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“The pretext of an “existential threat” deployed by the Israeli system of propaganda and hasbara is an attempt to distract the Israeli public; it is also an effective tool to achieve their genocidal aims and to eliminate the right of self-determination and the right of return for Palestinians…”
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Warriors for Greater Israel, needing Jewish buy-in, take advantage the Jewish anxiety regarding intentions of the other….. subduing the “light unto nations” narrative so necessary for peace.

Zionist crimes are so multitudinous that full comprehension of Zionist criminality is difficult even for a Palestinian victim.

What does it mean to grow up in a concentration camp?

Palestinians in the oPT live in helotry!

1926 Slavery Convention (LoN)Article 1(1):

“Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.”

This definition is still controlling today and is incorporated verbatim into modern instruments.

Modern restatementRome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)Article 7(2)(c):

“‘Enslavement’ means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons…”

Thus enslavement is:

• A crime against humanity when part of a widespread or systematic attack

• Applicable in armed conflict and in peacetime

Which powers attach to right of ownership?International law looks to substance, not formal title. A person need not be legally “owned.” The key question is: does the perpetrator exercise ownership-like control?
Courts and tribunals have identified the following indicative powers:

1. Control over movement

• Confinement

• Forced displacement

• Restrictions on leaving or traveling

2. Control over labor

• Forced/coerced work

• No genuine ability to refuse or quit

3. Control over physical integrity

• Violence or threat of violence

• Sexual exploitation

• Forced medical procedures

4. Control over legal personality

• Inability to access courts

• Lack of legal remedies

• Substitution of the perpetrator’s authority for law

5. Economic domination

• Debt bondage

• Confiscation of wages or property

• Dependence created or maintained by force

6. Duration and permanence

• Indefinite or long-term subjection

• Transferability (sale/inheritance/assignment) is strong evidence but not required

Key judicial interpretations
ICTY – Prosecutor v. Kunarac (2001)
The tribunal clarified that slavery:

• Does not require formal ownership

• Can exist even without buying or selling people

• Is assessed by totality of control

“The control of someone’s movement, physical environment, psychological state, and labor… may amount to enslavement.”

A Zionist is enemy to Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Jews, the US Constitutional system, international law, and human knowledge.

The struggle for Palestinian freedom is a struggle to free the world from Zionism.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription:
■ The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
By David M. Halbfinger, Bilal Shbair, and Aaron Boxerman | Visuals by Saher Alghorra
New York Times | Dec. 24, 2025
• Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent.
LINK TO GIFT ARTICLE ~ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/world/middleeast/gaza-killings-israel-cease-fire.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.443G.sB2FKUGlGlyV&smid=url-share

Israeli forces detain Santa Clause in raid on Palestinian Christmas celebration
24 December 2025

“Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus during a raid on a Christmas celebration in Haifa earlier this week, a local rights group has said.

Police forcibly dispersed festivities held by Palestinian Christian citizens of Israel in the Wadi Nisnas neighbourhood on Sunday and confiscated equipment from the event. 

According to the Mossawa Centre, an organisation advocating for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, police used excessive force while detaining the man dressed as Santa Claus, as well as a DJ and a street vendor.

All three were released on Monday but were expected to be summoned to court again.
Mossawa said police also raided a music institute without legal authorisation.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-arrest-santa-clause-raid-palestinian-christmas-celebration

“…we should not live in a world where this is acceptable or normal…”. Thank you Mr Kharbouch. You are not alone.

“In Israel’s case, the extermination is a culmination of a long series of genocidal actions, including the massacres of 1948 in Palestine, the Bahr al-Baqar primary school massacre in Egypt (1970), the massacre of Qana in Lebanon (1996), Operation “Defensive Shield” in the West Bank (2002), among many others” There is no mention in this passage or anywhere else in the article of the persecution and massacres of Jews in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco and elsewhere during the 1930s and 1940s that stimulated the very immigration to Israel that MW and its ilk vilify as Zionist dispossession. MW seems to subscribe to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s view that Jews are some sort of extraterrestrial force committing mischief from space lasers, not real flesh and blood human beings with feelings, needs and aspirations like others.

Right-wing Islamophobes like the Jewish Laura Looney get a thorough and appropriately deserved skewering from Michael Arria and Mondoweiss, but right-wing anti-Semites like Tucker Carlson who disseminate hostile innuendos against Jews get a pass, or even covert praise.

For some reason I’m reminded of Moshe Dayan’s famous speech, emphasis mine:

Yesterday morning Ro’i was murdered. Dazzled by the calm of the morning, he did not see those waiting in ambush for him at the edge of the furrow. Let us not cast accusations at the murderers today. Why should we blame them for their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been dwelling in Gaza’s refugee camps, as before their eyes we have transformed the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers had dwelled into our own property….

Moshe Dayan’s eulogy for Ro’i Rothberg – Wikipedia

“Almost two months into the ceasefire, international conferences on Gaza’s reconstruction and frequent promises to rebuild have so far amounted to little.”

Re the phony, meaningless ceasefire that Israel continually violates, the NYT just posted:

The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?..Death can come from straying across the Yellow Line, the poorly demarcated border between eastern Gaza, where the Israeli military has entrenched itself, and the western half…Dozens of times since the truce went into effect on Oct. 10, Palestinians have been killed for crossing east, knowingly or not….Death can come from being related to the wrong person, as it did for much of the Abu Dalal family in Nuseirat. When Israel targeted two cousins on Oct. 29 — it said they were both local militant commanders — overnight missile strikes destroyed both their homes. One of the men was killed. So were 18 other members of their extended family, including two 3-year-olds….For Maysaa al-Attar, 30, a pharmacy student, death came from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was shot in the abdomen as she slept in her parents’ tent in northwest Gaza on the morning of Nov. 14. Three weeks earlier, they’d set up the tent on the ruins of their family home….The imbalance in the numbers killed on each side also reflects the continuation, despite the cease-fire, of the Israeli military’s harsh wartime practices of hitting back with punishing force and allowing strikes on militants even when they risk killing large numbers of civilians….

The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed? – The New York Times

The article does repeat the IDF assertions that they only respond to violations of the ceasefire by Hamas, so you will have to decide for yourself if that’s bullshit or not.

