Let the (Gaza) Children Come to Me, said Jewish Jesus

More Children Killed In Gaza This Month Than In Conflict Zones For All Of 2022

Sanjana Karanth

Mon, October 30, 2023

The number of Palestinian children killed in Gaza over the past three weeks has officially exceeded the number of children who died in conflict zones around the world each year since 2019, according to human rights groups.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing retaliation on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, at least 3,257 children have been reported killed, according to the nonprofit Save the Children. According to the health ministries in Israel and Gaza, respectively, 29 of those children were killed in Israel, 33 in the occupied West Bank and 3,195 in Gaza.

For comparison, the annual death toll for children in conflicts around the world in 2022 was about 3,000. Over the course of three weeks, the death toll of children in Gaza shot past that number ― and the actual figure there is likely higher, with 1,000 additional children reported missing and likely buried under the rubble.

In the besieged Palestinian enclave, children make up about half the population and more than 40% of the total people killed in Gaza. That number is expected to climb as Israel’s military launches its ground operations into the territory, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said is the “second stage” of the country’s attack.

Human rights groups have likened the ongoing assault on Gaza to ethnic cleansing. Many have called for a cease-fire, noting the airstrikes, blockades, evacuation orders and now ground operations are causing mass death and suffering among civilians.

“Three weeks of violence have ripped children from families and torn through their lives at an unimaginable rate. The numbers are harrowing and with violence not only continuing but expanding in Gaza right now, many more children remain at grave risk,” said Jason Lee, Save the Children country director in occupied Palestinian territory.

“One child’s death is one too many, but these are grave violations of epic proportions. A ceasefire is the only way to ensure their safety,” he continued. “The international community must put people before politics – every day spent debating is leaving children killed and injured. Children must be protected at all times, especially when they are seeking safety in schools and hospitals.”

According to the Annual Reports of the UN Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, about 2,674 children were killed across 22 countries in 2020; 2,515 children were killed across 24 countries in 2021; and 2,985 children were killed across 24 countries in 2022. The 2019 count was higher: 4,019 children were killed across 20 countries that year.

President Joe Biden came under fire last week after he publicly questioned the credibility of the Palestinian death toll compiled by the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas but widely accepted as a credible source for casualties and even cited by the U.S. State Department. In response, the health ministry released the names of every single person who has died in Gaza since Oct. 7.

As of Sunday, more than 8,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza. Israel shut off access to food, water, fuel, medicine and, temporarily, communications. Crowded hospitals are under growing threat as Gaza continues to face airstrikes and runs out of fuel, with a large number of children and infants either sheltering or receiving treatment.

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, said that he was not able to enter Gaza after visiting the Rafah crossing, where humanitarian aid is meant to come through. Khan called the suffering of civilians “profound,” and called on Israel to respect international law.

Khan stopped short of accusing Israel of war crimes. Netanyahu said that those who make such an accusation against his soldiers are “people imbued with hypocrisy and lies who do not have a single drop of morality.”

 

How Israel was Created: Jewish Decency on Display

The following story is a textbook example of how illegal European Jewish terrorists created the state of Israel in Palestine by harassing, massacring and expelling the native indigenous Palestinians into all these refugee camps whose names we hear about and which are bombed today in Gaza and the West Bank. Imagine: Israel is creating refugees out of the original refugees it expelled in 1948 and 1967. It seems Israel is very good at recycling.

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Palestinians expelled from West Bank village

Within an hour, the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Seeq in the occupied West Bank had been completely emptied, its 200 residents fleeing on foot with their sheep and goats.

On October 12, five days after the start of the war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, residents say dozens of Israelis turned up at the village and gave them an hour to leave their land, among them settlers, soldiers and police.

Residents said some of the attackers were local settlers who had regularly harassed the village and were now dressed in army uniforms, while other Jewish terrorists were in civilian clothing, with army and police vehicles also at the scene.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the incident, despite several AFP requests.

The Gaza conflict began on October 7 when Hamas militants went on the rampage in southern Israel, killing 1,400 people, and kidnapping 230 others, prompting a massive Israeli retaliation that medics in the Hamas-run territory say has killed more than 8,000 people, half of them children.

On both sides, the vast majority of victims are civilians.

"We are paying for what happened," said Abu Bashar, a leader from Wadi al-Seeq, a village of Palestinian herders that lies some 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the city of Ramallah, who has taken refuge with a dozen other families on private land in Taybeh slightly further north.

The violence in Gaza has sparked widespread unrest in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Day War and where more than 110 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war in clashes with soldiers or settlers.

About three million Palestinians live across the West Bank, which is dotted with Jewish settlements that are illegal under international law but are home to 490,000 Israelis.

Since the Gaza war broke out, settler attacks against Palestinians have more than doubled, from an average of three to eight incidents a day, according to the UN humanitarian agency OCHA, citing incidents of intimidation, theft and assault.

"We don't sleep anymore, it's a nightmare", said Alia Mlihat, who lives in Muarrajat, another Bedouin village between Ramallah and Jericho. She's afraid her village will be next in line. "With the war, we're seeing the settlers have more weapons, it's very difficult," she told AFP.

"We're living through a new Nakba because of settlers and the army," she said, using the Arabic word for "catastrophe" when some 760,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war that accompanied Israel's creation. These refugees and their descendants populate the hundreds of refugee camps in Gaza dn the West Bank whose names we hear as targets for barbaric shelling and attacks by Israelis.

That year, 1948, the Mlihat family, like most Palestinian Bedouins, left Israel's Negev Desert for the West Bank.

Since October 7, OCHA says some 607 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced within the West Bank.

In the previous 18 months, 1,100 people were forced off their land. -

"I have nowhere else to go", said Abu Bashar who only wants to go back home. "All of our things are there, the goods we buy in bulk, our tractors, our solar panels." A week after the expulsion, the army allowed the villagers back to collect their things but when they got back, everything was ruined.

"Everything was destroyed. The bags of food for the animals were dumped out on the ground," he said. At the site, AFP observed ransacked homes with wardrobes emptied, children's beds broken, curtains torn and papers, sandals and toys scattered across the floor. In and around the village, civilian vehicles circulated, some displaying Israeli flags, AFP journalists said.

All he wants is to be left alone to live in peace but he can't see that happening. "There is a long-term plan to drive us out and take our land, and they took this opportunity to do it while everyone is watching Gaza."

Israeli human rights activist Guy Hirschfeld told AFP the settlers had been stepping up efforts to throw Palestinians off their land since the start of the conflict.

"The settlers taking advantage of the war to finish cleaning area C from non-Jewish people," he told AFP, referring to an administrative area covering 60 percent of the West Bank that is controlled by the Israeli army.

Although the settlers do not enjoy widespread public support within Israeli society, they have strong backing from leading officials in Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Despite the widespread presence of Israeli troops in the West Bank, the army "does not interfere with the settler violence," says Allegra Pacheco, head of the West Bank Protection Consortium, a group of NGOs coordinating humanitarian aid. "Their presence generally ends up in more violence."

 

Thanks to Treacherous America, Hezbollah Runs the Show in Lebanon

Hezbollah holds talks with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Beirut. 

Just like Arafat's PLO did back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Iranian terrorist organization Hezbollah runs the country of Lebanon. As with Arafat back then, foreign dignitaries fly in and out of Beirut, visit Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah first, then may or may not hold talks with Lebanese State officials. That is what the Iranian foreign minister did a few days ago. 

Are the Lebanese to blame for this state of affairs? Consider that back in the 1970s, the crook Richard Nixon and war criminal Henry Kissinger made a deal with the butcher of Damascus, Hafez Assad, in which Assad was given free reign in Lebanon in exchange for surrendering the Golan Heights to Israel and keep a quiet border there. Assad, followed by his fetus Bashar, has strictly abided by that agreement. There never was a Syrian resistance against Israel on the not-only-occupied, but annexed, Golan Heights, while in Lebanon the Syrian and Iranian occupations have stoked the conflict with Israel for decades. 

