Jewish Terrorism Continues in Palestine

Illegal Israeli immigrants burn Palestinian crops
Adam Schrader
Sun, June 30, 2024



Illegal Israeli settlers occupy an illegal outpost near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba near the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West Bank in 2022, before Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023. File Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA-EFE


June 30 (UPI) -- A group of illegal Israeli immigrants to Palestine have burned crops on land near the town of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus, the head of the village council Hafez Saleh has said.

The issue of Israeli settlers in the West Bank is deemed illegal under international law, violating the Fourth Geneva Convention. These settlements lead to the displacement of Palestinian communities, the expropriation of land, and frequent conflicts.

The presence of settlers complicates peace efforts and contributes to a cycle of violence caused by the Israelis. The Israeli government's support for settlements exacerbates tensions and undermines the prospects for a two-state solution.

Israeli settlers set up a tent on Palestinian lands near the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem, on the way to establishing a colonial outpost, the Palestine News and Information Agency reported.

The settlers raised the Israeli flag after taking the land, Palestinian activist Hassan Brijiyeh told the official Palestinian news agency.

Earlier this month, Israel's Security Cabinet said it was considering proposals to "strengthen" its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank where some 700,000 illegal Jewish immigrants live.

Ultimately, Israel said it had authorized five more West Bank outposts, violating international law. Foreign governments including Kuwait have now expressed outrage over Israel's expanded occupation.

Meanwhile, controversial Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, who lives in an illegal settlement, welcomed the arrest of 13 "Shebaim" who entered Israeli territory without permits.

"Zero tolerance!" said the minister.

 

Donald Trump's Despicable Racism on Full Display

Opinion

The most despicable things Trump said at the debateDean Obeidallah
Mon, July 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program, “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads. The views expressed in this commentary are his own.

Since last week’s presidential debate, we’ve seen nearly nonstop news coverage about whether President Joe Biden should drop out as the Democratic presidential contender, expressed in numerous op-eds, on political podcasts and on cable television.

But while Biden’s performance on Thursday is a legitimate issue, the media’s laser-focused coverage of it has resulted in former President Donald Trump all but being given a pass for vile and — in the opinion of many — racist remarks he made at the debate. And Trump’s comments were far, far worse than anything Biden said.

For starters, there was Trump’s use of the word Palestinian as a slur. This came up during a discussion of the war in Gaza, with Trump saying, “Let Israel finish the job.” He then criticized Biden for, in his view, restraining Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military action. That’s the same military, it should be noted, that has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and dying, including many women and children, and according to the United Nations has unleashed an ever-growing humanitarian catastrophe along with the widespread destruction of residential homes.

My late father was a Palestinian immigrant. Trump used his heritage as an insult during the exchange when he said Biden “has become like a Palestinian.” To make matters worse, Trump repeated the use of Palestinian as a smear on Friday at a rally in Virginia, where he said about Democratic US Senator Chuck Schumer, “He’s become a Palestinian. He’s a Palestinian now.” The remark presumably meant to suggest that Schumer, who is Jewish, is somehow not supportive enough of Israel.

If Trump, in an effort to insult the president, had said that Biden had “become just like a Black person” or “become just like a Jewish person,” we would have rightfully heard cries of outrage. But after he used Palestinian as a slur, we have heard relatively little condemnation. True, some organizations criticized the vile comment, but it deserves far more pushback than it has received. This insensitive use of Palestinian identity as an epithet is a reminder that their lives mean nothing to some politicians who believe they can score points by demonizing and even dehumanizing them.

Trump’s use of Palestinian as a slur is a new low in an effort to erase and deny Palestinian humanity. But it wasn’t the only example of US politicians’ callous indifference to their plight. Last week, the House voted to bar the State Department from citing statistics from the Gaza Health Ministry on the number of Palestinians killed or wounded in Gaza by the Israeli military.

In short, the Republican-led House is seeking to silence the US State Department from even being allowed to cite the health agency’s statistics, apparently because the number of Palestinian men, women and children slaughtered poses a PR problem for Netanyahu.

Then there was Trump’s baseless comment during the debate claiming that migrants coming to our nation were “taking Black jobs.” Given Trump’s documented history of anti-Black remarks and his defense of white supremacists, the remark rightly raised red flags. And immigration groups and think tanks that have studied the issue have long asserted that immigrants to this country for the most part do not take jobs from Americans.

Some correctly noted that Trump revealed his view that Black Americans are relegated to working in low-paying, menial jobs that anyone could fill. Rep. James Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, speaking Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, noted that Trump’s “Black jobs” remark shows that Trump has “a low opinion of Black people.” But that’s nothing new, Clyburn added. “He’s demonstrated that all of his life.”

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, also slammed Trump’s remarks, stating, “There is no such thing as a Black job. That misinformed characterization is a denial of the ubiquity of Black talent. We are doctors, lawyers, schoolteachers, police officers and firefighters. The list goes on.” He added, “The divisive nature of this comment is not surprising for Donald Trump.”

The truth is, when it comes to the world of work, Black Americans have done very well under Biden.

Black unemployment fell to its lowest level ever during his presidency when it hit 4.8% in April 2023. But Trump was not talking about hard data or certifiable facts; Trump has long insisted that he’s not a racist, but he was peddling what sounded to many of his critics like racist drivel — presumably to attract voters he believes would be conned into supporting him.

Same goes for Trump’s assertion that migrants were coming to take “Hispanic jobs,” a term that once again reveals Trump’s own bigotry when it comes to the types of jobs he believes Latino Americans hold — in contrast, presumably, to “White jobs.” Under Biden, it should be noted, Hispanic unemployment tied a record low 3.9% in September 2022.

People can debate Biden’s performance on Thursday. But there’s no debating that Trump is once again trafficking in what sounds an awful lot like bigotry, because he believes it will return him to the White House. The only question is whether enough Americans will reject Trump’s vileness to ensure that he never gets there again.

 

Nazi Germans - after 75 years - Disapprove of Israel's Palestinian Land Theft

Westerners who have supported or ignored the rape of Palestine by their own Jewish European colonial settlers for the past 75 years are now finally waking up. They have watched, and indeed encouraged, the foreign racist Zionists over several decades steal the land of Palestine and dehumanize the Palestinian people. And now they realize the monstrosity of having encouraged the creation of a fake Jewish colony in a land that belongs only to the Palestinian people. It might be that the westerners no longer bear the guilt of their grandparents' Fascist murder of 6 million of their own Jews, while also fearing that the cancerous "Israel" gangrene will morph into cataclysmic wars and massive waves of migration toward Europe. But isn't it too little too late?

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Berlin slams Israeli moves to approve West Bank settlements

DPA
Fri, June 28, 2024

Annalena Baerbock (L), Germany's Foreign Minister, and Oliver Owcza, Head of Germany's Representation Office in Ramallah, look over part of the West Bank. During her visit to the Middle East, Baerbock will hold talks with officials from Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. Hannes P. Albert/dpa

Germany on Friday sharply condemned Israeli government moves to approve settlements and legalize settlement outposts in the West Bank and called on Israel to reverse the decisions.

"The Israeli policy of settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian areas constitutes a serious violation of international law and undermines efforts towards a two-state solution," a Foreign Office spokesman said in Berlin.

"The expansion of settlements jeopardizes peace and security for all people in the region," he added. "We therefore urge the Israeli government to reverse the decisions immediately," the spokesman added.

