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>>2442297Hamas has already dealt a massive blow to Israel and drawn them into a precarious position. The full extent of this is being covered up by Israel so it's hard to say just how bad it is. One could argue by extension they've weakened western hegemony by putting on display the complicity in genocide and raising domestic discontent. Now when western powers copy Israel's playbook people are going to be much wiser to what's going on and it won't be as effective. Hamas was never in a position for a conventional military victory, only to resist the occupation. That they have managed to precipitate a change "public opinion" (i.e. the ideological conditions of the international working class) is in itself a huge win and something that nobody saw coming. Hamas fights for the world even if the world (mostly) abandons Palestine.
The results of the struggle won't be fully clear until it becomes history and we can look back on it in hindsight. There's not that much point in trying to forecast the outcome of the fighting in Gaza or the wider geopolitical implications.
>>2442324So basically, the more Palestinians being killed the more Hamas wins. Got it.
Does Hamas have a βday afterβ plan for when Israel collapses?
>>2442360>>2442383There's no "day after" you hasbara bot.
Collapses don't happen over night. If/when Israel loses their ability to continue the fight, the "front" can be pushed inward as more territory is reclaimed by militant Palestinians. There's also active discontent among the military officials because they understand that the politics of the war are causing them to incur unnecessary losses. A coup is not off the table.
>Kill scores of children>Closely associate with the most hated administration in recent US history>Attack popular ecelebs because they're doing "antisemitism" by saying Palestinian kids shouldn't be starved to death>Not reining in vulgar genocidal oafs like Smotrich >Openly protect a nonce from prosecution by letting him flee to Israel>Epstein's possible ties to IsraelResult:
<Europeans turning against Israel<No more talk of further Israel-Arab state normalization<Actual honest to god antisemitism rising everywhere<Literal "Jews did 9/11" and Protocol posting being tolerated and growing on reddit, xitter and other places<US Zoomers most anti-zionist anti-Israel generation in historyZionists are fucked aren't they? The de facto annexation of Gaza also makes a one-state solution more likely.
How long until Israel has it's South Africa moment? I'm betting before 2050.
>>2442392Hamas winning the war on the battlefield is delusional at this point. It makes more sense to argue the annexation of Gaza, whilst a defeat for Hamas, is paradoxically a "victory" for the Palestinian and anti-Zionist cause, because it unravels the careful demographic balance in Israel, which was one of the reasons why Sharon ordered disengagement from Gaza twenty years ago. When there were growing calls for emancipation and citizenship by people living in the strip.
Their attempt at forcing other countries to take on Gazan refugees and thus ethnically cleanse the strip has failed.
And by turning their backs on a two state solution, there will now be demands for a one state solution, both within Israel/the occupied territories and internationally. Which will end the Zionist project (Israel as a Jewish ethnostate) forever.
>>2443041Public opinion of Israel is very important considering without public support in the west they'd have close to no allies, in a region where many people hate their guts and want to see them wiped out and destroyed. Same problem South Africa had basically.
People also underestimate (probably because much of the userbase here is relatively young) how for 20 years, 60% of people had a positive view of Israel.
I remember the early "War on Terror" when criticizing Israel at all was almost unthinkable, and was fundamentally anti-western, pro-terrorist, and an attitude associated only with fundamentalists, nazis, lunatic conspiracy theorists, and extremely fringe communists/anarchist "freaks".
>>2443178Spaniards are surprisingly not ghoulish racists like much of the continent. I'd say it has a lot to do with modern Spain explicitly not being a nation state. The history of multiculturalism and Islam in Spain in general, both medieval and modern times. The Spanish Civil War, and the Franco Regime being hostile to Israel for much of its existence.
(Forgot to post link to the Gallup Polls)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gallup-polls-on-american-sympathy-toward-israel-and-the-arabs-palestiniansBasically public opinion of Israel has been majority positive for over 25 years, until recently.
But I'd go further, and argue that what's happening now is public opinion turning explicitly negative, and pro-Palestinian. Which is different from the pre-2000 (Second Intifada & 9/11) era altogether. When support for the Palestinian cause hovered around 1% at times.
Multiple US members of congress accusing Israel of genocide? Completely unthinkable in previous decades.