All I do is take a few days off from MW and you start imagining that I “exit”, “stay  low”  , whatever. Believe it or not , I have other interests aside from commenting on MW. I was busy celebrating the Hanukah holiday and with family matters…
Anyway, where were we? Oh, yes, we accepted the partition plan. And, yes,  I’m guilty of advocating peace, equal rights and coexistence which is a  horrible crime on MW.
Then there was the matter of demanding that I specify exactly which crimes perpetrated by “my side” I condemn . As if I’m being interrogated by the Inquisition or the NKVD. But to avoid being accused , again, of not answering: the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians, mistreatment of prisoners, causing widespread wanton destruction, settler attacks on Palestinians, the entire illegal settlement project… ( I realize that there’s probably a trap here. I may have missed something, which will lead to being accused of not condemning something…)
Also, you shouldn’t be afraid of referring to Palestinians.

state terrorism and also genocide by making Gaza uninhabitable.

Gaza is uninhabitable, but we also want to grow strawberries there.

who has always needed a permanent war by failing to decisively defeat Hamas

Israel is guilty of both trying too hard to kill Hamas, and for not killing off Hamas.

“Legalistic mental contortions” is a Chabad Rabbi dictating what is or isn’t permitted in Judaism to an Anti-Zionist Atheist on a public school campus. Ordinary citizens go to court everyday to limit the power of government officials. Public officials are prohibited from imposing their religious or ethnic views on those of us who don’t share them. See: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), Engel v. Vitale (1962), Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), Wallace v. Jaffree, 1985, Lee v. Weisman, (1992), Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, (2000), & etc.

Anti-Zionist Jews have the right to hold and practice universalist beliefs. We are a federally protected class, just like the Jehovahs Witnesses. California can’t establish a theocratic Christian, Jewish, or Islamic religious test and impose it on public officials or students in this country. Full stop. Everyone has a Constitution that flatly prohibits the US government from attempting to coerce obedience to any such law. The government can’t require school children to pledge allegiance to this country, or recite a prayer that violates their beliefs. We have a no legal obligation to persecute, arrest, or murder Palestinisns or Nicaraguans just because some Republican or Zionist thinks its’s “sedition” or “antisemitic” if we refuse. So it is ludicrous to suggest we must respect a foreign, racist, genocidal Zionist state. Netanyahu is a fugative from an arrest warrant for persecution in Palestine and we don’t have to silently accept that from our government here.

In 1943 the US Supreme Court explained: freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us. We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute and pledge transcends constitutional limitations on their power, and invades the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution …”

If the actual strategic objective were not the military defeat of Hamas but the long term emptying of large parts of Gaza, then many patterns officially described as failure would become functionally coherent. Indicators that could be read this way:

1. Lack of territorial holding Areas are taken and then abandoned, allowing Hamas to return. In a displacement logic, permanent control is unnecessary. What matters is making civilian life unsustainable.
2. Repetitive offensives Fighting in the same neighborhoods again and again looks inefficient. Under a displacement logic, it steadily empties entire districts.
3. Firepower over control Heavy reliance on air and artillery with limited long term ground presence maximizes destruction and flight while avoiding responsibility for civilian governance.
4. No postwar civil administration The absence of plans for governance or reconstruction would not be a failure if return is not intended.
5. Kill counts as success metrics Focusing on numbers of militants killed instead of secure, functioning areas allows claims of success while physical uninhabitability grows.
6. Permanent displacement through operational zones Constantly shifting evacuation orders, buffer zones, and closed areas create a moving but lasting removal of civilians from space.
7. Vague or shifting war aims Destroy Hamas, rescue hostages, restore security without clear hierarchy. Strategic ambiguity limits accountability if the real effect is population removal.
8. Recurring humanitarian collapse Breakdowns of food, water, shelter, and medical care are militarily counterproductive but highly effective at forcing people to leave.
9. Extreme destruction with limited military gain Very high levels of physical destruction alongside Hamas survival fit better with territorial emptying than with classic counterinsurgency.
10. Framing everything as chaos and failure Internal critique that treats outcomes as incompetence provides plausible cover for a policy whose actual effects cannot be openly acknowledged.

@HolyCow

The Knesset approved the first reading of a bill proposed by MK Ariel Kallner (Likud) by a vote of 53 to 48, aiming to establish a political investigative committee for the events of the October 7th.Unlike an independent state investigative commission, whose composition is determined by the Supreme Court, this committee would be appointed by the government or the Knesset and would be politically controlled.

Do you recognize a pattern why Israel avoids investigations that are not politically controlled?

ROFL. Brilliant!

@Hostage “So, California’s AB 715 is unconstitutional, null and void, from the outset.”

Your reasoning would fail in court.

AB 715 does not violate the Constitution because it protects Jewish people from discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, or both, without requiring officials to enforce religious doctrine. Courts consistently uphold anti-bias laws as neutral civil rights measures, and the private beliefs of officials (even controversial ones) do not make the law unconstitutional. The law does not ask officials to judge theological legitimacy, so it is not a religious test under Article VI, and precedent such as Corp. of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos confirms that anti-discrimination protections targeting religious or ethnic groups are constitutionally permissible.

“How to bridge to Israelis who see through the proaganda and want Israel to be a light.”

“Kill all Palestinians! All of them! Not one left. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be deceased.”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyPktRlIEce/?hl=en

@HolyCow “”And if the Palestinians wish to recover them there is already an agreement in place that can make it so.”

Yep, still making a case for state terrorism and also genocide by making Gaza uninhabitable.

“Once again the delusional fanatics will choose continued war and “resistance” against Israel.”

We can clearly see, who has always needed a permanent war by failing to decisively defeat Hamas, leaving its infrastructure intact and enabling prolonged guerrilla warfare. All of this incompatible with its military doctrine, but highly compatible with continous genocide and ethnic cleansing. Today in Gaza and it has allready started in the Westbank with Israel’s settler terrorism policy.

By the way, there’s nothing wrong against resisting crimes against humanity, if its victims are non Jews. It is an inaliable right. Contrary to eliminatory settler colonialism, apartheid, illegal occupation, dispossesion and expulsion.

