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

    Quote Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    Quote Posted by shaberon (here)
    As well as Egypt, FM Araghchi visited the King of Jordan where he stressed that collective action is required to stop the crimes committed by the Zionist regime.

    (...)

    Iran has criticised the Zionist Antisemitic Colony ever since the Islamic Revolution, Shaberon. That is meanwhile for 45 years. That the Prophet of Islam was an Arab has never been ignored there. One should not forget that the first non-Arab convert to Islam was, according to tradition, Salmân Pârs or, in Arabic, Salmān al-Fārisi: “Solomon the Persian”. Also Arabic as a religious language has always been very well known in Iran. Quite a number of major Shia pelgrimage goals lie in Iraq, more than half of whose population is Shiite: Iranian pilgrims there are not ignorant of Arabic. Also Medieval up to modern philosophy and theology in Iran has been largely written in Arabic. The glory of Persian letters lies in its epic and lyrical poetry, both religious and secular. A seminal figure as Rumi wrote all his mystical odes in Persian and his theological treatises in Arabic.

    Western "divide and rule" philosophy has done a lot to try and keep the Islamic Umma split.
    Michel thank you so much for this, I wanted to ask why Iran being Persian could be separated from Arabic as I have never considered them separate, maybe language wise they differ but as people I don’t think of them like that, it’s what came to my mind last night after reading Shaberon’s post.
    Well... (thank you for your thanks Ravenlocke) ...what we need to understand is that language and ethnicity (or genetics) are not necessarily congruent, nor language and culture. “Linguistic culture” however – culture to the extent that it is expressed, conveyed etc. through language – which might also be called “civilisation” – is largely congruent with language. To encourage my language-learning executives I used to say (e.g. to the English speakers learning French, Dutch, German, Arabic): “to the extent that you speak German you belong to German culture (or civilisation)”. So it is quite possible to belong to an ethnicity and to a linguistic culture which has only a minority of that specific ethnicity speaking the language.

    We think of Christian civilisation as hardly determined by any linguistic culture. But in Islam the very Arabic wording of the Qur'an belongs to the "holy things". Hence Religious culture is to a large extent also a linguistic culture. However it is not completely so. The country with the largest Muslim population, Indonesia, has a linguistic culture which is quite distant from Arabic, and the Qur‘an’s language, though recited, is not understood by the vast majority of Indonesians. But with Iranians that is different as I made a point of.

    But the reverse is also true. Ethnically speaking, the Muslims belonging to the same linguistic culture (as Arabic speakers), are quite diverse. The body types of the ethnically Berber population of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) is quite different from the Yemenites’ or Saudis’, and theirs again quite different from the “Levantine” Lebanese’, Palestinians’, Syrians’. Among the Iraqis one still finds the body types so typical of the statuary from Sumer in the world’s museums. And obviously the genetic makeup of the Turks, the Pakistanis, the Bangladeshis and the Indonesians is also quite different. This means that although the Islamic religious culture and knowledge of the Qur'anic language Arabic is quite strong in Iran, the genetic makeup of the population (the body type) is quite (Indo-)European.

    Just a few hours ago I was reading a text on Middle and early New Persian (more specifically the Persian of the end of the First Millennium, after the Islamic conversion, and of the 11th and 12th century). It was stated that among our best sources for knowing how the language was pronounced back then were: the translations (into the Persian of those times) of the Old Testament made by the Jews living in Persia! What I called the glorious centuries of Persian literature (our 10th through 16th centuries) were centuries of great religious diversity where all major towns were inhabited by Muslims of all obediences, Jews, Christians of all obediences, Zoroastrians of course, and probably also Hindu and Buddhist tradespeople. (Meanwhile, in Europe, the Inquisition occasionally burnt them.) This is the cultural background of Iran that explains why they are so opposed to Zionist Antisemitism and at the same time honour and protect the non-Zionist Jews who live in Iran as I am writing. The political system in Iran may not be loved by every Iranian (allow my cautious formulation) but the Iranian people endorse the universalist calling of their civilisation – all the while being too genuinely cultured to understand it along exceptionalism’s lines.
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    Here is an argument against what I said in the personal opinion of former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaei:


    He pointed out that the criminal Zionist regime is the biggest spy in the world.

    Elsewhere in his remarks, Rezaei pointed to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine and Lebanon and stressed that if the criminal Zionist regime is not stopped, it will attack Saudi Arabia and Iraq in the next places.



    They will? I mean, I don't know. I didn't think that was a tangible goal; but they are guilty of being Arabs. Perhaps they are in more danger than I am aware of. At the moment, this is not a knee-jerk reaction, since apparently this tosses you into the death wish of the Zionists. If he's willing to say this in the Friday prayers, and, they don't throw shoes, there may be something to it.

    This is what's actually happening:


    Quote The purpose of holding this exercise is to consolidate sustainable collective security and its foundations in the region, to expand multilateral cooperation among participating countries, and also to show the good will and ability of these countries in line with the joint support for peace and friendship and maritime security.

    The Russian and Omani flotilla were welcomed by the helicopters and vessels of the army and navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while entering the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Also, representatives of countries from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Bangladesh and India, who are observing members of the joint naval exercises of IONS 2024 and entered Bandar Abbas International Airport after arriving at the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.


    Out of all those, Oman has been partnered with "Iranians" since before recorded time. Most of that was handled by coastal trawlers, that is, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea were navigated by going up and down both sides, rather than crossing them. And it is precisely Oman that in the 1,200-1,300 B. C. E. range, that we find large stone anchors matching ones found in India, which is what we would suggest is found in the Bible as "ships of Tarshish".

    This dovetails into our "Semitic problem". There was resistance against making "genealogy from Ishmael", and in this case, the Arabic wrangling is considered to be far worse than Hebrew, which as we have shown, is already bent.

    I wouldn't put my neck out to swear there was a "Yarab" person, however, some type of expansion from Yemen definitely matches physical findings.


    The most precise way we can form a knowledge base is when we can go into an archaeological layer and carbon-date something, then we can cross-reference human, animal, and plant remains, and we get a pretty good timing that resolves issues of new versus old. It becomes easier to tell when something started or changed. And from doing this, it is easy to see that most of the human stories or histories we have been given are just plain wrong.


    With respect to the Arabs or Semites, then we would be dealing with genetics that were not even identified until around 2004.

