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sunnylin01

Nov 07, 2023, 19:18

 (Xinhua) -- Among the debris, a father was desperately searching for his children after Israeli warplanes struck the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday.

"Saeed," the father called his son's name repeatedly in a trembling voice, as he sledgehammered his way through the thick, collapsed concrete. After several futile attempts, he hurled the hammer, ejaculating, "Did I not tell you to take care of your sister?" Still no answer from beneath the rubble.

This heart-wrenching moment was captured on video and quickly went viral on the internet, adding to the global calls for a ceasefire in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Despite the pleas, the conflict rages on, claiming the lives of hundreds of Palestinians on a daily basis, with no sign of abating.


Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on Oct. 12, 2023. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

The conflict will reach the one-month milestone on Tuesday and the death toll in Gaza has exceeded 10,000, with over 4,100 being children, according to the latest number reported by the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza. In Israel, at least 1,400 people have been killed, mostly civilians in the initial Oct. 7 Hamas surprise attack that triggered the latest round of conflict.

As Israel vows a "long and hard war" against Hamas, political analysts cautioned against a protracted conflict that could extend for months or longer, cause a worse humanitarian catastrophe and spill over into the Middle East.

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Some of the chants of those protesting against Israel’s bombing of Gaza are brazenly anti-Semitic. These chants include “From the river to the sea”, which is a call for the destruction of Israel, whether all those who repeat it understand that or not.
- Britain’s home secretary uses a pro-Palestinian march to sow discord

Yet even amerikan Jews admit the illegitimate state of New Izrael has no right to exist: Another found that a quarter of American Jews agree Israel is an “apartheid state”, and one-fifth of those under 40 do not think the Jewish state has a right to exist.
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To Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of Manhattan’s Stephen Wise free synagogue, calls for ceasefire are themselves antisemitic – he believes they hold Israel to a different standard than other countries.
- ‘I, too, am the Jewish community’: rift among US Jews widens over Gaza war

That's the same warped logic as the pothead war criminal refusing to return the Koh-i-noor diamond because the poodle-state would then have to return all the artefacts they've thieved. Only the Great Satan, poodle and illegitimate state of New Izrael repeatedly resist ceasefires as the rest of the planet calls for them.

And this rabbi disagrees: He said, “Zionism is the transformation of Judaism, from religion, from subservience to God, into a material concept of nationalism. This is unacceptable to the ones who want to serve God. In order to create this nationalism, they are removing God from the equation.

“We were warned by the prophets that we would be expelled from the land and that happened with the destruction of the temple [in Jerusalem] 2,000 years ago. We were not to return in mass – it’s a godly decreed exile – and we’re also not to rebel against any nation we reside in. We are to be loyal citizens and pray for the well-being of the land that is our hosts. We also should never make any attempt to end exile.”
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Rabbi Weiss continued, “[Zionists’] goal was to have their material state, and whatever stood in their way didn’t bother them. The Torah says thou shall not steal’ so every concept of Zionism is breaching the Torah. They knew our religion does not call for us to take up arms and take over the land. On the contrary, we are forbidden.”
- Meet the outspoken Rabbi who says Israel is a monster that should be removed from the map

They've just claimed that graffiti calling for a "Free Palestine" is hate speech, yet the Anglo/Jew liars have had a "Free Tibet" astro-turf organisation since  1987, peddling hatred of Chinese based on lies. And when they illegally infested Xizang at the turn of the last century in order to force trade, it was the central government who paid the extortion money for them to piss-off. The defrauded China agreeing only "suzerainty" and then immediately violated the treaties at the Simla Conference and even as the Great Satan admits China's "sovereignty".

Is THIS hate-speech too: 

Or how about this:


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sunnylin01 post time: 2023-11-07 19:20

Refusing to call for a ceasefire is clearly Kafka-esque gangster absurdity, and more officials are resigning in protest:

The Labour leader of Burnley borough council resigned along with 10 other councillors in protest at Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire; while at least 330 Labour councillors have signed a letter urging Starmer to back a ceasefire.

Senior Labour figures including the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, and Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, have also been among those to challenge Starmer’s stance.

