Israel Occupation Forces looking for Hamas?

 

 

Middle East Eye

Video released by Israeli soldiers shows them vandalize a bookstore in Gaza.

Arrogant Zionist colonialism. This is what has been happening for the last 75 years in Palestine.

When and how does it end?

Craig Murray is not a terrorist!

 

George Galloway

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray is being investigated under the Terrorism Act. 

What for? He doesn’t know. Why should he? 

Move along now....  

Gimme, gimme, gimme....

 

A beggar and a grifter comes to Washington.

Ukraine has lost.

Anymore $$$$$$$ is just going down the MIC rat hole. 

Of course Biden is worried. 

Z-man has the goods on the Hunter Biden Ukraine-Burisma pay offs that bought influence in the Obama-Biden administration. 

Update:

Biden announces he's signed 'Another $200 Million Drawdown' from Pentagon for Ukraine. See more here 

Israel gives middle finger to United Nations

 

 

Al Jazeera English

United Nations run schools in north Gaza have been bombed and stormed by Israeli forces, leaving behind widespread destruction. 

Thousands of Palestinians who were sheltering there have been forced to flee again. 

In the short video below Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) cheer as school is blown up.

 

Collapsing settler colonial projects become more brutal as they decline

 

Middle East Eye

 “It’s the only state in the world that lobbies for its existence. Not for its policies. Not for its better economic performance, but for it’s very moral justification, and it’s losing that battle.” 

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe says that Israel is a settler colonial project which may be coming to an end. He warns that settler colonial projects reaching their last phase become more “brutal and ruthless”. 

Analyze what's going on....

 

Declassified UK

With 40% of Keir Starmer’s (Labour party leader in UK) cabinet having been funded by pro-Israel lobbyists, and a third of Boris Johnson's cabinet, is it any surprise that Britain's foreign policy towards Palestine is so one-sided?

Matt Kennard and Phil Miller discuss the Israel Lobby and its implications for UK foreign policy on Gaza and the wider region.  

And it is the same story in the United States. The Zionists run virtually all elements of our society. Government, media, Wall Street, higher ed, pharma and even sports. 

We are not allowed to talk about it. Why?

Heartless headlines as war drags on

 

We are repeatedly instructed

that Washington

is exceptional.

And that Israel

is the only 'democracy'

in the region.

The notion

is that US-Israel 

are better

than the rest.

 

Seemingly more moral

and governed

by the

'rules based order'.

 

Or should I say

odor....

Gaza healthcare system

‘completely collapsed’.

Germany urges Israel to 

‘cause fewer civilian victims’,
so liberal of them. 

Just kill them a bit slower!

And out of view....
 
Netanyahu thanks Biden/Blinken

for more 

“important ammunition” 

and UNSC veto

that killed ceasefire resolution.

Israel using ‘heavier hand’ against 

Palestinian children since October 7,

an epidemic of cruelty now.

Destroying the next gen.

Another war crime.

Ancient Gaza mosque reduced to ruins,
built in fifth century, 

a Byzantine church, before it was restored by the Ayyubids. 

In 1260, destroyed by the Mongols 

and then rebuilt. 

At the end of that century, destroyed by an earthquake

but 300 years later, Ottomans restored it.

 

The Great Omari Mosque

one of the most prominent historical and religious landmarks in Gaza,

used to house traditional manuscripts and ancient parchments. 

Now destroyed,

it must rise again.

 

Israel trying to

erase history,

in order to make the case

that Jews always owned the land.

Cultural genocide.

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)

says it must prevent 

further dissemination 

of images 

showing Palestinians detained in Gaza,

wearing nothing but underwear.

 

Global outrage over humiliating photos.
Israeli national security adviser says,

'there will be no further distribution of such images'.

 

Tel Aviv taking a PR beating,

of its own arrogant making.
 

Public opinion in six countries 

comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 

agrees that Israel is guilty of genocide.

There goes

the 'good neighbor' policy.

But says Netanyahu,

the end of the war is still a 'long way away'.
Plenty of time left

for total extermination.

Just wait

til the diseases kick in.

 

Behind the scenes

Biden/Blinken say,

take your time

and finish the job.

Let us know

if you need anything....

 

Gaza resident

22-year-old Alia Kassan says,

‘I am no longer scared of dying’.