>>2442512>Actual honest to god antisemitism rising everywhere>Zionists are fucked aren't they?The problem with this is that it reinforces among Israelis that Zionism is the answer to their situation compared to the alternatives. It's like "the world is a hostile, hardball, fucked-up place" so Jews need an army and "here's where we draw a line in the sand." The premise that Israel doubling down llike this will work against them operates on the assumption that the Jews there are fragile and won't be able to fight forever or at least not as long as their enemies. But if that's not true then you end up with a disaster that doesn't lead anywhere.
>The de facto annexation of Gaza also makes a one-state solution more likely.>How long until Israel has it's South Africa moment? I'm betting before 2050.I'm not placing bets but I think something like this is possible. But what I think it might look like, is starting to look at who is actually doing the labor in Israel on the ground. Like, who's picking the crops, building the apartments, emptying bedpans, and guarding shopping malls (yes, there are Arab security guards working these jobs in Israel). There are Arab neighborhoods and cities in Israel, within the pre-'67 borders. The Galilee might be majority Arab. I've read anecdotal stories about a phenomenon that's similar to "white flight" in the U.S. where Jews uncomfortable living around so many Arabs have packed up their shit and moved closer to central Israel. (Even stories of frightened Jewish kids not wanting to go to the pool because the Arab kids are rowdy!) Real-life stuff like this involving ordinary people is often neglected because it's boring and doesn't seem important, but maybe it's very important.
There's also apparently class stratification among the Arabs there with a local political hegemony of Arab Christians, and the Israelis are encouraging Christian Arabs to identify (some do) as "Arameans" and to serve in the army. It looks to me like an attempt to fashion another loyal Druze-like minority who don't see themselves as Arabs. Or at least not like Arab Muslims. They even got a Greek Orthodox priest to act as an agent for this project.
Whatever happens, I think socializing people into a killbot factory the government calls the "Israel Defense Forces" is very important for Israel. The army is not just a machine for killing people, it's also the machinery for mass socialization of Jews (most of whom were arriving from other places) into "Israelis." And also select minorities like the Druze, and Arab Christians (although I know less about the extent of this). The army seems to bind them together more than other institutions. They have a problem with ultra-Orthodox Jews not wanting to serve, but more than 70% of the adult Jewish population has served at some point in their lifetime. It's a mass-reservist model and also contributes to the army looking kind of like a big (if well-armed) militia.
When Israel goes to war, it mobilizes a lot of people who remain in the reserves until their early 40s. Imagine you are in your 20s/30s and most of your peers have served in the army and are in the reserves, and have to go on duty for up to a combined 54 days per year until they age out. That's during "normal" times. And their parents/grandparents were the same unless they were middle-aged Russians when they arrived.
I haven't quite figured it out, but I think there are strengths and weaknesses to this model. One of the strengths is that the army is not as removed from the civilian population as many armies are. It practically is the civilian population. This is not a colonial army in its structure even if it engages in colonial-style occupations. Predictions that Israel wouldn't fight after the Al-Aqsa Flood raid were incorrect because the civilian population and the army united and locked up tight. This was very bad. You want to heighten the gap between the army and the civilian population. The Israeli government being unpopular with Israelis also doesn't necessarily translate over to the army. The army as an institution might predate the government as an institution (in a sense).
On the other hand, this army isn't inexhaustible. Also the fact that they have to draw so many civilians away from their jobs to do war has an effect throughout the society. Businesses can't find workers, or they shut down because the guy who *owns* the business has to go off to war. The shared "division of labor" between couples breaks down because one has been called up when he used to drop the kids off at school, and now the other partner has to do that in addition to their other duties. But they will fight if they feel the stakes are exisential. However, if they do not feel it is, then there will be a collapse in morale. From some Israeli reports I've seen, it does appear that Israelis are feeling more and more exhausted.
There's no clear end goal in Gaza. The political conditions for Israeli victory are: return the hostages and destroy Hamas. There are around 20 hostages still alive. But it's not clear how they destroy Hamas if Hamas' goal is to simply survive, and they can do that by blending in with the civilian population. Israel in turn wages war on Gaza's civilian population. The consequences are horrendous. At same time, I'm not sure how many Israelis are thinking today that Hamas poses a threat to Israel, because again, Hamas are now just trying to survive. So what's the point of calling up tens of thousands of reservists AGAIN and invading Gaza City? (Answer: get the hostages.) But then why not make a ceasefire deal to return the hostages? (Because Hamas, in a sense, wins.)
