Netanyahu to Hostage Families: Accept Your Loved Ones as Martyrs for Zionism

By insisting on his much flaunted Rafah assault, despite opposition from the entire international community, Benjamin Netanyahu is revealing two things:

1- For him, the hostage families should stop protesting and calling for a ceasefire. They should accept that their sons and daughters be sacrificed for the greater good of Israel. In his mind, the hostages are essentially Jewish suicide bombers - martyrs - who ought to be sacrificed for the greater cause. The greater cause, as he sees it, is continued expansion of the Anglo-saxon colony in Palestine, land theft, ethnic cleansing of Palestine, expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian population to make way for fresh-off-the-boat Jewish idiots from New York, etc. etc. 

The Zionists have always justified their illegal expansionist programs with security arguments: "We have to continue stealing land and killing Palestinians because they want us ill." But does he, or anyone behind him, wonder why the Palestinians want Israel ill? I'm sure they do, but they are too afraid to face the undeniable fact: 100 years ago, Palestinians made up 98% of the population, with a smattering of Jewish pilgrims visiting the Holy Sites. Today, the Palestinian hosts are in refugee camps, occupied and brutalized every day of their lives by vicious, terrorist, foreign Jewish land thieves calling themselves a "state".  

To keep the Israel charade going on in Palestine, the modus operandi of the Zionists is to always portray themselves as victims of their own victims. The Israel-Palestine affair is best summarized in this manner: Israel is the only colonial occupier rapist that demands protection from its own occupied and raped Palestinian victims.

2- Netanyahu is clinging to war and violence because he is terrorizing his own people into submission. No sooner will the war end, that he'll be dumped in the trashbin of history and most likely in prison. He faces corruption criminal charges and was behaving like an autocrat by trying to destroy the judiciary system to protect himself and have an unchallenged hold on his country's policies.

By keeping the carnage going in Gaza, he's blackmailing the Israelis who, scared as they are for the future for their Jewish Disneyland, are less likely to destitute him under the pretense of national unity. Netanyahu has magnified the October 7 attacks by Hamas to the level of a second Holocaust, which is really a joke. There is nothing comparable between October 7 and the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an unprovoked, barbaric, systematic plan by Germany and the other Nazi Europeans to rid themselves of their own Jewish communities, for no reason whatsoever. In contrast, October 7 is one in a 100-year-long series of rebellious actions by a colonized indigenous people, the victims of the Zionist rape of Palestine. It is a totally justified action of resistance against a brutal illegal foreign occupier. The alleged commission of atrocities by the Hamas attackers is a secondary consideration that should not obfuscate the underlying cause: the colonial rape and occupation by foreign invaders and land thieves of an indigenous people and its land.

But Netanyahu and his fundamentalist ultra-religious Jewish terrorists have hyped October 7 up to a level that is commensurate with a license to kill and steal more land. And now, Netanyahu is using October 7 as a buoy to keep himself from sinking.

I Told Ya: Conservative Allies of Israel are Antisemitic Nazis

White supremacist Trump followers are conservative republicans. On one hand, they and their pseudo-religious neanderthal evangelicals of the dumbass southern United States love Israel beyond measure, but at the same time, they hate the Jews for rejecting Jesus as the Messiah and are anti-semitic Nazis of the first kind. There are two explanations for this contradiction:

- They love Israel - Zionist-occupied Palestine - because it serves them as a dumpster in which they hope to get rid of their Jews in the form of settlers.

- The imbecilic morons of the Trump evangelical movement believe that by the creation of Israel and the "return" of the biblical Hebrews to Jerusalem, the Messiah Jesus will also return to usher the end of times, Armageddon, at which point the Jews will be faced with two options: Convert to Christianity or be killed. Evangelical morons love Israel to death, literally.

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Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies

Ben Goggin
Updated Sat, February 24, 2024

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.

Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The presence of these individuals has been a persistent issue at CPAC. In previous years, conference organizers have ejected well-known Nazis and white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes.

But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017.

At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “race science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

One member of the group, Greg Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, said that his group showed up to talk to the media.

Another, Ryan Sanchez, who was previously part of the Nazi “Rise Above Movement,” took photos and videos of himself at the conference with an official badge and touted associations with Fuentes.

Other attendees in Sanchez’s company openly used the N-word.

For several years, CPAC and its supporters have attempted to temper the most extreme fringes of the conservative movement, and have welcomed the continued debate between Trump and more moderate conservatives.

This year, however, some attendees and former attendees have expressed frustration with the conference’s stronger association with Trump and his wing of the party.

