Very bad : #Trump overturns Biden's sanctions on Israeli settlers on the West Bank
Trump had better start to sharpen his wits around him and replace that move with something better
Palestinians ‘bleeding out in the streets’ in Israel’s West Bank assault
HAMAS the resistance says No
Palestine Post
Imagine... on a mostly civilian population where 50% of it is CHILDREN!
The Israeli public seeing Hamas fighters in their traditional military attire delivering the first set of hostages from captivity, are disconcerted, because they had prayed, believed and expected that after fifteen months of their IDF's genocidal mission of relentless hammering of the defenceless men women and children of Gaza with bombs and tanks, with starvation, and cruise missiles by Land, Sea and Air, destroying all the hospitals, 80% of residential buildings, mosques, churches, universities, schools, power grids, water supply facilities and all other valuable infrastructure there should be no Hamas fighters left on God’s piece of Occupied Territory.
Even after the Holocaust, they still don't seem to understand this simple truism : God don’t like ugly
As if they are unaware of Hillel the Elder’s dictum to the impatient person who wanted a brief summation of the Torah Teachings whilst Hillel was “standing on one leg “, and on that occasion, this is what Hillel said: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow! That is the whole Torah; the rest is interpretation”
It’s amazing isn’t it, mercilessly wiping out more than 47,000 Palestinians, mostly innocent women and more than 20,000 innocent children killed , not to mention the countless number of those Palestinian souls still unaccounted for, forever buried under the rubble and the ruins.
Equally amazing, after all the bombing and razing to the ground and tunnel-busting, killing, kidnapping and torturing, fifteen months into their genocidal mission, despite all their intelligence gathering, infiltration etc and satellite surveillance equipment they have still not been able to locate where the hostages are in this sliver of territory known as the Gaza Strip.
Background: Israel has a land area of 21,671 sq. km and is roughly twice the size of The Gambia which is the smallest country on the mainland of Africa. Thanks to Jesus plus the Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan Christian ideology quickly occupied mainland Europe, from there spread like wildfire to other parts of globe to the extent that the far-flung elements, Christian adherents in Argentina and Tonga can be heard pontificating about their common roots in the so called Judeo-Christian tradition, Fast forward to most recently, due to Hitler and the Holocaust , Netanyahu is now making noise out of proportion to their size and punching in weight divisions that are far above their collective weight - bringing into question God’s promise to Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous and the stars in heaven - and indeed Abraham's descendants are numerous, on today's planet there are approximately 473 million ethnic Arabs and with the Orthodox Jews and rabbis populating like rabbits to replenish what was lost at the Holocaust and other pogroms, the population of those identified as Jews is slowly rising from 15.7 million souls
Chairman Arafat used to say , “ Next Year in Jerusalem and those who don’t like it can go drink the waters of the Dead Sea”
The Dead Sea where trillions of dollars worth of minerals are buried - the Dead Sea the supply base of Israel's most lucrative cosmetics industry
No one is talking about who is going to administer the wealth to be accrued from the extensive oil and gas deposits off the Gaza Coast -
History continues.
You are God’s one and only Chosen People?
There’s much talk about Elon Musk's alleged Nazi salute; I’m waiting for more of the fallout from ADL weighing in on this matter.
At this point it should be good to take note of what Messrs Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappé, Gideon Levy, Chris Hedges, John Mearsheimer, Noam Chomsky , Middle Nation, and other major critics of Israel are saying
By all accounts this is the acclaimed documentary film that we must see: No Other Land
There are so many conspiracy theories about 9 /11
What’s below is not a conspiracy theory or some fantasmagoria inspired by the Book of Job or “Confessions of a British Spy” ; what’s below is some more background and In reality ( and you may call it a conjecture if you will ) this is what happened in the non-human, demonic realm:
The devil (Satan) summoned a grand summit of his henchmen, the demons, to a cabinet meeting, to seek counsel with them as to what could possibly be the best way forward with the very precarious situation they were in, according to the latest intelligence:
In 2019, UNCTAD estimated the net value of the Gaza Marine natural gas at $4.592 billion
With the bloodthirsty Satan’s enemy Hamas in charge of Gaza and with such wealth going to be generated from the oil and gas fields just off the Coast of Gaza there’s the potential for the people of Gaza to develop astronomically and in no time at all, with a population of approximately 2 million people they could have a GDP like Kuwait which has a population of 4.5 million people, and soon enough with some peace and tranquillity, they could be enjoying a standard of living that could be the envy of many countries in the neighbourhood and undreamt of by some of the marginalised in the United States…
Satan the accursed then asked his council of demons the million dollar question: So what are we going to do about this? We just can’t afford to sit here and let this happen!
And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy on the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee ? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.
And He taught Adam all the names, then showed them to the angels, saying: Inform Me of the names of these, if ye are truthful.
They said: Be glorified! We have no knowledge saving that which Thou hast taught us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower, the Wise.
He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names, and when he had informed them of their names, He said: Did I not tell you that I know the secret of the heavens and the earth ? And I know that which ye disclose and which ye hide.
And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis. He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever.
Satan the bloodsucker, also reviled by Muslims, as Shaitan, he and his demons are back to square one. It’s simple : God don’t like ugly
Let us pray that there will be no Presidential reprieve or any other kind of pardon or forgiveness or remittance of the sins of the assassins …and they know who they are
Re - The Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
https://www.middleeasteye.net/
The vile Israeli war propaganda that women were raped, babies decapitated and thrown into red hot ovens to be baked have all been roundly debunked since long ago. On circa October 8, I phoned and told my friend Menachem that Hamas doesn’t do that sort of thing, that it’s against Islamic ethics, against Islamic War Ethics , challenged him him to imagine a Hamas warrior with an AK47 in one hand on the awesome operation to take some Israeli hostages, putting down the AK47 to unzip his pants etc but what does Menachem know about Islamic War Ethics anyway and what is he willing to understand with an unbiased mindset ? Perhaps as ridiculous as Gibbons and even earlier, Crusader war propaganda. When they had the power to do so, the Muslims could have slaughtered each and every so-called Jew in the Middle East and elsewhere, every Jewish man, woman and child, under their jurisdiction, but they didn’t! So, Menachem hung up on me - perhaps it was another instance of “who are you going to believe, me or my donkey? Perhaps, I should have told him that that - astaghfirullah, even the weakest Hamas warrior is not like this rabbi ,but then I would have sunk into the moral morass of Krister Stendahl's three rules - rule no 2 : Don't compare your best to their worst.
The hostages that have been released so far, after fifteen months in captivity, are in good shape and have been well taken care of.
Hallel-u-jah : The four female Israeli hostages - military personnel that were abducted have been handed over to Netanyahu's men; they are happy, are still smiling, they have not been tortured, sexually humiliated or raped as happened at Abu Ghraib and according to the many testimonies of Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons
At this point I’m missing Chidi ; I wish that he was here with his regular Today’s Quote , his “Poetic Thought” , his “ Thought for Today” because I really want to punch something, I mean, change gears and really punch !
Which reminds me, that around my fifteenth birthday my Stepfather ( John Patrick Johnson) subscribed me to PUNCH Magazine and for my birthday that year gave me ( among other things) “The Pick of Punch “
As for insults, remember the Pharisees said to Jesus : ”You're not him!”
Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream: I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”; He said, “You’re not Him”
Something more cheerful and more unificatory ,all of it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0pvLFB-9HY
No smoke without fire
To titillate some people's imagination :
Conspiracy theories about the Hamas attack on 7th of October
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Miko+Peled