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?

 

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

 

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.

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

Wanton Killing of Journalists: Specialty of Jewish Barbarism

Reuters, Al-Jazeera, BBC, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse are targeted

A group of international journalists working near the Israel-Lebanon border were hit by Israeli artillery fire on Friday, leaving one dead and six wounded in what appeared to be a direct strike by Israel on a group of clearly identified reporters.

A Reuters spokesperson said, “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” adding that “Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live signal. We are urgently seeking more information, working with authorities in the region, and supporting Issam’s family and colleagues. Our thoughts are with his family at this terrible time.”

The spokesperson said Reuters journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh “also sustained injuries and are seeking medical care.”

The live feed was taken offline Friday morning after the journalists shooting the footage were struck by rocket fire. In the footage, a loud explosion occurs, followed by a woman shouting, “What happened?! What happened?! I can’t feel my legs! I can’t feel my legs!” A man can be heard saying, “Fuck, fuck, fuck.”

The source and direction of the strike were clearly from Israel into Lebanon where the reporters were stationed. The strike was not random: The reporters were in an area remote from the front line and were wearing jackets and helmets clearly identifying them with the conventional PRESS markings.

This incident is reminiscent of Israel’s deliberate assassination in May 2022 of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh, a Christian American of Palestinian descent, who was covering an Israeli assault on the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin while wearing clealry marked jacket and helmet. Under threats by Jewish organizations, not one Western or international institution dared investigate the murder.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a report that said no accountability was taken by the Israeli military over its killings of at least 20 journalists over the past two decades. The press advocacy group said it had documented at least 20 journalists killed by Israeli military fire since 2001, 18 of whom were Palestinian. No one has ever been charged or held accountable for these deaths.

In south Lebanon yesterday, journalist Ali Hashem said on air that the reporters were part of a convoy of reporters traveling in the border area on Friday. At one point they separated, with the Reuters and AFP crew going to an area overlooking the scene and the Al Jazeera crew going to a village, he said. “Then there was this direct shell that hit the team,” he said, adding that he thought the round had been fired by an Israeli tank. “This crew was together all day and the Israelis had seen this crew because we were on the road all the time, back and forth,” he said. “We were identified clearly.”

Qatar-based news outlet Al Jazeera said two of their journalists, Karmen Jokhadar and Eli Brakhia, were among those injured. The Agence France-Presse news agency also said two of its journalists were wounded. AFP photo editor Christina Assi shared footage on Instagram of what were purportedly the final moments before one group of reporters—seemingly the Reuters and AFP crew—was hit.

Reporters Without Borders reacted by saying that it condemned this heinous Israeli crime against journalists and will seek justice in courts against the Israeli barbarism.

Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, BBC journalists were assaulted and held at gunpoint by Israeli police.

The BBC said Friday that a group of its journalists covering Israel’s war with Hamas were held at gunpoint and assaulted by Israeli police in Tel Aviv. The disturbing incident, which the BBC said occurred on Thursday night, came as the team of three journalists drove to their hotel in a vehicle “clearly marked as media,” the British news network said.

The BBC said that the team was “dragged from their vehicle,” searched and pushed up against a wall during the stop. One of its journalists said that when he tried to film the incident, an officer threw his phone to the ground.

“Journalists must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely,” a BBC spokesperson said in a statement. An Israeli police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.