Then there was the idiot Republican president Ronald Reagan who in 1982 dispatched his Marines to Beirut to escort Yasser Arafat's PLO out of an Israeli-besieged Beirut. One year later, the tandem Hezbollah-Syria-Iran blew up the Marines headquarters near Beirut Airport, killing 243 US servicemen, and the "Drakkar" French paratrooper compound a mile away, killing 58 French soldiers. What does Reagan do in the face of this tragedy? Did he fight back? No, he didn't because the oil-drenched Arab friends of his VP George HW Bush told him not to. Instead, he packs up his dead Marines and the few remaining living ones and flees like a coward, leaving Syria and Iran's Hezbollah in control of Lebanon. Here we are 40 years later, still confronting those same enemies and sending warships to the eastern mediterranean for fear of what they might do. US foreign policy is a pile of monumental disasters caused by US State Department bureaucrats who, despite their so-called "education" in American universities, are mired in their ignorance of the world. Believe me, I've dealt with so many of them and I was always shocked by their stupid simplification and reduction of complex world problems to binary issues only simpleton minds could comprehend. The US armed forces are also a disaster. They have yet to score a durable solution wherever they shove their nose (e.g. Bosnia, Kosovo...) and they have yet to score a military victory wherever they decide to fight (Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan...).

Lebanon is the victim of western treason and all these machinations, and today it remains a hostage in the hands of Iran, thanks to US treachery and backstabbing. Even Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush perpetuated this US deal with the Assad regime against the interests of Lebanon and American interests. Why? What status quo were the Americans so eager to maintain, when it was against the existence of a democratic liberal Lebanon and against the peace process? The answer is in the events unfolding today: A status quo of no war no peace, of intermittent violence, decade after decade, serves the interests of the violent regimes around Lebanon, Israel and Syria, both of whom do not want the peace process. It allows the permanent settlement of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, thus relieving Israel of their Right of Return. As we speak, Lebanon is also hosting 2.5 million Syrian refugees whom the EU and the US want to settle permanently in a Lebanon of 4 million people. Which means that Lebanon is the sacrificial lamb to protect the lovely barbaric couple of the Israeli and Syrian regimes.

Both of these regimes inititate violence, then claim deniability by blaming their victims, the Lebanese. That has been America, Syria and Israel's plan for Lebanon all along. If the Palestine conflict expands to south Lebanon, and Israel invades and holds ground there, the most likely scenario would be that Israel would keep - occupy? annex? - the territory of south Lebanon south of the Awwali River. Another land theft for the expansionist British-American colony of Israel. Assad, for his part, gets to keep his regime intact, one of a handful Stalinist regimes still in power around the world today, and may in fact reclaim what is left of Lebanon.

Perhaps a Lebanon built on accommodation and power-sharing between Muslims and Christians is not a model Syria and Israel would like to follow; they prefer Fascist ideas built on the superiority of one "race" over other races: Jewish in Israel, and Arab in Syria. That is why they have been so eager over the decades to demolish the multicultural model of Lebanon that stands as a thorn in their supremacist ideologies.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group held talks on Wednesday in Beirut with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures in a key meeting of three top anti-Israel militant groups amid the war raging in Gaza.  Following the meeting, a brief statement said Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed with Hamas' Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad's leader Ziad al-Nakhleh on the next steps that the three — along with other Iran-backed militants — should take at this “sensitive stage" in the Middle East. If logic is any guide, Israel should be smashing Beirut to the ground as it is doing in Gaza. 

Their goal, according to the statement carried on Hezbollah-run and Lebanese state media, was to achieve “a real victory for the resistance in Gaza and Palestine” and halt Israel's "treacherous and brutal aggression against our oppressed and steadfast people in Gaza and the West Bank”.

No other details were provided. As the Gaza death toll spirals, tensions have also been rising along the tense Lebanon-Israel border, where Hezbollah members have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops since the day after Hamas' rampage into Israel.

For now, those exchanges remain limited to a handful of border towns and Hezbollah and Israeli military positions on both sides. Lebanese army soldiers and United Nations peacekeeping forces have deployed in large, but useless, numbers.  Dozens of Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the clashes so far, the group says, while the Israeli military has also announced some deaths among its ranks.

Nasrallah has yet to publicly speak about the war in Gaza and clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border. However, other Hezbollah top officials have warned Israel against its planned ground invasion into the besieged territory. Israeli officials have said they would retaliate aggressively in case of a cross-border attack by Hezbollah from Lebanon. “We will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the consequences for it and the Lebanese state (will be) devastating," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said while visiting Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon on Sunday.

Lebanon's cash-strapped caretaker government, along regional and international figures, has been scrambling to keep the country out of the war. Hezbollah and Israel fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a tense stalemate. Israel sees Iran-backed Hezbollah as its most serious threat, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel. Yet, it continues to pummel women and children in Gaza, while engaging in "polite and civilized" exchanges of rockets and missiles with Lebanon. 

Why have the US and the West refused to help Lebanon out of this hellish equation for so long? A vast majority (75%) of Lebanese do not want war with Israel, but the US has encouraged the Syrian occupation of Lebanon between 1975 and 2005, during which Iran smuggled the 150,000 rockets to Hezbollah in Lebanon via its alliance with Syria. A cowardly West had 40 years to do something, but it didn't. Have the hens come back to roost? Is the US ready and willing, once again, to wage a war against the very same monsters it created, as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq?

 

Israel Killed UN's Count Bernadotte. Now it is After UN Secy Gen Guterres

Just like their fellow barbarian Muslim Fundamentalists of Hamas, the Jewish fundamentalists of Israel consider themselves infallible by the Grace of God (like the British monarchy by the way). Do not even try to be fair: if you dare say something Israelis don't like, they'll criminalize you as an antisemite and judeophobe....

Now they have the gall to demand that Secretray General Antonio Guterres of the UN resign because he dared show compassion to the civilian population in Gaza whom the barbarian Jews are decimating by the thousands, and dared suggest that there is a context to the Israeli barbarity unfolding in Palestine - THE FOREIGN COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE -  when he said that the Hamas attack on Israel "DID NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM."....

This is from the Israeli envoy to the UN whose country has never - I repeat NEVER - abided by any of the UN resolutions concerning the tragedy of Palestine since 1948. Back when Israel was a horde of Jewish terrorist organizations illegally entering Palestine and committing rapes, beheadings, torture, killings, evictions, home demolitions against innocent Palestinian villagers and townspeople in the 1920s-1940s, Israel did in fact assassinate the UN envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte, because his objectivity and neutrality were leading him to condemn Jewish terrorism and uphold self-determination for the Palestinians. 

See what an Israeli student discovered and dared publicize when he studied the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian seacoast town of Tantura: the raped and killed Palestinian women of Tantura are buried today beneath a parking lot in what has become an Israeli settlement:

[ https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/02/tantura-israels-independence-as.html  ], or

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre ]

The entire world sees the imbalance and the bias against the Palestinians: Only two countries vote in favor of Israel at the UN: The US and Israel. Sometimes, these two accomplices buy up the government of some desolate island in the Pacific to vote with them. America votes for Israel because it is controlled - finance and media - by the Jewish lobby. Those Americans who dare oppose Israel immediately lose their jobs, are shunned by society, lose elections, receive death threats.... America is but a poodle on the Israeli leash. 

As you read the report below, notice how the Israeli ambassador's comments against Hamas apply exactly to his country's own atrocious conduct. He rejects the balance or equivalence between Hamas's barbarity and Israel's barbarity that Secy General Gutteres is expressing. Israelis are so arrogant and supercilious that they demand and insist that their barbarity and violation of humanitarian and occupation laws need to be ignored, even endorsed, while only those committed by Hamas are worthy of condemnation. And then, he shoves back the Holocaust chloroform down the throat of the international community as a means to terrorize it into sedation; indeed, using the Holocaust card has become Israel's best terrorist weapon to shut down any dissent against its own biblical barbarity and colonial genesis.

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Israeli UN ambassador demands UN secretary-general resign after 'shocking' speech

Greg Norman, Chris Pandolfo

Tue, October 24, 2023

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations is ripping the "horrible views" that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres expressed at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and is calling for his resignation.

Ambassador Gilad Erdan described Guterres’ remarks as "shocking" for stating that the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas "did not happen in a vacuum" and that the "Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation."

"The shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner," Erdan posted on X, formerly Twitter.

"His statement that, 'the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,' expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomabale (sic). It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!"

Erdan then demanded that Guterres resign, the first time an Israeli ambassador has called for a sitting U.N. secretary-general to step down, an Israeli official confirmed to Fox News Digital.

"The @UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN," he wrote in a follow-up post. "I call on him to resign immediately. There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words."

During his speech, Guterres said the "situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour" and that the "war in Gaza is raging and risks spiraling throughout the region," according to a transcript.

"I have condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel," Guterres continued. "Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets against civilian targets."

