Spitting, Hitting Attacks on Christians are Surging in Israel

From CBN News. Obviously a Zionist bent here, but still troubled by the reports.

Christians in Palestine also suffer under the occupation.

The Rev. Munter Isaac to do some Christiansplainin' to y'all.

Rev Isaac's Christmas Sermon for those of you who missed it.

Oh, and Christians are persecuted as well.

Zionists attack Armenian Christians in Jerusalem

Yes, this is true. https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1127121.html

Over 30 armed provocateurs wearing ski masks and some carrying lethal weapons attacked a group of Armenian bishops, priests, deacons, and other citizens on Thursday in the Old City of Jerusalem, according to the Armenian Patriarchate.

“A mass and coordinated physical attack was launched,” the Patriarchate wrote in an official letter to the Police and Israeli government, which The Jerusalem Post reviewed. “Several priests, students, and indigenous Armenians are seriously injured.”

“They attacked us,” Bishop Koryoun Baghdasaryan, director of the Real Estate Department for the Patriarchate, told the Post.

 

Who are the terrorists in the Middle East?

Give 'em the Balfour Doctrine and Orde Wingate and this is how they show their gratitude... If you wonder why I am pro-Palestine, I know who is the real terrorist rogue state destabilising the Middle East. And it won't last long without the support of the United States.

And the genocidal, terrorist groups are: Stern Gang/Lehi, Irgun, and Palmach/Hagana which went on to become the Israel defence Forces.

"Never again" bullshit--the Israelis are doing it again. Is Yad Vashem a blueprint for genocide?





And for those American's who want to stand with Israel:

Bethlehem is a real city, and it's in Palestine

It's name in Arabic is Bayt Lahm and it's the home of Christianity. Palestinian Christians have been hit the hardest by the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing by the Zionist regime.

Jesus also known as ‘Isa’ (as) in Arabic. Jesus is revered and beloved to ALL Muslims. Jesus is mentioned in our holy book , the Quran, dozens of times and it has an entire chapter dedicated to his pious mother Mary. This is from Surat 'Āli `Imrān 3:45.

Palestine gave Jesus to the World: Give Palestine Freedom and Justice.

"Remember that Jesus was a refugee, that he challenged empires, and was always on the side of the oppressed.” Merry Christmas from the birth place of Christmas

"One question kept coming up while the tears kept flowing down: 'How can we be the land of Jesus and have this much pain and suffering with so much silence from people who claim Christianity as their religion?'"

Christmas under occupation

"Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." (Matthew 2:17–18).

The pope and archbishop of Canterbury have condemned Israel's actions--where are the condemnations from the secular leaders?

Season's Greetings for Christians from the Holy Land at war.

Some people would throw the dead bodies in your face. I'll just remind you that there is supposed to be peace on earth.

Seasons Greetings!

Since the other two are from Minnesota, here is a choir from that State.

 

Christmas Greetings from Bethlehem

How Can Christians Support Zionism?

Israel has had a serious credibility problem for quite a while now. It's only been recently that the world can see how dangerous this country is. I have been posting about the attack on Palestinian Christians for a while.

And Christmas is not being celebrated in Bethlehem due to the conflict.

Israel’s attack on the fifth-century Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza has turned the spotlight on the besieged Palestinian enclave’s Christian population. The region is referred to by name in the New Testament in Acts 8, which refers to Philip the Evangelist baptising a man from Ethiopia on the road between Jerusalem and Gaza. “Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ This is a desert.”

The Saint Porphyrius Church, is one of the most important religious sites in Palestine. Named after a fifth-century bishop, the site is one of the oldest surviving places of worship in the region and one of the oldest churches in the world. The church was initially built in 425 CE and then later reconstructed by Crusaders in the 12th century, with much of the present structure dating back to that period.



Another major Christian site in Gaza is the nearby and even older Tell Umm Amer monastery. The fourth-century structure, which now lies mainly in ruins, once included churches, a baptism hall, a cemetery and crypt. The monastary served as a place of worship for those travelling between Egypt and the lands of the Levant, including Palestine and Syria. The site is notable for being the birthplace of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century Palestinian monk, who helped pioneer monasticism.

We can't forget the occupied territories in the "West Bank" which is home to quite a few of the events in the Bible. Unfortunately, if you are a Palestinian Christian, you need to go through all the other hassles of being in the Apartheid state that other non-Jewish people go through: unless your tour is through an approved operator.

I've published other posts on how Christians are not treated well and won't go into it. The bottom line is that Zionism is not-religious, but is based upon ethnicity and the superiority of that ethnicity.

Why Israel Can't Win: War Expert Prof. Paul Roger's Devastating Interview

I would love to interview Hamas about their strategy since they have totally wiped out the myth of how good the Israeli Defence Forces are. IDF has stumbled into a conflict they can't win.

What Does Hamas ACTUALLY Want?

This is from Al-Jazeera's English service. It's a really good primer on both the situation and on what Hamas actually believes.

I mean: what is wrong with having the right to live on their land in peace?

This is an eye opener for people who get their information from US media



Oh, and I would love to meet Abu-Obeida, even if only virtually. Although, my big question these days is how many Hamas members speak English and what is their proficiency? My Arabic is pretty crappy these days.

US evangelical pastor describes how Zionist Christians contribute to inj...

Zionism does not equate with Judaism. It only means a belief in a Jewish homeland. There are far more Christian Zionists out there than Jewish ones as well. This is why they are the most dangerous kind of Zionist.

Ilan Pappé: "I'm sure that Zionism is going to end"

Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter and director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies. He is Israeli.

What will be the outcome of the recongnition of Palestinian rights? Well, the modern state of Israel will fall, which isn't a bad thing. The US pushes regime change and this is a regime badly in need of changing, as were other states based upon racial superiority.

