Israeli media reported Thursday that former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told family members of Israeli hostages that there’s “nothing left” for Israeli troops to do in Gaza and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was only keeping them in the Strip “out of a desire to stay there.”
Netanyahu fired Gallant on Tuesday, and according to The Times of Israel, Gallant’s conversation with the hostage families came just hours before his firing went into effect and former Foreign Minister Israel Katz officially replaced him.
According to Israel’s Channel 12, Gallant told the families that “conditions were ripe” for a hostage deal with Hamas back in July and that he tried to convince Netanyahu to reach an agreement. “The head of the Shin Bet, the chief of staff, and I think the head of the Mossad also agreed with me,” he said.
During negotiations in the summer, Netanyahu began demanding that Israel maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. At the time, Israeli media reports and comments from officials made it clear that Netanyahu inserted the demand as a way to sabotage the chances of a deal.
“I can tell you what there was not, security considerations. The IDF chief and I said there was no security reason for remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor,” Gallant told the hostage families. “Netanyahu said that it was a diplomatic consideration, I’m telling you there was no diplomatic consideration.”
Gallant said Israel had no reason to keep soldiers in Gaza. “There’s nothing left in Gaza to do. The major achievements have been achieved,” he said. “I fear we are staying there just because there is a desire to stay there.”
The Times of Israel said Gallant appeared to be referring to elements of the Israeli government that want to establish Jewish settlements in Gaza. Multiple Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset recently attended a “resettle Gaza” conference and called for the expulsion of Palestinians and the building of settlements.
Israeli forces in northern Gaza are currently conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign known as the “general’s plan.” Haaretz reporters who were given access to Beit Lahia, one of the areas where the plan is being carried out, said not a single home was left in the city as Israeli forces are demolishing buildings so forcibly displaced Palestinian civilians have nowhere to return.
No need for “soldiers”… Starvation will do the rest.
That's precisely what The Scum means.
Polio, dysentery, TB, etc., to be continued due to the world being one collective blowhard do nothing.
So, should Egypt help Hamas, even though the Muslim Brotherhood (which Hamas belongs to) is at war with Egypt? Or how about the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas kicked out of Gaza during a violent coup? Or Saudi Arabia, which is threatened with destruction by Hamas's sponsor, Iran?
So, actually the world sees the situation clearly; do you?
To be at war with Egypt is to be at war with Israel and the violent coup was being perpetrated by the PA after they lost the election to Hamas.
Better do your homework.
Very superficial analysis. The Conflict between Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood is very complex and almost nothing to do with Israel.
No, the coup was entirely conducted by Hamas, which is not a legal government.
The PA took legal actions against Hamas but they were within the law.
So, you are falsifying history to support/protect a group that illegally occupies Gaza, and which has been designated a terrorist group by the US government.
And you’re a goddamned liar.
Your comments are superficial bumper sticks and you have failed to refute anything I said or show that anything is a lie; which is why you resort to cheap personal attacks.
As you have nothing to say, I've blocked you.
Pffft. China got Saudi Arabia and Iran to reconcile.
Not clear what this is a response to.
Iran and Saudi Arabia have some common interests but also sources of conflict. Saudi Arabia and Yemen (an Iran proxy), for example, have been at war. Iran supports Russia while Saudi Arabia has ties with the US, and Saudi Arabia had been discussing ties with Iran's enemy Israel.
So, it's premature to say that the two countries have "reconciled"; and given the Middle East, no one knows what the next chapter will bring. We'll see what Trump does, as he clearly is hostile to Iran, and friendly to Saudi Arabia, which gave his family $2 billion to play with.
( note these “Hooligans” are mostly IDF on leave )
How it all started:
@Kahlissee
🚨🇮🇱🇹🇷 'Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs!'
Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant whilst being protected by the police in Amsterdam.
The song has a verse saying,'There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left.'
This is how Demonic they are
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1854678905015144571
@Kahlissee is one of my favorites. Also Adam.
