One of the goals of diplomacy is to use a combination of words and deeds to win the support of other countries. You know you are doing a bang up diplomatic job when even your adversaries side with you. Conversely, when you start getting push back from countries you considered allies or business partners over what you say and do then your diplomacy sucks.
I mentioned Israel’s UN Ambassador, a Mr. Erdan, in my previous post. He is a passionate guy with an incredibly grating personality. You can tell he has never worked as a salesman in his life. His approach is best described as a bulldozer running on nitro fuel. And his biting, scathing presentations are alienating countries that Israel has counted on in the past — Jordan, Turkey and China to be precise. The following three videos are the metaphorical kick to Israel’s groin. If the people of Israel and the United States ignore what these three countries are saying they will be making a grievous error and will likely take actions that will worsen the crisis.
First up is the beautiful and smart Queen of Jordan. Do you think Jill Biden is capable of carrying on this kind of discussion. Queen Rania really hit a nerve in the U.K., where the writer in the Daily Mail suffered the journalistic equivalent of an epileptic seizure:
Queen Rania of Jordan has been eviscerated today for an extraordinarily outspoken interview in which she attacked the US and Israel for striking Gaza and questioned whether Israeli babies had really been killed by Hamas on October 7.
In the interview with veteran CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour last night, Queen Rania – whose parents are of Palestinian descent but who grew up in Kuwait – said there was a ‘glaring double standard’ around the world when it came to sympathy for the war’s victims.
She made a brief concession that she ‘of course’ condemned Hamas’ killing of Israeli civilians, but spoke mostly of the need for increased support of Palestinians and a halt to Israel’s ground strikes.
Watch the video yourself and then explain what was so objectionable.
President Erdogan won’t be getting any invites from Bibi Netanyahu for this year’s Hanukkah Party after he insisted that Hamas is not a terrorist organization but a liberation movement. That turn of the phrase destroyed any chance of Turkey mediating the Israeli Hamas war. Most worrisome is that Erdogan’s latest speech is a veiled threat to intervene militarily. If that occurs, say good-bye to NATO.
There is a crude but poetic expression in English — “Don’t shit where you eat.” This means don’t take actions that will jeopardize or contaminate something that is essential to your survival. Looks like Israel dropped its trousers and did a fecal decoration of its dining table when Ambassador Erdan laced into China indirectly. Ambassador Erdan’s diatribe on Tuesday at the UN Security Council was interpreted by the Chinese as an unfair attack on Beijing. Israel, up till now, has enjoyed a robust trade relationship with Beijing. Watch the following compilation and let me know — how angry are the Chinese?
As the war with Hamas enters its third week, Israel needs more friends, not less. I am not sure what a military victory against Hamas looks like, but I do recognize a PR disaster. While Israel still enjoys robust support in the United States and parts of Europe, it is being pilloried in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
h/t Diagonal: GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) wing fragments found in hospital photographs. Bomb was probably carbon-fiber, hence little fragments found:
https://nevergonnabelievethis.net/2023/10/24/what-hit-al-ahli-hospital-in-gaza/
I have been saying this for a while now. A GB-39 set for an air burst made the most sense from the sound and explosion patterns, and the casualty figures.
GB-39 has a programmable fuse.
I still want to know who happened to have a cell phone pointed at the area and managed to keep it relatively steady during the explosion.
They lost the PR game in the first few days and it’s only getting worse
Speaking of worse:
They are killing people on the West Bank right now. These guys want a ME war, a big one. https://patriots.win/p/17rSxOjABl/massive-israeli-invasion-of-the-/
They were shooting up the West Bank the other day as well, this was on October 13, 2023 “Settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday. At least two Palestinian villages have been entirely depopulated. ”
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/13/israel-settlers-gaza-palestinians-west-bank/
A fact highlighted by this graphic:
https://countingthekids.org/
“At least two Palestinian villages have been entirely depopulated.”
Israeli have depopulated 43 towns around the border with Lebanon and Gaza. So in that department things are looking bad for Israel too. Will those settlers of lands that have been stolen return to unsafe locations?
Queen Rania of Jordan is such an intelligent and beautiful woman, with her heart in the right place, and a clear understanding of Justice. Human rights and justice are for all people. I’m impressed.
If her comments have hit a nerve in Britain, It must have struck some Ashke-NAZIs in the city of London who tries to ban Palestinian flags to be shown publicly. That is not the Britain we know here up North.
WE stand with the Palestinians like the Celtic fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAGeIn3qWI
Unfortunately for Israel, she has the quintessential visage of a martyr.
The gatekeepers will have to double down on purging her image.
Queen Rania of Jordan is an intelligent woman, with her heart in the right place, and a clear understanding of Justice. Human rights and justice are for all people. I’m impressed.
If her comments have hit a nerve in Britain, It must have struck some Ashke-NAZIs in the city of London who tries to ban Palestinian flags in public. That is not the Britain we know here up North.
WE stand with the Palestinians like the Celts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAGeIn3qWI
Stop censoring my posts!
To whom exactly are you trying to give orders?
I can see both ya posts M8. And what an AWESOME display & sound at Celtic FC. Unreal !!
They lost the PR game a long, long time ago.
Here’s a great rant over an older PR game they’ve already lost.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DZFD9eziK27h/
Everything that’s been stewing in me since 1999.
Can we really believe anything Israel or Hama’s says? I don’t. Let me tell you something, as a veteran I am appalled at the brazen action of a ruthless murderer who secretly hates anyone NOT “Jewish.” I am talking about Netanyahu. Israel attacked the USS Liberty, has never apologized and continues to look down their long, extended nostrils at the rest of the world. Israel is an apartheid state whose goal is to cleanse and erase the Palestinian people.
Can anyone tell me the last time Israeli soldiers suited up to help the U.S.? When was the last time they contributed any equipment to us? They are good only at spying on us. Their agents come here and tell us we are anti-semites when we call them out for their horrendous human rights record at their border. They bitch (ADL, ACLU, etc.) and complain that we don’t let enough migrants in? Why? They love to create chaos in other countries for some odd reason. Why? They are the main hub for propaganda! Furthermore, to be an anti-semite you must have animosity towards Semitic people. Most of these “Jewish” people are of Eastern European descent and are therefore not Semitic at all. They try to hijack anything that is good and turn it into evil. They lie, steal, and cheat.
To think I used to defend these asshats until I woke up to the real smell of rotten coffee.
I’ve found a soulmate.😂
Better to wake up late than never wake up. Welcome to the club Bad Breath.
That only took 0.37 seconds on google to debunk. I suggest complaining about LBJ, he’s the one who called off the retaliatory airstrike.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/israel-attacks-uss-liberty
LBJ’s family was Jewish – indeed, he was the first Jewish President of the USA – and more importantly, an ardent, committed Zionist. He also provided cover for JFK’s assassination on behalf of Israel who believed that the Kennedys represented an existential threat against Israel due to their stance against Israel’s nuclear programme.
Firstly, both Google and the History channel are left wing garbage! Secondly, you are trying to discredit the very testimony of the valiant veterans who survived the unprovoked attack. BTW, there was 34 Americans killed…. not 9!
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-survivors-of-uss-liberty-look-answers-55-years-later.html
I bet you got your “left wing” definition from Google.
Google is big money, aka capital. It as capitalistic as it gets.
Nothing wrong with capitalism. It’s when you buy a monopoly license from the MIC that twerks Adam Smith’s ‘tache.
Nothing wrong with capitalism as long as you redefine the word to whatever you want it to mean at specific moment. When capitalism does evil things, you just call it left wing, and instantly make nothing wrong with capitalism. Google would confirm, and dumbasses would buy it. Poor people praising capitalism is like chicken praising KFC.
Capitalism in theory is benign and simply means putting capital to work by the most efficient means possible in a multiplier effect of creating more capital. The most efficient use of capital is where most capital ends up, IN THEORY. Capital flows redirected for political, militaristic, monopolistic purposes are suboptimal, subsets of capitalism that in their first stage of development are defined as corporatism. If left unchecked they may devolve in a more severe second stage to fascism, a malignant marriage of corporate and government interests and the third and final stage, the fully inefficient variant of communism where the state controls and makes decisions concerning all property, public and private and private property (and capital) cease to exist.
I’m just blathering off the top on my head, but hey, aren’t we all in one way or another?
The simple moral of the story, I guess – is…. don’t always look to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sometimes it makes no sense to do (capitalism), sometimes it does (unipolarity).
I know nothing about the subject matter, but using Google to debunk stuff sounds like a satire, and so does posting a History channel link.
“Debunk” and “Google” do not belong in the same sentence, like CIAPedia and the truth
‘Integrity Initiative’, the British oxymoron of the decade.
What’s been debunked, that Israel never apologized? That’s a long stretch, don’t you think?
Colin Powell apologized for his sugar crystals in a tube too.
Little did he know…wink wink.
I do love when sensible everyday ‘Muricans aren’t blinded by the Jew propaganda and rhetoric. Palestinians are more Semite than the vast majority of Jews as you have pointed out. It is the Jews who are anti-semitic.
Israel is the world’s biggest terrorist state. Has been for 70 plus years. Supported by the second biggest, the USA. Israel keeps pushing and they are going to have a can of Whupass opened up on them. And there is nothing the USA will be able to do to stop it. Say bye bye to however many Carrier groups and troops deployed to the Middle East, USA. Better load up on the body bags and dig more plots at Arlington.
Well said. Not once has the death of close to 2 million Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians or Lebanese been characterized as acts of antisemitism, although the victims are more semitic than the European migrants in Israel.
I am hopeful that more and more citizens of the world will wake up to the danger that Israel represents to the world and humanity.
It is happening. Recognition of a most important contributor to this awakening must be given to the Israeli government, Jewish religious authorities and Jews in “diaspora” (esp. in the US and UK) for their statements interpreting Israel’s genocide as “self-defense.”
Ya, “Self Defence” for an illegal, immoral land-grab that has been the openly stated Zionist objective for over 100 years, to fulfill a “prophesy” in a bunch of writings, which no one knows who wrote them. And those writings are largely made-up, self-congratulatory bullshit and retelling of regional mythology which LONG predate the Ancient Hebrews and their “chosen” religion.
The Abrahamic religions have spread their poisonous, contradictory beliefs around the world to the detriment of nearly every culture it infiltrated or invaded.
But if you dare point this fundamental flaw out, you are “antisemitic”… except Semites are those who speak SEMITIC LANGUAGES. Arabic is a Semitic language, and its native-speakers outnumber native-Hebrew speakers by orders of magnitude…
So most current Jews are not born to native-Hebrew speaking families. Most current Jews also have zero genetic connection to the Ancient Hebrews.
ISRAEL IS A CONSTRUCT, A SCAM, A CYNICAL PLOY TO GRAB LAND THEY CAN’T OBTAIN BY LEGAL MEANS. Britain never had the legal right to write/ratify the Balfour Declaration, especially knowing from past performance that the Zionists would not honour the provisions protecting the Palestinian people. This was then compounded by the UN/US/UK by force handing Palestine to the Zionists in 1948.
