The 40 Beheaded Babies will be the Rallying Cry for the Genocide of Gaza

Israel's 9/11

That's a terrible analogy and one we shouldn't ignore because the horrific assault by Hamas Militants on October 7th is not going to be met by targeted retaliation but by an open-ended War against every Palestinian and multiple Muslim nations while the people invoking the Terrorist attacks of 9/11 are following the invocation with blood-thirsty calls to eradicate every Muslim.  "Flatten Gaza"...

Also, Republicans are getting real mad they can't proclaim Biden is Responsible because he didn't say the MAGIC WORDS of 

🎩Radical Islamic Terrorism🎩

the cry Faux News and the Republican Party led against President Barack HUSSEIN Obama!  Barack HUSSEIN Obama! Barack HUSSEIN Obama!

Israel has bombed Syrian locations.  Israel has bombed the border between Egypt and Gaza.  The IDF itself reports it has dropped 6000 in 6 days.  I mean how many more do they get to drop?  10,000?  50,000? 2,200,000 one bomb for everyone in Gaza?  Is the Israeli response unlimited? Yep, because 40 Beheaded Babies.

I'm afraid the retaliation and violence won't have any defined end other than, "Defeat the Terrorists".  The Global War on Terror returns for another open-ended run.  The US is already shipping 250lb "precision" bombs and JDAM conversion kits to upgrade older munitions into so-called smart bombs.

Any time anyone states perhaps the aerial bombardments obliterating entire city blocks should stop, on-line trolls and blood-thirsty keyboard killers will declare you are in league with Hamas and support beheading babies.  There is a large contingent which apparently believes Israel gets to drown Gaza in blood and Israel also gets to decide when enough blood has been shed.

And now Israel has ordered over 1 Million people to move out of North Gaza inside the next 24 hours.  The UN response correctly points out this is an impossible demand and declared it will cause an unspeakable humanitarian crisis.  To which Israel says too bad.

"Now, instead of standing by Israel, whose citizens were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists... it preaches to Israel.  It is better for the UN to focus now on returning the hostages, condemning Hamas, and supporting Israel's right to defend itself,” Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN.

How is this acceptable? Because 40 Beheaded Babies.  How can anyone expect the people to grab enough food, water, medicine, clothing in 24 hours?  Because 40 Beheaded Babies.  What happens to the people who don't leave?  Who cares because 40 Beheaded Babies.  Israel's Right-to-Defend Itself and the 40 Beheaded Babies is going to be an all-time Trump card to commit open-ended Genocide against the Palestinian people.

The absolute Righteousness of the Israeli cause will justify everything that follows.

Drunken Van Orden strikes again as he drunkenly lashes out at briefing on Israel/Palestine situation

Drunk Again

Notorious raging abusive alcoholic Derrick Van Orden is a disgrace to the United States House of Representatives, and considering this gaggle of traitors, goons, grifters, and bigots that is quite an achievement.

Drunken Van Orden seems to believe his buffoonish tours of duty as a US Navy Seal qualify him as an expert on the burgeoning Humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the butchery of the Hamas Militants on October 7th, and the 75 year Israeli occupation of Palestine.

So, during a briefing Drunken Van Orden was a profane belligerent asshole yet again; 

Van Orden reportedly interrupted a congressional briefing by White House officials on the unfolding conflict between Israel and Hamas, cursing at the presenters, calling them “pathetic,” and yelling “fuck you” at Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), according to Politico. Phillips, a Jewish Democrat, had reportedly interjected into Van Orden’s verbal tirade with an exclamation of “shame on you.”   

“He was rude and attacked the presenters,” Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) told Politico. “I thought they had very substantive things to say. But he just had this blanket attack saying that ‘this is the worst information I’ve ever had’ …

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) reportedly apologized to the presenters for Van Orden’s behavior. Van Orden’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone. 

I'm 100% certain Drunk Van Orden knows nothing of the Nakba, the Right-of-Return, the Netanyahu/Likud destruction of any political solution and policy of supporting Hamas, let alone the current situation on the ground.  Just like when George W. Bush didn't know the difference between Shia and Sunni Islam, Van Orden like all Republicans doesn't know Shit from Shinola. 

