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I’m in favor of holding Hamas and Israeli perpetrators individually responsible for any crimes they have committed upon conviction by a regularly constituted court that affords defendants all of the recognized safeguards. But what you describe amounts to bigotry and collective punishment, which is not acceptable. I’ve pointed out that using starvation as a weapon of war is illegal when it is used against wounded militia members and prisoners. I’ve also noted that it is prohibited to declare no quarter will be given. It goes without saying that it is absolutely prohibited to use treacherous and indiscriminate killing methods, like bombing hospitals, dropping 2,000 bombs to level apartment complexes, employing explosive pagers, truck bombs, and flooding tunnels.

Did he? What were his words?

The core definition in the Jerusalem Declaration is fine and complete:

Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish).

BUT with its examples and clarifications, it becomes IHRA-light.
Like IHRA, in its sum it is based on associating Jews with Israel. It is of course less egregious, but it is rooted in Zionism and the mystification of anti-Jewish bigotry.
See: https://mondoweiss.net/2021/03/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-a-critical-view/

“Iran committed an act of war against this country, and still has not been held accountable!”

On June 8, 1967, Israel committed an act of war against the USA. The survivors of that horrific attack are still awaiting for justice & accountability.

“On June 8, 1967, 34 American servicemen were killed (see list with photos and bios) and 174 were wounded during an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. According to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer, “Those men were then betrayed and left to die by our own government.” The survivors are still awaiting justice.”

See here for more recent articles pertaining to the Liberty.“

https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html

“Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City on January 1, elevating Palestine as a central issue in our national politics to a degree that it has never been”.
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Mamdani pointed out that slogans and political objectives are key. His success, and the movements, are in play.

Narratives are the tools used to achieve political objectives. Greater Israel’s primary narrative is “the right of self-defense”. Reality is framed as “Jew hate”, as “existence” in order to distance criticism for behaviors, cover exaggerations, and distance critics and criticism.

As Mondoweiss wisely points out, Right now, the struggle for Palestinian freedom is a battle over the narrative.

It is a movement interest, indeed a collective interest, for intentions to be better understood. Narratives are the tools to achieve liberation. And to gain political allies, especially Jewish ones. Not understanding this can be dangerous.

Re: Normally, TV news organisations in the UK (BBC, ITN, Channel 4 News, Sky) must adhere to a strict fairness standard.

Are you kidding?

I have not seen any mainstream or streaming newscaster explain according to international law either (1) the legitimacy of Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 or (2) the complete illegitimacy of the existence of the Zionist state.

Both positions are easily supported in international law.

I find all of the pretenses and cognitive dissonance fascinating:

* 160 countries recognize the State of Palestine and the coalition agreements between the Palestinian main political factions.

* Even countries that claim they don’t “recognize” Palestine have a treaty obligation under the Geneva Conventions, Rome Statute, UNCLOS, UNESCO, etc. to treat Palestine as an existing State Party. All states have the right to possess weapons for use in self-defense.

* Blockading the coast of another State is a violation of the UN Charter and Rome Statute as a form of prohibited aggression.

* In President Wilson’s 14 Points speech he noted that imposing neutrality on countries like Belgium was a violation of international law and that there could be no further “attempts to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations”.

* In Reid v Covert the US Supreme Court held that Congress and the President were creatures of the US Constitution, who could do nothing beyond our US territorial jurisdiction that is prohibited by that document.

* Our SCOTUS and Appeals Courts have ruled that it is unconstitutional for our government to attempt to circumvent the 2nd Amendment and prevent persons here from openly carrying firearms.

So, where does President Trump’s power to disarm Hamas come from? Several of the countries that have volunteered to serve in his Gaza international peacekeeping force or Board of Peace refuse to designate Hamas as a terrorist group and are already bound to treat Palestine as a State Party to one or more of their own treaty agreements.

Re: Imagine [someone] over two years later, says “sorry, I can’t remember where I stashed him…”

I’ll stick to the facts. The IDF spent over two years targeting, leveling, and entombing everyone inside piles of rubble, and collapsed tunnels, i.e. hostage takers and their captives alike are still buried. Compound that problem by the fact, the IDF is still murdering and wounding thousands during the cease fire and preventing the search.

Re: Huge difference: the Vietnamese didn’t kidnap the remains of American civilians and military personnel and hold on to them for ransom.

The atrocities committed during the Vietnam War by all the parties are well known. Those certainly included the crimes committed by the Viet Cong, the opposition underground terrorist movement.

The North Vietnamese government demanded concessions in exchange for release of POWs and remains on many occasions. Your claim is contradicted by the declassified official government archives and Pulitzer prize winning press reports. The communist government often denied access to recovery sites and “warehoused” remains, just like the government of Israel did for decades with its warehousing of remains for use as “bargaining chips”. Vietnam returned remains in stages tied to political developments or U.S. goodwill gestures, such as the lifting of the trade embargo or support for their admission to the United Nations.

Re: Ran Gvili’s family deserve to have closure, to have his remains returned for burial.

Israel has used corpses as bargaining chips since the day it was established. It has published court cases and regulations since the Netanyahu, Sharon, and Bennett eras that refuse the return of certain Palestinian remains to their families as a form of punishment, e.g.:

‘According to information provided to the court in petitions concerning the capture of bodies by the state, between 1991 and 2008, Israel made deals in which it handed over 405 bodies in return for the bodies of deceased soldiers.

On 1 January 2017, for the first time, the Security Cabinet passed a resolution entitled Uniform Policy on the Handling of Terrorist Bodies. The resolution states that, as a rule, “Terrorists’ bodies will be returned subject to restrictive conditions set by security officials”. However, the bodies of “terrorists associated with Hamas” and of “terrorists who perpetrated a particularly heinous terrorist attack” will be kept by Israel and not returned. B’tselem

@ jon s “Here we have a criminal terrorist organization which did exactly that.

Let me guess, you can’t prove that either. It seems more like yet another deflection from many facts:
1.) Hamas is not obligated to return remains that it doesn’t hold.
2.) Hamas is not obligated to find the remains immediatly after your colonial setttler terrorist have destroyed Gaza and buried tens of thousands under the rubble. Maybe the buried also Gvili.
3.) Hamas ist not obligated to risk their lives searching for his remains whie your terrorists even shoot children on the spot.