And for the Christian Zionists out there: Sorry, but this Israel isn't what you were expecting. Please stop supporting it.

UPDATE--“Israel will lose the war.”

I wasn't going to post again, but this is pretty intense. It's from Lebanon. It's an Israeli officer, Diazy Gideon, who participated in the Gaza war and withdrew from it, speaking with boldness about the situation. I am correct about the IDF getting hammered if his stats are correct 3,000 dead and 11,000 IDF injured. It's lost a load of equipment as well.

He's not the first IDF officer who has confided that Israel wasn't ready for this war. I was talking to an IDF captain early in the conflict who told me they didn't have enough rifles or equipment to get the reservists into the field.

Maybe I should retitle this "Israel HAS LOST the war."

No, Zionism is anti-semitic and racist.

Get it straight with a little Jewsplainin' here.

Seriously! Just remember the largest contingent of Zionists are the Christian Zionists who are very anti-semitic and racist. One of the many reasons the Zionist state of Israel will fall.

The new Palestinian resistance groups in the Occupied West Bank

Israel isn't doing too well with its current tactics. Of course, 75 plus years of ethnic cleansing have not made Israel a safe place for Jews. If anything, it has destabilised the region. It radicalises and reinforces the resistance. Quite frankly, it won't be the Palestinians that destroy the Zionist state of Israel.

It will be the Zionists themselves.

Anyway, this will show why Israel needs to respect the Palestinians' rights, in particular their right of return, and add reparations to the mix.

Decoding Hasbara: Unmasking Israel's propaganda tactics

Sorry, but it's really obvious that the Israelis are the stumbling block to peace in this region. There's a reason for the Hasbara. And that reason is that the Zionist state is on it's last legs. Thing South Africa at the end of Apartheid. Except Israel has managed to last a lot longer than Apartheid South Africa.

Palestinian Christians: Correcting the Narrative

I don't think the neglect of Palestinian Christians is at all naïvely done. It has to be deliberate since the bulk of the support of Israel is from Christian Zionists. Christian Zionists are the largest contingent of Zionists. Part of the reason that Judaism and Zionism is linked is to hide its racist nature.

Sorry, but by definition creating an ethnically pure society is racist. And Israel is undeniably an apartheid state.

A Christian Explains what Christians don't know about Israel

Islam isn't the only religion under threat in Israel: Christianity is as well. And the holy land needs to be shared and respected by the three religions. One of the world's oldest Christian churches in Gaza was destroyed by IDF.

Israel struggles to spin the war to their advantage: Marwan Bishara

Israel's propaganda is now under scrutiny. The mask has fallen and we now see that Israel is not what it pretends to be.

Israel has lost the war.

What are our problems with Christian Zionism?

Munter Isaac is a Palestinian Christian.

Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque is key to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Actually, it's important to understand what Al-Aqsa is anyway. It an important and historic site in Jerusalem and sacred to all three of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). It is a UNESCO world heritage site.

Even more importantly this mosque is under attack, as is Christianity.

My ancestors probably participated in the Crusades, but I feel as strongly about Al-Aqsa as I do about Notre-Dame in Paris. I've been to Notre-Dame, but I have never been to Al-Aqsa. I would probably have stronger feelings about Al-Aqsa if I saw its splendour in person. It is a part of the world's heritage that needs to be preserved.

Israel's disinformation campaign: Still no evidence of Israeli gov’t allegations

IDF=Incompetent Defence Force.

Yeah, it's really bad when it turns out the people charged with defending a country killed most of the people they are supposed to defend.

Christ at the Checkpoint--Christians in Palestine

The Palestinian issue has been framed of one of Islam v Judaism, but it's more complicated than that. It is the Holy Land and there are Christians, mostly in the "West Bank", but they are also some in Gaza.

You will see more of Munter Isaac and his Church.

There's some good material on Christian Zionism on this channel as well.

Quiet Christmas in Bethlehem: Pledging solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

IDF=Incompentent Defence Force. We killed Israelis on 7 October, says Israeli Commander

Who needs Hamas when you have clowns like this "defending" your country? I could swear he keeps saying "Purim"--well, that explains the clown outfits on the soldiers.

And they are a bunch of bozos who kill Israeli civilians...

Israel shows us the evidence !

IDF stands for Incompetent Defence Force

One big difference with the latest skirmishes between the occupiers and the Palestinians is that the occupiers are showing their weaknesses. IDF HAD a good reputation, but it's coming out that they are "casualty adverse". Let's toss in that they shoot up everything in a firefight.

This is Al-Qassam footage of the tents of the occupation forces in the Juhr al-Dik area before Al-Qassam carried out an operation to plant and detonate explosive devices.



I think I mentioned that the Gaza tunnel entrances wouldn't be as obvious as the water storage tank that IDF said was a tunnel entrance so they could bomb the hospital. This proves that the entrances are not going to be easy to spot. The IDF idiots set up camp on top of one!

So IDF really does mean INCOMPETENT Defence Force. No wonder that they have clown hats for helmet covers.

Why don't Palestinians adopt non-violent tactics?

Because any attempt at non-violence have been blocked off by Israel.

 It's long, but it's worth watching. This is about the Great March for Return. You get to see IDF shoot unarmed protesters. You even get to see IDF shoot medics in violation of International law.

Former IDF soldier speaks about Israeli public opinion during the Israel...

I've been a supporter of the IDF resister network for a while now. I wanted to send someone I met who was a reservist to them, but he was too keen to fight. Fortunately, he is in the US and won't fight.

Israel's policies are counterproductive its existence.

Do you condemn armed resistance ?

This guy does some really good videos!

Why do I tear down the Zionist "Kidnapped" posters?

The short answer is that this is really crappy hasbara.

I wouldn’t use your link since I don’t want to be infected with spyware. Israel and its supporters have a serious credibility problem.

