Deepening Rift between Nazi Germans and their Fascist Zionist "Friends"

The Nazi Germans have no idea in what sands to shove their heads as they balance their horrible genocide of German Jews in WWII, their pretend repentance at perpetrating the Holocaust, their absurd and insicere defense of the Fascist geocidal Zionists of Israel, and now to climax their utter confusion, they will arrest Netanyahu and his criminal gang is they set foot in Germany after the ICC issues its warrants for their arrest.

Please notice that the Palestinian victims of the terrorist Israelis have nothing to do with this whole European barbarity, other than trying to salvage their country of Palestine from the hands of the German Zionists who say they were pushed to rape Palestine by their murderous fellow German Nazis of the 1930s and 40s.

The Israeli criminal head of government, one Benjamin Netanyahu, sounded like a wife in a horrid domestic dispute with his German wife, Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is genuinely a "domestic" dispute because the vast majority of the Zionist rapists of Palestine fled their homeland of Germany as they were massacred by their fellow German Nazis. Scholz who is said to be consulting soothsayers, clairvoyants, diviners, Tarot card readers and other charlatans to see how to get out of this mess, had his spokesman say on Wednesday that his country would arrest and deport the Chief Terrorist Settler of the Zionist state if the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues a warrant for Netanyahu’s detainment and extradition.

Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, was asked on Wednesday whether the German government would execute an ICC arrest order against Netanyahu for alleged war crimes during Israel’s efforts to defeat the Hamas terrorist movement in the Gaza Strip. Hebestreit responded, "Of course. Yes, we abide by the law." Typical inflexible, austere and unnuanced German rigidity.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Zionist barabrity apologist of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said, "It is beyond comprehension that any German government would arrest the prime minister of the Jewish state on blood libel lies. It should be arresting all the antisemites attacking Jews on the streets of its nation. Never, never again." O My God: The genie of Nazi supremacy is out of the bottle, and the heirs of Nazi Germany are none else than the Fascist supremacist Zionists. Where else did the Zionists learn their trade of barbarity than in their homeland in Germany at the hands of their fellow German tormentors?

So now, assholes like Cooper and other Zionist apologists are regurgitating Germany’s failure to have internalized the lessons of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis arrested, deported and murdered six million European Jews. Deep down, these pro-Zionist barbarians know that the Christian Germans who massacred them have not learned any lesson: The Nazi gene is well engrained in the German DNA, and all the pretense at atonement, repentance and the "beautiful friendship" they had found are nothing but hot air. The German Christians were very, very, very happy that the remaining German Jews who survived the Holocaust fled to Palestine: They got rid of them by either killing them or chasing them.  And now the German Christians are doing their best to keep them in Palestine: They don't want a hypothetical Palestinian victory to send them back to Germany. So they pretend they are their friends, they give them weapons and technology, and they kiss their ass every which way. It took them 2,000 years to get rid of them, they are not going to allow a puny little genocide of Palestinians to reverse that.

Meanwhile, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, wrote on X, "The Chief Prosecutor [of the ICC] equates a democratic government with Hamas, thereby demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and the Jewish people. He has completely lost his moral compass. Germany has a responsibility to readjust this compass. This disgraceful political campaign could become a nail in the coffin for the West and its institutions. Do not let it come to that!" But all the facts in the eyes of the supreme justice that the ICC represents, including the Jewish judges who sit on the ICC bench, point to a genocidal criminal enterprise that Israel was and still is.

What the Zionists are having a hard time accepting is the following: After an unhindreed freewheeling colonial barbaric eradication of the Palestinian nation under the pretext of what Germany did to the Jews, the world is finally saying to the Jews and the Zionists: enough is enough. You were once victims and we turned a blind eye to your barbarity because of our guilt, but you have gone too far. Justice needs to be rebalanced in favor of fairness. When you, the Jews, were the victims post WWII, Palestine is today the victim. When we, the Europeans, were the criminal butchers post WWII, today it is you the Jews and the Zionists who are the criminal butchers. And that is why the Jews and the Zionists are in shock; they are going through withdrawal symptoms from their addiction at wanton violence and barbarity. Like any criminal addict, they are going through their denial phase: They must admit their addiction before they can be cured.

But they keep accusing literally the whole world of "Antisemitism", the trashy old and stale WWII-vintage accusation that immunized the Zionists against criticism. But this is over now.

Germany is a passionate supporter of the ICC and is one of its top donors. Netanyahu said the ICC chief prosecutor’s act to issue arrest warrants for him and Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, are the latest examples of "what the new antisemitism looks like." A spokesman for the German federal government said on Tuesday, "The accusations of the chief prosecutor are serious and must be substantiated."

The founding of the ICC was animated by Nazi Germany’s destruction of European Jewry and as a way to stop totalitarian crimes against humanity. The ICC mission of international justice is being elevated by its newly discovered balanced treatment of the Palestinian tregady. It is finally reprimanding the rogue Jewish theocracy, Israel, which has been waging a savage colonial war of dispossession against their equals, the Muslim theocrats of Hamas.

Meanwhile, the great Jewish senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders voiced support on Tuesday for the International Criminal Court’s recent announcement to seek arrest warrants for Israeli officials and leaders of the militant group Hamas for their role in the ongoing violence in Gaza.

On Monday, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan accused Hamas and Israeli leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of committing war crimes in Gaza. The ICC’s three-judge panel will decide whether the case should move forward to seek arrest warrants, a decision that could take up to two months to make.

On the Senate floor Tuesday, Sanders said he agrees with Khan’s belief that Israeli and Hamas leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. If this is not a balanced view on the problem, then nothing else is.

“Israel had the right to defend itself,” Sanders said. “But Netanyahu and his government do not have the right to wage an all-out war against the children, against the women, against the innocent people of Gaza. And for that, there must be consequences.”

Some U.S. officials have condemned the ICC’s decision to arrest Israeli leaders. On Tuesday, Secretary of State, the "ostrich" Antony Blinken said that Khan made an “extremely wrongheaded decision,” arguing it would complicate efforts to strike a cease-fire deal.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant last year for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, specifically charges on his involvement in the abduction of children in Ukraine. The U.S. supported the court’s decision regarding Putin.

“The ICC prosecutor has looked at what each of these leaders have done, looked at their actions, and then compared those actions to established standards of international law,” Sanders said. “In other words, the ICC is not making some claim of equivalence, as some have charged, but is in fact holding both sides in this current war to the same standard.”

“We cannot only apply international law when it is convenient,” he continued. “The independent panel of international legal experts the ICC appointed to help with this case unanimously agreed with the charges.”

Zionists in Panic Mode-2: ICC Requests Warrants for Israel and Hamas Leaders

Muslim and Jewish ultra-religious barbarians are targeted for potential International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants.

Finally, true justice is being meted out against all - ALL, no exceptions - fanatic, racist, supremacist, Fascist, ultra-religious barbarians, be they Jewish or Muslim. 

While the Muslim barbarians are used to being called out for their barbarity, the Jewish ones are responding like a virtuous whore: indignation and shock. All fake reactions to be sure, because they had gotten used to getting away with murder. Previous victimhood is no longer a license to rape, steal, kill, displace, starve... It doesn't work anymore to claim that because some 80 years ago we were victims of German barbarity, we are allowed to victimize another people with total impugnity.  

Israelis better get used to being treated like everyone else. Being Jewish is not some sort of immunity against punishment and retribution for barbaric acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing. 

Israel's problem is not Hamas. Israel's problem is a Palestine that refuses to die. It is to be led by criminal religious fanatics like Netanyahu and his hordes of foreign settlers who are intent on committing genocide against an innocent people and stealing its land after 80 long years of ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and displacement. 

