Zionists and Zionism

 

The words ‘Zionist’ and ‘Zionism’ are attributed to a Jew writing in the late 19^th century. The concept, without the name, appeared in writing by British Christians, staring with the Rev. Dr. Keith, in the early 19^th century, when he said that Israel/Palestine/Syria was ‘A land without a people for a people without a land.’ What is now Israel was part of the Ottoman Vilayet of Syria. Today, most Zionists are Christians who ‘know’ that Jesus cannot return until all the Jews are in Palestine, so they want Israel to continue to exist and every Jew to be sent there. Only a minority of Zionists are Jews, and only a minority of Jews are Zionists, most are happy living outside Israel, and, while they might visit, have no desire to move there and become Israeli citizens. Or they might become dual citizens so they can easily visit Israel and just as easily return to the country they consider home.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, most of the Asian and African Ottoman Empire became French and British colonies. The Ottoman Vilayets were all broken up and the pieces shared between the British and the French. Britain called one of their colonies ‘Palestine’, which had once been a small part of the Vilayet of Syria, and the British Balfour Declaration said that Palestine was for the Jews, but they didn’t really mean that: the Jews in the Pale were subject to pogroms and wanted to go to Palestine, but were denied, and Hitler was refused permission to ship German Jews to Palestine, the British meant Palestine as a place to which they wanted every Jew in the UK to go, since the Anglicans believed it was wrong for the UK to host Jews. For one thing, some of the Anglican clergy consider all Jews to be deicides, and for another, Palestine is in the Fertile Crescent, so British Jews shipped to Palestine/Israel could farm using advanced British agricultural equipment and produce lots of food with limited human labour that could be sold very cheaply to the UK while making the Jews from Britain moderately wealthy by British standards and quite rich by Palestinian standards. Plus, Palestine could produce lots of tropical fruits and vegetables to tempt the British palates.

The British had mixed opinions about what to do about the Arabs living in Palestine. Some said that they were Arabs, so nomads who wandered, spending part of their time wandering through Palestine, but no problem if they were told to keep their wanderings out of Palestine which was for the Jews; but other Brits said that the Jews and the Philistines, native inhabitants of Palestine since before the first Jew ever came there according to the book of Samuel, should live together in peace, with nothing taken from the Philistines: the Jews would live in the parts of Palestine that were undeveloped, without any Philistines, or they would buy their land from Philistine owners who wanted to sell (coming from the UK they’d have enough money that lots of Philistine and Ottoman owners would want to sell).

A small number of British Jews went to British Palestine as colonists after WWI, and started rebelling, trying to evict the British Imperialists, but without success.

Then came WWII and the Holocaust. The US refused to allow Jews to immigrate, except for the equivalent of Nobel Prize winners, until 1944, when they had heard about the Nazi persecution of the Jews and said any Jew who could make it to the US would be admitted as a refugee. Many European Jews had been turned away by the US before 1944, and were sent back to Europe to be murdered by the Nazis. And the UK refused to let Hitler send any European Jews to British Palestine, since the British Jews who had gone there were already a problem for the British governing Palestine, one that would only become worse if a lot of European Jews were allowed to join them.

(Note that a lot of the Jews killed in the Holocaust could have been saved had the US and the UK not refused to let them leave Europe.)

After WWII, those who had killed or helped to kill Jews were punished severely. If one reads the book, My Struggle, written by Hitler in the ‘20s, it says the Jews were all terrible and Europe must be cleansed of the Jews, a horrible statement, so many say the book must be banned, while others say it should be studied to ensure that it never happens again. The book also says that the Slavs are all terrible and Europe must be cleansed of all Slavs, but this is considered by the US and UK as a simple statement of fact, not worth mentioning. Those who had killed or helped kill Slavs and made it west of the Warsaw Pact were generally rewarded, and given good jobs working for the US or UK. We recently saw Canada bestow great honours on an elderly member of the Waffen-SS for his work killing Slavs in WWII.

After WWII, the Allies discovered that somewhere between 4.5 – 6 million Jews had been murdered by the Nazis, and 2 million or so were still alive in the concentration camps, or had somehow managed to evade the Nazis. The US announced that all would be sent to British Palestine, while the old, European empires would all be dissolved, so Palestine would no longer be a British colony but an independent state. Actually, Palestine had once included the Transjordan, and an early version of the Mandate said all was for the Jews, but then the Transjordan was set aside for Arabs. The Jews were told they must settle with the Philistines between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. The Jews had better weapons than the Arabs, and went to war to take all of Palestine for the revived state of Israel, but the US insisted on a truce when Ghaza and the West Bank were still held by Arabs, so the nation of Israel was originally everything controlled by the Jews when the US ordered the ceasefire in 1948. The Ghaza became part of Egypt and the West Bank became part of Jordan.

 This lasted until 1967 when Israel started by destroying all the Arab air forces, then, with total air superiority, they annexed Ghaza and the West Bank and parts of Syria, Lebanon, and other parts of Egypt beyond Ghaza.

 This lasted until 1973 when Egypt got back most of Israeli Egypt for a few days, thanks to Soviet Air Defences, but then the Egyptians did not defend their air defence system, so Israel captured and destroyed it, after which, with total air superiority, Israel recaptured all of Egypt north of the Nile, but then the US made Israel give Egypt back all of the Sinai in exchange for a peace treaty. Jordan also signed a peace treaty, and got peace and everything that had been in the British colony east of the Jordan River. Israel still have chunks of Syria and Lebanon and no intention of giving any of it back. Israel also have all of Ghaza and the West Bank.

Israel is called an Apartheid State, but this is wrong. The word ‘apartheid’ comes from South Africa, where no one with a drop of African or Asian blood could be a citizen (Jews from Europe were considered European, so they could and did become citizens if they moved to South Africa and applied for citizenship). Israel say that two million Philistines are Israeli citizens, and another half million to one million non-Jews and non-Philistines are also citizens, but seven million, the overwhelming majority of the ten million Israeli citizens, must have a Jewish connection.

Strict, Orthodox Judaism says one is only Jewish if one’s mother was Jewish, but Israel says anyone with a Jewish grandparent qualifies for citizenship based on Jewish heritage. This was based on the Holocaust, where the Nazis said proof that one grandparent was Jewish was grounds for being sent to a Concentration Camp. Strict Orthodox Jews say that many Israelis who are citizens by virtue of having a Jewish grandparent are not actually Jewish unless their mother was Jewish.

All information in Israel is strictly controlled by the government, so it is hard to know what is true. It is said that most Israeli citizens: the 7 million Jews, the 2 million Philistines, and the million other citizens want everything from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, and are happy with Israel running the way it is currently being run. They figure the Philistines who do not have Israeli passports are all Antisemites who want to kill all the Jews, and probably all the Israeli citizens, so they’d like all the Philistines who do not have passports evicted.

Israel figure all the Philistines who do not have Israeli passports are illegal aliens who have no right to be in Israel, and want them all to go elsewhere. After the 7 October attack, Israel plan to remove every last Philistine from Ghaza, one way or the other: if other nations will accept them, those who have never been part of Hamas will be sent there. If no other nation will accept them, then all must be killed, but their deaths are not Israel’s fault, their deaths are entirely the fault of the nations that refused to accept them.

As the British said 200 years ago, those Philistines are Arabs, and belong in some Arab country, while Israel must be for the Jews, partly for the cheap crops they can produce and sell to the UK, and partly so that, when every Jew is in Palestine, Jesus can return.

Of course, that was 200 years ago, and now most Christian Zionists are in the US, and they vote, so the US strongly support Zionists and Zionism. And with the full support of the US, if Israel want to kill every Palestinian in Ghaza, or, for that matter, every Palestinian in Israel who does not have an Israeli passport, the US will back them 100%.

Truth in Ghaza???

Three Israeli hostages somehow got freed. Did they escape? Were they released by Hamas? We don't know. What we do know is that they came out shirtless, so obviously unarmed, and shouted in Hebrew, 'We are Israeli hostages!' and the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot and killed them all.

Israel say they are interested in saving all hostages, that they so love life (and, by 'life' they mean Israeli life) that they will do anything to save Israeli hostages. But Israeli actions show they only want a Ghaza that is Philistine Free, they are saturation bombing, all possible dwellings destroyed, no food, water, fuel, or medical supplies allowed into Ghaza, so the Philistines in Ghaza are starving, drinking polluted water, being bombed and shelled by IOF tanks, more than 21,000 killed so far, death from communicable diseases is increasing rapidly.

Israel (and those who favour Israel) say the counts of Philistine deaths come from Hamas, and so one must not believe the Philistine lies that 21,000, mostly women and children have been killed: the strikes have been surgical, hitting Hamas positions with many Hamas fighters shooting rockets at Israeli cities, but these Hamas terrorists keep some women and children captive with them as human shields, and, to stop the terrorists' rocket fire from killing many innocent civilians, the Hamas military units must be taken out, along with their human shields, so every woman and child killed by the IOF was forced by Hamas.

This war has been difficult for the IOF, they have lost 155 members.

Is any of the above true?

