By Peter Koenig for the Saker Blog
“I said we would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and other terror groups, and we are doing so and will continue to do so with great force,” Netanyahu said in a fiery video address.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be held accountable for war crimes throughout his PM-ship of Israel, according to the 1945 / 1946 Nuremberg trials criteria. His crimes against humanity, against a defenseless Palestine are comparable to the Holocaust.
In 2016 Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu had been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The trial is ongoing but has temporarily been “suspended”. Netanyahu has dismissed the charges as hypocritical and acts as if they didn’t exist. Even though he lacks the majority to form a government, he acts with impunity, because he can – he can because he has the backing of the United States.
More importantly, Israel has been accused before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestine. The prosecutor of the ICC, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, said on 3 March 2021 that she has launched an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories. She added the probe will look into “crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court that are alleged to have been committed” since June 13, 2014, and that the investigation will be conducted “independently, impartially and objectively, without fear or favor.”
In a quick response, PM Netanyahu accused the Court of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism. Of course, the quickest and often most effective defense and counter-attack is calling any accusation, no matter how rightful it is, as anti-Semitism. Calling someone an anti-Semite shuts most people up, no matter whether the accusation is true or false. That explains in part why nobody dares to even come forward with the truth about crimes committed by Israel.
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Imagine, Jews were the chief victims of the German Third Reich – a Nazi Regime, and today the descendants of these very Jews, persecuted and slaughtered in Nazi-concentration camps, allowed the transformation of Israel into a Zionist Fourth Reich, executing Palestinians Holocaust-style. They have done this with impunity for the last 73 years, with the current massacres reaching unheard-of proportions.
Pro-Palestine protests take place around the world – and especially now, finally, throughout Europe. Workers and young people joined protests across Europe on Saturday, 15 May, including in London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid, to oppose Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian population in Gaza. The demonstrations coincided with the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe Day, 14 May 1948)—marking the founding of the state of Israel, through the forced expulsion of 760,000 Palestinians from their villages.
Here is what one protester, Khalid, in Manchester, UK, had to say. Khalid held a placard reading “Lift the siege of Palestine-Stop bombing Palestine”. He said, “Israel should know better. They know how it feels to be exterminated. They had no homeland and came to Palestine as guests and now they have taken the Palestinians’ homes and are trying to throw them out. The Palestinians have no water, they have no food. You have got people like [UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson and presidents colluding with Israel and giving them money to destroy human life” – http://www.defenddemocracy.press/protests-across-europe-against-israeli-war-on-gaza/
Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, always take place with the unwavering support of the United States. No US presidential candidate has a chance of being “elected” to the empire’s highest chair, the Presidency, without having proven his or her unquestioned support for Zionist-Israel. Without that western support, Israel’s war against and oppression of Palestine would soon be over.
Palestine could start breathing again and become a free country, an autonomous, sovereign, self-sustained country, what they were before the forced UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and as was foreseen by UN Resolution 181 II of 1947. This genocidal conflict situation has lasted almost three quarters of a century – and has little chance to abate under the current geopolitical constellation of the Middle East and the world, where obedient submission to US-Israeli command and atrocities is the name of the game.
Background
The conflict started basically with the creation of Israel. The UK, since the end of WWI and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, occupier of the Palestine Peninsula (Palestine and Transjordan, see map), proposed to the UN as a condition for UK withdrawal, the creation of Israel in the western part of what was then known as Palestine and Transjordan. The so-called UN Partitian Plan for Palestine, was voted on 29 November 1947 by the UN General Assembly, as Resolution 181 (II). The then 57 UN members voted 33 (72%) for, 13 against the resolution, with 10 abstentions, and one absent. The Palestinian Authority was never consulted on this proposal. Therefore, for many scholars the UN Partition Plan’s legality remains questionable.
The Plan sought to resolve the conflicting objectives and claims of two competing movements, Palestinian nationalism and Jewish nationalism, or Zionism. The Plan also called for an Economic Union between the proposed two states, and for the protection of religious and minority rights.
However, immediately after adoption of the Resolution by the General Assembly, a civil war broke out and the plan was not implemented. The remnants of this civil war, the non-acceptance by Palestine of this UN Resolution 181, for which the historic owners of the land were not consulted, are lingering on as of this day.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the British administration was formalized by the League of Nations under the Palestine Mandate in 1923, as part of the Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. The Mandate reaffirmed the 1917 British commitment to the Balfour Declaration, for the establishment in Palestine of a “National Home” for the Jewish people, with the prerogative to carry it out.
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War, announcing support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The question is still asked today: How legitimate was that declaration in terms of international law? Many academics see this declaration still today as a unilateral move and a breach of international law, as no consultation of the Palestine Authority ever took place.
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In the November 1947 UN General Assembly vote, the US was among the 33 countries voting FOR the Partition Plan. Interestingly, though, President Truman later noted, “The facts were that not only were there pressure movements around the United Nations unlike anything that had been seen there before, but that the White House, too, was subjected to a constant barrage. I do not think I ever had as much pressure and propaganda aimed at the White House as I had in this instance. The persistence of a few of the extreme Zionist leaders—actuated by political motives and engaging in political threats—disturbed and annoyed me.” – This Zionist pressure was to set the bar for what was to follow – up to this day.
David Ben-Gurion, Zionist statesman and political leader, was the first Prime Minister (1948–53, 1955–63) and defense minister (1948–53; 1955–63) of Israel. In a letter to his son in October 1937, Ben-Gurion explained that partition would be a first step to “possession of the land as a whole” (emphasis added by author).
As of today, seventy-three years later and counting, the conflict is not resolved. To the contrary. It has become the longest lasting war, or aggression rather, in recent human history. A war it isn’t really, because a sheer oppression and literal slaughter against a perceived enemy, like Palestine that has no weapons to speak of, being bombarded and shot with the most sophisticated US-sponsored weapons systems, cannot be called a war. It is sheer genocide. The Palestinian weapons of choice are mostly rocks; rocks thrown by Palestinians at the Israeli IDF invaders, who then mow them down with machine guns, mostly civilians, women and children.
The Israel armed-to-the-teeth Defense Forces (IDF), invade Gaza and Palestinian West Bank areas with the most sophisticated machine guns, bombs, white phosphorus, practicing indiscriminate killing. The IDF destroys Palestinian living quarters, administration buildings, schools, shops, the little manufacturing industries that makes up their economy – destroying a people already teetering at the edge of extreme poverty and despair. No mercy. What does one call people who are committing such unspeakable crimes?
What does one call this style of aggression? – Literally killing hundreds, thousands of people without defense, in the world’s largest open prison – Gaza – home to more than 2 million people, living in misery, housing and infrastructure constantly destroyed, painfully partially rebuilt – just to be destroyed and bombed to pieces again. Those who don’t die from Israeli direct aggressions, may die from the indirect effects – famine, misery, disease and suicide – of this constant, abject hostility perpetuated upon what was supposed to be, according to the UN Partition Plan, an autonomous Palestine home of the Palestine people.
It is an ongoing – seemingly never-ending conflict, ever since the first Intifada beginning in December 1987 (Intifada in the context of the Israeli-Palestine conflict is a concerted Palestinian attempt to shake off Israeli power and gain independence).
The Oslo Accords I and II are a pair of agreements between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), of 1993 and 1995, respectively, sponsored by Norway in an attempt to achieve peace between the two parties. The Oslo Accords failed bitterly, over the issue of Jerusalem that was to become the religious capital for both countries, but Israel refused, claiming Jerusalem as her own, making the holy city to Israel’s capital. The first foreign leader recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, was US President Donald Trump on 6 December 2017.
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There was, however, another, less talked-about but equally important issue – an issue of survival – within the Oslo Accords: The fair sharing of the water resources. Israel never agreed, as about 85% of all water resources of what used to be the Palestinian Land, falls currently within the borders of what was defined by the Partitian Plan as Palestine. This is based on a World Bank study, in which I participated. On the insistence of Israel, the US vetoed publication of the study. Hence, the report was never officially published and publicly available.
Subsequent, so-called Peace processes, mostly US-sponsored, failed as of this day, because both Israel and the US have no interest in finding a peaceful solution. Neither one of the two nations have an interest in a Peace Accord, as the US needs the conflict to keep control over the Middle East, while Israel has no intentions to give up (slave)-control over Palestine, as her wellbeing depends on the overall control of what used to be Arab-Palestinian territory, and especially Palestine’s water resources. Without them, Israel would be a dry and unproductive desert.
