story/former-first-minister-of-scotland-alex-salmond-dies-13232584
Hard to imagine Beilin travelling abroad without protection. He is sometimes portrayed as Mr Peace and Mr Dearly-wants-an-Israeli-Palestinian-confederation, but here he is last October opposing a ceasefire, saying the camp breakout attack was the work of “Isis”, and supporting the Israeli assault:
,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYWYrTZfbE
Presumably Beilin doesn’t appear at public events abroad without serious protection
Macedonia is not too far away from where Craig was staying was he with him by any chance? Haven’t heard from Craig publicly and am worried
Nelson Mandela’s grandson was banned from entering the UK for pro-Palestinian events
The British government has banned the entry of Mandla Mandela, grandson of anti-Apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, ahead of his UK tour in support of Palestinians and condemning Israel’s actions as genocide.
According to reports, the British Consulate in South Africa imposed last-minute visa restrictions, despite none being required during Mandla’s previous visits. Moreover, South African nationals are generally allowed to enter the UK visa-free for up to 90 days for business or tourism.
The British state called his grandfather a “terrorist”.
Now some big-bicepped right wing army and behavioural science turd from the Henry Jackson Society is saying Mandla has shown “support” for Hamas and has “praised” Hezbollah, and “terrorist” this and “terrorist” that. So there’s continuity.
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/staff/andrew-fox/
It could be a powerful gesture if South Africa were to put banners up supporting the Palestinians at South Africa House on Trafalgar Square.
Remarkable stupidity for a Labour government. We already have a number of MPs elected as Gaza protestors at Westminster. I wonder how many that will grow to, at the expense of current Labour MPs, because of this outrage, which will not be forgotten. Marginal Labour MPs should be worried!
But Labour under Genocide Starmer has a majority of ~160 and the next election isn’t expected before 2028-29.
There may be by-elections in marginal Labour seats which will be won by protestors against Israeli genocide and apartheid, signs of things to come.
The danger to Reichsritter Stürmer is not losing his majority in the HoC, but losing his position as leader of the party in power, him and all his fellow Zionists.
It is very clear what is inside the heads of ‘our’ Zionist politicians.
They are what they have always been: racist supremacists who do not regard Arabs as human beings. In fact, they enjoy the carnage. They have no need of denial. This is actually the core truth – the Ur Truth – of the West. The rest of the world has always known this.
Great to see you around again Suhayl, albeit in such desperately awful times. Best wishes and peace to you and your family.
Thanks, Glenn, that’s lovely of you. Hope all’s well with you and yours.
Great to hear from You Suhayl, hope you are well and kicking.
The psychotic behaviour of our leaders following the murderous expansionist role model that is Bibi N. clearly has colonial roots.
Israel’s suffering has resulted in them doing as was done to them. Another example is India, suffering under English colonialism: it’s now fettering right-wing Hindus that despise Muslims, not just in Kashmir, but in most Indian states.
Fascists’ racism has always existed, you are right, but now it has become mainstream, vogue.
The right-wing Christian movements in America are like sponges, sucking up the most rampant use of historic terms such as Amalek and the last battle of Armageddon, from politicians such as Smotrich, who want to add Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt to their Thiefdom of hate against Arabs, Sunnis or Shias.
In Edinburgh soon; be good to have a coffee if time allows. My best to you and yours, take care.
Thanks, ‘nevermind’, I really appreciate it, and if I agree completely.
Are the Irish in Nato?
If so, does Article 5, kick in?
Ireland is not in NATO.
The Nobel peace prize winner of 2024 went to a japanese group of survivors of the atomic bombs, they say that Gaza reminds them of the destruction caused by the atomic bombing of Japan::
Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCm3CStSao8
But it seems like it does not matter what chillng fact one bring to the table. The westerners simply do not care.
