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[2] Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum

If their paternal ancestry were meaningfully Levantine while only the maternal side were Southern Italian, they should cline away from Southern Italians and toward Bronze Age or modern Levantines. They do not. They remain in the Southern Italian and central Mediterranean cluster.

That is the key point. One cannot explain Italian Jews clustering with Southern Italians by invoking a Levantine paternal line unless that line is too small, too ancient, or too regionally Mediterranean to pull them toward the Levant.

The same pattern appears for Ashkenazi Jews. On PCA, they do not form a cline toward modern or Bronze Age Levantines. They sit in the central Mediterranean space, overlapping Southern Italians and near other Southern European populations such as Greeks, Bulgarians, and Albanians, while remaining clearly separated from Levantine populations.

So the simpler explanation is not “Levantine fathers plus European mothers equals Southern Italian autosomal overlap.” The simpler explanation is that much of the ancestry being labeled “Levantine” is actually part of a broader central Mediterranean genetic continuum, especially involving Southern Italy, Sicily, Magna Graecia, and older Greco-Roman Jewish populations.

The nomenclature Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum is interesting. Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew consider Canaanite to be synonymous with merchant or trader. Maybe the proper continua are the Central Mediterranean Mercantile Genetic Continuum and the Inland Levantine Samarian and Judean Peasant Genetic Continuum.

Eventually during the Abbasid Caliphate the Jewish part of the Central Mediterranean Mercantile Genetic Continuum evolved into the European, N. African, and Mesopotamian Rabbinic Jewish financial/mercantile metapopulation that existed along Medieval Jewish trade routes. The inland Levantine Samarian and Judean Peasant Genetic Continuum was not part of the Medieval Jewish mercantile metapopulation as non-Jewish and Jewish literature attests.

I don’t buy your reasoning an equality movement is not a good idea.

Nor see a more effctive path to challenge the status quo, or the self-defense motif, led by Palestinans? Apparently neither do you or John.

Re: Yes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, It doesn’t matter whether the author is a Zionist or Anti-Zionist.

It matters tremendously whether an author is a Zionist pseudoscientist propagandist or a genuine genetic anthropologist scientist just as it matters whether an alleged archaeologist is a modern critical scientific archaeologist or a Zionist propagandist archaeologist

Zionist propagandists have been trying to prove for over a century that Jews constitute a race that originates in Judea. See The Genealogical Science The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology by Nadia Abu El-Haj.

Zionist genetic anthropology is an echo chamber, and it’s hard for one to obtain an academic position in this field unless one is willing to participate in the echo chamber.

Jewish history is another such echo chamber. It is interesting that both Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and also Heinrich von Treitschke correctly considered Heinrich Graetz, the founder of field of Jewish history, to be a charlatan. Scholars like Werner Sombart and Derek Penslar, who try to break out of the echo chamber of Jewish history, have routinely been called antisemites.

Gmirkin, who until about 2000 confronted an echo chamber in higher textual criticism, worked as an independent researcher and points out inconvenient facts that challenges this echo chamber. Gmirkin’s work has important implications for fields beyond higher criticism.

Parker, who is a similar independent researcher, makes an important point about the central Mediterranean genetic continuum.

[1] Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum

The usual story asks us to believe that Ashkenazim have mostly Levantine fathers and substantially European mothers, and that this somehow produces an autosomal profile that lands directly over Southern Italy in PCA and FST space. But that interpretation collapses when tested against Italkim Jews.

Italkim Jews are the obvious falsification test.

ashkenaziresearch.org/2…

This Jewish community lived in Italy for roughly two millennia, including in regions such as Calabria, Sicily, and the old Magna Graecia zone. On autosomal PCA, inherited from both parents, they cluster directly over the same Southern Italian and Sicilian regions they historically inhabited, including areas close to Calabrians, Catania Sicilians, and Magna Graecia Dodecanese Greeks.

I’ve just clicked through to the Middle East section on the NYT’s website. The only story about the West Bank is No. 11 in the list. It’s not very good (too vague) and the writer is based in London rather than the Middle East.

The Guardian coverage is better: a live blog and eight stories dated 10 June, of which two concern the West Bank.

Off the topic of pinkwashing but on the topic of colonialism, this article in the Forward nicely shows how the ideas of Zionism are cracking up. Keep in mind that the Forward bills itself as “Jewish, Independent, Non-profit”:

The real anti-zionists are at the highest levels of the Israeli government… it’s time to acknowledge that a movement to undermine Zionism has taken hold within the Israeli government….If Zionism is the movement for a secure homeland for the Jews, then any forces that reject or undermine that homeland’s legitimacy or security are anti-Zionist. That includes the people whose positions and policies actively undermine the existence of a Jewish homeland.
The democratic Jewish state enshrined in the country’s Declaration of Independence has given way to something that looks a lot more like a herrenvolk democracy, in which democratic rights apply only to the dominant ethnic group. History has many examples of such arrangements, and — spoiler alert — they don’t end well for the majority. French Algeria until 1962, Rhodesia until 1980, South Africa until 1994 — all eventually faced one of three fates: negotiated transition to full democracy, violent collapse or ongoing instability and international isolation. To date, none have stabilized permanently….

https://forward.com/opinion/830510/israel-anti-zionism/

New report from Amnesty International”

Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation…The international community’s tacit or explicit support for Israeli crimes, including genocide and apartheid, or their failure to act resolutely to stop them has emboldened the Israeli authorities to escalate a brutal campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand its control over land in the West Bank, said Amnesty International. In a new report, the organization details how Israeli authorities are accelerating annexation through a state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer. 

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/acceleration-of-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-must-spur-global-action-to-halt-west-bank-annexation/

The report:

ERASING ANYTHING PALESTINIAN ISRAEL’S ETHNIC CLEANSING OF WEST BANK BEDOUIN AND HERDING COMMUNITIES

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MDE-1511032026-English.pdf

Videos of dead activists with placards demanding equality could sway public opinion.

You have a better idea?

Aaron Mate on pressure (note from 6:17)

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

brent: “Of course movements for self-determination or for equality are not identical. That doesn’t make the concept unworkable.”

LOL. It was you who argued that the concept works because the cases are comparable or effectively identical to the US or South Africa. Now you are implying that even if they were not, your concept would still work. So what is your argument now that it even works? Since John and I showed that your comparisons don’t work and why this concept woudn’t work based on the same reasoning.

Don’t get me wrong, one person one vote is the only just, non racist solution. But the Zionist Apartheid Junta simulating democracy doesn’t call Jews all over the world its only nation for nothing.

And the MSM has gotten tired of the story of the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Al-Jazeera has put together an hour long documentary on this, partly consisting of interviews with former prisoners.

You can decide for yourself if it’s convincing.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/they-were-laughing-israels-use-of-rape-and-sexual-abuse-in-prisons

( Francesca Albanese is also featured in this documentary )

Hostage: “You shouldn’t doubt it.”

At this point, basic principles of reasoning are enough to raise serious doubts, even without any detailed legal background.

Although at first glance it seems like your conclusion comes from the sources you provide, it appears more that the conclusion is already assumed from the beginning, and the sources are then selected and interpreted as if they lead to that conclusion.

Again, what is missing is a clear step by step explanation of how these sources are supposed to lead to the conclusion that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional or beyond Congress’s authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. Just pick one for a start.

Or how you resolve relying on Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 since this article gives Congress the power to pass laws that put its constitutional powers into practice.

We can get reporting from Israel elsewhere. Anyway, if they did report from Israel it would have a MW slant so I doubt you would like it.

You know what really stinks? Israel has not allowed any outside reporter into Gaza except for a few times with the IDF— I also saw one report from a British reporter briefly visiting a medical center. ( It might have been in a tent.)

There are Palestinian reporters in Gaza, but Israel keeps murdering them. We even got to see this happening occasionally, like when some rescue workers and reporters were killed by Israel while on the metal stairs outside a hospital.

Both of your comments are ad-hominem attacks. I invite you to say something that has actual substance.

jon s: “Note that MW will interview an official of the genocidal Iranian regime, while adamantly refusing to report from Israel.”

This is rich comming from a citizen and supporter of a genocidal regime that is actually committing genocide. But I must admit. MW should interview an official of your genocidal regime and take this as evidence to the Hague.

No one is saying that the “concept” (whatever you mean by that term) is unworkable. Assuming you mean non-violent protest, that works sometimes (e.g. the Bristol bus boycott in England, modelled on the boycotts sparked by Rosa Parks in the US). But when peaceful protest is met with persistent lethal violence – what then? (Contrast Kent State with the March of Return.)

If you answer, please give some concrete ideas, not vague abstractions.

Reading this comment, one would never guess that Israel has treated Palestinians with brutal violence and injustice since 1948.

Note that MW will interview an official of the genocidal Iranian regime, while adamantly refusing to report from Israel.
I would also note that Hezbollah isn’t too popular among Palestinians.

You shouldn’t doubt it. Many of the Constitution’s expressions were “terms of art” derived from 18th-century law. Words and phrases that look ordinary and innocent, were intended to convey specialized meanings. Two illustrations are “necessary” in the Necessary and Proper Clause and “the freedom of speech” in the First Amendment. The 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st, because a Statute, an Executive Order, or the Judgement of a Court are not listed in Article V. The “Necessary and Proper clause” cannot be utilized to supersede the provisions of the 27 Amendments that were adopted later in time.

Article I Vesting Clause: Asserts that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” The non-delegation doctrine explicitly reinforces that Congress cannot abdicate or transfer its fundamental, coercive lawmaking authority to the executive branch, administrative agencies, or private entities.

