Desperate Zionists Unable to Adapt to the Narrative Revolution

With the blind support that Israel and Zionists have benefited from for the past several decades, primarily using their monopoly over the information, the younger generation of Americans has finally discovered the truth and the facts about Israel's barbaric colonial creation as an outpost for the Anglo-Saxon colonizers and global abusers. This generation has the Internet and social media to fact-check all the lies that European and American Zionists have been disseminating to justify their extermination of the indigenous Palestinian people and attempted obliteration of the Palestinian national identity.

 Jonathan Greenblatt

The German Zio-Nazi führer of ADL who is running out of lies and has no better argument in favor of Apartheid Israel than to use Nazi language and symbols to demonize Israel's victim: the entire Palestinian nation.

In their despair, Zionists are going to riddiculous extremes, like the Nazi-looking and Nazi-sounding Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the so-called Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which is no more than an extension of the ultra-racist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Greenblatt said that pro-Palestinian Freedom protesters, including the hundreds of Jewish students who have joined the protesters and saying "NOT IN OUR NAME", are Hamas proxies, antisemitic (so boring, it doesn't cling anymore) and a threat to Jewish students. Jewish students are a threat to Jewish students???? If so, then Mr. Greenblatt's problem is not with the Palestinians or the student protesters; his problem is that Israel is quickly sliding into a civil war between modern, secular, well-adjusted western European immigrant Jews on one hand, and the barbarian ultra-orthodox immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, Russia, Iran and north Africa on the other hand who appear to be turning the British-American colony in Palestine into a Jewish theocracy in a copy-paste of the Islamic theocracy in Iran. From Europe, the Jews have brought to Palestine the methods and practices of the Nazi German Reich from which they fled (brutality, militarism, racism, etc.), while those from Africa, Iran and the Arab world have brought with them practices inspired from radical Islamic monotheistism.

In other words, Greenblatt is demonizing the protests and insinuating that the protesters are terrorists and therefore should be lethally dealt with. He even compared the millennial Arab headdress, the Keffieyh, to the German Swastika. He should look more closely at his Star of David which bears uncanny resemblance with the German Swastika.

But his own ADL is a proxy of the ultra-religious barbaric Israeli government, which means Greenblatt is as guilty as the IDF terrorist organization in the ethnic cleansing and genocide unfolding in Palestine. Is this proper discourse for a responsible person? No, but Greenblatt is fuming at having lost the free-run he and his Zionist barbarians have had over the largely ignorant American population. The younger generation has finally understood what went on in Palestine at the turn of the 20th century: A mega-ethnic cleansing of native indigenous Palestinians to be replaced by hordes of Eastern European Jews (Tussia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, etc.) willing to play the pawns in the British-American colonization scheme.

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CAIR Calls On MSNBC to Ban ADL Boss Over ‘Iranian Proxies’ Remark

Justin Baragona

Fri, April 26, 2024 at 2:11 AM GMT+3·3 min read

 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for MSNBC to ban Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt from its airwaves over recent comments he made about college students protesting against the war in Gaza.

During an appearance last Friday on Morning Joe, Greenblatt railed against the pro-Palestinian protests raging at Columbia University and other college campuses, describing them as antisemitic and threatening to Jewish students. He also took a shot at the two main organizations behind the demonstrations—the Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

“Iran has their military proxies like Hezbollah, and Iran has their campus proxies like these groups like SJP and JVP,” he declared.

In a statement on Thursday, CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell claimed that Greenblatt was defaming the groups and urged the network to stop booking Greenblatt.

“Falsely claiming that Jewish and Palestinian student organizations are literal proxies of the Iranian government is a dangerous and defamatory slander that has no place on MSNBC or any other television network,” Mitchell stated.

“No civil rights leader would ever equate Jewish and Palestinian college students with Hezbollah, analogize the Nazi swastika to the Palestinian keffiyeh or question whether Hamas sympathizers were writing MSNBC scripts,” he added. “Mr. Greenblatt’s increasingly unhinged and outrageous comments must be condemned, and MSNBC should no longer give him a platform to peddle his hate speech.”

Responding to CAIR’s comments about Greenblatt, an ADL spokesperson told The Daily Beast: “Let’s be clear about SJP and JVP. In the days following the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, SJP explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians and JVP’s leadership stated multiple times that Israel was the “root cause” of the violence. This is not criticism of the war or Israel, this is glorifying terrorists and blaming the victim.”

CAIR claims that this is at least the third time that Greenblatt has made inflammatory remarks on MSNBC’s airwaves without being challenged by the network’s hosts.

Shortly after the October 7 attacks that sparked the war, Greenblatt appeared on Morning Joe and blasted the channel’s reporting on the conflict and wondered if the network’s scripts were written by Hamas sympathizers. (MSNBC featured three Muslim anchors during that weekend’s coverage of the attacks on Israel.)

In a separate interview later that day, Greenblatt explained to another network that he had been “literally watching the words scroll down on the camera” during his Morning Joe appearance and thought, “Who are the people in the back who think it is reasonable to describe this as quote, unquote, resistance, or to make these claims as if there is some moral equivalency?” He also insisted that he was “looking for journalism not activism.”

Earlier this month, dozens of Muslim and Arab civil rights groups—including CAIR—condemned the ADL after Greenblatt seemingly compared the Palestinian keffiyeh to a swastika, urging the organization to fire him.

“This pattern of behavior must end,” the joint statement read. “The ADL should terminate Mr. Greenblatt, apologize for its history of bad-faith attacks on various communities, and stop attempting to defame, silence and endanger those who express support for Palestinian human rights. Until then, it is no ally in the fight against hate.”

Greenblatt reacted to this condemnation by claiming his comments were “unsurprisingly being taken entirely out of context by CAIR, an organization that seems to specialize in fiction rather than fact.” Saying hate speech shouldn’t be “tolerated whether the person is wearing a Nazi armband or a keffiyeh,” Greenblatt added that he was “not comparing the garb” but rather “comparing the hate speech and how it shouldn’t be tolerated from anyone.”

MSNBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Columbia Univ Jewish Students and Professors: We are not Antisemites

Jewish students and professors speak out against claims Columbia protests are antisemitic

Richard Hall

Thu, April 25, 2024

In the week since a protest camp exploded across the grounds of Columbia University in solidarity with Gaza, PhD student Jonathan Ben-Menachem has been fielding worried calls from his family. They had been watching the news and were concerned for his safety.