Although, Van Orden might know something of unlawful killing of civilians and Terrorists attacks, as he participated in Jan6th.  But, with his non-stop profanity laced tirades he's a disgraceful Representative for Wisconsin although these days all Republicans are a disgrace and hurtful to the Nation.  Perhaps, in Van Orden's case  it's CTE, perhaps he thinks it's tough ooh-rah leadership but, more than likely Drunken Van Orden is a shameful reminder to all Americans of the out-of-control, booze-fueled, violent serviceman undermining the highest tradition of the United States Naval Service. 

I'd recommend reading the Al Jazeera Opinion page for some viewpoints most American and Western news media coverage won't tell you or this Slate interview with Peter Beinart;

Ultimately, Israel doesn’t have a military problem. It has a political problem. It has a human problem. And the problem is that you have these millions of people—most of them are not from Gaza. Most of them are the family of refugees that were forced out of their homes in Israel when Israel was created. And if they don’t have the ability to live a dignified, decent life, then many of them are going to try to make sure that Israeli Jews can’t live safe and dignified lives.

but, Drunken Van Orden is probably downing his 7th Brandy Old Fashioned.downing his 7th Brandy Old Fashioned.

Harvard Students issue factual statement about Israel and Palestine. Republican Extremists Attack

Republicans love when Extremists attack.  They fvcking loooooooooove it.  Republicans love when innocent people die in Terrorist Attacks because then they get to Bash the Left with their rhetorical war club and accuse Democrats of Aiding Terrorists.

Because of the Tea Party lunatics, the cartoonish Trump criminality and treason, and the non-stop Anti-American antics of Greene, Santos, Boebert, Tubberville, Hawley et al you had forgotten how bad the Republicans were under George W(orst POTUS Ever) Bush.  Hadn't you?

For instance, convicted criminal and drunken evangelical Tom DeLay scuttled aid to Palestine Authority in 2005.  Undercutting the Palestine Authority in 2005 aided who?  Hamas; who "won" elections in Gaza in 2006 and have never had another.  Who else has aided Hamas?  Why Benjamin Netanyahu. 

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"

For years Netanyahu was a "Friend of Hamas" because Hamas and Likud are Extremists who love and need each other.  Netanyahu ignored Gaza because he was busy helping settlers confiscate land in the West Bank and eliminating Supreme Court barriers to his fascist rule.  The two state solution died when Netanyahu had Yitzak Rabin assassinated.

“Israel is not killing the Hamas leadership, they’re not getting revenge out of Hamas. There is collective punishment for 2.2 million people. Look what’s happening towards the Palestinians in the West Bank, to us, the Palestinian Israelis that live inside the state of Israel. Our lives are in danger because of all the extreme-right fascists.”  Sami Abou Shehadeh said.

The Hamas multi-pronged attack is just the balm rightwing extremists across the globe needed.  Anyone attempting to analyze the incredibly fraught Israel/Palestine situation, express understanding of the shared grief, bring humanity or nuance into this is immediately attacked.  Especially, if you are in the West and you share even a scintilla of compassion for the plight of Palestinian civilians expect to be savagely denounced by Republicans. 

So, in response to 34 Harvard student groups putting out an accurate if controversial statement 

We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.  

Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.  

The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.

properly ascribing blame to the Israeli treatment of Gaza, Republican extremists pounced;

Elise Stefanik, a Republican US Representative from New York and a Harvard graduate, called the statement “abhorrent and heinous” for excusing the “slaughter of innocent women and children”.  

I will note that the deaths of children in Gaza from indiscriminate missile strikes originating in Israel do not engender the same response.

Republican US Senator Ted Cruz, a Harvard Law School graduate, wrote on Xitter: “What the hell is wrong with Harvard?”

This is a good question as they were not clairvoyant enough to see the odious Traitor Cruz would turn into.

Harvard President Claudine Gay and senior leadership including 15 deans issued a statement on Monday that said they were “heartbroken by the death and destruction unleashed by the attack by Hamas that targeted citizens in Israel this weekend”.

See! We can neatly blame all the future death and destruction on the original Hamas attack and thus Israeli war crimes in Gaza are actually the fault of the people being killed by bunker buster bombs and the cutting off of the water supply.