I was in charge of the Deployment Planning Section of the 3rd Combat Communications Group. We had no mission at home station, other than stay packed and ready to go. We averaged over a 1,000 deployments a year. I was a functional area manager for 3 active and 11 Air National Guard Groups in the Combat Communications-Electronics Directorate at HQ Tactical Air Command for many years. I always spent more time dealing with the Armed Services Sub-Committees than the DoD.

The “Define and Punish” Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 empowers Congress to “define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations.” Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 stipulates Congress is in the driver’s seat, and can’t delegate the job to the President.

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

See The 158th National Guard Fighter Wing deployed with their F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets Dec 13, 2025 to Caribbean for Operation Southern Spear. A year later they were still there and supporting Operation Southern Spear in Caribbean and the attack on Venezuela. See: Guard Units Contribute to Epic Fury

Re: Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel

Nope. Trumpeldor was a member of the Zionist Mule Corps who was supposed to withdraw to the British OETA under the terms of the Versailles Armistice (MOU )Agreement tabled by Lloyd-George and Clemenceau. He was a Russian ,in the French OETA, who otherwise wasn’t eligible to immigrate to Palestine until Britain first formally granted Jews the legal right to immigrate and settle via the Palestine Order in Council on August 10, 1922.

He was AWOL, an illegal emigre and claim jumper. He was shot by the Shia inhabitants who owned the land he was trying to pillage between Hunin (located closest to the Tel Hai outpost, near modern-day Margaliot), Abil al-Qamh (near modern-day Kfar Yuval), Nabi Yusha, Qadas, Saliha, Malkiyeh, and Tarbikha. on March 1, 1920.

The British Mandate was just an unapproved draft when he was dead and buried, It was awarded on April 25, 1920, but only entered into force when the League of Nations approved it in1922. IMHO you shouldn’t fire weapons at Shia landowners when they show-up to evict you, while trespassing. Just go peaceably and live to fight another day.

“Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel...”

Tell me when history starts.
Just give me a date.

“Hezbollah exists specifically for the avowed purpose of destroying Israel…”

Really! Tell me how and when Hezbollah started.

“Behind all of their quasi-academic sermonizing is a thirst for Israeli Jewish blood.”

My blood type is A positive, I hear that’s the tastiest one.

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Re: I am hardly the only person that has noticed the mendacity of higher Zionist propagandists in academia.

Yes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, It doesn’t matter whether the author is a Zionist or Anti-Zionist.

For example Behar claimed 1 in 5 persons in Spain are of Jewish decent because of forced religious conversion, and most were unaware of it. Those surveyed failed to report being Judean and did not recollect a family history of forced baptism and conversions, unlike their cousins the Zionists. See: Iberian Newborn DNA today remained largely unchanged for six centuries before Roman influence. University of Barcelona, Cell June 19, 2026. That and the Bronze Age to Roman era Levantine practitioners or other pagan religions suggests regular migration, assimilation of culture and language could be the best explanation.

Based on the three classic genetic studies (Current FTDNA compilation, Behar et al., and Penninx), approximately 46% to 50% of these 12 combined paternal lineages are considered Bronze Age Levantine (maximum) in origin See Y-DNA Frequencies in the Ashkenazi Population* Information on Y-DNA percentages on a cluster-by-cluster basis as determined through a 2022 analysis are posted here. That is inline with 50 percent Paternal DNA that is European (non-Levantine) according to Behar’s 2004 estimate before ancient DNA testing was possible. Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations

I suspect very few people have noticed Steven Parker’s claim on Substack to date. Here is “A Tale of Two Steven Parkers”: The draft paper has not been published in an academic journal, such as MDPI’s Genes. The author included an MDPI disclaimer, but the draft only exists as a preprint. I requested the Wayback Machine add your URL to its Archive. Ashkenaziresearch.org did not exist before a few days ago on the 8th of May 2026. Both of the author’s two papers at Academia.edu are undated drafts, with zero followers. The same information is shown at Sciprofiles.com and PrePrints.org OTOH Stephen CJ Parker, PhD of the University of Michigan is Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor of Human Genetics, Medical School and Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health. He is very well published and cited in peer-reviewed literature, but doesn’t write about Jews.

Of course movements for self-determination or for equality are not identical. That doesn’t make the concept unworkable.

The more cameras the better…. as recent times attest.

Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel, and that many Lebanese, including Shi’ite Muslims, are fed up with them; instead the author deceives his readers by writing about “Israel’s assault on Lebanon.” Hezbollah exists specifically for the avowed purpose of destroying Israel, and for that matter, so does the “Islamic Republic.” All of his pompous prattle about a new security architecture for the Middle East ignores and tries to distract the reader from the concrete state of insecurity in which the people of northern Israel live, thanks to Hezbollah, which no doubt would do to them what Hamas did to the people of the Gaza Envelope, if they could.

Of course, many if not most of MW’s commenters and contributors would salivate at such a prospect. Behind all of their quasi-academic sermonizing is a thirst for Israeli Jewish blood.

Hostage: “Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
He is correct.”

I doubt that.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 grants Congress the power: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” This shows that Congress is not limited to legislation explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, and that its laws are meant to implement and give effect to its enumerated powers rather than merely repeat them.

If the Constitution would not allow Congress to place any binding constraints on the President at all, it would not have granted Congress powers that directly limit executive action in practice, such as control over funding (Article I, Section 9), war powers (Article I, Section 8), and impeachment (Article I, Sections 2 and 3) in the first place.

The cited Supreme Court cases such as Marbury v. Madison and Perry v. United States establish only that statutes must comply with the Constitution and that the Constitution is the supreme law. They do not support the claim that legislation limiting executive military authority, is unconstitutional per se, nor that Congress is barred from enacting laws regulating or constraining executive power. Taken together, these sources rather highlight a system of checks and balances in which Congress and the President continuously constrain each other through funding, war powers, appointments, and legal regulation.

There’s nothing new under the sun. I was a fan of Aesop’s Fables bedtime stories and Rocky and Bullwinkle, long before I was old enough to be interested in reading Spinoza. If you were still a Zionist after all that experience, then all the supporting whole genome DNA evidence in the world won’t ever change your mind.

I never believed the legends in the Hebrew scriptures which said there were God-given commandments. The God represented there ordered Job’s children murdered. He ordered Israelites to murder their own people for picking up sticks. He ordered the complete replacement, by mass murder, of everyone else living in the land (including the men, women, children, and cattle). I don’t think that “God is love” or “thou shall not kill” precisely because he wasn’t and “the Bible told me so”. Yahweh sent the Angel of Death across Israel for three days, killing 70,000 people from Dan to Beersheba because David conducted a head count. Ananias and Sapphira were stuck dead because God changed more than a jot or tittle when the rule about offerings of one-tenth went up to 100 percent, without either Heaven or Earth passing away first.

I notice little things like fundamentalists mandating the 10 Commandments be placed on their kid’s classroom wall, while they are busy double-tapping people they want murdered in the Caribbean. All of their children will notice that. Some will grow up to be Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy anyway, others will not.

SPS1946: “The Golan Heights does not belong to Israel. Lebanon does not belong to Israel.”

Palestine doesn’t belong to a exclusively “Jewish” state.

brent “All of what I have theorized about has been designed to facilitate pressure on warriors for greater Israel…. and awaken public awareness.”

If your solution truly would be one person one vote, then it is not only incompatible with your “warriors for Greater Israel”, but with all Israeli Jewish position that seeks to maintain a Jewish state for a Jewish nation and a Jewish national character, which pressuposes a Jewish majority by all means.

“Israel has long engaged PR because it has been effective in characterizing Palestinian intentions… moulding public perceptions.”

If you look at polling and media coverage, the way Palestinians are talked about has become less central in many Western contexts, while there is more focus on Israeli atrocities. This shift seems less about organized pro Palestinian messaging and more about what people are actually seeing happening, and how that is being reported and framed after October 7.

“I see opportunity for Palestinians. You see burden.”

I see a Jewish state that would rather kill all Palestinians than risk becoming a state for all its citizens, with majority rule and minority rights regardless of faith or heritage. Therefor you see opportunies which would lead to the Palestinians ultimate expulsion or destruction.

brent: “Jews enjoyed a positive neighborly relationship in Palstine prior to the sejf-deception about it being a land without a people.”

Once again, you avoid engaging with the actual stated and evolving political positions of Palestinian representatives, because it is not compatible with your inherent claim, that the Palestinians endgame are not clearly communicated.

“Considered together, what does this all add up to?”

What it adds up to is that the only way out for Israel is to actually negotiate with Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinians, something it seems structurally incapable of doing – see Uri Ben-Eliezer’s “War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism”.
Do not believe that Israel’s technology is going to save it from another 20 years of a war of attrition in Lebanon, it’s only going to get worse:

Turkish volcanic spray-on coating claims major radar stealth boost for drones

Turkish volcanic spray-on coating claims major radar stealth boost for drones

[2] Re: You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history.

I am hardly the only person that has noticed the mendacity of higher Zionist propagandists in academia. Here is Steven Parker on Substack.

Ashkenazim cluster over Southern Italy on PCA and are very close on FST. This is autosomal DNA from both parents.

Nobody in 2026 can conclusively say who the ancient Khazarians were genetically, because the ancient Khazarian DNA data simply does not exist.

But we can say that Ashkenazim show massive genetic overlap in autosomal DNA with modern Southern Italians, and that this genetic continuity goes back to ancient Romans as well.

I discuss this in depth on my site:

ashkenaziresearch.org

These higher propagandists lie about the Levantine connection of Ashkenazim to imply

• that this connection is a cognizable defense to an accusation of genocide and

• that Palestinians were wrong to reject the theft of the Palestine Mandate from us Palestinians, who were and are the only legitimate beneficiaries of the Palestine Mandate.