What kind of delusional fanatic does someone need to be to support this? A supremacist psychopath?

You’re so wrapped up in your legalistic mental contortions that your thinking is twisted. Being Jewish can be either a religious (pace you, mostly Conservative and Reform) category, an ethnic one or both. It simply states that California opposes and condemns bigotry against people who are Jewish by either or both definitions. That simple statement of decency is evidently beyond your comprehension, all of your irrelevant erudition notwithstanding.

AA and Haaretz are now posting updates that say Belgium intervened against Israel. So, the legal news is not as bad as first reports indicated.

You are basicall making a case for state terrrorism

Sorry, but no. The fields are already destroyed. And if the Palestinians wish to recover them there is already an agreement in place that can make it so. But I doubt that will happen, it will be yet another missed opportunity. Once again the delusional fanatics will choose continued war and “resistance” against Israel.

Katie Halper is throwing light in the direction that has awakened world opinion. The challenge is now how to move toward liberation, justice, and co-existence. How to bridge to Israelis who see through the proaganda and want Israel to be a light.

Seriously? I think Sudan was capable of committing genocide without any help from Israel. Ever hear of Darfur?

Ehud Olmert said campaigns for equality (in a disciplined way, I’m sure) would work.

Surely you must have some clue how to take advantage of the worlds attention?

In Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special he criticizes Zionist Bill Maher and Israel: See the YouTube Short.

His closing line in the show is: “The fear I have that I need you to protect me from is co-option. What if they make me say the things they want me to say? So just in case we need a code. If I say it you know they got me, and don’t listen to nothing I say after. The code is: I stand with Israel.”

The crime of genocide was not employed at Nuremberg. Using starvation as weapon of war, homicide, and extermination can always be tried as crimes in the ICC regardless of motive. Unlike genocide, the perpetrator’s intent is not a relevant factor. The ICJ allowed the UAE to employ a reservation to avoid ICJ jurisdiction over genocide in the Sudan case. Now I see that Belgium as filed to intervene in the genovide case against South Africa on Israel’s behalf.

Federal or state legislators and bureaucrats are not permitted to make legal determinations or appointments of officials to monitor and combat “antisemitism”. That would require our government to perform religious tests. So, California’s AB 715 is unconstitutional, null and void, from the outset.

For example, the recently ratified “US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism” is an Israeli-American dual citizen and Chabadnik Rabbi. He views Atheists, Humanists, Reconstructionists, Reform and Conservatives as non-Jews, whose conversions to Judaism are legally invalid. They don’t meet his own racially offensive requirements. He also views “Gentile” citizens as evil subhumans by default:

“From this soul stems also the good traits inherent in every Jew’s character, such as compassion and benevolence. This [kelipah] is from the esoteric “Tree of Knowledge [which is comprised] of good and evil. For in the [case of the] Jew, this soul of kelipah is derived from the kelipah called “nogah,” which also contains good; and the good within this nefesh gives rise to these positive natural traits. The souls of the nations of the world, however, emanating from the other, unclean kelipot, which contain no good whatsoever, as is written in Etz Chaim, Portal 49, ch. 3, that all the good that the nations do is done out of selfish motives. So the Gemara comments on the verse, “The kindness of the nations is sin”—that all the charity and kindness done by the nations of the world is only for their self-glorification.” Chabad.org Tanya, Likutei Amarim, Chapter 1.”

That’s why these metaphysical exercises in developing and applying religious texts or establishing any religion are prohibited: Article VI Supreme Law Clause 3 Oaths of Office
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

First Amendment Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

ThisWreckage “I challenge you, JRG, to answer the question posed on this thread by Thomas Ellenberg: “how many Jews have been imprisoned for insulting and spitting on Christians, only because they are Christians?”.

Well, Ben Gvir says that it is not a “criminal case”. I guess he only wants the death sentence if Palestinians spit on Jews.

@Donald Johnson “The vast majority are just playing a mind game, trying to convince themselves and the world that Israel’s crimes are limited in scope and can be dealt with without having to admit that their side is guilty of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, torture, the deliberate killing of civilians and genocide.”

I wonder if they would pass a touring test with their incoherent mental gymnastics.

@HolyCow. “Imagine that, war breaks things. And if the strawberry farmers wish to return to their fields, they should encourage fellow Palestinians to comply with their obligations under the first phase.”

You are basicall making a case for state terrrorism: Obey or civilians will destroy agricultural fields to make civilians even die faster. Israel needs friends like you.

HolyCow “This from the guy who has raised the number to 872,000, and who characterizes 7 October as the “Gaza Breakout”.”

My bad. It was 680,000 allready on 21 September 2025. It was 872,000 by 7 October 2025. And yes, Hamas broke out of Israel’s genocidal siege,

“.As long as he is just making up numbers, why not just call it 1,000,000 and get it over with.”

As long as you are just making up this claim, think about the consquences of intentional starvation means and not allowing medicine to enter Gaza and the abyssimal condition people are trying to survive there. But I get it. You let Israel get away with genocide. Btw. your arguments are not different from Holocaust deniers.

Catholic, Orthodox, and Armenian Churches have official status from the British Mandate era, but Israel does not officially recognize so-called “Evangelicals” or their Church denominations. In fact, the Churches that observe the “Great Commission” to Preach the Gospel “to every creature” and conduct “charitable missionariary work” will always be harrassed, arrested, or deported. See also CBN reports about Orthodox Spitting Incidents, Protests Against Christians. BTW, there is no difference in approach between Islamic, Jewish, or Christian nationalist fascists. The state of Israel has always deliberately created bureaucratic hurdles for other religious clergy to obtain visas, exercise equal rights, and benefits. Knesset members and Jewish religious leaders have openly burned Christian Bibles and practice discrimination.

