On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel would continue its slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza despite “international pressure” and said Israeli forces would invade the southern city of Rafah, which is packed with 1.5 million Palestinians.
“Today, I want to tell you tell you clearly: The IDF will continue to operate against all of Hamas’s battalions throughout the Strip – and this includes Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold,” Netanyahu said at a graduation ceremony for Israeli military officers. “Whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah, is telling us to lose the war – and that will not happen.”
A full-scale Israeli attack on Rafah would incur massive civilian casualties, something that was acknowledged in a leaked US diplomatic cable written by USAID officials that was obtained by The Intercept.
“A potential escalation of military operations in within Southern Gaza’s Rafah Governorate could result in catastrophic humanitarian consequences, including mass civilian casualties, extensive population displacement, and the collapse of the existing humanitarian response,” the cable reads.
While the US is aware of the catastrophe that will happen if Israel moves on Rafah, the Biden administration continues to provide unconditional military aid to Israel and is not threatening consequences if it invades the city.
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz previously threatened Israel would invade Rafah by Ramadan if Hamas doesn’t release Israeli hostages. Ramadan begins on March 10, and there’s no sign of a breakthrough in Egyptian and Qatari-mediated talks.
International pressure is growing on Israel as Palestinians are starving to death, and Israel is still restricting aid shipments. The US is still providing political cover for the genocidal campaign at the UN, and Netanyahu said Israel would not cave to the pressure.
“Indeed, there is international pressure, and it is increasing. But it is precisely when the international pressure increases that we must close ranks among ourselves. We must stand together against the attempts to stop the war,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu seems to be channeling Stalin’s persistent Terror of 36-38–but exclusively directed at one nationality/ethnic group. Addiction to power and access to wielding the sword. Unbridled ego and hubris.
Let us speak of the Hamas leaders,who incited their people with hate,and trained them to invade their neighbors, rape,murder,torture,mutilate and burn peaceful,unarmed Israeli citizens.
And let us speak of ‘Someone’ who ordered the IDF on station in the south to withdraw, stand down and switch off the multilayered wall ….
The Palestinians are sheep being thrown to the wolves so the wolves get very fat. Of course the US stands and watches and does nothing to stop the slaughter of the innocent.What would any rational person think who knows anything about the history of America.? The killing of Native Americans and their food,Buffalo as well as the importation of millions of Africans to till the fields in slave labor to make profit from Cotton made scads of money for landowners at the price of human dignity.That is that is the US history. Why change a winning hand? It worked then and it is working now.
So did Hamas lure Israel in,or did Israel lure Hamas in? A zero sum game.
It had been boiling for over 16 years. Hamas was clearly lured in so the Zionist administration in Israel could use the premise to generate the “final solution” to the “Palestinian problem”. There is no way Mossad, Shin Bet, American and Israeli listening posts, spies in Gaza did not know the plans, alleged to have been one year old.
Hamas mass atrocities do not allow it to claim an iota of higher ground.Those who hunt down Hamas are just.
Plus the rape claims are dubious/ unsubstantiated but part of the propaganda:
Leaked Israel lobby presentation urges US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas rape’ claims
The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.
Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City to coach elected officials and well-known figures on how to influence public opinion in favor of the Israeli military’s rampage in Gaza, The Grayzone can reveal. These PR sessions, convened by the UJA-Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council, rely on data collected by Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican pollster and pundit.
A source who was present during several meetings provided Luntz’s slides to The Grayzone. Participants were informed that the presentations and data contained in the slides were strictly confidential, the source said.
“This is NOT helpful,” Luntz stated in response to an email from The Grayzone requesting his comment on the private meetings.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/06/leaked-israel-lobby-officials-war-gaza-mass-rape/
They’re complete lies. 40 beheaded babies – a lie. Burned babies – a lie. Mass rapes – but they’re on super duper secret video that you can only see in a private IDF screening – yeah, they totally happened, with not one – literally not one – Israeli claiming they were raped by Hamas.
How about CBS new-oh wait-you know who controls the news,so we can’t trust the MIC.
Thanks for the Grayzone link. Luntz’s work for Israel is a prime example of how the Western propaganda machine operates. And why it is successful.
I condemn Hamas for killing and kidnapping civilians at the music festival and Kibbutz. But they also wiped out 300-400 IDF Soldiers, and I think this is what’s really driving the genocide. The Israeli Military that beat entire Arab Armies 50 years ago has been exposed as a paper tiger, incapable of effectively guarding a concentration camp. And that has them scared.
In the Israeli War of independence,and in 1973,initial Arab victories were reversed and crushed.