    I'm not much of a biologist, but, for these purposes, it is telling to witness the life of certain rare lines such as U9:


    Haplogroup U9 is a rare clade found stretching from Europe to India. It is found in Ethiopia, Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, Austria, England, Hungary. Haplogroup U is an Indo-European haplogroup. Haplogroups U4 and U9 are sister clades.


    Haplogroups U9 and U4 share two common mutations at the root of their phylogeny. It is interesting that, in Pakistan, U9 occurs frequently only among the so-called “negroid Makrani” population. In this particular population, lineages specific to sub-Saharan Africans occur as frequently as 39%

    Interestingly, the U9 mtDNA that we found in Andhra Pradesh, together with an Ethiopian mtDNA, defines the new U9a sub-group, thus confirming the ancient genetic links between East Africa, Southwest Asia and India.

    The European clade U2e and the rare clade U9 could have reached the Arabian Peninsula from northern areas...



    That is what is said, considering most of these samples are taken from living populations.

    The last bit is correct, the "negroid Makrani" and the "burnt face Ethiopian" turn out to be of Siberian or Turanian descent.

    Naturally, they mix in Yemen as well.

    What this represents is movement south along the Pamir Highway that has an eastern branch into India, and a western branch that crosses the Arabian Peninsula into East Africa. It's not Iranian.

    From a corresponding paper looking into the physical and genetic background of Ethiopia and Semitic:


    Quote Obsidian-trading links between coastal East Africa and Arabia can be traced back to the 7th millennium b.c., whereas the beginning of agriculture in Ethiopia is usually attributed to increasing contacts with Egypt and the Near East, from the middle of the 5th millennium b.c. Records concerning the trade of myrrh between Egypt and Ethiopia, along the Red Sea coast, go back to the 3rd millennium b.c. The Horn of Africa may have been the major prehistoric entry point of the African zebu cattle from the southern Arabian peninsula (Hanotte et al. 2002). In the late 2nd and early 1st millennium b.c., the eastern part of the Tigray plateau was included in the Tihama cultural complex, spread widely along both the African and Arabian coasts of the Red Sea (Munro-Hay 1991). Later, in the mid-1st millennium b.c., the southern Arabian immigrants, or Sabaens, appeared in Ethiopia. These were military or trading colonists who maintained contact with their country of origin for centuries. The Semitic-speaking Aksumites, or Habash (Abyssinians), had their capital city, Aksum, in the western part of the province of Tigray.


    That is of course the Indian Zebu which is exported to Africa, where it has descendants, that can be determined to have their own unique sub-family that "mutated" or split off around Chad in ca. 1,000 B. C. E..

    Without having any reference to "Semitic" or "Arabic", it is correct to say that Sabians, Ethiopians, and Indians share a common ancestry from beyond the Pamirs, or "Turan" or that which is entirely outside of the Iranian sphere. In most places, this U9 group mixes in to the population, with its most dominant appearance in the Makrani along the west Pakistan coast.

    That's what goes "in to" the era of Solomon. What comes "out from" that does not usually seem to be well-represented, especially from the strange fascination on "genealogy". If I wanted to look at something that was more Sabian, less corrupted by politics, while being Semitic, and even Israeli, it would be Mandeanism. Or, only slightly differently, the Druze.

    Back to why modern Israelis may hate Arabs, the Josef Goebbels in me wants to say "It's easy. You tell them to". I'm going to guess that if we look to the first aggressive moves, out of Irgun and similar "armed gangs", it is starting more because "someone is in the way". Let's see. If you're there because your grandparents were in Ukraine, why do you hate Arabs? You're taught to. Isn't this how it worked in Ukraine, before our eyes? Why would a German Jew suddenly hate Arabs? Wouldn't this be contradictory to their philanthropic and intellectual pretexts? You need a bit of time for these potentially reasonable people to die off so no one remembers why this is wrong.


    What they are saying is largely based in the fallacy of taking a version of known events and categorically switching it to the pre-Solomonic era, which is untenable.

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    Quote What do you think is the reason for this hate for Arabs?


    Propaganda, fear, trauma, generational trauma see also epigenetics; feeling of supremacy, impunity and I would add vested interest.

    And so they become sadists.

    I saw a documentary on what happened to the men who shot the polish jews. Apparently, they were not ordered to do it. They were not Nazis, just ordinary people like policemen. They were not ordered to do it. They were told they could refuse. A small number walked away; some did it and needed psychiatric help or counselling after; another group did it and the more they did the more they began to enjoy it and the more sadistic they became.
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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    What I called the glorious centuries of Persian literature (our 10th through 16th centuries) were centuries of great religious diversity where all major towns were inhabited by Muslims of all obediences, Jews, Christians of all obediences, Zoroastrians of course, and probably also Hindu and Buddhist tradespeople. (Meanwhile, in Europe, the Inquisition occasionally burnt them.) This is the cultural background of Iran that explains why they are so opposed to Zionist Antisemitism and at the same time honour and protect the non-Zionist Jews who live in Iran as I am writing. The political system in Iran may not be loved by every Iranian (allow my cautious formulation) but the Iranian people endorse the universalist calling of their civilisation – all the while being too genuinely cultured to understand it along exceptionalism’s lines.


    It is this specialized endeavor towards which I have no clue.

    I *do*, however, have something that intercepts the tail end of what you are reviewing.

    This is the handshake that will make slabs of your mind fall off like meat from a slow-roasted carcass.


    It comes from trying to objectively verify the nebulous knowledge about the mysterious figure:


    St. Germain is said twice to have entered the east, first to the court of the Shah of Persia, 1737-1742.




    That is almost meaningless, because Nader Shah only had a mobile military camp, such as entered by Hamway 1743 who:


    ...became a partner with Mr Dingley, a merchant in St Petersburg, and in this way was led to travel in Russia and Persia. Leaving St Petersburg on 10 September 1743, and passing south by Moscow, Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan, he embarked on the Caspian Sea on 22 November and arrived at Astrabad on 18 December. Here his goods were seized by Mohammed Hassan Beg, and it was only after great privations that he reached the camp of Nadir Shah, under whose protection he recovered most (85%) of his property.


    Nader Shah was well known to the European public of the time. In 1768, Christian VII of Denmark commissioned Sir William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nader Shah written by his Minister Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi into French.


    "Persian Court" however may be relevant to the Safavid dynasty, which he temporarily interrupted. After the demise of Constantinople, Venice tried to get the Safavids to turn on the Ottomans starting in 1463. A little further:


    More came of Abbas's contacts with the English, although England had little interest in fighting against the Ottomans.