"I’ve had to reassure them that I am not about to get mobbed by antisemites anytime I go to campus,” he told The Independent. “It’s just people trying to take a stand for what they think is right, very peacefully.”

Mr. Ben-Menachem is one of many Jewish students who joined the protests at Columbia and other universities across the US calling for their institutions to cut ties with companies linked to Israel over the war in Gaza.

He said he has watched with amazement as the media and political figures have attempted to characterise the protests as antisemitic and dangerous, despite Jewish student organisations playing a central role in them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia and other US universities “antisemitic mobs” that are taking over “leading universities,” on Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Columbia University on Wednesday and called those protesting “lawless agitators” and “antisemitic.”

Mr. Ben-Menachem said his experience on campus had been completely different.

“There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground playing games, chanting and doing homework. There was a Passover Seder held on Monday,” Mr. Ben-Menachem said. “It’s crazy how bad faith that discourse has become.”

Student protests over the war in Gaza have been common across college campuses since the war in Gaza broke out in October, following a surprise Hamas attack that killed 1,200 in Israel. The resulting war has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and aid blockages have resulted in famine conditions in northern Gaza, creating a humanitarian disaster. Hundreds of schools, and all of Gaza’s 12 universities, have been damaged or destroyed since the Israeli attacks began.

After Columbia University ordered the New York Police Department to break up a protest camp on its campus last week, leading to the arrests of more than 100 students, the protests have spread across the country and grown into a movement that some have compared to the student-led protests against the Vietnam War of the 1960s. Similar protests have since erupted at Yale and New York University (where arrests were also made), Ohio State University, Stanford University and Berkeley, to name a few.

The protests at Columbia in particular drew national attention due to videos of several antisemitic incidents near the campus, including one in which someone shouted “Go back to Poland” at a group of Jewish students. In a separate incident, the Columbia chapter of the Orthodox Jewish movement Chabad said Jewish students had been told to “Go back to Europe.”

While Mr. Ben-Menachem said there had been credible reports of antisemitism in and around the campus, they were not representative of the hundreds of protesters who had camped out to protest against Israel’s war. What concerned him more than outside agitators was the university’s attempts to crack down on the protests — including the rumours that it may soon enlist the National Guard to intervene.

“We’re terrified that there’s going to be a second Kent State at Columbia,” he said, referring to the killing of four unarmed college students at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970 during protests over the Vietnam War.

“It’s absurd to say that they're gonna bring in the National Guard and the NYPD to protect Jews when it’s actually Jews who are being arrested,” he added.

Sarah, a Jewish student at Columbia who asked for only her first name to be published, was among those arrested for taking part in the encampment. She was held by the NYPD for eight hours, with her hands in zip ties, after they moved in on the camp on Thursday. She was suspended the next day, but snuck back onto campus a few days later to take part in a Passover Seder celebration with fellow protesters.

“It was definitely one of the more joyful experiences I’ve had at Columbia,” she told The Independent. “So many of us got arrested or suspended, it was really nice to see so many Jewish faces at the Seder.”

Sarah said she too had been appalled by attempts to smear the Columbia protests as antisemitic, saying that the term had been “weaponized in a really deceitful way by political opportunists who insist on conflating anti-Zionism and antisemitism.”

“There’s never any substantive response to people like me who are anti-Zionist Jews,” Sarah noted. “There’s a long tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism. I have so much love for the Jewish people of my community, we just have a political dispute, and that’s it.”

The crackdown on protests has also drawn criticism from staff. Nara Milanich, professor of history at Barnard College, which is partnered with Columbia University, was among nearly two dozen Jewish faculty members to write to Columbia president Nemat Shafik before the protests broke out, ahead of her appearance at a Congressional committee on antisemitism on campus, warning against the “weaponization of antisemitism” at Columbia by politicians eager to stoke division.

She told The Independent it was the university’s decision to bring the NYPD onto campus that “inflamed” the situation and “shut down spaces of debate.”

“It’s not the students who have created the chaos,” said Professor Milanich. “It’s the leadership of the university that has participated in this ridiculous police raid and has thrown the faculty and students of the university under the bus.

“Are Jews on campus, or anyone else, safer because hundreds of police in riot gear with firearms were invited to come onto campus and haul our students off in zip ties?  I don’t feel safer,” she said.

Professor Milanich said the protesters at the encampment had written a code of conduct for inclusion and held training events on de-escalation to prevent extremists from outside causing trouble.

Protestors also have a clear set of demands, asking for the university to divest from companies that help fund Israel’s war in Gaza, which Columbia College students voted on in a referendum and passed with over 75 per cent of the vote.

“The story is fundamentally not one of ‘pro-Hamas mobs’ running rampant on campus,” said Professor Milanich. “The story is of an administration that’s thrown the values of the university to the wind.”

 

Bassil and the Aounists Have not Apologized to Lebanon's Christians

Over the past couple of years, Gebran Bassil has not ceased demarcating himself from his terrorist Hezbollah ally. For those unfamiliar with the history of this political dwarf, let me give you an overview.

In October 1990, then-Prime Minister Michel Aoun hid in the basement of the French embassy in Beirut after Syria used its air force, encouraged by the US and unimpeded by Israel, to dislodge him from the presidential Baabda palace. Aoun wanted the newly minted Taef Accord, which he had accepted in principle, to include a schedule for the withdrawal of the Syrian occupation forces present on Lebanese soil since 1975. But the Sunni Muslims, the winners of the 1975-1990 war, backed by an unnatural alliance between Saudi Arabia, Syria, the US, Israel, the Christian "Lebanese Forces" Party and every Tom, Dick and Harry in the neighborhood, rejected Aoun's demand. After a year in the basement of La Résidence des Pins, Aoun was eventually whisked into exile to France where he continued a civilized opposition against Syria and its Sunni, Shiite and Christian traitor proxies.

