Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

[Vicus]

Zionism is Biblical

What has it got to do with Zionism, you ask? Isn't Zionism a secular ideology? I think it is high time to dispel this misunderstanding. Zionism is a product of Jewishness, and Jewishness is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh. Whether he has read it or not, whether he judges it historical or mythical, every Jew ultimately bases his Jewishness on the Bible — or whatever he knows about the Bible. Jewishness is the internalization of the psychopathic god. It makes little difference whether Jews define their Jewishness in religious terms or in ethnic terms. From a religious viewpoint, the Bible preserves the memory and the essence of the Covenant with God, whereas from a secular viewpoint, the Bible is the foundational narrative of the Jewish people, and the pattern by which Jews interpret their whole subsequent history (the Dispersion, the Holocaust, the rebirth of Israel, and so on).

It is true that Theodor Herzl, the prophet of political Zionism, did not draw his inspiration from the Bible. Yet he termed his ideology Zionism, using a biblical name of Jerusalem. As for post-Herzl Zionists, and for the actual founders of the modern State of Israel, they were steeped in the Bible. "The Bible is our mandate," declared Chaim Weizmann in 1919, and in 1948 he offered Truman a Torah scroll for his recognition of Israel. Thus begins the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel:

ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) - the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.

There is no question that the State of Israel was founded on the biblical claim.

Ben-Gurion's biblical mindset became more and more apparent as he grew older. Consider for example the fact that, while he was begging Kennedy to let his people have the Bomb because the Egyptians wanted to exterminate them (as they had under Moses), he prophesied in the magazine Look (January 16, 1962) that within twenty-five years, Jerusalem "will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah."[15] Ben-Gurion was not crazy, he was simply thinking biblically.

Netanyahu scheduled his address on the eve of Purim, which celebrates the happy end of the Book of Esther — the slaughter of 75,000 Persian men, women and children. In 2019, Netanyahu's pronounced these words during a tour of the West Bank, "I believe in the book of books and I read it as a call to action that every generation must do what it can to ensure the eternity of Israel." The Bible occupies such a large part of his brain that he wants to put a Bible on the Moon!

So please stop calling Netanyahu a psychopath. Or at least, call him a biblical psychopath, a worshipper of the psychopathic god. And while you are there, learn see the Hebrew Bible for what it is: "a conspiracy against the rest of the world," as said H. G. Wells. In the books of the Bible, "you have the conspiracy plain and clear, ... an aggressive and vindictive conspiracy. ... It is not tolerance but stupidity to shut our eyes to their quality."[18]

https://www.sott.net/article/485526-...al-Psychopathy

[ExomatrixTV]

• A Message to NATO... (and Israel!):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LzhVdzAZ4i0

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called NATO, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 31 member states – 29 European and two North American. Israel, a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land. Its most sacred sites are in Jerusalem. Within its Old City, the Temple Mount complex includes the Dome of the Rock shrine, the historic Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Israel's financial hub, Tel Aviv, is known for its Bauhaus architecture and beaches.

[Bill Ryan]

At the very start of this new interview by Judge Napolitano with Col. Douglas Macgregor, Macgregor reports that there's a flotilla of 1000 (a thousand!) Turkish ships on its way to Gaza right now — unarmed, and loaded with humanitarian aid supplies.

I'd not heard that anywhere else. Can anyone provide more details?

Will Israeli War on Gaza Soon be Regional?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lqagoQWFhvw

[ExomatrixTV]

• Andrew Tate SLAMS ‘Warmonger’ Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson THROWS SHADE:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RIlk1a6Fet8

[Ernie Nemeth]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...s-underground/

Some more videos of the non-existent tunnel system that Hamas spent all the international aid on.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
At the very start of this new interview by Judge Napolitano with Col. Douglas Macgregor, Macgregor reports that there's a flotilla of 1000 (a thousand!) Turkish ships on its way to Gaza right now — unarmed, and loaded with humanitarian aid supplies.

I'd not heard that anywhere else. Can anyone provide more details?