    Then:

    The English at sea, represented by the English East India Company, also began to take an interest in Iran, and in 1622 four of its ships helped Abbas retake Hormuz from the Portuguese in the Capture of Ormuz (1622). This was the beginning of the East India Company's long-running interest in Iran.


    But if St. Germain went to something resembling a standing court, it would have been:


    School of Isfahan which refers to alchemy and yoga.


    ...it was here that he began to understand the secrets of Nature.


    Isfahan was "court of the Shah of Persia" for quite some time, it does sound quite eclectic and Alexandrine, similar to Neo-Platonism and Theosophy, with additional sources. Nothing more explained who or what happened here. Evidently it was cathartic. But his full mastery came in India in 1755. This likewise stems from the English defeating the rival French around Madras.


    What is that? What is Isfahan in relation to this synthetic Persian culture? What happened to it??

    Would it be something he would have a hard time telling the European public?

    Let me guess, they were Sabians. Probably. Possibly.

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    Here's something because if we look at the pictures, we won't understand. I am noticing that Haifa -- Carmel is described as "the first line of defense for Tel Aviv". And for example, we found a few days ago that Kiryat Eliezer was targeted by drones and today it is missiles. What is it? What is going on here??


    The situation is framed very well by Episode Three of the Hoopoe, which itself was kind of meaningless to me, but in this case we can avail ourselves of Arabic translated in Iran:


    Quote By Ivan Kesic

    A series of photos taken by a Hezbollah drone flying over occupied Haifa and Mount Carmel has once again exposed vulnerabilities in much-touted Israeli air defense systems and highlighted the regime's practice of using settlers as human shields.

    The footage and accompanying images show how the regime deliberately positions its military installations near residential, religious and protected natural sites in the occupied territories.

    On October 9, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah released a seven-minute video featuring high-resolution photographs taken by its Hudhud drone as it flew over Haifa and Mount Carmel in northern occupied Palestine.

    The surveillance drone captured hundreds of images of potential targets for the resistance, primarily focusing on strategic military and industrial sites, before returning undetected to Lebanon.

    This marked at least the fourth such operation by Hezbollah since late spring, each accompanied by the public release of sensitive photographs of key Israeli locations.

    The drone's flight path

    The video began with images of the Kiryat Nahum industrial zone in eastern Haifa, located near a refinery and oil storage tanks, where potential air defense batteries are situated.

    The drone then flew over the Haifa refinery, which the Press TV website previously described as one of Israel's key industrial facilities. Two-thirds of the regime’s 15 million tons of oil are refined there.




    Quote Continuing south, the drone passed over the Kiryat Ata industrial zone, which hosts factories, storage facilities, and research laboratories for several chemical and fertilizer manufacturers such as ICL Group, Novetide, Wiseman & Friedman, and Sterokem.

    Turning southwest, the drone also captured images of the Nesher cement plant, the Zionist entity’s largest cement producer, supplying 60 percent of the domestic market.

    The southernmost point shown was a ministry of communications antenna atop Giv'at HaHagan, the second-highest peak on Mount Carmel.

    According to Hezbollah, this antenna serves as a major communications hub between the ‘northern command’ and the ‘ministry of war affairs’ in Tel Aviv.




    Quote Moving further, the drone recorded the Mishmar military site, located along Road 672 in Mount Carmel National Park, near the Giv'at HaHagan mast. This site is controversial for several reasons.

    The base, recently built among the forests of a strictly protected natural zone, is situated next to student dormitories, an archaeological site, and a religious place.

    Constructed on the remnants of the Mishmar Carmel settlement from the 1940s, the base is tasked with protecting Haifa and its surroundings. It houses visible radars and newly built platforms with Iron Dome interceptor missiles.

    According to satellite imagery from 2024, all four platforms for air defense launchers were constructed in recent months.

    The "Inature" website, which provides information about the Zionist entity's protected areas and visitor instructions, including for the hiking trail that passes through the site, mentioned occasional military activity as far back as 2012 and a blockade of the trail due to permanent military activity since 2015.

    The choice of this location is controversial because Mount Carmel is a national park with dense, dry, and highly flammable forests, which have been severely impacted by catastrophic fires in recent years, including this summer.

    In today's wartime environment, these forests are vulnerable to Hezbollah rocket strikes, hot launches, failed Iron Dome interceptors, and debris from successful interceptions.





    Quote The platforms are located just 300 meters southeast of the University of Haifa's student dormitories, which house about a thousand Israeli and international students.

    This highlights Israel's tactic of using its own settler population and non-military facilities as human shields, as mentioned in Hezbollah's reports following the drone's flight.

    In addition to endangering nature and youth, the regime has also disregarded historical heritage. The Mishmar base is situated in the middle of an archaeological site.

    Just 100 meters west of the base lies the Road of the Millennia (Derech HaDorot), an open-air museum affiliated with the University of Haifa's Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum.

    This museum contains Bronze Age Canaanite, Iron Age Jewish, and Roman-Byzantine structures, relocated here from other sites in danger of destruction.

    Only 150 meters east of the platforms and mere meters from the radars is the Grove of the Forty (Hurshat HaArba'im or Shajarat al-Arbein), a sacred oak grove with an ancient stone well, a significant site for the Druze community.

    After overflying the Mishmar base, the drone continued northwest, photographing the University of Haifa campus, including the Yitzhak Rabin Complex, the Main Building, and the Eshkol Tower, which Hezbollah claims houses military facilities.

    The drone then crossed over Haifa's Denia, Ramat Alon, and Ramot Remez neighborhoods, reaching the Grand Canyon Mall, near the central junction of the Carmel Tunnel.

    This two-part twin tunnel, which runs 6.5 kilometers under Mount Carmel, connects the city's west and east coasts. In wartime, it functions as both a shelter and a hospital for settlers.

    Flying over Vardiya and Geul neighborhoods, the drone captured footage of the large Bnai Zion Medical Center, known for its close cooperation with the Israeli army and for treating wounded regime soldiers during various wars against Lebanon.

    The flight continued along Tchernichovsky Street, where Ze'ev Air Base, a reserve military defense base equipped with David's Sling batteries, and Kiryat Eliezer Air Base, the main air defense base responsible for protecting Haifa, are located.

    The footage concluded with images of the Stella Maris base on the Mediterranean coast, used for maritime monitoring and surveillance along the northern coast.