"We see as particularly disturbing and cynical" the notion that the plan, introduced by extreme right-wing Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, was a response to the recognition of Palestine by a number of countries, he said.

A durable solution to the conflict could only be achieved with, and not in opposition to, a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA), the spokesman said. "We strongly reject all measures leading to a weakening of he Palestinian Authority," he added.

The Israeli security Cabinet earlier approved the legalization of five settlement outposts, along with sanctions on a number of PA representatives.

Israeli media have reported that Smotrich intends to take steps in return to release tax revenues owed to the PA amid fears in the international community that it could collapse.

The United States and its allies plan for the PA to continue to play a significant role in the Gaza Strip as well after the current war there ends. The Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement expelled the PA from the Gaza Strip by force in 2007.

Smotrich recently announced he planned to withhold PA funds and pay them out to Israeli victims of terrorism. Israel collects taxes and customs levies owed to PA under the Oslo Accords.

Donald Dumb Trump: Palestinian, Philistine, and Black Jobs

As has been the case since biblical times, the native indigenous people of Palestine, once known as "Philistines" (which is almost the same exact word in Arabic, "Filistini", that refers to the modern Palestinian people), have seen their name tarnished by Hebrew, Jewish and Zionist propaganda.

Because the Philistines fought back against the invading hordes of nomadic Hebrews during the Bronze Age, Jewish propaganda began using the name "Philistine" as some sort of derogatory term because it was the name of their adversaries. 

Looking up "Philistine" in the dictionary, you find: "a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts", i.e. a barbarian. 

Whereas the reality is that the invading desert nomads known as Hebrews were the goat-stinking barbarians who were attacking the native sedentary city-dwelling Canaanite Philistines. But history, as they say, is written by the victors. That was some 3,000 years ago, yet the derogatory term has remained.

Fast forward to 2024. The same thing is happening again with the name "Palestinian". The name of the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine has become a derogatory term by white supremacist racists and their Jewish Zionist racist allies who ethnically cleansed - and continue to ethnically cleanse - the native indigenous people of Palestine. 

Here is the racist white supremacist jackass Donald Dumb Trump accusing his rival Joe Biden of "becoming like a Palestinian", a clearly racist comment that reveals the darkness of Trump's mind. He did not mince his racist comments about Black African-Americans or Hispanic Americans either when he said that immigrants are stealing "Black jobs" and "Hispanic jobs", somehow typecasting the entire African-American and Spanish-speaking population of the United States into low skilled jobs.

How can Americans vote for this creep unless they are themselves racist numskulls like him? And that is half of the American people. It seems that the United States is still far from outgrowing its inhumane racist beginnings and becoming a decent civilized country.

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Trump criticized for 'Palestinian' insult in debate with Biden

Kanishka Singh

Sat, June 29, 2024

The idiot Donald Dumb Trump looking tough and "presidential" by frowning and slanting his lips downwards, while bereft and void of any substance. It's all looks and perception for him. This is the man who dodged the Vietnam draft by having his daddy say that he has bone spurs in his stinking feet, and who now calls US soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country "suckers" and "losers".

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights advocates on Friday condemned former President Donald Trump's references to Palestinians, and immigrants allegedly taking Black American jobs, during Thursday's debate with President Joe Biden, calling the remarks racist or insulting.

Biden and Trump had a brief exchange on the war in Gaza but did not have a substantive discussion on how to end the conflict which has killed 38,000 in the enclave, according to the Gaza health ministry, and caused a massive humanitarian crisis with widespread hunger.

The war began when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting some 250 others, according to Israeli tallies.

"The only one who wants the war to continue is Hamas," Biden said. Trump responded by saying Biden has "become like a Palestinian," which rights advocates said came across as a slur.

"Actually, Israel is the one (that wants to keep going), and you should let them go and let them finish the job. He (Biden) doesn’t want to do it. He's become like a Palestinian but they don't like him because he's a very bad Palestinian. He's a weak one," Trump said.

On Friday, Trump again used the term 'Palestinian' in a similar way, this time saying in a rally that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, was Palestinian. "He's become a Palestinian because they have a couple more votes or something," he added.

The Council on American Islamic Relations advocacy group said Biden was wrong to claim that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the war to end, while adding it viewed Trump's Palestinian comment in the debate as a racist insult.

"Former President Trump's use of 'Palestinian' as an insult was racist. President Biden's touting of his military support for the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza was callous," Corey Saylor, research and advocacy director at CAIR, said in a statement. Israel denies allegations of genocide.

"To insinuate that being Palestinian is somehow a bad thing, as former President Trump did when he called President Biden Palestinian, reeks of racism and anti-Arab hatred," Paul O'Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, told Reuters.

Human rights advocates have reported a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism in the U.S. since the latest eruption of conflict in the Middle East. The war in Gaza and Washington's support for Israel has also led to months of protests across the United States calling for an end to the conflict.

Trump also faced criticism for using the term "Black jobs" and "Hispanic jobs" while claiming immigrants who were coming into the United States from its border with Mexico were taking away those employment opportunities.

The Trump campaign did not have an immediate comment to the criticism.

Immigration is a key election issue and Trump has claimed Biden has failed to secure the southern U.S. border, ushering in scores of criminals. Studies show immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.

"The fact is that his (Biden's) big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he's allowed to come in through the border," Trump said during the debate. "They're taking Black jobs, and they're taking Hispanic jobs."

Civil rights organization NAACP wrote on X: "What exactly are Black and Hispanic Jobs!?!". It added: "There is no such thing as a Black Job."

Amnesty International's O'Brien told Reuters that Trump's comments on immigration were grounded in white supremacy.

"It is disheartening that false narratives grounded in white supremacy and racism about people seeking asylum at the border and immigrant communities in the United States continue to permeate our national discourse," he added.

Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of BlackPAC, an organization that works to mobilize Black voters, said Trump's remarks were not true and that Biden should have pushed back harder on such false claims.

"That there are specific Black jobs for Black people that immigrants are coming to take. Utter nonsense," Shropshire said.

Trump's campaign has made an effort to court Black voters, with the former president visiting Detroit and Philadelphia in recent weeks. Some polls have shown a downtick in support for Biden among Black voters, who historically have been among the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting blocs.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Kat Stafford and Alistair Bell)

 

Foreword from Iznogood: 

The term "Arab" used by Israel and the media to refer to the Palestinians is demeaning and hides agendas. By referring to the Palestinians as "Arabs", Zionist propaganda aims to dilute the specific identity of the people of Palestine and make their "transfer" (i.e. their ethnic cleansing) to other Arab countries more palatable: "They're Arabs, so they can go live in any other 'Arab' country", the terrorist Zionists argue. 

Moreover, "Arab" is a linguisitic group, and is neither an ethnicity, nor is it a religion; the construct of an "Arab world" is a western colonial fallacy as it groups together a variety of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups that happen to speak the Arabic language that was imposed on them by the Muslim colonial conquest (Al-Fatah Al-Islami) of the 7th-9th centuries. Would you refer to the Irish, Scots, Welsh, Australians, Canadians, Americans, Jamaicans etc. as "Englishmen" because they all speak English and were all formerly colonized by the English crooks? Would you refer to the Swiss, Austrians, Alsatians, Dutch, Luxembourgers, Sudeten Czechs and other German-speaking people in Europe as Germans? Hitler did!

