With violence against Palestinians escalating in East Jerusalem, the US expressed “concerns” over the situation and the planned evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. According to multiple media reports, the Israelis didn’t want to hear these concerns and told the US not to meddle in the crisis.
The “concerns” were expressed in a Sunday phone call between National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat. According to Hebrew media reports, Ben-Shabbat told Sullivan that the US and other countries should stay out of the conflict. He said international pressure on Israel to halt the evictions or stop the violence would be “a prize for the rioters and those sending them who hoped to put pressure on Israel.”
Ben-Shabbat also said Israel was handling the situation “out of a position of sovereignty, responsibly, and with common sense despite the provocations.”
About 40 Palestinians face eviction in Sheikh Jarrah. Palestinian protesters have faced attacks from Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers. Israeli police also stormed al-Aqsa mosque and fired rubber bullets and tear gas, injuring 215, including 153 who were hospitalized.
Amid the Israeli violence, rockets were fired and incendiary balloons were sent from Gaza, which did little damage as usual. While Sullivan only expressed concerns over the Israeli violence, he agreed with Ben-Shabbat that “the launching of rocket attacks and incendiary balloons from Gaza towards Israel is unacceptable and must be condemned.”
On Monday, Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes, killing at least 27, including nine children. The situation could escalate further as the Israeli military deployed reinforcements to the Gaza border.
It is time to stop funding this crap.
Good point.
Though I don’t do “twitter”, I can link to others who do:
https://twitter.com/stephensemler/status/1391913135267844096
Priorities are important. Helping the pissant state finish their Grand Project is far more important than trying to halt/reverse climate change.
And not only, but switch the funding to the other side.
God’s Favorite People are totally above criticism. They’ve been engaged in stealing the land and water of Palestine for over 100 years, and they’re not about to quit now. A recent attempt to alter the government of Jordan so as to use that nation as a dumping ground for their final solution of ethnic cleansing failed. Be assured they’ll try something similar again.
Biden & Company had better watch their backs. The pissant state recently decapitated the Labor party in the UK, and they might decide to do something like that in the US.
A glance through the archives here showed how a bulldog for the Apartheid state sued Jimmy Carter several years ago for not properly sucking up to them when he published his book. The slaughter of the men aboard the USS Liberty showed there is no limit to what the inhabitants of that ugly little place will do.
https://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/03/jimmy-carter-sued-for-5-million-for-criticism-of-israel/
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Israel is 73 years old. How could it have been stealing land and water (or doing anything else) more than a quarter century before it existed?
I believe he is referring to the start of the modern Zionist movement and theft of Palestine with the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Under the protection of British soldiers.
I agree. What a totally naive statement on Thomas’s part. I find it disgusting that we are being milked for billions and yet we are being told to stay out of it.
Agreed.
If the US gives SO MANY BILLIONS of dollars and military equipment to Israel for their military, it should have some control over the use of it.
Why not?
I also find it disgusting that we are being milked for billions and yet we are being told to stay out of it.
That doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend that Israel existed 30 years before it actually did.
It might not have existed on paper but the Zionist and fellow travelers worked very hard to make sure it did at any expense.
Israel has the bomb. We should cease sending Israel money.
Leahy Laws: https://diovermont.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/7f98e-application-fo-the-leahy-laws-to-israel.pdf
Zionists of 1917 referred to the name of the people they wanted to push out as being Palestinians, the area, Palestine.
Zionists of today are doing a good job of obscuring that little detail.
Not exactly. What the Zionists of 1917 referred to as a “Palestinian” was a Jew born in Palestine.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zionist-organization-statement-on-palestine-at-the-paris-peace-conference
Not exactly. What the Zionists of 1917 referred to as a “Palestinian” was a Jew born in Palestine.
Not exactly. What the Zionists of 1917 referred to as a “Palestinian” was a Jew born in Palestine.
The Balfour Declaration didn’t “steal” anything. It was just an opportunistic rehtorical attempt to get Palestinian Jewish support against the previous thieves of Palestine (the Ottomans) in the war. In point of fact the British Empire turned on a dime once the war ended, militantly — and militarily — opposing Zionism right up to turning its Taggart Forts over to the Arab forces as it withdrew from Palestine and allowing the British-officered Arab Legion to participate in the invasion of Israel.