    The base is equipped with a multi-layered radar system. Itwas constructed only 50 meters from the historic Stella Maris Monastery, while the Ze'ev Air Base was built at a similar distance from the historic Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns.

    This further illustrates the regime's practice of placing military installations near civilian, historical, and religious sites to dissuade the Lebanese resistance from targeting the bases.

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    "The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the unhinged Yom Kippur sermon by Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch slamming young American Jews for opposing Israel's wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and protesting the country's system of apartheid."

    Liberal US rabbi melts down at Jewish anti-Zionists

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    ‘Please pass on my deepest F*** you.’
    - Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian author
    “I’ve been a writer for a long time,” Abulhawa wrote in a message to Novara Media. “Of course I anticipated they’d reject my piece. … They don’t publish us [Palestinians] unless we accept watered-down versions of what we say so they can pretend to have a semblance of journalistic integrity while they push state and corporate propaganda.”
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    Yes, The Guardian newspaper/Intelligence Service pamphlet does do this cringeworthy grovelling for money claiming 'fearless journalism' which, frankly, is as preposterous a statement you'll read anywhere. Still, as it isn't paywalled - yet - it's a useful yardstick by which we can measure our enemies' motives, intent, and similarly godawful PR.
    This is quite the story and won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been interested in, and become knowledgeable about how the media manipulates: old hat really here on the forum, but, here comes another humdinger:
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    Discontent Deepens Among Guardian Staff Over Palestine ‘Double Standard’

    by Rivkah Brown
    18 October 2024

    Publisher/source: NovaraMedia



    Palestinian American author Susan Abulhawa, whose piece was spiked by Guardian editor Katharine Viner, and British Jewish author Howard Jacobson, whose piece wasn’t. Photo: Rivkah Brown/Novara Media
    Susan Abulhawa saw the censor’s hand before it even touched her piece. “As the Guardian doesn’t typically publish people like me,” she cautioned her editor at the paper, “I want to be sure the edits don’t ‘dilute’ the piece to make it more palatable for their readers. We know a very different Israel than the one presented by the media for decades, and the tendency is to ‘soften’ Palestinian voices.”

    “I absolutely understand and I am going to do my best to protect and fight for your piece,” the series editor V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) assured Abulhawa, adding: “I have the profoundest respect for you and your writing.”

    It would be hard not to: Abulhawa’s debut novel Mornings in Jenin has sold over 1m copies in 32 languages since it was published in 2006, making her by some counts the most widely read Palestinian author in history.

    Yet by the following month, the Guardian had stopped responding to Abulhawa’s emails.

    In July, Guardian US invited Abulhawa to contribute to “rise against fascism”, a series of opinion pieces about the global far right due to be published in September. Abulhawa agreed and submitted a short piece about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, based in part on her own experience: she visited the strip twice this year.

    After several rounds of increasingly fraught back-and-forth, the paper and Abulhawa parted ways. The disagreement had centred on Abulhawa’s insistence on using the term “holocaust” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. “Israel is committing the holocaust of our time,” Abulhawa wrote in a draft, published today by Novara Media, “and it is doing it in full view of a seemingly indifferent world.” Unable to find an alternative wording that both parties would accept, the Guardian refused the piece.

    “Please pass on my deepest **** you to Betsy [Reed, editor-in-chief of Guardian US] and her racist core,” Abulhawa wrote in her final email. Yet it wasn’t Reed who had ultimately spiked the piece: Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s global editor-in-chief, had intervened at the eleventh hour.

    Six Guardian journalists who spoke to Novara Media said they understood why Viner had resisted Abulhawa’s use of the term “holocaust”; doing so would have kicked off a media storm. What they don’t understand is why Viner seems happy to repeatedly weather such storms for advocates of Israel. This, they suggest, points to a pattern of deference towards the paper’s pro-Israel critics, one that has shifted only slightly as Israel’s assault on Gaza has intensified.

    “Is the Guardian more worried about the reaction to what is said about Israel than Palestine? Absolutely,” said one long-serving staff member.

    The Guardian did not respond to Novara Media’s request for comment.

    Rationalising infanticide

    After 7 October, staff say that the Guardian’s editor-in-chief has maintained a vice-like grip over the paper’s output on Israel and Palestine – or at least one side of it. Some desks say that in the initial weeks and months following the Hamas attack, every piece on the subject was sent to Viner for approval, delaying and sometimes halting publication.

    “Everything is scrutinised,” said one senior staff member. “You’re under such an amount of suffocating control, it’s like throwing sand in the gears [to] deliberately… frustrate the smooth running [of the paper].”

    In two cases, Viner overruled section editors to withdraw pieces by Palestinian contributors, Abulhawa and Dylan Saba. Both were commissioned by the Guardian US, whose distance from the paper’s London headquarters has emboldened it to push left on certain issues where the UK edition tends right (notably gender, though also Palestine).

    Viner’s censoring instinct has been perhaps clearest in her treatment of Owen Jones: Viner is widely understood to have banned the longstanding Guardian columnist from writing about Palestine between late November and mid-January, during some of the most intense months of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

    One senior staffer pointed out that Viner’s control is not exercised consistently, however – “only if you’re publishing something critical of Israel.”

    The Guardian publishes few if any pieces explicitly defending Israel’s actions in Gaza. Instead, contributors will often claim that criticism of Israel is cover for the “new antisemitism” – or “alibi antisemitism”, as Dave Rich, author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism, described it in a recent Guardian op-ed.

    “It’s a perverse landscape right now, where it’s not… that you’re pro-Palestine or pro-Israel,” said one senior staffer. “You’re pro-Palestine or you’re anti-antisemitism.” Howard Jacobson’s piece fell into the latter category.

    On 6 October, the day before the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel’s Gaza borderlands, the Observer published a piece by the acclaimed British Jewish author (the Observer shares an owner with the Guardian, though in mid-September it emerged that Guardian Media Group was in talks with media startup Tortoise Media to sell the Sunday paper; the paper has its own editor-in-chief, though in reality Viner has final say in what is published in both papers). The piece argued that the media’s attempts to draw attention to Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian children – 16,756 have been recorded killed in Israeli attacks since 7 October, though scholarly estimates are far higher – are reviving the antisemitic blood libel that Jews ritually sacrifice children.

    “Here we were again, the same merciless infanticides inscribed in the imaginations of medieval Christians,” Jacobson wrote. “Only this time, instead of operating on the midnight streets of Lincoln and Norwich, they target Palestinian schools, the paediatric wards of hospitals, the tiny fragile bodies of children themselves.”