>>2443874What makes you think they were tricked? Trump was very open about
A) Deporting latinos and
B) Shitting on African countries
>>2443816> But it's not clear how they destroy Hamas if Hamas' goal is to simply survive, and they can do that by blending in with the civilian population."Hamas" will be whatever next resistance movement arises. There is no way for Hamas to surrender or cease to exist in a manner that would satisfy Israel. They want to expel al Palestinians and expand Israel. Part of the issue with the army is that as you say it's a powerful binding experience, but in a special Israeli way. Because sure, the psychos whose job is to be a deathsquad or to form and pocket criminal organizations or to go and do the most horrible things imaginable are usually a select few in western armies. At least those officially designed to the task.
But in the Israeli army the genocidal violence, the supremacist colonial abuses are everyday bonding. Everyone is the squad that bonds by their "secret" gang rapes, everyone is the squad that bonds over their ritual cruelty. Everyone is the squad that bonds over being sadistic psychos. It's just that this duality is inherent ot being an Israeli and presenting Zionism to everyone outside their very limited world of world hegemon backed anachronistic colonialism.
Israel has all the reason to stop now that the UNRWA is gone, once thy clich the last of the credible guerrilla efforts. Once that's done, in a couple of generations, the Palestinians within Israel and the occupied territories will have even less of an identity than those abroad. New generations will not be employed by the UNRWA, they will not be educated by the UNRWA and their curriculums will be full hasbara. Israel is gonna be doing to surrounding Arabs what the Nazis only dreamed of doing with the Generalplan Ost.
And they need to, they need everyone to go through the army and come out a pedophile,rapist,murderer, supremacist psycho who can never truly bond or relate outside of those circles… because Israel lacks the demographics to expand and occupy the lands they want. So passing everyone through the monster machine is the only reliable way to import people who will be sufficiently committed to the implementation of Zionism. Because otherwise they will never locally produce the numbers to expand, or to hold the land, or to conquer it.
>>2443791I'm dumbstruck why the argument hasn't been raised that if a Palestinian state legally doesn't exist (From the Zionist perspective), and "Judea and Samaria" (West Bank) and now the Gaza strip are sovereign Israeli territory, then it follows that the people living in these territories should all be entitled to Israel citizenship.
Anything less constitutes genocide or apartheid. You cannot have it both ways legally.
I know it's going to offend some people here, but compared to the ANC during apartheid (as raised in another thread) both Fatah and Hamas are objectively reactionary. The "progressive" demand would have been: Full citizenship and integration, as well as recognition of movements like Fatah and Hamas as legitimate Israeli political parties, even in return for disarmament, which then could also have served as a legal basis for compensation for the Nakba, and changed to the Law of Return.
The Zionist gambit to postpone both recognition of a Palestinian state and prevent a de-facto two state solution has failed. They've defanged the PA, and now severely diminished Hamas, leaving not much in the way of an armed opposition in favor of either a separate Palestinian state, or the abolition of Israel itself.
The full emancipation of all Arabs in Palestine/Israel is now the (perhaps only) way forward. And this is what "Leftists" should be pushing for.
>>2443986Bigger question is whether that's desirable. I think full Portuguese citizenship (and its associated benefits 50 years later) would have been better than the Indonesian occupation which followed. But an autonomous region within Indonesia without continuous massacres and punitive actions would also have been better than what followed. With East Timor continuing to be one of the poorest countries in the world, with the Timorese people having little freedom of movement internationally.
>>2443816Further reason why a one state solution and full emancipation should be pushed for, because it would break one of the social foundations of the zionist project.
Without an external enemy, and with non-Haredi jews losing their absolute majority this system becomes untenable. Unless they extend it to every citizen, but then they can no longer maintain both their ethnostate, and an ethnically Jewish army.
I think a place like Singapore has shown, together with many other explicitly multiethnic states, that this is not the end of a state or a people, but it does mean the end of apartheid and settler colonialism.
I also agree with your last point, and it touches on a Zionist dilemma and the reasons for the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip twenty years ago: The point has always been to kick the can down the road. To keep the conflict going in a semi-frozen state, and prevent both the establishment of a unified state and separate Palestinian state. And maintain the majority Jewish demographic balance in Israel. As well as the preeminent position of necessity of the IDF as a social glue which turns Jews from all over the world into Israelis.
