Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself to be the only country in the world that can literally bomb and invade all of its neighbors at will without serious international consequences.
"Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself to be the only country in the world that can literally bomb and invade all of its neighbors at will without serious international consequences."
Shouldn't be that surprising, Israel was able to get away with killing 34 U.S. sailors in the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.
Thanks to the CIA using the USS Liberty to funnel intelligence to their enemies (John McCain’s dad). Remember operation PaperClip and the Nazi’s getting access to US “Agencies” or are you just a Jew hating fool? Obviously not a Bible believer. For 27 centuries kings, nations and morons have tried to end the Israelites and their subset the Jewish people, and the Jews are here and the kingdoms are gone. Myths about the Jews “controlling” everything have arisen over all of the centuries which are absurd and generated by the forces that seek to destroy them, and who could they be?
I have extensively, perhaps you may need to actually read what Yahusha has said. But antisemitism is the same as the Amalekites. Look them up, you may learn something.
They like to show up and “spread the word” when things are getting dire….kinda like a canary in a coal mine. Fear not Sweet Louis, here in the Garden will keep on worshiping the gilded tribe till the bitter end. Now go play in some traffic would’ya?
USS Liberty was recording the Israeli army executing Egyptian PoW's in their tens of thousands. That could not be allowed.
Israel's Blitzkrieg of 1967 depended on taking no prisoners so as to advance to the Suez Canal as fast as possible. They are genocidal maniacs as we can witness in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. This genocidal streak did not start on October 7th. It has been like that since 1947.
It is obvious. There was no return of Egyptian prisoners after the Israelis occupied all of Sinai. A whole Egyptian army disappeared. The Israelis occupied Sinai from 1967 to 1979.
Neither the military regime of Nasser nor the Israelis wanted to publicise what happened. The Egyptian media were completely under government control.
Go and look through newspapers of that era. You will never find any reference to negotiations between the Egyptians and Israelis about returning prisoners of war. That is because there were no prisoners.
Compare with what is going on at present between Russia and Ukraine. There are regular discussions and people like the Saudis or Emiratis act as intermediaries. Nothing of the sort happened in 1967. Go check for yourself and don't waste my time.
Read the "Body Of Secrets" by James Bamford, first published in 2001. Israel is truly evil and is finally running out of hollow co$t credits as its wanton barbarity shocks even the most rabid philoZionaZi.
It sounds like you have let your ideology blind you to the realities of history: "For 27 centuries kings, nations and morons have tried to end the Israelites and their subset the Jewish people, and the Jews are here and the kingdoms are gone. "
That's not true, as for 20 of those 27 centuries there were no Israelites: Rome annihilated them and then there were no Israelites for 2000 years until Israel was created. It's an open question whether the new Israel will manage to exist for even a single century: I'm not taking sides, just stating the physical reality of what modern weapons can do.
Israel exists today only because it is a nuclear power. The physical effects of the nuclear weapons Israel has, and its willingness to use those weapons, deter its immediate enemies, all of which so far are only conventional military powers. But nuclear weapons are rapidly proliferating, averaging another new country every ten years or so declared or undeclared. Sooner or later an Islamic country will have both the few nukes (5 or 10) required to depopulate Israel as well as the willingness to use them. After all, Israel's population is very small. It's only about six million people, only five million of which are Jews, and those tend to be clustered in a few large cities.
Extremely destructive pathogens are also becoming easier to create: a graduate student working in a lab about the size of most kitchens with around $10K in standard, completely unexotic lab equipment can create new pathogens through gene splicing. Within 10 years the cost of that will be only $5K. Such "innovative" methods of mass killing should not be discounted by any supporter of Israel, given the precedent Israel has set with mass, indiscriminate killing of civilians in Lebanon using booby-trapped consumer devices. Israel's enemies can also "think outside the box," as they proved on 9/11 by striking Israel's main financier and enabler.
Given the extreme hatred Israel has generated within Islamic countries by its atrocities against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, it's only a matter of time before a nuclear armed Islamic country or a bioweapon-armed adversary (could be as small as a single individual) will attempt to depopulate Israel. Whether that happens and whether it succeeds or not before Israel celebrates its first 100 years of existence is anybody's guess, but it would be unrealistic to think that if Israel continues wars against everybody but Israel an attack which succeeds in significantly depopulating Israel will not occur sometime in the next 50 or so years. That's simply a consequence of a dramatic increase in access to the technology of mass killing coupled with the dramatic increase in hatred for Israel.
Will that eliminate all Jews throughout the world? Of course not, no more than Rome's elimination of Israel for 2000 years eliminated all Jews throughout the world. But Judaism as a religion is a very different thing than Israel as a sovereign country, again, as the Romans demonstrated 2000 years ago.
Jews throughout the world who want their own theocratic nation in the form of a continuing Israel and who do not want to spend the next 2000 years bewailing the glassy craters where Israel once stood should do their best to talk down the racist fanatics currently running Israel who seem bent on convincing the entire rest of the world that Israel must be destroyed. It's time to stop killing Palestinians and Lebanese and time to start building peaceful coexistence.
That may now be impossible, but Jews around the world who do not want to see Israel erased once again for many centuries should push as hard as they can to replace the current Israeli government of war criminals with sensible, pro-peace leaders.
There have been a few in past years in Israel. Right now I'm so overwhelmed by the evil of the current government that none of those past sensible leaders come to mind, but I recall there were a few.
Firstly, of course, it was jews themselves behind the destruction of the Twin Towers ( plus Building 7 ) of course - as witnessed by the zero members of their species who turned up to work that day - and most of us apart from you seem to know about the "jewish art students" who were first arrested and then deported, and their high-fiving and filming of the event, which they seemed to have prior knowledge of.
The "theocratic nation" some of them apparently want should be viewed in the context of who their god actually is - not YHVH Whom they murdered, but Lucifer who is their father, according to the One Who should best know.
Their "theocracy" involves them planning the mass extermination of the white race, which is actually who the Chosen People are.
"When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him"
Proverbs 16:7 KJV
According to tradition that was written by King Solomon, Israel's greatest King. Renowned across the ancient world for his great wisdom, he built the great temple of Jerusalem, opened diplomatic economic and cultural relations with other nations and ruled in peace for forty years.
How much of that does Isreal have now?
They haven't had forty years of peace, they haven't even had 10, they have been bombing and blasting Syria for 10 years and Gaza for more than 20. They have assassinated diplomats as far away as Persia and probably much further than that.
While Soloman received rich gifts from the Queen of Sheba, Israel today receives hypersonic and ballistic missiles from the Persians and the Yemenis. What Solomon achieved 27 centuries ago with camels and donkeys modern Israel cannot achieve today with F-35s and atomic warheads.
I must agree with Solomon on this matter, the path that brings peace is pleasing to the LORD. Subsequent logical deduction also teaches me that if you are constantly engaged in warfare with everyone around you then your path has NOT pleased the LORD.
In summary there is NO biblical justification for this constant madness and bloodshed
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The englishman is a looter 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Australia was first peopled by petty english looters🤣🤣, currently the upper englishman is seething and frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog at the progress of Russia against OoOkraine (who in 2023 had 87000 civilian births and 250000 deaths ) shows what is happening in Ookrania.
I’ll leave you with a thought-provoking quote I came across from the German philosopher and Russophile Walter Schubart. What do you think, any truth to his generalizations?
Western European man views life as a slave whose neck he has stepped on... He does not look with devotion at the sky, but, full of lust for power, looks down at the earth with evil, hostile eyes. Russian people are obsessed not with the will to power, but with a feeling of reconciliation and love. He is filled not with anger and hatred, but with the deepest trust in the essence of the world. He sees in man not an enemy, but a brother.” An Englishman wants to see the world as a factory, a Frenchman as a salon, a German as a barracks, a Russian as a church. The Englishman wants loot, the Frenchman wants glory, the German wants power, the Russian wants sacrifice. The Englishman wants to profit from his neighbor, the Frenchman wants to impress his neighbor, the German wants to command his neighbor, but the Russian doesn’t want anything from him.👈😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 He does not want to turn his neighbor into his means.👈 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣This is the brotherhood of the Russian heart and the Russian idea.👈👍👏👏🧐 And this is the Gospel of the future. The Russian all-man is the bearer of a new solidarity. Promethean man is already doomed to death(Hermes to Prometheus “You’ve gone MAD” hence the madness of the west ). The era of John's man is coming - a man of love and freedom. This is the future of the Russian people. The West is driven by unbelief, fear and selfishness; The Russian soul is driven by faith, peace and brotherhood. That is why the future belongs to Russia…”👍👏👉🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇱👉🚮👍👏🛎️🛎️🛎️
"Myths about the Jews 'controlling' everything have arisen over all of the centuries which are absurd and generated by the forces that seek to destroy them"
Hmmm, yeah, I'm sure it's a total coincidence that across many centuries and many nations, Jews are accused of the SAME THINGS: economic exploitation, double-dealing, pushing decadence and depravity, etc. Sure, sure, everyone was just making these things up! I mean, in Weimar Germany Jews weren't totally exploiting and bleeding dry the defeated German nation while owning nearly everything which they bought for pennies after the wart. No, no, no, they were simple little haberdashers with corner shops.
Sure Jews have been kicked out of nations again and again, and for no reason at all! Sure Jews are RIGHT NOW behind the Ukraine war and the flooding of Western nations with third world riff raff, but hey, that's for our own good! Tikkun baloney!
Funny how the claims of pogroms and atrocities committed against them they never want to talk about the root cause. We always get their version of the story that tends to conflict with the evidence.
That is a good point. I was actually thinking of them trying to have a serious look at themselves and analyze why what has happened to them through the ages.
Henry Kissinger: "Any people who has been persecuted for 2000 years must be doing something wrong."
He also stated: "If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic."
Samuel Roth (1893–1974), U.S. publisher and writer: "There is not a single instance when the Jews have not fully deserved the bitter fruit of the fury of their persecutors."
If the Jews are still here despite the kingdoms gone, then the Jews must have something to survive that way. There's only 1 thing that can achieve that: money.
Now they control all the Western governments and parliament, all the media, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Everything Else. And you call Jews controlling everything a myth? Who do you think you are kidding?
1 thing is sure: no one, absolutely no one, is trying to destroy the Jews. In fact, as per their usual projection, it is the other way around, in line with the Talmud.
I've read it cover to cover multiple times, and it's chock-full to the brim of God being mighty angry with the Israelites for their wickedness, and foresaking them when they foresake righteousness. The covenant God made with the children of Abraham, like all covenants God makes, are dependent on the children keeping their side of the bargain. Why do you think God allowed them to be destroyed by Rome and scattered to the ends of the earth? Because of their wickedness. Their stiff-neckedness and pride rejected His Only Begotten Son, because any Jew of pure and honest heart would have been touched by the Holy Spirit and converted. The apostles and their brethren were instructed "first to the Jew, then to the Gentile" and any who chose to hold on to their 'traditions' has rejected Christ, and rejecting The Son is rejecting The Father. The end.
Whatever. I was actually sympathetic to Jewish people growing up and learning about the Holocaust. Guess what? Your people's barbarity has made me a proud Anti-Semit. So fuck off and get the hell out of my country you piece of shit. We don't need your apartheid, we dont need your immorality and corruption, and we sure as hell don't need your genocide of the oppressed people of Palestine.
Israeli policy is almost identical to US policy, except that it is even more shameless and blatant - because "Israelis" have defined themselves as perpetual automatic victims, who therefore could never possibly do anything wrong.
Andy Singer's brilliant cartoon, as usual, is worth a million words:
Israel has gone completely insane and should be abolished as a country. The same is true of "ukraine". The US is trending strongly toward insanity. I am an older American and I don't give one shit what happens to my own country. It's rotten.
I completely agree, Saint Jimmy. Indeed, neither "Israel" nor Ukraine should ever have been accepted as a sovereign nation. The only reason "Israel" was allowed to exist was that nations like the USA were also colonial, created over the dead bodies of the indigenous people. Americans cannot accept that "Israel" has no right to exist, because by exactly the same token the USA has no right to exist either.
There is also the money. Apparently Jewish people magnetically attract huge amounts of cash, which gives them immense power. And they stick together, which most nations don't.
I have never understood how Ukraine was ever allowed to secede. If Abraham Lincoln had been in Moscow, running the USSR, the rebels would have been bloodily smashed in 1991.
I can understand zelensky. He accepted to put Ukraine into the firing line in 2022 against western promises of victory. And so when he goes round the world demanding the moon and sky, he is only asking for what he was promised.
Zelensky doesn't have much agency in this beyond fighting the war for internal power inside Ukraine.