An insult to hooligans to call them hooligans. ☘️
Free Free Palestine 🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
Of course they want to establish Israeli settlements in Gaza. The whole point of the genocide is to create a greater Israel.
And build a canal (per the Bin Farhan revelations of 2017, which have the USA, Saudia and Egypt signing to this genocide).
Your revelation, to me, really opened my eyes. Thank you for posting.
What benefit may have Egypt from building an alternative to their own canal?
That’s an excellent question and my take is that Egypt as such nation gets absolutely no benefit but that the military government of Al Sissi is so corrupt, so much dependent on US military subsidies (Egypt’s is the second most subsidized military after Israel’s) and (US-controlled) IMF loans, as well as probably also on Saudi and other Gulf emirates’ corrupt flows, that the benefit is for Al Sissi and his camarilla of semi-colonial generals only. It’s an almost manual case of how militaristic degeneracy and general semi-colonial corruption can destroy a country and betray its national interest. You just need to read about Al Sissi’s mega-corrupt and megalomaniac new capital city project, that somewhat reminds of what Akhenaten tried to do: build a totally pointless new capital in the middle of the desert (fear of repetion of Tahrir Square protests, which briefly achieved democracy and a pro-Palestine government not so long ago, is surely also part of the logic behind this project), to see how degenerate the Egyptian military regime (barely posing as “democracy”) is. In any case, just days after Bin Farhan revelations were published by MEMO, Egypt suddenly ceded the Tiran islands to Saudi Arabia without ever being any Saudi reclamation of them. Why? Because such change of borders made the Gulf of Aqaba international waters, what is obviously good for the Ben Gurion Canal project.
Still Egypt is now in BRICS which hardly can be supported by U.S. leadership. It looks they have their own ideas.
I visited Egypt a couple of years ago; my impression wasn't great. Red Sea is fine and pyramids are worth of seeing but there are also some absurd rules which I never met in any other country. I booked online a hotel in Sharm El Sheikh for 5 nights only; wasn't sure about internet connection. Then I wanted to stay a bit longer but they wouldn't accept payment by bank card or by local currency, only American dollars, or, at least, euros. And yet from cash machines over there you can get only local currency. Luckily I had some cash euro with me.
They could make from Alexandria a great tourist resort but they did it not. Approach to the sea coast is restricted. There few small beaches. Access is not free. What is funny, there were only locals sitting there around tables with cups of tea and snacks. No one touched water. So I undressed, put my dress on my bag and had a nice swim. When got back to the beach, a man who served the visitors was very discontent. He talked neither French nor English. Only Arab. I couldn't even understand what is wrong, just put on my dress, took bag and went out. It was December. Water was good. The main park in Alexandria is green and could be very nice but there are heaps of garbage everywhere.
That’s because China and Russia both have been flirting heavily with the Saudi-Egyptian regional bloc, much to the disappointment of Iran (especially the Chinese recognition of some islands claim by the UAE, which happened previously and in relation to the Yemeni truce, Iran swallowed that but necessarily unhappy, more so as both Saudi Arabia and the UAE host major US military bases). That Sino-Russian diplomacy is motivated by the issue of oil control (OPEC+ includes Russia as member, China wants as free access to all the Gulf’s oil, not just the Iranian one).
United Arab Emirates (which is one of the strangest new BRICS members) deserves a special section because it is a weird money laundering and otherwise complex diplomacy hub, one that “the Resistance” hates for its links to Israel and has openly threatened but that is deeply involved in issues like hosting Telegram social network or laundering the blood gold from various African sources into jewelry (much like Israel specializes in blood diamonds instead). UAE is mostly under Saudi influence but as of late it has moved “independently” (???) in Sudan for example, where they are now the strongest support of the RSF (while Russia has moved to support Saudi and Egyptian backed Al Burhan instead). This indicates that there’s lots of complex maneuvering going on within this Saudi bloc and not everything is what it may seem on first sight.