But that's all breaking down now. There's ever more Haredis, who do not wish to serve, or even in many cases, refuse to engage in any "profitable" (or at least taxable) economic activity. Discontinuing the wars also means everyone will be focused on Netanyahu and his domestic failures and scandals.
If one ends Hamas and any prospect for a two-state solution, it also threatens to upend the long-term demographics keeping parties like Likud in power.
The whole project is heading for a reckoning no matter if they "win" this war.
>>2444591Dunno about others, but I'm solidly on the "Hamas lost" side of things. But the entirety of the struggle was never completely tied up with Hamas anyway, anymore than Lenin was the beginning and end of Russian Communism.
This is however a new era.
Personally, I don't see the value of dwelling in fantasies about how Hamas will defeat the IDF in a final decisive battle and then all the Zionists will be immolated or something. It's cope at this point.
The ANC didn't win by destroying the South African state in its entirety and killing every white settler who moved there in the past one hundred years.
They won by securing emancipation, the abolition of the Bantustans, and full citizenship, political rights and freedom of movement.
That is what I believe the future is for the anti-Zionist cause from this point on. And it might be fought peacefully in courts and through protests both within Israel an internationally, or in the form of another intifada/insurrection, or both.
But I think the particular branch of anti-zionism represented by "defeating the IDF on the battlefield and killing all Zionists Haiti style" has reached a dead end.
>>2445098The same was said about Rhodesia and South Africa. It was a supposedly existential (racial) struggle against the indigenous population. But they still lost and were forced to accept emancipation.
Taking account both the non-Jewish arab population within Israel as well as Gaza and the West Bank, the growing Haredi population, as well as the increasing number of "left leaning" secular Israelis means the demographics keeping parties like Likud in power will become untenable as soon as the next election.
Shas + Likud is at 35 seats in recent polls. And the other remaining coalition partners are below the electoral threshold.
Graphic footage from the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis shows a strike hitting rescue workers following an initial strike.
According to Palestinian media, at least 14 were killed in the strikes, including three journalists.
One of them was a Reuters journalist and another was an associated press journalist killed in this strike by Israel so good luck to Israel with this shit show. Both news organizations work with thousands of outlets world wide
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn725ny0ryjt
>A Reuters cameraman and an Associated Press journalist were among those killed in the attack at Nasser Hospital>>2445132>Rhodesia or South AfricaIf Israel loses it's neocolonial enforcer role for NATO, then the loss is so much greater than those places swapping colonialism for financial imperialism. And so it won't be permitted to develop as those places did.
And if it doesn't, if the transition away from Zionism is somehow still leaving an Israel that is an attack dog of NATO… then has changed other than making Palestinians honorary Aryans of convenience? congratulations, this is exactly the same as the mythical "two state" solution and cannot be for the same reasons.
Double tapβ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts
In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals.
https://www.972mag.com/double-tap-israel-gaza-airstrikes-rescue/Great article.
>>2446389>if the transition away from Zionism is somehow still leaving an Israel that is an attack dog of NATO⦠then has changed other than making Palestinians honorary Aryans of convenience? congratulations, this is exactly the same as the mythical "two state" solution and cannot be for the same reasonWell then you get it. The Palestinian cause isn't ontologically anti-imperialist. Anymore than any other "self-determination" struggle. It's an artifact of historical circumstance.
A none ethnostate Israel nevertheless acting on NATO/US interests in the region? I can see it happening. It's not like Palestinians or Arab Israelis need the western "Left" or their solidarity after they achieve full emancipation.
Or maybe Israel will go to the Cuba route, and will stand in opposition to western Capital and imperialism in the region.
But I disagree both outcomes are the same, as I'm not convinced a two state solution will make the latter more likely. Less really. Because these settler colonial regimes are notable for their anti-communism and dependence on imperialist backing. They way they're organized, survive and operate is anathema to socialism.
People tend to forget South Africa performed much the same role Israel did during the Cold War: Keeping down communists in the region, including within SA. With US support.
