7 thoughts on “Beirut: 1,000 Dead as Israel Threatens Gaza-Style Genocide

  1. Hey Australia jumped into the whole Iran debacle in two hours like good little trained poodles, then staged a filthy stunt about protecting a few Iranian women soccer players while making laws to keep out Iranian refugees and denying status to 9,999 Iranians we have beaten, abused and tortured for as much as 13 years.

    The soccer players wised up and went home much to the embarrassment of the idiot government

    1. Those poor ladies went home bc their families were threatened. No need to defend Iran regime.

    2. The Iranian women’s national football team lands at Istanbul Airport after several members of the delegation withdrew their #asylum bids in #Australia and decided to return home #Iran #IranWar #ArabNews

      link to instagram.com

      Iran women’s football team arrive in Türkiye on way home | Arab News |

      link to arabnews.com

  2. Yesterday, the German post-war philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas passed away. He played a significant role in the so-called Historikerstreit (Historians’ Dispute), a debate triggered by historian Ernst Nolte’s (false) claim that the Holocaust had been a reaction to Bolshevik crimes. Habermas was among the prominent intellectuals who firmly rejected this assertion.
    But perhaps even more consequential was his advocacy—in the context of German reunification—for understanding patriotism not in terms of “blood and soil” (and cultural tradition), but rather as loyalty to a value-based constitution: Verfassungspatriotismus (“constitutional patriotism”).
    Israeli citizens, too, would do well to reflect on this question: What should hold us together? The brutal and ultimately ethno-nationalist fascism of their current leaders? Leaders who trample on humane values, much as the German Nazis once did? The same applies to all citizens of Western democracies. We do not wish to be patriots of values as they are currently practiced in the name of realpolitik.

  3. Sheinman [19, musician] is not the only Israeli packing his bags and leaving the country: according to figures from the Israeli government, more than 150,000 Israelis have left over the past two years – most with a one-way ticket in their pockets. ’This is not a wave of emigration,’ said Member of Parliament Gilad Kariv when the figures were released. ’This is a tsunami of emigrants.’

    Grandparents’ Land

    The phenomenon has been going on for a few years. When the current government took office in late 2022 and announced far-reaching legal reforms, liberal and secular Israel was terrified. People took to the streets en masse to demonstrate, and a striking number of citizens even decided to leave, fearing that the country would eventually cease to be a democracy.

    But after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and the wars that followed, many more people packed their bags. In a Facebook group for people leaving Israel (where they give each other tips on all kinds of practical matters), motives such as ’the harsh society’ and ’the incredibly expensive cost of living’ are mentioned, but the feeling of insecurity also plays a role.

    [Source De Volkskrant]

    link to volkskrant.nl

  4. Israel has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese (which is a massive crime in and of itself).

    I don’t think the intent is to destroy Beirut for real, as much as they intend to terrify them and cause them to flee. You know, something a “Not Terrorist” does, apparently. They’ve already trashed Gaza, so everyone knows they’re willing to go through with that threat. I would certainly take it very seriously.

    Ruling over foreign subjects takes money, and time. But if there are no foreign subjects, it’s just new infrastructure you can freely absorb. Besides, Israel is an ethno-state, and they’re not interested in diluting itself.

    Bibi Netanyahu, on tape, was handed a map of “Greater Israel” which was, of course, not actually shown on camera. But Bibi liked it, from the impression I got.

    What would be consistent with a Greater Israel plan (whatever the size of it really is) while simultaneously maintaining your ethnic homogeneity? Annex foreign territories, and kick out the non-Jewish populations living there.

    Let’s review:

    Bibi Netanyahu, with a fanatical fan base (some chanted “King Bibi” his way when he was starting in politics, and there is still this sort of support to this day; I don’t think he has ever disavowed those chants, not even once), has maintained his status as Prime Minister for a very long time now, blurring the lines between Dictator and Elected Official. (It should be noted that even if Netanyahu was replaced, his replacement would likely be worse).
    Israel engaged in a secretive sterilization of Ethiopian Jews. Why? I guess they just weren’t Jewish enough or something. I do not know if this policy has continued or not, but it happened and has been documented at this point.
    Within the Mechina “military preparation schools,” the people there are taught that Jews are at the top of a racial/spiritual hierarchy. Jews are “the head,” and Palestinians are…well, “fecal matter.” Their graduates are then placed in as many high positions as possible in the IDF, and in the civil administration. These are real beliefs, recorded on camera, and we can see the results of them.
    Israel is, as a matter of policy, an ethno-state. It calls upon Jews from other countries to move to it, effectively for free, while excluding others. Israel is not the only country, historically, that has had such a policy.
    They have regularly called for the annihilation of Gaza’s population because “they aren’t human.”
    They have plans for a “Greater Israel,” on camera, in front of the whole world.
    They are currently in the process of kicking out Lebanese from their homes, threatening to kill them all if they don’t.

    Does this remind anyone of anything?

    I think it’s time to put discussions of one or two state solutions on hold. The issue is now…who will stop the United States and Israel?

    China is sitting around doing nothing. Russia hasn’t managed to dislodge the drone stuffed up where the sun don’t shine. And the EU, as mentioned, is thoroughly useless, with an incredibly complicit Germany, on top of the fact that Europe is dealing with their own problem (Russia).

    Not liking where things are heading. The United States has never met a war it doesn’t like (Democrats and “Complicit,” name a more iconic duo), and Israel has free permission from the US to pretty much do whatever it wants for the next 3 years. At this point, though, the damage is probably already done when it comes to our support for Israel. Even if Israel decoupled from the United States, that doesn’t change the money freely given to them over the course of decades, and they could easily switch to a different benefactor…India, if we ever become too tired of supporting them.

  5. I haven’t heard anyone talking about it, but from what I am hearing from some military people, we have only three or four minesweepers in the U.S. Navy, and they are all in the Pacific; I think in Japan- weeks if not months from the action and where they are needed.

    But you ask, “What about the Atlantic and the Gulf region? Well, we did have some minesweepers there, but the “War Department,” and you know who is leading that, decided this last September to decommission them. I think they decommissioned them in Bahrain. Not a very intelligent decision to say the least.

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