BRICS, especially after the weird 2023 expansion (with Argentina rejecting the accession and Saudi Arabia not really fulfilling it yet, and also with snub to Algeria, a major Russian ally, probably bc of Chinese shadowy deals with Morocco, and to Indonesia, also probably because of Chinese veto and SCS dispute), is IMO overrated, at least somewhat: it is not a military bloc by any means and even in the broader diplomatic-economic aspect it has many contradictions (Brazil is not entirely pro-China and has flashes of US vassalage even under Lula, India also has often strong rivalry with China, many of the new members are weird, not just the smallish UAE but also war-torn Ethiopia, which is not even a major economy in African terms and is a direct rival to Egypt bc of the Blue Nile dam issue). Algeria (which is the third African economy and a strongish regional power in terms military) also recently declared that they are not bidding for BRICS membership anymore and that they will work only via bilateral relations. That reads: “Russia good, China bad (stop dealing with Morocco you greedy traitors)”. The very Kazan BRICS summit was a PR show and surely had many diplomatic corridor deals and scheming but in terms of actual development of BRICS as bloc was quite disappointing to say the least (Lula’s veto of Venezuela access was the most outstanding episode but it’s actually a sabotage for the development of BRICS as an alliance of countries antagonistic towards the USA or even as oil+ trading bloc).
Curious what you mention about the tourist fiasco of Egypt. Hope you had fun in spite of the petty issues. Notice anyhow that many Muslim countries have dress code issues, especially for women, so that may have been part of the complain of the Arab man, I presume (they do have more “liberal” specialist tourist resorts in Sinai however, full of Israelis until recently AFAIK, where such codes may not apply).
Everyone who participated in Kazan BRICS summit confirmed that it was a great success. Among other things, they accepted 13 countries (among them Algeria) as BRICS partners.
Of course, BRICS is not a military block. It is a group of countries united by common understanding how the international relations should be organized. In Kazan BRICS declaration they condemned illegal unilateral sanctions. Also they made a great progress in creation of BRICS financial system which is independent of western financial institutions. And, of course, there was a lot of bilateral deals too. More than 30 countries participated, and most of them were represented by their heads of states.
I’m not sure what “as partners” means, really. I know that some financial tools BRICSpay and some other were consolidated and that’s maybe what “partner” means: they joined the financial tools organizations but not BRICS as such. I can’t find any info specifically on “BRICS partners”, only “members”. I’m 100% certain of the Algerian government stating that they would not anymore apply for BRICS membership and that they would develop bilateral relations instead (they are definitely angry at China, who have insulted them repeatedly).
You may google страны партнеры брикс. It'll give you the list of BRICS partners from Russian version of Wikipedia. It is different from the English version. Open Russian version of Wikipedia and use Google translation.
The list of BRICS partners:
Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda.
Uzbekistan is also in the list
I just watched the Norton video in full and all it says is that there was an Indian tweet listing those countries as invited to become partners. Also a Bolivian statement on their own particular case, which seems to confirm that Bolivia is not just invited but also willing to join as whatever partner means.
To me it's unclear if any of the other would-be partners will accept of not such 2nd tier status. I will guess that Belarus will but that strong powers like Indonesia, Algeria or Nigeria, also Vietnam (who strongly distrusts China) and maybe even Turkey, may reject the invitation one way or another.
I'm again perplex at the East African invitee Uganda, which has been so far a total US puppet and causing instability and imperialist looting in DR Congo. I'm guessing they were proposed by the UAE, who benefits from their blood gold looting but I don't understand why South Africa or Ethiopia wouldn't veto them. In any case it is very bad news for DR Congo, which is struggling for its sovereignty against Uganda-Rwanda and their terrorist proxies and hoped for Chinese support. Again China (and BRICS in general) fail in African geopolitics.
I learned about BRICS partners while watching live translations from Kazan summit. There were also plenty of reports by different bloggers.
Not sure whether all BRICS partners applied for the membership. Turkey did. They explained, it is acceptable to be simultaneously in BRICS and in NATO. The main point is that all BRICS partners agreed with Kazan summit declaration. Otherwise they may have different interests and different political orientations. For example, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan both were present at the summit. They were sitting next to each other and talked a lot. It looks, in the end they came to some mutually acceptable agreement. Also BRICS countries helped in reconciliation of Iran and Saudi Arabia. They will work with African countries too.
