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Yesterday:

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza…Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’….Speaking in the run-up to close-fought Israeli elections, Itamar Ben-Gvir said the plan aimed to remove 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza in the first year, followed by the rest of its population of roughly 2 million over the next six years….“It’s realistic,” Ben-Gvir said, claiming there were countries that were “ready” to take in Palestinians from Gaza, without naming which ones….The proposal is contained in a 20-page document with the euphemistic title of “National Work Plan for Voluntary Emigration from the Gaza Strip”.

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza | Israel | The Guardian

Really? What does voter infuence have to do with ending Israel’s forever war? It’s been going on since 1947 and demanding negotiations for prohibited, non-negotiable behavior, despite international courts ruling against that criminal conduct. Why shouldn’t we demand the regime be removed?

Elections don’t directly effect Presidential election outcomes here in the USA. Clinton and Bush Jr were kidnapping civilians off the streets around the globe and putting them in secret black site prisons. The SCOTUS approved Obama and Holder putting US citizens on kill lists and denying them access to the “classified” information used to put them on the list in the 1st place, or giving them any right to challenge the decisions and have their names be removed. The SCOTUS held lawyers could be imprisoned for simply advising sanctioned groups to pursue peaceful solutions through the UN and the courts. Then the SCOTUS ruled citizens do not have the right to even live with their alien spouse in this country, or have the Courts find out why their immigrant spouse’s visa applications expired or were denied, in cases where no one has ever accused them of any crime.

Which candidate this year is even talking about changing any of those outrages? When will anyone close down the prison on Gitmo or be putting those former Presidents behind bars for the 20,000 foreign nationals murdered in extrajudicial drone strikes outside any war zone; for extreme renditions, illegal invasions, assassinations of foreign protected officials, piracy on the high seas, pillage at gunpoint, & etc.

I always vote, but those issues are never on the ballot and we don’t seem to have judicial standing to get those cases to trial even after 10 years of preliminary motion filings and hearings. PR conducted on US or Israel’s behalf to reassure AIPAC or the criminals in charge of our regimes will not alter those situations. Enforcing arrest warrants and prosecuting those responsible is a necessary measure.

This week, five of Israel’s six desalination plants shut down because of algae contamination, with one possible cause being sewage outflow from Gaza’s wrecked water system.

Re: Indicates the legs of the “destroy Israel” narrative in today’s politics.

Remember the Alamo! was just a slogan that glorified an illegal and suicidal takeover of a Mexican mission. The Texian insurrection and the Battle of the Alamo (1836), is just heavily romanticized American racist mythology employed as a hagiographic struggle for liberty, despite its deep ties to preserving illegal Anglo-American slavery in Mexican territory.

PR will not transform the religious myth of Sampson from a worthy suicide needed to perform a righteous act of mass murder against the Palestinians before the upcoming elections. Haaretz reported “The words to “Zochreini Na” (“Remember me, please”) come from the last prayer that Samson, blinded and captured, makes to God to restore his strength and to take revenge on the Philistines before he dies.” It was written by an American Kahanist and Michael Shemesh (named for a Canaanite Sun God) provided video on X.

“Remember me, please, give me strength just this time, O God, to take revenge, if only for one of my two eyes, on Palestine,” the yeshiva students shout, before adding as a belligerent coda: “May their name be erased!”

I just explained that to you yesterday. The election and your blather won’t justify the Zionist genocide-suicide cult, regardless of the outcome. Haaretz just wrote about that very clear example today: A Kahanist Hate Anthem for Netanyahu’s Self-destructive Israel – Israel Elections 2026.

You should stop promoting the strange idea we should avoid calling for the abolition of any government regime based upon racism, supremacist theocracy, apartheid and genocide. The act of publicly condoning, denying, or grossly trivializing those serious crimes is hate speech. There are international laws, US treaties, and state laws here in the USA that prohibit recognizing any country which acquired the qualifications for statehood in violation of the prohibitions against the threat or use of force or in violation of the UN Charter. That milestone disappeared in the rearview mirror decades ago in the case against the Zionist Jewish state. The House Education and Workforce Committee noted the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act is unenforceable as written, and has not been voted upon by the Senate. The ACLU, CCR, et. al have promised to challenge it, if ever adopted as law.

Israel,Aipac, Jinsa etc have made sure our government is Israeli occupied territory. Now all Universities can now be categorized as Israeli occupied territories. Free speech,right to protest….Be gone because the I lobby says so.

“The antisemitic, hate-fueled BDS movement seeks to destroy Israel — and has no place on our college campuses,” tweeted Gottheimer.
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Indicates the legs of the “destroy Israel” narrative in today’s politics.

“The bill’s passage comes just days after the House approved a resolution condemning socialism “in all its forms.” “

“An honest look at American “public schooling” reveals that it is indeed the most socialistic institution in our country. Most people are surprised to learn that “free” public schooling is one of the “Ten Planks” (key tenets) of the Communist Manifesto.”

“Is public education socialism?”

“Drinking water becomes scarce, and people struggle to obtain enough for their daily needs. After the alarms are sounded and Israel eases access to water ever so slightly, the crisis begins to recede. Then a food crisis emerges. Then, as that crisis begins to fade, there is a waste crisis: garbage piling up, landfills overflowing, and sanitation systems becoming increasingly inadequate.
And so it continues, without end, one crisis after another.
The Israeli occupation has deliberately kept Gaza in this position of perma”

Israel’s choreographed chaos equals horrific well thought out/planned war crimes!

No end to torture of Gaza doctor Abu Safia in Israeli prison: What to know
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/no-end-to-torture-of-gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-in-israeli-prison-what-to-know

Narratives move elections by influencing voters.

And my Congresswoman, Katherine Clark, is just as bad. She is Hakeem Jeffries’ lackey.

You don’t promote ways to get anywhere. You just ask for directions, then wander off somewhere else.

Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime.

Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without this

migration” during a conference hosted by the Israeli news site Ynet and the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. He said the Israeli government was “organised and prepared to get them out by sea, by air, by every way possible”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/israel-seeking-trumps-support-for-plan-to-expel-palestinians-from-gaza

Brent needs the concept of equal rights explained to him.
Jon s pretends there’s a moderate zionist group while the racist scum in Sderot cheer on Netanyahu telling him to “Let Palestine be erased.”.

Pure murderous evil.

Re: Israelis have been effective at narratives, the foundation for political influence.

People who label this as a geopolitical narrative have misdiagnosed the problem. That is clearly a racist religious cult that scoffs at opposing viewpoints and simply treats PR as antisemitic.