 

Bruce 

Israeli propaganda gets desperate

 

 

Middle East Eye

Footage from Gaza is raising questions about the authenticity of Israeli forces’ claims regarding their operations in Gaza. The videos, initially shared by Israeli reporter Barak Ravid and later deleted, depict Moin Qeshta Al-Masry, a civilian and owner of an aluminium workshop. 

Al-Masry is shown in two videos standing with a group of arrested Palestinian men all stripped except from underwear. In the two videos, supposed to be for the same event, Al-Masry was coerced by Israeli soldiers into holding weapons in various staged manners. The two videos show him holding a weapon in different hands indicating the same scene was repeated in what appears to be an attempt to manipulate the narrative. 

These new videos seem to be part of a larger effort by Israeli forces to support their claims of arresting fighters in Gaza. The exposure of this setup by social media users, who quickly identified Al-Masry, has led to public reactions ranging from disbelief to criticism.

One of the best Palestinian analysts

 

 

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discusses how the US Department of State has said that it will impose visa restrictions on Israeli settlers involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the Occupied West Bank.

Marwan Bishara is a Palestinian-Israeli Arab, born in Nazareth, Israel. He is currently an author, columnist and the senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English.

From 2007 to 2014, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programme Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over.

He has been described as "one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals" and writes extensively on global politics and is widely considered a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs.

Although he grew up in Israel, Marwan Bishara has spent most of his adult life outside the country, including periods of studying, living and working in the United States and France as well as traveling extensively in the course of his career interests, travel which he has described as providing "perspectives like no other". 

Sunday song

 

 

Hundreds rally in Bath & Brunswick (Maine) for Palestine

 

About 300 mostly young activists at Bath Iron Works on Friday

The navy shipyard in Bath has shift change at 3:30 pm

Traffic picks up around 3:00 pm

A rally with speakers began at 2:00 pm as the crowd grew

At 3:00 pm people began moving into the middle of street

Folks held a die-in blocking traffic

 

Traffic from both directions was shut down for about 90 minutes (Click on the photos for a better view)

Bath Iron Works (BIW) is owned by the General Dynamics Corporation which builds the bunker buster bombs that Washington has sent to Israel. More than 100 have been shipped so far.

BIW built destroyer warships have been sent to the Red Sea (just off Yemen) and to the Mediterranean Sea to protect Israel since this war began on October 7. 

In 2003 when George W. Bush launched 'shock and awe' on Iraq the very first weapon fired was a Tomahawk cruise missile launched from the USS Cowpens which was built at BIW. 

In 2008 the USS Lake Erie (also built at BIW) launched an interceptor missile into space to knock out a US military satellite in what was coined 'Operation Burnt Frost'. The warship's interceptor proved that navy destroyers could be utilized as Anti-satellite weapons (ASATS). The Pentagon reported that the successful impact created 174 pieces of space debris.

The navy is currently encircling China and Russia with these destroyers that have shown the capability to fire first-strike attack Tomahawk cruise missiles and the 'missile defense' interceptors thus giving the Pentagon the 'sword and shield' capability in warfare.

The protest at BIW on Friday, organized by young activists who are leading Palestinian solidarity efforts across the nation, linked the issues of Israel-US genocide of Palestine and broader American war-making efforts on behalf of collapsing empire.

No one was arrested at BIW on Friday but the road die-in did shut down traffic and forced the Bath police to reroute worker shift change vehicles causing a major congestion problem. Otherwise there were no incidents at the shipyard. The Bath police showed unusually remarkable patience and professionalism in how they handled the protest. 

Activists came early to the shipyard and handed out flyers on Friday morning and at lunch time ensuring that the workers understood that the protest was not aimed at them. Rather it was directed at the war-mongering Biden administration, Congress, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex.

 

Saturday protest at Bowdoin College in Brunswick

Again about 300 people turned out for this student led protest

A rally began on the steps of the Art Museum at the college and then a spirited march  through downtown Brunswick was held. At the campus rally college security would not allow any mainstream or independent media to film, take pictures or do interviews. Likely this is due to growing pressure on campus administrations across the nation to shut down college organizing in support of Gaza which is making many wealthy Zionists donors angry.

 

The  1.5 mile march stopped at the home of US Senator Angus King (Independent from Maine) who has repeatedly refused to call for a ceasefire. King lives just a few blocks from the college. At King's home a letter signed by 1,500 Maine college students was read to the marchers and nine long paper scrolls with names of the known dead in Gaza from Israeli bombing were delivered to King's doorstep. He was conveniently not at home.

