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One wonder how powerful the israeli lobby is in Russia,
Putin meets Russian Jewish leaders
Moscow is in contact with Hamas as part of efforts to free more hostages from Gaza, the president has said
https://swentr.site/russia/592049-putin-jewish-leaders-hostages/
Why are not Putin meeting with palestinian reps urging the occupier – Israel to release the many thousands of palestinians jailed for no reason?I do not understand why Russia keep supporting this sick regime that work against Russia’s interest in the region. Let alone an israel that tacictly support Ukraine?
In what way are Russia benefitting from Israeli genocide? Which will cause religious extremism to spread to Central Asia? In what way are Russia benefitting from thousands of israeli attacks on Syria (past year alone!)
Israel says struck thousands of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, Syria during Gaza war
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2453486/middle-eastIn what interest do Russia benefit from israeli threats against Iran?
etcThe reason why US are still the superpower of the world with their proxies is because there are no nation – like Russia – that hinder them, instead Russia often support the western-led aggression wherever it may be directed.
A bizarre story today from Irish media. Ireland women’s basketball team are due to play Israel tonight in Latvia. This game was originally due to be played in Israel in November 2023 but was postponed and moved to a neutral venue in Latvia at the request of the Irish side for obvious reasons (Gaza war).
There have been efforts calling for a boycott of the game by Ireland but resisted by the governing body due to the financial impact etc. Explained in the above link.
One of the Israeli team members, Dor Saar, had this to say of Ireland:
“It’s known that they [Ireland] are quite anti-Semitic, it’s not a secret, so we are expecting an intense game. We need to show that we’re better than them and to win. We speak about it between ourselves, we know that they don’t love us so we will leave everything on the court, as always. And especially in this game.”
Also there have been promotional shots of the team with the IDF. Some members of the Irish team are refusing to travel to the game.
Needless to say the Irish basketball body are not at all pleased calling the remarks “inflammatory and wholly inaccurate”:
Israeli basketball player accuses Ireland of anti-Semitism ahead of European qualifier (Irish Times, 7 Feb 2024)
Basketball Ireland says comments were ‘inflammatory and wholly inaccurate’ and has raised them with basketball’s governing body
Whilst I realise this story doesn’t have the import of others in this thread, it shows how all pervasive the propaganda is. If you didn’t laugh you’d cry.
I hadn’t checked CM’s X/Twitter before I posted above and I now see he has mentioned this story in his tweets. As far as I understand some of the team have refused to travel but the game is going ahead currently. As the game is tonight the Irish team must already be in Latvia by now. Let’s see what develops.
ET
One of the Israeli team members, Dor Saar, had this to say of Ireland:
I even had to google that quote, did she really say such stupidity? Oh she did.
It really shows how brainwashed israelis are, they seem to never question their own stance, view on things, like they are entitled to what the most gruesome things, they have the right to murder palestinian kids, they have the right to commit genocidal acts, they have the right to commit any war crimes as they please because they are the chosen one and they can never do anything wrong so antisemitism must be the case if someone criticise them.
I have no words, it is pathological – they are so entrenched in the belief that they are the victims while they themselves are carrying out the slaughter! This a population that must be deprogrammed because they live in a dangerous bubble that cause a threat to the whole world.
Well, the game was played this evening despite five Irish players refusing to travel. The Irish team refused to shake hands with the Israeli team and that’s being reported on a number of news outlets. Predictably Ireland lost. Basketball isn’t big in Ireland.
The Israeli team had posted a number of photos along side IDF soldiers.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/Sport4PalestineScroll through and you can see some of the photos used including prominent automatic weapons.
(It’s a nitter link and will disappear soon)will moon
THX!!!
ET
The whole of the irish team should have boycotted the event or better yet, the israeli girls that claimed that Ireland is antisemitic should have been expelled from the team right away because such statements go against the sportsmanship of the game, equally, the israeli players that either fought with the IDF or support the same warcriminals should have been banned.
And of course, to expose the hypocrisy once again:Russia’s Men’s Basketball Team Banned From 2024 Olympics
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/04/18/russias-mens-basketball-team-banned-from-2024-olympics/Biden’s mental health seems to get worse and worse.
Yesterday he said that President Sisi of Mexico did not want to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJkYEvu4BgEarlier his day he said that he recently spoke with Helmut Kohl a coupe of years ago:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-mixes-up-germanys-angela-merkel-with-late-helmut-kohl-2024-02-08/Past week he also mixed up Mitterand with Macron
https://news.sky.com/story/joe-biden-mixes-up-emmanuel-macron-with-dead-french-leader-francois-mitterand-13065692Of course it no laughing matter by now, just tragic but also dangerous, like, do Biden know that he is complicit in genocide in Gaza? Does he really know what Israel is doing in Gaza? I do not think so. Let VP Kamala Harris take over. Biden’s mental health is a threat to the whole world.