The sad thing is that the truth of the existence of a Palestine that refuses to die unfortunately came out of the Muslim alter ego of Zionist racism: Muslim racism of the Mulsim brotherhood and Hamas.  Justice has finally equated the barbarians of both sides as obstacles to genuine symmetrical peace. For Israelis the choice is stark: Either you continue on the same downhill path of arrogance and racism vis-a-vis the Palestinian nation, or you cut your losses and seek a genuine and symmetrical peace with the Palestinians. Israel cannot keep growing like a cancer by metastasing and cannibalizing Palestine. It must allow the Palestinians to exist in a free, independent, totally sovereign Palestine, and not a Palestine that remains at the mercy of fanatic Yahweh-crazy Zionists. That is the only way to pull the rug from under the feet of the fanatic Allah-crazy Islamists.  

THERE IS TOTAL EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN BARBARIANS OF BOTH THE MUSLIM AND JEWISH SIDES WHO BASE THEIR CRIMINAL DEADLY CONDUCT ON RELIGIOUS TEXTS FROM THE BRONZE AGE

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War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu

JOSEF FEDERMAN

Updated Mon, May 20, 2024

Associated Press (who was yesterday the victim of the Israeli government's desperate attempt at silencing the free press. But again, justice and pressure forced the barbarian Zionists to allow AP to resume its activities)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court sought arrest warrants Monday for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.

While Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, do not face imminent arrest, the announcement by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor was a symbolic blow that deepened Israel’s isolation over the war in Gaza.

The court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, accused Netanyahu, Gallant, and three Hamas leaders — Yehya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders condemned the move as disgraceful and antisemitic. U.S. President Joe Biden also lambasted the prosecutor and supported Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas.

A panel of three judges will decide whether to issue the arrest warrants and allow a case to proceed. The judges typically take two months to make such decisions.

Israel is not a member of the court, so even if the arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution. But the threat of arrest could make it difficult for the Israeli leaders to travel abroad.

Netanyahu called the prosecutor’s accusations against him a “disgrace,” and an attack on the Israeli military and all of Israel. He vowed to press ahead with Israel’s war against Hamas.

Biden said the effort to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant over the war in Gaza was “outrageous,” adding “whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.”

Hamas also denounced the ICC prosecutor’s actions, saying the request to arrest its leaders “equates the victim with the executioner.”

Netanyahu has come under heavy pressure at home to end the war. Thousands of Israelis have joined weekly demonstrations calling on the government to reach a deal to bring home Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity, fearing that time is running out.

In recent days, the two other members of his war Cabinet, Gallant and Benny Gantz, have threatened to resign if Netanyahu does not spell out a clear postwar vision for Gaza.

But on Monday, Netanyahu received wall-to-wall support as politicians across the spectrum condemned the ICC prosecutor’s move. They included Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, and his two main political rivals, Gantz and opposition leader Yair Lapid.

It is unclear what effect Khan's move will have on Netanyahu's public standing. The possibility of an arrest warrant against Netanyahu could give him a boost as Israelis rally behind the flag. But his opponents could also blame him for bringing a diplomatic catastrophe on the country.

Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at Hebrew University and the Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank, said it was far more certain that Netanyahu's already troubled international standing could be further weakened.

“This is going to make Netanyahu an outcast, and his ability to move around the world will be seriously compromised,” said Shany. Even if the ICC does not issue the arrest warrant, other countries may now be more reluctant to provide support and assistance, he said.

Hamas is already considered an international terrorist group by the West. Both Sinwar and Deif are believed to be hiding in Gaza. But Haniyeh, the supreme leader of the Islamic militant group, is based in Qatar and frequently travels across the region. Qatar, like Israel, is not a member of the ICC.

The latest war between Israel and Hamas began on Oct. 7, when militants from Gaza crossed into Israel and killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 others hostage.

Since then, Israel has waged a brutal campaign to dismantle Hamas in Gaza. More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, at least half of them women and children, according to the latest estimates by Gaza health officials.

The war has triggered a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, displacing roughly 80% of the population and leaving hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of starvation, according to U.N. officials.

Speaking of the Israeli actions, Khan said “the effects of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks and collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza are acute, visible and widely known.”

The United Nations and other aid agencies have repeatedly accused Israel of hindering aid deliveries throughout the war. Israel denies this, saying there are no restrictions on aid entering Gaza and accusing the U.N. of failing to distribute aid.

Of the Hamas actions on Oct. 7, Khan, who visited the region in December, said that he saw for himself “the devastating scenes of these attacks and the profound impact of the unconscionable crimes.”

In their rampage, Hamas militants gunned down scores of revelers at a dance party and killed entire families as they huddled in their homes. "These acts demand accountability,” Khan said.

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney [Lebanese-British wife of Actor George Clooney] served on a five-member expert panel that advised Khan. She said the panel had agreed unanimously that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that both the Hamas and Israeli leaders had committed war crimes, according to a statement.

South Africa, which has been leading a genocide case against Israel at the U.N. world court, welcomed Khan’s announcement seeking the arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders. “The law must be applied equally to all in order to uphold the international rule of law,” the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

The ICC was established in 2002 as the permanent court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s most heinous atrocities — war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression.

The U.N. General Assembly endorsed the ICC, but the court is independent.

Dozens of countries don’t accept the court’s jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide and other crimes. They include Israel, the United States, Russia and China.

The ICC accepted “The State of Palestine” as a member in 2015, a year after the Palestinians accepted the court’s jurisdiction.

In 2020, then U.S. President Donald Trump authorized economic and travel sanctions on the ICC prosecutor and another senior prosecutor. The ICC staff were looking into U.S. and allies’ troops for possible war crimes in Afghanistan. Biden lifted the sanctions in 2021.

Last year, the court issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on charges of responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. Russia responded by issuing its own arrest warrants for Khan and ICC judges.

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AP journalists Molly Quell in Delft, Netherlands, and Mike Corder in Ede, Netherlands, contributed to this report.

 

Zionist Propaganda

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Sat, May 18, 2024

   Pro-Palestine Freedom demonstrators gather outside Downing Street

It has been clear for many months that the civilian casualty statistics issued by Hamas-controlled organizations in Gaza are highly accurate, as testified by several organizations and international bodies. According to one study by data analysts in the US, and if you believe the cheating sheets that Zionists keep putting out to forcibly reduce the number of innocent children and women killed by Israeli terrorists, you would have to believe that, since October 7 last year, Israeli cowardly terrorists have been walking in Gaza like peaceniks preaching Christian love. The study confirmed that the number of women and children killed was exxactly what the Gaza health authorities have been updating on a daily basis.

Throughout their 125-year-long history, Zionists have become experts in the fine art of lying and subverting the truth of their genocide in Palestine with myths about how the land was given to them by some fictional god in the deserts of Arabia about 3,000 years ago; illegally migrating to a land they don't own; inviting pity about their eternal victimhood to be exploited as a tool of psychological blackmail and their need for a place to shelter themselves from global hatred, even as they began rampaging in Palestine, plundering and pillaging and destroying Palestinian villages and towns, expelling and killing and massacring hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians.

The Zionists are so good at lying and blackmailing that their own tormentors in their native Europe - from which they illegally came to Palestine - fell for it and have, since Holocausting them by the millions, supported them out of both guilt (by those naive Europeans) and of a desire to keep them out of Europe (by their Anti-Semitic European fake friends).