One of Aoun's sons-in-law (Aoun has three daughters) by the name of Gebran Bassil became politically active on the ground and rose through the ranks of those opposing Hezbollah and Syria's domination of Lebanon. He married Chantal, one of Aoun's daughters, in 1999, which in nepotistic, feudal, sectarian Lebanon guaranteed him a position of choice in the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) of Michel Aoun. Just like in the Mafia, when you marry the boss's daughter, you become king, according to the Lebanese saying, كلب المير مير, which translates as, "the prince's dog is a prince". In February 2005, Syria and the Iranian proxy Hezbollah terror organization assassinated the Sunni prime minister Rafik Hariri, a slave of Saudi Arabia and the US, yet a supporter of Hezbollah's so-called "war of liberation" in the south against the Israeli occupation. Despite Hariri's claims to want to fully implement the Taef Accord, he allowed Hezbollah to be the only militia not to disband and disarm as required by the Taef Accord. This conflicted with his pedestrian - Hariri was an uneducated construction contractor who made billions kissing the behinds of the Saudi Sheikhs - desire to rebuild Lebanon's economy. He refurbished a few destroyed buildings downtown to show he was rebuilding the country, but he naively believed that he could revitalize Lebanon with the Syrian dictatorship and occupation troops breathing down his neck and running his country.

The Hariri assassination forced the US (in the post 9-11 era) and most political parties and forces to "re-evaluate" their complacency with Hezbollah's violation of Lebanese State sovereignty. Suddenly, all those who had signed on to the Taef Accord and were effective allies of the Syrian regime's occupation and domination of Lebanon became Syria's enemies, having received their marching orders from Washington DC which, beginning in March 2003, changed its formula of the Syrian "presence" as a "factor of stability" into one of a Syrian "occupation". All those who had surrendered Lebanon to Syria now wanted the Syrians out. The Syrian army withdrew in late April 2005.

In May 2005, Michel Aoun returned from exile within a week of the Syrian withdrawal. All those who had not compromised with the Syrian occupation and who suffered repression at the hands of the Rafik Hariri puppet regime and its Syrian bosses now sought their revenge. From exile, the nucleus of what was to become Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) had crystallized around French, American, Australian, Canadian and other Lebanese expatriates. But the resident Aounists, those who stayed and did not go into exile eventually managed to dominate the Aounist opposition camp. The resident Aounists included Michel Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil whose hatred of America and its Arab allies would eventually drive him into the hands of Iran and Syria, his erstwhile enemies.

Those who had watched the United States between 1976 and 2005 deliver Lebanon to the dictatorships of Damascus and Tehran, were very ambivalent about the US. On one hand, Aoun had personally experienced the betrayal of Lebanon by the Sunni Arabs and the West who delivered the country to Syria, but on the other hand, he had relied on the EU and the US during his exile to lobby against Syria and Iran's takeover. For many Lebanese, especially the Christians, the West was their ally and a model they aspired to, despite its chronic betrayal of their existential cause.

In November 2005, Aoun traveled to the US where he met with policy-makers in Washington DC. He apparently tried to convince the US to work with him, but he couldn't convince them: They were wary of his antics (as when he threatened to seize US hostages to gain the respect of the Americans who had betrayed him and Lebanon to rescue their Hezbollah-held hostages). As a result, he returned to Beirut and jumped headfirst into the Syrian-Iranian camp: he visited Assad and reconciled with him, then in February 2006, he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hezbollah. Aoun thus made a 180-degree turn in everything he had stood for more than two decades. Having previously expressed neutral or mildly sympathetic stances towards it, he now labeled Israel "the enemy". His hostility to Syria morphed into an alliance with the Assad regime and its proxies. 

Many who had followed Aoun's trajectory from 1984 when he was Army Chief were stunned by the reversal of his politics. His alliance with his erstwhile enemies was not merely a tactical move, as some hoped, it was an ideological turnabout. He used to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization, now it became a resistance. Prior to his metamorphosis, Aoun repeatedly denounced as a lie Hezbollah's argument of the occupation of the Shebaa Farms by Israel in the south. Now it was a legitimate argument. From Army Chief who battled Syria's occupation for several years, Aoun began denouncing the Army as incapable of defending the country and proclaiming that Hezbollah must be protected and encouraged in waging its never-ending war in the south.

This is where Gebran Bassil comes in. In retrospect, Bassil was the sponsor of the MOU with Hezbollah and he convinced Aoun to undergo a makeover of his political personality. The reason? Bassil wanted Aoun to become president, and given the hostility Aoun generated in everyone else on the Lebanese political scene, he calculated that hitching Aoun's caboose to the Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah train would enable him to overcome the opposition to his accession to the presidency.

And indeed, for more than two years, Hezbollah blocked the presidential election in parliament until the opposition gave in and elected Aoun (31 October 2016) president of Lebanon, ending a 29-month vacuum in the presidency. Aoun served like a perfect puppet of the Syrians and Hezbollah, and his term ended without him achieving anything worthwhile for the country. To the contrary, the country ricocheted from one crisis after another during the Aoun administration. Incidentally, Hezbollah is doing the same thing now: it is blocking the election of a president because it wants only one man at the helm, another Christian puppet by the name of Sleiman Frangiyeh. It appears that Aoun and Bassil's ambitions did not go beyond acceding to the presidency; they had no other projects for the country except revenge for what was done to Aoun in 1990. Their method of operation was to block, object, put obstacles, never cooperate, never compromise.... As a Christian party, Aoun and Bassil's FPM party becamme the Christian fig leaf that prevented Hezbollah's isolation and enabled its unlawful plunder of state institutions, which led to the current ruin of the country. 

The truth is never far from the lies. As an old, weak and senile Aoun finished his term in 2022, Bassil became the star at the helm of the FPM. As Hezbollah continued to dismantle the state and hijack its decisions, Bassil's popularity among his Christian base began to crumble. Hezbollah never ceased assassinating opponents (politicians, journalists etc.); it even staged an armed attack against the Christian neighborhood of Ayn Remmaneh. To this day, Hezbollah's puppet ministers and judges block the work of the independent investigator in charge of the Beirut Port explosion file, which many suspect was Hezbollah's doing by storing tons of ammonium nitrate there, a highly hazardous susbtance that is used to make bombs and other explosive devices.

Given this situation, Bassil began feeling the heat of his alliance with Hezbollah, and thus initiated another political metamorphosis. He started criticizing Hezbollah and threatened to modify the MOU by amending it. Needless to say, none of the MOU's provisions were ever implemented. Like a master pupeteer, Hezbollah's boss Nasrallah managed the impetuous Bassil as a parent would a child, scolding him but never dumping him altogether. In other words, the two sides became separated but not divorced. With many Christians having abandoned him and Aoun, Bassil invented an explanation for his original sin of signing the MOU in the first place: He is now arguing that the MOU was successful in "resisting Israel" (the bullshit pretext for which Hezbollah does not need help from Bassil's MOU anyway), but failed in "building state institutions and implementing the rule of law", in an indirect critique of Hezbollah.

