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British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard says Israel has exterminated at least 20% of the population in Gaza.
He described to Tucker Carlson the kidnapping, torture and rape of Palestinian medics. "Their genitals were repeatedly attacked. Specifically. They were electrocuted through their genitals."
This reminds me that twenty years ago a Romanian woman told me that she had dated an Israeli who claimed that in the IDF he'd killed women and children. When she asked he'd said he hadn't raped the women because he wasn't attracted to Arabs. It might have been a sadomasochistic sex game but it could be true.
I had lunch the other day with a partner in a big law firm who said that Romanians had always idealised America and now she did not know what to think. She asked my advice.
A Facebook friend sent me this message - I do not know if he is left-wing, right-wing or centre or what those terms now mean
<The Western media continues to portray US-Iranian talks as a means for US President Trump to end the war many portray as a "failure" even as the US continues striking Iran amid a "ceasefire."
But the US wanting to end the war is a false assumption.
The US goals are:
1. Continue weakening Iran but without triggering wider, unsustainable hostilities;
2. Continue decreasing Middle East energy exports to Asia, including China by maintaining constant instability and threat of wider war;
3. While preventing a rapid global economic collapse and instead using the crisis to incrementally impose dependence on US energy exports onto Asia just as the US did to Europe;
The worst part about Western reports regarding supposed US "diplomacy" is that the last 26 years alone of US aggression against Iran prove the US uses diplomacy only to further war on its own terms, not to avoid or end it!
The US is currently managing similar balancing acts of hostility just below all out direct war with both Russia and China.>
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." Warren Buffett
Similarly when things are done that are just as bad as the things the Germans did in what we still call 'the war' a lot of things are naked and we see who has no moral compass.
The man in the street sees who has sided with Israel in the holocaust in Gaza and Lebanon. He sees the US government go from being the world's very corrupt policeman to being literally a gang of pirates.
Jordan Peterson is one person who has lost his reputation. Douglas Murray was always a neo con.
All American politicians except Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene whose careers have been ended by Trump and Zionist money, have made terms with murder.
All British politicians from Starmer to Kemi.
Some good people, notably Tucker Carlson, John Mearsheimer, Chas Freeman and Andrew Napolitano.
I like this post by a great man very much.
Never were so many aphorisms coined, published and disseminated globally.
This is why bad actors like the USA and the European Union are held to account in a way that was impossible at the turn of the century.
This is why EU 'President' Ursula von der Leyen says suppressing free speech misinformation is her first priority.
'Transport for London (TfL) have removed fake adverts from the tube that claimed the BBC was covering up Israel’s “crimes”. The advert showed what appeared to be dead bodies covered up by large letters in the logo of the BBC, with an Israeli army helmet hanging on the side of one of the letters. The poster proclaimed “we don’t cover Israel’s crimes, we cover them up.”
'Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) reported this obviously illegal poster to TFL, which acted swiftly.
'A spokesperson for TFL told UKLFI: “… this poster was not authorised by Transport for London or our advertising partners. As such, we have instructed our teams and contractors to remove any that are found on our network.”'
From the site of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) which reported the ads.
Why were they obviously illegal?
Because they were an example of flyposting, which is a minor tort, or because their content was a crime for some reason?
I hope the former.
The organisation is very keen to suppress criticism of Israel. Has anyone in Parliament suggested the UK allowing free speech as she did before the Race Relations Act 1965? Nigel Farage did years ago but free speech is almost the most important issue there is.
"Netanyahu is the most able consolidator of all the dark impulses of Israeli society … [However], the Messianic drive to settle the greater Israel predates Netanyahu, as well as the overall brutal, racist degradation of Palestinians … [Very noticeable] is the subservience of the “opposition”; I don’t recall anything like it in the past. If you look at the governments that went to wars in 1973 and 1982, they faced considerable opposition, within the Knesset and outside of it, on the very issue of whether the war was justified … None of that is left today … In Lebanon, the Israeli armed forces are using Gaza tactics, attacking hospitals and killing medical staff, while in Iran they have engaged in what has been rightly described as chemical warfare on account of strikes on fuel depots.