What comes out of his mouth is directly scripted by his Western masters.
It was never a war between Ukraine and Russia, it is a war of aggression by NATO against Russia using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and as a platform for attack. You still see people failing to understand that simple truth to this day.
Once you stop thinking about Ukraine and look at the map as if it was 1941, 1942 or 1943, you realize that we are in a repeat of Operation Barbarossa and the front lines are very deep inside what should be Russian territory. But unlike Hitler, his modern-day descendants have nukes and long-range PGMs, so a war of attrition does not guarantee a win at all...
Nothing makes sense unless one takes the above as a priori fact…. Once you do, things fall into place rather nicely.
For instance: The AFU would have sued for some kind of peace long ago based solely on attrition and “common sense”. But because they are controlled by non-Ukrainians who case less of they die en masse, the meat grinder continues ….
Russia will emerge victorious on its military front and will establish its buffer zone from NATO while accumulating resource-rich territory to add to its stockpile. NEO-NUTSO (NATO) sent its proxy AFU forces on a bear hunt with knives and forks not realizing that they had to take down the bear first. Now it's just a matter of time before the fall of Ukraine unless the US-backed coalition of the unwilling invade Ukraine to win hearts and minds with tanks and troops. It's the NEO way. The NUTSOs will lose that one too on Russia's home turf. The score is now Russia 1 Neos 0. Tell the gringo NEOs where they went wrong, Tuco. Tuco says:https://youtu.be/QReisbS28Kc?t=7310
The Second Front-Political and Economic Warfare
Donald Trump spilled the beans about the NEOS's next tactic to keep its USD hegemon in a comment:
Trump leaked out US foreign policy going ahead by saying at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, “I hate when countries go off the dollar…. I’ll say, ‘You leave the dollar, you’re not doing business with the United States, because we’re going to put 100% tariff on your goods” (here). Washington will expect India to slow down the ‘de-dollarisation’ process on the BRICS platform.
The report goes on to say " It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. Make no mistake, Americans will use it to pressure India." The US plans to intimidate countries into picking a side like you're either with us or against us, (standard cliche) and force them to trade in dollars or face the consequences. Russia will find out who are the friendly nations and who are not. Playing the middle just won't cut it anymore. The US is going on the attack to hold its USD hegemon. India is already under pressure now and it will be interesting to see how this battle plays out to determine the next world order.
The day before Modi met w/ Joe & the Quad members [ plus President Blinken ], the White House hosted the dissident Sikh movement that has come more to the fore since June of 2023 when Justin accused Modi's government of trying to assassinate one of the Sikh members in Canada--a few months after that, NYC filed charges against a Modi-supportive Indian national for trying to carry out an assassination in Manhattan.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
When the U.S. needs to pressure an *ally* back into line, the juice is always worth the squeeze even if they are squeezing a turnip
"You leave the dollar, you’re not doing business with the United States, because we’re going to put 100% tariff on your goods" - Good luck with that, Donald. With 100% tariffs on Chinese goods Americans will have to learn to live without TVs, telephones, car parts, home appliances, electric power (the grid depends on Chinese built gear), Internet, air travel, and most other things Americans can't live without.
I believe you understand that what Trump says is not tethered to any fixed reality. He does what he needs to do in a given situation. This is why I don't watch him speak, it's pointless. You're not going to divine any real insight from most of what he says. There are a few things I suppose, but not much. Putin vs Trump is a very interesting contrast.
I'll give Trump props for being entertaining if you don't bother treating anything he says as truthful. I went to a rally in 2016 and when taken as stand-up comedy, it was hilarious. Pointing at the news people set up behind me and calling them the most untruthful people in the world, talking about Hillary's stamina, etc etc. Might as well be Dice Clay.
That would attract too much attention from the US turning Canada into a war zone, Gisela. Canada, being possibly the world's largest resource-rich country is best kept secret. lol
You do realize your brotherly neighbor to the south is getting milked right along with you, right? The creatures running things in the West are not Westerners.
"The problem: Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi immediately refuted the above quote attributed to the president, claiming it’s fake:"
Apparently the US isn't the only nation held hostage by whichever intern controls the president's twitter account. I'm reminded of the power held by the guy who carried the piss bucket for the French Kings.
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Re: Israel as special case-
Don't forget that they still illegally occupy Syrian territory, the Golan Heights. This territory was taken in 1967.
We are in the preliminary stages of the war. Nothing significant has happened yet, except that the war has started. The pager and walkie-talkie fiasco was embarrassing but not a significant blow. The victims were part of Hezbollah’s civil infrastructure. Hezbollah’s military technical communication network, when they use it, is fiberoptic. The assassinations of Hezbollah’s leadership are sad but relatively insignificant. They were old guys in their sixties and seventies. Yes, they were heroes but they’ve trained a multitude of senior officers and these officers have had extensive experience in Syria. Their system is based on martyrdom with multi-layer back-up and discrete pre-programed cells, very difficult to disrupt. The effectiveness of Israel's bombing remains to be seen. All Hezbollah’s advanced weaponry is deep (80-90 meters) underground courtesy of North Korea, the world's experts. So far all they’ve used are unguided rockets. Their purpose is to deplete the iron dome. If a bunch get shot down, fine, they’re cheap and have done their job. Hezbollah will give the refugees time to clear out, so for the next few days expect more of the same: bombing, refugees and rockets. After some days the rockets will multiply to deplete the iron dome. Then the real war starts—hundreds of highly accurate guided ballistic missiles, with rockets, drones and cruise missiles thrown in for cover and confusion. The targets will be military and military infrastructure--not civilians. Most Israeli "casualties" treated at hospitals thus far injured themselves falling when running to shelters or require psychological comforting. And who knows what the Iraqis, Syrians and Houthis have in store? At this point things are unfolding more or less predictably. Neither side has demonstrated a significant advantage. Hezbollah doesn't want or need Iran's direct involvement. Iran will be the last domino to fall, and only if it is seriously attacked. Everyone knows if Iran gets serious the world's oil is turned off and the West's economies collapse. The Axis can likely handle both Israel and the US without Iran. Stay tuned.
One should hope so, but until now, Arab countries have done NOTHING to respond to Israel genocide in Gaza and probably will do NOTHING again to respond to the invasion in Lebanon. It's hard to understand but unfortunately very real.
How can a billion Muslims, living in the region, witness the atrocities committed on their people without even lifting a finger? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, etc. The only people to have some balls seem to be in Yemen.
Jordanian recent elections had large gains for pro-Palestinian parties. A new government is going to be formed. Small stuff I know, but I keep hoping that Egypt, Türkiye or Jordan might take action
"Abdullah's cameo was arranged as a surprise for him by his US advisor. The prince – who, at the time of his cameo, was thirty-four years old – enthused, "I would have been thrilled just to visit the set but this is too much."
"How can a billion Muslims, living in the region, witness the atrocities committed on their people without even lifting a finger?" There are two key factors:
First, they are not a unified "people." Read the history of the region and it's a history of constant fighting between different Islamic factions. They all have their own problems and most are not willing to make them worse by trying to help the Palestinians. The only exception is Ansar Allah in Yemen. That despite their poverty the Houthis are willing to put it all on the line to try to save the Palestinians, asking nothing at all for themselves, is extraordinarily impressive.
Second, they're all deterred by Israel's nuclear arsenal. What are they going to do against Israel? Go to war? Israel will nuke their armies and their capitals and they all know that nobody in the world will lift a finger to censure Israel or to help the victims. Again, the exception is Ansar Allah. There are people who say the Houthis are that way because they have nothing to lose, but I believe that that's wrong: they have their lives and those of their families and their children to lose, and still they do what they can to save the Palestinians.
Good comments. I have been wondering how the logistics work hoisting a ballistic missile weighing a few tons from 100m deep to setting it up on a launcher, all under the ISR umbrella. Harder still if the entrances are all rubble. Fun job to dig out the rubble (by hand?) with some unexploded ordinance or cluster munitions around you so that will take weeks/months. IF they still have thousands of cool missiles underground I expect allot will stay there for the time being so don't expect some shower of rockets anytime soon. So with that option it seems played, I guess they lose all initiative and get pounded for their troubles. As for the Houthis, they are paying a price. Redirecting millions to fire missiles that get shot down is money they are not spending on education, food, infant mortality - but with a rabid dog on the loose, if if they build stuff for their people how long before its destroyed, so i kind of get it.
" Second, they're all deterred by Israel's nuclear arsenal. What are they going to do against Israel? Go to war? Israel will nuke their armies and their capitals and they all know that nobody in the world will lift a finger to censure Israel or to help the victims. "
If your theory is correct, Why isnt anyone seemingly deterred by Russia's far larger arsenal of nukes then ?
There are two reasons. First, the Arab countries surrounding Israel can defeat and destroy Israel in conventional war. But there are no countries that can defeat and destroy Russia in conventional war. Israel has to use nukes to survive but Russia doesn't. The West knows that.
Second, the people Israel are deterring are sane while Western leaders who believe in their own propaganda for morons are delusional or deeply corrupt.
Israel has nukes and is willing to use them against the Arab (and Persian) countries that are their enemies. They are also backed by the US and can use their nukes with impunity against other countries. None of the non-US vassal nuclear powers (Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea) will nuke Israel if Israel strikes Arab countries because they're not willing to lose a dozen of their largest cities to an Israeli response. The non-US vassal nuclear powers are run by rational people who are not willing to see their countries destroyed.
In contrast, the West is run by deeply delusional, dysfunctional, or corrupt leaders. The West isn't deterred by Russia's far larger arsenal of nukes because they believe that even if they attack Russia, Russia will not use nukes. That's the price of having extremely badly educated fools in power in the West.
Fair enough, but the side willing to use the weapons it has will win, moralizing aside. Even if the US / Israel doesnt succeed they wont allow the other side to win, if you understand, so the nukes will fly no matter what.
"a billion Muslims" are massively outgunned. (1) The USA is still by far the strongest military power in the world, and its government is under effective Israeli control; (2) Israel has nukes and is irresponsible enough to use them.
What are you smoking? The US hasn't been the strongest military power in several decades. They were defeated in Afghanistan by stone aged goat herders that had zero air force or even artillery and the majority of their weapons were 1940s technology.
Because Muslim leaders like their whiskey, their shiny western toys, their western-equipped armies, their westen bank accounts and investments, their trophy properties in London and Milan. They also fear American reprisals, military and otherwise.
The exception are the Houthis, whose leaders have none of these things, and consequently, the Houthis have nothing to lose and no fucks to give.
I agree it is early days, but I don't buy this at all: "All Hezbollah’s advanced weaponry is deep (80-90 meters) underground courtesy of North Korea, the world's experts."
I think Hezbollah had much fewer weapons than most people thought, and that the recent Israeli strikes have been very effective in destroying many of those weapons. Hezbollah has been very ineffective in its rocket attacks on Israel. If they do have significant numbers of more advanced weapons the way to use them is in a saturation attack, where waves of cheapo unguided rockets deplete the missiles currently loaded into iron dome launchers, and then more advanced weapons take advantage of those empty launchers to strike their targets.
But that hasn't happened. Using up cheapo missiles without an immediate follow up is largely wasting those missiles, because it gives the defenders time to reload the iron dome launchers. If your long term strategy is to use up *all* of Israel's iron dome defensive missiles that's a hard sell, but if you attempt that it's foolish not to take advantage of the temporary breaks you can achieve in the iron dome down time between reloads.
Hezbollah shows all signs of being disorganized and led by people with very little tech savvy. They may excel at grinding out ground wars if Israel's ground forces invade Lebanon, but they've not been very good at using technology to take the war to Israel. Failing to achieve effective strikes on Israeli cities or military installations despite claims they have "hundreds of thousands" of missiles is an example of that.
First of all i would be very careful believing israeli reports on damage inflicted on ammo dumps or even hezbollah fighters. They have been exchanging fire for the past year, why would it not make sense to store most of their weapons beyond israeli reach? Its basic logic
"why would it not make sense to store most of their weapons beyond israeli reach?" There are no parts of Lebanon beyond Israeli reach.
Locating sophisticated weapons, like the large missiles required to strike deep into Israel or to intercept Israel's fighter/bombers, deep underground seems to be beyond the organizational skills and financial resources of Hezbollah. Iran can pull that off but it appears Hezbollah was not able to do that.
As they demonstrated in Gaza and are now demonstrating in Lebanon, Israel is very good at executing hundreds, if not thousands, of air strikes per day. They are being supplied with massive amounts of ordnance by the US and they are using that ordnance effectively. They're very good at what they do and their brute force strategy that does not give a hoot about civilian casualties can effectively reduce to rubble entire cities.