Yet Guterres also said, "It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."

"The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing," the secretary-general said.

"But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," he added.

Responding to Guterres at the U.N., Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said, "As we meet here today, young babies, children are held in Gaza. This is beyond imagination. A living nightmare."

"They are victims of evil," he added. "Mr. Secretary-General, in what world do you live? Definitely, this is not our world."

Then U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, "Where is the outrage? Where is the revulsion? Where is the rejection? Where is the explicit condemnation of these horrors? We must affirm the right of any nation to defend itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself."

"We call on all member states to send a firm, united message to any state or non-state actor that is considering opening another front in this conflict against Israel or who may target Israel's partners, including the United States," Blinken also said. "Don't, don't throw fuel on the fire. Members of this council and permanent members in particular have a special responsibility to prevent this conflict from spreading."

Erdan later said at a press conference that "The U.N. is failing" and "you, Mr. Secretary-General, have lost all morality and impartiality because when you say those terrible words that these heinous attacks did not happen in a vacuum, you are tolerating terrorism. And by tolerating terrorism, you are justifying terrorism."

"I think that the secretary-general must resign because, from now on, every day that he's here in this building, unless he apologizes immediately – today we called [on] him to apologize. There is no justification to the existence of this building," Erdan continued. "This building was established to prevent atrocities. How can the secretary-general, with his words, justify in any way the terrible atrocities that happened to our civilians, innocent civilians?"

 

Double Standard Israel-Palestine Trashes America's Own Values

It's been like this for decades: What America preaches about around the world does not hold for Israel. All charters, laws, treaties, norms, resolutions, and regulations have been violated with total impunity by Israel.

Why? Because white anti-semitic America and Europe - the perpetrators of the Holocaust -  have rid  themselves of their Jewish "problem" by dumping it on Palestine and the Arab world. Hence, they are determined to continue colluding with the Israeli project of deporting most (since they keep some as a cheap labor minority) Palestinians out of their country, erasing Palestine from the map, and establishing their biblical-vintage, purely Jewish, supremacist colony. It began in the 1920s, continued throughout the 1930s and 1940s, with a first installement of ethnic cleansing in 1948, followed by another one in 1967, and now on the verge of completion in 2023. The Al-Aqsa Mosque will be demolished and a third Jewish temple erected in its place. Then the real Messiah will come in fulfillment of biblical garbage from the Bronze Age of humanity.

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America: Live Up to Your Own Principles When Dealing with Palestine

Daoud Kuttab

Tue, October 24, 2023

I have always believed and preached throughout the Middle East America’s principles of the rule of law, equality, freedom of expression, and the universality of human rights. I set up a media NGO, Community Media Network, that both trains and gives airtime on Radio al Balad and the AmmanNet website for journalists, youth, women, and marginalized groups to express themselves in an independent and professional way. CMN is the only media outlet in the entire Middle East and North Africa that has received the prestigious Journalism Trust Initiative stamp from Reporters Without Borders.

As an American Palestinian working in the Middle East and the proud executive director of the Palestinian version of Sesame Street, I have, in my years teaching at Al Quds University and as board chair of the investigative journalism group Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, trained and supervised many Palestinian and Arab journalists in the basics of professional journalism. I have proudly used the American First Amendment as an example of a masterful statement in defense of a core civil right.

This is why I am sad to report that I have seen every one of these principles shattered over the past week by American officials as they take Israel’s side so aggressively. Without necessarily cheering it on, they have been implicitly green-lighting acts of violence against Palestinian civilians and refraining, at least in public, from calling for de-escalation and the need to break the cycle of violence. These are not the ideals I have been preaching.

What we are seeing today coming from Washington is administration officials encouraging a four-times criminally charged prime minister whose defense minister publicly said they will cut off water, electricity, and food from an entire people. President Joe Biden’s visit to reassure Israelis is one thing, but his refusal to call for a de-escalation or a ceasefire (his U.N. representative vetoed such a resolution) has produced deep concern and an anti-American feeling throughout the region. Many worry that his visit and the continuing unreserved support for Israel he expressed in his Thursday night speech will give Israeli hawks the green light to continue brutalizing an already terrified civilian population that has no place to go.

While Palestinians, like all people under occupation, have an internationally legitimate right to resist their occupiers, the atrocities, whether by Palestinian fighters or others, are wrong, and they need to be called out and condemned. I add my voice without reservation in condemning war crimes against civilians. All humans are created in God’s image, and we are called by our maker to preserve life, not to end it.

Fairness and equality, however, require that everyone who has demanded the condemnation of acts by nonstate actors like Hamas must also be willing to demand the same from state actors.

Hamas committed war crimes, according to Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard. But experts say that Israel’s blockade of Gaza and ordered evacuation violate international law as well. “Collective punishment is a war crime. Israel is doing that by cutting electricity, water, food, blocking aid from entering the Gaza Strip,” said Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir.

Even the “‘moderate”’ Israeli President Isaac Herzog has arrogantly said there are no innocent Palestinians thus denying Palestinian humanity and justifying killing noncombatants. “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said during a press conference. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It is absolutely not true. They could have risen. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”

Both Hamas are Israel are guilty of human rights violations, and everyone must be careful not to treat Palestinians as children of a lesser God. Human rights are inviolate, and all violators must be held accountable.

America cannot wash its hands of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When an American Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in May 2022, the United States did little to bring the culprits to account. Shireen, who like me was born in the Biblical town of Bethlehem, had become a popular reporter because of her effort to convey the news as impartially as possible. Washington, with the exception of principled senators like Chris Van Hollen, who insisted on the investigation and accountability for Shireen, allowed the Israelis to get away literally with murder without even holding a proper investigation. This gave the world the signal that Israel will be treated differently even when it comes to the killing of an American journalist.

Another recent example of U.S. policy that Palestinians see as hypocritical but is probably little known to most Americans involves the decision by the Biden administration to allow Israel into the visa waiver program. This program, run by the Department of Homeland Security, permits most nationals of other nations to travel to the United States for 90 days without obtaining a visa. Israel had sought inclusion into this program for many years.

But the waiver comes with a catchall: Americans visiting participating countries must be granted reciprocity and treated with equal respect. Four Democratic senators warned that Israel was not meeting this condition. Haaretz recently reported on a Palestinian American man traveling in Israel with his children being blindfolded and handcuffed for 11 hours. An Arab American civil rights organization is suing over Israel’s inclusion.

My own family members have been caught up in this. They were among some Palestinian Americans who found themselves trapped and unable to get out of their homes in Jerusalem, while Jewish American settlers literally within meters of them were allowed free access to Israeli airports and crossing points. It was hard for my pregnant daughter, who had an extremely sick child, to be trapped like that. She chose to go back to the United States to give birth and ensure that her sick child was treated well.

Is it any wonder that Palestinians see the United States standing properly for its principles in Ukraine but see a blatant double standard when it comes to us?

Palestinian nonviolent efforts over the years have also been thwarted. My cousin, a nonviolent activist and Jerusalem native named Mubarak Awad, was deported by the Yitzhak Shamir government in 1996. I know the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement is controversial in the United States, but it should not be. Boycott efforts are nonviolent. And yet, boycott efforts internationally are fought with false claims of boycott calls being antisemitic. Various U.S. states have passed anti-American laws (possibly violative of the First Amendment guarantees) that ban boycotts and punish those who support the BDS movement. This Palestinian civil society’s nonviolent response was inspired by the South African resistance to apartheid. There are many more instances of Palestinian attempts at nonviolence, including some of my heroes like Issa Amro from Hebron and Sami Awad from Bethlehem. They are regularly harassed by Jewish settlers and at times by Israeli security.

Peter Beinart has cited examples of nonviolence in a detailed article in The New York Times. Both political and nonviolent activities are restricted by Israel which has refused to deal with a 75-year-old refugee crisis it has caused, a 56-year occupation its troops are maintaining, and a 16-year unauthorized siege of Gaza. In the meantime, the Israeli army’s almost daily shooting of Palestinians and protecting Jewish settler pogroms have become unbearable including to many Israelis and American Jews.

Even attempting to follow the international legal remedies has failed to produce any tangible results. The United States has even opposed the International Criminal Court in the Hague from addressing legitimate documented Palestinian charges of apartheid and the illegal Jewish-only colonial settlement enterprise while speeding up cases against Russian crimes in Ukraine.