It’s insensitive since you are focusing on the Israeli captives of the Palestinian Freedom Fighters. And you show a lot of ignorance here.  Not all of the « kidnapped » Israelis were taken by Hamas. Some were taken by Islamic Jihad and other groups. Unlike Palestinians who are held captive by Israelis, the ones taken to Gaza were well treated.

Additionally, IDF was responsible for most of the 1,400, which is a figure that was later revised to 1,200 dead Israelis. You might want to look up the Hannibal Directive. https://twitter.com/PVPGurl/status/1722439467217146157.  I’ll give even more references at the end of this.

I will add that IDF’s carpet bombing of Gaza was responsible for the deaths of at least 50 of those hostages.Toss in that Hamas was offering to return the Israeli prisoners early on in this crisis. Anyway, only 17 Israelis are still in Palestinian captivity. So, This poster is counterproductive to your cause.

The best way to bring the Hostages home is to bring about a ceasefire instead of genocide. Yes, this is genocide and it is being broadcast, which is why your hasbara is failing. You need to stop lying that you are "defending" when you are an occupying force. The Palestinians are within their rights to resist you.

You lose your credibility to say "never again" when you commit and support genocide.

Far more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis in this confilict. These Palestinians are non-combatants. (source https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/)

"Several of the sources, who spoke to +972 and Local Call on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed. »

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

Israel is actually very weak. I believe that the Palestinian Freedom Fighters have been inflicting serious damages to the IDF. Of Course, IDF helps raise the body count with its poor performance. The Hanibal directive embodies the spirit of Masada.

You seem to miss that your tactics have been counterproductive for 75 years. They have only resulted in increased violence. These tactics will not make Israel safe. They haven't so far. In fact,  Israeli aggression is pretty much its death warrant.

Israel is its own worst enemy. It has basically painted itself into a corner where the only real option is the end of its existence as a ethnically pure state. Allowing Palestinians their rights will be the end of the game.

You've lost the war. I hope the US stops giving Israel aid and the country will collapse. As is, it's deeply terminal and on life support.

Otherwise, why haven't you made the Aliyah? A little Jewsplainin' from Ilan Pappe

And don't forget to thank Israel!

Resources:

• ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
• As Freed Hostages Return to Israel, Details of Conditions in Captivity Emerge
• Bombing Gaza won’t bring Israel victory
• Did Allied Bombs Destroy German Morale? 
• Hamas' Abu Obaida Says Israel Refused Ceasefire Earlier, Lost Soldiers 'In Large Numbers' | Gaza War 
• Father of girl killed by Hamas says death ‘was a blessing’ as it meant she wasn’t held hostage 
• Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming
• Experts say Hamas and Israel are breaking international law, but what does that mean? 
• Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide 
• Israel Army Expels Two Officers Who Ran Away From Gaza Battle During Al-Qassam Ambush 
• Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum: "three Israeli tanks destroyed in one night" 
• Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival
• IDF publishes footage of helicopter gunships hitting Hamas terrorists
• Israel admits it killed its own at Nova music festival 
• 'He's not going to survive this': Netanyahu in hot water after NYT report on Hamas attack 
• Israel Defense on hostages: 17 women & children Hamas hostages remain 
• Survivor Speaks: Israeli forces shot their own civilians
• Israel’s Two Key Goals of Hamas War Are Set to Collide
   
  

Israel Haters?

Calling people who support Palestinian Rights names such as "Israel Haters" or "Anti-semitic" misses the point.

Israel has been on a death spiral since its beginning, but it has been propped up by the United States. This to both their detriments.

Now, Israel is showing its weakness. It has been surviving on victimhood, despite its dislike for those who died in the holocaust.

Hannibal Directive: Did the Israeli army kill its own soldiers on Octobe...

The Best criticism of Israel lobby influence in the US by John Mearsheimer

Three points here about the Israel Lobby: 

1. It's wrong to call it the "Jewish Lobby"
2. Most of the people who support Israel are Christian Zionists--You know the people who want all the Jews to move back to that part of the World so they can be exterminated in a war.
3. Israel's interests are not the same as the US's interests. In fact, most of what is being pushed by the Israel lobby is not good for the US. And maybe even Israel itself.
   

 

Zionism and Judaism isn't the same thing.

Just remember that most Zionists are Christians who want Jews to move to this part of the world to start a massive war.

Isn't that the best reason to stop supporting Israel without question?

Golda Meir "I am Palestinian."

Nothing like having your hasbara shot down by one of your own.

Israel Biggest Enemy Isn't Hamas (Shocking Truth Revealed)

Amusing, this is a lot of conservative thinkers who are shut out of the political debate. Most likely because big money, in this case AIPAC and the Zionist lobby, shut them out. I pretty much agree with what he says, unless we get to the two state solution since Netanyahu has basically killed that option. And tough shit if some people want an ethnically pure state. Been there, done that.

And "Never Again" needs to mean never again for anyone--especially a group that suffered under another country's attempts to create an ethnically pure state.

 

 See also:

• John Mearsheimer – Israel: Another War, Another Defeat
• Jeffrey Sachs – Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace  
• For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

More on the tunnels under Gaza's hospitals

Seriously, if Ehud Barak saying that Israel built these tunnels isn't enough to get you to at least question this, then you are beyond help.

Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק [eˈhud baˈʁak]; born Ehud Brog; 12 February 1942) is an Israeli former general and politician who served as the tenth prime minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party from 1997 until 2001 and again from 2007 until 2011. He previously held the posts of defense minister and deputy prime minister under Ehud Olmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2007 to 2013. He attempted a political comeback, running in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election as the leader of a new party that he formed. His party merged with other parties to form an alliance called the Democratic Union, but the alliance did not win enough seats for him to become a member of the Knesset.