There is a purpose behind these illegal, but ever-growing number of Israeli settlements on Palestine territories: Control over water. The settlements are usually over or near underground water resources. This is one way of controlling Palestine’s water. This happens not only in the so-called West Bank, but also in Gaza, where water resources are really scarce. Gaza is the world’s per capita water-scarcest area. The few Gaza water tables are super-posed by Israeli settlements.
This totally illegal and often UN-condemned Israeli Settlements strategy – also totally ignored by Israel – gradually reduces Palestine land and increases Israel’s control over crucial Palestinian water resources. See map
The impediment of being able to manage their own water resources, therefore increasing their food self-sufficiency through their own agriculture, makes out of Palestine an Israeli slave-state.
In addition, Israel has a handle on opening or closing the Gaza border, letting at will minimal food, medication and other life-essentials into Gaza, as well as allowing exactly the number needed of low-paid Palestinians (literally slave-labor) cross the border in the morning to work in Israel, and having to return at night to their Palestine homes. It is sheer Apartheid exploitation. Furthermore, Israel does not recognize Gaza’s territorial Mediterranean waters which would be a means towards Palestinians self-sustention and economic industrial activity.
According to an OECD report of 2016, Israel ranks as the nation with the highest poverty rate among OECD countries, i.e. 21% of Israelis are living under the poverty line. This is more than Mexico, Turkey and Chile. The OECD average is about 11%. This figure (21%) may be slightly exaggerated, given the relatively large informal sector and transfer payments to Israel from Jews abroad, as well as from international Jewish organizations.
Nevertheless, it is clear that Israel is economically not autonomous and needs Palestine to survive, both in terms of confiscated Palestinian water resources, as well as Palestinian slave labor. Therefore, there is hardly any hope for the UN-planned two-state solution to eventually materialize. There is little hope that this situation will change under the current geopolitical conditions. The US wants to dominate the Middle East and needs Israel as a garrison state that will be armed to the teeth for the US – to eventually grow and become Washington’s proxy ruler of the Middle East.
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A question that is rarely asked, if ever: What is Hamas’ role in this never-ending Israeli-Palestine conflict? Since 2007 Hamas is officially governing the 2-million-plus population of the 363 square kilometer Gaza Strip. Hamas is also the Palestine paramilitary or defense organization. Hamas is said to be funded largely by Iran. Is it true? And if so, is Iran the only funder of Hamas?
It is odd, however, that ever so often, Hamas attacks Israel by launching unsophisticated rockets at Israeli cities, rockets that most often are intercepted by the IDF defense system, or cause minimal damage. But they cause, predictably minimal damage against an IDF which is US-equipped with the latest technology weapons- and defense systems.
Yet, a Hamas attack on Israel prompts regularly a ferocious retaliation; bombardments, not so much aiming at Hamas, as Netanyahu intimidates, “We would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and other terror groups…” , but at the civilian populations. The heaviest casualties are civilian Gaza citizens, many women and children among them, after an Israeli “self-defense” retaliation. This is of course no self-defense. The Hamas attacks usually follows an Israeli provocation.
Why would Hamas hit back, knowing that they won’t wreak any damage on Israel, yet they will trigger each time a deadly massacre on the Gaza population? – At the outset, Israeli provocations look like “false flags”. Could they be false flags with the willing participation of Hamas? If so, with whom does Hamas collaborate?
These are questions which certainly do not have an immediate answer. But the 14-year pattern of repeatedly similar events begs the question – is there another (Hamas) agenda behind what meets the eye?
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What is nearly as criminal as the IDF’s aggressions, is the almost complete silence of the west, and the world at large, vis-à-vis Israel’s atrocities committed on the Palestinian population. It is an unspoken tolerance for the carnages Israel inflicts on Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, the world’s largest open-air prison.
For example, the political UN body, despite hundreds of Resolutions, condemning and flagging Israel’s illegal actions against Palestine, including the ever-increasing number of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestine territories, seems to be hapless against Israel. Weak condemnations of Israel, calling both parties to reason – leaves Israel totally cold and undisturbed. There is no punishment whatsoever, not from the UN system, not from the western allies, most of whom are Washington and NATO vassals.
The Biden Administration has taken the usual imperialist position of cynical neutrality, like it was an uninvolved disinterested player, while painting up Israel as being some kind of victim instead of the brutal Zionist apartheid state that it is. It is important to remember that the creation of Israel was so that the US had a garrison state to protect her interests in the Middle East.
Take the UN Secretary General. Instead of condemning Israeli ruthlessness and demanding accountability, the spokesman for UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, merely called on the Netanyahu regime to “exercise maximum restraint and respect the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.”
The Secretary General himself reiterates his commitment, including through the Middle East Quartet, “to supporting Palestinians and Israelis to resolve the conflict on the basis of relevant United Nations resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements.” The Quartet, set up in 2002, consists of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia. Its mandate is to help mediate Middle East peace. As of this day they have not achieved any tangible results.
Because they do NOT WANT to achieve any peace. For the reasons mentioned before, Peace is not in the interest of Israel, nor in the interest of the West, led by the United States. To keep the conflict burning, sacrificing hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of Palestinian lives is not important. It’s just a collateral damage of a larger agenda – control over the Middle East and her riches, a step towards controlling the entire world.
Time and again, Guterres disgraced himself and the office he holds by failing to denounce US/NATO/Israeli aggression and demand accountability for high crimes too serious to ignore.
If the UN is incapable or unwilling of assuming the responsibility of reigning in Israel, perhaps the Group of 77 (by now more than 120 UN member countries) should take a joint stand, exerting pressure on Israel, asking as an intermediary for outright negotiating with Israel and Palestine to reach a sustainable peace settlement, including the original two-state solution, back to the pre-1967 Israeli-Palestine borders. Let us, the UN, become pro-active in seeking and finding a permanent solution for the stressed-to-death, starving and tortured Palestinians, especially those from the Gaza Strip.
Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he has worked for over 30 years on water and environment around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)
Peter Koenig is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Two state is a dead end, throw the ball at Israel and the West court by the Palestinians asking for one-state solution, equal voting and citizen rights in secular state for the people between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. That’s how apartheid was ended in South Africa and that’s the only way to end this murderous racist parasitic Zionist state, two state is dead.
Totally agree.
The problem is Abbas, the puppet Palestinian President on Apartheid USrael’s payroll. Palestinians should get rid of him and put in a new interim leader and demande to be part of Israel. They can change the name later.
One-state solution is the only SIMPLE solution.
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/the-simple-solution-to-israel-palestine/
Total agreement, Abbas should be lynched by the Palestinians for corruption and betrayal, also where are the elections that where promised this pathetic excuse of man needs to go just as much as Bibi.
Mr. Ryler, the article you provided was a proposed boilerplate for a federation of 5 States with Jerusalem as its capital.
However it then goes on to describe the impediment to such a one-State plan is the same problem as with the 2-State solution (which I support), that being the greed of the Zionists to acquire all of Palestine over time.
The similarity of this present day situation to the 19th century American westward expansion where the indigenous Indian tribes were pushed off their land is obvious. The Indians had no
ground-to-ground rockets back then, unlike the Palestinians that launch them from the Gaza Strip.
The second phase of what can be viewed as a variant of Intifadas in the past, sees the Palestinians organized throughout the land and call for a stoppage of work and commerce that will paralyze the economy of Israel. They can do for quite a while since they are conditioned to suffer in hardship unlike the privileged Israelis who have soft underbellies.
Sadly this is another example of “rinse, wash and repeat” with no end in sight because as long as Arab Gentiles live in close proximity to the Zionists who make illegal claims to occupied land, the resistance will continue even in a one-State solution.
That is why I favor the 2-State solution with a land swap and with Jerusalem designated as its own Nation-State like Vatican City.
Personally I do not want the State of Israel to cease to exist because should that happen, these rabid Zionists will not return to eastern Europe, they will come to the U.S., which would probably result in greater racial divide and added tensions beyond Antifa and BLM.
RE: PokeTheTruth on May 18, 2021 · at 8:42 pm EST/EDT
” the 2-State solution with a land swap and with Jerusalem designated as its own Nation-State like Vatican City.”
When you are lying on your stomach even a small dog can seem tall.
“US and the West Supports Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity”
Since you include the statement above you apparently believe that it is necessary to do, as if it was an exception/exceptional, whilst reliance on absolutes is an attempt to deny time and obfuscate opportunities of transcendence.
Coercive social relations, not to be conflated with constructs of “political geography”, require regular examples and practices of coercion, including emulatory practices in response by their “opponents” to facilitate the continuation of coercive social relations.
Coercive social relations are enhanced through solidarities with those “benefiting” in varying degrees from coercive social relations, the variation of degrees of benefit derived facilitating competition undermining “solidarities”, whilst increasing “solidarities” and coercion by the remnant “solidarities” against the “solidarities” that are no longer, facilitating competing blocks of “solidarities” both externally and internally transcending “political geography” and coercive social relations.