Re: Why don’t you?

Because they joined the Maccabee national “fire and blood”, mass murder or Masada-Bar Kokhba total annihilation is victory cult. They would rather murder you, sacrifice their own people, or exercise the Sampson option and leave a suicide note blaming it all on everyone else who threatened the “existence” of their Zionist Jewish State (with coexistence among the Gentiles).

Starving others for decades, while dreaming up excuses on Channel 14 to justify leveling 10 story residential apartment buildings with 2,000 pound bombs is not an accidental side effect. It’s their raison d’etre and what their cult was established to accomplish.

Murdering kids and their entire families in homes, schools, UN shelters, hospitals, while flying kites, playing soccer on the beach, or standing in line for food using missiles fired from drones, snipers making heads shots, white phosphorus showers, or flechettes & then murdering the rescuers in-turn when they try to reach them is an IDF competition sport that is replayed on social media and television for the entertainment of others, not able to watch it with field glasses from a nearby lawn chair. Please stop trolling the thread.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/frXgRdHkuK4?si=m5p8jnGgkitCsMQk

Thank you!

Kids are not the problem in and ofitself. It is a symptom of no political strategy.

Explain one more time. How was it viewed by others?

The IDF had a phased plan in Dalet, with units tasked to massacre hundreds of Palestinians who were doing nothing or straying off the path in places like Ramle and during the Lydda massacre and death march. Averny’s unit was just describing the later phase where they were murdering lawful residents for coming back home afterward and lying about “infiltration” as if they hadn’t just illegally confiscated, pillaged, or demolished the victim’s private property and lands. Bar Giora, The Stern Gang (or Lehi), Special Night Squads, Irgun, and Palmach  Mista’arvim units had always committed murder during their terror attacks.

Consistent, criminal, chaos is what the Zionist created 70,80, years ago and they continue with their war crimes. We know MS Now’s Rachel Maddow etc, CNN’s Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Cspan’s Washington Journal etc will not be covering all of the crimes illegal home and land thieves have been committing over last months, years, decades. Escalation of the human rights crimes (war crimes) was endless this summer.

Rachel Maddow will not be covering…she loves her paycheck more than human rights.

https://www.facebook.com/trtafrika/videos/dozens-of-illegal-israeli-settlers-attacked-palestinian-homes-in-qusra-on-august/1045180261822304/

Kids throwing rocks is not the problem, it’s just a symptom. If you really believe the first step is to define the problem, then you need to start with “What sort of mythology makes a “Zionist State” or “Hamas State” behave like other suicide cults?” Normally, most people wouldn’t explode themselves with suicide bombs on a crowded bus or employ Hannibal Directives to kill their own citizens, because the group has reached a consensus that their members would prefer to be dead given the current situation.

They have something in common with Branch Davidians, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, The Solar Temple, Heaven’s Gate, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, and etc. To understand why these groups think staging genocidal revolts or suicide are the only alternatives that provide the time tested answer, you could read The Masada Myth Collective Memory And Mythmaking In Israel, by Nachman Ben-Yehuda.

The author explains that the Zionist Ministry of Education publishes the Masada myth curriculum materials high school teachers use in the classroom and listen to Yigal Yadin narration during the film presentations they see during their on-scene classroom indoctrination at Masada. Israeli tour guides and tour educators receive their handbooks, curriculum oversight, and instruction from the Israel Ministry of Tourism (Misrad HaTayarut). The author explains:

“My worst encounters have typically been with history teachers. In one case, a particular teacher avoided me for a number of months following a Masada conversation. This angry reaction, very similar to my own 1987 response, saddens me. As much as I was disturbed in 1987, now I experience feelings of remorse. Obviously, the realization that a major element of one’s personal and national identity was based on a biased and falsified myth is not an easy thing to deal with.”

The opposite.

Israelis have been effective at narratives, the foundation for political influence. They have been serious about influencing politicians with PACS and think tanks.

If I were not interested in justice, why would I be promoting ways to get there?

Why don’t you?

““Obtaining clay can sometimes come at the cost of lives,” Abu Shamala said. But despite the difficulties, he says building the house has given him a sense of movement toward stability, particularly after realizing that the Israeli occupation will not initiate or enable reconstruction and is instead increasing its restrictions on it.

“We are here, confronting the blockade and the aggression, trying to create life,” he said. “We are rebuilding our lives with our weak and limited resources, but we remain steadfast on our land.”

Since the mid 70’s when I heard Prof Edward Said speak about the history and plight of the Palestinians I have tried to stay aware, informed and done what I could about the horrific injustices the Palestinians have suffered at the hands of right wing, violent Zionist terrorist.

As I read the piece above I again wept wondering what else we can do. I contact Reps, I call and write into main stream media outlets begging, demanding they report about the decades long conflict. Not until the full on genocide (for decades a persistent but slow ethnic cleansing) that Israel has and continues to commit against the Palestinians has the U.S. msm kind of reported about the massive and serious genocide. Rachel Maddow other mainstreamers barely ever mentioned. Still there is a deafening silence about conditions in the refugee camps, millions living in tents, hunger, lack of clean water and other basics. I thought the occupying power was legally supposed to supply the basics. That would be Israel.

Have donated to Doctors W/O Borders, World Food Programme in honor of relatives and friends. Most of all in honor of those who are still suffering in Palestine.

Tariq can you suggest which organizations you think are most effective.

My last phone call into Washington Journal ( been calling in for over 20 years) asking them to cover this critical issue. They do not.

my comment/suggestions: at 12:58…..https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-2/684542

Again you ignore the massive problem … the atrocities/Genocide committed by the Israeli IDF against a mostly unarmed civilian population.

You tell us how it can be immediately addressed & stop with sos of “political bridges”.

You tell us why Apartheid Israel is/has been killing/murdering thousands, upon thousands of Palestinians … almost at a non-stop pace?