A lieutenant general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Barak shares with two others the honor of being the most highly decorated soldier in Israel's history, having taken part in many battles and combat missions. He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1991, serving until 1995. He is a graduate in physics, mathematics, and economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University.

BBC Verify casts doubt on Israel evidence

Of course, the Israelis have evidence of an underground annex under Al-Shifa Hospital--they built the place. I've posted backup for that claim. Of course, Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth. They may be Kosher, but they love their porkies!

Unless you really believe the USS Liberty incident was an accident...

In that case, I can offer you some NFTs in the Brooklyn Bridge.

The reason for doing this is that IDF is committing war crimes and they need to justify them. But that is very hard.

The good part if that when one gets away from Western Media, particularly the US media, one sees Hamas soundly thrashing the IDF. I trust Hamas more in regard to the stats--especially since they provide video backup for their claims.

This is the drawback to not being aware of history, which has led to IDF overconfidence. That despite having at least on unit wiped out on 7 October.

IDF and the Israeli security service had a great reputation prior to this, but they are coming off like clowns now that the internet can shed light on them. Iron Dome was put out of commission by "fireworks" and the Merkava tank is proving to be useless. Unfortunately, Hamas's material is in Arabic, but they paint a very different picture of the situation.

And it doesn't look good for Israel. It's Stalingrad with Chu Chi tunnels and fighters who want to die for the liberation of their country.

Palestinians are just exercising their Second Amendment right to fight tyranny

According to International law, an occupied nation can fight its occupier. And as the saying goes: One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

I would also add that this is yet another example of how taking the Second Amendment out of the context of a "well regulated militia" is a bad idea.

As they say, you can give someone a gun, but there's no guarantee where they will point it.

UN Resolution/45/130:
"Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle; "

UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 (December 3, 1982) specifically mentions the Palestinians, "Considering that the denial of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, sovereignty, independence and return to Palestine and the repeated acts of aggression by Israel against the people of the region constitute a serious threat to international peace and security." That resolution goes on to say: "Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle. "

Despite the UN having allowed for the Zionist state to be created at the detriment of the Palestinian people, the change in makeup of the United Nations has led to a change in attitude toward this issue. Although, UN resolution 194 from 1948 did grant the Palestinians the right of return to the lands they were ethnically cleansed from.

So, while people might want me to condemn Hamas for its activities, which they may seem extreme: Hamas is engaging in a legitimate action to recover the land stolen from the Palestinian people. And 75 years of ethnic cleansing have only made the situation worse.

Yes, the solution is simple: Palestinians are allowed to return to their land. The truth about the ethnically pure state of Israel need to be made more widely available outside of Israel.

And people like Ben Shapiro get shown up for being the loudmouth dickheads they are for trying to justify crimes against international law. As Ben points out, there are 400 million arabs. There are also 2 billion Muslims.

Anyway, if you want to say that the Second Amendment is about fighting tyrannical governments, then you should be cheering the Palestinians.

Not the IDF.

Walking with Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem--Ginghamsburg Church

One thing which is conspicuous in the stereotype of Palestinians is that they are all Muslim. Not at all. This is the Holy Land: sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Bethlehem is on the West Bank and is part of Palestine. Palestine is the home of early Christianity, as is Gaza.

As of 2015, Palestinian Christians comprise approximately 1–2.5% of the population of the West Bank, and less than 1% in the Gaza Strip. According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian population in 1922 constituted 9.5% of the total Mandatory Palestine population (10.8% of the Palestinian Arab population), and 7.9% in 1946. A large number of Arab Christians fled or were expelled from the Jewish-controlled areas of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during the period (1948–1967) of Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons.[citation needed] From 1967, during the Israeli military rule, the Palestinian Christian population has increased while as a percentage of the population continued to decrease.

There are also many Palestinian Christians who are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the post-1948 era who fled to Christian-majority countries and formed large diaspora Christian communities. Worldwide, there are nearly one million Palestinian Christians in these territories as well as in the Palestinian diaspora, comprising around 6–7% of the world's total Palestinian population. Palestinian Christians live primarily in Arab states surrounding historic Palestine and in the diaspora, particularly in Europe and the Americas.

See also:

• Palestinian Christians and Muslims have lived together in the region for centuries − and several were killed recently while sheltering in the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius
• Gaza’s Christians fear ‘threat of extinction’ amid Israel war 
• Israel-Palestine war: A quick history of Christianity in Gaza 
• Palestine and its religious importance
  

You know that tunnel under Al-Shifa hospital...

Of course, the Israelis know there is an underground tunnel, they built the hospital!

There was an article from an Israeli newspaper about this that showed up on my feed, but went grail. Fortunately, it's mentioned in the wikipedia article since I am feeling too lazy to hunt the original article down.

Anyway, the hospital underwent a major Israeli renovation and expansion in the 1980s. Israeli architects Gershon Tzapor and Benjamin Edelson in their Tel-Aviv office handled the project, both were well experienced in the construction of high standard hospitals. The architects also designed and built a large array of underground infrastructure, which was what the IDF later pointed to as part of the underground Hamas command in both the 2014 and the current Israel-Hamas war. In particular, in 1983, the Israelis built "a secure underground operating room and tunnel network" beneath Building 2 of the hospital.

I would also add that the "guardian list" shown by the IDF is a calendar, not a real rota of terrorists. Toss in that the IDF spokeman reads the Arabic from left to right, instead of right to left. You'd think someone who speaks Hebrew would do it right.

Unless Hamas uses weekdays as codenames for its fighters.

Remember the USS Liberty? Israel wants you to believe it was an "accident". And don't forget those "weapons of mass destruction".

Has anyone found them yet?