Such are accelerated through time by some seeking to deny time facilitating opportunities of rendering the quote :
“”US and the West Supports Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity”
as
Nowhere – Nowhere and nowhere supports nowhere’s actions against humanity since humanity cooperates.
since some are not stupid enough to chase after illusions such as the end of history, full spectrum dominance, hegemony and exceptionalism, but are wise enough to attempt to catalyse the transcendence of equal but different which precludes equal, by equal and different which facilitates equal, difference, cooperation and life.
Another gentleman remains enmazed in his ideological cell painting the walls like Mr. Sands, but like all datastreams
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/05/18/israel-making-same-errors-as-britain-did-over-northern-ireland-50-years-ago/
is not completely bereft of utility.
How are the Palestinians to get rid of Abbas? They voted him out and Hamas in. What happened? The Israelis supported Abbas, so he is still there. Hamas only in the Gaza strip, the world’s largest open air prison camp — worse than a prison camp, since it is so frequently invaded and bombed.
RE: jeandavid8 on May 19, 2021 · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT
“How are the Palestinians to get rid of Abbas?
They voted him out and Hamas in.
What happened?
The Israelis supported Abbas, so he is still there. “
Not engaging in efforts to remove decaying teeth in gums facilitates abcesses and developing poisons in those with control of the decision to remove decaying teeth, unless they remove the decaying teeth and address developing poisons.
RE: jeandavid8 on May 19, 2021 · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Eating the pudding is a lateral process of metamorphosis/transformation/transcendence of the pudding whose half-life is a function of the lateral process of eating.
Once this process has been initiated the original pudding is no longer whole and can no longer be proved since is has been rendered a function of is and was.
Those relying on “maxims” such as – the proof of the pudding is in the eating – seek to rely on denial of time including interaction by resorting to belief to bridge doubt.
Agreed. However the map is wrong. There was no ‘Saudi’ Arabia in 1925. It was the governerate of Hejaz, and the ‘kingdom’ of Nejd ruled by the British asset Abdul Aziz bin Saud.
The defacto leader of Arabia was removed by Churchill when he exposed British duplicity.
Are you serious?! A one state solution for the Israel Palestine conflict?! What are you, a world citizen who sings kumbaya, who does not believe in differences between nations, you think we are all one?! You cannot have a one state solution in a country of competing and hostile cultures/religions with a one man one vote, that will only give one group dominance over the other and will ultimately lead to a civil war.
Can’t have two state when the stronger party won’t let the weaker one control it’s border, it’s economy, or it’s land and that said party keeps stealing land and putting squatters ie settlers in said natives land. The only kumbaya is posters like you who delusionaly think that two-state is even possible, as foe civil war that sate is already here in the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river.
Netanyahu is a fake semite.
Scathing article but totally on point.
Niten needed a crisis and he made one.
The us govt and blob, on its knees before niten and likud, have no semblance of soul, conscience, morality, embarrassment, humanity.
The arrogance of those m’fers in Tel aviv is something beyond astonishing; and they developed that smug attitude as a result of the obsequiousness of the so-called cradle of democracy.
Zionists in the USA, most of whom are so-called Christian, are fully supportive of what the Ashkenazim are doing in Palestine. Pastor John Hagee, Trump’s “spiritual” advisor and the leader of Christians United For Israel has made it clear that the Palestinians have brought this violence on themselves. He’s even claiming that all the deaths in Gaza are the result of Hamas rocket misfires – “It’s the terrorists that are killing their own people!”
Any resolution that Biden might introduce in Congress connecting US assistance to Israel’s moderation would be met with howls of indignation by every single Republican. The only “one-state” solution they support is the one in which the indigenous people of Palestine are ethnically cleansed from the so-called Holy Land and the Ashkenazim in compete control. Their crazy end-times eschatology sees that as the prelude to their warrior messiah returning to Earth to smite all unbelievers, including most of the Ashkenazim who they currently support. Tell me that Netanyahu doesn’t know this as he smilingly accepts the millions of dollars they throw at Likud every year.
The end-times eschatology was created by Zionists to fool Christians. It was propagated by compromised preachers like Hagee, who are all on Israhell’s payroll. Unfortunately, their flock is as much a victim of this. They’re just brainwashed.
Though the flock is slowly waking up.
The opposition to Hagee’s CUFI is CUFPa
http://cufpa.wordpress.com/
According to Pastor John Hagee, 60 million US Christian Zionists would beg to disagree. They all support what the Ashkenazim are doing in Palestine and they all voted for Trump in the last election. As Steve Pearce, chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico said in December, “Trump is our president FOREVER and no one can take that away from us.”
American partisanship is utterly contemptuous.
Here I’ll help you out
“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” — President Joe Biden who it was reported today “approved the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel”
Remember Biden is guy that inspired so many Americans that he has holds the distinction of having more votes cast for him than any other President in US history, so thumbing his ‘bi-partisan’ nose at the world (again) strikes me as being pretty much mandated by all Americans, including you.
But you see a much deeper threat in the Chairman of New Mexico Republican Party!?!??
(kinda reminds me of LabourUK who decided that Thatcher’s Tories weren’t the real danger, but some outfit called National Front all of a sudden. Just like Reagan/US Democrats’s despicable ‘starvation’ of Ethiopia by banning wheat sales, the bigger problem was Muslims not knowing it was Christmas or something)
No, I see Steve Pearce as a Trump true believer who will never let go of the notion that Trump won the election. I live in New Mexico, so what this crazy dude says an indicator of how far over the edge the average ReTrumplican has gone. Thankfully, they are a dwindling minority in this state and are more a laughingstock than a threat.
Fully one quarter of Americans believe the Sun goes around the Earth. If you don’t believe me, Google it. Christian Zionists also believe that the Earth was exactly 6025 years ago because someone counted up the “begats” in the Scofield Reference Bible. Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, gave the following sermon when Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem in 2018, “Jerusalem is the preordained capital of Christ’s 1,000-year empire, during which Christians and Jews (at least some of them) shall live in peace, after the unsaved (Democrats, mostly) have endured seven years of unspeakable horrors.” If you don’t think this is a crazy belief system is a threat, just ask any Palestinian to explain it to you.
I can’t wait to see what the blowback to this entire Israel project will be. There will be blowback. Always does.
As Newton’s third law of motion proved, for every action there is systematically an equal reaction accompanied by opposite reactions no one expected.
I think the blowback will be the downfall of Apartheid Israel. And the reason the US is supporting the racist state is because if it falls, the US will look bad. But fall it will, then the decline of the Empire will accelerate.
There will be war between Turkey and Israel, not because of Newton’s law but the EastMed pipeline – than flying other rockets into Israel – Both, the Middle East and the Mediterranean will be on fire – in the end Europe will face it’s Deja vu
There won’t be war between Turkey and Israel as long as Erdogan is in power. Strongly worded statements to the contrary, he’s been one of Israel’s most reliable partners/supporters in the region. Don’t believe a word he says.
There will be lots of war – certainly he coming for other reasons, than to help Palestine
Blowback will be sweet, kind of even Steven. Blowback is destiny. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide … Woe unto the zionists on that day
Abbas is Gorbachev in disguise.
Abbas needs to go.
RE : Prospector on May 18, 2021 · at 7:50 pm EST/EDT
“Abbas is Gorbachev in disguise.”
Time and tide wait for no man and hence you can’t step into the same river twice.
Mr. Gorbachev became a useful fool through the interactions with others from at least 1970 (living in occupied territory being one vector), where as until relatively recently, Mr. Abbas remained a fool which his associates mistakenly believed to be useful (living in occupied territory being a vector), but through time and the interactions with some others Mr. Abbas is becoming a useful fool, but not to those who believed he was a useful fool, and such disappointed believers resorted to show disappointment in various forms which they mistakenly deemed “strategies against” those whose interactions did and are facilitating Mr. Abbas becoming a useful fool.
Similar to the White Helmets role in the Syrian conflict (as the West’s propaganda outfit and peon for false flags), Israel needs Hamas in order to justify a free for all destruction in Palestine. The pinpoint strikes on media and health infrastructure demonstrated typical efficient military planning, where the latter will certainly compound recovery efforts.
The rockets even if they do sporadic damages, in military terms don’t even singe a single hair for Israel (figuratively speaking). Hamas don’t even advertise the targets they have successfully hit, why? Surely, there are lots of juicy targets ranging from large farm infrastructure to high tech industries (e.g. Intel Fabs at Kiryat Gat is soo juicy) … and yet where have they been aiming their rockets all these years?