It should be a statement of the obvious that nobody knows the true number of civilian casualties in Gaza, since tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children remain buried under mountains of rubble. The readiness of pro-Zionist politicians and rabid ultra-religious Jewish activists to try and force on the world Israel's distortions of the official Palestinian authorities' tallies of the dead and injured - which every expert on the planet confirmed by looking at the methods they used - are proof that the terrorist Zionist colonial state is desperate to quickly inject fake facts and create false records because it fears the judgment of history. It is already trying to alter the facts before history is written, just as it did with its so-called "War of Independence" in 1948, which was in reality a massive ethnic campaign of killings, massacres, rapes, expulsions and demolitions of entire villages of native indigenous people from their millennial ancestral lands. 

Israel has of course a vested interest in minimizing the number of women and children who have been killed in order to keep claiming the higher moral ground and delegitimize the Palestinian national resistance, just as it long tried - but failed - to delegitimize the very existence of the Palestinian nation. "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people" once said the uglier-than-hell Golda Meir, she whose so-called "Jewish people" are a hodge-podge of unrelated ethnicities, races, and linguistic groups from the far corners of the planet forcibly amalgamated together by the archaic and primitive criterion of religion, not unlike the chimera of a "Muslim people" that Islamist fundamentalists invent to sow terror around the world. The likes of the US, the conservative Zionist toilet paper The Telegraph, and the imbeciles of Fox News should not be aiding them.

It is too late to inject the Zionist lies this time around. Unlike in 1948 when they had a monopoly over the information and could comfortably make up history as they wish it, the times have changed and the truth is free to circulate thanks to the Internet and social media. Still, fake facts continue to fall on fertile ground in the ignorant Republican backwoods of America who have been brainwashed by the Zionist-promoted fictional garbage of the Bible and their established ignorance of the world outside inbred moonshining Appalachia. The history of Israel as falsely written by the Zionists is wuickly unraveling. Israelis are foreign, non-native “settler-colonizers” who have committed genocide in 1948 and 1967, and continue to commit the same genocide in Gaza. It is the indigenous Palestinian people who are the rightful owners of the land and ever since the rape of Palestine was undertaken by white colonial foreigners they have remained a free people defending themselves and their land against Zionist and Jewish terrorists.

 

A Palestinian Giant: Edward Said

University Professor Edward Said [correctly pronounced Sa'eed] is one of those Palestinian intellectual giants whose life was a bridge between East and West. He is virulently hated by the Zionists for his achievements, including his rejection of the Oslo process - he knew back in the mid 1990s that the Zionists were lying and that the Oslo accords were a trap for the Palestinians. The English pricks of the toilet paper The Telegraph still refer to this University Professor at Columbia University (the hightest honor the college bestows) as a charlatan, years after his death. Why? Because his insights on Palestine, on Israeli-Arab relations, on "Orientalism" as a cover for colonialism, and the future of Israel-Palestine make him a herald, a prophetic visionary of the deadend in which Zionists find themselves today with their supremacist and exclusivist ideologies.

Excerpts from a May 1997 Christian Science Monitor article on Said by Robert Marquand in his "Conversations with Outstanding Americans" column:

On the Oslo peace process: "The whole idea of trying to produce two states is probably at an end. The Oslo peace processis really in tatters...The lives of Israelis and Palestinians are hopelessly intertwined. There is no way to separate them. You can have fantasy and denial, or put people in ghettos. But in reality there is a common history. So we have to find a way to live together. It may take 50 years. But ... the ISraeli experience will gradually turn back towards the world they really live in, the Islamic Arab world, and that can only come through the Palestinians".

On Palestinian-Israeli relations: "I believe it is possible for us [Palestinians] to have a reconciliation with the Jews of Israel. But not unless we recognize their complex history, and they recognize ours. I don't think that has happened, and that is why there is no reconciliation".

On his intellectual courage: What makes Said outstanding, say admirers, is his Renaissance nature, his passionate intellectual voice on behalf of the voiceless, and his courage in speaking unpopular views. "He's an elightenment figure of an unusual type, and has been so under difficult circumstances" says writer and linguist Noam Chomsky, a longtime friend. "He's lived under police protection for a long time. It hasn't been easy". He has received death threats from Jewish extremist groups since 1985.

On identity: While many people [ignorant Americans usually] often assume he's a Muslim, he is an Episcopalian who attended Protestant schools and married a Quaker. Yet he writes piercingly about distortions of Islam in the Western press - while supporting writer Salman Rushdie who has lived under an Iranian Shiite "Fatwa" - death sentence. "My experience is one of a minority inside a minority," says Said from his book-lined Columbia University office. "Growing up, my family were Protestants in a Greek Orthodox community ...  Our truest reality is expressed in the way we cross over from one place to another. We are migrants, perhaps hybrids, in, but not of, any situation in which we find ourselves. This is the deepest continuity of our lives".

For Said, the duty of the educated person is to constantly resist the narrowing confines of an ethnic or national identity - which leads to apartheid, racism, hatred, violence and war. His scholarship itself argues that no peoples or places are ever wholly "pure". They are always hybrids, products of cultural ferment and imitation, the interchanges of East and West, North and South. ":This is not to deny one's Islamic, Christian or Jewish roots", he says, but it means not allowing one's identity to freeze -blocking growth, the evolution of ideas, a larger sense of human identity".

On his seminal masterpiece, "Orientalism": In it he argues that European powers colonized other regions partly by a systematic creation of myths about Africa and Asia that denied these places a 'narrative' of their own in western centers of learning. A kind of "intellectual dispossession", he argues. The thesis of Orientalism proposes the existence of a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo–Islamic peoples and their culture", which originates from Western culture's long tradition of false, romanticized images of Asia, in general, and the Middle East in particular. Said wrote that such cultural representations have served as implicit justifications for the colonial and imperial ambitions of the European powers and of the U.S.

On his native Palestine: "Palestine and its past seems to me to have a kind of universal quality to it that makes it interesting for reasons that have little to do with the place itself ... It is a question of justice. What happened to the Palestinians, their experience of denial and dispossession since 1948 has a kind of drama toit as a tragedy.... THE OSLO ACCORDS WILL NOT LEAD TO A JUST PEACE . When you go there and see this 'peace' on the ground, you realize the Israelis have produced a document that has tied up the Palestinians into little bantustans without any sense of fulfilled expectations." He refused to lend his presence to the Oslo signing ceremony. He feels that the issues of land and peace in historic Palestine run so deeply through the question of justice and history that silence is a betrayal...The very corruption of the Oslo process means that basic unresolved questions like the Palestinian exile of 1948 must come up again. It is not lost on him that such issues resonate at a time when Jews themselves are making inroads in reparations, recovering Nazi gold in Swiss banks, stolen Jewish art in France, synagogues in Poland. "One can admire the way Israelis have always reminded the world of what they went through in the Holocaust and with anti-Semitism, and their persistence in making sure this history is put first in the table. Palestinian leaders have simply accepted the effacement of our history in 1948. That must be put in front of Israelis.      I DON'T THINK THERE CAN EVER BE PEACE UNLESS THERE IS AN ATONEMENT, AN APOLOGY, SOME RESTITUTION FOR WHAT THEY DID.  THEY DID IT! THEY DESTROYED A SOCIETY, DISPOSSESSED A PEOPLE AND HAVE OPPRESSED THEM EVER SINCE. THIS HISTORY MUST BE FACED, JUST AS IT WAS FOR THE JEWS AFTER WORLD WAR II."

His biography:

1935-1947: A Palestinian born in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Talbiya to a prominent and wealthy family. His father becomes a US citizen after escaping the Ottoman Turkish draft in 1911. His mother is half-Lebanese, born in Nazareth. His early schooling at Saint Georges, an Anglican academy in Jerusalem. The family leaves for Cairo when Jewish forces take Talbiya and loses family home and business.