“Imagine a murderer/ kidnapper holding on to the remains of one of his victims and ,over two years later, says “sorry, I can’t remember where I stashed him.”

Yeah, it actually sounds to stupid, to be more than an imagination.Tell his father about the heroic murderers, kidnappes and gangrapers of his settler construct and its supreme apartheid court:

Israeli High Court greenlights holding Palestinian bodies as bargaining chipshttps://www.btselem.org/routine_founded_on_violence/20191022_hcj_greenlights_holding_palestinian_bodies_as_bargaining_chips

Is this “revolting bigotry”?

Naturally, you’re misrepresenting what I wrote.
Palestinians can be heroes.
Hamas terrorists are not heroes.
By conflating Palestinians with Hamas you’re not helping the Palestinian cause.

The ongoing effort of US Zionists to strip Americans of US Constitutional rights is not a battle over narratives. This ongoing effort is intended to transform the USA into a Zionist authoritarianism.

Americans must choose between the US Constitutional system and support for the continued existence of the State of Israel.

Nope, Gamal is correct. On 12 May 1981, President Reagan formally filed a Order of Discontinuance with the ICJ and dropped its claims against Iran. During the Iran-Contra scandal he was actually working with Shimon Peres to supply arms to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. So the ICJ Judgement was moot. I don’t know what planet you were living on, but the ICJ found that the Carter invasion of Iran during the case was an act of war that violated the Treaty of Amity with Iran and made the terms of that agreement unenforceable. We’ve written how Kermit Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, ran the CIA’s 1953 Iran coup (Operation Ajax) under the direction of CIA Director Allen Dulles, with support from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (Allen’s brother), to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadegh and install the Shah, working with British intelligence for this “anti-communist” imperialist operation.

For its part, Iran wrote two statements saying the USA had repeatedly interfered in its domestic government and refused to participate in the ICJ case. It was busy producing US Embassy documents which showed the “hostages” were actually engaged in Carter regime espionage and staging another US mission to implement a SAVAK/Military coup to replace the Shah. That violated the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular relations the ICJ was supposedly trying to decide. The only parties in international law that are prohibited from performing espionage or coups are those diplomatic and consular officials. See: The Legality of International Espionage Based on the
Nature of the Target and the Perpetrator, 2025, The US Marine Corps University Press.

You can also read the confession written by the ring leader Jimmy Carter dispatched to accomplish that overthrow of the government of Iran: Gen. Robert E. Huyser, “Mission to Tehran” with the introduction by Gen. Alexander Haig”, 1986, Andre Deutsch. We’ve discussed the fact here in the past that the USA was a party to the 1920 Red Line Agreement on the secret international oil cartel and the fact the Great Powers had repeatedly interfered in the domestic government of Iran ever since the era of Moses Montefiore.

Normally, TV news organisations in the UK (BBC, ITN, Channel 4 News, Sky) must adhere to a strict fairness standard. Sometimes, this can be misleading – as in the case of Brexit, where, as former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis explained, researchers could get a dozen economists lined up in five minutes to explain why Brexit was folly, but then had to trawl for several hours to find one who thought it was a good idea. But there have been occasions when it was agreed by those organisations that one side was so obviously wrong that “balance” was unnecessary. Examples have been South African apartheid and, more recently, climate change denial.

It’s way past time for news organisations to accept that Israel’s response to the crimes of 7 October 2023 is indefensible.

UnholyBovid is just a troll. Best ignored.

Off topic ( or maybe, if the topic is how Israel aims to make life unbearable for Palestinians it’s right on topic ): recently some of our colleagues at Hasbara U have stated that Israel’s requirements for NGO’s in Gaza are entirely reasonable and have the goal of preventing Hamas from using humanitarian aid. Doctors Without Borders explains the situation clearly:

MSF has legitimate concerns about the registration requirement to share personal information of our Palestinian staff with Israeli authorities. This is heightened by the fact that 15 MSF colleagues have been killed by Israeli forces** since October 2023….In any context—especially one where medical and humanitarian workers have been intimidated, arbitrarily detained, attacked, and killed in large numbers—demanding staff lists as a condition for access to territory is an outrageous overreach. It also undermines humanitarian independence and neutrality and is made all the more dangerous by the absence of any clarity about how such sensitive data will be used, stored, or shared. 

Israel’s grave threat to withhold NGO registration | Doctors Without Borders – USA

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Remembering our colleagues killed in Gaza | Doctors Without Borders – USA

Duh.

HolyCow seems to think the rules of International Law do not apply to apartheid Israel. This is just another of the many efforts by Israel to hide the catastrophic war crimes it continues to commit in Gaza and East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Notice that the Free Press still has no access to the scene of these Israeli war crimes – after 27 months.

The tone of your frequent comments prove my point.

That’s rubbish.
A family friend (still living) was one of the US hostages. The US embassy hostages were treated with respect and dignity by the Iranian partisans who took over the US embassy.
It is interesting to contrast that with how the Israels routinely torture and rape Palestinian prisoners. Sadism seems to be a common disease in modern Israel.

Gaza Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank aren’t narratives, they are factual war crimes.

Trump will now have his hands full trying to suppress the mess he’s made in Venezuela. Like our old family dog, his brain can’t cope with more than one thing – food! walkies! – at a time. I fear Netanyahu has just been given a free hand in Gaza and the West Bank.

Huge difference: the Vietnamese didn’t kidnap the remains of American civilians and military personnel and hold on to them for ransom.
Here we have a criminal terrorist organization which did exactly that. Imagine a murderer/ kidnapper holding on to the remains of one of his victims and ,over  two years later, says “sorry, I can’t remember where I stashed him…”
Ran Gvili’s family deserve to have closure, to have his remains returned for burial. (Disclosure : I’ve met his father.)

Got it Jon,

Palestinians can’t be heroes, and Israelis with links to the IDF or the Yasam unit, who oppress Palestinians on a daily base to say the least, can. And if they are Jewish, we are even expected to show at least a gram of human decency. And this is not revolting bigotry.