Since 1881 the Zionists have been developing and evolving a specific malicious strategy (dolus specialis in the restrictive classic [not legal] Latin sense) of physical destruction of the Palestinian group. Genocide incitement against the Palestinian group is a Gesamtkunstwerk because it integrates many mendacious elements into a unified whole in order to assert that the Palestinian group has no place in stolen Palestine.

[1] Re: You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history.

Wow! David Reich Reich either purposefully or ignorantly overlooks elementary statistical population genetics that has been well known for over a century.

How long did Carthage exist?
Using the traditional foundation date:

• Founded: 814 BCE

• Destroyed: 146 BCE (when tremendous numbers of Carthaginians were enslaved and transported to Italy)

Carthage existed as an independent Phoenician-Punic state for approximately:
668 years

For comparison, Carthage existed for roughly as long as the period from the Norman Conquest of England (1066 CE) to the present day. That helps illustrate that Carthage was not a short-lived colony but a major civilization that endured for many centuries.

In 700 years suppose a colonist population incorporates 10% local genetics every generation, what will be the percentage of local genetics be at the end of the 700 year period?

Using the following assumptions:

• 700 years

• 25 years per generation

• 28 generations

• Each generation acquires 10% local ancestry

The calculation is:

1−(0.90)281 – (0.90)^{28}1−(0.90)281−0.05233≈0.947671 – 0.05233 \approx 0.947671−0.05233≈0.94767So after 28 generations, the population would be approximately:

• 94.8% local ancestry

• 5.2% original colonist ancestry

This illustrates how even a seemingly modest amount of admixture per generation accumulates rapidly over many generations. A population that incorporates 10% local ancestry every generation for 700 years becomes overwhelmingly local in genetic composition.

The same applies to the Greeks and Phoenicians/Cathaginians of Southern Italy/Magna Graeca and Sicily as they converted to Hellenistic Judaism and fused to become one population as Latin and Greek sources describe. Instead of pointing out that Ashkenazim have the genetics of this mixed population of Southern Italy, Hebrew University pseudoscientists, who engage in higher propaganda, assert mendaciously that Ashkenazim have half Italian/half Levantine ancestry. These higher propagandists imply that the Levantine ancestry is Judean even though Jewish sources tell us that Judeans, who departed Judea after 70 CE, almost invariably went to Mesopotamia/Babylonia.

I have more faith in Chris Hayes, but the rest on your list are a shameful embarrassment to what journalism used to stand for – speaking the truth to the powerful.

The ICC and the other International legal bodies need to finally act. Words do nothing to stop Israel’s warmongering brutality. Actions with severe consequences are the only path to ending the zionist extremism in the Middle East.

The Palestinian people are’t leaving their lands in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The American voter has had enough and wants to end America’s unconditional support for the Gaza Genocide and the ethnic cleansing – all perpetrated by Israel.
In addition, the occupied territories do not belong to Israel. The Golan Heights does not belong to Israel. Lebanon does not belong to Israel. And the Gaza gas reserves off the coast of Gaza do not belong to Israel.

See: OpinioJuris: A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel: “The right of return for these refugees is engraved in the document which founded the state of Israel. A reading of the official records on the admittance of Israel as a member of the United Nations, demonstrates that the recognition of the Palestinian right of return was a condicio sine qua non (“a condition without which it could not be”) for the recognition of the state of Israel.” 

That is another detailed article. It’s major shortcoming is that the explanation skips over the terms in Chapter 4 of the legal instrument and Israel’s Declaration which actually made the condition legally enforceable in the ICJ, in the event of any dispute regarding the condicio sine qua non.

Note: any State party to the ICJ statute or the General Assembly can refer any dispute over interpretation of the terms to the Court for a mandatory judgment, in case the parties cannot agree. After 78 years, this case is ripe for a decision.. The States should file contentious cases. The General Assembly should have brought the compromissory clause in C. Declaration Chapter 4 to the Court’s attention in Advisory Opinions requesting an judgement on the legal consequences of Resolution 181(II). That is one of the “rare cases where it is expressly provided that Advisory Opinions shall have binding force 

Jews enjoyed a positive neighborly relationship in Palstine prior to the sejf-deception about it being a land without a people.

All of what I have theorized about has been designed to facilitate pressure on warriors for greater Israel…. and awaken public awareness.

Nothing interferes with pressuring abhorent policies or standing in the way thereof. Perhaps you have a theory for altering this long standing reality. Meantime the destruction of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon and possibly Iran.

Israel has long engaged PR because it has been effective in characterizing Palestinian intentions… moulding public perceptions.

I see opportunity for Palestinians. You see burden. I doubt I can shake your view or your interpretation of ideas I’ve advanced…”evety single person”…

Re: Trump has denounced the War Powers Resolution, claiming that Democrats “are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and that the four Republicans who voted for it are “GRANDSTANDERS” who “should be ashamed of themselves.”

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.

He is correct. The SCOTUS ruled that once the People ratified the Constitution and Amendments that bound the government’s obligations. It could not be overridden by subsequent legislative or executive will. See Marbury v. Madison and Perry v. United States. The War Powers Act is flagrantly unconstitutional, because Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 stipulates: The Congress shall have Power . . . To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations for acts committed by Trump, Hegseth or Rubio. Not vice versa.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 doesn’t allow Congress to adopt a resolution that allows a veto or series of ceasefires to be employed to conduct forever wars without a Declaration of War. [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.

The People and the representatives they elected ratified a Constitution that doesn’t permit the President to act as Commander-in Chief without permission. It definitely does not allow a veto to be substituted for a congressional declaration, Article II  Section 2 Powers Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;

Trump and Hegseth can’t recall retired Article I branch Senators to active duty in Article II or III branch in order to court-martial them or reduce their pension. Any portion of the U.S. Code 10 UCMJ is blatantly unconstitutional if it contradicts Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, ,,, and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office. The 14th Amendment Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions … shall not be questioned.

Brent, talking to you is like having a discussion with a fortune cookie.

You don’t respond to points. I am responding here fully expecting it will just bounce off and you will reply with another imitation of a sugar- coated Zen koan.

What America has to do first and foremost is put pressure on Israel to stop killing people and stop stealing land and in general, stop acting like they have a license to commit atrocities with America’s help. This requires pressure. The civil rights movement dramatized the brutality of Jim Crow for whites ( humanist whites in your terms) who turned against it but what happened was that the rest of the country forced the South to end its apartheid system. The pressure comes first. Then, after the South was forced to change, some individuals changed.

We don’t need a universally agreed- upon solution to achieve this first step of ending Israel’s genocidal behavior, which is a good thing because there is no consensus on the endpoint. With most Western politicians and diplomats the assumption is that it will be a 2ss, but not everyone agrees, I don’t know what most Palestinians want. They may not feel like they want to live side by side with the people who have been murdering them. There is no doubt plenty of hatred on both sides, no matter who one sympathizes with more.

We don’t need not need to get every single person agreed on the form of the solution before putting pressure on Israel to stop killing, starving, and torturing Palestinians. We aren’t going to get people gathered around a campfire singing songs. Maybe someday. Not now. You refuse to get this.

I said this before and will say it one more time though I fully expect you will ignore it— your stance is functionally identical to the position of pseudo- liberal Zionists who claim to want a solution but put all the burden of achieving it on Palestinians. They had to agree to be pacifists first and to reassure Zionists first and they all had to unite in this and only then would Israel be expected to change.

Pressure first. The majority of Americans, having become aware of just how badly Israel behaves, would be more than willing to exert pressure, And at least some politicians get this.

Re The Big Picture:

The region’s power brokers aren’t talking much about the Palestinians these days. Israel continues to restrict aid and keep up a patter of violence in a bomb-chewed and immiserated Gaza Strip, and Palestinians in the West Bank are still suffering daily repression at the hands of settlers and soldiers. But make no mistake: The unanswered demand for Palestinian sovereignty sits at the heart of all the regional upheaval, unacknowledged though it may be.

Opinion | An Aggressive Israel Is Shaking the Middle East – The New York Times

Israel is a democracy. Initially, its most moral army in the world denied that Adam Hamawy was even a doctor! But when public pressure even outside of Israel became too high, it had no choice but to investigate his case and then, finally, after much of the self-self-scrutiny for which it has become famous, justice prevailed. It demoted and IDF officer, showed greatness, offered a sincere apology, and admitted that it was a terrible, terrible, human mistake to let him leave Gaza alive.

Part of the definition of genocide is the deliberate attempt to make life impossible for a particular group of people. From September of last year:

This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting not soldiers or weapons caches, but something deeply vulnerable: Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank….Within hours of the bulldozers’ arrival on July 31, 2025, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ seed multiplication facility lay in ruins – its propagation materials scattered, its infrastructure demolished, and with it, generations of Palestinian agricultural heritage reduced to rubble...What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival. The Union of Agricultural Work Committees condemned this attack as “an act of erasure intended to sever the generational ties between farmers and their land.”

Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage | Truthout

brent: “Think civil rights movement.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring the political and material reality of the endgame of Zionism and any counter-argument that has been presented to you. In this case, I have explained to you many times why the case of Israel is neither comparable to the US nor the SA case. Do you have any access to this memory?

bent: “Setting your opinion on Israeli humanists aside, what about the needed PR work waiting to be done, to move Americans beyond revulsion of the barbarity, to becoming an ally on a political solution… ultimate pressure.”