I’m checking the actual participants in the BRICS summit of Kazan and Algeria was not present in any capacity. Those non-members attending at highest rank (PM or Head of State) were: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Congo-Brazzavile, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Palestine, Republika Srpska (sub-state entity of Bosnia), Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Uzbekistan, as well as the UN (Secretary General). Other states like (notably) Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand sent only 2nd tier representations (foreign minister or similar). Cuba also sent only a foreign minister but President Canel actually suspended attendance only because of major emergency blackout in the island.
So to me it’s obvious that Algeria is very very angry at China and will not accept the invitation to become a pseudo-member. Nigeria was also not present but may get happy that they are recognized as regional power in spite of their many issues. Uganda (another proposed partner) was also not present, nor was DR Congo, which I would have expected to be. I don’t think Indonesia will accept any other status than full member: they’re a true regional power in terms industrial and military, much more important than the UAE, Ethiopia or even South Africa or Egypt. It seems to me that Vietnam was eager but was snubbed as much as Venezuela.
The more BRICS expand, the more contradictions it shows, really.
I think, a couple of months ago, it was announced that BRICS is suspending the admission of new members. First they wanted to develop a more clear criteria for the membership. Probably, that's why the idea of BRICS partnership appeared. Once this problem is solved, the BRICS partners would be able to join BRICS as the members. The list of BRICS partners was officially announce. Algeria is among them. There was an information that Algerian delegation arrived at Kazan. It looks their representation was on a lower level, and that's why they were absent at a big round table. However it doesn't mean they didn't participated at all. By the way, it was confirmed that Algeria joined BRICS bank.
Wikipedia mentions no Algerian delegation whatsoever.
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It was from Russian version of Wikipedia: XVI саммит БРИКС
You may also watch on YouTube Geopolitical Economy Report. There is a video about BRICS partners.
OK, I’ll look into that.
Ah, that’s Ben Norton’s channel. I’m subscribed, I probably just ignored that particular video. Got it now to “watch later”. TY.
Egypt is at war with the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, so there is no reason why Egypt would support Hamas.
Also, a canal is a very small part of the picture.
The Muslim Brotherhood link is an oversimplification AFAIK, they are not that monolithic and MB elements like Erdogan or the late Morsi only have somewhat (if at all) supported Hamas. Also it’s not just Hamas on the Palestinian side: all factions except Fatah (Abbas sub-faction, there are others more “Arafatist”) are aligned with Hamas in this uprising, including most notably the PLFP (marxist and secularists) and Islamic Jihad, who have been reported as militarily active on several occasions.
The canal can only be “a very small part of the picture” if you ignore the context of the Arab/Muslim “normalization” process (which is collapsing as we speak but it’s still there with Saudia, Egypt and Turkey most notably, but also many smaller actors from Morocco to the UAE, de facto supporting the genocide and the overall US imperial project in the region) and the open plans to create or consolidate a US “province” in the region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is after all a major trading hub and not just about oil and Jewish racist colonization.
If that's true, then perhaps Hamas shouldn't have attacked them and given them a pretext for invasion.
Gallant is just jerking Netanyahu's chain, nothing more. Hamas is still fully functional in Gaza and will remain so. According to reports, they're getting more new recruits than they can train. Their underground armaments production lines are still producing new antitank weapons, as Jon Elmers points out in the Electronic Intifada live streams every week.
The Gaza operation in terms of Hamas was an utter failure. But of course that was ever only an excuse to exterminate the civilian Palestinians.
Hamas has been using remnants of bombs used against them to use against the IDF.
Yup. And there's plenty to go around. A significant percentage of Israeli bombs are probably old US bombs from storage which are probably defective and don't go off when dropped although the explosives are just fine.
So that makes them heroes? Hamas had brought ruin to their own people.