1948-51: Attends British-run Victoria College in Cairo during King Farouk's last years in power. Spends summers in Lebanon. After a "rowdy" spell, his father sends him to Mount hermon Academy in Massachusetts.

1952-57: Graduates from Princeton University. Spends a year in Cairo giving piano recitals and concerts, but opts to study literature at Harvard.

1957-1963: Focuses on new field of comparative literature. Earns doctorate from Harvard where he wins the Bowdoin Prize for work on Joseph Conrad. He is offered a post at Columbia.

1963-70: Establishes himself as a leading professor and gains tenure. Begins writing on Middle East after the six-day war in 1967. Visiting scholar at Harvard.

1970-76: Marries (second wife) Mariam, starts a family that includes son Wadie and daughter Najla. His year as a scholar in Beirut and a fellowship at Stanford produce his breakthough masterpiece, "Orientalism", his main theoretical work. 

1977-82: Elected to the Board of the Palestinian National Council. Achieves popular acclaim with "The Question of Palestine", and "Covering Islam".

1983-88: Visiting professor at Yale and Johns Hopkins: Four books, one film, eight endowed lectures, including Cornell and Chicago. Seminal support for a two-state solution in Palestine.

1988-92: Breaks with Yasser Arafat. Calls Oslo peace accords a "sell-out". Visits Jerusalem after 45 years in exile. 

1993-2003: Renounces "two-state" solution in favor of a "single state" with equal human, civil, political rights for all. Dies 24 September 2003 at 67 years of age in New York City. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Broumana, Mount-Lebanon, Lebanon. His headstone indicates he died on 25 September 2003. 

The Zionists hate him because he elevated the Palestinian question in the Middle East to the same level as the Jewish question in the Europe of the early 20th century. By equating Palestinian sufffering with the Jewish suffering, he forced a balanced look at the Israel-Palestine question. Zionists have long tried to erase Palestinian identity so as to create their own "pure" Jewish state. Ongoing events after October 7, 2003, have proven Edward Said was right all along.

But Zionists continue to fume with rage at his existence in the intellectual mainstream. In 2016, California State University, Fresno, started examining applicants for a newly created Professorship in Middle East Studies named after Edward Said. After months of examining applicants, Fresno State canceled the search due to pressure from pro-Israeli Zionist individuals and groups.

For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

How Foreign Zionists Savagely Created Israel By Killing Native Palestinians

“It did not begin on October 7. What we went through in 1948 is exactly what we’re seeing now in Gaza and Rafah.”
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From one generation to the next, Palestinians aim to keep the history of al-Nakba alive
Alaa Elassar, CNN
Wed, May 15, 2024

Mohammad Zarqa trembled with fear as he watched panicked crowds of people, screaming and covered in blood, rush into his small village on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

“You have to run,” he remembers a woman crying out, shocking Zarqa out of a daze and sending him racing home to warn his family. He was only 12 years old at the time, unaware of the looming war that would soon upend his life.

It was April 9, 1948, and Jewish [terror] militias had just attacked Deir Yassin, a village about a mile northeast of Zarqa’s home in Ein Karem in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. At least 100 people, including women and children, were killed – many stripped, lined up and shot with automatic fire, according to reports from the time archived by the United Nations.

The massacre is among the events that led to al-Nakba, or “the catastrophe,” when roughly 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by armed [terrorist] Jewish groups seeking to establish the state of Israel.

A mass grave where more than 100 victims of the Deir Yassin massacre were buried in April 1948. The round stone ring is a mass grave for women and the square one is for men. - AP

“We thought we were going to be next,” Zarqa, now 88, tells CNN from his home in New Jersey. “My father said, ‘We cannot stay here. They’re going to come and massacre us.’ We had nothing, no weapons, nothing to defend ourselves. That’s the day we became refugees.”

On Wednesday, Zarqa joins millions of Palestinians across the world to mark Nakba Day with protests and community events intended to honor the memory of the Palestinians killed and displaced in 1948 and the brutal war unfolding today in Gaza.

Part of that commemoration includes a commitment to storytelling, Zarqa says, whereby survivors of the Nakba generation continue to share their experiences with younger Palestinians so the dream of liberation and return never dies. He believes it’s the only way to understand the current war and work toward a just and lasting peace in the region.

“My heart is bleeding,” he says softly. “At my age, I’m still dreaming of going back home. Palestine is something that is still implanted in my heart and my body. It’s where I was born. It’s where I have my memories. It’s my country.”Yearning for home

Zarqa, along with his parents and six siblings, fled Ein Karem on foot, taking very little with them. They walked from village to village, searching for food and sheltering in the homes and garages of kind strangers. The atrocities he witnessed along the way are seared in his memory.

“I saw the most horrific things in my life: women coming in with torn clothes and uncovered heads crying, screaming, saying that the Jews – they weren’t called Israelis at the time – attacked their village and massacred everybody,” Zarqa says.

Mohammad Zarqa proudly shows off his grape vines at his home garden in New Jersey. - Courtesy Jenan Matari

More than 15,000 Palestinians were killed and 531 towns and villages destroyed during al-Nakba, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, an institute of the Palestinian Authority.

Jewish leaders declared independence and the creation of the state of Israel on May 14, sparking a military response from Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The family hoped the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, as it would come to be known, would end in a swift victory for the Arabs.

After several weeks, Zarqa’s family returned to Ein Karem. But when they entered the village, they found it had been ransacked and its residents cast out by Jewish [terrorist] militias, Zarqa says.

With nothing left to salvage, they fled to Jordan to wait out the war, he recalls.

The family initially lived in squalor, surviving off the generosity of strangers and local mosques. They shared a home with other Palestinian refugees in Jabal Al Weibdeh, a neighborhood in Amman, Zarqa says. It had a dirt floor and there were no windows, doors or bathrooms. They often couldn’t shower for months at a time.

By March 1949, Israel had won the war and forbidden the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from returning to their homes and ancestral lands. Zarqa’s family was among them.

The family began to build a new life in Jordan, one marked by struggle and poverty, as they patiently waited for permission to return to Ein Karem. But it never came, and decades later Zarqa found himself living in the United States – even further from his homeland – trying to raise a small family of his own.

“We made a life in the US, but this still isn’t home. You never forget that you had a house and somebody kicked you out of it,” Zarqa says. “We will never stop wanting to return.”

A responsibility to teach

Neither time nor distance has blurred Zarqa’s memories of Palestine. He has passed onto his four children and eight grandchildren every bittersweet memory of Ein Karem, from its acres of orchards to the hilltop where he could see the mountains and the Mediterranean sea in the distance.

Zarqa remembers Ein Karem so vividly that despite his decades of absence, he was able to give his grandson, Zach Matari, who visited the village in 2019, directions over FaceTime to his old home, now in present-day Israel. An Israeli family is living there.

“I remember every inch of my village. If you go there I can tell you there was this apricot tree here, and there was a fig tree there, and that’s the stairs we used to climb,” he says.

Jenan Matari, another one of his grandchildren, is a writer and social media influencer who uses her platform to educate followers about Palestinian history, culture and current events, including the war in Gaza.

Mohammad Zarqa and his granddaughter Jenan Matari at her wedding henna in 2017. - Courtesy Shorouq Matari

She loves listening to her grandfather’s stories and says her work, which is rooted in his Nakba experience, is a form of resistance. All Palestinians in the diaspora, she says, should use their voices too.

“I get really sad for my grandfather, because if I’m feeling triggered by the things that are happening in Gaza, and I’m feeling this depleted and in so much pain watching this, I can only imagine what it’s doing to him and his generation to watch what they lived through happening again, but on an even greater scale,” Matari, 33, tells CNN.