But for right now, the most urgent call is for the respect of the law of war as set out by international treaties and entrusted to the International Committee for the Red Cross and U.N. member states. The United States must call for an end to indiscriminate attacks (an Israeli army spokesman admitted that their attacks are aimed at damage not accuracy) avoid civilians and provide the provision of a humanitarian corridor. The Internationally banned white phosphorus should not be allowed to be used by Israel, as has been documented and condemned by Human Rights Watch. Hamas should be strongly encouraged to release noncombatant hostages immediately and to refrain from its own indiscriminate rockets even though over a thousand Palestinian civilians are held without charge or trial.

Once a ceasefire is reached, the sooner the better for saving lives and reasserting hope in international law, serious efforts must be exerted to find a political solution that can lead to the end of occupation and the creation of a democratic and independent Palestinian state alongside a safe Israel. In this regard, the U.S. president (whose rights in this area are exclusive) should instruct his representative at the U.N. not to oppose a call for recognizing Palestine as a full member of the U.N. with the goal of pushing representatives of the state of Palestine—President Mahmoud Abbas and his team—to negotiate with their Israeli counterparts on all issues of becoming good neighbors. There is no issue more in sync with America’s principles than that.

Gaza Parents "Tag" Their Live Children to Identify their Bodies after Israel Kills Them

Jewish barbarity continues in accordance with typical biblical norms: Sometimes in revenge as in "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", but sometimes just like that, wanton violence under orders from the Big Zombie in the Sky, God. "Kill them all", said the Lord to Joshua as the invading Jewish nomadic brutes prepared to perpetrate the first ethnic cleansing of sedentary civilized Palestine, then known as Canaan, some 3,000 years ago. "Every man, woman, child and beast", said the Lord, "must perish so that the Promised Land becomes yours." 

And people in the 20th century, heirs to the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, used this religious trash without hesitation as justification to perpetrate the second ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1920s-1940s. With absolute clarity and without any shame, the third ethnic cleansing of what remains of Palestine is unfolding before our eyes. There is no "civilized" world, for if there were, the horror in Gaza would not be happening. 

Back in 1948 there were no cell phones or television crews on the ground to describe Jewish savagery. But today, we are witnessing it "live". Israel was built in 1948 with exactly the same methods it is using today: kill, displace, starve, terrorize, but no one saw what was happening: Zionist lies and propaganda created the narrative everyone believed for a while, until the Internet opened the pages of history and revealed to the world the monumental crime of the creation of the British-American colony of Israel....Back then, European terrorist organizations, the Jewish Hamas and Islamic Jihad of the 1920s-1940s (Haganah, Stern Gang, Lehi and others), burned, raped and killed innocent Palestinian villagers and townspeople to replace them with foreign European illegal migrants. Israel's army was in fact founded by the coalescence of these Jewish terrorist organizations that also killed British soldiers and UN peace envoys.

I wonder if there are smelly Jewish scribes sitting in dusty libraries somewhere writing more "books" of the bible, recording the fantastic achievements of the Jewish people in Israel. Stories of God urging them to kill more subhuman Palestinian children, renewing his pledge to give them the Promised Land one more time as long as they kill every man, woman, child and beast of Palestine. Future generations will read these stories millennia from now and marvel, just as religious idiots do today, at God's infinite love for his favorite pet people.

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Israeli Defense Forces have so far killed at least 4,651 Palestinians and wounded more than 14,245 in retaliation for the attack by Hamas that killed about 1,400 Israelis earlier this month.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that the dead include 1,871 children, 1,023 women and 187 elderly people. Most of the deaths are in Palestine's Gaza, home to Hamas, though dozens have also been reported dead in Palestine's West Bank.

In addition, the United Nations says that Israeli forces had killed 227 Palestinians this year before Hamas offensive while just 29 Israelis had been slain by Palestinian attackers before the attack.

Hamas has said the attack was made in retaliation for Israel's multiple raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque earlier this year as Israelis continue to make illegal settlements on Palestinian lands in violation of international law.

Seven hospitals and 21 other health centers in the country are out of service after being targeted by the Israeli military.

Some Palestinians in Gaza are taking to writing the names of their children on their legs to help identify them if they are killed.

Meanwhile, the IDF has admitted to attacking the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin, claiming that the holy center was used a "execute terrorist attacks against civilians."

 

When a Holocaust Survivor Speaks the Truth about Israel

 

US Public Opinion is Captive of Bias: Takes Courage to be Fair

Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Most Palestinians in Gaza don't support Hamas. So why do we rush to pick a side?
Bethany Rentsch
Thu, October 19, 2023

Nine years ago I was working in Palestine. It is a nation of people, not a country with borders. That’s why the United States, Canada, western European countries, and Australia do not recognize Palestine. The implication is that most do not recognize Palestinians, either. With or without recognition: This [Palestinian] nation exists; it is important to know about them.

You may wonder how a woman from Wisconsin is writing this. I studied terrorism as a graduate student at the University of Saint Andrews in 2010, visited Israel and Palestine in 2011 with the university, and resolved to return in some capacity to know the dynamics better than was shown on TV and the Internet.

In 2014, I was selected to volunteer as an English teacher in Nablus, a crowded and poor city in Palestine’s West Bank. Violence erupted in July 2014 and I landed at the end of August. Although I was afraid, I also remember my fear being outweighed by my need to see and hear and witness before judging – as it seems everyone else did.

Few Palestinians support Hamas or its terrorist ideology

What I learned – and what is most important for you to know about Palestinians – is that although Hamas is a terrorist organization, few Palestinians adhere to their terrorist ideology.

Qoseen is a gritty village outside Nablus. I was their first foreign teacher, and assigned to help their girls in grades 3-8. English may have been the language of my classroom, but social responsibility was the content. We picked up garbage together, I took them to a rescue to learn about being nice to animals, and – on one occasion – we all did the chicken dance. They thought I was foolish and couldn’t tell if I was serious. But they tried it, then looked like fools with me.

This included adults in the room, and there were more than a few. Parents of my students were dubious of me at first. I am tall with light eyes and a not-small nose. No one talked to me on the bus, either, which was hard for me. It took more than a month for villagers of all ages to get used to seeing me. There was routinely an audience of parents and other children outside my classroom, heads around the door like petals on a flower.

Two months in, moms and dads began to invite me to their homes for dinner – even the bus driver and local taxi driver. Those were generational events, like reunions. There I found girls like me, dads like mine, and families like ours who are curious and goofy and proud. No Palestinians ever threatened me and I was never hurt. I was safer as an independent foreign woman in Palestine than I was amid men from western militaries at NATO’s Kabul Headquarters a few years later.

Palestinians are a war-ravaged people. Of the world’s entire Palestinian population, about half still live within Israel’s borders. Some have Israeli passports (about 21 percent of the Israeli population), some live in East Jerusalem, and still others are confined to the former “Mandatory Palestine,” or Palestinian territories – the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Altogether, there are more than 7.5 million Palestinians inside Israel’s borders and millions more outside of them.

Most Palestinians are stateless – no passports or basic sense of belonging to a country. There are millions of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. There are also internally displaced refugees within the Palestinian territories. Gaza alone is home to more than two million humans. That’s an area similar to Delaware or twice the size of Washington, DC. It is commonly referred to as one of the most densely populated places on the planet – and immensely poverty-stricken.

Without land, without acknowledgement or belonging, and without any actual rights, Palestine is in need. The Guardian ran an op-ed on October 11 by American college English professor Moustafa Bayoumi. He explains the double standard of this most recent war, specifically false-equivalence in the narrative we hear about Palestine and Israel. He writes: “They’re not equal. One dominates while the other is dominated. One colonizes. The other is colonized.” There is a double standard in place that “hides the massive asymmetry of power between the state of Israel and the scattered population groupings that make up the Palestinian people.”

Palestinians are scattered and they exist. And while different, they, too, are suffering from Hamas’ insidious violence and Israel’s latest bombardments. Like the lives of Israelis and Jewish people – and all souls – Palestinians deserve understanding and protection, too.

Bethany Rentsch is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. She has lived and worked in Germany, Palestine, and Afghanistan.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: As Israel-Hamas war rages, Palestinians in Gaza deserve our protection

From October 1983 to October 2023: America the Guilty

This Monday October 23 we will commemorate the bombing in Beirut of the US Marines barracks and the French Paratrooper compound by Iran's Hezbollah on 23 October 1983. Tally: 243 US Marines and servicemen, 58 French paratroopers killed.

Forty years separate us from that deadly event. 