Is this a teaser? Nooo, it can’t be. Or can it? Oh my Lord, could this be …? I mean … is this a cliffhanger for the second season? It really looks like a teaser for another brent new second season in the ongoing alternative-history serial drama now titled: “Setting Israeli humanist aside. If only Americans knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would make them stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against Palestiniasn in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst claiming to be the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)””

Here we go again. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve told you that there is no comparison with the [US] civil rights movement (I assume, since you’ve never denied it, that that is the movement to refer to). Did the US government deploy the Army to shoot protesters? Did it bomb African-American areas in US cities? Did it send white settlers to drive native Americans from their homes? (OK, it did that, but 150 years ago.)

Speak the “truth” rather than uttering endless the hasbara fiction.
You constantly speak with a “forked tongue,” as the American Indian would say to the white man.

Brent: “There is PR work waiting to be done to bridge with American and Israeli humanists.”

Thank God! A brent new episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst claming to be the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

Oh, sorry, I misread your comment. You actually want to expose Israeli intentiones, endgame and crimes against humanity even more than you allready do, right?

Triple-Bingo!!!

Think civil rights movement.

This is an incredible, well warranted win! Dr. Hamawy is an honorable humanitarian!

Qassam “Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. On Friday night, Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family’s car in Hebron. He was pulled out of it dead.
The family lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron’s old city, an area surrounded by Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, and settler outposts, and where Palestinians live under constant harassment and restrictions to their movement.”

Another brutal and heartbreaking real life story based on facts. What most of us are so clearly aware of is that Palestinian’s lives are not as valuable as Israeli Jews lives to Israel to the U.S. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced, had homes, land stolen, olive trees destroyed, humiliated daily, illegally imprisoned for years, maimed, killed in the thousands by Israel. Israel’s military, and illegal land thieves have killed, killed with barbaric regularity. Yes, Oct 7 was also barbaric, however, Israel decades long record of heinous killings of Palstinians.

What anyone else paying attention knows multi millionaire media host like Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Kristen Welker, Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, Ari Melber will not be reporting about this tragedy.

If Sam Abu Haikai and his family were Jewish the tragedy would be reported about by,Scarborough, Maddow etc.

Re: My conclusion is completely consistent with the data of The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant even though the text of this paper is sneaky propaganda that alleges Rabbinic Jews have an ancestral connection to Greco-Roman Judea despite the complete lack of evidence for such a connection.

Nope. In 2016, before the 2025/2026 Bronze Age studies on Philistines and Carthaginians, the oldest ancient remains from Carthage to be DNA tested dated back to the late 6th century B.C.E. (approximately 2,500 years ago). They belonged to an elite Phoenician individual known as the “Young Man of Byrsa” (or Ariche) with Iberian MtDNA. This individual’s remains were originally discovered in 1994 in a Punic burial crypt on Byrsa Hill, the ancient citadel of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia. See: Popular Archeology– University of Otago Ancient DNA study finds Phoenician from Carthage had European ancestry: A 2500-year-old Phoenician shows ancient ancestry on the Iberian Peninsula. Like the Bronze Age Philistines scientific study published in Nature revealed, his ancient Carthaginian DNA was genetically closer to Greeks and Sicilians than to their Levantine founders.

I get it, you don’t like the idea we might share the same ancestors as the Canaanites and the uninvited distant shirttail genocidal Ashkenazi relatives from Europe. But the report is not just a hairbrained Zionist-inspired conspiracy to support birthright citizenship in Eretz Canaan, in any case. It doesn’t suffer from the shortcomings you claim, and the teams working on these studies are still conducting more investigation of the DNA from the Bronze Age to the present to fill in the existing gaps. There always are discoveries that rewrite history, including these recent conclusions. Some of them will inevitably be overturned.

My Congresswoman, the Democratic WHIP, again displays her usual cowardice. Her district is one of the most Progressive in the United States, yet she continues to ignore the pleas from those voters to end the unconditional support for the warmongering state of Israel.

Re: Nahum Slouschz developed a Phoenecian origin hypothesis. 

Even when he published “Travels in North Africa”, his theory contradicted the known facts discovered by 19th century archeological inscriptions, and their linguistics. The Judeans spoke and wrote Targums in Aramaic during the Maccabean era. 

The ancient DNA study confirms that the traditional idea of “colonization”—where a vast population of invaders physically relocates and displaces or heavily outnumbers the indigenous inhabitants—did not happen in Carthage, its sister settlements, or Gaza. Instead, the history of Ashkelon and Carthage is a story of profound cultural assimilation and integration of Canaanite culture, religion, and language.

FYI, the people of Canaan gave the people their alphabet and their language. Aramaic and Hebrew are roughly the same age, as both emerged as distinct spoken and written languages in the Levant during the late 2nd millennium BCE (around 1200–1100 BCE). Slouschz was simply wrong (page 227-228) when he claimed “so-called Phoenician language is nothing more nor less than Hebrew—a pure Hebrew dialect, nearly the same as was spoken in the country of Israel in the days before the Aramaic, and before the Masora came to fix its orthographic rules artificially.” Science has also shown he was incorrect. When he claimed: Thus language and script show us that this Phoenician is for us Hebraists nothing but Hebrew. The population of Carthage was Palestinian in origin and Hebraic in civilization, and if, instead of succumbing, the city of Hannibal had triumphed over Rome, it is probable—nay, almost certain—that Hebrew, and not Latin, would have become the dominant language of the Mediterranean countries. He was wrong about child sacrifice: “And yet, after all, can we be sure that all the Carthaginians worshipped Moloch, Saturn, Baal-Chronos, or Melkart, the gods of human sacrifice?” They actually had typical infant mortality rates and merely practiced cremation.

Linguistically, neither Hebrew or Aramean is “older” than the other; they developed concurrently as sister branches of the Northwest Semitic Canaanite language family. Hebrew didn’t even develop a large vocabulary. Tzedek the root for righteousness is the same Canaanite god Zedek who ruled Jerusalem when Joshua and the Israelites supposedly utterly destroyed the Canaanites, leaving no survivors. The line of King David’s High Priest Zadok comes from the same Canaanite root.

Given his sense of humor, I’m pretty sure someone with the surname “Gold” would also appreciate jokes from certain German deniers of atrocities against Jews.

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Re: Hostage ignores the big elephants in the room. Canaanites/Phoenicians were planting colonies (with a Canaanite genetic signal) around the Mediterranean in Europe and N. Africa since ~1100 BCE

Not guilty. 1200 BCE era remains of Canaanite, Philistine, and Carthaginian populations show assimilation, not colonization. Zionists do not support exclusive birthright claims to “The Land of Israel” with test results that establish 55 percent of their DNA is Canaanite. Full Stop.

The lead geneticist of the study has said as much: “David Reich (Harvard University) has frequently spoken about how genetic science disrupts political and nationalist mythologies globally. In public lectures and interviews, Reich routinely cautions that “people’s stories about their history are almost always wrong” and that ancient DNA reveals that pure, unmixed ancestral homelands do not exist. See: Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no, Harvard Gazette. Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement

The lead authors cited 65 other scholarly and scientific papers with lengthy inline analyses about misuse of mythology that you falsely claimed weren’t even discussed. See: Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines, Sci. Adv. 2019; Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 2017; Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Nature. 2017; 548:214-218, Lemche, The Canaanites and their land : the tradition of the Canaanites, JSOT Press; The Canaanites and Their Land Ugarit-Forschungen. 1994; 26:397-418; The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, 2010

You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history. Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes, Brown University, By Jill Kimball and “Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors”, Nature, David Reich. et.al.

A landmark genetic study published in the journal Nature led by David Reich at Harvard University directly disproved the old historical assumption that Carthaginians were genetically Levantine (Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon).

brent: “Sharing the land is the only workable future.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring political and material reality of the endgame of Zionisn and any counter argument that has been presented to you.

Why would “sharing the land” be a “workable” future, when Zionism has been working against it from the get go and it would not compatible with their expanding work called a “Jewish state” with a Jewish majority and the fact that Jews in the land of Palestine are a minority.

“As Palestinian intentions become clearer, more Americans and Israelis will challenge their zealots.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring political and material reality and blaming the Palestinians for the “one person, one vote” solution, although the intentions of the Zionists have been very clear from the get-go and have always been incompatible with it.

And what is unclear about the existence of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, and the two-state-solution having been constantly reaffirmed? February 2025: “PLO official reiterates leadership’s firm position that the two-state solution guarantees security and peace.”
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/154329

How could American and Israelis challenge the existence of Israel as a “Jewish state” which is are not only the intentions of their “zealots”?

Your whole collection of assumptions (not arguments) are nothing more than just another episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst allegedly being the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

Setting your opinion on Israeli humanists aside, what about the needed PR work waiting to be done, to move Americans beyond revulsion of the barbarity, to becoming an ally on a political solution… ultimate pressure.

The film “Planet Israel” is now coming out in theaters in Britain. Here’s the trailer:

https://planetisrael.co.uk/

“After October 7th the world was shocked and sympathetic following the Hamas attacks in Israel. Within a few short months most of this sympathy had gone as the world recoiled in horror at the brutality of the Israeli response to these attacks, while few Israeli Jews seem to have noticed anything untoward. As a British/American Jew, Gillian Mosely wanted to know what has happened to make any Jews, a people who have experienced oppression, othering, and genocide, exhibit such moral and humanitarian numbness. More widely, how does the moral disengagement that allows atrocities the world over, happen? Gillian thought she was making a film about trauma. But the reality turned out to be so much darker than she’d imagined as the mechanisms behind our disintegrating democracies and international laws are exposed.”