"As to the Labor Party … [there are] a handful of MKs that are obsessed with displays of liberal values and with welfare legislation when genocide is in full force and Apartheid shifts from de facto to de jure. The other “opposition” parties are either led by generals (Golan, Eizenkot) who offer zero alternatives to military dominance, or by right-wing neoliberals (Bennet, Lapid). The only representatives of left values in the Knesset are the Arab MKs …"
Idan Landau, Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, who has been imprisoned on several occasions for his refusal to serve in the IDF, quoted by Alastair Crooke
“It’s ironic and tragic that a movement that began as an attempt to free Jews from persecution, to give them a place of their own – a process of emancipation, liberation, humanitarian aspiration – ends its path as a racist and violent one … It became more and more likely that without a constitution that protects rights for everyone, Zionism, once it became the ideology of a state, would give up on the option of becoming a normal state for its citizens … There were attempts to redirect the process. The most important came in the early 1990s with Oslo. That attempt was blocked, very aggressively, with Netanyahu’s encouragement, with Rabin’s murder. Not enough is said about the fact that Rabin’s blood is on Netanyahu’s hands. Netanyahu was the main beneficiary of one of the most successful political murders of the 20th century."
Professor Omer Bartov interviewed in Ha’aretz
"You said that Israel is at war with Hamas. Let me ask you a simple question. Why are you shooting children in the skull and in the chest? why are you killing journalists? Why are you killing medics? Why are you killing UN workers?"
Norman Finkelstein
Points made by former US Ambassador Chas Freeman talking to Glenn Diesen today.
"I tell my friends in China that the United States is now agreement-incapable."
"Any fondness that the Iranian people previously had for the United States is now pretty much erased."
At one point he says the Iran war has had no positive consequences but then lists a number. USA and Israel are much less powerful. Most of the Gulf monarchies are disenchanted with America, Israel’s new best friend the United Arab Emirates excepted. Iran will get the bomb and Nato is largely finished.
Indeed it's an ill wind that blows no good.
'You have members of NATO now denying the United States the use of their airspace or their bases. You have publics that are very turned off by both the United States and by Israel. You have the revelation that the bases in Europe for the most part are there not to defend Europeans against a mythical Russian threat but to provide 'lily pads' from which the United States can project power into West Asia and it's projecting power into West Asia to do things that almost nobody in Europe approves. But you opened all this with questions about the viability of the state of Israel and this [the end of Nato] is a situation like that question which unfolds only with time. There's nothing instant about it, very likely. So it will be like Hemingway's famous description of bankruptcy which happened gradually then suddenly.'
Why do I look forward to an Iranian bomb? Obviously because it will prevent further American attacks on Iran.
The word terrorist should be avoided but if you want to use it then the murder of 49 Iranian leaders was clear terrorism.
Except terrorist means a fighter of whom Americans disapprove. That excludes the IRA whom they funded.
As the US pretended to engage in diplomacy with China, US-backed terrorists have been/still are attacking Chinese citizens, Chinese investments, and diplomatic missions around the world - including in Pakistan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan - all as part of an ADMITTED campaign to target and disrupt China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
This most recent attack reported on by FT admits:
A bombing near a railway track in Quetta in south-western Pakistan killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more, according to state media.
The Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist group, claimed “full responsibility” for the attack, which they said had targeted a train carrying security personnel, according to a statement from the group that was seen by the FT.
and that:
The BLA has also targeted China-backed infrastructure and Chinese workers in the region, including the Gwadar Port, the flagship of the $62bn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. CPEC is a centrepiece of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road overseas infrastructure investment programme.
As far back as 2011, US policymakers discussed using BLA to target BRI projects in Pakistan - like in the National Interest piece titled, "Free Baluchistan" which says:
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests...
Ever since, the US has backed armed militants across Eurasia to target and destroy Chinese projects, kill Chinese citizens, and even have attempted to assassinate Chinese diplomats in what is a US dirty war on China.
Don't listen to what the US is saying, watch what it and its proxies are doing...
Sources:
FT: https://archive.ph/WhWII#selection-2049.0-2056.0
National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/free-baluchistan-4799
Two months before Nick Kristof's report about dogs trained by Israelis raping Arab prisoners the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture wrote to the Israeli government asking for investigations into sexual assault of Palestinian detainees, including with dogs. She got no response.
The world was much smaller when Alexander ruled it. Neither Napoleon nor Hitler sought to rule the world and nor did England, which was content to rule a quarter of it, but America does.
This is from Brian Berletic today and yesterday. He has become my favourite analyst along with former Ambassador Chas Freeman, Professor John Mearsheimer and Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Mr Berletic underestimates the power of Israel and the Israel lobby. Just as we now know Kim Il Sung manipulated Stalin and Ho Chi Minh manipulated Soviet Russia much more than the other way around, Netanyahu most certainly manipulated US presidents. As Bill Clinton said after talking to him 'Who's the f-ing superpower here?
The US hypothetically seeking a constructive role among nations rather than seeking dominance over them is for a nation that wants to be stable. The current US strategy is driven by a desire to be supreme. Historically, when a great power chooses supremacy over stability, the transition to a new international order usually happens through a major crisis - like a world war - rather than a “grand bargain.