Struggles for "self-determination" or emancipation also take up so much "space" culturally, etc. That they cast a shadow on the communist movement, unless communists are themselves inseparable from this struggle, as was the case in Russia and Vietnam (With Ho Chi Minh also aspiring towards an eventual Indochina federation).
This isn't the case with Hamas/Fatah however because they're typical libnats, and in case of Fatah, almost inseparable from compradors.
My personal view on why America helps Israel so much consists of several aspects. First, the United States is a global superpower. The only countries or groups that can currently compete with the United States in power or influence are China and the European Union, and you also have the Gulf states with their control over oil resources. The United States wants to maintain this role as the number one power. So far, the United States has 600 military bases around the world, and to maintain its influence in these places, it has supported the removal of democratically elected governments, funded opposition groups within countries with money and training to destabilize them, invaded countries militarily, formed alliances with wicked leaders, and mistreated noble leaders. They have ignored peopleβs violations and supported violations as well. The U.S. government does not care at all about human rights, womenβs rights, freedom, or democracy. They only care about maintaining their influence at any cost.
Before the establishment of Israel, as you know, it was a region primarily inhabited by Arabs of Muslim origin. After World War II, a large number of Jews were displaced, and various world powers made an agreement to send Jews to that location. This was, as you know, something terrible and genocidal in its outcome, as people did not simply join Palestine but removed hundreds of thousands of Muslims. When this first happened, the Soviet Union immediately recognized Israel as a state. They believed Israel could be their ally.
Shortly afterward, when the United States committed to supporting Israel and Israel was not following Soviet plans, the Soviets decided to ally more with the Arab world and Arab states. And as you know, the Soviets and the United States always had many problems, which made it easy for one side to fund Israel and the other side to fund the Arab states.
When World War II broke out, millions of Jews migrated to the United States. Half of the Jews in the world live in the United States. These people gained political and financial power that allowed them to lobby for Israel and create support for it. Then you have the larger group of Christians, who are told in the Bible to support the land of Israel, and they also hold power in the United States.
Bringing together these two groups of wealth and power makes it necessary, as a politician, to align with pro-Israel views, because U.S. politics requires a lot of donations, and news outlets have huge influence that can destroy your career, and they are privately owned by the wealthy, who are likely wealthy Zionists. This created an environment where it is in your interest, in order to hold power, to vote in ways that help Israel and publicly express views that support it. As you know, Israelβs location is where a very large part of global trade passes, with the Suez Canal next to your country and Israel. This is an important area for the United States to access, so it needs good relations with the countries in that location to do what it wants there.
Since the United States has more than 600 military bases around the world and wants to control strategic trade routes like this, it not only needs to establish relations with countries but also to establish embassies there, news institutions, and form alliances with political or local groups to advance its interests there. And to allow it to do so, it needs to offer something to the country: either protection, money, intimidation by force, goods, fighting their enemy, or creating opportunities for their growth. With Israel, the United States has a partner, and it needs surrounding countries to align with Israel. So it pays Jordan and Egypt a lot of money every year to maintain a civil relationship with Israel so that the United States can continue accessing these areas.
When there is a leader the United States agrees with or who accepts its bribes, the United States will not ruin his life. When they stand in the way of the United States, you may face an invasion, propaganda against you, assassination, sanctions, or support for your opposition as well. For the United States to do this, it needs to maintain relations with surrounding countries it wants to pressure militarily and also offer bribes or other things to neighboring countries so that they become enemies of that state too or stop approaching it. This is what you see in how the United States deals with Iran.
Over time, Israel, through funding from many Western countries and training and education systems, became an independent state that the United States can arm against enemies in the region, as Israel has a decent army, a lot of technological progress, and strong protection with defense systems, so it ended up functioning as a floating military base for the United States in that region.
This allows the United States to maintain its power in that region. And to strengthen this power, they have to make sure opposition does not grow in surrounding countries that openly oppose Israel in its actions or countries that decide to fight against them. They do not need them to be best friends but only to mind their own business. So the United States pushes these countries to reach agreements with Israel in documents, recognize capitals, bring their own embassies there, trade with Israel, and shut down anti-Israel people in those countries. When a country starts bothering the United States in this regard, the United States often funds groups to fight them even within their own state or buys people to create problems.