    “There has been a massive backlash to it internally,” said one senior Guardian staff member. “People are disgusted and horrified and just dismayed and embarrassed that that was published.” One long-serving Guardian staffer said it was “amazing” that the Observer would publish the piece, which they described as “abominable”. Several Guardian staff and contributors complained about the piece to Observer editor Paul Webster; they received pro forma responses or in some cases, none at all.

    The piece attracted widespread scrutiny outside of the Guardian, prompting The New Yorker to run a coruscating interview with Jacobson entitled “Rationalising the horrors of Israel’s war in Gaza”. “Howard, I think maybe we’re in a bit of a worrisome place if you see photos of dead children on television and your first thought is, They’re trying to make me, a Jew, hate my people,” the magazine’s sharp-tongued interviewer Isaac Chotiner challenged Jacobson. The Observer has since published a response to Jacobson by a Jewish contributor, as well as several letters.

    One long-serving Guardian journalist suggested the reason the Observer ran the piece is that Jacobson is “supposed to be one of the great writers” and a “staple of the paper”. Jacobson has written for the Observer since at least 2000; between 2017 and 2018 it published a weekly diary by him.

    Yet while Jacobson’s piece sailed smoothly to publication, another “great writer” was struggling to pass the Guardian’s rigorous – or partially rigorous – editorial process.

    'Please leave this word'

    On 13 September, six weeks after she’d filed her piece, Abulhawa received an email from the Guardian with a final round of edits. She accepted almost all of them besides the suggestion to change the word “holocaust” to “genocide”. Abulhawa was confused, since the term hadn’t been picked up in previous rounds of editing.

    “Please leave this word,” Abulhawa said in a comment. “It is not the property of any group. It is a word in the English language that is not exclusive to anyone.”

    The Guardian pushed back. “We favor substituting ‘genocide’ for ‘holocaust’ there, which is still strong and does not blunt the impact of Susan’s piece,” Guardian US editor Betsy Reed wrote to Abulhawa’s editor, V. Novara Media understand that Reed’s email was sent after consultation with Viner.

    V forwarded Reed’s email to Abulhawa, who replied with a five-point explanation of why the term holocaust was appropriate. “Given the magnitude, the unceasing horror, the hateful glee and sadism at our suffering,” Abulhawa wrote, “the only word I have at my disposal that comes close to capturing what’s happening is ‘holocaust’.”

    “I understand Susan’s reasoning,” Reed replied, “but I wonder if we could find a solution that captures the meaning she wants without invoking the holocaust in that way.”

    Abulhawa refused. “I’ve compromised a lot, but I’m not bending further. We’re watching faceless, headless, limbless, burned, crushed, and mangled bodies in inconceivable gore every day, over and over. … I am not going to play this western media game of tiptoeing around the feelings of our tormentors. Nazis were not so cruel.

    “Holocaust is an English word in the English dictionary. It is frankly not big enough to capture the annihilation, torment, degradation, and horror being inflicted on Palestinians for decades now.

    “I really don’t care if they run my piece or not.”

    Abulhawa sent a further email shortly afterwards: “I’m sick of this hypocrisy. they cannot fathom our humanity. That’s the issue. They do not see us as human. If our people in Gaza were Jewish, or other Europeans, no one would hesitate to use that word and worse.”

    After receiving no reply from V for over a week, Abulhawa inquired about the status of her piece. V confirmed that the Guardian had declined to run it: “They don’t seem to be budging on the last edits. The world is a horror. Thank you for your courage and voice,” V wrote.

    In an email to Novara Media, V wrote: “I commissioned Susan because I believe she is a really important voice on Gaza and Palestine. I believe she wrote an excellent piece; the Guardian, of course, makes the ultimate decisions.”

    Abulhawa would not be appeased. “Please pass on my deepest **** you to Betsy and her racist core,” she replied. The Guardian’s rise against fascism series was published in early September, including 15 pieces on subjects including India, Italy, the climate crisis and human psychology. None were on Israel and Palestine.

    In a message to Novara Media, Abulhawa explained why she’d expressed her anger at Guardian editors. “I think Betsy reserves th[e] word [“holocaust”] for one people only. … In [the] western imagination, there is nothing more horrific than the mass slaughter of their own western citizens. Brown people don’t count.”

    Several genocide scholars who spoke to Novara Media said they were comfortable with Abulhawa’s use of the term holocaust to describe events in Gaza.

    “I accept [the word holocaust] is not the property of any group,” Mark Levene, an emeritus fellow at the University of Southampton whose research focuses on genocide and Jewish history, told Novara Media. “Who am I or who is anybody to deny her?”

    “She’s [using the term] for the purpose of making a point, and she has … the perfect right to make the point, even if one might demur on whether [she is correct].”

    John Cox, director of Holocaust, genocide and human rights studies at the University of North Carolina, concurred. “I think it’s acceptable to use holocaust to refer to other genocides,” he wrote in an email to Novara Media, “though I do it very sparingly, given the possibility of being misunderstood. But I support Abulhawa’s decision and right to use the term, and I fully agree with the quote from her that you provided.”

    Abulhawa had used the term holocaust to describe what she saw in Gaza on several occasions prior to her Guardian piece, including in a video for the leftwing US broadcaster Democracy Now!, an article for pro-Palestine outlet The Electronic Intifada and on her social media channels. But for the Guardian, even “genocide” was a stretch.

    Levene had discovered this himself when he submitted a letter to the Guardian on 11 October, four days after the Hamas attack, saying that “Israel is on the cusp of committing genocide in Gaza”; the letter was rejected. It would be several months before the term genocide crept into the paper following the International Court of Justice’s interim judgement in January that said Palestinians had the plausible right to be protected from genocide; it is still understood to be impermissible in the UK edition except with careful explication. The Guardian files coverage of the genocide under a section previously entitled “Israel-Hamas war”, now “Israel-Gaza war”.

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    “ Elsewhere in his remarks, Rezaei pointed to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine and Lebanon and stressed that if the criminal Zionist regime is not stopped, it will attack Saudi Arabia and Iraq in the next places.”

    Shaberon,
    what Rezaei said above has already been voiced by the minister of finance, Smotrich. I do not think that the Zionists will stop with just Gaza, or Lebanon so yes it is worrisome for the whole of the middleeast. Doesn’t Iraq still have the US presence and isn’t the US backing Israel?
    As to Saudi Arabia, recently showed interest in trading oil without using the petro dollar, nor did they renew the petro dollar contract, maybe that factor has something to do with this as well?