Back then, the imbecile Republican president Ronald Reagan, who sold weapons to the Iranian Islamic Mullahs to fund the Contras of Nicaragua, had sent his Marines along with French, Italian and British soldiers as part of a Multi-National Force (MNF) to Beirut to oversee the withdrawal of Yasser Arafat's PLO forces after the Israeli siege of Beirut.

At the time, Syria, the PLO and the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran were on a campaign to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Lebanon, evict all western presence from Lebanon, and take control of the country for the specific purpose of using Lebanon's border as a war front against Israel. They succeeded thanks to American cowardice and greed for oil.

Yet, like all successive US Republican administrations - Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. - the US administration decided to withdraw in the face of the Syrian-Iranian threat, selling Lebanon to its own enemies, only to appease the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the Egyptians.... and maintain oil deliveries at low prices. 

Indeed, the next morning after that deadly Sunday of October 23, 1983, Ronald Reagan decided to invade the Caribbean island of Grenada, supposedly because he worried about a handful of US students due to the instability of the island government. Not a bad way to divert the attention of the dumb American public and media from the disaster unfolding in Beirut. 

To add insult to injury, Reagan quickly pulled his remaining Marines from Lebanon, followed soon by his European poodles France, Britain and Italy. Reagan thus handed Syria and Iran and their terror organization Hezbollah a victory by surrendering Lebanon to them. Soon afterwards, Hezbollah began bombing western embassies, kidnapping and holding western hostages, hijacking TWA flight 847, all of which were used to extort the US for concessions.

George H. W. Bush Sr. repeated the sellout to Syria a few years later, even as Syria's Soviet backers were falling apart. Lebanon was facing a presidential election, and the Lebanese people and last free government were demanding an honest democratic election battle. But the lackeys of Saudi Arabia and Syria, State Dept Secretary James Baker, and envoys Richard Murphy, Edward Djerejian, and a horde of other State Department assholes - known as Arabists - sided with Syria and threatened the Lebanese with "chaos" if they didn't vote for Syria's favorite puppet candidate Mikhail Daher. The reason? The US was crawling at dictator Assad's feet to release the Hezbollah-held US hostages and it obviously succumbed to the terrorist blackmail. The Lebanese refused the Syrian puppet as president, and Syria, with the full backing of the US, besieged the Christian enclave, killed thousands of people, and evicted the last free Lebanese government from Beirut. Thirty years of a brutal Stalinist Syrian occupation followed. Thank you America, for your values.

Why did the Americans behave like cowards back then? For Arab oil. At the time, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Libya and other "respectable" Arab Muslim countries were backing Syria, Iran, the PLO and Hezbollah's war on tiny Christian Lebanon. America decided to sacrifice Lebanon to appease the Arabs, even as the latter were holding US hostages, blowing up embassies, and killing US soldiers.

Fast forward to today: An entire fleet of US warships is headed to the eastern Mediterranean for the specific purpose of deterring... guess who? Hezbollah's and Syria's imminent war with Israel. Had the US have the courage to deal with Hezbollah and the Syrian-Iranian threat back then, a lot could have been different in the region today. Unfortunately, the essence of US foreign policy is just that: a cesspool of treachery and foreign policy failures, which it then tries to rectify with equally fumbling military means and is then disappointed again and again by discovering that might rarely makes right. Failures in Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea....

Had the Americans stood by principle rather than sell out to economic expediency back in the early 1980s, Hezbollah would not even exist, the Syrian regime would probably have fallen, and the heartache we see today in Palestine-Israel would not be looming so large over everyone's life. Lebanon itself would have ended its suffering back then in the 1980s, rather than succumb to the misery that Syria's and Iran's occupations have inflicted on it during 40 long years.

Some surmise that this was the plan all along. I hate to believe in conspiracy theories. But the behavior of both the US and Israel - determined as they seem for decades to never find a permanent solution - suggests that they want to maintain insecurity and instability in south Lebanon and in Palestine precisely to always have a pretext to intervene and, when circumstances allow, to steal land and expand. How come the Balkan wars, the creation of Muslim Bosnia and Kosovo in the heart of Europe, were all done within a couple of years? How come the tiny Christian country of East Timor, an artificial creation of Portuguese colonialism, was sliced off the mastodon country of Indonesia by the US, Australia and their allies who sent an armada to kick the Indonesians out?

Lebanon used to be a friend of America, back when President John Kennedy sent 10,000 US Marines to Beirut to protect it from the Arab onslaught of Gamal Abdel-Nasser in 1958. But no more. Lebanon has been reeling under Syrian and Iranian occupations for five decades, and every time there was a chance to extricate it from their stranglehold, America would yield to terrorism, make a deal with Satan, and sell Lebanon to Arabs and Muslims. The resentment against America today has slowly crawled from the traditionally hostile Muslim segments of Lebanese society to its traditionally friendly Christian community. America no longer has any credibility in Lebanon, not even among its friends.

Like America, Lebanon is now facing a war that Hezbollah and Israel might unleash on its soil for the umpteenth time. Have the Americans finally learned their foreign policy lessons of failure? Or will they, yet again, sell Lebanon as a bribe to Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others? 

America is reaping the bitter harvest of the mercantile seeds it sowed. Its Marines are buried in dishonored graves because of failed treasonous policies. Now, even after 40 years, time has come to honor the lives of those US Marines who had come to Lebanon as peacekeepers in 1983. Will Biden's America live up to that much deserved honor?

Totalitarian US is a Dishonest Broker in the Middle East

Why? It is absolutely biased for Israel and is violating the most basic foundation of free speech. Here are some examples of how America has become - not a beacon as Biden said yesterday - but a ditch of sewer darkness. 

Any statement supporting Israel's barbarity is endorsed, but any statement supporting the Palestinians is barred, condemned, and can even be fatal (the stabbing of a Palestinian mother and her baby son by their own landlord). Is this "balanced" or "unbiased" or "objective" information? America is beginning to look a lot like a Russia Gulag: You are allowed to think in only one way. Any other line of thinking is prohibited and will cause you great harm. Pretty soon, America will open "re-education camps" like those China has opened for the Uighurs of Xinjiang Province.

Rachida Tlaib, Palestinian-American House Member, is to be barred from Israel briefings after 'misinformation' about Gaza hospital explosion.

Sarah Silverman, Jewish-American comic supports Israel cutting off Gaza’s water supply. Bombing children and starving those that survive the bombing is superb news in America.

Maha Dakhil, top CAA (Creative Artists Agency) agent's comment that Israel’s Gaza war is "genocide" sparks controversy. 

Right-wing and Zionist US media are flooded with dehumanizing rhetoric against Palestinians that is stoking hostility with xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric — including referring to Palestinians as “barbarian pigs,” drumming up hatred against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S., and targeting the two Muslim women who are members of Congress. Let us not forget that the top anti-semites around the world are the right-wing white racist assholes of America, Europe and Russia.

Eric Bolling, a host at the conservative cable news company Newsmax, said Palestinians are “addicted to violence” like an “addict is addicted to drugs.”

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author said on Saturday a Jewish organization in New York City canceled a reading he was due to give on Friday without explanation, a day after he said he signed an open letter condemning Israel's "indiscriminate violence" against Palestinians in Gaza.

Charles Kirk ― the president of Turning Point USA, a right-wing anti-semitic organization that has promoted Christian nationalism ― said last week that “a vast majority of Muslims” have a “medieval” worldview. He also referred to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as “an active threat to the United States” who “hates this country.” 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “Gaza is going to look like Tokyo and Berlin at the end of World War II when this is over,” he said last week. “And if it doesn’t look that way, Israel made a mistake.”

Whoopi Goldberg: Suspended for 2 weeks from the program "The View" and was almost fired for saying that the Holocaust was “white people” committing atrocities against other “white people,” and said that “the Holocaust isn’t about race…. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” In this fashion, Zionists drill in the minds of Americans that nothing can bring down the Holocaust from its sacrosaint status as the ultimate cruelty in humanity's history, and that Jews are a unique special "race". Scientists have told us for decades that there is no such thing as "human races". We are all one species, and insisting on dividing people into races is a remnant of the colonial racist constructs of the 19th and 20th centuries when Israel was "specially" created for the so-called Jewish race.