In Sen. King's front yard was a Ukraine flag signaling King's long time hatred for Russia. He once had a statewide phone call-in show on Maine Public Radio and I dialed-in to counter his trashing of Russia. He was talking about the melting ice in the Arctic Ocean and the need for the US-NATO to contest Russia for control of that region. After I made my statement to King he said, "If you like Russia so much, why don't you move there!?"

Because of climate change the Arctic ice is melting and western resource extraction corporations want to wrest control of the region from Russia which has the largest border with the Arctic. Thus the war on Russia, using Ukraine as the hammer, has always been about grabbing Russia's vast resource base.

So in the last three days I have been to five protests between nearby Bath and my hometown of Brunswick (about 10 miles apart). It has been very exciting to see so many young people connecting the issue dots and leading the organizing.

On we go.

Bruce

Role of U.S. Menwith Hill NSA base and the UK in Gaza

 

By Dave Webb

Every Tuesday at 6pm, rain or shine, a small group of protestors stand outside a U.S. base in North Yorkshire with banners and flags. Members and supporters of the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign (MHAC) are there to protest at the unaccountable and highly secret activities that go on inside the U.S. spy base nominally called ‘RAF’ Menwith Hill but run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). In recent weeks the focus has been on the UK’s role in events in Gaza.

Just how is the UK government involved in Gaza? According to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the UK has consistently sold arms to Israel since 1967. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military actions supported by UK arms exports. Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza and the forced displacement of innocent civilians fly in the face of international humanitarian law, and the UK is assisting in these war crimes in more ways than one.

One way will be through the activities at Menwith Hill. Operatives there are busy supplying the U.S. intelligence services with information, some of which will be used to help the Israeli Defence Forces target their attacks in Gaza.

In 2016 top secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden showed that Menwith Hill collects and analyses satellite data obtained by intercepting electronic communications (emails, texts, telephone calls, etc) and passes on anything of interest  to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The Snowden documents revealed that, in the past, the NSA has used the powerful eavesdropping technologies at Menwith Hill to provide “continuous coverage of the majority of the Eurasian landmass,” where they can readily intercept “tactical military, scientific, political, and economic communications signals.”

In the past, the information gathered has helped target armed drone strikes across the Middle East and North Africa and Menwith Hill has provided support for British and American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. And it has also been used to assist with covert missions in countries where the U.S. has not declared war. As Ryan Gallagher wrote in the Intercept, “NSA employees at Menwith Hill have collaborated on a project to help ‘eliminate’ terrorism targets in Yemen, for example, where the U.S. has waged a controversial drone bombing campaign that has resulted in dozens of civilian deaths”. In 2021 MHAC and Yorkshire CND jointly published a booklet called “Menwith Hill in 3D: Domes, Data & Drone Strikes” which explores the issues around the legality of the activities of the base, including the disclosures made by Edward Snowden.

 

Documents leaked by Snowden have revealed that the NSA “maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)” and the documents show that the NSA and ISNU are “sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting.” There can be little doubt then, that Menwith Hill will have been working all hours over the last few weeks to provide information to help the Israeli attack particular targets identified by the intercepted information.

Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, writing in Declassified UK, have described how the UK military and intelligence services may be aiding Israel’s attack on Gaza. In December 2020, a military cooperation agreement was signed by Britain and Israel. Despite the UK MoD describing it as an “important piece of defence diplomacy” which “strengthens” military ties, the British parliament and public has never seen what is in it. The MoD has refused to publish it and has only briefly mentioned it in parliament once, in a response to a direct question from an MP.

Declassified UK has also revealed that, since the bombing of Gaza began, the RAF has made over 30 military transport flights to Tel Aviv. The MoD is now censoring requests for information by MPs about flights from the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, which is only 40 minutes from Tel Aviv by plane.

There are also reports that the US is using RAF Akrotiri to send arms to Israel. RAF Akrotiri has, for a long time, been the base from which British bombing campaigns have been carried out across the Middle East and it was recently revealed that 129 US airmen are permanently based there. The government has denied sending ‘lethal aid’ to Israel, the censoring of MPs’ requests indicates that RAF Akrotiri is being for just that purpose.

 

Information from electronic communications is also being collected by aircraft and the MoD has sent the Israeli forces several Shadow R1 reconnaissance aircraft to help the Israeli forces find and rescue hostages. They claim that, as the aircraft are unarmed, they have no military role, but it seems highly unlikely that information on Hamas positions will not be passed on.