Already last year, or matter of fact, a year ago, Israel had already dropped in comparsion 2 nuclear bombs on Gaza:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231103-rights-group-israel-dropped-equivalent-to-2-nuclear-bombs-on-gaza/
Here is a valuable historical resource, written by an anti-Zionist and first Jewish governor general of Australia. Isaac Isaacs’ Palestine: Peace and Prosperity or War and Destruction?:
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-760983744/view?partId=nla.obj-760990749
It might also be titled “The Other Side of Balfour”. Many people think that the Balfour declaration meant one thing only. This book shows that to be far from the truth. It might be a good resource for the dialogue involved in building a post-apartheid Palestine, and be circulated as such.
The ongoing actions of Israel have been the most violent and extreme I can remember in my 73 year life – and their distain for the United Nations of the world never been clearer. Why now? Could it be that the level of debt owed by the nations of the world to the international banking cartels has, since Covid, never been higher, and the influence of Jewish financial circles and families, particularly in North American affairs, correspondingly strengthened? Could that explain the alacrity with which both Sunak and Starmer offered UK support and have since maintained it?
That might be a bit of a racist take, as unintentionally as you’re without doubt making it. It could be as simple as the US wants to control the world’s energy supply – particularly as far as Eurasia is concerned. It – the US – is energy sufficient after all.
Keeping a tight control on said energy supply, and a major conduit in the world’s shipping routes – means having an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the middle east of primary importance to the US empire.
They don’t care about Jews any more than Christianist nationalists do, Zionism is simply a convenience for them.
The US and Britain both declared neutrality during the Six Day War.
The least they could have done, since Israel was clearly the aggressor in that war.
@MykDee – Certainly government indebtedness to moneylenders rose hugely in 2020-21, owing to the fact that most of the real economy was shut down but people were still getting paid.
Journalists and experts were told to write “Don’t worry – it can be paid back over centuries” – i.e. not to bother their little journalistic and expert minds about the implications.
The implications are, though, obvious to anyone who has some brain cells and can remember stuff.
If it only happened to a single country, everyone would realise that a massive “structural readjustment programme” would soon be imposed. The reason? Because the moneylenders want to have their money paid back at interest, and if they don’t get it they’ll seize their debtors’ assets, that’s why. It’s not rocket science.
This will now happen worldwide.
But the Lobby had control of the USA long before 2020.
I said this before and I say this again: There is no such crime that Israel won’t commit, collective Joe Biden won’t turn their blind eye to, and collective Pears Morgaine won’t justify.
Biden was in the dog house for quitting Afghanistan after a mere 20 years.
He has completely redeemed himself with Gaza.
It is now commonplace to hear US pundits say Biden is the best President of their lifetimes.
“Simply no red lines at all”
It is also very clear now that there is absolutely nothing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could do — no death toll high enough, no amount of footage of scattered limbs and dead children — that would dent the establishment orthodoxy that they are fine people. For Western elites, what matters is that Harris is more capable of leading the empire with a facade of decorum on the world stage. It is not the genocide that they oppose, but how it’s packaged.
US special ops flights to Israel from UK’s Cyprus base surge under Starmer. New information could further implicate Labour ministers in war crimes.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/u-s-special-ops-flights-to-israel-from-uks-cyprus-base-surge-under-starmer/
Kamala Harris says Iran is ‘greatest adversary’ of US
Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-iran-is-greatest-adversary-of-us
Sigh. Just like that Iran suddenly became US top “adversary”. This is ridiculous, once again we see how the israei-lobby managed to frame their own enemy as america’s enemy.
It is like we are stuck in the year 2001 and the neocons rule freely with their WMD-hoax/regime-change policies.
The only sane candidate is of course Jill Stein – ‘the people running US foreign policy are morons’
https://x.com/DrJillStein/status/1844857665257922783
If Kamala wins the election Putin won’t even bother to talk to her. He will just ask to speak to her handlers. Her husband and his directors. She is not a leader for facing down strength or deciding policy. Jill Stein probably has an authentic voice and could chair democracy on a wider scale. Priti Patel, likewise, speaks with an authentic voice, unlike the Zionist representatives we have leading the country on both sides of the house.