Thank you for supporting the morst moral apartheid in the history of mankind and many other expressions of human decency.

Hahaha, how can anyone even vote my comment down? Must be an opinion fascist.

bcg: “Are Israelis interested in human rights?”

If that were the case Israel wouldn’t exist.

It’s natural for supporters of Israel to loudly invoke human rights when criticizing Iran, while ignoring Israel’s genoncide, ethnigc cleansing and colonial settler terrorism in general against Palestinians.

It’s just another example of their usual revolting supremacist bigotry.

There’s a fourth D: denial.

Deny loudly (or simply ignore) the fact that your team does any of these things.

When Charlie Kirk was murdered, Trump tried to order everyone to pay homage to him, when he wasn’t busy talking about his new ballroom. The result was not always flattering. See: Charlie Kirk’s Online Afterlife: ‘Kirkification’ Memes Take Over The Internet. So, please drop the nonsense about “human decency”. Your head of state is a fugitive from justice wanted for extermination, murder, starvation and targeting civilians. He gave our President the Israeli Prize, and already needs Iran bombed again. Here in the USA both Charlie Kirk and the Trump family made fun of the murder attempt the day after the break-in at the Pelosi home. You’re lucky that no one here has turned your missing man into a meme yet.

There have been more than 400 Palestinians murdered and 1,000 wounded since the so-called “cease fire” began. You’re only here to distract attention away from this article about Civil Defense crews in Gaza who are “undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.” See: How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City – Reuters. In the weeks before the ceasefire, Israel deployed a new weapon: Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed as explosive-laden bombs.

Grow up. You are complaining about a missing member of the latest failed attempt since the Hashomer (Zionist watchmen) began antagonizing the inhabitants and increasing your casualties. Note that the demands from the perpetrators of the Munich massacre, Ma’alot massacre, and Al Aqsa Flood massacre have always been prisoner exchanges. In case you haven’t noticed, the Hannibal directive and Dahiya doctrine are part of the problem, not the solution.

The “Elite counter-terrorism and hostage rescue Police unit member you seek is dead, buried, and hasn’t been seen since the IDF spent the last two years bombing, shelling, and turning the region where he was last seen into piles of rubble. He may not be quickly located. See the story about the defense agency that accounts for the USA’s missing warfighters. It identified the remains of 231 service members from the WWI, Korean, Vietnam, and other conflicts in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, far exceeding its tally in recent years according to Stars and Stripes.

You have a problem with facing reality.

The 1979-81 hostage crisis, in which government-backed mobs of sadistic louts invaded the U.S. Embassy compound, i.e., the sovereign territory of the United States, and kidnapped American diplomats, is apparently a non-event in this chronology. Iran committed an act of war against this country, and still has not been held accountable!

Demonization, Delegitimization and Double standards: Each of which you practice when it comes to Israel or Jews generally.

Thank you Michael, can you ask Rabbi Goldfeder of NJAC if it’s “hard to overstate how disturbing” the revocations are for his credibility that David Schoen was courting Epstein as far back as 2013?

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Just read the Fox News piece today rehashing old stories. The media just cannot let go and loves to think of new angles to get you in headlines. Sorry to see it; but i am sure by now you can deal with it for what it is.
I appreciate the call from Darren (*) a few weeks ago and would have loved to have a fought a battle for the fellow at issue. But once he let me know the guy had been served and it was just a matter if defending a deposition, i suggested that it might be a waste of money to have me handle that. I hope it worked out. I am more than happy to get involved any time in any way i can help – and i would like to think i could help with what i bring to the table. I just did not feel in that circumstance that you did not need me adding to the milking of resources that i am sure has been going on with lawyers for years.
I would have felt differently if it were a matter if taking depositions or actually litigating a case. I would like to think that in that circumstance i could add value. If we ever meet, i will tell you a bit about depositions i took not long ago of the leaders of the PFLP terrorist organization. That was my kind of setting.
Please know that i am here to help in any way i can with any case or just for advice if you think my help would be meaningful. Your situation seems to me to raise the combination of friends you have been very good to using all you gave them and then ditching you and sharks swarming when they smell blood and i don’t like to see either.
I “met” you originally through a friend i like very much. I wish it had been earlier in time; but looking to the present and future, you just let me know if you need me.
Take care.
David

+ (*) Darren Indyke was not a casual acquaintance; he was a core legal adviser and, after Epstein’s death, one of the two people in charge of the estate.

https://jmail.world

Belgium just petitioned the ICJ to join the State Parties that support South Africa’s case that Israel has violated the Genocide Convention, I’m guessing Ms. Abu didn’t win any hearts and minds or that you filled in any blanks.

Or they could just continue to file Article 15 complaints with the ICC portal or Prosecutor to identify the responsible Israeli officials (individual criminal responsibility/communications to the Registrar). For example, the following organizations on the banned list are known to have engaged with the ICC through Article 15 communications or direct legal action:

* Defense for Children International (DCI): Identified as one of the 37 banned groups and has previously urged the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes.
* Medical Aid for Palestinians UK (MAP UK): Included in the 37 banned organizations; has been a signatory to submissions calling for ICC investigations into the Palestinian situation.
* Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC): One of the most prominent groups banned; has provided detailed accounts to international bodies and expressed that the ban is partly intended to silence “humanitarian witnesses” providing evidence for legal accountability.

I hope Mamdani will be an example to other mayors, but I’m not holding my breath. He couldn’t have done this a year ago, let alone two years ago!

In Canada, and I think in the US as well, attempts to make adherence to the IHRA definition of antisemitism into law, rather than just a policy statement, haven’t worked. Such a law wouldn’t pass a challenge under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms or your Bill of Rights.

HolyCow: “At least they have options. Those 37 international humanitarian organizations could comply with Israel’s meager requirements.”

That’s one way to whitewash yet another Israeli violation of humanitarian law imposed through the weaponization of genocidal bureaucracy:

‘Sorry, Doctors Wizout Borders. But if there is a human animal, sorry Amalekites, sorry Palestinians on your team, we will link them to ze terrorists and revoke your license. And boy, what a coincidence: we have already identified two of your members as former members of the Palestinian militant groups Islamic Jihad and Chhhamas, and don’t you even dare ask, we are not obligated to provide any evidence. And you can’t accuse us of lying either, because luckily for us, that would mean recycling an antisemitic trope!”