“Over these years of reporting, I have noticed a striking pattern in how these crises unfold: they keep the Strip permanently on the edge of deprivation and need, making it impossible for its residents to manage their lives without depending on the occupying power.“

That’s because the point is to make Palestinian life impossible. Amira Hass reports from Ha’aretz:

Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying the groundwork for mass expulsion…Too many Jews in Israel have been conditioned to believe that the problem is the very presence in this land of a Palestinian people with roots, historical and economic continuity, cultural capital and material assets, a rich agricultural heritage and a profound love of homeland….”Erasure” is the nightmare solution being written into reality every day. Knesset laws, politicians’ declarations, military orders, school textbooks and the holy real estate battalions operating in Gaza, the West Bank and the Negev all work, together and separately, to advance this “solution” diligently and without fear of international condemnation….Israeli policy is directed toward making life unbearable for Palestinians wherever they live, so that their emigration can be described as an act of free will. 
Israel isn’t debating a Palestinian state. It’s preparing for expulsion

Relevant to Gaza:

The Israeli army “kills first, then thinks and tries to find a reason” afterward to justify strikes on the Gaza Strip, said the executive director of Israeli veterans’ group Breaking the Silence, Anadolu reports….In an interview with France 24, Nadav Weiman said the army and Israeli authorities seek to “retrospectively” legitimize attacks by attempting to establish links between victims and Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad after strikes have taken place.
“In cases like this Nasser hospital or the 15 paramedics that were killed by IDF (Israeli army) soldiers in Rafah, or air strikes that are killing three-digit numbers of civilians in Gaza … suddenly the IDF spokesperson in the state of Israel needs to explain to the international community what we did over there and who are the targets for the attack,” Weiman said….Weiman said that intelligence personnel compile the names of those killed and then search for evidence that can establish a connection, such as having a relative linked to Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, being near a building identified as belonging to Hamas or having once been on a payroll.

Israeli army ‘kills first, then seeks justification’ for Gaza strikes, says veterans group chief – Middle East Monitor

Israel is “organised and prepared” to remove Palestininians from Gaza “by every way possible”, Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters Wednesday, adding that there was no alternative “solution” to crisis. The Israeli government was simply waiting for the US to figure out where to take the displaced Gazans, he said. ….Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says – France 24

Israel Katz says Palestinians will leave Gaza | Middle East Eye

Describing the problem is the first step. Do you have an idea on how it can be addressed?

Hostage: “Averny’s unit testified that they were ordered to fire upon and kill any Palestinian on sight for attempting to filter back to their fields or homes—regardless of whether they were women, children, or elderly.”

So much has changed since then. Now they do the same to Palestinians not even doing anything. Zionism has evolved into an openly genocidal cult.

jon s: “By post-Zionist I mean that Zionism was justified and necessary, and even heroic.”

“establishing the state and securing it, and providing a home for Jews who needed and wanted one”

Sure, so justified, necessary and heroic. If only Palestinians would imitate their methods, right?

Obvously not one that you are capable to remember. i’m not going to follow running around in circle. I will not repeat myself just to see you ignoring the answer and then resume with your eternal spam.

Neither did I.

A political solution was definitely not needed to achieve Zionist goals. Again, what do you think about settler colonialism, expulsion, dispossesion or genocide in general?

Brent can sound like a bot at times.

Re:  I mean that Zionism was justified and necessary, and even heroic.

Then you’re still an unrepentant Zionist two-stater, just like Uri Avnery. Try re-reading his exchange of letters with Salman Abu Sitta published here at Mondoweiss: ‘Why do I not cry out for the right of return?’ — an exchange between Uri Avnery and Salman Abu Sitta. You’ll notice he stopped answering questions after Palestine’s Article 12 request for a criminal investigation was approved in 2015, explaining the situation had become too complicated.

He died and escaped the global legal race against time to prosecute aging perpetrators of 1948 atrocities. That has been driven by changes in domestic laws following the arrests, extraditions, and convictions of Klaus Barbie, Josef Schütz, Irmgard Furchner, Erich Priebke, Bruno Dey, Maurice Papon, Gregor Formanek, Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić, and John Demjanjuk cases.

The Rome Statute requires member states to align their own criminal laws to compliment the requirements the ICC statute and to prosecute in national courts when ever possible. Many of them have no statutory limitations, unlike the ICC. Once Palestine became a member state, and requested a case be opened, to prosecute Israelis for war crimes and crimes against humanity, it stopped being a Utopian abstraction to prosecute officials for apartheid and persecution

The Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity entered into force on November 11, 1970.  Article I explicitly protects against statutory limits for atrocities resulting from invasion, forced ejection, occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

The Givati Brigade and Averny’s Samson’s Foxes subordinate unit perpetrated Plan Dalet – a military strategy that authorized the systematic depopulation (e.g. the Abu Shusha massacre) and destruction of Palestinian villages. Based on historical documentation and testimonies published by whistleblowers within the unit itself, Averny’s unit testified that they were ordered to fire upon and kill any Palestinian on sight for attempting to filter back to their fields or homes—regardless of whether they were women, children, or elderly.

You keep avoiding & ignoring the main issue. Apartheid Israel has been killing and murdering thousands, upon thousands of Palestinians, women, children, civilians … etc … for decades. And practically most of what you have been blabbing about is “political bridges”. Where is your humanity, your conscience?

Re: Archaeology in Israel is thoroughly corrupted.

Yes, I’ve followed the developments as a subscriber ever since Hershel Shanks founded The Biblical Archeology Review. Archeologists from 42 western digs in Syria, including Harvey Weiss from Yale wrote letters to the New York Times (that it refused to publish) which criticized the BAR and NYT sensationalized tabloid-style racist coverage of Presbyterian contributor David Noel Freedman (whose grandfather was a Rabbi) claiming the government of Syria was guilty of antisemitism and interfering with the Ebla archeological project. In fact, they explained it was Freedman, President of the Society of Biblical Literature and Albright Center Director who was interfering when he began regularly misrepresenting what the Italian team director had actually said and published about his preliminary findings.

Freedman was invited to address the ADL’s 63rd national commission in Jerusalem about Syrian antisemitism. The Syrian Department of Antiquities returned the favor by pointing out the Ebla tablets were ancient Syrian history a thousand years older than the unrelated Hebrew biblical claims of predestined ownership to all the territory in Greater Syria asserted by P.M. Begin and his allies in the ADL and SBL. They said BAR, NYT, and the ADL were the authors of the controversy, and it was coming from a racist terrorist tyrant, and a defamation league founded by pro-slavery civil rights groups and agit-prop organizations.

The shift from antiquities treasure hunting for foreign museums to a rigorous scientific discipline in the Middle East only started to occur after the late 1950s. Die hard Jewish restorationist (bible and spade) archeologists, like William Albright, only admitted they had been wrong, when none of the Dead Sea Scrolls contained an exact copy of the Masoretic text, the Damascus Covenant 4QD, and dozens of Orontes River Valley and Amik Valley plain stele and massive libraries of cuneiform tablets contradicted the Hebrew myths.