Maybe they can get the 1973 veterans to fight the current war. Because the only thing the IDF of 2024 seems good at is sniping old ladies and blasting kids with tanks. Whenever they face folks who shoot back. . . well see for yourself https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHk0QYKLUs
Guerilla warfare,Urban warfare, are extremely costly in civilian lives and the mental effects on soldiers of both sides. 5000 0r ten thousand Hamas dead,vs less than 500 Israeli soldiers-both sides lost,but Israel will go on, and Hamas and its master will find more stupid little boys to waste when they grow up. Pretty soon,the West Bank or the north will blow-look to who funds Hamas.
Without Nixon’s airlift?
Yes-you are correct in this instance-see-I’m not afraid of the facts.Meanwhile the USSR was airlifting far more massive arms amounts to Egypt and Syria
But first you distorted the facts by omitting the reason Israel was victorious.
Paper tiger? OK. Well Hamas seems incapable of protecting their cities from this “paper tiger”. Once again, the Arabs start something and than cry for international help as the IDF pounds them.
Israelis are good at shooting old ladies and little kids. But when they face people who shoot back. . . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUj3w5wrFg
Hamas fighters are well trained,but they are still being slaughtered. Are they your heroes?
The rebellion was not to “protect” the cities. How could they with no army, navy, air force, drones, bombs, tanks, heavy caliber guns? The rebellion has been likened to the Nat Turner rebellion, to make evident to the worlds what they have endured, knowing that the madness, the meanness of the Zionist administration (plus 68% of the Israeli population) would become evident.
And then let’s compare the carnage each side has done to the other. You can’t because there is none. Only one side is in the process of doing an ongoing genocide and it ain’t Hamas.
This is not Marquise of Queensberry fighting,it is a tribal street fight-raping and hauling off women into captivity is genocidal-wipe out the other tribe.
Only one side is capable of conducting an ongoing genocide and once more it ain’t Hamas. But you keep up with those exaggerated atrocities that took place on Oct 7th and ignore the 5-month onslaught that has killed over 12,000 children and is putting hundreds of thousands on the verge of starvation.
You oughta be the US diplomat in the M.E., wars, seriously.
Why thank you Donna. But I have bigger plans. I’m getting closer to being Presidential age. I’ll start campaigning in around 10 years. Watch for me.
The 5 month counter attack would have never occurred it Hamas did attack on Oct 7. I guess you expect Israel to kill 1200 in retaliation and then call it a day. Typical terrorists response. It OK for terrorists to kill as many as the can but the retaliation must be limited.
Well, Tim, the IDF did kill quite a few Israelis that day, by tanks and Apache helicopters, and pure friendly fire. The “operation” by the IDF was HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE. A survivor, her name Porat, was witness to the tank fire on homes, which, by the way, incinerated the poster child put out by Israel, 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family and her neighbors.
Nope, there were very few friendly fire incident on Oct 7. There was only one know case. And if the terrorists did not attack that day, there would be none. But they did starting the current battle.
You are full of shit. You tried this same thing before. You even posted a link to prove how stupid you are.
And, once more, if Israel hadn’t preferred Hamas there would have been none.
Preferred Hamas, then humiliated Hamas with constant patrols by the IDF, raids, iron clad blockade that limited travel, food (just above starvation), medicines, potable water, electricity, sniper fire. The point of the Hamas action was instrumental, knowing that the Zionist administration would show themselves, rather than hiding in plain sight.
Wow, what a disgraceful and telling statement. It’s sad how people like yourself actually will lie to defend a genocide. it’s like the hannibal directive, but applied to your brain. Your credibility has gone down in flames to zero, just a sad porpagandist for Zionism.
Wow, I’m accustomed to Israeli apologists lying through their teeth, but that is truly an impressive pile of BS for so few words.
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Israel killed half of the 1200 themselves, and of the few hundred Hamas did kill, almost all were IDF.
And if Israel hadn’t preferred Hamas, than no Hamas. And that means no Oct 7th. How many times do you want to play this game?
Netanyahu:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud party in 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
And what I would expect from Israel would be for them NOT to be conducting a genocide. It doesn’t get any simpler than that. Or are you really that simple?
It is interesting how selective the pro genocide facts can be. In their defense, it isn’t easy to justify a genocide, so they’re forced into deceitful tactics and diversionary arguments. Glad to see they’re slowly being exposed.
More than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed prior to 7Oct. History did not start on 7Oct.
More than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed prior to 7Oct. History did not start on 7Oct.
Hamas’ masters are quite capable of destroying Israel and killing most of its people.
Bullshit and you know it. Israel’s “host” would never allow it. That’s the benefit of a parasite latching onto a superpower.
HURRAY!