And the insanity has metastasized to the WW3-trigger we see today.
But if the Zionists really want a WW, they may get their wish for an Armageddon where Israel is wiped from the map, and the Rothschild/WEF/Zionist Project with it.
After 4,000+ years of this whiney Jewish BS, the world is DONE with it. Get along or GO AWAY. Stereotypes exist for a reason, and it is no fluke that Jews have had a ruthless, subversive reputation since forever. Even Shakespeare put to paper what we are admonished against even THINKING today. If the Jews only found discrimination in a couple cultures, it would seem to be the fault of those cultures. But the Jews/Zionists have managed to eventually alienate every culture they came in contact with. That’s more telling than any other measure.
“The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you.” This shit doesn’t make itself up.
A P said: “Most current Jews also have zero genetic connection to the Ancient Hebrews.”
The truth is that the ancient cities in the Israel area (from around 2000 years ago) were all Greek.
And their ruins are still there for you to visit.
http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1175
Even these two ancient stone blocks from the “second temple” in Jerusalem carry inscriptions in Greek. Have a look:
‘…Jews in “diaspora”’
The diaspora only exists because they were driven from their homes by various conquerors.
If the Israelis were defeated fair and square, why aren’t the ‘Palestinians’ being defeated fair and square?
Manischewitz is the enemy of the brain
“Driven from their homes by various conquerors”? How far back are you going to make that statement and what records are you referencing?
Babylonian records show that the Jews taken there were largely from the ruling/technocratic class, joining long-existing Jewish communities and were provided for by the Babylonian state. Some were in the royal court as advisers etc. Those records also show those Jews were all not (if any) slaves, as they owned land and were witnesses in legal matters… slaves can’t do that. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/exhibits-events/tablets-of-jewish-exiles/
One wonders why King Cyrus sent the Jews packing? Couldn’t be because they were more trouble than they were worth? (end sarc) Just like the Brits/US/UN hoped giving the Zionists a big chunk of Palestine would solve the Jewish Problem in their countries?
Please also note that other Semitic groups were also taken captive by the Babylonians, so the Jews were not singled out due to their particular religion/ethnicity. They were just in the way of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Empire expansion.
The Romans did the most to raze ancient Jerusalem, depose the rulers and kill/disperse the Jewish population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
There are countless ancient ethnic/religious groups that have had their ancestral lands over-run or taken by force, and they don’t seem to get the same unquestioning US/ZATO military support.
Until recently, the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims were the overwhelming majority in the Levant, and for OVER 10 CENTURIES. The Jews could have peacefully coexisted, but no. They have their Zionist-minority within the Jewish diaspora BS Torah/Talmud terrorists demanding their “prophesies” be fulfilled, by violence if the locals don’t like it. Backed by the Rothschild $billions (trillions?).
Were there Anti-Jewish issues worldwide? Absolutely. Ghettos and the like persisted for centuries. But some of that was self-imposed, Jews being a particularly cliquish group.
In Canada restrictive covenants in land deeds were challenged all the way to the Supreme Court in the late 1930s, the plaintiff won, but not on the grounds of human rights, but on the grounds that a person’s race was too difficult to ascertain. So in practical terms, illegal, but not illegal by statute. But Germans and Japanese faced the same discrimination, the Jews were in 3rd place in Canada.
So no, not buying that canard.
It’s really not Israel per se. It’s just that stick in a beehive thing.
Ashkenaz descended from Jeptha, not Shem, so it’s impossible to claim Semite birth right. I’m with you on the wakey wakey. This is the synagogue of Satan mentioned in Revelation four. Even Jesus called them out in Matthew as children of ole slewfoot! As this knowledge goes viral worldwide these demons are mashing the big red nuclear panic button. So far it appears to have a short in it but I’m sure they are working diligently to rewire it.
Mossad is in Ukraine, “helping”.
Just thought you should know they are part of the “International Coalition” helping out in Ukraine.
Blessings
L
Yep, almost as weird as Poles helping out Banderites.
Goes to say, time heals all wounds, to make room for new ones.
You forgot to mention that our good friend Israel had prior knowledge about 9/11, but, debcided not to tell us. Why? Because they thought it would benefit Israel.
And what about all the wars in the past 20 years where US blood and treasure were used for the benefit of Israel. Richard Perle’s Clean Break Plan was developed for Netanyahu in 1996. The plan was to sow conflict in the Midddle East by settting factions against each other to weaken Israel’s enemies. After 9/11, Perele and his fellow neocons pushed for the Iraq invasion which fit right in with his plan.
https://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/06/29/clean-break-to-dirty-wars/
Actually, this started in 1982 with what’s called the Oded Yinon Plan, purportedly written by an Israeli professor, but in fact probably written by shadowy figures in the Zionist government and then given to Yinon to publish as a “cut-out” because the government wasn’t ready to tip its hand. In 1998, PNAC, the infamous cabal of neocons spearheaded by Robert Kagan (perhaps better known as Victoria Nuland’s husband) basically copied the Yinon Plan and made it their plan. And then Bush the Shrub made it US policy. This stuff has a long history and it’s more interconnected than you could maybe imagine.
first time I’ve ever spoken well of Bad-Breath 🙂
in all seriousness, 100% in agreement with all you wrote. as a young Native who rarely questioned the political and media narrative I identified with Israelis. Growing up I realized it was the Palestinians who were being subjected to what was done to us.
well said sir.
Hey BB, you should tell us what you really think . . . 😉
Yep – sooner the world wakes up to what’s really going on the better. Aerosol Ivermectin ??
*** “In the past couple of days, several videos from UN sessions have circulated on the Chinese internet, in which the Israeli representative displayed an arrogant attitude. Israel seems to have been spoiled by several major Western powers, including the US. At times, Israel demands the immediate resignation of the UN Secretary-General, or threatens to “wipe off” Iran from the face of the earth. The world sympathizes with the hardships that the Jewish people endured during World War II and with the Israeli civilians who have come under attack in the current conflict. However, none of this grants Israel the authority to retaliate without restraint, causing the deaths of women and children. The fact is, the brutal retaliatory actions of the Israel Defense Forces are generating increasing global antipathy. Israel is depleting the world’s sympathy for it, and morally, it is transforming itself from a victim into one of the world’s most brutal inflicters.” ***
That’s the ending of a new opinion essay in the Global Times. Mr. Johnson is right about the Apartheid state burning its bridges.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202310/1300697.shtml
An Israeli Professor Emeritus whose considered the world’s greatest strategist, Martin Van Creveld warned his nation about losing the moral high ground bullying and brutalizing Palestinians. He’s being proven right.
He also made the right call on the start of Russia s SMO. He wrote, “Watch for the tents of the troop concentrations being taken down and movement away from the front.”. It’s exactly how it went down.
If a professor emeritus thinks Israel ever had the “high moral ground,” what does an ordinary Shlomo with no degree think? Whatever his rabbi tells him about the non-Jews who have no souls, I guess.
Have you ever considered tattooing a swastika on your forehead? I think it would go well with your attitude, and you would probably find a husband instantly.
What do you think in that post was untrue, exactly?
Have you considered that the not only is the NaziNaziNazi old nag you’ve been riding for more than 70 years a hobby horse filled with straw but that people you’re trying to bully now wailing victimhood, now threatening are on to you?
You have to wonder whether ariadna and other like-minded commentators (you know who you are) are a Hasbara psyop troll operation, or are actually what they appear to be: old-fashioned Jew-haters using the manifestly excessive Israeli response to the murderous attacks of 7th October as an excuse to vent their Jew-hatred.
Ariadna sound more like a jihadists wannabe to me. (S)he attacks everyone that doesn’t praise the alloha snackbar gang. Infidels beware.
@ariadna
You know, there is a proverb in my country which says “Drumovi će poželet’ Turaka, al’ Turaka više biti neće”. In English it is something like “Roads will be longing for Turks, but there will be no more Turks”. So you are right, I do feel kind of nostalgic, no more Turks to kill.
Could it be that Ariadna is a forum mole sent by the Ukrainian-Canadian Congress?
In a forum long past, I used to read the ravings of one female member of that august organization who swore fealty to Anders Breivik and wished to have his child, and you know – with the Norwegian country-club lockup and apartment style cell he enjoys, she may have been granted her wish. Wouldn’t be the first time for Norway, if you recollect the SS baby farms they once hosted.
Time will tell all, I suppose.
an incredibly grating personality
Erdan reminds me of Melnik. I wonder why that is.
I wish there was an upvote facility on this site.
He was Netanyahu‘s aide
He served in HR in Israeli Army and is a Lindsey Graham warrior
Once cornered the snarling dog emerges
above post lacks a reply button…
overall often agree with your posts Pogo, but this time your little dart, sadly, not only missed the centre 10’, but basically the whole target.
am aware of the ukranian exile circles in canada, however Adrianas status as a mole, or possibly secret visitations within the prisons of norway, is over my paygrade.
breivik was deemed sane, in order to get him legally sent to prison. in addition, the verdict prescribes him a status as… well…
so of his rockers, that any future release have to be judged ad hoc at every asking. for ever.
outside that, I invite you to discuss ‘fallback’ statistics with a criminologist, comparing US MAX prison-culture against the lovely apartmentbased softbellied scandinavian ones. there is a good snippet at youtube where a US MAX warden visits norway, and basically he do’nt belive neither the statistic nor his eyes.
I grant you the fact that ‘quisling’ is norway-derived, but the lebensborn hanky-holiday-panky resorts were situated on the northern german baltic coast. the norwegian girls fraternating with the visitors, got their hair cut and occasionally driven out of the village.
sorry Pogo (I could not resist)
I was just funnin’ with Ariadna. Ask her, she knows.
As for those baby camps and holiday prisons, well – just consider it artistic license. Your points are valid.
me too ! -a.v.
“The fact is, the brutal retaliatory actions of the Israel Defense Forces are generating increasing global antipathy.”
Global antipathy is less important than internal pressure to the Israeli government, as long as global antipathy remains just a feeling.
Strangely enough, this arrogance and sense of entitlement is shared with the Ukrainian government. What do they have in common? Being selected by the US government as ‘chosen people’. Obviously they haven’t learned a thing from the Afghanis and (South – now defunct) Vietnamese. There must be something in the water supply.
“…veteran CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour”
Once again, I’ll make the point that clear language matters. Amanpour is not a “reporter”. She is a propagandist, a shill. She is there to flog the narrative for the PTBs and as such can only be trusted to mislead for their benefit.
Seems like the Queen knew what was up.
It’s Goebbels’ Big Lie; that’s what Amanpour does. Another talking head pushing the Big Lie. What was it, last time I caught a moment of this “reporter”, she was hosting a discussion between Hillary and Condasleeza. She has exceeded her share of the oxygen. Trying to figure out if something in what she says makes sense or has value is a trap.
You nailed it Oracle. Amanpour’s a war whore.
I have to shut Amanpour down within 2 words if I want to keep my monitor intact.