I would urge you to view this:
The impassioned speech from Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid – the Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland – about the situation in her homeland to hundreds of supporters at a packed solidarity meeting in Belfast.It’s a moving speech, approx. 20 mins long.
I do not understand why Ireland has not kicked out the israeli ambassador yet, especially after the latest attack that Ireland is antisemitic, not even calling up the israeli ambassador?!
EU state’s most popular party wants Israeli ambassador expelled
Ireland’s Sinn Fein has called for the envoy’s expulsion for as long as Israel ignores demands for a ceasefire
https://swentr.site/news/586571-sinn-fein-israel-ambassador/
It is absurd that not a single nation (besides South Africa?) have broken their ties with Israel!According to Israeli news site Mako the killing in Gaza is affecting the criminal underworld. They report that Moroccan drug dealers are boycotting selling to Israeli criminals over the Gaza war.
Moroccan hashish sellers are refusing to sell their wares to Israeli criminals in protest at the war in Gaza, according to Israeli media. The report published at the the Mako news site cited a number of Israeli drug dealers complaining about the drop-off in trade. One dealer said:
“The hashish dealers in Morocco are not willing to sell us more hashish either directly or through intermediaries. They decided that because of the war they are boycotting us. Since the war we have lost a lot of money. Tens of millions of shekels at least.”
The outlet also quoted a Moroccan hashish dealer saying they were refusing to sell to Israelis over the war. The dealer, based in the Rif Mountains, a hub for hashish growing, said:
“Why is it possible for Israelis to make a living selling Moroccan hashish when our Palestinian brothers are suffering from hunger and living in inhumane conditions? Go buy it somewhere else. We no longer sell hashish to Israelis. Before the war, we did business here with Israelis. Merchants came here and made good money, now that’s the end of it.”
If true, I wonder what free market ideologues would make of this. Shouldn’t rational actors look to maximise their gains?
A German rare attack of Germany:
“Gaza, the German Far-Right and the Hypocrisy of the Ruling Class”https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/05/gaza-the-german-far-right-and-the-hypocrisy-of-the-ruling-class/
This is by Fabian Scheidler who I once called “fig leaf” critic for German daily Berliner Zeitung.
This text however is not B.Z., but his Substack.No idea if this has or has not anything to do with B.Z.
Well what are YOU going to do about it Mr Erdogan?
Israel’s Gaza war ‘reminiscent of the Nazis’ – Erdogan
“In front of the eyes of the whole world, Israel’s occupying forces brutally martyred 28,000 of our Palestinian brothers and sisters, most of them children and women,” Erdogan said at the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum. The IDF’s strikes on schools, hospitals, mosques, and other civilian sites are “attacks reminiscent of the Nazis,” he added.
https://swentr.site/news/592212-erdogan-israels-reminiscent-nazis/
Remember…
Turkey recalls ambassador to Israel ahead of Blinken’s visit
While Turkey and Israel’s recalling of their respective ambassadors marks a serious setback for a diplomatic reset, the Turkish president said Saturday that cutting off diplomatic ties with Israel was “out of the question.”https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/11/turkey-recalls-ambassador-israel-ahead-blinkens-visit
If you are not going to do anything but talk-talk you just better shut up!Israel plan to invade the alleged safe haven of Rafah, the usual lipservice by the lazy, corrupt, arab leadership in Saudi arabia:
Israel to face ‘serious repercussions’ over Rafah strikes – Saudi Arabia
Rafah is “the last resort for hundreds of thousands of civilians forced by the brutal Israeli aggression to flee,” Riyadh said. “The kingdom affirms its categorical rejection and strong condemnation of their forcible deportation and renews its demand for an immediate ceasefire.”
https://swentr.site/news/592253-saudis-warn-israel-rafah/
What repercussion? Give me a break! You have not done 1 single thing to stop Israel after 30000 murdered victims right in front of you?!UNRWA – firing:
This is an oddly indecisive headline for an article that itself is pretty clear:
“Media downplays lack of evidence in UNRWA employee scandal
Israel’s flimsy dossier on the agency’s alleged ties to Hamas is fueling calls to de-fund the only major aid pipeline to Palestinians in Gaza today.”https://responsiblestatecraft.org/unwra-hamas-israel/
To put it plainly: The Western media are lying and not just downplaying anything.
And Armbruster sums up beyond a doubt that there is NO EVIDENCE.
If there is no evidence and the NGO is still firing people and the West stops funding and as a medium I am not calling that out I am not downplaying. I am complicit in the humanitarian crisis.So the article is ok. The headline fearful.