Hamas is retaliating a century of brutal occupation. They are Palestinian defenders. Would you defend the Palestinians if there was no Hamas? Of course you would not, see the WB without Hamas.
rape,murder,torture,mutilate and burn peaceful,unarmed Palestinians, the work of IDF undisciplined scum. There is lots of evidence of that.
Hamas? Allegations and nothing else. Hamas appear to be real disciplined fighters not an ideology, they fight for the Freedom of the Palestinian people, they are Palestinians.
Hamas mission as stated in their charter is to destroy Israel. Hiding in tunnels build under civilians buildings protected by kidnapped victims may impress you. It does not impress me. Hamas decision to fight this war has resulted in deaths of thousands of Palestinians. And Hamas does not care. In fact they like the PR that those deaths bring to their war.
The occupied has the right to defend against the occupier. Where were we, the special country, during the 75 years of the occupation? Well, we were feeding the monster money and weapons.
“The occupied has the right to defend against the occupier” First, Not by attacking civilians. Second, there were no IDF troops in Gaza since 2004, thus no occupation.
Oct. 7, Hamas attacked IDF scum and there was collateral Israeli damage in the military kibbutzim posts. The ill disciplined IDF scum caused most of the killings of civilian Israelis.
The Israelis controlled all the land, sky and the sea and an 8m high fence around the Gaza concentration camp, they blocked everything starting from day one Hamas was elected inside the prison. The brutality of the illegal Israeli occupation has no historic equal. Israel waged war against unarmed civilians.
In 2007, Israel imposed a land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip,[8] turning it into an “open-air prison”.[9][8] The blockade was widely condemned as a form of collective punishment,[10] while Israel defended it as necessary to stop Palestinian rocket attacks.[11] Hamas considered it a declaration of war.[12] A 2008–2009 Israeli invasion of Gaza resulted in more than 1,000 deaths and widespread destruction of homes, schools and hospitals. A 2012 Israeli operation also killed more than 100 people.
Just one paragraph of Gaza history.
Honestly, the Israelis have no reason to cry over some hostages and some casualties at all.
My sympathy is with the real victims if you can manage
a word of some empathy for the Palestinian children?
There is also the popular trope that Israel benevolently ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 only to come under repeated attack by Hamas. But while Israel withdrew military forces and settlers from Gaza, it has remained an Occupying Power by virtue of its continued control of the strip. Nothing and nobody go into or out of Gaza without Israel’s permission. Gaza remains, as it was described in 2004 by Head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland, “a huge concentration camp.”
Yes,Hamas temporarily occupied Israel, committed many atrocities,and are now being brought to justice.
Do you post bullshit thinking no on will call you out? And what Justice should Israel face for occupying Gaza for all those years and committing REAL atrocities? And before you post more bullshit, read this:
“There is also the popular trope that Israel benevolently ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 only to come under repeated attack by Hamas. But while Israel withdrew military forces and settlers from Gaza, it has remained an Occupying Power by virtue of its continued control of the strip. Nothing and nobody go into or out of Gaza without Israel’s permission. Gaza remains, as it was described in 2004 by Head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland, “a huge concentration camp.”
Yes, the Israelis are innocent, they keep telling us over and over again, ” Hamas MADE US DO IT. They keep punching us. They make us PUNCH THEM BACK. “
Israelis are now Palestinians-they live there now,and are not going away. Gazans are now in a lot worse shape,while their leaders celebrate.
Do you have a moral compass, do you know what moral is?
Moral>concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.
Do you have a moral compass? Supporting the Hamas terrorists only extends the war and results in more death. If you had such a great moral compass you would be calling for the release of kidnapped victims, Hamas laying down its weapons and ending this war.
I wish I could post the video by Lowkey, Terrorist?. Who is the terrorist?
Just a verse of the lyrics
Verse 2:]
Lumumba was democracy – Mossadegh was democracy
Allende was democracy – Hypocrisy it bothers me
Call you terrorists if you don’t wanna be a colony
We used to bow down to a policy of robbery
Is terrorism my lyrics?
When more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?
This is very basic…
One nation in the world has over a thousand military bases
They say it’s religion, when clearly it isn’t
It’s not just Muslims that oppose your imperialism
Is Hugo Chavez a Muslim? Nah… I didn’t think so
Is Castro a Muslim? Nah… I didn’t think so
It’s like the definition didn’t ever exist
I guess it’s all just depending who your nemesis is
Irrelevant how eloquent the rhetoric peddler is
They’re telling fibs, now tell us who the terrorist is
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/lowkey-terrorist-lyrics.html
Allende set up neighbor to spy on neighbor and report in to authorities.
And how do you know that? We know it is BS, not even plausible, think before you post such BS.
Who are the terrorists? That would be Hamas in this case.