There are even decent Tories with long-standing respect in their constituencies who could speak with diplomacy and knowledge, if they would please kindly deign to step forward. My vote if I had one would still have gone with Tughendat who is still young and naive enough to be deeply shocked by the reality of the risks facing the country, and has military experience and therefore contacts, but he isn’t Zionist enough for the huntsman’s bugle call. His mother is also impressive as a European High Court judge (Jewish of course – he wouldn’t have been eligible for nomination without impeccable credentials). It would seem we have elected our own equivalents of 1930s Nazis without realising their genocidal intent in lands far away.
Religious nuts are not amenable to humanist values if their priest caste demands otherwise, and this is the time of the prophecies. Baba Vanga was a scary person who died in the 1980s and she said that the last president of the United States would be black, and the one after him would get a disease. Nostradamus mixed up all his quatrains so that people would not be able to easily follow them, but the Infidel is always the villain for France, while the detail around Ukraine is a puzzle to untangle. Netanyahu is acting on the authority of prophecies but I don’t know what these ones are. The Caliphate was something along those lines too but I don’t know what that is either. Anyway these things are matters above my pay grade. As citizens the communities are our province and keeping our decency and humanity is the priority.
Speaking truth is risky. RIP Alex Salmond. Stay safe Craig.
I hope it’s the case that you just know absolutely feck all about Patel and Tugenhat; although that would merely raise the obvious question of why you’ve singled them out as saviours.
That hard pivot sounds like bad news for little Zelly and the Azov boys.
She also has other changes in mind. When asked by the interviewer how she would differ from Genocide Joe, she said she would bring Republicans into her administration. Old cross-the-aisle, consensus Joe simply not close enough to the Republicans for Kamala and today’s Democrats.
Yes what a disgrace, Kamala Harris now get endorsement from Dick Cheney, yesterday she praised John McCain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYITRtI6nvQ
Some 200 George W Bush staffers endorsed her
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-endorsement-bush-mccain-romney-staff/
Why? Because she is a war-hawk and could be easily moved in any direction to the benefit of the neocons.
There’s a strong probability that the vote in the presidential election will be close and that the Trump side will try shenanigans in a few states. They have already started, e.g. in Georgia with the electoral boards. So 6 January 2025 could be quite tasty. Votes in the electoral college have to be okayed by a joint session of (the new) Congress, so Harris may have to rely on having Republican friends.
This is likelier to be a much more hairy situation than in 2021 when both the Supreme Court and Mike Pence told Trump he could do one.
Note
It’s possible Harris will become president before the election. If she does and she wants a Vice President, that appointment would have to be okayed by the Senate, so in that case too she could do with a Republican friend or two. But I suspect what would happen is that the office would remain vacant.
No Jack, she is just using the Republicans and neocons in order to get into power and save America from the Republicans. She’s tricking them.
Once in power she will give the finger to them and to her Zionist and corporate donors and govern based on her values as the daughter of a middle-class family. A fine lady.
Brian Red’ll tell ya…
Where have you been past 4 years? Kamala is part of the current Biden-administration that has certainly not given the finger to Israel.
So you’re saying she’s been lying and therefore we should trust her?
I’m not buying it. I’m voting for Jill Stein. She may not win, but I will have expressed my abhorrence of genocide.
I came here with the latest gossip. Do you know who works for Kamala? Navalny’s daughter Daria!
Made today a small research, screenshoted.
Her Linkedin page says she is employed in Harris for President
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dasha-navalnaya-87ba301aa/details/skills/
https://prnt.sc/WE79yTUbq8Sw
Her skills are confirmed by one single person, a Thomas Lee, the CEO of Cobra Capital
https://prnt.sc/o9Fa2hdu8c42
Mr. Lee on his page ( the URL is funny, it’s Thanos Lee) says about his background
https://prnt.sc/-KpcRaFo6kGo
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rand-corporation/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mckinsey/
One can see McKinsey&Co and RAND Corp. there
Cobra Capital has active link on Linkedin.
https://prnt.sc/5tdChrabrk3a
Their page says they are in New York, 601 Lexington Avenue! It’s a famous skyscraper in Manhattan, must be expensive to rent a room there. 86 people follow Cobra Capital on Linkedin, still the wevsite is truly strange – all the pages are epty, non-existent, also it has no web security certificate. Looks like a landing page.
http://cobracapital.com/
Only 2 members of the CobraCapital are on Linkedin: that Thomas Lee and an unknown investor from Langley. The latter profile is closed, I cannot access it.
https://prnt.sc/20ZpxtfB4XVs
Well, I googled for Lee and Cobra, and got this
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07850935/officers
Cobra Projects Ltd, with Thomas Lee Kneller and their address is 1 Langley Court in UK.