Israel seems to be on the Hannibal Principle: Israelis should die, by their own hand if necessary, to prevent their becoming hostages, since hostages cost Israel far too much. So the three IOF members who were taken hostage were killed for allowing themselves to be taken hostage.

The pause was because the war was not going well for Israel, so Israel asked for and got a ceasefire, demanded hostages, and Hamas released 100 hostages.

During the week long ceasefire, the IOF revised strategy and tactics to reduce IOF losses, and, when ready, ended the ceasefire.

Alastair Crooke estimates that more than 1,000 members of the IOF have been killed, hence the first demand for a ceasefire from Hamas, and now a second demand that Hamas has refused since Israel will not meet their conditions. Again, IOF losses are excessive, far more than the 155 to which Israel admit, so Israel want another week's ceasefire to regroup, study, and revise strategy and tactics, and Hamas are not willing to give them that week.

Israel have done huge damage to the Philistine civilians, not so much to Hamas who continue to blow up IOF tanks and kill IOF servicepersons.

Fox and many other news outlets repeat that Hamas are terrorists who must be neutralised, and all civilian deaths are entirely the fault of Hamas, and we must not believe Hamas counts of civilian deaths in Ghaza.

CNN, after 7 weeks of repeating the official Israeli story, not being allowed into Ghaza, were finally allowed in and reported on the many injured children and the fact that every building they saw had been destroyed so the Ghazans have nowhere to live, they are crowded into shelters which make it easy for the IOF to find and bomb them, and they have nothing to eat or drink. CNN were only allowed to see one field hospital set up by the UAE, the only hospital in all Ghaza not being bombed. And the reporter looked shocked at what she saw.

Israel make it clear that they will not allow a single Philistine to remain in Ghaza: if other nations will take the women, children, and elderly men, Israel will let them go/deport them. If not, Israel have no choice but to kill every Philistine, but don't blame Israel, blame the other nations who refuse to take the women and children in Ghaza.

And after Ghaza is cleansed, the West Bank will become a priority.

Meanwhile, the Yemen managed to disrupt shipping through the Red Sea for a week, but now the US say the US Navy will protect ships, and shipping has resumed.

The question of how much the Yemen and Iran can disrupt supplies going to Israel remains open for now.

Beginnings of a change????

I once had almost every news channel on satellite, but then, in February 2022, the EU demanded that all EU-based satellites remove the Russian news channels. Still, I could get Qatar, Iran, and the PRC. Until 12 December 2022, when the EU denounced all non-EU/US news and said all must be banned.

I get a few news channels now, the ones fully approved by the government where I live, the government that provides all telephone and TV services. So, for reasons that escape me, I get BBC, CNN, Euronews, I24, and France24 for free (plus the local news channel, which is only local news). Nothing from Qatar or Iran, and only the PRC Arabic channel (I get all the other channels in Arabic, but I only understand English, so I'd say I don't get PRC, and that's almost but not quite true).

The biggest change is CNN. Last week, they had a report from Ghaza, their first. Before, all their news was the official Israel/US news from the US/Israeli spokespersons: every Palestinian is a rabid Antisemite who wants to kill every Jew in Palestine, so Israel is strictly acting in self-defence, and every civilian death was because a Hamas military unit held some civilian human shields captive as they tried their best to kill Jews, and when the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) returned fire, all those civilian deaths were entirely the fault of Hamas.

But then CNN was granted access to the UAE Field Hospital in Ghaza for the very first time, their first time in the Ghaza since 7 October, and CNN saw nothing but injured children (the UAE prioritises children). The UAE Field Hospital only has about 100 beds, while every other hospital in the Ghaza has been bombed. In many hospitals, all the staff were arrested as agents supporting the Hamas Antisemites in their goal of killing Jews. Israel say that every hospital in the Ghaza, except the UAE Field Hospital, is not a hospital but a Hamas military base disguised as a hospital, so a legitimate military target, and the US say they have verified that the Israeli statement is strictly factual.

CNN now say that the UAE Field Hospital is treating lots of children with war wounds, and is getting more children from other hospitals that are overcrowded, badly damaged, and without any medical supplies. The CNN reporter had a hard time blaming all the children, badly injured by Israeli bombs supplied by the US, on Hamas.

I was shocked, since before last week CNN just parroted the official US/Israeli line.

Driving through Ghaza to and from the hospital, CNN saw the massive damage: almost every building in the Ghaza destroyed, totally unsuitable for anyone to live in. The CNN reporter sounded totally shocked by what she saw, and she no longer seems to accept the official Israeli/US version.

I can also get Fox if I pay for it, and Fox remains with the official line: Hamas are all terrorist Antisemitic Nazis who intend to kill every Jew in Palestine, the line repeated by both Israel and the US; 7 October was a day when Hamas brutally murdered 1,200 innocent Jews who posed no threat, raping and murdering many women and children, beheading many children and burning many children in the ovens in their homes while their parents had to listen to them scream.

Of course, the Grayzone have ample evidence that the official US/Israeli version is completely false.

CNN have now stopped reiterating the official US/Israeli version. They haven't quite gone as far as to broadcast the Grayzone version, but at least they admit that Israel are bombing civilians and killing many children, and have destroyed just about every home in Ghaza leaving the Philistines in the Ghaza with nowhere to live. At least it's a start.

Are Hamas Nazi Antisemites?

The Israeli government keep telling us that they were at peace with Hamas. That the Jews came to Israel in peace, but were viciously attacked by the Arabs. Again and again, Israel offered the Arabs peace, and again and again, the Arabs attacked.

And now Hamas are determined to kill every last Jew in Palestine for starters, and, having killed every Jew in Palestine, they'll go after the Jews in neighbouring countries. And then they'll try to kill every last Jew in the world. And the Jews have never done anything to Hamas, Hamas are just rabid Antisemites who want to kill every Jew in the world.

Good story, strongly supported by the US, but not accepted anywhere except the US and Israel.

The Bible tells us the ancestors of the Jews were in Ur when G_d ordered them to go to Palestine, which was full of Philistines. The first letter of the Hebrew word was transliterated as φ (Phi) by the Greeks and P by the Romans. So the Hebrew word can be transliterated as Philistine or Palestine (Hebrew doesn't write the vowels). In the book of Samuel, G_d condemned Saul for killing thousands of Philistines, while David was praised for killing tens of thousands. So the land belonged to the Philistines before G_d gave it to the Jews.

In the New Testament, a Jewish boy leaves home, squanders all his money, and has to take a job at a piggery. Since no Jew would ever run a piggery, the owner must have been a goyim. So Palestine in the New Testament had a lot of Jews and a lot of goyim.

After 7 October 2023, a lot of the Jews in Israel were convinced that they need a land that has no goyim at all. So their goal is to get rid of all the Philistines, one way or another. If some other nations would take them all, all the women and children and elderly men could leave. If not, they all must be killed: most Israelis believe that all the Ghazans want to kill every Jew in Israel, so it is self defence, it is the only way for the Jews to stay alive.

The US say they have verified that everything the Israeli government say is true: the Ghaza have no hospitals, no schools, no churches, no mosques, all are Hamas military facilities disguised as hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques, so all are legitimate military targets. It is just self defence to bomb all the homes, all the refugee camps, all these people want to kill every Jew, so what else can Israel do?

Of course, only the US and Israel identify all the Philistines as Nazi Antisemites determined to exterminate all the Jews in Israel/the world, leaving all the Jews in mortal danger until they remove every last Philistine from Israel/Palestine. Most other countries think the Philistines would be happy to live in peace with the Jews if everyone had equal rights.

Israel kept Ghaza surrounded by a high wall and three battalions of Israeli troops. Food was limited. Fishing was limited. Water was limited. There was barely enough to keep the 2 million Ghazans alive. So Hamas tried to kidnap some Israelis to get Israel to make some concessions.

Israel ordered the battalions guarding Ghaza to stand down. Israel were warned by some Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) scouts that Hamas were coming. Israel ignored the warning for about an hour.

Then the IOF arrived and applied the Hannibal Principle: no Israelis should ever allow themselves to be taken hostage, they must fight to the death. So the IOF shot at hostage takers and hostages. They shot Hellfire missiles at villas and compounds where they knew Hamas were inside, killing Hamas and their hostages. Then the IOF reported that Hamas had burned many Israelis to death, roasted babies in ovens while their parents heard them screaming, when it was IOF Hellfire missiles that burned those babies.

And then, for two months, Israel attacked Ghaza, first bombing, then sending in the IOF ground forces to find and kill all members of Hamas. The ground attack did not go as well as hoped. The Hamas spokesperson who calls himself Abu Obeida and who may be seen on Rumble (he's banned by Alphabet and Meta) reports hundreds of IOF tanks destroyed. So Israel called for a week's ceasefire if Hamas would release hostages.

The families of the hostages had been demanding that the government negotiate for the hostages, but this is not a priority for the Israeli government. But the Israeli government demanded that Hamas release at least 10 women and children hostages a day for the ceasefire to continue, and, after a week when the IOF had reviewed tactics and strategy and were ready to resume attacking Hamas, the ceasefire ended, but at least Israel had convinced Hamas to release 100 hostages, placating the families of the released hostages.