On the other hand, "Jewish" is a religion and not an ethnicity either. There are blond blue-eyed Caucasian Jews, Indian Jews from Indian subcontinent, Black African Jews, Iranian and Arab Jews... How can all these diverse people be called an ethnic group? The "Jewish people" is a fallacy invented by the European colonial Zionist invaders of Palestine to bring together a variery of different ethnic groups on the basis of their religion.

I took the liberty of replacing all "Arab" referent terms in the piece below by "Palestinian" to emphasize the unique Palestinian identity of the people who lived, and continue to live in historic Palestine, despite continuous attempts by foreign Zionist settlers to ethnically cleanse them out of their native country.

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Israel's top Palestinian MP says his people 'hunted' over Gaza support

Jack MOORE

Fri, June 28, 2024

Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian MP in Israel's parliament, speaks during an interview in his office (MENAHEM KAHANA)

In the office of one of Israel's most recognisable Palestinian politicians, framed pictures show him posing with famous figures like Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In front of Ahmad Tibi's desk is the Arabic slogan, "The more beautiful days are those we did not yet live," which the parliamentarian says is a poignant reminder for his people as they face increased scrutiny after Hamas's October 7 attack.

The attack resulted in the death of 1,195 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 37,765 Palestinians, also mostly civilian women and children, according to data from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.

This has put pressure on Israel's Palestinian minority, who make up about 20 percent of the population and say they face escalating hate crimes and unjust police action.

"After October 7, hundreds of Palestinian citizens were hunted down, chased by the Israeli police for writing a post or a story empathising with the children of Gaza or saying no to the war," Tibi, the 65-year-old leader of a Palestinian-majority party, told AFP.

"It was, and still is, tough days for Palestinian citizens of Israel."

Adalah, an organisation advocating for Palestinian minority rights in Israel, said community members who expressed sympathy for Gazan civilians have been unfairly punished.

Between October 7 and March 27, Israeli police arrested 401 people, the majority Palestinians, for speech-related offences it says were tantamount to "incitement to terrorism", its figures showed.

In the same period, there was a total of 667 suspects for speech-related offences -- with only 13 Jewish Israeli citizens compared with 590 Palestinians.

"The crackdown on freedom of speech has created a situation in which Palestinian citizens... can neither protest nor freely voice their opinions," it said in a report after October 7.

- Anti-Palestinian rhetoric -

But Tibi says he and other Palestinian citizens of Israel were against the October 7 civilian deaths.

"We said here and everywhere that we are against targeting civilians... in the south of Israel -- any child, any woman," he said.

"Meanwhile, we are talking about more than 15,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza."

Yet in some schools Jewish students have called for the removal of Palestinian classmates who faced disciplinary procedures, even if some were acquitted.

At one central Israel dormitory protest following October 7, students shouted "Death to Palestinians!" and tried to break down doors.

In November, right-wing Israelis protested against a Jerusalem shop employing Palestinians.

But the lawmaker -- who says he has lost 13 Gaza relatives to Israeli bombings -- believes anti-Palestinian rhetoric is not getting the same reaction.

"All those on the Jewish side who called to deport Palestinian citizens, to kill all Palestinians, to destroy all of Gaza... no one was arrested," Tibi said.

Israel's government points to Palestinian roles in courts, hospitals and parliament as a sign of their acceptance in society.

But in 2018 Israel angered Palestinians by adopting a law defining the country as the "nation-state of the Jewish people", and Tibi only sees inequality getting worse.

"After October 7, it was ethnocracy, only for Jews," he said.

- 'We will remain' -

Tibi himself faced the ire of Jewish Israelis after October 7.

"I received not tens, but hundreds of threats by ordinary Israelis. When there is a war... everyone is considered to be a legitimate target."

Asked if he fears being attacked, he replied: "No, but I am cautious."

The one-time adviser to former Palestinian leader Arafat criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right ally National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for the worsening treatment of Palestinians.

"He's a terrorist, according to the Israeli law," he said of Ben Gvir, a settler convicted of incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist organisation over his ties to a banned Jewish extremist group.

Ben Gvir has in turn called Tibi a terrorist and for his removal from parliament over his pro-Palestinian statements.

"The general atmosphere in Israel... it's almost fascist," said Tibi.

But, between dramatic hand gestures, Tibi says he still has hope Jews and Palestinians can rebuild bridges.

"I am realistic, but I am optimistic always, because I am on the right side of history," he said.

If the Gaza war ends, he says "democracy is the only way" to solve the crisis, with a Palestinian state that offers full rights.

"It is a natural right for Palestinians," he said.

Switching to Arabic, Tibi had a combative message for his people and their opponents.

"We face attempts at intimidation. We have withstood in the past, and we will withstand this wave of fascism and racism," he said.

"We were here, and we will remain here."

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Commentary: An Israel-Hezbollah War Could be in the Making

 

Opinion

Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune
Thu, June 27, 2024


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As the Israel-Hamas war is supposedly entering a new phase of more targeted raids in Gaza, another war is raging along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel, the Israeli military and Hezbollah have engaged in deadly clashes in the border area. Israel said it has struck thousands of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon, killing at least 300 Hezbollah fighters.

According to the Israeli military, Hezbollah has fired more than 5,000 rockets, drones and missiles into northern Israel, killing Israeli civilians and troops and forcing tens of thousands of Israelis to leave their homes.

The danger in this conflict shouldn’t be understated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could conclude at some point that large-scale military action is required to push Hezbollah from its borders. During a June 5 visit to the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, Netanyahu emphasized that security will be restored to the north sooner or later. Plans for a large-scale Israeli operation against Hezbollah have reportedly been approved, which means the only thing standing in the way of another war in Lebanon is a political decision by Netanyahu.

For months, the Israel-Hezbollah tit-for-tat was confined to within 5 or 6 miles of the Blue Line, the United Nations-demarcated border between Israel and Lebanon. But the scope of hostilities is getting wider. It’s no longer rare for Israeli airstrikes to hit deep into Lebanon’s interior.

On June 10, Israel conducted its deepest strike in Lebanon yet, hitting a Hezbollah facility in the Baalbek region. Israel killed Hezbollah field commander Taleb Abdallah the next day, which prompted Hezbollah to retaliate with hundreds of rockets into northern Israel. Hezbollah is employing more sophisticated weapons to pierce Israeli air defenses.

Israeli military operations in Lebanon have a long history, with the military taking action in 1978 and 1982 against the Palestine Liberation Organization and in 1993, 1996 and 2006 against Hezbollah. None of those operations was especially successful. Israel’s 1982 invasion forced PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Tunisia but also resulted in an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that arguably produced Hezbollah. The 1993 and 1996 air campaigns were at best tactical successes. The 2006 war hit Hezbollah hard and restored deterrence along the border, but the Lebanese group quickly reconstituted its military power courtesy of Iranian assistance.

It’s difficult to see another large-scale Israeli invasion of Lebanon succeeding where others failed. Hezbollah is no longer an insurgency with limited reach — it’s the dominant political faction in Lebanese politics, and its military wing is larger than the official Lebanese army. Hezbollah’s arsenal, complete with as many as 200,000 missiles, attack drones, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and Iranian-supplied precision munitions, would all be used in a war with Israel. Israeli cities and towns far beyond the border region would sustain extensive damage. Hezbollah’s missiles can hit all of Israel, and the group has enough of them to confuse Israeli air defense systems.