I found this report in The Times of Israel:

• https://timesofisrael.com/1000-boats...eedom-flotilla

1,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’

Reminiscent of infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara protest, large maritime convoy plans to remain in international waters off Ashdod and disrupt sea trade route to Israel

Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.

In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”

Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.

Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.

In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”

Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.

Okçu said that the main objective of the operation would be to cause disruption in international waters off the Israeli coast to the maritime trade heading for the port of Ashdod, in order to interrupt the supply of goods to Israel for a week or even up to 10 days.

The protest action is reminiscent of the attempt by the so-called “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in May 2010, which tried to breach the maritime blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, but was intercepted by the Israeli Navy.

After the convoy refused Israeli Navy orders to reroute to Ashdod, Israeli commandos boarded one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, which was carrying over 600 passengers. After being met with violent resistance the commandos opened fire, killing 10 Turkish activists. Ten Israeli soldiers were wounded during the attack.

Following the Mavi Marmara incident, several other flotillas to Gaza were attempted, but largely foiled by Israeli military and diplomatic activities.

“The Zionist regime seems to have no chance to repeat the Mavi Marmara incident,” the Turkish activist said. “The vessels sail under flags of the US, the UK, Luxembourg, Russian, Germany, Spain, Poland, and many other countries.” The activist noted that luxury boats will also join the flotilla and that participants from Europe and the USA will spend an average of $14,000 to join.

Okçu vowed that protesters would “strictly follow international rules” and would not carry any weapons, “not even a pocket knife,” so as not to give Israel any “excuse” to intervene.

Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.

In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”

Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.

However, Okçu said in a later tweet that he expected the number of Turkish vessels to be much higher, at least 1,000, and insisted that the initiative is not associated with the Turkish government. He did not explain the discrepancy in numbers.

The activist indicated to Haber7 that the flotilla is scheduled to leave Turkish coasts on Thursday. The maritime convoy is set to make a first stop in Cyprus before continuing toward the Israeli port of Ashdod. Some participants in the flotilla will also reportedly take their spouses and children on board.

Okçu said that the main objective of the operation would be to cause disruption in international waters off the Israeli coast to the maritime trade heading for the port of Ashdod, in order to interrupt the supply of goods to Israel for a week or even up to 10 days.

The protest action is reminiscent of the attempt by the so-called “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in May 2010, which tried to breach the maritime blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, but was intercepted by the Israeli Navy.

After the convoy refused Israeli Navy orders to reroute to Ashdod, Israeli commandos boarded one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, which was carrying over 600 passengers. After being met with violent resistance the commandos opened fire, killing 10 Turkish activists. Ten Israeli soldiers were wounded during the attack.

Following the Mavi Marmara incident, several other flotillas to Gaza were attempted, but largely foiled by Israeli military and diplomatic activities.

“The Zionist regime seems to have no chance to repeat the Mavi Marmara incident,” the Turkish activist said. “The vessels sail under flags of the US, the UK, Luxembourg, Russian, Germany, Spain, Poland, and many other countries.” The activist noted that luxury boats will also join the flotilla and that participants from Europe and the USA will spend an average of $14,000 to join.

Okçu vowed that protesters would “strictly follow international rules” and would not carry any weapons, “not even a pocket knife,” so as not to give Israel any “excuse” to intervene.

“The moment we enter Gaza’s territorial waters, [Israeli forces] can only search us,” the activist said, “or tow us to their ports, and impose fines,” but will not be allowed by international law to raid the convoy in international waters, the way they assaulted the Mavi Marmara in 2010. “[Israel] would pay a heavy price for attempting any crazy action against such a large international peace fleet.”

[Bill Ryan]

It's all getting worse for the neocon lobby.

• https://themessenger.com/news/watch-...-horrific-slip

WATCH: Swedish Prime Minister Says ‘Israel Has the Right to Genocide’ in Horrific Slip

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson made the embarrassing gaffe at a town hall event where pro-Palestine supporters had heckled him for supporting Israel in the war with Hamas

https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1727277386540982405

In an embarrassing gaffe, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday Israel "has the right to genocide" during a town hall event where pro-Palestine protestors heckled him over his outspoken support for Israel in the ongoing war with Hamas.