As the IOF ran over Ghaza, three IOF hostages came out, obviously unarmed, speaking Hebrew saying, 'We are IOF hostages,' and the IOF were ordered to kill them all, since they should never have surrendered, they should have fought to the death instead of allowing Hamas to take them hostages. The Israeli government have no interest in recovering the hostages, they just want Hamas exterminated and every Philistine in the Ghaza deported to some other country, or, if no other country will take them, killed, since the official Israeli position is that all the Ghazan Philistines want to kill every Jew in Israel, so it is not possible to allow even a single Ghazan Philistine to remain in Israel.

But now Abu Obeida reports losses by the IOF, and the IOF have asked for another week's ceasefire, meaning the IOF want a week to revise tactics and strategy since their campaign against Hamas is not going as well as they'd like.

But, so far, Hamas have refused another week's ceasefire. Clearly Hamas are being unreasonable refusing the week-long ceasefire because they want nothing but war with Israel, nothing but to kill every last Jew in Israel.

So Israel will continue to kill all those baby terrorists before they can grow up to be big terrorists. What else can they do? And anyone who questions Israel is a rabid Antisemite.

Truth, what does that mean?

 Israel admit that 115 Israeli soldiers fighting in the Ghaza have been killed, and this number is in all the mainstream media. But is it real? Probably not: Israel has shown that it is not interested in rescuing any hostages, Israel has shown they believe in the Hannibal Principle: never let any hostage be taken, if there is no other way, kill the hostage and as many of the hostage takers as possible. When three Israeli hostages managed to get free, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) killed all three, even though they were shouting, in Hebrew, that they were freed hostages.

The break 'to free hostages' seems to have been because the war was not going well, and Israel wanted a week-long ceasefire to review and revise their strategy and tactics.

One can find Abu Obeida on Rumble, showing many Israeli tanks being destroyed in Ghaza. Google searches are useless, Alphabet do not support finding Abu Obeida videos. Google can find sites that say 'Don't believe anything Abu Obeida posts!' But Rumble has some very realistic looking videos that claim they are proof that many IOF tanks have been destroyed.

And the week-long ceasefire fits with the war going badly and the IOF needing a break, and they used the break to get about 90 women and children hostages freed, but the IOF have shown that they are not interested in getting back hostages alive, but since they needed a break, why not use the break to get back as many hostages as possible without having to do much in return?

The New York Times vs The Grayzone

 The New York Times of 13 December had an editorial column by Jill Filipovic, "Confront the Evidence of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7. The Horrors of This War Are Not Either/Or."

Basically, it is taken as proven fact that the Hamas terrorists raped many women and murdered many women and children on 7 October 2023. But The Grayzone say that those 'rapes' and many of those children's deaths were all manufactured by two Israeli government offices for spreading disinformation, ZAKA and United Hatzalah. The article focuses on claims by ZAKA and provides rather convincing evidence that all are false.

However,our reliable establishment media all reiterate those crimes of Hamas are all true and Israel have no choice but to exterminate all of Hamas, and if that means Israel must kill everyone in Ghaza, they have every right to self defence.

Or we can blame other Arab countries for not accepting all the women and children in Ghaza, but we cannot blame Israel for their deaths.

What Is Really Going on in Ghaza????

We had a few brief videos of hostages being handed over to the Red Cross by armed Hamas guards, and the hostages shook hands with the Hamas guards and those hostages who spoke said they were well treated. We got another very brief video as the hostages were transferred from the Red Cross to Israeli teams. Then the hostages disappeared in Israeli hospitals, incommunicado. When they emerged, they either refused to say anything or said they had been brutalised by Hamas. It is understood that all hostages had to sign an agreement not to say anything of which the Israeli government would not approve.

So were they well treated or brutalised? No idea.

Meanwhile, Abu Obeida has videos showing Israeli tanks being blown up, and Hamas claim to have killed more than 1,000 members of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), while Israel say they have lost about 100 soldiers killed by the Hamas terrorists, but have killed hundreds of members of the senior Hamas leadership. So which is true? No idea.

There is a strange video distributed by Israel showing some captured Hamas militants, stripped to their underwear, forced to hand over their weapons. Many ask, 'You made them take off all their clothing but keep their guns, then, after they stripped, you made them hand over their guns????? This makes absolutely no sense.' So is the video a real video showing a group of senior Hamas terrorists captured, stripped to their underwear, then forced to hand over all their weapons, or is it all a staged video with no relation to the reality on the ground? No idea.

Israel say they had a decisive victory over Hezbollah in 2006, and would like a quick repeat to take Hezbollah completely and permanently out of action, but the US refused permission, saying they do not want the cleansing of the Ghaza to spread to a regional conflict, so, for now, Israel's hands are tied. Other versions are that Israel lost badly in 2006, and Hamas could do extensive damage if a full-scale conflict broke out, so both Israel and the US are hoping the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will remain at a low level, a few rockets fired by Hezbollah doing little damage to Israel, a few Israeli bombing runs doing little damage to Hezbollah. So which is it? Again, no idea.

The one thing that is clear is that anyone in the US or UK who speaks out against the Israeli cleansing of Ghaza to remove all the Philistines, either by their removal to some other country or killed—Israel, the US, and UK don't really care which—is a heinous Antisemite who must be fired from any job they might have, and many who spoke out against Israel's self-defence actions in Ghaza have been removed from their jobs and all media, both mainstream and social, have been banned from carrying any such Antisemitic ideas. In the US and UK, everyone must fully support Israel's actions in the Ghaza. Or else.

The Horrendous Crimes of ????

 The MSM news I've been watching say the Hamas attack on 7 October involved rapes of just about every captured female (and some males) followed by murder of many of them, an attack that must be condemned, and all must hope flooding the tunnels with ocean water will finally give those Hamas captors the treatment they deserve. (They don't expect to get any more hostages back, the price of the women and children was far too high, and many think it should not have been paid. In any case, the ocean water should eliminate all the remaining hostages and the Hamas leadership, so no further price need be paid by Israel to get any more hostages back.)

Only The Grayzone says those rapes, those babies burned in ovens while their parents had to listen to them screaming, were all lies created by some Israeli experts in lying about Philistine atrocities. One of the Hamas 'rape victims' was a Kurdish woman raped and killed several years ago.

So whom should we believe? The Israel Occupation Force (IOF) spokespersons, as all the MSM say we must, or The Grayzone, who have a record of reliable reporting and videos that support their stories?

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo Have an Interesting View

 In Ghaza, there are two main versions of what is happening: West and non-West.

In the Western media, Hamas are all antiSemitic terrorists who are determined to kill every last Israeli, so anyone who is not a fanatical antiSemite knows Israel must exterminate Hamas, and if that means killing every last Philistine in the Ghaza, Israel have no choice but to do so if they do not wish to have Hamas kill every last Jew in Israel. And anyone who does not fully support Israel in everything is an antiSemite who makes Adolph look like a peacenik. Fortunately, Israel are winning. If the Arabs do not want to see Israel kill every last Philistine in the Ghaza, they must agree to take the women and children, since not one Philistine can be left alive in the Ghaza or that one Philistine might annihilate all the Jews, and anyone who suggests that Israel leave even one Philistine in the Ghaza is a rabid antiSemite.

In the Eastern media, e.g., in the writings of Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, one gets a different perspective. Not only are the Philistines acting in self defence, they are winning. Mr Baroud and Ms Rubeo suggest one follow "Abu Obeida and Abu Hamza, military spokesmen for the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades respectively". They say  Abu Obeida and Abu Hamza "provide very careful accounts of the nature of the battle and the losses of advancing Israeli military forces in their regular, much-anticipated statements."

They write, "And, while Abu Obeida’s statements are almost always followed by well-produced videos, documenting the systematic destruction of Israeli tanks, no such documentation substantiates Israeli military claims." 

Naturally, I tried to look up Abu Obeida’s statements and found he was on Twitter, now X, but his account has been suspended for being antiSemitic. So I'm not sure where one can find Abu Obeida's postings, and, if I posted a link, I'm sure it would soon be deleted.

I heard one Saudi say, 'But we Arabs are also Semites, so how can we be antiSemitic?'

Of course, Israel say those Jews who do not fully support Israel are antiSemitic Jews, so Israel assume most Arabs are antiSemitic.

Still, the claim that Israel are winning easily in Ghaza, that they have killed 15,000 Hamas terrorists and very few, if any, innocent civilians, does seem to be rather convincingly disproven by Abu Obeida's postings (if one can find them).

A Western Publication (London Review of Books) fails to reiterate the Western narrative

 The London Review of Books has an article, "War Crimes", asking if Israel might be committing war crimes in their war against Hamas in the Ghaza. The article starts with concluding that Hamas is guilty of multiple war crimes and should be prosecuted, but asks if Israel might also be guilty of war crimes, and fails to find a strong negative answer to that question, in heinous violation of the official Western narrative that Israel is entitled to self defence and there is nothing Israel can do that could possibly be considered a war crime: the Israelis have come in peace to the Philistines over and over and were always met with violence, and the Israeli response to that unprovoked violence can never be considered a crime of any kind under any circumstances.

