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🕯️ COL. Douglas Macgregor: Can Israel Survive Alone❓
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Failed coup in Bolivia exposes new rifts
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EVERYTHING repeated ad nauseam about Hamas "atrocities" on October 7, 2023  IS A COMPLETE MORALLY BANKRUPT FABRICATION to "justify" GENOCIDE, cynically and maliciously rebranded as "Israel has a right to defend itself".

NEWS FLASH: The IDF is ATTACKING civilian men women and children in Gaza and the West Bank, NOT "defending" squat!  Somebody needs to sue ALL the mainstream media AND the Israeli Government for the serial repeated abominable slander against the successful military operation by Hamas on October 7, 2023. MOST of the Israelis killed that day were killed by IDF helicopter and tank fire! 70 cars that were INCINERATED is IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE of this MASS Hannibal ATROCITY of Israel against its own citizens!


The TRUTH that on October 7, 2023 MOST of the Israeli deaths were CAUSED by IDF helicopter and tank fire, AND NO Israelis were victims of sexual violence, needs to be REPEATED EVERY DAY UNTIL Israeli LIES about Hamas that day are totally exposed AND the DELIBERATE MURDER of MOST of the Israeli captives, along with their Hamas captors driving the 70 cars that were INCINERATED BY IDF Helicopters and tanks that day, can no longer be denied by Israel, the USA AND Europe!

July 8, 2024   Kyle Anzalone: The Hannibal Directive, War Crimes, and Global Implications


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8 July 2024 Fedaa al-Qedra 🗽

Israelis laughed after shooting me, says survivor of 8 June massacre

Momen has been told that he will never walk again.  Fedaa al-Qedra

SNIPPET:

Momen is a 16-year-old boy struggling to cope with the physical and psychological pain inflicted on him one month ago.

His family had lived in al-Zahra, central Gaza, but fled that area when it had come under attack at an earlier stage of the current genocidal war. They went to stay with Momen’s grandfather in Nuseirat refugee camp.

On 8 June, Momen was with his grandfather in a family-run supermarket when they heard the sound of explosions. A rapid decision was taken to close down the shop and head for his grandfather’s home in the hope that it would be safer there.

About 30 minutes later, they realized that the Israelis were nearing his grandfather’s house in tanks. His grandfather locked the house and told the 15 or so people inside it to gather in one room.

Soon afterwards, Israeli soldiers broke down the door of the house and began firing everywhere.

As they approached the room where the family had gathered, Momen’s grandfather raised his voice. He alerted the troops to the fact that there were civilians in his home.

The Israelis entered the room and removed Momen’s father and grandfather from it.

“They covered my father’s head with a black bag and tied his hands, then they told him to kneel down and look at the floor,” Momen said. “After that they blindfolded my grandfather and told him to lie on the floor.”

Momen’s 12-year-old brother Ahmad was ordered to strip. The soldiers bound up his hands and beat him.

The soldiers burnt Ahmad’s neck with a cigarette as he screamed in fear.

Full article:
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Col. Jacques Baud: Why Israel Faces Disastrous Defeat
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Black Mountain Analysis

July 11, 2024 by 🕯️ ALEKS

Trajectory to Armageddon

The End of the West or the End of the World?

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Introduction

Today, I want to discuss some rather depressing issues. I have had them on my list for some time, and now I decided to write about them. The topic is essentially what is currently at stake in Ukraine for all parties involved.

And I’m certainly going to touch upon several topics which might be very concerning, depressing, and certainly – unpleasant.

However, we should all be aware of these things because their effects and consequences will influence our lives and, in some cases, end them.

The Stakes are High

Those who have followed my blog for some time know what is at stake. I’m going to summarize it here briefly.

For some time, there has been a window to contain the Ukraine conflict and end it there. This was the case until the Istanbul negotiations eventually failed.

Much of what we will discuss in this article will deal with the number of Russian casualties, as alluded to in the introduction. Russia suffered a horrendous number of dead soldiers within the first few weeks of the conflict, maybe up to 10,000. That’s the price of big arrows on modern battlefields with full intelligence/information/reconnaissance/artillery/drone coverage of the battlefields.

However, (up to) 10,000 dead is still a price that would have been worth paying to achieve the goals in Ukraine without going into a full-scale war. Had there been an agreement in Istanbul that would have terminated the conflict, ensured the rights of Russians in Ukraine, and kept Ukraine out of NATO and NATO out of Ukraine, one could remotely argue that “it was worth it.”