That is the military side of everything I said. The secondary part is what you may have heardβthat a large portion of the richest people in the world are Jews, so they will have great power to push people to support Israel, which makes it in their interest to do so, as well as wealthy Christians. These people want Israel to be strong, for Jews to be strong, or they have some biblical beliefs requiring Israel, so they want the state to be powerful. All
>>2448605I ainβt reading all that
Congratulations or sorry that happened
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/11/israel-iran-war-trump-nuclear-august-december/
>[W]ith its June attacks, Israel achieved a partial victory at best. Its preferred outcome was for Trump to fully engage, targeting both Iranβs conventional forces and economic infrastructure. But while Trump favors swift, decisive military action, he fears full-scale war. His strategy in attacking Iranβs nuclear facilities was thus designed to limit escalation rather than expand it. In the short term, Trump succeededβmuch to Israelβs chagrinβbut in the long run, he has allowed Israel to trap him in an escalatory cycle.
>His refusal to escalate beyond a limited bombing campaign was a key reason that Israel agreed to a cease-fire.…
>Regardless of whether Iran resumes uranium enrichment, Israel is determined to deny it time to replenish its missile arsenal, restore air defenses, or deploy improved systems. That logic is central to Israelβs βmowing the grassβ strategy: strike preventively and repeatedly to prohibit adversaries from developing capabilities that could challenge Israeli military dominance.
>This means that, with Iran already rebuilding its military resources, Israel has an incentive to strike sooner rather than later. Whatβs more, the political calculus around another attack becomes much more complicated once the United States enters its midterm election season. As a result, a strike could very well take place within the coming months.
>This, of course, is the outcome that Iranian leaders want to deter. To dispel any illusion that Israelβs βmowing the grassβ strategy works, Iran is likely to strike hard and fast at the outset of the next war. Venice: Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Back Gaza Drama βThe Voice of Hind Rajabβ as Executive Producers
Kaouther Ben Hania's film retells the real-life story of a six-year-old girl trapped in Gaza under Israeli fire, pleading for rescue.
Hollywood heavyweights, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Rooney Mara, have come on board Kaouther Ben Haniaβs Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, as executive producers, boosting the filmβs profile ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Also joining the film as executive producers are Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner of Pittβs production outfit Plan B, The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, and Roma filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. Several high-profile companies, including Britainβs Film4 and Saudi Arabian state-owned group MBC Studio, have also backed The Voice of Hind Rajab.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brad-pitt-backs-gaza-drama-film-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-1236353414/The Voice of Hind Rajab (Arabic: Ψ΅ΩΨͺ ΩΩΨ― Ψ±Ψ¬Ψ¨) is an upcoming 2025 drama film written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It follows the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who lived in the Gaza Strip and was killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.[3][4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_of_Hind_RajabW
>>2450238>X is now turning against Israel?Well everyone will at some point been against the second Nakba, other than people and organizations whose identity is *just* Zionism. Even Joe Biden's admin is already washing their hands off it.
But don't get tired of WINNING yet, fellow anti-Zionist. I have it on good word that the good people of Israel (Anti-Netanyahu) are planning to institute mandatory land acknowledgements for at least a couple of years in Israeli Gaza, before corporate AND public sector meetings.
And, aaaand peep this out: There are some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G-L-Y scathing
Hareetz and
972mag articles in the pipeline. I'll tell you now, Israel is never gonna live down the second Nakba! We got em'!
>>2451948>terror censoredfuck off maybe
Also why is the color of the writing italian or irish, cote d'ivoire? Solid idea, bad execution
>>2453945Give proofs not some twitter who.
If this indeed did happen, hinkle would cry and weep on his twitter.
>>2452962The mods are fake and ghey. This is not the only word filter. For example, the funniest one is α΄uα΄lossnW
>>2454119Well shit.
They never learn holy shit.
First Nasrallah, now this.
I'm not even counting Soleimani.
At least Abu Obeida is still invisible. Though I don't know how long.
THE HAGUE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: "Israelβs policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
"This is a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide," the association's president, Melanie O'Brien, a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia who specialises in genocide, told Reuters.
Sergey Vasiliev, a professor of international law at the Open University in the Netherlands who is not a member of the association, told Reuters the resolution showed that "this legal assessment has become mainstream within academia, particularly in the field of genocide studies."