"Sweden and the EU stand united in the Israel has the right to genoci– self defense!" Kristersson says in a video of the slip-up now circulating on social media.

The mistake was immediately met by laughter from some in the crowd, presumedly from supporters of Palestine who had packed the event in Gothenburg.

Do they have the right to genocide now? Does Israel have the right to genocide? We heard it" someone in the raucous crowd shouts back at the prime minister, who is seen taking a long pause after his gaffe.

Demonstrators at the event Tuesday frequently booed and heckled the center-right politician, chanting "Shame on you," over his strong support for Israel. Police ultimately removed some of the them from the venue.

[Ravenlocke]

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel said that there will be no ceasefire until Friday. Accordingly, the hostages will also not be handed over until Friday.

Slavyangrad

https://x.com/dana916/status/1727464566634795290

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🇮🇱🇵🇸Amit Segal: The ceasefire has also been postponed.

Hebrew Channel 12 reporter: It is not clear what is the reason for the postponement and whether it has anything to do with Netanyahu's, Gallant's and Gantz's decisive messages tonight. In any case, Hamas has not yet handed over the list of abductees who were to be released tomorrow, and it is likely that it wants to add some last-minute stuff to the deal.

Slavyangrad

https://x.com/dana916/status/1727458177904504926

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1727451276680602031

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1727467384720539869

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1727464425588654216

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‼️Breaking | In less than 30 minutes in Palestine:

1 -Occupation forces issue an evacuation warning to the "Abu Muslim" family in Balata camp, #WestBank.

2- Occupation forces conducted a storming operation in the city of Nablus, West Bank.

3- Occupation aircraft targeted the Khalla family's home in Jabalia Camp, northern #Gaza Strip.

4- Occupation aircraft targeted a house in the Brazil neighborhood in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, with reports of injuries.

The suffering of the Palestinian people persists.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1727448609837260863

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‼️ #Meta approves all ads containing anti-Palestinian incitement. #Gaza

Meta approved a series of test ads containing hate speech and calls for violence against Palestinians, according to The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, 7amleh.

The ads, in both Hebrew and Arabic, violated Facebook and Meta policies, with some directly calling for the murder of Palestinian civilians.

The approval of these ads highlights a pattern of bias and discrimination against Palestinians by Meta, according to 7amleh founder Nadim Nashif.

Pro-#Israel ads, including one calling for the assassination of American activist Paul Larudee, were also initially approved by Meta but later deleted after user reports.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1727429488353460423

[Ravenlocke]

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A new Freudian slip? Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson "mistakenly" said that "Israel" has "the right to genocide," before stopping mid-sentence to correct it and say it had the "right to self-defense."

These continuous Freudian slips by Western leaders are served on a silver plate as they expose what is really going on in #Gaza.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status...64032880197660

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/dana916/status/1727473531691151722

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸The names and photographs of the prisoners Hamas was scheduled to release.

Israel has now announced they have postponed the ceasefire and prisoner releases 'until at least Friday.'



It is suspected that the clause concerning entry of medical and humanitarian aid into the northern Gaza Strip is the reason for the postponement.


https://x.com/dana916/status/1727466787439034549

[shaberon]

Posted by Vicus (here)
The Biblical Virus

Israel's collective psychopathy is not genetic, it is cultural, but it was formed is very ancient times, and so it is embedded in the ancestral subconscious (whatever that is): it ultimately comes from the jealous god invented by the Levites to control the starving tribes they set out to conquer Palestine some three thousand years ago.

This is true in character except that Zionism is a political movement which comes from the English Bible and is entirely Christian.


Zionist Aliyah has a birthday, 1882:


Pre-19th century small-scale return migration of Diaspora Jews to the Land of Israel is characterized as the Pre-Modern Aliyah.


Before that, they fled violent persecution in western Europe. Then there were messianic movements. None of that was Zionism. The term is pretty specific to the modern method which has remained in place continuously.