In one of the most viral moments from this year’s conference, conservative personality Jack Posobiec called for the end of democracy and a more explicitly Christian-focused government. While Posobiec later said his statements were partly satire, many CPAC attendees embraced his and others’ invocations of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

CPAC organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

Unprincipled Tribal Feudal Druze Traitors to [Whatever] Cause

In Lebanon, the Druze - or at least their feudal lords - claim to be vanguards of Arab causes. They even claim to be socialist and progressive, when in fact their society is far, far from being either one: How can any community with a feudal lord at the helm be socialist and progressive? These are the Druze who massacred and expelled their Christian fellow villagers in the Shouf District of Lebanon in the 1980s because - please pay attention - the Muslim Syrian dictator Hafez Assad assassinated the Druze leader at the time, Kamal Jumblatt. Since those years, the Druze keep holding "reconciliation" feasts and inviting the reluctant Christians to return to their villages, stolen lands and desecrated cemeteries.

A few miles away, across the Syrian border, the same families in the Druze community of the Hauran are Baathist Arab nationalists of the worst kind. You know, the Baath Party of butcher Saddam Hussein of Iraq is also running the Syrian state with butcher Bashar Assad in power. Since 1970, the Assad family has been trampling human rights, massacring its own people (1981 in the city of Hama, 15,000 killed in one night; then since 2011 it has killed 500,000 people and expelled more than 7 million Syrians out of their cities, towns and villages), occupied neighboring Lebanon for 30 years where it assassinated scores of political, religious, media leaders. I hate to say it, but the Zionist brutes of Israel are angels in comparison. Yet the Druze community has long supported the Assad regime because, like Syria's Christians, they claim that Assad is protecting them against the fanatic Sunni Muslims. Yes, for some reason, there is a preference for one butcher over another.

Then again, a few miles from the tri-border junction between Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which constitutes the heartland of the Druze community in the Near East, the same community of Druze inside Israel's borders are now Zionists. The only Arabs to serve in the terrorist Zionist army of occupation.

Given this chameolonic nature of the Druze, watch now how the Israeli Druze are upset, after 75 years, that Zionism wanted a "state for only the Jews". Why did it take 75 years for the Druze neanderthals to realize they are up to their eyeballs in a cesspool of Jewish racism and religious hatred, no one  knows, but the piece below may help you "understand" the Druze mindset: They are everything for everyone. No principles. The lesson from this sort of insight is that in the Near East, there are only tribes; no nations. And tribes change allegiance like chameleons for survival. Mindsets not that far removed from the Bronze Age.

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Israel’s Druze Arabs, fiercely loyal to the state, feel let down after ‘paying with their blood’

After more than two decades of loyal service, Alim Abdallah was about to experience his first taste of civilian life.

A military discharge ceremony was planned for October 9, and two days later he was due to start a master’s degree.

But instead of celebrating, his family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances gathered in their thousands to pay their last respects at his funeral.

Abdallah, 40, a lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was killed on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon on October 9, just two days after Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, kidnapping more than 250 and sending regional tensions soaring.

“We had so many dreams together, we’d planned so much for the future,” Abdallah’s widow Mona told CNN in an emotional video interview from her home in Yanuh-Jat, a Druze village close to the Lebanese border.

About a million-strong, the global Druze community is largely spread across Israel, Lebanon and Syria. Some 130,000 Israeli Druze live in the Carmel and Galilee in the country’s north. A further 20,000 reside in the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war. Most Druze there identify as Syrian and have rejected offers of Israeli citizenship.

Originating in Egypt in the 11th century, the religious sect is an offshoot of Islam which permits no converts – either to or from the religion – and no intermarriage.

What sets the tightly knit community, whose mother tongue is Arabic, apart from other minority communities within Israel’s borders is their fierce national pride. Druze men over 18 have been conscripted to the IDF since 1957 and often rise to positions of high rank, while many build careers in the police and security forces.

After almost 23 years of service, Abdallah, the deputy commander of the 300th Baram Regional Brigade, was a prime example.

His widow told CNN that they were out running on the morning of October 7, as they planned to do a marathon together. But when news of the Hamas attacks broke, Abdallah hurried to join his brigade.

Back home, Mona cared for their two teenage daughters and 9-year-old son. Both girls were very scared, she said, while the younger one kept waking at night, worried about her father. “She kept crying, saying she was afraid something would happen to dad,” Mona said.

Mona, 40, recalled the family’s last communication with Abdallah, whom she described as modest and a “perfect father.”

“He was on the way to the incident and was calming us down, saying ‘you don’t have anything to worry about, everything’s OK’.

“There was an officer with him sitting in the back who took our last photo together – of him holding the telephone in his hand and we’re in the background.”

Speaking through tears, she added: “I didn’t think that we’d be going to a cemetery on the day after he should have been released (from military service).”

Abdallah had rushed to the border on October 9 after hearing some members of his brigade had been attacked by militants who infiltrated from Lebanon.

When Abdallah arrived, two of his men were dead, but he managed to rescue another and take on the attackers – until he was fatally shot, his widow said.