So, no soup forrr you!

You see, we have options too to continue making Gaza uninhabitable and to make Palestinians either be killed by us, starve to death, or suffer until they ‘leave voluntarily,’ as 80 percent of the most moral society in the world expects us to do

(Btw. Doctors, you should be happy that we won’t kill even more of you.)

More of the ongoing contention over perceptions, slogans, and intentions. The battling over each others narrative.

“It is natural for supporters of the Palestinians to take support wherever it comes from. and if Palestine is aligned with Iran which persecutes women and uses the death penalty with incredible ease, who cares, as long as they support Palestine.”

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Your Apartheid Israel doesn’t “persecute women”, Palestinian women & girls, it just kills/murders tens of thousands of them:

Various sources report that tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023. The figures vary among different sources and over time due to ongoing hostilities and challenges in data collection and verification.

UN Women estimates that over 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began. In October 2025, a separate report estimated the number to be over 33,000 women and girls.

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported as of early January 2026, a total death toll of over 72,000 Palestinians, including 18,592 children and approximately 12,400 women among those whose identities are fully verified. The Ministry notes that many more bodies are uncounted, likely under rubble.

Filling in missing pieces of the article:

Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, said that 104 aid organizations had filed for registration according to the new guidelines. Nine were rejected, while 37 did not complete the procedures, she said on X, insisting the registration process “intended to prevent the exploitation of aid by Hamas.”

IDF and extremist Jewish settlers shoot unarmed Palestinians on a daily basis in the illegally occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank.
Those murdered Palestinians were not armed.

You have an Islamophobia problem.

In general things are not black and white, they are a matter of degree. I’ll take Swedens mixture of welfare state and capitalism and Mamdani’s reformism, thank you.

Are Israelis interested in human rights?

What goes around comes around. Braze for impact!

bcg “When are we allowed to say that Israel is a colonial enterprise?”

Since Hertzl’s letter to the another colonial supremacist called Cecil Rhodes in 1902.

@ThisWreckage

Colonial and upremacist ideologies typically shift responsibility from perpetrators to the oppressed by denying state crimes and blaming victims for their responses.

Fascist ideologies often merge state and people into a single entity. Criticizing the state is then treated as defaming the people themselves.

Somehow I sense the 3d critererias for collective hatred:
Demonization: Turn anyone who criticizes state policies into a hater, racist or supporter of terrorism, no matter what they actually did or said.
Delegitimization: Claim that anyone who delegitimizes a state is a hater, racist, or supporter of terrorism, even if their arguments are legitimate and cannot be refuted.
Double-Standards: Hold critics of a specific state policy to rules no one applies to critics of any other state.

Actually, it would have surprised me had you expressed a gram of human decency. Ran Gvili went out to defend our people on Oct 7. He fought bravely , down to his last bullet, reportedly killed 14 of the terrorists, and fell in battle. The terrorists haven’t returned his remains, despite being obligated to do so. On Oct7, there were those who screwed up, and there were also heroes. Gvili is among the heroes.
Like all people, Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.
Hamas terrorists – murderers, rapists, kidnappers – can’t  be considered heroes. Except on Mondoweiss. 
Revolting bigotry? Look in the mirror.

Mamdani falls comfortably into the dishonourable tradition of betrayers of the working class. Mamdani cannot, for example, please landlords (who enjoy free money from their ownership of public goods) and working class tenants (who need those goods to live in) at the same time. He refuses to admit the brutal reality of class struggle, and spent much of his campaign time schmoozing with the rich elite whose interests he openly declared he will protect. So: not a socialist, just like Morris Hillquit wasn’t either. See this coruscating take-down of Mamdani:

… the co-leader of that successful and world-historic revolution, Leon Trotsky, lived in New York City for 10 weeks just before the outbreak of the February Revolution. Trotsky met Hillquit and he fought Hillquit. He exposed the Socialist Party leader as a two-faced reformist whose opposition to the war was completely phony. It did not take Trotsky long to see what Hillquit represented. He later called him “the ideal leader for successful dentists,” the kind of middle-class “socialist” whose most prominent American descendants today include the DSA.

It would be far more instructive to contrast Mamdani with the Socialist Party’s Eugene Debs who was no supporter of Hillquit. They were polar opposites.

At least they have options. Those 37 international humanitarian organizations could comply with Israel’s meager requirements, or they could decamp to Sudan where the need is equal.

Olmert’s opinion…. putting equal rights front and center, could change the state.

It’s pretty obvious what armed resistance has achieved.

Americans could be the last best hope for the movement. Their understanding of intentions and possibilities could make the difference.

What would be lost?

An urgent message from Mondoweiss’s Publisher
Right now, the struggle for Palestinian freedom is a battle over the narrative.
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Netanyahu’s characterization of Palestinian intentions serves Greater Israel and undermines the movement. Who is not paying attention.

It is natural for supporters of the Palestinians to take support wherever it comes from. and if Palestine is aligned with Iran which persecutes women and uses the death penalty with incredible ease, who cares, as long as they support Palestine. But then to pretend that the Palestinians are interested in universal human rights is on its face baloney and supporters of Palestine should come clean on the inhumane qualities of its international support. But if the imams succeed in holding on to power, the Palestinian silence regarding the Iranian people will continue, because the only pain that counts is Palestinian pain.

brent: “Average Americans need to understand a vision for a workable future.”

Point to their own history.

As if Israel has never profited from Gaza’s blockade beyond using it as a human test lab for weapons.

@brent

If you really think that this would change anything, you haven’t been paying attention.

On tonight’s episode of Demystifying Iran, Professor Mohammad Marandi traced a century-long arc, from misplaced hope to hard-earned clarity.

He explained that Iran’s distrust of the United States did not emerge from slogans or ideology, but from lived history: a democratically elected government overthrown, sovereignty traded for obedience, and every attempt at engagement met with coercion, sanctions, or violence.

From the 1953 coup to the imposition of “maximum pressure” sanctions, and from diplomatic deceit to wars imposed, the pattern remains unchanged.