We all know what happened instead. As with all agreements that are not guaranteed with a gun on the West’s head, the West will ignore or scrap it at will. As happened with the Istanbul agreement.

What followed was the beginning of a full-scale land war in Ukraine. I classify it as a Russian civil war. Almost all the territory of the so-called “Ukraine” is Russian historic territory, including the people living there. Decades of brainwashing by “the West” transformed many people of these territories into Russia-(self)-hating zombies. Congratulations. Now, Russia is essentially fighting itself on its own territory.

If Russia wins, Russia loses. If Russia loses, Russia (obviously) also loses. How can you win against yourself? It (Western cultivated Nazism) is like cancer. It spreads everywhere until the host is dead if you don't stop it. What Russia is currently doing, explained with an analogy, is hammering with a little hammer for weeks on its hand, until the hand is eventually smashed and falls off on its own. Does Russia win in this case? This is a rhetorical question.

But what does this have to do with what is at stake in Ukraine? It is all about demography and losses. I think we all can agree that the “Ukrainian” idea is currently being killed on the territory of the so-called “Ukraine.” What is currently being done to Ukraine on behalf of the West and executed by the traitorous leaders of this artificial entity is essentially the extermination of Ukraine’s population. There is no turning back and no relief. More about that later.

Nevertheless, the war is also a burden on Russia in terms of demographics. President Putin is doing everything he can to stimulate the birth rate in Russia. On the other hand, we have the disaster in Ukraine. Up to two million people could be processed through the war during its duration, provided it does not expand. At the same time, Russia urgently needs people to keep its industry and economy running. Lastly, children are needed to keep the population growing and the social system viable.

Since most Russian males become fathers very late in their lives, we have the following problem: Hundreds of thousands of males are going to war. According to an interview given by President Putin, Russia lost up to 80,000 people. This is horrific.

If we look at that figure not with emotions but from a national standpoint, then we can assume the following: Most of these people might not have been fathers yet when they died. This means that from a national and demographic, maybe also macroeconomic point of view, their lives and birth were in vain. If it had been women, it would have been far worse. However, the highest purpose for people from a demographic and national point of view is to have two or more children. Dying without any children is a catastrophe.

Don’t get me wrong. I intentionally ignored emotions here to explain the rational point of view. It is important to understand that fact to understand some actions that could result from this. President Putin, in particular, is a person who reasons, and this is precisely his thinking pattern. Therefore, it is important to understand this perspective, whether you agree with it or not.

Now that I have laid some groundwork, we can conclude the following:

If Russia loses this war, the Nazi virus/cancer would spread forcefully within Russia and destroy it. Don’t underestimate this angle. It is very much a possible scenario in case of a military defeat for Russia.

This leads me to point two. Everyone knows Russia will not be militarily defeated, but it might be internally defeated. I think there is a certain threshold of dead Russian soldiers in this war that is tolerable to the Russian leadership. If I were forced to guess, I would say the number is around 300,000 men. But that is pure speculation. ... ...

In other words, if Russia loses too many people in Ukraine or loses militarily, then it would be the end of the Russian Federation. The West knows this, and the gamble is that Russia will not end the world in the process, just like the Soviet Union was dismembered without taking the world down in the process.

In other words, The West hopes 🐻 Russia feels some common responsibility for humankind.

Frankly, It doesn’t.

Equilibrium of Forces

There is something good in the things that are happening. A mighty counter-alliance to the West is forming. I’m not talking about BRICS. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are the fundamental parts of this new MILITARY alliance.

This alliance aims to ensure the members' safety and the safety of other nations that might be attacked “democratically” if they don’t obey the West’s “Rules-Based International Order.” Democratically, because the civilian population that supports the government would be killed by democratic bombs. After that, there would be a solid democratic majority by the opposition. You see? Democratic bombing works! Just kill those disagreeing people, and the democratic results change in 😈 your favor. 🤦‍♂️

This alliance is needed as well as BRICS:
The military arm will create an “Equilibrium of Forces” like in the Cold War days. Such an equilibrium is needed to ensure that international agreements will be adhered to. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the West did what it wanted because it couldn’t be held accountable by anyone. Who cares about agreements and laws if nobody can punish you? Or at least stop you from committing your crimes. This deterrence will be restored now. It is already almost restored.

BRICS is needed to offer an alternative financial and trade system that allows any nation to trade freely globally without the possibility of being sanctioned.