Hopefully it will be released in the U.S. soon. Also see:

https://www.wrmea.org/music-and-arts/planet-israel-how-trauma-politics-and-narrative-shape-a-nation.html

Set almost a year after Oct. 7, 2023, this feature-length documentary uses interviews, artificial intelligence animation and archival footage to explore how Israeli society, so steeped in its own individual and collective trauma, justifies such violent attacks on Gaza carried out in its name.

“The click of handcuffs”, guns, drones, solitary rooms’ door locks, keyboards in hands of paid analysts and intellectuals etc etc are all, these days, meant to control how citizens think. May the clicks of your handcuffs produce results for you and your fellow citizens and the world. They must.

Just to clarify, the hate speech law in effect under the EU Framework Decision on Xenophobia actually says “Sexual violence and human suffering shall s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ never be mocked or minimized.

I’m pretty certain Israeli’s are aware of the fact their country is charged with genocide in a current case before the ICJ and with extermination and persecution in the ICC. That and “publicly condoning, denying or trivializing rape” actually is a pretty big deal: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) made history in the 1998 Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu case. It became the first international tribunal to classify rape and sexual violence as instruments of genocide and crimes against humanity, specifically recognizing rape as a weapon of war.

P.S. Maybe we’re related. I’ve been busy and meant to comment that CeCe Moore of “Finding Your Roots” and FtDNA show that Henry Louis Gates, Sr, (the father of Educator Henry Louis Gates Jr,) and I share matching maternal DNA. His line runs through a slave Hannah, b.1813 in VA, wife of Daniel Duke, Hardy Co. Globally the rate of MtDNA matches is much less than one percent. The exceptions are 9.1 percent of persons tested in Zimbabwe, 2.7 in Macedonia, 1 percent in Croatia, and 0.9 percent in the Netherlands.

Anyone can plug-in the names, dates, and birthplace info of their Father and Mother at Family Search. They have a tool My Famous Relatives that looks up your ancestors and shows a diagram of that person’s family connection to your tree from the records collected by the LDS Church. Several of mine have black ancestry too: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is my 11th Cousin; Emperor D. Pedro I do Brasil, IV de Portugal (1798–1834) is my 11th cousin twice removed; and Emperor D. Pedro II de Alcântara do Brasil (1825–1891).

RE: Ethiopian Jews were the only group that didn’t have over 50 percent Canaanite DNA, not the Ashkenazi. 

Hostage ignores the big elephants in the room.

• Canaanites/Phoenicians were planting colonies (with a Canaanite genetic signal) around the Mediterranean in Europe and N. Africa since ~1100 BCE long before the Roman Expulsion that never happened and long before the late 4th-early 3rd century BCE when the Ptolemaic Kingdom transferred some polytheist Yahwist Judeans and Samarians to Alexandria in Egypt.

• The authors of  The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant are more committed to Zionism than to science and are desperate to demonstrate that Rabbinic Jews are descendants of Greco-Roman Judeans even though Greco-Roman Judeans are ancestors of us Palestinians and not of Rabbinic Jews.

• Nahum Slouschz like many others was trying to understand the origin of Western Rabbinic Jews when there is no evidence whatsoever of emigration of Greco-Roman Judeans to the Roman West. Nahum Slouschz developed a Phoenecian origin hypothesis. He went a little too far in his ideas and focused too much on N. Africa. Yet Slouschz was fundamentally correct, and his analysis is consistent with the data that The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant presents.

• Sometimes, an analyst must apply Occam’s Razor. Claiming that the Ashkenazi Matriarchs have South Italian/Magna Graecian or Sicilian origin while Ashkenazi Patriarchs have Levantine origin is ridiculous because during the Greco-Roman period South Italy and Sicily hosted Greek and Phoenician/Carthaginian towns or communities just like the Levant. Sicily hosted an Egyptian colony. Large conversion of Greco-Roman South Italians and Sicilians to Biblical Judaism completely explains the genetic similarity of Ashkenazim and South Italians even though Zionist propagandists are desperate to imply that Ashkenazim have Judean origin when Ashkenazim and Rabbinic Jewish communities of the Roman West don’t demonstrably have such ancestry.

My conclusion is completely consistent with the data of The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant even though the text of this paper is sneaky propaganda that alleges Rabbinic Jews have an ancestral connection to Greco-Roman Judea despite the complete lack of evidence for such a connection.

Israeli humanists to the extent they exist, are already on the side of the Palestinians. Americans are starting to see just how badly Israel behaves— some still think this is a recent development.

What we need is pressure on Israel, something you seem to oppose.

Okay. There is a landmark High Court of Justice (HCJ) ruling that firmly established Israel’s Declaration of Independence was not an enforceable or binding constitutional law: Kol Ha’Am v. Minister of the Interior (1953)

The first “General Provision” of C. Declaration states: The stipulations contained in the Declaration are recognized as fundamental laws of the State and no law, regulation or official action shall conflict or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation or official action prevail over them.

That is a “dispute”. There was a boilerplate compromissory clause in Chapter 4 of the UN Part C. Declaration instrument that Moshe Shertok and Abba Eban repeatedly declared, they accepted, signed, and promulgated as law in their National Gazette. Pacta sunt servanda – “agreements must be kept.” The PCIJ had 19 Minority Treaty cases brought to resolve disputes with the very same boilerplate compromissory clauses.

The relevant clauses stipulate a mandatory adjudication by the ICJ with a legally binding decision if the parties cannot agree: “The provisions of chapters 1 and 2 of the declaration shall be under the guarantee of the United Nations, and no modifications shall be made in them without the assent of the General Assembly of the United Nations.” and “Any dispute relating to the application or interpretation of this declaration shall be referred, at the request of either party, to the International Court of Justice, unless the parties agree to another mode of settlement.”

That’s only 239 words and they could have saved a lot of time by just making Israel “tell it to the Judge” in the first place.

ODDLY RELATED:
■ Pro-Israel influencer and actor share a ‘raped by Israeli dogs’ joke | Middle East Eye | 7 June 2026
‘I was only raped by two Israeli dogs,’ Elon Gold tells Lizzy Savetsky while promoting a film made in Israel

(EXCERPTS) A pro-Israel influencer and a pro-Israel actor joked about Palestinians being raped by Israeli dogs on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday. 

While promoting a film made in Israel, actor Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky laughed as they referenced long-standing allegations that Israeli forces have used military dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.

“It’s a really big deal. And for a film made in Israel, that’s pretty damn cool,” Gold told Savetsky on the red carpet, gesturing towards the ground in reference to Israel as he spoke about how pleased he was that the film The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan), in which he stars, was being shown at the New York festival. 

“I was only raped by two Israeli dogs,” Gold said.

“I thought they only raped Palestinians,” Savetsky replied.

“No, I got also a dog,” Gold quipped back, as they both laughed.

Human rights organisations such as B’Tselem and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor have documented evidence of Palestinian prisoners being assaulted by Israeli military dogs. . .

 . . . In a statement, the Tribeca Festival condemned Gold and Savetsky’s comments.

“The Tribeca Festival is aware of the concerns raised regarding a clip circulating on social media and unequivocally condemns the offensive and unacceptable remarks made by Elon Gold and Lizzy Savetsky at the premier of The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan),” it said.

“Sexual violence and human suffering should never be mocked or minimized. The comments do not reflect the Tribeca Festival’s values, and we regret the hurt and offence they have caused. We have not been able to reach the filmmakers.”

LINK ~ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israel-influencer-and-actor-share-raped-israeli-dogs-joke

Sharing the land is the only workable future. As Palestinian intentions become clearer, more Americans and Israelis will challenge their zealots.

Warriors for greater Israel have long feined an interest in peace while undermining its prospects and by negatively characterizing Palestinian intentions.

There is PR work waiting to be done to bridge with American and Israeli humanists.

The entire sane world must divest from israel.

Of course ethic labels and religion have nothing to do with shared ancestry or biological descent. See: DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic similarity to their counterparts in the Levant. — Smithsonian Magazine, Margherita Bassi, May 1, 2025

Modern Syrian Arabs share significant but indirect genetic continuity with ancient Natufian culture populations. Autosomal DNA models show Syrians carry approximately 15% to 30% Natufian-related ancestry, varying by region and community, while paternal Y-DNA reveals direct lineages like Haplogroup J1 and J2 linking back to ancient Near Eastern expansions. The genomic history of the Middle East, Cell. 2021 Sep 2;184(18):4612–4625

Stop me if you’ve already figured this out, but whoever that Y-Chromosome Natufian direct lineage ancestor was, he wasn’t worshipping the Canaanite Storm God at Aleppo, the Aramaen God Hadad, or the Seleucid God Zeus when those Empires and their Gods came and went. But it just doesn’t matter. 75% to 90% of the Syrian Arab populations living in various Syrian communities today are his descendants and still have his Y-Chromosome with some “steps” of naturally accumulated mutation, e.g. STRs (Short Tandem Repeats), where a step is a single mismatch in repeat values (Genetic Distance). Note: The study done by Ariella Oppenheim that I have cited in the past counts how many Jews and Arabs share identical recent ancestors. Ashkenazi have a much higher percentage than Arabs, Sephardi and Mizrahi because they have more inbred 30th cousins who share the very same recent bottleneck. — Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry: Clashing groups are Y chromosome cousins, Science, 30 Oct 2000, Ann Gibbons

“Israel is the most lawless, violent, criminal, rogue state on the planet. It is committing a genocide. It is starving 2 million people, and it is now proposing to do more.” Jeffrey Sachs. No longer proposing as evidenced by their barbarity in Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

Yet 50,000 recently celebrated Israel’s policies on the streets on NYC. Those that support the industrial scale slaughter of children are feted by politicians and MSM, while those that oppose war and Kipling are vilified as hater and antisemites (even of Jewish).