According to Abdallah’s family, it later emerged that the insurgents had been heavily armed, not just with guns and ammunition but grenades, ropes and handcuffs.

CNN hasn’t independently confirmed the account, but the day after Abdallah died the IDF issued a statement saying that he “fell during an encounter with terrorists who infiltrated over the Lebanese border” while trying “to engage and neutralize the terrorists.”

Abdallah’s wife recalled how he rushed to the scene when he heard that some of his troops were under attack. “He was always first into every operation. He acted out of pure professionalism and for the brothers he grew up with.”

Abdallah was buried in the military section of the cemetery in the village. Also buried there is Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, another Druze fighter and one of the first soldiers to arrive at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, where more than 120 people, including children, were killed by Hamas, and others were taken hostage. Habaka was killed in Gaza just weeks later.

While many headlines in Israel trumpet Druze heroism and loyalty, this is no utopia. There have been rumblings of discontent since 2018, when tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s controversial “nation-state” law. Critics say it focuses almost exclusively on enshrining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and fails to mention equality or minority rights.

Meanwhile, anger and resentment have grown over planning laws surrounding building on agricultural land. In some cases, this has led to the demolition of Arab property and the imposition of massive fines.

The twin issues have been keenly felt, particularly among the young, according to Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh, a trailblazing Druze journalist and former member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, for the Blue and White party.

But they are now on the backburner as the community has chosen to “unite and fight,” said Kamal-Mreeh, the first non-Jewish Israeli envoy in Washington DC for the Jewish Agency for Israel, a non-profit organization.

Part of her current role is to address university campuses and other audiences about Israel’s diversity.

“I teach the public about the complexities and the fact that I exist,” she told CNN. “I always open by saying ‘I’m an Israeli but not a Jew. I’m an Arab but not a Muslim. I’m a minority within the Arab minority. My mother tongue is Arabic, my religion is Druze and I’m an Israeli citizen – good luck.’”

‘Unite and fight’

The bond between Jewish and Druze fighters serving in the IDF is commonly referred to as a “covenant of blood,” she said, and, for the time being at least, this connection trumps any political tensions.

“Since October 7 we’ve all been in survival mode, realizing there is an existential threat (to Israel),” she said of the community, which has spent the last four months in fear of a broader conflict involving Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Islamist movement which has its main base on the Israel-Lebanon border.

“Among the Druze sector we have been seeing a shift in public opinion. Leave any discussion, leave any disagreement – just unite and fight.”

She highlights “many heroic stories of Druze soldiers who were not waiting for any command from anyone, to go directly to the south” near the border with Gaza.

The Druze are well known for their hospitality, which has been much in evidence since October 7, she said, with families opening their homes to evacuees from the south while others have cooked en masse for soldiers at the front.

Yet while community tensions may have been put aside, they have not disappeared, said Anwar Saab, a former IDF brigadier general and organizer of the 2018 protests.

“The (nation-state) law didn’t affect our identity – it affected our sense of belonging,” he said in a video call with CNN.

“The Druze community has no dream to have a country – we don’t want it, we don’t believe in it. It’s not part of our culture or religion.

“I believe in Israel and I still have all the commitments: I pay taxes, I serve in the army and do all the things I need to do but it’s not my country because the nation-state law differentiates between the communities.”

The outbreak of war and the Druze sacrifices have prompted many within government to call for an amendment of the law, but Saab argues that a kneejerk reaction is not the answer. Other areas, including planning laws, education and local government, must also be reformed.

“We need a strong democracy where citizens are equal. And equality is not just about serving in the army,” he said.

Omri Eilat, a post-doctoral fellow of the Middle East and Islamic studies at the University of Haifa, agrees that more should be done to ensure the Druze are treated fairly. Though not Druze himself, he is the former director of the research institute at the Druze Heritage Center in Isfiya, Israel.

“The Druze people were as outraged as the rest of Israel by the Hamas attacks,” he told CNN. “I lost a relative on October 7. The people I worked with expressed their condolences as colleagues and because they felt it happened to them too.

“The relationship between Druze and Jews, regardless of the level of religion or political opinion or origins, remains very good and I think taking better care of the Druze is one of the only bipartisan issues in Israeli politics.”

He added: “They feel that they pay with blood and so they should be taken better care of.”

Perhaps no one feels that sense of disillusionment with the government more keenly than Mona. In the days after her husband’s death, she was visited by war cabinet minister and chairman of the National Unity party Benny Gantz, who later posted a video on TikTok of himself with the fallen soldier’s son, but not by Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu.

“The whole government was here apart from Bibi – he only cares about himself,” she said when asked about the visit, referring to the prime minister by his nickname.

“But to my great sorrow, they all came here and said we will do and do and do - but it was all talk.

