Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is visiting the US and said on Wednesday that during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, he received support from Republican leadership for his plan to bomb food and aid warehouses in Gaza.
“I had the honor and privilege to meet with senior officials of the Republican Party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate,” Ben Gvir wrote on X.
“They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid warehouses should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely,” the minister added.
Ben Gvir has been calling for Israel to bomb humanitarian aid that was allowed into Gaza during the short-lived ceasefire. “The government must also order the bombing of the aid stockpiles that have accumulated in Gaza in enormous quantities during and before the ceasefire,” he said in March after Israel imposed a total blockade on all goods entering Gaza.
The Trump administration has strongly backed Israel’s blockade on aid and the collective punishment of the civilian population in Gaza, a clear war crime under international law.
In another post on Wednesday, Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, vowed that “not a single gram” of food will enter Gaza until Israeli hostages are released, although Israel has refused Hamas’s offer to free all the captives in exchange for a permanent ceasefire.
“I see the reports about the debate over who should deliver ‘humanitarian’ aid to Gaza: Well, this is a fundamentally foolish debate, because not a single gram of aid should enter the entire Strip as long as our hostages are held there—not by some external organization, nor by IDF soldiers,” Ben Gvir said.
“This is the situation today, and only by maintaining it will it be possible to bring Hamas to its knees and free our hostages by force,” he added.
Medical officials in Gaza have been warning about the impact the severe food shortages are having on children. Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, director of al-Tahrir Hospital at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, said on Wednesday that children are suffering from malnutrition.
“Children in the Gaza Strip are in the most severe stages of malnutrition, and it is difficult to follow them up medically due to the shortage of therapeutic drugs and baby formula,” al-Farra said in a press release posted by Gaza’s Health Ministry, which included photos of an emaciated child.
Ben Gvir, one of the most extreme members of the Israeli government, is an outspoken proponent of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the establishment of Jewish settlements. He is due to visit Yale later on Wednesday amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on college protests that are critical of Israel.
"We are the nazis" (US ex-volunteer in Ukraine, as told to him by his commander).
Ashamed, outraged, raging… all words are weak when compared with the horrors of the Gaza Holocaust.
Mmmmm. I wonder if Sen. Ron Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie were there at Mar-a-Lago.
Do you mean Rand? I would bet my house Massie wasn't there.
Yes, I meant Rand. Sorry for the mistake.
I doubt he'd give ben gvir the time of day, but he loses his balls too often. Massie on the other hand…..
Video, Israel lied:
Drop Site & @DropSiteNews
22h
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1914769284061864397
And I would imagine a good number of democrats do too. You don't get this far into a slaughter of this magnitude without bipartisan consent. Fetterman probably was camped under the table.
Democrats didn't even allow Palestinian-Americans a chance to speak at their convention. It was "make it easy on yourself and sit in the back of the bus."
Neither did the GOP so what is your point?
Warren Paine: "Democrats didn't…allow Palestinian-Americans a chance to speak at their convention."
Tim Burns: "Neither did the GOP so what is your point?"
The "point" is that at a convention – meant to rally your electorate to vote for you – Democrats openly, anti-democratically rejected widely held views of their electorate re Gaza.
The "point" is if the DNC is so concerned about the killing in GAZA, it should have been so stated by having a Palestinian American speak.
We were calling Biden "Genocide Joe" for a reason.
Schumer too. He said it was his job to get the left to support Israel. Imagine fools like us who thought it was about legislation.
Schumer is even worse. He pretends to care about the Palestinians whereas Fetterman doesn't even bother.
Knee jerk Jews for the slaughter in Gaza are an abomination to Jewish tradition.
Zionism is not Judaism.
Amen. https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1914296852523950209
oh where would we be without Thomas Massie or Ron & Rand Paul. Massie for president to Put America First.
Would not work. The CIA would not tolerate it. Trump has nothing to fear from the CIA unless he flips and stops sending bombs and money to Israel and the Ukraine.
Wow!! "Urge" such an aggressive word. BTW, I checked the NYT and the most recent Gaza news I could find was 5 days ago.