How so, please explain that point.
Violating a quiet border,murdering,raping,torturing,mutilating unarmed civilians hiding in their homes,and displaying nude women as captives.-makes them terrorists.
Do you know of credible evidence?
I know of allegations and no evidence at all and lots of accusations with later debunked evidence, that includes the NYT, a reputable Mainstream publication.
For once, provide credible evidence, I am waiting.
Undisciplined, sadistic IDF scum torture and kill Palestinians by deliberately driving heavy military equipment over the tortured still living bodies. Recall the desperate plea for help of the little girl in a car with dead family members and the Israeli IDF scum drove a tank over the car with the little girl inside killing her and they killed the 2 medics who had just arrived to save her too. What does it take to wake you up, are you even human?
That IDF scum is the future of Israel? Are they your children?
More frightening is the polls that indicate a full 68% of the Jewish citizens of Israel are all in on the genocide. Yesterday I watched a CNN reporter encounter Jewish protesters attempting to get past Egyptian security to stop the aid trucks. The reporter spoke to two women among the protesters who flat out said no bread for the starving children, because, in their minds, the flour goes to Hamas, ignoring the reporter’s words. Disheartening.
So true, even CNN reports it, other settlers were partying celebrating blocking AID trucks to enter Gaza, the fanatic orthodox Jewish settlers are so evil, a disgrace of Judaism.
As compared to 5 months of the same from the Israeli terrorists?
Israeli tanks lobbing shells into the same homes, killing a few Hamas fighters along with Israelis. Hannibal Directive.
Thank you. A quiet border, indeed, living wonderful, carefree lives, while on the other side of the barbed wire, the wall, were the others. It is much like the townspeople in Germany cities where the camps existed, where the German citizens led carefree lives, alleging they did not know what went on in the camps on the other side of the barbed wire.
I did all I can do as a normal citizen, I support the Palestinian people. You support illegal criminal genocide massacres, the killing of unarmed civilians, women and children included, you support torture, criminal forced starvation of young children and pregnant women and new born babies. You support the criminal IDF thugs to torture Palestinians and than roll over them with heavy military equipment, killing them. You support torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including women and children. Everyday young children including babies and toddlers lose limbs and doctors have to amputate even the babies without anesthetics. There is plenty of evidence up to the ICJ. And you support so much evil ?? That is as sadistic and vile as it gets. I support life and human rights for all people, but the evil once I am ready to send to HELL.
And the Israeli war criminals claim innocent, they did not do it, Hamas made them do it. They told Hamas to stop fighting back and roll over, but they don’t do it, they fight back, they are the bad people.
Yes, I know Hamas makes them do it. If Hamas would only stop fighting back. The Hamas are bad, they fight back and force the Israelis to kill them.
HAMAS makes them do it.
It is all the fault of Hamas.
My moral demands:
I call for the release of the Palestinian prisoners, including the women and children, and I demand to stop the torture of the prisoners. If the Israeli leadership had any morals they would pull in the IDF scum bags and discipline them and stop their war crimes.
The Palestinians have every right in the world to take their land away back from the Israelis, the settlers, if they have to kill them to get their land back. Can you understand that?
If you are so concerned,give up your home to some native americans,or some illegal migrants fleeing socialist Venezuela.
You make no sense at all.
If that is what you want, you have to face facts you don’t like. The Zionists indoctrinate the Israelis with hate of the Palestinians who had done nothing against the Jews. Start with the Zionist Irgun terrorists who expelled the Palestinian people in 1948, destroying some 400 Palestinian villages.
The Semites, Jews and Muslim Arabs, used to live peacefully side by side in Palestine.
Hamas are fighters for their people, retaliating against decades of brutal Zionist Jewish occupation. They are the Palestinian Irgun.
Evidence of the indoctrination can be found in the book, The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, by Miko Peled, former IDF specials forces fighter and the son of a Israeli general. The indoctrination starts quite early. The hate towards Palestinians engendered in the Israeli children is evident in the fact that 60% of Israelis are all in on the genocide.
There were no Israelis in Gaza for decades-hence it was not occupied.
“There is also the popular trope that Israel benevolently ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 only to come under repeated attack by Hamas. But while Israel withdrew military forces and settlers from Gaza, it has remained an Occupying Power by virtue of its continued control of the strip. Nothing and nobody go into or out of Gaza without Israel’s permission. Gaza remains, as it was described in 2004 by Head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland, “a huge concentration camp.”
The blockade. With few and rare exceptions, no one and nothing in or out of Gaza. Calculation of caloric needs of Palestinians of all ages, food allowed to fulfill starvation, plus. Electricity turned off daily. No potable water. Limited medicines. Night raids. Detaining of men women and children. For 16 long years. Added to the decades of occupation.