So, the UK is helping Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians not only by supplying arms, but also by supplying intelligence information to help target the attacks. The protestors standing outside the Menwith Hill base in the cold and the rain, are reminding the British public and politicians that the U.S. spy base at Menwith Hill continues to play a crucial role in conflicts that are of concern to the U.S. – which means any conflict, anywhere on Earth.

~ Dave Webb is the board convenor of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He also chairs Yorkshire Region CND and lives in Leeds, England.

Checking out a school shelter in Gaza

 

AJ+

Bisan Owda, a video journalist in Gaza, takes us inside the UN schools that now act as shelters for over 1 million displaced Palestinians. The schools are severely overcrowded and lack proper sanitation — as many as 160 people are forced to share a single toilet. Some shelters have seen outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis. 

But even these shelters are not safe — Israel is now demanding that the Palestinians sheltering in Khan Younis flee farther south to Rafah. 

South Korea launches first military recon satellite

 

 

By Choi, Sung-Hee (Jeju Island, South Korea)

On Dec. 4th, Hanhwa System, a South Korea arms company launched its military satellite in the South of Jeju. [This satellite will assist the US-NATO crazy preparations for war with China and North Korea.]

The launch platform was installed just 4 km from the coast. (You can just barely see the launch platform in this photo. See the actual launch video below.)

On the very day, we had an emergency cultural program in protest of the rocket launch in the spot where we could watch the view. About 30 of us watched the rocket being launched with shock and bitterness.

A Jeju local TV news reported the launch (from 2:26) as well as our protest. They interviewed me also and you can see me around 4:30 here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=RS1RFb4rAfMd49xT&v=9uUSd6s0z-A&feature=youtu.be

The satellite was launched under the collaboration between the military, arms company and Jeju Island government.

It has become very obvious that if the Hanwha Space center is built just 10 min. from Gangjeong village (location of the long contested naval base), we will see more launches of military reconnaissance satellites in the sea of Jeju.

The next day, we had the press conference in protest of the rocket launch in front of the Jeju island government hall.
https://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/Ucf9/172

We have wondered if Jeju might be an aerospace war Island. It is happening now.

I think Jeju is becoming a test bed for the military-industrial complex. Now, many of my friends talk about militarization of space, civilian satellites for military networks of all domains. 

Now, it has become real for all of us.

Biden staff revolt growing

 

 

BreakThrough News

Biden staffers are turning against their boss and are disgusted with his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 

BT’s Kei Pritsker spoke to a dissenter about the mood in the White House, the internal tensions and the impact of all the protests.

The staffer encourages the public to keep the protests growing.

Genocide of Palestinians escalates in Gaza

 

 

 

At first glance one might think this is ISIS mass executing civilians in Iraq.

After a bombing siege for 3 days, the occupation army is now entering all the homes in Gaza, taking out the women and children, and taking the men to an unknown destination.

Photos show the Israeli occupation forces' arresting scores of Palestinian civilians, forcing them to strip off their clothes and subjecting them to abuse in the Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

An eyewitness said at least seven men were shot dead by troops for not complying with the soldiers’ orders fast enough, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. 

The Euro-Mediterranean monitor said doctors, academics, journalists and seniors were among those detained. 

Do not believe for a second the lie that the men Israel abducted and stripped in northern Gaza are Hamas. They are civilian men and have families that recognize them. One of them is a press worker.

This is the consequence of the world turning a blind eye to Israel's "human animals" rhetoric, fascism in practice. 

See more on this story here

~ Some of the above words taken from twitter where multiple people commented on these photos

Photo precedes the onslaught

 

Photo by M.H.

 

This image was among pictures that were in a photo essay in the West Bank. This picture was taken in 2013.

Fast forward to 2023, and we are now seeing the unthinkable. This photo is a symbolic truth that rattles the soul. This time it is in broad daylight, day after day after day, as the whole world is watching.

 

The pictures and the stories will last forever, as they will be kept safely in archives all over the world, so they will never be forgotten. 

 

The United States is an accomplice-- a country who helps another country commit a horrifying crime. That is what an Empire does, unapologetically, in spite of what our immoral political leaders are saying. 

 

That is part of the lying choreographed presentation to the American people. It is preordained, like a plague.

 

Mike Hastie

Medic Viet Nam