Jake,
Good to see you back online ! How was Amsterdam ? Did you enjoy beating up that cabbie ? Assaulting pedestrians for wearing the wrong clothes ? Singing those genocidal songs must have been exhilarating !
jake likes to wait until the comment section has slowed to the point that he can do his hasbara like trolling thinking no one will call him on it.
Hamas is just the excuse that Israel is using to ethnic cleanse the Palestinians. They even openly admit it.
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.”
“Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist Party and the current finance minister: The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto,” Smotrich said in 2015.
… but apparently all sorts of mayhem left to commit in Amsterdam.
Apparently the IDF reservists and conscripts visiting Amsterdam ran amok in a wild rage last night;
1) The Maccabees "fans" refused to stand or stay silent for one minute, in respect for the 200+ dead in Valencia
2) Maccabi fans started singing and shouting chants, denigrating the Palestinians (and Arabs in general), and then everything escalated from there.
3) They also attacked people wearing Arab/Palestinian attire. Also tore down anti-genocide flags and banners.
“But poor poor Zionists”
Aha. Ahem.
;-/
https://x.com/SenpaiTheories/status/1854740370908676265
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1854731918207590566
It is your healthy cynicism we enjoy most ED…
From what I have read, the Moroccan evened the score.
This is supposed to be an antiwar site.
Right of self defense ?
That went right by him apparently.
The genociders ain‘t none too bright as we have learned these past months.
WOW. Just WOW.
There’s worse things than war.
Of course you have to go to Page 10 or so of the results of a Google/Bing search to find any mention of what provoked the violence. All the MSM without exception are framing it as unprovoked antisemitism, as are all the politicians which rely on them to shape the narrative.
"Poor innocent fans (of a soccer team named for a terrorist group) were just irrationally attacked while minding their own business."
SMH
Edit: I also noted that none mention the ethnicity of the injured, so I suspect they aren't Israeli.
When the Israeli people want to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians by their support of the "genocide," is it difficult to understand why the Palestinians resist with violence that kills "innocent" Israelis?
It's really difficult for us. Our brains prevent us from exploring this question. IT DOES NOT COMPUTE!
After all, we've been told for decades that the IDF is "the most moral army on Earth", how could anyone not love them? /s
I think it's like that old rumour about how McDonalds buys their burger patties from a company called "100% Pure Beef" so when McD's claimed that as a slogan, it was technically true if not literally true.
The IDF was just using sloganeering and product branding to convince everyone of the unconvincing.
Israeli society, save for a few, is a sick society.
And those are emigrating as fast as they can.
It’s a group condition that is very tribal. The idea that my group is the best or so unique that it sets us apart from the rest of humanity. Just like individuals need mental Healthcare so do groups.
It would seem. Those polls are scary. Especially about the aid getting in.
@brian_bixby:disqus@disqus_cWEo452Cca:disqus It's just that an objective observation of how the Palestinians have been conducting the war compared to the Israelis, it's like night and day. Apart from isolated killings of revenge the resistance has been targeting soldiers and military installations while the most moral army in the world slaughters innocents by the thousands. It just I don't see western pundits conceding this point. Why can't the brains compute?
And the media avoids the fact that hostages are composed of IOF soldiers too.
But some of the hostages are Americans! That's inconceivable, Americans are supposed to be sacrosanct! /s
Personally I think that we should be happy to abandon anyone who leaves the country to go enlist in a military knowing that it routinely commits Crimes Against Humanity.
Have you seen this guy? Someone linked to a different tweet, but this one got to me. Look at the poor family’s faces, also click on read more:
https://x.com/DravenNoctis/…
Until this type of oppression stops how can you blame people of Middle East for resisting. This harms the victims and corrupts the soldiers.
He wasn’t blaming them. As a vet he called “us” the bad guys.
Understood, I meant generally. We're grateful for him exposing what happened. It would be great if he let a producer make a documentary from the footage before he dies.
Sickening.
Just because they turned their backs on America America shouldn’t turn its back on them.
We should stop the slaughter and make Israel leave Gaza and give up their Palestinian captives held by the Zios until we get our people out.