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Tests on Ashkenazi Jewish genomes in 2017 found an approximately even mixture of Middle Eastern and European ancestry. They concluded that the true fraction of European ancestry was possibly about 60%, with the remaining 40% being Middle Eastern. The authors estimated the Levant as the most likely source of Middle Eastern ancestry in Ashkenazi Jews, and also estimated that between 60% and 80% of the European ancestry was Southern European, “with the rest being likely Eastern European.”[Xue J, Lencz T, Darvasi A, Pe’er I, Carmi S (April 2017). “The time and place of European admixture in Ashkenazi Jewish history”. PLOS Genetics. 13 (4) e1006644

Seed line Y-Chromosome and MtDNA studies of the Philistine population homes and the cemetery at Ashkelon – including grave goods and idols – show when Mycenaean-Iberian colonists first arrived, how long they stayed, who they married, what they ate, and when they stopped coming, and died out. They were still Canaanites by David’s era and today:

“We report genome-wide data of 10 Bronze and Iron Age individuals from Ashkelon. We find that the early Iron Age population was genetically distinct due to a European-related admixture. This genetic signal is no longer detectible in the later Iron Age population. Our results support that a migration event occurred during the Bronze to Iron Age transition in Ashkelon but did not leave a long-lasting genetic signature. …We constructed the whole mitochondrial genome consensus sequence for each individual …We assigned the Y-chromosome haplogroup for each male individual … We inspected the allele distribution in SNP positions associated with a selection of biological traits ,,, The petrous parts of the temporal bone were Carbon dated. … to test and model admixture proportions from potential source populations (reference populations) in the tested populations. We used a basic set of seven outgroups including present-day populations (Han, Onge, Mbuti, Mala, Mixe) (37) that represent a global genetic variation and published ancient populations such as Natufian (12), which represents a Levantine gene pool outside of modern genetic variation and the European Upper Palaeolithic individual “Villabruna” (36).

Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines, Science Advances, 3 Jul 2019, Vol 5, Issue 7

Seed line studies for Syrians: Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese, study finds Date: May 9, 2000

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Several reports were published in 2017 showing the name changes did not alter the Canaanite Y-DNA of the modern population:

The groundbreaking 2017 study that first mapped the direct genetic link between modern Lebanese and Bronze Age Canaanites was conducted by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute on behalf of The National Geographic Society Genographic Project. The study revealed that modern Lebanese inherit more than 90% of their genetic ancestry directly from the ancient Canaanite population – Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNA: Genome sequenced from 3,700-year-old remains is found in today’s residents of Lebanon. – National Geographic By Kristin Romey Published July 27, 2017

The remains were excavated from a historic Bronze Age burial site in the coastal port city of Sidon (modern-day Saïda), Lebanon. See Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites New Scientist, By Andy Coghlan, 27 July 2017

Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences, Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Jul 27;101(2):274–282.
We sequenced five whole genomes from ∼3,700-year-old individuals from the city of Sidon, a major Canaanite city-state on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. We also sequenced the genomes of 99 individuals from present-day Lebanon to catalog modern Levantine genetic diversity. We find that a Bronze Age Canaanite-related ancestry was widespread in the region, shared among urban populations inhabiting the coast (Sidon) and inland populations (Jordan) who likely lived in farming societies or were pastoral nomads. This Canaanite-related ancestry derived from mixture between local Neolithic populations and eastern migrants genetically related to Chalcolithic Iranians. We estimate, using linkage-disequilibrium decay patterns, that admixture occurred 6,600–3,550 years ago, coinciding with recorded massive population movements in Mesopotamia during the mid-Holocene. We show that present-day Lebanese derive most of their ancestry from a Canaanite-related population, which therefore implies substantial genetic continuity in the Levant since at least the Bronze Age. In addition, we find Eurasian ancestry in the Lebanese not present in Bronze Age or earlier Levantines. We estimate that this Eurasian ancestry arrived in the Levant around 3,750–2,170 years ago during a period of successive conquests by distant populations.

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Archaeologists have discovered the graves of Canaanite warriors from the 19th century B.C. in Sidon, Lebanon. The tombs were unearthed by a team of British Museum researchers who have been excavating the Frères archaeological site for 21 years and have discovered 171 ancient burials over the decades. The two found this season are particularly well-preserved. … The grave goods interred with them — bronze daggers and belts — identify the men as members of the warrior elite. The feet of sheep or goats were buried by the men’s feet so the animals would accompany them to the afterlife. …DNA taken previously from other Canaanites graves at Frères compared to the DNA of 100 Lebanese showed 95 percent were of Canaanite descent, Doumet-Serhal said, adding, “We were never divided. We were all Canaanites, then we were Phoenicians, then the Romans came, then the Byzantines, then the Arabs.” – Bronze Age warrior tombs found in Sidon, The History Blog, 2019

Many of the authors the @020/2021 Cell Study have been working on the same dig sites for decades and had been releasing progress reports that you have not read. Several of them address and answer your hypotheticals or strawman arguments: Natufian DNA predates the emergence of the Canaanites by thousands of years. Natufians were indigenous Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers (c. 15,000–11,500 years ago), whereas “Canaanites” represent a later Bronze Age population (c. 3,500–1,200 BCE). So comparing Natufian DNA with Canaanite detects when migration admixtures occurred: “To reveal subtler population structure, we repeated the qpWave analysis adding outgroups that are genetically closer to the test groups, such as Armenia_MLBA and Natufian (Figure 3). With this more powerful set of outgroups, Baqah and Megiddo_IBA also provide evidence of not being pairwise clades with the remaining groups. Thus, beyond the broad observation of genetic affinities between sites, we also observe subtle ancestry heterogeneity across the region during the Bronze Age (see Discussion). – The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant, Cell, 2023, same Authors as the 2020/2021 study. 

Modern scholarship generally views the distinction between Canaanites and Phoenicians after c. 1200 BC as artificial. “Phoenicia” was a label given to them by the Greeks because they produced color-fast purple dye. The people themselves always referred to their homeland as Canaan and identified as Canaanites. – Wikipedia

bcg: “I’m sure the IDF will do a thorough and objective investigation.”

Piece of cake.They identified a Chchchamas terrorist who was chchchiding behind a baby.

Part 1

Re: Nahum Slouschz

He died in 1966 without ever reading a whole human genome aDNA study report. The international Human Genome Project Fact Sheet published the first working “rough draft” of a human genome in 2000, and announced an essentially complete version (covering about 92% of our 3 billion base pairs) in April 2003. It took 13 years and cost roughly $300 million to complete just that single test. The first high-coverage whole genome sequencing of an ancient human (aDNA) was published on February 11, 2010, detailing a 4,000-year-old Palaeo-Eskimo (“Inuk”) from Greenland, sequenced from hair preserved in permafrost.

FYI, you are trying (and failing again) to create strawman arguments by misstating what I’ve said and what the Authors said. The authors summary you quoted described a portion about Ethiopian Jews I had already quoted for you: “The results show that since the Bronze Age, an additional East-African-related component was added to the region (on average ∼10.6%, excluding Ethiopian Jews who harbor ∼80% East African component)”

Ethiopian Jews were the only group that didn’t have over 50 percent Canaanite DNA, not the Ashkenazi. The same paragraph goes on to explain “a European-related component (on average ∼8.7%, excluding Ashkenazi Jews who harbor a ∼41% European-related component). The European-related component is highest in the European control populations (English and Tuscan), as well as in Ashkenazi and Moroccan Jews, both having a history in Europe (Atzmon et al., 2010; Carmi et al., 2014; Schroeter, 2008). This component is present, although in smaller amount, in all other populations except for Bedouin B and Ethiopian Jews. As expected, the English and Tuscan populations have a very low Middle-Eastern-related component.

No one can prove a negative, even with a DNA test. I have always explained that the bulk of our ancestors cannot be detected by any DNA test. That doesn’t hold true for the non-recombinant Y-Chromosome or MtDNA seed lines. We nonetheless would not exist without all of their indispensable genetic contribution if even one ancestor were missed. Humans have existed for 300,000 years and we would need more ancestors than have ever existed in order to avoid shared DNA – Identity by descent (IBD). All a DNA test confirms is that matching inherited DNA shared by two individuals establishes they have common ancestry, but it does not exclude an ancient non-matching person from being your ancestor.

Hostage: “Okay, I’ll be glad to do that this evening and post some of it later on.”

That’s too much information at once. Before quoting even more sources, could you state one claim first, and then provide only the exact sentence that supports it?

brent “When Americans and/or Israelis come to appreciate such as being a Palestinian consensus, that would be a game changer.”

What really would be a game changer is if you were to come to appreciate that Jews and non-Jews, not only in Palestine but also in other Muslim countries, used not only to babysit each other’s children but even to breastfeed each other’s toddlers. And also the historical fact that the Arab delegation in 1947 proposed a “secular, democratic state with minority rights”, and that the PLO later reduced its demands by declaring a state in only 22% of Palestine after it had accepted Zionism’s endgame (I want to avoid using the term “final solution”), and what Jews need to do to achieve and maintain their endgame, which you call “actions” and “behavior” which are “not healthy” for Palestinians.

Until then, your comment may be nothing mere than just another episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst being victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

brent: “The new era will likely entail conceps for fairly sharing the land.”

What really coud be a signal the start of a new era if you continued the sentence with “because…” and explained why the election of a supporter of a Jewish state signals “a new era” likely to entail “fairly sharing the land”, and clarified what that actually means, so that your comment would constitute an argument rather than yet another unsubstantiated claim.