[shaberon]

One says all or nothing:

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad Movement stressed it would not release the Israeli military captives it holds in Gaza before the enemy releases all the Palestinian prisoners.

His logo shows perhaps only one purpose:




We are not told how serious or not this is:

Brigadier General Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, said in a statement that the attack on Monday night involved a close-range ballistic missile and resulted in eight injuries and infrastructural damage.

Earlier this month, Abu Alaa Al-Walaei, secretary general of the Kata’ib Seyed Al-Shuhada anti-terror resistance group, emphasized that retaliatory assaults by Iraqi resistance fighters on American occupation forces will continue unabated.

He said the strikes on US military positions in Iraq will stop only when the Israeli strikes on Gaza end, and humanitarian aid convoys reach locals in the besieged Palestinian coastal territory without any restrictions.

“US forces have been attacked approximately 66 times since October 17. Thirty-two separate times in Iraq and 34 separate times in Syria,” the Pentagon’s Deputy Spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a media briefing on Tuesday.

US personnel have sustained approximately 62 injuries in these attacks, Singh added, noting that the number of injuries does not include those sustained during the Monday night attack.

If you were a HZB target it would be:


Al-Raheb outpost with a heavy-caliber Burkan (Volcano) missile


It is probably true that anywhere near it you are going to TBI, even if you are covered from the blast materials. Maybe everyone is really lucky and the explosives are minor and inaccurate, and nothing really happened, but I don't think this ends either.


Meanwhile, back in the Zionist Dictatorship:

An American company specialising in AI-powered military and surveillance technology that is supporting Israel’s war in Gaza is set to be handed a contract by England's National Health Service to handle patient data.


The £480mln ($600mln) contract, which has reportedly been awarded to Colorado-based Palantir by NHS England, is likely to dismay many NHS workers who have called for a ceasefire in Gaza and protested against Israeli attacks targeting hospitals and civilians, The Middle East Eye reported.

A spokesperson for Health Workers for a Free Palestine, a network of NHS staff, told Middle East Eye, “Many would be rightly concerned that a third-party company is managing their medical data, let alone Palantir, whose interests are at odds with the British public, Palestinian people and our collective humanity”.



Palantir, which has an office in Tel Aviv, has been outspoken in its support for Israel.

In a social media post on October 12, it said, “Certain kinds of evil can only be fought with force. Palantir stands with Israel.”

In a letter to shareholders issued on November 2, the company said, “We are one of a few companies in the world to stand up and announce our support for Israel, which remains steadfast.”

Announcing the company’s third-quarter profits on the same day, Alex Karp, Palantir’s chief executive and a co-founder of the company, said, “I am proud that we are supporting Israel in every way we can.”

Speaking to Fox Business earlier this month, Joe Lonsdale, another of Palantir’s co-founders, said Israel was “doing what it has to do and eliminating the bad guys” and “we are trying to keep the good guys armed and ahead”.

Lonsdale said, “When we were building Palantir we actually learnt a lot from the Israelis. They’re quite good at what they do and one of my proudest moments was when Israel started working with Palantir. So Palantir helps Israel do a lot of things too.”

Middle East Eye asked Palantir what technology or support it was providing to Israel’s armed forces but had not received a response at the time of publication.

The company describes its military technologies as offering customers “mission-tested capabilities, forged in the field” to deliver “a tactical edge - by land, air, sea and space”.

Palantir was founded in 2004 with some funding provided by a CIA-backed venture capital firm and provides services to the US military and intelligence agencies, as well as to armed forces in the UK and other western countries.

Another co-founder, and Palantir’s current chair, is Peter Thiel, a technology billionaire who also co-founded PayPal and backed Donald Trump’s winning US presidential campaign in 2016.

Earlier this month, Palantir reported quarterly earnings of $558mln and said it expected its annual earnings for 2023 to exceed $2.2bln.

In comments to investors, Karp said the company was "building products for a world that is violent, disjointed, irrational, a world in which you have to show strength... A world in which you really have to pick sides".