There was no rape or torture or burning. All burned bodies came from IDF attacks, and the rape stories are all lies, just as the 40 beheaded babies and burned baby stories were.
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Stalin?.. Hitler would be closer to the mark.
Why not? Biden pretty much gave the go ahead in his speech.
Fanatic Zionist control the Western powers and NATO. Starting with Netanyahu and Biden and his Zionist run state department.
If we want peace they have to go, Nuland is just a start.
They are gravediggers not statesmen and diplomats.
The state of the union speech confirmed it, it was just another cheap, meaningless campaign speech.
Worse, it once again doubled down on Ukraine as a top priority.
Nuland may have left because she thinks Biden will lose the election.
Maybe she was “fired” because they know they will lose the election? They could make her hold the bag she filled with their help.
There was a time when I thought Biden could pick her to replace Harris for VP. THINGS DO CHANGE.
Biden is almost sure to lose the election, things are not likely to get better, the damage has been done.
There was never any chance whatsoever that she would be VP. She’s a bureaucrat, not a politician.
Correct. She has long wanted to be SecState and she just lost out on permanent appointment to the #2 job.
Well, since when does qualification matter, Kamala is not qualified, she got the job anyway. To be honest Biden does not qualify for his job either. Sure, Toria would not qualify, but if she can add a few votes that would do.
Kamala had nothing to do with the speech except to stand up, applaud, sit down and get up again and applaud some more and on and on. What was it she and some in the audience applauded? Tori could manage that as well, and she is pretty well known. She was influential, shaping policies and the Kagan brothers are influential in-laws. She has more political experience than Kamala.
Water under the bridge, and you know stranger things have happened. /s
“Sure, Toria would not qualify, but if she can add a few votes that would do.”
And she couldn’t add a few votes. Outside of a handful of people who are obsessed with US foreign policy, nobody’s ever heard of her, and most of those few who have heard of her hate her with a passion. She’s got zero name recognition, s she’s from a state that the Democrats already comfortably carry (New York), and she’s from a demographic that the Democrats already comfortably carry (she’s Jewish). She’s never been elected to office. She’s never held a cabinet position.
While Harris is a disaster, she does have quite a bit of political experience. When Biden selected her, she’d been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and US Senator from California.
The only similarities between her and Nuland are that they’re women and that they’re both from non-swing Democratic states. The latter was a poor qualification; Biden didn’t need her to carry California. Hewanted a specifically black woman because the Democrats were worried about black turnout. He’d have been smarter to have picked Val Demings from Florida, which might have put that state in play.
I agree, with you. Harris is a disaster but she has political experience, but her nice credentials did not prepare her for the job, she is incompetent.
When the DNC picked her, they knew all about Biden’s age and the mental qualification and could have picked a qualified VP for that reason. He could run for election without having to leave his basement because of the pandemic.
Oh, I agree that Harris is incompetent. She may be the only prospective (if Biden drops out or dies, or in 2028) president I’d like even less than Biden or Trump. But she is a politician and has climbed the political ladder. Nuland is a career bureaucrat who has zero chance of becoming president unless she first goes out and actually gets elected to something.
Thomas, a little caveat, anything is possible in these times, Trump, a conman, became president too with even less experience and on his first try too. He never even run for dog catcher, most likely he would not have won that election.
On his second try (he dropped out of the Reform Party’s 2000 nomination race after it became obvious Buchanan was going to whip his ass), he parlayed 40 years of “famous for being famous,” and a complete political remake of himself from lifelong progressive Democrat into Buchanan clone) into an 80,000 vote fluke win against the (at that time) most hated figure in American politics.
Has Nuland been famous for 40 years? Does she have a past presidential run from which she could have learned? If she ran for something, would she luck out and get Hillary Clinton as an opponent?
Prior to being elected POTUS, Mr. Trump was not elected to “something”.
Yes, and he’s the single exception that comes to mind in US history for presidents or vice-presidents.
Unlike Trump, however, Nuland hasn’t had her face splashed all over TV screens for the last 40 years to build name recognition. Nor, so far as I know, did she spend that time period turning a $400 million inheritance into less than it would have been had it just been put into an indexed mutual fund, but still a considerable pile of money.
Nor did she win the vagina lottery. Born in wealth was the lucky day for Mr. Trump. He had good mentors, daddy, and Roy Cohn. Plus a sh*tload of money from dad.
But Trump did call for negotiating peace with Russia,for which the MIC castigated him
Nuland is politically well connected with the famous/infamous Kagan clan and powerful Zionists, that alone goes a long way, maybe not anymore.