The Balfour Declaration didn’t “steal” anything. It was just an opportunistic rehtorical attempt to get Palestinian Jewish support against the previous thieves of Palestine (the Ottomans) in the war. In point of fact the British Empire turned on a dime once the war ended, militantly — and militarily — opposing Zionism right up to turning its Taggart Forts over to the Arab forces as it withdrew from Palestine and allowing the British-officered Arab Legion to participate in the invasion of Israel.
Did the ottomans practice ethnic cleansing and confiscate their property. The British did some window dressing but work for the Zionist.
“Did the ottomans practice ethnic cleansing and confiscate their property.”
Well, yes, pretty much. They treated Palestine as a plantation area for absentee landlords to exploit near-slave Arab migrant labor on — labor that magically started being called “Palestinian” when the dirty Jews started moving back into the neighborhood. Before that the local transplant Arabs were “Syrians,” “Egyptians,” “Lebanese,” etc.
“Did the ottomans practice ethnic cleansing and confiscate their property.”
Well, yes, pretty much. They treated Palestine as a plantation area for absentee landlords to exploit near-slave Arab migrant labor on — labor that magically started being called “Palestinian” when the dirty Jews started moving back into the neighborhood. Before that the local transplant Arabs were “Syrians,” “Egyptians,” “Lebanese,” etc.
SOME British may have only “opposed” Zionism in words but their actions were far more supportive.
The British brutally suppressed an Arab independence movement in Palestine thus paving the way for the creation of Israel the very minute the British mandate expired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
Saying the British Empire opposed Zionism after all it did in the 1930s and 1940s to bring about the creation of Israel is laughable.
The British fell in line after the King David Hotel bombing. The Irgun and Lehi gangs were behind it. Rahm Emmanuel’s father was a member of the Irgun.
Not Israel, the nation, but God’s chosen people is what he said. They are two different things, although the chosen people did not steal land prior to the establishment of the State, but purchased it, from unknowing Palestinians who didn’t know what that would portend. It also shows that Palestinians and the chosen actually got along quite well, prior to the establishment of the State.
We have heard your demand and we will comply. And we will continue to keep you abreast on our negotiations regarding the JCPOA. And your check is in the mail. Anything else?
Time to cut the apron strings on this murderous, ungrateful baby…
This has a very bad feel to it. BB will do anything to stay in power. Biden is an abject wh*re. And Egypt and the Arabs are just loathsomely corrupt. Hezbollah and Iran are on the right side but comparatively week. Only China and Russia are in a position to take world leadership and loudly condemn Israel before another slaughter takes place.
I wish Israel and it citizens of dual US-Israel citizenship would remove themselves from the US political process.
Making jokes about the Apartheid state just isn’t to be allowed! The Onion pieces is pretty rough, but so are the characters they’re writing about.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.O_3KLArdMSKmPa6_wLvhywHaEL%26pid%3DApi&f=1
That’s an older photograph, but indicative of the attitudes over there. But just as the Palestinians aren’t allowed to defend themselves, the Onion isn’t allowed to make fun of The Most Moral Army In The World.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/523533-onion-israel-anti-semitism/
Perhaps some here haven’t seen a long article from 1923 in The National Geographic. By chance I ran into this some years back, and so far as I know it’s not available on the internet. I’m uploading it to a site where it will remain for a week or two, so if you’re interested don’t dawdle in getting it downloaded. My Linux system automatically opens djvu files, but windows users may need to get a special program. (there are smartphone reader aps for this as well)
The part on Palestine bears close examination. Muslims were the main population group, Christians the second, and Jews were in third place. The troublemaking Zionists were still a small fraction of the Jewish population.
The new bunch came in with unlimited financial support. They had an attidude, and started making waves. This was resented by the locals who had been there for centuries.
The history from the time the Brits took over till when they were run out and replaced by other benefactors is pretty plain cut, though many generations of Hasbara have served to muddy the water for those allergic to reading history books.
The Zionists have never been shy about their ultimate motives. The local population had to go. They were indifferent whether their destination was some other country, or the grave. That’s still pretty much the case.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/0w7y6l
BTW, I prefer old materials, and in the original hardcopy form. This file I personally scanned from the 1923 magazine. The Hasbara boys and girls weren’t yet organized back then, but by WW2 a comparable article in even the National Geographic displayed marks of agitation/propaganda. (dirty evil Arabs, wonderful cleancut Zionists) When you have unlimited money, authors can usually be influenced to do “the right thing”. Reprints I shy away from unless they can’t be avoided, for subtle changes can be made in those as well.