President Joe Biden’s administration clearly understands just how destabilizing a war in Lebanon would be. U.S. officials have reportedly told their Israeli counterparts that a limited war against Hezbollah would likely force Iran, Hezbollah’s primary sponsor, to become more involved.

The U.S. has tried to broker a deal that would at least deescalate the situation. Amos Hochstein, Biden’s special envoy, engaged in another round of shuttle diplomacy with Israeli and Lebanese officials last week. But his efforts have been unsuccessful thus far. Hezbollah insists no diplomatic arrangement is possible until Israel ends the war in Gaza.

There is an agreement in sight, but both sides need to ditch maximalism to make room for common sense.

Israel wants Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River, roughly 20 miles away from the Israel-Lebanon border. Yet it’s difficult to envision Hezbollah acceding to this demand since this would force the group to vacate its main base of support. However, depending on what Israel offers in return, Hezbollah could conceivably withdraw 6 or 7 miles from the Israeli border. This won’t satisfy the hard-liners in Israel, but it’s better than the current arrangement in which northern Israel is written off as a de facto military zone devoid of civilians.

To make these terms palatable to the Israelis, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon could verify the pullback and the Lebanese army could be redeployed to areas vacated by Hezbollah to ensure the militia doesn’t renege.

Israel, of course, won’t get this concession for free. While no Israeli prime minister would agree to limit Israel’s ability to act in self-defense — nor should they — Israel could stop daily incursions into Lebanese airspace or at least limit them to an agreed-upon number. Israeli ground troops would need to withdraw from the small pockets of Lebanese territory they still occupy in contravention of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Assuming all of this succeeds — admittedly a big assumption — Israel and the Lebanese state could then get on with the task of negotiating a permanent border.

In the interim, the Biden administration must get brutally honest with its friends in Israel: Not only would the U.S. not join a war in Lebanon, but it also would oppose it on principle. Israel must be under no illusions that the U.S. would bail it out in the event the Israeli government initiates a large-scale offensive.

A good-enough diplomatic resolution, even if it’s a placeholder, is preferable to a war that would cause immense suffering in the region, undermine U.S. policy objectives in the Middle East, and draw the U.S. and Iran into a direct conflict neither wishes to fight.
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Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

The Bronze Age Jewish Colony in Palestine to Send Lebanon Back to Stone Age

The European Jewish colony in Palestine, a.k.a. Israel, wants to send Lebanon back to the Stone Age. Being themsleves stuck in the Bronze Age, what with their nomadic desert hallucinations and the biblical fictional bullshit they still drag behind them into the 21st century, they feel perhaps inferior to more advanced civilizations. 

They did send Lebanon back to the Stone Age many times before, but without much success. Their Israel was born by violence and horror. It will continue to live by violence and cruelty. It will never know peace because it was born of racism and violence. Those European Jewish settlers (and their bastard American progeny) have been reaping what they sowed beginning some 100 years ago. 

Unfortunately for Lebanon and its people, the Iranian cancer has decided to confront the Zionist cancer on Lebanese soil. Abandoned by the international community to these two criminal ultra-religious regimes, Lebanon has been suffering for close to 6 decades, but it will survive. It has survived many interlopers over the millennia: Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusader settlers, Seljukids, Mameluks, Ottoman Turks, French, and Syrians. All were great empires and conquerors, except crappy Syria. 

So what? Me worry about crappy Israel? About filthy eastern European converts to Judaism claiming Hebrew ancestry and property rights to Palestine? Their fate will be like that of the Crusaders, sooner or later. 

Welcome to the Stone Age!

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Israel says it can send Lebanon 'back to Stone Age' as UN warns against war
AFP
Thu, June 27, 2024

Israel said it does not want war in Lebanon but could send its neighbour "back to the Stone Age", as the UN's humanitarian chief warned such a conflict would be "potentially apocalyptic".

The border between the two countries has seen daily exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants ever since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hezbollah's ally Hamas, which triggered the war in Gaza.

Fears those exchanges could escalate into full-blown war have only grown in recent weeks as cross-border attacks intensified, and after Israel revealed it had approved plans for a Lebanon offensive, prompting new threats from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said during a visit to Washington on Wednesday that his country could "take Lebanon back to the Stone Age, but we don't want to do it".

"We do not want war, but we are preparing for every scenario," he told reporters.

"Hezbollah understands very well that we can inflict massive damage in Lebanon if a war is launched."

Israel's allies, including key defence backer the United States, have been keen to avoid such an eventuality. A US official said Washington was engaged in "fairly intensive conversations" with Israel, Lebanon and other actors, and believed that no side sought a "major escalation".

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Gallant on Tuesday that another war with Hezbollah could have "terrible consequences for the Middle East", and urged a diplomatic solution.

Germany on Wednesday, echoing a Canadian warning from the day before, "urgently requested" its citizens in Lebanon leave the country.

"The current heightened tensions in the border area with Israel could escalate further at any time," updated foreign ministry advice in Berlin said.

UN humanitarian coordinator Martin Griffiths told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday that Lebanon was "the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints".

"It's beyond planning. It's potentially apocalyptic," warned Griffiths, whose term ends this week.

A war involving Lebanon "will draw in Syria... it will draw in others", he added. "It's very alarming."

Lebanon's national news agency reported about 10 Israeli strikes on areas near the border on Wednesday, including one around 10:00 pm that destroyed a building in Nabatiyeh, wounding five people.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strike.

Hezbollah on Wednesday claimed six attacks against Israeli military positions in the border region.

- Relative calm -

As Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip nears its 10th month, bombardments in the besieged Palestinian territory appeared to ease after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the "intense phase" of Gaza operations was winding down.

Some of those forces would likely then be redeployed to the Lebanese border -- but "primarily for defensive purposes", according to the PM.

US officials including Secretary of State Antony Blinken have voiced hope that a ceasefire in Gaza could lead to a reduction in hostilities on the Lebanese border as well.

During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, witnesses reported bombings in areas around the Gaza Strip, and fighting had raged earlier Wednesday between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in Gaza's southern city of Rafah.

The civil defence agency and medics said at least four people, including three children, were killed in a strike Wednesday on a house in Beit Lahia, in the north.

However, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP "there have been almost no attacks" and "the rest of the areas in the Gaza Strip are calm compared to yesterday".

The war has triggered a humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory, with hospitals struggling to function, and food and other essentials hard to come by.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, warned Tuesday of the war's dire impact on children.

"We have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average," Lazzarini told reporters, adding "that means around 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war".

Germany and the West: Collusion or Confusion?

The Germans, who perpetrated the Holocaust against the Jews and pushed them to illegally migrate to Palestine which they ethnically cleansed to create the fake state of Israel, are in total confusion over what to do in Palestine-Israel. 

On one hand, they feel so guilty for the Holocaust that they do not dare criticize the Fascist Israeli state. But they can't bear to watch the horror their former victims have inflicted and are inflicting on the Palestinians.

Here is Germany's Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, criticizing Israel for the first time. She criticizes the "far-right" of Israel as if there is any real difference between mainstream Israelis and the fundamentalist terrorist Orthodox Jews who run the country. There are no "mainstream" Israelis: The whole country is founded on a racist colonial foundation from the day the idea of stealing Palestine from its rightful owners was born in Germanic Europe in the late 1880s. 