That obnoxious MSM know-it-all is just another well connected moron, same as Nuland, Kirby, Millie, Powers, Harris, all of them.
I disagree. You have to remember that some Israel ass kissing is required to make it on the air. Without it, the interview would not be aired I’m just glad that CNN provide beautiful queen Rania the opportunity to express her opinion. She did a great job of pointing out the double standard and is an excellent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause.
Starting in Feb 2022, the US, UK, EU etc. started losing the diplomatic/PR/economic/military game, that much is obvious. Now Israel is doing the same (but then again USA is its BFF so, as we used to say “back home” – “s kim si takav si” (“you are who you are with”).
This is not the question – the questions are: 1) do they recognize this and 2) do they care (most important).
The answer to 1) is probably not or at best – “maybe”. The answer to 2) is “nope”, they don’t care. At this point the gamblers are “all in”, the houses are mortgaged, the kids are not going to college and the wives have left.
And that, my friends, is the scary part. There is nobody with working EEG in the EU/EK or the WH/Pentagon/intelligence services. It has become a massive sh*t show of incompetence, virtue signaling and negative selection. I used to think the SHTF would be 10-20 years out, now I thinking at best months to two years.
Months, yes, and even two years – don’t be so optimistic.
Possibly four carrier groups now being deployed along with AD.
This scale against a militia without an air force?
Yeah. Right!.
The crazy’s are going to war with, at minimum, the entire Near East, and most likely the rest of the world.
Shit, meet fan
https://www.rokfin.com/post/153184/Biden-neocon-war-drums-beat-louder
There is near universal denunciation of Israel’s attacks on Gaza and rightly so.
It makes me wonder where were these voices during the numerous US invasions and mass-murdering spectacles?
I live the smell of manipulation in the morning…… it smells like, smells like BULL$hit.
Go to these campuses and ask these geniuses to locate Israel and Gaza on a map or ask them what is Palestine and I wage a lot they would all fail miserably
Actually these students would absolutely be able to point out Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank on the map. And they would absolutely be able to tell you the history of how Israel came to be, and the U.S. and U.K.s role in displacing Palestinians. I’m certain if you were asked that question you’d just reach for another donut and shuffle off.
That’s only because they’ve been indoctrinated by professors that since 2014, still can’t find the Donbass’ children’s graves on a map and for some reason, still insist that swastika tattoos in Ukraine are only found on adherents of the teachings of Buddha.
And it’s not a swastika it’s just Greta’s octopus.
The comment was related to Israel and Palestine. Those that cant defend their argument have a tendency to change the subject. Have another donut, and shuffle off.
How about that Fico though. Gotta hand it to him for coming out with an in your face declaration that neonazis egged on by neocons are the core cause of Ukraine’s grief.
TPTB are terrified of students taking up any cause en masse. Student uprisings accelerated the end of the Vietnam disaster as well as South African apartheid government. I participated in the latter and saw firsthand how occupying administration buildings for days on end brought out the feds but ended up triggering University divestment. Whine all you want but if the students take this up it will accelerate needed changes.
Same committed yet naive students that were indoctrinated to believe that Svoboda actually meant Freedom Party and not Social Nationalist Party founded by two Hitler aficionados. Go figure.
Ask the Native American Indians their views on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Their perspective may enlighten you. Now grab another donut and shuffle off Scooter.
@TailGunner65
I’ve now had my donut and even tried to do an about face to please you, but my darn scooter did a Baerbock 180, so back I am where I started.
Did you not know the history of Svoboda?
Oh, I know. It’s the student thing. They are cute in the flexibility of their notions, are they not? Ignore one slow-motion genocide, rally to expose another.
Now, let me guess what a Native American would say:
“Today, we are all Palestinians”. It would seem to be an obvious response, don’t you think?
Did you mean “I love the smell of manipulation in the morning”? Damn autocorrect. Love your comment.
You have forgotten all those protests against GWB’s invasion of Iraq, or the years the US was there?
I shed no tears for Saddam Hussein but the fact remains, it was a war fabricated with false evidence, making it an event with implications far beyond Iraq itself. Make of those two what you will.
The world has changed. Countries are less afraid to speak out now against the US. The Empire of Lies is losing its grip. Welcome to the multipolar world.
I think “the end is near” when the emperor and his court start believing their own lies. That’s a sign (and smell) of no return…
Israel is convinced Hamas wants to see Israel eradicated “from the river to the sea” because Hamas has said so many times, including in it’s charter.
Because of this stated intent and the attack on civilians, Israel wants to destroy Hamas.
Apparently, Israel thinks the best way to accomplish this is by a ground invasion. Hamas will fight back against any Israeli ground invasion. The bombing is to destroy some of Hamas, make the ground invasion more successful and reduce Israeli casualties during that ground invasion.
It will also, unintentionally, unavoidably and regrettably, kill innocent people in Gaza. Even more than necessary, because Hamas intentionally locates itself near schools, hospitals, etc and discourages evacuation despite warnings of impending bombing so that innocents in Gaza will be killed- and televised. The resistance will be televised with the death of Gazans and interviews by beautiful and smart queens.
The part of the beautiful and smart queen’s interview I object to is that she completely dismisses that
1) Hamas seeks the eradication of Israel
2) some of the innocents dying in Gaza do so because of Hamas
3) Israel want to minimize its own casualties in an existential fight
1) The Palestinians want their homes and land back which has been systematically stolen since 1946.
2)&3) War is Hell.
“It will also, unintentionally, unavoidably and regrettably, kill innocent people in Gaza.”
This is an intentional and regrettable lie.
Baffling that you did not get the memo about not pretending any more that Israel wants to intentionally, avoidably and despicably kill and exile all Palestinians in Gaza.
They absolutely do, their actions tell all.
Well, let me see now. If you suspect a tunnel below an occupied apartment building is used by Hamas and proceed to level the building to collapse the tunnel, I suppose you might declare that the deaths of occupants of the building were unintentional, as the building just happened to be in the way.
Interesting though, that Ukraine has this persistent habit of accusing Russia of leveling spontaneously-occupied buildings replete with spontaneous witnesses on demand in order to demonstrate war crimes.
Based on lack of rhetorical consistency, I have no idea whether Ukrainian decision-makers side with Israel or Hamas on any given day. Most likely, just their own offshore bank accounts.
Interesting how most of the world united to drive an end to apartheid in South Africa. You know, that little part about how foreign powers came in and displaced the local population at gunpoint, stole their land, then treated them like animals in their own land. Yet somehow, we are perfectly ok with how the exact same situation is Israel, and we’re all supposed to be good with it? Simply because Israel is the U.S. proxy to check power in the Middle East? I would dare to venture Native Americans living on reservations still today in the U.S. cast a sympathetic eye to Palestinians.
Actually it was the Oppenheimer Family that pulled the rug from under De Klerk
The Rupert and the Oppenheimer Families shifted their assets to Switzerland but kept ANC funded
South Africa was an Oligarch Demolition just as USA will be
With United Banksters of Switzerland’s UBS all over BlackRock’s Board the demolition will come too late for Credit Suisse. Or was Credit Suisse demolished too? Bern took on $250 billion debt recently because of SVB – maybe they know something?
Yeah, sorry, you can run with your Oppenheimer/Rothschilds schtick all you want but a massive slug of the free world was adamantly opposed to South African apartheid. I was a professional athlete at the time and I voluntarily boycotted the a major tournament over it. Along with most of my peers. Oppenheimers and Rothschilds never gave me a ring and asked me to do so. Grab another donut and shuffle off.
I thought the Israeli defense ministry was cowardly surrounded by civilians, as is the Knesset, and how could Israel place military-trained adults in Kibbutz’s with children intentionally surrounding them. Very cowardly!
They should separate those children from their parents and raise them far away from a war zone – maybe in safety in Ukraine, where Bandera Nazi’s, supported by Israel, can raise those kids safely and correctly.
/end snark/
really, it’s mindbogglingly stupid (or the height of hubris) to practice genocide when surrounded by a billion muslims and your patron is losing it. The ol’ Jewish god has in the past, wrought vengeance on the jews for thinking themselves God.
The Zionists’ first goal since it violently and illegally took Palestinian territory, killing and displacing its people, has never changed and still remains in tact – to remove by any means all Palestinians from the territory that Israel considers its God-given land – and that includes the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and Israel itself. Their other goal is to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in order that they can rebuild the Temple and begin animal sacrifices again. They will never deviate from those goals – ever.
They stole the land. And they have been stealing land in all the years since.
They killed or displaced the Palestinians living on that land who had been there for thousands of years.
They bulldozed homes, destroyed Palestinian farms and orchards – and still do to this day.
They appear in the middle of the night to invade Palestinian homes, terrorising families, beating up children and taking their fathers to prison without trial.
They shoot children – the number one cause of death of Palestinian children over the years is a bullet in the head. They shoot children playing on the beaches. They beat up, kidnap and even kill children throwing rocks at them in resistance to their occupation.
And when Palestinians like Hamas and the Palestinian people in general resist, as they have every right to do under international law, the Israelis shout about their “right to defend themselves” – bullshit, I say – the occupier has no rights, only obligations to not harm those occupied or steal their property, which Israel does and has done, as I have said, since 1948.
Israel and its supporters are a cancerous tumour on the world body. And I hope the world is finally coming to realise that.
Exactly what I have been saying for years. Don’t care if I am called a Nazi or White Supremacist. The Jews are the problem.
Jews are people who identify with Judaism. They are all over the world, and of multiple ethnicities. Zionists are Jews who believe they are entitled to the area they identify as Israel. Not all Jews are Zionists. Best under the difference.
Israel is just using Hamas as an excuse to kill even more Palestinians and steal even more of their land. Don’t forget Hamas was an Israeli creation in the first place, meant to divide and split the Palestinians.
At this point in history, if Israel does get driven into the sea, people will miss it as little as they do the Third Reich or apartheid South Africa.
Sort of makes you wonder why Netanyahu felt compelled to fund Hamas even as late as 2019. To quote HLMencken.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
How convenient for Netanyahu that Hamas exists. How else could he establish a greater Israel.
How about the Israelis just fckving LEAVE the land they stole – and never go back ?
After all, that’s what they expected the Palestinians to do.
That could be done without bloodshed. It won’t happen of course, but the bottom line is no tears for the settlers, the thieves and the murderers. (((They))) are not boxed into a corner like the victims in Gaza.
One more thing: because “international law” and the world’s governments have never done anything to stop this decades-long crime, only the worst hypocrites would blame the Palestinians for doing whatever they deem necessary to redress this huge injustice.
Is the Chinese ambassador angry? He blushes as his speech progresses. At 3:16 he even waves his right hand, the gesticulation involves anger, the loss of self-control, but the Chinese have the principle to dominate in all circumstances (especially an ambassador). Yes, the ambassador is very angry.
>>>the Chinese have the principle to dominate in all circumstances
Utter nonsense. You know less than nothing about Chia, or the Chinese.