    In the past during the Iran-Iraq war, Iran was supplied weapons from US via Israel at the time..although nowadays they seem to be strengthening their relationship with Russia..and are interested in the BRICs. I’d say there is plenty to worry about if this war keeps expanding in the middleeast and who will side with who.

    There is also the factor of the meaning of Zionism, which I think is the belief of going back to the lands that were theirs 2000 years ago and also there were much less Arabs.

    And I would also say this is more about Arabophobia than it is about Islamophobia although the former is usually confused with the latter.
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    ...what Rezaei said above has already been voiced by the minister of finance, Smotrich. I do not think that the Zionists will stop with just Gaza, or Lebanon so yes it is worrisome for the whole of the middleeast

    Ok. I can accept it may be tenable, especially because of the Euphrates River, which at least in a madman's delirium is in Haretz Yisrael.

    As far as what may come to pass, well, we are getting a good look at how "populist" issues may become "official platforms". So, for example, a finance minister's opinion is not a battle plan -- but it could lead to them.

    And when it is drawn down to the level of "hate Arabs" rather than anything that makes sense, it's un-processable. Probably best to nip this one in the bud.


    Quote Doesn’t Iraq still have the US presence and isn’t the US backing Israel?

    Only to an extent. Iraq is like Lebanon, it has a number of comprador officials who like the U. S., while in the case of Lebanon it is France. Therefor only the IRI attacks westerners and Zionists. The country is a footstool, used to "weaken" Iran in the 1980s and then "disposed" of for the most part, so, it hasn't displayed much independence or sovereignty for ages. The fact that there is anything left that would even lift a finger, is testament to a significant degree of popular adversity against the crusaders.


    Quote As to Saudi Arabia, recently showed interest in trading oil without using the petro dollar, nor did they renew the petro dollar contract, maybe that factor has something to do with this as well?


    Probably the biggest factor.

    The "pivot" was visible when Dr. Assad said the Saudis had quit bothering Syria. Then the Oct. 7 prevented them from "normalizing" with Israel, and now, they are fairly enmeshed in an actual regional partnership. This is massive, which I don't attribute to their genius or high moral standard, it is probably just "survival mode" of their "national interests", and this is how it works. So far the "softest" stance remains in Jordan, which, again is a bit more complicated because they border. No one else around there slightly has any sympathy.


    Quote There is also the factor of the meaning of Zionism, which I think is the belief of going back to the lands that were theirs 2000 years ago and also there were much less Arabs.

    It's at most a belief that has been conjured, if you look at any precedental Aliyah, did anyone say "this belongs to us"? Of course not.

    The Nabatheans bred the Arabian horse by 2,000 B. C. E. and traded it to India. I don't know if they spoke Arabic. But on a physical basis, it is easily possible to show "the people" were there. Several large sites such as Gaza were functional prior to that. Then, all we can really say is that some Canaanites began "selecting" themselves through a maternal lineage, however the legends they provide are of course not actual history, but justification.



    The first external corroboration of Israel is on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III of Assyria:






    The quibble here is that if the king as inscribed depicts Biblical Yehu, it explicitly states "of the house of Omri", whereas the Bible allows, but neither confirms nor denies, this. But the obelisk was made in the near proximity of an event that took place on or about 841 B. C. E...

    Israel was a vassal of Assyria, then it was destroyed by Assyrians. I suppose you could vent this on Iraqis, although they are not quite directly responsible.

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    Here is an argument against what I said in the personal opinion of former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaei:


    He pointed out that the criminal Zionist regime is the biggest spy in the world.

    Elsewhere in his remarks, Rezaei pointed to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine and Lebanon and stressed that if the criminal Zionist regime is not stopped, it will attack Saudi Arabia and Iraq in the next places.



    They will? I mean, I don't know. I didn't think that was a tangible goal; but they are guilty of being Arabs. Perhaps they are in more danger than I am aware of. At the moment, this is not a knee-jerk reaction, since apparently this tosses you into the death wish of the Zionists. If he's willing to say this in the Friday prayers, and, they don't throw shoes, there may be something to it.

    This is what's actually happening:


    Quote The purpose of holding this exercise is to consolidate sustainable collective security and its foundations in the region, to expand multilateral cooperation among participating countries, and also to show the good will and ability of these countries in line with the joint support for peace and friendship and maritime security.

    The Russian and Omani flotilla were welcomed by the helicopters and vessels of the army and navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while entering the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Also, representatives of countries from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Bangladesh and India, who are observing members of the joint naval exercises of IONS 2024 and entered Bandar Abbas International Airport after arriving at the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.


    Out of all those, Oman has been partnered with "Iranians" since before recorded time. Most of that was handled by coastal trawlers, that is, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea were navigated by going up and down both sides, rather than crossing them. And it is precisely Oman that in the 1,200-1,300 B. C. E. range, that we find large stone anchors matching ones found in India, which is what we would suggest is found in the Bible as "ships of Tarshish".

    This dovetails into our "Semitic problem". There was resistance against making "genealogy from Ishmael", and in this case, the Arabic wrangling is considered to be far worse than Hebrew, which as we have shown, is already bent.

    I wouldn't put my neck out to swear there was a "Yarab" person, however, some type of expansion from Yemen definitely matches physical findings.


    The most precise way we can form a knowledge base is when we can go into an archaeological layer and carbon-date something, then we can cross-reference human, animal, and plant remains, and we get a pretty good timing that resolves issues of new versus old. It becomes easier to tell when something started or changed. And from doing this, it is easy to see that most of the human stories or histories we have been given are just plain wrong.


    With respect to the Arabs or Semites, then we would be dealing with genetics that were not even identified until around 2004.

    I'm not much of a biologist, but, for these purposes, it is telling to witness the life of certain rare lines such as U9:


    Haplogroup U9 is a rare clade found stretching from Europe to India. It is found in Ethiopia, Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, Austria, England, Hungary. Haplogroup U is an Indo-European haplogroup. Haplogroups U4 and U9 are sister clades.


    Haplogroups U9 and U4 share two common mutations at the root of their phylogeny. It is interesting that, in Pakistan, U9 occurs frequently only among the so-called “negroid Makrani” population. In this particular population, lineages specific to sub-Saharan Africans occur as frequently as 39%

    Interestingly, the U9 mtDNA that we found in Andhra Pradesh, together with an Ethiopian mtDNA, defines the new U9a sub-group, thus confirming the ancient genetic links between East Africa, Southwest Asia and India.