In military terms, Hamas is hopelessly incompetent with their ineffective strikes.
Which is incredible, especially when people claim they are supported by Iran.
Conclusion?
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
“Hamas don’t even advertise the targets they have successfully hit, why?”
They have been announcing all the targets they strike at, twice a day, since the beginning of the conflict.
Almost every strike has been reported here on the Saker, in the comments of various pertinent articles, and the cafe.
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1394/04/18/139404181237536645655734.jpg — And you are greatly underestimating Hamas firepower, in your defeatist comments here.
Today, six Zionist air bases have been struck in response to airstrikes against Gaza. These are, Hatzor Airbase, Hatzerim Airbase, Nevatim Airbase, Tel Nof Airbase, Palmachim Airbase, and Ramon Airbase, which is over 200kms away from Gaza.
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/02/21/1400022108321386522739654.jpg
Three new longer-range missiles were field tested today by Qassam brigades.
The Qassam brigades are reporting coordinated strikes with Saraya al-Quds brigades and the Nasser Salah al-Din brigades against Sderot, and Zikim military base.
Saraya al-Quds brigades have struck Yad Mordecai, and Netiv YaAsara.
Ashkelon has been struck by missiles and rockets.
The Zionists have attempted to assassinate Mohammad al-Zeif, Commander of the Qassam brigades at least twice now, and both attempts have failed. All Palestinian commanders are on the Israeli hit list, by the Zionist regime’s own admission.
The Zionist regime was forced to resort to combat drones to disperse protestors in al-Bireh, West Bank, which led to violent armed conflict. Two Israeli soldiers were shot and injured.
Fifty two Israeli jets bombed Gaza a total of 122 times early this morning.
Your claim that Hamas rockets are not hurting Israel is false. Never has Gaza been bombed with such ferocity. The Israelis are hurting, and they are hurting bad.
The Palestinian resistance objective is not to cause irreparable infrastructure damage on the Zionist state, as you are demanding. The objective is to paralyze the Zionist state, make normal life impossible for the Israelis, and to show them a taste of the same fear and terror that the Israelis are sowing in Gaza. They have achieved three out of three.
The Qods Force objective, on the other hand, is to simply watch the Israeli response. How do they react to toy rockets fired at them? And by extension, how will they react when real missiles with devastating destructive power start raining down on them? Where will they amass troops? Which air bases will they use? How effective is the Iron Dome system? Etc.
As far as the IRGC Qods Force is concerned, this war is an intelligence gathering operation. And it has been a remarkable success. If nothing else, the Iron Dome has been exposed as a fraud.
Your expectation that the Palestinians should single-handedly bring down a self-proclaimed superpower, with low-end weapons, is not realistic.
Think of it this way. In a not so distant future, rockets and missiles are raining down on the Zionist state from Gaza. Palestinians all across the occupied territories are in a state of open rebellion, while the Jews cower in shelters. Missiles with large warheads start raining down from Lebanon and Syria. Elite IRGC and Hezbollah forces penetrate the occupied territories, causing all kinds of mischief. Perhaps sections of the border wall come down, and Jordanian and Lebanese protestors start rushing in, joining the Palestinians in the rioting. Perhaps some of the protestors will be armed. Perhaps some will be Iraqi PMUs dressed as Lebanese and Jordanian civilians. Perhaps Syrian troops occupy the Golan in the chaos.
The last two weeks have shown that Israel, far from being invincible, is actually very vulnerable.
@Anonymous
1. Exactly how many of those strikes have been successful? Demonstrated launches and observed results are two separate things. I will admit, there is no personal interest for me to follow the conflict with microscope, I’m not a bean couunter.
2. “The Palestinian resistance objective is not to cause irreparable infrastructure damage on the Zionist state ..”
You’re at war with Jewish Zionism and yet fail to understand their true psyche. How is this possible? To put it figuratively, they hit you with 120mm cannon shells and you _prefer_ to return back with rubber bullets comedy. That quote does not even make logical sense because an irreparable damage (or difficult to repair damage) goal achieves the same thing.
3. “The Qods Force objective, on the other hand, is to simply watch the Israeli response”
The problem with this strategy is that it’s entirely self defeating. Invites indiscriminate attacks and Israel have gloryful day in both battlefield and its international propaganda effort. All those years of shooting rockets and the resistance have no inkling of the Israeli Iron Dome capabilities? Wtf have these so called intelligence gathering people have been doing then, chasing butterflies? Now that you’ve allegedly exposed their vulnerabilities, the element surprise is gone. You go to war with a fully alert enemy, that is not clever.
4. “Your expectation that the Palestinians should single-handedly bring down a self-proclaimed superpower, with low-end weapons, is not realistic.”
There is no logic to this understanding , that you seem to arrive by yourself.
Strive to understand better.
5. Let me leave this interesting comment by someone random I stumbled onto from YT :
By JR
Israel lost the war before Hamas fired the first rocket because, like a dinosaur, Israel is living in the past. Modern-day toy technology has revolutionized warfare making Israel’s billion dollar weapon and defense systems ineffective and obsolete. Let me give you an example. I recently purchased online a flight controller, a lidar module, and a sonar module for less than $300 US dollars that, when installed in a drone, will fly a drone, autonomously, without radio control, 200 kilometers, stabilized and avoiding obstacles on the way, and easily deliver a 1 kg payload to a place I have never been to, within a 15 cm margin of error. Total cost of this potential weapon is approximately $700. Compared that to a typical Israeli smart bomb that costs $60,000. I can build 65 advanced drone weapons for the cost of one Israeli smart bomb. I know that such a UAV cannot carry a 500 kg warhead. But, it doesn’t have to to do more damage than a 500kg bomb. I assure you, I guarantee you, that there are many odorless and colorless commercially available chemicals of which half ltr will cause more damage and death than any 500kg bomb. Wait, it gets worse. For less than $70 US dollars anyone can purchase off-the-shelf items to make a palm sized feeder reactor which can easily be placed in such a drone and irradiate a 1 km square area of land. Not yet, it gets worse, not only can such a flight controller be placed in a UAV drone, it can also be placed in a vehicle drone, a boat drone, and even a submarine drone that, with a barely visible antenna floating way above the drone submarine, can be programed to autonomously go and do what it was programed to do (attack a desalination plant.) So please, to all Israelis, do not fall for the lie that billion dollar weapon systems can protect you, they can’t. Peace is much better than war. Hamas has nothing to do with why Israeli Arabs have taken to the street. Hamas has nothing to do with why Palestinians in Israel took to the streets too. Hamas only seized the moment. Look within yourself Israel. Treat everyone the same and there will be peace.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X5sM1eswF8
1. There are enough precision missiles hitting sensitive targets, in between all the little rockets, I assure you.
2. The Zionist entity blows up some centrifuges in Iran, together with some other industrial sabotage, during JCPOA negotiations where sanctions are reportedly being lifted, in hopes of derailing the negotiations, so the Iranians retaliate by letting all hell roll loose in Israel. Not a proportionate response, in your opinion?
3. Before the incident near Dimona, nobody in the world knew that the Iron Dome was garbage.
Israel cannot do anything to “patch up” their vulnerabilities now that they have become aware of them, because their main vulnerabilities stem from their having made enemies of all their neighbors, rather than any kind of lack of military ability, and they have their biggest enemies of all living right in their midst.
What happens if a fatwa-decree is issued tomorrow that all Palestinians should attack and kill any Israeli they see? How many Zionists die before Israel can control millions of Palestinians? Israel’s vulnerabilities are many.
Look, this war has been horrendous for Israel, like no other war has in recent memory. If you choose to believe the media that paints a picture of glorious victory for Israel against the weakest people on Earth, then by all means.
4. You appear upset that the Palestinians are not achieving more. The Palestinians in Gaza live in an open air prison, under constant watch by air, sea and land. There is no way Iran can get weapons to them like weapons were given to the Houthis. Where the Yemenis had endless coastline to receive assistance and vast swathes of land to set up a mini military-industrial complex, the Palestinians have a walled prison under the eye of what is probably the greatest surveillance state in history.
And yet, the Palestinians are receiving precision guided missiles and what not, to the utter astonishment and detriment of the Zionist regime.
As I said, to expect the Palestinians to do more than they are doing is unrealistic. Perhaps you would like to explain what the point of your comments is? Because what it comes off as is you criticizing the Palestinians for not fighting well enough.
Have you thought about heading up to Gaza and seeing how long you would last under Israeli airstrikes? Perhaps try setting up some of these drones that your YouTube fellow suggests, and see how you go.