Must be just a coinsedence.
Still, very interesting person this Navalny’s daughter is. Nice connections.
People say she was invited to study at Stanford where her teacher was Michael McFaul (ex-ambassador of US to Russia). He gave an interview to Ksenia Sobchak once, and when asked how Darya got there to study, he answered directly – because of her father’s last name. This is what he said:
“We don’t have ordinary students here, excuse me, please, we don’t have ordinary people from Montana or China, you have to have some special feature to get here.”
Did she receive an endorsement in a seance from Kissinger as well?
Trump V Harris will probably come down to who can carry a Golf Bag round his Florida Course the easiest?
Maybe Donald might get out of his Golf Buggy to give it a go and Kamala’s Golf Bag will have to be Designer.
It is on great issues like this that Great States are enhanced in stature.
Fine speech by Arundhati Roy accepting the PEN Pinter Prize 2024
‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech’
https://thewire.in/rights/palestine-israel-apartheid-arundhati-roy-pen-pinter-prize
Netanyahu keep doubling down against the UN:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw UNIFIL peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, adding that by remaining there they are “providing a human shield to Hezbollah terrorists.”
https://swentr.site/news/605652-netanyahu-guterres-evacuate-peacekeepers/
This is the most absurd of things. UN peace keeping forces are called to remove themselves from the very area they are supposed to protect to keep peace! Like Craig said, these people they have absolute zero red lines and they take pride in that fact; that is the most disgusting part of it.
I would not be surprised if the UN will actually back down claiming “insecurity” for the UN forces.
Israeli forces seem to have used a chemical weapon against UN forces in Lebanon.
The reports of the effects are consistent with zinc chloride.
https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-statement-13-october-2024?utm_source=miragenews&utm_medium=miragenews&utm_campaign=news
“At around 06:40, peacekeepers at the same position reported the firing of several rounds 100 metres (about 110 yards) north, which emitted smoke.
“Despite putting on protective masks, fifteen peacekeepers suffered effects, including skin irritation and gastrointestinal reactions, after the smoke entered the camp,” UNIFIL reported.
The affected peacekeepers are receiving treatment.“
What will it take to get Israel ejected from the UN ?
How long will the world put up with this psychotic regime? If they are free to attack the UN, what the hell is next?
Israeli tanks barge into peacekeeping base – UN
The incident took place after Israel ordered UNIFIL troops to leave southern Lebanon
https://swentr.site/news/605712-israel-tanks-un-peacekeepers/
Not only do israel have zero red lines, the pathetic, bootlicking west let israel do whatever it wants.
Note also that UN did not have the guts to call out the very party that is attacking the UN forces:
In a statement on Monday that did not specifically mention Israel, the 15-member council urged “all parties to respect the safety and security of UNIFIL personnel and premises”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/14/un-security-council-says-unifil-must-be-protected-after-days-of-israeli-attacks
Imagine if Hezbollah not only threatened but actually repeatedly attacked UN peacekeeping forces, imagine the reaciton in the west.
Not to mention why are not the UN forces using force back? What is the purpose of them having weapons if they will not use it when they are deliberately attacked?
“Thankfully social media makes it very hard to hide this.” So Killary laments “But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control and it’s not just the social and psychological effects, it’s real life,”.
They’re trying to get that total control back and it’s our duty to make it as difficult as possible for them and to dump the maximum opprobrium on them as they build the Great Firewall Of The Golden Billion. I always wonder what further horrors we’d know about if the Internet had existed during Vietnam.