Talking about al-Nakba isn’t easy, Zarqa confesses. He often pauses mid-sentence or changes the subject when it hurts a bit too much. But he refuses to be silenced by his grief and even invites other Nakba survivors to his home to share their experiences with family, friends and the wider community

Dawud Assad, one of those survivors, lives just 10 miles away. He narrowly survived the Deir Yassin massacre, which he says claimed the lives of 47 family members, including his grandmother and 2-year-old brother.

Dawud Assad, a survivor of the Deir Yassin massacre, celebrates his birthday at his home in New Jersey. - Courtesy Jenan Matari

“I was supposed to be dead,” says Assad, who is now 92 and nicknamed Al-shaheed Al-hay, or “the living martyr.” Assad survived by hiding in a shallow trench near his home, crouching and quietly praying for mercy as bullets grazed his hair.

“It did not begin on October 7. What we went through is exactly what we’re seeing now in Gaza and Rafah,” Assad says, referring to Israel’s ongoing war there. Videos of dead children are especially triggering because they remind him of his slain brother.

In the seven months since the October 7 attack, Israel’s bombing campaign and ground offensive in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It also has imposed a siege and razed entire communities, rendering nearly 90% of the population displaced and everyone food insecure.

Israel says its military tactics are necessary to defeat Hamas and return the hostages. The International Court of Justice says it’s “plausible” Israel is committing genocide, though a final ruling in the case could take years. Israel “utterly rejects” the allegation.

For Zarqa and Assad, the war is reminiscent of the horrors they endured during al-Nakba, and it’s important for them to draw that parallel for young Palestinians in the diaspora, as well as anyone else trying to make sense of the violence.

“Al-Nakba never ended,” Zarqa says.

They point to recent statements from Israeli officials that have alluded to another Nakba through suggestions of mass killing and displacement, or outright calling for it. In a November interview with Israel’s Channel 12 news, Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter described the war as “the Nakba of Gaza 2023.”

Following Dichter’s comments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urged ministers to choose their words more carefully. “We must be sensitive,” he said, according to The Times of Israel.

Hope for the future

Zarqa’s heart remains torn between nostalgia and grief as he concedes he may never again see his beloved Palestine, stroll through the quiet streets of Ein Karem or taste its delicious apricots.

But he’s sure his descendants will.

There are some 5.9 million Palestinian refugees worldwide, most of them descendants of that 1948 generation of exiles, according to the United Nations. It is “the world’s longest-standing protracted refugee crisis,” the UN said at a 2023 event marking the 75th anniversary of al-Nakba as it urged a solution grounded in international law.

While some countries, including the United States and United Kingdom, skipped the commemoration after Israel called for a boycott, Zarqa elsewhere sees hope: The anti-war protests taking over city streets and college campuses across the world.

“I am so proud of them,” Zarqa says. “You pass on your stories to your children and then they carry the banner and continue to teach their children, and eventually their own grandchildren.”

“Palestinians will never forget.”

For more, check out:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinians-recount-painful-history-war-192917464.html

 

Fictitious Paranoia as Blackmail Weapon: 99% of Planet is Anti-Semitic

 

Opinion

How Weaponizing Antisemitism Puts Jews at Risk
Raz Segal
Tue, May 14, 2024



Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counterprotestors on the Columbia University campus in New York, on Oct. 12, 2023. Credit - Bing Guan—The New York Times/Redux

As Gaza solidarity encampments take root at dozens of campuses across the U.S., many Democratic and Republican lawmakers—in addition to President Joe Biden—have accused protestors and colleges of rampant antisemitism.

That’s woefully misguided—and dangerous. Indeed, the blanket assertion by pro-Israel advocates is intended as a political cudgel: weaponizing antisemitism to shield Israel from criticism of its attack on Gaza, which has left at least 35,000 Palestinians dead in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, wounded tens of thousands more, and forcibly displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians who now face famine conditions. The conditions in Gaza are such that many scholars have said that the situation amounts to a genocide.

Ultimately, the weaponization of antisemitism intensifies the discrimination and exclusion against vulnerable communities in the U.S.—including Jews.

Indeed, those accusing protesters of antisemitism do not appear to consider the many Jews among the protestors in the encampments as Jews, arguing in effect that Jews can only be Jews if they support Israel or do not express pro-Palestinian sentiment.

This is absurd, for the idea that all Jews should hold the same views by virtue of their identity is an antisemitic idea itself. Alarmingly, President Biden has at times exacerbated the false equivalency between Jews and Zionists. In February, on Late Night With Seth Meyers, he said that “were there no Israel, there would not be a Jew in the world who would be safe.”

This claim is ahistorical—and ignores the fact that many Jews feel more unsafe today because of the policies of the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and claims that Israel represents Jews anywhere.

The weaponization of antisemitism by Israel and its allies, including the U.S. government, draws on the deeply problematic “working definition of antisemitism” adopted in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). A central force in the institutional world of global Holocaust memory, this international organization of 35 member states (almost all of them in Europe) deals with Holocaust education, research, and remembrance.

The IHRA definition is the basis for the recently proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act, which some 700 Jewish college faculty have signed an open letter urging Biden not to back. The definition includes 11 examples of antisemitism, seven of which mention Israel and thus blur the distinction between Jews and the State of Israel. By contrast, the IHRA definition includes no mention of white supremacists, even though they pose the greatest danger to Jews in the U.S.—as the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue massacre of 11 Jews in Pittsburgh demonstrated.

This silence, combined with the focus on Israel, facilitates the IHRA definition’s use as a particularly insidious weapon to target people whom white supremacists in the U.S. also single out: Muslims and Arabs.

Take, for instance, the recent attack by a House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Rutgers University-Newark’s Center for Security, Race and Rights (RUCSRR) and its director, Distinguished Professor of Law Sahar Aziz. RUCSRR has come under scrutiny for alleged antisemitism.

Over 500 law professors from across the U.S., who describe themselves as a “racially, religiously, and ideologically diverse” group, condemned these allegations in a letter to the House Committee last month. These law professors note that the Committee is targeting the only center in a U.S. law school devoted to the civil and human rights of South Asians, Muslims, and Arabs, and that Professor Aziz is the only Muslim Arab woman among 130 professors in the law school.

They also point out that since its founding in 2018, RUCSRR has organized nearly 90 events on a wide range of topics, including on the prosecution of Nazi criminals. Yet without any evidence, the House Committee describes Palestinian speakers or speakers who have expressed pro-Palestinian views as antisemitic.

The Committee, the professors argue, is engaged in the “mobilization of Islamophobic tropes to fuel and sustain spurious allegations of antisemitism to discredit and delegitimize critics of Israeli policy and military action.”

Notably, the House Committee has been engaged in similar baseless attacks on dozens of U.S. colleges in the last few months—with Committee member Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican who has expressed white supremacist views in the past, playing a key role.

None of this ensures the safety of Jews in the U.S. On the contrary, the Islamophobia and racism inherent in the weaponization of antisemitism risks making antisemitism a meaningless charge, and therefore much harder to combat, at a time when genuine examples of it are rising.

The Gaza solidarity encampments across the U.S. are anti-racist spaces, where Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, Black people, men, women, LGBTQI people, and others stand in solidarity with each other and against Israel’s war on Gaza. (There have been isolated cases of antisemitism on campuses, which remain few and far between.) They stand for truth and justice—demanding that their government and their universities cease their support of Israel’s extremely destructive assault on Gaza. And they point to a different future of equality and peace around the world. By doing so, they also stand as a genuine expression today of a real struggle against antisemitism.

Shambolic Biden Policies on Palestine and Israel's Failure in Gaza

A US Pentagon intel officer has resigned in protest of the Zionist war on Gaza, citing major ethical concerns for which he could not “justify staying silent any longer.”