What we are witnessing today is essentially a war between the world’s strongest and weakest state. People should keep that in mind before criticizing the Palestinians. The dynamics of propping up the weak state and turning it into a real challenge for the superpower is perhaps more complicated than rocket science, but the resistance has clearly got a good grasp of both.
The Palestinians are fighting bravely against an enemy which is ten times their match.
If anyone else thinks they can do better against the tyranny of Global Zionism, giddy up. I don’t see anyone with the guts to even verbally criticize Israel, let alone go up against them.
Enough with the ‘perhaps’
Enough with that declarations
Just do it. All of it you mentioned.
God is with you. I am with you.
Millions are with you.
DO IT! No more waiting.
WIN!
I don’t think you are paying close enough attention. Watch the outcome of the Vienna JCPOA negotiations. You will see the win you’re looking for there.
If you are looking for a genocide of the Jews, I’m afraid the Resistance cannot help you there.
The Resistance does not wish one hair to be hurt on an Israeli head. If killing masses of Israelis was their objective, it could have been achieved.
As I was writing this comment, I have been notified that an agreement has been reached in Vienna. Congratulations to the Resistance. Congratulations to Iran.
“an agreement has been reached ”
so naive…
arent the Americans “agreement-incapable” ?
Putin said so, Chinese said so, Iranians said so…
yet still… you take satisfaction that “an agreement has been reached ”
do you understand, that some of us observe all the happenings, all that is said – from both sides –
and that the East looks dumb, insane, weak, pathetic
no wonder i sometimes get the urge to support the west, and bolster them to get over with it…
just so not to hear and see the east whining yet claiming “some” victory
there is no victory, that boy, who lost all family members is dead
that Vladi kid in Donbass is dead
you have won nothing
anon, read, and read with attention, please. The resistance has come a long way. If you are looking for some spectacular ‘win’, you will not see it. We’re moving to a multipolar world and the single hegemon is losing as we go. Assess carefully as this massive change in our world will not be given to anyone with a spoon. The hegemon is collapsing and as has been said so many times on this site, both it will take time and it is dangerous times.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/05/probing-limits.html
This is a little off-topic so far, but completely on-topic in terms of gaining a lasting victory.
Nobody wants children to die in this horror. Be aware of who is responsible.
1945 / 1946 Nuremberg trials criteria:
– Katin”s murderes
– Dresden’s bombers
– Japan atomic bombs
A bunch of criminals enacting a show for political and historic profit.
§§”The US wants to dominate the Middle East and needs Israel as a garrison state that will be armed to the teeth for the US – to eventually grow and become Washington’s proxy ruler of the Middle East.”§§
Pete, I think you’ve got the tail wagging the dog.
This article has no mention of The Greater Israel plan.
Observing the Middle East through this lens, puts a lot in clear focus.
Such as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq…”Kurdistan”.
Salami tactics.
Just keep slicing and slicing.
It is the Satanic Governments of the USA / NATO and Israel Who Have Christian Blood on Their Hands
(Machine Translation From Original Portuguese Article)
The Axis of Resistance promised that Israel would pay the price for all the suffering and destruction it is sowing in Palestine and in the world and that price is beginning to become very visible:
«Operation“ Sword of al-Quds ”has inflicted serious economic and financial losses on the Israeli occupation. This is besides the Israeli fear of an intifada (uprising) by Palestinians living in the occupied territories, (who have being carrying out acts of popular resistance) that have paralyzed the economic cycle in the (1948 occupied) territories .
Has the operation laid waste to the Zionist entity’s dream of becoming the financial center of the Mediterranean coastline?
Over the past five years, the Zionists have been attempting to turn Tel Aviv into the hub of the Middle East following the recent discovery of oil in the Mediterranean. However, the Palestinian resistance’s strikes, its game-changing surprises, and its targeting of the occupation’s capital and its critical facilities (during the latest fighting) have complicated the matter further.
The economic losses incurred by the Zionist entity since the first day of operation “Sword of al-Quds” (as of May 14 th 2021) are:
28% losses in the Tel Aviv stock market
26% of factories have completely shut down in the area around the Gaza strip, and 17% have partially suspended operations in the rest of the occupied territories.
More than 2,800 houses in the cities and settlements have been directly damaged.
The total cost of the military operation against Gaza has exceeded $ 250 million so far, averaging $ 50 million / day.
The operating cost of the Iron Dome has gone upwards of $ 60 million so far.
Flights have been shut down at the (Israeli) entity’s Ben Gurion and Ramon airports.
70% of schools and universities have closed throughout the occupied territories.
Economic activity has been paralyzed within territories witnessing a Palestinian Intifada in support of Gaza and al-Quds.
Furthermore, Zionist economic experts have stated that the continuation of the war will necessitate a transfer of emergency funds to the War Ministry, which comes at the expense of the budgets that were supposed to be used for private civilian needs.
This comes amidst the economic impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the (Israeli) entity, further complicating issues amid rising fears of the effect this might have on foreign investments in the occupied territories, which could very well lead to their cancellation. »
The Axis of Resistance will continue to make Israel pay the price, as promised and with Iron Dome or without Iron Dome, as long as the Zionist State’s missiles continue to fall in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian resistance rockets will continue to rain over Israel . The Axis of Resistance will never abandon the people of Palestine and the “harsh revenge” that was sworn by Ali Khamenei against the Terrorist State of Israel and all its allies, will be exercised at all costs.
Speaking of Ali Khamenei, it would be good for the Catholic Church to at least publicly give a word of thanks to one of the men who has done most for the protection and defense of Christian minorities in the Middle East. Yes, because it is with armament, intelligence and technical expertise, provided largely by the Islamic Republic of Iran, that the Axis of Resistance fighters have liberated countless Christian villages and villages, occupied and in some cases massacred by Islamic State terrorists, who these great “democrats” of the USA / NATO and Israel sponsor in Syria and Iraq .
The Vatican literally abandoned the Christians of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon to death and if it were not for the Iranian-backed Syrian Army and Hezbollah, which together with Putin’s Russia crushed Wahhabite terrorists and took back territory behind territory – often after absolutely fierce battles and extreme violence – the vast majority of Christian communities in the Middle East would be lost forever. This is a fact and if someone says the opposite to you, he is lying “with all his teeth in his mouth”.
Wherever the Axis of Resistance is present, Christians live in peace and security and know that they will never be betrayed, because the combatants of the Axis of Resistance will always defend and protect them, with sacrifice of their own lives if necessary. It would be good for Pope Francis to explicitly acknowledge this fact before the world, because Catholics and all of Christendom need to know the truth, the whole truth about what is really going on in the Middle East.
Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are not the enemies of Christians in the Middle East, quite the contrary, it is precisely the satanic governments of the USA / NATO and Israel who have Christian blood on their hands and who have done everything they can to massacre and destroy Christian minorities in the Middle East. The World, the whole World needs to know this and it will know, because the truth, eventually, always triumphs over the filthy lie.
May God bless and protect Ayatollah Ali Khamenei!
Long live the Axis of Resistance!
Long live Free Palestine !!!
I forgot the link to the original article, you can find it here:
https://toranja-mecanica.blogspot.com/2021/05/sao-os-governos-satanicos-dos-euanato-e.html
Thank you!
You have to remember, soft impacts have very little meaning other than the “feel good” euphoria, that’ll last approximately a few minutes. Israel can literally print money, courtesy of Uncle Sam and even if this fails, they still have overseas Jewish sponsors to fallback unto.
Battling Israel, almost exclusively on economic grounds will fail from attrition, that is guaranteed.
To genuinely hurt Israel, the resistance needs to brainstorm strategies that inflicts maximum damage (i.e. damage that takes time to repair and damage that compounds) whilst minimizing the damage it receives. Shooting rockets, no matter the psychological shock warfare intended is like throwing bricks at cars while standing in the middle of the road. Pure stupidity.
P.S. Observe past Yemeni strikes on Saudi Arabia. They used their brains.
Since the beginning of recorded time, this piece of real estate has been fought over. No matter who tells the story , they have been fighting over this particular piece of dirt since the beginning. Ever solution imaginable has been purposed and countless money spent. At this time there is only one solution and that is for the rest of the human race to become distant from this problem. However it is, those of us that do not have the blood of Abraham in us should refuse to partipate in this unending struggle. If we must, we should build a fence around the disputed territories. Then the rest of us can have some peace. All you sons of Abraham, will be issued guns, ammo food fuel, what ever you need. You can go into this disputed place, and let the best man win. As for me, the rest of us would be happier if all you sons of Abraham line up across for each other and fire a once. Like a duel of honor.