There were 21 non-identical versions of the text of Isaiah in the scrolls and fragments of the DSS collection. The scientific community announced their divorce from “Biblical Archeology” in the late 1990s after strontium, radiocarbon, and early genetic testing disproved biblical dating and theories. Only fanatics still think God encrypted secret messages in “The Bible Codes”. or the risible stories in the existing corpus and inscriptions are inerrant.

The matter is influenced by the history of Palestinian resistance and the success of propaganda in persuading many in the West that Israelis are legitimately afraid of annihilation.

How do you understand no vision or plan or being OK with letting the elimination propaganda have legs?

You have a theory for liberation?

The issue is being effective in dealing with power…. and building political bridges..especially with Americans and Jews.

jon s: “Yes, that’s the blog rule that inhibits a more comprehensive discussion of the topic.”

Sure, we could discuss how Israeli institutions formalized the denial of return and citizenship for Palestinian refugees, while later ridiculously claiming that Palestinians just ‘went away’ or left on vacation.

Unfortunately for that revisionist fantasy, Israel’s own state archives tell a completely different story. An official June 1948 report by the Shai (intelligence branch of the Haganah) explicitly states that the vast majority of Arab flight up to that point was caused by direct military operations and psychological warfare from Jewish terrorists, and not voluntary flight.

And to claim like Karsh that a systematic expulsion didn’t happen simply because there was no publicized ‘master plan’ is a massive failure in basic historical methodology. It is the exact same ‘no written order’ fallacy that Holocaust deniers rely on to deny systematic atrocities. Anyone with even a basic education in history should know better than to copy the methodology of deniers to protect a national myth.

jrg: “Incidentally, this post is a violation of MW’s supposed rule against personal attacks, but those seem to be honored mostly in the breach these days.”

The very same jrg within 48 hours before: “Literally just You [Jonathan Ofir] are one of the last people (along with the rest of the commentariat) who has any business advising someone else to be “more balanced.”

Actually this (my) post is about a familiar narcisstic pattern of Israel attacking everyone and then playing the victim.

Brent, you don’t have to remind us of the fact that the “current politicsl realtities” aka ethnic cleansing, settler terrorism, starvaation and genocide against Palestinians offers opportunities for elimantory Zionism. If only the Palestinans would sing Kumbaya, right? No wait, I forgot. You indirectly support accelerated and then decelerated genocide for them.

Prof Mearsheimer, Prof Sachs rip up Bissent and Trump’s sanctions. Prof Sachs thinks by Israel slaughtering Palestinians they have destroyed themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfO5fsxnKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDvE6jjV88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeqdARq0Ds

Allastair Crooke as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZObpvnOGns

Latest from UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Must listen:
https://www.google.com/search?q=latest+from+francesca+albanese&rlz=1CALBTX_enUS1230&oq=latest+from+francesca+albanese&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTEyMzAzajBqN6gCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e2139685,vid:008Z0E_Pl0I,st:0

“Israel is let free to kill, to starve, to take land, to crash Palestinian’s self determination and the land of the Palestinians”

She goes onto talk about the countries allowing these crimes to take place.

Listen up! Francesca is an incredible truth teller.

More and more evidence of Israel’s international crimes against Palestinians. Israel destroying Palestinian homes, lands, lives in mass.

Sad, powerful evidence of Israel’s long list of crimes committed against Palestinians. The list is of those human rights crimes continues to grow.

Will there ever be any justice? Keep pushing!

https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e278?p=emailAcImj8P39FyS2&d=/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e278

Historical Development of the International Legal Rules in Question6  Although there was a general agreement that cultural property should be spared from the direct or indirect effects of armed conflict, international law was slow in developing legally binding rules to that extent. The earliest regulation of interest in this context—although only of national character and applicability—is contained in the Instruction for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field of 24 April 1863 (the ‘Lieber Code’). It provided that classic works of art and similar objects ‘must be secured against all avoidable injury’ (Art. 35 Lieber Code). It further provided that property belonging to churches, to establishments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, which included museums for the fine arts, or of a scientific character, was not to be considered public property and was thus exempt from appropriation by occupying forces (Art. 34 Lieber Code, in connection with Art. 31). The Brussels Declaration (1874) as well as the Oxford Manual (‘Manuel des lois de la guerre sur terre’, adopted in 1880 by the Institut de Droit international) followed the same approach, although they were less explicit. The Lieber Code, as well as the Brussels Declaration and the Oxford Manual, exercised remarkable influence on the work of the Hague Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907) which formulated the first legal rules on the protection of cultural property in armed conflict. 

There is only a political resolution.

jrg: “Neither Jews nor Christians, of course, are allowed to live and worship in Saudi Arabia even to this day.”

Both are in fact living in Saudi Arabia and they can privately worship whatever they want. Saudi Arabia only doesn’t permit Jewish Israeli passport holders to enter.

jrg: “If this is success by your definition, then the Palestinians are flourishing.”

Sure, if you mean by “success” getting dispossed, terrorized, ethnically cleansed and genocided.

The whole world can see who is being pushed into the sea. The whole world knows that at least 75,000 Palestinians were slaughtered by the hate filled, apartheid, genocidal, sadist Israel. Israel is ultimately going to implode…building pressure from the outside. The implosion is only a matter of time

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7313450

Kairos Palestine, the broadest ecumenical nonviolent Palestinian Christian movement, just issued a new document, Kairos Palestine II: Truth in a Time of Genocide (www.kairospalestine.ps). In the document, Palestinian Christians continue to demonstrate that they are an integral part of the population of Palestine– embracing their Muslim neighbors–and that they play a crucial role in the culture, education, medical care and nonviolent resistance to the State of Israel’s laws, policies and practices of occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Kairos II is also another urgent call to the global church to help Palestinians gain their freedom. Churches and Christians organizations around the world are responding. An increasing number are naming the apartheid regime and the reality of genocide, calling on their elected representatives to cut off aid to Israel. In the U.S., the church has played a role in exposing Israel’s hasbara and the work of AIPAC and other Zionist organizations, including the naming of Christian Zionism as a racist, colonialist and therefore heretical theology. There is much more that the church can do.

Hakeem Jeffries is a serious road block to real change that the majority of voters really want. He needs to be isolated. Ultimately replaced. Pelosi essentially selected him.

Where is the effectiveness of resisting with rocks?