The original Israeli dossier is this ridiculous pdf:
https://de.scribd.com/document/702738861/Swords-of-Iron-UNRWA-Hamas-Relations#from_embedp.s. If someone could provide a downloadable version (here registration is necessary) it would be appreciated.
Israel renew their attack on UNRWA by claiming *drumroll* that there are tunnels under UNRWA, or… “close to it”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vtv3a0kVWc&t=111s
The israelis are friggin horrid in producing propaganda, who believe this nonsense more than israelis themselves?!
JACK
Don´t underestimate Germans´ love for their fairy-tales. I am sure many will dig those stories about secret tunnels and hidden HQs. Who cares if it´s true. It´s entertaining their fantasy.
AG
It is the same all europe, EU that was supposed to be pro-peace, humanitarian union etc but have turned into a ruthless actor in wars and complicit in genocide.
Big part of the reason is also the abscense of the leftist parties, they do not dare to say anything that the rightwing might think is provocative, meanwhile the right-wing could freely and proudly boast that they support Israel and whatever they are doing!
As we mentioned some months ago, compare the leftists of the 70s–80s, they were bold, radical, not afraid of anything, and look how pathetic they have become – and I say that as a leftist myself.Hollande – an alleged socialist, that should have the guts to tell the truth now since he is not in power anymore, instead repeat israeli propaganda:
Former French president Hollande calls Gaza dead ‘collateral victims’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8wb06B2qAThis was written at the end of the Ireland v Israel article:
About 1300 people were killed during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on 7 October last year.
More than 27,500 Palestinians have been killed and at least 65,000 by the war launched by Israel since then, according to the Hamas run Health ministry. ¨Israelis are “people”, though the Palestinians are not, it appears.
Couldn’t find the author of the articles name.
Also, perhaps tenuous, the headline: Irish women`s basketball team refuses to shake hands with Israel.
Not The Israeli W B team, but Israel the state.
Is it not interesting that we never hear these type of stories about Netanyahu?
- Putin has Asperger’s syndrome
- Putin suffer from cancer
- Putin have Parkinsons
https://nypost.com/2022/11/02/putin-battling-pancreatic-cancer-parkinsons-disease-report/
- Putin have a psychosis
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-showing-signs-psychosis-26742292
- Putin became mad during Covid-lockdown and therefore invaded Ukraine
https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/a-pandemic-spent-in-isolation-may-have-driven-putin-mad/
What to make of Borrell’s statements in the last day or two? Whilst there seems to be much hypocrisy about these statements is it a beginning of a change in view?
Borrell has suggested that the USA curtail weapons provision to Israel whilst at the same time France, Germany, Italy and Netherlands supply parts and ammunition etc to Israel. A court in the Netherlands has ordered the government to stop providing aircraft parts to Israel.
There is a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Feb 19.
The hypocrisy alluded to above is given more emphasis by Caitlin Johnstone:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ignore-what-western-officials-say
She points out that for all of Biden’s hand wringing the white house has stated that there will be no change in policy. Is Borrell doing the same thing on the EU side?
Israel is behaving “like a monster to defeat a monster”, Simon Coveney, Irish Enterprise minister has said. Coveney was relatively recently Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs.
He states that:
“The truth is that the European position has effectively moved towards the Irish position, you know, over the last number of weeks. There are very few countries now not calling for a ceasefire…”
China has also called for a ceasefire today.
Is it possible the tide is turning even if only slightly?
Meantime overnight bombing of Rafah murdered scores more Palestinians.
ET
If Borell really believe there should be no more weapons to Israel, why does he not work for an arms embargo against Israel? No, I take these statements as some type of alibi Borell will use after the genocide, claiming he tried to stop the murdering.
During this genocide Borell have not called for a ceasefire 1 single time.He did called for a “pause”. That is of course as absurd as calling for a “pause” during a rape.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/23/eus-foreign-policy-chief-borrell-backs-pause-in-israel-hamas-warIMO orell have blood on his hands, full stop. The outside world must move from vocal statements to actual measures stopping Israel.
Jack, I don’t think Borrell can prevent individual EU member states supplying Israel with armaments. It doesn’t fall within EU competencies as they are defined within the various EU treaties. As I have said before I don’t think Borrell should be able to initiate anything other than he’s told by the EU heads of state.
There are a number of media outlets in Ireland and UK quoting Leo Varadkar from today’s debate in Dail Eireann (irish parliament). The debate relevant to Gaza starts approx 1/4 way down the page with Ivana Bacik (labour) and continues to about 3/4 the way down the page.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2024-02-13/2/#
That is similar to Hansard for Irish Dail. It gives a flavour of how the Gaza crisis is viewed in Ireland.