Sure, Hezbollah has taken huge hits i a short period of time, Israel has huge advantage with its airpower, ISR, possibly deeply imbeded spies in to the very structures of their enemy. Tog early to call it though, the game is just starting, Israel would be fool to underestimate Hezbollah, im sure they still have plenty of firepower left
Israel and the west on a whole control the information space they get to declare who are terrorists and who are saintly good people. So Hezbollah has to always consider escalation management as no matter how badly or genocidal they are attacked by Israel the least attack by Hezbollah can be spun as a senseless act of terrorism to the western population.
Israel is basically South Vietnam, South Korea, the Iraqi or Afghan western trained armies. They fight a very expensive conflict that today not even the US can hardly afford. Every cheap Hezbollah rocket that goes up attracts 2-3 expensive interceptor missile to ensure a successful intercept and with the dwindling Israeli economy those are making Israel even poorer. The human cost of this conflict has been very high but much less than Israeli nuclear strikes on major Muslim population centers. Israel will not die by one stroke but from thousands of smaller cuts from small movements denying Israel it's ability to strike actual nation states. The western financial system keeps Israel financed but what will happen if this source of finance is affected by being side lined by the global majority? The rich gulf states are integral to the western financial system they don't need to fight Israel militarily when they can weaken the west economically.
> ... recent Israeli strikes have been very effective in destroying many of those weapons.
Got any evidence or are you relying on "israel's" reports?
> Hezbollah has been very ineffective in its rocket attacks on Israel.
Sure, except for those on the Rafael military industrial complex, Mossad's headquarters, and Unit 8200's headquarters.
I admit, Hezbollah's attacks on civilian targets have been very ineffective for the simple reason that, unlike the ZioNazi "soldiers" who preferably target defenceless civilians, Hezbollah avoids those.
> Hezbollah shows all signs of being disorganized and led by people with very little tech savvy.
How so? A disorganized group would not have been able to defeat the ZioNazi "army", as admitted publicly by a former ZioNazi "defense" minister and 2 generals.
That was in 2006 when Hezbollah looked like a group of schoolchildren compared with Hezbollah in 2024.
Your statements are clearly pulled out of hat, and you have been let down by your hasbara masters.
Riding the Zelensky delulu bus, just before his glow-up @ the UN:
The New Yorker magazine has been a booster of Ukraine since before the SMO commenced--and keep in mind too that CIA plants have populated the editorial masthead since the 1950s. Since 2019, Department of Homeland Security consultants also write alongside those CIA plants, plus professional propagandists from the Global Engagement Center. As far as propaganda goes, TheNYer consistently slings world-class propaganda. Where Bloomberg’s propaganda is the Busch Light variety, as is CNN's, TheNYer’s is champagne calibre.
Joshua Yaffa’s sit-down in Kiev on behalf of TheNYer took place just prior to Zelya’s blockbuster tour of the U.S. & the interview was commensurately fawning of the guy who made the olive-drab t-shirt globally iconic, a guy “who has weaponized the force of his personality in a thoroughly modern form of warfare.” Still Yaffa was willing to express a measure ofskepticism: “the war, now in its third year, cannot be won on Zelensky’s talents alone.”
Incredibly, The NYer article was reasonably accurate in its run-down of Ukraine’s battlefield deficit—the “fizzled” counteroffensive from summer 2023, the dearth of mobilized recruits & “an erosion in public trust in Zelensky himself.” I’ve checked in w/ The NYer pretty regularly since February 2022 & this week's issue is a nadir of truth telling for the mag.
Though Yaffa writes of Zelensky that “he maintains the pose of a man who believes he can still bend history in his favor,” Yaffa is most decidedly not saying Zelya is in fact able to do so. Here's a nugget rich w/ read-between-the-lines possibilities: “He is a discursive speaker, sometimes hard to pin down, but unfailingly focused on one overarching message: "Ukraine is fighting a war not only w/ Western backing but on behalf of the West.”
Yaffa took pains to allow Zelya’s comments to stand on their own, no matter the crazy elements, thus permitting an informed reader to judge for himself. For instance, Zelya’s victory plan “does not require the Russians to cooperate to succeed. Rather, the plan spells out what our partners can do *without* Russia’s participation. Our plan’s implementation depends only on us and our partners.”
Faced w/ doubts among the American public for continuing support of the war, Zelya said, “Ukraine has done everything possible to keep America *out* of this war, actually.” Zelya magnanimously boasted that Ukraine has “shielded America from total war.” In a flight of mesmeric fabulation, Zelya said, “With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand.”
Yaffa seems to have tokenly raised Zelya’s ire by inquiring about the way the Kiev regime has dragooned all broadcast news in Ukraine to deliver information “in a coordinated manner,” to which Zelya clapped back: “Journalists in Ukraine decided to join forces [w/ the govt] in order to combat Russian disinformation.” And he insisted that “they are free to write what they want.”
Winding down the interview, Yaffa asked if Zelya had noticed whether he had changed over the lengthy course of the war or not, a question which Zelya parried—but Yaffa persisted & Zelya said, “Perhaps I’ve become less emotional. There’s simply no time for that. Just like there’s no time for reasoned discourse and arguments.”
'Reason' was not exactly evident in Zelya's responses to Yaffa's questions. Calibrated to appear splashily during the week that Zelya hits the UN's mainstage, the interview communicates a sense of doomed foreboding. It reinforces what S writes in this SitRep regarding the U.S.'s small mincing steps to edge warily away from Project Ukraine.
The photo accompanying the interview makes Zelya look bruised, as after a beating.
Something very wrong is happening in the UK at the moment. The echochamber bubble the politicians and police chiefs in London have wrapped themselves up in is dangerous. Not only have they convinced themselves their own population is a right wing mob to be arrested for complaining on Facebook about mass migration, but they have also convinced themselves that Putin is a Bond film baddie out to destroy civilisation and Britain's role is to defeat this tyrant. The closer you get to people at the top in the UK the more you hear ideas coming from a position divorced from reality.
The City of London syndicate has demanded this crackdown, and the UK political class jumped to obey, instantly forgetting their divisions and differences. And casually tossing Britain's vaunted political freedoms out of the window.
They're still sippping the thin gruel of empire. Tiny England. These imperial wannabes probably start their days rereading Kipling. Sad, no?! The Brits live yet another day thanks to the Christian charity of the Russians. But, patience has its limits. FAFO.
The inbred stupid English elites thought mass immigration would save their crappy little country but it has turned it into a gigantic ghetto. I can't stop laughing. Hopefully, it descends into violent chaos soon.
The Finns, perhaps. They were having the best of both worlds, stably neutral, with long-established good will from their powerful neighbor. But their public opinion has been hijacked with astounding ease into ruining that neutrality, wrecking their profitable trade exchange with Russia, and putting themselves, senselessly, at the brink of war with a superpower---for what? And yet they mostly support their government in its catastrophically suicidal course of action.
Perhaps. But it is pretty much a given that the reason their atlanticist leadership quickly rammed the changes through without a (probably technically required) referendum was because they knew it wouldn’t pass. Of course, the citizenry will suffer unrelenting propaganda, so as in Ukraine the public opinion may be gradually shifted towards more Russophobia…but the rest of the EU, which has been on that train longer, is in such dire economic condition that it’s going to be a bit harder to BS the Finn populace.
Only in a few hard core nazi centers like around Lvov. Other Ukrainians, like the millions who fled to Russia, who live in Crimea or the other four new provinces, or the Ukrainians refusing to leave Kharkov, Pokrovsk and so many other places and instead patiently waiting for Russia to liberate them are solidly with Russia.
Yes, ten years of hard core nazi rule and killing of anybody who opposed their narrative has had an impact, especially on the kids who were brainwashed by the total nazi propaganda in schools in those parts of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime. But it looks like many of them will either die or will run away to hard core Russophobia centers like Poland or other EU countries when the Kiev regime is destroyed by Russia.
Perhaps they'll die then in the EU when Russia settles scores, perhaps not, but either way, Russia doesn't give a hoot about them. It's too focused on helping people who want to be friends with Russia.
The Finns looked up from their pints long enough to conclude that there's a future in fucking with the Russians. The dumb fucks. A very small violin plays for them.
>A new WaPo article again confirms what we’ve been writing for weeks—read very carefully:
We read it. They might have very few conventional ATACMs to make a difference, but they clearly have more than enough nuclear-tipped JASSMs to begin destroying Russia's strategic objects.
And they already started doing it, which, if you were an objective analysis, you would have honestly reported on.
>Meanwhile, controversial Rada MP Mariana Bezuglaya says Russia plans five major ‘bridgeheads’ for this fall, including Zaporozhye city, Dnipro, Kharkov, Kherson, and Sumy:
Three years too late...
The Ukrainian proxy had to be completely eliminated with utmost, Great-Patriotic-War-level urgency, in the shortest amount of time, so that we didn't get to the point where NATO could launch nukes into Russia behind its back.
But we are past this point now and the front lines are not only nowhere close to the Polish border, they are inside Russia itself.
Because oligarch profits and "what is the rest of the world going to think of us" were more important considerations than the survival of the state...
Yeah I am very skeptical that Russia will fire tactical nukes on Ukraine should it strike with long range ATACMs within Russia. Russia promised hellfire for Kursk and all we got was a finger wagging instead.
I suspect that the West will eventually accede to Ukrainian demands because 1) they haven't said no to Ukraine yet and 2) because they will do provocations to test the waters, see no response from Russia and then realize its a bluff.
On the Iran situation: the commentator makes an interesting point but he misses the big picture. Israel is not the priority he’s right. But turning Sunni lands into Shia is the misdirection.
Sunni lands will never become Shia. North Africa will never become Shia. Neither will most countries in the Arab peninsula.
The hint for me was when he complained about Hizbollah stopping the “Free Syrian Army”. We all know who these people are.
Arab countries are weary of Iran. Not because Iran wants to take over their lands and turn them Shia. No.
They are weary because, unlike them, Iran has more degrees of freedom and is more advanced technologically than they are. As such, they have influence. Iran is a problem for them because it is what they were 70 years ago.
Now they are impotent and so every time Iran stands up for Palestine against Israel or the West it reminds them of their impotence. Prime example: Erdogan and Sisi.
On a more political note, it embarrasses them in front of their populations and they fear the instability.
The Arab countries were never "advanced technologically", esp more so than the ancient Iranian civilisation. They were always scattered people with inter-tribal rivalries that always (and still do) get in the way of their advancement and unity. I think the closest they ever got to real advancement was prior to and during the Ottoman period. The Shiites do not seem to share that aspect of character. As for forcing Sunnis into Shias, I don't believe such a thought ever enters Shia minds.
Some countries (like Egypt) still have a well educated population although not the majority. They don’t have significant original research but some. If you speak to someone from Egypt or Syria or Lebanon or Iraq who lived through the 50s they would tell you it was wonderful. Something seemed to have changed in 1948 and 1967 in the region 😉
The tribal rivalries are mostly in modern day Libya which Gaddafi had kept in check but we all know what happened. They are also in the Arab peninsula, which you should not confuse with the near east and levant or with North Africa in general.
Still, currently the most advanced country in the ME is Iran and they don’t like it. But it’s not Iran’s fault and they would do well to tone down the anti-Iran propaganda and cooperate instead.
Israel is an out of control killing machine! Enabled and supported unconditionally by USA, LAPDOG BRITAIN, AND SUBMISSIVE, OBEDIENT ALLIES. Ukraine is on NATO life support. When will they pull the plug?
If they just run their obsolete behemoth in the ground it might not be a win, but it’s also no great loss…..for them that is…Bonus for bring epic suffering on the Great Unwashed.
The West's main problem is economic. The West will not pull the plug as long as the benefits of economic stimulus outweigh the perceived price or risks. This will probably change under Trump if he wins, as he understands the risks and is war averse.
Not that I think Belarus (or Russia) should have been excluded from Eurovision or the Olympics, but calling what is happening in Lebanon an "actual holocaust" is a bit much. There were multiple days when the Ukrainians had more than 558 casualties on a single day. Is the SMO an "actual holocaust"? (Hint: It is not)
I like your analysis on Ukraine and on Israel. But calling things the wrong name just takes away from your message IMO.
Just my opinion, but I think using the term "holocaust" (small h) is reasonable in this context. It means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale in English. What level constitutes a mass scale isn't defined, however when one regards the totality of Israel's assaults on its neighbours over the last year, it certainly is mass destruction and slaughter.