The proposition that the Lebanese Phalangist fascists were less of a threat than Hezbollah is incorrect. They conducted large scale massacres of the Christian village of Damur, and the Palestinian Christians and Muslims living in the Shatilla and Sabra refugee camps during the Lebanese civil war, according to the Boston Review. They were allied with, and logistically supported, by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. But Ben Gurion and Moshe Dayan had been planning the operation and Marionite alliance for decades according to P.M. Moshe Sharret. See: Israel’s Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett’s Personal Diary and Other Documents, Livia Rokach. Sharon had also placed tanks around Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

The Jewish Israeli Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and TV commentator, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, said, in reference to the deadly attacks at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, “There are no churches in Gaza, and there are no Christians since Hamas banished them all.” Since October 7, historic houses, mosques, churches, libraries, markets, and education facilities in Gaza have been subjected to Israeli shelling and air strikes. The claim made by Hassan-Nahoum was, and is preposterous.

It is my judgment there are Israeli Jews who intuitively know they have collectively been a problem for civilized order and have found shelter in misrepresentations regarding Palestinian intentions toward them.

For reasons I do not understand, Palestinian thought leaders have not seen it in their people’s interest to take seriously “Israel’s opinion fascism”.

IMO, Mondoweiss could strengthen the movement and co-existence by facilitating discussions and debate on solutions and objectives.  Such would eventually be noted by more Israelis and Americans….  influential allies needed politically by the movement.  Not hearing counters has reinforced negative opinions.

The US has always been, and remains, a racist country. However, antisemitism has not risen to the level of need of this bill. And in the history of this country, anti-Black racism has always been the most pronounced, and violent, of any -isms we have here. Yet in all these years no state has ever passed a similar law aimed at anti-Black racism, or made an office specifically to combat it with its own czar. This is what will happen in Sacramento to “combat antisemitism,” k-university.

As a non-Black poc, I find this incredibly insulting. We need these sort of bills now for white presenting people when this has NEVER been offered to any other marginalized groups? And now we’re seeing ridiculous amounts of anti-Muslim vitriol, from even our own elected officials. They refer to Muslims as “garbage,” call for the mass expulsion of all of them, say they don’t share our “values” (whatever that means; see my first paragraph), that they want to subjugate the rest of us, etc., all of this calls to mind 1930s Germany. And yet not a peep from most of our country’s “leaders,” red or blue.

By elevating one group over all others, I can’t help but think this is intended to increase actual antisemitism, so the government can crack down on our 1A rights even more. Color me jaded.

“Israel’s war on Gaza has not stopped; the ceasefire that took effect on October 10, 2025, was merely a continuation of war by other means.”

Amnesty posted this a few weeks ago:

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire...More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, without signalling any change in  their intent, said Amnesty International today….“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire – Amnesty International

Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ
Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ | The Times of Israel

Gaza’s Death Toll Soars to 680,000

This from the guy who has raised the number to 872,000, and who characterizes 7 October as the “Gaza Breakout”. As long as he is just making up numbers, why not just call it 1,000,000 and get it over with.

Re: Imagine that, war breaks things.

Let’s clarify that illegal occupations and refusal to withdraw in accordance with international law are the cause of indigenous uprisings. Palestinians have no legal undertakings to Trump that shouldn’t be settled in the ICC and ICJ. You simply whitewash the crime of aggression that Lloyd George admitted when he stated “We reserve the right to bomb niggers.” Eisenhower did the same thing when he invaded Lebanon in 1955. The UK did the same thing in Jordan to prevent Nasser’s “Pan-Arab Nationalism” or self-determination. Germany can have reunification, but not Arabia.

The USA didn’t even declare war on the Ottoman’s in WWI. So, our government only attended the Treaty of Sèvres Conference as so-called “observers”. In fact, the King-Crane Commission Report was ignored, the Anglo-French Declaration was violated, and the Great Powers spent the majority of their time drawing up the Red Line Map and agreeing on the terms of their illegal oil cartel. The USA concluded Mandate Treaties that made them parties to the unratified Versailles-Sevres-Lausanne and other post WWI LoN treaty concessions and cartels. Don’t piss down our backs and tell us it’s raining. Trump has always admitted he stayed in Syria and Nicaragua to steal oil. His Board of Peace is just more of the same old subjugation scheme.

Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel
Caitlin Johnstone

Dec 22, 2025

“Stop picking on poor little Israel. It’s just sitting there minding its own business trying to do a little genocide in peace while aggressively lobbying your government to crush your freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and you’re OBSESSING about it for NO REASON.

You just hate Jews. That’s the only possible reason you could spend so much time obsessing about this one tiny little harmless country: you’ve got a crazy, irrational fixation on a small abrahamic religion, because you’re a weirdo. Stop saying it’s actually about all the wars and atrocities and apartheid and starving children and lobbying and propaganda and nonstop assaults on your civil rights and your government’s complicity in genocidal abuses and the fact that you can’t engage in any aspect of society without having pro-Israel influence operations shoved down your throat. No.

That’s not it. It’s because you get freakishly enraged by small hats.

Don’t you know there was a shooting on Bondi Beach? Some ISIS guys killed some Jewish people, and it never would have happened if protesters hadn’t been accusing Israel of doing bad things. Stop saying they did it because they had been involved with ISIS for many years. They did it because you wore a watermelon pin.

There was a mass shooting in Sydney so that means everything that happened over the previous two years gets erased, just like how October 7 automatically deleted the last eight decades.

Everything that happened before the bad thing gets shaken out of existence like an Etch A Sketch, and anything that’s done afterward is justified by the bad thing. If this happens to advance pre-existing Israeli agendas like massive land grabs or suppression of pro-Palestine demonstrators, so be it. Them’s the rules.

There was a mass shooting in Australia so now everyone needs to shut up and do whatever Israel wants. Israel feels sad about the shooting so now it gets to do a bit more genocide, as a treat. It’s only fair.

Why are you so obsessed with Israel when there are other countries doing bad things in the world, anyway? How come you’re not worried about the Iran lobby manipulating your country’s political affairs, huh?”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-picking-on-poor-little-israel

Most liberal Zionism is performative. There are exceptions, where a committed Zionist tries to reconcile Zionism with liberal ideals by being honest about Israel’s worst crimes and trying to think of a just solution that doesn’t involve dumping Zionism, but there has to be a lot of emotional strain and turmoil involved. Some people, like Peter Beinart, end up dumping Zionism. The vast majority are just playing a mind game, trying to convince themselves and the world that Israel’s crimes are limited in scope and can be dealt with without having to admit that their side is guilty of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, torture, the deliberate killing of civilians and genocide.