Until then, it it may be nothing mere than just another episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst being victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

Part 2 

The Damascus Document Melchizedek Document / 11Q13 “Sons of Light” considered the Canaanite Melchizedek to be an exalted, heavenly, and divine being who acts as the supreme leader, savior, and judge of the Sons of Light – 150 years BCE.

The god Zedek (or Zedeq, representing “Righteousness” or “Justice”) is primarily known through personal names and divine lists on West Semitic and Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from Ugarit (Syria), the Amarna letters (Egypt/Canaan), and the archives of Mari (Syria/Iraq). The Amarna Letters reveal “Zedek” was used in pre-Israelite Canaanite religion. For example, Jerusalem’s leader (e.g., Adoni-zedek, “Zedek is Lord”) reflects the city’s indigenous worship of Zedek, tying into broader Canaanite pantheon studies that preserve his 1400-year history before the current era. 

In his allegorical commentary on the Torah (Legum Allegoriarum 3.79-82), the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE- 50CE) discusses Melchizedek as the untutored Canaanite priest-king of Salem who brings out bread and wine to Abraham. Philo of Byblos recorded Zedek’s history. It was relied upon by Christian authors, including Eusebius,

The Grokipedia entry “Sydyk” provides a very large amount of third-party verified information. It notes the Levantine, ṣdq features as a royal epithet in the Yehimilk inscription from Byblos (KAI 4), dated to the early 10th century BCE, where the king describes himself as mlk ṣdq (“just king”) alongside mlk yšr (“upright king”); this phrase in a temple dedication highlights Sydyk’s invocation for divine favor in restorative building projects. It explains Epigraphic evidence for Sydyk (Phoenician ṣdq) primarily consists of theophoric names and royal epithets in Phoenician inscriptions, reflecting the deity’s association with justice and righteousness in official and religious.

In the Nag Hammadi tractate, Melchizedek acts as a pre-incarnate redeemer. The Canaanite High God El Elyon and his subordinate deity Yahweh only became synonymous through syncretism. On the other hand, the Christians and Babylonian Talmudic Jews attempted to retroactively replace the historical Zedek altogether. They placed him within a clumsily forged pre-flood Sethite (Shemite) priestly line in the 2nd Century CE, rather than retaining the centuries-old Amorite or Canaanite deity

Brent’s position is the exact equivalent of the pseudo- liberal Zionist line that Israel wants peace, but Palestinians so far have not shown they are worthy partners for peace.

Part 1 I’ve barely scratched the surface of the mountain of other concrete evidence and examples from:

*Genesis, Joshua, Ezekiel’s praise for the righteousness of Noah, Job, and Danel told in the Canaanite myth from Ugarit, Tale_of_Aqhat.

*The 1st century BCE Dead Sea Scrolls, and 1st Century CE Nag Hammadi stories in  Qumran 11QMelchizedek, and the Nag Hammadi tractate Melchizedek (Codex IX, Tractate 1)  They only kept these secrets in caves or buried in earthen jars to avoid religious persecution for writing about Canaanite biblical history and theology.

*The Secret of the Ein Gedi synagogue mosaic bearing the names of Noah’s sons the Signs of the Zodiac, and warning not to reveal the town’s secret to Goyim.

*The author of the Book of Hebrews may not have known Melchizedek’s father’s name. But the story of Moses and the Western Semitic Canaanite-Amorite deity Zedek is a different matter entirely. Jesus suffered the same disability as the Maccabees, not being from Zadok‘s line. So claiming he didn’t realize the resurrected priest forever, was just like the Canaanite hypostasis Zedek is risible.

Melchizedek is an old Canaanite name meaning “My King Is [the god] Sedek” or “My King Is Righteousness”  Jerusalem’s cosmic patron was Zedek (Righteousness), who in some accounts acted as the minister or divine hypostasis of the solar deity Shamash/Shemesh (see also Tel Beit Shemesh “House of the Sun” or “Temple of the Sun”). In Moses Deuteronomy 32:8–9 account the Canaanite El Elyon is the most high and Yahweh is a subordinate deity who receives only 1 of the 70 portions.

Because Jerusalem belonged to Zedek’s portion, its kings ruled in his name. This is why Abraham encounters Melchizedek (“My King is Zedek”) ruling Jerusalem in Genesis 14, and why Joshua faces Adonizedek (“My Lord is Zedek”) in Joshua 10. Abraham shared a sacred meal with Melchizedek, who blessed him in the name of the Canaanite “El Elyon. Abraham gave Melchizedek a tenth of the spoils of war recaptured from the four Eastern kings. 

The Second Temple era Judeans knew Melchizedek was a divine being from the Canaanite pantheon. Ancient Near Eastern history, Semitic linguistics, and critical biblical scholarship like Brill’s Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible validate the existence of the West Semitic, Canaanite/Amorite deity Zedek. Eusebius’s Praeparatio Evangelica, catalogs “Sydyk” as a Phoenician deity.

Yehuda Shaul** is one of the founders of Breaking the Silence. Some years ago I heard him speak, and he explained how the Occupation corrupts Israeli soldiers – if you’re a soldier patrolling in Hebron or manning one of the hundreds of checkpoints dotting the West Bank, you have almost total power over another people; you can shoot someone and claim you felt threatened, and it’s almost a certainty you won’t get more than a slap on the wrist.

What does having this type of power over people do to you?

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Annexation aims to cut Palestinians out of Israel’s demographic equation – +972 Magazine

Is Hillel possibly in violation of U.S. law? 18 USC 959 (a) states:

Whoever, within the United States, enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people as a soldier or as a marine or seaman on board any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

I don’t know how the legal terms “retains” and “entered in the service” are defined. Does the law cover the act of soliciting, within the United States, individuals to go outside U.S. jurisdiction in order to serve in the military of a foreign country, without formal enlistment?

When Americans and/or Israelis come to appreciate such as being a Palestinian consensus, that would be a game changer.

[2] Genomic History

Indeed, the authors explicitly state that the Bronze Age populations they studied were genetically quite homogeneous across multiple sites and that the archaeological category “Canaanites” corresponds to a broad shared ancestry.

Your Phoenician point becomes even stronger in light of more recent ancient-DNA work on Punic populations. If Phoenician colonies remained culturally Phoenician while incorporating substantial local ancestry, then modern populations with ancestry derived from Phoenician descendants might not look genetically distinct from other Levant-derived populations in the way older narratives assumed.

There is also a geographic issue.

The paper’s samples include:

• Sidon (later a major Phoenician city),

• Ashkelon,

• Hazor,

• Megiddo,

• Abel Beth Maacah,

• sites in Jordan,

all grouped within a broader Bronze Age Southern Levant framework.

Thus the paper is fundamentally about ancestry from a shared Bronze Age Levantine population, not about distinguishing descendants of later Iron Age ethnic groups.

To prove that modern Jews derive specifically from ancient Judeans rather than from other Levantine populations, one would ideally need:

1. substantial Iron Age Judean genomes,
2. substantial Iron Age Phoenician genomes,
3. substantial Iron Age Israelite/Samarian genomes,
4. models demonstrating differential affinity among those groups.

This paper does not provide such a comparison.

In that sense, your reading is accurate: the data support continuity with populations related to Bronze Age Southern Levantines, but they do not exclude a scenario in which some portion of that ancestry passed through Phoenician, Punic, Samaritan, Israelite, or other Levantine populations. The paper simply lacks the resolution to adjudicate among those historical pathways.

[1] Genomic History

The dispute between Hostage and the Zionist propagandist is only interesting because The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant seems to imply that modern Rabbinic Jews are descendants of Judeans of the bronze age and the iron age. The issue is important because far too many Americans believe that such a connection to Judea is a legitimate defense to an accusation of genocide.

I asked ChatGPT the following question about this article.

I read through this paper. The authors seem to imply that modern Jews have substantial ancestry from ancient Judea, but I saw no data that excludes Phoenician (N. Levantine, N. Canaanite) ancestry as Nahum Slouschz proposed.

I think your criticism of the paper is largely correct.

The paper does not test a hypothesis of specifically Judean ancestry versus specifically Phoenician ancestry. In fact, it cannot, because it lacks ancient genomes from historically attested Phoenicians and from Iron Age Judeans that would permit such a distinction.

The authors’ central claim is much narrower. They show that present-day Jews and Levantine Arabs derive a substantial portion of their ancestry from populations related to Bronze Age Southern Levantines (“Canaanites”) and populations related to Chalcolithic Zagros/Caucasus groups.

Notice what they actually write:

“the great majority of present-day Jewish groups and Levantine Arabic-speaking groups, are consistent with having 50% or more of their ancestry from people related to groups who lived in the Bronze Age Levant and the Chalcolithic Zagros.”

That is a very different statement from:

“modern Jews descend primarily from ancient Judeans.”

The paper never demonstrates the latter.

In fact, the paper repeatedly treats the Bronze Age populations as broadly “Canaanite” populations spread across present-day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.

That creates the problem you identify.

If:

• Phoenicians descended from Bronze Age Canaanites,

• Judeans descended from Bronze Age Canaanites,

• Israelites descended from Bronze Age Canaanites,

• many other Levantine populations descended from Bronze Age Canaanites,

then demonstrating ancestry from Bronze Age Southern Levantines does not distinguish among those later historical identities.

One human community living in equality and peace under law (and under God if you rather prefer to add that).

Okay, I’ll be glad to do that this evening and post some of it later on.