It's nigh-impossible for anyone in the West, especially in the US, to criticize Israel. Even when such criticism is wholly accurate.  Israelis, however, are not shy about placing the blame upon the occupation and inhuman conditions the Israeli governments have subjected the Palestinian people.  Here in the US, Republicans have nothing to offer the American peoples thus they see this continuing War in Palestine/Israel as see an opportunity to attack President Biden and the Democratic Party and further endanger and degrade the United States.  While the Republican Party  isn't in "league" with Hamas, the Likud Fascists, Vladimir Putin, all these extremists know that their interests are aligned and that each of them is able to wield outsized power by undermining peace, democracy, and liberal society.

So as the death toll rises and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza gets worse, expect Republicans to get more vociferous in their support of the Netanyahu's and the IDF war crimes.  All you have to do is remember how fervently the Republicans defended Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, "enhanced interrogation", Blackwater crimes in Iraq, and every other atrocity committed by the US in the name of the Global War on Terror.

The War in Palestine/Israel and Warnings ignored by Netanyahu and Trump's illegal classified document dumps fueling danger throughout the World

Apparently, 9 U.S. citizens are among the dead from the October 23 War.  An unknown number are  unaccounted for and presumed dead or kidnapped.  The US Navy has dispatched the Task Force built around the Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford.

Right now world opinion is squarely on the side of the Israeli people and government.  But, there is a staunch disagreement over the role of Iran in this latest attack and the release of the $6 Billion in captured Iranian funds the Biden Administration negotiated.  The IDF has already declared Iran responsible which of course seems a ridiculous assertion seeing as the Israeli security apparatus and military was caught completely unawares by this attack.  But, then there is no downside for Israel to blame Iran and attempt to enlarge the scope of this War.

And make no mistake, Israel intends to go into Gaza with ground forces after softening up the region with the Blockade/Siege of over 2,000,000 non-combatants.  

“We are putting a complete siege on Gaza … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed.  We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a video statement.

Animals...  the dehumanization of Gaza residents makes the upcoming war crimes easier...  IDF turned Gaza into an open-air prison in 2007, with continual low-level violence directed at the inhabitants punctuated by occasional spurts of open warfare.  What's been going on in Gaza is probably best described as a slow ethnic cleansing.  This current development is an indiscriminate statement of collective punishment which is against the Geneva conventions as is not allowing the people to leave.  But, Israel has world opinion on their side and is operating under the belief that everything they do in Gaza (not without reason) will be defended by rightwing extremists.

Former Skokie resident and South African Apartheid devotee
calls for a Holocaust to begin today

It's one of the counterfactuals of modern realpolitik, extremists in the Islamic world, Republicans in the United States, bigoted warmongers in the West and Israel all denounce each others actions/beliefs but all need each other to continue to espouse those beliefs, make inflammatory statements, engage in violent rhetoric, and the occasional attack or bombing in order to remain in power.  And they all know this.  So, when something does happen well then extremists and provocateurs advocate for war crimes and genocide.  The Extremists throughout the world do not want rapprochement and will sabotage every effort made at peace.

As always Trust Republicans to make any and every situation worse.  In typical disingenuous Anti-American fashion Republican assholes are using the blood of innocents to advance the rightwing agenda of oppression and hatred.  Republican interests are exactly aligned with the extremists of Hamas and the Israel Likud Party and other extremists.  So, Traitor Trump and the Republican gadfly's supposed running for President couldn't rush fast enough into the loving arms of their Corporate Media allies to Blame Biden.  Besides saying Biden is literally at fault for the Hamas/Israel War, Republicans are also using the Obama didn't say Terrorist Act but Acts of Terror therefore, he's in league with the Terrorists to attack multiple Democrats.

Of course, reality has a liberal bias and the facts don't align with Republican lies, but that's never stopped Republicans before.  Traitor Tump destroyed so many international situations, and now the damage is playing out across the globe.  One of the early questions revolves around the failure of the "Iron Dome" to intercept the rocket attacks launched by Hamas.  Israelis knew earlier this year the trove of classified documents Trump kept in his toilet, probably sold to Saudi Arabia, and Trump bragged about to show off his importance definitely damaged Israel's security.