The whole world can see who is pushing whom into the sea. Israel burying thousands of Palestinians under their bombed, destroyed homes and other Gaza infrastructure. Being pushed into smaller open air prisons, living in tents, hungry, without basic needs being supplied by Israel. In fact very little of the basics coming from hate filled, genocidal Israeli’s. The whole world can see who and what Israel is. Apartheid, genocidal, sadist nation state.

Apartheid, genocidal, sadist Israeli nation state forcing Palestinians living in squalor the sea. Israel has killed at least 75,000 Palestinians during their last slaughter of Palestinians in the process Israel is destroying Israel. The Palestinians and the world will not forget!

Israel is imploding
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/tsunami-of-emigration-reshapes-israels-future-experts-warn

A land without tourist.

https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-901720

You could have but you blew it and decapitated your own career as a *blind* Holocaust Scholar @- Emory.

What in the world is this lunacy? Emory???

and not the counter violece of those resisting it.

Correct, I do not support the “counter violence”. And what the PLO told Rabin was nothing but lies – they did not even bother to change their charter.

The current Israeli government, and some of its opponents

You are correct, opinions have unsurprisingly hardened after Oct7, but I said nothing of a Palestinian state. However, nothing but the Palestinians themselves prevents them from disarming and accepting the offered path to recovering Gaza.

If there’s one thing that supporters of apartheid, expulsion, dispossession, and genocide can’t tolerate, it’s this: resistance.

The current condition of Gaza is 100% the result of “resistance”. How in the world can you justify more of that?

I’ll try to explain ,briefly, what I mean by post-Zionist.

By post-Zionist I mean that Zionism was justified and necessary, and even heroic. Some 50 years after its founding the Zionist movement achieved its primary objective: establishing the state and securing it, and providing a home for Jews who needed and wanted one. Today the focus should be on achieving peace with the Palestinians and the entire Arab world and becoming an integral part of the region while preserving and defending democracy. Zionism as a movement has outlived its usefulness. (The late Uri Avnery compared it to a building that’s been completed and they forgot to take down the scaffolding.) I would abolish organizations such as the Jewish Agency and the JNF.

“Rocks, rifles snd rockets were counter productive resistance for a political delemma.”

And which list of weapons does Apartheid Israel have in its weapon arsenals to use against Palestinian women, children & committing atrocities/Genocide?

Genocide takes many forms.

How Taliban-like.

Of course, if France was genuinely motivated by preserving history, they would not have supplied the weapons, diplomatic cover or looked the other ways as dual citizens joined the IDF in starving and slaughtering Gaza’s children, and destroying its heritage.

Re: Incidentally, this post is a violation of MW’s supposed rule against personal attacks, but those seem to be honored mostly in the breach these days.

Correction: The ICC Prosecutor argued that the alleged crimes were committed as part of a common plan to inflict collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza.

In August 2025 Israel’s Channel 12 played a recording of former Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate during the October 7, 2023 attacks, making statements regarding Palestinian casualties in Gaza. He said:
 *“For everything that happened on October 7, for every person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die.”
* “It doesn’t matter now if they are children.”
*“The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.”
*”Palestinians need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price.”

I explained the customary Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) requires “Distinction”. It is illegal to directly target civilians, civilian objects, undefended towns, or to launch indiscriminate attacks. “Protection of Hors de Combat”: Attacking or harming enemy children flying kites on the beach because you suspect them of being suspicious is illegal. It is not faux outrage. Like, millions of other professional service members after the My Lai massacre, I was trained to use deadly force to protect both friendly and enemy civilians from unauthorized or illegal attacks.

I have repeatedly pointed out when you’ve written xenophobic ringing endorsements of IDF collective punishment and persecution of the millions of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. This is not difficult. Thousands of murdered children, including many that weren’t even born on October 7th 2023 did not have any punishment coming to them from either the Jewish people or the IDF, as you and HolyCow all too frequently suggest.

Collective punishment and persecution are war crimes. Publicly condoning or trivializing mass murder of Palestinian civilians or encouraging anyone to open fire on kids flying kites is hate speech. After asking you nicely several times, It’s obvious you intend to continue to be disruptive and troll the readers with comments that Palestinians somehow brought mass atrocities on themselves.

Re: We come at the issue differently. My approach is current political realities and opportunities.

When Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk died, the New York Times reported:

“A little more than a fortnight ago Lord Allenby, in the full tide of his intellectual strength, went to Edinburgh and delivered a passionate indictment of war to the students of the university. On that occasion, in words that few great soldiers had used before, he denounced “the narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism” and called for a world State and world police force to keep the peace.”

The only reality we have is the one that allowed Zionists to adopt Exodus 23:31 (“you will drive them out before you”). as their eternal playbook instead. You can either save the Palestinian people or you can save the abstract Exodus 23:31, Israel: the Nation State of the Jewish People. There is no opportunity to save both the Palestinian people and to reassure the perpetrators of Exodus 23:31 that the current Zionist Jewish state can continue to exist and employ that playbook

They will have to be stopped by everyone, just like the failed states that pursued aggression and persecution before them. The Zionist State should be sent to the ash heap of history together with the Confederate States of America, Union of South Africa, and Rhodesia. Life will go on for everyone without it.

Re: US Confederate ways were successfully challenged… politically????

The Palestinians are utilizing the same political playbook used by the Union to end slavery. An estimated 258,000 to 260,000 Confederate soldiers were killed during a 4-year internecine slaughter. The Union deployed armed forces with orders to destroy the government and armed forces of the Confederate States of America. About 194,000 more were wounded by sabers, bayonets, gunfire, cannons, and black powder mines.

The South West Africa People’s Organization, Zimbabwe African National Union, and Zimbabwe African People’s Union used the same “political” methods in their countries.

In July of 2026 CNN reported over 60 Israeli citizens have been arrested and accused of maintaining contact with Iranian intelligence handlers. The article indicates Israel is routinely monitoring social media and internet Telegram accounts. Mossad still didn’t manage to recruit former Iranian President Ahmadinejad or prevent Netanyahu from funding Hamas, so there’s obviously still room for improvement.

I guess we may have too much news to wade through about Israeli prosecutors arresting Jews caught spying against Israel for Iran, e.g. “Network of Israeli citizens arrested after spying for Iran, police say: Suspects are accused of photographing and collecting information about Israeli bases and facilities”.

FYI, Israel has never adopted official state sanctions against Russia or Vladimir Putin. That’s very unusual, since The Guardian reported state prosecutors announced Russia served as the Iranian intermediary for the individuals arrested as Jewish immigrants from Azerbaijan who performed over 600 missions photographing sensitive sites, military bases, ports, Arrow missile launchers, the IDF underground command post, and travelled twice to Iran to discuss the possibility of assassinating the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, or the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, Ronen Bar. Russia must have pretty good blackmail material the Israelis don’t want in public circulation.