Don’t worry, in about eighty years the world will be choking on atmospheric air having a carbon dioxide in the air concentration of about 1000 parts per million. People will cease to think straight, and in all probability won’t be able to throw a missile or drop a bomb. Question is what will such a concentration do to human fertility and the future of the human race? So, in the big picture, all this fighting over one dry, over-baked, strip of land is so very petty.
Whoever wants that miserable piece of earth let them have it. Who ever wants to fight over it, let them have at it.
Hindhu Indians unambiguously support Israel – even in situations like today’s.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/18/bjp-expresses-solidarity-with-israel-as-gaza-bombing-continues
Hindu nationalists like Modi is making India Hindhu. They are blinded by a hatred of Islam …
So sad … to see Palestinians treated thus … by Israel and India.
The Israelis are also destroying hospitals and roads accesing these hospitals…if more was needed to confirm this is a willing genocide of a people.
Then, whatever the origins of Hamas, what the Palestinians are expected to do, to remain throwing stones while their land and homes, their way of living are stolen?
Sensibility of the Western people has never proven to exert any pressure for the conflict to be solved.
That sensibility, not able to produce any change in the regreatable condiitons of life of the Palestinian people, unless a bust of support, is, after the very Western people has been submitted to a ashock doctrine through a year of pandemic and its “measures”, resulting in the aplication of apartheid conditions to the Western people resisting the techno-meducal dictatorship being unleashed, at its lowest.
This is why Israel took advantage of the moment to start what it knew would be unsurmontable provocations to make the final assault on the Gaza strip and East Jerusalem, by far the hardest places to take over, in a confluence of the most weakest US administration with the weakest and most subservient to US interests in the EU after a year of “creative destruction” through the “virus”…
I have the feeling that Turkey and Morocco will act as arietes in the take over of the whole Mediterranean, independently of Turkey statements with regard what us going on right now in Gaza.the last movements by Turkey and Morocco so indicate.
To see whether Spain puts itself the battery and wake up.
The US and the West are in an alliance with the Zionist state. I don’t need to keep reading articles to know that.
However, what is the responsibility of the nuclear powers within the international community like Russia and China towards the atrocities committed by the Zionists ?
Russia and China are very close friends and allies of Israel.
Summary of US policy in the ME…
https://twitter.com/ciudadfutura/status/1394736523619172352
And in the Mediterranean…
https://twitter.com/jmvillarroya/status/1394659605372866560
“Peaceful immigrants”…onky wanting to find a better life….in the same line of “moderate rebels” in Syria…looking for “democracy”
https://twitter.com/Herbert_Keg/status/1394615863244886018
The take over of Western Sahara and for what it seems, genocide of Saharaui people through denying them heath attention anywhere, which constitutes the last obstacle for the take over, as the whole Spanish government as well as Spanish Monarch just express “concern”, is part of the project for “Great Morocco” sustained by the US and Israel to control de Mediterranean and its riches, as part of the other side of the project “Great Israel”, which imposse “Pax Judaica” to the whole world, Europe, Africa and Asia through the ME.
I am afraid that appeasement of Israel is about as useful as appeasement of other historical figures. Netanyahu in particular will only ever respond to existential threats to his life, the life of his MPs and the life of his children.
Netanyahu is not a principled man, he is a ‘Israelis have absolute rights, Palestinians have no rights’ man. That is what we in the west would call a racist. No pussyfooting about that: Netanyahu is a lifelong committed RACIST.
You only have to see the monstrous racism of his son speaking on video to know that his views have been disseminated downward.
Jewish racism is taboo in Western conversation. You are not allowed to suggest it, discuss it, evaluate it.
No-one is saying that all Jews are racist, although all Jews who intrinsically think Jews to be superior to the Goyim ARE indubitably racist. That is the very definition of racism and it is to be found amongst the more ‘radical’ of Muslims too. They think that kuffars are indisputably inferior too.
So really, what you have in the middle east is an attritional conflict between two sets of racists, with millions of non-racist ordinary people suffering as a result.
It really is time that the enormous numbers of ordinary people disintermediated the various governments and starting talking to each other about their commonalities: their capability to love another, to protect and love their children, their joy in artistic expression, their love of socialising around a well prepared meal etc etc.
Ordinary Palestinians and ordinary Israelis have far, far more in common than Netanyahu and Hamas, Iranian clerics and Saudi Princes.
It’s about time that they did something about that….
“US and the West Supports Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity”
Since you include the statement above you apparently believe that it is necessary to do so, as if it was an exception/exceptional, whilst reliance on absolutes is an attempt to deny time and obfuscate opportunities of transcendence.
Coercive social relations, not to be conflated with constructs of “political geography”, require regular examples and practices of coercion, including emulatory practices in response by their “opponents”, to facilitate the continuation of coercive social relations.
Coercive social relations are enhanced through solidarities with those “benefiting” in varying degrees from coercive social relations, the variation of degrees of benefit derived facilitating competition undermining “solidarities”, whilst increasing “solidarities” and coercion by the remnant “solidarities” against the previous “solidarities” that are no longer, facilitating competing blocks of “solidarities” both externally and internally transcending “political geography” and coercive social relations.
Such are accelerated through time by some seeking to deny time facilitating opportunities of rendering the quote :
“”US and the West Supports Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity”
as
Nowhere – Nowhere and nowhere supports nowhere’s actions against humanity since humanity cooperates.
since some are not stupid enough to chase after illusions such as the end of history, full spectrum dominance, hegemony and exceptionalism, but are wise enough to attempt to catalyse the transcendence of equal but different which precludes equal, by equal and different which facilitates equal, difference, cooperation and life.
Israel is only a means to an end, a way of fulfilling the goals and promises of the Jew religion to the Jew people. What are the ultimate goals of the Jew religion and the Jew people and why is it no Jew will tell us? What are they up to? Does anybody know or care?
If the goal was to live in peace according to Gods laws that could have been done long ago. Something else is desired. What?
RE: Robert Browning on May 19, 2021 · at 7:35 am EST/EDT
“Israel is only a means to an end”
Perhaps a more useful hypothesis to test would be the following.
“Israel” is a moment in space/time of a lateral process of transcendence, which through interaction with many may facilitate the purposes of many not yet fully perceived, given that change is a constant whose interacting momentary phenomena include trajectory and velocity.
since
“If the goal was to live in peace according to Gods laws that could have been done long ago. Something else is desired. What?”
is integrated in notions of sole/prime agency within which some of “Israel” are immersed since
” Coercive social relations are enhanced through solidarities with those “benefiting” in varying degrees from coercive social relations, the variation of degrees of benefit derived facilitating competition undermining “solidarities”, whilst increasing “solidarities” and coercion by the remnant “solidarities” against the previous “solidarities” that are no longer, facilitating competing blocks of “solidarities” both externally and internally transcending “political geography” and coercive social relations.”
…”since some are not stupid enough to chase after illusions such as the end of history, full spectrum dominance, hegemony and exceptionalism, but are wise enough to attempt to catalyse the transcendence of equal but different which precludes equal, by equal and different which facilitates equal, difference, cooperation and life.”
rendered so for ease of those immersed in “game theory” or soccer players, or others who realise that it is not wise to pass the ball behind your “team mate” to reach goals.
Amazing! To me the issue is really very simple and straight forward. Palestine will be liberated the day the West in general and the US in particular, are kicked out of the ME. It doesn’t matter whether it’s done through a decisive action of the “Knights in Shining Armor” (Russia, China and Iran), or because of their own self cannibalization to the point of loosing all capacity to project power, but at that precise moment the Israeli entity will cease to exist and the entire land returned to Palestine. The Jews will have to renounce all illegal properties and either leave or behave as normal neighbors in a community instead of demi-gods. Or else get exterminated. As I mentioned elsewhere on this site, I believe that moment is much closer than many would care to acknowledge.
This is not some ideological statement I’m making. The fact is that a two state solution is, to say it bluntly, ridiculous. Two heads can never govern one body, anymore than two bodies can be governed by the same head. No matter the cosmetics, Israel is an entirely Zionist entity, and as such recognizes no legitimacy but its own. If Israel ever wanted to be inclusive, there would have never been any need for Palestine to be called Israel.
Also the notion that the UN could or even should solve the problem is just as risible, when one inspects its premises. It assumes for instance that the UN has power, which is does not. For that it would need to have under its direct command the overwhelmingly most powerful army, which requires the power of world taxation, which requires direct command of the overwhelmingly most powerful army… So the UN is and always will be nothing but a negotiating platform within a set of “freely” agreed upon rules (UN charter). And thanks God this is so, for it would truly be a dark day when a single entity can rule upon men. Besides, the “work of God” or “Mother Providence” never did require any UN resolution, did it?