Much of the non-Western media accuse Israel of war crimes for destroying the Ghaza. The Western media all agree that Israel has done absolutely nothing wrong: all of the Ghaza support Hamas who killed more Israelis than ever since the creation of Israel, more than anyone since the Nazis (well, not according to the Gray Zone, who say the Israeli Occupation Forces, not Hamas, killed many of those killed on 7 October, but the Gray Zone are mostly ignored, or, if not ignored, disparaged as liars by the Western Media).

The Russians taped and broadcast repeatedly the EU official saying that no Russian media will be allowed in the EU. The West will never allow any non-Western news to be broadcast in the West. Russia were banned in February, 2022. But then in December, 2022, the PRC news, PressTV news, and Al Jazeera were also banned, since none are Western. Only Western news may be seen anywhere in the West, they have every other news blocked.

If one somehow has access to Western and non-Western news, one gets two contradictory versions of what really happened, and since both might be lying, one has no way of knowing for certain what the truth is anymore: Is Israel guilty of war crimes, as the non-Western media say, or only Hamas, as all the Western media reiterate? Is Israel responsible for the many deaths of civilian women and children in the Ghaza, or is it all Hamas who won't let them leave, or is it Egypt who won't let them leave? And will Israel allow any food or water into the Ghaza, or will they starve the citizens there?

I guess we'll see when the truce ends. 

London Review of Books fails to stick with the Western narrative

 Seymour Hersh was a prize winning senior journalist at the New York Times and New Yorker. Until he wrote a factual but critical article about President Obama's destruction of Libya, whereupon he was fired by both and unable to get anything published in the US.

Then he managed to get an article or two published in the London Review of Books. But then the UK government ordered them to stop, and stop they did.

So I was surprised to find the article "On Non-Violent Resistance" which includes:

At the heart of this intractable tragedy is the inability of a colonial and occupying power (and its enablers) to accept a people’s rejection of their subjugation and their determination to fight against it. Whatever form this resistance has taken – and it includes a long history of non-violence and civil disobedience as well as armed struggle – Israel has responded with a disproportionate use of force and disregard for the human toll.

This is strictly banned in the Official Western Narrative, which is that the Israelis came in peace but were met with violence by the Philistines. Again and again, the narrative goes, the Israelis offered peace but again and again the Philistines responded with violence. Somehow, the London Review of Books managed to stick in the opposite narrative, which is mostly banned: the Israelis came with massive force that the Philistines could not resist, so they mostly tried non-violent ways to resist and were killed for trying. And the Western narrative is that Israel has the right to self-defence, which includes killing or imprisoning without trial any non-violent Philistine protestors they wish.
 

US/Israel Plans for Ghaza

 It seems that many years ago, the US and Israel decided to relocate all the Philistines in Ghaza to other countries. One teeny problem: they couldn't find any countries willing to take them. The US and Israel are now pressuring Egypt to take them, but Sisi keeps refusing.

The ceasefire seems likely to last one more day, then the carpet bombing will probably resume. So far, the Ghaza count is more than 14,000 dead civilians, mostly women and children. Pro-Israel sites say one cannot trust the Ghazans, they lie, all those killed were proven terrorists. Maybe a very small number of civilians killed, but nowhere near 14,000. The UN observers also figure the 14,000 is wrong, it's far too low. The bombing left many missing under the rubble and not counted, so the real number is probably higher.

When the bombing resumes, the US and Israel will blame Sisi for all the Ghaza civilian deaths since he did not let all the women and children go to Egypt. Israel remain totally innocent, Israel are just practicing self defence, totally necessary and justified. And this will be the only version on the Western news.

The Philistines being released are all convicted terrorists on the Western news, even though most were uncharged, let alone convicted, and many were arrested as small children.

I heard them say on US news that 'The terrorists burned many Israelis to death on 7 October.' Only the Grayzone say that it was the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) shooting Hellfire missiles that burned the Israelis to death to prevent their being taken hostage: the Israeli Hannibal Policy is to kill captive Israelis and their captors to prevent their being taken hostage.

Two more days of 'ceasefire'

Reports are that the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) are still shooting a few Ghazans, but no carpet bombing. Saudi and the UAE put up field hospitals. Some food and fuel is being allowed into Southern Ghaza, after weeks when almost all was blocked: two trucks of food per day to feed more than 2 million people, but now hundreds of trucks are getting in. For two more days. Then Israel promise to resume carpet bombing and doing their best to empty the Ghaza of Philistines.

Some ask if Türkiye will continue to let Israel exterminate all the Philistines in Ghaza, but Türkiye have done nothing but riot in favour of the Philistines. The Türkiye military could fight the Israel military, but have never done so; none of the Arab militaries could do any damage to the Israeli military, though they've tried a few times, but they all seem to have learned better.

Israel want all of Ghaza, and plan a massive canal from Aqaba to Ghaza that will dominate the Suez and allow Indian  exports to make it easily to Europe and compete with the PRC. Probably a new, Israeli name for what used to be Ghaza.

And blame the deaths of the women, children, and elderly men in Ghaza on the Arab countries that refuse to accept all of them, never blame Israel for anything if you're the Western media.

Ceasefire, so now what?

 Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire starting Friday, 24 November 2023. Some food and fuel and gas is getting in, and the UAE is setting  up a field hospital since most of the existing hospitals, declared as faux hospitals that were really Hamas military bases by Israel and the US, have been destroyed. Not clear if the ceasefire will last past Tuesday, or how much food and water and fuel will be allowed.

Western news say that all reports of Palestinian civilian casualties are from Hamas and not to be trusted, probably almost all deaths were Hamas terrorists.

Pictures never seen on Western media show lots of dead Palestinian babies, probably more total than the Palestinian authority reported, but one cannot see those pictures in the Western media.

There was very little food in Ghaza on Thursday, 23 November, Thanksgiving in the US, but no turkey for the Ghazans.

And not clear if food or water or fuel will be allowed into Ghaza after 27 November.

No one seems willing to help the Ghazans and incur the wrath of Israel and the US, and Israel want Ghaza cleansed of all Palestinians ASAP.

Undoing the Belt

 Once upon a time, there was a Silk Road. Every silkworm was in China, and the rest of Eurasia wanted silk, so traders travelled to China and brought silk to the rest of Eurasia. Then China went isolationist: if it was made in China, it should only be sold in China to Chinese, and Chinese must only buy Made-in-China products. China has gone from internationalist to isolationist to internationalist many times in the 5,000 or so years of recorded Chinese history.

Now the PRC wants to rebuild the old Silk Road in what they call the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). And the US will do anything to stop them.

Hence the Ghaza: a huge canal from Aqaba to Ghaza that will overshadow the Suez, with the Ghaza as a major port (Gaza is a mistransliteration of the Arabic). This will be part of a new India-based trading partnership that (the US and India hope) will surpass the BRI.

But first, the Ghaza must be cleansed of all Philistines (David would have approved).

Thanksgiving

 Last Thursday, 23 November, was Thanksgiving in the US.

When I was married, every Thanksgiving I had Roast Turkey with my wife.

After she divorced me, every Thanksgiving I have Wild Turkey all alone.

In 1997, my father, who was suffering from dementia, told me to quit my job in West Virginia and move back to Texas.

'How can I move back to Texas? What would I live on?'

My father couldn't remember why it was important for me to move back to Texas, he just knew it was very important. I figured it was the dementia talking. Silly me. So I stayed in West Virginia.

Then my wife filed for divorce and I was sentenced to pay 125% of my income or go to gaol for Life without Parole. My wife told the judge she had a VVIP boyfriend, I was insanely jealous and a member of the National Rifle Association, and with my computer skills I would soon find out her boyfriend's name and would kill him. Since the Clinton Law makes Divorce Court a criminal court, not a civil court, the West Virginia Judge's order that I must pay my wife 125% of my total income made me a felon, since I could not pay the full amount.

Before, Divorce Court was a civil court where, if you were outside the state where you owe money on a civil case, the court cannot collect. But criminal court can collect, and Clinton proposed, and the Congress agreed, that Divorce Court should be a Criminal Court with far more power to gaol divorced men until they have paid every penny the Divorce Judge orders them to pay, and if jealous husbands are gaoled, their wives' boyfriends will be safe.

After the West Virginia Judge sentenced to to Life without Parole, I managed to get out of the US where US Law cannot easily grab me as it would have done had I remained in the US. My wife got the house, all the money I had in the bank, the car, and it was not nearly enough, I owed a lot more and was a heinous felon for not paying my ex all the judge ordered, which was 200% of my assets and income.

So for Thanksgiving, I had Wild Turkey, not roast turkey with my ex nor turkey hash at the West Virginia Prison for Divorced Men.

Comment on "New York Times on Hamas"

 I noted that the New York Times say that, ever since the UN General Assembly voted to give the surviving Jews in Western Europe a sliver of land in the soon-to-be-decolonised British Palestine back in 1948, the Jews responded by offering peace to the Philistines who invariably responded to that offer with violence. This same message appears, by law, throughout the Western press. One can be arrested in many Western countries for waving the Philistine flag. 