What emerges is not “a cycle of misunderstanding,” but what Marandi calls “the logic of empire, an empire that offers only two choices: subjugation or antagonism.”

https://youtu.be/-6Ahc-jCKH0?si=HOOEFCESpyNY0QKW&t=3

@jon

It does not have to be an AI. Perhaps a child near you could explain it better, since It seems that I have already failed to explain it to you twice.

“No innocent Palestinian civilians were around.”
As if the innocence of a Palestinian would stop an IDF or Yasam terrorist of killing them. Even his presence in occupied Palestine makes him a war criminal.

As you can tell I have no problem with disrespecting anyone who has served in the IDF or the Yasam. And this is the most polite answer I can give you about him, because Mondoweiss would censor me. So I really do not give a *** who you or Ben Gvir call ‘heroes’. At least 80% of your Jewish society has lost their right to make any moral argument.

How many Palestinians would you call a hero who fell in a battle defending their present real existing homeland against attackers/soldiersterrorists/expellants/genocidaires? And what do you call them? Your constant bigotry is revolting.

“Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli called them a “series of antisemitic steps” and dubbed Mamdani an “overt antisemite and a supporter of terrorism.”

Says the overt Jewish Zionist supremacist and supporter of genocide who called Chuck Schumer a ‘Palestinian’ and a ‘self-hating Jew’.

This is a real definition of antisemitism and not shielding Israel by fabricating antisemitism:
Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

At last! A major politician who tackles the unjust IHRA definition of antisemitism head on.

Off topic but rather important:

Culture Minister Miki Zohar, of the ruling Likud party, said on Thursday that Gaza belongs to Israel, and that the roughly 2.3 million Palestinians in the enclave are “guests” whom Israel is merely allowing to live there for now.

Culture minister says Gaza belongs to Israel, Palestinians merely ‘there as guests’ | The Times of Israel

When are we allowed to say that Israel is a colonial enterprise?

Re Mamdani one of the more interesting commentaries comes from the Forward:

A century before Mamdani, this Jewish socialist mayoral candidate divided NYC Jews…Morris Hillquit’s 1917 campaign bears striking similarities to Zohran Mamdani’s...A socialist immigrant running for mayor on an anti-war, pro-working class platform divides New York’s Jews over whether his campaign, and potential victory, might stoke antisemitism….The year isn’t 2025, and the man isn’t Zohran Mamdani. It’s 1917, and Jewish labor lawyer Morris Hillquit is running on the Socialist Party ticket….Many aspects of Hillquit’s 1917 and 1932 mayoral platforms bear a striking resemblance to Mamdani’s today, according to Shelton Stromquist, emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa and author of Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism….Hillquit called for public ownership of the city’s transportation, and for the construction of affordable housing to replace substandard living arrangements. He also promised to bring down food prices, pledging to “put the milk profiteers out of business” by buying milk directly from farmers and selling it at cost….Mamdani’s campaign has echoed many of those ideas, centering on affordability with proposals to make buses “fast and free,” freeze rents for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments, and create city-owned grocery stores….Municipal socialism was also gaining traction in the early 20th century. In 1910, Jewish politician and journalist Victor Berger became the first socialist elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing a Milwaukee district. In 1913, socialists won a majority on Hamilton, Ohio’s city council and elected the mayor.

Before Mamdani, socialist mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit divided NY Jews – The Forward

In other words, Mamdani falls comfortably into the tradition of Jewish socialism:

Jewish Socialism in the United States, 1880-1920

Jewish Socialism in the United States, 1880-1920 | My Jewish Learning

One vision that won’t work is what Israel is doing to the Palestinians on a daily basis – ethnic cleansing.

Sinwar’s heroism is a lesson for everyone:It will take courage and sacrifice for humanity to survive
Joe Emersberger

…….

A revolutionary how-to book in the form of a novel
Days after Sinwar’s death, I simply had to do something I haven’t done in about fifteen years, read a novel, specifically Sinwar’s novel: “The Rose and the Carnation”. Amazon, in an abject display of cowardice, stopped selling the book after being warned by Israeli lawyers that selling it could violate US anti-terrorism laws, but it is still easy to find copies online.
The novel is a history of the Palestinian struggle against genocide that covers the period from 1967 until the early 2000s. That history of the struggle is conveyed through one family’s story during those years.
The narrator, Ahmed, is a small child living in Gaza when the story begins. Various factions of Palestinian society are represented in the family. Ahmed most admires his older cousin Ibrahim, the hero of the novel. Ahmed supports Hamas, and becomes part of the armed resistance. Ahmed’s older brother Mahmoud supports the PLO and frequently clashes with Ibrahim and other Hamas supporters in the family. A few of Ahmed’s half-brothers reluctantly become policemen with the Palestinian Authority that was set up through the Oslo Accords. And one of Ahmed’s cousins becomes a despised collaborator with the Israelis. 
The eldest brother Mahmoud has heated debates with Ibrahim and others in the family over the Oslo Accords. Mahmoud basically implies that his relatives are short-sighted hotheads for not supporting them. The others tell Mahmoud that he is deluded about the value of cutting deals with the Israelis. Sinwar obviously assumes readers will take the side of Ibrahim’s group in these debates. Given the Holocaust we’ve witnessed in Gaza since Oct 7 of 2023, that is certainly the side with whom I agree. However, Mahmoud is never depicted as stupid or cowardly. In fact, during one discussion when Ibrahim’s wife aggressively takes her husband’s side, Ibrahim tells her to not be disrespectful to Mahmoud who is “like a father to us all”. 

https://joeemersberger.substack.com/p/sinwars-heroism-is-a-lesson-for-everyone

What makes you think that students don’t understand the idea of “narrative”?

OK, let’s say that AI understood you and I didn’t.
Ran Gvili fell in battle , heroically defending a kibbutz that was under attack. No innocent Palestinian civilians were around.
So I’ll ask again: are you saying that you are not mocking and disrespecting his memory?

Right

It would have made no difference. Fire a gun – get shot. Throw a stone at a tank – get shot. Hold up a placard – get shot. Wear a flak-jacket labelled PRESS – get shot. Drive an ambulance – get shot. Cross a yellow line by accident – get shot. Stand in line waiting for food rations – get shot.