After these two mechanisms are fully implemented, the Rest (of the world) will no longer need the West; the West will be left to wither. ... ...

Now, the question arises whether the 🦍 West would kill us all if it goes down. In my opinion, it will not. Of course, I could be fatally wrong here. And here is why I think it won’t: Russia is acting from a national point of view. If there is no Russia, no one else should be there. That is literally what President Putin stated in an interview. The West is controlled by its oligarchs. And they are solely interested in their wealth. They would never approve of a situation where they would lose their power and wealth. And Armageddon would be such a situation. These Oligarchs will gradually withdraw only when there is no other possibility to avoid the nukes from flying. This is evident. ... ...

Hence, the actions of the West need to be ended. But how?

There is another question left: How to hold the West accountable for all the monstrous crimes it committed against Russia and Ukraine since the end of the Soviet Union? We must not forget the war in Chechnya, which is for the West’s account. After millions of deaths, the Ukrainians need to be taken into account; since they are Russians as well, there is no way that the West should get away with that. ... ...

As I said, I thought about how they should be punished for many months. And I think I have an idea of what that might look like. I will discuss that in the following section.

The End of the West (80/20, Politiker wie Unterwäsche

We know that BRICS and the new military alliance of several BRICS states aim to ensure the safety of many countries from democratic bombing and democratic genocide. BRICS itself will ensure that these countries can no longer be sanctioned. At this point, the West will become superfluous. It will no longer be needed, resulting in the West's collapse.

New land-based trade corridors will be established in Europe through Russia (former Ukraine) and Serbia. Europe will be connected with Asia and the new trading spaces by land.

This, of course, will trigger a full-blown collapse of the current American-led puppet parties and politicians in the EU, which currently get changed like underwear because the public doesn’t want them. Considering how many are currently wasted, I wonder where they will train and find so many puppets. It doesn’t matter who you vote in. All parties that are allowed to win without being “Fico-ed” are forced to plug into the NATO/EU/Ukraine above everything nonsense.

For European countries to be able to plug into the BRICS financial and trade system, they will eventually need to drop their imperial governments and extradite all people prosecuted by the war-criminal tribunals in Moscow, Mariupol, and especially Odessa. That’s how they will be held accountable. Still, I have a hard time imagining how this could work with the United States.

I think, and I have written it numerous times, that Europe will go through an ugly period of collapse before all of this can happen. A collapse that will be necessary to squeeze all of the imperial WEF-trained puppets out of the European countries and decolonize them. A collapse that, from my point of view, will be 80% economic and 20% kinetic. I mean civil wars and wars between European nations amounting to 20% of the overall collapse damage. ... ...

I’m afraid the Americans will have even bigger trouble by 2030. That is the forecast of the Chinese intelligence services. By 2030, the American problem will have solved itself without intervention.

As a European, I pray that our governments will do the right thing and consider their interests, exit the escalation spiral, and unilaterally make peace and conduct business with Russia. Some countries like Hungary and Slovakia are already trying. I don’t want to see downfall and war here again.

Pushing the Button (MAD/WW3/Legitimate Targets/Thresholds -- Number of dead Russians)

Now, we often hear that Russia is ready to use tactical nuclear weapons. Moreover, President Putin himself said that before Russia is defeated or gets into the process of disintegration, it would blow up the rest of the world and go as a martyr to heaven. Moreover, it was stated in a discussion between me and Russian Colonel (Reserve) Vladimir Trukhan that in case of a large-scale NATO air attack against Russia, Russia would use nuclear-tipped air defense means.

What does this mean? And why?

I will go through these questions, but before, I will add another angle. There is constant talk that if the West does X (e.g., strikes on Russian airfields), then Russia would have the right to strike at NATO territory.

That’s right, and the rhetoric is reasonable as well. So many things have happened already that would, according to international law, allow immediate Russian counterstrikes against Western targets. These counterattacks never took place and hopefully will never take place. Now, we can move to the “Why” question.

In case it is absolutely clear to Russia (President Putin) that there will be a big conventional war with NATO OR that more than the threshold of dead Russian soldiers is reached (my estimation is 300,000), President Putin will make sure that such a war does not happen. How?