That, and the fact that he is now stuck with Harris as VP candidate, for the same reasons he selected her: she’s a non-white with two X chromosomes.
“Sure, Toria would not qualify, but if she can add a few votes that would do.”
And she couldn’t add a few votes. Outside of a handful of people who are obsessed with US foreign policy, nobody’s ever heard of her, and most of those few who have heard of her hate her with a passion. She’s got zero name recognition, s she’s from a state that the Democrats already comfortably carry (New York), and she’s from a demographic that the Democrats already comfortably carry (she’s Jewish). She’s never been elected to office. She’s never held a cabinet position.
While Harris is a disaster, she does have quite a bit of political experience. When Biden selected her, she’d been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and US Senator from California.
The only similarities between her and Nuland are that they’re women and that they’re both from non-swing Democratic states. The latter was a poor qualification; Biden didn’t need her to carry California. Hewanted a specifically black woman because the Democrats were worried about black turnout. He’d have been smarter to have picked Val Demings from Florida, which might have put that state in play.
“Sure, Toria would not qualify, but if she can add a few votes that would do.”
And she couldn’t add a few votes. Outside of a handful of people who are obsessed with US foreign policy, nobody’s ever heard of her, and most of those few who have heard of her hate her with a passion. She’s got zero name recognition, s she’s from a state that the Democrats already comfortably carry (New York), and she’s from a demographic that the Democrats already comfortably carry (she’s Jewish). She’s never been elected to office. She’s never held a cabinet position.
While Harris is a disaster, she does have quite a bit of political experience. When Biden selected her, she’d been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and US Senator from California.
The only similarities between her and Nuland are that they’re women and that they’re both from non-swing Democratic states. The latter was a poor qualification; Biden didn’t need her to carry California. Hewanted a specifically black woman because the Democrats were worried about black turnout. He’d have been smarter to have picked Val Demings from Florida, which might have put that state in play.
Does not matter. In today’s political climate, all that is needed is for backing (financial) from key “interests”. I think a sandwich could be elected of a political office, if there is financial and media backing. Citizens United did a h*ll of a job screwing us.
“Biden is almost sure to lose the election” and than he would be replaced by the super pro-Israel Trump. What will you say in 3 years or so when Trump green lights Israel annexing more of the West Bank? Which he will do.
It’s too early to tell who’s going to win the election. But at the moment it comes down to four states, of which Biden would have to win one, but Trump would have to win all four, to win the election.
I agree it is far too early to call this election. A lot things can happen over next months.
It would seem that Biden has lost Michigan.
Why would he wait 3 years, the Zionists in Tel Aviv will not wait that long, they will tell Trump what he has to do. Remember, they control the purse.
Good question. If might be shorter time period.
“What will you say in 3 years or so when Trump green lights Israel annexing more of the West Bank? “
She’ll be pissed. You on the other hand would be cheering Trump on.
He did that when he moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
It’s more likely that Nuland left in a hissy fit because she was passed over for promotion to the #2 position in State.
Nuland, the rat, bailed because she didn’t want to be around when the shit hits the fan and the ugly truth about Ukraine comes out.
Don’t think that would have mattered much to her, she seemed content working for (the) Dick Cheney, she was his National Security Advisor and later the Madministration’s ambassador to NATO.
Nuland will land somewhere else, where her “skills” will be needed.
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz previously threatened Israel would invade Rafah by Ramadan if Hamas doesn’t release Israeli hostages.
What would Benny say if Hamas threatened to execute each and every hostage if Israel invades Rafah? I’m thinking CHARGE!
A typical terrorists response.
Hopefully Hamas will remove the terrorist IDF at every turn. The IDF IAF and Illegal settlers, Mossad have no legitimacy anymore. Hamas is angelic compared to these fiends…
No, I was describing what a terrorist would say when he was about to ok a slaughter of innocents in a city packed with civilians like sardines in a can.
Which what Palestinians have done to their Jewish neighbors for decades. the Oct 7 war could have been prevented by negotiations- no missiles from Gaza, Gaza fisherman can go out to sea and fish. Peace bit by bit.
Really? Would you like numbers of what the Israels have done to the Palestinians for decades in comparison? Probably not since you know better. Hint, they’re similar to Israel’s slaughter in response to the Oct.7th attack. They weren’t quite as disproportionate as the current genocide but disproportionate, nonetheless. But when all else fails just keep spewing bullshit.
jake, Don Julio, Tim Burns, you need to take your act to SNL.
He would say… “go ahead”…!
Which is what I meant by “CHARGE!”.
You may be correct. The IDF gunned down quite a few of their own, and bombing has killed some of the hostages already.