This is a good documentary. I watched it before and shared it. Unfortunately, not many people bothered to watch it. Some people refuse to watch anything that goes against their beliefs. Since we have been lied to, it's important to research other things. I would think most people would want to know the truth.
if folk knew the stakes involved perhaps they would be bothered to educate themselves... my bet is they would and act upon it too..
a man that has been de-coding the abrahamic/kabbalic/judaic attempt to basically steal... everything from Us and that includes issues at "Soul" level can be found here, the chosen piece is as reasonable a place to jump in as any, his longer pieces are preferable, the "shorts" are made for the folk You refer to who "cant be bothered" and have short attention spans..
The difference between Ukraine and Lebanon is that in the former, it is mostly military targets that get annihilated (if not, it would be ad-nauseam repeated in Western media). In Israel, the military targets are interspersed with civilians, leading to a high non-military body count.
My 2ct: Calling Lebanon a holocaust is a bit overkill (for now), it's a massacre for sure. And Gaza is a genocide, not really a holocaust in my opinion (fine gray line between the two).
'Holocaust' is likely another name for 'genocide'. The term is best used in situations where the "intent to annihilate or displace" a population exists, as in the Gaza situation. If you will note, the zionist leadership is casting around the same terms with Lebanon now as they did with Gaza and the Palestinians - Lebanese civilians are equated with Hezbollah terrorists - Lebanon must be annihilated.
There are modern examples where there was a real intent to annihilate or displace - Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). In one month 99% of the remaining Armenian population had of flee. I just don't see that in Lebanon or Gaza. Yes - Israel is careless in dealing with civilian casualties and breaks the international law. But this just does not meet the definition of genocide.
That decision was by US-UK controlled ICC, not by any UN experts and it was not a charge of genocide but war crime. By the same ICC which finds itself unable to charge any Israeli for any warcrimes.
Quote: "there’s a controversial video going around of a Mideast commentator explaining this puzzling situation" lol lol I didn't think you'd fall for this one :-(
I strongly advise any Western analyst that wishes to discuss Southwest Asia, to first check Alastair Crooke's articles and Monday interviews on Judge Napolitano's YouTube channel. Regarding current events in Lebanon, last Monday's interview provides you with a good understanding of events.
agreed. To divert the muslim response into religion wars is a permanent sionist policy. However, it is true that Iran is now ruled by the traders party, pushing to insert the country in the global market.
To some extent true. However, in Iranian foreign policy, input of the Leader and the IRGC are critical, and finally they all have to be aligned with the constitution, which is explicit about supporting resistance movements.
The US Democratic Party directly used Zelensky's visit to campaign for Kamala Harris. The Ukrainian leader went to Pennsylvania, which is a swing state. He walked around a military plant with a smart look, touched the ammunition, like the war in Ukraine = work for an ordinary Pennsylvanian. He gave an interview where he criticized Trump and praised Harris. In general, he spoke at full cost, he could have played the piano in the well-known way, but Pennsylvania is a religious state, so this is not welcomed there. We can directly say that this is external interference in the elections. But there are different types of interference. When Russia allegedly interferes in the elections on Trump's side, it is terrible and there is punishment for it. When the head of a foreign state directly campaigns for Trump's rivals, it is a triumph of democracy. However, this is not even the funniest thing. Right now, the Ukrainian army in Donbass is in another round of crisis, three cities are on the verge of surrender at the same time: Toretsk, Selidovo, Ugledar. And Zelensky's senior comrades pulled him out to tour Pennsylvania with a propaganda concert. It seems like there are many cities in Donbass, three here, three there - it doesn't matter, but here the Ukrainian diaspora in the swing state hasn't made up its mind - we need to speak out for good people.
Murdoch's Fox News personalities received permission today to sully Zelya while dunking on the DNC. Greg Gutfeld on The Five lambasted Zelya's visit to the Scranton ammo plant as an example of "foreign interference in our election." Gutfeld emphasized the fact that Scranton is in a dicey swing state & that Zelya flew @ taxpayer's expense on a governmental plane in order to shill for ammo production in his war. Gutfeld noted, too, that the photo-op trip to Scranton, which resembled a campaign stop, was orchestrated by the DNC & done @ the Democrats' behest. It was tawdry to have Zelya there.
Even worse, Zelya trashed J.D. Vance as "radical" & DJT as "wrong" about ending the war.
Gutfeld's hot take, delivered on Fox's highest rated TV show, signaled a pivot. No one @ News Corp has so explicitly criticized Zelya since Tucker described him as "rat-faced" back in 2022. Finally, pundits in corporate media can loosen their tongues a bit.
After Gutfeld delivered his diatribe against Zelya's interference in our election, the other co-hosts paused before jumping in, nodding their heads in grinning assent--giving Gutfeld's words plenty of breathing room.
In breaching the mandated silence about Zelya & the war, and the blandly vague sloganeering of "support, which all news-oriented shows parrot, Murdoch's empire is now sacrificing Project Ukraine on the altar of sealing an election win for DJT. It is possible to discern a newly rearranged pecking order in conservative corporate media: a Republican win in November is more important than Ukraine.
P.S. I posted this down-thread but wanted to give you a look-see since you addressed the topic
In 2004, The Guardian organized a campaign for Guardian readers (mostly British) to telephone Ohio residents to urge them to vote for Kerry in the upcoming US election. The campaign flopped, but nobody went around screaming about election interference, since Kerry was a candidate that people of influence and authority approved of.
Similarly, people of influence and authority want Harris and not Trump elected. That makes election interference okay!
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Zelya to fire his ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova.
The demand is part of the growing firestorm around Zelya's visit on Monday to the Scranton ammo factory, whose output primarily benefits Ukraine.
In Johnson's letter to Zelya, he emphasized that the House Oversight Cmte is now investigating this PR stunt because Zelya was flown in a U.S. air force jet to Scranton. Johnson's stance is that Zelya's ill-conceived visit to Scranton was "politically motivated."
as @posa said - Hamas is creation of Turkey and Qatar (another set of two 'peace loving nations' that arm and fund utter scum fanatics that took millions of people hostage in Gaza). They are Sunni and yes they actually fought Hezballah (who is Shia) on the side of Syrian civil war. US was funding Hamas and like forces as 'moderate Syrian opposition to Assad'
and Erdogan squawking about Ottoman history of 'protecting the innocent' - is he insane? Genocidal empire that brutally occupied vast territories from Africa to Middle East to Europe , 'peace loving nation' my $ss. Ask Serbs or Bulgarians or Greeks, or anyone in the Balkans on how 'peace loving' Ottoman Turkey was...
As for Hamas, yes Bibi was more than happy to fund them as an excuse to keep Gaza down and divide and conquer with the PA. I think he lost control of them though and now they’re doing their own thing.
or Israel never had control over them - they just used them to weaken Fatah hoping that enemies fighting each other would weaken both (as these factions were indeed fighting each other in street battles i think back in 2007). Both factions of 'palestinians' are just proxies, either for Egypt (Fatah) or Qatar/Turkey (Hamas) who have their own power struggles in 'Arab World' to deal with. Kedmi spoke of it at length of why this is a stupid policy by Israel, the only real way to remove Hamas is to let Fatah take over which means you WILL have to deal with PA and will have to find settlement...
You are right. Check out my article about Israel’s demise:
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewsurman/p/israels-race-to-the-abyss?r=2jrz7r&utm_medium=ios
"Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself to be the only country in the world that can literally bomb and invade all of its neighbors at will without serious international consequences."
Shouldn't be that surprising, Israel was able to get away with killing 34 U.S. sailors in the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.
Thanks to the CIA using the USS Liberty to funnel intelligence to their enemies (John McCain’s dad). Remember operation PaperClip and the Nazi’s getting access to US “Agencies” or are you just a Jew hating fool? Obviously not a Bible believer. For 27 centuries kings, nations and morons have tried to end the Israelites and their subset the Jewish people, and the Jews are here and the kingdoms are gone. Myths about the Jews “controlling” everything have arisen over all of the centuries which are absurd and generated by the forces that seek to destroy them, and who could they be?
Another Zionist cucked, hasbara spreading, shitcunt enters the chat.
Another ass
"Study the bible" LOL, that explains your delusions and ignorance.
I have extensively, perhaps you may need to actually read what Yahusha has said. But antisemitism is the same as the Amalekites. Look them up, you may learn something.
Jews aren't Semites. They are Caucasian pretenders adapting Judaism so they can murder people. OT is just wars and vanity.
What an evil apologist for the genocide in khazar occupied Palestine. You are proof of the problem in khazar controlled USSA.
Yep. Might as well study a comic book.
Pithy
As in: you’d like some more!?
I would love to have you as a guest at the Thanksgiving dinner table.🤩
I love Yahuah, serve Yahuah, if it His Will, so be it. The Blessings on Abraham, Isaac and Israel (Jacob) are absolute.
Nutcase!
Which part?
Вы заблуждаетесь.
https://drmathewmaavak.substack.com/p/of-jews-israel-blessings-and-curses
All covenants are predicated on righteousness.
$atan get thee back in the burning pit where thee do belong. And be quick about it!
Word.
They like to show up and “spread the word” when things are getting dire….kinda like a canary in a coal mine. Fear not Sweet Louis, here in the Garden will keep on worshiping the gilded tribe till the bitter end. Now go play in some traffic would’ya?
With any luck, their kingdom will be gone by October, 2025 and its denizens will return to what remains of Ukraine.
The world has suffered their endless crimes and cruelties too long. It's time.
Xi Jinping may be gone by then.
Explain why you think that even matters.
And the diabolically evil Nut'nyahoo will be roasting in the deepest pit in hell with his legions of talmudic demon$.
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Crests?
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USS Liberty was recording the Israeli army executing Egyptian PoW's in their tens of thousands. That could not be allowed.
Israel's Blitzkrieg of 1967 depended on taking no prisoners so as to advance to the Suez Canal as fast as possible. They are genocidal maniacs as we can witness in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. This genocidal streak did not start on October 7th. It has been like that since 1947.
Since even earlier. The sub-human animal ZioNAZi were assassinating and terrorising decades before '47
Their first father was Cain, the son of Lucifer and Eve, and we all know what he did.
I would be interested in learning more about this claim, is there some historical record online or written that I can get?
It is obvious. There was no return of Egyptian prisoners after the Israelis occupied all of Sinai. A whole Egyptian army disappeared. The Israelis occupied Sinai from 1967 to 1979.
Neither the military regime of Nasser nor the Israelis wanted to publicise what happened. The Egyptian media were completely under government control.
It is not obvious to me, which is why I asked for some data.
Search and ye shall find......
Go and look through newspapers of that era. You will never find any reference to negotiations between the Egyptians and Israelis about returning prisoners of war. That is because there were no prisoners.
Compare with what is going on at present between Russia and Ukraine. There are regular discussions and people like the Saudis or Emiratis act as intermediaries. Nothing of the sort happened in 1967. Go check for yourself and don't waste my time.
Lots of articles about this floating around. I am at work, otherwise I could post 10-20 articles about prisoner exchanges. wiki has a write up with links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_prisoner_exchanges
https://thewallwillfall.org/2022/07/17/israel-accused-of-torture-murder-and-concealment-of-egyptian-pow-bodies-in-1967/
Read the "Body Of Secrets" by James Bamford, first published in 2001. Israel is truly evil and is finally running out of hollow co$t credits as its wanton barbarity shocks even the most rabid philoZionaZi.
James Ennes' book, Assault on the Liberty, gives a slightly different reason for Israel's action. One can find the book online by doing a search for,
james ennes uss liberty pdf
The Egyptian government never told its population about execution of the POWs, or even the Cairo fires in the 50s was done by Egyptian geouze.
It sounds like you have let your ideology blind you to the realities of history: "For 27 centuries kings, nations and morons have tried to end the Israelites and their subset the Jewish people, and the Jews are here and the kingdoms are gone. "
That's not true, as for 20 of those 27 centuries there were no Israelites: Rome annihilated them and then there were no Israelites for 2000 years until Israel was created. It's an open question whether the new Israel will manage to exist for even a single century: I'm not taking sides, just stating the physical reality of what modern weapons can do.
Israel exists today only because it is a nuclear power. The physical effects of the nuclear weapons Israel has, and its willingness to use those weapons, deter its immediate enemies, all of which so far are only conventional military powers. But nuclear weapons are rapidly proliferating, averaging another new country every ten years or so declared or undeclared. Sooner or later an Islamic country will have both the few nukes (5 or 10) required to depopulate Israel as well as the willingness to use them. After all, Israel's population is very small. It's only about six million people, only five million of which are Jews, and those tend to be clustered in a few large cities.