It is not altogether clear from where this message was dredged, or how this message continues to fill all the Western media, print and broadcast. The Books of Samuel make it clear that the Israelis, upon entering Philistine, began killing off the native Philistines. The Book of I Samuel 18:7 denigrates Saul for only killing off thousands of Philistines while his successor David killed off tens of thousands, and now the Israelis are killing off more than 10,000 Philistines a month and are hoping to manage to reduce the Philistine population of Gaza to zero ASAP.

I understand the US and India want a major canal from Aqaba to Ghaza to enable goods from India to make it more easily to Europe in order to compete with the PRC, and Ghaza will be developed into a major shipping hub (Gaza is a mistransliteration of the Arabic.) Then the US hope to put pressure on India to stop buying Russian energy, since India is a major customer and has the Russian economy doing better then when Russia were selling all their energy to Europe at below-market price in a futile attempt to try to buy Europe's friendship. 

 Getting the Indian economy inextricably tied to the European and American economies and severed from Russia will, the US hope, choke the Russian economy enough that Russia will no longer be able to support their current military, now ranked by some as #1 in the world. Without any trade with India, the Russian military should drop several notches, and the Ukraine, with massive inputs of Western weapons, will be able to expel the Russians from the Donbass and Crimea. (Fat chance, but the US keep hoping.)

New York Times on Hamas, October 2023 onward:

 The official Western perspective was provided by the New York Times on 21 November 2023: after WWII, the UN ordered that a tiny bit of Arabia should be given to the survivors of the Holocaust in Western Europe. The Israelis, according to the New York Times, again and again offered to live in peace with the Philistines, and again and again the Philistines responded just as they did in the Book of Kings, with unprovoked violence against the Israelis.

Israel in the News

Watching the non-Western news, people see Israeli atrocities, dead Palestinian babies, homes destroyed with the families dead underneath the rubble, people with horrible injuries from the airstrikes, tank shelling, Israeli soldiers invading hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and refugee camps. Hard to believe the Israelis are the 'good guys'.

Watching the Western news, one sees dead, burned Israeli babies (fake pictures according to The Gray Zone). Dead, dismembered Israeli babies (also fake according to The Gray Zone). One never sees a dead Philistine baby, a destroyed Philistine home with the innocent civilians killed under the rubble. One sees the homes of terrorists taken out by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), one sees faux hospitals that are really Hamas military bases, so no babies, no patients, no medical personnel inside, just Hamas militants who were hatching plots to kill Israelis before the IOF managed to take them all out.

Newscasters working for news stations in Russia or Al Jazeera or other Global South countries wonder how Westerners can see the news without being horrified at what Israel are doing, but on Western stations, Israel are only defending themselves against brutal terrorists whose only goal is to murder every Jew everywhere in the world, but, so far, they have only had limited success on 7 October 2023. Since then, the terrorists have been almost totally unsuccessful: Israel has killed thousands of Hamas terrorists including hundreds of senior Hamas commanders while losing fewer than 60 IOF troops. The Western media admit that Israel have accidentally killed a very few Philistine civilians, but almost everyone killed by Israel has been a hardened terrorist, and those innocents accidentally killed were all being used by Hamas as involuntary human shields.

So how could anyone sympathise with the Philistine terrorists against the innocent Israeli civilians they have been murdering? A question no Western station can answer, a question that has no answer in the West.

The IOF murdering babies in hospitals? The Western news assure us this is all terrorist propaganda, the US government have verified beyond any possible doubt that there are no schools, no hospitals, no mosques nor churches nor refugee camps anywhere in Gaza, all are proven Hamas military bases from which the terrorists would have streamed out and murdered thousands of Israeli civilians had the IOF not taken prompt, decisive action to stop them.

See? The IOF found no doctors, no patients, not one baby anywhere in the so-called al-Shifa 'hospital,' only terrorists and their huge stockpile of weapons with which to attack Israeli civilians. No one watching the Western news could possibly believe that al-Shifa was really a hospital when all the evidence proves it was no such thing. Not one baby was found in al-Shifa, so don't watch non-Western media, and if you see the dead babies taken from their incubators by the IOF, know this is all fake, there was not even one baby in al-Shifa when it was liberated by the IOF. And the so-called hospital had no incubators until the IOF brought one, just in case there really were some babies that needed an incubator.

Please don't read The Gray Zone. For one thing, reading it is illegal in the West; for another, it would only confuse those whose entire understanding of the War in Gaza is based on Western news.

Support for Palestine/Israel???

One poll, widely promoted by alternative news, shows only 30% of Americans support Israel. Like most other attempts at 'facts', other polls show most Americans support Israel. Judging by comments on Arcamax, a huge majority support Israel, all have heard how Israel gave the Palestinians in Gaza fertile farms, greenhouses, wells, homes, etc., etc., but the Palestinians destroyed everything touched by a Jewish hand, leaving themselves with no way to produce food, hence 50% of all Gazans are now malnourished, and all their own fault.

That Israel cut off water and fishing and shoots farmers trying to grow crops is well documented but must never be mentioned. It's all the fault of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Then, after destroying their own livelihood, the Palestinians in Gaza viciously murdered 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians and say they'll keep doing it.

If one reads The Grayzone, many of the Israelis killed were in the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), in a fort that had no guards and the gates unlocked, so not exactly civilians. And a lot of the civilians were killed by the IOF to prevent their being taken hostage. But few read The Grayzone, and of those few, not all believe what they read there.

So what can Israel do except remove every Palestinian from the Gaza? The Israelis are willing to let the Palestinians in Gaza who can prove they are not in Hamas go to Egypt; however, Egypt have only accepted those who have passports, so they would just be briefly passing through Egypt on their way to whatever other country passport they hold, and very sick or badly injured Palestinians only accepted for treatment then return to Gaza.

If Egypt refuse to admit them, Israel feel the only way they can be safe from brutal, unprovoked attacks is to exterminate all the Palestinians in Gaza. The choice is up to Egypt and maybe other Arab states who would agree to accept all those Palestinians in Gaza who can prove they are not part of Hamas.

And a lot of Americans figure this is the only way Israel can be safe, and strongly support Israel. If Palestinian women and children have to die to keep Israel safe, that is entirely the fault of the Palestinians, the Israelis are blameless, only protecting themselves from future brutal, unprovoked attacks.

Of course, a lot of American denounce killing Palestinian civilians, women and children, as genocide.

But we have no idea what the actual numbers are.

Narratives on Gaza

Before, as an effectively monolingual English speaker, I got my information from the standard English-language sources: the US was bringing peace, freedom, democracy, and prosperity to the Axis, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the Ukraine, and are now working to help Israel prevent genocide of all the Jews in Israel, and maybe the entire world.

Hamas, we have been told, are determined to exterminate every last Jews, they are Antisemitic monsters, worse than Hitler, and they must be stopped. All of Gaza strongly support Hamas, all want to exterminate every last Jew, and if they do not agree to stop when politely asked, what choice do Israel have? If Israel (with Western support, of course) don't stop them they will continue until every last Jew is dead.

As Steve Malzberg says, in 2005, Israel left Gaza with massive infrastructure. Had they used it, Gaza would now be a very prosperous portion of Israel, but instead, because of their hatred for every thing Jewish, Hamas destroyed the farms, greenhouses, wells, and everything the Jews left them that had made Gaza a rich, prosperous Jewish settlement.

But today there are alternative narratives. So which narrative is the most plausible? One can see that Israel built a wall around Gaza, and allows in just enough food to keep most of those inside alive, although half are malnourished. Is that all the fault of Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, or is that because, for many years, Israel limited what could go into Gaza (to prevent terrorist attacks: apparently, food can be used for terrorist attacks)?

Israel kept three battalions of Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) guarding those walls, three battalions that were absent on 7 October (Why???). Israel limited fishing and farming. Israel say that was because Hamas used everything they could lay their hands on to build terrorist weapons to attack Israel. So all those in Gaza were confined with inadequate food, housing, water,  medicine, etc., etc. Whose fault is that? Again, Israel say it's all the fault of Hamas and the Palestinians in the Gaza, but that other narrative is that Gaza was a concentration camp, and given the documented deprivations, saying 'concentration camp' must only be used for Nazi concentration camps seems a bit disingenuous.

So, given that Israel were keeping more than 2 million Gazans in a concentration camp, given that Israel has thousands of Palestinian prisoners who have never been charged with any crime, did Hamas try to kidnap thousands of Israelis as a way to protest the appalling living conditions Israel forced on them? Or did they just murder 1,200 and  kidnap another 240 because they are Antisemites who hate every Jew?

Israel and all he Western media  report that Hamas brutally murdered those 1,200, beheading babies, killing about 80% of the Israelis they saw, including many babies, and kidnapping about 20%.

The Grayzone report that the IOF were responsible for most of those 1,200 Israelis killed during the raid, which was just a kidnapping raid. That the reports of babies brutally murdered by beheading and being burned to death are just lies by an Israeli disinformation agent. That Israel show absolutely no desire to rescue any hostages but want to kill them all so Hamas cannot hold them hostage, then hold Hamas entirely responsible for their deaths, since, had Hamas not kidnapped them, Israel would never have killed them so they could not be used to pressure Israel.