Looks like the IDF will escalate the killing during Ramadan, as a big poke in the eye to the region. The Biden Administration is still sending them weapons, while talking about some dumb aid port being built to feed people while they are being shot at.
Deranged Biden showed his true color last night, he is a dyed in the wool fanatic Zionist first and to hell with the nation and the people.
I confess, I did not waste my time, all I read of it proves I was right. An empty speech by an empty suit without a brain and no soul.
Magnificently put. You knocked it out of the park.
Sounds like something you read on Trump’s social media.
Your imagination is doing the walking.
I did not watch it. I have not read the speech. I am in total agreement with you.
Yahweh told them to go forth and kill a shit ton of Arabs.
Israel WILL NOT allow the Army Corps of Engineers erect a port, or, allow landing vessels approach Gazan shores. I predict a confrontation. Bibi is on a mission to fulfill prophecy in some book. Every person or country contrary to that mission is considered to be Amalek.
A port could have been put up in a day by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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is that Uncle Sam there with his pants on fire
We have a morally vacuous coward at the top. Not much more needs to be said about it.
Glad to say I skipped the “speech” as well as the Democratic primary. A good start. Two votes for sanity.
Hey! Turdgee Downvotes is here in Antiwar! Welcome, Turdgee. Feel free, you know, to express something about your attitudes about, say, proxy wars, or modern-day versions of ethnic cleansing of those rascally Arabs 😉
I’m jealous, I thought I was the only one Turdgee follows to other sites to sting with downvotes! Join the club.
I see “guest vote” as the downvote. He must have me on ignore I would assume.
Who is the “terrorist”. Look up Lowkey – Terrorist? Seek and ye shall find.
Hamas are the terrorists.
You are mistaken as usual. Hamas are the legitimate resistance to Israeli state sponsored terrorism, apartheid and mass murder. Your beloved Israel will never be the same Israel before October 7th…count on it.
Yes, the left in Israel will be pushed aside,and Israelis will be much harsher.
What left are you talking about? Israel has fanatic Zionists and that is it.
He’s talking about the real Israel, not the Israel in your imagination.
What is the real Israel, the Zionist extremists in power, the fanatic Zionist settlers, the IDF scum bags? Yes, there are many honorable outstanding Jewish voices, BUT THEY ARE NOT IN POWER, the same was true in NAZI Germany. They had no internet and ended up in concentration camps too. The Zionists are in power, they make the music, not only in Tel Aviv. They control USA/NATO and EU governments, and the corporate media.
Zionists know no mercy, they lack any human decency and feel no shame.
Thomas, I think you know better, you are not that pigheaded.
Glad you returned to the real world.
Are you sure you are in the real world?
As sure as it’s possible for anyone to be. Unlike you, I try to figure out what the real situation is, instead of just deciding what I want wish the situation was and pretending.
A village full of Israeli leftists was wiped out in the Hamas attack.
Good for Hamas, there is no Israeli village full of leftists. Did the Israelis poll the village?
Israel is starving people to death. To call them “terrorists” would be a compliment. They’ve sunk below even that.
Hamas made the Israelis do it they terrorize the poor defenseless Israelis.
Yes they did.
The Jewish State, so called, seems to be outliving what it should be. A country of PEACE or WAR, upon war?! Eff them!
The establishment of a state on other peoples’ lands in order to compensate for collective guilt over what took place in WWII Germany has remained – in my opinion – one of the most idiotic and downright cruel acts of the Northern Atlantic community of nations – a truly hideous act by the self-anointed cabal of the West.
The State of Israel has shown itself to be unworthy of its position in the Middle East since its inception. Today’s hideous acts are just more in a very long journey into darkness.
They abused the holocaust and the victims when they weaponized it. The Zionists were terrorists before Hitler.
And there were people who persecuted Jews way before Hitler and Zionism. Facts.
All through history there were people who persecuted other people way before Hitler, see the American Indians among others in the Americas. The Israelis beat all, they are at the top of the brutality scale with lots of help from the advanced, wealthy Americans and European Democracies.
So far the Israelis haven’t come close to e.g. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Andrew Jackson, et al. Probably not for lack of effort, but reality is what it is instead of just whatever you happen to fantasize it is because you like the fantasy better than the reality.
It is hard to judge the details, considering the propaganda distortions. The Israelis are very good at propaganda lies. Credit were credit is due.
Yes, this is horrible irony that Israel has looked into the abyss and become the monster. Seriously, reading Kotkin’s bio of Stalin and the Terror, I think Netanyahu has swallowed the same poison and is in the grip of a psychotic driven state to preserve his personal dominion ostensibly for a higher goal. I think the Jewish people will be branded for this in perpetuity.