There is a larger Western myth involved, where Western “ democracies” are inherently incapable of the sorts of crimes we condemn when committed by our enemies and” authoritarian” enemies. I don’t know why anyone would believe that, given the long history of Western crimes, but you see it all the time. Liberal Zionism is an extreme case of this type of doublethink.

In the immortal words of John McEnroe: “You cannot be serious.”

What are your thoughts on the below statement?

“The prison stands in Israel is a monument of Zionist values: fear, control, and the systematic destruction of Palestinian hope.”

“Do you hope writing your truth here will lead to making a difference?”

The more people know and see the truth about Apartheid Israel & its IDF … in photos, videos, unbiased reporting … in the long run, it will make a difference with people of conscience.

Jewish Journalist EXPOSES Israel’s DARKEST SECRET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5nSLIzUfk&t=11s

I challenge you, JRG, to answer the question posed on this thread by Thomas Ellenberg: “how many Jews have been imprisoned for insulting and spitting on Christians, only because they are Christians?”.

Dave, note Michael Arria’s excellent article on Mamdani had a very short life on the main page. A regular decision while some articles last months.

One photograph of a dead protestor beside his placard with “EQUALITY” could be a game changer. The second one would enrage and could change Congress.

And I was right about my statement, again: “He won’t, he can’t. That’s the point in every discussion where he’s going to exit it, stay a while low and the return with the same BS somewhere else.”

It’s performative Zionism. It starts from “We accepted the partition plan” to “We want peace, equal rights and coexistence with Pal…, sorry ‘Arabs'”

brent: “The better the Palestine movement’s slogans and objective are understood, the greater it’s chances for success and the safer will be it’s activists.”

I wholeheartedly agree with that. Otherwise they are easy prey for Israel’s opinion fascism.

@RobertB

I think that the description “the only child prison in the world” is misleading. It’s not the only child prison in the world, but it is run by a Jewish state only for non Jewish children who a coerced to sign “confessions” in a language they don’t understand. It doesn’t get more evil than that.

Imagine that, war breaks things. And if the strawberry farmers wish to return to their fields, they should encourage fellow Palestinians to comply with their obligations under the first phase.

Do you hope writing your truth here will lead to making a difference?

I try to address how to deal with the narratives, politics and psychology of the double game and ways to get to justice, peace, co-existence.

@Jonathan_K_Cook

“This Australian film on Israel jailing and abusing young Palestinian children is more than 10 years old.

Israel wants you thinking it treats children this way because they throw stones.

No. Children throw stones because generations of Palestinians have been treated this way.“

“This place—called the only child prison in the world—is situated in Israel.

The prison stands in Israel is a monument of Zionist values: fear, control, and the systematic destruction of Palestinian hope.”

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2002433415656976849

“As with many Palestinians, you seem firm to not assign any relevance to how “River to the sea, Palestine will be free” is taken regarding the movement’s objectives. Or the impact on public opinion and policy in America and in Israel.”

No matter how you try to spin it, the majority of Israelis want/desire all of Palestine free “of Palestinians/Arabs”. Look at the death/killing rates … who is trying to obliterate its/their opponents?

There is little doubt about your agenda/mission on MW … No relevance as to who is committing the genocide and the massive destruction. Not willing to even mention it … Palestinians are just numbers with no relevance to your agenda.

Did George Wallace or Bull Connor call in airstrikes to kill protesters?

Palestinian liberation (and American’s free speech) can more directly be achieved by emulating the civil rights movement for integration with equal citizenship rights.

On the issue of the ever shrinking space of free speech re Israel, Peter Beinart has a 7 minute video titled “Don’t Ban Globalize the Intifada”. Apparently some Australian politicians have been calling for this, and in Beinart’s words, “this is really stupid and dangerous on a number of levels”.

I won’t go further into Beinart’s arguments but I highly recommend watching this:

Don’t Ban “Globalize the Intifada” – by Ken Silverman

Wait a minute – according to the TImes of Israel, J.D. Vance just said

US Vice President JD Vance claimed in an interview on Sunday that almost no Americans are antisemitic and that concerns about antisemitic voices are raised as a way to avoid discussing “a real backlash to a consensus view in American foreign policy” on Israel….The interview was the latest in a series of comments Vance has made dismissing or declining to condemn an increasing embrace of antisemitism among parts of the US right….“Now, I happen to believe that Israel is an important ally, that there are certain things that we’re certainly going to work together on,” he said. “But we’re also going to have very substantive disagreements with Israel, and that’s OK. And we should be able to say, ‘We agree with Israel on that issue, and we disagree with Israel on this other issue.”

Vance: Almost no Americans are antisemitic, real issue is ‘backlash’ to US policy on Israel | The Times of Israel

So according to Vance AB 715 is unneccessary. The Vice President speaketh.

You may have missed the quotes around values

The point: “The better the Palestine movement’s slogans and objective are understood, the greater it’s chances for success and the safer will be it’s activists.”

As with many Palestinians, you seem firm to not assign any relevance to how “River to the sea, Palestine will be free” is taken regarding the movement’s objectives. Or the impact on public opinion and policy in America and in Israel.

Little doubt a majority of Israelis, and majority of Palestinians, want a Palestine free of the other and distrust the intentions of the other. It is also true that some of both realize the imperative of sharing the land.

It is in the interest of the region and world that negative intentions are called out.

RE: “For all its faults, the NYT is now publishing some good stuff on Israel/Palestine. Yesterday, they had an in-depth interview with Raja Shehadeh.” ~ John O

MY COMMENT: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription:
■ The Interview ~ Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace
By David Marchese | NYT | Published Dec. 20, 2025
LINK TO GIFT ARTICLE ~ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/magazine/raja-shehadeh-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.UTEp.VlLVfbP4XE00&smid=url-share

RE: “Under the general category of “Making Life Impossible For Palestinians”, the New York Times just published an outstanding photo essay titled “Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign For Control of the West Bank” – unfortunately it’s only available to subscribers at the moment..” ~ bcg

MY COMMENT: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription:
■ Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
By Michael D. Shear, Daniel Berehulak, Leanne Abraham and Fatima AbdulKarim | NYT | Dec. 20, 2025
LINK TO GIFT ARTICLE ~ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlements.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.1gLt.5CJNEAAzga5j&smid=url-share

In the birthplace of Christianity, churches and communities are coming under attack from Jewish settlers...Israeli settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News.