But back when Bassil pushed Aoun into signing the MOU with Hezbollah in 2006, shouldn't they have foreseen that a state cannot share power with a terror organization beholden to a foreign country? Were Aoun and Bassil so naive not to see that Hezbollah will never hand over its weapons to the Lebanese State and Army, and will continue warmongering as long as Tehran tells it to? Even today, some of Bassil's FPM goons - I believe it is Michel Aoun's nephew Alain Aoun - keep saying that there will be no solution to Lebanon's many crises until there is a regional solution to the Palestine problem. Whether out of a lack of integrity (knowing that one is making a deal with the devil) or lack of political acumen (naively believing Hezbollah's good intentions), Bassil and Aoun erred big time, and I believed it is their lack of integrity and idiotic greed for power that made them sign the MOU. Having criticized Rafik Hariri for decades for studily believing he could rebuild the country under the Syrian occcupation bootsm, they themselves perhaps naively thought they could rebuild the country and fight corruption in it while Hezbollah was ravaging the very roots of the country. Bassil and Aoun covered for Hezbollah for close to 20 years, allowing it to grow and threaten the very existence of Lebanon in general and of its Christians in particular. Many of those who initially held Aoun's resistance to the Arab-Syrian-American onslaught against Lebanon's Christians to be genuine, including yours truly, separated from Aoun almost immediately after he signed his MOU with Hezbollah.

Bassil nowadays goes on television proclaiming his differences with Hezbollah. He's got sanctions imposed on him by the Americans and he is trying to kiss ass to the Americans so they lift the sanctions off him. With Hezbollah placing the country on the edge of the abyss with a potential war with Israel that will be a lot worse than the war in Gaza, Bassil is desperately trying to demarcate himself from his violent and flammable ally. He knows his MOU with Hezbollah has failed in every aspect except that it allowed his father-in-law to become president; a puppet, ineffective and do-nothing president but a president nonetheless. What an achievement!

In Lebanon, politicians are never made to account for their decisions and actions. Many in the Lebanese political pantheon are war criminals who voted themselves an amnesty at the end of the 1975-1990 war. Bassil continues in this tradition by slithering himself from the snake pit in which he shoved himself and the country to score pathetic political ambitions. He believes he can never be held accountable for his disastrous decision to ally himself with a toxic radioactive Hezbollah.

Can he wash the Hezbollah stink off his back? Shouldn't he apologize to the Lebanese people for making a strategic mistake? Shouldn't he at least offer to resign from his leadership position (obtained in typical Lebanese crony politics when Aoun banned elections within the FPM and demanded that Bassil becomes his "heir") because the policies he chose during the past 20 decades have been an utter failure that have contributed to the collapse of the state? He keeps repeating his Fascist pretense to want to save Lebanon's Christians when in fact he has placed them in the path of a deadly Muslim juggernaut. 

Shame on Bassil for not having the courage to admit his errors and do the decent thing: Get out of our life. In fact, Geagea should also get out of our life for he too played the switcheroo game for many years: Anti-Syrian, then pro-Syrian, then anti-Syrian again..... These so-called Christian leaders continue to fail their people, yet they are never held accountable by their herd of brainless followers who keep voting them back to power, and they do not have the decency to move aside. Instead of banding together into one united front - like the Lebanese Front of the 1975 war - to fight what may perhaps be the last battle to keep the Christian Lebanese community a "free" community in the Near East, they bicker and hurl insults at one another. Not even the Maronite Patriarch has been able to get them together, proving that his supposed divinely-blessed and venerable position is as ineffective and outdated as theirs.

The Big Flop of Iran's Cowards

It has always been the problem for the idiots claiming to be fighting Israel: It's much more powerful than they are, and it has the American behemoth behind it.

Here in Lebanon, we have endlessly advised the Palestinians back in the 1970s, then the Hezbollah thugs since 1991 to date, that smart people fight battles they can win. Had the Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they might have used the seven decades to build themselves up into a technology-savvy country with a strong economy. Instead, the hostility and threats were exploited by Israel that played the victim so well during those seven decades that it garnered much support from around the world.

But testosterone, Islamic hubris and testicualr integrity makes otherwise sane people act rashly, thinking by that hollering, threatening, wagging their fingers and praying they can somehow overcome the technological superiority of Israel over their own arsenal. Now Israel too is a disguised theocracy based on one religion's supremacy. But there are secular Israelis, mostly the European ones who invent and develop because they are westerners, even though they emigrated to Palestine. Over time, I think, Israel will become just another backward Middle Eastern country, especially now that the religious barbarians have taken over.

Yes, you can parade your phallic missiles and other explosive protruberances in downtown Tehran and in Beirut. Yes, you can impress the credulous idiots who applaud you with your military marches, your flags and your uniforms. But you need so much more to make a difference in your "struggle" against the enemy.

Yesterday's "reprisals" by Iran against Israel for its bombing of the Iranian consular annex in Damascus turned out to be a BIG FLOP. A pathetic display of weakness. Out of 300 missiles and drones fired from Iran towards Israel, 99% were intercepted by stupid machines with fancy names like "Iron Dome" and "Sea Dome". Worse: Everyone with a military presence in the area partook in the Iranian-missile downing festival, including France, Britain and - OMG - the Arab Muslim country of Jordan. 

While their people - the Iranians under the barbaric theocracy in Tehran, and the Shiite Lebanese herd led like brainless sheep by Hezbollah in Lebanon - subsist essentially on religious drivel, the little scientific and technological knowhow they may have is imported from the very West they abhorr and remains insufficient to match the Western-imported wizardry that Israel has. 

Turning the known religious saying on its head, I'd say that "People do not live only by the word of God, but by bread earned by one's own labor". To fight a superior enemy, you first have to have a free people operating within a science-friendly culture, an inventive and imaginative people, a culture in tune with the broader human experience... Reciting archaic religious texts over and over, pretending that religious scholars own the ultimate knowledge, coercing your people into believing and adopting archaic customs...all of this kills any prospect that your people and your country can one day match western capabilities. In fact, the West is where it is today because it abandoned its reliance on God and religion, and shifted to a reliance on reason, science, and objectivity.