Several international rights groups and some Israeli NGOs have already accused Israel of committing genocide. Last week hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk wrote to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
https://archive.is/pqGnGWhat will the Zionist cope be to this
>>2456733Disastrous long term consequences don't seem to stop the US from doing other ill-conceived things.
>>2456746The US very obviously doesn't care about optics. It stands alone with Israel voting down every common sense good idea the US puts forward for consideration.
>>2456764*UN not US, in the second part there
lol
Israeli occupation quadcopter drones throw incendiary bombs on civilians and cars in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
https://xcancel.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1963129020574203913#mGaza City right now.
Israel is massively bombing entire civilian neighborhoods in the middle of the night.
Families are trapped in their homes as Israeli bombs rain down.
This is an American-backed, American-funded Holocaust.
https://xcancel.com/sahouraxo/status/1963003637363315092#mThiago Avilla reports about the surveillance drones that flew above the Sumud Freedom Flotilla ships in international waters while heading to Gaza
https://xcancel.com/QudsNen/status/1963011969717281133#mThe Global Sumud Flotilla is launching today. Over 50 ships from 44 countries are taking part in the largest civilian mission to break Israelβs siege on Gaza.
BTβs Joel Northam is on board and will be reporting as it sets sail from Barcelona
https://xcancel.com/BTnewsroom/status/1962179221532336286#mGaza strip
8 July 2023 vs September 1, 2025.
Israel must be held accountable for this.
https://xcancel.com/TARUNspeakss/status/1962926675395805680#m3 year old Abdullah Al-Hour, the sole survivor of his family, suffered severe burns after an Israeli airstrike on their home in Al-Daraj neighborhood, Gaza City.
https://xcancel.com/vikingwarior20/status/1963104383958192273#m>>2465715Watch as 90% of your "allies" pivot to "cycle of violence" and both sides "denouncing terrorism".
Watch all the liberal Zionism that you claim as victories of the left shows it's true colors.
>>2467200Zionist occupied
government world. ZOW is real.
>>2467250Fell for it again award.
When will these retards not understand they are trying to negotiate with the empire that wants them dead? Also fuck russchink alliance for not helping. And dont give me the arab ummah cope. Fuck them. I rather israel genocide them but of course they wont because they are good boys for bibi. Russchinks are such pussies to challege the usa golem. Fucking unreal.
>>2467412alright but the west hates Iran and would gladly support a proxy war between Iran and Israel.
Striking Qatar is a (relatively) unhinged move since Qatar is not some boogeyman "enemy" state but actually has close ties to the west. But you know, this is Israel we're talking about so they'll get away with it probably.
>>2468101just how he claims epstein was a hoax while mike the cuck johnson claims he was an fbi informant. They really do think you are stupid and just need something to cope.
It's truly a sad state of affairs.
in other clown world news
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeoAnti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sitesThe firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.
BBC News has confirmed the identities of 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working in Gaza for UG Solutions - a private contractor providing security at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, where hundreds of civilians seeking food have been killed in scenes of chaos and gunfire.
We can reveal that seven members of the gang are in senior positions overseeing sites at the controversial aid operation backed by Israel and US President Donald Trump.
UG Solutions (UGS) defended its employees' qualifications for the job, saying it does not screen people out for "personal hobbies or affiliations unrelated to job performance".
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said it has "a zero-tolerance policy for any hateful, discriminatory biases or conduct".
Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol - a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem.
The gang is currently hosting anti-Muslim hate speech on its Facebook page and has previously held a pig roast "in defiance of" the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The gang's leader, Johnny "Taz" Mulford, is a former sergeant in the US Army who was punished for conspiracy to commit bribery, theft and making false statements to military authorities. He is now the "country team leader" running UG Solutions' contract in Gaza.
We emailed Infidels MC for comment.
In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza.By matching up names with public information about Infidels MC's leadership, and evidence from UG Solutions insiders who worked with them, we have identified 10 members of Infidels MC who Mr Mulford recruited to work with him in Gaza.
UGS told the BBC it conducts comprehensive background checks and only deploys vetted individuals. However, news reports indicate Mr Jarrett was arrested two years ago in the US for drunk driving and has a previous charge of driving under the influence from about a decade earlier. It is not known whether either case resulted in a conviction.
The founder and chief executive of UG Solutions, Jameson Govoni, was arrested earlier this year in North Carolina for his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident and for fleeing from police to evade arrest, according to court documents. Mr Govoni, who is based in the US and is not a member of Infidels MC, declined to comment.