If Jonatan Pollard gets elected to the Knesset, it would probably be a good idea to keep him away from anything you don’t want stolen or passed along to the highest bidder. YMMV

Are you saying/implying that Iranian Jews are forbidden to travel abroad?

There is a sentence in the Guardian article that you neglected to quote: “Hostility between Iran’s government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny.”

If you believe that the “Society of Iranian Jews” would be allowed to exist without the permission of the Iranian government, and that its public positions are adopted without official duress, I have a causeway from Hawaii to Australia that I’d like to sell you, and I’ll throw in a parallel superhighway for free.

Laura Loomer such a hate filled racist.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-ally-laura-loomer-faces-criticism-over-racist-comments-against-black-women-2026-08-31/

“WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Multiple lawmakers and rights advocates on Monday condemned Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and ‌ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, over racist comments attacking Democratic socialist Angie Nixon and other prominent Black U.S. politicians.
“Angie Nixon is a ghetto, black, communist,” Loomer said on X on Monday. Nixon recently scored an upset victory in Florida’s Democratic primary race for ​the U.S. Senate, one of a number of winning candidates that have stirred enthusiasm on the ​party’s left flank but been characterized by Republicans as extremists.”

Truth teller Max Blumenthal talking about Loomer’s racism,Ben Gvir’s hate filled racism today on “Judging Freedom”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yde4RX0mXHQ

Nor has the Mondoweiss commentariat much impressed me, and if I found out otherwise, I’d be tempted to some serious self-examination.

Incidentally, this post is a violation of MW’s supposed rule against personal attacks, but those seem to be honored mostly in the breach these days.

jon s: “After reading Jonathan Ofir’s essay , I would say that the worst enemy of the Left is the Ulra-Left.”

Allow me to translate your comment for European readers, who may be unfamiliar with the Zionist racist shift of political-spectrum terminology, as well as the Orwellian and historical distortions taught by its history teachers:

“After reading Jonathan Ofir’s essay, I would say that the worst enemy of the Left wing of the Ultra-Right is the Left.”

And Lazimi is clearly does not belong to the “Left”. No one who does not support a state for all of its citizens, including those that are denied to return belongs to the “Left”

jrg: “Yes, when a gaggle of murderous, hate-crazed, savage mad dogs storms across your borders, murders 1,200 of your unarmed, defenseless civilian citizens in cold blood and kidnaps 251 others, including children and elderly people, it’s a bit much to ask the victims to consider the human rights of the murderers.”

I guess that you are not talking about the Zionist invasion of Palestine, its 1948 invasion beyond partition plan, or its 1967 invasion.

If that’s the case it should be easy for you to put yourself into the shoes of the Palestinains who have endured since 1948 and 1967 thousands October the 7th. But, you know the problem: racist double standards. Or as you would put it: “hate”.

jrg: “Does Jonathan Ofir even know what apartheid is? For him and Mondoweiss, it seems to be synonymous with any Jewish presence at all “between the river and the sea,” apart from putting all the Jews in “re-education camps” a la the Gulag or China.”

Do not mistake your perception of reality for reality itself. The fact that you seem unable (or unwilling) to distinguish between “Jewish presence” and a system of domination, dispossession, segregation, and unequal rights is rather revealing and frankly inherently antisemitic.

Apartheid is not synonymous with the mere presence of Jews “between the river and the sea.” The issue is the political and legal system that privileges one ethno-national group over another, including through displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, both outside “the river and the sea” and within, even inside Israel (roughly 25%)

And it is particularly revealing that you invoke “re-education camps” while the regime you so ardently defend has confined some two million Palestinians in Gaza to what is, in effect, a lethal concentration camp, while Palestinians in “Judea and Samaria” are fragmented into a system of increasingly lethal smaller concentration camps.

So why do you continually shoot yourself in the foot with your dishonest, “borderline” interpretations, which not only “seem to be” the product of growing up in a Zionist “re-education camp”?

Some of the retired officials contend that the campaign against Palestinians in the West Bank is reminiscent of Nazism — an extraordinarily contentious assertion, especially in Israel, where many Jews found sanctuary after their families were eradicated in Europe.
Moshe Ya’alon, the former army chief of staff who served as defense minister under Mr. Netanyahu until 2016, recently likened the ideology of extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank to that of World War II Germany….“What is Jewish supremacy?” Mr. Ya’alon, long considered a security hawk, recently said on Ynet, an Israeli news site. “Eighty years after the Holocaust, ‘Mein Kampf’ in reverse. The master race is us.”

These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat. – The New York Times

“ Israeli forces systematically and deliberately targeted many of Gaza’s archaeological sites, most of which had remained closed throughout the war. “They were attacked without any apparent military justification,” he told Mondoweiss.”

It’s Jewish Terrorism. This article just appeared in the New York Times –

 These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.**A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”…..“This is ethnic cleansing, to put it simply,” Ephraim Sneh, a retired brigadier general and former minister of health, said of Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank…..Asaf Agmon, a retired Air Force general, went even further, comparing it to what some Israelis’ forebears endured in the Holocaust — not in the scale of the violence, he explained, but in the effort to erase the Palestinian presence from much of the West Bank…..The retired generals condemning this violence are part of a small but rapidly expanding array of influential Israelis, including many from the upper echelons of the military and intelligence apparatus, who are publicly declaring the lawlessness in the West Bank a threat to Israel’s existence as a democracy.

These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat. – The New York Times

**
excuse me, Jewish terrorism in the Holy Land began in the late 19th century, but better late than never.

jrg: “That’s a question for you and for the rest of the Mondoweiss commentariat, not for HolyCow.”

Here is a question for you.

Should Palestinians kill Israelis on the sport who are driving driving cars, tractors, bulldozers, carrying metal chains, metal bars, metal pipes, sticks or stones or other objects that have been weaponized?

Depending on your answer, I will respond to bcg’s answer, but we allleady know that you won’t answer, because of racist double standards.

“…I have no part in whatever happens to the Palestinians,”

You could have but you blew it and decapitated your own career as a *blind* Holocaust Scholar @ Emory.

If you need “Real Outrages”, go see the film>> ‘American Doctor’ now playing @ Tara Theater down the street.

+DemNow: “American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patientshttps://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/14/american_doctor_documentary

AMY GOODMAN: How many kids have died?