In his resignation letter, Maj. Harrison Mann says the U.S. government’s unquestioned support for Israel has “enabled and empowered” the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians. “The policy ... for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Mann wrote in his letter. “This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”

Mann, an officer at the DIA, an organization that collects military intelligence, specializes in the Middle East and Africa. “Each of us signed up to serve, knowing we might have to support policies we weren’t fully convinced of,” Mann wrote. “At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a system that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”

Mann is not alone. Several U.S. officials have stepped down from their posts, citing disagreements with the administration over how it has been handling the savagery of Israel's war on Palestine. Josh Paul, a State Department official, resigned in October over objections to the U.S. government’s decision to continue to arm the Israeli military. Then in January, Tariq Habash, a key player in policy reform at the Department of Education, also resigned from his role due to disagreements with the administration’s stance on Gaza.

A recent review from the State Department about Israel’s war conduct raised “serious concerns” about its actions in Gaza. The report, delivered to Congress late Friday afternoon, determined it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel had violated international humanitarian law in the enclave.

Despite its brutality, Israel is losing the war: It continues to have to return to areas in Gaza it initially said were cleared of Hamas fighters. The Zionist strategy is not working and that is making the Americans very nervous. Ultimately, the US might have to land troops in Palestine to prevent the collapse of the Zionist colony in Palestine and rescue the barbarians from their own cesspool of useless wanton violence.

The Israeli military has renewed its fighting in northern Gaza where it previously claimed to have dismantled Hamas. But it now says the Palestinian militant group is regrouping in the area, raising doubts about Israel’s stated objectives. Israel’s return to areas it had supposedly cleared of Hamas renews questions about its long-term military strategy, which after more than seven months of war has left more than 35,000 Palestinians dead and much of Gaza in ruins, more than 100 Israeli prisoners still in captivity and Hamas's top leadership still at large.

The failure of Israel at controlling the situation in a tiny territory like Gaza is making many strategists very nervous because it reveals the issue of the survival of the Jewish colony in Palestine in the hostile geography where it was implanted 75 years ago. While all previous wars were easily won by Israel in conventional battles across borders between regular armies - primarily because of the unpreparedness of incompetent Arab armies and regimes - Israel is showing signs it is incapable of winning guerilla or urban warfare: It lost in 1985-1986 when it fled Lebanon under a barrage of indigenous resistance; it lost again in 2000 when it was expelled by Hezbollah from south Lebanon where it had kept a protected buffer zone; it lost again by not winning in 2006 in its war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon; it lost all the intifada insurgencies by the Palestinian resistance on its own territory; and now it is unable to control a tiny territory like Gaza after 7 months of its brutal and savage assault. When controlling a territory requires excessive violence for a long period of time, it is usually the time to consider giving up, just like America did in all the failed wars it prosecuted in Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan.

Indeed, Israel's real objective is not to defeat Hamas (because it knows it cannot defeat an ideology), nor is it to liberate the Israeli prisoners (because the latter are being killed by Israel's own indiscriminate and barbaric shelling); the real objective is to seize Gaza, depopulate it by massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide, and annex the territory to its Zionist dream of a purely Jewish supremacist state. No wonder that the ultra-religious extremists in the Zionist government immediately declared their war with big smiles on their faces: They now have the pretext to achieve their long-standing dream of stealing more land from their Palestinian victims.

Over the weekend, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that any initial success in Israel’s invasion of Rafah – which Washington has strongly opposed – is “not sustainable.” He criticized Israel for having neither a “credible plan to protect civilians,” nor a post-war plan for Gaza.

The confusion and mistrust between the US and its annoying and dangerous bastard ally is growing and Biden's "ironclad" support for Israel may be fast eroding. Israeli experts say that Netanyahu’s current war strategy, which is aimed at the complete destruction of Hamas in Gaza, is flawed and unrealistic as it lacks a long-term vision. The tactic of endless clearing and degrading of the capabilities of an insurgency has never worked: The US tried it in Vietnam, Iraq an Afghanistan with lamentable failure.

Meanwhile, former and current Israeli and US officials and military officers have sounded alarms at the direction Israel is heading with its war. Israel Death Forces (IDF) Chief Herzi Halevi is constantly criticizing Netanyahu’s strategy.  “As long as there is no political move that will bring forth a governing body other than Hamas in the strip, we will have to operate again and again there and in other places to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure... It will be a Sisyphean task,” one that may never be accomplished.

Other experts say that Israel risks falling into a perpetual war of attrition, where there is “endless friction” with its neighbors. A prolonged war risks dragging other regional players in the war besides the declared enemies of Israel like Iran. Countries that have been "neutralized" by bribes and fake peace treaties like Jordan and Egypt are themselves very fragile countries whose populations are unhappy with the servility shown to the US and Israel. The reservoir of sympathy for Palestine is bottomless, and is bound to surface and threaten those regimes with another Arab Spring that would be hostile to both the regimes and to Israel.

Finally, Israeli Zionists react to criticism by blushing like virgins when in fact they have the stamina of prostitutes. Israel's Embassy to the Holy See issued a protest on Monday after a Yemeni Nobel Prize winner accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza during an event hosted by the Vatican. Listen to the language used: Israel felt "indignation and shock" over comments by rights activist Tawakkol Karman made on Saturday evening during a conference sponsored by Pope Francis.

Karman, who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in the Arab Spring protests, told an audience at St. Peter's Basilica: "The world is silent in front of the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza". The indignant Israeli embassy labeled Karman's accusations as "lies", brandishing again the overused and meaningless "antisemitic" accusation. If one is to believe in the charade of antisemitism, whose object is to silence any criticism, then the entire world is an antisemitic enemy of Israel, which tells us something about Israel's validity: Any plausible theory has to be falsifiable. There have to be exceptions that prove the theory right. 

Zionism, Racism and Evolution

Israel as a theory is, according to the imbecile Zionists, unfalsifiable: It can never be wrong. It never did anything wrong. Israel represents all Jews and all Jews are by definition Zionists and Israelis. Criticisms of Israel can only be antisemitic. The whole world hates Jews. Jews can only be victims of antisemitism. There are no exceptions: Everyone must love Israel, there is no room for nuance. If you even struggle to carefully articulate your thoughts in order not to appear antisemitic, your hesitation is a sign of your rabid antisemitism. All of this stinks of totalitarian thinking and of deadend outcomes: The Torah itself is rife with these absolutist choices that the Hebrews faced when making deals with Yahweh: Either you worship me or I'll rain hell on you. Worship me and I'll make you horny and fertile. Transactional relationship with the divine. Like some of the backward Christians in Lebanon whose worship of saints is contingent on getting cured from disease, and not because of pure faith.

If humanity has learned anything from its long history is that absolutist ideologies always lead to disaster. As things stand, by raping Palestine in the 20th century, the Zionists have embarked on another one of their gigantic zero-sum failures. One day soon, a stinking rabbi or scribe will add another self-promoting book to the Torah that will narrate the garbage story of how Yawheh saw the suffering of his people and had pity on them despite their sins, mediated the so-called "return" of his people from the European exile, enabled the re-taking of the promised land with utter violence like Joshua did circa 1800 BC, demanded his people rebuild the Temple and, if the garbage of the Torah is any guide, all of this will ultimately end in a catastrophic failure of the whole Zionist enterprise. Why? Because of the exclusivist, supremacist, absolutist, unnuanced, stubborn and dense primitiveness of the whole religious fictional bullshit that a lot of people in the 21st century unfortunately continue to take literally. While most Christians, thanks to the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the French Revolution, have escaped the juggernaut of their once-absolutist and criminal religion and have emancipated themselves from its millennial prison, most Muslims, Jews and Hindus continue to wallow in antiquated overly-fermented irrational hallucinogenic beliefs couched in the ignorance of humanity's Stone Age.