By default and by definition, there is no Israeli who is really innocent of the rape of Palestine. The fact of the existence of Israel is itself a crime committed by foreigners against the indigenous people of Palestine. Every Israeli is a migrant from Europe, regardless of whether he or she was born in Palestine a few decades ago from illegal parents or grandparents. Every asshole who claims to be a member of the Jewish religion around the world, and who has never set foot in Palestine, has more rights in the "Jewish democracy" than the native indigenous Palestinians with their ancient villages, stone houses and olive orchards. Israel is the best proof that "Great Replacement" works. Why then is it denounced in the West and applauded in Palestine?

If Germany wants to help resolve the Palestinian nightmare, it should offer those Israelis of German ancestry re-settlement visas so they can put down roots back in their homeland of origin. The Nazis are long gone and Germany and other European countries  are no longer the Fascist countries they once were: It would be much pleasant and safer for German Jews to return to Germany and enjoy a life of peace and happiness, instead of liing in fear and in constant warfare against the rebellious native Palestinians who will never give up despite all the violence that has been visited upon them.

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German minister criticizes Israeli far right on Jerusalem visit



Annalena Baerbock, Germany's Foreign Minister, speaks at a press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Baerbock holds talks in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, during her trip to the Middle East. Hannes P. Albert/dpa 

[Note: The King David Hotel in Jerusalem was the British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine. It was bombed in a Jewish terrorist attack on July 22, 1946 by the militant Jewish right-wing Zionist terrorist organization, the Irgun. 91 people of various nationalities were killed, including Arabs, Britons and Jews, and 46 were injured.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock critized the far-right Israeli government over increased settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during a visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Baerbock accused far-right extremists in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's government of encouraging conflict in the West Bank. "Parts of the Israeli governing coalition are setting things on fire and endangering Israeli security interests in the long term with their aggressive settlement policy," Baerbock said after a meeting with her Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz.

She also criticized reports of brutal conditions for Palestinians detained by Israel and other reports of alleged rights abused by Israeli forces. "The shocking reports of cruel detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli camps and prisons do not match Israel's own claim to be a democracy and constitutional state," Baerbock said.

She called for Israel to offer an explanation for "disturbing" images of the Israeli army's operations in Jenin, which "contradict international humanitarian law." On Saturday, videos showed Israeli soldiers driving with an injured Palestinian bound to the hood of a vehicle.

Earlier on Tuesday, Baerbock travelled to Ramallah in the West Bank to discuss the future role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa.

Critics accuse the right-wing Jewish terrorist parties in the Israeli government of strangling the PA by cutting Israeli payments to the body. As a result, salaries of PA employees can no longer be paid. Israel's terrorist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently said he wanted to withhold funds totalling $32.5 million from the PA.

Baerbock criticized Israeli authorities for completely blocking PA access to customs and tax money that was guaranteed under the Oslo Accords, landmark agreements struck between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the 1990s. At the Herzliya Security Conference near Tel Aviv on Monday, Baerbock condemned these measures. "In the current situation, it's dangerous and self-defeating to destroy and destabilize established PA structures," she said.

As announced at the beginning of April, the German Foreign Office is resuming regular funding of UNRWA with a first tranche of €5 million to support UNRWA activities in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank, particularly in the areas of education and health.

UNRWA hit the headlines in January because of Israeli government lies that employees were involved in the massacre on October 7 and that the organization as a whole had been infiltrated by Hamas. An audit report by independent experts later rejected those allegations as pure lies and concluded that UNRWA had "robust" mechanisms to uphold its principle of neutrality.

The latest announced funding brings Germany's humanitarian aid contributions for the Palestinian Territories to €312 million since last year, primarily focused on food and medical care.

Baerbock is scheduled to travel on from Jerusalem to Beirut on Tuesday, where the threat is growing of further escalation between the US-backed terrorist Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist Hezbollah organization along the border between Israel and Lebanon.

She plans to meet with the Lebanese hostages of the terror organization Hezbollah, including Iranian puppet Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Iranian puppet Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib. Baerbock called the situation along the Israeli-Lebanese border extremely dangerous. "All those who hold responsibility must therefore exercise the utmost restraint and, above all, Hezbollah must stop firing at Israel," she demanded. But Lebanon's government officials do not hold any responsibility; they are hostage puppets of Hezbollah without any decision-making capability. Because of its arsenal and training, Hezbollah is more powerful than the useless Lebanese Army.

So, why does Baerbock and other western officials continue to negotiate with the Lebanese hostages of Hezbollah instead of negotiating directly with Hezbollah is beyond comprehension. In the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, the international community negotitated with an equally hollow Lebanese government and came up with UNSCR 1701. But Hezbollah has refused to abide by the resolution. So why are westerners repeating the same mistake?

The imbecile American negotiator Amos Hochstein is now proposing that Hezbollah withdraw 8 kilometers north of the border. Whether 5, 8, 10 or 20 kilometers won't make a difference. The underlying problem is the Iranian and Syrian occupations of Lebanon through their proxy Hezbollah. Since the early 1980s, the West has been retreating before the growing Syrian-Iranian threat and has abandoned Lebanon. Several opportunities presented themselves to extricate Lebanon form the Syrian-Iranian hold, but the West either fled or colluded with Syria and Iran against Lebanon, which allowed Hezbollah to grow into the threat it poses today. 

Lebanon is no longer a functioning state. If the international community wants an end to the long-standing conflict in south Lebanon, it must work to empower the Lebanese state, and seriously arm its legitimate armed forces so they take full control of the borders with both Syria and Israel. Otherwise, haggling over 5 kilometers or 20 kilometers is a pathetic way of kicking the can down the road and avoiding facing up to the underlying problem. Lebanon has been plagued by the same problem for the past 6 decades, ever since it was forced in 1969 by the cowardly Arab states to cede its territory in the south to rogue organizations (PLO, Hezbollah etc.).

Why Fundamentalist Zionists Reject Palestine?

Because colonialist Zionism was based on the Big Lie of "a land without people for a people without land".

For Netanyahu and his barbarian fundamentalist Jews to accept a Palestinian state would destroy the very foundational myth of Zionism. They would have to recognize the existence of the Palestinian people whose land they stole and whom they ethnically cleansed to create their Jewish colony in Palestine.

Which is why there will never be peace in Palestine until the Zionists abandon their bullshit biblical dream based on biblical bullshit stories written by smelly old desert nomads from the Bronze Age. 

If they insist in their current posture, they will have to live in constant fear, constant warfare, and continue committing crime after crime, including what they seem to be preparing for: Ethnically cleansing-expelling-exterminating the remaining 4 million Palestinians from the West Bank. What else to expect from illegal foreign migrants and terrorists from Europe (and recently from the United States) who have never ceased trespassing, massacring the natives and stealing their land? 

The Palestinians will never give up resistance. They would have to be really stupid to accept their expulsion from their native land into filthy refugee camps and their land be taken from them by violence and terrorism (Jewish terrorism began in the 1920s and continues to the present time) to make way for illegal foreign settlers driven by religious fanaticism from the Bronze Age of humanity?

German Nazis Want Explanations from Their Zionist Friends on Abuse of Palestinians

The German Nazis are upset with their Zionist friends for tying up a wounded Palestinian on the hood of a military vehicle. Now the German Nazis are the ones who murderd 6 million Jews, then sent the remaining ones to exterminate the indigenous Palestinians, take their lands, and start their Jewish colony in Palestine. The German Nazis thus got rid of their Jews and dumped them on the poor Palestinians.