Statement on the situation in Gaza

    The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation. The bombing raids into Palestinian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender but will stiffen their resolve to resist. This is the lesson of all aerial bombardment. The Vietnamese who endured years of American heavy bombing did not respond by capitulation but by shooting down more enemy aircraft. 

The British resisted Hitler’s bombing raids with unprecedented unity and determination. For this reason, the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world. The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 75 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression.

    The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate. The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” Many of the refugees are now well into the third decade of their precarious existence in temporary settlements.

    The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled in masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.

    We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number of refugees to misery, not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development.

    All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in May 1948. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long–suffering people of the Middle East.

 

Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices?

As he says, would Israel be a better country if there wasn't an Israel lobby? The same goes for the US. US support for Israel has probably created more terrorists than had there not been a Nakba. And people of all three religions live in that region (Jews, Christians, and Muslims)

BTW: As of 2015, Palestinian Christians comprise approximately 1–2.5% of the population of the West Bank, and less than 1% in the Gaza Strip. According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian population in 1922 constituted 9.5% of the total Mandatory Palestine population (10.8% of the Palestinian Arab population), and 7.9% in 1946. A large number of Arab Christians fled or were expelled from the Jewish-controlled areas of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during the period (1948–1967) of Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons.[citation needed] From 1967, during the Israeli military rule, the Palestinian Christian population has increased while as a percentage of the population continued to decrease.

There are also many Palestinian Christians who are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the post-1948 era who fled to Christian-majority countries and formed large diaspora Christian communities. Worldwide, there are nearly one million Palestinian Christians in these territories as well as in the Palestinian diaspora, comprising around 6–7% of the world's total Palestinian population. Palestinian Christians live primarily in Arab states surrounding historic Palestine and in the diaspora, particularly in Europe and the Americas.

Palestine is home to some of the oldest Christian Churches in the world. At least on is in the Gaza Strip and was recently bombed by the IDF.

Douglas Macgregor: "An Analysis of the Current Situation in Israel"

I think this is a bit old. It's also to the right of me, but I agree with this analysis of the situation. I'm actually suprised that I'm agreeing with a couple of right wingers who I know I don't agree with (OK, Judge Napolitano).

Anyway, this is a pleasant surprise.

I don't dislike Israelis. I am inclined to support the Palestinian struggle for their homeland for a lot of reasons previously stated. But the main point is that unquestioning US support for Israel is not in most nation's interest.

💥FLOWER OF THE FOREST💥SCOTS GUARDS💥BAGPIPES💥

Flowers of the Forest is played at funerals. I'm using it to remember not only the fallen in the wars, but the victims of Zionist terrorism perpetrated by Stern Gang/Lehi, Irgun, Hagana, and their successor force, the Israeli "Defence" Force. The IDF is a force of aggression, not defence.

Israeli War Crime documented: Palestinian Medic Rouzan al-Najjar | NYT -...

Sort of like the USS Liberty was an "accident".

”I am a Zionist, too. I want every Jew to leave for Palestine.”

Please do not conflate support for Israel, Zionism, and being Jewish. That is a fallacy. Look up the quote in the title for confirmation of that assertion.

Christian zionists outnumber Jewish zionists by 20-30 to 1! The charge of anti-semitism is only to shut up people who want to stop this madness.

Is there a Hamas tunnel under the Qatari Hospital in Gaza?

I knew it was something related to the hospital. I was guessing an HVAC system. But this also makes sense. A Hamas tunnel would have been much better camouflaged. Israel continually underestimates Hamas, which is a serious tactical error. IDF is only using this to justify its war crime of targeting a hospital.

I hope that the supporters of this Genocide are brought to trial and shamed.

Why Israel Kills So Many Civilians

No surprise since the IDF is the successor to the Zionist terror groups Stern Gang/Lehi, Irgun, and Hagana. The groups responsible for the Nakba, King David Hotel bombing, Folke Bernadotte assassination, and other acts. The attack on the USS Liberty was no accident either. How anyone can support a rogue state like Israel is beyond me.

Israeli comedian slams Israel for apartheid

Amusing: Breaking the Silence, B'Tselem, and Yesh Din, toss in Yesh Gvul and Ometz LeSarev, are all groups I have contact with. Yes, there are Israeli groups who want to recognise Palestinian rights and really work for peace.

I was at a friend's funeral recently where an IDF reservist was there. I wanted to tell him to contact a resister group, but he was too keen on going to fight--even though he admitted the IDF didn't have enough weapons.

Scott Ritter - "Palestine and Hamas have won.. Israel is in BIG TROUBLE!.."

I'm not commenting other than to say he is correct: 

1. The only way to eradicate Hamas is to create a Palestinian state (although I would say that means allowing Palestinians back into Israel with full rights of citizenship and the right of return under UN resolution 194).
2. Ethnic cleansing is a war crime (includes forced relocation)
3. Hamas is the better military force (watch the video)
4. Israel's indiscriminate bombing makes them the terrorists.
    

Why The Media Can’t Tell The Truth On Israel & Palestine

There's a reason we aren't seeing anything of substance in this event. It's framed to make Israel look good while ignoring that this is an occupation.

Hamas’s asymmetric warfare could beat the Israeli military machine

What a lot of people miss in the US is that Hamas wanted to lure the IDF into the Killing ground. And IDF took the bait.

There's a reason IDF isn't showing pictures of the fighting in Gaza.

The title of this is "They destroyed tanks with direct strikes... Scenes of Al-Qassam fighters clashing with the occupation forces..."

Israel was humiliated on 7 Oct 23 by having Hamas invade under its defences. The pro-Israeli media is hyping stories of attacked festival goers and kidnapped civilians, but that is because Hamas beat a couple of IDF units and showed up Mossad and Shin Bet to boot. 