The two narratives then continue with the Israeli raid into Gaza. The Western/Israeli narrative is that they have found massive Hamas armaments that were about to be used to kill Israelis, but Hamas were stopped just in the nick of time. Hamas have lost more than 5,000 terrorists, including many top leaders, while the IOF have lost fewer than a dozen troops and few, if any, innocent civilians have been killed by the IOF.

The other narrative is that Hamas have lost few, if any, troops, the Israelis are only murdering civilians while Hamas are deep in bunkers, popping up to shoot anti-tank weapons and popping back down and disappearing from the range of Israeli weapons, so Hamas have lost very few of their members while the IOF have lost hundreds of troops and many tanks.

So what to believe?

Most Americans (that I've read posting on Social Media) agree that Hamas are anti-Semitic terrorists who would murder every last Jew in the world if they could, while Israel is doing all they can to minimise civilian casualties. They read that Israel are sending food, medicine, and everything the Palestinians in Gaza need to stay alive.

But if one reads the alternative narrative, or what people in the Global South post on Social Media, Israel is allowing less food, per capita, than the Nazis gave their concentration camp prisoners. Yes, the Israelis filmed some soldiers carrying an incubator into a hospital, but the hospital has been cut off from all electricity, so it's not clear how the hospital can possibly use the incubator, or how a single incubator is enough for dozens of premature babies.

So you pays your money and you takes your choice of narratives.

Wikipedia and Concentration Camps

 The Wikipedia article on Concentration Camps notes that the term ‘Concentration Camp’ was first used by the UK to describe facilities in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Since no enemy army ever overran and liberated any of those British South African Concentration Camps, we have only rumours and one photograph of an emaciated woman, with the claim that the UK military went from Boer farmhouse to Boer farmhouse and, if the farmer were not home, he was assumed to be fighting against the British, so they put his family in a Concentration Camp where they would not be fed until the farmer surrendered. But no solid proof that this is true.

The term was also used by the Americans who said they confined Japanese in ‘Concentration Camps’ during WWII.

Wikipedia say that many now agree that the term ‘Concentration Camp’ should only refer to Nazi Concentration Camps, the British and American facilities must be referred to as ‘internment camps’.

Again, there are rumours the British Concentration Camps were as bad as the Nazi Concentration Camps, and one former inmate told me about an American Concentration Camp where he said that the guards were ordered to starve the prisoners but they refused to ‘chust follow orders’ and, against all orders, let the prisoners farm and grow enough food to feed themselves when the guards had been ordered to keep the prisoners confined to their cells 24/7 and feed them only the government provided food that was enough for about 500 or so calories per person per day. I have only the former inmate’s testimony that he had plenty to eat in the Concentration Camp only because the guards violated their orders and made sure the prisoners grew plenty of food for themselves when the guards had been ordered not to allow this.

But only the Nazi Concentration Camps were liberated by armies that hated the Nazis and who then revealed all the horrors the Nazi guards had been ordered to conceal. So we have no idea what the worst of the British or American Concentration Camps were really like, we only have unverifiable rumours.

The Nazis did feed their prisoners, not enough, so they slowly starved to death. Then, as they starved, their immune systems failed, they contracted serious infections and spread those infections to the guards, so the Nazis ordered that any prisoner too weak to work or who looked sick was to be killed and then cremated. This tended to include women and children who could not perform heavy manual labour and who were immediately murdered and cremated. And we have solid proof of the Nazi crimes, but only because their enemies liberated their Concentration Camps and publicised those crimes.

Which brings us to Gaza. First, the Israelis banned all food. Then they agreed to allow about 5 trucks a day, less than what the Nazis fed their prisoners. ‘The Nazis starved their prisoners, but the Israelites are letting plenty of food into Gaza, so it is not at all the same, it is totally wrong to call it a Concentration Camp,’ say people like Steve Malzberg, which Wikipedia sort of insists is correct: Wikipedia say that the term Concentration Camp should only be applied to Nazi Concentration Camps with huge gas chambers for mass executions and mass crematoria to dispose of all the corpses.

Wikipedia say, “Don’t call the British or American or Israeli Concentration Camps ‘Concentration Camps’, call them ‘internment camps’.”

I heard Malzberg say, ‘The Palestinians in Gaza are not confined by the Israelis, they are free to leave, they are only stopped by Hamas, so one cannot even call Gaza an Israeli internment camp since the people are all free to come and go, it is only Hamas, not Israel, who are keeping them in Gaza.’

Sounds good, only it’s completely false. Israel only allows those who can prove they are not Hamas to exit into Egypt, but Egypt will only accept Palestinians with other passports to transit to that other country, and very sick Palestinians to come to Egypt for treatment. Egypt do not want two million Palestinians coming to Egypt. And Israel do not want two million Palestinians living in Gaza.

Israel are killing about 10,000 Gaza Palestinians a month, all of them Hamas terrorists, even the women and new-born babies. Israel assure us they have not killed a single civilian, all those killed were supporting the Hamas terrorists. Hamas call their bases ‘hospitals’ but Israel reveal the truth, they are military bases, not hospitals, so Israel have not bombed a single hospital, nor a mosque, nor a school, nor a church, all were Hamas military bases and legitimate targets. In fact, all of Gaza is a Hamas military base and so a legitimate target, and Israel will probably continue to kill at least 10,000 of those ‘Hamas terrorists’, most of them women and small children, every month until the Gaza is completely cleansed of all terrorists.

So Gaza is not a concentration camp, and Israel are not committing any war crimes, Israel are just making the world a better, safer place for everyone by tracking down and neutralising terrorists.

Concentration Camps

I was watching a program with a debate over what the heck is a 'Concentration Camp'? It seems some Congresswoman had said that some undocumented aliens coming into the US over the southern border were being put in concentration camps. Stephen D. Malzberg derided her, saying 'Concentration Camps', by definition, must have gas chambers and crematoria, and that did not apply to the places she was calling 'Concentration Camps'. Malzberg has no knowledge of history.

First, a German confined in what was called a 'Concentration Camp' in Germany in the 1930s described it as a minimum security prison (and his description is misused by Holocaust Deniers). The German Concentration Camps did not become Death Camps until the 1940s, mostly after 1941, but they were still called Concentration Camps when they were used as minimum security prisons for German Aryan prisoners.

Second, when the US declared that the Japanese who had been born in the US (and their parents who came from Japan years ago) were not Japanese-Americans but Japanese enemy agents to be confined for the duration of the war, and maybe longer, the name of the confinement facilities was 'Concentration Camps,' and these camps still exist, and some are now being used to confine some of the undocumented persons crossing the southern US border.

Malzberg has a popular show on Newsmax, and he makes things very simple for his audience, simple, popular, and historically incorrect.

Since those confinement facilities for Japanese de-Americanised Americans were called Concentration Camps during WWII, and are still listed as Concentration Camps in the history books and still retain the name on the Federal description, I think it is not outrageous or even wrong to call them Concentration Camps.

Which leads to the charge that the Gaza is a Concentration Camp, something Malzberg strongly denies. About 50% of those confined in Gaza are malnourished. Gaza has no gas chambers, no crematoria (the religions inside Gaza mostly insist on burials), but the US examples and the German examples from the 1930s show that one can have a Concentration Camp with neither gas chambers nor crematoria. Gaza isn't that minimum security a prison, and there is mass malnutrition, so it can be compared to the American Concentration Camps and to the German Concentration Camps before 1941 (after 1941, German Concentration Camps became Death Camps, where prisoners were starved and forced to do hard labour until they could no longer work, then gassed and cremated; Gaza wasn't that bad until October of 2023, with inmates now being executed in mass, but Malzberg would say bombing and shooting and dropping gas from aeroplanes isn't the same as the Nazi gas chambers, and the dead are not being cremated in mass crematoria, so no comparison, definitely not a Concentration Camp).

We know all about the Nazi Concentration/Death Camps because they were liberated, first some of the Eastern-most Concentration Camps were liberated by the Red Army of the USSR, and then some of the more Westerly Camps were liberated by the Western Army of the US and UK (and a few Free French troops). So we know all about the horrors.

We don't know much about the US Concentration Camps since they were never liberated by an enemy Army that publicised their crimes. I spoke to an inmate who told me the guards were told to keep the prisoners confined to their cells, and they had enough food to feed the inmates an adequate diet for about three months that was to last a year. The US guards at his Concentration Camp, not good at 'just following orders', took up a collection from among themselves (the Japanese-American prisoners had all their money confiscated before being confined), bought seeds and eggs and agricultural equipment, and had the prisoners farm the Concentration Camp grounds. They ran through the food that was supposed to last a year in three months, but by that time the first crops and chickens were available, and, being good farmers, the Japanese-American prisoners managed to feed themselves.

I know what happened at that one American Concentration Camp because a survivor told me, but he did not know what happened at any of the other Concentration Camps, and, again, no enemy army liberated any of the Camps, so we don't have any verified horror stories. Only the one example where the guards begged the prisoners not to tell anyone that they were allowed to farm and feed themselves since that had been strictly prohibited. (I learned this 40 years after the Camps were closed from a man who had been a young Japanese-American boy confined in an American Concentration Camp during WWII.)