Read very carefully:

In case an event takes place that indicates to President Putin that World War 3 is inevitable or that more than X Russians are already dead, the following will happen:


Russia will fire all available carriers of tactical nuclear weapons across Europe and 🚀🚀🚀 target the whole of NATO military infrastructure and civilian infrastructure that is used to support the military. In other words, it will 💥💥💥 atomize NATO in Europe. Knowing the consequences. Now, there will be a very short period in which NATO, or rather the United States, can decide whether they are willing to retaliate or back down and leave. If the indication is that the United States is willing to retaliate, Russia is going to preemptively fire off everything it has against all Western affiliated countries. Knowing full well that the US would do the same and that this would be the end for all of us, Russia fully accepted it. Amen.


Now the question is, of course, Why?

This question is very easy to answer for anyone who has lived in a warzone, seeing suffering (children), dead(children), starvation, , etc.

I won’t pretend that I went through this since I didn’t. But most of my family, including my own brother and my wife, did. So, I know a thing or two about war.

So, suppose President Putin concludes that there will be a world war. In that case, it has the following implications: Death, sorrow, destruction, violence, starvation, , etc., for several years until one of the parties involved prevails. At this point, the weaker party would start its nuclear arsenal, and everyone would die.



It is rational, straightforward, and an act of mercy 😕🤦‍♂️ to jump over all of these years of human suffering and directly trigger the end and go to heaven/hell, depending on where you belong.

So, my advice is the following:

Full article:
bmanalysis.substack.com
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🕯️🗽 Aaron Maté: Whitewashing Mass Murder



Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom 406K subscribers July 10, 2024 #IsraelConflict #UkraineConflict #Hamas Israel's Hannibal Directive, US-Russia Relations, and the Ukraine Conflict: Uncovering the Truth

Did Israel's military really sacrifice its own citizens to prevent Hamas from taking captives? Join us as we uncover the shocking revelations from the Haaretz report on Israel's controversial Hannibal Directive. Aaron Maté shares his intense confrontation with a former IDF 👿 spokesperson on Piers Morgan's show, exposing the deep moral contradictions within the Israeli military's actions. We also explore the broader implications for Israeli society and Prime Minister Netanyahu's 🙊🙉🙈😈 silence in this critical moment.

As we dissect the tragic events of October 7th, we scrutinize the narratives surrounding the deaths—were they primarily caused by Hamas, or could Israeli forces have a larger role? This episode delves into the use of the Hannibal Directive, the political strategies of Israeli leadership, and the toll of continued conflict on Palestinian lives. We also take a brief look at NATO leaders in Washington, weighing their influence on regional dynamics and the broader geopolitical landscape.

Finally, we pivot to the complex web of US-Russia relations and the ongoing Ukraine conflict. President Biden's rhetoric on defending NATO against Russia is put under the microscope, revealing contradictions and long-standing bipartisan talking points. We revisit the 2014 destabilization of Ukraine's democracy and the strategic use of Ukraine by NATO. Wrapping up, we touch on Israeli politics and the media narratives surrounding the Gaza conflict, emphasizing the importance of questioning mainstream narratives and seeking the truth.

AGelbert Comment (not the only one): The TRUTH that on October 7, 2023 MOST of the Israeli deaths were CAUSED by IDF helicopter and tank fire, AND NO Israelies were victims of sexual violence, needs to be REPEATED EVERY DAY UNTIL Israeli LIES about Hamas that day are totally exposed AND the DELIBERATE MURDER of MOST of the Israeli captives, along with their Hamas captors driving the 70 cars that were INCINERATED BY IDF Helicopters and tanks that day, can no longer be denied by Israel, the USA AND Europe!

🕯️🗽 Max Blumenthal: Israelis Killing Their Own - #HannibalDirective 😱


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🕯️ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: American Empire Collapsing
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson provides a compelling analysis of the current state of the American Empire and its potential collapse. Wilkerson explores the factors contributing to the decline of U.S. global influence, the consequences of military overreach, and the shifting dynamics of international power. Gain unique insights into the challenges and future of American hegemony.
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🕯️ Scott Ritter: Operation 🕊 DAWN
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JULY 12, 2024 By 🕯️ SCOTT RITTER

Operation DAWN


SNIPPET:

The next President of the United States will likely be called upon to decide about engaging in a nuclear conflict.


This doesn’t have to be our future.

It’s time to get real, America.

Election Day 2024, November 5, is rapidly approaching, and the reality is that the person who wins will either have an R or a D next to his or her name.

Many Americans support a candidate with an I or a G next to their names.

But these candidates won’t win the White House.

A vote for those candidates is little more than a protest vote.

The time for protest is over.