He meant to say “self-dominate”
I have a Chia Pet at home. If only the Chinese were so domesticated.
It’s a good thing America can fight six full blown wars at a time and still have time off for summer breaks. Just no picnics under a pagoda please.
You confuse Chinese with Americans
You confuse America with the Neocons.
You confuse USA with America.
You confuse America with the Neocons
Breaking News!…. Today, they are one and the same.
ZOG
I haven’t heard a minute of Xi’s talks. Not publicly.
I’m sure there’s much more of it, but I search youtube, and not a single hit. Not a single second of Xi speaking without an intermediate on contemporaneous [in fact, any] event.
I’ll note the stark contrast between the way Israel has handled their crisis versus how Putin, Lavrov, and the Russian leadership handled the SMO.
If Israel is to be economically viable (ex: with its own domestic industry and healthy economy, as opposed to be as dependent on Western aid like Ukraine is currently), Israel is going to need to have friends in not just the US, but the whole world. Israel will also need to expand its existing industry.
In contrast to Israel, the Russians, who are much more powerful than the Israelis ever were or will be, with all of their natural resources, understood the importance of effective statecraft. The West underestimated Russian statecraft and their economy. By contrast, the West seems to overestimated the skill of the Israeli government and their ability at statecraft.
Russia has largely won the global South, much to the frustration of the US. Israel has been losing the global South and as their increasingly brutal methods gain more attention (note how Russia tried to minimize Ukrainian civilian losses), this will worsen. The poor diplomatic efforts only add fuel to the fire.
A final point is that Americans and the West lashing out at the Queen of Jordan is counterproductive. They need to win the Islamic world. This won’t help the US nor Israel’s cause. If anything, it might increase anti American sentiment.
Americans are afflicted with the manufactured mental disorder Islamophobia. They’re also Russophobia and Sinophobia.
More accurately they are afflicted with American exceptionalism.
Aside from a few like Larry, Scott R, Col McGregor, Ray McGovern- they have no idea the degree to which the world has and is turning against them.
Within 5 years America is likely to be an isolated pariah state.
As to Israel- on its current trajectory- it might not even exist. At the minimum it will be forced out of all occupied lands and likely walled off from its neighbors.
Of course given the American military build up in the region- who knows how bad this can spiral out of control.
One thing is certain- America and Israel are going to be much worse off with each passing week going forward.
USA was the biggest sponsor of Islamic extremism for decades. They were surely not afraid of them.
Americans are inflicted with Jewish controlled media. When your fed a stream of lies you usually reach the wrong conclusion.
For the latter, I recommend Sinex nasal spray with eucalyptus, to sooth the nerves.
For the middler, I recommend a super-sized six-pack of bear spray.
Yellen says we can most certainly afford to fight the Islamic World, along with the rest of the Worlds that don’t happen to march in absolute lockstep with our rules-based order, whatever we’ve decided it happens to be today.
The “tribe” needs to rally the goy troops.
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Speaking of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, I believe it was Germany’s former prime minister Shroder who came out last weekend saying it was the United States that sent Boris Johnson to Kiev in April 2022 to tell Zelensky to tear up the agreement he had made with Putin in Turkey to stop the SMO, make Ukraine neutral and to not have Ukraine become part of NATO.
500,000 dead Ukraine soldiers later, this is a testament to just how much the United States “cares” about the citizens of Ukraine.
USA cares about citizens of Ukraine just as much as of all the foreigners, which is slightly less than for it’s own citizens, and dogs.
They are just goy. They are not the precious chosen. Kill a chosen and there will be heII to pay. As Madeline Albright told you, half a million dead are worth it, when serving the goals of the puppet master.
Well, weren’t their lives sacrificed for a good cause? You know – temporarily weaken the russkies a little bit and maintain that golden unipolar moment for two little bits?
Besides, that contract the US awarded a decade ago for remodeling the base in Sevastopol to NATO standards has a penalty clause with interest for non-performance.
While both Russia and Israel started their operation as response to indiscriminate murders of civilians, there is a very big difference between how they’re conducting their respective operations.
Russians are conducting their SMO with velvet gloves, doing their best to minimize both civilian and military casualties, even the Ukries military casualties.
Israelis started their war in Gaza with the boxing gloves on (with iron weights in them) from the get-go with complete disregard of the collateral damage.
But there is an even more important difference: while the russians consider ukrainians to be their brothers, albeit very misguided by the West (the way the russians were during the ’90s), israelis view arabs in general and palestinians in particular as subhumans.
So I don’t think that anyone should be surprised by the success of Vladimir Vladimirovitch and his team, and the eventual failure of Israel and its sponsors.
It’s still early to write off the israels thou. It’ll take a lot of time and effort until they’re defeated, and a lot of innocent will die unnecessarily in the process.
“But there is an even more important difference: while the russians consider ukrainians to be their brothers, albeit very misguided by the West (the way the russians were during the ’90s), israelis view arabs in general and palestinians in particular as subhumans.”
I have many Russian friends and business partners. They don’t consider Ukrainians as their brothers. They consider them as second class Russians, in the same manner as northern Europeans look down on sourthern Europeans (i.e. Germans vis-a-vis Greeks). These are observations from much earlier than 2014.
These observations don’t undermine your main point at all. I just wanted to give my view on an often-heard premise that don’t accord with my experiences.
A friend of mine spent a few months in the Ukraine in the early 1980’s. His parents were from there and he spoken Ukrainian fluently. He was an active leftist and had no particular ethnic allegiances, the same as most Americans. He told me that what shocked him was how very much the Ukrainians hated the Russians. I wish I had asked him a lot more about it back then when he was still alive, but a lot of other stuff was going on then, like the Israeli attack on Lebanon. I didn’t realize until 2014 that Occupied Palestine and the Ukraine were on parallel tracks.
I grabbed a cab in Kiev back in 2011 and for the entire ride, the cabbie was droning on about Crimea and its woes for Ukraine, as if I were some CIA fixer he’s escorting to opposition central that would solve all his woes. I finally politely asked him to shut his trap.
They instinctively knew back then that Crimea was going to end up bringing major trouble to Ukraine. Little did they know that NATO’s designs on it would be the jackass that trouble would ride in on. I figure it this way; the ones (both foreign and domestic) who grabbed the reigns after Maidan were cunning snakes and the average Ihors on the street were just plain vanilla stupid, led by their noses to the slaughter.
How else to explain their decision to amputate a foot to treat a hangnail?
Sorry, reins – but reigns has its own flair about it. Maidan’s didn’t last long, did it.
(…negli anni 80 i suoi genitori ,probabilmente ,parlavano fluentemente…) il russo come tutti gli ucraini.
e comunque non sono mai i sentimenti dei comuni cittadini a far scoppiare le guerre; i comuni cittadini che poi in guerra ci devono andare a morire.
(…in the 80s his parents probably spoke fluent…) Russian like all Ukrainians.
and in any case it is never the feelings of ordinary citizens that cause wars to break out; ordinary citizens who then have to go there to die in war.
The typical Ukrainian mentality since 1991 has slowly been forged from feelings of helplessness stemming from its own government corruption and inability to create a viable state serving the interests foremost of its own citizens. It naturally looked to blame Russia, its largest trade partner and not surprisingly interested in keeping it that way, as it used Ukrainian dependence on it as a way to kick the Sevastopol can down the road. That’s all ended. Now it’ll have the comforting experience of total dependence on western powers and that very same feeling of helplessness, for which it will eventually blame entirely on the west, just as it found it comforting to blame Russia for so many years, instead of putting the blame smack dab where it belongs, its own inability to clean its own house.
I’ve seen nothing about the West condemning the Queen of Jordan.
I’ll tell you what I found objectionable in Amanpour’s interview of Queen Rania. The way Amanpour blew the Holocaust dog whistle. Do yourself a favor and learn about Amanpour’s bosses at CNN.
Hamas is using terrorist means against Israel? From 1946 a Zionist Terrorist organization the Irgun used terrorist means to kill Palestinians and steal Palestinian homes and land. It goes on to this day. The Zionist project is progressing. It’s the Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem. Sound familiar?
Years ago when I was a Neocon Dupe I stood with Israel unequivocally. It was before I learned the truth about the Zionists, Meir Kahane and AIPAC. AIPAC is the most powerful and influential lobby in DC and controls Congress.
Furthermore, the Hamas operation on October 7 may be terrorism but is a reaction to the abuse meted out to the Palestinians. Do you expect them to lay down and take it? Can’t you see why the asymmetric attacks like bus and restaurant bombings? They don’t have tanks or fighter bombers.
October 7 reminds me of the revolt at Sobibor.
Amanpour actually said that Hamas hostages, among whom some Holocaust survivors. Cringeworthy.
I imagine they were on Hamas’ preferential list of hostages…
I would have asked Amanpour how many of the 6,000 Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons are Nakbah survivors.
Is there really any point in asking Amanpour anything?
BTW: Is she still married to that other propagandizing putz Rubin?
No, they divorced a few years ago. Funny thing: he older she gets the more she looks like an old (which she is) Jewish (which she isn’t) harpy. Like some dog owners and their dogs.
Jordan is the natural home of the arabs calling themselves ”palestinians”.Why doesnt the queen invite the palestinians she cares so much about to go live in Jordan.No arab country wants palestinians in their country. During Black September 1970 Jordanian civil war up to 5000 palestinians were killed and 20-30 thousand fled Jordan.PLO leadership and their troops fled from Jordan[5] to Syria and finally Lebanon, where cross-border violence increased.By 1975, more than 300,000 Palestinian displaced persons lived in Lebanon.The Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990).Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon.These people are a pain in the ass.I dont want to hear about them any more.Maybe the Ottaman Empire should come back,they know how to deal with troublesome minorities,like Armenians.Have they bothered anybody in the last 100 years?Turks will know what to do with palestinians
Why don’t the Jews go back to Ukraine? They already run the damn place – or what’s left of it.
There are 2.2 million Palestinians living in Jordan, 1/5th the population and most all displaced from Palestine since 1947. If just the skim that Ukraine’s so-called leaders are pocketing from western donations were sent to Jordan instead, maybe Jordan might agree to accommodate a few more.
Palestine is the natural home of the Palestinians until the Irgun showed up in 1946. Prior to then Jews made up 10% of the population and lived peacefully with the Muslims and Christians.
If some Jew who hails from Ukraine or Russia or Brooklyn gets to tell the Palestinians that “Jordan is the natural home of the arabs calling themselves ”palestinians”.” then anybody can tell the Jews squatting on stolen Palestinian land they soaked in Palestinian blood that any country that would still have them back– `and failing that then Birobidzhan– is the natural home for them.
Why bring Turks? You have Israelis, already taking care of Palestinians since WWI.
‘Taking care?’ Pardon my French but in my neck of the woods, that is a double entendre.
Actually a multiple entendre.
i don’t want to hear your ignorance either. There were thousands of arabs living where Israel stands now. If you bothered to study history you would know but apparently you prefer to beat up on a displaced people. One could argue that Israelis are a pain in the ass. They killed Americans and you apparently are happy with that. Jews were a pain in the ass to the Romans and the Romans did exactly what you suggested. Look at the result.