You have to dedicate significant portions of your budgets to science and technology research which has to be promoted in environments where research freedom is protected. Bragging about developing weapons and missiles funded by whatever little research you can afford is only good to fool your people.

Yesterday's retaliation by Iran is proof that fighting Israel in these cirumstances is plain stupid: You waste your resources and you never win the war. So why even start a war? 

Also, Iran is now literally begging the West and Israel not to retaliate against it. The Islamic Republic's mission to the United Nations said its actions were aimed at punishing Israeli crimes, but that it now "deemed the matter concluded". Those are the cowards who have dragged Lebanon and the region for decades into violence and wars, supposedly to "erase Israel from the map", and now that they fired their first missiles at Israel, they want the matter concluded? I don't understand, didn't all these ayatollahs and mullahs say over and over that they will one day soon pray in Jerusalem? If you speak with violence but do not have the gonads to live in violence, then you are cowards.

In Lebanon, people are up to their eyeballs in a culture rife with religious superstitions. The most that a Lebanese immigrant who makes it big abroad does to his country is to return to his village and build a church or a mosque. In best cases, perhaps a health center. No wealthy Lebanese that I know of - and they are many, those Lebanese billionnaires we hear about - has ever given money to building a research lab or a technology excellence center. The culture of basic research is non-existent in Lebanon, and it cannot be imported like a case of whiskey. Some try to say they are opening such centers, but in the religious swamp that Lebanon is, it's a waste of time and resources. There are "good" universities in Lebanon, but they are not good at inventing and discovering because they have neither the science culture nor the money. Instead, they are very good at giving their students a general basic education that allows the students to emigrate, settle abroad, and do great things, but only overseas and never in Lebanon. All the successful Lebanese of whom their country is proud and brags constantly about have succeeded OUTSIDE of Lebanon.

This has become the standard foundation of the Lebanese economy: Parents send their children to good schools where the children learn three or four languages and acquire a bare minimum of scientific instruction. Then the children emigrate, follow higher pursuits in their countries of exile, and eventually start sending money to their parents and families in Lebanon. According to the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme; https://www.undp.org/lebanon/press-releases/undp-launch-report-increasing-role-and-importance-remittances-lebanon), Lebanon's remittances in 2022 stood at 37.8% of GDP, which represents the highest ratio in the MENA region. But more than 90% of these emigrants never return to Lebanon to start the kind of enterprises that made them successful in their countries of exile. Why? Because the infrastructure - both the material one and the intellectual one - is lacking. How do you create a science culture in a backward religious environment rife with superstitions and charlatanism?

Right now, there's a popular belief among the people of Lebanon that the Covid shots they received during the pandemic are killing people, or otherwise imparing people's health. An obese, tobacco-smoking, diabetic young fellow in his 30s died last year, and people in his neighborhood are convinced that his death is the result of the Covid shot he received. The religious institutions propagate these lies because they are in a fierce war against science. They try to instill in their followers a mistrust of science, telling people that "science is without morals", that they'd better pray to the multitudes of saints rather than go see a doctor when they're ill. "We don't care for science", they tell their children, "learn just enough to enable you to go abroad and make money to send back home", money that they will spend on 'loving life', which translates into living in an intellectual desert, sitting in cafes, smoking the hookah, buying snazzy cars, and listening to the never-changing laments of Arabic music".

That is why Lebanon continues to function willy-nilly in the absence of any functioning state institution, the collapse of the banking sector and the economy, the catastrophic collapse of the Lebanese Lira, among other calamities to hit the country in the last 5 years. With money expatriates send to their families to spend on foreign-made consumer items in complete disregard for financial discispline, conservation and environmental considerations. Lebanon is a huge garbage dump: All you have to do is drive around the country to start believing that plastic bottles and bags grow on trees.

Hezbollah's ballsy bravados about its 100,000 missiles pointed at Israel might scare Israel. They might deter Israel. But they will never win a war. 

How Much Patience Should Lebanon's Christians Have?

Another April 13 is coming up, the date in 1975 when the Lebanese Christians took up arms against the Syrians and the Palestinians in an attempt to prevent that Lebanon becomes a substitute Palestine. 

It is important to state at the outset that the label "Christian" is more a political identifier than a religious one in Lebanon. To be a Christian Lebanese does not mean that one is an ultra-religious fundamentalist. Most Christians in Lebanon are not practicing Christians, they are secularists and liberal-minded, even though the Church and religious institutions still hold sway.  Lebanon's Christian community is in a conflicting transition between their attachment to an archaic religious conservatism, and their aspiration to be a secular liberal community calling for the separation between state and religion. But the Muslim community, like any Muslim community on the planet, is incapable at this stage of its evolution to let go of Islam as its primary identity definer. There is no Muslim state on earth that has separated state from religion; Turkiye tried it with Ataturk in the 1920s, but it has regressed back to an Islamist country under Erdogan. Muslims see themselves first as Muslims, then as nationals of their country. In a manner of comparison, Lebanon's Christians are the cognates of Israel's secular Jews, while the Muslims are by and large the equivalent of Israel's Orthodox Jewish community.

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), founded by Yasser Arafat in 1965, began a campaign of destabilization and war against the Lebanese State. Unable to do anything worthwhile for Palestine, the Palestinian “Revolution” turned against its host country, Lebanon. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya among other duplicitous Sunni Arab countries, Arafat challenged the very existence of the Lebanese state by ignoring the Lebanese authorities, his PLO acting as a sovereign government within the Lebanese state. Lebanon's Muslims, as expected, preferred to side with their Muslim Palestinian co-religionists than with their compatriot Christian Lebanese. In fact, the Muslims were to use the Palestinian terror organizations as their militia against the state and the Christian militias. 

Arafat would welcome and bid farewell to foreign dignitaries at Beirut Airport without notifying or involving the Lebanese government. Shootings and killings of Lebanese citizens at nighttime checkpoints on suspicions of being Israeli agents, kidnappings of Lebanese soldiers and security forces, massacres in remote Christian villages, etc. All these activities were funded and armed by Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and Libya with the on-the-ground support of the Stalinist Assad regime in Damascus which had created entire Palestinian contingents within the Syrian army, like the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), the Yarmouk Brigades, the Saika, the Assifa and others. The regime would dispatch these terrorists into Lebanon to carry out their attacks and operations against Lebanese targets, claiming deniability for itself by saying these were rogue Palestinian groups. Lebanon slowly began to simmer and boil. Today, the Iran-backed Hezbollah is doing exactly what the PLO did in the 1970s.