Sixteen Labour frontbenchers and a third of the entire parliamentary party have either called for a ceasefire or shared others’ calls backing a ceasefire on social media, including Yasmin Qureshi and Jess Phillips.
- Imran Hussain: Labour frontbencher resigns in support of Gaza ceasefire

This is similar to how junior ministers and lawyers resigned in protest of convicted war criminal, Tony Blair's illegal war of aggression against Iraq on the basis of lies about WMD, which they've now admitted didn't exist and where one of his own goons & thugs complained that the lies were "palpably absurd". Despite being convicted of "high crimes against humanity", convicted war criminal, Blair, received a knighthood from the poodle queen.

Also officials at the UN resigned in protests of the food for oil sanctions imposed on Iraq and one amerikan journalist asked war criminal, Mad Madelyn Albright if the deaths of a millions Iraqis, half of whom were kids under 5 was "worth it", to which the insane old hag, now screaming in agony in her own special place in Hell replied that it was.

In fact the ENTIRE PLANET is protesting against the illegitimate state of New Izrael.

But as George Galloway pointed out, Starmer is a deep-state establishment insider. Even the zionist Daily Telegraphic Nonsense claimed he was plagiarising Tory ideas, which meant he had to be privy to them in the first place.

Starmer also evicted Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour party when Corbyn refused to submit to the lie that it had an anti-semitism problem. Ken Livingstone was evicted when he pointed out that the Jews had collaborated with Hitler and claimed that Jews approached him in the street saying he'd only spoken the truth and encouraging him to keep on doing so.

Whilst Great Satan and poodle have appointed themselves as the World's policemen, it's clear that they're every bit the "criminal states" that John Pilger says they are and every bit "gangster-run" as Paul Craig-Roberts says. King Charlie even openly displays jewels thieved from around the World, whilst the poodle museum of plunder refuses to return thieved artefacts even as everyone says they should and some nations are begining to do so.

The poodle state recently even reduced the statute of limitations for war crimes, making it harder to get justice for their victims. These are the "western values" they wanted China to adopt, in other words, to join their gang in plundering other nations. They couldn't even give a Victoria Nuland about their own sheeple either with a poverty rate of over 20% in Poodleville just as sphincter Chris Patten left in Hong Kong with coffin/cage homes: Here we are, leaving Hong Kong in pretty good shape without years of domestic rows, demonstrations, turbulence, shaking fists, and you’d think this had been accomplished by the sort of diplomacy that came so naturally to some of those officials.
- Chris Patten’s Hong Kong Diaries of 1997 handover run-up take us behind the scenes as Britain prepared to take leave of its last colony.

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As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres , the uprising on 7Oct did not happen in a vacuum. This is similar to the eight year provocation in Ukraine. Instead of issuing an arrest warrent for war criminal, Victoria "F**k the EU" Nuland and war criminal, Giorgy Schwartz, the International Kangaroo Kourt issues one for president Putin, despite one amerikan article pointing out that Russia had been invited in by the residents of the Donbass region. Furthermore international law allows intervention where human rights are being violated. Cokehead Quisling clown, Zerlensky, and his piano-playing penis definitely fit the bill, having outlawed the russian language and the russian orthodox church. Where is two-faced clown Justin Welby whining about religious freedom in his daft priestly frock as he did with China?

The gold market in the two weeks prior shows there was no intelligence failure.

Even Haaretz quotes war criminal, Benny Nut&Yahoo saying he wanted to cultivate Hamas to sow division amongst Palestinians. Having allowed Hamas to participate in elections, the Great Satan and illegitimate state of New Izrael immediately declared Hamas a terrorist organistion. In other words, with zero justification.

In 2019, war criminal, Benny Nut&Yahoo declared that the illegitimate state of New Izrael would not give back the Golan Heights. Months later, he declared the illegitimate state of New Izrael's sovereignty.

As one article on lewrockwell.com said, zionism is just plain old colonialism. Even the Rothschild owned Quackonomist shows a series of maps depicting the inexorable expansion of the illegitimate state of New Izrael.

As for Hamas, several years ago, Esther Rantzen interviewed a pair of old women who as youngsters had murdered their father. Having been found guilty, the judge let them off saying they'd suffered enough. If I were a resident in Gaza I'd probably want every Jew on the planet dead, including Jewish Voices for Peace.

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PEACE OUT OF SIGHT

Political watchers in the region opine that no swift resolution to the ongoing conflict in Gaza is on the horizon. Meanwhile, they suggest Israel may avoid a full-scale offensive but target specific sites, due to international pressure.