Jordan needs the West Bank and Jerusalem back
Israel should withdraw and return territory to Trans-Jordan
>>>Jordan is the natural home of the arabs calling themselves ”palestinians”
You are spreading Kahanist lies that are easily disproven by even a light study of either the Bible or modern history. I don’t know if that’s because you’re meeely ignorant or outright gleeful in spreading the most vile and evil racist lies in the world—Kahanist/Zionist lies to promote and protect genocide in service of the theft of land from the indigenous inhabitants of the region.
What we call “Palestine” is called “Filistina” or “Falistina” I’m Arabic. Anyone who has read the Bible will recognize that as “The Philistines”, who occupied the larger coastal cities on up and into Phonecia and beyond as well as down to Egypt as across NorthAfrica.
Israelites settled “in the land of Canaan” among the Canaanites. Palestinian DNA has been **PROVEN** to be directly descended from 6000 year old DNA acquired from ancient Canaanite graves in Palestine.
Ashkenazi and Sephardim/Mizrahi DNA **DOES NOT HAVE ANY SUCH LINK**, thus proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that the Palestinian people—as implied by the ancient Arabic root word for the region, Peleset—are the genuine indigenous peoples of the entire Levantine region, while the Jewish peoples in Israel are from Europe and North Africa, and are genuine criminal colonizers stealing the Palestinian birthright.
It should also be noted the Jews showed up in Philistine as invaders claiming the land was promised to them by God. It should also be noted the Israeli “Kingdom” lasted less than 80 years. Finally the worlds first act of terrorism documented in the bible was done by the Jews against the Romans.
Totally agree, except for one small—but important—point: there was *never* a “Kingdom of Israel” in antiquity. There were Judea/Judah and Samaria, and tribal territories divided among the 12 tribes of Israelites—religious followers of the Israelite religion (which included a lot of converts, as documented in the Old Testament)—most of which never lasted to the Kingdom stage like Judea and Samaria.
“Israel”, back then, always and only meant the distant ancestor, Jacob, who was considered the founding-father of the Israelite religion.
Even “Jews” did not exist, at that time: clearly, that name evolved later, from “Judah”. Rabbinical “Israelism” is what we today call “Judaism,” and only coalesced on a consistent form around the beginning of the fall of the Roman Empire, when the Talmud and Mishnah were composed. Judaism as it is practiced today didn’t exist in it’s present form until well after the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire: which is equally true of Christianity.
The idea that Judaism is a “much older” religion than Christianity is simply false.
Map of the Middle East 1942: ?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTU3IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvZDMzMTRlMjItNmY2Ni00YTA1LWE2MGUtNjlkZjVkMmU1OWE3XC9kYnRzaGtvLWE1YTUwMTMyLWUxMDYtNDdlMi05MzY1LTg4OTJjYWU5YjlhOS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.A8ZTKYksDjsQT6NRaPeAG28jlGxRLzF8qQDwLgQQ7Po
Take a close look at the area in pink – what does it say? For those who have reading difficulty, it says “Palestine”, which I assume is the home of the “Palestinian” people.
https://www.refworld.org/docid/49749cfcc.html
Relevant excerpts:
There are around three million Palestinians in Jordan, located overwhelmingly in the north-western part of the country, principally in the environs of Amman, Zarqa and Irbid.
Palestinians constitute around half of the population.
Talk about living in a propaganda bubble.
Those “Palestinians” are mostly refugees forced from their homes by Israeli terrorists during the Nakba. They are not (and do not want to be) recognized as full citizens of Jordan.
Also, Palestine and “Trans-Jordan” (today’s Jordan) were generally considered the same territory until being broken off from one another by Imperial occupiers.
“The Kingdom of Jordan” was a gift to the Hashemites along with a few other territories which the dynasty quickly lost to invaders or nationalist movements.
when was the last time that the USA actually practised dilomacy? Nixon/China? Anyone?
I’m not old enough to remember the last time the US practiced diplomacy and Biden sure as hell forget it if it ever happened at all and assuming it had, was kicking and screaming through the entire ordeal.
That was however ONLY because Brezhnev asked for US neutrality if USSR nuked China over Ussuri River Incident 1969 when war broke out between China and USSR
Nixon saw a chance to bring China into US orbit and split Communist world
>>> when was the last time that the USA actually practised dilomacy?
That was an aberrant win amongst a long, long history of the US foregoing genuine diplomacy in favor of violent domination.
Most of the small Central American semi-states were created by US imperialists putting together private armies in an (largely successful) attempt to establish plantation-based economies that were based on slavery.
South America was all set, in the early 20th Century, to follow the US to an elevation that gave them equal status with their former Colonial overlords. The US intelligence services, using assassinations and coups—put the kibosh on any of that, and simply replaced the former colonial masters by imposing new colonial lackeys that were better paid than the former ones.
And: Spanish-American War, anyone? The shameless atrocities the US perpetrated on the Philippines, and Cuba, following its victories against the Spanish? The US collaboration with France to enslave and subjugate all Haitians to permanent suffering and slavery?
“Gunboat Diplomacy,” and how that was used against Japan, China, Guam (and all those other little islands the US has so ruthlessly exploited—like Bikini, whose progeny continue to suffer the effects of our 1950’s “scientific experiments” in re. radiation poisoning and environmental damage following a nuclear attack)—all of those tiny island chains, without ever giving them formal citizenship?
Samoa, anyone?
FDR attempted genuine US diplomacy, and he had everything set up for a cooperative post-WWII peace: and then Truman got hold of things and promptly fucked up all of those carefully considered plans in a very stupid way.
People talk about GWBush, Reagan, Biden, and Obama as among our stupidest Presidents, but all of those guys (including G Bush Sr and Billy Clinton) were all just handpuppets being anally pleasured by the Oligarchs who bought & controlled them.
Truman, however: he actually possessed the power to steer us away from this corporate “Military-Industrial-Corporate-Financial” complex that currently has the US in a death-grip—and even thigh he was left a blueprint for escaping it and a power structure that would have ensured a better path, he chose to toss all that aside and give full power to Corporate/Oligarch America in the future it would face.
To his very slight credit, the dumbass regretted it later—after he was no longer in office—but the damage had already been done, and even Ike’s famous speech wasn’t enough to undo it.
Then came the “Powell Memo”, adopted by shameless inheritors of obscene wealth who believed themselves entitled to subject their fellow citizens to an oligarchically-controlled Police State, where cops can murder and unjustly incarcerate without fear of prosecution (the “Rockefeller Laws”, George Bush Sr’s laws allowing unconstitutional search-and-seizure, et ilk) and laws are created to give them free reign to do so (the Biden/Clinton “Superpredator” crime bill).
And now?
Are we in the US genuinely better off under the Oligarchs?
Diplomacy certainly isn’t. Diplomacy since Jimmy Carter has been in a steady and increasingly speedy state of deterioration.
Don’t ever counterpose Roosevelt and Truman. Wallace was the main person associated with the perspective you sketched. As VP he was certain to succeed Roosevelt early in his fourth term. So Roosevelt stabbed him in the back and had Truman nominated to succeed him. The Truman Cold War policies were
Roosevelt’s real agenda!
FDR took on Truman as a political compromise to ensure his re-election, which was in genuine jeopardy.
A lot of people back the genuinely believed Dewey would be the next president, and even with Truman at his side Roosevelt had a hard time winning.
FDR made it quite clear what his vision was, during his term in office: pro-labor, huge socialist programs, a push for socialized medicine, human rights guarantees, the UN, social security, and he was even bold enough to take in J Edgar Hoover.
Truman was brought on by the party leadership because he appealed to Republicans.
Moreover, you forget that the VP back then had to be elected by the Party. Wallace lost that vote to Truman.
Trump had some strange discussions with Kim Jong Un if that counts. Otherwise yes there is no diplomacy. It’s all lectures, sanctions, regime change.
412 House folks lined up to pledge support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing yesterday, with only 10 against and 6 present.
Normal votes are just over 50/50, mebbe 75/25. When Congress votes close to 100%, this is the definition of Fascism–everybody votes as one. This can come from only a few situations. Demon possession comes to mind: https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2023-10-24
In Europe, it is already illegal to criticize the genocide of 7,028 human beings, including 2,913 children. Free speech and democracy are disappearing in the West in real-time.
Israel is attempting to subvert and take jurisdiction over the United Nations. If this happens, the world can kiss goodbye to the U.N. as a forum for discussion and working things out–it will become a sock-puppet. Then there will be nowhere left to work out disagreements, except on the battlefield.
We are reverting back to the old yakuza saying: 弱肉強食 “The weak: Meat beasts. The Strong will feast.” Animals are only good to dine upon.
I never thought I would live to see America lining up for genocide of two million. I am severely, profoundly ashamed of my country.
How we dealt with Ukraine in 2014 should have given you a clue.
Well, we Westerners never had problems with fascists, former Nazis, psychopaths and Islamists/Jihadists. The whole Cold War was characterized by that. We supported anyone who fought leftists (or Third-world-nationalists). Since the end of the Cold War, our leaders have dropped their masks, they have lowered the living standards of their own people, and they now defame their own opposition as “fascists.” Freedom of expression has also been increasingly restricted for years. We Westerners are now feeling ourselves how our elite has dealt with third world countries since 1945. However: We Westerners never had problems with fascism. It was always our trademark.
The Israeli Lobby and the neocons have captured both parties. No real surprises in the vote.
I’m not a “God” guy. I’m not a this is “right” guy. Because I have seen the betrayals and lies of all sides. But what I am is a force equation guy. When I shot combat pistol, I used to be able to look at a shooter after one run, and on the next completely different stage, tell you what his time and points down would be.
And the force equation has changed. The USA. Our President. Biden. No explanation here. Our government. 50/50 split that is viciously opposed to each other. Our bureaucracy. Fat black women and trannies promoted beyond their basic ability. Our military. An article the other day said 40% were clinically obese. Our weapons systems are nothing but moonbeam graft and fraud machines. Our economy with a GDP of 4.9%! Is nothing without constant government spending. Our society. No family. No structure. No morals.
We took over after World War 2 when the rest of world was bombed flat. And we treated them like abused spouses. Everyone in the fucking world hates us. And they are not bombed flat anymore. As a matter of fact, their factories are NEW. And their people are hungry. They want cars, and air conditioning, and women with fake titties.
And they are now not afraid to open their mouth. It’s not about who is right. It’s not about the truly laughable concept of justice. It’s the force equation. And who do we have on our side? Japan. A nation dying a slow demographic doom. The countryside has towns that are completely empty. Europe? No energy resources and a political class that seems determined to deindustrialize them back to the stone age. Oh, and demographic doom loop with a Muslim population that does not appear to be “happy”. Who else? Canada? I won’t waste words on these jackoffs. The genocidal whackadoodles of Israel? Oh. good. Never there to help us. Always there to drag us into their debacles.