DR. FEROZE SIDHWA: How many children have died in Gaza? The count from the Ministry of Health is 20,000. By my estimate, it’s probably closer to 70,000.

“…I mean, just last month, when I was in the West Bank working on a medical mission there, there was a 7-month-old, Sam Abu Haikal, driving with his parents in the car, going from Bethlehem to Hebron, a 10-, 15-minute drive. And an Israeli soldier shoots at the car, hitting Sam in the head. You know, his mom recently said that she’s not even wiping his fingerprints from the oven. She can’t bring herself to do that for her baby boy. “

^^^ After the murder of 7-month-old, I took the “Peter Bienart challenge” and asked an Orthodox couple in our n’hood (maybe 65 yrs+) if they would at least “peek” at the butchery in Gaza, and the couple starts screaming, “…you are a terrorist and they took off running down the street yelling terrorists” on a Sunday afternoon.

Witnessing their reaction was like walking into Bosch’s Hellscape panel esp. since the woman, wrapped in her *modest* Daniella Weiss outfit, seemed delighted by the news.

 “Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.”

DR. THAER AHMAD: Yeah. I mean, this is somebody who has been abducted, is in prison without charge, is being tortured. His lawyer thinks that he is on the brink of death. And his family continues to ask the world to stand up. He’s one of 14 senior Palestinian medical doctors who should be in Gaza leading the recovery and reconstruction, and instead they’re being beaten to death by Israeli soldiers

DR. THAER AHMAD: He’s in an underground prison in Israel, one that was shut down previously and reopened for this specific purpose.

jrg: “Whom else would everyone here find to hate?”

Someone who is always projecting his own hate unto others is begging for it.

jrg: “How about nothing? Maybe the Palestinians could forego the idiocy that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine” and take a shot at building a decent and peaceful society of their own.”

HolyCow “Is this you advocating for continued warfare?”

If there’s one thing that supporters of apartheid, expulsion, dispossession, and genocide can’t tolerate, it’s this: resistance.

If there’s one thing that supporters of apartheid, expulsion, dispossession, and genocide can’t tolerate, it’s this: resistance.

As if Israel would have left the Palestinians in peace to build a decent society, (one that was as “peaceful” and “decent” as the society in which 80% of the population wants to expel Gazans), if the Palestinans had simply done “nothing” while Israel went on with its continued warfare since 1948, expulsions, massacres, land grabs, illegal settlements, settler terrorism and genocide.

How cute to call it a “political dilemma”. What do you think about settler colonialism, expulsion, dispossesion or genocide in general?

SA, Rhodesian, and US Confederate ways were successfully challenged… politically. A path to self-determination available today…. toward integration and equal rights.

jrg: “Jews and Christians have both been consigned to inferior status in Islamic societies, being subject to a special tax.”

Abolished in Persin in 1884 and in the Ottoman Empire n 1856.

Would you have prefered the Christian Europe way?

Relative Tolerance: Compared to medieval Christian Europe—where Jews and Muslims faced frequent total expulsion, forced conversions, or mass executions—the dhimmi system provided a permanent, predictable legal framework for survival.
Exemption from Military Service: Dhimmis were strictly barred—and exempt—from fighting in Islamic armies. Muslims, by contrast, were forced to serve and paid their own mandatory religious tax (zakat).
Guaranteed Physical Security: Payment of the jizya legally obligated the Islamic state to defend the minority community from external invasions and internal violence.
Judicial and Religious Autonomy: Non-Muslim communities kept their own courts. Jews and Christians were judged by their own religious laws regarding marriage, divorce, and inheritance, free from Islamic jurisprudence.

jrg: “but Jews in Iran are terrorized into denying any mistreatment or discrimination.”

Wow, Iran’s treatment of non-Jews sounds remarkably similar to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and other non-Jews in the so-called “Land of Israel”.Well, with two notable exception: Iran doesn’t protect settler terrorism or commits genocide.

jrg: “You may think as you wish, but I’ve never oppressed anyone.”

Did you not serve a regime who actually does that?

HolyCow: “their current plight is and continues to be largely of their own making.”

Sure, genocide is of the making of those who are the victims of genocide. I’ve read this one before.

“But I will note that your dismissal of peace and decency seems to be yet another endorsement of Hamas’ violent path.”

Hamas violent path? What exist longer? The Zionists violent path or Hamas’? You seem to support of the violence of the colonial regime, aggressor and occupier and not the counter violece of those resisting it.

“Incidentally, the term “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine” is directly from the PLO charter. “

Incidently this passage and others were revoked in the Arafat letter to Rabin:

• “the PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.”
• “The PLO accepts United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338.”
• “the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence”
• ““the PLO affirms that those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel’s right to exist and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid.”

Incidentally Israel chose not only the violent path, but a genocidal one:

• “There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River.”
• “we have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, and we will continue on this path.”

And the Minister of Genocide from your most favourate genocidal regime will find any reason to kill Palestinian children: “A balloon is treated like a kite, and a kite is treated like a drone — with or without explosives.

We come at the issue differently. My approach is current politicsl realtities and opportunities.

I have no part in whatever happens to the Palestinians

The current Israeli government, and some of its opponents in the forthcoming Israeli general election, are adamant that they will not allow the existence of a Palestinian state. Palestine could become a land of saints and scholars but Israelis would still not allow it to flourish.

Israel’s current genocidal apartheid state is entirely of their own making.

My better half is a trained archaeologist, so over the years I have accrued a reasonable amount of knowledge of the subject.

Archaeology in Israel is thoroughly corrupted. Instead of the practice elsewhere of digging down to see what may be there, in Israel (and its occupied territories) it’s all too often digging down to see if there are traces of Jewish occupation there and to hell with what went before or since.

Maybe you could admit…

I have no part in whatever happens to the Palestinians, their current plight is and continues to be largely of their own making. But I will note that your dismissal of peace and decency seems to be yet another endorsement of Hamas’ violent path.

Incidentally, the term “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine” is directly from the PLO charter.

Iran’s Jews spurn cash lure to emigrate to Israel


“Iran’s Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.

The incentives – ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families – were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel among Iran’s 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel’s official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.

However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as “immature political enticements” and said their national identity was not for sale.

“The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradable for any amount of money,” the society said in a statement. “Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran’s Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews.”

The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/13/iran.israel

You’ve never impressed this readership either.

Belloc, a very reactionary Catholic, was also virulently Islamophobic. You shouldn’t believe a word he says.