These days, the German Nazis pretend to love their former Zionist victims so much that they furnish them with weapons and support them in exterminating the Palestinians and stealing their land. I guess, the German Nazis fear that if the Jewish colony in Palestine were to disappear for some reason, all these Jews would have to go back to Germany. And that is something that the superior Aryan race cannot countenance, even though the Torah says the Jews are the superior "chosen" ones. Tough to decide who is the "most" superior of the two mongrels! The Germans might have to prepare for another Holocaust of the revenant Jews, though this would be against their ethical Christian Aryan standards.

The German Nazi government says it is now expecting from their Zionist Jewish allies "rapid clarification, rapid results and corresponding consequences for those responsible."  They're big on "rapid" it seems. But you and I, and everyone on earth, know that this is mere blather posturing and that no explanations, no clarifications and no consequences will ever be forthcoming from the Zionists who in fact learned their terror and racist trade from their German Nazi brethren. After all, most of the Zionist settlers of Palestine are Germans, and I hear that many German Zionist settlers are fleeing the Jewish Disneyland on the Mediterranean and applying to retrieve their German citizenship. Good news for the indigenous Palestinians.
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Germany demands 'consequences' for Palestinian tied to Israeli jeep
Mon, June 24, 2024

Germany condemned the way an injured Palestinian was tied to the bonnet of a military vehicle in the northern West Bank city of Jenin over the weekend, calling for "clarification and consequences," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Berlin on Monday.

The video clip showing the incident was "difficult to bear," the spokesman said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday confirmed the incident in which IDF troops tied the injured man to the bonnet of a jeep and drove past two ambulances in the city.

It said the troops had been on their way to a counterterrorism operation in the greater Jenin area, when they had come under fire.

"Terrorists opened fire at IDF troops, who responded with fire. During the exchange of fire, one of the suspects was injured and apprehended," the IDF said.

The conduct of the IDF troops had been in violation of military procedures, and the incident was being investigated, the IDF said.

The injured suspect had been handed over to the Red Cross for medical treatment, it said.

The German Foreign Ministry spokesman said he was aware that this conduct represented a violation of IDF rules and that the German government now expected "rapid clarification, rapid results and corresponding consequences for those responsible."

Zionist Racist group ADL Upset with Wikipedia's Labeling it ‘Unreliable’ Source

The leading Zionist organization in the US, misnamed "Anti-Defamation League" (ADL), is upset that the highly respected online encyclopedia Wikipedia declared ADL as “generally unreliable” to provide information on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This finally exposed the decades of lies and misinformation that Zionists like ADL have been disseminating to justify Israel's rape of Palestine.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of ADL accused Wikipedia - of what else? - "antisemitic" bias, the tired old  Zionist scarecrow to scare away any dissident opinion against Israel, the now-officially recognized "Genodical" colonial monster in Palestine.

“In a moment when we need to be educating millions of people on how dangerous anti-Jewish hate is, we are being silenced and our research is being marginalized,” Greenblatt said. “Just let that sink in.” Perhaps the world no longer needs to be educated by a bunch of racist Zionist agents. Greenblatt should let sink in his dense skull the obvious fact of Jewish barbarity on display in Palestine, barbarity that he spent his lifetime trying to hide under the guise of fighting racism. Is there anything more racist than Zionism, the project of ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people out of their ancestral homeland by sheer terrorism (Haganah, Stern Gang, Lehi group, etc.) in order to create the Bronze Age fantasy of Israel and invite a widely diverse population united only by religion to settle the raped ravaged Palestine and its demolished villages and cities?

The decision by the reputed Wikipedia last week to add ADL to its list of banned or partially banned sources, puts it in the same company as Russian state media and the National Inquirer. ADL is now officially a rag spewing falsehoods in service of an ideology and not the truth. This means that ADL should not be cited in articles on the Israel-Palestinian conflict “due to significant evidence that the ADL acts as a pro-Israeli advocacy group and has repeatedly published false and misleading statements as fact,” says Wikipedia on its site. ADL’s unreliability extends “to the intersection of the topics of antisemitism and the Israel/Palestine conflict,” the statement said.

Wikipedia’s review of ADL’s reliability began in April and involved more than 120 volunteers who participated in discussions about the organization’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, antisemitism and its hate symbols database, said Maggie Dennis, a vice president at The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the online encyclopedia but does not determine what content is included on the site.

The online encyclopedia is volunteer-run and non-profit, and goes to extremes to be transparent and unrelenting in verifying and vetting citations and attributions behind the information it publishes. Any reader can see the discussions and debates. The crowd-sourced encyclopedia has over 60 million entries and is often the internet's most accessible and reliable record of people, places and events. In 2023, the English-language version of Wikipedia had about 92 billion views. The fact of Wikipedia's universal reach is what is terrifying Zionist mouthpieces like ADL that have generally relied on biased sources to propagate lies, misinformation and anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab bias.

Wikipedia editors have concluded that "ADL is heavily biased in favor of Israel and inaccurately labels legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism". One editor said, “The ADL no longer appears to adhere to a serious, mainstream and intellectually cogent definition of antisemitism, but has instead given into the shameless politicization of the very subject that it was originally esteemed for being reliable on."

Another editor said the ADL often acts as a “pro-Israel lobbying organization,” which “can and does compromise its ability to accurately report facts regarding people and organizations that disagree with it on this issue.”

As an example of virulent Zionist pro-Israel bias, the Zionist leader of ADL Jonathan Greenblatt has often said that anti-Israel protesters on college campuses are "Iranian proxies.” This Zionist con artist Greenblatt has also said that the Palestinian keffiyeh head scarf is equal to the Nazi swastika. He later tried to walk back from his statement by making convoluted and unintelligible comments, such as “I’m certainly far from perfect, but it is stunning that someone would take comments that were intentionally misrepresented and use that to slander and undermine an entire organization and to suggest that the body of our work is somehow no longer made of integrity.” I let the reader decide what that means.

The Wikipedia decision is problematic for ADL because it raises questions about the organization’s credibility, said James Loeffler, a professor of modern Jewish history at Johns Hopkins University.  Loeffler tries to split hairs by arguing that there is a difference between ADL's research team and ADL's leadership, just as when westerners try to separate a political wing of a terrorist organization (Hamas, Hezbollah) from its military wing. Loeffler said. “The problem [with ADL] is that there’s one message coming from the leadership and one coming from the research team. The leadership statements are much less disciplined and raise questions about exactly how rigorous their measurement is and their standards for defining antisemitic acts.” Loeffler is obviously being kind in the language that he uses.

What Do you Do When Your Two Worst Enemies Fight Each Other?

You celebrate. You have a beer and watch with delight as two groups of primitive people hauling crap from the Bronze Age go at each other's throat.

That is what I like about being in Lebanon right now. I had been traveling for several months recently and I made it a point to come here and watch in person the upcoming war between Jewish racist fundamentalist Israel and Muslim racist fundamentalist Hezbollah. The sight of two ultra-religious barbarians from the dark ages of humanity killing one another is a sight to be beholden, for there is really - let's admit it - no God-Yahweh-Allah-Dieu-Dios etc, a.k.a. the Big Zombie in the Sky ... that will take sides with either one of these two criminal groups, nor will he in his non-existent wisdom ever punish these savages for killing tens of thousands of people in his name.