And so, many innocents will die, and those who might have wanted or worked for a solution will be side-lined, hearts will be hardened, and the Extremists will get what they want, continued hatred, continued war crimes, continued terrorism, and continued power for themselves.

Update:

An Egyptian intelligence official reported that Abbas Kamel, Director of the General Intelligence Directorate of Egypt, called Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to alert him about "something fierce will happen from Gaza," ten days ago. According to the Egyptian source, Netanyahu seemed unbothered, said the IDF is "swamped" in dealing with terror from the West Bank. Obviously, if this is true and Netanyahu blew off this warning 2 weeks before the attack he won't survive the political blowback because the Israelis are not going to rally around him the way the Corporate Media demanded everyone support George W. Bush for ignoring the 'Bid Laden determined to Attack America' Presidential Memo of August 6th. 

Palestine and Israel: Desperate Peoples sometimes lash out

As the much and wrongly maligned Neville Chamberlain correctly observed, There will be no winners only losers...  Hamas backed fighters launched a massive assault from the Gaza Strip against Israel.  Besides the massed rocket attacks and small arms fire-fights, the Hamas extremists took many hostages during deep incursions into Israel, using a combined air, sea, and land operation.

Hurt people, hurt people.  This attack is not an Ex Nihilo event and there is no point in claiming who has suffered more or who started what whose grievances are greater because no one has the moral high ground, no one can claim their suffering is superior to others. Whatever analysis you read, understand a lot of innocent people are going to die because of the extremist leaders of Israel and Hamas.

But, some understanding of why Hamas would indeed launch such an attack knowing that the Israeli reprisal is likely to be massive and indiscriminate.  The Gaza Strip is tantamount to an open-air prison, or a Ghetto if you will.  The 2 million peoples there live in an area smaller than the area of the city of Chicago.

Besides the settlers taking land (officially "stopped" in 2005), the Israeli government controls water and power for the people living there and has engaged in less-than-careful killing of civilians during the short Hamas/Israel wars in 2009 and 2014.  The penning in of civilians in Gaza has been a slow grinding genocide, punctuated by brutality from IDF soliders.  This story from 2020 recounts how Israeli snipers wounded hundreds of demonstrators, 

"I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit," says Eden, who completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a sniper in its Golani infantry brigade six months ago. For much of the time, he was stationed along the border with the Gaza Strip. 

But, the propaganda value of "Palestine" and the plight of the Palestinian people long ago lost it's luster in the Arab World.  But, let's ignore the unctuous rightwing take of Newt Gingrich's who declared there are no Palestinians only Arabs since the inference would mean there are no Americans only Europeans in North America (and the Indigenous peoples we slaughtered, cheated, and swindled out of their land). 

I fear the Israeli military reprisals for these Hamas terrorist attacks, savage kidnappings, and brutal murders are going to be draconian, blood-thirsty, with little care for collateral damage, and a near-total disregard for Gaza residents.  I'm imagining a 10:1 ratio or worse.

"I can tell you tonight that the people of Gaza will have to take into consideration that they will have to pay a price and we will advise them to take steps to avoid any casualties,” Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli Knesset says it will “not be easy” for the people of Gaza tonight. told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv. “We will be efficient, and we will do whatever it takes to hunt them [Hamas] down.”

Civilians in Gaza have no where to go so, Nehtanyahu's warning for non-combatants to leave is trite at best and tantamount to justifying the coming war crimes.  Already the death count is over 1000 and the expected long Israeli counter-offensive is sure to involve ground forces conducting Urban Warfare.  Benjamin Netanyahu is a Fascist as is his Likud Party. His absurd lies helped to push the US into War with Iraq;

"If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

And Netanyahu has pushed lies trying to get the US to attack every Islamic Nation.  But, his corruption, militant authoritarian beliefs, and current attempts to completely subvert the tattered Israeli Democracy were his whole focus leading up to this attack.  And perhaps worst off all Netanyahu encouraged the rightwing domestic Israeli extremists in 1995, who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.  When Rabin was murdered the two-state solution was killed with him.  Since then, the official Israeli plan has been a slow-moving elimination of the Palestinian people and state.

But, it's never time to criticize Israel or Israeli apartheid policies.  So, we have a War.   

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. -  Neville Chamberlain 1938