The NHS previously used Palantir software to manage data during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its involvement in the UK healthcare system has been opposed by privacy campaigners.

They have called on the UK government to end Palantir’s involvement in the NHS, citing the company’s involvement in developing mass surveillance for the National Security Agency in the US and GCHQ in the UK.

In 2017, Haaretz reported that Palantir was one of two technology companies providing predictive systems used for intelligence at Israeli security organisations that the newspaper linked to the arrests of scores of Palestinians based on profiling of their social media activity.

Continuing Israeli attacks on hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza have been widely condemned.

On Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation, said he was appalled by an assault by Israeli forces on the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia in which at least 12 people, including patients, had been killed.

"Health workers and civilians should never have to be exposed to such horror, and especially while inside a hospital," Ghebreyesus said.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that an MSF clinic in Gaza City had also come under fire.

On Saturday, up to 7,000 people inside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, including premature babies, critically ill patients, displaced families and medical staff, were given just one hour to leave by Israeli troops.

Last month, thousands of NHS doctors signed an open letter calling on the UK government to condemn Israel’s attack on Gaza.

Earlier this month, hundreds of health workers protested outside the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to condemn the UK government’s support for Israel.

A spokesperson for Health Workers for a Free Palestine said, “Palantir has come out in full support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza, received funding from the CIA, helped the NSA with their worldwide surveillance programme, and worked on artificial intelligence for US military drones."

"Businesses that trade in death should have no place in our healthcare system," the spokesperson added.

Palantir did not respond to requests for comment.

The DHSC did not answer MEE’s questions about health workers' concerns regarding Palantir’s support for Israel. Instead, a spokesperson sent a statement addressing data privacy concerns.

“Patients’ data has and always will remain under the full control and protection of the NHS, and it will not be accessed by the company that makes the software,” the statement said.

NHS England did not respond to MEE’s requests for comment about Palantir’s support for Israel. It said, “NHS England is conducting a fair and transparent procurement process for a supplier of the federated data platform, in line with public contracts regulations, and this process has not yet concluded.”

Vis a vis:

Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi underlined that all countries must end commercial and political cooperation with Israel in an attempt to compel the regime to end its atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

President Rayeesi made the plea in a Monday letter to the heads of 50 countries, including Russia, China, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Kenya and Jordan, following the continuation of Israeli regime's crimes against the oppressed and defenseless people of Gaza.

The Iranian president called on all free and independent countries to use all the available means, including cutting off trade and political cooperation and communications with Israel, to exert pressure on the regime and play a more prominent role in ending the regime’s crimes against Palestinians.

[Bill Ryan]

Zero Hedge has been stuck in an awkward policy stance, being pro-Israel but anti-Biden. Here's a new report. It seems to mark a change in Zero Hedge's reporting, and maybe they've been paying attention to the thousands of angry, critical comments that have been posted on each of their news articles so far.

• https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/h...-direct-appeal

"You've Tarnished the Face of Human Civilization" - Head of Bombed Gaza Hospital Blasts Biden

The director of the aid group that runs the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza - where Israeli attacks killed at least a dozen people on Monday - appealed directly to US President Joe Biden, imploring him to push Israel to accept permanent ceasefire in a war that's killed or maimed more than 40,000 Palestinians [a four-day truce is set to begin Thurs].

"Gazans are facing death every day. Every five minutes, a Palestinian child is killed," Sarbini Abdul Murad, head of Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) Indonesia, wrote in a letter to Biden.

Noting that Israeli forces have attacked "babies, children, women, the elderly, the disabled, hospitals, ambulances, medics, schools, teachers, residential complexes, worship places, and much more," Murad asserted that "this is completely genocide and ethnic cleansing."

"It is very unfortunate that your siding with Israel by facilitating weapons of mass destruction has actually made the conflict even wider," Murad continued.

"Your action clearly contradicts various international treaties and agreements that apply to the existence of Palestine. You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of the [United Nations], torn apart the sense of justice, hurt human values, and tarnished the face of human civilization."