Is there such a thing as the truth about 7 October and what is happening in Gaza since 7 October???

The Western establishment, main-stream media (MSM) assure us that Israel are winning the war against Hamas, that Israel have killed many, many Hamas militants and senior commanders while losing almost no members of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF). I saw on Fox News Israeli soldiers leading and protecting civilians as they were being moved from the combat zone in the north of Gaza to the safe, peaceful south of Gaza, so the IOF have minimised civilian casualties, with only minimal collateral damage as they destroy the Hamas militants who murdered more than 1,400 Israelis on 7 October.

But I have also seen the analyses by The Grayzone and Alastair Crooke.

The Grayzone have an article: “October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles.” This says that many of the 1,400 Israelis killed on October were killed by the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), which have a policy of not allowing any Israeli to be taken hostage: if necessary to prevent Israelis from being taken hostage, kill everyone, both the militants trying to take Israelis hostage and the hostages. They have another article, “Source of dubious ‘beheaded babies’ claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian village,” which says the claim that Hamas beheaded many babies is unproven and almost certainly false.

Alastair Crooke has a video, “Israel vs Gaza: The elephant in the room,” which says that the IOF have actually killed many civilians but few, if any, Hamas militants, and have suffered far worse losses than Israel admit or the Western MSM report.

So who are more likely to have an accurate report of what is happening in Gaza after 7 October and what happened on 7 October, the MSM or The Grayzone and Alastair Crooke?

Israel War in the News

The basic history is that the Ottomans lost WWI, and the UK and France split up the Ottoman Empire in Asia as colonies, with the British Mandate saying all of Palestine and Transjordan were for UK Jews. Hitler wanted to deport German Jews, not kill them, but the UK said that Palestine was only for UK Jews, not for European Jews, leaving Hitler to The Final Solution.

But the British Jews were only about 30% of the population before WWII. They didn't live peacefully, they kept trying to kill the British colonial officers and liberate Palestine. The Jews figured dealing with the Palestinians was for after they had full control.

After WWII, the US shipped all the Western European Jews to Palestine in 1948, and got the UN to vote to create Israel. The Western European Jews went to war with the Palestinians, Egyptians, Jordanians, and others, and the UN voted to divide things along the front lines of the battle on the date of the vote. Jordan got the West Bank and Egypt got Gaza. And everyone managed to live with that.

When Egypt claimed the Suez Canal, Eisenhower was president. Israel, the UK, and France were joining forces to return the Suez to UK/Israeli control, but Eisenhower said it belonged to Egypt, and that was that.

Peace continued until 1967 when Israel attacked the Egyptian and Jordanian forces before announcing war, and managed first, to destroy the Egyptian and Jordanian Air Forces completely, then with complete air domination, easily defeated Jordan, Syria, and Egypt and took over the West Bank and Gaza and the Golan Heights and a bit of Southern Lebanon as part of Israel.

Israel gave citizenship to about 2 million Palestinians, and said all other Palestinians are illegal aliens with no rights, and all must leave.

Israel 'mows the lawn' from time to time, bombing and killing Palestinians to teach them never to think about challenging Israel's right to all of Israel. They can be imprisoned without charges, other than being in Israel illegally (sort of). They can be shot for no particular reason, and nothing happens to the Israeli police or settler who shoots them.

Those 2 million Palestinian citizens mean it is not Apartheid, since Apartheid meant that no one with even one drop of non-European blood could ever be a citizen of South Africa.

But then, on 7 October 2023, Hamas managed to blow up part of the wall surrounding Gaza and thousands of Hamas soldiers attacked Israel.

There were usually three battalions of Israeli soldiers guarding Gaza, but all were withdrawn for a Jewish Festival.

What, exactly, happened, no one has a clue. Israel say they have many photographs proving Hamas beheaded many Israeli babies, and cooked many in the oven and made their parents listen to them scream as they died. But we must take Israel's word for this, they say the proof is too gruesome to let anyone see any of it. Hamas say they attacked and mostly killed Israeli soldiers caught sleeping in unguarded and unlocked military fortresses, but in shooting, they accidentally killed some civilians, including a few babies, but mostly they killed soldiers and people who were shooting at them.

The Western news say that Israeli statement is irrefutable proof that Hamas beheaded and roasted as many babies as they could find, raped all the women they could catch, then took 240 hostages and murdered every other Israeli they could find. Plus, Hamas fired a lot of rockets, more than Iron Dome could handle, and it is fairly certain that about 1,400 Israelis died in the Hamas attack and about 240 were taken hostage.

Israel say the shelling on Gaza will be non-stop until all hostages are released, but it is not so easy to release hostages while being shelled (but somehow, Hamas managed to release two hostages).

Reliable witnesses say that mosques, schools, hospitals, churches, and ambulances have been bombed.

The Western media say that all were bombed by Hamas, or were not really schools, hospitals, churches, or ambulances, they were Hamas headquarters, so Israel has behaved perfectly, they have done absolutely nothing that could possibly be considered a violation of the Laws of War.

But that's the Western media.

The non-Western media mostly say that Hamas may have committed a war crime on 7 October, but that they were provoked by Israel and one must understand they had no other way to address the way Israel could keep killing Palestinians without ever risking a single Israeli life.

But since October 7, Israel have been bombing schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and ambulances in Gaza, and these are all war crimes according to the non-Western media.

There is absolutely no agreement on whether the Western Media is the unvarnished TRVTH and the non-Western media a pack of lies, or the opposite.

British Mandate for British Jews: 1973, Yom Kippur, Ramadan

 From 1967, Israel included everything from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, plus the Sinai, plus part of Syria and Lebanon. The USSR were on the side of the Arabs. The US were on the side of Israel. The USSR secretly provided Egypt with anti-aircraft batteries and Syria gave the USSR Mediterranean Naval Bases. 

On Yom Kippur in the Christian year 1973, during Ramadan, Sadat, the president of Egypt, ordered the Egyptian army to break their Ramadan fast early and attack Israel. This was totally unexpected by Israel who figured the Arabs were all fasting for Ramadan and were not allowed to engage in war, and Israelis were observing Yom Kippur, a time when the Israeli military are not ready to fight.

Israel sent their warplanes, expecting to quickly destroy the Egyptians as they had in 1967. Some of their air force were shot down, the rest fled back to Israel. Egypt got back the Sinai, Syria got back the Golan Heights.

But Sadat was leading the Egyptian Army and left the anti-aircraft battery unprotected. An Israeli force managed to capture and destroy the anti-aircraft battery, Israel again had full dominance of the air, and quickly recaptured the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and was moving toward Damascus and Cairo. The USSR looked like they were going to intervene, but Nixon was in a bad crisis, hiding in his office, and Kissinger was running the US government. Kissinger put the US on DEFCON 1: ready for nuclear war. The USSR backed down. Israel again had everything from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea plus the Egyptian Sinai plus the Syrian Golan Heights.

Eventually, Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel and got US aid. Egypt reduced ties with the USSR and the US saw to it that Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula. So someone shot Sadat.

Now Israel have absolute control over everything from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, under the total protection of the US, and that is also backed by NATO nations: Germany has made it illegal to wave the Palestinian flag and arrested people for so doing. All US and NATO and EU news channels strongly support Israel.

1948 - 1967

The UN offered the British Mandate to the Palestinians in 1948: agree to Jewish domination or get out. 

Only the West Bank and Gaza were left to Palestinians, everything else was under Jewish domination and those Palestinians who could not accept that were told to leave. They were also told the lie that, as civilians, they must leave to stay safe while the Arab Armies freed Palestine and returned it to Muslim control. So they left, and most have never been allowed to return to the homes they left in 1948. Many are still in refugee camps in places like Syria and Lebanon and Jordan with the key to their homes in Israel hanging on the wall of their refugee accomodations.

Of course, Israel hated giving the Palestinians the West Bank that includes the Temple Mount. Also the spot from which Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven and where one can still see his footprint. So a bit of a problem.

But in 1967, Israel bombed the air forces of neighbouring countries, saying they feared an attack. Then they attacked with total control of the air, and with that total control they easily defeated the Arab Armies, and declared all of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea to be Jewish, with 2 million Arabs accepted as citizens and all other Arabs expected to leave, but they had nowhere to go.

Since 1967, Israel have made life as unpleasant as possible for all those Arabs not accepted as citizens in the hope they would leave, only no one would take them. Arab countries said, 'Don't come here. Fight for Palestine!' 

Kind of like what happened to the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1937. 

A lot like what happened to the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1937. 

Only we hadn't quite had a Kristallnacht--the night when Germany said it was no longer illegal for a German to kill a Jew--for the Palestinians. At least in 1967.

British Palestine

 Several Brits figured all the British Jews should go to Palestine, of whom Rev. Keith was the most famous (but there were many others). After WWI (actually, starting during WWI), the UK and France took all the Ottoman colonies outside Europe and made them UK and French colonies, and the British promised a big chunk of their colonies for UK Jews to get them out of the UK.