Until now Mr Mulford was the only UG Solutions contractor to have been identified as a member of the Infidels. The BBC's investigation reveals how widespread his hiring of members of the biker gang has been, notably to better-paid jobs leading the UGS armed security teams.
Social media posts show that in May, just two weeks before travelling to Gaza, Mr Mulford sought to recruit US military veterans who follow him on Facebook, inviting anyone who "can still shoot, move and communicate" to apply.
In total, at least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC, according to an estimate by a former contractor.
UG Solutions is paying each contractor $980 (Β£720) per day including expenses, rising to $1,580 (Β£1,160) per day for team leaders at GHF's "safe distribution sites", documents seen by the BBC show.
One leader of a team in Gaza overseeing site security, Josh Miller, posted a photo of a group of contractors in Gaza with a banner reading "Make Gaza Great Again".
The banner advertises the logo of a company he owns which sells T-shirts and other clothing, including one which has the slogan "embrace violence" and another which says: "Surf all day, rockets all night. Gaza summer 25."
Mr Miller has the word "Crusader" tattooed across his fingers and "1095" on his thumbs. This is the year when the leader of the Catholic church, Pope Urban II, launched the first crusade, attacking Muslims as a "vile race". Mr Miller did not respond to requests for comment.
A post on the Infidels MC Facebook page selling "1095" hats says it signifies the start of the Crusades, "a military campaign by western European forces to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control". The "Holy Land" refers to the area mostly covered by modern-day Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Johnny Mulford, who in addition to leading the gang is listed as the registered agent of a Florida company called Infidels MC, has the date 1095 tattooed across his chest. He has a Crusader cross tattooed on his right forearm and another on his left upper arm along with the word "Infidels".
The Infidels MC website also used to show the skull logo of the violent Marvel comic book character Punisher, a symbol appropriated by white supremacist groups, inscribed with "kafir" in Arabic script - which translates as "unbeliever" (or "infidel").
Scenes of chaos and danger have been common at the aid distribution sites in Gaza since they opened at the end of May. Up to 2 September, 1,135 children, women and men were killed near GHF sites while seeking food, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The UN has said most of the killings appear to have been carried out by Israeli security forces. Incidents where civilians were harmed while seeking aid are "under review by the competent authorities in the IDF", the Israeli military said.
UGS has denied allegations that its security contractors also fired on civilians and that it put people seeking food in danger due to incompetent leadership. However, the company has admitted that warning shots have been used to disperse crowds.
In a statement, UG Solutions, based in North Carolina, said Johnny Mulford is a "trusted and respected figure" with more than 30 years' experience supporting the US and its allies globally. "We stand by his reputation, record, and his contributions to the success of complex missions," the company said.
"We do not screen for personal hobbies or affiliations unrelated to job performance or security standards. Every team member undergoes comprehensive background checks, and only qualified, vetted individuals are deployed on UG Solutions operations," UGS said.
Socialist led initiative petitioning to force out former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock from being the new UN President, backed by the Spanish and Italian Communist Parties, various Dem-Soc groups, amongst others:
>https://act.progressive.international/baerbock-resign/So far it has almost 80,000 signatures. It will not succeed in isolation, but the pressure helps to make her position untennable. If a large left block refuses to accept her position, if various states refuse it, etc.
She is a hardcore Zionist who helped protect Netanyahu from being arrested for war crimes and who greatly increased German arms sales to Israel throughout the current phase of the genocide.
If she is UN president she will set the agenda of the organisation for the next few years, and she is going to be very firmly pro-Israel. She could do a lot of real damage to prevent legislation to stop the genocide, apartheid, occupation.
>>2477952It's great to see how acts of grandstanding buy absolution for the EU. Maybe Spain can kick the Israeli cyclists as well and pretend their government hasn't been trading weapons and looking the other way when Israeli weapon ships came and went form their ports.
Maybe they can compare with with Russia being kicked from every other sporting event and claim to be "balanced", maybe they can bothsides this as well.
JFC, the liberal Zios will buy you with peanuts.
>>2468033this guy's a holocaust denier
@1:01:25
>"So, we don't actually have any concrete evidence for the Holocaust." Unique IPs: 124