In the birthplace of Christianity, churches and communities are coming under attack from Jewish settlers

This is NBC news reporting, not Hamas.

There’s no difference between fanatical Jewish fundamentalism and any other type of fanatical fundamentalism.

Gaza’s Death Toll Soars to 680,000, Experts Warn of Systematic UnderreportingA new analysis by Dr. Gideon Polya, a former science educator at La Trobe University and author of Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950, estimates that nearly 680,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza since October 2023. This figure, if accurate, would represent over 28% of Gaza’s pre-war population (2.3 million).

Death Toll BreakdownDr. Polya’s analysis, conducted with Professor Richard Hil, categorizes the deaths as follows:
≈136,000 violent deaths from Israeli bombardments and ground operations.≈544,000 deaths from deprivation, including starvation, untreated disease, and collapse of Gaza’s health system.Among the deceased, 479,000 were children and approximately 380,000 were children under five.These figures are based on data from The Lancet and Dr. Polya’s analysis.
https://thenewpalestinepost.com/2025/09/13/gazas-death-toll-soars-to-680000-experts-warn-of-systematic-underreporting/

Hear it from an American nun who has lived there since 1996:

Here’s What It’s Really Like to Live as a Christian in the Holy Land

Premiered Aug 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y79CfG2R_3g

@ jrg “Christians in Israel worship and conduct their lives largely unmolested and under guarantees of complete religious freedom.”

Appeal to UN Special Rapporteurs on religious freedom
A 2025 submission by the Balasan Initiative for Human Rights to UN Special Rapporteurs and the UN Commission of Inquiry warns that about 130,000 Palestinian Christians inside Israel face systemic discrimination and suppression. It cites restrictions on Christian festivals (e.g., banning the Feast of the Transfiguration at Mount Tabor), unequal funding for Christian schools (less than one-third of standard state funding) compared with Jewish institutions, and attacks on church property such as raids on Mar Elias Monastery in Haifa, with few prosecutions of perpetrators. The submission frames these issues as violations of international law and calls on the UN to intervene.

Annual report on intimidation and aggression
The Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue documents a rise in harassment and physical attacks against Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem, mostly perpetrated by individuals from ultra-Orthodox and national-religious circles. It reports multiple incidents of spitting, vandalism, desecration of Christian sites, and targeted harassment of clergy during 2024, causing many Christians to feel threatened and unwelcome in parts of Israeli society. How many cases were investiaged? Ho many Jews were arrested?

Reports on discrimination and incitement
Some civil society sources argue that incitement and discrimination against Palestinian Christians are part of broader patterns of discrimination under the occupation and inside Israel alike: they describe cultural marginalisation, biased legislation such as the Nation-State Law, and a political atmosphere that they say undermines equal treatment of non-Jewish minorities.

jrg: “No, it will wind up on the scrap heap of history as a self-righteous anti-Israel screed that totally disregards the fact that the greatest threats to Palestinian Christians are the same as the greatest threats to Christians in Israel’s neighboring countries: Fanatical Islamist fundamentalism”

What a self-righteous pro-Israel screed that needs to deflect from a genocide carried out by fanatical Judaist fundamentalism against Palestinians, including Christians, and also from those suffering under Israel’s illegal occupation, which is not a ‘threat’ but a reality. So much for your so-called terrorists who do not wear the uniform of Israel’s genocidal force.
Israeli settlers repeat attack on Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-and-military-raid-palestinian-christian-village-occupied-west-bank

And concerning Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Catholic church, we again hear the usual sickening lie: ‘Tragic mistake, under investigation’. From a genocidal settler colony that assasinates natives with pin point accuracy.

Say jrg, how many Jews have been imprisoned for insulting and spitting on Christians, only because they are Christians? Does that remind you of times where Jews were treated like this? When and where? Look into the mirror.

“BTW, how many churches, synagogues or ashrams are there in Saudi Arabia? You could never count them on the fingers of one hand, because you could never start.”

How many new churches or mosques did Israel fund or allowed to be built since 1948?

When it comes to the myth of Zionist irredentists’ ‘ancestral homeland,’ all Jews are a direct descendant of David who practiced only the Jewish religion, were all expelled. and are all “returning” now as if they were 2000 years old immortals.

I wonder, if any Jew can tell me the name of their ancestral ascendants who actually lived there, especially these Jews.

@SPS1946 “We know one thing. Israel does not adhere to western values.”

Are you sure that Israels values are not “western values”? They seem to exist only when scolding enemies. Like Ursula von der Leyen who called Russia a terrorist for withholding food and at the same time “I stand with Israel”.

““Faith in a Time of Genocide” will stand alongside Chrisian confessions written in other times of crisis, such as the Barmen Declaration during the rise of Nazism (1934), MLK, Jr’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1963), and The South Africa Kairos Document during the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa (1985).” No, it will wind up on the scrap heap of history as a self-righteous anti-Israel screed that totally disregards the fact that the greatest threats to Palestinian Christians are the same as the greatest threats to Christians in Israel’s neighboring countries: Fanatical Islamist fundamentalism, as witnessed by the drastic reductions on the Christian populations of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt et al over the last generation. By contrast, Christians in Israel worship and conduct their lives largely unmolested and under guarantees of complete religious freedom. Given the choice of being a Muslim or a Christian in Israel on the one hand or a Jew or a Christian in any other Middle Eastern country, what sane person would hesitate?
BTW, how many churches, synagogues or ashrams are there in Saudi Arabia? You could never count them on the fingers of one hand, because you could never start.

How many people Linked to Jeffrey Epstein have died under mysterious circumstances?

“That it is about Palestinians being free of domination vs Palestine being free “of Jews”… as obvious as that is to unbiased, objective observers.”

No matter how you try to spin it, the majority of Israelis want/desire all of Palestine free “of Palestinians/Arabs”. Look at the death/killing rates … who is trying to obliterate its/their opponents?