If they support ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity I, personally, don’t want them back. We’re a better society without them, and they can take most of our congresscritters and political “leadership” with them. Probably most of the presstitutes as well.
Ok but lets get em out of Dodge first THEN we can kick their ass.
I dont want em back either but its better we get em outta there.
Nonsense. First, Israeli Arabs live very well, and have more rights than any other Arabs. They also have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world.
As for Gaza, Israel left in 2006, despite a Jewish history in Gaza that goes back to the Middle Ages (and beyond). And – when not attacked – left them alone. Billions of dollars of aid flowed into Gaza. Hamas could have created a peaceful, prosperous Gaza by simply not murdering Israelis, but they decided to take another path. I'm not sure they made the best choice.
”Angry red drips from the sky and through the pukish haze emerges: the hideous, grotesque shape of man: standing naked, the nature of our beginnings…” -djv
Gallant is wrong, and I think he knows it. I've heard that when IDF forces move out of an area, Hamas moves back in. This can go on for months. But, if it embarrasses Netanyahu, that's a good thing.
Who knew that land theft, mass slaughter, and starvation would cause more resistance?
Indeed.
Who knew. or even cared, that entering peaceful Israeli villages to murder,rape,kidnap and burn, would not produce a strong response?
Pluz – Jake no one believes this tripe any more. Not even you do.
Try a different propaganda approach
But first you have to allow that to happen so you can do your
strong responsegenocide. And to make damn sure they killed enough to do your genocide, you have to have your own forces (IDF) kill a good "many" of those people.I don't agree with it, but Israeli settlers and the IDF have been doing that to Palestinians for years.
Guerrilla warfare is very difficult to eliminate. No one will have won the Gaza war,save for a few armchair fanatics and plotters.
Yes, once again implying that this "war" is equally devasting to both sides.
Only partially true. He is keeping them there to make sure the HOSTAGES ALL DIE, but also as importantly, ALL THE PALESTINIANS ALSO DIE! They don't call him Satanyahu for nothing. Even Gallant looks good compared to him.
Oye vey!…Sigh…………………………………………………………..
Which would be the only time Gallant could be described as "good". They're all Netanyahu or Netanyahu lite. Some get to the lite status which is Netanyahu+. Like smotrich and ben gvir who blurt out the real nasty stuff.
The highest level is Satan. There is no such thing as Satan +. By the way, Biden is in the same class as Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smortich.
Hard to argue.
So that's it? Russia is just for more "settlements" in what was
Eastern Ukraine.
(10 minute video confession)
Ex Zionist Shlomo Yitzchak explains how he got out of Zionism.
Very interesting.
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1731160875308888191
This is good. Thanks peace.
Pass it on
You totally rock good woman!
It is time for full on negotiations to mediate any potential escalation. Where, indeed, are peace talks, of any kind?…
There are no talks, those options are already exhausted. Hizbollah themselves acknowledge that this will only be solved on the battlefield.
I fully appreciate and do, indeed, understand your excellent and concise points Maju, truly.
The problem with the battlefield is the potential for further escalation…
There will be further escalation: all sides are building for that. IMO what is being prepared right now points to actual land war via Iraq and probably the direct involvement of the USA and thus the countries that host US bases in the region, all will be held responsible one way or another of whatever the USA does (probably trying to bomb Iran “in defense of Israel”). The Strait of Hormuz will be surely blockaded, oil prices will go mad, the world’s economy will be held hostage and the massive Iranian army, together with the Syrian one and other forces may well actually march into “Israel” (Golan Heights, Palestine) and even Jordan.
Right now, both Israel and the USA are totally invested in this war and Iran sees no way out of it either. For the USA is about consolidating its imperial project in the so-called Middle East: its many military bases and the famous Netanyahu plan for creating a trad hub between Israel and the Persian Gulf, both across land but also via a projected Gaza-Eilat canal (hence Yemen-Sana’a is on the crosshairs as well). Much of the world’s oil but also generic trade is at the stake here, the USA will probably fight this genocidal war to the very end and Trump is arguably the “right man” to lead the way because he’s not just best friend of Netanyahu but he may also keep the Russian threat (close allies of Iran and Syria but not hostile towards Israel as such) under control via calculated concesions in Ukraine (where the war is already won by Russia, the Ukrainian army is literally collapsing as we speak).