It's hard to say that Israel is a strategic ally in the region since the only thing it does is create more of a mess. Its using its emotions instead of its brain has led it into something which is going to be the Battle of Stalingrad on steroids. Mosul for something more current. Although, Stalingrad is a better example, but Israel's bombing has created something which is going to be super for the defence, and pure hell for the invader. Toss in that Hamas has planned and prepared this for some time.

A more important consideration is that Hamas fighters aren't afraid of death. Israelis are basically cowards.

The best move would be to admit defeat and grant Palestinians their rights, which includes the right of return under UN resolution 194 of 1948.

Or show the spirit of Masada.

Explained: Judaism or Zionism?

OK, I mean someone who believes in the establishment of a Jewish state when I use the term "Zionist". It is not related to any religion since Zionism is an ideology, not a religious or ethnic movement.

This is a good explanation of it and why someone who is protests Zionism and Israel isn't "anti-semitic". Being called "anti-Semitic" when one criticises Israel or Zionism is humourous since Zionists have long been supported by Anti-semites.

Who else would want to see Jews ghettoised other than an anti-semite?

US Senator Chris Van Hollen Accuses Israel of War Crimes

The one good point to all this carnage is that it becomes harder to ignore Israel's rogue behaviour. They have bombed Christian Churches in Gaza (Yes, Palestinians are also Christian) along with hospitals and refugee camps, in contravention to the laws of War.

Israel loses its US support and that is probably a bigger blow than allowing Palestinians their rights, which would show up Israel for the racist state that it is.

Krystallnacht comparisons

 I knew that this event would end up being mentioned, especially at this time of the year.

The usual line is along the line of Alan Dershowitz's Kristallnacht again: Hamas praise & Jew-hatred

Many of the most egregious petitions and protests against Israel occurred even before Israel responded to the Hamas barbarity of Oct. 7. Student groups, lawyers’ groups, Black Lives Matter groups, labor unions, and other hard left, woke progressives praised Hamas for its rapes, beheadings and murders just hours after they occurred. It would be as if these groups increased their support for Nazism following Kristallnacht in 1938, when 91 Jews were killed in Germany and many synagogues and Jewish stores destroyed.

This comparison actually lacks a lot of historical background, but since he starts it with "before Israel responded", let's go with the Nakba. The Israelis have pushed the Palestinians into Gaza and the West Bank and restricted their mobility, among other things.  The Nazi also put European Jews into Ghettos. Some of those Jews revolted:

Vilna, Mir, Lachva (Lachwa), Kremenets, Czestochowa, Nesvizh, Sosnowiec, and Tarnow, among others, resisted with force when the Germans began to deport ghetto populations. In Bialystok, the underground staged an uprising just before the final destruction of the ghetto in September 1943. Most of the ghetto fighters, primarily young men and women, died during the fighting.

The Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943 was the largest single revolt by Jews. Hundreds of Jews fought the Germans and their auxiliaries in the streets of the ghetto. Thousands of Jews refused to obey German orders to report to an assembly point for deportation. In the end the Nazis burned the ghetto to the ground to force the Jews out. Although they knew defeat was certain, Jews in the ghetto fought desperately and valiantly.

Likewise there was resistance in the concentration camps: Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, among others.

Should we condemn the Jews that resisted German repression the way that the Palestinians have been resisting the Nakba, which is something my learned colleague needs to refresh his memory upon. Of course, as a Brit, I am well aware of Stern Gang/Lehi, Irgun, and Haganah and their activities. Do the names  Folke Bernadotte and Walter Guiness mean anything to you, Mr. Dershowitz? Yellin-Mor said this about the assassination of Guiness:

"Really these acts by Lord Moyne were without meaning for us. They were useful only as propaganda, because they allowed us to explain to the people why we had killed him. What was important to us was that he symbolized the British Empire in Cairo. We weren't yet in a position to try to hit Churchill in London, so the logical second best was to hit Lord Moyne in Cairo."

Lehi, Irgun, and Haganah went on to form the IDF.

I can also add that Krystallnacht did not occur in a vacuum. It was an act of terrorism which precipitated that event. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.   

As you know, the Jews in Germany were being discriminated against. But I can ask you whether this act justifies the retribution against the entire Jewish community, as is Israel's undeniable Genocide committed against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Yes, it is Genocide being committed by Israel using the legal black letter definition of that term.

I quoted Sir Gerald Kaufman's speech from "House of Commons Hansard Debates" 16 January 2009 yesterday, and I'll give an excerpt of it today:

My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The current Israeli Government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians. The implication is that Jewish lives are precious, but the lives of Palestinians do not count...

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin. Today, the current Israeli Government indicate that they would be willing, in circumstances acceptable to them, to negotiate with the Palestinian President Abbas of Fatah. It is too late for that. They could have negotiated with Fatah’s previous leader, Yasser Arafat, who was a friend of mine. Instead, they besieged him in a bunker in Ramallah, where I visited him. Because of the failings of Fatah since Arafat’s death, Hamas won the Palestinian election in 2006. Hamas is a deeply nasty organisation, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town. The boycotting of Hamas, including by our Government, has been a culpable error, from which dreadful consequences have followed. 

The phrase "Never again" is rendered meaningless if it applies only to one group of people, especially Jews. It needs to mean "Never again" for everyone, including Palestinians. Zionists (people who support a Jewish homeland of ANY faith) have been using this as an excuse for the excesses of the State of Israel for too long. And, as I like to point out, a lot of Zionists are Christians who want the state of Israel to start world war III. They couldn't give a shit about the Jewish people. Conflating Zionism and support for Israel with being "anti-Jewish" is a fallacy, as I've also discussed. In fact, Zionism is far more the enemy of the Jews than calling the state of Israel on its treatment of the Palestinians.

You might want to reflect on that fact.