"Mr. President, we believe you still have a conscience," Murad wrote. "Your great country certainly wants to be seen as honorable for its humanitarian defenses. Moreover, your administration has determined to make the principles of multilateralism, justice, and human rights the foundation of United States foreign policy. So, actually, this is the right to prove it."

Urging Biden to "avoid double standards in dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," Murad added: "For the sake of peace and humanity, we demand that you immediately do [a] cease-fire. Restore the dignity of the United States as a country that upholds human rights. The cease-fire must be implemented now, so as not to increase the loss of life on both sides."

Murad's letter came as Israel Defense Forces tanks surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza after IDF artillery shelling killed 12 people in the facility's compound, including patients and their companions, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry also said many people were wounded in the attack, including patients in critical condition.

"The attack is a clear violation of international humanitarian laws. All countries, especially those that have close relations with Israel, must use all their influence and capabilities to urge Israel to stop its atrocities," Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Monday.

According to Gaza officials, there are about 700 patients, staff, and other Palestinians trapped in the Indonesian Hospital. People trying to flee the compound have reportedly come under Israeli fire. Marwan Abdallah, a medical worker at hospital, told Al Jazeera that Israeli tanks could be seen maneuvering around the compound.

"You can see them moving around and firing," Abdallah said. "Women and children are terrified. There are constant sounds of explosions and gunfire." The World Health Organization (WHO) said it is "appalled" by the attacks on Indonesian Hospital.

"Health workers and civilians should never have to be exposed to such horror, and especially while inside a hospital," the agency said in a statement. "There have been multiple and ongoing attacks on health facilities in the last six weeks, that have resulted in forced mass evacuations from hospitals, and multiple fatalities and casualties among patients, their companions, and those who had sought refuge in hospitals," WHO continued.

"The Indonesian Hospital had already reportedly sustained damages due to at least five attacks since October 7," the organization added, referring to the date when Israel began bombarding Gaza by air, land, and sea following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people, with another 240 or so taken hostage.

"WHO has recorded 335 attacks on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 7, including 164 attacks in the Gaza Strip and 171 attacks in the West Bank," WHO noted. "There were also 33 attacks on healthcare in Israel during the violent events of October 7."

"The world cannot stand silent while these hospitals, which should be safe havens, are transformed into scenes of death, devastation, and despair," the agency added.

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status...53440826921377

On Tuesday, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, said two of its physicians—Drs. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Ahmad Al Sahar—were killed along with another doctor, Ziad Al-Tatari, in a strike on al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.

"We condemn this strike in the strongest terms, and call yet again for the respect and protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients," MSF said in a statement.

Israeli officials claim Hamas and other Palestinian militants are using hospitals as headquarters. However, Israel has provided no proof to support its allegations, which Palestinian and international medical professionals working in the facilities resoundingly refute. According to Palestine's WAFANews Agency, at least 205 Palestinian medical workers have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets during the war.

The WHO said Tuesday that one of its employees, Dima Alhaj, was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza alongside her husband, their 6-month-old baby, and two of the woman's brothers.

Gaza officials said Tuesday that the death toll from Israel's 46-day onslaught rose to at least 14,128, including over 3,900 women and 5,800 children. Tens of thousands more Palestinians have been wounded, nearly 1.7 million others have been forcibly displaced, and around half of all homes in the embattled strip have been damaged or destroyed.

[Tintin]

Via Robin Monotti on X. Those of us keeping an eye on what's happening here are now familiar with Francesca Albanese. With her legal background she further adds this reminder:

Genocide Clearly Identifiable in Gaza – Albanese

"U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who made a flying visit to Auckland and New Zealand’s capital Wellington this week, told Consortium News genocide occurred when there was an intent to destroy a group of people, identified as a religious, ethnic, national or racial group, in full or in part.

“There are a number of acts [that] constitute genocide,” she said.

“For example, the act of killing of the members of the group, the severe physical and psychological harm inflicted to the members of the group or the creation of circumstances that might lead to the destruction of the group, in full or in part. These are the three cases that are clearly identifiable in the case of Gaza and there has been a clear and declared intent.”

