Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates
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Israel unintentionally promoting the BDS campaign cos obvs its extremely normal to promote every sector of your commerce funding your military as a great thing and reason why you should keep buying local, definitely not starship troopers coded at all no sireeee
reminds of previous openly unhinged shit no other country that wasn't doing America's/UK's neocolonial foreign policy wetwork to gain control over the middle east entire resource production and trade routes
unhasbarable lol, and also "look when others see the kid throwing rocks at our tanks you should really try to explain how it feels from our tank's view cos otherwise it looks kinda bad" lol
reminds of previous openly unhinged shit no other country that wasn't doing America's/UK's neocolonial foreign policy wetwork to gain control over the middle east entire resource production and trade routes
unhasbarable lol, and also "look when others see the kid throwing rocks at our tanks you should really try to explain how it feels from our tank's view cos otherwise it looks kinda bad" lol
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this. is. not. satire
was too slow editing these in last post
was too slow editing these in last post
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It seems the opportunist side of the right wing have decided to appease majority anti-genocide sentiment by saturating their vast highly-funded omnipresent output with increasingly flagrant anti-Semitism to avoid/replace the criticisms of Israel that rather inconveniently incriminate western powers and their precious state-mandated mass mental illness we call patriotism, exceptionalism, jingoism (whatever, whichever term is more comfortable to reference such casual strangulation of critical thinking) - So is more important than ever there's people utilising their middle east studies like this, trying their best to educate others on these matters of historical/geopolitical reality the majority of media is more than happy leaving to billionaire fascists to reframe/redirect and spin for their own typical ends - though quite depressing the algorithm only cooperates when linking to established influencers/drama
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literally treating the Palestinians as fun targets for their daily game challenges when shooting them
hate using the word evil but really what the fuck else is there at this point
as always the relationship between far right agitators and Israel/Zionist fervour is much much cosier than sadly most are aware of - though makes complete sense after enough surrounding context is provided, their goals align after all
hate using the word evil but really what the fuck else is there at this point
as always the relationship between far right agitators and Israel/Zionist fervour is much much cosier than sadly most are aware of - though makes complete sense after enough surrounding context is provided, their goals align after all
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Fucking hell.
apnews.com
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.
apnews.com
don't be a freaky creep and don't get blackmailed, is simple rule to live by surely
Let's check on politics in the current phase of genocide.
Democrats finally remember they're supposed to be against genocide, but still haven't learned to name how a famine is happening.
Liberal influencers have been calling the claims of a coming starvation campaign "crying wolf" to not have to acknowledge their own complicity in genocide.
Well, at least Trump is consistently awful.
Democrats finally remember they're supposed to be against genocide, but still haven't learned to name how a famine is happening.
Liberal influencers have been calling the claims of a coming starvation campaign "crying wolf" to not have to acknowledge their own complicity in genocide.
Well, at least Trump is consistently awful.
I disagree, Obama was one of the better presidents on this issue, other than possibly Clinton. He didn't get along with the Israelis at all, given that his first foreign trip was in Egypt, not Israel.
The Biden-Obama divide over how closely to support Israel
The current president believes his close embrace of Israel, which he called for as vice president, gives him greater influence with Israeli leaders and the public.
The problem is that neither Biden, Obama, nor even Clinton was able to solve this issue by giving more leeway to the EU, and the US's arab allies to force Israel to the table and stop the West Bank Colonies Israel has created and enlarged. That and Netanyahu is incredibly self-serving and cunning, and the Israeli public silently agrees with colonization due to historical fears about their neighbors and housing costs.
The logical conclusion of cockroach brain realpolitik wonkery, human rights get used as a bargaining chip in an attempt to turn around from genocide apologia. At no point has Keir Starmer ever considered Palestinians as people. Perhaps not once in his life.
The strangest aspect of Starmer's approach is that it implies the right to self-governance and the right to a state are neither universal, nor are they dependent on the circumstances of Palestine's own population. They're dependent instead on the unilateral decisions of a different government. What moral justification can there be for that?
I suppose one could make a purely tactical case for this ultimatum. But its totally unprincipled and sets a fucking terrible precedent.
b b b b how did this could've happun?!
literal (ex?) CIA not leading with their best foot forward
literal (ex?) CIA not leading with their best foot forward
A feat worthy of song.