“It’s not just a covenant of blood. It’s a covenant of life,” she said, explaining that she had asked the politicians to “act for the Druze people” and amend the laws surrounding national identity and building regulations.

“We paid the highest price – losing a person who was about to start his real life but who sacrificed it for the state of Israel.

“The whole nation is with us but not the government. It really hurts.”

Aliyah עלייה Down, Mutsah מוֹצָא Up: More Israelis Exiting the Jewish Disneyland

As Israel's problems escalate and the truth of its violent creation become know to the world, Israelis, especially those who see Israel as a Jewish resort where to spend vacations, are packing it up ans returning to their "real" homelands in Europe and the Americas. Many have second passports inherited from their Zionist parents and grandparents who illegally entered Palestine to exterminate the Palestinians and take their land. But those who do not have western passports, like the Iranian, Arab, Ethiopian and others with non-white European ancestry, have been lining up at European embassies in Tel Aviv to apply for passports. More calls have been made to emigrate from Israel because of the internal crisis after liberal Israelis expressed their interest in immigrating.

Israeli society is made up of two highly incompatible communities: The more liberal, non-religious with roots in Western Europe, and the very conservative fundamentalist Jews of East European, Arab, and Persian roots. Each of the two communities have their own Chief Rabbi and discrimination by the ruling Western (Ashkenazi) Jews against the Oriental (Sephardi) Jews is rampant. Sephardi Jews are treated with the same condescension and racism as are Palestinian Israelis. In fact, Sephardi Israelis descend from Arab, Persian and East European Jews who are just as backward and religious as their Muslim Arab brethren. If Israel has not been able to convince the world of its "democracy" and "liberalism", it is because of the oriental Sephardi Jews who are gradually transforming Israel into a Muslim-like backwater of ultra-religious fundamentalism. The policies of the current Israeli government, including its barbarity in the Gaza genocide, escalating settler violence in the West Bank, and its desire to expel all Palestinians out of their historic land, are all dictated by the Sephardi Israelis whom Netanyahu brought into his government. 

The original Israel as founded by European liberal, atheist, socialist, colonialist Jews, with its Kibbutzim (collective farm settlements inspired by the Soviet communist Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz collectivities), is no more. Israel is today run by the Jews of Arab and Persian (and some backward eastern european) origins. These people behave exactly like authentic Wahhabi Muslim Arabs: autocrats, ultra-religious, fanatic, torah-literalists, violence-prone, etc. These are the Israelis who cover their women head to toe like in Islamic theocracies, who segregate women in public transportation, who are exempted from military service for religious considerations, etc.

The deepening chasm between Israel's current barbarism and its western backers is a sign of this transformation within Israeli society. As long as Israel followed western models, even if superficially and deceitfully, it garnered support from the West. But as Israel mutates into a Jewish religious backward country that brings corrupt autocrats to power and relies on violence, the West is increasingly uncomfortable with the support it gives Israel.

The rise of the ultra-fundamentalist Jews is causing "liberal" Israelis to re-think their attachment to the original Zionist idea of colonizing Israel. Those with relatively recent Aliyah to Israel have known life in their original European and north American homelands and prefer the liberal environment they can enjoy in western cities an societies. And so, many are beginning to think about leaving Israel for good and abandoning it to the Jewish equivalent of the Taliban or Daesh (ISIS).

For example, Portuguese Immigration Service announced that close to 25,000 Israelis have applied for  citizenship during 2023. Immigration offices have become a destination address for thousands of Israelis, and there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of new inquiries regarding Portuguese, German and Polish nationalities since the formation of the current government.

It's a vicious circle: As more "liberal" western Jews abandon Israel, the relative tilt in favor of the Sephardi "radicals" becomes pronounced, the country becomes more backward and violent, and more "liberal" Jews leave, and so on.

On media outlets and social media networks, there is a lot of material talking about Israelis’ immigration and new passports’ requests. A Facebook group called “Leaving the Country – Together” has been formed recently and announced that they have decided to organize groups to leave Israel in light of the changes witnessed.

Following the Israeli elections in November 2022, there has been a significant increase in the number of applications submitted for citizenship of European Union countries. A European citizenship would give its holders the opportunity to live, work and study throughout the EU. In recent months, there has been a 10 per cent increase in new Israeli applications for German citizenship, Portuguese citizenship and French citizenship (according to the French embassy in Tel Aviv).  The European Union office in Tel Aviv also acknowledged an increase in the number of new people applying for nationalities of EU countries, while the United States Embassy - dumb and censor-prone as usual - has refused to answer a question on the subject. Travel and immigration offices are deliberately tempting Israelis who wish to obtain a foreign passport in exchange for investment.

Obtaining European passports in the 28 countries of the EU enables their holders to live in all of Europe, study there for free, and pass this privilege on to their children, considering this to be a form of security. Recent indicators show an increase in the number of Israelis wishing to obtain European passports, and their numbers have reached unprecedented levels.