She said there was an obligation on Western states, including New Zealand, to speak out against genocide and believed the word should be used repeatedly in the media.

“I think that the word should be used because the 1948 Genocide Convention poses an obligation to prevent it, when there is a risk of genocide being committed and member states have to intervene and have to stop atrocities and crimes that may amount to genocide.”

“The media have notoriously played a role in certain contexts in not being accurate and probably either underestimating the risk or even amplifying, in certain contexts, genocidal calls and incitement to genocide.”

Her position is reflected widely among those in legal and academic circles specialising in international humanitarian law.

Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the U.S., Raz Segal, said both the intent of Israel and the dynamics of violence make Israel’s onslaught in Gaza “a textbook case of genocide”.

He told U.K. media commentator Owen Jones on Nov. 22:

“If you take all the elements of intent, dehumanising language, portraying Palestinians as a whole as enemies, human animals – think about the discourse of human shields, which is incredibly important to note here Palestinians are humanised only as they appear as human shields, which is of course incredibly dehumanising – when you take all of this together, with the dynamics of violence, what we see on the ground is very clear… the killing is genocidal.”

Segal said with the siege, bombing and displacement of residents, Israel had created the conditions calculated to bring about the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza." (Mick Hall)

[Bill Ryan]

From The Moon of Alabama, yesterday:

• https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/1...ar-crimes.html

U.S. is Helping Israel to Commit and Hide War Crimes

Some headlines are just weird:

US has sent Israel data on aid group locations to try to prevent strikes - Politico

Anyone who has over the years watched the regular massacres committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces will immediately understand that the headline really means this:

U.S. is providing Israel targeting data for bombing aid groups in Palestine - Real Politico Headline Meaning

And indeed:

The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities. But Israel has continued to hit such sites. The information included GPS coordinates of a number of medical facilities and information on movements of aid groups in Gaza to the Israeli government for at least a month, according to three people familiar with the communications. All were granted anonymity because they feared speaking publicly would make it more difficult for aid groups to operate in Gaza.
Still, Israel has launched operations against Hamas in or near aid sites, including hospitals, leading to the destruction of buildings and the blocking of fuel and other critical supplies.

This isn't a war against Hamas, but a war against the people of Palestine. The U.S. government knows that it is complicit in the day by day war crimes perpetrated by the IOF. Its defensive instinct is do try its best to hide all evidence that such crimes were committed.

Biden admin officials see proof their strategy is working in hostage deal - Politico

There was no sense that the pause would turn into a lengthier cease-fire, a senior administration official said. And there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.

"Don't let anyone know that we are doing this!"

A note on the hostage deal:

In the hours before any onset of temporary truces or longer lasting ceasefires Israel will always increase its level of bombing and slaughter.

Today will likely be the worst day the people in Gaza have ever experienced.

[Tintin]

Posted by Vicus (here)
Zionism is Biblical

What has it got to do with Zionism, you ask? Isn't Zionism a secular ideology? I think it is high time to dispel this misunderstanding. Zionism is a product of Jewishness, and Jewishness is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh. Whether he has read it or not, whether he judges it historical or mythical, every Jew ultimately bases his Jewishness on the Bible — or whatever he knows about the Bible. Jewishness is the internalization of the psychopathic god. It makes little difference whether Jews define their Jewishness in religious terms or in ethnic terms. From a religious viewpoint, the Bible preserves the memory and the essence of the Covenant with God, whereas from a secular viewpoint, the Bible is the foundational narrative of the Jewish people, and the pattern by which Jews interpret their whole subsequent history (the Dispersion, the Holocaust, the rebirth of Israel, and so on).

It is true that Theodor Herzl, the prophet of political Zionism, did not draw his inspiration from the Bible. Yet he termed his ideology Zionism, using a biblical name of Jerusalem. As for post-Herzl Zionists, and for the actual founders of the modern State of Israel, they were steeped in the Bible. "The Bible is our mandate," declared Chaim Weizmann in 1919, and in 1948 he offered Truman a Torah scroll for his recognition of Israel. Thus begins the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel:

ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) - the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.