Simply, it is a PR plus for slogans to be correctly understood….. not characterized by others.

Mearsheimer’s analysis suggests it’s time to file ATS genocide lawsuits against US Zionist plutocrats.

If the plutocrats squeal, Israel will notice, and the Zionist plutocrats are not well-liked by the US public.

BTW, Mearsheimer is AI generated in the video.
https://youtu.be/EsBB055vG-g?si=_5_qcOoPHTiNi0zO

“In numbers and in refusal, students are strongest.”
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A well understood narrative enhances student strength.

Israel Bans Aid Groups For The Same Reason It Bans Journalists, And Other Notes
Caitlin Johnstone

Dec 31, 2025

“Israel has banned 37 aid groups from working in the Palestinian territories, citing plainly spurious reasons. Among the aid groups banned are Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam.

Israel banned the aid groups from Gaza for the same reason it continues to ban journalists. Of course it’s about eliminating aid itself, but it’s also about eliminating witnesses. Doctors and aid workers largely became the de facto journalists on the ground in Gaza when Israel banned international news media and began systematically assassinating Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes.

Doctors Without Borders was one of the top humanitarian groups publicly accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in 2025. A lot of what we learned about the Israeli massacres of starving civilians at “Gaza Humanitarian Fund” sites came from MSF doctors describing the gunshot wounds they’d been seeing at medical facilities. MSF were the first to report the horrifying story of IDF soldiers entering hospitals they’d attacked in Gaza and destroying individual pieces of medical equipment to make them unusable, providing unassailable proof that Israel was actually targeting
Gaza’s healthcare system itself rather than “Hamas bases in hospitals” as Israel falsely claimed. Doctors Without Borders were constantly putting out reports condemning Israel’s attacks on medical facilities where it had staff, and its doctors often spoke to the western press about the horrors they’d seen in Gaza.

And now they’ve been taken out, one of dozens of aid groups who Israel will no longer allow to operate in the occupied Palestinian territories. They took them out for the same reason they took out the journalists, and for the same reason Israel and its supporters try to stomp out speech that is critical of the Gaza holocaust throughout the western world, and for the same reason witnesses who try to tell law enforcement about the crimes of the Mafia tend to go missing.

They want to keep their crimes in the dark.”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-bans-aid-groups-for-the-same

Even some the most conservative, pro-Israel, anti-Hamas self-proclaimed Zionists who believe in their bones that Israel has the right to defend itself have come to the conclusion that Israel is committing war crimes. For example, Michael Walzer** . This Haaretz article was picked up by the MSN newsfeed:

“When Joe Biden and his advisers came to Prime Minister Netanyahu and said, you’ve caused enough damage, now you can continue the struggle against Hamas diplomatically. As someone who studies war and morality, I can say that at the moment when there was a political path to defeat Hamas and release the hostages, the war became unjust…..“The effort to win when there was no way to win without destroying Gaza was a criminal effort. Wars are sometimes necessary, but they must have an end and a goal. Your government refused to commit to any end or goal, except for conquering the Strip and expelling all or most of its residents – but a better end was possible….the war, he said, “was a joint production,” and Israeli citizens “must recognize their responsibility for the destruction and the killings in Gaza. 

War ethicist Michael Walzer, a Zionist to his core, cautiously joins Israel’s critics

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Michael Walzer | School of Social Science | Institute for Advanced Study

Imagine had exercising the right to armed resistance been determined to be too long a shot and Mandani’s idea about equal rights been front and center.

B’tselem’s statement on X regarding Israel’s ban on multiple humanitarian agencies:

As of today, Israel is barring 37 humanitarian organizations from entering the Gaza Strip. This is the latest in a long series of obstacles and restrictions imposed on the delivery of aid to Gaza, in violation of Israel’s commitments under the so-called “ceasefire” agreement. It is fully consistent with Israel’s policy of worsening the inhumane conditions in Gaza by deliberately harming a civilian population that remains under blockade and attack….Despite the declared “ceasefire,” Israel continues to kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the “ceasefire”, 405 people have been killed and 1,114 injured by Israeli fire…

https://x.com/btselem/status/2006716224634310861

Also relevent: a few weeks ago a number of Israeli NGO’s** posted a report titled “JOINT SITUATION REPORT – 58 Years of Occupation, The Two-Year War in Gaza”:

In these challenging times, practices Israel employed even before the war have intensified to the point where they have become routine and unprecedented in scale. They include: the widespread killing of civilians, including children and the elderly; mass destruction of homes, neighborhoods, and essential infrastructure that has left hundreds of thousands of Gazans displaced, homeless, and without access to basic necessities such as water and shelter; and the broad use of Palestinians as human shields, as they are exploited, placed in harm’s way, and denied their liberty. Palestinians held as security detainees and prisoners have seen their prison conditions deliberately and extensively worsened…

JOINT SITUATION REPORT: 58 Years of Occupation, The Two-Year War in Gaza

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The Association for Civil Rights in Israel; Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights; Breaking the Silence; Combatants for Peace; Emek Shaveh; Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement; HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual; Ir Amim; MachsomWatch; Physicians for Human Rights Israel; The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel; Torah of Justice; Yesh Din

What do you think is causing the generational shift for Republicans on the issue?
Perhaps it is the same kinds of factors effecting the shift on the Left?
As time goes on, and the conflict isn’t resolved and the abusive system stays in place, perhaps people grow tired of it?

Even worse, Israel is releasing vital supplies to profiteers instead of aid organisations:

Israel is running a parallel system of controls for shipments into Gaza, allowing commercial traders to bring goods into the territory that are barred for humanitarian organisations.

Basic life-saving supplies including generators and tent poles are on a long Israeli blacklist of “dual-use” items. The Israeli government says entry of these items must be severely restricted because they could be exploited by Hamas or other armed groups for military ends.

However, for at least a month, Israeli authorities have allowed businesses to transport multiple dual-use items into Gaza, including generators and metal pallets, which are more durable in winter rains and mud than wooden alternatives.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/01/israel-allowing-traders-to-bring-into-gaza-dual-use-items-barred-from-aid-organisations

My understanding is that Zionism has a range of types, and so it isn’t necessarily Fascist. On the right wing end there is a Fascist right wing version like Jabotinsky was involved in, whereas on the left wing end there is a Binational version like Noam Chomsky was involved in during the mid-20th century.