Words are so powerful. Riiight.
“They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid warehouses should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely,” the minister added.
Odd way of trying to keep them safe. I guess they'll be fed first with whatever food is left. /s And I would also guess the previous 100,000 tons of bombs already dropped on Gaza gave those hostages an added boost to their chances of returning safely. /s This pig doesn't give a rat's ass about the hostages and never has. Just like the slime he got in bed with, Netanyahu.
"'They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid warehouses should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely,' the minister added."
Perpetrators of crimes against humanity, of genocide, always justify their crimes. They always have 'reasons.' The fascists, the Hutu butchers of Rwanda? They always have excuses.
But those rationales are legally irrelevant in a genocide trial.
'A military pressure strategy'? 'If Hamas had just surrendered'? In a genocide trial, slogans are no defense of genocidal acts – in fact, those slogans admit genocidal intent – and, as with radio announcements in Rwanda, may be evidence of the crime of incitement to genocide.
Correct Wording… Israel’s Ben Gvir Says US RetardiQAns Support His Plan To Bomb Food In Gaza…!
Correction: Most of the citizens on the U.S. do not give a sh*t. It is happening over there, to them.
You won't find this interview
on pro-War media: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1914445982969790797
these dumber-than-dumb zionist republicans always want to Put Israel First.
Me? I want to Make Israel Palestine Again.
Well you are not alone in wanting Israel destroyed. There is about 150 reasons why that will not happen easily if ever. And all those reasons contain Uranium and/or Plutonium metal.
As long as those nukes work as a deterrent. If Israel completes their genocide they better sleep with one eye open. Nukes or not.
Eventually the US cannot escape that Karma either, regardless that MAGA and billionaires think that Trump is god.
America believes is it invulnerable, protected by two great bodies of sea. In the nuclear age, no country is safe.
GFY with your zionist propaganda it won’t work here. nobody said anything about “destroying israel”.
And you why? Because Israel will self destruct. Oppression does not last
All the better to destroy itself with… The bigger they are the harder they fall.
MIPA.
Ah, America, the shining city on a hill… with morals Adolf Hitler would be so proud of.
We taught the Zionist well.
Firebombed Tokyo.
Firebombed Dresden.
Used napalm on Vietnamese civilians.
Nuked (twice) Japan.
All current history during the 20th century.
Past history:
Near extermination of Native Americans
Faux war against Mexico, the gift of President "manifest destiny" Polk.
For the rest of my life, whenever some Neo-con talking head bleats about the sanctity of human life in the aftermath of some oligarch getting Luigied, I'm gonna remember how they treated the children of Gaza and be like "nah, I still don't give a ****."
"…
Ben Gvir, one of the most extreme members of the Israeli government, is an outspoken proponent of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the establishment of Jewish settlements. …", simply and historically not true.
Offer of evidence:
Torah (Deuteronomy 10:20 Et seq.),
The First Zionist on August 29–31, 1897, Nakba, then, now and forever …
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
October 17, 1880 – August 3, 1940
There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
The Iron Wall is an essay written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923.
p.s. A Jewish state in the "Land of Israel" (which is code for "God"- the Hebrew God- who gave The Promised Land, Israel, to the Israelis) is exclusively, solely and entirely a "religious construct."
Simply, a superstition.
Note, Jabotinsky recognizes, understands and accepts the ethnic identity and distinct nature of the Palestinian People.
dennis hanna
Wherever Zionist Jews are, Christians are in danger. MSM is not reporting the atrocities inflicted on Christians in Gaza, West Bank, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Lebanon.
A journalist from the Jewish newspaper, Haaretz, dressed as a Catholic clergyman in Tel Aviv.
He was spat on by IDF soldier, Jewish civilians. Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu have made it clear that Israel and "greater Israel" will be Jewish only.
Reading this is like drowning in a cesspool.
Sickening.
Good Friggin' Mornin'
So its 1933
what are you plans this year?
Rob the poor
steal for the rich
torpedo the ms st.louis
in a catch-22 spin?
Oh yes such a busy year
so much to do
strike that keyboard with passion
save tik tok
praise or damn trump
protest again?