It seems slightly better than Mark Carney's approach, which seems to tie statehood to extinguishing all resistance to israel.
ex-CIA is not a thing
The Israel security council have approved Netanyahu's plan to seize Gaza City.
the rage isn't subsiding, there's no way they're gonna get away with rewriting history again, everyone culpable will not launder their reputations clear of empirical genocide this time even if they probably will evade all legal accountability - spite for ghouls hiding behind rules through dead-eyed whites peer the pooling void blank and blindly drool off infinite expansion
there is no justice we don't make ourselves, don't fall for age old trick of alleged metaphysical judgement that the wealthy and the powerful want us to believe so we don't hold them to account or rise up against injustices...What's the fucking point if it doesn't actually help us learn and evolve as a society anyway? What's the fucking point if we just repeat the same horrors over and over and over again? That ain't justice that's self soothing and fixes bloody nothing
this guy is also literally cosying up with far right personalities and political, uh, whatever the word is...influencers? Lobbyists? Activists? I don't fucking know all I know is they are obscenely rich and lingering around the upper classes like smug tapeworm
over 200 journalists killed now, they broke world records ages ago they don't need to keep proving themselves, those are bigly large numbers, line go way up
Interesting context I fear still so few are aware of, even though it was written at time of Theresa May, it covers historical motivations quite opposed to the claims of modern day western imperialists
capitalist thirst for control of natural resources like oil for the more 'forward-facing' secular governments, of which America is also a rabid addict and enforcer
there is no justice we don't make ourselves, don't fall for age old trick of alleged metaphysical judgement that the wealthy and the powerful want us to believe so we don't hold them to account or rise up against injustices...What's the fucking point if it doesn't actually help us learn and evolve as a society anyway? What's the fucking point if we just repeat the same horrors over and over and over again? That ain't justice that's self soothing and fixes bloody nothing
this guy is also literally cosying up with far right personalities and political, uh, whatever the word is...influencers? Lobbyists? Activists? I don't fucking know all I know is they are obscenely rich and lingering around the upper classes like smug tapeworm
over 200 journalists killed now, they broke world records ages ago they don't need to keep proving themselves, those are bigly large numbers, line go way up
Interesting context I fear still so few are aware of, even though it was written at time of Theresa May, it covers historical motivations quite opposed to the claims of modern day western imperialists
importantZionism, anti-semitism, and the Balfour Declaration
A complementarity between the anti-semitic desire to get rid of the Jews and the Zionist project of sending all Jews to Palestine seems ignored, for example, by Theresa May.
2 November 2017
The Right Honourable Edwin Samuel Montagu, British Liberal politician. Wikicommons/ Central News Agency - National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection. Some rights reserved.Close to a year ago, on 12 December of last year, PM Theresa May addressed the Annual Business Lunch of the Conservative Friends of Israel in these terms: “On November 2, 1917, the then Foreign Secretary – a Conservative Foreign Secretary – Arthur James Balfour wrote: ‘His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, …’”
The PM read the whole text of the letter I will be getting back to later. She then went on saying: “It is one of the most important letters in history. It demonstrates Britain’s vital role in creating a homeland for the Jewish people. And it is an anniversary we will be marking with pride.”
The PM added: “Born of that letter, and the efforts of so many people, is a remarkable country.” A country, Israel, which the PM described as “a thriving democracy, a beacon of tolerance, an engine of enterprise and an example to the rest of the world for overcoming adversity and defying disadvantages.”
The PM then seized the opportunity of her speech to attack the Labour Party on the issue of anti-semitism. This came a few days after a similar event organised by Labour Friends of Israel: “I understand this lunch has a lot to live up to after the extraordinary scenes at the Labour Friends of Israel event. It began, unusually, with Tom Watson giving a full-throated rendition of Am Yisrael Hai. The audience joined in as his baritone voice carried across the hall. ‘Am Yisrael Hai – the people of Israel live.’ It is a sentiment that everybody in this room wholeheartedly agrees with. But let me say this: no amount of karaoke can make up for turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism.”
The PM went on taking pride in her own achievements as Minister and the achievements of her party and government in combatting anti-semitism (and conflating it with anti-Zionism). The PM’s speech thus rested upon what anyone who knows the true circumstances of the Balfour Declaration can identify as a blatant contradiction.
Theodore Herzl important
Essential for anyone still confused why the US and much of the west are so stubborn on letting Israel get away with literal mass murder as weapons continue to be sent to aid their endeavour - just add a dash of colonialThe clear gaze of Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl circa 1900. Wikicommons/ Carl Pietzner. Some rights reserved.None is clearer on this actually than Theodor Herzl himself, the founder of the Zionist movement and the author of its manifesto, Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews), which was translated in English as The Jewish State. In the preface to that book, Herzl stated most bluntly the following: “Everything depends on our propelling force. And what is our propelling force? The misery of the Jews.”