Not just that, but, the UK offered Central Power Jews during WWI and Axis Jews during WWII free land in Palestine if they would betray the Central Powers or the Axis. No Jews took the UK up on the offer, but the Nazis used the offer as proof that every Jew had betrayed Germany.

I've read about Jewish terrorists and Arab terrorists trying to get the UK out of Palestine during the '20s and '30s.

But the total number of Jews who went to Palestine remained small until 1948 when the US sent all the Jews in Western Europe to what had been British Palestine (but that ended in 1948 when the UN voted to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews and end UK colonial status).

The US, after 1944, had open admission for Jews, so some of the European Jews shipped to Palestine managed to get US passports and moved to the US (with dual citizenship).

But after the US sent the European Jews to Palestine, many Muslim countries evicted all their Jews for stealing Palestine, and they had nowhere to go except Palestine.

1945 - 1948

 The Red Army was the first to find a German Death Camp in 1945. But the USSR made ethnic groups illegal, hence there were, under USSR law, no Jews, no Aryans, no Slavs. So the USSR recorded more than 26 million Soviets dead, some in combat, some starved to death, some killed in death camps. No record of Jews, since, under USSR law, there was no such thing.

The Allies came across German Death Camps not long after the Soviets. The Allies recognised ethnic groups, and counted 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis out of a total of 11 million Jews in Europe.

After 1944, a bit on the late side, the US guaranteed entry for any European Jew who could make it to the US. An American friend thought the US had done all it could to protect the European Jews. Not quite.

But what to do? The Europeans didn't want the Jews. Their homes had been confiscated by the Nazis and sold, and the new owners didn't see why they should be evicted for the sins of the defeated Nazis.

So the Americans decided to ship all the Western European Jews to Palestine in 1948. The Rev Keith of the UK had suggested back in the 19th century that British Jews should all go to Palestine where, with advanced agricultural methods, they could bring in very good harvests in the Fertile Crescent, providing the UK with grain and tropical fruits. 

After WWI, the UK and France took most of what had been the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans being among the losers, so they lost their Empire, as did the Austrians and Germans and Russians. The lost Ottoman Empire colonies became French and British colonies.

The British said that the traditional Jewish homeland would be given to British Jews. My Bible has a map, and there were Jewish colonies in Palestine and the Transjordan, and up into what is now southern Lebanon.

Then the Brits decided the Transjordan would be for Arabs, the Transjordan Jewish tribal members in the UK could live in part of Palestine, and not only would the Jews not get Lebanon (which went to France, not the UK) nor the Transjordan, they had to share the British colony of Palestine with the Palestinians. Both Jews and Palestinians wanted rid of the Brits, but the Brits were much too strong between WWI and WWII.

And then, in 1948, the US sent the Western European Jews to Palestine. There was a war between the European Jews and the Palestinians who wanted to keep their land, even though the US and UK said European Jews now had the right to live there. As it turned out, the Arabs managed to hold on to the West Bank and Gaza, with the European Jews getting the rest of Palestine. The Palestinians call this the Nakba.

The years 1933 - 1940

 In 1933, Germany elected a Chancellor who wanted a Judenfrei Europe, a Europe with no Jews. He had laws that made it difficult for Jews to find a place to live or a place to work, so many Jews tried to leave Europe. Only no country outside Europe would take them. The Chancellor wanted to deport Jews, only Britain said the Royal Navy would prevent any such deportations.

So the Jews who wanted to leave Europe could not, and Germany were not allowed to deport them, so there they all were when the war started. The war was declared in 1939, but did not actually turn into a real war until 1940.

And then, with limited resources, the German leadership decided to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish problem.

The Chancellor also wanted a Europe that was Slav-free, and tried to kill off all the Slavs for Lebensraum, so Canada recently honoured a German who worked hard at getting rid of all the Slavs in Europe during WWII: didn't Canada and Germany fight together against the USSR in WWII? The Canadian Prime Minister seems to think so.

My friend on the problems in Palestine

"What do you think?" I asked him.

"Half of them call me a kaffir, and the other half call me a goy, so what do I care?"

"What do you think of the IOF?" I asked him.

"What is the IOF? I've heard of the IDF, but never the IOF."

I told him,"The IOF is the Israeli Occupation Force. That's the term used by those who say Israel does not have a Defence Force, they have an Occupation Force."

Sometimes, the New York Times is partly right

 The New York Times had an article, "An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa". It seems there is a new mosquito that thrives in arid climates and it is invading some African cities. The countryside is wet enough that there are lots of mosquitoes, and the healthcare professionals recognise malaria. But in some of the desert cities, there were no mosquitoes, hence no malaria, and healthcare professionals have no idea what they're seeing or how to treat it.

Where I am, in the Arabian desert (sometimes called "The Empty Quarter" since there wasn't much here when the Brits came), there were no mosquitoes. Until about one or two years ago. Now my apartment building is full of them. I read about flypaper when I was a boy, some 60 years ago, but I never saw any. But then I saw some in the supermarket, bought some, put it up, and it was soon covered with mosquitoes.

So the problem is not just in African cities, as the New York Times warned. This new and improved mosquito thrives in lots of arid places where mosquitoes formerly could not manage.

Before the New York Times article, I put the problem down to development: the town where I live and the African cities where the New York Times reported the problem have a lot more people than 20 years ago, so lots more trash that people put out with liquid in it. The New York Times said a big problem is bottle caps that have a tiny bit of liquid, enough for the new mosquito to breed.

But I'm guessing the New York Times are correct that there is, in fact, a new kind of mosquito that is very resistant to lack of water and these new mosquitoes are establishing themselves in places where mosquitoes formerly could not manage. They've certainly established themselves here.

Beaucoup Haram

 I heard a news story condemning Beaucoup Haram today. They misspelled it and mispronounced it, the usual Western media demonising those who do not conform to the official Western media definition of conforming properly to the Rules-based Order.

Beaucoup Haram is a name from Francophone Islam, Beaucoup being a French word and Haram an Islamic word (Haram is an Arabic word written in the Latin alphabet). Haram means 'sinful,' and Beaucoup (having too much) is one of Christianity's Seven Deadly Sins, so the concept is fully in line with Christianity. But the Western media are never going to admit any of that.

Instead, the Western media say the name is 'Boko Haram', meaning education is prohibited by Islam and must be eradicated, so male students and staff are all murdered and female student kidnapped for sex slaves. And so they report in all their stories about 'Boko Haram'.

In fact, in countries where many are starving, the obscenely wealthy spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in Western educators to teach British, American, French, and International education to their own children. Beaucoup Haram consider this wrong, for some inexplicable reason, and want to shut down all the International schools, send the foreign teachers and administrators home, and have local teachers teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and Islam in the local language using materials available very cheaply, so the money being spent by the very rich on International education for a very tiny minority of children can be better used feeding the poor and educating all the children.

It is easy to see why the Western media must demonise Beaucoup Haram. For one thing, if the demands of Beaucoup Haram were accepted, they'd lose all their paying readers in the Francophone Islamic countries in Africa, as well as their advertising revenue from International educational institutions.

Seymour Hersh In the News???

 Seymour Hersh recently wrote that he heard from a US intelligence official that the Ukraine Spring Offensive was a complete failure and defeat of the Ukraine by Russia is imminent.

I tried to Google the paper, but nothing by Seymour Hersh after about 2008 is in any of the Western media, which all uniformly reiterate that the Ukraine Spring Offensive have broken through the Russian defensive lines and are now, finally, making rapid progress at retaking the Donbass and the Crimea: using the newest NATO weaponry they have just been given, the Ukraine military have destroyed more than 90% of all Russian armour and artillery. More than 600,000 Russians have been killed, so Russia are sending young boys and elderly men with "outmoded and inept" Soviet and Czarist weapons against the most advanced NATO weapons, and Russia have no ammunition so they are begging the DPRK and Iran for anything they can supply.

Fortunately, I found the Seymour Hersh article referenced in The New Indian Express. (I am too kanjus makkhi cus to pay to read Seymour on his paid substack outlet.)

[In another strange twist, the US now have two Indians running for president, one of whom strongly supports the Ukraine War and says the US must give the Ukraine whatever they need to win the war with total defeat of Russia, while the other Indian says the US must pull out of the Ukraine ASAP. So I guess the former only reads the Western media and the latter still reads the Indian media?]

As a Jordanian friend explained, one can easily get the truth out of the Western media: just replace every use of the words 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine' with 'Russian' and 'Russia', and replace every use of the words 'Russian' and 'Russia' with 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine'. And I guess you also need to change 'DPRK and Iran' to 'more NATO nations'.

Basically, NATO managed to cleanse their storage facilities of all their 'obsolete and inept' weapons and dumped them all on the Ukraine, so all those warehouses are now empty and the big defence contractors have new, $trillion contracts to refill those warehouses. While $billions have been spent on the Ukraine, only $millions went into the pockets of Ukrainians, almost all went to the Western (mostly US) Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think_Tank Complex, which was the plan all along. So Mission Accomplished!!!

There are also written and audio records of Joe demanding his cut of the baksheesh paid to Hunter, so all those Republican claims of bribery and corruption are totally unsupported.