Just make sure
you pay your taxes
dont stretch yourself
out too far
genocide by any other name
is paid for by you and i
As our reps
ignore the obvious
those who dare say 'Palestinian'
rounded up
sent to shit hole concentration camps
just dont forget to shed a tear
Remember the alamo wounded kee
dont forget the White Rose guantanamo
What about peral harbor or my lai
dresden hiroshima and nagasaki
what a list of crimes we share
after the fact do we ever dare
Its 630 am
i have yoga and sit ups to do
the cat is clamouring to go outside
as i lose my little mind
still here i am
gotta do what can be done
in kind
i guess
Pearls For Swine
Ah
so here are the good folk at the reichstag
now its called mar a lago
i call it a disgrace
what bout you?
See there
its the devil
over there is the antichrist
pol pot and hitler
is that mussolini?
What a fine show of humanity
among the fake gold and pomp
who pays the bill
guess who
what fools these mortals be
So you wanna bomb the food
murder women and children
torture rape kids and the innocent
if any complain
its off to cecot
History repeats
in this disgusting flim flam
i read about this as a kid
now i have to live it
on psycho-repeat
Of course a god
is on the side of the oppressor's
its always been a name to drop
conjured up in the entrails
for the duped dumb and morally dead
Did i go too far
are your feelings hurt
as you wait for your income tax check
shutup and roll over
dont you dare bite the hand that robs you
Knock knock
they be coming for you
camera on the road
they hear you on tik tok
have a nice day
As a Palestinian, I see no difference between Democrats and Republicans—just like Labor and Likud, both back our dispossession. But Republican bluntness sparks resistance; Democrat deceit dulls it. Some claim Trump is worse—what a joke. At least GOP clarity fuels the fire. Meanwhile, America stays silent as genocide unfolds—and the Middle East awakens.
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Indeed. There are however political differences that are important, notably the ones between various socialist forces and the rest. In Spain it's been these last days a major political issue the decision by some authority to ignore the boycott to Israel in everything military (official government policy since the end of 2023) and sign a substantive contract to import bullets from Israel. That has caused such a political crisis, with communists and other radical socialists threatening to let the fragile coalition government fall even, that the decision has been reversed and the contract cancelled in the name of "national interest".
Anyhow, what's your opinion on the stand of the Arab and other Muslim governments like Turkey's? I'm pretty sure that the USA would not be able to get away with the genocide if these regimes were actively fighting against it by whatever means other than blah-blah.
Religion aside, in the Palestinian struggle the Islamic parties have been more in alignment with the socialist and left parties than nationalist and Fatah parties.
As for the Arab and Muslim governments, it's a balancing act. They are betting on American and Israeli strength rather than the will and strength of their own people. The biggest two nations, Turkey and Iran, definitely want to defang Israel. However, they are both legitimately concerned about the ramifications of war on their populations. The governments in the Middle East think that avoiding war and economic stability comes through Washington. They are totally misreading the situation. While there is no doubt that if America and Israel get their way, there will be forced "peace" for a while until things blow up again. The issue this time around, is whether the people will explode before America and Israel get what they want.
For the past year and a half, every hour on the hour, Aljazeera Arabic leads with Gaza and the number of Palestinians killed, then it moves to related and other news. The point is the Arab and Muslim worlds are seething with anger that the Euro-American centers of power are misreading to their own detriment. The Arab governments know the situation is more volatile.
Honestly, Turkey and Iran are playing it smart. Yes Iran has been weakened but not militarily. They see Israel incrementally getting weaker. The longer Hamas holds out, the worse for Israel. At some point either Turkey will act or the Arab street explodes. In the meantime the Palestinians in Gaza and the WB are doing the dying. That's just the reality.
I agree regarding Iran but not the other regimes. Turkey, Egypt or Saudi Arabia are absolutely capable to smash Israel and even scare the USA and they’re doing nothing at all! All the opposite: they destroyed Syria weakening the resistance. IMO these three tyrants: Erdogan, Bin Salman and Al Sissi are the true cause (along with the infamously lowly King of Jordan, the UAE and Qatar) the true reason why the Palestinians are being exterminated.