After the 1973 defeat of the Arabs by Israel in the October war, the US Administration of Richard Nixon, at the behest of its State Department Secretary, the war criminal Henry Kissinger, concocted a deal with the Assad regime in 1974 in which the US would ignore, indeed encourage, the Assad regime’s undermining of Lebanon in exchange for not challenging the Israeli occupation (and annexation) of the Golan Heights. Meanwhile, all these Syrian Baath Party-affiliated terrorist groups were “liberating” Palestine from south Lebanon: This consisted in lobbing low-quality shells aimlessly into Israel, shells that often landed inside Lebanon itself, thus giving the otherwise barbaric Israelis the pretext to bomb entire Lebanese villages along the border. Thousands of mostly Shiites from the south migrated to Beirut where they squatted on public and private lands along the Beirut Airport highway, now known as Hezbollah’s southern suburb, the Dahiyeh.

The Palestinian-Syrian-Israeli war against Lebanon thus began in earnest in 1975. As the years went by and the violence expanded, the Lebanese discovered that the Americans and their European poodles in fact backed all of these violators of Lebanon’s sovereignty, either directly or indirectly. As would become gradually clear, the Kissinger-Assad deal was also backed by Israel since its objective was to dismantle Lebanon’s multi-sectarian model that stood in sharp contrast to the barbarian Jewish-only model Israel was pursuing in Palestine. What added to the attractiveness of the deal for Israel was that by eliminating Lebanon as we knew it – liberal, open, prosperous, tolerant – a victory by Arafat and his Lebanese Druse and Sunni Muslim traitors could turn the country into a substitute homeland for the Palestinians. A permanent settlement in Lebanon of those Palestinian refugees who were ethnically cleansed by Israel would void the refugees’ Right of Return to Palestine that is guaranteed by international law and several UNSC resolutions. Everyone saw a win in whatever disastrous outcome would befall Lebanon.

Lebanon being a small country, and a vulnerable one because of its diversity, liberalism and democracy, its politicians relied on international law to try and salvage their country from the hands of all these foreign protagonists fighting on its soil. Alas, they found only deaf ears in Washington DC and Paris whose interests were in contradiction with their stated western values of freedom, sovereignty, democracy and such: Arab oil and Zionist interests came first. Whenever the Lebanese devised a plan to recover the attributes of a sovereign nation, the US and Europe would collude with the oil-rich Arabs and the rabid Zionists to maintain Lebanon as the only war front with Israel. Every presidential election that threatened to bring an independence-minded candidate to power was opposed by the Western-Israeli-Arab cabal. With no oil and no financial charms, Lebanon was like an old prostitute whose time had come to retire. Lebanon was a cheap and insignificant price to pay to placate all these other players and thus stabilize the entire region. For example, Syria and Israel had drawn each other red lines inside Lebanon which they dutifully respected for several decades. Syria could not fly its air force in Lebanese airspace and Israel would not attack Syrian army positions inside Lebanon. They also agreed not to fight each other along their own shared border on the Golan. Both occupiers of Lebanese territory (90% to Syria and 10% to Israel) concentrated on beating up on their respective targets inside the country: Israel freely targeted Palestinian positions and refugee camps and pro-Palestinian Shiite villages in the south, while Syria freely bombed the Christian districts of Lebanon’s cities and regions.

Fast forward to 2024. The situation in Lebanon is an exact clone of the situation in 1974, except for a change in one of the players. The PLO is gone, but has been replaced by Hezbollah. Otherwise, everything remains the same.

Syria’s Assad regime continues to wreak havoc in the country: crime, smuggling, lawless border, etc. with the difference that it has replaced its 40,000-strong army of occupation by 2.5 million illegal migrants that Assad supposedly drove out of Syria during his savage war against his own people since 2011. The so-called “Syrian refugees” are not refugees: They freely move across the border without any fear from Assad’s soldiers; they even vote massively for the thug in Damascus who supposedly drove them out of Syria; they smuggle Lebanese government-subsidized goods into Syria where they sell them at higher prices; they smuggle weapons and mercenaries that arrive from Iran to Hezbollah inside Lebanon; they assassinate or kidnap dozens of opponents to the Syrian regime, including presidents, journalists, academicians, clergymen and others, not to mention the 17,000 Lebanese citizens seized in Lebanon and transferred to Syrian jails and whose whereabouts are unknown; Syria refuses to submit documentation to the UN asserting Lebanese sovereignty over territory occupied by Israel along the border, which gives Israel the justification for maintain its occupation of these disputed tiny slices of territory. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Earlier this week, Syrian operatives kidnapped and killed a Lebanese cadre of one of the Christian parties. Pascal Sleiman is the coordinator in the city of Byblos (25 miles north of Beirut) of the Lebanese Forces Party. The kidnapping took place in the Christian heartland district of Byblos, but his body was found inside Syria. This assassination may be seen as a way for Iran to retaliate against the bombing of its Damascus embassy. For several decades, Lebanon's Christians, being the "other" non-Muslim minority in the Near East, have always been the voodoo doll with which impotent, coward and treacherous Arabs would get back at Israel. Now thanks to decades of Western and Arab treachery, this state of affairs continues. Lebanon's Christians have always been accused of being neo-Crusaders, isolationists, self-hating Arabs, and more to the point, pro-Israeli, which they are not. Lebanon's Christians have no particular sympathy for either Arab Muslim or Jewish Israeli extremists, and generally see both sides as ultra-religious warmongerers.

At this time, the Lebanese state has no president, and only an illegitimate and impotent caretaker government that fears everyone and tries to please everyone, beginning with Syria’s criminal regime. So, it came up with a story to explain the murder of Mr. Sleiman: The Syrian kidnappers wanted to steal the victim’s car, but they killed him inadvertently. They left his car in Lebanon (the car they were supposedly stealing) and smuggled his body to Syria where they thought the Lebanese could not find it. In other words, the caretaker government of one of the most corrupt Sunni politicians, Mr. Najib Mikati, is a powerless scarecrow that covers up for the Assad regime for fear of assassination, and is trying to defuse the growing tensions between Lebanon’s Christian population and the Hezbollah-Syrian migrant alliance by turning a political assassination into a vulgar car hijacking that went awry.