Israelis are afraid of what is happening in their country. They are rushing to obtain foreign passports because Israel is no longer a suitable place to live. Giora Shalge, former president of the Rafael Defense Systems affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Security, revealed that he and his grandchildren are no longer enthusiastic about staying in Israel. Up until recently, immigration from Israel was considered an act of treason, but this has changed now, and the result is that obtaining a second passport at this stage is considered by most Israelis a kind of insurance for the coming days.

In parallel, a Jewish movement called “Leaving the Country – Together” seeks to recruit 10,000 Israelis to leave Israel, against the backdrop of Netanyahu's autocratic legal coup against the judiciary. Mordechai Kahane is an an Israeli-American trying to help the Israelis leave for America. The movement believes that Zionism is dead and that the time has come to provide an alternative, in case the situation in Israel continues to deteriorate as the current government’s actions (judicial coup, Gaza, West Bank, settlements, etc.) may destroy Israel.

The movement calls for moving to a farm in New Jersey where secular Israelis who run small technology companies hope to immigrate and move their offices to the US. They often cite a divided country and real fears of civil war between seculars and fundamentalists. Many Jews are increasingly convinced that they have no future in Israel and that the idea of a Jewish colony in Palestine is long dead.

While Israel has always actively tried to bring in thousands of Jews from around the world, often with bribes, enticements and threats, immigration data show a sharp jump in numbers of Israelis leaving, in what can be called “reverse migration”. I like to call it "Reverse Zionism". The total number of Israelis who immigrated to other countries and currently reside abroad reached 756,000 at the end of 2020. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics said that about 600,000 Israelis live outside the country, and this estimate does not include the number of those born abroad. 

Israel's future is bleak. It will never be accepted in the region, regardless of peace treaties and normalizations with surrounding countries. The violent birth of the country that destituted an entire people and dispossessed it of its land, and the continued Israeli warfare aiming at eliminating any trace of Palestinianhood, is unsustainable. If you cannot make friends in the region and continue to think that the Palestinians and Arabs of today are just like the Arabs of the 1920s and 1930s (easy preys to western colonialism), then you have to resort to constant violence as your base mode of operation. The more violent you become to survive, the more enemies you make it, and you embark on an endless vicious cycle that can only end with your own demise.

The nuclear "Samson" option? Fine. There currently are 500 million Arabs and 2 billion Muslims in the world. Assuming a worst case scenario where these Arabs and Muslims decide to get rid of Israel, and a cornered Israel resorts to its nuclear arsenal to defend itself, the 2.5 billion Arab-Muslims can afford to lose tens of millions, if not more, of their own citizens, but Israel would have destroyed itself entirely and for good. Brandishing the "Samson" option to scare its enemies and defend itself is suicide, and suicide is the most stupid and cowardly form of defense. If Israel wants to survive, it will have to repent, atone for its crimes, apologize to the Palestinian people, give them back their lands and make peace with them in good faith. That is how South Africa survived its apartheid regime.

Not Enough to Ban Handful of Settlers: Declare Settler Movement Terrorist

Everyone around the world, including Israel's own American sugar daddy, agrees and has declared mutliple times over decades that the Jewish settlements in Palestine are illegal. 

It took the genocide in Gaza, perpetrated by the terrorist Settler Government of Israel, for the West to take very timid steps towards sanctioning all the illegal activities carried out by the God-crazy fundamentalist Jewish settlers in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Punishing a handful (28 by France, 12 by the US, 4 by the UK, with the former Nazi countries of Poland and Germany saying they are following suit) of individuals amounts to a slap in the face of international law and an affront to the Palestinians. When a Hamas fighter carries out a terrorist action, it is the entire organization that is immediately sanctioned as a terrorist organization. At least the Hamas fighter can claim to be acting to liberate his country from illegal occupation.

Then, why the double standard with the Jewish settlers? They are terrorists in several facts: They are foreigners just arriving from mostly the US, but elsewhere as well, simply because they claim to be of the Jewish faith; this is pure ultra-religious barbarity; they are illegally armed, they terrorize the civilian indigenous Palestinian villagers, they kill, they uproot olive trees, they make life for Palestinians unbearable with daily humiliations, hours at checkpoints, and huge walls of separation that make a Palestinian villager have to travel an hour to reach his fields a few meters away from his home.

The State of Israel must be given an ultimatum: either end all settlements, or be declared a terrorist state because it endorses the actions of the radical ultra-religious foreign barbarians. At the very least, the sources of funding and fund-raising organizations in the US and Europe that finance the illegal settlement activities must be prosecuted for violating international law. 