Extremely destructive pathogens are also becoming easier to create: a graduate student working in a lab about the size of most kitchens with around $10K in standard, completely unexotic lab equipment can create new pathogens through gene splicing. Within 10 years the cost of that will be only $5K. Such "innovative" methods of mass killing should not be discounted by any supporter of Israel, given the precedent Israel has set with mass, indiscriminate killing of civilians in Lebanon using booby-trapped consumer devices. Israel's enemies can also "think outside the box," as they proved on 9/11 by striking Israel's main financier and enabler.
Given the extreme hatred Israel has generated within Islamic countries by its atrocities against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, it's only a matter of time before a nuclear armed Islamic country or a bioweapon-armed adversary (could be as small as a single individual) will attempt to depopulate Israel. Whether that happens and whether it succeeds or not before Israel celebrates its first 100 years of existence is anybody's guess, but it would be unrealistic to think that if Israel continues wars against everybody but Israel an attack which succeeds in significantly depopulating Israel will not occur sometime in the next 50 or so years. That's simply a consequence of a dramatic increase in access to the technology of mass killing coupled with the dramatic increase in hatred for Israel.
Will that eliminate all Jews throughout the world? Of course not, no more than Rome's elimination of Israel for 2000 years eliminated all Jews throughout the world. But Judaism as a religion is a very different thing than Israel as a sovereign country, again, as the Romans demonstrated 2000 years ago.
Jews throughout the world who want their own theocratic nation in the form of a continuing Israel and who do not want to spend the next 2000 years bewailing the glassy craters where Israel once stood should do their best to talk down the racist fanatics currently running Israel who seem bent on convincing the entire rest of the world that Israel must be destroyed. It's time to stop killing Palestinians and Lebanese and time to start building peaceful coexistence.
That may now be impossible, but Jews around the world who do not want to see Israel erased once again for many centuries should push as hard as they can to replace the current Israeli government of war criminals with sensible, pro-peace leaders.
Are there any sensible leaders.
There have been a few in past years in Israel. Right now I'm so overwhelmed by the evil of the current government that none of those past sensible leaders come to mind, but I recall there were a few.
Their goals were unchanged but they were wiser than the current leadership there. Netanyahu has gone full retard. You never go full retard.
World leaders crave American carrot and fear American stick.
For its part, American politicians crave Israeli carrot and fear Israeli stick.
Brilliant!
Murican carrot is limp and soggy, Murican stick snapped off at the base.
One of them as assassinated….
Would a sensible person take charge of such a mess?
El Salvadore
"Israel's enemies can also 'think outside the box,' as they proved on 9/11 by striking Israel's main financier and enabler."
Ummmm, 9/11 was a Mossad operation.
They shall dance again.
As was the JFK assassination.
Very confused messaging here.
Firstly, of course, it was jews themselves behind the destruction of the Twin Towers ( plus Building 7 ) of course - as witnessed by the zero members of their species who turned up to work that day - and most of us apart from you seem to know about the "jewish art students" who were first arrested and then deported, and their high-fiving and filming of the event, which they seemed to have prior knowledge of.
The "theocratic nation" some of them apparently want should be viewed in the context of who their god actually is - not YHVH Whom they murdered, but Lucifer who is their father, according to the One Who should best know.
Their "theocracy" involves them planning the mass extermination of the white race, which is actually who the Chosen People are.
"When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him"
Proverbs 16:7 KJV
According to tradition that was written by King Solomon, Israel's greatest King. Renowned across the ancient world for his great wisdom, he built the great temple of Jerusalem, opened diplomatic economic and cultural relations with other nations and ruled in peace for forty years.
How much of that does Isreal have now?
They haven't had forty years of peace, they haven't even had 10, they have been bombing and blasting Syria for 10 years and Gaza for more than 20. They have assassinated diplomats as far away as Persia and probably much further than that.
While Soloman received rich gifts from the Queen of Sheba, Israel today receives hypersonic and ballistic missiles from the Persians and the Yemenis. What Solomon achieved 27 centuries ago with camels and donkeys modern Israel cannot achieve today with F-35s and atomic warheads.
I must agree with Solomon on this matter, the path that brings peace is pleasing to the LORD. Subsequent logical deduction also teaches me that if you are constantly engaged in warfare with everyone around you then your path has NOT pleased the LORD.
In summary there is NO biblical justification for this constant madness and bloodshed
The state of israel is a british entity going back to freemason lord palmerston who said the jews need to return to the levant 😂😂🤣🤣, which was news to the European jews Now what do we know about the englishman 🧐🤔
The englishman is a looter 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Australia was first peopled by petty english looters🤣🤣, currently the upper englishman is seething and frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog at the progress of Russia against OoOkraine (who in 2023 had 87000 civilian births and 250000 deaths ) shows what is happening in Ookrania.
I’ll leave you with a thought-provoking quote I came across from the German philosopher and Russophile Walter Schubart. What do you think, any truth to his generalizations?
Western European man views life as a slave whose neck he has stepped on... He does not look with devotion at the sky, but, full of lust for power, looks down at the earth with evil, hostile eyes. Russian people are obsessed not with the will to power, but with a feeling of reconciliation and love. He is filled not with anger and hatred, but with the deepest trust in the essence of the world. He sees in man not an enemy, but a brother.” An Englishman wants to see the world as a factory, a Frenchman as a salon, a German as a barracks, a Russian as a church. The Englishman wants loot, the Frenchman wants glory, the German wants power, the Russian wants sacrifice. The Englishman wants to profit from his neighbor, the Frenchman wants to impress his neighbor, the German wants to command his neighbor, but the Russian doesn’t want anything from him.👈😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 He does not want to turn his neighbor into his means.👈 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣This is the brotherhood of the Russian heart and the Russian idea.👈👍👏👏🧐 And this is the Gospel of the future. The Russian all-man is the bearer of a new solidarity. Promethean man is already doomed to death(Hermes to Prometheus “You’ve gone MAD” hence the madness of the west ). The era of John's man is coming - a man of love and freedom. This is the future of the Russian people. The West is driven by unbelief, fear and selfishness; The Russian soul is driven by faith, peace and brotherhood. That is why the future belongs to Russia…”👍👏👉🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇱👉🚮👍👏🛎️🛎️🛎️
Shut up Jew.
"Myths about the Jews 'controlling' everything have arisen over all of the centuries which are absurd and generated by the forces that seek to destroy them"
Hmmm, yeah, I'm sure it's a total coincidence that across many centuries and many nations, Jews are accused of the SAME THINGS: economic exploitation, double-dealing, pushing decadence and depravity, etc. Sure, sure, everyone was just making these things up! I mean, in Weimar Germany Jews weren't totally exploiting and bleeding dry the defeated German nation while owning nearly everything which they bought for pennies after the wart. No, no, no, they were simple little haberdashers with corner shops.
Sure Jews have been kicked out of nations again and again, and for no reason at all! Sure Jews are RIGHT NOW behind the Ukraine war and the flooding of Western nations with third world riff raff, but hey, that's for our own good! Tikkun baloney!
Funny how the claims of pogroms and atrocities committed against them they never want to talk about the root cause. We always get their version of the story that tends to conflict with the evidence.
They don't want to talk about it because, despite the fact that they have everything, they miss 1 basic commodity: a mirror.
Indeed.............I think they fear the see through mirror as in "we see through you."
That is a good point. I was actually thinking of them trying to have a serious look at themselves and analyze why what has happened to them through the ages.
Henry Kissinger: "Any people who has been persecuted for 2000 years must be doing something wrong."
He also stated: "If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic."
Samuel Roth (1893–1974), U.S. publisher and writer: "There is not a single instance when the Jews have not fully deserved the bitter fruit of the fury of their persecutors."
Yes, "claims".
"Sure I've been evicted over a hundred times, but it's always been the landlords' fault!"
That war was yet another time Israel put the entire planet in danger.
What exactly do the Jews in America "not" control?
If the Jews are still here despite the kingdoms gone, then the Jews must have something to survive that way. There's only 1 thing that can achieve that: money.
Now they control all the Western governments and parliament, all the media, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Everything Else. And you call Jews controlling everything a myth? Who do you think you are kidding?
1 thing is sure: no one, absolutely no one, is trying to destroy the Jews. In fact, as per their usual projection, it is the other way around, in line with the Talmud.
https://jacksongunnbarrett.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-influence-of-jewish?utm_source=publication-search
Trying to make some money for your hubby, hey? Go somewhere else, I am not interested.
Zionist arguments invariably boil down to "might is right!"
Except when Jews are victims. Then, Victimhood Is A License To Commit Crimes, Forever.
The influence Israeli wealth
Obtains, for Israel’s sake, by stealth
Over our arts and politics – in years
Of peace unseen – in war too plain appears,
When gentile blood is weighed with jewish tears.
https://jacksongunnbarrett.substack.com/p/jewish-tears?utm_source=publication-search
"For 27 centuries kings, nations and morons have tried to end the Israelites and their subset..."
In geopolitics, we don't talk about mythical kingdoms or imaginary political entities.
I've read it cover to cover multiple times, and it's chock-full to the brim of God being mighty angry with the Israelites for their wickedness, and foresaking them when they foresake righteousness. The covenant God made with the children of Abraham, like all covenants God makes, are dependent on the children keeping their side of the bargain. Why do you think God allowed them to be destroyed by Rome and scattered to the ends of the earth? Because of their wickedness. Their stiff-neckedness and pride rejected His Only Begotten Son, because any Jew of pure and honest heart would have been touched by the Holy Spirit and converted. The apostles and their brethren were instructed "first to the Jew, then to the Gentile" and any who chose to hold on to their 'traditions' has rejected Christ, and rejecting The Son is rejecting The Father. The end.
Whatever. I was actually sympathetic to Jewish people growing up and learning about the Holocaust. Guess what? Your people's barbarity has made me a proud Anti-Semit. So fuck off and get the hell out of my country you piece of shit. We don't need your apartheid, we dont need your immorality and corruption, and we sure as hell don't need your genocide of the oppressed people of Palestine.
It's a rabid dog.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-07-09/ty-article/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine/0000017f-e080-d7b2-a77f-e3870e1c0000
Israeli policy is almost identical to US policy, except that it is even more shameless and blatant - because "Israelis" have defined themselves as perpetual automatic victims, who therefore could never possibly do anything wrong.
Andy Singer's brilliant cartoon, as usual, is worth a million words:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtqrht8WPuA/VjvLK-yAHHI/AAAAAAAACYA/h0Gzh-zYWNA/s1600/21319_600.jpg
Israel has gone completely insane and should be abolished as a country. The same is true of "ukraine". The US is trending strongly toward insanity. I am an older American and I don't give one shit what happens to my own country. It's rotten.
I completely agree, Saint Jimmy. Indeed, neither "Israel" nor Ukraine should ever have been accepted as a sovereign nation. The only reason "Israel" was allowed to exist was that nations like the USA were also colonial, created over the dead bodies of the indigenous people. Americans cannot accept that "Israel" has no right to exist, because by exactly the same token the USA has no right to exist either.
There is also the money. Apparently Jewish people magnetically attract huge amounts of cash, which gives them immense power. And they stick together, which most nations don't.
I have never understood how Ukraine was ever allowed to secede. If Abraham Lincoln had been in Moscow, running the USSR, the rebels would have been bloodily smashed in 1991.
If only it ended in 1967.
Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akhleh, and Aysenour Eygi all were US citizens, murdered with impunity by Israel in recent months.
EDIT: Rachel Corrie was murdered in 2005, I think. Regardless, it's not as if the US did anything about it.
Does the meme, "Netanyahu and his cabinet must go to save Israel!" They are evil, pariah, racist bigots bent on genocide.
I can understand zelensky. He accepted to put Ukraine into the firing line in 2022 against western promises of victory. And so when he goes round the world demanding the moon and sky, he is only asking for what he was promised.
Zelensky doesn't have much agency in this beyond fighting the war for internal power inside Ukraine.
What comes out of his mouth is directly scripted by his Western masters.
It was never a war between Ukraine and Russia, it is a war of aggression by NATO against Russia using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and as a platform for attack. You still see people failing to understand that simple truth to this day.
Once you stop thinking about Ukraine and look at the map as if it was 1941, 1942 or 1943, you realize that we are in a repeat of Operation Barbarossa and the front lines are very deep inside what should be Russian territory. But unlike Hitler, his modern-day descendants have nukes and long-range PGMs, so a war of attrition does not guarantee a win at all...
Nothing makes sense unless one takes the above as a priori fact…. Once you do, things fall into place rather nicely.