Maybe you could admit that “building a decent and peaceful society” is what you would never allow. Palestinians have used peaceful and armed methods of resisting your violent oppression. You just want rid of the Palestinians so you can continue creating your criminal society of Jewish supremacism.

You’re going to struggle if your goal is to show religious freedom under Muslim rule. It’s not really about anti-semitism, more about keeping the populace controlled under the guise of one religious faith.

Churches posses

valuable land and properties, schools, hospitals, guesthouses, financial resources

to show how far they have strayed from the teachings of the man whose name they take in vain.

I don’t know where your information comes from, but Jews in Iran are terrorized into denying any mistreatment or discrimination. They certainly are not allowed to travel freely, let along leave the country.

During Operation Desert Shield/Storm, U.S. military personnel in Saudi Arabia were not allowed to call their Christian or Jewish worship services by their right name; they had to say they were “morale building sessions.”

My information about Morocco came from a book by HIlaire Belloc, a very reactionary Anglo-French writer who was accused of anti-Semitism, so it’s most unlikely that he’d describe a situation that depicted Jews as being mistreated if it weren’t true.

You may think as you wish, but I’ve never oppressed anyone.

Re: Its meaning is heavily contested.

Well the last time I checked, the Hebrew scriptures themselves stated it’s “the Sea of Philistia” and God himself reportedly prevented Moses from crossing the Jordan River to enter “the Promised Land”.

Please clarify who “heavily contests” those easily verifiable published facts? Why should anyone listen to another self-supporting advocacy group that falsely claims Israel is “Jewish and Democratic”. How well did that work when White South African, Rhodesian, or US Confederate advocacy groups employed the same tactic?

FYI, the Mondoweiss T-Shirt doesn’t parallel this line of thought : I will set your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of Philistia, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and you will drive them out before you.

You never suggest that the authors of Exodus 23:31 must renounce their racial intolerance, superstition, theology ,or discriminatory Basic Laws. They actually do promote political persecution, extermination, and ethic cleansing toward persons with identical shared DNA.

The New York Times extensively covered the 1903 atrocities in Kishinev (modern-day Chișinău, Moldova).  49 Jews were killed. The Times claimed local czarist police and authorities actively thwarted Jewish self-defense efforts by confiscating weapons and disarming Jewish residents while anti-Semitic mobs carried out violence against them unchecked. In a special cable published on May 16, 1903, titled “More Details of the Kishineff Massacre,” the newspaper detailed how the devastation could have been mitigated if the Jewish population had been permitted to remain prepared, organized, and armed.

Re: Then someone came up with the bright idea that the place should be controlled by one particular ethnic-religious tribe.

In 2016 ADL Chief Jonathan Greenblatt complained that Israeli state policies defamed Reform Judaism:

• The Religious Services Minister David Azoulay said: “Let’s just say there’s a problem as soon as a Reform Jew stops following the [halakha] Jewish law. I can’t allow myself to say that such a person is a Jew.”
• The Current Chief Rabbi David Yosef, son of the late revered Rabbi Ovadia Yosef charged that the Reform movement “is a collaboration with idolatry. Reform are idolaters – simply and literally.”
• When the Israeli cabinet voted to support a dedicated space for egalitarian worship at the Western Wall, Moshe Gafni, head of the Knesset’s Finance Committee, said that “Reform Jews are a group of clowns who stab the Holy Torah,” and added that “there will never, ever be recognition for this group of clowns, not at the Wall or anywhere else.” 

Archeologist Yigal Yadin was Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin from 1977-81, He was another member of Ben-Gurion’s bi-weekly Bible Study Group. His father was atheist archeologist Eleazar Sukenik, who had purchased the first batch of Dead Sea Scrolls for the Hebrew University. Neither man believed in biblical inerrancy or the myth of the 12 Tribes Abrahamic descent.

Yadin proposed the Tribe of Dan were Sea Peoples from Adana in Turkey. See:

• The Australian Journal Of Biblical Archaeology, “And Dan, Why Did He Remain In Ships” (Judges, V, 17), Yigael Yadin, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem;
• The Legends of Samson/Heracles, Othniel Margalith, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 37, Fasc. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 63-70 (8 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1517811
• Samson’s Foxes, Othniel Margalith, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 35, Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 224-229 (6 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1518243
• Samson’s Riddle and Samson’s Magic Locks, Othniel Margalith, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 36, Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 225-234 (10 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1518382

Now that Chabad is erecting golden idols of Trump, they are exploring the academic theory that connects the biblical tribe of Dan to the Denyen, one of the groups identified as Sea Peoples during the Bronze Age Collapse: See: The Denyen Sea People & Greek Myths (Z15A) by Seth Fleishman / World History by a Jew™ Golden calf worshipping foreigners had better tribal rights, than unconverted Reform Jews.

So speaks someone with the arrogance to think he/she is better than those he/she oppresses.

Re: There’s a saying “the enemy of the Good is the Excellent”. M.K. Na’ama Lazimi is an excellent parliamentarian , an untiring advocate of social justice, democracy, equality and human rights. 

As usual, Jon s claims to be a post-Zionist, but never defines that term (or “Jewish” and “Antisemitic.” for that matter).

Hint: if you refuse to allow Palestinians the right of return, restitution, and only offer them land swaps somewhere else in order for Jews to retain pillaged land – and you don’t allow the indigenous Arab majority citizenship in East Jerusalem, or require them to relocate and demilitarize – you are not a post-Zionist or fooling anyone by calling a Jewish dominated sphere of influence a 2-state solution. There’s another saying “that if you didn’t know history, you don’t know anything. You’re just a leaf that doesn’t know it’s part of a tree.”

Once again Jon s simply obfuscates the meaning of “social justice”, “democracy”. “equality”, and “human rights” by denying, downplaying and trivializing the definitions of “apartheid”, “population transfer”, and “persecution” which Na’ama Lazimi’s proposed policies still flagrantly violate.

AI Overview
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a political slogan referencing the geographic area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Its meaning is heavily contested, viewed by critics and Jewish advocacy groups as a call for the elimination of Israel, while pro-Palestinian activists and supporters describe it as a call for freedom, equality, and self-determination.

“Nobody is perfect (except for my wife…)”

Jon, how did she get stuck with you? To be fair, my wife could ask herself a similar question.

On Lazimi, I had never heard of her until this article. I suppose we will find out what she is like if she somehow becomes PM. I wouldn’t expect too much from a politician in Israel. ( Or here, for that matter.) Israel needs to feel considerable outside pressure to change.