I think we need to look to South Africa, where the judiciary recently began prosecuting the crime of apartheid. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are inadepate to resolve criminally entrenched doctrines and systemic abuses. Some cowboys just don’t know how to rope and ride, but some of them are like The Jesse James Gang. They’d much rather be robbing banks and trains. The Nuremberg Principles, the Eichmann Trial, and the UN Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations should apply to all crimes against humanity and war crimes regardless of outdated municipal or constitutional laws that protect bloody murder.

See for example: Algerian parliament opens debate on bill criminalizing French colonization
Draft law seeks to classify France’s colonial rule in Algeria between 1830 and 1962 as a crime.

I’ve pointed out before that our SCOTUS was still citing the Roman Catholic Pope’s Doctrine of Discovery in 1955, as if it somehow ever granted our Congress “Plenary Power” to steal land and resources from “Indian Nations”. The US government is still stealing trust funds from Tribes, and leasing land to Canadian Mining Companies and cutting our Government in as a partner in rare Earth minerals, while evicting the Tribes as trespassers and rustling their livestock. Likewise, our White Supremacists still use the treaties of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Gadstone to locate our border, while ignoring the provisions that permit Mexican citizens and their heirs (of whatever nationality) to live here forever without the need to be naturalized. The US government has no authority to conclude treaties at gunpoint and then arrest and deport anyone without habeas corpus and apply an enemy alien statute from the 1790s that has been superceded by the same Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention prohibitions we applied to Nazi German, Yugoslavian, and Rwandan officials.

…and anti-Palestinian racism is also disgusting and most certainly not in the interest of peace.

We know one thing. Israel does not adhere to western values.

Some hypotheses hold that DNA mutation rates should be radically recalculated.
But they admit the data contradicts the biblical narratives, e.g. Origin of the Jews and the Arabs: Date of their Most Recent Common Ancestor is Written in their Y-Chromosomes – However, There Were Two of Them, Nature, Anatole A. Klyosov 2010. See also: Y-chromosomal Aaron, Wikipedia: “While these genetic studies were seen as possibly supporting the traditional biblical narrative, subsequent research (by the original researchers and others) has challenged this conclusion in a number of ways and has in fact shown that the genealogical record “refutes the idea of a single founder for Jewish Cohanim who lived in Biblical times”,[6][7][2][8][9][10][11] and rather “seems to vindicate the historical-critical hypothesis of competing priestly clans.”[2]“

High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews. Hum Genet 107, 630–641, Nebel, A., Filon, D., Weiss, D.A. et al. (2000) and The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East were significant papers published in Human Immunology (see Nature 414, 382; 2001, by Nebel, Oppenheim, et al. Data showed close genetic links (Canaanite roots), but was retracted by the journal due to political pressure. Many subsequent studies, including Nebel’s own later work, confirmed broad genetic overlap between Jewish and the Palestinian population. Unlike that controversy, The missing link of Jewish European ancestry: contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian hypotheses, Eran Elhaik. Genome Biol Evol. 2013 was not well supported by actual testing, e.g. No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews, Doron M Behar et al. Hum Biol. 2013 Dec. Behar also drew conclusions, yet admitted he also had no tests of his own: “Additional samples from the region between the Levant and Iraq, such as from Syria, were not available.” Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites, Nature Communications, (2013). Rootsi, Behar.

Eran Elhiak has abandoned the Khazar hypothesis, but still holds the Ashkenazi Jews are predominently from the region of Anatolia and Europe, not Palestine. Scholars generally agree on world population structures, see Eran Elhiak and Michael Hammer, et al paper on subject.

BTW: Maria Farmer has stated that she was sexually assaulted by Maxwell and Epstein in billionaire Wexner’s Ohio home. She filed a complaint in 1995. Wexner’s fingerprints are all over a lot of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
The FBI did not interview Maria Farmer until 11 years after she submitted her complaint to them.

Why does the US Supreme Court have the authority to overrule the will of American voters as the will is expressed by Congressional legislation, e.g, the voting rights act and federal election law?

Why is the US president chosen by a non-democratic system that overvalues the votes of sparsely populated whiter older midwestern states and that undervalues the votes of heavily populated less white younger coastal states?

Many Americans are immensely unhappy with the current government of the USA — especially with respect to the support of Israel as Israel conducts genocide, which is a US federal and international capital crime. The Constitutional system seems to outrage a substantial section of the US population.

Why don’t we Americans change the system so that we can end support of the Zionist state and state trying US Zionists for genocide-related crimes?

Maybe the global majority should try to force regime and governmental system change onto the USA.

It is not about being worthy.

Rather about using western “values” to advantage. Engaging toward liberation.

It will be a giant step foward for it to be commonly understood the primary slogan is a call for human rights. That it is about Palestinians being free of domination vs Palestine being free “of Jews”… as obvious as that is to unbiased, objective observers.

John was correct, some will mischaracterize everything, but there is the challenge. Mondoweiss could advance the movement by pulishing Palestinian thought leaders who could develop understanding on political objectives and intentions.

The problem that most people don’t grasp is that when scientists test any ancient person’s DNA, even as recently as burials from 2,000 to 5,000 years ago, they might be looking at a common ancestor of everyone alive today, or someone with no living descendants. People don’t inherit any DNA from the majority of their 8th cousins, much less from their ancient ancestors. So you really can’t determine where all of your ancient ancestors came from, by looking at any DNA test. See Before You Buy – ISOGG Wiki and Read This Before You Buy a Genetic Testing Kit – Consumer Reports. DNA testing is restricted for recreational use without medical oversight in countries like France. It’s regulated in places like Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, requiring doctor involvement for health-related tests due to privacy concerns. Countries like Russia restrict sample export, making it difficult. Other nations with strict rules include Japan, South Korea, Israel, and many others, where accessing these kits directly is complex or blocked. So even with whole genome testing, and advances in ancient extracting methods, there are still large gaps in our data.

DNA does not determine your religion or your geographic location. When scientists discuss ancient genomic history of a region, it’s usually just a small sample involving less than 100 burials. It’s pointless to try to exclude anyone living today from the results. Everyone has common ancestors, from every locale, when we are discussing populations who lived 6,000-14,000 years ago, they were neither Jewish, Hebrew speakers, or spoke any Semetic language in the case of the nearest “Jewish” DNA relatives the “Kurds”. DNA information has nothing to do with a person’s “historical homeland” today. The idea that European Jews have a “Birthright” to live in Palestine is supertitious nonsense.