Anabtawi, the Palestinian analyst, pointed out the likelihood of a temporary pause in confrontations as Israel causes an international outcry. Nevertheless, he believes that a long-term peaceful solution or a permanent ceasefire is not in sight.

However, international pressure would make the Israeli military scale back its presence in Gaza and focus on raids against specific targets, and that will potentially prolong the conflict if Israel tends to achieve its target of "destroying Hamas entirely."

Iranian political analyst Mohammad Ghaderi said the longer the conflict lasts, the more dangerous it gets. He said Iran's allies in the region, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, are trying to be actively involved in the conflict.

Israel is also trying to contain the conflict in Gaza to avoid fighting on multiple fronts.

"We are defending our northern border and conducting operations in Gaza -- these are our priorities. We have no interest in war on our northern border, but we are prepared for every (possible) mission," said Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Saturday when holding a situation assessment.

But such an equilibrium is fragile. Anabtawi warned that the situation may not necessarily go as they wish.

"From an abyss perspective, this war will affect the entire region," he said.

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ISRAEL UNDER PRESSURE

With the increasing death toll in Gaza, Israel is facing growing pressure from the international community.

Jordan, Türkiye, Chile, and Colombia have recalled their ambassadors in protest of Israel's attacks in Gaza, while Bolivia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel.

According to Murat Yesiltas, a scholar on geopolitics at Ankara Social Sciences University, Israel's operations in Gaza could jeopardize its rapprochement with Arab countries and Türkiye.

The scholar warned that Israel's normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco could face backlashes, and that Saudi Arabia had put its normalization process with Israel on hold.

The normalization of relations between Türkiye and Israel, he said, may face more hurdles, especially since Ankara adopted a tougher stance on the matter.

Meanwhile, Israel is also under domestic pressure as the economic cost of the conflict mounts.

The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Israel have estimated that the war costs stand at about 1 billion shekels (around 250 million U.S. dollars) per day, both in direct and indirect expenses. The estimate assumes a conflict on one front against Hamas, without a regional escalation.

A poll published by the Israeli daily Maariv on Oct. 27 showed that nearly half of Israelis call for caution in the Gaza Strip ground operations and prefer Benny Gantz, the leader of the National Unity Party, as prime minister.

The poll found that 29 percent of Israelis supported an immediate ground offensive in Gaza, 49 percent preferred waiting a bit longer and 22 percent had no clear opinion. It exhibits a major plunge from a week earlier when a similar poll showed 65 percent backing a large-scale ground operation in Gaza.

Netanyahu also faces mounting pressure from families of over 240 people still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. He has reiterated on various occasions that there will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages. Only four of them were released by Hamas, and one soldier was rescued by the Israeli army during its ground operations.

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MOUNTING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

One month into the conflict, Israel is expanding its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on top of airstrike campaigns.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks entered the "second stage" when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out more ground operations on Oct. 27. Since then, the Israeli army has been navigating its ground offensives in Gaza while intensifying airstrikes across the coastal enclave.

The IDF also announced its success in dividing the Gaza Strip, separating the southern and northern parts, and encircling Gaza City, the enclave's main urban center.

However, Samer Anabtawi, a Palestinian political analyst, said the army only made "some progress in the no-man's land in the northern and northeastern borders of Gaza," and he expected much stronger resistance if the IDF penetrated Gaza as the presence of large-scale tunnels posed a significant threat to the Israeli soldiers.

The month-long conflict has displaced around 1.4 million people in the enclave with a population of around 2.3 million, according to the United Nations.

Save the Children, an international charity organization, said on Thursday that one child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza right now and mothers are writing their children's names on their hands so that, if killed, they can be identified.

In addition to the daily bombardments, a blockade has cut off the supply of essential resources like food, water, electricity, and fuel, causing immense suffering for those who have managed to survive the month-long hostilities.

UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder said last week that Gaza's water production has dwindled to a mere 5 percent of its usual daily output, posing an increasing danger of child deaths, particularly among infants.

Moreover, one-third of hospitals and two-thirds of clinics in Gaza are unable to function, and the remaining facilities are grappling with overwhelming demands with extreme shortages of medical supplies and fuel. The World Health Organization said doctors in some hospitals have to perform surgeries on patients without anesthesia.