Africa hates us. The entire Arab world hates us. We have made China and Russia hate us. We have fucked over the South Americans so many times with banana wars that while they don’t hate us, they would dearly love to see us on the receiving end of the dick stick.
Force. The balance has shifted.
Yeah. We’re in the same fix Nazi Germany was in.
Curt, well said.
Curt you have mirrored my own view of things perfectly.
The irony is that in their ever opportunistic exploitation of the rest of the World since post WWII the combined US/Israeli clan have been on what is now becoming a slow but constantly more visible pzth of self destruct.
Well, before you do the “Japan is in a death spiral just look at the empty countryside cities” thing, ill remind you that Japan has urbanized, and has cities larger than many state in the U.S.
Japan has been subjected to a successful cultural genocide. They enjoy the wonderful progress their benefactor brought them. The cities “larger than many state in the U.S” are a dystopic landscape of “salary men”marching like automatons, anesthesizing themselves with alcohol before slipping into the coffin-like sleeping drawers provided for those who live too far for even the shinkansen to take home in time. All well organized, clean and efficient. Mind-numbing alienation and anomie “enlivened” by sex dolls, anime and lots of great “apps.” Who needs a family, much less children? You want traditional culture? Wear a kimono on special occasions, that should do it. Baseball is great, so is jazz and whiskey and the ‘anything goes’ moral code of ‘freedom’. Stoop being so uptight. The emblematic representative of the new Japanese “culture” is Haruki Murakami, whose literary idols are Kafka and a bunch of American writers maybe because Japan was a land without history and culture ready to be colonized by a culture without land? He focused on collective trauma. Some local trauma like the attack on the Tokyo subway or earthquakes but he never heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He is moved by the Holocaust, the greatest tragedy that hit Japan… A meritorious recipient of he Jerusalem Prize.
Don’t worry. AI will fix everything and the Agenda 2030 will ensure that ve vil own nussing and be happy.
Lyrics, “IGY”, Donald Faden, The Nightfly album, 1982. A great sound. It was a sarcastic riff on the fantastic utopia predicted by some; undersea trains, casinos in space, world peas, a just AI running things, and spandex jackets for everyone, too!
“On that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by ’76 we’ll be A-OK
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free”
“Here at home we’ll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There’ll be spandex jackets, one for everyone”
“A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellas with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg
US needs another Elvis to sort its problems.
….and new Harley-Davidson.
I could be mistaken about this, but I am pretty sure that in competing Security Council resolutions in the past few days, the Russians called for a ceasefire in the Palestinian/Israeli war while the U.S. just called for “pauses” to allow humanitarian aid in.
Japan and France voted for the Russian resolution. So even Japan is seeing the light regarding the warmongering Americans.
America will recover and will become a powerful, respected and admired nation once again but it has to touch bottom first, in order to shit out the parasitic elites (neolibs and neocons) that destroyed her standing in the world since the 70s-80s.
My autistic great nephew has been playing the song “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”. And he doesn’t follow the news.
See my comment above. We’re going to meet the same fate if we keep this shit up.
That happened a long time ago. In 1954 a kid could carry an uncased .22 through a busy neighborhood in a suburb of Pittsburgh to a grade school and be shoot in the basement supervised by police; you could smoke cigarettes on planes and in hospitals if you wanted; there was no global warming; no one had heard of transgenderism or pilfer-proof aspirin bottles; and very few locked their car.
When we went on vacation, we often didn’t even lock our house.
Congressman Clay Higgins (LA) worked his way through college repairing old houses, and said those houses didn’t have locks. Makes sense.
Yea, cigarettes. That’s what it’s all about. Even doctors used to recommend them.
The end is in the cards, and on a dobro.
https://dobrojoe.com/the_end_of_the_world.html
I find the whole thing DISGUSTING & the ignorance of “Christians” is appalling & exposed for all the World to see. Clapping like a bunch of seals thinking this is based on “Scriptures” & applauding the Genocide of Palestinians children just because they think they’ll see Jesus. “Brainwashed Zionist Christians” who don’t know the difference between a Zionist & a Jew or that Palestinians are actually Semites. Same ignorance that think Palestinians are HAMAS & think “Israel” is a country when it’s actually a Spiritual Dimension & don’t see Biblical Scriptures have been bastardize just to fit another Zionist narrative.
Kind of difficult to work through this one.
Zionism is a ideology. i.e. Joe Biden says he’s a “Zionist”. Just another world for Facism, Nazism, or Communism.
Joe referred to Jews as ‘shylocks,’ but says he’s a Zionist. How does that work?
“the difference between a Zionist & a Jew”
Do tell, what is it?
There are ultra orthodox Jews who reject Zionism. They are a minority but they exist.
IKAGO
There are actually a lot of Jews who reject Zionism.
True. And there are different definitions of Zionism/Zionist among Christians, Gentiles, Infidels, etc.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in their majority do not reject zionism in its principal tenets (like the little thing known as Yahweh-ordained Jewish supremacism) and enjoy its accomplishments by living on stolen Palestinian land. They don’t reject the zionist state’s emoluments either: they get paid to pray and don’t have to serve in the army.
A tiny minority called Neturei Karta, a fringe group created in 1938 in Jerusalem opposes the existence of Israel qua Jewish State which, according to them should only come into being when “Moshak” (the Jewish messiah) shows up (announced by the birth of a red heiffer). Until then they should stay put. Where? Well… anywhere in Palestine and the world. The Jewish supremacist red thread courses through in their belief that the Jews (and only the Jews) have the divine mission to “heal the world (Tikkun Olan).
Sure, there is a difference between a Jew and a zionist just as there is in any taxonomy between species if the same genus.
A putative Jew who s not essentially a zionist would be only an ex-Jew. Like a secular ethnical Jew who makes the “sacrifice” of not subjecting his son on the 8th day of life to genital mutilation that “seals the covenant. with G-d” that sets him apart as “special” and “superior.” One who does not believe that Israel, unlike any other state in history, has an axiomatic “right to exist.”
Zionism is a ideology. i.e. Joe Biden says he’s a “Zionist”. Just another world for Facism, Nazism, or Communism. Not all Jews are Zionist. Not all Zionist are Jews.
But all Zionists are fascists.
Palestine is the natural home of the Palestinians until the Irgun showed up in 1946. Prior to then Jews made up 10% of the population and lived peacefully with the Muslims and Christians.
Jews started moving to that region after WWI.
Jews always lived there under Ottomans just not so many as since collapse of Ottoman Empire
The hamas attack was violent and caused the death of many Israelis who believed that they could enjoy security while their leaders are keeping Palestinians in cage just next door.
The exhilaration of Hamas fighters and others breaking the doors of the cage must have acted as a drug and they allowed themselves to express their rage and revenge on the settlers whom they saw as thieves who stole their land and evicted them.
This has put a shadow on an otherwise extraordinary prison break.
Suddenly the forgotten suffering of the Palestinians under the apartheid regime of Israel was on all the headlines. Suddenly Palestinians existed on the international scene and if well managed this could provide a chance to solve once for all this situation was had rotten for too long
Yes hamas should be condemned for their abuses on Israeli civilians after they broke up the door of their prison. Yet they should be praised to have created such a shock that Israel injustice and inhuman treatment of the Palestinians is now on the front page and won’t go away this time.
Virgile, you put it very nicely. Well done. See my comment above about Sobibor.
Hamas fighter seem to have been careful with civilians. It was the others that followed after through the breach that did some very naughty things.
Still, it’s understandable why anyone would lose it and take the chance to seek bloody revenge.
I know I would have if in their shoes.
One can not beat a captive for 70 years and expect them to not harbour revenge in their hearts.
The ashkeNAZIs deserve everything they have received so far and deserve also what is still to come.
They are about to be a shit stain in the history books.
Well said!
They were not all Hamas
They were not all civilians as normally defined
Many were killed by IDF tanks
Anyway Israel accepts civilian collateral damage as does US
“…Erdan….And his biting, scathing presentations are alienating countries”
That is a sure sign of a person that is desperate and knowing they they are vulnerable. Watching the civilians, military and regime officials collectively coming unhinged is giving me intense feelings of schadenfreude
Well Hell Larry, looks like a New American Revolution is brewing.
This week a video surfaced of a large supply of flashbangs and Beretta shotguns.
The speaker promoting the death cult of Israel is convinced of the right to kill civilians that never raised a finger against them. To be able to completely ignore killing thousands of non combatatants in 2 weeks and blame the victime is some kind of homomonster magnamimus. Was it raised as a nazi? Hitler Jugen? Why do the Israeli’s work so hard to out do the SS?
I have never seen an estimate of how many people Israel has murdered on its territory and beyond after 75+ years to outdo ol’ shicklegruber. Perhaps it seeks the Guiness book of world record for genocide in the modern age. It has brought in the US by some extortion scheme afterhaving Mossad (and others) make up a nice dossier; all the goods on little joe and his family.
4 carrier groups now? The psycho’s have scared everyone in the world now. Time for your nappy. The big sleep. Custer’s last stand.
Perhaps a new form of EW will be demonstrated to these huddled masses yearning to breathe fire. If I remember right, a Russian pilot overflew a NATO destroyer in the Black Sea last year, or 2021, turned on his little black box and caused many of their systems to shut down (radar and fire control?). He then test buzzed the ship a few times and caused much feces to fly. Maybe the Carney did attack itself as has been suggested? Maybe the fleets are going to try to launch and find out the only thing they are capable of launching is the sploo from their pleasure unit.
Because the alternatives are the rosy glow of neocons killing the world. I expect reading the Israeli constitution tells the story of how they view Palestine, and everyone else in the word, untermenchen. When you read what they chose for their law, you get a better idea of what they are about.
“Was it raised as a nazi? Hitler Jugen? Why do the Israeli’s work so hard to out do the SS?”
That’s a low bar. Maybe they aspire a lot higher and wish to outdo their father’s and grandfathers’ exploits in the Bolshevik Revolution. Read Solzhenitsyn’s “200 Years Together.”
Solzhenitsyn is a proven fraud. Literally nothing he wrote can be trusted as accurate. Hell, most of it wasn’t even true.
Most of what you have heard and read about the early history of the Russian Revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union are outrageous lies invented by the UK intelligence services to rally the US, Germany, and the UK into attacking and invading the Soviet Union—which they all gleefully did.
The propaganda mills have been around a loooong time. and 90% of what Americans think they “know” about Chinese and Russian history are just a pack of lies invented by some inbred blue bloods working for British intelligence.
Obviously you didi not read ANY of Solzhenitsyn’s major works.
I have browsed a few.
Then I spent a lot more time reading genuine scholars of history explain how he got everything wrong.
And of course he is quite famous for blaming everything bad on “the Jews”.
A great writer of fiction.
LONG LIVE the QUEEN!! Lol she’s something else.
The Central Planners (Globohomo) are in real trouble. They never anticipated too much pushback from adversarial nations as they laid their plans after the first Gulf War. What has happened in Ukraine has caught them off guard.