‘Besides, the “work of God” or “Mother Providence” never did require any UN resolution, did it?”
Amen to that!
now, somebody forward that comment to Putin/Lavrov and tell them to shove
their “international law” up their a$$es and go in and protect the Donbass people,
Russians… instead of hiding their inaction behind “man made and man-agreed international laws”
(e.g. Ukraine is sovereign blablablah)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-lives-matter-hamas-terrorists-israeli, it’s a start!~
About war-crimes–that’s a phony issue. The US only allows war-crimes to be defined by itself and, as the center of the Empire, their definition outranks any other. War-crimes as defined by the Nuremberg criteria and the Geneva Conventions on war have no meaning other than an interesting historical record of a different era in world-history. “International law” no longer exists in any meaningful way. Thus Israel can slaughter, torture, dispossess who it pleases without any danger of being held to account. That is the reality that will not and cannot change as long as the Washington Empire exists which, contrary to many stories on this blog and elsewhere, is in no danger of dissolving. The media of the English speaking-world and all of Europe all support, with only a few murmurs here and there, Imperial policies thus is no real support for the Palestinian cause that has any heft. The Arab “street”, and Muslims around the world may have sympathy for the Palestinian cause but none of these countries except Iran and Syria will raise a hand to help the Palestinians other than some symbolic gestures here and there–only a handful of countries want to fall into Washington’s bad graces. All Washington has to do is crack the whip and tell the national leaders in the “international community” what to do and where to stand (fully allowing phony gestures and crocodile tears for the Palestinians) and they obey.
It’s fashionable around here to tout the power of Russia and China but they are not yet ready for prime-time as a solid opposition to the Empire and Israel. The fanatical Zionism of many America Jews on Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley have almost endless amounts of money to spread bribes and some heavy-duty sticks to use against dissidents in Washington both in Congress and the foreign policy bureaucracy. As for the American people, they simply don’t care or don’t know or don’t care to know about what happens in other countries. There is never any change, there will be no change, and cannot be any change in US/Israeli relations in the foreseeable future. UN Security council resolutions mean virtually nothing.
At noon today, the tenth day of the war, the Palestinian resistance has launched a new round of attacks against the Zionist state in retaliation for IDF airstrikes against Gaza. Some settlements have been targeted, but the main brunt of the attacks were directed against military sites.
Eshkol, where two Israelis were killed yesterday, has been struck again, with seven confirmed hits today.
Qassam brigades report that Ashkelon has been struck with multiple rockets.
Saraya al-Quds brigades report extensive attacks on Tel Aviv.
Ashdod and Beersheba have been struck. The Zionist media is reporting 5 targets hit in Beersheba.
Islamic Jihad is reporting that they have struck the Meitav headquarters with Badr-1 rockets.
Nir Oz military base has been shelled.
The Nasser Salah al-Din brigades report that they have shelled a position East of Rafah where IDF forces were amassed.
Sufa military base has been shelled and struck with rockets.
Kissufim military base has been shelled.
Hatzerim Airbase and Re’im military base have been struck with rockets.
More sites have been struck today than what has been listed.
We are witnessing the tenth day of a conflict that has become a stalemate, so far. The Resistance says it will continue to respond to airstrikes against Gaza with rockets. And the IDF has been carrying out airstrikes daily trying to destroy missile launch pads, which they have failed at so far.
In order to stop resistance rocket attacks, the Zionist regime must either back off and stop the airstrikes against Gaza, or they have to put boots on the ground in Gaza and stop the rockets themselves.
What will the Zionist regime do?
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/02/29/140002291721399522809104.jpg
Thank you so much for these updates. So, what will the Zionist regime do?
“Netanyahu suggests Israel could reoccupy Gaza
23 minutes ago
Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested Israel could reoccupy the Gaza Strip to rid the besieged enclave of Hamas.
Speaking to a group of foreign diplomats, the prime minister said the ongoing Israeli bombing in Gaza sought to “degrade Hamas’ capabilities, their terror capabilities, and degrade their will”.
But, he added, further escalation was possible.
“There are only two ways that you can deal with them,” Netanyahu told the ambassadors at a military base in Tel Aviv.
“You can either conquer them, and that’s always an open possibility, or you can deter them, and we are engaged right now in forceful deterrence, but I have to say we don’t rule out anything.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-palestine-sheikh-jarrah-jerusalem-update
You’re welcome, amarynth.
The Qassam brigades have unveiled the al-Zawari surveillance drone today. It is named after Mohammad Zawari, assassinated by Mossad in 2016.
Footage captured by the drone can be seen here:
https://tn.ai/2506293
It has flown many missions in this war, identifying Zionist targets, and watching the movements of the IDF.
Air raid sirens in Acre, al-Jalil, and Haifa, in Northern Israel. Four missiles reportedly fired at Haifa. Probably Islamic Jihad.
The Resistance is challenging the Zionist regime to invade Gaza.
There is a peace plan that China is pushing for, and lo and behold, the Pelosian shriek of “let’s boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic games” thundered to the four corners of the lands of the Gentiles.
What about the conservative brethren then? I mean other than the Christian Zionist Trump Forever washouts. Any takers? Nope. “Wuhan bioweapon” they scream in unison.
I stopped visiting many alternative media sites because most if not all conservatives appear to have taken the bipartisan anti-China bait. Likewise I have visited The Saker’s comments section less as the infestation is tiresome to wade through.
Do you conservatives never question why the sudden mushrooming of anti-China conspiracy theories happened after Biden ousted Trump, not before? Duh?
It’s a stroke of Khazarian genius. The Wuhan lab conspiracy theory dampens conservative support of a multipolar world.
Today the Zionists are screaming “Chinese anti-Semites” into the skull of every goyim over a CGTN report that accurately stated that “Jews” dominate Western finance, media and internet.
You are manipulated to either see Russia as the bogeyman, or see China as the bogeyman, or worse: the uber-goyim who sees both as existential pestilences.
Ashkenazim divide and rule 101.
https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/05/18/wuhan-labs-zionism-rapture-and-the-british-creation-of-synthetic-cults-why-china-is-not-your-enemy/
Thank you Mr. Koenig.
This is indeed, in the larger picture, probably the greatest existential threat ever faced by humanity.
The root issue here, which still is not really discussed (even here), is the extremist supremacist ideology of Rabbinical Talmudism.
Everywhere in the empire, most of humanity is being cowered into becoming “Palestinian“, wherever they live.
The only difference between other extreme supremacist affiliation, is that this Rabbinical Talmudism affiliation, acting as a trans-national collective, has achieved a highly leveraged suasion over all key authority for both policy creation and implementation in all subsumed empire vassal nations.
The neo-nation state entity occupying Palestine is only the world-wide military base, where activities normally only available to nation states are being conducted; as opposed to the drag of having to keep secret similar activities in sublimated nations.
However, while the majority of people can clearly see the open genocide, denied… in all the required places, these activities are 100% consistent with the ideological directives of this collective, available in the Talmud.
That supremacist ideology, at the core, upon a platform of mutual reciprocated acknowledgement of inclusion between individual and the group, requires:
a. difference and separateness from humanity
b. superiority to humanity (by divine charter, no less)
c. exclusivity of rights to affiliates only (all others considered actually sub-human and meant to serve… the group
Even if this group was completely cleared out of Palestine, the existential threat will remain, so long as this supremacist ideology exists on the planet.
Exposing the available facts about the ideology, and the facts concerning the 2500 years of terrorism conducted against the nations of humanity by this cult of hatred is the critical outcome that is required to build adequate motivation by the people of humanity to develop and implement policies to eradicate such pernicious supremacist ideologies.
To be clear, individuals are people, but the cumulative entity, also sometimes imperfectly referred to at culture must be destroyed. It’s this entity that will either be destroyed, or all shall perish, (including all of the practitioners of this ideological hatred). All reformed practitioners need to be accommodated for within humanity, should they reject the acknowledgement of inclusion with the group.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-tells-netanyahu-he-expects-significant-de-escalation-today/ar-BB1gUhyW?ocid=msedgdhp
Careful perusal of info (mostly Zionist Media mis-info), indicates that Palestinians are putting up a better RESISTANCE than ever before. Therefore, Zionist Land Thieves & their puppets are (temporarily) backing off their Program of Completely Genociding the Palestinian People. Apparently, their Corona/Covid Planned-emic cannot be reliably targeted to disrupt/incommodate only specific/targeted Nations.
Gotta love that Corrupt Traitor – Ukraine Biden, who serves Indicted-Netenyahoo, & the Masters of all, Sauron-Rothschild/s.