Gigi and Bella Hadid: Two Dutch-Palestinian models have been receiving death threats due to their support of Palestine. All members of the Hadid family, including brother Anwar and parents Mohamed and Yolanda, have been targeted and had to change their numbers out of fear. Gigi has expressed “deep empathy and heartbreak for the Palestinian struggle and life under occupation” and shared her "condolences with my loved ones, both Palestinian and Jewish … whoever and wherever you are.” She also posted, “There is nothing Jewish about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians... Condemning the Israeli government is not antisemitic and supporting Palestinians is not supporting Hamas.” Now their future as models is in jeopardy because the Zionist lobbies will do all they can to destroy her for expressing her solidarity with her country of origin.

Harvard University: Jewish billionnaire, Idan Ofer, and his wife, some of the world's richest people and Harvard donors, have left the board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government because a group of student organizations released a statement saying that they held the Israeli regime "entirely responsible" for the violence unfolding in the region. In the Zionist "Red Book", you can't do that. Anything outside the Jewish Zionist dogma is not merely an error, it's a fault that deserves punishment.

University of Pennsylvania: Jewish Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to express solidarity with Israel.

Cornell University: History Professor Russell Rickford to be fired for expressing sympathy with Gaza.

Paddy Cosgrave: CEO & Founder, Web Summit. He first said, ."I'm shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland's government, who for once are doing the right thing," Paddy Cosgrave originally wrote on X in response to Israel's attacks in Gaza. "War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are." He then started backpedaling and apologizing for the "profound hurt" caused by his comments criticizing the West's support for Israel.

Davis Polk Law firm: recently revoked job offers to three students who the firm believed held leadership roles in student organizations at Harvard and Columbia that signed controversial letters blaming Israel for the slaughter in Gaza.

 

 

 

 

Jewish Settlers = Muslim Hamas. NO DIFFERENCE

Ibrahim Wadi, 62, and his son Ahmad, 24, were on their way to a funeral for four Palestinians shot dead by Israeli settlers in their occupied West Bank community, when their car came under attack.

The father and son were driving through the small village of Qusra, just south of Nablus, which has become a focal point of violence over recent days, when they themselves were fired upon by armed settlers on Thursday. The men were transferred to a nearby hospital and died of their wounds soon after.

They are among at least 61 people, including children, to be killed in the occupied West Bank since the October 7 Hamas attacks. More than 1,250 have been injured. Hamas says it is killing innocent Israelis out of revenge for 75 years of dispossession and Jewish brutality. Jewish Settlers say they are killing innocent Palestinians out of revenge for Hamas's terrorism. I wonder who is a terrorist and who is not.

Jewish settlers believe they are God's chosen people and that Palestine was theirs some 3,000 years ago (IMHO: biblical Bullshit). Muslim radicals believe theirs is the final prophecy and that Palestine has always been Muslim (IMHO: Islamic bullshit). Palestine was ruled by Jews for only some 300 years during the two Jewish enemy kingdoms Judah and Israel long long time ago (1100 BC-800 BC) during the Bronze Age. Palestine was under Muslim rule for several centuries between 640 AD and 1099 AD (Arab rule), then again between 1289 AD and 1918 AD (under successive Seljuk, Mamluk, and Ottoman rule).

While Israel is wantonly and deliberately killing civilian Palestinians in the concentration camp of Gaza, supposedly in revenge for Hamas's attack of October 7, terrorist settlers are also killing civilian Palestinians in the West Bank.

Hani Odeh, Qusra’s mayor says that Jewish terrorist settlers roam freely in the village under the protection of Israeli police. Odeh contacted Israeli officials beforehand who told him to take a different route than the one they would usually take, to avoid settlers in the area. But to Odeh’s surprise, the road to which they were diverted was filled with settlers, who eventually shot and killed Ahmad and Ibrahim in their car.

Odeh witnessed the terrorist settler attack happen from his own vehicle while Israeli soldiers patrolled the street. He went up to one officer, urging him to disperse the settlers, but no one did anything. He said it felt like a trap.

In other words, Jewish terrorism is just as bad as Muslim terrorism. They both argue they are acting out of anger and seek revenge. Just like the barbarity they both inherited from the biblical and koranic bullshit.

West Bank residents say they are fearful of a wave of violence from the Israeli military and security forces, as well as revenge attacks by the estimated 700,000 Jewish terrorist settlers living in the area. An Israeli military commander called what Jewish terrorist settlers had been doing as a “pogrom.”

Since Israel took control and occupied the West Bank in 1967 from Jordan following the six-day war, the West Bank territory, which residents hope will form part of a future Palestinian state, has been settled by ultra-religious fundamentalist extremists, often under official Israeli military protection.

As of mid-September this year, the United Nations has reported 798 settler-related terrorist incidents in the occupied territory, leading to 216 Palestinians injured. In the same period, Israeli forces killed 179 Palestinians in the West Bank.

Settler terrorists have long been accused of carrying out acts of violence against Palestinians. As well as killings, these attacks have included incidents of physical assault, property damage and harassment. Mayor Odeh insisted the aim of both "moderate" Israelis and the Jewish terrorist settlers is to drive Palestinians from their home and ultimately from the occupied West Bank.

Biden: You Lost my Vote due to your Callousness on Palestine

I have been a staunch democrat voter. I can't stand the barbarian Trump republicans.

But now Joe Biden has demonstrated he is even more barbaric and callous in view of the human suffering he is unleashing on the Palestinian people through his blind support of apartheid Israel for cheap electoral gains.

For decades, the US knew that without a fair solution to the Israeli colonial occupation of Palestine there will never be peace. The Hamas attack against innocent Israelis is barbaric, but so is the vengeful genocidal assault by the Israelis on innocent Palestinian civilians: Churches, hospitals, schools, children... are victims of Jewish barbarism.

I pledge not to vote for the Biden ticket next year, as Biden has demonstrated he is worse than Trump. Trump may be a big disgusting mouth, but Biden is a big disgusting accomplice in the genocide in Gaza.

Totalitarian America: The Modus Operandi of Zionist Blackmail

To understand the mental corecion that Zionist propaganda imposes on American public opinion, just watch the flood of pressures exercized by wealthy Jewish organizations and individuals on institutions and individuals who express any sumpathy for Palestine. 

You can see the fear on the faces of news anchoremen and women on mainstream US television networks: Fear of saying the wrong thing, a hint of bias against Israel or for Palestine in their words. You can tell they want to tell the whole truth, to be objective, but they know if they do not camp their opinions strictly inside the Zionist and Israeli intellectual concentration camp, they will suffer the consequences.

Examples of victims of totalitarian Zionist stranglehold on public opinion:

Whoopi Goldberg: Suspended for 2 weeks from the program "The View" and was almost fired for saying that the Holocaust was “white people” committing atrocities against other “white people,” and said that “the Holocaust isn’t about race…. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” In this fashion, Zionists drill in the minds of Americans that nothing can bring down the Holocaust from its sacrosaint status as the ultimate cruelty in humanity's history, and that Jews are a unique special "race". Scientists have told us for decades that there is no such thing as "human races". We are all one species, and insisting on dividing people into races is a remnant of the colonial racist constructs of the 19th and 20th centuries when Israel was "specially" created for the so-called Jewish race.

Gigi and Bella Hadid: Two Dutch-Palestinian models have been receiving death threats due to their support of Palestine. All members of the Hadid family, including brother Anwar and parents Mohamed and Yolanda, have been targeted and had to change their numbers out of fear. Gigi has expressed “deep empathy and heartbreak for the Palestinian struggle and life under occupation” and shared her "condolences with my loved ones, both Palestinian and Jewish … whoever and wherever you are.” She also posted, “There is nothing Jewish about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians... Condemning the Israeli government is not antisemitic and supporting Palestinians is not supporting Hamas.” Now their future as models is in jeopardy because the Zionist lobbies will do all they can to destroy her for expressing her solidarity with her country of origin.

Harvard University: Jewish billionnaire, Idan Ofer, and his wife, some of the world's richest people and Harvard donors, have left the board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government because a group of student organizations released a statement saying that they held the Israeli regime "entirely responsible" for the violence unfolding in the region. In the Zionist "Red Book", you can't do that. Anything outside the Jewish Zionist dogma is not merely an error, it's a fault that deserves punishment.

University of Pennsylvania: Jewish Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to express solidarity with Israel.

Cornell University: History Professor Russell Rickford to be fired for expressing sympathy with Gaza.

Paddy Cosgrave: CEO & Founder, Web Summit. He first said, ."I'm shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland's government, who for once are doing the right thing," Paddy Cosgrave originally wrote on X in response to Israel's attacks in Gaza. "War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are." He then started backpedaling and apologizing for the "profound hurt" caused by his comments criticizing the West's support for Israel.