After not any good options left and China being too powerful I suspect this is all about Iran. Honestly I don’t think they really know what the fuck they’re doing. Now they’re courting disaster again. I know it’s going to be rough for us one day but we must continue to push back.
The Blinkens, Myorkas, Yellens, Garlands must not succeed under any circumstances.
We are down to two options. Israel puts boots on the ground in Gaza City or they back off.
If they go in you can expect more casualties than the 70,000 Wagner lost taking a city much smaller and less populated. In ’06 Israel went into Lebanon and got their heads handed to them. The Iron Dome is vulnerable to hypersonic missiles. Hezbollah will be raining fire on Israel which is important because our aircraft carrier will need to over west of Italy to be out of range of the hypersonic missiles and at that extended range our jets will have to land and refuel in Israel or Jordan if allowed, and their presence will require substantial troops to insure they don’t invade. The THAAD and Patriot batteries are not there to protect Israel and protecting the country where installed is a cover story. Both systems are readily convertible to nuclear delivery systems. They are there to target Iran. Worst of all, the Isrealis are citizen solders – they stopped going to work for this government inspired camping trip and that can’t be helping the economy. When the going gets so bad that the US Navy and the Israelis start using nerve gas, look the the two MILLION man Turkish army to show up.
If they don’t go in, the neighborhood will know that the tough bully is all hat and no cattle. How long can they last in that neighborhood as the US power and wealth continues to wane?
They have already gone in. Weeb Union:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ViXsFAXrHA
He was the first channel I saw giving a breakdown of the initial Hamas attack. His reporting has been very evenhanded in both Ukraine and Israel/Gaza.
Wagner lost 40,000
Ukraine lost 70,000
Prigozhin lied about those numbers, just as he lied about everything else.
All the evidence to date and logic suggests the Patriot and THAAD (and Iron Dome) have an efficacy way less the the vaxx shots. Why did the US refuse to even try to let the THAAD shoot down the N Korean missile over the sea of Japan? They know the systems are POS, and the Patriot has a terrible record with very primitive Yemeni missiles. And how many Iranian missiles were shot down when the US base in Iraq was under attack from Iran? zero. And Iran gave the US a warning. And still, dozens or more were med-evac-ed.
Patriot ain’t gonna keep the airfields in Israel workable.
It is completely normal for narcissists and psychopaths to react blindly to any challenge to their will. Stupid b*****ds. But the world is all the better for this, in the long run. Just hope it doesn’t take much longer. the Palestinians have suffered long enough.
By far the most impactful speech at the UN was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLE-57KP-c
Queen Rania was quite poised and eloquent in the presentation of her views. I especially liked the part about the pact of Omar from 1,000 years ago. When did that become binding upon all Muslims? I ask as there is no central authority in Islam and the pact’s power to bind people in adherence died with Omar. Certainly her husband, though a direct descendant of the Prophet through his daughter, Fatima, and her husband, Ali, understands that point.
” One is the Occupier, One is the Occupied.”
Just like there are only “victims” and “oppressors”. The marxist/Obama-ist Arab Spring language is back, and I suspect with the same cast of characters running the show.
“One has a military, one of the mightiest in the world…” (It’s not, it has a militia based army with a severe shortage of career NCOs who would otherwise have curtailed the abuses by young IDF soldiers seen over the past years.)
“The other doesn’t have a military at all.”
Who was it that crossed the borders and committed all that butchery on October 7th the you just condemned minutes ago in this interview? Those people who Erdogan said are ‘not terrorists’.
“The story of the Occupation” Let’s hear it:
Hamas was ‘elected’ in Gaza in 2005. What did they do in the past 17 years?
What money was received and from where?
What was it spent on?
Who controlled the spending?
What did they build?
What did they teach the young in Gaza?
A mind hermetically bound in a fanatical tribal cuirasse that can no longer be reached by any external stimuli from reality gradually atrophies and survives only as a primitive reptilian brain. Not knowing its initial quality I can’t say if it is a loss.
Illustration:
“Israel’s energy minister, Israel Katz, told the German publication Bild this week:”We are humane people. We are the most moral military in the world.”
Is this why some IDF soldiers have been seen wearing sweatshirts with a picture of a pregnant Palestinian woman saying, “Two for One”? Because they are so “moral”?
The “most moral army in the world” moniker actually came from the odious Col Richard Kemp, the UK’s resident neocon crackpot.
He’s been writing his garbage for The Telegraph for years and is a regular “expert” on the radio too.
He has an uncanny habit of turning any question on any topic into a diatribe about the “dangers of the Iranian regime.” In fact, even his Ukraine puff pieces invariably end up morphing into rants about Iran.
I don’t know if the Israelis pay him. But they should do.
Israel doesn’t care if many people in many nations around the word say “We are all Palestinians.” But what if soon all the Muslims in the world say “We are all Hamas”?
Like what then Senator Joe Biden once said: “We are ALL Zionists!”?
If Biden is a Zionist his policy in Ukraine becomes clearer
But what if soon all the Muslims in the world say “We are all Hamas”?
Well, that would be scary as it would indicate a transcendence of sect to a higher jihad.
As long as the Shi’ites might still one day say ‘we are all Hezbollah’, Washington can hope for a bit more divide and conquer. They just need to get that recalcitrant Saudi upstart out of the way.
This is off-topic but still relevant to the wider issues. Also, I’ve noticed a few posts on this topic before and wanted to make a contribution.
There’s something about the music and dance festival (Supernova Sukkot) which bothers me greatly. In a BBC article, there was a quick mention that the festival was originally scheduled to occur in a remote area of the southern Negev but that venue had problems and on what I think was Oct. 4, or just two days before it was supposed to begin, Gaza adjacent Kibbutz Re’im was chosen to be the host. Re’im must be something close to 200 kms distant from that remote southern Negev location. But more to the point, as someone who has been involved with concert production – even if the replacement venue has a stage or stages (which Re’im had), sophisticated sound equipment, lights, power, porta-potties, etc., etc., two days isn’t enough time. Is it possible- barely but everything has to fall into place double time.
I knew nothing about Supernova so I started to search for info into three important questions: where was the festival originally scheduled, why did that venue fall through and was this the first Supernova concert or is there a history of it being held elsewhere other than Re’im? I found a Billboard article detailing the impressions of one of the festival’s artist managers, an Israeli by the name of Raz Gaster. In that Billboard article, Gaster expanded slightly on my first question:
Universo Paralello was not origintally (sic) intended to take place at the Re’im site, with organizers moving it to this location only two days before it started, when another site in southern Israel fell through. The new site at Re’im featured a pair of stages, with the Israeli producer Artifex playing the mainstage when the attack started. (Raz) Gaster was told that the attackers closed the road into the festival from both sides so attendees could not escape.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/israel-music-festival-attack-artist-manager-account-massacre-1235436829/
I was able to have a short email exchange with Raz Gaster but since he was an artists’ managers, he would offer up nothing as to where the concert was originally scheduled nor why it was moved from that location two days prior to the Hamas attack. I think at the very least he must have known where the concert was originally scheduled as it would have been necessary for him to inform his talent where they would be playing but for some reason, he was reluctant to share that information with me. I went to the concert website https://www.eventer.co.il/novaparalello and discovered it was the first time Israel hosted a “universo paralello” concert. Although I found the name of a Brazilian co-producer who was there, I’m unable to get any contact info. Universo Paralelo (Portuguese for parallel universe) began these trance dance festivals in Brazil some 20 years ago and it appears there are now productions in several countries.
I then started looking at this from the Hamas standpoint. There’s was a large-scale and very sophisticated military operation, so how could they have redirected resources and attacked the festival so successfully on two-days notice? Yes, it’s in their backyard but at the very least it meant a reprioritization of targets.
On the other hand, perhaps Hamas had more than two days’ notice. For a variety of reasons, I think Israeli and Western Intelligence knew Hamas was going to attack but they decided to look the other way in order to justify their massive response and achieve their ethnic cleansing goals. I’m sure if this was the case, they underestimated the sophistication and scope of the attack. On a DarkHorse podcast, Efrat Feningson, who was in the IDF and Israeli intelligence, said that several brigades typically guarding the southern Gaza border were moved further north not long before Hamas attacked.
A war between an insurgent Hamas and Israel serves the US because not only does it help to deflect conversation away from Ukraine where Russia is kicking that country and NATO’s butts, it provides an offramp where they can divert funds and military hardware to Israel that was originally going to Ukraine. Also, Biden can look Presidential by sending a couple of aircraft carriers and support vessels to the Mediterranean as he swaps slogans from “as long as it takes” to “we stand with Israel”. Washington also hopes it will curb the growing economic threat from BRICS and China’s Belt Road Initiative.
In any case, I’m very curious to get Larry’s perspective on whether or not Hamas would have attacked the festival on such short notice.
After 9-11 the United States enjoyed sympathy and support from around the world. While many supported our action in Afghanistan, things began to sour quickly when our answer at every turn was to bomb everywhere. Like when your only tool is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail.
Israel seems to have learned nothing from our mistakes.
“While many supported our action in Afghanistan”
No one supported your illegal invasion and war in Afghanistan at all as we knew the stated reason for it was bullshit. You are deluded to think so. But typical coping bullshit from a Murikan.
Here’s a clue Sherlock, the invasion was planned well before the twin towers false flag.
It was planned by the Cheney cabal as soon as the Taliban rejected a pipeline. The pipeline that was being negotiated with the Taliban and Little Bush’s ranch.
Oh, and the poppy eradication surely pissed off the CIA and the bankers.
@LJ
What is your take on the recent McGregor reveal of US Special Forces and IDF commandos ambushed inside Gaza and took heavy casualties while retreating ?
“Former Pentagon Advisor, Douglas MacGregor, stated that an American Special Force, accompanied by an Israeli Special Force, were tragically decimated when they attempted to investigate the location of the Israeli hostages in Gaza and were subsequently fired upon.
During an interview on an American TV channel, MacGregor stated that as it has been observed over the last 24 hours, American and Israeli special operations forces entered the Gaza Strip to carry out reconnaissance and assess potential ways for freeing the hostages, but they were attacked and suffered severe casualties.”
https://english.almanar.com.lb/1949169
https://en.topwar.ru/228831-polkovnik-armii-ssha-v-otstavke-soobschil-o-poterjah-v-sostave-amerikano-izrailskogo-specnaza-v-sektore-gaza.html
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231026-ex-pentagon-adviser-us-israel-special-forces-tried-to-enter-gaza-but-were-shot-to-pieces/
Retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor, in a conversation with ex-host of the American Fox News channel Tucker Carlson in the latter’s author’s blog, said that recently a joint detachment of special forces of the Armed Forces of the United States and Israel was shot in the Gaza Strip. According to him, the tasks of the special forces operation included reconnaissance, detection of detention centers and the release of US citizens held captive by Hamas militants.
it is known that last weekend the Israeli Defense Forces suspended bombing of the Gaza Strip for six hours a day. It is quite possible that this was due precisely to the presence of our own and American military personnel on the territory of the enclave, who probably went to search for and free Hamas foreign hostages.