For instance: The AFU would have sued for some kind of peace long ago based solely on attrition and “common sense”. But because they are controlled by non-Ukrainians who case less of they die en masse, the meat grinder continues ….
Then he is truly a moron.
The Second Front (beyond Ukraine)
Ist Front-military
Russia will emerge victorious on its military front and will establish its buffer zone from NATO while accumulating resource-rich territory to add to its stockpile. NEO-NUTSO (NATO) sent its proxy AFU forces on a bear hunt with knives and forks not realizing that they had to take down the bear first. Now it's just a matter of time before the fall of Ukraine unless the US-backed coalition of the unwilling invade Ukraine to win hearts and minds with tanks and troops. It's the NEO way. The NUTSOs will lose that one too on Russia's home turf. The score is now Russia 1 Neos 0. Tell the gringo NEOs where they went wrong, Tuco. Tuco says:https://youtu.be/QReisbS28Kc?t=7310
The Second Front-Political and Economic Warfare
Donald Trump spilled the beans about the NEOS's next tactic to keep its USD hegemon in a comment:
Trump leaked out US foreign policy going ahead by saying at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, “I hate when countries go off the dollar…. I’ll say, ‘You leave the dollar, you’re not doing business with the United States, because we’re going to put 100% tariff on your goods” (here). Washington will expect India to slow down the ‘de-dollarisation’ process on the BRICS platform.
The report goes on to say " It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. Make no mistake, Americans will use it to pressure India." The US plans to intimidate countries into picking a side like you're either with us or against us, (standard cliche) and force them to trade in dollars or face the consequences. Russia will find out who are the friendly nations and who are not. Playing the middle just won't cut it anymore. The US is going on the attack to hold its USD hegemon. India is already under pressure now and it will be interesting to see how this battle plays out to determine the next world order.
The day before Modi met w/ Joe & the Quad members [ plus President Blinken ], the White House hosted the dissident Sikh movement that has come more to the fore since June of 2023 when Justin accused Modi's government of trying to assassinate one of the Sikh members in Canada--a few months after that, NYC filed charges against a Modi-supportive Indian national for trying to carry out an assassination in Manhattan.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
When the U.S. needs to pressure an *ally* back into line, the juice is always worth the squeeze even if they are squeezing a turnip
Denis, you must get a hobby LOL
This is a little hobby, amigo. lol
Tiny punctuation marks like . birth great ideas
It is permatrolls now, as always whenever Gaza
Sans moi
I hear the engines of doomerism revving
Excellent observation, cheetos. C'est la magique. Not too much gets by you I see. lol
Now make it into a haiku
"You leave the dollar, you’re not doing business with the United States, because we’re going to put 100% tariff on your goods" - Good luck with that, Donald. With 100% tariffs on Chinese goods Americans will have to learn to live without TVs, telephones, car parts, home appliances, electric power (the grid depends on Chinese built gear), Internet, air travel, and most other things Americans can't live without.
I believe you understand that what Trump says is not tethered to any fixed reality. He does what he needs to do in a given situation. This is why I don't watch him speak, it's pointless. You're not going to divine any real insight from most of what he says. There are a few things I suppose, but not much. Putin vs Trump is a very interesting contrast.
I agree, he is impossible to watch, but so are most of the Western politicians of today.
I have stopped listening to our "leaders" for quite some time now, I get too irate and I want to sleep at night.
I'll give Trump props for being entertaining if you don't bother treating anything he says as truthful. I went to a rally in 2016 and when taken as stand-up comedy, it was hilarious. Pointing at the news people set up behind me and calling them the most untruthful people in the world, talking about Hillary's stamina, etc etc. Might as well be Dice Clay.
Good thing Trump never follows through on anything he "promises", innit?
Oh, give me some hope and consider Canada in that 'accumulation' of resource rich countries.
That would attract too much attention from the US turning Canada into a war zone, Gisela. Canada, being possibly the world's largest resource-rich country is best kept secret. lol
You are right, of course, we are being milked every second of every day by our brotherly neighbor to the south.
Better milked some than bombed, I suppose.
Would the US really shit where it eats, they would ultimately destroy their fresh water source plus all of it's future natural resources.
You do realize your brotherly neighbor to the south is getting milked right along with you, right? The creatures running things in the West are not Westerners.
I got bad news, India will choose the US.
If you know Indians, you know I am right. They love the US.
"The problem: Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi immediately refuted the above quote attributed to the president, claiming it’s fake:"
Apparently the US isn't the only nation held hostage by whichever intern controls the president's twitter account. I'm reminded of the power held by the guy who carried the piss bucket for the French Kings.
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Re: Israel as special case-
Don't forget that they still illegally occupy Syrian territory, the Golan Heights. This territory was taken in 1967.
to be fair, English kings also had a similar servant :)
𝗜'𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀
Try finding the toilets at Versailles or Fontainebleau.
We are in the preliminary stages of the war. Nothing significant has happened yet, except that the war has started. The pager and walkie-talkie fiasco was embarrassing but not a significant blow. The victims were part of Hezbollah’s civil infrastructure. Hezbollah’s military technical communication network, when they use it, is fiberoptic. The assassinations of Hezbollah’s leadership are sad but relatively insignificant. They were old guys in their sixties and seventies. Yes, they were heroes but they’ve trained a multitude of senior officers and these officers have had extensive experience in Syria. Their system is based on martyrdom with multi-layer back-up and discrete pre-programed cells, very difficult to disrupt. The effectiveness of Israel's bombing remains to be seen. All Hezbollah’s advanced weaponry is deep (80-90 meters) underground courtesy of North Korea, the world's experts. So far all they’ve used are unguided rockets. Their purpose is to deplete the iron dome. If a bunch get shot down, fine, they’re cheap and have done their job. Hezbollah will give the refugees time to clear out, so for the next few days expect more of the same: bombing, refugees and rockets. After some days the rockets will multiply to deplete the iron dome. Then the real war starts—hundreds of highly accurate guided ballistic missiles, with rockets, drones and cruise missiles thrown in for cover and confusion. The targets will be military and military infrastructure--not civilians. Most Israeli "casualties" treated at hospitals thus far injured themselves falling when running to shelters or require psychological comforting. And who knows what the Iraqis, Syrians and Houthis have in store? At this point things are unfolding more or less predictably. Neither side has demonstrated a significant advantage. Hezbollah doesn't want or need Iran's direct involvement. Iran will be the last domino to fall, and only if it is seriously attacked. Everyone knows if Iran gets serious the world's oil is turned off and the West's economies collapse. The Axis can likely handle both Israel and the US without Iran. Stay tuned.
One should hope so, but until now, Arab countries have done NOTHING to respond to Israel genocide in Gaza and probably will do NOTHING again to respond to the invasion in Lebanon. It's hard to understand but unfortunately very real.
How can a billion Muslims, living in the region, witness the atrocities committed on their people without even lifting a finger? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, etc. The only people to have some balls seem to be in Yemen.
𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮
Sun Tzu: "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
Jordanian recent elections had large gains for pro-Palestinian parties. A new government is going to be formed. Small stuff I know, but I keep hoping that Egypt, Türkiye or Jordan might take action
Jordan is a solid western imperial stronghold thanks to its puppet anglo monarchs.
The King of Jordan Abdullah II bin al-Hussein once appear on an episode of Star Trek, true story.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Abdullah_bin_al-Hussein
"Abdullah's cameo was arranged as a surprise for him by his US advisor. The prince – who, at the time of his cameo, was thirty-four years old – enthused, "I would have been thrilled just to visit the set but this is too much."
Now that is some soft power.
"How can a billion Muslims, living in the region, witness the atrocities committed on their people without even lifting a finger?" There are two key factors:
First, they are not a unified "people." Read the history of the region and it's a history of constant fighting between different Islamic factions. They all have their own problems and most are not willing to make them worse by trying to help the Palestinians. The only exception is Ansar Allah in Yemen. That despite their poverty the Houthis are willing to put it all on the line to try to save the Palestinians, asking nothing at all for themselves, is extraordinarily impressive.
Second, they're all deterred by Israel's nuclear arsenal. What are they going to do against Israel? Go to war? Israel will nuke their armies and their capitals and they all know that nobody in the world will lift a finger to censure Israel or to help the victims. Again, the exception is Ansar Allah. There are people who say the Houthis are that way because they have nothing to lose, but I believe that that's wrong: they have their lives and those of their families and their children to lose, and still they do what they can to save the Palestinians.
Good comments. I have been wondering how the logistics work hoisting a ballistic missile weighing a few tons from 100m deep to setting it up on a launcher, all under the ISR umbrella. Harder still if the entrances are all rubble. Fun job to dig out the rubble (by hand?) with some unexploded ordinance or cluster munitions around you so that will take weeks/months. IF they still have thousands of cool missiles underground I expect allot will stay there for the time being so don't expect some shower of rockets anytime soon. So with that option it seems played, I guess they lose all initiative and get pounded for their troubles. As for the Houthis, they are paying a price. Redirecting millions to fire missiles that get shot down is money they are not spending on education, food, infant mortality - but with a rabid dog on the loose, if if they build stuff for their people how long before its destroyed, so i kind of get it.
" Second, they're all deterred by Israel's nuclear arsenal. What are they going to do against Israel? Go to war? Israel will nuke their armies and their capitals and they all know that nobody in the world will lift a finger to censure Israel or to help the victims. "
If your theory is correct, Why isnt anyone seemingly deterred by Russia's far larger arsenal of nukes then ?
There are two reasons. First, the Arab countries surrounding Israel can defeat and destroy Israel in conventional war. But there are no countries that can defeat and destroy Russia in conventional war. Israel has to use nukes to survive but Russia doesn't. The West knows that.
Second, the people Israel are deterring are sane while Western leaders who believe in their own propaganda for morons are delusional or deeply corrupt.
Israel has nukes and is willing to use them against the Arab (and Persian) countries that are their enemies. They are also backed by the US and can use their nukes with impunity against other countries. None of the non-US vassal nuclear powers (Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea) will nuke Israel if Israel strikes Arab countries because they're not willing to lose a dozen of their largest cities to an Israeli response. The non-US vassal nuclear powers are run by rational people who are not willing to see their countries destroyed.
In contrast, the West is run by deeply delusional, dysfunctional, or corrupt leaders. The West isn't deterred by Russia's far larger arsenal of nukes because they believe that even if they attack Russia, Russia will not use nukes. That's the price of having extremely badly educated fools in power in the West.
Fair enough, but the side willing to use the weapons it has will win, moralizing aside. Even if the US / Israel doesnt succeed they wont allow the other side to win, if you understand, so the nukes will fly no matter what.
"a billion Muslims" are massively outgunned. (1) The USA is still by far the strongest military power in the world, and its government is under effective Israeli control; (2) Israel has nukes and is irresponsible enough to use them.
Disagree on the Israeli first use. They know they are doomed upon that first use. Samson is for when the state is about to be overrun ala 1973.
Good point! The zionists are definitely crazy enough to use nukes even if that results i their total defeat down the line. Rabid
What are you smoking? The US hasn't been the strongest military power in several decades. They were defeated in Afghanistan by stone aged goat herders that had zero air force or even artillery and the majority of their weapons were 1940s technology.
Because Muslim leaders like their whiskey, their shiny western toys, their western-equipped armies, their westen bank accounts and investments, their trophy properties in London and Milan. They also fear American reprisals, military and otherwise.
The exception are the Houthis, whose leaders have none of these things, and consequently, the Houthis have nothing to lose and no fucks to give.
wait until the suicide bombers get up and running :)
They are currently all organizing themselves in Western Europe!
Whenever, if ever, the supply of Iron Dome missiles ends there will be interesting times ahead.
Iron Dome: what's that? I know of the Iron Sieve, but the Iron Dome? Nahhh, that is a myth, a specialization of ZioNaziland.
I agree it is early days, but I don't buy this at all: "All Hezbollah’s advanced weaponry is deep (80-90 meters) underground courtesy of North Korea, the world's experts."
I think Hezbollah had much fewer weapons than most people thought, and that the recent Israeli strikes have been very effective in destroying many of those weapons. Hezbollah has been very ineffective in its rocket attacks on Israel. If they do have significant numbers of more advanced weapons the way to use them is in a saturation attack, where waves of cheapo unguided rockets deplete the missiles currently loaded into iron dome launchers, and then more advanced weapons take advantage of those empty launchers to strike their targets.