    The European clade U2e and the rare clade U9 could have reached the Arabian Peninsula from northern areas...



    That is what is said, considering most of these samples are taken from living populations.

    The last bit is correct, the "negroid Makrani" and the "burnt face Ethiopian" turn out to be of Siberian or Turanian descent.

    Naturally, they mix in Yemen as well.

    What this represents is movement south along the Pamir Highway that has an eastern branch into India, and a western branch that crosses the Arabian Peninsula into East Africa. It's not Iranian.

    From a corresponding paper looking into the physical and genetic background of Ethiopia and Semitic:


    Quote Obsidian-trading links between coastal East Africa and Arabia can be traced back to the 7th millennium b.c., whereas the beginning of agriculture in Ethiopia is usually attributed to increasing contacts with Egypt and the Near East, from the middle of the 5th millennium b.c. Records concerning the trade of myrrh between Egypt and Ethiopia, along the Red Sea coast, go back to the 3rd millennium b.c. The Horn of Africa may have been the major prehistoric entry point of the African zebu cattle from the southern Arabian peninsula (Hanotte et al. 2002). In the late 2nd and early 1st millennium b.c., the eastern part of the Tigray plateau was included in the Tihama cultural complex, spread widely along both the African and Arabian coasts of the Red Sea (Munro-Hay 1991). Later, in the mid-1st millennium b.c., the southern Arabian immigrants, or Sabaens, appeared in Ethiopia. These were military or trading colonists who maintained contact with their country of origin for centuries. The Semitic-speaking Aksumites, or Habash (Abyssinians), had their capital city, Aksum, in the western part of the province of Tigray.


    That is of course the Indian Zebu which is exported to Africa, where it has descendants, that can be determined to have their own unique sub-family that "mutated" or split off around Chad in ca. 1,000 B. C. E..

    Without having any reference to "Semitic" or "Arabic", it is correct to say that Sabians, Ethiopians, and Indians share a common ancestry from beyond the Pamirs, or "Turan" or that which is entirely outside of the Iranian sphere. In most places, this U9 group mixes in to the population, with its most dominant appearance in the Makrani along the west Pakistan coast.

    That's what goes "in to" the era of Solomon. What comes "out from" that does not usually seem to be well-represented, especially from the strange fascination on "genealogy". If I wanted to look at something that was more Sabian, less corrupted by politics, while being Semitic, and even Israeli, it would be Mandeanism. Or, only slightly differently, the Druze.

    Back to why modern Israelis may hate Arabs, the Josef Goebbels in me wants to say "It's easy. You tell them to". I'm going to guess that if we look to the first aggressive moves, out of Irgun and similar "armed gangs", it is starting more because "someone is in the way". Let's see. If you're there because your grandparents were in Ukraine, why do you hate Arabs? You're taught to. Isn't this how it worked in Ukraine, before our eyes? Why would a German Jew suddenly hate Arabs? Wouldn't this be contradictory to their philanthropic and intellectual pretexts? You need a bit of time for these potentially reasonable people to die off so no one remembers why this is wrong.


    What they are saying is largely based in the fallacy of taking a version of known events and categorically switching it to the pre-Solomonic era, which is untenable.
    Well Shaberon – my spontaneous reaction it is to thank you for your wisdom – but I have great trouble just understanding you because in my opinion you mix up various strands of reasoning, letting out logical bridges etc. Please try and write as clearly as you can so that even a person with moderate intelligence as I am can follow you. Thank you.

    It seems to me that we are talking two entirely different languages.

    You claim not to be well-versed in biology but you adduce reasonings on the basis of haplogroups (which I am not familiar with at all). So what is the weight of your argument?

    I talk languages and body types, as well as how this is historically articulated/mediated. I happen to speak about languages professionally, claiming expertise.

    In order for it to be clear to other readers and to you: I think that haplogroups have a very limited bearing on the thematics of racial etc. hatred.

    Languages do and bodies do. People who have major problems with their sexuality tend to find certain body types repellent. Those who have a deeper, more loving attitude towards sexuality tend to find more body types interesting.

    The point I made about disparity between bodies and languages is an important one. Major immigration countries (like the US) have a history of immigrants who lose their “civilisation” (their “linguistically mediated culture”) in at the utmost two generations. Then sentimentalism sets in. “I am 1/36th Cambodian!” Who cares? You do not speak the language, only like one type of food you eat at Christmas, and have never been to Cambodia. Blessed are those who see themselves as the depositories of more than just one "civilisation”. they can grow personally and will bring a gift to their neighbours.

    In that same order of things. What many “biologists” and “archeologists” (and historical linguists!) seem to forget is what on other PA posting threads has been explained so well: the degree to which our history has been thoroughly shaken by natural catastrophes. The explosion of Thira in the second part of the 2nd millennium ended the probably Semitic or Caucasian/Kartvelian first Minoan civilisation on Creta and replaced it with a Greek civilisation. It may have caused the demise of other Caucasian civilisations as well, replacing them with Indo-European and Semitic linguistic cultures. The disruption of Indo-European civilisation was probably caused by the Black Sea catastrophe, the one of Nostratic by the Greenland catastrophe. Irrespective of haplogroups, genetics, material cultures (which are increasingly recognised as chaotic, complex etc.). As I explained elsewhere, Greek, Aramaic, later Latin became lingua francas and then the vehicles of civilisation, whatever the genetics, haplogroups or skin colour.

    Knowing the language of a culture is essential to understanding how it fits in the overall civilisational scheme of events. Take Harappa/Mohenjo-Daro. We do not know the language. Until we can decipher the tablets we will not be able to claim it for sure for “Dravidian civilisation”, however probable that may be. We should keep in mind that this ignorance constitutes an opportunity for the "civilisational phantasts” – you know India well, so you know what claims on the Indus Valley civilisation are being made. We can now witness how “phantastically” the Zionist Antisemites dive into that ignorance sinkhole in order to make the most insane claims about the “Promised Land”.

    It is when the yardstick of historical linguistics is put to it that it can be shown that “Ancient Hebrew” and “Phoenician” and “Canaanite” are virtually indistinguishable – and that the memes of a "Holy Land” and a “chosen people” are “history fiction”.

    It is when psychoanalytical and sexological insights can be allowed to assist soul searching that racism, body (self)mutilation and psychotic homicidal cruelty can be understood and fought.