Personally, I do not believe in anything. I have no "faith". Only idiots have "faith". Although I was unwillingly brainwashed from the day I was born into one of the three monotheistic cults - the scourge of the earth - I have freed myself of any "faith". Faith is the suspension of reason, which allows you to believe bullshit without evidence. I am now a free human being.

With the upcoming Olympic games in Paris, I get to alternate between watching Beirut being destroyed by Israel's 2,000-lb bombs graciously provided by Uncle Sam (who is also the Uncle Tom of the Zionists) and watching speed skating, relay races or the high jump. Over the past 50 years, beautiful Beirut was destroyed so many times by the Palestinians, Syrians, Israelis and their American, Saudi, Iranian and other allies, that I am not at all bothered by one more destruction. 

What do we stand to lose? A few digusting soul-less buildings built by the Saudi puppet ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri can go to hell. Back in the 1990s, the idiot had a chance to preserve Beirut's millennial souks and bazaars dating as far back as Phoenician and Roman Beirut, but he rased all of Beirut's ancient history to erect his ugly shiny Saudi-inspired buildings. Sadly, though, after licking the asses of everyone, including the US, Saudi Arabia, France as well as Syria, Iran and Hezbollah, the imbecile was killed by his "resistance" allies who placed a bomb specially designed for him right in front of his buildings in downtown Beirut.

Meanwhile, "it's summertime and the living is easy"... Up here in the mountains, you can see Beirut from a distance. So when the bombing begins, you can actually sit down under a graceful grapevine, sip a glass or two of arak, gulp down a few beers, and watch without being directly impacted, like Nero watching Rome burn. Barbarian Israel will focus initially on the south, near the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon whose ancient Phoenician and Roman ruins were pilfered by the Zionists when they invaded in 1982 to remove Yasser Arafat's PLO. The barbarian Jews will in all likelihood repeat their pilfering this time around too if they succeed in reaching Tyre and Sidon, but with one major difference: This time Israel will seize the Lebanese south and annex it, to the chagrin of those Lebanese who love their Phoenician heritage.

Keep in mind as well that in the last Israel-Hezbollah war in July 2006, Hezbollah was not in the Lebanese government or parliament. It was still a rogue private militia that had evicted the Lebanese state and army from the south so it could continue "liberating" Palestine after the PLO's defeat and eviction. So Israel targeted Hezbollah's supply lines (bridges, airports, etc.) but did not target official Lebanese institutions (ministries, army barracks etc.).

This time, Hezbollah is not only in parliament and in the government, it has hijacked the entire state and runs the country. So Israel will in all likelihood target everything, inluding army barracks, ministries, and administrations.

For its part, Hezbollah is threatening the Jewish state with devastating waves of rockets and missiles that apparently can reach everywhere in Israel. If the interception rate of 95% of Israel's iron dome system is accurate, there will be at least some missiles that will reach deep into every city and town of Israel. And Israel will retaliate by bombing anything and everything in Lebanon. 

The silverback leader of Hezbollah is even threatening Cyprus (some 130 miles across the Mediterranean) if it lends its airfields to Israel and its western allies. This will drag the European Union into the killing festival. I don't think there ever was a war with such a multicultural, diverse assembly of combatant parties. The upcoming war in Lebanon is likely to overshadow the Paris Olympics. 

Given the reach of modern warfare (drones, guided missiles, etc.), the war might come very near anywhere you are in the country. I do have a solid poured concrete basement that might serve as a shelter where I have stashed lots of beer cases. I also might go to the beach and ponder in the hot sand and the cool breeze the barbarity of religions and their "faithful" who drag stories, myths, and fictions from thousands of years ago into our world today. The Jews drag their desert hallucinations (frog rains, ocean-splits, knocked-up 100-year old spinsters), tribulations and disputes with Yahweh, as well as their murderous ethnic cleansing of the Canaanites of Palestine on order from Yahweh himself, and their supposed ownership of Canaan as a land grant from Yahweh. The Muslims, the Shiites of Hezbollah in particular, drag a deadly political fight between Arabs (the Sunnis) and Persians (Shiites) over political power after the death of Mohammed. Some 1,300 years ago, Shiite military leaders - Hassan and Hussein, sons of the Caliph Ali - were killed in battle by the Sunnis. You'd think that after 1,300 years, this case would be put to rest. But no, every year at Ashoura, the Shiites walk in the streets flogging themselves and slicing themselves with much disgusting bloodletting as they mourn Hassan and Hussein.

The French and the Germans have become friends after a century of wars. The Americans and the Japanese are also best friends after WWII and Hiroshima. There are no civilizations or countries today that still hold grudges that are as old as those involving Shiites and Jews; in fact, they both are paranoid cultures, always claiming to be the world's top victims and walking around saying that everyone is against them.

Finally, if Israel manages to push the Shiites out of the south and further north, they will flee to the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border. But, as the Palestinians did in the past, Hezbollah might seek revenge for its defeat by Israel by invading the Christian areas of Lebanon. They might also invade the Sunni Muslim areas too. This would dramatically change the dynamics of the war as it would send Lebanon into a spiraling civil war, the Christians, the Druze and the Sunnis are probably arming themselves as we speak in order to face a scenario of a Hezbollah invasion of the rest of Lebanon while Israel invades the south.

Alea jacta est.

Hanibaal Atheos

Illegal Colombian Migrant & MAGA Idiot Wants African-Americans Out of US

Every time I think I found the dumbest American Republican, some MAGA idiot proves me wrong. Here is Valentina Gomez, an illegal Colombian migrant who entered the US illegally and obtained welfare assistance and the US citizenship, now asking African Americans to "kindly" leave the country.

She's, of course, a Trump supporter, and she's from one of the most backward states in the union, Missouri. Not sure, but if you dig deeper, she's probably an Evangelical who was brainwashed into dumping her Catholic upbringing to become a "more suitable" Protestant numskull Evangelical. That is how foreign immigrants assimilate into the totalitarian US: By rejecting their origins and pretending to be a shiny new white pig.

In a message posted on the occasion of the Juneteenth national holiday celebrating the end of slavery, MAGA idiot Valentina Gomez told Black Americans to “kindly” leave the US if they “don’t like” the country.  This idiot Trump supporter is well-known for her attention-grabbing stunts, such as when she told followers not to be “weak and gay” while running in a bulletproof vest.

On Tuesday, she called Juneteenth the most 'ratchet' of holidays as she argued against reparations for slavery. [she meant 'wretched', but like Trump himself, these stupid bastard ignoramuses don't even know their own English language. I remember one of Trump's tweets in which he mispelled "unprecedented" as "unpresidented"].

It gets even more interesting; this moron Gomez wants to be the Secretary of State of  the hideous state of Missouri. Perfect match. She posted her "ratchet" message only days after Trump was desperately trying to attract Black voters. How scintillating!

“Reparations from slavery and Black victimization is about to be shoved down our throats for the most [ratchet] holiday in America,” Gomez says in the video, wearing a shirt saying “Don’t be weak and gay.”

“It is outrageous to see people ask you for reparations, even though they never went through slavery. These ungrateful people should be celebrating because they were born in the greatest nation to ever exist,” Gomez adds. “Here’s a tip – If you don’t like America, kindly, get the f*** out.” But she, the idiot, was not born in the US.

At the end of the video, the Colomobian-born Gomez, appears in an image holding an assault rifle, dressed in military-style clothes. She has never served in any armed forces.