There is no question that the State of Israel was founded on the biblical claim.

Ben-Gurion's biblical mindset became more and more apparent as he grew older. Consider for example the fact that, while he was begging Kennedy to let his people have the Bomb because the Egyptians wanted to exterminate them (as they had under Moses), he prophesied in the magazine Look (January 16, 1962) that within twenty-five years, Jerusalem "will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah."[15] Ben-Gurion was not crazy, he was simply thinking biblically.

Netanyahu scheduled his address on the eve of Purim, which celebrates the happy end of the Book of Esther — the slaughter of 75,000 Persian men, women and children. In 2019, Netanyahu's pronounced these words during a tour of the West Bank, "I believe in the book of books and I read it as a call to action that every generation must do what it can to ensure the eternity of Israel." The Bible occupies such a large part of his brain that he wants to put a Bible on the Moon!

So please stop calling Netanyahu a psychopath. Or at least, call him a biblical psychopath, a worshipper of the psychopathic god. And while you are there, learn see the Hebrew Bible for what it is: "a conspiracy against the rest of the world," as said H. G. Wells. In the books of the Bible, "you have the conspiracy plain and clear, ... an aggressive and vindictive conspiracy. ... It is not tolerance but stupidity to shut our eyes to their quality."[18]

https://www.sott.net/article/485526-...al-Psychopathy

It may also be quite interesting to consider this alongside Gilad Atzmon in this interview segment (approx 11 minutes long). In it he reminds us of the "unique" expression of Jewishness, to a certain mindset, that combines (or conflates even), religious, racial, and nationalistic orientation.

That, of course, is riddled with contradiction and oxymorons.

Gilad Atzmon on "What is Jewishness?" (perhaps more from an Ashkenazi not Sephardic viewpoint. Over to you the listener....)

[Bill Ryan]

Even The Young Turks is taking issue with Biden.

WATCH: John Kirby Gets IRKED About Biden Being Dubbed 'Genocide Joe'

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IhNix-elUXo

[Tintin]

Presumably via his virtual contribution to the G20 (Security Council) summit (?) - will verify, if time permits:

PUTIN: "Some of our colleagues here have mentioned that they are shocked by 'Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine'... Are you not shocked by the extermination of civilians in Palestine and the Gaza Strip today? Is it not shocking that doctors have to operate on children – do abdominal surgeries – and use a scalpel on a child’s body without anesthesia? Did it not shock you when the UN Secretary-General said that Gaza has turned into a huge children’s cemetery?"

Source: https://twitter.com/upholdreality/st...43176682614825

[Bruce G Charlton]

So far as I can tell; both sides in this current Middle Eastern conflict desire the complete annihilation (or removal) of the entire population of the other side; which is why I cannot support either side - and why I am sure that Western powers and those outside the region and direct interests really ought not to be intervening - since such interventions inevitably spiral out of control, and become channels for attempted exploitation by outside interests.

IMO our interest in this conflict ought to be distanced; and (unless we are members of one side or the other) we ought to acknowledge that this war is not primarily our business.

If the world is truly to be multi-polar (i.e. for us Not to have a single demonic-evil global totalitarianism on the Agenda 2030/ Great Reset lines), then different regions, with different ideologies/ religions than ours, must be left to sort-out their own affairs. Our opinions on such remote matters (only very indirectly known) are not very deep or significant - and in danger of being indulged partly to impress ourselves, and partly to impress others. In such situations; 'good intentions' (even when perfectly sincere) are not enough - and usually lead to harm rather than benefit.

In this respect the Middle East situation is extremely different from the Ukraine war; where there is a right and wrong side; and where my country is directly and deeply involved in militarily and financially intimidating/ supporting the wrong side including violating multiple basic moral principles and lying grossly on all sides and causing vast numbers of needless deaths on the supported side; and where the consequences impinge very directly on my own life.