Austria before the end of WW1 had a weird dichotomy. It was pretty progressive domestically in some ways, like with a parliament, a major social democratic party, and laws protecting human rights. But for Serbs and Slavs, things could be harsh. There was a concentration camp called Thalerhof with executions. It held Eastern Slav nationalists, pro-Russians, revolutionaries. A Rusyn-American priest from my parish in the mid-20th century kept a poem comparing Thalerhof to Golgotha.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalerhof_internment_camp )

The Isr. State, especially in its early period reminds me of that dichotomy, where it has been very progressive domestically, with a major Left Wing Labor party, communes (kibbutzes), national land ownership, but harsh treatment of the Pal. population. I don’t know how much of a coincidence it is that Herzl was from pre-WW1 Austria.

The following passage seems inexcusable.

Part of that split has played out in public in ugly ways. There is a faction of former Trump acolytes, such as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Candace Owens who, to varying degrees, are using Palestine to channel hatred of Jews and disguise it as suddenly discovering the suffering of Palestinians. Owens, in particular, has been very open about using classic anti-Jewish tropes and outright expressions of Jew-hatred to advance her case. In her case, her open bigotry has superseded her initial attempts to connect her hate to the Palestinian cause. Carlson and Greene—both of whom have long histories of Judeophobia as well as Islamophobia, and anti-Arab racism—have not repudiated any of their earlier statements but have clung to anti-Israel statements in the current moment, rather than recalling their earlier anti-Jewish ones.

The live-streamed genocide seems to have suddenly caused the majority of the human race to have discovered both the depravity of Zionism and also the suffering of Palestinians. While MTG has some religious issues with Jews, it seems pure nastiness to suggest without good basis that these people are primarily motivate by hostility to Jews and not by images of the slaughter and of the maiming of Palestinians.

Owens has, in fact, tried to distinguish between Biblical Judaism and modern Judaism. Her effort is clumsy, and she has unfortunately waived a copy of The Talmudic Jew, but I have difficulty in condemning her for the effort of a tyro and autodidact — especially when Zionists spread propaganda to conceal the radical difference between Biblical Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism.

In academic Jewish studies, it is standard to say that:

• Biblical / Second Temple Judaism (sacrificial, Temple-centered, priestly)

• Rabbinic Judaism (post-70 CE, text-centered, halakhic, synagogue-based)

are historically discontinuous religious systems, even though Rabbinic Judaism:

• falsely claims continuity

• consciously reconstructs (or disingenuously presents) itself as the legitimate successor

Pointing out the discontinuity is a descriptive, historical claim, not an anti-Jewish one, and it is mainstream in scholarship.

[Rabbinic Judaism does not fully crystallize intellectually until the mid 10th century CE thanks to the effort of Saadyah Gaon. Popular Rabbinic Judaism is not fully formed until RASHI publishes his commentaries in the 11th century CE.]

@gamal.

CSG says a document with an unspecific warning of heightened risk was sent to the police weeks before the attack, while the police say they never received it. Let’s give CSG the benefit of the doubt and assume their actions would aim at preventing attacks by Islamists on the Jewish community, not silencing critics of Israel. But that should not justify turning a community security group into a more heavily armed or expanded force. This responsibility should rest primarily with the police, and communication between the two groups should be improved

BDS actions at the State and local level must continue to expand. Only then will the elected politicians find the “courage” to follow the law and do their job and stop supporting Israel’s Genocide and ethnic cleansing policies in the illegally occupied territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
There is no leadership on this issue in the US Congress, and our Naked Emperor only cares about lining his family’s pockets with financial assets.

The opening for antisemitism to grow in the US lies entirely with the Zionist movement, and the arrogant behavior of Jewish American Zionists, especially the super wealthy. The have insisted that anti-Zionist is equal to antisemitism, and they are getting their wish. Raising false claims of discrimination, virulently opposing free speech when it doesn’t match their program, buying and attempting to buy mass media to shut down criticism of Israel, e.g., Bari Weiss at CBS and efforts to buy Tiktok. All these give energy to those would would build political capital through antisemitism, and echo historic charges about Jews and politics, going back to the elders of Zion. Lumping together and being dismissive of people like Greene, Owens, and Fuentes, instead of understanding what they represent and engaging with them respectfully will only empower them. (For the record, IMHO Candace Owens is a complete nutcase and should be ignored, but Greene and Fuentes represent serious trends in American politics)

Following the Bondi attack on a Chabad event, the state government of New South Wales is considering arming a Jewish supremacist organization, Community Security Group, effectively deputizing them as as paramilitary police, with the right to carry guns in public in order to intimidate people into silence about Israel.

https://youtu.be/aMGd7F7fdTw?si=03CIcy5_KfjkFV5B&t=1

“this shift is finally starting to be reflected in American politics, albeit in ways far too small to match the needs of the moment.”
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Average Americans need to understand a vision for a workable future.

John O,
I fear you are right, but Israel’s second option will not be a recipe for longterm success.
When the United States starts saying no to Israel (and that will happen as US public opinion continues to shift), Israel will no longer be shielded from the consequences of its countless crimes.

US history is replete with bad actions, but the level of mass destruction and collateral damage (aka murder of innocents) done with US weaponry has never been more horrific.

@brent “It has been somewhat successful at reinforcing the victimization, self-defense narrative. Both Greater Israel foundational narratives.”

It didn’t reinforce anything that didn’t allready exist. The perpertrators need to present themselves as the victim of their eliminatory settler colonial lebensraum policy.

“You may have noted my repeated reference on the appropriatness to eloborating on the intended meaning of “Palestine will be free”. Perhaps you are savvy enough to do so? Would that mean in 2 or 1 state?”

Resisting and finally ending Zionist elimnatory settler colonialism, Jewish supremacy, apartheid.and biblical genocide.

jon s “Thomas E, Your comment recycles the medieval blood libel.
I don’t think that all Anti-Zionists are Anti-Semites. But when an Anti-Zionist recycles a classic Anti-Semitic slander, it reminds us that sometimes they converge.”