Charlemagne’s DNA and Our Universal Royalty | National Geographic, Carl Zimmer, 2013 cited:
Recent Common Ancestors Of All Present-day Individuals, Yale University, Joseph T. Chang; and The Royal We,The Atlantic, Steve Olson, 2002. The latter explained: “The mathematical study of genealogy indicates that everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne”. See also: The Future Common Ancestry of All Present-Day Humans, Nature Communications, Philip Service, 2021.

@jrg “So what’s your solution, LivvyCallipygian? Expel the Jews, exterminate us, or re-ghettoize us?”

And act like Nazis acted towards Jews or Jews have been acting towards Palestinians? Why would anyone sink that low?

@jrg

So much for your civilized country: https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/palestinians-raped-israeli-jailers-speak-out

Racial supremacist Zionist colonial settler invaders have since Dec 1947 been expelling us Palestinians, exterminating us, and ghetto-izing us. Yet, when I repeat an observation that a political science professor expressed in a class, a Zionist propagandist objects to a factual observation of the history of the Zionist lobby and implies that the Palestinian resistance and the worldwide anti-genocide public focuses on persecution of Jews and not on ending the genocide, which white racial supremacist Zionist colonial settler invaders planned at least as far back as the 1920s.

For all its faults, the NYT is now publishing some good stuff on Israel/Palestine. Yesterday, they had an in-depth interview with Raja Shehadeh.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/magazine/raja-shehadeh-interview.html

Under the general category of “Making Life Impossible For Palestinians”, the New York Times just published an outstanding photo essay titled “Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign For Control of the West Bank” – unfortunately it’s only available to subscribers at the moment:

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village, the idea of a Palestinian state is withering in the West Bank….Armed Israeli settlers, often protected by soldiers, harass and attack Palestinian villagers daily, with the undisguised goal of driving them out….Over the past two years, Israeli settlers have established a record number of new outposts in the occupied territory. The goal is to win on the ground what might otherwise be lost at a negotiating table….Palestinian communities that for centuries were part of a closely knit landscape, like these three near Ramallah are increasingly on their own, surrounded and isolated.rme

Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank – The New York Times

I don’t see how this can be called anything else but colonialism and terrorism.

Nothing to say about the article itself, just ad-hominem junk?

And we know that blackmailing the region with nuclear weapons is a privilege for Israel alone.

For so-called moderates or political realists such as Brent, the Palestinians can never be clean, worthy or Western enough. They always have to change themselves to fit the demands of Western media so that they never challenge or offend even the most regressively conservative of the American public. Israel, on the other hand, must never be even asked to explain its own viciously racist propaganda, let alone change it, because Israel is Western and so acceptable to the moderate mind.

‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’

What does the Holy Bible say about genocide? Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

(Numbers 31:17-18)

“The world is enabling Israel to murder our elders in their work” of creating a nuclear weapon that they could use to blackmail the rest of the region.
If the regime for which this writer is shilling is as beloved by its people as he claims it is, why is there a Council of Experts who have the power to overrule the will of the people, and why in fact do they need to falsify their election results?

So much for Candace Owens: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-809854

“In part, the Zionist lobby is an evolution of traditional Jewish shtadlanut.” So what’s your solution, LivvyCallipygian? Expel the Jews, exterminate us, or re-ghettoize us?

“No wonder people turn to Tucker Carlson.” Fine, Phil, why don’t you go to work for him yourself, just as you once did for Pat Buchanan?

“It has been informative that even publications like Mondoweiss have not been able to clarify the meaning of “River to the sea” “

“River to the sea” = Palestinians will be FREE from Israel’s Apartheid, racism, supremacy, murder/killings, massacres, rape, land/resources thefts, evictions, and decades of a vicious occupation.

Mainstream outlets so obviously silent on Epstein’s relationship with Israel. No NO mention of Les Wexner any more.

First time I became acutely aware of Epstein’s deep economic ties etc to Les Wexner when I heard a pack of 9,10,11 year old boys singing “Victoria’s Secret” on the radio as I was driving them to soccer practices in Boulder. When I heard the song again I asked the pack of boys if they understood what the song was about they said “yes”…about an old rich man in Ohio who took advantage of young girls to sell clothes etc. When I asked if they knew what a pedophile was they all knew in surprising detail.

Les Wexner’s connection to all of this has basically disappeared in the media and discussions. Evaporated.

I went and listened and read the words to that song that I learned about from them.

“God, I wish somebody would’ve told me when I was younger
That all bodies aren’t the same
Photoshop, itty-bitty models on magazine covers
Told me I was overweight
I stopped eating, what a bummer
Can’t have carbs and a hot girl summer
If I could go back and tell myself when I was younger
I’d say, “Psst”
I know Victoria’s Secret
And girl, you wouldn’t believe
She’s an old man who lives in Ohio
Making money off of girls like me
Cashing in on body issues
Selling skin and bones with big boobs
I know Victoria’s Secret
She was made up by a dude (dude)

Short, and to the point. Why the redaction, I wonder!

“The document calls “for a comprehensive national reevaluation of our reality to draw lessons and insights leading to a unified, collective vision and a clear strategy for future action… “
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Without vision, people perish.

I need some mind-bleach now.

A defeatest approach may explain the hole the movement has long been mired in. It has been said that what is in the public mind is half the battle. It underpins the movement’s criminalization.

It has been informative that even publications like Mondoweiss have not been able to clarify the meaning of “River to the sea”…. or apprciate why doing so is in the movement’s interest.

How does one get to where they don;t know where they are going?

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The phrase “ancient ancestors of Jews” belongs to primordialist or essentialist propaganda and should not be present in a scientific paper.

The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant, Lily Agranat-Tamir, Shamam Waldman, Mario A.S. Martin, Israel Finkelstein, Liran Carmel, David Reich, et al, Cell, May 28, 2020 is more terminologically careful than most of this class of papers. The statistical analysis is better than most analysis that is found is such papers.