Davis Polk Law firm: recently revoked job offers to three students who the firm believed held leadership roles in student organizations at Harvard and Columbia that signed controversial letters blaming Israel for the slaughter in Gaza.

... and on and so forth.. These are the stories we hear about and they are the tip of the iceberg. Most Americans and a good chunk of Europeans live under a Stockholm Syndrome in which they have fallen in a coerced love with their former victims (the Holocaust) who have mutated into their executioners.  The Zionist onslaught is ongoing against anyone who dares express any sympathy for the Palestinians.

Just as they did with every innocent victim they killed or hospital they bombed or US warship they drowned, Israelis start by lying. On US journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh's cold blooded murder by an Israeli sniper - though she was clearly marked as "PRESS" on her  helmet and flak jacket - the Israelis first said it was a Palestinian "terrorist" who did it, then they refused any investigation taking along with them their American poodles, the Holocaust-perpetrator Europeans, and the International Criminal Court. Finally, after a couple of years, the ISraelis admitted and apologized, but did not hold the criminal soldier to account for the murder.

And now with the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza by Israeli jet fighters, killing upwards of 500 Palestinians who were told by the same Israelis to find shelter there, the Israelis say it was a "misfired" Islamic Jihad rocket that destroyed the hospital and killed all these people. Standard Zionist propaganda: Blame the victim. There will be no investigation for crimes of war or crimes against humanity. As Jews, as God's people, Israelis are infallible. So says the fucking Bible with which the entire Christian world has been brainwashed. They can commit all the crimes that they wish, no one will hold them accountable. Just like their Muslim brethren who also kill at will because the fucking Quran says it's OK.

If Christianity has escaped its Bronze Age barbarity it is because it first migrated from the Near East to Rome in its early days, and then after centuries of its own barbarity, science and reason displaced it from the stanglehold it had on Europe and the Western world. 

Egypt, Jordan Stand Fast: No More Palestinian Refugees

Jordan, Egypt Unwilling to Take More Palestinian refugees

Doubling down on its cruelty and arrogant displacement of people out of their ancestral lands, and in its efforts to make Palestinian refugees out of the same refugees it made in 1948 and 1967, the criminal state of Israel is begging Jordan and Egypt to take the 2.2 million Palestinians of Gaza as refugees.

But Jordan and Egypt seem to have learned past lessons and are saying they will not accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza, as Jordanian King Abdullah II said Tuesday. President Al-Sissi of Egypt wondered why ethnic cleanser Israel wants to displace the Gaza Palestinians to Egypt's Sinai desert when it has its own huge Neguev desert right next to Gaza. Yet, one fears that US enticements and bribery will make these two countries accept the refugees, which is likely to end like previous Palestinian population displacement at the hands of the barbarian colonialist European Jews: Stay in refugee camps for decades, if not forever if the criminal Zionists have their wish.

“This is a situation that has to be handled within Gaza and the West Bank,” King Abdullah said in a meeting with the German chancellor, The Associated Press reported. “And you don’t have to carry this out on the shoulders of others.”

Israel’s relentless aerial bombardment campaign in Gaza has killed thousands, including over 1,000 children. Over a million people — half of Gaza’s population — have also been displaced as food, water and medical supplies run out. “The whole region is on the brink,” Abdullah said. “This new cycle of violence is leading us towards the abyss.”

There is no way for Gazans to leave the small, 140 square-mile territory except for a single border crossing with Egypt in the south, but the Egyptian government has been reluctant to accept refugees — wary that there would be no way for them to return to their homes, as happened in 1948 and in 1967.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi denounced the strikes on the Egypt-Palestine border crossing of Rafah on Thursday, which have also prevented humanitarian aid from entering the region. He said it is in the best interest of Palestinians to stay in Gaza.

The hypocrite westerners are pretexting a humanitarian desire to send aid to Gaza, in order for the Rafah border to open, which might lead to the exodus of the Palestinians into Egypt. One hopes that the Palestinians have learned from their previous mistakes: Better stay on your land and fight and die in dignity if you must, than leave and become refugees a third time due to Israel's criminality. Remember that a large majority of the Palestinians of Gaza are already refugees from the ethnic cleansing carried out by Jews in 1948 and 1967. Israel seems to be an expert in recycling and re-using human refugees in repetitively barbaric warfare.

“The threat is significant because it means the liquidation of the Palestinian cause,” el-Sissi said. “It’s important for Gaza people to stay steadfast and exist on their land.”

United Nations experts have accused both the Israeli military and Hamas of committing war crimes in the conflict. Arab resistance against forcing the Palestinians to become refugees again seems to be working: President Biden no longer speaks only of his unqualified support for Israel, but he is now issuing calls to "consider and accommodate" Gazan civilians. "Considering and accommodating" is nothing short of cowardly language, as Biden is obviously terrified at what the Zionist lobby might do to him if he uses language in tune with the Egyptian and Jordanian positions.

In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Biden said an Israeli military occupation of Gaza would be a mistake. Great. He is buckling on the fence-sitting.

Jewish Brutes in their Own Words

Insipred from the Daily Beast: [https://www.thedailybeast.com/israels-war-isnt-on-hamasits-on-the-palestinian-people]

If you had any doubt about the brutality of Israel’s war on Gaza and the Palestinians, then you should look no further than Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, who stated last week that “ We are fighting human animals” in reference to the Palestinian people.

Israel has acted accordingly, not only by using animalistic metaphors, but other rhetorical tactics to dehumanize Palestinians in order to sanction, justify, and receive widespread support for its genocide in progress.

Pretexting to fight "terrorism", Israel has consistently deployed this narrative to gloss over the fact that it was created on a violent foundation of foreign settler-colonialism against the native indigenous Palestinian people. Hence, the pursuit of freedom, justice, and dignity for the Palestinians was not only deliberately ignored, but altogether denied. Just think about it: If you kill and displace a people to steal their land, your best justification for your crime is to deny that these people even exist. Which is in fact what Israelis have been doing from the start of their barbaric onslaught on the native people of Palestine. The very existence of a Palestinian people was revoked by Zionist propaganda in such infamous quotes by Israeli leaders and propaganda: "There is no such a thing as a Palestinian people" (former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir); "A land without a people for a people without land" (Zionist propagandist Israel Zangwill for the purpose of making the false claim that Palestine was empty).

In spite of this history, Israel’s narrative has been so effective in legitimizing violence against Palestinians, that days after of the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated—with no vocal reproach or condemnation—that "we are striking our enemies with unprecedented might," and "I emphasize that this is only the beginning," by which he means catastrophic violence against Palestinians. If all these statements by Zionist leaders make anything clear, it is that Israel is neither ready, willing, or interested in sparing any Palestinian lives. By speaking about Palestinian civilians in such terms, Israeli Jews are transfering onto the Palestinian people what the German Nazis said about the Jews of Europe: Subhuman, and hence unworthy of compassion and humane treatment.

This brutal, racist, supremacist conduct and discourse by Jews explains in large part why antisemtisim exists in the world. Always better than everyone else, chosen by none other than the Big Zombie in the Sky as his favorite pet people... It is not hard to imagine the bottled up hatred that is piling up inside other human beings at being considered second-class. Worse yet, the hatred that is building up inside every Palestinian in Gaza these days will inevitably translate into future counter-violence. If you are abused for 70 years, and your trauma remains unacknowledged by others, you will turn into an abuser.

Thus far, at least 2,383 Palestinians have been killed, 724 of them children, 458 women, while 10,814 Palestinians have been injured.

Leveraging and weaponizing the terrorism narrative to erase its legacy and consistent policies of collective punishment, Israel has continued to maintain that its war is against Hamas. However, Israeli soldier Betzalel Talijah was extremely explicit about Israel’s intent to target Palestinians en masse in an interview by CNN’s Abby Phillip, when he told Phillip, “The war is not just against Hamas, the war [is] against all the civilians.”

With no end in sight to Israel’s assault, a growing cadre of Israeli politicians and genocidal cheerleaders has sought to ensure the expression of robust narratives that not only wish for, but guarantee Palestinians’ certain death, all while governments around the world have continued to rally around Israel.