Got it. When a non-Jew commits a crime, it is a crime and he is a criminal. But when he is a Jew and his crime reminds Zionists of an antisemitic trope, he is not, but the one who points it out is labeled a racist. I don’t think that Zionists are irrational supremacists, but when they misuse antisemitic stereotypes, it reminds us that sometimes they converge.

Actually I don’t They don’t coverge sometimes, but it is only sometimes thaht thexy don’t.

In case you think that the new UN Security Council Palestine Mandate is unique, let’s remember that Native American Tribes were removed by President Jackson because they asked for statehood and representation in Congress. The fact is they’ve been denied citizenship until the 1920s, Civil Rights until the 1960s, Freedom of Religion until 1978, restoration or reparations for treaty violations, and their resources are still being stolen by the US and Canadian governments. During the previous and current Trump administrations, the USA has failed to submit or participate in the UN human rights reviews.

See for example:
* Lithium deposit valued at $1.5 trillion has been discovered in the U.S.;

New Report Finds Nevada’s Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights- HRW and ACLU Outline How Mine Was Permitted Without Free, Prior and Informed Consent

*“The Land of Our People, Forever”: United States Human Rights Violations against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lithium | HRW

jon s: “Thomas E , I’m not dodging your question. My answer is: yes.”

You dodged the question before, and it is obvious, why. And Iinvented the he last quote: It was absed on Morton Klein, President of the Zionist organisation of America:
““There is no occupation in Judea and Samaria,” Klein wrote. “[W]here is your condemnation of the evil murders by your filthy Arab Islamist despicable brethren. The Nazis would be proud of the evil actions of murderous Arabs- murdering innocent Jews and Americans.You make the world worse.“
https://forward.com/news/410836/zoas-mort-klein-tweets-filthy-arab-slur-and-doubles-down/

So according to your evaluation, he is an anti-arab racist.

@jon s

I was pointing out that even an AI understood my point. That said, I do not know whether he committed crimes against Palestinian civilians in his uni I suppose that, in your view, this still makes him a hero.

“For years Netanyahu supported Hamas to destabilise Palestine”.__________________

No, that is Netanyahu’s line to enable his double game.

He needs violent resistance to underpin the Greater Israel project’s primary asset…. “the right of self-defense”. Not understanding this is the movement’s tragedy.

Netanyahu makes disarming Hamas a primary demand with Trump, while wanting the opposite. Its called “war by way of deception”.

Amira’s best shot. Essential reading. Thanks.

Will reacting, not responding to the wider picture, continue to be Greater Israel’s reliable asset.

The year also saw a steady intensification of the occupation on the West Bank, and an unprecedentedly broad wave of Israeli warfare all across the Middle East.

I guess Israel (by which I mean principally its government) has two options: to change course in order to shore up their international support; or to intensify what they are currently doing, as it will be their last chance to achieve their goals. I fear it will be the second option.

“Nothing powers Israel’s apartheid and genocide like the U.S. does.” For those who think genocide is not the right description for what’s happening in Gaza Reuters just posted a phot-essay titled

“Anatomy of destruction – How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City”

How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City

And for the record, this is an under-reported story: U.S. army colonel Nathan McCormack was removed from his job at the Pentagon for saying the truth about Israel:

‘Worst Ally’: Army Colonel Removed From US Joint Chiefs Staff Over Israel Criticism | ZeroHedge

A United States Army colonel has been removed from his position on the Pentagon staff supporting the Joint Chiefs after his Israel-critical social media posts were publicized by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Until this week, Army Col Nathan McCormack led the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Levant and Egypt branch….Here are the published comments that led to McCormack’s removal: 

 “Netanyahu and his judeosupremacist cronies are determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land.”

“The more Israel’s death cult escalates toward Hezbollah, the more we will see show-of-force attacks like this and 13 April.” 

 “The U.S. has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior.”

Amid talk of pushing Gaza residents into other countries, McCormack wrote, “[Israel] wants to expel them and cleanse ‘Eretz Israel’ of ethnic Palestinians.” 

“I’ve lately been considering whether we might be Israel’s proxy and not realized it yet. Our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.” 

 “I agree that Israel has an absolute right to respond militarily, and that civilians may legally be caught in the crossfire, but you are ignoring the requirement of proportionality. Israel’s responses always (always—not hyperbole) disproportionately target Palestinian civilians.” 

Also see US military official slams Israel as a ‘death cult’ and the country’s ‘worst ally’ | Middle East Eye

I’m not opposed to a 1SS, but prefer letting the Palestinian people decide things for themselves by conducting a real national plebiscite, while demanding right of return to family residence and land or compensation regardless of the number of states, one nationality a citizenship per country, regional right of transit, and standard minority, religious, women’s, and linguistic rights enforced by international law . FYI, Article 62 of the Treaty of Berlin, The San Remo Resolution, and the British and French boundary treaties preserved all of those features, including grazing, fishing, and navigation rights to all states on both sides of the borders. Those treaty rights were ignored and violated, without international police enforcement. I have no objection to a regional union of Arab states, with their own police and armed forces. That’s their choice.

I’m not opposed to the USA, Canada, and Mexico being forced to either admit Native American Nations as states with their own elected representatives or granting them independence. The UN Charter was ratified more recently in time than the US and other Constitutions and members agreed to those measures. Our lawmakers have continued to steal their trust funds, lands, and resources and place our national borders through their lands and interfere with their members self-determination, estates, freedom of movement, commerce, and residency.

If a Jews think Uruguay shouldn’t be occupied, if they think there should be one Uruguayan state there, that doesn’t discriminate against anyone—Is that Jew trespassing on Uruguayan rights?
So why is it not the same for Palestine?

“One Palestinian state in all of Palestine” is basic common sense. How is standing with that zionism? It’s actually saying “all societies should have their own state on all of their land except for Palestine” that is zionism.

I appreciate the author’s intentions, but please—there’s one genocidal settler state in Palestine and there should be one Palestinian state there interest. If you’re not going to stand for that, have the decency to shut up.

When the USA attacked undefended cities with nuclear weapons? Maybe before that…