Peter Koeing: For God’s sake; Will you repeat after me? “I am not an Anti-Semite, I like Arabs.” The overwhelming majority of Jews are NOT SEMITES. Semites are peoples from the Middle East. Your article has some good portions, but you misdirect – (or concede) many vitally important points of information/identification – to the enemy.
It is precisely the pretense, the claim of the Zionist Land Thieves, led by such Oligarchs as the Rothschilds, to be, to have some legitimate claim to the Homeland of the Palestinian Arabs, (because they are supposed to be “Semites” peoples of Semitic origin), that must be exposed as utter lying distortion of History. Why do you pretend not to see such an obvious fact as easily documented National/Ethnic residency?
The Jewish-Zionist settlers are just that. They came from somewhere else. The precipitators of WWs I & WW II, with the following and the false Holocaust narrative, have succeeded in converting the Palestinian People into becoming- TheFinal Victims of World War II.
Those who write essays, opposing “Crimes Against Humanity – Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict” should get their facts right. How do you understand, if you are not “Understanding” (correctly identifying), who are the peoples you are writing about?
In America, we Patriots have a duty to Restore our Republic, destroyed on November 22, 1963, along with our Last Constitutional President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
God Bless all at this forum, including its creator!
Durruti – alias Dr. Peter J. Antonsen
A question that is rarely asked, if ever: What is Hamas’ role in this never-ending Israeli-Palestine conflict? Since 2007 Hamas is officially governing the 2-million-plus population of the 363 square kilometer Gaza Strip. Hamas is also the Palestine paramilitary or defense organization. Hamas is said to be funded largely by Iran. Is it true? And if so, is Iran the only funder of Hamas?
It is odd, however, that ever so often, Hamas attacks Israel by launching unsophisticated rockets at Israeli cities, rockets that most often are intercepted by the IDF defense system, or cause minimal damage. But they cause, predictably minimal damage against an IDF which is US-equipped with the latest technology weapons- and defense systems.
Yet, a Hamas attack on Israel prompts regularly a ferocious retaliation; bombardments, not so much aiming at Hamas, as Netanyahu intimidates, “We would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and other terror groups…” , but at the civilian populations. The heaviest casualties are civilian Gaza citizens, many women and children among them, after an Israeli “self-defense” retaliation. This is of course no self-defense. The Hamas attacks usually follows an Israeli provocation.
Why would Hamas hit back, knowing that they won’t wreak any damage on Israel, yet they will trigger each time a deadly massacre on the Gaza population? – At the outset, Israeli provocations look like “false flags”. Could they be false flags with the willing participation of Hamas? If so, with whom does Hamas collaborate?
Even the mainstream American and Zionist media admit that Israel helped to create the Muslim Brotherhood outfit called Hamas, as a way to subvert the secular Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
This was during the Cold War, and it is similar to how America and the West helped to create Al-Queda and Osama Bin Laden, whom they claim to be “fighting” against today in the fiction called the War on Terrorism.
Hamas Israel’s own creation
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hamas-israels-own-creation/
How Israel helped create Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123275572295011847
More recently, Hamas and Israel were effectively on the same side in the ongoing Western-backed Islamicist war against Syria and its Shiite allies like Iran and Hisbolla–though Hamas has recently tried to restore relations with the Axis of Resistance.
Syria says no to restoring ties with ‘terrorist-supporting’ Hamas
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/syria-no-to-restoring-ties-with-terrorist-supporting-hamas-592149
Pull fighters out of Syria, Hamas urges Hezbollah
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/06/17/pull_fighters_out_of_syria_hamas_urges_hezbollah.html
Hamas says its Iran ties worsen over Syrian civil war
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-hamas/hamas-says-its-iran-ties-worsen-over-syrian-civil-war-idUSBRE95I0W220130619
@Anonymous (the one who wrote): “Hamas says its Iran ties worsen over Syrian civil war”
Hamas (Sunni sect) was created as part of the Anglo Zionazi Capitalist strategy to control Middle Eastern hydrocarbon resources by pitting Sunni against Shia. They broke free from their Israeli handlers but still received money from an AZC hydrocarbon company called Qatar. In return Hamas pledged allegiance to the AZC war against Shia Iran and multi-cultural Syria. Hamas have since learned the error of their ways, and are about to join the Axis of Resistance: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
“Praise be to God who set this Law in the Heavens / That humankind must learn by suffering” — Aeschyles.
If we are determined to learn no other way.
Terrific overview and background on Israel’s ongoing genocide against the indigenous Palestinian population. It is not only the US and EU vassal states- UK, France and Germany, but also Jordan and Egypt which border Israel who also have contempt (hatred?) of Palestinians. To this we can add the Gulf monarchies. These countries are all run by a venal, corrupt ruling elite, mostly hated by their people. Former President Donald Trump was correct when he said Saudi Arabia’s King Salman (aka MBS) ‘would not last two weeks’ without US support. The US has been almost continuously at war since 1940. This has been going on so long that war, murdering people to steal their resources are perfectly legitimate activates, readily supported by a majority of Americans. Israel has been armed by the US and EU, who are equally culpable of the ongoing genocide in Gaze. The UN functions as a de facto ‘collection agency’ for US imperialism. Truly Pathetic!
Yes very valid points. The Israeli aggression must stop.
All of this is worldwide bad PR for Israel.
It only serves to damage them and their people around the globe.
The 1967 borders seem a fair resolution of the problem but some sharing of Jerusalem must be incorporated along with other historical Hebrew cities in Palestinian territory. Similar to Berlin in the Cold War era.
If peace is not sorted out eventually there will also be serious consequences outside Israel in the US & UK (who continue to take a one sided issue) or their interests elsewhere.
The only solution now is a one state solution were all citizens have the same rights, the two state “solution” is a deception. In a “two state solution”, who controls the borders, the army?
The state with the stronger army controls the borders. Hence the shrunken borders of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon — all states neighbouring Israel — and the “undefined” but expanding borders of Israel.
East Jerusalem is illegally occupied by the zionist entity since 1967, international law.
Pre 1967 there were NO jews residing in East Jerusalem, now they are a majority as a result of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population.
Hamas was created by the zionist entity as part of the divide-and-conquer strategy of the occupiers, however Hamas constitutes the elected government of garrisoned Gaza.
I am quite certain that the brave zionist pilots will be highly decorated for their courageous bombing of the dangerous apartment blocks in Gaza, having housed 20 media organizations. Civil- and war-criminal yahoo is fomenting this latest provocation in order to stay out of jail a little longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K84HkfUcEE
So the US is saying that they will reject a French-backed UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities between Tel Aviv and Palestinian fighters, insisting it will “undermine” efforts to reach a ceasefire.
This on RT this morning.
For understanding, I received a very good Al Jazeera documentary from 2013. Don’t let the age of it fool you, it is excellent with information that I did not know about. Highly recommended and here on Jeff J Brown’s page.
https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2021/05/19/the-real-truth-about-palestine-and-israel-its-called-genocide-and-extermination-china-rising-radio-sinoland-210519/
Ad Jeff says: “The following four-part documentary, produced by Al-Jazeera is must watching for any concerned world citizen. Part Five is not essential, but is an excellent discussion and debate by knowledgeable people about Al-Nakba, the genocidal extermination of the Palestinian people by Eurangloland (NATO, EU, Five Eyes and Israel), going back to at least 1917. It is much worse than South Africa’s former Apartheid. It’s been a slow slaughter for over 100 years.
The whole project totally changed my outlook on the situation there, so take the challenge. It is 3-4 hours of gripping cinema that you will never forget. If you are like me, you will be saddened and enraged by your newfound understanding of the real history.”
The Palestinian Resistance is reporting more attacks today, in response to Zionist savageries committed against Gaza.
Ashkelon has been struck. Air raid sirens have been reported there, and at Netiv HaAsara.
The National Resistance brigades report that they have struck Nirim with multiple rockets.
Islamic Jihad al-Quds brigades are reporting that they have shelled Kissufim military base with heavy artillery.
The al-Quds brigades also report that they have shelled Kerem Shaloum military base.
Mishmar HaNegev logistics base has been struck with rockets.
The Qassam brigades report that they have struck a bus carrying IDF troops near Zikim military base with a precision guided missile. The Zionist regime reports 1 IDF soldier injured in the strike.
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/02/30/140002301239000722815864.jpg
More sites struck today than what listed here.
From Vienna, reports are coming in that an agreement has been reached. All sanctions against Iran will be removed. It is important to note that Iran is offering nothing, conceding nothing in this new agreement.
Iran will give the Saudis and the Zionist regime peace, as long as sanctions are not reimposed. Iran will continue to arm and support the people of Yemen and Palestine. Iran will ensure peace and stability in the region, after the US imminent departure.