Excellent and realistic analysis, which is why some of us believe that an emergency session at the UNSC is imperative.
UNSC has five permanent members with veto power and one of them, the USA of course, has been consistently vetoing any resolution against Israel, so… I don’t expect anything useful to come out from that organism at all.
How about the others suspend Israel and the U.S.?
;-}
Nobody will suspend the USA, that would defeat the very concept of the UN (and the isolationist absence of the USA from the SdN was probably a reason why it became useless anyhow). Israel could be expelled however.
Israel is pursuing righteous self defense.
Genocide isn‘t self defense
It's obvious when you have nothing. The "self-defense" bullshit comes out. Funny, you seem to have nothing quite often.
That's funny.
Will Trump bring us back into the agreements with Russia that he withdrew from? Open Skies. INF.
Will Trump force Kiev to accept all Russian demands? Neutrality. No NATO invitation for Ukraine. Russia keep the areas acquired by referendum. No more weapons to Ukraine. Lift sanctions against Russia. Release frozen Russian assets.
How about Russia join the Western Alliance which Russia wanted in 1991.
No idea. My feeling is that Western tentative offers (Vance) are of limited interest to Russia, for example the West offers a 20-year delay of Ukraine access to NATO, when Russia rather demands perpetual neutrality and disarmament. It’s even possible that Russia can demand much more land from Ukraine, notably in Kharkov and Odessa, which also have Russian-speaking majorities (and are of great economic and strategic relevance), because why to settle for what they already got years ago, when the Ukrainian Army is literally collapsing as we speak. They could demand Kiev and Lvov even: it’s almost an open road for Russia now all the way to Transnistria and the NATO borders, they can have all the annexation refrenda they want and install a puppet government, Lukashenko-style, in residual landlocked Ukraine, one that would be committed to denazification.
Yes, sanctions are leverage but anti-Russian sanctions are largely meant to cripple and loot Europe and have only limited effect against Russia, which is building alt-economy outside the Western sphere quite successfully. Also there are other two proxy wars against Russian allies going on in the Middle East and about to explode in Taiwan, all that is also “leverage” I guess, but rather leverage against US imperialism that Russia can wield in whatever negotiations ensue, if they do.
I quote from an RT article I was just reading: “US President-elect Donald Trump was apparently exaggerating when on the campaign trail he vowed to end the Ukraine conflict within “24 hours,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. The official also noted that it would be premature to make any predictions before the Republican
assumes office in January 2025”. This to me says that Moscow is skeptic about what Trump may represent re. the Ukraine War and that they treat the US-NATO threat as standing and too perilous to just sign another truce like the nefarious Minsk Accords. They don’t trust us and they have good reasons for that.
Trump will give the Ukraine and Israel a few weeks to wind up operations,and that's it.
No. What you say may maybe work for Ukraine… but it’s not “that’s it”: you’re not even counting with Russia not being satisfied by whatever the new face of Uncle Sam has to offer: Russia wants regime change in Ukraine, not mere annexations. The whole goal of the “special military operation” was since day one “denazification”, which should be read as “de-NATO-ization”. It is the Euromaidan nazi regime which is being “discussed” in this war and not just Crimea or Donbass anymore, it is also in a deeper sense the whole NATO expansion beyond the Oder river, as promised to good old Gorby more than 30 years ago.
As for Palestine, Trump is the rabid-est Zionist-est ever-est. And even this hyperbole of superlatives is not enough to cover the issue: Trump is extremely close to Netanyahu and was the one greenlighting this genocide back in 2017 It was delayed however, maybe because Turkey was protesting and meddling in Qatar and has now been bought into full submission via IMF mega-loan and Zionist cooperation with their own genocidal project against Armenian: now Erdogan may still bark but doesn’t bite the hand of Uncle Sam (or Cousin Benjamin) anymore. One must admit that Blinken is an evil but masterful diplomat, Trump, who typically behaves like the proverbial elephant in the china shop, would never have achieved that: he may master the coercion part but lacks the ability to talk smooth and sweeten the deals altogether.