But that hasn't happened. Using up cheapo missiles without an immediate follow up is largely wasting those missiles, because it gives the defenders time to reload the iron dome launchers. If your long term strategy is to use up *all* of Israel's iron dome defensive missiles that's a hard sell, but if you attempt that it's foolish not to take advantage of the temporary breaks you can achieve in the iron dome down time between reloads.
Hezbollah shows all signs of being disorganized and led by people with very little tech savvy. They may excel at grinding out ground wars if Israel's ground forces invade Lebanon, but they've not been very good at using technology to take the war to Israel. Failing to achieve effective strikes on Israeli cities or military installations despite claims they have "hundreds of thousands" of missiles is an example of that.
One could make an argument that making Israel expend ordnance on Lebanon is a victory in and of itself.
First of all i would be very careful believing israeli reports on damage inflicted on ammo dumps or even hezbollah fighters. They have been exchanging fire for the past year, why would it not make sense to store most of their weapons beyond israeli reach? Its basic logic
"why would it not make sense to store most of their weapons beyond israeli reach?" There are no parts of Lebanon beyond Israeli reach.
Locating sophisticated weapons, like the large missiles required to strike deep into Israel or to intercept Israel's fighter/bombers, deep underground seems to be beyond the organizational skills and financial resources of Hezbollah. Iran can pull that off but it appears Hezbollah was not able to do that.
As they demonstrated in Gaza and are now demonstrating in Lebanon, Israel is very good at executing hundreds, if not thousands, of air strikes per day. They are being supplied with massive amounts of ordnance by the US and they are using that ordnance effectively. They're very good at what they do and their brute force strategy that does not give a hoot about civilian casualties can effectively reduce to rubble entire cities.
Sure, Hezbollah has taken huge hits i a short period of time, Israel has huge advantage with its airpower, ISR, possibly deeply imbeded spies in to the very structures of their enemy. Tog early to call it though, the game is just starting, Israel would be fool to underestimate Hezbollah, im sure they still have plenty of firepower left
Israel and the west on a whole control the information space they get to declare who are terrorists and who are saintly good people. So Hezbollah has to always consider escalation management as no matter how badly or genocidal they are attacked by Israel the least attack by Hezbollah can be spun as a senseless act of terrorism to the western population.
Israel is basically South Vietnam, South Korea, the Iraqi or Afghan western trained armies. They fight a very expensive conflict that today not even the US can hardly afford. Every cheap Hezbollah rocket that goes up attracts 2-3 expensive interceptor missile to ensure a successful intercept and with the dwindling Israeli economy those are making Israel even poorer. The human cost of this conflict has been very high but much less than Israeli nuclear strikes on major Muslim population centers. Israel will not die by one stroke but from thousands of smaller cuts from small movements denying Israel it's ability to strike actual nation states. The western financial system keeps Israel financed but what will happen if this source of finance is affected by being side lined by the global majority? The rich gulf states are integral to the western financial system they don't need to fight Israel militarily when they can weaken the west economically.
> ... recent Israeli strikes have been very effective in destroying many of those weapons.
Got any evidence or are you relying on "israel's" reports?
> Hezbollah has been very ineffective in its rocket attacks on Israel.
Sure, except for those on the Rafael military industrial complex, Mossad's headquarters, and Unit 8200's headquarters.
I admit, Hezbollah's attacks on civilian targets have been very ineffective for the simple reason that, unlike the ZioNazi "soldiers" who preferably target defenceless civilians, Hezbollah avoids those.
> Hezbollah shows all signs of being disorganized and led by people with very little tech savvy.
How so? A disorganized group would not have been able to defeat the ZioNazi "army", as admitted publicly by a former ZioNazi "defense" minister and 2 generals.
That was in 2006 when Hezbollah looked like a group of schoolchildren compared with Hezbollah in 2024.
Your statements are clearly pulled out of hat, and you have been let down by your hasbara masters.
Riding the Zelensky delulu bus, just before his glow-up @ the UN:
The New Yorker magazine has been a booster of Ukraine since before the SMO commenced--and keep in mind too that CIA plants have populated the editorial masthead since the 1950s. Since 2019, Department of Homeland Security consultants also write alongside those CIA plants, plus professional propagandists from the Global Engagement Center. As far as propaganda goes, TheNYer consistently slings world-class propaganda. Where Bloomberg’s propaganda is the Busch Light variety, as is CNN's, TheNYer’s is champagne calibre.
Joshua Yaffa’s sit-down in Kiev on behalf of TheNYer took place just prior to Zelya’s blockbuster tour of the U.S. & the interview was commensurately fawning of the guy who made the olive-drab t-shirt globally iconic, a guy “who has weaponized the force of his personality in a thoroughly modern form of warfare.” Still Yaffa was willing to express a measure ofskepticism: “the war, now in its third year, cannot be won on Zelensky’s talents alone.”
Incredibly, The NYer article was reasonably accurate in its run-down of Ukraine’s battlefield deficit—the “fizzled” counteroffensive from summer 2023, the dearth of mobilized recruits & “an erosion in public trust in Zelensky himself.” I’ve checked in w/ The NYer pretty regularly since February 2022 & this week's issue is a nadir of truth telling for the mag.
Though Yaffa writes of Zelensky that “he maintains the pose of a man who believes he can still bend history in his favor,” Yaffa is most decidedly not saying Zelya is in fact able to do so. Here's a nugget rich w/ read-between-the-lines possibilities: “He is a discursive speaker, sometimes hard to pin down, but unfailingly focused on one overarching message: "Ukraine is fighting a war not only w/ Western backing but on behalf of the West.”
Yaffa took pains to allow Zelya’s comments to stand on their own, no matter the crazy elements, thus permitting an informed reader to judge for himself. For instance, Zelya’s victory plan “does not require the Russians to cooperate to succeed. Rather, the plan spells out what our partners can do *without* Russia’s participation. Our plan’s implementation depends only on us and our partners.”
Faced w/ doubts among the American public for continuing support of the war, Zelya said, “Ukraine has done everything possible to keep America *out* of this war, actually.” Zelya magnanimously boasted that Ukraine has “shielded America from total war.” In a flight of mesmeric fabulation, Zelya said, “With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand.”
Yaffa seems to have tokenly raised Zelya’s ire by inquiring about the way the Kiev regime has dragooned all broadcast news in Ukraine to deliver information “in a coordinated manner,” to which Zelya clapped back: “Journalists in Ukraine decided to join forces [w/ the govt] in order to combat Russian disinformation.” And he insisted that “they are free to write what they want.”
Winding down the interview, Yaffa asked if Zelya had noticed whether he had changed over the lengthy course of the war or not, a question which Zelya parried—but Yaffa persisted & Zelya said, “Perhaps I’ve become less emotional. There’s simply no time for that. Just like there’s no time for reasoned discourse and arguments.”
'Reason' was not exactly evident in Zelya's responses to Yaffa's questions. Calibrated to appear splashily during the week that Zelya hits the UN's mainstage, the interview communicates a sense of doomed foreboding. It reinforces what S writes in this SitRep regarding the U.S.'s small mincing steps to edge warily away from Project Ukraine.
The photo accompanying the interview makes Zelya look bruised, as after a beating.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/volodymyr-zelensky-has-a-plan-for-ukraines-victory
Is there a more easily brainwashed group than the British public? No just recently but for centuries.
the american?
been going on since at least the Crimean War, bruh
Something very wrong is happening in the UK at the moment. The echochamber bubble the politicians and police chiefs in London have wrapped themselves up in is dangerous. Not only have they convinced themselves their own population is a right wing mob to be arrested for complaining on Facebook about mass migration, but they have also convinced themselves that Putin is a Bond film baddie out to destroy civilisation and Britain's role is to defeat this tyrant. The closer you get to people at the top in the UK the more you hear ideas coming from a position divorced from reality.
The City of London syndicate has demanded this crackdown, and the UK political class jumped to obey, instantly forgetting their divisions and differences. And casually tossing Britain's vaunted political freedoms out of the window.
The Brit politicians are even more Jew controlled than those in the jewSA. Churchill was example #1
They're still sippping the thin gruel of empire. Tiny England. These imperial wannabes probably start their days rereading Kipling. Sad, no?! The Brits live yet another day thanks to the Christian charity of the Russians. But, patience has its limits. FAFO.
If only. Kipling would have taught them something. I'd imagine they read the Fabian Manifesto.
The inbred stupid English elites thought mass immigration would save their crappy little country but it has turned it into a gigantic ghetto. I can't stop laughing. Hopefully, it descends into violent chaos soon.
The Finns, perhaps. They were having the best of both worlds, stably neutral, with long-established good will from their powerful neighbor. But their public opinion has been hijacked with astounding ease into ruining that neutrality, wrecking their profitable trade exchange with Russia, and putting themselves, senselessly, at the brink of war with a superpower---for what? And yet they mostly support their government in its catastrophically suicidal course of action.
Perhaps. But it is pretty much a given that the reason their atlanticist leadership quickly rammed the changes through without a (probably technically required) referendum was because they knew it wouldn’t pass. Of course, the citizenry will suffer unrelenting propaganda, so as in Ukraine the public opinion may be gradually shifted towards more Russophobia…but the rest of the EU, which has been on that train longer, is in such dire economic condition that it’s going to be a bit harder to BS the Finn populace.
Ukrainian public opinion has been shifted towards Russophobia within the last 10 years tho
Only in a few hard core nazi centers like around Lvov. Other Ukrainians, like the millions who fled to Russia, who live in Crimea or the other four new provinces, or the Ukrainians refusing to leave Kharkov, Pokrovsk and so many other places and instead patiently waiting for Russia to liberate them are solidly with Russia.
Yes, ten years of hard core nazi rule and killing of anybody who opposed their narrative has had an impact, especially on the kids who were brainwashed by the total nazi propaganda in schools in those parts of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime. But it looks like many of them will either die or will run away to hard core Russophobia centers like Poland or other EU countries when the Kiev regime is destroyed by Russia.
Perhaps they'll die then in the EU when Russia settles scores, perhaps not, but either way, Russia doesn't give a hoot about them. It's too focused on helping people who want to be friends with Russia.
The Finns looked up from their pints long enough to conclude that there's a future in fucking with the Russians. The dumb fucks. A very small violin plays for them.
1939 all over again
Definitely Americans. Dumbest people on the planet when it comes to being fooled by propaganda for morons.
It's not the propaganda, it's the bread and circuses. Give them food and sports and most people couldn't care less about foreign affairs.
Rural America ("flyover country") is riddled with armed militias who aren't buying the propaganda. So you could overestimate its effectiveness.
There certainly do seem to be very deep divisions over national identity and national direction in the US.
As an Amerikkkan! I approve of this message(unfortunately).
>A new WaPo article again confirms what we’ve been writing for weeks—read very carefully:
We read it. They might have very few conventional ATACMs to make a difference, but they clearly have more than enough nuclear-tipped JASSMs to begin destroying Russia's strategic objects.
And they already started doing it, which, if you were an objective analysis, you would have honestly reported on.
>Meanwhile, controversial Rada MP Mariana Bezuglaya says Russia plans five major ‘bridgeheads’ for this fall, including Zaporozhye city, Dnipro, Kharkov, Kherson, and Sumy:
Three years too late...
The Ukrainian proxy had to be completely eliminated with utmost, Great-Patriotic-War-level urgency, in the shortest amount of time, so that we didn't get to the point where NATO could launch nukes into Russia behind its back.
But we are past this point now and the front lines are not only nowhere close to the Polish border, they are inside Russia itself.
Because oligarch profits and "what is the rest of the world going to think of us" were more important considerations than the survival of the state...
**Furious flapping of wings...running wildly about in circles..."Woe is us! Woes is us!...Dear God!
The sky is falling!"**
Yeah I am very skeptical that Russia will fire tactical nukes on Ukraine should it strike with long range ATACMs within Russia. Russia promised hellfire for Kursk and all we got was a finger wagging instead.
I suspect that the West will eventually accede to Ukrainian demands because 1) they haven't said no to Ukraine yet and 2) because they will do provocations to test the waters, see no response from Russia and then realize its a bluff.
On the Iran situation: the commentator makes an interesting point but he misses the big picture. Israel is not the priority he’s right. But turning Sunni lands into Shia is the misdirection.
Sunni lands will never become Shia. North Africa will never become Shia. Neither will most countries in the Arab peninsula.
The hint for me was when he complained about Hizbollah stopping the “Free Syrian Army”. We all know who these people are.
Arab countries are weary of Iran. Not because Iran wants to take over their lands and turn them Shia. No.
They are weary because, unlike them, Iran has more degrees of freedom and is more advanced technologically than they are. As such, they have influence. Iran is a problem for them because it is what they were 70 years ago.