So Germany “know” Israel likely commiting genocide…but still want to provide arms to Israel if they just promise Germany the arms will not be used in the…genocide?
Germany asked Israel to sign ‘genocide clause’ – media
“The Israeli government must give the German government a written assurance that arms exports from Germany will not be used for genocide,” Bild said, citing sources in government and defense circles. West Jerusalem reportedly provided the necessary assurances on Thursday.
https://swentr.site/news/605720-germany-asks-israel-genocide-assurance/
But OK, why are Israel simply not signing that genocide clause? Because they are going to use the arms against civilans, because they are commiting genocide.
Disgraceful to see Germany going along with another genocide. They have not learned one thing from their very own history.
…thank you again, Sir,
from one of your many small contributors…..who remains as abhorred as yourself, and while being CENSORED for so stating.
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Whose footsteps do they follow
Beneath the grave below the rubble
At whose command must they obey
Imprisoned in the Camp of Death
The noose of Famine, World’s blockade
A hyssop stick won’t find its way
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Hearts of stone don’t turn your back
Or cross by on the other side
The ruined schools and hospitals
Assassinated long since died
Like journalists.
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
The Moloch’s on the loose there
The halter’s off it neck
Unfettered on the godless track
Its maw is ruby red.
In its bellows defiant pride
Demands all Helpers turn aside
Calling down the rain of bombs
White phosphorus, uranium, for drones
And cluster strikes to come
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
What turns their water into wine
Their towns to dust and tears to blood
Their love to hate which swells the Flood
Of crimes they perpetrate. In your name Lord ?
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Can they hide ? Hypnotism, Mesmerize
Illusion’s shadows flame and dance both far and wide
To gild the masses and disguise, the Horror
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
For the Dispenser of broadcaster’s gold
To tell them don’t believe your eyes
To block your ears to hear their cries
Christ is tortured – Crucified
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
While the beast of Zion prowls among the tented folk
The infidels of every faith erect their altars
To embrace its Human sacrifice. To slake its thirst for blood
And for its sake to fashion golden idols
For their-selves to celebrate
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
What neighbours such as these
Could you commend to live in peace and amity.
From the Euphrates river to the sea
No limits or no lines ( except in blood) could you depend
Until this beast is shackled and defanged
Its commands for tribute, blood and Land
Will not be sated
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
To whom will it be offered as a bride
Or receive the hand of friendship in this life ?
Slaves and sacrifice is what it craves
Appeasing Zion’s hopes is just delay
The piles of bones you see will only grow
And yours among the last that it will show
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Alone. Inferno. Raging in its pride
Its lust will burn the world and all inside
Dowse its flames in Solidarity
Resist its pain in Unity
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Repent with all your heart- you have delayed
To rouse and raise yourself- you can be saved
To join the battle albeit late
Join issue with the mighty ones of fate
To stand your ground and not to yield
In times like this the Poet brings his shield
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
More BS from the west:
UK blacklists ‘extremist’ Israeli settler outposts
London has urged West Jerusalem to combat violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
https://swentr.site/news/605775-uk-sanctions-israeli-settlers/
The pathetic west do not dare to put sanctions on the israeli state that facilitate and make settlerism possible… so they put penalties on israeli settlers. What does “blacklisting” even mean?
And the americans are as pathetic, trying to garner votes from the pro-palestinian americans weeks before the election:
US threatens to cut arms deliveries to Israel
Humanitarian aid needs to reach Gaza within 30 days or some military shipments might stop, Washington said
https://swentr.site/news/605770-us-warns-israel-arms-embargo/
Besides what effect will humanitarian aid have when US is still to provide more weapons right after? Is it the disgraceful Blinken that comes up with these manipulative steps?
Here’s an important report, IMO, that shows how Mossad and the USA work to undermine countries, Yemen in this case, but identical ‘everywhere’ that the USA/Israel cancer permeates, including the UK.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-spy-ring-yemen-promoted-homosexuality-israel-normalization/288407/