Whatever the case (nearly) everybody expects the Middle Eastern conflict to escalate under Trump at least as much as under Blinken (zombie Biden never really led anything). In fact Netanyahy has been dancing the war dance since he got the “good news” and got rid of Gallant, who was probably imposed by the White House anyhow (never needed for the colonial government to exist, too prominent for Bibi).
You can't have viable peace talks when one side completely refuses to allow the other side to live in peace. This should be obvious from the last 75 years in the region.
Are you kidding? There are still people alive.
Pepe Escobar reposted
David Miller
@Tracking_Power
Now we know that Mossad were involved in Operation Ajax — the mission to ignite hysteria across Europe about non-existent Judeophobia using incitement by Maccabi Tel Aviv-affiliated Zionist terrorists — there are some obvious consequences that must follow:
1. Zionist colonists must be expelled from UEFA and FIFA.
2. If the institutions do not do their duty of de-Zionising football by the stroke of a pen, the people will take care of it through material de-Zionisation on the streets. Last night's response by the brave Muslim communities of Amsterdam was necessary, but extremely measured and not at all proportional to the genocidal violence unleashed by Zionist terrorists on the Levant, on Muslims worldwide, or indeed in the provocations that preceded the measured response. Future incidents will likely involve a more proportional response.
3. As well as being unwelcoming to Zionist colonists coming from Occupied Palestine, Europe must be unviable as a base for Zionist terror by Jewish supremacists who have infiltrated and are camouflaged among us. Zionist terrorist entryists must be expunged from European institutions, whether political parties, media, thinktanks or elsewhere. Again, either institutions take the lead and conduct this work in orderly fashion with advice from experts on Zionist subversion, or the people will take care of it for them.
The Flood is here and the 'dam has broken.
Lie, deny and occupy…
https://sonar21.com/amsterdam-anti-semitic-pogrom-or-zionist-provocation/
Obviously a provocation, the things they were shouting.
they have grown fat from the drippings of baby blood.
"The Rape Song"
Here's another Maccabi Tel Aviv fan song, from the last time Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visited The Netherlands. It's a hate song against the team's biggest rival in Israel, Hapoel Tel Aviv (who's considered a "leftist" team).
The name of the song, according to the Maccabipedia fan website, is "The Rape Song" and the lyrics are really fucked up:
"You act like you're so radical
Singing songs about the holocaust
And think it's cool to renounce the state
You're the Arabs' wh*res
We are ashamed of you
At the end of the day, Gate 5
We will f*ck you
We will f*ck you
And then we will drink your blood
In the town's square we will hang every Communist who comes here
We will take your girls who love to party
When we'll rape them we will shout
Today is death, Hapoel
Today is death, Hapoel"
https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1855173606273151436
You have balls the size of the Titanic!
Well done!
Oh My God! This is revolting to the extreme. I feel like vomiting. They are beyond sick. This is downright savage. I am saving your comment. Thank you
Netanyahu‘s Willing Executioners
The line „sucking out your blood“ is remarkable
Why not make a picnic atop the mess you made, with our aide and assistance…
Redundancy is boring…
Time to try a new tactic.
LEAVE.
https://sonar21.com/amsterdam-anti-semitic-pogrom-or-zionist-provocation/
Who said WW II was the end of Jewish genocide in Europe?
Will the blood sucking vampires leave???….!!!
https://x.com/i/status/1855595925185392835
What would make my day? Simple. The complete defeat of all Israel's attempts to rain death and destruction on every one its neighbors – especially the citizens of Gaza, along with the expulsion of all settlers from the occupied territories.
Israel needs to be isolated from all economic and political ties with the remainder of the human population, and the Israeli leadership needs to be herded up and delivered to the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Finally, and most important, the establishment of the Palestinian state in its entirety, whose boundaries will be decided by the Palestinians themselves.