This is similar to the Israeli Naval Commando unit that was wiped out in Hezbollah Ambush
https://special-ops.org/ansariya-ambush-shayetet-13s-bloodiest-battle/
The Ansariya ambush was the deadliest firefight of Israel’s elite unit Shayetet. 12 Israeli special forces operator killed in an ambush in southern Lebanon ,. It was Israel’s greatest military humiliation in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s most crushing intelligence operation ever.
They landed in the dark early hours of that Friday and started moving inland. The IDF said the force had been “on its way to its mission” when it was ambushed. Hezbollah and Amal commandos were lying in wait for them. The clash took place outside a 15-km deep security zone which Israel occupied in south Lebanon. The operators were ambushed after entering an orchard booby-trapped with bombs, which exploded as they entered.
The operators were knocked to the ground and came under heavy fire, killing the force’s commander, Lt. Col. Yossi Korakin almost immediately. More commandos were killed when the firing triggered the explosives one of the commandos was carrying. Israel immediately dispatched a rescue team in a CH-53 helicopter.
A rescue force of helicopters and missile boats arrived, joining in a battle that lasted until dawn as the rescuers evacuated the dead. Mortar shells exploded nearby, killing a doctor in the rescue force, and shrapnel hit the CH-53, but it was able to take off.
Where are the globalist rhinos, I have some questions:
What is Israel?
Where are the semitic rights of Palestinians?
How do you justify replacing my ancient Finnish God/Creator with the Jewish Middle Eastern God/Jewish rabbi Jesus and wiping out Finnish year calendar and traditions, now even our ethnicity from Finland with media brainwashing? Replacing these with Middle Eastern traditions and forced, strategic multiculturalism?
Who are you to preach about racism and “Hollywood” around the globe with scripted victim cult?
How dare you use Americans and Europeans as your war slaves?
you make eminent sense. the problem is that Israel does not give a shit and neither does the US administration. Diplomacy? We don’t need no stinking diplomacy. We got nukes, we got aircraft carriers in the neighborhood and we can boss everyone around, diplomacy is dead. we have a president that has always tried be the tough guy. since his days as senator he prided himself in putting people in jail for an amount of crack cocaine the size of a quarter. then we he challenged Trump to a push up contest to show how virile he is compared to trump. his juvenile behavior was on display when he state that the other team had bombed the hospital. he so obsessed with this image that he will paint himself into a corner from which he cannot escape. i used to be concerned about the climate, not anymore. i think biden will leads us into a nuclear exchange with russia from which no one will survive.
“We got nukes, we got aircraft carriers in the neighborhood and we can boss everyone around”
Until those carrier groups attack, by “mistake” of course, the russian facilities at Tartus and Hmeimim. At which point the missile carriers from the Black Sea fleet and the Caspian flotilla will take them out of action. Without even having to leave their home ports.
in the sixties a couple of friends of mine one of them jewish who was an ex marine and actually had been on one the ships waiting to invade Cuba were leaving a bar and the gentile guy told us a joke. And the joke was that during the Cuban missile crisis Golda Meir stated that any attack on the US would be considered an attack on Israel itself.
I would like to respond to to the last video, the BS of Israel’s ambasador; there was a report written by a Polish police constable:
“…on such and such day, a citizen of Jewish appearance, came to report a crime, murder of two citizens, as it turned out, the victim of the murder was the above mentioned citizen and the other, murdered victim, would come later to corroborate the story…”
What a world we are living in?
Israel has a track record of hectoring behavior at the UN. My favorite was when Netanyahu glared at the UN assembly for 1 minute to shame them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXwZFoRci8&pp=ygUNYmliaSBVTiBzdGFyZQ%3D%3D
He was waiting for an applause 😂🤣😂
I wonder if Netanyahu’s IDF son is still frolicking on Miami Beach? I am reading that many IDF soldiers are pretty pissed about that one.
Israel’s crooked logic of exterminating civilians in Gaza by claiming they are going after individual Hamas Liberation Movement combatants, is the stupidest form of reasoning one can think of. So according to this logic, we are allowed to raise an entire city to the ground by whatever means available simply going after alleged culprits. It means for instance, from this moment forward the US military and police have the green light to flatten the city of Main or even neighboring localities where the recent shooting in which 22 people died occurred under the pretext of going after the shooter. who is still on the run. It shows the Israelis, US-NATO and Europeans are really in a state of sheer bamboozlement/mental degradation, like when Biden said the other day the US is sending 900 additional troops to the ME… bla, bla, bla. It seems he believes this in another repeat of Libya. He could have said he’s dispatching 900,000 troops which may have sent a more appropriate warning sign to the region now that US has decided it wants to fight Iran and its proxies, Russia, China or even N. Korea all at once.
Corrected: ….raze to the ground.
A nanosecond after the smoke cleared from that shooting Joe was using his bully pulpit to demand an assault weapons ban.
Right. Twenty SWAT team members show up at Roger Stone’s house at dawn (with a CNN crew!) to arrest a guy in his pajamas while his toy poodle yapped in the background. I’m sure all the MAGA crowds in the flyover states will just hand all their assault rifles right over to Sleepy Joe and Co.
2nd Amendment came right after Freedom of Speech NOT for deer hunting, but to protect against tyranny from the government.
They will get that murderer. A little reward of around $100k would help.
And how many January 6 defendants would be home with in a different society?
Os judeus têm direito existir tal e qual como qualquer outro povo , Quem não tem direito de existir é o estado sionista de Israel.
Nuances …. With Erdogan I do not know what are his intentions and goals. Turkey is in two beds at the same time and wets both. Where is Turkey aiming? I can’t see it clearly. Not for a moment do I believe that the Turkish leadership and its Sultan are acting haphazardly. Were Erdogan’s subliminal threats to attack Israel militarily if the latter really commits genocide in Gaza just emotions? I don’t know. That would be the final “death” of Israel and NATO in Europe would lose a geostrategically indispensable member. On the other hand, Turkey aspires to join the BRICS and SOC. Turkey has no other perspective if it wants to “survive”, because the West has nothing more to offer. It is bankrupt. That would require a Turkish separation from USNATO anyway.
Now Israel has completely undiplomatically attacked almost everyone in the world. Israel’s regime has been accustomed to showing the world and the UN around the nose ring with the support of the US. However, now it has gone over the top and ignored the geopolitical writing on the wall. By publicly pissing off everyone and even China, which Israel involved in its geostrategically significant economic projects much to its advantage, it is risking its state existence. China is now severely pissed off.
Only an illegitimate entity behaves in a such manner, insulting the UN’s Secretary General in front of the other members. The other day another zionist top official threatened Russia directly. He said at soon as the war in Gaza is over, they will make sure Russia is defeated by Ukraine.
“With Erdogan I do not know what are his intentions and goals.”
Ottoman Empire is his goal.
“Because anti-Semitism creates Jews, Jews create anti-Semitism”… If they colonized Antarctica, the penguins would immediately be accused of anti-Semitism. However, please do not confuse anti-Semitism with perceptiveness…
For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you [the Jews]” (Romans 2:24). They do cause a lot of their own problems, but so would any nation that God chose to be a light to the world.
“Losing” Queen Rama, who is also a Palestinian, is a perfect non-event. Erdogan has two tongues so he does not count, either. It’s certainly not wise to anger the Chinese.
Israel might do worse than remove his ambassador. After they have finally entered Gaza, of course.
Word war again. Diplomacy is being done through threats and mind games. Even sensible bloggers like Mercouris have been infected by this parasite and are talking up the US deployment in ME and claiming that Israel is chaffing at the bit to invade!
Get away with you all.
Does anyone believe the collective west and its Israeli poodle is up to serious neck-risking warfare against serious opponents. Look how well Ukraine went. If it is going to try to fight this remotely look out for a dramatic response in kind. It knows this.
So if I were engaging in this word war from the other side, I would just ask, what are you guys waiting for? Go for it. Come at us risking your own necks and let’s see how well that goes for you. Fire a long shot and get two back. It would be a mercy killing for this mad cow US regime and its acolytes. In the end it is always about men not weapons and the west was not- is not- going to risk its men in Ukraine or out here, let alone its citizens in its own cities. Very different from risking the lives of citizens in other, dispensable places.
All this western blah is reminiscent of the great talk up of the Ukrainian counter offensive…..
The blather misses what Sy Hersh reported in the link below. Is Israel right now preparing to flood Gaza , make a lake – cheaper as Hersh reported than an offensive. Along the lines of Genghis Khan?
It is very simple. We (USA) have 2 choices: 1) continue on this course to utter destruction, or 2) radically alter course and accept the unthinkable.
What would you rather do?
“I would just ask, what are you guys waiting for? Go for it”
Julianne they wouldn’t listen, they truly believe they are invincible.
Remember when VVP said it seems NATO wants a fight with Russia “Bring it on” he said. And they upped the ante.
Each and every time he showcases new Russian weapons in an attempt to deter them and sit back and think twice, they don’t.
These Zionists and ashkeNAZIs are mad rabid animals and need to be exterminated forever.
There will not be a better time Erdy for you to become the Greatest Sultan of them all, notwithstanding your reputation as a double-dealing pretender.
Your “brothers” await you. Get on, do Alla’s work.
Breaking-0300 AM newsbreak said US jets are bombing Iranian Revolutionary Gaurd.
Escalation, the US has attacked Syria.
Biden’s words that ”we cannot go back to October 6th …….. two State solution” sounds like he is trying to appease the Saudis and save Trump’s Abraham Accords …………BUT his reported actions yesterday sending USAF F16s (or were they really from Israel?) to bomb a Syrian weapons depot evidences USA does not intend to remain neutral and will kill Muslims in Syria who pose no threat to USA.
Enforcing existing International laws maybe the only way now to avoid escalation to use of Israeli nukes. That would see the establishment of a Palestinian State within its 1967 borders and War crimes trials for all who have ordered, funded and carried out War crimes and genocidal acts on both sides of the Gaza border.
Bibi has tragically transformed his legacy by his post October 7th over reacting conduct – existing charges are small potatoes compared to his responsibility for manifesting the existential threat to all of Israel posed by Arab missiles poised to stop the escalating genocide. If Bennet was still PM he likely would have kept a cooler head never daring to put the whole country at risk.
From time to time you have to remind people that
Beauty IS NOT Equal Good!
Do you need a link to Asma al-Assad’s Vouge interview? Many couldn’t grasp how a beautiful and educated woman can support her Husband’s acts of terror against his own people. Queen Rania of Jordan supporting Hamas terrorists is just another variation on the same theme.
“… acts of terror against his own people.”
Satire?
In addition, Hamas fought against Assad as part of “moderate rebels”. Maybe your satire levels are too much for me to grasp.
I bet not just “many” but all in your yeshiva couldn’t “grasp” it. The inability to grasp is not a good portend for survival
that queen has got a *lot* of class, imo. -a.v.