It is now the time for 🕊 action. 🕊️🙏🏼

Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 176 of Ask the Inspector.

America is fundamentally divided over who should occupy the White House for the next four years.

If you support the D candidate, you think the R candidate, who previously served as President for four years, was the worst President in American history.

And if you support the R candidate, you think the same about the current D candidate.

The reality is, however, that America survived four years of the R guy.

And so far, we have survived four years of the D guy.

And it is highly likely that we will survive the next four years as well, regardless of who wins.

Unless there is a nuclear war.

Then we all die.

There are many issues confronting America today.

All of them are important.

Most of them divide us.

None are of immediate existential concern.

Nuclear war is an immediate existential threat to our existence.
And yet this issue is not being discussed or debated in the lead-up to the November 5 elections.


As such, no matter who we put in the White House, America will face the real probability of nuclear war during their term in office.
And we all die.

The 1986 Doomsday Map

So, the question we all face as Americans is what are we willing to do to prevent this outcome?


What would you do to save 🗽 Democracy?

What would you do to save 🦅 America?

What would you do to 🕊️ save the World?

The answer? By making your vote count in November.

Make your vote about the one issue which is literally life and death—preventing a nuclear war by 🕊️🙏🏼promoting peace.

How?

Full article:
scottritter.substack.com


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July 12, 2024 By Palestine Chronicle Staff

The ICJ ordered Israel to halt its military operations in Rafah. (Photo: via CIJ_ICJ TW Page)

Legal Consequences – ICJ to Rule on Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
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“A public sitting will take place at 3 p.m. at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court, during which Judge Nawaf Salam, President of the Court, will read out the Advisory Opinion,” the ICJ said in a statement on Friday.

At the public hearings, Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour urged the ICJ to declare Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories illegal, emphasizing that such a ruling would pave the way for an immediate end to the occupation and the establishment of a just and lasting 🕊️ peace.”

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13 July 2024 by 🕯️ Tamara Nassar

Israel quietly disappears West Bank land

Israeli settlers are the foot soldiers of the state and its expansionist policy. Mohammed NasserAPA images

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As Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters 🥵 its tenth month, its 😈 settler-colonial project advances relentlessly across historic Palestine.

The UN Human Rights Office is sounding alarm bells over Israel’s accelered land theft in the occupied West Bank, exacerbated by the forcible displacement of Palestinians through settler violence, home demolitions and access restrictions.

“The situation in the occupied West Bank is a matter of grave concern as Israel allows and facilitates an environment characterized by fear forcing communities from their homes and lands,” the UN office said.

Settlers, the statement continued, “acting with the protection and support of Israeli security forces, are escalating violent attacks on herding communities in the South Hebron Hills, Jordan Valley and East Jerusalem that have been encircled by settlements and outposts.”

Israel’s so-called security cabinet approved the legalization of five settler “outposts.” ... ...

Land theft

Last month, Israel quietly announced one of the largest state land grabs since the signing of the Oslo accords in the mid-1990s, Peace Now reported.

This involved 12,700 dunams (12.7 square kilometers) in the Jordan Valley, which were declared “state lands” by the Custodian of State Property within the Civil Administration, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation.

Declaring Palestinian land as “state land” is a legal maneuver aimed at confiscating land belonging to Palestinians by interpreting an Ottoman law that was utilized in a completely different context nearly two centuries ago.

This tactic enables Israel to circumvent the technical legality of land ownership, as “most privately owned land in the West Bank is not officially registered,” Peace Now says.

“The declaration of state land is one of the main methods by which the state of Israel seeks to assert control over land in the occupied territories,” the group says.

This method amounts to “overt measures that could facilitate the annexation of Palestinian land in violation of international law,” the UN human rights office said.

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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-quietly-disappears-west-bank-land
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JUL 12, 2024

Which Genocide Are You On? - by Mr. Fish

The Old Evil

I returned to occupied Palestine, from where I had reported for The New York Times, after two decades. I experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation.

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Israel has ordered the largest West Bank land seizure in more than three decades, confiscating vast tracts of land northeast of Ramallah. The extreme rightwing Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in a Jewish colony and is in charge of colonial expansion, has promised to flood the West Bank with a million new colonists.

Smotrich has vowed to obliterate the distinct areas in the West Bank created by the Oslo accords. Area A, which comprises 18 percent of the West Bank, is under exclusive Palestinian control. Area B, nearly 22 percent of the West Bank, is under Israeli military occupation, in collusion with the Palestinian Authority. Area C, over 60 percent of the West Bank, is under total Israeli occupation.