Tzipi Navon, Sara Netanyahu’s advisor, enthusiastically parading Israeli brutality, said that it was “not enough to flatten Gaza” and that Israel should “save the tongues [of the Palestinian civilians] for last, so we can enjoy their screams, their ears so they can hear their own screams, and their eyes so they can see us smiling,”

Israel’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure also didn’t mask his callous indifference to Palestinian lives when he said, “they will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.”

Addressing the so-called "humanitarian crisis" unfolding in Gaza is a distortion of the real foudnational problem because it obscures and disguises the fact that there is one party responsible for this crisis: The Anglo-Saxon colony of Israel in Palestine. That is the root issue.

What does “averting” a humanitarian catastrophe mean to a country that has explicitly and overtly declared genocidal intentions? The Israeli government is not trying to avert any humanitarian crisis, but is instead intent on creating one of the worst ones that Palestinians have been subjected to. Likud Party Knesset member Ariel Kallner said, “right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of ‘48 in Gaza…”

The "beacon on a hill" that America pretends to be is more of an incendiary torch for the Palestinian people over the past 75 years of blind support to Israel. The U.S. has also continued to embolden Israel, even in the face of growing calls to end U.S. military aid to Israel.

What is clear is that the disruption of the status quo of settler-colonial violence is well on its way, thanks to the Palestinian people who have refused, and will continue to refuse, to live under the violent militaristic fascist boots of a colonial, racist, exclusivist, supremacist Jewish Israel founded on ultra-religious premises from the Bronze Age.

Gaza Scene: How Israel Got its "Independence"

As you watch what Israel is doing to Gaza, note that is the exact same process that Jewish Zionist invaders used to gain their so-called "Independence". Nothing has changed since the 1930s and 1940s.

As Europeans coming from a continent at war, Jewish Zionists had money, weapons, and military institutions to back them. They had plenty of experience with Nazi brutality and methods of ethnic cleansing.

They entered illegally into Palestine and proceeded to evict Palestinians from their homes, villages and towns - EXCATLY AS THEY ARE DOING TODAY IN GAZA: Ordering the Palestinians to leave under threat of violence, bombing and killing them at will, herding people into refugee camps where they have stayed ever since.

Then to add insult to injury, the Zionists propagated the lie that the "Arabs" left of their own will - they called the Palestinians "arab" because to call them "Palestinians" would affirm a specific identity which the Zionists wanted to eradicate. To this day, Zionists say that, as "Arabs", Palestinians could just as well go to any Arab country and don't really have claims to Palestine, their country of birth. Perhaps, the "civilized" world that loves the Jews so much that it is letting them commit mass genocide should take them back: The "Israelis" are "European" and they can just leave Palestine alone and live happy lives in their countries of origin in Europe. Europeans have become so civilized that they no longer systematically massacre their Jews and discriminate against them. At the very least, they do not herd them into concentration camps. But Israel has specialized in herding the native Palestinians into refugee camps. Life in a Europe at peace and in the warmth of human rights and democracy is much much better than a life in constant state of war just to protect the colony these victims of racist Europe built in the Near East by raping and burning and looting historic Palestine.

Just like the Gazans of today, the Palestinians of the 1930s and 1940s were in large part rural villagers and farmers without any experience with war. Watching the Palestinians head to the south of Gaza, you will note that every other transportation means they use is a donkey or a mule. The Palestinians were "unsophisticated" according to western definitons of the term. They were not poor, but self-sufficient people living off their own work as artisans, farmers, middle class townspeople and a small urban elite, just like in neighboring Lebanon. Yet the fate of Lebanon under the French mandate, and without Zionists invading, raping and seizing land, was to build a state with institutions that prospered throughout the the 1940s-1970s period, until the Israelis decided to wipe out the Palestinian resistance sheltering in Lebanon's refugee camps. But the fate of Palestine under the British mandate was sealed long before, in 1917, when the crooks of the malevolent British empire decided to gift Palestine to its wealthy British Jewish elite of bankers. And the rest is a history of heartache, the colonial rape of the colonized, the displacement from happy vibrant lives in ancient millennial villages and towns to a life of misery in squalid refugee camps.

The barbrarity unleashed on Gaza by the "civilized" - and "civilizing" - Jewish occupiers of a land not theirs could be an explanation for why there is anti-semitism in the world. Hubris, arrogance, self-declared God's chosen people....Ever since the Hebrews began writing their desert hallucinations about God splitting oceans for them and giving them other people's lands in the fucking bible, the heartache began and continues to this moment, 3,000 years later. How can anyone still believe this shit and, worse yet, use it to annihilate an entire people who had done nothing to deserve this fate?

The Telegram: Israel determined to kill Palestinian children, secret documents reveal

Haravir Maslouta
The Telegram
Sun, October 15, 2023

The family of 10-year old Rafik Abu-Harake is mourning in the midst of the devastated streets of Gaza. He was killed by Israeli shelling in one of Gaza’s UNRWA schools. Israeli terrorists posturing as artillery soldiers, were instructed to target primary schools and kindergartens specifically to kill as many Palestinian toddlers and children, in an act of revenge typical of biblical barbarity, according to documents retrieved from the bodies of dead Israeli soldiers. 

UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. It supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees (and their descendants) scattered across the region in refugee camps after they were displaced en mass by Jewish terrorism in the 1940s. UNRWA was created in 1949 after the Palestine Destruction War of 1948 and subsequent conflicts. As of 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinians are registered with UNRWA as refugees. The vast majority of Palestinian children are educated in UNRWA schools which are located in or near refugee camps.

In the secret documents found on dead Israeli soldiers, the latter were instructed to attack UNRWA schools and youth centers in northern Gaza, with the mission to “kill as many as possible” and “capture hostages” in order to trade them for the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Palestinians of Gaza are themselves refugees from previous pogroms carried out by Israeli settlers against the native indigenous population. They are now again on the road to nowhere because they live in the largest concentration camp on earth today, namely the Gaza Strip. The "most moral army on earth" has ordered them to leave northern Gaza and head south where they will swell the numbers of hundreds of thousands of refugees. There is no exit out of Gaza. The closest image one can compare it is to a large herd of cattle being herded in a corral; in fact, the Israeli Defense Minister politely referred to Palestinians as "human animals" in one of his ethical press conferences.

Since 2008, Israel has waged four wars on the Palestinian territory, killing thousands of people, mostly civilians. During Israel’s latest offensive on Gaza, Israeli attacks damaged at least 51 education facilities, including 46 schools, two kindergartens, an UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) training centre, and parts of the Islamic University of Gaza, according to the United Nations’ latest humanitarian report.

At this time, at least 70,000 people are still sheltering in 64 UN-run schools across the Gaza Strip, and more that 750 children have been killed in the Israeli attacks.

Documents leaked to American media reveal Israel’s extraordinary intelligence about specific school locations. One Israeli army brigade was given a specific target it is supposed to storm from specific angles with information about estimates of the number of children sheltering there. The discovery comes a day after senior Israel officers talked to international media in an apparent attempt to limit outrage at the atrocities currently being perpetrated by Israeli soldiers on Palestinian soil in Gaza.

Ofer Havarti, spokesman for the Israeli occupation army, insisted that his soldiers were “keen to avoid harming civilians” and that the Israeli army is the “most moral army on earth”, even as it is bombing schools, hospitals and other non-military targets, supposedly to combat terrorists. Israel, from its inception, is based on the colonial theft of another people’s land, the destruction of its country, and the displacement and killing of its people, in order to replace it with a new artificial country of foreign European settlers. Israel’s conduct in its barbaric attack on Gaza, with the forced displacement of millions of Palestinians, in collusion with the United States and the European Union, is yet again a monumental violation of basic ethical norms and international laws. In the face of what is going on in Gaza, all international charters on human rights, the rights of children, and justice have lost all their value. Israel has proven that barbarity can replace civilization in this 21st century.

As they contemplate the failure and endemic corruption of their extremist right-wing racist government, Israelis are in damage-control mode, and insisting in their statements that their soldiers will provide as much comfort as they can to those Palestinian children they could not kill or displace.

Meanwhile, the death toll from Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes has surpassed 2,800 people while over 10,000 have been injured. As Israeli barbarism is also targeting hospitals, interviewed doctors tell of unspeakable horror inflicted by the “most moral army on earth” on unarmed innocent civilians. The barbarity of the self-declared “Light unto Nations” has reached the darkest bottomless level on the scale of human barbarity. 

For similar reports, see:

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/gaza-strip-number-displaced-people-over-70000-unrwa-shelters-unrwa-school-sheltering-displaced-families-receives-direct-hit-enar