    And once again: whatever their body type, skin colour or biological makeup. Linguistic cultures (civilisations) bridge those differences. In that they resemble exploratory sexuality – they introduce us to a wider concept of humanity so that we learn to also touch the bodies we are speaking to.

    The horror of the “let’s butcher the Amalekites” clearly proves this “ex absurdo”.

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    Iran has criticised the Zionist Antisemitic Colony ever since the Islamic Revolution, Shaberon. That is meanwhile for 45 years.

    America has praised the Nakba since the 1960s tv evangelists.

    Both cases are the "gone public" of a minority view which had been sitting on the backburner.

    Coming from the Syrian--Palestinian view, it would be interesting to find who may have been their "minority sympathizers" at the moment these people were ploughed.

    Were Diaspora Jews saying "oh, those are the Arabs, you have to exterminate them like rats"?

    This would be news to them right?

    Iran has replaced the Pahlavis, who apparently were disinterested, with an Islamic Republic, which, to me, at least, connotes a concern for the Umma. Will it be able to propagate by the persuasive statecraft we have seen recently? In time to thwart a complete genocide?

    Now, of course, I hate a stupid Caliphate as much as any of this other stuff -- and so if by their well-reasoned and patient addresses, they are able to generate a reaction, that is closer to how things ought to work. The neutrality thing about sanitizing the American bases and closing the airspace is something. Not enough, but a start.




    Quote That the Prophet of Islam was an Arab has never been ignored there.

    What this might mean according to most folklore is the language and culture of Yarab, grandfather of the Sabians.


    Is this plausible, as the background for Solomon and the Queen of Sheba?? Yes, of course. That would be the point. Then we find a Sabian cultural region at least as far north as Harran and east into Persia or perhaps Media. Consequently, Torah Kings is partially valid as a nucleus of Saul, David, and Solomon, slightly prior to and around 1,000 B. C. E.. Instead of disputing this part, we will say not only was it a mesh with the Sabian sphere, it was the age of a technological upgrade called Ships of Tarshish, which were large enough to cross the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka:







    Moreover, there is every reason to suspect the crews included Nabathean Arabs as well as Cochin Jews who settled in Kerala on the south-western tip of India.

    So you see what I am attempting to summarize as "Sabian" and "King Solomon".

    It already *was*, and now it is *not*. The map remained intact until around the 600s.

    So, what's the matter. "Ishmael" was reversed to appear *before* Solomon, while Yarab -- if only known through folklore -- almost certainly belongs there. But only "slightly" before. If folklore is tenuously unreliable, at best, here we are looking at something that is the root for the language. It's harder to scrub away, than a written statement, which has motive for political manipulation. The Nabatheans, speaking whatever language, can be found to have bred the Arabian horse at ca. 2,200 B. C. E. and exported it to India.


    So we can rather simply and distinctly show peace and cooperation between the lines of "Solomon" and "Yarab".

    It has nothing to do with "Judaism" or "Islam".

    Yet even in the harshest era of Medieval Caliphates, "Sabian" remains legally enfranchised as a trading partner.

    From this perspective, the distortions of "Abrahamic" influences seem dwarfish and internal. I don't really know how Islam attempts to deal with the historicity of the Prophets, but they typically hold that Adam was in Sri Lanka. They seem to deny historical Jesus in terms of the crucifixion -- as in no such thing happened. I am sure Michel LeClerc knows much more about its internal development such as in Iran. I am willing to give it a spot at the table, so to speak, because it has toned down the aggressive, crusader-like ways, with the notable exceptions being mobs rented by the Americans.
    Thanks for this, Shaberon. Great map.

    As I wrote elsewhere, “Arabi” was used by the Romans.

    The etymology of the name ‘Arab, ‘ayn—ra—ba: ع ر ب. is quite simple: it is a variant of ghayn—ra—ba غ ر ب . Or, more Latin-looking, ‘araba and gharaba have the same basic meaning: sunset, the West. (The Maghrib, a word built on the same root, means “West”, “Occident” and denotes the Westernmost tip of Arabic culture (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco).

    The Arabs were the people inhabiting the "West”. The West to whom? To Mesopotamia. The Semites had in part gone East towards Mesopotamia, where they shoved away or “trans cultured” the Sumerians, or in part West, towards the shores of the Mediterranean. (My guess: occupying the coastal lands that had been ruined by the Thira tsunami.) Where did the Semites come from? Probably from farther North (Anatolia) pushed South by the Indo-Europeans who gradually left the Black Sea coasts where they had fled the Black Lake catastrophe to.

    Later on, the Arabs became the “Westerners” who had not coagulated around the Phoenician city states, Gaza etc.

    Important is the Greek myth where Zeus the bull descends on the shores of the Phoenician city of Tyr, kidnaps the princess, Europa, and carries her on his back to Crete.

    I rewrite the sentence evidencing its real meaning:

    ...the Greek myth where the God of the Sky living in the constellation Taurus descends on the shores of the Westernmost Semitic city consecrated to Taurus, kidnaps the princess, The West (ARaBia=EURoPa), and carries her on his back to Europe/Arabia’s new Western colony.

    European anti-Semitism is (also viewed against the Nostratic background): self-hate.

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    2 • (02h45) Avivim with a Rockets salvo
    3 • (10h30) Kiryot - Haifa suburbs with a large Rockets salvo
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    9 • (12h10) Zarit with a Rockets salvo
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    11 • (12h50) Safed with a Rockets salvo
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    13 • (13h05) Al-Malkia with a Rockets salvo
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    22 • (21h35) Abirim with a Rockets salvo
    23 • Targeted Kiryat Ata with a Missile salvo
    24 • (22h00) Shebaa Gate with a Rockets salvo
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    🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇲 Israel planned to attack Iran on October 15-16, but leaked top secret documents from the Pentagon delayed the attack. Israeli media such as Walla News confirm this.

    An informed source within the U.S. intelligence community has shared with us an extremely sensitive 'top secret' U.S. intelligence document from the NGIA, dated October 15-16, detailing Israeli preparations for an extensive strike inside Iran

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    From October 15 to October 16 the Israeli Air Force also handled several ASMs (air-to-surface missiles) at Ramot David and Ramon airbases, indicating an imminent attack.

    Additionally, the Israeli Air Force carried out an LFE exercise on October 15 to practice air-to-air refueling and combat search and rescue operations with a large number of aircraft, including at least three KC-707 tankers, one G-550 Gulfstream AWACs aircraft, and possibly fighter jets.

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