Biology has shown us there are no races. Race is not a scientific objective category. In biology, classification of any individual organism includes its Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. There is no "race" category. Which means that a Siberian could very well have more genes in common with an East African than a West African does. Each one of us is a different shuffle of the same pool of genes we all share. We all came from one African founder group, perhaps even one couple. We came out of Africa several times; all these migrations have failed, except the one that produced us all - whites, blacks, asians, etc. - and all of it happened within the past 300,000 to 500,000 years. So racism and hatred of other people because of skin color is soooo stupid because it sees one obvious genetic difference (skin color) but ignores millions of invisible differences under the skin. White supremacists, Zionists, Black African racists.. y'all ignorant idiots. 

Forgive my digression ....

After mentioning Gaza, Karman got a loud round of applause from the audience which was made up of fellow Nobel prize laureates, politicians and church officials. The pope himself was not present.

Relations between the Vatican and Israel have grown increasingly tense since the start of the war in Gaza, with Jewish groups accusing Pope Francis of failing to endorse the Israeli carnage in the Palestinian enclave. Indeed, last March, the Zionist embassy in the Vatican criticized Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin for accusing Israel's military of causing "carnage" in Gaza. After initially denouncing his comment as "deplorable", the Zionist hypocrites claimed this was a translation error and pretended to mean to say "regrettable". How pathetic of the Chosen Ones!

Is Senator Van Hollen (D-Maryland) Anti-Semitic?

Question: Are the senators (pictured below) led by Van Hollen anti-Semitic and Jew-hating?

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Democratic Senator calls US report on Israel war conduct ‘woefully inadequate’
Laura Kelly
Sat, May 11, 2024



Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) described the Biden administration’s review of Israel’s war conduct in the Gaza Strip — which acknowledged the likely violation of international humanitarian law using U.S. weapons — as “woefully inadequate,” but did not indicate a ban on arms transfers.

“If this conduct complies with international standards, God help us all,” Van Hollen said in a call with reporters shortly after the State Department transmitted its report to Congress.

“Because that would set a very low bar for what is allowed, it would set a very low bar for the rules of war, it would set a very low bar what’s required to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”

The Biden administration delivered a report to Congress late Friday afternoon, in which it determined it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel had violated international humanitarian law (IHL) in its conduct in Gaza. The report was mandated by National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM20), which Biden issued in February.

NSM20 required foreign governments receiving U.S. military assistance, and engaged in active combat, to provide written assurances to Washington that American-provided weapons are being used in accordance with IHL, and further was not hindering the delivery of humanitarian assistance. The memo also requires the State Department and Department of Defense to scrutinize credible reports of IHL violations.

NSM20 was an outgrowth of a push by Van Hollen to get President Biden to recognize a large-scale Palestinian civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s war against Hamas, and the challenges on the Israeli side hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Van Hollen called the Biden administration’s report “woefully inadequate” and demonstrated a “big gap” in the assessment of reports from international NGO’s that have scrutinized Israel’s war against Hamas over the course of seven months.

“While the administration has made some important general findings in this report, including the finding that it’s reasonable to conclude that Israel has violated international law in the use of American weapons, they all fall short of making difficult determinations in specific cases,” he said.

“But the administration ducked all the hard questions about making the actual determination,” Van Hollen continued.

“As I read this report, the Biden administration is taking at face value many [of] the representations made by the Netanyahu government,” the senator said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The administration indicates in its report that Israel has engaged investigations into the reports of violations of IHL.

Van Hollen said the findings may galvanize voices to restrict weapons transfers to Israel. President Biden held back sending more than 3,000 heavy bombs to Israel this week and warned of restricting more arms transfers in opposition to Israeli military action in the southern Gazan-city of Rafah.

“This report does not dig deep because I think by digging deeper you will not just reach a general conclusion about the likelihood of violations of international humanitarian law, you’d have to make judgments about specific cases,” Van Hollen said.

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Meanwhile, this is the treasonous Senator from Georgia trusting foreign racist Zionists more than his own government:

Senator Graham says he trusts Israel more than Pentagon chief

Lauren Irwin

Fri, May 10, 2024

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he trusts Israel more than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after the Biden administration warned it will stop sending weapons to Israel if it invades Rafah.

“Number one, I trust Israel more than I trust Austin", said Graham, speaking about his years-long negotiation efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel, adding that President Biden’s threat to withhold weapons from Israel could ruin potential stability in the Middle East.

“I think the region and the world is going to second guess future relationships with us, Mr. President, if you don’t change your mind,” he said in his remarks.

It’s not the first time Graham criticized Lloyd and the Biden administration’s Israel tactics. In December, he labeled Austin as “naive” for saying Israel risks “strategic defeat” if it does not protect civilians in Gaza, adding he had lost faith in the Pentagon secretary.

The senator’s latest message follows a declaration from Biden warning the Israeli military that if it proceeds with an invasion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of people are taking refuge, he would stop supplying offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells.

Biden said Wednesday that civilians have been killed in Gaza “as a consequence of those bombs” and he has “made it clear” that if Israel goes into Rafah, the U.S. will not supply the weapons.

Graham on Thursday also highlighted his efforts negotiating an “end to the Arab Israeli conflict” and isolating Iran while finding “a better, hopeful future for the Palestinians.”

“Mr. President, if you do not change this policy, you will have destroyed the last best chance to deliver lasting stability in the Mideast for generations,” Graham warned. “Saudi Arabia is watching.”

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[Comment from Iznogood: Graham is way behind: He does not see the sea change taking place. He still thinks that he can buy up Saudi Arabia to sign a treaty with Israel without addressing the Palestine Freedom question. He's from the state of Georgia where white assholes like him still dream of going back to slavery, moonshining and cotton picking. People like Graham are immune to change and progress. They're fixed in a historical formaldehyde where nothing since 1620 should change. That is why he will never come out of the closet.]

The US Bribed Eight "Prestigious" Countries to Vote Against Palestine

Here are the eight countries that sided with the US in opposing the recognition of Palestine as a member state of the United Nations.

Israel - ruled by the corrupt war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-religious Zionist cabal. No need to expand on why Apartheid genocidal Israel refuses to recognize the Palestinians - whose land it stole and whose people it has massacred and displaced to create itself.

Argentina - ruled by the right-wing Trump-like moron Javier Milei whose policies are taking Argentina back to the Stone Age and whose political shelf-life is expected to be less than that of a lettuce.

Czech Republic - long a pro-Israel stooge. In a United Nations General Assembly vote on 29 November 2012, the Czech Republic was the only European country to vote with Israel against upgrading the status of Palestine to a "non-member observer state". And last week it voted against Palestine at the UN General Assembly. Czech support to Israel is a combination of guilt at its Nazi past, its subservience to the US, and its military manufacturing industry that served the Nazi Germans very well during WWII. 

Hungary - Same as the Czech Republic, ruled by Viktor Orban, a right-wing populist Fascist puppet of Russia's Vladimir Putin. He has been a thorn in the side of the European Union as he has undermined the rule of law by overreaching into the independence of the Judiciary. He is a mini-Putin. Poland was briefly ruled by the PIS(S) party led by people like Orban, but the Polish people threw them out. Orban is no doubt next.

Micronesia - a hodge-podge of some 2,100 insignificant tiny atolls and islands, half of which (Guam and the Marshall islands) is owned by the US. Its insignificance, with a total land area of 2,700 km² (1,000 sq mi), is clear except for it serving as a butler for the American landlord. It probably was bribed with a few million dollars to vote the way it did.