“I think the Jewish people branded for this in perpetuity.” That is a long time. So you are blaming the Jewish people all over the world for the action of Netanyahu. Are you going to blame all the Catholics in the world for the actions of Joe Biden?
Blame the pope, genocide Joe should have been excommunicated a long time ago. But the head of the Catholics is always a political animal first. Religion in general is big business.
“So you are blaming the Jewish people all over the world for the action of Netanyahu”
Try reading for comprehension. When a group is “branded” for the actions of others, it is also others who are doing the “branding.”
What makes Israel legitimate after this state sponsored mass murder? Can we hope that human garbage like Netanyahu get snuffed out in a similar fashion as Mussolini…Israel has lost on all fronts..BDS is growing stronger and hopefully it will do what needs to be done.
Let us discus Sinwar,rather than Net. Responsible for the death of 1200 Israelis and 30,000 Gazans. Propaganda victory,with great losses for his ownpeople.
Israel is responsible for who Israel has killed. And 30,000 is in the rear view mirror.
But HAMAS made them do it.
Yes,they did.
Yes, so when a woman gets rapped, is because she was dressed like a whore and was asking for it. Got it.
So if Israel left its defenses down,did Hamas have a right to massacre its citizens?
Still defending the rapist and blaming the victim? Does the victim have no right to self defense?
Then suggest a way to punish the Hamas mass rapists and murderers who hide among peaceful Gazans,without hurting civilians. fine by me.
You don’t get to rob a bank, even if that’s the only way to get money.
You don’t get to rape a woman, even if that’s the only way to get sex.
You don’t get to murder tens of thousands, even if that’s the only way to punish some criminals.
So suggest a better alternative,aside from UNR 181.
UNR 181 is the law. Why should the murderer be charged with shoplifting just because he doesn’t like the law?
I couldn’t say it better than Thomas Knapp’s comment, so I won’t even try.
We’ve played this game plenty of times. You have to justify a genocide somehow, someway. But it’s hard for even you to justify starving people to death so you’re back to your “what would you do besides genocide” question to deflect from that reality. And tell us about those fine Israelis, who teach their kids nothing but love, blocking aid to starving children from getting into Gaza.
The normal Israeli litany,
HAMAS MADE US DO IT. HAMAS ATTACKED THE ISRAELIS. HAMAS KILLED ISRAELIS AND THEIR OWN PEOPLE, ISRAELIS ARE THE POOR VICTIMS.
And the Israelis will tell the world, “Hamas made us do it. They attacked us, we, the Israelis, are the victims.”
Imagine U.S. murdering 30 thousand Mexican women and children and blaming it on MS-13.
NO PEACE?…
NO ISRAEL.
End of story.
Give up your home to some native Americans. give up your home to some illegal migrants being brought here by the UN.
Yes, it was only yesterday when U.K was dumping Holocaust survivors like trash into the Palestinian territories and bulldozing their home in the name of “right of return.”
Duh. the UK tended to prevent holocaust survivors from entering Palestine-ala the ship Exodus. when did the UK bulldoze Arab homes? They turned their forts over to the Arabs.
I support the S. African Minister Naledi Pandor’s position, ALL the nations supporting Israel with money and weapons must assign troops to Gaza to open the gates for all the AID DELIVERIES and the protection of the women and children and men young and old of Gaza to get all the aid without fear getting killed by IDF war criminals for doing it.
Are you willing to sign up for this wonderful duty? how about sending your grandchildren? will they arrest the Hamas rapist gangs and turn them over for judicial punishment?
I hear lots of excuses from you not to be humanitarian.
The Zionists are the MOST BRUTAL war criminals and should go to H*E*L*L.
Do you have a conscience, a moral compass? Judicial punishment what is that? You are naïve, there is no such thing, only politics and guns.
I don’t think so.
You can’t break bread with someone who only understands brutality. If you want to earn their respect, you must out-brutalize them.
Well, here it is the first day of Ramadan. Netanyahu vowed to attack Rafah on this day, using American made bombs, bullets, drones. Today, we are also sending military personnel to Haiti to ‘help subdue the protesters”. basically to keep “our guy” in office, despite the populace wanting him gone. Ah yes, today. Such a day. In hell…..
The Israelis view Hamas as an existential threat to their country. Hamas views the Israelis as invaders. There is plenty of evil to go around in this conflict. Neither the Israelis (particularly Likud) nor Hamas seem to give a damn about Palestinian lives.
re Blinken’s comment on military aid to Israel:
“…No one’s going to make those decisions for them….”
A simple question: how would a US refusal to underwrite ethnic cleansing by supplying lethal weaponry and ammunition constitute making decisions for Israelis re whether they continue to pursue killing women and children?
They could always run over them with tanks…. Oh wait …..
Never mind.