Now Syrian crimes inside Lebanon do not target only Christians. Many anti-Syria, anti-Hezbollah dissidents have been assassinated. One notorious assassination was that of Lokman Slim who was a rare Shiite Muslim who openly criticized Hezbollah and its Syrian regime backer. In 2021, he was found dead in a car with multiple bullet wounds. But in Lebanon, the sectarian lines are very tenacious. Even though most Lebanese are sick and tired of Iran and Syria’s brutality in Lebanon, only the Christians, and lately a few Sunnis but virtually no Shiites, dare vocally challenge Hezbollah’s hijacking and Iran’s occupation-by-proxy. This was the case back in the 1970s, when only the Christians stood up against Arafat and his hordes while many of the Muslims and Druse joined the Palestinians in their fight against the state. The army was paralyzed and indeed broke apart along sectarian lines. This left the Christians no option but to defend themselves: they formed militias and fought the Palestinian-Muslim-Druse-Syrian alliance.

At this time, the situation is eerily reminiscent of the conditions preceding the 1975 explosion. The mangled and dysfunctional Lebanese state has an army that is supposedly supplied by the US, albeit with second-hand useless equipment, to serve as a glorified police force and not a real army. The hypocrites in America claim that if the US were to supply the Lebanese Armed Forces with useful weaponry, the latter could fall into the hands of Hezbollah and be used against the sacred cow south of the border, the Jewish colony in Palestine. Since the Syrian civil war of 2011, Lebanon has been living on a knife’s edge, what with the ensuing street protests in 2019 that were repressed, the pandemic, and the collapse of the economy due to Lebanon’s insolvency in paying off its debt. The Lebanese state has genuinely ceased to exist in any substantive manner: Official administrations are closed most of the time, banks have ceased to function like banks and have been reduced to foreign currency exchange outlets, schools are opened on and off, businesses have been devastated, emigration has skyrocketed. Even Syrian migrants are trying to flee their host country to better pastures by crossing the Mediterranean to the European country of Cyprus.

Meanwhile, the Iranian Hezbollah outfit has linked its warfare with Israel in south Lebanon to the outcome in the Gaza onslaught, and that warfare has gradually escalated across both sides of the border: Israel bombs targets everywhere in Lebanon (not only along the border) while Hezbollah is caught between a rock and a hard place: If it doesn’t fight Israel it will look like a sissy “resistance” and would lose the coerced legitimacy it has imposed by force, but if it does fight Israel it risks the usually disproportionate Israeli response which could turn Beirut into another Gaza. So, its masters in Tehran are terrified as Israel has ramped up its attacks against Iranian targets like the embassy in Damascus, and it is reduced to ghost fighting Israel with the tip of its fingers, not exceeding the limits of engagement agreed to by both sides and, contrary to its high-testosterone testicular integrity, it and Iran refuse to be dragged into a full-scale war whose outcome could lead to Hezbollah's ultimate downfall. Israel too fears Hezbollah’s hypothetical deployment of hundreds of thousands of precise missiles buried in tunnels and underground caves and the brush along the border.

The Christians of Lebanon had established Lebanon as we know it as early as the 1840s. They are the primary custodians of the country, but they are not innocent of the crime of weakening the central state. Right now, they claim day in and day out that they want the protection of the state and will not resort to their own self-defense, but given the deep ailments of Lebanon's "consensual democracy", the sectarian political system, and the gangrenous collusion between politicians and their respective religious establishments, the state is very weak. It cannot protect anyone, let alone the Christian minority. So the Christians always end up abandoning the state when the latter is unable to protect anyone against the chronic encroachments by Syria, Iran and Israel who see Lebanon only as a battlefield where they settle scores. 

Only a strong state with functioning institutions can protect their existence as the last free Christian community in the entire East. We are at the point in the past couple of decades where Lebanon’s Christians are on the verge of an explosion of anger: They were patient between 1965 and 1975 with the PLO, Syria and Israel, but then exploded and waged a 15 year-long war through 1990 when they were partially defeated but managed to remain alive and relevant. Today, they are facing a similar situation. They have been patient since the mid-2000s, have watched in horror the dismantling of the state institutions, and can no longer ignore the direct threat to their existence posed by a million Palestinian refugees and 2.5 million Syrian refugees on top of a native population of 4 million. What country could bear such an asymmetry where half the population is made of foreign, mostly illegal, refugees?

In 1975, the Lebanese Christians were accused of being self-hating Arabs, isolationists, modern-day crusaders, Zionist agents, etc… But their numbers, roughly 1.5 million, cannot pose a threat to any of the vulgar hyper-hyper-militarized Syrian and Israeli regimes around them. Yet, they armed and defended themselves in the absence of a Lebanese Army. Today, the Lebanese Army looks nice on TV, but it is as feeble and brittle as it was in 1975. It cannot fight Hezbollah any more than it can fight 2.5 million Syrian criminal refugees or control the country’s borders against Syrian and Israeli incursions and attacks. And, it will break apart the moment Hezbollah’s silverback leader orders the Shiite contingents of the army to leave their posts and join Hezbollah.

What should the Lebanese Christians do to ward off any risk of their disappearance? In Iraq and Syria, the ancient Christian communities have all but disappeared. So is the case in Israel. In Egypt the Coptic Christian community has been cowered into a Dhimmi (“tolerated”) minority without any rights, and the burning of its churches and persecutions are a daily occurrence. Only in Lebanon can the Christians still claim to have their freedom and a say in their government. But for how long?

This is a message to the West: The Christians have not laid a hand on a Syrian refugee so far. They are unarmed. They keep demanding the rule of law and the protection of the State. But Syrian migrants have settled everywhere in Lebanon, including in the Christian heartland. That has given Assad's criminal Syrian gangs the illusion that they can plunder, rape, kill and steal at will. Not two weeks ago, a Syrian gang infiltrated a Christian Lebanese household with a female pretending to be a housekeeper. She proceeded with the help of her male gang members to assassinate the older couple and steal their belongings. This is but one example of what the Syrian illegals are doing in Lebanon.