I do blame the USA (genocider in chief), Britain, Germany, France, Hungary and probably some other European governments, but nothing of this could happen without the horrid complicity of the Sunni Islamist regimes.
No apologies for all those regimes. The Arab regimes want to see the destruction of Hamas and the resistance. A Hamas victory means an "Islamic" victory and that would bring down every Arab regime.
Turkey, however, is a bit different. I know Erdogan can do more but its not that he is aligned with Israel. Turkey is in a sensitive position historically, geographically and politically.
As you know his party is "Islamist." The problem is Turkey like most nations these days is pretty evenly divided. The majority of Turks want Erogan to act but the opposition are aslo slimy and fickle. If Turkey was at war and it was costing them heavily, the opposition would be like a knife in the back colluding with the West and trying to undermine Erdogan. He fears that for good reason. The entire world governments are against any Islamic party. Erdogan learned this from his predecessor, Arbakan in the 90's. And he felt it with the attempted coup.
I am not defending him because I believe if he wanted to he could stop Israel in its tracks but he won't. History will not forgive him. However, the way to defeat Israel and America is to have a degree of unity that can ensure victory. In addition, Turkey has said we cannot be more Arab than the Arabs especially those bordering on Palestine. If Jordan or Egypt opened up their airspace and land borders, Turkey would act on the invitation. However, like you said they are partners in the genocide with Israel and the US.
It is like me watching a neighbor raping a child and not doing anything because it is not my child being raped.
The rape continues.
It’s much worse than that: they have sold themselves so deeply to the USA that they totally accept the total destruction of your country, Palestine, as a matter of fact. It’s not only now: this genocide has been in the plans for almost a decade: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170624-saudi-prince-reveals-us-conditions-for-mohamed-bin-salman-to-be-king/
This was the main blogpost I made on the matter back then: https://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/2017/06/behind-qatars-crisis-israels-plan-to.html
I suspect that Turkey may have then oppossed the genocidal plan but, after they go a massive IMF loan a couple of years ago, they behave like total lapdogs of the USA and Israel. Anyway, Israel collaborated with the Turco-Azeri genocide of the Armenians in 2023 and Erdogan has been selling Kurdish oil to Israel since times almost immemorial. Also Turkey has been the main actor in the destruction of the last anti-Zionist regime in the area: Syria.
IMO Erdogan is the worst of all: he’s been causing all kind of Islamo-terrorist trouble (along Qatar and often also Morocco) from Mali to Afghanistan, always under CIA supervision. But the worst of it was against Syria. He’s a corrupt fascist with zero honor. By comparison the Saudi princes and the Egyptian generals are small fish almost
In any case it’s not about destroying Hamas but about eradicating Palestine and dividing the Levant between Turkey and Israel.
Palestine is a small fish in a big pond. It’s not about Hamas but Hamas is the face of the resistance and they have an Islamic agenda. I believe in Islam because I am a Muslim. However, any intellectually honest person would have to say that all options are bad but the least bad option is Muslim unity. The geography, the language, the culture and the diversity can best be served by Islamic governance.
That’s the problem of (most) Arabs: you got lost in religion and sectarianism under the unholy guidance of the CIA and the Mossad. 🙁
Muslim peoples under colonialism have been resisting from day one. One has to look at the big picture to know the whole story. Just wait a few years and you will see major changes in the region and in the West. An imposed calm will only result in bigger outbreaks of resistance.
Boooring! Sorry: there are no “Muslim peoples”, religion is not an ethnic defining trait, not in my book at least. But most importantly, of all the peoples of the world, the Arab (and Turkish) ones are the ones who seem to have less right to complain about colonialism, especially as Islam as such sect-cum-polity was imperialist (and slaveist) since day one. It’s not like other peoples randomly navigated to some remone place and found some peoples who were less advanced and abused them, that may apply to America, Black Africa, Australia or even to some extent far Asia, but the Caliphate was once extremely advanced and then it enclosed on its self and its religious obsessions and could not keep the pace even if in direct contact with the rising star, Renaissance Europe.