I've also heard it said that look at what you are doing now since that would have been the way you would have acted during the Holocaust. I won't quote Martin Niemoeller since I hope my learned colleague is aware of that quote.

Sir Gerald Kaufman on the State of Israel. Jewsplainin' the situation

Wow, I've wanted to say this stuff for a while, but I found this on Youtube. Not sure you can call him anti-Semitic, but he is the type of person that gave me the ideas which began to form my opinion of Israel.

Here's his bio on the subject: an advocate of Palestinian statehood. A strong critic of the state of Israel, he called for economic sanctions against the state and denounced the state for committing atrocities (which he phrased as war crimes) against the Palestinian people and their nation.

 

The whole speech from "House of Commons Hansard Debates" 16 January 2009

 Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine.

I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have been there since more times than I can count. I had family in Israel and have friends in Israel. One of them fought in the wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973 and was wounded in two of them. The tie clip that I am wearing is made from a campaign decoration awarded to him, which he presented to me.

I have known most of the Prime Ministers of Israel, starting with the founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Golda Meir was my friend, as was Yigal Allon, Deputy Prime Minister, who, as a general, won the Negev for Israel in the 1948 war of independence.

My parents came to Britain as refugees from Poland. Most of their families were subsequently murdered by the Nazis in the holocaust. My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed.

My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The current Israeli Government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians. The implication is that Jewish lives are precious, but the lives of Palestinians do not count.

On Sky News a few days ago, the spokeswoman for the Israeli army, Major Leibovich, was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, 800 Palestinians—the total is now 1,000. She replied instantly that

“500 of them were militants.”

That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose that the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asserts that her Government will have no dealings with Hamas, because they are terrorists. Tzipi Livni’s father was Eitan Livni, chief operations officer of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, who organised the blowing-up of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, in which 91 victims were killed, including four Jews.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin. Today, the current Israeli Government indicate that they would be willing, in circumstances acceptable to them, to negotiate with the Palestinian President Abbas of Fatah. It is too late for that. They could have negotiated with Fatah’s previous leader, Yasser Arafat, who was a friend of mine. Instead, they besieged him in a bunker in Ramallah, where I visited him. Because of the failings of Fatah since Arafat’s death, Hamas won the Palestinian election in 2006. Hamas is a deeply nasty organisation, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town. The boycotting of Hamas, including by our Government, has been a culpable error, from which dreadful consequences have followed.

The great Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, with whom I campaigned for peace on many platforms, said:

“You make peace by talking to your enemies.”

However many Palestinians the Israelis murder in Gaza, they cannot solve this existential problem by military means. Whenever and however the fighting ends, there will still be 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza and 2.5 million more on the west bank. They are treated like dirt by the Israelis, with hundreds of road blocks and with the ghastly denizens of the illegal Jewish settlements harassing them as well. The time will come, not so long from now, when they will outnumber the Jewish population in Israel.

It is time for our Government to make clear to the Israeli Government that their conduct and policies are unacceptable, and to impose a total arms ban on Israel. It is time for peace, but real peace, not the solution by conquest which is the Israelis’ real goal but which it is impossible for them to achieve. They are not simply war criminals; they are fools.

Can Israel defeat Hamas in its own tunnels?

And the answer is: NO! 

Actually, I've heard that the Israeli forces are pretty weak at this point, which can be born out that most of what is coming out of that area is "hasbara" and not anything of real substance. We are hearing that Israeli raids are directly hitting civilians from the Palestinian side.

 Which is a war crime.

 

The IDF is a "risk adverse" force and tends to retreat when it is being beaten. It will take a certain level of casualties and then run.

They ain't the French Foreign Legion which is best exmplified by the Battle of Camarón, which occurred on 30 April 1863:

A small infantry patrol, led by Captain Jean Danjou and Lieutenants Clément Maudet and Jean Vilain, numbering just 65 men was attacked and besieged by a force that may have eventually reached 3,000 Mexican infantry and cavalry, and was forced to make a defensive stand at the nearby Hacienda Camarón, in Camarón de Tejeda, Veracruz, Mexico.

The conduct of the Legion, who overwhelmingly outnumbered, refused to surrender, killing and injuring hundreds of enemy troops before finally succumbing, led to a certain mystique, and the battle of Camarón became synonymous with bravery and a fight-to-the-death attitude.

 No, the Israeli Military embodies the spirit of Masada, which is where the Jews killed themselves rather than die in battle.

Going into Gaza is going to be the Battle of Stalingrad on steroids. The IDF are fools for thinking they will get too far into Gaza before the shit hits the fan. And the risk adverse IDF won't commit to what is necessary to actually do this.

Especially the body count on their side.

So, they would rather commit the war crime of targeting civilians, which is another blunder since what made the terrain in Stalingrad so difficult was that it was bombed out. That gave the Russian defenders lots of great positions to defend from.

Let's toss in Hamas's tunnels for good measure, which an IDF soldier described as fighting ghosts. Hamas's tunnels make it easy to move from position to position. The IDF will be ambushed on a regular basis by the highly mobile defenders.

And fighting in built up areas (FIBUA) is difficult under normal conditions. The Palestinian won't be the ones being slaughtered if they go into Gaza: it will be the IDF.

Toss in that the Hamas fighters have nothing to lose. They know they are going to die and are willing to take as many IDF with them as they can. That's a very formidable foe.

The real problem with Israel is that it has set itself up for defeat the moment Herzl conceived the Zionist movement and has been living on borrowed time since then.

Maybe Patagonia or Uganda were the better choices for a Jewish state.

They say Russia almost became Islamic.

 They say Russia almost became Islamic. The story is that Tsar Jaroslav the Wise during the Kievan Rus wanted to give up paganism. So, he called together representatives from all the world's religions.