I think Trump should endorse her because she has sunken down to the dumbest level that he loves in women. Just like Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert and others.

President Joe Biden recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday in 2021. It became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr Day was instituted in 1983.

Valentina Gomez shoud be air-lifted back to her native Colombia where her "tough" idiocy would be appreciated by the drug cartels.

 

Israeli military official : We Cannot Destroy Hamas

The Jewish colony in Palestine is finally admitting that it cannot defeat Palestinian identity and nationhood.

Palestinian resistance to colonial Israel has taken different forms over the past century:

- It began as a grassroots indigenous Palestinian uprising against illegal Jewish migration into Palestine under the mandate of the British crooks in the 1920s and 1930s.

- After the violent genocidal founding of the Jewish colony in 1947, it became a broader "Arab" nationalist secular movement during the war of 1948 when Arab armies tried unsuccessfully to prevent the birth of the artificial Jewish state. 

- Arab nationalism remained the Palestinian resistance main umbrella after the coup d'etats against the monarchies of Iraq, Egypt and others. It was led by Gamal Abdel-Nasser of Egypt and the Syrian and Iraqi Baathist parties in the 1950s and 1960s.

- By the mid-1960s, Palestinians realized that the Arab countries had failed them in securing a Palestine free from Zionist occupation. In 1965, Yasser Arafat founded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a move that asserted a Palestinian national identity and movement independent from Arab countries and Arab nationalism. That Palestinian nationalist move was confirmed by the defeat of the Arab armies in the 1967 war with Israel, where Palestine lost more land. The PLO was a federation of many Palestinian organizations, none of which was Islamic in nature. They were nationalists, Baathists, Communists, etc..

- By the 1970s and 1980s, the PLO and its affiliates managed to impose themselves on the world stage as representatives of the Palestinian people. Yasser Arafat was introduced to the world community at the UN in 1974 by the Lebanese president Sleiman Frangiyeh. The war that the Jordanians (1970), then the Lebanese Christians (1975-1982), fought against the Palestinians forced the internationalization of the Palestinian resistance movement. 

- By the 1990s, those who succumbed to the Zionist pressure against the Palestinians slowly came around to recognizing the Palestinian liberation movement. From an organization labeled as terrorist by virtually all the West, the PLO became the government of a nascent Palestinian state, the Palestinian Authority, following the Oslo Accords in 1993.

- When the Palestinians realized that the Zionists had lied to them - by continuing the home demolitions, uprootings, land theft and settlement policies over land that was slated to become an independent Palestine - the Palestinians joined the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism in the late 1990s (Al-Qaeda etc.). That is when Hamas and the Islamic Jihad organizations were born in the belief that a deceitful Israel had defrauded Arafat, the PLO and the secular Palestinian movements, and that an Islamist platform could garner friends as far as Afghanistaan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia and other Muslim, but non-Arab, countries.

In sum, Hamas is only the latest manifestation of Palestinian resistance; its radical Islamism does not diminish the underlying Palestinian national resistance to Israeli Zionist colonialism which is itself a radical fundamentalist Jewish movement.

As Israel continues to sink into confusion given its defeat at prosecuting the war in Gaza, an Israeli military spokesman admitted yesterday that Hamas cannot be made to “disappear”, in stark contrast with Netanyhau's aim of not only defeating Hamas, but destroying it. In return, the war criminal Netanyahu rebuked his own spokesman for telling the truth.

“The idea that it is possible to destroy Hamas, to make Hamas vanish — that is throwing sand in the eyes of the public,” Israel Death Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Wednesday in an interview. In the confusion and incompetence, the IDF tried to re-emphasize that the government is committed to the destruction of Hamas and that Hagari was only referring to Hamas “as an ideology and as an idea.” But if you cannot destroy an idea, there will always be someone like Hamas behind it. This goes to show that Israel's original founding idea of establishing an imported colonial Jewish state in lieu of the historic Palestinian nation has failed.

The cracks that are deepening between the Israeli government and its military is evidence of the colonial artificiality of the made-up state of Israel. Barring the violence Israel has always relied on to force itself in Palestine, its leaders like Netanyahu lack a strategy: If they recognize and make genuine peace with Palestine, the Zionists would have lost their wager and their rasion d'etre is seriously jeopardized. If on the other hand they continue "securing" their fake state with sheer brutal violence, they run the risk of digging their own grave. 

After eight months of war, and with the prospect of many more wars to come, as with Hezbollah on its northern border, there is growing fears that Israel’s military may be unable to achieve those aims and that Hamas could remain a potent ideological force. Again, despite is despised Islamist ideology, Hamas is fundamentally a justifiable resistance of an indigenous people on its native soil against a barbarian colonial occupation by foreign settlers holding an equally despicable religious ideology.

“Telling the public that there will be no terror in Gaza, no military operatives, no rockets and no armed men is a lie,” Hagari said. “There will be terror in Gaza. Hamas is an idea, deeply rooted in the hearts of the residents of Gaza. To replace those who handle civil services and distribute or steal food, something else needs to be established. This is a decision for the political echelon, and the army will implement it.”

In a sign that Israel’s cabinet may be tempering its initial war aims of destroying Hamas in its entirety, government spokesperson David Mencer said that eliminating Hamas’ “military and government capabilities” does not “necessarily mean” killing every member of the group. Oh, now I see. This clarifies everything.

During discussions about the US-backed ceasefire plan, Netanayhu also appeared to have backed down from his maximalist rhetoric. A statement issued last week by his office said Israel will not end the war “before achieving all its war objectives: destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, freeing all the hostages and ensuring Gaza doesn’t pose a threat to Israel in the future.” The statement did not reference Netanyahu’s oft-repeated promise of total victory, nor the destruction or elimination of Hamas in full.

The IDF’s decision to do tactical pauses in Gaza also drew fierce criticism from the savage extremist fanatic Jews in Netanyahu’s coalition. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said whoever made the decision to "pause" the killing of innocent Palestinians “is evil and a fool who should not continue to be in his position.” That foolish and evil person is none else but Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Talk of harmony inside the Jewish terror government.

As far as the other objective of the Jewish butchery in Gaza against innocent Palestinians, there is no hope left that Israel will be able to return the hostages. In fact, the hostage holders themselves do not know how many hostages they still have. Many hostages were killed by the idiotic soldiers of the IDF themselves. A senior Hamas official said last week he has “no idea” how many of the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza are still alive. 

Finally, the Hezbollah threat in northern Israel is itself more untenable for the Zionists than Hamas has been. Hezbollah is much better armed, war experienced (in Syria), and has increasingly shown advanced sophistication. For Israel to eliminate the Hezbollah threat requires it to use a level of savagery against Lebanon that dwarfs its brutality in Gaza. This is "Stragetic defeat" means: When you are in the wrong (the colonial creation of an aritificial Jewish colony in the heart of the Arab world), there is nowhere for you to go but down. Just like the Christian Crusaders who came to retrieve their promised land some 1,000 years ago. They lasted a couple of centuries, then packed their filth and returned home. Israel is no different: the Zionist idiots thought they could turn history's clock back to the Bronze Age.  

Bottom line: Israel's Zionist project has failed. It must grant the Palestinians genuine independence and live with the risk of an independent Palestine right next to it. It should drop all the Bronze Age bullshit about Judea and Samaria and withdraw to the 1967 borders if it wants to have a chance at surviving in a region where it insists on making enemies and no friends.