Now they are impotent and so every time Iran stands up for Palestine against Israel or the West it reminds them of their impotence. Prime example: Erdogan and Sisi.
On a more political note, it embarrasses them in front of their populations and they fear the instability.
The Arab countries were never "advanced technologically", esp more so than the ancient Iranian civilisation. They were always scattered people with inter-tribal rivalries that always (and still do) get in the way of their advancement and unity. I think the closest they ever got to real advancement was prior to and during the Ottoman period. The Shiites do not seem to share that aspect of character. As for forcing Sunnis into Shias, I don't believe such a thought ever enters Shia minds.
Some countries (like Egypt) still have a well educated population although not the majority. They don’t have significant original research but some. If you speak to someone from Egypt or Syria or Lebanon or Iraq who lived through the 50s they would tell you it was wonderful. Something seemed to have changed in 1948 and 1967 in the region 😉
The tribal rivalries are mostly in modern day Libya which Gaddafi had kept in check but we all know what happened. They are also in the Arab peninsula, which you should not confuse with the near east and levant or with North Africa in general.
Still, currently the most advanced country in the ME is Iran and they don’t like it. But it’s not Iran’s fault and they would do well to tone down the anti-Iran propaganda and cooperate instead.
Israel is an out of control killing machine! Enabled and supported unconditionally by USA, LAPDOG BRITAIN, AND SUBMISSIVE, OBEDIENT ALLIES. Ukraine is on NATO life support. When will they pull the plug?
They won't. It is often said that they have no reverse gear.
If they just run their obsolete behemoth in the ground it might not be a win, but it’s also no great loss…..for them that is…Bonus for bring epic suffering on the Great Unwashed.
The West's main problem is economic. The West will not pull the plug as long as the benefits of economic stimulus outweigh the perceived price or risks. This will probably change under Trump if he wins, as he understands the risks and is war averse.
I'm not sure UK is the lapdog. The invisible real masters of both, US and UK, are probably based in UK.
I believe you are correct.
Not that I think Belarus (or Russia) should have been excluded from Eurovision or the Olympics, but calling what is happening in Lebanon an "actual holocaust" is a bit much. There were multiple days when the Ukrainians had more than 558 casualties on a single day. Is the SMO an "actual holocaust"? (Hint: It is not)
I like your analysis on Ukraine and on Israel. But calling things the wrong name just takes away from your message IMO.
Just my opinion, but I think using the term "holocaust" (small h) is reasonable in this context. It means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale in English. What level constitutes a mass scale isn't defined, however when one regards the totality of Israel's assaults on its neighbours over the last year, it certainly is mass destruction and slaughter.
Might want to check the dictionary on the word "Holocaust" or consider the term in its historical sense. But yeah, highly appropriate in this context.
indeed, the relevance is "burnt offering", which in the context of the faked events 1938-46 brought us the illegal "state of israel",
the true "holocausts' were the one perpetuated in eastern europe against the slavs by the "jew"
the fact that large portions of the so called "developed" world are still hypnotised by a few photos of shoes and glasses is a crime in itself..
for those who have not viewed it this piece is worthy of consideration:
https://odysee.com/@Happy:9/Europa:bcb
and for any who are still misinformed that "israel" refers to a physical land mass then some education is in order:
https://rumble.com/v3t9omm-the-mystery-of-israel-a-documentary-by-david-sorensen.html
This is a good documentary. I watched it before and shared it. Unfortunately, not many people bothered to watch it. Some people refuse to watch anything that goes against their beliefs. Since we have been lied to, it's important to research other things. I would think most people would want to know the truth.
Israel is not about a land mass.
if folk knew the stakes involved perhaps they would be bothered to educate themselves... my bet is they would and act upon it too..
a man that has been de-coding the abrahamic/kabbalic/judaic attempt to basically steal... everything from Us and that includes issues at "Soul" level can be found here, the chosen piece is as reasonable a place to jump in as any, his longer pieces are preferable, the "shorts" are made for the folk You refer to who "cant be bothered" and have short attention spans..
https://odysee.com/@CJBbooks.com:8/2024-06-22-12-01-47:b
and for the judaic relevance of the staged trump assassination see here:
https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/real-endemic-psychosis?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1445010&post_id=148454552&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=ri8cr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Long link, short vid, V important,
The word itself has been tainted….
The difference between Ukraine and Lebanon is that in the former, it is mostly military targets that get annihilated (if not, it would be ad-nauseam repeated in Western media). In Israel, the military targets are interspersed with civilians, leading to a high non-military body count.
My 2ct: Calling Lebanon a holocaust is a bit overkill (for now), it's a massacre for sure. And Gaza is a genocide, not really a holocaust in my opinion (fine gray line between the two).
'Holocaust' is likely another name for 'genocide'. The term is best used in situations where the "intent to annihilate or displace" a population exists, as in the Gaza situation. If you will note, the zionist leadership is casting around the same terms with Lebanon now as they did with Gaza and the Palestinians - Lebanese civilians are equated with Hezbollah terrorists - Lebanon must be annihilated.
There are modern examples where there was a real intent to annihilate or displace - Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). In one month 99% of the remaining Armenian population had of flee. I just don't see that in Lebanon or Gaza. Yes - Israel is careless in dealing with civilian casualties and breaks the international law. But this just does not meet the definition of genocide.
It definitely meets the legal definition of genocide (in Gaza) on many counts, as per the top UN experts on genocide convention.
The top UN experts on genocide also decided that removing Ukrainian children from a war zone is somehow a genocide. Does it make it a genocide?
That decision was by US-UK controlled ICC, not by any UN experts and it was not a charge of genocide but war crime. By the same ICC which finds itself unable to charge any Israeli for any warcrimes.
So the ICC experts are biased (I agree they are), but the UN experts can't be biased? Why would that be?
UN experts???? The UN has no experts and hasn't told the truth in over 50 years. You might as well quote Joe Biden as an expert.
Holocaust in Gaza, not in Lebanon. Lebanon is still at massacre stage.
As things “progress” Lebanon is likely to raise the bar from ‘inconvenience’ to ‘outright crisis’ for the apartheid welfare state to the south….
Quote: "there’s a controversial video going around of a Mideast commentator explaining this puzzling situation" lol lol I didn't think you'd fall for this one :-(
I strongly advise any Western analyst that wishes to discuss Southwest Asia, to first check Alastair Crooke's articles and Monday interviews on Judge Napolitano's YouTube channel. Regarding current events in Lebanon, last Monday's interview provides you with a good understanding of events.
Concur. Alastair is indispensable!
agreed. To divert the muslim response into religion wars is a permanent sionist policy. However, it is true that Iran is now ruled by the traders party, pushing to insert the country in the global market.
To some extent true. However, in Iranian foreign policy, input of the Leader and the IRGC are critical, and finally they all have to be aligned with the constitution, which is explicit about supporting resistance movements.
The US Democratic Party directly used Zelensky's visit to campaign for Kamala Harris. The Ukrainian leader went to Pennsylvania, which is a swing state. He walked around a military plant with a smart look, touched the ammunition, like the war in Ukraine = work for an ordinary Pennsylvanian. He gave an interview where he criticized Trump and praised Harris. In general, he spoke at full cost, he could have played the piano in the well-known way, but Pennsylvania is a religious state, so this is not welcomed there. We can directly say that this is external interference in the elections. But there are different types of interference. When Russia allegedly interferes in the elections on Trump's side, it is terrible and there is punishment for it. When the head of a foreign state directly campaigns for Trump's rivals, it is a triumph of democracy. However, this is not even the funniest thing. Right now, the Ukrainian army in Donbass is in another round of crisis, three cities are on the verge of surrender at the same time: Toretsk, Selidovo, Ugledar. And Zelensky's senior comrades pulled him out to tour Pennsylvania with a propaganda concert. It seems like there are many cities in Donbass, three here, three there - it doesn't matter, but here the Ukrainian diaspora in the swing state hasn't made up its mind - we need to speak out for good people.
Very interesting comment. Thank you.
Murdoch's Fox News personalities received permission today to sully Zelya while dunking on the DNC. Greg Gutfeld on The Five lambasted Zelya's visit to the Scranton ammo plant as an example of "foreign interference in our election." Gutfeld emphasized the fact that Scranton is in a dicey swing state & that Zelya flew @ taxpayer's expense on a governmental plane in order to shill for ammo production in his war. Gutfeld noted, too, that the photo-op trip to Scranton, which resembled a campaign stop, was orchestrated by the DNC & done @ the Democrats' behest. It was tawdry to have Zelya there.
Even worse, Zelya trashed J.D. Vance as "radical" & DJT as "wrong" about ending the war.
Gutfeld's hot take, delivered on Fox's highest rated TV show, signaled a pivot. No one @ News Corp has so explicitly criticized Zelya since Tucker described him as "rat-faced" back in 2022. Finally, pundits in corporate media can loosen their tongues a bit.
After Gutfeld delivered his diatribe against Zelya's interference in our election, the other co-hosts paused before jumping in, nodding their heads in grinning assent--giving Gutfeld's words plenty of breathing room.
In breaching the mandated silence about Zelya & the war, and the blandly vague sloganeering of "support, which all news-oriented shows parrot, Murdoch's empire is now sacrificing Project Ukraine on the altar of sealing an election win for DJT. It is possible to discern a newly rearranged pecking order in conservative corporate media: a Republican win in November is more important than Ukraine.
P.S. I posted this down-thread but wanted to give you a look-see since you addressed the topic
In 2004, The Guardian organized a campaign for Guardian readers (mostly British) to telephone Ohio residents to urge them to vote for Kerry in the upcoming US election. The campaign flopped, but nobody went around screaming about election interference, since Kerry was a candidate that people of influence and authority approved of.
Similarly, people of influence and authority want Harris and not Trump elected. That makes election interference okay!
Democrat Party
FIFY
Okay.
Let's have a good old fashioned throwdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Zelya to fire his ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova.
The demand is part of the growing firestorm around Zelya's visit on Monday to the Scranton ammo factory, whose output primarily benefits Ukraine.
In Johnson's letter to Zelya, he emphasized that the House Oversight Cmte is now investigating this PR stunt because Zelya was flown in a U.S. air force jet to Scranton. Johnson's stance is that Zelya's ill-conceived visit to Scranton was "politically motivated."
The peace plan appears to be "sue for peace, get refused, continue war", or the peace of the grave.
I initially read that at "sue for peace, get confused, continue war"
Close enough, and probably a good reason to be refused.
The plan is "1. make war. 2. make sure that peace cannot be concluded, moving goalposts if and as necessary. 3. continue war."
It is not a peace plan but a war plan, and it fools nobody that does not actively wish to be fooled.
I also don’t agree with the final analysis.
Hamas is not a proxy of Iran (remember they fought on the side of the Free Syrian Army against Hizbollah).
The Houthis beyond lobbing missiles and drones have no ground forces to speak of.
Hizbollah IS Iran’s main proxy/ally. The analysis is non-sensical.
Hamas is a convenient Israeli frenemy that Israel makes sure is well funded by Turkey and Qatar.
AA disagree with you about not having ground forces
They have taken on Saudis US Navy and now Israel, and in every case appear to gotten their enemiesto back down give up
It would seem they know what they are doing
as @posa said - Hamas is creation of Turkey and Qatar (another set of two 'peace loving nations' that arm and fund utter scum fanatics that took millions of people hostage in Gaza). They are Sunni and yes they actually fought Hezballah (who is Shia) on the side of Syrian civil war. US was funding Hamas and like forces as 'moderate Syrian opposition to Assad'
and Erdogan squawking about Ottoman history of 'protecting the innocent' - is he insane? Genocidal empire that brutally occupied vast territories from Africa to Middle East to Europe , 'peace loving nation' my $ss. Ask Serbs or Bulgarians or Greeks, or anyone in the Balkans on how 'peace loving' Ottoman Turkey was...
Don’t get me started on Erdogan and the Ottomans!
As for Hamas, yes Bibi was more than happy to fund them as an excuse to keep Gaza down and divide and conquer with the PA. I think he lost control of them though and now they’re doing their own thing.
or Israel never had control over them - they just used them to weaken Fatah hoping that enemies fighting each other would weaken both (as these factions were indeed fighting each other in street battles i think back in 2007). Both factions of 'palestinians' are just proxies, either for Egypt (Fatah) or Qatar/Turkey (Hamas) who have their own power struggles in 'Arab World' to deal with. Kedmi spoke of it at length of why this is a stupid policy by Israel, the only real way to remove Hamas is to let Fatah take over which means you WILL have to deal with PA and will have to find settlement...