Again, the West muist comply with its own principles and laws. It cannot continue ignoring what the illegal Jewish migrants to Palestine are doing, regardless of whether they are Jews, descendants of Holocaust survivors, or simply foreign Jews who want to spend a vacation in the Jewish Disneyland that the colony of Israel is for them. This is a decisive moment for the West to make peace with the formerly colonized south and east (except Israel which is the only remaining western colony in the world today), and demonstrate its attachment to the laws and norms it established after WWII. 

Failing this, the divide between the first world and the developing world will continue to grow. Not only has the West pilfered the resources of colonized countries during colonialism, it is now taxing them with climate change and forcing them to move elsewhere in search for basic living conditions. But only blond, blue-eyed German Jews from Brooklyn, NY, are still able to play the colonial racist masters of the indigenous Palestinians and inflict on them untold atrocities.

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France will ban 28 Israelis settlers accused of attacking Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank.

The foreign ministry said it "firmly condemned" the "unacceptable violence".

The US and UK recently took similar action, each imposing restrictions on four Israelis.

On Monday France, Poland and Germany all announced that Israelis involved in West Bank attacks would be sanctioned. Violence there has surged since Hamas's attack in southern Israel on 7 October.

"Colonisation is illegal under international law and must stop," it added.

"Its continuation is incompatible with the creation of a viable Palestinian state, which is the only solution so that Israelis and Palestinians can live, side by side, in peace and security."

"These measures come as violence perpetrated by settlers against the Palestinian population has increased in recent months", the French foreign ministry said in a statement. "In recent months"? It's been decades of illegal theft of land by the settlers AND by the Israeli government as well. Why not sanction Israel itself for violating international law? Why is Israel above the rest of us and is immune to accountability?

The statement said France would also be seeking sanctions at European level. The individuals have not been named.

On Monday, the imperial colonial crooks in the UK announced financial and travel restrictions on four "extremist" Israeli settlers. The Foreign Office said they had committed human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank. Wow! What a discovery! No one knew this was taking place for decades?

At the start of the month, US President Joe Biden approved sanctions on four Israelis. Only one individual was on both the UK and US lists. Those on the US list are blocked from accessing any property or assets in the US and cannot use the country's financial system.

The White House said violence in the West Bank had reached "intolerable levels".

As of the end of January, 370 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7 by Jewish settlers under the protection of the Israeli Army that carries its own killings and arbitrary arrests. 94 of those Palestinians killed are children. But there are literally thousands that have been killed or attacked BEFORE October 7.

 

German Descendants of Nazis Back Criminal Jewish Zionists

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, a descendant of Nazi Holocaust perpetrators, backs Israel's carnage in Gaza.

Friedrich Merz, head of the German conservative opposition (he leads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) parliamentary faction), which is really a remnant of Nazi Germany, has backed Israel's military action against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the southern border town of Rafah during a visit to Israel.

"In my opinion, the Israeli government and the Israeli army are doing everything they can to protect the civilian population there," he said on Monday after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Just like his Nazi parents or grandparents did everything they could to protect the German Jewish population in the 1930s and 1940s.

The hypocrisy of the right wing movements across the Western world is truly astounding: They are the racists, the neo-Nazis who still worship Hitler and hate their Jews, and the xenophobic haters of migrants and the poor (so Christian of them!). It may be that their "love" for Israel is due to a combination of guilt (which I doubt very much) and of fear that should the fucking colony of Israel in Palestine fail, the Jews will flee like migrants back to Germany. Merz wouldn't want that to happen because he may be inclined to dig a bit into his Nazi genes and history and repeat the Holocaust. Perhaps not him, but his descendants.

More than 28,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion since October 7, according to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry. Tens of thousands more have reportedly been injured.

Merz said, "It is important that the Israeli army and the Israeli government are now successful in really destroying Hamas," Merz said. "And they are on this path." But his Christian faith imposed on Merz to briefly mention the humanitarian situation of the people in the Gaza Strip to War Criminal Netanyahu.

The Palestinian civilian population, all crammed in the last city on the border with Egypt, is being threatened with further military operations said Merz, adding, "But it is also true that there are civilian casualties. There will also continue to be civilian casualties." No problem there for this Nazi jerk if there are tens of thousands more Palestinians killed. After all, his parents referred to the Jews as vermin; it's easy for him to think of these other Semites, the Palestinians, as disposable vermin. I bet you this jackass is happy to see two semitic peoples go at each other's throats.

Merz is being accompanied by the conservative deputy parliamentary group leaders Johann Wadephul and Jens Spahn as well as the deputy chair of the German-Israeli parliamentary group, Gitta Connemann, also a CDU member.

The talks come after Netanyahu announced on Friday an offensive in Rafah, the southern city in Gaza where some 1.3 million Palestinians have sought refugee from other areas of the strip.

US President Joe Biden and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock are among those who are having a change of heart on the barbarity in Gaza and have warned against a Rafah offensive due to the potentially massive civilian casualties.