Why did Renaissance Europe flourished? Because it took a lot of science from Islam and Byzantium but, even more importantly, it learned to tame religion. Since the alleged kickstarter of Renaissance, Frederick II ‘Stupor Mundi’, the atheist crusader that kicked Papal arse and would have smashed even the Mongols would them have dared to invade the HRE, to Copèrnicus, Gallileo and Kepler (all of which had serious conflicts with the religious authorities) and finally (after very painful wars of religion, mind you) to the growing secularism of Illustration first and the bourgeois and worker revolutions later, Europe tamed the evils of religion (dogmatism especially) and only that way became what it was in the last centuries (and that applies largely also to the USA and other American countries, same general culture).
Arabs also flourished to some extent in terms post-colonial where they adopted secularism: Algeria is a little powerhouse for example, compare with traditionalist Morocco, the poorest country in the Mediterranean and a total Western and Zionist puppet. Syria, Iraq and even Libya also flourished with secularist or less religious regimes (but were intently destroyed by the West precisely because they were dangerously anti-colonialist). Even Turkey, with many contradictions derived from the double standards of the Young Turks, was doing relatively well under suppossedly secularist direction.
BTW, when did colonial subservience began in the Arab World? Was it when the Europeans arrived (mostly in the context of WW1, at least in Asia) or when the Ottomans conquered it all? Was it good for Algeria to be ruled by Turkish pirates? For Egypt to lose all self-rule? Syria and Iraq and Palestine: what self-rule did they have under the Turks? Yes, the Balfour declaration and its after-effects are atrocious but it doesn’t seem to me like Arabs enjoyed self-rule in most cases after the Turkish takeover.
A response to this can only be had over a cup of coffee on the Spanish Riviera.
In the meantime, I would say nationalism is meaningless. Yes I am an Arab but so what. If a deformed cripple with half a brain ruled over me with justice, that's preferable to oppressive Arabs, westerners, etc.
An objective review of the record would show that Islam came, conquered, flourished but most importantly lasted even in weakness.
There is no “Spanish Riviera”. La Riviera is the coast of Liguria only (all the rest are English tourism fake names). Sounds weird in Spanish or Feench, where the equivalent word actually means “river bank” and definitely never “sea coast”.
Yes, it would require a long conversation but most importan is how religion (dogma) hurts wisdom and progress. I remember the Muslims 30 or even 20 years ago, who were normal people not obsessed with halal, sharia or head veil. Salafism has brainwashed millions under Zionist control.
Fools for trusting the U.S., UK.
War Crimes ring a bell anybody?!…!
The "Christian" Mike Huckleberry does. There is a video of him basically saying it.
Good Friggin' Mornin'
So its 1933
what are you plans this year?
Rob the poor
steal for the rich
torpedo the ms st.louis
in a catch-22 spin?
Oh yes such a busy year
so much to do
strike that keyboard with passion
save tik tok
praise or damn trump
protest again?
Just make sure
you pay your taxes
dont stretch yourself
out too far
genocide by any other name
is paid for by you and i
As our reps
ignore the obvious
those who dare say 'Palestinian'
rounded up
sent to shit hole concentration camps
just dont forget to shed a tear
Remember the alamo wounded kee
dont forget the White Rose guantanamo
What about peral harbor or my lai
dresden hiroshima and nagasaki
what a list of crimes we share
after the fact do we ever dare
Its 630 am
i have yoga and sit ups to do
the cat is clamouring to go outside
as i lose my little mind
still here i am
gotta do what can be done
in kind
i guess
Like Gestapo's Amt IVB4 under its 'Jewish Expert' Adolf Eichmann, scoured [Poland] Europe for Jews to be deported for 're-settlement' in the East, the Einsatzkommandos roamed the conquered territories of eastern Europe attempting to out do each other in their 'scores' of Jews liquidated, proudly reporting back to their master Reinhard Heydrich, as each new area was declared 'Jew-Free'. (The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror, Gordon Williamson, Motorbook International, Publishers, P-90)