For now, here is the UK Foreign Office copy of the Memo from the President of the Peace Conference to Poland on the framework. If you want to govern territory in our neighborhood, we only allow that if you accept binding legal undertakings to the rest of the neighbors to give all the inhabitants the same fundamental human rights.

He explained (para #1), that the Great Powers had always imposed permanent terms and conditions when making cessions of territory and recognition of new governments. This was nothing new. He cited the most recent examples from 1878. The Great Powers had imposed religious freedom, protection of Holy places and rights of transit, equal political civil, and linguistic rights for everyone – including minorities – in the agreements governing Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania. The next article was the Declaration of the Sultan protecting those same rights in the Ottoman Empire. He admitted it had been ineffective.

The new plan put the decisions in the hands of the LoN (Para. #2). Referred disputes to the PCIJ for final adjudication and resolution. That was the only difference introduced to fix the old system (Para #3).

“the new Treaty differs in form from earlier Conventions dealing with similar matters. The change of form is a necessary consequence and an essential part of the new system of international relations which is now being built up by the establishment of the League of Nations. Under the older system the guarantee for the execution of similar provisions was vested in the Great Powers. Experience has shown that this was in practice ineffective, and it was also open to the criticism that it might give to the Great Powers, either individually or in combination, a right to interfere in the internal constitution of the States affected which could be used for political purposes. Under the new system the guarantee is entrusted to the League of Nations. …disputes arising out of its provisions may be brought before the Court of the League of Nations. In this way differences which might arise will be removed from from the political sphere and placed in the hands of a judicial court, and it is hoped that thereby an impartial decision will be facilitated, while at the same time any danger of political interference by the Powers in the internal affairs of Poland will be avoided.”

Sam Abu Haikal has a different version of events:

Sam’s father, Fahd Abu Hekel, disputed that version of events….“The soldier was about ten meters away from me. He saw me, he saw my wife and the children. The car windows were not dark, it was daylight and everything was clear. You can’t say he didn’t see that it was a family,” he told Haaretz….”I stopped as I was asked to, and then they simply shot at the car,” he added. According to Abu Hekel, there was no organised military checkpoint at the scene.
“There was no clear checkpoint, just soldiers who were on the street. I stopped when I was asked to, and then the shooting took place,” he said….

Father disputes Israeli ‘lies’ over killing of baby in Hebron

I’m sure the IDF will do a thorough and objective investigation.

Re: Some of them said we should have been burned in the camps.

Keep your head up. Wisdom is known by her children and Nolite te bastardes carborundorum: Don’t let the Bastards get You down.  

Here are some other Canadians, some Jews, some Catholic, who got married and taught their children not to drink the racist Kool-Aid.

Watchdog demands Schabas quit UN Gaza inquiry over anti-Israel bias Academic slated to lead probe of Gaza war considers Hamas a legitimate party, accused Israel of disproportionality this summer, UN Watch says – By Raphael Ahren Times of Israel 

Schabas: Both sides likely guilty of war crimes in Gaza conflict Former UN inquiry chief says it would be ‘unusual’ for only one warring party to violate international law

UN investigator has Jewish roots Schabas senior also appears to be critical of Israel, Solomon notes. In a letter he sent to the editor of The Toronto Star in December 2009, Ezra Schabas denounced the Canadian media for failing to stress the “long-standing grievances of Palestinians – the 1948 land seizures, the war of 1967, the Israeli settlements, and reducing the West Bank and Gaza, at best, to colonial status.” In the letter, he also denounced “Jews and non-Jews who believe that one way or another criticizing Israel has anti-Semitism at its roots.”

Ezra Schabas (April 24, 1924 – October 12, 2020). survived by his wife Ann (née Fairley). He was a leading Canadian musician, clarinetist, author, and administrator who notably headed the The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and is the father of the prominent international lawyer and human rights scholar William Schabas

RE: The Palestinans as such collectively “brought it unto themselves”, “caused” their suffering or the destruction of Gaza, or the genocide against them. ~ Thomas Ellenberg

MY COMMENT: I wish I had a nickel for every time the defense of genocide made by a supporter of Israel was simply “FAFO”!

I’m one of a group of people, some Jews, some not, who have had, shall we say, a counter-presence at the annual Walk With Israel in Toronto. It used to be downtown. Now it’s confined to the Jewish ghetto.
Politicians used to feel it was obligatory to show up. Ditto, I think, for anyone in the Jewish community whose absence would be noted. But I’m pretty sure the mayor gave it a miss last year, and I would be very surprised if she showed up this year.
We used to stand where we could interact with the walkers. Some of them said we should have been burned in the camps. At least one thanked us for being there. My favourite comment was the woman who said, and I quote, “This is just a march. Why are you bringing politics into it”?

I think you are being unfair to Mayor Mamdani. He is a mayor for all the constituents in NYC. Also, you are making inaccurate accusations.

Donald Johnson: “HC will always deny that Israel is responsible for the atrocities it commits— there is nothing new about that.”

Thats Hasbara 101. It’s either denial or blatant perpetrator-victim-reversal and goes like this:

The Palestinans as such collectively “brought it unto themselves”, “caused” their suffering or the destruction of Gaza, or the genocide against them.

The narrative is not merely that Hamas is responsible for its “actions”, “behaviour” or something that is “not healthy” for Israelis (not my sanitazing language, but brent’s for Israels atrocities). It is that Gaza’s population as a whole collectively bears responsibility for what Hamas has done.

Ironically, this line of argument reinforces not only Hamas logic and post-facto legitimates its atrocities, but also reinforces the logic of certain Germans before 1945 and how they justified their atrocities by blaming their victims.

It amazes me, what Hasbarists seemed to have learned from history.

Israel quintuples its annual propaganda budget to three-quarters of a billion dollars. So going forward you can expect to be blasted in the face with a whole lot more pro-Israel perception management while you’re minding your own business trying to live your life.

It’s such a trip how Zionists just take it as a given that the only way to improve public perception of Israel is to ramp up efforts to manipulate the thoughts people think about it. They never give serious attention to the possibility that Israel would have a lot more public approval if it stopped murdering innocent civilians all the time and torturing people and raping captives with trained rape dogs. Israel can’t possibly be wrong; only our thoughts about Israel can be wrong.

(‘Israel Could Solve Its PR Problem By Simply Ceasing To Be Evil’, Caitlin Johnstone 6 June 2026)

Like your Zionist colleague Brent, it would have been revealing were you to have been around during WWII. Using your pro-Nazi reasoning, you would have demanded that the Jewish partisans in Warsaw surrender their weapons because an uprising would – and indeed did – lead to the destruction of the city.

Zohran Mamdani has acted courageously to show his solidarity with the Palestinian people. Such as:

• Twice choosing to meet with the noted anti-Zionist and socialist President of the USA, Donald Trump and declaring that they are political partners
• Bravely stating that he will discourage the use of ‘Globalize the Intifada’
• Risking attacks from Israel by providing the permits, police protection and security operation for a Nazi pro-Israel March in NYC at which the prominent Nazi Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other Nazis paraded, led by Mamdani’s friend New York Governor Kathy Hochul

What a true ally of the Palestinian people!

“Wiener’s election would signal the start of a new era.”
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The new era will likely entail conceps for fairly sharing the land.

My point is that Israel accepted a binding legal undertaking that still grants the General Assembly or any state party power to refer the dispute over fundamental human rights laws in Palestine to the ICC for a mandatory decision, not another non-binding recommendation.

That would present the opportunity to declare any Security Council resolutions that required “negotiations” prior to a complete withdrawal from belligerently occupied Arab territories acquired illegally by force and subjected to an apartheid regime in violation of the UN Charter, the UN 181(II) Protection Plan Chapters 1-4, GCIV article 49 (6) the Rome Statute Articles 6, 7,and 8, and jus cogens a legal nullity – void from the outset.

See Jennifer Trahan (2022) Vetoes and the UN Charter: the obligation to act
in accordance with the ‘Purposes and Principles’ of the United Nations, Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 9:2, 243-277, 

I think UN reform is inevitable, but it will probably start from work done outside the organization. That will slowly overcome the resistance from inside. It took 20 years for the ICC to issue arrest warrants for Israel Afghanistan and Myanmar under withering attacks. The UN General Assembly has been prevented from functioning as designed by objections which came from the P5. At first they obscured that fact, but things like the Hague Invasion Act and sanctioning International Criminal Court and UN officials is open criminality and obstruction of justice in broad daylight. The major developments in international law were always accomplished by independent diplomatic conferences, working outside the LoN and UN. They are staying just beyond the reach of the UN Security Council, and its veto powers even now.

The use of force to violate the territorial integrity or independence of any state (not just UN members) is a prime example. It was an obvious and flagrant violation of customary international law that predated the UN Charter. It merely codified a jus cogens norm. Article 25 only states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter. That doesn’t require any of the members to accept violations in silence.

The UN representatives of the state parties exercise plenipotentiary powers and can exercise subject matter universal jurisdiction in their home courts, whenever they choose. They have already agreed when they ratified the UN Charter to progressively codify customary law. They did that when they created a veto proof path to statehood, and became state parties to the Vienna Conventions Conference. The Law of Treaties established that they have no individual or collective obligation under the UN Charter or jus cogens customary law to accept or carry out UN decisions, based on vetoes that violate the content or intent of either the Charter or jus cogens. It was Trump who opted out of ICJ compromissory jurisdiction, not Palestine.

The Independent Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rome did the same thing again, when they established the ICC and gave it a lawmaking body, with no veto. Like the Law of Treaties, it implemented age-old consensus rules of international law. but was met with foot dragging or opposition from the P5 as if they were new innovations, rather than black letter hornbook law.