Calling Netanyahu A--hole is No Fix for Genocide

Illegal Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinians in their cars in the West Bank on Sunday, before tear-gassing drivers, according to an Israeli human rights group.

The news was reported by Al-Jazeera citing Yesh Din, a non-governmental organization based in Israel. The organization has been tracking incidents of violence committed by Israeli settlers illegally living in the West Bank against Palestinians.

"The Israel government is coming out against the U.S. imposing sanctions on violent settlers but continues to do nothing to stop West Bank settler violence," Yesh Din said in a post on social media last week.

The organization has also been calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, while noting that only 6.6% of all criminal investigations opened by Israel against Palestinians they have detained have led to a conviction. And less than 1% of complaints against Israeli soldiers led to indictments.

Earlier this month, Joe Biden targeted violent settlers in the West Bank with sanctions -- a surprise move considering the president's long historical ties to Israel. He also reportedly has been repeatedly referring to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu as an asshole, an indication of the powerlessness of the mightest nation on earth at addressing the fundamental problem of the Middle East question. It doesn't help the traumatized Palestinian population facing ethnic cleansing and a second Nakba if senile Joe Biden calls war criminal Netanyahu an asshole. Biden has to act in good conscience (if he has any) and take serious actions against the spoiled brat Israel if his sudden and belated "upset" with Netanyahu is to be believed.

Sanctioning 4 settlers with visa bans is a slap in the face of the Palestinians. The entire settler movement should be declared a Jewish terrorist organization which has been killing and terrorizing the indigenous people of Palestine with the objective of replacing them with imported foreign and equally violent settlers. Sanctions should be imposed on the American sources of financing of the settler movement. Just like the pro-Hamas Holy Land Foundation was prosecuted in the early 2000s for illegally raising funds in the US for Hamas, the settler movement has its roots, masterminds and sources of funding right here in the US. Now that Biden is calling Netanyahu an asshole and has slapped sanctions on 4 settlers, my guess is it will take another 50 years before the US takes serious actions against the continued illegal colonization of Palestine. By then, it will be too late. Biden appears to be trying to fool the Arab world and the Arab American voters by sedating them with very timind sanctions and name-calling. But they all know he is the senile fool whose head is way up the Zionist asshole. 

"[The violence] has reached intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the peace, security and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel and the broader Middle East region," Biden said. But for an old observer of the heartache that Palestine has been for many decades, Biden is lying. He knows that the problem is one of colonialism and racism. Instead of pathetic comments about his supposed concerns, he should take more concrete actions like ceasing any aid to Israel until it dismantles all illegal terrorist Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

"These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity and freedom." Why did it take so long to realize this?

But critics have said the sanctions, which only named a handful of people, don't go far enough as Palestinians point to the hundreds of people killed by Israelis before Hamas attacked on October 7. In 2023 alone, 199 Palestinians living in the West Bank were killed up through October 6.

 

Bravo to Ireland's Women's Basketball Team

It takes courage to tell the truth. Only cowards fall and comply with official falsehoods.

Ireland refuse to shake hands with Israel before basketball match

Ireland's players refused to shake hands with their Israeli opponents who slapped the stale "anti-Semite" label on them. 

The Zionist Big Brother Says: Anyone who is against Israel and its ethnic cleansing of Palestine is an anti-semite. Every human being on earth has to choose between being a Zionist or being an Antisemite. No nuances allowed. This is how dictatorships rule.

The row engulfing Ireland’s women’s basketball team deepened on Thursday after they refused to shake hands with the Israel side during the countries’ European Championship qualifier.

BY THE WAY: WHY IS ISRAEL, A MISERABLE THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, THE ONLY ONE FROM THAT REGION TO PLAY AS A "EUROPEAN" CONTESTANT? PERHAPS A FREUDIAN ADMISSION THAT ISRAEL WAS BORN AS A EUROPEAN JEWISH COLONIAL PROJECT.

The Irish snub was in protest at an “inflammatory and wholly inaccurate” accusation by Israeli debutante Dor Sa’ar that Ireland’s players were “quite antisemitic” during an interview published two days before the first of two qualifiers between the nations. In the Zionist Dictatorship's dictionary issued by the Zionist Big Brother, there are degrees of anti-semitism, hence "Quite Antisemitic" is not "Very" or "Very Much" or "Moderately" or "A Little". It's somewhere there. The important thing is that the label has now being slapped on the Irish Women's Team.
 

The Israeli player's comments, published on Tuesday on the Israeli Basketball Federation’s website, followed a statement last month by Basketball Ireland in which it said it had “raised strong concerns about these fixtures with Israel, including the option not to play the games” in light of the response to the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attacks there.

Some Irish players opted not to travel for Thursday’s qualifier, which had been postponed from its original November date due to the ongoing war in Gaza before being moved from Israel to Riga, Latvia.