Herzl continued in the same vein and with even greater bluntness in the introduction to his book, addressing the “assimilated” secular Jews of Western Europe who wanted to get rid of poor Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe and whom he did not hesitate to describe as “anti-Semites of Jewish origin” with no pejorative intention:
“The ‘assimilated’ would profit even more than Christian citizens by the departure of faithful Jews; for they would be rid of the disquieting, incalculable, and unavoidable rivalry of a Jewish proletariat, driven by poverty and political pressure from place to place, from land to land. This floating proletariat would become stationary. Many Christian citizens – whom we call Anti-Semites – can now offer determined resistance to the immigration of foreign Jews. Jewish citizens cannot do this, although it affects them far more nearly; for on them they feel first of all the keen competition of individuals carrying on similar branches of industry, who, in addition, either introduce Anti-Semitism where it does not exist, or intensify it where it does.
The ‘assimilated’ give expression to this secret grievance in ‘philanthropic’ undertakings. They found emigration societies for wandering Jews. There is a reverse to the picture which would be comic, if it did not deal with human beings. For some of these charitable institutions are created not for, but against, persecuted Jews, they are created to despatch these poor creatures just as fast and far as possible. And thus, many an apparent friend of the Jews turns out, on careful inspection, to be nothing more than an Anti-Semite of Jewish origin, disguised in the garb of a philanthropist. But the attempts at colonization made even by really benevolent men, interesting attempts though they were, have so far been unsuccessful. … These attempts were interesting, in that they represented on a small scale the practical fore-runners of the idea of a Jewish State.”
The new project devised by Herzl in replacement of the failed “philanthropic” colonial enterprises that he mentioned was to shift from benevolent actions to a political endeavour integrated into the European colonialist framework, aimed at the foundation of a Jewish state that would belong to this framework and reinforce it.
For this, Herzl realized that Christian anti-Semites would be his project’s staunchest supporters. His main argument, in the section entitled “The Plan” of his book’s second chapter, is the following: “The creation of a new State is neither ridiculous nor impossible. … The Governments of all countries scourged by Anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want.”
All that was needed was to select the territory upon which the Zionist project would materialize:
“Here two territories come under consideration, Palestine and Argentina. In both countries important experiments in colonization have been made, though on the mistaken principle of a gradual infiltration of Jews. An infiltration is bound to end badly. It continues till the inevitable moment when the native population feels itself threatened, and forces the Government to stop a further influx of Jews. Immigration is consequently futile unless based on an assured supremacy. The Society of Jews will treat with the present masters of the land, putting itself under the protectorate of the European Powers, if they prove friendly to the plan.”
Toward the end of his book’s last chapter, where he explained the “Benefits of the Emigration of the Jews”, Herzl reassured those he addressed that the governments will pay attention to his scheme “either voluntarily or under pressure from the Anti-Semites”.
You can now understand why Edwin Montagu denounced the Balfour Letter project as the product of collusion between the Zionist movement and British anti-Semites; why he stated categorically that “the policy of His Majesty’s Government is anti-Semitic and in result will prove a rallying ground for Anti-Semites in every country in the world.”
Abysmal record
David Lloyd George’s cabinet tried to assuage Montagu’s concerns about the fate of the Palestinian non-Jewish majority and the fate of the Jews who were unwilling to become colonial settlers in Palestine by adding to their pledge to “use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement” of the object of “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” the provision that it was “clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
We know the abysmal record of the British government in keeping with these two provisos that were in complete contradiction with the central pledge of the infamous letter as well as with its true spirit.
That PM Theresa May, a century later, could find in the infamous Balfour Declaration a matter of pride while stating her satisfaction at her party’s and government’s stance against antisemitism is indeed a reason for dismay at the low level of historical knowledge of Her Majesty’s present government and their speechwriters.
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I know nobody that needs to, actually gives a toss about holocaust survivors opinions (Starmer certainly didn't when Corbyn had to be taken down), but in the rare hope they may for someone else out there
Fuck Microsoft
www.theguardian.com
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
www.gamedeveloper.com
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
I'm always willing when it comes to these type of survivors.
I can not think of a worse human being right now, and I am trying.