The Islamic representative told him he could have all the wives he wanted. Jaroslav said, "Yeah, go on". The Islamic rep said, "But you can't drink alcohol". And Jaroslav was all like "get outta here..."

 

 

Holy Crap! How Israel Lies About Literally Everything

I have been aware of hasbara for a while--the best example being the attack on the USS Liberty. How these clowns keep any credibility is beyond me. Well, other than US MSM is a joke and fails to actually do any serious journalism.

Toss in that the Israel lobby has some serious power in the US (this is sort of hermaneutic going back to the USS Liberty incident).

Former British Soldier explains the political situation between Ukraine and Palestine.

Well, I do support both Ukraine and Palestine.

I also don't support the war machine and the duopolitics in the United States.

Still More Jewsplainin'

An American Jew realises that Zionism is the real enemy of the Jews:

 

More Jewsplainin': Zionism is not the same as Judaism

As I like to say, all it means is that one supports a Jewish homeland. And quite a few zionists are not Jewish. And the ones that aren't Jewish aren't friends of Jews (e.g., Marjorie Taylor Green).

Jewsplainin' the situation: Gideon Levy - Israel Palestine; The one state solution

This needs to get out there:

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.

Hamas's attack on Israel was predictable and will probably happen again.

Believe it or not, there is actually a very simple solution to this situation: Israelis respect Palestinian rights, especially the right of return under UN Resolution 194. "Never again" needs to mean exactly that and it should not apply only to the Jewish people.

Treat others as you would have them treat you.

Otherwise, the hypocrisy which is Yad Vashem being a stone's throw from Deir Yassin means Zionists (a person of ANY faith who believes in a Jewish homeland) and their apologists have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY in this debate.

The only lesson zionists learned from the Holocaust was how to do it to others with the Palestinian people being a case in point. And they really won't like my response to that one if they want to point out how many Jews died in the holocaust.

Then, we can just let you rot in your middle eastern ghetto, which is what should have happened once you failed to respect the UN resolutions against your country.

This video features a Palestinian analyst discussing why Israel is wrong in how it has handled itself in its soon to end lifetime. 

Zionists and their apologists aren't intelligent--they are hypocrites.

If Stern Gang/Lehi, Irgun, and Hagana are to be idealised, then I can give unwavering support to the Palestinians who are fighting to be able to return to their homeland.

It would have been less expensive to have complied with UN Resolution 194 back in 1948, but Israel has been on a path of destruction since before the state of Israel existed--it's just that it's nonsense hasn't been allowed to be discussed.

Israel has been kept on life support for too long--it's time to pull the plug.

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas

I think most people would stop supporting Israel if they knew how much of a mess that country is making of the Middle East. Instead, one doesn't criticise Israel. One is kept ignorant that Lehi/Stern Gang, Irgun, and Hagana were originally terrorist organisations, but they went on to become the IDF. Lehi has a definite checkered past and would discredit the state of Israel if its activities were more widely publicised. 

Or, as I like to point out, Deir Yassin is a stone's throw from Yad Vashem.

So much for "Never again", the Zionists have turned around and are acting in a similar manner to how they were treated during the Shoah.

Scrutinise Zionism and you will probably reconsider supporting Israel.

The USS Liberty incident shows that if you are going to stand with Israel, you had better watch your back.

I am predicting that Israel will not last much longer since popular support, as opposed to official support, isn't on their side. Any intelligent person should be ashamed to give support to Zionism.

Especially if they are Jewish. Since most Zionists are CHRISTIANS and they are not friends to the Jewish people.

Dead in the Water | BBC Four USS Liberty Documentary

The attack on the USS Liberty came close to causing a nuclear attack.

Israel is a "strategic liability of the first order" for the United States and is "the most likely state in the world to take the United States to Armageddon," says Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Sec'y of State Colin Powell.

 

 

Pay attention to the comments from retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson who was the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell who emerged as a leading critic of the neoconservatives. In remarks to Mass Peace Action last June, who has made some serious  assertions about Israel:

• Israel won’t exist as a state in 20 years because it is delegitimizing itself as an apartheid state.
• Israel is a “strategic liability of the first order” for the United States and is “the most likely state in the world to take the United States to Armageddon.”
• The U.S. ought to tell Israel now to “change swiftly” or it will cease to fund and protect Israel, but the U.S. will not do so.
• The neoconservative agenda in the Middle East was “to set the Levant on fire, to keep Israel’s enemies so at one anothers’ throats” that they could not give Israel trouble.

 Israel is not a strategic ally or an asset--it is the real rogue state in the Middle East and the US needs to stop supporting it.

Wow, I would have never thought I would agree with Maggie on so many things--except for economics.

 From https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-uk-sunak-message-slaughter-carry-on:

 “Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s most feted post-war prime minister, was fiercely pro-Jewish and a powerful enemy of antisemitism. But she was never afraid to call out Israeli war crimes, and did so repeatedly.

When the Israeli army stood by in September 1982 as Christian Phalangists slaughtered Palestinian refugees and Lebanese citizens in the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps, she described the massacres as “an act of pure barbarism”.

And, as historian David Cronin has exposed in an illuminating article for Declassified, she wrote to then US President Ronald Reagan of “an urgent need for a balanced policy”, adding that “unlimited support for Israel can only lead to growing polarisation and despair in the Arab world”...

The historical record shows that Thatcher would have arrived in Tel Aviv swinging her handbag. Of course, she would have extended her deepest sympathy to Israel for the attack on 7 October. But she would also - as a strong supporter of Israel - have given Netanyahu a stern lecture on morality, international law - and global statesmanship.”

The lesson here is that continued warfare and destruction will not end terrorism--it will make it worse.  Israel hasn't learned the lessons of the past 75 years if it continues to try to ethnically cleanse the land. Telling Israel it's making a mistake isn't anti-semitic--it's common sense.