In a statement issued shortly before tip-off, Basketball Ireland said: “Basketball Ireland informed Fiba Europe yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff – including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of anti-Semitism, published on official Israeli federation channels – that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents. This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the Irish national anthem by our bench, rather than centre court. Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision.”

The row erupted amid major pressure from pro-peace campaigners in Ireland for the national team to boycott their fixtures against Israel.

Sa’ar had said of the Irish side: “It’s known that they are quite anti-Semitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected.

“We have to show that we’re better than them and win. We talk about it among ourselves, We know they don’t like us and we will leave everything on the field always and in this game especially.” Her comments prompted Basketball Ireland to lodge a formal complaint with competition organisers FIBA Europe.

The match was played behind closed doors because of security concerns.

One Example of Apartheid Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The report below is one example of many of Israel's slow, wilfull and gradual ethnic cleansing of Palestinians out of their land. By making Palestinian lives impossible, the Zionists hope that they will leave the West Bank without anyone noticing that it is ethnic cleansing. In conjunction with building settlements and stealing Palestinian land, this is precisely the strategy of Israel's governments: To depopulate and de-Palestinize Palestine without being accused of ethnic cleansing. In the minds of people around the world, what is happening in Gaza is genocide and ethnic cleansing. But if it is done over a long period of time in very small doses of violence as is the case in the West Bank, Israel hopes it can achieve its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians without being accused of it. 

Remember 1948? The Zionists said the Palestinians left on their own when the facts are that the Palestinians were terrorized by Zionist terrorist groups (Irgun, Haganah, Stern Gang, Lehi Group, etc.) rampaging through cities and villages and committing atrocities, including rapes, killings and destruction of entire villages. 

Right now, the West Bank is subjected to an under-the-radar ethnic cleansing. Where is the international community?
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AFP

Israeli checkpoints 'paralyse' West Bank life as Gaza war rages

Hossam Ezzedine with Majeda El-Batsh in Jerusalem

Fri, February 9, 2024

An Israeli soldier mans a checkpoint at the al-Aroub camp for Palestinian refugees south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank (John MACDOUGALL)

To arrive at work in Jerusalem on time, Murad Khalid must be at the Israeli checkpoint by 3:00 am, despite living nearby in the occupied West Bank -- a constant challenge made worse by the Gaza war.

The 27-year-old said he and other residents of Kafr Aqab neighbourhood in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem -- located on the West Bank side of the barrier -- are subjected to a "security check that may take an hour for each car" at Qalandia crossing.

Israeli movement restrictions have long made life difficult for the three million Palestinians living in the West Bank.

But since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, traffic has become "paralysed", said Palestinian Authority official Abdullah Abu Rahmah.

The number of checkpoints and barriers in the Palestinian territory has greatly increased since October 7, adding hours to already lengthy commutes and forcing residents to either wait at the checkpoints or take long detours.

Largely unaffected are the 490,000 Israelis living across the West Bank in settlements -- considered illegal under international law -- who can bypass Palestinian communities on roads built especially for them.

It used to take accountant Amer al-Salameen just half an hour to drive from his home in the city of Ramallah to his parent's village Al-Samou.

But with the new restrictions, the journey has turned into an "exhausting, tiring, and uncomfortable" four hours, said the 47-year-old.

"I used to visit my family every weekend with my wife and children. But today, I fear that something might happen on the road."

Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, has stepped up raids into Palestinian communities since Hamas's October 7 attack, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas and launched a relentless military offensive that has killed at least 27,947 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.

In the West Bank, more than 380 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops and settlers over the same period, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry.

Scores more have been arrested.

The Israeli army told AFP the additional barriers are "in accordance with the assessment of the situation in order to provide security to all residents of the sector".

Recently, an AFP team leaving Jerusalem at 8:00 am for the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem -- normally a trip of just two hours -- arrived there at 1:30 pm, following dirt roads through villages to get around the barriers.

The journey from Jerusalem to Jenin, also in the north, now similarly takes five hours instead of two.

Immediately after the October 7 attack, the Israeli army shut the road between the town of Huwara and Nablus, a major northern Palestinian city.

According to an AFP photographer, the army has also closed off the main entrances to most villages around Hebron in the southern West Bank, forcing residents to take dirt roads through other villages to access cities.

Student Lynn Ahmed says her usual one-hour drive from Tulkarem to Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, now takes more than three "due to closures and the destruction of some roads."

Given such difficulties, Birzeit and other Palestinian universities in the West Bank have returned to remote learning.

Israel first erected military checkpoints in the West Bank following the first Palestinian uprising or intifada in 1987, but the number increased after the start of the second intifada in 2000.

Since then, earthen barriers, gates, or cement block around 700 roads across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority's Abu Rahmah, who heads a team monitoring settler activity.