“Israel realizes that the world is blind, that no one will force it to end the genocide in Gaza, and no one will pay attention to the war in the West Bank,” Atef says. “The word war is not even used. This is called a normal Israeli military operation, as if what is happening to us is normal. There is no distinction now between the status of the occupied territories, classified as A, B and C. The settlers are confiscating more land. They are carrying out more attacks. They do not need the army. They have become a shadow army, supported and armed by Israel’s rightwing government. We have lived in a continuous war since 1948. This is simply the newest phase.”


Jenin and its neighboring refugee camp are assaulted daily by Israeli armed units, undercover commando teams, snipers and bulldozers, which level entire neighborhoods. Drones equipped with machine guns and missiles, as well as warplanes and Apache attack helicopters, circle overhead and obliterate dwellings. Medics and doctors, as in Gaza, are assassinated. Usaid Kamal Jabarin, a 50-year-old surgeon, was killed on May 21 by an Israel sniper as he arrived for work at the Jenin Governmental Hospital. Hunger is endemic.

“The Israeli military carries out raids that kill Palestinians and then departs,” Atef says. “But it returns a few days later. It is not enough for the Israelis to steal our land. They seek to kill as many of the original inhabitants as possible. This is why it carries out constant operations. This is why there are constant armed clashes. But these clashes are provoked by Israel. They are the pretext used to continually attack us. We live under constant pressure. We face death daily.”


The dramatic escalation of violence in the West Bank is overshadowed by the genocide in Gaza. But it has become a second front. If Israel can empty Gaza, the West Bank will be next.


“Israel’s objective has not changed,” he says. “It seeks to shrink the Palestinian population, confiscate larger and larger tracts of Palestinian land and build more and more colonies. It seeks to Judaize Palestine and strip the Palestinians of all the means to sustain themselves. The ultimate goal is the annexation of the West Bank.”

“Even at the height of the peace process, when everyone was mesmerized by peace, Israel was turning this peace proposal into a nightmare,” he goes on. “Most Palestinians were opposed to the peace accords Arafat signed in 1993, but still they welcomed him when he returned. They did not kill him. They wanted to give peace a chance. In Israel, the prime minister who signed the Oslo accords was assassinated.”


 “A few years ago, someone daubed a strange slogan on the wall of the U.N. school east of Jabaliya,” Atef wrote from the hell of Gaza. “‘We progress backwards.’ It has a ring to it. Every new war drags us back to basics. It destroys our houses, our institutions, our mosques and our churches. It razes our gardens and parks. Every war takes years to recover from, and before we’ve recovered, a new war arrives. There are no warning sirens, no messages sent to our phones. War just arrives.”

The Jewish settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. Its tactics vary. Its intensity comes in waves of severe repression and less repression. Its rhetoric about peace masks its intent. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic.

Full article:
chrishedges.substack.com


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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12

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Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and on the staff of General Norman Schwartzkopf during the Gulf War, where he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi SCUD missiles. From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Ritter served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraq’s proscribed weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Ritter was a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war with Iraq. His new book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, is his ninth.

AGelbert COMMENT (That was SHADOW BANNED ):
Somebody needs to sue ALL the mainstream media AND the Israeli Government for the serial repeated abominable slander against the successful military operation by Hamas on October 7, 2023. That day NO men, women or children were sexually abused by Hamas, PERIOD.

Furthermore, MOST of the Israelis killed that day were killed by IDF helicopter and tank fire! 70 cars that were INCINERATED is IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE of this MASS Hannibal ATROCITY of Israel against its own citizens! All the bold faced mendacity filled stories about "sexual violence against and/or mass incineration of Israeli captives by Hamas" must be RETRACTED by the Biden Administration, the UK, the BBC AND anyone else, including the New York Times and Washington Post et al, that have contributed to spreading these Israeli DESPICABLE LIES.

The TRUTH that on October 7, 2023 MOST of the Israeli deaths were CAUSED by IDF helicopter and tank fire, AND NO Israelies were victims of sexual violence, needs to be REPEATED EVERY DAY UNTIL Israeli LIES about Hamas that day are totally exposed AND the DELIBERATE MURDER of MOST of the Israeli captives, along with their Hamas captors driving the 70 cars that were INCINERATED BY IDF Helicopters and tanks that day, can no longer be denied by Israel, the USA AND Europe!

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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12