Nauru - With an area of only 21 km² (8.1 sq mi), Nauru is a finch's asshole of a country, the third-smallest country in the world after Vatican City and Monaco. Its population of about 10,800 is the world's third-smallest, larger than only Vatican City and Tuvalu. Very prestigious and relevant.

Palau - Another finch's asshole of a country comprising approximately 340 islands with a total area of 466 km2 or180 sq mi). 

Papua New Guinea - another hodge-podge of pacific islands cobbled together after 250 years as a colony of Holland, Germany, Britain and Japan. It is a large archipelago (462,840 km² or 178,704 sq mi), and right now it is incapable of being genuinely independent: It is still owned by the British with Charles III as its king. The people of Papua New Guniea consist of rural remote communities (90%) whose people have no idea what Palestine is. The government, on the other hand, is easily bribed to vote ignorantly for whatever the US tells it to vote. For a former colonized people, the Papuans New Guineans must be really obtuse to endorse a savage colonialist entity like the Zionist colony in Palestine.

How can pathetically insignificant countries like Nauru, Micronesia, Palau and such be declared sovereign member states of the UN, while historic Palestine with its 6 million people is deliberately kept out? These three countries are smaller than the smallest US state of Rhode Island (1,214 square miles, or 3,144 km² ), which makes them easy to bribe and buy. Their governments probably can't locate Palestine or Israel on a map, let alone vote on rational grounds.

Let us not forget that the US engineered the creation of two new Muslim countries in the heart of Europe - Bosnia and Kosovo - by detaching pieces from Serbia without the approval of the latter. But in Palestine, the US is conditioning its acceptance of a sovereign Palestinian state on the approval of Israel, whose criminal government denies even the existence of a Palestinian nation.

Biden's Arms Embargo on Israel: First Shy Step to Rein in the Fascist Zionist State

If the Fascist Zionist colony in Palestine (a.k.a. Israel) is unable to survive without constantly suckling on its American mother's breast, then it should abide by what its mother tells it to do. But the Zionist colony in Palestine was raised to be a spoiled, naughty, arrogant and selfish child. 

For the past 75 years when it was forcibly implanted in a land alien to it, it has not managed to make any friends. On the contrary, its bullish and violent behavior has forced a couple of Arab countries with weak moral fiber that are easily corrupted with a few billion dollars (Egypt, Jordan) to sign insincere treaties of mutually tolerated hatred rather than genuine peace.

Now, Big Mama America, after decades of bad parenting, is wagging its index finger at its Jewish colony brat and telling it to stop misbehaving, otherwise it will stop giving it the fix it has become addicted to.

After Big Daddy "Butcher Biden" threatened to withhold weapons delivery to the Fascist Zionist state if the latter does not stop killing innocent Palestinian civilians, the spoiled brat Netanyahu responded with increased violence by raining down terror on the very same "safe zones" he told the Palestinians to go to. Which, in diplomatic terms, is giving the finger to Sugar Daddy Butcher Biden. What a lovely parent-child realtionship!

Netanyahu to America:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, four Israeli IDF terrorists were killed in Gaza. Seven months already and Jewish fundamentalist terrorist Israel has neither eliminated Muslim fundamentalist terrorist Hamas nor has it rescued the prisoners held by the latter. In fact, the Jewish theocracy hasn't been able to provide a minimal security to allow some 100,000 of its radical settler land thieves to return to their settlements newly built on top of eradicated Palestinian villages in the Galilee.

Thus it appears that the U.S. is finally no longer sparing the rod to punish colonial Israel for its genocidal atrocities against the native indigenous aboriginal Palestinian people.

One idiot by the last name of Conricus, who served as an IDF terror spokesman during the Gaza war, says, "In the short term, these [sanctions against Israel] will lead to enhanced violence and fighting." Is there any more room for violence and fighting than what Israel has rained down on the civilian population without achieving any of its objectives? 

Hasn't the entire world voted overwhelmingly to pass a pro-Palestine Freedom and against Israeli Zionist racism resolution (143 for, 9 against)? 

Israel's political losses by far suprass any gain it has yet to score in Palestine, despite the utter violence with which it thinks it can win on the ground?   In the long term, the more pressure is applied on the rogue pariah Jewish colony in Palestine, the more the goal of achieving peace becomes closer at hand. The only reason why there has been no peace in Palestine for several decades is the entrenched Zionist belief that it can control its colonial enterprise with sheer violence. 

The Zionists keep threatening the West that without Israel's continued violence, the West stands to lose some advantages in the region. But the Israeli colonial outpost is no longer useful. Times have dramatically changed from the colonial, pre-World War II environment when the English crooks thought they needed the Zionist foothold in the region to control access to the oil fields. The dumb US, which always inherits the Europeans' problems (Vietnam from the French to combat communism, and Israel from the English to combat Arab nationalism), has been slow to understand the shifting dynamics in a post-colonial environment. It feels stuck in an unwinnable situation, which can only be salvaged with violence and warfare, and it realizes it has many other potential and more sincere friends (who do not blackmail the West with guilt) in the region. Dozens of US and western allies' military bases dot the western coast of the Persian Gulf; it doesn't need a fundamentalist Jewish charlatan colony to stand up to the fundamentalist Muslim charlatan theocracy in Iran.

Many Israelis view Biden’s pause of weapons deliveries as a betrayal of his assurance that he backs the Jewish state with an "ironclad" security promise. But ironclad assurance does not equate with a license to genocide an entire people. If Israel continues on its path of Zionist horrors, apartheid, land theft, and genocide, it will cause the US to lose potential allies and friends in the region. The Arab Spring of the early 2010s is a harbinger of things to come. The cyclical nature of revolution and repression will eventually lead to popular upheavals against the extant Arab and Muslim regimes, perceived to be lackeys to America and the West, that may bring to power more hostile regimes, in which case, the US will be perceived as enemy number 1.

Israel is not the "only democracy" in the region. It is not even a democracy to begin with. It is a theocracy dedicated only to people with the Jewish faith that chronically discriminates against people of other faiths. This is no longer a tenable argument in our time. We hate Iran because of its expansionist Islamic platform. Why should we not hate Israel for its expansionist Jewish platform.

On Thursday, John Kirby, the White House National Security Communications Adviser, said the U.S. was fully behind Israel. "The arguments that somehow we’re walking away from Israel fly in the face of the facts. I mean, this is a president who visited Israel within days of the October 7th attacks. This is a president who rushed additional military articles to Israel and, frankly, provided expertise from our own military to go over there to help them as they thought through their planning and their operation," he told reporters at the White House. Israel without Big Mama America is vowed to failure. Note the "frankly" adverb: It reveals that the US was trying initially to hide its aid to Israel so as not to expose its failure, but now the cat is out of the bag: Without US aid, Israel is a lot more vulnerable than anyone has imagined.

Kirby continued "this is a president who put American pilots — fighter pilots — in the sky to help shoot down more than 300 missiles and drones fired by Iran in . . . mid-April. So the argument that somehow we’re walking away from Israel, we’re not willing to help them defeat Hamas just doesn’t . . . comport with the facts."

The American umbilical cord is paramount to the survival of the Jewish colony in Palestine. Netanyahu better wake up from his arrogant slumber in his Mama's lap. The canard that Israel is America's closest ally has been debunked. What has Israel done to help America other than ratchet up the hostility against America? Israel is a parasite that feeds off America's naiveté and generosity to sow hatred and inhumanity to many other people in the region.

The United States has betrayed a few million Christians in the Middle East to remain friends with 400 million Arabs and Muslims. Will it go so far as jeopardize this friendship for the sake of a few million Zionist Yahweh-crazies straight out of a Cecil B. De Mille's Bronze Age crappy Hollywood movie?