The patience of the Lebanese has run out, and the West is not helping. It attacks the Lebanese as “racists” because they ask for help managing the overwhelming illegal migrant/refugee population. At the same time, those same westerners are themselves the racists who are turning away migrants: Europe along the Mediterranean coast, and the US along its borders with Latin America.

The video below shows one of the first vigilante actions taken by local residents of the Christian Armenian suburb of Bourj-Hammoud in Beirut who are suffocating under Syrian crime. It is a telltale of things to come. The Lebanese Christians will not stay idle forever and they are beginning to manage their own security given the impotence of the security forces which are in collusion with Hezbollah.

Is this what the West and the international community want? A war between the Lebanese and the Iranian- Syrian terror tandem?

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Enemy Brothers in Poland: Christian Nazis and Jewish Zionists

The Nazis of Europe - Germany, Austria, and Poland in particular - killed 6 million of their own Jewish citizens during World War II whose descendants are today virulent racist Arabophobes and land-thieves, the Jewish Zionists of Israel.

Then, out of expediency, these European Christian Nazis got rid of their remaining Jews by smuggling them with the collusion of the English crooks illegally into Palestine despite the opposition of the native indigenous Palestinian population. The European Jews, having honed their superior barbarian skills from their tormentor Christian Nazis, proceeded to apply those skills to their Palestinian victims: ethnic cleansing, massacres, rapes, random shootings, demolitions of 600 villages, forced expulsions, genocide, mass displacements, imprisonment without due process, etc. Thus, the Israeli excrement was a result of a bowel movement by Nazi Christian Europeans whose colonial savagery was visited upon an innocent Palestinian population that had nothing to do with the Jewish-Christian internecine killings among Europeans.

Having thus solved their Jewish problem by dumping it on Palestine, the Christians of Europe could now have the luxury to pretend to be civilized and display their fake love for their own Jews as long as the latter stay out of Europe. The Christians of Europe also declared as terrorists the Palestinian Resistance fighters who were trying to salvage their country and defend themselves against the invading Jewish European hordes. It didn't matter to the Christian Europeans what their own European Jews were doing to the native indigenous people of Palestine. What mattered was that they got rid of their Jews all the while presenting themselves as civilized and Jew-lovers.

But now a fight has erupted between the Christian Europeans and their Jewish mercenaries in Palestine. The European Jews of Palestine have crossed a line: They are killing Christians: native Palestinian Christians, European humanitarian aid workers, Christian tourists to the Holy Sites are regularly spit on and attacked by primitive religious Jews, Christian holy sites are slated to be demolished to make way for a new Jewish temple. With the latest assassination by the Jews of seven humanitarian aid workers, after chasing their three clearly marked cars one after the other along a 2-mile stretch of highway (giving the  murdering Jews ample time to know who manned these cars), the European Christians became upset with their Jewish mercenaries in Palestine.

One of the assassinated humanitarian aid workers is from Poland, the land of credulous idiot Catholics who once appointed the Jewish rebel Jesus as King of Poland. Now the idiots of Poland and the criminals of Israel, both Europeans, are fighting and cursing at each other. It is lovely to see these enemy brothers go at each other's throats, because all their hidden hatred is coming out into the open from under the veneer of civility. The Poles are terrified at the idea that the European Jewish colony in Palestine might disappear or at the very least become so unlivable that the foreign implanted European Jews will start packing up and returning to their homelands of Poland, Germany and Austria, in which case, these Christians might have to carry out a second Holocaust against their Jews.

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Polish President Lays Into Israeli Diplomat for ‘Outrageous’ War Rant
Shannon Vavra
Fri, April 5, 2024


Reuters/Yves Herman/File Photo

Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Israeli Ambassador Yacov Livne over his comments on the deadly Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen, including one Polish citizen, Damian Soból.

During the meeting, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna gave a note of protest to the ambassador, according to the Polish Press Agency.

The diplomatic row comes days after Spanish-American chef and restaurateur José Andrés, the founder of the World Central Kitchen NGO, said that his employees had coordinated with the Israeli military and had clearly marked the convoy as humanitarian aid workers in Gaza.

The Israeli government has alleged the attack was a “mistake,” a claim which was repeated by Ambassador Livne in an interview aired on the YouTube channel Kanal Zero Wednesday. But the diplomat went further, blasting the reaction to the strike in Poland, noting that the criticism is just the work of “extreme right and left in Poland” trying to blame Israel for “intentional murder.”

“The extreme right and left in Poland accuse Israel of intentional murder in yesterday's attack,” he said.

Livne added that “anti-Semites will always remain anti-Semites, and Israel will remain a democratic Jewish State that fights for its right to exist. Also for the good of the entire Western world.”

Polish President Andrzej Duda called his comments “outrageous” and said Livne was “the biggest problem for the state of Israel in relations with Poland,” according to the the Polish Press Agency.

“The Israeli authorities behave in a subdued manner, and unfortunately their ambassador in Poland is unable to maintain their sensitivity. It significantly hinders our mutual relations,” Duda said on social media.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski also lambasted the ambassador during a call with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, according to TVP World.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he believed Livne should have responded with a “human apology” instead, adding that the response from Livne was testing the Polish-Israel relationship.

“The vast majority of Poles showed full solidarity with Israel after the Hamas attack. Today you are putting this solidarity to a really hard test. The tragic attack on volunteers and your reaction arouse understandable anger,” Tusk said in a social media post.

After he was summoned Friday, Livne said on social media that he expressed his condolences and apology during the meeting.

“I repeated my personal deep sorrow and sincere apologies over the tragic death of World Central Kitchen workers, including the Polish citizen Mr. Damian Soból,” he said.

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna confirmed that it will not be expelling Livne following the meeting.

Szejna told Livne that Poland wants the victim’s regional prosecution service to be allowed to participate in a criminal procedure against the Israeli soldiers responsible for Soból's death. Poland has also demanded compensation from Israel for the victim’s family.

The meeting appears to have smoothed over some tension between Poland and Israel, but the Polish Foreign Ministry on Friday accused Israel’s investigation into the attack on the aid convoy of being “unsatisfactory.”

“We also demand access to all information to ensure that the matter is satisfactorily resolved,” Szejna said. “I want to strongly emphasize that the research and information [about the attack on the aid convoy in Gaza – TVP World] so far are unsatisfactory, but I perceived this meeting and the position of the Israeli ambassador as a change of tone.”